What, Lady G. can I do with this dear man? My uncle, I mean. He has been just making a proposal to me, as he calls it, and with such honest looks ol’ forecast and wisdom Look-ye, Harriet I shall be always blundering about \ouv scrupulosities. I am come to propose something to you that will put it out of my power to make mistakes I beg of you and your aunt to allow me to enter with Sir Charles into a certain subject; and this not for your sake I know you won’t allow of that But for the ease of Sir Charles’s (ni-;i heart. Ciratitude is mij motive, and ought to be (/or.s-. I am sure he loves the very ground you tread uj)on.

I besought him, for evrij sake dear to himself, not to interfere in the matter: but to leave these sub-jects to mv grandmanuna Consider, Sir, said I, o 2 consider, how very lately the first personal declaration was made.

I do, I will consider every-thing But there is danger between the cup and the lip.

Dear Sir! (my hands and eyes lifted up) was all the answer I could make. He went from me hasti-ly, muttering good naturedly against Jemalities.

Dcane’s Grove, Wednesday, October 18.

Mr.Deane’s pretty box you have seen. Sir Charles is pleased with it. We looked in at Fotheringay-castle,* i\Iilton,t ^r. Mr. Charles Deane, a very obliging and sensible young gentleman, attended his uncle all the way.

What charming descriptions of fine houses and curiosities abroad did Sir Charles give us when we stopt to bait, or to view the pictures, furniture, gar-dens, of the houses we saw!

In every place, on every occasion, on the road, or when we alighted, or put up, he shewed himself so considerate, so gallant, so courteous, to all who ap-proached hira, and so charitable! Yet not indiscri — minately to every-body that asked him: but he was bountiful indeed, on representation of the misery of two honest families. Beggars born, or those who make begging a trade, if in health, and not lame or blind, have seldom, it seems, any share in his muni-ficence: but persons fallen from competence and such as struggle with some instant distress, or have large families, which they have not ability to main-tain; these, and such as these, are the objects of his bounty. Kichard Saunders, who is sometimes his almoner, told my Sally, that he never goes out but somebody is the better for him; and that his maimer

* The prison of Mary Queen of Scots. + ilie seat of Earl Fitzwilliaais, of bestowing his charity is such, as, together with the poor people’s blessings and prayers for him, often draws tears from his eyes.