NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
¥el. XXVIL.}
Mefl. PRINTERS, SR
If the following ADDRESS so the LADIES;
merits your approbation, please to publifb it.
LapiEs, | fas
ERMIT one to address you, whd
P has a true, undiffembled regard for your
hag pinefs and weitare, who feeis the high
est esteem, entertains thc greatett honor,
and is imprefled with the most profound rei
peét, for those of your sex who are amizble
andworthy ; moit readily would he exert his
utmost ability to promote your pleafures,ad
vance your felicity, increale your confe
quence,or give lufire toyour dignity. Were the
inmost receiles of his heart exposed to view,
you wounld fee it imprefled with the most
“fively fentimente of love for femaie excel
fence. There is not a more firenuous asser
ter of your honor, a ¥aore watchiul guardi
an of your viride, nor a foul fired with great
er indignation or filled with faore sovereign
contempt for those little sordid wretches,
who intufceptible to one delicate, refined
fontiment, inveloped in grots peflion, callous
to the totch of humanity, wiihout com
punétion can robthe innoccent credulous fair
of her honor; and expose her to remedilefz
wretchedness. it i 8
Beware haw Yot give credit to profefiions
—words do not constitute triendfhip —be
cautions how you yic'd to imiportunities—
~pwany want finceriiy, and only propose a
eraporary gratification,by infinua‘ing them:<
selves iiite your heart: -if they have 2 sin
cere regard, and fecl a true afiection; it their
" wiews are direét, if their intentions are ho
gorable, to the, certain it is, it irfluenced
y such motives, vothing can pofiibly be
propoled that cas injure or disgrace.. 1 have
no concepition of that fort of affetion, no
sdea of that kind of regard, Which bas the
most diftaiit fendency even in the fmallefl
degrée to injuie the famie; honor ot bappl
nafs ;==ttiie lave izever afhduolis to raise and
exalt, not degrade ifs object- -msodern love,
fmodern ‘:ifl'cgi'op, aie too refined for my dull,
perception,too exatied for my gross compre-
Eehfioh&;eGoc‘d Ged 1 s it poflible; any
can view with a less jedlous eyé, pay 4 less
firiét attention 1o the reputdtion; happinels,
and dignity of the mistress of their affetlign,
than their own ? l¢ there 2 lady whd “®an
yield to the importunities, grant the greatest
possible favor to a lover, on a vague promise
of fo-uncertain'a contingency as marriage ?
Can the be so dead to the ‘teelings of honor,
so loft to the sense of shame ? Can she so far
forget herdigoity, as to be a dependent on
his mercy ; by thus expofling berfelf to the
hazard of inevitable ruin ? Can she be in
fentible the fiands on the precipice of defiruc
tion, in the most eminent danger to be plun
ged in the abyss of wretchednel, and over
whelmed in the sea of infamy ; from which
pothing can prefarve her but her lovers ge
perofity ?He is generous ; he performs every
engagement—itisa tzft equaily asinfamous
‘@s dangerous ; but marrags ts the panacez—= -
¢an that reflore your honor, give back your
feputation, place you fair in the opinion of
the world; and e xpunge every remain of dif
ace ? by.no means—but if it could, con
gc:fs I must, many unealy apprehenfrons
should I fuffer, least the shame incurred un
der so many dangerous circumftznces, how
ever, well concealed for the préfent, would
SATURDAY, Oetdres q 1; 1783
forie future day appearfprouting or iny brow
in tuil luxuriance —firfichildren, then mar
riage,feems to be the prevailing mode of the
present day——the firft intelligence we have
of 2 modern addrets, Miss is enveirite——does
the trequency of these inftinces diminith the
scandal ? Not in the leaff, but fould they
be multiplied, it will render it difficult 1o
determine whether there are more———sin
or out of flews,but is fact exaggerated, triath
misrepresented ? no, no, it is a 2 melancholly
truth too motorious to be cortroverted or
denied. I write it with confufton, I write it
with grief, 1 have travelled in the broad road
Wl (oot
~ ©h ye virtuous ! ye chaste i {the number
of whom is not inconf{iderable,l am confident;
for I cannot censure all without diftinétion
for the lapses of forne, tho' charity witha
sigh must confefs they are too many) on you
it is incumbent by your conduét and exim
ple, to evidence your abhorrence and disap
probation of such behavior ; these instances
serve to thew in flriking, in glaring coleurs,
how extrethely dangerous it is td female ho
nor, todeviate in the least from the right line
of propriety j the lady wha departs from it
in the tmalleft degree to grant one favor, can
never know vwhere to flop, or what to refufe,
she dethrobes, rea{on, and awakens passion;
prudence is off her Buard, the foul ntel
ted to love, the fitnels of the opportunity;
the prefling importunity and lenorable alle
gations, render her ruin almost inevitable.
Are you sensible of 2 preference given i
your favor ? itis an honor deme, and the
higheff compliment paid your .merit;
when apparant it proceeds from un
queftionabie sincerity. And must not the
generous; noble; benevolent mind, teel
some f{enfs of obligation ? does it not
merit every civility, the greatest po
liteness ; even when you Cannot give your
approbation ? is theie a gentle bosom which
can add scorn or insult to refufal ? forgive
me,if I never can entertain favotrable fenti
iments of that heart, tho' it possess many good
gualitits; it is certainly defe&ive in point of
generosity, it degradesit in my. eiteem.
By the delicacy of your nature, the feeble
texture of your franmie, in every stage ot life,
you fiand in need of some faithtul ttiehd; to
guard from Insult, some kind benefaftor, to
secure from the threatning liand of neceflity
and diftrefs~fomekindred foul is essential to
happiness —Nature whose operations are.ne
ver vain has crezted a counterpart, she has
formed a mind sensible of a reciprocal, mu
tual dependence for relief from anxiety—
that is equally indebted to a companion, to
participate felicity, of which deflitute, the
good, generous and féeling heart, must ever
sigh ; which haughty science and vauniing
philosophy are utterly incapable to supply.
Are you singled out as the objec® of parti
cular attention, be not g;iidgd by unreason
able prejudice in your determination. Ca
price is the charaéteriflic of little fouls—be
not tasty in your deciffion—rathnefs is 2 sure
mask of folly—iet reason give.a fanéion to
your passion ; then unabated pleasure un
interrupted jey, will be the consequence of
your choice. ~Seek not to multiply particu
lar admirers, nor return attention with fool
ith id’vfclifi'fiilit% and indifference. Coquette
and Prude are really detestable appel-
lations ; but not less dious in idea than in
language ; either prefeats us an untavorable,
tpnatural pi€ture of the heéart: Have youa
fair prospect of happiness in the addrefles of
a 2 person worilly your approbation ; true
friendfthip by a totward indifcrect 2ealio pro=~
mote, is liable to defeat its own beil intenti
ons, and too générally creates disgust, where
it endeavored to ralfe effeem. Busy scandal
has forne important intelligence to commus
nicate, cratty detraction, many obferyations,
many refleflions, so miake these employ their
malignant eloguence to persuade, lend their
officious advice to affit you ih détermining
an everit, as imporiant a: any in your life,
and by which your future eaie and tranqui
lity is most affecied ; you arrive at the
knowledge of every thing but truth, and
what it faoft imports you to be informed, =
is there any vice, any tailing ¢bat can ma
teriailty atffcét your tranguility, of that you
wiil rehain in ignorance—triendthip too
fearful to vffend is silent; envy wih a plea
sing proipect of gratification is mute- - les the
scales be equally poised, and (uffer the great
er weighet toincline the balante. Examine
with firi€t ind mindte attention, it matiers
rot from what fouree you derive intellia
gence, provided only it be jufi ; think and
determice for yourfelf, be not prevatled on
to imbibe others prejudices, nor adopt their
partidlities, but decide on merit according as
inclination guided by season fha!l dire®t =
macch of mere love is 2 mere piece of folly
--it i the chimera ot juvenile fancy ; the
sally of a bheated imagination, make a
beaudiful figure in poetic difcription, en
tertaind and dehghis, When painted on the
pzge of romance~ but is no favorable index
to permanent felicity; mere passion is of thort
duration; and mu{ fubfidé unless founded in
reason, fdpported by pridence and dis
cretion--all bave their peculiarities, all their
failings, non€ are exempt, = |
AMATOR,
; W
PHILADELPHTA. .
The following copy of an Orduance, prin‘ed in
French, was received from Martinique,
with o reguefl ibat st-might be tranfluied
and publifbed. .
ORDNANCE on the dmerican Trade.
Claude Charles viscount de Damas, major=
general in the king’s armies, lieurénante
governor general of Martinique and irg
-dépendencies, and commandant general
of the Freach Windward illands in the
Weft Indies, during the absence of the
~ governorglieatenant general of faidiflands.
Jacques Petit, esquire, lord of Vievigne, one
ot his miajefty’s molt honorable council,
honorary councillor in Maruanique, judge
geoeral and ordinator in the island of
Martinique and its depecdéncies.
. i 2 e gy 29 188 oy
- THE commerce of the coionics in these
seas with North America, holding up the
profpec of a reciprocal advantage to the
two nations, and the latter ailowing in her
ports to our merchants every ipviting €«
couragement, it is just that we thould use
the fame expediént, to invite them (0 our,
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