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brutality ; a woman who, adorned by very po- 

 lite accomplifhment, and calculated by nature 

 to charm, would be an everlafting fund of hap- 

 pinefs to the man who had fenfe to efteem her 

 worth. 



Colonel S. was the hufband of this lady ; 

 and he of all men leaft knew, and leafl deferved 

 female merit in a companion ; infenfible alike 

 to love and honour, he regarded a wife only 

 for what fhe brought him ; if her purfe was but 

 to his mind, he cared not for her perfon. This 

 extraordinary Colonel having publifhed a mofb 

 fcurrilous pamphlet concerning me, I fliall give 

 the public fome opportunity of judging between 

 us : not that I fliould notice any of his libels 

 fo far as I am alone concerned ; but as his wife, 

 and even her relations, orthofe whom he thought 

 proper to call fo, came in for fo large a fhare 

 of mifreprefentation and abufe, that the fale of 

 his work was flopped for fear of a profecution ; 

 I feel myfelf called upon to refute his calum- 

 nies. However, we are not the only objeds of 

 his fcurrility, as fome time before, without 

 knowing how to write, he publifhed a pam- 

 phlet in which he abufes almoft every man 

 whofe name he knows, and has even the impu- 

 dence to level, particularly the low flander of 

 his malignant pen, at that illuflnous charaeler 



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