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Article ORIGINAL LETTERS RELATIVE TO IRELAND. Page 1 of 1 Article LETTER I. Page 1 of 3 →
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Original Letters Relative To Ireland.
ORIGINAL LETTERS RELATIVE TO IRELAND .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE . I SIR , . "DURING the present convulsed state of Ireland , every particular relative to that country must be interesting to your readers , the
more so when its importance to England is considered . The following letters were written by a friend of mine who made the tour of Ireland in ' the year i 795 ; and if you think them worthy of insertion , they are quite at your service . I am , Sir , your ' s , & c . March 14 . ' H . S .
Letter I.
LETTER I .
MY DEAR FRIEND , - Sliebb-an-Erin * VOU are surprized , no doubt , that instead of wafting you this on ¦*¦ the pinions of a grey goose quill , as Tom Pipes says , I don ' t prune my wing , and pay you a visit , one of these fine mornings ; for y . ; u know a great number of our countrymen imagine that the wild Irish , as they affect to call them , are all winged , and that as-1 have
been so long amongst them , I could borrow a pair till my own grew ; but I have enjoyed such an uninterrupted state of health for some time' past , that I may say with the poet : No weak , no common wing can bear , My rising body through the air . So much for wings and health . —I landed in Dublinand must do
, the custom-house officers the justice to say , that they behaved with more politeness to me than I expected . You have heard that Eblanaf is a fine city : so it is . Architecture is raising her head in almost every street ; trade , industry , & c . seem to be written on a good many . countenances . I had not much time to ramble through the outlets , but I am told they are very well worth visiting . The lower class of
citizens are just as fond of whiskey as ours are of gin . The newsmen are a perfect nuisance , and the shoe-boys are almost as bad . The latter take their stands usually on Essex-bridge , and scarce ever fail to make their remarks on the passengers : some of them are witty . About eleven or twelve o ' clock in the forenoon , it is no uncommo . n thing , especially if the day is fine , to see them stretched on the flags in the arms of sleep . An Irish poet alludes to this circumstance , in one of his City Eclogues , in which the forlorn fair addresses her faithless lover ( one of this class ) in these words :
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Original Letters Relative To Ireland.
ORIGINAL LETTERS RELATIVE TO IRELAND .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE . I SIR , . "DURING the present convulsed state of Ireland , every particular relative to that country must be interesting to your readers , the
more so when its importance to England is considered . The following letters were written by a friend of mine who made the tour of Ireland in ' the year i 795 ; and if you think them worthy of insertion , they are quite at your service . I am , Sir , your ' s , & c . March 14 . ' H . S .
Letter I.
LETTER I .
MY DEAR FRIEND , - Sliebb-an-Erin * VOU are surprized , no doubt , that instead of wafting you this on ¦*¦ the pinions of a grey goose quill , as Tom Pipes says , I don ' t prune my wing , and pay you a visit , one of these fine mornings ; for y . ; u know a great number of our countrymen imagine that the wild Irish , as they affect to call them , are all winged , and that as-1 have
been so long amongst them , I could borrow a pair till my own grew ; but I have enjoyed such an uninterrupted state of health for some time' past , that I may say with the poet : No weak , no common wing can bear , My rising body through the air . So much for wings and health . —I landed in Dublinand must do
, the custom-house officers the justice to say , that they behaved with more politeness to me than I expected . You have heard that Eblanaf is a fine city : so it is . Architecture is raising her head in almost every street ; trade , industry , & c . seem to be written on a good many . countenances . I had not much time to ramble through the outlets , but I am told they are very well worth visiting . The lower class of
citizens are just as fond of whiskey as ours are of gin . The newsmen are a perfect nuisance , and the shoe-boys are almost as bad . The latter take their stands usually on Essex-bridge , and scarce ever fail to make their remarks on the passengers : some of them are witty . About eleven or twelve o ' clock in the forenoon , it is no uncommo . n thing , especially if the day is fine , to see them stretched on the flags in the arms of sleep . An Irish poet alludes to this circumstance , in one of his City Eclogues , in which the forlorn fair addresses her faithless lover ( one of this class ) in these words :