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paid, and any particulars of Mrs. G in High-street. I remain

Your humble servant,

TIMOTHY FLIGHT.

How to act Mrs. Mortimer did not know. She was not permitted to speak with the Baronet, and she found it was in vain to endeavour to explain any thing by writing, as he either did not attend to what she wrote, or never got her letters. However, she once more sent her account, and as she received no answer, concluded that every thing would now be settled. But at length, the Baronet addressed Mrs. Mortimer as follows:

Madam,

It is now some weeks since I asked you for the particulars of the lodgers, and the sums which they paid for 18 and 19; if this, which may be done in ten minutes, is not done to-day, I shall refer the business to my solicitor.

I remain, &c. &c.

VOL. 11.

F

TIMOTHY FLIGHT,

In reply to this, Mrs. Mortimer wrote to the Baronet, that she had already repeatedly sent in her accounts; that if he would not see her, to settle them, she would request Mr. Stanton to come from Town, and do it for her. She was sorry in having incurred his displeasure, but she was ignorant how she had offended him; as it had been her study to meet his wishes on all occasions. To this Sir Timothy wrote the following:

Madam,

It is strange to hear you so repeatedly plead ignorance of what you have done wrong; I told you weeks since, that after seeing both houses myself, they were infinitely in a more beastly and disgraceful state, than with the Botts. Instead of shewing the least shame of feeling for having endangered the lives of my servants, who were all seized, one most dangerously, with illness in consequence, you said they had put filth

there. Would not any one think you mad, to say they could put in one day putridex-t and u-ne in the vessels; if I chuse my servants to live well, that I am plundered. As to Mr. M--, an eminent merchant in this place, unacquainted with them, said, how you had talked about Mrs. ૨ and the diamonds, of his flying abroad, &c. &c. that he knew all this to be false, and that you had rendered yourself liable to transportation. I am going in a few days to Town, you will therefore give me references to your agent, and others; you need not fear my naming you to Mr. M--, unless necessitated so to do, which I shall, unless you settle the accounts you have sent me with Mr. Chissel. If I am obliged to write to Mr. M-, it will be an unnecessary expence to both. I must likewise beg you to go over the house in High-street with Mr. Chissel. I remain, &c. TIMOTHY FLIGHT.

Mrs. Mortimer, in answer, wrote as follows to the Baronet,

Sir,

I trust what I now write will prove sufficiently explicit to settle every thing between us. Although I wish to bury the past in oblivion (would that I could erase from my recollection the last twelve months), yet I feel it incumbent on me to state facts. Mrs Grant and some more ladies drank tea with me at No. 18, the Tuesday week before you had the keys of the houses. They are ready to prove, that at that time they were perfectly clean, and Mrs. Grant's black servant, since that period, cleaned the furniture and windows, and my own servants the houses. Mr. Orloge and Mr. Bank will also prove that the furnishing and work done in those houses were superior to any other lodging-houses in this place. Now, Sir, these are persons not only of character,

but some of them stand high in the estimation of the public, and I leave you to judge whose oath would have the greater weight-the witnesses I can bring forward, or those persons who have and still do impose on you; but even allowing that the houses had been left as shewn to you, why was I not informed of it till some days after, and surely only my servants could then be blamed; as of course you could not expect me to clean your houses, and you might have dismissed me from your service with politeness. Think, Sir, of the strength of your expressions-that I am guilty of falsehood, that I have laid myself open to transportation, and that I am outrageously indecent and ungrateful. How have I merited this character from you? Is this the return for endeavouring to save you from ruin? You request me to introduce you to my agent. Do you then suppose me an idiot, or void of all feeling, that after treating

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