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To the Printer of the Sydney

Gazette.

" SIR,  

"Among all the absurdities inherent to  

our nature, I consider as the most contempti-   ble a solictude of appearing what we are not,   and which is generally termed Affectation.   From the possession of this little quality no ad-   vantage is to be derived, as it never extend,

to an imitation of the intrinsic worth and per-  

fection, but merely to the external appearance       and characteristic peculiarities of gentilty.  

"You will perhaps be disappointed in an         expectancey of a grave and serious disqualification   which, from my introduction, you might with

propriety look for; but my signature will       bring to recollection that you have nothing     learned and philosophical to hope from a   Correspodent, who only aims at the expo-   sure of Vice and Folly.    

"Without further ceremony, therefore, I     inform you, that on Tuesday in the Ce-

lerbation of a NUPTIAL was held at a house     near the lower end of Chapel Row, at which

a SELECT party were to "tea and sup" and           at five o'clock 'Tag Rag and Bobtail' were   ushered in, but so curiously metamorphosed, so wonderfully disfigured by paints, patches, and pomatums to be rendered perfectly   incognizable to their own families. In fact,       a Cobler impudently blazed forth in pumps     and powder, a Peruquier assuming an air of     consequence thought himself entitled to drag into his conversation a thousand observations 'pen his conscience;' and the LADIES,       without exception, were perfectly 'encarac-    

tere.'

"Insupportable as the far-fetched Affecta-  

tion may seen yet before the dance began all that went before was thrice elipsed by an  

ancient damsel, introduced with form and ce- remony, whose fine appearance presented Car- rington Bowles's window to my recollection,   where I had often seen represented, pardon  

the smile on account of this affinity, " An old Ewe dressed Lamb fashion." I recoiled at the idea of Age in any instance being ren-  

dered of truly ridiculous as in the case of this venerable coquet, whose powdered ringlets, by which her physiagnomy seemed cloud- capt, together with her 'petit PARASOL'   were the NE PAS ULTRA of Absurdity.    

"I still remain an INQ. OBSERVER"

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