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EARTHQUAKE AT LISBON.
15
An Advertisement for a Wife in the Reading Mercury,
May 24, 1802.
Miss in her Teens,—let not this sacred offer escape your
eye. I now call all qualified ladies, marriageable, to cho-
colate at my house every day at your own hour.-—With
tears in my eyes, I must tell you that sound reason com-
mands me to give you but one month’s notice before I part
with my chance of an infant Baronet for ever: for you
may readily hear that three widows and old maids, all aged
above fifty, near my door, are now pulling caps for me.
Pray, my young charmers, give me a fair hearing; do not
let your avaricious guardians unjustly fright you with a
false account of a forfeiture, but let the great Sewel and
Rivet’s opinions convince you to the contrary; and that
I am now in legal possession of these estates, and with the
spirit of an heroine command my three hundred thousand
pounds, and rank above half the ladies in our imperial
kingdom. By your Ladyship’s directing a favourable line
to me, Sir John Dinely, Baronet, at my house, in Wind-
sor Castle, your attorney will satisfy you, that if I live but
a month, eleven thousand pounds a year will be your Lady-
ship’s for ever.
INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE EARTHQUAKE AT
LISBON, BY AN EYE-WITNESS. ’
Our Readers will probably find, that, compared with the
following, the common run of accounts given of these ca-
lamities is as different from the thing itself as even report
and reality, mere description and ocular demonstration. In
many of these, we are only made acquainted w?ith the out-
lines, the external movements of the scenery; but, in the
following,
15
An Advertisement for a Wife in the Reading Mercury,
May 24, 1802.
Miss in her Teens,—let not this sacred offer escape your
eye. I now call all qualified ladies, marriageable, to cho-
colate at my house every day at your own hour.-—With
tears in my eyes, I must tell you that sound reason com-
mands me to give you but one month’s notice before I part
with my chance of an infant Baronet for ever: for you
may readily hear that three widows and old maids, all aged
above fifty, near my door, are now pulling caps for me.
Pray, my young charmers, give me a fair hearing; do not
let your avaricious guardians unjustly fright you with a
false account of a forfeiture, but let the great Sewel and
Rivet’s opinions convince you to the contrary; and that
I am now in legal possession of these estates, and with the
spirit of an heroine command my three hundred thousand
pounds, and rank above half the ladies in our imperial
kingdom. By your Ladyship’s directing a favourable line
to me, Sir John Dinely, Baronet, at my house, in Wind-
sor Castle, your attorney will satisfy you, that if I live but
a month, eleven thousand pounds a year will be your Lady-
ship’s for ever.
INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE EARTHQUAKE AT
LISBON, BY AN EYE-WITNESS. ’
Our Readers will probably find, that, compared with the
following, the common run of accounts given of these ca-
lamities is as different from the thing itself as even report
and reality, mere description and ocular demonstration. In
many of these, we are only made acquainted w?ith the out-
lines, the external movements of the scenery; but, in the
following,