insensible to all persuasion; for you see, by my deliberation, that these resolutions are not the caprice of a moment. Seeing this, it will also strike you as repugnant both to your safety and my honour—which you know it would be a terrible thing not to redeem—to hold farther conference on the subject. The same reasons will shew you the necessity of dropping your plot. No, my strange, valuable, kind girl, keep the friendship of your patron; keep your good opinion of me nevertheless; and leave the rest to time, who, according to SHAKESAEARE—for you love a quotation—
"tries all old offenders,"
and Time being

a very just judge, I shall never have any objection to appear before him.

Adieu: shew your wishes to oblige me by implicitly adhering to the contents of this letter.
Your kind well-wisher, CHARLES HAZARD.



CHARLES continued in a very weak state. As soon therefore as he had received from Mr. Balance such kind of authority as enabled him to find himself in cash, travel where he might, he complied with his physician's advice, and removed, by short stages, to Montpelier, with only a valet de chambre and a laquais, both Frenchmen: his intention being to shun the English as much as possible.
His disorder for some time gave every appearance that if the malignity of his friends went so far as to wish him in the other world, they would soon be satisfied. Perhaps some of them might have been happy to have contemplated his situation.—Their charitable expectations however would have been disappointed, for his youth and constitution triumphed over the consumption, and, what perhaps was a greater victory, over the united efforts of the physicians; and at length—but not in less

than seven months—his recovery was pronounced to be certain.
I might here draw a striking picture enough of a young man of rank and fortune, with excellent talents, an admirable heart, young, handsome, and sweet tempered, without a single fault that might not be defended upon principles of reason, hemmed in by an host of enemies, and apparently dying by himself in a remote corner of a strange kingdom. All this interspersed with apt observation, and embellished with proper reflections, would indeed make up good moral matter in this place, and give me an opportunity of finishing the second volume with some very pretty, round, well-turned reading:—but the business of this history is—as indeed I think every other ought to be—action, which I give the reader warning will be more and more rapid as we go on. I therefore beg, that whoever