130 Hospitals for the Reception of the Sick. 



for its maintenance. The representation of the 

 mortality within the walls of the institution, and 

 afterwards, displays a shocking picture of the 

 waste of human life ; pains have been taken by 

 those who are responsible to rebut the ac- 

 cusation ; and, as I speak from hearsay only, I 

 sincerely hope the account may be exag- 

 gerated. 



There are several hospitals for the reception 

 of the sick, said to be well conducted, and to 

 afford essential relief to those, otherwise in- 

 capable of obtaining medical assistance. 



The hour was so late before we concluded 

 our peregrinations in the new part of the 

 town, that we had not time to reach the city. 

 A description of the scenes of misery to be 

 met with in some part of it, exceed any 

 thing that can be imagined. Poverty, dis- 

 ease, and wretchedness, exist in every great 

 town ; but in Dublin the misery is indescrib- 

 able. An opinion, however, formed of the 

 morals of a great people, from even numer- 

 ous specimens of such vitiated conduct and 

 mendicity, would be highly erroneous. Would 

 it be just that the virtue, happiness, and mo- 

 rality of Great Britain, should be ascertained by 

 the manners of Billingsgate, St. Giles's, or 



