1822.] 
fire-side, and shun a public-house or 
a sottish club as you would a bad debt. 
18, Subscribe with your neighbours 
to a book-club, and improve your 
mind, that you may be qualified to use- 
your future afllwence with credit to 
yourself, and advantage to the public. 
19. 'Take stock every year, estimate 
your profits, and do not spend above 
their fourth, 
20. Avoid the commen folly of expend- 
ing your precious eapital upon a costly 
architectural front; such things operate 
on the world like paint on a woman’s 
cheeks,—repelling beholders instead 
of attracting them. 
21. Every pound wasted by a young , 
tradesman is two pounds Tost at the 
end of three years, and sixtcen pounds 
at the end of twenty-four years. 
22. Toavoid being robbed and ruined 
by apprentices and assistants, never 
allow them to go from home in the 
evening ; and the restriction will prove 
equally useful to servant and master. 
23. Remember that prudent pur- 
chasers avoid the shop of an extrava- 
gant and ostentatious trader ; for they 
justly consider that, if they deal with 
him, they must contribute to his follies. 
24. Let these be your Rules till you 
have realized your stock, and till you 
ean take discount for prompt payment 
on all purchases; and you may, then 
mdulge in any degree which your ha- 
dits and sense of prudence suggest. 
June 4, 1622. COMMON SENSE. 
: 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
FURTHER DETAILS relative to the FAIR 
QUAKER. 
HE accounts published in your 
Magazine relative to the fair 
quaker, protected by the late king, 
differing in some respects from that 
which I have reeeived from my rela- 
tives, who were her father’s neigh- 
hours, I here give you their account. 
St. James’s market, now puiled 
down, and absorbed in the improved 
state of the space between Pall Mall 
and Piccadilly, at the end next the 
Haymarket, consisted before its dila- 
pidation of two parts,—a daily flesh 
market, and an open obleng space, on 
the cast side of the other, called the 
country market, for poultry and other 
country produce. Mr. Wheeler’s house 
was the eastern corner-house, on the 
south side of this open part, and abut- 
ted upon Market-lane, a narrow lane, 
which ran out of Pall Mall at the 
baek of the Opera-liouse, the lower 
Further Details relative to the Fair Quaker. 
5iF 
end of which, as far as where Wheeler’s 
house stood, is now covered over, and 
made into an arcade. I well remem- 
ber tho shop; which, after the decease 
of the old folks, was kept by their son 
until the recent destruction. It was 
a Jinen-draper’s, and, as the principal 
part of the business lay with the coun- 
try market people, the proprietors 
were accustomed to. keep a cask of 
cood ale,—a glass of which was always 
offered to their customers. 
At that time the ravages of the 
small-pox, unchecked by inoculation, 
left but few women who were not 
marked by its destructive powers ; and 
the possessors of a fair unsulied face 
were followed by crowds of admirers. 
Such was the case of the Misses Gun- 
ning, who paraded the Mall in St. 
James’s Park, guarded by a troop of 
admirers with drawn. swords, to pre- 
vent the populace from encroaching 
on that then hallowed spot, sacred to 
centility. The train of Miss W. as 
she passed to and from the mecting in 
Tlemming’s-row, St. Martin’s-lane, 
Was as numerous. 
Being before the American. war, the: 
spirit of democracy had notintroduced 
its levelling principles, and the royal 
family, the nobility, and even the gen- 
try, were beheld with a kind of awe, 
which rendered the presence of troops 
or constables unnecessary fer their 
protection. The royal family pro- 
ceeded to the theatres in chairs, pre- 
ceded only by a few footmen, and 
followed by about a dozen yeomen, 
When they went to the Opera, they - 
entered at the back-door in Market- 
Jane, which was near the country- 
market; and therefore, to avoid the 
length of that nasrow passage, they 
passed up St. Albans’-street, skirted 
half the south of the market, and had 
then only a few paces to go down the 
lanc.. On these oceasions the linens 
were taken out of the eastern window, 
and Miss W. sat ina chair to see the 
procession. 'The fame of hex beauty 
attracted the notice of the Prince, and 
there were not wanting those who were 
ready to fan the flame, and promote 
the connexion. 
One M and his wife then lived 
in Pall Mall; their house was the re- 
sort of the gay world, and the master 
and mistress were equally ready to 
assist the designs of the gamester or 
libertine, and to conceal the galantries 
of a fashionable female, ‘To thisman, 
familiarly known about the court by 
the 
