walls. I had, indeed, determined being ignorant of the real cause of never to have more than one com- his elopement. But when at length panion, who might have been lover, he heard into what hands he had friend, father, and all things to me; fallen, words cannot exprefs his but now I am yet more unalterably anguish. With rage, difdain, and refolved in it; your fweetness and grief, not to be difcribed, he went generofity have imprefied fuch an to the fatal place, and demanded, image on my heart, that without with the fevereft threats and reyou all others mpft be odious to proaches, his deluded child. But me, and with you difpifeable: may when he faw the chain, which he I presume to speak yet plainer; my well knew was never to be broken, whole ambition is to be for ever grief got the better of all the other your fervant, your flave, if you will paffions, and for fome moments he make me fo, and your admirer, and was unable to utter a word: at for ever to feaft my eyes with gaz- length, breaking filence, his eyes ing on the only object that can give ftreaming with tears, he faid, "Fareme delight. Behold, continued the, well for ever unhappy fon! What my moft adored, moft honoured hopes, alas! of lafting happiness, master, the truth of my former re- had I built on thee! and how have folution; see the chains I had pre- thefe fubtil creatures deftroyed pared for who-ever I fhould make them in a minute! another muft my companion, and fuffer me to alas! inherit now what I had stored. kneel, and with a trembling hand for thee; and the cold grave overfaften them on you: fee, holding take me, long before its time, from out a wreath of flowers, thefe my the anguifh of the forrow thou haft dear lord are rofy fetters; they caufed me." The father then turned cannot hurt; they, are fweet, and his back, in order to depart, when an will allow you liberty. All that I old gentleman, who had feen the feek, is to make you ever mine, fince whole tranfaction, begged him to the excess of my own defires points ftop for a moment, and give him at no more than the being for ever leave to fpeak. His requeft being your's."Here the fubtil crea- granted, he thus addreffed himself to ture, on pronouncing the laft word, the different parties: "Young man, fell on the neck of the innocent faid he to Alphonfo, as you have youth, and almoft smothered him heavily offended an indulgent father, with tears and kiffes. He was as a life of honour and worthy actions yet a stranger to endearments of can alone plead your pardon; and this kind, and in a rapture held out be affured this will at length obtain his hand to receive the chain, which, it. For you, young lady, let me with the help of the fifter, fhe foon tell you, I have in my time feen faftened on him, never, alas! to be many of thefe unequal al iances, removed or broken. and all unhappy; avoid then what has occafioned the mifery of others; be humble in your thoughts and expectations, fubmiffive to your new lord, and obey with pleasure the commands of his father, if ever he Dedz The nobleman was all this while fearching invain, with tears and lamentations, for his ftrayed fon, and dispatched meffengers to every corner, and obfcured part of the city, deigns deigns to honour you fo far. For you, Madam, addreffing himself to the elder fifter, look to yourself; remember all the world will know this is your doing; and form your fifter's conduct fo as to make it an excufe and honour to yourself, and a happiness to her and all about her. Then turning to the injured nobleman, faid, "If thefe leffons are obferved, will it not be more to your own quiet, now to difpofe of your fon as will be moft to his honour, and overlook this unfortunate flip, than to deftroy his future name, and your own peace, health, and life, in fruitless vexation and complaints? Remember he is your child; and if he ftill treads the paths of virtue, will deferve the title, notwithstanding he has in this one action disobeyed your commands." This advice was too well founded not to engage their attention, and too interefting to all parties not to be followed; and the confequence of it was, that they were all in the end much happier, for what was at first confidered as a misfortune, than perhaps they would otherwife ever have been. The following Leters which peffed between the right honourable Mr. Pitt, and Mr. Allen, on the fubject of the Bath Addrefs, have been published at Mr. Pitt's request, to obviate the wrong impreffions which an invidious reprefentation of that affair in feveral of the public News papers, may occafion. Dear Sir, Hayes, June 2, 1763. HAving declined accompanying Sir John Sebright in prefenting the addrefs from Bath tranfmitted to us jointly by the town-clerk, I think it, on all accounts, indifpen. fably neceffary that I should inform you of the reafon of my conduct. The epithet of adequate given to the peace con ains a defcription of the conditions of it, fo repugnant to my unalterable opinion concerning many of them, and fully declared by me in parliament, that it was as impoffible for me to obey the corporation's commands in prefenting their addrefs, as it was unexpected to receive fuch a commission. As to my opinion of the peace, I will only fay that I formed it with fincerity according to fuch lights as my little experience, and fmall portion of understanding, could afford me. This convicton muft remain to my felf the conftant rule of my conduct; and I leave to others, with much deference to their better information, to follow their own judgment. Give me leave, my dear, good Sir, to defire to convey, through you, to Mr. Mayor, and to the gentlemen of the corporation, these my free fentiments; and with the jufteft fenfe of their past goodnefs towards me, plainly to confefs that I perceive I am but ill qualified to form pretenfions to the future favour of gentlemen, who are come to think to differently from me, on matters of the highest importance to the national welfare. I am ever, with refpectful and affectionate efteem, my dear Sir, your faithful friend, and obliged humble fervant. Signed W. Pitt. Lady Chatham joins with me in all compliments to the family of Prior-park. To Ralph Allen, Ejq. My Mydeareft Sir, Prior-park, June 4, 1763. IT is extremely painful to me to find by the letter which you was pleafed to fend to me the 2d of this month, that the word adequate in the Bath addrefs has been fo very offenfive to you as to hinder the fincereft and moft zealous of your friends in the corporation from teftifying for the future their great attachment to you. Upon this occafion, in juftice to them, it is incumbent on me to acquaint you, that the exceptionable word does not reft with them, but myfelf; who fuddenly drew up that addrefs to prevent their fending of another, which the mayor brought to me, in terms that I could not concur in; copies of the two forms I have taken the liberty to fend to you in the inclosed paper for your private perufal; and Sir John Sebright having in his letter to Mr. Clutterbuck only acquainted him, that in your abfence in the country he delivered the addrefs, I fhall decline executing of your commands to the corporation on this delicate point, unless you renew them upon your perufal of this letter, which for fafety I have fent by a meffenger, and I beg your answer to it by him, who has orders to wait for it. My dear Sir, Hayes, June 5, 1763. AM torry that my letter of the zd inttant fhould give you uneafinefs, and occafion to you the trouble of fending a meflenger to Hayes. I defire you to be affured, that few things can give me more real concern, than to find that my notions of the public good differ fo widely from thofe of the man, whofe goodness of heart and private virtues, I fhall ever refpect and love. I am not infenfible to your kind motives for withing to interpofe time for fecond thoughts; but knowing how much you approve an open and ingenuous proceeding, I truit that you will fee the unfitness of my concealing from my constituents the infurmountable reafons, which prevented my obeying their commands in prefenting an addrefs, containing a difavowal of my opinion delivered in parliament, relating to the peace. As their fervant, I owe to thefe gentlemen an explanation of my conduct on this occafion; and a a man not forgetful of the diftinguished honour of having been invited to prefent them, I owe it, in gratitude to them, nor to think of embarraffing and incumbring for the future, friends to whom I have fuch obligations; and who view, with approbation, measures of an adminiftration, founded on the fubverfion of that fyftem which once procured me the countenance and favour of the city of Bath. On thefe plain grounds, very cooly weighed, I will venture to beg again, that my equitable good friend will be fo good to convey to Mr. Mayor, Signed R. ALLEN. and the gentlemen of the corpora Permit me to fay that I have not the leaft objection to, but the highest regard and even veneration for your whole conduct; neither have I any apology to make for the expreflion in which I am fo unfortunate to differ from you. And with the utmost respect, affection, and gratitude, you will always find me to be, my dearest Sir, your most humble and most obedient fervant. To the right hon. Mr. Pitt. tion, my fentiments, as contained in my letter of the ad inftant. I am ever, with unchanging fentiments of respect and affection, my dear Sir, moft faithfully yours, W W. PITT. quiry, to act pursuant to the light which the Supreme Being has been pleased to difpenfe to him; and this being the rule that I am perfuaded we both govern ourselves by, I shall take the liberty, now only to add, that it is impoffible for any perfon to retain higher fentiments of your late glorious administration than I do, nor can be with truer fidelity, zeal, affection and respect, than I have been, ftill am, and always fhall be, my dearest Sir, your 7 moft humble and moft obedient fervant. Tobe right bon. Signed R. ALLEN. My dearest Sir, Prior park, June 9,1763. A/ITH the greateft anxiety and concern, I have, in obedience to your pofitive and repeated commands, executed the most painful commiffion that I ever ceived. re Upon this disagreeable occafion give me leave just to fay, that, how, ever different our abilities may be, it is the duty of every honeft man, after he has made the ftrictest en Mr. Pitt. The best wishes of this family wait upon lady Chatham. The Character of a Female Bashaw; and a Defcription of her Behaviour at a Country Ordinary. I Happened a few Sundays ago to dine at an ordinary near town, where there were two married couples who appeared a good contraft to each other; for one of them fhewed how a husband and a wife fhould appear in company, by a thorough right behaviour; and the other exhibited to us the ftrong picture of an overbearing wife, and a compleatly hen pecked husband. The female Bafhaw compounded for feating herself at the head of the table, by ordering her husband to the bottom of it: and there made it her obliging practice to fhew as much regard for every other perfon as he did difregard for him. She appeared ready to help every one elle, but when any one mentioned him, he always faid it was no matter, he never minded what he eat, and she did not ufe him to indulgence; he could help himself by and by; and feemed fond of all opportunities for expreffing herfelf in fuch a manner. In whatever he did likewife he was fure to give her offence. He could not cut a bit of meat right: he knew not how to place his knife and fork: he was fo awkward, fo wrong, so every-thing that could ferve to demonftrate her authority and his fervility, that we, who were ftrangers to them, began to be ashamed of our fex: and I do verily believe the poor man would have wept from chiding, if the other good-natured woman, who was of their acquaintance, had not kept him in countenance by her extraordinary civility. When the cloth was removed, and the bottles fet on the table, we all endeavoured, from compaffion, to engage him in conversation, which he seemed very shy of taking part in, from an apparent fear of his wife, whose whole attention was directed to the detecting of him in any mistake and her pleasure in contradicting him was fo great, that fhe would hardly let any one else ever so much as give him a civil anfwer. Most of her kind addref fefs to him were with a laud, that now is fo filly.- -Sure there never was such a strange man as my husband. My dear, you know you never think rightly of any matter. Well, I am fo afhamed to hear you talk. If I had no better an understanding than you, I would never, I think, go into company.---You are always fure to expofe yourfelf by your ridiculous opinions. I do think there never was any thing fo foolish as that is fpoke, with a tongue. Why how provoking you are now, to contradict the gentleman, who is certainly in the right --Well, I wish you would hold your tongue, for you only talk to expofe yourself...Pray, Mr. don't think your opinions are worth regarding, you know they never are. Now, am not I forever telling you that you are always miftaken in things?Well I hate to hear you fpeak, you have fuch ridiculous notions of your own. I am fure I wonder the company can have patience with you, for you are fo abfurd in your ways of arguing! With which kinds of fweet connubial foothings we were feafted even to a furfeit, till, at last, out came the thundering expreffion of —, indeed you are a downright fool. Upon which we appealed to her female companion, if that was the right reprimand of a wife to a hufband? who answered with a very serious tone of voice, that he had never allowed herfelf to think a husband would be reprimanded by his wife. As for mine, continued the, I am afraid of even undertaking to perfuade him in public: and when we are in private, I always think it behoves me to remember [ am the weaker veffel of the two: fo that it is not very often he is troubled with my curtain or other lectures: and we do fo very well without them, I really imagine all my inftructions would prove ufelefs; for he feems to ftand in fo little need of them, that I fhall never be fond of giving myself trouble to no manner of purpose: befides, if his underftanding fhould in any thing prove defective, I am afraid mine will be found hardly good enough to mend it. When this fenfible woman had done fpeaking, we afked Mrs. Bafhaw what the thought of her friend's fentiments? who replied, with indignation, that they were fuch wives as fhe, who were the fpoilers of fo many hufbands; but that fuch doctrines as thofe fhe was determined not to regard; for her part, fhe would never give up the rights and privileges of a woman; one of which, fays fhe, is that of always having her will; and another, the entire maintenance of authority in her own family. We afked her if a husband was entitled to no kind of authority? to which the answered, yes, in his own business; but fhe would never allow him to interfere with what was her's and indeed the fhould take nobody's inftructions with regard to her conduct; he knew how to manage her own affairs, and would have all other people mind theirs. Here the huf |