It was as savage as Warsaw almost, without the regal grandeur of the latter city.

The people looked more ragged than any race I have ever seen, except the gipsy hordes along the banks of the Danube.

There was, as I have said, not an inn in the town fit for a gentleman of condition to dwell in.

Those luckless fellows who could not keep a carriage, and walked the streets at night, ran imminent risks of the knives of the women and ruffians who lay in wait there,--of a set of ragged savage villains, who neither knew the use of shoe nor razor; and as a gentleman entered his chair or his chariot, to be carried to his evening rout, or the play, the flambeaux of the footmen would light up such a set of wild gibbering Milesian faces as would frighten a genteel person of average nerves.

I was luckily endowed with strong ones; besides, had seen my amiable countrymen before.
I know this description of them will excite anger among some Irish patriots, who don't like to have the nakedness of our land abused, and are angry if the whole truth be told concerning it.