Sweet excellence! Did I ever hope to meet in woman with such an enlargement of heart! Cle-mentina only, of all the women I ever knew, can be set in comparison with you: and had she been granted to me, the union of minds between us from difference of religion, could not have been so per-fect, as yours and mine must be.

Greatly gratified as I was by the compliment, I was sorry, methought, that it was made me at the expence of my sex. His words. ‘ Did I ever hope to meet in woman with such an enlargement of heart!* pique me a little. Are not women as ca-pable as men, thought I, of enlarged sentiments?

The leave he took of me was extremely tender. I endeavoured to check my sensibility. He departed with the blessings of the whole family, as well as mine. I was forced to go up to my closet: I came not down till near dinner-time; I could not; and yet my uncle accompanied my cousin James to Northampton: so that I had no apprehensions of his raillery. We want trials sometmies, I believe, to make us support ourselves with some degree of out-uard fortitude, at least. Had my uncle been at home, I should not have dared to have given so much way to my concern: but soothing and indul-gence, sometimes, I believe, add to our imbecility of mind, instead of strengthening our reason.

My uncle made it near eleven at night before he returned, with my cousin James. Not one of the company, at his quitting it, seemed inclinable to piove. He praised the elegance of the entertain-incnt, and the ease and cheerfulness, even to viva-, city, of Sir Charles. How cotdd he be so lively! How many ways have men to divert themselves, when any thing arduous attacks them! While we poor women! But your town diversions Your Jlanelaghs, Vauxhalls bid fair to divert such of us as can carry ourselves out of ourselves! Yet are we likely to pay dear ibr the privilege; since we thereby render our sex cheap in the eyes of men, harden our fronts, and are in danger of losing that modes-ty, at least of outn:nrd behaviour, which is the cha — racteristic of wouien!

S<uliii(la> inorning.

He is gone: gone indeed! Went early this morning, livery mouth v.as last night, it seems, full of his praises: the men admire him as nmch as the women. I am glad of it, methinks: since that is an indirect confession, that there are ‘iew among them like him. Not so much superiority over our sex therefore, iu tl>e other, in general, with their enlarged hemis. Have not we a Clementina, a Mrs. Shirley, and a long tSc. ‘^ I praise not yuu, my dear Lady L. and I^dy G. to your faces; so I leave thct^r. untrans-lated.