'Tho' some may think we descend from our Imperial Dignity, in holding Correspondence with a private [_Litterato_; [2]] yet as we have great Respect to all good Intentions for our Service, we do not esteem it beneath us to return you our Royal Thanks for what you published in our Behalf, while under Confinement in the Inchanted Castle of the _Savoy_, and for your Mention of a Subsidy for a Prince in Misfortune. This your timely Zeal has inclined the Hearts of divers to be aiding unto us, if we could propose the Means. We have taken their Good will into Consideration, and have contrived a Method which will be easy to those who shall give the Aid, and not unacceptable to us who receive it. A Consort of Musick shall be prepared at _Haberdashers-Hall_ for _Wednesday_ the Second of _May_, and we will honour the said Entertainment with our own Presence, where each Person shall be assessed but at two Shillings and six Pence. What we expect from you is, that you publish these our Royal Intentions, with Injunction that they be read at all Tea-Tables within the Cities of _London_ and _Westminster_; and so we bid you heartily Farewell. _Latinus_, King of the _Volscians_.' _Given at our Court in_ Vinegar-Yard, _Story the Third from the Earth_. April 28, 1711. R. [Footnote 1: 'Epictetus his Morals, with Simplicius his Comment,' was translated by George Stanhope in 1694. The citation above is a free rendering of the sense of cap. 62 of the Morals.] [Footnote 2: _Litterati_] * * * * * No. 54. Wednesday, May 2, 1711. Steele. '... Sirenua nos exercet inertia.' Hor. The following Letter being the first that I have received from the learned University of _Cambridge_, I could not but do my self the Honour of publishing it. It gives an Account of a new Sect of Philosophers which has arose in that famous Residence of Learning; and is, perhaps, the only Sect this Age is likely to produce. Cambridge, April 26. Mr. SPECTATOR,