ying Post_
and _Medley_ in one paper, will not be quiet. They are always
mauling Lord Treasurer, Lord Bolingbroke, and me. We have the dog
under prosecution, but Bolingbroke is not active enough; but I hope
to swinge him. He is a Scotch rogue, one Ridpath. They get out upon
bail, and write on. We take them again, and get fresh bail; so it
goes round."--_Journal to Stella._

35 Swift was by no means inclined to forget such considerations; and
his English birth makes its mark, strikingly enough, every now and
then in his writings. Thus in a letter to Pope (SCOTT'S _Swift_,
vol. xix, p. 97), he says:--

"We have had your volume of letters.... Some of those who highly
value you, and a few who knew you personally, are grieved to find
you make no distinction between the English gentry of this kingdom,
and the savage old Irish (who are only the vulgar, and some
gentlemen who live in the Irish parts of the kingdom); but the
English colonies, who are three parts in four, are much more
civilized than many counties in England, and speak better English,
and are much better bred."

And again, in the fourth Drapier's Letter, we have the following:--

"A short paper, printed at Bristol, and reprinted here, reports Mr.
Wood to say 'that he wonders at the impudence and insolence of the
Irish, in refusing his coin.' When, by the way, it is the true
English people of Ireland who refuse it, although we take it for
granted that the Irish will do so too whenever they are
asked."--SCOTT'S _Swift_, vol. iv, p. 143.

He goes further, in a good-humoured satirical paper, _On Barbarous
Denominations in Ireland_, where (after abusing, as he was wont, the
Scotch cadence, as well as expression), he advances to the "_Irish
brogue_", and speaking of the "censure" which it brings down, says:--

"And what is yet worse, it is too well known that the bad
consequence of this opinion affects those among us who are not the
least liable to such reproaches farther than the misfortune of being
born in Ireland, although of English parents, and whose education
has been chiefly in that kingdom."--Ibid. vol. vii, p. 149.

But, indeed, if we are to make _anything_ of Race at all, we must
call that man an Englishman whose father comes from an old Yorksh