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Title: Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England!
As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration
Author: Jasper W. Rogers
Release Date: April 25, 2008 [eBook #25170]
Language: English
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[Illustration: University of London]
Presented by
the Worshipful Company
of Goldsmiths.
1903.
FACTS
FOR THE
KIND-HEARTED OF ENGLAND!
AS TO
THE WRETCHEDNESS
OF THE
IRISH PEASANTRY,
AND
THE MEANS FOR THEIR REGENERATION.
BY JASPER W. ROGERS, C.E.
This Edition (500 copies bound), has been presented by the Author, as a
donation;--to be sold at the Ladies Bazaar, for relief of the famine in
Ireland, and distress in Scotland.
LONDON:
JAMES RIDGWAY, PICCADILLY.
1847.
FACTS FOR THE KIND-HEARTED OF ENGLAND.
In my twentieth year my first visit was made to London--how long since
need not be said, lest I make discoveries. I arrived at the "Swan with
_two_ necks," in Lad Lane, to the imminent peril of my own _one_, on
entering the yard of that then famous hostelry, the gate of which barely
allowed admission to the coach itself--and first set foot on London
ground, midst the bustle of some half-dozen coaches, either preparing
for exit, or discharging their loads of passengers and parcels.
Four "insides" were turned out, and eight "outsides" turned in--I,
amongst the unfortunates of the latter class, taking possession of the
near
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