Love and Madness

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Parties whofe Names would perhaps be mentioned
were they lefs known or lefs lamented.

GOVERNOR.
CROONOKO.

"Who did the bloody Deed?
"The Deed was mine.

Bloody I know it is; and I expect

"Your laws should tell me, fo. Thus felf condemn'd,
"I do refign myfelf into their hands;
"The hands of Justice."

OR. 5. 3.

If this be not Love, it is Madness;
and then, it is pardonable.?"

OLD, BAT.

DUBLIN:

PRINTED BY JAMES AND RICHARD BYRN, No. 18,

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It is not neceffary to fay any thing by way

of Preface, than to defire the Reader, who feels an Inclination to cenfure any of these Letters, will recollect the Perfons by and to whom, and the Situations in which, they were written.

Letter MEMOIRS of Mifs Ray.

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Mr. H. to Mifs-. Huntingdon, Dec. 4, 1775.
On drinking-he will not forget their
appointment.

The Same to the Same. Huntingdon, Dec. 6.
Declares he will take no advantage of
her confeffion that he loves him-offers
to fhare his little fortunes with her;
but, if love conquers gratitude, proteits
that he shall pronounce the victory and
the prize.

Mifs to Mr. H. Huntingdon, Dec. 7.

After fome ftruggle fhe declares the vic-
tory and the prize, and appoints the next
day for the latter.

Mr. H. to Mifs. Hunting. the fame date.
Refuses to accept the prize, heavenly as
it is, under the roof of his hoft and her
benefactor-apology for female frailty-
Celia's picture."

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The Same to the Same. Hunting. Dec. 8. 13
In confequence of fomething which had
paft between them, he formally releafes
her from a folemn promife, which fhe had
made him of blifs on that day.

Mifs to Mr. H. Hinchinbrook, 10 Dec.
Complains of the kindnefs of his letters.
and his conduct; of his offering to fell
out of the army, and to marry her-
"Auld Robin Gray"-begs to fee him
the next day.

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Mr. H. to Mils. Huntingdon, 13 Dec. 18
On epiftolary prefaces-gratitude for
the prize he received yesterday—to fuch
word as fatiety.

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The Same to the Same. Hunting. 24 Dec. 19

Gratitude for the blifs.

Mifs-to Mr. H. Hinchinb. Christmas day.
Sufpicions of Omiah-cannot meet hin
to-day-wishes his delicacy would per-
mit his vifiting at Hinchingbrook as ufual
-fends her picture.

40. Mr. H. tð Mifs · Huntingdon, 28 Dec.
Thanks her for condefcending to remove
his groundless caufe of jealousy--lines on
her picture.

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11. The Same to the Same. Hunting. 1 Jan. 76. 26
On the new year-the foldier, whom he
defired him to beg off, was not punished.
12. The Same to the Same. Hunting 8 Feb.
After having been weather-bound three
weeks by the fnow at Hinchinbrook—un-
eafy at the recollection of the return he
made to Lord S-'s hofpitality.

The Same to the Same. Hunting. 16 Feb. 29

Praifes her perfon and understanding,

and her talents for mufic-fpeaks of his

ungovernable paffions-fends her Offiun,

and "Logan's Speech to Lord Dunmore.”

14. The Same to the Same. Hunting. 22 Feb.

On nature and fublimity in defcription-

on Robinson Crufoe, Faldoni and Terefa

Meunier-Ferningham's poem on their

ftory ridiculed-begs he will not forget

to-morrow.

15. Mifs