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In the ways and means, projected by Mr. Foster, and submitted to the English parliament, a sum of nine millions, is to be raised in Ireland, for the current year, he modestly observed at the same time, that it was rather heavy, for such a country as Ireland.

The absense of our landlords, the want of protecting duties to assist our manufacturers, to the exclusive right of an Irish market, against the unrestrained intrusion of British produce. The expenses of a fifteen years war. The accumulating burden of an immense military establishment, with the irreparable decline of trade, have rendered Ireland very unequal to the payment of nine millions, in one year

One item of Mr. Foster's plan of finance, bears an evident appearance of absurdity, he proposes to rise 333,00 pounds by extending the duties on malt, to raw corn used in dis. tillation, at the same time, that another bill, is in progress through the house, to prevent distilling from corn in any form.

A considerable number of trades, that before the union, contributed to circulate industry, have been destroyed, with our independence.

There existed at the time the union was caried into a law, five great manufactories, for making window glass, Cork, Waterford and Belfast each possessed one, and Dublin two, not one of these establishments exist at this day, our pratriots, stood silently by, and allowed, Scotch and Engish capital to exert its influence, to destroy those great and important branches of industry, the consequence, is that five thousand persons, were dispersed, and are become victims to the law, or paupers in our streets.

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.

Cætera Desunt.

OBITUARY OF REMARKABLE PERSONS.

On the 4th inst at Gluncullen, near Kilternan, in the county of Dublin, aged 109 years 3 months, and 17 days, Valentine Walsh, farmer This venerable Patriarch enjoyed a perfect state of health until a few days of his death, was a keen sportsman, and a constant compaRion of the famous Johnny Adair, of Kilternan; he was a jovial companion, much attached to his native whiskey, of which he drank regularly two quarts every day in grog until a week before his death, for like Boniface," he fed on his whiskey, eat of whiskey, and slept on his whiskey"-His funeral was attended by above 500 perfons from the neighbouring villages.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Mathematical Question, which appeared in, December's Magazine, has not been answered, In our next we will reinsert it, with, a Solution by the proposer.

P. M. of Galway's Poetry, we cannot insert. We request whenever he makes any communication to us, he will pay the Postage.

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Memoirs of the late Lord EDWARD FITZGERALD, with Anecdotes of the Rebellion of 1798.

A FTER a lapfe of ten years, rom the turbulence of 1798, the animofity of party feems to have fubfided, and the fpirit of revenge appears to be deadened by forgive nefs, and by time Tacre was a priod when to be the Biographer of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, night fubject an author at leaft to the fear of danger, but he is now no longer a cotemporary and the hiftorian who impartially draws a picture of thofe event ul times, may do harmless juftice to his character without the dread of bringing on himfel the fcourge of power or the fufpicion of

difaffection.

This unfortunate young nobleman, whofe name will defcend to pofterity, connected with the fufferings of his unhappy country, was a younger brother of the late refpect ed Duke of Leinster. He was born in the year 1762, and the early pe

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riod of his life paffed away unmarka ed by any peculiarity in talent or difpofition, to diftinguish him from the generality of those who are born to high education and elevated rank, The lerthargy however of his juve nile days was foon fhaken off, and his talents were routed to ertion, by reflecting on the degra ded and oppreffed ftate to which he thought his country reduced. Poffeffing a foul generous, brave and enterprifing, with a mind capacious and enthufiaftic, he could not brood over the evils he beheld without fympathifing with the fufferers and attempting reform. Amongit the numerous leaders who had affociated to bring about a revolution in Ireland, perhaps lord Edward was the most difinterested and had the pureft views. It could be no motive of vulgar ambition or meaner avas rice, which actuated such a man to P

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Embark in a dangerous caufe, where it was evident that by following the routine courfe of other young noblemen of parts and intereft, he might have afpired too and poffeffed the first offices of the ftate. No, it was not discontent brooding over difappointment, nor revenge feeking the favage delight of fhedding an enemy's blood, that knawed his foul and pushed it on to defperate refolve; but an impaffioned love of country inflamed him almoft to a pitch of frenzy, and hurried his youthful indignant breaft to apply to his country's wrongs the remedy of vengeance thro' the terrible medium of infurrection. His lordship very early in life entered into the army, where his diftinguished merit, amiable manners and high rank, would have raised him to the firft line of the military profeffion, but his fatal predeliction for his country, and his high notions of the character fhe appeared deftined to have among the nations of the world, made him reject any advancement however flattering, where her particular elevation, was not exclufively concerned. Ireland in his idea of country, fhould be placed alone, remote from any political tangibility that would rife or fink her, by the paffions or policy of any difguifed rival or avowed enemy. He was an ethufiaft for his favourite country. He loved with an affection, which nothing but his abhorrence for her enemies, could equal. This unwearied and unceafing vigilance, involved him with every plan, and with every man, that ever contemplated what he conceived beft calculated for the completion of his country's happiness. In thefe purfuits he fell, and with him Ireland loft the bravest and the moft affectionate fon, that ever a parent nourished.

His lordship refided in Paris in the year 1792, where he was much careffed, by the men who then managed the affairs of the Revolution, for the intereft and zeal he teftified for the rational appearance which liberty then affumed. He put his name to an addrefs, of the refident Irish and Scotch citizens in Paris, congratulating the Convention and the French nation, on their triumphs over the enemies of liberty. For this act, his lordship's name was ftruck out of the lift of British officers, from which period his lordfhip embarked his fortune and his whole life, in what he confidered the cause of Ireland, and fatally and incautiously this paffion for her glory and chimerical independence, hurried him into the moft unguarded acts.

He married the celebrated and accomplished Pamela, natural daugh ter of the very infamous duke of Orleans, this young and interefting lady he brought to Ireland, where they continued to refide until his death, and on terms of the higheft conjugal felicity. This excellent lady imbibed all the attachment for Ireland which predominated in the breaft of her husband, and with an equal paffion and folicitude. When fhe appeared in the ftreets, fhe was the delight of every rank, who teftified their refpect by every mark of attachment, this regard the was greatly delighted with, and frequently ipoke of with the moft lively maks of exquifite fenfibility and gratitude.

It was therefore the agitated state of things in Ireland, which drew forth the talents of lord Edward, and which enlifted under his ftandard both the virtuous and the atrocious. Revolutions are always the grand fprings of intellectual exertion: every good and bad paffion in the

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