I have for some time had it in my thoughts to ask you, my dear friend, whether your nephew is provided for to your liking and his otivz? If not, and he would put it in my power to serve him, by serving myself, I should be obliged to you for permitting him so to dO; and to Mm, for his consent. I would not affront him, by the offer of a salary: my presents to him shall be such as befit the services done: sometimes as my amanuensis; sometimes as a tran-scriber and methodizer of papers and letters; some — times in adjusting servants accounts, and fitting them for my inspection. You need not fear my regard to myseff in my acknowledgments to be made to him (that, I know, will be all your fear); for I have always considered profusion and parsimony as two” extremes, equally to be avoided. You, my dear Dr. Bartlett, have often enforced this lesson on uiy mind. Can it then ever be forgotten by

Your affectionate friend and servant,

CHARLES GRANDISON.

Letter II.

Signor Jeronymo Della Porretta to Sir Charles Grandison.

Bologna. Monday, September 15, N. S. Your kind letters from Lyons, my dearest friend, rejoiced us extremely. Clementina languished to hear from you. How was it possible for you to write with so much warmth of affection to her, yet with so nmch delicacy, that a rival could not have taken exceptions at it?

She writes to you. It is not for me, it is not for any of us, I think, to say one word to the principal subject of her letter. She shewed it to me, and to her mother, only.

Dear creature! Could she but be prevailed upon! But how can i/ou be asked to support the family-wishes? Yet if you think them just, I know you will. You know not self, when justice and the ser-vice of your friend stand in opposition to it. All that I am afraid of, is, that we shall be too preci-pitate for the dear creature’s head.

Would to (lod, you could have been my brother! That was the first desire of my heart! Ikit you will see by her letter (the least flighty that she has writ-ten of a long time) that she has no thoughts of that: and she declares to us, that she wishes you happily married to an iMiglish woman. Would to Heaven, we might plead ijour example to her!

I will certainly attend you in your England. If one thing, that we all wish, could happen, you would have the whole family, as far as I know. W’c think, we talk, of nobody but you. We look out for Englishnu’u, to do thein honour lor vour sake.