772 
Luckily Mrs. Néwton preferved_ his let- 
ters. In 1796, fhe was advifed, by a gen- 
tleman to whom fhe had fhewn them, to 
write to Mr. C ; the following is a 
copy of her letter. 

SiR, 
The name of Chatterton is, perhaps, yet fa- 
miliar to your memory. She, to whom he 
was endeared by the tender ties of nature, and 
who, contemplating his many virtues, would 
remember his errors no more, begs leave to 
- addrefs you with reference to your profef- 
fions of attachment to the remainder of his 
family. Several years have now elapfed fince 
you obtained of me his unpublified papers, 
and communicated them to the world. The 
difguietude I might have felt at fuch a tranf- 
action, was removed by an apprehention, that 
while yeu interefted yourfelf, you would ren- 
der confiderable afiiftance to me. The popu- 
larity of the concern was an adequate ground 
for my expectations, which were heightened 
by the refpeGability of your conneCtions in 
life. Juftice to my fituation would long fince 
have compelled me to addrefs you, but have 
been, tilla few days paft, unacquainted with 
your refidence.’ If any thing in my favour 
be practicable, to which I truft you will not 
be indifpofed, your early attention will greatly 
oblige, Six, 
Your obedient humble fervant, 
Mary NEwTon. 
Fi—— €—, Ej. Portman Square, 
London, Fune 19th, 1796. 
As no anfwer was returned, a fecond 
letter was addreffed to Mr. C 

Reverend Sir, 
A former ietter of mine, addrefled to you 
under the appellation of H Cc 5 ia 
may probably have reached your hands 5; the 
fame motive which urged me to engage in 
that, induces me to trouble you with this, 
and I again folicit your attention to the re- 
mainder ef the family of Chatterton, Juftice 
to myfelf, as I before obfervedy was the rea- 
fon of my forming the application, on which 
I had the fatisfactory Judgment of fome very - 
refpe€table friends. As the fubject of ob- 
taining my brother’s papers, has of late been 
particularly inveftigated here, I truft you 
will not fuffer an occafion for public cenfure, 
_ ina matter where my feelings are confider- 
ably interefted. Tam, Reverend Sir, 


Your obedient humblefervant, 
Auguff 4, 1796. 
Mr. C : 
Mrs. Newton’s letter of Auguft 4, ts fent 
to me here; fhe is either ill-advifed, or fhe 
has not told her advifers the money which I 
gave her, when If had the copies of the let- 
ters, and afterwards. -Uhe fort of rbreatening 
Mary NewrTon. 

*s anfwer, was as follows. 
Mr. Southey’s Statement of Facts relative-to Chatterton. [Novz 
letter which Mrs. Newton’s is, will never 
fucceed with me: but if the clergyman of 
the parifh will do me the favour to write me 
word, through Mrs. Newton, what Chatter- 
ton’s relations confift of, and what characters 
they bear, I willzry, by every thing in my 
power, to ferve them ; yetcertainly not, ifany - 
of them pretend to have the fmalleft claim on 
me. H Cc 
Exmouth, Devon, September 1, 1796. 
The money Mr, C alludes to, is the 
guinea given to Mrs. Chatterton, and the 
half guinea to her daughter, when he bor- 
rowed the letters for an hour, and the ter 



pounds fent after he had publhithed them. 
Mr. C 

has been privately addrefled 
- upon the fubjeét, without effeét 5 his con- 
duét is now made public, in the hope that 
eneral liberality may be excited by gene- 
ral indignation. 
The mother of Chatterton died in po- 
verty ; fhe fufiered three years with a can- 
cer, and till her death, experienced the 
kindnefs of the Mifs Mores. Mrs. New- 
ton fupports herfelf by teaching children 
to read ; fhe is now advancing m years, 
nd her fight begins to fail. She is a wi- 
dow with one daughter. It is hoped that 
the profits of the propofed publication will 
render her cld age comfortable. 24 
The edition will comprize whatever 
Chatterton left. Mifcellanies, the pieces 
attributed to Rowley, and the letters pub- 
lithed by Mr. C, ; fome unpublifhed 
poems have been procured, and fome ma- 
gazine pieces which. had efcaped the col- 
lef&tor of the Mifcelianies. 
has promifed to adapt the life of this ex- 
traordinary young man to the work; it 
will make two oétavo volumes. The price 
fixteen fhillings, the money to be paid on 
delivery. Mr. Kearfley receives {ubicrip- 
tions. The edition will be under my di- 
rection, and every care fhall be taken to 
render it correct and complete. 
~ RosertT SOUTHEY, 
Brifiol, October, 1799- 

: LE ; 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
wUSTRE Bes 
SHALL be much obliged to any of 
your correfpondents if they will inform 
me what other inftitutions there are in 
England, or abroad, like the Magdalen 
Hoipital, or nearly like; alfo what books 
have heen publifhed, for the purpofe of 
preventing the dreadful vices of feduction 
and proftitution. ; 
A Constant READER; 
Augft 99 3799+. 
Ta 
Dr. Gregory’ ~ 
