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 Calais in Henry Vth's wars; Algernon Sidney lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth; or that Admiral Hawke defeated the Spanish armada at La Hogue; or any little trifling mistake of that kind. The sweet smile of harmony and good humour will atone for a false concord. Our hero, in his criticisms upon the productions of ladies, shewed, that with him at least, the age of chivalry was not gone.

It was now the month of December, when one morning Hamilton was told a young woman wanted to speak to him. "I have seen her before," said the servant; "I remember her shop-woman to Miss Edging the milliner." "Oh, I suppose she must want you, Charlotte?" "Very probably," said Charlotte; "I expect a cap home." "No, miss, the cap will not be ready till to-morrow morning; it is my master she wants." Our hero accordingly attended in the