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will not think of another till I have given her the refufal of the place.'My good lad, faid the office, you feem to be well made; and if you will enter into my corps, I'll lift you upon good terms.'

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The Marquis was ftruck fpeechlefs A with rage and indignation, and bursting away without reply, he went directly to his old tutor, to pour his forrows into his bofom, and derive comfort from his advice. This gentleman propofed that he should undertake the education of children. Alas, fays the Marquis, I know nothing, you B have taught me nothing, and that, indeed, has been the fource of all my misfortunes.' Write novels, fays a bel efprit who was then prefent; it is now an excellent expedient to get money at Paris.

ftreet, almoft ftupified with his misfortunes, and not knowing which way to tun, a kind of covered tumbril, with leather curtains, came, rumbling along, followed by four carts, all very heavily laden. In this vehi cle fat a young man, cleanly but coarfely clad, with a round ruddy fun-burnt countenance, that expreffed at once the highest happiness and good humour. A young, healthy, comely, fresh-coloured girl that feemed to be his wife, fat jolting at his side, for the carriage did not move like the court chariot of a petit maitre. The matter, as he drove on, had time to contemplate the Marquis, who ftood torpid in fufpence, motionless, and with his eyes fixed upon the ground. Blefs my foul, fays he, when he came almoft up to him, furely that is not Jeanot!' At this name the Marquis ftarted as from a dream, and looked up, and the driver inftantly stopped his cart: Yes, by my faith, fays he, it is; it is Jeanat himself;' and with that he made but one leap to the gronnd, and caught him in his arms. Jeanot at once recolDlected his old fchoolfellow Colin, and his face was inftantly covered with confufion and tears. You have forfaken me, fays Colin, but you may be as great a lord as you will, I am determined to love you for all that." Jeanot, whofe tenderness and confufion every moment increased, told him in a few words a part of his hiftory:

The young man, now funk deeper in C defpair than ever, went, as his lalt refource, to a Monk of great reputation, who had been his mother's Confeffor, and who attended nobody in that capacity but women of condition. The Monk, as foon as he faw him, ran towards him in a rapture of furprize & joy, and cried out, My God! Monfieur le Marquis, what do you do bere on foot ! For Heaven's fake where is your coach! and how does the worthy Lady Marchioness your mother! The unhappy youth replied by giving him an account of the ruin of his family. As he advanced in his narrative, the Monk's counte- E nance became gradually more grave, more indifferent, and more important: My fon, faid he, we may now fee plainly what God intended for you; riches ferve only to corrupt the heart; God has therefore been graciously pleased to reduce your mother to beggary. Yes, Sir, and a very merciful F difpenfation it is, for it will certainly enfure the falvation of her foul.

But

Father, faid the young gentleman,
while we are waiting for that e-
vent in the next world, is there no
means of obtaining some affiftance in
this! My fen, faid the Monk, God
be with you, adieu! there is a lady of G
great fashion now waiting for me at

court.'

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The poor Marquis, who was very near fainting away at this treatment of the Fryar, was treated in nearly the fame manner by the whole circle of his acquaintance, and gained more knowledge of the world in half a day than he had done in all the rest of his life.

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Come along, faid Colin, you fhall go home with me to the inn where I put up, and tell me the reft at your leisure; falute my little wife, this is the, and let us make hafte to dinner.'

Colin and his old fchoolfellow and his wife then proceeded on foot following the baggage, Pray lays Jeanot what is all this, does it belong to you?'

Yes, fays Colin, the whole belongs to me and my wife, we are just come out of the country, I am at the head of a good manufacture of brafs and tin, I'married the daughter of a man who had acquired very confiderable fubftance by making and felling a commodity that is equally neceffary to rich and poor; we work very hard, providence has bleffed our endeavours, we continue to get forward in the world, we are very happy in ourfelves, and thank God we have it in our power to affitt our friend Jeanot. Don't be a marquils any longer, all the great folks in the world are not worth one true friend; you fhall go along with me into the country, you tha

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learn my trade, which will be easily done, I will take you in partner, and we will live chearfully together in the obfcure but happy retreat where we were born.'

Jeanot heard this propofal with fenfations that cannot be defcribed, his heart was divided between grief and A joy, tenderness, and fhame, and, turning to his friend, he faid, in a low voice, All my gay friends have deferted me, and Colin, whom I injuri oufly neglected, has afforded me that comfort which, from him, I did not deferve. What a lecture is this, for those who are entering into life? The virtue of Colin, called out the virtue which lay hidden in the breast of Jeanot, and which all his habits of folly and diffipation had not destroyed. He felt a fecret repugnance to defert his father and mother. We will take

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ed to me by a gentleman who travelling through North America in his way from Jamaica to England, saw it stuck up on feveral confpicuous places in the little town of New London, in the province of Connecticut; he tranfcribed it, and upon enquiry, found that it was alfo published in a news paper by way of advertisement, as we do notices concerning bankrupts in our Gazette. The reader will fee that by the police of that district, a man who neglects his bufinefs & runs into ruinous projects, is judged unfit to have any longer the management of his affairs, and that the management of them is therefore by legal authority taken out of his hands. The paper needs no comment but I fhould be glad to fee it preferved in your treasury of curiofities, in which it certainly deferves a place.

CWE the Subfcribers, fele&t men of New

care of thy mother, fays Colin, and as
to the good man thy father, who is in
prifon, I know a little of the world,
and his creditors knowing he has no-
thing to fatisfy them, will compound
their debts for a trifle, and I will take
upon me to make an end of matters
with them, and fet him once more D
clear in the world.' Colin was very
foon as good as his word, the old man
was discharged out of prifon, and his
creditors gave him a general release.
Jeanot returned with his friends into
his native country, and took his pa-
rents with him, who returned to their

original profeffion; Jeanot himself E
married a fifter of Colin's, who being
of the fame amicable difpofition with
her brother made him very happy, and
Jeanet the father, and Jeanot the mo-
ther, and Jeanot the fon, were at last
fenfible THAT HAPPINESS IS NOT TO
BE FOUND IN VANITY.

MR URBAN,

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IT is unfortunately true that finall

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communities may be more exactly governed than large, that cognizance may be taken of many faults, and a remedy applied to many evils in a town confifting of a few hundred fa. G milies, which, in a populous city muft neceffarily elude the utmoft vigilance of the magistrate, and the power and fagacity of the legislature itself.

I was led into this reflection by a paper which I enclofe; it is an irrefragable proof of the truth of it, and is an inftance of a molt wife and useful regu lation, which, however, defirable in fuch a metropolis as London, is manifettly impoffible. It was communicat

London the current year have diligently infpected into the affairs and bufinefs of James W-y of the faid New London, and find that through idleness, mifmanagement, and bad husbandry, he is likely to be reduced to want, and bis family to be chargeable to the faid town, if Speedy care be not taken to prevent it, whereupon faid felect men by and with the confent of the civil authority in faid town, and purJuant to a law of this colony, do by thefe prefents put and place Alexander W-y an overfeer to faid James W-y, to order, direct, and advise him in the manageuntil such time, as faid James by diligence ment of his affairs and business for and and feady application to bufinefs, and prudent management of his affairs, shall obtain a releafe herefrom, by the felect men then being. Hereby forbidding all and every perfon tranfacting any affairs relating to traffick with him, without the liberty and confent of faid overfeer, as fuch proceeding will not be valid in law.

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JER. C-P-N.
NAT. D-G-S.
JOHN H-N-D.

New-London, June 14. 1764.
Mr URBAN, H-rb-r-b, Marech 11.
Don't doubt but many of your numerous
readers, as well as myself, were much
pleafed with the print and account in your
laft Supplement of the demolition of the
famous Cheapfide Crofs.
-I have,
as an agreeable contraf to that article,
fent you
the enclofed defcription of a curious
Crofs erected at the fame time, and on the
fame occafion, with that of Cheapfide a-
bovementioned. Iam, Sir, your conftant
reader,
GOTHICK.

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Defcription of QUEEN'S CROSS. IN the parish of Harding Alone, in the

hundred of Wimmersley, and in the county of Northampton, is that ancient monument called Queen's-Crofs, being one of those which King Edward I. (a) A caused to be erected in memory of Q Eleanor of Caftile, his Queen, who died November 21, in 1291, of a fever, at Grantham (or according to Walfingham, at Herdebynear Bolingbroke,in Lincolnshire.

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South Eaft, and North West fides, are entirely obliterated. The fecond story of a like fhape with the former, is 12 feet in height. In every other fide, within a nich, is a female figure, crowned, about fix feet high (which are ftill in very good condition) with a canopy over its head, fupported by two Gothic pillars, crowned with pinnacles. The upper tower is eight feet in height, and hath only four fides, facing the four cardinal points of the compafs. On each of these fides is a (c)fun-dial, put up in 1712. The top is mounted with a crofs (which faces the North and South point) three feet in height, and added when the whole was repaired by the order of the Bench of Juftices in 1713. On the western fide of the lower ftory, and fronting the road, are the royal arms of Great Britain, carved in ftone, within the garter, and crowned, with the fword and fceptre in faltire behind the shield, and Queen Anne's motto, viz. SEMPER EADEM, under it; there is alfo a pair of wings conjoined under the shield, to which they form a mantling. Be neath the arms is a fquare tablet of D white marble, containing the following infcription:

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The Crofs ftands upon a rifing ground, on the Eaft fide of the London road, fomewhat more than half a mile South from Northampton. The afcent to it is by eight freps each, about one foot broad, and nine inches high; and it is divided into three ftories, or towers, the firft of an octagonal form, each fide being four feet wide, and 14 feet in height. On the South and Eaft fides are the arms of the county of Ponthieu in Picardy, viz. three bendlets within a bordure, and in another efcutcheon thofe of the kingdom of Cafile and Leon, viz. quarterly, ift. a caftle triple tower'd; 2d. a lion rampart; the 3d as the 2d, and 4th as the ift. On the North fide in two feparate fhields are the arms of Cafile and Leon, as above, (b) and of England viz. three lions paffant-guardant; on each of these, and on the Weft fide just below the arms, in high relief, is a book open, and lying on a kind of desk. On the North Eaft fide, in two efcutcheons, are the arms of England, E and thofe of the county of Ponthieu. The arms on the Weft, South Weft,

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(a) As a monument of his great love to this Queen, the King erected a crofs, whereever her corps refted in the way from LincolnAt Great Grantham, fhire to Wiftminster. Stamford, Geddington, near Kettering in Nor- F thamptonshire, Northampton, Stoney-Stratford, Dunftable, St Abans, Waltham, Cheapfide in London, and Charing in Westminster. Dr Stukely, in his Itiner, Curiof. p. 34, adds Lincoln, Newark, and Leicester; but of thefe, there is now only three of them remaining, viz. Waltham, a print of which was published by the late Dr Stukely; this at Northampton; and that at Geddington in Northamptonshire, G

which ftands in a trivium, and is formed upon a triangular model, of pretty Gothick architecture to fuit its ftation.

(6) Thefe were the arms of Ferdinand III. King of Caftile and Leon, her father, and quartered by him, when both thofe kingdoms were united in his perfon, and are noted to be the first two coats, that were born quar- H terly in one shield, which our King Edward JII. next imitated (A. D. 1341) when he quartered France and England-Sandford's Geneal. Hift. of the Kings of England &c. Book III. Chap. 1, p. 129.-NB. Her mother was Countess of Pontbocu.

In perpetuam Conjugalis Amoris Memoriam
Hoc Eleanora Regina Monumentum,
Vetuftate pene collapfum, reflaurari voluit,
Honorabilis fufticiariorum Coetus
Comitatus Northamptoniæ
MDCCXIII.

Anno illo Feliciffimo
In quo ANNA

Grande Britanniæ fuæ Decus,
Potentiffima Opprefforum vindex,
Pacis Bellique Arbitra,
Poft Germaniam liberatam
Belgiam Præfidiis munitam,
Gallos plus vice decima profligatos
Suis Sociorumque Armis,
Vincendi modum fatuit ;

Et Europe in Libertatem vindicate
PACEM reftituit

On the South fide of the bottom story is fixed a white marble efcutcheon, charged with this infcription:

Anno

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(c) When thefe dials were firft drawn, they had these mottoes upon them, On the Eaft. AB ORTY SOLIS. The South LAVDATVR DOMINVS. The Weft vsqvE AD OCCASVM. The North AMEN. MDCCXII; but thefe Mottoes were omitted when the Diaks were repainted in 1762.

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Account of the Letters of the Marquifs DE
ROSELLE, lately published in France.

HIS novel, which is written by Madame Elie de Beaumont, the the wife of that celebrated counsellor of the parliament of Paris, who fo generously undertook the defence of the unfortunate family of Calas, contains, like thofe of Richardson, many useful and important leffons for our moral conduct, particularly in regard to education, love, and marriage; and confists, in like manner, of a series of letters (43 in number) between the following perfons

The Marquis De Rofelle, a young nobleman of 20, an officer in the Gendarmerie.

The Countess De St Sever, his fifter, fome years older than himself.

The Count De St Server, her husband. Madame De Narton, the Countess's mott intimate friend.

Leonora, an opera finger. M. De Valville, a man of pleasure, and the Marquifs's friend.

Madame De Ferval, a friend of Madame De Narton.

M. De Ferval, her son. Mademoiselle De Ferval, her eldest daughter.

Juliet, another opera finger, the friend of Leonora.

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ters from Leonora to Juliet, in which the difclofed to her confidante her defigns on the Marquifs, and perfuaded her (by tranfcribing a letter inclofed for that purpose) to be acceffary to them; the faithful Ferval haftes with thefe letters to his friend's house, forces admittance, and finds there Leonora, a notary, and two witneffes, the marriage contract being just ready to be figned. The Marquifs is enraged at this intrufion. Ferval throws downt the letters, and intreats him to read them. He refuses, and attempts, but in vain, to burn them. The notary retires, and the Marquifs takes Ferval into the garden, where a rencounter enfues, in which the latter, ftanding only in his defence, is wounded in the breaft: His wound, however, is not mortal; and the Marquifs being in the utmost concern, is now prevailed with to perufe the letters. Thefe, in a moment, open his eyes, and fhew him the precipice on which he ftood; they at once convince him of the bafenefs of his miftrefs, and of the integrity of his friend. With the utmost indigna tion he breaks of all connection with Leonora, and, after rejecting with dif D dain the advances that were made him by a married woman of fashion, the Marchionefs d'Afterre, to whom he was introduced by his diffolute friend Vai ville, he is advised, for the establishment of his health, which now began to be impaired, to drink the waters of Bains Madame Narton (his Gifter's friend) having an house just by, the Marquis accepts of an apartment there. He is accompanied in his jour ney by M de Ferval, whofe mother and three fifters (ladies of great merit but small fortunes) live in the fame neighbourhood. With them he is engaged in frequent parties of walking, acting plays, finging, &c. the eldeft young lady (about 18) having an excellent voice; and, by degrees, his melancholy begins to vanish, and he entertains the tendereft affcction for Madamoiselle de Ferval. His tranquility, however, is for a few days interrupted by meeting Leonora on the walks and this determines him to go for a day or two to his lodgings at Bains, to know her defence, her cir cumftances, and the occafion of her coming thither. This, for a time, alarms his friends, who fear a relapfe, Hand Mademoiselle de Ferval, who had,

The Countess having frequently follicited her brother to marry and fet. tle in the world, it appears that Leonora, who has no lefs art than beauty, has found means not only to engage E his affections in the ftrongest manner, but also to pass upon him for a woman of virtue, though she had had several intrigues, and was at that very time kept clandeftinely by M. de la Roche, an old rich financier. And, in fhort, fhe behaves with fuch addrefs, and fo effectually imposes on the infatuated Marquifs, that in fpite of all the ridicule of his friend Valville, and the ferious remonstrances of his relations, he determines to marry his beloved Leonora, who, with that view, had left the stage.

In the mean time the Marquifs, ftruggling with love and honour, is reduced by a fever to the utmoft extre. mity, which gives occafion to several tender scenes between him and his fifter; and after his recovery a breach enfues between him and the Count, owing to the imprudence of that officious brother-in-law. At length, M. de Ferval, a man of honour, and the Marquifs's best friend, having found means to get into his hands fome letMARCH 196z.)

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126 Account of the Marquifs de Rofelle's Letters."

with the most ingenuous fimplicity,
made her excellent mother her confi
dante, is in the utmost concern and
perplexity. The Marquifs's return
difpells their uneafinefs, and every
thing terminates to mutual fatisfacti- A
on. He informs Mad. Narton of all
that had paffed, and foon convinces
her that the motives of his conduct
were worthy of him. Leonora being
in great diftrefs, he fends her 25 louis
d'ores. He then commiffions Mad. Nar-
ton to communicate his intentions with
regard to Madamoiselle de Ferval, to B
her mother, and to beg her confent.
She, after first requiring to be fatisfied
with regard to his late behaviour to
Leonora, receives him with pleasure as
a fon-in-law. Madamoifelle de Ferval
being informed of Valville's character
and principles, infifts on her lover's
breaking off all connection with fo
bad a man, one whom the calls, The
Apofile of Vice. The Marquifs com.
municares his happinefs to his fifter in
the following billet:

of a fupper and ball to which he was invited by his fifter, during his attachment to Leonara :

'My fifter is defirous that I fhould marry: But, do you imagine, I can think of it I fupped at her house. two days ago; he had invited me, "three days before. I could easily fee

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her design: M. de St Sever did not give me the trouble of finding it out. • He took me afide as foon as I came in, and commended, with a mysterious air, the beauty, the wit, and above all, the fortune of Madamoiselle de St Albin. I'immediately perceived what was their view. The compa'ny was affembled when I arrived: I was introduced to Madame and Madamoifelles de St Albin. The circle "consisted of various women, whom I would willingly allow to be valuable, but they alfo pretended to be handfome; of men of fenfe, who took pains to be agreeable; of frigid fcholars, who fet up for wits; of young people who were stiff and timid. Think, by this defcription, what they must be altogether. Converfation flagg'd; cards were propofed. I played a fans prendre vole; I won it; and was tired to death. Madamoifelle de St Albin was of the party. She and her fifter are pretty, it must be owned; but what a ftarched ain! I could scarce hear them speak a fyllable; and even when they did speak they looked at their mama. Some people would think them accomplished; the eldest fings, the youngeft plays on the harpsichord. They regaled us with a cantata, which, by their looks, I should have taken for an anthem. Thefe beauties came out of a convent. I should have thought them dumb if I had not obFferved that while, their mother was

• Ferval, 26 Auguft. 'I am just come from the altar; I am the happiest of men. Mad. de D Narton has undertaken to give you the particulars. Madamoifelle de Fer. What do I fay? My dear wife embraces you. Adieu. I know not what I write; but I love you with my whole heart."

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Two days after her marriage the Marchioness writes to Leonora, to enquire into her circumstances & intentions, promifing that if the chofe a retireanent he would engage amply to provide for her; and on her accepting this generous offer with the utmoft gratitude and confufion, the Marquiss, at his wife's defire, fettles on Leonora a penfion of 1500 livres, to maintain her in a convent at Nancy; which pention was to cease if the quitted the convent without his leave. M. and Madame de St Lever receive the new married couple with the utmost tenderness, and are charmed with their brother's choice. The work con- G' cludes with a letter from Leonora to the Marquifs, expreffing, in the strongest terms, her remorfe for her past mifconduct, and the tranquility the enjoyed in her retirement, afcribing all her hopes of future happiness to the Marchionefs de Rofelle.

As a fpecimen of the author's manner, two or three paffages are annexed. The following is the defcription which the Marquifs gives to Valville

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at play, and did not fee them, they got into a corner, and chattered very low with another girl of their own age. I liftened, and heard them talk fo infipidly, and with fuch a prodigious volubility, that I left them a clear stage. We fat down to fupper; and I had the fingular honour to be placed next the Madamoiselles de St Albin: I could not get a fingle word. When I asked them a queftion, they answered with coldnefs and referve, Yes, Sir; No, Sir; and their [!' mother undertook to speak for them

when the answer might have been 15. more than a monofyllable. When (supper was over, my filter, who was determination my being charmed

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