for himfef and his family.; but have in part ftopt up even the fources for it, in leffening his bufinefs. Buckingham is no rich place, at beft; and even there his bufinefs lies chiefly among the lower fort of people; and when these are not able to purchafe the food that is neceffary for them, they cannot think of buying new cloaths. This has reduced him so very low, that I have been informed, that he has past many and many whole days in this and the former year, without tafting any thing but wa

ter

ter and tobacco. He has a wife and four small children, the eldest of them not aboye eight years old: And what bread they could get, he often fpared from his own hunger, to help toward fatifying theirs. People that live always at their cafe, do not know, and can scarce conceive the difficulties our poor have been forced to undergo in these late hard times. He himself affured me, upon my mentioning this particular to him, that it was too true; "But alas!" added he, "it is not only my cafe, but has been that of hun

"dreds

"dreds in the town and neigh"bourhood of Buckingham, in "the laft, and for the former part of this year; and I fear, "we must make many more experiments of the fame kind, "before it is at an end."

Upon the whole; I think we may fairly conclude, that they are both equal in merit, as to their industry and application to their ftudies; each feeming to apply to them, as much as he could: But of the two Mr. HILL is the more fenfible and better man; and MAGLIABE CHI, the

more

more extraordinary, the more applauded, and the more for

tunate.

· ADVERTISEMENT.

F any one in this age fo juftly eminent for

charities of almost all kinds, fhould be fo far moved with the distress and neceffities of fo worthy and induftrious a poor man, as to be inclined to help towards relieving him: They are humbly entreated to fend any prefent which they might wifh in his hands, either to Mr. Richardson, in Salisbury-court near Fleet-ftreet, London; or Meffieurs Dodfley, booksellers in Pall-Mall, Westminster; Mr. Prince, at Oxford; Mr. Thurlbourn, at Cambridge; Meffieurs Hamilton and Balfour, at Edinburgh; Mr. Faulkner, at Dublin; Mr. Owen, at Tunbridge; Mr. Leake, at Bath; Mr. Cadel, at Bristol; Mr. Hinxman, at York; Mr. Richardson, at Durham; Mr. Crighton, at Ipswich; Mr. Chafe, at Norwich; Mr. Burden, at Winchester; Mr. Collins, at Salisbury; and Mr. Seeley, at Buckingham And they may be affured, that whatever may be thus collected, fhall be put to the propereft ufe for the service of him, and his family.