tions satisfied
the young lady very well, and she at length consented to exchange the
tender care and love of a parent for that of a husband. The reader may
perhaps be surprised that she did not make any farther inquiries about
him; it is therefore necessary that we should inform him, that our hero
had engaged on his side a very eloquent and persuasive advocate or
counsellor, for we know not which denomination most properly belongs to
him; one, though still beardless, existed as soon as the first woman was
created, and has had ever since, till within this last century, very
great practice in the business of uniting both sexes for life; but of
late years a neighbouring counsellor, named self-interest, has by
underhand dealings, false insinuations, and mean suggestions, taken away
the greatest part of his business, so that he is seldom retained on
either side. Our hero, however, engaged him in his service, and he
pleaded so strongly for him in the young lady, that he removed all her
objections, and silenced all her scruples, and at last persuaded her to
leave her home and venture on board Captain L---n's vessel with her
lover; for, though this counsellor, according to a very good picture of
him drawn by a famous master, has more of the wanton roguish smiles of a
boy in his countenance, than the formality, wisdom, and gravity of those
counsellors whom thou hast perhaps seen in Westminster-hall; and never
wore one of those ponderous perukes which are so essential to the
knowledge, wisdom, and eloquence of those gentlemen; yet we are assured
none of them ever equalled him in persuasive arguments, removing of
difficulties, and silencing of doubts; for he indeed differs in practice
from most of the counsellors we ever heard of: for, as these are apt to
puzzle and perplex their clients by their answers, and make intricate
what was plain before, on the contrary, the gentleman we are speaking of
had a wonderful faculty of making the greatest difficulties plain and
easy, and always answered every objection and scruple to the entire
satisfaction of his client.

The lover and his fair one being on board, they soon hoisted sail, and
the very winds being willing to favour these two happy lovers, they had
an exceeding quick passage to Dartmouth, where they landed. Our hero
being now no longer able to conceal his being a member of the community
of gipseys, after some previous introduction, declared it to the young
lady, who was not a