LXXIX. The evil tendency of increafing penal LXXX. The ladies trains ridiculed. LXXXI. The fciences ufeful in a populous state, prejudical in a barbarous one. .. LXXXII. Some cautions on life, taken from a mo- dern philofopher of China. . . LXXXIII. The anecdotes of feveral poets, who lived and died in circumftances of wretchednefs. 332 LXXXIV. The trifling fquabbles of ftage-players LXXXV. The races of Newmarket ridiculed. The tles. LXXXVII. The ladies advised to get husbands. A LXXXVIII. The folly of remote or useless difquifi- LXXXIX. The English subject to the spleen. 356 XCI. The manner in which fome philosophers \XCIII. The philofopher's fon is again feparated from XCIV. The father confoles him upon this occafion. 372 XCV. The condolence and congratulation upon the death of the late king ridiculed. English XCVIII. A vifit from the little beau. The indul- CI. The paffion for gaming among ladies, ridi- CII. The Chinese philofopher begins to think of CIII. The arts fome make use of to appear learned. 399 CIV. The intended coronation defcribed. .... 402 CV. Funeral elegies written upon the Great, ridi- CX. On the different fects in England, particu- CXII. A literary conteft of great importance; in ACXIII. Against the marriage act. A fable. 438 CXVII. On the meannefs of the Dutch, at the CXVIII. On the diftreffes of the poor exemplified, 454 The manner of travellers in their ufual re- UNIV. OF YOURS of the 13th inftant, covering two bills, one on Meffrs. R. and D. value 4781. 10s. and the other on Mr. ****, value 2851. duly came to hand, the former of which met with honour, but the other has been trifled with, and I am afraid will be returned protested. The bearer of this is my friend, therefore let him be yours. He is a native of Honan in China, and one who did me fignal fervices when he was a mandarine, and I a factor at Canton. By frequently converfing with the English there, he has learned the language, though he is entirely a ftranger to their manners and cuftoms. I am told he is a philofopher; I am fure he is an honeft man; that to you will be his best recommendation, next to the confideration of his being the friend of, Sir, Yours, &c. VOL. III. B LETTER AIMORIAD CITIZEN OF THE WORLD. LETTER II. Lond. From Lien Chi Altangi to ****, Merchant in Amfterdam. Friend of my heart, MAY the wings of peace rest upon thy dwelling, and the field of confcience preferve thee from vice and mifery! For all thy favours accept my gratitude and esteem, the only tributes a poor philofophic wanderer can return. Sure, fortune is refolved to make me unhappy, when the gives others a power of testifying their friendship by actions, and leaves me only words to exprefs the fincerity of mine. I am perfectly fenfible of the delicacy with which you endeavour to leffen your own merit and my obligations. By calling your late inftances of friendship only a return for former favours, you would induce me to impute to your juftice what I owe to your generofity. The fervices I did you at Canton, juftice, humanity, and my office bade me perform; thofe you have done me fince my arrival at Amfterftam, no laws obliged you to, no juftice required, even half your favours would have been greater than my most fanguine expectations. You The fum of money therefore which you privately conveyed into my baggage, when I was leaving Holland, and which I.was ignorant of till my arrival in London, I muft beg leave to return. have been bred a merchant, and I a fcholar; you confequently love money better than I. You can find pleasure in fuperfluity; I am perfectly content with what is fufficient; take therefore what is yours, it may give you fome pleasure, even though you have |