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 our Polity would be highly deficient, if they had not ome Place et apart likewie for the Indulgence of their Curioity, eeing they are in this no way inferior to the other half of the Species.

In enjoying, therefore, uch Place of Rendezvous, the Britih Fair ought to eteem themselves more happy than any of their foreign isters; as I do not remember either to have read in Hitory, or to have een in my Travels, any thing of the like Kind.

This Place then in no other than the Chandler’s Shop; the known Seat of all the News; or as it is vulgarly called, Goiping, in every Parih in England.

Mrs. Partridge being one Day at this Aembly of Females, was aked by one of her Neighbours, if he had heard no News lately of Jenny Jones. To which he anwered in the negative. Upon this, the other replied, with a Smile, That the Parih was very much obliged to her for having turned Jenny away as he did.

Mrs. Partridge, whoe Jealouy, as the Reader well knows, was long ince cured,