IMPORTANT EXTRACTS FROM THE NEWSPAPERS. The friends of order and loyalty in London, on the late arrest of Sir Francis Burdett, congratulated themfelves, if it were rendered neceffary to establifh flogging houfes, that Mr. Claudius was at hand,, whofe expe. rience in torturing is fo juftly appreciated in the fifter country; the most confident affurances were entertained that his perfonal exertion and inftructions would have all the defired effect in repreffing popular tumult. When the news arrived in IreJand of the termination of disturbance in London, Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald, and a confiderable number of our attornies, formerly diftinguished in the Riding-houfe trade, were on the point of embarking for . England, to offer their fervices to minifters, for the purpofe of applying the TAWS to fultain the conftitu tion. which Cox throws on their feientific iabours, have entered into a league offenfive and defenfive, to vindicate their tafle against the poisonous fcandal of their reviler, n I have exchan ged documents in their line of busi- nefs, to ratify the alliance. The Ma jor has given an elegant likeness of Jemmy O'Brien killing a child to Legboard, who in return gave an accurate reprefentation of the burning an hofpital of feventy-five fick rebels in Rofs, in 1798. Yefterday, arrived at our office, exclufively, a further account of the fpirited difpofition of the good people of London, in refifting the illegal attack made on their liberties, in the perfon of Sir Francis Burdett, by the Houfe of Commons. The army, called out to reprefs any tumult, were attacked with the ufual vigour and fpirit peculiar to Britonsamidit showers of mud, and the thunder of hiffes, the foldiers continued with confiderable refolution at their pofis, until the populace received a reinforcement of thirty scavengers carts loaded to the tops, which gave fuch a weighty addition of ammunition to the patriots, that the army were obliged to give way in the most filthy condition. No period of British history has been more honourable to the English name than this conteft. In the year 1760, the citizens, roufed by a fenfe of duty to religion, flew to arms, and ftopped the progrefs of Popery by an appeal to fire; but it was referved for the year 1810 to defend their liberties with mud. Thus religion and liberty, for which the modern Britons have fhewed fuch fuperior attachment, .have been vindicated by burning hou fes and a dirtied foldiery. The city of New York contains about forty thoufand inhabitants, who have more than four hundred *weffels engaged in foreign trade. The ycity of Dublin has a population of three hundred thousand, and has not -four ships trading farther than Liverpool. This melancholy contraft arifes from two military events;—one happened at the Boyne, and the other zat Saratoga; one has tended to perpetuate mifery by the extinction of induftry, as the other has fpread abundance by the creation of independence. The Major and Sir Reubens Legboard, justly enraged at the ridicule Mr. Grattan, fpeaking in parliament on Sir Francis Burdett's affair, expressed expreffed much conftitutional zeal for the liberty of Englishmen, and the rights of the fubject. The Irish patriot's philofophic and chriftian for giveness, is in this cafe equal to his acknowledged talents. He has frequently told us, that he attended Ireland to her grave, and now he informs the world how anxious he is for the happiness of her murderers! On Sunday last, Mr, Latouche's improved travelling pulpit was tried in a voyage from the Broad-ftone to Finglas. Mr. Kent preached the fermon to a numerous audience of faints and holy artificers as the difcourfe was by measurement, the machine and the bacon-felling divine completed their distances in perfect unifon; -the fermon and voyage of two miles took up only twenty-five mi nutes; henceforth we are to underftand that a Swaddling fermon of one mile, is not fo long as one of an hundred miles. Another arrangement is made for the use of the called;-if the weather is unfavourable to a fermon of length, the machine can be worked in a small space, fo as to give a good fquare fermon, a circular or an eliptic one, agreeable to the form of the fuperficius horizontal pofition of the ground, or the mental henfion of the performer. compre On Saturday, Douglafs, an Eng lish coiner, was executed at the front of the New Prifon. He was ornamented and attended with a handfome bouquet in his bofom, and white knots on his cap and fhoe firings. The Rev. Mr. K-s-y attended in an oppofite window, within thirty yards of the fatal machine. Though his reverence could have no intimate knowlege of the dying gentleman's foul, he expreffed great pleasure at the manner he shook his legs, and feemed much displeased at the custom of difguiling a man's countenance by a cap, as a fpectator of any tafte in. hanging affairs is thereby deprived of a confiderable part of his amufement. Luke White is bufily engaged recommending his tenants to register their freeholds, as there is fome reafon to think that a diffolution of parliament will shortly take place, when he will propofe himself as a candidate to reprefent the county of Dub lin. There are two circumstances in Luke's life, which if recollected by his cotemporaries, will tend much to prevent his parliamentary elevation. The first is, his rank as a hawker of ballads, as any of his Popish cuftom ers who have freeholds are confider ably prejudiced againft him as a flying ftationer, for the "Boyne Water," "the Pruffian Drum," and other balJads of the kind, that always had a preference in his woollen made library. The next epoch in his life, is as Sheriff, when he refigned the ftationer's apron for the civic (word; and as his loyalty kept due pace with his pecuniary acquirements, he would teftify it by his official vigilance; for learning that the ftate prisoners in Kilmainham were allowed to fee the fun two hours each day, and apprehending its attractive force might fteal a rebel from juftice, and knowharmlefs as an expenfive friend, he ing well that a dead enemy is as had the Popish rogues locked up in the affiftance of forty fixed bayonets. their respective cells, by and with able to the law, has given great of fence to fuch Irish as are allowed to live in the village; and ferious confequences are apprehended, from the Spirit of turbulence manifefted in feveral very offenfive forms. Among others, contempt is a leading feature of the prevailing infubordination. A crowd of fellows every fabbath fta tion themselves oppofite the church door, and as the Bifbopefs paffes to and from divine fervice, the difor. derly crowd appear rubbing themfelves to fome ftone pofts, a la Scotia, finging fatirical couplets, fuch as, "Far better than clothes or riches, orator, this promises to be the cafe, and neither his privilege or rank will extricate him, without adequate fatis, faction to the houfe of O'Connor. Mr. Grattan has given notice of his intention of fubmitting the claims of the Catholics to Parliament, and, as a measure of justice, to admit them to all the honors and protection of the constitution, if on their part they make fome arrangement to prevent their bifhops being appointed by a fubject of Bonaparte's. The honorable patriot appears very uneafy about the interefts of the Irish church. At this day, it would be more rational, "To fcratch ones fkin when it if this gentleman would undertake the itches." A Mr. Lyttleton, in the English Houfe of Commons, has taken fome confiderable pains to afperfe the cha, racter of Arthur O'Connor. Abufing. a man at a distance, and particularly under circumstances that prevent the poffibility of anyp rfonal explanation, is peculiarly English. Arthur O'Connor cannot at prefent vifit his country, (Ireland,) nor the mistress one (England). Mr. Lyttleton, in the heat of his acrimony, forgot that Roger O'Connor might think it his duty to chaftife the calumniator of his family: unfortunately for the loyal refufcitation of his fuffocated country, rather than embark into polemical difcuffion. The condition of Europe is fo frmly fixed, and its deflinies fo unchangeable, that the Irish have fo much ambition to have a country, and fo much found reafons for afpiring to national diftinction that the idea of changing their religion, to fhare paltry honors in a province, is beneath their notice, and unworthy of their character. Mr. Beresford feels much hurt at the fanguina y character which he is pleafed to aícribe to Sir Francis Bur. dett. Whatever abhorrence Mr. Beresford has to the fhedding of blood, we believe that Sir Francis cannot be accufed even of flaying a man, burning a cabbin, ftrangling or picketing an unprotected fellow fubject. If Mr. Horifh were a member of either Houfes, a character he was whipped for afpiring to, he could have produced his rugged back to the Speaker's chair, as an answer to his countryman's affectation. Mr. Verner, the father of the Orangemen of Armagh, has most li berally come forward, as an advocate of of the furrounding objects of his perfecution; and, in a very neat fpeech, recommends their caufe to the burning zeal of his colored countrymen. We are proud to fee that the most inveterate prejudice, from the conviction of approaching evil, can be pru dent; and that confcious cruelty, alarmed at the fear of retaliation, throws away its ftrings, its whips, and fag gots, and affecting the language of humanity and patriotifm, is compelled to ftoop where it once tyrannized. The Major is highly diffatisfied at the infubordination of the fhop-keep ers of Kevin's-port, who, instead of retreating within the deepest receffes of their dwellings, as they were taught to do, when he approached that neighbourhood in the year 1798, now ftand with the most confummate effrontery at their refpective doors, without any apprehenfion from his countenance, his profcriptions, or his dagger-men. Mr Grattan has been at the fune ral of his country, but molt fortu nately has got rid of his forrows; for the hands of the murderers have wiped the last tear from his cheek, and in return he has kindly given to them his affections. As there is another country to die in his hands, we hope he will, in return for her bounty, live to write her epitaph. Mr. Beresford has arrived from London. The people of Dublin, many of whom had the honor of feeing him pafs through our streets, tho' they did not evince very great pleafure at his healthy appea ance, felt none of their former apprehenfions. Many misled men of our country, forgetting the condition of reduced Ireland, are engaged looking at the conteit for power between the two parties in the English Parliament. A change of administration is among the paltry objects of their wishes.For our part, we have been looking and liftening, but never could be perfuaded, that any party, or any one man of any party, have ever entertained a ferious notion of relieving us - if fuchrelief would tend to abridge either the power or monopoly of our English matters. What advantage would Mr. Ponfonby's return to power be to Irifhmen or Catholics? We have experienced his difpofition for intolerance; when Chancellor, he refufed the commiflion of the peaceto a gentleman, because he had courage and humanity enough to interfere between the Orange murderers and their victims, the abject and degraded Catholics. Such is Mr. Ponfonby, and fuch is the policy of every party; power and plunder and per fecution invariably adhere together. It was underflood in London, in cafe of any ferious difturbance in that city, that Dr. Trevor, late of Kilmainham notoriety, would be appointed governer of Cold Bath Fields Prifon. The report had fuch an awful effect on the reading part of the people, that it is conjectured it teaded to reprefs the spirit of dilaffection! Hunger has a hideous character !forty pieces of cannon could not do fo much to fave a state! As my Lord poffeffes Marino, his library and town-house undisturbed; and Horifh, his back in found condi dition; it is hoped, that the office of executioner need not again be reforted to; and that the Banker, the Sweep, and the Lord, may be fin-. cerely reconciled. Mr. Wilfon is appointed cashier of the Police Bank. His great experience, and unrivalled fuccefs in making money, have very juftly recommended him to this confidential fitu ation. Mr Wilfon, out of a falary of one hundred a year, purchased an eftate of feven hundred a year! Every publican, coach owner, dairyman, and grocer, are giving their fupport to the new bank gratuitously, as they formerly did under terror, when they were fubfcribing to make up the capital, at the office in Clarendon street. Mr. Bld has come to a refolution, by and with the advice of his wife, as in fuch cases made and provided, and according to the ftatute, to drop the fociety of Day and, Caffidy and Broome, and to keep more refpectable company. For this purpose, he gave a party in Sally'spark in Dundrum, at which attend, Counsellor Magee, the Up and Down editor of Burne's Juftice of the Peace. Several very entertaining ftories were told by the legal vifitors, and many good fongs fung, that reminded each other of Mary's-lane and the Old Bailey, and other juvenile purfuits, when the law followed them before they folowed the law. ed Phil. PHOENIX PARK. This land came to the crown, on the fuppreffion of the order of St. John of Jerufalem, or Knights of Rhodes, 32d Henry VIII, and was part of the poffeffions of the Grand; Priory of Kilmainham. Queen Mary. made a grant, by letters patent, to Sir Ofwald Maffingberde, who continued in poffeffion, until the 2d of Queen Elizabeth, when Sir Ofwald forfeited, and the Park was vested, by an Act of Parliament, the fame year, in the crown. King Charles II. granted fixty-four acres in france. almoign, to build au hofpital upon for invalids or difabled foldiers. Another part, containing one hundred and forty four acres, on the weft of the road: adjoining the hofpital, his Majesty granted to Sir John Temple, Solici tor General, (anceftor of Viscount Palmerfton,) in fee for ever, with liberty to graze fix horfes yearly in the Park. The Earl of Chesterfield, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, erected (1747) a Corinthian fluted column, forty feet high, with the. figure of a phoenix burning in its neft, at top, from whence this charming piece of ground is called.Here is the vice-regal fummer refi-. dence, built originally by the King's. ranger, Mr. Clements; the Hibers, nian Military School for the mainte nance and inftruction of the fons and daughters of foldiers, the Military Hofpital, &c. &c. JOHN |