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Vide the Non Observance of July 1st. 12th Novemver and other Orange Factions

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which some bundred years ago were permitted is bis to raise thy injur'd Erin's head
to disgrace our Capital-How creditable that
such ridiculous Pageant's (Mischievous in
their tendencyas offecting the untaught lower
erders) have never been seen in our Day

Loose all her chains her ancient rights restere
And bid my Grateful Country live once more.
Dublin, July 19th 1808

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

MARCIA,

The letter of Acedemicus, tho' extremely well written is not admissible-He complains of partial in the distribution of the prizes at the lare Examination at Maynooth College-We believe the PRESIDENT DR. BYRNE too honest a character to sanction any unfair practices, tho' it may bave happened thro' the intrigues of some of the Professors, that the young Gentlemen he mentions, were not rewarded.

The length of Mr. Mooney's mathematical question precluded it's insertion this month. The Ennis lovers verses are too incorrect-The Poet from New-port Prat had better turn his thoughts to Mathematics.—The continuation of the. Essay on the Chronology of the Septuagint in our next.-Also the Adventures of a Scholar.

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This Months Magazine is Embellished with an Elegant Likeness of EDWARD HAY, ESQ. Secretary to the Catholics of Ireland.

Memoirs of EDWARD HAY, Efq.

THIS HIS very fpirited Gentleman was born about the year 1751, in the village of Ballykeele, County Wexford. He is defcended from the celebrated houfe of Hay in Scotland, of which the Earls of Errol are the heads. This ancient family was ennobled by Kenneth the 3d. for the manly bravery of an old Chieftain, who with his fons, pofted themfelves in a defile, after the defeat of their Countrymen by an army of plundering Danes, where they fuftained themfelves against the advancing conquerors, until the flying Scots had time to rally, and under the gallant Hay, were enabled again to meet the enemy, whom they defeated and expelled.

A branch of the family of whom our countryman is a defcendant, fettled in the County of Wexford under Strongbow, in the reign of Hen. II. where Mr. Hay's ancestor had a Knights fhare of land alotted to him, which continued in the family until the ufurpation of Cromwell. Like all the Irish Catholic families, they embarked their Perfons and Fortunes in the caule of their King, and with him they fell victims to their loyalty; for Cromwell confiscated the whole of their lands, with thofe of the other faithful Gentry of Wexford, only one Eitate in the county remained unalineted. The ungrateful and profligate Charles II. initead of remunerating thofe gal

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lant and unfortunate people, who fuffered for their attachment to his family, confirmed the Acts of Cromwell, and for ever abandoned the ilJuftrious Catholic fufferers, for the gratification of his father's murderers. The morals of Kings make no very prominent figure in the page of hiftory, though generally very difguftful, we prefume this infamous trait in the life of Charles is unequalled in the records of regal injustice.

The unfortunate furvivor of his pa ony, took a long leafe of an adjoming land, which enabled the family to live in a manner fuitable to theit ufual refpectability, which fill continues in their hands, having been fortunate enough through ages of perfecution, to elcape the atrocious vigilance of the laws, to encourage Proteftant discoverers.

At an early age, Mr. Hay was fent to the Continent, to receive an education fuitable to his refpectable Jine of life, which vandal legiflators had denied him at home. After

profecuting his ftudies in Germany and France, with the fuccefs which must be expected from his natural abilities. He returned to his native country, and joined himself, and em: barked his talents with thofe catholic Gentlemen who affociated for the purpose of procuring from Parliament, fome relaxation of thofe penal laws which oppreffed the great body of the Irish People: laws enacted in the fury of bigotry, and in the spirit of plunder; fo feduously and fo heavily applied, that a catholic was fcarcely confidered a Human Being.

In 1791, Mr. Hay was delegated by his native county, to the general Committee of Catholics, whofe reprefention to the Empire and to the King, were fo explanatory of the degraded ftate they held in the country: That his Majefty was pleafed to recommend their cafe to the legiflature, and in 1793, feveral of the

moft odious of the penal laws were repealed.

Mr. Hay, notwithstanding the fe ries of Royal and Legiflative injuf tice, which followed his family for ages, is ftrictly loyal; not arifing from any cold indifference in the phyfical conftruatlon o his head or perfon, but from an ardent and strong conv &tion, that no apparent or exiftiúg injuries thould ever detach a good citizen from that allegiance, on which hangs the fecurity of fociety, and the bleffings of focial order. In 1793, when the County of Wexford was ferioufly agitated, Mr. Hay, with the other Gentlemen of the County, by their unwearied diligence and feafonable promptnefs, fucceeded in quelling an an alarming difpofision to infurrection, which manifefted itself among the lower orders, by feveral daring acts, in one of which the unfortunate Major Valloten fell at the head of his regiment.

During the fhort administration of Lord Fitz William, in 1795, the Catholics of Ireland, animated with the apparent happiness which this Nobleman's Government promised, and as quickly depreffed with the alarming account of his recal; addreffed his Lordship from all quarters, expreffive of their affection for his perfon, and the deepeft regret at his departure, they justly anticipated the awful confequences of this impolitic act of the Euglifh minifter, who blindly hazarded the fafety of the Empire, to liften to the intemperate fuggeftions of Clare and his affociates, the place-hunting, bigotted Beresfords. Mr. Hay was one of the Gentlemen of Wexford, appointed to wait on his Excellency with the addrefs, and in the fame year was appointed to carry a petition to the King, as a delegate from the fame Country. tition was figned by twenty-two thoufand, two hundred and fittyone fignatures, which he procur

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