 admirer waited upon Mr. Gamaliel at the
public house, and with the appearance of great deference and respect, made him
acquainted with his affection for his daughter, communicated the particulars of
his fortune, with the terms of settlement he was ready to make; and in
conclusion told him, that he would marry her without a portion. This last offer
seemed to have some weight with the father, who received it with civility, and
promised, in a day or two, to favour him with a final answer to his demand. He,
accordingly, that same evening consulted his wife, who being exasperated at the
prospect of her daughter's independency, argued with the most virulent
expostulation against the match, as an impudent scheme of her own planning, with
a view of insulting her parents, towards whom she had already been guilty of the
most vicious disobedience. In short, she used such remonstrances, as not only
averted this weak husband's inclination from the proposal which he had relished
before, but even instigated him to apply for a warrant to apprehend his
daughter, on the supposition that she was about to bestow herself in marriage,
without his privity or consent.
    The justice of peace to whom this application was made, though he could not
refuse the order, yet, being no stranger to the malevolence of the mother,
which, together with Gamaliel's simplicity, was notorious in the county, he sent
an intimation of what had happened to the garison; upon which, a couple of
centinels were placed on the gate, and at the pressing solicitation of the
lover, as well as the desire of the commodore, her brother and aunt, Julia was
wedded without further delay; the ceremony being performed by Mr. Jolter,
because the parish-priest prudently declined any occasion of giving offence, and
the curate was too much in the interest of their enemies, to be employed in that
office.
    This domestic concern being settled to the satisfaction of our hero, he
escorted her next day to the house of her husband, who immediately wrote a
letter to her father, declaring his reasons for having thus superseded his
authority; and Mrs. Pickle's mortification was unspeakable.
    That the new-married couple might be guarded against all insult, our young
gentleman and his friend Hatchway, with their adherents, lodged in Mr. Clover's
house for some weeks; during which, they visited their acquaintance in the
neighbourhood, according to custom; and when the tranquillity of their family
was perfectly established, and the contract of marriage executed in the presence
of the old commodore and his
