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of commons. Since Mr. Flood has been 

 iilenced with the vice-treafurerfhip of Ire- 

 land, Mr. Daly, Mr. Grattan, Sir William 

 Ofborne, and the prime ferjeant Burgh, are 

 reckoned high among the Irifh orators. I 

 heard many very eloquent fpeeches, but I 

 cannot fay they fbuck me like the exertion 

 of the abilities of Irifhmen in the Englifh 

 houfe of commons, owing perhaps to the 

 reflection both on the fpeaker and auditor, 

 that the attorney general of England, with 

 a dafh of his pen, can reverfe, alter, or en- 

 tirely do away the matured refult of all the 

 eloquence, and all the abilities of this whole 

 affembly. Before I conclude with Dublin I 

 fhall only remark, that walking in the ftreets 

 there, from the narrow nefs and populoufnefs 

 of the principal thoroughfares, as well as 

 from the dirt and wretchednefs of the ca- 

 naille, is a moft uneafy and difgufting ex- 

 ercife. 



June 24th, left Dublin and paffed through 

 the Phcenix-park, a very pleating ground, at 

 the bottom of which, to the left, the LifTey 

 forms a variety of landfcapes : this is the 

 moft beautiful environ of Dublin. Take the 

 road to Luttrell's town through a various 

 fcenery on the banks of the river. That 

 domain is a confiderable one in extent, be- 

 ing above 400 acres within the wall, Irifh 

 meafure; in the front of the houfe is a fine 

 lawn bounded by rich woods, through which 

 are many ridings, four miles in extent. From 



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