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 each to Ipend, which fliould be paid down immediately iuto the hands of the Chairman, the amount of which the landlord might be made acquainted with, fo that before the fame was expended within a few millings, the bill fliould be produced and paid, and the extra money laid in fight on the table ; this at once would be an intimation to the company for departure, and the Chairman's leaving his Chair : for it mould be an inva riable rule upon every frefh reckoning to choofe a new Chairman, for how can he fit in office without a ftock to fupport him ? for want of this rule not being con- ftantly followed, I have known frequently the more cunning folks depart and leave a few behind waiting for the bill to pay the reckoning, which when it came, was very heavy,' and caufed much difcontent botU then, and the repentant next day.

��Lord Chefterfield who was the patron of good manners, advifes attention as a requifite article in every company ; therefore during the performance of a long keep the ftrifteft filence ; depart not from the room, and only join in the fecond repetition of the chorus, for if you do, it will appear as a mark of dif- refpeft or want of good behaviour, whereby you will get rebuked, and fmed from the Prefident.

��Having thus given a few general rules as a founda tion for an improvement in our focieties, I (hall quit the fubjea:, by inferring the following Sentiments.

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