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the 15th June she tore herself away from all these "private" and "public marks of gratifying suffrages,' and again paid a visit to Dublin, which at the beginning was more successful than her former one, but towards the end was clouded with untoward circumstances, which militated against her for the whole of her professional career.

This time she became the guest of her former friend Miss Boyle, now become Mrs. O'Neil of Shane's Castle. The Lord-Lieutenant welcomed her as if she were some "great lady of rank," and she tells us how she was received "by all the first families with the most flattering hospitality, and the days I passed with them will be ever remembered among the most pleasurable of my life." She paid a visit to Shane's Castle. "I have not words to describe the beauty and splendour of this enchanting place, which, I am sorry to say, has since been levelled to the earth by a tremendous fire. Here were often assembled all the talent, and rank, and beauty of Ireland. Among the persons of the Leinster family whom I met here was poor Lord Edward