[Footnote 221:  Heidegger.  See No. 12.]

[Footnote 222:  The remainder of this paper is by Addison.  See Steele’s Preface, and his Dedication of “The Drummer” to Congreve.]

[Footnote 223:  “There’s but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins, tacked together, and thrown over the shoulders like a herald’s coat without sleeves; and the shirt, to say the truth, stolen from my host of St. Alban, or the red-nosed innkeeper of Daintry.  But that’s all one, they’ll find linen enough on every hedge.” (1 Henry IV., act iii. sc. 2).]

[Footnote 224:  The Tory Postboy was published by Abel Roper; and the Whig Flying Post by George Ridpath: 

    “There Ridpath, Roper, cudgelled might ye view,
    The very worsted still looked black and blue.”

("Dunciad,” ii. 149.) It is remarkable that both Roper and Ridpath died on the same day, Feb. 5, 1726.  Swift and others sometimes contributed to Roper’s paper for party purposes.]

[Footnote 225:  Abel Boyer (1667-1729), author of “The Political State of Great Britain,” was a Whig journalist towards whom Swift felt bitterly.  “The Secretary promises me to swinge him,” he wrote in 1711; “I must make that rogue an example for a warning to others.”  Boyer compiled a valuable French and English dictionary.]

[Footnote 226:  Samuel Buckley was printer of the London Gazette, Daily Courant, and Spectator.  He died in 1741.]

[Footnote 227:  Drawcansir, in “The Rehearsal,” is described by another character as “a great hero, who frights his mistress, snubs up kings, baffles armies, and does what he will, without regard to number, good sense, or justice.”]

[Footnote 228:  John Dyer was a Jacobite journalist who issued a news-letter to country subscribers, among whom was Sir Roger de Coverley (Spectator, No. 127), by whom he was held in high esteem.  Defoe (Review, vi. 132) says that Dyer “did not so much write what his readers should believe, as what they would believe.”  Vellum, in Addison’s “The Drummer” (act ii. sc. i), cannot but believe his master is living, “because the news of his death was first published in Dyer’s Letter.”  See also Spectator, Nos. 43 and 457.  At the trial of John Tutchin for seditious libel (Howell’s “State Trials,” xiv. 1150), on complaint being made by counsel that Dyer had charged him with broaching seditious principles, Lord Chief Justice Holt said, “Dyer is very familiar with me too sometimes; but you need not fear such a little scandalous paper of such a scandalous author.”]

[Footnote 229:  Ichabod Dawks was another “epistolary historian” (see Spectator, No. 457, and Tatler, No. 178).  Dawks and Dyer are both introduced by Edmund Smith, author of “Phaedra and Hippolitus,” in his poem, “Charlettus Percivallo suo”: 

“Scribe securus, quid agit Senatus,
Quid caput stertit grave Lambethanum,
Quid comes Guilford, quid habent novorum. 
“Dawksque Dyerque.”
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