ry, and knowing many places, things, people, and parties, civil and religious, of his beloved England. Upon this account he was glad I joined him. We talked generally of factions and religion, ftates, revolutions, leaders, and pieties. Sometimes we had other fubjects. Who I was he never knew: nor did I feem to know he was the Dean for a long time; not till one Sunday evening that his Verger put me into his feat at St. Patrick's prayers; without my knowing the

Doctor fat there. Then I was obliged to recognize the great man, and feemed in a very great furprize. This pretended ignorance of mine as to the perfon of the Dean, had given me an opportunity of difcourfing more freely with, and of receiving more information from the Doctor, than otherwife I could have enjoyed. The Dean was proud beyond all other mortals that I have feen, and quite another man when he was known.

This may seem strange to many, but it must be to those who are not acquainted with me. I was fo far from having a vanity to be known to Dr. Swift, or to be feen among the fortu nate at his house, (as I have heared thofe who met there called) that I am fure it would not have been in the power of any perfon or confideration to get me there. What I wanted in relation to the Dean, I had. This was enough for me. I defired no more of him.

I was enabled by the means related, to know the excellencies and the defects of his underftanding; and the picture I have drawn of his mind, you shall fee in the Appendix afore named with fome remarks on his writings, and on the cafes of Vanessa and Stella.

: Among the observations on his writings, you will find, my good reader, a full answer to his weak and defpicable fermon in defence of the Athanafian Trinity. There is like wife a conclufive addrefs to Lord Orrery, on account of his Lordfhip's recommending this fermon as a master-piece in divinity to the confideration of the chriftian world. My Lord does this in his account of Swift.

As to Mrs. Grierfon, Mr. Ballard's ac count of her in his Memoirs of fome English Ladies, lately publifhed, is not worth a rush. He knew nothing of her: And the imper fect relation he got from Mrs. Barber is next to nothing. I was intimately acquainted with Mrs. Grierfon, and have paffed a hundred afternoons with her in literary con versations in her own parlour. Therefore,

is in my power to give a very particular and exact account of this extraordinary wo man. In the Appendix you shall have it.

And whereas there are two writers now living, the reverend Mr. Allen, and the res verend author of Ophiomaches, who have done their best to defend the tritheiftic im

pietys

piety, and make the abominable invention pafs in the chriftian world for christianity, you shall have, reader, in the fame Appendix, an examination of what they have offered from scripture to fupport their wretched divinity. You fhall fee, my friend, in Christ Jefus, that every text advanced by those weak writers, are fo far from favoring their antichriftian hypothefis, that they really and truly do establish the doctrine of one God the Father, and one Mediator, against the miferable attempts of those poor gainfayers. It fhall be very plane, that the facred letters proclame the peerless Majefty of one Supreme Spirit, the most glorious of immortal Beings -Alleluiah. Sedenti in folio & Agno laus, bonos, gloria, & imperium in fempiterna fecula.

Note farther, that the whole the author has to offer to the Public, under the title of Memoirs, will be comprized in Eight Volumes in Octavo.

ROMANA

ROMANA QUÆDAM.

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S there is an account of many Roman Antiquities in the following work, (antiquities not mentioned by any writer that I have feen), I did intend to prefix to this volume an Introduction to this kind of learning, under the title of Romana Quædam, as above-mentioned; and, in a new way, treat of the Roman tranfactions in this ifland, from the expedition of Julius Cefar, before our Lord 44, to the year 446, when Britain was abandoned by the Romans.

war, etc.

In

the next place, of Roman walls, stations, roads, Roman forces, the Roman art of And lastly, of medals, infcriptions, and ftatues, in general; in order to the better understanding the particulars afterwards mentioned.

It was likewise my defign to add, in the way of notes, at the end of every emperor's reign, the progreffion of that true reli