White's Chocolate-house, April 18. LL Hearts at prefent pant for Two LaAdies only, who for fome Time engroffed the Dominion of the Town. They are indeed both exceeding Charming, but differ very much in their Excellencies. The Beauty of Clariffa is Soft, that of Chloe Piercing. When you look at Clariffa, you fee the most exact Harmony of Feature, Complexion, and Shape; you find in Chloe nothing extraordinary in any one of thofe Particulars, but the whole Woman irrefiftible. Clariffa looks Languifhing; Chloe Killing. Clariffa never fails of gaining Admiration; Chloe of moving Defire. The Gazers at Clariffa are at firft unconcerned, as if they were observing a fine Picture. They who behold Chloe, at the firft Glance, difcover Tranfport, as if they met their dearest Friend. Thefe different Perfections are fuitably repre fented by the last great Painter Italy has fent us, Mr. Jervafe. Clariffa is, by that skilful Hand, placed in a Manner that looks artlefs, and innocent of the Torments fhe gives; Chloe drawn with a Livelinefs that fhows fhe is confcious, but not affected, of her Perfections. Clariffa is a Shepherdefs; Chloe a Country Girl. I must own, the Design of Chloe's Picture fhows, to me, great Maftery in the Painter; for nothing could be better imagined than the Drefs he has given her, of a Straw-Hat and Ribband, to represent that Sort of Beauty which enters the Heart with a certain Familiarity, and cheats it into a Belief, that it has received a Lover as well as an Object of Love. The Force of their different Beauties is feen alfo in the Effects it makes on their Lovers. The Admirers of Chloe are eternally gay and wellpleafed Thofe of Clariffa, melancholy and thought

thoughtful. And as this Paffion always changes the natural Man into a quite different Creature from what he was before, the Love of Chloe makes Coxcombs; that of Clariffa, Madmen. There were of each Kind just now in this Room. Here was one that whiftles, laughs, fings, and cuts Capers, for Love of Chloe. Another has juft now writ Three Lines to Clariffa, then taken a Turn in the Garden, then came back again, then tore his Fragment, then called for fome Chocolate, then went away without it.

Chloe has fo many Admirers in the House at prefent, that there is too much Noife to proceed in my Narration: So that the Progrefs of the Loves of Clariffa and Chloe, together with the Bottles that are drank each Night for the One, and the many Sighs which are uttered, and Songs written, on the Other, must be our Subject on future Occafions.

Will's Coffee-boufe, April 18.

Letters from the Hay-market inform us, That on Saturday Night laft the Opera of Pyrrhus and Demetrius was performed with great Applaufe. This Intelligence is not very acceptable to us Friends of the Theatre; for the Stage being an Entertainment of the Reafon and all our Faculties, this Way of being pleased with the Sufpence of 'em for Three Hours together, and being given up to the fhallow Satisfaction of the Eyes and Ears only, feems to arife rather from the Degeneracy of our Underftanding, than an Improvement of our Diverfions. That the Understanding has no Part in the Pleasure is evident, from what thefe Letters very pofitively affert, to wit, That a great of the Performance was done in Italian: And a great Critick fell into Fits in the Gallery, at leeing, not only Time and Place, but Langua

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ges and Nations confufed in the moft incorrigible Manner. His Spleen is fo extremely moved on this Occation, that he is going to publifh a Treatife against Opera's, which, he think', have already inclined us to Thoughts of Peace, and if tolerated, muft infallibly dilpirit us from carrying on the War. He has communicated his Scheme to the whole Room, and declared in what Manner Things of this Kind were first introduced. He has upon this Occafion confidered the Nature of Sounds in general, and made a very elaborate Digreffion upon the London Cries, wherein he has shown from Reafon and Philofophy, why Oyfters are cried, Card-matches fung, and Turneps and all other Vegetables neither cried, fung, nor faid, but fold, with an Accent and Tone neither natural to Man or Beaft. This Piece feems to be taken from the Model of that excellent Dif courfe of Mrs. Manly the School Mistress, concerning Samplers. Advices from the upper End of Piccadilly fay, That May-Fair is utterly abolished; and we hear, Mr. Penkethman has removed his ingenious Company of Strollers to Greenwich: But other Letters from Deptford fay, the Company is only making thither, and not yet fettled; but that feveral Heathen Gods and Goddeffes, which are to defcend in Machines, landed at the Kings-Head-Stairs laft Saturday. Venus and Cupid went on Foot from thence to Greenwich; Mars got drunk in the Town, and broke his Landlord's Head, for which he fate in the Stocks the whole Evening; but Mr. Penkethman giving Security that he fhould do nothing this enfuing Summer, he was fet at Liberty. The moft melancholy Part of all, was, that Diana was taken in the A& of Fornication with a Boat-man, and commitC

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Wrathful, which has, it feems, put a Stop to the Diverfions of the Theatre of Black-Heath. But there goes down another Diana and a Patient Griffel next Tide from Billing fgate.

St. James's Coffee-house, April 18.

They write from Saxony of the 13th Inftant, N. S. That the Grand General of the Crown of Poland was fo far from entring into a Treaty with King Stanislaus, that he had written Circular Letters, wherein he exhorted the Palatinates to join against him; declaring, that this was the most favourable Conjuncture for allerting their Liberty.

Letters from the Hague of the 23d Inftant, N. S. fay, they have Advices from Vienna, which import, That his Electoral Highness of Hannover had fignified to the Imperial Court, that he did not intend to put himself at the Head of the Troops of the Empire, except more effectual Meafures were taken for acting vigorously against the Enemy the enfuing Campaign. Upon this Reprefentation, the Emperor has given Orders to feveral Regiments to march towards the Rhine, and dispatched Expreffes to the refpective Princes of the Empire to delire an Augmentation of their Forces.

Thefe Letters add, That an Express arrived at the Hague on the 20th Inftant, with Advice, That the Enemy having made a Detachment from Tournay of 1500 Horfe, each Trooper car ying a Foot-Soldier behind him, in order to furprife the Gar: ifon of Aloft; the Allies, upon Notice of their March, fent out a ftrong Body of Troops from Ghent, which engaged the Enemy at Afche, and took 200 of them Prifoners, obliging the reft to retire without making any Further Attempt. On the 22d in the Morning,

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a Fleet of Merchant Ships coming from Scot land, were attacked by Six French Privateers at the Entrance of the Meufe. We have yet no certain Advice of the Event: But Letters from Rotterdam fay, That a Dutch Man of War of Forty Guns, which was Convoy to the faid Fleet, was taken, as were alfo Eighteen of the Merchants. The Swifs Troops, in the Service of the States, have compleated the Augmentation of their respective Companies. Thofe of Wirtemberg and Pruffia are expected on the Frontiers within few Days; and the Auxiliaries from Saxony, as alfo a Battalion of Holftein, and another of Wolfembuttle, are advancing thither with all Expedition. On the 21ft Inftant, the Deputies of the States had a Conference near Woerden with the Prefident Rouille, but the Matter which was therein debated is not made publick. His Grace the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene continue at the Hague.

From my own Apartment, April 18.

I have lately been very ftudious for Intelligence, and have juft now, by my Aftrological Flying-Poft, received a Packet from Filicia, an Island in America, with an Account that gives me great Satisfaction, and lets me undertand that the Ifland was never in greater Profperity, or the Administration in fo good Hands, fince the Death of their late glorious King, Thefe Letters import, That the Chief Miniiter has entered into a firm League with the ableft and beft Men of the Nation, to carry on the Caufe of Liberty, to the Encouragement of Religion, Virtue, and Honour. Thofe Perfons at the Helm are fo ufeful, and in themfelves of fuch Weight, that their ftri&t Alliance muft needs tend to the univerfal Prof perity of the People. Camillo, it feems, preC 2 fides