MISS MITFORD.
A DAUGHTER who has devoted her talents and energies to the sustenance and comfort of an aged father, and finds herself at his death )verwhelmed with embarrassments in consequence, is entitled to the assistance of those who have the means to relieve her from liabilities so incurred ; and when that daughter is a gifted woman, who has delighted the public by her writings for five-and-twenty years, and has, moreover, lost a large amount of her hard earnings by the failure of a publisher, her claims upon the generosity of those who can appreciate filial devotion become much stronger. All must sympathize with the distress of a woman of a sensitive nature, who has hitherto held an honourable station in society, being placed in such a dilemma as to render an appeal to the liberality of the wealthy the least painful and humiliating alternative. To this necessity Miss MITFORD, the authoress of Our Village and nu- merous other sketches of rural life, is DOW unhappily reduced. She has a public pension of 1001. a year ; but it is only a stay for the future, not a means of retrieving present embarrassments. A committee of noble- men and gentlemen, including Lord RADNOR, Mr. THOMAS MOORE, the Reverend Mr. MILLNAN, Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, and several Mem- bers of Parliament, have undertaken to receive subscriptions ; and the amount of the debts being under a thousand pounds, there is every pro- bability that the benevolent object will be accomplished.
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