N° 113. Thursday, December 29, 1709. Ecce iterum Crifpinus! Once more Crifpinus comes upon the stage. W Hay-market, December 23. Juv. at his Hereas the Gentleman that behaved himself in a very difobedient and obftinate manner late trial in Sheer-lane on the twentieth inftant, and was carried off dead upon taking away of his Snuff-box, remains ftill unburied; the Company of Upholders not knowing otherwife how they should be paid, have taken his goods in execution to defray the charge of his funeral. His faid effects are to be expofed to fale by auction, at their office in the Hay-market, on the fourth of January next, and are as follows: A very rich tweezer-cafe, containing twelve inftruments for the use of each hour in the day. Four pounds of fcented fnuff, with three gilt fnuffboxes; one of them with an invifible hinge, and looking-glafs in the lid. Two more of ivory, with the portaitures on their lids of two Ladies of the town; the originals to be seen every night in the fide-boxes of the play-house. A fword with a fteel diamond hilt, never drawn but once at May-fair. Six clean packs of cards, a quart of Orange-flowerwater, a pair of French fciffars, a tooth-pick-cafe, and an eye-brow brush. A large glafs-cafe, containing the linen and clothes. of the deceafed; among which are, two embroidered. fuits, a pocket perfpective, a dozen pair of red-heeled. Moes, fhoes, three pair of red filk ftockings, and an amberheaded cane. The ftrong box of the deceased, wherein were found, five billet-doux, a Bath fhilling, a crooked fixpence, a filk garter, a lock of hair, and three broken fans. as, A prefs for books; containing on the upper shelf, Two boxes of pills. A fyringe, and other mathematical Inftruments. On the second shelf are feveral mifcellaneous works; Lampoons. Taylors bills. And an almanac for the year feventeen hundred. On the third fhelf, A bundle of Letters unopened, indorfed, in the hand of the deceased, "Letters from the old Gentleman." Leflons for the flute. Teland's chriftianity not myfterious: And a paper filled with patterns of feveral fashionable stuffs. One shoe. On the lowest shelf, A pair of fnuffers. A French grammar. A mourning hatband; and half a bottle of ufquebaugh. There will be added to thefe goods, to make a complete auction, a collection of gold fnuff-boxes and clouded canes, which are to continue in fashion for three months after the fale. The whole are to be fet up and prized by Charles Bubbleboy, who is to open the auction with a speech. I find I am fo very unhappy, that while I am bufy in correcting the folly and vice of one Sex, feveral exorbitances break out in the other. I have not thoroughly examined examined their new fashioned petticoats, but fhall fet afide one day in the next week for that purpofe. The following petition on this fubject was prefented to me this morning. The humble petition of William Jingle, Coach-maker and Chair-maker of the liberty of Westminster. To ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, Efquire, Cenfor of Great-Britain: SHEWETH, "That upon the late invention of Mrs. Catherine "Cross-ftitch, mantua-maker, the petticoats of Ladies were too wide for entering into any coach or chair "which was in ufe before the faid invention. 66 "That for the fervice of the faid Ladies, your peti"tioner has built a round chair, in the form of a lan"tern, fix yards.and an half in circumference, with a "ftool in the centre of it; the faid vehicle being fo "contrived, as to receive the paffenger by opening in "two in the middle, and clofing mathematically when fhe is feated. "That your petitioner has alfo invented a coach for "the reception of one Lady only, who is to be let in at "the top. "That the faid coach has been tried by a Lady'swoman in one of these full petticoats, who was let "down from a balcony, and drawn up again by pullies, "to the great fatisfaction of her Lady, and all who be"held her. "Your petitioner therefore moft humbly prays, that "for the encouragement of ingenuity and ufeful inven"tions, he may be heard before you pass sentence upon "the Petticoats aforefaid. And your Petitioner, &c. I have likewife received a female petition, figned by feveral thoufands, praying, that I would not any longer defer giving judgment in the cafe of the Petticoat, many of them having put off the making new clothes, until fuch 331 fuch time as they know what verdict will pafs upon it. I do therefore hereby certify to all whom it may concern, that I do defign to fet apart Tuesday next for the final determination of that matter, having already ordered a jury of matrons to be impanelled, for the clearing up of any difficult points that may arife in the trial. "Being informed that feveral dead men in and about "this city do keep out of the way and abfcond, for fear "of being buried; and being willing to refpite their interment, in confideration of their families, and in hopes of their amendment, I fhall allow them certain "privileged places, where they may appear to one ano"ther, without caufing any let or moleftation to the living, or receiving any in their own perfons from "the company of Upholders. Between the hours of feven and nine in the morning, they may appear in fafety at Saint James's Coffe-houfe, or at White's, if "they do not keep their beds, which is more proper "for men in their condition. From nine to eleven, I "allow them to walk from Story's to Rofamond's pond "in the Park, or in any other public walks which are not frequented by the living at that time. Between "eleven and three, they are to vanish, and keep out of fight until three in the afternoon, at which time they may go to the Exchange until five; and then, if they please, divert themselves at the Hay-market, or .i Drury-lane, until the play begins. It is further granted in favour of these perfons, that they may be "received at any table, where there are more prefent "than feven in number: Provided, that they do not take 66 upon them to talk, judge, commend, or find fault "with any fpeech, action, or behaviour, of the living. "In which cafe it fhall be lawful to feize their perfons at any place or hour whatfoever, and to convey their "bodies to the next Undertaker's; any thing in this "advertisement to the contrary notwithstanding." Saturday, N° 114. Saturday, December 31, 1709. Ut in vitâ, fic in ftudiis, pulcherrimum & humaniffimum exiftimo, feveritatem comitatemque mifcere, ne illa in triftitiam, hæc in petulantiam procedat. PLIN. Epift. As in a man's life, fo in his ftudies, I think it the moft beautiful and humane thing in the world, fo to mingle gravity with pleafantry, that the one may not fink into melancholy, nor the other rife up into wantonnefs. Sheer-lane, December 30. Was walking about my chamber this morning in a very gay humour, when I faw a coach fop at my door, and a youth about fifteen alighting out of it, whom I perceived to be the eldest fon of my bofom friend, that I gave fome account of in my Paper of the feventeenth of the laft month. I felt a fenfible pleasure rifing in me at the fight of him, my acquaintance having begun with his father when he was just such a stripling, and about that very age. When he came up to me, he took me by the hand, and burst out in tears. I was extremely moved, and immediately faid, Child, how does your father do? He began to reply, My mother-But could not go on for weeping. I went down with him into the coach, and gathered out of him, that his mother was then dying, and that while the holy man was doing the lat offices to her, he had taken that time to come and call me to his father, who, he faid, would certainly break his heart if I did not go and comfort him. The child's difcretion in coming to me of his own head, and the enderness he fhewed for his parents, which have quite |