with the power, the guilt, and the will to do mischief, instead of armed with the power and the will. It might reasonably be supposed that a disease which was apparent, could not be prevented; and it should have been known, that there is no fuch assembly or place as the rules of court ladies; and that it is an abfurd redundancy to fay of a man who has the power and the will, that he has also the guilt to do mischief; for whatever guilt he can contract before the perpetration of the mischief, is included in the will. These paffages are to be found in the 46th and 48th Examiners, and in the anfwer to a memorial, Vol. X, Thefe Examiners indeed are not taken into this collection, because the laft paper written by the Dean was N°. 44. which is yet a stronger proof that he did not revise the Irish edition, where the fubfequent numbers are imputed to him, and have received correction from the band that corrected the rest *. The editor of the Irish edition has also taken into his collection feveral Spurious pieces in verfe, which the Dean zealously difavowed, and which therefore he would certainly have excluded from any collection printed under his infpection and with his confent, parti * See Examiner, No 44. and note. cularly cularly The Life and Character of Doctor Swift, on a maxim of Rochefocault, of which be fays, in a letter to Mr. Pope, dated May 1, 1733, it is an impofture, mean and trivial, and full of the cant that I most defpife. It appears also by a letter of Mr. Pope, dated 15th Sept. 1734, that the Dean had strongly difavowed this piece, not to him only, but to Lord Carteret, and others, and that there was reafon to believe it the performance of a person who offered a piece in profe to a bookfeller as the Dean's, which he afterwards confessed to be bis own. In the Irish copy of the verses on his death many paffages are to be found which Mr. Pope rejected, for when he added thefe verfes to the Mifcellany in 1742, he took nothing from the Irish copy which he had then seen, and upon his authority the Irish variations are rejetted in this edition. But there is evidence of another kind to prove that the Dean never revifed any edition of his works for Falkener to print, and that on the contrary he was unwilling that Falkener should print them at all. Falkener, in an advertisement published O&. 15, 1754, calls himself the editor as well as publisher of the Dublin edition, and the Dean has often renounced the un dertaking dertaking in express terms. In his letter to Mr. Pope, dated May 1, 1733, he fays, that when the printer applied to him for leave to print his works in Ireland, he told him he would give no leave; and when he printed them without, be declared it was much to his difcontent. The fame fentiment is also more strongly expreffed in the following extract from a letter now in the bands of the publisher, which was written by the Dean to the late Mr. Benjamin Motte, bis bookfeller in London. "Mr. Falkener in printing thofe volumes did "what I much difliked, and yet what was not « in my power to hinder; and all my friends pressed him to print them, and gave him what "manuscript copies they had occafionally gotten from me; my defire was that those works Should have been printed in London, by an agreement between those who had a right te "them. "I am, Sir, with great truth, N. B. In the references that will be found in the margin of the Life, D. S. ftands for Deane Swift's Effay on the Life, Writings, and Character of Doctor Jonathan Swift. O. for Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Doctor Jonathan Swift, the 5th edition, 12mo, printed for Millar in 1752. J. R. for 7. R's Obfervations on Lord Orrery's Remarks, generally supposed to have been written by Doctor Delany. Sketch for a Fragment intitled, The Family of Swift, written by the Dean himself, annexed to Mr. Swift's Effay; and Letter to S. Letters from the Dean to Stella, mentioned by Mr. Swift, but not published. The Pages of the Twelfth Volume having been altered, fince this Account of the Life was printed off; the Reader is defired to correct the Errata in the marginal References, as follows: Reverend Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. Τ O gratify that curiofity which great eminence always excites, many accounts have been pub. lished of the life of Dr. Jonathan Swift. These have mutually reflected light upon each other, afcertained controverted facts, and rectified mistakes, which, if they had still been traditional and oral, would still have been believed. Several little incidents, which fhewed the peculiarities of his converfation and domestic life, were related by Mrs. Pilkington in her Memoirs; though thefe could be believed only in proportion as they verified themselves. Lord Orrery's Letters contained many of the principal events, intermingled with many characteristic incidents, fupported in general upon better authority; but fometimes founded upon falfe information. Some of these mistakes were detected by a Volume of Letters figned 7. R. in which were also fome new materials; and the account fince published by Mr. Swift, with an imperfect sketch by the Dean himfelf, has furnished yet more. From a comparison of all these with VOL. I. B each |