from being seized with doubt and incredulity whenever in the course of this history they encounter the uncommon circumstance of a governor acting with independence and in opposition to the opinions of the multitude to assist the doubtful in the business of a board of was appointed which presided immediately over the police this potent body consisted of a or with powers between those of the p mayor and five who were equivalent to and five who as or bottle to the in the same manner as do assistant to their at the present day it being their duty to fill the pipes of the hunt the for for dinners and to discharge such other little offices of kindness as were occasionally required it was moreover understood though not that they should consider themselves as for the blunt wits of the and should laugh most heartily at all their jokes but this last was a duty as rarely called in action in those days as it is at present and was shortly in by of the death of a fat little � who actually died of in an effort to force a laugh at one of van s best jokes in return for these humble services they were permitted to say yes at the council board and to have that privilege the run of the public being graciously permitted to eat and drink and smoke at all snug and public for which the ancient were equally famous with their modem the post of therefore like that of assistant was eagerly by all your of a certain description who have a huge relish for good feeding and an humble ambition to be great men in a small way � who thirst after a little brief authority that shall render them the terror of the house and the � that � hall enable them to lord it over poverty vice outcast and hunger driven that shall give to their a hound like pack of catch poles and bum � greater than the they hunt down � my readers will excuse this sudden warmth which i confess is of a grave historian � but i have a mortal to catch poles bum and little great men the ancient of this city with those of the present time no less in form history of magnitude and intellect than in and privilege the like our were generally chosen by and not the weight of the body but likewise the weight of the head it is a practically observed in all honest plain thinking regular cities that an should be fat � and the wisdom of this can be proved to a certainty that the body is in measure an image of tiie mind or rather that the mind is to the body like melted lead to the clay in which it is cast has been insisted on by many philosophers who have made human nature their peculiar study � for as a learned gentleman of our own city there is a constant relation between the moral character of all intelligent creatures and their physical constitution � between their habits and the structure of their bodies thus we see that a lean spare body is accompanied by a restless either the mind wears down the body by its continual motion or else the body not affording the mind sufficient house room keeps it continually in a state of tossing and worrying about from the uneasiness of its situation whereas your round sleek fat is ever attended by a mind like itself tranquil and at ease and we may always observe that your well fed are in general very of their ease and comfort being great enemies to by york noise discord and disturbance � and surely none are more likely to study the public tranquillity than those who are so careful of their who ever hears of fat men heading a riot or together in turbulent � it is your lean hungry men who are continually worrying society and setting the whole community by the ears the divine whose doctrines are not sufficiently attended to by philosophers of the present age allows to every man three one immortal and rational seated in the brain that it may � overlook and the body � a second consisting of the surly and passions which like powers lie around the heart � a third mortal and destitute of reason gross and brutal in its and in the belly that it may not disturb the divine soul by its now according to this excellent theory what can be more clear than that your fat is most likely to have the most regular and well mind his head is like a huge chamber containing a prodigious mass of soft brains whereon the rational soul lies softly and as on a feather bed and the eyes which are the windows of the bed chamber are usually half closed that its may not be disturbed by external objects a mind thus comfortably lodged and protected from disturbance is most vol i p � by history of likely to perform its functions with regularity and ease by dint of good feeding moreover the mortal and malignant soul which is confined in the i belly and which by its raging and roaring puts the irritable soul in the neighbourhood of the heart � in an intolerable passion and thus renders men and when hungry is completely silenced and put to rest � whereupon a host of honest good fellow qualities and kind hearted affections which had lain peeping out of the holes of the heart finding this asleep do pluck up their spirits turn out one and all in their suits and up and down the their possessor to laughter good humour and a thousand friendly offices towards his fellow mortals as a board of formed on this model think but very little they are the less likely to differ and about favourite opinions � 