12 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



went the round of the papers lately, taken from the French 

 journals, exhorting them to stand by their country and drive 

 out the Bourbons ! Would they did so ! though after it were 

 done, new tyrants would probably spring up, The tree of 

 liberty is, I think, in a hundred cases to one, like those trees 

 which they plant in heaps of stones by the wayside at elections, 

 just intended to look green for a few days, to cast a splendour 

 round the successful candidate, and then be cast out when it 

 can be no louger of use. How you have managed to keep your 

 freedom is wonderful. I cannot conceive why it is that you 

 have no Bolivars nor Napoleons. Thou expects that Wellington 

 will now be popular in Ireland. Such is not the case. The 

 Roman Catholics do not thank him for what they have forced 

 from him, and the Protestants look upon him as a traitor ; but 

 still he holds the helm, and does not tell even his colleagues 

 how he will steer, but gives his orders and is obeyed. Nothing- 

 transpires till the proper moment. Thy description in some 

 late letters of Dr. Hosack's country-seat up the Hudson 1 have 

 made me long to luxuriate there among the mosses and lichens, if 

 but for one week, so much so, that I should even dare to cross 

 the Atlantic were I my own master, and I do not despair of 

 one day paying thee a visit by way of example. Now thou art 

 married, we have less chance of seeing thee, for 'tis no joke 

 to move a nursery, whether vegetable or animal. Thou talks 

 of good old times being gone for ever. I think with Byron, that 

 •' all times when old are good." Our fathers thought just as 

 much of their fathers' times as we think of theirs, and yet the 

 world has not grown so bad as not to be lived in. 



To Mr. J. Fennell. 



Limerick, September, 1829. 



How did the news of my intended progression through 

 foreign parts reach you ? Be that as it may, I intend leaving 

 in about a week, for Dublin, Liverpool, London, Edinburgh, and 

 Glasgow. I go with Joseph, and hope for sundry pleasures. 

 Perhaps I may see Hooker. Oh, the delight! My new ac- 

 quaintance, Bicheno, is more of a theorist than a practical 



1 Hyde Park. 



