three fums to his relations. I never will be a richer man than I ought to be: And you must inform me what other relations you have, and of their different fituations in life, that I may be enabled to amend a will made in a long and painful fickness, which might four a difpofition that was naturally all benevolence.

They wept; looked at one another; dried their eyes, and wept again. I thought my prefence painful to them, and withdrew to my ftudy; and fhut the door, that I might not add to their pain.

At my return-Do you-Do you, referred each brother to the other: And Mr Thomas Danby getting up to speak, I fee, my friends, faid I, your grateful hearts in your countenances. Do you think my pleasure is not, at leaft, equal to yours? I am more than rewarded in the confcioufnefs of having endeavoured to make a right use of the power entrusted to me. You will, each of you, I hope (thus fet forward), be eminent in his particular bufinefs. The merchants of Great Britain are the most useful members of the community. If I have obliged you, let me recommend to you, each in his feveral way, according to his ability, and as opportunity may offer, to raife thofe worthy hearts. that inevitable calamities fhall make fpiritless. Look upon what is done for you, not as the reward of any particular merits in yourselves, but as your debt to that Providence, which makes it a principal part of your religion, To do good to your fellow-creatures. In a word, let me enjoin you, in all your tranfactions to remember mercy as well as juftice.

The brothers with folded hands, declared, that their hearts were opened by the example fet them; and, they hoped, would never be fhut. The fifter Looked the fame declaration.

Mr Sylvefter, raised with this fcene of gratitude, tears in his honeft eyes, faid, That he should be VOL. III. impatient

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impatient till he had looked into his affairs, and through his acquaintance, in order to qualify himfelf to do fome little good, after fuch a felf-rewarding example.

If a private man, my dear Dr Bartlett, could be a means of expanding thus the hearts of four perfons, none of them unworthy, what good might not princes, and those who have princely fortunes, do?Yet, you fee, I have done nothing but mere justice. I have not given up any-thing that was my own, before this will gave me a power, that per haps was put into my hands, as a new trial of the integrity of my heart.

But what poor creatures are we, my dear friend, that the very avoiding the occafion of a wrong action fhould gladden our hearts, as with the confcioufnefs of fomething meritorious?

At parting, I told the nephews, that I expected to hear from them the moment any-thing fhould be brought to effect; and let their mafters and them agree or not, I would take the speedieft methods that could be fallen upon to transfer to them, and to their fifter, fuch actions and stocks, as would put them in full poffeffion of what they were intitled to, as well by my promife, as by their uncle's will. I was obliged to enjoin them filence.

Their fifter wept; and when I preffed her hand at taking leave of her, gratefully returned the preffure; but in a manner fo modeft (recollecting herfelf into fome little confufion) that fhewed gratitude had poffeffion of her whole heart, and fet her above the forms of her fex.

The good attorney, as much raised as if he were one of the perfons benefited, joined with the two brothers in invoking bleffings upon me.

So much, my dear Dr Bartlett, for this night. The paft day is a day that I am not difpleafed with.

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LETTER VII.

Dr BARTLETT, To Mifs BYRON.

March 18

Prefent to you, madam, the account you desired to fee, as extracted by my kinfman from my papers. You seemed to wish it to be haftened for you: It is not what it might have been; but mere facts, I prefume, will answer your intention. Be pleafed, therefore, to accept it with your usual goodness.or

"DR Bartlett went abroad as governor of a young man of quality; Mr Lorimer, I am to call him, to conceal his real name. He was the very reverse of young Mr Grandifon. He was not only rude and ungovernable; but proud, ill-natured, ma | licious, even bafe.

"The Doctor was exceedingly averse to take upon him the change of the wicked youth abroad; having had too many inftances of the badness of his nature while in England: But he was prevailed upon by the folicitations of his father (who reprefented it as an act of the greatest charity to him and his family), as well as by the folemn promifes of good behaviour from the young man; for he was known to regard the advice of Dr Barlett more than that of any other perfon.

"The Doctor and Mr Lorimer were at Turin, when young Mr Grandifon (who had been fome months in France) for the first time arrived in that city; then in the eighteenth year of his age.

"Dr Bartlett had not a more profligate pupil than Mr Grandifon had a governor; though recommended by General W, his uncle by the mother's fide. It ufed to be obferved in places where they made but a few days' refidence, that the young gentleman

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gentleman ought to have been the governor, Monfieur Creutzer the governed. Mr Grandifon had, in fhort, the happinefs, by his prudence, to escape feveral fnares laid for his virtue, by a wretch, who hoped, if he could betray him into them, to filence the remonftrances of the young man upon his evil conduct; and to hinder him from complaining of him to his father.

"Mr Grandifon became acquainted with Dr Bartlett at Turin: Monfieur Creutzer at the fame time commenced an intimacy with Mr Lorimer; and the two former were not more united from good qualities, than the two latter were from bad.

"Several riotous things were done by Creutzer and Lorimer, who, whatever the Doctor could do to feparate them, were hardly ever afunder. One of their enormities fell under the cognizance of the civil magiftrate; and was not made easy to Lorimer without great intereft and expence: While Creutzer fled to Rome, to avoid condign punishinent; and wrote to Mr Grandifon to join him there.

"Then it was, that Mr Grandifon wrote (as he had often ineffectually threatened to do) to reprefent to his father the profligacy of the man; and to requeft him to appoint him another governor, or to permit him to return to England till he had made choice of one for him; begging of Dr Bartlett, that he would allow him, till he had an answer from his father, to apply to him for advice and instruction.

"The anfwer of his father was, That he heard of his prudence from every mouth; that he was at liberty to chufe what companion he pleased; but that gave him no governor but his own difcretion.

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"Mr Grandilon then, more earnestly than before, and with an humility and diffidence fuited to his natural generofity of temper, that never grew upon indulgence, befought the Doctor's direction: And when they were obliged to feparate, they efta

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blifhed a correfpondence, which never will end but with the life of one of them.

"Mr Grandifon laid before the Doctor all his plan; fubmitting his conduct to him, as well with regard to the profecution of his ftudies, as to his travels: But they had not long correfponded in this manner, when the Doctor let him know, that it was needless to confult him aforehand; and the more fo, as it often occafioned a fufpenfion of excellent refolutions: But he befought him to continue to bim an account of all he undertook, of all he performed, and of every material incident of his life; not only as his narrations would be matter of the highest entertainment to him; but as they would furnish him with leffons from example, that might be of greater force upon the unhappy Lorimer, than his own precepts. be

"While Lorimer was paffing thro' but a few of the cities in Lombardy, Mr Grandifon made almost the tour of Europe; and yet gave himself time to make fuch remarks upon perfons, places, and things, as could hardly be believed to be the obfervations of fo young a man. Lorimer, mean time, was engaged in fhews, fpectacles, and in the diverfions of the places in which he lived, as it might be faid; rather than through which he passed.

"The Doctor, at one time, was the more patient with thefe delays, as he was willing that the carnival at Venice should be over, before he suffered his pupil to go to that city. But Lorimer, fufpecting his intention, flipt thither unknown to his governor, at the very beginning of it; and the Doctor was forced to follow him: And when there, had the mortification of hearing of him (for the young man avoided his governor as much as pollible) as one of the most riotous perfons there.

"In vain did the Doctor, when he faw his pupil, fet before him the example of Mr Grandifon, a much younger man. All the effect which the read