Traders.

{ Dublin 1 a Frenchman. 
Aldermen of { Cork 1
{ Limerick 1
Waterford 0
Drogheda 0
&c. 0

Merchants 29, viz. 10 French, of London 1, of Cork 1, of Belfast 1.

N. B. The place of abode of three of the said merchants, viz. of London, Cork and Belfast, being mentioned, the publisher desires to know where the rest may be wrote to, and whether they deal in wholesale or retail, viz.

Master dealers, &c. 59, cashiers 1, bankers 4, chemist 1, player 1, Popish vintner 1, bricklayer 1, chandler 1, doctors of physic 4, chirurgeons 2, pewterer 1, attorneys 4 (besides one esq. attorney before reckoned), Frenchmen 8, but whether pensioners, barbers, or markees, uncertain.  As to the rest of the M——­rs, the publisher of this paper, though he has used his utmost diligence, has not been able to get a satisfactory account either as to their country, trade or profession.

N. B. The total of men, women and children in Ireland, besides Frenchmen, is 2,000,000.  Total of the land of Ireland acres 16,800,000. (Vide Reasons for a Bank, &c.)

Quaere, How many of the said acres are in possession of 1 French baron, 1 French dean, 1 French curate, 1 French alderman, 10 French merchants, 8 Messieurs Frances, 1 esq. projector, 1 esq. attorney, 6 officers of the army, 8 women, 1 London merchant, 1 Cork merchant, 1 Belfast merchant, 18 merchants whose places of abode are not mentioned, 1 cashier, 4 bankers, 1 gentleman projector, 1 player, 1 chemist, 1 Popish vintner, 1 bricklayer, 1 chandler, 4 doctors of physic, 2 chirurgeons, 1 pewterer, 4 gentlemen attorneys, besides 28 gentleman dealers, yet unknown, ut supra?

Dublin:  Printed by John Harding in Molesworth’s Court, in Fishamble Street. (Reprinted from original broadside, n.d.)

[29] In the capacity of a postillion, no doubt. [T.  S.]

[30] Which means that she kept an eating-house or restaurant, and became eventually a bankrupt. [T.  S.]

[31] The livery of a footman. [T.  S.]

[32] As a constable. [T.  S.]

[33] An innkeeper. [T.  S.]

[34] This paragraph is printed as given by Faulkner in ed. 1735, vol. iv. [T.  S.]

[35] See note on Paul Lorrain, p. 34.  It was the duty of the Ordinary of a prison to compose such dying speeches. [T.  S.]

[36] His parents were Dissenters, and gave him a good education. [T.  S.]

[37] Sir Henry Craik remarks on this title:  “In modern language this might well have been entitled, ’The theories of political economy proved to have no application to Ireland.’” The word “controlled” is used in the now obsolete sense of “confuted.” [T.  S.]

[38] Sir John Browne, in his “Scheme of the Money Matters of Ireland” (Dublin, 1729), calculated that the total currency, including paper, was about L914,000, but the author of “Considerations on Seasonable Remarks” stated that the entire currency could not be more than L600,000.  Browne was no reliable authority; he is the writer to whom Swift wrote a reply.  See p. 122. [T.  S.]