by the bafeft Mifrepresentations. If this fhould have been the cafe with you; perhaps you will think it your Duty, to acquaint the World you have been deceived. If this should not have been the case; and if the Accounts, upon which you grounded, your Defamations, were conformable to the preceding narrative; I then call upon you, thus publicly, to give your reafons for cenfuring my Conduct, as fpecified in any one of the Twenty Six Articles preceding. If you neither think proper to express your Sorrow, nor to specify your particular Objections, but choose rather to treat me ftill with that fcurrilous Abufe, in which you fo fingularly excel: be fcurrilous ftill, and welcome. For I fhall glory in fuch Abuse from you, with as much fincerity, and the fame principle, as I fhall ever rejoice in the good word of men of true Probity and Honour. I defy you to fay publicly, you would not have acted the very fame part that I did. For what elfe would this be, but to proclaim yourfelf perjur'd to His Majefty and to the University? As to the former, the cafe is too plain to be enlarged upon. And as to the latter, the Statute Book* plainly pronounces all those perjured;

upon

* The clause here referred to, is concerning Magifirates, under which title muft, I apprehend, be included the Officers of the Univerfity, and the Words are thefe ; Magiftratibus denique major confcientiæ obligatio in

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cumbit :

perjured; who, when entrusted with offices in the University, negligently and filently permit a violation of the Statutes, without exerting that authority with which they are invested, for bringing Offenders to justice.

It is not, Sir, my Intention, in this place, to enter into a minute examination of your extraordinary Apology. For tho' it contains fuch a profufion of Abuse, as no other performance, I ever faw with a name to it, can equal yet that Abuse is rather against a Phantom of your own Imagination, or a Bugbear of your own dreffing up; than against any real character, which can poffibly exift at prefent. Your language however is too indelicate, and your meaning too defignedly obvious, to fuffer the most fuperficial reader to remain ignorant of the chief object of your Indignation. The honour, Sir, of being that Object, I claim to myself; and accordingly cannot omit fome ftrictures upon your Apology. INFORMER, OF INFORMERS, in an impoffible fenfe of the word, is the burden of all your Complaints. A name this, in A name this, in your opinion, big with every idea of Infamy. DELA

cumbit: quoniam ipforum fidei ftatutorum cuftodia et tutela concredita eft, fi (quod abfit) per negligentiam aut focordiam ftatuta quæcunque inufu ac defuetudine exolefcere, et tacie quafi abrogari patiantur, ipfos etiam fidei violate ac perjurii teneri decernimus. Page 202.

TORES,

TORES, HOMINUM GENUS PUBLICO EXITIO

REPERTUM, in the Motto of your title page,
you fay, declares INFORMERS, to be a RACE
of people BORN for the deftruction of MAN-
KIND. Glaring however and manifold as
the abfurdity of this tranflation is, I shall
wave all other objections against it, fave
one: and that one is, Doctor,
I do pe-

remptorily affirm, That your thus making INFORMERS, who give legal evidence in a public Court of Juftice, anfwer to the DELATORES of Tacitus and the Ancients; is chargeable upon you either as great Ignorance, or uncommon Immorality. But fuppofing (which I cannot help doing in my own mind) the latter alternative to be the lefs difagreeable to you: I will therefore kindly impute it to your want of Honefty and Candor; and leave it to those best acquainted with your life, character, and writings, to determine abfolutely. In what fenfe the title is applicable to me, the world will judge from the preceding Narrative; fo long as that remains unrefuted. On this head, I will only fuggeft to you further; That your being the loudest of all men against Informers, conveys no prefumption of your being the strictest man in the world in your conformity to all the Laws of your Country.

Of

Of the Informers you write against you fay, When they fwear, they are not believed*. Their bare words then will furely pass for nothing: How come they, pray, to deserve the elaborate animadverfions of the great KING? It is not long fince, Doctor, that one Gentleman, of your own dear St. Mary Hall, was, by his country, convicted of Treafon upon their Evidence.

"The whole charge brought against you, you say, confifts of the following particulars.

I. "It is OBJECTED to you, That, you are

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"an IRISHMAN.

or

"That twenty years ago you received, "FIFTEFN HUNDRED POUNDS "GUINEAS, as fubfcriptions for a book or books, which you have not yet publifhed: And allowing 5 per Cent for "this fum, it is now doubled, and a

"mounts in the whole to THREE THOUSAND GUINEAS; of which you have de

frauded your fubfcribers.

III. "That you write the LONDON EVEN"ING POST.

IV. "That you wrote a book in QUEEN "ANNE's reign, intitled POLITICAL "CONSIDERATIONS, publish'd in the year 1710, and dedicated to the Duke

* P. I.

" of

of BEAUFORT: In which book there "is FALSE ENGLISH.

V." That you offered yourself to fale both " in ENGLAND and IRELAND; but was not found worth the purchase.

VI." That you are the Author of a "Book publish'd last winter, called the

"DREAMER.'

And now, good Doctor, with what face and confcience can you affert things at this rate. In regard to your firft Article: Where has it ever been objected to you, that you are an Irishman? Or what national reflections has the Evening Advertiser ever been guilty of against our Sifter-kingdom? Produce your inftances, or bear to be told you cannot. The number of that News-paper referred to, moft certainly is nothing to your purpose. What then must an honeft man think, of your heart, and of your purposes, when he reads in your Apology almost three entire 4to pages of an infulting and inflammatory vindication of the Irish nation? For an inftance of national Bravery, you allege the behaviour of a body of Troops fighting against their country, in the fervice of its most inveterate Enemy: And to prove the Irish Genius in no refpect inferior to our own as to Arts and Sciences, you bring in evidence the works of Dean Swift. Your seeming able to find no other inftance in fup

port