FOR THE USE AND AMUSEMENT OF BOTH SEXES. :

Saturday, November 16,.....1811.

of ungovernable passions led them to become his masters: and uncontrolled they have, alas! governed him in many points,even to this hour. He became,before his minority expired, a complete man of the town ; & had plunged with avidity into all kinds of libertinisms, sanctioned by fashionable dissipation.

knew she had a heart, her hand was given to a man not capable of long appreciating her matchless merit.

'My mother's mind was too sub. limated for my father's. Her exalted virtues were not (I suppose) to his taste again he sought out abcing congenial to him; and Mrs. Monk was reinstated in his favour. As time stole on, he became disgusted with the metropolis; and for these last six years (except when parliamentary business calls him to town, and a love of mixing in society, solely composed of nobility, detains him a short time there), Delamore castle has been his constant residence ; and during this period, yon white house,peeping from amid that lofty wood, has been the habitation of Mrs. Monk.

'Unhappily for his wife and offspring, he found, among the aban doned of our sex a Mrs. Monk ;a woman who so entirely fascinated him, that serious apprehension were entertained by his family that he would be so disgracefully infatuated as to marry her. My father was, and is, a most enthusiastic admirer of female beauty. His uncles and sister da ed not to advise him; but, availing themselves of this admiration, contrived to let him see my mother, lady Emily Stanmore, then not fifteen, who was still secluded, by a rigid father, with her governess, to complete the plan of education he had formed for her, and her two sisters before her, ladies Ennerdale and Horatio Fitzroy. The budding beauty of lady Emily, you can readi-which a little kindness would aly believe, was transcendant: my father, in one interview, felt its magic; and, as his family hoped, fell distractedly in love, and instantly resolved this new fascinator should be his wife. Luckily for this determination, my grandfather Ashgrove approved the match for his mere child, who was told she must marry this very young, and very handsome lord; and, ere she || submissive, uncomplaining, suffer

'My mother married at the command of an arbitrary father, without affection, and without dislike. Her heart, lord Delamore might have easily won; for in her bosom I have often perceived are the seeds of dormant affection,

waken, and teach to glow: although the neglect she at first, and the often harsh and contemptuons treatment she has since, experienced, might not only have indelibly fixed her indifference, but awakened resentment and hatred ;-—but these are inmates not to be found in the bosom of my mother, who has ever been the meek,

G

ing model of excellence, as a
wife.....Why not say truth, at
once-In every way, she is perfec-ther had now to bear all the ran

malicious aspersions of his design-
ing favourite. My angelical mo.

tion.....

cour of her infatuated husband's jealousy. For years, her every look and action were watched by the distempered eye of suspicion, and the prejudiced one of malice: but so upright, so pure, was my mother's conduct, that not a be

the possibility of even a suspicion could glance, as favoured by her.

'It was the interest of Mrs. Monk totally to destroy my father's affection for my mother: but in this attempt she could not effectually succeed; for, even when he treated her most unkindly, his eu-ing could be discovered on whom legiums upon her beauty, her understanding, and sweetness of disposition, to every one he mentioned his wife to, still sounded like the language of ardent love; and when he openly forsook her, and went with the vile Monk to make the tour of Italy, he took French leave of his mistress at Rome, and almost flew back to England, upon reading in a newspaper of iny mother's being indisposed. But as Monk failed in entirely banishing his wife from my father's heart, she resolved, in vengeance, to

'From the moment Selina and St. Orville were capable ef any kind of discrimination, my infatuated father (under pretence of fondness leading him to indulge in the compsny of his children) took them constantly to visit Mrs. Monk, who then resided in Green-street, when this insidious woman exerted all her powess to win their young affections, by every species of indulgence. With Selina, she readi

make her wretched.-In this, alas!ly and completely succeeded; but

she has too fatally succeeded!

'At first, the specious fiend be

with my noble brother, only until about the period he attained his seventeenth year, when some vis

gan her project by introducing jea-itor at Delamo e house (who knew

lousy into my father's too suscep-
tible bosom ;—working upon him,
by constantly citing the indifference
of lady Delamore, contrasted with
her own fervent attachment; and
at length assuring him some other
happy man had overcome her la-
dyship's apathy, and that he had a
rival. Roused almost to frensy by
this insinuation, my credulous fa-
ther became an attentive observer;

and then madly subscribed to the

my father's reprehensible conduct in taking his children, unknown to my mother, to visit this infamous woman) told St. Orville, not to accompany his father to Mrs. Monk, who was a very bad woman; who told fibs of his amiable mother, and made her very unhappy." From this moment, it was only by force St. Orville could be dragged into the house of Mrs. Monk : but neither offers of reward, nor ac

tual punishment could induce himn
to receive any kindness from this
now by him,abhorred woman. All
her presents he spurned with in-
dignation, bearing, with unshrink-
ing firmness even the severe
chastisement of his exasperated fa-
ther with the same inflexible
resolution, he concealed the name
of his informer, and revealed not,
even in the sad moments his feel-
ing heart was agonised in anguish
at his father's unkindness, a par-
ticle of all the misery he so hero-
ically suffered to his adored mo-
ther, lest it should grieve her, but
in her presence ever gaily smiling,
whilst his bosom was torn by se-

cret sorrow.

At length, my dear brother was sent to Eaton, where, my mother's nephew, lord De Lisle, had been for some months before him,

and augmented every particle of resentment my father's breast cherished. During that vacation, Alfred was asked no more to visit Mrs. Monk: he returned to Eaton, and after being some weeks there, and without any previous notice, his allowance was suddenly reduced to one half of what he had been

accustomed to receive. Poor Alfred was horror-struck; for, not aware of this reduction, he unavoidably found himself in debt, and unable to give where charity or generosity had claims upon him. His honour, his integrity, his be nevolence. all were deeply wound

ed. He would not request a sup, ply from my mother (who has always had unlimited credit upon my father's banker), or any of his friends, lest it should lead to the discovery of his fathers unkindness; but, determined to pay his debts, from whom St. Orville learned Mrs. Monk was the nuistress of he formed the heroic resolution Horror was now add- (for surely, in a boy of ten years ed to my brother's griefs, and old, it was heroism) of debarring himself of every luxury, every rewhen, upon the first vacation, he returned home, and my father de- creation, which boys at school desired him to attend him to Green-light in and restrained from visitstreet, St. Orville, in tears, informing the fruit, cake, or toy-shop, for

his father.

ed lord Delamore, that not even his lordship's commands should, without force, lead him to disgrace himself by entering the house of his father's mistress-the destroy. er of his virtuous, inestimable, lovely mother's happiness.'

'My father made no reply, and Monk, irritated at the noble boy's invincible rectitude, no doubt fed

the honorable purpose of paying
his debts, and the humane one of
continuing a pension to a poor
blind woman he had met with at
Windsor; while, as he no longer
indulged himself in those juvenile
gratifications, his pride would not
suffer him to partake of them,
This
when offered by others.
change in St. Orville was observed
by his companions, who soon sus-

pected he was stinted in money;
for having witnessed and partaken
of his generosity (his charities
were, even then, when possible,
under the veil of concealment), HO
one supposed the change originat-
ed in choice; and, being universally
beloved, his school-fellows were
anxious to share their stores with
him--but Alfred, when he acts
from principle, is adamant in firm-
ress. De Lisle, about one year
older than my brother, and bound
to him by the most ardent ties of
friendship, and a strong similitude
ofdisposition, watched atentively on
pay days, and soon discovered poor
Alfred's scanty means; and never
'having much himself to offer, and
his little offers being always re-
jected, wrote off to my uncle Ash-
grove, then in America, to tell
him. 'lord Delamore allowed his
dear cousin, St. Orville, no more
than a tinker would toil to give
bis son; and that he was sure,from

........hominum volitars per ora. In order to obtain this end, he knew that satire was more likely to procure a rapid sale to his book than panegyric. All regard, therefore, to truth, justice, honor, and. humanity, was to be sacrificed, whenever they came in competition with this great end."

In Dr. Hawksworth's life of Swift we find many of Orrery's groundless aspersions wiped away from the character of the Dean, and almost every thing placed, as far as the Dr. goes, in its preper light, but still many of the most important articles are omitted, and. others still left in a very doubtfur

state'

Dr. Johnson, 'who seems to have undertaken this task, rather from the necessity he was under of taking some notice of him in the course of his Biographical

all he had observed, that poor Al-History, of the English Poets, than:

fed was as unhappy at home as bis dear aunt."

(To be Continued.)

SELECTED.

For the Lady's Miscellany.
LIFE OF JONATHAN SWIFT.

from choice. He has presented us only with a short abstract of that he found in Dr. Hawksworth, with some observations of his own,. which are far from being favourable to the character of Swift."

Thomas Sheridan's life of Swift (from which the following sketch is taken) is by far the best ever offered to the public. His assertions and opinions are all support

Orrery, Dr. Hawksworth, Dr. Johnson and Thomas Sheridan, are the principal Biographers of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift. 'Or-ed by the most convincing proofs, rery's chief view in publishing his works, was to acquire celebrity as an author:

which, in all disputed points, are produced at full length. In this volumn the dark shades in Swift's