THE

WORKS

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D. D.

DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

ARRANGED BY

THOMAS SHERIDAN, A. M.

WITH

NOTES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL.

A NEW EDITION, IN TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES.

CORRECTED AND REVISED

BY JOHN NICHOLS, F. A. S.

EDINBURGH AND PERTH.

VOLUME VI.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM DURELL AND CO.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SIXTH VOLUME.

.

43

65

84

Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty between her Majesty

and the States General. To which are added, the said Barrier Treaty, with the two separate Articles; part of the Counter-project; the Sentiments of Prince Eugene and Count Zinzendorf upon the said Treaty; and a represen

tation of the English Merchants at Bruges, À proposal for correcting, improving, and ascertaining the

English Tongue: in a Letter to the Lord Treasurer (the

Earl of Oxford], * Some Reasons to prove that no one is obliged, by his Prin

ciples as a Whig, to oppose the Queen : in a Letter to a

Whig Lord (Lord Ashburnham), * A supposed Letter from the Pretender to another Whig Lord

(Lord Wharton), * A pretended Letter of Thanks from Lord Wharton to the

Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, in the name of the Kitcat Club, * Remarks on Bishop Fleetwood's Preface, * A complete Refutation of the Falsehoods alleged against

Erasmus Lewis, Esq. * A modest Inquiry into the Reasons of the Joy expressed by

a certain Set of People, upon the Spreading of a Report of

her Majesty's Death, * The Importance of the Guardian considered, in a Second

Letter to the Bailiff of Stockbridge,
* Remarks on the Characters of the Court of Queen Anne,
The Public Spirit of the Whigs, set forth in their generous En-

couragement of the Author of the Crisis. With some Ob-
servations on the Seasonableness, Candour, Erudition, and

Style of that Treatise,
Some Free Thoughts upon the present State of Affairs,
Some Considerations upon the consequences hoped and feared

from the Death of the Queen,

87 97

101

111

131 159

181

231

257

CONTENTS

OF

THE SIXTH VOLUME.

43

65

84

Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty between her Majesty

and the States General. To which are added, the said
Barrier Treaty, with the two separate Articles; part of
the Counter-project; the Sentiments of Prince Eugene and
Count Zinzendorf upon the said Treaty; and a represen-

tation of the English Merchants at Bruges,
A proposal for correcting, improving, and ascertaining the

English Tongue: in a Letter to the Lord Treasurer (the

Earl of Oxford), * Some Reasons to prove that no one is obliged, by his Prin

ciples as a Whig, to oppose the Queen: in a Letter to a

Whig Lord (Lord Ashburnham), * A supposed Letter from the Pretender to another Whig Lord

(Lord Wharton), * A pretended Letter of Thanks from Lord Wharton to the

Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, in the name of the Kitcat Club, * Remarks on Bishop Fleetwood's Preface, * A complete Refutation of the Falsehoods alleged against

Erasmus Lewis, Esq. * A modest Inquiry into the Reasons of the Joy expressed by

a certain Set of People, upon the Spreading of a Report of

her Majesty's Death, * The Importance of the Guardian considered, in a Second

Letter to the Bailiff of Stockbridge,
* Remarks on the Characters of the Court of Queen Anne,
The Public Spirit of the Whigs, set forth in their generous En-

couragement of the Author of the Crisis. With some Ob-
servations on the Seasonableness, Candour, Erudition, and

Style of that Treatise,
Some Free Thoughts upon the present State of Affairs,
Some Considerations upon the consequences hoped and feared

from the Death of the Queen,

87 97

101

111

131 159

181 231

257