HANDEL'S VISIT TO DUBLIN.

AN ACCOUNT

OF THE

VISIT OF HANDEL TO DUBLIN:

WITH

INCIDENTAL NOTICES OF HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER.

BY

HORATIO TOWNSEND, ESQ.,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

AUTHOR OF A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE MORAL LAW."

"Arrest him, Empress, or you sleep no more!

She heard, and drove him to th' Hibernian shore."-POPE.

DUBLIN

JAMES MCGLASHAN, 50, UPPER SACKVILLE-STREET.

WILLIAM S. ORR AND CO., AND J. A. NOVELLO, LONDON.

MDCCCLII.

STELLFELD

ΤΟ

THE MEMBERS

OF

The University of Dublin Choral Society,

INSTITUTED IN

TRINITY COLLEGE,

A. D. 1837,

THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED.