• Streets: I fay, two or three Touches ' with your own Pen; for I have reT ally obferved, Mr. SPEC. that those Spectators which are fo prettily laced down the fides with little c's, how inftructive foever they may be, do not carry with them that Authority as the others. I do again therefore defire, that, for the fake of their dear Necks, you will bestow one Penful of your own Ink upon them. I know you are loth to expofe them; and it is, I must confefs, a thoufand pitics that any young Gentleman, who is come of honeft Parents, fhould be brought to publick Shame: And in⚫ deed I fhould be glad to have them "handled a little tenderly at the firft; but if fair Means will not prevail, there is then no other way to reclaim them, but by making ufe of fome 'wholesome Severities: and I think it is better that a Dozen or two of fuch good-for-nothing Fellows fhould be made Example of, than that the Reputation of fome Hundreds of as hopeful young Gentlemen as my felf 'fhould fuffer thro' their Folly. It is not, however, for me to direct you what to do, but in fhort, if our • Coachmen

the very

'Coachmen will drive on this Trade, first of them that I do find meditating in the Street, I fhall make bold to take the Number of his Chambers, together with a Note of his Name, and dispatch them to you, that you may chastise him at your own Difcretion.

I am, Dear SPEC.

For ever Yours,

Mofes Greenbag,
Efq, if you pleafe.

P. S. Tom Hammercloth, one of our Coachmen, is now pleading at the Bar at the other end of the Room, but ' has a little too much Vehemence, and throws out his Arms too much to take his Audience with a good "Grace.

To my Loving and Well-beloved JohnSly, Haberdafber of Hats, and Tobacconist, between the Cities of London and Westminster.

WHEREAS frequent Disorders,

Affronts, Indignities, Omiffions,

and Trefpaffes, for which there are no

Remedies

Remedies by any Form of Law, but which apparently disturb and difquiet the Minds of Men, happen near the Place of your Refidence; and that you are, as well by your commodious Situation, as the good Parts with which you are endowed, properly qualified for the Obfervation of the faid Offences: I do hereby authorize and depute you, from the Hours of nine in the Morning, till four in the Afternoon, to keep a ftrict Eye upon all Perfons and Things that are conveyed in Coaches, carried in Carts, or walk on foot from the City of London to the City of Westminfter, or from the City of Westminster to the City of London, within the faid Hours. You are therefore not to depart from your Obfervatory at the end of Devereux-Court during the faid space of each Day; but to obferve the Behaviour of all Perfons who are fuddenly tranfported from ftamping on Pebbles to fit at Eafe in Chariots, what Notice they take of their Foot-Acquaintance, and fend me the speedieft Advice, when they are guilty of overlooking, turning from, or appearing grave and diftant to their old Friends. When Man and Wife are in the fame Coach, you are to

fee

fee whether they appear pleased or tired with each other, and whether they carry the due Mien in the Eye of the World between Fondnefs and Coldness. You are carefully to behold all fuch as fhall have Addition of Honour or Riches, and report whether they preferve the Countenance they had before fuch Addition. As to Perfons on Foot, you are to be attentive whether they are pleafed with their Condition, and are dreffed fuitable to it; but especially to distinguish such as appear difcreet, by a low-heel Shoe, with the decent Ornament of a Leather-Garter: To write down the Name of fuch Country Gentlemen as, upon the Approach of Peace, have left the Hunting for the Military Cock of the Hat: Of all who ftrut, make a Noise, and fwear at the Drivers of Coaches to make hafte, when they fee it impoffible they fhould pafs: Of all young Gentlemen in Coach-boxes, who labour at a Perfection in what they are fure to be excelled by the meanest of the People. You are to do all that in you lies that Coches and Paffengers give way according to the Courfe of Bufinefs, all the Morning in Term-time towards Weftminster, the rest of the Year to

wards

wards the Exchange. Upon these Directions, together with other fecret Articles herein inclofed, you are to govern your felf, and give Advertisement thereof to me at all convenient and fpectatorial Hours, when Men of Bufinefs are to be feen. Hereof you are not to fail. Given under my Seal of Office.

Facile invenies, & pejorem & pejus moratam, Meliorem neque tu reperies, neque fol videt.

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Plautus in Sticho.

Am fo tender of my Women-Readers, that I cannot defer the Publication of any thing which concerns their Happiness or Quiet. The Repofe of a married Woman is confultted in the first of the following Letters, and the Felicity of a Maiden Lady in the fecond. I call it a Felicity to have the Addresses of an agreeable Man: and

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