Population of Dublin. 1 3 1 



similar resorts of the unworthy, in any of our 

 great manufacturing towns ? 



The Phoenix Park is not less a delightful out- 

 let to the inhabitants than a superb appendage 

 to the city. The plantations and embellish- 

 ments were principally executed in Lord Ches- 

 terfield's administration, whose memory is de- 

 servedly held in high estimation. Were we to 

 judge from the manner in which several Lords 

 Lieutenants of the last century have been ad* 

 dressed on their departure, we should be jus- 

 tified in believing that no people were ever so 

 fortunate in the wisdom, intelligence, patriot- 

 ism, and virtue, of their chief magistrates. A 

 collection of their farewell addresses would fur- 

 nish a lamentable specimen of the sacrifices 

 into which men may be betrayed by self-in- 

 terest. Historians in after times will find but 

 slender materials of excellence on which such 

 gross and unfounded adulation can be war- 

 ranted. 







By Dr. Whitelaw's enumeration of the in- 

 habitants in the year 1798, it appears that 

 Dublin at that time contained one hundred 

 and thirty-four thousand eight hundred and 

 forty -four souls ; but by a more recent census 

 the population amounted to one hundred 



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