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and noisy that few could hear. Perceiving the noise increase more and more, I walked through the midst of the mob to my lodgings. They hallooed, and shouted, and cursed amain: hitherto could they come, but no further. Thur. 14.--(So we must call it now, seeing the new style now takes place.) I rode to the bog of Boiree, where a great and effectual door is opened. On Friday evening we rode on to Goree, and the next day to Dublin. Sun. 17.--I made an end of Mr. V ’s * Issay on the Happiness of the Life to come.” I am glad it is wrote in French: probably not many in Ireland will be at the pains of reading it. He is a lively, sensible writer ; but I cannot believe his hypothesis, while I believe the Bible. Mon. 18.--We had our first watch-night in the new house ; and it was a night that will not soon be forgotten. On Tuesday I rode to Portarlington, ana the next day to Birr, through so violent a storm, _ that my strength was utterly exhausted, and how I should preach I knew not. But God soon renewed my strength: and on Thursday, 21, I arose lively and well; and in the afternoon, through continued rain, came, very wet, but not tired, to Limerick. Sat. 23.--We reached Cork. Sunday, 24.--In the evening I proposed to the society the building a preaching house. The next day ten persons subscribed a hundred pounds; another hundred was subscribed in three or four days, and a piece of ground taken. I sawa double providence now in our not sailing last week. If we had, probably this house had never been built ; and it is most likely we should have been cast away. Above thirty ships we were informed, have been lost on these coasts in the late storm.