fhould be fent to him to his closet. As foon as they entered, he clofed the door. My dear friends, faid he, as I may not be up in the morning to take a timely leave of you, it might do as well to go through that melancholy office to-night.---Here, Mrs Homely, here is fome little matter àpiece toward beginning a fortune for your three pretty daughters. Pray, Homely, take care to have it difposed of for them upon good fecurities. Here he put three orders upon his banker, for five hundred pounds each, into Peggy's hand; then, turning to Homely, and taking him firaitly in his arms, God be with you and your dear Peggy, my Homely, he cried, and give us all a bleffed meeting where friends fhall part no more!

The diftreffed Homely was paft utterance; but difengaging, and flinging himfelf at the feet of his patron, while Peggy kept on her knees weeping and fobbing befide him; O, he cried, at length, Next to my God! O next to my Lord and my God.---My Lord and my master, my mafter and my Lord!

The next morning, before fun-rife, Harry was up, and, going to Homely's apartment, embraced him and his wife. He then kiffed and careffed all the girls and boys round, and gave to each of them

them a gold-medal to keep him in their remembrance; when Homely and his Peggy, with open arms, trembling lips, and fwelling eyes, began to take their leave. God be with you, God be with you, fobbed Homely aloud, never, never, till I get to heaven, fhall I meet with fuch another dear affembly.

Mr.Fenton now judged it time to forward his Harry's education, especially with respect to his knowledge of the world, of the views, pleafures, manners, bents, employments, and characters of mankind.

For this purpose, he proposed to leave Arabella fole regent of his family; and, for a few weeks, to ftay with Clement and Harry in London, there to fhew him whatever might gratify his curonity or merit his infpection.

While the coach was in waiting, and they all flood on the hill, the great city, being extended in ample view beneath them, Mr Fenton exclaimed : exclaimed: “O! London, London! thou mausoleum of dead fouls, how pleasant art thou to the eye, how beautiful in outward prospect! but within how full of rottennefs, and Leeking abominations! Thy deaiers areall ftudents in the myftery of iniquity, of fraud and impofition on ignorance,

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and credulity. Thy public offices are hourly exercised in exactions and extortion. Thy courts of judicature are bufied in the fale, the delay or perverfion of juftice; they are fhut to the injured and indigent, but open to the wealthy pleas of the invader and oppreffor. Thy magiftracy is often employed in fecretly countenancing and abetting the breach of thofe laws it was inftituted to maintain. Thy charities, fubfcribed for the fupport of the poor, are lavished by the trustees in pampering the rich, where drunkenness swallows till it wallows, and gluttony ftuffs till it pants, and unbuttons and ftuffs again. Even the great ones of thy court have audacioufly fmiled away the gloom and horrors of guilt,, and refined, as it were, all the groffness thereof, by inverting terms, and pallia ting phrates. While the millions that croud and hurry through thy ftreets,, are univerfally occupied in ftriving and fruggling to rife by the fall, to fatten by the leannefs, and to thrive by the ruins of their fellows. Thy offences are rank, they fteam and cloud the face of heaven. The guit alio is hollow beneath, that is one day to receive thee. But the meas fure of thy abominations is not yet full; and the number of thy righteous hath:

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hitherto exceeded the proportion that was found in the first Sodom.

That evening they went to the opera, where Harry was fo captivated by the fentimental meltings and varied harmo ny of the airs, that he requested Mr Fenton to permit him to be infìructed on fome inftrument. Not by my advice, my dear, anfwered Mr Fenton; I would not with you to attempt any thing in which you may not excel. Mufic is a fcience that requires the application of a man's whole life, in order to arrive at any eminence. As it is enchanting in the hand of a mafter, it is also discordant and grating in its inferior degrees. Your labours have been employed to much more valuable purposes; and I would not, as they fay, give my child's time for a fong. Harry inftantly acquiefced with the beft temper imaginable, as the will of his beloved patron was, truly fpeaking, his own will; and that he only wanted to know it, to be at all times, and on all occafions, conformable thereto.

A few following days were employed in visiting the tower, in furveying the armory, regalia, &c. in viewing the monument and exchange; and, lastly, in contemplating the folemnity of Welt

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minfter abbey, with the marbled effigies and monumental deposits of the renowned in death; the place, as Mr Fenton affectingly obferved, to which all the living muft finally adjourn.

The next night they went to the theatre, to fee the feats of Signor Volanti, the celebrated Italian pofture-mafter, ropedancer, and equilibrift. Such wonders are now fo common as to be scarce entertaining; but, at that time, they were received with burfts and roars of applaufe.

Our hero felt himself attached by the fimilar excellencies of his own activity in another; and, going behind the fcenes, he accotted Volanti in French. Signor, faid he, i have been highly entertained by your performance this night, and here are five guineas in return of the pleafure you have given me. The foreigner looked at Harry, and then at the money, with a kind of aftonifhment. I thank you, noble Sir, he cried; my poor endeavours are teldom to liberally rewarded. Pray, how long do you ftay with us? In about a fortnight, fo pleate your Nobleneis, I intend to leave London. But, betore I go, I would do fomething to leave a name behind me. A day or twobefore my departure, I will fly from the iprre of Saint Clement's church, in the