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near the Value of one with Four. I hear likewife, That there is a great Defolation among the Gentlemen and Ladies who were the Ornaments of the Town, and used to shine in Plumes and Diadems; the Heroes being most of them prefs'd, and the Queens beating Hemp, Mrs. Sarabrand, fo famous for her ingenious Puppet-Show, has fet up a Shop in the Exchange, where the fells her little Troop under the Term of Jointed-Babies. I could not but be folicitous to know of her, how fhe had difpofed of that Rake-hell Punch, whofe lewd Life and Converfation had given fo much Scandal, and did not a little contribute to the Ruin of the Fair. She told me, with a Sigh, That despairing of ever reclaiming him, he would not offer to place him in a Civil Family, but got him in a Poft upon a Stall in Wapping, where he may be feen from Sun-rifing to Sun-fetting, with a Glafs in one Hand, and a Pipe in the other, as Centry to a Brandy-Shop. The great Revolutions of this Nature bring to my Mind the Diftreffes of the unfortunate Camilla, who has had the ill Luck to break before her Voice, and to difappear at a Time when her Beauty was in the Heighth of its Bloom. This Lady enter'd fo throughly into the great Characters the acted, that when fhe had finished her Part, the could not think of retrenching her Equipage, but would appear in her own Lodgings with the fame Magnificence that he did upon the Stage. This Greatnefs of Soul has reduced that unhappy Princefs to an involuntary Retirement, where The now paffes her Time among the Woods and Forrefts, thinking on the Crowns and Scepters fhe has loft, and often humming over in her Solitude,

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Since I have touched upon this Subject, I shall communicate to my Reader Part of a Letter I have received from an Ingenious Friend at Amfterdam, where there is a very noble Theatre; though the Manner of furnishing it with Actors is fomething peculiar to that Place, and gives us Occafion to admire both the Politenefs and Frugality of the People.

Mr Friends have kept me here a Week longer than ordinary to fee one of their Plays, which was performed laft Night with great Applause. The Actors are all of them Tradesmen, who, after their Day's Work is over, earn about a Gilder a Night by perfonating Kings and Generals. The Hero of the Tragedy I saw was a Fourney-man Taylor, und bis First Minifter of State a Coffeeman. The Empress made me think of Parthenope in the Rehearfal; for her Mother keeps an Alehoufe in the Suburbs of Amfterdam. When the Tragedy was over, they entertained us with a Short Farce, in which the Cobler did his Part to a Miracle; but upon Enquiry, I found he had really been working at his own Trade, and reprefenting on the Stage what he acted every Day in his Shop. The Profits of the Theatre maintain an Hospital: For as here they do not think the Profeffion of an Actor the only Trade that a Man ought to exercife, fo they will not allow any Body to grow rich on a Profeffion that, in their Opinion, fo little conduces to the Good of the Commonwealth. If I am not miftaken, your Play-houfes in England have done the Same Thing; for, unless I am misinformed,

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the Hofpital at Dulledge was erected and endowed by Mr. Allen, a Player: And it is also faid, A famous She-Tragedian has fettled her Eftate, after her Death, for the Maintenance of decay'd Wits, who are to be taken in affoon as they grow dull, at whatever Time of their Life that hall happen. St. James's Coffee house, May 25.

Letters from the Hague of the 31it Instant, N. S. fay, That the Articles Preliminary to a general Peace were fettled, communicated to the States-General, and all the Foreign Miniiters refiding there, and tranfmitted to their respective Mafters on the 28th. Monfieur Torcy immediate L ly returned to the Court of France, from 3 whence he is expected again on the 4th of the next Month with thofe Articles ratified by that Court. The Hague is agreed upon for the Place of Treaty, and the 15th of the next Month the Day on which it is to commence. The Terms whereon this Negotiation is founded, are not 5 yet declared by publick Authority; but what is molt generally received, is as follows:

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Her Majefty's Right and Title, and the Proteftant Succeflion to thofe Dominions, is forthwith to be acknowledged. King Charles is to be owned the lawful Sovereign of Spain. The French King fhall not only recall his Troops out of that Kingdom, and deliver up to the Allies the Towns of Rofes, Fonterabia, and Pampelona; but in cafe the Duke of Anjou fhall not retire out of the Spanish Dominions, he fhall be obliged to affift the Allies to force him from thence. A Ceflation of Arms is agreed upon for Two Months from the firft Day of the Treaty. The Port and Fortifications of Dunkirk are to be demolished within Four Months; but the Town 14 it felf left in the Hands of the French. The Pretender is to be obliged to leave France. All Newfoundland is to be reftored to the English. As to H

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the other Parts of America, the French are to reftore whatever they may have taken from the English, as the English in like Manner to give up what they may have taken from the French before the Commencement of the Treaty. The Trade between Great-Britain and France fhall be fettled upon the fame Foundation as in the Reign of King Charles the Second.

The Dutch are to have for their Barriers, Newport, Berg, St. Vinox, Furnes, Ipres, Lille, Tournay, Doua, Valenciennes, Conde, Maubeuge, Mons, Charleroy, Namur, and Luxemburg; all which Places fhall be delivered up to the Allies before the End of June. The Trade between Holland and France fhall be on the fame Foot as in 1664. The Cities of Strasburg, Brifac, and Alfatia, fhall be refto ed to the Emperor and Empire; and the King of France, pursuant to the Treaty of Weftphalia in 1648, fhall only retain the Protection of Ten Imperial Cities, viz. Colmar, Schleftat, Haguenau, Munfter, Turkeim, Keifemberg, Obrenheim, Refheim, Weilemburg, and Landau, Huninguen, Fort Louis, Fort Khiel, and New Brifac, fhall be demolished, and all the Fortifications from Bafil to Philipsburg. The King of Pruffia fhall remain in the peaceable Poffeffion of Neufchatel. The Affair of Orange, as alfo the Pretenfions of his Pruffian Majefty in the French Comte, fhall be determined at this general Negotiation of Peace. The Duke of Savoy fhall have a Reftitution made of all that has been taken from him by the French, and remain Mafter of Exilles, Chamont, Feneftrelles, and the Valley of Pragelas.

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The TATLER. [N° 21. From Thurfd. May 26. to Saturd. May 28. 1709.

White's Chocolate-house, May 26.

Gentleman has writ to me out of the

A Country a very civil Letter, and faid Things which I fupprefs with great Violence to my Vanity. There are many Terms in my Narratives which he complains want explaining, and has therefore desired, that, for the Benefit of my Country Readers, I would let him know what I mean by a Gentleman, a Pretty-Fellow, a Toaft, a Coquet, a Critick, a Wit, and all other Appellations of thofe in the gayer World, who are in Poffeffion of thefe feveral Characters; together with an Account of those who unfortu nately pretend to 'em., I fhall begin with him we ufually call a Gentleman, or Man of Converfation.

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It is generally thought, That Warmth of Imagination, quick Relifh of Pleasure, and a Manner of becoming it, are the moft effential Qualities for forming this Sort of Man. But any one that is much in Company will obferve, that the Height of good Breeding is fhown rather in never giving Offence, than in doing obliging Things. Thus he that never Shocks you, tho' he is feldom entertaining, is more likely to keep your Favour, than he who often entertains, and fometimes difpleafes you. The most necef fary Talent therefore in a Man of Converfation, which is what we ordinarily intend by a Fine Gentleman, is a good Judgment. He that has this in Perfection, is Mafter of his Companion, without letting him fee it; and has the fame a Advantage over Men of any other Qualifications whatfoever, as one that can fee would have over a blind Man of Ten times his Strength.

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