A dialogue between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. in the isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on that memorable day, October 9th, 1753 / By a friend to the peace and prosperity of Ireland.

Date:: 1753

Credit: A dialogue between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. in the isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on that memorable day, October 9th, 1753 / By a friend to the peace and prosperity of Ireland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ 107] ‘ring, correcting and re-correCting, and expending near 60000 /. the Work is far from being compleat- ed; nor can we yet fay we are fecure of our Canal or’ our Coal. Much has been promis’d, and yet by Mif- managements or Misfortunes,, and different Obftacles, little has been done to anfwer the Expectations that were raifed; and tho’ we were affured we fhou’d in a few Years have at:leaft 20000 Ton of Coals brought every Year to Dublin, to nee our Poors we have not yet got 500. Pay ror. I cannot account for the Difappointment, and it well deferves: the Nation’s Enquiry. If, as I heard good Judges fay, the Work could have been finifh’d in five Years Time, what have we loft, who for the laft fifteen Years, have paid fuch vaft Sums to -« Whitebaven, that we might have faved? And how -amuch better had we managed, had we laid out double - what it has coft us at the firft, and at fhort both our i Lols and ¢ our Trouble ? - SWIFT. Very true; but inftead of this, they have, with true I7i/b Policy, contrived to give large Salla- ries to fome Favourites to carry on the Work, and _ thus, in Effect, brib’d them to delay the Undertak- -ing they were hired to finifh. , Thus thefe Plotters again{t themfelves fink this noble, generous Defign, into a low, miferable Job, and inftead of affifting the Kingdom, they provide for five or. fix Families, that _live comfortably on protracting the Execution, _If the Colliery Company, whofe Intereft it is to finith the Canal, wou’d undertake the completing it, and fix the Terms with the Navigation-Board, we fhou'd foon ; {ee$