would inftruct them in every thing fit for women of the first fashion to be acquainted with; telling them, at the fame time, that they were to learn all that I could teach them-" They mu remember," added fhe, with a partcular elevation of her voice, “ never to degrade themselves by too intimate a connection with people beneath them." The eideft and the youngest feemed neither willing to liften, nor capable of understanding what the faid. Mifs Grantum had no great idea of any thing but eating and romping from morning to night: yet I believe that if the had applied herself to mutic, fhe might have been improved by dint of industry: Miss Barbara was, though very young, fo indolent and ill-tempered, he was indeed of so malicious a turn, that he was always making anifchief, telling tales about the fervants and her fifters, and often about myfelf, which her mother most eagerly fwallowed, and very readily believed. Here then two of my pupils did not appear in a promising light.Mifs Sharlet, as her mama called her, the fecond young lady, feemed to be more docile, and willing to make up any little differences in the family, while Mifs Sufanna, the third, was, in her mother's opinion, an abfolute beauty, and had, therefore, no occafion to learn one earthly thing of any ufe: fhe had, however, a very good capacity, and it might have been greatly improved by proper cultivation. With four young ladies fo different in their tempers, not one of whom was encouraged to act right by their pa rents, I was, I must own, in a perplexing fituation. Mr. Grantum had not much time to fpare from his bufinefs, and when he was at home, he was always fondling his children, fuffering them to do wrong or right, juft as they pleafed, faying, by way of excufe for his indulgences Poor things! I am willing to make them happy while 1 can, because I am fure nobody can tell what may become of them when hey grow up." d "Become of them!" faid Mrs. Grantum to him one day, when he was talking in this strain-" What become of them?-Have you not fine fortunes to give them?They will want nothing else!" "I am fure I cannot tell," replied he, "what I may have to give them; I let them have every thing they have a mind for now, but you know, child, we cannot eat our cake and have our cake." "I know you talk a great deal of nonfenfe," anfwered the lady: "I defire, therefore, that you will hold your tongue, and not expofe yourself before ftrangers.” "Well, well," cried he, fhrugging up his fhoulders, and winking at m 66 I am gone, I am gone. You fee, Mifs," continued he, "that Mrs. Grantum will have the last word.” "I would have it," replied fhe, eagerly, "but you won't let me." Here the eldest young lady, meeting her father as he was quitting the room, he tapped her on the cheek, and faid, "That's a good girl! be fure, Mealy, you mind what Mifs Hayward fays to you. Hold up your head, learn your book, and stick to your fewing." "What does he fay to you?" exclaimed her mother-" I wish, Mr. Grantum, you would not call the child Mealy; it founds juft like I know not what---Her name is Amelia," continued fhe, turning to me," and it is one of the genteeleft names in the world, and her father is always cutting it fhort, and giving one the most vulgar ideas." "Why A-mc-li-a, as you call it," answered he, drawling out the word," is fo confounded long, that it tires me to fpeak it. There's my t'other girl too, Su-fan-na-If I could have my way now, I would call her plain Sue or Sukey: but my wife is fo particular-" "Go along, go along," cried Mrs. Grantum-then turning to me, added, "You fee, Mifs, what a deal of trouble I take to make him comprehend; and yet all is to no purpose, and The Moral Adviser. and fo I defire you would not mind. any thing he fays, but make my daughters fenfible of their father's folly, and never let them fay or do the leaft individual thing like him on any acconnt whatever. These were certainly very wife inftructions, and they proved effectual: the young lady who had just heard them, took the hints; whenever, upon her neglecting her work, or refufing to read, or ftudy French, &c. I told her that if the did not improve herself, by attending to what was taught her, her papa and mama would be very much difappointed. She replied, "My mama is always bidding me not to mind my papa, and therefore I will mind neither of them, but do juft what I please." It was certainly in vain to expect much good from a girl with fuch a difpofition, rendered ftill worse by improper indulgence on the one hand, and by the greatest indifcretion on the other: fhe became indeed more and more idle every day, so that I also was reproved by her mother, and informed that I took no pains with her children : and little Bab affured her that was true, adding, that I minded my own 89 nothing. I mildly ftrove to convince her that I was no way to blame in this affair, as the young ladies had not been long enough under my tuition to have their manners formed by me. Their manners indeed had been fo long neglected that I began to confider it quite out of my power to correct their ill habits, contracted in their earliest infancy, and fupported in the gratification of them by fuch a father and fuch a mother.-I despaired of making any thing of fuch unpromifing children. However, as I well knew I had innumerable difficulties to encounter in the way of life in which I was engaged, I endeavoured to fubmit to my lot with the beft grace I could. Iftrove to take pains with Mifs Sufanna, but her mama, fancying her like herself in her perfon, was fo fearful left fhe fhould hurt her eyes by poring over her work, or fpoil her fhape, by poking at her books, and stretch her fingers by attempting to reach all the keys of the harpfichord, that I had no better fuccefs with her than with the reit. (To be continued.) work much more than I did them, and To the EDITOR of the LADY's Mas was either dreffing my hair, writing letters, or playing on the harptichord, when I fhould be learning them their leffons. This piece of falfe intelligence caufed me a great deal of uneafinefs; though Mifs Charlotte, to do her juftice, contradicted her sister, and fatly told her fhe lied, as I never minded any thing but them: fhe was fure, the faid, I kept her at her work, her book, or her mufic all day long.Thefe affeverations produced a fmart flap on the face, which Mifs Barbara gave her immediately, without paying the fmalleft regard either to her mother or me. I then undertook to part the two fifters, and endeavoured to make the youngeft fenfible of her fault, while Mrs. Grantum exclaimed, that they were finely brought up indeed; and that their father, ignorant as he was, might well fay fhe fpent a great deal of money upon them for VOL. X. If SIR, GAZINE. the following piece is accepted, 'tis at your fervice, if agreeable, under the title of The Moral Advifer, and shall be followed by more pieces on fuch like fubjects; if difapproved, confign it and its fignature to ob livion. come the fentiment, and a very proper flexibility of our nature, pliant to fubverfion of the beft principles, by a degrading of the nobleft virtues, and rendering the most pure impure, and adding a falfe mixture or colour in the grand and first ingredient of love, a hypocritical deception, which is fuch a tarnish in the cement of love and af-able defire in the mind and wills of al fection, as overturns the fyftem of love in the firft and very bett fenfe of the word. Pity it is that the actions and purfuits of the human race are blended with fuch improprieties as to connect virtue and vice, and there are too many instances wherein the latter takes place of the former, and almost totally deftroys it. It is incumbent amongst members of one fociety, of which fociety are all mankind, to act and fpeak with the greatest candour, frankuefs, and plainnefs, divested of the low arts of treachery and deceit, fair fpeeches, fine words, and a diffembling tongue. The intellectual faculties and mem-bers of the body were never defigned for fuch atrocious purposes, but to enhance and increafe their value, by a cultivation of good manners, and due exertion of that love and friendship which may be named the bond of peace. rational beings, to be an exemplary pattern of unreferved friendship, found ed on the principle of undiffemble love. Such a character has attracti ons fufficient to recommend it to the no tice and benevolence of all good be. ings, whilft hypocrify is obfcured in the gloomy clouds of difhonour and difgrace, and abhorred by all but its devotees. Love fhould proceed from the heart; if not, profeffions of it caft but an odd ftamp, and the impreffion will difcover itself to be but a counterfeit, and it is hoped will not pafs long for currency; but, may the falfe colouring difcover the hypocrite. GULIELMUS L—. A concife Account of the Life and eminent fenfations, how powerfully they plead Keppel, by his great exploits Confider the delicacy of the mental for the exercife of love without diffimulation. In the liberal minded it operates as the grand effential principle to bind men in a confidence in all their various intercourfes and connections in the world. We may then with propriety confider what odium, what difgrace it reflects on thefe unworthy members who make, as it were, fhip wreck and devaftation of a virtue, that is the great cement of focieties and of nations. That which knits reciprocally together two human hearts in one, and is the fpring of ineffable pleasures, and makes families to be of one mind in a houfe, fhould never be wantonly facrificed to its dangerous opponent diffimulation. "Friendship without diffimulation," in fome companies, is frequently be EAR to the public as Admiral and his poor requital, has become, they will be anxious to know his family and birth. He is defcended from the very famous Arnold Jooft Van Keppel, a member of the Nobleffe of Holland, who followed King William into England, in the year 1688, and attended him in feveral campaigns, behaving with great prowefs, and gaining much honour. In 1695, he was created, by letters patent, Baron Afhford, of Afhford, in Kent, Viscount Bury, and Earl of Albemarle. King William held his lordship in the higheft efteem, and bequeathed to him, in a codicil annexed to his laft will, the lordship of Bree voft, and 2co,coo guilders; the only legacy that he gave from the Prince of Naffau Friefland, whom his majesty made his heir. His fon, the late Earl of Life and Actions of Admiral Keppel. of Albemarle, was called William Anne, from her majefty Queen Anne, who honoured him with ftanding godmother in perfon. He diftinguifhed himfelf highly in the feveral commands he had in the army. By his lady Anne Lennox, filter to his grace the late Duke of Richmond, he had eight fons and fix daughters; George, the eldest fan, late Earl of Albemarle, was well known for his conduct at the Havannah, and in other diftinguished commands. 91 fent to England, and published by order of the admiralty, in May 1751. He alfo concluded treaties with the ftates of Tripoly and Tunis, in the end of the fame year. On Octobee 19th, 1752, he concluded another treaty of peace and commerce with the itate of Tunis; and before the end of the year, he arrived at Portf mouth from the Mediterranean, with all the fhips under his command, after having been three years on that stati on. In the year 1755, he was appointed commodore of a squadron fent to Virginia, to protect our trade in that part of the world. In 1756, he was actively engaged in the channel fervice, and fent a great many valuable French prizes into our ports. The great Mr. Pitt having confider Auguftus, the fecond fon, was born either in the year 1724, or 1725; and conceiving an early inclination for the fea fervice, when he had finished a very liberal education, he was introduced into the fervice under the eye of the very celebrated Lord Anson, and failed with him into the South-Seas.ed the very infecure ftate of the BriHe was at the taking of the town of tifh fettlements on the coast of Africa, Paita, where he was in great danger, fo long as France kept poffeffion of having had one fide of the peak of a the Ifland of Górce, the very centri jockey-cap, which he happened to have cal fituation of which rendered it a on at the time, fhaved off clofe to his moft dangerous enemy to our poffeffions temple, by a cannon ball, but which there; it was determined in council to did him no other injury.-On the 16th equip a fquadron, for the purpose of of November, 1744, he received his making a conqueft of that important commiffion, as a captain of the royal-na- fortrefs. The very penetrating eye of y; and in 1746, on board of the Maid- that able ftatefman discovered in Mr. fone man of war, he became the ter- Keppel the valour and difcretion neror of our enemies. He took, funk, ceffary for the execution of this plan. and destroyed many of their privateers The reduction of this fortress, in orand frigates, one of which was man- der to complete the ruin of the French ned with 160 men. -In 1751, he was trade on the coast of Africa, and therecommodore of a squadron in the Me- with to put the laft and finishing hand diterranean; and the firft of May that to the reduction of thofe colonies year, he failed from fort St. Philip's, which our enemies could not cultivate in the Ifland of Minorca, to fettle the without black flaves; to deprive them differences between the English mer-of every part from whence they might chants and the Dey of Algiers. On either carry on a clandeftine commerce his arrival there, the Dey acknow- with the Africans, or iffue out to difledged to him, "That one of his of-turb our navigation on that coaft, was ficers had been guilty of a very great a point of the utmoft confequence, fault, which tended to embroil him and required, that in the choice of a with his chiefeft and beft friends, and commander, as well as in making the therefore he fhould no more ferve him equipment, the greatest care fhould be by fea.or land. He hoped the king, taken, that an expedition of fuch parhis mafter, would look upon it as the ticular moment fhould not fail. In action of a fool or a madman, and he full confidence therefore did that able would take care that nothing should statesman confide the whole execution happen again in the like manner, in the to the abilities of Commodore Kephope that they would be better friends pel. than ever." This declaration was The fquadron ordered for this fer rendering at difcretion. The colonel immediately fent a party of marines afhore, who took poffeffion of the if and, hoifted British colours on fort St. Michael's, and finished the cere mony of the conqueft at the foot of the flag staff with three huzza from the battlements of the citadel blacks, who were very numerous, tak en in the forts; 95 pieces of cannon ico barrels of powder, a number o mortars, fhells, fhot of different fizes a great quantity of cannon cartridge filled, and provifions of all kinds for 400 men, for four months. vice confifted of the Torbay, the Prince Edward, the Naffau, the Dunkirk, the Fougueux, and the Furnace and Firedrake bombs; there were alfo fix hundred foldiers on board, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Wage. It was the 24th of Dec. before this armament reached their detination. Having made the difpoliti-There were 300 prifoners befide ons for the attack of the batteries on the weft fide, in the beginning of that attack the Prince Edward suffered a good deal; the wind luiled as the heat of the day came on; but the inftant that the commodore brought up to his fiation, a-breat the angles of both the weft point battery and St. Francis's fort, with fo much judgment, that the enemy could not bring a gun from thence to bear upon him, the conqueft was decided. Though, indeed, had the enemy been capable of holding an argument with the Torbay, they would have been madmen to have difputed it with her; the fire was fo terrible, fo near, and fo well aimed, that it was impoffible for the French foldiers to ftand to their quarters. The governor was brave, but the besiegers were irrefiftible, and they obliged him to ftrike his flag. In 1759, he bore a share in the me morable defeat of M. Conflans, having in his old fhip, the Torbay, tunk the Thefee, a French 74 gun fhip, at the fecond broadfide. In 1761, he was appointed to the command of a fquadron on an expedition against Belle-Ifle. It was a very difficult and a dangerous attempt This ifland, by its fituation, was cap able of being made the key of all the French coat, in the Bay of Biscay to inturrupt their navigation both for commerce and war, and to favour any attempt which might be made on th The commodore ordered a lieuten-Gallic fhore. Major-General Hodg ant and his fecretary to wait upon the fon had the conduct of the attack by governor, on the island, who coming land. The fquadron confifted of nine to the beach, afked them, before they line-of-battle fhips, frigates, fire-fhips quitted their boat, "On what terms and bombs, with more than 100 tranf the honourable Mr. Keppel propofed ports, having on board 9coo foldier they fhould furrender?" Such an ad- and a train of artillery. These failed drefs, after the flag was ftruck, fur- from Spithead on the 29th of March prifed them not a little. They told and it was from that time to the 6th him the commodore infifted on his fur- of April, before the wind enabled then rendering at difcretion; and this not to fleer in with the French coaft being complied with, after they had After meeting with a fevere check, in informed him that a gun to be fired attempting to make a defcent upon th near the inland thould be the lignal for port of St. Andro, they made good a renewing hoftilities, they returned to landing on the 22d, and which wa the hip. The commodore informed conducted with that judgment and vi of the Frenchman's behaviour and pro-gour, on the part of the commodore a pofal, ordered a fignal gun, as pro-well as the general, in fo many places mifed, to be fired, and his whole at once, and in places fo little expect broadfide followed it: but before the ed, that the enemy were altogether fire could be renewed with its full vi- unable to refift the fhock. The fiege gour, the governor feeing what he had of Palais was attended with infinite to trust to, dropt the regimental co- difficulty. The English had to labour lours near the walls, as a fignal of fur- against every obstacle; fcarcity of pro vifions, |