when the captain came to collect, the first introducer of your Magazine being a little heated, began at the captain as follows:-" Sirrah, did I not defire you to burn that rafcally print which I gave you?" "Yes," replied the captain, "but may be you would pay me a tenpenny and a fivepenny that my feerfman gave for it, which he'd make me pay him, if I burned it ""That's fine!" replied the book-burning loyalift," what a state is this country in, when the blackguard pilots of a packet-boat read Magazines and feditious publications! we shall be all murdered, as we were in ninety-eight." "Oh be eafy," fays the captain; "in troth, Major D-, if you and Cornet Lawder, and the whole of the 9th dragoons, were murdered, you'd have left better men than you or I, and as good as Sir E. Crosby, after us all. Where's the plate of Timolin Church ?-fure that was not Popifh. Perhaps you don't think I know you.". Captain," cried the astonished gentleman, "I'll fpeak with you!" and the Major ftopped the Captain's further explanation, and walked out with him. "Dam'me," quoth the failor, "but this is a queer Magazine - Į fee he abufes parfons and priests, and fwaddlers and rogues, and attornies, judges, and lawyers, and I don't fee that he fpares nobody." "Pardon me," replied a lady who fat next him, "I do not fee one female abufed in this abufed work, and I fee two moft infamously aggrieved women capitally defended-Mrs Siddons and Mifs Walftein: this does not thew univerfal malevolence. All the prints of Dublin. have witneffed the audacious infult upon thefe defenceless women, and it was only the Irish Magazine that refented it, tho' they all call the Irish Magazine a flindering pest." "" So it is,” cried Bumbo, and if this was ninety-eight, by G-, I'd have Cox and his rafeally Magazine at the triangles, where 1 "And fo would . bad better men." 1," cried Bob C "By GI'd hang him," cried B——, "Why fhouldst thou hang him?" cried a Quaker-" Neighbour, if characters be good, they will bear themselves out, and they will difgrace the calumniator. For inftance, didit thou know little Dick Pim, a brother and friend; fuppofe Cox faid little Dick flogged a man, and robbed him, and was a cruel perfecutor and a great ruffian, what harm, thinkeft thou, would it do little Dick the Quaker? Nay; verily i think it would more hurt Walter Cox; for people would fee he was a liar and a fool:-but Cox hath faid, that certain men did bad things; and if these men had fuch report amongst their neighbours as little Dick, no harm could be done, for the world are not fools, and do not credit abfurdities." "Gentlemen," faid an English officer, "I have read the Irish Magazine, and I think that Cox has afferted the freedom of the prefs here, and has much merit for daring the outrage of a power that has only jult pafled away, and for braving a cut throat party that prevails ftill in this country. Compofitions in his work may be called fcurrilous, by perfons who have no choice of words, but I will fay, that in his Magazine, have appeared things that Switt's ge nius could not turpafs. Cox has, blamefully, employed himself rather as the executioner of obfcure wretches who have merited the torture they lavished upon others, than as the general corrector; and whilft he should pursue the banditti, he ftopped to execute the individual. A work like his is likely to excite general clamour against him; he has punithed to example the empowered ruffian, the man of blood, the upftart overbearer, the hypocrite, the cheat, the coun terfeit terfeit gentleman; all thefe individuals are men of connexions, for fuch characters are numerous and whilft there are rogues, upstarts, informers, fham ftatefmen, and hypocrites, their fears will overcome their justice, and you will hear them abufe Cox and the Irish Magazine."-Here we arrived at Portobello. I am, Sir, Yours, &c. BURNING TO DEATH. The late fhocking inftances of females having been burnt to death, renders the knowledge of a difcovery lately published by Sir R. Philips, in the Monthly Magazine, for their total prevention, of the higheft confequence. He deduces from the principle of the afcenfion of fire, that females ought to lie down as foon as they difcover their clothes to be on fire, that the progrefs of the flames will by that means inftantly be checked, and may be eafily and deliberately extinguished, without any fatal injury, as ufual to the head, face, bofom and throat. He proves his principle by the following example: He took two flips of printed cotton, a yard long, and on lighting one of them at the lower end, and holding it perpendicular, it was confumed to a cinder in the fifth of a minute, and the volume of flame was fo great as to rife nearly two feet e then lighted an exactly fimilar piece of cotton, and laid it horizontally on a pair of tongs, fo as to lie hollow, and in this fituation it was five minutes burning, and the flames at no one time afcended an inch in height, and might have been extinguished by the thumb and finger. This plain and eafy experiment ought to be repeated in the prefence of the females of every family. ENGLISH CATHOLIC PETITIONS. To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Par liament affembled. We, whofe names are underwritten, Roman Catholics of England, humbly beg leave to reprefent to your Honourable House That at the time of his Majesty's Acceffion to the Throne, the laws in force against his English Roman Catholic Subjects, deprived them of moft of the rights of Englishmen, and of feveral of the common rights of mankind: That by the Acts of the 18th and S1 years of his Majesty's reign, feveral of the penalties and difabilities under which the English Roman Catholics laboured were removed: That the English Roman Catholics are most grateful for the relief granted by thefe Acts, and have taken and fubfcribed the oaths and declarations contained in them : That their conduct hath been conformable to their profeffions; in peaceable fubmiffion to the laws, and in the discharge of moral or civil duty, they have not been exceeded by any of his Majefty s fubjects; they have ferved him effectively and honourably in his fleets and armies; there never has been a call upon Englishmen to do their duty, which the English Ro. man Catholics have not been forward to anfwer. That feveral penal and difabling laws are yet in force against them: they are not equally entitled with their fellow fubjects to vote at the Election of any Member of your Honourable Houfe; they are excluded from a feat in either Houfes of Parliament; they are not ad niffable into Corporations; every civil and nilitary office is denied them; every laudable Jaudable object of ambition-all that elevates a man among his fellow fub jects-all hopes of public diftinction all means of attracting the notice of their country, or the favour of their Sovereign, are placed without their reach. The more they deferve of their country, the more fenfibly their country makes them feel this exclufion, In the ranks she fuffers them to fight her battles, but to them victory is without its reward,-promotion is wholly denied them; no fervices can advance, no merit enable them to profit of their country's favour. Even in their humble fituations of private foldiers, the law follows them with pains and penalties. By the article of War, if foldiers refuse to attend the religious worship of the Established Church, they are punish able by fine, imprisonment and death. Thus the Catbolic foldiers are inceffantly expofed to the cruel alternative of either making a facrifice of their religion, or incurring the extreme of legal punishment: than which, your Petitioners humbly conceive, there • never has been, and cannot be a more direct religious perfecution. To an alternative equally oppreffive, the English Roman Catholics are expofed on their marriages; the law requires for the legal validity of a marriage in England, that it fhould be celebrated in a parish church. As Roman Catholics believe in marriage to be a facrament, the English oman Catholics naturally feel great repug nance to a celebration of their marriages in other churches than their own. They are cruelly debarred from any means which their fellow fubjects poffefs of providing for their families, by employments of honour or emolument: fo that while they bear their full fhare of the general contribution to the wants of the State, they are In other occurrences of life the law has the fame humiliating and depreffing operation on your Petitioners. Thus every Roman Catholic fubject of his Majesty is forced below his fair line in fociety, and the general body is a marked and insulated caft. Yet the Roman Catholics form more than one fourth of the whole mass of the fubjects of the United Empire. Whatever there is of genius, of talent, or of energy among them, is abfolutely loft for public ufe; and this at a time when the United Empire is engaged in a conflict formidable beyond example; and it therefore feems important, if not effential to her prefervation, that the fhould call into action, without qualification, or limit, or any religious teft, or decla ration, the genius, talents, and energies of all her subjects It is true, that your Petitioners profefs fome religious principles which are not profeffed by the Established Church; and to this, and tọ this only, their refufal of certain tefts, oaths, and declarations isowing, which fubjects them to the pains and difabilities they complain of, but none of the principles which occafion their refufal, affects their moral, civil, or political integrity; and your Petitioners humbly fubmit to this Honourable Houfe, that no principle which leaves moral or political integrity unimpair. ed, is a proper object of religious perfecution; befides, the whole Creed of your Petitioners was once the Creed of the three kingdoms; it is the actual Creed of four fifths of Ireland, and of much the greater part of Europe. It was the Creed of thofe who founded British liberty at Runey. meade, who conquered at Creffy, Poitiers, and Agincourt; among thole Every difloyal or immoral principle which malice or credulity has im puted to them, your Petitioners have folemnly and repeatedly difclaimed. They believe there does not now exift an honourable man who imputes thefe principles to them: they have fword to be faithful and bear true allegiance to his Majefty, and have acted up to their profeffions; they moft confidently appeal to this Honourable Houfe, and to the whole Empire, whether in loyalty to his Majefty, atrachment to the Conftitu. tion, or zeal for their country's good, they are not equal and are not univerfally known and acknowledged to be equal to his Majefly's other sub jects. Therefore confcious of the truth of these representations, and with the moll perfect reliance on the wisdom and justice of your Honourable House, Your Petitioners humbly pray for total repeal of every teft, oath, declaration, or provifion, which has the effect of fubje&ing your etitioners to any penalty or difability whatsoever, on account of their religious prples Copy of the accompanying Petition of the Eng Roman Catholics, as presentes by Earl Grey to the Liouse of Lords, February 22. We whofe names are underwritten, Roman Catholics of England, beg leave to reprefent to your Right Ho, nourable House, that your Petitioners, in common with the general body of English Roman Catholics, have lately figned a Petition to your Rt. Honourable Houfe, ftating the principal grievances under which they lie, in confequence of their religious principles, and praying relief. They now beg leave further to ftate to your Lordships, that in foliciting the attention of Parliament to their Petition, they are actuated not more by a fenfe of the hardships and disabilities under which they labour, than by a defire to fecure, on the most folid foundation, the peace and harmony of the British empire; and to obtain for themfelves opportunities of manifefting, by the most active exertions, their zeal and intereft in the common caufe, in which their country is engaged for the maintenance of its freedom and independence; and that they are firmly perfuaded, that adequate provifron, for the maintenance of the civil and religious eftablishments of this kingdom, may be made confiftently with the strictest adherence on their part to the tenets and difcipline of the Roman Catholic religion; and that any arrangements founded on this bafis of mutual fatisfaction and fecurity, and extending to them the full enjoyment of the civil Conftitution of their country, will meet with their grateful concur MR. KEOGH'S PAMPHLET. fiftency, and refponfibility. Like him, We recommend to our readers this lively and vigorous production, written in a stile of original thinking, to which we have not been accustomed fince the reign of terror. It has manly features through it, worthy of the Irish name; not disfigured by abject equivocations, nor difgu ling fervility, it will be found as diftant from the tricky policy of our Catholic gen 1 try, as it is remote from the double faced deference that affects to inftruct while it means to betray. If writing at this aufpicious period, can advance the liberties of our country, or put down intolerance and monopoly, Mr. Keogh's manner of communicating his fentiments would have its merited effect; but from the fatal ob. merited effect; but from the fatal obfinancy of a Grenville, or the tergiverfation of a Grattan, we are warned to look to any other quarter for either relief or commiferation. The important feenes now before us, and the magnificent and awful appearance which Europe prefents, tell us, and with confidence we affert it, that the Catholic Faith, the prevailing one of the Continent, will, in defiance of a "No Popery" miniftry, and their recruits in perfecution, the Grattans and Grenvilles, extend to the Islands. As acelebrated man remarks, ‘Islands belong to Continents,' and from the belong to Continents,' and from the fame reafoning we affert, that though Ilands may efcape fubjugation, they generally fubmit to the fafions that prevail in the larger community. [Mr. Keogh's talent at irony may be feen by the following extract.Page 12.] "In fome respects, my Lord Fingal is not unlike the King. Like him, his flation exonerates him from the troubles attendant on talent, con he is furrounded and courted by fy. cophants, bigots, and place hunters, Like him, he is bequibbled and be wildered by a cabinet of lawyers. "It may perhaps appear audacious or ridiculous to compare Lord Fingal to the King of England. But let it be remembered, that the great difpofer of kingdoms is crowning and dethroning kings falter than a careWithout any fupernatural hypothe ful artist can paint their portraits. things go, very probable means, Lord fis; nay, by very ordinary, and, as Fingal might wield a fceptre, even before Lord Grenville recovers his feals of office. Only let Lord Chatham be replaced at the head of an army; Lord Gambier, of a fleet; Marquis Wellesley, of an embaffy; Lord Camden, of Ireland, with Mr. John Claudius Beresford in the whiplow, of India, with Sir John Crad ping department; Sir George Bardock, in the fhaving department;Clarke be judicially protected in her and laft, though not leaft, let Mrs. commodious rights and her darling patronage. Who then can predict the Who can tell, for example, whether ftrange things that may come to pass? in the conjunction of these luminaries, Buonaparte might not calculate the political horofcope of a natural daughter of one of his imperial fisters? His ftars might direct him to offer her to Lord Fingal, as a fpoufe for Lord Killeen, with the crown of Ireland for a dower; and he would hardly fcruple at annexing the alterneck in twain! I have an high opinative, of wringing his Lordship's nion of the noble Lord's loyalty; and yet I know not what irregularity he might be prevailed on to affent to, rather than undergo the nerve-trying operation." [Wby |