frequent thofe on the right fide, friends to the prefent powers; drop those who are loud on the wrong party, because they know they can fuffer nothing by it.

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LETTER CXH.

Dr.. SWIFT to Dr. SHERIDAN.

Quilca, Sep. 19. 1725. JE have prevailed with Neal, in fpite of his harveft, to carry up Mifs, with your directions; and it is high time, for fhe was run almost wild, though we have fomething civilized her fince the came among us. You are too fhort in circumftan⚫ces. I did not hear you was forbid preaching. Have you feen my Lord? Who forbad you to preach? Are you no longer chaplain? Do you never go to the caftle? Are you certain of the accufer, that it is Tigh? Do you think my Lord acts thus, because he fears it would breed ill humour, if he fhould openly favour one who is looked on as of a different party? I think that is too mean for him. I do not much difapprove your letter, but I think it a wrong method. Pray read over the inclofed twice; and if you do not diflike it, let it be fent (not by a fervant of yours, nor from you) to Mr. Tickell. There the cafe is ftated as well as I could do it in generals, for want of knowing particulars. When I come to town, I shall see the Lord Lieutenant, and be as free with him as poffible. In the mean time, I believe it may keep cold; however, advife with Mr. Tickell, and Mr. Balaguer. Ifhould fancy that the Bishop of Limerick could eafily fa

* Dr. William Burfcow,

tisfy his Excellency, and that my Lord Lieutenant believes no more of your guilt than I; and therefore it can be nothing but to fatisfy the noise of party at this juncture that he acts as he does; and if fo, (as I am confident it is), the effect will cease with the caufe. But, without doubt, Tigh and others have dinned the words Tory and Jacobite into his Excellency's ears, and therefore your text, &c. was only made ufe of as an opportunity.

Upon the whole matter, you are no lofer, but at leaft-have got fomething. Therefore be not like him who hanged himfelf, becaufe, going into a gaming-houfe, and winning ten thousand pounds, he loft five thoufand of it, and came away witli only half his winnings. When my Lord is in London, we may clear a way to him to do you another job, and you are young enough to wait.

We fet out to Dublin on Monday the 5th of October, and hope to fup at the deanery the next night; where you will come to us, if you are not already engaged.

I am grown a bad bailiff towards the end of my fervice. Your hay is well brought in, and better ftacked than ufual. All here are well.

I know not what you mean by my having some fport foon; I hope it is no fport that will vex me. Pray do not forget to feal the inclofed before you fend it.

I fend

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you back your letter to the Lord Lieute

LETTER

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LETTER CXIII.

Dr. SWIFT to Dr. SHERIDAN.

Quilca, Sept. 25. 1725. Our confufion hindred you from giving any rational account of your distress, till this last letter; and therein you are imperfect enough. However, with much ado we have now a tolerable understanding how things ftand._We had a paper fent inclofed, fubfcribed by Mr. Ford, as we fuppofe: it is in print, and we all approve it; and this I fuppofe is the fport I was to expect I do think it is agreed, that all animals fight with the weapons natural to them, (which is a new and wife remark out of my own head); and the devil take that animal who will not offend his enemy, when he is provoked, with his proper weapon: and though your old dull horfe little values the blows I give him with the but-end of my stick, yet I ftrike on, and make him wince in fpite of his dulnefs; and he fhall not fail of them while I am here; and I hope you will do fo too to the beaft who has kicked against you, and try how far his infenfibility will protect him; and you fhall have help, and he will be vexed; for fo I found your horse this day, tho' he would not move the fafter. I will kill that flea or louse which bites me, though I get no honour by it.

Laudari ab iis, quos omnes laudant, is a maxim; and the contrary is equally true. Thank you for the offer of your mare; and how a pox could we come without her? They pulled off her's and your

horfe's

horfe's fhoes for fear of being rode, and then they rode them without fhoes, and fo I was forced to fhoe them again. All the fellows here would be Tighs, if they were but privy-counfellors. You will never be at eafe for your friends horfes or your own, till you have walled in a park of twenty acres, which I would have done next spring.

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You fay not a word of the letter I fent you Mr. Tickell, whether you fent it him or no; and, yet it was very material that I fhould know it. The two devils of inadvertency and forgetfulness have got fast hold on you. I think you need not quit his and Balaguer's company, for the reason I men tioned in that letter; because they are above fufpicions, as whiggissimi and unfufpectissimi. When the Lord Lieutenant goes for England, I have a method to fet you right with him, I hope; as I will tell you when I come to town, if I do not Sheridan it, I mean forget it.

I did a Sheridanism; I told you I had loft your letter inclosed, which you intended to Lord Carteret, and yet I have it fafe here.

LETTER CXIV.

An anfwer to Lord PALMERSTON's civil polite letter. [So indorfed.]

My LORD,

Jan. 31. 1725-6. Defire you will give yourself the laft trouble I fhall ever put you to. I do entirely acquit you of any injury or injuftice done to Mr. Curtis *; and if you had read that paffage in my letter a fe

A refident matter in Trinity-college, whom the Dean made one of the four minor canons of St. Patrick's cathedral, Dub, Edit.

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cond time, you could not have poffibly so ill understood me. The injury and injustice the young man received were from thofe who, claiming a title to his chambers, took away his key; and reviled, and threatened to beat him; with a great deal of the like monftrous conduct; whereupon, at his requeft, I laid the cafe before you †, as it appeared to me. And it would have been very ftrange, if on account of a trifle, and of a perfon for whom I have no concern further than as he was once employed by me, on the character he bears of piety and learning, I fhould charge you with injury and injuftice to him, when I know from himself and Mr. Reading, that you were not answerable for either.

As you ftate the cafe of tenant at will, I fully agree that no law can compel you; but law was not at all in my thoughts.

Now, my Lord, if what I write of injury and injustice were wholly applied in plain terms to one or two of the college here, whofe names were be low my remembrance; you will confider how I could deferve an answer in every line full of foul infinuations, open reproaches, jefting flirts, and contumelious terms; and what title you claim to give me fuch treatment. I own my obligation to Sir William Temple, for recommending me to

Lord Viscount Palmerston (nephew to Sir William Temple) hath a right to bestow two handsome chambers in the university of Dublin upon fuch ftudents as he and his heirs fhall think proper, on account of the benefactions of this family towards the college-build ings. Dub. Edit.

*After Mr. Swift left the university of Dublin, Sir William Temple (whofe father Sir John Temple, mafter of the Rolls in Ireland, had been a friend to the family) invited our young author to fpend fome time with him at Mcore-park in England, for the fake of his converfation; where he purfued his ftudies through all the Greek and Roman hiftorians. Here it was he was introduced by his friend to King William, when his Majesty used to pay frequent vifits to that great minifter, after he had retired from public business to his feat at Moore park. Dub. Eait.. -There is not the least reafon to believe, that Sir Williani Temple was vifited by K, William at Moore-park,

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