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LETTER XLIV. 



Dublin, Sept. 22, 1813. 



M.UCH as I have on many occasions lamented 

 that my time was so circumscribed, I feel the 

 mortification infinitely more in a spot where we 

 shall not be able to pass more than four days, 

 and in which, as many weeks would be requisite 

 to pay due attention to all that is worthy of ob- 

 servation. 



My first object of inquiry this morning was 

 one in which I have a personal interest. The 

 shipping and coal trade are as important to 

 Cumberland as to Dublin. The public stores 

 for coals are very incommodious, both as to their 

 approach, and being nearly without any cover- 

 ing; than which a greater mistake cannot be 

 made, as all inflammable substances suffer much 

 deterioration by exposure ; beside which these 

 stores are wholly inadequate to the supply of so 

 extensive a city as Dublin. 



The trading in coals, an article on which the 



