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monies as these every day. To use an instance Royalty adapted to all our apprehensions; suppose my family and I should go to Bartholomew Fair. Very well, going to Bartholomew Fair, the whole sight is perfect rapture to us, who are only spectators once and away; but I am of opinion that the wire-walker and fire-eater find no such great sport in all this; I am of opinion they had as lief remain behind the curtain at their own pastimes, drinking beer, eating shrimps, and smoking tobacco.

Besides, what can we tell his Majesty in all we say on these occasions, but what he knows perfectly well already? I believe if I were to reckon up, I could not find above five hundred disaffected in the whole kingdom, and here are we every day telling his Majesty how loyal we are. Suppose the addresses of a people for instance should run thus. May it please your M- -y, we are many of us worth an hundred thousand pounds; and, are possessed of several other inestimable advantages. For the preservation of this money and those advantages we are chiefly indebted to your My. We are therefore once more assembled to assure your M -y of our fidelity. This it is true we have lately assured your My five or six times, but we are willing once more to repeat what can't be doubted and to kiss your royal hand, and the Queen's hand, and thus sincerely to convince you that we shall never do anything to deprive you of one loyal subject, or any one of ourselves of one hundred thousand pounds.

Ad- Should we not upon reading such an address dresses to think that people a little silly, who thus made

such unmeaning professions?-Excuse me, Mr Printer, no man upon earth has a more profound respect for the abilities of the aldermen and the common-council than I; but I could wish they would not take up a monarch's time in these good-natured trifles, who I am told seldom spends a moment in vain.

The example set by the city of London will probably be followed by every other community in the British Empire. Thus we shall have a new set of addresses from every little borough with but four freemen and a burgess; day after day shall we see them come up with hearts filled with gratitude, laying the vows of a loyal people at the foot of the throne. Death! Mr Printer, they'll hardly leave our courtiers time to scheme a single project for beating the French; and our enemies may gain upon us while we are thus employed in telling our governor how much we intend to keep them under.

But a people by too frequent a use of addresses, may by this means, come, at last, to defeat the very purpose for which they are designed. If we are thus exclaiming in raptures upon every occasion, we deprive ourselves of the powers of flattery when there may be a real necessity. A boy three weeks ago, swimming across the Thames, was every minute crying out, for his amusement, "I've got the cramp! I've got the cramp!" The boatmen pushed off once or twice, and they found it was fun. He soon

after cried out in earnest, but nobody believed Royalty him, and so he sunk to the bottom.

In short, Sir, I am quite displeased with any unnecessary cavalcade whatever. I hope we shall soon have occasion to triumph, and then I shall be ready myself either to eat at a turtlefeast, or to shout at a bonfire; and will lend either my faggot at the fire, or flourish my hat at every loyal health that may be proposed.— I am, Sir, &c.

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ESSAY VIII,

TO THE PRINter.

Seeing SIR,-I am the same common-council-man who troubled you some days ago. To whom can I complain but to you? for you have many a dismal correspondent; in this time of joy my wife does not choose to hear me, because she says I'm always melancholy when she's in spirits. I have been to see the coronation, and a fine sight it was, as I am told. To those who had the pleasure of being near spectators, the diamonds, I am told, were as thick as Bristol stones in a show-glass; the ladies and gentlemen walked all along, one foot before another, and threw their eyes about them, on this side and that, perfectly like clock work. O! Mr Printer, it had been a fine sight indeed, if there was but a little more eating.

Instead of that, there we sat, penned up in our scaffoldings, like sheep upon a market day in Smithfield; but the devil a thing could I get to eat (God pardon me for swearing) except the fragments of a plum-cake, that was all squeezed into crumbs in my wife's pocket, as she came through the crowd.

You must know, sir, that in order to do the Coronathing genteelly, and that all my family might be tion amused at the same time, my wife, my daughter, and I, took two guinea places for the coronation, and I gave my two eldest boys (who, by-thebye, are twins, fine children) eighteen-pence a-piece to go to Sudrick Fair, to see the Court of the Black King of Morocco, which will serve to please children well enough..

That we might have good places on the scaffolding, my wife insisted upon going at seven o'clock the evening before the coronation, for she said she would not lose a full prospect for the world. This resolution I own shocked me. "Grizzle," said I to her, "Grizzle, my dear, consider that you are but weakly, always ailing, and will never bear sitting out all night upon the scaffold. You remember what a cold you caught the last fast-day, by rising but, half an hour before your time to go to church, and how I was scolded as the cause of it. Beside, my dear, our daughter, Anna Amelia Wilhelmina Carolina, will look like a perfect fright if she sits up, and you know the girl's face is something at her time of life, considering her fortune is but small." "Mr Grogan," replied my wife, “Mr Grogan, this is always the case, when you find me in spirits. I don't want to go, not I; nor I don't care whether I go at all. It is seldom that I am in spirits, but this is always the case." In short, Mr Printer, what will you have on't? to the coronation we went.

What difficulties we had in getting a coach,