The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-07-18

iuddenly rccolleted aiiumption Of attitude,
prompted the riible inftcad of the admiring fen
fatioh neither was the ihowy drcfS, in which
he came back TO his fair one, jot more becom-
ing.
Poor Elizabeth reproached her reluctant but
Interpretive ingratitude, upon which all this
labour, theie facrihces had been waited. She
confeiled, that Thomas Day, blackguard, as he
ufed jeftingIy to ltye himelf iefs Duplicated her
eye than Thomas Day, fine gentleman.
Thus again disappointed, he refhmed his ac-
cuitomed plainneis of garb, and neglect of his
perton, and went again upon the continent for
another year, with puriuits of higher aim, more
congenia to his talents and former principles.
Returning to England in the year I773, he faw,
that ipring, Mifs Honora Sneyd united to his
friend Mr.. Edgeworth, who was become wi
dover; and, IN the year 1880, he learned that
his fecond love of that name, Mfs Elizabeth
Sneyd was ALTO, after the death of Honora mar
ried to Mr.. Edgeworth.
1t was fingular that MIR. Day fhould thus, in
the courfe of feven years, find hinfelf douby RI
vailed by his mott intimate friend but his own
previoully renounced purfuit of thofe beautiful
young women, left him without either cauie
or fenfations of refentment on their account.
From the year 1878 this hitherto ove-renoun-
ced philosopher refided chiefly in London, and
amid the fmall and feleSt circle which he fire.
quentcd there, often met the pretty and elegant
NiifS Either Mills of Derbyihirc, who, with
modern requirements, and amongft modifh lux
uries, fited to her large fortune, had cultivated
her understanding by books and her virtues by
benevolence. The again unpolihed ftoic had
| every charm in her eyes,
She faw O,hellos village in his mind"
But from indignant recollection of hopes 70 re-
pcatedly baffled, Mr.. Day looked with difruf
| on female attention of however flattering fem
blance; was it till after years of her modeit,
yet tender devotion to his talents and merit,
that he deigned to ak Miis Mills, if fhe could,
for his fake, reign all that the world calls plea
| lures; all its Injuries, all its oftentation If
with him, fhe could refolve to employ, after the
ordinary comforts of life were fupplied, the fur
plus of her affluent fortune in clothing the ma
ked, and feeding the hungry; retire with him
into the country, and fhun, through remaining
exittence, the infectious faint of human focie-
| ty.
Mr.. Days constitutional fault, like poor Cow
pers, feemed that of looking with fevere and
diigufted eyes upon thote venial errors in his
| fpecies which are mutually tolerated by man
kind. This ftain of mifanthropy was extremely
deepened by his commerce with the world, re-
| itralnedas that commerce hadever been. Satire,
jealous, and dlicerning, it was not eafy to de-
| celve him, yet in few infances, he was deceiv-
ed by the appearance of virtues congenial to his
| own:
| For neither man, angel can dhcern
| "HyPocriiy, the only evil that walks
"lnviiibe, except to God alone"
To propofals 70 formidable, 70 flre to be re-
jeded by a heart lefs than infinitely attached,
Mifs Mills gladly aifented but fomethng more
remained. Mr.. Day Unified, that her whole for
tune fhould be fettled upon herfelf, totally out
OF his prefent or future controul: that if fhe
grew tired of fyftem of life 70 likely to weary
woman of the world, fhe might return to that
world any hour flle chofe, fully empowered to
refume its habits, and its pleafures.
| They married, and retired into the COUNTRY
about the year 1880, according to the beft re-
collection of the author of thefe memoirs. No
carnage; no appointed fervant about Mrs.
Days own perfon, no luxury of any fort. Mu-
nc, in which fhe was difinguifhed proficient,
was deemed trivial.
She baniihed her harpGchord & mulic-books.
Frequent experiments upon her temper, andher
| attachment, were made by him, whom fhe lived
but to obey and love. Over thefe fhe often
wept, but never repined. No wife, bound in
= the ftrictef letters, totheincapacity of claim
| ing feparate maintenance, ever made more alb
| folute facrihces to the mott imperious hufband,
than did this lady, whole independence had been
fecured, and of whom nothing was demanded
as duty.
Thus Mr.. Day found, at Taft, amid the very
clais he dreaded, that of fashionable women, a
heart Whole PATTON for him fuppIied all the re-
quiiites of his heightened expectations.
Some eight or ten years after his marriage,
the life of this angular being became, in its me-
ridian,a victim to one of his uncommon fyfems.
He thought highly of the gratitude, generofity,
and fenfbility of horfes and that whenever
they were difobedient, unruly, or vicious, twas
owing to previous ill-ufage from men. He had
reared, fed, and tanned favourite foal. When
it was time it fhould become ferviceable, diff
daining to employ horfe breaker, he would
uie it to the bit and the burden himfelf. He
was not good hor1eman. The animal difik-
! ing his new lituation, needed not the foothing
voice to which he had been accuffomed. He
plunged, threw his matter, and then, with his
heels, ftruck him on the head an inftantly fatal
blow. 1t was faid that Mrs. Day never after
wards faw the fun that fhe lay in bed, into the
curtains of which no light was admitted during
the day, and only rofe to fray alone through her
garden, when night gave her forrows congehial
| gloom. She furvived this adored hufband two
/ years, and then died broken-hearted, for his
| lofs.
Is r II UTH ORIT1.