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Entertaining Companion for the FAIR SEX, appropriated folely to their Use and Amusement.

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This Number is embellished with the following Copper-Plates, viz. 1. An elegant Frontifpiece, defigned and engraved by the moft capital Artists in Europe.-2. An engraved Title Page.-3. An elegant Engraving of a View of Botany Bay.-4. A new Pattern for a Work-bag or Fire-fcreen.-And, 4. An Air in the Sacred Oratorio of the Meffiah, fet to Mufic by Mr. Handel,

LONDON, Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinfon, No. 23. Paternofter Row, where Favours from Correfpondents will be received.

The Genius of the MAGAZINE prefenting it to Minerva and Britannia, who recommend the Work to the Perufal of the Fair Sex.

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To our CORRESPONDENTS.

E fhould be ungrateful, indeed, to our Correfpondents if we did not acknowledge the increase as well as importance of their late communications. Within a very few months we have been enabled to prefent our readers with above one hundred Original Papers, Eflays, and Letters, on a variety of amufing and inftructing fubjects. Few we believe of our cotemporaries, and certainly none of our rivals, can honeftly make a fimilar affertion.

Our Profe Coll. ction for next month will afford a proof that our funds are still increasing. In this month's and in our Supplement we have been enabled to pay off many old fcores to our Poetical Correfpondents.

The following, however, remain yet to be promifed for next month. Curfus Glacialis-à Poem.

Rural Felicity-a Paftoral Ballad.

Acroftic on Mifs Mary Drake.

A young Lady's Poen on Winter, communicated by Juvenis.
Emma to Edwin.

Two Acroftics by Sinceritas and G. Martin--with many others which we are defned by the writers not to acknowledge previous to infertion. The following we are forry must be rejected;

Lines addrefied to Mr. C, by M. C. B.

Lincs on fecing Girls ftrew Flowers before their Majefties at Mount Edgcumbe.

Veifes infcribed to Mifs Ch, by a Conftant Reader, we must also reject; and, as he has thought proper to accompany his poetry with a threat, in cafe of its not appearing, we fhall fubmit a part of them to our Readers.

"Its you I love and none elfe I declare
And my hopes are that you do love me
Should you afk my name I never thall fear

To fay that my name is S. E.

I've no more to write fo farewel my love
In hopes that you foon I fhall fee
I vow and protest by the powers above
I'll have you if you will have me."

Our readers will fee from this fpecimen that it is impoffible to class fuch verfes with good or even tolerable poetry-and we have no room for what is very bad.

ADDRESS

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T the expiration of fo long a period from the commencement of our labours, we cannot but acknowledge that the encouragement we have met with is fuch as confirms our beft opinions of the public tafte, and affords us no inconfiderable proof that we have not laboured in vain. It was our early opinion that a work dedicated to the use of the Fair Sex would foon attract their attention; and while we were pleafed to find that it had this effect, we derived no lefs fatisfaction from the idea that they would affist us in rendering the LADY'S MAGAZINE, what without their contributions, we defpaired of, a REPOSITORY for the first ATTEMPTS as voel as the MORE MATURE In thefe hopes, and in EXERTIONS of the FEMALE PEN. this expectation we have not been difappointed. To the genius and taste of our female correfpondents we owe much, and are proud to own the obligation.

THE prevailing tafte for improvement in female education, and the, happy effects of that education, have enabled us to extend our plan beyond its original intention. The days are paffed when Men Writers were afraid left they fhould be too learned for the comprehenfion of female readers, when they were compelled to mould their writings into childish forms, and when the prefumption of literary pride led many to believe that learning and genius, taste and study were incompatible with the duties of female

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female life, fuperior to their understanding, and pernicious to the morals of the fex. The days are past, when 'learning in a woman was accounted miraculous, when fervile employments were the only duty they were capable of, and the ornament of the perfon the only pride they could boaft.-If in the outfet of our plan we anticipated this happy revolution in female inftruction, we are happy to add that we have profited by it; that fome of the best embellishments to thefe volumes have been the work of female pens, and fome of our greatest improvements the result of their fuggestions.

THE objects of our Morality, however, do not yet cease to call loudly for our exertions. The age of folly is not paft, nor has public licentioufnefs yielded to the many checks it has received. In moft refpects, it is the colour and not the fubftance of vice which is changed-and folly, depreffed in one quarter, is ready to start up in another, with the fascination of novelty to attract, and the power of fashion to preferve that attraction. It fhall, therefore, ftill be our affiduous endeavour to give to virtue those ornaments which vice wears with fo much fuccefs, and to take from vice all that can allure and deceive, all that can bewitch and deftroy. In this attempt we are confident that we may appeal to the fenfe of our female readers, and be determined by their judgment—and that while we continue to furnish a pleafing variety of MORALITY, AMUSEMENT and LITERATURE, we may hope for the patronage which first established and has hitherto fupported this Magazine.

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