Whose master Moore preserv'd him from the halter ! For stealing cows; nor could he read the Psalter! In spite of justice, and refuse his bail!" ON DR RUNDLE, BISHOP OF DERRY. 1734-5. [See Swift's correspondence, Vol. XVIII. p. 328 and 403.] MAKE Rundle bishop; fie for shame! An Arian to usurp the name! The grandfather of Guy Moore, Esq. who procured him a pardon.-F. + Guy Moore was fairly elected member of Parliament for Clonmell; but Sir Thomas, depending upon his interest with a certain party then prevailing, and since known by the title of parson-hunters, petitioned the house against him; out of which he was turned upon pretence of bribery, which the paying of his lawful debts was then voted to be.-F. "Save a thief from the gallows, and he will cut your throat." -F. § Mr George Faulkner. Mr Sergeant Bettesworth, a member of the Irish parliament, having made a complaint to the house of commons against the "Satire on Quadrille," they voted Faulkner the printer into custody (who was confined closely in prison three days, when he was in a very bad state of health, and his life in much danger) for not discovering the author.-F. A bishop in the isle of saints! How will his brethren make complaints! Confer on him the Holy Ghost: In mother church to breed a variance, Yet, were he Heathen, Turk, or Jew, From rogues who ne'er believ'd a God? Say, how did Rundle undermine 'em? Who show'd a better jus divinum? VOL. X. 2 M From ancient canons would not vary, Our bishop's predecessor, Magus, He might have found a score of chaps, As not the handiwork of God; Dear Baldwen chaste, and witty Crosse, f That such a pair of wealthy ninnies Should slip your time of dropping guineas; * Richard Baldwin, Provost of Trinity College in 1717. He left behind him many natural children. + Rector of St Mary's, Dublin, in 1722; before which time he had been chaplain to the Smyrna Company. See the Epistolary Cosrespondence, May 26, 1720. EPIGRAM. FRIEND Rundle fell, with grievous bump, Poor rump! thou hadst been better sped, A CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION CLUB. 1736. [This poem was the last of any importance that the Dean ever. composed. While engaged in retouching it, one of his fits of giddiness and deafness returned with such intense violence, that he never recovered from the consequences. The occasion of the satire is thus stated by my learned friend Mr Berwick: "In the year 1733, a petition was presented to the House of Commons by Dr Swift, Dr Archibald Stewart, John Grattan, Daniel Jackson, &c. in behalf of the clergy of Ireland, to be heard by counsel, on a clause in the heads of a bill to encourage the linen manufacture, &c. See some reasons against the bill for settling the tithe of hemp, &c. by a modus, Vol. IX. p. 13. In the following year, 1734, an almost general resistance was made to the payment of the tithe of pasturage, called the tithe of agistment; at which period a most violent spirit prevailed, not among the peasantry, but the protestant landlords, to attack the income of the church. Unfortunately, however, for the clergy at that time, the persons principally, if not solely affected by this species of tithe, were the best able to bear it, namely, the great graziers and protestant proprietors of land, who, as they possessed considerable influence, directly or indirectly, in the House of Commons brought the question before themselves, as we may say, in that interested tribunal, on two different occasions; and, by raising false alarms, (one of which was, that the protestant interest would be impaired by it) eventually succeeded in deterring the clergy from making, and the courts of law from entertaining any demands for the tithe of pasturage, though the act of Henry VIII. for enforcing it was as clear and plain as that for corn and hay; and till the union in 1800, no legal legislative act was passed for its abolition. "The conduct of the landholders," says a spirited well-informed writer, "was then as reprehensible as that of the White Boys at a subsequent period; and it was that unjustifiable conduct which called forth Swift's indignation against the aiders and abettors of it, in the following poem."] As I stroll the city oft I Not a bow-shot from the college; Half the globe from sense and knowledge: By the prudent architect, Plac'd against the church direct, Making good my grandam's jest, "Near the church"-you know the rest. Tell us, what the pile contains? Many a head that holds no brains. *On a scrap of paper containing the memorials respecting the Dean's family, quoted in Vol. I. Appendix, No. I. there occur the following lines, apparently the rough draught of the passage in the text. "Making good that proverb odd, |