THE Lady's Magazine; OR, Entertaining Companion for the FAIR SEX, appropriated folely to their Ufe and Amusement. This Number is embellished with the following Copper-Plates, viz. 1. A new Pattern for a Winter ShawI.—2. Charity repaid by Gratitude.-3. A View of Harlech Castle, in Merionethfhire; and, 4. The Complaint; Music by R. Hudson. LONDON, Printed for G. G. and J. Robinfon, No. 25, Paternofter Row, where Favours from Correfpondents will be received. To our CORRESPONDENTS. The continuation of De Courville Caftle is requested. J. M.'s Effay is received. The Tale entitled Rodolphus and Ifmena is under confideration. R. B.'s Queries are unanswerable. The continuation of the Tale of the Prifoner will be given in the Sup plement. The Characters of two Ladies of Fashion are inadmissible, Received, Tancred's packet-E. S. G.'s contributions-Lines to a Female Friend-War, an Elegy-Stanzas to Hope-Lines by J. K.-R.'s Rebuffes-Horatio's Acroftic-Lines on the New Year-Strephon and Sally, a Song-Invitation, a Poem-Helen's and G. F.'s Enigmatical Lifts. THE Lady's Magazine;" For DECEMBER, 1796. CHARITY repaid by GRATITUDE. | ample, by contracting a fincere and fond affection for an amiable young lady, the daughter of a gentleman of fmall fortune in that part of the country, whom he married, greatly to the diffatisfaction of his father, net who fon compenfe. Inftances, no doubt, there are of knavery confidering it as easily duped, and devouring it as its prey; but perhaps the examples are not lefs numerous, of its being amply repaid by gratitude equally generous. bound to facrifice a virtuous paffion, that he might repair, by fome interested marriage, the injuries the family eftate had fuffered by his own vicious extravagance. fupport therefore was a fcanty income, which had been left him by an aunt, and which he inherited independent of his father. The affection of his beloved Maria, however, and his own calmnefs and benevolence of difpofition, enfured him a happiness which could be little influenced by the favours or frowns of fortune. In confequence of this marriage, the father of Mr. Hartley difcarded In the neighbourhood of a fmall him, and would make him no allowvillage in the north of England, liv-ance for his fubfiftence. His whole ed a gentleman of the name of Hartley, whofe ancestors had, for feveral generations, refided in the fame manfion, and received the rents of the fame eftate. They had lived hofpitably and generoufly, though not luxurioufly, till the time of the father of Mr. Hartley, who firft launched into the expenfes of a town-life, and the diffipations of fashion; in the purfuit of which he fuffered his domeftic affairs to become embarrassed, and mortgages and incumbrances to impair the value of his eftate. His fon had been preferved from launching into the irregularities of which his father had fet him the ex In a few years his father died, and he took poffeffion of the manfionhoufe and the eftate; but the latter he found fo eaten up with incumbrances, and the accounts in fuch confufion, through the careful induftry of Mr. Grime, the fteward to whom his father had intrufted his 3 Y 2 affairs |