I know not whether to some readers the placing two or three Latin quotations to a Letter may not appear pedantic and ostentatious, while both they and the English ones may be thought unnecessary. For the necessity I have not much to advance; but if they be allowable (and certainly the best writers have adopted them), then, where two or three different subjects occur, so many of these mottoes seem to be required: nor will a charge of pedantry remain, when it is considered that these things are generally taken from some books familiar to the school-boy, and the selecting them is facilitated by the use of a book of common-place. Yet, with this help, the task of motto-hunting has been so unpleasant to me, that I have in various instances given up the quotation I was in pursuit of, and substituted such English verse or prose as I could find or invent for my purpose. FOOTNOTES: [31] Methodists and Papists compared; Treatise on Grace, by Bishop Warburton, &c. [32] Barbar, in two Parts; Bond-Child; Cry of Little Faith; Satan's Lawsuit; Forty Stripes for Satan; Myrrh and Odour of Saints; the Naked Bow of God: Rule and Riddle; Way and Fare for Wayfaring Men; Utility of the Books and Excellency of the Parchments; Correspondence between _Noctua_, _Aurita_ (the words so separated), and _Philomela_, &c. [33] Marmion. CONTENTS. LETTER PAGE 1. General Description 284 2. The Church 294 3. The Vicar--The Curate, &c. 303 4. Sects and Professions in Religion 313 5. Elections 329 6. Professions--Law 336 7. Professions--Physic 347 8. Trades 356 9. Amusements 364 10. Clubs and Social Meetings 374 11. Inns 386 12. Players 396 13. The Alms-House and Trustees 407 14. Inhabitants of the Alms-House--Blaney 417 15. Inhabitants of the Alms-House--Clelia 424 16. Inhabitants of the Alms-House--Benbow 431 17. The Hospital and Governors 439 18. The Poor and their Dwellings 448 19. The Poor of the Borough--The Parish Clerk 460 20. The Poor of the Borough--Ellen Orford 469 21. The Poor of the Borough--Abel Keene 480 22.