Thus much I thought it my duty to say to you who are under my care, to warn you against those temporal evils which may draw the worst of spiritual evils after them; such as heart-burnings, murmurings, discontents, and all manner of wickedness, which a desperate condition of life may tempt men to. I am sensible that what I have now said will not go very far, being confined to this assembly; but I hope it may stir up others of my brethren to exhort their several congregations, after a more effectual manner, to show their love for their country on this important occasion. And this, I am sure, cannot be called meddling in affairs of state. I pray God protect his most gracious Majesty, and his kingdom long under his government; and defend us from all ruinous projectors, deceivers, suborners perjurers, false accusers, and oppressors; from the virulence of party and faction; and unite us in loyalty to our King, love to our country, and charity to each other. LONDON: PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED, ST. JOHN'S HOUSE, CLERKENWELL ROAD. FOOTNOTES: [1] See the "Proposal for the Use of Irish Manufactures." [2] Four score and ten thousand, this runs throughout the first edition. [3] A coarse kind of barley. [4] At that time the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. [5] An allusion to the debasement of the coin by James II. during his unfortunate campaign in Ireland. [6] An equestrian statue of George I. at Essex Bridge, Dublin. [7] The Duke of Grafton. [8] Mr. Hopkins, the Duke of Grafton's secretary. [9] Lord Carteret, afterwards Earl Granville. As the ally of Bolingbroke, and opponent of Walpole, he was to some extent a favourite of Swift. [10] This was especially the case in the reign of William III., when the doctrine of English supremacy was assumed in order to discredit the authority of the Irish Parliament summoned by James II. [11] William Molineux, the friend of Locke, who wrote a pamphlet, published in 1698, against the oppressive laws adopted by England in regard to Irish Manufactures. [12] There was a certain amount of truth in this. The Dean's butler acted as amanuensis. [13] Articles mentioned in the indictment and proclamation. [14] His "Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufactures." [15] The first "Letter." [16] The second and third "Letters." [17] The fourth "Letter," the cause of the indictment and proclamation. [18] Printers. [19] He probably speaks of himself. [20] The "Proposal for the Use of Irish Manufactures." [21] Though he signed the proclamation against the author of the Drapier's Letters, Lord Middleton was himself inimical to Wood's project. [22] The printer of the Drapier's Letters. [23] Undertakers:--a name which was, in Charles II.'s time applied to those ministers who gained power by undertaking to carry through pet measures of the Crown. Swift here uses it ambiguously. [24] The Earl of Sunderland.