THE POCKET LIBRARY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Edited by GEORGE SAINTSBURY

A collection, in separate volumes, partly of extracts from long books, partly of short pieces, by the same writer, on the same subject, or of the same class.

Vol I.—Tales of Mystery.
II.—Political Verse.
III.—Defoe's Minor Novels.
IV.—Political Pamphlets.
V.—Seventeenth Century Lyrics.
VI.—Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets.

POLITICAL PAMPHLETS

Edited By

GEORGE SAINTSBURY

LONDON
PERCIVAL AND CO.
1892
CONTENTSPage
I. LETTER TO A DISSENTER. (By George Savile,
Marquess of Halifax)		[1]
II. THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS.
(By Daniel Defoe)		[23]
III. THE DRAPIER'S LETTERS. (By Jonathan Swift)
To the Tradesmen, Shop-Keepers, Farmers, and
Common-People in general, of the Kingdom
of Ireland; concerning the Brass half-pence
coined by Mr. Wood		[47]
A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer, upon
occasion of a Paragraph in his News-Paper of
August 1, 1724, relating to Mr. Wood's Half-pence		[64]
IV. SECOND LETTER ON A REGICIDE PEACE.
(By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke)		[81]
V. PETER PLYMLEY'S LETTERS. (By Sydney Smith[133]
VI. LETTER TO THE JOURNEYMEN AND LABOURERS
OF ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.
LETTER TO JACK HARROW.
(By William Cobbett)		[182]
VII. FIRST LETTER OF MALACHI MALAGROWTHER.
(By Sir Walter Scott)		[249]