The undertaker for either play-house may have an opera written by him; or, if it fhall fuit their defign, a fatire upon operas; both ready for next winter,'

This is to give notice, that Richard Farloe, M. A. well known for his acutenefs in diffection of dead bodies, and his great fkill in ofteology, has now laid by that practice; and having, by great study and much labour, acquired the knowledge of an antidote for all the moft common maladies of the ftomach, is removed, and may be applied to, at any time of the day, in the fouth entrance from Newgate-ftreet into Chrift's hofpital.'

N° 63. Saturday, September 3, 1709. ADDISON, STEEL E, AND SWIFT.

White's Chocolate-Houfe, September 2.

OF THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE WITH REGARD TO OTHERS,

I HAVE ever thought it the greateft diminution to the Roman glory imaginable, that in their inftitution of public triumphs, they led

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Tatler, N° 32, was afcribed to Swift and Addison ; the prefatory note fome reafons were offered in juftification of that affignment.

In the interval of time between the dates of that and of this paper, Steele received another packet or two from Ireland, from whence Addifon returned to England in the mouth of September. This may be fairly inferred from Tatler N° 59, where the letter figned Obadiah Greenhat has been fuppofed to be Swift's, as appeared from the notes upon it. N° 59 might indeed have borne the triple fuperfcription of this paper. The articles of news were all written by Steele, who was then Gazetteer

their enemies in chains when they were prifoners. It is to be allowed that doing all honour

and, useless as they are now, promoted the fale and circulation of the Tatler on its firft publication. To fay nothing, therefore, of the account of news in N° 59, the article from White's, the introduction to Mr. Greenhat's letter, and what immediately follows it, concluding with the quotation from Horace, feem to make up the whole of the editor's portion of the paper. Steele, as a man of wit, was not inconfiderable; and in point of humour, there was between him and Addifon great fimilarity, Whenever they happen to be jointly concerned in pieces of this nature, as they often are in the courfe of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, it is by no means easy to diftinguish between them. Inftances are the beft arguments in this cafe, and feveral may be given equally curious and fatisfactory. Meanwhile, be this as it may, there is nothing in N° 59 to which Steele may not fairly be thought equal. Nevertheless, the fmall voices,'' the fhort arms,' the left-handedness,' and other characteriftics of the family, all things confidered, appear to be Addisonian; and this writer is of opinion, that the Hiftory of the Greenhats' was tranfmitted to the editor, along with their namefake's letter.

It can hardly be thought that a packet from Addifou, to a bofom friend, and for the purpose of a work which he honoured with more than his approbation, should con→ tain nothing at all from himfelf. It is much more likely that it inclosed a large contribution of his own communications. It seems probable that it contained not only the History of Orlando the Fair,' which the editor, with an economy dictated by indolence, divided into two chapters, and publifhed in N° 50 and No 51; but alfo the elegant account of Delamira's refignation of her Fan,' and perhaps the Memoirs of Neftor' in No 52. The papers intituled The Civil Hufband,' and On the government of Affection,' printed with dates correfponding to this fuppofition, in the Tatler, N° 53, and N° 54, appear to have been conveyed to Steele under a cover, or covers, from Dublin. They are all of them obviously of a perfonal nature, and the two laft feem to allude particularly to people of fashion; for Duumvir's

to the fuperiority of heroes above the reft of mankind, muft needs conduce to the glory and advantage of a nation; but what shocks the imagination to reflect upon is, that a polite, people should think it reasonable, that an un

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fair Wig coft forty guineas; the introductory note to N° 32 will therefore account for their not being inferted in Steele's lift of Addison's papers, published by Mr. Tickell. The article from Will's in No 58, another in N° 62, the advertisement concerning Mr. Omicron, and two or three more paragraphs, all published about this time, but too inconfiderable for notice in the general allotment of the work, feem likewise to have croffed the water in their way to Mr. Morphew. These hints are offered only as probabilities, or in the way of conjecture, and with diffidence. In the new affignment of this paper, N° 63, there is not fo much prefumption, confidering what has been faid on N° 32, what may be feen in No 59, and what appears on the face of the paper itself. That part of it which treats Of the enjoyment of life with regard to others,' had probably this title or endorsement in the original MS.; the papers and parts of papers which have now the titles before-mentioned prefixed to them in N° 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, and 63, were, as it would feem, fo defignated by the hand, or order, of the first mentioned author. The obfervations on the ufe and application of ridicule, where perhaps more is meant than meets the ear,' might have juft at this time dropped pertinently enough from the pen of the fecond author. The third allotment is offered with more confidence, and refted on the decifion of every intelligent reader, as it refers to the fequel of the ridiculous hiftoriette of Madonella, which might likewife have been intituled, and not improperly, A fhort Supplement to the Memoirs of the New Atalantis.' If it be fuperior in regard of wit and compofition to the very beft narratives in that fcandalous chronicle, it is certainly on a footing with the very worst of them in refpe&t of veracity and good-nature. The writer could add fome other fuppofitions not quite unsupported, yet ftill inconclufive: but when the commentator is weary, his reader cannot be well pleased.

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happy man, who was no way inferior to the victor but by the chance of war, thould be led like a flave at the wheels of his chariot. Indeed, these other circumftances of a triumph, that it was not allowed in a civil war, left one part fhould be in tears, while the other was making acclamations; that it fhould not be granted, except fuch a number were flain in battle; that the general thould be difgraced who made a falfe mufter of his dead; thefe, I fay, had great and politic ends in their being eftablished, and tended to the apparent benefit of the common-wealth. But this behaviour to the conquered had no foundation in nature or policy, only to gratify the infolence of an haughty people, who triumphed over barbarous nations, by acting what was fit only for thofe very barbarians to practife. It feems wonderful, that they who were fo refined as to take care, that, to complete the honour done to the victorious officer, no power fhould be known above him in the empire on the day of his triumph, but that the confuls themfelves fhould be but guests at his table that evening, could not take it into thought to make the man of chief note among his prifoners one of the company. This would have improved the gladness of the occafion; and the victor had made a much greater figure, in that no other man appeared unhappy on his day, than because ná other man appeared great.

But we will wave at prefent fuch important incidents, and turn our thoughts rather to the familiar part of human life, and we fhall find,

that the great bufinefs we contend for is in a lefs degree what thofe Romans did on more folemn occafions, to triumph over our fellowcreatures; and there is hardly a man to be found, who would not rather be in pain to appear happy, than be really happy and thought miferable. This men attempt by fumptuous equipages, fplendid houses, numerous fervants, and all the cares and pursuits of an ambitious or fathionable life.

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Bromeo and Tabio are particularly ill-wifhers to each other, and rivals in happiness. There is no way in nature fo good to procure the efteem of the one, as to give him little notices of certain fecret points, wherein the other is uneafy. Gnatho has the fkill of doing this, and never applauds the improvements Bromeo has been many years making, and ever will be making, but he adds, Now this very thing was my thought when Tabio was pulling up underwood, yet he never would hear of it; but now your gardens are in this posture, he is ready to hang himself. Well, to be fincere, that fituation of his can never make an agreeable feat; he make his house and appurtemay nances what he pleases, but he cannot remove them to the fame ground where Bromeo's ftands; and of all things under the fun, a man that is happy at second-hand is the most monftrous.' It is a very ftrange madness,' answers Bromeo, if a man on thefe occafions can think of any end but pleafing himself. As for my part, if things are convenient, I hate all oftentation. There is no end of the folly of