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: OM Bond-fireet, Augufi 10, 1774: 
Sir, 
I Was the other day ina coffce-houfe filled with (not the firtt 
rate) company of this great town, where I long fate indig= 
nant at the topic which employed every tongue. I could have 
born with patience the common: fubjects of politics, the mere 
offspring of ignorance and rancour; but when.I. found their 
licentious. mouths filled with the moft infamous inferences, 
drawn from the unhappy conduét of a lady not lefs eminent for 
her rank than her beauty, I flung, down. my penny: in a rage, 
and retired to my apartments full of reflections on fome events 
unfortunately at this time too well known. 
Tue love of. fame. in either fex is a principle implanted in us 
for the moft noble purpofes, and is often of itfelf produétive of 
the moft important and generous effects.. The character of the 
tender part of the creation confines them to a narrower {phere of 
action: but their duties are not. lefs confequential than thofe of 
our fex, which make more eclat; and are attended with all the 
rewards that public merit can claim. If it is the lot of the fair 
to become wives and parents, a virtuous difcharge of the duties 
ef thofe relations fhould be the fum of their ambition, But if 
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