The Doctor seems to have an Opinion, that every body loves Flattery as well as himself, and will take any Thing kindly that is said in their Favour. A little more Sincerity would not be amiss in the Composition of a Clergy-man and if this is the way to get the _Medal_ he talks of, it will be dearly purchas'd.
I shall be heartily glad to see some of those Productions from Men above Money, that shall deserve the Laurel he has prepar'd for them. People, I doubt not, will crowd to get their Scriptions in, as they do to get Money into the Lottery; but certainly, the Society will take care of themselves, and if there's any thing to be got have the Forestalling of the Market. The Design itself is useful, and cannot meet with too much Encouragement, Her Majesty, always willing to promote the Good of our Country, will, it is hop'd, hearken to it in due time; but if it _be defer'd till Peace_ there will be no great Harm in it, tho' he is pleas'd to rally one of the late M------rs, as much above his Satyr as his Panagyrick, for being so silly as to prefer Necessity to Convenience.
The want of a _Grammar_ and _Dictionary_ has been long complain'd of; and we cannot expect our Tongue will ever spread abroad, unless Foreigners are put into a more regular Method of learning it. To distribute Rewards to Merit, is the Duty of a good Ministry, and nothing contributes more to the Glory of a Country than Works of _Eloquence_ and _Wit_; but he has assum'd a Post that will not be allow'd him. He has set himself in the Director's Chair of an _English_ Academy; before he has past Examination whether he is fit for a Place at the Board; Members are nam'd that have no Right to such Honour, unless it is a Privilege that is Inseperable from their Posts and Peerage; and he has given us Assurance of fine Pieces of _Wit_ and _Eloquence_ from a Quarter it never yet came.
Projectors, like Quacks, promise Wonders but 'tis always the Labour of the Mountain------I might enlarge on this Head if I had not run my Reflections too far already. I shall therefore conclude with a Discription of one of those Quacks and Pretenders, as I find it in the Speech of the famous _Alexander Bendo_, who, as much a Quack as he was, understood our Tongue and our Constitution as well as the Doctor and his Master.