menes saw that it was wrong, but he was the best natured fellow in the world, and thought it was not quite right to disoblige one to whom he was obliged, and besides he was resolved not to continue in such a state of disobedience longer than the Monday, and accordingly he complied. I need not add how similar circumstances occurred again, how payment was deferred till the Monday se'nnight the next time, how the debt increased, and Eumenes could not resolve to call for the bill. I have already enlarged too much on this point, which however I have done, because this was the first time that he had departed from the path that had been traced out for him; and his defeat in this point was, as it were, a signal for all the other host of temptations to begin their attack on the foundations which had thus already been undermined. Eumenes could never decide upon telling his father of this misfortune, but on the contrary was frequently obliged to use evasion, and thus he was led into another vice, which indeed was a double one, as it at once led him to tell lies and dishonour his father by so doing. It is impossible to describe the misery in which this conduct involved him: naturally affectionate and religious he was in horrors for a long time, these feelings indeed subsided by degrees, but the impression they made was not to be effaced, and they often returned with fresh vigour. His uncle had intrusted him with money to pay a bill in London, he lost part of it, and determined to pay it out of his own pocket-money, whereupon he mixed with it the money which had been given for the bill, intending to go the next day and discharge it: his own pleasure, the weather, or some other circumstances interfere; the bill remains unpaid;-his uncle is abused, and yet he professes great regard for his uncle, and would be indignant if he heard his character vilified. In the meanwhile he unawares spends more money than is his own, and he becomes more deeply involved than ever. Eumenes perhaps got into more scrapes with the Masters than any boy that ever passed through Westminster, he had never any settled plan, always intended to do something good, but never decided upon any thing. Idleness and procrastination are the necessary consequences of indecision. There were few boys of better abilities, none that were more disgraced before their school-fellows. He made many promises, and always wished and intended to perform them, but never had resolution enough to do so no man could rely on his word. It would be impossible within the limits of my paper to describe the vices into which Eumenes has been led by indecision, but I hope I have sufficiently convinced my readers that a man of his disposition of mind can never be happy. Several of my correspondents have remarked, that it is a great pity 1 confine my papers to Westminster subjects, as all of this sort must of necessity be puerile; I think unjustly. I must own I do not see any necessity for the Editor of the World at Westminster to fill his pages with treatises on the concerns of the world at large. For such subjects I refer my readers to the labours of an Addison, a Steele, and a Johnson. It is, and in my opinion it ought to be the aim of the Editor of the World at Westminster, to treat of such matters as peculiarly concern those whom he is likely to have as his readers, namely his school-fellows, and (if I may so much flatter myself) their posterity. It is my ambition, that in addition to amusement, they may find in my papers, that instruction and advice, which is adapted to the particular situations, into which they are likely to fall, and this they may in vain look for in the paper of any other writer. And let me take the opportunity of informing my Correspondents, that I am not presumptuous enough to |