Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-10-06

lett the name OF a woman ihould render
them OF let's fervice TO mankind"
To this account of myielf I muft add,
thar my perion, ifnot handfome, is what is
generally acknowledged pleafing That
Whit | am not confcious Of any defect of
mode&y and delicacy, am as far as pofli-
bic from prude; and give all proper e.
vidence thae Fl am formed for partial affcc-
ton and conjugal endcarment: That none
will be more $ firm in friendlhip, or more
fond in love-" Such character | have
poleGed and cultivated. under conyic-
ton thar | am to look to marriage for my
haPPlneis, and that the power of exciting
virtuous attachment is my ben power.
Doubslefs, Sir, you think fuch a woman,
as | repre(ent myfelf, mutt have made ma
ny conqaefs and had many offers. Twill
not dilclaim offers, fuch as they have been,
but | allure you, / have arrived TO peri
cd OF life, when not more than dozen
years OF youth and beauty remain to me,
without any fair opportunity to connect
myielt with a man of fenfe, delicacy, and
virtue. Now, Sir, the fame difpoGtions
which engage you againA the fpurious,
mutt interea you in favour of the true
Rights Of Woman. You are continually
preaching to us to qualify ourlelves for the
conjugal relations. But to what purpofe
do we comply with your advice, if thofe,
on whom it depends, are too infenGble
to our attractions, or too indifferent TO
their interelt to fall deeply enough in love
to come to matrimonys My folitary fate
is in consequence of my acquaintances "a
mong your Tex being principally bachelors
or perions between young men and bache-
lors, who, whatever impreiion I make on
) their hearts, are too tenacious of their H.
berty to give away their hands; and who
are, atpreient, welded, if may 70 fpeak,
to Jingle life.
We, forioeth, mutt drefs at theGe gen
tlemen, talk at them, and ply them with
all our arts ofpleaGng, Whit they, who
lhould be the aHailants, are always on the
defenfye, and Gated in an armour of pru-
dencc, that is absolutely inpenetrable.-
10 be fure they appear very GLAD of the
arnuiement of the ladies' company !; and
not deficient in complainant and al.noR
tender afiduities but are quite indiifer-
CIT what irnprefIions VIC receive from their
attentions, or what expectations we form.
1t we are fools enough to think them fe-
rious, and TO lnaer the pangs ofmifplaced,
unreqnitted attachment, they are not TO
blame. We had no reafon to expect they
meant to give up their dear liberty.
They perhaps thew us marked refpee, and
exhibit many OF the figns Of tenderness in
company but if they happen to find US
alone, are truck dumb-or, if they con.
yeIie, take fPecial care to be very general.
Whether all thefe gentlemen make good
ute OF that liberty, which they are 20
afraid to furrender, or that money, which
they arcfo cautious Of filaring with a wife.
Is belt known to themfelves. 1t is faid
TO be the cafe in fome inllances, that their
approximations of matrimonial letters, are
to be traced to Ar experience of female ty-
ranny not the mott reputable or yirtuous I;
and that their pleaiures colt more than
would be necehary to maintaina houfehold.
| would not ak you, for on, /akes, at
leait, to endeavour to council or chaRife
the men into marriage, Especially, where
they are Jingle on thoie accounts which
render them unfit TO be married. Neither
mould or any woman, value propofals
from the bet man, dictated by fear ofdif-
grace or fatirc. Some acquire right to
be Jingle by being bachelors il earneH :; |
and beiog very great convenience among
their rela ions. If any are welded 10 any
noble puriuit, to the ftudy of philofopby, |
Ike Newton, or the relief Of mifery, like
Howard, they may be executed from we'd |
ding woman If any arc h;t,oxt,, or