e wrong'd him, by putting
Arbitrary in its Place; I ask his Pardon.--

Having said thus much of his Party in general, I might descend to
Particulars, and examine the sufficiency of the Characters of his
Academicians, a List of them being handed up and down, in which the
Author is not forgot. It is set off with Names that must not be
repeated, and amongst the rest are a Doctor or two, two or three Poets
and Tell Tales, and that Learned and Facetious Person Mr. _D----ny_,
whose very Name gives unspeakeable Hopes of the Progress of such a
Society, in refining our Language, which he and most of his Brethren are
so great Masters of, that if twenty of the List will oblige us with as
many Lines of Common Sense and Common Grammar, I will be bound to read
every thing that shall be publish'd by this Famous Academy, that is to
be or under their Auspices, tho' I had much rather change that Pennance
for _Ogilby_ and _Blome_. To give us the better _Idea_ of his _Scheme,
he has consulted with very Judicious Persons_; we may judge of what
truth there is in his _Panegyricks_, by that of the deceas'd _Examiner_
on himself; where he says, _he had written with so much Reputation, and
so much to the Confusion of the Whigs, that they themselves have a Value
for his Person and Abilities, tho they have an Aversion to his Cause_.
Of the same size, I doubt not, are the able and judicious Persons he has
consulted about his Design, which must be own'd to be very good in it
self, and capable of such Improvement as wou'd make it one of the
Glories of Her Majesty's most Glorious Reign. But alas, he will never
have the Honour of it. A Noble Lord, on whom he has written _Libels_ and
_Encomiums_, was the first that thought of such a thing, and some Years
since nam'd forty Gentlemen to be Members of an Academy, on a Foundation
refining on the _French_ of which Number I am very well satisfy'd, not a
Man of his most Illustrious Band wou'd ever have been, and that tho' he
is so generous as to promise the Whigs that they shall come in if they
will, he must look 'em out better Company, or his Academy will have the
Glory of this great Work to themselves. Indeed the way is prepar'd for
them to _Immortality_, two _English_ Grammars having been publish'd
within this Twelvemonth, and it remains to him and his Fraternity, to
add a _Dictionary_ worthy those Immortal Labours; for which, there are
not a Set of Men in _England_ better qualify'd, and so equal to so
ho