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fpoken to; but your greatest talkers are the "leaft doers, and the still sow eats up all the "broth.' Ha! ha! fays Giddy, one would "think he had nothing in him, and do you "hear how he talks, when he pleases!' I grew "immediately roguish and pleasant to a degree, "in the fame ftrain. Slim, who knew how good company we had been, cries, you will "certainly print this bright converfation *." It is fo; and hereby you may fee how small an appearance the prettiest things faid in company make, when in print.

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St. James's Coffee-house, June 20.

A mail from Lifbon has brought advices, of June the twelfth, from the king of Portugal's army encamped at Torre Allegada, which informs us, that the general of the army called a court martial on the fourth at the camp of Jerumena, where it was refolved to march with a defign to attempt the fuccour of Olivenza. Accordingly the army moved on the fifth, and marched towards Badajos. Upon their approach, the Marquis de Bay detached fo great a party from the blockade of Olivenza, that the marquis das Minas, at the head of a large detachment, covered a great convoy of provifions towards Olivenza, which threw in their ftores, and marched back to their army, without moleftation from the Spaniards. They add, * If this letter is not by SWIFT, it is very much in the manner of his "Polite Converfation."

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"Whofoever can difcover a furgeon's appren"tice who fell upon Mr. BICKER STAFF's meffenger, or (as the printers call him) Devil, "going to the prefs, and tore out of his hand 66 part of his effay against duels, in the frag"ments of which were the words " you lie,' "and man of honour,' taken up at the Tem

ple-gate, and the words, perhaps'-' may be "not,'-' by your leave, Sir,'-and other "terms of provocation, taken up at the door of

Young Man's Coffee-house, fhall receive fa"tisfaction from Mr. MORPHEW, befides a fet "of arguments to be spoken to any man in a "paffion, which, if the faid enraged man liftens "to, will prevent quarrelling.

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"Mr. BICKERSTAFF does hereby give notice, "that he has taken the two famous Univerfities of "this land under his immediate care, and does

hereby promise all tutors and pupils, that he will "hear what can be faid of each fide between them, "and to correct them impartially, by placing them "in orders and claffes in the learned world, accord"ing to their merit."

"Mr. BICKERSTAFF has received the advices from "Clay-Hill, which, with all intelligence from honeft Mr. "STURDY and others, fhall have their place in our future "Lory."

"Whate'er men do, or fay, or think, or dream, "Our motley paper feizes for it's theme."

* White's Chocolate-houfe, June 22.

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N answer to the following letter being abfolutely neceffary to be difpatched with all expedition, I must trespass upon all that

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*This humorous paper certainly originated in the licentious imagination of the Dean of St. PATRICK'S, whom no laws divine or human could either confine to ftrict truth, or reftrain from the exercife of indifcriminating fatire, and illaudible ridicule. Even ADDISON, corrupted by his company, feems to have been more than merely his amanuenfis, infomuch that SWIFT might have said in his own way, and more truly than in the cafe of the Examiner, "That he really had no band in "this paper." It appears to have been ADDISON's fecond contribution from Ireland, to the author and editor of the TATLER. The reader, on perufing it, will be at no lofs for the reasons of its omiffion in the lift of TATLERS" marked "with STEELE's own hand, at the request of his deceafed "friend, and delivered by him to Mr. TICKELL." It was not published without a tacit acknowledgement both of, and to its author, for he is humourously difclofed under the name of JANUS, in an article annexed to the paper. More proofs

come with horary queftions into my antichamber, to give the gentleman my opinion.

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of the fact, and of the propriety of this note, will appear in TATLER, No 5. and especially in N° 63, where what relates to MADONELLA feems to have been actually written by the real author of this paper. From what has been faid, it is eafy to difcern the true reafon why SWIFT "would never tell his best friends fome particular papers "which he wrote in the TATLER and SPECTATOR," although he feems to have induceed or cherished a belief, that he was the real author of pieces in both, which he did not care to own. See SWIFT" Works," vol. XI. p. 47, note, crown 8vo. Lond. 1766. It appears likewife that ADDISON had fimilar reafons for laying "commands on STEELE to hide things which he 66 was defirous fhould be concealed," that he too "furnished pleafantries and oblique ftrokes, for which STEELE was very "patiently traduced and calumniated,' and that this "bosom "friend fhielded ADDISON from refentments which many of "his works would have brought upon him at the time in

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which they were written." See STEELE'S Dedication of ADDISON'S "Drummer" to Mr. CONGREVE, paffim. It is very probable that STEELE, with the fame excefs of generofity not very juftifiable, fcreened others befides ADDISON and SWIFT on like occafions. No addition need be made to the note on TATLER, No 27, in order to account for STEELE's being the editor of this paper. His own literary productions are generally meritorious, or unexceptionable; but his publications were not always conducted, any more than his life, with the moft virtuous uniformity. POPE, never very liberal unless of selfish praife, teftifies that STEELE "had a real love and reverence of "virtue :" "he feems (fays Dr. JOHNSON), when the rage of

party did not mifguide him, to have been a man of boundless "benevolence," and, excepting as before excepted, "HE certainly "was not to be swayed by deliberate evil " It is a pleasure to the writer, to be able to vindicate him, in this instance, from the difagreeable imputation of having treated fubjects very ferious, and characters very refpectable, in a manner fo ludicrous, and fo blame-worthy.

Horary questions are questions relative to an hour to be refolved aftrologically. See TATLER, No 56, and "Lives of “ ASHMOLE and LILLY, &c. 1774,” p. 36, 43, & passim.

"I know not whether you ought to pity "or laugh at me; for I am fallen desperately "in love with a profeffed PLATONNE, the "moft unaccountable creature of her fex. To "hear her talk feraphics, and run over NORRIS*, ❝ and MORE †, and MrLTON, and the whole ❝ fet

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JOHN NORRIS, a man of great ingenuity, learning, and piety, was born in 1657, and died in 1711, aged 54. He pub. lifhed in 1688" The Theory and Regulation of Love," in which he confiders all virtues and vices as the various modifications and irregularities of LOVE. He maintained this principle" that the love of GoD ought to be entire and exclufive of all other LOVES. Biog. Brit. Art. NORRIS.

+ HENRY MORE, whofe name is affectedly mispelled Moor in the original paper, an eminent divine and Platonic philofopher, was born in 1614, and died in 1687, aged 73. He compofed many books which he called "preaching at his finger ends." Mr. CHISHULL, an eminent bookfeller, declared, that Dr. MORE'S "Mystery of Godlinefs," and his other works, ruled all the book fellers of London for 20 years together.

JOHN COCKSHUT, Efq. of the Inner Temple, left 300l. to get three of his principal pieces tranflated into Latin: these were his "Mystery of Godliness;" his " Mystery of Iniquity," and his "Philofophical Collections." The writer of his life, who knew him well, affirms, "that never any man, who ❝was not more than human, had truer or more exalted appre "henfions of the divine nature, deeper and more fincere paf"fions of love and honour towards it, or a more triumphant "joy or fatisfaction in it:" he adds, that "never any arrived 66 to higher degrees of wisdom, righteousness, and virtue, take “altogether, than he did, &c." Biog. Brit. Art. MORE.

MILTON, the fellow-collegian of Dr. H. MORE, makes up the trio of INTELLECTUAL TRIFLERS hére mentioned.

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