When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven; • We may as well do any thing most hard, As seek to soften that, than which what's harder? His heathenish devilish heart.'

ESSAY XXVII.

NARRATIVE CONTINUED.

"On the receipt of Tiptoe's last note, the indignation of the school-boys was roused to its highest pitch; and they immediately, as all mobs, particularly those of children, and uneducated adults, in whom the intellect is not very abundant, were determined to have recourse to violence: wherefore, they seized the keys of the college, and thrust the porter out of the gates, telling him that he might wander whither his ehoice directed, or his fancy led him. To their amiable and beloved preceptor, ....

they sent a Latin note, the substance of which was, to inform him, that they should ever retain sentiments of the

most lively gratitude and affectionate esteem for his kindness and instruction, but that now they besought him not to enter the school at this time, lest, in the moments of ungoverned fury, while their minds were smarting and writhing under the lash of injustice, which they were determined to punish, even his venerable person, sacred and hallowed as it was, in the sight of all the boys, from the proud præfect of the hall to the miserable junior in the sixth chamber, might not be safe from insult, and from molestation. To the worthy Mr. Simpkin Snivel was delivered, by a junior, a verbal message, intimating that they would dispense with his attendance in the school that afternoon. Notwithstanding this information, at the accustomed hour, in sneaked the little Snivel, slowly, and cautiously withall; but it was observed, that he very precipitately made his retreat; and his flight was supposed to be accelerated by divers and sundry applications of addled eggs, dry bread-crusts, pieces of flesh half roasted, marbles, old hats, nutton bones, trenchers, brick-bats, and other little impromp

- tu's, to different parts of his body, not for getting his face. Now the storm began to low'r;' the boys directly proceeded to lock up, and to fasten in with nails and staples, in their respective apartments, the

a luckless fellow, a bald-pated Welshman, who happened to reside in his lodgings, and eke the doughty Snivel himself. The gates were cross barred, and regularly guarded; the watch towers secured; and the whole' put into a posture of defence, as the boys understood that the military, Buckingham's regiment, was to be called in to aid the confined and immured pedagogues. This scene continued all that evening and the following night: during which time guard was relieved every two hours by fresh parties of the gowned children, armed with sticks, and staves, and iron bars, and some few fowling-pieces. The next day, in consequence of a county meeting being held at ............... the sheriff, a small man, and a baronet, with a huge posse comitatus, and a large mob of gentry, assembled at the outer gate of the college. After some time agreed that Mr.

spent in parley, it was

............., one of the prebendaries of

a gentleman formerly a barrister, and who had married the sister of the ..... ...... bishop's wife, should be admitted within the gate, and try the effect of his oratory upon the boys, and upon the imprisoned Tiptoe. He entered, and so great was the power of his persuasive and gentlemanly eloquence, that he soon hushed the raging of the waters, and the agitated ocean settled into a calm. By his mediation between the boys and Tiptoe, it was finally settled, that the lads should lay down their arms, and deliver up the keys, of which no improper use had been made, not a manuscript had been touched, not a drop of wine tasted, not a single door had been opened; and to return to the school on the morrow; and the warden made his most devout and solemn asseveration, that the whole transaction should be buried in oblivion, that all should be forgotten in a general act of amnesty. The keys were restored, the weapons thrown away, the gates opened, the day spent in various colloquies with the crowd of gentry which rushed in; and the next

alumni of

morning, the school was again filled by the A day, however, nay, not a single hour, was suffered to pass without Snivel's taking effectual care to shew that the act of amnesty was considered merely as a pious fraud on the part of the godly ecclesiastic Tommy Tiptoe; for the boys. were every minute reminded of their late flagitious conduct, and received several civil hints, that it would certainly be remembered, whenever an opportunity offered of making an application to their posteriors in the way of business. These, and other petty rascalities, which at once denoted the quantity of mind and the quality of heart that Tiptoe and Snivel possessed, rekindled the flame which had been so lately allayed. But what served to fan the fire, and blow it into a conflagration, was, that the Blackfriars' physician's son, one of the great leaders in this action, was unexpectedly visited by his father, who told him, that he had received an anonymous letter, saying, that, in conscquence of the late riot, unless he came down and took away his son, he would have the Mortification of hearing that his child was