THE British Mingaing OR Monthly Repository Gentlemen Ladie •VOL:II e Condon: Printed for H. Rayne. 1. Compley as Drydenise Wire Pater Noster Ren ADVERTISEMENT. T HE Proprietors of the BRITISH MAGAZINE. might be deemed deficient, in point of Gratitude, should they let flip this Opportunity of the New Year, to express their warm Acknowledgments for the favourable Reception with which this Work has been indulged by the Public. Encouraged by this Indulgence, they will grudge no Trouble, they will fpare no Expence, in their Endeavours to render it ftill more useful and entertaining; and they hope the candid Part of Mankind will own, that the BRITISH MAGAZINE has a peculiar Claim to their Approbation, enriched as it is with a great Variety of Original Pieces; befides the Profecution of four intirely new Works, continued from Number to Number, in the feparate Articles, intituled, The Adventures of Sir LAUNCELOT GREAVES; The Peerage of ENGLAND; and A Course of BIOGRAPHY. January 1761. Over A Over and above these Funds of Entertainment, the Proprietors are refolved to begin the Second Volume with a compendious History of FRANCE, compiled from MEZERAY, Father DANIEL, and other authentic Writers; and carried on, without Interruption, to the Peace of Utrecht, fo as to comprehend the Whole in the Compafs of two fmall Volumes. In a word, their Intereft and Ambition concur in animating their Efforts to fill the BRITISH MAGAZINE with fuch a Choice of Articles, as may beft fuit the Taste of a British Reader. THE CHAP. XIV. Which fhews, HOSE who have felt the doubts, the jeaTloufies, the refentments, the humiliations, the hopes, the defpair, the impatience, and, in a word, the infinite difquiets of love, will be able to conceive the sea of agitation on which our adventurer was toffed all night long, without repofe or intermiffion. Sometimes he refolved to employ all his industry and addrefs in difcovering the place in which Aurelia was fequeftered, that he might rescue her from the fuppofed restraint to which he had been fubjected. But, when his heart beat high with the anticipation of this exploit, he was fuddenly invaded, and all his ardour checked, by the remembrance of that fatal letter, written and figned by her own hand, which had divorced him from all hope, and first unsettled his underftanding. The emotions waked by this remembrance were fo ftrong, that he leaped from the bed, and, the fire being ftill burning in the chimney, lighted a candle, that he might once more banquet his spleen by reading the original billet, which, together with the ring he had received from mifs Darnel's mother, he kept in a small box, carefully depofited within his portmanteau. This being inftantly unlocked, he unfolded the paper, and recited the contents in these words: "Sir, Obliged as I am by the paffion you profefs, and the eagernefs with which you endeavour to give me the moft convincing proof |