An Englishman is perhaps the most unfit of all the Nations in Europe to bear the vifcifitudes and privations of a long campaign. Reared from his youth within the walls of a workshop, expofed only to the warm ftea and fend airs of furnaces and forges, of poifonous metals and animal effluvia, his conftitution wants the natural and invigorating turdinefs which a rural life poffeffes above that of the forge or the mine This Englishman taken from his natural element of filth and vapour, falls a victim to the pure air, and athletic life of the tent.d field perishes with the dyfentery or fills under his Arms in the arduous march It is to the Irish or Scotman is left to struggle against the laborious varie

The Prophecy

THERE will be oppreffive laws and corrupt Judges. The arts of chicanery will become adulterous and tyrannic, they will neglect no means of hoarding money. The women will forfake female manner, indelicacy of speech and action they will not even hide. The earth will deny its fruits. at the period I allude to; a hifling uncouth dialect will become the language of converfation eavy fcourges will affect the children of men They will all fall under oppreffion, through difobedience to the Son of Mary. he pofterity of Carrh and Logam will be expelled fro their territories, from Cathel, no longer to be Chieftains Strang ers and Churls will occupy their places; the noble tribe of O'Brien will be driven beyond the clear ftream of the Shannon. Who fhall exterminate the race who have inherited the regal fway over the land? TAL me Q'Scandain the unpleafant tale. A barbarous and merciless hoft

Reared and

ties of a military life. educated, very unfrequently within the walls of a regular habitation, they never experience any alteration from an artificial atmosphere, never houfed, but literally hutted, allways in the field they may be faid to be allways encamped, and to this hardy life, to which their poverty binds them, are they indebted for that fuperiority as Soldiers. It is from this gallant race of men England muft refort to for Soldiers, whenever her pride feeks laurels, or her speculations demand new markets, her population may ftand unrivalled in making nails or fciffors, but their inferiority to an Irish Army is evident when placed in the military contest.

of Seandain.

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will come to Munfter, arrayed in iron armour, the work of the smith; the Saxon cavalry will come to waste the fair borders of Erin. They will be rulers of all Ireland two hundred years until they maffacre the people without having declared war; they will betray each other, and their dominion will be diffolved; they will the the fword and axe in each other's blood. The Son of Saxony's King will come with fuccours unto them across the main; he will feparate from royalty the Goill of the country whence he came. The Goill and the Gheil of Erin will join hand in hand against the host of Saxony, and their blood will not be diffolved. The Son of the King of S xoay will march at the head of the Saxon hoft; Erin will be undaunted. One ruler will rule the Goill an 1 the Gheil of Erin; thence forward they will be Arangers to diftrefs.

SAD is the fate of Erin: her fons distracted by mutual ftrife; the Goill and the Gheil by the hair of the head (as daggers drawn) the Gheil will smart until Streangala comes to Derry. The Saffanachs will rule the main. The Gheil will degene rate from their anci n: virtue, they will be piteoufly oppreffed. And justly oppreffed, for evil they, and evil the report. Vice, perverfeness, iniquity, treachery will mark the clergy generally.

All the Gheil, will be held in chains by a noncommuning Clergy, feven score yerrs. At the expiration

of the seven score years, Streangalla will come with a fleet to the Lough, with a bold band of heroes in his train: the battle will be fevere, and almost a mutual falling; the dead will be more numerous than the liv ing. The men of fhipping will be laughtered; the power of the Goill will be annihilated, the Gheil will be three days from dark to dark defeating them. treangalla is the heroe who will put an end to the power of the Goill, Thence forward all the

fons of Erin will live in perpetual amity.

THERE will be one adminiftration, one law on both sides of the Irish channel, with one cord and foot and measure, and illegal laws. The Goill and the Gheil of Ireland will form a ftrict bond of union, with one hand against the tyrant churls. The fon of the king of Saxony fhall arrive; I long for the day, and not through love of him, for after his arrival with a proud retinue, the churls will be driven across the main. hat fon who fhall arrive athwart the main, accompanied by an hoft of Goill, with hoftile intent, who makes a quick race, though he involved many regions in trife and war; he

will fight a fierce and hard fought battle, but he and his holt will be flain at the north fide of Magh Maiftin. Another royal youth will fly to his aid courageoufly, he and his holt fhall fall in the great battle of Maif'tin. The Goill will come from the eastern borders of Spain to avenge their defeats (though unlikely fuch an event) the battle will be fought at Saingil; neither Goil or Ghei! ever fought fuch a battle in Ireland. That 'battle I affirm) the thundering battle of Saingil will plunge the churls into defpair, they will be wretched A valiant chief of the fugitives. race of Dalgais will guide the fight

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of fierce havock, until they rout from Muntter's fertile plains the race of haughty tone. Three days the fight fhall rage against the fons of tyrats, on the third day there fhall remain but a feeble fcanty remnant. The five divifions of Erin fhall rife upon them, like overwhelming torrents, and the elements fhall tremble at the uproar and havock. The pow erful chiefs of the Saxon race will rife to exterminate the inhabitants of Erin; it is the thing that cannot be done.

Sraongal will come to Derry, who will not fpare the blood of warriors; in a month after the battle he will

have no more enemies to combat Sraongala, who arrives at Derry in the north, and Aodbjodag the victo rious, at a diftant day the battle of Sheana fhall give them lafting fame. I will no longer dwell on this theme. After the churls will be overwhelmed with calamity, great as fhall be their crimes, ftill greater fhall be their forrow. How long, O God! until that youth fhall come to deliver us from the bondage of the Goill, fo that their might thall come to an end after the day of Dundaleahglafs? That youth who fhall fuccour Sanba, fhall not be a king but a chief ruler (roydamna.)

THIS tract appears from the file to be very ancient, it is accompanied with a comment of feveral hundred years antiquity; yet withal it is in feveral places extremely difficult to make out the meaning, partly on ac. count of obfolete words, not to be found in any Dictionary, and partly by reafon of allufions to customs and things long ago abolished and forgotten. It is by way of dialogue between Neide and Feircheirtne. Neide relates the prosperity of Ireland; upon which Feireheirtne in his turn relates the fubfequent adverfity as followeth :

I have a truly fearful tale to relate; evil times will arrive; there will be many heads, rights will be few in them days; cattle will be unfruitful, generofity will abandon men, plunder and oppreffion will abound, and in

ftead of lawful chiefs there will be lawlefs oppreffors. The multitude will be deprived of the comforts and pleasures of existence; chariots will pafs over bogs; the choiceft plains of Ireland will be wafted by foreigners; the rights of freemen will be difregarded; truth and juftice will avail little in the Courts of Law; crooked maxims will be laid down as the rules of decifion. Pride and vanity fhall impel every and all to ape what they are not to quit their proper fhapes) infomuch that neither age nor merit, literature nor rank, fhall be regarded. The cultivators will be oppreffed by the exactions of the idle; the gentry will be deprived of their rights, and the common peo ple will be flogged. Religion fhall de cay; neither God nor man fhad be honoured churches will be burat

[To be Continaed.],

Life of Mr. C. O'Connor Continued from page 382.

longed to fee. To pass a critical judgment upon it, I am in no refpect qualified, and if I make bold to give my opinion, it is on condition that while you live, you will keep it to yourself.

The cause therein defended in refpect of good policy, I have always thought a juft one, and the arguments therein judged for it, ftrongly conclufive. The author feems to fpeak from the integrity of his heart, his own, and the fentiments of all the fenfible, worthy, unbigotted part of his clients. but too justly I doubt their being fo, of the great and potent majority; and that if the point were feriously put into agitation, whether he could obtain a refpectable fubfcription among them, to the declaration of which he has adventured to draw the outlines. This defence reminds me of the cafe of the Bishop of Meaux His Expofition de la Foi Catholique, by qualifying fome of the molt exceptionable tenets of the Church of Rome, and by explaining others of them away, was extremely well adapted to determine the wavering minds of fome of the leaders of the Hugonits. But when he profeffed to fpeak the fenfe of his church, it plainly ppeared he did not, and the power of the greatest Prince in Europe, to whom he was favourite and minifter, could, after feveral years foliciting,, obtain him a cold brief from his Holinefs, conceived in very general terms of approbation, and fome compliments from Cardinals and heads of orders; and it is imagined, the fame authority preferved him from a violent profecution. The fate of the honeft author of the Cafe, I apprehend may be fomewhat fiurilar.-Shall incur the danger of

your condemning me for want of difcernment, when I tell you, Imagine I fee fome of the features of the author of the Differtations in this work. Not to speak o: file, I infift on the ftrong and mafculine lineaments of a free, a manly, and an unprejudiced mind, which are extremely vifible in both. I with the Roma Catholics fuccéfs in an application to take off the reftraints that neceffity at firft impofed, and as charity inclines me to think, a juf tifiable fear only continues.

Of this I am well affured, that this will never be a rich or a happy and, until Chriftians of all denominations in it, equally and fincerely co-operate to promote to the public weal, I am, Sir,

powerful men in ages patt, had poffeffed half the integrity and candour of your honeft toul, the Chriftian religion would not have been made a pretext for the horrible mischiefs which have been committed. May you preferve, Sir, to the laft inftant of your life, that purity of heart, which, whatever may be your mode of worship, will make you a welcome gueft in the manfions of the bleffec.

I am,

With the utmoft efteem,

Your mcft obedient humble fervant,

N. BARTON.

I have no obfervation to offer on these letters, but fuch as are obvious to every reader of common information. It is notorious, that Bouffet's expofition of the Catholic faith, was univerfally approved of by all the Catholic Prelates of Europe. When a doctrinal book written by a Bishop, and particularly a Bishop of very great character, is not condemned by Rome, every one knows that this filence is equivalent to approbation; but Boffuet's expofition was not only never condenined; it was approved of exprefsly by Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, heads of orders, and by the parochial and inferior clergy, who tranflated it into all the languages of the Catholic countries of Europe, and it would be tirefome to enumerate all the editions it has gone through in Naples, Tuscany, Venice, Milan, Genoa, Sicily, and Rome, where, for the use of the Eastern Chriftians, it was published in the Arabia, Perfian, Armenian, and other Oriental

languages, by the congregation de propaganda Fide.

When comes it then, that against evidence fo palpable, it fhould be afferted, that it did not exprefs the doctrines of the Catholic Church?

I have remarked every where in the hiftory of Chriftianity, from the days of the Corinthians and the Ebionites, to thole of the prefent perfe. cutions, that in religious debates calumny prevailed more than argument; that fome invented, and others propagated the invention; and that many of the latter, who were men of great learning, candour, and good nature, really believed what they propagated. The primitive Chrittians were accufed of eating hu man flesh at their meetings on Sundays; and this story was believed not only by the credulous, but even by fome of the more benevolent, as well as the more enlightened philo fophers. (See Eufebius paffim.)

The Roman Catholics of thefe kingdoms have been in like manner accufed of holding the most abomi nable doctrine --They have difavowed those doctrines in the most folemn manner that it was poffible for human wit to dev.fe, and whenever they expounded their principles with the fame folemnity, their expofitions were faid to be calculated merely to explain away or to qualify cbioxious principles. Many an ho nett and learned, man content with fecond hand reading, has adopte this opinion, without confidering that nothing can be more unfair, than to pronounce fentence on any fe& merely from the writings of its opponents.

Lord Nairne, with whom I have been acquainted in Rome, adhered to Prince Charles Stuart to the day of his death.

(To be Continued.)