“Bound as I am by the duties of my appointed trust, and prompted by my veneration and gratitude to fulfil in every point Mr. Cowley’s intentions, as these related to his daughter, I think it proper to remove Miss Cowley from her present residence. From the period of Mrs. Hardcastle’s death, her father had this intention; and I have frequently heard him regret, that his delay, and her reluctance to visit Jamaica, had postponed a resolution he thought indispensibly incumbent on him to execute. In his last illness he requested me to make it my first concern to place his daughter with a lady qualified to protect and guide her. I have, in consequence, written to my sister, Lady Maclairn, on this subject, and you will prepare my ward for her removal to Tarefield, the place of my sister’s residence. I am not discouraged by Miss Cowley’s refusal of my nephew. She does not know Philip Flint, who will, I am confident, convince her, and her friends, that her father was not less attentive to her happiness than to her fortune, in selecting him as her protector for life. More on this subject does not become me to say, less would be injustice to a man whose merits are acknowledged wherever he is known. I will not, however, pursue this subject further at present than by observing, that Miss Cowley may be led by her knowledge of Mr. Philip Flint’s connections in England, to consider more favourably of her good father’s _wishes_. In the mean time, my nephew has cheerfully acceded to _mine_; and flatters himself, that by postponing his voyage to England for some months, he is not only gratifying Miss Cowley’s delicacy in this hour of filial sorrow, but also offering her an homage which will not be unacceptable to her, as it will be of use to her interest; Mr. Cowley’s large concerns requiring an inspection, and an arrangement which, in the first pressure of business, is more than I am equal to. The retirement in which Sir Murdock Maclairn’s family lives, will not, in the present state of affairs, be irksome to _my ward_; the society of an accomplished woman will, I hope, compensate her for the temporary suspension of more unconfined amusements. Taking it for granted, that you will still hold the trust committed to you by Mrs. Dawson’s will, I shall annually remit to Sir Murdock Maclairn the same sum which Mr. Cowley assigned for his daughter’s maintenance with Mr. Hardcastle, from the age _of infancy_. Being willing to shew my respect for Miss Cowley’s wish, as this relates to Mrs. Allen’s continuance in her service, I have prepared Lady Maclairn to receive what she might otherwise judge an useless appendage in a house regulated as Tarefield-hall is.” Mr. Flamall concludes by informing his correspondent, that Miss Cowley’s fortune is very ample; that he has to encounter the obstinacy of the boys’ mother, who will not be parted from the children, nor suffer them to remain in their father’s house. Mr. Philip Flint had, however,