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- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Works Cited
- Note on the Text
- VOLUME FIRST THE CITIZEN, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS
- Dedication
- SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES
- LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS
- LETTER I Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER II The same to the same
- LETTER III Miss Bertills, to Miss Melworth
- LETTER IV Sir Edward Melworth, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER V Miss Bertills, to Miss Melworth
- LETTER VI Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER VII Miss Melworth, to Miss Bertills
- LETTER VIII Sir Edward Melworth, to Frederick Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER IX Miss Bertills, to Miss Melworth
- LETTER X Frederick Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XI The Honorable Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XII The same, to the same
- LETTER XIII The same, to the same
- LETTER IV Sir Edward Melworth, to the Honorable Augustus Fitzmaurice
- LETTER XV The Honorable Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XVI Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XVII Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XVIII Sir Edward Melworth, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XIX The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XX Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XXI Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XXII Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant
- LETTER XIII Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XXIV Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant
- LETTER XXV Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant, to Charles Montgomery. Esq
- LETTER XXVI Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant
- LETTER XXVII The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XXVIII Charles Montgomery Esq. to the Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice
- LETTER XXIX The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XXX The same, to the same
- LETTER XXXI Charles Montgomery, Esq. to the Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice
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LETTER XIII - Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
from VOLUME FIRST - THE CITIZEN, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Works Cited
- Note on the Text
- VOLUME FIRST THE CITIZEN, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS
- Dedication
- SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES
- LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS
- LETTER I Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER II The same to the same
- LETTER III Miss Bertills, to Miss Melworth
- LETTER IV Sir Edward Melworth, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER V Miss Bertills, to Miss Melworth
- LETTER VI Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER VII Miss Melworth, to Miss Bertills
- LETTER VIII Sir Edward Melworth, to Frederick Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER IX Miss Bertills, to Miss Melworth
- LETTER X Frederick Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XI The Honorable Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XII The same, to the same
- LETTER XIII The same, to the same
- LETTER IV Sir Edward Melworth, to the Honorable Augustus Fitzmaurice
- LETTER XV The Honorable Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XVI Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XVII Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XVIII Sir Edward Melworth, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XIX The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XX Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XXI Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XXII Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant
- LETTER XIII Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XXIV Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant
- LETTER XXV Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant, to Charles Montgomery. Esq
- LETTER XXVI Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Mr. Philip Bertills, Merchant
- LETTER XXVII The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XXVIII Charles Montgomery Esq. to the Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice
- LETTER XXIX The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XXX The same, to the same
- LETTER XXXI Charles Montgomery, Esq. to the Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice
- VOLUME SECOND THE CITIZEN, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS
- Lately was published, in two vols. price six shillings, ELEONORA, A NOVEL, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, by the author of THE CITIZEN
- Editorial notes
Summary
chatham-place.
My dear Charles,
Your last has alarmed me exceedingly: surely you were not in your right senses when you wrote it, or you would never have mentioned to me a design of going into the army! How is it that you are yet such a stranger to me as to suppose I will ever concur in this measure? depend upon it I will not. I therefore insist upon your immediately laying aside all thoughts of so wild a scheme. Did I wish to exert an authority over you, I might say I have a natural right, derived from being the nearest relation you have in the world, to command your obedience in this instance. I was, too, the bosom friend of your father; and I now avow myself to be your friend likewise: as such, I again insist on your dropping all thoughts of the army. In/ the name of wonder what could put such a thing into your head, or induce you to think, for a moment, that it was in the least degree necessary for you to take such a step? Stay till you have occasion to adopt a plan for subsistence before you take the trouble of forming any; at present, you have not that apology to make; and if you had, I really cannot forbear saying, your choice appears to me rather a ridiculous one. Under the idea of being a gentleman by profession you would condescend to the very worst slavery, and let yourself out as a mark to be shot at for so much per diem. If a man enters into the military profession from interested motives he is generally disappointed; there being five hundred chances to one against his ever rising very high in it, merely by his merit, let it be ever so great.
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- The Citizenby Ann Gomersall, pp. 66 - 68Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014