ingdom, sit in great pain at a Person of Quality's Table for want of
Half a Crown in his Pocket to _pay_ the _Butler_ and _Footman_ for his
Dinner. And if a Person is known to fail in this respect, the next
time he comes to the House, he is sure to have the _Look_ which a
Court Table-keeper bestows upon a hungry Poet or an Officer in
Half-pay, who shall be invited by any Gentleman-Waiter to Dinner,
fix'd on him all the time he is eating.

People in the middle Station of Life must pay as regularly for their
Admission to the Persons of the Great, as those do who enter into
beneficial Offices and Places. I have been informed, that there is
affix'd up in several Ale-houses and other publick Places where
Servants resort to at the other End of the Town, a List or Table of
Fees to be taken by Noblemen's _Porters_, _Footmen_, and _Valets de
Chambre_, for People's having Access to their Masters, _viz_.

For a Tradesman to be heard } _l._ _s._ _d._
_viva voce_, upon the Subject of a } 0 10 6
large Debt of a long standing, }

For a poor Clergyman supplicating }
a Chaplainship, or any other } 0 5 0
Ecclesiastical Preferment. }

For a Poet to present a Dedication 0 2 6

For a Mercer or Draper to }
exhibit a choice new Pattern. } 0 2 0

For a Person's obtaining the }
_Promise_ of a Place. } 0 5 0

For every Tradesman's Bill that }
is suffered to lie upon the Table for } 0 1 0
my Lord and Lady's Perusal. }

For every paid-off Bill above Ten }
Pounds } 0 10 0

If any Tradesman has been injuriously treated by the _Steward_ or the
_House-keeper_, who seldom stand high in the Esteem of these lower
Domesticks, the Fees are then dispensed with, and they are admitted
_gratis_, or more properly in _forma Pauperis_, because the Complaint
may prove of such a nature, as to bring about a Change in the Ministry
of the House, and be the Means of an insolent, haughty, over-bearing
Spirit being dismiss'd the Family, and _Te Deum_ sung in the _Kitchen_
and the other lower Offices for a Revolution _above-stairs_.

A Man stone-blind may as soon attempt to view the Sun, as a
_Tradesman_ or a _Pauper_ to attempt the sight of a Great Man without
paying the above Dues; for my Lord shall at one time be _very ill_,
and at ano