ing in Dean's Yard, talking to three or four others. The instant he cast his eyes on the direction, I observed that he blushed very deeply, and seemed in a good deal of confusion. At the time, I confess, my curiosity was considerably excited as to the cause of this agitation: but how great was my surprize, when I afterwards accidentally discovered it. The letter was directed to Master instead of

Esquire.

,

Philip of Macedon, one of the soundest politicians and greatest men of his age, is said to have appointed a person constantly to remind him that he was a Man.-It might be as well, if these my papers could be instrumental in now and then reminding my school-fellows that they are Boys-lest they should undergo a mortification similar to that of Alexander, son of the Philip I have just now mentioned; who, after having affected the divine nature, was compelled by griefs

incidental to humanity, to acknowledge himself a mere man.

With this intention, therefore, I shall still keep possession of my old word boys," the introduction of which, I hope I have convinced my companions, is by no means humiliating to their dignity or real manliness..

MR. BROWN,

I have the misfortune to have two friends who labour under a singular malady, namely an extravagant love of laughter. It is impossible for me to express how much I am annoyed by this insufferable folly.-They laugh at every thing and nothing-they even find a subject for mirth in their own distresses: if they get into any scrape and thereby incur a lecture from their master, they are sure to be giggling the whole time, often

reminding me of the story of a malefactor of facetious memory, who, because the judge stammered in a droll manner, laughed most immoderately while sentence of death was being pronounced on him.

As they are both amiable companions in every respect but this, will you be so good as to represent to them, that it is not at all witty, entertaining, or funny, to laugh at nothing-and suffer me at the same time, through the medium of your paper, to acquaint them in the words of Martial that

"Risu inepto nulla res ineptior."

Yours, &c.

SERIOSUS.

No. XVI.

MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1816.

Facies non omnibus una,

Nec diversa tamen.

ÖVID.

CONSIDERING the nature of man philosophically, I am inclined to believe, that every passion is originally implanted in the human breast; and although, if we observe the conduct of persons in general, many of these affections never shew themselves in action, it may be accounted for by the diversity of circumstances, that may or may not present an opportunity for their being displayed, or because they are counteracted by others of a contrary nature.

In the world at large, ambition, though

universally tending to one of these three points, the love of praise, or power, or emolument, is subdivided into innumerable classes, determined by the profession or employment in which we engage ourselves : these classes may again be subdivided and distinguished according to the various motives which influence the conduct of those who profess the same things, and pursue like ends, but not in the like way.—Under: this general head I might mention the profession of School-boys as one class, but being desirous of confining myself to my established rule of adhering to what éoncerns the World at Westminster, and the World at Westminster alone, I shall only observe that, in common with the Great World, ambition is here likewise directed to three great points, and if not fixed by any profession, is nevertheless regulated by the respective dispositions and situations which each boy possesses, It shall then be my business in this paper,