J 26 Dublin appears like a Garrison Town. 



squares and streets, and arrived before the castle 

 at the moment of relieving guard, which is here 

 done at five in the afternoon. The general re- 

 mark of foreigners " that our palaces are 

 hospitals, and our hospitals palaces," applies 

 with all its significance to Dublin Castle, the 

 architecture of which is mean ; and from every 

 thing indicated by its exterior, I should be led 

 to imagine the apartments within are by no 

 means suitable to the rank and station of a Lord 

 Lieutenant. The chapel, which is a modetn 

 building, seems to be a highly finished piece of 

 Gothic architecture. 



The unceasing display of military parade 

 gives Dublin the air of a garrison town. As 

 the means of national defence I honor the 

 profession of arms ; but when soldiers become 

 the conservators of civil authority, and the 

 executors of the law, I deplore the wretched 

 policy that renders their aid permanently re- 

 quisite; and, as a British subject, view them 

 as bayoneted constables with a constitutional 

 jealousy. 



Most ardently do I wish the civil power in 

 Ireland may be rendered competent to the 

 general administration of justice, the laws, and 

 the preservation of order ; and that our gallant 



