_Sir Gammer Vangs_ (Vol. ii., pp. 89. 280. 396.).--I have just found
some account of this absurd story in Swift's _Correspondence_, Scott's
edition, vol. xvi. p. 306. It seems to have been printed in a pamphlet,
a copy of which was sent to the Dean by his friend Mr. Ludlow (Sept. 10,
1718), under the name of _Sir Politic Would-be_, who gives it sportively
(as I always thought it _really_ had) a political meaning, and there
seems to have been some allusion in it to the Dean himself. The pamphlet
may, perhaps, be found in some of the Irish libraries.