of that nature without acquainting your Mother & myself, or at least without being convinced that we should approve your choice; but I cannot help fearingthat you may be drawn in by the Lady who haslately attached you, to a Marriage, which the wholeof your Family, far & near, must highly reprobate.

Lady Susan's age is itself a material objection, but her want of character is one so much more seri::ous, that the difference of even twelve years becomesin comparison of small account. – Were you not blinded by a sort of fascination, it would be ridi==culous in me to repeat the instances of great miscon::duct on her side, so very generally known. – Her neg::lect of her husband, her encouragement of other Men,her extravagance & diſsipation were so groſs & noto::rious, that no one could be ignorant of them at thetime, nor can now have forgotten them. — To our Family, she has always been represented in softened