See p. 216, 1. 1 (note). Just before, Swift has described how his protege had come back from Utrecht with the Barrier Treaty, yielded to by the Dutch. 'I long,' he says, 'to see the little brat my own creature.' But handsome as Harrison's salary was, it had not been paid, and he was deep in debt. 'There was the Queen's minister,' he says, 'trusted in affairs of the greatest importance, without a shilling in his pocket to pay a coach.' Swift had to advance him seven guineas and beg more for him from Lord Bolingbroke, but it was too late. On the 12th Feb. Swift hears he is ill, 'has a fever and inflammation on his lungs.' Two days more and his short career was ended.