104 miles. He was much affronted that a young fellow was proposed for the expedition There's a county Cavan man for you.
As for myself, I am grown thirty years younger, by no other method than eating, drinking, and breathing freely in this Elysium of the universe. Happy will it be for you (if I misjudge not, and very seldom I do, as you yourself can witness, who have known me above sixteen years, and I believe a little more, if my memory fails me not, as I have no reason to think it does; for I do not find it in the least impaired) to convey yourself into the finest apartment of our Elysium, I mean to Castle Hamilton, where you will find a most hearty welcome, and all the delights this world can give But you must take me along with you.
Nothing could give me greater pleasure than to hear that your innocent subjects of the Kevin Bayl[1] escaped the gallows, in spite of Bettisworth[2] and all his add hay rents If he were to make them a holiday, it should make one for me and my boys likewise.
Sunday we had a very hard frost Yesterday morning fair The afternoon, all night, and this morning to ten, was rain Now fair again, but lowering.
We are just now going to dinner at captain Perott's,
- ↑ Dr. Swift used to call the people who lived in the liberty of St. Patrick's his subjects: and without dispute they would have fought up to their knees in blood for him.
- ↑ The right spelling of this name is Bettesworth, constantly pronounced as a word of two syllables, until some poems had come out against him, and then Mr. Bettesworth affected to pronounce it as three syllables, to which this spelling by Dr. Sheridan alludes.
