Drapier's Letters VI, To the Lord Chancellor Middleton
LETTER
TO THE
LORD CHANCELLOR
MIDDLETON.
MY LORD;
I Desire you will consider me as a Member who comes in at the latter End of a Debate; or as a Lawyer who speaks to a Cause, when the Matter hath been almost exhausted by those who spoke before.
I REMEMBER some Months ago I was at your House upon a Commission, where I am one of the Governors: But I went thither not so much on Account of the Commission, as to ask you some Questions concerning Mr. Wood's Patent to coin Half-pence for Ireland; where you very freely told me, in a mixt Company, how much you had been always against that wicked Project: Which raised in me an Esteem for you so far, that I went in a few Days to make you a Visit, after many Years Inter- R