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ed in the fhort space of one week; and on the 22d April, with his brethren delegates, in full levee at St. James's, prefented it to his Majelly.

His labours was not confined folely to the relief of the great body to which he belongs. He took a more general and scientific plan of rendering his life of fervice to his country. In 1795, He fubmitted a plan to Lord Fitz William, for the enumera. tion of the inhabitants of Ireland, which met the approbation of his Lordship, who would have patronifed the undertaking, had he not been fo prematurely recalled. This plan the Rt. Rev. Mr. Milner notices in his tonr through Ireland, and peaks of it in a manner very flattering to the talents of Mr. Hay. To this plan Mr. Newenham, who lately pablished a book on the population of Ireland, is indebted for the principal part of his arrangemenr. He obtained it from Mr. Hay through the interference of a friend, and very unfairly withholds the fource he had it from, never acknowledging any part of it as Mr. Hay's, though it forms the principal material of his work. Mr. Hay was living in Wexford at the period when it fell into the hands of the infurgents. Fortunately for Lord Kingborough who was taken prifoner by them, that Mr. Hay's popularity extended with fo much influence, that he after much pains and great folicitude faved the Peer from the punishment of flogging, which he is faid to have invented for the purpofe of extorting confeflion; no other perfon could have faved the young Nobleman's life, from the horrid character he bote for cruelty while ftationed in Dublin, it being well known that it was his Lordship's regiment, the N. Cork Militia, rhat had the honour

of inventing the celebrated Pitch Caps, fo frequently used in torturing the unfortunate peafant.y.

Notwithstanding his exemplary conduct in preferving the life of the Peer, and many other perfons who was expofed to the exasperated rebels, a confpiracy was formed by the Orange Ruffians of the County, under the name of Gentlemen, to take away his life. They fummoned several hundred witneffes, with a view of terrifying or feducing fome wretches to charge Mr. Hay with being a leader in the Rebellion, and fucceeded in procuring fifty perfons to give information. His activity to preferve the loyal from torture and death, was brought as evidence against him, and the mercy they received by his influence, was declared as a frong affurance of guilt.

On the 24th of July 1799, he was arraigned ot the Summer Aflizes before Baron Smith for High Treafon and on the 27th of the fame month was tried; but the trained informers having failed, by neglecting the inftructions of their Tutors, Mr. Hay was honourably acquitted.

On the 29th, he was again arrefted by General Grofe, after fome fhort time, a memorial was prefented to Lord Cornwallis, ftating his formal acquittal, which his Lordship pleafed o allow, and again he was liberated.

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Mr. Hay bas given to the world a very well written Hiftory of this unfortunate infurrection, which has met with a very rapid and extenfive circulation. The best eulogium we can give it, is by the following note of the late Rt. Hon. Chas. J. Fox, to the author.

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How active these Bards have been to ftir up their Patrons to Rebellion, may be collected from numberless Poems ftill extant. I fhall, out of niany produce one Inftance of their Afperity, in fome Extracts from a Compofition of Fear flatha O Grive, Family- Olamh to the O'Neills of Clanna-boy. The Work in the Original is bold and fpirited and the difcerning Rearder will eafily conceive, that this Spirit muft evaporate in my profe Verfion of fome Lines of the Original.

"Oh the Condition of our dear Country men! how languid their how preffing their forrows! their Wounds ftill rankling! the wretch. ed Crew of a Veffel long toffed about; finally caft away 1 Are we not the Prifouers of the Saxon Nation? the Captives of remorfelefs Tyranny? Is not our Se stence therefore pronounced, and our Destruction inevitable? Fright ful, grinding Thought Power exchanged for Servitude; Beauty for Deformity; the Exultations of liberty for the Pangs of Slavery, great and brave People for a fervile defponding Race. How came this Transformation? Clouded in a Mift, which bursts down on you like a Deluge; which covers you with fucceffive Inundations of Evil; ye are not the fane People! Need I appeal to your Senfes But what Senfations have you left? In moft Parts of the Ifland, how hath every Kind of illegal and extrajudicial Proceeding taken the way of Law and what muft that Situatioh be, wherein our ouly Security (the Suspenfion of our Excifion) muft depend upon an intolerable Subferviance to lawless Law? In Truth, our Miseries were predicted along Time, in the Change thefe Strangers wrought on the Face of our Country. They

have hemmed in our sporting Lawns, the former Theatres of Glory and Virtue. They have wounded the Earth, and they have disfigured with Towers and Ramparts thofe fair Fields which Nature beftowed for the Support of God's animal Creation ---that Nature which we fee defrauded, and whofe Laws are fo wantonly counteracted, that this late free Ireland is metamorphofed into a fecond Saxony. The Slaves of Ireland no longer recognize their common Mother---fhe equally dfiowns us for her Children---We both have loft our Forms---and what do we fee but infulting Saxon Natives, and native Irish Aliens ?-Haplefs Land! thou art a Bark, through which the Sea hath burst it's Way-we hardly discover any Part of you, in the Hands of the Plunderer. Yes! the Plunderer hath refitted you for his own Habitatior-and we are

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molded for his Pur pofe.---Ye Ifraelites of Egypt-ye witched Inhabitants of this foreign Land! is there no Relief for you! Is there no Hecter left for the Defence, oa rather for the Recovery, of 7,oy ?-It is thine, O my God! to fend us a fecond Mofes; Thy Difpenfation are just! and unless the Children of the Schythian EBER SCOT, return to thee, old Ireland is not doomed to arife out of the afhes of modern Saxony."

THE Author of this poetical Declamation preferved himfelf from Punishment by remaining conftantly in the hi Quarters; and the Englife were far from being miftaken, when they allotted the leveret Penalties for thele incendiary Bards; a Race of Men who were perpetually ftirring up the Natives to Rebelliou and as conftantly giving Rebellion another Name, nothing less than the rights of the Nation, and the Spirit of Liberty.

POETRY preferved the Spirit of our Language, the Force of Elocution, and in fome Degree that natiou,

even in Ages of Anarchy. In Conjunction with it's Sifter-art, Mufic, to must have produced much more powerful effects in better Times; In fhe worst, it preferved the People from degenerating into Savages, Their Manners approached nearer to thofe of Citizens, than of Barbarians Extract from the Prophecy of Uttan Leatroma, tranflated from the Irish.

The hoft of the Goill will come across the main to prey on the Gheil; they will become maflers of alf Erin. Ruarch, fon of Tordelva, will be fupreme at the time of the invafion of the Goill. A woman will come that fall lay wafte the plains of Meath, Breagh Crua chan, and Cafhel. fhall be wasted through her deeds.

A red haired man fhall be born in Leinster, caufe of grief and woe to Erin's fons. Oh now long for, the day when the King of Saxony's fon fhall arrive. It is not for love of him, but because the power of the Saxons will expire fhortly after his arrival. On Friday they will make the coaft; in 3 half years thence there will be no remnant of their might in Erin. Three nights he will repofe after his landing, before he comes to Bailefhea; as it hath been fhewn to me, the town will be on fire- There will be a battle at Maiftin; the Goill will there give battle. I anticipate the event with joy; the Goil fhall rerepent their temerity. Hard rents and taxes exacted with rigor, a fcru ple on each perfon, and a nung of gold on each hearth. Kiaran will infpirit his Conations, and Brigid her. Lagenious. As the battle of Bealanath the Goill will be defeated.. The Ruaght will come to the North with a weighty hoft; after feven days fighting the Goill will be routed in all quarters, and that on Wednesday; Eaft or weft there fhall not be found of them fo much as wonld fill the claws of a bird.

"to know if the generality of our "commnunion are of his mind with

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regard to the principles laid down "by him. Several Members of "Parliament declarc they will vote "for a bill to be brought into the "houfe upon this plan. In fhort, "nothing was ever published in favor of our people, fo univerfally approved of. There is a pira.ed "edition in twelves, almoft finished "by one Bowes, out of refentment to Lord, who refufed him credit "for fome copies; Lord, who was clofely on the look ont, discover"ing that there was a progrefs made in the fmall edition, applied to old "Brown, who with great difficulty prevailed on Bowes to give up his "edition on Lord's paying his expence, which is no trifling fum. "This affair is talked of all over the "town, and yon are the favourite "of the Milefian race, adieu

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The motto to this pamphlet deferves a place here, because it in a great measure indicates the fpirit of the author and of the times.

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"ciry, or to enjoy the bleffings of "this our native country in common with yon? We who have "been conquere fubmit more calmly to our defeat, than you who are conquerors know how to moderate your triumph."

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Mr. O'Connor's object is to fhew that Governments can require nothing more of their fubjects in order to entitle them to the franchises of the ftate, than a teft of civil obedience, to diftinguish the elect of goverament from the reprobate,-that it is an ungenerous evasion to say, that the Roman Catholics cannot be depended on,-and that even though it should be true, yet it is expedient to take off many restraints for the fake, if not of giving them what they have not, at leaft of fecuring to them what they have, for that there are certain bounds to perfecution, beyond which political wisdom never did and never will exift.

It is certain that most of the evils which have long tormented Chriften"CIVICUS." dom, have been owing to the paffions and not to the religion which for bids thofe derangements; this is felfevident from the well-known fact, that every new party, and every new fect has tortured the Gofpel, to favor the most repugnant doctrines, and fan&ify the molt loose and profligate, as well as the most fanciful and extravagant opinions. It is therefore an infult on human understanding to charge any religion with the wickednefs or intemperance of its profeffors. It is charging it with the deviations of those who rebel against it. Suppofing even then that our ancestors have been guilty of crimes, was it juft that their fins fhould be vifited on their children, when neither the actions nor the principles of the children were reproachable? But even were the ancestors culpable, Dr. Curry has proved that their oppo

Quid enim ultra fieri ad placan"dos Deos mitigandofqve bomines "potuit quam quod nos fecimus? Qui finis erit difcordiarum? ecquando "unam Urbem habere, ecquando commune hanc effe patriam licebit? " Vidi on æquiore animo quiefcimus quam vos Villores, Liv.

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What more could be done to "appease the anger of our Rulers, than what we have done? Will "there ever be an end to onr dif. cord? Will it ever be lawful for us to have the freedom of a fingle

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Bents were not fo, and the Editors own rights, and Mr. O'Conor was of the Monthly Review for Novem- too well acquainted with fome of the ber 1776, have yielded then felves proteftant nobility of this kingdom, honeftly to conviction. It is certain not to forefee that they would do that the great charter of British li- fignal fervices as foon a an opporberty was obtained, and the confti- tunity prefented irfelf for the exertution eftablished in the days when tion of their bright talents, manly Roman Catholics were at the head patriotifm and chriflian benevolence. of our affairs. It was then only Happening one day to dine with that annual Parliaments were held. Mr Contarine," Mr O' ennor," Indebted to papifts for our iberties faid the parfon, "I am glad to fee as well as our existence, we ask why "that you like my beef, I hope it is the religion of thofe founders of our Sir," faid the free conflitution fhould be ftigma- other, " every thing that is Irish, is tized with a spirit of flavery and in-orthodox."-The reply was fo tolerance? and we would ask why their children fhould be debarred the bleflings of that conftitution, were it not well known that political gratitude is the faintest of all the virtues, and that the obligations our fellowfubjects owe us, were cancelled in their opinion, by our refiftance to the fpiritual tyranny of Henry VIII. and his immediate fucceffors. I very one converfant in the hiftory of this ifland knows, that the diffentions by which we have been fo long torn into factions, were in a great meafure owing to the avarice of individuals who fomented thofe diffentions through fordid and fellifh purposes. But infulted nature refumes her

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It never was, and never could be the wish of any of the Kings of Great Britain, to divide and opprefs the people of Ireland; because it is an incontrovertible fact, that the more unanimous a people are in fup. port of their Sovereign's perfon and Government, the firmer his throne, and the wealthier 'hey are, the greater his revenues, and the greater his confeqnence among the monarchs of Europe. But it was the intereft of the English merchants to keep our

unftudied, and fo much to the good parfon's tafte, that filling out a bumper," Well then," faid here, "O'Conor, here is every thing that "is Irish, for it is orthodox" The two gentlemen then unbofomed theinfelves; the magic influence of good cheer brightened up new horizons for futurity, fancy revelled in new combinations, the Saturnian reign with all its golden harvests and innocent pleafures was anticipated, the hearts of the two neighbours were expanded by a confcioufnefs, that though they differed in religious opinions they differed not through worldly, but through honeft motives, and this rendered their convivial happiness more exquifite; it was a feaft of fellowship, and gave free courfe to the genial current of the foul.

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