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and the recess begins. Their silence is a continued course of music, singing, and revelling from morn to night; their solitude consists in feasting the country; and their contemplation in adding every day to their pleasures. We have had one or two of them down in Cornwall; pray Heaven defend us from any more."

"I am sure they are very pretty things, aunt. Well, and as we could make nothing out of the fellow's description, we resolved to sport a face, and under pretence of paying them a visit, being in the country, and neighbours, &c. to gratify our curiosity. And so we called. And, Oh, my dear aunt! the very first who received us was Lady Arminia Pringle, the two Townlys, Colonel O'Hara, Mr. Townsend, the poet of Grosvenor-square, and Mr. Palsgrave, he who walked on foot from London to Edinburgh for a bet. Was not this charming? And they were all so delighted to see us. The ladies kissed us over and over; the gentlemen bowed and smirked; I do believe they were all tired of each other, and so very glad to have their party recruited by this addition. And Lady Arminia insisted upon having beds made up, and implored us to stay the summer with her. But I told her we were with you; and they all stared with astonishment, for they had heard what kind of being you were, aunt." "Thank you, my dear," said Lady Prisgilla, good humouredly smiling.

"But I told them," continued Juliet, "that you liked company as well as any one, only that there was none in your neighbourhood. And I told them it would be charity to come and see you, and that you would be so happy to see them."

"God forbid!" said Lady Priscilla, now Comewhat alarmed.

"And they said they would come."(Lady Priscilla here almost groaned, and arose from her chair.)" Aye but, said I, when will you come, you know the old proverb about promises and pyecrust, come soon and I will answer for your welcome. We'll come, and stay too,' said the Colonel; ha, ha, ha, faith we'll heat up my Lady's quarters.' And so, my dear aunt, I would not let them alone before I made them promise to come and stay a whole fortnight with you.”

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"What, all together," demanded Lady Priscilla, hastily."

"Yes, aunt, all together; the more the merrier, I told them; there is plenty of room, said I, and at the worst the gentlemen must lay on the floor. O, I prefer the floor,' said the Colonel; 'give my re spects to Lady Priscilla,-give all our respects, said they all together, to Lady Pris cilla, and intreat her pardon, that we have not called on her before."

"Oh, I pardon them from the bottom of my heart," said Lady Priscilla.

The conversation was here interrupted by Lady Priscilla being summoned away. Miss Beachcroft then broke forth into a loud laugh." Well, my dear Agnes, have not I served my aunt right,-ha, ha, ha, I thinks he will not recover herself these three months. I shall be even with her for the long solitude to which she has hitherto confined me; I made them all promise to come."

"Pray have you not a brother at the University, Juliet?" said Agnes, who was eager to hear more of Mr. George Beachcroft, whose character had excited her curiosity.

"Yes, my dear, my elder brother George; and the most singular being you ever knew. We always call him the clown, he is so odd, and so contrary to all that is fashionable. and elegant."

"Is he deformed then?" said Agnes. "O dear, no, he is reckoned extremely handsome, but he is so odd, such a monster.-Why he is as good a scholar as if he was brought up for a schoolmaster, and though he is not five-and-twenty, as grave and formal as Lady Priscilla. He does not swear like Tony, nor bet, nor drink like my papa. He would have been in Parlia ment if it were not for his folly; for my father put him up for the borough of C. One of the voters came to vote for him, but insisted on having five guinea for his vote. My brother asked him if he did not know that he could not sell his vote without being guilty of perjury, and the man said he did know it, but that was his own business.--No,' says my brother, is my business, friend, for if you are willing to be a principal in perjury, I will not be an accessory; you may be base enough to sell a vote, but I will not be so contempt

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ble as to buy one. Go, and endeavour to spectful to leave it without seeing my be an honest man?" aunt."-Saying this he tenderly kissed his "And did he lose his election for this?" sister, who, to do her justice, loved her brother in despite of his oddities.

aid Agnes.

"Yes, and I think he deserved it for his folly," said Juliet; "for if the fellow chose to risk his ears for my brother's interest, why should my brother stand in the way of his own advantage. But this is not bis worst folly. My father procured him the offer of a place under Government, under the simple condition, that he should bind himself to vote always for the minister; | but my brother said, 'let the minister first bind himself to me, to be always a wise and honest man, and then I will bind myself to him, always to vote for him. And so he lost this place.-Oh he is the oddest young man,—such a savage, but very goodnatured; but where are we walking to, Agnes." Induced by the fineness of the morning, they had walked on the lawn, and thence insensibly into the shrubbery, and through the gate at its further extremity; they had proceeded farther than they intended, when on the road which bordered one side of the field, they beheld two gentlemen on horseback.

Miss Beachcroft introduced Agnes to her brother, and informed him that he was in-luck, for that Sir George and Lady Beachcroft were with Lady Priscilla. Agnes observed, with regret, that this information seemed to produce rather confusion and embarrassment than satisfaction, in the animated countenance of Mr. Beachcroft, who nevertheless inquired respectfully into their health. It was now agreed to send the servants with the horses by the road, whilst they accompanied the ladies through the shrubbery.

During this time the stranger and Agnes could not avoid regarding each other with looks of curiosity. At length, abruptly taking her hand,—“ Pardon me," said he, "if I am mistaken, though indeed I think it is scarcely possible that I should be so.Are you not Agnes, do you forget Ed. ward?"

"Good Heavens," exclaimed Agnes, "are you the Mr. Edward."

"Yes, Madam," replied Bellasis, smiling; "who had formerly the honour of being better known to you than to expect. such a question."

"So I am here saved," said Mr. Beachcroft, "from the necessity of formally introducing you. Bellasis, you told me nothing of your acquaintance with this young lady."

The gentlemen, as soon as they saw them, dismounted their horses, and, giving them to their servants, entered the field by a style, and advanced towards them. Juliet stopped, and compelled Agnes to do the same; one of the gentlemen came up, and with a polite bow," We have had the accident, Madam, to lose our road where one would think it was almost im- "Why, if they will speak the truth," possible to do so; but in admiring the said Miss Beachcroft flippantly, "they beauties of the country, we have insen-will each acknowledge that they are fully

sibly confounded ourselves. We now come to a cross road. Will you pardon us that we request you to inform us which is our road to Lady Priscilla Harrowby's?"

"There are two roads, Sir," replied Miss Beachcroft; "the one with the clipt hedges on each side of it, leads to the front of the house."

The gentleman who made the inquiry, had scarcely time to return his thanks, before his companion likewise approached. Miss Beachcroft exclaimed in surprise: "Good Heaven's, George, what brought you here?"

"I was in the neighbourhood," replied be, and thought it would not be so re

even with each other; and however well acquainted they might have been formerly, that they have each as wholly forgotten. the other as if they had never been acquainted."

"If that is the case," said Mr. Beachcroft, "let each pronounce the pardon of the other. Mr. Bellasis has lately returned from a long voyage, and I have accom||panied him to this neighbourhood on a visit to his mother, who resides at Lachmyre. We have not been fortunate enough to find her at home, as she had heard of the arrival of her son's ship, and with parental eagerness hastened to Plymouth.”

They were now met by Lady Priscilla

and her party-So much more retentive was her memory than that of Agnes, that she recognised with equal ease and pleasure her former favourite. She received him with a warm benevolence peculiar to her character. She inquired if Captain Oldcastle had acccompanied him to England."

"Yes, Madam," replied Bellasis: "I have left him in Devonshire; he has every reason to imagine that the villainy of a former agent has defrauded him of his family estate, and he is not without hopes that he may at length be enabled to recover it. He is in Devonshire for that purpose, and will doubtless remain there till something is determined. I confess I have but little hope of his success, as not only the opinions of the best lawyers are against him, but that he has to deal with one whose talents

of chicanery are equal to the knavery of his heart."

It is unnecessary to add that Lady Priscilla received her nephew with warm hospitality. Agnes never passed a day more to her satisfaction and real enjoyment. She could not avoid regarding Bellasis with attention, and was impressed with the uncommon elegance of his figure, and the general expression of his countenance. His conversation was not inferior to his personal appearance. She could not avoid contrasting him with Sir George and Dashwood. The comparison could not but be to the advantage of Bellasis; nor did young Beachcroft himself appear to disadvantage; Agnes thought the two young men the most amiable and interesting of any she had yet seen.

[To be continued.]

A FEW PARTICULARS

RESPECTING THE LATE

EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGUE, ES2,

THOUGH many particulars have been published respecting this extraordinary man, the son of the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montague, yet we have no doubt that the following account will be interesting to our readers.

shaw. At Constantinople the Grecian women had charms to captivate this unsettled wanderer; in Spain a brunette; in Italy the olive complexioned female, were solicited to partake the honours of the bridal bed. It may be asked what became of this group of wives? Mr. Montague was continually shifting the place, and constantly varying the scene. Did he travel with his wives? No such thing; Wortley considering his wives as bad tra

As this gentleman was remarkable for the uncommon incidents which attended his life, the close of that life was no less marked with singularity. He had been early married to a woman who aspired to no higher character than that of an indus-velling companions, generally left them trious washerwoman. As the marriage was behind him. It happened, however, that solemnized in a frolic, Wortley never news reached his ears of the death of the deemed her sufficiently the wife of his original Mrs. Montague, the washerwoman: bosom to cohabit with her; she was allow-Wortley had no issue by her; and without ed a maintenance, and lived contented; issue male a very large estate would revert she was too submissive to be troublesome to the second son of the Earl of Bute. on account of the conjugal rites. Wortley, Wortley owing the family, as he had conon the other hand, was a perfect Patriarch|jectured, no obligations, was determined, in his manners; he had wives of almost if possible, to defeat their expectations. every nation. When he was with Ali Bey He resolved to return to England and in Egypt, he had his household of Egyptian || marry; he acquainted a friend with his infemales, each striving who should be the tentions, and commissioned him to adverhappy she, who would gain the greatest tise accordingly. The advertisement apascendancy over this Anglo-eastern Ba-peared in one of the Morning Papers; was

be supposed that visitors are not suffered to approach the person who is performing quarantine; they are divided by a passage of about seven or eight feet wide. Mr. Montague was just arrived from the East; he had travelled through the Holy Land, Egypt, Armenia, &c. with the Old and New Testament in his hands for his directions, which he told us had proved unerring guides. He had particularly taken the road of the Israelites through the wil

Red Sea which they had passed through. He had visited Mount Sinai, and flattered himself he had been on the very part of the rock where Moses spoke face to face with God Almighty. His beard reached down to his breast, being of two years and a half's growth, and the dress of his head was Armenian. He was in the most en

answered, and a person selected. The lady impatiently waited the arrival of the expected bridegroom, but whilst he was on his journey, death arrested him in his career. Thus ended the days of this cele- | brated person, a man who had passed through such variegated scenes, that a bare recital of them would savour of the marvellous. From Westminster school, wherein he was placed for education, he ran away three several times. He exchanged cloaths with a chimney-sweeper, and followed forderness, and had observed that part of the some time the sooty occupation. He next joined himself to a fisherman, and cried flounders in Rotherhithe. He then sailed as a cabinboy to Spain, where he had no sooner arrived than he ran away from the vessel, and hired himself to a driver of mules. After thus vagabondizing it for some time, he was discovered by the British Consul, who returned him to his friends in England. He was next sent to the West Indies, where he remained some time, then came back, acted agreeably to the dignity of his illustrious descent, was chosen a member, and served in two successive parliaments. His expences exceeding his income, he became of course involved in debt. He quitted once more his native country, and commenced that wandering traveller which he continued to the day of his death. Having visited most of the eastern countries, he contracted a partiality for their manners. He drank little wine, a great deal of coffee, wore a long beard, smoaked much, and even whilst at Venice he was habited in the eastern style; he sat cross-legged, in the Turkish fashion, through choice. With the Hebrew, the Arabic, the Chaldaic, and the Persian languages he was as well acquainted as with his native tongue. He published several pieces, one "On the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republics," another "An Exploration of the Causes of Earthquakes." He had great natural abilities, and a vast share of acquired knowledge. 7 "One of the most curious sights," says Sharpe in his Travels through Italy, "we saw in Venice, was the famous Mr. Wort-chioness of Grey, reside. He was prodi ley Montague, who was performing quarautine at the Lazaretto. All the English made a point of paying him their compliments in that place, and he seemed not a little pleased with their attention. It may

thusiastic raptures with Arabia and the Arabs; his bed was the ground, his food rice, his beverage water, his luxury a pipe and coffee. His purpose was to return once more amongst that virtuous people whose morals and hospitality, he said, were such, that were you to drop your cloak in the highway, you would find it. there six months afterwards, an Arab being too honest a man to pick up what he knows belongs to another; and were you to offer him money for the provision you meet with, he would ask you with concern, why you had so mean an opinion of his bene-volence, to suppose him capable of receiving a gratification; therefore money (said he) in that country is of very little use, as it is only necessary for the purchase of garments, which in so warm a climate are very few, and of very little value. He distinguishes, however, betwixt the wild and the civilized Arab, and proposes to publish an account of all I have written."

The following extract is from a letter of the writer of this article to his sister, dated Dec. 29, 1765.

"Mr. Campbell dined on Monday at the. Earl of Hardwicke's, in St. James's-square, where my Lord, and his Lady the Mar

giously struck with the grandeur and ele gance of their magnificent and princely mansion. It was built by the Marchio. ness's grandfather, the Duke of Kent, and is one vast cabinet of pictures, statues,

bronzes, vases, and the choicest pieces of art and nature; the tables are of the finest | stones, and are covered with figures incumbent and other attitudes, every niche is filled with something rare and costly. He numbered twenty-two pictures in the room in which they dined, among others the famous portrait of the great Lord Admiral Nottingham, by Vandyke; this gallaut nobleman commanded the English fleet that defeated the invincible armada în 1588, in the days of the glorious Queen Elizabeth. It was merely a literary dinner, there being no company only the Rev. Dr. Birch, one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society, and Dr. Watson of Lincoln'sinn-fields, a very ingenious physician. The latter produced a very curious letter which he had just received from Mr. Wortley Montague, dated at Pisa, Dec. 2, 1765, which took an hour and three quarters to go through. It certainly was worthy of its learned author, and perhaps few except himself could have penned it, what I heard would occupy no small space was it placed upon paper. He purposes returning again into the East as soon as he hath consulted some books in the Vatican library at Rome. He has suffered his beard to grow to such a length that it reaches his breast; it is white as snow, and he who was heretofore not accounted the most handsome, is now reputed to be so, and to look very graceful with that which one would have imagined must have produced a contrary effect. He speaks the Arabic tongue equally well with the natives, has learned their different dialects, sits on the ground in their manuer, eats ́as they do, and conforms himself as much as possible to their customs. This, and his long beard, has proved of wonderful service to him in his travels in the desart, and elsewhere, the Arabs treating him with uncommon distinction, for the great deference he has shewn to the Eastern manners, styling him the English Shiek, and affording him every assistance in their power. You are not ignorant of the proLigate life this gentleman has led, yet any

one who had heard that letter read would believe he was the best of men, and the best Christian this world ever produced. His observations on the rock which Moses struck when the Israelites clamoured for water, are very fine; and though so many have wrote before on the subject, none have touched it in so masterly a manner. He says the rents made in the stone on that occasion bear a polish so truly wonderful as to exceed any thing that can be performed by the finest tool. He has also remarked, what was never noticed by any, that the place in the Red Sea which the Children of Israel crossed when the waters divided, as also that into which those waters discharged themselves which gushed from the rock in consequence of the stroke, are still distinguished by two riplings, as lasting proofs of the stupendous miracles which God wrought on those occasions; he has copied the inscriptions on the written mountains, some of which he inserted in his letter; these being in Hebrew, the Doctors passed them over, they not understanding that language. Mr. Campbell desired to have the letter given him, when he read them with ease, being acquainted with the Chaldaic, Syriac, Samaritan Arabic, Persian, and the other Oriental tongues. This raised him highly in the opinion of the Marchioness; and what still added thereto, was, that at some pages distant, Mr. Montague, apprehensive that they would be puzzled with the old Hebrew, had himself inserted a translation, which, excepting in one instance was literally the same with Mr. Campbell's; Mr. Montague in his translation had substituted Christ for Messiah; now it seems there is no such word as Christ in the Hebrew, our Redeemer being constantly styled the Messiah throughout the Bible. He has besides collected such stores of knowledge, that it is very doubtful whether he will have length of days sufficient to give them to the world.”

Mr. Montague died on his way from Venice to England about May or June 1776.

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