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The policy of deftroying the catholic tanh, by encouraging the Engah language has been as ineffectual: for at this day in Fingal, which is inhabited by the defcendants of the Anglo-Gallican invaders, and where the irifh language has not b.en uled for fix centuries, there is not a Engle protelant among the lower

our parliaments were, their extinction will ever be a fubject of national jealoufy and regret.

"Villains as they were, I never heard a found fo dilmal as their parting oars."

The Farming Society has embark

rauks, in a populous diftrict contained in another fpecious plan of diverting not lefs than 100,000 perfons.

FARMING SOCIETY.

IRELAND is frequently infulted er abufed with focieties, apparently inftituted for public happiness, promang to diffufe induftry, morals, and education amongst the labouring poor. We have bible focieties for diftributing the light of the gofpel; grants annually made by parliament to defray the expences and laws made by the fame hands, that tend to prevent education. The duties laid on paper, difcourage reading in to compeat a manner, that the fcriptures are as hermetically fealed against the poor, as if they were never tranflated. The laws in former days against ichochnaiters, were not greater barTiers again't inftruction.

We have a fociety for difcounterancing vice, and no fociety for the dilcouragement of mendicity, the parent of crimes. This fociety publifh long fermons and prayer-books, when Dey ought to give bread.

Vice would be much more effectually ifcouraged by a diffusion of uty; but the accomplices in the Uon, who form a confiderable part of the Society, have for ever condead us to all the privations of per ty, which a nation must be exFiled to that wants a resident legislature, and the example and protection is gentry. Bad and corrupt as

ing the public attention, from the real caufes of public calamity.

Dean Switt afcribes the inftitution of the Royal Society, to a ftratagem of the court to win the public eye, from contemplating the extenfive miferies of the nation, occafioned by the profligacy and weakness of a corrupt and expenfive adminiftration. We take the liberty of thinking, the unmeaning inflitution of a Farming Society, fuch as we have, was to divert the public attention, by a feries of trifling exhibitions, from the calamities to be apprehended from a Legislative Union. The Farming Society is very bufily employed in the way of its object: publishing pedigrees of pigs, effays on horfe flesh, fattening theep, and starving men; building ploughs, and levelling cottages; hogs are fed, and men fent hun gry away.

The Royal Society were more curious in their way; they made expe riments for the contemplation of a lettered people, who wanted amusement, not bread. They anatomized birds and fishes, meatured fun-beams, and invented new buttterflies, for the ingenious purpofe of occupying the public mind, while the court was diffipating the public property.

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EDITOR OF THE IRISH MA- public, and no one's merits therefore

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Mr.Clarke, Sir, Is a popular preacher, and though popularity is not always a mark of excellence, yet it generally follows true genius. The great object in all kinds of oratory, is to perfuade and move the paffions. Perhaps in pulpit oratory it is not fo much the former as the latter. He who means to convert another, muft fpeak to the heart. The miraculous change from fin to a ftate of inno cence, must be worked in man by a power which is able even to modify the foul. The wicked always know when they offend, but though confcious of crime, they are not difpofed for repentance. To effect this difpofition in the human heart, I take to be the great end of preaching. I fay the great end, for I know it is often neceffary to confirm the wavering, to ftrengthen the weak in their belief, by fpeaking to the understanding. This is, however, but an occafional duty, and the catholic clergyman in particu Jar, whofe hearers fcarcely ever betray an inclination to feek for new forms of belief, muft addrefs himself to the

paffions in animated eloquence, for thereby alone he may expect that his

labours will not be in vain.

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If try Mr. Clarke according to thefe ideas, his claim to the character of a great preacher cannot fuffer much; at will be found that there are few more powerful advocates of the orphan's deftitution, and of the poor man's penury. Poffeffing a pure difinterested zeal for the alleviation of human mifery, he is impelled by the generofity of his feelings to indefate

are better understood. is thoughts are noble, far above the level of vulgar minds, and difplay an originality which shews that he is no tame translator from the French, or any other fermon writers. He embodies in his difcourfes a great portion of the fcriptures, the life and foul of pulpit eloquence, and his claffical and historical allufions, prove the extent of his learning.

His appeals to the paffions are conceived in the tendereft fympathy, and are calculated to awaken all the cha

rities of our nature. He is a fenfifends the understanding by any glable pathetic fpeaker, that never ofring abfurdity in compofition, and alwas interefts your heart by powerfull and affecting ftrokes of imagina

tion.

Mr. Clarke's appearance is

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attached to what Cicero calls eloquenmuch against him, though he feems tiac orporis the eloquence of the body. but is never deftitute of energy. His gesture is not always graceful, fioned delivery, and then, when he often bursts into the most impaffeems to forget himself, he leads away our fenfes and paffions captive. His voice is inharmonious and fre

quently harsh but all his natural defects dwindle to infignificance, when weighed against the many excellencies wich this worthy minister of the gofpel otherwife poffeffes.

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LAICUS.

Remarks occafioned by fome paffages in Doctor Milner's Tour in Ireland.

Dublin-Shea, College-green.

We took up this pamphlet with a great deal of anxiety.he newfpapers, which for weeks before its publication, rung it in our ears, raised our curiofity to a very high degree, and we really expected fomething tanto biatu dignum. Dr. Milner anticipated a horde of anfwers to to his Letters; but if he has any vanity, furely it must be mortified, when he fees the advance guard of his adverfaries, led on by fo miferable a fcribbler.

This emaciated child of orangifm, does not indeed, deferve the birch of criticism, and we will fuffer it to die by its own rickets, without a blow.It is a happiness, that every production of the fame ftamp with that now before us, always defeats its own purpofe. The virulence and the poifon, are too much uncovered, and all recoil from tafting them. This human brute, this advocate for legal murder, who weeps that the days of blood and perfecution are no more, would be much gratified, if Dr. Milner loft his head for his patriotifm, and with all the pleafure in the world, would he hug himself, if the arm of power was extended against the liberty of the prefs; that liberty which he makes ufe of to calumniate national character, to tell mankind, hat in foothing the Irish catholics, rebellion, infolence, and fedition are nourifhed against the State. One thing, however, we muft inform him of, that Dr. Milner had no hand in fet

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ting on foot the Irish Magazine, and fo far from it, that the editor has not even the honour of his acquain

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An Analysis of Ward's Errata of the Proteftant Bible.-By the REV. EDWARD RYAN, D. D.

Watson, Capel- treet.

Dr. Ryan feems to be quite in a rage through the whole of his answer to Ward's Errata. The examination

of his pofitions, concerning the dif puted texts; and the alleged falfe tranflations in the proteftant bible, we will leave to the divines of the Catholic church; but we cannot avoid noticing the intemperance in which the holy zeal of our D. D. has indulged itfelf. What need had he to drag in Dr. Milner, whofe name must be now affixed to every anonymous production, that comes from the pen of a catholic. We can ftate from authority, that it was not Dr. Milner, who either wrote or furnished materials for Ward's life; we believe it to have been written by the editor himfelf.

Obfervations on the Catholic Bill, introduced by Lord Howick,

By an eminent Barrister.

Tull, uninterefting, and cone into the world, a whole year after its time. We are inclined to think, that the eminent Barrister tagged to this production, is merely a trick of authorship, that the pomp of the title might attract purchasers!

We understand, that another work of Parnell, the author of the Hiftorical apology for the Irish catholics, is about to be published. The fubject is the Teft Laws.

FRANCE & SPAIN.

We know very little of what is now going on in the French empire. The little intercourse that exists between the two countries, prevents us from receiving the information neceffary for forming an opinion on the future views or projects of Bonaparte. We are told by the English prints, that he wishes to revolutionize Spain, and that all the French troops which are now in that country, are deftined to effect the change. Without pretending to much penetration, we rather think that this immenfe force is intended for different purposes as well as this, and Government with "all their vigour and all their vigilance" ought to take heed, left our own country may not be the feat of action for those warriors. It is our prayer to Providence, that the fcene of warfare and carnage may be always at a diftance from our fhores; but the political horizon is very much darkened indeed, and human prudence is baffled, when it attempts to ftretch its view beyond the pafling events of the day.

We have juft heard that the King of Spain has abdicated his throne in favour of the Prince of Afturias.Events, which twenty years ago, would have refounded through the world, are fcarcely now printed in large letters in the columns of a newspaper.

RUSSIA & SWEDEN.

The Ruffians have entered Finland. The invafion of this country by fo powerful a neighbour, will, we fear, operate fadly on the magnanimity of the Swedish monarch. The

French papers fay that bis die is already cast, and advise the English Miniftry to prepare a royal retreat for him in fouth America.

DENMARK.

The Deans feem to have heartily joined the French, with whom they are making great preparations for the invafion of the fouth of Sweden. Before we extended to them our kind protection, before the demolition of the Foundling Hofpital; they loved our alliance, they were attached to the English name

Now with the hulks of their fhipping, we have the eternal enmity of a nation, the execration of a whole people, and the fears of future vengeance, which must always attend an infraction of the laws of nations and nature.

AMERICA.

It would appear from Sir John Duckworth's inhofpiaable recept on, and from the return of Mr. Rofe, that this great people are determined on coming to a rupture with us. Nothing could be a greater calamity to Ireland, than a war with America, and even the fophifms of Cobbett, his vindictive, mean, and fcurrilous abufe, will never perfuade the nation, that it would be of little mischief to Great Britain collectively. It is remarkable that the only part of America, New England, on which Cobbett beftows the flighteft praise, is inhabited by the most villainous and knavifh fet of men in all the United States. It is notorious that an Irishman cannot be safe in traveling though the ftate, fo great a hatred have they for the Irish character.

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

England stands alone twould be well if modern degeneracy had not reached her. Without, the world is embattled against her; within, the the canker-worm of corruption knaws the vitals of her conftitution- Without, Bonaparte and his myriads, mepace her exiftence; within, Percival and his faction, by being the fomentors of difunion, weaken her internal ftrength. Not one ally to affift her arms, not one port in Europe to receive the produce of her induftry. She is thrown on her own exertions, for fafety and defence, against a powerful enemy, and on thofe exertions alone, muft fhe depend. While the country is in this perilous ftate, 'tis lamentable to behold it guided by the junto, who are now the King's friends. The proceedings of Parliament neither, caft no funthine on the gloominess of the political picture. Mr: Abbott might make the fame answer to George III. which a former speaker did to Queen Elizabeth, when after a long feflion, she asked him what had paffed in Parliament. "feven weeks, please your Majefty," faid he. Twelve weeks have now paffed away in the bickering and recrimation of party, and in thefe momentous times, not one great national event has occurred in our imperial council, on which history can reft its dignity. The period, however, is juft at hand, when the legiflators of Great Britain will have an opportunity of evincing, whether they are fwayed by juft and enlightened patriotifm, or whether they are determined to keep up thofe favage

differences, which make one portion of their reprefentative freemens, and the other flaves. The catholics, certainly know what they deferve, but they expect little; efpecially, when they hear fuch a man as Lord Moira declare, in the true Pitt-ftyle, that this is not the time for Irishmen to look for freedom. Does Lord Moira really think, that he can com. mand the popularity and the gratitude of his countrymen, when he publicly infults them when he thus avows his ideas of their unfitnefs for a better lot, than that to which they are now doomed? Will not the people rather fee into the motives of his Lordship, and appreciate them accordingly?Time is a very tood teacher, and each new day, big with friking occurrences, difplays the rottennefs of fome one or other of our old falfe patriots. No, my Lord, tho' you bould shed tears without number, you will never cry the Irish out of their fenfes. You will never produce that field spreading enthufiafm, which muft only be the refult of granting full civil liberty to your perfecuted and much injured countrymen.

It may not be ufelefs to direct the attention of our readers to the prefent ftate of the English East India fettlements, We are told, that the Government there, have heard of the intended invafion of the French and Ruffians, and that they are preparing every refiftance. One thing we are certain of, that our empire in the east, is entirely upheld by power-and ano. ther thing we are alfo certain of, that this power would be very much en

dangered,

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