44 '^^ BE£, OR Jan. 12, 



hi(i from their view : Thus, in fliort, the agreeable mo- 

 dulations of a guitar, fweetly and artfully touched, 

 were drowned in the noife of confufed laughing, and 

 mingled converfation, of which I n^iyfelf had the ho- 

 nour to be in fome degree the theme. 



You muft know, Sir, I am one of thofe unfortunate 

 perfons whom the common people of Englandderifively 

 call MY LORD : added to this natural deformity, were 

 the imperfe£tions of old age, by which my figure was 

 ftill more contrafted, my gait tremulous, and all my 

 motions awkward ; this could not but prove a fruit- 

 ful iource of ridicule. Yonder, faid one to another, 

 fits a hero of a different kind. True, anfweredhis com- 

 panion ; but methinks the diftin£fion would be more 

 confpicuous, if the old gentleman were graced with 

 muflaches. He wants nothing but a turban, faid a third, 

 to look like a Turkifh Bafliaw. It would be highly pro- 

 per, added a fourth, to hang him round with bells, 

 that their fhrill and melodious notes might announce 

 the entrance of a guefl fo venersble. 



Thus, dear Sir, I appeal to common fenfe and corn- 

 men humanity, whether their reflexions might not 

 have been more pleafingly and ufefully employed in 

 fuggefting, that the fame hand which formed me, like- 

 wife formed them ; and that by rendering the imfirmi- 

 ties of their fpeciesthe fubjeft of farcafm and ridicule, 

 they infult the wife oeconomy of Providence, which is 

 falutary in all its procedures, and beneficent in all its 

 ends. 



But, I fear, this paper may demand a larger fpace in 

 your work than it is entitled to by its intrinfic 

 merit ; permit me therefore abruptly to fubfcribe my- 

 felf, your moft obedient humble fervant, 



Broughton. Adam EARD-ArrLE. 



