You have now before you, girls, the opinion of Mrs. Shirley and the Countess of D. on the case you put. They both sit enthroned on the serene hill of wisdom, which hardly one in fifty of their sex attains. From thence they look down with pity, and with beckoning finger, to the crowds below them, who with aching eyes, and despairing hearts, emulate their starry heights; but in too faintly at-tempting to gain the ascent, tumble down, some (shameful!) head-over-heels, immersed in the miry puddles of sense; and others taking a supposed more easy, though visibly round-about way, are misled by mazy paths into dreary desarts, till they lose even the distant sight of the sacred hill.

There, chits, I end romantically, figuratively at least, in compliment to your fanciful tastes. And thus much as to you, girls, young lady-expectants, whirasicals, and so forth, from your

ClIARLOTTi; G.

Friday, Saturday, April 13,14. My women are so impertinent, and my marmouset is so voracious, that I have been forced to take two days for what once I could have performed in little more than two hours. x2

LADY G. TO LADY GRANDISON. By xeay of postscript to the above.

April 20.

Shameful negligence! The Inclosed to the girls at Selby-house, not yet gone How have I raved at the carelessness! Written, as it teas, in a state of rebellion with my prescribing women, to so little purpose so early. I had a good mind, as I told them, to renounce their cares and their caudle, and go abroad In short, to set out for Grandison-hall, and make one among the exotics and naturals there, though ye were to shut your gates against me ‘* Dear madam, forgive us It was not a designed omission It was not our fault But” Well then, give me my pen and ink, and interrupt me not > And now, my Harriet, I will give you a scene that will not be a very impertinent supplement to the subject on which the chits at Selby-house have provoked me to write.

Here I, Charlotte Lady G. (why should I not add weight to the example by title?) who married with indifference the poor Lord G.; who made the honest man, whenever I pleased, foam, fume, fret, and exe-crate the hour that he first beheld m}^ face, now stand forth, an example of true conjugal felicity, and an encouragement for girls who venture into the married state, without that prodigious quantity of violent passion, which some hare-brained creatures think an essential of love.