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Titude, tranfcend every other mortal; for you have pride equal to Lucifer, though you want his spirit; to which are added the turbulence of Moloch, and the avarice of Mammon.-You fee I-am ftill defirous of introducing you into good company.

It was very impolitic in you to fend your brother to me, to diffuade me from publishing this Letter. You fuppofed, that my regard for him would prevent me from expofing him in his relation; but no power on earth fhall prevent me from doing it. If I am amenable to the laws of my country, for making known, in this manner, my injuries, and your perfidy, carry your threats into execution. No martyr that ever fuffered in the cause of religion, refigned themselves to their fate with greater chearfulness. Even death fhall

not deter me.

Before I conclude, I moft folemnly affure you, that neither Mr. Woodward nor Mr. Kelly, who I find are the marked objects of your refentment, ever faw, heard, or read a single line of this Letter; and that I have neither been abetted or affisted by any living creature; nor has any living perfon perufed a line of it, but one gentleman, who took the trouble of reading four pages; when being tired of fo worthless a fubject, he threw it down,

in order to pursue his favourite study of alchymy, with his researches after the Philofopher's Stone.

Yet let me again proteft to you, that every article which I am acquainted with, and which you are fo apprehensive about, is as fecurely locked in my breast, as it is in your bofom-fo farewell."Read this, and then to breakfaft with what ap"petite you may."

G. A. BELLAMY.

LETTER

LETTER CIII.

May 4, 1785.

As I can have no doubt, Madam, from the S friendship you have ever profeffed for me, that you intereft yourself in whatever concerns me, I will now give you an account of the principal events relative to myself, that have taken place fince the commencement of the prefent year 1785. I fear the recital will, now and then, draw a figh from your fympathetic heart; yet, as you will fee from it that my profpects-begin to brighten, and that the dawn of a tranquillity to which I had long been a stranger, already tinges the horizon of my future days, I trust the pleasure you receive from it will overbalance the pain it gives you.

You must know then, that the emolument I reaped from the fale of the copy of my "Apology," as I was at the time greatly involved, went imme diately, as far as it would go, towards fatisfying thofe creditors. Having thus drained myfelf of every guinea, I was unfortunately compelled to contract fresh debts, to fupport a wretched exiftence.

Among

Among thefe, was one of fourteen pounds for my lodging. And as I had, by fome means or other, incurred the diflike of the woman of the house, the expectation of future advantages from a generous public, when my ftory came to be known, could not procure for me the leaft lenity. From what caufe the inveteracy of this person Sprung, I never could conceive, as I always made at my ftudy to oblige her, as far as lay in my power; but to fuch a height was it rifen, by the time the debt had accumulated to the fum mentioned, that a writ was taken out against me, and a fheriff's officer introduced into my apartment, to ferve it, by herself. And to make the capture as vexatious, expensive, and difgraceful as poffible, I was honoured with the vifit about eight o'clock on a Saturday evening, and taken to Mr. Parfons'.

I am indebted to Mr. Batten, of Hare-court, in the Temple, for obtaining a release from this difagreeable affair. But though the malice of my perfecutor was thus defeated by the kind interference of that gentleman, yet to my coft I found, that it was not in the leaft abated. Enraged at the disappointment of her malevolent wishes, fhe fought out every perfon to whom I happened to

be

be indebted; and by every argument fhe could devife, prevailed upon them to ferve me with copies of writs. The confequence of this was, that the debts were increased thereby to four times the fum they originally had been.

To add to the diftrefs which thus poured in upon me, having neglected, through not understanding the law, to have one of the writs properly anfwered, I was ferved with an attachment for contempt of court; and being unable to satisfy the demand, was reduced to pay a vifit, once more, to the grated manfion of Mr. Parfons.

My introduction to that gentleman was owing, as I have already informed you, though I did not then mention his name, to my indiscretion in accepting a bill, as already related, for Mifs Smithers, the unworthy woman who deceived both my fon Metham and myfelf. Upon this occafion I was ftill more obliged to Mr. Batten, as I was not then mistress of a fingle fhilling. That the meafure of my misfortunes may be heaped, my kind hoft would not fuffer me to quit his houfe, without fomething to remember him; for before I departed, he prefented me with another copy of a writ for five guineas, which had been fome time L

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