in the Action, and the good Offices done the Vanquished in the Name of the Queen of England, gave both the Conqueror and the Captive the most lively Examples of the Courage and Generofity of the Nation He represented.

YOUR Friends and Companions in your Abfence frequently talk these things of You, and You cannot hide from us, (by A 5

the

the most discreet Silence in any Thing which regards your felf) that the frank Entertainment we have at your Table, your Condefcenfion in

eafie

little Incidents of Mirth

and Diverfion, and general Complacency of Manners, are far from being the greatest Obligation we have to You. I do af fure you there there is not one of your Friends has a Greater Sense of your Merit

Merit in general, and of the Favours You every Day do us, than,

SIR,

Your moft Obedient, and

moft Humble Servant,

Richard Steele.

THE

SPECTATOR.

VO L. VII.

N° 237. Saturday, December 1, 1711.

Vifu carentem magna pars veri latet.

I

Senec. in OEdip.

T is very reasonable to believe, that Part of the Pleafure which happy Minds fhall enjoy in a future State, will arife from an enlarged Contemplation of the Divine Wisdom in the Government of the World, and a Discovery of the fecret and amazing Steps of Providence, from the beginning to the end of Time. Nothing feems to be an Entertainment more adapted