Who is that hell-featured brawler? Old acquaintance, are you there? * John Waller, Esq., member for the borough of Dongaile. He was grandson to Sir Hardress Waller, one of the regicide judges, and who concurred with them in passing sentence on Charles I. This Sir Hardress married the daughter and co-heir of John Dowdal of Limerick, in Ireland, by which alliance he became so connected with the country, that, after the rebellion was over, the family made it their residence. † Rev. Roger Throp, whose death was said to have been occasioned by the persecution which he suffered from Waller. His case was published by his brother, and never answered, containing such a scene of petty vexatious persecutions as is almost incredible; the cause being the refusal of Mr. Throp to compound, for a compensation totally inadequate, some of the rights of his living which affected Waller's estate. In 1739, a petition was presented to the House of Commons by his brother Robert Throp, gentleman, complaining of this persecution, and applying to parliament for redress, relative to the number of attachments granted by the King's Bench, in favour of his deceased brother, and which could not be executed against the said Waller, on account of the privilege of Parliament, &c. But this petition was rejected by the House, nem. con. The Dean seems to have employed his pen against Waller. See a letter from Mrs. Whiteway. Richard Tighe, and Richard Bettesworth, Esquires, both sufficiently commemorated elsewhere. Bettesworth is termed the player, from his pompous enunciation. The epithet, Fitzbaker, alludes to Tighe's descent from a contractor who supplied Cromwell's army with bread. He is elsewhere called Pistorides. Dear companions, hug and kiss, Lash them daily, lash them duly; Who is he? 'Tis humdrum Wynne,* "Right Honourable Owen Wynne, county of Sligo.-Owen Wynne, Esq., borough of Sligo.-John Wynne, Esq., borough of Castlebar." "Sir John Bingham, Bart., county of Mayo. His brother, Henry Bingham, sat in parliament for some time for Castlebar." John Allen represented the borough of Carysfort; Robert Allen the county of Wicklow. The former was son, and the latter brother to Joshua, the second Viscount Allen, hated and satirized by Swift, under the name of Traulus. The ancestor of the Allens, as has been elsewhere noticed, was an architect in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign; and was employed as such by many of the nobility, particularly Lord Howth. He settled in Ireland, and was afterwards consulted by Lord Stafford in some of his architectural plans. Son and brother to a queer There sit Clements, Dilks, and Harrison;* Where to find on this side Hell? Harrison, and Dilks, and Clements, Bless us! Morgan,† art thou there, man? Half convert me to a stone. There were then two Clements in Parliament, brothers, Nathaniel and Henry. The former was grandfather to the present Lord Leitrim, whose character as a patriot, a gentleman, and a scholar, ranks high in his native country.-Michael Obrien Dilks represented the borough of Castlemartye. He was barrackmaster-general; William Harrison represented the borough of Bannow. † Doctor Marcus Antony Morgan, sometimes mentioned in a friendly manner in Swift's correspondence about this period, represented the borough of Athy. He seems to have been bred to the church, yet was chairman to that committee to whom was referred the petition of the farmers, graziers, &c., against tithe agistment. On this petition the House reported, and agreed that it deserved the strongest support. At the same time, a motion was made and carried, that commencing suits on the above subject must impair the Protestant interest. Hast thou been so long at school, You will need no car'catura; All the soul in every face. * See Hogarth's Works, 4to., Vol. I. p. 93. Keeper, I must now retire, You have done what I desire: With the noise, the sight, the scent. May their god, the devil, confound them!"* ON A PRINTER'S BEING SENT TO NEWGATE. BETTER we all were in our graves, * Whilst Swift was writing these satires on the Irish Parliament, he was seized with one of those fits, the effect of which was so dreadful, that he left the poem unfinished; and, after that period, very rarely attempted a composition, either in verse or prose, that required a course of thinking, or perhaps more than one or two sittings to finish. One of these was "The Beasts' Confession." From this time his memory was perceived gradually to decline; and his melancholy increased by the strength of his imagination brooding over the unhappy scene of misery which he foresaw was his lot, when he must become, as he said, a perfect slabberer. He was often heard to offer up his prayers to Almighty God, "to take him away from this evil to come." The prospect of this calamity, which he was daily lamenting, contributed very much, as his passions were violent, to pervert his understanding, to which many other particulars seem also to have concurred.-D. S. + Mr. Faulkner, for printing the Proposal for the better Regulation of Quadrille. See Vol. VII. p. 364. |