e Taylor, who from the Beginning had resolved not to speak at
all in the Debate,--was at last drawn into it, by something very
unexpected in the last Person's Argument.

He told the Company, frankly, he did not understand what Ichnography
meant:--But as for the Shape of a Pair of Breeches, as he had had the
Advantage of cutting out so many hundred Pairs in his Life-Time, he
hoped he might be allowed to know as much of the Matter as another Man.

Now, to my Mind, says he, there is nothing in all the Terraqueous Globe
(a Map of which, it seems, hung up in his Work-Shop) so like a Pair of
Breeches unmade up, as the Island of Sicily:--Nor is there any thing, if
you go to that, quoth an honest Shoe-maker, who had the Honour to be a
Member of the Club, so much like a Jack-Boot, to my Fancy, as the
Kingdom of Italy.--What the Duce has either Italy or Sicily to do in the
Affair? cries the President, who, by this Time, began to tremble for his
Hypothesis,--What have they to do?--Why, answered the Partition-Treaty
Gentleman, with great Spirit and Joy sparkling in his Eyes,--They have
just so much, Sir, to do in the Debate as to overthrow your
Suppositions, and to establish the Certainty of mine beyond the
Possibility of a Doubt: For, says he, (with an Air of Sovereign Triumph
over the President's Politicks)--By the Partition-Treaty, Sir, both
Naples and Sicily were the very Kingdoms made to devolve upon the
Dauphin;--and Trim's greasing the Parson's Boots, is a Devilish
Satyrical Stroke;--for it exposes the Corruption, and Bribery made Use
of at that Juncture, in bringing over the several States and Princes of
Italy to use their Interests at Rome, to stop the Pope from giving the
Investitures of those Kingdoms to any Body else.--The Pope has not the
Investiture of Sicily, cries another Gentleman.--I care not, says he,
for that.

Almost every one apprehended the Debate to be now ended, and that no one
Member would venture any new Conjecture upon the Romance, after so many
clear and decisive Interpretations had been given. But, hold,--Close to
the Fire, and opposite to where the Apothecary sat, there sat also a
Gentleman of the Law, who, from the Beginning to the End of the Hearing
of this Case, seem'd no way satisfied in his Conscience with any one
Proceeding in it. This Gentleman had not yet opened his Mouth, but had
waited patiently till they had all gone thro' their several Evidences on
the other Side;--reserving himself, lik