and regular detail of every circumstance.
Mr. Howard then beginning at the unhappy epocha of my dear father's misfortunes, related briefly yet with precision every particular respecting him and his children till the period of our arrival in England.
In regard to many of these events, said Mr. Howard while he repeated to us this interesting conversation, I could not suppose Mr. Roatsley compleatly ignorant. It may be naturally inferred that those who could traduce the innocent offspring would not fail to load the parent's memory with additional reproach, and I doubt not but Mr. Roatsley's mind has been early tinctured with the most contumacious prejudices against his ill fated uncle. To know his errors, independent of the penitence and remorse

which so powerfully extenuated and even obliterated his guilt, could not but mislead the nephew's candour, and must have induced him to regard with unabated horror a conduct that was followed by consequences so unhappy as to banish him for ever from his friends and country.
I therefore dwelt with particular energy on the dismal lapse of years spent in sorrowful seclusion that had succeeded to your father's rupture with his family, and continued invariably till his death: his contrition, his sufferings, his rectitude and benevolence, and the assiduous care with which he incessantly laboured (and in which he so well succeeded) to instil into the minds of his children every virtuous and amiable sentiment, as a barrier against the temptations and vicissitudes of a world that from a too fatal experience he believed strewed with dangers and replete with misery: and in order

to enforce this relation, I promised to procure him a perusal of the manuscript written by your father's own hand, which, as he seeks not in it either to palliate or conceal his faults, but breathes in every line that horror which ever attended the sense of his offences, offers a defence, the force of which candour must admit and justice itself acknowledge.
As Mr. Roatsley did not attempt to interrupt Mr Howard, he proceeded to acquaint him with our arrival in town, our disappointment in regard to Mr. Benseley's decease, our application in this uncomfortable and friendless situation to Lord Belmont through the medium of Lady Linrose, and with every particular of the interview on that subject with her Ladyship.
He next recapitulated the substance of my letter to my grandfather, imploring his favour and protection; and in answer to this, said he, taking out of his pocket

book the epistle written him on that occasion, pray take the trouble of reading his Lordship's final determination from the pen of Lady Linrose.
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