mium of Mr Dennison, when this gentleman arrived in a post-chaife, and his appearance feemed to justify all that had been faid in his favour. He is pretty well advanced in years, but hale, robuft, and florid, with an ingenuous countenance, expreffive of good fenfe and humanity. Having condoled with us on the accident which had happened, he faid he was come to conduct us to his habitation, where we should be lefs incommoded than at fuch a paltry inn, and expreffed his hope that the ladies would not be the worse for going thither in his carriage, as the distance was not above a quarter of a mile. My uncle having made a proper return to this courteous exhibition, eyed him attentively, and then afked if he had not been at Oxford, a commoner of Queen's college? When Mr Dennison answered, "Yes," with fome marks of furprise-"Look at me then (faid our squire), and let us fee if you can recollect the features of an old friend, whom you have not feen these forty years." The gentleman, taking him by the hand, and gazing at him earnestly," I proteft (cried he), I do think I recal the idea of Matthew Lloyd of Glamorganfhire, who was ftudent of Jesus." "Well remembered, my dear friend Charles Dennifon (exclaimed my uncle, preffing him to his breaft), I am that very identical Matthew Lloyd of Glamorgan." Clinker, who had just entered the room with some coals for the fire, no fooner heard thefe words, than, throwing down the fcuttle on the toes of Lifmahago, he began to caper as if he was mad, crying, "Matthew Lloyd of Glamorgan! O Providence!-Matthew Lloyd of Glamorgan!" Then, clafping my uncle's knees, he went on in this manner- "Your Worship must forgive me-Matthew Lloyd of Glamorgan !-O Lord, Sir!-I can't contain myfelf! I fhall lofe my fenfes-" "Nay, thou haft loft them already, I believe (faid the fquire, peevishly), pr'ythee, Clinker, be quiet-What is the matter ?". Humphry, fumbling in his bofom, pulled out an old wooden fnuff-box, which he prefented in great trepidation to his master, who, opening it immediately, perceived a small cornelian feal, and two fcraps of paperAt fight of thefe articles he started, and changed colour, and cafting his eye upon the infcriptions- Ha! VOL. VI. Z z -how-what!-where (cried he) is the person here named!"-Clinker, knocking his own breaft, could hardly pronounce thefe words" Here-here-here is Matthew Lloyd, as the certificate fheweth-Humphry Clinker was the name of the farrier that took me 'prentice."-" And who gave you these tokens?" faid my uncle, haftily" My poor mother on her death-bed," replied the other." And who was your mother?"— "Dorothy Twyford, an 'please your Honour, heretofore bar-keeper at the Angel at Chippenham."" And why were not these tokens produced before ?"-" My mother told me she had wrote to Glamorganshire, at the time of my birth, but had no answer; and that afterwards, when the made enquiry, there was no such person in that county."" And fo, in confequence of my changing my name, and going abroad at that very time, thy poor mother and thou have been left to want and mifery-I am really fhocked at the confequence of my own folly."-Then, laying his hand on Clinker's head, he added, "Stand forth, Matthew Lloyd-You fee, gentlemen, how the fins of my youth rife up in judgment against me- -Here is my direction written with my own hand, and a feal which I left at the woman's request; and this is a certificate of the child's baptifm, figned by the curate of the parish."-The company were not a little furprised at this difcovery, upon which Mr Dennifon facetiously congratulated both the father and the fon : For my part, I fhook my new-found coufin heartily by the hand; and Lifmahago complimented him with the tears in his eyes, for he had been hopping about the room, swearing in broad Scotch, and bellowing with the pain occafioned by the fall of the coal-fcuttle upon his foot. He had even vowed to drive the faul out of the body of that mad rafcal; but, perceiving the unexpected turn which things had taken, he wifhed him joy of his good fortune, observing that it went very near his heart, as he was like to be a great-toe out of pocket by the discovery. Mr Dennison now defired to know for what reafon my uncle had changed the name by which he knew him at Oxford; and our fquire fatisfied him, by answering to this effect" I took my mother's name, which was Lloyd, as heir to her lands in Glamorgan fold that property, fhire; but, when I came of age, man Brother, you have been very wicked; but I hope you'll live to fee the folly of your ways-I am very forry to fay, the young man, whom you have this day acknowledged, has more grace and religion, by the gift of God, than you with all your profane learning, and repeated opportunity-I do think he has got the trick of the eye, and the tip of the nose of my uncle Lloyd of Flluydwellin; and, as for the long chin, it is the very moral of the governor's.-Brother, as you have changed his name, pray change his drefs alfo; that livery doth not become any person that hath got our blood in his veins."-Liddy feemed much pleafed with this acquifition to the family-She took him by the hand, declaring the fhould always be proud to own her connection with a virtuous young man, who had given fo many proofs of his gratitude and affection to her uncle. -Mrs Winifred Jenkins, extremely fluttered between her furprize at this difcovery, and the apprehension of lofing her fweetheart, exclaimed in a giggling tone,"I wish you joy, Mr Clinker-Floyd, I would fay hi, hi, hi!—you'll be so proud, you won't look at your poor fellow-fervants, oh, oh, oh!"-Honeft Clinker owned he was overjoyed at his good fortune, which was greater than he deferved-" But wherefore fhould I be proud (faid he); a poor object, conceived in fin, and brought forth in iniquity, nurfed in a parish workhouse, and bred in a fmithy-Whenever I feem proud, Mrs Jenkins, I beg of you to put me in mind of the condition I was in when I first faw you between Chippenham and Marlborough." WHEN this momentous affair was difcuffed to the fatisfaction of all parties concerned, the weather being dry, the ladies delined the carriage; fo that we walked altogether to Mr Dennifon's houfe, where we found the tea ready prepared by his lady, an amiable matron, who received us with all the benevolence of hofpitality.-The houfe is old fafhioned and irregular, but lodgeable and commodious. To the fouth it has the river in front, at the distance of a hundred paces; and on the north there is a rifing ground, covered with an agreeable plantation; the greens and walks are kept in the nicef order, and all is rural and romantic. I have not yet feen the young gentleman, who is on a vifit to a friend in the neighbourhood, from whofe house he is not expected till to-morrow. In the mean time, as there is a man going to the next market-town with letters for the poft, I take this opportunity to fend you the hiftory of this day, which has been remarkably full of adventures; and you will own · I give you them like a beef-steak at Dolly's, hot and hot, without ceremony and parade, juft as they come from the recollection of Yours, J. MELFORD. To Dr LEWIS. DEAR DICK, INCE the last trouble I gave you, I have met with a variety of incidents, fome of them of a fingular nature, which I referve as a fund for converfation; but there are others fo interefting, that they will not keep in petto till meeting. KNOW then, it was a thoufand pounds to a fixpence, that you should now be executing my will, inftead of perufing my letter!-Two days ago, our coach was overturned in the midst of a rapid river, where my life was faved with the utmost difficulty, by the courage, activity, and presence of mind of my fervant Humphry Clinker. But this is not the moft furprifing circumstance of the adventure-The faid Humphry Clinker proves to be Matthew Lloyd, natural fon of one Matthew Lloyd of Glamorgan, if you know any fuch perfon.--You fee, doctor, that, notwithstanding all your philofophy, it is not without fome reafon that we Welchmen afcribe fuch energy to the force of blood-But we shall difcufs this point on some future occafion. THIS is not the only discovery which I made in confequence of our diftafter.-We happened to be wrecked upon a friendly fhore-The lord of the manor is no other than Charles Dennison, our fellow-rake at Oxford -We are now happily houfed with that gentleman, who has really attained to that pitch of rural felicity at which I have been afpiring these twenty years in vain. He is bleffed with a confort, whofe difpofition is fuited to his own in all refpects; tender, generous, and benevolent-She, moreover, poffeffes an uncommon share of understanding, fortitude, and difcretion, and is admirably qualified to be his companion, confidant, counfellor, and coadjutrix. These excellent perfons have an only fon, about nineteen years of age, juft fuch a youth as they could have wished that Heaven would bestow, to fill up the measure of their enjoyment.-In a word, they know no other allay to their happiness, but their appre |