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Opium and Hallucination at Keswick--Migration to Ireland--
Shelley’s Letters to Miss Hitchener--Curran’s Coldness to the
Adventurer--Publication of the _Address to the Irish People_--
Measures for putting the Pamphlet in Circulation--Harriett’s
Amusement--Shelley’s Seriousness--Shelley’s other Irish
Tract--Public Meeting in the Fishamble Street Theatre--
Shelley’s Speech to the Sixth Resolution--Various Accounts of
the Speech--Mr. MacCarthy’s bad Manners--Honest Jack
Lawless--His Project for a History of Ireland--His Way of
handling Shelley--William Godwin’s Alarm--Shelley’s
Submission--His Intercourse with Curran--His Withdrawal from
Ireland--Seizure of his Papers at the Holyhead
Custom-House--Harriett’s Letter to Portia--The Shelleys in
Wales--Miss Hitchener’s ‘Divine Suggestion’--Harriett and
Eliza don’t think it ‘Divine’--Shelley at Nantgwillt--His
Scheme for turning Farmer--His comprehensive Invitation to
the Godwins--His sudden Departure from Nantgwillt--Cause of
the Departure--Mr. MacCarthy again at Fault.

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Mr. Eton’s Cottage near Tintern Abbey--Shelley’s Reason for
not taking the Cottage--His Letter to Mr. Eton--Godwin’s
expostulatory Epistle--His Grounds for thinking Shelley
prodigal--Reasonableness of Godwin’s Admonitions--Hogg and
MacCarthy at fault--Shelley’s Letters from Lynton to Godwin--
Miss Hitchener at Lynton--Porcia _alias_ Portia--_Letter_ to
Lord Ellenborough--Printed at Barnstaple--Mr. Chanter’s
_Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple_--Fifty
Copies of the _Letter_ sent to London--Shelley’s Measures for
the political Enlightenment of North Devon Peasants--His
Irish Servant, Daniel Hill--Commotion at Barnstaple--Daniel
Hill’s Arrest and Imprisonment--Mr. Syle’s Alarm--Shelley’s
humiliating and perilous Position--His Flight from North
Devon to Wales--William Godwin’s Trip from London to
Lynton--His Surprise and Disappointment--His ‘Good News’ of
the Fugitives.