clofe converfation with a Frenchman of the loweft class, though dreft like a man of fashion, whom he had remembered in the fervice of an English nobleman, and who had been disgracefully turned out of his family for certain mifdemeanours of an unpardonable nature. In order, however, to gain all the information he could, relating to this unexpected interview, he fecreted himfelf, and liftened with a greedy ear to every word which paffed between his miftrefs and the fictitious Count: and the more he attended to the converfation of the latter, the more was he amazed at his confummate impudence. When the Count had taken his leave, he made his appearance, and, approaching his Charlotte in the moft fubmiffive manner, begged he might be permitted to be heard.

Charlotte, ftruck at the fight of the last man whom the expected to behold in that place, started back a few paces, but foon recovering herself, allowed her rejected lover to articulate what he wanted to difclofe.

He then entered directly into the business of the moment, and acquainted her with all the particulars which he knew relating to the man whom fhe had, fuppofing him to be a person of diftinction, encouraged as a lover; concluding his intelligence with the ftrongest affurances of the fin

cerity of his own paffion, (in fpite of all her forbidding behaviour) and the moft earneft wishes to be infeparably united to her.

Had Charlotte been at that time in the full poffeffion of her understanding, fhe, probably, would have been ready, not only to pay her Englifh lover the moft cordial acknowledgements for his most seasonable information, but would have also declared herself as ready to reward him with her hand, for all the difquiets and anxieties which he had endured for her fake, and for the convincing proofs he had given of his immoveable attachment to her. Charlotte, unluckily, at that inftant, entirely mistaking the views of Saunders, and looking upon the difcovery he had made as a mere fiction originating from envy and difappointment, gave not the leaft credit to what fhe heard. She perfifted in believing that the Count was the man he appeared to be, and that she should, by marrying him, figure in the firft circles at Paris. Under the powerful influence of this belief, fhe, with a formal civility, defired Mr. Saunders to take no more trouble about her, as fhe knew exceedingly well how to conduct herself without his advice.

Struck at the coldnefs with which this answer was delivered, and fhocked at the fame time at

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her obftinate perfeverance in an error, which could not but be productive of confequences, deftructive of her peace, he could not bring himself to articulate a reply-His tongue was motionlefs he bowed and retired in filence.

As foon as Charlotte returned to the house, after having difmiffed one of her best friends, in a manner which he had little merited, fhe informed her falfe one, Mrs. Brindley, of what had paffed concerning the Count.

"And did you give credit to it," faid Mrs. Brindley, in great eagerness, as if fhe was much interested in her companion's faith upon the occafion.

Charlotte, by returning an answer in the negative, removed her apprehenfions, and in a fubfequent fpeech made her quite eafy about the Count concerning whom fhe had been in no small agitation, from the inftant Saunders flew from her (before fhe could ftop him as fhe intended) into the garden.

In a few days after this converfation, Charlotte gave her hand to the nominal Count F and by putting her perfon and fortune in his poffeffion, plunged herself into a fituation by which her

pride was feverely mortified, and her peace totally deftroyed.

The very morning after the rose one of the happiest of brides, in her own opinion, in Paris, she discovered in a corner of her room, an open letter, written in Mrs. Brindley's hand; and on feeing her own name mentioned in it; fhe was doubly prompted by curiofity to perufe the whole contents. The perufal of them almoft deprived her of fenfes, for fhe now found that fhe had been by her friend's connivance (upon the promise of receiving apart of her fortune) married to the very man whom her moft faithful lover had defcribed: and not to the man-not to the Count-to whofe history of himself she had liftened with too much attention, and with too much credulity. She determined immediately to get rid of Mrs. Brindley; but fhe foon difcovered that it was no eafy matter to diflodge her, as fhe was protected by her husband, who proved an imperious tyrant, and forced her to with, a thoufand times a day, that she had married the fincere friend, and conftant lover, who had fo generously warned her against the precipice, to which fhe was hastening with all the rashness of precipitation.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON.

IR ISAAC NEWTON, univerfally acknow

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ledged to be the ableft philofopher and mathematician that this, or perhaps any other nation has produced, is alfo well known to have been a firm believer and a ferious chriftian. His difcoveries concerning the frame and fyftem of the universe were applied by him to demonftrate the being of a God, and to illuftrate his power and wifdom in the creation.

This great man applied himself likewife with the utmost attention to the ftudy of the holy fcriptures, and confidered the feveral parts of them with uncommon exactnefs; particularly as to the order of time, and the feries of prophefies and events relating to the Meffiah. Upon which head he left behind him an elaborate discourse, to prove that the famous prophecy of Daniel's weeks, which has been fo induftrioufly perverted by the Deifts of our times, was an exprefs prophefy of the coming of the Meffiah, and fulfilled in Jefus

Chrift.

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