"therefore I will not take your votes ;" and fo would put an end to the difpute.

One of his chief favourites was a scandalous clergyman, a conftant companion of his pleasures, who appeared publicly with his excellency, but never in his habit, and who was a hearer and sharer of all the lewd and blafphemous discourses of his excellency, and his cabal. His excellency prefented this worthy divine to one of the bishops, with the following recommendation:" My lord, Mis a very "honeft fellow, and hath no fault but "that he is a little too immoral." He made this man chaplain to his regiment, although he had been fo infamous that a bishop in England refused to admit him to a living he had been prefented to, until the patron forced him to it by law.

His excellency recommended the earl of Inchiquin to be one of the lords juftices in his abfence, and was much mortified when he found lieutenant general Ingoldby appointed, without any regard to his recommendation; particularly because the ufual falary of a lord juftice, in the lord lieutenant's

I

lieutenant's abfence, is 100l. per month, and he had bargained with the earl for 40%.

I will fend you, in a pacquet or two, fome particulars of his excellency's usage of the convocation, of his infamous intrigues with Mrs. Coningsby, an account. of his arbitrary proceedings about the election of a magistrate in Trim, his barbarous injuftice to dean Jephson and poor Will Crow; his deciding a cafe at hazard to get my lady twenty guineas, but in so fcandalous and unfair a manner that the arranteft sharper would be ashamed of; the common cuftom of playing on Sunday in my lady's closet; the partie quarrée between her ladyfhip and Mrs. Lloyd and two young fellows dining privately and frequently at Clontarf, where they used to go in a hackney-coach; and his excellency's making no fcruple of dining in a hedge tavern whenever he was invited; with fome other paffages which, I hope, you will put into fome method, and correct the ftyle, and publifh as fpeedily as

you can.

Note, Mr. Savage, befides the profecution about his fees, was turned out of the council,

Cc 2

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 shall publish them in a fecond part.

SOME

THF

SWEARER'S-BANK':

OR

Parliamentary Security for eftablishing a new Bank in Ireland;

Wherein the Medicinal Ufe of Oaths is confidered.

T

Written in the Year 1720.

Si Populus vult decipi, decipiatur.

O believe every thing that is faid by a certain fett of men, and to doubt of nothing they relate, though ever so improbable, is a maxim that has contributed as much, for the time, to the fupport of Irish Banks, as it ever did to the Popish Religion; and they are not only beholden to the latter for their foundation, but they have the happiness to have the fame patron-faint; for Ignorance, the reputed mother of the Devotion of the

See A Letter to the King at Arms, in vol. XVII. of this collection.

one, feems to bear the fame affectionate relation to the credit of the other.

To fubfcribe to Banks, without knowing the scheme or design of them, is not unlike to fome gentlemen's figning Addreffes without knowing the contents of them: To engage in a Bank that has neither act of parliament, charter, nor lands to fupport it, is like fending a fhip to fea without bottom; to expect a coach and fix by the former, would be as ridiculous as to hope a return by the latter.

It was well known fome time ago, that our Banks would be included in the Bubble-bill; and it was believed those chimeras would neceffarily vanish with the first Eafterly wind that fhould inform the town of the Royal Affent.

It was very mortifying to feveral gentlemen, who dreamed of nothing but easy chariots,'on the arrival of the fatal pacquet, to flip out of them into their walkingfhoes. But fhould thofe Banks, as it is vainly imagined, be fo fortunate as to obtain a charter, and purchase lands; yet, on any run on them in a time of invafion, there would be fo many ftarving pro

prietors,