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luntary subscriptions. 4. Every learned society, and every individual who cultivates the healing art, should likewise be at liberty to contribute. 5. A the period fixed for closing the subscription, the committee formed by the societies of Paris, should appoint deputies to go to England, when circumstances, and the government, shall

permit, to present our homage and our gratitude to Dr. Jenner. 6. The same committee'should likewise determine the time and place for erecting a statue in honor of him. 7. It is to be presumed, that the medical societies will not fail to place the bust of Jenner beside that of Hippocrates.""

OBITUARY.

On the 14th of March last, at Madeira, whither the bid repaired for the benefit of ber health, Miss BYRNE, of CABINTERLY, aged 19, eldest daughter of the late ROBERT Evax, E-Scarcely ever was the prematureness of death a lubject of more jalt regret than in the perion of this lady in difpofition, talents, and accomplishments, almost without an equal. Her aduention' had embraced a plan generally confidered as too comprehenfive for female attainment. The most prevalent of the modern languages were perfectly familiar to her, in the dead languages he was critically versed; and

her young but vigorous mind difplayed powers as unexpected, as acquirements beyond her years. Her attainments were not folely literary the minor, though, perhaps, to many the more interefting and attractive accomplishments of Mutic and its fiter aits, were ber's in perfection. Her fortune was confiderable; but her many claims to dis tination were unknown to the poffeffor, and her fuperiority, was veiled by her diffidence and uncomftiouinefs. In the exercife of every virtue which religion prefcribes, and of all the charities, he was eminently confpicuous. It is certainly not too much for the Christian to fay, that such merit has, ere this, received its reward, where change is unknown and felicity eternal !-It myft be Confusing to the breaft of sympathy to learn, that wo daughters are yet left to the afflicted mother, whofe early promile, under fuch tuition and example, affords hopes the mott flattering of a fuccessful emulation of the filter's virtues.

The remains of Miss BYRNE were interred on the 13th of April, in the family vault, at the Kill of Grange, near the Black Rock, diftant about ux miles from Dublin. A famural service, with every anpropriate folemnity, had been previously perfo. med at St Patrick's Chapel, in French

freet, the avenues to which were so thronged as to be fcarcely paffable. The funeral decorations--the impreffive and pathetic eloquence of Meffrs. Fitzsimons, Molloy and Redmond-the awful character of the ceremony, and the recollection of the talents, accomplishments, virtues and profpects of the deceafed,-produced an expreffion of regret and fympathy, feldom if ever witneßleg on fuch melancholy accalions Indeed, the fate of this young lady teemed powerfully to intereft the public feeling. Her funeral was most numerously and refpectably attended. In the extended train of carriages, we noticed thote of the Earl of Meath, Lord Cloncurry, Mr. Henry, Mr. Westby the Master in Chancery, Sir Edward Stanley, General Pratt, Colonels Keatinge and Browne, Majors Bryan and Parker, Captains Burdett and Mellifont, Meffes. Wyle, O'Shea, Keogh, Power, O'Connor, O'Reilly, &c. &c. molt of whom, if not all, attended this early and interefting victim to her grave! all religions-ali ranks were sein bending over it-Distinction feemed lost in forrow, and rank was-extinguifhed in feeling. The effect was natural-for few if any, were the objects to whom nature was ever more liberal in her gitts. It is painful, yet foothing to the imagination, to follow her ideal progrels through an extended courfe of " Untried being," and dwell on the benefits fociety has loft from her premature, though bieffed adoption.

The chief mourners were Meirs. and Matter Byrne, Major Bryan, and Mr. Hay the Catholic Secretary. Among the various arrangements,, which do fo much credit to Mr. Hay on this melancholy occafion, a Clergyman had been engaged to pronounce tuner. Ioration, for which the permiftion of Dr. Troy had been obtained and, ftrange to lay, it did not take place! M S.

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Eximia Spei adolefcentule

MARIA CLARE BYRNE.

Omni virtute præftans, miram Ingenii ubertatein
Optimâ excoluit difciplina.

Sed ut humanæ breves funt delicia,
Formam pulcherimam, juvenile decus
Leuta exedit tabes,
Spesque omnium

Quos ut venustate vultus captaverat,
Morum fuavitate devinxerat

In Lachrymas convertit

In primæ, heu! Alore te juvente
Mortalia reliquit 14 die Martii

A. D. MDCCCX,

Annum agens XIX.

At his houfe, on the 5th inft. aged 73, the Rev. Michael Devoy P P. of BallyIn the death of more-Eulace 27 years. this good maa his grateful par.fhioners and numerous acquaintance expreffed their forrow, arinblage of more thou Loven by an tooulard pedeltrians, who followed him in He was lineally awful filence to his grave defcended from O'Deevy, of Ballyfn, in the Queen's county, who loft his lite, with many others of the Septs of Leix, on Mul. lemaft, in the county Kildare-(Vide Rawfon's Statistical Survey)-He was ordained in his 26th years; was fix years at Doway, two years Curate of Ballymore Euftace, two years Curate of Calledermet, seven years Curate of Athy. three years P. P. of Rathdram, county Wicklow, and 27 years P. P. of Ballymore-Eustace.

Oa Cork-hill, in his 44th year, Mr. Chrisпо an eminent faddler : topher Fiardy, man we remember bore a more respectable character; he was a real Irishnen in the ftricteft meaning of the word. He had no enemy, but the oppreffors of his country, or their vulgar and murdering deputies. Such was his ftrength of mind and indignant fpicit, from the oppreffious and cruelties be witacffed, that neither time nor terror could erafe the impreffion, nor deter him from expreffing it, when his eyes were offended by the fight of any of the privileged ruffins, whole enormities had lo much fcourged the country.

On Monday, 16th of April, in the 69th the Rev. Mr. William year of his age, Ledwith: he was more than 25 years Pärif He was greatly Pricft of Rathfarnham, efteemed for liberal and exemplary manners. The dech was occafioned by the injuries he tuitained, a few years thee, from the bas of two affaffins, who forcibly entered his house at a late hour at night, and fired feveral shots at him, from which he escaped with great difficulty.

In Lurgan-ftreet, in an advanced age, This man was as Alderman Crothers. ignorant and as bigotted as any of the ig no ant corporation of which he was a member. His chara@er is best described when we fay he was an Orange man, and a president or master of a lodge of those murdering ruffians, under whole hands the wretched inhabitants of this city fuffered the most painful and degrading injuries, in the reign of terror in 1798.

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The inconfiftency of this Alderman's character, who died an Orange-man, may feen by the following: "Whigs of the Capital," Hugh Crothers in the Chair, at the Eagle in Ruftace ft. Tuesday, 5th April, 1791.

Refolved Unanimously, that a Committee (with the Prefident and Secretary) be now appointed, to consider of the most effectual mode of diffeminating Mr. Paine's paniplilet on the Rights of Man,

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Signed by order, J. Chambers, Sec."

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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We have received a letter ficned "ERAS. 28," containing a very circumsantial detail of the different modes of traffic at prefent ufed by four Catholic Pricfts, riding in Hallinakill, Maas, Ballinafloe, and Graigue (Carlow) to enrich themselves! We request the writer will point out to their respective biflops the practices which he has com

municated to us, and which are (we believe) contrary not only to the Canons of the Church, but to their Vows of Ordination : and if the bithops, after fuch communication, being made, fhall negle& taking offelsal meatures to impede the further progrels of fuch abufes, we will publin the letter in our sex, month's magazine.

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IRISH MAGAZINE,

OR

Monthly Asylum

FOR

NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY.

FOR JUNE, 1810.

BURDETT FAMILY.

The first of this name mentioned in our records is Robert de Burdet, who came into England with William the Conqueror; he was a fubfcribing witnefs to the charter made by Geoffrey de Wirce, to the monastery of St. Nicholas d'Angers, which beareth date at Monks-Kirby, in Warwickshire, in the 12th year of that reign to whom fucceeded

Sir William de Burdet, Lord of Newton-Burdet, in Com、 Leic, who in King Stephen's reign obtained a grant from the Marmion family, of the Lordship of Pooley, in Com. War. in fee farm, at the rent of ten fhilKings.

Sir William, zd of the name, fon and heir of the foregoing, was a gal ant knight. He made a Croisade to the Holy Land, but on his return home, a perfidious fteward left by him in charge of his eftates during his abience, actuated with a vengeful Spirit against Sir William's fpoufe, for having rejected his base advances, ac

cufed this virtuous lady of infidelity to her lord, who in a fit of jealoufy killed her with his own hand; but afterwards, being convinced of his error, and of the act of injustice he had perpetrated in the fpirit of that age, he in expiation of his guilt founded a monastery or cell at Ancote, near Sekingdon, in Warwickshire, in the 5th of Henry II.; in which church he is interred under a plain freeftone monument, curioufly emboffed with the fculpture of a large cross, placed in an arch, in the wall, on the north fide of the altar.

Hugh, fon and fucceffor of S William, left iffue by Matilda de Someri, his wife, Sir William, 3rd of

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