minated a representative in p----l for one of the _cinque
ports_).

To this witty man's generous care she is indebted for an annuity, which,
with common prudence, ought to secure her from want during her own life.
On her departure from this lover, which proceeded entirely from her own
caprice and restless extravagance, the vain Aug--ta launched at once
into all the dangerous pleasures of a cyprian life. The court, the city,
and the _'change_, paid homage to her charms. One high in the r----l
h----h----id wore her chains for many months; and it was probably more
in the spirit of revenge for open neglect, than admiration of such a
~316~~faded beau, that lady G---- B---- admitted the E---- of B----e to
usurp the husband's place and privilege.

It is extraordinary that the circumstance just mentioned, which was
notorious, was not brought forward in mitigation of the damages for
the loss of conjugal joys; and which a jury of citizens, with a tender
feeling for their own honour, valued at ten thousand pounds. My lord
G---- B---- pocketed the injury and the ten thousand,; and his noble
substitute has since made the 'amende honorable' to public morals, by
uniting his destinies with an amiable woman, the daughter of a doctor of
music, and a beauty of the sister country, who does honour to the rank
to which she has been so unexpectedly elevated.

"Mrs. C----i had no acquaintance of her own sex in the world of gaiety
but one; the beautiful, interesting, Mademoiselle St. M--g--te, then
(1812 and 1813) in the zenith of her charms. The gentle Ad--l--de,
whose sylph-like form, graceful movements, and highly polished manner,
delighted all who knew her, formed a strange and striking contrast to
the short, fat, bustling, salacious Aug--ta, whose boisterous bon-mots,
and horse-laughical bursts, astonished rather than charmed. Both,
however, found abundance of admirers to their several tastes. It was
early in the spring of 1814 that the subject of this article had
the good or evil fortune to attract the eye of a noble lord of some
notoriety, who pounced on his plump prey with more of the amorous
assurance of the bird of Jove than the cautious hoverings of the wary
H--ke. Love like his admitted of no delay. Preliminaries were soon
arranged, under the auspices of that experienced matron, Madame
D'E--v--e, whose address, in this delicate negotiation, extorted from
his lordship's generosity, besides a cheque on H----d and

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