even of informing against others, or else they will be still under Sufpicion. The enriching of Shrines and Relics, the adorning Churches and Images, an affected Devotion to Saints, with the Pomp of Endowments, 'will be then the Tefts by which Mens Af'fections will be judged. The bare doing

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what is commanded will not ferve turn: The Wealth with which God bleffes any, must be applied to the Endowing of Altars, the Founding of perpetual Masses, and the Redemption of Souls out of Purgatory. A Multitude of Holidays must take Men off from their Labour, but Proceffions will come in place of that, which though they 'impoverish the Laity, yet will be turned to 'the enriching thofe who deal in that Traf 4. fick.

AS to the new Converts mentioned above before the laft Quotation, I muft remark, that a Fellow in the Coffee-house where I read that the Sale of the Eftates of New Converts was forbidden, faid, We would not care a Farthing for that, if the new Converts amongst us were forbidden to purchase. I know not what he meant by that, nor am I refponfible to find out his Meaning, but am at Liberty to fob off my Readers, as I have, when a Reader, been delayed my felf, till Time shall discover these Matters; and in the Interim to fay, whether I think it or not, that these Matters want Confirmation.

THE Reader may fee with what Familiarity of Stile I treat him; but he will hope, excuse me, when this is only to recover loft Time, by impofing upon others as I have been

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my self, and defiring of them to bear with me as well as they have done with my Predeceffors in Scribbling. This Favour I will deferve, by being an Obferver upon all that is written by other Journalists, and being partial to no Author but my felf. The Poft-boy is a confiderable Man; the Courant, you fee, I have quoted already; the Poft man is a Neuter, but against his Confcience; the Examiner has no Confcience; the Lover is a Cheat, for he is a married Man; and the Flying-Poft has a bundance of Miftakes, which he never commits by little and little, but is wrong or right from the Beginning to the End of a Paper.

BESIDES this, there are abundance of Books printed every Day, which I fhall take Notice of, and put my felf to the Labour of Reading hap-hazzard, without staying till I hear them commended. This, let me tell you, is a great Help to Men of good Eftates, who are not obliged to be fo exact in their Reading; and I'll take Care that he who talks after me, fhall talk well enough for a Man of Quality. Let me tell you again, this is a great Matter; the Rich by my Means may adorn themfelves by the Labours of the Poor, and the Poor feed by the Follies of the Rich; which indeed is as it fhould be.

I must take Notice that I have read the following Advertisement twice or thrice repeated.

WHEREAS there is a new Altar-Piece or Painting put up in the Chancel of the Church of White Chappel within the Diocess of London, (belonging to the Rector of the said Paris)

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wherein the Traytor Judas (contrary to all Figures ancient and modern) is drawn as fitting in an Elbow Chair, in a Priest's Gown and Band, and other Appearances of a dignified Clergy-man of the Church of England: Thefe are to give Notice, that if any Perfon or Perfons will discover who was the Defigner and Director of that impious Fancy, they, or either of them, fhall have 10 Guineas Reward immediately paid upon Information and Evidence fo given, in order to profecute any prophane Fellow concerned in it, by me

Willoughby Willey.

WHAT I have to fay to this Point is, That (if the Fact be true) the Minifter of the Church (if privy to it) who fuffered it to be erected, has done a thing that is in the higheft Degree a Scandal to his Character; and has given the Gentleman whom the unchriftian Man is faid to have caufed to be drawn in that Tablette, an Opportunity of imitating the most facred Character that fhould be there in his Patience, and turning the Judas upon him, who could with that Supper before him project fo treacherous and base an Affault upon the Reputation of his Brother, and confequently difappoint the Effect of his Ministry, which in Charity he ought to believe better directed than his own.

N° 2. Saturday, April 24.

Virtus repulfa nefcia fordide
Intaminatis fulget honoribus.

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Hor.

HE Title of my Paper may fufficiently explain the Defign of it, which is chiefly to difabufe thofe Readers who are impofed upon by the licentious Writers of this degenerate Age. The greatest Offender in this Kind is the Examiner. I know many Tober and intelligent Men are of Opinion, that his Affertions are fo grofs, and his Falfhood fo visible, that there is no Need of taking any Notice of him: But I am of another Mind'; for all fuch People as have not Temper enough to reflect upon Reasoning against him, are fa tisfied if more Words are put into their Mouths to vent that Rage, which they have not Patience to root quite out, or perhaps atter having gone fome Lengths which they are afhamed of, want Candour to retract their Errors. The Examiner has a great while had nothing else to utter but meer Words of Paffion; and his Paper which came out this 23d of April, is written in this Tafte. After putting the following Words in Italick Letters, at fuch Distances as he thinks are ornamental to his Paper, Whigs, Government, Fears, Fealoufies, Peace at home, Sedition, Sufpicions, Cenfures, Murmurs, Dreams, Prophecies, Ru

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mour, Report, Ghofts, Apparitions, honourable Amends, and Scarecrow, he begins to be a little understood, and feems to say that those Whigs, a People not yet defcribed by him, but in general Revilings, fo that it is impoffi ble to tell whom he means; but he fays of them, That instead of making Atonement for their paft Sins, they are still reviving their own Shame and Infamy, and ringing over the fame Chimes in our Ears without ceafing, Popery! the Pretender! French Tyranny! Dunkirk not demolished! Toby Butler! the Highlands! Swarms of Jacobites! the Catalans! the Peace! Importation of Jefuits! Invafions from Bar-leduc! All these ftale noify Topicks are still flying about our Ears like Wild-fire wrapp'd up in Paper. Give me Leave to obferve, this Au-. thor has put the Peace in very bad Company, and no one but he would dare to take the Liberty to put it, in the moft oblique Way, on the fame Foot of being mentioned with the Cafe of the Catalans, and the Importation of Jefuits. But after the Climax of Diftreffes from the Word Popery to the Words Invafions from Bar-le-duc, he has not thought fit to obviate any Arguments heretofore used, that all good Men fhould be alarmed at the Growthi of Power in a fuperftitious Prince, who has been formerly the Patron of the Pretender: Nay he is fo far from doing any thing like this, that he ftrives to abate the Pleasure Men take in the Hopes of the Arrival of a Prince from Hanover, who is the Third in the Succeffion to the Crown after Her Majefty withOut Iffue.