AND of this I can't have the leaft fhadow of doubt, inasmuch as I have been told by very good authority, it is fome way or other laid down as a rule, "* That whenever the Law "doth give any thing to one, it giveth impli66 edly whatever is neceffary for the taking and "enjoying the fame." Now I would gladly know what enjoyment I, or any Lady in the kingdom, can have of a coach without horses? The answer is obvious-None at all! For as Serj. Catlyne very wifely obferves, "Tho' a "coach has wheels to the end it may thereby "and by virtue thereof be enabled to move; 66 yet in point of utility it may as well have << none, if they are not put in motion by means "of its vital parts, that is, the horses."

AND therefore, Sir, I humbly hope you and the learned in the Law will be of opinion, that two certain animals, or quadruped creatures, commonly called or known by the name of horses, ought to be annexed to, and go along with the Coach.

SUKEY SAVECHARGES.

N° 55. Saturday, May 5.

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To the IDLER.

Mr. IDLER,

HAVE taken the liberty of laying before

you my complaint, and of defiring advice or confolation with the greater confidence, because I believe many other Writers have fuffered the fame indignities with myself, and hope my quarrel will be regarded by you and your Readers as the common cause of Lite

rature.

HAVING been long a Student, I thought myself qualified in time to become an Author. My enquiries have been much diversified and far extended, and not finding my genius directing me by irresistible impulse to any particular fubject, I deliberated three years which part of knowledge to illuftrate by my labours.. Choice is more often determined by accident than by reason: I walked abroad one mo ning with a curious Lady, and by her enquiries and

obferva

obfervations was incited to write the Natural Hiftory of the County in which I refide.

NATURAL Hiftory is no work for one that loves his chair or his bed. Speculation may be pursued on a foft couch, but nature must be observed in the open air. I have collected materials with indefatigable pertinacity. I have gathered glow-worms in the evening, and snails in the morning; I have feen the daisy close and open, I have heard the owl fhriek at midnight, and hunted infects in the heat of noon.

SEVEN years I was employed in collecting Animals and Vegetables, and then found that my defign was yet imperfect. The fubterranean treasures of the place had been paffed unobferved, and another year was to be spent in Mines and Coal-pits. What I had already done fupplied a fufficient motive to do more. I acquainted myself with the black inhabitants of metallick caverns, and, in defiance of damps and floods, wandered thro' the gloomy labyrinths, and gathered Foffils from every fiffure.

Ar laft I began to write, and as I finished any section of my book, read it to such of my friends

friends as were moft fkillful in the matter which it treated. None of them were fatisfied; one difliked the difpofition of the parts, another the colours of the ftyle; one advised me to enlarge, another to abridge. I refolved to read no more, but to take my own way and write on, for by confultation I only perplexed my thoughts and retarded my work.

THE Book was at last finished, and I did not doubt but my labour would be repaid by profit, and my ambition fatisfied with honours. I confidered that Natural History is neither temporary nor local, and that tho' I limited my Enquiries to my own County, yet every part of the earth has productions common to all the reft. Civil Hiftory may be partially ftudied, the revolutions of one nation may be neglected by another, but after that in which all have an intereft, all must be inquifitive. No man can have funk fo far into stupidity as not to confider the properties of the ground on which he walks, of the plants on which he feeds, or the animals that delight his ear or a muse his eye, and therefore I computed that univerfal curiofity would call for many Editions of my Book, and that in five years, I fhould

gain fifteen thousand pounds by the fale of thirty thousand copies.

WHEN I began to write I infured the house, and fuffered the utmost folicitude when I entrufted my book to the Carrier, tho' I had fecured it against mifchances by lodging two transcripts in different places. At my arrival, I expected that the patrons of learning would contend for the honour of a Dedication, and refolved to maintain the dignity of letters, by a haughty contempt of pecuniary folicitations.

I TOOK lodgings near the house of the Royal Society, and expected every morning a vifit from the Prefident: I walked in the Park, and wondered that I overheard no mention of the great Naturalift. Naturalift. At laft I visited a Noble Earl, and told him of my Work; he answered, that he was under an engagement never to fubfcribe. I was angry to have that refused which I did not mean to ask, and concealed my defign of making him immortal. I went next day to another, and, in refentment of my late affront, offered to prefix his name to my New Book; he faid, coldly, that he did not understand thofe things; another thought there

were