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# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Charles Ford to Jonathan Swift - 6

FROM CHARLES FORD, ESQ.
LONDON, JULY 22, 1714.
PRAY send me the other copy, and let us have the benefit of it, since you have been at the trouble of writing. Unless ——— be served against his will, it is not likely to be done at all; but I think you used to take a pleasure in good offices of that kind; and I hope you would not let the cause suffer; though I must own, in this particular, the person who has the management of it does not deserve any favour. Nothing being left for me at St. Dunstan's, I sent to B—— for an answer to my last. He says, it is not yet restored to him; as soon as it is, I shall have it. This delay begins to make me think all ministers are alike; and as soon as the captain is a colonel, he will act as his predecessors have done.
The queen goes to Windsor next Tuesday, and we expect all matters will be settled before that time. We have had a report, that my lord privy seal is to go out alone; but the learned only laugh at it. The ​captain's friends think themselves secure; and the colonel's are so much of the same opinion, that they only drink his health while he is yet alive. However it is thought he will fall easy, with a pension of four thousand pounds a year, and a dukedom. Most of the staunch tories are pleased with the alteration; and the whimsicals pretend the cause of their dispust was, because the whigs were too much favoured.
In short, we propose very happy days to ourselves, as long as this reign lasts; and if the uncertain timorous nature of —— does not disappoint us, we have a very fair prospect. The dragon and his antagonist meet every day at the cabinet. They often eat, and drink, and walk together, as if there was no sort of disagreement: and when they part, I hear they give one another such names, as nobody but ministers of state could bear, without cutting throats. The duke of Marlborough is expected here every day. Dr. Garth says, he comes only to drink the Bristol waters for a diabetes. The whigs are making great preparations to receive him. But yesterday I was offered considerable odds, that not one of those, who go out to meet him, will visit him in half a year. I durst not lay, though I can hardly think it. My lord Marr is married to lady Frances Pierrepoint; and my lord Dorchester, her father, is to be married next week to lady Bell Bentinck. Let me know if you go to Pope's, that I may endeavour to meet you there. I am, &c.
* ↑ The blank should probably be filled up with the word treasurer, or Oxford.
* ↑ Barber.
* ↑ Bolingbroke.
* ↑ Oxford.
* ↑ See before p. 352.
* ↑ Bolingbroke.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Charles Ford to Jonathan Swift - 11

FROM CHARLES FORD, ESQ.
AUG. 14, 1714.
I HOPE you did not pay the two shillings for postage. If you did, pray send me the cover that I may inquire into the meaning of it. I suppose you expect news upon Craggs's return from Hanover; but I do not hear a word more than what you have in the lords justices speech. Yesterday morning after he came, the whigs looked dejected, and our friends very much pleased; though I do not know any reason for either, unless it was expected by both sides, that he would have brought orders for alterations. It seems the dragon's entertainment was on a family account, upon the agreement between lord Harley and lord Pelham; and only those, who were concerned in their affairs, were invited. But slighter grounds would have served to raise a story at this time; and it was sufficient, that my lord Townshend and lord Cowper dined at his house. However, we look upon him as lost to our side; and he has certainly made advances of civility to the whigs, which they have returned with the utmost contempt. I am told dismal begins to declare for his old friends, and protests he was really afraid for the protestant succession, which made him act in the manner he did. The foreign peers are certainly deprived of their ​right of voting by the express words of the act of succession; and it appears it was the intention of the legislature at that time, for prince George of Denmark was excepted by name; but it is thought the lords will interpret it otherwise, when it comes to be tried. They do not lose the other privileges of peerage, and their posterity born here may sit in the house. The same clause extends to the house of commons; and no foreigner can enjoy any employment, civil or military. They may be favourable to the lords, who are all whigs; but I doubt poor Duke Disney will lose his regiment. I suppose Barber has given you an account of lord Bolingbroke's pamphlet. If you and he are not come to an éclaircissement upon it, shall I send to him for it; I long for the other. Yesterday the commons voted nemine con. to pay the Hanover troops, that deserted us in 1712. To day sir William Wyndham, Campion, and two or three more, gave some opposition to it; for which they are extremely blamed. I think they had acted right, if they had spoke against it yesterday; but it seems they were not then in the house. They had not strength enough to day to come to a division.
Once more I wish you a good journey, and a quick return; and I hope you will find things go better than you expect.
* ↑ On the back of this letter is the following note of the dean. "Memorandum, I left Ledcomb, Aug. 16, 1714, in order to Ireland."
* ↑ The earl of Nottingham.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Charles Ford to Jonathan Swift - 2

FROM CHARLES FORD.
WHAT answer shall I send? I am against any alteration; but additions, I think, ought by no means to be allowed. I wished I had called sooner at St. Dunstan's; but I did not expect it would have come out till Thursday, and therefore did not go there till yesterday. Pray let me know what you would have done. Barber was a blockhead to show it at all; but who can help that? Write an answer either for yourself or me; but I beg of you to make no condescensions.
Yesterday put an end to the session, and to your pain. We gained a glorious victory at the house of lords the day before: the attack was made immediately against Arthur Moore, who appeared at the bar, with the other commissioners of trade. The South sea company had prepared the way for a censure, by voting him guilty of a breach of trust, and incapable of serving them in any office for the future. This passed without hearing what he had to say in his defence, and had the usual fate of such unreasonable reflections. Those, who proposed the resolutions, were blamed for their violence; and the person accused, appearing to be less guilty than they made him, was thought to be more innocent than I ​doubt he is. The whigs proposed two questions in the house of lords against him, and lost both, one by twelve, and the other, I think, by eighteen votes.
Court affairs go on as they did. The cry is still on the captain's side. Is not he the person Barber means by one of the best pens in England? It is only my own conjecture, but I can think of nobody else. Have you the queen's speech, the lords address, &c. or shall I send them to you? and do you want a comment? Have Pope and Parnell been to visit you, as they intended?
I had a letter yesterday from Gay, who is at the Hague, and presents his humble service to you. He has writ to Mr. Lewis too, but his respect makes him keep greater distance with him: and I think mine is the pleasanter letter, which I am sorry for.
We were alarmed by B. two days ago: he sent Tooke word, our friend was ill in the country; which we did not know how to interpret, till he explained it. It was Mrs. M. he meant; but she is in no danger. Pray, write immediately, that there may be no farther delay to what we ought to have had a week ago.
* ↑ One of the commissioners of trade and plantations, who was accused of being bribed by the court of Spain, to favour that kingdom in the treaty of commerce made between it and England.
* ↑ Lord Bolingbroke; alluding to his difference with lord Oxford.
* ↑ John Barber.
* ↑ Mrs. Manley, the writer of the Atalantis, who lived with Mr. Barber at that time.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Charles Ford to Jonathan Swift - 12

FROM CHARLES FORD, ESQ.
IF I was to see you again, you would give twice as much as you offered six weeks ago, not to have seen me. By the same rule, you might afford something not to hear from me; but the enclosed came this morning to me, and I could not send it away, without adding a few lines in the cover. They are not to put you again into the spleen, but only to ask how you do, and how you employ yourself? Do the great designs go on at Laracor? Or have the rains put a stop to your improvements, as well as to my journey? It will cost you but a penny, and a few minutes, to answer these questions; and in return you shall know any thing you desire to know of me in my travels. I shall go on as soon as we have five or six days sunshine to dry the roads, and make the finest country in the world supportable. I am laughed at here, when I talk of travelling, and yet of waiting for fair weather; but to me the journey is the greatest part of the pleasure. And whereas my companion is continually wishing himself at Rome, I wish Rome was a thousand leagues farther, that I might have more way to pass in France and Italy.
If you will do me the favour to write to me, direct to be left with Mr. Cantillon, banker in Paris.
I am, &c.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 11/From Charles Ford to Jonathan Swift - 5

FROM CHARLES FORD, ESQ.
LONDON, JULY 20, 1714.
WHO would ever do any thing for them, when they are so negligent of their own interest? the captain must see what use it would be to him to ​have it published, and yet he has not returned it. You have another copy by you: I wish you would send it; and if you do not care it should appear in your own hand, I will get it transcribed. My secretary is a boy of ten or eleven years old, and no discovery can be made by him. I do not know what my lord Bolingbroke may do, but I dare say Barber does not suspect from whence it comes. However, I wonder he has not mentioned it to you.
I thought you had heard the historiographer's place has been disposed of this fortnight. I know no more of him who has it, than that his name is Maddocks. It would be impudence in them to send for you; but I hope you will come. A reconcilement is impossible; and I can guess no reason why matters are delayed, unless it be to gain over some lords, who stick firm to the dragon, and others that are averse to the captain. The duke of Shrewsbury declares against him in private conversation; I suppose because he is against every chief minister, for it is known he has no kindness for the colonel. Lord Anglesey rails at the chancellor, for some opinion the attorney and solicitor general have given relating to Ireland. Who can act, when they have so much caprice to deal with?
Mr. Lewis says, he will speak to Mr. Bromley for his part, and will engage it shall be paid as soon as lord Bolingbroke has given his. But it was mentioned before my lord treasurer, and he immediately took the whole upon himself. If they lived near ​one another, and a house between them was on fire, I fancy they would contend who should put it out, until the whole street were burned. Mr. Lewis goes into Wales the week after next. I shall have the whole town to myself. Now it is my own, I begin not to value it. Pope and Parnell tell me, you design them a visit. When do you go? If you are with them in the middle of a week, I should be glad to meet you there. Let me know where you are to be in Herefordshire, and I will send you some claret. It is no compliment, for I am overstocked, and it will decay before I drink it. You shall have either old or new; I have too much of both.
I paid the woman for your handkerchiefs; but should not have given her so much, if she had not assured me you had agreed with her. I think you may very well shake off the old debt, and she will have no reason to complain. So I told her; but if you would have me, I will pay her.
Pray send me the other copy, or put me in a way of recovering the former. I am, &c.
* ↑ This relates to the Free Thoughts.
* ↑ Thomas Maddocks, esq.
* ↑ Lord Bolingbroke.
* ↑ Lord Oxford.
* ↑ Of the Free Thoughts.
# The Youth's Companion/July 19, 1860/A Russian Hot-House

A Russian Hot-House.
The long winters and short summers of Russia, do not permit the cultivation of tender flowers or fruits in the open air, but the Emperor has a series of magnificent hot-houses, which remind one of a tropical climate. Bayard Taylor describes them:
“The Botanical Garden in which I spent an afternoon, contains one of the finest collections of tropical plants in Europe. Here, in latitude of 60 degrees, you may walk through an avenue of palm trees, sixty feet high, under trees, ferns and bananas, by pounds of lotus Indian lily, and banks of splendid orchards, breathing an air heavy with the richest and warmest odors. The extent of these giant hot-houses cannot be less than a mile and a half. The short summer and the long dark winter of the north, requires a peculiar course of treatment for these children of the sun. During the three warm months they are forced as much as possible, so that the growth of six months is obtained in that time, and the productive qualities of the plant are kept up to their normal standard. After this result is obtained, it thrives as steadily as in a more favorable climate. The palms in particular, are noble specimens. One of them (a phœnix, I believe,) is now in blossom, which is an unheard of event in such a latitude.”
# The Youngsters in the Butcher's Shop

Perry index 66
* "Two young Men and a Cook", in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
* "The Butcher and His Customers", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)
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# The Youth's Companion/July 19, 1860/Accident Prevented

Accident Prevented.
On Monday afternoon, during the terrible tornado which visited so large a section of country, a number of trees were blown across the rack of the Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. About the time the night train was due, an old farmer near the line of the road discovered a large tree directly across the track at a point where an accident must prove very destructive. He immediately collected wood and started bonfires in the road upon both sides of the fallen tree, and lighting torch, he proceeded in the direction of the approaching train. His two sturdy sons were first called, however, who set to work with their axes, and by the time the train arrived at the point of danger, the track had been nearly cleared, and with but few minutes delay, was enabled to proceed on its way. Such acts of disinterested good-will towards a railroad company and a load of human freight is worthy of record. We regret that we have not the names of the old farmer and his sons, to whose prompt labors so much is due from the company and the passengers.—Cincinnati Enquirer, May 26.
# The Youth's Companion/July 19, 1860

* A Little Hero
* The Baby-Carriage
* Travels by Sea and Land
* The Purple Emperor Butterfly
* The Primrose
* Saved from Drowning
* Never Waste Bread
* Order
* A Brave Boy
* How to Enjoy a Holiday
* Prayer
* Peace at the Cross
* Burden of Riches
* Be Careful to Speak the Truth
* Mr. A's Journey Through the Alphabet
* God's Messengers
* Families of Flowers
* The Rat and the Cobra
* A Russian Hot-House
* Heaven
* The Force of Example
* Paying Dearly for Bad Company
* A Sad Case of Drowning
* Gifts Returned to the Giver
* Accident Prevented
* Tale of an Elephant
* False Shame
* Blooming in the Grave
* Miscellaneous
* Advertisements
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# The Youth's Companion/July 19, 1860/A Brave Boy

A Brave Boy.
A six-story building, in which were nearly one hundred human beings, was burned down one night lately in New York. Several perished. On the sixth floor of the burning house was a family by the name of Parrott—seven persons, the father, mother, and five children. The father, who is a cripple, was away at his shop in Grand street, when the fire occurred. The eldest child, a boy of fourteen, had taken off his coat and shoes, and was studying his lessons for school when the alarm was given. Opening the door he saw that the stairs were already impassable; and, returning to the room, he opened the window and leaped to the roof of the house adjacent, a two-story building, with a sharp pitched roof. Being in his stocking-feet, and the roof wet with freezing water, he was able to retain his footing, and called to his mother to toss him the children. The next oldest girl, of ten or twelve, was let down, but came near falling between the buildings, ​there being a space of a foot or more. The boy seized her by the hair, and dragged her on to the roof by his side, and then successfully caught the younger children. The mother attempted to let down the baby in a sheet, but the baby rolled out, and fell upon the snow on the roof, whence the boy caught it up uninjured, and placed it in charge of one of the other children.
“Now, mother,” said he, “you must jump.”
The mother sprang from the window; but her weight, and having on shoes, carried her over the gutter, and she would have been dashed to pieces on the ice below, had not the heroic boy, bracing himself as he best could, caught her dress, and clung to her till she could place herself upon the roof. The whole family then made their way to the scuttle on the roof, through which they descended in safety, to be greeted by the poor father who was below, almost distracted with the fear that they were perishing in the flames.
# The Youth's Companion/July 19, 1860/A Sad Case of Drowning

A Sad Case of Drowning.
On Sunday week, a young girl, daughter of Hugh King, of Piedmont, Va., was crossing a temporary foot-way across the mouth of George’s Creek, just as it connects with the North Branch, she fell off the log and was drowned. The Piedmont Independent says:
She was in company with several ladies and gentlemen, but the water was high and the currents of the two streams so swift that rescue seemed impossible. The whole day was spent in laborious and fruitless search after the body, but it could not be found. She was an amiable and beautiful girl, about fifteen years of age. Her mother had gone to the city of Baltimore on a visit, and had left her daughter in charge of the household affairs. She was on her way to church, when the melancholy and distressing accident occurred.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Smiley, Sir John

​SMILEY, Sir John, Bart. (Unit. Kgd., 1903). Late Captain North of Ireland Imp. Yeo., Captain 6th Dragoon Gds.; contested W. Belfast as Unionist, Jan., 1906, and Dec, 1910; served in S. African ​War 1900-02; European War 1914-17; Capt. Spl. Res. 6th D.G. Eldest son of Sir Hugh Houston, 1st Bart., and Elizabeth Anne, only child of late Peter Kerr, of Gallowhill, Paisley, Renfrewshire; b. 28 Oct., 1876; s. his father, 1 Mar., 1909: m. 26 Nov., 1903, Valerie, youngest dau. of Sir Claude Champton de Crespigny, 4th Bart., and has issue three sons and one dau. Res.: Drumalis, Larne, Co. Antrim; Oakley Hall, Basingstoke. Clubs: Ulster, Royal Ulster Yacht Club (Belfast); and Naval and Military, London.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Smyly, Sir Philip Crampton

​SMYLY, Sir Philip Crampton, Knt. (1905), LL.D., Trinity College, Dublin; Chief Justice Gold Coast from 1911; called to the Bar, King's Inns, Dublin, 1888; Queen's Advocate, Sierra Leone, 1895; Attorney-General, 1896-1901; Chief Justice, Sierra Leone, 1901-11; son of late Sir Philip Crampton Smyly and Hon. Lady Smyly; b. 28 March, 1866: m. 1905, Aileen Grace, eldest dau. of Sir William Josiah Smyly, 58 Merrion Square, Dublin. Res.: Accra, Gold Coast.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Smith, Alfred John

​SMITH, Alfred John, F.R.C.S.I., M.B., M.Ch., M.A.O. (R.U.I.); late Vice-Pres., British Gynaecological Society; late President Obstetrical Section, Royal Academy of .Medicine; ex- Assistant' Master, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin; Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology, National University; Gynaecologist, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. Educ.: St. Patrick's College, Cavan; Dublin: Leipsic; Vienna. Pubns.: large contributor to various societies and journals on questions of interest to gynaecologists and laparotomists. Recns.: golf, fishing, shooting, motoring. Eldest son of late Philip Smith, J.P., of Kevit Castle, Crossdoney, Co. Cavan, and Delia Mary, dau. of Corney Banahan, or Renny, Co. Roscommon; b. 1865. Res.: 30 Merrion Square. Dublin. Clubs: Reform, London; Stephen's Green, Dublin.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Smithwick, James Joseph

​SMITHWICK, James Joseph, J.P. for Co. Kilkenny (High Sheriff 1897): b. 1870; son of John Wm. Smithwick, J.P., D.L. of Kilcreene Lodge, Kilkenny, and Nina, dau. of Jas. Devereux, of Wexford. Educ. at Beaumont; m. 1900, Gertrude, dau. of Patrick Boland, of Dublin, and has issue three sons. Res.: Kilcreene Lodge, Kilkenny.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Smith, Rev. Professor David

​SMITH, Rev. Professor David, M.A., D.D.; b. Carluke, Lanarkshire, 21 May, 1866; only surviving son of late George Smith, Glasgow and Carluke, and Jane Maria MacNaughton. Educ.: The Academy, Rothesay, Isle of Bute; The University, Glasgow: the Free Church College, Glasgow; Jeffrey Medallist, Blackstone Medallist, Sandford Greek Scholar, William Ewing Fellow at the University: grad. M.A. with 1st Honours (Classical) 1887; Stevenson Scholar (No. 1) as most distinguished entrant. Free Church College, 1887; George A. Clark Fellow and Classical Tutor in the University; travelled in Belgium, Rhineland, Holland. Ordained Free Church Minister of Tulliallan parish in 1894; translated to St. Andrew's United Free Church, Blairgowrie, in 1907, Honorary D.D. (Glas.) in 1908; Member of Blairgowrie School Board; appointed Professor of Theology in Magee College, Londonderry, in 1909; Bruce Lecturer in Glasgow U.F. College 1911: Smyth Lecturer (1911) and Carey Lecturer (1916) in Magee College; Lecturer at Southern Theological Seminary, Pittsburg, and at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, U.S.A., in 1912; appointed Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation in the Belfast College of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. 1922. Pubns.: The Days of His Flesh (translated into Japanese); The Pilgrim's Hospice; St. Matthew in Westminster N.T.; The Face of Jesus; A Legend of Bethlehem; A Legend of Jerusalem; Man's Need of God; The Epistles of St. John in Expositor's Greek Testament; Christian Counsel; The Feast of the Covenant; The Historic Jesus (translated into Japanese); Unwritten Sayings of our Lord; To the Uttermost; The Atonement in the Light of History and the Modern Spirit; The Life and Letters of St. Paul; The Heavenly Visitant and other Sermons in Verse. Correspondence Column and other regular articles in British Weekly. Recns.: tricycle, carriage, books. Res.: Holyrood, University Road, Belfast.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Smith, Frederick Paul

​SMITH, Frederick Paul, D.L., J.P.; Co. Cavan (High Sheriff 1911). Educ. at St. Patrick's College, Cavan, Catholic University, Dublin, and Vienna; late House Surgeon, National Eye an Ear Infirmary; third son of late Philip Smith, .UP., of Kevit Castle, Crossdoney, Co. Cavan, and Delia Mary (d. 1914) dau. of Corney Banahan, of Renny, Co. Roscommon; b. 1868; m. 1905, Isabella Ann, dau. of late Edward Smith. J.P., of Bellamont Forest, Cootehill, Co. Cavan, and has issue two sons and four daus. Res.: Kevit Castle, Crossdoney, Co. Cavan.