called Grace O'Malle it is taken off he will recollect the grooms who put it on; and he has been known to bite and kick them in a dark stable, where they found it dif. ficult to save themselves He moves at an ambling pace, with pricked up ears and fiery eye, kas some bone and sinew, which make good judges think that he is a cross by a thorough bred horse, but that is a mistaken opinion, as he is a mere Jack Ass. The best race he ever run was against a famous thorough bred Irish horse, called Doctor of the real padreen breed-they ran for the petition stakes, over the constitution course there was not half a neck between them until they came to a place called the jury bog-mal, that there Doctor ran clean through the bog and he intends to kica Left Sarepole sticking in the middle of ran against a Jack Ass called it. He was so much hurt in dragging the race was over the Union-heath; for him out of the bog, that, he has been the insurrection plate, and Harlequin under a course of physic ever since, was barely distanced. He belongs to and is only now just fit to be seen. Val Percy, who got him in the handiHis sire Jack, was the memorable cap, when the celebrated Ass called post obit-sire Ballyfinn-great grand Ingrate, was broke down, in the race grand sire Whiskey-great great grand he ran against Bladderchops for the sire Confiscator who won the mulli- Emmet cup over the Sessions course. mast stakes, on the commons of cut- He has a fashon of backing, which throat, in the County Kildare. was ocoasioned by a Catholic Lawyer who rode him, and scalded his withers; he won the Attorney stakes, from a Jack Ass called Banker-crossing and jostling were allowed, and Harlequin got first to the post, by running out of the old course. When Percy rides him he always strives to keep the whip hand of his competitor, but he is generally foiled in this attempt; he brays loudly, and sets off from the starting post with great vigour, but comes in out of breath and fagged. He was got by Mongrel, upon a Jill Ass, cailed Blackmuzzle.-Grand sire, Alien-great grand sire, Barber-great great grand sire, Dogby. No. 3-LANK a thin rawney Jack, bad chest and narrow behind, but stands well on his haunches, and moves smoothly he was bred in England, and has a number of foreign tricks, which the jockeys of this country are unacquainted with. He is so quiet in the stall that the him the mannerly Ass; he and Sore pole were bought by an English jockey, called Val Percy, to run for the convention stakes, on the parliament course, but a groom having given all the figging to Sorepole, that was prepared for both; Sorepole was sent off grooms call to the races and Lank remained at home!! Val Percy entered him once against the best blooded and most spirited horse in Ireland, called George the race was to be ran on the yeoman course, for the magistrates plate, George's mistress, an old lady but No, 5-STENTOR-this Jack Ass was so named on account of his extra ordinary loud braying; he is apparently in good condition, but, thought by good judges to be rotten inside. He ran over the Union-heath for the Insurrection countenance. but, the is not be depended on; he was purchased sons me back by Val Percy, who rode him several races.The first race was against a country Ass called Pedlar, who was knocked up the first heat, and has been ever since in close keeping-he then ran against an Irish horse, called Shanavest, whom he so tertified by the loudness of his braying that, Shanavest died of the fright-Percy was so elated by winning those two races, that, he entered him for a race against an old Irish thorough bred horse, called Dele gate the race was run upon the Judges course, for the misdemeanour stakes.-Stentor, just as he sett off from the starting post began as usual, to bray most hideously, but, Delegate being high mettled, was not frightened by the braying, but, took up from the with such vigour and speed post that he distanced Stenter in a few minutes-Stentor then ran back over the course, braying all the time, to the very great amusement of the tators; many of whom had large bets depending on the race. Percy since rode him through Council-court, (near Castle-market,) where he started at the sight of the Anti-union post, which was used as a prop against a Silk Weavers house that was falling-He Aung Percy in the dirt, who is become so displeased with him, that, he sent him to Mr. Cox's Mews for sale. He was got by Schemer, upon Slamakin-grand sire, Proctor-great grand sire, Bell ringer-great great grand sire, Oysterman. (To be continued.) spec Catholic Cause never in Season. On the debate on the Prince Re gent's Speech, Messrs. Ponsonby, Perceval, and Tierney, exactly agreed that this is no time for discussing the case of the Catholics of Ireland. How naturally the trade of Parliament is performed? The ministers and opposi tion have no dispute on the expediency of again, and again postponing the season of inquiry which would promise any hopes of extending redress to the people of Ireland. Mr. Perceval says, vestigation of the subject; Mr. Ponit is not prudent to enter into an insonby agreed, and Mr. Tierney, as the Reporter expresses it, nodded ap his agents, and creatures in Ireland, probation; and yet, Mr. Perceval. and think it unseasonable to drag the same Messrs. Saurin, and Bushe, do not Catholics in the character of felons before the King's Bench, and there exhaust all the stores of vituperation, slander, and ignominy, against the same people. Our Parliament having sold us to a foreign legislature, under whose authe new Parliament in all that period, thority we have been near 13 years, and could never spare us one season to in vestigate our claims, or administer any relief; the season of redress is not yet to come, and the season of persecution and insult, is unceasing in its vigour, and unlimited in its duration. Our chapels are burning, our peo ple are butchered, and our gentry are dragged from their families, to the judgment seat, to hear themselves accused by every expert adventurer, of every species of treasonable criminality. The bar is sorted for the most ingenious and skilful in its ranks, to exercise their industry and talents, to of Ireland; the Ermine and the Coridicule and abuse the Catholic people ronet, are held up as the rewards of superior address; and through every gradation, every assortment of honors and emoluments, are distributed down to the dullest scribbler, and the meanest -thief-hunter. Poverty and vice, are sought for among the Catholic body; and the wretch who wants courage and industry, is inlisted to betray his brethren. The sacred rights of hospi tality are violated, and the man who fed and clothed the vile informer, is sold into the Castle like the beast of the field. The Brenans, Huddlestones, and Reynolds of the day are exchanging, the tears and blood of their brethren for an infamous subsistence. While one set of miscreants are preparing the rope on the hearth stone of the unsuspicious host, in the metropolis, privileged murderers are burning our chapels, and shooting our peasantry in the North; and Messrs. Ponsonby, Tierney, and Perceval, agree that the season of inquiry and redress is not yet in season! Lord Liverpool, in the same debate, told the House that if his Majesty's ministers were forced into any discussion on the affairs of Ireland, they were prepared to justify every measure lately adopted there, with the concurrence of the noble Duke at the head of the Irish government. Lord Liverpool undertakes to jus tify the recent measures used in Ireland against the Catholics. We know if the approbation of Parliament is a proof of justification, the noble Lord is justified. The Irish members who sold their country, and the English members who unanimously approve of the bargain, will justify Mr. Perceval, the Duke of Richmond, and their subor dinate agents; but will Ireland, suffering as she is, by the suppression of her industry, and the absence of her gentry, justify the degradation of five millions of men, and the vile agency employed to augment their sufferings? Can it be justified, that a system of Espionage so extensively and ingeniously organized, as to be made accessible to the most private recesses of domestic concerns, in violation of all the duties of gratitude, and all the sacred rights of hospitality? What will justify a minister, or a government, who seek the aid of the fraud of vile informers, and the legal assag sin, to excuse coercion and perpetuate a system of proscription against an intire nation? The eloquence of a Hutchinson, is to be combated by the perfidy of a Brenan, and the manly expositions of a Mathew, by the perjuries of such apostate wretches as a Reynolds, or a Huddlestone; and after ministers balance the honesty and policy of the senator, with the perjuries of the traitor, are the Irish people to be placed under military law, or judicial persecution? On the agencies of such monsters are we to be told our claims are not in season, while persecution, glowing in all the riotous license and plenitude of unrelenting severity blossoms in eternal spring, and unaltered succession. We hope this plain avowal of the Faction who govern, will have its due weight on the decision of the public mind, so much diverted from a rational and united effort, as to hope redress from any other source than a domestic legislature. A repeal of the Union, and Catholic Emancipation, are the two questions which comprehend the fate of every man in the country, and every man's prosperity, are the only objects worthy of our notice. A previous union of sentiment, and identity of interest, should be made obvious to the Irish mind, before it submits ità country to the mercy, or even the jus Irish Catholic Tradesmen and tice of a distant community, coming before the empire, and Europe in such a dignified attitude; Who dare refuse to the Irish people, what the Irish people demand? COUNTRYMEN, TO THE Peasantry. It appears from high and unquestionable authority, that, there exists an ingeniously ingeniously contrived conspiracy to divert you from your honest and quiet pursuits, into treasonable associations, false friends and profligate adventurers are the hired instruments, who are to lead you into premature excesses, on the pretence of assisting you to remove those political and civil disabilities, the immediate effects of a provincial government and extinguished legisla ture. Your numbers, or as Earl Grey says, your superabundant population, is a lasting object of jealousy and alarm to your enemies, yet, however formidable you may appear by your numerical strength, you are more so by pursuing a steady, silent, pacific and dignified course of tranquillity, you then can furnish no excuse for the adoption of martial law and subsequent extermination. It is a melancholy duty that a great and numerous people are to be advised to give no colour of justification to their destruction, which appears to be a favorite wish with those whose duty it is to protect them. That an uniform wish for your extermination, and various plans to carry it into effect, have had its advocates before this eventful period is undeniable, we need not go back to Cecil, or to old Sir C. Coote, compared to whom the revolutionary monsters Couthon, Le Bon, or Carriere were angels; for criminal as Lord Castlereagh may appear as a political character, we know he resisted an efficient plan of massacre, submitted to a certain body of men, by a certain man now alive. In the Irish Parliament his lordship hinted to this in the presence of the author of it, in the following words. "Were the people of Ireland who you are now cajoling by apparent patriotism, as intimately acquainted with you as I AM? You are the last states man in the country to whom they would give their confidence." The principle of extermination seems to be so well understood and valued, that a Major Bingham, a magistrate of the County of Mayo, who was con victed of gross oppression, produced two witnesses on the 28th of Novenber last, to prove his loyalty and acti vity in the years 1797 and 1798. Sir Simon O'M.ley and the Hoo. Denis Brown, swore that Major Bing. ham had extirpated a very considerable number of the peasantry in his neighbourhood, and so intimidated the survivors that they were compelled to seek refuge in the fastnesses of Cunnemara. This evidence was given as a proof, not of the Major's humanity I presume, but of his patriotism, as good and sufficient recommendation to the bench for a mitigation of punishment. A late decision of a jury was such an unexpected disappointment to your enemies, that, they have suspended legal assassination, and have adopted anothen plan to check the progress your remonstances, and to disgrace you in the opinion of your protestant countrymen. Your credulity, your passions, and your intrepidity, are cal culated on, by an infamous gang of conspirators, as the probable materials most likely to fire you into a system of insubordination, which was to bring you before the country as a restless and ungrateful body, on whom mercy is thrown away, and indulgence only invites to anarchy and depredation. Thus, a disappointed gang rendered infuriate, whose situation in power depends on public calamity, are exhausting every device that ever hell or tyranny invented, to commit you with your Protestant brethren, and by con. victing you of treason, of which you were innocent; reconcile your coun trymen to be the unpitying and ide witnesses of your extirpation. I have not quoted these recent cir cumstances to arouse your wrath, they are only intended to awaken your discretion, to reconcile you to your con dition, to teach you patience, loyalty and submission. The moment you are trepanned into violence and conspi racy, you are the guilty dupes of your enemies, and your children then becomes the legatees of lasting misery and legal infamy. Remember, that the person who invites you to premature insurrection is the agent of arrogant pride, and of desperate adventure. Your silence, your industrious, though unrewarded pursuits, and your sensible resistance to every species of agitators, are the best guarantees for your inevitable happiness. The vilest hireling furnished with legal consequence, aspires to distinction by your sensibility, and as long as you can suppress it, and as often as you can resist those intriguers the stronger you must be, and the weaker your opponents Attorney Generals, Solicitor Generals and Army Generals, and all the higher rabble, must be disappointed in their plans of provoking turbulence, whilever an unarmed people refuse to seek redress by an indiscreet exertion, founded on the presumption of their numbers; philosophy, right and justice, are but feeble arguments with the captive, and only laughable ones with the oppressor. I do not call on your indignation to be exercised outside of your cabbins, intemperance, they are the works of your most inveterate enemies, who are so exasperated, that, a Protestant jury refused you as victims, they wish to prove your criminality by leading you' into disgraceful excesses. If you esteem your country, if you seek for justice, do not seperate your cause from that of your country, and the Protestant will forget the prejudices of edu cation, by demanding what the arrogance of Britain dare not refuse-the restoration of a resident legislature. Time is on the wing, old fashioned follies and state quackeries have been detected; a new form has been given to Europe, and neither your rashness nor the temerity of your enemies, can urge its progress or delay its force. Your resignation is the best guide to success, your enemies are perishing in their own ruins, and your character, numbers, and geographical situation are known to the civilized world, and are the best materials to form a great nation. I have little more to say, but let your conduct be so regulated that no man can betray you, nor any party have an excuse to coerce you. ? let it, if it exists, be domesticated, Newgate, Feb. 1, 1812. teach it, if your consciences or your WALTER COX. sufferings justify it to your children, Sigh of Sorrow! of an unfortunate but never let it be the ladder to the elevation of your insulting and unrelenting persecutor. Be resigned, be cautious and patient, HE that regulates the destinies of nations has as much mercy for an Irishman as he has evinced for the new inhabitants of enfranchised America. The crimes of statesmen and the cant of bigots must disappear in Ireland, the youngest among you who can read, may discover on the page of modern history, the lesson of chastisement, in the disgrace and punishment of cotemporary tyrauts. I conjure you to be aware of the machinations, now working under the disguise of patriotism, to betray you into FOR FEBRUARY, 1812, VOL. V. O'Neill. |