.

How Lewis Baboon came to visit John Bull, and what passed.
between them.

* * Private negotiations about Dunkirk.
I think it is but ingenuous to acquaint the reader that this chapter was not wrote by Sir Humphrey himself, but by another very able pen of the university of Grub Street.
John had, by some good instructions given him by Sir Roger, got the better of his choleric temper, and wrought himself up to a great steadiness of mind to pursue his own interest through all impediments that were thrown in the way.

He began to leave off some of his old acquaintance, his roaring and bullying about the streets.

He put on a serious air, knit his brows, and, for the time, had made a very considerable progress in politics, considering that he had been kept a stranger to his own affairs.