E S SAY S

ON

SUBJECTS

OF

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE.

Wrinted by William Folos,
NO. 38, GT. STRAND-STREET, DUBLIN.

ON

SUBJECTS

OF

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE.

BY

WILLIAM HENRY TURNER,

A.B. T.C.D. M.D.

LICENTIATE FT KING AND QUEEN'S COLLEGE OF
PHYSICIANS, AND ONE OF THE PHYSICIANS TO

THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, DUBLIN.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. DEBRETT, PICCADILLY.

1803.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

WILLIAM WICKHAM,

CHIEF SECRETARY TO HIS EXCELLENCY PHILIP, EARL
OF HARDWICKE, LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND,
MEMBER OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HON. PRIVY
COUNCIL OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND,

AND
REPRESENTATIVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE

CITY OF CASHEL.

SIR,

I SIT down to execute a task of considerable difficulty. Addresses of this kind suffer under fo peculiarly unfortunate a suspicion, that I hesitate to join the expression of individual with national sentiment, in effusions of gratitude or demonstrations of respect.

Thus precluded from speaking truth, least I should be suspected of adu

lation,

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