0: Some interesting facts relating to Wall, who was minister
of Ferdinand the Sixth and Charles the Third, will be found in the
letters of Sir Benjamin Keene and Lord Bristol, published in Coxe's
Memoirs of Spain.]

[Footnote 141: This is Swift's language, language held not once, but
repeatedly and at long intervals. In the Letter on the Sacramental Test,
written in 1708, he says: "If we (the clergy) were under any real fear
of the Papists in this kingdom, it would be hard to think us so stupid
as not to be equally apprehensive with others, since we are likely to be
the greater and more immediate sufferers; but, on the contrary, we
look upon them to be altogether as inconsiderable as the women and
children.... The common people without leaders, without discipline, or
natural courage, being little better than hewers of wood and drawers of
water, are out of all capacity of doing any mischief, if they were ever
so well inclined." In the Drapier's Sixth Letter, written in 1724, he
says: "As to the people of this kingdom, they consist either of Irish
Papists, who are as inconsiderable, in point of power, as the women and
children, or of English Protestants." Again, in the Presbyterian's Plea
of Merit written in 1731, he says,

"The estates of Papists are very few, crumbling into small parcels, and
daily diminishing; their common people are sunk in poverty, ignorance
and cowardice, and of as little consequence as women and children. Their
nobility and gentry are at least one half ruined, banished or converted.
They all soundly feel the smart of what they suffered in the last Irish
war. Some of them are already retired into foreign countries; others, as
I am told, intend to follow them; and the rest, I believe to a man, who
still possess any lands, are absolutely resolved never to hazard them
again for the sake of establishing their superstition."

I may observe that, to the best of my belief, Swift never, in any thing
that he wrote, used the word Irishman to denote a person of Anglosaxon
race born in Ireland. He no more considered himself as an Irishman than
an Englishman born at Calcutta considers himself as a Hindoo.]

[Footnote 142: In 1749 Lucas was the idol of the democracy of his own
caste. It is curious to see what was thought of him by those who were
not of his own caste. One of the chief Pariah, Charles O'Connor, wrote
thus: "I am by no means interested, nor is any of our unfortunate
population, in this affair of