Animals cannot be termed Reafon, fo when we call it Inftinet, we mean fomething we have no Knowledge of. To me, as I hinted in my laft Paper, it seems the immediate Direction of Providence, and fuch an Operation of the fupreme Being, as that which determines all the Portions of Matter to their proper Centres. A modern Philofopher, quoted by Monfieur Bayle in his learned Differtation on the Souls of Brutes, delivers the fame Opinion, though in a bolder Form of Words, where he says, Deus eft Anima Brutorum, God himfelf is the Soul of Brutes. Who can tell what to call that seeming Sagacity in Animals, which directs them to fuch Food as is proper for them, and makes them naturally avoid whatever is noxious or unwholefom? Tully has obferved, that a Lamb no fooner falls from its Mother, but immediately and of his own accord applies itself to the Teat. Dampier, in his Travels, tells us, that when Seamen are thrown upon any of the unknown Coafts of America, they never venture upon the Fruit of any Tree, how tempting foever it may appear, unless they observe that it is marked with the Pecking of Birds; but fall on without any Fear or Apprehenfion where the Birds have been before them.

Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo eft. PUBL.

MAN'S firft Care fhould be to avoid the Reproaches of his own Heart; his next, to escape the Cenfures of the World: If the laft interferes with the former, it ought to be intirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater Satisfaction to an honeft Mind, than to see those Approbations which it gives itself feconded by the Applaufes of the Publick: A Man is more fure of his Conduct, when the Verdict which he paffes upon his own Behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the Opinion of all that know him.

MY worthy Friend Sir ROGER is one of thofe who is not only at Peace within himself, but beloved and esteemed by all about him. He receives a fuitable Tribute for his univerfal Benevolence to

Mankind, in the Returns of Affection and Goodwill, which are paid him by every one that lives within his Neighbourhood. I lately met with two or three odd Instances of that general Respect which is fhewn to the good old Knight. He would needs carry Will Wimble and myself with him to the County Affizes: As we were upon the Road Will Wimble joined a couple of plain Men who rid before us, and converfed with them for fome time; during which my Friend Sir ROGER acquainted me with their Characters.

THE first of them, says he, that has a Spaniel by his Side, is a Yeoman of about an hundred Pounds a Year, an honest Man : He is just within the Game-Act, and qualified to kill an Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Eftate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not deftroy fo many Partridges in short, he is a very fenfible Man; shoots flying; and has been feveral times Foreman of the Petty Jury.

THE other that rides along with him is Tom Touchy, a Fellow famous for taking the Law of every Body. There is not one in the Town where he lives that he has not fued at a Quarter-Seffions.

The Rogue had once the Impudence to go to Law with the Widow. His Head is full of Cofts, Damages, and Ejectments: He plagued a couple of honest Gentlemen fo long for a Trespass in breaking one of his Hedges, till he was forced to fell the Ground it enclosed to defray the Charges of the Profecution: His Father left him fourscore Pounds a Year; but he has caft and been caft fo often, that he is not now worth thirty. I fuppofe he is going upon the old Bufinefs of the WillowTree.

AS Sir ROGER was giving me this Account of Tom Touchy, Will Wimble and his two Companions stopped short till we came up to them. After having paid their Refpects to Sir ROGER, Will told him that Mr. Touchy and he must appeal to him upon a Dispute that arose between them. Will it seems had been giving his Fellow-Travellers an Account of his Angling one Day in fuch a Hole; when Tom Touchy, instead of hearing out his Story, told him that Mr. such an One, if he pleased, might take the Law of him for fishing in that Part of the River. My Friend Sir ROGER heard them both, upon a round Trot; and after having paused fome time told them, with the Air of a Man who would not give his Judgment rafhly, that much might be faid on both Sides. They were

neither of them diffatisfied with the Knight's Determination, because neither of them found himself in the Wrong by it: Upon which we made the best of our Way to the Affizes.

THE Court was fat before Sir ROGER came; but notwithstanding all the Juftices had taken their Places upon the Bench, they made room for the old Knight at the Head of them; who for his Reputation in the Country took occafion to whisper in the Judge's Ear, That he was glad his Lordship had met with so much good Weather in his Circuit. I was listening to the Proceeding of the Court with much Attention, and infinitely pleased with that great Appearance and Solemnity which so properly accompanies fuch a publick Administration of our Laws; when, after about an Hour's Sitting, I observed to my great Surprise, in the midst of a Trial, that my Friend Sir ROGER was getting up to speak. I was in fome Pain for him, 'till I found he had acquitted himself of two or three Sentences, with a Look of much Bufinefs and great Intrepidity.

UPON his first Rifing the Court was hushed, and a general Whisper ran among the Country People that Sir ROGER was up. The Speech he made was fo little to the Purpose, that I shall not trouble my Readers with an Account of it; and I believe was not fo much defigned by the Knight