who is so sedulous to ingratiate himself with the English cabinet, in the pursuit of public honors and employments, express so much deference for public opinion, because, nothing but a decided contempt for public piion can make him acceptable to the English minis ters Mr. Plunket's apparent wish to appear respectable among his naked and betrayed countrymen, is an act of contrition that can do him no injury, only with those gentlemen, who have "unsport d ermine," and heraldic baubles to dispose of. We are however, obliged to say, though Mr. Plauket acquits himself of conducting the prosecution, against Mr. Emmet, he has not cleared his reputation of an unnecessary act of cruelty, because, his speech, which so ingeniously aggravated the feelings of the youthful victim, was decidedly out of season, as the prosecution was over, the witnesses dismissed, and the young man made no defence. There is one disadvantage attending the aspiring steps of Lawyers in this country, by the act of union; they have no public manner of exhibiting themselves to the notice of the English government, but at the Bar. Mr. Plunket was made Attorney General shortly after the trial of Mr. Emanet. Canal Making. no A parson who signs himself " Siranger," in the Freeman's Journal, of the 31st, ult. appears angry at our description of Canal making, in January Magazine. He has corrected our measurement of the Grand Canal, the poor man appears by the intimacy he shews with the Canal, to be of the wise acres, who were deluded into ditching, for the purpose of diverting the Irish mind from any speculations, on that ready made canal the ocean. He does not attempt to deny that the same canal is useless in a country. without trade, or manufactures, particularly in Ireland, no part of which is fitty miles from the sea. The Gen tleman does not refute us, by saying the capital employed on our naked canals, if applied to foreign traile, would have remunerated the heedless dupes, instead of reducing them to bankruptcy. He does not deny, that America has built 400 cities, trebled its population, and added more than 14 000 ships to her commercial ca pit, in half the same period that our eanal-men, were digging a chasm of 106 mi es in length. Bounties for Soldiers. The American Congress have pass ed a law, for allowing a bounty of DRED AND SIXTY acres of sixteen dollars, and ONE HUN. land free of rent for ever, to every man who enlists for five years. The crowds of unfortunate Irish, whom the Orangemen drove to America, are not so badly situated as their ene mies intended; every one of them, can have an estate, on engaging for children, for doing what their na tive years, secured to their wives and tural courage and gratitude would perform for nothing. The difference and American soldiers is so afflicting, between the condition of Europeall, that it must create pain by the com parison. In Europe, the soldiers family is left to starve, exposed to all the evils incident to extreme poverty. In America, the soldiers children, may repose on a real estate, and under their own Fig tree. not know what an Orangeman was? There is not a man in Ireland who does not know what an Orangeman is, and does not know that every Orangeman is a sworn enemy to a Catholic, and that there is a high distinction allowed to a certain part of that community, known by the name of purple marks men, i. e. a man who has shed PAPIST'S BLOOD, by the musket, triangle or gallows. Among other features which distinguished this prosecution of the people of Ireland, we call the attention of our readers to the Attorney General's assertions, when the Counsel for the Traverser objected to having Orangemen on a Catholic Gentleman's jury. He answered he did not know what an Orangeman was,' and insisted it was no legal objection. Had the Attorney General been an obseure stranger, We say, a man who holds an high lately arrived in this country, like his Law Office, who is so far a stranger, French Parent, and our language, his-to our history, as not to know what tory and manners unknown to him, we an Orangeman is, is not qualified to might credit him when he said, He did hold his situation. Solution to Mr. Manion's Problem, in December Magazine, BY THE PROPOSER. THE last xed by and the former taken from the product, there remains b c^—bc3—cC—d, hence b=c+2+4cb-46 hence B-400 C=300 andA= 2 c2 Moon, per HUTTON'S pound, at the moon : 600 then 1200 : 582: 500 then the amount or weight of the wares in the rule was found thus: One pound now weighed hence 20 ton weighed 63 Tons, at 90 per, comes to each man's share put into his part, £242 108.=A 194, B 145 10s. C as required, and as one pound on the Earth, 20 in the Sun, per dr. rule; the Sun is the planet we would gain the most in, as required. FOR JANUARY, 1312, VOL. V. M Solution Solution to Mr. Melin's Question, in December Magazine, BY THE PROPOSER. Let n 5 pounds, a 1000 x the real momentum of the body, then per law of motion will be the velocity of the ball, on the plane of the horizon, Vm n then per Desagulier's experimental and philosophical operations Vm thea 63. 25 nearly then per properties of inclined plane, 63. 25:: 56lb 90 rad: : 79° 63' the elevation of the plane required. n2 Solution to a Question in the Irish Magazine, for December, 1811, entitled, "NEW PROBLEM!" It requires but a superficial knowlege of the Elements of Geometry, to demonstrate that when the area of any right lined triangle is equal to its perimeter, the diameter of the inscribed circle will be a constant square number, namely 4, and in every right angled triangle the sum and difference of the hypoteneuse, and one of the legs, will be always squares, (when the generating quantities are rational numbers, and the difference of the hypothenuse and the other leg, always half or double a square, this being premised take 2x8+ 1 and 2x3 for the generating numbers, then 8x6+4+; 8x6+4 and 4+ I x3 x6 will be the sides aniversally, x being any number at pleasure, either whole, fracted, positive or negative. For example: let x=1, then the sides will be 13:. 12, 5, if x 2, the sides will be 33025 33024 257 and from this 64 64 enunciation infinite answers will be found to this puerile problem. JOHN MORAN, Surveyor and Valuator of Land. N. B. 5x 12x6 13x6 will be the sides universally, but this method leaves all the triangles similar to each other, which is avoided by taking the generating numbers 2x3+1 and 2×3 as above. Original Poetry. Your giving place to the following epigrammatic effusion, will oblige A CONSTANT READER. It may be necessary for the better understanding of it, to give an account of the circumstances which gave rise to it, it is thus.In the Parish of Drumcliffe, in the County of Sligo, near the town of Sligo-there is a very ancient burying place, on the walls of which, and in different places adjacent, were large stone Cresses-a part of which have been destroyed by time and accident, others by religious zeal-and one of which lies now prostrate, directly opposite a very fine steeple,—the then Rector Mr. Wynne was erecting contrary to the wishes of the major part of the Parishioners, as a very heavy cess was laid on them, to defray the expences of it-while the cross lies neglected, covered with dirt and rubbish.. Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Before the recreant Rector's eyes, 'Tis wise no doubt to build to fame, A great Mack in this town, son to an ostier. Son to a broken merchant, drives grains home. (Mr. Cox, you must know, Sir, that he cut me up some time ago). |