au He answered, that "Many an tumnal sun had tanned his cheek, and many a winter's unrelenting cold had pinched him sore; that various were the revolutions and vicissitudes that had happened within the compass of his recollection, and which, says he, you could with difficulty credit were you otherwise unacquainted with them." I am a lineal descendant from the noble race of Uister's Kings, tho' thus secluded from the rest of mankind, by the unfavorable allotment of fortune. My birth was the joy of my father, and the great source of my mother's delight. They looked on my progressive advancement in learning and virtue, with the fond hope that on a future day it would be to them and myself, a fund of solid consolation. When I had thus engrossed the affections of my parents, 1 was snatched from their embraces to serve his Britannic Majesty against the incursion of a neighbouring foe. When the olive of peace was extended, and received on both sides, I returned home to ease the anxiety of afflicted parents. On my return I found that the cruelty of death had robbed me of my mother, who, unable to support the sorrowful sensation of seeing me depart to meet that death which she thought inevitable, fell into a lowness of spirits that terminated her existence. Not long after my father followed to his dreary mansion, and I was left friendless and abandoned in a country of intolerance. I had inherited, it is true, a considerable paternal estate, and I resolved, if possible, to make myself happy in its enjoyment, by a strict adherance to the regulations of virtue and decorum. I entered the matrimonial contract, that thus I might the more easily reduce to practice this suggestion of wisdom. Heaven bestowed on me a partner who stood unequalled in virtue and beauty, ་་ and my heart exulted at the reflection that one of such desirable accomplish. ments was to accompany me through life, and cheer nie amidst the gloom of worldly solicitude. Her conversation was unusually pleasing, and her very appearance captivated even the indifferent beholder The silent eloquence of her eye taught me to pursue aner ringly the paths of rectitude that di rectly led to ultimate happiness. But always to possess her, was a blessing too rare amidst the instability of sublunary enjoyments. Here he paused, and I took occasion to ask him, if ever he stood distinguished on the list of heroes, or if the feats of valor had consigned his name to immortality? He answered, (and the reply evinced a soul truely magnanimous that to decorate his brow with laurels, earned by human carnage, was an honor of which he never wished to boast. That he always esteemed the virtuous patriot, the bravest soldier, and the man designed by indefectible wisdom for the peculiar privilege of an ever-living fame. For my part, continues he, I invariably held him the most valiant that was most useful to society, that indefatigably strove to relieve the sufferings of humanity, that fostered the infant growth of a free administration, whilst with an unabating activity, he endeavoured to repel the invasion of pitiless oppression. The renown of heroes vanishes, and their glory fades, if not acquired in restoring the rights of justice, or in exertions in the cause of universal liberty. THALETIDES. (To be continued.) Important Extracts from Newspapers. Neither of the two candidates for the representation of the Coun y of Dublin attended the Catholic Dinner. Colonel Faulkner we think would not omit such an opportunity of making a speech, if he was not prevented by some very untoward circumstance. Perhaps the late invitation which he gave in the newspapers to his creditors to meet him, did not terminate in as E 2 friendly friendly a manner as the ci-devant senator expected; and that, consequently, they did not allow him to go out on public business. If nothing else but the apprehension of meeting Barney' Coile, deterred Luke White, the flying stationer, it was sufficient apology for the non-attendance of the man of let ters. was LORD DUNSANY. This noble Lord made a speech at the Catholic meeting, and expressed much good wishes for the success of the measure of Emancipation. There no Protestant gentleman who speecched on the occasion, was heard with more approbation and pleasure than his Lordship, because there was not another in the room better acquainted with the subject, for we be lieve his Lordship has not had sufficient time to forget the missal instruction of his youth. The Deprofundis, Ave Maria, and Salve Regina, must have made such an impression on the first thirty years of a man's life, that all the pursuits of senatorial ambition could not obliterate. It is one of the greatest frauds that has accompanied the act of Union, that when a gentleman had qualified himself to sit in the Irish Senate. The san e senate was extinguished to the prejudice of the new adventurer. LORD LOUTH. estate that is not visibly out of sight, as Sir Boyle Roche would express it. COUNTY OF TIPPERARY. This fruitful county was never so far from " Perturbation," as Judge Osborne said, than it is at present.. This appearance of loyalty and hap piness, owes a great deal to the civiliz ing influence of the gallows, bar ser mons, and unspotted DAYS. A fellow who would formerly watch a whole night to murder a pig for travelling to England, is so much afraid, or ashamed of having his insubordination brought before DAY, that he has resigued every potion of trespassing on the laws, by eating animal food, buts ter, and bread; he now reconciles himself to the honest abundance which his five pence a day gives to his wife and children, and the County of Tipperary is at last delivered from those disturbances which so long disgraced it; happiness and tranquility have suc ceeded unprovoked rebellion, as Lord Castlereagh very properly said of the insurrections of the lower orders. BARRACK BUILDING. There is a barrack capable of containing seven thousand men, occupy, ing near seventeen acres, now nearly compleated on the Naas road, S W. of Dublin. As a military position, it is very judiciously situated, as it commands the neighbouring country, co This noble Lord since his enlarge- vers Dublin from any renewal of such ment from Newgate, has devoted his predatory incursions as we suffered in leisure hours to rural economy. He the year 1803 from that head-quarters has not left one inch of the mearing of Kildare traitors, the town of Naas. fences on his estate, where an invisible This barrack can form a junction tree could sprout, as every possible with the great barrack on the north space is now so occupied by real trees, side of the river by Island-bridge, that not less than forty thousand have and with the intermediate artillery barbeen planted this season, all of which racks in a few minutes; and as it is on are registered according to law. If the banks of the Grand Canal, it Mathews, who cut down his Lordships could with equal facility detach part invisible Ash, for which his Lordship of its garrison to assist the foot bar was in sewgate, attempts to repeat rack at Portobello and the great the same kind felony, he will be de- barrack near it, should the Byrnes, tected, as there is not a tree on the Tooles and Cavanaghs attempt to de horse scend scend from their hills to disturb the to rest. He must steal straw, to re- to a man Bar gal is not threatened with one, and be J be removed. But instead of taking any due means to know can we be admitted into the society of men, they are building barracks, which is almost tantamount to an acknowledgment, that the Hirish, are something more than brutes, as armies are seldom stationed to watch the motion, or reduce into civilization the brute inhabitant of the forest. We learn, that Thomas Reynolds, Esq. late of Kilkea-castle, and at present post-master of Lisbon, has arrived in this city on a visiting excursion. He dined with Sirr, on Sunday, and is engaged to partake of a festive treat to be given by Corporal Biblemouth, in honour of the Major's birth-day, on the tenth of next month. Mr. Reynolds, attended by the wrestling Doctor, waited on Captain Huddleston in the Sheriff's Prison, where the Doctor recited an elegant ode he has written for the Major's festival. The three Catholic gentlemen spent two hours together, and were on the point of ordering dinner, when the Doctor received a billet from Mount Jerome, desiring his immediate attendance to revise a couple of paragraphs, written by another literary friend in praise of the firm, for the Hibernian Journal. COUNSELLOR CLINCH'S NEW BOOK. The Counsellor is busily employed making a book, against Columbanus, or Charles O'Connor';-the learned unintelligible visionary cannot be cured of his passion for scribbling, neither the ridicule his nonsense is treated with, nor the serious injuries it has inflicted on the circumstances of his stupid em. ployers, deter him. He still con tinues to hazard his liberty with seme credulous paper-maker to put forth his voluminous literary smoke jack. After nursing and physicking the poor Evening Express into a premature death, and bringing his Ffrench friends into so perilous a condition, that no thing but a judicious flight could save them from the Mass-lane army, the wretched unemployed lawyer, persists to exercise his incurable taste for fame and eating, by the most ludicrous exhi bition of learning and folly, that ever dirtied paper. HIBERNIAN JOURNAL, This paper may be said to be the Mount Jerome Gazette. Dr. Brenan and his friend Capcain Huddleston have the entire Editorship. The Doctor conducts the inside part of the bu siness, the Captain acts as collector of events. On Tuesday the 17th of December, this official paper was nearly filed with abuse of the Catholics and their dinner, and as usual full of panegyric on John Keogh, and his patriotism. The public will learn with astonishment, that a certain little chattering priest, is engaged as news purveyor to this firm of vagrants. THE DUKE OF RICHMOND'S LI BERALITY. The most noble Duke has rewarded a person of the name of Swift, a lawyer, who appears sometimes in the Recorder's Court, with an appointment as Counsel to the Castle, and a salary of 400 a year, We understand the services that have recommended this gentleman to our chief governor's patronage, are the exercise of his literary talents, as editor of "the Patriot," against the pretensions of the Catholic people of Ireland, whom this man has designated as Romanists, Seperatists, Anti-Unionists, Conventionists, followers in a religious way of what this Marcus, Camillus, and Martin, is pleased to say of " their MARY." His Grace's administration has been distinguished by the liberal bounties, conferred upon every species of adventurers, who evince an hostility to the unfortunate men who form the population of Ireland, and the best defences of the empire. Giffard, one of this hired gang, has 20001. a year; Major a pension of Sirr was accommodated commodated with a system of Police, MR. WALSH, Walsh's eloquence appear more conspicuous than on the last introduction of the Catholic petition, the prayer of which he ridiculed with a consider able flow of irony, and refuted its advocates by a most interesting display of polemical argument and historical knowledge. If Mr. Walsh is hanged, we will undertake to collect all his speeches as a law-maker and a malefactor, for the entertainment of our readers, to which we will prefix his likeness in the humble attitude of a public orator on the Old Bailey trapboard. Banking. 'The Chief Jugsmeller of the Dukestreet division of Police, pays great attention to his part of Sabbath du ties. From what we learn of his in A Member of the Imperial Parliament. On Thursday the 11th of December, a Member of the Imperial Parliament, Benjamin Walsh, Esq. was taken into custody for robbing Sir Thomas Plomer, another Member of the same legislature of 15,000l. and the magistrates of Bow-street, London, after examining the honorable law-maker, and hearing the testimonies against him, committed the gentleman to Newgate. Mr. Walsh, before he committed this felony, was a distinguished speaker in the House of Commons. His speech on the necessity of perpetuating martial law in Ireland, is a masterly picture of British policy, and a classical delineation of the savage manners of the mere Irish. When the bill, since named the Insurrection Act," was introduced, on which occasion Mr. Grattan distinguished himself by his cordial support of that salutary measure, for interdicting his countrymen from wandering from their houses at night, burying pikes, and corresponding with the French at unseasonable hours, On seeing the Paving stones torn up in Mr. Walsh displayed much constitutional knowledge, and becoming abhorrence of the spirit of insubordination manifested by the incorrigible Irish rebels. On no occasion did Mr. dustry, we expect his piety will be rewarded by uncommon success, and well-earned opulence. Mr. Manning, like another Police officer, now living, may one day, not very distant, be a Banker. In fact, he has a greater chance of arriving to such eminence than any grocer or publican in his province. Loyalty deserves its reward, but it is not prudent, though it is scarce and valuable, to allow it to reward itself. Counsellor Guinness, who has more law and learning in his head than Mark Magrath, Justice Blacker, or Dixon the Duke's_bootmaker all together, will see the neces sity of not allowing a man to be a banker before his turn. Smith, of the Major's office, by age and services, is best intitled to be the next banker, if he does not lose his promotion, by his present confinement in Newgate. When Major T-r took away th' stones, HAKESPEAR. T. Mathematical |