GE,
DUBLIN 364

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN,
SHERIFFS, AND COMMON-COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORK 366

TO THE HONOURABLE THE SOCIETY OF THE GOVERNOR AND
ASSISTANTS IN LONDON, FOR THE NEW PLANTATION IN
ULSTER 368

CERTIFICATE TO A DISCARDED SERVANT 369

AN EXHORTATION ADDRESSED TO THE SUB-DEAN AND CHAPTER
OF ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN 370

APPENDIX:

A LETTER TO THE WRITER OF THE OCCASIONAL PAPER 375

AN ACCOUNT OF THE COURT AND EMPIRE OF JAPAN 382

THE ANSWER OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PULTENEY,
ESQ., TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE 392

INDEX 401

A LETTER

TO

A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, IN IRELAND,

UPON THE CHOOSING A NEW SPEAKER THERE.

WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1708.

NOTE.

In the note prefixed to the reprint of Swift's "Letter concerning
the Sacramental Test," the circumstances under which this "Letter
to a Member of Parliament in Ireland" was written, are explained
(see vol. iv., pp. 3-4, of present edition). The Godolphin ministry
was anxious to repeal the Test Act in Ireland, as a concession to
the Presbyterians who had made themselves prominent by their
expressions of loyalty to William and the Protestant succession. In
this particular year also (1708), rumours of an invasion gave them
another opportunity to send in loyal addresses. In reality,
however, the endeavour to try the repeal in Ireland, was in the
nature of a test, and Swift ridiculed the attempt as being like to
"that of a discreet physician, who first gives a new medicine to a
dog, before he prescribes it to a human creature." It seems that
Swift had been consulted by Somers on the question of the repeal,
and had given his opinion very frankly. The letter to Archbishop
King, revealing this, contains some bitter remarks about "a certain
lawyer of Ireland." The lawyer was Speaker Brodrick, afterwards
Lord Midleton, who was enthusiastic for the repeal. The present
letter gives a very clear idea of what Swi