in the honourable East-India company's service, to miss Robertson, eldest daugh. zer of the lare James Robertson, esq. of Throsmorion-street. 4. Ar St. George's, Hanover-square, sir John Shelley, bart, to miss W nch. lev, daughter and sole heiress of the late Thomas Winchlev. e q. Richard Chambers, e-q. of E'v 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 Fercham Park, Surrev, to the hon Elizabeth Blaquiere, second daughter of the right hon. lord De B'aquiere. 11. At 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 Thorn. ton, 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. At Middlewich, Cheshire, by the rev. W. H. Heron, Philip Heacock, esq. of Buxton, Derbyshire, to Ann, eldest daughter of Joh John Braband, esq. of the former place. 20. At St. Martin's church, Daniel Collver, 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. On the 27th of April last, at Paris, in the 85th year of her age, the right hon. lady Anasratia Stafford Howard, baroness of Stafford, obly sürviving 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 n, land, who was sole heir of the body of king E ward the Third's y unges Thomas Pantagener, of Woodstock, duke of Gl ucester, and of his wife lady Eleanor Bohun, eldest caugh er and coheir of the last Humphrey Bohun, eard of Hereford, Essex, and Northamp. ton, and lord high constable of England; and whose younger sister was wife of king Henry the IVth, but from whose body there was an entire failure of issue on the death of her grandson king Henry the Vith. Notwithstanding the a cumulation of Plantagenet Bohon, and Stafford heirship, which came centered in lady Anastasia Stafford Howard, she was disabled by the attainder of rer ane cestor, the last Stafford d. ke of Buckingham, in the reign of king 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. 1 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. 26. At his house at Brompton, Nicholas Bond, e q. one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Middlesex, &c. and for many years an active and vigilant magistrate of the police office in Bow-street. 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 zoth year of her age. 1 Adelaide; or, the Triumph of 12 Advise to unmarried Ladies, 378 Constancy, 343 13 Observations on the Credit due to 2 Madame Grassini, 3 A Sentimental Rhapsody, 4 Harriet Vernon; or, Characters from 876 real Life, 349 5 On the National Character of the 6 Alphonso and Almira; or, the noble Forester, 356 18 POETICAL ESSAY-The Temple of 7 A Night Walk in July, 8 Sketches from Nature, 9 London Fashions, 10 Parisian Fashions, 11 A fashionable Quere, This Number is embellished with the following Copper-Plates. 1 The TRIUMPH OF CONSTANCY. 2 PORTRAIT OF MADAME GRASSINI. 3 LONDON Fashionable WALKING and FULL DRESS. → New and elegant PATTERNS for BORDERS and TRIMMINGS. * * LONDON: * * Printed for G. ROBINSON, No. 25, Paternoster-Row; Where Favours from Correspondents continue to be received. ***:*:**-***:***-*************** * 1 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, 1 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 list-' ened 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 theirattention: their happiness seem- It chanced that Raimond the ne- 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. 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 immediately 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 certainly afford them the most effectual protection. But before they reached the frontiers of the territory of lord Raimond, a number of sol 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 dis-diers, disguised as banditti, attacked tinguished 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 manner, that her affections must ever continue faithful to him. At length, however, lord Raimond, conceiving that he had sufficiently prepared the way, proceeded to give such intimations of his real views and intentions as could not them, and carried off Adelaide, after having robbed her father and Orlando of all the valuables they had about them, and left them bound, to prevent a pursuit.. It was not long, as may be supposed, 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 before her, lavished on her the tenderest and most affectionate expressions, promised her the highest honours, rewards, and distinctions, and vowed that, when he should be released 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 |