which I find, from experience, that little is to be gotten, in these hard times. I am, SIR, Your friend, and Servant to command, A. B. ESQUIRE. _Postscript_. I hope you will favourably represent my case to the publisher of the paper above-mentioned. Direct your letter for A. B. Esquire, at ---- in ----; and, pray, get some parliament-man to frank it, for it will cost a groat postage to this place. THE LAST SPEECH AND DYING WORDS OF EBENEZER ELLISTON. WHO WAS EXECUTED THE SECOND DAY OF MAY, 1722. _Published at his desire, for the common good._ _N. B. About the time that this speech was written, the Town was much pestered with street-robbers; who, in a barbarous manner would seize on gentlemen, and take them into remote corners, and after they had robbed them, would leave them bound and gagged. It is remarkable, that this speech had so good an effect, that there have been very few robberies of that kind committed since._[34] NOTE. Burke spoke of Swift's tracts of a public nature, relating to Ireland, as "those in which the Dean appears in the best light, because they do honour to his heart as well as his head; furnishing some additional proofs that, though he was very free in his abuse of the inhabitants of that country, as well natives as foreigners, he had their interest sincerely at heart, and perfectly understood it." The following tract on "The Last Words and Dying Speech of Ebenezer Elliston" admirably illustrates Burke's remark.