The Other Side of the Question

Service. Then indeed it was thought I had no longer the fame Reafon to be

fcrupulous on this Head. By the Advice

of my Friends, I fent the Queen one of

' her own Letters, in which fhe had preffed

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me to take the 2000. a Year; and I

wrote at the fame Time to afk her Ma

jefty, whether he would allow me to charge in the Privy-Purfe Accounts, which I was to fend her, that yearly Sum from the Time of the Offer, amounting to + 18,000l. Her Majefty was pleased to anfwer, THAT I MIGHT CHARGE IT. What a Contraft of Contraft of Difpofition here breaks forth? What Magnanimity appears of one Side? what **** and **** the other?

I have juft obferved that our Characters are moft difcernable in our Actions; there is

This puts me in mind of a fimilar Story told of Dr. Ratcliff, who, attending one of his Intimates in a dangerous Sickness, with an unusual Strain of Generofity, declared he would not touch a Fee. One infifted; the other was pofitive: But when the Cure was perform'd, and the Doctor taking his Leave, quoth the Patient, Sir, In this Purfe I have put every Day's Fec; nor mußt your Goodness get the better of my Gratitude. The Doctor eyes the Purfe, counts the Days in a Moment, and then, holding out his Hand, repliesWell, I can kold out no longer Singly I could have refus'd them for a Twelvemonth But all together they are irrefiftable,

no need, therefore, for any Friend of Mr. Harley's to take the like Trouble with your Grace's, which your Friend has bestow'd on his: One half of your Portrait, as drawn by your own inimitable Hand, is already difplay'd above; and the other half may perhaps,be fupply'd from another Fact which follows below.

One of the few French Noblemen, whofe Curiofity leads them to vifit Great Britain, thought himself oblig'd, among the Remarkables of the Island, to pay a Vifit to your Grace; on which Occafion, to be exceedingly polite, he kept up the Spirit of the. Converfation, with a florid Detail of the Wonders perform'd by the Duke of Marlborough; to which your Grace feem'd to listen at first with a very fenfible Pleasure; but apprehending, as he went on, that his Elo quence was like to be confin'd to the Duke only, the Spirit which had ever poffefs'd you could not help bursting out All this is true, Sir: But you forget that all this and much more is owing to me.

As Ingratitude, Ingratitude, Ingratitude, Madam, is the Sum Total of your Accounts I fhall take my Leave of your Grace with the Two celebrated Bills of Roman Gratitude, and

British

British Ingratitude many Years ago drawn up