msdl1on 2ąch st.3. come wiles IW That coxcombs and blockheads should, a letter, it is merely to thow our wit fpeer, is eafily accounted for; having, all we fay is conftrued into an affectation themselves, no, relish for the charms of, of learning, and when once the cry is literature, they endeavour to difcourage railed, we are more hunned, than if a caft on our reputation. all tafte for it in us, leit we should be fur had been As I have always efteemed the underwife enough to treat them with judgment education) to the contempt which their ignorance de- ftanding and judgment of the men (from the advantage of education) tà ferves.) nov 16 own fex, F be fuperior to thofe of my am puzzled to account for this their opinion, which to me appears an inconfiftency, as I cannot fuppofe men of fenfe can envy us, or fear our rivalling their geniufes: whence then can it arife; and what limits would you preferibe to us? to know this would be a very ufe. ful piece of inftruction to females in ge. neral, and particularly oblige, madam, ELVIRA But thefe fpeers are not merely from fools, all the lords of the creation leem unanimous in thinking a learned wife a far worse plague than a foolish one, Having myself had an early taste for reading, in which I was encouraged by an indulgent father, who directed my ftudies to the best authors in our own Janguage, I foon preferred history and poetry to novels and romances; and had more incli inclination, to read than to play cards. In company with men of fenfe, liftened to their conversation; and even when that turned on subjects, in which from my age and fex, it did not become me to join, yet I found more pleasure in attending to them, than in prating with the ladies about fashions. From all this, I am fufpected of an affectation of being learned, and am equally fneered at by my own fex and the men; not that I deferve the title of a female pedant. I never attempted diving into those abstruse parts of learning which feem peculiarly defigned for men, nor did I ever neglect one article which could be useful to a female; books and writing did not employ more of my time than work and drawing; - yet I am reduced to the alternative of o either parting with my library, throwing by my pen, and joining in the fashionable diffipation of routs, &c. or for ever relinquishing all thoughts of marimony. 1 700 The gentlemen are very liberal in befitowing the epithets of triflers and filly women on those who have a mere fe nomale, education, but if any of us -have refolution enough to foar beyond those narrow limits, and dare to read oh any thing of more importance than a play or novel. we are called criticks, wits, female pedants, &c. If we write 214 ******(*}***** From the LADY'S MAGAZINE, Account of the Hottentots continued. HE Hottentots look upon the fa tigues and dangers of the chace to be greater than the fatigues and dangers of war and that a man lofes more itrength and fpirit by encountring a wild beaft for an hour, than by enga ging his enemy for a whole day. Some time therefore, they think, ought to be allowed for the recovery of the strength and fpirits of the man who has flain a lion, tiger, leopard, elephant, rhinoce ros, or elk: and Hottentot custom affigns for this purpofe three days. As foon as the hero is dubb'd a knight, as I call him, of the honourable order of the Urine, he marches home; and remains there or thereabout for the three following days, wholly intent upon his eafe. In all this time he is not called by the Kraal to any manner of action. In all which time he is crammed with the choiceft dainties, and the molt nourishing bits the Kraal can afford. And in all this time his wife comes not near him. It is the cuftom for her, after milking the cows in a morning, to in the fields till go and the evening. She then returns home ; and having milk'd the cows, rambles about the Kraal till night when the #kulks ikulks as privately as poffible in fome " tune. And if he does not, the hole or corner in the hut, that diet; her husband may not would be a much choices His Are not! thefe think you ?? And to the arch rogue went on wit and mirth upon the matter, with the leave of those gentlemen who re prefent the Hottentots as moniters of ftupidity, were just what you fee here, excepting the articles of drefs and modification. But I cannot look upon this as a reafon, however not the fole one, neighbours come; and feat. His for the custom we are upon. his wife upon her happiness in being reftored to the arms of her husband, and made the partner of his glory-afini pom Being once among the Hottentots in queft of a reafon for this cuftom, which enjoins the wife of a new made Knight, as I term him, of the Urine, not to come near her husband for three days and two nights after his creation, and to keep herself all the time to a poor fcanty diet "Why (fays a merry fellow of a Hottentot, to whom I put the question) "the matter is plain. 'Tis the hero's “bujiness in that time to recruit his trength and (pirits. It would be a hazard he did not fucceed if his wife was to be about him. For women “are full of allurements: temptations of the flesh are not easily repelled: " and a hero's knowing his wife in the time affigned him for recruiting his * ftrength and spirits were a downright frustration of the defign. For no“thing, my friend, diminishes a man's "ftrength like women. His wife is enjoined in all this time to keep her"felf to a poor fcanty diet. What oc"casion is there for this, you fay, fince "the comes not near him? Why, I'll "tell you, If a woman was allowed at fuch a time, to cram and feed high, "the might burn, my friend, for the "benefits of marriage, and fet all her "wits to work to allure her husband There The death of no wild beast brings fo much joy to a Kraal, as that of a tiger. The Hottentots are infinitely fond of the fleth of a tiger, preferring it far be yond the flesh of any fort of cattle! And, indeed, the flesh of a tiger, roasted or boiled, is molt delicious food. I do not think, for my own' b part there is any veal fo fine in the world! Many a time have I been exquifitely regaled with it at the Cape; and thould be heartily glad, could I provide myself now and then with the fame victualsciat home. The Hottentor, who "fays a tiger, is doubly careffed and congratulated by his neighbours, who all long for a bit of the beast, and doat on the hero while their appetites are a sharpening and the victuals a dressing.' The Hottentot, who flays a tiger, has always the largest and the choicest portion of it for himfelf.) dalaw que *s to her the night. If portunities for this in t night. If he does grant them, he is dilappoint ❝ed of his main end, which, in our "estimation, would be great misfor I fhall now defcribe the Hottentot mantier of fishing. Vogel denies, that the Hottentots know any thing of the art of fishing. He is not the only lâu. thor that does do. Meister! Maiperger, and others do the fame. The two lait fay, in substance," The Hotten tots, who live near the fea, live very "meanly, upon roots and plants. They "have no fort of machines or tackle that may be used for fhing: nor have the any notion of the art. All the fish they get are dead whales, which are now and dien taftlespon ' the fhore" The reveries and allurance of tome travellers The Hottentots, in every kind of fishing} our-do all the Europeans about the Cape. "Ratuebaq slenış) /They WU せい They know not, that there ever was a food. As foon as the Europeans have? notice, that the Hottentot filhermen are" coming off the rocks, a number of thèm 4 generally hatten to the fea-fide, in order? to purchafe live rock fih. Nin The Hottentots often lay lines from thofe rocks in the fea. The lines are made of the guts or finews of beats ju the hooks are European; and the baits. generally mufeles. When the Hotten-: tots, upon these rocks, discover a valuable fish in the fea, they tofs one of thofe lines towards him; and, in order. to allure him to the bait, fall a whist ling. Whatever the reader may think of whistling to fifb, it has a very good effect at the Cape, for it plainly allures them. If the noife of the fea, breaking against the rocks, drowns the whiftling, the Hottentots fer up a hideous » roaring and shouting: and this has a very good effect too; for it often brings → thoals of fish about their baits: the fish bite freely; and the Hottentots gene rally catch more than they are able, at one bout, to carry ashore. The Hottentots fwim from the shore to the rocks; and from the rocks they fwim loaded with fish, back to the shore. And they are the best and boldest swim→ mers of all the people I ever fawor heard of. But their manner of swimming is extremely furprifing and I' know not, that they are followed in it by any nation in the world. They fwim erect; their necks quite out of water ; as are likewife their arms, which they' extend upwards, and with which they' balance themselves. But how they paddle with their legs I could never learn. They look, when they are swimming,” as if they were walking upon firm ground, And (which is farther matter” of furprize) they swim at a prodigious rate. In raging seas, running mountains high, they fright themselves with! no apprehenfions of danger; but,on' the contrary, - swim, or rather dance' forward, with the greatest chearfulness and fecurity'; rifing and falling with the waves like fo many pieces of corka zi The fishermen on the rocks pack up the fifh they take, in their kroffessor tie the it up in leather bags, and fwim with the burthen on their heads. And every other burthen which the Hottentots, take witin then when they fivim, they carry likewife upon their heads Tibe continued.] I From the LADY'S MAGAZINE. a The difference between a tender and why it does fo. Thefe tender-hearted perions are very useful in fociety; one may offend them with impunity, they are fo difpofed to indulgence; and if they do not change their conduct when they perceive any neglect towards them, it.is, becaufe, they regard themfelves in the good they do, and are too jealousTM of the fatisfaction they receive, to deprive themselves of it, because others! are ungrateful. They will very readi ly fay, " Is it my fault if you abufe my favours? and will it be just for me to punish myself for your ingratitude ?**) The bounty of this kind of perfons, is commonly blind and unfeemly. There requires nothing to obtain all you want from them but to move their hearts, and they more often aflift you through the impreffious you have made upon them, than according to your real wants. They often beftow their fact vours without fparing the thame of the diftreffed, and make them buy a benefit very dear, by the humiliating circum flances with which it is accompanied and yet they do all this with the great et good will imaginable: they would be forry to afflict you, because your pain would increase their own. They as love all mankind fo generally, and fol equally, that their fenfibility is exhaufta ed, and they can offer no more to the moft meritorious, than to thofe who deferve the least. I think I mittake not in advancing, that that tenderness of heart has its foundation in weakness and felf-love; the proof is clear. Place one of these persons in a fituation, hot to behold any diftreffed, their kindness re mains idle, they never feek out the mi ferable to relieve them ; yet do not think that their hearts cease to be tender'; for they will feel, upon the first occalion which offers. Then the heart is moved, its tenderness awakes, and it fuffers at the diftreffes of another, fill it" Has" procured its own eafe, by affilling the miferable cause of its difqnier. Another proof of what I have advanced is, that that kind of tenderness is most of 3 ten found in those who brave, once ful fered themilelves; the fight of another's Every one boafts of having as heart tender and delicate, and even thofe who know themfelves deficient therein endeavour to perfuade, others that they poffefs thofe qualities, which are often injudiciously confounded together. A heart may be tender without being delicate but it can never be delicate without being tender. Tenderness of heart is often to be met with in people of very confined ideas, but delicacy ei ther fuppofes good sense, or produces it. Tenderness of heart may fonetimes be, accompanied with grofs vices, but delicacy, on the contrary, contains alie feeds of every vintue. I call that, a tender, heart-which is moved at the milery, of another, and is. eated by, fuftning, thats mifery, which Wishes to fee every one content, and freely, gives ittelf up, to, love thofe it aught, without too much examining misfortpries, awakes in them a painful remembrance of what they felt in the like fituations they haften too banish that disagreeable idea which pains them, and mechanically, by a kind of invo luntary instinct, they relieve thee objects, lefs to do them a pleasure, than to rid themselves of uneafy fenfations 20Thus it may be feen, that this qua lity does not suppose great knowledge, or great visthe, and fufficiently diftin guishes the tender heart, from the deli cate heart: the latter, knows all the degrees of misfortune, and proportions its affiftance to the fituation of the unhappy; there is no occafion to awake its tenderness to put it in action, it guelles at wants which are not publicly hewn, and even prevents those forrows which do not yet exist. Free in its benefits, it always bestows them with re flection; it may be determined by cir cumftances, but never forced. As it acte coolly, it is always in a condition to banish whatever may be painful to thofe it relieves, and even gives, in a manner fo inhancing, fo delicately, that it does not chock the modesty of the rehieved, but permits them to be grateful at their convenience. The delicate hearted man hath that sensibility for all mankind in general, which true humamity infpires, but there remains in him an immenfe fund, which it knows how to diftribute properly, and according to the merit which he fees, or thinks he fees, in the perfons to whom he at taches himself. A heart truly delicate is always tender, and thence arife the pains and anxieties to which it is continually expofi ed. If the objects of its attachment become ungrateful, how is it torn, both in regard to them, and itfelf to them who degrade themselves by ingrati tude; and to itself, that it has been deceived yet it fooner pardons the wrong done to itself, than that which they fuffer who: abused sitgetButjif its friends are effentially faithful to the duties of, friendship, yet the delicate heart raises up phantoms, to encounter with the least omiffion, the flighteft failure; wounds, inquiets and torments it, and it takes fuch pains to nourish uncafinefs, that one would think that: uneafinefs was its proper element. It reflects upon a word, a look, and interprets it in twenty different ways, If it has nothing to reproach the objects of its attachinent, with, yet their abfence, their fickness, their disquiets, nay even those which never have happened, but to which, as men, they may be subjected, are all so many stings to a delicate heart. ; NEWS Foreign and Domestick. logoPetersburg, June 4. "A CM ON Ganother projects which our new board of trade is intent upon, there is one for preventing Swedish iron being preferred to ours, it being, found, that what we have made of late is better than that of Sweden. wRatisbon, June 28 Count Branicky, › Grand General of the army of Poland, nhaving retired with his troops into the mountains that feparate Poland from „Transylvania, al camp of twenty five o thousand imperial and royal troops is bgoing to be formed on that fides The thother troops of the Emprefs Queen will tonot be encamped, that the officers may 02 A 40 ** have time to recover from the great expences which the last war put them to ; but they are to be exercised in their refpective quarters. According to fome advices from Silefia, the Pruffians are forming magagines in that province. Hamburgh, June 29. In a letter from Warsaw, relative to what is doing in the dyet of Convocation, we find what follows. After the affair of Courland has been so often the object of the re public's deliberations, the Prince-primate finds means to finish it in one day.” dords. Adl Europe may remember what preceded and followed the investiture of Prince |