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TO TIIE RECORDING ANG2L.
Cherub of Ikaven, that from thy secret stand
Dost note the follies of each mortal here,
Oh, if Kliza's steps employ thy hand,
Blot the sad legend with a mortal tear.
Nor, when she errs, through passion's wild extreme,
Mark then her course, nor heed each trifling wrong;
Nor, when ber sad attachment is her theme,
dote down the transports of her erring tongue:
But, when she sighs for sorrows not her own,
et that dear sigh to Mercy's cause be given;
And bear that tear to her CRICATOICII throne,
Which glistens in the eye upraised to Heaven !
But in love, as in everything else, the power of a
mind like Sheridan's must have made itself felt through
all obstacles and difficulties. He was not long in win-
ning the entire affections of the young 44 Syren,"—
though the number and wealth of his rivals, the am-
bitious views of her father, and the temptations to which
she herself was howl), exposed, kept his jealousies and
fears perpetually on the watch. He is supposed, in-
deed, to have been indebted to self-observation, for
that pormit of a wayward and morbidly sensitive
lover, which he has drawn so strikingly in the character
of Falkland.
With a mind in this state of feverish wakefulness, it
is remarkable that he should so long have succeeded in
concealing his attachment from the eyes of those most
interested in discovering i.. Even his brother Charles
was for some time wholly unaware of their rivalry, and
went on securely indulging in a p ission, which it was
hardly possible, with such opportunities of intercourse,
to resist, and which survived long after Miss Linley's
selection of wither• had extinguished every hope in Isis
heart but that of seeing her happy. Hallifd, too, who
at that period corresponded co.;stantly with Sheridan,
and confided' to him the love with which he also had
been inspired by this enchantress, was for a length of
time left in the same darkness upon the subject, and
without the slight st suspicion that the epidemic had
reached his friend, whose only mode cf evading the
many tender inquiries and messages with which Hal-
hed's letters abounded, was by referring to answers
which had, by some strange fatality, miscarried, and
which we may conclude, without much uncharitable-
ness, had never been written.
Miss Linley went frequently to Oxford, to per-
form at the oratorios and concerts; and it may easily
be imagined that the ancient allegory of the Muses
throwing chains over Cupid was here reversed, and the
quiet shades of learning not a little disturbed by the
splendour of these 44 Angel visits." The letters of
Haat, d give a lively idea, not only of his own intoxi-
cation, but of the sort of contagious delirium, like that
at Abdera described by Lucian, with which the young
men of Oxford were affected by this beautiful girl. in
desCribing her singing, he quotes part of a Latin letter
which he himself had written to a friend upon first
hearing fur ; and it is a curious proof of the readiness
of Sheridan, notwithstanding his own fertility, to avail
himself of the thoughts of others, that sic fiad in this
extract, word for word, the same extravagant compa-
rison of the effects of music to the process of Egyptian
embalmment—" extracting the brain through the ears"
—which was afterwards transplanted into the dialogue
of the Duenna :•••••11 Modems,: guendam ante .IEOO
medici guam pollincirent cerebella de auribus unto quanta
hanso solebaut extrahere ; sic de meis auribus non cere-
brum, sed cor ipsum exhausit lusciniola," &c. He men-
tions, as the rivals most dreaded by her admirers,
Norris, the singer, whose musical talents, it was thought,
recommended him to her, and Mr. Watts, a gentleman
commoner, of very large fortune.
While all hearts and tongues were thus occupied
about Miss Linley, it is not wonderful that rumours of
(matrimony and elopement should from time to time
circulate among her apprehensive admirers; or that the
usual ill-compliment should be paid to her sex of sup.
posing that wealth must be the winner of ti:e prize. It
was at one moment currently reported at Oxford, that
sfie had gone off to Scotland, with a young man of
3,00 W. a year, and ,the panic which the intelligence
spread is described in one of these letters to Sheridan
(who no doubt shared in it) as producing 'long faces'
everywhere. Not only, indeed, among her numerous
lovers, but among all who delighted in her public per-
fcrmances, an alarm.would naturally be felt at the pro-
spect of her becoming private propel ty :
Te juga Timed, posito to Mznala flebunt
Venatu, mnstoque din lugebere Cyntho.
Detebie:a quinetiam fratris detubra tacebunt.
, Thee, thee, when hurried from our eyes away,
Laconia's hills shall mourn for many a day—.
The Arcadian bunter shall forget his abase,
And turn aside, to think upon that face;
While many an hour Apollo s maim atlas
Blull wait in silence fora voice late rhino
But, to the honour of her sex, which
more disinterelted than the other, it was
Cher rank nor wealth had influenced her
election ; and Halhed, who, like others,'

is, in general,
found that nei-
er heart in ha
, had estimated

the grimgth oflois rivals by their rent-rolls, discovered
at last that his unpretending friend. Sheridan (whose
advancei in courtship and knowledge seem to have
been equally noiseless and triumphant), was the chosen
favourite of her at whose feet to many fortunes lay.
Like that Saint (Cecilia), by whose name she was always
called, she had long welcomed to her soul a secret visi-
tant. Whose gifts were of a higher and more radiant
kind than the more wealthy and lordly of this world
can proffer. ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Captain Mathews, a married man, and intimate with
Miss Linley's family, presuming upon the innocent fa-
miliarity which her youth and his own station permitted
between them, had for some time not only rendered her
remarkable by his indiscreet attentions in public, but
had even persecuted her in private with those unlawful'
addresses and proposals which a timid female will
sometimes rather endure, than encounter that share of
the alum which may be reflected on herself by their
disclosure. To the threat of self-destruction, often tried
with effect in these cases, he is said to have added the
still more unmanly menace ~f ruining, at lea t her re-
putation, if he could net undermine her virtue. Terri-
fied by his perseverance, and dreading the consequence'
of her father's temper, if this violation of his confidence
and hospitality were exposed to him, she at length con-
fided her distresses to Richard Sheridan ; who, having
consulted with his sister, and for the first time disclosed
to her the state of his heart with respect to Miss Linley,
lo.t no time is expostulating with Mathews, upon the
cruelty, libertinism, and fruitlessness of his pursuit.
Sgch a remonstrance, however, was but little calculated
to conciliate the forbearance of this professed man of
gallantry, who, it appears by the following allusion to
him under the name of Lothario, in a poem written by
Sheridan at the time, still counted upon the possibility
of gaining his object, or, at least blighting the fruit
which be could not reach:

Nor spare the flirting Cassoe'd rogue,
Nor union Cain's polish'd brogue ;
Nor gay Lothario's nobler name,
That Nimrod to all female fame.
In consequence of thislersecution, and an increasing
dislike to her profession, which made her shrink more
and more from the gaze of the many, in proportion as
she became devoted to the love of one, she adopted,
early in 1772, the romantic resolution oeflying secretly
to France, and taking refuge in a convent, intending,
at the same time, to indemnify her father, to whom she
was bound till the age of 21, by the surrender to him
of part ,1 the sum which Mr. Long had settled upon
her. Sheridan, who, it is probable, had been the chief
adviser of her flight, was, of course, not slow in offering
to be the partner of it. His sister, whom he seems to
have persuaded that his conduct in this affair arose from
a wish solely to serve Miss Linley as a friend, without

any design or desire to take advantage of her elope-
ment as a lover, not only assisted them with money out
of her little fund for house-expenses, but gave them
letters of introduction to a family with whom sbe had
been acquainted at St. Quentin. On the evening ap•
pointed for their departure—while Mr. Linley, his
eldest son, and Miss Maria Linley, were engaged at a
concert, from which the young Cecilia herself had been,'
on a plea of illness, excused, she was conveyed by She-
ridan in a sedan-chair from her father's house in the
Crescent, to a post-chaise which waked for them on the
London road, and in which she found a woman, whom
her lover had hired, as a sort of protecting Minerva, to
accompany them in their flight.
It will be recollected that Sheridan was at this time
little more than twenty, and his companion just enter-
ing her eighteenth year. On their arrival in London,
with an adroitness which was, at least, very dramatic,
he introduced her to an old friend of his family (Mr.
Ewart, a respectable brandy-merchant, in the City), as
a rich heivess who bad consented to elope with him to
the Continent; in consequence of which the old Gen-
tleman, with many commendations of his wisdom, for
having given up the imprudent pursuit of Miss Linley,
net only accommodated the fugitives with a passage
on board a ship; which he bad ready to sail from the
port of London to Dunkirk, but gave them letters of
recommendation to his correspondents at that place,
who with the same zeal and dispatch facilitated their
journey to Lida.
On their leaving Dunkirk, as was natural to expect,
the chivalrous and disinterested protector degenerated
into a mere selfish lover. It was represented by
him, with arguments which seemed to appeal to pru-
dence as well as feeling, that after the step they had
taken, the could not possibly appear in England again
blot as his wife. He was, therefore, he said, resolved

not to deposit her in a convent, till she had consented,
by the ceremony of a marriage, to confirm to him that
right of protecting her which he had now but tem-
porarily assumed. It did "not, we may suppose, require
much eloquence to convince her heart of the truth of
this reasoning; and accordingly, at a little village not
far from Calais, they were mauled, about the latter end
of March, 1772, by a Priest well known for his services
on such occasions.

They thence immediately proceeded to Lisle, where
Miss Linley, as she must still be called, giving up her
intention of going on to St. Quentin, procured an apart-
ment in a convent, with the determination of remaining
there till Sheridan should have the means of supporting
her as his acknowledged wife.

On the first discovery of the elopement, the landlord
of the house in which the Sheridans resided had, from

a feeling of pity for the situation of the young Ladies
—niw left without the protection of either father or
brother—gone off, at break of day, to the retreat of
Charles Sheridan, and informed him of the event which
had just occurred. Poor Charles, wholly ignorant till
then of his brother's attachment to Miss Linley, felt all
that a man may be supposed to feel, who had but too
much- reason to think himself betrayed, as well as dis-
appointed. He hastened to Bath, where he found a
still more furious lover, Mr. Mathews, inquiring at the
house every particular of the affair, aad almost avow.
ing, in the impotence of his rage, the unprincipled de-
sign which this summary step had frustrated. In the
course of their conversation, Charles Sheridan let fall
some 'unguarded expressions of anger against his
brother, which this Gentleman, who seems to have
been eminently qualified for a certain line of characters
indispensable in all romances, treasured up in his me-
mory, ands as it will appear, afterwards availed him-
lelf of them. For the four or five weeks during which
the young couple were absent, be never ceased to
haunt the Sheridan family, with inquiries, rumours,
sod other disturbing visitations; and at length, urged
on by the restlessness of -revenge, inserted the following
violent advertisement is the Bath Chronic: e :
Wednesday April $, 3772.
"'Mr. Richard S-- having attempted, in a letter left behind
him for that purpose, to account for his scandalous method of
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►eharaster, and that of aloodriady, kiikicent so fak as iebtos to
me, or my knowledge.; baa Niche. taken any
notice of letters, nor ems Warmed his own flatly of the oboe'
sherbet heakid Massif t.l imo PS*OIPIII *WI 4p delerVel the
treatment Of a Gentleman, and thiwe shall tomble myself no,
towhee shoal him than, in dos public methods as post biro 14 a
and a trescheeene4l.....-.
44 And as E am convinced there have been many malevolent in-
cendiaries concerned in the propagation of this infamous ile, if any
of them, unprotected by age, infirmities, or profession, will dare to
acknowledge the part they have acted, and alarm to what they
bare said of me, they may depend ea receiving the proper steward
of their villainy, in the most public manner. The world Will be
candid enough to judge properly (I make no doubt) of any privast)
abuse on this subject for the future • as nobody can defend Wessel
from an accusation he is ignorant of. "THOMAS MATHEW_

On a remonstrance from Miss Sheridan upon this
outrageous proceeding, he did not hesitate to assert
that her brother Charles was privy to it—a charge
which the latter with indignation repelled, and was
only prevented by the sudden departure of Mathews to
Ldndon from calling him to a more serious account for
the falsehood. ... .. .. ... . .

On his arrival in Bath (whither he travelled with
Miss Linley and her father), Sherici.in lost not a mo-
ment in ascertaining the falsehood of the charge against
his brother. While Charles, however, indignantly de-
nied, the flagitious conduct imputed to him by Ma-
thews, he expressed his opinion of the step which She-
ridan and Miss Linley had taken, in terms of consider-
able warmth, which were overheard by some of the
family. As soon as the young Ladies had retired to
bed, the two brothers, without any announcement of
their intention, set off post together for London, Sheri-
dan having previously written Mr. Wade, the Master
of the Ceremonies. ••• ... ...

On the arrival of the brothers in town, Richard She-
ridan instantly called Mathews out. His second on
the occasion was Mr. Ewalt, and the particulars of the
duel are thus stated by himself, in a letter which he ad-
dressed to Captain Knight, the second of Mathews, soon'
after the subsequent duel in Bath.
44 SIR—On the evening preceding my last meeting
with Mr. Mathews, Mr. Barnett* produced a paper to
me written by Mr. Mathews, containing an account of
our former meetings in London. As I had before fre-
quently heard of Mr. Mathews's relation of that affair,
without interesting myself much in contradicting it, I
should certainly have treated this in the same manner,
had it not been seemingly authenticated by Mr. Knight's
name being subscribed to it. My asserting that the pa-
per contains much misrepresentation, equivocation, and
falsity, might make it appear strange that I should
apply to you in this manner for information on the sub-
ject ; but as it likewise contradicts what I have been
told were Mr. Knight's sentiments and assertions on
that affair, I think I owe it to his credit, as well as my
own justification, first, to be satisfied from himself whe-
ther be really subscribed and will support the truth of
the account shewn by Mr. Mathews? Give me leave
previously to relate what I have affirmed to have been
a real state of our meeting in London, and which I am
now ready to support on my honour, or my oath, as the
best account I can give of Mr. Mathews's relation is, that
it is almost directly opposite to mine.
I, Mr. Ewan accompanied me to Hyde Park, about
six in the evening, where we met you and Mr. Mathews,
and we walked together to the ring. Mr. Mathews
refusing to mike any other acknowledgment than he
had done, I observed that we were come to the ground :
Mr. Mathews objected to the spot, and appealed to you.
We proceeded to the back of a building on the other
side of the ring, the ground was there perfectly level,
I called on him, and drew my sword (he having previ-
ously declined pistols). Mr. Ewart observed a sentinel
on the other side of the building ; we advanced to ano-
ther part of the park. I stopped again at a seemingly
convenient place ; Mr. Mathews objected to the obser-
%cation of some people at a 4reat distance, and proposed
to retire to the Hercules' Pillars till the park should be
dear ; we did so. In a little time we returned. I again
drew my sword; Mr. Mathews again objected to the
observation of a person who seemed to watch us. Mr.
Ewart observed that the chance was equal, and engaged
that no one should itop him,should it be necessary for
him to retire to the gate, here he had a chaise and
four, which was equally at his service. Mr. Mathews
declared that he would not engage while any one was
within sight, and proposed to defer it till next morning.
I turned to you and said that 6 this was trifling woO,'
that I could not admit of any delay, and engaged to
remove the Gentleman (who proved to be an Officer,
and who, on my going up to him, and assuring him
that any interposition would be ill•timed, politely re-
tired). Mr. Mathews, in the meantime, had returned
towards the gate; Mr. Ewart and I called to you, and
followed. We returned to the Hercules' Pillars, and
went from thence by agreement, to the Bedford Coffee-
house, where, the master being alarmed, you came and
conducted us to Mr. Mathews, at the Castle Tavern,
Ht nrietta-street. Mr. Ewart took lights up in his hand,
and almost immediately on our entering the room we
engaged. I struck Mr. Mathews's point so much out of
the line, that I stepped up and caught hold of his wrist,
or the hilt of his sword, while the point of mine was at
his breast. You ran in and caught hold of. my arm, ex-
claiming, 4 Don'. kill him.' I struggled to disengage
my arm, and said his sword was in my power. Mr.
Mathews called out twice or thrice, I beg my life.'—
We were parted. You immediately said, There, he
has begged his life, and now there is an end of it; and,
on Mr. Ewart's saying that when his sword was in my
power, as I attempted no mote, you should not have
interfered, you replied that you were wrong, but that
you had done it hastily, and to prevent mischief—or
words to that effect. Mr. Mathews then hinted that 1
was rather obliged to your interposition for the advan-
tage; you declared that 4 before you did so, both the
siaords were in Mr. Sheridan's power.' Mr. Mathews
still seemed resolved to give it another turn, and ob-
served that he bad never quitted his sword. Provoked
at this, I then swore (with too much heat, perhaps) that
he should either give up his sword and I would break
it, or go to his guard again. He refused—but, on my
persisting, either gave it into my hand, or flung it on
the table, or the ground (which, I will not absolutely
affirm). I broke it, and flung the hilt to the other end
of the room. He exclaimed at this. I took.a mourn-
ing sword from Mr. Ewart, and presenting him with
mine, gave my honour that what had passed should
never be mentioned by me, and he might now right
himself again. He replied, that he 6 would never draw
a sword against the man who bad given him his life
—but on his still exclaiming against the indignity Of
breaking his sword (which he had brought upon him-
self), W. Ewan offered him the pistols, and some al-
tercation passed between them. Mr. Mathews said,
that be could never shew his face, if it were knows how
his sword was broke—.that such a thing. had never
been done that it cancelled all obligations, &c. &c.
You seemed to think it was wrong, and we both pro-
• The blend of Mathews in the second duel.


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We alluded, some few days ago, with deep regret,
and in terms of reprobation, to the conduct of a Member
of Parliament, in degrading his own dignity, and that
of the Illustrious Body to which he belongs, by tra-
velling out of his proper sphere. We sincerely wiih
that our remarks in that respect were, in justice, to be
considered as applicable only to the one individual,
whose oddities have attracted so much of public atten-
tion. But there is another Member of Parliament,
ambitious of playing a higher part in the Political
Drama, with whoni, at the present moment, we would
earnestly remonstrate on the same grievance, inasmuch
as his example is far more dangerous, though not less
mischievous and degrading to the character of the
I &nate tran that of the good natured and eccentric
Member of the Emerald, Isle. We allude to Mr.

HUMS, and if we rate his talents as a Statesman
rather lower than some of his friends—we are full willing
to give him great credit for good intentions, for fearless
political courage, unquestionable though misdirected
industry, and for zeal- so overabundant as to luxuriate
into restlessness. But why will Mr. Hums overshadow
those valuable and useful, if not great qualities, by an
Intel meddling with the concerns of every person and
every thing ? Why is his name for ever placarded in
the public prints on all possible subjects, by his own
officiousress and bad taste, when such publicity had
better have been confined to the fair and ordinary
channels of Parliamentary Reporters?
We say nothing of his indefatigable exertions 'at
every Meeting of which he is a member (and few there
are to which be does not belong), from the East India!
House down to the Society of Arts, in the Adelphi—
even from that buMble arena of oratory lower still, and
down to the regulation of the concerns of the Lying-
in-Hospital.
We will even pass over his gratuitous volunteering
to be mediator, the other day, between the :tsllett wool-

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