e me as a token. Be kind to our
infant daughter; and the unfortunate mother on her part, will forgive
you.

"Your's, &c."

The horrid squalling of the cat did not grate so disagreeably upon the
gentleman's ears, as the reading of these words; so that his hat and wig
were flung off, and he ran about stamping and swearing that the child was
none of his, neither did he know any thing of the mother. On the other
hand, his mother and sisters flew into a violent rage, assailing his ears
on every side with reproaches; so that he would at that time have thought
deafness preferable to any one of the senses. "Dost thou deny the child
to be thine?" cried the mother: "has it not thy very eyes, nose, and
mouth? and is this not thy very handkerchief? this thou canst not deny,
for I can safely swear it was thine." The poor gentleman, thus beset on
all sides, was obliged to quit the field; the child was taken into the
house, and brought up and educated there, and is at this day a very
accomplished fine lady.

Some time after this adventure, Mr. Carew took passage at Folkstone, in
Kent, for Boulogne in France, where he arrived safe, and proceeded to
Paris and other cities in that kingdom. His habit was now tolerably
good, his countenance grave, his behaviour sober and decent, pretending
to be a Roman-catholic, who left England, his native country, out of an
ardent zeal of spending his days in the bosom of the catholic church.
This story readily gained belief; his zeal was universally applauded, and
handsome contributions made for him; but at the same time he was so
zealous a Roman-catholic, with a little change of habit, he used to
address those English he heard of in any place as a protestant
shipwrecked seaman. He had the good fortune, in this character, to meet
an English physician at Paris, to whom he told his deplorable tale, who
was so much affected by it, that he not only relieved him very
handsomely, but, what was more, recommended him to that noble pattern of
unexhausted benevolence, Mrs. Horner, who was on her travels, from whom
he received ten guineas, and from some other company with her, five more.

Here, reader, if thou hast a good heart, we cannot entertain thee better,
than by drawing a true though faint picture of this generous lady; for,
were benevolence and generosity real beings, we are persuaded they would
act just like her; with such an u