and did not give him his Thoughts of him, till ' he came to read that memorable Paffage in his Will: All the rest of my Estate, fays he, Fleave to my Son Edward (who is Executor to this my Will) to be fquandred as he shall think fit: F leave it him for that Purpose, and hope no better from him. A generous Difdain, and Reflection upon how little he deferved from fo excellent a Father, reformed the young Man, and made Edward, from an errant Rake, become a fine Gentleman.

St. James's Coffee-house, April 29.

Letters from Portugal of the 18th Inftant,dated 1 from Eftremos, fay, That on the 6th the Earl of Galway arrived at that Place, and had the Satif-faction to fee the Quarters well furnished with all Manner of Provisions, and a Quantity of Bread fufficient for fubfifting the Troops for 60 Days, befides Bisket for 25 Days. The Enemy give out, That they fhall bring into the Field 14 Regiments of Horfe, and 24 Battalions. The Troops in the Service of Portugal will make up 14000 Foot, and 4000 Horfe. On the Day thefe Letters were difpatched, the Earl of Galway received Advice, that the Marquis de Bay was preparing for fome Enterprize, by gathering his Troops together on the Frontiers. Whereupon his Excellency refolved to go that fame Night to Villa Vicofa, to affemble the Troops in that Neighbourhood, in order to disappoint his Defigns.

Yesterday in the Evening Captain Foxon, Aidde-Camp to Major-General Cadogan, arriv'd here Exprefs from the Duke of Marlborough. And this Day a Mail is come in, with Letters dated from Bruffels of the 6th of May, N. S. which advife, That the Enemy bad drawn togethera Body, confifting of 20000 Men, with a Design, as was supposed, to intercept the great Convoy.

on the March towards Lifle, which was fafely arrived at Menin and Courtray, in its Way to that Place, the French having retired without making any Attempt.

We hear from the Hague, That a Perfon of the First Quality is arrived in the Low-Countries from France, in order to be a Plenipotentiary in an enfuing Treaty of Peace.

Letters from France acknowledge, That Monfieur Bernard has made no higher Offers of Satiffaction to his Creditors than of 35 l. per Cent.

Thefe Advices add, That the Marefchal Boufflers, Monfieur Torcy, (who diftinguished himself 7 formerly, by advising the Court of France to adhere to the Treaty of Partition) and Monfieur d'Harcourt, (who negotiated with Cardinal Por tocarrero for the Succeffion of the Crown of Spain in the Houfe of Bourbon) are all Three joined in a Commiffion for a Treaty of Peace. The Marefchal is come to Ghent: The other Two are arrived at the Hague.

It is confidently reported here, That the Right Honourable the Lord Townshend is to go with his Grace the Duke of Marlborough into Holland.

The TATLER. [N° 10. By Mrs. Jenny Diftaff, Half Sifter to Mr.Bickerstaff. From Saturd. April 30. to Tuesd. May 3. 1709.

MY

From my own Apartment, May 1.

Y Brother Ifaac having a fudden Occafion to go out of Town, ordered me to take upon me the Dispatch of the next Advices from Home, with Liberty to fpeak it my own Way;

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not doubting the Allowances which would be given to a Writer of my Sex. You may be fure,

undertook it with much Satisfaction: And I confefs, I am not a little pleafed with the Opportunity of running over all the Papers in his Clofet, which he has left open for my Use on this Occafion. The first that I lay my Hands on, is, A Treatife concerning The Empire of Beauty, and the Effects it has had in all Nations of the World, upon the publick and private Actions of Men; with an Appendix, which he calls, The Batchelor's Scheme for Governing his Wife. The firft Thing he makes this Gentleman propofe, is, That the fhall be no Woman; for The is to have an Avertion to Balls, to Opera's, to Vifits: She is to think his Company fufficient to fill up all the Hours of Life with great Satisfaction: She is never to believe any other Man Wife, Learned, or Valiant; or at least but in a fecond Degree. In the next Place, he intends fhe fhall be a Cuckold, but expects, that he himself muft live in perfect Security from that Terror. He dwells a great while on Inftructions for her difcreet Behaviour, in cafe of his Falfhood. I have not Patience with these unreasonable Expectations, therefore turn back to the Treatife it felf. Here, indeed, my Brother deduces all the Revolutions among Men from the Paffion of Love; and in his Preface, anfwers that ufual Obfervation against us, That there is no Quarrel without a Woman in it; with a gallant Affertion, That there is nothing else worth Quarrelling for. My Brother is of a Complexion truly Amorous; all his Thoughts and Actions carry in 'em a Tincture of that obliging Inclination; and this Turn has opened his Eyes to fee, we are not the inconfiderable Creatures which unlucky Pretenders to our Favour would infinuate. He obferves, That no Man begins to make

75. make any tolerable Figure, till he fets out with the Hopes of Pleafing fome one of us. No fooner he takes that in Hand, but he pleases every one elfe by the by. It has an immediate Effect upon his Behaviour. There is Colonel Ranter, who neve spoke without an Oath, till he faw the Lady Betty Modifh; now never gives his Man an Order, but it is, Pray Tom, do it. The Drawers where he drinks, live in perfect Happinefs. He asked Will at the George t'other Day, How he did? Where he used to fay, Damn it, 15 Is it fo? He now believes there is fome Miftake: He must confefs, he is of another Opinion; but however he won't infift.

Every Temper, except downright infipid, is to be animated and foftned by the Influence of Beauty But of this untractable Sort is a lifelefs handfome Fellow that visits us, whom I have dreffed at this Twelvemonth; but he is as infenfible of all the Arts I ufe, as if he converfed all that Time with his Nurfe. He outdoes our 13 whole Sex in all the Faults our Enemies impute to us; he has brought Laziness into an Upinion, and makes his Indolence his Philofophy Infomuch, that no long r ago than Yesterday in the Evening he gave me this Account of himfelf: I am, Madam, perfectly unmoved at all that paffes among Men, and feldom gives my felf the Fa tigue of going among 'em ; but when I do, I always appear the fame Thing to those whom I converse with My Hours of Existence, or being awake, are from Eleven in the Morning to Eleven at Night; half of which I live to my felf,in picking my Teeth, washing my Hands, paring my Nails, and looking in the Glass. The Infignificancy of my Manners to the rest of the World, makes the Laughers call me a Quid Nunc, a Phrafe which I neither under Stand or shall ever enquire what they mean by it. 17 The laft of me each Night is at St. James's Coffee

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boufe, where I converfe, yet never fall into a Dispute on any Occafion, but leave the UnderStanding I have Paffive of all that goes through it, without entring into the Bufinefs of Life. And thus, Madam, have I arrived by Laziness, to Wwhat others pretended to by Philofophy, a perfect Neglect of the World. Sure, if our Sex had the "Liberty of frequenting Publick Houfes and Converfations, we should put thefe Rivals of our Faults and Follies out of Countenance. However, we fhall foon have the Pleasure of being acquainted with 'em one Way or other for my Brother Ifaac defigns, for the Ufe of our Sex, to give the exact Characters of all the Chief Politicians who frequent any of the Coffeehoufes from St. James's to the Change; but defigns to begin with that Clufter of Wife Heads, as they are found fitting every Evening from the Left fide of the Fire, at the Smyrna, to the Door. This will be of great Service for us, and I have Authority to promife an exact Journal of their Deliberations; the Publication of which I am to be allowed for Pin-Money. In the mean Time, I caft my Eye upon a new Book, which gave me a more pleafing Entertainment, being a fixth Part of Mifcellany Poems, publifh'd by Jacob Tonfon; which, I find, by my Brother's Notes upon it, no Way inferior to the other Volumes. There are, it feems, in this, a Collection of the best Paftorals that have hitherto appeared in England; but among them, none fuperior to that Dialogue between Sylvia and Dorinda, written by one of my own Sex ; where all our little Weakneffes are laid open in a Manner more just, and with truer Raillery, than ever Man yet hit upon.

Orly this I now difcern,

From the Things thou'st have me learn ;
That Wemankind's peculiar Joys

From paft or prefent Beauties rife.

But