from the superficial observer, but the guilty nonsense and fraud, is ridiculed by every honest man of understanding. Stranger. I believe there is no other example in the history of nations, where the people have been such an object of jealousy that their increase should create alarm, where every attention is paid to the brute creation, and man made unhappy. He is allowed to starve in the fields he cultivates, and the beast, and the stranger enjoy all the produce of his labour, and to heighten the climax of oppression, the highest dignitaries of the Church are among the Agents of this cruel system. I must say not one of your public institutions, that is not governed by principles so distinct from either religion or humanity, as to provoke the indignation of every reflecting mind, and it is only to an intimacy with the multitude of artificial evils that shew the necessity for the vast military force - that chequers the entire country. Every public act, expresses a decided contempt to domestic industry, to popular regard, and to public spirit; your Farming Society is regulated by all the policy which marks the progress of an unfeeling conqueror, and a giddy Despot. Citizen. We had better change the =subject of our amusements, and leave the shameful and ridiculous imposition, to the reflections of its managers, until a people they have sold, and now starve, be rescued from unprecedented degredation, by the intervention and mercy of providence. THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL. Citizen The Lying-in Hospital was built for the charitable purpose of giving refuge and medical assistance to poor women, the wives of industrious people,in an advanced state of pregnancy whose circumstances would not allow the necessary aid of surgical assistance, it, was supported by the contributions of the rich, and by Public amusements, exhibited in the Gardens, and the ad FOR APRIL, 1812, Vol. V. joining building the Rotunda. The real intention and motives for founding this Hospital, was to relieve the Subscribers from the inconveniency of having their servants in their Houses, during the time of their sickness or delivery, and to obviate the expenses of medical attendance, and maintenance. The funds and other resources of the institution have fallen almost to nothing by the emigration of the gentry, who have to a man abandoned the Country since the Union. Stranger. The principle of your gentry extends every where, even in the constitutiou of this house, and carries its hostile and pernicious policy through it, its subsequent decay has been produced by another criminal act of theirs, the sale of the legislature. Citizen. The next public establishment, in this neighbourhood is the Linen Hall. Stranger. I hope this great national establishment, is an exception to the servile submission to English monopoly, which so generally distinguishes your pnblic institution. Citizen. We have no establishment that is such a mockery on industry, so injurious to our manufacturing enterprize as the Linen trade, which was assigned to Ireland by the English, for the purpose of enticing us to resign the manufacture of Woollens. The fraud it protects and the wretchedness it perpetuates, may be explained in a few words. It, or the monopolizing cruelty that directs it, names it our Staple trade, a nonsensical appellation which the dullest mind will detect for the absurdity it conveys. The staple manufacture of a country, should be that, of which the materials that compose it, can be the easiest obtained, now, the materials of the Linen are so circumstanced, that a long and expensive voyage must be undertaken to procure them, and so precarious is the trade, that the caprice of an enemy, and the perils of the seas render it so variable, that it is frequently in danger of being Y nearly nearly ruined or extinguished altogether. The Woollen Trade, which England has compelled us to assign to her, is not liable to any of those inconveniencies, the material grows in immense quantities at every man's door, subject neither to the interposition of an enemy, nor to the expenses and dangers of distant voyages. Pos sessed of such obvious superiority, and every advantage by which industrious pursuits are best rewarded, we were forced and betrayed by those who ought to be guardians of our industry and independence, to give up our Woollen Trade, which nature intended for us by the facility with which its primary materials can be had, and to pursue the Linen Trade, which cannot be accomplished, without the concurrence of the People of the United States of America. The History of this oppressive and unjust system under which trade and industry languishes. would be as significantly expressed, if we only said a Foster guides our miserable industry, and the Linen Hall, the monument in which is buried the real and substantial sour ces of wealth, and agricultural prosperity. Stranger.I see, you have not one institution that is not ruled by English rivalry, nor any man in whose hands the direction of your industry is deposited, that is not part of the political and civil machinery under which you sicken, and by which the natural resources of the country are conveyed to enrich others. Citizen -The clock of this Bri. tish edifice announces Dinner time, and for the present we will discontinue our investigations. Exeunt Omnes. Larry Yesterday the long pending cause between Larry Tighe the new gover. nor of Bridewell, and Mrs. Warren, widow of the late person who held the situation, was finally determined, before a committee of the Battalion of Testimony. It appeared by the pleadings exhibited before the honor. able Court, that the plaintiff, Larry, solicited the place of shift maker, to the Channel-row hospital, in the place of the widow Warren, who he sought to have dismissed, under the authority of a statute enacted by his honor the Major, when his honor and his honors deputy, Jemmy, governed the poor, and frightened the poor, in the years 1797, and 8; which statute says, "that any person presuming to hold or withold any place, emolument, or power, in any jail, work-house, watchhouse, or triangle department, who has not been three years a member of the Battalion of Testimony is guilty of the high crime of leze Major, and shall suffer accordingly. After a pa. tient investigation, and at the suggestion of Biblemouth; Mrs. Warrea was convicted of exercising the place of shift maker, contrary to the meaning of the law, but was acquitted of any evil intention, of disputing the omripotence of the Major, and the president Bulbrooks, decreed that, no other person but the said Larry, with the noisy old women, and the rotten young ones under him, should make shirts or shifts, quilt or mangle, in the said united dominion of Channel-row, and Bridewell hereafter. Larry. Big Neill, gave a very splendid entertainment a few days since, in his country seat, Temple-ouge, to a numerous party of the Major's friends, scouts, retainers, dependants, man sorters, man holders, man setters, and man planters; loyal jailors, fixers, and police sextons. The chair was takṣa exactly at 5 o'clock, by the Bacon man, and Larry, the new governor of Bridewel', acted as compeer. After the cloth was removed, the health of the Major, the monarch of the Board of Testimony, was drank with becoming reverence, by the intire com. pany, standing. Larry proposed the Majoress, Majoress, which was drank, with nine cheers. Bulbrooks sung a new song, by the pen of Captain Huddlestone, on the martyrdom of Jemmy; Val. Dulcimer sported a series of appropri. ate tunes on his tinkling wires, which were accompanied by the voice of Firethatch. Mr. Bulbrooks's dagger song, on the capture of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, was encored repeatedly, while Gribbin's went through the triangle and sticking manoeuvres alternately, standing on the table," Going out in the morning," was given in uncommon stile, by a new member, one of the society of pike finders, established in Chapelizod, for the detection of "perturbation," in the County of Tipperary. Limberlip proposed the health of the raffling board, for disposing of forfeited houses and lands, which was honored by the loudest ap plauses. After spending the evening in the best stile of official conviviality, the company dispersed, and Larry departed, under a convoy of the patrole, to his depot of Beggars and prostitutes. Larry-Continued. The Major presented Larry with half a dozen of chairs, a desk, and a looking glass, on Friday, the 13th; for the use of his chamber, in Bride well. The munificence of the Major, and his attention to the comfort of his old correspondent, has had such influence on Larry's gratitude, that, he gives the Major's health as a toast on every opportunity, for which zeal he was kicked down stairs twice in the last week, from different companies, to the great prejudice of his clothes, though is improved his fortune, as he received a present from his honor, for every such act of martyrdom. Larry, again, The Major is about having a bill brought into the imperial parliament, for the suppression of drunkenness in dairy cows; "that any as the distillers wash which they are fed on, in Dublin, keeps them in a constant state of intoxication, which tends to make them dangerous to his Majesty' subjects on the public roads. The Major's draft of the bill says, cow allowed to go at large, in a state of inebriation, the owner of such cow shall forfeit the same, and be farther fined five pounds; and an inspector of dairies is to be appointed, under the authority of the police army, which place is to be filled by Larry, whenever the law is in operation. The Major's Larry. This gentleman, who in defiance of his popish creed has been so fortunate by his loyalty as to acquire a jail keeping monopoly, to the prejudice of good and well tried bible-hands, of the Battalion of Testimony, is so elevated by the first step to his preferment, that, he has publicly declared in the presence of his disordered tenants, he has the promise of his honor, to have the reversion of Newgate, on the expected demise of Mr. Binn's, who, Larry and his Privy Counsellors of drunken physicians, have declared to be in a dangerous state of sickness. The Major we allow to be a man of high consideration, because, he is the man who killed Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the uncle of the lady of Colonel Littlehale's, a gentleman whose influence in the Castle is so paramount, that he could make Larry a freeman, and the Major, his honer, a privy counsellor, but, there are so many difficulties to be surmounted before Larry can get to Newgate, without a committal, or the Major getting a seat with Paddy Duigenan, as to place the appointments for the present out of the reach of the Colonel, In the first case Mr. Binn's must be bona fide proved to be dead; secondly Mr. Larry must be a freeman, fully discharged, like Tom Reynolds, and Y 2 Captain patrole, to g prostitutes Lony-4 The Mag Majne, and fort of hiss such d that, beg tot an zeal be in the 1 nies, cloth forts Club meet and drink bination of juice and onal idea, lls into all nonsense, ver drunk partment, but it coming to the ears of his officers, that he kept eight horses for his amusement, where his salary would not afford him one; it was thought prudent to dismiss him from the care of his Majesty's oats. Shortly after, as the horses, being exactly circumstanced in similar construction on appetites with other animals, that they would not oblige their master, to postpone eating, until the Hero could get another appointment, one of them died from the absence of hay, and the rest were knocked down, like my Lord Duke's half acre, while the creatures were trembling on the gulph of extinction. After this my Lord serious derangement in his stables, Suppose which we hear extended to his kitchen d buyer and wardrobe. He contrived to have a good himself raised to the peerage in Murwhich phy's smoking club, where he cony night, tributes in spite of his naked larder and unheeled boots, the importunities of his washer woman, and other incidental plaguy circumstances, to keep the table in a roar. dress each umbler, their 3, for Lord Waterford-This smoking tiously peer was reared in his younger days nough an Attorney, but by some untoward few of circumstances that frequently happen, laints. to the prejudice of genius, his success tho- at the bar had not corresponded with Ware, his expectations, and to the great in house convenience of his landlady, and his -end, own personal appearance, his fortune ng the is limitted and irregular. Whatever ounda- was the cause of his want of success to him, at the bar, we know not any man blown who displays more humour at a suspended tavern bar, he can blackguard the ing many oysterwoman, threaten the waiters, for blow- and talk in disguise with the landlady, in all, and with singular humour and effect. ept away the His story of Daniel Dunn is an incomglass-house, and parable composition of low humour, cked down the he has been. as it is described in Mass. rismanic hammer. lane language, Jane language, very shy," but a t creation is Lord few nights since, he joined the club, le Lord had a resi- in well altered costume. His large s-green, and lately gapped hat, was replaced by a guinea the Commissariat de- Jewster, his boots were new, for new 66 |