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The great philosophical Radical, the encyclopædia of political wisdom, the benefactor, the saviour, the regenerator of Ireland, left Cork to the strains of the Butter Exchange Band con amore, affetuoso, and doubtless con spirito. Yet some will say that the Irish are not grateful! Mr. Morley stayed at the hotel I had just left, the Royal Victoria, which I justly described as a hot-bed of sedition.
"Truly," remarks one of his friends, "he was squisitamente affetuoso di cuore," and now the sweetest proof thereof is to be found in his correspondence. In his two visits to Italy, he used to walk daily to the shores, when within reach of the Mediterranean, and salute, with tears, the bandiera stellata, as he called our national banner, under which his exile had been protected and honored.
The only thing to compete with it, is the being in a crack coach on the western road; the opposition slightly in front a knowing whip driving when the horses are at their utmost speed the traces tight as traces can be the ladies inside pale and screaming one little child cramming out her head, her mouth stuffed with Banbury cakes, adding her shrill affetuoso whilst the odd-looking man in the white hat, seated behind, is blue from terror, and with chattering teeth, mumbles undistinguishable sentences of furious driving and prosecution.
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