LIFE IN IRELAND 79 



few worthless individuals, whose only object is to sell 

 their paper. Ever since the Lord Mayor of Dublin 

 (Sir Shawn remarked) was deputed to London for the 

 purpose of addressing the King and Sir Billy Curtis, 

 the Irish papers have teemed with the most sanguine 

 hopes of ^^ extacies to be felt^^ d\ixix\g the King's visit. 

 One of these hireling prints said, "we look for His 

 Majesty's arrival, as the wretch who has been thirty 

 years in a dungeon looks for his liberation and a sight 

 of the blessed sun." How far His Majesty's royal phiz 

 may be like a sun, I am no judge, having never seen 

 that orb in a wig and whiskers. I have heard an 

 opposite part compared to a full moon ; as the editor of 

 the paragraph quoted is evidently " planet struck," it 

 may be he labours under hmar influence, and makes 

 one of the many kiss-my-toe fellows, w^ho would "raise 

 a mortal to the skies " (long before he wished to go 

 there) from interested motives. Twenty years after the 

 Union everything was to be in common betwixt the 

 two countries. As a proof of it, the King is making 

 himself common enough in all conscience.' 



' I hope he didn't get more than he wished (said 

 Gram), from shaking hands with all the dirty boys at 

 Howth. What do you think of that fellow's impudence 

 in asking Lord Londonderry to be after banishing the 

 window-tax ? ' 



My readers, perhaps, may like to know the thing 

 Grammachree alluded to as it really happened. Lord 

 Londonderry had not been in Dublin before since he 

 S7nuggled the Union. An impudent Pat recognized him 

 at Howth, and begged of him to remove the window- 

 tax, as a slight return for having removed Dublin's 



