their way to fight the battles of the empire-by an attempt to murder one of your priefts in Bailiboro-and finally, by an attempt of the Bandon yeomanry to renew their infults and their outrages against you. And by whom were all these atrocities com mitted? Why, truly, by Orangemen; men of the fame principles, the fame feelings, and men acknowledging the fame diabolical bond of political faith, as the editors of the Slanderist. What fays the Slanderist next? We are the chronicle of fedition,' the receptacle of every thing abhorrent to decency, loyalty, and virtue.' Yes, readers, when we tell you, that Catholic emancipation cannot now ferve Ireland; when we fay, that Mr. Grattan is a tergiverfator, and Lord Grenville a Machiavel; when we tell you, that what was once the metropolis of a kingdom, is now the capital of a province, depreffed, rifled, and impoverished; when we tell you that middle-men and rack-rents bow to the earth, and confume the Irish peafantry; when we defcribe your manufactures difappearing off the face of the land, by partial and reftrictive laws and infidious monopolifts; when we offer to your view, a numerical calculation of the thoufands expended in preparing animal food for the bloated and befotted magiftrate, and the debafed and ftultified corporation men, while the great mafs of the community have no foftering hand to raise them from ignorance and poverty, no affociation incorporated by Act of Parliament to cultivate their understandings, to brighten their gloomy cottages, or beftow on them the luxury of one meal of animal food in the twelve months; when we tell you of a reverend magiftrate in the fouth of Ireland, mur. dering a peafant in the open glare of day, fheltering himfelf under his reve. rend and magifterial character, and obtaining indemnity for the monftrous deed, under the alleged criminality of the peafant, as being a Caravat; when we defcribe our unhappy country as having already borne, and ftill bearing, every fpecies of political, legal, and focial wrong; when we remind you that the moft profligate of mankind fucceeded, firft, in plunder, ing our country of its gold, and then corrupting her degenerate children with that money, to betray our independence and transfer us like beafts: All this, will the Slanderist again fay, is abhorren: to Orangemen and to loyalty? As to the charge of want of decency and virtue, fuch epithets were used by the dull fcribe as filling-ftuff, others not being within the fcope of his ability, for in the remoteft fenfe they will not apply to SAYING OF THE MAJOR, ring the life time of his deputy, He has frequently boated, duEvangelifts, were Five of the greatthat Jemmy O'Brien, and the Four eft officers under the Crown! ORDINATION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS. The Order of the Latin Rite for the rdination of Bishops in the Roman Catholic Church. Tranflated and Published with the approbation of the Mo Rev. J. T. Troy. (Continued from Page 112.) Encompass, O Lord, the hands of this thy attendant with the cleannefs of the NEW MAN who came down from heaven; that in like manner as Jacob thy beloved, having his hands difguifed with the fins of kids, obtained his father's bleffing for having ferved him with the food and drink he most affected, so also this one, by having offered a faving and facrificial body through his hands, may be found worthy to obtain the bleffing of thy grace, through our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who, in the difguife of our flesh of fin, prefented his one felf to thee, in the room of us. A. Amen. After this the Confecrating Bishop again puts the ring on the finger of the Elect, rises, and with the other Bishops enthronizes the Confecrated, placing the crozier in his hand, and, bowing to the altar, commences the Te Deum. TE DEUM. During this hymn the Ele is led pontifically by the affifting Bishops through the Church, and bleffes the Congregation, the C. B. remaining in his place, uncovered. The Elect being returned to his fide, the affifting Bishops place themselves without mitres on either fide of him. O Thou art the glorious King, O Chrift! O Thou art everlaftingly Son of the Father. Thou, when to redeem man thou wouldft affume man, didit not scorn an inviolable womb. Thou, having crushed the sting of death, didft lay open to believers the celeftial kingdoms. Thou at the right hand of God art feated, in the Glory of the Father. Thou art the judge, whofe return again is expected. And therefore do we fupplicate THEE, give fuccour to thy fervants, whom with coftly blood thou haft redeemed. Grant that they be enrolled with thy faints in glory everlasting. O fave thy people, O Lord, and give benediction to thy heritage. And rule over them, and raise them up for evermore. From From day to day, we give benedictions to thee, and we praife thy name for ever, and from age to age. Anthem. Let thy hand be braced and thy right hand be upholden. Signing himself from head to breaft. Juftice and judgment be the preparation of thy throne. Glory to the Father, and fo forth. The entire of this Anthem is repeated. The C. B now recognizes the Elect as a Bishop for ever, before God, in the following prayer ; B. Our affistance is the invocation' of the Lord. A. Of him who created the heaven and the earth. Elect Bishop lifting up and joining his hands, bowing to the altar. C. B. O Lord hear favourably my B. May he blefs you, the God Al voice. mighty. (CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.) Count Merci found at the gate of the Po an Irish Officer with a guard of thirty-five men. This officer shut the barrier which obliged him to the rampart, where he seized a battery of eight pieces of cannon. Prince Eugene caused the rest of his foot to enter, and reinforced the several posts of which they had made themselves masters, especial ly those about the gate of St. Margaret, that they might have a means of retreating in case they should be obliged thereto. Prince Commerci and general Staremberg marched with these last troops into the town. This general was so well acquainted with the places where the general officers were lodged, that he sent detachments to possess thenselves of their houses, and to prevent their going out to assemble the troops which composed the garrison. diately out of the town, and put him under a guard of the troops which prince Eugene had left there.. As he was taken before the lodgings of the marquis of Mongon, that officer was awaked with the noise, and putting his head out of the window, asked, if it was not the M. de Villeroy who went by ; and being answered, that it was he marching at the head of his cavalry, the marquis thereupon went down and mounted his horse, in order to follow him; but he was no sooner in the street than they fired upon him, and shot his horse under him; he was thrown at the horse's feet and taken prisoner. M. d'Esgigny, intendant of the army, was taken about the same time going out of his house, and great number of officers and soldiers shared the same fate. The Imperialists sent other detachments, who surrounded Montperoux's regiment of horse, eight companies of the regiment of the Dauphin, the regiment of Rouergne, and six companies of the royal regiment of Franche Comte, and killed most of the soldiers. He Marshal Villeroy was the day be fore arrived from Milan, where he had been to confer with the prince of Vaudemont. He was up very early in the morning, according to his custom, in order to settle affairs for the approaching campaign. He received advice that the allies were in the town; he called for his horse immediately, and while while they were getting him ready, he burnt all his papers of any consequence. He then went out, followed only by a page, and rode directly to the great square. But finding it possessed by the allies, he would have turned the corner of the street, but was stopped there by an Irish captain, whose name was Macdonald, who was at the head of a detachment of horse. He was in the service of the emperor, and refused the offer of a thousand pistoles and a regiment of horse, which to the first, when he was absolate M. de Villeroy made him in case he would have conducted him to the castle. They carried him immeAPRIL, 1810. Hitherto the allies met with no sort of opposition; and it was presumed, that by measures so well taken, and the good intelligence be had, prince Eugene would make himself master of all the troops in the town, and effectually secure the possession of the place. looked upon himself to be so thoroughly master thereof, that he caused the senate to be assembled at the town-house, where he insisted that they should oblige the townsmen to declare in favour of the emperor, take an oath to him, and furnish fourteen thousand rations of corn. They answered, that as master of the town, they would do it readily; in the mean time they only promised the corn. Y Things Things hitherto had gone on to a wonder; but the chevalier d'Entragues, colonel of a regiment of marines, having given orders to his first battalion to assemble at the break of day, in order to perform their exercise; M. d' Arenes, major general of the army, mounting his horse at the great noise he heard, found this battalion under arms. He put himself, together with M. d''Entragues, at their head, and marched with them directly to the square, which they found possessed by the emperor's cuirassiers; they marched directly up to them, having filled the street adjoining with their own troops. As soon as the grenadiers were come within a pike's length, they made a general discharge upon the horse, who immediately retired to the right and left, leaving almost all the square free; of which, however, they durst not take possession, because a detachment of the infantry of the allies were masters of the townhouse, and of the principal houses about the square, All, therefore, that they could do, was, to barricade themselves in the adjoining streets, and to throw some soldiers into the nearest houses till a reinforcement it was sent them. About this time the M. de Cre'nant, lieutenant general, came out of his house; he met with some offi cers and soldiers who joined themselves to him, and with these he thought to have gained the square; but being attacked by a strong detachment of the allies, he had his shoulder broke, and was taken prisoner. Prince Commerci finding him in that condition, ordered him to be carried to a house which had been assigned him. He went a little after to see him, and while he was there one of his aid de camps came to advertise him that the garrison were assembled, and had charged the Imperialists on all sides; upon which prince Commerci turning to M. de Crenant, said, you see, sir, business calls me, and I am obliged to leave you. Prince Eugene came immediately after to pay the M. de Crenant a visit, and told him, that the best advice he could give him, was to get himself carried to some cassine out of the town, because when all the troops were entered, it would not be in his power to prevent their committing disorders, and shedding a great deal of blood. His highness said this from the firm opinion he had that prince Charles of Vaude. mont would force the redoubt at the bridge, and come immediately to join him. The M. de Crenant being prisoner and wounded, there remained of the general officers none but the count de Revel, lieutenant general, and the marquis de Praslin marshal de camp, who retired to the espla nade of the castle. The count de Revel had given the word through the town, the French to the ramparts. Upon this the troops ran to their arms; and some of them, half naked, made the best of their way to the esplanade, and others to the ramparts of the town, from the Milan gate to the battery of the church of St. Peter, the fire from which defended the bridge of the Po. The allies were masters of this battery and of the gate of All Saints, which they had seized, and cut the garrison to pieces, after opening the gate of St. Margaret. The Caserns of two Irish battalions of Bourk and Dillon were near the gate of the bridge, M. Mahony, a reformed major, who commanded the regiment of Dillon in the absence of colonel Lacy, had given the same orders as the chevalier d'Entragues, for their being out to exercise. Fe then threw himself upon his bed, and had given orders to his valet and his landlord to wake |