ADVERTISEMENT To the Reader. SHOULD any of our readers object, that tos much place is given in thefe volumes to what feems to intereft the correfponding parties more nearly than the Public; it may be relied on, that fuch parts have been retained folely from the motives of giving a more natural picture of the manners, &c. of the people reprefented, than the unanimated nar- rative of a mere Spectator might have conveyed. Nor could the Editor, without difficulty, have fea parated from the feveral defcriptions, that part and interest which the Author bad in them. If the Edi- tor fhould appear reprehenfible for preferving fuch extenfive criticisms in the article of painting; be can only fay, that his Author's strong propenfity to that fcience induced ber treating it more largely than may be agreeable to fame of her readers; and that he was prevented from fuppreffing any part, from a poffibility of its being relished by thofe amongst them of 5
