nistry_, to intitle him
to a Church Preferment of several hundred Pounds _per Ann._ ...
notwithstanding [the objections of] a _fanatick High-Churchman_, who
weakly thought _Seriousness_ in Religion of more use to High-Church
than _Drollery_" (pp. 39-40).

[2] G. A. Aitken, _The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot_ (Oxford,
1892), pp. 123-124; and H. Teerink-Arthur H. Scouten, _A Bibliography
of the Writings of Jonathan Swift_ (Philadelphia, 1963), No. 1216,
consider it an uncomplimentary attack on Swift and his friends--but
mistakenly, I believe. Lester M. Beattie, _John Arbuthnot:
Mathematician and Satirist_ (Cambridge, Mass., 1935), p. 311,
unqualifiedly rejects Arbuthnot's authorship of this work. But a
correspondent to _Notes and Queries_, Sixth Series, VII (1883),
451-452, argues convincingly for the attribution to Arbuthnot.

[3] _Gulliver Decypher'd_ (London, 1726), pp. 29-30; reprinted in
Arbuthnot's _Miscellaneous Works_ (Glasgow, 1751), I, 100.

[4] _Gulliver Decypher'd_, pp. 26n, 35; _Misc. Works_, I, 97n, 104.

[5] _Gulliver Decypher'd_, p. 38; _Misc. Works_, I, 106.

[6] _Gulliver Decypher'd_, p. 25; _Misc. Works_, I, 97.

[7] John Oldmixon, another Whig writer, repeats some of these slanders
against Swift, even using some of the same words like "Trifling and
Grimace"--in his reactions to the Swift-Pope _Miscellanies_ and
_Gulliver's Travels_. He too finds the tales in the _Travels_
frivolous because lacking a moral and the satire a debasing of "the
Dignity of human Nature" (_The Arts of Logick and Rhetorick_ [London,
1728], pp. 416-418).

[8] John Pinkerton, _Walpoliana_ (London, n.d.), I, 126-127. For
additional typical evidences of Horace Walpole's antipathy, see his
angry assaults on Swift's insolence, arrogance, vanity, and hypocrisy
(including sexuality), in his letters to Montagu, 20 June 1766 and to
Horace Mann, 13 January 1780; and a remark in his _Anecdotes of
Painting, Works_ (London, 1798), III, 438.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

This facsimile of _A Letter from a Clergyman_ (1726) is reproduced
from a copy in the British Museum.

A
LETTER
FROM A
Clergyman to his Friend,
With an ACCOUNT of the
TRAVELS
OF
Capt. _Lemuel Gulliver_:
AND A
Character of the Author.
To which is added,
The True REASONS why a
certain DOCTOR was made
a DEAN.

_LONDON_:
Printed for _A. MOORE_ near St. _Paul's_.
MDCCXXVI. _Price 3d._

[Illustration: Deco