CURRAN

AND

HIS CONTEMPORARIES

BY

CHARLES PHILLIPS, Esq., A.B.

One of Her Majesty's Commissioners of the Court

for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors

FIFTH EDITION

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLVII

210. C. 260

ΤΟ

LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX.

POETRY

HAS SAID, THAT

"THE FRIENDSHIP OF A GREAT MAN IS A GIFT OF THE GODS."

IN CURRAN'S

I ONCE POSSESSED IT.

IN LORD BROUGHAM'S

I AGAIN ENJOY IT.

TO THESE PAGES, THEREFORE, AFFECTIONATELY DEVOTED

TO THE MEMORY OF THE ONE,

I PROUDLY AND GRATEFULLY, WITH HIS OWN PERMISSION, PREFIX

THE NAME OF THE OTHER.

LONDON, October 1850.