Mr. John Sly humbly sheweth,

  ’That upon reading the Deputation given to the said Mr. John Sly,
  all Persons passing by his Observatory behaved themselves with the
  same Decorum, as if your Honour your self had been present.

That your said Officer is preparing, according to your Honour’s secret Instructions, Hats for the several kind of Heads that make Figures in the Realms of Great Britain, with Cocks significant of their Powers and Faculties.

That your said Officer has taken due Notice of your Instructions and Admonitions concerning the Internals of the Head from the outward Form of the same.  His Hats for Men of the Faculties of Law and Physick do but just turn up, to give a little Life to their Sagacity; his military Hats glare full in the Face; and he has prepared a familiar easy Cock for all good Companions between the above-mentioned Extreams.  For this End he has consulted the most Learned of his Acquaintance for the true Form and Dimensions of the Lepidum Caput, and made a Hat fit for it.

  Your said Officer does further represent, That the young Divines about
  Town are many of them got into the Cock Military, and desires your
  Instructions therein.

  That the Town has been for several Days very well behaved; and further
  your said Officer saith not.

T.

[Footnote 1:  Addison.]

[Footnote 2:  The Temple of Fame.]

[Footnote 3:  Pope republished this in his ‘Letters’ in 1735, adding a metrical translation of Adrian’s lines: 

  Ah, fleeting spirit! wandering fire,
    That long hast warm’d my tender breast,
  Must thou no more this frame inspire? 
    No more a pleasing, cheerful guest? 
  Whither, ah, whither art thou flying,
    To what dark, undiscovered shore? 
  Thou seem’st all trembling, shivering, dying,
    And wit and humour are no more.

Two days after the insertion of this letter from Pope, Steele wrote to the young poet (Nov. 12): 

’I have read over your “Temple of Fame” twice; and cannot find anything amiss of weight enough to call a fault, but see in it a thousand thousand beauties.  Mr. Addison shall see it to-morrow:  after his perusal of it I will let you know his thoughts.  I desire you would let me know whether you are at leisure or not?  I have a design which I shall open a month or two hence, with the assistance of a few like yourself.  If your thoughts are unengaged I shall explain myself further.’

This design was the Guardian, which Steele was about to establish as the successor to the Spectator; and here we find him at work on the foundations of his new journal while the finishing strokes are being given to the Spectator.  Pope in his reply to Steele said (Nov. 16):