THE WORKS O F D. JONATHAN SWIFT, VOL. IV. CONTAINING A Collection of TRACTS, RELATING TO IRELAND; Among which are, The DRAPIER'S LETTERS TO THE People of IRELAND, Against Receiving WOOD's Half-pence; ALSO, Two Original DRAPIER'S LETTERS. Dublin printed; and Edinburgh reprinted, M, DCC, LII, T Advertisement. HE enfuing Volume containeth all fuch Writings imputed to the Author, as relate to Ireland; whereof the Principal are called The Drapier's Letters; and to these we have added two which were never printed before. They were procured from a Friend of the Author's in the original Manufcript, as we are affured, and have good Reason to believe; those who are better. Judges will foon determine, whether they are genuine or no. It is the Opinion of several wife Men, that the following Letters, and the other Writings relating to our poor Country, may be very ufeful to Pofterity, by warning them for the future to oppose the fame, or the like evil Defigns, however plaufible they may at first appear to unthinking People; or however artfully they may be reprefented (like this deAtructive Project of William Wood) by those who were to divide the Spoil with that Impoftor; or laftly, by prostitute Flatterers, who are fure to find their private Account in the Ruin of the Kingdom; which Ruin would have certainly followed, if the Author, whoever he were, had not published his Letters in the most proper Juncture, and fitted to all Sorts of Readers; whereby in two or three Months he turned the whole Nation, almoft to a Man, against that iniquitous Scheme. Perhaps the Reward which the Author met with, may appear extraordinary to those who may come after us; and we hope it will never be forgot. Upon the Publication of his fourth Letter, a Proclamation was issued out by the Lord-Lieutenant and Council, promifing 3001. as a Reward to any Person who should discover the Author of that Letter: But he was then become too popular to be betrayed; and befides, we are informed, it never lay in the Power of the Printer to dif cover |