LIST OF PLATES
Reading edition
The Inn at Munich
Lorrequer on Parade
Nicholas Announcing Miss Betty O’Dowd’s Carriage
The Sentry Challenging Father Luke and the Abbé
The Supper at Father Malachi’s
Mrs. Mulrooney and Sir Stewart Moore
Lorrequer Making His Escape From Col. Kamworth’s
Mr. Cudmore Filling the Teapot
Dr. Finucane and the Grey Mare
Lorrequer Practising Physic
Mr. Burke’s Enthusiasm for the Duke of Wellington
The Passport Office
Lorrequer as Postillion
Mr. O’Leary Creating a Sensation at the Salon des Etranges
Trevanion Astonishing the Bully Gendemar
Mr. O’Leary Charges the Mob
Mr. O’Leary Imagines Himself Kilt
Harry Proves Himself a Man of Metal
Mr. O’Leary’s Double Capture
Mr. Malone and Friend
Lorrequer’s Debut at Strasburg
The Inn at Munich
Arrival of Charge d’Affairs
To Sir George Hamilton Seymour, G.C.H. &c. &c.
My Dear Sir Hamilton,
If a feather will show how the wind blows, perhaps my dedicating to you even as light matter as these Confessions may in some measure prove how grateful I feel for the many kindnesses I have received from you in the course of our intimacy. While thus acknowledging a debt, I must also avow that another motive strongly prompts me upon this occasion. I am not aware of any one, to whom with such propriety a volume of anecdote and adventure should be inscribed, as to one, himself well known as an inimitable narrator. Could I have stolen for my story, any portion of the grace and humour with which I have heard you adorn many of your own, while I should deem this offering more worthy of your acceptance, I should also feel more confident of its reception by the public.
With every sentiment of esteem and regard, Believe me very faithfully yours, THE AUTHOR.
Bruxelles, December, 1839.