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• 4. What inſtructions a mother ought to give her daughter upon ſuch occaſions, and what the

old lady's part properly is in ſuch treaties, her huſband being alive ?

• 5. How far a young lady is in duty obliged to obſerve her mother's directions, and not to

receive any letters or meflages without her

knowledge? the power
 * 6. How far a daughter is obliged to exert

ſhe has over her lover, for the eaſe

and advantage of her father and his family; and how far ſhe may conſult and endeavour the inte reſt of the family ſhe is to marry into ? 67. How far letters and confidents of both

ſexes may regularly be employed, and wherein they are improper ? 8 . When a young lady's pen is employed about ſettlements, fortunes, or the like, whether it be an affront to give the fame anſwers as if it had been in the hand -writing of thoſe that in ſtructed her.

• Laſtly, be pleaſed at your leiſure to correct that too common way amongfathers of publiſh ing in the world, that they will give their daugh ters twice the fortune they really intend, and

thereby drawing young gentlemen, whoſe eſtates are often in debt, into a dilemma,either ofcroff

ing afixed inclination, contracted by a long habit

of thinking upon the fame perſon, and ſo being miſerable that way ; or elſe beginning the world under a burden they can never get quit of.

• Thus, fage fir, have I laid before you all that does at preſent occur to me on the impor 24