approach their doors or windows. Butler, the perfumer, of Stephenfireet, was another day attended in the fame manner of vifiting, but efcaped a very fevere drubbing by the interceffion of a loyal furgeon, who informed the BAR that they were punishing a man in the first stage of the fmall pox. The door, as we faid before, was only fit for domeftic purposes, as in the cafe of the boys taken in Rathfarnham, and of Father Bufhe, of Denmark-ftreet chapel, who was feveral times half hanged on one day, in a guard-house in the Castle-yard. ORANGE BRUTALITY. On Whit-Monday, 1798, a party of yeomanry from Newtown Barry, courfing for human game, went to the houfe of one Haughton, 'near Ballicarney, county Wexford, where they met three brothers of the name of Redmond, natives of the place; thefe poor young men were known to have refufed feveral invitations of the rebels to join their army-a member of the party, of the name of Gough, even gave teftimony of the loyalty of the Redmonds, and affured his companions that the brothers did, the preceding day, ufe every effort to prevent the rebels from burning Gough's houfe, though without any effect. Notwithftanding every affurance of their innocence, one of the armed favages demanded of his officer, Captain C--, would they take the accufed to Newtown Barry? to which he replied "No; if we take them fo far we may get cool and the rafcals may escape; fhoot them;" on which, two fellows, Titlock and Evans, advanced, and difcharged their pistols into the bodies of the unfortunate men; two were mortally wounded, and the third apparently, but furvived, and was pre. fentin feveral engagements afterwards, as a member of the infurgent army, which he joined, and diftinguished himself with a spirit that his misfortunes fully justified. Some time in the fummer of 1799; a poor man of the name of Kennedy, a farmer, living at Profpect, near Clonegal, in the county of Carlow, was met near his dwelling on the road by a party of yeomanry, and agreeable to the cuftom of the privileged wretches they attacked the unarmed inoffensive man, and with the cooleft deliberation almoft literally hacked him into pieces with their fwords. After leav ing him apparently dead they departed; and fome time after the body was difcovered by the family, who had him carried to his houfe: the remains of life were ebbing fo faft that the affiftance of a clergyman was neceffary, and being informed that Mr. Purcell the parish prieft dare not at the peril of his life, attempt to go near Kennedy's houfe, the wife had the dying hufband put on a car which the drove, brought him to Mr. Purceli's, near the village of Clonegal, who adminiftered the facraments of the church, after which the man expired. THE THE PAINTER CUT. A VISION. MR. Cox, right hand, on looking along which I carried my view to a rock on the oppofite fhore, and fimilar to that on which the fpectre of Religious Bigotry flood-Here I observed another very deformed phantom but differently attired; from every part of her body, chains of exquifitely wrought gold hung, at the end of each of which was a large book, the title pages being difcernable I obferved the names of Woodward, Dr. Duignan, Sir. Richard Musgrave and Lord Rede/dale written thereon, in her left hand fhe held a catalogue of books countless as the fands of the fea, and on her head fhe wore the cap of a Trinity College Fellow, having infcribed on its front Difcord Having made ancient Irish biftory my exclufive study for fome time back, and my labours being -fi nally terminated. On Sunday evening laft, I fat in my arm chair mentally recapitulating the unparrallelled fufferings that Ireland has borne for fo many ages: exhaulted by the agony which fuch reflections induce, I yielded to the influence of the drowsy god and was quickly in a very foundfleep.-Methought I was immediately transported to the beach of a fea, from which two islands of different dimefions were difcer-In her right hand fhe held the nible, and the straits feparating them fo narrow, that objects on the fhores of either, could be diftinctly seen by the spectator. There appeared standing on a rock clofe to the fhore of the fmaller ifland a most hideous figure (the rock was either volcanic or infernal as there were inceffant fulphureaus fteams iffaing from its center) whofe external ftructure resembled in fome fort a human female form: in her left hand the held a burning torch, from her neck was fufpended a dagger reek. ing with blood, and to her breaft affix. ed a bible, on her head she wore a martial helmet, which was decorated with the hearts tongues eyes and vitals of human beings, all apparently fresh taken from their respective owners; being ftruck with horror and astonish...ent at fo extraordinary an appearance, I drew near the Find hoping on a clofer infpection to discover her vocation in this nether world in this I was not difappointed, as I perceived written on the front of her helmet eligious Bigotry, my attention was now at. traced by a rope he held in her other end of the rope before mentioned, which on clofe examination I found fo much worn in many places as not to be thicker than a filken thread; on a fudden both Spectres uttered the most horrid and piercing howls I ever heard, and inftantly there appeared ftanding close to the figure of Religious Bigotry, four fmał ler Imps whofe characters were infcribed on the breaft of each, they bore the names of Envy, Malice, Columny and Slander, the face of flander was the ftrongeft likeness of Doctor Duigenan I ever faw. The attention of the Fiends appeared now directed to fome object at a dislance on the fea, which excited my curiofity, and turning my eyes to the point of attraction, I beheld a fhip of confiderable magnitude adorned magnificently with colours ftreamers and naval trophies gliding fwiftly over the furface of the waters; when It approached near me I perceived on its deck a triumphant Marine Carr, in which was feated a benign looking perfonage wearing an imperial Duadem, who held in his right hand a two edged fword, which had a map of Europe engraved thereon, as emblematic of the owners power; the fhip moved majeftically along until it came to the rope held by the Fiends, when the perfon in the triumphant Carr, immediately arofe and with one stroke of the fword fevered it in Two. The infernal Phantoms now rent the air with fhrieks, as may be conceived, but cannot be def. cribed, and having infected the furrounding atmosphere with an Intole. rable tench, they vanifhed!!! A man now appeared on the deck of the fhip dreffed in a military uniform of green and gold, whom I recol Jected to have been banished about ten years back from Ireland: he took off his hat and waving it feveral times over his head, exclaimed the Fainter is Cut. As tranfitions in dreaming are very rapid, I found the fcene fuddenly changed and difcovered myfelf to be on a large plain refembling the Curragh of Kildare, here I met an unaccountable mul titude of every denomination all Irish: there were Judges, Lawyers and At. torneys, Proteftant and Catholic bifhops with all their fubordinate clergy, Proteftants, Papifts, Prefbyterians, Quakers and Methodists, Orangemen and United Irishmen, in each groupe one perfon bore a ftandard or Colours, importing the object of their affociation. Amongst the colours I remarked but a few, the defigns on each of which I have but a confufed remembrance of : he judges had on their colours a painting of William Orr, in the elysian fields with Marcus Brutus binding a weath of immortality round his head; this ftandard was carried by Bla derchops; the lawyers had on theirs a picture of Robert Emmet, al cending a funeral pile, with the embryo of an independant Ifland arifing from his afhes: this was fupported by Counicilor Plate A G. -M. The attornies had the figure of a man, hanging with a Fiat in his hand, this was upheld by J.SThe proteftans bishops had on theirs the reprefentation of a Tythe proctor, buried up to his chin in the earth, and a croud of peasants around him adminiftering an oath that he fhould not demand Tythe, Pigs, or Family money, this was borne by the Rev. Mr. Battersby; the Catholick bishops had the reprefentation of an enter Ahad tainment of a very exraordinary nature indeed; a large table covered with fpeeches and pamphlets, made and written in favour of the Veto; around the table fat the different authors, comprifing an affemblage of fugitive patriots, writers of doggrell Rhimes, barbarous tranflators of impure Greek, deifical domefti, Chaplains, poor toad eating Lawyers, and difappointed dogmatical fanfenifts; at their backs was delineated a group of peafants with large twigs of fhullela in their hands, under whofe aufpices the authors were eating their productions with as much avidity as a Dublin alderman fwallows turtle; the Orangemen's standard han on it a fcourge or gallows and a cabbin in flames: this was held by Verner the united Irishman, a harp, a fhamrock and Erin go brach, this was carried by Gen. M.having enquired from a bye ftander the caufe of fuch a ftrange meeting, he informed me that the Painter was Cut, and that the people I faw were aflembled to erect an altar to Natio na Union, that all the infignias of their different affociations were to be offered as a facrifice thereon, and their prayers were to be a folemn renunciation (in the presence of their maker) of the prejudices which had caufed them to fhed each others blood, and enflave their country. While in converfation with my in structor now uncovered their heads, and with loud acclamations of joy toffed the coverings towards the firmament ; Judges, Lawyers, and Bishops, wigs hats, caps and helmets all jumbled in the air together feemed to partake of animal fenfation, and join in the univerfal harmony. You may jutge Mr. Cox I was not the last to huzza, which I did so loud and fo long that it brought my wife into the room where I was a fleep, and the by pulling me heartily awoke me, to the fad and ever to be regretted, certainty that the entire fcene I had jult wit neffed was but a vifion. ftructor the arrival of fome extrao dinary perfonage was announced by a loud fhout, and I obferved at fome diftance approaching the multitude a chair refembling an Eastern Palanquin borne by four fupporters when it arrived within a circle formed for the purpose of receiving it, I perceived the Palanquin was carried byth e Major, Claudius, Sir J.B-n, and J——k, G——d, and on examining what their burthen might be, to my utter aftonishment I faw Mr. Walter Cox's auguft perfon feated therein; on a throne of green fod, with a canopy of entwined fhamrock leaves over his head, I could not believe my eyes that the Majo and the other gentlemen would be carrying you about June 14th, 1810. like chairmen, and was proceeding to question my new friend as to the reality of what I faw, when a perfon who proceeded the Palanquin commanded filence and then your well known voice difpelled my doubts, in your hand you held an Irish Magazine from which methought you read the following extraordinary paragraph. "Irishmen !!! Notwithstanding the perfidious machinations of your Enemy, to per, petuate a flavery already borne for fix hundred years, you have at length opened your eyes to their treacherous efforts to ruin your fhackles, and by a pious and noble facrifice of your prejudices on the Altar of Na tional Union, and a timely and judious application of your physical powers, The Painter is Cut and *** ** is fee." Instantly an altar was raised of green turf and a quantity of boughs and other fuel held thereon, upon which the different ftandard-bearers laid their burthens and having ap plied fire thereto, the grateful offering afcended in volumes of fmoak to the almighty difpenfer of focial love and National Union. The multitude I am &c. QRELLANA. DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF Continued from page 274. Different kinds of culture in Kentucky. In the ftate of Kentucky, like thofe of the fouthern parts, nearly the whole of the inhabitants, ifolated in the woods cultivate their eftates themfelves, and particularly in harvesttime they affitt each other; while fome more independent, have their land cultivated by negro flaves. They cultivate, in this ftate, tobacco, hemp, and different forts of grain from Europe, principally wheat and Indian corn, The frofts, which begin very early, are unfavourable to the culture of cotton, which might be a profitable part of their commerce, provided the inhabitants had any hopes of fuccess, It is by the culture of Indian corn that all those who form establishments commence; fince for the few years after the ground is cleared cleared the foil is fo fertile in eftates of the first class, that the corn drops before it ears. Their process in husbandry is thus. after having opened, with the plow, furrows about three feet from each other, they cut them tranfverfely by others at an equal distance, and fet feven or eight grains in the points of interfection. When they have all come up, only two or three plants are left in the ground; a neceffary precaution, in order to give free fcope for the vegetation, and to infure a more abundant harveft. Toward the middle of the fummer the leaves from the bottom of the talk begin to wither, and fucceffively thofe from the top. In proportion as they dry up they are carried away carefully, and referved as a winter fuftenance for horfes, which prefer that kind of forage to the best hay. In eftates of the firft olafs, that yield annually, Indian corn grows from ten to twelve feet high, and produces, in a common year, forty to fifty English bushels per acre, and fixty to feventy five in abundant years. Some have been known, the fecond and third year after the land has been cleared. to yield a hundred. The bufhel, weighing about fifty to fiftyfive pounds, never fells for more than a quarter of a dollar, and fometimes does not bring half the money. The fpecies of corn that they cultivate is long and flat in point of fhape, and generally of a deep yellow. The time of harveft is toward the end of September. A fingle individual may cultivate eight or ten acres of it. The culture of corn is one of the most important of the country; much more, however, with regard to exportation than as an object of confumption. The county of Fayette, of which Lexinton is the chief town, and the furrounding comties, are thofe that fupply the molt. Good eflates produce from twenty-five to thirty buth els per acre, weighing about fixty pounds, although they never manure the ground, nor till it more than once, The harveft is made in the commencement of July, The corn is cut with a fickle, and threshed the fame as in other parts of Europe The corn is of a beautiful colour, and I am convinced, through the excellence of the foil, that the flour will be of a fuperior quality to that of Philadelphia, which, as it is well known, furpaffes in whiteness the best that grows in France. The plough which they make use of is light, without wheels, and drawn by horfes. It is the fame in all the fouthern states. The blight, the blue flower, and the poppy, fo common in our fields among the corn, have not fhewn themfelves in North America. The haryeft of 1802 was fo plen tiful in Kentucky, that in the month of Auguft, the time that I was at Lexinton, corn did not bring more than eighteen pence per bushel, (about two fhillings per hundred weight). It had never been at fo low a price. Still this fall was not only attributed to the abundance of the harvest, but alfo on account of the Return of peace in Europe They are convinced, in the country, that at this price the culture of corn cannot fupport itself as an object of commerce; and that in order for the inhabitants to cover their expense the barrel of flour ought not to be fold at New Orleans for less than four or five dol lars. In all the United States the flour that they export is put into flight barrels made of oak, and of an uniform fize. In kentucky the price of them is about three-eighths of a dollar, (fifteen pence). They ought to contain ninety-fix pounds of flour, which takes five bushels of corn, Including the expenfes of grinding. The |