I believe, brother, you fib: but let that pass. Thank you, madam. It is for viij advantage that it should-, and perhaps?or yours, smiling There is a difference, pardon me, ladies, we are speaking ge-nerally, in the constitution, in the temperament, of the two sexes, that gives to the one advantages which it denies to the other: but we may not too closely pursue this subject, though the result, I am apt to believe, %vould put the matter out of dispute. Let us be more at large: Why has nature made a dif-ference in the beauty, proportion, and symmetry, in XhQ persons of the two sexes? Why gave it delicacy, softness, grace, to that of the woman as in the ladies before me; strength, firmness, to men; a ca-pacity to bear labour and fatigue; and courage, to protect the other? Why gave it a distinction, both in qualities and plumage, to the different sexes of the feathered race? Why in the courage of the male and female animals? The surly bull, the meek, the beneficent, cow, for one instance? We looked upon one another. There are exceptions to general rules, proceeded he. Mrs. Shirley surpasses all the men I ever knew, in wisdom Mrs. Selby and Lady G.

What of us, brother! What of us, to the ad-vantage of your argument?

Heroic Charlotte! You are both very happily married The men the women, the women the men, you can mutually assist and improve each other. But still

Your servant, brother, interrupted I. Your ser-vant, Sir Charles, said Mrs. Selby. And I say, Your servant, too, said Mr. Selby.

Who sees not that my sister Charlotte is ready to diselaiui the competition in fact, though not in words? Can there be characters more odious than those ot’a masculine woman, and an effeminate man? What are the distinguishing characteristics of the two sexes? And whence this odiousness? There are, indeed, vicn, whose minds, if I may be allowed th.e expression, seem to be cast into a female mould; whence the fops, foplings, and pretty fellows, who buzz about your sex at public places; ivomeii, v.hose minds seem to be cast in a masculine one; whence your 15arnevelts, my dear, and most of the women who, at such places, give the men stare for stare, swing their arms, look jolly; and those married wo-men who are so kind as to take the reins out of their Inisbands’ hands, in order to save the honest men trouble.

Your servant, Sir Your servant, Sir And some of them looked as if they had said. You cannot mean me, I hope; and those who spoke not, bowed and smiled thanks for his compliment to one fourth of the sex. il7y lord insultingly rubbed his hands for joy; Mr. Selby crowed; the other men slily smiled, though they were afraid of giving a more open approbation.

O my sister! said I, taking Harriet’s hand, we women are mere nothings We are nothing at all!