council for giving his vote in parliament in a cafe where his excellency's own friends were of the fame opinion, until they were wheedled or threatened out of it by his excellency. The particulars beforementioned I have not yet received; whenever they come, I fhall publish them in a fecond part. THE THE RESOLUTION OF THE INHABITANTS OF St. PATRICK. Bettsworth Mr. B-fw-, ferjeant at law, and member of parliament, a profeffed enemy to the clergy, having been reflected on by the dean, in a humorous poem, intituled, Brother Proteftants, &c. and thinking himself highly injured thereby, refolved to be revenged on Dr. Swift, as the author of the faid poem. With this defign he engaged his footman and two ruffians to attend him, in order to fecure the dean where-ever they met him, until he had gratified his refentment either by maiming or ftabbing him. Accordingly, he went directly to the deanry, and hearing the dean Cc 3 was was at a friend's houfe *, followed him thither, charged him with writing the faid verfes, but had not courage enough to put his bloody defign in execution. However, as he had the affurance to relate this affair to feveral noblemen and gentlemen, the inhabitants of the liberty of St. Patrick's waited upon the dean in form, and presented the following paper, figned by above thirty of them, in the name of themselves, and the reft of their neighbourhood, viz. WE the inhabitants of the liberty of the dean and chapter of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and the neighbourhood of the fame, having been informed, by univerfal report, that a certain man of this city hath openly threatened, and fworn before many hundred people, as well perfons of quality, as others, that he refolves, upon the first opportunity, by the help of feveral ruffians, to murder or maim the Rev. the dean of St. Patrick, our neighbour, benefactor, and head of the liberty of St. Patrick, upon a frivolous The Rev. Mr. John Worrall's in Big Ship-Street. unproved unproved fufpicion, of the faid dean's having written fome* lines in verse reflecting on the faid man. Therefore we, the faid inhabitants of the faid liberty, and in the neighbourhood thereof, from our great love and respect to the faid dean to whom the whole kingdom hath so many obligations, as well as we of the liberty, do unanimously declare, that we will endeavour to defend the life and limbs of the faid dean against the faid man, and all his ruffians and murderers, as far as the law will allow, if he or any of them prefume to come into the faid liberty, with any wicked malicious intent against the house or family, or perfon, or goods of the faid dean. To which we have chearfully, fincerely, and heartily fet our hands. * On the words brother proteftants and fellow chriftians. See that poem vol. VII. THE DEAN'S ANSWER. The dean being in bed, very much indifpofed, and not able to receive the faid perfons, dictated the following answer : I GENTLEMEN, Receive with great thankfulness, these many kind expreffions of your concern for my fafety, as well as your declared refolution to defend me (as far as the laws of God and man will allow) against all murderers and ruffians, who shall attempt to enter into the liberty with any bloody or wicked defigns upon my life, my limbs, my houfe, or my goods. Gentlemen, my life is in the hand of God, and whether it may be cut off by treachery or open violence, or by the common way of other men; as long as it continueth, I fhall ever bear a grateful memory for this favour you have fhewn, beyond my expectation, and almost exceeding my wishes. The |