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in the honourable East-India company's service, to miss Robertson, eldest daugh. ter of the late James Robertson, e`q. of Thropmoron-street.

4. At St. George's, Hanover-square, sir John Shelley, bart. to miss Wnch. Jev, daughter and sole heiress of the late Thomas Winchtrv. e q.

Richard Chambers, e-q. of Elv Place, to Harriet, third daughter of John New man, esq. of Skinner-strer.

9. A St. Geor e', Hanover square, John Barnard Hankey, esq. of Fetcham Park, Surrey, to the hon Elizabeth Blaquiere, second daughter of the right hon. lord De B'aquiere.

11. A Mary-le-bonne church, colonel Elford, to miss Lownds, only daughter and heiress of the late W. Lownds, esq. of Upper Clapton.

At St James's church, John Thornton, esq. eldest son of Samue Thornton, esq. M P for the county of Surrey, to miss Fliza Parry, second daughter of Edward Parry, esq. chairman of the East-India company.

13. A Middlewich, Cheshire, by the rev. W. H. Heron. Philip Heacock, csq. of Buxton, Derbyshire, to Ann, eldest daughter of John Braband, esq. of the former place.

20. At St. Martin's church, Daniel Coliver, esq. of Grav's Inn, to miss Sarah Duff, the third and youngest daughter of the hon. Alexander Duff, and niece to the earl of Fife, and to George Skene, of Skene, esq.

DEATHS.

On the 27th of April last, at Paris, in the 85th year of her age, the right hon. lady Anastatia Stafford Howard, baroness of Stafford, only surviving daughter and heir of William, earl of Stafford, who died in 1734. She was sole heir of the body of sir William Howard viscount Stafford, the only married younger son of the present duke of Norfolk's ancestor, Thomas Howard earl of Arundel. She was also sole heir of the body of that viscount's wife, Mary Stafford, baroness of Stafford, and through her, sole heir of the body of Edward the last Stafford duke of Buckingham, hereditary lord high constable of Eng

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land, who was sole heir of the body of king E ward the Third's youngest n, Thomas Pantageser, of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, and of his wife lady Eleanor Bohun, eldest caugh er and coheir of the last Humphrey Bhan, ear of Hereford, Essex, and Northamp ton, and lord high consrable of England; and whose younger sister was wife of king Henry the IVth, but from wh se body there was an entire failure of issue on the death of her grandson king Henry the Vith. Notwithstanding the a cumu lation of Plantagenet Bohun, and Stafford heirship, which came centered in lady Anastasia Stafford Howard, she was disabled by the attainder of her an cestor, the last Stafford d. ke of Buckingham, in the reign of k ng Henry the VIIIth from possessing any of the family dignities, except the Stafford ba rony. She died without having ever been married. Her heir is sir William Jerningham, baroner, whose grandmother was sister of the abovementioned William earl of Stafford.

May 25. At Twickenham, in the 75th year of his age, major Thomas Rea Cole, he served his present majesty in the seven years war, and at the seige of Bellisle, at which he commanded the 98th regiment, was, for his good-conduct, promoted to the rank of major at the age of 23 years, he had also served as chief magistrate in the town of Leeds, in Yorkshire.

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26. At his house at Brompton, Nicholas Bond, e q. one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county Middlesex, &c. and for many years active and vigilant magistrate of the police office in Bow-street.

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June 1. At her seat, at GlymptonPark, in Oxfordshire, Mrs. Anne Wheate, in the 76th year of her age, last surviving daughter of the late sir Thomas Wheate, bart. of that county.

9. At his father's house, Camberwell Grove, Mr. John Collinson, of Queen's college, Oxford, in the 22d year of his age.

After a long and painful illness, miss Rutherford, e'dest daughter of John Rutherford, esq. of Woburn Place, Russel-square, in the 20th year of her age.

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2 Madame Grassini,

THIS NUMBER CONTAINS,

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the Triumph of 12 Advise to unmarried Ladies,
13 Observations on the Credit due to

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Travellers,

3 A Sentimental Rhapsody, 346 14 On Private and Public Education,

4 Harriet Vernon; or, Characters from

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15 Inconstancy.-A Fragment,
16 The amiable Wife and
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6 Alphonso and Almira; or, the noble 17 Anecdote of Matthew Prior,

Forester,

7 A Night Walk in July,

8 Sketches from Nature,

9 London Fashions,

10 Parisian Fashions,

11 A fashionable Quere,

372 21 Births,

373 22 Marriages-Deaths,

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This Number is embellished with the following Copper-Plates.

1 The TRIUMPH of CONSTANCY.

PORTRAIT of MADAME GRASSINI.

3 LONDON Fashionable WALKING and FULL DRESS.

4 New and elegant PATTERNS for BORDERS and TRIMMINGS.

LONDON:

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

W. M. T. will see that we have, as he wished, inserted the whole of his poem. His contributions will be always acceptable.

The continuation of the Elville Family Secrets in our next, certainly.

The Ode on the Surrender of Dantzic is received, and shall have a place,

Matilda Spencer's contributions are received.

I. G.'s long letter must be abridged before it can be admitted,

THE

LADY'S MAGAZINE.

FOR JULY, 1807.

ADELAIDE;

OR,

The TRIUMPH of CONSTANCY.

A TALE.

(With an elegant Engraving.)

IN the days when warlike knights and barons bold, though they acknowledged fealty to a superior sovereign, yet governed their little districts with despotic sway, acknowledging no law but their own will and turbulent passions, and engaging in cruel and implacable feuds and conflicts with each other, lived Adelaide de Dorville, the daughter of a gentleman in the retinue of Charles count of Poitou. Mild, gentle, and unambitious, Adelaide had listened with complacency to the professions of love made to her by Orlando, a youth of similar station in life with herself, and of similar dispositions of mind and heart. Incessantly in the company of each other, their mutual affection increased every day; and each seemed to live but for the other. Neither wealth nor splendour had in their eyes any charms which could for a moment divert

their attention: their happiness scem

ed to admit of no addition.

It chanced that Raimond the nephew of the count of Poitou, and the lord of large domains in Brittany, being then at the court of his uncle, cast his eyes on the lovely Adelaide. He saw, and admired; he admired, and he wished to possess. He employed all the arts he thought most proper to seduce the female heart. He displayed himself before her in all his pomp and pageantry; he distinguished her by the most flattering attentions and condescension; and intimated to her, that his admiration of her beauty and merits would ever secure to herself and her father such rewards and honours as it might be proper for him to bestow, and for them to receive. Adelaide, artless and unsuspecting herself, at first heard these offers with humility and gra• Yy 2

titude: she listened apparently with complacence to the flatteries and attentions of lord Raimond, and her little heart dilated in a small degree with what may be called vanity, though by no means of that kind which could in the least shake her solid virtue, her constant affection.

Lord Raimond, having succeeded thus far, applied to the count of Poitou to grant his permission for the father of Adelaide to enter into his service; which having obtained, he took him and his daughter with him to his castle in Brittany, where he soon advanced him to be the first officer at his court, at which, for some time, nothing was to be seen but tournaments, festivals, and entertainments of the most sumptuous kind, at all of which Adelaide was the most distinguished among the ladies.

Orlando, in the mean time, who, without any particular invitation from lord Raimond, had followed Adelaide into Brittany, became very uneasy; and in his interviews with Adelaide, which were now become somewhat less frequent than they had before been, he could not avoid letting her perceive that uneasiness, and anxiously making enquiries of such a nature as were sufficient to

indicate that jealousy was beginning
to take possession of his heart. But
Adelaide answered with the most
artless innocence, protesting that all
the honours and distinctions she had
submitted to receive were accepted
by her merely for her father's sake,
whose fortune appeared, likely to be
essentially benefited by the favour
of lord Raimond; and she assured
Orlando, in the most solemn man-
ner, that her affections must ever
continue faithful to him.

At length, however, lord Rai-
mond, conceiving that he had suffi-
ciently prepared the way, proceeded
to give such intimations of his real
views and intentions as could not

be mistaken by Adelaide; and he
soon after made his attack in form,
by a most ardent declaration of his
love, and the most splendid promises
of reward would she condescend to
comply. It was with difficulty that
Adelaide could make her escape
from the violence of his embraces,
and fly to her father for protection.
It was immediately resolved that
they and Orlando should immedi-
ately set out on their return to the
court of the count of Poitou, who
was well known to be a prince of
of the most rigid manners and the
most inflexible virtue, who would
But before they
certainly afford them the most effec-
tual protection.

reached the frontiers of the territory
of lord Raimond, a number of sol-
diers, disguised as banditti, attacked
them, and carried off Adelaide, after
having robbed her father and Or-
lando of all the valuables they had
about them, and left them bound, to
prevent a pursuit.

It was not long, as may be sup-
posed, before Adelaide was again
brought before lord Raimond, who
received her more like a desperately
enamoured lover than one who had
been the author of so violent an act
as the forcible seizure of her person,
He threw himself on his knees be-
fore her, lavished on her the ten-
derest and most affectionate expres-
sions, promised her the highest ho-
nours, rewards, and distinctions, and
vowed that, when he should be re-
leased from certain engagements
he was under to some branches of
his family, he would redeem her
honour, by making her his wife.-
But Adelaide firmly answered—

My lord, I am in your power; but you cannot force my heart, which has been long devoted to another, and must ever remain so. Know likewise, that I utterly despise all your proffered rewards and distinctions, when placed in compe

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