of it. I had but flender refources, as your la dyship will readily believe, on my arrival at Hamburg; however, I put the best face on matters that I could; yet the very firft banker I applied to hefitated about the fecurity I offered. I affumed a behaviour which I have fometimes found to fucceed.. Pray, friend," faid I, with an air of aftonifhment and indignation, have you any kind of doubt of the goodness of this bill ?" "I confefs, fir," replied he, "I have." "that "Let me tell you, friend," faid I, those who are the most capable of cheating are the most fufpicious of being cheated." "I give you credit, fir," faid he, "for the obfervation, which I believe to be, in general, just." Deceived by the calm good-humoured air with which he spoke, I replied " I prefume, then, you will discount the bill." "By no means," faid the phlegmatic fcoundrel." I gave you credit for your obfervation, becaufe, as I already told you, I think it good. I give none to the bill, be - cause, as I also informed you before, I fear it is bad." This man's diffidence spread like wild-fire, and infected every perfon to whom I applied for money. From the contents of your ladyfhip's laft letter, I take it for granted that my lord is now in lawful poffeffion of mifs Moyfton, or on the point of being fo. I leave it to your prudence and addrefs to feize a favourable opportunity of fhowing him the unreasonable-nefs of his being offended with me on account of what I wrote refpecting mifs Moyston. So far from its being meant as difrespectful to him, it was, in reality, exactly conformable to what I had reafon to believe were his own 1entiments. The letter he wrote to me, I am willing to think, was merely the effect of a tranfient fit of paffion, to which the most amiable people are the most liable. I cannot allow myself to imagine that your ladyship will have any difficulty in convincing him of the fincerity of my attachment to him and to all who are connected with him; yet I would have you to watch a proper occafion for making the representation. Perhaps this may not occur immediately after his nuptials. It is not likely that his lordship will then be in the moft aufpicious humour. It will be best to let him be, in some measure, familiarised to mifs Moyston, and confoled for what he may not relish in her perfon, by reflecting on the beauties of her fortune. I must likewise trouble your ladyship to make my congratulations agreeable to that lady.-Affure her that nobody can have à more fincere refpect for the young countess of Deanport than I fhall always have. I should have been reduced to the greatest difficulties had I not received a fupply from one of our countrymen who arrived last night at the inn. I was very little acquainted with him, yet found myself under the neceffity of making my fituation known to him.-" I had the honour to meet you, fir," faid he, "in company with Mr. Mordaunt-A companion of his must be a man of honour." He advanced the supply I had applied for.But I fhall not leave this place until I hear from your ladyship. I remain, Your devoted fervant, J. GRINDILL, LETTER XCI. The Countess of DEANPORT to JAMES London. AFTER all the inftances of the devil's malice, and of your own ill-luck, that you enumerated in your last, you are unacquainted with one which exceeds all the reft. In consequence of the advice I gave my son, when he was in the very height of his fury againft mifs Clifford, he determined, as I informed you, to renew his addreffes to mifs Moyston. He had long been perfuaded that the poor girl was over head-and-ears in love with him, and that she was in a state of languishment from the fufpenfe he had so long kept her in. He once hinted to me, "that, though he feldom had any compaffion for ugly women, yet he could not help pitying her a little;" and, when I represented to him "that his mar |