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Rh change my tone The time is indeed arrived, when I have been promised by " the Hanourable Men" who, nine years ago, undertook to fee that my family obtained the provifion their grandfather deligned for them,-that "all hould be well, all fhould be fettled." But ftill I am condemned to feel the 4 hope delayed that maketh the heart fick." Still to receive-not a repetition of promises indeed-but of fcrn and infult, when I apply to thofe gentlemen, who, though they acknowledge that all impediments to a divifion of the eftate they have undertaken to manage, are done away-will neither tell me when they wil1 proceed to divide it, or whether they will cver do fo at all. You know the cir cumftances under which I have now fo long been labouring; and you have done me the honor to fay, that few Women could fo long have contended with them. With thefe, how