campaign. Letters from Drefden are very particular in the account of the gallantry and magnificence, in which that court has appeared fince the arrival of the king of Denmark. No day has paffed in which public fhows have not been exhibited for his entertainment and diverfon: the laft of that kind which is mentioned is a caroufal, wherein many of the youth of the firit quality, drefied in the moft fplendid manner, ran for the prize. His Danish majefty condefcended to the fame; but having obferved that there was a defign laid to throw it in his way, paffed by without attempting to gain it. The court of Drefden was preparing to accompany his Danish majefty to Potidam, where the expectation of an interview of three kings had drawn together fuch multitudes of people, that many perfons of diftinction will be obliged to lie in tents, as long as thofe courts continue in that place.

*** Just publified, Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Signior ROZELLI, at the Hague, giving a particular account of his birth, education, flavery, monaftic life, imprifonment in the inquifition at Rome, and the different figures he has fince made as well in Italy as in France and Holland, &c. Done into English from the fecond edition of the French, &c. Price 5s.

N. P. This was the fellow alluded to TAT. No 9,

and mate.

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Tuesday, June 28, 1709.

STEEL E.

Quicquid agunt bomines-

noftri eft farrago libelli.

Juv. Sft. i. 85, 86.

P.

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

By ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, Efquire.

White's Chocolate-houfe, June 25.

HAVING taken upon me to cure all the diftempers which proceed from affections of the mind, I have laboured, fince I first kept this public ftage, to do all the good I could, and have perfected many cues at my own lodgings; carefully avoiding the common method of mountebanks, to do their most eminent operations in fight of the people; but must be fo just to my patients as to declare, they have teftified under their hands their fente of my poor abilities, and the good I have done them, which I publifh for the benefit of the world, and not out of any thoughts of private advantage.

I have cured fine Mrs. Sy of a great imperfection in her eyes, which made her eternally rolling

rolling them from one coxcomb to another in public places, in fo languishing a manner, that it at once leffened her own power, and her be- · holders vanity. Twenty drops of my ink, placed in certain letters on which she attentively looked for half an hour, have restored her to the true ufe of her fight; which is, to guide, and not miflead us. Ever fince he took the liquor, which I call BICKERSTAFF's circumSpection-water, the looks right forward, and can bear being looked at for half a day without returning one glance. This water has a peculiar virtue in it, which makes it the only true cofmetic or beauty-wash in the world: the nature of it is fuch, that if you go to a glafs with a defign to admire your face, it immediately changes it into downright deformity. If you confult it only to look with a better countenance upon your friends, it immediately gives an alacrity to the vifage, and new grace to the whole perfon. There is indeed a great deal owing to the conftitution of the perfon to whom it is applied: it is in vain to give it when the patient is in the rage of the distem: per; a bride in her first month, a lady foon after her husband's being knighted, or any perfon of either fex, who has lately obtained any new good fortune or preferment, must be prepared fome time before they ufe it. It has an effect upon others, as well as the patient, when it is

taken

taken in due form. Lady PETULANT has by the ufe of it cured her husband of jealoufy, and lady GAD her whole neighbourhood of detraction.

The fame of thefe things, added to my being an old fellow, makes me extremely acceptable to the fair fex. You would hardly believe me, when I tell you there is not a man in town fo much their delight as myself. They make no more of vifiting me, than going to madam DEPINGLE'S; there were two of them, namely, DAMIA and CLIDAMIRA, (I affure you women of diftinction) who came to fee me this morning in their way to prayers; and being in a very diverting humour (as innocence always makes people chearful), they would needs have me, according to the diftinction of PRETTY and VERY PRETTY fellows, inform them, if Ithought either of them had a title to the VERY PRETTY among thofe of their own fex; and if I did, which was the more deferving of the two?

To put them to the trial, "Look ye," faid I, "I must not rafhly give my judgement in "matters of this importance; pray let me fee "you

you dance, I play upon the kit." They im mediately fell back to the lower end of the room (you may be fure they courtefied low enough to me) and began. Never were two

*TAT. No 3, 10, and 33, and note.

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in the world fo equally matched, and both fcholars to my name-fake ISAAC. Never was man in fo dangerous a condition as myfelf, when they began to expand their charms. "Oh! ladies, ladies," cried I, "not half that air, you will fire the house." Both smiled; for, y the bye, there is no carrying a metaphor too far, when a lady's charms are fpoken of. Somebody, I think, has called a fine woman dancing, "a brandifhed torch of beauty." Thefe rivals moved with fuch an agreeable freedom, that you would believe their gefture was the neceffary effect of the mufic, and not the product of skill and practice. Now CLIDAMIRA came on with a crowd of graces, and demanded my judgement with fo fweet an air-and fhe had no fooner carried it, but DAMIA made her utterly forgot, by a gentle finking, and a rigadoon ftep. The conteft held a full half-hour; and, I proteft, I faw no manner of difference in their perfections, until they came up together, and expected fentence. "Look ye, ladies,” faid I, I fee no difference in the leaft in your "performance; but you, CLIDAMIRA, feem "to be fo well fatisfied that I fhall determine "for you, that I muft give it to DAMIA, who "ftands with fo much diffidence and fear, after fhewing an equal merit to what the pretends

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Mr. ISAAC, a famous dancing-mafter at that time, was a Frenchman, and a Roman Catholic. BABILLARD.

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