been selected to succeed our present Reverend Chief Justice, as soon as the Prince Regent, prevents Mr. Perceval the Swaddler, of the power to persecute the Catholics. Kent the Huxterman, and preacher of the word, has been promoted to the office of Deputy Adjuster of Weights and Measures, by the Lord Mayor. M'Kenzie, retired to his seat, Tumbler George Grierson, Poet Laureat to the Farming Society, has divided the office with the uncle of Ebenezer Dix. Mr. Grierson, will in future, confine his odes and songs to Black Cattle, and his colleague is to devote his muse to Hogstyes. Serjeant Major Gribbins is appointed Surveyor of Whiten and Firebricks on the Custom-house Quay, as deputy to Mr. Cody, Foet Laureat to the Beef-stake Club. The Sergeant is to have the grazing of one Cow, on that part of the Quay, between the West-front and the old Scales. Major Sands, has been compensated for the losses he sustained by the Mass-lane Army, by the office of Guager and Taster of subscription Broth, lately established in the Town of Lucan, by the benevolence of Colonel Vesey, and Luke White, the Flying Stationer, for the comfort. Ned Breastset of Patrick's market, of Suffering Loyalists. Justices's Godfrey and Wills, are patenteed Purveyors to the establishment. Mr. Henry Johnston's two Nags, Paddy and Kitty, have been promoted in the dominions of his l'asteboard Majesty, Frederick, in consequence of the estimation of the Peter-street Dynasty, by the abdication of the Scotch Chieftain. The talents of the two new performers, have been honor ed by the patronage of the Duke of Richmond, and all the real admirers of the present tase for Theatrical representation. Mr. Josiah Treblescull, corporal in the 39 Civilizers, stationed at Lu can, for the checking of Sedition, and preaching the Word, has been appointed Ensign on electioneering services, by Luke White the Flying Stationer. In the event of Luke White being returned for the County of Dublin, Treblescull, is to carry the Stationer's Green Apron, as the triumphal Standard, and preparatory to this expected success, the Apron has been put into the hands of the young Ladies, who sold their petticoats to buy Bibles, that said Apron may be new fringed and ornamented. Zachariah Bradshaw, Trumpeter to the Royal Dublin Cavalry, to be Man-milliner to King William, vice FOR MARCH, 1812, VOL. V. Butcher, is promoted to the office of Pat Marley the Tailor, has been nominated to the care of Alderman James's wardrobe, preparatory to the next meeting of the Aldermen of Skinner's-alley, when a full length figure of the deceased Alderman, is to decorate the Hall of meeting dressed in the clothes he usually wore when living. The Popish Tanners. The Police Gazette has informed the public, that threatening letters have been written to the individuals who formed the Jury on Mr. Kirwan's trial. We have a direct denial that such assertion is not founded on the truth; as Mr. Rochford, the Bark merchant, of Townsend-street, one of the Jurors, so far from being considered as a person not regulated by liberal principles, never did more business than since the trial, for his warehouse is crowded every day with Popish Tanners from every part of Ireland, making purchases to the exclusion of every other man in his trade. This is a proof that the Catholics, have no interest in the sedi tious intention of separation, so justly ascribed to their demagogue leaders, by the Attorney General. Mr. Roch ford's Bark, like Giffard's Bark, is so loyal an astringent, we have no doubt, if it was at market, when our Hides were dressing in Beresford's Riding house, we would purchase it then, to preserve our skins, as we do now, to save our characters. Benevolence of a member of the Farming Society. Mr. Owen Wynne, of Hazlewood, County of Sligo, who is a leading man for encouraging the improvement of our rural economy, some time since, imported a very fine Suffolk Punch ' Stallion, for the purpose of introducing the breed of that description of horses into this country. This Horse he keeps at Hazlewood, and to make it useful to the neighbouring poor Farmers, had it made known, that they might have the use of the Horse for breeding, gratis. This mark of attention to the interests of the peasantry, was taken in a favourable point of view, and every person took the opportunity, by bringing their Mares! but after travelling ten or twenty miles, they had a trial to undergo, not included in the public notice, that the candidate beast should draw a certain weight on the spot, lest the object of distributing a proper race, should be defeated. The load, however, after repeated trial, has been as yet so far beyond the strength of the cattle,, used by the peasantry of that country, that the Stallion and his patriotie owner, are no longer resorted to.' The English horse and the Irish gentleman, continue to monopolize their respective services, neither the breed of the one, nor the benevolence of the other, have extended to the poor beyond Hazlewood Farm-yard. The Irish Language not perishable while English Law exists. The wished for decay of our language has been much accelerated by its uselessness in commercial transac tions, which, it must be admitted has contributed considerably to its extinc tion; but, the law, which was directed to abolish it, has very much con. tributed to its existence, particularly in the North of Iseland. One fraud begets another; the men, whose English education teaches there, to eradicate our tongue with our inde pendence, are the most leading instruments of preserving both.-These are country Attornies, who, to beguile the populace, pay every attention to the cultivation of as much of the Irish language as make them familiar to their clients, who are so seduced by the ap parent condescension of such a description of gentlemen, that they deposit with them the most important of their affairs and secrets. The Attorney thus becomes capable of being a ser vant of the state, by being enabled to be an informer, at the same time that he impedes the progress of dominius. by indirectly encouraging a tongue, which, by its difficulty, is calculated to impede foreign influence and general subordination. Pike Planting. This wonderful improvement in gardening, we believe, is peculiar to our climate, and is cultivated with great success, by a very active gentleman who resides within twenty miles of Chapelizod, in the County of Dublin; though he is not the inventor, yet, by his industry, and the assistance of a skilful deputy, of the name of Halpin, a Gardener, he has been enabled to add very considerably to his fortune: business has so much encreased, that, he has taken a young Clarke into his family, to keep his books and to nourish some young plants, from his. own original stem. The manner of license to carry it to perfection: the cultivation is simple, but, requires a Smith, and when formed, are deposited" plants are prepared by a confidential in the spring season, or in wintet, in some church yard; and very strange to say, this plant must be deposited at least, sixty miles from the residence of the proprietor. The County of Tipperary is at present the best soil to bring it to maturity, from the perturbation, which the " Unspotted Ermine" ascribe to it. In summer or harvest it is fit for Castle Market, as it must have the appearance of age, not by its real appearance, but, by the vegetation that covers it, because, in fact, it neither enlarges its dimensions nor en creases its number. It really is nothing more than an Iron Pike Head, and the person who digs it up has such an intimate knowlege of what it is, in number and form, that, he makes his profits out, merely by the accuracy of description. He sells it though he disavows it, and though it is not palatable to the purchaser, it is bought up with much avidity; and though detested where it is offered for sale, the person who sells it is rewarded, and the person to whom its growth is ascribed would be punished with the gallows. Such is the Pike Plant, it creates horror where it is bought, and the man who sells it is held in high estimation,at the sametime, that he who is said to have planted it, is declared to be a public enemy. So much for Pike Planting, by Wat Cox, and Will Cox. Mr. Bushe, the friend of Catholics. Judge Day was pleased to say, that Mr. Bushe is the best friend the Catholics have; we are at a loss to know how a man, who pockets money for prosecuting any body of men, can be their friend; we believe the Catholics are his best friends; their struggles to share the constitution have given him an opportunity of testifying his zeal, for continuing the present order of things, which, we think, is the best re commendation to his expected preferment. If the Judge would make us understand, that, Mr. Bushe's best exertions to keep us down tends to befriend us, by the terrors of the law, and reconcile us to the lesser evil of stupid inaction, and palatable slavery he is a friend; but, on any terms we do not understand his friendship. It must be humiliating indeed, if the people of Ireland would think themselves honored by an adventuring Lawyer, merely on the authority of his office; if so, the same power that lifted him from obscurity, may at pleasure erect any other man from the sweepings of the Bar, or the dregs of the police; and bid us, five millions of men, fall down before the legal image and worship the fungus, as the abject Israelites did the images set up by Nebuchadnezar. The Earl of Ormond, The London Papers inform us re peatedly of the dinners, equipages and other expences of the Irish gentry in England. We read nothing more aggravating than those narratives, they remind us of the perfidious and cruel men, who sold us by the Union, and after laying our industry at the feet of British monopoly, abandon us to spend the produce of our hands in another country, enriching strangers, and to add insult to poverty, they demand our allegiance from the ruins of our cottages, and the gloom of our couns ters. They consider it a political ingras titude, if cur unexampled degredation should produce one expression of indignity. They have, or appear to have such a notion of our stupidity, as to conceive the measures they take to oppose what they call the common enemy, is a full compensation, for the appearance of famine and indolence, that cover the entire country, as if it were to be understood that the most ruthless invader, could possibly increase our misfortunes. Two millions and a half of us never taste animal food, and besides, are destitute of clothes and lodging, the remainder are so encompassed with soldiers and tax-gatherers, R 2 and and so hunted out of their own mar On the exportation of Cattle. patronized to dispose of our supera bundant population, none of them, except the system of shooting carried on by the Orangemen, promise so effec tual a completion of the desired object, as the vast and alarming extent of the exportation of live provision. In the year 1808, the average price of beef in Dublin was at four pence per pound, in 1809 it was five pence, in 1810, six pence, and in 1811, s ven pence. Hence it appears that the price of this necessary of life has been nearly doubled, in the short period of three years. This shocking system in the first instance, tends to hurry the city of Dublin into the fate it must inevitably share, ruin and depopulation in consequence of the Legislative Union. The vast population of trades men and shopkeepers, are so reduced in circumstances, by the general emigration of the landed proprietors, who, to a man have abandoned the city, that they are not able to pay for provisions the same price they will bring in , the England, so that the double injury the conduct of the emigrants, and the pernicious policy of allowing another people to stand in competition with us in our own markets, must quickly dis perse the inhabitants of Dublin, were no other auxiliary in existence, but, unhappily for the devoted country, t exportation of live provisions has another fatal operation on our industry, by transfering the trade to England, the butcher, cooper, salter, tanner, skinner, shoemaker, saddler, book. binder and every other business de pending on them, are deprived to an immense extent of employment. The poor lose the coarser parts which in the season afforded a great abundance of wholesome food, and the entire people are left but the inferior des criptions of food, as the best only is selected in Smithfieid for exportation, The reader will see by this ex position, that the disappearance of Dublin, is not only inevitable, but by the policy under which it suffers, it appears to be a prin a principal object to effect its destruction. It is an immense expence to garrison it, and to maintain another very considerable disposable force in its vi cinity, to sustain the interior one, when necessary. Whenever, which cannot be very distant, that the consequences of the Union, and the banishment of our provisions, are in full maturity, and the city reduced to a population of ten or twelve thousand, instead of 300,000, it can be then no object of jealousy, a captain's guard, will be able to do any shooting and hanging necessary. By converting Ireland into a Draw Farm, which is her present condition, cultivation must cease, and the land becomes a monopoly in the hands of a few great Capitalists, who will be watching every lease as it expires, to add every acre in the country into their stock. The landlords who reside abroad, will encourage this system, as it will be more convenient and cheaper to collect their rents from one or two rich tenants,than from two or three thousand needy cultivators. The ministerial politician, to whom our numbers are so alarming, will give it his support, because the people can be dispensed with, where Grazing is exclusively the business, and in time, the want of lodging, employment, and food, will diminish this generation, and prevent any increase beyond the necessary demand in the next. The cabbins and ditches more will be levelled, to render the range convenient, and in a very few years, the safety and comforts of the English, so precarious in the opinion of those who consider our numbers, as an impediment to the physical force of Great Britain, that no more reasonable cause of jealousy can exist. A more tractable generation is to succeed us, who even by their death will contribute to the general welfare, Ireland will, in such condition be rendered as harmless as if she were sunk below the surface of the ocean; no enemy will undertake to stir up rebellion among Oxen, nor will Oxen attempt to rival their sovereigns in Britain, at the Loom or the Anvil. In point of economy as well as safety, the statesman will see the necessity of raising Butchers meat in Ireland, by which means, a quantity of land equal to the consumption of Corn in England, can be applied to that purpose, which will render the country independent of other nations, to whom in the year 1811, not less than five millions, five hundred thousand pounds sterling, was paid for Grain only. This immense sum can be saved annually, a vast and cheap addition to the British tables and manufactures, can be had from Ireland, and the untractable inhabitants extirpated. Important Extracts from News papers. In the year 1798, when the present Chief Justice of the King's Bench was tions, for the detection of traitors, a one of the under writers to proclamafor the disposal of such persons as the gallows was erected on Arbour-hill, Major or Beresford's Blood-hounds proscribed. On this gallows was written in good English," Grattan-Place." Things have so changed in the lapse of fourteen years, that, if it is deemed the King's peace, Gallows makers necessary to write the people out of will alter their sign posts, and instead of Grattan-Place, will substitute "Ireland-Place. PARLIAMENTARY POLITENESS. · Every person in each house of Parliament, without any distinction, agree, that, the Catholic claims are founded on just principles, and may one day be a proper subject for the liberality of the legislature. There is only one difference remains to besettled, the season; and on this part |