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friend , Mrs . Irwin . Mr . Irwin , that lady ' s husband , having obtained an appointment in India , had taken Mrs . Irwin and her Ward with him to Bengal . Sophia becoming a beautiful and accomplished voting lady , engaged tlie affections of Filzcharles , a young soldier of fortune on that establishment , and conceived a mutual passion , though secretly . Mr Irwin having discovered this attachment , thought it his duty to discourage it , as the lovers had no fortune . He persuaded Fitzcharles that hia the
Sop was on eye of marriage to another . Fitzcharles , enraged at the disappointment of ins alrethons , resolves to leave India , and very fortunately hears that he has succeeded to a great estate and Baronet ' s title , by the death of an uncle : so that , henceforth , he is Sir Frederick Hambledon . Coming home , he resides with Sir James Saville , in whose house Miss Clarendon , the sister of" Sophia , lives . r
Miss Clarendon is in love with Captain Belgrave , only son of General Belgrave , who having had a quarrel with her father , forbids his son , on pain of disinheritance , to msrry her . Sir James Saville wishes a marriage to take place between his two Wards , Sir Frederick H . m . bledon and Miss Clarendon , bir Frederick , not knowing Miss Clarendon to be Sophia ' s sister , admires her qualifications ^ and considering Sophia as now another ' s , offers her his hand . She , though still possessing a latent affection for Belgrave , is overruled by her inends to accept his addresses '
. Meanwhile Mrs . Irwin and Sophia return . Sophia hastens to town , to be present at her sister ' s marriage , but , to her great confusion , finds her intended brother-in-law to be that Fitzcharles b y whom she conceived herself forsaken . Sir Frederick , m learning that Miss Sophia was not marriH , and that he had been misinformed , finds his passion revive . In the meantime General Belgrave dies , having , on his death- bed , taken off from his son the prohibition to marry Miss Clarendon . Sir James Saville discovers the real state of the hearts of the several lovers . Sir Frederick is united to Miss Sophia , and Captain Belgrave to Miss Clarendon .
The chara & ers are well drawn , well diversified , ancl discriminated The general tendency is friendl y to virtue . One of the best exhibitions of life is the character of Miss Maria Saville , Sir James ' s daughter , a fashionable Miss , who , disregarding the injunctions of her father , and advice of her friends associates with gaming ladies , imbibes their ideas , contracts debts , and is by one of them sold to an Irish adventurer . She had before had an offer of marriage , rom Mr . Seymoura worthmanof great fortune but overshot
, y , ; her own mark b y too great an anxiety about the articles , and lost her lover Ihe following account of this transaction will afford a good specimen of the work . It is m a letter to Lady Staffordson , her gambling friend of qua- ' Iity , who afterwards betrayed her . x
Seymour was . it seems , uneasy at some of the friendships I had formed he stud a town life was destruflive to my health . Sir James , instead of resenting this assurance , approved it . In the evening , Seymour brought a rough draft of the writings . I referred it to papa , who , I hoped , would make a better bargain than I should , though I did not say so . Seymour proposed my fifteen thousand pounds should be settled on vounger children my jointure should be fifteen hundred a and in ' three
year , my p-money I said 1 thought three was too little ; which made Seymour dash it out and nut five . He then said , ' < Sir James shall add even to this , if he thinks it not adequate to my loved , my angelic Maria ' s wants . " M y Either took the pen , and I was perfeft y delighted , fori thought he would make it eight ; when ! dashing the whole article through with his quill , he said , « in compliance with custom , I offered my wife pin-money .- that noble-minded woman crossed
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Review Of New Publications.
friend , Mrs . Irwin . Mr . Irwin , that lady ' s husband , having obtained an appointment in India , had taken Mrs . Irwin and her Ward with him to Bengal . Sophia becoming a beautiful and accomplished voting lady , engaged tlie affections of Filzcharles , a young soldier of fortune on that establishment , and conceived a mutual passion , though secretly . Mr Irwin having discovered this attachment , thought it his duty to discourage it , as the lovers had no fortune . He persuaded Fitzcharles that hia the
Sop was on eye of marriage to another . Fitzcharles , enraged at the disappointment of ins alrethons , resolves to leave India , and very fortunately hears that he has succeeded to a great estate and Baronet ' s title , by the death of an uncle : so that , henceforth , he is Sir Frederick Hambledon . Coming home , he resides with Sir James Saville , in whose house Miss Clarendon , the sister of" Sophia , lives . r
Miss Clarendon is in love with Captain Belgrave , only son of General Belgrave , who having had a quarrel with her father , forbids his son , on pain of disinheritance , to msrry her . Sir James Saville wishes a marriage to take place between his two Wards , Sir Frederick H . m . bledon and Miss Clarendon , bir Frederick , not knowing Miss Clarendon to be Sophia ' s sister , admires her qualifications ^ and considering Sophia as now another ' s , offers her his hand . She , though still possessing a latent affection for Belgrave , is overruled by her inends to accept his addresses '
. Meanwhile Mrs . Irwin and Sophia return . Sophia hastens to town , to be present at her sister ' s marriage , but , to her great confusion , finds her intended brother-in-law to be that Fitzcharles b y whom she conceived herself forsaken . Sir Frederick , m learning that Miss Sophia was not marriH , and that he had been misinformed , finds his passion revive . In the meantime General Belgrave dies , having , on his death- bed , taken off from his son the prohibition to marry Miss Clarendon . Sir James Saville discovers the real state of the hearts of the several lovers . Sir Frederick is united to Miss Sophia , and Captain Belgrave to Miss Clarendon .
The chara & ers are well drawn , well diversified , ancl discriminated The general tendency is friendl y to virtue . One of the best exhibitions of life is the character of Miss Maria Saville , Sir James ' s daughter , a fashionable Miss , who , disregarding the injunctions of her father , and advice of her friends associates with gaming ladies , imbibes their ideas , contracts debts , and is by one of them sold to an Irish adventurer . She had before had an offer of marriage , rom Mr . Seymoura worthmanof great fortune but overshot
, y , ; her own mark b y too great an anxiety about the articles , and lost her lover Ihe following account of this transaction will afford a good specimen of the work . It is m a letter to Lady Staffordson , her gambling friend of qua- ' Iity , who afterwards betrayed her . x
Seymour was . it seems , uneasy at some of the friendships I had formed he stud a town life was destruflive to my health . Sir James , instead of resenting this assurance , approved it . In the evening , Seymour brought a rough draft of the writings . I referred it to papa , who , I hoped , would make a better bargain than I should , though I did not say so . Seymour proposed my fifteen thousand pounds should be settled on vounger children my jointure should be fifteen hundred a and in ' three
year , my p-money I said 1 thought three was too little ; which made Seymour dash it out and nut five . He then said , ' < Sir James shall add even to this , if he thinks it not adequate to my loved , my angelic Maria ' s wants . " M y Either took the pen , and I was perfeft y delighted , fori thought he would make it eight ; when ! dashing the whole article through with his quill , he said , « in compliance with custom , I offered my wife pin-money .- that noble-minded woman crossed