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 TO

THOMAS MOORE, ESQ.

MY DEAR MOORE,

to you the last production with which I shall trespass on public patience, and your indulgence, for some years; and I own that I feel anxious to avail myself of this latest and only opportunity of adorning my pages with a name, consecrated by unshaken public principle, and the most undoubted and various talents. While Ireland ranks you among the firmest of her patriots&mdash;while you stand alone the first of her bards in her estimation, and Britain repeats and ratifies the