dings of that course which many of our
Modern Patriots have taken.--These things will, in due time, explain
themselves.--The Right Honourable Captain fought and found an empty
Renown among the Frozen Seas of the _North_.--Some more substantial
Honours seem to await him here.--I do not despair of seeing him _a Lord
of the Admiralty_.--The Noble Relation to whom he owes the rudiments of
naval wisdom, may also have communicated to him that subtle Spirit,
which, in spite of Private Connections, Family Dissentions, Public
Engagements, and Ministerial Confusion, looks alone to, and will
maintain its own Interests.]

[Footnote e: [_th' expected Dower._]--The Anecdote to which this relates
is known to every one.--It contains the picture of a _sordid Man in the
extreme_, who was capable of seeking for emolument in the Injustice of a
Parent to his Children;--and, being repulsed in this hope, made the
basest resolutions, but possess'd not sufficient courage to put them in
execution.--And his reward is _Disappointment for Life_.

It is very extraordinary,--but the polite _Clubs_ and _Circles_ were
alive at this event.--What then must that Man be, whose Miseries furnish
delight to his Fellow-Creatures!--But when a _money-loving spirit_ alone
_leads_ a man to the Altar,--the World will rejoice if a _cowardly
spirit_ should _drive him thither_.]

[Footnote f: [_th' omitted Legacy._] About three or four months ago, the
following Paragraph, or something like it, appear'd in the Morning
Papers.--"Yesterday Lord ----, who had been called into the country by
the sudden Illness of a noble Lady not twenty miles from _Windsor_,
return'd to Town with an account of her Death and his Disappointment, to
an anxious Family in _Lower Grosvenor Street_."--This Article of
Intelligence would, probably, have been unnotic'd by me, had not a
Person without any previous notice, exclaim'd aloud in a Coffee-House
where I happened to be,--_I am glad of it, by G----d_.--Upon being ask'd
by some of the Company, what might occasion such a _joyful
Asseveration_,--he read the above paragraph,--and the _whole room_
express'd an almost equal satisfaction.]

[Footnote g: [_Then Folly titter'd._] Mankind, who are accustomed to
have their attention awaken'd to acts of daring Vice, or pre-eminent
Virtue, may think the mean, base, cowardly, hypocritical Character not
sufficiently interesting to claim their particular notice;--and that the
exposing to the general know