and for many weeks was attended by two physicians, and her dissolution expected every hour. The famous Doctor B humanely attended her, and he ordered all the children to be sent away; therefore the boys were returned to Dr. Johns, and the girls to a lady, who only took a few to educate. If Mrs. Mortimer was before distressed in her circumstances, this expence compleated her ruin. When she was better, she did not dare take air, or exercise, as some of the people from Brighton went to one of her relations, and said if she was above ground, they would find her, and send her to prison.

During her illness, she lost the only relation who had the power with the inclination to assist her; he died suddenly at Bath. This added much to her affliction, but she seemed doomed to know no happiness.

After her recovery, the first letter put into her hands was one from her solicitor,

inclosing one from Mr. Abraham Modish to him, to this effect:

Sir,

I laid your letter, of the twentyfirst of June, before my friend Sir Timothy Flight, the earliest opportunity that offered, and he produced vouchers under Mrs. Mortimer's own hand, which makes a balance of four hundred pounds and upwards, to be due to him, which he expects she will immediately cause to be secured by her bond, and insuring her life in the manner she proposed at Brighton. On these conditions he desires me to suspend proceeding against her. It is needless entering into any discussion of the various topics to which you advert; had Sir Timothy Flight received the libellous letters which Mrs. Mortimer has thought proper to address to himself and his friends, in any other than the most contemptuous light, he would have been less lenient; but it may perhaps be chari

table to caution her against too licentious an indulgence of her pen. I am, Sir, Your most obedient servant,

ABRAHAM MODISH.

The libellous correspondence to which Mr. Modish adverts was Mrs. Mortimer copying Sir Timothy Flight's letters, which he wrote to her when he placed her son at school; as she thought, if he had recollected them, he could never object to pay Dr. Johns her boy's schoolbills. Her solicitor advised her to take no other notice of this letter than to copy it, and enclose it to the Baronet; and for some months she heard no more of the business. She was confined to her house by illness from June to October, and Dr. Johns kindly and generously offered for the two boys to stay with him till Christmas, as he considered it probable that Sir Timothy would have too great a regard for his honour to forfeit it by not -fulfilling the promise he had made of

educating Lutterel Mortimer for the church.

Mrs. Mortimer now advertised for the situation of governess, as she thought, by going out in that capacity, she should be able to pay her childrens' school-bills. A lady answered her advertisement, and for sixty guineas per year she was to undertake the education of six young ladies, and to instruct them in English, French, Italian, geography, drawing, music, writing, arithmetic, and history. She regretted being compelled to leave the lady with whom she lodged, for she had behaved to her like a sister; she had sat up with her twenty-two nights when she was ill, and she was so pleasant in her manners, that Mrs. Mortimer was sincerely sorry to lose her society, and if she could have afforded to pay what was requisite for her board, she would not have left her, for her spirits were so depressed, that she felt herself scarcely equal to the

task she had undertaken. She had seen part of the family with whom she was to reside: Mr. Mrs. and two of the Miss Cashes, had been in Town, and Mrs. Mortimer was by no means prejudiced in their favour. Previously to her joining this family in Essex, she passed a few days at the Reverend Edward Stanton's in Buckinghamshire. The change of scene, and being with friends whom she sincerely valued, had a very beneficial effect upon her health. To all this amiable and good family she was indebted, for assisting her in her pecuniary difficulties during her long indisposition, and it may naturally. be supposed she parted from them with great regret. Mrs. Mortimer, however, had sufficient command of herself to act in every respect according to what she considered to be her duty: she had long given up any hope of happiness on this side the grave; but she trusted, that by