When the day grows too busy for these gentlemen to enjoy a longer the pleasures of their dishabille, with any manner of e fidence, they give place to men who have business or good se in their faces, and come to the coffee-house either to trans affairs, or enjoy conversation. The persons to whose behavi and discourse I have most regard, are such as are between th two sorts of men; such as have not spirits too active to be hap and well pleased in a private condition, nor complexions too wa to make them neglect the duties and relations of life. Of t sort of men consist the worthier part of mankind; of these all good fathers, generous brothers, sincere friends, and faith subjects. Their entertainments are derived rather from rea than imagination; which is the cause that there is no impatie or instability in their speech or action. You see in their e tenances they are at home, and in quiet possession of the preinstant as it passes, without desiring to quicken it by gratify any passion, or prosecuting any new design. These are the i formed for society, and those little communities which we exp by the word neighbourhood.

The coffee-house is the place of rendezvous to all that live n it, who are thus turned to relish calm and ordinary life. Eub presides over the middle hours of the day, when this assembl men meet together. He enjoys a great fortune handsomely, out launching into expense; and exerts many noble and us qualities, without appearing in any public employment. wisdom and knowledge are serviceable to all that think fit to m use of them; and he does the office of a counsel, a judge, executor, and a friend to all his acquaintance, not only with the profits which attend such offices, but also without the defere and homage which are usually paid to them. The giving thanks is displeasing to him. The greatest gratitude you shew him, is to let him see you are the better man for his vices; and that you are as ready to oblige others, as he is oblige you.

In the private exigencies of his friends, he lends at legal v considerable sums, which he might highly increase by rolling the public stocks. He does not consider in whose hands money will improve most, but where it will do most good.

Eubulus has so great an authority in his little diurnal audie that when he shakes his head at any piece of public news, they of them appear dejected; and, on the contrary, go home to t dinners with a good stomach and cheerful aspect, when Eub seems to intimate that things go well. Nay, their veneration wards him is so great, that when they are in other company t speak and act after him; are wise in his sentences, and are

This ground with Bacchus, that with Ceres suits;
That other loads the trees with happy fruits;
A fourth with grass, unbidden, decks the ground;
Thus Tmolus is with yellow saffron crown'd;
India black ebon and white iv'ry bears;
And soft Idume weeps her od'rous tears:
Thus Pontus sends her beaver stones from far:
And naked Spaniards temper steel for war:
Epirus for th Elean chariot breeds

(In hopes of palms) a race of running steeds.
This is th' original contract; these the laws
Impos'd by nature, and by nature's cause.

DRYDEN.

THERE is no place in the town which I so much love to frequent as the Royal Exchange. It gives me a secret satisfaction, and in Home measure gratifies my vanity, as I am an Englishman, to see so rich an assembly of countrymen and foreigners, consulting together upon the private business of mankind, and making this metropolis a kind of emporium for the whole earth. I must conless I look upon high change to be a great council, in which all fonsiderable nations have their representatives. Factors in the trading world are what ambassadors are in the polite world; they Degociate affairs, conclude treaties, and maintain a good correspondence between those wealthy societies of men that are divided from one another by seas and oceans, or live on the different extremities of a continent. I have often been pleased to hear disputes adjusted between an inhabitant of Japan, and an alderman of London, or to see a subject of the Great Mogul entering into a ague with one of the Czar of Muscovy. I am infinitely delighted in mixing with these several ministers of commerce, as they are stinguished by their different walks and different languages. bometimes I am justled among a body of Armenians; sometimes I am lost in a crowd of Jews; and sometimes make one in a group

of Dutchmen. I am a Dane, Swede, or Frenchman at differe times; or rather fancy myself like the old philosopher, who up being asked what countryman he was, replied, that he was citizen of the world.

Though I very frequently visit this busy multitude of people am known to nobody there but my friend Sir Andrew; who oft smiles upon me as he sees me bustling in the crowd, but at t same time connives at my presence without taking further noti of me. There is indeed a merchant of Egypt, who just knows I by sight, having formerly remitted me some money to Grai Cairo; but as I am not versed in the modern Coptic, our co ferences go no further than a bow and a grimace.

This grand scene of business gives me an infinite variety solid and substantial entertainments. As I am a great lover mankind, my heart naturally overflows with pleasure at the sig of a prosperous and happy multitude, insomuch that at mai public solemnities I cannot forbear expressing my joy with tes that have stolen down my cheeks. For this reason I am wonde fully delighted to see such a body of men thriving in their ow private fortunes, and at the same time promoting the public stoel or, in other words, raising estates for their own families, by brin ing into their country whatever is wanting, and carrying out of whatever is superfluous.

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate h blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye t this mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that th natives of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of di pendence upon one another, and be united together by their con mon interest. Almost every degree produces something peculia to it. The food often grows in one country, and the sauce in an ther. The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Ba badoes, and the infusion of a China plant is sweetened by the pit of an Indian cane. The Phillipic Islands give a flavour to ou European bowls. The single dress of a woman of quality is ofte the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan com together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sen from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. Th brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamon necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.

If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, with out any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share! Natural historians

tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the like nature: that our climate of itself, and without the assistance of art, can

* See No. 1.

hat had enough of our language to make themselves understood n some few particulars. But we soon perceived these two were reat enemies to one another, and did not always agree in the ame story. We could make shift to gather out of one of them, Lat this island was very much infested with a monstrous kind of nimals, in the shape of men, called Whigs; and he often told us, hat he hoped we should meet with none of them in our way, for hat if we did, they would be apt to knock us down for being ngs.

Our other interpreter used to talk very much of a kind of nimal called a Tory, that was as great a monster as the Whig, ad would treat us as ill for being foreigners. These two creatures, seems, are born with a secret antipathy to one another, and ngage when they meet as naturally as the elephant and the hinoceros. But as we saw none of either of these species, we are pt to think that our guides deceived us with misrepresentations nd fictions, and amused us with an account of such monsters as re not really in their country.

These particulars we made a shift to pick out from the disurse of our interpreters; which we put together as well as we uld, being able to understand but here and there a word of what They said, and afterwards making up the meaning of it among rselves. The men of the country are very cunning and inenious in handicraft works, but withal so very idle, that we often aw young lusty raw-boned fellows, carried up and down the treets in little covered rooms, by a couple of porters, who are ured for that service. Their dress is likewise very barbarous, for hey almost strangle themselves about the neck, and bind their odies with many ligatures, that we are apt to think are the ccasion of several distempers among them, which our country * entirely free from. Instead of those beautiful feathers with Thich we adorn our heads, they often buy up à monstrous bush f hair, which covers their heads, and falls down in a large fleece low the middle of their backs; with which they walk up and own the streets, and are as proud of it as if it was of their own Towth.

he

"We were invited to one of their public diversions, where we hoped to have seen the great men of their country running down stag, or pitching a bar, that we might have discovered who were persons of the greatest abilities among them; but instead of hat, they conveyed us into an huge room lighted up with abunance of candles, where this lazy people sat still above three hours see several feats of ingenuity performed by others, who it seems were paid for it.

As for the women of the country, not being able to talk with

were formerly, and added to them an accession of other estates valuable as the lands themselves.*

ADDISON.

C.

No. 70. MONDAY, MAY 21, 1711.

Interdum vulgus rectum videt.

HOR. 1. EP. ii. 63.

Sometimes the vulgar see and judge aright.

WHEN I travelled, I took a particular delight in hearing the son and fables that are come from father to son, and are most in vog among the common people of the countries through which I passe for it is impossible that anything should be universally tasted ar approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please ai gratify the mind of man. Human nature is the same in all reaso able creatures; and whatever falls in with it, will meet with a mirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions. Molier as we are told by Monsieur Boileau, used to read all his comedi to an old woman who was his housekeeper, as she sat with him her work by the chimney-corner; and could foretel the success his play in the theatre, from the reception it met at his firesid for he tells us the audience always followed the old woman, ar never failed to laugh in the same place.

I know nothing which more shews the essential and inhere perfection of simplicity of thought, above that which I call ti Gothic manner in writing, than this, that the first pleases all king of palates, and the latter only such as have formed to themselv a wrong artificial taste upon little fanciful authors and writers epigram. Homer, Virgil, or Milton, so far as the language their poems is understood, will please a reader of plain commo sense, who would neither relish nor comprehend an epigram Martial, or a poem of Cowley; so, on the contrary, an ordinar song or ballad that is the delight of the common people, cann fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the ente tainment by their affectation or ignorance; and the reason i plain, because the same paintings of nature, which recommend

This fine essay, like the vision on public credit, could only have be written by a Whig. The Tories of Queen Anne's reign regarded the mome interest with the greatest jealousy. It was then a new interest.-(M.)