ABSTRACT
Various were the reports concerning Alinda, both while she was alive and a er her decease; but all the world could say with any certainty, either of her a airs or conduct, might be compriz’d in the following articles:
at she was the only child of a very eminent and wealthy merchant in the city, who, on the death of his wife, le o business, and having purchased an estate of near a thousand pounds a year in the country, retired thither to pass the remainder of his days, taking Alinda with him, at that time about ten years of age.
