Chapter 1

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THE HISTORY OF EMILY MONTAGUE. In FOUR VOLUMES.

By the AUTHOR of Lady JULIA MANDEVILLE.

--"A kind indulgent sleep O'er works of length allowably may creep." Horace.

Vol. 1

LONDON, Printed for J. DODSLEY, in Pall Mall. MDCCLXIX.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY GUY CARLETON, Esq. GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF His Majesty's Province of QUEBEC, &c. &c. &c.

SIR,

As the scene of so great a part of the following work is laid in Canada, I flatter myself there is a peculiar propriety in addressing it to your excellency, to whose probity and enlightened attention the colony owes its happiness, and individuals that tranquillity of mind, without which there can be no exertion of the powers of either the understanding or imagination.

Were I to say all your excellency has done to diffuse, through this province, so happy under your command, a spirit of loyalty and attachment to our excellent Sovereign, of chearful obedience to the laws, and of that union which makes the strength of government, I should hazard your esteem by doing you justice.

I will, therefore, only beg leave to add mine to the general voice of Canada; and to assure your excellency, that

I am, With the utmost esteem and respect, Your most obedient servant, Frances Brooke. London, March 22, 1769.

THE HISTORY OF EMILY MONTAGUE.