But I am not giving a character of Miss Byron to you, my good Dr. Bartlett, who admire her as much as I do.

Do you think it impossible for me to procure for my Emily such a guardian and companion as Miss Byron, on her return to Northamptonshire, would make her? Such worthy relations as she would introduce her tO; would be a further happiness to my ward.

I am far from undervaluing my sister’s good qualities: but if Emily lives with her, she must live also with me. Indeed the affairs in which I am engaged for other people ( if I may call those who have a claim upon me for every instance of my friendship, other people) will occasion me to be often absent. But still, while Grandison-hall, and St James’s Square, are the visible places of resi-dence equally of the guardian and ward, Emily’s mother will tell the world, that we live together.

Miss Jervois does not choose to return to Mrs. Lane; and indeed I don’t think she would be safe there in a family of women, though very worthy ones, from the attempts of one of the sex, who, having brought her into the world, calls herself her mother; and especially now that the unhappy woman has begun to be troublesome there. 1 beg of you,

SIH CHARLES GRANUISON. 17 therefore, my dear Dr. IJartlett, who know more of my heart and situation than any one Hving (my dear Beauchamp excepted) to consider what I have written, and give me your opinion of that part of it, which relates to Miss Byron and Emily.

I was insensibly drawing myself in to enumerate the engagements, which at present press most upon me. Let me add to the subject I must soon go to Paris, in order finally to settle such of the affairs of my late worthy friend, as cannot be so well done by any other hand. The three thousand pounds, which he has directed to be disposed of to charitable uses, in France as well as in England, at the discretion of his executor, is one of them.

Perhaps equity will allow me to add to this limited sum from what will remain in my hands after the establishment of the nephews and niece. As fliey are young, and brought up with the hope that they will make a figure in the world by their diligence, 1 would not, by any means, make them independent on that. The whole estate, divided among them, would not be sufficient to answer that purpose hap-pily, though it might be enough to abate the edge of their industry.

The charity that I am most intent upon promoting in France, and in England too, is, that of giving little fortunes to young maidens in marriage with honest men of their own degree, who might, from such an outsetting, begin the world, as it is called, with some hope of success.