generally  marked  the  lighter  verses  of  that  day,  and  also  a  rather  lax
and  epicurean  tone  of  philosophy,  which  is  sometimes  expressed  with
inimitable  felicity.  Nothing  can  more  strongly  mark  the  wide  differ^
ence  between  the  social  condition  of  England  in  the  seventeenth  and
eighteenth  centuries  than  a  comparison  between  the  tone  and  the  topics
of  the  admirable  Memoirs  of  Lucy  Hutchinson,  and  the  gay,  worldly,
satirical  letters  of  Lady  Mary  Montagu.  Both  the  one  and  the  other
are  types  of  the  female  character  as  modified  by  the  respective  influ-
eriCes  of  the  two  so  strongly-contrasted  epochs.
NOTES   AND    ILLUSTRATIONS.
A.— MINOR  ESSAYISTS,  &C.
EUBTAOE  BtTDQELL  (1685-1736),  a  friend  of  Ad-
dison, who  obtained  for  him  many  important  posts
under  Government  He  contributed  to  the  Specta-
tor all  the  papers  marked  with  the  letter  S.  Hav-
ing lost  almost  his  whole-  fortimc  in  the  South  Sea
Bcheme,  and  large  sums  of  money  in  unsuccessful
attempts  to  obtain  a  seat  in  Parliament,  he  became
a  ruinpd  man.  He  was  accused  of  having  forged  in
his  favor  Tindal's  Will,  a  charge  to  which  Pope
alludes  in  the  lines,  —
"  I^t  Budgell  charge  low  Gmb  Street  on  my  quill,

And  write  whate'er  he  please — except  jpy  will."
Budgell  was  supposed  to  have  assisted  Tindal  in  his
infidel  works.    His  circumstances  having  become
desperate,  Budgell  committed  suicide,  by  leaping
from  a  boat  into  the  Thames.    In  his  house  was
found  a  slip  of  paper,  on  which  he  had  written —
"  What  Cato  did,  and  Addison  approved,
Cannot  be  wrong."
Budgell  published  a  weekly  periodical  called  the
Bee.
