"A war-horse belonging to one of the Colonels of the "Artillery, to be let or fold. He may be feen adorned. "with ribbands, and fet forth to the best advantage,, the next training day." N° 62. Thursday, September 1, 1709. T White's Chocolate-houfe, August 314 HIS place being frequented by perfons of condi tion, I am defired to recommend a dog-kennel to any who shall want a pack. It lies, not far from Suffolk ftreet, and is kept by two who were formerly Dragoons in the French fervice; but left plundering for the more. orderly life of keeping Dogs: Befides that, according to their expectation, they find it more profitable, as well as more conducing to the fafety of their fkin, to follow this trade, than the beat of drum. Their refidence is very convenient for the Dogs to whelp in, and bring up a right breed to follow the fcent. The most eminent of the kennel are blood-hounds, which lead the van, and, are as follow: A lift of the Dogs.. Fowler, of a right Irish breed, called Captain. Rockwood, of French race, with long hair, by the courtesy of England called alfo Captain. Pompey, a tall hound, kennelled in a Convent in France, and knows a rich foil. These two laft hunt in couple, and are followed by Ringwood, a French black whelp of the fame breed, a fine open-mouthed dog; and an old fick hound, always in kennel, but of the true blood, with a good nofe, French breed. There There is alfo an Italian grey-hound, with good legs, and knows perfectly the ground from Ghent to Paris. Ten fetting-dogs, right English. Four mongrels, of the fame nation: Thefe curs are fo extremely hungry, that they are too keen at the fport, and worry their game before the keepers can come in. The other day a wild boar from the north rushed into the kennel, and at first indeed defended himself against the whole pack; but they proved at laft too many for him, and tore twenty-five pounds of flesh from off his back, with which they filled their bellies, and made fo great a noife in the neighbourhood, that the keepers are obliged to haften the fale. That quarter of the town where they are kennelled, is generally inhabited by ftrangers, whofe blood the hounds have often fucked in fuch a manner, that many a German Count, and other Virtuofi, who came from the cortinent, have loft the intention of their travels, and been unable to proceed on their journey. If thefe hounds are not very foon difpofed of to fome good purchafer, as alfo thofe at the kennels near Saint James's, it is humbly propofed, that they may be all together tranfported to America, where the dogs are few, and the wild beasts many: Or, that during their stay in these parts, fome eminent Juftice of the peace may have it in particular direction to vifit their harbours; and that the fheriff of Middlesex may allow him the affiftance of the common hangman to cut off their ears, or part of them, for diftinction-fake, that we may know the blood-hounds from the mongrels and fetters. Until thefe things are regulated, you may enquire at an house belonging to Paris, at the upper end of Suffolk-ftreet, or an house belonging to Ghent, oppofite to the lower end of Pall-mall, and know further. It were to be wished that the curs were difpofed of; for it is a very great nuifance to have them tolerated in cities. That of London takes care, that the Common Hunt, affifted by the ferjeants and bailiffs, expel them wherever they are found within the walls; though it is faid, fome private families keep them, to the destruction of of their neighbours: But it is defired, that all who know of any of thefe curs, or have been bit by them, would fend me their marks, and the houses where they are harboured; and I do not doubt but I fhall alarm the people fo well, as to have them ufed like mad dogs wherever they appear. In the mean time, I advise all fuch as entertain this kind of vermin, that if they give me timely notice that their Dogs are difmiffed, I shall let them go unregarded; otherwife am obliged to admonish my fellow fubjects in this behalf, and inftruct them how to avoid being worried, when they are going about their lawful profeffions and callings. There was lately a young Gentleman bit to the bone; who has now indeed recovered his health, but is as lean as a skeleton. It grieved my heart to fee a Gentleman's fon run among the hounds; but he is, they tell me, as fleet and as dangerous as the beft of the pack. Will's Coffee-house, August 31. This evening was fpent at our table in difcourfe of propriety of words and thoughts, which is Mr. Dryden's definition of Wit; but a very odd fellow, who would intrude upon us, and has a brifknefs of imagination more like madness than regular thoughts, faid, that Harry Jacks was the first who told him of the taking of the cital of Tournay; and, says he, Harry deferves a ftatue more than the boy who ran to the fenate with a thorn in his foot, to tell of a victory. We were aftonished at the affertion, and Spondee asked him, What affinity is there between that boy and Harry, that you fay their merit has fo near a refemblance as you just now told us? Why, fays he, Harry, you know, is in the French intereft, and it was more pain to him to tell the ftory of Tournay, than to the boy to run upon a thorn to relate a victory which he was glad of. The Gentleman, who was in the chair upon the subject of propriety of words and thoughts, would by no means allow, that there was Wit in this comparifon; and urged, that to have any thing gracefully faid, it must be natural; but that whatfoever was introduced in common difcourfe with so much premeditation, was infufferable. That critic went on : Had Had Mr. Jacks, faid he, told him the citadel was taken, and another had anfwered, He deferves a ftatue as well as the Roman boy, for he told it with as much pain, it might have paffed for a fprightly expreffion; but there is a Wit for difcourfe, and a Wit for writing. The eafinefs and familiarity of the firft is not to favour in the least of ftudy; but the exactness of the other is to admit of fomething like the freedom of difcourfe, efpecially in treatifes of Humanity, and what regards the Belles Lettres. I do not in this allow, that Bickerfaff's Tatlers, or difcourfe of Wit by retail, and for the penny, fhould come within the defcription of Writing. I bowed at his compliment, and-But he would not let me proceed. You fee in no place of converfation the perfection of fpeech fo much as in an accomplished woman. Whether it be, that there is partiality irrefiftible when we judge of that Sex, or whatever it is, you may obferve a wonderful freedom in their utterance, and an eafy flow of words, without being distracted (as we often are who read much) in the choice of dictions and phrafes. My Lady Courtly is an inftance of this: She was talking the other day of dress, and did it with fo excellent an air and gesture, that you would have fworn fhe had learned her action from our Demosthenes. Befides which, her words were fo particularly well adapted to the matter she talked of, that though drefs was a new thing to us men, fhe avoided the terms of art in it, and defcribed an unaffected garb and manner in fo proper terms, that fhe came up to that of Horace's Simplex Munditiis ; which, whoever can tranflate in two words has as much eloquence as Lady Courtly. I took the liberty to tell her, that all fhe had faid with fo much good grace, was, fpoken in two words in Horace, but would not undertake to tranflate them; upon which the fmiled, and told me, the believed me a very great fcholar; and I took my leave. From my own Apartment, August 31. I have been just now reading the introduction to the hiftory of Catiline by Salluft, an author who is very much in my favour: But when I reflect upon his profeffing himself himself wholly difinterefted, and at the fame time see how industriously he has avoided faying any thing to the praife of Cicero, to whofe vigilance the common-wealth owed its fafety, it very much leffens my efteem for that writer; and is one argument among others, for laughing. at all who pretend to be out of the interests of the world, and profefs purely to act for the fervice of mankind, without the leaft regard to themselves. I do not deny. but that the rewards are different; fome aim at riches, others at honour, by their public fervices. However, they are all pursuing fome end to themselves, though indeed thofe ends differ as much as right and wrong. The moft graceful way then, I should think, would be to ac-. knowledge, that you aim at ferving yourfelves; but at the fame time make it appear, it is for the fervice of others that you have thefe opportunities. Of all the difinterested profeffors I have ever heard of, I take the Boatswain of Dampier's fhip to be the most impudent, but the moft excufable. You are to know, that in the wild fearches that navigator was making, they happened to be out at fea, far diftant from any fhore, in want of all the neceffaries of life; infomuch, that they began to look, not without hunger, on each other. The. Boatswain was a fat, healthy, fresh fellow, and attracted the eyes of the whole crew. In fuch an extreme neceffity, all forms of fuperiority were laid afide: The Captain and Lieutenant were fafe only by being carrion, and the unhappy Boatfwain in danger only by being worth eating. To be fhort, the company were unanimous, and the Boatswain must be cut up. He faw their intention, and defired he might speak a few words before they proceeded; which being permitted, he delivered himfelf as follows: Gentlemen Sailors, "Far be it that I-fhould fpeak it for any private in"tereft of my own; but I take it, that I fhould not die "with a good confcience, if I did not confefs to you, "that I am not found. I fay, Gentlemen, juftice, and "the teftimony of a good confcience, as well as love of "my country, to which I hope you will all return, |