ing Glances at the Starers: And in this cafe, a Man who has no Sense of Shame has the fame Advantage over his Mistress, as he who has no Regard for his own Life has over his Adverfary. While the Generality of the World are fettered by Rules, and move by proper and juft Methods, he who has no Refpect to any of them, carries away the Reward due to that Propriety of Behaviour, with no other Merit, but that of having neglected

it.

I take an impudent Fellow to be a fort of Outlaw in Good-breeding, and therefore what is faid of him no Nation or Person can be concerned for. For this Reason, one may be free upon him. I have put my felf to great Pains in confidering this prevailing Quality which we call Impudence, and have taken Notice that it exerts it felf in a different Manner, according to the different Soils wherein fuch Subjects of these Dominions, as are Mafters of it, were born. Impudence in an English-man is fullen and infolent; in a Scotch-man it is untractable and rapacious; in an Irishman abfurd and fawning: As the Course of the World now runs, the impudent English

English-man behaves like a furly Landlord, the Scot like an ill-received Gueft, and the Irish-man like a Stranger who knows he is not welcome. There is feldom any Thing entertaining either in the Impudence of a South or North Briton, but that of an Irish-man is always Comick: A true and genuine Impudence is ever the Effect of Ignorance, without the leaft Sense of it: The best and moft fuccessful Starers now in this Town, are of that Nation; they have ufually the Advantage of the Stature mentioned in the above Letter of my Correfpondent, and generally take their Stands in the Eye of Women of Fortune Infomuch that I have known one of them, three Months after he came from Plough, with a tolerable good Air lead out a Woman from a Play, which one of our own Breed, after four Years at Oxford, and two at the Temple, would have been afraid to look at.

I cannot tell how to account for it, but these People have ufually the Preference to our own Fools, in the Opinion of the fillier Part of Womankind. Perhaps it is that an English Coxcomb is feldom fo obfequious as an Irish one;

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and when the Defign of pleafing is vifible, an Abfurdity in the Way toward it is eafily forgiven.

BUT those who are downright impudent, and go on without Reflection that they are fuch; are more to be tolerated, than a Set of Fellows among us who profefs Impudence with an Air of Humour, and think to carry off the moft inexcufable of all Faults in the World, with no other Apology than faying in a gay Tone, I put an impudent Face upon the Matter. No; no Man fhall be allowed the Advantages of Impudence, who is confcious that he is fuch: If he knows he is impudent, he may as well be otherwise; and it fhall be expected that he blush, when he fees he makes another do it. For nothing can attone for the Want of Modefty; without which Beauty is ungraceful, and Wit deteftable.

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Saturday,

LA PALMIZDATE?

N 21. Saturday, March 24.

-Locus eft & pluribus Umbris. Hor.

Am fometimes very much troubled, when I reflect up

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on the three great Profeffions of Divinity, Law, and Phyfick; how they are each

of them over-burdened with Practitioners, and filled with Multitudes of Ingenious Gentlemen that ftarve one another.. ti

WE may divide the Clergy into Generals, Field-Officers, and Subalterns. Among the firft we may reckon Bifhops, Deans and Arch-Deacons. Among the second are Doctors of Divinity, Prebendaries, and all that wear Scarfs. The reft are comprehended under the Subalterns. As for the first Clafs, our Conftitution preferves it from any Redundancy of Incumbents, notwithstanding Competitors are numberlefs. Upon a ftrict Calculation, it is found that there has been a great Ex

ceeding

ceeding of late Years in the fecond Divifion, feveral Brevets having been granted for the converting of Subalterns into Scarf-Officers; infomuch that within my Memory the Price of Luteftring is raised above two Pence in a Yard. As for the Subalterns, they are not to be numbred. Should our Clergy once enter into the corrupt Pratice of the Laity, by the fplitting of their Freeholds, they would be able to carry most of the Elections in England.

THE Body of the Law is no less incumbered with fuperfluous Members, that are like Virgil's Army, which he tells us was fo crouded, many of them had not Room to use their Weapons. This prodigious Society of Men may be divided into the Litigious and Peaceable. Under the firft are comprehended all those who are carried down in Coach-fulls to Westminster-Hall every Morning in Term-time. Martial's Defcription of this Species of Lawyers is full of Humour:

Iras & Verba locant.

Men that hire out their Words and An ger; that are more or less passionate ac cording