schemes, and others for the put-ting of them in execution: It is your lordship only who enjoys these several talents united, and that too in as great perfection as others possess them singly. Your enemies acknowledge this great extent in your lordship's character, at the same time that they use their utmost industry and invention to derogate from it. But it is for your honour that those who are now your enemies were always fo. You have acted in fo much consistency with yourself, and promoted the interests of your country in so uniform manner, that even those, who would mifrepresent your, generous designs for the publick good, cannot but approve the steadiness and intrepidity with which you A 2 a pursue pursue them. It is a most sensible pleasure to me that I have this opportunity of profeffing myself one of your great admirers, and, in a very particular manner, -Ad humum mærore gravi deducit & angit. Hor. Ars Poet, v. 110. - Grief dejects, and wrings the tortured soul. RoscoMMON. T is often said, after a man has heard a story with extraordinary circumstances, It is a very good one if it be true: but as for the following relation, I should be glad were I sure it were false. It is told with fuch fimplicity, and there are fo many artless touches of distress in it, that I fear it comes too much from the heart. Mr. SPECTATOR, OME years ago it happened that I lived in the same house with a young gentleman of merit; with whose good qualities I was so much taken, as to • make it my endeavour to shew as many as I was able in myself. Familiar converse improved general civilities into an an unfeigned paffion on both fides. He watched an opportunity to declare himself to me; and I, who A 4 • could |