Mifs Clifford to Mifs Granby. tagems in practice to procure a moment's converfation with her, but could not gain even a fight of her.Oppreffed and weighed down by his paffion, he determined to speak to his father. He found him alone in his closet, ran up to him, and fell on his knees →→→→→ "What is the matter? What would you have?" said Monforin, astonished at his attitude. "Dear Sir, my life a fecond time. Yes, I fhall be indebted to you for a life more precious to me than the first. If you refuse me you will fink me to the grave; he fo good as to affure me that you will be kind enough to hear me." (To be continued.) 4 SERIES of LETTERS. By a YOUNG LADY. (Continued from p. 37-) LETTER IV. MACLIFFORD to Mifs GRANBY. Clifford Park. WITH infinite pleafure, my dear ter, and am extremely rejoiced to find you expect your two brothers from America fo foon.-But I can hardly forgive your jaury expreffion in refpect to Mr. Norton, to say the reason why I praifed Mils Cowell fo much, is for the fake of her coufin.-No, Granby, Was you to fee-her, I am certain you would fay as the Irishman does in the play, you liked her for her ownSelf, I find you are all impatience to know the refult of her walk with her coufa.-I affure you I have a great inclisation to try your patience for once, and not let you know what it was ; bat as we are not to return evil for evil, I tell you fo; hear, I begin.— "On going into her dreffing-room, he made a very polite apology for ading for me, but faid my brother 63 had made her the bearer of what the "I told her if his mind had been as good as his perfon I should have had but little objection to him; but every one that knew Lord Warren, knew he was a man of very loose bad principles: I then gave her the following inflaace of his bad behaviour. "His father died two months after his return from his travels; he was fix and twenty when he took poffeffion of his father's title and eftate, which was reckoned worth seven thousand a year. One of his tenants, which rented a farm, having a large family of children, was greatly in debt to his father. Lord Warren went one day and demanded the money; the poor man affured his lordship it was not in his power to pay him then, but as foon as har veft was over he would pay all he could he feemed very well fatished; and was going away, when he chanced to fee one of the farmer's daughters, who was a very pretty girl-his lord the next day fent the farmer a letter, wherein he told him that he had feen his daughter the day before, and liked her, and if he would confent to her becoming his mistress, he would forgive him his debt, fettle twenty pounds a year on him for life, and a hundred a year on his daughter; but if he did not comply, he would immediately throw him into prifon: and upon the poor man's refufing to comply with his wicked requeft, he actually did put him in prifon, where he died with the fhock in lefs than three months." Mifs Cowell faid, the was furprised my father could approve of Lord Warren, if he could be fo base a personand then with a smile faid, " well, Mifs Clifford, what do you think was Mr. Norton's bufinefs with me this morning?" I anfwered, "it was impoffible for me to tell." "Why, replied fhe, to be his councel to plead for him; and as fhe flattered herself she had not got a fevere judge, fhe began:-fhe was then pleased to fay, that Mr. Norton, from the first day of his arrival at Clifford-park, was ftruck with the beauty of my perfon; but upon further acquaintance, finding the beauties of my mind far fuperior to thofe of my perfon, he found I was the first and only lady he could ever love." She faid her coufin would have acquainted me with his paffion himfelf at firft, but my father had often faid, that he should never confult his children's inclinations, when he faw a match he approved of, as parents are the best judges of what was proper; and likewife, that Mr. Norton would have afked my father's confent, but hearing Lord Warren spoken of, he did not know but that he might be the happy man who poffeffed my heart." She concluded with faying, "her coufin thinking that might be the cafe, was the reafon he got her to be his advocate; but finding," the faid" that I difliked Lord Warren, fhe flattered herself with the hopes of Mr. Norton, in time, being agreeable; and if I gave my approbation he would immediately aik my father's confent." Upon my telling Mifa Cowell that Mr. Norton was a gentleman I had no objection to-he asked, and obtained my father's confent the fame day. Lord Warren came that morning according to his appointment, but dropped, in the way of talk," that he had been very unlucky fince he had been in London, for he had loft fix thoufand pounds." We have got the M- militia ftationed here for four months, and next Friday Lord Benfon gives a ball to the officers; and on Monday they return the compliment. Lord Clifford having bufinefs to tranfact in London, and as Sir William and Mils Cowell have several relations whom they want to fee, my father talks of going for two or three months. So, I fancy we fhall go in about three weeks time-and the amiable Norton will stay to attend us, which will give double pleasure, as his agreeable company is always entertaining. Lord Townsend has got a fifter of his upon a vifit, fhe is very handfome, and has made an entire conqueft of Sir William, and he is never more to change; but how long the will reign, I believe, is impoffible to say. Having already made my letter of a great length, 1 fhall conclude with love and compliments to all friends at Granby Lodge, and remain. HE character which Mr. Collier has given of this gentlewoman in his great Hiftorical Dictionary, though but fhort, is fo full and comprehenfive, as to include in it fome particulars of which Mr. Prude has taken no notice. “Ann Baynard, (fays he) for her where is a fmall monument erected to her memory, on which is the following infcription. Ann Baynard obit Jun. 12. Ann: tat: fuæ 25. O mortales! quotufquifque veftrum cogitat, In English. Ann Baynard died prudence, piety, and learning, deferves On the twelfth of June, in the 25th year of to have her memory perpetuated, being not only well skilled in the learn. ed languages, but in all manner of literature and philofophy, without vanity or affectation. Her words were few, well-chofen, and expreffive. She was feldom feen to fmile, being rather of a referved and ftoical difpofition, their doctrine, in moft parts, feeming agreeable to her natural temper, for the never read or spake of the ftoics but with a fort of delight, and pleafingnefs of countenance. She had a great contempt of the world, especially of the finery and gaiety of life. She had a great regard and veneration for the facred name of God, and made it the whole business of her life to promote his honour and glory, and the great end of her ftudy was to encounter atheifts and libertines, as may appear from fome fevere fatires written in the Latin tongue, in which language fhe had a great readinefs and fluency of expreffion, which made a gentleman of no fmall parts and learning fay of her, "Annam gens Solymaa, Annam gens Belgica jacta', At faperas Annas, Anna Baynarda, duas. In English, "Fam'd Solyma her Anna boafts, In facred wri renown'd, Another Anna's high deferts Thro' Belia's coafts refounds: But Britain cau an Anna fhow That fhines more bright than they; Wisdom and piery on her Sheds cach its nobleft ray." VOL. X. her age, and of Chrift 1697. Mortals, how few among your race Have giv'n this though: its weight, It is a pleasure to us that we can give our readers a copy of Alcaic verfes, made on her deceafe by one Mr. Brown, that may, in fome degree, do juftice to her merit. In immaturum obitum Annæ Baynard, filiæ Edvardi Baynard, M. D. virginis eruditiffimæ, que pridie Id. Jun. Anno Dom. 169, piam animam efflavit. Ergo eruditam perpetuus fopor Quære modos graviore plectro. A ptem decoros unde lyra modos? Apollo duxit: fic tibi femina Qâ vi tumefcant æquora, fubdolum Unde Iris arcum pingere geftiat, Non te fagittis, ut reliquas, puer Qualem trementi vidit in arbore Cum flamma frondes lamberet innocens Sic fe renafcens funere fertili Hinc te micantem virgineo in choro Schurmanna te vifam ftupefcens The author of the elegiac ode, no doubt, intends the celebrated Anna Maria à Schur man, who was alfo, I fuppofe, defigned by the Anna, of whom Belgia makes her boat in the Latin cpigram we have before cited. The following account of this extraordinary perfon may not be unacceptable to our readers. She was born at Cologne, Nov. 5, 1607, of pa rents fprung from noble proteftant families. The powers of her understanding were very great, for at eleven years of age when her brothers were examined in their exercifes, fhe frequently whifpered them what to answer, though he had only heard them fay their lef fons en paffart, which her father obferving, and perceiving the had a genius for literature, determined to cultivate thofe talents which he faw fhe was poffeffed of, and accordingly af fifted her in acquiring that vaft flock of carn ing for which he was afterwards fo eminent. The Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages were fo familiar to her, that the not only wrote, but fpake them fluently, to the forprize of the most learned men. She made a great progrefs alfo in the oriental languages, wh ch have an affinity with the Hebrew, as the Syriac, Chaldee, Arabic, and Ethiopic, at the fame time understanding the living languages perfectly well, and converfing readily in the French, English, and Italian. She was alfo competently killed in geography, aftronomy, philofophy, and the fciences; but as her mind Circum decora ferta manu gerens Te candor, æqui te confcia fides, Nec Smyrna, vatis Mæonii parens, In English. On the immature death of that most learned virgin Ann Baynard, daughter of Edward Baynard, M. D. who breathed out her pious foul on the 12th day of June, 1697, in the 25th year of her age. Under that fad fepulchral fhade, In endless fleep, is Baynard laid; Come was of a religious caft, thefe learned amufements gave her but little fatisfaction, and therefore the applied herself to divinity, and the ftudy of the holy feriptures. - While he was an infant, her father had fettled at Utrecht, bu afterwards, for the more convenient education of his children, removed to Francker, where he died in 1623 Upon which his widow returned to Utrecht, where Anna Maria continued her studies very intenfely. Her modefty, which was as remarkable as her knowledge, would have kept her merit and learning in obfcurity, if Riverus, Spanheim, and Voffius had not produced her, contrary to her own inclination, to the view of the world. To thefe three divines we may add Salmagus, Beverovicius, and Huygens, who maintained a literary correfpondence with her, and by thewing her letters, diffused her fame into foreign countries. This procured her letters from Balzac, Gaffendi, Mercennus, Bochart, Contart, and other eminent men. At laft her name became fo famous, that perfons of the firft diftinction, and even princeffes, paid her vifits. She died at Wiewart, in Friteland, May 5, 1678. She took for her device the words of St. Ignatius, O Egg me augalas, my love is crucified. Her works are, De vitæ humanæ termino, Ultrajact. 1639. Differtatio de ingenii muliebris ad doctrinam, & meliores literas aptitudinem, Lug. Bat. 1641. These two pieces, with letters in French, La The Life of Mrs. Ann Baynard. Come, mournful muse, to whom belongs Anna, what verse shall found thy praise ? Let ev'ry mafe thy worth proclaim, But not in tongues thy ski!l profound Thou faw' how nature took her birth, Thon could't the fecret caufis show Thou too could't tell whence tempefts rife, Why moves the fun, or feems to move Or whence the comet's flaming hairs, tin, Greek, and Hebrew to her learned cor No Cupid with his flames and darts, Jehovah all thy foul roffefs'd, And kindled in thine hallow'd breaft The bush at once thro' all its maze 49 What tho' dra'h funk the to the tomb, In rich perfumes and folar fires Schurman with beaming fplendors crown'd, The heav'nly choir around thee flows Benevolence with files ferene, Chastity, by no arts feduc'd, tin ode upon Mrs. Baynard &c. and whence I have exactly tranfcribed it.] if the word which the poet gave is Cornua, his idea may be that of radiated or crowned with beams of glory, as I have tranflated it, for it is obfervable that the word, in the Hebrew, figni fies both to beh rned, and to be illuminated, becaufe, (fays Stockins) the rays of light have the appearance of horns, and accordingly it is told us, Exodus xxxiv, 29, 30, and 35, that the skin of Moles's face, not that Mofes had horns on his forehead as he has been drawn in pictures of him, but because his face was fo bright, that it darted forth rays of light, that thone from him in fomething like the shape of horns. The paffage in Exodus xxxiv, 29. is rendered in the Vulgate La.in Cornuta eft facies fua, by which may be meant radiavit, which word poffibly may, therefore, be used in the fame fenfe by the author of this ode. |