Thomas Earl of Wharton was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, December 4, 1708, and proceeded to his destination April 10, 1709, accompanied by Addison as his Secretary. Addison therefore left London two days before the commencement of the ‘Tatler,’ the first number of which came out April 12; and his own first contribution appeared May 26. His last was No. 267, and the work ended with No. 271, January 2, 1710–11. In No. 93 is an article on a ‘Letter from Switzerland, with Remarks on Travelling,’ and a sly hint that ‘Fools ought not to be exported,’ in Addison’s happiest style of playful satire. The praise of original design clearly belongs to the projector of the ‘Tatler.’ Tickell however was justified in saying, that Addison’s aid “did not a little contribute to advance its reputation;” and Steele candidly allows, that his coadjutor not only assisted but improved his original scheme. In his dedication of the comedy of the ‘Drummer,’ he says, “It was advanced indeed, for it was raised to a greater thing than I intended it; for the elegance, purity, and correctness, which appeared in his writings, were not so much to my purpose, as in any intelligible manner I could, to rally all those singularities of human life, through the different professions and characters in it, which obstruct any thing that was truly good and great.” The first No. of the ‘Spectator’ appeared March 1, 1710–11, and the paper was discontinued December 6, 1712; No. 555 concluded the seventh volume, as first collected by the publishers. The work was resumed June 18, 1714, with No. 556, and the eighth volume closed with No. 635. Of the first forty-five papers of the revived ‘Spectator,’ Addison wrote twenty-three; more than half: he did not contribute to the last thirty-five. Notwithstanding the avowed purpose of exclusively treating general topics, Steele’s Whiggism once burst its bounds, by reprinting in the ‘Spectator’ a preface of Dr. Fleetwood to some sermons, for the purpose of attracting the Queen’s notice to it. Had the Number been published at the usual hour, the household might have devised means for its suppression, with some plausible excuse for its absence from the royal breakfast table; but the non-issue until twelve o’clock, the time fixed for that meal, left no opening for cabal, and her Majesty’s subjects were, for her sake, deprived of their morning’s speculation till that hour. In No. 10 Addison states the daily sale at three thousand: Johnson makes it sixteen hundred and eighty; apparently far below the real number. The latter number is given on calculation from the product of the tax; the assertion of the publisher was Addison’s authority; and he might, in the commencement of the work, have indulged in the puff oblique. No. 14, composed of Letters from the Lion—from an Under-Sexton—on the Masquerade—and Puppet Show, is selected by the annotators, as “meriting the attention of such as pretend to distinguish