of high mental powers. If M^rs . Vernon would allow something to my affection for herself & her husband in the length of my visit, she would do more justiceto us all; – but my Sister is unhappily prejudiced be::yond the hope of conviction against Lady Susan. — From an attachment to her husband which in it::self does honour to both, she cannot forgive those endeavours at preventing their union, which havebeen attributed to selfishneſs in Lady Susan. Butin this case, as well as in many others, the Worldhas most groſsly injured that Lady, by supposing the worst, where the motives of her conduct have beendoubtful. —

Lady Susan had heard something so mate::rially to the disadvantage of my Sister, as to persuadeher that the happineſs of M^r . Vernon, to whom she was always much attached, would be absolute::ly destroyed by the marriage. And this circumstance