Excerpt from The Addisonian Miscellany: Being a Selection of Valuable Pieces, From Those Justly Celebrated and Classic Works, the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian; To Which Is Prefixed, the Life of Joseph Addison, Esq.
He was made fecretary of fiate, in 171 7 but it is generally allowfied that he was not well calculated for that fiatipn being no orator, he could not harangue in the houfe of commons in defence of the govern ment. He foon relinquifhed this office, and obtained a penfion of 15001 per annum.
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