, and under that name fought, with then unexampled abstinence from personality, against the principles upheld by Swift in his
Examiner
. Then, when the Peace of Utrecht alarmed English patriots, Steele in a bold pamphlet on
The Crisis
expressed his dread of arbitrary power and a Jacobite succession with a boldness that cost him his seat in Parliament, as he had before sacrificed to plain speaking his place of Gazetteer.
Of the later history of Steele and Addison a few words will suffice. This is not an account of their lives, but an endeavour to show why Englishmen must always have a living interest in the
Spectator
, their joint production. Steele's
Spectator
ended with the seventh volume. The members of the Club were all disposed of, and the journal formally wound up; but by the suggestion of a future ceremony of opening the