OBITUARY. On the 12th of May, at advanced age, greatly lamented, the Rev. Laurence M'Grath, for many years Parish Priest of Doon, county Limerick. On the 6th, at his house in Castlestreet, Holborn, London, aged 69 years, the Right Rev. Doctor John Douglas, Roman Catholic Vicar Apos tolic of the London District, and Bishop of Centuriæ, in Numidia. In London, on the 11th of May, by a pistol shot, the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, as he was making his way from the lobby of the House of Commons into the body of the House. The assassin, whose name was John Bellingham, was taken into custody at the very moment he committed the fatal deed. Mr. Perceval had rendered himself extremely obnoxious to the trading and industrious part of his countrymen by the disposition le strictly manifested to persevere in the prosecution of a commercial hostility to the trade of America, under the spirit of what is called, "Orders in Council," which have given the most fatal blows to the manufactures of his country, already nearly extinguished by a nineteen years war and unprecedented taxation. Towards Ireland, he appeared in another character, that of a gloomy, decided, methodistical fanatic; he had no trade to extinguish in our unfortunate island, for this had been long effected by his predecessors from the earliest period of their connection. Our religion, which we preserved pure and distinct from foreign fanaticism, through ages of unexampled persecution, was always considered a remnant of that insubordination which ever rendered us impatient under the indignities which English intole. rence and rapacity had been distinguish ed, though concealed under the specious expression of reformation and correction, now one object of jealousy, as it is tended to keep up an idea of separate interests and a notion of a distinct empire. Mr. Perceval, perhaps, was as much influenced by poli tics as by fanaticism, became one of the greatest adversaries the Irish Church had to contend with since the fatal introduction of English fanaticism into Ireland. The late prosecutions of the Catholics, the renewed spirit of aggres sion, murder, and proscriptions given to the Orange exterminators, and the open avowal of the ministers hostility to Maynooth college, justifies us in denouncing him to posterity as an Englishman in the utmost meaning that ever a Hindoo, an American, or a mere Irishman, gave to that national distinction. In the 55th year of his age, Mr. Roger Nowlan, Merchant, of the Merchants-quay, sincerely lamented and regretted for his amiableness of manners and goodness of heart. In Waterford, Mr. Mathew Scott, formerly a very eminent Merchant in Carrick-on-Suir; he was one of the unfortunate Catholics whose property and religious belief exposed to the violence and zeal of the torturers and robbers of 1798; he was repeatedly flogged by the late infamous Sir Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald, and sufferred besides in the loss of his property by the neglect of his business during the imprisonment decreed him by that Irish Couthon. He emigrated to America with the wreck of his substance, as the Irish Legislature of immortal memory, by passing an Act of Indemnity to skreen the murderers and robbers who sustained het constitution, deprived him of any redress by law. He returned lately to Waterford, but withsuch a diseased mind, that he took the resolution of terminantig his misfortunes by an act of suicide. rate rial d as ing len- 2 an the at to con 1 the è not ain a ss in pre serve ution the rican 'the : the eady the iserthe t ne ssary IRISH MAGAZINE, AND Monthly Asylum FOR NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY. FOR JULY, 1812. With this Month's Publication we give a very accurate engraved Representation of the different Modes of Trial and Execution that follow each Shooting Term; and as the first Day of this Month has been always the beginning of the Summer Circuit since our Ancestors were acciden tally defeated at the Boyne, we think it a favourable Opportunity to lay the Subject before our Readers, from an original Painting, in the Possession of Limberlip, the Mountrath Priest-killer. THE Judges, Executioners, and in Dublin, poor Hall was sent to Chaplains meet on the first day of July and the 4th of November, in each year, to strike out the Circuit, to examine into the state of the Orange Constitution, to see that it had not suffered any injury since the last meeting, to inspect into the character and services of the annual candidates, for the respective places of Boy-killer, Cabin-burner, Preacher, Cartridgemaker, Musquet-professor, and Priesthunter, and from the different officers chosen to form a shooting Board of well-tried purple marksmen. Hall, the Boy-killer, would have the care of the Popish inhabitants, or rather disposal of them, in the vicinity of Enniskillen, in the place of the marks man who shot Moyvournagh in the summer term of last year; but, contrary to the assurances of the Major, and other men of Orange consideration FOR JULY, 1812, VOL. V. Botany Bay in the last batch of convicts. Ouseley, of Galway, and the Dublin Huxterman are spoken of as Preachers to the Sessions, and Pulley Gallagher, Treasurer. We have not heard have any returns been made of the names and crimes of the wretches who are marked down for " drawing off;" we apprehend this will remain a downright secret until the business in operation explains itself, as such a precaution is not only necessary to preserve the regularity which the institution should observe, but to prevent the game of escaping into the American armies, to the disappointment of the hunters, and tending to encrease the enemies of the Constitution, already too numerous on the other side of the Atlantic. Biblemouth offered his services to promote the object of the term; but as bible exercise is not ne20 cessary cessary where musquet trial is practised, his proposals were disposed with. Firethatch was invited, and all his expenses during circuit to be paid, but he had been previously engaged to preach a course of sermons to a company of civilizers, who lately arrived from England, who are now studying divinity and spelling to prepare them for the mission in Mayo, to which district they have been appointed by the society for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, to convert the idola trous Irish natives, and cut off their tails. Lang, of Mountrath, has laid before the shooting Judges, in his district, the plan of a depot for the reception of the goods of such perverse Papists as forfeited their properties by leaving the country without leave, and thereby refusing to abide by the authority and decision of the musquet tribunals; such forfeited goods to be applied to the purchase of powder and ball, and other necessary articles of extermination, or sold once in every year for the benefit of reduced purple marks men. As the Term has commenced with the day of our publication, no transaction of any moment could occur in time to enable us to lay it before our readers; but a faithful catalogue of such shot wretches as may suffer in the course of the month, with their names, trades, age, sex, and abode, we shall copy from the official return as it appears on the churches of Mountrath, Omagh, and Enniskillen, and give in our next Number. We cannot expect that any of the Moyvournagh family will be shot this season, as the father of the boy who suffered last term has escaped to America with all his relations, with the exception of one old woman, who was too infirm to travel; if she should be convicted, and that this term, by the Orangemen of Enniskillen, we will account for her, and present our readers with an engraved view of the operation. THOUGHTS ON FAMINE. Mr. Editor, Though not anxious to figure my. self in the literary world, yet to look on in silent apathy now that FAMINE, like the pestilential vapour blighting the autumnal crop, has withered the human race, and over-fed the church. yards, would be to sin against humanity itself. In looking into the different publications of the day, who could imagine they are printed in a country where, out of a population of five mil lions inhabitants, two are literally starving-absolutely naked! Shame, shame! on the dastardly press, that dare culogise a system that has brought war and famine to the cottage and the cabin. Not a single newspaper, even those that are patriotic, that does not teem with stuff as uninteresting to Irishmen as it is insulting to their unparallelled misery. What interest, I ask, can a starving community take in Parliamentary Nonsense, London Gazettes, or Princely Levees? I would have the press of unhappy Ireland be responsive only to the groans of her slaughtered heroes, or moans of her famished children. Has iron-handed despotism so benumbed the human mind, that even the embryo of complaint is smothered in the intellectual soil? Do not imagine, Sir, that I write in the hope of redress from our task-masters; oh, no; "but the grief that will not have words-whispers, tho' o'er fraught heart, and bids it break." There is something so consoling, even in a communication of sorrow, that an Irishman forgets his hunger in the commisseration of his Fellow, To describe the misery that encom passes the poor and labouring classes of this populous town, would far exceed the limits of a letter. If an American was to visit us, he must ima gine, that every man, not clad in rags, carries with him some foreign curiosity; for |