\it t.k V\S\ .y <^. -5- <■ ^^4.- INSPECTOR. Containing a C o LI. z c T I o N of ESSAYS and LETTERS A Latdy publiihed in a - NEW DAI L Y- P A P E R, CALLED, The London Daily Advertifer, ■■^'- . ■ .AND ■;■' J^ .. Literary Gazette. • . - ',. »: ... .• LONDON: Printed for W. Shropshire, 'm Ntw-imJ-Jrett i ^. «,' Baker, varRufil-Jiruty Cwtnt-gardn\ L. Davis, in ]x_ FUet-Jhett', J.Vf AVLD, in Cornbilli R. GRIFFITHS, in ^^ St. PauFs Cburcb-yard; J. FLETCHER, in Oxfvrii and T. Merrill, in Camhridgt. MDCCLL • »•» 71* ahvw-mntianti Naoi-Paper^ Ufidts the mefl^ euthetttie Occurrences t/the Dajy it conftantlyfuppUei with a Letter or Dijfertation on the me/I ufeful er entertaining Sub~ jeQty viz. Morality, Natural- Hi/iery, Pieces »f Humour and Entertainment, or Accounts of the Contents ana Merits rftht ^forious new Productions in the Literary tVorkU Thofe Ladies anB Gentlemen who chufe to take in tbt London Daily Advertiser, may depend on being regu- larly ferved ever j Morning by the Haukers of the ether News- Paper St amy-wbere within the Bills of MartaUty, N. B. AnCtffefHaufes and PubUck-HouJes may he fuppGed ■in thtfamt^ manntr. I im\ :X,- ■-•.« >ipcrs, which ihpWoM^^^y^^-Z publifhing: If he may prcfmnc ta i^PJ^^J will, ontfccond Reading, pleafcthe^AutHO* of the Obfervatiom e?« Pliny's Ef>tjh, he is . npt afraid to fay, he c^n wiQi Aem ^ ^J^^^ - Recommendation to the reft of the World. I have the Honour to be, with the greateft • ' ■ 3W- Lordship s Mb/i Ohdtenf "ic L:;ii ^ :i-/i:jWuoiJ R lli>^no oJ iqn or; ^-y^i^rl zia oJ ib.'.ci ol 03ncfiri.."2"^ ii"-© Lsr.nJl.:: -cl • ■ T " t • • -The. Insp:r-cto^ .,a^ b-'j --yrro cd'/r nci-.y i y- .'VV"^,;''' -■ '^ j'ii'I oJ •:i:i2'j:;:oJ 7i.'?"^ 't rwr-- -oriir-j ^ •.••■ ' -lu'lejixl iJyJS:^^40iL^.: r'l hm:^r,s r^ij-rr-*. I i i [ I 1 THE INSPECTOR. N U M B E R I. '§')!080iK)§GJ(|'HILE the Papers of Intelligence, ^j^^^^i^A numerous as they are at prcfent, arc fk.^^^jrf|* appear but as Tranfcripts of each o* r)0()8()J(58()J(4* ther, it will naturally be aflced. Where can be thcNccefllty of a New Ok e ? If thofc already publifhed came up to the Expcftations of the Public, it would be afufEcient Reafon why /^fhould never have been attempted : But it is not the iV«»- her^ but the Merit, of Pieces of a. like kind, that fhould prevent the cftablifhing a New One ; and the Weight of that Circumftance, we apprehend, is not fufficicnt to turn the Scale againft us. A Pe- riodical Paper can only plcafe while it entertains; no^ is there any Way for it to meet with Succels, but by defer ving it : If this fhall appear to have fomc De- B grcc Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/collectionofessaOOhillrich 2 The InfpeBlor. N» i, grec of that Claim to the Attention of the Public, it would be unnecefifary to entreat a favourable Re- ception J if that Recommendation be wanting, it would be idle in m to attempt it. Cuftom has eflablifhed it as the prefent Plan of a Paper of tlus kind, that it confift of three diftinft Parts; An hitroduQory Dijfertaticn, Articles of In- telligence, and Adrcerlijements. The Firft is always intended to have fome Entenainment, the Second fome Truth, and the Third fome Bufinefs: How judicioufly thefe ftveral Intentions arc carried into Execution by the prefent Writers of this Clafs, there needs but th-r cafting a curfory View over any one of thc-ir Publications to determine. The great Ufc of daily Intelligencers of this kind is to be the Convey- ances of Truth ; but furely it is not too much to fuppole, that the Man who reads an Account of his own Death in a Paper of To-day, will pay little Crcilit to the Aflcrtions of To- morrow. We have long been difappointed Readers of our prefent Papers; and that Circumftancc is one of our great Motives for becoming Writers. As feeing Er- rors is allowed to be one great Step toward mtndincr tiicm, and the knowing what ought to be done, is ibmc Approach toward the doing it, we flatter our- fclves th. :: we fhall be able to (hun, at Icaft, the more vifible and glaring Dcfefls of the prefent News- writers ; and as to the lefs grofs and cipital ones, fome of which it is almoft unavoidable to efcape, we fliall endeavour to balance them by an Attention to Parwruhrs of Moment, which feem never to have entered into the Thoughts of thcfe Writers to fup- pofc they had any Concern with. Wc •a I' y : K^« I. The Itjjpecior. ^ We would be ambitious to make this Paprr, in time, the general Chanel of Literature and Araufe- ment: New Books of Merit, and every Improve- ment of ufeful Science, together with the modem Occurrences of any Degree of Importance, will be the principal Objefts of its Attention. The Intro- duftory Eflay will always be devoted to the one or the other of thefe Articles ; and as Obfervations of this kind can never be fo agreeable as while the Ob- jeds of them are new, the principal Books advertifed for the Day, and the more important Tranfadtions of the two or three preceding ones, will naturally claim a Preference. As to our Account of Books, Impartiality is the fole Principle we fet out with : We fliall animadvert with Candour on every learned or ingenious Per- formance at home or abroad ; but we fliall never be fond of Ccnfure : The Reader will alfo be plcafcd to remember, that, from our not mentioning a Book, it is not always to be prcfumed that it is void of Merit. We have, on this Pl.in, eftabliftied Corrcfpondcnccs at both the Univerfities ; and wc hope to recommend ourfelves to the Book, or reading Societies which a laudable Curiofity has eftablilhed in moft of the confidcrable Towns in England. Among the Mul- titude of Books that are daily publifticd in this in- quifitive Age, it will be of fome ufc to the World to be informed of what are worth Notice, before they devote the moft precious of all things, their Time, to the Perufal of them ; and it cannot but be fome Advantage to us, that wc fliall do this al- moft immediately, not poftponc what we have to fjy till the Period of the Month, when the Informa- B 2 tioD ...V. 4 The InJffSfor, N° i . tion will ceafe to be "new, or the Pieces, perhaps, forgotten that it regards. It has long been wifhed, by the Literary World, that fome one Paper could be eftablifhed in which every Publication might be found, and the Trouble of fcarching ten or a dozen News-Papers, on this Occafion, avoided : Something towards this will be done, in the Notice we fhall take of all the Pieces that are mod worthy of ir, in the Introdudtory Part of this Paper ; and if, as it is hardly to be doubted, the Proprietors of Copies join in our Scheme, fhat will be immediately bringing it to Perfetftion. Wc are not chimerical enough in our Imaginations, to fuppofc this will be done merely in favour of our Performance ; but we cannot but think it the Intercft of thofc we fhould in a great meafure owe it to, as much as our own. ffl?ere every Book was profeP- /^ fcdly to be advertifed, every Reader of Books would look for the Advertifement -, and the Difficulty that attends the getting thcfe Adverrifements into fome of the prefent Papers, and the little Cbnfc- cuence of doing it in others, will, we prefume, tend greatly to recommend this Propofal to the Book- iellcrs in general. With regard to the other Part of cur Province, Amufement, the Means of it will fall more immedi- ately in our own Way, and we (hall be careful not to mifapply them. There are a Multitude of Articles that regard the Polire World, and their Entertain- ments, which are not the lead interefting in their Kind ; but which never yet have appeared as Part of the Intelligence of the Dny: Thcfe we (hall fearch after among the AfTemblies of the Great, arid at the Amufement! of the Gay -, at Routs and Affcmblics, at ( } N° I. 'I^e TrtfpeSfcr,- $ at Mafquerades and Ridottoes, at Operas and at the Playhoufes, at Ranelagb, and at thax. polite^ of all po- lite Placesy Mr. Brougbtot^s Amphitheatre: What we fairly meet with, we fliall freely impart ; and as Plato is faid to have brought down Philofophy from Heaven to dwell with Men on Earth, we fliall attempt to bring Entertainment from the Parties of the Great to People lefs exalted above the common Level of Mankind. We imagine that the lofing a Heart at a Ridotto, may be as important an Article, as the picking a Pocket at Hockley in the Hole ; or the Conteft of two Belles for a I^ver at Ranelagh, as a Walking- match in the jirtillery Ground. As to Advcrtlfcments, wc fliall be ready to recdve thgfc of all Kinds ; and if a Lady have loft her Lap- dog, or a Lover his Miftrefs ; a Virgin her Heart, or a Choice Spirit of the Age his Modefl:y ; wc fliall not fail to make the Lofs fufficiemly confpicuous, and, by our fecret Intelligence, very probably re- trieve it. Such is the Plan we have laid for a Paper, which, > wc hope, the Public will find worthy of their En-- courage ment. How we fliall fuccecd in the Execution- of ir, the Reception it meets with will fufficiently in- form us. Thus much we will venture to affirm,' That though it is not in our Power to command Succcfs, oar utmoft Endeavours fliall be to dcferve it. . I '-r '-'A ■'■':.''!. :: ' ■ (! '.' u:i ,'-j r: •■^^ ' k ri ,.T': " ; jr. '. ., ■'■; •jvr.-"' •' ' f \' \ ...->. /,■ 'i.Trtirio v-;;'. ,.' i,.i\ nr.-l s:!:^,--; •^. 4, V 1>. . .W • «" ■ X! ■.•( 4 . 1 • :,:■;•.. .i The The InfpeSior. N"i?. The inspector. [N'a. ffjk^'^ HERE never was an Age in which the ^ T g* Bufmefs ot Title-pages was fo accurately ^CS^ji ^^^^^^^ ^o * Science as the prefent : The Proprietor of the Copy very judicioufly remarks, that this is a Part of the Book which five hundred People fee, for one who looks any farther into it ; and that it is in general from fomething ftriking, or promifing in this, that the Reader is tempted to go farther, and probably to purchafe it. It is from this Suggeftion that we frequently fee pompous Titles prefix'd to contemptible Perfor-,- mances, magnificent Porticoes to mean Edifices,. While the Multitude are drawn in by this falfc Appearance, the Defign of the Publiflicr is anfwered ; and it is of no very great Confequence to him, that the difcerning Few hold the Artifice in Contempt, or are even deterred from buying the Work, by the very Circumftancc that induces the reft of the World • to do fo. Nothing is more certain, than that the bcft Books, in general, arc thofe whcfe Titles promife the leaft : Where there is intrinfic Merit, there needs none of this external Invitation i and where there is not, it is hardly right to employ it. One of the beft Poems the prefent Age has af- forded, has been lately introduced to us with fo plain and modcft a Name as that of. An Elegy written in a Country Church- Tard : A Title as little promifing, or as little ttrnding to excite the Curiofity of the Public as could well have been dcvifed i yet the Piece has made ^ N" 2. ^e Injpe^or. 7 made its Way to a Fourth Edition, while many a founding Name ferves but to decorate a Pile of waftc Paper. The Author of this Poem, a Gentleman who ha? written with Succcfs in a different Way, was fo diffi- dent of his own Judgment in regard to this Piece, that he not only declined the hazarding his Name with it, but the very printing it at all, was without his Knowledge ; and the carrying it into other Editions has been without his Permiflion. We are happy to have had fo good a Poem on any Conditions j but we Ihould have feen it in much greater Perfeftion, if two or three Errors in it, continued to thefe latter Impreffions, had been avoided by a more corre£t Copy, or amended from his Infpeftion. The Subjeft of this excellent Performance, is an Evening's Meditation in the Church- Yard of an ob- fcure Village. The Author introduces himfelf walk- ing over the Graves of the dcceafed humble Villagers in a ferious and contemplative Humour : He cloathi in Words, elegantly appropriated and cxpreflive, a Series of Thoughts naturally arifing from the Scene, and fucceeding to each other: From the Rccol- ledlion of what the peaceful Inhabitants of the Earth under his Feet once were, and what they might have been, had Opportunities offered, he proceeds toa juft Examination, and a confcquent Contempt, of that Pomp and Splendor which diftinguiflies the Great :• He falls into a Reverie in the Conclufion, in which he gives what he imagines will be the Account of himfelf, when dead, fiom the Mouth of fome hum- ble Cottager ; and concludes with an Epitaph on the Occafion, truly of a Spirit with the reft of the Poem. It 8 The InJpeSior. N» 2. It is not too much to fay, that this Piece comes nearer the Manner of Milton than any thing that has been publilhed fince the Time of that Poet: Whoever will look into the Lycidas of that Author, one of the beft Poems that even he ever wrote, will not fail to fee a ftriking Likenefs, and to own, that this Elegy does not fuffer in the Comparifon. The Poem is full of Imagination, and as full ot Sentiment •, the Imagery b ftriking and juft \ the defcriptive Part elegantly fimple i the Expreflion concife, yet clear •■, nervous, yet fmooth, and majeftic without Pomp. Let us rccolleft the Situation of the Poet in a ftill Evening, contem- plating, from an elevated Spot, the Country round him, while there is fcarcc Light for the Profpedl^, and we (hall acknowledge an uncommon Propriety and Beauty in the following Pafiagc : JWa; faiUi the glimmering Landfcape on the Sight, ■ And all the Air afolemn Slillnefs holds i Save where the Beetle wheels his droning Flight, And drowzy 'Tinklings lull the diftant Folds . Or that from yonder Jvy mantled To^'r^ ^he moping Owl does to the Moon complain Ofthofe, 'juho wand" ring near her f acred Bou^r, Meleji her ancient folitary Reign. When the Subjeft is familiar, with what an eafy Elegance, and a beautiful Simplicity, does he adapt his Language ! For them no more the lltrzing Hearth Jhall burn .\ Or hufy Hcufcuiife ply her Evening Care, Nor Children run to lifp their Sire's Return, Or climb bis Knees, the tnvfd Kifi to Jhart. On N». 2. The lnJpe3or. p On the contrary, when he has Occafion to lament the Peafants Lofs of the Advantages of Education, what can be more lofty than — Knowledge to their Eyes, her ample Page, Rich with the Spoils of Time, did n^er unroll ? Or what can be more beautifully adapted to theSub- jedb, than his Defcription of the rude Monuments and Infcriptions over the Graves of the humble Dead he is there meditating on : Tet 4nenthefe BoneSy from Infult toprote3^ •> • .-r Some frail Memorial fiill ere£ied nigh, " •*.- JVith uncouth Rhymes, andfhapelefs Sculpture deck* Jk Implores the faffing Tribute of a, Sigh: Their Names, their Tears, fpelt by tVunletter^dMtiJe^ The Place of Fame and Elegy fupply ; • And many a holy Text around fbefirews^ :'•--:> Tbca teach the ruflic Moralifi to die. j ]'""■■ The imaginary Ruftic's Defcription of himfcif, vk his Walks of Poetic Rapture, is full of Beauty : Hard by yon Wood, now frowning as in Scorn, ■, Mutt* ring his wayward Fancies, would be rove. -The Variation of the Expreflion, in the Acconpt of his being miffed at his ufual Places of Reforr, is.vcry maltcrly : r- *'-*'^- ^ . .;v<; One Morn Imifs*d him on the cupm*d Hill, ,„,]^ , j Aloni the Heatb,^and near biff au^ritjt^r^el' ,.,'■ 1 lo ^he InJPeBor. Jnotber camcy nor yet hefide the Rill, Nor up the Lazvtiy nor at the W>.od was be N».3. In fine, his Charaacr of himfelf, his Expcftations, and his Content, arc at once juftly, greatly, and plcafingly cxprcffcd : Large was bis Bounty , and bis Soul Jincere \ Heav*n did a Recompetife as largely fend: He gave to IVoe ('twas all be bad) a 'fear; He gained from Heav'n ('twas allbe wifi'd) a Friend, This Stanza is unluckily robbed of a great Part of its Beauty in the printed Copies i and in fomc of the other Paflages which we have quoted, we have amended Errors of the fame kind, though of lcf» Confequcnce. Wc could dwell longer on' this Subjefb with Plea- fure; but the Limits of our Paper oblige us to re- ftrain our Pen. . . ^ The INSPECTOR. [N°. 3. On the Ufe and Abufe c/Conversatiok. jNE of the great Prerogatives of human Nature is the Power of communicating our Thoughts to one another by Words: This is the Eflcncc of focial Happintfs ; it throws the Experience of every fepcraic Member of Society into the common Stock i and gives to every private P^o. 3. ^ilnfpeBor. u private Perfon, in return, the Advantage of the joint Experience of the Whole. How eftimablc a Circumftance in ourOeconomyl' How inSnite a Benefit ! How worthy our utmofl: Attention in its Conduft and Prcfervation ! How facred ought it to be to the Ends and Ufes to which it is appropriated ! ' \ The mixed Converfation at Coffec-houfes, if it could be retrained within any Bounds of Order.and Regularity, would be of the mod advanrageous kind : How inflrudive muft it be to hear the 0\>- fervationsof twenty different People on the Variety of Objefls that have occurred to them in the Courfe of the Day ? How agreeable to meet with the Quintef- fence of a Multitude of Conyerlatlons, at the fcveral Parties the different People who make up the Com- pany have been engaged in, colleifled, feparatcd from its Superfluities and Redundancies, and delivered to us concentrated, as it were, and with all its Merit, in the Compals of a few Periods? " " .' - ' There is fcarce a Heart fo mclevolent, as not to feel a Pleafure in giving Entertainment to another: And there would need little more than Attention iii the Generality of the Company, to their reaping this vaft Advantage j and thole who were molt incapa- ble of entertaining, would find their only fufferin^ themfclves to be entertained, condrucd into a Mdrit ^rcat enough to entitle them to a repeated Enjoy- ment of the fame rational Pleafure. * Inftead of this dcfirable Plan, Converfation In privat; Parties is at an End; Cards have driven 'it away never to (hew its Face in good Company a- ^ gain i and at thcie mixed Affcmblics, where fo *^ C 2 . large 12 The InfpeSlor, N-.^r: large a Fund for £ntcftainment offers, no Mafl at-' tempts either to pleafe, or t If wc confvdercd the Poffibility of Error in Thin^ that appear the mcil evident and unqueftionable to us, we fhould be fond of always leaving our- felves a Way to cfcape, under the;. Subterfuge , of an Uncertainty in our ExpreGions r and this Ad- •vamage we fhull be- fure of in. the fame Manndr of fpeaking, that we (hall not offend the Perfpq we addrefs-ourfclvcs to, by arrogating a Knowledge he wants, but only fecm to propo£r an Opini(m - .^ whiqb I IJo. 4. The htfpeSior. ^5 which might have been his own, though he did not' think favourably enough of it to advance it. : • ' ' Would we make ourfelves agreeable, as well as ufeful Members of rational Society, let us refolve. upon an unlimited Affability •, a good Opinion of the Company we converfe with ; a conftant Dcfire of being entertained by them j and let us have na Ambition to communicate our Share of the Con- verfation till we fee it is expeftcd of us. The greateft Compliment that can be paid to a Speaker. is, the being heard with Attention: This will al- ways be paid him, when he fpcaks what the reft wifli to hear, never when he ihrufts himfelf inopor- tunely upon them, or interrupts what they had either a Right or on Inclination to be more plcafed with. The inspector. [N». 4. J Morning Contemplation. - ■^ >0(^^){(HE Brightnels of Ycfterday Morning ^ T h** tempted me to enjoy it in the open Air^ ^l^^K out of the Dirt and Buftlc of this bufy ^^ Town, and free from the Intervention of that dulky Cloud which the Smoak of fo many Thoufand Chimneys continually fpread over the whole Extent of it. , It was about Noon when I arrived at Ken/ingleH Gardens, the deftined Scene of my Rccefs j and it will not be eafy to perfuade thofe who had net thie happy Opportunity of feeling it, how warm, how eolirening iw»!; i6 The InJpeSsr. N». 4. enlivening the Sun-beams were, or how evidently viniverfal Nature acknowledged and rejoiced in it. . The Birds, that had been filent for five whole Months, now perching on the naked Branches of the Trees, looked up with a kind of joyful Ado- ration to their enlivening Deity, began to plume themfelves in his Prefence, and try their unac- cuftomed Throats in Songs of Pr^fe to him : The very Boughs on which they ftood, feemed to dif- claim their late dead, withered Stale -, and fwelling out in tea thoufand Buds, promifed foon to meet his Radiance with a more chearful Afpc6l ; The little Lambs that had hitherto, fince their very Birth, kncv n no Enjoyment beyond the fupplying the firft Ca'j of Nature from the cold wet Herbage, now fet^ed to feel new Motions in their Bloody and nt- *. Ideas with them j and, by a thoufand antic Frliiings, joined in the general Joy. I was contemplating all thb from the Side of the Bafon i and had afterwards occafionally turned my Eye upon that liquid Plane, and viewed, through it, the various Things it buried: It was fomewhat longer before this thicker, colder Medium tranf- mitted the genial Influence that had invigorated the Inhabitants of the Air; but,,by Degrees, the Soul of Nature, the Promethean, univerfd Fire, made its Way through this Obftacle. It was wiiji infi- nite SatisfafVion that I traced the Gradation of this pleaGng Effcd : I caft my Eye upon a fhallow Part of the Bafon, where the Flu'd was moft in- fluenced: The Sun daricd his glowing Beams un- intcnupctd on this Spot, and foon began to tri- nnph in the Succcfe of his Influence. The fmooth green % N''4.' ^^ tnfpeBori[ 17 green Surface of the Bottom, began to elate itfclf - in Bubbles v and quickly after to fend up Parts of its green Coat, with every rifing Bladder of detach- ed Air : Thefe were continued in long Filaments to the Surface, where the Bubble that had r^fed. them burft its watery Shell, and mingled in the common Expanfe, the Fibre which had marked its Courfe remaining, and with its congenial At- tendants forming what the blind Naturalift fliall in- veftigate as a Plant, and trace imaginary Organs in. - I -• ■ - • The real Plants, expanded flat upon the level Surface, now began to rear alfo their rough Leaves, and their numbed Branches : They rofc to meet the Caufe of their new Life at the Surface, and to kindle into genial Wariiith to propagate thcib Species. The Surface of the duflcy Floor, now nakedy expofed more immediately to the Influence of this infpiring Deity, began foon after to difclofe Beings of a higher Rank : Myriads of Worms wcre-fecn unwinding their coiled Forms, and tofljng their fporrivc Tails about, in Wantonnels and Revelry; Whole Series of Creatures, whofe torpid State liad- before rendered them undiftinguifhable from the Mud in which they lay, began to expand their little Limbs, and creep or fwim, or enocrgc above the Surface. ; i.-? ••' As I was contemplating the opening Scene, 1 could not but pcrfuade myfelf that the Source of ail the Ej^tian Enthufiafm, all that had given Rife to their fabled Stories of the Production of Ani- mals from the Mud of the iSV/f, was now before me i and pitied ihofe, who, inftcad of adoring the D ^rft 1 8 TZ)^ InfpeSlor. N*'4.' firft Cajfc of all Things, believed in the mad' Dodrines of equivocal Generation j or looking up to his great Minifter the Sun, adored the Inftru- ment, inftead of paying the rational Tribute of their Praife to him, who created and employed it. As I was ruminating on this, a little Creature, of a peculiar Form, and fingular Beauty, rofe from the Surface of the Mud ; and foon after began to vibrate its leafy Tail, to play the feveral Rings of its clegantiy conftruded Body, . and to poife fix de- licate Legs, as if to try whether they were yet fit for Ufe : Numbers of ^others followed it, and in a few Minutes ail that Part of die Water fcemcd peopled only by this Species. . • I was ravifhed with Delight at the Joy I faw thefe Creatures take in their new animated Beings, and was offering an honeft filcnt Praifc to Him, whofe unlimited Benevolence had created fo many happy Creatures, who had made them only to be happy ; when a hungry Fifh, allured by the Pro- fpeft of fo full a Repaft, left his fcaly Companions, and throwing himfelf among them like a hungry Tyger into a Sheep-fold, deftroyed and gorged them by Numbers at a time. Of the Multitude that were now fcattered to every Part of the adjacent Space, I luckily caft my Eye upon a Cluftcr that had fheltercd thcmfelves together, under the Leaves of a tall Plant, Part of which was immerfed in the Water, Part emerged above its Surface : One of this Number, allured by the Sun's Rays, rofe higher up the Plant, came boldly out of the Water, and bafkcd in the more free Warmth under the open Air. . .; ^!,..; .■■■ ^ ■■ ..\. The- I n If 4 f N» 4.^ The InfpeSior. ' j-9 The Plant was near the Shore, and I determined to watch the Motions of this little adventurous Animal. It had not flood long expofcd to the full Radiance of the Sun, when it Teemed on the Point of petifliing under his too ftrong Heat: Its Back fuddenly burfl: open lengthwife ; but what was my Aftonilhment, while I was pitying the unhappy In- feft, to fee, as the Opening enlarged, a Creature wholly unlike the former arifirig from within it! A very beautiful Fly, by Degrees, difeqgaged itfelf from this reptile Cafe, and left behind it only a thin Skin that had been its Covering. Such is undoubtedly the Production of the Butter- fly from the Silk-Worm, and from all the Cater- pillar Tribe : The pretended Metamorphofis oif thefc Creatures is but the Child of Error and Igno- rance in the Obfervers •, and the Caterpillar is no more than the future Fly, covered by a peculiar Cafe, and preferved in it from Injuries, till its Wings, and every other Part of its delicate Frame, are in a Condition to bear the Impulfe of the Sun and Air, naked. ■ The new-born Inhabitant of the Air would now have been fuffocated, in an Inftant, by the Ele- ment it had before fo long lived and enjoyed itfelf in : It therefore carefully avoided it; firft tried its newly difentanglcd Legs, and gained by thcfc the Summit of the Herb, compared to itfelf a tower- ing Pine: The Sun, which at firft fecmtd to create it, in its reptile State, out of the Mud, now feem- cd to enlarge its Wings ; they unfolded as they dried ; and at length fhewed their filky Struflure perfcft and bright ; The Creature now began to quiver them in various Degrees of Elevation and ; . , . . D 2 ■ Deprefliori, I- 20 The InfpeBor. N* 4;. Deprefljon, and at length employed them to their deftined Purpofc, launching at once into the Sea of Air, and fporting in the wide Expanfc with unrc- ftrained Jollity and Freedom. •'•"•'""'*;''...•. Happieft of thy Race, faid I ; how would thy Brother Infefts envy thee, couldthey imagine what was now thy State! Safe from the Danger of the devouring Fifh, delivered from the cold wet Ele-^" ment in which they live, and free as the very Air thou wantoneft about in ! I had fcarce finiflied my Ejaculation, when a fudden Cloud came on, the Sun's Face was qbfcured, the Air grew chill, ancl a Storm of Hail came rattling down upon the Water. The newly animated Swarms of Reptiles jnftant- ly plunged to their original Inaftivity in the Mud again; forgot the tranfient Pleafures'of the laft half Hour ; and waited in Tranquillity the more fa- vourable Seafon. Thefe were now fafe and at Eafc ; bur, alas! what was my Concern to fee the little Volatile I had before thought an Objeft for their Envy, denroyed by the firft falling of the frozen Rain, and floating dead ypon its* watery Bier. The Storm, that had been fatal to this unhappy Creature, fent me from the Scene of its Deftruftion, ruminating on the various Turns of Fate below, and determined never to be infolent in Profperity ; never to triumph over my Friend or Neighbour, for any favourable Event that may have happened to me i but to remember, in every Occurrence' of that flattering Kind, that the poor Fly, who knew not how his peculiar Fortune came about, forcfaw not the Ruin he alone was expofcd to by it. • *• Thk N''5- 7he JnjheBor. a The inspector. [N» 5. yf HisTORV ef a Q A K D E l^. yiifkyLyH A S I L, a Man of wary Judgment, ^ B h^ of confummate Prudence, full of Dif- ^^^^ cernment, and inflexible in the Right; ■* a Man fcemed to be formed on Purpofc for the Office, was called, fome Years ago,, to the JSupcrintcndency of a little Garden, furroundcd by a great Pond. He found it in excellent Condition, full of vigorous and thriving ufeful Plants, and profufely decked with ornamental Herbage ; its Soil was rich and fruitful i its Situation healthy } and its Ezpofures ' juft fuch as would inure the Plants to ftand the bom- mon Accidents of Wind and Froft ; without harden- ing them beyond a Senfibility of the Advantage of Sunfhine. Ii v/as not neccflary he fliould improve the Planta- tion tit fiourifhed under him : It continued what it was when he found it ; and in the fame healthful Sutc in which it had devolved to him, be left it to hisSac->^ ceflbr. ■ ' '•. ^ The new Intendant was happy to find the Scat of his Inheritance in fo flouriftiing a Condition ; and determined to do every thing that could conduce tQ the keeping it fo : He fearchcd into its carlicft Hif. tory i and traced its feveral fucceffive rifing and de- clining States, to the Origin of the one, as well as of the other. He found the Plants were all of a Kind •, he perceived they were naturally hardy, but nocftubboro} full bf :...- -Vi- 22 The InJpeBor. N*-^ Vigour, but not luxuriant-, and he was convinced, by the Annals of the Story he had read, that nothing had ever injarcd them like Reftraint. • , v* ^ It was the Cuftom of many of the neighbouring Gardeners at this time, to rule in their Plantations with an Iron Hand, and to look on Cruelty as the juft Exercife of Power: They would nail up the Trees to Walls ; tye them to Pofts \ cut them down every Year to the very Stumps ; and force their ten- der Branches into a thoufand whimfical Shapes, to pleafe their vitiated Fancies. It had been often whifper- cd to the Intendant of this little Spot, that he ought to employ the fame rigorous Methods; but he had always anfwered, Thit he found his Apricots were higher tafted, his Grapes full of a mellower Juice and his Nonpareils of a trjer Flavour, while the Trees that produced them were Standards, and fpread their wanton Arms about juft as they lifted, than the very beft of the like Produ(fls of thefc torturing Managers. It had always been the Cuftom, in thishappy Spot, to have two principal Gardeners under the Superior ; it was their Office to.afllft him in his Jurifdi(SUon, and prepare Things for his Infpeftion •, to take Cog- nizance of the Growth of the Flowers and Trees ; and to allot to each its deftined Spot, and proper Share of Nouriflimenr, as well as to cxaft from every one the allotted Quantity of Fruir, as a Share of the general Tribute to the Intendant, and of the Expencc of keeping the Whole in good Order. : ' The two principal Gardeners for thetlme being, TcOT and Harry^ though they were Brothers in Af- feclion, were of as different Difpofitions and Tern, pers as two People well could be : They both had the flourifhing State of the Garden throughly i: Heait> and \\ N° 5. T:he InJpeBor, 23 and both thought of their Superior as they ought ; that is, they loved and reverenced him i but they e:t- * prelTed their Sentiments in a Manner fuitable to their feveral Humours. Tpm lived a fort of idle Life ; but' he had the Infpedlion of the general Growth, and ' was the ultimate Refource in all Difputes about what fhould be done with the Plants. Harry had the Drud-' gery wholly upon his Shoulders : He was to dig and ^ toil, to fow and reap, and he alone had the Care of regulating the general Produce. * Tgm was a Fellow of a generous, haughty, care- lefs Spirit ; full of the Honour of his Poft, and above the Care of any thing beneath it : He would give fifty Dilhes for Dinner, when his Fmanccs would not pay for ten; he would throw a Main for fiv© thoufand Pounds, when his privy Purfe did not »- mount to two hundred ; he would talk of an Intriga? with a Whore, while he was figning a Conveyance of liis Eftate, or would wipe his with a 'DAa- ■ vat's Ticket : The Salvation of Mankind would not have made him leave his Bottle un&nifhcd ; fau give only the hundred thoufandth Part of a Glance at the Honour of his Office, and it were fafer to have confpircd againft the Grand Signer. Harryy without any thing of this high-flown Dif- pofition, was fond of the Ufe of Power ; but he was very careful how he abufed it: He would rcflife no thing that was equitable ; but he would do nothing till he had examined whether it really were fo; hi had an excellent Head at Figures, and could tell at a fingle View how many Pears or Apples every Tree in the Garden (barring Accidents) wc uld produce for the Year. ,• .■--•:•...* . . .'•'••^•' Whatever 24 Xhe InfpeSlor. N* $/. Whatever was to be done for the Service of the In- . tendant they both heartily concurred in i all the Dif- . ference was, that Harry would deliberate upon zvtiy Cir».un:iftance before he faid yes, and would fome- times grumble ; but he always complied; Totity on the other hand, thought one careful Head was e- nough in a Family, and would ufually at once con- cur in the Refolution, and intend to think of it after- wards. In fuch Hands refted the Care of our little Spot under the Intendancy of this its Principal. There was nothing he propofed for the general Good that' both did not readily agree in ; nothing that did not occur to him of the fame Kind, that they omitted , to put him in mind of. He had found the Plants; in a State of unrcftraine d Freedom of Growth, and. he had indulged them in a Continuance of it.: Every one fpread its Roots far and wide as it. pleafed j and the meancft Herb fcattered its Proge-. ny into the moft fertile Spots with Impunity. If. there was a Weaknefs, indeed, in the prefent In^ tendant, it was his over Tendemcfs for the Produce of the Garden. One of the fundamental Eftablifli- ments of the Place was, that no Individual fhoul(^ be deftroyed without his immediate Concurrence ; and it always was, wiih infinite Pain and Reluftance. that he even would permit a Weed to be pulled up, though it had ftraggled into the Middle of a Walk,. or had choaked or ftarved a ufeful Plant that was its Neignbour: The tearing oflF but of a Leaf in Wan'onnefs ncv(;r failed to give him" Pain; and Tow ufcd often tolly, that if a Bramble had rooted itfcif in his Bedchamber, he would not, for the ../ World's N». ^. ^^ InJpeBor. 25 World's Empire, be the Man that fliould attempt to dig it up. The natural Humanity, and innate good Difpo- fition of the Intendant, had implanted in his Heart this Love to every Thing about him ; and Harry had long induftriouQy fypportcd it in him, by con- tinually repeating in his Ear, that the Number of Plants was the true Riches of a Garden. Indult^encc always does well with the Worthier Objects ; but the meaner are often ruined by it. Propagation went on abundantly in the feveral Beds, and the Plants increafed beyond Imagination : They threw about their wanton Branches at Pleafure; they grew luxuriant, but they became enfeebled : The Root can fupply but its deftined Quantity of Nourifliment, and if that is expended in ufelefs Leaves, there can be none for Fruit : So it hap- pened with our once fertile Spot : Liberty was now overturning all its Conftitution, and Indulgence was fuffering it to run into utter Ruin : The Nonpareil degenerated into its primaeval Crab; the Green- Gage Tree produced the rough Sloej and the Artichoke dwindled into a Thiftlc, pricking Pcq>lc*s Legs, inftead of producing them a Supper. It now appeared, that though the Number of Plants was indeed the Riches of the Garden, while they produced their natural Stores \ yet when they brought forth nothing for the general Good, their Number was, on the contrary, the Dcftruftion of the Land they fed on. Boats had been ufcd to obfcure the whole Face of the Pond every Morning, as they carried ova- Loads of the abundant Produce of the Garden to the Market Towns on the other Side -, but now the E fvll 26 7be InfpcBor. N°. ^. full Veflels all bent their Courfc toward the Place itfclf, and thofe which went off were empty, except that they carried the Money for the Purchafe. Harryy who had hitherto concurred in every Step of Gentlenefs and Encouragement to the Produce of the Soil, now found other Means were neceflary : He was the firft to whifper to the Intendant the Ruin that threatned the Garden : He could not propofe rigorous Meafures in regard to the unhappy Objedts of his Care ; and be knew, if he did, the Superior would not have complied with them : He reminded him that there was yet Room in the Place for many a ufeful Plant; he told him, that every Corner of the Earth afforded Trees of Value, that might be tranfplantcd into this Garden i that the Soil was fo rich, and the CEconomy of the Place fo defirable, that nothing once permitted to enjoy its Blefljngs, would ever wifh to remove out of it again ; that thofe that were brought in Strangers would commence Denizons, as foon as they were fixed in it; and that in the next Age it would not be remembered that the original Stocks of the richcft Plants had ever come in Strangers. The Advice was too rational not to be followed : The Garden was immediatdy declared the free Home or every valuable Herb in the World : The whole Face oi Things was inftantly changed ; every Spot of t.'ic Soil fwarmed with ufeful Herbage, and the very wijdcft of the Natives, now mixed among the others, became as regular in their Growth, and « rich in their Produce, as the bcft of the Plants that grew about.them. - Tii: n si N^ 6. The InfpeBor. 27 n The INSPECTOR. N<^. 6. ?*'^^"*IHE nobleft Enjoyment of the Mind of j]^ T qI^ Man is the contemplating the Works of his Creator : In the Face of Nature we fee his Power, his Wifdom, and his Be- nificence, in Pages written by his own eternal Hand ; in Characters legible to every Eye; and (lamp- ed with Proof of all that they affert. The Man who falls into this happy Turn of Obfervation, kc% his Creator in every Objeft that occurs to him : The vileftWeed, the meaneft Infedl, as the Vulgar term them, to him are conteftible Evidences of the greateft of all Truths : His Life is one continu:d K6t of Adoration. I am led into thefe Obfervationsby Objefts no more eminent than the Strufture of a common Flower, and the Employment of an Infeft within its little Cavity. I had the Pleafure to attend Yefterday a very amiable and wonhy Friend to his Villa at a few Miles Diftance from Town ; and while the Com- pany were high in Mirth over the Afternoon's Bottle, flipped out of the Way of an Entertainment I have no great Rthfh for, to enjoy half an Hour's fobcr Thought, and falutary Air. My Eyes are always open to Nature's Beauties ; but a Perfon lefs apt to pay his Attention to fuch Objefts, could hardly have reftrained his Admira- tion here : An Almond-tree, in the Centre of the Garden, prefented to the Eye one immchfc Tuft of Flowers, covering its whole Surface. The Beauty E 2 of 28 Ihe hifpeSt^r. N**. 6, of fuch a Glow of living Purple would at any time have been an Objeft for Admiration i but at a Sea- fop when every thing clfe is dead, when not a Leaf appears on any of the vegetable World befides, but the adjoining Trees feem the bare Skeletons of what the Summer had Ihewn them, it claimed a peculiar Share of Attention. An inquifftive Eye cannot content itfelf with the Superficies of Objeds ; it loves to pry into their in- ward Receflcs, and feldom fails of a Reward more than proportioned to the Trouble of the Refearch, Every one muft have obfervcd, that in all Flowers there is an Apparatus in the Centre, different fron> the leafy Strufturc of the Verge, which is what ftrikes -the Eye at firft Sight : The Threads which fupport the yellow Heads in the Centre of a Rofe, and thofe which fcrve as Pedeftals to the lefs numerous, but larger, dulky ones in the Tulip, are of this kind : In the earlier Ages of natural Knowledge, thcfe were efteemed no niore than cafual Particles of Mat- ter, or the Effefl of a Luxuriance frqm an abundant Store of Nourifhment fent up to the Leaves of the Flower, and throwing itfelf into thefe uncertain Forms, as thpy were then efteemed : The more im- proved Science of our Times, difclaims fuch vague Ideas, difclaims the Supppfition of Nature's having made any thing, any the flighteft Particle of the mean- eft Herb, in vain •, and in Confequence of Refrarches founded on this juft Hypothefis, has di 'covered, that the gaudy Leaves fuppofed by thefe Philofophcrs tp conftitutc the EflTence of the Flower, arc indeed of very Jittlc Cpnfcquepce in the CEconomy of the Sub- jeft J that they are placed but as a Defence to the ?i>My Matter within ^ which, dcf|)if«;d as i^ ufcd ■ to N». 6. The InfpcSior. 29 to be, is indeed the moft eflential Part of the Whole ; is that for which almoft the Whole has been formt-d, and that alone on which the Continuation of the Species depends. It has been found, that of the minuteft Threads in this little Tuft, there is not one but has its deftined Office, not one but joins in the common Service ; and tlut though they appear fo numerous and indefinite, there is not a fingle Flower on the whole Tree but has them in the fame Num- ber to the utmoft Exafbiefs, and 'pun^ually in the fame Situation ; nor that there ever fias been, or ever will be, through fuccefTive Ages, a Tree of the fame Kind, every fingle Flower of which will not be formed with the fame perfeft Regularity. It was with an uncommon Pleafure that I faw a Confirmation of this accurate Exadnefs in the Care of Providence, ever> in the minuteft of its Works, in this beautiful Object : Not a Flower of the Milli- ons that here crowded upon the Sight in every Part, but contained its precife Number of thirty little Threads ; and not one of thefe, but had its regular- ly figured Head placed in the fame Diredtion on its Summit, and filled with the fame Powder, deftined for impregnating the already teeming Fruit : This (hewed its tender Form, its downy Rudiments in the Centre ; and fent up a peculiar Organ to the Height of thefe Heads, to receive the fertilizing Duft when they ftiould burft, and to convey it to the very Centre of the Embrio, thtrc to inform its Kernel with the vegetable Soul, and render it ca^ pable of (hooiing up into a Tree of the fame Kind. Such is the (S.conomy of Nature in the Prpdudion of her vegetable Treafures ; but fhc has ufually more Purpofcs than pnc to ^nfwer in die fame Subjedl. It . 1 . was The InfpeBor. was eafy to conceive, that one of all thtfe little Re- ceptacles of Duft might have contained enough of it for the impregnating the Kernel of a fingle Fruit ; for each Flower produces no more : Twenty-nine in thirty, it was eafy to fee could not be created in vain i nor was it long before the Myftery was ex- plained to me. The Sun which flionewith an uncommon Warmth for tlv: Seafon, and had now opened a thoufand ad- ditional Bloflbms to the Number I had firft feen, led fourth a Bee from a neighbouring Hive, who dircftcd her Way immediately to thb Source of Plen- ty- This little Creature firft fettled on the Top of one of the Branches, and, for a Moment, fecmed to en- joy the Scene as I did : She juft gave me Time to admire her fleek, filky Co.it, and glofly Wings, be- fore fhe plunged into a full blown Bloflbm, and bu- ried herfclf among the thready Honours of the Centre of it : She wantoned and rolled herfelf about, as if in Extafy, a confiderable Time there-, and by her Motions greatly difconcerted the Apparatus of the Flower: The ripe Heads of the thready Filaments all burft, and (hed a fubtile yellow Powder over the whole Surface of the Leaves -, nor did the Creature ftop its Gambols, while one of them remained either whole, or with any Appearance of the Duft in its Cavity. ■ .' Tired with Enjoyment, as it might naturally have feemed, (he now walked out, and appeared to have paid for the Mifchief fhe had done, at the Expence of ftrangely defiling her own downy Coat. Though fome of the Duft from the little Capfules had been fpread over the Surface of the Flower, the far greater iPart \: fe N'. 6. The InfpeBor. 31 Part of it had evidently fallen upon her own Back, and been retamed there among the Shag of its Co- v.ering. She once more placed herfelf on the Summit of a little Twig, and foon began to clear herfelf of this new-gathered Duft. It was with great Admiratkn that I obfcrvcd the Readinefs with which fhe executed this ; it was not half a Minute before her whole Coat was as clean and glolTy as at firft ; and what appeared more fingular was, that not a Particle of the Duft had fallen upon any of the Flowers about her, where it muft have been vifible as eafily as on the Surface of that it was taken from. A very laboured Motion of the Fore-kgs of the little Animal foon diredled my Eye thither, and the whole Bufinefswas then immediately explained: I found fhe had carefully brought together every Par- ticle that fhe had wiped off from her Body, and formed it into a Mafs, which fhe was now moulding into a firmer Texture, and which fhe foon after de- livered to the next Leg, and from that, after a little moulding more, to the hinder one, were fhe lodged it in a round Lump in a Part deftined to receive it ; and having thus finithed her Operation, took Wing for the Hive with her Load. It appeared therefore evidently now, that what had feemed Sport and Paftime, was real Bufincfs to the Infefl i that its rolling itfelf about was with Intent to diflodge this yellow Duft from the little Cafes that contained it, and that rhis Powder, the Abundance of which it was eafy to perceive could not be created for the Service of the Plant, was dcflincd to furnifh the Bee with Wax to make its Combs, and 10 fcrve us for a thoufand Purpofcs afterwards. * The The TnJPeSior. N". 6. The Return of this finglc Infeft to the Hive, fent out a Legion upon the fame Expedition. The Tree was in an Inftant covered almoft as thick with Bees as with Flowers. All thefe employed themfelvcs cx- aftly as the firft had done, except that fome of them being reduced to enter Bloflbms yet hardly opened, in which the Refervoirs of this waxy Powder were not ripe for burfting, were forced to take a more laborious Method : It was with great Satisfaftion that I faw thefe bite open fucceflivcly every one of the thirty Heads in the Flower, and fcooping out the Contents, add them to the increafmg Ball, that was to be at length carried home on the Thigh. Such then is the Furpofe of Nature in what might appear to us Profufion in the abundant Quantity of this Powder : The Bee wants it, though the Plant does not ; and the Pains that Animal takes to get it out, never fail to anfwer the Purpofe of impregnat- ing the Fruir, a vaft Quantity of it being thus feat- tercd over the Organs deftined to the conveyine it thither. ^ The making the Comb is not, however, the only Purpofe to which thb Powder ferves the Bee: It is the natural Food of that Creature : What is lodged in the Hive is eaten by the Swarm, and after it has been retained in the Stomach long enough to be di- yefted of its nutritive Matter, it is difgorged in a State juft ready for moulding farther into real and finiOjcd Wax, Thus, in thegreatChain of Beings that wffce about us, no one is created folely for itfelf ; Each is fubfer- vicnt to the Purpofcs of others; each, befide the primordial Office it is dcftined to, affifts, or is the Means of Good to another, perhaps to many. How great >J N»7- rhe InJPeBcr. 33 great the Eye that comprehends this at one View » how infinite the Wifdom that appdnted it! The inspector. [N' iroi Tyriufve mihi mtUo difarumae agatur. ^/«n«5^PAMPHLETappeaTedfomcfewDays ' h. ^ A ^^'^^ ^"^ ^^ ^'^'^ °* ^ Propefal for )e(kj«f)^ """"^'"S the Kingdoms eT Great Britain and Ireland. The Wits gf our CofiFce-houfcs were very warm in their Enquiries, whether this was to be done by at Bridge, or an artificial Ifthmus ; fome gueflTed it was to be executed by^a Bank conti- nued from the Ring*s End ; and others by the throw- ing Arches over the Giant* s Caufetoay\ the Peers being, in that Cafe, already raifed, and not liable to finking. It was cafy for Men of lefs refined Specula- tion to fee, that the Author meant the uniting the Power, txhe Interefts. and the Affeftions of the two Nations, not their Lands; and this appeared to eve- ry body in the leaft aquaintcd with the natural Inter- ells of both, fo far froKi impofljble, and fo extreme- ly defircable, that the Propofal foon made its Way into a Multitude of Hands, and happily, among others, into many that may be of Ufe in the bring- ing the Plan into Execution. The Pamphlet is written in a clear, fuccinft, ner- vous, but afFecled Stile : The Periods follow in a natural Succcffion ; the Argi:ments are rather de- duced from, than connefted with, one another ; and the Intent of the Whole is evidently to point out a common Good. '•- ' F . It 34 'The InfpeBor. N<> 7, It is to the Author's Honour, that fo far is na- tional Partiality from baiffing him, on any Occafion, that it is not to be difcovered from the Work, whe- ther he be of the one or the other of the two Nations z He feems to enter with the fame Spirit of Candour and Juftice into the Interefts of both ; and to confi- der them, as he would have them made, not two, but one Nation. That he is a Proteftantj and that he is well affefted to the prefent Eftablifliment, is cafily difcovered : But thefc, furely, are not Circumftances that a Man ought to wilh to conceal. If there are two or three Sentences that may feem to favour of too much Warmth in this Particular, an ingenuous Mind will confidcr that every Man does and ought to love the Syftem he is attache^ to? and that an honeft Affec- tion of this kind may eafily inlpire Sentiments, which, by People of an oppoCte Party, may be conftrued into Aduladon. The Author, whoever he is, fees clearly enough into the Interefts of both Nations to difcover, that an Union would be for the Good of both j and very clearly lays down the Advantages .that both would receive from it, as Inducements to the promoting ir. He throws in:o the Scale of England the Incrcafc of Subjefts, not by i-xo Millions^ which b about the Number of thejircfcnt Inhabitants of Ireland, but by fix Amnions, the Number it would be capable of maintaining under its more cultivated State in an Union with Great Britain. To this he adJs the Confideration of the ftrcngthening the Proteftant In- terefts. He propofes a general Naturalization for all Pcrfons of that Church ; the Confcquences of which would evidently be, that as the Benifits of '• Tfade f^ No 7. Tlbe InfpcSIor. 3^ Trade would encourage Foreigners to fettle in Ireland, and as all that fettled there would, on this Eftablifliment, be Proteftants, the Popifli Intereft would, even in the prefent Age, become inconfider- able, and, in a few Years Ireland would be abfolutc- Jy a Proteftant Nation. The great Objeftion againft Foreigners fettling in Ireland, heobferves, is the Unhealthinefs of the Cli- mate ; but this, he adds, is owing merely to its Bogs ; which were all once dry Land, and will eafily, under the Circumftances of fuch a Union, become, by Means of Cultivation, dry Land again, and the Country as healthful as any in Europe. The Branches of Trade he would be for favouring in Ireland, are fuch as are too Isxgtior England alonz to manage; thofe a confiderable Part of which the French zn(\ other Nations at prefent carry from us: ' The Riches that would be obtained by the Inhabitants of Ireland from thefe, he obferves, would all center in England by Means of the Taxes and Duties, and of the Refidence of the principal People, at Icaft, du. ring a great Part of the Year, in that Kindom. ^ The Union he propofes is not a fcederal, or par- tial, but a compleat and perfeA one, an abfolutc Incorporation of the two Kingdoms, formed into one Government, under the fame Laws, and repre- ' fenced by the fame Parliament j enjoying the fame Privileges, and paying the fame Taxes: In this Cafe, as there would be no Court nor Parliament in Dublin, the Reprefcntatives of Ireland, and all the People of Pleafure and Expence would be, at Jeaft for the moft Part here; and in thb Cafe, fuppofing the Trade of Ireland to increafe and flourilh evet fo much, England could have no room for Uncafinefi ' 2 about ne infpeSlor. N-7. i I-- \ about it, fince it would be the fame thing to the Kingdom, now become one, in what Part of it any particular Branch was encouraged. After enumerating thefe and many other evident Advantages that mud accrue to England by the pro- pofed Union, he enters into the Confidcration of what ought to be Motives on the Irijh Side. He obfcrves, that Ireland at prefent has no Cha- tafler, not even a Name in the Afirairs of Europe; that it has no Being as a Nation, nor any domeftic Trade, or foreign Influence, but under the Protedlion of Great Britain ', and that ftiould Ihe withdraw that Proteftion, Ireland muft fall a Prey to the firft In- vader, without even a Power of choofing its Mafter : Inftead of this, under fuch a Union, he obfervcs, flie would become a Part of a powerful Kingdom.' He adds, that Ireland at prefent is, in general, mi- ferably poor, and the greater Part of its Inhabitants Slaves ; but that under the Influence of fuch an Union, the whdie Nation would become rich, and the lower Clafs of People would be fet on a Footing with thofc of the fame Rank with us ; in fine, that every Indivi. dual would become happier, as well as the general Body greater, richer, and more rcfpedlable. After thus ftating the Cafe of the fevcral Argu- ments on both Sides, to induce them to an Union, he goes on to prove, that both Nations will have mere and greater Advanugcs as Nations, by it, than they can have fingly. To the Difficulty that might naturally be propofed as to the uniting two Nations, fo difpro- pordoned in Wealth, Power, and Commerce, he an- fwers, by the familiar Inftanceof two Merchants, who, hojycvcr unequal their Stocks may be, and however difproportioncd their Debts, may yet enter into Part- ner- N° 8. IT^e InfpeBor. 37 nerlhip in Trade, -with a perfefl Equality of the Pror portion of their feveral Profits. When the Author has thus evinced to both Nations the Advantages of an Union, he adds, in a particular Manner to Great Britain^ the Reafons for bringing it into Execution at this time. The Irijbj he obfervcs, by a late Spirit of Emulation, encouraged by Pre- miums, are improving the Manufaflures of their Na- tion i Succefs, and an Increafe of Wealth from thefe improved Branches of Trade, he adds, may make them vain enough to refufe an Unipn hereafter ; ia which, though they only would be in the wrong, both Nations -tvould be the Suflferers. The inspector. [N" 8. /in Account of a remarkable Difcovery hy the AEcrofcope* )9(<(»)>)8( T has been a common Obfervation among "♦I # the curious and inqufitivc Part of Man- y^imy^ kind, that in inveftigating one Subje&, there often is thrown new Light upon an- other : Something quite unexpefted flarts up in the Courfe of the Inquiry, and the accidental Difcovery is often of more Importance than the original Bufineis of the Refearch. It is in this Light that we fee the in- finite Ufe of experimenting : To a careful and atten- tive Man fcarce any one Obfervation of this kind evci* paflTed without its Ufe, without lome Addition to Science j however much it may have failed in regard to the Purpofc it was inftituted to ferve. A very Angular Inftance of this is the Occurence that is to be the Subjeft of this Paper. The extreme Clearnefs and Tranquillity of one of the Mornings of the 38 The InfpeSior, ' Nog. the laft Week, had carried me out on my accuftomed Walk, fomewhat earlier than ufual, in Hyde-Park : The Grafs was fpangled with ten thcufand frozen Dew-drops, which as the Sun darted his flant Beams ag.iinft them, gave, by their varied Reflexions, all the Colours of the Rainbow ; and repreftnted nothing Icfs upon the green Floor, than a Pavement covered with Brilliants'. The Edges of the little Ponds were froz-n ; and as I caft my Eye on a Iheltered Corner of one of them, there appeared fomething of a very beaiJtiful Regula- rity in the frozen Rime that rofe abovt the Surface of the Ice, I am an univcrfal Admirer of the Works of the Creator, and .Tu n:ver unprovided of a Conveni- ence for carrying he oje any iKing that feems to de- mand pecuJiar Attention, orpromife fomething new: I carefully packed up a Portion of this Ice, with the Rime upon it, between two Parcels of the frozen Grafs, and haftened home to examine it. What I had intended as the Bufinefs of the Inquiry was. Whether the beautifully ramofe Forms into which this Rime had frozen, were or were not rc- fcrrable to any of the known Figures of the natural Flakes of Snow. To be afceruined of this, I cut ofl^a fmall Portion of the Ice, with its Ramifications on it, and laid it on a Plate of Glafs before one of Scarlet's double Microfcopes. Though I had brought it fafcly home my Purpofe here was fruftrated : I had the Caution to make the Obfcrvation in a Room where there had been no Fire; but the whole Expanfe of the Air was fo warm by this time, that the delicate tibres of my icy Efflorcfcencc melted ro Water be- fore I could adapt the GLfTcs for the Obfervation: The % -i f;.. M vi N° 8. The InfpeSfor. 39 The more folid Ice that had been their Bafe, thawed inflantly alfo, and the Wholt; became a half-round . Drop of clear Fluid on the Plate. t-"' > I was taking my Eye from the Obfervation, when I accidentally difcovered Motion in the Water, and> could difcern fome-opake and movable Spots in it.- The Glafles calculated for examining the Strudure, of fo comparatively large a Body as the Piece of Ice, were by no Means fit for the viewing thefe in- finitely more minute Objefts ; I adapted Magnifiers of greater Power, and when the Drop of Water was thus fwelled into a Sea for my Obfervation, I could, diftinftly obferve, that it fwarmed with living Jnha-. bitants. The extreme Minutenefs and delicate Frame of thefe tender Animalcules, one would imagioe,- muft have rendered them liable to Deftrud ion from the flighted Injuries i but, on the contrary, it appears from Experiment, that they are, in Reality, hardy beyond Expreflion ; It 'has been already proved- by that excellent Nituralift Mr. TurbeviUe Nee/iham, that the Heat of boiling Water will not deftroy the tender Frame of thofe minute E^ls, that occafion the Blight in Com ; and here is an additional Proof that Animalcules of vaftly finer Stru6bure and minuter Parts, are not to be hurr, by being frozen up and embodied in folid Ice, to them folid Adamant, for whole Nights, or probably for whole Weeks to- .gethcr. .. - ^' ., . • The Difcovery of Animals in a Fluid thns'pro;- duccd, was M.itter of fufficient Admiration i but the inquifitive Mind knows not where to flop: J put on yet more powerful Glafles, that I might not content myfcif with barely feeing that there were Animals in the Water, but might examine their Pans.. Na- 40 'the InfpeSior. N» &.. ture is pregnant with Subjetas of Admiration. Thefe Glafles, at the fame time that they difcovered to the Eye the amazing Strufture of the firil-mentioned Animalcules, produced to View Myriads of other fmaller ones, of different Forms and Kinds, which had been invifible under the other Magnifien ; but which were now feen fporting and rolling their round Forms about in a thoufand intricate Meanders. How great the Power ! how unboxmdcd the Bene- ficence of him, whoj not to leave the leaft Part of Space nnocaipied by what may be happy in it, has created fuch innumerable Series of Beings, invifible to us ; nay, which if twenty thoufand times larger tiian they are, would ftill be invifible to our naked Eyes ! How infinite the Wifdom that has provided for them all ! the Mercy that gave them Being, did St but to give them Happinefs, and would not leave them unprovided of any thing neceffary to them ! I was examining the larger, firft -difcovered Ani- malcules, which appeared Colofll to the reft, and were rolling their vaft Forms about in the Sea cf Liquor, like Whales in the Ocean; when one of them expanding the Extremity of its Tail into fix times its former Circumference, and thrufling out all round It an innumerable Series of Hairs, applied ic dofely and evenly to the Surface of the Plate, and fixed itfelf firmly by Means of it in its Place. In an Inftant after, the whole Mais of the cir- cumjacent Fluid, and all in it, was in Motion about the Head of the Creature ; on dircfting my Eye that Way, the Caufe appeared evidently enough ; the Animal had thruft out, as it were, two Hi» ■ ^ \ V' N°, 9. The InfpeSlor.^ .43" and Ornaments of Botanical Knowledge, fome Years fince fet on foot a Contribution to pay. a Pcrfon refiding in North America^ for travelling over the Country, and collefting ripe Seeds of the more cu- rious Trees and Plants, to be propagated here. John Bartranty from his having the uncommon Qualification, for that Part of the World, of being able to read and write, was pitched upon to be the Man: He was at that time a poor Cottager in Penfyhania^ with no Knowledge, nor even any Thought of Klnowledge, beyond that of the digging the Ground, and diftinguifhing the Products of it y but he no fooner found himfelf thus not barely at Leifure to indulge his natural Cgriofity, but paid for doing it, than he fat down in earned to the Study of Botany, and that not by the fliort Road of Books, but by the more Jlow, but more certain Me- thod, the Book of Nature. He executed his Commiflion faithfully and judi- • cioufly : We owe folcly to him the Introduction of a Multitude of the North- Americans, that now make fo great a Figure in our Gardens ; and the bcft Bo- tanical Writers of the prefent Time find frequent Occafion to mention him wjth Honour, ^ Hefentover, with the Seeds, from time to time, . Specimens of the Plants they belonged to, and foon began to write, in his uncouth Way, fome Account of where he found them, and what he had obfcrved of them. The Intimacy I had the Honour to maintain with, his two great Patrons, gave me Opportunities of reading thefc his Obfervations i and I can hardly re- member a more fcnfiblc Pleafurc than I have felt on Xpmai king how hi« Accounts with every frdh Car^ G *• 8^ 44 7h£ TnJpeSfor. N». 9, go, fhewed his Improvement jn the Knowledge qf the Subjcft. From the moft abje£l Ignorance, he, by Degrees, became able to write fcnfibly ; and, in fine, inftruciivcly. At prcfcnt it is not faying at aU too much of him to afHrm, thai; he knows much pore of Botany, as a Science, than fomc Profcflbrs of it in Europe do. His Letters are always efteemed Trcafures of Knowledge i his Accounts of things arc above Difpute, and he has had the Honour {telqu^U ejl) of having fcvcral of his Obfcrvations publiflied in the Tranfafbions of our Royal Society. After fuch an Account of the Author, the World will not wonder that the Piece under our Confide- ration ftiould contain a great deal of good Matter, thrown together without the niceft Rules of Judg- ment. His Patrons are dead, and the Spirit of Botany ii» England i& in a great Meafurc dead with them. The Journey, which gave Opportunity for his making thcfs Remark?, was on a Govcrnment-Bufinefs, which he executed as faithfully as he had done his former Engagements. The Indians of the Part of Jmerica he travelJecJ. to, he obfcrves, are a fubtle, prudent People, judi- cious in their Ccunfels, and indefatigable in their Attempts ; hofpitable when they have no Fear j but often cruel through Sufpicion, and always revengeful. The Men are naturally lazy and indolent \ the Wo- men are continual Slaves, but they are modeft, fond^ and obedient. Thcfe Indians have been always a warlike People j the Tcror of their Name has been fpread to a thoufand Miles diftant ; and till of lare». titat the French have aflfifted their Enemies, their . , , Yi^Qtia 1^ "N". 9. ^<^ JnfpeSlor, 45 Viftories have been almoft of the fame Number with their Battles. , They once ufed to murder all the Slaves they took in War} but, the Author obfcrves, they now adopt them into their Families. The have very confufed, Notions of Religion, but they acknowledge a Deity y and they have flrange Ideas of the Power of InchanU ment and Witchcraft. They imagine their Priefts fee the Dcity» ^et certain Forms of Humiliation, In the Shape of & Bird -, and that he tells them all thac istQ be done; And the Author, in his Way up a Hfll, to feck for. Plants, happening to roll fome loofe Stones down, they affured him it would caufe rainy Weather, and did not fail to attribute the next Showers to it. By all this we may iot, that Ignorance is naturally fii« perftitious; and that where there is Superflitioo,. (here will not be wanting Priefts to make theix Ad- vantages of it. ■' - The Town of Onondaga, the Metropolisi of the Indians in this Part of jimerica, the Author tells us» is-fituated in a fine Vale, and has a large River run- ning through it : Its Extent in Length is between two and three Miles •, but he adds, that however con- fiderable it may have been before the French bunic it in 1696, at prcfent it is no better than a Mixture of little Cabins and uncultivated Spots *, the Cabins j^rc not more than forty in Number} and there arc Paftures, and even little Woods, between them. OfwegOy the fccond Place mentioned in the Title to this Pamphlet, is but an Infant-Settlement, made by the Province of New-Tbrk \ but with the Advan- tage of gaining the Command of five large Lakes to (he Cfown ofQre^it Briffiiny the Navigation and Tra^ 22 fbe InfpeSior. .N*-^ Vigour, but not luxuriant-, and he was convinced, by the Annals of the Story he had read, that nothing had ever injured them like Reftraint. ; , It was the Cuftom of many of the neighbouring Gardeners at this time, to rule in their "Plantations with an Iron Hand, and to look on Cruelty as the juft Exercife of Power: They would nail up the Trees to Walls \ tye them to Pofts ; cut them down every Year to the very Stumps ; and force their ten- der Branches into a thoufand_ whimfical Shapes, to pleafc their vitiated Fancies. Ichad been often whifper- cd to the Intendant of this little Spot, thai he ought to employ the fame rigorous Methods-, but he had always anfwercd. That he found his Apricots were higlier tafted, his Grapes full of a mellower Juice, and his Nonpareils of a truer Flavour, while the Trees that produced them were Standards, and Ipread their wanton Arms about juft as they lifted, than the very bcft of the like Produfts of thefe torturing Managers. It had always been the Coftom, in this'happy Spot, to have two principal Gardeners under the Superior v it was their Office toafllft him in his JurifdidUon, and prepare Things for his Infpcftion \ to take Cog- nizance of the Growth. of the Flowers/and Trees-, and to allot to each its deftined Spot, and proper Share of Nourifhmenr, as well as to rxaft from every one the allotted Quantity of Fruit, as a Share of the general Tribute to the Intendant, and of the Expencc , of keeping the Whole in good Order. : ■ ,. The two principal Gardeners for thctime being, Tom and Harryy though ihey were Brothers in Af- fcdion, were of as different Difpofitions and Tern- pers as two People well could be : They both had ^heaourilhingStatc of the Garden throughly 4: Heait> and N»5. Tie InfpeSor. . 23 and both thought of their Superior as they ouo-ht ; that is, they loved and reverenced him j but they ci- * preffed their Sentiments in a Manner fuitable to their feveral Humours. Tpm lived a fort of idle Life ; but" he had the Infpcdion of the general Growth, arid was the ultimate Rcfource in all Difputes about what fhould be done with the Plants. Harry had the Drud- gery wholly upon his Shoulders : He was to dig and ^ toil, to fow and reap, and he alone had the Care of regulating the general Produce, * Tpm was a Fellow of a generous, haughty, carc- lefs Spirit ; full of the Honour of his Poft, and above the Care of any thing beneath it: He would give fifty Difhes for Dinner, when his Finances would not pay for tenj he would throw a Main for five thoufand Pounds, when his privy Purfe did not a- mount to two hundred \ he would talk bf an Intrigus with a Whore, while he was figning a Conveyance of hisEftate, or would wipe his with a Dela' woTs Ticker : The Salvation of Mankind would not havr made him leave his Bottle unfinifhed ; bu givf only the hundred thoufandth Part of a Glance at the Honour of his Office, and it were fafer to have confpired againftdie Grand Signor. Harry^ without any thing of this high-flown Dif- pofition, was fond of the Ufc of Power ; but he was very careful how he abufed it: He would refiife no thing that was equitable j but he would do nothing till he had examined whether it really were fo ; hi had an excellent Head at Figures, and could tell at a fingle View how many Pears or Apples every Tree in the Garden (barring Accidents) wculd produce fi>r the Year. • ^' ;-' '•• .'-•-•••:-•* ■• ■ — - • '"'■ ^ Whatever 44 'The InJpeStor. N». 9, go, /hewed his Improvement jn the Knowledge qf the Subjcft. From the moft abjeft Ignorance, he, by Degrees, became able to write fenfibly; and, in fine, inftructively. At prcfcnt it is not faying at all too much of him to affirm, that he knows much inore of Botany, as a Science, than fomc Profcflbrs of it in Europe do. His Letters are always cftcemed Trcafures of Knowledge j bis Accounts of things arc :^boye Difpute, and he has had the Honour (telqu^U ejl) of having feveral of his Obfervations publiflicd in the Tranfadions of our Royal Society, After fuch an Account of the Author, the World will not wonder that the Piece under our Confide- ration fhould contain a great deal of good Matter, thrown together without the niceft Rules of Judg- ment. His Patrons are dead, and rhe Spirit of Botany in England is in a great Meafure dead with them. The Journey, which gave Opportunity for his making thcfe Remark?, was on a Government-Bufincfs, which he executed as faithfully as he had done his former Engagements. The Indians of the Part of jimcrica he travelle ■».■• *• U "N«. 9. !^ InfpeBor, 45 Vi£tories have been almoft of the fame Number with their Battles. , They once ufed to murder all the Slaves they took in War ; but, the Author obfcrves, they now adopt them into their Families. The have very confufcd. Notions of Religion, but they acknowledge a Deity i, and they have flrange Ideas of the Power of Inchant. IDcnt and Witchcraft. They imagine their Priefb fee the Petty, ^ter cenain Forms of Humiliation, In the Shape of a; Bird-, and that he tells them all that is, tQ be done; And the Author, in his Way up a HiU» tofcdc £ar Plants, happening to roll fome loole Stones down, they afTured him it would caule nuny Weather, and did not fail to attribute the next Showers to it. By all this we may fee, that Ignorance is. natorally fit- perflitious; and that where there b Superftitioo^ there wil> not be wanting Priefts to make their Ad- vantages of it. ' - The Town of Onondago, the Metn^is' of the Jn&aii in this Part of America^ the Author tells us, 4S-fituated in a fine Vale, and has a large River ruiK ning through it : Its Extent in Length b between two and three Miles •, but he adds, that however coo- fiderable it may have been before the French bumc it in 1696, at prefent it is no better than a Mixture of little Cabins and uncultivated Spots} the Cabins are not more than forty in Number; and there are Paftures, and even little Woods, between them. OjwegOt the fecond Place mentioned in the Title to this Pamphlet, is but an Infant-Settlement, made by die Province of New-Tork \ but with the Advan- tage of gaining the Command of five large Lakes to the Cj-own oi Qre^t Britfiui, the Navigation and Traffic 46' - ^f Inj^eSor. N». 9. Traffic on which is carried on by the Indians in Bark Canoes. ... The Lake Ontario, he adds, is a frefh Water of vaft Extent, and ferves for the carrying on a very confiderablc and cxtenfive Commerce among the In- iiam on its Shores. After this Account of the principal Places he vifitcd, the Author gives us many very ufeful Hints; as to the Trade of that Part of the World, in which it is plain enough, that the French of Canada dread us as their future Rivals, though our own People do not fecm to make out, that they have any Reafon to do fo. He every- where gives a judicious and accurate Account of the Soil, and its Produce ; and of the fcveral Trees, Plants, and Animals ht met with : He has a circumftantial Obfervation of the Colours of a Rattle-fhake, glowmg with a peculiar Bright- nefs when it was enr^cd, and fading greatly after it had received a Wound: A Circumftance often repeated of the Snake Kind in general \ but hitherto not generally believed. . The Plants he mentions are all properly named, and are many of them curious ones, fome of them fuch as might be of Ufc in Commerce, in particu^ lar the famous Ginfeng^ the Root of which import- ed from the Eaft, has been lately fold in London at four Pounds an Ounce. Among all this ufeful Knowledge, however, we meet with a thoufand trivial Circumftanccs, related with the fame Accuracy and Punctuality : The Au- thor docs not omit to tell us, that he found a Knife in the Morning of the 14th, or that a Gnat bit him in the Afternoon of the 1 7th ) that he gathered fome N». 10. the TnfpeSior. 47 fome Goofcbcrrics as he rode along on the 20th,. 6t that he lay in Bed too long the next Morning j that on the 2 2d bis Mare was lame, or that on the 24th he borrov.Td a Horfe of Conrad JVe'tfar. The Names q( fying Hills ^xnd blue Mountains mvf alfo difguft fome Readers ; but thefe are not charge- able as Faults in this Author : To be intelligible, he muft necefTariiy mention Things by fuch Names, when they have no other. Upon the Whole, I think I do not know an Au- thor who defcrve? more Encouragement than Jolm Bar tram ; though I do not know one that is likclf . to meet with lefs of it. The inspector. N«> lOr Silicet omnefacrum mors importuna frepbanat, ^ /"^^^"^iXAMPLES of uncommon 'Virtues in fj^ E ^ Princes are frequent in the Hiftories of V^^^d P^^ '^'""^ ' ^"^ *^'^^ ^^ recolledt that they have been, in general^ written bj Flatterers, they ftrike us with lefs Veneration fbr the. Names affixed to them, than Relations in which thq Hiftorians appear more difinterefted. We know, that while a Dcfcendant is on the Throne, there never can want Motives to the im^ mortalizing the Name of fome of the Line of He- rocs in the Anceftry ; and while we recoiled too, that there is no Life fo bad, bur, at one Period or 6ther of ir, there may have happened fome one In- cident, at lead, that) under the AddreTs of an art- ful Pen, might make a fair Story* we are in the fight 4^ ^e Infpe^ori N». 16* right to place but little Dependence on Charaders« in regard to which the Diftance of Time robs us of the Means of knowing any thing more than the Writer pleafcs to tell us ; and the Silence of Hiftory on the Subje£t gives us no Means t>f knowing that^ otherwife than as he delivers it When Fafts are related almod at the very Pe- riod of Time in which they happened •, when the Pcrfons who read the Accounts are thofc who alfo faw the Events, and blefied the Eflfcfts of them i when Intereft knows no Exiftence in the Bread of the Writer ; and when, if it had, Juftice herfelf would clip the Wings of Flattery ;, more Credit will be paid to the Encomium by the Living, and. more Dependence placed on it by their fuccecding Poltcrity. While every Eye laments a Nation's Lofi j while every Heart, but Yefterday, elate with the Profpeft of a King ripe in Years and Judgment ere he mounted the Throne j long remaining on it a Blef- fing to his People, and training up, under the In- fluence of his own great Example, an Infant So- vereign through the fame Paths of Virtue to the fame heroic Height, to place him no k(% mature upon the Throne himfelf fhould quit \ now melts with Sorrow at the momentary Change ; and under the Apprchcnfion of a Minor JCingr adds double Ardour to the Prayers it fends to Heaven, to con- tinue long to us the great Origin of all thcfe Vir- tues; fliall not one Mouth be open to point out to Poftcrity what thofc Virtues were which we lament, and reverence, and ever pray for a fucceflivc Series of? Triumphs N" 10. • 72*^ InJ])e5tor. 4.9 Triumphs in War are the general Source of Praife in the Lives of Monarchs, as recorded to us by their Hiftorians ; but thefe are not, at this Period of Time,' of the Number of thofe Incidents that make a Na- tion happy : The gaining new Dominions, by un- peopling old ones, the Acquifuion of more Subjefts, at the Expence of Ilaughtering one half of thofe who were fuch, never could indeed defcrve the pompous Praifes that have been beftowed on them ; and, at this time, are not only unjuftifiable, but imprafticable. Virtues of a gentler Kind are now the proper Orna- ments to Throne : And while we could not aflc it of a Prince to make us great or happy, but only to con- tinue us fo, how glorious a Source of Praife had we to- Heaven, till this fatal Event, for having infpired with all the focial, all thedomeftic, or to call them by a new, but furely an exprefTive Name, the humane Virtues, a Prince who was to receive the Care of con- tinuing us happy, from Anceftors who had already made us great. ' ' A juft Ambition, a Thirfl: of Glory from good Actions, has been at all Times reverenced as one of the greateft Virtues in a Prince j but Heaven has (hewn us one, who could look down upon fuch fe- condary Praifes -, who could do every thing that the ambitious would be infpired by that. Quality to execute, without deigning to accept its Reward : To whom a Confciournefs of doing Things worthy Ho- nour, was in the Place of Fame ; who loved Virtue, becaufe flie was Virtue, not becaufc flie was the Pa- rent of Renown. To be wife is an Honour of the firil Rank In human Life •, but to be able to lifttn to Wifdom, is a greater: While we are fenfiblethat we are weak, H unccr- ^o The Infpeclor. N" la, uncertain, fallible Creatures, Obftinacy in Opinion ought to be banilhed from every Heart that but pretends to Knowledge ; yet who that has Command can bear with Contradiftion? Thofe who had not the Honour and Happinefs to know this ever- to-be- la- mented Prince, perhaps would find it difficult to an- fwer the Queftion ; but whoever has had an Oppor- tunity to be of any the Icaft of his Councils, muft have found, that though his own Opinion ufually was the juft one, he was the laft to give it, and was the firft to enter into the Merit of the Reafonings of fuch as differed from it. V Thofe who are placed above the Calamities and DiftreiTes of Human Nature, in its ordinary Sphere, feldom can feel for others: Humanity, that Honour to our Nature, is in a Manner excluded from their Breafts i and if they relieve, it is becaufe they are told it is generous to do fo. Here was a Heart that felt for every thing that it knew felt for itfelf ; that therefore did ten thoufand times the common Afts of Beneficence, becaufe its Scnfe was open to ten thoufand times as many Objctfts of it. Princes, of aU Men, ufually appear Icaft what they truly are: The necefTary Arts of Courts, as they arc called, forbid it; and Sovereigns art: told, that v^hen they arc moft known, diey are leaft honoured • N\ here the real Sentiments of the Heart an fuch as might be menJoi, . this may perhaps be right ; biu thGloih^u-cre about this great Example of Since- nty, w,n never forget, that an honeft Oppennefs of So.1, Hut called Difingenuity a Crime, gave a nev. lorce to every thing he faid : That an unconftrained and un.fTcacd Phinnefs declared his Sendments on ♦very rhmg kc fpokc ofj and while it flicwcd to every every on« what he was, comnpllivl^n. , while they adored hi^ ^ "^ ^"'"^ ^'^ '*» ^°^f* Every body about him was happy . anri a. t» tht confmmg it thus on others. tha^^H ■receiving it: The Tr.„,„i„i„'^;''^:^^'^,^ ^ h.s equal K^ ,„„f„red Itfelf imo all aW St,^ 2i'Cr:a \^ tef .:!:LtT? he was one. when the Hufba^d the? "^ ^'^ the Friend, reminded "m c^thd C^^^^^^ tention. Whenever Royalty clmr f ^r " '^'' TJin„cyK.^c .V 'royalty came fmilmg to his Though^, ,t was not as cloathcd in Purpl? or a^ furrounded by Guards, that kept the Worid at D^ ftance ; it wasnot as the Source of Power T/p-^ " ' of commanding Millions, b^ af I'S^" Ha„^st once open to give, and fuli of MeaTof Tit J^^ « fued to, not in vain by Merit ^rlnliSI f * ' Virtue in Diftrcis . as the M^"of mSllil^- ons, who defcrved it, happy. ^ ^^^" He had Knowledge without Oftcntation- Gr«r ne^ wjUjout Pride: Compaflion witLlV W^ HtarNa^, ';r unSS ^^T" ^ ^- ibftening, and ekl^TonTal; ttLTre^^ nent ,n every AdUon. nather was gx^ai^"! ^ To have been his Couoidtor, were ^t^ZT^C. Fncod.^^^^ . • '-ii ~ ■u-vtsn.". . : ''^■"- . .:, H a • "!:>i''; {.. ;. .-J ,\ '. -.■ . ' ''. Thz 52 The InfpeSior, N- II. The INSPECTOR. {Nmi. >i(3^)^ HE Art of Embalming hiving been lately ''^ T h^ a very general Topic of Converfation, and w^i?^ the Opinions of ihofc who might be cx- * ' pefted to know moft of it, differing cx- treamly as to the Operation, as well as the Ingredients neceflary to it, it may be agreeable to the Public to meet with fome Account of the Operation here. The Art feems to have been of Egyftian Origin \ and its Inventors appear to have looked upon it in the fame Light that we do, as a horrible, and alnwft un- natural Praftice, though the Cuftom of the Country rendered it unavoidable. The neceflary Cutting of the Body never failed to excite the Anger and Averfion of the Relations of the Deceafcd ; and the Perfon who performed that Part of the Operation was treated like the Hangman with us, defpifed and pelted, though for the' Execution of what they thought a neceflary and ufeful OMce. When the Bowels were removed, and 'as many Openings made in the more flclhy Parts of the Body, as were n;ceflary to admit the prefcrvatory Ingredi- ents, the Embalmers waflied every Incifion and Open- ing with a rich Wine, impregnated with Balfamsand Spices ; and after this, anointed it with a Mixture of Balm of CileaJt Indian Spikenard, Myrrh, Aloes, and ibmc other Ingredients, :hc Names of which arc unoBtelfigib^e to us at this time : This Operation they repe«ed every Day, for thirty Days i always wafh- ing off the former Quantity with a large Portion of ih= jg^o J J, The Infpe0or. S% the aromatifc4 Wine, .bef«e *^ ^PM *« ^«^ Anointing.:.'.: . -r ..-.oi'.n. ' }^-l^^^]^ At the End of the thirty Days ilicy BUed tbcwhoJc Cavity of the Body, and all th<;.Incifion$,: with the* fame Compofition jeoderjxj dri?r. by an Admixture of.moix: Myrrh ftnd Spikena^a ;i*ey forced iQuaiK tity. of it into the Cavi^. Jif. the.SkuU, from whence they had before taken the Brain j and after this laft Operation, they bound up the whole Body in Ban- dages of.fine Linen, weaed^with a moifter Balfam % and extending over all thiij' another thicker Cloth, they painted on it a Number of ^ieroglyphicj. and then depofited the Whole in the, yjOeiJiftovhick it was to remain. . '- •■•.'.»-... i. 1^ Such arc the embalmed Bodies, or Mummies, at this time met with in Egypt ; but this was too ex^- fivc a Method to be general : People of Fortune only could come up to the Price of itj the poorer were fuffcred to reft with whole Skins, or, at the utmoft, were prefcrvcd with much Icfs Apparatus, and much cheaper Ingredients. The European Embalmings, of a more modem Date, have been all executed on the Egyptian Plan j but of the many Bodies that have been laid to be em- balmed, there have been very few regularly treated, or embalmed in a perfed Manner. The taking out the Bowels, and wrapping up the Body with fome Spices about it, in Cerecloths, is in general aU that has been done. r J - J * The Operation, when perfcAly performed, is done in this Manner: _ ^ The Surgeon, who is charged with the Embalm- ing, firft orders his Apparatus, confifting of a Leaden Coffin large enough for the Body, with its feveral Coverings, S4- 'Tiif InfpeSlo?. ' j^o - ,- Lmen for Bandages ; two of thcfc aS to ^ ofli Fmgers Breadth, and about four V^u^ I ^^'"^ cm. and Zcd„a,y> .he W^^^^X^'^'^^f "■7. Sage, HylTop, and Thy^ rR„ *°'^, . Rofesand Lavender, and d,e P^' ?^^'°'"" «' Ltroons: AU thefc are ,0 ^(1!^ "f °™g« «nd •hroogh a coarfe Sieve ,!S • ^ ■°8''''=Mifttd Weigh, of drie"co;"™s^,.T"'. ?!!>'" "i™' Q.™4:id"rr^\r'»i^-tndsi„' • r>ankin„„ft, 5,^ ZS'^ ^ ^'"^' ''^ Cinnamon, ftp;" 'a^ ,:d?,''^ ''"""P. -d paired Arough a tesi.:. P""'^™! "g«l>". The Liniment is to he m^^ r j r Pontine. Liquid SroLB-Tf.°^^^^''«' T"'' ' fam of P.r« . and is ro ^^T °^^'*^'^'' ^d Bal- Quantkj.^' ""^ " '° °= «^"^ three Pounds in aji N'li. The InfpeSior, 55 all thefe Things in Readincis, tbe Surgeon begins die ' Operation in this Manner: , ^:i He opens the Body by two great Incifions, one , longitudinal, the other crofs- wife, and firft takes out the Heart, which he puts into a Veffcl of Spirit of. Wine till he has difpatched the reft : He then ftrews fome of the coarfer Powder over the Bottom of the Leaden Cafk, which is for the Bowels, and putting in a Part of them, he covers them with more of this Powder •, then he lays in the, reft, together with the Brain, and all the other Vifcera ; ftrewing fome of the Powder, at times, between, and covering up the "Whole with a Bed of it of an Inch or two in Dqitb: Over this he finely fprcads a thick Bed of Tow s and the Plumber then foldering on the Cover, that Part of the Operation is finifhed. The Heart is then embalmed, by filling its Cavities with the finer Powder, covering it with the coarfer, and then foldering it up in its Cafe. After this, the Cavity of the Skull, and thole of the Brcaft and Belly, are waffied with Spirit of Wine. The Skull is then filled widi the coarfer Powder, and Tow j and before the Scalp is fewed up, fome of the fine Powder is thruft in between it and the Skull ; and the Seam is afterwards anointed with the Liniment. The Mouth is then waQied with Spirit of Wine, and afterwards filled with the finer Powder, fprinkled on fome Tow. The Noftrils and Ears are next waflied, and filled with the fine Powder, fprinkled on Cotton i and after this, the whole Head, together with the Neck and Breaft, are anointed with the Li- niment, and a Quantity of the fine Powder is fprinkled over all, while wet, till no more will ft^ckonj by this 50;' The InfpeStor. N» ii. this means a Cruft "of Aromadcks is extended avce the whole Head, Neck, and Breaft, and thefe Parts are fo fer finifhed. ■ • • ■ The Cavity of the Body Is next to be filled with the coarfe Powder, with the Additioaof fome Tow; and the Incifions which had been made quite down and acrofs it are to be fewed up, after fome of the finer Powder has been thruft in between the Flefh and the Ribs. The Sutures are to be laftly rubbed over with the Liniment, and fome of the fine Pow- der fprinklcd over them. Four Incifions are then to be made in each Arm, from the Shoulder to the Elbow, and as many from the Elbow to the Wrift: Thefe are to reach down to the Bone all the way; They are to be firft wafhed with Spiiit of Wine, and then filled with fine Pow- der. The whole Arms, when this is finilhed, are to be anointed over with the Liniment, and more of the fine Powder is to be ftrewed over them : And they are then to be rolled up in their proper Bandages, beginning at the Wrift, and ending at the Shoul- der. The Legs are next to be prepared in the lame Manner; only that the Incifions muft be more nu. merous : After thefe are bound up, the Body is to be turned, and Incifions are to-be made in the Back, and all the flclhy Parts-, and thefe are to be then wa(hed and filled with Powder, in the fame Manner OS thofe on the Arms and Legs. When the Incifions are thus all filled,, the whole ?pjy is te be anointed over widi the Liniment, and the Remains of the fine Powder arc to be ftrewed over ii : After this, it ij rolled up in the Bandage ^rc- pared N". 12. ^e InJpeSor, 57 pared for that Purpofc i and the Cerecloth being" thca fpread on a Table, the Corpfe is laid oa it, and folded up in it. - •-• • ....i«;--;; The Cord is after this faftened at the Neck, round which a Ligature is firft made, that ihews the Shape of the Head, and the Whole is afterwards bound tight together by a Number of Circumvolutions of the Cord. After this, a Linen Shroud is to be drawn on over all, and the Corpfe laid in the Coffin: The Remains of the coarfer Powder are to be thrown into the Coffin ; and all the Vacuities are to be. filled up with fwcct Herbs, fuch as Sage, Roferncry, and the like } the Lid, after this, is to' be foldcrcd on, and the VeiTd, with the Heart in it, being placed on the Middle of the Coffin, the Whole is ready for Interment; - v; i\ ;: uii .. i. jv.'j) "wi: » J- The inspector. [NMa. yevis omnia plena. Viioit, . )JC<»»0(T has been the profcflcd Bufinefs of the • I ♦ feveral fucccffive Accounts I have given )J«»»J( of my Morning's Contemplaaons, to evince, thii every Objeft that occurs to the Eye, in its Obfcrvation of the Works of Nature, brings with it a Proof of that greateft and moft cflential of all Truths, the Exiftence of a God : Happy oughj we to cfteem it, that we have fuch abundant Convic- tion of fo important an Article of Belief ; but it had btm yet more happy for us not to have had it, if we ftop here, if we confefs ourfelves with a cold Con- fcffionofthe Exiftence of a Deity, without employ* I inj 58 The InfpeSior. N». 12. ing one Thought farther on the Subjeft ; without being at the Pains to inquire of our own Reafon why he (yeated us, and what it is that he experts of us. The Senfe of our Dependence on others will in- ftruft us in a thoufand Duties that we owe to them, without any farther G)nfideration than that of prclent Advantage ; but there is, prior to this, prior indeed to all others, a Duty to him whom we have been taught to acknowledge the Sovereign of all ; from a Senfe of which it is, tha.t; the Social Obligations become, from Prudence, Virtue. -i : 1 The Man who conGders how important an Arti-- cle of our Lives Religion is, muft be (hocked at the almoft infinite Divcrfity of Forms under which it ap-. pears in different Places. Man's Dependence, on fome fupcrior Power, is a Truth fo evident, indeed,! that the blindeft, the moft barbarous, of all Nations have not miffed it -, but when the next great Princi- ple lusT'been wanting, when the fordid Ideas of the Inftitutions of Worlhip have not rifcn to this firft Caufe as the juft Objeft of it, how wild, how un- nat\iral, how contemprible, havei)een the Forms they have thrown it into? The Sun, the apparent Giytr of Life to the World, and the poifonous Reptile, the Serpent armed with Death, have been equally raifed to the Rank of Deities : The Infcft of the Dunghill, and the Pot-hob in the Garden, have been the Objefts of the profcundtft Veneration : What a Man would nzmfht on in his Path, what he would cat at his Table, he fell on. his Knees before in the Place of Worfhip : Nor is there almoft any thing fo high or fo low, fo exalted or fo mean, fo ufe- full or fo dcftruftivc to Mankind, that has nor, at f *Vii. n I i ■ feme N*. 12. "The Infpeaor. ' $9 fome Period of Time, in fome Part of the World, had divine Honours paid to it. Thefe are, however, the Effefts of Superftition only in the loweft Underltandings j nor has there been one the leaft Spot of the Globe where they have been cultivated, into which, at one time or other, a jufter Notion of the Deicy, and Inftru(5lions for a ra- tional Worfliip of him, have not been carried. In re- o-ard to the reft, the more civilized and more en- lightened Parts of the World, tho' Worfliip wears in many things a ftrangely different Face, there yet are feveral of the moft effential Points in which all Teopie aire agreed -, the Belief of one Suprcam God, the Author of all Things; of his Providence and Love towards Mankind, of the Immortality of the human Soul ; and of a Reward in a fiKure State for good Aftions, and a Puniflimcnt for bad oncsj b equally acknowledged of all j and as the Confequcnce of thefcj' Religion, a certain Form and Profeffion of praying to, of honouring and of ferving that God whom they all acknowledge to have the Power of all Things, is as natural, and as uriiverfal. ■ -^-^ The feveral Religions in the enlightened Part of the World, are all Branches from this general Root i they have all fet out upon the fame firft Plan -, all have eftabliftied themfeivcs a Credit by holy Miffion, by Prophets, and by Miracles; the true by real ones, the falfe by pretended. They have all had the feme apparcht Beginning, all the fame natural ^ Advan- tages i all have been humble, little, and followed only by a few at firft, and have raifed themfeivcs to their fuccecding Repuution by the Sanftiry, i^T or by the Courage, of their firft Profcffors. Ail ha^e agreed, that the Deity may be invoked or. *pp^afed I 2 b;r A \ I. 60 The Infpegior, N». 12. by Prayers, by Vows, and Offerings ; all have agreed too, that Humiliation, a Senfe of our own Weak- nds, was a firft Step towards the obtaining his pecu- liar Protein ion j and the true havc.cftabliflicd little more as ncccffiiry to this than the paying a proper Reverence to his Inftrudions, and to ihofe by whom be has communicated them. Error never fails to carry what it meets with juft and right, beyond thofe Bounds, into Extravagance and Contradiiflion : Humiliation could not be efta- bliQiedas a neceflary Ingredient of Worfliip by true Religion, but it muft be immediately carried by the falfe ones into Pain and Punifhment: Forget- ting that God created Men to be happy, thefe People have attempted to recommed themfelves to.his more immediate Proteftioft, by making themfelves or others mifcrable: They have devifed ftrange Tor- tures to addrefe themfelves to him, by beating, and even cutting their own Flefli, are among the Num- ber of the Qightcft of them-, and, in general^ they feemto have fctout upon die Principle, that nothing • could be more acceptable to him, than the volun- tary Mifcry and Ruin of his Creatures. How in- adequate, how di/honourable, an Idea ,thi« of h^m who created every thing to be happy ? i;,' ,j,,,, ; Sacrificesi in general, were evidently of this Ori- gin ; thofc inftitutcd from the immediate Commantf of his own Mouth, and meant to 6gure to Men what themfelves had incurred, and what Juftice required that themfelves fhould fuffcr, were but few, and had only Beafh for their Objeifbs j Beafts that muft have perilhed otherwife. about the fame Time, for the Service of the Table : But no fooner had true Reli- j^oa cOabliihcd thefe, than the falfc.oocs, to go % • - ^ -^ Step N'. 12. The InfpeBor. 6 1 Sie^ beyond them, fet on foot that greateft of aU Horrors to the Imagination, human Sacrifices. , ,{ OflTenders, whofe Lives were forfeit to the luayk of their Country, were the firft of thefe, afterwards Captives in War, after thefp Natives and Brethren, and, in firte, the very Children of the Sacrificers. . The Scythians, for many Ages, facrificed one of their own Country at certain appointed Periods, un- der the Pretence of fending him a$ a Meflcnger to their Cod Xamolxisy to tell him what they, yraiucd : jhteftrisy the Mother of Xerxes^ buried alive four- teen of the nobleft Youth of the Country, as a fingie Aft of Devotion: The Caribaginians and G<»«/j fa- crificed, on even trivial Occafions, ChiJdiWi.to^*- tumi and, to add to the Brutality of thp A^ion, made it an eflential Point in the Offerii^g, that the Parents fhould be prefent: The Lacedempmoffs yvMp- ped their Sons to Death in Adorations of Diatf^- aiyi would not permit them even to fcem difiatis$ed wi^ Death under fuch Tortures. . The Turks, yery early after the Death of Mabmet, eftablilhed the cutting and disfiguring themfelves, as thft great Means of pleafing him:. And in the Eaji Indus, the firft Chriftian Miffionaries found it a conftant Cuftom of the Natives, to cemeht the Images of Idols with the Blood of Children. -. ,\ , , , • : What Idea could the Inftitutors of thefe Doftrines have of God, whofe Creation of Man could not be tfteemed an Aft of Kindnefs, unlefs he intended him to be happy ? Whofe bringing all things into Life was but the EflWt of his unbounded Beneficence ; who has not left the fmalleft Drop of Water va- cant of its Inhabitants, bat has filled it with tea thoufand Animals j whofe Joy in their .Exiftence '■ ^ i" • fpeakt 52 The tnfpe^or. N«. 12, fpcaks as highly in Honour of hisGoodncfi, as their Exiftcncc itfelf does of his Power! Could ihefe Men, had they viewed his infinite Pcrfcftions in this Light, have prophaned his Altars with Cruelty ? Could they have been mad enough to think to plcafe him with Afts of Injufticeand Inhumanity; to render themfelves acceptable to him by the blackeft of all Crimes? They would havt known, that if they had offended him with Crimes, they could not appeafe him with greater: That if they had awakened his Anger by RoblJesry, they could not allay it by Murder. ' •' ' How infinitely jufter, even to the Eye of Reafixi alone, fhuft that Religon appear, that exadbs the abandoning only of a Crime as a Proof of the Repen- tance of it j and chat Repentance as the only Means of Pardon: that has now of a long time abolifhed die very Sacrifice of the irrational Creatures, and thqt can, even from its earlieft Foundation, while yet not perfcfted to its prefent glorious Height, anfwer to the Man who afks what he fhall do to a{^afe his offended Creator? whether he (hall facrifice his Firft- bornfor his Tranfgreflion ? the Fruit of his Body for the Sin of his Soul ? He bath told thee, Mati^ what thou Jhalt dOi and what bath the Lord thy God required tfthety but to do jujlly^ to love Mercfy and to walk uprigbtl; lefore Inmf Thi N». 13. The InfpeSior. «3 The inspector. {N-ij.* To the I N S P E C T O R. . '7 ' ..' s 1% ■ . ^^:. . ■ . ; ;, ,^ )9(*M*)8( Could wifli you would, now and dicn, sjjl I ^ entertain the Town with a Story taken A ^ ♦ from Life, that might have a Tendencj ^*r\*yK to correft fome of thofe Errors, which fcem to arife from direfting our Paflions to impro- per Obje£ls i and I may fay there is no Paffion which fo often miftakes its Objedb as Pride i a Truth which I know much better than I can defend j therefore I fhall make my own Story fupply the Place of Ar- guments on that Head. .r You muft know. Sir, I was.die only Daughter of a half-pay Capuin ; my Father had the dou]jJe Mif- fortune of being of the younger Branch, and that of a very poor noble Family ; and my Mother was a diC tant Relation before Marriage, but had no Fortune. . As they had no more Children than myfcJf, they fpared no Pains or Coft on my Education; and- if my Circumftances were to have been judged hy the: Manner in which I was brought up, no one would ; have imagined but that I was to have had 5000/. at leaft to my Portion j but inftead of this, I had not the leaft Profpeft of a Six-penny Piece from any Re-, . lation or Friend whatever. My poor Father ufed often to comfort himfelf with faying, that as his CUora was nobly bom, he was refolvcd (he fliould have an- Education fuiublc to her Birth. But, alas! .when. I , was : V 64* ^Tbe inJj>eaor. N-. 13. was about twenty-two, in one Month I loft both Fa- ther and Mother, and had nothing to fupport rhe but my genteel Education j and nothing to boaft of but the Nobility of my Parentage. In this Dilem- ma I was at a great L06 to know what to do ; for as 1 was bred to no Trade, nor inured to any Service, I feemed to be excluded from the two only Means left me to get my Bread. While I was re- ^^ volving thefe things in my Mind, a Maiden Aunt -^ of mine, by my Father's Side, who had for many i Years been ftarving genteely on a fmall Annuity, • very kindly invited me to her Houfe. She was one fj ' of diofe People who cloathed and fed herfelf with the Thoughts of her Nobility: And as I frequently took Occafion to exprefs my Defirc of getting my own Livelihood, either by binding niyfelf to fome genteel Bufineis, or by offering to fervc fome Lady ai her aid, (he as often flew in a Paflion, and told me, :hat there had not been a Trade in her Family for lefe two hundred Years ; and that, for her own Part, le had rather fee me ftarve than go to Service. I :hought this an odd Way of Reafoning j for, proud fhe feemed to be, fhe was meah enough to fbllicit id accept of privite Charities, her Annuity being but fifteen Pounds a Year. She had a Pan of a Houfe to hcrfclf i her Parlour was elegantly furnifli- ed, and her Buffet adorned with feveral Pieces of old Family Plate •, and, I verily believe, fhe would ra- ther have wanted Bread (which by the by (he very often did) than have fold a Tca-fpoon that had the Family Arms upon it. But alas! how different was that Part of her Furniture which was out of Sight: For, while her Parlour looked like that of a Prin- cefs, her Bedchamber rcfembled that of a Beggar.l Her N« 13. 3^' InfpeSlor. 6| Her whole Convcrfation was nothing more than a Ge- nealogy of her Family J and all her Thoughts ftcriii ed to be taken up in confidering how Ihc fliould con^ Ceal her Poverty, and at the fame time convince the World that flie was nobly bom. In this fplendid Dilixefs I fpent a Twelvemonth, and heartily tired I was of my Situation ; for my Aunt, though flie had too much Pride to let me fervc any-body elfe, fuffered me, nay, often obliged me, to do things, which the loweft Maid Servants think beneath them. And while (he kindly entertained me on Charity, as fhe called it, fhe frequently made Ufe of my living with her as an Argument to procure Bounties from her Friends. This was a thing I could not bear, and was rcfolved to leave her at any rate i but liow to do it without Injury to myfelf was the Difficulty : For from the time I had left the Boarding-School I had contrafled no new Acquaintance \ for my Father, tb keep up, as he called it, the Dignity of his Family, drefled, and kept a great deal of Company abroad ;' fo that if my poor Mother and I got the bare Necef- faries of Life, we thought ourfelves extreamly hap- py. But here I muft inform you, that, in endeavour^ ing to avoid this poor, proud, mean, well-bom' Lady my Aunt, I narrowly efcapcd an Evil of i more dreadful Nature j for as I was young, riot ug- ly, and evidently in Diftrefs, a Gentleman that lodg. ed Opofitc to us, having, as I afterwards found, fix* ed on me as a Prey, took an Opportunity, when mf Aunt Was gone a viliting, or rather begging, feeing me at the Door, artfully to begin an Acquainrancej which a Correfpondence foon improved into fbme- thing like a Friendfhip. He extorted Oimplaints from n e,fecmingly entered into my Diftrefs, pitied me. and ' ■ K • • ^ro- 4 -W 66 lie InfpeBor. N» 13. protdled that he loved me; and alas! I almoft be- lieved him, which I really think, if I know myfdf, was more owing to my miferable Situation, than any Motive of Liking to him : However, as I thought I could not be more unhappy, 1 one Day refolved, thoughl own with Fear and Trembling, to throw my- fdf at once into his Proteftion, and truft to his Generofity i for this I had promifed him, and this I Ihould have certainly done, had I not received a Letter from him that very Afternoon to juftify my Fears, and convince me, that infteadof aProtedtor, I had only found a Betrayer ; and, to be honeft, for the firft Moment I can hardly fay whether I was more fhocked or plcafed at this Difcovery ; but here, in the Height of my Mifery from this Difapoint- ment, an Accident of an extraordinary kind relieved mefrommy Diftrels. My good Aunt returning home about five, difappointed of a Dinner where Ihe went, defiredme to broil the Remains ofthePbund of Mut- ton Chops left the preceeding Day ; but as, fhe laid, her Grand-pappa, my Lord , was very fond of Shallots with roaft Mutton, ihe wdered me to fetch fome, and put a Halfpenny into my Hand for that Purpofe; for as ihe knew the Alliances of her Family for a hundred Years, fo (he was alfo parti- cularly acquainted with their refpcdive Tailcs, with which ihe conftantly entertained me ; and, as I fuppofc, to prove that People who were nobly born, were formed of different kind of Materials from the Vulgcr, a thing (he herfelf verily believed. But to go 00 with my Story ; I went on my Errand to the next Herb-ihop, where the Woman, who had al- ways taken me for a Scrvanr, thinking I dcfcrved a better Place, gave me a Bill of the Univcrial Regif- ter N" 13. lie Infpeaor.' 67 ter-Office in the Strand^ then juft fet up, which, af- ter reading, unexperienced as I>was in Life, I deter- mined to apply to for Relief; and as Diftrcfs makes even our Sex bold, I went and entered myfelf for a Nurfery Maid's Place, and by this means, in a Week, I got into a very good Family ; nor had I been a Month in my Nurfery, before my Miftrels dii^ charged her own Maid, ^d being acquainted with my Story, generoully preferred me to attend upon herfelf. It was now I began to feel a real Joy from the Danger I had avoided from my Lover, and to fee that ridiculous Creature my Aunt with the highcli Contempt. What a Change of Situation was here! from Pride, Poverty, Idlenefs, Naftinefs and Mife- " ry, fupported only by the Confideration of being nobly born, to that of being honeflly and uiefully employed, kindly treated, pofleiTmg every Convc'^ nience and Comfort of Life, and nothing to rob me of my Happinefs, but the Thought of being a Ser- vant. Alas ! what a Bugbear has falfe Pride made Service to our Sex. For my Part, the only Difier- ' ence I conilder between Miifa^is and Servant is bat the Name ; for as to Happinefs, they are or may be upon a Footing. It is often faid, that one Misfortune generally treads upon the Heels of another ; but I have never heard the fame acknowledged' of good Fortune. But this only ihcws, that the World in general are more ready to complain of what they fuffer, than to acknowledge what they enjoy. I am very ready to fay I efteem my Removal from my Aunt into Service as a Happinefs ; as I muit fay the fame of my Removal from that happy Service, to that of marrying a worthy Tradefman } who, though he has no Nobility of Blood to boail, yet, K 2 if 68 The InJpeElor. N"* 1 3 . if Honour i: dcSned to be Honefty of Heart, in rhat exc- : .r QasJjiy he is exceeded by none. I cannot fay r..:i iron by affL:ring you I am happy. But, torna.r;r ;.cj laugh, I muft inform you, I re-- ceivcd a L •_-•?• iuS of Refentmcnt from my Aunt, in which ?.-r c^-ix-^ me with difhonourlng her Fami- ly by r ■■.rrfTi a Tradefman -, and that flie was rc- folved r,c: ir Txke any notice of me, do any thing for mr. : f jrt nje a Morfcl of Bread if I was flary- ing. Tix'^rta* Happinefs 1 have found in Perfever- ancr. ' - "r my Opinion of your Ability, is the Rea;-\ \ vifli you would write upon this Sub- jeft, z::-i ptfrfuadc all Parents to educate their Chil- dren in Proportion to their Circumftances j and to aflure s'' r^ofc of my Sex, that labour under the Pre- judices of Education, whofe Minds are poifoned with falfe Pride, that Induftry generally meets with Suc- ccfs i that in England Service is no Slavery •, nor is it any Difgrace, but rather an Honour, to any one, be their Birth or Education what it will, to be a Ser- vant when it becomes neceflary for their Support ; for fure nothing can be fhameful that is honeft. Do, dear Mr. InfpeSlor^ root out this falfe Pride from their Heads, and you will prcfcrve Tboufands from Pcftruftipn. I am, S I Rt Tour conjiant Reader^ C L E O R A, The K" 14. The InfpeSior, 69 The inspector. N% 14. ftf /-&/1NSPECT0R. • r •; SIR, \ ?r^(?^-*(PICTETUS fomewhere fays, that ^1 E ^ whatever Pleafure Men may take in ^U^^^ telling their Dreams, there are] very Mi^ji few who are pleafed to hear them i for my own Part, I muft confefs I never lent my Atten- tion to the Dreams of another, but in order to pur- chafe a Hearing for my own. But let EpiSetus^ or any body elfe, fay what they pleafe^ I have had fuch an odd Vifion lately, I cannot help communicating it to you ; and if you think proper to make 1 Secnfe: of it, you have my Confent. You muft know then. Sir, that one Evening laft Week, being fatigued with the Bufinefs of the Day, and juft got into my Lodgings, I had filled my Pipe, and began to refiedt with Pleafur^ that I Ihould now enjoy a few calm Hours of doroeftic Happinefs with my Wife, by my own Firedde, when the Maid of the Houfe came and told me, that there was a Gentleman below who wanted to Ijxak with me: I defired he might walk up. When he entered the Room, I faw he was a perfcft Stranger, and lb impatient was he to communicate his Bufinefs, that I had not time to aik cither his Name, ,or what his Commands were, before he began in the' following Manner : Sir, though I have not the Honour of being ...-• known ya 7ZS^- ;..■=:■ /j .^;lxil ."../..•r.'"-'' J..v.^ •■;.-;\^.VVr:.;j >■- t. ^> , ^-.A • ;•• :• ,.>:«>i^'' 4 o LETTERS • - ' r'r-*—.^. ■ ' - . » . ■ w .^ROKl TUB INSPECTOR to a LAbVi^^^ ^•s. ■ . *■ - -• ■% * • " ■^fN |Pricc One ShDIing.'! ""--,. .*■'*■■ '.■*.,.'.' ■_• - • ■-;::r-:. ■•-,'•,>■■■■ • t : «. -. A y* X -■■-« 1 # ■ « ' ' UUd Hxn_,^eMA r. LETTERS fROMTH^. INSPECTOR to a LADY, WITH THE Genuine Answers, Pptk printed verhatim from Ac Original!. ,r.r- LONDON; pfbtcd for M. C00PE8, at the Globe in Pater- nofter-Row. MDCCLU. / • • /■ ' .• ■ M'-i •■ >•.>- - ADVERtlSEMfiMT; - jFofiy per/on doubt tbefe letters t& be M- * tbentick, they may fee the originals^ and the copies of the anfwers, taken at the timi tbey were •written* ^ s ( • ) Original Letters. F R OM The INSPECTOR,; .; WITH THE Genuine Answers* LETTER L Written in April laft, on feeing the Lady by Accident, at a Breakfaft at Ranelagb. ; Madam, ■ Z;^:..,., _ WH O you 4ir6 1 am form no gucfs: where yott can have* liv'd, ihat I never faw you till this morning* is an equal myftery to me V and what will be the event of my cxpktations from you, is an uncertainty B » infinitcl/ t. .. 1 > ;^;■'' • ■'<: •• u :h (2) Zn'^'^fl T' P^'PJ<^^''"g- The rack would be cafe to my fituation till I fee y"u.-I need not tell you from whom f^^' J"'""- } ^''' ^" '■" f^'^ ^°r dif. Icmbling, and my aftoiufliraert when I ";et ycu, 1 am confident, fpoke more than ail that the impatience of my heart can now diaate....Tell me I mav come to you : Jet your compliance give -^4..n:t^-^.sr ^]fnf ^"'"'^'^ ^ ^"^ ^°t>bing my- self of a minute of rapture bv even. i^ntcnce;iflf^:,, jhj J jy^r;^ you too much caufe to triump?.^ ^ I wru'd not affedl to fupDofe vn» don't know whoIam:if3Ln mind to make me believe vor^r.^ -to .hishcad,rS°;o"'S cnboneji eagernefs to fe^you] ' J. H. ••5 •'^' The ANSWER,:- Sin, : ■ 'T^H£ ^/y/*? of pur letter would induce -*■ /«^ /o believe you are a man of fenfe, but the purport of it makes me think you a madman. — / do ajfure you. Sir, that J neither know you nor have any defire to know you. I remember a gentlemanjlaring at me as I pajjed under the mtifick, much as I bavefeen a had player do at the gbo/l in Hamlet y and I juppofe that might he pu : if it was, I do ajure you. Sir, I afn quite fatisfed with the view, and h^rve no ambition to be acquainted what name is upon tl^ figu^t ; though I mujl confefs, I have fome curioRty to know what sou could fee in my behaviour that could give occc^n to fu(b fi letter. as that you honoured me with. ^<-:;. ;k-' C!' i D.v. 11 LETTER II; ' ^ NOT to know me, as the Deyjl %s m Milton, argues yourfelf unknown. But you afrc f A , The A N S W E R/ '! ■^:' ^-^ " - ■• . ■ ■' ■. ^ T WILL not pretend any knger^Sir, that ^ I do not knoiv you : But mojl illujlrious . heroy the torrent of your conquefts is Jlopt. It is improper to fee me here : it is impof- fble to fee me any ic-bere : the watchfulnefs cf Jrgos, and the fiery breath. of monji^s guard this golden fieece. But if they did not, or if you knew how to elude and to conquer them, there is a more impenetra- ble bar yet in your way, for know I hate you ; and what to your arrogant fpirit will Jiing more, I defpife you. lam not without a fenfe of the lownefs of my condition j nor do I feel it with a common painy when I rmember from what a height I have fallen into it : but iri that Jlate nothing can be happier than J am. I have every thing the world, can afford me, and I owe it to the moft agree- able of mankind, to one to whom it is a pleafure to be obliged ; one who has loved me Ipng^ who now doats on me to di- flraSlion. 'tell me then, what temptation 7 can find to change bim for an infolcnt foxcomb; (for that. Sir, it your true cha- X9cl.er). who never knew Us own mind two (6) t'xo days about any thing, f nee bis mother 'wbip'd bim for throwing down his bread and gutter becaufe there were no glajs-iuin- dows marked upon it. J tell you Mr. H , that I never can, 1 never -will leave the man! am with-, nor of all mankind^ if I did, Jhou'd it be for you. So now you knew my mind} and I dejire I may have no more plague with you. The unalterable D. L E T TE R III. QTILL, my fair tyrant, you don*t tell *^ me I fhall never fee you again : if you want to be rid of mc, fpcak your mind at once, and I havc-donc with you. Imuft tell you, Ayeet tragedy Prin- ccfs, you are as much a coquette as I am a coxcomb j and I don't believe one word you fay to me, jiny more than you do yourfelf any one fyllable you fay about mc. If I Ijk'd you lefs I could be content with this trifling} but as 'ti^ I muft tell you.that lam not at all plcas'd with you for preventing my vifit. — Who if this hcroc, famous and renowned, that " - • employs (7) employs all thefe peacocks and bulk in his fervice ? but let him be what he wiU I am fatistV'd a legion of devils in hij pay would not keep you conftant to You jee we know one* another pretty well. Don't fuppofe I am upbrddine you with your infidelity as a crime , 't^ Jn a fine woman, the- firft of all vir- taes, GeneroGty may fometimes, in Its extreams, amount to profufion j but make the worft of it, 'tis never hatefbl hkc avarice. Monopoly! every tradcf- man can complain of it in his (bop : and ihall we fufFer it in love ?-You were bom to give happinefe to thoufands; andrc-' mcmbcr fome few of the number are* yet to receive it. I did not tell you I wanted to feduco' you from your protcdor : J never asked you to love me, that I remember; nor gave you any reafon to fuppofe I car'd a farthmg what you thought about me. Oive me leave to love you. and difpofe- your own inclinations as you plcVe.'' ' laJte me into your arms, and keen your over in your bofbm : hate mS with all my heart, but let me tell you, 1 dont deferve it; dcfpife me, .bu| Jet J...: I i 8) ttie laugh at you for your want of j(w|* mcnt. In fliortj give me yourfelf, and make your own conditions. If you won't xgcneroufly throw the whole into my lap* let me have a piece of you : give me leave to call any thing about you mine, and if I can't win all the reft, why let him take halves. -^ In fcrious carneft, all this Is moft ri« • diculous trifling.-^Cold and infenfiUe ! is there no better ufe to be made of thcfe moments than telling one another more lies upon paper, than we cou'd fwcar if we were face to face ? Upon my life I am fick with fundnefs and cxpedtation : I neither can nor will plague myfelf with any more foUicitatlons. If you know what it is to give happinefs greater than it is poflible you can receive, indulge your- felf in that fuprcme felicity, while I look down upon you with concern, that you cannot know a greater ; that of receiv- ing it from the fir^, the mofl glorious ob> jeft of the creation. I wou'd not take a wrong ftep in this : I fee you don't give me any reafon why I (hou'd not have come inftcad of plagu- ing my own impatience, and poflibly your^ too with this, tedious letter. ( fliaU (9) ihall fet out five minutes after h ;• ^ if there be any real impropriety in my fee- ing you at home, meet me by the way. I'll (lay a quarter of an hour at the Shajccipear, Tours as youimll. \ 'ti.-^- J. H. The ANSWER. Molt ittipUdent of mankind, T Thought 1 bad liv*d too Jong in the A world to befurprifed at any thing j iut your tnonftrous ajfurance turns me to a \fione ■ with wonder. Do you know, moji -.~»- but 1 ani in the wrong to call you any thing : your vanity will make you take pride in heirig ahufed. To he priouSy 1 Jind I have been mt/iaken in you. What I took for raillery was downright rudenejs ; what I perfuaded myfelf to believe - wat wit, had only one of the qualities of it, impudence^. I won't pretend 1 ever had any favourable thought toward you j hu^ if I had, you have cured me, Tou need not fend any more letters ; for I Jball return them unopened. If it were not , ' c that " • •%ft... •' - ■ . '^■■. ■ -^ ,..'■- t.- • •' I. *%' . .-.^ '• • / -;..- -' % * "• .%• ■, , f . -v.; ■. \f^ •• • ■». . ♦ . **. tiat lvalue the fafety of a man ivortb a thou/and vain ivr etches like you ^ I would pit them into bands that Jhould cbajlije you for your injolence. But 1 here take my leave of the gay^ the glorious Mr. H Jor ever. If you have pity for one wbomytu have pretended to love^ let me never fee you again, I will avoid Ranelagb jor every as the place that threw Jo hateful on objeSl in my way. There is nothing I fiall endeavour fo much as to keep myfelf for ever at the utmoji dijlance from you : if you Jhould fee me at the play to- nigbty I beg if, as the greatejl favour in the world, that you will not fpeak t9 me. Don't let your vanity make you fuppofe I am not in earnejl. I never was morejh in my life; nor will ever alter my opimon of you. Thcinfultcd D. LETTER IV, npELL me, you dear inchanting dc- •*' vil ! if you have one fault about you, tcU mc of if, that I may hate you. I love you no longer : I fear you fo much, that (my that my heart has no room for any other- paflion. I fee the deftrudlion that is be- fore me, and I fee that I fhall never be able to efcape it. The poor bird is caught on the lim'd twig, and the moreit ftrug- glcs the more it is entangled. It is your intercft as much as mine to let me. loofe again. While I doated only on youi; perfon, I could trifle with my fet- ters, becaufe I knew I could play thc: Sampfon, and break them to pieces at plcafure ; but fuch an underftanding, fuch a judgment, tempered with fuch' vivacity, there is no ceafing to adore. I am {hocked with the apprehenfion,. and tremble when I do but call yoa up- in idea. I tell you, if you would avoid your ruin, it is your bufinefs to hate mej at leaft to fly me for ever ; and I tell you too,, that one interview more will make . that impoflible. . ..v-: I that folicited you ycfterday, beg you ' now to reftife me : I that burn for you tdl you, that I vdll never fee you again.. 1 cannot fupport you as you defervc, ' and you (hall not facriflce any thing : to me. I can't, give you what you ex- : peft, and I will not fuflfer any body elfc to give you any thing. If you w 11 ... C 2 be. » • .-- (11)' be mine, you muft be all mine. If you truly have from ♦*** what you tell: me, thai never can be, unlefs to your; difadvantage } and therefore h never (hall, be. I am not of a fpir;it to condefcend to receive any thing otherwife than on the moft equal terms ; and fhould be un:t harpy evtn in your arms, while 1 belif.yed, while I but fuipe<5led,you coold be i%i|^y in another's. Heaven and earth ! where did you learn this art of charming ? learn it ?• but the expreflion is a contradidlion, Wh. t yoa have and no other ever had, - mufl be innate : would it could be com- mnnicaredl . Did not you fee how all the people in the box next to us, gave up the play to attend to youj th.y were in the right, Shakefpcar and Ganick were below re-, gard in tlie comparifon j and the fpirit of Eenedid and humour of Beatrice com- bined, came {hort of your pleafantry. This was converfation, and only you arc formed for it : this is the pleafurc of ra- tional creatures: and. (hall I refufc it to myfelf ? — in honcft truth I can't. But you can j and if I could relapfc into my ■ pwn good opinion of myfelf, I would conjure ( n ) conjure you by all the Devils that do- light in mifchief, to do it while 'tis in your power." • :; /.;-,,- :v. . ., I wait your anfwer as the ciiminal does his fenience. Do I live, or do I die ? but that is not the queftion I do I perifh. to-day by your feverity, or. a month hence by your indulgence ?— that I cannot fupport the thought of mak^ ing you lefs happy by being mine is cer- tain: but, O deareft, mofl enchanting miffhief, it is as certain, that I can't fup^ port my exiftence without you. My deftrudion is inevitable ; but of two forms it appears in, tell me which I (hall prefer. Tell me if I (hall perifh glori- oufly alone, or happily with you in- volved in the ruin. I could goon, but to what purpofe? . put you an end to that which muft be decided, and which never can be fo by roe. — Curfed fortune 1 Was ever mortal plunged mto fuch a (ijuation I to be ob« li^ed in honour to plead againft that which be defires more than that word, in its eagercft fcnfc, can exprcfs. Be cruel, be infolent to me, turn all your jffeded feverity into ear. eft ; and teach ptc to Ijate that which I will not love j " make ^ 'a ( 14 )) make me coDvtnced, that yon: in reaiity^ defpife me; and in folemn earned I be.>i licve my pride will get the better of a/ paffion, that will otherwifc Involve us in a tbouland diftreiTcs.. Hbe Jincerely Unbafipy J.« H.., The ANSWER. r,t. G Man, for flattery and deceit renowii'd ! Tet I 'OoorCt believe your pride can\ condefcend to fatter, or y pur bonejlyfo far- forget itfelf to deceive me ! but what is': all this mighty praife about f I did not de- \ fre to fee you at the play ; but 1 could not bide that I •waspleafed with feeing you. I bave a very honeji hearty and when I am . pkafed, am always cheerful. lam afham^' edwben J look back upon the little wanton- , nefsof myfpirit j and what you arepleafed to call gaiety, Idontfnd to be any thing better than impertinence :. but you fee with , a loFver'i eye, at leaf you. fay fo : Shall J.. believe you? It is in vain to dijfemble with one wbd knsms one's very heart and foul, as you do. 1 ' ■' '''-' wont iS-: ■m/ t •■• . ^ i" •wont pretend we rmetjlrangen mhoth fides a Ranelagh : Ihadfeen you p*r months he- fore. I likd you; I ertfsdred who ynt was, and beari fuch an account of your inconfancies, t:hat 1 iaermned to avoid you. I bave jhunnd ewry place where 1 thought you WTui'Jbe, I bave attempted to per [wade rrsyfef, lAat I loved a mam whom Idefpife-^ lime done all that na- ture or art taaii teach me, but as the poet faysy When a woman is once fairly wounded, let Ikt f y where fhc will the arrow ftill fticks m her fide. — A pretty good natur'd, good manner'd letler'd tins you bave fent me. — A very civil addr^t to a woman that you fee loves you : htf brute that you are^ this is the frfi of your tricks. You fee it, and therefore yon it is you dare fa do this. — I command yok never to fee me more ! — devil take the if I bave not a great mind to take you at your word. But I am a woman : I deligU im contradiSfions ; and Til have you to know, mofi impudent Sir, that with as much fpirit and refolution as Ibanijh'dyou when you wasfo earnef in your folllcitations fo he with me, I, now that you bave the in- folence to dfire to be free, tell you thai you fball not. Don't fuppofe, becaufe 1 am ♦ ' . t * ,< 31 \, ^I6) am a wbore, (I name the borrihle itord at a punifhment to myfelf for being fit) that lam mercenary. I have no fortune, and therefore mufl befupported by the man ivho has my per/on. Buty Sir, Iwoudhave you know, that I coud be happier without my chair ^ and with one play a week, with the man I love, than with all you fee about me now, from a fellow 1 detef. / don't tell you this as a thing you are at all concerned in ; 'tis my own fenti" merits in general. At prefent 1 am not in ajituation to change : I love the man with whom I live, 1 think, as well 1 cou'd you if you '■.vere in his fituation ; much more than I can, while you are in any other, Butif fojlrangea thing fxuld ever happen^ ■ as a probability of our coming together, don't be afraid of ioving me too welly or doating on me forever : I have an infallible remedy for the excefs of baffion on the man's fide, tho' perhaps I Jkall not be in a hurry to put it in execution. Lord what a quantity of nonfenfe have I written to you ! can't yzu fave one the trouble, you beajl I of dirting one's fingers^ and ftaining one's ruffles, and making one's face like a cooktr.aids with poring down, iy coming f D. LET'- \ ( >7) L E T T £ R V* ■'"'*■ Madam, A S I am not eittrcm?!y fond of being "^^ laugh'd at, even by a lady, I taltc the liberty of telling you, that you have more ill-nature than beauty, and more infolcnce than under (landing. If you have a mind to beg my pardon for your unnatural behaviour^ I am at home ; tf notj why you may keep your fire, as Shakefpear lays, to warm your fin* gets. I don't pretend to have lefs love than I had^ but you will find I have refolu* tion enough to mortify your pride, if not to make your heart aeh. J. U* The ANSWEH. Sir,. V nidyy if ym pleaje, prHerid tn blame me for what I khow in youf heart you approve. -^IJhall not come toyoiit Sir, let your haughty fpirit fefohe what it will. If t ani to banie only one of two things, which I own I wijh for, youf lote or your ejleem^ I prefer the latter. D* D LET- \ (»8) L E T T E R VI. YOU are in the right, and I love you, while you torture me. But you muft allow much of your conduS this afternoon was cruel, if you had this rc- foluiion. Be eafy ,or refcrvcd, be good- natur'd or fevere, I find you have ftill the fame empire in my heart. I adore you one- moment, I admire you another j i like you in this declaration, and in the next 1 efteem you; but, refiftiefs crca- lorc ! whether I adore or admire, whe- ther I like or efteem, you, only you, and •you for ever, will be the objc you v;. .■if; • (*3) you have more power, and yoo are not afraid to employ it. I am wearied out with folicidngyooj I will have no farther refiifal. I will read no letters, fo come to mc yourfelf this moment. J. H. - The A N S W E R. J NDEED, peremptory Sir.'iutyou vnU. — I will not come to you. — Aid mm what doth your mighty rejolution fay for it- felf My honour is abvoe dU price, my ' conjlancy never was nor Jhitt he violated^ and I Jhould be angry at your new attack^ if I did not laugh too much at it. * Idont think it prudent to venture my- felf in your houje with fervants, mho may perhaps he mare under your command than your pajionsi hut if you are violently bent upon fupping with me yorittfind, my doors open^ and IJhall have fome pleafure in Jhewing youy Sir, that I am as much aho^je deceit, as you ought to have been above thefifAicion of it-, Md that if I could have been in danger from the man who thought more favourably of me, my pride will keep me very fecure from him who \fhinis 1 have a point to carry. Teu have, aid ^' A*7»-- iT" jmtBa 1 . (24) timlSe njfuredyou never Jhallfucceed in it^ I laugh at you as much as IreJ'ent the af* front.^ ■'■■' ' "• . ^ injured but /craving D. SS^^gftSK^^a mmvffjiri<&)i Another LETTER. WHAtufejhalllmake of the mmenti of your abfence, but to com^ince yoUy O deareji of men ! that no other olyeBfup- plies your place in my thoughts ?— Bankrupt that I am in gratitude^ bowjhall I thank you? Tou have Jhewn me what it is to be happy y and you will continue to make mefo. I know you are above deceit y and you told me you are not dijfatisfied with me* Ofoolsy that think they know what is plea" fure, when they do not know you ! lamfck with tendemeji; come to nte thcu only who couldjl infpire itt thou only who art worthy to be its objeS. 1 throw about my arms that have no ufe when they are net enfolding you : my forehead reft upon the palm that Jhomd be prefsd by yours y and but the remains of the magick touch that hang about it quiet the fwim- ing of my giddy brain. — Come to me, or I cannot ^ '■. s» (25) cannot live ; afeehlenefs fpreads itfelfover all my limbs, my heart flutters till it Jhakes the breajl that wants your gentle hand to prefs it into reft. My limbs refufe their office ; my chair will not fupport me ; I fly to my bedy but diflrefflng circumflance I you are not there. NoWy charmer, tell mCy had la point to carry : I who have given myfelf up, O glorious refignationy without one thought of futurity. Have I deftgns upon you? — Tes I have. — I will not part with you for- ever : and know y that with thefe hands that cou'd prefs you to death with kindnefs, I will murder youy tear you to piecesy if you are , falfe to me. ' . O how I talk— I have loft the ftdke^ and I pretend to difpofe the money : JJhu'do - have kept you at a diftance, to have -kepf you. What have I now to bribe you withf ■; But go — bate me for doating on yoUy de- fpife mey becaufe I adore you ; / know 'tis the condition of our jhame, and I fulmit to it. Will you come to me. — You have no buflnefs that need keep you an hour from me. —Shall I fee you at four? —Will you drink, tea with me ? Will you take me to Romeo? Jhew me my own fond fooliflj heart in Ju- liet's. Will you ? — night of exiajy I when E JkaU \ <** V * * (26) • jhall loe meet again ? Dorit write to me— ' yet do~I -want to know your thought s^ tbd > you defpife me, and IJhallJlop them at your lips when you are with me. Write to me, I charge you, but he very kind : I know the fate of a woman who has given alljke has to befowy but ifiitigate the feverity of the fentence, and tho you love me not, yet I • fwearyou do ; fo Jhall, diffembling once, be virtuous in you. The happy,, the wretched D. ■ ' . . i ■ The ANSWER. jyrAY ^perifh, O enchanting mifchief; ^^'' if you are not dearer, infinitely ij dearer to me, at this moment, than you ever were, than woman ever can be, till (he has added gratitude to one's adoration. Heaven and earth ! laft night, what is it I remember ?— And is it poflible fuch tranfport can be repeated ?-No.— It muft be raifed, fiipcrior as it was, to all con- ception, it muft be raifed to fomething infinitely higher. J thought I ow'd it then to my importunities: I thought - I had you from mere condefcenfion and good nature; buf, can I fupport the thought of meeting you, when 'tis your . own (27) . own requefl; ? of knowing that,' while I am pofTefling the happinefs of a deity," I am bcftowing it too upon thc.breaft from which I receive it ! I will not tell you what my heart fuf- fers till I fee you. I will not paint to you it's languifhings in pleafure ; it's nau- . featings againft all that it once call'd en- joyments. I will not fay I am with you, while people who are- about me luppofe they have my company : I won't tell you that the angulfli is unfufFerable, while abfent from what we doat upon : you feel it ; the lana;uage of love is univerfal ; it is not confined to any coun- try, or to either fex : You paint it too well not to feel it all ; and I triumph more in the eager impatience of your letter, than I cou'd in the applaufc of a world. From you !— love, fondnefs, teo- demcfs, from you — From you whom I have fo ador'd, fo deify'd, of whom, in fpite of all my arrogance, I have fo heartily defpair'd : but I muft not fuffer the remembrance. Let diftradlion fill my head, when I have your bofom to re- cline it on; but let- me not be frantick here. O dear diflembler, you intended this I you made me fup with you on pur- £ 2 pofci f « - 4i h pofe } and what I thought the fruit of my foilicitaiion?, I now can fee was dc- flin'd for me. But why wou'd you with- hold it then fo long ? Yet I won't blame you neither: is it, can it be. true, that I am coming to you ? that I (hall call the bed, where I flept laft night, my own ? Undoubtedly. I am your own forever : . this be the place of bufinefs, that the feat of pleafure. Affuredly it is the only one where I can ever find it. I am in the wrong to write —It mur- : dcrs moments that might be fpcnt with you. — I am but difpatching two or three troublefome people, and I am with you, I dare not believe that I am to be receiv- ed by you with tranfport. I hardly know that I am not dreaming, may IJIeep thus forever, J. H. • • After this there paft no letter of ccnfe- quence for near three weeks. L E T T E R XI. -• "ry) you know, Mr. Impertinence, that ^^ 1 have been waiting for you onty two, three, four, five boun ? Come along, you ■ ■t. J • - /. im- ( 29 ) impudent thing, and beg my pardon : bta I would not have you fuppoje that once being upon your knees will aiione_ for this. I have been quarrelling with my maid, burrh- ing my. night-cap, and teazing the poor canary-bird with bugging and kijjing it, Ifuppofe you can guefs who is to make a- mends for all this mif chief How can you take a delight in plaguing me in this menr- ner ? Would I did not care a pin for yoiu-<' D. Pq^ twelve o'clock, in a very wbimfical hu- mour, and much inclined to fcold. — I baroe been writing a ballad about Dr, Hulfe and Pulfe, and you Jhall fee it — when ym cam, \ . . .. I LETTER XII. "XF you are not too deeply engaged this of- *- ternoon, pray let me have ycu. Idont underjland this coming only to go to bed here : 'tis not the terms we met upon : 'tis not of a piece 'uaitb that declaration that you lov'd me as a companion. Don't take it illif I wrrte peevifify, tie agony of my teeth has made me abnofrdi^ JiraSied all this day. Love and the tooth- acK people ■♦«... ■• (30) ■ people fay ^are the only pains unpitied;let them befoy the one is above condolance, the other does not deferve it. I don t fay a pain in the teeth is not terrible^ but believe me tyrant y *tis nothing to that which a heart at once fond and proud like mine, fuffers on the appearance of being flighted : but I know 'tis only appearance. I feel nothing from my face while Iimme that charming PaJJion. Jjroe is no regular defirCf Nofuddenflart of raging pain, 'That in a moment glows a fire y . jind in a moment cools again. No, love is fomethingfo refine, Defcription only makes it Ufs i 'Its what Ifeely but cant divine, 'Tis what I know but can't exprejs. But though I can't with mypen, come, and Til try what my lips can do. D. LETTER XIII. TT is vain to difguife it.- . I have laboured •■■ to. deceive n^felf, but Dral as you are, 'tis too open to be concealed any longer. — I . My > ( 31 ) My fervants fee it-, the people oj the houfe tell me of it. — The world fuppofes you have left me, and I am affronted with mejfages from bagnios. I bate you for your guilt, but don't make me defpife you, by denying it : if you are tir'd of me — God! Do I live tofufpe^ it ! — Tell me fo, 'and leave me to a better fortune, let I don't wijh it. I know thefe are but ef capes of wantonnefs, and you are ajhamed of them afterwards. Come and tell me fo, and give eafe to a heart that doats on you as much as if you de* fero'd it. D. , The ANSWER. .__, jNdced you have been miGnformed. ■■•, I am unhappy that I can't be with you till after the pky ; but you muft let me laugh at you for fuppofing any other could be welcome to arms that may encircle you. Bedford Tours mofl fncerefyy ^ G>ffce-houfc , „ J. H. LET- ■^'J.V ■»■•«• A km^mmSp WHEiV A mavs aSiions and bis ivorJs difagree^ I know which I am to be- lieve. Tou will pardon me that while I fee your ingratitude^ for I cannot call it by^ a better name^ 1 am not wholly blind to my own interejls. I think you con have no right to cbjeSl to my going to the play to-nigbtj with Sir *** *** ; if you have a mind to prevent the confequences, lam dfkamed to confefs you fill have power of commanding your D. • > . LETTER XV. : >'-pILL I (uw you come in with youir -■■ gallant, I did noc believe you had iDConftancy enough, or fpirit enough, which fliall 1 call it, to attempt fuch an inlblcnce. I have not defer ved it of you. upon my honour you have accufed me unjuftly. I have an unhappy carclefs- nefs.in my temper j but I never thought of another fincc I faw you. 1 thank you for this infult, though it has given me f m- ine pain. I am at home, and I defire yon . %vi 1 come to n.. this inftant, that I Ly / tcil yoK how J V as fhocked with the ap---' prehenilon of lo.-^g you. I did not my : fclf know how much I lov'd you I am fure you mean nothing by this, 'but Deheve me, 'us daggers to my heart to lee another but look at you, as if he thought ycu iik'd bim. Ihavc often found it impoffible to de-^ foibc the happincfs I have owed to yoti. - O ^iiHrefs oi my foul ! I find it as imy. ' poffibic now to tell you the pain yoa> ^ give mz. Laugh at me for this, abufe > me, CO any thing, but only look not a$ If n V ere poflible you could forfakc me; hJr. vcn ! IS it D. to whom I am writ- ^ ing r^:s,-~can it be D. whom I am -• iDtrciang not to be falfe to me! D who ?ias told me fhe never was, nor ever' could be happy but with me, and who told me truth. But I deferve it : Come and upbraid me with negleding the moft ■ valuable treafurc in the univerfe, only bccaufe I poflefe'd it: I will confefs my ' crime, but do not charge me with any • njorc, for I am no farther guilty J. " While I am wriung, yoix are with ano- tfter.— I cannot, nor will bear it. If you love me, if you would prevent the ^ mif. , ■ fc .> . .jf. ••A'!-'. > (^34)) mifchievous confequences of a difpute, of wbidi you are the caufc, kt mo, fee yo« inftantly. O let me tell you. that \ am fenfible of my folly, and, that I will be yearf, in asking your par- ■doU; ^-1 .-. v;:i;l-..;.. .,.;.-^. Jif.H..,.'. '-.V-m '^ "i"* "f' The. ANSWER.-^'--^ •^-, ^T^Hougb J am 'mlling,io be your nif- ■*• tr^fii I 'will' not he your fody nor make n^jelf the jtjl af awole boufe, fm a man -who •mll.forfahe me tke next mo^ ment.. JfyoH come here, IipiUneverJpeah . wfthyfu, again i if you uill meet me. in the /fi^, the gentleman, iehc is loith mti knows you have a rights and rwiH not. he Jo abfurdto difpute it. This is wrote laiti niyptncih Iivifljym.vuty read iti hut ii mufi he obeyed, snt -d: \:cn. lA-'r ' D.. - I-'. !{':w -Ci' •"i- :i t. -^ irr ■v^**** ■+-* ;«r l|ISI i jrn |j t • ; Jill J i^ - .1.. ,-«• 11 . •• •■■ !■ •- .'^ »-T E R XVI. •J:'.- VOU have made me amends, 6 deareft, •^ cxcellentclf creature of the worldl but only you cou'd do (o, for the tortures of the evening. 'Trsfit itihou'd be fo. Where the pow?r of tormcpt lies, there '■ - ' .«• ■ ought ' ought to be the remedy, cijnniqg in your very indulgencies ! why aU this peculiar fire ? why all that unutter- able power of charmingmelaft riighr ? Was it not to (hew me what I had by my folly almoft loft? what I had deferved to lofe, but not by my infideluy.^-'-Falfe to theel dear fufpicious fool, to wb^t purpofe ? Shew me a woman th.t has mdre defert, and I fliall think it right tobefalfe to thee; but till thenbcmoft a/Turcd, if that can give you pleafure, that wild and giddy as I am, you have me to yourfelf. I pretend no merit in my fide- lity J while I have eves and underftand- ing, while I have a heart fufceptible of love in itfcif, or capable of admiring it in another, Imuft be the fond, the doat- ing, the diftrafted fool you ice mc : Mad -with my delight, while I am with you, and more th^ mad with my fears when , you dare be cruel enough to give mc fulr picion« of lofing you. •*• You won't tj dif&tisfy'd with the fuc- ccfs of this bold attempt, to wake me to a fcnfe of my own cood fortune. Yob , are convinc'd, that thp' I cou*d let other confiderations interfere with the thoughts of you, I Cou'd not let any rival yon. . In honeft finccrity, no incident of my F 2 1^ ^■' (36) life ever gave ms a pain equal to what I fclt on feeing yoq, tho' but in appearance, in the pofleffion of another. I wou'd not confefs this, if I thought you like the reft of your fex, fond of the abufe of power. I know you have a nobler heart. Thepofleffing an abfolute dominion, is enough to you ; nor will you conde- fcend to make a mean ufe of it. There is nothing equal to the joy that fucceeds defpair j, and with fuch a tran- fport it is that I now recolleft yeftcrday evening, and the night that followed it. 'Tis with more than ex tacy I look up- on the prefent moment : fwear to me that you will never leave me till Idefervc it : affure me, that while I love you, I fhall not love you in vain: then (hew me a greater favour than all this, tho* 'tis doing me no more than juftice, believe appearances have lyed, and jealoufy mif- led you ; and that I never was, nor ever can be felfe to you. ' ' . J. H. .( .7 r'f The ANSWE'r. S • *'•* TF I coiid be guilty of fo great an ab- Jurdity, as to be angry vntb you for going to others, I believe the next Jlep mu'dbe attempting to alter the courfe of nature. i -.■ k..->- • ... - - (37) • • . nature. I fee my fate : /wy, Tnedn-Jpirti- ed creature that I am^ Ifubmt to it ^ on- ly do not affront me with fucb^ palpable proofs of it\ don't make me the jejl of the worlds as well as of myjelf for loving a man who cares nothing for me. 1 bate de- ceit i I am above it nrffelf and I voill not pardon it in another. When yon wrongme^ do itfecretly, but prof efs it boldly to my own ear. Thefe are the bejl terms nature can allow me with you i and thefe I will be coU' , tent with : but in this bumble offer y do not make me defperate^ by impofing fiU worfe conditions. Tet I thank you for lying tome: there is fame grace in being ajhamed of what you ought to have blujh'dat doing.— 1 have done with the thought of your being conflant to me, but dont ufe me in your bafinefs: for Jhame dorit make me any more the fub- jeS of comparifon to your new beauties. Dont tell that . common creature, the next time you give her what if you bad honour I have a right to, that you wijb I bad her face: I don't know her name, but you broke a tea cup, and fent her a fet of China in return. You fee I am not unacquainted with your intrigues. O that I were!— brute I if you can't be bonef, be generoujly fecret. It burts my pride to be made _ > ..«.. (38 ) ■made the jeji ofjiicb creaturet j -ani 4he wound fiercei the Jeepery becaufe it comes fromymiy , v_ O Mr. H — 'its hard far hearts not ioryt iofuffer, to bear infults from ary ; but « there no hand they can come from befides •yours ? IVoud I could bate you as much I know you deferve ity or you eoud dtferve the paffion that confumes n^ heart. I know ycufndtbis impoffible\ but if there be ary generoftyy any pity in your hearty hefiovo it Vibere letter emolions might be claim' d: if you cannot be ji^, at leajl befayexoithfucb difcreiiony that I may find it pojfitdf toper- fwade myfeifyov^re nat. When rhall J fee you ? D. * L E T TE R XVU. . . > •- .. ,■:■,. .y : a -7777: vc Y^UR accufations arc Juft : I htn^ * been bafc ^ and will find fome excufe for leaving .them immediate- ly after cofffce. O that I con*d tell you, fweet^ how every moment of ableocc from you pains me !~havc no body with you. There are a thoufand thingt I want to fay to you, nor can I bear the " reftraint of company. Shall I be per- fcdtiy happy? will you teU me, and tell me truly, you have forgiven me? will you aiert me Mif I had never dc&rved msroacbes from you? There ate no oilef conditions on which life itfelfwou'd be worth my acccptmg, 1 witt rem«n^ ber thcfc were once in my power > and I wiU^corfe myfetf for having fcrfeited them. Yet, why ibould I do fo? There b more glory,mor« real pride in having tb» feom yottr gcnerofity, iha» I cou'd^hans V ' r, . V ♦ ■ • I I w . • *■- i (^40 )) in feeing it coldly paid tb my de-i fcrvings. Others -may love thofe who: dcfcrvc it; gratitude will command a paf-» •fion like it ; hut be it your prerogative, ' O fupcricr excellence ! to beftow youf heart or him who has not merited it,-' ■ By that generofity urge him to the defervirr what he will not rcCeivc un- worthily. '•■..'■: Such are my romantick ideas of your etccllence, and fuch they will remain for ever, for you cannot change/^ j j. . I cm miferable till I am with you, J. H. ,», After this there paflcd no letter of confc- c:.:r.c- for about a fortnight. ... ^ , . . •■? VU c»J( LETTER XIX. 7 • ' T AM hardly tkafed that I have not fern ^ yzu tbefe eight hours. Tou'U makeme ful^ajme new inconjlancy. Qme to me this moment y if you love me -, if you but pity me : a thoufand horrible thoughts crmcd tn upon my fancy at once. I think you have been lefsfondof me thefe three days. Par- don a foolijh vwnans fears ! heaven grant they are foolijb, Tm upon the rack, and every ' *J^ (41), every moment that I have room to tbink, adds new fears : Come thou friend, lover, majler, every thing to me, come and relieve — I die with anxiety. It did not ufe to- me be thus. I LETTER XX. -v-. AM conviticed -, thank heaven, Tm cured. — I have done with you forever, — I fent to you this evening, and your fervants told the mejfenger you was gone to Greenwich. Tou know there is but one woman in the world I am afraid of i I in- fantly difpatched my chairman to enquire . after her : I find fix's at Greenwich too. She's in the houfe to which I direSl this let' ter. . Now triumphant villain, what eva- fion ferves you ? Now what refource, fa- mous, perjured, faithlefs — but why Jhould I rail at a man I have no connexion with f — No, Sir, even if you were innocent^ there is noway for me to be convinced of it. oaths you have already broke fo often, that ., you cannot wifij me to regard them. J have no right to reprove you farther, t have done with you. Tes, dearly as I fiill love you, I give you up all my pretenfitns, and from this moment we arefirangers, •.•:-..- ,A : m ii-'-.^ " . J w , •<•■ ■I (42 ) Tou have broke an acquaintance ivbicb by heaven, I think, has given me niore fain than pleajure. Tou began it ; you have . ended it : You fared it upon me, it vas again/i my inclination, againji myrenJon\ but it is at an end. JJhall not leave you the pretence of my having been falfe to you. 1 join no new acquaintance. I go to-morrow to the coun* try : I have a friend who will receive me^ and with whom I can live, though without fplendor, yet with this bappinefs, that I JJ:all be independent of your faitblefs, your ungrateful jex. Ihcugh I will never fee you again, I am not overfe to hearing from you. If you can fay any thing to palliate this unpro^ •voked cruelty, I Jhall be at ***** . I give you this as a direSlion to your letter y but upon my foul and body, if you come, I will not only refufe to fee you, but throw my f elf into the arms of the firfl wretch that offers me bread and you hivw that even all your bafe-r tiefs has not been able to provoke me to be falfe to- the man to whom I am once engaged. Do 1 live to fay to Mr. H — , Farewell for ever ? but it is unalterable ; only this I tell you at my everlajiing parting, that I never lorjedyou more tenderly than at the moment in which I tell you* you are fo hafe I noiU 2 never ( 43 ) . never fee you again y 1 know not how to have done: I bavi nothing mofe to fay^ yet I cannot bear to conclude the lajl letter- IJhall evef- write to you. D, "* L E T T E Sik, •H XXI. T Wrote to you three weeks ago at Green- -*• wich, arid thought I Jhould have heard from you: but, ungrateful monjler, don't think Ifolicit it. I only think this a duty j as it is pojjible the former may have mifi:af~ ried. l am at ***. D. ' ^^ ^^.^LETfER XiCr. ' '"■\ "X bid mot ima^rU faljhood and ingrath- ■■• tude could have' engroffed a human heart Jb wholly as they do yours. I wrote to you three pojh a0. 1 beg d, mean wretch that t lias to do it, meaner that lam to own it, I begd to hiaf fr6m you; was tins too great a favour to one, you once-^But I have dime.— I will not reproach you. If it be pojjibk, excufe your conduSi to me. I do not ask you back. By all my hopes of bappinefs^ I would net have you again i but do me tie •' * l Q 2 Jvfiiff' I if I '3 ■ ■ • ■■ . • . (44) jujlice to own, 1 have bad no part in'fbe breaking an acquaintancey which I mufi be ungrateful not to fay I valued. "D.^ LETJER XXIII. Written a fortnight after the, Ufl. Madam, T would be glad to know, but 'tis •■• merely out of curiofity, what could influence your late condu^ ? Why run out of town on fuipiclons that, upon my honour had not the lead foundation ? why write to me with all the pretended inquietude of love, flruggling with indig- nation ? why, when I twice wrote to you, at your eameft rc^ueft,- p;;etend not to have received one of the letters, and never anfwer the other ? — You and your condudt are a continued riddle. If I thought you would explain it, I have a heart ftill fo foolishly fond of you, , that I would come to you to be laughed at. You muft be fenfible you have ufed me fhamefully. You'll dc^e me for foli- citing more contempt, but let me be as much aihamed of it as I will, .1 love you. ;; , jiH. (4^y ;viX The ANS^WER, .^^^r^-. Thou Devil, » .i>\vV>.vv\ v $. J*, w • I^Jbtle fal/e, deceiving devil! 'Teu have *^ had a new mijirefs and are tired of her r J know it, and upon my foul I would hoe, your honejiy, if you confefsdit. How ougi^ J to regard your pret ended anger, to fpurn your interrogatories? but I wont, nereis fome modefiy in attempting to deceive me.rr lou write to me f nee I have been here :. Np / / have bad no place in your thoughts till this moment, and perhaps Jhall be forgot in the next. My condudi a riddle ! yours needs no explanation. I^idelity, w^rovoked j^- fidelity carried you from me'.:; What caprice has brought you back again?— But be it what it will, I am glad. — Ifkall bfaiyourhoiije .tojnigbt tofupper,-^Q thai J could fee bow you receive the intelligence! Biit'-J have a favour to beg of you. — Tour beha- viour can admit of no excufe : I pfKe forgot it : don^t torture me ynib the' naming ^...6. .... ... ........ . y ^n-^ tt. • •■ - ■ .--■-. i - -{ h ytfter this no letter of conjejuence paffed ; firfve months. ".I A ■JX. 'f •- ,fl LETTER ill-' J ^^> LETTER XXIV. Thought fb^d 'knOivn ytu Cmg enough not ■* to think of recalling you ivBenyot were gtling f^'hal eamotpart 'withyouinjilencei Yoti hofoe been cold and indijfjer.ent tamti theft t-aie dayL Iknt add to, tny anxiety iy denying itiJfl hanje'deferv'd this* upbraid me opmfy ^i if *tis yattr oum curt 4 aifpofitioni eot^^ it as freefy. 'Tell m$ 'wha it ii hai Jupflanted mCt and ifftk dtTer^iyiM^better^rUforgiyeherM ; P.v" Xrot; ire jBblt' miliaken, ' Maj^/ ia . -? .'S^^^ ^^Pj^^onsr • tho' j^ -^rong nit m thd motive w.^/frhich' yott-at(ribtttcrmiR fault. ■ Y0U Have no rivai j lioreter vriH. iam feriodsi' andtijo' I hav€f hot dcfefv^d ■!;yqii;,fhoa'd bellivif me oa thefe bcc»- ]^6n^„ indeed^ yod now may, '*-""' '■'"''^ -■*. ."..ram dctcrmlo'd to leayc^off^tKe plea:^ jiCihg folty I have too long* indiilg'd in. ^Tbc rtfo!u!ion is not a hafty onej nohis it* founded on refentmcm or fatiety.- I ^ tlor yott the jofticr to dec la r e y en h a v e ' gjty^ me ilo ocufion for the ode^.and the other is impoffible* I haVc been earned in the purfuit of happiness, and /13TT2IJ .-I I have hitherto ^ fail'd in the cflendal . point. I ftnd it; and I fee ff* «a(ori. . Wou'd you cou'd profit of the difco- very, as I (hall. There is no trup.ptea- forc but in virtqc. ' *>. v v . ^ ■>'T> If happinefs were in the g^ of m^ man, unconneded with that, J "naijft haverecciv'd it from you^ y^> ^¥'*J' confefs it, I nxean norepraach to yqUf ihavc had. more uneafincis in my;.ac7' qtiatfltance with you ^han tranfport.^, .,\ - I believe I (hall marry. ^Upon my woc4 I know not at this time to whom : but I am convinc'd it is the only way to be permanently happy. There is no other occafion on which I wbu'd have quitted you, whom I (hall always remenabcr with cftecm. You will not fee me fall into any new acquaintance, but upon thefe conditions ; and I know you will not reproach me ^of .tl^» ^o' 7°" ""7 ■wifli it othefwife. You'll fee that I affea an unconcern in this letter : indeed it is aflfefted. But why (hou'd I write, fo as to give you more pain? I do not part from you with- out thoughts to which I wUh you a ftranger. You may always command my friendfhip i and know me to be as far as this determination will permit Sincerely yours, J. H. •% ,. (48) •":nL^E*'rt^E^R:';tte"Lafe. -^^'^^i' 'TpHE firange Jlyle of your letter coti" '•■'■ vinces me you are in eameji. 1 bad fuhmitted to the giving you up to a rival: this is a lefs concejjion. My heart is too full for utterance i nor will I^iveyou pain By telling you my ihoughts. ' Farewell for ever. 1 wijh you every fourceofyuninter-, niptedhappinefs, • -And I ai!^ Sir,' i '; £'( oj '■: youi-'vcry humtlc fervant/n;;' [ .. ''?'■' '^^^-a-".! «':5''»''b If w'I I rnoflv/ ,'i;tv 1-1 2ft t/f 6) 3ri3v/o:i.l t\!i: '• ciifih:: -;.>;. .h-:t" .c,. ..•..:.."* #. v<*'i^.v4 .;- ■i--rVi.; ^-- » * » v».; -^^ -' :< * I N S PE CXO R ' * *. • • • . »• * SHADE a" (Vrtir. .-X ■ „ V*i,s, .' • » ?\ • . [Price Six- Pence.] ^—4 A / r r » > • %♦. » i,-a{^«-A.;i Kftr\ir»eAv^^v/v • ♦ ^- -.4 . ,* « • *." ^i^-"' ■•* -r ■ « ■J «/. • <. •• - • • ■ .< ■ ■ t >-' '_ ■ • ■ » . • \-»' ^. %• .» > . THE IN SPEC TOR I n" t he * '"^^* SHADES.W- ...•• • i . ■■* NEW DIALOGUE ^ In the Manner of LUCIAN* -V "k- IkS^ v-y-r '■■. Hhi vanus animus aurd captus friwld y . :.: ^ .,^77>«/V injolentem JOn fiduciam- -i- ; ^ :.; /,- FaciU addcn/umjiultairvitas dudtur, ^^ • : ^ ^^ >" ' Tit' *• '•• 1 • . * ^ - LONDON: Printed inthc Yw MDCCLII. .. .' ■■ V ' .Jf^ ».^l^ i^irnr; . " x«t ;V7' .•,i.- SHADES. A New Dialog uje. .) i;:^ ,; Mercury tfW the Inspector. M.rc.\T THY, damn my Blood if MpeB. I teUyou, you're a Block- head. Surely, I muft be allow d w '.i 1 H] "Fe a better JoHjge of iriy own~Merit than you are. Enler Jeveral Ghojis, '! I (SqJ^s. What's the Matter ? What's the Matter ? What's all this Noife for ? Merc. Why, tjentlemen, here's a Fellow, that without a proper Pais from Jlpgllo^ figned by atleaft one of the Mufes, according to the .Statute in that Cafe made and provided, infills upon, being admitted to jefide in thefe^ Regions • of Wit and Genius. In/pec. Mercury y hark'ye, Who arc thefe Gentlemen ? mere. In ho{}e^'y^ou'*BTky'^ behave with^ fome Decency before - tliem, I will tell you. That on the Right Hand "is Sir TFillidjn Tefjiple[ he with his Haiid under his Arm is Dr. Swift -y 'upon the Left ^-xvi^ Addifon zndJSieeky near them Horace and Priory and that f. s ), o ) that there is Phalaris talking to my Lord 0—^yJ i^j.Ut:u Infpec. My Lord ry ? '' Oh, ' I have fomething to fa/ to him. -My Lord, Firi your Lordfliip's moft bbfe- dient arid' very humble Siervant. My lidrd, r haver the Honour to be inti-i- mately acquainted with -j^our Son ; .he is now the greateft Author^ wg- have, and has fairly joftled Chejlerfield from his Judgnfient Seat of .\yit. ; My Lord, I have the Vanity to think I have b^ep^ fomewhat inftrumental in fpreading his Fame. My Lord, I ain 'theVJ/j- fpeSior. .' ," ^ ^-•- ■'■"-' \ ''^^ "*.;.'. i: y-lnf •*.•>:: \\'^r7 •♦/•o • \ .r;o-'- Ld. O-^ry. The what. Sir ? r>f,;"i^,;(-,. [Infpec. "Jhi Infpe&or: XM^^aci never hear of the InfpeSfor, my Ldrd ?" I'll fend them to you. Your Loi'd'fliip's Son and I were never afunder, he is very well, my Lord, and full of Fame. His Life o^ Swift ^ indeed, would have' -Lii , V..'.Vv •. 3 2-:t;::.. T '• . been • r ■ C^y v:n c) '■*>'■'• been terribly mauled, but that- 1 gave it a Lift. -^ Ld. O^ry. I always thought my Son a Dunce, which was the Reafon I bequeathed my Books to the Public ; , and I am now the more convinced of- it by his writing fuch a Book, and encouraging fuch a Coxcomb as you iJ are.,ii i^iiTv'tv.y^wlj-^'u., .'tni^.' r:;: Swift. Who have you got here, ifiy'-. Lord? " •; ■ V ' * In/pec, Dear Swifi I am rejoiced to fee you. But hark'ye, a Word with you. I hope you'll not take ill my ' puffing ' off Ld. O^r/s Letters. As he was the only Lord I ever knew in my Life, I could not avoid paying him fome Compliment for taking Notice of me. ! : - ,: „/'a: Sivifi. Give my Compliments to you noble Friend, and tell him, nly good old Patron Prince Pofterity has made (7-) .% t:l made me quite eafy upon that Head;' for he has affured me he will never' read a Syllable of that or any other Work tending to defame me. I only villi I had known his Lordfhip s Mind . Time enough, and I would have dafhed his gilt Book in his Facet, or have' filled it with fomething that would have marred his Pen for him. . ^ . jiai ziLi ; ;o. Pope. My dear' Swift^ I would give Fifty Pounds, befides what I fhould; make of it, that I had lived longl enough to publifh another Edition of' the Duhciad. J'Jl L :: Infpec,Topel as'l'm a deadManl^ rm heartily glad to fee you. - But^ ;•> t Ld. 0—ry made Swift a Prefcnf of, a fine; gilt Book, with a Copy of Vcrfcs, beginning, .^ To you, dear Swift, thefc Leaves I Jcnd . • : • rl The Prcfcnt fmall, Jinctre tbt Friend, &c. : -.-. i \ -' , (;8) V X ) Sartdyt how could you write fuch • damned Nonfenfe as He from thick Films (hall purge the "Nyhereas I nave plainly proved in one o^ my IrifpeSiprs, N^uoiber .. . • • Po/>^. Pray, Mr. Mercury , turn hira out this Inftant. -'i^^ii icl n/i' ;i/i [ ; • Swtft. No, Pr.ay;, J^t Addijon and Steele fee him firft ; h?re*s Dry den too.- It will be fome Relief to them, ipr they have not feen. a Foo} the Lord knows when ; but he is not fo great ^ Ra- rity to ,us as we are but lately come t-".. - .1/07 y?: o? l-\ 7[Lif'.. ! • ^ Infpec, Honeft Z)ry^(?», • now^doft do, my Boy ? Damn me, yaclq your kind of Wit is much out of ' fafhion now* you and L have beenfeUaW Sufferers, lyou have hp^xx kicked as^vyell as I.---^ ,V.«V;v-lil\ "-.^rAviV. .lli:;/". :..-.'ljVi ^-l i c^^A^ J)ry, •>-r. ( (h^ Dry, Ay; but while I was cudgelled with one Hand for my Satire, the b- ther held out a Purfe for 'my "Wit ; what Plaifter had you for your ' fore Breech r.,,,., .' n : ?t,'',^'f Infpec. Why, faith ours was an Age that would not relifli Wit. But here's 'Temple, ^ix William, your Slave, for God's Sake how could you -be ri- diculous enough to prefer the old miifty Drones of Antiquity, to the airy Po- litenefs of the Modems ; why, Sir, they are not read ; you can buy them for a Penny a Pound in Duck Lane, Had you lived to our Times you itiight have known better Things ; Nobcidy reads an Author now above 'a' Month old; for which Reafon I was deter- mined to print every Day, frefli and frefti, that I might be thb-rnoft Mo- dern of all modern' Aiithors. 7 rr.'x. ' \ Temple. Swift, Do yoii kn6w this Fellow? 'This is no* Creed to come here with. Infpec, Infpec. ( JO. ) Befides, if i you read my Difcoveries in Natural Philofophy, my DilTertatioijs upon Oyfter Shells, you muft have been convinced that I have infinitely more Learning than all your Egyptians and Bramins^ your Philofo- phers and Blockheads, that have not left a fingle Line behind them. Every Man's Learning, Sir, is to be mea- fured by the Quantity of his Writings. How many Folio Volumes, think you, have I of my own in Print, befides 72 Novels,- and as many InfpeBcrs as would fill 26 Volumes in T>yelves? Temple, Why you are a young Man ; and 1 fliould think one too great a Burthen for your Underftanding. Infpec. Eighteen, as I am a Man of Honour. Here's my Predeccflbr Dick Steely was obliged to employ a Dozen paltry Hands to keep up his Paper, while I can difpatch two Co- lumns and a little Bit in the thkd, (for let ' (" ) let me write upon any, or no Subjed at all, I never throw out a greater or lefs Quantity at a Time) with the ut- moft Facility, every Day : Every Day, Sir, and I never was miiGTed from' any public Place in my Life. Pray, Steele, what did you get fi-oni your Bookfel- lers, when you were writing the Spec- tator. I could fqueeze but Two Guineas a Week fi-om die Dogs, out (^ which' I had my Chariot to keep: And fute I had your identical Lion fet up ill tht Bedford CoSc^ lidufe, the Buttons of this A^ ; and what Ufe do you thildc' I made of it? why all the Women in Town were to dirow Prbpofals 6f Matrimony into its Mouth, ahd I i^as to chufe which I liked beft. Bg^d it was a glorious Scheme, but' it Would not do; I had all the IrtfbmeH 2.y gainfl me : two of a Trade ypu know aever agrec.^ .♦. . ■ .i5\T •1A' •*a^' Steele. Addifon^ come here C for a: lAo- .t f -- ',-r r ( 120^ Moment; here's one of the oddeft Fellows : ha, ha, ha 1 • - 1 ,-ir ^? Infpec. Jo, my Buck, how do you ? By G-d you had a very pretty Knack at a Saturdays Paper. Very well for the Times, but they would not do now, they are meer Sermons; mine are Ef- fays. It is very furprizmg to think how few there are that can pen an Eflay. Montaigne^ are pretty Things enough, but they are not Effays ; nor are Bacon Sy nor Temple s^ deferving of that Name; I know" no Man either Ancient or Modern, that exadly hit the true, eafy, familiar Method of the Eflay, but Lycophron and myfelf. ' I wifli you would read my Papers, . for I have brought down all my. Writings to be placed in the immortal Library eftablimed here by Apollo ioi all Works of true Genius. ' * Tr ' " • . V *- *•** #» -^ .*- Addif, AriJlotUy ^intilian and Longinus are^.the.Libraqao^; ..and I fancy '-•«• V. i-^*. »*.' - ^ fancy you will have- fome Difficultjr to gain their Permiffion to place them there. — ^S--'- r^^^ }o i^vrj duf "> 'j-.il 'JOT ^111 Vivro^ -r/v/./Tf c-', Infpec, Arijiotky ^inmian j and Longinus/' By G-d I Viink 'Ch--} js^ better Critic than 'em all put together,^ and my Works have had his Apprdba- tion. ^ ^..'^■.- . -^ji /ii?* i^ K ■ v-e-^ } ' Merc, Come, Sir, I caiiv/ta^^no Diverfion with; him. .b^ni^^ Jo ovBrrv^.W . InfpeSi'. Gentlenien,'^ I ' have ' ;fuifi«* .< cient Credentials and Letters of Re- commendation in my Favor. ^Here's one from Colley Gibber to Ben yobnfony and another from Garrick to Shake- fpear'y thty were both my , particular Friends,.^^^. . ^yj^ .•\fN>!'^>' >\*g.V ' Ben John/on, Let me fee my Letter ; C 2 '. Fricod,' • «v»\ r '/■•■' ..•■^.. >sv ( 14 ) Friend,— ("r^^^^; The Bearer Man of Genius intimate Friend his Club Lover of the Stage Ser- vice in your Power are you fure this Letter is genuine, that you did not forge it, Sir?:, i '' _ V ,>.».■ ' 't -! I • ^ . • «^J. - - ' '. In/pec. Genuine upon xny Honor, Sir. ^s ' Brnjohnfon- Alas, i^oot Cdley ! I read Wo or three of his Comedies with great Pleafure, and I voted them a Place in our immortal Library, which they have obtained. , My Friend Wilks ajfo gave me a good Account of his Ading, but I now pCTceive he is doatr JPgWeedr;y'.; y-i: /;: jr /;;:,::.: ' Inffec, Why damn me; old Ben, for all that PufF upon your Monu- ment, if I fee any Reafon why y.o\^ fhould take fuch Airs upon you. You may, U^^nH the.IgQoi:ance of the Times, i^-^-fi:- ' fy,<. . •' Sir, <>• :*:: '.^ Sir, for your Succefs ; but your every Man in his Humor y would not do widi us ; befides, one of the beft Scenes in it is vifibly pilfer'd from the Sufpiciom Hujband'y and but for Woodward^ yovx Bobbadil would never pals. Why, Sir, you never had the Genius of my learned and worthy Friend Sam. Footey 1*11 pawn my Reputation, Pofterity will think you never had ; for there is infi- nitely more genuine Wit, more of the true Fis Comica in his Tajie, than in yo\a Alchymift \ tho*, by the Bye, he had fe\'eral excellent Hints from yemmy Worfdale and myfelf. Macblin% Paf-^ quin turnd Drawcanjiry has infinitay more Merit than your Afper^ and his Chorufes Tm fure, are vaftly more na- tural than your Gnxy and more upon the true Plan of the Ancients. . ' Shake/pear, You laid jou had z Letter to me from Mr. Garrick, I am always glad to hear from that Gen- . ' Ueman: k: ' . '. ( ft6 ^ tleman ; for t own myfelf much in- debted to him. Let'me {ee freadsj \ ^ ^ r • * /* The, Bearer of this is fuph a trpur * blefome Fellow^ and has teazed me * to " to^ write hy ilim, that; I cannot * a'ioid' * fayinjg fpmething tq . get rid ** of. his Importunity. ' The Fellow has * given me two or three Pu^, which *" I- did 'hot- want," :and for, which, 4 * have /pore than '<^r paid him, with ' the.Freedom of my HouJTe, ,wherej « have never any Room to' ^are.- .You * need , not therefore fliew h^ any 'Civility on the Account ofl. /\,.^ ': -ai v;o/fi TourFriendy dnd^very ' ^ ' V -^^ • Humble Servant^ ., •. .. ^ ,^ ^ » David Garrick. ' Omnes. Ha^ ha, ha,' ha I a Letter of A^econrniendatioai -j; ".v.Jrj^.. ; • .i • ♦ '. . t (f;7) ■ In/pec. Gentlemen, I hope yoii dbri'tr fuiped: I forged this alfo. . :i {{l .-i!;;':^ Shahfp. Pray what does he mean by Puffs ? there was'no fuch theatrical Term in my Time. * -^''^X ^^ :?iyd -o*~.i Sapho /tf^J through the Grvoe^^ ;r *• Z^. Gentlemen, I beg 'yolirfPar-'^ don for a Moment J • I fee a - partt-: " cular Acquaintance. Madarn^'- Fri4( your moft obedient -and very humble. * Servant. 'Tis an.Age.llnce I fawN^-. v/Mt' -■*• ^ ii"«i' .*«■'> '■* ,• ■ "' \" * .j'jV.rvi. * < you.. ^ , '■ ■ jr^^ e ^,- '**(*.' ^if- ■f you; Sapho. If you "are but^ lately, i come/; down. Sir, it muft be a 'good many/ Ages fince-you iaw me, for I havcl been here above two thousand Years, ^ ^ - • . * Infp, What, and look fo -young, fo blooming, and:' fo gay I thisfmujl^^ be a damned whplefopj Ai^ /tot'li^C; ^ in ; or come, .own it J^rly^ /4<>p!^ Yf"^ : Jaii . ■ • "• • J . -' paint •«f -^ ( i8 ) paint Child? but perhaps I am mi- ftakcn all this while, I took you for Mrs. Pilhifigton. Sapbo, Sir, there is no fuch Lady here ; but if you knew her fo well, how could you be miftaken ? Infpec. Lord, Madam, I know every Body J I, Madam, am the gallant In- fpedor ; but may I prefume to afk your Name? ... . . , : Sapbo. Mine, Sir, is Sapboi Infpec. Sapbo! Well, that I ifliould not know you ? That lovely Face is admirably defcribed by Horace in his Epiftle from Sapbo to Pbdeton. Lord,, I have it all beheart, it begins, Tityre tu patuta. recuhans^ fub teg- mine fagu .\ J . But, Sapbo^ There's a damn*d ugly Tale goes of you above ; but e^d I can tell you there are fome there now t that :.;J(Ur ;/r that might keep you in Countenance, I hope you have forgot your old Tricks tho'.— What do you think of fuch a loofe, clever young Fellow as I am ? don't you tmnk me a more defire- able Obje:^^£^.,ld,- ' • r-.' •'" '.-'■, '■■■' ? ''^ ' 'l'[ '^. •>■.:•.(! 'Saphq. if they were -propofed . by^ him, . the Rogue^ . I knb^ , tljieyl caji^ only he a little dirty: for h£; ha$ ioft much Wit to be. obfccne. , t vr- nr,'x ' J^fp'<^c. Pi-oj^6fe your ' Gonaitiorts 5^ Sr, I know they WoXiM 'kfloW- ttiy^ Pretenfions at la(t. I foppbfe tli^- have flnce rea^ bVer thfe rBuhdle of M^^r-f .l;^.r9^ht dowi^.; .yvA^ ^''Merc, ' ■ Rt^^' 't!fem'''6v^;''Tay 'y6# HI Wdatttoed'if ^/^>5wj woiild ^aiige^ life- 'Eftipldyitttht^ fclJt-^' th'at^Ta'ik: Si^ come . firft, you are to be chained^ hyiii^'Lcg behiffid the DpOr,- where ey:fityTimmort^:fAuthQr ,n>ay pifs upou: ypp.at Pleafur€.^^l-u Ate you <:onte'bt?,7 -"f • . . - ' V In/pec. f^Jpit: Sir, "nie"leartted[ will Jfo iri^ great Honor by beftowing^ ti^iii -f^^ fuch a fignal Mark^ of their Approba- tion; for whatieife is Pr^fe but pifTii^ down the Neck ? , I Jhope^.tic LsbiM^ mtend me the fame Favor. Bkid«,' |' have ever-i>een ufed to drink ^e So-^ams" o-^ f^elicon, at fecond Ifand. :.„t-;/ m ' Merc, Secondly.; As thejr have 'ntmi but immortal Writings here, ^hic^ it[ IS Sacrilege to pollute, Dr. Swifi^tHnt^ plained greatly of the Inconvenience of conftantly applying Grafs to his Pofte- riors ; he therefore propofed, which was unanimoufly approved by the whole Company, that you fliall be obliged to write an In^dor eyeiy D^jr, for the Eafe and Convenience of the Learned Bums of this. Society; and that I ani to convey a Copy of the fame to the Pnnter at CAarmg Crofs, for the Ufc of the upper Regions, who, in return, IS to fupplyyou with a fuiEcientQuan- ;," ■'•*'■ . ♦:#^'' ' ■ft" ■ I * .V- V -•■ ^i«. ..♦ tity of the fofteft Paper for the Pur- - Infpec. This is' alio an Honor that' neither I nca* iny Bopkfellers ever ex- peded, that there fhould be a general Demand For injr Writings among the Learned. - So lead to my Corner, iand I'll warrant to liippfy them widi In- fpedors, and, if they pleafe, apply them' too; as, in my Juvenile Days, I iderna^ sicdv/ oril\d fc:.:/o;:cTaB ^^nucfainLXii^ <:-v^ ^:'lr o:>. sr-'il '^rb tp xq-^ £ ■^svncD c' ,f. ^ ^vr 5. **• * v^. ! '»t.4. NARRATIVE OF T HE A F F AIR BETWEEN . VV Mr. 5r(m;»,andthe/«^^5or. All the F WHEREIN A.CTs are fet in their • True Light. OR'S WITH Some Obsbrvatioks on the Inspector', own Accounts of it. Sicimp^JulIZlZ^"^'^ (ftice Sa-Pence.; ,. ■ •'■ ' V V W' ♦"T^ if'- ■ O * 1 ,^1 .N^ :.|r'i-x i :^^^ > - -^ I ■ j a .6 v' . I *.t y* . i; 8'.-=CT.:>-I'r/i Si', to >VofT' J v£::' •A TT o •.V. O 'A '» '.^.'i - ■'■*,. Marrative Mr. Brown, and rbi^ InfpectoTi AS llie i^^e^or has cndeayourddj tjjr many MifreprerentabonSj td miflead the pftbltc Jadgmcnt In relation to a 4ate Affair 'between' him arid Mr. Srowftt the ^Frieiids bf that Gentleman- dilnk it neceflaiy to refcae Truth oat of the Infpeer appeared tp the World.'* ^ . .^ , . . Bedquoi peusvuU perJere^ frius dementaL It is very readily granted to the tnfpcftor^'. that he did neither know or fee Mr. Brown before that Time. Is that any Proof that he did not intend to afperfe his Charader? Surely; No. If he did not intend it, why could not he fpeak out diredtly ? why could- not he fay fo ? This he has not done in any,, one of his Papers j and any Man of a very fmall Share of Underflanding will eafily fce^ that inftead of the Infpedor's knowing or - f i> («) - . . fccbg him before that Time, being the na- tural ^ejlion, as bis Per/on of Fajhion ex- preffes it, the natural Queflion is this; Did he level the Paper oi April ^o, at Mr. Brtnm, or not ? Where is now his fo often boaftcd Refpea to the Public, the greateft and mojl refpeSlable of all Bodies, whofc Judgment he fo manifeftly attempts to miflead by fo puny a Piece of Sophiftty ? But the Infpeftor fcems to be fo excellent a Matter of Evafion, that it is apprehended he may fay that he has anfwered this in his Paper oi Saturday, May 9th, where he fays, ihzi^ be doubts not but it will appear, as it is, a general CbaraSfer. If the lofpeftor had ftopt here, it would have looked fomething like a Denial, but this he. could not do, as he knew he had made feveral Declarations that he would at- tack Mr. Brown. Obferve then, in order to elude the Cenfurc of thofe Pcrfons to whom he had made fuch Declarations, and at the fame time to continue the Cheat on the Ignorant, how nice a Courfc he ftecrs. ** / do believe, fays he, tbere loerefome Cir~ cumjlanccs of this nvbicb refembled fame in that of tbe Perfon wbo claimed the Likenejs." JsTever were Truth and FalQiood fo artfully blended (9) blended together; for the Infpedor has be- lieved right, nay, he might have gone much further j he might have (aid, that he kne^ that fome Circumfiances refembled, or were rather the very fame with thofe of the Story of Mr. Browne Affair." And as to the Af- fertioh that the Chara(9ter wa^' general, U may poffibly be fo ; but nothing can be more certain than that it was not generally, hut particularly meant." It is very far from being the Charader oiMx. Brown j yet no- thing is clearer than that the Infpedor in- tended' to reprefent it, to the World as, jb» Charader. Elfe why did he coiinpa it t6 « Story, which he had heard publickly told of Mr. Bro-jin, to a Story which ' ^e.himfelf had publickly told of him, but in a Light very far different from the real Truth, Bat this is only a Specimen of the IrifpeHpr's Lh genuity, he will fliew morcof it'anbnr There is one Sentence in this fame Paper very remarkable, which beyond all Doubt (hevvs it to be a Relation of a private Affair. It is as foUovvs. ". One of tbe Company told me,Jhe nonj found aU tbatjbe beard Mr.^ • • • fay of me, was no more tban Truth.*' Now, what Occafion had the Infpeftor to leave a - Blank \^:v V - ... -. ^^^) . ...... •. "Blaiik'fbr 'the Ocntleman^s Name, if ft wis n6t a rcil one? . :ltfarel>^'is aPra'aicencVir ufcd in Writidgi butt under fuch a'Circum- ftance. Many Other Argutticnts may be 6f- fered to flie'w the Infpeaor's Intention t6 vilify Mr. ^rown^ but that Would be to fe- 'tigoe the Reader with the.'Proof.of a Cir- cumftancc, of Which 'tis prcfumed he is al- 'ready well convinced. " , But to proceed. — ^The Nature ^nd Ten- dency of the IrifpcClor's'Papcr was to prove "!Mr. Broivn a kake, a "Fool, a Coxcomb^ and a Coward ; a Charaifteri which if hh Friends thought he deferved} they would be aiQiamed to llilc thenirelves fo. ' The Motto 'g$- the taper is rjMdly, curious ^ , r ,, ...,.;,. But againjifucb ai will.iuitj}gbti \- '^S^gthcfln the ' laft'Llne iie intended to afpcrfe the;' Charaftcr of Mr. '•*•,. or "not, 'he himfelf iriiift determine j but if is very ddar, that it puts that Gentleman dhdcr the lame' Imputation with Mr.3rtf«;»i and in- deed" he may with equal Jiifticc afpcrfe the ChariiftK^s 1bf -bothi ''*• To be thus traduced, thus attacked by an unknown, an unoffendcd Hand, gave Mx, Brown the grcateft Concern. However, he at firft refolved to tak« no Notice of it, and hoped that fuch a Condu(3 would prevent the Scandal from fpreading wider. But he was foon obliged to change his Meafures • wherever he went, he heard that the Paper was levelled at him, and with the greateft < Shame he faw himfelf become the Objcdlof public Scorn. Notwithftanding this, he ftili remained in the greateft DUemma j doubtfiil whether to fubmit patiently to the Injury or to demand a proper Explanation of i't from the Author. The latter was thought both by himfelf and his Friends to be the moft advifcable Courfe. He therefore dif- patched a Letter to the InJpeSfor, a Copy of ' which he was fo fortunate as to keep, and w here fubmiited to the Judgment of the Pubhc. \l\h' Sir, t.. ^ I J fS I imagine you have refleSed dn me in y''^ Paper of laft Thurfday, iy the •^ / have been lately engaged, tbo' the ^ • FaSis « 1 11 (12) 'Fa5ii are intirely mifreprffented by you, 1 mujiinfijl on your giveing me the SatisfaSiion of publickly declareing that it has not the lejl Reference to any FaSls or CbaraSiers in real Life, J expeSi an imediate Anjkcer per Bearer ^ and am, ' ■ ■-" ' Tour Humble Servant t "' ' " ' '. t-./mi'.i'i J';"5^i•5■;T^ *•' M. Browi^. This Letter was wrote in the Hurry'of a ■Coffce-Houfe, and is that very one, which has tempted the InfpeSior'to fay, " That Mr. Brown wasfo illiterate that not a Line in bis , Letter was without fame j alfe Spelling." The Reader will be pleafedd to re-perufe it, aiid . confider whether in this Point the IrifpeSlor lias ^adhered ftridly to 'Truth. The Copy of the Letter is moft faithfully tranfcribc'd, even to the very Letter, and for the Satis- faction of the World, is left with the Pub- liflier hereof, where all Perfons that pleafe, may fee it. To this Letter the InfpeSlor fent back for Anfwer, by the Porter who delivered it, «• That he did not know the ■'■ " ■ Gcntlc- ( '3 ) Gentleman who fent it, but that if he had any Bufinefs with him, he fhould call next Morning at Eight. (The Reader will pleafe to obferve carefully the Words of this Mef-^ fage, as the Ufe the InfpeSlor afterwards made of them will probably furprife him.) The next Morning (not indeed at the very Hour appointed, which really arofe from a Miftake of the Name of the Street where the InfpeSior lived) Mr. Brown went to his Houfe, attended by two Gentlemen, Wit- neffes being thought neceflary in a Conference with the InJpeSlor on fuch an Occafion, for fome Reafons, which his former Charadler had made very obvious, and which his late. Condua puts beyond all Difpute. On their. Arrival at the JnJpeSIor's Houfe, they were told by his Servant, that his Mafter had cx- pcded a Gentleman to breakfaft that Morn- . ing, that he was not then at Home, but that;, be fliould be fo from half an Hour after Three till Five. At the appointed Hour they re- turned, and were told by a Servant, that his Mafter was at Home and alone. The Read- er's Patience is begged a little, whilft th^ lnJpe£lor's Ingenuity in the Relation of this Affair, is again laid before him. In his -•I C 2 Paper J»- ( 14 ) Paper of Saturday^ May 9th, he fays thus j " Mr. Brown ivas fo fearful that he would not venture to come into the Room where 1 was, altho' two Perfom were with bimy till be bad been ajjiired by three different Servant Sy that 1 was alone, and bad ordered myfelfto be denied to all Perfom but him." Where did the In- fpedlor learn this new Piece of Knowledge, that when a Gentleman has Occafion to de^ mand from another an Explanation of a fupr pofcd Offence, his not chufing to do fo be- fore Company fliould be an Argument of Fear in him ? On the other hand, that very Caution, which the InfpeBor feems fo much to arraign, is a very ftrong Argument of Mr, Brown's Courage. But the InfpeSfor may very well be forgiven for making fuch . an Obfervation, as according to his Syftem of Honour, an affronted Pcrfon fhould bully and fwagger, in order, no doubt of it, to prevent your good-natured People from intcr- pofing. yet perhaps the InJpeSior was not ferious in this Obfervation ; perhaps he in- ^nded to fuflain his equivocating Character fhro' the whole, and give the Public an Cr yafivp Joke. It is not impofllble but he ^e^t^ (hat Mr* ?r?V^ yf^ fe^ful, that if ('5) he fhould fpeak io him on this Affair before Company, he may be deprived of an Oppor- tunity of doing himfelf Juflice. But this is fubmitted to the Judgment of the Critics and future Commentators of the In/pe^or's Writings. ; Mr. Brown, with the two other Gentle- men, had jufl entered the Room, when the lnJpe£ior very cavalierly rifing from an Arm- Chair, faid thefe Words to him : " I am forry. Sir, your Ufage to me in your Letter prevents my behaving to you as one Gentle- man fliouId do to another." Mr. Brown told him that, as his Paper had been applied to him, he thought himfelf under an indif. penfible Obligation of infifting on the Terras: mentioned in the Letter. To this the I«- fpeSior made no diredt Anfwer, but faid, ** He wondered, after fuch a Meffage as he had fent him, that he fhould difappoint him : for it was very well underftood what was meant amongfl Gentlemen by an Ap- pointment to be with him at eight o' Clock, or Words to that Effect. Mr, Brown re- plied, that he did not underfland hisMef&gc in that Light, (for who indeed could con- ftrwe fuch a verbal MefTagc, fent by a Porter, into <« into a Challenge) but if that was the Cafei he was ready to meet him any where. The InJpeSfor now paufed ; on which Mr. Brown told him, that he did not come to trifle, but that he infifted on his publickly declaring that he did not intend to reflcft on his Cha- radlcr. This the InfpeSfor faid, he Could not do publickly, (the InfpeSior's Rcafons are pretty obvious) but that he would do fo privately before the two Gentlemen. One of them anfwered, that as it was in . their Power to make what he then faid public, he was furprifed that the lnfpe£ior (hould be afhamed or afraid of doing public Juflice himfelf to a Gentleman's Charadler. The InfpeSior then produced a Paper, which be had wrote before Mr. Brown's coming, and offered to publifli it j but this appearing to be rather an Aggravation than an Apology, Mr. Brown rejefted it, and peremptorily in- fiftcd on his firft Propofal. The InfpeSibr then alkcd him, whether he was a Gentle- man, and whether he had made up his Af- fair with Mr. * » *. Being anfwered to both Queftions in the Affirmative, he faid, he was fure he could be no Gentleman (for this very curious Reafon) bccaufc fomc Words in ( i7 ) in his Letter were mif-fpclt. This Uiagd was fufficient tofliake Mr. Brwcn's Patience j he therefore immediately quitted the Room $ and the InfpeBor, to crown the Triumph he had gained by his Ill-manners, purfued him out of it with thefe very infolent Ex- preffions; "Do you know O Rourie, I will ufc you as Colonel R n (meaning as it ii fuppofed Mr.2?— »^ did ORourhi in- finuating by that, that he intended a legal Profecution. It will now be afked, how did Mr. Brown bear this ? It will certainly furprife all who are unacquainted with \aa^ when it is anfwered, that he came away without beating him ; but this is the Reafon; Mr. Brown has been but a very (hort Tinae in England^ had never even heard of O- Rourke^ and was therefore totally ignorant of the Nature of the Affront : Otherwife, he tnuft have been obliged to break thro' the Laws of Hofpitatity, to which, from hi» whole Condu«a in this Affair he has ap- peared to have paid the ftrideft Regard. After this, Mr. Brown took all the prudent Meafurcs in his Power to bring the InfpeSvr to a proper Explanation. Tht InJpeSior, on his Part, took all the Meafures in his Power ■*i (18) Power to avoid it. At laft^ they by Acci^ dent met at Ranelagby where the general Voice of the whole Aflembly declares Mr. Brown to have adted with the greateft Ho- nour and Spirit, and the In^eSior like a mean, wretched Coward. So fond of the Charafter is the InfpeSlor become, that he is refolved not to lofe any Part of it j for what Man of the leaft degree of Courage could ftoop to fuch low, mean Adts as he has done ? who of the leaft Spirit could con- defccnd to utter fuch flrange, inconfiftent Falfhoods! In his own Account of the Traniadlion at Ranelagby publifh'd on Men 7th, he fays thusj ** Soon after -we pgre •without the Door , fame Per/on feized on my Neck behind^ and in a Moment after three others held me by the Collar , while Mr. Brown was drawing his Sword" It is very obferv- able, that in this Paper he does not charge Mr. Brvwn with even laying a Finger on him at Ranelagb. He afterwards fays, in the fkmc Paper, « This is the exoB andptmc^ tual Account of the TranfaEHon, No Circum^ fiance has been added, no Jirticle isjupprejed/* In his Paper of May i4tb, he gives a very dif. differeiif Adcoubt of the Matter. ** Iri the Pajfage, fays he, between the tboin and the Houfey Tw'as feized by feverdJ PeifdHsi hutthi coming up of Mr. Cole pf-ejjented afiyfdrtbet^ Inftilt or Injury. Ih the Bar-Roofn df the Houfe I received the Injury bn my "Bredfi; it wdsfrom the Arm of Mr. Brdwn, and was fiot a Bhmwith his Fiji:* Alfd in his Papfif ciMay 26th, he lays thus, " Mr. Bf-ovdii has been charged with alTaulting nie in die PafTage at Ranelagby and being about to draw his Sword, while three other Perfons held me, and with aftaulting me a fehond Time in the Bar-Jtoom of the Boufe, No Part of this has been or can be contradided.**, The Judgment of the Publick is now ap- pealed to, whether he has not flatly contfa- diaed himfelf. In thefe two laft Papers he gives an Account of a fccond Aflault, ijiz. that in the Bar- Room, altho* he has himfelf, irt his Paper of May 7th, implyedly laid, that there was no fuch Thing." But the h^ JPeBtir, after taking up from the 14th to the 26th oi May to fchcthe out an Evaficin, ha^ at laft moft luckily fallen upon' one.' " I do not know, fays he, that the rccoUefck-^ ing mote Circuroftanccs of an Affair is cop- tr9di» JpeSlor wasenglged during the whole Tran^ nftion. For the Truth of tbcfirfl Affertioa they appeal to the Gendemen, of his Counti^, and for that of the fecond, to all the Gentle- men who Were • Spedators of the At i!.c: .. .. .i Tjrfjo on iWu! ^il^tC'Sui bo'.z^iU-JTiih v.j.vv'V H)rnT 10 J^i!i.'J- jj) s;c;{;(iYq %i n'.'l;. vwviV- or! .?; !ilo jdcjQ f.„'/i;;clj ccdao'./i./ai is. SOME REMARKS ON THE Life and Writings OF Dr.^ H—: Inlpedor-General of Great Britain, In a Series of Letters from a Gentleman in Town to his Friend in the Countiy^ WITH J ... Occafional Hints relative to a Parallel Fet^ formance of a certain noble FuirL / do not know a Charaatr that either meets with or dsferves more Contempt than that of a Fel- low, who, from nothing, and even with nothings ajumes a CbaraSer be is by no Means qualified for Supporting, Inspector, No. 56. His Life deferves ajuft Volume^ anditjballhave H- Warburtcw's Preface to P^i "Works, *»* Thcfe Lerters are printed as a fupplemcDtal Vol ame to tSit In/uaorj , and all //— — 's other Wriungj, and may be bound accordingly «> perfcd the Sets. LONDON: Printed for W. Owen, at Temple-Bar^ i75l»- (Price One Shilling.) , . .^i \j i:. o \. A * . ♦. *. ■ -..«^ <;ii.'w'*w . / } .^^ p A 1 2 j:ij^ _^j^_ -»..■'♦ preface; -■./ v^:.-. :,•... ./.:ii ci IT would be ufelefs giving an Account how the following Letters came to appear iiv this Form; becaufe probably it would not be believed, that now-a^days Letters could be written with-any other View than that of their being made publick — Three Perfbns arc more particularly concerned, inz, the Writer ; Dr. H j and the Reader : To the firft the Publiflier will make no publick Apology : What he has to fay to the next, fol- lows in the Letter addrefled to him; and to the Reader, he begs Leave to obferve ; that as he foimd it necellaiy to leave out every Thing that pafled A 2 in n I' PREFACE. in the Correlpondencc not relative to the prefent Subjed, (which obliged him to throw fometimes two Letters into one) fo exclufive of thefe Caftra- tions, the many Inaccuracies which will occur in the Perufal are fufficient to fhew that they were as little in- tended for the Prefs, as thofe of Cicero to Atticus [a]. On which Account, and their not being printed under the Author's Eye, they may be entitled to fome Indulgence from the Pub- lick.i .- ..• .A. ,f- :»,,^: (a) Vid. The learned Dr. H—— on the very florid Mi> Guthrie. iNSPSCTORt No. 244. r . .1 . . to 1 wr '•' ' >H T O Dr. H- ■:.(. SIR, ID O not know any Man in Great Bri- tain, whom the following Sheets more nearly concern than your Infpedor- fliip, and to whom they may therefore with greater Propriety be infcribed I fliould proceed, good Sir, to the Purpofe of my Letter ; but having obferved, that thofe which more parucularly merit your Approbation, are introduced by a compli- mentary Preface; I ihall, before I approach your facred Perfon, offer up the accuf- tomed Incenfe, and employ my Pen upon a Subjea:, which you will the fooner par-- don my not excelling in, as yourfelf have almoft exhauftcd it : For were I to exceed Pliny in Pancgyrick, I,fhould yet never equal thole Encomium's which you (as indeed you may have imagined Qualifica- tions in him, the World is hitherto, and may always be a Stranger to) beftow on the Infpedtor. Excufe me, therefore, if, unin- fpired by that noble Spirit of ScifiOincfs which can animate none but Dr.H— I want that heartfelt Warmth with which you always exprefs yourfelf on this favou- r! lite («) rite Subjeft. Senfible how unequal all others arc to this Tafk, you have modeftly condefcended to take it upon yourfelf. Neither need you, like Alexander the Great y publifti any Edidt, or like (a) the Antonius Mufa of this Day, Dr. Richard Rock (b)y be at the Expence of a Patent, to prevent coun- terfeit or fpurious Copies j the original Seal (the Motto felf) appears on every Dofc you adminifter. In this Refpeil too you ex- ceed Julius Cafar, that whereas he per- formed great Adtions, and recorded them, you do the latter, and let me add in j^ . more fwelling Stile, without troubling your Head about the former. By how much therefore Creation is a more ftupendous Work than Formationy by fo much are you, great Sir, fuperior to that Hero j and as to Augujlui (whom as the great Cbeval de Bat ai lie of the dedicatory Stile, it would be unpardonable to pafs by) the highefl Compliment that could be paid him, and by the fineft Gentleman of that Age, above feventeen Centuries fincc, may with the (a) Vid. Remarks on the Life aAd Writings of Dr. 5m////, p. 314. Antonius Mufa y the Barry oi his Day. [h) This Conparifon will not appear fo very ridicu- Jouslif we confider thatasthe^«/n (^'^- When L a ^"Jtf?''' ^'^^ ^"^*^^«d ^yfilf to b<^ 1; taken Notice of, and when my Anions » V^ °V'S?*' Confequence to others than to n^felf ) a neceflkry Part of my Care • and It js no longer fufficient that I caiJ has a Rtgbt to an Account of them." ytd. the Paper throughout to the fame Pur- Sonr^i r ^*^^ ^° Appearance of Can- ' dour ; for how you will ftand the Teft I know not. This I know, that you muft (a) Prafenti t!bi matures largi ttt honoru. at <( (?) at any Rate be under Obligations to me ; for if there be any Truth (as I have Rea- fon to fufpea it) in the following Charge 5 how prodigioufly muft he be indebted to another, who through his Means has an Opportunity of correding his Faults, and thereby becoming a better Man. Private Admonition is the nobleft, as it is the moft difintcreftcd, Adt of FriendQiip ; but yet by mifconceiving the Motives, or at leaft confounding the Effeft with the Caufe, we often rejedt the Advice itfelf as bad 5 becaufc what generally, according to our Apprehenfion, gave Rife to it {viz. Envy or Pique, wasof thatNaturc. We appeal toour- fclvcs and ourSelfifhnefs deceives us: But be- fore the impartial Tribunarof the Publick, this falfe Aflbciation of Ideas is broke ; the Advice conneded with nothing, but theCir- cumftances which occafioned itj and the Determination, fuch as mufl carry with it Weight enough to bear down the moft emi- nent Degree of Selfifhnefs. Befides in this lat- ter Cafe the Vanity of each Individual (which gives me great Hopes of your Amendment) (x>'0perates Arongly with that Share of Rea- fon which it leaves him, to bring about a more fpeedy and effedtual Reformation.— But if my Friend has mifreprefcnted yoor Con- dud, and mifapprehendedyour Writings, tlus feeble Attack mud tend to themorefullyefta- bliihuig {9) blifliing your Paperj whichj give nfje Leave to tell you, wants fome fuch Support : Par- ticularly fince every Afs of your Acquain- tance has had an Opportunity of braying his Sentiments through that damned Lion. In return for fo great a Favour, all that I defire is, that you will give me Leave to make ufe of your Name to grace njy Title Page, and be aflured that ■ • ^-ot^l •::,:.- T *; I am; &.Cr'(Sc. 7-3. -3A .;V.-,-^T^) hioJ itv uo^ vs^iiZi tnj ni r. n tlOffj T cyiTryc »L-.l>f{» no t. •■!.>(.. ■\ K^y ■i t'r ( 10 ) ;l. .vj:4 pv."a:/.f) . ■, i ^' LETTER I. T . ^. SIS, ^-^n^ ' AT your Recommendation I have laid afide my more ferious Studies, and read qver Lord Orrery's Ac- count of Dr. Swift. I can't but join with you in the admiring that Prcttinels of Stile ■ and pat Application pf f laffical Learning, which runs tlirough "the whole. The Fadls, notwithftanding what you fcem to think to the contrary, I muft, until dis- proved, look upon as authentick j becaufe I take the Author to be (a) right bonef} as ivett as right honourable. I can't however but highly approve that benevolent and chriftian Difpofition, that good-natured PartiaTTty which influences you to put the beft Conftrudion on doubtful Adlions j and alleviate as much as pofllble the Cenfure lately pafled upon a favourite Author and great Patriot. I heartily wifli you Succcfs in the Defign you mention of clearing the Memory of the illuftrious deccafcd from (e) Fid. Effays on the Life of PUny, P. 71. thofe thofc Stains which {though according to your Account, proceeding from no other' Motive than the — • of an Author, grounded upon no better Evidence than the idle Prate of an empty, afl"umihg, cox- comical and ungrateful Printer) have yet like Spots in the Sun, in fome Meafurc, fullied that unparalleled Luftre with which the great Swift has as yet (hone. Dr. Swift's Friendfliip with your Father has afforded you many Materials j and give me Leave to (peak my Mind to you (with the fame Freedom I ufually do) no Man i& better qualified to make a proper Ufe of them. You enquire fo particularly about Dr. Jf— , that confidering your Age and for- mer Gallantries, and Place of Refidence^ you would raife a Sufpicion in the Brcaft of any Man Icfs intinnately acquainted with you than myfclf, of being more nearly jn- tereftcd in him than you pretend. But rcfcrving this for our next Meeting, be your Motive what it will, I will comply with your Rcqued in giving the fulleft and moft circumftantial Account of the Dr. that I am able. Let me then here offer you and pleafe to accept (as I have got no Son) this publick Token of my Affcdtion : That is, if, againft my moft earneji Entreaties^ yoo are determined to publifh.thefc Letters; — As B-2 " ' tnf c\ my Subjeft is pretty mucli of the famef Nature with the noble Lords above mea- tioned ; you will excufe my following his -Example in many Cafes, anj in fome mak-> ing ufe of his Expreffions. ' . ' In order to illuftrate my Subje^, it will not be improper to give fome Account of the Perfon, before I proceed to the Wri- tings of the Infpedor. This will be the more neccffary, as the Dr. ha?, though perhaps for very weighty Reafons (in De- fiance to that Rule eftablifhed by his great PredecefTors Addijon and Co, and fince al- moft invariably purfued by quarterly, iiionthly, weekly and daily Writers) omit- ted giving any confi/lent Account of his Parentage and Education y the Particulars of wliich are buried in fuch Obfcurity that I can at prefent get but little Light into them. Perhaps they may upon a proper Occafion be ,publi(hed to the World, being a full and true Account of &c,' to fuppjy the above Defeft at prefent, I Oiall throw together fuch Pa/Tagcs from his Writings, the bcft Information, and the moft authentick Memoirs, as may con^ tribute to give you a Light into the Charaacr of the Man; which in this me- thodizing Age, may not, I hope, prove unacceptable. The Writer and Hero of Xyit Irtffeaor is one J^ ^ -, commonly called C 13 ) called Dr. U — , whether by the peculiar' Courtcfy of England, as an Apothecary, or in his own Right, it does not fufficiently appear. But, to deal candidly, I muft own myfeif of the latter Opinion; having heard from pretty good Authority, that he has lately in Exchange of a Poft Bank Bill, re- ceived a Scott. Jh Diploma', an Expedient which many of that Fraternity when ambitious of being ennobled, have Re- courfe to —He was born,, I fup- pofe, like other Men. Nor can we col- left any Prefage of his future Greatnefs, nor Mark of Diflindion during his Child- hood ; as I could not, after diligent En- quiry, fix for certain where he fpcnt thak Time. The moft probable Conjcdure we can form, is, that he was born in Wales: But in what County- or Parith Kc has left undetermined j perhaps tacitly hoping to in- Spire different Mountains loith a Contention for his Birth (a). However, I dare fay his Nurfe has many of his Witticifrcs on Record. He certainly learned to read and write, and fo came up to London to feck any Employment he might be judged ad- equate Xo(b). During this Period, he might have probably been fcnfiblc of the (a) Vii. Remarks on the Life of Dr. 5iw/?. rage 7. -^ » (*) The ufual Sti^ of Advertifements. Want il , I C'H), Want of a Regi/ier-Officej which he has finceib. warmly patronised — ^his coming to London viss a remarkable iEra of his Life ; his' own Words upon this Subjed ?ire, that not many Years fince(tf) the World Taw him a raiv Boy upon Town. Here he gives us an Opportunity of comparing his prefent with his paft Condition, and leave to conclude that he foon made a Shift to jjet rid of his native Simplicity, and in the Place thereof, to fubftitute that Town Smartnejs that Knowledge of Wfimen and fTbingSf which manifeAs itlelf in all his Writings. , ' To two Circumftances he has been chiefly indebted for his Advancement to that Station, he has fince raifed himfelf to. The firfl was, his luckily falling in with a Set of itinerant Players, a genteer Appella- tion for Strollers, Corrupted in his Morals, yet deftiiute of Support, where clfe could he betake himfelf ? An early Acquaintance with thefe Gentry wonderfully polifhed his country Aukwardnefs, laid any remaining Qualms of Confcience, and infpircd him with that bare-faced Impudence, that hap- py Confcioufnefs of his. own Merit, or as he phrafcs it, that Confidence which is al- ways the Inhabitant of good and worthy Minds, which appears in every Thing he {a) InfptdcTy ^Io. 2?V T/ai":* ''i'v'jJff* fays. rays,^In every Thing he does." Vf&t nbf th^ Evidence of this' laft Paffage. int^tter- table, that low and depraved Tafie of Cri ticifm the fad Effefls of which-' WdMmdft daily Experience, would ea% g'uTde us to the muddy Spring from Whende it icok its Rife. .But whether to 'this he has(joi;ied the additional Advantage of havflrig tx^ veiled with a Mountebank Dodlot^ (thoueh jnfinuated by fome) -yet wafits Authority fufficienftobeinferted here.-' • ,/ _.The fecond' was a nomirial -Efiate 7i Stitcedaneum mubA inUle) fuf^pofed to btf ^^/fAJVIountains,', or as the Lavv^^s/ witl* F!!^P£^P''iety> ^cfnt it. in nuhmk-lxritxk herfe inform yoti tbit his chufihl'thls Sitii:. ^on for his riomriul Eflate, '■gi^'^mt'-id Vf^J^^^'' Co.-Jedhire, aS -td^thcTPlace-'of his Birth. ThiS.laYl Stroke Was Very wclf timed ;afid I have hekrd fome'fay-was thtf Occafion of his. gehing a Wife^ftK ■ fome fmall Matter. Be- that as • m^Wifl, it ca^ tainly gave him' .a-Phe'tehdc bf Sdlhg, as^hW Paper has W^ Means of fiif porting the Charadter jif a Gcbtltman. ■''•^' ^-oov; t:[ Wc-now view'ourHero'Jift^4idifier<;nf i-ight, m the (a) Predicaments of a mar- ■0 -.-•J . rv:;-::i A (a) pd For this Word all) the "vir«lings 'of thtf lite Author of Pcrigrlnt PvHt.-. ^ v i.< A/ ried i_i6) ricd Man, a natural Philofopher and art- Author. Neither Fleas nor Royal Societies efcaped bim (a). This Courfe of Life he continued in till the Death of his (b) Yoke Fellow, which gave him an Opportunity of fctting up a Mourning Chariot. So that he is now a Widower, and has no Objec- tion to a good Fortune ; for which he ad- vcrtifed for fome Time j but finding it would not do, turned it off, I muft needs fay, with fome Ingenuity : By matching his Charaiflcr, or rather concluding a Treaty of Marriage between the Lion and Sphynx. Admitting his faithful Amelia to ha«e been a real Corrcfpondcnt, I much approve her Prudence, ^yhe^c flie would fooner make Leagues \yitlr Hyrcanian Tygcrs, than with the Perfon dif my Kcro. I ia\ar. gine (he particularjy enquired how he adtcd the Part of a Hulband, without being cap- tivated noitb the bappy Society^ tbofe En" Garments of conjugal AffeStion,, which he fays he enjoyjcd. Expreffions which he threw out as Baits to captivate the un- wary among the Sex. By. which Devife he would recommend it to the Female World, after the Example of thofc great - u-r v.. . , ■. ,.) : :; \ : \ : J {a) Fid. EfTays on the Life of PUny, P. 62. Nti- tbcr Flitt tier Cori/uls e/captJ bim (Domitian). {t) Another great ExprefEoa of Mr. SmaDwit^s. Mca Men Meflrs. ^SiarJt]DobJcm,viiCdcilr/^S put mto the Lottery of Life at- that Officd whei-e Mtsi H^— — drew that in'cflimaBld Prize, a gdodHufband. -ButlmufV allp^^' him' to argiie touch bctttr fttMh hi&Prin*.^ ciplesthah an^of theLottcry-haberdaffiersf for the Behavioiir of the Hufband; depend^ Very much on the Dilpofition of- tht? Marl, which under- the fame Circmni' ftances Will probably aft in die •fkm<^ Manner: Whereas blowing any Rcgti*^ larity in Chanccs^ any Truth in CaJ^ culation, which our Tnddexn'tnotbingX)rieJ^ the &efot of their Dayj vthenaently cbh3 ^ tend for, the Rule 6f S^&«w«' invferte^ may, with grfeat Propriety Be applied H6 the only Sdence that now cdnvcyi'^aft^ Certaintyi' viz. What has 'been Jbailmt'm Therefore clo you MtL Haxxtrd (WhIcS I iTiuft confefs to be a well chofe NaWeJ and you MefTrs. Dobfon'iaid. Cockle yptif^ claith hereafter the ill Succefs yoti Hav^ always had' {fo many Blanks not- Wi&in fo many thoufands of a 10,000/; -Priie} although you have for fo- many- YeaW (hared Tickets,) do this, and- you^ wfll bid fairer fot fucccedinjg ih the Eyes of the judicious. f'a^'As linddlge niyfclFthliid unlimited Manner of exprefiiag to you my (tt) Remarks on the Life of Dr. Stinffi ^.'34^^ ! - - . ; C Thought* rl Thoughtsr, I know you willy, kind Re^er^ (imearty 5/rJ excufe this Di^reffion w^icfe Imuit own, not to be quite confiftctj^ with ^ the Striia-Rnles; of; Biography.-j^ yife now return to the prcfent Situation of the InfpeiSior, as coUeftcd chiefly jfrom his own Writings. It appears fron^ die Words, my Equipage (a) vfhich. he mentions frequendy, diat he. keeps a Chariot and./ifo Horfesi and from ano-; ther, that he keeps at leaft as many Ser- vants (b) and as ntiany ^above diat Num-; bcFijas the Reader will pleafe. to ima- gine. As this ;muft be very material to the Publick, othcrwife without Doubt, ^he Injpe^or- never would have men- tioned Jit,, I fhall fubmit the whole Paf^ (age with, my Obfervations on it to youE Candour. Recommending the . univerjd ^egijler-qffic< in the above; Paper, 'it would be Ingratitude, fays hej in a Pre- 1 amble, in. mer who, have more than i.oncof my Doou/iicks from thence, Gff." Here he does not aflert that he has more ^an two.. But upon further confidcring the Force of die Word Domejiicks, it fecms to me to imply .an incluiivc Kt* feryation of a Helper in the Stables, or (') 7«'j'6»>fai39. (b) No. ap8fe. .,f3 -.^ - . «;if ^ii'.ii i TO «a-.„.n -- fbme fome other blackguard Errand^^^'^t'}^ Ne^-paper Skip.' Upon- Ae 'wHji^c'j muil conclude; that there has lateltbeerf either fome extraordinary Innovation ^ the Infpeddr's riouflioldi "iipdn ,yvhiclr a general Difmiffion has enfued, or clfj^ (to which Opinion I own, T incline) up^ on the Iflues and Profits anfirig', but of the Prefs, a Retinue .has been laiejV appointed to Aipport icHic infpeSoriaf^fate and Dignity. In dhis Grftic^ini I ™*y» perhaps, be over; nice, ah Error Goin-' mentators are apt to falHntp; TipweVctJ one CcMiColaticm is, that I "dpirY .w^ong die dead J (I mean as^o his Body r^atitf^ not certain Sheets of Paper with ttai Tide at their Head ;) he is alive to anr fwer, and I believe, tihe only' Man aHvi (befides myfeljF) who would be 'at' flic Trouble of commenting on fu^b Writings; or indeed, the only Indi^ddiial.'.that cm be fuppofed.to unde.rftand thcpm t^ioriWlg^n ly. Many of my Readers (aj may thmle the above Circumftalicc? too inconfidcr- able; ^p Ije mentioned; ,but let me telj( thctp wi^ Pfyiar-ciy.tini Prince of :Bio- „.f ... ;: ,f > ! o7.M ' ^«j Thft Aadiiar fceins htit to^ have forgot "that! he was only writing % Letter." A -Miftake >Vbich^ all thofe who make \Jfc of this Species 6f W;idijgj ate very prone to. -ffariurtmf, '"" .■' . ■'"■' ' ^^ Cz graphers. i ( ^9 ) graphcrs, and my great Fredece/Jor. /a) (vvhofe Words I ihall adapt to the prefent Occafion) that an occafional Hint, taken 9ut,pf a Daily^paper, may charaaerize a Man, and paint him better to the Lifp gian Rowes, Johnfom, * Royal Societies, Plants, or Stones, {b) I beg the Rca.* der may. keep this Excufe in his Mind in the enfuing Letters, and aflure him- felf that I fhall neither defpife nor loath any Piece, nor any Apophthegm, as too minute or below my Notice, which may as is oft?n the Cafe, anticipate a fuller and more laborious Defcription: and at a £ngl? Touch, like the ,Da(h of ^pelks't Pencil, itrike out with irrefiftible Con« viaiQii the confefled Charader of, the Perfon I would paint to my Readers, To prove this by a finglq Inil^ce, pray cJk d« Spi£la or, Socrates, Cicero, Shuca, &. hU - • Phtarcb f,ys, that 4 trifling Pjd&ge, a Toke cr a peculiar Method of expreLgni? JthouS tZ V r 'cP"eft "^^^^ Aaions which make ^ c«ve from an Account of their moft renowned Atchicvcments. The PuiUJhtr. X\irlA^^T^ ^'^ " "^y '"^^ "Ot «'«™ Wi- thered by any body elf^ , „e perhaps for that Reafon fuppofcd to have been wrote \^r^hfpai^ IS not dearly beloved Roger more ^WlFT than his laboured aaraaer f and would r "1^1^"^^'^ -i^lingly.-excufe >; karned Difl-ertations for a ColledHor ^y, a fingle Apophthegm ?. and fhould' he not confequently have been high- ly obhged to the noble Author, could he Jiave condefcendedtotreatof what he calls Vi^^ttty Records of rabk-talK (a) . But I have wandered from my iSub- jedl, which, however, I ihaU purfuc in my Next, and after befeeching of yo^ ^0 excufe out of your ufual Goodnefs, a Scroll which on Account of its Length refembles more a Hiftory than aLeSer! feay? juft Room to ^bfcribc myfcif, ' \ ^. ^. I have got a Number of Pranks' to continue the Correfpondenct^ I ,• .'-•iilJ-jl II';- ': • -. ,; ;.,.. , , .'. V TT (") Vii. Remarks on the Life of Dr. SvAfi. p. gg; 5JZ2imi CJ . nr:;ff»r •] >o U:-'. ft VHL'-?J i' ' *'.'■'•■ '•-■•v^ has tV;,.: T:vfv\„\ .,' . 7-CJ .. :,3JiU^ bll.:j B x,j ;,,^. rr-,,;,|, vlif .V> -.,,,'; ' LETTER 1! j • » ■ J (11) ff^_J aCo^ccoiiib, and fliallwith^ out further Preamtijc, pioccietj to'-thc Charaftcr of my Hero; to come .at which, it will be iiec,effary to find out his rulmg Principle, or Spring pf Aftion, d^at Que w:hich once ^jfcovered, unrav.cU all the reft. This 1 take to be Vanity, ^d if my Reader ;s not already convinced of itj I hope, the following Extraa:? will ep- ttrely fatisfy him jnAis Helped. "- . > As aH ms other Foibles are ij;jfiucnced by and under a due Subordination to this; and indeed, rather, Branches of it, it may not be amdfs (in Order to avoid Confu- fion) to fubdivide it mto the following Heads;. ':■' • '■'. ■"•'^i "-■ -•<-" ^'''-'i i '^ ' ^ ift. His Yamtyofi^eflfonLj v.:;ai:rio-; .1 He fays, * he has long been fenfible, *;that «o Man is better Jmww» tbvv >thc « jiiitbor of thefe Papers/ (a) In another Place, he tells us, * that it * is become a Sort of Fafhion to imitate * the JnJpeSlor's Gait and jlir.* (b) Heaflurcs us in a third Place, * that * Ladies own they pride themfclves in (a) Jtmt 1, having t n > * having 'iometimcs; fttraOfca the Nbtfc^ *cand;..feeen favpU)-'4 with tJhe Qlaiices of <;,thb Infyc&QT bimfe/f_,'./d}..i :i c.r d'?7 ; Theft Abfufditiei ar^ fo^'glittingv thai any Aiiimadverfion on them. Would liie the^ dferaonftratiiig felf-cridfcnt Probofi- tipns detradt frota . their Conviaicai/ Hit Intrigiies which might have becn.in* duced under this Head alfc^ 1 .ihall make the Suhjeai of the cnfuiii^ rLec* ter, and fo proceed ,16- la- (.ruiD ,^r;;i -: 2d.; Hi5 Vanity of Impbrfandcir jI" Tie World growing, better by bbJCgrt *«j-. • If .. — \' — had: feea thfe Ji^pbfter-* *, General of Great^Brjtaln kkndh^ the VHajrJn o^e of the ddrk Walks of. iWSd-^M « bone.*^ Let me alk him what tKc©***-! k that to^ the Town.^but if l^i^iftake not, his- Intern heJie is to. fl»iw us to ^hat' trifling Amufements a gre^ -Man %yill:fometimcs condcfcend to unbend Ms A^d, .that it may rfetorn,: as if r*ea«; with a Spring toBufinefs of Confcijuencc j and he imagines, no Doubt, that we will compare him \QAgtJitam ridThg a H6bby- Horfe, Auguflui playing at Cobnuts, ^cifiv or Lelius retired from the Hurry of Bufineis to enjoy a pleafing Privacy. M Vid. lufptHtr^ No. 165. " - 1 • ' 'V V (J>) Vid' InjfiBer^ Aug. a,-"'^-^-^ " '" ■"• '-^ • ' But I But /or my "Part, '1 dWnit'fithfei- tsu« int-in. ACnd df a Coxcomiy taia a Wh— re retired into one of the dark Corners of Maryhone (no DouSt) by Way fii •'Relaxation, ^^-i^"' ricilrvncrnmA v .: - (a) In another Plac6 hie is fiilly pcrluaded, his Majefty reads the ZiO».i^j.'.i 3jJ. .• . • A Gefldcman' Ih Order to rec6rnniena a Tragedy, or-at leaft to Apologize for a bad one, told my Lord Rochejler^ that it was wrote in three Wceksj to 'whidi - his Lordfhip anfwered, how the Devil i»uld the F^/fow be fo Jong- about itr^--' '■ '''^•' ;rnr od !. (i) No. 260. . . • Hear the folrmn Manner in which bo idelivers himrdi^. that it was, Jaj/s htf breaking in on t4ie Sorr rows of a Father^ viz. (rn rtatmrunding to him tt {horicn tht Mourning) I wais then fenfiblc, nof need I now be reminded of It; but tt was after havihg joined (wixh other putentate»j iu the Condoiai)ce for the Lou of a Daughter. ; ' . ' Jha. }iid. * I would recommend'myfeif as iii ' Example in this Particular, 'to all- thoft * who would be happy in themfclves, and * ufeful to others.' This Advice I take to be very pernicious to thofe Perfons whofc Diligence and Afliduity render them more valuable Members of the Society than hh Infpedtorfljipj who, I am fure, rather ima- gines this Habit of Scribling to be thepc-c culiar Happincfs of his own Genius than t Rnack which others may by Pradice at- tain tOi and means (if he means any thing) under the Colour of Advice to others to pafs a fulfome Compliment upon himfelf. . Upon one Occafion he is vain of bei in'g modcft, and pofitively affures us he has "hhtjhedx But aS this may be taken in a me-^ taphdricil Seiifej and that we have only his own W '^^c^'^h : tii J -ii:*! ':' ', '" .1 ■.■. ^.'i f:-:V'r^, • ..-,.<• :,[; Zhur m^ aJiSliimate J.i ';-;w.7^;Vh u? -i'i'' ,; ' ' ''' .\^>^_ ... ,....,.• V . . - Qumble Servant, &^ r^ff •i>i.'.' 8^"^i«Jr.i ^■A.••. *;.i 'X- ♦^* The eafy and natural Way in whTcn, fome of thefe Letters conclude,^ ^is a convincing Argument that they are ge-", nuinc, i.e. wrote by the Ju!bor,\ y "* ^y /( •u : 01 .•r .' ri P.2 LET-. (28) .ib.,Lp:T.TE,R;.iii,;:-:,^ ■.f:::'::::;!' 'I . :, ,;u:..V ". : . ' . -■ AS I have doubtjefs raifed your Curior- fity, I {hall, wiihout ^waiting for your Anfwer and O^fervatioai^. jefume my Sabjed.— But before I proceed to the Idt ti-jgues of my Hero, ,1 miift beg leave to reproach him with that notorious Incon-- Mcncy which appears in hj^ ^whole Cha-. rader : So diredly oppoiite to tlie aqua-, btlitas umve*-_fi? vita turn JhgubrunnxSnh, nmjt and th^fi^ccmfiare.yihiQh Gicero fct warmly recommends throughout Ws'.Qfr fices, as eflfJitially «ie(?£flary to fupport the Decorum particularly oi public k Life. But Ciceto W of little Weight with our Modern^ who takes Care to differ with him with very little Ceremony whenever this ufually accurate Writer interferes with ^\ — — 's Notions of the World, or-evci^ - wrth the Opinion he wovld have the World cntcrtaih of ^/Vy?-^,^ as fhall, be fhewn, hercr after, when we fofjfider his popfufed hcln- fcnfical Trcatifc on'Modefty.— To rctijrn \o particulars, we have fccn the Infpedlor , walk IS sCI walk ..in the Face of the World with hi» Wh— re. Fortbt>ugb a great Geoiu^ he d^s not fcofo, (my idtw.Friflfnd.: :tci aSl like any other common Man (a) and therefore publicly produced his iD/^! mondy ootwitbftanding the Flaw of Pro, fti^t on, which might have: reduced the Value of this precious Jewel in. the Eyes of others/^;;, :Thus the greater Va- ruty of; being deemed a Man of Intrigue, and: boafting fuch.. a Miftfefs i fnpprdTcd that (whjch ot a^y other r.Gccafion he would have affeaed; of appearing a . g,^ye Philofopher and a Or/^^w. .rBy .thS he pubhckly avowsa Condua lumfdf albws \o be criminal; nay, he.pretcnds ip difr courage, "wfhatcver may have erai a Tcct^ dpicy towards; itr--Hear him,. in one of b4s Lucubration?, rt*ere he l^bduis to:*©^ concUe the modern .fine GcntTcmaa and the Chnftian, and points out: hipifelf astht happy Charaaer:..MJ : ivjjom. ; thiy "uniur. ?h:Thffre, are /omc Plays, , Sk^ he, .»«« '/.gravely, of fq t«d acTeodcncy fco'CoS V rupt the Morals, -that the:in;^ifSfor/*,'«: « the Man who had walked the fameifay ^' with his Wrrt-tepubiickly). would nc4 « R-n g?i'^.^'^'«?^- He adds, that the iixW. of Fare xi before ua, and that if We ■'.y-.'i ■ ■ run u A '1:' ri M C so) «« ran Into Danger, it muft be with oa^ ** Eyes open, with other Cant of that Kind. What a Farce is this! A Con- du(5l fo abfurdly inconfiftent*: would he (hocking in a reafonablc Heathen. What EfFedt fhould it then have when efpoufed by a Man who publickly profeflis that he finds himfcif made happy fy the CbriJlianReligion, Would it not have- been more honeft, % am fure it would have been more true, i^ he had faid in plain Englijhy Gentlemen— I have met with a Girl, whom I vifit by- Day when a more refponfible C«//cxcludcs me at Night, but commonly lie with ; I have befides a pretty good Stomach that. way (for fo I interpret thefe Words, ^ aii. ** immoderate Share of natural Vivacity- and almoft uncontroulable Gaiety of Dif-. pofition //T^, under tbefc Circumftances,, Gcnilen^n,.! have noOccafion tagoto » Bawdy Play, either to raife my Letch op run the Hazard of picking up. I have at-, tained the end, and would therefore feem to make a Merit of defpifing the Means.' Thus, Gentlemen, you may adl, be my Example, your Warrant. But pray avoid that; obfcene and filthy Play the London CuckoUs.^Sach are the Principles on ivbict the InfpeSlor wijhes to build and by which be would regulate bis Condu^ (b)" He trcm- (a) No. 162. (ij Jbid. bles It. ^es when he fees Men walk up with all the dtfengaged ^afe and Plea/„try ima- ginable to the Door of a publick Place of Worship and affeding an inftant Altera- tion of Deportment as they enter it: and yet my Friend H-^- walks with all the difengaged Eafe and Gaiety imaginable, pubhckly avowing his Guilt, undaunttS before the God of Heaven and Earth who IS prefent everywhere. (aj A:biUes {^ys, that he hates a Man, as he does Hell. wS thinks one thing and fays another : bit mr Friend IS fo abandoned that he has not even the Grace to conceal either his Pro- feffions or his Aftions. What Phrafe of Indignation would fl'.;«.r have ufed upon this (kcafion.-.I am convinced with my great Prcdeceflbr ,9^^j/?, that modem Cbr- nipuons are not to beparalleU'd byanti- cnt Examples without having rccourfc to Poetry or Fable (^tf;. ^ . «» I am certain that for Guilt profcfled. (Sc we can find but one Parallel to this eveii among the Moderns : A noble Lord in a Book profcflcdiy wrote to form the Mind ofhisSon to Virtue, as publickly tells him that when once he hks chofej -his Party he muft ftick to his Choice, Non "■^^^^regradum muft be his Motto.-- -In «ther Words, if you (hould make a wring W £A^tf«wff- No, 177. p. 96. Choice 1 1 1 Choke once in the moft important Splierefbapi tntutt mntn^ ''.ti^i '' * £ * Con- I: M (J4) Condefcenfion, pardon . A nd as ly^^ plain-: ly, you are impatient to hear the Rcmainw der of H 's Intrigues, refer you to my next, when you may indulge your Curio- fity, without the Trouble of waitins for the Return of the Port. ■ ■ ■ ^. Who am, SIR, . L E T T E R IV, ■SIR, I Left H — , in my kft, under unhappy Engagements to one of the moft mer- cenary of her Sex. Notwithftanding the many Obhgations fhe had /ain under to nim, the Hopes of at> imaginary Settle^ mem, raviQied this ineftimable Jewel from London and her Injpeaor.—^ox could the iiackney'd Chariot, the proilituicd Cha- • * radlcr «(5!er. or the farvuhis Infpbdor; \^^i Pledge of mutual Love, ought avail. W^ Ihall therefore leav&her folio winqfpc ' What could the poor Gentleman do iq this Extremity ? This Elopement from a Man who had been fo kind to her, with every other Confideration, was fufficicnt tQ • cqre his Devotion to any one Objcdf, but coul4 / in) ' ooiild not dam up that unbounded Torrcnf of Benevolence, that inexprcffihle Warmth with which the Infpeftor throbs to.tb« whole Sex. V '"-^ c, ".:i'-. ~<'f.\ r\ ■><<&r>\:r^'-': Amongft the many Advantages which this Knight Errant^ in the morat WorU^ reaps from his Paper, this is not the leaft, that he makss it a dutiful Pin\p to hia loofer Pleafures; Provifion muft,,in this Exigence, be made. To this therefore ho has Recourfe. Thus he hoped, by a Paper of fulfome Flattery, to butter up, as you:caU. it in the Country,, end then take a Slap, as he phrafes it,^ at a Lady he calls Cor^elia^ As you poffibly may not know her by that Name, I muft tellyou, that Mifs Jg ■ . y adcd the Part of Cor^eh'a, svhchGqrricM charmed you in your ^Lvourite Qharaftcf oi Lear. I fliall fuhmit to you Il> jj- 's refined Senfations, and paraphrafc them with an Expreffion of Mr» ^Vs oa th« fame Lady, and to the fame. Purpofc. Nov. 24, the InfpeSor being at the above Play, and Cordelia commanding a greater Share of bis Attention than even Gar*- rick. — He never Jhw ber before tofucb per- fedi Advantage. Obfervc, he was provkied for before.— jSi&^ has one of the finejl F&fom in the Worlds a- Heart ammaied witb fo- cial AffeBion^ and a happy Warmth foft- e^d -irith Tendernefs : And in another Place, I.' ( 3S ) Place, JP^th a Warmth fo (hong, and o •Fondncfsfo natural, that only a Heart capa- ble of feeling the tendcrefl and the noblefi Senfations in their moji perfeSi Height, could have infpired. — In other Words, a moft lufcioiis ^— ^3 — h, out of the Abundance of his Brutality, exprefled the fame Thought, by afluring, after his ufuar manner, that (he, viz. Cordelia, had the Lechery of a Rhino- ceros.— ^Vrom their different Manner of ex- prelling the fame Sentiment, we may trace the particular Temper of thofe two great Men, H— znd^w '(aj^ From the above-mentioned PFinciplc of Benevolence arife H-^'s Refinements in Love,/and delicate Notions of conjugal Af- fcdion ; but as he has been gentcely han- dled,- in thefe refpeds, ih a Letter figned jimelia, which you have fecn, I fhalifay nothing more on tliis Head, k :'"'. :•:. . J We have often laughed together about the low. Sublime. The greateft . Mafter- pieceof that kind this »Agc has produced, is an Effay of my Pricnd H — ^"s, on vic- torious Love, Cgned Cimsn, which I beg you 'would be at the Trouble of perufing a^ain; Jf to be found. The Reafon why I pat in this Caution, is, that having Occa- •^■' '' ■. . > -. (') riJ..Rem.(m the liff, ^c* of 5p/^ p. j68. * . fioa ( 59 ) (fion to hefer to forae of his folrmcr Papers^ I perceived, that they were already gone to fleep with their Forefathers, in that Grave ■of Obfcurity, where all his other Writings will, fome fooner, fome later, ultimately be immerged. Perhaps, indeed, thofe of them which have been collcdled and boundj raay have fome Chance of paffing through that intermediate State afligned them by the ingenious, nay, the judicious Mr. jFfo- garth. I can't but obferve here, how wbimfically <^pofite the Fate of H 's Writings is to that of old Ennius's j the Antient's Stercus became Aurum, by the Care of one Virgil, the firft, and let me add, the greateft Gold-finder, perhaps, ^the World has ever produced : Whereas the Writings of our Modern become Stercus, not^x y&ro; here,,! cpnfcfs, the Com- parifon will not hold, but if yoii will, ac* cording to my ufual Freedom,, give me Leave to fubftitute Cbarta ; dijimulitudo curret quatuor pedihus. Before I conclude this Letter, I muft obferve to you, that, in this Courfe of In- trigue, the Infpedor (who rifes, as him- felf often tells us, from the Contemplation of a Maggot, to the Praife of the Maggot's and his Creator) has, doubtlefs, firequcnt Opj)ortunitics of returning his Thanks to him, from whom he has received Abilities to «?f !' \o enjoy iuch cxquifite Plcafares. Had Jrtitt followed him in his privacy with the Fair^ you would have found him, in the very Moments of DalliancCj praiflng, with the old Philofopher, Providence, for endowing Men and Women with Faculties to enjoy this moflt exalted Pleafure at all Seafonff, and of indulging an Appetite^ which is by fo much the ftronger than that of Hun- ger, by how much the Continuation of the Species is of more Confequence than the Prefervation of any one Individual of it. And all this H— would alledge in his Excofe, and perhaps add, that — ^ at all Seafons is the greateft Advantage thti rational have over the animal Part of the Creation, and which indifputably conftir- tutes the fpecifick Difference ; it being the noblcft Adt of a rational Being. But the Poft is juft going out, fo that I have • juft Time and Room enough to fubfcribe ' xnyfelf, S^Ct -•-' - •' , :j » ■j.i hi>- i \' Letter « ^.- L E T T E R V. WE now come to confider ihtlnjpec* tor as a Writer, in which Province the chief Merit he would arrogate to him- felf is the Swiftnefs of his Produftions. And here I can't but communicate to yoa a Thought which has often occurred to m'e } that H has made himfelf a Slave to all public Places, merely to give an Appear- ance of Truth to what he has advanced concerning the little Time he employs in that wonderful Magazine of Nonfenfe the illiterary Gazette. Once he feems to have judged right, where he tells us he did not think there was much in Papers dieted over Tea^ or whilft he was a drejjing j and though after- wards in the fame Paper he attempts fti- fling the Conviftion of his own Confcience by the Sale of his Pj/^r, he may be aflured that many join with him in his firft Opi- nion : Who meant that his Lucubrations fliould perifh in their native Infignificance, and whofe filent Contempt he has pur- pofely miftakcn for Approbation. Th» Sale of his Paper, on which he grounds the Approbation of the Town, can I F ■ ihidt (42) think be accounted for from this Cngle Property, viz. That it may be confidered as the Town Opium, and confequently en- couraged at all Coffee-Houfcs, becaufe it promotes the Confumption of the great Antidbte to Sleep > it is certain that with- out the Afliftance of this enlivening Fluid, the Blockhead would infallibly always lull us to Sleep, did not the Coxcomb every now and then raife our Indignation and Con- tempt, and like the Brifknefs of bottled Small-Beer, at once fliew his Pertnefs and Emptinefs. Indeed his Title to M. D. (independent of the Scottijh Diploma) may be deduced from this great Prerogative of difpenfing Sleep, and confequently Eafe j and in this Particular he may be allowed to be pof- fcflcd of the — Soporificum Grandum miro' bile, or great Soporific Opiate — a Title which would cut no fmall Figure even in the pompous Advcrtifcments of his great Cottmporary Rithard Rock, by the Grace oi Dolors Coiumoni, Licentiate in Phy- Cck, whom H — often pretends to be very waggith upon. , This I dare affirm that the Relation holds (Irong of one Side, and that all his Readers are in the literal Senfe of the Word his Patients. I iiad near forgot to have told you that . - ■ I have I have been as much fhocked at the AB- furdity of H — 's Treatife on Modeftjr, 4s you conld have been. Your Conjefture rdating to the Intent of that particular Pa- per, and hints in fome others to the fame Purpofe, {viz. that judging by his new- faihioned Rules, the World may imagine him a Man confcibus of his own Merit even ajjured but not impudent) agrees with the univerfal Opinion here. You impofe a very difficult Tafk on me when you detire my Obfervations on that Paper. What is in its Nature neither true or falfe^will hardly admit of a Refutation. However to fhew my Obedience to your Commands, I fhall attempt it in my next, You aik me whether every Perfon he puffe off be a Blockhead ? I anfwer not. Many indeed are, and thofe who are not, (hould be lit- tle obliged to H for putting them . into fuch Company. You juftly obferve, that he labours particularly to exprefs himfelf.a refined Play-houfe Critic, and his Senti- ments are fo heart-felt that they are fcarcc intelligible. You mention to his Praifq thp Tendernefs he (hews upon all Occafions for young Adors. This Fellow-feeling muft be allowed to become the Man who at May-Fair, to a ragged Audience, played the Charadler of Archer, without cxcejling M that Degree, that we might expei3 from - ^ F 2 the I'l 1 \i ( 44 ) the JnfpeSior in the lowefl Parts^ or any Stage of Life, I expeded that upon this Occafion he would have adopted the fol- lowing Lme out of Virgil for his Motto Haud Ignara mali miferis fuccurrere difco^ which I think fo much to the Purpofc that {hould any Occafion hereafter offer, I beg you would recommend it to him at this Com- mencement of the new Vear. I heartily wifli my old Friend Health and long Lifet I>iu Uetus nobis interfii : Late^ very late may you become a Ghoji ; So mjkes, fo p-ayi your^ &c. (a) L E T T E R VI. SIR, IN my laft I mentioned a Dcfign of giv- ing fomc Obfervations on a Paper of H— 's concerning Modefty— The Motto is the firft Thing that prefcnts itfclf; in prefix- ing of which he has followed the Example of his great Predeccffors j yet with this tri- fling Difference, that thofe they madcChoice of bore fome Connexion with the Subject tinder Confideration j but H 's (in which Refpedl he mufl be allowed to haveout-done them, may as well agree with any other Pa- per as with that whereto they are applied— to {q) Vid. The parallel Performance, P. 169. prove (45) prove the Truth of this Afl'ertion, I could produce almofl every Motto in his Paper, more particularly that of No 154, which I {hall beg Leave to tranfcribe, InutiUi eji verecundia qu£ objlat quo minus negemus obfequium ad inbonefia vocanti. The InfpciSor having found in his bi(aio- nary that verecundia was rendered by the Englijh Word Modefty, thought it would be no improper Frontifpiece to the immor- tal Strudiure he propofed raifing, and without confidcring the true Senfe of the Sentence, writes down or dilates it-'-^fbr my Part, though I don't pretend, to make fo fhining a Figure in the moral World", nor to know (having had my Education; as you remember in the Univerfity) half as much as the learned InfpeSlor (a)\{o much as a Specimen of modern Apology ;) yet will 1 urdertakc to fhcw io Juftifica- tion of my honoured Friend Cicero^ that verecundia was never meant in this Place to fignify Modefty. Here is Qucftion of doing an inbonejhtnr^ i. e. a difhonourable, an ungentecl Thing. The Words fnd bonefto otio to enjoy ail honourable Lcifurc, frequent in the beft * Ftdf No 157. A Dialogue between i Calonel a Jtmmy, &c. where eur Blockhead treati « Cbll^ Edu- cation with the uunofi Contempt, Itatln fi! ''.' ( 46 ) \ Latin Authors, confirm this Signification of the Word inbonejium. The French Words dejhonnete^ malbonnetey are always taken in the fame Senfc, and alfo frequent- ly ufed inftead of the Word immodefle. JSTow it is obvious to every Body ; that as Modefty can never be the Caufe of our joining in an indecent or impudent Aftion, fo it muft always be the Motive of our diflenting from any Propofal that has a Tendency that Way ; otherwife Modefty and Impudence could fubfift at the fame Time in the fame Subjed, which is im<* pofBble. But verectm£a in this Place is the Caufe which prevents our difTenting from a Sum- mons to an indecent or impudent Action— verecundia therefore cannot fignify in this Place Modefty. < Nor can it n^can that counterfeit of Mo- defty Diffidence^ for this laft, according to the Infpeidor's Definition, prevents our doing what we know to be right. But verecundia here induces us to do what we know to be wrong- If therefore in this Motto, there be no Queftion at all of Mo- defty or Impudence, does not the placing it at the Head of a defigned Differtation on both argue a vaft deal of deep Erudition. The Truth is, verecundia comes from the Verb vereor to fear, and fignifies a Fearfulneft (47). Fearfulnefs proceeding from Awe. I remem- ber when I was at School, it was a conftant Precept of our Mafter's to us, never to take up with the firft Signification of a Word: But when we had gone through all in the Didionary to pitch upon that which fcemed moft agreeable to the Senfc of the Paflagc— . I would recommend this Method for the future to the learned Infpedtor, and more- over tell him for his Inftradlion in this Place, that in Ainfwortb'% Didtionary he will find reverent Regard^ the third Signifi- cation of the Word verecundia^ which if I miftake not, will fuit better with this Sen- tence than the firft Signification j read it and tell me your Opinion, Let us now confider the Infpedlor as a moral Philofoper. — -'I am to declare it as my Opinion^ fays he, that the Affec- tiom of the Mind which deter Men from ill A5lions, and which prevent their exe- cuting good ones Jrom the fame Principle of Backwardnefs in exerting themfehes are, in reality two di/linSl Principles ^ and not one as this ufually accurate Writer oh- ferves. Pray obferve the Prefuroplion of the Fellow in fctting himfclf above Gcero, and that at a Time when he fhews him- felf utterly ignorant of Latin. That V\ M I (48) 7bat Backwardnefs and Referue ijobicb happily deter People ^ unaioed by other Confix derations, from doing I'hingSj ichich they are confcious, are in themfelves ivrongy and Jor 'which they know the World muji cenfure themt is a Virtue ; Modejly. The firft and eflential Rule of a Defini- tion is, that it fliould point out the fpecifick Difference of the Subjcdt defined, .and not agree with any other Thing : But this De- finition, ftill of a Piece with the Motto, agrees as well, nay better, with Honour, natural Juftice, and indeed any other Vir- tue than with Modefty. To this Definition, or more properly, Defcription of Modefty, he fubftitutes another (by way, I fuppofe of Amend- ment) a thoufand Times more general. I wouldy fays he, under/land Modejly to be that ^ality, which reprejjes us Jrom be- ing eminently ill. — The Fear of the Rope, will it not have the fame Effcd? Will not every other human Confidcration ? If this be the great Charadteriftick of Modefty, whoever remains within the contracted Sphere of pilfering and picking of Pock- ets, whoever has not made his publick Appearance at Tyburn, or in the Pillory, muft be accounted a modcft Man. A pretty Syftcm of Morality this, which we arc 10 adopt ijlius pericuh, in the Place of 'oi Cicero' i.-i-^^ wifti he would tell lis wtn^ are the eminently ill. : ' *' '-■■ .'", : ' , '. ; • We now proceed to that mifchievoiii Counterfeit of Modefty, Diffidence, which before our modern Hudibras^ this dextrous Hair-fplitter, had been confounded toge- ther. Hear him. ^ That Senfation of the fanie turn,wh>ch awes and prevents a Man from doing pub- lickly an Adion which he knows to be right, and by which himfelf and others Vvoald be profited {which you may obferve is a favourite Exprejion) is not the Virtue which adts in the other Catife, but a mif- chievous Counterfeit of it-, which we ough^ to diftinguifli by the Name of Diffidenctf^ which it is every one's Intereft to get thfe better df, and every one*s Advantage, that has any Concern with Mih, (I beli^ve^ hi may add, or ff^omdn either) that he (hoUld banifti for ever from his Remembrance.* And here I muft obferve to you, that my Friend has, like every other good Tcache^, ftriftl^ - adhered - to hisf own Rules, by baniftiihg from his Remembrance the leaft Trace ttf this mifchiroous Counterfeit. ' ' ' Diffidence fo groflly calumniated here,wei ftialt hereafter juftify* In" the mean time it fecms very extraordinary, that a man ftiould be prevented, by any thing like Diffidence, from doing what he knvws to be right. Diffidence can't exift without an Objcft ; that is to fay, there muft be a Diffidence G of ■ . - ( so) of feme Thing, but here there is no room for it, when you know the Thing to be right. If the learned Jnfpe£lor had faid what he dcuks to be right> there may be fomc room for Diffidence, but there is a good deal of Difference between a Doubt and a Certainty. On the other hand, where there is a Doubt, Diffidence is well founded. You will fmiic at me here, for miflaking, as it were wilfully, the Cafe in omitting the Diffidence of Abilities, or Means to attain the End which you know to be right. 1 aufwer, that I follow H — , but fuppofe that he had mentioned the only Thing that c'juld give his Argument any Appearance of Rcafon, yet pretty much the fame kind of _Anfwcr will ferve— for if he be doubtful of his Abilities with Reafon, his Diffidence is highly commendable, and will even, ac- cording to H— 's own Rcafoning, greatly contribute to his Succefs. On the other hand, a Diffidence, where a Perfon knows himfelf equal to the Undertaking, is a Cafe fo very rare in Life, that we may almoft deny its Exiftence. Here one can't help obferving, how this great Moralifl has transferred the Seat of the Virtues and Vices to the Memory— (a) Infpcmr, No, 176. where he declares his Opi- nion of Mr. MoffipS future Succefs, in the fame Words which he tells us /Efchinus made ufe of in fpeaking of a Brother Orator, who had great Merit, with great Dif- liilencc, vtz. Jf J doubt not of bis Succefs. it is btcaufe h doubts if it himfelf. , ^ hence- henceforward therefore we muft defire thofe, whom we would exhort to be vir- tuous, to furnifli their Memories with the proper Virtues, and banifli the contrary Vices from their Remembrance. When you vilit H , I would have you ex- hort him in the fame Strain, and do real- ly think, that three or four Grains of Dif- fidence, in the room of fo many Ounces of Aflurance, would be no improper Orna- ment to Mr. P^/(?'s Memory. Having thus happily fucceeded in his Di- vorce of Modefty from Diffidence, our Au" ibor proceeds with that Perfpicuity of Me- thod peculiar to himfelf, to give us an Ac- count of Aflurance and Impudence * we ufe Aflurance and Impudence, fays hC|^ as fynonimous Expreffions, and employ them indifferently, but this with great Jnjuftice, as the one is an eternally and naturally o- dious and diftafteful Quality {I fuppofe, to the Palate of the Memory) the other, if not an amiable, at Icafl, a good and ufeful one.' I would fain know, whether Aflurance, in the' natural or real Senfe of the Word, fignifics any Quality or Affe(flion of the Mind at all. If not, it muft be underflood in the Senfe that Cuftom has beftowed on it : Cuftom, this great Mafter of Language, this fovereign Judge and Rule of Speech— No\y the Infpeftor himfelf conleflcs, that G 2 Aflii- * j . ( 50 Aflurancc is ufed as a fynonimous Exprefll-. on for Impudence, we ufe, &c. Affuranco muft be then underftood in that Senfe, and no other — but the Infpedor fets himfelf above Cuftom,whcn he fays, *that he (for-: footh) would underftand Affurance to ex- prefs that Freedom of Deportment, and Senfe of Confequence, which arifes in a Man's Breaft from the Confcioufnefs of what are his real Merits and ^alifica-. tions' But before he can prevail upon us to be- lieve this Freedom of Deportment, and Senfe of Confequence, are not in him the Symptoms of the moft confummate Impur dence, he muft prove to us the Reality of his Merits and good Qualifications, in which Attempt I am afraid he'll mifcarry. I fup- pofe his Invitation to the Ladies, to come and court the Infpedlor General of Great Britain^ arifes from this Confcioufnefs &c. is it not rather, with many more of his Adlions, the EfFedl of that Boldnefs and Importance, which he zff\imcs from a Pre-. tenfcn to ^alities which he is not pofjejed of and ivhicby by his own Definition^ is Impu-^ dence. By this Specimen of Infpedlorlal Diflerta- tions, we may eafily form a Judgment of the Merit of the reft of his Writings. Thefe Writings, vfhkh have, however, if you will take his own Word for it, *ju^ly merited him fuch a CharaSfcr in ihtgay and polite ^ as . (53) ds well as the more ferious Part of the Worldy as fecures him a better Fate than that of being curforily read over, or thrown afide, or of not being able to imprefs a i^- •verence for the Subject he treats of, upon the Underftanding of his Readers.* Such are the Hands, in which, as he in* forms us, Virtue appears, like a BlufhyCXoaxhir ed in her native Beauty, comes fmiling upon us, and beguiles us into a Love for her bo« fore we know it ' (a). Such are the Lucubrations which en- gage in the Infpedor's Favour the Thanks of every Man who has the Interell of Re- ligion at Heart, for diftipating thofe Adum- hratiom which have fo long ob(cured that Source of every rational Pleafurc (b). To obviate the general Objedion which is made, not without fome Juftice to Cri- ticks, wz. That they rather dejlroy than tdify, give me leave to offer my own Noh tions of thefe Topicks, fo miferably handled by his Infpeftorfhip. To begin with Mo- dcfty, Modefty is derived from the Latin Word ^odus, which as it imports Moderation, &c, fo Modeftia muft fignify a due Referve and Meafure in all our Words and Adlions.— — Every one defcended from Adcm^ has hi^ Share of Vanity, and is more or lefs opi- nionated ; he who has, or difcovers leaft of this Foible, is accounted a modcft Man. I • (a) Tid. Jug. y, (t) Ttd. iHJ. Mo- .i— 1 j • (54) Modefty bears fo near an Affinity to true Politcnefs, that I fhould be tempted to pro- nounce it to be nothing elfe than natural Politcnefs : if true Politcnefs confifts in do- ing or faying nothing that is fliocking to others. — Hence a Perfon can't be polite that is not modeft, nor modcft that is not polite. This is a Truth I would recom- mend to the ferious Confideration of all thcfe fine Gentlemen, particularly thofe of the graphical kindy who are fo teazing on the Subjedl of their own Merits and Pro- dudtions ; and who, tho' they hold Mo- defty in Contempt, would ftill fain pafs for being polite, and knowing the World, which when taken in the true Senfe, is pretty much the fame Thing. From which we may juftly infer, that though Modefty and Politcnefs take their Rife from an inward Principle, yet the Ob- jc »1 {6q) I to take it from the Circle of my 'own Acquaintance , I fliould mention Ame- lia to you as a mofl finifhed Performance. — Hear the Sentiments of the judicious kw.—- Jt is, in Reality, as the Author fays in his De- dication, calculated to promote Religion and Virtue. . This one Circumftance, the moft glo- rious that can animate the Soul of Man in the undertaking and perfecting any Work, has, in- ftead of commanding the Applaufe, provoked the Cenfure of the Generality of its Readers. For, in (hort, our Youth, of both Sexes, have their Taftes fo debauched with reading Adven- tures, Intrigues , &c. in an Age fo abandoned, that even the Fair, unawed by that Timidity and Softnefs, which is fo natural to their Sex, and which fo cfFe(5lually recommends them to ours, avow to the World their Guilt, and glory in afting over again, with a peculiar Gudo (it; Memoirs, Apologies , &c,) thofe Scenes of Lewd- nefs, which will judly render them infamous to all Pofterity. A lufcious Stile, high wrought Images, and glowing Colours, are requifite to palliate and fet off the natural Deformity of Vice ; and our late Mafter-pieces in this Way have aftually given our Youth as wrong a Turn as ever Romance did to Don ^ix- etc. It is this depraved Tafte, and Mr. Fielding's not complying with it, that has funk tlic Reputation of the ineftimable Amelia; a Piece which entirely depends on the Force of native Virtue, without meanly {looping to be patronized by the Frailties of human Nature. :;,...■,;, J< it I (6..) It has all the Regularity and Beauties of epick- and all the Life of dramatick Poetry. Not one Character is fuperfluous or unconnefted, bul all contribute to (hew, that Virtue will fupport itfelf againft every Oppofition, and that even « good Intention will carry a Man thro* Life, fo. as to make him at lafl happy. — Such a Fate at- tends each Performer, as we may juftly expe<^ from their refpe<3:iveChara6ters.Upon the whole itis.aslhave told you before, a moftfinifhedPer- formance. But will, I am afraid, be attended with this Confequence, that as the worthy Au- thor, confulted in this Piece, his own IWpofi- tion, and true Tafle, more than that of theAge; its Fate, compared with the Succefs of thofe vile Pieces which difgrace the Prefs, will be a melan- choly Caution to Writers, to apply rather to the vicious than virtuous AflFedJions of Mankind. — What you take Notice of, as to Amelia's Nofe, was an Omiflion of the Author's, which has occafioned a vaft deal of /aw Wity and been a (landing Joke here. I dare fay it will be amended in any future Edition. I have had an Invitation to fpend fomc Time in the Country, and fhan't probably be inTown at your Arrival. Therefore if you aredetenhin- ed to give H — a little Chriftian Admonition, pray don't forget the following Particulars. Bid him, nay, intrcat him to avoid his quaint, bobling Tcwn-Canty on the one Hand, and all bombailick, forced, Heart-felt Expreflions, on the other. Bid him, for the future, confine his Talent to Abufc, at Icaft, meddle with Pane-: :h (62 ) Panegyrick as feldoift as poffiblc. For the only fpirited Thing we have feen come from him, was on that Subjedl ; and to convince you of the grcatncfs of his Talent that way, againft the Author of Amelia. Very few can praife genteely, but Spite, Malice, Envy, and indeed almoft all the vicious AfFe^ftions of human Na- ture, contribute to fupply the Source of Abufe. Recommend to him to be at fome Pains in getting fuitable Motto's, and apply to fome one of his Acquaintance^ who has read the clafllcal Authors, (if fuch a Perfon there be.) That he may not, for the future, afcribe to one Poet the Property of another; and this even where Fi'rgi/ and Horace are concerned, fij He may likewifc be informed (fince I fee he vvon't be even at the Trouble of reading Eng- lijh Prefaces) of the general Scope and Cha- rader of any Author before he defcants upon him: then probably we flian't have Juve- nal io highly praifed for his great Delicacy in Satire and genteel Raillery (a) -^ nor fhall we hear Cicero pride himfelf in the gaudy imper- tinent flimfy Garb, beftowed on him by the florid Englijh Hiftorian, G e. I am tired of my Subjedt, and fhould here put an End to it : but (having obferved it to be the Fafliion) muft firft compare my Hero to feme illuftrious (c) Reman.— Of a\\ the ancient Writers, H feems to me to refemble Ho- race moft ; for as Q'cero makes no Doubt, but (a) No. 277. ruL 237. (b) ^e teneam vultui trutantem prctea mde, which he attributes to VtrgU. Sic. (f) Sec The Paratitl Ptrformance, ?. 66, 67. that ( 63 ) : that Plato, if he had applied his Talent that way, would have made an excellent and pow- erful Orator, and likewiie that Demo/ibenes would have become a great and profound Phi- lofopher j fo no Man, I think, can deny," that' Horace could have dilated very entertaining daily Papers, and very genteel-fpirited Lvue Letters, and that our H has Abilities to compofe pretty Love Sonnets, delicate Satire, and excellent Rules for the Stage. So that if wc make the proper Allowances for the different Courfe of Studies, and different Form of Go- vernment, to which each of tbefe great Men was fubjeft, we may obferve, in feveral In- flanccs, ^ Jlrong Refeniblance between them. Both Authors are diflinv,uifhed for Wit and Humour J but of the two, Horace is the more elegant and polite. H — the more negligent and fcurrilous. They both rofe from a low State into Affluence, and enjoy 'd the Favour and Friendfhip of great Men. (a) Cum mag- nis vixiJJ'e was hot more applicable to Horace than to H — — . They both were of the fame Epicurean Tafle. Both were Wh-reMaflere; . • and both were bilked by their Wh-res {b). Ho- race had his Lydia. H had his Dia- mond. Horace had his Macenas and his Agrip- pa. H had his O and his B . Horace had his Virgil. H had his Cbber. §>uee uni tertio conveniunt ea ivter fe conveniunt, is a Rule which has obtained fince the Time of (a) Vii. No. 2. where H — tcDs us he is no Stranger to the Tables of the great which is Living, isfc. in the litcrjl Scnfe. (I) Vid. H»r. Sat. Re ego mtndacem. «:c. Ariflotk, ' Arijiotle. By which it follows, alid I do affirtli it to betrueitha(H. is as like S^iftyZ-sSwifth like Horace : Najr, there are two Particulars which' (where the Circumftances are fo very fimilar, and the Counterpoife fo equal between any two of the three Worthies) may poffibly incline the Ballance in favour of the two Moderns i the. firft is, that they both were Dolors ; the fecond, that as Swift has had an O— — , fo hai Hl-Kad- r^mu--:: • ;,..-.■ . . ) - ... :. - ■:! : - '; . •: , ; Tiur very affeSlionatt ' J nc ri'.-.' •. • \ * bumble Servant,. 6cc. ■ -•? ♦,-■■♦ t , . ^ ' ■ ; For a Friend an d Commentator on /6;i Life and \tj^t .Writings, .. I 't,.^^^' ,:.;c;. S I R, f.tWoL- .:i\ ;-;:! P. S. . The Obfervations which you havd made on the noble P — -r's Inconfiftencies, in , very material Circumftances, are juft ; and have,, with others of the fame, kind, whicl^ have efctiped you, mad? no incoriliderablc Part of ■ thofe Menjlrual Eruptiom from the Prefs, calkd Magazines.^ • ■ rr , ♦ . , ■ ': • . ....•-.. — i i , \ . A » , .li i ■ I ... -.'•4 J '../*.. '. ■. ' , r ' " ■ • ' ..Sofn" .,' v. I *;f:,: k^r. f.. i.':»^i «. : u -> i,.> 4^^% . .' -A)k ?1. ^'tfV* « ■iT^ •->.^if-i.- SOME OB S E RVATIONS O N T H E WRITERS O F T H E '■ Present Age, • ^ . . . - • AND K If ist- ajl."> *^i^:>^i _ ''■i'i r '<-. >■- -v- ^Im non defenMt, alio culpante-^ — Hie niger e ft ^ ■ * HOK. .- •iV' A. V< O ■ * • at - ^"^ ■.•V - -I. » .1 ', , '>i ' :-~^~"v.- ■;.., . ... , i Their Manner of treating each other j I More particularly relative to the Treatment of Lord O— — y, and the Inspzctor, in a Pamphlet entitled. Some Remarks oh the Ufe and ffritingt of Dr.} H . -v. ^..> • LONDON. Printed for M. Shebpy» under the Royal- . Exchange i M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater' • nofter-Raw \ and G. WoODf AfcL, at Charing' j^ ^ Crojs. 175a. ^ ; ► V*"^ - ,t ■ ■■ ..A . f4»iij|( • r< J t .' • '-^ 5 t ' 5 V U ■-.rot* M O a Vx ". t o (iij) .-:j?n::- . •-« .« a* ^ , f.'.' ?)"rif,'v jrit «• J \ / A •; f » r ;, WW* J* :}00/H ;: ni CiEDlCATlON Df.JT- T t ■f7 Cm jrh ciiiiTi/.'/i- :;.'u / :4.x- " F 1 interided a fingle Syllable of ' Panegyric in this Dedicatiohj give riie leave to aflure you/ you would be the laft Perfon I (hould addrefs it to ; for I am ambitious of being thought a A -juft (iv) juft Portrait Painter, and if there were a Line of Beauty in a Piece you fat for, the Public would cry Shame on me, and think that the Child of Fancy which I defign'd for your Pi£Kire. - t I prefix your Name to thefe Papers, becaufe you are the Caufe of them, and are there- fore the propereft Patron; tHe Muftiroom Iprung from your Dunghill, and who then c^n have fo juft a Claim to it? I could, indeed, with Eafe, have fix'd on a Patron, who would have done me more Honour, . . but I I (;v ) hdt I prefer Duty to * everjr other Confideration. -^ .:t r! Befides, it muft have gall'd you feverely to have found youifelf took no Notice of — to have heard the Public with one Voice refufe to hear you, and add with a Warmth becom- ing the Friends of Merit, ^ 10 • •■»-< Rumorefque fenumy feveriorum Omnes unius aflimemus ajpi. * \ y-^'T- I do not know whether your whole Stock of Effrontery would have bore you up under Z^l^' -Tf^. A-a ;•.;■•"'•:; ' fi> ;•! * Catul. ,4-, T Si fo uhiverfal a Cdtit^gmpt j ai^l therefore, thought it peciii liarly incumbent on me to cuni-^ fort you with my Notice"} for I have fuch a Milkineft of Difpofitiori, I carinot beaf" ^ven to think of thb tJiihajppiniefe I •T' ■ T^^. !-■ Toed cvrri .:-liJov/ '^pporf an additibnal Weight? .'"j<> '■" ' It 'f Lvcophr, ir^dS the Biifiiiefe of even jFiriend tio com^ 1^ to your At 'fiftance ; ^nd fuch t hc^. f<* the. Honour of being thought^ when 1 aflure you, that infa- mous as your Perfoi'manee haS made you, it is poffitte ther^ may yet be a Wretch more ib^ famous — if there is one who believes gt Syllable of it. M:0 ii' T li ;. :ixT I (ball not detain you longer from the precious Bufinefs your Soul delights in, than to afliireyou, that you may al- ways depend upon me on every Oxrcafion of this Nature. It may, jperhaps, not be improper to 'i ( viii) to obferve, you owe me (bme Obligations for the Honour I do you by this Addrefi ; but i am not mercenary. Go on, and a(perfe every Man of Me- rit, and you will fufEciently repay me, by giving me an Opportunity of vindicating their Characters. :• iV* f.f'r. ^-4i ne AUTHOR, ( ix ) » f ".'x . ■ n PR EF AC E. ^^^^ Pamphlet may not impro- g A § perly be ftyled Filius Populi^ ^i^Ck^)^ whom the real Parent aban- dons, and no one cares to adopt-—' at leaft *till it is ieen whether his Look or Complexion will do his Fa- ther either Credit or Honour; And, as tTiis is the Cafe, the Public feldom cxpedts an Apology from an Author for not affixing his Name to Produc- tions, whofe Fate is fb uncertain. However, the Author of thefe few Sheets (in the ufual Language of Prefaces) thinks it proper to obfcrvc, he jias not concealed his Name from any Apprehenlion that it is unbe- conoing fcomiiig him to appear ini fuch ^ Caufe.- He. knows not whether he ought to blufh wh^ he acknow- ledges yapity is his Motive ; fo large a Share of which has been charged to thofe whom he efteems it an Honour to defendj-.that he inlaginps, in -the' whirl of Imagination,, andl 5-Vanton-* nefs of; Gonjedjur^i . it is^ poifible the fame candid Judges may im|iuttf this TriHe. to oae .of them t Aa in-. j^nuation, m wJiicJiiiG 'would not ids glory thsixi' Hreace .did in its Being thought he • -was honour*d with --the Afliftanee of Sdp'o and JLaltusi - ? • -^wl^Q^IiJ 0» ci .*■*..'.'*'. „!•,..«■ .■■.■■ J. ' * ' • . ■ ' '.-*,- ^ofl_ille, mfiledi&am V^hefpsni .^£i . jx tufTfant^ j! tyvV* -OF TrH^ > i I . J2V/ ii'A : L D Time, iamidft' i bn^tRace' of Iftiniortais; hail a Daughtdr dT diftinguiflicd Cfiarniis^ KnoW a-' raong the Sons of Men bytheP Name of Truth. Homer would have told US what Name flic bore among the cclcftial Inhabitants': But th6*that is a Pardcultf i^^ aie .unhappily Strangers to, we are aflured B -* bee (O her Offspring was not Icfs illuftrious, jUtajx her Origin^ The Virtues were herlDaughi ttrs J and fprung from fo fair a Stock, and ehdued with all the amiable Qualities of their lyiother, they foon grew the Admiration of Cods and^Ien^ - Tho* it might \he faid of them, ♦.7 "»/r f> '"^ F ades non omnibus una, C i . ,. i w ^- r xr t'^ fi 'l \.J yet we nught add. Nee diverfa ianien, '^juales decet ejet f-~; fororesJ* ■ —': _ ^r ff r T ^- rf* All were alike beautiful and charming; and they equally fliared the Affedions of their Mother. Yet Candor and Sincerity, as the elder-bora, had a more immediate daim to attend on her Perfonj and, wkh thefe in her Retinue, did the Goddcfs deign to make her Vifit upon Earth in thofe golden - Days, when the Innocence and Uprightncf$; of Mankind were fo engaging, . that (he '< f? • • * . • . ' • ** 'IC/ r m ' M '^ •'♦'1 •)■ > *Sf%^'^%-* . , — — <*•!*». fc/Mi/.isw . ; ^ <3id not think it much to have Nedar aadi ♦>:-.?•'•? c- 5-./ t'.,* ^■■■•\x\„<';»K •/{ • Anibrofia^ Ambrofia for the Satis&dioa of their Sobiety.^ Her Look, tho' mode(^ was yet piercing?: and none but her Votaries could ftand the Fire of her Eyes. A Chaplctof Rofcs adorn- ed her Temples, which Ihed around a Fra- grance, that exceeded all the Perfumes of- Arabia. A Mantle of Ennlne hung loofe from her Shoulders. For a Breaft-plate, ftie wore a Mirror, in which Things prefent* and ftiture might be feen by a curious Ob-^ ferver: But the Goddcfs was notdii^n- guiihed by any thing fb much as her Gdt. :•.> ..1. ...>;» '^era incejju patvU Deo,' ■ =.aO Equal and Majeftic, yet flofW was her Mo-: tion ; for as her Sandals had been the WotL of Modesty, it was cafy to fee thatDiF-- FiDENCE attended her Stepsi, and often pre-; vented her forming an Acquaintance with- thofe, among whom fhe would otherwife have met with a mofl gradous Reception.' But whenever fhc was once received, the, fhining Advantages that attended her Prc-^ fence, flrongly endeared her to them : For Peace reigned j Humanity abounded j and the i B a >Arts Arts flouriflwd, vjherever ihe fixed bet Re ddence. ?/*j 1' ..) C-'.'l -£t' ^n4, indeed, with thefc happy lAdv^tagcij attending her, it was no Wonder' the earth-^ h ingenuous a. Temper to. obtrude herfelf upon any, who were blind tp-^e^ ]?eauties, or gre^wr^weary of; her Comi-} pan y, determined to leave thofe; who wers noi longer worthy of her Refidence among them, and take her Flight- to Heaven. Bu^ as fhe was mounting to the celeflial Region^ the fnowy Mantle fell from her Shoulders j and FiCTipN^ the Daughteii of Chaos and of NiGHTi (who, tho' fhe pretended to la- ment the Goddefs's Departure, fccredy tri- ujm{>h^d with the If opes, of; ^er Ai^eau) exulting at this unlook|d--for Accidentyiiiatcti-' ^d. the blooming Prizes and. with it dif^ guifed her own Delbrmities. Decked in this facred. Attire, fhe took the Name of P&Of« Fief a- ^rff proximd veris,^ vras her Maxim i and the Succcfs proved iii'ji equal •Hor: . . • ' ? («)•• equal to the Artifice. For the faircft Re^: tations blackened at her Approach ; the Arts languiftied ; and Society grew dangerous j while Scandal and Malevolence reared their fnaky Crcfts, prepared to dart their Poifon upon every Thing iamiable and virtu- ous. Succfefs heightens the Aflurance of every one. The Infernal Fiend grew infolent on the Ravage flie had caufed j threw off Hfi Difguife (he had appeared in j diiclaimed every Pretence to &n Acquaintance vsrithi Proba- bility ; and took upon her the Name of FAisRooDi^ '• ;r:;i ■rjii i^^ V4 .'»;;.-'.!/ -r:/r.:'t ZVA i j:..JL:MaIum, qu9 mridHud vehcius ttUum -"Mabiliiate'vigett virefque acqitirii eundoi^-^ -Hi. Z':%'^i '•-'. c ( Manlund m general was the Objed of Jthe Monfter's Spleen, but more particularly Vir- "TtJft, and her Friends, to whom, as having a ne4r Relation to Truth, flic bore an ir- reconcileable 'Enmity. Wit was fometimes of her Party, v^ho, like Proteus, takes every Shape, and lifts in every Caufc. Hence, in the Perfon of Arijiophanes did the curfed Hag perfecutc the Divin? Socrates j and npt con^ u Vix|il, tent • ' (7) tent to charge him with innovajring in PM- lofophy and Religion, proceeded to tax hJm with an impure Corhmercc with Akibiades. Nor did her Malice end with his Life. Even many Ages after flie bufied herfelf in cor- ruptmg the Text of an iJAuthor, that flie might fix the Stain, as flie thought, fo deep, no Fuller on Earth cdiild remove it*. -. *„-;': '■:-, ,; But if there was any particular Clafs amidft the Favourers and favoured of VirtOe, that Ac purfued with ^iftinguiflied Rage, it was r; I ' > ij' '^^j ■J.v •t - ':r "^"—^ctd Carminafemfer ' -^ ^- - * Et either a cordis mmerofque intendere furyts^ The immortal Homer felt her Fury in Zoiks, whofe Attacks on his Writings, thb* ui^ed with all the Force of Malice, were but like the Dafliing of Waves on the rocky Shor^ boifterous and impetuous for a while, but doomed to end in their own Silence and Con- fufion. VirgiJ had his Bavius and Mrvius, the genuine Offspring of Falshood. P^ his Demifs, 11 Juven. Satyr. n. lo. '•••./ Inter ^ocnXAQosnettJ^mafoffadiUidftf ■ ■' - •'"> where Dr. Pridtaux fhcws (ConnctPart 2. Book H) we ought to read S9ta£w, S Virgil, .::v.;v ,tf \benmst m^ Milton ius Lamfer -, each armed witii slip the Powers of impudent Dulnefs : And twa of the moft elegant Writef s of ' the prcfent Age, whom it is Virtue to honour, and Taffc to adihire, 'hatvesthcir i&i^-*^ Thvill not Falshood devifc?. If the Fi bti •ro ^i»* c'iX or*;.j ^*'**yyj Mf ■ ': ■-..«»•-■> »J'(' fTam JtSh' parujque tenax quam matit .vert\^ J.. «. ;....!•?; ^ -*\»... yet every God had heard the hell-wrought ■Charge; anH therefore, that fhe might be able to vindicate her Favourite wiA the greater Confidence, fhe determined Cft "fi.'. i"*''. \ij ,>'iA'^!': . C 2» »«o.'; I j'.OtJj JcafC b^m-iOi •ViipL I- i 12 ) le9.veOIymJ>us,£oT a few Minutes andrp, v'lM ^p £ yanced Upwards me. I threw n^yfelf will) my Face towards the Earth, and with filent Awe confcis'd, what no Language Cpuld.:^ak, t^ Honour I received ij| her Prefence. She miade me the Signa^ to rife, and dien, with that fweet and gen* • tie Accent, peculiar to the heavenly Voicp of Truth, addrefs'd me in Words, that trill'd Raptures to my Heart. •-■•. 4-. i- *• Know, Mortal, that 1 haw ot*- •• fervcd fbmc Sparks of roy &crcd TitP « inimatc in thy Breaft, it is m-th^ ^, therefore I now addrcfs myfelf, to be in- •' ,'.iV • fi>nned focmedof thofe Things which Ae-VoicQ «» of Fame has brought to my Ears. | know her Reports are mix'd and vari^r ous ; and thatFiiflion,as being of a lighter Nature, is fpread vtdth more Eafe than • its Oppofite, by a Blaft of her Trum«' pet. 3ut it nearly concerns me and axf f Honour to have every Qfcumftanqf • " put in its juft Light ; and' it is this I f f yequire from thee. He, whom J havp **: deputed to be the Quardian of my Co»- *f cems here below, is too interefted ^ ** Evidence j and befides, mudi as tbp J* JSufinefs aflfefts mPi:. t* tt C( (( t< « ,f77 ir.'j f;» o c.) . Non tantim eft negotium tfutpn, ,*t Momentum ut bora pereat officiijtd^ } When a Divinity addrcflcs us, we arc not under, a NeccjQity of waiting t mi- 4>ute Explanation. New and unlook'd- ifor Light beams in upon the Soul ; and I immediately knew what it was tlje God- ^eib required of me, without having . it jpicticularlv inftanp'dt Know then«_,i:p!: "■'*,!'. ' 'turned .Vi:I. *Fbmdr, 'i ....... in) . : turned I, thou glorious Objca ofiny every Thought and Purfuit, that this U but one of a thoufand Inftances, which prove,' that Envy is a Tax ev'ry Man pay's to the Public for being famous. An Obfcr- Vation, in v^hich I have no other Merit than applying it, and little of that, as ievery one muft have done it before me.- It is a melancholy Truth, and what ever^ Day confirms, that we are aflTured of thfc Hatred of Knaves and Fools in Proportion; ^as "w't have the Efteem of the Wife and u. 'theIn^Bor'& Parentage* is^ witS thi$ infamous Detraftor, an Objedlioa to his Abilities as an Author. I know, fair God- ded that with Yoa-'-'-^:'? ^ : '. .r.;-.'/ Et genus, etproavos, et qua mnfecimuii^. Vix ea nojftra voc9, § : ^.-t- « «//,»-. :,. » .,, -j - J ' •••■•■ ■;-::^ W.^.u. ,/';-, ■; ^,^<^ IS a ftanding Maxim. , But, as the World is pleafed to think; none ddpiie' tfife AdL vantage of a good - Defcent, buf thoft, who want it, I have a Right to infift, that i JuTenai; " '""'•^^ ^'^^^-^h^iz-ji^t^t '■;»■ he has no Reafon to blufh for his Fami- \y^ — ,that, if tficy have not been orna- mented with Titles, their Virtue an4 C^- nius have flione without them— —that they have ilood fair in the Efleem ' of their Acqualhtance, and have lived in Ho* nour and AiHuence. But, 'fuppofing hs had rofe from Poverty and Obfcurity, are Virtue and Parts confined' 'to the Great and the Wealthy?; Oj; rather have, not ■mofl of the ImprovenaknU in the Arts ''and Sciences been owing to^ dii^e of nar- row Fortunes, who, hiiyin^ ho otherCh^ce for putting thcmfclves on a refpedigble "Footing with the Public, have estetted their Talents — \fiped off the Stain of their Origin — and been an Honour to human Nature. They muft be weak and ^unthinking indeed, who exclude Abilitiies from any but thofe furronnded with Splen- dor and Affluence; for thofe who have looked into Life are convinced, what ^ elegant Modern fkys is true,' • ' '.• ' c. r- .' . ' • ' ' ' \'j : ■'• ''-!iO . ''■ Full many a Gem affiurr/} Rayfirtni •• f ; Tbe darkunfaibi)m%QrvetQfQaMhari UrS T> Full. 'J :• , (•«) ■■■. '-:v^'^^t^f^. • ^-^r**^. ^-.i tiir Full many a Flow'ris born to bhjb unfeem - Aid wajie its Siveetnefs in the Defart jiir,^ ' ■ •■ ' ' • ■'•' '■'■■■ ■ i: .: But his Country is a ftill more ridicu- lous Objcdlion. Arc Genius and Talents national ? Lapland has furnifhed us with Odes, that have long been the Admira* lion of the Piiblic; and I have heard of Harangues among the J^w«5, which have rivalled all the Powers of Demo/ibenes^: Yet I (hall leave even this Defence to thofe who have more Occafion for it. The InfpeSlor is under no Neceffity of concealing .where he fpent his firft Years. Feterbo- rough wiU giyc, the Inquirer ^atisfedion.^, He appeared on the Stage once. Grant it true: So did Laberius -, and tho' the .Roman Knights, thro* a falfe Delicacy^ .. refufcd to admit him among them after his condefcending to what they thought be- neath his Dignity, yctCafar, the.politeft Gentleman of his Age, reftored him to the Honour he was fuppofed to have loft, \. •and loaded him with Favouw. -. 'X\::u v » t* ^ But ^* Iti t!. i'v*^-.* '. / •>f- ' But his Vanity is another terrible Charge J tho* the Objedor has in a gre^ Meafure foften'd it by obferving the fame Weaknefs in Horace and Ovid. I will yet add another Inftance among the An- tients, which is the more extraordinary^ as the Poet addrefles it to his Patron. At r.i ' Si legesy latabor : Sin autem minus Habebunt certty quofe dbkSfenty pojleri* * So that if "the Inlpedor offends on thu Head, he does it in extreme good Company. Yet, perhaps there is nothing of Vanity in it, at leaft fuch a Vanity as ftiould give Offence. It feems,impoflible there can ever - be any real Merit without a Conicioufnefs of it, and difficult, always to conceal that Conf<;iouihefs. I do not love too refin'd Diilin^bns, and yet I think one might with fome Reafon bji Vanity is the Weaknefs of Fools |' in Men of Abilities it is a jiift Senfe of" this Dignity of dieir Naturej ib that if it be ' . • ;• -. ' ■■ an ". ■ " •Phaedr. - ^- .\ ••» 4 •« - . ' 'r ' ••-■". -; .. .-«•: • . >'■ 'V ■ ' , • • ■ ■ •• • '.',;,■- • '» - '''.'••■■■■'■ . 1 an In£rmat]r, It is a noble one; it arUeg. from a generous Caufe, and hak, had many happy Confequencefe ; for to it vft owe almoft every Improvement in Philoijr t'fr- , ■ Hocfttlfum ejfe putett ? fu^t inefte, ^amvis/ordidaresetinvenu^affi*,l •%•': tff: sv ■ ....'.i. ':m!'. »;; ;i 1: Shall it be fuffident to obferve, dial this Pablifher of Scurrility has not toOk the Trouble to inform himfelf of any iingle Fa^ and knows nothing of the real JEftory f)f the celebrated DIA MUNDI ? No.! We muft add that this is not the firflTime Opennefsof Heart and Vivacity of Tem- per have been conftrued into Guilt. Bc» lieye me, facred Virgin, it will be at all Times faf from me, much more in your Prefence, to vindicate Immorality { but % muft beg Leave to obferve, that fhould the whole Charge be admitted, yet the good-natur'd. Faults of the Body are not half fo odious as the ill-natured ones xf .;;ii .me •CatuL the Mind. In the Firft, Rcafon can and will intervene, and fet to all Rights; but In the other, that Guide of Life can have no Influence, as the Seat of it is cop* rupted.. -J:Ji»j.:>it'.i»»yf."^M':ti^Kf;;!^i 'Sasfir hz' The Remarker's Cavils on the Eflay on Modefty I (hall examine, w^hcn I know he is qualified to fpeak to the Subjeft : But it is not his Intereft to give me any Reafon to think he underftands it, as he will then be the more inexcufable for having fo fliamefuliy tranfgreflcd. ,» The reft of this impudent Attack con- fifts of low Buffoonry, and charging him with Miflakcs, which, if he ha4 any Candor, he muft have imputed to the Prefs, and not the Author j cfpecially, as he cannot but know, that the Time in which thefe Daily Papers are printed, renders it impraflicable for the Printer to ufe the fame CircumfpedUon as in other Works, or for the Author to aflift him by 1?^ Revifal before their Appearance. - -li. • • . . But, (23r :rvt;.-v^" .^r.}^.^"'*' *»««^ *mm^9-- But is it not monftrous a Writer' {hould be treated in this Manner, whofe Acquain- tance with Claflic Authors no one can doubt, who ha§ fcen his iteopbrajiust or any other of his Produdions ? Is it not aftonifhing, this Return fhould be; mad^ to one, to whofe Labours alone true Phi- lofophy owes more than to thofe of a whole Body to one who is arrived at fuch a Pitch of Excellence in the Ar- ticle of Style, that his Language is always adapted to his Subject j and who, whenever he feems to be inferior to his great Prede- cefTors, has this to urge in his Favour, that he has fupportcd by his own Strength, an" Undertaking, that cmploy'd the United .I^abours of the greatcft Wits of the laft, or perhaps any Age. ; ; ^^: . But will our Surprize ccafe ? or will it not rather be increafed, when we fee almofl the fame Treatment allotted to a ftill more diftinguifhed Perfonage? — — tp a Nobleman, with whom Genius and Learning are hereditary — — to whom ilA , •...:.:... WC • . . .A v.... .- .• ■i ■ ( f4 ) Mrc owe a TranHation, that reads with all the' Spirit and Grace of an Original ——and owe likcwife a new Species of Biography j in which wc read fomething more than that the Hero was born, lived, and died; in which we fee the real Char^fter of Svnft ; and while we admire, his Wit mull treniblc at the Lengths it often carried him. It would require a Hand mafterly as his own, to tiraw the Chancer of this illuflrious Genius. Had I the Vanity to attempt it, it fhould be in thie Words of his Fa- vourite; Probitate morum^ ingenii ek^ gantidy operum varietate mor^rabilh '• — ^^ nibii pecaty ni/iy ^id ' nihil peecat. And could not his Humanity of Heart, his • acknowledged Abilities fccure him from Infult? Know, bafe Detradgr, ^hen. thou prefumefl to parodize his Sentiments, -thou art juft fuch an Imitator^ as a Monkey is of a Man: He chatters,- and • has two Legs, but has neither the Ma- ' jcfty of Countenance, nor tlie Grcatncfi ofSouIi-"^ •■■ ,"''• ^— "' «" t.^A *-*> trj — ^- :;;:::.:.. I And And to whom do wc owe this delicate Performance ? The Public fdon agreed* there was but one Perfon, who could be the Author of Hj a Gentleman remark- able for the Elegancy of bis Sentimntiy the Modejly of bis Deportment, ^ndtjae Hone/iy of bis Heart*i who having for a long Suor ceffion of Years duped every Perfon, with whom his Intimacy gave an Opportunity for Impo£tion, has at laft the. Impudence to attempt impo0nguponMaolund in g^neraL Tiici PubUc immediately gave it to this •:^:.K'l ■ I :v^-' ' E- ' ;- , ■ - '• Oen-^ • A« the Public will prokiU/ be curious to knew in what Senfethefe Words are ufed, it may be proper to make feme Explanation on that Head. " ^ Tbf ElegatUi efhis Sentiment^ will be cafily coUedel from the Specimen now under Confideration, which i« perhaps the only Monument we can refer to j for my Friend, (he Tnmk-Maker, (who is as great an Enemy to us poor Pamphlet- Writers, as ever the Goths and Vandali were to Learning in General) tells me, he is particularly obliged to this Gentleman, whofe Perfor- mances come to his Share fcvcrai Months fooner from their firft Publication, than thofe of any other Scribler, For tbt Modefiy of hi: Deportment we can rtfer to none but thofe, who have the Happlnds of his Ac- quaintance : and we are confident they cannp( mWht^y our Meaning. For the HmrJIy efhis Heart we muft refer to Faft— » not fuch as a few onl^ are acquainted with ; for cwcrf one knows his Intention in pcrfuading a certain Noble Lord to make a Colleaion of Curiofities, that he might have an Opppotuni^ of fiifnifliing him »( hi; OWA Oendeman, confident the Child of Infamy poold ipring from no other Brain but liis; whofe Head, like 3^^V^'s, f^msvfiihatttC^ Monfter$, which yet iiTue for^, not like ISnerva to guard the Innocent, and pro* te£t and oicouragp .Arts ■€nd Sciences, but to deftroy both. If additional feylr dence were required, 1 h'aVd ihe ^rcateft Rcafon, O '^Croddefe, tb confirm Ac V<)ice of ^hef 'Public in-^is Refpcft.- J few him ;at the 5e«^ri, inHConij^ with his injured Fricnd^-'ind Wfen h^ vn6 afk'd, hjid ;hc read ^tiii^ forprffin^ Performance, tho' he has been long hackr iicy'd in the Bufih^fs of Dcfep^tipn, jtt, his Cdnfufipn was yifijjlp iferpjugh a fcvwv. JfoMFaccikjktmmi f^Mm/i nrdfJtfy Omm/itiUj^' t^v4:^ ( 28 I '■* J»t: 1 ftop'd here ; when Ac Goddefs with a Smile of Approbation delivered me her own Pen, and told me, that what had pleafed her, {he was confident would be read with Pleafure by the Public. raf -WW i. i.:r. P O S T S CRI P T. TH £ Gentlem^ who midwifes this Brat into the World, took Care to give me timely Caution not to be wanting in a proper Difplay of my Skill in Letters. " It is not the Quality, laid "the good-natur'd -^oul, but the •* Quantity, that conftitutes a great *f Writer. Carte infinitely exceeds Salufi *« in Weight and Matter) and Sir Ricbard Bhukmore has undeniably more in bim than your Favourite, the admired Au- thor of Elfridar, It was kind to give me the Hint, biitl %ndlhave not avail'dmyielf properly of it ; for he has juft fent me Word, that I want « ',.T0^ TiUtrt bum, vifftrfut vinm vOtant^a. l! (SO)) a Panegyric on the Invention of Types,- <» Ravic any Defign of determining^ the Rival Claims to the Honour of the Invention ; What- r mean, is to celebrate that Art by which ^*w^ ffrexce becoming fo important an Affair, that moch may be iaid on botfc Sidcs^ that tho' he cannot pofitively aflert they were entirely Mafters of it in the Senfe jthc Modems are; yet the frequent Repetition* of B>mfr, the Hcmiftics of T/Vy//, and the naufcating Returns of mem, turn, & fuus in the Pentameters of Ovid^ I^ aS if they knew fomething of Sifci I- (hall not take upon me t&'ejtanirie whedier this Gcndemarfs Obfervatibii- be tight: But this I can fay, that tho? the Condua of.thcic gr«t Anfj^n^ miypcif ( 3' ) fiblyhave giren the Hint to die inodem Pia^cCi yet the Improvements in it areall^ our^Qwn.- --^-f '[ -y:- h *z>. The Writers of Antiquity knew nothing o{ half Titles i to which we.may .litoally The immortal Bomer was ignorant of the Ufe of Dedications j and his Brcthrci^ of the Lyre, who lived fomcthing nearer our own Times, have profited themfclvd bytbcm, . *^. r: it. »■ • t • . ■ ■ ' ~-.. - ■ . ' ■ ■ is. all the Addrefi of Ntcandet^s laborM mferiacs j and, lower down, O^'an is littte morediflfufe in his Compliment to Severus^ tho* prompted to it by the dear Hopes of a . much lov'd Father's Liberty : In diis Point, therefore, the warmeft Favoureis of An- tiquity muft acknowledge the modems arc^ juIUy intitlcd to the Preference. . ' • . - • • •• • * 'It is not, perhaps, above a Century fine© we have found out the Ufe of addrefling ^•: _^ \_^.l.^.., . ^ ;^ our Patrons in a Letter, Great and Conf^Z cuous, as their Virtues i that we have dU:. covered the Propriety of being with diie- Refpedt and Diftance, My Lord, and after a folemn Blank,-^ro«r Lordjhifs ' but after a ftill wider Space— —J Moji Obedient — yet lower down——' Humble Servant ; and fo get a whole Page in faying what thofe dull unthinking Spuls, our Pr^decefTors in the Myftery of ic Quill, would have diipatch'd in a finaje' It is to the Moderns, and thofc of oUr ownDaySi we owe that ufcful Figurie, yet unnoticUby the Books of Rhetoric, which. I would ;c^l the Break,' znd define, in the ^-anguage of Geometry,' Continuatio Pan^o^ rum, and, that of various Lengths 5 fomc^ tlmes^us -■,-_and,fometimes thus ' n i\r.[ as the' Writer's Occafions re? guire : If s' Ufes are many and great : If the Author' be a Mafter of hi^ Bufinels (fuch as, kind Reader, we flatter ourfelves* we fhall be thought by you) it then ghresa decent Space for breathing to thofe who 6 (33 ) have been hurried away by the Torrent of his Wit. If he be of another Stamp (and this is generally the Cafe) it is of Benefit to both} to the Author, by helping him forward in his Work j to the Reader, in having no Meaning, and confequently be- ing incapable of ^ving Offence, yet kindly fupplying the Place of what probably would. -1 There is yet another Praftice, wholly our own, and of ftill greater Confequencc; and that is compleating the Paragraphs and beginning new ones almoft every half dozen Lines; and this without confidering whe- ther the Senfe directs us to make a Paufe or not. It is true, this only ferves to in- dulge the Writer's Lazinefs, and increafe the Wafte of Paper j but it is as true, that thofe who give the Treat are entided to do it in what Manner they pleafe ; and, as to the Article of Paper, Juvenal has long fincc told us, , . ., .. ■ ^ , ' iiuii - Stulta eft dementi a ' ■ 'Peritura parcere ebarta. Not- fi (340 \ '. ' Notwithftanding the ferious Air this .Is delivered with, I am apprehenfive the inge- pious Reader, will fufpe6t I am not ia .cameft, and warmly cenfure me for pre- tending to laugh at a Pradice I myfelf isive beei? guilty of, J^^-^-:^ ^-.. _. .. ^ . V - ^ ^ ---... . . ^ ■ * i^, - > w. ... 4 ; _ ' * r • ^ *__ ^ ■ * r^ • . . Yecum hoBrtdl ut ImrtSy ' ^am Jk tihi curta fupeliex, ■'■'<,..: •is the- leaitl.exp»5 upor> thk Oecafion. Bat Imuft' reply with Ralpbo^. ■ ■ ^ V:-. ■ ■ -■• ':■..: .■.■--•■ — •■■; r.-^ ■ No Man includes bimfelf^ nor funis' "] . ^ ftbe Point' upon his own Concerns, '" ". ' y^Jis no Man of his ownfelf catches ,"'": '\' '.iTje Itchy or amorous French Aches' i "" "* '.''So no Man does himfeJf convince _ " '^^ r Bt bis own DoSfriiie of bfs'.^im, ".>•'•* *Or, to fpcak the fame Truth in Kumhlc ^rofe; I. remember to ha:vc heard', that ^ certain noble Lord, who hiis long l)ech^ Reft with his Anceftors, very frankly re- plied to the Miniftry (who told him in cx- cufe for not providing, for one he }iad recommended, that he had formerly call'd ' i- him. ., (^5) - him, upon a Sollicitation in his Favour from the other Party, Lord ^s Rogue, " Ifs truey Gentlemen^ but he is my Rogue Jiow." Befides, it is fome Allevation, while we trangrefs ourfelves, to point out the Impofition of others. It is fome Ex- cufe /■ But my Printer's Familiar waits for. this, and as I hear him muttering fomething not over refpedtfuUy, about Small-beer and Scores for Milk-Porridge, I think it ad- vifeable to difpatch him immediately j for thofe Knights of the wofiil Countenance are a fet of Gentlemen we poor Wretches of Authors are obliged to reverence, as the Indians do the Devil, and for the fame Reafon. F I N J S. r| ^f-T,^ : \:JtX . rrj^U^r--. 7 • t '^ i^-^ LET T E R FROM HENRY WOODWARD^ COMEDIAN, Tie MEANEST of all CharaBers ; 1 (See Inspectok^ No. 524.) TO " Dr. JOHN HILL, .: Inspector-General of Great^Britaitt, He greatest oj all CbaraSiersi (See all the Imsfectoks.) / do rtmemher an Jfttbecmj- •whom late I noted In tattered Weeds — Calling of Simples.- SsAKEirZAK.' The Second- Ebit i.o k. Pxintcd for M. Cooper, in Pater-fjoficr-rat, ' (Price Sixpence.) , M-DCCXI^. ,-'!/, (3) I LETTER t R d k \ ' k E N R Y W O O D W A R Di &c. SIR, WAS I, in ibis prefcht Addrisfe to your Infpcdtorfhip, to make IJft of alf the Scurrility oar co- pious Language afibrds, yoa hftvc furnlfli'd me with a iiu^cicnt Apology. i am, you fay, the meant fi of all CharaBers • If that therefore is tfuc, to fpeak with Indecency wou'd be to fpeak with Propriety ; and- to write in yoiu: tnun Stile, wou'd be to come down to the Denomina- tion which yoMX Generofity, Charity, and Ve- tacity have united to bellow on me; But 1 owe too much Deference and Refpedk to i3iy Readers to blot my Paper with fuch Epi- thets as you ufc to Others, or dcfcrvc Ttitr" rV.:::^.i A a Tho* « \. (47 Tho' the Public may be in the Darlc^. concerning the Motive of your pcrJbnai Malice to me, I am full well aware of h. We have been Rivals, Mr. InJpeSier^. and my Succefs has excited in you all the Rage of a difappointcd jfeahufy. It has befen mention'd in a late Weekly Paper, and with Truth too, that the firft Efforts of your univcrfal Genius were to excel in Pantomime. I fet out (I aflure you I am not proud of mentioning it) with the fame Biafs- of Inclination, tho' with a very different Reception: In a Word, 'twas tlie' fame Public, which encourag'd and fupported w<,, that delpis'd and dilcountenanc'd JJr. HiiL ■ • i ^ ■ ." r But I (hall not confine my theatrical Su- periority merely to Harlequin Entertaim- mcnti J Wd have both been Comedians, dear Dcflor; and here, by the Way, give me Leave to animadvert upon your unkind Behaviour to Mr. Crofs the Prompter,, whofe Charaftcr is bldmelcfs among his Neigh- bours, and to whom you are under the triple Obligation, as Preceptor, Patrori and Friend. V ou may remember (if ybu have not too much JVit to recoiled any Thing to vour Difadvantage) the extraordinary Pami ne took wi;h you in the Part of Oroonokd, tho* (if yoii pleafe to remember again) td «7 little Furpofcj and afterwards finding yott tncapai)le of the Hero^ or the JLoviefy he good-natur'dly recommended the infe- rior Cbarader of Blandford to your InfpeC- tion : The Honejiy^ Humanity and Friend- pip of which Charafter, you cou'd by no Means feel, or enter into, with the leaA Propriety, or Appearance of Probability!; . Add to this, that the Lay-Preacher of every fober Shtiirday might have remem- ber'd Mr. CroJi% Beneficence, in charitably beflowing on Him the fourteenthr or fif- teenth Part of his Benefit. Your cotempo- rary Hero, Mr. A/tfrr, has alfo Reafbn for his Anger at your unbrotherly Ingratitude ts" him, that there appears not in any of yorfr Papers, relative to the Stage, one finglc Strokb of Panegyric on him ; — and yet there was a Time, when at the celebrated Theatre o^ May Fair he reprefented yiltamonf, and the Great Injpekor attempted Lotbario% and the polite Audience of that Place all chorufs'd and agreed with you, when yoa dying, faid, " O Altemont! tby Gertiut •* is the Jlrongerr That you might leave no Part in the theatrical Empire unattcmpted, but might have the fingular Fate of being damn'd ih all ; you was not content with your Trial ill Pantomime and tragedy, but -muft vcnturfc on Comedy Ukewife.. Can I forget, grcit- .- - '' A3 Sir, (6) . S^, your aaing Conjlant, in the Provok'i Wtje^ and your innocent Rape of Mrt. JVcffingtoni when, in a certain PaflW* where, at leaft, z feeming Manlinefs waJ neccfliry, you handled her fo awkwardly that flie join'd the Audience in laughing at* you ;-~yct, after all this public Difgrace •you cou'd dare to advertife for a Wife, thQ* 'twas plain you cou'd not counterfeit a Paf- lion, and was a Fumblcr even at Appear- ances. ^ I cannot conclude the Catalogue of your thfatncal Attempts, or rather Mifcarriagcs. without exhibiting you to the Public, in the Charafter of the Reverend Botamji in KoMEoand Juliet— which you play'd at the httle Theatre i„ the my-Market, wndcr the Duedtion of Mr. rbeopbilus Cit- \[Omu:kkis the powerful Grace that ties \ " u^-,t'> ^"'f''* Stones, and their true ^abties."' ■ , Alas ! Neither You or I thought at that Tjme by your unfeeling Manner of delivering the above Lines, that you wou'd have been rea/fy t!.e Thing you feign'd fo ill ; ^and that your Studies wou'd have redounded fo much to the Good of your Country, by the • • - . . incredible. incredible, nay, uncredited Difcoverles yoa have fmce made \n Mofs, Mites^ Cabbage- Leaves, Cherry- Stones, Stinking Oyjiers, and CocklcSbells. - i\ .' . »■■ i "i,: Some ill-natur'd Critics, Ireihember, ob- ' ferv'd your theatrical Talents were mifem- ploy'd, arid fuppos'd it wou*d have been more advantageous to yourfelf, and enter- taining to the Public, if you had (bewn- them the Starv'd Apothecary in the fame' Play.- Now don't imagine, my dcareft Friend, this trifling Circumftarice is inrro- duc'd for the Sake of my Motto, — but tQ' be fure • ' * • ■ '- — 7 do remember an Apothecary ^ : • • * who 'whilom did refide in a fmall Snop, or rather Shed, in St. Martiris-Lane \ ijshihm , in a fmalicr at Wejiminfter ; who wbihm did remove thence to the 5ai7oy,— — and' mobilom did remove thence to the Country, culling of Simples \'-'——iTi^ who^ afterwards did make fuch a Cull of the Maftcr of Ch-lfca Gardens, and did /b cull in thofe Gardens, that he never could get himfclf into them more ; and what is worlfc, could never get his Name out of the Books be^ longing to the fame. But what is al) this, you will fay, to you ? ^ What has a Gen- tleman to do with fuch Matters as thclc?' •Why, f^ith. Sir, I do believe that 9Q ( 8.). no Gentleman ever had to Matters as thcfc: Yet ftill- do with fuch — I do re- member an apothecary ; and what is more, I believe eveiy one elfc will henceforth be wickedly inclin'd to remember the fame, in whatfoever Shape he (hall think fit to appear. If indeed after this he (hall think fit to appear at all. But now, dear Doftor ■ I had almoft faid dear Har- lequin, 1 afk vour Pardon fupppfc even you yourfclf had dejcended fi'om the Stage into the Apothecary's Shop, who wou'd blame you? they wou'd blame you rather perhaps, that fince your com- mencing Dodor, you have not afcended to the Stage again. ^You know, great Sir, there is a Stage-Phyjicaly as well as Tbe- atricaJ; and a Jack-Pudding is equally quali- fy 'd for both ; in the former indeed he is always the principal Charader ; and there you mufl certainly have fucceeded, the* you fail'd in the latter. ■ . I ihall now confider you in a Light you have ever been ambitious of being confi- der'd,— ^-7;/2:. That of a Scholar. In this Refped, I (hall, in tfip firft Place, ftatc your Pretenfions} and in the next,, claim my Preeminence: rYes, as a Scholar I claim my Preeminence, and I hope I ^m not fo great a Difgrace . to my Fodcr- t:. ' ■ Mother, (9) ■, ■ V Mother, Mercbant-layhn School ^but that I am incapable of making the Blunder* of which the Sequel is a faithful Narra- Once on a Time, that Prodigy o{ tive <( iC c: C( Genius and Learning, the univcrfally-ac- complifli'd Mr. InfpeBor^ was fituated dia- rhetrically oppofite to his adopted Son, the Lion of Button's ;- and on perufing the Latin Motto l ' — - -. . • ■ -.■•• w - Servantur magnis ijli cervicihui ungua^ . Non niji deleSta paj'citur illeferh. . He made the following Remark. " /jV not grange that Addifoa and Steele, m y Predecefors, Men offvfb Genius, fucb 1'aftey fucb clajjlcal Knmkdge^, coud be . capable of putting fucb bad Latin under "my Lion I— hut I fiairgive 'em a jyipe " for . it next Week." A grave Gentle- man, who heard this Criticifm, pluck'dhim by the Sleeve, and faid to him, " Sir; •♦ that bad Latin, -which ycu have fo con- * ' demn'd, and intend to wipe, did formerly be- ** long to one Martial,— -uixj/tfjJ ofhimfelf-' " Hie eft quefh legts, tile qttem requiris, ■ ^* 'Toto notus in orbe MsiTU&Ws. . • \ " Which literally tranflated runsthas;— — «' This Man whom yr-u read, and it-hcm you . ij . *' art Wfl ( to ) '* are tnquifjtive after, is known to all the ** World except Mr. Inspector." , I muft own you gratefully thank'd the Gentleman for his Information ; ingcnuoufly confefllng that you fliou'd otherwife have cxpos'd yourfelf in Print — Ay, but fay fome of your Friends and Parti zans, tho' Woodward has prov'd himfelf a better Acior, and a better Scholar than Dr. Hill, he is not fo Jine a Gentleman, or fo Jine a Writer. As a Gentleman, I own I do not intend to compare myfelf with you; for which, fome People may think I have given Reafons enough already ; if they do not, I believe, before I have done with you, they •will think, that whoever has the AfTurance to make that Comparifon, ought never to liave the AfTurance to fhew his Face more. ■ In blazoning out your Titles to this Charader, Great Sir, I fhall flightly pafs over your Drcfs and Gallantries; vour Sim- per and Leer from the Boxes ;—your indo- lent Waddle along the A/^//j— your cut- car'd Bobj— your November Paduafoy j your AmarJcs, Dapbnsi and Ckloa. Other Gcntlfman have had all thefe— and perhaps aH of them before they h\\ to your Lot — Put, I will mention one Ingredient in the Charadlcr of a fine Gentlemen, which no Alan ever had but yourfelf. Let me ^^^"^ ^f " ^o rare, faith, I want a Name - for ..■•■«' %( II ) for it; not but there is a Name tho* I don't care to mention it .*— : — It is then great Sir, that peculiar polity with which you have diftinguifli'd yourfelf fo notably, and fo often. It is that, which Mr. Rich, in the Tit!e-pnge of his civil Addrefs to you, has been p!t-as*d to commemorate, when you thought pn;perto exercifc this your' fingular Talent in a Controverf/ with hin*, whom you have now fo much C'-.mpaJjion for. * This fame Talent you have likewife exerted againft a very honourable Gentleman; vvhofu- Name, tho' I wjll not mention it here, frands prefi^j'd.tQ -a;Dedi- cau"^on, which, to -^our immpxiql Honour^ has your Name at the. Eb4 p^.i^.'jlr--'— This Talent likewifc,^r^rf/ 5/>, you .once thought proper to employ in the Service of Virtue tho' at the Expencc, not only of your be- loved Gallantry, but of a young Lady who was at that Time breaking her Heart for an unfortunate Accident; of vvhich, (he was innocently the Occafion. Here in- deed ycu after v/ards paid the greateil Com- B 2 pliment • Sec the famous Controveriy concemirg ths EBtertain-' ircnt of 0~^kcus and Euryu'i:e: tslr.-Hi^b'i AnTwd' tO Jiihn Hill has this moft remrirkablc Motto.— — Out eftbir.e o^tt Mcuth wU I ftnJemH thee, ihea •zcicieJLiar. K See ///// upon the R»je/ Scdttj: His Dcdicatioa to in i V » ( 12 ). ' . pliment that could be paid to Truth, b^ giving the Lie direSi to one of her grcatcft Enemies — I mean your worthy Self. How notably you exercifed this illuilrious Qua- lity on a certain Occafion laft Summer, I need not now repeat; the Affair is recent, and well known. Norfhall I trouble yoii here, with the many Obligations, which you have laid me under, of this Kind ; and which have occafion'd you as well as me this Trou- ble ; and have cblig'd me (the' ayerfc, as I hope ail my Friends will own, to this kind of Flattery) to fet you forth as I have done in this Letter.- In this Light then of a Gentleman, I n:uft beg, nay I muft hearti- ly beg, that there may be no Comparifon bctvi'een us But with your Charadlef as a Writer^ I am not fo fearful of my own, 2S to decline cngaging.-i You have at- tempted in my Frofeffion ; permit me, dear Dcdor, to try my Hand in youn, 1 have met with fome Succcfs in the Charac* ters of Bohadil, Thjh^ . Wittcl^ the Bufy J?0(/)', and Mock DcSfor; who knows but I may be favourably received in that of the Infpe5lor-Gcneral of Great-Britain j \\ Keing the firft Time, tho* perhaps not the iaift of my appearing in that Charadtcr ? AN ( 13 ) A N Nq. ». INSPECTOR, By Dr. Bdbathill To be Continued. Ai in frafenti. ViKC iW 77* P iCTEfUS fome where fays, that . „^T/ a Man of Wit fliould rife early in a Morning; apd y^r//?o//(» confirms this Opinion. 1 do not pretend, and yet if I did pretend to that Charader, the Public have given me fufficient Foundation for the Pretence. 1 rofe the other Morning early, and rang my Bell ; — my Valet prc- fently appear'd, and I order'd him to buckle my Shoes. — It is fit the Reader fhou'd knovr that I have lately purchas'd a new pair of Buckles: — it is fit he (hou'd know I bought 'cm of Mr, Deard : I do not — I need not fay, that Deard has fince inform'd me, that he has fold feveral Dozen of the fame ;-~-the . Defire of imitating a Man, whofc Tafte is fafhionable, is natural : is common : I will add, is decent. Wlien I was drefs'd, I ilept into my Chariot, and bid my Foot- ^ ,' . - . man ( H ) • Tnnimord.T my Coachmnn to drive me to t! e BeJfor,! . litre 'I diverted myfelf till Jiiiincr- whh ioir.t of the. Bcaux-Efprits nftheV^ge.-^ ^/^t Seven I retir'd fforri Cliamp.nieneand loafling the Lady -to a Eox ..t p:hry tcne- 1 don't no me the I-sdy: 1 «iif mt nan.ebcr the World uithoHt my naming her will gULf> : I ani rot any.'.m'd ihey £i)on'd : -the Lady is r.or anvam'd.— Hetwtcn dozing and cb;:ttaV!g t.i three or four Women of i^'aflii- on, I id-lei away tlie idle Hours till ten ; .~ fdlcnefs Is the Privilege of Bufinefs; ie\y know this, and fewer iuiow the Rcafon of it; but I know ' both ; tho' I will tell ■neither. At a Rout I f:uifiiM the Evening, where Brag and Fortune depriv'd me of f fty Guineas : 1 loft them with Un- concern ; 1 l;ave fifty more at Home. -At Oiie J re'urn'd to my own Houfc, in ■•.}}•} (-Dv Cbarist, drawn by my c^n Hcr^ . yl'V driven by my oivn Ccacbmati^ attended hv.^rry oy;n Fovtriian-. Such Circum- j'hinrcs in fonie Hiflorics arc immaterial ; in Kf5ne they arc oiheiwifc. The Public dc- f^rcs to know evt;y particclar of my Life ; thry have ob!>ij*d .-iie: and fnall be.oblig'd : ;tUy are my headers: I am their humble 5>rvar.r. (Jne fervani knocked at my . C(;or : a fcond optn'd it : ar,d a third lighted Kir u-> £:^i.i. ; — Aiicvc, I found th? r.'iwCi. • -■■ ' charming , charmmg Amanda ; under that Kn'me ' T Hiall difguife a Won-un of the highcft Qual- lity ; for there is zxi Indelicacy in dilcoverin*- too much, as there is in the Nature of Man a Delight inconceivable in difpiaving ihc amiably decent : the elegantly lovely. Ira. thofe Pifturcs of Verrus^ where there is the fomething und.fclcs'd to the Eye ; Something which I will jjot exprcfs— this fomething engages the fagacious and difcerning Facul- ties of the Mind in the moft agreeable Pur- fuit. — This, to one of my idle Difpofition, gives more Delight than I have received from an accurate Purvey of all the Works of Pbydias. OLTidi Proxitcki In tl« Arms then oi Amanda, a Lady as I before hinted : I hint'it tigain ; of great Quality : IfeUjaJl ajlcep. Towards the Mornliig, as t apprehend, I was vi/ited by one of thofe. Dreams, or Vifioi^s, for which Vlata, A- rijlotle^ EpiBcius, Cicero, Seneca and aji hundred other ^cient Aiithors'wholc Names' I have heard of* may, for any THr:g I know to the contraiv, have cnde-vouiU to' account. 1 was at/Brcakfail (in my. Sleep) when my Valet brought me a dozen. Cards, with Invitations to Dinners, Suppers, Routs, Riots and Drums I receiv'd ■cm: I will attend 'cm. I have lately been in few Conioanics in hicrhcr Life, {in wy Sleep I mean) where Fiddling w.ns not the Subjc .*» Victrlx can fa ciih pJacuit^fedviSfa Catofii, *The ^oice ^jf the Town ivas icith the Kicker,B Th^ Fcice cj the Infpedor 'vcai •with him that was kick'd.*:— i— Thus, deir Dodor, could I run on (if I had as lictlc Regard 'o my R caders as you have^ and get my Seven .Sliillings/i^r Piiper, with as little In'crrui tion to my Pleafures as you, or any polite W.ittr of them all. —M* but ftill fiv vour Fiimds {Jrr a fhrcmd^ /errb'e yet of'Papk they are) Dr. Hill M A Ph\fician ; H >w con Woodit-ard coun- t-^ t Hlan. e i hat ?-: :Why, 1 anlwer call yourfe^, and arc call'd. Doctor. but what Degrees you took, unlcfs thofe Which I have taken in the Mock Doctor, the World, as well as myfelf. is a Stranger to. — Uur Title, therefore, being the hmc let us not quarrel about bur Skill and Pr*aicf. as I believe we fliall neither of us have zui Opportunity to put them to the Trial. ■ » • ■ • ^ I have hithctto fliewn your Iri/ieSforM how far I am your Superior, and in what I am your tquai; I fhali now do you a red^ procal Piece of Juftice (z.n Inftance of mV Increaje of Modtjly) and acquaint the World how greatly, in fime RefpeSls, you arc mina imprimii then, t fubmit to jot in the Arti* ties of Valour, Magnanimity, and (notwith- ftandmg my Increafe) oiModeJly.An Inftanctf of all three wc have from no worfe Evidence' ftan yourfclf ^See Mario InfpeStori N«> j^ There you tell us how you glorioufly mumph'd ovef a certain Advcffary in the PA azzas, who is, and (fo great is your Modcfty) ever will be a Secret. ■ ' . It is Pi^r, mcthinkj, but /b rare a Cba- fectcr was known; for a rcry fare Cbarae^ 'i (IS) isr, indeccl, his muft be, wKo coaM fall » Sacrifice to that /ere Valour which has not yet rccover'd, and fcarcc ever will recover, from thofc deadly Wounds it Tccciv'd laft Summer, of which Co many Gentlemen were ^pe^ators, tho' you yourfelf, great Sir, had the matchlcfe Refolution to deny them.— ' - • ■ ■ ' ^ , lalfo gi»e up to you all Pretenfion'S to Rivalfhip in that excellent Quality of Inven- tions I mean it in the fuU Extent of that Word. You have invented a Civil War, -which neither the Genius of Pompey -or Cafar ever thought of; — ; ^a Civil War, great Sir, with yourfelf, the only Adverfary that I believe. you will henceforth have cither with a Pen or a Sword*. — —But oh be- warp!— rfor I will once give you Advice: — Beware tbai'lnjlrumentt which often Sup- plies thel*face of both thefcj — —that In^ Jirum^iA^ which makes the Body feel wheii -:•:, o("- ■■.':■ \ :^--'r.: ■ -the ■ •s,V * • rr^r^. W»i«y iti-v- ^Qsr^cRipf. I cannot help felicitating yon in the new Office, which you appear to have obtain'd by your Paper of laft Tbur/dayi I mean that of Trumpeter to the new Company, ktdr arrived from France. — In the Speech which you have made on that Occafibn, yon have putrdone all your Brother Trumpeters xbat ever puff*d in the Fairs of Bartbolometo or Soutinoark, - . ^ What the Performance of yonr Mafitn will be, I cannot fay j but of yout Perfor- mance, \ can traly affirm, it was great, it . yiz% excellent, xiMmafionifiing. But why £b fcvere, my Friend, on the lower A^Mtrs f Why, fend them to Nova Scotia ? — ^May not a Man, who has been hifs'd upon the Stage as an Affor, be able fome other Way to become eminent ? Tcu kiow he may. Sir. Alas !— Jud this Me- thod of tran/porting bad Players been infti- . tuted but a few Years ago, would not this na^ tioo have loft one of the bigheft and mofi finijli'd Charafters that ever was inipeded u^ it? -Tbu know it v6ud. Sir. " I w I L L not di fpu te whether a Deg, a M>»- key, or a Hare, may act the Part of a Hero, the Gentleman, &c. equal with fome who fcave attempted thofe Characters on the Stage; ^— EuttJi!S..I-anifure of>. that, a Hajte ii: iq^ially. capablfe of adling the Hero^ ai TiftcNKEY tl^c^/7^ Gentleman^ and a. Daa lilR. JPfliS'cr,. with fomc,7— at leaft, with one- xWlo.li.:? in. real Life attsmpted to unite in* Uiiuibif. i?// thife CbaraSlers..^ ^% '^ : . fjif '.■■• ,:*:v;J .K-Y^" V ^^ '••-•/ F r K I ^ ■ -VVl. -., ' ' 5. * '-'-"'■■y- 4*:V/ « ,\. ...\-v. V e'^^S ?i^S^^ r Tt:j - ■'.'-\■ I., w5 .c'i . oh**. L* :#•- -^ I vt- 'ifX'^" ..-. \^'^ eA. "'•* i .^ ^j"*^. '"» A N S W E R Henry Woodmard, - COMEDIAN. WITH SOMB QccAsiONAL Remarks ON THE Greek and Roman Stage. * By the Rt. Hon. the Earl of »*»*»♦» Amicum ^i non defendit alio culpante Hie Niger efi j bunc tu^ Ramane^ caveto. Ho». LONDON: Printed for M. Cooper at the Gbbe in Pater- Nojler Row. 1753. (Price Sixpence.) •#/ I I Vi A "■•1 o A' « ) T C -1 h A i ,ro T O j-.jTri v. /^///j Woodward^ Comedian. [HE Public is thoroughly ac- quainted with the Theatrical Commotions, which of late have occafioned feveral friendly Admonitions from the In^eBor, and which by that means indeed have fcrved agreeably to amufe the Town. But it may be remarked by the way, that Admonitions, however friendly, however delicately adminiftcrtd, when offered to Weakhefs, Obftinacy, or Pride, not only lofe their perfuafivc Quality, but by an unaccountable Rule of Reverie arc certain to promote a much fh-onger Defire of Oppofition. • . ' '. ^ A 2 This -^■f 1>M » •• •••.'♦■,*''• s ••; Ui Jt This was t|i9 Cafe In regard to mochfiOrl who, far from n\aking a, proper AcIyiQ\»v legement of his Fault, had the Afluran^^ t^ advertife a moft extraordinary Affidavit: in one of the Daily Papers: A Circumftance, in his Situation of Life liighly culpable, and deferving the fevereft Reprimaod : Nor could the Inff>eShr^ either as a Perfon in fomemeafure refleacd on, or as a public Writer, permit an Adion fo unpopularJy difrcfpeaful to pafe by unobferved or un- reproved. Abufcs of this Natyre in particular can- not be too foon difcountenanced, they can- not be tpo foon fupprefled. An apparent ^vil, ,lite a monftrous Birth, (hould be crulhed and ftifled in the firft Moments of its Infancy. We know not how the Wound may fprcad if not timely checked ^od/ueratpnmo, faysOvld Janakemkus ^^^tiim^longa damtiA tuUffe mora,, ,. ,. As ,;p thc'Depofitjons 9^ WoodwardixA two or three others of the fame Clafs, of the lame Profcflion, of the Cune Intereft, they arc nothing more than Depofitipas : Which as i^ they may be either true or falfe, in F^ prove nothing. We have no Fountain like that of *j£adina to decide any Sufpicions of Perjury ; fo that we muft trace this Matter up to its own Source, and fee how it -will there defend itfcjf. .1 , • T . What is it then that Wood'ward^ two Evidences, the one a Prompter to the Play- boufe, the other a Woman whofe Name was never heard of before, what is it I iay they have fworn ? Why, that they did not hear Woodward tell the Hon. Mr, p , . Jc that he had noticed him and wouH be with him again j but that he faid. Sir, I thank You : an Expreffion of equal Import, an Fxpreffion equally ofFenfive, whether it Ijf looked upon as a Menace, or confidered as ■i->f a Sneer. That a Player, on the Stage he is a^ing for his daily Suftenance, and that too at th^ Public's Expence, fliould have the Effroa- tery to fmgle out and particularly infult apy • j\ ■'■ .,.-vT :. i* :. ^. :: : Qcntic- '• Perfons forpcfled of Peijury wrote the Oatl» they haij taken bpon a Piece of Board, and threw it into the Bafoo'. If it funl< the Party fufpcftcd wm forfwwn i if it fwam thf Veracity of the Oath was not qucftioncd. Ar!/ot. dt mirmbi^ «^4V DioJtr. Sic. Lit. it. , «« V. i iJ (6) Gentleman whatever, is an Indignity not to be parallelled in the Records even of a JBtf* tavian Theatre : Nor ought it in my Opi- nion to be pardoned upon any other Terms, than a fubmifllve Genuflexion upon the very Stage where he had the Imprudence to give the Affront. But inftead of a fubfeqoent decent Behaviour, inftead of fuppofinghim* felf to have been in the wrong, he feems to have drank to the very Dregs of the Clrcaan Cup, and totally loft to all Senfe of Shame, has been fo blindly infatuated as to pub^ li(h a trifling, fcurrilous Pamphlet, in which he makes not the leaft Shadow of an Excufc for his Impertinence to the Hon. Mr. F k, but in a Fitof Quixotifm, miftaking Friend for Foe, draws forth that mock Weapon of Offence, his impotent edglefs Pen, and in- difcriminately attacks the InfpeSor, as who Ihould {ay ^•••i'', '-•i* (''^u;':vj'i~«. :i..^iii\ ■• : %/ me commSrit, melius non tangeredam} ■ Flebif, et infgnis tot a cantahitur XJrbe. * Thefe Sallies, which in Effcdt only be- tray their own Weaknefs, doubtlefs arc ex- tolled and admired by fomc few wild-bead- (?) cd Partizans of the Drama, But Ifliould ad vifc the Theatres, if they intend to conti- nue in the fame flourifhing State they arc at pi;efent, to be very wary how they abufc the -Favor and Protedion of the Public. The Liberties, that one of their Brethren has already taken, in a fliort Time may in- fed the whole Flock : And though a fuiglc Offender may not be of fufRcient Weight to rouze the Refentment of the Town, yet the Licentioufnefs of a whole coUedivc Body in all Probabilty will not feiltq doit. And what would be the Confequencc of ;fuch a Refentment, I think I need not mention : Since it muft neceflarily end in theSuppref- fion of all dramatic Entertainments, and per- haps in the Banifliment of a Set of People, who then would be altogether ufelefs to So- ciety, and a Burthen to the Common- wealth. This Dodlrine of mine has frequently been put in Pradlice by other Nations : AncJ we find in the firft Year of Tiberius^ the Diffen- fions of the Theatre rofc to fo high a Pitch, that feveral not of the Populace only, but of the Soldiery, and even a Centurion fell a .'.,.:'r Sacrifice i| 13 ■i: X ■ ■ ( M Sacrifice in 6ne of tJiljfe fcrtilcal 'Pufttdl^l Nof ^v*ai this all, idtk Tribufli bf i'ftito^ rian Cohort Was woiindeB in the /aittie CbH- flia, ■ while he was fdcutlrtg the Magifti-ate^ from InAiIts, and endeiVobrbg to qiietl ihc furious Rabble, the Cortiplaiht of this Riot was brought before' the ^enatfe, aS Tacitus infoifms us, aind Votes w^fe pafling to impower the Praetirs to fubjedl thieJP'lsiy- crs to the Scourge : felit HdteHUi Agnppa, Tributtcof the People," afid a Man that lefl vily courted every Oppbhbiiity of tlazing forth his Popularity, bppofed the Bill, for which he was ftiarply t^plr fmknded by >^- yim'Gallusi HOwtver, the Oppolltlon pre- vailed in Reverihcfe tt) the AuihofiTy tiJu- pijiui. Who upoft a fimilar Occafioii, had political^ given It as his Jadgmeht, ** That ** Playet^'were exerttpt from SfflpeS:*' I fay poHticaDy, fot^that gfCat, that Illumined Statcfmari forefaw how ferviceible the Co*, medians might be to his Iniefeft, by lulling thefac pardonable, but the deliberate Folly of per-' fifting in an Error has no Colour, no Pre- tence for either Pardon or Escufe. • •' i -iJv/ ' - •:;. , v, ■-■'- — - - ;^..o. „ . ^:^ v.'tiiy In (hort, bodi at AbenSy and in Rome the Comedians were obliged moft ftrldly to ob- ferve an obfequious Behaviour with their Spcdators : And on the contrary, it is well' known the Spedators always claimed and exerted -their Right of exploding whatever they thought difagreeable, tedious, or too' often repeated. '. / - * *' '' (i6) A Player of very low Stature reprefenting on the^i&^/^w Stage the lofty Exploits and great Atchievements of HeSiory the People every now and then would be bawling out " When *» is HeSlor to come, when is HeSior to ^* come;" intimating at the fame Time, that the Perfon before them could certainly be no other than the babe J/iyanax j but the Aftor not choofing perhaps to take, the Hint, fcvercly experienced the terrible EfFefks of a flighted irritated Audience. If any one fliould fay that the Difpleafure expreffed on this Occafion was aimed at the Performer, and ifot the Piece performed, thatObjeflion will be obviated, when wc come to take a View of the Riots that frequently happened on the Roman SKzgtt nor can this Point be more clearly elucidated than by the particu- lar Difguft the Public had taken to the He' cyra of Terence. The Reprefentation of this Comedy was twice attempted, but the refraftory People with the loudeft Clamours hiffed off the Adtors, nor would permit them to go through with their Parts, though there were Magiilrates appointed, as I have already already obferved, to prevent any Difordcri that might poflibly happen. Horace has left us an admirable Difcrip- tion of oneof thefe theatrical Uproars. ^atuor aut plurti aulaa premuntur in boras, ' ' ^ rf .; ■ ■ ♦ - Which is to fay, the Plays were interrupted upwards of four Hours fucceffively: ♦ And again he faysj i ^ ^dperoincere ^oocei Evaluerefonum, referunt quern nojira theatra t Garganum mugire putes nemus, aut mare Tufcum^ Tafiio cumjlrepitu Ludi SpeStantur, From hence I think it appears that the Power of applauding or condemning either the Player or the Play has from Time im- memorial been lodged in the Hands of the C People, , An incredible Time, and what we hafc no Ida of at prcfent. (i8) People, and it were the grcateft Folly, not to give it a haflier Term, in any Comedian whatever to dare oppofe (o impetuous, fo ir- fiftable a Torrent. •- When I commended ^Wtt;/7r^ (as above) for his great Excellence in a pantomime Ca- parity, what I iaid, muft be underftood only in Refpea to modem Attempts which have been made in that Branch of the Drama. For I would neither wrong jny own Judg- ment fo much, nor fo grofsly flatter him, as to put him in any Degree of Competition with the antient Profeffors of that Science. ASdence which tranfported the Philofophcr Seneca even to Madnefs, and which he has himfelf called his Infirmity, his Weaknefs his Difeafc. ♦ A Science which Socrafes' whom the Delphic Oracle had pronounced the wifeft of Men. not only commended, but endeavoured to learn, and that too when very far advanced in Years, fo much was «2J)', '■ '.i'^'^^F' '' »»«« -i*"*. Pjlad,, in Ccm^diS. (19) was he enamoured of its Graccfulnfeis, And indeed if we confider the many oece^ ry Qualifications to arrive at any Hopes of Perfedion in this Art, we {hall not be fo much furprizcd at the lavifli Encoiniuim it has tributarily received from the moft able Pens of Antiquity, vv nnt;- . vutvi'^it.-t A good Pantomime, as hudan informs us, (hould have a happy Metnory, a quick Invention, a ready Wit, and afbund Judg^ ment: Qualities almoft incompatible, ami very rarely concentring id one Perfon.-^ Bb-i fides thefe forttiitOus Endowments of^ tha Mind, it is requifite he (hould bav« fevtara! extraordinary Petfe^ions of the Boclyt Ifl regard to Stature, he fllould be neither tot9 tall nor too low : In refped'to Corpditricy^ neither toa fet nor too leani With tWsli he' muft have at oneand' thc'fime Tifaktbfi * Suppkntfe of ari Ed, and tfaeFirMrie^dfaaf Elephant. As to- a^quirdd AccompIim>^ • nMWts; h^ totrft in a very comp^ebenfiv^ Manner underftand Painting, Poetry, Sculp- lure, Mufic, and in {hort, t^ the liberal C 2 Arts, (eo) Arts, but in Particular every the minuteft Circumrftancc of Hiftory both Antient and Modern, In a Profeffion that required fo many contrary, and what one might call fupema- tural. Talents, it is no wonder that a Lad of genteel Birth and the fprighlieft Imagina- tion, who had voluntarily baniflied himfelf from the Auftpritics of an over rigid Father, and who by this puerile Delinquency had his Fortune to feek in the wide World: It is no Wonder, I iay, that a Genius fo mcrf curial (hould make his firft Eilays in a Pro- feffion where he had no Competitor, and wherp thtgreateft Glory was to be acquir- ed. The Ambition- was laudable, but the perfcding fo arduous a Tafk, independant of all neceflary Abilities, could not be com- paffed without the greateft Affiduity,- with- out a long continued Series of practical Know- ledge, f ^intiliq^ very juftly . remarks that, rerurn i^a tiatura nibil vqluit.piagnum « ^nta. hfiitu. lib. 10. *. i." I' . .'.-f/ (21) cit& effect^ prapofuitque pulcberimo cuique eperi difficultatem. So. that this one Point alone confidered, it would have been next to an Impoffibility had the Infpedor fuc- ceeded, for he attempted to fly diredtly up towards the Sun like an Eagle, you wouldfayy before he had once tried the Strength of his Wings. But Youth or rather Boyifm is not a Seafon when we are to expcdt the ripen'd Fruits of Prudence and Reflcdion. The feafty, precipitate Performances of Youth remain, but it is unjuft * fays the uibbi du Bos^ that they fliould injure the Memory of illuftrious Artifts. And I think the volu- ipiqous yet ufeful and ingenious. Works of Dr. H///,.at leaft intitlc him to that Appel- Ution. Bcfides Wo6dwar4 .Cc^o\x\6. hy no' Means have reproached his Infpcdtorfliip in ijot meeting: wjth a favourable Reception from the Tpwn^^fince thcDo£torq[uitted that: Prpfc-ffion, in vvbich I; i may fay he had the Happinefs tpfail, and embraced. the, Study' qf jiatural Pbilofophy, in .which future Ages* ,}M-Mi^^.\\ .0^/-. ■'• !,^WAB»K^l»i«ciiriooTReSaeaions on Poetry and Pihicuig. 'f 1 ( " X will iQok Upon him as an Ornament to the Republic of Letters, and an Honour to his native Cotintiy. :!OV/ .■a' J -:::!\ icP, •• Aiiother reafon I might add why fTood- vard (hould not have conftrued a public Dif- encouragement into a Want of perfonal Me- rit, fincc it is indifputably known that no PJayerin the World ever met with fo uni- vcrlal a Difapprobation, fo general a Con- tempt, and fo rigorous a Difciplinc, as he hinifelf was expofed to during the three firft Seafons of his Appearance on the Stage. - luAfter this injudicious Treatment, after- difchai^ing as it were all his harmlefs Ar- tillery which only recoils upon himfelf, the Lctterwwriter pi-occeds to cenfure the In*' fpedor for not being pleafed with a Diflich- in one of JWtfr/«/sEpigrama;' which toge-t thcr'with feveral other of that . Author's^ Works,- has had the Misfortutte to havfe^ been treated very flightingly by' almoft all' the claffical Wits of every Age. Naugerius in Particular, a very learned Italian Critic i of I of the fixteenth Century, upon a Compari^ fon made between the Merit of CatuU lus and this EpigrammatiH:, was (o much incenfed, that he annually and with great Ceremony committed a Copy of Martiat% Works to the Flames, in order to appeafe by this whimfical Sacrifice the poetic ililute Quill } I . wn my Courage fails me here, for I ever i.ad a certain natural Antipathy to Punfters. :'r.d have always fliuned them with the fame Precaction as I would a begging Poet, or a Benefit-Player : nay, if I but fee a Quibbler, and that too at a Diftance, I feel a fudden inftinSive Horror, and li^p the Pilot Boikau mentions. -Slu* epouvante forage^ JDes que le hordparoit, fans finger oujefids, ye mefowveala nage^ etj'aborfle oujeptdSf P J N 1 S. 'f.. •V > >*S'', r t I *^ v4 ., r:- .11^ -j^,- .'r;^:. *> *•'•/'• •*■' ..r- • • - ,*. . - • • • ' * L E,T T Ei R ..V- lp(P/icc Six-pence.) I #■ •^ rV^'A •^:?VU'?..V,-:t^ 1, - _ 1 ■.^r>*.^- .■4^ ->4;r:^ ii-i if-- I i ,^.«»' V. ■' iA'-*^'-.^.^,-'"^ ->*'"'- ■^-'•-^ ^'-^'^^ . •,.. v-•• -T ,S<:.'.' vl. LETTER, ,, .- .4, Great Frienj)} M^r^r-^r.iH Mr > rr\ I S done. Tiiott art imliiortell ■ The Nine receive thee to the X hallowed Seats, prepared for 'Triumph, and for Worth like thine : They " . hail thee. Conqueror in this dangerous War;. and fay, Thou haft gain'd more Glory than '" by all thy Playing. That was precarious, ^.. this is certain Triumph. Let the ill-judg-i ' mg World in that, fay, others may have '*' * ' ^" * ^ : . , been . ■ fa'': , v'-»', ■-•■.'•.., s .< -r , . ' ■ _l' /S. >..*r- * ■v;;=»;- .-.<■ '. •■»cv*i^'*^ a J I 1)een like to thee, or thou to othera; None will prefume to fay, in this thou hail a; Rival : to fay, that any Man has wrote, or will write, like thee. No one fhall give to any of the Greek or Roman Genii the Praife of being- thy Compeer,, or having Been thy ModeL t • »i« ' • ■ ■ . fl^. /« CiUer, the elder of that Name, has play'd the Fop : But no Man will prefume to fay, that the leaft Part of thy fuperior Excellence has been derived from him. He was, indeed, a Copyift; for he copied Nature. Thou'rt an Original, and foar'iV above it. His were the fervile Portraits of a KhelUr -y mean Likeneffes of Something that exifted in* imperfedl Nature : Thine are the Statues of a PbiJi'as^ different from: all mortal Things : Formed on Ideas Jiving in thy own Min J alone j. and therefore morettahHumaiu" / . " '. We have -feen this Foir to thy fuperior Luftre, and we might fee another. Wc might fee, did thy Difdain permittheContcft^ the younger Player of that Name trying again that Combat where his great Father. ^^.-J V • " :, * *• fail'di ■t. t|> '.r-'S* * it) l&ird: But your AbiUties, or is' It your - high Intcreft, confine him to a Prifwi. ' This may be cruel; but 'tis furely great. • Tis higher Glory far than could have l>een obtain'd by Conqueft: This V ' ^' to conquer vmfaout Oppofition ! This to *" ^eftroy without even condefcending to "the Combat. Nor is the Queftion needfUT. whether 'tis to your Merit, or your Influ. i^ ' cnce that "he owes his Fate. That Influr' y' «nce muftbe proportioned to that Ment ' only; for none will dare fufpcft your Manager ofMeannefs, «r of Partiality ' ' My Bufincfs, my Intent, O bonour'd Friend ! I own it, and I gtory in the Caufe. are the Congratulation with yoju as the Wri- ter! But one Praife, Serpent-like, needs not to eat another. Be the Defign of this Addrefs to add one Wreathe of Laurels, ■or fliall it be of Ivy » to thofe Groves that Shadow you as Conqueror in the written Field: Yet, O yet give Friend/hip, and give Admiration room. Let me expatiate * Mix the OvfsJvyvfisb ihf Poet'i Ban. . • ^ f ■•• .. .,".■.•■ • ■■• ./«■' . • P-ort.' V '^ t.-^ ■;j:-,. u& • if ■ * ■%' '.r »-t» i > ■■.<■ v8. V. 1 i- ' : * (6) . . firft tipbn thy fmaller Excellencies! yrhile I thus reverence you, great Ger nius ! as an Author : Let me admire you alfo as the Player j and uflier in zi Light, by Shade j the Greater by the Lefler Praife. . . I have declared you quite Original throughout your Fops and Coxcombs : That is no little Glory, hut that is lefs, lefs by innumerable Stages in the long Road to Fame than you deferve j and lefs than fliali te paid you. What is there, I appeal to all the World : What is there, in vi^hich you arc lefs Original ? What is there, in the which your Genius and your Fire does not Create, where others Imitate ! Is there in all ^the ample Fields of Folly, a Being like unto your fineft of all fine Gentlemen, in the Fineft of all fine Farces ? No. * There's not in Nature, but that is little ! There is not, even in that Lumber-Loft of Being-lefs Ideas, the great Author's Fancy, any Form to which it bears the leaft,. the pioft remote Refemblance. He avers jhere is not, and in that Acknowledgement, ivhilc he ^onfcflcs the Applaufe that ec- • .^ . cho's from the higheft Gallery, belong* not linto him j Does he not fay, 'tis yours I O worthy, every Slap of callous Hands I O worthy,every Hoot and Howl of Throats ' Vocal, although Irrational ! O Worthy,' thy great Mafter*s Laureat's * Praife, wor- thy of Statues caft in Brafs, and not in ; Chelfea China. Let others have the mean- ly founded Pride j the fervile Honour of pleafing thbfe who know when 'tis they ftiould be pleas'd ; leave this to Cibber and to Barry j nay, leave it to your very Rival Garrick : Be yours the Praife of giving Rapture unto thofe who have not Senfe : Yours of Tranfporting thofe who know- not what fhould be the Origin of Glad- nefs; This is true Glory, Friend, this i^- indeed, Applaufe. Nor have you ever ftpop'd, or will you ever condefcend to accept the Tribute on lefs honour- able Terms. Joy is the Paffion you dc-; light to raife, Joy innocent of ^bought. And • Garrici go on, and charm i}s every Night, ."^ With Sbaie/ftcar's Senfe, and jthnfmi Wit delight; ' . ; . . -•- . • ', KiteJj, or Hamlet, yet thyHoufc Ihall fill,. .".,*•.- .Ijj fpitc of Monfters, Ric b, and Do(ftor HiH. ' • . •,- ".-,. 7. : ■ «> ' ■ ■ • ■ ■ SMjA«'i'/** i. * ■Tm. 'ii; •• r ,' . k. • *'. '• ' • '.'»^ '" ■' ■■<■ .*: • * >ir--. ;:'^^'' i .' y i'-^ -r^^i ^t. * i (8) be afllirM you always will, joft asyao always liav^ fuoceeded. *•».'■•'.' ■ . Nature, poor Drudge ! before true Genius can be no Bar to you in this Purfuit, (he ne- ver has, and may (he never be ! And if not file, much IcCs thofc Copiers of her Follies, Poets. It is not only Garrick's Praifc you have eclipfed, and have fbppknted by your own. See Johnfon^Sbakefpearf, and the reft of thofc dull Writers, idolized by Fools. Havethey not funk before the Ome great In^ flucnce. Meraitioi Is it.yours, let me afk of all Men is it yours, or is it ShakeJ^ar\ Glo* xy that refounds throughout the eccho- iDg Dome, whenever you perform it? Yours. -^Macklin performs what the fond Author meant, and who regards Mercutio f But thou fuperior Genius, thou UckJing their Fancy with the Tithe-pig's Tail of Fun, calls forth the veritable Thunder. ThcjDawof>^«>, view it, examine it! let thofe who wou'd do Juflice to thy Name examine it I how pitifbl a CharaScr ! Nature mcer, paltry, fcrvUc, commoii, perfed Na! tare! a Fool, a Coward, a Coxcomb, a Bebg whom Whom we may pick up at every Cbf& ' houfc. What could be expedcd from a Thing like this upon the Stage ? Cdntcmpt and not Applaufe, unlefe you ^rry had in- ipir'd the Scene ! Your Thtngum Tbangum to your Sword : Call'd it not forth, that Ap- probation from the attending Benches which, all the Authors cold and pointlcfs Humour in vain folicited! *Tis thus, thou claim'ft our Praifes, O inventive Friend ? not on tb^i Fund of others Merit, but on the rich Pro4 duce of thine own. Vainly ihall Men here- after aik what Talents Nature gave thep £;^ this Purpofe. She has done more than all flut cou'd have heap'd upon thee, in beflie^g^ by that {he has deny *d. . She has taken irppi>. thee Modefty. ^^ ,, .^ ;,:. ,. .. ..*;.:; ^.i ' I who have admir^ :. I who have ieca X1e^ founding Multitudes admire thee,, O greai. Friend I in elegant, I cannot fear for tb^. in great and in heroic Characters. Thou art' thyfelf a Hero. I who have feen thee (hine in thy dear iVtwr/Zy, cannot be diffident o(| .' thy Succefs in the defign'd Otbello, Nature . >: has forra'd thee for the one, as pcrfcdly as ' ■ fb» -,?. .V: .". "■ ■* C K: .-ii. '-'\' iT 1 i ii (lo) Ibr the other ; and it is Envy, O immortof ' Friend ! Envy in ihbfe who have advifed thee in this garifli Charafter to hide thy cleaa Limbs beneath the Umbrage of a drak'ning. Robe : Mere Malice that has bid you take this Step, to obviate the climbing Monkey's Fortune. Can/l thou be like the Monkey?, idle and improbable, [ viJ: i-tU .'.■.:.*-»• i\-9*-ii^it'i. •;. ;i /• itil Player farewel ! that Friend I is thy leaft' glorious Toil._Author ftand forth! unpa-' ralleil'd, unrival'd, and alone. 'Tis here I ftrew the Laurds, at thy Feet; here fcatter Rofcs in thy way j here light the Pyre whofe facred Flame fliall confecratc all that its Bhfe difplays : and, /tie your .G/ory, end' among the Clouds. 'Tis at this Theme I call' the Sifters nine, altho' I tyc them not to' Rhyme, to celebrate thy Glories j .'Tis on this Theme I mea;n to fix xnyk% the Wren on thy Imperial Shoulders, and with thee pierce the Hcavpns. ,_ -.,. w.ii,; '--v. v..'ii'vf.^a '.i.i." ^ ;'-.'. . .^! Accept, O worthy of a better Herald, this: founding , tho- hoarfe Note of" Triumph :' Accept this after thy Conqueft, and among, r- . ' thy A .■•■.•■ • "S • ! • ■••••' tfeyXauri^Is/this E^i/)jfc^ boeglcf^ at the Word. — O Shame to Mer^ cbant-Taylors I Smart will explain it to thce^ for (he has — ^Learning. ' ' V .^ ' ••.•I ..,..;.,.■..■'. .-■-^.- .1' .iir?o,.^ri wrc ,. T Well mighteftthou vanqui(h c*re thou wcrt ' oppos'd } well mighteil thou fcize the Spoil fc're they had told thee thou hadft conquer'd! They who fucceed by more than vulgar Means, difdain the idle Pride of vulgar Con- queft. Inftiha inform'd thee that thou muft fucceed that Inftindl which firft puU'd thee by the Ear to tell thou coudft writej a'nd can that err» great Friend, it cah'nbt! tha^ told thee thou couldft write }., nay that thoii could ipell, wirneifs thy Printer, whethct i* Jdeceiv'd thee. That told thee',' thou hadft Wit. How haft tliou countenanced that Praifes? All laugh that read 'thee ! it* whifper'd thou hadft Humour. '.F/^/n^ himfelf (hall own it. If .he deny thee, he has none himfelf; for his is thine, thine his, and both are one I That told thee, thy great Satire on the Town was but the Morning Ray to the Meridian Glory of thy rFaroe in. this. Is it not as it told thee? Art thou no :nrrr!-brtT •• <..'> ";• .,v. ^■■> • 't li ^: ( 12 ; not as thy fctf affirmeft, rccciv'd, applauded' and cfteem'd of all, while thy Antagoniflr, this Hi'II^ this Dunghill, this Apothecary, is of all Mankind difcourag'd, damn'd, reicA- ed, and difcountenanced. Men told thee, that thy new Glories fhould eclipfe the old they faid, thy Fame for writing well, fhould leave no Thought of thy theatric Virtues. How has their Curfe prevailed ! who is there regards thee ! Thy broken Head, thy broken Voice *, thy lofty Pertnefs and thy mean Submiflion 1 who prais'd or who regarded them ! Some Weaver hifs'd. Some Laceman pelted ! fome Critic damn'd thee, but there was none of that applauding Clatter of the Hands : none of that cackling Laugh, thar us'd to mock thy Viftories. The Rattle of Reception finks into a Groan, and where Apes once chattcr'd in thy Praife, now Serpents hifs againft thee. Suppofe not this is Lofs of Honour his Accumulation. Think not thy Friends are griev'd : ;hey glory in the gene- ral Voice. The Stage may fpare thee. Friend, while the Prefs groans out her Re- qucfts to labour in thy Service. Author, no longer Ador, be thy great Addition ! this Rtbtarfal. Judgment .- _ * " . . • Judgment may dilpute, but, for the firft, Envy herfelf fliall not prefume to queftion ; nor all Ae Snakes about her fibilate one faint or idle Hifs to rob thee of Preeminence. . ' 11. 1- 1'"-' If Eliaquehcc of Stile j if Dignity of Thought J if Majefty of Sentiment, or Harmony of Language, charni, where is the Poet,wheretheOrator,thateverboaftedthem in fuch Perfection ! if humbler Praife de- light thy gentle Ear, if Chaftity of Thought and Purity of Phrafe; if Elegance and fweet Variety o( Periods, and of Words, can charm 9. polifh'd Age j where fhalj they fee Corredtnefs, Eafe, and Beauty, like to thine ! if thou content thy felf ' with humbler Praife, and flow the Firgil of thy Time, within the Banks of Juftice and of Right. Smile not the Valleys, whofc green Plain thou cut'ft with gentle Wave, and gro.ws not every Flower upon the Verge'; fpreads not the Thiftle over all the Border; and. noddcth not the Poppy all along the Bank, to court its ovvn ^00 weighty Head, in the cl^ Wave. ;; ' j ei iTf.W Bi >'■.■-.> !'jtX { i? v. *~ • ^' 1%}) .1 "X Bu^lf the Bomerof the, a^omlbfsd:?,^ omer'of the, aft6wi[H)Bd.l^e- ricxi, thou hreake^ or ovqr . 4«y '^ji -afl Mounds ^d Banks, making thy :B^ | jjic wide Plain, and fwelling over all Things withafuddenpeluge: Art thou not |hcn the iV/7. nnine-OfRpring, is the greateft. Go for, ther yet, O happy Friend, aflc, for thou knoweftitnot, altho* thou haft atchicved it J demand What Kind of Writing moft dcfcrves it? one fays an Epigram's the greateft ; another, that a Tragedy's the , *'-^''^ * ^ „ nobleft • The FaWe. "../•% '^ - ♦ \ •• *■• nobleft Effort of the human Mind. Stand forth, and be immortal. Was not that Epigram eterniz'd by the Gmxetteer^ tliat fung forth all thy Praifes ? Was it not thinc' own ? Throw Modcfly to the Dogs, con- fefs it and be glorious. For Tragedy : that is a Drama of the fadder Kind ; and lias th^ World feen, from its earlieft Persod, a Piece that more deferv'd that Title, daan what they l>eard from you. But thde arc little.'. The Dialogue, die Turn, the Point,, the Energy, are nothing unto thy iaie Ejchibi- tions. Lycambes ' hang'd hirafcif for half the Satire thou haft pour'd in the BHA Tor- rent, on thy Foe of Inipedorisd Memory':' And the Infpedtor lives, O Baibarifm of Thought ! alas ! unfeeling mortal Stuff that now loads the Globe. What is it that Ihall deftroy thee? What Arrow fjiall l)e fouiid to pierce the ten-foldCoveringof thy Brcaft, this grey Goofe Weapon failing *. - . ..r^ ■ sl::yv^ . ■ <| ^::iv-"- ) 'r^- O happy Y^iith, exclaimed the Son 6P Fbili^i when in Sigaum- he hehcld the' i-^h • Cou'd Trtj be fa M by any fii^leHand, His grey Goofe Weapon wou^d have made her s'-, ftawJ. . .. • ,.;!.'!• PbPB. h-3\'yA , . Tomb » Tomb of great Acbilks ; O fortunate of He- roes, who had the immortal Homer to' do- lebratethy Viftofies.' And he was riM exclaims the fage Philofopher, had not this been the Chance, the Tomb that co- verdhis.Remains, had buried too his Me-, mory, the World had never knbwh he was a Jieroe. Men now fhall cry out, O iU-fkted HtU, O moft unfortunate of Writers, who hadft for thy Antagonift the immortal Woodward, and they are right. Was it nQt • for him, had not this been the Chance^ The World had never known thou once Waft an Apothecary. ■■■■■>•■■* y --^^ •-rjjr Is not thisTriumph ? Is not this' more than all the fliadowy Laurels that mimick Fancy gains upon the Stage, the Slave of Fools, Mic Jcft, O happicft for thee, great Genius, that it is fo the applauded Jcft of thofe who nc;cr knew Meaning. Thou hift excelled, in Eloquence and Eafc, in founding Phrafe, and in pure Rhetorick, all that have gone before thee. Demojibenes muft bow the Head to thee in Force, and Mfcbinei in Softnefs. . Singly they fteal, or fingly they command Applaufe: Thou art the fublimeCombinarion of v;-v. ■ ...i,'--) >>v.v.:r'' •I I > t li of all that is, or all that coald be great in ei- ther. Nature to make one Exrg^/i^ Genius^has always join'd two of the Greek otRomap, Homer and Virgil (ht combined to form her 'Milton : thefe to compofe her Woodward, ijV Nor is thy Rapidity of Thought inferi or ! O flill pre-eminent, ftill greateft of the great in all. It coft Ifocratex ten Years to write that cold and lifelefs Panegyrick. Thee hard* ly tweftty Days to finifli this elaborate Piece: This greater then Athenian Charaftcr.— ^ Accept my Praife in all, accept, altho' thou underftandft it not : Nor wonder I fly oat of Sight even of thyfelf in praifing thee I 'tis fit I rife above the Clouds. Thou Who haft funk fo bold a Warrior in the Fields of Fame, (hall thou thyfelf be loft to the Kcmembrancc ! No not while I holdf the Pen of Adamant, that can infcribe upon tb6 Wings of Time thy honour'd Chartdtcn "* .n - 1 Sound Tame; thy brazen trumpet found . . Stand in the Center of the Vniverfe, And call the liji'ning World around^ : 02 While I fehearfe In lofty Numbers and afpringVerfe. No not in Verfe, but in high Story * '- ' Ininiortal Woovtard's Glory, h ;^ i.'-ii " ' O ^jgrieateft of all Great 1 hear World! 'take Note, World! that 'tis not only in himfelf I praife this mighty Combatant, Conqueft and Laurels are poor Pride to thee, nor to thyfelf alone thou oweft thy Glories! O Great in thine own Pcrfon^: Great in thy Defcent j Great in thy Profeffion, Great in thy Alliances; Hear all and then let Ho» nour hold the Beam, arid fee whofe Scale~is heavieft. ■> V^ - - '-,-_ Thou wert prepar'd for in the Womb of Time..; Fate feeing what thy Deeds wou'd be, gave thcie the nobleft and the proper Origin. O fprung from Parents that fore* told thy Glories I Thy Sire icarceiecond to .the God of Day } fuperior to thePlanet of the .Night bore on his Back, as Atlas did the World, whole Floods of embryo Light -j- 1 The Nymph who bore\hecto the illumin'd SirejParent, hot of thee only and thy Works, Parent perhaps of Pope's high Verfc, and of thy Profe O Orrery I gave Birth to Paper ^ '■'-■■ .. '. D •:,... v; •....,. ,' HaU • Hiftory-— Eremite for Hcnnit r Miiton. . t Perhaps he was Porter to a Tallow-Chandlcr.. X Pot^bly a Rag- Woman, but of this i^e afSmi aoihiit^ -• t •. < 5 Hail Goddcfs of the remnant ShnS, which fpreads its little Surface o'er the Stream, that roU'd along thy fleepy Rivulets, O Queen of the Cities, London^ flops at the grated Entrance to the Deep, and grows under thine Influence, an Ode, or an Elfrida. • • Such, O immortal I is thy Anceflry? And what thy boaftfol Rivals ; What. if his motley Mourning fpeak it.' truly? What is his Boaftl the mifbegotten OSr- fpring of fomc Why be it . (b : his Birth's Icfs honourable, . bccaufe it is lel^ ^, honefl, than if he were indeed the Son of the ' good Prieft, whofc Tutelage ho thus dif* honours. But 'tis not him of whom I fpeak, i« the Subjcd*s nobler, for it Is of thee. Thoti . j w;oud'ft not boaft the Glories of thyv Race, I thyfelf an Undeferver, thy Adts dedarc thee ; I niore than all my Praife, They fpeak th^e - I bom of this illuflrious Race, and of a Soul, - . Ithat itnfwers to that Birth, that dares - not - . !t}ut do well. Born of fuch Stock what was ihy chofen Scene the Theatre? No, for ' Ihat was accidental •— - it was the Field : 'ahd there thou wert enoblcd. The Service renders every Man (he Gentleman. ,No ' * ' '* '"'."' ' • * wonder Wonder thou haft claim'd the Titl? tqltify. The WiTspfFfnus, are they iic^ fo called ? and are they not as honourable as the Fields of Mars ! The Wounds, the Blo^d' ipilt vo- luntarily in t^e one, is it not ^(|pal to all^tha^ , flows before the other ) What if the Colour differ! j^nd is it, hot a Scene of as equal Gjo- ry, whether w^ fight under .the F^gof ■ Marlborough^ or of t^Qui^zonia^ Q^—^. : The Duty.wasis' hard, the Danger more; , the Pay was equal. 1$ it nOt mor(?, ^ thoifc '•■ who have attempted it, to fill one. female Soul, and fuch' a Soul, and fach a Female too ^ than • to pile upthe dead of fifty Trenches f IsitJtot more to ftarid the fingle. Combat with, ibc ' Legions of defrauding Rioters, too dmo^ &r Fear, than to maiBtain-thc.l8ft.amctogem- " battled Hofts-^ and too the ^ Fate of "thoo- fands? .This Taflc wisHliihc," nor ^- was- .this : gli. Tiyferf'whb often fbtfghTTlirfrlc^fhe^^ to the rield. Thou cottibatfedft' with • Frith^s, potjFoesi but they w?rjc,Foc^.to-jCTTT— n. • gnd didft thou 'not there merit 'double Pay; .^mUctc there was double danger! who_cvcf ^ like thcc icrv'd the. long Campaign > W^b o:r« .v:' ever V • ■ . X, . ; ■ . > :t ■■ *' • .■■V ■^»'.';- '% If (22 ) ever fill'd with Co much Fire and equal Dig- nity, the tripple Office I but what is therein all the Rounds of Life to which thou ar^ unequal? '.■ * ' " \'''* > V. • ^t -■ Great in thy Birth, and in thy Office great- er, thou art not Icfs in thy Alliances. Thy ■ double Treaties with the double State that Rules the Theatre; what could have fill'd, what could have plan'dj or what could have fupported, but, Worth like thine] difcovered in the common Arts of Courts, the double Dealing and the hid Intrigue; thou coudft not fink beneath the Load of Shame! that is for meaner Souls. Falfc.to thy firft and to thy latter Vows ;conf eff- ing all, thou wcrtofall abfolvU- — -I own if. TfSyl.ama^"-^* ^lyoucanjayand - iporfe is true of me, but take me yet, *tii Pu- ..nijhmenf enough- to be a. ■■ Hard ..Words . they found uncouthly. But Truth and Cuftom wrill.makc allThings eaiy. Thefe Things are Great, hot thisislitde ' Grcatncfs I below thy Boafts," below thy very owning. All that is truly Noble lives in thee: thy Lww Ihair own it all: and and thy own Works, when thefe are rdttin; niay, when they are dead, (hall praife thee,- Where I began, there 'tis I end thy Tri- umph; there 'tis I fee thee rais'd above allMor- tals. And there 'tis I, and there the World adore thee. 'Tis there I own thee firft of all Genii, that have graced the barbarous Age. 'Tis tibere thy Friends and thy Acquantance hail thee ; there they ffiall hail thee, while Me- rit, or while accident (hall keep thee Living in their Memory, while Sugar, or while Pies lufciousas thine own Eloquence, {baU throw thy Labours in their Way; 1..; :/•;.'-.': WbilewaftingGinger round the (Ireeti they go . And vijit Alehoufe where tbeyjirji did Grow,, My humble Praife attempts not the un- bounded Flight, that mark the Progrefs of thy Lofty Satire. . lam ty'd down to Truth, which in the Celebrating Worth like thine 'twere Criminal indeed to Violate. Thou in thy larger Province and with thy larger Fan- ^yj invenive ftill upon thy Mother's o^pring as underneath thy Fathers' Influence ; what thou doft write no more belongs to him of whom 'twas written, than what thou adteft tp him who wrote that which thou fliould'ft haveaaed. • ■ '= .... ..,/.■.,;'..:';.,. i^-v I T . » - ^ v. V M V- . .'.■:-.\ ' a' I '1 :%*' 3 Thy fertile Fancy, and thy firec Indrf« gence mako Truth ^d Liberty contenipd* bie, 'tis fit they (hould do fo. Thofe arc' thy Arms j with thofe 'tis fit thoa conqner* eft..-Ga on, and toiay more than Vcluoies could contain in the low Garb of vulgar Praife 5 be every Vidory like this. Faxewel^ . - • .• Tours truh, > ; -. cl-rXa;^^?^^ SAMPSON EDWARDS: P. S, I have but two Things more to %» and then farewel in eameft. Your natural ImpaUoKe, my warm Friend, to hear your pwn true Praife may make you wonder at my noexpefted Tardinefs, ahd you will wonder at my lofty Style* The one of thefb de^ pended on. the other. It required Time to get my rough Thoughts drcfled in the gay Kobe qf Elocution : And I believ'd thee, and I believ'd them worth It, Befides I thought it juft that each (hou*d equal- ly maintain his Charader. That I ffiouW write as like a- Coblcr as you wntp Jikc 4 Gehtleman--Each to his Title, and each' equally, '^;^ =■- _ Good Night, and flccp upbn't, with what Tranquillity you mayt • *r«l •""•'^v I c * /^ EBB m RETURN LOAN PERIOD 1 HOME USE CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 198 Main Stacks ALL BOOKS MAY BE RECALLED AFTER 7 DAYS. Renewls and Recharges may be made 4 days prior to the due date. Books may be Renewed by calling 642-3405. DUE AS STAMPED BELOW ..y 11^ .P1?(<1LEY LIBRARIES