Your ladyship knows of what importance his lordship's favour is to me, particularly after the diabolical difpenfation that has lately taken place: you cannot doubt, therefore, of my having adopted the plan I recommend. Notwithstanding the stinging severity of fome expreffions in his letter to me, I have anfwered in a style calculated to remove his refentment in the language of felf-condemnation, I retract every infinuation against the purity of mifs Clifford's character and the luftre of her beauty-I pretend to have just received the moft delightful account of that young lady's difpofition from a perfon who had known her from her childhood: no accomplishment or quality that can render a woman amiable is omitted.-I hope he will fhow her my letter. I take due notice of his

discernment in preferring her to fuch a vulgar dowdy as mifs Moyfton, and felecting

fuch a genuine jewel from the counterfeits that glitter in every affembly. This would be thought too fudden a wheel, and too strong a dose of flattery, by those who are unacquainted with the real reach of his difcernment, and his capacity in swallowing praise.

I hope foon to have the honour of throwing myself at the feet of your ladyfhip; being, with the fincereft and moft inviolable attachment,

Your faithful, &c.

J. GRINDILL.

P.S. I faw a gentleman yesterday who had just arrived from London: he told me that he had feen your ladyship at an assembly with Mrs. Demure; he gave me the pleasure of knowing that you looked charmingly he also commended her appearance. But I could not help fmiling when he added-“ that what ftruck him most was the looks of mutual

affection that paffed between you and that lady:" he said "it afforded him real pleasure to see such genuine marks of friendship, as, he was perfuaded, existed between you."

From the account with which you once

favoured me of that lady, it is pretty evident that this gentleman is no very accurate phyfiognomist.

LETTER LXXIX.

Mrs. BERKLEY to LADY DIANA FRANKLIN.

DEAR LADY DIANA,

Exeter.

IINTENDED to have done myself the honour

of waiting on you; but am prevented by a threatening of my old complaint; which obliges me to trouble you with this letter: the fubject of which I fhall acquaint you with in as few words as I can.

My nephew, Mr. Carelton, I find, is greatly fmitten with your young friend miss Clifford. Indeed, I am not furprised at it; for, though I understand she has no fuch fortune as could be a temptation to him, yet, I must confefs, that a lovelier or genteeler young woman I have feldom feen, either in Devonshire, London, or any-where else.

He informs me, that his intention, when laft in London, was to have mentioned this matter to mifs Clifford's uncle, Mr. Darnley;

of whom, by the way, every body, almost without exception, fpeaks well: but, understanding that the earl of Deanport was at that time paying his addresses to her, he thought it most prudent to defift. But, fince he came to the country, he has received a letter from one of his friends in London, affuring him that his lordship's fuit is now entirely at an end. As foon, therefore, as my nephew has concluded the business which brought him to the country, I have reason to believe that he intends to return directly to London, with a view to pay his addresses to mifs Clifford.

I can affure your ladyfhip, that, both from what I faw, and from what I have heard you and others relate, of that young lady, I moft heartily wish he may fucceed. The chief confideration, which renders this at all doubtful to me, is her having refufed lord Deanport; because it rarely happens that a fimple gentlewoman refufes to marry an earl; and the reafon is plain,-though men have va