A LETTER From the Famous
Humphry Polesworth, Author of the 1st, 2d and 3d Part of
hn Bull
in his Senses: OR,
aw is a Bottomless-Pit the AUTHOR of the EXAMINER.
nted from a
MANUSCRIPT;
Way of Dialogue between
Nick Frog,
Frog
his Brother, and
Dick Frog
his Kinsman▪
forth
John Bull
's Capacity to carry on the
-Suit; and the Extremity
John
must be brought
before they are willing to suffer a Composition.
: Printed by
John Morphew:
And Reprinted
Dublin,
1712.
LETTER from the Famous
ir Humphry Polesworth, &c.
COusin Richard and Brother Tom, let us fall into serious Consultation: 'Tis in every one's Mouth, current
upon Change, that John Bull is resolved shame
to compound the Law-Suit, which we have
on Successfully for so many Years.
I suppose, Brother, you mean successful
the Frogs; poor John has small Reason to
of the matter.
Thou art such another Brother, there is the fellow of thee; still repining at the Prospe
of thy own Family.
I don't desire my Family should flourish
he Downfal of Honest Men, especially Friends;
John Bull, once the opulent Clothier of the
rld, sought to, and courted by all the eminent
yers of Westminster-Hall, can scarce get Mony
ee a young hearing Counsel of a Years standing:
come, and he can do nothing, unless he mort
e the small Pittance remaining to him of a very
t Estate, and you are so unconscionable to grutch
the keeping of That.
Rot your Conscience! What's Con
nce to a Tradesman? Had I stood upon Con
nce, old Lewis had still enjoy'd those glorious
nnors, and delicious Parks, which John spent his
Substance to get for me: I tell thee, Boy, Bull
be brought lower yet, even with the Ground,
fore the Frogs can hope for flourishing Days.
Well said, old Nic. I'faith; we must
hear of a Composition till the Bubble be so en
ely fleeced, that he may give us no further Jealousie of ever being able to interfere, either in
or Interest, with us.
If that be all, you may e'en ag
Morrow. Old Rowly, who has been our Spy
twenty Years, and never gave us false Intellige
says, He can't last another Term. What with
curing further time for, forfeited Bonds, and
gages; Procuration-money, paying Interest upo
terest, Fees to Serjeants, Bailiffs, and Bum-Ba
to ward off Writs, Executions, Decrees, and
wri
s, for the Debts already contracted; John
of all his great Income, has not five Shillings in
Pound left to go to Blackwell-Hall Market,
a Trade, and support his numerous Family.
So much the better: We must not
him any Stock to Trade withal. I have though
a way to beggar him quite. He is very fond
his Wife and Children; cou'd never deny them
they asked: I know that conceited
Minx
(who
lues her self upon having taken him out of my
and the whole brood of them, as well as John
self, love all
of good Chear, even to a deg
of Gluttony: They can't live without their
and Sirloins of Beef, Chines of Mutton, and
not. Now, if we could but get in with old
L
— he, with his
Ways and Means,
might procure a ge
ral Excise to be laid upon all Flesh, which w
quickly carry off the rest of John's Substance,
make the fifteen Shillings, which you say he now
Twenty. Besides, raising the price of Bullocks, wh
will make well for the Frogs, having such num
rous Herds of Cattle to drive to Market; Jo
won't think of Ruin 'till it comes upon him;
and his Family will ne'er make two Wants of
they must cramb their Guts to Day, tho' they
sure to starve to Morrow.
That's undoing many for the sake of on
Plague of your Conscience; Han't we Taxes enou
twenty Kingdoms? But you must be contri
ew, and inflicting a general Calamity, that
ay gain a particular Benefit? Hides are
already, as well as the Land on which they
What, would you out-do the French Task
? Even under his Government, the most Ty
al that we know of▪ Flesh is not Taxed, ex
g only in some few rich Cities; and, if you
you'll find, in that very Country, several things
empt from Taxing, which are subject to them
Bull's way of Trade and Living.
John must be Exhausted, that's Poz.
further Incumbrances can we lay upon him? —Let me see!—All gone but his Manour
locks-Hatch;
Why then he must and shall Mort
that.
A Mortgage won't do, Man: Here are
from those honest Fellows you formerly re
ended to be his Servants; they are diligent
for us; John Harpy, John Pettifoger, and
he Jew, they advise, That if John Bull can
ought immediately to sell his whole Patrimony
, together with the Equity of Redemption of
past Mortgages. why then, truly, he may
able to Law it on one Year longer.
Ay, marry, this is talking to the Pur
this will do, and bring John under, with
spiring Housewife Madam Bull (as she would
ave
Esq
South call her:) Ah, if his first Wife
ed! I say no more; but the Business had
over, and John a Bankrupt some Terms ago.
But if he wont sell his Patrimony, how
Suppose we play booty, and by under
consent with old Lewis's Attorney, suffer him
a Verdict this Term, we'll order the Matter
John Bull shall believe, all the Blame lies at
afe's door, Sir, Roger, and the new Attornies. If he have but as much Gall as a Pigeon,
bring him to take old Hocus again, and then,
Lads, the Day must be our own.
I hear the Composition is in such
wardness, that there will be nothing done this
The Lawyers may go whistle, or blow their
gers in the cold Hall, for any more Money the
like to get of John, unless we can puzle the
Yet I think he can scarce bring it to bear,
my consent: By Vertue of that Deed he signed
he was Drunk, I have power to Look into
Family-Affairs: I am made Executor to his last
and Testament, and Guardian to his Children must find some way to keep him under, that he
dare to take a Servant without my Recommend
.
If we could but get the Flirt his
out of the way, and that Miser Sir Roger, we
make John Drunk again; I'll raise the Devil,
throw those two Imps of his out of John's
There are was abroad, of ruining a Family Nights time; Can't a man sell his Wife and
as they do in China? We must ask Hocus.
ther it will stand good in Law? In that Cou
man may Play away himself and his Progeny
Game of Cards.
We must find some Trick to
John Bull's Posterity from giving us, the Frog
molestation in our Trade and Possessions.
way for Hocus, and Honest Counsellor Double's we wa
Advice; If we could but once John sell his whole Patrimony, when the Mon
gone,
should quickly bring his Family Contribution.
A good thought: Is there any Dif
between publick and private Power? Con
as well Enslave one Man to another, as it Subject to his Prince: If a Person makes over
, he has in himself to me by an irrevocable de
d
way more binding, that the Law can devise,
after That, as much his Sovereign, as if
born so; some such means must be thought on
bdue John. He has done as preposterous things, as wonderful too: He hath several Sons that are
Fellows, and have got strong Hands to work
, let every one of them pay two Shillings a
out of his Labour: Have they not also Eyes
Feet, and Heads? In a late Reign, all the
was taxed for their Heads; we'll have John
Family Taxed to the utmost; they shall pay every Limb: nay, if we once get the Power,
Tax them to their very Skin.
And then, Cousin Dick, you shall see
love to John himself; Out of my abundant
(and which Tom here, will scarce believe,
sees it) I mean to secure him a Conveniency
Common-side of the Queen's Bench, or the
-Prison; he shall take his Choice, and a share
Basket, which in Charitable times have been
Sixteen or Twenty Pound per Man; where
est John, thanks to the care of his true loving
, may live upon free Cost, for the rest of Life.
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