The other are in French. Allez vous, luy dit il, fans bruit chez vos parens, But we need not go further than the Letter before us for examples of this nature, as we may find in page the eleventh. Mankind remains convinced, that a Queen possessed of all the virtues requifite to blefs a nation, or make a private family happy, fits on the throne. Is this Panegyrick or Burlefque? To fee so glorious a Queen celebrated in fuch a manner, gives every good fubject a fecret indignation; and looks liker Scarron's character of the great Queen Semiramis, who, fays that Author, "was the Founder of "Babylon, Conqueror of the East, and an excellent "Housewife. The third fubject, being the argumentative part of this Letter, I fhall leave till another occafion. Thursday, I -Non defenforibus iftis Tempus eget. Virg. Was once talking with an old humdrum fellow, and before I had heard his ftory out, was called away by bufinefs. About three years after I met him again, when he immediately reaffumed the thread of his ftory, and began his falutation with, but Sir, as I was telling you. The fame method has been made ufe of by very polite writers; as, in particular, the Author of Don Quixote, who inferts feveral novels in his works, and after a parenthefis of about a dozen leaves, returns again to his ftory. Hudibras has broke off the Adventure of the Bear and Fiddle. The Tatler has frequently interrupted the courfe of a Lucubration, and taken it up again after a fortnight's refpite; as the Examiner, who is capable of imitating him in this particular, has likewife done. This may ferve as an apology for my poftponing the examination of the argumentative part of the Letter to the Examiner to a further day, though I muft confefs, this was occafioned by a Letter which I received laft poft. Upon opening it, I found it to contain a very curious piece of antiquity; which, without preface or application, was introduced as follows. "Alcibiades "Alcibiades was a man of wit and pleafure, "bred up in the fchool of Socrates; and one of "the belt Orators of his age, notwithstanding he "lived at a time when learning was at its high"eft pitch: he was likewife very famous for his "military exploits, having gained great conquests 66 over the Lacedæmonians, who had formerly "been the confederates of his countrymen against "the great King of Perfia, but were at that time ❝ in alliance with the Perfians. He had been once "fo far mifrepresented and traduced by the malice "of his enemies, that the Priefts curfed him. "But after the great fervices which he had done for his country, they publickly repealed their "curfes, and changed them into applaufes and be"nedictions. "Plutarch tells us, in the life of Alcibiades, that "one Taureas, an obfcure man, contended with "him for a certain prize, which was to be confer"red by vote; at which time each of the compe"titors recommended himself to the Athenians by an oration. The fpeech which Alcibiades made "on that occafion, has been lately difcovered a"mong the Manufcripts of King's-college in Cam"bridge; and communicated to me by my learn❝ed friend Dr. B---tley; who tells me, that by a "marginal note it appears, that this Taureas, or, as the Doctor rather chufes to call him, Toryas, was an Athenian Brewer. This fpeech I have "tranflated literally, changing very little in it, ex"cept where it was abfolutely neceffary_to make it "understood by an English Reader. It is as fol❝ lows. S it then poffible, O ye Athenians, that I who Chitherto have had none but Generals to op"pofe me, muft now have an artisan for my antagonist? That I who have overthrown the "Princes of Lacedæmon, muft now fee my self in : danger of being defeated by a Brewer? What will "the world fay of the Goddess that prefides over "you, fhould they fuppofe you follow her dictates?. "would they think fhe acted like herself, like the 66 great Minerva? would they now fay, fhe in"fpires her fons with wifdom? or would they not "rather fay, fhe has a fecond time chosen owls for "her favourites? But O ye men of Athens, what "has this man done to deferve your voices? You "fay he is honeft; I believe it, and therefore he "fhall brew for me. You fay he is affiduous in "his calling and is he not grown rich by it? let "him have your custom but not your votes: you ་ are now to caft your Eyes on those who can de"tect the artifices of the common enemy, that can "disappoint your fecret foes in Council, and your "open ones in the field. Let it not avail my com"petitor, that he has been tapping his liquors, while "I have been fpilling my blood; that he has been "gathering hops for you, while I have been reaping "lawrels. Have I not born the duft and heat of "the day, while he has been fweating at the furnace? "behold thefe fcars, behold this wound which still "bleeds in your fervice; what can Taureas fhew 66 of this nature? What are his marks of hoyou "nour? Has he any other wound about him, ex"cept the accidental fcaldings of his wort, or bruifes "from the tub or barrel? Let it not, O Athenians, "let it not be faid, that your Generals have con "quered "quered themfelves into your displeasure, and loft "your favour by gaining you victories. Shall "those atchievements that have redeemed the prefent 66 age from flavery, be undervalued by thofe who "feel the benefits of them? Shall those names that "have made your city the glory of the whole earth, be mentioned in it with obloquy and detraction? "Will not your pofterity blush at their forefathers, "when they fhall read in the annals of their coun try, that Alcibiades in the 90th Olympiad, after "having conquered the Lacedæmonians, and reco"vered Byzantium, contended for a prize against "Taureas the Brewer? The competition is dif"honourable, the defeat would be fhameful. I "fhall not however flacken my endeavours for the "fecurity of my country. If he is ungrateful, fhe "is ftill Athens. On the contrary, as fhe will ftand 66 more in need of defence, when fhe has fo dege"nerate a people; I will purfue my victories, till "fuch time as it fhall be out of your power to hurt 66 yourselves, and that you may be in safety even "under your prefent leaders. But oh! thou ge"nius of Athens, whither art thou fled? Where is now the race of thofe glorious fpirits that pe"rifhed at the battel of Thermopyla, and fought 66 upon the plains of Marathon? Are you weary "of conquering, or have you forgotten the oath "which you took at Agraulos, That you would look "upon the bounds of Attica to be thofe foils only "which are incapable of bearing wheat and barley, "vines and olives? Confider your enemies the "Lacedæmonians; did you ever hear that they pre"ferred a Coffee-man to Agefilaus? No, though "their Generals have been unfortunate, though "they have loft feveral battels, though they have "not |