Garden, took great pains to inftil into Jack all that prowefs fo remarkable in the modern heroes of the army. He enumerated his victories over bullies, his encounters with fharpers, his midnight skirmishes with conftables, his ftorming of bagnios, his imprisonment, in round-houses, and his honourable wounds in the service of proftitutes. The Captain could not fail of improving under fo excellent a tutor, and foon became as eminent as his father. He is a Blood of the firft rate; Sherlock has inftructed him in the use of the broad fword, and Broughton has taught him to box. He is a fine gentleman at affemblies, a sharper at the gaming-table, and a bully at the bagnios. He has not yet killed his man in the honourable way; but he has gallantly crippled feveral watchmen, and moft couragiously run a waiter through the body. His fcanty pay will not allow him to keep a mistress; but it is faid, that he is privately married to a woman of the town.

SUCH is the consequence of the fon's education and by this our people of distinction may learn, how much better it is to let a lad fee the world, as the phrase is, than to lafh him through a grammar-school like a parish-boy, and confine him with dull pedants in a college-cloifter. Lady

BELLE

BELLE has not been lefs careful of her daughter Mifs HARRIOT. Thofe, who undertake the bufinefs of educating polite females, have laid it down as a rule to confider women merely as Dolls; and therefore never attempt the cultivation of their principles, but employ their whole attention on adorning their perfons. The romantic notions of honour and virtue are only fit for poor aukward creatures, who are to marry a shopkeeper or a parfon; but they can be of no ufe to a fine girl, who is defigned to make a figure. Accordingly Mifs HARRIOT was committed to the care of Madame Governante, who never fuffered her to speak a word of English, and a French dancing-mafter, who taught her to hold up her head, and come into the room like a little lady. As fhe grew up, her mamma inftructed her in the niceft points of ceremony and good breeding the explained to her the laws and regulations of drefs, directed her in the choice of her brocades, told her what fashions best became her, and what colours beft fuited her complexion. Thefe excellent rules were conftantly enforced by examples drawn from her ladyfhip's own practice above all, fhe unravelled the various arts of gallantry and intrigue, recounted the ftratagems she had herself employed in gaining new conquests, taught her when to advance and when

to retreat, and how far fhe might venture to indulge herself in certain freedoms without endangering her reputation

MISS HARRIOT foon became the public admiration of all the pretty fellows, and was allowed to be a lady of the moft elegant accomplishments. She was reckoned to play a better game at whift than Mrs. Sharply, and to bet with more spirit at brag than the bold lady Atall. She was carried about to Tunbridge, Bath, Cheltenham, and every other place of diversion, by the mother; where fhe was expofed as at a public mart for beauty, and put up to the best bidder. But as Mifs had fome fortune in her own disposal, she had not the patience to wait the formal delays of marriage articles, jointures, fettlements, and pin-money; and (juft before the late act took place) eloped with a gentleman, who had long been very intimate with her mamma, and recommended himself to Mifs HARRIOT by a ftature of fix foot and a fhoulder-knot.

I am, SIR,

Your humble fervant, &c.

NUMB.

I

NUM B. XXIII. Thursday, July 4, 1754.

Qui modò fcurra

Aut fi quid hâc re tritius videbatur,
Idem inficeto eft inficetior rure. CATULL.

The Fool of Pantomime, who ne'er fpake word,
Or worse than Fool, the Senator or Lord,
In the dull country his dull trade perfuing,
The blockhead underdoes his underdoing.

HAVE lately received several letters from my coufin VILLAGE, concerning the entertainments of the country. He tells me, that they have concerts every evening in that part of the month, in which the almanack promises it will be moon-light. In one little town in particular, all the polite company of the place affemble every Sunday evening (after church) at the Three Compaffes, which is kept by the clerk, to regale themselves with cakes and fine home-brewed in an arbour at the end of his cabbage-garden; to which they have given the genteel denomination of Little Ranelagh. I fhall this day prefent my reader with his laft letter; and only take notice of the grand difference between the fummer amusements in town and country. In London, I 6 while

while we are almoft fmothered in smoke and duft, gardens are opened every evening to refresh us with the pure air of the country; while those, who have the fineft walks and most beautiful profpects eternally before them, fhut themselves up in theatres and ball-rooms, "lock fair "day-light out, and make themselves an arti"ficial London.”

DEAR COUSIN,

WHE

HEREVER the town goes, thofe who live by the town naturally follow. The facetious and entertaining gentry, who during the winter amufed the world within the bills of mortality, are now difperfed into different parts of the country. We have had most of them here already. The Coloffus, the Dwarf, the Female Samfon, made fome stay with us. We went for a week together to fee Mr. Powell eat red-hot tobacco-pipes, and fwallow fire and brimftone. The Hermaphrodite was obliged to leave the town on a scandalous report, that a lady used frequently to vifit him in private. Mr. Church for fome time charmed us with concertos and fonatas on the Jew's-Harp; and at our last ball we footed it to our ufual melody of the tabor and pipe, accompanied with the cymbal and wooden fpcons.