tter written later in the same year:--

'Charles has received 30_l_. for his share of the privateer, and
expects 10_l_. more; but of what avail is it to take prizes if he lays
out the produce in presents to his sisters? He has been buying gold
chains and topaze crosses for us. He must be well scolded. The
"Endymion" has already received orders for taking troops to Egypt,
which I should not like at all if I did not trust to Charles being
removed from her somehow or other before she sails. He knows nothing
of his own destination, he says, but desires me to write directly, as
the "Endymion" will probably sail in three or four days. He will
receive my yesterday's letter, and I shall write again by this post to
thank and reproach him. We shall be unbearably fine.'

CHAPTER IV.

_Removal from Steventon--Residences at Bath and at Southampton--Settling
at Chawton_.

The family removed to Bath in the spring of 1801, where they resided
first at No. 4 Sydney Terrace, and afterwards in Green Park Buildings. I
do not know whether they were at all attracted to Bath by the
circumstance that Mrs. Austen's only brother, Mr. Leigh Perrot, spent
part of every year there. The name of Perrot, together with a small
estate at Northleigh in Oxfordshire, had been bequeathed to him by a
great uncle. I must devote a few sentences to this very old and now
extinct branch of the Perrot family; for one of the last survivors, Jane
Perrot, married to a Walker, was Jane Austen's great grandmother, from
whom she derived her Christian name. The Perrots were settled in
Pembrokeshire at least as early as the thirteenth century. They were
probably some of the settlers whom the policy of our Plantagenet kings
placed in that county, which thence acquired the name of 'England beyond
Wales,' for the double purpose of keeping open a communication with
Ireland from Milford Haven, and of overawing the Welsh. One of the
family seems to have carried out this latter purpose very vigorously; for
it is recorded of him that he slew _twenty-six men_ of Kemaes, a district
of Wales, and _one wolf_. The manner in which the two kinds of game are
classed together, and the disproportion of numbers, are remarkable; but
probably at that time the wolves had been so closely killed down, that
_lupicide_ was become a more rare and distinguished exploit than
_homicide_. The last of this family died about 1778, and their propert