APPENDIX. As the verses written upon the presentation of Swift's bust to the library of Trinity College by the Senior Sophisters, graphically allude to the Dean's noble bequest, we here insert them, the more particularly as they have not been printed in any collection of his works. The subject is thus introduced in the number of Faulkner's Dublin Journal, for March 21, 1749: "There is arrived from London a marble busto of the late Rev. Dr Swift, D. D., D. S. P. D., the workmanship of Rouvilliac; it is done with exquisite skill and delicacy, and is looked upon by persons of taste as a masterpiece. It deserves to be mentioned that the class of Senior Sophisters who, according to academical custom, formed themselves into a Senate in the year 1738, applied the money usually laid out in an entertainment to the purchase of this busto, which they have given to be placed in the College Library, among the heads of other men eminent for genius and learning: an instance of public spirit in young persons worthy of praise and imitation: For, mad and idiots,-whom alone to teach Late, very late, may Berkely grace thy side." On the back of the bust is the following inscription: "Ex Dono Quarti Classis, 1745. Procurante Digbe French.” As every circumstance connected with the history of this great man must interest the public, no apology need be offered for introducing the following hitherto unpublished letter. It relates to a "Letter to GW, Esq., concerning the present condition of the College of Dublin, and the late disturbances that have been therein!" Dublin, 1734. It is addressed to Dr. Clarke, the Vice Provost, whose relation has kindly permitted its insertion here(a): "Sr. I have reed over the discourse you sent me concerning the present condition of your College. The writer seems to be a modest man, of good understanding. I think there is a good deal in what he cautiously wishes, that what he calls the powers of Bachelors and Sophisters were restored; but I believe the disposition of the kingdom at present will not tend to give them any coercive civil power over the persons of the Scholars. Your University is now, I think, near 150 years old. But the complaint of ryots is chiefly since the reign of the present governor; how he will acquit himself I neither know nor much regard. He is charged with some personall irregularityes, but even those are light in comparison to the spirit of party, under the influence of which he is said to dispose of all employments, particularly fellowships, very often to the least deserving. There is no headship in either of the (a) Dr. Thomas Smith, the possessor of this interesting document, is one of the descendants of the Rev. Henry Clarke (or Clerk, as the name is spelled by Swift), who was elected a Fellow of the University in 1724, and afterwards appointed Vice-Provost, in 1752. There was a second letter also addressed to GW, upon the same subject as the above, in 1734. Both will be found in the library of the University, among a volume of pamphlets, P. ii. 31. The Provost alluded to by Swift was Baldwin. English universities, attended with so many advantages of dignity, profit, and power as that of your governor. But it is universally agreed by all partyes that your discipline is most infamously relaxed in every particular. I had the honour to be for some years a student at Oxford, where I took my Master's degree, and I know what your author says to be true; for the Vice-Chancellor hath more power than the Mayor, and, indeed, the University governs the city, although the latter, in my time, was often disposed to be turbulent. I mentioned to three Lord Lieutenants my wish that your Governor were otherwise provided for, and they all pretended to wish the same, but never went further, although I had pretensions to have some credit with them all. I have more than once heard, at a meeting of persons in the greatest stations here, very open complaints against the conduct of your -, although they were of those principles to which he hath entirely devoted himself. "I quarrell with your author, as I do with all your writers and many of your preachers, for their careless, incorrect, and improper style, which they contract by reading the scribblers from England, where an abominable tast is every day prevayling. It is your business, who are coming into the world, to put a stop to these corruptions; and recal that simplicity which in every thing of value ought chiefly to be followed. "These are some of my sudden thoughts, after having this minute perused the discourse you sent me. 66 вс Сли You obdient humble Deanery House, December 12, 1734. "Your writer should have sometimes styled your College a University." "To the Rev. Dr. Clerk, at his Chambers in Trinity College, Dublin." So early as 1728, "An humble Remonstrance, in the Names of the Lads in all the Schools of Ireland where Latin and Greek are taught and of the young Students now in the University of Dublin, together with a Protest of all the Senior Fellows in Trinity College, Dublin (except one), against the Provost"(a),—" was laid at the Parliament's feet, beseeching," on the part of the students, that the exorbitant power exercised by the Provost, in electing Fellows contrary to the opinion of the great majority of the Board, should be restrained by law. The cause of this remonstrance and protest was, that Provost Baldwin had" nominated Mr. John Palliseer(b) to the fellowship lately vacant in Trinity College, Dublin, in preference to Mr. Arthur Forde, and in opposition to the judgment of all the Senior Fellows then present, except Dr. Gilbert."(c) The names of the Fellows attached to this document are those of Helsham, Delany, Thompson, Clayton, and Rogers. It would appear, however, that these remonstrances were unheeded, and that the riots and disturbances alluded to in the letters to G W. in part at least, arose out of the circumstance attending Palliseer's election, and the general laxity of rules at that time in the University. In 1735 a visitation was held upon the subject, "when the Rev. Dr. Swift, D. S. P. D., was present, and spoke against some corruptions and abuses."(d) This was one of the last public acts of the Dean. It has often appeared strange to us that the house in which a man of such celebrity as Swift was born should never have been represented in any of his Lives, nor in any of the editions of his works, nor figured in any of the periodicals of this country. (a) “ Dublin, printed by S. Harding, next door to the Crown in Copper Alley, 1727-8." Pamphlet, pp. 16. We are indebted to our learned friend, P. V. Fitzpatrick, for this rare tract. (b) John Pellisier or Palliseer, was elected a Fellow, in 1727; Vice Provost, in 1745; Professor of Divinity, in 1746; and Rector of Ardstraw in 1753. See Dublin University Calendar for 1832. (c) Dr. Gilbert was Mr. Palliseer's tutor. Hoey's-Court, in which the Dean was born, is classic ground, although few of our readers are aware even of its locality. Adjoining a portion of one of the ancient city walls,-one of the few vestiges of them now remaining, and running between Castlestreet and the junction of Great and Little Ship-street, is a narrow passage, now called the Castle-steps, but in former days Cole'salley. The eastern side of this is formed by the Castle wall; and about the end of the last century a number of small open shops or stalls, chiefly occupied by buckle-makers or "cheap sellers," formed its western side. There were then no steps as at pre |