you saw, (to answer your questions,) the 1, 3, 5, 7, were mine.  Of the 8th I writ only the verses, (very uncorrect, but against a fellow we all hated [Richard Tighe],) the 9th mine, the 10th only the verses, and of those not the four last slovenly lines; the 15th is a pamphlet of mine printed before, with Dr. Sheridan’s preface, merely for laziness, not to disappoint the town:  and so was the 19th, which contains only a parcel of facts relating purely to the miseries of Ireland, and wholly useless and unentertaining” (Scott’s edition, xvii. 375-6).

Of the contributions thus acknowledged, Nos. 1, 3, and 19 are reprinted here from the original edition; Nos. 5 and 7 were included by Pope in the fourth volume of “Miscellanies,” under the title “An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen”; No. 9 he entitled “An Essay on Modern Education”; No. 15 was a reprint of the pamphlet “A Short View of the State of Ireland”—­ these will be found in this edition under the above titles.  The verses in No. 8 ("Mad Mullinix and Timothy”) and in No. 10 ("Tim and the Fables”) are in Swift’s “Poems,” Aldine edition, vol. iii., pp. 132-43.

The nineteen numbers of “The Intelligencer” were collected and published in one volume, which was reprinted in London in 1729, “and sold by A. Moor in St. Paul’s Church-yard.”  Monck Mason never saw a copy of the London reprint referred to by Swift.  He had in his possession the original papers; “they are twenty in number,” he says; “the last is double.”  The second London edition, published in 12mo in 1730, as “printed for Francis Cogan, at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street,” includes No. 20, “Dean Smedley, gone to seek his Fortune,” and also a poem, “The Pheasant and the Lark.  A Fable.”  In the poem, several writers are compared to birds, Swift being the nightingale: 

  “At length the nightingale was heard,
  For voice and wisdom long revered,
  Esteemed of all the wise and good,
  The guardian genius of the wood;” etc.

The poem was written by Swift’s friend, Dr. Delany.  The title-page of this second edition ascribes the authorship, “By the Author of a Tale of a Tub.”

“The Intelligencer,” in the words of W. Monck Mason, “served as a vehicle of satire against the Dean’s political and literary enemies; of these the chief were, Richard Tighe, Sir Thomas Prendergast, and Jonathan Smedley, Dean of Clogher” ("Hist, and Antiq. of St. Patrick’s,” pp. 376-7). [T.S.]

THE INTELLIGENCER, NUMB. 1.[1]

SATURDAY, MAY 11, TO BE CONTINUED WEEKLY.

It may be said, without offence to other cities, of much greater consequence in the world, that our town of Dublin doth not want its due proportion of folly, and vice, both native and imported; and as to those imported, we have the advantage to receive them last, and consequently after our happy manner to improve, and refine upon them.