apparently undertaken to attain worthy Ends, 'would never make Power invidious. You fee, Sir, I talk to you with the Freedom your noble Nature approves in all whom you ' admit to your Conversation.

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BUT, to return to your Majefty's Letter, I humbly conceive, that all Distinctions are useful to Men, only as they are to act ' in publick; and it would be a romantick Madness, for a Man to be a Lord in his Closet. Nothing can be honourable to a Man apart from the World, but the Reflexion upon worthy Actions; and he that places Honour in a Consciousness of Welldoing, will have but little relish for any outward Homage that is paid him, fince what gives him diftinction to himself, cannot < come within the Obfervation of his Be< holders. Thus all the Words of Lordship, Honour, and Grace, are only Repetitions to a Man that the King has order'd him to be called fo; but no Evidences that there is any thing in himself that would give the Man, who applies to him, those Ideas, without the Creation of his Master.

'I HAVE, moft noble Pharamond, all Honours and all Titles in your own Appro'bation; I triumph in them as they are your Gift, I refufe them as they are to give me the Obfervation of others. Indulge me, my noble Master, in this Chastity of Renown; let me know myself in the Favour of

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Pharamond; and look down upon the Applause of the People. I am,

In all Duty and Loyalty,

Your Majesty's most obedient

Subject and Servant,

Jean Chezluy,

SIR,

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NEED not tell with what Difadvantages Men of low Fortunes and great Modesty come into the World; what wrong • Measures their Diffidence of themselves, and

Fear of offending, often obliges them to 'take; and what a Pity it is that their greatest Virtues and Qualities, that should fooneft ' recommend them, are the main Obstacle in the way of their Preferment.

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THIS, Sir, is my Cafe; I was bred at a Country-School, where I learned Latin and Greek. The Misfortunes of my Family forced me up to Town, where a Profeffion of the politer fort has protected me against Infamy and Want. I ain now Clerk to a Lawyer, and in times of Vacancy and Recefs from Bufinefs, have made myself 'Mafter of Italian and French; and tho' the Progress I have made in my Business has gain'd me Reputation enough for one of my standing, yet my Mind fuggefts to me every ' day,

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day, that it is not upon that Foundation I am to build my Fortune.

THE Perfon I have my prefent Depen<dence upon, has it in his Nature, as well as in his Power, to advance me, by recommending me to a Gentleman that is going beyond Sea in a publick Employment. I know the printing this Letter would point 'me out to thofe I want Confidence to speak to, and I hope it is not in your Power to refufe making any body happy.

Uti non

Compofitus meliùs cum Bitho Bacchius; in jus
Acres procurrunt

Hor. Sat. 7. 1. 1. 19.

Not better match'd with Bithus Bacchius ftrove
To Law they run, and wrangling dearly love.

T is fomething pleafant enough to confider the different Notions which different Perfons have of the fame thing. If Men of low Condition very often fet a Value on Things, which are not prized by those who

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are in an higher Station of Life, there are many things thefe efteem which are in no Value among Perfons of an inferior Rank. Common People are, in particular, very much aftonished, when they hear of those folemn Contests and Debates, which are made among the Great upon the Punctilios of a publick Ceremony; and wonder to hear that any Bufinefs of Confequence fhould be retarded by thofe little Circumftances, which they reprefent to themselves as trifling and infignificant. I am mightily pleased with a Porter's Decifion in one of Mr. Southern's Plays, which is founded upon that fine Diftrefs of a Virtuous Woman's marrying a fecond Husband, while her first was yet living. The first Husband, who was fuppofed to have been dead, returning to his House after a long Absence, raises a noble Perplexity for the Tragick Part of the Play. In the mean while, the Nurfe and the Porter conferring upon the Difficulties that would enfue in fuch a Cafe, honeft Samfon thinks the Matter may be eafily decided, and folves it very judiciously, by the old Proverb, that if his firft Mafter be ftill living, The Man must have his Mare again. There is nothing in my time which has fo much furprifed and confounded the greateft part of my honeft Countrymen, as the present Controverfy between Count Rechteren and Monfieur Mefnager, which employs the wife Heads of fo many Nations, and holds all the Affairs of Europe in fufpence. UPON

UPON my going into a Coffee-house yesterday, and lending an ear to the next Table, which was encompaffed with a Circle of inferior Politicians, one of them, after having read over the News very attentively, broke out into the following Remarks. I am afraid, fays he, this unhappy Rupture between the Footmen at Utrecht will retard the Peace of Chriftendom. I wish the Pope may not be at the bottom of it. His Holiness has a very good hand at fomenting a Divifion, as the poor Swifs Cantons have lately experienced to their Coft. If Monfieur What-d'ye-call-him's Domefticks will not come to an Accommodation, I do not know how the Quarrel can be ended, but by a Religious War.

WHY truly, fays a Wifeacre that fat by him, were I as the King of France, I would fcorn to take part with the Footmen of either fide: Here's all the Business of Europe ftands ftill because Monfieur Mefnager's Man has had his Head broke. If Count Rectrum had given them a Pot of Ale after it, all would have been well, without any of this Buftle; but they say he's a warm Man and does not care to be made mouths at.

UPON this, one, that had held his Tongue hitherto, began to exert himself; declaring that he was very well pleased the Plenipotentiaries of our Chriftian Princes took this matter into their ferious Confideration; for that Lackeys were never fo faucy and pragmatical,

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