go to a Gentleman's not far off it, where he has a Daughter who is the Picture both of his Body and Mind, but both improved with the Beauty and Modefty peculiar to her Sex. It is the who fupplies the Lofs of her Father to the World; fhe, without his Name or Fortune, is a truer Memorial of him, than her Brother who fucceeds him in both. Such an Offspring as the eldest Son of my Friend, perpetuates his Father in the fame manner as the Appearance of his Ghost would: It is indeed Ruricola, but it is Ruricola grown frightful.

I know not what to attribute the brutal Turn which this young Man has taken, except it may be to a certain Severity and Distance which his Father ufed towards him, and might, perhaps, have occafioned a Diflike to thofe Modes of Life which were not made amiable to him by Freedom and Affability.

WE may promise our felves that no fuch Excrefcence will appear in the Family of the Cornelii, where the Father lives with his Sons like their eldest Brother, and the Sons converfe with him as if they did it for no other Reason but that he is the wifest Man of their Acquaintance. As the Cornelii are eminent Traders, their good Correfpondence with each other is useful to all that know them, as well as to themselves: And their Friendship, Goodwill and kind Offices, are difpofed of jointly as well as their Fortune, fo that no one ever obliged one of them, who had not the Obligation multiplied in Returns from them all.

IT is the most beautiful Object the Eyes of Man can behold, to fee a Man of Worth and his Son live in an intire unreserved Correfpondence. The mutual Kindnefs and Affection between them give an inexpreffible Satisfaction to all who know them. It is a fublime Pleafure which increases by the Participation. It is as facred as Friendship, as pleafurable as Love, and as joyful as Religion. This State of Mind does not only diffipate Sorrow, which would be extreme without it, but enlarges Pleasures which would otherwife be contemptible. The moft indifferent thing has its Force and Beauty when it is fpoke by a kind Father, and an infignificant Trifle has its Weight when offered by a dutiful Child. I know not how to express it, but I think I may call it a tranf

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planted Self-love. All the Enjoyments and Sufferings which a Man meets with are regarded only as they concern him in the Relation he has to another. A Man's very Honour receives a new Value to him, when he thinks that when he is in his Grave, it will be had in Remembrance that fuch an Action was done by fuch a one's Father. Such Confiderations fweeten the old Man's Evening, and his Soliloquy delights him when he can fay to himself, No man can tell my Child his Father was either unmerciful or unjuft: My Son fhall meet many a Man who fhall fay to him, I was obliged to thy Father, and my Child a Friend to his Child for ever.

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IT is not in the Power of all Men to leave illuftrious Names or great Fortunes to their Pofterity, but they can very much conduce to their having Induftry, Probity, Valour, and Juftice: It is in every Man's Power to leave his Son the Honour of defcending from a virtuous Man, and add the Bleffings of Heaven to whatever he leaves him. I fhall end this Rhapfody with a Letter to an ex-cellent young Man of my Acquaintance, who has lately loft a worthy Father.

Dear Sir,

I Know no Part of Life more impertinent than the Office of adminiftring Confolation: I will not enter into it, for I cannot but applaud your Grief. The 'virtuous Principles you had from that excellent Man whom you have loft, have wrought in you as they ought, to make a Youth of Three and Twenty incapable of Comfort upon coming into Poffeffion of a great 'Fortune. I doubt not but you will honour his Memory by a modest Enjoyment of his Eftate; and scorn to 'triumph over his Grave, by employing in Riot, Excefs, and Debauchery, what he purchafed with fo much Induftry, Prudence, and Wisdom. This is the true Way

to fhew the Sense you have of your Lofs, and to take away the Distress of others upon the Occafion.

You

cannot recal your Father by your Grief, but you may revive him to his Friends by your Conduct.

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Thursday,

N° 193. Thursday, October 11.

Ingentem foribus domus alta fuperbis
Manè Jalutantum totis vomit ædibus undam.

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Virg.

HEN we look round us, and behold the strange Variety of Faces and Perfons which fill the Streets with Bufinefs and Hurry, it is no unpleasant Amufement to make Gueffes at their different Purfuits, and judge by their Countenances what it is that fo anxiously engages their present Attention. Of all this bufy Croud, there are none who would give a Man inclined to fuch Inquiries better Diverfion for his Thoughts, than those whom we call good Courtiers, and fuch as are affiduous at the Levées of great Men. Thefe Worthies are got into an Habit of being fervile with an Air, and enjoy a certain Vanity in being known for understanding how the World paffes; in the Pleasure of this they can rife early, go abroad fleek and well-dreffed, with no other Hope or Purpose, but to make a Bow to a Man in CourtFavour, and be thought, by fome infignificant Smile of his, not a little engaged in his Interefts and Fortunes. It is wondrous, that a Man can get over the natural Exiftence and Poffeffion of his own Mind fo far, as to take Delight either in paying or receiving fuch cold and repeated Civilities. But what maintains the Humour is, that outward Show is what most men purfue, rather than real Happiness. Thus both the Idol and Idolater equally impofe upon themselves in pleasing their Imaginations this way. But as there are very many of her Majefty's good Subjects, who are extremely uneafy at their own Seats in the Country, where all from the Skies to the Centre of the Earth is their own, and have a mighty longing to fhine in Courts, or be Partners in the Power of the World; I fay, for the Benefit of these, and others who hanker after being in the Whisper with great Men, and vexing their Neighbours with the Changes

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they would be capable of making in the Appearance at a Country Seffions, it would not methinks be amifs to give an Account of that Market for Preferment, a great Man's Levée.

FOR ought I know, this Commerce between the Mighty and their Slaves, very juftly represented, might do fo much good, as to incline the Great to regard Bufinefs rather than Oftentation; and make the Little know the Ufe of their Time too well, to fpend it in vain Applications and Addreffes.

THE Famous Doctor in Moorfields, who gained fo much Reputation for his Horary Predictions, is faid to have had in his Parlour different Ropes to little Bells which hung in the Room above Stairs, where the Doctor thought fit to be oraculous. If a Girl had been deceived by her Lover, one Bell was pulled; and if a Peasant had loft a Cow, the Servant rung another. This Method was kept in refpect to all other Paffions and Concerns, and the skilful Waiter below fifted the Inquirer, and gave the Doctor Notice accordingly. The Levée of a great Man is laid after the fame manner, and twenty Whispers,falfe Alarms, and private Intimations, pafs backward and forward from the Porter, the Valet, and the Patron himself, before the gaping Crew, who are to pay their Court, are gathered together: When the Scene is ready, the Doors fly open and difcover his Lordship.

THERE are feveral Ways of making this first Appearance: you may be either half-dreffed, and washing your felf, which is indeed the most stately; but this Way of Opening is peculiar to Military Men, in whom there is fomething graceful in expofing themselves naked; but the Politicians, or Civil Officers, have ufually affected to be more referved, and preferve a certain Chaftity of Deportment. Whether it be Hieroglyphical or not, this Difference in the Military and Civil Lift, I will not fay; but have ever understood the Fact to be, that the clofe Minifter is buttoned up, and the brave Officer openbreafted on thefe Occafions.

HOWEVER that is, I humbly conceive the Bufinefs of a Levée is to receive the Acknowledgments of a Multitude, that a Man is Wife, Bounteous, Valiant and Powerful. When the first Shot of Eyes is made, it is VOL. III. wonder

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wonderful to obferve how much Submiffion the Patron's Modesty can bear, and how much Servitude the Client's Spirit can defcend to. In the vaft Multiplicity of Business, and the Crowd about him, my Lord's Parts are usually fo great, that to the Astonishment of the whole Affembly, he has fomething to fay to every Man there, and that fo fuitable to his Capacity as any Mán may judge that it is not without Talents that Men can arrive at great Employments. I have known a great Man ask a FlagOfficer, which way was the Wind, a Commander of Horse the present Price of Oats, and a Stock-Jobber at what Discount fuch a Fund was, with as much Eafe as if he had been bred to each of those several Ways of Life. Now this is extremely obliging; for at the fame time that the Patron informs himself of Matters, he gives the Perfon of whom he inquires an Opportunity to exert himfelf. What adds to the Pomp of those Interviews is, that it is perform'd with the greatest Silence and Order imaginable. The Patron is ufually in the Midft of the Room, and fome humble Perfon gives him a Whisper, which his Lordship anfwers aloud, It is well. Yes, I am of your Opinion. Pray inform your felf further, you may be fure of my Part in it. This happy Man is difmiffed, and my Lord can turn himself to a Bufinefs of a quite different Nature, and off-hand give as good an Answer as any great Man is obliged to. For the chief Point is to keep in Generals, and if there be any thing offered that's Particular, to be in hafte.

BUT we are now in the Height of the Affair, and my Lord's Creatures have all had their Whispers round to keep up the Farce of the Thing, and the Dumb Show is become more general. He cafts his Eye to that Corner, and there to Mr. Such-a one; to the other, and when did you come to Town? And perhaps juft before he nods to another; and enters with him, but, Sir, I am glad to fee you, now I think of it. Each of thofe are happy for the next four and twenty Hours; and thofe who bow in Ranks undiftinguished, and by Dozens at a Time, think they have very good Profpects if they may hope to arrive at fuch Notices half a Year hence.

THE Satyrift fays there is feldom common Sense in high Fortune; and one would think, to behold a Levée,

that