vernment of America is on the same plan
with that of the mother country, it were to be wished the religious
establishment was also the same, especially in those colonies where the
people are generally of the national church; though with the fullest
liberty of conscience to dissenters of all denominations.

I would be clearly understood, my Lord; from all I have observed
here, I am convinced, nothing would so much contribute to diffuse a
spirit of order, and rational obedience, in the colonies, as the
appointment, under proper restrictions, of bishops: I am equally
convinced that nothing would so much strengthen the hands of
government, or give such pleasure to the well-affected in the colonies,
who are by much the most numerous, as such an appointment, however
clamored against by a few abettors of sedition.

I am called upon for this letter, and must remit to another time
what I wished to say more to your Lordship in regard to this country.

I have the honor to be,
My Lord, &c.
Wm. Fermor.

LETTER 118.

To Mrs. Melmoth, at Montreal.

Silleri, April 8.

I am indeed, Madam, this inconsistent creature. I have at once
refused to marry Colonel Rivers, and owned to him all the tenderness of
my soul.

Do not however think me mad, or suppose my refusal the effect of an
unmeaning childish affectation of disinterestedness: I can form to
myself no idea of happiness equal to that of spending my life with
Rivers, the best, the most tender, the most amiable of mankind; nor can
I support the idea of his marrying any other woman: I would therefore
marry him to-morrow were it possible without ruining him, without
dooming him to a perpetual exile, and obstructing those views of
honest ambition at home, which become his birth, his connexions, his
talents, his time of life; and with which, as his friend, it is my
duty to inspire him.

His affection for me at present blinds him, he sees no object but me
in the whole universe; but shall I take advantage of that inebriation
of tenderness, to seduce him into a measure inconsistent with his real
happiness and interest? He must return to England, must pursue fortune
in that world for which he was formed: shall his Emily retard him in
the glorious race? shall she not rather encourage him in every laudable
attempt? shall she suffer him to hide that shining merit in the
uncultivated wilds of Canada, the seat of barbarism and ignorance,
which entitles him to hop