CONTENTS

A Letter to a Member of Parliament, in Ireland, upon the choosing a New Speaker there[1]
A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture[11]
An Essay on English Bubbles. By Thomas Hope, Esq.[31]
The Swearer's Bank[37]
A Letter to the King at Arms[47]
The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezer Elliston[55]
The Truth of Some Maxims in State and Government, examined with Reference to Ireland[63]
The Blunders, Deficiencies, Distresses, and Misfortunes Of Quilca[73]
A Short View of the State of Ireland[79]
The Story of the Injured Lady. Written by Herself[93]
The Answer to the Injured Lady[104]
An Answer to a Paper called "A Memorial of the Poor Inhabitants, Tradesmen, and Labourers of the Kingdom of Ireland"[107]
Answer to Several Letters from Unknown Persons[117]
An Answer to Several Letters sent me from Unknown Hands[127]
A Letter to the Archbishop of Dublin concerning the Weavers[135]
Observations occasioned by reading a Paper entitled "The Case of the Woollen Manufactures of Dublin," etc.[145]
The Present Miserable State of Ireland[151]
The Substance of what was said by the Dean of St. Patrick's
to the Lord Mayor and some of the Aldermen
when His Lordship came to Present the said Dean
with his Freedom in a Gold Box[167]
Advertisement by Dr. Swift in his Defence Against Joshua, Lord Allen[173]
A Letter on Mr. M'Culla's Project about Halfpence, and a new one Proposed[177]
A Proposal that all the Ladies and Women of Ireland
should appear constantly in Irish Manufactures[191]
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of
Poor People from being a Burthen to their Parents
or the Country, and for making them beneficial to the Public[201]
Answer to the Craftsman[217]
A Vindication of his Excellency John, Lord Carteret[225]
A Proposal for An Act of Parliament to Pay off the
Debt of the Nation without Taxing the Subject[251]
A Case submitted by Dean Swift to Mr. Lindsay,
Counsellor at Law[259]
An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions, and
Enormities in the City of Dublin[261]
A Serious and Useful Scheme to make an Hospital for Incurables[283]
The Humble Petition of the Footmen in and about the
City of Dublin[305]
Advice to the Freemen of the City of Dublin in the
Choice of a Member to represent them in Parliament[309]
Some Considerations humbly offered to the Lord
Mayor, the Court of Aldermen and Common-Council
of the City of Dublin in the Choice of a Recorder[317]
A Proposal for giving Badges to the Beggars in all the
Parishes of Dublin[321]
Considerations about Maintaining the Poor[337]
On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland[343]
Speech delivered on the Lowering of the Coin[351]
Irish Eloquence[361]
A Dialogue in Hibernian Style[362]
To the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity
College, 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.