Chapter XXII.
Irish Rebellion

Rebellion in Ireland in 1798 - Mr. Waddy's Castle - A priest cut in twoby the portcullis and partly eaten by Waddy - Dinner party at Lady Colclough's - Names and characters of the company, including Mr. Bagenal Harvey, Captain Keogh, &c. - Most of them executed soon after - Tour through and state of Couty Wexford, after the battles and storming of the town - Colonel Walpole killed and his regiment defeated at Gorey - Unaccountable circumstance of Captain Keogh's head no decaying.

Humorous story of Father O'Leary and a bear - Mistaken notions respecting Ireland on the Continent - Lord Ventry and his tenant: an anecdote characteristic of the Irish peasant.

Family mansion described - Library - Garden - Anecdotes of my family - State of landlord and tenant in 1760 - The gout - Ignorance of the peasantry; extraordinary anomaly in the loyalty and disloyalty of the Irish country gentlemen as to James I., Charles I., Charles II., James II., and William - Ancient toasts - My great-grandfather, Colonel John Barrington, hanged on his own gate; but saved by Edward Doran, trooper of King James - Irish customs, anecdotes, &c.

Chapter XXIII.
Wolf Tone.

Counsellor Theobald Wolf Tone - His resemblance to Mr. Croker - He is ordered to be hanged by a military court - General Craig attached in Court of Common Pleas - Tone's attempt at suicide - Cruel suggestion respecting him.

Strictures on Dr. Johnson - his biographer, Boswell - False definitions and erroneous ethics - Superstition - Supernatural appearances - Theological argument of the author in favour of his peculiar faith - Original poetry by Miss T. - The author purchases Lady Mayo's demesne, County Wicktow - Terrific and cultivated scenery contrasted - Description of the golden belt of Ireland and the beauties of the above mentioned county - Lord Rossmore - His character - Supernatural incident of a most extraordinary nature, vouched by living witnesses, and attendant on the sudden death of his lordship.

Chapter II
Elizabeth Fitzgerald

My great-aunt Elizabeth - Besieged in her castle of Moret - My uncle seizcd and hanged before the walls - Attempted abduction of Elizabeth, whose forces surprise the castle of Reuben - Severe battle.

Chapter XXIV.
Dublin Election

My contest for Dublin city - Supported by Grattan, Ponsonby, Plunkett, and Curran - Singularity of a canvass for Dublin - The election - Curious incidents - Grattan's famous philippic, never before published - Memoirs of Mr. John Giffard, called the "dog in office " - Horish the chimney-sweeper's bon-mot.

Remarks on Lady Morgan's novel of The Wild Irish Girl, &c. - Prince O'Sullivan at Killarney - Miss Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent - Memoir of Jonathan Clerk - Florence Macarthy - Comparison between Lady Morgan and Thomas Moore as writers - The author's knowledge of both - Captain Rock condemned - The Irish Melodies by Moore and Power - The harmonising of them by Sir John Stevenson injurious to the national music - Anecdote of Mr. Thomas Moore and Mrs. K---y.

Chapter III
Irish Gentry and their Retainers.

Instances of attachment formerly of the lower orders of Irish to the gentry - A field of corn of my father's reaped in one night without his knowledge - My grandfather's servants cut a man's ears off by misinterpretation - My grandfather and grandmother tried for the fact - Acquitted - The colliers of Donane - Their fidelity at my election at Ballynakill, 1790.

Mr. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's contest for County Wexford omitted by all his pseudo-biographers - Duel of Mr. Alcock and Mr. Colclough, candidates, on a question respecting Mr. Sheridan's poll - Colclough kiIled - A lamentable incident - Mr. Alcock's trial - He afterwards goes mad and dies - His sister; Miss Alcock, also dies lunatic in consequence - Marquess of Ely tried for an outrage at Wexford and fined.

Poets and Poetasters - Major Roche's extraordinary poem on the battle of Waterloo - Tears of the British Muse - French climax of love - A man's age discovered by his poetry - Evils of a motto - Amorous feelings of youth - Love verses of a boy; of a young man - Loves of the Angels - Dinner verses of an Oxonian - The Highlander, a poem - Extracts from the poetical manuscripts of Miss T---n, &c.

Chapter IV
My Education.

My godfathers - Lord Maryborough - Personal description and extraordinary character of Mr. Michael Lodge - My early education - At home - At school - My private tutor, Rev. P. Crawley, described - Defects of the university course - Lord Donoughmore's father - Anecdote of the Vice-Provost - A country sportsman's education.

Lord Clonmell, Chief Justice of the Irish Court of King's Bench - His character - Lady Tyrawly's false charge against him - Consequent duel between him and Lord Tyrawly - EcIaircissement - Lord Tyrawly and Miss Wewitzer - Lord Clonmell's hints How to rule a Wife - Subsequent conversation with his lordship at Sir John Tydd's.

The author's early visits to Crow Street Theatre - Interruption of the University men - College Parnks - Old Mr. Sheridan in Cato and in Alexander the Great - Curious scene introduced, by mistake, in the latter tragedy - Mr. Digges in the Ghost of Hamlet's father - Chorus of cocks - The author's preference of comedy to tragedy - Remarks on Mr. Kean and the London moralists - Liston in Paul Pry - Old Sparkes - The Spanish debutante - Irish Johnstone - Modern Comedy - The French stage.

Chapter V.
Irish Dissipation in 1778.

The Huntsman's cottage - Preparations for a seven days' carousal - A cock-fight - Welsh main - Harmony - A cow and a hogshead of wine consumed by the party - Comparison between former dissipation and that of the present day - A dandy at dinner in Bond Street - Captain Parsons Hoye and his nephew - Character and description of both - The nephew disinherited by his uncle for dandyism - Curious anecdote of Dr. Jenkins piercing Admiral Crosby's fist.

My first acquaintance with the Duke of Wellington and the late Marquess of Londonderry, at a dinner at my own house - Some memoirs and anecdotes of the former as a public man - My close connection with Government - Lord Clare's animosity to rue suspended - Extraordinary conference between Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Cooke, and me in August, 1798 - Singular communication - Offers made to me for succession as Solicitor-general - I decline the terms proposed - Lord Castlereagh's letter to me - Character of Mr. Pelham, now Earl of Chichester.

Public mis-statements respecting that lady - The author's long acquaintance with her - Debut of Mrs. Jordan at the Dublin Theatre as Miss Francis - Her incipient talents at that period - Favourite actresses then in possession of the stage - Theatrical jealousy - Mrs. Daly, formerly Miss Barsanti - Curious inversion of characters in the opera of The Governess resorted to by the manager to raise the wind - Lieutenant Doyne proposes for Miss Francis - His suit rejected from prudential considerations - Miss Francis departs for England - Mr. Owenson, Lady Morgan's father - Comparison between that performer and Mr. John, commonly called Irish Johnstone - Introduction of the author to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence - Reflections on the scurrilous personalities of the English press - Mrs. Jordan in the green-room and on the stage - Her remarks on the theatrical art and on her own style of acting - Her last visit to Dublin, and curious circumstances connected therewith - Mr. Dwyer, the actor, and Mr. Serjeant Gold - Mrs. Jordan in private society - Extracts from her letters - Her retirement from Bushy, and subsequent embarkation for France.

Chapter VI
My Brother's Hunting-Lodge.

Waking the piper - Curious scene at my brother's hunting-lodge - Joe Kelly's and Peter Alley's heads fastened to the wall - Operations practised in extricating them.

Quarrel between Lord Norbury and the author in the House of Commons - Curran's bon-mot- Dinner at Lord Redesdale's, who attempts being agreeable, but is annoyed by Lord Norbury, then Mr. Toler - Counsellor O'Farrell - Mr. Plunkett, present attorney-general for Ireland, and Lord Redesdale - Lord Norbury and young Burke - his lordship presides at Carlow assizes in the character of Hawthorn.

Decline of Mrs. Jordan's health - Description of her cottage and grounds at Boulogne-sur-Mer - Madame Ducamp and her servant Agnes - Their account of Mrs. Jordan's habits and manners - Removal of that lady to Versailles, and subsequently to St. Cloud - Account of her illness and last moments.

Chapter VII
Choice of Profession.

The Army-Irish Volunteers described - Their military ardour - The author inoculated therewith - He grows cooler - The Church - The Faculty - The Law - Objections to each - Colonel Barrington removes his establishment to the Irish capital - A country gentleman taking up a city residence.

Mr. Grattan in his sedan-chair - The point of honour - Mr. Egan's gift of second sight - The guillotine and executioner - Colonel Burr, Vice-President of the United States, and Mr. Randolph - Mr. Grattan in masquerade - Death of that illustrious patriot, and strictures on his interment in Westminster Abbey - Letter from the author to his son, Henry Grattan, Esq.

Diversity of the author's pursuits - Superficial acquirements contrasted with solid - Variety and change of study conducive to health - Breeding ideas - How to avoid ennui - The principles of memory and fear - The author's theory respecting the former and his motive for its introduction.

Chapter VIII
Murder of Captain O'Flaherty.

Murder of Captain O'Flaherty by Mr. Lanegan, his son's tutor, and Mrs. O'Flaherty - The latter, after betraying her accomplice, escapes - Trial of Lanegan - He is hanged and quartered at Dublin - Terrific appearance of his supposed ghost to his pupil, David Lander, and the author, at the Temple, in London - Lander nearly dies of fright - Lanegan's extraordinary escape - Not even suspected in Ireland - He gets off to France, and enters the Monastery of La Trappe - A churchyard anecdote - My own superstition nearly fatal to me.

Lord Aldborough quizzes the Lord Chancellor - Voted a libeller by the House of Peers - His spirited conduct - Sentenced to imprisonment in Newgate by the Court of King's Bench - Memoirs of Mr. Knaresborough - His extraordinary trial - Sentenced to death, but transported - Escapes from Botany Bay, returns to England, and is committed to Newgate, where he seduces Lady Aldborough's attendant - Prizes in the lottery - Miss Barton dies in misery.

Letter from the author to Mr. Burne relating to the political conduct of the former at the period of the Union - Extracts from letters written to the author by Lord Westmoreland - General reflections on the political condition of Ireland at the present time - Hint towards the revival of a curious old statute - Clerical justices - The king in Ireland - The Corporation of Dublin - The "Glorious Memory" - Catholics and Protestants - Mischievous virulence of party feeling.

Chapter IX
Adoption of the Law.

Marriage of my eldest brother - The bride'smaid, Miss D. W. - Female attractions not dependent on personal beauty - Mutual attachment - Illustration of the French phraseje ne sais quoi - Betrothal of the author, and his departure for London to study for the Bar.

Sketch of his character - Personal description - Lodgings at Carlow - Mr. Curran and Mr. Godwin - Scenes in the "Cannon" Coffee-house - Liberality of mine host - Miss H--- in heroics - Precipitate retreat - Lord Clancarty - Mr. Curran's notion of his own prowess - The disqualifications of a wig - Lord and Lady Carleton - Curran in 1812 - An attorney turned cobbler - Curran's audience of the present King of France - Strictures on his biographers.

Peace of 1814 - The Bourbons and �migr�s generally - Motives of the author in visiting the Continent - His departure from England with his family - Arrival at Havre de Grace-The Couteau d'Ingouville - Doctor Sorerie and his graduated scale - The Pavilion Poulet - Price of commodities at Havre - Rate of exchange - English assumption abroad - The author's rural retirement disturbed by Napoleon's return from Eiba - Circumstances attending the announcement of this fact at Havre - Previous demonstrations of the inhabitants of the town, and more particularly of the military quartered there - The uniform of the Old Guard - Two Russians mutilated by the mob - Retirement of Louis le D�sir� from Paris - Curious variety of feeling manifested amongst the people at Havre - Policy of the priests - Good humour of all parties - Recruiting for the emperor and the King -Consternation of the English at Havre - Meeting at the house of the consul, Mr. Stuart - A vinous harangue - Prompt embarkation of the British - Accommodations of a store-house - The Huissiers and the spring showers - Signs of the times.

Chapter X
A Dublin Boarding House.

Sketch of the company and inmates - Lord Mountmorris - Lieut. Gam Johnson, R. N. - Sir John and Lady O'Flaherty - Mrs. Wheeler - Lady and Miss Barry - Memoir and character of Miss Barry, afterwards Mrs. Baldwin - Ruinous effects of a dramatic education exemplified - Lord Mountmorris's duel with the Honourable Francis Hely Hutchinson at Donnybrook - His lordship wounded - Marquis of Ely his second.

Chapter XXXII.
The Law of Libel.

Observations on the law of libel, particularly in Ireland - Hoy's Mercury - Messrs. Van Trump and Epaphroditus Dodridge - Former leniency regarding cases of libel contrasted with recent severity - Lord Clonmell and the Irish bar - Mr. Magee, of the Dublin Evening Post -Festivities on "Fiat Hill" - Theophilus Swift and his two sons - His duel with the Duke of Richmond - The "Monster!" - Swift libels the Fellows of Dublin University - His curious trial - Contrast between the English and Irish bars - Mr. James Fitzgerald - Swift is found guilty, and sentenced to Newgate - Dr. Burrows, one of the Fellows, afterwards libels Mr. Swift, and is convicted - Both confined in the same apartment at Newgate.

A family council-Journey from Havre to Paris - Attention of the French officers to the author and his party - Peaceable condition of the intervening country - Thoughts on revolutions in general-Ireland in 1798 - Arrival in the French capital - Admirable state of the police - Henry Thevenot - Misgivings of the author - His interview with Count Bertrand - Polite conduct of the count - The Emperor's chapel - Napoleon at Mass - His deportment - Treasonable garments - Col. Gowen - Inspection after Mass - Alteration in the manner of the Emperor - Enthusiasm of the soldiers.

Chapter XI
Irish Beauties.

Strictures on change of manners - Moral influence of dress - The three beauties - Curious trial respecting Lady M--- - Termination favourable to her ladyship - Interesting and affecting incidents of that lady's life - Sir R--- M---, his character and cruelty - Lady M--- married against her will - Quits her husband - Returns - Sir R--- mistakes her for a rebel in his sleep, and nearly strangles her.

Biographical and characteristic sketch of Dean Kirwan - His extraordinary eloquence - The peculiar powers of Sheridan, Curran, and Grattan contrasted - Observations on pulpit, bar, and parliamentary oratory.

Dr. and Mrs. Marshall - Colonel Macirone, aid-de-camp to Joachim Murat whilst King of Naples - General Arthur O'Connor - Lord and Lady Kinnaird - His Lordship tinder the surveillance of the police - Suspected of espionage and arrested, but set at liberty immediately after - Messrs. Hobhouse and Bruce - Dr. Marshall's correct information as to passing events - Real character of the coterie at his house - Madame la parente du Ministre Fouch� - Misconception of the Minister's Swiss porter- Henry Thevenot.

Chapter XII
Patricians and Plebians.

The three classes of gentlemen in Ireland described - Irish poets - Mr. Thomas Punter and D. Henesey - The bard - Peculiarities of the peasants - Their ludicrous misinformation as to distances accounted for - Civility of a waiter - Their equivocation and misdirection of travellers to different places.

Reception of the late Queen Caroline, then Princess of Wales, at the drawing-room held after the "Delicate Investigation" - Her depression and subsequent levity - Queen Charlotte and the Princess compared and contrasted-Reflections on the incidents of that day and evening - The Thames on a Vauxhall night.

The peer's and deputies summoned for the 8th of June - Abduction of the regalia by the royalists - Author obtains a ticket of admission to the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies, to witness the ceremony - Grenadiers of the Old Guard - Enthusiasm of the military, and comparative quiescence of the other ranks - Entrance of Napoleon into the Chamber - Sketch of his appearance and that of Madame Mere - Administration of the oath of allegiance - The Duke of Otranto and Count Thibaudeau - The imperial speech and its ineffective delivery.

Chapter XIII
Irish Inns.

Their general character - Objections commonly made to them - Answer thereto - Sir Charles Vernon's mimicry - Moll Harding - Accident nearly of a fatal nature to the author.

Characteristic and personal sketches of three Irish barristers - Mr. William Fletcher, afterwards Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas; Mr. James Egan, afterwards Judge of Dublin County; and Mr. Bartholomew Hoare, King's Counsel - Lord Yelverton's dinner party - The author's parody - Mr. Eagan right by mistake.

Apathy of the people - Temporary building in front of the Hotel des Invalides - Pont de Jena - Policy of Napoleon regarding Fouch� - Procession to the Champ de Mars - Peculiar accoutrements of a regiment of cavalry - Reflections on some points in the history of Napoleon - His mistake in changing the Republican into a Monarchical Government - Coaches of ceremony of the French noblesse and officers of state - The Emperor's liberality to various members of his court - His personal dejection on this day - Rejoicings succeeding the Promulgation - Superiority of the French in matters of embellishment - Gratuitous distribution of provisions and wine - Politeness of the lower orders of French - Display of fireworks - Mr. Hobhouse's Second Reign of Napoleon.

Chapter XIV
Fatal Duel of my Brother.

Duel of my brother, William Barrington, with Mr. M'Kenzie - He is killed by his antagonist's second, General Gillespie - The general's character - Tried for murder - Judge Bradstreet's charge - Extraordinary incidents of the trial - The jury arranged - The High Sheriff; Mr. Lyons, challenged by mistake - His hair cut off by Henry French Barrington - Exhibited in the ball-room - The Curl Clnb formed - The Sheriff quits the country, and never returns - Gillespie goes to India - Killed there - Observations on his cenotaph in Westminster Abbey.

The hollowness of interested popularity illustrated in the example of Mr. Norcot - The dilemma of a gamester - The last resource - The "faithful" valet - Mr. Norcot turns Mahometan - His equivocal destiny.

Rejoicings on Napoleon's victory over Blucher and surprise of Lord Wellington - Bulletin issued at St. Cloud - Budget of news communicated by a French cockney - Author's alarm on account of his family - Proposes quitting Paris - Information of Henry Thevenot, confirmed at Lafitte's - Napoleon's return from Waterloo - The author's sources of intelligence - His visits to the Chamber of Deputies - Garat Minister of Justice at the period of Louis's decapitation - The Rousseau MSS. and their peculiar utility to the author - Fouch�'s treachery - Vacillating plan to inform Napoleon thereof, througli Count Thibaudeau - Observations on the vicissitudes and political extinction of Bonaparte.

Chapter XV
Entrance into Parliament.

My first entrance into the Irish House of Commons - Dinner at Sir John Parnel's - Commencement of my intimacy with public men of celebrity - Maiden speech - I attack Grattan and Curran - Suicide of Mr. Thornton - Lord De Blacquiere - His character.

Baron Monckton - Judge Boyd-Judge Henn - Legal blunder of a judge, and Curran's bon-mot thereon - Baron Power - His suicide - Crosby Morgal's spirit of emulation - Judge William Johnson - Curious anecdote between him and the author - Judge Kelly - His character and bon-mots - Lord Kilwarden - His character - Murder of him and his nephew, the Rev. Mr. Wolfe - Mr. Emmet executed - Memoir of that person - Judge Robert Johnson - Arrested in Ireland, and tried in London, for a libel written on Lord Redesdale in Ireland, and published by Cobbett - Doubts of the legality of his lordship's trial - He is found guilty.

Negotiation between the Provisional Government of Paris and the Allies -Colonel Macirone's mission - The author crosses the barrier of the French army, misses the colonel, and is detained on suspicion - Led before Marshal Davoust, Prince d'Eckmuhl, and Commander-in-Chief of the forces at Vilette - The marshal's haughty demeanour, and the imprecations of the soldiery - A friend in need; one good turn deserves another - Remarks of a French officer on the battle of Waterloo - Account of the physical and moral strength and disposition of the army at Vilette - Return of the parlementaires - Awkward mistake of one of the sentries - Liberation of the author - Marshal Davoust's expressions to the negotiators.

Chapter XVI
Singular Customs of the Irish Parliament.

Anecdote of Tottenham in his boots - Interesting trial of the Earl of Kingston for murder - Description of the forms used on that occasion.

Passion for duelling in Ireland - ancient duel before the judges and law authorities, &c., at the Castle of Dublin - List of official and judicial duellists in author's time - Family weapons described - The Fire-eaters' Society - Their chiefs - Elegant institutions of the Knights of Tara - Description of them - Their exhibitions and meetings - The rules of duelling and points of honour established by the fire-eaters, called the 36 Commandments - Singular duel between the author and Mr. Richard Daly, a remarkable duellist and fop - Daly hit - Author's second the celebrated Balloon Crosby - His singular appearance and character.

Attack on the bridge of Charenton by the Russians - Fouch�'s arrangements for the defence of Paris - Bonaparte's retirement to Malmaison - His Want of moral courage - Comparison between Napoleon and Frederick the Great - Extraordinary resolution of the Ex-Emperor to repair to London - Preparations for his undertaking the journey as secretary to Dr. Marshall - The scheme abandoned from dread of treachery on the road to the coast - Termination of the author's intercourse with Dr. Marshall and the cause thereof - Remuneration of Colonel Macirone by the arch-traitor Fouch�.

Chapter XVII
The Seven Baronets

Sir John Stuart Hamilton - Sir Richard Musgrave - Sir Edward Newnham - Sir Vesey Colclough - Sir Frederick Flood - Sir John Blacquiere - Sir Boyle Roche - His curious bulls - Their characters and personal description - Anecdotes and bon-mots - Anecdote of the Marquess of Waterford.

requency of election duels - Ludicrous affair between Frank Skelton and an exciseman - Frank shoots the exciseman and runs away - His Curious reasons-Sir J. Bourke's quadrille duel, with five hits - Mr. H. D. G---y's remarkable meeting with Counsellor O'Maher - O'Maher hit - Civil proposition of G---'s second - G---'s gallant letter to the author on his election for Maryborough - Honourable Barry Yelverton challenged by nine officers at once - His elucidation of the Fire-eaters' Resolutions - Lord Kilkenny's memorable duels and lawsuits - His lordship is shot by Mr. Ball, an attorney - The heir to his title, the Hon. Somerset Butler, challenges Counsellor Burrowes - The latter hit, but his life saved by some gingerbread nuts - Lord Kilkenny's duel with Counsellor Byrne - The counsellor wounded - Counsellor Guinness escapes a rencontre - Sketch of Counsellor M'Nally - His duel with the author - His three friends: all afterwards hanged - M'Nally wounded-Bon-mot of Mr. Harding - The affair highly beneficial to M'Nally - His character, marriage, and death - Ancient mode of fighting duels - The lists described - Duel of Colonel Barrington with Squire Gilbert on horseback - Both wounded - Gilbert's horse killed - Chivalrous conclusion.

Afternoon ramble on the Boulevard Italien - Interrupted by the report of artillery - Sang froid of the fair sex - Female soldiers - The author repairs to a point commanding the field of battle - Site of the projected palace of the king of Rome - Rapidity of the movements of the French as contrasted with those of the Prussians - Blowing up of the bridge of St. Cloud - Visit of the author to the encampment in the Champ de Mars - The wounded soldier.

Chapter XVIII
Entrance into Office.

The Author first placed in office by Lord Westmoreland - Made King's Counsel by Lord Clare - Jealousy of the Bar - Description of Kilkenny Castle - Trial of the Earl of Ormonde for outrage at Kilkenny - Acquitted - Author's conduct - Distinguished and liberal present from the Earl of Ormonde to the Author, of a god box, and his subsequent letter.

Curious fatality in the Hartpole family - Characteristic sketch of the last of the name - Description of Shrewl Castle - The chapel and cemetery - Strictures on epitaph writing - Eccentricities of the Earl of Aldborough - His lordship proposes his sister, Lady Sarah Stratford, as returning officer for the borough of Baltinglass - Consequent disturbances - The North Briton put on his mettle, but outmanoeuvred - "Lending to the Lord " - Successful conspiracy to marry Hartpole to the daughter of a village innkeeper - He is stabbed by his wife, and deserts her in consequence - He forms an attachment to Miss Maria Otway, whom he marries under the plea of his previous connection being illegal - Unfortunate nature of this union - Separation of the parties - Hartpole's voyage to Portugal, his return and death - Sundry other anecdotes of the Stratford family.

Retirement of the army of Vilette behind the Loire - Occupation of the French capital by the Allies - Thoughts on the disposition of the Bourbon Government towards Great Britain - Conduct of the Allies after their possession of Paris - Infringements of the treaty - Removal of the works of art from the Louvre - Reflections on the injurious result of that measure to the British student - Liberal motive operating on the English Administration of that period - Little interludes got up between the French King and the Allies - Louis the Eighteenth's magnanimous letters - Threatened destruction of the Pont de Jena by Marshal Blucher - Heroic resolution of His Most Christian Majesty to perish in the explosion.

Chapter XIX
Dr. Achmet Borumborad

Singular anecdotes of Dr. Achmet Borumborad - He proposes to erect baths in Dublin in the Turkish fashion - Obtains grants from Parliament for that purpose - The baths well executed-The doctor's banquet - Ludicrous anecdote of 19 Noblemen and Members of Parliament falling into his grand salt-water bath - The accident nearly causes the ruin of the doctor and his establishment - He falls in love with Miss Hartigan, and marries her-Sudden metamorphosis of the Turk into Mr. Patrick Joyce.

Chapter XLI.
Hamilton Rowan and the Bar.

Sketch of the character of Mr. Hamilton Rowan - His Quixotic spirit of philanthropy - Case of Mary Neil taken up by Mr. Rowan - Dinner-club among the briefless barristers of Dublin-Apparition of Mr. Hamilton Rowan and his dog - More frightened than hurt - An unanswerable query - Mr. Rowan's subsequent adventures - The Rev. Mr. Jackson - He is brought up to receive sentence for high-treason, and expires in Court.

The Catacombs of Paris - Ineffective nature of the written description of these as compared with the reality - Author's descent into them - His speedy return - Contrast presented by the cemetery of Pere la Chaise - Tomb of Abelard and Heloise - An English capitalist's notions of sentiment.

Chapter XX
Aldermen of Skinner's Alley.

The institution of Orangemen - United Irishmen - Protestant ascendancy - Dr. Duigenan - Origin, progress, and customs of the Aldermen of Skinners' Alley described - Their revels - Orange toast, never before published - The Aldermen throw Mr. M'Mahon, an apothecary, out of a window for striking the bust of King William - New association - Anecdotes Of Sir John Bourke and Sir Francis Gould - The Pope's bull of Absolution to Sir Francis Gould - Its delivery suspended till he had taken away his land-lady's daughter - His death.

Chapter XLII.
Self-Decapitation

An Irish peasant cutting his own head off by mistake - His reputed ghost - Natural deaths of the Irish peasantry - Reflections on the Excise Laws.

Chapter LXIV.
Pedigree Hunting

The author's efforts to discover the source of his name and family - The Irish herald-at-arms - Reference made by him to the English professor - Heraldic speculation - Ascent of the author's pedigree to the reign of William the Conqueror - Consultation with the Norman herald suggested - Author's visit to Rouen - Anecdotes of French convents - Madame Cousin and her system - Traits of Toleration - M. Helliot, the celebrated ancien avocat of Rouen - Practice of legal bigamy in Normandy - A breakfast party - Death of M. Helliot - Interview with an old herald, formerly of the noblesse - His person and costume described - Discovery of the town and castle of Barentin - Occurrences there - The Old Beggar man - Visit to Jersey, where Drogo de Barentin was killed in defending the castle of Mont Orgueil - Return to Barentin, and singular incident at Ivetot - Conclusion.

Chapter XXI.
Procession of the Trades

Dublin Corporation anecdote - Splendid triennial procession of the Dublin Corporation, called Fringes (franchises), described.