archbishop of _Paris_, must immediately have a letter sent him, to repair forthwith, at the head of his ecclesiastick myrmidons, to _Nôtre Dame_, and there to thank God for the success of an infamous robbery, which an honest moral pagan would have blush’d at. So that when the next fit of his _fistula in ano_ shall send this immortal town-stealer, this divine village-lifter, this heroic pilferer of poor hamlets and their dependancies, down to these subterranean dominions, don’t imagine that he’ll be allowed to keep company with the _Pharamonds_ and _Charlemagnes_ of _France_, the _Edwards_ and _Henries_ of _England_, the _Williams_ of the _Nassovian_ family, or the _Alexanders_ and _Cæsars_ of _Greece_ and _Rome_. No, shou’d he have the impudence to shew his head among that illustrious assembly, they wou’d soon order their footmen to drub him into better manners: Neither, cries a surly _Englishman_, clapping his sides, and interrupting him, must he expect the favour to appear even among our holyday heroes, and custard stormers of _Cheapside_, those merry burlesques of the art military in _Finsbury-fields_, who, poor creatures! never meant the destruction of any mortal thing, but transitory roast-beaf and capon: no, friend, says he, _Lewis le Grand_ must expect to take up his habitation in the most infamous quarter of _Hell_, among a parcel of house-breakers and shop-lifters, rogues burnt in the cheek for petty-larceny and burglary, brethren of the moon, gentlemen of the horn-thumb, pillagers of the hedges and henroosts, conveyers of silver spoons, and camblet cloaks, and such like enterprising heroes, whose famous actions are faithfully register’d in our sessions-papers and dying-speeches, transmitted to posterity by the Ordinary of _Newgate_; a much more impartial historian than your _Pelissons_ and _Boileaus_. However, as I was inform’d last week by an understrapper at court; _Pluto_, in consideration of the singular services your royal master has done him, will allow him a brace of fiddlers to scrape and sing to him wherever he goes, since he takes such a delight to hear his own praises.