It has been objected to the Wanderer, that notwithstanding he numhers so many females among his readers, he has scarcely devoted a paper to their particular amusement. He assures them, however, that it is not for want of respect, that he has hitherto omitted his at-1 tentions, nor from want of gallantry that he has not accepted their favors. Desirous, however, of correcting a fault before it increases into an unpardonable crime, he will immediately begin his progress of reformation by inserting the letters of his

friend.

Dear Wanderer,

another of your predecessors, who
long delighted the town with his
elegant sentiments and splendid
diction, would ramble day after day
among the fashions of the Ladies.
I see nothing therefore that you
have, which can give a privilege of
exemption from similar civilities,
and I enclose you a letter from a
friend of mine, which I expect you
will make public for the benefit of
all who are similarly situated.
With due regard, your reader,

IMPERIA.

MOUNT VERNON, OCT.

Dear Imperia,

I am perfectly at a loss how to conduct myself in this censorious metropolis. I find on one side that reserve is considered as prudery, and treated with contempt; and that freedom is levity and liable to insult. To be ignorant exposes one to sneers and ridicule, and to appear I read your paper every Satur- accomplished produces rivalship day, but I shall not continue to do and enmity. But what I have most so any longer, unless you pay a little reason to complain of, is the habit more attention to our sex-You your town's people have of proclaimhardly deign to pay us a passing ing every little common attention of compliment, and treat us with as civility, to be a serious engagement. little ceremony as if we were mere- One would think that I, a stranger ly capacitated to regulate a kitchen, among you, would have a right to or give orders in a nursery. In- require the politeness of the ladies deed, Sir, your great ancestor, the and the attentions of the gentlemen, Spectator, did not refuse to pay par- without giving occasion to the most ticular attention, number after num- ill-natured cynic to place the one to ber, to the cut of a cap or to the the score of love, or introduce the form of a furbelow, the humblest other as a competition for pre-emiornament of female decoration; and nence. But I find it is so univer

sally; and I have no peculiar right |es, and thus destroy those advantato complain, as the inconvenience ges to the manners and disposition is common. If a Gentleman dance of each, which spring from each twice with a Lady, he is proclaim- other's society. A gentleman of ed publicly to be under an engage- honor would feel unhappy that his ment of marriage; if he is twice conduct should raise a report which séen with her in the same box at would never be realized, and dread the Theatre, something more is in- its effects on a young lady with tended than a common acquaint-whose prospects he would not inter ance; and if for the pleasure of her fere, and whose affections he felt society, or to pay the attentions no desire of securing. If he found which politeness requires to the that acquaintance on familiar style stranger or the resident, he passes could not be retained without origione or two evenings familiarly in nating observations, he would withher company, it is instantly enquir-draw from her society, and sacried when they will be married, and fice his pleasure to her quiet. I all farther visiting is considered as speak not from conjecture, my intrusion on the part of gentlemen, friend, for several young men to and civility by the lady condemned whom I have spoken of this strong as coquetry. propensity, have assured me that this was the case. It becomes then a fault which they should censure, as producing an inconvenience of which they principally feel the effect. Now, my friend, on whom do you think the blame of this conduct ought to fall? It is my serious opinion on our own sex. We do know they have more leisure for reflection on this business of the heart, than the other, and have less concerns of importance to draw off their attention. Foolish girls therefore, who impertinently interfere in the arrangement of others; who have themselves been disappointed, and act from revenge, or are still anxious, and influenced by hope, or who have nothing else to employ their loquacity about, (and surely nothing requires so little understanding) turn their attention to this prolific subject, and occasion the many difficulties, which such conduct produces. I know not my But my greatest objection to this dear, but I am too fastidious, yet I foolish trifling with other's feelings, never hear a lady joking her friend and wanton intrusion on their pri- on a partiality for any particular vate avocations, is that it must check person, but I think her in some deevery thing like familiar intercourse gree forfeiting her character for among the unmarried of both sex-delicacy. If you think I am too

This habit, my friend, affects me very little, as my residence here is soon to be terminated; it does however, my dear girl, in some degree diminish the value of that hospitality which has so peculiarly marked the inhabitants of Boston. But I should think it would essentially mar the felicity of those who are the constant objects of its sport. Separate from the injury which it does to the feelings of a delicate woman to have such reports originating, without any appearance of a cause, it interferes with her interest, because it is a bar to the addresses of others, who might have been so well pleased as to make her the object of serious attention, had they not understood that in all probability her heart was already engaged; and both honor and decency would teach a man rather to restrain his feelings than interfere with the previous arrangement of his friend.

severe, put it to the account of my education; an inexperienced country girl cannot be familiar with your city habits; but it is really the impression of nature which leads me to censure such conduct, not mere ly as a breach of decorum and good manners, but as a piece of rudeness and indelicacy. I am sure my friend, that a lady of feeling and sentiment never errs in this way, and I have remarked that those whose own hearts were really alive to merit and love, had too much tenderness ever to give a wound by sporting with the feelings of others under the fancies of engagements and matrimony. I submit to you, my friend, these ideas in answer to the questions you proposed me, and because I think it a habit by much too prevalent for the comfort of those who are exposed to its evils, and because it is so very different from the constructions that are put on the innocent and familiar meet

ings in my native village, as to strike me immediately with no agreeable contrast. Excuse me if I err, and believe me,

Your sincere friend,

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ADVERTISEMENT.

RURA.

takes may be avoided which sometimes occur,such as praising the execution of a tune before it has commenced, or forgetting to speak of it at all.-Likewise teaches the true style in which conversation should be carried on while a lady is singing or performing on any instrument, so as not to disturb more than half the company. Also informs, that he can teach any lady to play and sing in such manner that the conversation of half a dozen gentlemen at her elbow shall not. put her out of tune. Apply at the lounging room.

FOR THE EMERALD.

Messrs. Editors,

E.

THE LAWYER'S WIGS,
The celebrated SERJEANT DUN

NING, afterwards LORD ASHBURNHAM, was a true lover of amusement, and always ready to be the leader of any thing like sport. One time at the middle circuit the lawyers from London who attended the court, not willing to trust the Nor wich Barbers, had sent their wigs SIGNIOR DEAFFERARI, late from in boxes by the stage coach. It is Utopia, informs the Gentlemen of the etiquette of the English Bar, Boston, that he can teach them the that no one appear at it but in a full most desirable faculty of reconciling dressed three tail'd wig, and a neginattention with civility. His pupils, lect of this ceremony would be conafter a very few lessons, may be in sidered a contempt of court, and company with the most beautiful endanger a commitment of the neg woman,who may alternately exercise ligent counsellor. Dunning, who the powers of music and the attrac-happened to be at the tavern wher tions of nature, and yet not be in the the stage coach arrived, and finding least affected. He teaches the pro- what was the contents of the Boxes, per time when to ask a lady to sing, got a boy immediately to pay the when to praise her performance fare and sent them a half a dozen and beg a repetition, without giv-miles into the country. The Law, ing his pupils the least trouble of yers arrived the next day in their listening to the music; by means carriage just in time to dress for of which, those unfortunate mis-the court, and dispatched a messen

ger for their wigs, but no wigs were coach, she would stay for him in any where to be found. D-n it, the lobby where the company waitSir, says one, have you seen my wig?ed after the play for their carriages, Curse that stageman, says another, and when most of them had dishe has delivered my Box to the wrong persed, he would follow her home. boy. Waiter, says a third, go to the Some young Bucks, knowing this stage-house and bring my wig. The practice of the Counsellor, who bell is ringing: Sir, says the waiter, by the way was a noted character there is no wig there. D-n it, in the city, resolved to have a little what is to be done; mine is the sport with his avarice. They acfirst cause in the docket. In the cordingly intimated their design to mean while the chief Justice had the porter who attends the box lobtaken his seat on the Bench, and by, and by means of a half guinea was astonished to find not a single got him to consent to their plan. Barrister but Serjeant Dunning; One evening at a crowded house he threatened to commit them for when the Barrister was present, contempt, to non-suit, default them, the porter as usual announced the and reprimand them publicly, and carriages. My Lord G's chariot; a bailiff was proceeding to the actu- Sir Wm. Draper's coach; Lady al execution of his orders, when a Fielding's curricle; the Dutchess letter arrived from the Lawyers, of Portland's chariot and footmen; who had found it convenient to as- Counsellor Jones' maid and lantern. semble for their common defence, The peals of laughter which this begging humble pardon of his Lord-piece of wit occasioned, prevented ship for creating delay, but that the Counsellor ever after from visome unfortunate accident had des-siting the theatre with his maid and troyed their wigs, and there was not lantern. one among them who could make a decent appearance.

PARSIMONY PUNISHED.

THEATRE,

At nunc lævior ære, vel rotunda
Horti tubere, quod creavit unda
Ridentes fugis & times.

GEORGE BARNWELL, (Lillo) and THE ROMP Wednesday, Oct. 22. RICHARD THE THIRD, (Shakespeare) and SHIPWRECK-Friday, Oct. 24. RICHARD THE THIRD and RIVAL

COUNSELLOR JONES of London, after having retired from his professional concerns, by means of which he had realized a fortune of from forty to fifty thousand guineas, was not less noted for his parsimony than his wealth. He still retained SOLDIERS.-Monday, Oct. 27. his old partiality for theatricals, but We very much regret the accithe expence it occasioned was ex-dent which has prevented the ap ceedingly grievous; it was his cus-pearance of this evening's Ordeal tom, however, to come when the The MILWOOD of Mrs. Shaw, the play was nearly half over, and pur- RICHARD of Master Loring, and chase his ticket at a reduced price, more than all, the Barnwell of Mr. as is the manner at the theatres PoE, would have furnished a fund royal. In this way he was attend-of amusement; and while criticism ed by the maid who swept his chambers. She commonly preceded him with a lantern, as he was too old to venture without a light, and too parsimonious to take a

has been banished by the frivolity of the performance, ridicule and humour might have sported with the curiosities in dramatic art that the last week has exhibited.

Selected for the Emerald.

Dionysius; I neither blamed nor commended his defects, nor was it proper for me to do so; I only knew that it was easier to endure than to correct them.

[The antient world abounded with men who under the name of Philosophy inculcated whatever systems of pleasure or pain, of amusement or melancholy they had chosen to adopt, and My indulgent and easy character these were as various as their differ-inspired him with confidence: a ent fancies could devise. The an- few happy repartees, which sometients had their Philosophers of every times escaped me, amused his leidescription from the dull insensibili sure moments. I never betrayed ty of the stoic to the lively dissipation the truth when he consulted me on of the epicurian. We have present

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ed a view of the first, and the follow. important questions. As I wished ing may serve as its companion pic-him to know the extent of his duture. In form and prominence it is ties, and to restrain the violence of the same, but in coloring it is a per- his disposition, I often said in his fect contrast. The other had collected the darkest shades and spread a presence, that a well informed man gloom, a chill over the feelings, this differs from another who is not so, has the livelier rays of light and is as a courser, docile to the bit, differs suited to gaiety and sport. We feel from an ungovernable horse. however not much more congeniality with Aristippus than Diogenes, and would not be pleased at exchanging our own systems with either. But it is not merely the antients who are teazed with philosophers-every city and almost every village among us has its oracle of learning, who with the vain confidence of philosophy proclaim systems as excentric and theories as visionary as any that were propagated in antient times, and we Whilst I was one day requesting trust some modern Anacharsis when Dionysius in vain to grant me some he travels among us will amuse him- favour, he thought proper to offer self with giving a delineation of their one to Plato, who did not accept it. manners.-Em. Ed's.] I said aloud: The king runs no ARISTIPPUS knew that the Athe-risk of ruining himself; he gives to nians had been prepossessed against those who refuse, and refuses those him; and as he was always ready who ask. to answer to the censures of those who disapproved his conduct, he pressed me to give him an opportunity to justify himself.

On the subject of his mode of government I spoke with freedom, sometimes with indiscretion. Soliciting him one day for a friend, he would not hearken to me. I fell on my knees, and was censured by some for my servility. My answer was: Is it my fault if this man has his ears in his feet?

He often proposed problems to us, and suddenly interrupting us, gave the solution of them himself. He once said to me: Let us discuss You are accused, said I, of having some question in philosophy: beflattered a tyrant, which is a horrid gin.What, said I, for you to have crime. He replied: I have ex- the pleasure of concluding, and of plained to you the motives of my teaching me what you say you wish visit to the court of Syracuse, which to know. He was piqued, and at was then full of philosophers, who supper ordered me to the bottom of were setting themselves up for re- the table. The next day he asked formers. I adopted the character me how I had found that place.— of a courtier, without laying aside You intended, no doubt, answered that of an honest man: I applauded I, to make it for a short time the the good qualities of the younger most honorable..