Miss W-n

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A tall lady, rather inclined to be lusty, her hair is coal black, her eyes of the same colour, extremely piercing, and at one glance, conveys the language of a heart truly susceptible of every tender passion. At the same time that we are praising her for a handsome person, we must not forget the perfections of her mind which thine as conspicuous as the former. Herself, a stranger, to the too common vices of swearing and drunkeness, she detests it in another, and a person who is guilty of either of those habits, she never thinks a companion for her. Sensible of this certain maxim, that if necessity has drove her to this way of life, it does not follow that any necessity should make her infamous. � These thoughts, and this kind of behaviour, has obtained her many admirers, and some of them people of the first consequence; nor is it to be wondered at, for, with a man of sense, a woman of the same cast, will sooner gain an ascendency, than one of a loose and disorderly turn of mind. This lady is extremely particular in her choice of company, always having in view, that old, and, to many, a woeful proverb, I'll please my eye, if I plague my heart. From the above considerations, we hope we shall not be thought partial if we pronounce this lady to be the most valuable of any that appears in our list, as we do not doubt, but every person, who has been happy enough to have an interview with her, will entirely acquiese in our opinion, and exclaim in the words of the poet, �She's all that painting can express, or youthful Poets fancy when they Love."