18 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



unnecessary. I should have preferred making them a present 

 to you. 



We have just had accounts of a successful rising in Poland, 

 at which all honest hearts must rejoice. They will of course be 

 successful, and not only will "Catherine's bloody debt" be 

 repaid, but we shall quickly have a revolution in Germany, 

 and possibly in Prussia, so that we shall have a grand barrier 

 against all future attempts of the Northern Autocrat. If 

 Austria stirs a finger or moves a man from Italy, there 

 will be a new volcano there. I wonder at Spain's tardi- 

 ness. 



The great 0' still busily at work at his attempt to drive the 

 Bank of Ireland from College Green to the Pigeon House, or 

 across the Channel, or heaven knows where. Petitions are 

 flowing to him from all quarters, among which are those from 

 the chimney-sweepers and hand-chairmen. He has not yet got 

 many partisans among the aristocracy. 



To Mr. J. Fennell. 



Ballibrado, January, 1831. 

 I have been skinning and attempting to stuff a few 

 birds, but have produced nothing decent save in one instance, 

 viz., the creeper (Certhia familiaris, Linn.), which I flatter 

 myself on. I am curious to know thy success in the water 

 hen which J. F. tells me he sent thee, as I have completely 

 failed, an issue that my vanity ascribes to the badness of the 

 wire, which to be sure had its effect. Robert Ball has a method 

 of cleansing the feathers of birds, which I give you as well as I 

 can recollect it. Make up a thick paste of starch and cold 

 water, and lay it on over the affected parts, and when dry the 

 dirt will come off on the starch. 



To the Same. 



Summerville, January, 1831. 

 Fleming goes herewith, and an essay I wrote for Sowerby, 

 but had not courage to send. It will show thee my ideas 

 of arrangement in the most perfect state to which they have 

 yet arrived. Send back both in a fortnight, opportunity or 

 not, as I prefer paying carriage to not having Fleming forth - 



