"He fees why Nature plants in Man alone 66 Hope of known Blifs, and Faith in Bliss unknown; "Nature, whofe Dictates to no other kind "Are giv'n in vain, but what they feek they find. To this Mr. Croufaz:-" I made my Remarks as "I went along in reading the Poem of Mr. Du Ref nel; and in Proportion as I advanced in it, I have had the moft agreeable Satisfaction to find that my "Commentaries have been too hafty and immature "on this Poem; in fo clear a Light has the illuftrious Abbe placed thofe Truths, which the Profe Tranflator had delivered with much lefs Precifenefs, In this Tranflation I evidently meet with the facred Terms of Faith, Hope, and Charity; "but I don't know where he had them. And it "is not eafy for me to find how the Ideas which F have been accustomed to fix to them can agree. "with them. I am puzzled to know what they "have to do here." This, to use our Critick's own Word, is a Specimen of that Galimatias that runs through his whole Commentary. He fufpects, he approves, he doubts, he applauds, but it all ends in Calumny and Condemnation. Here you have an old Veteran Controverfialist of Seventy-five, who gives the World his fecond Thoughts, (for he had wrote his Examen before he compofed this Commentary) telling us, he wrote at Random; that he compofed the greateft Part of his Remarks before he had read over the Book he wrote against, a Book containing a regular methodick Syftem, whofe Parts having a mutual Dependance, neceffarily fupported and illuftrated each other. But if a Man would make fo free with himself, as to tell fuch a strange Story to the World, which certainly he had a Right to do, he fhould have made Satisfaction for his Folly, efpe efpecially as his moral Character was concerned in it, by ftriking out all those odious Imputations, which the foregoing Part of his Commentary abounds with. Inftead of this, he was not only content to leave the Calumnies of Fatalism and Spinozism unretracted; but has thought fit to renew them, even after this Confeffion of his hafty premature Way of Writing. What muft we think of fuch a Writer? But after all, perhaps, this Acknowledgment is mere Banter, as he is very full of it in his Examen, where he pretends to acquit the Poet of Fatalifm. All I can fay, is, that if it be a Joke, it is as dull a one as that, which is faying more of it than I can fay of any other I have ever feen or heard of. -- It is I thought to have gone on upon his Commentaries on the reft of his Epiftles; but looking them over, I found fuch a continual Repetition of Miftakes and falfe Representations, that I was almost ashamed of having gone fo far. amazing that a Man could write a whole Book, in direct Contradiction to the very Principle himfelf lays down in it, to proceed by l'Exactitude tres fcrupuleufe (fays he p. 196) nuiroit aux fins de la poefie; mais on doit fe faire une Loi d'interpreter une expreffion par l'autre, de peur de attribuer a un Poete des idees qui lui feroient du tort. then I'll stop in good time, having already gained my Point, in these few hafty Obfervations; which was to vindicate Mr. Pope from much unjuft Cenfure; and to fhew our Libertines, that they were never more miftaken, than when they fuppofed the Essay on Man countenanced any of their Follies. Here I am &c. A R A Continuation of the Accounts fent to Mr. Harding, Bookfeller, in St. Martin's-Lane, by those who have taken Mrs. Stephens's Medicines. From Mr. Simmons to Mr. Harding. SIR, N Confequence of a late Advertisement in the Papers, whereby I find that fome Perfons have endeavoured to blaft the Character of Mrs. Stephens's Medicines for the Stone, I beg Leave, in Juftice to my greatest Benefactress under God, to fend you the following State of my Cafe. About Christmas 1735, I began to be troubled with a Stoppage in my Urine, which grew worse and worse, with an Ulcer, till laft Spring was Twelvemonth. I was fo bad that I knew not what Course to take; I wanted to make Water fome Days ten, twenty, thirty, or forty Times a Day, or more, with Abundance of Pain; and fometimes did not make above half a Spoonful, and fometimes a Spoonful, and fometimes but fome few Drops, and that with Abundance of Pain indeed. This continued till May 1737; then I went to London to feek for Eafe; I began to take Mrs. Stephens's Medicines the 13th of May 1737; I staid in London till the 17th of June 1737, then came Home, and kept taking Mrs. Stephens's Medicines very regularly, till I grew better and better every Day, and left off taking the Medicines, which I did in January laft, when I was as well as any Body, I thank God for it. When I went to London, I could not ride in any Waggon 1739Waggon or Cart, nor on Horfeback, only a Foot Pace, as foftly as Foot could fall. I now can ride in any Waggon, Cart, and on Horseback, any Pace, with as much Pleasure as ever I did; I cannot fay but my Back has grove now and then with a small Pain, which it did now and then twenty Years ago. I have taken Mrs. Stephens's Medicines twice fince January, once about a Month, and the other about a Fortnight. I now am very well; I can and do ride, and go about my Business as well as any Body. I have fome of Mrs. Stephens's Medicines by me now, but have not taken any a good while. This is the true Account of my Cafe, of which you may make what Ufe you think fit, with the full Confent, of Sir, Ofpringe in Kent, Your very humble Servant, H From Mrs. Brown. JOHN SIMMONS. AVING been for upwards of half a Year fadly afflicted with the Stone, fo that when or after I made Water, I was in great Pain; and had taken a great many Things, by good Advice, to little or no Purpofe; I was advised to take Mrs. Stephens's Medicines, which I began the 17th of April, and found myfelf fo well recovered by the latter End of July, that I left them off; and have ever fince continued fo well, that I have been a Journey, and rode fome Scores of Miles, without Pain or Difficulty: So thought myself in Justice bound, to let the World know, for the Good Good of thofe unhappy Perfons, that labour under the like Infirmity. Witness my Hand, ELIZ, BROWN. Theobald's-Court, Theobald's-Row, in the Parish of St. George the Martyr. From Mr. North. HAVING been afflicted with the Stone for between fourteen and fifteen Years, was cured about five Years ago by taking two Papers of Mrs. Stephens's Powders a Day, for ten Weeks. To be heard of at Mr. Margridge's, near Battle-Bridge, in TooleyStreet, Southwark, Nov. 25, 1738. W. NORTH, From Mr. Kettle to Mr. Harding. SIR, MR RS. Stephens's Medicines have done me no Harm, only occafioned a Swelling in my Body and Legs, and fince I left off taking her Medicines, the Swelling is gone off, and I am in the fame State I was before. Cambridge, Nov. 19, 1738. From Mr. Pearman, J. KETTLE I Edward Pearman, of Aspeden, in th County of Hertford, was afflicted with the Gravel in my Kidneys fome Years, took feveral Medicines but |