O, Sir! said Harriet, then I find I was a very impertinent creature in the conversation to which you refer.

Not so, my dearest love! Mr. Walden, I re-member, says, that learning in that assembly was not brought before a fair tribunal. He should have known, that it had not a competent advocate in him.

But, Sir Charles, said Mr. Beauchamp, I cannot but observe, that too nmch stress is laid upon learning, as it is called, by those who have pretensions to it. You will not always find, that a scholar is a more happy man than an unlearned one. He has not generdUj/ more prudence, more wisdom, in the management of his affairs.

What, my dear l?eauchamp, is this but saying-that there is great dIfFerence between theory and practice? This observation comes very generously, and, with regard to the ladies, very gallantly, from you, who are a learned man: but as you are also a very prudent man, let me ask you. Do you think you have the less prudence for your learning? If not. Is not learning a valuable addition?

But pray, Sir Charles, said Mrs. Selby, let me ask your opinion: Do you think, that if women had the same opportunities, the same education, as men, they would not equal them in their attain monts?

Women, my dear Mrs. Selby, are women sooner than men are men. They have not, therefore, gene-rallt/, the learning-time that men have, if they had equal geniuses.

‘ If they had equal geniuses,’ brother! Very well. My dear sister Harriet, you see you have given your hand to one of the lords of the creation Vassal! bow to your sovereign.

Sir Ch. My dearest love, take not the advice without the example.

Lndi/ G. Your servant. Sir. Well, but let me ask you, Do you think that there is a natural inferi-ority in the faculties of the one sex? A natural su — periority in those of the other?

Sir Ch. Who will answer this question for me?

Not I, said Lord L. Not I, said Mr. Deane. Not I, said INIr. Beauchamp.

Then I have fairly taken you in You would, if you could, answer it in the ladies favour: this is the same as a confession. I may therefore the more boldly pronounce, that, generally speaking, I have no doubt but there is.

Help me, dear ladies, said I, to fight this battle out. You say, Sir, vou have no doubt that there ‘2 k;i is a natural inferiority in the faculties of us, poor women; a natural superiority in you, imperial men. Generally speaking, Charlotte. Not individually you, ladies, and us men: I believe all we who are present, shall be ready to subscribe to your superio-rity, ladies.