High Mall at St. James's Park, 25 mi- fuch as of plays and pantomimes, maf nutes after Two. Faro bank Stock 360l. 1 half. Hazard ditto 270l. 3-8ths. Ditto Tallies 50l. to 400l. 1-4th. Sinking Fund, no ́ price. Brag circulation, uncertain. Opera Subfcription, no price. Affembly ditto, 521. 10s. Concert ditto, 1ft Sub. no price. Ditto 2d Sub. ditto. Ditto New, ift Sub. zl. 12s. 6d. to 31. 3s. Ditto zd Sub. ros. 6d. to 41. 4s. Irish lottery, Books fhut. Benefit Tickets, 25. to 3s. to 5s. to 50l. Debts of Honour transferrable at White's, no price. Thus, Sir, I have explained the method that I intend to follow, and imparted fome of the materials of which my paper will confift: and as I doubt not of it's universal circulation among perfons of quality, I shall, in imitation of other papers, give admittance to all thofe advertisements which are more immediately connected with my scheme; querades, ridottos, affemblies, oratorios, concerts, the animal comedians, Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Ruckholt-house, Kendal-house, &c. &c. &c. Auctions of china, knicknacks, and cockle-fhells; Pinchbeck's repofitory; parrots, puppies, and monkies, loft, ftolen, or ftrayed.Alfo for wives, husbands, and mistresses; masquerade habits, and masks-toothpowders, lip-falves, and beautifying lotions-Mrs. Giles's fine compound at a Guinea an ounce-the ladies court sticking plaifter-and the new-invented powder for fhaving. Then among the articles of books, Duke's Art of Dancing, for the inftruction of Grown Gentlemen -The Ladies Memorandum BookHistorical Lift of Horfe Races-Calculation for laying the odds at any Game Hoyle on the Sciences-New Novels, and other fashionable Books of Entertainment. I am, Sir, your very humble Servant, J. TATTLE. A END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. THE ADVENTURE R. VOLUME THE SECOND. N° XXXVI. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1753. TH ASPERA NIGRIS QUORA VENTIS EMIRABITUR INSOLENS, QUI NUNC TE FRUITUR CREDULUS AUREA, FALLACIS! HOW OFTEN SHALL TH' UNPRACTIS'D YOUTH OF ALTER'D GODS AND INJUR'D TRUTH, HOW SOON BEHOLD WITH WONDERING EYES HE FONDLY HOPES THAT YOU SHALL PROVE NOR HEEDS THE FAITHLESS WIND. HE Ladies, to whom I lately addreffed fome thoughts upon the choice of a husband, I fhall to-day confider as married: and as I am very far from thinking, that they may now fit down in negligent fecurity, and remit at once their affiduity and circumfpection, I fhall warn them of fome opinions of which this conduct is the confequence, detect some errors by which the general intention of good-nature may be difappointed, and endeavour to put them up on their guard against fome propenfities by which it may be overborne. It is now neceffary to remind them, that the paffion which is fuppofed to animate the lover, the paffion which is reprefented by flames and darts, which fwells the bofom with perpetual rapture, and neither changes it's object nor lofes it's ardour, exifts only in poetry and romance. The real paffion which wit and folly have thus concurred to dif HOR. FRANCIS. guife, is fubject to difguft and fatiety,,is excited by novelty, and frequently extinguished by poffeffion. It is alfo equally true, that a refined and abftracted friendship between perfons of different fexes, a union of fouls to which the corporal paffion is merely accidental, is only to be found in the writings of those enthusiasts who have addreffed the world from a cave or a college, and perhaps denied the force of defires which they could not fubdue; or in the profeffions of infidious hypocrites, who have endeavoured thus to gain a confidence, which they intend only to abufe. But there is an esteem which is meliorated by love, and a love that is elevated by eftecm; a kind of mixed affection, peculiar to mankind as beings compounded of inftinct and reafon, or, in other words, of body and mind. This is that fpecies of affection upon which the fupreme or peculiar happiness of marriage depends, and which can fcarce be preferved without a conftant attention and perpetual efforts. As love without efteem is volatile and capricious; efteem without love is languid and cold. I am afraid that many men, whose wives have poffeffed their efteem, have yet lavished their fortune and their fondness upon a mistress; and that the love of others, however ardent, has been quickly alienated, because it was not dignified and supported by esteem. Though good-nature does indeed participate the pains and the pleasures of others, and may, therefore, be confidered as a conftant and forcible motive to communicate happiness and alleviate mifery; yet it is at beft but the imperfect excellence of imperfect beings, whofe immediate gratifications are often felfifh, and fuch as folly or vice render incompatible with the true happiness of the individual, and of each other. As there is not, perhaps, upon earth any couple, whofe natural difpofitions and relish of life are fo perfectly fimilar, as that their wills conftantly coincide; fo it must sometimes happen, that the immediate pleasure of indulging oppofite inclinations will be greater than a participation of that pleasure, which would arife to the other if this indulgence fhould be forborne: but as to forbear this indulgence can never fail to conciliate esteem, it should always be confidered as a means of happiness, and rather as an advantage than a lofs; efpecially if it be true, that the indulgence itfelf, in thefe circumftances, never gives the pleasure that it promifes. Lady Charlotte Sprightly, the wife of a young baronet, was dreffing for an affembly a few nights ago, when Sir Harry came in. My dear Charlotte,' fays he, I am forry that you are going out to-night; for my coufin George is juft arrived from the East Indies: I have invited him to fup; and as he has never feen you, I promifed him your company. Nay, dear Sir Harry,' replied the lady, do not ask me to stay at home to-night; you know I am fond of dancing, and now my fancy is fet upon going, I am fure you will not disappoint me." Sir Harry, who was truly good-natured, would not urge her to itay; for to stay with apparent res luctance would not have gratified his with. She perceived that he was fecretly displeased; however, away fhe went. But as he had not lefs good-nature than Sir Harry, fhe fuffered fo much pain by reflecting on the pain fhe had given him, that the often wished herfelf at home. Thus the offended the delicacy of his affection, by preferring a dance to the quiet of his mind; and forfeited part of the esteem which was due to that very good-nature by which the loft the en joyment of the night. In this inftance, the pain inflicted upon the husband was accidental to the private gratification propofed by the wife. But there is a paffion very different both from malice and rage, to the gratification of which the pain of another is fometimes eflentially neceffary. This paffion, which though it's effects are often directly oppofite to good-nature, is yet perhaps predominant in every breaft, and indulged at whatever risque, is Vanity. To a gratification of vanity, at the expence of reciprocal efteem, the wife is certainly under much ftronger temptation than the husband: and I warn the ladies against it, not only with more zeal, but with greater hope of fuccefs; because thofe only who have fuperior natural abilities, or have received uncommon advantages from education, have it in their power. Successfully to rally a wife, confers no honour upon a husband; the attempt is regarded rather as an infult than a conteft; it is exulting in a masculine ftrength, to which the makes no pretenfions, and brandifhing weapons which the is not fuppofed to have skill to wield. For the fame reafons, to confute or to ridicule a husband with an apparent fuperiority of knowledge or of wit, affords all the parade of triumph to a wife; it is to be strong where weakness is no reproach, and to conquer when it would not have been dishonourable to fly. But thefe circumstances which increase the force of the temptation, will be found to afford proportionate motives to resist it: whatever adds to the glory of the victor, adds equally to the difhonour of the vanquished; and that which can exalt a wife, only by degrading a husband, will appear upon the whole not to be worth the acquifition, even though it could be made without changing fondnefs to refentment, or provoking to jea loufy by an implication of contempt. If the ladies do not perceive the force of this argument, I earnestly request that they would for once truft implicitly to te my judgment; a requeft which, however extraordinary, is not unreasonable; because in this inftance, the very vanity which hides truth from them, must neceffarily discover it to me. But if good-nature is fufficiently vigorous to fecure the esteem of reason, it may yet be too negligent to gratify the delicacy of love: it must therefore not only be fteady, but watchful and affiduous; beauty muft fuffer no diminuon by inelegance, but every charm muft contribute to keep the heart which it contributed to win; whatever would have been concealed as a defect from the lover, muft with yet greater diligence be concealed from the husband. The most intimate and tender familiarity cannot furely be fuppofed to exclude decorum; and there is a delicacy in every mind which is difgufted at the breach of it, though every mind is not fufficiently attentive to avoid giving an offence which it has often received. I fhall conclude this paper, as I did my last on the fame fubject, with a ge neral remark. As they who poffefs lefs than they expected cannot be happy, to expatiate in chimerical profpects of felicity is to infure the anguifh of difappointment, and to lose the power of en joyment, whatever may be poffeffed. Let not youth, therefore, imagine, that with all the advantages of nature and educa tion, marriage will be a conftant reciprocation of delight, over which exterhals will have little influence, and which time will rather change than destroy. There is no perpetual fource of delight but Hope: fo imperfect is the utmost temporal happiness, that to poffefs it all is to lofe it. We enjoy that which is before us; but when nothing more is poffible, all that is attained is infipid, Such is the condition of this life: but let us not, therefore, think it of no value; for to be placed in this life, is to be a candidate for a better. N° XXXVII. TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1753 CALUMNIARI SI QUIS AUTEM VOLUERIT, QUOD ARBORES LOQUANTUR, NON TANTUM FEREZ LET THOSE WHOM FOLLY PROMPTS TO SNEER, BE TOLD WE SPORT WITH FABLE HERE; BE TOLD THAT BRUTES CAN MORALS TEACH, · AND TREES LIKE SOUNDEST CASUISTS PREACH, Tthat to communicate happiness is HOUGH it be generally allowed, the characteristic of virtue, yet this happinefs is feldom confidered as extending beyond our own fpecies; and no man is thought to become vicious, by facrificing the life of an animal to the plea. fure of hitting a mark. It is, however, certain, that by this act more happiness is deftroyed than produced; except it be fuppofed, that happiness fhould be eftimated, not in proportion to it's degree only, but to the rank of the being by whom it is enjoyed: but this is a fuppofition which perhaps cannot eafily be fupported. Reafon, from which alone man derives his fuperiority, fhould, in the prefent queftion, be confidered only as Senfibility: a blow produces more pain to a man than to a brute; becaufe to a man it is aggravated by a fenfe of indignity, and is felt as often as it is remembered; in the brute it produces PHED. only corporal pain, which in a fhort time ceafes for ever. But it may be juftly af ferted. that the fame degree of pain in both fubjects, is in the fame degree an evil; and that it cannot be wantonly inflicted without equal violation of right. Neither does it follow from the contrary pofitions, that man fhould abstain from animal food; for by him that kills merc ly to eat, life is facrificed only to life, and if man had lived upon fruits and herbs, the greater part of those animals which die to furnish his table would never have lived; inftead of increafing the breed as a pledge of plenty, he would have been compelled to deftroy them to prevent a fanine. There is great difference between kill. ing for food, and for sport. To take pleasure in that by which pain is inflicted, if it is not vicious, is dangerous; and every practice which, if not criminal in itself, yet wears out the fympathizing N fenfi fenfibility of a tender mind, muft render human nature proportionably lefs fit for fociety. In my purfuit of this train of thought, I confidered the inequality with which happiness appears to be diftributed among the brute creation, as different animals are in a different degree expofed to the capricious cruelty of mankind; and in the fervor of my imagination, I began to think it poffible that they might participate in a future retribution; efpecially as mere matter and motion approach no nearer to fenfibility than to thought: and he who will not venture to deny that brutes have fenfibility, fhould not haftily pronounce, that they have only a material existence. While my mind was thus bufied, the evening stole imperceptibly away; and at length morning fucceeded to midnight: my attention was remitted by degrees, and I fell asleep in my chair. Though the labours of memory and judgment were now at an end, yet fancy was ftill bufy: by this roving wanton I was conducted through a dark avenue, which, after many windings, terminated in a place which he told me was the elysium of birds and beafts. Here I beheld a great variety of animals, whom I perceived to be endowed with reafon and speech: this prodigy, however, did not raife aftonishment, but curiofity. I was impatient to learn what were the topics of difcourfe in fuch an affembly; and hoped to gain a valuable addition to my remarks upon human life. For this purpofe I approached a Horfe and an Afs, who feemed to be en a pair of panniers, before I had perfectly acquired the habit of carrying my own weight with fteadiness and dexterity. By hard fare and ill treatment, I quickly became blind; and when the family to which I belonged, went into their winter quartets in Norwood, I was ftaked as a bet against a couple of geefe, which had been found by a fellow who came by, driving before him two of my brethren, whom he had overloaded with bags of fand: a halfpenny was ⚫ thrown up; and to the inexpreffible increafe of my calamity, the dealer in fand was the winner. When I came to town, I was harneffed with my two wretched affociares to a cart, in which my new mafter had piled up his commodity till it would ⚫ hold no more. The load was so difproportionate to our ftrength, that it was with the utmost difficulty and labour dragged very flowly over the rugged pavement of the streets, in 'which every tone was an almost infuperable obftacle to our progress. One morning very early, as we were toiling up Snow Hill, with repeated efforts of strength, that was ftimulated, even to agony, by the inceffant strokes of a whip, which had already laid our loins bare even to the bone; it happened that, being placed in the fhafts, and the weight preffing hard upon me, I fell down. Our driver regarded my misfortune, not with pity but rage; and the moment he turned about, he threw a stick with fuch violence at gaged in ferious converfation: but I ap-my head, that it forced out my eye, proached with great caution and humility; for I now confidered them as in a ftate fuperior to mortality; and I feared to incur the contempt and indignation which naturally rife at the fight of a tyrant who is divefted of his power. My caution was, however, unneceflary, for they seemed wholly to difregard me; and by degrees I came near enough to overhear them. and paffing through the focket into the brain, I was inftantly difmiffed from that mifery, the comparison of which with my prefent ftate conftitutes great part of it's felicity. But you, furely, if I may judge by your ftature, and the elegance of your make, was among the favourites of mankind; you was placed in a higher and a happier station; you was not the flave of indigence, but the pride of greatnefs; your labour was sport, and your reward was triumph, eafe, plenty and 'attendance.' It is true, replied the Steed, I was a favourite: but what avails it to be the favourite of caprice, avarice, and barbarity? My tyrant was a wretch, who had gained a confiderable fortune by play, particularly by racing. I had |