Star.
London, England, 1822-10-31 00:00:00

rpt,lcn sEVEN-PENCII

I headed—smile, if you please—to a poor servant girl;
while she has been inquiring of him the way to some
!.street—in.such a posture or unforced civility, asnei-
ii then
inthet:oeirmerboafrriat.ss
He
er
winasthe cc
no
daanegplmncer,ioe,thnoere.ohrnimmseolor,
acceptation of the word, after women : but he re-
vere iced and upheld, in every form in which it came
before-him,'womanhood. I have seen him—nay, smile
not—tenderly escorting a market-woman, whom he
had encountered in a shoWer, exalting his umbrella
over her poor basket Of fruit, that it might receive'
no damage, with as much carefulness as if she had
been a Countess. To the reverend form of Fernald
Eld he would yield the wall (though it were tb an
ancient beggar-woman) with more ceremony than we
can afford to chew our grandams. He was the Preux
Chevalier of Age ; the Sir Calidore, or Sir Tristan,
to those who have no Calidores or Tristaqsao defend
them. • The roses, that had long faded thence, still
bloomed for him in those withered and.yelloW cheeks:
He was never married, but in his youth he paid
his addresses to the beautiful Susan Winstanley—old
Winstanley's daughter of Clapton—who dying in the .
early days of their courtship, confirmed in him the
resolution of perpetual bachelorship. It tvai during
their short courtship, he told me, that he had been
one day treating his mistress with a profusion of civil.
speeches—the common gallantries—to which kind of
thing she had hitherto manifested no repugnance—but
in this instance with no effect. He could not obtain
from her a decent acknowledgment in return. She
rather seemed to resent his compliment". He could
not set it down to caprice, for the lady had always
shewn herself above that littleness. When he ven-
tured on the following day, finding her a little better
humoured, to expostulate with her on the coldness
of yesterday, she confessed, with her usual frankness,
that she had no sort of dislike to his attentions ; that
she could even endure some high-flown compliments;
that a young woman placed in her situation had a
right to expect all sort of civil things said to her;
that she hoped, she inlaid digest a dose of adulation,
short of insincerity, with as little injury to her humi-
lity as most young women:, but that,—a htfore
he had commenced his compliments—she had over-
heard him by accident, in, rather rough language,
'rating a young woman, who had -not brought home
'his cravats quite to the appointed time, and she
thought to herself, " As I am Miss Susan Winstan-
ley, and a young lady—a reputed beauty, and known
to be a fortune—l can have my choice of the finest
speeches from the mouth• of this very fine gentleman
who is courting. me-,.bot if, I had been poor Mary
Such-a-one.--(nanting-the nrilliner)—arid had failed
of bringing home the Cravats to the appointed hour
—though perhaps 1 had sat up half the night to for-
ward them.--what sort of compliments should I have
received then ?—And my woman's pride came to my
assistance ; and I thought, that if it were only to do
',re honour, a female, like myself, might have re-
ceived handsomer usage: and I was determined not
to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of
that sex, the belonging to which was. after all my
strongest claim and title to them."
I think the lady,diseoveted birth generosity, and a
just way of thinEinx, In this rebuke Which she gave
her lover; and I' have sometimes imagined, that the -
uncommon strain of courtesy, which through life re-
gulated the actions and behaviour of my triend to-
wards all of womankind indiscriminately,, .owed Its
happy origin to this seasonalsklition—frOm the lips of
his lamented mistress. .;
I wish the whole female worid would entertain the
same notion of ',these .tiliagl,„4l4 Winstauley
W
shewed. Then e should .see somietinpg'if the spirit
of consistent gallantry ; and
,no itniger• Oeitness the
anomaly of the same man,a pattern of true polite-
ness to a wife—of cold contempt; or rudeness, to a
sister--)te idolater of his female mistress—the dis-
parager and despiser of his no less female aunt, or
unfortunate—still female—maiden cousin. Just so
much respect as a woman derogates from her own
sex, in whatever condition placed—Kr handmaid,
or dependant—she deserves to have dithinished from
herself on that score; and probably will feel the di-
minution, when youth, and beauty, and advantages,
not inseparable from sex, shall lose of their attrac-
tion. What a woman should demand of.a man in
courtship, or after it, is first—srespect for her as she
is a woman ;—and next to that—to be respected by
trim above all other women. But let her stand upon
her female character, as upon a foundation ; and let
the attentions, incident to individual preference, be
so many pretty additaments, and ornaments—as
many, and as fanciful, as you please—to that main
.4.tructure. Let her first lesson be—with sweet Susan
Winstanley—to reverence her sex! ELIA.

SHEREET..--It is not generally known that this be-
verage, so often mentioned with praise in Arabic poetry,
is neither more nor less than a.decoction of oatmeal
and sugar, seasoned, when cold, with rose-water.-
THE SERPENT AND TIIE BRIDE.—On the sth of
August, in Jackson's county, United States, a Coro,
ner's Inquest was held on the body of Richard Davido
who was found dead in- the woods. The Inquest, on
examination, was of opinion that his death was occa-
sioned by the bite of a rattle-snake which appeared
on his ancle. He was to have been married on the
day following to Miss Catharine Chamber", of this
Ai
county, and W
S n search of his horse to ride on the
occasion, when he received the deadly blow. No in-
telligence being heard of him until the morning of
the day in which he was to have been' united to Miss
Chambers, she made the necessary preparations ; the
marriage pal ty was collected, and were waiting tat
merry mood the approach of the expected bruit,-
groom when they received the painful intelligence of
his death. The scene was then changed, and the in-
tended bi ide, together with all who bad assembled to
witness their happy nuptials, repaired to his burial.
The Reader. can imagine the feelings of chase who
witriessed•this solemn scene. better than we can de-
scribe thou.—Outlaws Fa, Juer).

111