the republican arms, will fuddenly | lieft of the fex to an votimely grave.

transfer them to the Auftrians, and enable them to defeat their enemies, -time only can discover.

I believe it was a bifhop who first broached this doctrine in the house of lords:-1 with bishops would mind things that they know more about, and propagate religion inftead of

To the EDITOR of the LADY's fcandal. An old woman at forty!—

MAGAZINE.

SIR,
THE following letter was first pub-
lifhed in a morning paper; and,
as it contains fentiments which
are much approved of by myself,
and others of my female acquaint-
ance, (though, I do affure you,
we are not antiquated tabbles) |
could with to fee it preferved in
your agreeable mifcellany.
I remain

Your conftant reader,
and occafional correfpondent,

MATURA.

To the Managers of the Telegraph.

I

GENTLEMEN,

Shall not difpute the utility of old women to a well-regulated ftate, nor inquire whether certain connections lately formed may not have a political tendency of very ferious confequences. But I humbly conceive, that while you and the other papers have expreffed a very proper indignation at follies of fuch enormous magnitude as to unite all mankind in an abhorrence of them, you have carried your indignation too far, farther, I am fure, than your intention, and have inadvertently wounded the feelings of the virtuous part of the fex.

Ecod! gentlemen, I believe their reverences would find a woman of

that age yerng enough for the youngeft of them.

But. gentlemen, what must be the confequence, if a woman between thirty and forty is to be deemed and confidered as old? Why, the confequence will be, that their husbands, perverted by fuch doctrines, contrary to all experience and conviction, will go aftray in fearch of young women; and I humbly fuppofe, that if women of the above age are old, we can feek for young women only in the nurseries and baby-boufes.

is due to their character, may be
Ladies of any age, who forget what
called naughty women; nay, you are
welcome to give them every epithet
you can find in Doctors' Commons,
or in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary:—but
there is no law which can entitle you
to call them old women, when, by
doing fo, you overturn all establish-
ed rules for judging of age, and
attack every virtuous woman who
has had the misfortune (fhall I call
it?) to outlive the age of thirty-five.
It is bad enough to fay that a wo-
man is "paft her prime," or "old
enough to be wifer;" but to force
us all into the oblivion of fenility
(there's a learned word for you!) is
to depart from all the rules of good-
breeding, and to convince the world
that, with you at least, the "age of
chivalry is paft."

Gentlemen, in one word, you have faid that ladies between thirty and forty are old women! a charge of fo atrocious a nature, that I am at a To be fure, gentlemen, no punifhlofs to find words to exprefs either thement is too fevere for those married barbarity of it, or the mifchief it ladies who feduce young gentlemen; may do in the gay and polite world. but then you are to confider, that in You may perceive, that if fuch an inflicting punishment the guilty only abominable doctrine was once be- fhould fuffer. It would be a very lieved, it would tend to cut off half ftrange thing if, when a man is the age of woman, and fend the love-hanged at the Old-Bailey, half the

world

world fhould experience a degree of rev. Mr. of Homerton, futfocation. Now, you ought to faw the children laft fummer, when advert, that though there is no great-upon a vifit at my houfe. If they can be admitted, it will be doing great good to the parents as well as the children; for their circumftances are fo low as to prevent fend

er punishment than to call a woman of a particular time of life old, yet unfortunately it does not affect her only. It is a kind of rhetorical punishment, and, by analogy, ex-ing them to any likely place at their

tends to all of the fame age.

I am, gentlemen,
with due deference,
(last birth-day)
THIRTY-SIX.

Maiden-Lane, July 9, 1796. -

COPY of a LETTER fint to the
DEPUTY SECRETARY to the
ASYLUM for the MAINTENANCE
and EDUCATION of the DEAF and
DUMB CHILDREN of the POOR.
DEAR SIR,

own expenfe. I remain, fir,

Your very much obliged friend and fervant,

BENJAMIN PYNE, Duxford, 10th June, 1796.

WE certify that the four eldest of the children who are deaf and dumb are not defective in intellect, but difcover a very clear understanding.

EDM. FISHER, Minifter.

RICH. HITCH, Church-warden, Mr. John Aldham, No. 116, Bermondsey-ficcel, London.

IN

On FALSEHOOD.

Received your very kind letter, and as foon as poffible I fend the anfwers to the questions you defire. You inquire my employment-I TN the dark catalogue of human hire a little farm of eleven pounds a vices, there is not, perhaps, any year, in the village of Duxford, in one fo univerfally regarded with Cambridgeshire, on which I live, and contempt as falfehood. Yet, paraby which I endeavour to obtain andoxical as it may feem, there is not, honeft living. You ask the number I believe, any other which fpreads of my children, and their ages-1 its contagion through fo large a have eight, as follows: proportion of the human fpecies. Thofe who can fpeak and hear-While with one voice it is univerfally Richard Coleman, twelve years old; John Coleman, three years old."

Those which follow can neither fpeak nor hear

Efther Coleman, thirteen years old; George Coleman, ten years old; Mary Coleman, nine years old; William Coleman, five years old; Ann Coleman, two years old; Janes Coleman, three months old. -1 clafs this laft with the deaf ones, for I have reason to believe he can

not hear.

SIR,

I Have written this for the poor man who lives next door to me, and can certify the whole to be true. Mr. of Hackney, and the

reprobated, ftill it is every where practifed with different modifications and with illufive denominations, invented to fcreen its deformity; fo numerous are those who indulge in fome favourite kind of duplicity, and fondly vindicate the one fpecies of falsehood to which they are individually prone.-The effects of this contemptible vice in the moral world are fimilar to thofe of fome trees in the vegetable creation; it has qualities that are fatally deftructive to every generous principle, where its influence is allowed to predominate, in the fame manner as thofe are faid to poifon every wholefome plant over which they extend their hade.

REMARKS

"Upon this day of ringing and rejoicing, the bells were not muffled, nor was converfation on the fubject with-held from the ear of Hannah! She heard like her neighbours; and fitting on the fide of her bed in her little chamber, fuffered, under the cottage roof, as much affliction as ever vifited a palace.

"Tyrants, who have embrued their hands in the blood,of myriads. of their fellow-creatures, can call their murders "religion, justice, attention to the good of mankind:" -poor Hannah knew no fophiftry to calm her confcience-flie felt herfelf a harlot and a murderer-a flighted, a deferted wretch, berest of all the loved in this world, all fhe could hope for in the next.

"She complained bitterly of illnefs, nor could the entreaties of her father and mother prevail on her to fhare in the fports of th's general

vifitors fufpected the caufe of her more than ordinary indifpofition, they endeavoured to divert it with an account of every thing they had feen at church," what the bride wore,-how joyful the bridegroom looked," and all the little figns of that complete happiness which they conceived was for certain tafted.

the heart. After William has feduced Han-holiday. As none of her humble nah, the has a child, which, in the agonies of her defpair, fhe attempts to destroy, and leaves it deferted in a wood, with a cord round its neck. The infant is found by Henry, who preferves its life, and has it hurfed. Soon after, William, from motives of intereft and family connections, marries mifs Caroline Sedgeley. The following is the defcription of "Hannah, who, before this what paffed in the mind of poor event, had at inoments fuppreffed the Hannah on the day of the celebra-agonifing fting of guilt, in the faint tion of thefe nuptials, her forming a refolution to deftroy herfelf,-and her unexpected meeting with Henry, with the infant the thought fhe had murdered.

profpect of her lover one day reftored, on this memorable occafion loft every glimpse of hope, and was weighed to the earth with an accu-, mulation of defpair.

"Where is the degree in which the finner ftops? Unhappy Hannah! the firft time you permitted indecorous familiarity from a man who made you no promife, who

"The wedding-day of Mr. William Norwynne with mifs Caroline Sedgeley arrived, and on that day, the bells of every parifh furrounding that in which they lived, joined with their own, in celebration of the bliff-gave you no hope of becoming his ful union. Flowers were ftrewed before the new-married pair, and favours and ale made many a heart more gladfome than that of either bridegroom or bride.

VOL. XXVII.

wife, who profeft nothing beyond thofe fervent, though fiender, affectigns which attach the rake to the wanton, the first time you interpreted his kind looks and ardent Qq prayers