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    must have taken a certain moral criticism for granted , with which his great-grandmother favoured one of her correspondents;—a perilous assumption at any

    time , where Lady Mary is concerned , and the extremely vulgar style of which , in the present instance , one should think , might have warned off the better taste of the Noble

    Editor . The reader is here presented with it , as a justbearable specimen of the way in which ladies of quality could write to one another in those days "L ady Townshend has entertained the Bath with a

    variety of lively scenes ; and Lady Harriet Herbert furnished the tea-tables here with fresh tattle for this last fortnight . I was one of the first informed of her adventure by Lady Gage , who was told that

    morning by a Priest , that she had desired him to marry her the next day to Beard , who sings in the farce at Drury Lane . He refused her that good office , and immediately told Lady

    Gage , who ( having been unfortunate in her friends ) was frighted in this affair and asked my advice—I told her honestly , that since the lady was capable of such amours , I did not doubt if this was broke off she would

    bestow her person and fortune on some hackney coachman or chairman ; and that I really saw no method of saving her from ruin , and her family from dishonour , but by poisoning her , and offered to be at the expense of the arsenic , and even to ad-

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    minister it with my own hands if she would invite her to drink tea with her that evening . But on her not approving of that method , she sent to Lady Montage , Mrs Dunch , and all the relations within the leach of

    messengers . They carried Lady Harriet to Twickenham ; though I told them it was a bad air for girls . She is since returned to London , and some people believe her married ; . others that he is too much

    intimidated by Mr Waldegrave & threat to dare to go through the ceremony ; but the secret is now public , and in what manner it will conclude I know not . Her relations have certainly no reason to be amazed at her

    constitution , but are violently surprised at the mixture of devotion that forces her to have recourse to the Church in her necessities : which has not been

    the road taken by the matrons of the family . Such examples are very detrimental to our whole sex ; and are apt to influence the others into a belief

    that we are unfit to manage either liberty or money . These melancholy reflections make me incapable of a lively conclusion to my letter ; you must accept of a very sincere one in the assurance

    " That I am , dear Madam , " Inviolably yours , &e . " We now come to one who was first an undoubted mistress .

    though subsequently a wife . Lavinia Fenton , otherwise called Mrs Beswick ( Lavinia Fenton sounds like a stagename ) , was married in 1751 to

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    Marriages from the Stage * 165

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/21/