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TO MISS ANNE

So pensively sweet is thy beautiful face,
If grief on thy features appear,

That you seem to possess ev'ry soul-touching grace,
When thy cheek is bedewed with a tear.

But if pleasure again on thy countenance shine,
And thy heart of it's sorrows beguile,

Then I think, dearest Anne, you are still more divine,
When thy face is bedecked with a smile.

Translated from the Latin.

THE Doctor learn'd, as learn'd can be,
But prest, alas! by poverty,

Cur'd me, when like to smother;

And when I handed him his fee,
He cry'd with more than usual glee,
Od'zooks, we've cur'd each other.

OBITUARY OF REMARKABLE PERSONS.

AT Liverpool on the 7th Instant Mr. Patrick Deeven: Mr. Deeven was an eminent Farmer in Fingal, he was one of the Delegates from the County of Dublin to the Provincial Assembly in the organization of the United Irishmen, and was arrested on the information of the notorious Thomas Reynolds, in the house of Oliver Bond, on the 12th of March 1798, in Bridge-street; he was com. mitted on charges of High Treason to close confinement with his Colleagues, several of whom were tried on the testimony of Reynolds, who betrayed them. Mr. Deeven with others of his fellow prisoners, after several years imprisonment in Dublin and Fort George in Scotland, was by his Majesty's clemency enlarged on conditions of never appear ing again in their own country. After residing some time in France and Germany, through the interference of some friends he got permission to

live in England, and to visit his extensive farms in Fingal, twice in each year a few days each time. Seperated from his family and property, both suffered by his expatriation, and at last he fell a victim for his anxiety for their safety. His remains were conveyed to Dublin, where they were met by his numerous friends and neighbours, and conducted with religious solemnity to the family burying ground of St. Margarets five miles from Dublin.

ON the 14th instant at Fair View, Ballybough Mrs. Catharine Brady, aged 68 years; she lived an exemplary life, distinguished by the grateful acknowledgements of the poor, for her benevolence, by every rank for her domestic virtues, by her children, for her maternal tenderness, she was an endearing companion and faithful Wife, a good Christian, and affectionate neighbour.

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Rev. Arthur O'Leary, O.S.F. Chrit Jan. 8. 1802. E. 70.

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Engrav'd for the Irish Magazine.

IRISH MAGAZINE

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MONTHLY ASYLUM

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NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY.

For JUNE, 1808.

This Month's Magazine is Embellished with a fine Likenefs of the Rev. and celebrated ARTHUR O'LEARY.

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RTHUR O'LEARY, defcended from an ancient and illuftrious family of the province of Munfter, was born in the county of Cork, of pious and reputable parents, who, with a tender folicitude, fowed in his infant mind thofe feeds of virtue and religion, which afterwards produced fo fair and abundant a crop. At an early period, he was added, to the long lift of honourable exiles, who were obliged to feek, in foreign Countries, that education which was denied them in the land of their fathers. After having finished the ordinary courfe of academical ftudies in the college of St. Maloe in Brittanny, he embraced the aufterities of the monaftic life, in the moft mortified branch of the Francifcan Order. Here it was, in the filence and folitude of the cloyfter, fequeftered from the allurements and dangers of a vain and deceitful world, that

he acquired that uncontrouled fway over his paffions, which he ever after fo uninterruptedly maintained through life; and here it was that he enriched his capacious mind with thofe treafures of facred and profane fcience; that he fedulously improved thofe virtues, and culti vated thofe talents, which have

procured him an undifputed place among the beft benefactors, and brighteft ornaments of his country. Nothing, as yet appears to have occurred, capable of difturbing the peaceful tenor of his way, in the confcientious obfervance of the rule of his order, until after an interval of fome years, when we find him called from his retirement, to a more active discharge of the duties of his miniftry, being entrusted, by his ecclefiaftical fuperiors; with the fpiritual conduct and confolation, of thofe of his country and communion,

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whom the fortune of war had then crowded into the prifons of Brittany. The happy termination of the feven years war, which took place fome time after, terminated alfo the labours of his miffion in France, and restored him to his native country: and here it may not be unworthy to remark, that foon after this period, focial harmony began to fucceed to that mutual hatred and foul diftruft, which had too long divided Irishman from Irishman, brother from brother, and discovered an enemy in the face of every man who ventured to worthip the Supreme Being according to the creed of his ancestors, or the dictates of his confcience; after a long and tempeftuous night of religious intolerance and civil disfranchifement, the day-fpring of toleration and benevolence began, about this time, to brighten our horizon, and beam in upon our long benighted country; and to his honour be it remembered, that the conciliating manners of O'Leary, the happy turn of his wit and humour, like the Roman Satyrift, laughing his countrymen of every feet out of their illgrounded and abfurd prejudices, and into good humour with each other, tended more to promote those falutary effects, than the combined exertions of all who had preceded him for more than a century: he effectually contributed, by his admirable writings, to enlighten the uninformed of his own communion, and to difpel from before the eyes of his diffenting brethren of every defcription, the medium of mifreprefentation and calumny, through which they had been but too long accuftomed to view their catholic coun

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trymen, and, to use his own wordst, with the zeal of a true chriftian philofopher, and the fteady perfeverance of an enlightened patriot, he laboured to throw open the gates of civil toleration to all Adam's children, whofe principles were not inconfiftent with the peace of fociety, or fubverfive of the rules of morality; to wrench from the hand of persecution, the poignard fo often tinged with human blood; to fheath the fword, which mifguided zeal had drawn in defence of argofpel which recommends peace and love; to reftore to man the indelible charter of his temporal rights, which no earthly power has ever been commiffioned by Heaven to deprive him of, on account of his mental errors; to reeftablish the empire of peace, fo often overthrown by religious feuds; and to cement all Chriftians in the ties of focial harmony.'

Neither his character of Catholic Prieft, which the prepoffeffion of ignorance had rendered fo odious; nor the discountenance of the laws, which doomed him to transportation with the common malefactor; nor the circunftance of a profeffion, expofed to the lash of every religious perfecutor,' was able to exclude him from the honour of the fociety and efteem of that conftellation of illuftrious Patriots and enlightened Statefmen, who then adorned Ireland‡, (fit affociates for an O'Leary!) in concert with whom he prepared the way for that mutual confidence and alas! too short-lived focial barmony;-for that religious toleration and civil immunity which, in the

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