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The reception your honourable messenger met with in the 
execution of her embassy saves me the trouble of replying to the 
other parts of your letter, and (if you have any feelings left) will 
explain to you the daseness as well as the zmefficacy of your design. 
Le aie 
These letters are or were accOmpanied by the ensuing note 
to the editor:—‘ The following letters are confidently said to 
have passed between Lord G——r and the celebrated English 
syren Miss L y. Isend them to you for publication not with any 
view to increase the volume of literary scandal which I am 
sorry to say at present needs no assistance, but with the more 
laudable intent of setting example for our modern belles by 
holding out the character of a young woman who, nothwith- 
standing the solicitations of her profession and the flattering 
example of higher ranks has added incorruptible virtue to a 
number of the most elegant qualifications 
Grosvenor Square. Horatio. 
These letters were also printed in Zhe Macaroni. But, 
notwithstanding the desire of the sender, they do _ not 
read and can hardly be accepted as genuine, yet, here 
re-produced for the first time the tone just helps towards 
realising the unpleasant position and the surrounding “literary 
scandal.” 
Thomas Grenville wrote—“ Why was her fate so cruel, so early 
to bring upon her the imputation and censure of the world.”* 
Under the above circumstances and the persistance of the 
young people, Mr. Linley at last consented to a union which 
he saw he could hardly prevent. Mr. Sheridan, however, still 
persisted in his objection to his son’s choice of a lady “whose 
name had been so much the subject of public discussion.” She 
sang in the Messiah on the znd April; and she sang also the 
Messiah with her sister, on the 6th April in the chapel of the 
hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and 
* Rae, p. 223: 
