THE

WORKS

OF

JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.

DEAN OF ST PATRICK'S, DUBLIN ;

CONTAINING

ADDITIONAL LETTERS, TRACTS, AND POEMS,

NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED;

WITH

NOTES,

AND

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

WALTER SCOTT, ESQ.

VOLUME VI.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;

WHITE, COCHRANE, AND CO. AND GALE, CURTIS, And fenner,
LONDON; AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN.

1814.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME SIXTH.

Page

Tracts Historical and Political, during the Reign of

Queen Anne,

1

An Inquiry into the Behaviour of the Queen's last Minis-

try,

Narrative of what passed at the Examination of the Mar-

quis De Guiscard at the Cockpit, March 8, 1710-11,

The Congratulatory Speech of William Bromley, Esq.

Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons, to

the Right Hon. Robert Harley, Esq. Chancellor of

his Majesty's Exchequer,

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's Answer,

The Reasons which induced her Majesty to create the

Right Honourable Robert Harley, Esq. a Peer of

Great Britain,

A Learned Comment upon Dr Hare's excellent Sermon,

A new Vindication of the Duke of Marlborough, in An-

swer to a Pamphlet lately published called Bou-

chain,

73

99

101

103

111

129

A True relation of the several Facts and Circumstances

of the intended Riot and Tumult on Queen Eliza-

beth's Birth-day,

151

The new way of Selling Places at Court,

173

*The Story of the St Albans Ghost, or the Apparition of

Mother Haggy,

187

* Character of Richard Steele, Esq.

205

History of John Bull,

233

Page

Proposals for Printing a very curious Discourse entitled the

Art of Political Lying,

4.09

The Address of the House of Lords to the Queen, April
9th 1713,

429

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,

435