The Works of the REV. Jonathan Swift (Volume 6) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOME REASONS TO PROV1 That No On Is Obliged, By His Principles As A Whig; To Oppose The Oueen: In A Letter To A Whig Lord, [the I.ord Ashburnham.] TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, A SUPPOSED LETTER FROM THE PRETENDER TO ANOTHER WHIG LORD-. BOTH FIRST ritINTID IN I was with my friend Lewis to-day, getting materials for a little mischief." Journal to Stella, May 28, 1712. e Things are now m the way of being soon in the extremes of well or ill: I hope and believe the first. Lord Wharton is gone out of town in a rage; and curses himself and friends for ruining themselves in defending lord Marlborough and Godolphin, and taking Nottingham into their favour. He swears he will meddle no more during this reign; a pretty speech at sixty-six; and the queen is near twenty years younger, and now in very good health! Read the letter to a Whig Lord ." Ibid. June 17. " To-day there will be another Grub: A Letter from the Pretender to a Whig Lord. Grub street has but ten days to live; then an act of parliament takes place that ruins it, by taxing every halfshect at a halfpenny." Ibid. July 19, Dr. Birch, in a note on this passage, iippo it to allude to the Letter from the Pretender, which however is not dated till July 8.?tt evidently relates to the larger letter. A MS. note of Charles Ford, F.q. the confidential friend of Swift, not only confirms the fart of this letter being the production f che Dean; but supplies the name of lord Ashburnhaiu, the Peer to whom it REASONS, ETC. MY LORD, 1 He dispute between your lordship and me has, I think, no manner of relation to what in the common style of these times are called principles; wherein both parties seem well enough to agree, if we will but allow their professions. I can truly affirm, that none of the reasonab...