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 out the Lucubrations, are intirely of this Gentleman's Composing; which may in some Measure account for that different Genius, which appears in the Winter Papers from those of the Summer; at which time, as the Examiner often hinted, this Friend of Mr. Steele's was in Ireland.

Mr. Steele confesses in his last Volume of the Tatlers, that he is oblig'd to Dr. Swift for his Town Shower, and the Description of the Morn, with some other hints received from him in Private Conversation.

I have also heard, that several of those Letters, which came as from Unknown Hands, were writ by Mr. Henly; which is an Answer to your Query, Who those Friends are, whom Mr. Steele speaks of in his last Tatler?

But to proceed with my account of our other Papers: The Expiration of Bickerstaffs Lucubrations, was attended with much the same Consequences as the Death of Melibæuss Ox in Virgil; as the latter engendred