Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-10-08
TO LEANDER,

and the merit of your moral efays, am
induced to folicit your attention to my fl.
tuation, which allure is the mott torment.
ing of helkind, ever heard OF hnce The
daysof Noah. | an young man OF romo
experience among the fair /ex, which, |
have the modification to fay, has been
gained to my utter iorrow, and at the ex.
penie OF my reputation. Ii has. been my
whole ftrdy TO improve In The ar. of gai.
LARRY, at the entire neglect Of my intel.
leets; 10 that my mind is as deG:gute Of
Told Improvement, a, the mode,u c97ust!,,
are OF true hone0y. And although once
had the fatisfaetion of believing, that thvy
thought me pretty hor,eG fellow, yet /
was 70 much their humble f,rvan,, that
dared not to fpeak, or even think without
their content. allure you, hr, have
been 10 tilted about, for theie three years
paG, that ! have not found reit ior the
iole Of my foot, or my immortal foul
for ii has been kept in continue agi.
tauon. TO cnumerate the icenes | have
pafed through, would be impoGible
for me, were | to live TO the age of Ma
thuielah. l have undergone bonds ard
impriionmcnts, tortures, Affections and e.
cry trials, which were to try me, rs tbo'
/ome J9,unge tbi3g bad happrned 10 ne;
which, for man of my Failure, (who am
about fix feet and three inchesj is certainly
humiliating to the lowcit degree.
Poor Ned iays of all tame BEATS, he
hates a Ezt--but Of all tame BEATS, !
hate a eOgaefff. | once thought nyGIf
tolerably happy in the carehes of thelt
<huAr-jilters. In theii addreRcs 10 ne,
they would falute me by the tender cpl
thets of my dear, my .Tooeet, and my b.
ney, which excited deGre in NE 70 "a.
lutte them in quite a different manner..-.
Then again the fcenc is changed and
the foothing voice of love is converted in.
to the harfh foundS Of cbidwg and rail.
ing. As / CHANGED to be walking in
Gralfrsst the other day, was furPrifd
to meet Mis- Buxom, a lady of my for
mer acquaintance and as ! had contract
ed very great intimacy, l advanced to
her with more a2urance than / am Wort
to ufe on fuch occaiions, ard wthour
much ceremony took her by the hand
But think of my ditnay, when jnGesd Of
gentle ufage, as | formerly experienced
from her, ihe wrehed her hand from me
in violent manner, and snnf,ed an air
OF ioyeEeign contempt. ! Hccd thunder-
truck for fome moments but after my
panic had abated, | withdrew from thi,
tcene, rejecting en- the iaconGancy pre-
vailing /: the conduit Of this fpeces Of
women. So you fee what dilemma !
am IN; at one time care!isd and loothed
like LAP deg, and at aroihet, banged
and bruiied as though ] was clnrI@
maFV; at one time exalted TO the fummlt
of female felicity, and at another plunged
down into the regions of black defpair.
Some time laa winter, had the mis-
fortune to attend a certain young lady to
an aRembly- during the whole time VIC
were there, fhe treated me with the II,
mott neglea and inaftsalion.s As was
making an attempt to feat myfclf at hcf
iide, ihe dar.cd from nc Ike lightning,
went and Cat down IL dark corner of the
room, by an qn0rsn5 .roxng .fdp, who las
pretended for iome time TO make love TO
her; as ipcclmen of his PATTON for Der
give me leave to favor you with COPY
of letter l found tic other day, which
The had accidentally dropped, in morn.
ing walk, which is as follows
Life Gf my Lie, ..
Be not iurPriied at the prefumption Of
one driven 10 defpair-- he who now adj
drefies you has ufed every means and e.
ertion to Rihe, or eradicate fame IRON
his breait, which is as pure as mean hgbb
and more corrective than a9netltfr'. !"
vain have called philofophy to my aid
nothing bur The diynloina M fen:imentS