of her Letters to Mrs. Selby I once saw. It ran thus—
"You must spare me my Harriet. I am in pain. My spirits are not high. I would not have the undecay'd mind yield, for want of using the means, to the decaying body. One happy day with our child, the true child of the united minds of her late excellent parents, will, I hope, effect the cure: If it do not, you must spare her to me two."

Did I not tell you, madam, that it was very difficult to describe the Person only of this admirable young

Lady?—But I stop here. An horrid apprehension comes across me! How do I know but I am praising another man's future wife, and not my own; Here is a cousin of hers, a Mrs. Reeves, a fine Lady from London, come down, under the cursed influence of my evil stars, to carry this Harriet away with her into the gay world. Woman! Woman!—I beg your Ladyship's pardon; but what Angel of Twenty is proof against vanity? The first hour she appears, she will be a Toast; Stars and Titles will croud about her; and who knows how far a paltry coronet may dazle her, who deserves an imperial crown? But, woe to the man, whoever he be, whose pretensions dare to interfere (and have any assurance of success) with those of
Your Lady•hip's Most obedient and faithful Servant, JOHN GREVILLE.

Selby House,Jan. 16.
I Return you inclosed, my Lucy, Mr. Greville's strange Letter. As you asked him for it, he will have no doubt but you shewed it to me. It is better therefore, if he make enquiry whether you did or not, to own it. In this case he will be curious to know my sentiments upon it. He is sensible that my whole heart is open to you.
Tell him, if you think proper, in so many words, that I am far more displeased with him for his impetuosity, than gratified by his flattery.
Tell him, that I think it very hard, that, when my nearest relations leave me so generously to my liberty, a man, to whom I never gave cause to treat me with disrespect, should take upon himself to threaten and controul me.

Ask him, What are his pretences for following me to London, or elsewhere?
If I had not had reasons before to avoid a more than neighbourly civility to him, he has now