PRINTED FOR G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATER- NOLDS, NO. 137, OXFORD-STREET. THE ADVENTURES OF HUGH TREVOR. CHAP. I. A NEW AND EOLD PROJECT CONCEIVED AND EXECUTED BY WAKEFIELD. THE DIFFICULTY OF MAKING PRINCIPLES AGREE WITH PRACTICE DISCUSSED. FAIR PROMISES ON THE PART OF AN OLD OFFENDER, THE HOPES THEY EXCITE AND THE FEARS THAT ACCOMPANY THEM. THE affair of the pamphlet being removed from my mind, I had leifure to attend to the other difficulty that had lately croffed me; by the poffeffion which Wakefield had illegally taken of effects which he afferted to be his, in the double right of being heir to his uncle and the husband of my mother, but which, if my information were true, appertained to me. VOL. VI. B It |