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to be lavish,

And a Proteftant lady paft ninety to ravish. He swore what fets reafon and conscience a faring,

But in College and Custom-house, all's done by fweasing,

In short he was not fuch a fool or a widgeon, To loose mutton-chops for a famished religion.

in Connaught's fair Province, as hiftories fay

When Spalpeens feek Albions white eliffs to make hay,

For the good of their pockets and peace of their lives,

A begging they fend off their brats and their wives;

Till Harvest well faved and efcaping all

harms,

They feek their fmoked cabins and wives

loving arms;

MR. EDITOR,

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The following attempt at versing the literal translation of three articles of our ingenious countryman Theops. O'Flanagan's Collection of Irish Poems, is respectfully offered to your truly Irish Publication, by

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AN IRISHMAN.

Nor to mankind thy worth proclaim,
Or fraud or guile pollute thy fame.

3 DESCRIPTION OF FIUN M'COMHALL'S GREYHOUND.

In yellow tint BRAN' limbs were fet, Her belly white her fides as jet, Leopard fpots on her loins the bore, And on her ears deep crimson wore.

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ATTORNIES.

This valuable fet of men, furnifh a tolera ble quota of their body, as representatives in the different goals in Dublin, they share part of the common diftrefs, as they very carefully contributed to it. In the FourCourt-Marfhalfea, there are 39; in Newgate, 3; and in the Sheriff's Prifon, 29. It is devoutly to be wifhed the numbers may be treble in a few days.

COMMERCIAL REPORT.

Every edition of the Gazette record the general fate of infolvency which threatens to depopulate, this great City. The shopkeep. ers of Dublin are in the highest degree dis treffed the alarming effects of the Union, now operate in the most rapid and dilatrous manner abandoned by our Gentry, vicious and cruel as they were, though they chaftifed us with the indifference of Executioners, yet their prefence tended to enliven domeftic induftry, by the circulation of thofe Rackrents, which their agents exacted from a ftarving people. The fame exactions continue, but instead of animating one portion of the country at the expenfe of the reft, they are diffipated in a foreign land, and one fweeping calamity bows down the entire Irish nation.

The fhameful and open tranfportation of our provifions, have fo railed the price of animal food, that only the opulent can purchafe it. This dreadful evil ariles from the cruel policy which allows foreign artificers, to a competition with our people, for the neceffiries of life we raife. A nation of husbandmen, as we are compelled to be, tho' capable of being a great commercial one, has fo much put the price of labour in the hands of our task-mafters, that two days work at this day in Ireland, would not pay for one pound of beef or mutton, fo that England a nation of artificers, is able to draw all our

provisions, by the advantages tradesmen cajoy, from their very fuperior wages.

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Deprived of independence, abandoned by our landlords, ftarved in our fields, formented with tax-gatherers, and excluded from the Commercial World: Bankruptcy and want, exasperate the public mind fo much, that nothing but the immenfe armies quartered in every diftrict, could perfuade us it is more prudent to poftpone justice to another world, than to difpute for animal grati fication with our red vifitors in th's.

It is to be regretted that fome efficient mea fures are not adopted to reconcile the two nations, though religious diftinction may create jealoufics, in minds elevated by pride, or led by abliract principles, yet the numbers are fo triding, comparatively with the other part of the community, who are so attached to eating, that it would not require fix battalions to reason with them. Were the great

body of the Irish people, not displeased at the manner they are deprived of their beef and butter, to feed their brethren in England, and left to banquet on potatoes and falt, they ne not be fuch objects of fufpicion, that it costs more to watch and hang them, than they could be fed for. This bad policy, must always create a mifunderttanding fatal to the public tranquillity; the Irish dike the men who eat up their food, and the caters hate the Irish, for their impatience.

OBITUARY.

In Peter's Row, in an advanced age, Mr. Francis Dunn, formerly of Fishamble-freet, watch-maker. This good and industrious Citizen, in the courfe of a long life, was the delight of the humble fphere he moved in. He was pious and inftructive Though he difliked the religion and policy of England, he was no bigot, he abhorred them only from their practical effects.

He could no reconcile it to his rotions of policy or picty, that a country which preach

ed obedience and religion, with the faggot and triangle in one hand, and the bible and Magna Charta in the other, was not guided more by the thirft of gain, than by the spiit of the Gospel,

In Dundrum, the wife of John Ransford, of Abbey-ftreet, Esq. Her numerous friends. regret with the fincereft forrow, the lots of an amiable companion, whofe manners were ftrictly calculated to embellifh and inform Society.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We will not infert any communication, if with his remarks on Wogan's Almanacks, the poftage is not previously paid.

We are forry that an article reflecting on the character of Counsellor Huffy, by fome inattention on our part, obtained a place in our magazine for March last

Mr. Lynch's various aniwers in profe and verfe, to a queftion in the Beifalt Almanack, repeating the rising and fetting of the Moon,

and his an madreifions on the pirated editions of thole publications, having been fant to late for infertion in this prefent month' magazine, will be given at full in our next. We recomincad a certain loyal man 15 Abbey-street, not to perlift in offend ng t public, by an exhibition of pictures of a decent defcription in his fhop wiadoAS

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IRISH MAGAZINE,

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Monthly Asylum

FOR

NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY.

FOR JULY, 1810.

With this Month's publication we give an Engraving of the best and most expeditious method for half or whole hanging Irish Priests, Trades men, Merchants or Countrymen, as practised by the Riding-house Army, the Majors, Country Parsons, Trading Justices, and other distinguished operators in Town and Country.

BESIDES the car which always furnished a very convenient and quick method of half-hanging, when business was to be done in the open air, a door was as frequently used when any internal executions took place, fuch as were neceffary to give amusement at public dinners, barracks, and guardhoules. The Riding-houfe army was uniformly preceded by a car and horse -they bore the inftruments of tor ture, the ropes, taws, and picketting ftaves, during the time that the city of Dublin and its vicinity were governed by martial law. The car was fo convenient by its conftruction, that it could be used as a gallows or a tri angle; the backband ferved as the crofs-tree of the ftationary gibbet, and the fides anfwered all the purposes of the whipping machine fed in the army, as the hands of the July, 1810

fuffering perfon were bound to them, while receiving his punishment.

Mr. Jofeph Wall, of Bolton-ftreet, pawnbroker, was waited on one day in June, 1798, by the gentlemen executioners, at the very precife mo ment that a clergyman was chrif. tening Mr. Wall's infant child, notwithstanding every remonstrance and entreaty on the part of Mr. Wall's company, the prieft and fponfors, and in prefence of his feeble wife, he was dragged down ftairs, his clothes torn off, tied up to the car, and there at his own door flogged until the plea fure of the military gentlemen had been fully gratified. After the whipping, they put him naked and mangled as he was into a cart, and hawked him through feveral ftreets, expofed to the eyes of fuch of his af frighted fellow-citizens as dared to

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