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Rh  grounds of that hope had ceased; and, about six months afterwards, entered into a similar connection with Mr. Godwin, the author of Political Justice &c. They had long known each other, but did not immediately marry, both disliking the responsibilities and conditions attending the ceremony. After, however, Mrs. Godwin found herself pregnant, she thought it better to submit to marriage, than to that exclusion from society to which living without it would subject her. But she still found that Mrs. Godwin was deserted by many ladies who had courted the acquaintance of Mrs. Imlay. As she had passed for the wife of the latter, and had even obtained a certificate of the American ambassador at Paris that she was so, her friends in England might think, that in a country like France, where all ancient forms are abolished, such a certificate was sufficient to constitute a legal marriage.

She appears to have lived very happily with Mr. Godwin, until September the 10th, 1797, when she died in childbed in great agonies; afflicted at separating from her husband, but without seeming to entertain a thought of a future state. Monthly Mirror, British Critic.

perfect knowledge she had of Latin made her be called La Latina; a name which an hospital at Madrid, founded by her, still bears.

GOMEZ,