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A 
 
 SUPPLEMENT 
 
 T O 
 
 Lord A N S N' s 
 
 VOYAGE 
 
 ROUND THE 
 
 WORLD. 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 A Discovery and Description of the 
 Island of FRIVOLA. 
 
 BY THE 
 
 Abbe C O T E R. 
 
 To which is prefix'd, 
 An Introductory Preface by the Translator. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for A. Millar in the Strand; and J. Whiston and 
 
 B. White, in Fleetjlreet. M. DCC. LII. 
 
 [ Price Two Shillings. ] 
 
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 Introductory PREFACE 
 
 BY THE 
 
 TRANSLATOR. 
 
 THIS little Piece merits our Attention on many Accounts. 
 It is very happily conceived, very ingeniously executed, 
 and has met with univerfal Applaufe, not only in France, but in al- 
 moft every Country upon the Continent, where it has followed the 
 Book upon which it is founded, and has very juftly merited that. 
 Title which it now bears. We very often fee florid Compofures, that 
 promife prodigious Things, and with an affected Air of fuperior 
 Science impofe upon the Vulgar ; but upon thorough Examina- 
 tion are found to be no more than elaborate Trifles. This Per- 
 formance is di redly the Revcrfe, it promifes Amufement ; it 
 has all the ravilhing Airs, and all the delightful Graces of an 
 high finilhed Romance ; but at the fame Time, it is a fevere and 
 judicious Crificif/n, upon the almoft innumerable Follies of the 
 prefent Age. It would pleafe if it had only Life, Spirit and Rail- 
 lery to recommend it. It ought to command our Attention, even 
 if thoi'e Beauties were wanting, from the Generofity of the Defign, 
 and that noble Freedom of Thought that reigns throughout. It 
 
 a refem- 
 
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 refembles, fo far as they are laudable, the Eulogy of Folly by 
 Erafmus, the Utopia of Sir Thomas Moor, and the Atlantis of the 
 Vifcount of St. Albans, without any of their Imperfections ; for as 
 it begins in a very lively Manner, it proceeds uniformly and con- 
 cludes excellently. 
 
 It contains a Polite Satire upon the French, a very high Pane- 
 geric on the Englijlj Nation. 
 
 In his Defcription of an imaginary Country we are given to 
 understand, that there cannot be a greater Folly, than for People 
 to perfuade themfelves they arc improving, when in reality they 
 are forcing, violating, and distorting Nature. The Confequences 
 of thefe fallacious Arts are very whimfically reprefented, and the 
 Grotelque Picture of a Country, wliere the Productions are all 
 fubtilized by Art, till they become utterly unfit for the wife 
 Purpofes for which Providence defigned them, is very pleafant and 
 furprifing, at the fame Time that it is very juft and perfedtly con- 
 fident with Truth. Good Senfe teaches, and Great Men have 
 affirmed, that Nature may be improved ; but this is to be done 
 by following her Steps, ajjijling her Endeavours, and promoting 
 her Labours, not by crofling, contradicting and counter-acting her, 
 which Experience will inform us (if we are not wife enough to 
 take it upon this Author's Word) can extort only fantastical Ap- 
 pearances, delufory Triumphs, and nothing that can pofiibly 
 conduce either to the Benefit or Happifiefs of Mankind. 
 
 When he comes to fpeak of the Inhabitants, he fhews us with 
 great Strength of Thought and Vivacity of Expreflion, what a 
 Train of ridiculous Abfurdities, inevitably attend upon falfe Tajle. 
 When forgetting thofe neceflary Distinctions that arife from Age, 
 Rank,oxProfeJJion,2, whole Nation gives an indifcriminate Loofe to 
 their wild Paflions for Drefs, Furniture and Diver/ions, When the Old 
 
 Strive 
 
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 ftrivc to hide a Circumitance that ought to render them Venerable, 
 not from others but from them/elves, and fo lofe the Benefit of 
 Experience, at the fame Time that they are del pi fed bv thofe in 
 whofe Follies thev prepofferoufly delire to have a Share. When the 
 Sex who fliould be the Patrons of Modcfty and Decency in their 
 full Extent, piqueing thcmfelves upon Precifenefs, in Point of Form, 
 while they indulge thcmfelvcs in every grcjfer Refpeil, lay on 
 the Colour of Virtue, to hinder Vice from appearing frightftd, lb 
 th.it their Minds and their Faces are equally Falfe ; lad the giddy 
 Purfuit of a tumultuary Gallantry, deftroys that noble and ne- 
 celi'ary Ci'ineclicn, which Providence intended for the Support and 
 BleJJing of human Nature. When all real Senfe of Dignity being 
 obliterated, Magijlratcs, Generals, State/men, blend all their great 
 Abilities, with a mean Attachment to trifling Pleafures, and fet 
 themfelvcs on the Level every Evening in their Diver fions with 
 thofe whom they govern in the Day ; and fooliihly fancy that 
 this may be done without Diminution of Character, or without 
 lifting the Theatrical Heroes they admire by that very Circum- 
 stance above Themfelves in Vulgar E/iiwation. 
 
 There are even fome bolder Strokes than thefe which reach 
 through Perfons at Things, and point out many Flaws and Defedts 
 both in their Civil and Religious Administration, which is an in- 
 conteftible Proof that Good Senfe is every where the fame, and that 
 even in Arbitrary Governments, Men of Gcjiius will find a Way 
 to exprefs their Contempt of folemn Fooleries and revered Ahfur- 
 dities, and this borrows lb much Elegance and Beauty from the 
 Manner in which it is done, that even thofe who feel the hldgc of 
 the Satire, are inclined to pardon the Stroke out of regard to the 
 Honefty of the Intention, and the Addrefs fhewn in the Manage- 
 ment of fo dangerous a Weapon. Indeed, the Author's Patriotifm 
 1 is 
 
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 k his highcft Character, his Ridicule is every where juftly point- 
 ed, and if he rallies his own Nation feverely, they owe it folely to 
 their Exceffes, and not at all to the Severity of his Difpofition, of 
 which indeed there is not -^Feature to be difcerned throughout his 
 whole Work. 
 
 In regard to his Panegyric, we are to confider, 
 First, That it is the pure Effects of his Impartiality arifing 
 from the Comparifon of the Idea he has formed of the Genius of 
 our Nation, with that of his own. He delivers himfelf upon this 
 Head with great Freedom, from a juft Perfuafion, that nothing 
 good or great can be attained, but by a fteady Purfuit of Truth. 
 To this he facrifices all that vulgar Self-Conceit, by which the 
 French in general are drawn into a fond Perfuafion, that they ex- 
 ceed all other Nations, almoft in the fame Degree that the reft of 
 Mankind tranfeend other Animals. That in Point of Courage, 
 Wifdom, Science, Wit, and Politenefs, they move in a fuperior 
 Orb ; and that whatever appears of thefe excellent Qualities in 
 other Nations, is borrowed by Reflection* or caught by Imitation. 
 This oftentatious Folly he treats as it deferves, and points out very 
 clearly its terrible Effeds, by introducing Contempt of the only 
 Method by which Learning and Arts can be kept from running 
 into Extravagance, and exalting Caprice under the plaufible 
 Name of Taste to that Office which ought ever to be held by 
 Good Sense ; yet all this is done not to deride, or to degrade, but 
 to fhame his Countrymen into what is honejl, laudable, and great. 
 It is for this Reafon that, 
 
 Secondly, he points to Us as ftanding in his Opinion porTeffied 
 of fome high and admirable Qualities which the French, notwith- 
 ftanding their good Opinion of themfelves, hardly comprehend. 
 He defcribes Us as admiring Arts and Sciences only as Inftruments 
 of public Good, preferring that to every private Advantage, and 
 
 making 
 
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 making the Welfare of all the ruling PafTion in every IrJ- . 
 He inftances that Zeal, that Intrepidity and Spirit which the lbi- 
 ti/Jj Nation have lhewn in improving Navigation, braving the 
 greateft Dangers in fearch of ujeful Difcovcries, and railing there 
 by a greater and more glorious Maritime Power thznA/ia in Tyre 
 or Africa in Carthage, could ever boajl. Be it our Builncfs not 
 to bring Difcredit on this Piece, by anfwering but indifferently to 
 v hat this elegant Writer has vouched for us ; let us, at leaft, learn 
 from him what in our Conduct Foreigners would moft admire ; and 
 let us make ufe of the good Advice given in that weighty Line 
 which Pope wifely borrowed, and judicioufly commends, viz. 
 
 Praise undeferued is Satire wr Disguise. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE 
 
 Editor's Preface 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 Dutch EDITION. 
 
 To the Reader, 
 fV*0 U are about to perufe this Difcovery of the Ifland of Frivola, 
 but do you know what you are doing 2 Have you any Appre- 
 henfion of the Rifque you run ? You "will be charmed <with this fine and 
 ingenious Critic on the People of the prefent Age and their Manners* 
 Bid be upon your Guard with refpeSi to your J elf. You will not be 
 able to read four Pages, before you find yourf elf hit by fome fatirical 
 Stroke., which your Under/landing will approve, without confulting 
 your Pride. Alas I I know this by melancholy Experience. My Pa-* 
 rents gave me an Education too folid to qualify me for refined Tafle, 
 but Nature willjhew itfelf. I had very boldly read I can't tell how 
 many Books of Reflection, without ever reflecting, when /educed by 
 the T'itle, and the Succinct fiefs of this, I cafi my Eyes over it, and 
 /ball I tell you the 'Truth ? At the very fecond Page I made one Re- 
 flection, then another. I difcovered myfelf prefently. I looked clofely 
 into my own Breaft, • and found a mojl monjlrous Conjunction between a 
 Frivolian Soul and a Dutch Body. Oh, deareft Reader ! whom fome 
 happy Inf. i net has hitherto, it maybe, defended from the Plague of 
 'Thought ; flop, fiopjhort at the fir ft Reflection ; it will otherwife be- 
 get more. If indeed, according to the eftablifhed Cufiom, rifmg from 
 2 the 
 
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 tie natural Benignity of our own Hearts, thcfe fell only on our 
 Neighbours, Things ?night go on in their old Way : But you will ap- 
 ply them to your f elf : I give you friendly Notice of it, for this may 
 othcrwife produce an aftonifiingRevolution in you. Tou will no longer 
 believe that Nothings can deferve a high Price. Tou will labour to 
 reform, and to fix your Imagination, by giving it good Senfe for its 
 Guide. That oldfajhioned Good Senfc which has beenfo long out of 
 Date will cajl over your Intentions and your whole Conduct a Var- 
 niih of Antiquity, of which the World has no Comprehcnfion. In the 
 End, it is pojjible you may become a Man of Merit, a Man of Soli- 
 dity ; but to be a Man of Solidity before one has Grey Hairs, is to 
 be buried alive, and no lefs prepofterous, than making a Practice of 
 going regularly to Church before one- is Thirty. 
 
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 SUPPLEMENT 
 
 T o 
 
 Lord Anson's Voyage round the World. 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 A Discovery and Description of the Ifland of 
 Frivol a. 
 
 ADMIRAL 4NS0N has lately obliged the Public with 
 an interefting Hiftory of his Voyage round the Globe, 
 but why would he hide from our Knowledge an Ifland which 
 Nature deftined as much for our Ufc as hk ? Does this proceed 
 from that Singularity which reigns through his whole Work ? Is an 
 Englijhman afraid of fpeaking Truth, whenever that Truth happens 
 to be a little improbable ? A Frenchman dares go a Step farther ; 
 ill fuch a Cafe, at leaft, it is his Duty. It may be, after all, he 
 had ftill another Reafon, a Rcafon of State; for in his Manus- 
 cript I find the following marginal Note. " I made the whole 
 ** Squadron fwear by the /acred 'Liberty of the Engli/Jj Nation, 
 l< never to touch in their Difcourfe upon the Frivolous Ifland." On 
 the other hand, I hare fworn by the profoundSubmiJion, which is the 
 
 B Glory 
 
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 Glory of the French, that I will tell the World all I know. The 
 Public may judge whether the Squadron or I heft keep our Oaths. 
 It frmifies little to Mankind to be informed of the Manner in 
 which the Manufcript fell into my Hands > in making that known, 
 I muft betray him who betrayed the Admiral. The main Point 
 in refpecl: to the Public, is a faithful Tranjlation, and for that I 
 pawn you my Honour. 
 
 Admiral Anson after having doubled Cape Horn, expofed to 
 the Dangers of the moft tempeftuous of all Seas, and the Severi- 
 ty of the moft terrible of all Climates, after full feven Weeks of 
 fuccefiive Storms, which had feparated him from half his Squa- 
 dron, having fuffered in his Sails, Mails, and Rigging, occu- 
 pied without Recefs in flopping Leaks, that were difcovered one 
 Day after another, found his Force reduced to three VefTels,, 
 all of which were infected with the Scurvy, having thrown over 
 more dead Men, than there remained living, and thofe very fick, 
 perceived that even thefe were too many to fubfift on the fmall 
 Quantity of Provifions he had left : However, even in this Con- 
 dition he continued to form Schemes for depriving the Spaniards 
 of fome of their bed Places in America, or at leaft fharing in- 
 the Treafures which they derive from thence. 
 
 Never any Squadron furely flood more in need of a Place of 
 Refrefhment. He bore away, therefore, for the Ifland of Juan 
 Fernandez, in the Latitude of between thirty-fcur and thirty-five 
 Degrees South. An impetuous Guft from the North drove him 
 as InVh zsforty-five'Dzgrtzs, into that immenfe Ocean where none 
 had ever hoped or looked for Land. In this Situation a flridl Sur- 
 vey was made of Bifcuit and Water ; the Refult was a moral Cer- 
 tainty, that in two Days they muft perifh either through Hunger 
 or Thirl}. Being now at the Mercy of the Wind and Seas, a Sai- 
 lor 
 
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 lor llirprifed them with bawling out Land. To People pcrilhing, 
 anv Shore appears a Paradife : This which they difcovered lay 
 about fixtccn Leagues S r jUth-Jf r r/}. They crowded all their Sail 
 to reach it ; and the Wind finking as they drew towards Land, 
 thev entered founding every Minute into a Bay on the North-Side 
 of the Iiland, where they let fall their Anchors. There was no 
 Time loft in debarking, or in fetting up of Tents for the Sick. 
 A Wood, which formed a Kind of Amphitheatre above the Bay, 
 prefented to their View Abundance of Trees laden with Fruit, 
 which bore a near Refemblance to our Peaches, the lateft Prefcnt 
 of the Seaibn, for in that Country the Winter was drawing on. 
 
 They made no Difficulty of helping themfelves as foon as they 
 uvie within reach; but found their Stomachs much difappointed 
 in that Refreshment they expected. Thefe Fruits fo beautiful, fo 
 blufhing to the Eye, afforded oniy a fpongy Subftance, or rather 
 fomething that had the Appearance of Subftance, which did not at 
 all afluage the Appetite, or at beft afforded a (Tight Relief to Thirft. 
 The Trees correfponded exactly with the Fruit. A Sailor taking a 
 fpringing Leap, that he might climb the higher, the Body of the 
 Tree fnapt afunder, and throwing him into the midft of another, 
 by that Time he reached the Ground it was likewife torn up by the 
 Roots. The Admiral refolved to lofe no Time in fearchine for 
 frefh Water, and Provifions of a more folid Nature ; and putting 
 himfelf at the head of Ten of his Squadron, who were in the beft 
 Health, boldly began his March into the Heart of the Country. 
 The firft Inhabitants that prefented themfelves to View were a 
 Troop of Tygers. Thefe fierce Animals fprung upon them be- 
 fore they were perceived, but their Claws and their Teeth were 
 of a cartilaginous Subftance, formed rather for Shew and Ornament 
 thanlnftruments of Offence; fo that if their Appearance at firft creat- 
 
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 edFear, it was quickly over. After about four Hours March through 
 the Joreft, our gallant Sailors entered into a Plain over-run with 
 Buthes, laden with Flowers and Fruit. From this ProfpecT: they 
 were at a lofs to determine whether it was Winter or Summer in 
 the Ifland. This Doubt however did not laft long. If the Fruit 
 they met with at the Bay was good for tittle, this new Purchafe 
 afforded noExercileto their Teeth; but like the Phantoms railed by 
 Magicians, prefented a Form to the Eye, under which nothing was 
 to be dilcovered by the Tafte. The vegetable Soil having been 
 exhausted in the Summer by real Productions, that is, real with re- 
 ipedt to this Country, this Soil I fay, which contained without 
 <loubt abundance of Salt and Metallic Particles, exhibited in Win- 
 ter thofe Trees of Diana and Mars, thofe Gutters of tempting 
 Grapes and other Fruits, which are produced in our Laboratories, 
 by the Mixture of Mercury, Sal- Ammoniac, Filings of Metal, 
 and Spirit of Nitre. The Birds came and pecked thofe delufive 
 Vegetations, and feemed to be provoked at this Quackery of Nature ; 
 and yet they participated of the fame kind of Deceit themfelves : 
 Moft Part of them were of the Size of our Pheafants, and yet 
 their Throats were of the fame Dimenfion with thofe of Linnets ; 
 and to be entertained with the Notes of the Linnets of this Ifland \ 
 required Organs of Hearing infinitely more delicate, than thofe 
 with which Nature furnishes European Heads. 
 
 Advancing into the Plain they faw Horfes fattened to Trees, 
 Men toiling about feveral Inftruments, and Women who had each 
 of them a Pair of Bellows, with which fhe was blowing the Dutt. 
 This you mutt know was their Manner of cultivating the Earthy 
 if that could be called Earth which was as light as the finett Flour; 
 the Wind of the Bellows dextroufly applied by the female Peafant, 
 defcribed the Furrows into which the Men fcattered the Seed. 
 
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 At the Sight of our Strangers they all took Flight, and left nothing 
 behind but their Horfes, which might have been of Ufe had they 
 been ftrong enough to fupport a Rider. But alas ! the fir ft At- 
 tempt to mount crufhed them to the Earth. In this Cafe there was 
 no refource but following thefe frighted Clowns on Foot. Their 
 Habitation was not far off, the Alarm had fpread and they ap- 
 peared in a great Body to defend the Entrance of their Village, 
 armed with Bows and Scythes. His Prefence of Mind never de- 
 ferted the Admiral ; the Point he aimed at was Reconciliation, not 
 Conqueft. He halted therefore when they were within Bow-fhot, 
 and ordered his Men to grow:d their Pieces, and extend their 
 Hands towards their Opponents. The Expreflions taught by Na- 
 ture are every where intelligible ; the Women who formed the 
 fecond Line were rnftantly detached, and approached our Adven- 
 turers dancing. Hunger does not give a Man the bejl Air ; they 
 were however obliged to comply with the Mode of thefe Good- 
 natured Females, who led them with the true Minuet Step up to 
 their Hufbands. 
 
 They entered the Habitation, and having made their Wants 
 known by their Signs, were furnifhed with Bread and Meat ; but 
 great was the Surprize of their Hofts at feeing the ten Sailors 
 quickly fwallow more than would have ferved Thirty of thefe 
 Iflander?. Yet themfelves were ftill more amazed at finding their 
 Stomachs almoft as good as ever. The Bread very much rcfem- 
 bled our Wafers ; the Flefh was loofe, and almoft without Confift- 
 ence, a Sheep equal in Size to ours did not weigh Ten-pounds. 
 What approached neareft to Reality was their Water. The Idea 
 of Wine never occurred to thefe honeft Tars, and yet it made a 
 Part of their Entertainment. It was a kind of frothy Liquor, or, 
 to fpeak more exactly, it was nothing but Froth, which made a 
 
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 very pretty Figure in the Glafs and that was all. So many ftrange 
 Sights embarraffed the Admiral not a little ; but this was no Sea- 
 fon for phylical Enquiries, the Bufinefs was to fatisfy the Demands 
 of Nature. In this Repaft Quantity made amends for Quality, 
 and at laft they could not help owning that they had dined. 
 
 The Admiral did not wait the Digeftion of this Meal, with- 
 out contriving to get Food for his Brethren (an Exprefhon which 
 with us is not allowed amongft good Company, except to the Cler- 
 gy, but mull be admitted here, becaufe it is his own) but while 
 he was endeavouring to make thefe humane Iflanders underfland 
 what he meant, he was interrupted by two armed Men, who had 
 not fo obliging an Air as might be wifhed. Thefe were ja couple 
 of Land-Tax Collectors: They dragged in with them a poorPeafant, 
 with a Bundle upon his Back ; a young Woman followed, bathed 
 all in Tears, for the Lofs of her Hufband, and their only Bed. 
 The Officers gave her back a paltry Glafs Necklace, upon which 
 (lie immediately wiped her Eyes, and fell a frnging. This fhortDif- 
 turbance thus happily over, the Admiral repeated the Signs which 
 he had begun to make : The Method he took was to range eleven 
 fmall Stones in a Line, and then pointing to his People, gave 
 them to underfland they flood for him and his Men. He placed 
 behind thefe three hundred more, to exprefs the Crew of the 
 Squadron which he had debarked, extending his Hand towards 
 that Side of the Ifland where they had pitched their Tents, and 
 his Meaning was perfectly comprehended. But from fo fmall a 
 Hamlet as this, what Reliefcould.be expected for fuch a Number? 
 An old Man took him inftantl'y by the Hand, and conducting 
 him to an Eminence at a fmall Diflance, fhewed him from thence 
 a Maritime City, which in Point of Size fell very little, if at all, 
 ihort of London. He began his March towards it without De- 
 lay, 
 
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 lay, and reached it in a very lhort Time. A numerous Guard 
 was ported before the Gate, by whom he was obliged to ftop. 
 
 It is a Law in the Capital of the Illand of Frivola never to ad- 
 mit any Stranger, without clear Proof of his being porTefTed offome 
 'Talent that may be ftiled of Ufe ; and of this the Governor him- 
 felf is upon due Examination to judge: Hefpeedily made his Appear- 
 ance, accompanied by a Troop of Pantomimes, attending conftantly 
 on his Perfon, to prevent his Spirits from being exhaujled by the 
 Fatigms of Bitjinefs. 
 
 £>ui etes-vous ? (who are you ?) cried he, looking upon him with 
 an Air of Contempt : The Admiral was amazed to hear him fpeak 
 a Language he understood ; and flill more that this Language was 
 French. " We are Subjects of the Greatefl: Monarch in Europe." 
 There is no doubt, returned the Great Man, that this Europe of 
 yours mud be a very poor Place, lince it is not the firft Time that 
 it has fent hither Men but half clad, and that Cloathing none of 
 the beft. By the Brightnefs of the Empyreal Light, if my Peo- 
 ple were in fuch a Trim I mould pay for it with the Lofs of my 
 Place : But what is it you would have ? " Only leave to enter in- 
 " to your Port to refrefh and refit." Mighty well ! and what are 
 thofe Talents which are to gain you Admittance into Witsburgh? 
 " I have on board, faid the Admiral, Ship-wrights who are able to 
 " double the Velocity of a VeiTel's Motion by the Change of her 
 " Figure." At this theyfmiied. " People that underftand Mines, 
 " and from whom the Earth cannot conceal even her remotefl 
 " Trcafures." The Audience began to grin. Surgeons who are 
 " as well acquainted with the Inlide of a human Body, as you 
 " are with its Surface." They burft into a Horfe-laugh, and 
 would hear no more. 
 
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 The Admiral recollecting himfelf a little, conceived, that in 
 order to bring over thefe witty People, it would be necenary to 
 mention fuperior Talents, and fcientific Excellencies of a more 
 exalted Nature. It happened, that on board his Squadron he had 
 fome Men of Letters who had quitted all the Pleafures of Londcn:, 
 with a View to the general Good of Mankind, through the Dii- 
 covery, in confequence of their Obfervations, of the true Figure 
 of the Earth, and thereby fixing the Longitudes. " Wife and 
 " diftinguilhing Nation, faid he, I have alfo on board my VefTel 
 " Geographers who are as diftin&ly acquainted with this Globe of 
 •' Earth, as you are with your City; others fo deeply fkilled in 
 " Phyfics, that Nature has fcarce a Secret concealed from thei? 
 " View ; Mathematicians, who can meafure, weigh, and num- 
 " ber every Part of the Creation; nay, with refpect to myfelf, 
 " I who fpeak to you, can without quitting the Spot on which I 
 " ftand, tell you by the Help of a certain Science we call Tri- 
 " gonometry, the Heighth of yonder Tower, tho' it be two Miles 
 " diftant". As they were tired with laughing, a fHent Scorn 
 fucceeded. The Governor turned his Back, and the Barrier was 
 on the very Point of falling down, when an arch Fellow* in the 
 Crowd cried out, in broken Englijh, Harkee, my Lord, not a 
 Word more of thefe wonderful Qualifications, which I promife you 
 •will never open a Poftern in this Country. Ifirfi made my Way in- 
 to the City, and have f nee made a Fortune by Singing. The Ad- 
 miral took the Hint. " Mojl noble Governor, cried he, illuftrious 
 " Genius even in this Realm of Wits ! how came I to omit telling 
 " you, that our Nation excells in Dancing, Mufic, and Cookery ?" 
 At thefe Words the Governor faced about, and his Attendants 
 clapped. Matter Richard Walter, Parfon of the Centurion, a Man 
 of Mirth as well z* i Merit, and who upon occafion could play as 
 
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 well as preach, whipped out of his Side-pocket z German Flute, 
 an Inftrument never heard in Frivoland before, and applied it 
 to his Mouth ; upon which the Sailors and the Admiral himfelf 
 (who ever did the very Thing he ought) began a Hornpipe, 
 which threw all the fafhionable Dances in Witsburgh into Ob- 
 livion for a Month. If this gallant City, like the Egyptian 
 Thebf.s, had been adorned with an hundred Gates, they had 
 been all thrown open at once. The Guards at the Barrier, how- 
 ever, flopped their joyous Entry for a few Minutes, in order to 
 fearch the Strangers, and prevent their carrying any thing in with- 
 out paying the proper Duty. The fole Stroke of their Autho- 
 rity lighted on this Occafion upon the Admiral's Pocket-cafe of 
 Mathematical Inftrument s, which being different in Size from 
 thofe ufed in the Ifland, was confifcated for the prefent* 
 
 The Governor at length began the March with his Attendants, 
 and our Englijh followed in the Rear. They little expected to 
 meet on the Road, what however faluted their Eyes at every Turn, 
 gay Equipages rolling along, that would not have been thought 
 defpicable in the Streets of Paris, or of London. Their Rout 
 terminated at an immenfe Palace. It was that of the Emperor. 
 There were no fewer than twelve large Courts to pafs before 
 Sight was gained of his Apartments. Thefe Courts were fur- 
 rounded with Buildings and Shops. There, befides the Officers 
 of the Imperial Houfhold, were lodged ten of the mofk diftin- 
 guifhed in thofe Trades, which were held indifpenfibly necefTary 
 in a iLrll-gr/verned State. Thefe were Embroiderers, Varnifhers 
 Toymen, Perfumers, Bauble-makers, Workers in Glafs, Con- 
 fectioners in Figure-work, incorporated by the Title of 
 Compofers of high finifhed Defarts, Inventors and Comptroller* 
 of Fafhions, Painters of Machines, who tricked out all die fine 
 
 D Equipages 
 
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 Equipages in the City, Dancing Matters, and Romance Writers, 
 each of whom was under Articles to furnim a new Volume of 
 Falfcood every Week. 
 
 At length the Emperor's Apartments were reached. His Su- 
 preme Elegance., for that is the Imperial Title, was deliberating 
 with his Ministers on a Propofition that kept the whole City in 
 Sui pence. The Point under Confideration was this : Whether 
 the worth ipful Company of Fan-makers fhould be received into- 
 the exterior Courts of the Palace or not ? The Debates were be- 
 come very warm ; but however, it was thought proper to fufpend 
 them for a Moment in order to give Audience to the Strangers 
 who were introduced.. The Imperial Council expected frefh 
 Proofs of thcfe Talents concerning which the Governor had al- 
 ready made his Report. Honefl Parfon Walter with his Pipe, 
 and his merry Troop with their Heels, ftrove,one and all, to out-do 
 their own Out-doings. The Council very judicioufly obferved, 
 that with refpect to piping zndjkipping, there was Evidence fuf- 
 ficient, but for the more important Article of Cookery, they had 
 no Proof of that, beyond the ftrange Gentleman's bare Word. It 
 fell out very luckily, that the Admiral's Cook made one in the De r 
 tachment, with whofe Affiftancea quintejfential Pudding was made 
 upon the Spot. The Monarch and his Minifters had no foon- 
 er tafted it, than they ordered a Signal to be made for admitting 
 the little Fleet ; which accordingly the next Morning entered the 
 Port. It was indeed high Time, for Hunger and Difeafe had 
 been fo bufy, that no lefs than ten honeft Fellows had. been 
 thrown over board in the Night. 
 
 There are very few Nations more officious or more obfequious 
 than the Inhabitants of the Capital of Frivoland, provided al- 
 ways that they are -well paid. They carried the poor Strangers 
 
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 RefreJJments of every kind ; 1 ut when they came to ftrike .1 Ear- 
 gain, all things were off the Hinges ; Gold and Silver had as yet 
 no Value in Frivoland. Their Money was made of a fort of Stone ; 
 and their Pieces were from their Materials czMedAgatines : In (hoi 1 
 fuch a {trance Race are Men ! a Box of Agate Counters had been 
 a Rouleau there ; and they would have fet up their Games with 
 Guineas. With thefe People, upon whom Wealth made no Impref- 
 fion, the old natural Method of Barter was the only Expedient left: 
 Merchantmen would have been lefs embarraffed in this Situation, 
 but the Admiral's Prudence was never at a Lofs ; he bethought 
 himfelf that they had fome Pieces of Lace and Ribbons aboard. 
 He caufed a kind of Stage to be erected, and in the firft Place ex- 
 poled the Ribbons : It was with great Satisfaction he faw Joy dance 
 in their Eyes ; but as Computation was a thing extreamly necef- 
 fary in their Situation, he directed a /ingle Yard to be cut off that 
 he might judge from thence how far things would go. This was 
 no fooner tendered than a Baker tolled down, I fhould rather fay 
 up, twenty large Loaves ; the Butcher, the Pa/lry-Cook, the Wine- 
 Merchant, the Di/liller, elbowed one another to get near the Stage, 
 fo that it was quickly a clear Cafe that ten or twelve Yards of Rib- 
 bon would feed the Squadron for a Day. According to this Pro- 
 portion the Admiral calculated his whole Stock of Ribbons would 
 furnifh them with Provi/ions for about a Month. 
 
 As it drew towards Noon he received Intelligence that the Em- 
 peror was refolved to vilit the Fleet that very Day. As he remem- 
 bered perfectly well the Reflections the Governor had made upon 
 their Cloaths, he gave Orders that every Man fhould put on his 
 beft Apparel, and that too in the bejl Manner ; after which all that 
 were able to ftand, were put under Arms, and ranged in two Lines 
 leading to the Centurion. The Monarch no fooner approached 
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 than he began to look out for the Admiral, and had much ado to 
 diilinguiih him, as he had feen him only in an Undrefs the Even- 
 ing before, which tho' it might look well on board a Ship, made 
 but an ill Figure in a Drawing Room. The firft thing he did was 
 to handle his Hair, the Curls of which he examined with fingular 
 Attention, and obferved to the great Lords about him, that as yet 
 none in their Country had arrived at the Art of giving their Locks 
 to eafy and graceful a Fall. The Captain of the Gloucejler ftruck 
 them however with another kind of Surprize ; the Emprefs handled 
 his Fore-top a little too brijkly, which being a Peruke, came off, at 
 which her Majefty fcreamed aloud, fuppofing fhe had jlead poor 
 Mitchelfs Skull. Thefe trifling Incidents as they may appear to a 
 vulgar Underftanding, were the Source, as fhall be hereafter ex- 
 plained, of Confequences very important. 
 
 The Emperor continued his March. At the firft Sight of the Ships 
 he pronounced them monftrous and difpleafing to the Sight. He 
 pointed, by way of Contrajl, to his own Marine, which were laid 
 up on the other Side of the Port, compofed of a great many Shal- 
 lops, or Pleafure-Boats, wrought in a Diverfity of elegant Fi- 
 gures i their Poops inlaid with Mother of Pearl, Purple Sails, and 
 Cables made of Silk. However, he went on board the Centu- 
 rion. As Mufkets, Cannon, Bombs, Bullets, were Things thefe 
 People had never feen before, they juft glanced their Eyes over, 
 without afking fo much as a fingle Queftion. The Admiral was not 
 at all difpleafed ; he did not know how long he might continue in 
 their Favour, and at all Events he was defirous of having it in his 
 Power to keep thofe I/landers within due Bounds, by Dint of Sur- 
 prize, as well as through the FffeSls of his Artillery : However, 
 be chofe to adminifter fome Food to their Curiofoy, he explained 
 to them die Shape, and the Manner of working his VcJJ'els, the 
 
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 Pumps and the Capfterns ; at which the Monarch gaped like a great 
 Oti/', and his Mini/lers were too polite not to make as foolijh a Fi- 
 gure. The Admiral fmilhcd his Difcourfe with the Co/npafs. 
 " The Countrv, faid he, from which we come, is more than 
 " fix thoufand Leagues from hence, and yet this {mall trembling 
 " Piece of Iron fufficed to conducl us hither". He thence took 
 Occafion to difcourfe in general Terms of the Nature of Magne- 
 tifm, and to Ihew the Correfpondence of the Poles of the Needle 
 with thofe of the Earth. 
 
 He very quickly perceived, that tho' his Audience were deaf, 
 they were not blind. The Eyes of the Emprefs ftrayed by 
 Chance into the Cheft of Ribbons, which was left open, fhe imme- 
 diately feized a large Piece with the utmoft Eagernefs, and there- 
 by afforded the Admiral an Opportunity of making his Court, 
 by furrendering the whole Magazine. The Emperor diftributed 
 a few fmall Rolls among his Courtiers, kept the reft to himfelf, 
 and could not help asking, if they had given them all ? " I had 
 " a great many more in the Morning, replied the Admiral, but I 
 " exchanged them for Vitluah, for we had no other Commodity 
 <c with which your Subjects would be fatisfied". Nor Jhall they be 
 fatisfied with thefe long, faid the Monarch, but as to that Jet your 
 Mind at Reft. Upon this he immediately ordered the Lord High 
 Treafurer to pay the Admiral ten thoufand Agatines, which was 
 Yufficient for a Month's Provifions for the whole Squadron. The 
 next Morning out came a Proclamation, requiring all fuch as had 
 been paid in Ribbons, to bring them inftantly to the Board of 
 Fajhions ; and at the fame time an Order was fent to that Board to 
 ' annahfe a Ribbon, that is, to pick it into Threads, in order to dif- 
 cover its Compolition, by which they might be enabled to fet up 
 a ManufacJure. 
 
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 The Admiral was now pretty much atEafe in refpe<£l to Provifi- 
 ons, but remained ftill at a Lofs about careening, for which Timber 
 was abfolutely neceflary. All he had hitherto fecn in the Ifiand 
 wanted Toughnefs and Subftance to render it fit for Ufe. He was 
 upon Enquiry informed, that there was a Foreft at about the DL 
 fiance of ten Leagues, which from the peculiar Nature of the 
 Soil, produced the fame Kind of Timber that grew in other Parts 
 of the World. He was on the very Point of fetting out, for he 
 would truft Nobody's Eyes but his own, when he received an Im- 
 perial Mandate, requiring him to come and curl the Royal Fami- 
 ly's Hair. With this Order he was exceffively embarraffed ; at 
 length, however, he flattered himfelf he had hit upon a proper 
 Expedient, which was to carry the three Valet de Chambre Barbers 
 they had on board, no mean Proficients in their Trade, as every 
 one of them had been at Paris. The Names of thefe worthy Perfo- 
 nages were James Quick, Thomas Ball, and George Shaver, which 
 the Admiral thought fit to record, on account of the eminent 
 Pojls to which they arrived. He took with him Colonel Crache- 
 rode, who commanded the Land-Forces, and the two Captains 
 Mitchel and Saunders. It is out of Doubt, that they had not the 
 leaft Sufpicion that they mould be expected to take a Share in the 
 manual Operation. In this, however, they were miftaken, for 
 they no fooner came into the Prefence, than the Emperor tenden- 
 ed his Head to the Admiral : The Emprefs projected hers with the 
 Hair hanging over her Ears to the Colonel,, and two young Princes, 
 the hopeful Props of the Imperial Throne, were for putting their 
 Coxcombs under the Care of the Captains. The Admiral excufed 
 himfelf and his Officers, by acknowledging, that tho' they per- 
 fectly underfrood the Theory of this Art, yet they were abfolutely 
 deficient in regard to the Praflic.e. During this Scene there was a 
 
 Courtier, 
 
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 Courtier, who laughed moll; nialicioufly, and the Admiral was fal- 
 lible of a kind of /W.Vr Antipathy to him, even be lore he was 
 provoked by his Grim 
 
 The three Valet de CbamBres entered now upon their arduous 
 Functions; and as the Bufmefs was going on, it came into the Mo- 
 narch's Head to aflc the Admiral of what European Nation he was ? 
 OftheFiijl, returned he. You art t hen a Frenchman .replied the laugh- 
 ing Courtier : This did not pleafe the Admiral at all, who in a- 
 vowing himfelf to be an Eng/i/htnan, thought he had fupported 
 his Proportion effectually ; but the Courtier fluck to his Ccnfcquence 
 notwithstanding. The Difpute grew warm, while in the mean 
 Time the Grand Affair was finished, and the Royal Heads adorned 
 to the no final! Glory of the Artizans ■> for whom Lodgings were 
 immediately affigned in the twelfth Court of the Palace. They 
 were the Favourites of the Day ; as for their Matters they were 
 now considered with much Indifference : The Efteem that had 
 been conceived of them being greatly leffened by fo remarkable 
 a Detection of their Ignorance. 
 
 The Admiral returning to the Squadron, could not help reflect- 
 ing with fome Degree of Chagrin upon this unlucky Adventure : 
 The Coldnefs (hewn at their Departure ; the Behaviour of the 
 Courtier, who efpoufed the Caufe oi France ; the French Language 
 fpoken at Court, all ran flrongly in his Head. — " Are there, faid 
 " he {iavim^.Frenchnurn in thelfland, or have there been any here r 
 " But how can that be poflible without our knowing any thing of 
 u it in Europe? If any are here is it impoflible for us to be well 
 11 with them ?" Incertainty is a kind of Rack few Conflitutions can 
 bear. He determined to vifit the Courtier that had given him 
 Offence ; if French are here, thought he, this mull be one. 
 
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 The Courtier after diverting himielf a little at his Expence, 
 condescended to draw aiide the Veil, which he performed in the 
 following Relation. 
 
 " I was at Paris in 17 19, when the World was porTeiTed with 
 ' a Madnefs of bartering Gold for Paper ; I did not however follow 
 " the Faihion, for to tell you the Truth, at that Time I had no 
 " Gold : But hy bufying myfelf in procuring Paper for thofe who 
 '-' were fo very fond of it, I picked up a little of that precious Me- 
 " tal for myfelf. I was young, in the midft of a City full of Ex- 
 " pence and Pleafure •, and therefore it will appear no Wonder 
 " that I dijfipated as fail as I acquired: At length I found nothing 
 " left but Pajjions, which it was out of my Power to gratify, with 
 •" this additional Mortification, that having fpent my Money, I had 
 " no longer any Pretentions to Merit. In this fad Situation, a 
 " Thought came into my Head of fetching a Cargo from Peru : 
 t( I communicated this Notion to my Friends, and they liked it fo 
 " well that they would needs turn it to their own Ufe. Want be- 
 " ing at that Time an extenfive as well as a prevailing Motive, 
 *■* our Colony multiplied infenfibly, fo that we were about One- 
 *' hundred and Sixty when we embarked at Rochelle for Porto- 
 " Bello. 
 
 " Our Navigation was profperous enough at the Beginning, but 
 x< aStorm, which though violent, was of along Continuance, droveus 
 " upon theCoaft of Brazil: Porto-Bellowzs now out of the Quef- 
 "*' tion. TheCaptain, defirous of availing himfelf even of this un- 
 " toward Accident, formed a bold Deiign of proceeding to Lima, 
 *' in hopes of bringing his Cargo to an advantageous Market : We 
 " accordingly doubled the moft Southern Cape of America, inpaf- 
 " fing the Streights of le Maire, and it was at the coming out of 
 •" thofe Streights that we were faluted with fuch a Mixture of 
 
 « Winds : 
 
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 ; - U'inds; and thofe too fo high, that we apprehended every Mo- 
 <c ment would be our lair. Tin's outragious Tempeit, which if it 
 • ' fub/ided for a little, blew foon after as if it had been only ga- 
 " thering Breath, kept us long tofllng from one Abvfs to another." 
 
 " At length, on the twentieth Day, as we were thoroughly per- 
 " fuaded that there was not a Foot of Land in that Parallel of 
 " Latitude on which we failed, when through the Gloom of the 
 " tempeftuous Sky we had a Glimpfe of this unknown World, we 
 " could icarce believe our Eyes. Was this, thought we, the Peru, 
 " which while we were ieeking came to offer iff elf 'to our View ? It 
 " was aQueflion we could not then refolve ; but whether it was or 
 " not, we plainly law it was Land. The firft thing that prefented 
 " itfelf to our Eyes was a lofty Rock, upon which fome of us mount- 
 " ed as well as we could, in order to difcover what fort of a Country 
 " it was upon which we were thrown : We had no fooner reached 
 " the Summit, than our Vejfel, which was directly under us, burft 
 " from her Anchor, and by a fudden Squal fweeping from the 
 " Mountains, was carried out of our Sight for ever. In all human 
 " Probability the Captain and the Mariners found a Cure for all 
 " the Ills they endured in the broad Bottom of the Ocean. We wan- 
 " deredabout from Town to Town, with no higher Projects in our 
 " Heads than how to live : At length it came into our Minds to 
 " make the beft of our Way to the Capital. Great Cities are moil 
 " fruitful in Refources. We were indeed at the Diltance of Two- 
 " hundred Leagues. What Pains, what Fatigues mull fuch a 
 " Journey coft ! No Matter, we had not been long here, before 
 " we admitted that the Account was clear. 
 
 " The Frholians perceived how neceffary we were to them ; 
 " they were precifely in that critical Difpofition of Mind, which 
 v< every Nation mxxiifeel, when inclined to throw off Barbarity. 
 
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 « As yet they had no Lujlres, no Sofas, no Baubles of any 
 u Kind ; nay they were to fuch a Degree untutored, that the Women 
 " wore no Faces but their own. Yet they had begun to multiply 
 " their Windows, to enlarge their Vehicles, to cut their Stones Brill i- 
 " ant-wife ; and the Women when they were about treading the 
 " Stage, took a reafonable Proportion of a certain Elixir, which- 
 " by quickening the Circulation of the Blood, gave an agreeable 
 " Crimfon to the Complexion. The Science of the Kitchen, the Qrna- 
 " ments of the Table, the Witchcraft of Drefs,. the Elegance of 
 •* Furniture, Variety of Equipage s, and rich Embroidery, were jufr. 
 " iketched out : They had no Notion of FaJJ:ions, bvit they had juit 
 rt Senfe enough to perceive that no Woman of any Spirit could 
 " wear the fame Gown a whole Seafon^ or fuffer her deaths, like 
 1 her Nofe, to be always in the fame Shape.. 
 
 " Their Manners alfo began to work themfeives out of that 
 a Rudenefs, in which they had fo long continued. The ftudiedyf/>, 
 " Looks put on with Art, Complements, the fafhionable Tone in 
 " Speaking, the Vafours, Nectar and Ambrofia Suppers, Extra- 
 '• vagance of Fancy-, Friendjhip in Words, Amours of a Day, all 
 " thefe Flowers of Urbanity were in the very Bud, and only want- 
 *• ed the Warmth of the enlivening Sun, to call them out to View.. 
 " Hufbands indeed were not as yet fenlible of the Ridicule of fey- 
 " ing their Wives ; but they had made a Step towards it, for they 
 " begun to think them troublefome. The Women too had not aban- 
 «« doned all the Cares of a Family for thofe of the Toilet ; and 
 '■* yet fomething whifpered them within, that they were born to 
 
 ♦ be agreeable, to pine, and to be admired. There were then a 
 ' few, and but a few Lords, who had the Courage to fpend beyond. 
 •« their Income; but within a fmall Number of Years, the Nobility 
 
 • of Sprit are prodigioufly increafed. At that Time of Day the 
 
 " Frivolians 
 
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 " could not be faid to have Tafte , they had only, pardon my playing 
 " with Words, a kind cf Tafte for Tafte. 
 
 " But notwithstanding tliis happy Difpofition, your Lord/hip 
 " cannot conceive what Pains it coils to form a Nation !" 
 
 At thefe Words the Admiral began to bend his Brow a little, 
 and afiuming a ferious Air, fpoke of Laws, Virtue, Sciences, and 
 ujlj'-.d Arts, as the only Means for effecting lb great, io glorious 
 a Purpole. 
 
 " Excellent indeed, you would have us degrade thefe People 
 " again, to Night-Cap, Gown and Slippers ! all the pretty Arts that 
 " lerve to delight the Eyes, embellifh the Pajjions, and takeoff the 
 " too flricf Rein of Reafon, we may affirm they owe to Us. It is we 
 " who have taught them to let a PoliJJj to their Vices, and by their 
 " adopting our Language, they have given a free Scope to Wit* 
 " Moit fortunately for us, at our Departure fromFrance, every Man 
 " had compleated his Pocket-Library ; how elfe could we have 
 " confumed our Time on Ship-board ? And all were Books in 
 M Tafte. Delicious Romances, Comedies overflowing with Satyric 
 " Wit, Tragedies full of Gallantry, and Operas fraught with melt- 
 " ing Love. You can hardly conceive with how much Sagacity 
 •' they have imitated all thefe Graces. We reckon at this Day 
 " about Six-hundred Poets, and Two-thoufand Dealers in Romance. 
 " There Sir, judge for yourfelf, read that Comedy, written by one 
 " of the Grandees of the Court ; and that Romaiice, the Offspring 
 " of a Magiftrate's fertile Brain. 
 
 " To tell you the plain Truth, the Colony has not been em- 
 " ployed who'ly for their Benefit, they have likewife done a little 
 " for thenifelvcs. We have all worked ourfelves into the Managc- 
 " mcit of the State ; but more efpecially myfelf, in whofe Favour 
 " there has been created a new Office of the Crown. You will permit 
 
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 " me to fay, that the Perfon with whom you converfe, is the 
 " Comptroller-General of the Fajlnons, A Place which, tho' it has 
 " manyfair Flowers, yet is not without its Thorns* Amongit thefe 
 " People, a Mode wears out in a Fortnight : It requires more than 
 " a French Genius to be furniihing for ever. Alas, if Fate had not 
 
 " deprived us of our Ship, it was freighted with all thofe 
 
 " Superfluities of France, that are fo necejfary here : What exquifite 
 " Models for this great City ! That Ribbon which has done you 
 u fo much Honour, would have been long ago out of Date. It is 
 " impoffible to do all Things at a Time. It will require whole 
 " Ages to equal Paris. A van: Progrefs no Doubt has been made 
 " towards Perfection fince our Departure. I perceived as all the 
 " World did a quite new Tafte in that Frifure, which it was 
 " your good Fortune to introduce. 
 
 " But my dear Lord weigh well what I am going to fay. It is 
 " either your Dejigti to eftablifh yourfelf in this Country, or it is 
 " not. If it is not, what End will it anfwer for you to acquire 
 •*' Coniideration, by difplaying Novelties here ? If it is, take Care 
 " from this Moment, to bring out ?ione without my Confent. You 
 " have borrowed them all from France ; own that fairly and like 
 * l a Man of Honour, render us this juft Homage, otherwife Woe 
 " be to you : You HhsiUfeel that our Credit is Great." 
 
 So far from remaining here, replied the Admiral, that I offer 
 you with great Pleafure, to carry you back to your Country, for 
 which without doubt you feel the mofl poignant Regret. 
 
 " That we have regretted it is true, replied the Grand-Comptrol- 
 " ler ■, we were at our firft Arrival afraid we mould not be able to 
 " fubfift upon the Aliments of this Country, and our Apprehenfions 
 " augmented for a long Time ; but after a few Years, we per- 
 " ceived that our Flefh rarefied, our Fluids fubtilized, and that a 
 " great Part of our Subflance was diffipated." As 
 
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 As he pronounced thefe Words, he firft: flourijhed his Hceh> 
 and then catting a Caper, touched with his Toes a Lujirc that hung 
 near the Ceiling of a very lofty Room : When he came down, 
 and had fixed himfelf once more upon his Pedejlals, he concluded 
 thus. 
 
 " Can you believe it, I do not abfolutely at prefent weigh above 
 " Fifty Pounds. The Children we had immediately after our 
 " Tranfmigration, we durft not fo much as touch: Thofe pretty 
 '' Machines, inherited from their Mother, Springs fo extreamly dc- 
 *' licate, that they would have been crufhed by the Remains of 
 '< that European Robuilncfs, of which we were even then poflefled. 
 " But infenfibly through Length of Time, our Conjlitutions have 
 " acquired fo juft a Proportion with thofe of the Natives of the 
 *' JJland, that we live happy amongft a People, who mayboaftof 
 " the modrofy Imaginations with which Mortals were everblefied." 
 
 The Admiral's Thoughts had at that Inftant a kind of Wainfcot 
 Complexion. As they were perfectly intent on the Timber that was 
 to be fetched from the Forefl, he went thither, foon after made his 
 Survey, and returned perfectly well fatisfied : However there was 
 no lifting an Ax without a Royal Order. He demanded an Audi- 
 ence, which was refufed him ; he might perhaps have obtained 
 it through the Intereft of the Comptroller-General, but as yet a re- 
 ciprocal Confidence was not eftablifhed. He applied himfelf to 
 other Favourites ; but not one of them durfl carry his Demand 
 to the Foot of the Throne. When a Favour is wanted, one muft 
 have recourfe to the ordinary Forms : He prefented to the Prime 
 Minifter a Memorial in Writing. All Petitions capable of giving 
 the Monarch the leaft Di/lafe, were in this Country fupprejfed. 
 His met with that Fate among the reft. In his return through 
 the Anti-Chambers, with a thoughtful Air, he was flopped by * 
 
 G Lord. 
 
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 Lord, who was a kind oiPhilofopher, one who through his fingular 
 way of Thinking, had loft the Power of riling at Court ; but was 
 ftill fuffered there out of refpect to his high Birth. He queftioned 
 the Admiral on the Situation, Government, Marine, and Com- 
 merce of England. The Admiral was extremely furprized at the 
 Solidity of thefe Queftions, the firft of their Kind that had been 
 propofed to him in that Place. After having anfwered them to 
 his Satisfaction, he told him frankly the Subject of his Chagrin. 
 " You ftumble at Noon-Day, replied that Lord ; have you not 
 " given the Emperor three of the moft important Perfons about 
 " him, more efpecially Quick, who has his Royal Head every 
 " Day at his Difpofal ? You fearch at a Diftanee, for what is in 
 " your own Hands." Saying this he turned upon his Heel and 
 ilalked off. 
 
 In air Probability his EngliJJj Stomach muft have recoiled a lit- 
 tle at this Method of Application ; but the Admiral had a Maxim 
 which ferved as a Cordial upon fuch Occafions, 77jat there can be 
 nothing mean which the Service of our Country requires. He went 
 immediately therefore to find out his oldValet de Chambre Quick t 
 to whom from Cuftom he fpoke in the Old-Stile of a Majler $ 
 but Quick gave him to underftand that he was no longer to be 
 confidered in that Light. The Admiral then foftened the Tone 
 of his Voice, and that his Oratory might make the greater Im- 
 preffion, concluded a very pathetick Period, with the Prefent of his 
 Gold Snuffbox. Quick promifed like a Courtier, but kept his Word 
 like another kind of Man : In three Days Time, he brought him 
 $he Order figned j but Difficulties will fometimes occur, when 
 one thinks they are all over. Juft as they were going to cut down 
 a Tree, the Surveyor of the Emperor's Woods, pointed out another 
 jio way fit for the Purpofe. The Admiral (hewed him his Order ; 
 
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 and was for flicking to the Letter ; the Surveyor maintained that 
 he was to be guided by the Spirit : Two-thoufand Agatines dex- 
 troufly applied, reconciled thefe jarring Opinions, and the Foreft 
 feli on every Side. As every Thing was now in a fair Train the 
 Admiral was at Liberty to look about him, and to fpeculate a little 
 upon this extraordinary IJland. 
 
 It is fituated in Forty-five Degrees Eight Minutes of South La- 
 titude, and in the Longitude of Two-hundred and Twenty Degrees 
 f event en Minutes, reckoning from the Meridian of Tene riff. It is 
 pretty much elevated above the Level of the Sea ; and is in a 
 Manner furrounded by high Mountains, that protect it from the 
 Fury of the Winds. The Air which the Inhabitants breath in- 
 vites to Pleafure by its Sweetnefs, and caufes a quick Circulation 
 of the Blood by its Subtility : It is about Six-hundred Leagues in 
 Diameter. There are three great'Nations on a Continent, lying 
 Wejl, which are feparated from it only by an Arm of the Sea : 
 Taking thefe all together, they make a kind ofWorldby itfelf. The 
 Admiral fpeaks of the IJland only, and that but fuperficially as 
 wanting Time to make thofe Difcoveries that were neceffary to 
 render his Defcription perfeSt. 
 
 I perceived, faid he, many Phenomena here unknown elfewhere. 
 The Earth was light as the fineft Flour, the Trees without Solidity, 
 the Fruits formed rather to gratify the Palate, than the Stomach ; 
 others again, the mere Effects of Nature's Chymijlry, fervedonlyto 
 delight the Eye ; the Wine without Strength, the Flejh without 
 Subjlance, and the Animals without either the Weight or Strength^ 
 proportionable to their Size. In fhort one faw every where rather 
 the Image of Nature, than Nature herfelf. Thefe Things could 
 not but perplex him ; for ftrange as they were, they muft have- a 
 Caufc, and this Caufe was what he laboured to find. Thefe Eng- 
 
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 VJh Admirals arc really very Jlratige Fellows 1 I firmly believe, 
 becaufe every Body in this Country^wyi', that at the Head of a 
 Fleet they are not to be compared with Us : But what then ? They 
 have the Vanity to diftinguifh themfelves by their Skill in Phvfic, 
 Geometry, Aflronomy ; and I know not how many other Sciences 
 befjdes. Strange Fellows to be fure! This of whom we are fpeak- 
 ing weighed the Air, analized the conftituent Particles of the Soil, 
 examined the Sulphurs, the Salts, the Oils, the Juices, from 
 whence the Vegetables were produced, that he might more 
 thoroughly underftand the Texture of the Flejh of thofe Animals, 
 that were nourijlxd by them : Like a true Englijlmian, he was for 
 penetrating to the Bottom of every Thing. Mighty well ! Let him 
 dig and delve by himfelf, while we divert ourfelves with that 
 Sketch, which he has given us of the Capital of this Ifland. 
 
 The City of Witsburgh is about the fame Size with London. 
 The Number of the Inhabitants is thought to be about a Million. 
 It might very eafily hold Two, if it was not every where inter- 
 fperfed with Gardens, and very large Buildings within the Walls 
 of which, they forget the Precept of Nature, " increafe and mul- 
 *' tiply." They take as little Care of themfelves as of Pojlerity, 
 for they do nothing. The fole Employment of thofe who inhabit 
 thefe fpacious Dwellings, is, or at leaft mould be, to pray for thofe 
 who Work to keep them in Idlenefs. 
 
 The City has a fine River that runs through it. Upon this 
 they have feveral Bridges, and are better pleafed to fee ranged on 
 each Side certain fpacious Magazines of Luxury, than to recreate 
 their Eyes with the extended ProJpecJ of fo beautiful a Canal. 
 
 It is highly probable, fays our Admiral, that before the Ar- 
 rival of the French, there might have been an Age in which the 
 Frivolians flrove to emerge from their Barbarifm, but it is alfo very 
 
 likely, 
 
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 likely, that thole who endeavoured to drain them out of that Situ- 
 ation, were not of the fame Humour with the Bulk of the Nation. 
 They planted Avenues* they conftruttcd triumphal Arches, they 
 began to erect Keys along the River Side ; they laid out fine 
 Squares ; they dciign'd public Fountains ; they railed handfomc 
 Structures, in which were taught the Principles of Virtue and the 
 Sciences. However indefatigable, they could not do all Thing; ; 
 fome they left unfnifl.vd, and juit as they left them thefe remain. 
 Amongft many Monuments of their Architecture, which are ftill 
 fubiitting, there is one truly amazing from its Composition, and the 
 Harmony, Boldnefs, and Grandeur of its feveral Parts. It is a Palace 
 which the Frivolians would behold with Pleafure, if it was barely 
 pretty ; but as it is wonderfully fne, they have contrived to block 
 it up on every Side, and though it was defigned for theRefidence 
 of their Sovereign, it is to this Day without a Roof. There are 
 ftill fhewn as the Relicks of that ferious Age, Pictures, Statues 
 Poems, and Pieces of Eloquence, in which too much Regard is paid to 
 Nature for them to pleafe long. Thofe in Years perhaps, unfedu- 
 ced by Novelty, admire ftill thefe Majler-pieees ; but the riling Ge- 
 neration are altogether taken up with Baubles of every fort, elegant 
 Cabinets and gawdy Equipages that ftrike the Eyes with Wonder. 
 There are very few Cities in the World where Mechanic Arts 
 have been more encouraged. Their Artijls have made great ufe 
 of the Lcjjbns given them by the French Colony, indeed too much 
 VCe, for they have pulhed every thing beyond its proper Bounds. 
 To content the Humour of the Nation, they have exhaufted their 
 Skill in precious Trifles, in a Hundred little paltry Pieces of Furni- 
 ture, and in a Thoufand worthlcfs Gimcracks, that are the Wear 
 of a Day. Their Manufactures fupply them with a kind offimfey 
 Rags, that are more out as foon as they are put on. An honeft 
 
 Workman 
 
[■ 86 ] 
 
 Workman who would furnifh them with good Things only mi°\ht 
 fiar-oe for His Pains. 
 
 There are likewife very few Cities In which the finer Arts have 
 been carried to io great a Height, but where they are now become 
 rather Pretty than Noble : In Painting for inftance, they neglecb 
 Force and ExpreJJion, for the fake of beautiful Colouring. Above- 
 all they are delighted with thofe exquifite Pieces of Miniature, 
 with which they decorate the moft charming little Boxes in the 
 whole World. Thofe high finiihed Pieces, which their Pencils 
 formerly produced, are gradually carried away by a neighbouring 
 Nation, whofe Eyes are not yet taken widi the new fafhioned 
 Graces. As to their Poetry, the Enthufiafm of their Tragedies, is 
 no longer calculated to excite Terror and Pity, or to infpire thofe 
 Savage Virtues, to which Societies have owed their Prejlrvation. 
 No, no, their Tragic Mufe is a Coquet, who pleafes herfelf with 
 the Luftre of her fine Robes, and is proud of the Gallantry of her 
 Expremons ; if me is troubled, it is becaufe fhe takes a Pleafure in 
 being in the Vapours, and (he Weeps that fhe may Laugh. Their E/o- 
 quence is not the boiflerous Torrent that bears down all before it, 
 but a fine Silver Stream, that runs murmuring through the Flowers.. 
 As for Hijlory that only pleafes which from its Habit you would 
 take for Romance. 
 
 The Admiral makes here a Reflection. We need not wonder 
 at that, for he is full of them. He had no Notion of Writing for 
 us, his own Nation occupied all his Thoughts. He is of Opinion 
 that amongft the Frivolians, their Women have given the prefent 
 Turn to all their Arts. They have fludied to pleafe them by thofe 
 Methods in which they pleafe, that is by little whimfical Airs,, 
 talfe Colours, and factitious Graces. 
 
 The 
 
[ *7 ] 
 
 The Sciences alio have begun to take the fame train : As yet 
 however, they have not entirely fucLeeded. Parts always get the 
 better of them. Colonel Cracbrode went to hear a funeral Oration : 
 It was that of a celebrated Performer, exquiiite in all the Powers 
 of Harmony. The Orator having difcharged a whole Peal of An- 
 tithefes, declared him fuperior to the greateft Phikfopher of the 
 IJland. The next Morning Captain Saunders went to pay a Vifit 
 to an eminent State/man, who had made an immenfe Fortune by 
 taking Cart of the public Concerns of a great Province. There he 
 few a Dancing-Mafter, who was intreated to make the Heir of 
 the Family zsflne a Gentleman as bimfelf. A very handfome Salary 
 was offered him. li'ljat do you take me for ? fa id the Man of Parts-, 
 you would have fear ce offered fo little for his going through a Courfe 
 ^Experimental Philofophy. Round he whifked upon his Heel, 
 and away he went without fo much as a parting Bow. Another 
 Man of Parts prefently appeared, a flout (trapping Fellow, he 
 was with a Wl:ip in his Hand. I believe you will do very well for 
 me, (aid the Lord, after having furveyed his Size and his Shape, 
 what do you fay, will two hundred Agatines content you? Two 
 hundred Agatines, replied the Coachman, content me! who you 
 expe<£t fhould credit your Chariot, and take care of your Horfes ; 
 pr'ythee keep them for the miferable Pedant that flogs your Son in- 
 to the Knowledge of Latin. 
 
 The Frivolians call every Thing miferable that other People 
 RWefcrious. They omit nothing that can contribute to Diver- 
 fori. They allow, however, that it is fit to read, but then they 
 muft hzxeBocis that will amufe without putting Folks to the trouble 
 of thinking. At this Juncture moft of their Authors are gone into 
 the fajhionable Way. The Admiral had the Charity to beftow a 
 liberal Alms upon a poor unhappy Fellow, that had got the Charac- 
 ter 
 
[ 2S ] 
 
 tcr of a Blockhead, by writing an excellent Book on the Duties of 
 a Patriot Prince. 
 
 They have numberlefs Courts of Jujiice, but their fupreme Tri- 
 bunal difpenfes its Decrees in the very fame Place where they are 
 lVlling Romances on one Side, and all Sorts of Frippery on the 
 other. On the Bench of Judges you fee Faces diitinguiihed by 
 Bloom inftead of Beard, who decide with wonderful Sagacity, no 
 doubt, as to the Properties of others, at an Age when the Law does 
 not truft them with the Management of their own. If it did, it 
 -would glide infenfibly into the Pockets of their Coach-makers and 
 their Cooks. 
 
 Here the Admiral carries us back with him to his Ships. The 
 Month was very near run out, and it would require at leaft two 
 more to finifh what was propofed, the rather becaufe a new Vejfcl 
 was to be built in the Room of the Pink Anne ; but how to fubfift 
 for thefe two Months, and to re-victual the Squadron when ready 
 to put to Sea, were Points of great Confequence, and for which 
 there was no Fund. The Agatines received from the Royal Trea- 
 fury were almoft exhaufled, and the Ribbons were gone, which 
 had produced that Supply. It is very true, that fome Pieces of 
 Lace were ftill remaining, but the Threats of the Grand Comp- 
 troller run in his Head, and he was very apprehenfive of his Credit 
 at Court* He was by this Time become fenfible," that fome Re- 
 gard was due to 'Talents, of which he made but very light in E)ig- 
 land. He had received frequent Demands for Dancing Majlers, 
 and Perfons who could teach them to play upon the Flute, not but 
 that the Dance and the Injlruments of the Country had their Merit • 
 but then whatever was new, and above all what had pleafed at Court ; 
 was allowed a Superiority in the Opinion of the whole Nation ; 
 and it was this that put them upon thefe Demands. He had hither- 
 to 
 
[ *9 ] 
 
 to, however, refifted their repeated Sollicitations, becaulc lie found 
 that all Hands might be employed in the neceflary Bujinefs of the 
 Squadron ; but now he was fenfible, that even that could not go 
 on, unltls the two great Points before-mentioned could be fome 
 Way or other adjulled. 
 
 He made choice with this View, of Fifty of his People, who had 
 fome little Tincture, either of one or both thefe admired Talents ; and 
 after a Week fpent in PracJice and Improvement, he gave them up 
 to Public Utility, and the Subjijlence of the Squadron. But while 
 others were employed, we muff, not imagine that the Admiral flood 
 with his Arms acrofs like an idle Spectator : He had for his Scholar 
 in Dancing, the Son of a great General in the Army ; I faw, fays 
 he, come to his Houfe every Day, a ProfeJJbr of Geometry, and I 
 was not a little afhamed that tho' he fpent thrice as much Time 
 there as I did, he had but a third of my Salary for his Pains* 
 Upon an exact Calculation it was found, that the Pro/its of their 
 new ProfcfTions were fufficient to defray the current Expences of the 
 Squadron, and as to the Re-vi equalling it, Fortune threw a frefh 
 and very unexpected Refource in their Way. 
 
 His Imperial Majefty loft all Patience one Day under the Ope- 
 ration of curling his Hair, becaufe a Concert waited for him 
 the whole Time. This Lofs of Temper alarmed all the Court. They 
 recollected upon this Occalion, the Peruke of Captain Mitchcl; his 
 Supreme-Elegance commanded ^uick to make him one without 
 Delay ; that honejl Fellow laid hold of this Opportunity, Co reftore 
 his Majlcr to his Imperial Majefly's good Graces. He told this 
 Monarch that what he defired, demanded the Effort of a European 
 Genius j that in Point of Execution he could himfelf do all that was 
 nece/fary, but for the Plan by which he was to work, it was laid 
 up in the Admiral's Head, and till drawn from thence, it was im- 
 
 I poflible 
 
[ 3° ] 
 
 poiiible for him to proceed. Upon this the Admiral was fent for, 
 having firft had the fecret Hifiory of this great Bufinefs from the 
 Minifter of the Cabinet Quick. He thought it however neceflary 
 to befpeak the Favour of the Comptroller-General of the Fafiions, 
 that he might not by this Affair be expofed to his Refentment \ 
 " The Emperor, Sir, faid he, has fent to me for a Peruke. A 
 Peruke! replied the Officer of the Crown haftily, Know that amongjl 
 all the Novelties I have referred for the Ufe of this Nation, who 
 grew fond, and become fick of every Thing with equal Rapidity, this 
 
 holds the firft Rank. By the Heavens ! He was on the Point 
 
 of fivincr into a violent Paffion 
 
 " Do but fuppofe yourfelf in my Place, replied the Admiral 
 " calmly, our Subftftence is at Stake. Our Ribbons are all gone, I 
 " have not an Agatine left. It is indeed true that we have fome 
 
 " Pieces of Lace ; but you prohibited me thefe Rtfources." 
 
 Oh ! Pieces of Lace ! replied the Comptroller, in a gentle Tone, 
 Well, let me have them, and I abandon to you all the Glory, and all 
 the Profit that you can make of your Peruke. He had been a long 
 Time thinking of introducing Lace amongft thefe People ; but as 
 he had no Pattern to produce, he had not hitherto been able to 
 brino- that Project to bear. The Manufacturers of this IJle were by 
 no means ready at Invention ; copying to Perfection, and even with 
 fome Degree of Improvement, was the ultimate Praife they deferved. 
 The Admiral accepted the Propofition, and the Imperial Peruke 
 appeared that Day Sennight on the Head of the Monarch j who 
 inftantly founded a School, in which young People might be taught 
 this Art, that the Demands of the Public might be fyezdilyfatisfied. 
 Of the Public I fay, for from this Moment ^Gentleman was afhamed 
 to go abroad with his Face fhaded with his own Hair. This was 
 "oing pretty far ; but however the Thing did not flop here.. 
 
 We 
 
[ 3* ] 
 
 We have before obfcrved that this Jfland had in its Neighbour- 
 hood Three potent States : Long Wars had been more than once 
 maintained again ft them, which had ended in Treaties of Peace, 
 not very favourable to her Intere/ls. Yet in all the Viciffitudcs of 
 her Affairs, one Prerogative flie had always maintained, which 
 was that of prefcribing their Habits, and whatever related to Drefs. 
 The Emperor inftantly fent away three Perukes, that is to fay three 
 Models, which was to regulate the Head Attire, in all the Three- 
 States ; and the Flood-gates of the Treafury were fet open for the 
 Admiral, who having his Mind once more at Ea/e, refumed his 
 Speculations on the Manners of the Frivolians. There is not per- 
 haps a People any where, of a more refined Behaviour ; it is, fays he, 
 aftonifhing in the Space of (ofeio Years, they fhould have already 
 furpaffed the French. It might perhaps have been as well if they 
 had kept precifely to the LeJJ'ons given them by their Mafters ; 
 but in Point of Elegance, their Imagination is fo brijk, that it is 
 not to be rejl rained. 
 
 If you chance to enter a: Circle -with ajprightly Air, and in a 
 Drefs perfectly in Ta/le, you are inftantly allowed to ftand poffefied 
 of all the Graces, The Company till that Moment, found tKeni- 
 lelves in Want of fomeachat ; and yet did not know that fomem 
 was You : At this Rate they quickly make you fcnfiblc, that you 
 are Mafter of many Accomplijl.ments, which you never , 
 belonged to you before. 
 
 The Frivolians, to honour you with their Friendjhip, do not 
 'mfift upon your having good, they only expect that you mould 
 have pleafing Qualities : They will take it for granted that you are 
 a Man of Honour; but firft you muft make it plain, that vou arc a 
 very pretty Fellow. Have you any Need of their Services : A Ik 
 them, they will befeech you to honour them with your Command^ 
 i' after 
 
[ 32 ] 
 
 after which you will have the Conjoint ion to find them for ever 
 diftrafted, that they have not been able to do you any Good. The 
 Admiral placed great Confidence in a certain Proteftor of his, who 
 had bellowed upon him abundance of fine Words, and to whom 
 he had recourfe for fomething more fubftantial. " Look you, 
 " this is all I can do for you, /aid the Great-Man, pulling out a 
 " little Pocket-Flajk, which F/aJk was full of a kind of Diftilled 
 '.' Liquor, that might be ftiled Court Holy-Water, of a very agree- 
 " &h\c Scent, but being lighter, prefently refolves itfelf into the Air." 
 All the polite World pique themfelves upon having it in their Pof- 
 fejlion ; but more efpecially the Grandees, who are remarkably 
 liberal of this, tho* they feldom part with any thing elfe. 
 
 The Great are not the fame ail the World over. A Man who 
 has a multitude of People at his Leve, and who never wifhes any 
 other Man Good-Morrow ; who fpends his Mornings in looking 
 over fine Stuffs, and rich Toys, who by the multitude of his Lufires 
 doubles all the fine Things that fet off his Apartments ; who has a 
 multitude of Dogs and Horfes, who has what they call a Grand- 
 Room, highly finifhed, in which he gives fuperb Entertainments, 
 and who is almoft deafened with his own Applaufe, fuch a one is 
 ftiled Great among the Frivolians, to whom the moft profound 
 RefpeSl muft be paid, while bare Civility will content others. 
 What we call la Politefie, is the very Soul of the Frivolians, they 
 -would rather by half betray a Friend, than make him a lame Com- 
 pliment. A Man truly polite, has a Hat which he never wears, 
 bows to the very Ground, and if he fpeaks of her whom the Law 
 has made Part of himfelf never ufes thofe uncouth Monofyllables 
 my Wife. If he has not all this about him, he may be Agreeable, 
 Genteel, Officious, Complaifant, but he can never be ftiled Polite. 
 To deferve that Appellation, he muft be fcrupuloufly Nice in the 
 
 Articles 
 
t 33 ] 
 
 Articles of Titles. Pie muft not barely fay in fpcaking of the Em- 
 peror, his Supreme-Elegance opened the Ball ; but he muft be 
 equally careful in obferving that his Supreme-Elegance happened to 
 Sneeze. There was a bold Fellow once took it into his Head to 
 fay to a Great Miniftcr, you are a Blockhead. All the Nation 
 ftood provoked at the Indecency of the Thing, for confidering the 
 Perfbn's 'Quality to whom he fpoke, he ought certainly to have 
 Cud your illujlrious Splendour is a Blockhead. 
 
 In this Country they obferve what is called Decorum to the higher! 
 Degree. A Man in Employment, who has plundered without 
 Mercy, is in high Conjideration ; if before his Elevation he had taken 
 a few Agatines upon the Road, the Indecency had been feverely 
 punijhed. A diftinguiflied Beauty will forgive an impudent Fellow 
 any Rudenefs, rather than an indelicate Exprejfion in her Prefence. 
 I ler Ilujband is not fuch a Tyrant as to pretend to have any Claim 
 upon his Wife's Heart ; but his Impatience furpafles all Bounds, if 
 her AmuJ'ements are not perfectly decent. A little before the Admiral's 
 Arrival, they had juft formed zxiEjlabliJhment, where fuch of the 
 Jojter Sex, as were fo difpofed, might part with their Virtue t and 
 yet preferve great Decency. 
 
 Amongft the Frivolians, as well as in Europe, they talk very- 
 much of a Thing called Merit : It is however a great Chance if a 
 Man gets any thing by it ; but it is a clear Cafe there, that it is in- 
 finitely better to be what they call well received. Thofe that are (o 
 are not able to tell you how it happens, whether from the Turn of 
 their Features, their Behaviour in general, or from a kind of a lucky 
 Smile, that fits constantly dimpled on the Face. Among thefe Peo- 
 ple that are well received, one perhaps has fomething taking in his 
 Drefs, another is a fortunate Gamejler, and a Third may be tells a 
 ^lory prettily. In this Country they are not at all furprized to 
 
 K fee 
 
[ 3+] 
 
 fee a Courtier difgraced for having fomething aukward about 
 him. 
 
 Honour is far from being in the fame Situation with Merit y to 
 this all put in their Claim, and you hear it every where, and upon 
 every Occafion. They do not tell you here, that they have the 
 Pleafure, but they have the Honour to fee you, to fpeak to you, to 
 fhvx you, and to have the moft profound Refpeff for whatever are 
 your 'Titles. A young Ward of Quality has his Tutors of Honour, 
 the Tribunals are loaded with Counfellors of Honour, the Ho/pita/s 
 have their Directors of Honour ; and fo many of the Sex as have 
 Places at Court, are Ladies of Honour of Courfe. People of elevated 
 Profefiions would blufo at the Thoughts of being paid for the Ser- 
 vice they rendered the Public ; yet this proves no Bar to their ac- 
 cepting large Honorary Rewards. But the Nobility have a kind of 
 peculiar and exclufive Right to Honour ; a noble Fri-voliau, who 
 has only the Misfortune to be an exceeding bad Hufband, a very 
 indifferent Father, an ufelefs Member of Society, frequently calls 
 his Honour to Mind, and recommends it to his Son. That Son 
 out of a dutiful Regard to his Father, is exceedingly careful to lay 
 no frrefs upon any Engagement, how folemn foever, except his 
 Word of Honour ; pays none but Debts of Honour, and if ever he 
 draws his Sword and fheds Blood, it is on a Point of Honour. The 
 Women have a kind of Honour to themfelves : They are thought to 
 be fo correEl in preferring it, that for the fake of Safety their Hus- 
 band's Honour has been put into their Hands ; but Ladies of very 
 high Quality, commonly defire to be excufed, on account of their 
 being fubjecl: to Vapours, Flutters, Diflrattion ; and then how can 
 they anfwer for what they do ? 
 
 Honour is efTential to them of the Blade . All General Officers 
 are furnifhed from Court, or from the Capital at leaft, and for that 
 
 Reafon 
 
[ 35 ] 
 
 Rcafon particular Care is taken in their Education, h young Lord 
 who is defigned for a Command in the Army ought to have the gen- 
 teeleft Taylor, the ableft Perfumer, the gawdicft Equipage, the fined 
 Livery ; he ought to Play deep, Dance often, and in Public, be 
 prefent at every Dherfon, and as a Mark, of Genius give fome 
 new Turn to the Uniform of the firfl Troop, to which he is pre- 
 Jcnted. 
 
 This Elegance of Manners is not barely diffufed through the 
 faJ1:ionable World, but has penetrated likewife through the whole 
 Mafs of the People. A Tradefman views his Goods with a genteel 
 Air, and makes you pay through the Nofe, with the beft Grace in 
 the World, The Artizan poliihes himflf as well as the Toys in 
 which he deals. The Domejlic need not be told that you take 
 him lefs for Service than for Shciv ; he will exprefs his Senfe of it 
 in the Manner of drefjing his Hair, and will make fuch an Ap- 
 pearance that if from behind he mould accidently Aide into the 
 Chariot, the Mi/lake would not be eafily perceived. It requires a 
 correct Remembrance of Faces, to diftinguifli at all Times between 
 my Lady, and my Lady's Woman. The Arts of Pleajing, Dancing, 
 Mufic, and exterior Ornaments, have made their Way through 
 ail Ranks j and after all the very Mob want nothing to fet them on 
 a Level with the Men of Mode, but to be able to fay in a high 
 Tone, my Fellozcs, my Seat, my EJlates, my Anceflors. 
 
 The Frivolians have carried their Elegance of Manners even in- 
 to the Bofom of Religion. Good Company fometimes vilit the 
 Temple, to pafs away the Time. They employ themfelves there 
 in Complimenting, Nodding, Criticifing upon the Peoples Faces 
 and deaths, to the very Moment that the Preacher begins his Dil- 
 courfe. Parfon Walter would often fay that he went thither to 
 amufe bodi his Eyes and his Ears. The Preacher commonly pre- 
 faced 
 
[ 36 ] 
 
 fifcea his Difcourfe with a Compliment to the High-Priejl of the 
 Capital, and next paid his Refpedls to the Affembly : He then 
 makes a fmooth Oration in Praife of certain delicate Virtues, which 
 may be acquired almoft without Trouble. The Object of their 
 Adoration is the Sun ; they would likewife be thought to Love 
 him, but the Manner of doing this, has embarrajjed them not a 
 little. For whether he ought to be the ObjeB of their Affection, 
 becaufe he gives them Warmth and Light, or becaufe Heat and 
 Splendour are inherent in himfelf, has been a Point already in 
 JDifpute above one hundred Years, and will be probably dijputed 
 for an hundred Years to come. 
 
 They have profcribed Polygamy in this Country, becaufe there 
 is but one Sun, and one Moon ; but Hulbands take Pains for all that 
 to be agreeable to feveral Women, and Wives would have but a 
 bad Time of it, if they fliould refent fuch a Behaviour. One 
 Capital Point in their Religion, is to condemn all others. However, 
 Mr. Richard Walter, whom we have {o often mentioned, was 
 feized even here with a Deftre of making Converts. He made an 
 Attempt upon a Celebrated Beauty of the Court, who was now and 
 then troubled with Caprices of Virtue, and who, with a Smattering 
 of Philofophy, fet off with an agreeable Manner of Speaking, at- 
 tracted the RefpeSl of fome of the Brightejl Circles in the Capital. 
 He had two Obftacles to overcome. One was to difabufe her as to 
 the Divinity of the Sun, in which he had the good Luck to facceed - y 
 the other was to detach her from ten Lovers, to whom me had 
 hitherto maintained the ftriftejl Fidelity. He got over that too. He 
 thought himfelf now in a Manner fare. To make you compleatly 
 happy Madam, faid he, throw afidethat Zirphos, which is now the 
 ufelefs Badge of Error. This was the Image of the Sun, which 
 had been originally worn as an Enfign of Religion -, but which the 
 3 Humour 
 
[ 37 ] 
 
 Humour of the Nut ion had long ago converted into an unmeaning 
 Ornament. " What do you mean, Wretch, cried his fair Pupil in a 
 • Transport of Rage, part with my Zirphos, the moft attractive 
 •• Article in my Dr,j's. I will full part with my Exigence." From 
 that Moment all Hep s were lojl, and tire DoSlor found himfelf to- 
 talry defeated. 
 
 In reference to their Converfation, it is to the full as elegant as 
 their Manners. It rcfemblcs in every Refpecf their Magazines of 
 7 ';wh. It is a Sort of Tin/el Embroidery upon a very flight 
 Stuff, a Fringe of Equivocations, a String of ^uejlions that require 
 ;;j Anjwers ; a Concatenation of Jokes, at which every Body /Wgfo 
 ofcourfe, without being able to tell what they laughed at. 
 
 I could not help myfelf, fays the Admiral fmiling, fome- 
 times at the pretty light airy 3«r«f in their Difcourfe, which are 
 the mere Effects of their Underftandings, dancing always upon the 
 Surface of Things. 
 
 If the Manners of the Frivolians are fo elegant, Nature, fays 
 he, has given them Senfations different from thofe of other Men. 
 Beauty has, every where its Rights, but at Witsburgh it has abfo- 
 lutely tunica their Heads. It is a Comet they are continually ob- 
 fcrving, never deiifr. from purluing its Motions, endeavour as far as 
 in them lies to intercept its Force ; in fliort they look at Jiothing 
 clfe, and have nothing elfe to employ their Talk. 
 
 There are a kind of little Seats at Court very inconvenient, but 
 very much in vogue ; and fome great Marriages have been broke 
 off, becaufe truly they would not intitle the Lady to a Stool. 
 
 They are better pleafed with the Appearance of Wealth, than 
 with the Poffejjion of Wealth. After turning out an empty Purfe, 
 to convince an intimate Friend of their Inability to lend a trifling 
 
 L Sum, 
 
[ 38] 
 
 Sum, they fhew him by way of Amufement fome ufelefs Bauble. 
 that perhaps has coft them ten times as much. 
 
 You never hear them enquire whether the Tear is like to be 
 fruitful, whether Trade flourifhes, how new Magijlratcs behave? 
 or what Schemes the Mini/In purfue for the public Good. But 
 they are very importunate to know whether the Chimney-piece in 
 Fafhion this Winter be ornamented with Glafs or China, and the 
 moit vehement Tranfports of Pafjion are expreffed about Concert:. 
 Operas, and Mafquerades. In fine, rich Furniture affords them a 
 Paradife, Bufinefs is the Hell 'they would avoid,and public Dherjions 
 is all the Heaven they ever defire to fee,. 
 
 The whole City blazes for a Victory, by which the Nation is 
 undone ; but not a Soul expreffes Concern about what becomes of 
 a Law upon which the Public Safety depends.. They are paf- 
 fionatefy fond of their Monarch, and yet their Admiration fur- 
 paffes their Love. They flun you with the Number of his Guards, 
 his Officers, his Equipages, hi? Cajlles, his Crown Jewels, yet o* 
 a thoufand beneficent Actions that he has dene you hear not a Word* 
 If you tell them that there are wijer Courts, that the M'mifters elfe- 
 where are greater Politicians than their own, they will hear you 
 very coolly ; but mould you hint that there is a more Jplendid Mo- 
 narch upon the Earth, Bilbao is the Word, and Slaughter v/ufi 
 enfue. You never hear any Man pretend that he hzsjerved, or 
 is ready to ferve the Public, but nothing is more common than 
 to hear People profeffing their Readinefs to lay their Lives, their 
 Fortunes, their Exijlence, at the Emperor's Feet. A Citizen who 
 fhould ferioufly fay, that he efieemed it glorious- to die in his Coun- 
 try's Cauje, would only provoke a loud Laugh. 
 
 Ridicule is their fupreme and darling Amufement. An Am- 
 baffadcr arrived from a neighbouring Nation, one of thofe to whom 
 the Perukes were fent. He fignified to the Frivolians, that they 
 
 mud 
 
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 mult renounce a certain confiderablc Branch of their Commerce, 
 or refolve upon a War, It happened very luckily for him, anil 
 for the Nation who fent him, that his Ncfc was about a Foot long, 
 and his Peruke frightfully made. They were ftruck with thefe 
 double Objects of Ridicule ; they talked of them much ; they laugh- 
 ed at them more : And in this Fit of good Humour they fent him 
 away perft&ly fatisfied. 
 
 Sometimes their Senfrtions are fo ftrong, .that they are injurious 
 to the public Tranquillity ; of this the Admiral was an Eye Wit- 
 nefs. A Priefl of the Sun was charged with feducing a Virgin by 
 the Afiiftance of the Black Art. It was not believed by one Half] 
 it was abfolutcly believed by the other Half of the People. Every 
 Body was either on this Side or on that. One would have imagin- 
 ed from the Uproar, that the very Being of the State had depend- 
 ed either upon the Girl's Virginity, or the Continence of the Prieji. 
 A little after an Aclrefs, who was very much admired, fuddenly 
 difappeared. The whole City was in a Convulfion, the Men fwore 
 they would quit their refpective Employments, the Women would 
 never look their Hujbands in the Face, till they faw her on the 
 Stage again. The beft of it is, that there is no great Danger of 
 a Revolution in fuch Cafes. A new Entertainment introduced 
 a propos, or even a New Song mall reftore the public Peace. 
 
 When we are once acquainted with the Senfation and Manners 
 cf the Frivolians, we fhall be the lefs furprized at fome very 
 ftrange Cuftoms that prevail among them : One of thefe is to be 
 excefhvely loving upon New-Tear s-D ay. Every Creature is then 
 in Motion, the moft extravagant Compliments, the kindeft Expref- 
 f.ons of FriendJJ.ip are made to every Perfon they meet ; and as if 
 thefe had not only Sound but Meaning, they are generally accom- 
 panied with Prefects. If this Humour could but be converted in- 
 to 
 
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 to a Habit, there would be more Trade in this City than in all the 
 Vniverfe beiides. 
 
 It is no uncuftomary thing for a Woman upon her JVedding-Dav, 
 to fufpend her whole Fortune on her Neck and Ears ; or for the 
 Hujband to fell his Eft ate to furniJJj his Houfe magnijic 
 
 In the outer Rooms of a Great-Houfe, or behind the Cs^c/', 
 you may find the WkcWtfi Toung Fellows in the whole I/land, lazily 
 lounging out their L/wj ; and at the fame Time eating up their 
 Mafters. 
 
 The Provinces in the mean Time regret the Lo/} of Two Hun- 
 dred-Thoufand able-bodied Men, who would be ftill a greater Bur- 
 then, if fent down again, with all their Town Vices about them. 
 
 There are many of the Nobility and Gentry in very indifferent 
 Circumftances ; it is a Point of Honour that they mould remain 
 fo. Trade might raife them into a better Condition, but Trad: it 
 feems would deb of e them. As if Independency was not the only 
 kind of Nobility according to the Dictates of Reafon and Laws of 
 Nature. 
 
 The Country fwarms with "Judges. When a Per/on afpires to 
 that Dignity it is understood that he partes a ftrict Examination. 
 The Jirjl Queftion afked him is, how many Agatines he has 
 in his Purfe? If he can but anfwer this pertinently, he need give 
 himfelf very little Trouble about the reft. Another ftrange Prac- 
 tice is, that the fame Caufe runs through feveral Courts, fo that 
 one Decifion mud be had after another. A Man therefore ought 
 to go to Law young, if he means to fee the End of his Suit. I was, 
 fays the Admiral in his Memoirs, under infinite Concern for an 
 unhappy Man who carried his Caufe. The Suit was for a pretty 
 little EJlate, which however, when it came to he. fold would not 
 pay the Lawyer his Bill. It is indeed true, that the JVriti?igs in 
 
 the 
 
the Courfe of the Caufe would have compleatly covered the Land* 
 and it is a Point fettled, that a Square-Foot of Writing is of much 
 more Value, than a Square-Foot of Soil. The Fortune of an Ttf- 
 <Y/v/<iW/iornetinies ihall depend upon the Colour of the Paper that 
 contains his T/VA' ; if that is not Lilly-White, all the Covenant* 
 therein are not worth a RuJJj. 
 
 In this Illand there are more Priejls of the Sun, than there are 
 Merchants on the Exchange of London. The greateft Part of thefe 
 are Toung, that they may not fright the Laity when they come 
 to receive their good Counfels. The Duties of thefe Holy People 
 are comprehended within a narrow Compafs. They muft keep 
 ftridtly to the Drefs prefcribed, and wear their Hair in a particu- 
 lar Manner, chaunt their Hymns to the Sun at fettled Hours ; and 
 above all they muft adhere to their Vow, that even the loveliefl 
 Woman is not amiable. As to all other Things they may follow 
 the Bent of their Inclinations. 
 
 There are fome amongft thefe Holy People, environed with all 
 the Splendour that Riches can purchafe or beftow : Yet it is fup- 
 pofed that they place no Value on thefe Things, but keep them 
 purely from an Apprehenfion that they might fall into Contempt 
 with the Vulgar, if they did not decorate their Virtues. They 
 reckon that there are above Tico-thoufand Temples, a prodigious 
 Number of Altars in each, and every one of thefe is loaded with 
 little Ornaments. It is however no uncommon Sight to behold 
 the High-Altar of the Sun abandoned, while thofe dedicated to 
 Planets and Confiellations are crouded with Devotees. 
 
 It is much to be regretted that the Admiral was not able to 
 fpend more Time in this I/land, fince we might then have been in 
 Poffeflion of a more dijlincl Account of this extraordinary Nation. 
 All the neceftary Repairs of the Squadron were finiflied, the Veffels 
 
 M thoroughly 
 
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 thoroughly careened, the new Tender launched, and all the Pro- 
 vifions on board. They waited only for a fair Wind in order to 
 fail. The Admiral during his long and terrible Navigation, 
 had taken abundance of Pains to keep up the Spirits of his Peo- 
 ple ; thofe fignificant Phrafes our dear Country, invaluable Li- 
 berty, the Glory of Old England, and immortal Reputation, m Con- 
 fequence of their being continually thundered in their Ears, had 
 by Degrees found a Pajfage into their Hearts. There was not fa 
 much as a Soldier or a Sailor aboard, who did not think his 
 Actions might become the Subject of a Parliamentary Enquiry, or 
 who made the fmalleft Doubt that the Eyes of all the People of 
 Great-Britain were fixed upon his Conduct.. 
 
 Such was the Frame of their Minds at the Time that they 
 fet Foot in this I/land •,. but their Intercourfe with fo lively a Na- 
 tion, and it may be the Nature of the Aliments upon which they 
 had fo long fubfijled, had made very confiderable Changes in their 
 Conflitutions. They had no longer any Inclination to go mfearch 
 of Dangers and Enemies, to fpend their Days in Labour and Pain, 
 or to fet no Value upon their Lives j on the contrary they began 
 to laugh with the Frivolians at all thofe Mafculine Virtues, 
 which found, augment, and perpetuate Free States. 
 
 The Admiral was but too thoroughly convinced of this, and 
 therefore preffed the Embarkation, as much as was in his Power.. 
 At length he obtained his Audience of Leave. The Emperor how- 
 ever would by no Means confent to his Departure, but upon 
 Condition that he mould leave behind him Four of his Crew, 
 at the Choice of his Supreme-Elegance. The Admiral trembled, 
 tho' without Caufe ; for we are apt to Fear, for what we Wifh 
 to preferve. He was under a Terror, that this Choice mould falL 
 upon his Captains or Pilots ; but he was quickly releafed from 
 
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 thefe difagreeable Senfations. His Supreme-Elegance cafl: his Eyes 
 upon the three Barbers, the great Artificers of Perukes and of 
 Locks of every Sort. The fourth was a ioldier, who had a Me- 
 chanical Turn, and who had bid fair for Immortality, by the In- 
 vention of a Summer-Equipage, in which feveral Pairs of Bellows 
 were fo dexteroufly inferted as by the very Motion of the Machine, 
 to furnilh the Breath of Zephyrs even in the moft fultry Seafons. 
 
 It is not in any body's Power to command a Wind, for which 
 as the Squadron was obliged to wait, and as the Crew were not any- 
 longer employed in necefTary Labours, they were permitted to 
 Jhole about the Country in the Vicinity of the Capital. Some of the 
 Sailors had taken it into their Heads to fcale a Ridge of Moun- 
 tains on the Summit of which the Earth was burnt to Powder, » 
 without Trees, without Herbs ; but in the Dujl of which, were 
 plentifully fcattered a kind of Chrijlalline Stones,zndMarcajites,in 
 which Feins of Gold were very confpicuous. As foon as the Admiral 
 was apprifed of this, he went thither with thofe about him, who 
 were /killed in Mines. He examined thoroughly the Texture, 
 Quality and Produce of thefe Marca/ites, for which Purpofe he 
 caufed them to be dug up in feveral Places ; and having taken 
 the Pofition of the Ground precifely he returned to the Squadron. 
 
 Extreme Joy diffufed itfelf through all his People, their Ima- 
 ginations were already at the Bottom of the Mine. They computed 
 what immenfe Treafures it contained, and the Time necefiary to 
 draw them out of the Bowels of the Earth. We cannot tell, faid 
 they, how long we may be detained here, nay who knows whether 
 we (hall quit this delicious IJIe at all ? But if we leave it, let us not 
 leave it without carrying off the Riches that are our own, in Ri<mt 
 of Difcovery, and which we are fure the Wanders will never dif- 
 pute, became they have no Idea of their Value. The Notions of 
 3 the 
 
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 Admiral upon this Subjedl, were of a quite different Kind ; he im- 
 poied the ftricteft Silence, with refpedt to the Mine. It was upon 
 this Occafion that he fwore his Company never to fpeak of this 
 ftngular IJland ; and at the fame Time he gave out Orders, that 
 no Man mould quit his Ship upon Pain of Death. 
 
 All the Delights of this charming Ifland never ftruck the Minds 
 of his Jolly Sailors in fo affecting a Manner, as at this Inftant. The 
 Confternation was general, the Signs of Grief and Care, were not 
 fo apparent in their Faces even in Times of greatejl Danger. So 
 much lefs terrible is a Storm at Sea than the I'empejl of the Mind I 
 But the Admiral, exclufive of the Power vefted in him by his 
 Command, had that Natural., that Divine Authority, that fprings 
 from Superior Virtue ; and while fympathetic Grief would have 
 melted the Soul of almoft any other Man, he was pleafing him- 
 felf with the Hopes, that when they were once at Sea, he fhould 
 be able to dimpate thefe effeminate Dreams, and reftore their 
 prifiine Vigour. The next Morning it blew a fmart Gale from 
 the Weft, the Squadron immediately weighed, and ftood away to 
 the South-Seas, to plunder Payta, a rich Town in Peru, where 
 the Spaniards were in the deepeft Security. The reft of his im- 
 mortal Exploits are to be found in the Hijlory of his Voyage and 
 make no part of my Subject. 
 
 But I muft afk leave to fuggeft a few haflyRefieBions. A Fit of 
 Patriotifm has feized me: It is natural enough after having 
 talked fo long of the Britijh Genius. Admiral Anfon has difcover- 
 ed a Country in zjine Climate, a Nation eafily fubdued, and Mine* 
 of Gold. He has enjoined Silence upon Oath; he has made it a 
 Secret of State. Can we doubt that fome Time or other he 
 means a Conqueft ? And why mould not we attempt it ? 
 Shall we always leave it to the Maritime Powers, to difcover 
 
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[45 ] 
 
 and to fubdue ? Arc we not Maritime reivers ourfelves ; finer: 
 avc have the Mediterranean on one Side, and the Oeean on the 
 other ? Let us then for once prevent the Englijh, or if in Point 
 of Ctmfcience we are Scrupulous of making ourfelves Mailers ; 
 let us at leaft eftablilh a lawful and advantageous Commerce with 
 Frivoland. The Admiral fairly acknowledges that notwith- 
 ftanding their Rage of Luxurv, the People are not yet got to 
 that height of Tajle which prevails in London ; and yet what is 
 the T'ajle of London, in Comparifon of the Enchantments of 
 Paris ? What Eagernefs would the Frivolians exprefs for our 
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 Toys, our Damafk Sword-Blades, our rich Stuffs of Lyons, and 
 all thofe innumerable Materials for Finery, which dijlinguijh our 
 Men, and which give an incomparable Value to our Women f Are 
 we not Inventors and Manufacturers of Fopperies for Europe ? 
 How do we know that our Romances, our Comedies and our 
 Operas, that multiply here with fuch Succefs, may not prove a 
 profitable Branch of Commerce there ? However, don't let 
 both Sexes be frighted at fuch a Propofal. We will carry thefe 
 Americans only the Superfluity of our Superfluities, and bring 
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