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and told us his client had been hung up' a whole term by a writ of error. At this I could bear it no longer, but came hither, and resolved to apply myself to your honour to interpose with these gentlemen, that they would leave off such low and unnatural expressions; for surely though the lawyers subscribe to hideous French and false Latin, yet they should let their clients have a little decent and proper English for their money. What man that has a value for a good name would like to have it said in a public court, that Mr. Such-a-one was stripped, saddled, or hung up? This being what has escaped your Spectatorial observation, be pleased to correct such an illiberal cant among professed speakers, and you will infinitely oblige

"Joe's Coffee-house,

Nov. 28."

"Your humble servant,
"PHILONICUS

*No. 551 is not lettered in the Spec. in folio, nor has it any signature in the 8vo. or 12mo. editions of 1712.

No. 552. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1712.

— Qui prægravat artes

Infra se positas: exstinctus amabitur idem.

HOR. EPIST. ii. 1. 15.

For those are hated that excel the rest,
Although when dead, they are beloved and blest.

CREECH.

As I was tumbling about the town the other day in a hackney-coach, and delighting myself with busy scenes in the shops on each side of me, it came into my head, with no small remorse, that I had not been frequent enough in the mention and recommendation of the industrious part of mankind. It very naturally, upon this occasion, touched my conscience in. particular, that I had not acquitted myself to my friend Mr. Peter Motteux. That industrious man of trade, and formerly brother of the quill, has dedicated to me a poem upon tea. It would injure him as a man of business, if I did not let the world know that the author of so good verses writ them before he was concerned in traffic. In order to expiate my negligence towards him, I immediately resolved to make him a visit. I found his spacious warehouses filled and adorned with tea, China and Indian-ware. I could observe a beautiful ordonnance of the whole ; and such different and considerable branches of trade carried on in the same house, I exulted in seeing disposed by a poetical head. In one place were exposed to view silks of various shades and colours, rich brocades, and the wealthiest products of foreign looms. Here you might see the finest laces held up by the fairest hands; and, there, examined by the

beauteous eyes of the buyers, the most delicate cambrics, muslins, and linens. I could not but congratulate my friend on the humble, but I hoped beneficial, use he had made of his talents, and wished I could be a patron to his trade, as he had been pleased to make me of his poetry. The honest man has, I know, that modest desire of gain which is peculiar to those who understand better things than riches; and I dare say he would be contented with much less than what is called wealth in that quarter of the town which he inhabits, and will oblige all his customers with demands agreeable to the moderation of his desires.

Among other omissions of which I have been also guilty, with relation to men of industry of a superior order, I must acknowledge my silence towards a proposal frequently enclosed to me by Mr. Renatus Harris, organ-builder. The ambition of this artificer is to erect an organ in St. Paul's cathedral, over the west door, at the entrance into the body of the church, which in art and magnificence shall transcend any work of that kind ever before invented. The proposal in perspicuous language sets forth the honour and advantage such a performance would be to the British name, as well that it would apply the power of sounds in a manner more amazingly forcible than perhaps has yet been known, and I am sure to an end much more worthy. Had the vast sums which have been laid out upon operas without skill or conduct, and to no other purpose but to suspend or vitiate our understandings, been disposed this way, we should now, perhaps, have had an engine so formed as to strike the minds of half a people at once in a place of worship, with a forgetfulness of present care and calamity, and a hope of endless rapture, joy, and hallelujah hereafter.

When I am doing this justice, I am not to forget

the best mechanic of my acquaintantance, that useful servant to science and knowledge, Mr. John Rowley; but think I lay a great obligation on the public, by acquainting them with his proposals for a pair of new globes. After his preamble, he promises in the said proposals that,

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Care shall be taken that the fixed stars be placed according to their true longitude and latitude, from the many and correct observations of Hevelius, Cassini, Mr. Flamstead, reg. astronomer; Dr. Halley, Savilian professor in geometry in Oxon; and from whatever else can be procured to render the globe more exact, instructive, and useful.

That all the constellations be drawn in a curious, new, and particular manner, each star in so just, distinct, and conspicuous a proportion, that its true magnitude may be readily known by bare inspection, according to the different light and sizes of the stars. That the track, or way of such comets as have been well observed, but not hitherto expressed in any globe, be carefully delineated in this.'

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That, by reason the descriptions formely made, both in the English and Dutch great globes, are erroneous, Asia, Africa, and America, be drawn in a manner wholly new; by which means it is to be noted that the undertakers will be obliged to alter the latitude of some places in ten degrees, the longitude of others in twenty degrees; besides which great and necessary alterations, there be many remarkable countries, cities, towns, rivers, and lakes, omitted in other globes, inserted here according to the best discoveries

made by our late navigators. Lastly, that the course of the trade-winds, the monsoons, and other winds periodically shifting between the tropics, be visibly expressed.

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Now, in regard that this undertaking is of so universal use, as the advancement of the most necessary parts of the mathematics, as well as tending to the honour of the British nation, and that the charge of carrying it on is very expensive, it is desired that all gentlemen who are willing to promote so great a work, will be pleased to subscribe on the following

conditions.

I. The undertakers engage to furnish each subscriber with a celestial and terrestrial globe, each of thirty inches diameter, in all respects curiously adorned, the stars gilded, the capital cities plainly distinguished, the frames, meridians, horizons, hourcircles, and indexes, so exactly finished up, and accurately divided, that a pair of these globes will really appear in the judgement of any disinterested and intelligent person, worth fifteen pounds more than will be demanded for them by the undertakers.

II. Whosoever will be pleased to subscribe, and pay twenty-five pounds in the manner following for a pair of the globes, either for their own use, or to present them to any college in the universities, or any public library or school, shall have his coat of arms, name, title, seat, or place of residence, &c. inserted in some convenient place of the globe.

III. That every subscriber do at first 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 said globes be delivered within twelve months after the number of thirty subscribers be completed: and that the subscribers be served with globes in the order in which they subscribed.

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