’Now, the Expulsion of these unjust Rulers out of all Societies, would gain a Man as everlasting a Reputation, as either of the Brutus’s got from their Endeavours to extirpate Tyranny from among the Romans.  I confess my self to be in a Conspiracy against the Usurper of our Club; and to shew my Reading, as well as my merciful Disposition, shall allow him till the Ides of March to dethrone himself.  If he seems to affect Empire till that time, and does not gradually recede from the Incursions he has made upon our Liberties, he shall find a Dinner dress’d which he has no Hand in, and shall be treated with an Order, Magnificence and Luxury as shall break his proud Heart; at the same time that he shall be convinc’d in his Stomach he was unfit for his Post, and a more mild and skilful Prince receive the Acclamations of the People, and be set up in his Room:  but, as Milton says,

’—­These Thoughts Full Counsel must mature.  Peace is despair’d, And who can think Submission?  War, then War Open, or understood, must be resolved.’ [1]

  ’I am, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant.

  Mr. SPECTATOR,

’I am a young Woman at a Gentleman’s Seat in the Country, who is a particular Friend of my Father’s, and came hither to pass away a Month or two with his Daughters.  I have been entertained with the utmost Civility by the whole Family, and nothing has been omitted which can make my Stay easy and agreeable on the Part of the Family; but there is a Gentleman here, a Visitant as I am, whose Behaviour has given me great Uneasinesses.  When I first arrived here, he used me with the utmost Complaisance; but, forsooth, that was not with regard to my Sex, and since he has no Designs upon me, he does not know why he should distinguish me from a Man in things indifferent.  He is, you must know, one of those familiar Coxcombs, who have observed some well-bred Men with a good Grace converse with Women, and say no fine things, but yet treat them with that sort of Respect which flows from the Heart and the Understanding, but is exerted in no Professions or Compliments.  This Puppy, to imitate this Excellence, or avoid the contrary Fault of being troublesome in Complaisance, takes upon him to try his Talent upon me, insomuch that he contradicts me upon all Occasions, and one day told me I lied.  If I had stuck him with my Bodkin, and behaved my self like a Man, since he won’t treat me as a Woman, I had, I think, served him right.  I wish, Sir, you would please to give him some Maxims of Behaviour in these Points, and resolve me if all Maids are not in point of Conversation to be treated by all Batchelors as their Mistresses? if not so, are they not to be used as gently as their Sisters?  Is it sufferable, that the Fop of whom I complain should say, as he would rather have such a-one without