LETTERS FROM AN IRISH STUDENT IN ENGLAND TO HIS FATHER IN IRELAND. "Il y a encore de quoi glaner." VOL. I. London: Printed by W. Lewis, Paternoster-Row; FOR C. CRADOCK & W. JOY, 32, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1809. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PREFACE. THE following Letters were written, as the title-page imports, by an Irish gentleman, who lately prosecuted his legal studies in this country to qualify him for the Irish bar; and they are now published, with the consent of the Author, at the particular request of a person of distinction, nearly related to the gentleman to whom they are addressed. The reader will, doubtless, observe that the Original Letters must have undergone, for the sake of convenience and variety, some alterations in length and form. LETTERS, &c. LETTER I. THE ADIEU. Dublin, 1807. I ARRIVED in this great capital, my dear father, in perfect safety, and with my accustomed spirits; which, however, have been occasionally a little damped by reflecting upon the time that must roll away before I shall have the happiness of seeing you all again. Your parental fondness, your liberality, your admonitions, and the interesting objects that are before me, are |