fisherman upon the English coast, and that shortly she will be brought to this metropolis, and fhewn to the curious of both fexes with the furprifing ORONUTO SAVAGE, and the wonderful PANTHER-MARE.

ASSURANCE, not in the leaft daunted, pursued her journey alone; and though not altogether as fuccessfully as with her companion, yet having learnt in particular companies, and upon particular occafions, to affume the air and manner of MODESTY, fhe was received kindly at every house; and at laft arriving at the end of her travels, she became a very great lady, and rose to be firft maid of honour to the queen of the country.

LONDON: Printed for R. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall, (where letters to the author are taken in) and fold by M. COOPER at the Globe in Pater-Nofter-Row. Price ad.

THE

W OR L D. RL

NUMBER. III.

By ADAM FITZ-ADA M.

To be continued every THURSDAY.

THURSDAY, January the 18th, 1753.

SIR,

I

To Mr. FITZ-ADA M.

F I had inclination and ability to do the cruelleft thing upon earth by the man I hated, I would lay him under a neceffity of borrowing money of a friend.

You are to know, fir, that I am curate of a parish within ten miles of town, at forty pounds per annum; that I am five and thirty years old, and that I have a wife and two children. My father, who was a clergyman of fome note in the country, unfortunately died foon after I came from college, and left me mafter of feventeen hundred pounds. With this fum, which I thought

thought a very great one, I came up to town, took lodgings in Leicester-fields, put a narrow lace upon my frock, learnt to dance of Denoyer, bought my fhoes of Tull, my fword of Becket, my hat of Wagner, and my fnuff-box of Deard. In fhort, I entered into the spirit of tafte, and was looked upon at public places as a fashionable young fellow. I do not mean that I was really fo, according to the town-acceptation of the term; for I had as great an averfion to infidelity, libertinifm, gaming and drunkennefs, as the moft unfafhionable man alive. All that my enemies, or what is more, all that my friends can fay against me, is, that in my drefs I rather imitated the coxcomb than the floven; that I preferred good company to reading the fathers; that I liked a dinner at the tavern better than one at a private house; that I was oftener at the play than at evening prayers; that I ufually went from the play to the tavern again; and that in five years time I fpent every fhilling of my fortune. They may also add, if they pleafe, as the climax of my follies, that when I was worth nothing myself, I married the most amiable woman in the world, without a penny to her fortune, only because we loved each other to distraction, and were miferable afunder.

To the whole of this charge I plead guilty; and have most heartily repented of every article of it, except the last: I am, indeed, a little apprehenfive that my. wife is my predominant paffion, and that I shall carry it with me to the grave.

I HAD Contracted at intimacy at college with a young fellow, whose tafte, age and inclinations were exactly fuited to my own. Nor did this intimacy end with our ftudies; we renewed it in town; and as our for

tunes

tunes were pretty equal, and both of us our own masters, we lodged in the fame house, dreffed in the fame manner, followed the fame diverfions, fpent all we had, and were ruined were ruined together. My friend, whose genius was more enterprizing than mine, fteered his course to the Weft-Indies, while I entered into holy orders at home, and was ordained to the curacy above

mentioned.

AT the end of two years I married, as I told you before; and being a wit, as well as a parfon, I made a shift by pamphlets, poems, fermons and furplice fees, to increase my income to about a hundred a year.

I THINK I shall pay a compliment to my wife's economy, when I affure you, that notwithstanding the narrowness of our fortune, we did not run out above ten pounds a year: for if it be confidered that we had both been used to company and good living; that the largest part of our income was precarious, and confequently if we ftarved ourselves we were not fure of laying up; that as an author I was vain, and as a parson ambitious; always imagining that my wit would introduce me to the minifter, or my orthodoxy to the bishop; and exclufive of thefe circumftances, if it be alfo confidered that we were generous in our natures, and charitable to the poor, it will rather be a wonder that we spent fo little.

"Tis now five years and a quarter fince our marriage; in all which time I have been running in debt without a poffibility of helping it. Laft christmas I took a survey of my circumftances, and had the mortification to find that I was fifty-one pounds fifteen fhillings worfe than. nothing. The uneafinefs I felt upon this discovery determined me to fit down and write a tragedy. I foon

found

found a fable in my mind, and was making a confiderable progrefs in the work, when I received intelligence; that my old friend and companion was juft returned from Jamaica, where he had married a planter's widow of immenfe fortune, buried her, and farmed out the eftate fhe had left him for two thoufand pounds a year. the exchange of London.

upon

I REJOICED heartily at this news, and took the firft opportunity of paying my congratulations upon fo happy an occafion. As I was dreffed for this vifit in very clean canonicals, my friend, who, poffibly, had connected the idea of a good living with a good caffock, received me with the utmost complaifance and good-humour ; and after having teftified his joy at seeing me, defired to be informed of my fortune and preferment. I gave him a particular account of all that had happened to me fince our feparation; and concluded with a very blunt request, that he would lend me fifty guineas to pay my debts with, and to make me the happieft curate within the bills of mortality.

As there was fomething curious in my friend's answer to this request, I fhall give it you word for word, as near, as I can remember it; marking the whole fpeech in italics, that my own interruptions may not be mistaken.

FIFTY guineas! And fo you have run yourself in debt fifty two pounds ten fhillings! Within a very trifle, fir. Ay, ay, I mean fo, Fifty guineas is the fum you want; and perhaps you would think it hard if I refufed lending it. I fhould indeed. I knew you would. Let me fee. (going to the efcritore) Can you change me a hundred-pound note? Who I, fir? You furprize me. Here, John! (enter John) get change for a hundred-pound note.. I want to lend this gentleman fome money-Or-no, no; I shant

want