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  • Selected Works by Julia Francesca and Other Contributors to the Lady's Weekly Miscellany

Julia Francesca, "Broadway!!!" Lady's Weekly Miscellany, 21 March 1807, p. 166

Crouds of beaux, and swarms of ladies,Who of frost nor cold afraid is;Merchants, of all sorts and sizes,On speculative enterprizesSeeking fortunes—wives with moneyIn this land of milk and honey.Jostling, riding, sleighing, walking,Up and down forever talking.Frenchmen Ca Ira! keep moving,Pushing forward, driving, shoving—German, Irish, Dutch, and Russian,Sulky John Bull midst th' confusion.Supercargo's clerks by dozens,Fathers, mothers, sisters, cousins—All in bustling league together,Minding neither wind nor weather.Sleighs with thousand bells a tinkling,Racing the Town o'er in a twinkling—Bays, and greys, and blacks, so dashing,Four in hand through Broadway splashing.Citizens, and Jews so wealthy,Purblind Beaux and Belles so healthy—Forming parties—news retailing—Making bargains—war bewailing—Talking politics and scandal,Taking New Orleans by the handle—Lounging and sauntering, so delightful,Some so handsome, some so frightful—Of every sort—of every nationThroughout this great and wide creation.To what I know not to compare it,To nought resembling, I declare it,From your idea to what may strike it,But this is BROADWAY!!! How d'ye like it? [End Page 283]

Julia Francesca, "Enigmatical list of Bachelors in Broadway," Lady's Weekly Miscellany, 6 August 1808, p. 240

  1. 1. A pleasant beverage in summer.

  2. 2. The distinction of male and female, and a weight.

  3. 3. To study—a numerical letter—and a stove, transposing two letters.

  4. 4. A lofty title.

  5. 5. Three fifths of what lovers prize, and two thirds of a definite article.

  6. 6. To close, and a vowel.

  7. 7. Two thirds of the ocean, and three fourths of a rope.

  8. 8. A soft vegetable substance with inserting a letter.

  9. 9. A trade.

  10. 10. The art of making some kind of liquor, and to move, changing a letter.

  11. 11. To warm wine,—and, whoever, wherever, whatever.

  12. 12. A man's christian name, and a male child.

J. F.

A solution of the above is requested for our next number.

C.K. & Amicus, "Solution of the Enigmatical list of Bachelors in our last number," Lady's Weekly Miscellany, 13 August 1808, p. 256

  1. 1. Mr. Mead

  2. 2. Mr. Sexton,

  3. 3. Mr. Conklin,

  4. 4. Mr. King,

  5. 5. Mr. Smith,

  6. 6. Mr. Shute,

  7. 7. Mr. Secor,

  8. 8. Mr. Morss,

  9. 9. Mr. Taylor,

  10. 10. Mr. Brewster,

  11. 11. Mr. Mullany,

  12. 12. Mr. Williamson. [End Page 284]

Julia Francesca, "Rebus," Lady's Weekly Miscellany, 27 August 1808, p. 287

OF this mighty globe, first of all take a quarter,Add a name that is given to foul stagnate water,A physician of note in this city then join;Of the globe then another division combine;A flower that for sweetness there's none can compare,The being who rules over earth, sea, and air,And what's neither round, nor triangle, nor square.

If all these initials should rightly appear,You'll discover a source of contention, I fear.

Ollapod, "Answer to the Rebus in our last number," Lady's Weekly Miscellany, 3 September 1808, p. 301

OF this mighty globe surely Europe's the quarter,Mud is a name given to foul stagnate water,Bruce is an honour to Materia MedicaTake your choice of America, Asia or Africa;A rose without doubt is the sweetest of flowers,God rules o'er the elements, numbers our hours,And an Oval's not square by demonstrative powers.Thus joining the initials, as Julia requested,Embargo's the measure by most folks detested.Then wishing to hear soon from Julia again,May never embargo be laid on her pen.

Julia Francesca, "Rebus," Lady's Weekly Miscellany, 17 September 1808, p. 335

THE place where a traveller stops to take rest,A river whose banks with sweet verdure is dress'd,A beast in whom beauty and usefulness join,A hero lamented with honors divine—A king who to martyrdom, alas! was devoted, [End Page 285] A passion by poets that's often denoted,A fruit that spontaneous abounds in the west,A vessel, the emblem...

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