[Mr. MacCarthy, whose researches in the matter of the Irish Campaign are invaluable as to facts and details, fixes the date of publication of the Address to the Irish People as nearly as need be: he shews (Shelley's Early Life, pages 149 et seq.) that it came from the printer on the 24th of February, 1812, that copies of it were sent to Godwin and Hamilton Rowan on that and the following day respectively, and that an advertisement appeared in The Dublin Evening Post of the 25th and 29th of February, and 3rd of March. It is a "stabbed" 8vo. pamphlet, consisting of title-page and 22 pages of text, including the postscript, which occupies the last leaf. It is printed on three half-sheets, the title-page being the final leaf of the last half-sheet, and doubled back over the first two half-sheets. The pages have no head-lines, but are numbered centrally; and no printer's name appears. The type is exceedingly small and poor, and the paper very bad. Though just double the length of the second Irish pamphlet it has only two more leaves. The typography is moderately correct, though the punctuation, probably Shelley's, is eccentric. I have followed it rather than make and record innumerable small alterations, and have noted all those that it was absolutely necessary to make. There is a copy in the British Museum.—H. B. F.]
