privately in fome Corner to hear, where with the utmost delight she feafts on my Applaufes. Sometimes the fings my Verses, and accompanies them with the Lute, without any Mafter, except 'Love, the best of Inftructors. From thefe Inftances I take the most certain 'Omens of our perpetual and encreafing 'Happiness; fince our Affection is not 'founded on my Youth and Perfon, ' which must gradually decay, but the is in love with the immortal part of me, my Glory and Reputation. Nor ❝ indeed could lefs. be expected from one who had the Happiness to receive her "Education from you, who in your House was accustomed to every thing that was virtuous and decent, and even began to love me by your Recommendation. For, as you had always the 'greatest Respect for my Mother, you were pleased from my Infancy to form C me, to commend me, and kindly to ' prefage I fhould be one day what my

Wife fancies I am. Accept therefore C our united Thanks; mine, that you have bestowed her on me, and hers,. that you have given me to her, as a. mutual Grant of Joy and Felicity.

Mon

N° szó. Monday, November 3.

Fortius utere Loris.

Ovid.

I

Am very loth to
loth to come to
Extremities with the young

Gentlemen mentioned in the following Letter, and do not care to chastise them with my own Hand, till I am forced by Provocations too great to be suffer'd without the abfoluté Deftruction of my Spectatorial Dignity. The Crimes of thefe Offenders are placed under the Observation of one of my chief Officers, who is pofted juft at the Entrance of the Pafs between London and Westminster. As I have great confidence in the Capacity, Refolution and Integrity of the Perfon deputed by me to give an account of Enormities, I doubt not but I fhall foon have before me all proper Notices which are requifite for the Amendment of Manners in publick, and the Inftruction of each Individual of the Human Species in what is

due

due from him, in refpect to the whole Body of Mankind. The prefent Paper fhall confift only of the above-mentioned Letter, and the Copy of a Deputation which I have given to my tru fty Friend Mr. John Sly; wherein he is charged to notify to me all that is neceffary for my Animadverfion upon the Delinquents mentioned by my Correfpondent, as well as all others defcribed. in the faid Deputation.

To the SPECTATOR-GENERAL of Great Britain.

I Grant it does look a little fami• liar, but I must call you

Dear Dumb,

Bad of the Widow's Coffee-house, EING got again to the farther I fhall from hence give you fome ac• count of the Behaviour of our Hackney-Coachmen fince my laft. These in• defatigableGentlemen, without the leaft • Defign, I dare fay, of Self-Intereft or Advantage to themselves, do ftill ply as Volunteers Day and Night for the Good of their Country. I will not trouble you with enumerating many Particulars, but I must by no means

⚫ omit

• omit to inform you of an Infant about fix Foot high, and between twenty and thirty Years of Age, who was feen in the Arms of a Hackney-Coachman driving by Will's Coffee-house in Covent-Garden, between the Hours of four and five in the Afternoon of that very Day, wherein you published a • Memorial against them. This impudent young Cur, though he could not • fit in a Coach-Box without holding, C yet would he venture his Neck to bid defiance to your Spectatorial Authority, or to any thing that you countenanced. Who he was I know not, but I heard this Relation this Morning from a Gentleman who was an Eye-witness of this his Impudence; and I was willing to take the first Opportunity to inform you of him, as holding it extremely requifite that you should nip him in the Bud. But I am my felf most concerned for my Fellow-Templers, Fellow-Students, and Fellow-Labourers in the Law, I mean 'fuch of them as are dignify'd and diftinguished under the Denomination. of Hackney-Coachmen. Such afpi⚫ring Minds have these ambitious young Men, that they cannot enjoy them

• felves.

'felves out of a Coach-Box. It is however an unspeakable Comfort to me, that I can now tell you, that some of them are grown fo bafhful as to study only in the Night-time, or in the Country. The other Night I spied one of our young Gentlemen very diligent at his Lucubrations in FleetStreet; and by the way, I fhould be under fome concern, left this hard Student should one time or other crack his Brain with ftudying, but that I am in hopes Nature has taken care to fortify him in proportion to the great Undertakings he was defigned for. Another of my Fellow-Templers, on Thursday laft, was getting up into his Study at the bottom of GraysInn-Lane, in order, I fuppofe, to contemplate in the fresh Air. Now, Sir, my request is, that the great Modesty of these two Gentlemen may be re'corded as a Pattern to the reft; and if you would but give them two or three Touches with your own Pen, tho' you might not perhaps prevail with them to defift entirely from their Me❝ditations, yet I doubt not but you would at least preserve them from being publick Spectacles of Folly in our• Streets: