1800.} From the Port-folio 
WOLLASTON, 
The author of The Relgioz of Nature 
delineated, eked a bigot, how many re- 
ligions and. feéts he thought there might 
hea in the world? <¢ Why,” fays he, &6 Nf 
can make no judgment, I never confidered 
that queftion.”” ‘* Do you think,’ faid 
Wollafton, ‘* there may be an hundred ?”” 
*< O yes, at lealt!”"—‘* Why then,” {aid 
the philofopher, it is ninety nine to one 
you are in the wrong.’ 
DICK ESTCOURT 
- Was the Munden and Fawcet of his 
da and excelled in mimicry. Secretary 
Craggs brought him once to Sir Godfrey 
Knueller, where he mimicked feveral perfons 
whom he knew, as Lords Godolphin, 
Somers, Halitax, &c. Sir Godfrey was 
highly delighted, and took the joke and 
laughed heartily ; then Craggs giving Eft- 
court the wink, he Toil o i Godtrey 
himielf, who cried, ‘* Nay, now you are 
out, man; by G— that is not me!’— 
Certainly the fineft compliment he could 
pay the mimic. ; 
DR. HARVEY. i 
This celebrated phyfician, waking one 
morning, called his fervant, and afked 
him, what it was o’clock, and haw long 
it would be before it was light? When 
his fervant told him it was broad day, he 
only ordered him to fetch a little vial on 
fucha fhelf, and drank it off, and, lying 
down again, went to reft, trom een he 
was never ta rife. He ea what he had 
long apprehended, that ee had loft his 
fight, and had determined to have done 
with living whenever that happened 
Dr. Peliet died mere truly calm and un- | 
concerned.. He was a worthy man, be- 
loved by worthy men. Expecting every 
moment would be his lat, he fat himfelf 
in his eafy chair to read Terence, till the 
‘moment came, anc died with the book in 
his hand. 
CHARLES II. 
Charles Il. like fome other Kings, had 
a nick-name, of which pofteriry lofes all 
traces of the meaning oroccafion. | Cinarles 
was called Rowley, and a cotemperary 
faid, that the true occafion was this; there 
was an old goat that ufed to run about the 
privy-garden, that they had given that 
name to, a rank levherous-devil, that every 
body knew and tied to ftroke, becaule he. 
was good- humoured and familiar ; and 
they applied this name to the ot pee The 
perfon who afirmed this was grandfon toa 
of a Man of Letters. 437 
Secretary of State, and he knew all the con- 
cerned, the King, the garden, and the 0ate 
FACTS iz SEDUCTION. 
se girl inftituted a prolecution againft 
a young man for feduSion ; but on ftatine 
her cafe, her lawyer did not think. fhe had 
facts enough to fupport it. She left him 
very melancholy, but returning next day 
with an air of triumph, fhe (aid, <. An- 
ot fon Sit! he has feduced me-again 
this morning.” 
From the PORT-FOLIO, of. a JOURNEYX- 
MAN PRINTER. 
tod 0. ADV DOPA ARNG ELLOS. . caw 
No, Sir! By far the greater part of the 
errors whicl) difgrace the produétions of 
the modern prefs are in reality not ty po- 
graphic but. authorial overights. You 
know, Sir——or, if you do not know it, 
let me affure you, upon the word and-ho- 
nour of a journeyman-printer— that it is 
an ols rule wth us compofitors never 
to take the unjaftifiable liberty of deviat- 
ing one tota from an aurhor’s manuleript 
without his expre!s permisiion. But, un- 
fortunately, too many of our witers are 
accuftomed to fend their manu! ‘cripts to 
the prefs-in fo flovenly a ftate, fo illegibly 
written, fo careleisly punctuated, fo fcored 
with corrections, fo larded with interli- 
neations, fo disfigured with blots, fo 
cramped with abbreviations, fo zenigma-~ 
tifed with infertions and repetitions. and 
alterations and explanations feparacely 
{crawled on detatched {craps of paper like 
the Sibyl’s oracles on the leaves of trees, 
that the journeymen- printers (few of whom 
are profejed conjurers) frequently need all 
the fagacity of an Gidipus, together with. 
the ken eyes of a Lynceus, to decipher 
a writer's meanmg. Hence numerous 
errors are unavoidably made in the firit in-. 
fiance, which are alierwards overlooked 
by the author in examining the proof- 
fheets: for how rare to find an author who 
is capable of reading a proot-fheet with 
any tolerable degree of accuracy! and leaft 
of all is he qualified to read a proof of his 
own work. In the firft place he is not 
habituated to the minutious drudgery of 
fcrutinifing leiter by letter, poiat by points 
and ERenie on the other hand, while he 
fancies himlelf reading the proof of his, 
compolfition, he rather reads in memory 
what it ought to be, than on the paper 
what it actually is. Thus the miftakes 
elcape his notice, and going to prefs with 
his fanétion, become in reality authoriab 
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