The Swaddling Lives of Saints, 12 vols. boards. Vol. 1, Life of John Westly, Rowland Hill, Mo. ther, Cale, Moll Flanders, Mrs. Latouche, Long the watch-maker, who was called by the Lord to a roving ecclesiastical life, and took all his customer's watches - with him, to tell him when he ought Cooper, the Predestinarian Pocket-book maker, and Cribs the Barber, that cut his throat to avoid being hanged for a rape. not to return. Vol. 2, 3, 4, and 5, contain the Lives of the great labourers in the Vineyard; such as Mr. Latouche, Kent the Huxterman, Capidy' the blind fidler, Whiskerando Graves, the Jalap Merchant, Doctor Bthe Attorney. Mr. Verdon, the Latitat Apostle, Rogan the Constable, and Lady Belvidere. The other volumes have some lives admirably written. The Spiritual Memoirs of the Major come from some great pen, and portray the Peace-officer of the Lord ad mirably-u Who hopes a reffect Major ere to fee, The history of eminent Roman dy upon Charly Walsh's standing with Ben Mathews in the Pillory. for Perjury, a neat volume, by T. B Sheriff's Bailiff. A farewell to Mass lane, or adieu to the Bailiffs, a poem by Tom D upon being sworn an ÁtFitzpatrick. torney. Wooloughan the Murderer's Tryal, acquitted of shooting a dying boy, in his Mother's arms, by Lord Enniskillen, President of the Court Martial who tried him; for which his Lordship, and all the loyalist Orangemen, who composed it, were disgraced, and declared incapable of ever sitting on Court Martial again, by Lord Cornwallis; and by which, Lord Cornwallis lost ten Orange votes for the Union a Nosy Tisdal's Female Angler, or an Essay on the Girl Fishery, in'a Series of Letters, to Colonel Mc. Mn, Procurator or Pp, för the Home Department, in the houshold of the P of W————§. Low Life above Stairs, a mock heroic Pantomime, as acted in most of the Party-giving houses of Dublin, during the winter. Women made Ladies, by feathers, paint, and silk; and Plebeian creatures strutting as gentlemen, by aid of a taylor and a barber, by silk stockings, opera hats, and powder, compose the Dramaris Personæ. The plot is very curious, it goes to work the fancy to the delusion, that dress is gentility, profusion elegance and insolence superiority.It was played at Randal Veto's gala, in Mullinahack, some nights ago, with great effect, and is in rehearsal for new parties -next week in Mountjoy-square. The author has played one of its principal characters; and would now tell tell you any secret but his lodging. Crab-Tactics, or an Essay on fighting another day, by an officer who served in Lord Wellington's army. The improvement upon the System of Retreat, as laid down in Xenophon's Anabasis, and practised by General Hudibras, in the great battle of the bear and fiddle, is approved in this work. He however shews the superiority of Lord Wellington over Hudibras in this manoeuvre; and maintains that, from his theory and practice, he is able to retreat before the first army in Europe. General Drury, the lame Constable, who signalized himself at the battle of the Goombe, when he commanded the Bloodhounds against the Rebels, has written a Reply to this work, which is bound with it. He maintains that his own mas erly retreat, on that night, into Brophy the Cobler's bulk, the door of which he took by assault, surpasses the flight of Talavera. Nou Nobas est inter Hos tantis Compo. nere Litas. Man of War Sermons, by Bill Jones, Boatswain of the Bellerephon, 2 vols. These Discourses are chiefly adapted to Irish Sailors; vol. 1st, a Sermon upon the Idolatry of Papists, and the abuse of the Mass; and reflections upon the Wild Irish and the Love of God. Vol. 2d. His dying consolations to twenty Irishmen, hanged for mutiny at the Nore, in which he plainly proves the wickedness of Popery, and the blasphemy of Confession, and the comforts of Hell fire. The Seven Champions of Loy. alty, a biographical work, after MAY, 1810. the manner of the Seven Champions of Christendom. The Champions, are 1, Jemmy O'Brien; 2, lord Clare; 3, the Major; 4, Carhampton; 5, Tom Reynolds; 6, Claudius; 7, Captain Hepenstal, the Walking Gallows. A Philosophical Enquiry into the use of lathering with Soap, previous to shaving; and maintaining the medicinal effect of no soap, and a gapped razor, in shaving the under-chin, in all complaints of the bowels: in a thesis maintained for his licence, by a young Surgeon Barber, before the College of Physicochirurgical Philosophers in Dublin. A plan for preparing the common people of Ireland for a recruiting levee, the gallows, and the navy; and for improving their morals and checking their famine, by letting them get drunk at a cheap rate, and giving them whiskey at four shillings a gallonby Jack F. The Life of the Attorney and Informer Feris, by Lord Carhampton; and the Life of Carhampton, by Feris, bound in one vol. printed and published in London, by the Society established for the Discouragement of Vice, and the Promotion of Virtue. This book is very scarce, and its contents very interesting. The two literary and political worthies are profuse in each other's commendation. The Lord gives every grateful tribute of praise to his legal panegyrist, praises his bookhand, and approving firmness. Feris, in return, splashes the whole house of Luttrell with the most enchanting heroism, particularly his prototype, the Hero of Limerick. A treatise on the manner of flogging schoolmasters, written by Sir Ff Thomas Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald, humbly dedicated to the Irish Parliament, as a grateful tribute of acknowledgment for the act of indemnity, to protect loyal men from the vexatious applications of Rebels, for relief for burnt cabins and torn backs. The life of Conlan, the Apothe cary, of Dundalk, compiled by the Major. The stratagem made use of by Conlan, to inveigle his two cousins and their father into a co piracy, and the steady evidence he gave on their trial, shew a vast talent in the use and application of a good bible-hand, and great judgment in tracing a family to the gallows. The dying protestations of the father and two sons, at the place of execution, are given in an appendix. The Memoirs of Ph the Woollen-Draper, with a complete view of his military life. His manner of killing a Croppy asleep is very ingenious, and would be useful to any gentleman in a pro claimed district. THE RELIGION OF A LIBERAL MAN. The religion of a liberal man is a production of the present age, unknown to our Irish ancestors. It seems to be a compound of four religions, now prevalent in the world. Paganism; for the religion of a liberal man admits a plurality of Gods, by adoring good cheer, comedies, masquerades, gambling, profligacy. and, in a word, all kinds of amusements and pleasures. Judaifm; for it borrows from it an inveterate hatred to all true Catholics, and scoffs at the principles of the Christian religion. A hometanism accommodates it with a Paradise of sensual delights, constitusing happiness only in earthly pleasures. The only article it re tains of the Christian Religion, is haptim; the other points appear to it matter of mere amusement; and only fit for the 'swinish multirude. Liberal men believe nothing but what is most agreeable to their owr understanding; and this. they blindly adore. One may, without mach scruple, affirm, that the Devil is their king, profligates their ministers, the tavern their church, and the coffee house their chapel. "io copverse on moral subjects, is a Lent of forty days to them; and their penance, to hear a Sermon. Their bible is a box of dice, or a pack of cards; the four which they account their Evangelists, are Hobbes, Collins, Tindal and Bolingbroke, and the four Holy Fathers of their church, from whom the pions quartette, Voltaire, Rousseau, d'Alambert, La Mettrie, &c. profess to have borrowed their edifying lectures, for the use of our liberal men. Hence, the seven dead y sins are their precepts; inde licate verses and songs compose their Psalter; Divine service is irksome, and appears an irreparable loss of time to them, should they do it themselves only once a week. The play is their evening prayer; the news of the day their gospels; and jests and quizzes the food of their souls. Their mouth is a magazine of trifling anecdotes, and their ears a receptacle for trash. and nonsense. For want of genius they adopt impiety, and the lives of Saints appear as romances to them. Money is one of the prin cipal pillars of their institutes; and poverty they consider as an un ardonable vice. The applauses they they bestow on their crimes, make these crimes pass current, with their novices in impiety, for the acts of the apostles; and good fellows, they substitute for their guardian angels. In a word, they spend their youth in the service, of the devil, the world and the Ash; and then grey hairs, bravely seconded by a profligate life, render them unfit for any thing whatever. Luciter, in gratitude for their past services, prepares hell for these liberal men, as an hospital for invalids. Part of a letter from a young man in America to his Father in the Norf of Ireland. Dear Father, I hope you'll not think it amiss for me to insert the following dialogue between two of my countrymen: one of them had lived in America many years; the other was a counsellor at law in Ireland, and on account of his political opinions during the Union there, was charged with treason, yet he got leave to choose the United States of America for his place of exile. He arrived the very day that they were commemorating their independence, (July 4, 1799). On his hearing them drinking revolutio. nary toasts, singing republican songs, firing cannon, and huzzaing for liberty, he stood motionless; then seeing one of his old acquaintances among the carouzers, he ran to him, and said, "dearest Pat, for surely the lord mayor will caure the military to fire on you.”— Pat, whose mind was either cheered with the liquor, or elevated with the theme, made the following reply: Pub! C, our mayor is no lord; look yonder, he is drinking with the soldiers. Counsellor Why, Pat, the conduct of you, and these men is so contrary to the law that I am açquainted with, that I will suffer if I don't run to the barracks and inform on vou. that these soldiers (whom you see but so meanly dressed) have ships at sea, and warehouses here; and some of them have country seats and coaches-I presume you never saw common soldiers have the hike before sir. Couns. No, never I dare say; but beware, Pat, lest some clergyma that is justice of the peace would head the military. Pat.-O! no sir, the clergy don't act as justices here-believe me dear countryman, they are not half so active as you have seen them; foè' I have lived in America these eight years, and I never could find or hear of one single clergyman that could lead off a dance, or manage, an assembly: neither did I ever see any of them ride in at the death of a fox, nor get drunk, nor sing a bawdy song, nor wear a gaudy dress, nor keep a mistress. Couns. I think the American clergy must be a very idle kind of men, when they take no part in any of these innocent amusements. Pat-Why, all they do is to marry the young people, and baptize their children; visit the sick, and comfort, the aicted; go to church and preach-once or twice on the sabbath, teach the living how to live, and the dying how to diethey are pure in their lives, incorruptible in their morals, and they preach love and toleration, and live harmoniously in the midst to their congregations. J. P. a Ff Pat-You'll find no barracks here sir; cur soldiers live in their own houses, and sleep with their own Wires and I further tell you, EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF COUNSELLOR WILLIAM SAMPSON. James II. ONCE more a Romish Monarch! -The Irish rejoice-exult-they hope for mitigation of their sore oppressions-they support their lawful king, who certainly never abdicated the crown of Ireland. The support of him against a Dutchman, who had married his daughter, and was driving him. from his throne, was adjudged to be rebellion and for the support of this Stewart, against the fanaticism. of his enemies, the rebellion of his subjects, and his own unworthiness, they lost a million of acres of their fruitful soil; and my ancestors who got them, were called the Williamites. : A Dutch Pope. Of the heads of the church, or Popes of London, none was less bigoted than this one. He even brought with him, into England, some of those principles of liberty, which afterwards encreased, and made that little island prosper as it has done; an the loss of which libeny, with other crimes, has brought it to its present state of danger. I have no objection to the English celebrating the glorious memory of this deliverer to deliver them from a perfidious and tyrannical race of kings, was really a deliverance; but I am an Irishman, endeavouring to write Irish History, with truth and brevity. I therefore give you his health, as I have heard it drank by Irishmen : "Here's the glorious and immortal memory of King William, who delivered us from Popery (by persecution), slavery (by conquest), brass money (by empty purses), and wooden shoes (by bare feet)." He began his reign by kicking his father-in-law from the throne, and finished it by breaking his own neck. Pope Anne of London, The last of the Stewarts.-This weak woman vacillitated between whigs and tories; was forced into the persecution of the Irish, as she had been into the act of attainder of her brother, and the proclaim-. ing a reward of fifty thousand pounds for his arrestation. In her reign also passed the laws of discovery, and those for the prevention of the growth of Popery, the most monstrous that had yet sullied the Irish code; and still more odious, if such crimes admitted of comparison, by being a direct infringement of the treaty of Limerick between the Irish and King William. By these laws the Roman Catholics were absolutely disarmed; they : could not purchase land; if a son, though the youngest, abjured the Catholic Religion, he inherited the whole estate of his family; and if he turned discoverer, during the life-time of his father, he took possession of his fortune, and left him and his family beggars, or dependants, if dependance could be upon one who had violated the principles of filial duty. |