“move fuch men ffom any 
 Imanage a 
Sol ohs 
‘perpetuate thofe differences: 
are founded 
1796] 
“the prefervation of every thing dear to 
them.”’ 3 
But there are cafes in which this lan- 
guage, plaulible as it may appear, is the 
height of impudence and abfurdity.— 


Suppole, for inftance, that the perfons 
who ule j it are conviéted of } aving be- 
ee their truft—of hayi systema 
cally. preferred private or partial interefts 
to thofe of the general vou having 
conducted without capacity, plans “eee 
they entered into without principle—of 
being the. authors of all the calamities 
they “deprecate— —have they a right to ex- 
pect that eonfidence in the wifdom and 
ee 
rectitude of nee conduét, on which alo i 

unanimity can reafonably be foun 
at not cbvioufly the frit flep tow 
mMelioration of the ftate of atfaa 

dea 

of them? ard if they will 
puntarily, muft not a deter: 


reky 
employed, to force them to a- 
A it may have been the conitant 
policy of a fet of rulersyto augment | and 
etween dif- 
ders of the community, which 
in diverfity of privilege and emo- 
lument—which place one pa over the 
heads of another, though equa lly deferv- 
ing im every point of civic merit. They 
may have refitted every application for 
the levelling of thefe oitenfive inequa- 
lities, though, founded on the cleareft 
principles of equity ; and have encon- 
raged. that infolence of a triumphant { 
pacty which adds contumely to oppref- 
fion :—they may ftudioufl y have made 
ufe of the {upport they have given to 
ufurped prerogatives, for the purpote of 
procuring reciprocal fupport’ to them- 
ee —they may have avowed thei 
efolution to oppofe all future 
Po. for the rectification. of, ued 
upon the mere ground of keeping” 
as they are ; ante t hus have reduced to 
abfolute detpair all hopes of amendment 
by the quiet progrefs of reafon and juf- 
tice :—-ang. after ee can it be expected, 
oS a little cant of civility and modera- 
€an conciltate the injured ewith the 
fs, orf give to thoie who have been 
taught to confider themfelves as aliens, 
all the feelings of citizens ? 
There may cXift in a ftate a body of 
‘men whofe ag aioe and emoluments 
mn pretenfions which will 
not bear Chon. Confcious of this, 
they may make itthe grand point of their 






at- 


policy to check. all free enquiry, to at- 
| Proof of the Ex fi fence of a reafonghle Woman. 
Gignation? ESS. 

695 
tach perfons to their party by nourifhin 
old prejudices, and to throw all po aon le 
odium and fufpicion on thofe who have 
emancipated themfelves from their au- 
thority. They may (fuch is the weak- 
nefs of human nature) fucceed in their 
attempts, a ftrike off from the 
litt of dretbr large and refpeétable 
umber of their fellow- -fubjects. But 
s. they hope forthe co-operation of 
thefe rejected relatives, when a great 
part of the object is to preferve them in 
the polteffion of a power they have ufed 


{oman kindly ? 
© ine, national unanimity can have 
no other folid bafis than national wifdom, 
= juftice , and benevolence. Circumftances 
of diftrefs alone never have produced, 
and never will produce if; and they who 
have occafioned that, diftrefs are of all 
men the moft unfit to be | the medinm of 
union. 
N. N, 

To ihe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



HE ladlieiel of Chefterficld, thogh he 
was fa 
ladies in his converfations with ae yet, 
in his private letters t "iar » denied 
the exiftence of any r¢ vou 
and, in one of his nae is the fi 
ing paflage: ‘ os re only c 
of a larger growth ; y have an enter- 
taining tattle, and fom rimes ae but 
for falas reafoning, good fenfe, I never 
Gin my life knew one that had i it, or who 
reaionedor Tae oy gece.” for four 



man; but you an , Mr. Editor, I dare 
fay, among our female acquaintance and 
connections have met, with reafonable 
women ; or, at leaft, women approach- 
ing very ae to chat character : and as 
I hay now before me evidence of the 
exitt of a reafonable woman, in the 
reign OF king James I, I have thought 
it not improper to tranfmite it to you.— 


The reafanable lady to whom if refer, 
was Lady Compron, who wrote the 
and, which is 
following letter to her huh: 
now preferved in the Britifh M ufeum, as 
a curtofity : 
“< My fweet life, 
‘“ Now I have declared to you my 
mind for the fettling of your ftate, I fup- 
pofed that it were beft for me to bethink 
ana confider within myfelf, what allow-« 
ance were meeteft for me: for confider= 
ing 
(<) 

ciently Hee the 
gether.’ Such is 
se 4 6) of is celebrated nobles 


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