NOTE. THIS pamphlet may be taken as a continuation of the preceding pamphlet, "The Conduct of the Allies." Whereas in this latter treatise Swift dealt with the objection against Continental alliances generally, in dealing with the Barrier Treaty he confines himself to it alone. Scott considers this work, even "at this distance of time, a most extraordinary production of diplomacy." Shortly after the appearance of Swift's pamphlet there was issued a work entitled: "Remarks on the Barrier Treaty, vindicated in a Letter to the Author." As writers have left the consideration of this important pamphlet severely alone, Mr. Dilke, in his "Papers of a Critic" (vol. i., Pp. 361-382), entered at length into a discussion as to its authorship. He was of opinion that Bolingbroke wrote it. He admitted that he arrived at this conclusion on insufficient evidence, but Swift presumably could not have written it, since it was not at all likely that he would have addressed a letter to himself written by himself. Mr. Dilke's arguments are too lengthy to quote here; but his conclusions are based on the style of the writing and on internal evidence. Scott takes for granted that the author was Dr. Hare. The original edition of "Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty" does not, of course, include the "Appendix to the Conduct of the Allies." This was published in the "Examiner " on January 16th, 1712-13 (see note, p. 164). The present text of this pamphlet is based on the original edition, 1712, and collated with the second edition issued in the same year. [T. S.] SOME REMARKS ΟΝ ΤΗΕ Barrier Treaty, BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE States - General. By the AUTHOR of The Conduct of the ALLIES. To which are added, The faid BARRIER-TREATY, with the Two Separate Articles; Part of the Counter-Project; The Sentiments of Prince Eugene and Count Sinzendorf, upon the faid Treaty; And a Representation of the English Merchants at Bruges. LONDON, Printed for John Morphew, near StationersHall, 1712. Price 6 d. K |