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ation; which is the cause that there is no impatience or inftability in their speech or action. You fee in their countenances they are at home, and in quiet poffeffion of the prefent inftant, as it paffes, without defiring to quicken it by gratifying any paffion, or profecuting any new defign. These are the men formed for fociety, and *thofe little communities which we exprefs by the word neighbourhoods.

The coffee-house is the place of rendezvous to all that live near it, who are thus turned to relish calm and ordinary life. Eubulus prefides over the middle hours of the day when this affembly of men meet together. He enjoys a great fortune handfomely, without launching into expence; and exerts many noble and useful quali• ties, without appearing in any public employment. His wifdom and knowledge are ferviceable to all that think fit to make ufe of them; and he does the office of a counfel, a judge, an executor, and a friend, to all his acquaintance, not only without the profits which attend fuch offices, but also without the deference and homage which are ufually paid to them. The giving of thanks is difpleafing to him. The greatest gratitude you can fhew him, is to let him see you are the better man for his fervices; and that you are as ready to oblige others as he is to oblige you.

In the private exigencies of his friends he lends, at legal value, confiderable fums, which he might highly increase by rolling in the public ftocks. He does not confider in whofe hands his money will improve moft, but where it will do moft good.

Eubulus has fo great an authority in his little diurnal audience, that when he shakes his head at any piece of public news, they all of them appear dejected; and, on the contrary, go home to their dinners with a good stomach and cheerful afpect, when Eubulus feems to intimate that things go well. Nay, their veneration towards him is fo great, that when they are in other company they speak and act after him; are wife in his fentences, and are no fooner fat down at their own tables, but they hope or fear, rejoice or despond, as they faw him do at

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the coffee houfe. In a word, every man is Eubulus as foon as his back is turned.

Having here given an account of the feveral reigns that fucceed each other from day-break till dinner-time, I fhall mention the monarchs of the afternoon on another occafion, and fhut up the whole feries of them with the hiftory of Tom the Tyrant; who, as first minifter of the coffee-house, takes the government upon him between the hours of eleven and twelve at night, and gives his orders in the most arbitrary manner to the fervants below him, as to the difpofition of liquors, coals, and cinders. R

No. L. FRIDAY, APRIL 27.
Nunquam aliud natura, aliud fapientia dixit.

Juv.

Good fenfe and nature always fpeak the fame.

WHEN the four Indian kings were in this country about a twelvemonth ago, I often mixed with the rabble, and followed them a whole day together, being wonderfully ftruck with the fight of every thing that is new or uncommon. I have, fince their departure, employed a friend to make many enquires of their landlord the upholsterer, relating to their manners and converfation, as alfo concerning the remarks which they made in this country; for, next to the forming a right notion of fuch strangers, I should be defirous of learning what ideas they have conceived of us.

The upholsterer, finding my friend very inquifitive about thefe his lodgers, brought him fome time fince a little bundle of papers, which he affured him were written by king Sa Ga Yean Qua Rafh Tow; and, as he fuppofes, left behind by fome miftake. Thefe papers are now tranflated, and contain abundance of very odd obfervations, which I find this little fraternity of kings made during their stay in the ifle of Great Britain. I

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fhall prefent my reader with a short specimen of them in this paper, and may perhaps communicate more to him hereafter. In the article of London are the fllowing words, which without doubt are meant of the church of St. Paul.

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On the most rifing part of the town there stands a huge houfe, big enough to contain the whole nation of which I am king. Our good brother E Tow O Koam, king of the rivers, is of opinion it was made by the hands of that great God to whom it is confecrated. The kings of Granajah and of the fix nations believe that it was created with the earth, and produced on the fame day with the fun and moon. But for my own part, by the best information I could get of this matter, 1 am apt to think that this prodigious pile was 'fafhioned into the fhape it now bears by feveral tools and inftruments, of which they have a wonderful variety in this country. It was probably at firft an huge mif-fhapen rock that grew upon the top of the hill, which the natives of the country, after having cut it into a kind of regular figure, bored and hollowed with incredible pains and induftry, till they had wrought in it all thofe beautiful vaults and caverus into which it is divided at this day. As foon as this rock was thus curiously scooped to their liking, a prodigious number of hands must have been employed in chipping the out'fide of it, which is now as fimooth as the surface of a pebble; and is in feveral places hewn out into pillars that ftand like the trunks of fo many trees bound about the top with garlands of leaves. It is probable that when this great work was begun, which must have been many hundred years ago, there was fome religion among this people; for they give it the name of a temple, and have a tradition that it was defigned for men to pay their devotions in. And indeed there are feveral reafons which make us think that the natives of this country had formerly among them fome fort of worship; for they fet apart every feventh day as facred, but upon my going into one of the fe holy houtes on that day, I could not obferve any circumstance of ' devotion

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devotion in their behaviour. There was indeed a man · in black who was mounted above the reft, and feemed to utter fomething with a great deal of vehemence; but as ir thofe underneath him, inftead of paying their workhip to the deity of the place, they were most of them bowing and courtefying to one another, and a • confiderable number of them faft afleep.

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• The queen of the country appointed two men to attead us, that had enough of our language to make ⚫ themselves understood in fome few particulars. But we foon perceived these two were great enemies to one another, and did not always agree in the fame ftory. We could make a fhift to gather out of one of them, that this ifland was very much infefted with a monftrous kind of animals, in the fhape of men, called Whigs; and he often told us, that he hoped we fhould meet ⚫ with none of them in our way, for that, if we did, they would be apt to knock us down for being kings.

Our other interpreter ufed to talk very much of a kind of animal called a Tory, that was as great a monfter as the Whig, and would treat us as ill for being foreigners. These two creatures, it feems, are born with a fecret antipathy to one another, and engage when they meet as naturally as the clephant and the ⚫ rhinoceros. But as we faw none of either of the fe fpecies, we are apt to think that our guides deceived us with mifeprefentations and fictions, and amufed us with an account of fuch monfters as are not really in their country.

Thefe particulars we made a fhift to pick out from the difcourfe of or interpreters; which we put toge⚫ther as well as we could, being able to understand but ⚫ here and there a word of what they faid, and after•wards making up the meaning of it among ourselves. The men of the country are very cunning and ingenious in handicraft works, but withal fo very idle, that we often faw young lufty raw-boned fellows carried up and down the street in little covered rooms by a couple of porters, who are hired for that fervice. Their drefs is likewife very barbarous, for they almoft ftrangle

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'themfelves about the neck, and bind their bodies with many ligatures, that we are apt to think are the occafion of feveral diftempers among them, which our country is intirely free from. Inftead of thofe beauti ful feathers with which we adorn our heads, they often buy up a monstrous bush of hair, which covers their heads, and falls down in a large fleece below the middle ' of their backs; with which they walk up and down the ' streets, and are as proud of it as if it was of their own growth.

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We were invited to one of their public diverfions, where we hoped to have feen the great men of their country running down a ftag or pitching a bar, that we might have difcovered who were the perfons of the greatest abilities among them; but instead of that, they conveyed us into a huge room lighted up with abundance of candles, where this lazy people fat ftill above three hours to fee feveral feats of ingenuity performed by others, who it feems were paid for it.

As for the women of the country, not being able to talk with them, we could only make our remarks upon them at a distance. They let the hair of their heads grow to a great length; but as the men make a great fhow with heads of hair that are none of their own, the women, who they fay have very fine heads of hair, tie it up in a knot, and cover it from being feen. The women look like angels, and would be more beautiful than the fun, were it not for little black pots that are < apt to break out in their faces, and fometimes rife in very odd figures. I have obferved that thofe little blemithes wear off very foon; but when they difappear in one part of the face, they are very apt to break out ia another, infomuch that I have feen a pot upon the forehead in the afternoon, which was upon the chin in the morning.'

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The author then proceeds to fhew the abfurdity of breeches and petticoats, with many other curious obfervations; which I thall referve for another occafion. I cannot however conclude this paper, without taking no

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