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 Of thee unnatural luts, all ages and countries have afforded us too many intances; but none I think more urpriing than what will be found in the hitory of Mrs. Mary, otherwie Mr. George Hamilton.

This heroine in iniquity was born in the Ile of Man, on the 16th Day of Augut, 1721. Her father was formerly a erjeant of grenadiers in the Foot-Guards, who having the good fortune to marry a widow of ome etate in that iland, purchaed his dicharge from the army, and retired thither with his wife.

He had not been long arrived there before he died, and left his wife with child of this Mary; but her mother, tho’ he had not two months to reckon, could not tay till he was delivered, before he took a third huband.

As her mother, tho’ he had three hubands, never had any other child, he always expres’d an extraordinary affection for this daughter, to whom he gave as good an education as the ifland afforded; and tho’ he ued her with much tendernes, yet was the girl brought up in the trictet principles of virtue and religion; nor did he in her younger years dicover the leat pronenes to any kind of vice, much les give caue of upicion that he would one day digrace her ex by the mot abominable and unnatural pollutions. And indeed he hath often declared from her concience, that no irregular paion ever had any place in her mind, till he was firt educed by one Anne Johnon, a neighbour of hers, with whom he had been acquainted from her childhood; but not with uch intimacy as afterwards grew between them.

This Anne Johnon going on ome buines to Britol, which detained her there near half a year,