CONTENTS of VOL. XII. Page EMOIRS relating to that change which hap- Preface to the History of the four last Years of An Inquiry into the Behaviour of the Queen's laft Ministry, with relation to their quarrels among themselves, and the defign charged upon them of altering the fucceffion of the crown, The addrefs of the Houfe of Lords to the Queen, An anecdote relative to the peace of Utrecht, A copy of Dr. Swift's memorial to the Queen, Some confiderations upon the confequences hoped and feared from the death of the Queen, A Sermon upon the martyrdom of King Charles I. Doing Good, a Sermon, on the occafion of Wood's A propofal that all the ladies and women in Ireland bould appear conftantly in Irish manufactures, 160 The humble reprefentation of the clergy of the city of Dublin, to the Archbishop of Dublin, Refolutions when I come to be old, The history of the fecond Solomon, On the death of Mrs. Johnson, [Stella] A difcourfe to prove the antiquity of the English tongue, fhewing, from various inftances, that Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, were derived from Treatife of good manners and good breeding, A letter to the writer of the Occafional Paper, 205 215 X MEMOIRS RELATING TO That Change which happened in the Queen's Ministry, in the Year 1710. H Written in October, M.DCC.XIV. AVING continued, for near the space of four years, in a good degree of confidence. with the miniftry then in being, although not with fo much power as was believed, or at leaft given out, by my friends as well as by my enemies, especially the latter, in both houfes of parliament: And this having happened during a very bufy period of negotiations abroad, and management or intrigue at home, I thought it might probably, fome years hence, when the prefent fcene fhall have given place to many new ones that will arife, be an entertainment to thofe who will have any perfonal regard for me or my memory, to fet down fome particularities which fell under my knowledge and obfervation, while I was fuppofed, whether truly or no, to have part in the fecret of affairs. One circumftance I am a little forry for, that I was too negligent (againft what I had always refolved, and blamed others for not doing) in taking hints or journals of every thing material as it paffed, whereof I omitted inany that I cannot now re VOL. XII. A |