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. concerns. 
police, hear all complaints, and 
Pronounce final judgment: in a 
Word, every thing is equally at- 
tended to as in a well-governed 
community. Every one has a right 
to attend and plead his own caufe. 
Thofe who are not able to exprefs 
themfelves with propriety in public, 
fuch as women, for example, em- 
ploy others to relate their com- 
plaints, or defend their interefts. 
Of all the remarkable objects 
which England offers to the eye of 
a foreigner, no one is more worthy 
of his admiration, than the aftonifh- 
ing beauty of the women. 
It produces fuch a furprifing 
effect, that every ftranger mutt ac- 
knowledge the fuperiority of the 
Englith ladies over all others. The 
moft exact proportions, an elegant 
figure, a lovely neck, a fkin uncom- 
monly fine, and features at once 
regular and charming, diftinguith 
them in an eminent degree. Their 
private virtues alfo render them 
capable of enjoying all the felicity 
of the marriage ftate. 
The pronenefs of the whole na- 
tion to melancholy, renders the 
women grave and ferious; their 
minds are le{s occupied about plea- 
fures, than in folicitude for the 
happinefs of their hufbands, and 
the management of their domeftic 
Even women of quality 
fuckle their children; they think 
that the name and duties of a 
mother have nothing in them which 
they ought to blufh at, and that no 
ftation on earth is comparable to 
the pleafures of maternal tender- 
nefs, and the agreeable reflections 
which refult from it. 
Notwithftanding vice is. often 
pufhed to the extreme in the ca- 
pital, it is very uncommon to fee a 
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married woman become profligate, 
and give way to infamous plea- 
fures. To this there is always an 
infurmountable bar in her love for 
her family, the care of her houfe- 
hold, and her own natural gravity. 
J am of epinion, that there is not a 
city in the whole world, where the 
honour of a hufband is in lefs dan- 
ger than in London. 
It is to this ferious and melan- 
choly difpofition that we ought to 
attribute the attachment of the 
Englifh catholics to the cloifter, 
and which has induced fo,many of 
them to retire to France, and {till 
more to Flanders. They have 
even eftablifhed a fpecies of con. 
vents in England, for thofe who do 
not like to leave their native coun- 
try. A certain number of ladies 
live there in common, perform di- 
vine fervice together, and conform 
to all the inftitutions of that order 
to which their howe belongs. Like 
other nuns, they take the vows, 
and their drefs is always plain and 
modeft. 
I_ have already mentioned the 
prodigious attachment of the Eng- 
lith to politics. This paffion is 
actually among them an induce- 
ment to marriage. A hufband who 
can talk of nothing but public 
affairs, is always fure to find in his 
wife a perfon with whom he may 
converfe concerning thofe topics 
which intereft him. moft. He has 
no need to go abroad, to fatisfy his 
appetite for this darling fubject, 
The Englith are not ungrateful 
to nature for her prodigality to- 
wards them. The children are 
never bound up in , fwaddling- 
clothes, but covered. with a thir 
drefs, which gives a perfect free- 
dom to all their motions, ‘The 
great 
