"and so many false representations. My character, "which in one moment appeared so bright, and in the next 66 tinged with every vice that can disgrace the sex, excited "many gentlemen and ladies to visit me. To these I sim'ply rehearsed the real fact, and produced the copy of the "deed. None could justify it :-but I am particularly in"debted to Mr. Shiels, for his generous and disinterested 66 friendship. On reading the copy, that worthy gentle"man wrote to Miss H. More; but received no answer. "Instead of answering his letter, the ingenuous Stella "wrote to a lady in London, desiring her letter might be "read to Mr. Shiels. It was, and contained all those false charges on my character which I have here mentioned. "Mr. S. immediately wrote to Miss More, desiring he might be allowed a copy of this scurrilous letter; but he "received no answer." P. 21. 66 "Shielded by popular opinion, the ungenerous H. M. "aims at a defenceles breast-Her arrows are of the most malignant kind-Yet her endeavours to crush an insigni"ficant wretch need not be so amazingly strenuous; for I "should have sunk into obscurity again had not my repu"tation been so cruelly wounded.-I have to lament, that "it does not require one short hour for this expeditious lady "to make her wonderful transit from the zenith of praise "to the centre of malicious detraction. For all the per"fection, fame, or virtues, she can boast of possessing, I "would not be so much a Proteus!" P. 24. Emery and Adams, Printers, High-Street, Bristol. |