be felt. I fhall, however, add fome remarks, which, perhaps, may not occur to every mind, as every mind has not acquired habit of fpeculation.

Eugenio's heroic perfeverance in virtue, though it appeared to preclude all his hopes of temporal advantage, yet eventually fulfilled them. If he had with lefs generofity engaged in a clandeftine love, either he would have forfeited the esteem of Amelia, or she would

have incurred the refentment of her father; if he had fucceeded to the remains of his paternal estate, he might still have been fufpected by Agreflis; and if he had continued in the army, however preferred, he would ftill have been difapproved.

Thus, perhaps, if remote confequences could be difcovered by human forefight, we fhould fee the wifdom and the kindnefs of DIVINE PRESCRIPTION; we fhould fee, that the precepts which we are now urged to neglect by our defire of happinefs, were given to prevent our being precipitated by error into mifery; at leaft, it would appear, that if fome immediate advantage is gained by the individual, an equivalent lofs is fuftain

aggregation of individuals, he who feeks his own advantage at the expence of fociety, cannot long be exempted from the general calamity which he contributes to produce.

When I had perufed this epiftle, Pfhaw,' fays I, 6 put Affectionate at the end of it, or elfe he won't come now.' This made her fmile. I was glad to fee her look chearful; and having with fome difficulty procured the proper addition, I difpatched the lettered by fociety; and as fociety is only an inftantly by my own fervant on horfeback, and ordered a light chariot and four to follow him, and take up Eugenio's friend the doctor by the way. I will not tell you, Sir, how Eugenio, as he is called, behaved upon the receipt of this letter; it is enough, that in about eight hours he arrived with his friend at my houfe: neither will I tell you how the lovers behaved when they met; it is enough, that they are to be married next Thursday. I add fome particulars for your private inspection in the poftfcript, that you may give us your company at the wedding. I dare fay you will fhare the happiness of which you have been the inftrument; and I affure you that you will be extremely welcome to the company, 'o none more than to Yours heartily, AGRESTIS.

I am extremely obliged to Agreftis for his poftfcript, but, yet more for his letter; which, if I may be allowed to judge by it's effect, is the most eloquent performance I ever read: it's excellence, I am perfuaded, will be univerfally acknowledged, because it will

Such is the neceffary imperfection of human laws, that many private injuries are perpetrated of which they take no cognizance: but if these were allowed to be punished by the individual against whom they are committed, every man would be judge and executioner in his own caufe, and univerfal anarchy would immediately follow. The laws, therefore, by which this practice is prohibited, ought to be held more facred than any other: and the violation of them is fo far from being neceffary to prevent an imputation of cowardice, that they are enforced, even among thofe in whom Cowardice is punished with death, by the following claufe in the nineteenth Article of War.

Nor fhall any officer or foldier upbraid another for Refufing a Challenge; fince, according to these our orders, they do but the Duty of Soldiers, who ought to subject themselves to difcipline: and we do acquit and discharge

END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

THE

ADVENTURE R.

VOLUME THE THIRD.

N° LXXI. TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1753.

WE STRIVE TO PAINT THE MANNERS AND THE MIND.

ETTERS written from the heart

LETTERS versions, though not always decorated with the flowers of eloquence, must be far more ufeful and interefting than the studied paragraphs of Pliny, or the pompous declamations of Balfac; as they contain juft pictures of life and manners, and are the genuine emanations of nature. Of this kind I fhall felect a few from the heap I have received from my correfpondents; each of which exhibits a different character, not exaggerated and heightened by circumftances that pafs the bounds of reality.

TO THE ADVENTURER.

SOMBRE-HALL, JUNE 18. Am arrived with Sir Nicholas at this melancholy moated manfion. Would I could be annihilated during the infupportable tediousness of fummer! We are to fup this evening, after having fifhed the whole afternoon, by day-light, think of that, in the new arbour. My uncle, poor man, imagines he has a finer and richer profpect from thence, than the illuminated vistas at Vauxhall afford, only because he fees a parcel of woods and meadows, and blue hills, and corn-fields. We have been vifited by our only neighbour, Mrs. Thrifty, who entertained us with a dull hiftory of the children fhe has educated at a little school of her own founding, and who values herfelf for. not having been in fown these ten years, and for not knowing what a drum means.

My fifter and I have laid a scheme to

plague her, for we have lent her a card, entreating her to make one at Brag next Sunday. For heaven's fake fend us your paper weekly, but do not give us fo many grave ones; for we want to be diverted after ftudying Hoyle, which we do for three hours every afternoon with great attention, that the time may not pafs away totally ufelefs, and that we may be a match for Lady Shuffle next win

ter.

Let us know what is done at the next Jubilee Masquerade. How fhall I have patience to fupport my abfence from it! And if Madam de Pompadour comes over, as was reported when I left town, impart to us a minute account of the complexion fhe now wears, and of every article of her drefs: any milliner will explain the terms to you. I do not fee that you have yet published the little novel I fent you; I affure you it was written by a right honourable: but you, I fuppofe, think the ftyle colloquial as you call it, and the moral trite or trifling. Colonel Caper's Pindaric Ode on the E O table muft abfolutely be inferted in your very next paper, or elfe never expect to hear again from

SIR

LETITIA.

TO THE ADVENTURER.