of which the remembrance, when it interferes with the demands of pleasure, or of gaiety, is one of the most vulgar and mechanical things in the world. It will at any rate, be time enough to indulge it at the end of the season, when they may possibly be put in mind of it by other people. As they are, indeed, uniformly to shun all plebeian qualities, it is indispensable for them to

-forget their Modesty.

A proper confidence in ourselves is one of the truest marks of having lived among persons of condition. Neither knowledge, genius, valour, nor virtue can bestow it; 'tis so purely the gift of fashion and fashionable society, that the want of it is an absolute disqualification for the privileges which attend them.

Under this head of mental endowments, I may suggest the propriety of

-forgetting their Religion.

It is possible that in the country they may have given way to some vulgar prejudices, which it were highly improper to retain in town. It may not be

amiss, however to inform them, in this place, what they might otherwise have scrupled to believe, that the Church has of late become a place of fashionable resort in Edinburgh; and what is still more odd, that fine people actually attend to the sermon. The eloquence of some of our preachers, like the dagger of Macbeth, has murdered sleep' there; for which reason, it will not be so convenient as formerly, to go thither after a late supper, or a long party at whist, the night before.

"In point of external qualities, the ladies are to -forget their Complexions.

In the morning they are to be much paler, and in the evening much more blooming, than they were in the country. If other people remember them from the one period to the other, there is no help for it;-as things go now, it does not much signify. Very fine ladies may sometimes forget to dress at all it will show ease, and a certain contempt for their company, to which people of high fashion are entitled.

"On the subject of dress, I may add, by way of caution, that the ladies would do well

-not to forget themselves.

I don't mean this in the common acceptation of the phrase, which it may be sometimes very proper and convenient to do. What I mean is simply to put them in mind, that a lady in town, in the modern dress, takes up so much more room than she does in the country, that very serious consequences might ensue from her not attending to the space which she necessarily occupies. An acquaintance of mine, who is somewhat of an antiquarian, observed to me, what an opinion our great-grand-children might be led to form of the size of the ladies' heads towards the close of the 18th century, if any of the fashionable hats should happen to be preserv ed in the cabinets of the curious. But, in reply, I desired him to take notice, that they would be set right as to the dimensions of the race by examining the walking-sticks of the men, which are just as much below the medium standard, as the hats of the other sex are beyond it. By the hats, they might conjecture us to be bred of Patagonians; by the sticks they would conclude us to be a generation of Laplanders.

"But I find I am wandering from my subject. I must put myself in mind, that it is time to conclude

this hasty scrawl, by having the honour to subsribe myself, with all possible consideration and respect,

V

66 SIR,

"Your most obedient and

"most devoted humble servant,

66 MEMORY MODISH."

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