Eubulus has so great an Authority in his little Diurnal Audience, that when he shakes his Head at any Piece of publick News, they all of them appear dejected; and on the contrary, go home to their Dinners with a good Stomach and cheerful Aspect, when Eubulus seems to intimate that Things go well.  Nay, their Veneration towards him is so great, that when they are in other Company they speak and act after him; are Wise in his Sentences, and are no sooner sat down at their own Tables, but they hope or fear, rejoice or despond as they saw him do at the Coffee-house.  In a word, every Man is Eubulus as soon as his Back is turned.

Having here given an Account of the several Reigns that succeed each other from Day-break till Dinner-time, I shall mention the Monarchs of the Afternoon on another Occasion, and shut up the whole Series of them with the History of Tom the Tyrant; who, as first Minister of the Coffee-house, takes the Government upon him between the Hours of Eleven and Twelve at Night, and gives his Orders in the most Arbitrary manner to the Servants below him, as to the Disposition of Liquors, Coal and Cinders.

R.

[Footnote 1:  The ‘Grecian’ (see note [Footnote 10 of No. 1], p. 7, ’ante’,) was by the Temple; ‘Squire’s’, by Gray’s Inn; ‘Serle’s’, by Lincoln’s Inn.  ‘Squire’s’, a roomy, red-brick house, adjoined the gate of Gray’s Inn, in Fulwood’s Rents, Holborn, then leading to Gray’s Inn Walks, which lay open to the country.  Squire, the establisher of this coffee-house, died in 1717.  ‘Serle’s’ was near Will’s, which stood at the corner of Serle Street and Portugal Street, Lincoln’s Inn.

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No. 50.  Friday, April 27, 1711. [1] Addison.

      ‘Nunquam aliud Natura, aliud Sapientia dixit.’

      Juv.

When the four Indian Kings were in this Country about a Twelvemonth ago, [2] I often mixed with the Rabble, and followed them a whole Day together, being wonderfully struck with the Sight of every thing that is new or uncommon.  I have, since their Departure, employed a Friend to make many Inquiries of their Landlord the Upholsterer, relating to their Manners and Conversation, as also concerning the Remarks which they made in this Country:  For, next to the forming a right Notion of such Strangers, I should be desirous of learning what Ideas they have conceived of us.

The Upholsterer finding my Friend very inquisitive about these his Lodgers, brought him some time since a little Bundle of Papers, which he assured him were written by King Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow, and, as he supposes, left behind by some Mistake.  These Papers are now translated, and contain abundance of very odd Observations, which I find this little Fraternity of Kings made during their Stay in the Isle of Great Britain.  I shall present my Reader with a short Specimen of them in this Paper, and may perhaps communicate more to him hereafter.  In the Article of London are the following Words, which without doubt are meant of the Church of St. Paul.