particular enumerate the many sons and daughters which he has begot in
this island. But as this would be a very invidious task, I shall only
observe in general that False Humour differs from the True as a monkey
does from a man.

First of all, he is exceedingly given to little apish tricks and
buffooneries.

Secondly, he so much delights in mimicry, that it is all one to him
whether he exposes by it vice and folly, luxury and avarice; or, on the
contrary, virtue and wisdom, pain and poverty.

Thirdly, he is wonderfully unlucky, insomuch that he will bite the hand
that feeds him, and endeavour to ridicule both friends and foes
indifferently. For, having but small talents, he must be merry where he
can, not where he should.

Fourthly, Being entirely void of reason, he pursues no point either of
morality or instruction, but is ludicrous only for the sake of being so.

Fifthly, Being incapable of anything but mock representations, his
ridicule is always personal, and aimed at the vicious man, or the writer;
not at the vice, or at the writing.

I have here only pointed at the whole species of false humorists; but, as
one of my principal designs in this paper is to beat down that malignant
spirit which discovers itself in the writings of the present age, I shall
not scruple, for the future, to single out any of the small wits that
infest the world with such compositions as are ill-natured, immoral, and
absurd. This is the only exception which I shall make to the general
rule I have prescribed myself, of attacking multitudes; since every
honest man ought to look upon himself as in a natural state of war with
the libeller and lampooner, and to annoy them wherever they fall in his
way. This is but retaliating upon them, and treating them as they treat
others.

SA GA YEAN QUA RASH TOW'S IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON.

_Nunquam aliud natura_, _aliud sapientia dicit_.

JUV., _Sat._ xiv. 321.

Good taste and nature always speak the same.

When the four Indian kings were in this country about a twelvemonth ago,
I often mixed with the rabble, and followed them a whole day together,
being wonderfully struck with the sight of everything that is new or
uncommon. I have, since their departure, employed a friend to make many
inquiries of their landlord the upholsterer relating to their manners and
conversation, as also concerning the remarks which they made in this
country; for next to the forming a right notion