to my cousin, Mr. Richard Jephson, at my uncle Mr. Francis Jephson's, in Devonshire-street, near Red Lion-square,; and I have wrote to my cousin to deliver them all three to you, and I beg the favour of you to deliver the other two with my kind respects to Mr. Nickolls and Mr. Ducarel.

"Reformation and Reformers.-The worst effect of the Reformation was the rescuing of wicked men from a darkness which kept them in awe. This, as it hath proved, was holding out light to robbers and murderers. Vol. I. p. 92.

"Architecture; Lord Burlington.-Crito upon this observed, that he knew an English Nobleman, who in the prime of life professed a liberal art, and is the first man of his profession in the world. And that he was very sure he had more pleasure from the exercise of that elegant art than from any sensual enjoyment within the power of one of the largest fortunes and most bountiful spirits of Great Britain. Ib. p. 109, 110.

"Vengeance Divine, true; yet God without passions.-If God have no passions, how can it be true that vengeance is His? Or how can He be said to be jealous of His glory? Crito. We believe, that God executes vengeance without revenge, and is jealous without weakness,-just as the mind of man sees without eyes, and apprehends without hands. Ibid. p. 263.

"Faith; the principles of it, clear.-The Principles of Faith seem to me points plain and clear. It is a clear point, that this faith in Christ was spread abroad throughout the world soon after his death. It is a clear point, that this was not effected by humane learning, politics, or power. It is a clear point, that in the early times of the church there were several men of knowledge and integrity, who embraced this faith, not from any, but against all temporal motives. It is a clear point, that the nearer they were to the fountain-head, the more opportunity they had to satisfy themselves as to the truth of those facts which they believed. It is a clear point, that the less interest there was to persuade, the more need there was of evidence to convince them. It is a clear point, that they relied on the authority of those who declared themselves eyewitnesses of the Miracles and Resurrection of Christ. It is a clear point, that those professed eyewitnesses suffered much for this their attestation, and finally sealed it with their blood. It is a clear point, that these witnesses, weak and contemptible as they were, overcame the world, spread more light, preached purer morals, and did more benefit to mankind than all the philosophers and sages put together. These points appear to me clear and sure. Ib. vol. II. p. 115.

"Life of Gen. Monck, by Gamble.

"The Scots say grace before they get drunk. P. 163. "Good works and good housekeeping went away together. P.247. "Du Halde's Hist. China, vol. IV. Lond. 1636, 8vo.

"I saw a gent. riding before me on a fine horse, whilst I was mounted on an ass. Ah! said I to myself, how different is my condition from his! But, upon turning about my head, I saw a good-looking countryman driving a heavy wheel-barrow before him. O then, said I, if I am not equal to him who goes before me, at least I am superior to him who follows me. I have found that this fable hath at certain times revived my spirits. I have wrote it on a label, and set it up in my study, that I may always remember it. P. 64.

"Rice gruel, a great breakfast in China; recommended by the Chinese author of Tchang Seng, or the art of procuring health and long life. Ib. p. 67.

"Salt meats are prejudicial to the heart, sour to the stomach, bitter to the lungs, poignant to the liver, sweet to the reins. Ibid. p. 67.

"After you wake, rub your breast well with your hand. P. 75. "Avoid a blast of wind, as carefully as the point of an arrow. Chinese Prov. p. 75.

"The air is full of imperceptible eggs of various small insects which we suck into the stomach with our breath, but they cannot be hatched there for want of a fit medium; whereas the insects which lay their little eggs in the downy cups of flowers, may be drawn up by the nose with a proper heat to hatch them. P. 76. "Never drink of spring or river water on which the sun hath shone. It hath at that time pernicious qualities, and is often full of the seed of innumerable insects. P. 78.

Rinse your mouth with water or tea, lukewarm. P. 82. "Carthage and Tyre.-The Carthaginians owed to the Tyrians not only their origin, but their manners, their language, their customs, their laws, their religion, their taste for and application to commerce. They spoke the same language with the Tyrians, or rather with the Canaanites and Israelites, i. e. Hebrew, from which the Tyrian was derived. Their names had commonly some particular meaning, as,

"Hanno, gracious, bountiful.

"Dido, amiable, or well-beloved.

Sophonisba, one who keeps faithfully her husband's secrets. "Hannibal (which answers to Ananias) signifies Baal, or the Lord hath been gracious to me.

Asdrubal, the Lord will be our succour.

"Poeni (whence Punic) is the same with Phoeni, the Phoeni cians, because the Carthaginians drew their stock from the Phenic. Rollin's Antient Hist. vol. I. pp. 114, 115.

Envy.

the verse of famous poet's wit He does backbite, and spightful poyson spues From leprous mouth, on all that ever writ.

Fairy Queen, I. iv. 32.

"Medals.-All these were stamp'd, and in their metal bare The antique shapes of Kings and Cæsars strange and rare. Ibid. II. vii. 5.

"Guild Hall.

"He brought him in: the room was large and wide As it some Guild or solemn Temple were. Ib. II. vii. 43. "Time.-Great enemy to it, and all the rest

Which in the garden of Adonis springs

Is wicked Time; who with his scythe addrest,
Does mow the flow'ring herbs and goodliest things,
And all thine glory to the ground down flings,
Where they do wither and are foully marr'd.
He flies about, and, with his flaggy wings,

Beats down both leaves and buds without regard,
Ne ever Pity may relent his malice hard." Ib. III. vi. 39.
"Great enemy [to books yet not imprest,

Which not imprest are curious tenderlings.]

"Anno 1571, the troops of the famous Zingischan, Kan of the Tartars, burnt Moscow.

"There was one Ratcliff, a poor fisherman at Stanford, whom I have often heard bray like an ass, bark like a mastiff and a lap-dog, or like a dog fighting; spit and call like a cat; crow like a cock, cackle like a hen, quack like a duck, &c.; and all in so exact a manner that no man could distinguish him from the creatures themselves. I saw him many years ago stand behind the present Earl of Exeter's father, and Charles Bertie, Esq. at a cocking at St. Martin's, in Stanford, when a cock being set down on the stage, he clapped his sides (in imitation of a cock clapping his wings) and crowed so naturally thatevery body thought the second cock had been come, which was not yet brought in.

"In 1727-8, being at the Lord Chancellor King's with my uncle, Serjeant Jephson, we heard a servant in the next room acting two cats a-gibbing to his companions, so very naturally that any man would have thought there had been cats in the place. He began with a whauling, then a swearing, then a spitting, then a most outrageous outcry, &c.

"Cure of Deism, by a Country Clergyman, vol. II. (Lond. 1736, 8vo.)

"Socrates, the best Deist upon record, except Job. Vol. II. p. 84. Lawless men,

The last, worst monster of the shaggy wood.

Thomson's Liberty, II. 35. "I find it is in the finishing a book, as in concluding a Session of Parliament, one always thinks it will be very soon, and finds it very late. There are many unlooked-for incidents [in private life] to retard the clearing any public account, and so I see it is in mine. I have plagued myself, like great ministers, with undertaking too much for one man; and with a desire of doing more than was expected from me, have done less than I ought.'-Mr. Pope to the Honourable Robert Digby, May 1, 1720.

DEANE SWIFT, Esq.

A brief notice of this worthy though somewhat eccentric Gentleman, cannot be better preceded than by a letter of his near Relation, the celebrated Dean of St. Patrick's, in which he thus introduces him to his Friend Mr. Pope :

"DEAR SIR, Dublin, April 28, 1739. "The gentleman who will have the honour to deliver you this, although he be one related to me,-which is by no means any sort of recommendation, for I am utterly void of what the world calls natural affection; and with good reason, because they are a numerous race degenerating from their ancestors, who were of good esteem for their loyalty and sufferings in the rebellion against King Charles the First;-this cousin of mine, who is so desirous to wait on you, is named Deane Swift, because his greatgrandfather by the grand-mother's side was Admiral Deane, who having been one of the Regicides, had the good fortune to save his neck by dying a year or two before the Restoration.

"I have a great esteem for Mr. Deane Swift, who is much the most valuable of any of his family: he was first a student in this University, and finished his studies in Oxford, where Dr. King, Principal of St. Mary Hall, assured me, that Mr. Swift behaved himself with good reputation and credit. He hath a good taste for wit, writes agreeable and entertaining verses, and is a perfect master, equally skilled in the best Greek and Roman authors. He has a true spirit for liberty, and with all these advantages is extremely decent and modest. Mr. Swift is heir to the little paternal estate of our family at Goodrich, in Herefordshire. My grandfather was so persecuted and plundered two-andfifty times by the barbarity of Cromwell's hellish crew, of which I find an account in a book called "Mercurius Rusticus," that the poor old gentleman was forced to sell the better half of his estate to support his family. However, three of his sons had better fortune; for coming over to this kingdom, and taking to the law, they all purchased good estates, of which Mr. Deane Swift has a good share, but with some incumbrance.

'I had a mind that this young gentleman should have the honour of being known to you; which is all the favour I ask for him; and that if he stays any time longer in London than he now intends, you will permit him to wait on you sometimes. "I am, my dearest Friend,

"Your most obedient and most humble servant,
JON. SWIFT."

Mr. Swift published, in 1755, "An Essay upon the Life, Writings and Character of Dr. Jonathan Swift;" in 1765, the eighth quarto volume of the Dean's Works; and, in 1768, two volumes of his "Letters." Mr. Swift died at Worcester, July 12, 1783; he had long meditated a complete edition of his Relation's Works, and possessed many new materials for this purpose.-These materials were afterwards in like manner intended for publication by his Son, who had also several MSS. of the famous Sir Charles Wogan, of whom much is to be seen in the Dean's Writings.

Two Letters, written in 1778, on the subject of an Edition of Swift's Works, which I then had in contemplation, are here presented to the Reader :

1. DEANE SWIFT, Esq. to Mr. NICHOLS.

" SIR, April 25, 1778. "About a month ago I had the favour of a letter from you, wholly relative to the Works of Dr. Swift, which I would have acknowledged much sooner, if my time and thoughts had not been otherwise quite employed on some private affairs of the greatest importance; and, although I am now at leisure, I scarce know whether I can answer your letter so as to give you any degree of satisfaction. However, without any sort of regularity, I shall transmit to you some few thoughts as they happen to occur to my imagination. First then, for brevity's sake, you must give entire credit to every word I shall say, without expecting I shall be at the trouble to prove what I assert by argument. As for the Journal to Stella, not one line of it would ever have been printed, if it had not been for me: In short, I was the person, who about the year 1740 saved all that part of the Journal from the flames, which was published by Hawkesworth. In the next place, the first paragraph in Hawkesworth's Preface is really and truly a confounded lie; for Swift never in his days gave one line of his writings to that Dr. Lyon, who had no more capacity to judge of Swift's productions, either in prose or verse, than he had to write an Iliad. Neither had Swift any the least intention that his Letters to Stella, which now go by the title of his Journal, or perhaps any other Letters in that collection, should ever be published. And now I must tell you, that if Hawkesworth had not published that part of the Journal, I never should have published the rest of it. As for your collating printed books with manu* Of whom see hereafter, p. 387.

On this subject see hereafter, p. 399.