hat she is silly. With all this ill nature, Fidget is herself
young, rich, and handsome; but loses the pleasure of all those
qualities, because she has them in common with others.

To make up her misery, she is well-bred, she hears commendations till
she is ready to faint for want of venting herself in contradictions.
This madness is not expressed by the voice; but is uttered in the eyes
and features: its first symptom is upon beholding an agreeable object, a
sudden approbation immediately checked with dislike.

This lady I shall take the liberty to conduct into a bed of straw and
darkness, and have some hopes, that after long absence from the light,
the pleasure of seeing at all may reconcile her to what she shall see,
though it proves to be never so agreeable.

My physical remarks on the distraction of envy in other persons, and
particularly in Will Voluble, is interrupted by a visit from Mr.
Kidney,[272] with advices which will bring matter of new disturbance to
many possessed with this sort of disorder, which I shall publish to
bring out the symptoms more kindly, and lay the distemper more open to
my view.

_St. James's Coffee-house, May 19._

This evening a mail from Holland brought the following advices:

From the Camp before Douay,[273] May 26, N.S. On the 23rd the
French assembled their army, and encamped with their right near
Bouchain, and their left near Crevecoeur. Upon this motion of the
enemy, the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene made a movement
with their army on the 24th, and encamped from Arlieux to Vitry
and Isez-Esquerchien, where they are so advantageously posted, that
they not only cover the siege, secure our convoys of provisions,
forage, and ammunition, from Lille and Tournay, and the canals and
dykes we have made to turn the water of the Scarp and La Cense to
Bouchain; but are in a readiness, by marching from the right, to
possess themselves of the field of battle marked out betwixt Vitry
and Montigny, or from the left to gain the lines of circumvallation
betwixt Fierin and Dechy: so that whatever way the enemy shall
approach to attack us, whether by the plains of Lens, or by
Bouchain and Valenciennes, we have but a very small movement to
make, to possess ourselves of the ground on which it will be most
advantageous to receive them. The enemy marched this morning from
their left, and are encamped