into the Lottery; but certainly, the Society will take care of
themselves, and if there's any thing to be got have the Forestalling of
the Market. The Design itself is useful, and cannot meet with too much
Encouragement, Her Majesty, always willing to promote the Good of our
Country, will, it is hop'd, hearken to it in due time; but if it _be
defer'd till Peace_ there will be no great Harm in it, tho' he is
pleas'd to rally one of the late M------rs, as much above his Satyr as
his Panagyrick, for being so silly as to prefer Necessity to
Convenience.

The want of a _Grammar_ and _Dictionary_ has been long complain'd of;
and we cannot expect our Tongue will ever spread abroad, unless
Foreigners are put into a more regular Method of learning it. To
distribute Rewards to Merit, is the Duty of a good Ministry, and nothing
contributes more to the Glory of a Country than Works of _Eloquence_ and
_Wit_; but he has assum'd a Post that will not be allow'd him. He has
set himself in the Director's Chair of an _English_ Academy; before he
has past Examination whether he is fit for a Place at the Board; Members
are nam'd that have no Right to such Honour, unless it is a Privilege
that is Inseperable from their Posts and Peerage; and he has given us
Assurance of fine Pieces of _Wit_ and _Eloquence_ from a Quarter it
never yet came.

Projectors, like Quacks, promise Wonders but 'tis always the Labour of
the Mountain------I might enlarge on this Head if I had not run my
Reflections too far already. I shall therefore conclude with a
Discription of one of those Quacks and Pretenders, as I find it in the
Speech of the famous _Alexander Bendo_, who, as much a Quack as he was,
understood our Tongue and our Constitution as well as the Doctor and his
Master.

_Reflect a little_, says he, _what a kind of Creature a Quack is._ Mind
what follows. _He is one who is fain to supply some higher Ability he
pretends to with Craft. He draws great Companies to him by undertaking
strange Things which can never be effected._ The rest is so valuable,
that tho I digress'd in it Ten times more than I do, I would present the
Doctor with it, and leave it to his serious Consideration.

_The Politician by his Example, no doubt, finding how the People are
taken with specious, miraculous Impossibilities, plays the same Game,
protests, declares, promises, I know not what things, which he is sure
can ne'er be brought about. The People believe, are deluded, and