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OF

HISTORY, POLITICS, AND MANNERS,

IN

DUBLIN,

AND

THE NORTH OF IRELAND,

IN 1810.

BY JOHN GAMBLE, Esq.

Long from a country ever hardly used,

At random censured, wantonly abused,

Have Britons drawn their sport with no kind view,

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THENEW YORK; PUBLIC LIBRARY

54369

ASTOR, LENOX AND 1: DEN FOUNDATIONS.

1897.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS work, which is again with great deference submitted to the Public, was first published several years ago; and, I trust, in its present form, it will be found still more deserving of their attention. It is written in a similar manner to "Sketches in 1812;" and by short tale, by slight sketch, and brief dialogue, rather than by formal dissertation, it endeavours to make known a very peculiar people, and a state of society, unhappily unparalleled on the civilized earth. It has been honoured with the approbation of many distinguished individuals who have visited this country; and it has had a mark of approbation, if possible, more unequivocal still,-for it has been freely borrowed from by all descriptions of my contemporaries, speech-makers as well as writers; and that too with as little notice taken of me, as Vesputius took of Columbus.

It may be thought, that in some instances I

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