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LETTERS TO AND FROM

ticular aversion to. But I shall henceforth walk with servants well armed, and have ordered them to kill my killers; however I would have them be the beginners. I will do what I can with Mr. Richardson, who (money excepted) is a very honest man. How is your breathing? As to myself, my life and health are not worth a groat. How shall we get wine to your cabin? I can spare some; and am preparing diaculum to save my skin as far as Cavan; and even, to Belturbet[1]. Pray God preserve you!

I am, &c.




TO MR. BENJAMIN MOTTE, BOOKSELLER, IN LONDON.


SIR,
DUBLIN, MAY 25, 1736.


I LATELY received a long letter from Mr. Faulkner, grievously complaining upon several articles of the ill treatment he hath met with from you[2], and of the many advantageous offers he hath made you, with none of which you thought fit to comply. I am not qualified to judge in the fact, having heard but one side; only one thing I know, that the cruel oppressions of this kingdom by England are not to be born. You send what books you please hither, and the booksellers here can send nothing to you that is written here. As this is absolute oppression,

  1. Mr. Richardson's rectory.
  2. Motte filed a bill in Chancery in England, against Faulkner, for printing Swift's works, to stop the sale of them there, which made the author write this letter.
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