[No. XLIX.] THE TABLE T.—No. XLIX. " The Coxcomb's course is vior.drous clever THERE is not any person, among all my ac quaintance, whole movements 1 have more narrowly watched, than tliofe of a young cox comb, who fonietimes vilits me. If the reader wiihes to know why I have so critically inl'pe&ed the actions of this finical youth, I will explain my motives as concisely as I can. I have often heird that every description of men have some ufeful and commendable qualifications ; and in order to ascertain the truth of this observation, I pitched upon a coxcomb as the most suitable fubjecft to bring the question ro a test. If any valuable qualities can be dil'covered in such a cha racter, 1 think we may pronounce with some cer tainty, that no mortal is exempt from a lhareof good properties. We ftioulddiftinguilh between qualities that are ufeful to one's felf, and those that are so to other people. My prcfent enquiry lhall be princpially confined to the former. In the firft place then a coxcomb can not be a lazy man. lam fcifible many censorious people are often ranking him with the idle and dilTolute. The charge has no foundation in truth. Whoe ver attempts to follow all the fluctuations of the falhions, and fuffers no other person to keep a head of him in this refpecft, will find full em ployment for his avflivity and discernment. It is impoflible any one can do this and be indolent. The young fribbler, of whom I am now l'peaking, is engaged in no profefled line of business, and yet I know of no person, whose time is more in ceflantly occupied. He mentioned to me, the other morning, by way of apology for not per forming ari engagement he was under, that he had not had a leisure moment, for more than a fortnight past. This aircumftance induced me t« keep a vigilant eye over his anions, and fatisfy myfelf in what manner, he consumed his days. I called at his lodgings two or three mornings successively, so early that I found him at home. He employed nearly three hours in drefling, and I am convinced he could not do it in a ftiorter time. More than an hour was devoted to the barber, and the reader may be certain it was not a mo ment too long. The fop had almost as much to do as the barber, for he rose from the chair, ten times in the course of the operation, to fee if all the hairs were well adjusted. But the hardest ta/k was with the boot-maker. My friend had a dozen pair of boots to try, and it took him more than fifteen minutes to draw one boot over his leg. In the course of the experiment, I am confident he went through more fatigue, than a laboring man would have eudured, by breaking flax smart ly for ax hours. It would be endleis for me to particularize all the objecfts, which unavoidably fall in the way, and prevent a coxcomb from wearing away his moments infloth and inactivity, ft mult be remembered that he has the process of drefling to pals through,twice in twenty-four ''I 3? 1 ! 8 ' The remainder of his time is spent in visiting and in some fafhionable amufeinents, which can by no means be performed by a lazy man. These remarks will, I hope, exculpate my drcfly acquaintance from the charge of indolence. But a more beneficial efietft, than that just mentioned, is derived from being a complete cox- in the fecuriry it affords a man again ft thepainsand inconveniences of being captivated v '' £ h female charms. It is well known that one of these butter-fly men loves no created being so well as himfelf. His whole powers of admiration nnd employment about his own person. Any disgust or inattention, Ihewn him by a female, is called caprice ; and is iuppofed to result from a of elegance or purity of taste. Thisfhel '"■ anlnfttfcefe frequent impreflions, which men 0 less perlbnal vanity feel, is no inconsiderable wantage. It may fairly be denominated a ulfe ul quality to the person whopofleileSitv Though e xt rav agantly admires no lady, still he may be 1 te friend and patron of many. Superficial women com t his attention becaule they are pleased with us finery ; and fenlible women have pleasantry enough to indulge his vanity and felf approbation. us fbrjns of politeness and good humour are and he will grant the ladies every jo' n g they alk of him, except his admiration and A Hill greater utility, in being a devotee tb (f j! a proceeds from its being a pretty e euual guard again ft' grass intemperance, a lit! •iiany other vices destructive of health and mo ',l The life of an abandoned profligate is lot compatible with that of a finifhed coxcomb. ei y different paflions give rife to these charac- s > and they have very different objetfts in-view. at^ 116 ? extrava g a nt diflipation are generally ei ' with rough language, than which no- WEDNESDAY, September 30, 1739. tiling can be more disagreeable to a man of real foppery. He avoids every situation where he can not be looked at and flattered. His inclination leads him among genteel people, who admit him as an aflociate for the civility of his deportment, and who are themselves too well bred to call in queftionhis claims to admiration. Lipon the whole, I am induced to believe that moll people entertain too mean an opinion of coxcombs. It is a much more Unexceptionable character than is usually imagined ; and a well ihaped stripling, who has rich friends, and slender talents, maybe said to have taken his belt destiny: when dress is the objec r tofhi9 care, and personal vanity the motive of his condudt. By this means, he will at least escape being a lounger, as he must of courfebe aiftive and busy to keep up the part he aflumes.—Nor will he probably become a drunkard, a knave or a blackguard ; for he can be neither of these, without eflentially inter fering with the main wifliofhis heart,to be com plimented as a /west pretty ftllww. Ihe Addrels of the Reprefeutatives of the Free men of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Aflembly met. To the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. SIR, THE representatives of a free people can not comply with their duty to their constituents more to their fatisfa