Major Morris of the Queen's royal regiment of foot, at Limerick in Ireland. Lady Codrington, relict of Sir William Codrington, bart. Ifrael Wilkes, Efq; Lord Viscount Folkestone. Charlotte-Aglae, of Orleans, Princess of the Blood of France, and Dutchefs of Modena. Right Hon. Alexander Colville, Captain of the Northumberland Man of War, and Commander in Chief of his Majefty's Ships of War on the American Station. Walter Dove, Efq; at Bridgenorth. Lady Swinburn, Relict of Sir John Swinburn. Dr. Naylor, Prebendary of Exeter. Thomas Biggs, Efq; formerly Surgeon of Bartholomew Hospital. Lady Clinton, at Boulogne in France, aged 103. Benjamin Lonquet, Efq; Hon. Mifs Percival, Daughter of the Earl of Egmont. Capt. Lloyd, Deputy-Governor of Greenwich-Hofpical. PROMOTIONS. Capt. Maurice Suckling, appointed to the command of the Naffau man of war. Admiral Cotes, elder brother of the Trinity-house, in the room of Ad. Boscawen, Sir Hugh Williams, Bart. Lieutenantcolonel in Col. Tove's regiment. Mr. James Dell, one of the King's muficians extraordinary. Dr. Warren, Phyfician to Princess Amelia. The Hon. Boyle Walfingham, commander of the Modefte man of war, of 64 guns. John Pownal, Efq; fecretary to the lords of Trade, and Plantations. Col. Howe, Major-general. PREFERMENTS. Rev. Dr. Ayscough, bishop of St. David's. Mr. Thomas Shirley, rector of Welford, Berks, worth 500 1. per ann. Mr. Beady, rector of Catmere and Peafmore, Berks, worth 4501. per ann. Mr. Cumberland, prebend. of St. Paul's. Mr. Wigley, rector of Cegworth, Leiceftershire, presented by the Mafter and Fellows of Chrift-College, Cambridge. Mr. Toller, to the living of CockingHatley in Cambridgeshire, presented by Savile Cuft, Efq; on the refignation of Mr.Cuft. Dr. Cock, rect. of Great Horkesley, near Colchester. Mr. W. Gee, vic. of Werested, Suffolk. Mr. George Drury, rect. of Little Billing, and rect. of Overstone, Northamptonshire. Mr. Jofeph Bell, vic. of Stowe, and vic. of Radcliffe, in Bucks. Mr. Fletcher, vic. of Compton, Wilts. The Bishop of Salisbury, clerk of the clofet to his Majesty. Mr. Lloyd, to the living of Great Wakering, Effex. Mr. Ashburnham, prebendary of Ferring in the church of Chichester. Dr. David Young, clerk of the closet to the princess of Wales. Jonathan Holmes, M. A. vic. of Helfton, Cumberland. Dr. Birch, rect. of Debden, and rect. of Gabriel Fenchurch, and Margaret Pattens, London, worth together 360 1. per ann. James Bowman, B. A. rect. of Holt in Gloucestershire. Mr. Poyntz, deputy clerk of the King's closet. Mr. Marsden, rect. of Llandyshil, Montgomeryshire. Mr. Mallet, prebendary of Gloucester. William Wilfon, of Leicefter, linnendraper. John Nicholson, in Fenchurch-street, ftone-mason. Jonahan Beck, of Tothill-street, baker. Martha Cooke, of Shad-Thames, biscuitbaker. Abraham Lloyd, of Chelsea, victualler. Samuel Gilbart, of Coventry, shaggmaker. John Boubilla, of Fleet-ftreet, merchant. William Wefton, of London, merchant. Nath. Clarke, of Ipswich, corn-merchant. Will. Ricards of Goodmans-yard, glassmaker, and lighter-man. Joshua Laffell, and Tho. Slack, of Great Windmill-street, bricklayers. John Cookney, of Barnstaple, Devon. grocer, and linnen-draper. CHAP. XVI. Which, it is to be hoped, the reader will find an agreeable medley of mirth and madness, fenfe and abfurdity. T was not without reafon that our adI venturer afflicted himfelf: his fears were but too prophetic. When he alighted at the inn, which he had left fo abruptly the preceding evening, he ran directly to the apartment where he had been fo happy in Aurelia's company; but her he faw net-all was folitary. Turning to the woman of the house, who had followed him into the room, Where is the lady" cried he, in a tone of impatience. Mine hoftes, fcrewing March 1761, up her features into a very demure afpect, faid fhe faw fo many ladies, she could not pretend to know who he meant. "I tell thee, woman, (exclaimed the knight, in a louder accent) thou never faweft fuch another—I mean that miracle of beauty-" "Very like, (replied the dame, as the retired to the roomdoor.) Husband, here's one as axes concerning a miracle of beauty; hi, hi, hi. Can you give him any in. formation about this miracle of beauty?-Ola! hi, hi, hi." Inftead of anfwering this question, the inn-keeper advancing, and furveying Sir Launcelot, Friend, (faid he) you are the perfon that carried off my horfe out of the ftable." "Tell not me of a horfe where is the young lady?” "Now I will tell you of the horfe; and I'll make you find him too, before you and I part." "Wretched animal! how dar'ft thou dally with my impatience?-Speak, or despair.-What is become of mifs Meadows? Say, did the leave this place of her own accord, or was fhe-hah!-fpeakanswer, or, by the Powers above" "I'll answer you flat-fhe you call mifs Meadows is in very good hands-fo you may make yourself eafy on that score-" "Sacred Heaven! explain your meaning, mifcreant, or I'll make you a dreadful example to all the infolent publicans of the realm." So faying, he feized him with one hand, and dafhing him on the floor, fet one foot on his belly, and kept him trembling in that proftrate attitude. The hoftler and waiter flying to the affiftance of their mafter, our adventurer unheathed his fword, declaring he would difinifs their fouls from their bodies, and exterminate the whole family from the face of the earth, if they would not immediately give him the fatisfaction he required. The hoftefs, being by this time terrified almoft out of her fenfes, fell on her knees before him, begging he would fpare their lives, and promifing to declare the whole truth. He would not, however, remove his foot from the body of her husband, until fhe told him, that, in less than half an hour after he had fallied out upon the fuppofed robbers, two chaifes arrived, each drawn by four horfes; that two men, armed with piftols, alighting from one of them, lai violent hands upon the young lady; and, notwithstanding her fruggling and fhrieking, forced her into the other carriage, in which was an infirm : gentleman, who called himself her guardian that the maid was left to the care of a third fervant, to follow with a third chaife, which was got ready with all poffible dispatch, while the other two proceeded at full fpeed on the road to London. It was by this communicative lacquey the people of the house were informed, that the old gentleman his mafter was fquire Darnel, the young lady his niece and ward, and our adventurer a needy fharper, who wanted to make prey of her fortune. The knight, fired even almost to frenzy by this intimation, spurned the carcafe of his hoft; and, his eye gleaming terror, rushed into the yard, in order to mount Bronzomarte, and purfue the ravisher, when he was diverted from his purpofe by a new incident. One of the pottilions, who had driven the chaife in which Dolly was conveyed, happened to arrive at that inftant; when, feeing our hero, he ran up to him cap in hand, and, prefenting a letter, accofted him in thefe words: "Pleafe your noble honour, if your honour be Sir Launcelot Greaves of the Weft Riding, here's a letter from a gentlewoman, that I promised to deliver into your honour's own hands." The knight, fnatching the letter with the utmoft avidity, broke it up, and found the contents couched in these terms : "Honoured Sir, "The man az gi'en me leave to lat yaw knaw my dear leady is going to Loondon with her unkle fquaite Darnel.--Be not conzarned, honoured fir, vor l'le tcake it on mai life, to let yaw knaw wheare we be zettled, if zo be I can vind wheate you toadge in Loondon.The man zays yaw may put it in the pooblic prints.---I houp the bareheir will be honeft enuff to deliver this fcrowl; and that your honour will pardon Your umbil fervant to command DOROTHY COWSLIP. P. S. Please my kaind farvice to laayer Clarke. Squire Darnel's man is very civil vor fartain; but l'ave no thoughts on him I'll affure yaw. Marry hap, worfe ware may have a better chap, as the zaying goes." Nothing could be more feafonable than the delivery of this billet; which he had no fooner perufed, than his reflection returned, and he entered into a ferious deliberation with his own heart. He confidered that Aurelia was by this time far beyond a poflibility of being overtaken; and that by a precipitate purfuit he fhould only expofe his own infirmities. He confided in the attachment of his mistress, and in the fidelity of her maid, who would find opportunities of communicating her fentiments, by the means of this lacquey, of whom he perceived by the letter fhe had already made a conqueft. He therefore refolved to bridle his impatience, to proceed leifurely to London, and, inftead of taking any rash step which might in duce Anthony Darnel to remove his niece from that city, remain inffeeming quiet until the fhould be fettled, and her guardian returned to the country. Aurelia had mentioned to him the name of doctor Kawdle, and from him he expected, in due time, to receive the most interesting information. These reflections had an inftantaneous effect upon our hero, whofe rage immediately fubfided, and whofe vifage gradually refumed its natural caft of courtesy and good humour. He forthwith gratified the poftilion with fuch a remuneration, as fent him dancing into the kitchen, where he did not fail to extol the generosity and immenfe fortune of Sir Launcelot Greaves. Our adventurer's next step was to fee Bronzomarte properly accommodated; then he ordered a refreshment for himself, and retired into an apartment, where mine hoft with his wife and all the fervants waited on him, to befeech his honour to forgive their impertinence, which was owing to their ignorance of his honour's quality, and the false information they had received from the gentleman's fervant. He had too much magnanimity to retain the leaft refentment against fuch inconfiderable objects. He not only pardoned them without hesitation; but affured the landlord he would be accountable for the horse, which, however, was that fame evening brought home by a countryman, who had found him pounded as it were within the walls of a ruined cottage. As the knight had been greatly fatigued, without enjoying any rest for eight and forty hours, he refolved to indulge himself with one night's repofe, and then return to the place where he had left his fquire indif pofed: for by this time even his concern for Timothy had recurred. On a candid fcrutiny of his own heart, he found himself much lefs unhappy than he had been before his interview with Aurelia; for, inftead of being as formerly tormented with the pangs of defpairing love, which had actually unfettled his underftanding, he was now happily convinced that he had infpired the tender breast of Aurelia with mutual affection; and though the was invidioufly fnatched from his embrace, in the midft of fuch endearments as had wound up his foul to extaly and tranfport, he did not doubt of being able to refcue her from the power of an inhuman kinfman, whose guardianship would foon of course expire; and in the mean time, he refted with the moft perfect dependence on her conftancy and virtue. As he next day croffed the country, ruminating on the difafter that had befallen his fquire, and could now compare circumftances coolly, he easily comprehended the whole scheme of that adventure, which was no other than an artifice of Anthony Darnel and his emiffaries, to draw him from the inn where he proposed to execute his defign upon the innocent Aurelia. He took it for granted, that the uncle, having been made acquainted with his niece's elopement, had followed her track by the help of fuch information as he received from one stage to another; and that, receiving more particulars at the White Hart touching Sir Launcelot, he had formed the scheme in which Crabfhaw was an involuntary inftrument towards the feduction of his master. Amufing himself with thefe and other cogitations, our hero in the afternoon reached the place of his deftination; and entering the inn where Timothy had been left at fick quarters, chanced to meet the apothecary retiring precipitately in a very unfavoury pickle from the chamber of his patient. When he inquired about the health of his fquire, this retainer to medicine, wi ping himself all the while with a napkin, answered in manifeft confufion, That he apprehended him to be in a very dangerous way, from an inflammation of the pia mater, which had produced a moft furious delirium. Then he proceeded to explain, in technical terms, the method of cure he had followed; and concluded with telling him the poor fquire's brain was fo outrageously difordered, that he had rejected all adminiftration, and juft thrown an urinal in his face. The knight's humanity being alarmed at this intelligence, he refolved that Crabfhaw fhould have the benefit of further advice, and asked if there was not a phyfician in the place. The apothecary, after fome interjections of hefitation, owned there was a doctor in the village, an odd fort of a humourift; but he believed he had not much to do in the way of his profeffion, and was not much ufed to the forms of prefcription. He was counted a fcholar, to be fure; but as to his medical capacity, he would not take upon him to fay--" No matter, (cried Sir Launcelot) he may ftrike out fome lucky thought for the benefit of the patient; and I defire you will call him inftantly." While the apothecary was abfent on this fervice, our adventurer took it in his head to question the landlord about the character of this phyfician, which had been fo unfavourably reprefented, and received the following information : "For my peart, meafter, I knows nothing amifs of the doctor---he's a quiet fort of an inoffenfive man; ufes my houfe fometimes, and pays for what he has, like the rest of my cuftomers. They fays he deals very |