Pub July. 1.1808. by John White Fleel S& John Scott. Strand.

attachment to her, and seemed as if she was inclined to be grateful: this redoubled his eagerness, and every outward mark of tenderness he could possibly shew her; but the watchful husband redoubling his zeal and assiduity, as he found the approaches advance, every art was practised to render him tractable: several attacks were made upon his avarice and his ambition. Those who possessed his confidence, insinuated to him, that it was his own fault, if Lady Robarts, who was so worthy of belonging to the court, was not received into some considerable post, either about the queen or the duchess. He was offered to be made Lord Lieutenant of the county where his estate was; or to have the management of the Duke of York's revenues in Ireland, of which he should have the entire disposal, provided he im

mediately set out to take possession of his charge; and having accomplished it, he might return as soon as ever he thought proper.

He perfectly well understood the meaning of these proposals, and was fully apprised of the advantages he might reap from them: in vain did ambition and avarice hold out their allurements; he was deaf to all their temptations, nor could ever the old fellow be persuaded to be made a 'cuckold. It is not always an aversion to, or a dread of this distinction, which preserves us from it: of this Robarts was very sensible; therefore, under the pretence of a pilgrimage to Saint Winifred the virgin and martyr, "who was said to cure women of barrenness, he did not rest, until the highest mountains in Wales were between his wife, and the person who

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had designed to perform this miracle in London, after his departure.

The duke was for some time entirely taken up with the pleasures of the chace, and only now and then engaged in those of love; but his taste having undergone a change in this particular, and the remembrance of Lady Robarts wearing off by degrees, his eyes and wishes were turned towards Miss Brook; and it was in the height of this pursuit, that Lady Chesterfield threw herself in his way, as we shall see, by resuming the sequel of her adventures.

The Earl of Bristol, ever restless and ambitious, had put in practice every art to possess himself of the king's favour. As this is the same Digby whom Count Bussy mentions in his annals, it will be sufficient to say, that he was not at all changed: