[151] Want of merit. Cf. "The Lying Lover," act ii.: "'Tis my own indesert that gives me fears."
[152] England.
[153] Robert Hunter, a friend of Addison and Swift, was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia in 1707, but was taken by the French in his voyage thither. Having been exchanged for the French Bishop of Quebec, he was appointed Governor of New York, and in 1710 took charge of 2700 Protestant refugees from the Palatinate, who were to settle there. During his government of New York, he was directed by her Majesty to provide subsistence for about 3000 palatines sent from Great Britain to be employed in raising and manufacturing naval stores; and by 1734 he had disbursed £21,000 and upwards in that undertaking, no part of which was ever repaid. He returned to England in 1719; and, after being made Major-General, he was appointed Governor of Jamaica in 1729. He died March 31, 1734, and was buried in that island.
[154] "Æneid," vi. 853.
[155] Don Diego de Miranda. See "Don Quixote," Part II., chaps. xvii., xviii.
[156] The battle of Malplaquet.
[No. 70. [Steele.]
From Saturday, Sept. 17, to Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1709.
Quicquid agunt homines ... nostri farrago libelli.
—Juv., Sat. i. 85, 86.