MANDEVILLE, Bernard de, an eminent writer in the 18th century, was born in Holland, where he studied physic, and took the degree of doctor in that faculty. He afterwards came over into England, and in 1714 published a poem, entitled "The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves turned Honest;" upon which he afterwards wrote remarks, and published the whole at London, 1723, in 8vo, under the title of "The Fable of the Bees, or private Vices made public Benefits; with an Essay on Charity and Charity-schools, and a Search into the Nature of Society." This book was presented by the jury of Middlesex in July the same year, and severely animadverted upon in "A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord C." printed in the London Journal of Saturday July 27. 1723. Our author published a Vindication. His book was attacked by several writers. He published other pieces, and died in 1724.