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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HAMILTON ROWAN AND THE BAR. Sketch of the character of Mr. Hamilton Rowan?His Quixotic spirit of philan- throphy?Case of Mary Neil, taken up by Mr. Rowan?Dinner-club among the briefless barristers of Dublin?Apparition of Mr. Hamilton Rowan and his dog?More frightened than hurt?An unanswerable query?Mr. Rowan's subsequent adventures?The Rev. Mr. Jackson?He is brought up to receive sentence for high treason, and expires in Court. There were few persons whose history was connected with that of Ireland during my time, who excited my interest in a greater degree than Mr. Hamilton Rowan. The dark points of this gentleman's character have been assiduously exhibited by persons who knew little or nothing of his life, and that too, long after he had ceased to be an obnoxious character. I will endeavour to show the obverse of the medal; and I claim the meed of perfect disinterestedness, which will, I think, be awarded, when I state that I never had the least social intercourse with Mr. Rowan, whose line of politics was always decidedly opposed to my own. Archibald Hamilton Rowan (I believe he still lives) is a gentleman of most respectable family and of ample fortune: considered merely as a private character, I fancy there are few who will not give him full credit for every quality which does honour to that station in society. As a philanthropist, he certainly carried his ideas even beyond reason, and to a degree of excess which 1 really think laid in his mind the foundation of all his enthusiastic proceedings, both in common life and in politics. The first interview I had with this gentleman did not occupy more than a few minutes: but it was of a most impressive nature, and though now eight-and-thirty years back, appears as fresh to my eye as if it took place yesterday: in t...
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