it with dignity, must have caused him great annoyance, and he was but poorly served by the "little senate" of second-class writers which he collected around him at Button's, although the faithful friendship, amounting almost to adoration, which was displayed by Tickell cannot but have gratified Addison. But the latter began to age early, and already, no doubt, was apt to sit "attentive to his

Marcas there is already printed Tour volumes of the spectators which
Include from Number one to timember Threehundred twenty one
And Whereas there is two volumes more now knighing which will take
in from Number Three hundred hounty one to to hummber four tria
d rights, or thereabouts Which will make the Wames. And Money
it is inter des Bf the author whose Mames are hereinafter mourons
to Continue writing the kid Pressator to the und of this present
Month of November which will make a Seventh volume.

How know all Men by those presents that Joseph addison of St Jament
Mammistot Top and Richard Hoole of Sofiles in the fires bat. for
and is consideration of the shine of Five hundred Koruty and
five pounds to them orone of them in hand paid by Samuol
Bunkley of Lorison printer & Bookseller the Receipt where of.
They the said Joseph addison & Richard Fools for howly respectively
Acknowledge they the sand Joseph advisor and Aghard Asolo stadd
and rack and sitter of them Houth Grand Bargained Sold
Antiqued Franspired and how boer and by these presents they_
the said Joseph additon and Richard, Ale Dor and each and
wither of Him Both Grant Pargain Jell assign Ransfer and Lette
over into the said Jamu il Buckley hus Excecutors adminishetor
and assigns all that their full and Sole right and Fitte of in and to
our moiety or full half Thare of the Copys of all and every the.
above menroned Proru vols. M of pectators which had
Moroty or full half hare to remain unto the said Samuel.
Brockley is heires and Assigns for Ever In When its where of
The said Joseph addison and Rishard Acete hoor breen f
Lets their hands & hals this Furth day of borimber Annogl
Son 1712.

Witress & Richard Ahwaites;
David Verdon

at the Fountain tavers on the Shand

Facsimile of the Assignment of the "Spectator," signed by Addison and Steele

own applause," and to offer those features of human weakness which the cruel penetration of Pope has preserved for posterity in the venomous portrait of Atticus. The energies of Addison were now distributed between politics, in which he represented the most moderate of the Whigs, and the composition of an apologetic work on the history of Christianity, which he left unfinished. At the death of Anne, Addison returned with the Whigs to office, and was Chief Secretary in Ireland for some months of 1714-15. When he resigned this post he began to

edit a newspaper in the interests of the Government, namely, the Freeholder (1715-16). This journal ceased when its work was done, and Addison was made a Commissioner for Trade. In the summer of 1716 he married the widowed Countess of Warwick, to whom he had been long attached, but there is more than a fear that Addison found "wedded discord with a noble wife." In 1717, when Sunderland became Prime Minister, he appointed Addison a Secretary of State, but the essayist was not conspicuously successful as a politician. In particular, during the ten years during which he sat for Malmesbury in the House of Commons he spoke but once, and then broke down in speaking: "he had too beautiful an imagination," one of his contemporaries said, "to make a man of business." In March 1718 Addison resigned his office, his health beginning to give him serious anxiety. It is painful to record that the last year of Addison's life was embittered by an acrimonious controversy with his old and close friend, Steele. Worn out with asthma and dropsy, Addison was now sinking, and on the

go Dr Jonathan Swift,
The most Agreeable Companion
The Truest Friend

And the Greatest Genius of her Age
This Thook is presented by his not
Humble Servant the Authout.

Autograph Inscription of Addison's to Jonathan Swift

see

17th of June 1719 he died at Holland House, having lately entered his forty-eighth year. He called his stepson, the Earl of Warwick, to his bedside, and bid him “ in what peace a Christian can die." Addison lay in state in Jerusalem Chamber, and then was buried "by midnight lamps" in Westminster Abbey, as Tickell has described in his beautiful and touching elegy. Addison's only child, an unmarried. daughter, survived until 1797

WILL WIMBLE.

Will Wimble is younger brother to a baronet, and descended of the ancient family of the Wimbles. He is now between forty and fifty; but being bred to no business and born to no estate, he generally lives with his elder brother as superintendent of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the county, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods. As he is a good-natured officious fellow, and very much esteemed on account of his family, he is a very welcome guest at every house, and keeps