The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical and political tracts-Irish

is your weakness, or ill fortune, or perhaps the fault of your constitution, to convert wholesome remedies into poison; for you have received better and more frequent instructions than any minister of your age and country, if God had given you the grace to apply them.

I dare promise you the thanks of half the kingdom, if you will please to perform the promise you have made of suffering the Craftsman and company, or whatever other "infamous wretches and execrable villains you mean, to take their vengeance only on your own sacred ministerial person, without bringing any of your brethren, much less the most remote branch of the Royal Family, into the debate. This generous offer I suspected from the first; because there were never heard of so many, so unnecessary, and so severe prosecutions as you have promoted during your ministry, in a kingdom where the liberty of the press is so much pretended to be allowed. But in reading a page or two, I found you thought it proper to explain away your grant; for there you tell us, that "these miscreants" (meaning the writers against you) "are to remember that the laws have ABUNDANTLY LESS generous, less mild and merciful sentiments" than yourself, and into their secular hands the poor authors must be delivered to fines, prisons, pillories, whippings, and the gallows. Thus your promise of impunity, which began somewhat jesuitically, concludes with the mercy of a Spanish inquisitor.

If it should so happen that I am neither "abettor, patron, protector," nor "supporter" of these imaginary invectives against the King, her Majesty, or any of the Royal Family," I desire to know what satisfaction I am to get from you, or the creature you employed in writing the libel which I am now answering? It will be no excuse to say, that I differ from you in every particular of your political reason and practise; because that will be to load the best, the soundest, and most numerous part of the kingdom with the denominations you are pleased to bestow upon me, that they are 'Jacobites, wicked miscreants, infamous wretches, execrable villains, and defamers of the King, Queen, and all the Royal Family," and "guilty of high treason." You cannot know my style; but I can easily know your works, which are performed in the sight of the sun. Your good inclinations are

visible; but I begin to doubt the strength of your credit, even at court, that you have not power to make his Majesty believe me the person which you represent in your libel: as most infallibly you have often attempted, and in vain, because I must otherwise have found it by the marks of his royal displeasure. However, to be angry with you to whom I am indebted for the greatest obligation I could possibly receive, would be the highest ingratitude. It is to you I owe that reputation I have acquired for some years past of being a lover of my country and its constitution: to you I owe the libels and scurrilities conferred upon me by the worst of men, and consequently some degree of esteem and friendship from the best. From you I learned the skill of distinguishing between a patriot and a plunderer of his country: and from You I hope in time to acquire the knowledge of being a loyal, faithful, and useful servant to the best of princes, King George the Second; and therefore I can conclude, by your example, but with greater truth, that I am not only with humble submission and respect, but with infinite gratitude, Sir, your most obedient and most obliged servant,

W. P.

INDEX

ACHESON, Sir Arthur, 246.
Alberoni's expedition, 207.
Allen, Joshua, Lord, his attack on
Swift, 168, 169, 175, 176, 236,
237; account of, 175.
America, emigration from Ireland
to, 120,

Arachne, fable of, 21.

Ballaquer, Carteret's secretary,

242.
Bank, proposal for a national, in
Ireland, 27, 31, 38, 42, 43;
subscribers to the, 49-51.
Barbou, Dr. Nicholas, 69.
Barnstaple, the chief market for
Irish wool, 18.

Beggars in Ireland, 70; Proposal
for giving Badges to, 323-335;
reason for the number of, 341.
Birch, Colonel John, 6.
Bishops, Swift's proposal to sell
the lands of the, 252 et seq.
Bladon, Colonel, 23.
Bolingbroke, Lord, his contribu-
tions to the "Craftsman," 219,
375, 377.

Boulter, Archbishop, his scheme
for lowering the gold coinage,
353; opposed by Swift, 353,
354.
Browne, Sir John, his "Scheme
of the money matters of Ire-
land," 66; Swift's answer to his
"Memorial," 109-116.
Burnet, William, 121.

Carteret, John, Lord, 227; Swift's
Vindication of, 229-249.

Coinage, McCulla's proposal about,
179-190; Swift's counter-pro-
posal, 183.

Coining, forbidden in Ireland, 88,
134.

Compton, Sir Spencer, 387.
Corn, imported into Ireland from
England, 17.

"Cossing," explained, 271.
Cotter, ballad upon, 23.
"Craftsman," the, 219, 375, 397,
399.

Davenport, Colonel, 280.
Delany, Dr. Patrick, 244.
Dublin, thieves and roughs in,
56; Examination of certain
Abuses, etc., in, 263-282; Ad-
vice to the Freemen of, in the
Choice of a Member of Parlia-
ment, 311-316; Considerations
in the Choice of a Recorder of,
319, 320.
Dunkin, Rev. William, Swift's
efforts in behalf of, 364, 368.
Dutton-Colt, Sir Harry, 280.

Elliston, Ebenezer, Last Speech
of, 56 et seq.

Esquire, the title of, 49.

Footmen, Petition of the, 307.
French, Humphry, Lord Mayor
of Dublin, 310, 311.

French army, recruited in Ire-
land, 218, 220.

Frogs, propagation of, in Ireland,
340.

D D

Galway, Earl of, 235.

Grafton, Duke of, 194.

Grimston, Lord, his "Lawyer's
Fortune, or Love in a Hollow
Tree," 24.

Gwythers, Dr., introduces frogs
into Ireland, 340.

Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 387.
Hospital for Incurables, Scheme
for a, 283-303.
Hutcheson, Hartley, 234.

Injured Lady, Story of the, 97-

103; Answer to the, 107-109.
Ireland, the Test Act in, 2, 5 et seq.;
exportation of wool from, for-
bidden, 17, 18, 110, 111, 157,
158; absentee landlords, 25, 69,
71, 101, 162; Sheridan's ac-
count of the state of, 26-30;
proposal for establishing a Na-
tional Bank in, 31, 38, 42, 43;
maxims controlled in, 65; pov-
erty of, 25, 66, 87, 89, 90, 122;
increase of rents in, 67, 163;
begging and thieving in, 70;
Short view of the State of, 83-
91; importation of cattle into
England prohibited, 86, 100,
110, 221; encouragement of the
linen manufactures in, 102, 158;
luxury and extravagance among
the women in, 124, 139, 198,
199, 219; condition of the roads
in, 130; bad management of
the bogs in, 131; dishonesty of
tradesmen in, 142, 147; the
National Debt of, 196; famine
in, 203; population of, 208;
persecution of Roman Catholics
in, 263.

Irish brogue, the, 346.
Irish eloquence, 361.

Irish language, proposal to abolish
the, 133.

Irish peers, titles of, 349.

Japan, Account of the Court and
Empire of, 382-391.

King, Archbishop, 21, 119, 136,
244, 326.

Lindsay, Robert, 259.

Linen trade in Ireland, the, 88,

102, 158.

Littleton, Sir Thomas, 7.

Lorrain, Paul, ordinary of New-
gate, 34.

Macarrell, John, 310, 311.
McCulla's Project about half-
pence, 179-190.
Manufactures, Irish, Proposal for
the Universal use of, 17-30;
Proposal that all Ladies should
appear constantly in, 193-199.
See also "Woollen Manufac-
tures."

Mar, Earl of, 164.

Maxwell, Henry, his pamphlets
in favour of a bank in Ireland,
38.

Mist, Nathaniel, 194.

National Debt, Proposal to pay
off the, 251-258.
Navigation Act, the effect of, in
Ireland, 66, 86.
Norton, Richard, 301.

“Orange, the squeezing of the,”
275.

Stanley, Sir John, Commissioner
of Customs, 197.
Stannard, Eaton, elected Recorder

of Dublin, 319, 366.
Stopford, Dr. James, Bishop of
Cloyne, 243.

Street cries explained, 268-270,
275-281.
Swan, Mr., 280.
Swandlingbar, origin of the name
of, 347.
Swearer's Bank, the, 41.
Swift, Godwin, 347.
Swift, Jonathan, the freedom of
the City of Dublin conferred on,
168; his speech on the occa-
sion, 169-172; confesses the
authorship of the "Drapier's
Letters," 171; born in Dublin,
267; his opposition to Arch-
bishop Boulter, 353, 354; his
speech on the lowering of the

coin, 357; his efforts in behalf
of Mr. Dunkin, 364-368; re-
ceives the freedom of the City of
Cork, 367; appoints Dr. Wynne
Sub-dean of St. Patrick's, 370.

Temple, Sir William, his compari-
son of Holland and Ireland,
164.

Test Act, in Ireland, 2, 5 et seq.
Thompson, Edward, Commis-
sioner of the Revenue in Ireland,
315.
Tickell, T., 242.

Tighe, Richard, informs against
Sheridan, 74, 233, 242; attacks
Carteret, 228; ridiculed as "Pis-
torides," 233, 235.

"Traulus (Lord Allen), 176,
236.

Trees, planting of, in Ireland,
132.

Violante, Madam, 234.

Wallis, Dr., 280.

Walpole, Sir Robert, interview of
Swift with, in 1726, 153; his
views on Ireland, 154; satire
on, 276; his literary assistants,
379, 393 et seq.; character of,
384 et seq.

Waters, Edward, Swift's printer,
171, 193.

Whitshed, Lord Chief Justice, 14,

86, 115, 129, 171, 193, 194.
Wine, proposed tax on, 196, 197.
Wool, Irish, exportation of, for-

bidden by law, 17, 18, 110,
III, 157, 158; effect of the
prohibition on England, 160.
Woollen manufactures, Irish people
should use their own, 137 et seq.;
Observations on the case of
the, 147-150.

Wynne, Rev. Dr. John, Sub-dean
of St. Patrick's, 370.

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