PATRICK'S BIRTH-DAY AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT NUGENT, ESQ.[1] ON THE DRAPIER. BY DR. DUNKIN.[1] EPITAPH PROPOSED FOR DR. SWIFT. 1745 EPIGRAM ON TWO GREAT MEN. 1754 TO THE MEMORY OF DOCTOR SWIFT VERSES ON THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS ON DR. SWIFT'S LEAVING HIS ESTATE TO IDIOTS ON SEVERAL PETTY PIECES ON FAULKNER'S EDITION OF SWIFT EPIGRAM TO DOCTOR DELANY EPIGRAM AN INSCRIPTION AN EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL TRACTS—IRISH By Jonathan Swift, D.D. Edited By Temple Scott CONTENTS A Letter to a Member of Parliament, in Ireland, upon the choosing a New Speaker there 1 A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture 11 An Essay on English Bubbles. By Thomas Hope, Esq. 31 The Swearer's Bank 37 A Letter to the King at Arms 47 The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezer Elliston 55 The Truth of Some Maxims in State and Government, examined with Reference to Ireland 63 The Blunders, Deficiencies, Distresses, and Misfortunes Of Quilca 73 A Short View of the State of Ireland 79 The Story of the Injured Lady. Written by Herself 93 The Answer to the Injured Lady 104 An Answer to a Paper called "A Memorial of the Poor Inhabitants, Tradesmen, and Labourers of the Kingdom of Ireland" 107 Answer to Several Letters from Unknown Persons 117 An Answer to Several Letters sent me from Unknown Hands 127 A Letter to the Archbishop of Dublin concerning the Weavers 135 Observations occasioned by reading a Paper entitled "The Case of the Woollen Manufactures of Dublin," etc. 145 The Present Miserable State of Ireland 151 The Substance of what was said by the Dean of St. Patrick's to the Lord Mayor and some of the Aldermen when His Lordship came to Present the said Dean with his Freedom in a Gold Box 167 Advertisement by Dr. Swift in his Defence Against Joshua, Lord Allen 173 [Pg xxii] A Letter on Mr. M'Culla's Project about Halfpence, and a new one Proposed 177 A Proposal that all the Ladies and Women of Ireland should appear constantly in Irish Manufactures 191 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burthen to their Parents or the Country, and for making them beneficial to the Public 201 Answer to the Craftsman 217 A Vindication of his Excellency John, Lord Carteret 225 A Proposal for An Act of Parliament to Pay off the Debt of the Nation without Taxing the Subject 251 A Case submitted by Dean Swift to Mr. Lindsay, Counsellor at Law 259 An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions, and Enormities in the City of Dublin 261 A Serious and Useful Scheme to make an Hospital for Incurables 283 The Humble Petition of the Footmen in and about the City of Dublin 305 Advice to the Freemen of the City of Dublin in the Choice of a Member to represent them in Parliament 309 Some Considerations humbly offered to the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of Dublin in the Choice of a Recorder 317 A Proposal for giving Badges to the Beggars in all the Parishes of Dublin 321