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A Seducer is a faithless Friend.

But ought such to have been the language of Sir Charles Grainger to a female who had braved the frowns of the world, who had forfeited for his sake. all claims to respect, all future title to conjugal quiet and happiness? That her mind had a strong sense of what ought to have been her duty, Sir Charles must have seen, when she fled from her own noble mansion, where she lived honoured and beloved, to place herself under his protection. Her young mind, first seduced by him, and then having become a guilty wife, she scorned to carry deceit and falshood to the arms of her husband; and abandoning that honour and reputation, which she might still have lived in amongst the unsuspecting circle of her acquaintance, she openly confessed her guilt by elopement, and fled to hide her shame in the bosom of her betrayer.

Of a family, as respectable for their virtues as for their riches and nobility, Sir

A Family formed to please the Fair.

Charles had enjoyed the confidence of his Sovereign; had acquitted himself with honor in the station assigned him, and received that approbation from a grateful government which he merited. The family of the Graingers might be said, in every respect, to be formed to please the fair; handsome in person, insinuating in manners, brave, and elegantly accomplished!

When such are the temptations thrown in the way of an inexperienced young female; who perhaps finds not her loveliness, her merit, her affectionate heart, and correct conduct, treated with that warmth of gratitude they deserve, what are we to expect? A faithless husband too often makes a faithless wife, and what but the natural fickleness and depravity of nature, seemingly inherent in the composition of man, can render him so? Does the term wife carry with it an antidote to love and constancy.-The conduct of

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No palliation for Guilt.

many of our fashionables would induce us to imagine it did. We do not directly say, that Lord Ingleby was one of these inconstants; but when rumour is busy in spreading such reports, when private letters, which were brought forth as proofs to condemn a deluded female, glance in a most marked and pointed manner, on the duty of constancy and fidelity in an husband, and recommend its charms, by adverting to the conduct, and enforcing the example of a faithful domestic quadruped, then we may naturally suppose, that rumour for once had truth on her side.

The outrageously virtuous will perhaps call these remarks, a palliation for guilt; no, they are not so intended; the writer of these pages is as much shocked to see the rapid progress of vice, and the frequent repetition of a breach of conju gal duty as any one can possibly be. We do not by any means excuse the adultress;

A great example of Mercy.

but we compassionate her when not wholly abandoned; and shall we, who are unexposed, perhaps, to temptation, dare to withhold our pity, when HE, whose attributes are mercy and compassion, not only pitied her who was taken in adultery, but forgave! The "naked human heart," was open to his view, and he knew when to withdraw as when to display his mercy. Man, who cannot discriminate, is most like Him when he shews compassion!

After a man has, for his own gratification, deprived a woman, not only of her, virtue, but of the countenance of the world, he is bound by every principle worthy the heart and mind of a gentleman, not only to protect, support, and screen her person from future insult, but to treat her with unremitting tenderness and friendship; he is to endeavour to hush and soothe her sorrow, however -self-acquired, however well-merited he

Money a compensation for Shame.

is to "bind up her broken heart," and speak peace to her afflicted conscience; to lead her back again, if possible, to virtue, but not with

"Hard unkindness' alter'd eye

"Mock the tear he caused to flow!"

An eminent Pleader at the Bar, on a ate similar occasion, says, "The rabble will hoot at a man as he passes in the situation of a Cornuto, if his, rank stands particularly high!" Yet noblemen appear very desirous of convincing the world, that they wear the fashionable ornaments, with which the modern wives of the last and present century choose to adorn their brows. They are not afraid of being "hooted as they pass, they do but get a few thousand pounds. damages; and laughing in their sleeves, they say with La Fontaine :

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