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LETTER XLVII. 



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Dublin, Sept. 24-, 1813. 



OUR setting out having been delayed some 

 hours by an accident affords me an opportunity 

 of again addressing you from the metropolis. 



From every account I had heard of Dublin, 

 I was prepared to expect much inconvenience 

 from the common beggars in the streets : how 

 it has happened I cannot tell, but we certainly 

 have had but little to complain of in this re- 

 spect. Possibly these itinerants imitate their 

 superiors, and migrate during summer, or that 

 the facility of obtaining work during the time of 

 harvest, renders the precarious mode of pro- 

 curing a subsistence by begging unnecessary. 



Most of the writers on the state of Ireland 

 agree in representing the protestant inhabitants 

 as more industrious than the catholic. I admit 

 the fact, but I must deny the inferences at- 

 tempted to be drawn from it. Religious pre- 

 judices having shut the catholic out of divers 



