ADVERTISEMENT.

Whereas Mr. Bickerstaff has lately received a letter out of Ireland, dated June 9, importing that he is grown very dull, for the postage of which Mr. Morphew charges one shilling; and another without date of place or time, for which he the said Morphew charges twopence: it is desired, that for the future his courteous and uncourteous readers will go a little further in expressing their good and ill-will, and pay for the carriage of their letters, otherwise the intended pleasure or pain which is designed for Mr. Bickerstaff will be wholly disappointed.

FOOTNOTES:

[309] See Nos. [30], [39], [138].

No. 187.

[Steele.

Saturday, June 17, to Tuesday, June 20, 1710.

——Pudet hæc opprobria nobis
Et dici potuisse et non potuisse refelli.
Ovid, Met. i. 758.

From my own Apartment, June 19.