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appearance, faluted him with a grand incumbent on all their friends and
concert of martial inftruments. The well-wishers, as well as those of our
king having remained here some time, established religion, to defire them for
returned by the great hall through the religion's lake, and their own, to put
veftibule into the ball room, where he an end to a controversy on a subject
opened the ball with dancing two mi- of such a mysterious nature. I must
nuets, one with the duchess of Ancaf- confess, that my own concern is
ter, the other with lady Fiances Man- chiefly for the gentlemen themselves,
ners; be then began the country though intirely unknown to me, and
dances with lady Gower, which covti. Otherwise I thould not have thought it
nued till near twelve o'clock; at which worth while to have troubled you with
time his majesty again pafied through reading, nor myself with writing,
the illuminated temple and principal this letter.
apartments to fupper, which was serv. ' Dr. Swift, who has taken as safe and
ed in a room over the gallery, being as proper a method of expounding
accompanied there by the dukes of these arcana as any man, perhaps,
Gloucester and Cumberland, the fo. would, in all probability, have loft
reign ministers and their ladies, and the use of his intellects long before
some of the principal English nobility. that calamity befel him, and been
The rest of the company supped at a the firft most proper inhabitant of his
range of tables above 140 feet in length, own hospital,' had he studied and
in the arcade next the garden, which wrote more on that subject than he
had been inclosed and fitted up in did. Be so good, fir, ergo, for the sake
an elegant manner for this purpose. of these gentlemen, and for the sake
After supper the company assembled of common sense, to desire them to
again in the ball room, and renewed Jay afide pen, ink, and paper, for a
dancing, from which the king and his season, and apply to the doctor in
train retired between one and two time, in order venienti occurrere morbo.
o'clock, and some time after the ball In a prescription that eminent man
ended. In honour of their royal guest, wrote for Trinity funday, there are
their graces had a new road made on these words---" It is highly pro-
purpose, leading from the turnpike bable, that if God should please to re-
road, in a winding direction, towards veal unto us this great mystery of the
Sion House, and a new bridge laid over Trinity, or some other mysteries in
the great canal that surrounds it. our holy religion, we should not be
This read was lined with lamps able to understand them, unless he
quite up to Sion House, which had would at the same time think fit to
à most beautiful effect, and prevent- bestow on us some new powers, or fa-
ed any accident happening, amongst culties of the mind, which we want
the numerous train of carriages that at prelent, and are reserved to the day
crouded it on this occasion. In of 'relurrection to life eternal."
Short, this moft amiable monarch
Your's, was entertained by their graces with
SINE QUA that elegance, tafte, magnificence, and hospitality, for which they have al- Wins month, with a Plan of ,
E have ways been so much distinguished.
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the continuation of the ROAD (lee p. To the AUTHOR of the LONDON 333.) from London to Bristol, comMAGAZINE.
iencing at Marlborough, and end. SIR,
ing at High-Cross, Brittol, with the readers of the London Magazine, merfetthire : who are much concerned for some of Also with a beautiful FRONT View your correspondents, who have lately, of the earl of Westmoreland's elegant in a very warm manner, disputed seat in Kent, with part of the park, about the doctrine of the Trinity. (See p. 456.) Now, for my part, I think it highly