of the bank to keep a greyhound, with a _non obstante_ to the
act of parliament, as well as they have created a bank against the votes
of the two Houses? But, however, this difficulty will soon be overcome.
I am promised _125l._ a year for subscribing _500l._; and, of this
_500l._ I am to pay in only _25l._ ready money: The governors will trust
me for the rest, and pay themselves out of the interest by _25l._ _per
cent._ So that I intend to receive only _40l._ a-year, to qualify me for
keeping my family and a greyhound, and let the remaining _85l._ go on
till it makes _500l._ then _1000l._ then _10,000l._ then _100,000l._
then a million, and so forwards. This, I think, is much better (betwixt
you and me) than keeping fairs, and buying and selling bullocks; by
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 illust