that he writes all treatises, as well in verse as prose, being a ninth son, and translates out of all languages, without learning or study.

• If any bookseller will treat for his pastoral on the siege and surrender of the citadel of Tournay, he must send in his proposals before the news of a capitulation for any other town.

The undertaker for either play-house may have an opera written by him; or, if it shall suit their design, a satire upon operas; both ready for next winter.'

This is to give notice, that Richard Farloe, M.A. well known for his acuteness in dissection of dead bodies, and his great skill in osteology, has now laid by that practice; and having, by great study and much labour, acquired the knowledge of an antidote for all the most common maladies of the stomach, is removed, and may be applied to, at any time of the day, in the south entrance from Newgate-street into Christ's hospital.'

No. 63. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1709.

WHITE'S CHOCOLATE-HOUSE, SEPTEMBER 2.

OF THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE WITH REGARD TO

OTHERS.

I HAVE ever thought it the greatest diminution to the

4 ADDISON'S, STEELE'S, AND SWIFT's.-Tatler, No. 32. was ascribed to Swift and Addison; and in the prefatory note some reasons were offered in justification of that assignment.

In the interval of time between the dates of that and of this paper, Steele received another packet or two from Ireland, from whence Addison returned to England in the month of September. This may be fairly inferred from Tatler, No. 59. where the letter signed Obadiah Greenhat has been supposed to be Swift's, as appeared from the notes upon it. No. 59.

Roman glory imaginable, that in their institution of public triumphs, they led their enemies in chains

might indeed have borne the triple superscription of this paper. The articles of news were all written by Steele, who was then Gazetteer, and, useless as they are now, promoted the sale and circulation of the Tatler on its first publication. To say nothing, therefore, of the account of news in No. 59. the article from White's, the introduction to Mr. Greenhat's letter, and what immediately follows it, concluding with the quotation from Horace, seem to make up the whole of the editor's portion of the paper. Steele, as a man of wit, was not inconsiderable; and, in point of humour, there was between him and Addison great similarity. Whenever they happen to be jointly concerned in pieces of this nature, as they often are in the course of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, it is by no means easy to distinguish between them. Instances are the best arguments in this case, and several may be given equally curious and satisfactory. Meanwhile, be this as it may, there is nothing in No. 59. to which Steele may not fairly be thought equal. Nevertheless, the 'small voices,' 'the short arms,' the 'left-handedness,' and other characteristics of the family, all things considered, appear to be Addisonian; and this writer is of opinion that the History of the Greenhats,' was transmitted to the editor, along with their namesake's letter.

It can hardly be thought that a packet from Addison, to a bosom friend, and for the purpose of a work which he honoured with more than his approbation, should contain nothing at all from himself. 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 published in Nos. 50. and 51.; but also the elegant account of 'Delamira's resignation of her Fan,' and perhaps the Memoirs of Nestor,' in No. 52. The papers intitled The Civil Husband,' and 'On the Government of Affection,' printed with dates corresponding to this supposition, in the Tatler, Nos. 53. and 54., appear to have been conveyed to Steele under a cover, or covers, from Dublin. They are all of them obviously of a personal nature, and the two last seem to allude particularly to people of fashion; for Duumvir's fair wig cost forty guineas; the introductory note to No. 32. will, therefore, account for their not being inserted in Steele's list of Addison's papers, published by Mr. Tickell. The article from Will's, in No. 58. another in No. 62. the advertisement concerning Mr. Omicron, and two or three more paragraphs, all published about this time, but too inconsiderable for notice in the general allotment of the work, seem likewise to have crossed 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 assignment of this paper, No. 63. there is not so much presumption, considering what has been said on No. 32. what may be seen 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 ori

when they were prisoners. It is to be allowed, that doing all honour to the superiority of heroes above the rest of mankind, must 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 unhappy man, who was no way inferior to the victor but by the chance of war, should be led like a slave at the wheels of his chariot. Indeed these other circumstances of a triumph, that it was not allowed in a civil war, lest part of it should be in tears, while the other was making acclamations; that it should not be granted, except such a number were slain in battle; that the general should be disgraced who made a false muster of his dead; these, I say, had great and politic ends in their being established, and tended to the apparent benefit of the commonwealth. But this behaviour to the conquered had no foundation in nature or policy, only to gratify the insolence of an haughty people, who triumphed over barbarous nations by acting what was fit only for those very barbarians to practise. It seems wonderful, that they who were so refined as to take care that, to complete the honour

ginal MS.; the papers and parts of papers which have now the titles before-mentioned prefixed to them in Nos. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. and 63., were, as it would seem, so designated by the hand, or order, of the first mentioned author. The observations on the use and application of ridicule, where, perhaps, more is meant than meets the ear,' might have just at this time dropped pertinently enough from the pen of the second author. The third allotment is offered with more confidence, and rested on the decision of every intelligent reader, as it refers to the sequel of the ridiculous historiette of Madonella, which might likewise have been intitled, and not improperly, A short Supplement to the Memoirs of the New Atalantis.' If it be superior in regard of wit and composition to the very best narratives in that scandalous chronicle, it is certainly on a footing with the very worst of them in respect of veracity and good-nature. The writer could add some other suppositions not quite unsupported, yet still inconclusive: but when the commentator is weary, his reader cannot be well pleased.

done to the victorious officer, no power should be known above him in the empire on the day of his triumph, but that the consuls themselves should be but guests at his table that evening, could not take it into thought to make the man of chief note among his prisoners one of the company. This would have improved the gladness of the occasion; and the victor had made a much greater figure, in that no other man appeared unhappy on his day, than because no other man appeared great.

But we will wave at present such important incidents, and turn our thoughts rather to the familiar part of human life, and we shall find that the great business we contend for is in a less degree what those Romans did on more solemn occasions, to triumph over our fellow-creatures; and there is hardly a man to be found, who would not rather be in pain to appear happy, than be really happy and appear miserable. This men attempt by sumptuous equipages, splendid houses, numerous servants, and all the cares and pursuits of an ambitious or fashionable life.

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Bromeo and Tabio are particularly ill-wishers to each other, and rivals in happiness. There is no way in nature so good to procure the esteem of the one, as to give him little notices of certain secret points wherein the other is uneasy. Gnatho has the skill 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 his 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 sincere, that situation of his can never make an agreeable seat; he may make his house and appurtenances what he pleases, but he cannot remove them to the same ground where Bro

meo's stands; and of all things under the sun, a man that is happy at second-hand is the most monstrous.' It is a very strange madness,' answers Bromeo, if a man on these occasions can think of any end but pleasing himself. As for my part, if things are convenient, I hate all ostentation. There is no end of the folly of adapting our affairs to the imagination of others.' Upon which, the next thing he does is to enlarge whatever he hears his rival has attempted to imitate him in; but their misfortune is, that they are in their time of life, in their estates, and in their understandings equal; so that the emulation may continue to the last day of their lives. As it stands now, Tabio has heard that Bromeo has lately purchased two hundred a-year in the annuities since he last settled the account of their happiness, in which he thought himself to have the balance. This may seem a very fantastical way of thinking in these men; but there is nothing so common, as a man's endeavouring rather to go farther than some other person towards an easy fortune, than to form any certain standard that would make himself happy.

WILL'S COFFEE-HOUSE, SEPTEMBER 2.

MR. DACTYLE has been this evening very profuse of his eloquence upon the talent of turning things into ridicule; and seemed to say very justly, that there was generally in it something too disingenuous for the society of liberal men, except it were governed by the circumstances of persons, time, and place. This talent,' continued he, is to be used as a man does his sword, not to be drawn but in his own defence, or to bring pretenders and impostors in society to a true light. But we have seen this faculty so mistaken, that the burlesque of Virgil himself has passed, among men of little taste, for wit; and the