ciety, and oftarve my understanding. I deny it, however. The great book sof nature is open before me, and poor must be his tafte who cannot find in it a more noble study than that of fophifticated minds, which we call fociety chere, where at every step we take fomething appears to fhock or difguft us; where all greatnefs of character feems loft; and where, if we defire to study human nature unaduls terated by sinhuman prejudices, we ha nearly as the painter would do, who thould turn from the study of the exquifitely fimple Grecian statues to debauch his eyes with the spectacle of court figures in hoops and perriwigs.In this scoun try, my dear Armitage, as you know very well, we do not value, le vrai beau, which, being tranflated, feems to me to mean, the great fimple; no, we appreciate moral excellence by fuccefs, by fore ། tune, which gives fashion, and imputes perfection (a temporary one indeed, but which still anfwers all their purposes) to the mere puppets of a feason. I will not talk falk to you about politics, because you are among the moderates and quietists; you endure all things, you hopen alk things, you believe all things. Now I who do hot love enduring much, who have little to hope, and ...'n'w „ebnur And who believe nothing," inter rupted Armitage., en flatib no audi oʻ ti Oh!bpardon me," rejoined Glenmorris, believes a vaft deal; but we will not talk of that not that we should differ in the great principles of our actions, and all the reftis mere, verbal wranglings a difference in terms rather thang things. While you can be toler ably happy yourfelf, my dear friend, in this country, or believe that you can do good to its people, it is very fit you should flay for me who, footh to fay, am not happy in it myself, and defpair of being of any use in promoting, beyond a very narrow circle, indeed, the happiness of others, other neceffity of my re maining is by no means fo evident. You agree with me, that true philanthropy does 1 does not confift in loving John, and Thomas, and George, and James, because they are our brothers, our coufins, our neighbours, our countrymen, but in benevolence to the whole human race; if that be true, let me ask you whether I can be thoroughly contented here, where I fee that the miferies inflicted by the focial compact greatly exceed the happiness derived from it; where I obferve an artificial polish, glaring but fallacious on one fide, and on the other real and bitter wretchedness; where for a great part of the year my ears are every week fhocked by the cries of hawkers, informing who has been dragged to execution; and where, to come directly home, it is at the mercy of any rafcal, to whom I have given an opportunity of cheating me of ten pounds, to fwear a debt againft me, and carry me to the abodes of horror, where the malefactor groans in irons, the debtor languishes in despair. Is or is not this picture true? and if it be, can I love to live in fuch a country country only because I drew my firft breath in a remote corner of it? No, dear Armitage, if Delmont will not fail me; if he will let me for a little while; atleaft have my Medora in my adopted country, if, notwithstanding his advantages here, he has, as I believe, manlinefs enough to fay, All countries that the eye of heaven, visits, we will once more cross the Atlantic, and I will try to teach him, that whereer a thinking man enjoys the most uninterrupted domeftic felicity, and fees fpecies the moft content, that is his abuntry." Mrs. Glenmorris, whose mind long fuffored from the hock fhe had fuftained, and who could not hear fome names without trembling, was equally anxious to quit England, and Delmont, who had thing but his local attachment to Upwood as a balance against his defire to gratify the parents of his wife, hefitated not not a moment to determine todo cas Glenmorris defired. Indeed the pleasure with which from a boy he had cherished that favourite fpot of earth was confiderably embittered now, by the reffdence of his brother fo near it.The cha racter of Lord Caftledanes had acquired: room to difplay itself, bands it became every day more effentially different from that of Delmont. The houfe was altogether unlike what it once was; Lady. Caftledanes tried to make herfelf amends by the fplendor and profusion of her eftablishment, for the want of real hap pinefs, and unwilling to acknowledge to herself that the failed, affected a fort of haughty galety, which made her utterly difagreeable to Mrs. Glenmorris and Medora, the former of whom was com entirely to decline parties which were too fatiguing to her in her prefent ftate of health. Glenmorris could never command his fatyrical vein enough to mix with them, and Delmont perfifted now, as he had done formerly, in keeping |