enquiring whether it was not possible for her to see a female to whom she might give her orders.

"O certainly, niem, if you wish it!" answered one of the men: "you can see Mrs. Flap, or her mother, certainly mem!" and he left the shop, as lady Buckhurst supposed, to require the presence of one of them in it.

In a few moments he returned, and passing lady Buckhurst hastily, he ran to the shop-door, at which stood her footman. He addressed him; and Amica, as well as her ladyship, could not doubt that he enquired who they were, for they heard the servant reply, "lady Buckhurst and her daughter:" and as the dapper apprentice returned through the shop, with the first bow which he had vouchsafed to make to her, he informed her that Mrs. Flap would wait. on her directly; and he now addressed her with "your ladyship!" instead of the poor insignificant title of " mem," which he had before given her.

In a very few minutes arrived Mrs. Flap: she appeared about twenty years old, lusty for her age, a pretty face, of which the expression was vulgar and conceited; her cheeks highly rouged; a profusion of greasy black hair curled into the shape of corkscrews hanging over her eyes; and her dress so tawdry and fashionable, that she seemed laden with the patterns of the various articles contained in her shop. Pray walk up, my lady," she exclaimed, " into the millinery-room here above; we don't keep any thing genteel in the shop below: this way, ladies, pray follow me."

Lady Buckhurst and Amica complied; for by running up the stairs, which she had just descended while speaking, she gave them no opportunity of refusing.

The room into which they were conducted was covered with ornaments for the head and the body, and her ladyship directly proceeded to give her didirections for the equipment of her's. Amica wandered about the apartment, casting her eyes first on one article of dress, then on another, till they fell on an open door which led into a second room, where, on a sofa, by the side of an excellent fire, sat a lady in an elegant morning undress, in a careless lounging attitude, and opposite to her stood a gentleman in black, whose arms were rested upon the top of a fire-screen, and whose back was turned towards Amica. They were in conversation together; their loud laughs bespoke them amused with each other; and on a table in the apartment, not far removed from the fire, stood a salver with jellies, cakes, &c.

As Amica passed the door of the second apartment, in her circuit of the room she was in, she heard the female break off in her conversation, and raising a glass to her eye, exclaimed, "Who are those?-Who the deuce has Flap got there?"

Unaccustomed to meet the gaze of scrutinizing strangers, Amica directly turned away in order to spare herself those blushes which would have mounted to her cheeks, had she encountered the stare of the inquisitive lady.

"En verité, I know not", replied a voice which she immediately recollected to be Sidney Valmont's.

"Go and ask Flap who they are?" returned his companion." No, stay; I'll call her here-Flap, I want you!"

Mrs. Flap obeyed.

"Who have you got there, any body?" asked the lady. Any body, and no body, are terms of infinite importance in what is called LIFE: Any body lives at the west end of the town; has a box at the opera; gives a masked ball once a winter; plays rouge and noir. Nobody lives in the city; pays tradesmen's bills; is not known in Bond-street; and sits in a front box at the theatre.

Mrs. Flap replied in a whisper.

"Sacre Dieu! you dont say so?" cried Valmont. "I know them both well; the mother is a most inconceiveably comic old woman: the daughter, there is a long story about—that I'll tell you another time.

"No, no, tell me now," cried the lady-" I will know it now-what was it?-A faux-pas-or an elopement stopped-or what at?"

"Hush! hush! let me introduce you," returned Valmont.

"You must bring them to me," the lady replied; "I could not get up for a duchess."

Valmont returned her a significant nod; and coming into the room to lady Buckhurst and Amica, he addressed them with congratulations on sir Benjamin's victory, and the happiness he experienced at seeing them in town; which he concluded by saying, "Lady Dellaval wishes to have the pleasure of being introduced to you-will you give me leave?”

"By all means, sir," replied lady Buckhurst, with

a smile of exultation; while Amica, displeased at the manner in which the introduction had been produced, felt a reluctance to be included in it: she was, however, obliged to follow the example of her mother. Valmont muttered a few unintelligible words, which were necessary to break the ice of ceremony between the ladies; and lady Dellaval, still looking through her glass, said, "hope you are quite well; I am excessively rude not to rise, but I am really exhausted to death with walking almost the whole way down St. James's-street this morning; won't you sit down."

With one of her best courtesies lady Buckhurst placed herself on the sofa, by the side of her new acquaintance; who immediately jumping up, said "Valmont, call my servants, will you? I'll drive through the park." Then turning to lady Buckhurst and Amica, with something between a bow and a courtesy, she pronounced, "good morning," in scarcely intelligible accents, and left the room: before, however, she had reached the stairs, her tones were sufficiently audible in a lengthened ha! ha! ha!

Lady Buckhurst knew not whether to consider that she had received a compliment, or an affront. Amica had no hesitation in determining, what real good manners would have sanctioned it, as easy, elegant, and very proper.

Having made their purchases they returned to the shop, where they were detained some minutes till the different articles were put up in papers and boxes, as ber ladyship chose to have them home with her

in her carriage,`she whispered Amica, “That she had heard that things that were left, after they were once bought, to be sent home, were often changed for the same kind of articles made of inferior materials ; and that she was resolved to be upon her guard against the tricks of the London shopkeepers, as far as she was able."

FEMALE AFFECTION.

Or interesting adventures of Lady H. Ackland, with some ́particulars of the American General Gates.

THIS venerable officer, (General Gates) paid the debt of nature on the 10th of March, 1806, full of honours and greatly lamented in America He had attained the seventy-eighth year of his age, and, like his great commander, Washington, passed the winter of his life in retirement on his estate.

General Horatio Gates was by birth an Englishman, and when very young, entered into the British army,where he acquired his first knowledge of military tactics, under the late Duke of Bruuswick, at that time Prince Ferdinand. He went to America as a captain of infantry, under General Braddock, and continued in that service till the peace of 1763, when he returned to his native country. It appears, that, during this time he had imbibed so great a partiality for the new world, that he sold his commission,