home, and one or two true friends, who are tender about you, would be a great eafe to me to know, and know from your felf. Tell me who thofe are whom you now love or esteem, that I may love and esteem them too; and, if ever they come into England, let them be my friends. If, by any thing I can here do, I can ferve you, or please you, be certain it will mend my happiness; and that no fatisfaction any thing gives me here will be superior, if equal to it.

My dear Dean, whom I never will forget, or think of with coolnefs, many are yet living here who frequently mention you with affection and refpect. Lord Orrery, Lord Bathurst, Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Oxford, Lord Masham, Lewis, Mrs. P. Blount, (allow one woman to the lift, for fhe is as conftant to old friendships as any man;) and many young men there are, nay all that are any credit to this age, who love you unknown, who kindle at your fire, and learn by your genius. Nothing of you can die, nothing of you can decay, nothing of you can fuffer, nothing of you can be obscured, or locked up from efteem and admiration, except what is at the Deanry; just as much of you only as God made

mortal.

mortal. May the reft of you (which is all) be as happy hereafter as honest men may expect and need not doubt; while (knowing nothing more) they know, that their Maker is merciful. Adieu.

Your's ever,

A. POPE.

LETTER LXXIII.

To the Honourable the SOCIETY of the GOVERNOUR and ASSISTANTS, London, for the NEW PLANTATION in Ulfter, within the Realm of Ireland, at their Chamber in Guild-hall, London.

WORTHY GENTLEMEN,

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By conjecture, 1738.

HEARTILY recommend to your very Worshipful Society, the Reverend Mr. William Dunkin, for the living of Colerain, vacant by the death of Dr. Squire. Mr. Dunkin is a gentleman of great learning and wit, true religion, and excellent morals. It is only for thefe qualifications that I recommend him to your patronage; and I am confident that you will never repent the choice of fuch a man, who will be ready at any time to obey your com mands.

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mands. You have my best wishes, and all my endeavours for your profperity: And I fhall, during my life, continue to be, with the trueft respect and highest esteem, WORTHY SIRS,

Your moft obedient and
Moft humble fervant,

JONATH. SWIFT.

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LETTER LXXIV.

To Mr. POPE.

May 10th, 1739, at a conjecture. U are to fuppofe, for the little time I fhall live, that my memory is entirely gone, and especially of any thing that was told me laft night, or this morning. I have one favour to entreat from you. I know the high efteem and friendfhip you bear to your friend Mr. Lyttelton, whom you call the rifing genius of this age. His fame, his virtue, honour, and courage, have been early spread even among us. I find he is fecretary to the Prince of Wales, and his Royal Highness hath been for feveral years Chancellor of the University in Dublin. All this is a

prelude

prelude to a requeft I am going to make you. There is in this city one Alexander M'Aulay, a lawyer of great diftinction for skill and honefty, zealous for the liberty of the fubject, and loyal to the Houfe of Hanover; and particularly to the Prince of Wales, for his Highness's love to both kingdoms.

Mr. M'Aulay is now foliciting for a feat in parliament here, vacant by the death of Doctor Coghill, a civilian, who was one of the perfons chofen for this univerfity: And, as his Royal Highness continues ftill Chancellor of it, there is no perfon fo proper to nominate the repre fentative as himself. If this favour can be procured, by your good-will and Mr. Lyttelton's intereft, it will be a particular obligation to me, and grateful to the peo ple of Ireland, in giving them one of their own nation to reprefent this university.

There is a man in my choir, one Mr. Lamb; he hath at present but half a vicarship: The value of it is not quite 50 l. per annum. You writ to me in his favour fome months ago; and, if I outlive any one vicar-choral, Mr. Lamb fhall certainly have a full place, because he very well deferves it: And I am obliged to you very much for recommending him.

VOL. XVI.

SIR,

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LETTER LXXV.

To Mr. LYTTELTON.*

June 5th, 1739.

OU treat me very hard, by beginning your letter with owning an obligation to me on account of Mr. Lamb, which deferves mine and my chapter's thanks, for recommending fo useful a person to my choir. It is true I gave Mr. Deane Swift a letter to my dear friend Mr. Pope, that The might have the happiness to see and know fo great a genius in poetry, and fo agreeable in all other good qualities; but the young man (feveral years older than you) was much surprised to see his junior in fo high a station, as Secretary to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and to find himself treated by you in so kind a manner. In one article you are greatly miftaken. For, however ignorant we may be in the affairs of England, your character is as well known among us, in every particular, as it is in the Prince your Master's court, and indeed all over this poor kingdom.

*Now Lord Lyttelton.