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And to be fold by Charles Cist, on the north-fide
of Market-street, between Fourth and Fifth Greets,
Julia de Roubigne,
A Sentimental Novel, in a Series of Letters,
Shri rings.
/THIS performance has been so very universally and
I justly admired, that it needs but little recommen
dation from a publisher. The story is highly interest
ing; th? language elegant, harmonious, pathetic, and
impassioned. Its chaia&eriftics are an amiable philan
thropy, and peculiar delicacy of (entiment, Conspicuous
though the whole.-- -While it entertains the fancy ar d
delights the imagination, it has an irrefiftihle tendency
to improve the heart and impress ©n the mind the no
blest and most exalted sentiment?.
MY father was with me this morning, in my cham
ber, for more than an hour. We fat, feme
times silent, sometimes speaking interrupted sentences,
and tears were frequently all the intercourse we held.
Lisette coming in, to acquaint us that Montauban
was in rhe parlour, waiting us, at length put an end
toour interview. " Julia, (said my father) I imagin
ed I had much to fay to you ; but the importance of
my thoughts on your behalf, ftifles my expression of
them. There are moments wheri I cannot help looking
to that separation, which your marriage will make
between us, as if it were the loss of my child; yet I
have fortitude enough to refill the impression, and to
zeflea that the is going to be happy with the worthl
eft of men. My inftruaion for your conduct in that
state you have just entered into, your own sentiments,
liruft, would render unnecessary, were they in no o
ther way supplied; but I discovered lately in your
mother's bureau, a paper which fljll farther supersed
ed their necessity. It contains some advices, which
experience and observation had enabled her to give,
and her regard for you had prompted her to write
down. 'Tis, however, only a fragment, which ?cci.
dent or diffidence of herfelf has prevented her from com
pleating ; but it is worthy of your furious perusal, and
you will read it with more warmth than if it came
from a general inftrufbar." He left the pap r with me ;
I have read it with the care, with the affection it de
serves ; I fend a copy of it now, as I would every good
thing, for the participation of my friend, Sue can
not read it with the interest of a daughter ; but she
will find it no cold not common le&ure. It speaks, if
I am not too partial to the best of mothers, the lan
guage of prudence but not of artifice; it would mend
the heart by sentiment, not cover it by dissimulation.
She, for whose use it was written, has need of such a
monitor, and would listen to no other ; if she has paid
any debt to prudence, it was not from the obligation
of wjfdom, but the impulse of feeling.
“ For my daughter Julia.
“ Before this can reach you, the hand that writesit
and the heart that dilates, shall be mouldering in the
grave. I mean it to supply the place of some cauti
ons, which I should think it my duty to deliver to you,
should I live to fee you a wife The precepts it con
tains, you have often heard me inculcate; but I know
that general observations on a possible event, have
much less force than those which apply to our imme
diate condition. In the fate of a woman, marriage is
the most important crisis; it fixes her in a state, of all
others the most happy, or the most wretched ; and
though mere precept can perhaps do little in any case,
yet there is a natural propensity totry its efficacy in
all. She who writes this paper, has been longa wife,
and a mother ; the experience of the one, and the anx
iety of the other, prompt her inftruftions ; and the has
been too happy in both charters to have much
doubt of their reception.
By the celebrated Author of the Man of Feeling, and
The Man of the World ;
In two Volumes, neatly bound in one. Price Ten
To those who contemplate with pleafare the dignity
of human nature Supported with manly firmness amidst
the reiterated attacks cf adverse fortune, it >i 1 afford
the highest entertainment, And to the foul of sensi
bility, which " melts at every hum n woe," and finds
a luxury in indulging the fymya*hetic te?r, this.tender
tale of loft distress will be an unrivaled favourite.
That a proper judgment may be formed of the senti
ment and stile of this work, we have extracted a few
pages from the firft'volume.
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OR, TH E
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. XIO
T HURSDAY,
An Elegant AMERICAN EDITION of
JUST PUBLISHED,
LETTER XXIV.
Julia to Maria.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
“ Sweetness of temper, affection to a husband, and
attention to his interests, constitute the duties of a wife,
and form the basis of matrimonial felicity. These are
indeed the texts, from which every rule for attaining
this felicity is drawn. The charms of beauty, and the
brilliancy of wit, though they may captivate in the
mistress, will not long delight in the wife: They will
shorten even their own transitory reign, if, as I have
seen in many wives, they (hire more for the attraction
of every body else than their hufbauds. Let the pleasing
of that one person be a thought never absent from your
conduct. If he loves you as you would with he should,
he would bleed at heart should he suppose it for a mo
ment withdrawn: If he does not, his pride will supply
the place of love, and his refentmeut that of fuffering.
" Never confider a trifle what may tend to please
him. The great articles of duty he will set down as
his own ; but the lesser attentions he will markas fa
vours; and truftme, for I have experienced it, there
is no feeling more delightful to one's feTf, than that of
turning those litre tilings to so precious a use.
" If you m rry a man of a certain fort, such as the
romance of y ung'minds generally paints for a husband,
you will deride the supposition of any possible decrease
in the ardour of your affections. But wedlock, even
in its happiest lot, is not exempted from the common
fate of all fublun try bleffirigs; there in ever a delusion
in hope which cannot abide with possession. The rap
ture of extravagant love will evaporate and watte; the
conduft of the wife must substitute in its room other,
regards, as delicate and more lasting. I fay, the con
duft of the wife; for marriage, be a husband what he
may, reverses the prerogative of sex ; his will expert
to be pleased, and ours must be sedulous to please.
'' This privilege a good natured man may wave. He
will feel it, however, due; and third persons will have
penetration enough to fee, and may have malice enough
to remark, the want of it in his wife. He must be a
husband unworthy of you, who could bear the degra
dation of fuffering this in silence. The idea of power
on either fide, should be totally banished from the sys
tem : It is not fufficient that the husband should never
have occafion'to regret the want of it ; the wife must so
behave, that he may never be confeious of possessing
it.
" Put my Julia, if a mother's fondnefs deceives me
not, f^utjet much in need of cautions like these. I
cannot ahow myfelf the idea of her wedding a man, on
whom she would not wish to be dependent, or whose in
clinations a temper like tier's, would desire to controul.
Site will be more in danger from that foftnefs, that fen*
fibiliry of foul, which will yield perhaps too much for
the happiness cf both. The office of a wife includes
the exertion of a friend : A good one must frequently
ftrengthen'and f.upport that weakness, which a bad one
would endeavour to overcome. There are Situations,
where it will not be enough to love, to cherish, to obey :
She muff teach her husband to be at peace with himfelf,
to be reconciled to the world, to refill misfortune, to
Conquer adversity.
" Alas ! My child, I am here an reftruftrefs but too
well fkiiled ! These tears, with which this paper is foil
ed, fell not in the presence of yourfather, though, now,
they but trace the remembrance of what, then, it was
my lot to feel. Think it not impossible to retrain your
feelings, because they are Prong. The enthusiasm of
feeling will sometimes overcome distresses, which the
cold heart of prudence had been unable,to endure.
" But misfortune is not always misery. I have
known this truth: lam proud to believe, that I have
sometimes taught it to Roubigne. Thanks be to that
power, whose decrees I reverence! He often tempered
the anguith of our (offerings, till there was a fort of
luxury in f eling them. Then is the triumph of wed
ded love!—Te tie that binds the happy may be dear ;
but that which links the unfortunate is tenderness un
utterable.
" There are afflictions less easy to be endured, which
you mother has not experienced: Those which a hus
band infliCts, and the best wi^es feel the most severely.
These, iike all our sharpest Calamities, the fortitude
that can resist, can only cure. Complainings debase
her who fuffers, and harden him who aggrieves. Let
not a woman alway look for their cause in the injuflice
of her lord : They may proceed from many trifling er
rors in her own conduct, which virtue cannot blame,
though wisdom must regret. If she makesthis difeovery,
let t em be amended without a,bought, if possible, at
any rate without an expression of merit in amending
them. In this, and inevery other infiance, it must ne
ver be forgotten, that the only government allowed on
our fide, is that of gentleness and attraction ; and#hat
its power, like the fabled influence of imaginary beings,
must be invisible to be complete.
“ Above all, let a wife beware of communicating to
others any want of duty or tenderness, the may think
she has perceived in her husband. This untwists, at
once, those delicate cordh which preserve the unity of
THE
the marriage engagement. Its sacredness is broken for
ever, if third parties are made witnesses of its failings,
or umpires of itsdifputes. It may seem almof iprofane
in me to confefs, that once, when, through the malice
of an enemy, I was made, for a ihort time, to believe
that my Roubigne had wronged me, I durft not, even
in my prayers to Heaven, petition for a refloration of
his love; 1 prayed to be made a better wife : When I
would have said a more beloved one, my utterance fail
ed me for the word." • • ****
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