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the Reverend Dr. Johns, that it was his particular request that the boy might be sent there. She also made an exact statement of all her pecuniary concerns, to which she received this answer.

Madam,

Brighton, 1810.

You have only sent an account of thirty-six pounds, forty-five pounds, and forty pounds, amounting to one hundred and twenty-one pounds. You had better therefore send the receipts of what you paid here in a parcel; though as you have not paid lodging, butchers', or bakers' bills, it will not be easy to account for the balance of the sums you received from my solicitor and steward, amounting to above four hundred pounds. You are aware they would not be very unwilling, if I would permit them, to punish you as you deserve, with the most extreme severity. The only way to avoid this, is to make an immediate and accu

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rate account how you have spent the sums you received, and to give a bond for what you are indebted to me, either in the way you yourself proposed in the letter you wrote to me at Edinburgh, or any other more adviseable mode; and which bond you may gradually pay off. You little deserve any lenity from me, but I suppose you had rather trust to my lenity than settle accounts with my solicitor and steward. If you shew a proper contrition for diabolical con

your

duct, I may perhaps write to Dr. C who was my tutor at college, to say what

I can for you.

I remain, &c. &c.

TIMOTHY FLight.

As to shewing a proper contrition, Mrs. Mortimer knew that she had always strictly performed her duty while she was in Sir Timothy Flight's service; and as to the sums he specified that she had received, she never had any more than

the Brighton tradespeople should proceed against her. He was a little, dark, ill-looking fellow, whose countenance alone would condemn him in any court of justice; his name, Zacharia Smouch. She told him that she should write to the Baronet on the subject, which she did, representing the injustice of the proceedings. She was first threatened to be arrested for two hundred and ninety pounds; Mr. Abraham Modish next made a demand on her for four hundred pounds; and his clerk now insisted on a bond for four hundred and ninety pounds. Sir Timothy replied as follows:

Brighton.

Madam,

If

It seems to be, as I expected it would turn out, that any lenity of mine towards you would be thrown away. I had any intention of doing any thing to to serve you, you seem to do every thing you can to prevent me, by recurring to

the same disgusting conduct, the same train of disgusting falsehoods as formerly. On examining the accounts you sent to me here, there was due to me, chiefly by the sums of money advanced to you by Mr. Chissel, three hundred pounds; Mr. Abraham Modish, I think, one hundred and fifty. The bond, when compleated, will of course only be to the amount that your own receipts to Mr. Abraham Modish proves, in addition to the three hundred. I desire you not to trouble me with any letters till the bond, &c. is complete. I had better, I believe, have left Mr. Chissel and Mr. Abraham Modish to settle with you, and not have troubled myself. You had better however take this serious warning, if you shuffle any longer I shall desire them to settle with you on their own account, as the sums they advanced you were without my order, and if so, you will find the consequences very lamentable. You must therefore either send immediately

for Mr. Abraham Modish's clerk and conduct the business, else it will be concluded in a way you will find much more unpleasant.

I remain, &c. &c,

TIMOTHY FLIGHT.

Mrs. Mortimer found it was impossible to convince the Baronet that she had never had the sums of Mr. Abraham Modish or Mr. Chissel which they had told him they had advanced. She had expended, in paying Mr. Wedgewood for china, &c. and Mr. Bell, linen-draper, &c. the money advanced to her, which she had their bills and receipts to prove. Her situation could not be more lamentable than it was; she expected all her children home for the holidays; she had no place to receive them in, or money to. procure any; she wrote repeatedly to Mrs. Dart, the brandy merchant, to have an account of the articles which she had seized of her's for rent, but she took no

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