FROM MR ADDISON. Dublin Castle, July 23, 1710. DEAR SIR, ABOUT two days ago I received the enclosed, that is sealed up, and yesterday that of my friend Steele, which requiring a speedy answer, I have sent you express. In the mean time I have let him know that you are out of town, and that he may expect your answer by the next post. I fancy he had my Lord Halifax's authority for writing. I hope this will bring you to town. For your amusement by the way, I have sent you some of this day's news: to which I must add, that Drs Bysse * and Robinson † are likely to be the Bishops of Bristol and St David's: that our politicians are startled at the breaking off the negotiations, and fall of stocks; insomuch that it is thought they will not venture at dissolving the parliament in such a crisis. I am ever, dear Sir, your's entirely, J. ADDISON. Mr Steele desires me to seal your's before I deliver it, but this you will excuse in one, who wishes you as well as he, or any body living can do. * Philip, first made Bishop of St David's, and then of Here. ford.-B. + John; he was consecrated Bishop of Bristol, November 19, 1710, and translated to the see of London in March 1713-14.-B. LETTERS, DURING LORD OXFORD'S ADMINISTRAΤΙΟΝ. : [These letters deserve to be separated from the others, as throwing light upon that important portion of our author's life, when he was so long the champion of high-church interest and tory administration. It is well worth while to compare the senti. ments which Swift's several letters express, on the one hand with the regular historical tracts which he compiled in reference to this period; and on the other, with his frank and hasty journal to Stella, in which he gave way to the unpremeditated feelings of the moment.] FROM THE IRISH BISHOPS TO THE BISHOPS OF OSSORY AND KILLALOE. OUR VERY GOOD LORDS, Dublin, Aug. 31, 1710. WHEREAS several applications have been made to her majesty about the first-fruits and twentieth parts, payable to her majesty by the clergy of this kingdom, beseeching her majesty, that she would be graciously pleased to extend her bounty to the clergy here, in such a manner as the convocation |