 attendance.
I AM in hopes that we shall obtain intelligence, which will tend to recover your loss, in a great measure; and shall write again on the subject, if your arrival in town should not render it unnecessary. I am, dear Sir,
Your sincere friend and humble servant, J. STAMFORD.

LETTER XLV. Mr. WESTWOOD to H. HANDFORD, Esq
Dear SIR,
IT is impossible to describe the effect your last letter had in our family. I never beheld my mother so affected before. You cannot imagine how much Mr. Alwyn is beloved by us all. For my part, I was almost ashamed of my weakness, and was obliged to retire to give a decent vent to my passions.—
MY father and mother, as well as your humble servant, have all wrote to congratulate Mr. Alwyn.—My father is particularly glad, to find himself so good

a prophet.—When Mr. Alwyn left Kendal, he gave it as his opinion, that my young friend was a gentleman of a most amiable character, in disguise; and that, from the civilities which had passed between our family and him, we should hear of him again; to which he added, that, he suspected, he was crossed in love. —We have done nothing but talk of you. We have imagined fifty ways in which the groupe was disposed, at the meeting of you and your sister.—My mother is certain you both fainted away, and wishes she had been present, to administer sal volatile. My father, who has been made acquainted with your character, gives it as his opinion, that poor Mrs. Alwyn most assuredly gave a loud shriek, and instantly fell into hysterics, while you whistled and capered; and that Mr. Alwyn assumed exactly, the same attitude that he saw Him in at

the appearance of the Ghost, when he played Hamlet.—In short, you hardly felt your own situation, more forcibly, than we have done after you.—But we are all eager to see you, and are exceedingly anxious concerning Mr. Alwyn's love-affair.—We have formed very romantic ideas of the young lady.—If she equals her lover, they will be the most extraordinary pair in the universe.—I am called away—I'll come back and finish my letter before the post goes out.
I AM returned, in amazement at the villainy of man, and the concern Mr. Alwyn has in the discovery I have just made! A person of the name of Stentor, belonging to the players, sent for me in a violent
