Hamilton having returned, informed Maria of Blackball’s confession, but without taking any notice of the prompter.
The attempted obstacles to the marriage of our hero and heroine were now entirely removed. Old Mr. Wentbridge came to town to perform the ceremony, and was accompanied by his son the doctor. Charlotte being bridemaid, and her father giving the bride away, the nuptials were solemnized on the 17th of May, 1790, and the lovely Maria became the wife of Hamilton.
END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
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“With regard to the following little Narrative, it is not necessary to give any account of the manner in which it came into the Editor’s possession, or of the circumstances which have delayed its publication so long after the time when it appears to have been written. In offering it to the world, he has been actuated chiefly by an opinion of its useful and instructive tendency. If virtue be promoted by the view of characters which rise above the ordinary standard, those exhibited in the following pages seem well calculated to produce that effect. In the first part we discover the principle of active benevolence operating in somewhat of a new direction. There may not be many who could with propriety adopt the precise manner of life which is there described; yet there are perhaps few whose characters would not be improved by imbibing some portion of the spirit which it breathes.
At the present moment also, when our independence, and our very existence as a nation, are threatened by the same restless and domineering potentate, the examples here exhibited of love for our country, and courage in defending it, may not be without their use.”
Extract from the Preface.