the landed and the other to the monied Interest. This Humour is fo moderate in each of them, that it proceeds no farther than to an agreeable Rallery, which very often diverts the rest of the Club. I find however that the Knight is a much ftronger Tory in the Country than in Town, which, as he has told me in my Ear, is abfolutely neceffary for the keeping up his Interest. In all our Journey from London to his Houfe we did not fo much as bait at a Whig-Inn; or if by chance the Coachman stopped at a wrong Place, one of Sir ROGER'S Servants would ride up to his Master full Speed, and whisper to him that the Mafter of the House was against fuch an one in the laft Election. This often betrayed us into hard Beds and bad Cheer; for we were not so inquifitive about the Inn as the Inn-keeper; and, provided our Landlord's Principles were found, did not take any Notice of the Stalenefs of his Provifions. This I found ftill the more inconvenient, because the better the Hoft was, the worse generally were his Accommodations; the Fellow knowing very well that those who were his Friends would take up with coarse Diet and an hard Lodging. For thefe Reasons, all the while I was upon the Road I dreaded entering into an House of any one that Sir ROGER had applauded for an honeft Man.

SINCE my Stay at Sir ROGER's in the Country, I daily find more Inftances of this narrow PartyHumour. Being upon a Bowling-green at a Neighbouring Market-Town the other Day, (for that is the Place where the Gentlemen of one Side meet once a week) I obferved a Stranger among them of a better Presence and genteeler Behaviour than ordinary; but was much furprised, that notwithstanding he was a very fair Better, no Body would take him up. But upon Inquiry I found, that he was one who had given a disagreeable Vote in a former Parliament, for which Reason there was not a Man upon that Bowling-green who would have fo much Correfpondence with him as to win his Money of him.

AMONG other inftances of this Nature, I must not omit one which concerns myself. Will Wimble was the other Day relating several strange Stories that he had picked up no Body knows where of a certain great Man; and upon my staring at him, as one that was surprised to hear fuch Things in the Country, which had never been fo much as whispered in the Town, Will ftopped fhort in the Thread of his Difcourfe, and after Dinner asked my Friend Sir ROGER in his Ear if he was fure that I was not a Fanatick.

IT gives me a serious Concern to see such a

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Spirit of Diffenfion in the Country; not only as it destroys Virtue and common Senfe, and renders us in a manner Barbarians towards one another, but as it perpetuates our Animofities, widens our Breaches, and tranfmits our prefent Paffions and Prejudices to our Pofterity. For my own part, I am fometimes afraid that I difcover the Seeds of a Civil War in these our Divifions; and therefore cannot but bewail, as in their firft Principles, the Miferies and Calamities of our Children.

Semperque recentes
Convectare juvat prædas, & vivere rapto. VIRG.

SI was Yefterday riding out in the Fields with my Friend Sir RoGER, We faw at a little Distance from us a Troop of Gipfies. Upon the firft Discovery of them, my Friend was in fome doubt whether he should not

exert the Justice of the Peace upon fuch a Band of Lawless Vagrants; but not having his Clerk with him, who is a neceffary Counsellor on these Occafions, and fearing that his Poultry might fare the worse for it, he let the Thought drop: But at the fame time gave me a particular Account of the Mischiefs they do in the Country, in stealing People's Goods and spoiling their Servants. If a stray Piece of Linen hangs upon an Hedge, fays Sir RoGER, they are fure to have it; if the Hog lofes his Way in the Fields, it is ten to one but he becomes their Prey; our Geefe cannot live in Peace for them; if a Man profecutes them with Severity, his Henrooft is fure to pay for it: They generally ftraggle into these Parts about this Time of the Year; and fet the Heads of our Servant-Maids fo agog for Husbands, that we do not expect to have any Bufinefs done as it should be whilft they are in the Country. I have an honest Dairy-maid who croffes their Hands with a Piece of Silver every Summer, and never fails being promised the handsomest young Fellow in the Parish for her pains. Your Friend the Butler has been Fool enough to be feduced by them; and, though he is fure to lose a Knife, a Fork, or a Spoon every time his Fortune is told him, generally shuts himself up in the Pantry with an old Gipfy for above half an Hour once in a