AND

HIS WIFE:

A TALE FOR HAUT TON.

Containing a Curious Biography of Living
Characters, with Notes Explanatory.

By CHARLES SEDLEY, Esq.

Author of "The Infidel Mother," "The Mask of Fashion,"
Sc. Sc. Sc.

THE THIRD EDITION.

Neither the constitution, nor the passions, are the

first seducers of youth-

But opinions and manners.

J. J ROUSSEAU.

LONDON:

Printed by D. N. SHURY, Berwick Street, Soho,

FOR J. F. HUGHES, WIGMORE STREET,

CAVENDISH SQUARE.

DEDICATION.

TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE THE

EARL AND COUNTESS

OF JERSEY.

MY LORD,

As these volumes are intended to satirize the frivolities, profusion, and licentiousness, too prevalent in the higher circles