LIST OF PLATES

[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.