them a little more tractable; but as a fellow-subject, and a sharer in their freedom, I applauded their spirit, though I feel the effects of it in every bone in my skin.-Well, Mr. Stockwell, for the first time in my life, here am I in England, at the fountain-head of pleasure, in the land of beauty, of arts and elegancies. My happy stars have given me a good estate, and the conspiring winds have blown me hither to spend it.

Stock. To use it, not to waste it, I should hope; to treat it, Mr. Belcour, not as a vassal, over whom you have a wanton despotic power, but as a subject, which you are bound to govern with a temperate and restrained authority.

Bel. True, sir; most truly said; mine's a commission, not a right: I am the offspring of distress, and every child of sorrow is my brother; while I have hands to hold, therefore, I will hold them open to mankind, but sir, my passions are my masters; they take me where they will; and oftentimes they leave to reason and virtue nothing but my wishes and my sighs.

Stock. Come, come, the man who can accuse corrects himself.

Bel. Ah! that is an offence I am weary of; I wish a friend would take it up: I would to Heaven you had leisure for the employ? but, did you drive a trade to the four corners of the world, you would not find the task so toilsome, as to keep me free from fault.

Stock. Well, I am not discouraged; this candour tells me I should not have the fault of self-conceit to combat; that, at least, is not amongst the number,

Bel. No; if I knew that man on earth who thought more humbly of me than I do of myself, I would take up his opinion and forego my own.

Stock. And, was I to choose a pupil, it should be one of your complexion; so if you will come along with me, we will agree upon your admission, and enter upon a course of lectures directly.

Whittingham and Rowland, Printers, Goswell Street, London.