'NOW in regard that this Undertaking is of fo univerfal ufe, as the Advancement of the most necessary Parts of the Mathematicks, as well as tending to the Honour of the British ́ ́ Nation, and that the Charge of carrying it on is very expenfive; it is ' defired that all Gentlemen who are willing to promote fo great a Work, ' will be pleased to fubfcribe on the following Conditions.

I. THE Undertakers engage to furnish each Subfcriber with a Celestial and Terrestrial Globe, each of 30 Inches Diameter, in all respects curioufly adorned, the Stars gilded, the "Capital Cities plainly diftinguished, the Frames, Meridians, Horizons, Hour Circles and Indexes fo exactly finished up, and accurately divided, that a C Pair of these Globes will really appear in the Judgment of any difinterefted and intelligent Perfon, worth 'fifteen Pounds more than will be demanded for them by the Undertakers.

II. WHOSOEVER will be pleafed to fubfcribe, and pay twenty five Pounds in the manner following for a Pair of these Globes, either for

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their own ufe, or to prefent them to C any College in the Universities, or any publick Library or School, shall have his Coat of Arms, Name, Title, Seat or Place of Refidence, &c. inferted in fome convenient Place of 'the Globe.

III. THAT every Subscriber do at firft pay down the Sum of ten "Pounds, and fifteen Pounds more upon the delivery of each Pair of Globes perfectly fitted up. And that the faid Globes be delivered within twelve Months after the Number of thirty Subfcribers be compleated; and that the Subfcribers be ferved with Globes in the Order in which they subscribed.

IV. That a Pair of these Globes fhall not hereafter be fold to any Perfon but the Subscribers under thirty • Pounds.

V. THAT if there be not thirty Subfcribers within four Months after the first of December, 1712. the Mony paid fhall be returned on Demand by Mr. John Warner Goldsmith near Temple-Bar, who fhall receive and C pay the fame according to the abovementioned Articles.

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N° 553. Thursday, December 4.

Nec lufiffe pudet, fed non incidere ludur.

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Hor.

HE Project which I publifhed on Monday laft has brough me in feveral Packets of Letters. Among the reft I have received one from a certain Projector, wherein after having represented, that in all probability the Solemnity of opening my Mouth will draw together a great Confluence of Beholders, he proposes to me the hiring of Stationers-Hall for the more convenient exhibiting of that publick Ceremony. He undertakes to be at the Charge of it himself, provided he may have the erecting of Galleries on every fide, and the letting of them out upon that occafion. I have a Letter alfo from a Bookfeller, petitioning me in a very humble manner, that he may have the printing of the Speech which I fhall make to the Affembly up

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on the first opening of my Mouth, I am informed from all Parts, that there are great Canvaffings in the feveral Clubs about Town, upon the chufing of a proper Perfon to fit with me on those arduous Affairs, to which I have fummoned them. Three Clubs have already proceeded to Election, whereof one has made a double Return. If I find that my Enemies fhall take advantage of my Silence to begin Hoftilities upon me, or if any other Exigency of Affairs may fo require, fince I fee Elections in fo great a forwardness, we may poffibly meet before the Day appointed; or if Matters go on to my SatisfaЄtion, I may perhaps put off the meeting to a further Day: but of this publick notice fhall be given.

IN the mean time, I must confefs that I am not a little gratify'd and obliged by that Concern which appears in this great City upon my prefent Defign of laying down this Paper. It is likewife with much Satisfaction, that I find some of the moft outlying Parts of the Kingdom alarmed upon this Occafion, having received Letters to expoftulate with me about it, from feveral of my Readers of the remotest Boroughs

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Boroughs of Great Britain. Among these I am very well pleafed with a Letter dated from Berwick upon Tweed, wherein my Correfpondent compares the Office which I have for fome time executed in thefe Realms to the weeding of a great Garden; which, fays he, it is not fufficient to weed once for all, and afterwards to give over, but that the Work must be continued daily, or the fame Spots of Ground which are cleared for a while, will in a little time be over-run as much as ever. Another Gentleman lays before me feveral Enormities that are already fprouting, and which he believes will difcover themselves in their full Growth immediately after my difappearance. There is no doubt, fays he, but the Ladies Heads will fhoot up as foon as they know they are no longer under the Spectator's Eye; and I have already feen fuch monftrous broad-brimmed Hats under the Arms of Foreigners, that I queftion not but they will overfhadow the Inland within a Month or two after the dropping of your Paper. But among all the Letters which are come to my Hands, there is none fo handfomly written as the following one, which