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 ¬you not various public places of fashionable resort, whose rules are at your command, and which you might multiply without end, making them as select or general as what you call as- semblies, though they cannot be convened? — It would be useful besides, for the encourage- ment of arts and manufactures, that such fine buildings should be erected in your city, and become rivals in taste and splendour ; where dress might be seen in all its magnificence and beauty in all its lustre — where, unsubdued by unrespirable air, the worst of all oppressions, the mind as well as the body would be free, and amusements, whatever were their descrip- tion, be enjoyed with comfort. — "When I re- commend such improvements the women surely must be on my side, for it is in such scenes that their most powerful impressions would be made; but never, never, in the haunts where even vou, divine interpretess, could be seen without emotion — why then, but from the force of truth, should I have reviled the sanctuary that saved me? — Would to God I had never ¬left ¬