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 A LETTER from the PRINTER, which he deires may be inerted.

Have done with your Copy, o you may return it to the Vatican if you pleae; and pray tell Mr. Angelo to bruh up the Cuts, that, in the next Edition, they may give us a good Impreion.

The Foreight and Sagacity of Mrs. Margery 's Dog calls to my Mind a Circumtance, which happened when I was a Boy. Some Gentlemen in the Place where I lived had been hunting, and were got under a great Tree to helter themelves from a Thunder Storm; when a Dog that always followed one of the Gentlemen leaped up his Hore everal Times, and then ran away and barked. At lat, the Gentlemen all followed to ee what he would be at; and they were no ooner gone from the Tree, but it was hivered in Pieces by Lightning!

Tis remarkable, that as oon as they came from the Tree the Dog appeared to be very well atisfied, and barked no more. The Gentleman after this always regarded the Dog as his Friend, treated him in his Old Age