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method to avoid, and begged them to enable him to pursue his business, affuring thofe to whom he was indebted, that his only with was to be in a condition to pay them, and that he fhould die contentedly, could he but accomplish that wifh.

3. Every one he had applied to felt for his misfortunes, and promifed to affift him, excepting one, to whom he owed a thousand crowns, and who, instead of pitying his miffortunes, threw him into prison.

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4. The unfortunate merchant's fon, who was about twenty two years of age, being informed of the forrowful fituation of his father, haftened to Paris, threw himself at the feet of the unrelenting creditor, and, drowned in tears, befought him, in the most affecting expreffions, to condefcend to restore him his father, protesting to him, that if he would not throw obstacles in the way to his father's re-establishing his affairs, of the poffibility of which they had great reafon to hope, he should be the first man paid.

5. He implored him to have pity on his youth, and to have fome feelings for the misfortunes of an aged mother, encumbered with eight children, reduced to want, and nearly on the point of perishing. Laftly, that if these confiderations were not capable of moving him to pity, he entreated him, at least, to permit him to be confined in prifon instead of his father, in order that he might be restored to his family.

6. The youth uttered thefe expreffions.in fo affecting a manner, that the creditor, ftruck with fo much virtue and generofity, at once foftened into tears, and raising the youth from his humble posture, Ah! my fon, faid he, your father fhall be releafed. So much love and refpect which you have shown for him, makes me afhamed of myself. I have carried this matter too far; but I will endeavor forever to efface the remembrance of it from your mind.

7. I have an only daughter, who is worthy of you; fhe would do as much for me, as you have done for your father. I will give her to you, and with her, all my fortune. Accept the offer I make you, and let us haften to your father, to release him, and ask his confent.

FEMALE

FEMALE INDUSTRY.

WHAT a happy fimplicity prevailed in an

cient times, when it was the cuftom for ladies, though of the greateft diftin&tion, to employ themselves in useful, and fometimes laborious works! Every one knows what is told us in fcripture to this purpofe concerning Rebecca, Rachel, and feveral others.

2. We read in Homer of princeffes drawing themselves water from fprings, and washing with their own hands the finest of the linen of their respective families. The fisters of Alexander the Great, who were the daughters of a powerful prince, employed themselves in making clothes for their brothers. The celebrated Lucretia used to spin in the midst of her female attendants.

3. Auguftus, who was fovereign of the world, wore, for feveral years together, no other clothes but what his wife and fifter made him. It was a cuftom in the northern parts of the world, not many years ago, for the princeffes who then upon the throne, to prepare several of the dishes at every meal.

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4. In a word, needle work, the care of domestic affairs, and a ferious and retired life, is the proper function of women, and for this they were defigned by Providence. The depravity of the age has indeed affixed to thefe cuf toms, which are very near as old as the creation, an idea of meanness and contempt; but then, what has it substituted in the room of then? A foft indolence, a ftupid idleness, frivolous converfation, vain amusements, and a ftrong paffion for public fhows.

5. Let us compare these two characters, and pronounce which of them may juftly boast its being founded on good fenfe, folid judgment, and a tafte for truth and nature.

6. It maft, nevertheless, be confeffed, in honor of the fair fex, and of the American ladies in particular, that many among them, and those of the highest stations in life, have made it not only a duty, but a pleafure, to employ themselves in needle work, not of a trifling, but of the moft Serviceable kind; and to make part of their furniture with

their own hands. I might alfo add, that great numbers of them adorn their minds with agreeable, and at the fame time, ferious and useful ftudies.

THE LAP-DOG.

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO YOUNG LADIES.

Eliza. MISS Naney, what child was that

your aunt had in her arms this morning, as fhe was walking in the mali ?

Nancy. A child! Mifs Eliza; a child! You don't think my aunt would be feen walking in public with a child in her arms!

Eli. Pray, Mifs, where would be the harm? I know fhe has a beautiful pair of twins; and I thought it might be one of them, as it was partly covered with her cloak. Nan. No, indeed- -it was her lap-dog.

Eli. Upon my word, Nancy, you have mended the matter mightily! Your aunt is afhamed to be feen walking with a child in her arms; but is not ashamed to be feen carrying a paltry puppy through the streets! Pray how much more valuable is a puppy than a child?

Nan. Why, as to the real value, Eliza, I don't know but a child fhould be prized the higheft. Though my aunt fays fhe had rather part with both her twins than lofe her dear little Trip. But, you know, the would be taken for one of the lower fort of women, if he were to lug a child about with her; whereas nothing makes her appear more like a lady than to be feen gallanting her little dog. And Trip is none of your common curs, I affure you, mother was imported from Europe; and it is faid fhe once belonged to a lady of nobility. You can't think what a fweet little creature he is. My aunt nurfed him wholly herself ever fince he was a week old.

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Eli. Would he be willing to be as long abfent from her dear little Trip, as you call him?

Nan. O no, indeed! She would run crazy, if the were to lofe him but for one day. And no wonder: for he is the most engaging little animal you ever faw. You would be diverted to fee him drink tea out of the ladies' cups, And he kiffes his miftrefs delightfully! My aunt fays the would not fleep a night without him for his weight in gold. Eli. It is very noble in your aunt to pay fuch attention to an object of so much confequence. He is certainly more valuable than half a dozen children. Does your aunt expect to learn him to talk? Nan. Talk! why he talks already. She fays fhe perfectly understands his language. When he is hungry, he can afk for fweet meats. When he is dry, he can ask for drink. When he is tired of running on foot, he can ask to ride; and my aunt is never more happy than when she has him in her arms!

Eli. And yet fhe would not be feen with one of her sown children in her arms!

Nan. Why that would be very vulgar; and all her acquaintance would laugh at her. Children, you know, are always crying; and no ladies of fashion will ever admit them into their company.

Eli. If children are always crying, little dogs are often barking, and which is the moft difagreeable noife?

Nan. Oh! the barking of Trip is mufic to all who hear him! Mr. Fribble, who often vifits my aunt, fays he can raife and fall the eight notes to perfection; and he prefers the found of his voice to that of the harpfichord. It was he who brought his mother from London; and he fays there was not a greater favorite among all the dogs in poffeffion of the fine ladies of court. And more than all that, he fays Trip greatly refembles a spaniel which belongs to one of the royal family. Mr. Fribble and my aunt almost quarrelled last night, to fee which fhould have the honor of carrying the dear little favorite to the play.

Eli. After hearing fo many rare qualifications of the little quadruped, I do not wonder at your aunt's choice of a companion. I am not furprized fhe fhould fet her affections apon a creature fo deferving of all her care. It is to be

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wifhed her children might never come in competition with this object of her affections. I hope fhe will continue to maintain the dignity of her fex; and never disgrace the fashionable circle to which fhe belongs, by neglecting her Jap-dog for the more vulgar employment of attending to her own offspring.

EXTRACT FROM THE ORATION OF THOMAS DAWES, ESQ. DELIVERED at BosTON, JULY 4, 1787.

THAT Education is one of the deepest principles of independence, need not be labored in this affembly. In arbitrary governments, where the people neither make the law nor choose those who legiflate, the more ignorance the more peace.

2. But in a government where the people fill all the branches of the fovereignty, intelligence is the life of liberty. An American would resent his being denied the ufe of his mufket; but he would deprive himself of a stronger safeguard, if he fhould want that learning which is necessary to a knowledge of his conftitution.

3. It is eafy to fee that our agrarian law and the law of education were calculated to make republicans; to make men. Servitude could never long confift with the habits of fuch citizens. Enlightened minds and virtuous manners lead to the gates of glory. The fentiment of independence must have been connatural in the bofoms of Americans; and, fooner or later, must have blazed out into public action.

4. Independence fits the foul of her refidence for every noble enterprize of humanity and greatnefs. Her radiant fmile lights up celeftial ardor in poets and orators, who found her praifes through all ages; in legiflators and philofophers, who fabricate wife and happy governments as dedications to her fame; in patriots and heroes, who fhed their lives in facrifice to her divinity.

5. At this idea, do not our minds fwell with the mem Kory of those whofe godlike virtues have founded her most

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