Y Correfpondents grow fo numerous, that I cannot M'avoid frequently inferting their Applications to me Mr. SPECTATOR, Am glad I can inform you, that your Endeavours to adorn that Sex, which is the fairest Part of the vifible Creation, are well received, and like to prove not un 'fuccessful. The Triumph of Daphne over her Sifter Letitia has been the Subject of Converfation at feveralTea⚫ Tables where I have been prefent; and I have observed the fair Circle not a little pleased to find you confidering them as reasonable Creatures, and endeavouring to ba• nifh that Mahometan Custom which had too much pre⚫vailed even in this Ifland, of treating Women as if they had no Souls. I must do them the Juftice to fay, that there feems to be nothing wanting to the finishing of these lovely Pieces of Human Nature, besides the turning and applying their Ambition properly, and the keeping them up to a Senfe of what is their true Merit. Epitietus, that plain honeft Philofopher, as little as he had of Gallantry, appears to have understood them, as well as the Polite St. Evremont, and has hit this Point very luc kily. When Young Women, fays he, arrive at a certain Age, they hear themfelves called Miftreffes, and are made to believe that their only Business is to please the Men; they immediately begin to drefs, and place all their Hopes in the • adorning of their Perfons; it is therefore, continues he, • worth the while to endeavour by all Means to make them fenfible, that the Honour payed to them is only upon Account of their conducting themselves with Virtue, Modesty and Difcretion. NOW to pursue the Matter yet further, and to ren ⚫ der your Cares for the Improvement of the Fair Ones ⚫ more more effectual, I would propofe a new Method, like thofe Applications which are faid to convey their Virtue by Sympathy; and that is, that in order to enibellifh the Miftrefs, you fhould give a new Education to the Lover, and teach the Men not to be any longer dazled by falfe Charms and unreal Beauty. I cannot but think that ' if our Sex knew always how to place their Efteem justly, the other would not be so often wanting to themselves in deferving it. For as the being enamour'd with a • Woman of Senfe and Virtue is an Improvement to a • Man's Understanding and Morals, and the Paffion is en⚫ nobled by the Object which infpires it; fo on the other fide, the appearing amiable to a Man of a wife and elegant Mind, carries in it felf no small Degree of Merit and Accomplishment. I conclude therefore, that one Iway to make the Women yet more agreeable is, to make the Men more virtuous. I am, SIR, SIR, You Your most humble Servant, R. B April 26. TOURS of Saturday laft I read, not without fome Refentment; but I will fuppofe when you fay you expect an Inundation of Ribbons and Brocades, and to • fee many new Vanities which the Women will fall into upon a Peace with France, that you intend only the unthinking part of our Sex; and what Methods can reduce them to Reafon is hard to imagine. ་ 'BUT, Sir, there are others yet that your Inftructi ons might be of great use to, who, after their beft Endeavours, are fometimes at a Lofs to acquit themselves to a Cenforious World: I am far from thinking you can altogether difapprove of Conversation between La ⚫dies and Gentlemen, regulated by the Rules of Honour and Prudence; and have thought it an Obfervation not ill made, that where that was wholly denied, the Women loft their Wit, and the Men their good Manners. 'Tis fure, from those improper Liberties you mentioned, that a fort of undistinguishing People fhall banish from their Drawing-Rooms the beft-bred Men in the World, and condemn those that do not. ་ Your stating <ftating this Point might, I think, be of good ufe, as well as much oblige, SIR, Your Admirer, and moft Humble Servant, ANNA BELLA No Anfwer to this, 'till Anna Bella fends a Defcription of thofe fhe calls the Beft-bred Men in the World. Mr. SPECTATOR, :I Am a Gentleman who for many Years laft paft have been well known to be truly Splenatick, and that' my Spleen arifes from having contracted fo great a Delicacy, by reading the best Authors, and keeping the moft refined Company, that I cannot bear the leaft Impropriety of Language, or Rufticity of Behaviour. Now, Sir, I have ever looked upon this as a wife Diftemper, but by late Obfervations, find that every hea vy Wretch, who has nothing to fay, excufes his Dulnefs by complaining of the Spleen. Nay, I faw, the other Day, two Fellows in a Tavern Kitchen fet up for ft, call for a Pint and Pipes, and only by Guzling Liquor to each other's Health, and wafting Smoak in each other's Face, pretend to throw off the Spleen. I ap peal to you, whether thefe Difhonours are to be done to the Distemper of the Great and the Polite. I befeech you, Sir, to inform these Fellows that they have not the Spleen, because they cannot talk without the help ⚫ of a Glass at their Mouths, or convey their Meaning to • each other without the interpofition of Clouds. If you ⚫ will not do this with all Speed, I affure you, for my part, I will wholly quit the Disease, and for the future be merry with the Vulgar. SIR, I am, SI R, Your Humble Servant. THIS is to let you understand, that I am a reformsafer, and conceived a Deteftation for that Practice from what you have writ upon the Subject. • But as you have been very fevere upon the Behaviour of us Men at Divine Service, I hope you will not be fo appa apparently partial to the Women, as to let them go wholly unobferved. If they do every thing that is pof. fible to attract our Eyes, are we more culpable than they 'for looking at them? I happened laft Sunday to be fhut into a Pew, which was full of young Ladies in the • Bloom of Youth and Beauty. When the Service began, I had not Room to kneel at the Confeffion, but as I ftood kept my Eyes from wandring as well as I was able, 'till one of the young Ladies, who is a Peeper, refolved to bring down my Looks, and fix my Devo⚫tion on her felf. You are to know, Sir, that a Peeper works with her Hands, Eyes, and Fan; one of which is continually in Motion, while fhe thinks he is not actually the Admiration of fome Ogler or Starer in the Congregation. As I ftood utterly at a lofs how to behave my felf, furrounded as I was, this Peeper fo placed her felf as to be kneeling just before me. She difplay'd the moft beautiful Bofom imaginable, which heaved and fell with fome Fervour, while a delicate well-shaped Arm held a Fan over her Face. It was not in Nature to command ones Eyes from this Object. • I could not avoid taking notice alfo of her Fan, which had on it various Figures, very improper to behold ⚫ on that Occasion. There lay in the Body of the Piece a Venus, under a Purple Canopy furled with curious Wreaths of Drapery, half naked, attended with a Train of Cupids, who were bufied in Fanning her as fhe flept. Behind her was drawn a Satyr peeping over the filken Fence, and threatening to break through it. I frequently offered to turn my Sight another way, but was ftill detained by the Fafcination of the Peeper's Eyes, who had long practifed a Skill in them, to recal the parting Glances of her Beholders. You fee my Complaint, and hope you will take thefe mifchievous People, the Peepers, into your Confideration: I doubt not but you will think a Peeper, as much more pernicious than a Starer, as an Ambuscade is more to be fear⚫ed than an open Affault. ་ 6 I am, SIR, Your most Obedient Servant, This Peeper ufing both Fan and Eyes to be confidered as a Pict, and proceed accordingly. King Latinus to the Spectator, Greeting. THO' fome may think we defcend from our Imperial Dignity, in holding Correspondence with a private Litterato; yet as we have great Refpect to all good Intentions for our Service, we do not efteem it ⚫ beneath us to return you our Royal Thanks for what you published in our Behalf, while under Confinement in the inchanted Caftle of the Savoy, and for your Men'tion of a Subfidy for a Prince in Misfortune. This your timely Zeal has inclined the Hearts of divers to be aiding unto us, if we could propofe the Means. We have taken their Good-will into Confideration, and have contrived a Method which will be easie to those who shall give the Aid, and not unacceptable to us who receive it. A Confort of Mufick fhall be prepared at Haberdashers• Hall for Wednesday the Second of May, and we will honour the faid Entertainment with our own Prefence, where each Person shall be affeffed but at two Shillings and fix Pence. What we expect from you is, that you ⚫ publifh thefe our Royal Intentions, with Injunction that they be read at all Tea-Tables within the Cities of London and Westminster; and fo we bid you heartily Fare ⚫ well. Latinus, King of the Volfcians, Given at our Court in Vinegar-Yard, Story the Third from the Earth. April 28, 1711. R N° 54. T HE following Letter being the first that I have received from the learned University of Cambridge, I could not but do my felf the Honour of publishing it. It gives an Account of a new Seat of Philofophers which |