countenance with me. I am full of envy. It is too much, in so bad an age, for a person so inclined, and so able to do good, to have so great a scene of showing his inclinations and abilities.

come himself, but sent me his chariot; which has cost me two shillings to the coachman; and so I am got home; and Lord knows what is become of Patrick!" May 25.-"It was bloody hot walking to-day; and I was so lazy I dined where my new gown was, at Mrs. Vanhomrigh's, and came back like a fool, and the dean of Carlisle has sitten with me till eleven." May 28.-" I am proposing to my lord to erect a society or academy for correcting and settling our language; that we may not perpetually be changing as we do. He enters mightily into it; so does the dean of Carlisle." June 22.-" Dr. Gastrell and I dined by invitation with the dean of Carlisle." June 23.They still keep my neighbour Atterbury in suspense about the deanery of Christ Church, which has been above six months vacant; and he is heartily angry." June 26.-" This is the last night I lie at Chelsea; and I got home early, and sat two hours with the dean, and ate victuals, having had a very scurvy dinner." July 4. This day I left Chelsea for good." July 5. "I walked to Chelsea, and was there by nine this morning; and the dean of Carlisle and I crossed the water to Battersea, and went in his chariot to Greenwich, where we dined at Dr. Gastrell's, and passed the afternoon at Lewisham, at the dean of Canterbury's; and there I saw Moll Stanhope, who is grown monstrously tall, but not so handsome as formerly. It is the first little rambling journey I have had this summer about London; and they are the agreeablest pastimes one can have, in a friend's coach and good company." July 14.-" Dean Atterbury sent to me, to dine with him at Chelsea; I refused his coach, and walked; and am come back by seven." July 19."The dean of Carlisle sat with me to-day till three." Aug. 21. "I walked to-day to Chelsea, and dined with the dean of Carlisle, who is laid up with the gout. It is now fixed, that he is to be dean of Christ Church in Oxford. I was advising him to use his interest to prevent any inisunderstanding between our ministers; but he is too wise to meddle though he fears the thing and the consequences as much as I. He will get into his own quiet deanery, and leave them to themselves; and he is

If great ministers take up this exploded custom of rewarding merit, I must retire to Ireland, and wait for better times. The college and you ought to pray for another change at court, otherwise I can easily foretell that their joy and your quiet will be short. Let me advise you to place your books in moveable cases: lay in no great stock of wine, nor make any great alterations in your lodgings at Christ Church, unless you are sure they are such as your successor will approve and pay for. I am afraid the poor college little thinks of this,

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Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aureâ.”

I am going to Windsor with Mr. secretary *; and hope to wait on you either at Bridewell or Chelsea . † I am, with great respect and esteem, sir, your most obedient and most obliged humble servant, JON. SWIFT.

in the right." Aug. 28.-" To-night at six Dr. Atterbury, and Prior, and I, and Dr. Freind, met at Dr. Freind's house at Westminster, who is master of the school: there we sat till one, and were good enough company." Feb. 1, 1711-12.-" I visited the secretary and then walked to Chelsea, to dine with the dean of Christ Church, who was engaged to lord Orrery, with some other Christ Church men. He made me go with him, whether I would or no; for they have this long time admitted me a Christ Church man." March 13, 1712.-" } walked this morning to Chelsea, to see Dr. Atterbury, dean of Christ Church; I had business with him, about entering Mr. Fitzmaurice, lord Kerry's son, into his college." Feb. 24,

1712-13. N.

* Mr. St. John. See in the Journal to Stella, Sept. 1, 1711, a particular account of Swift's manner of passing that day. N. ↑ Where Dr. Atterbury resided as preacher. N.

See Mr. Lysons's Environs of London, vol. II. p. 132. N.

TO ARCHBISHOP KING.

MY LORD, WINDSOR CASTLE, OCT. 1, 1711. I HAD the honour of a long letter from your grace about a month ago, which I forebore acknowledging sooner, because I have been ever since perpetually tossed between this and London, and partly because there had nothing happened that might make a letter worthy the perusal. It is the opinion of some great persons here, that the words which the house of commons took amiss in your address, might very well bear an application that concerned only my lord Wharton. I find they are against my opinion, that a new parliament should have been called; but all agree it must now be dissolved: but, in short, we are so extremely busy here, that nothing of Ireland is talked on above a day or two; that of the city election I have oftenest heard of; and the proceeding of your court in it, it is thought, might have been wiser. I find your grace seems to be of my opinion, and so I told my lord treasurer. I think I think your Kilmainham project of an address was a very foolish one, and that for the reason of those who were against it. I hope Ireland will soon be equally convinced with us here, that, if the pretender be in any body's thoughts, it is of those they least dream, and who now are in no condition of doing mischief to any but themselves. As for your convocation, I believe every thing there will terminate in good wishes. You can do nothing now, and will not meet again these two years; and then, I suppose, only to give money, and away.

There

There should, methinks, in the interval, be some proposals considered and agreed upon by the bishops and principal men of the clergy, to have all ready against the next meeting; and even that I despair of, for a thousand reasons too tedious to mention.

My admiring at the odd proceedings of those among the bishops and clergy who are angry with me for getting their first-fruits, was but a form of speech. I cannot sincerely wonder at any proceedings in numbers of men, and especially (I must venture to say so) in Ireland. Meantime, it is a good jest to hear my lord treasurer saying often, before a deal of company, "that it was I that got the clergy of Ireland their first-fruits;" and generally with this addition, "that it was before the duke of Ormond was declared lord lieutenant." His lordship has long designed an answer to the letter he received from the bishops; he has told me ten times," he would do it to-morrow." He goes to London this day, but I continue here for a week. I shall refresh his memory, and engage my lord Harley his son to do so too.

I suppose your grace cannot but hear in general of some steps that are making toward a peace. There came out some time ago an account of Mr. Prior's journey to France, pretended to be a translation it is a pure invention, from the beginning to the end. I will let your grace into the secret of it. The clamours of a party against any peace without Spain, and railing at the ministry as if they designed to ruin us, occasioned that production, out of indignity and contempt, by way furnishing fools with something to talk of; and it has had a very great effect. Meantime, your grace

of

may

may count that a peace is going forward very fast. Mr. Prior was actually in France; and there are now two ministers from that court in London, which you may be pretty sure of, if you believe what I tell you, that I supped with them myself in the house where I am now writing, Saturday last; neither do I find it to be a very great secret; for there were two gentlemen more with us beside the inviter. However, I desire your grace to say nothing of it, because it may look like lightness in me to tell it: Mr. Prior was with us too, but what their names are I cannot tell; for I believe those they passed by when I was there are not their real ones. All matters are agreed between France and us, and very much to the advantage and honour of England; but I believe no farther steps will be taken without giving notice to the allies. I do not tell you one syllable, as coming from any great minister; and therefore I do not betray them. But, there are other ways of picking out things in a court; however, I must desire you will not discover any of these little particulars, nor cite me upon any account at all; for, great men may think I tell things from them, although I have them from other hands; in which last case only, I venture to repeat them to one I can confide in, and one at so great a distance as your grace.

I humbly thank your grace for the good opinion. you are pleased to have of me; and for your advice, which seems to be wholly grounded on it. As to the first, which relates to my fortune, I shall never be able to make myself believed how indifferent I am about it. I sometimes have the pleasure of making that of others; and I fear it is too great a pleasure

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