nting delirium
of intellects from which he finds not the least mitigation until he
consopiates his optics under the influence of Morpheus. There are ties
of affinity and consanguinity existing between this manfacturer of
atrocious falsehoods and barefaced calumnies, and a Jack-Ass, which ties
cannot be easily dissolved, the affinity or similitude is perceptible to
an indifferent observer in the accent, pronunciation, modulation of the
voice of the biped animal, and in the braying of the quadruped. This
Jack-Ass you might also behold perambulating the streets of ------,
a second Judas Iscariot--a houseless, homeless, penniless, forlorn
fugitive, like Old Nick or Beelzebub, seeking whom he might betray
and injure in the public estimation, in rapacity, or in discharging a
blunderbuss full of falsehood against the most pure and unimpeachable
Member of society! Is it not astonishing this wretched, braying,
incorrigible mendicant does not put on a more firm and unalterable
resolution of taking pattern by, and living in accordance with the
laudable and exemplary habits of members of the Literatii, the ornament
of which learned body is the Rev. Dr. King, of Ennis College, a
gentleman by birth, by principles, and more than all, a gentleman by
education; whose mind is pregnant with inexhaustible stores of classical
and mathematical lore, entertainment and knowledge; whose learning and
virtues have shed a lustre on the human kind; a gentleman possessing
almost superhuman talents. No, he must persevere and run in his
accustomed old course of abomination, slander, iniquity, and vice.

"In conclusion, to the R. C. Clergymen of ------, and the respectable
portion of the laity, I return my ardent heartfelt thanks--to the
former, who are the pious, active, and indefatigable instructors of the
peasantry, their consolers in affliction, their resource in calamity,
their preceptors and models in religion, the trustees of their interest,
their visitors in sickness, and their companions on their beds of death;
and from the latter I have experienced considerable gratitude in unison
with all the other fine qualities inherent in their nature; while
neither time nor place shall ever banish from my grateful I heart,
their urbanity, hospitality, munificence, and kindness to me on every
occasion.

"I have the honor to be their very devoted, much obliged, and grateful
Servant,

"JOHN O'KELLY.

"The itinerant cosmopolite, to use his own phraseolo