141. On experiments in running, riding, manufactures - A laconic epistle Unknown 142. Letters from a noisy wife and husband Moore 144. Distresses of a ruined wife and mother 145. Story of a perfidious lover 149. On ballad-singers-Proposal to ennoble their profession a of Sir Eustace Dawbridgecourt . . Walpole Cousins Proposals to eat healths Unknown - Unknown Unknown 179. Advertisements for lodgings proposed to be extended- Meeting of servants 183. On the uses of this paper in dressing - 184. On the harmlessness of labouring in 185. Complaint against a wife too much de- 186. Second letter from the credulous 187. Pride of the family of Laycocks Moore Gataker Earl of Corke Moore . Berenger Unknown Sir D. Dalrymple 205. Tour to China proposed instead of Paris Unknown 206. Letter on the vexations of gallantry Cambridge and aunt on thick and thin sculls. Unknown THE WORLD. No. 141. THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1755. THE following letter was mislaid, which is the reason of its not having appeared earlier in this paper. The excuse perhaps is less pardonable than the fault; but it is the only one I can make with truth; and I hope the author will receive it with candour. SIR, TO MR. FITZ-ADAM. If ever you take the trouble of looking into any of the public papers besides your own, you cannot help observing the many curious experiments, which of late years have been made through all parts of this kingdom, in running, riding, leaping, driving, fire-eating, wire-dancing, and various other useful arts, by persons of all ranks and fortunes. I am willing to give credit to these extraordinary achievements, though many of them, I own, far exceed the bounds of probability, because of the honour they do to our age and country; and it is not without high indignation against the ingratitude of the present times, that I have been hitherto disappointed in my expectations of seeing public honours and rewards bestowed on these illustrious VOL. III. B |