of a Washington, a Fofter would not now be scourging us in our poverty, nor a Duigenan abusing us in a foreign fenate. The learned Doctor,' like his favage ancestors, what he calls thei rifh, would now be begging on the fide of a ditch, or contending with the unguarded paffenger on the public roads for a fugitive livelihood.

From the recent domeftic misfortune of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, we hope our amorous gentry will never truft their affairs to foreign fervants. The Italians, Spaniards, and Irish, are moft fcandaloufly notorious for their jealous difpofitions; and have been justly repreherded for tuch national weakneffes, by every polished English traveller. If a gentleman domefticates a man and his wife, he should be affured that his flumbers will not be interrupted by the affaffin's knife, There is a nation where the wife is an object of traffic, a part of the hufband's dispofeable property, where the nuptial bed is brought to market like any other merchandize, where the men are all cuckolds and the women all w-s, where luft can be gratified for gold, and honor transferred for diftinction, and to that nation every gentleman ought to give a preference, who values life, or would be fecured in his amusements.

"EVENING HERALD."

liberty, through its pages, of calling on the Catholics of Ireland to protect and uphold the "Evening Herald."

It may be imputed to me, that other than patriotic and difinterested motives ftimulate this appeal; but, Sir, you know that there is no caufe for obligation or regard on my part to the proprietors of the Herald, fave that gratitude which I feel in common with my countrymen, for their indefatigable advocacy of Catholic rights, and their candidexpofure, at all times of the wrongs which continue to be inflicted on this ill-ftarred country.

It ought to be fufficient with the people of Ireland, to judge of the Herald's merits by comparifon; however, left they might overlook this beft criterion of political worth in á public print, I fhall remind them what the claims are of the other papers in this metropolis to their patronage.

The first candidate for public favor is "The Dublin Journal;" a paper avowedly devoted to an Orange fac tion. The fecond, is "The Corres pondent;" a print fecretly inftituted, foftered, and upheld by apparent patriots but certainly as formidable enemies (becaufe not publicly known) to Irifh independence, as ever Lord Caf tlereagh or my Lord Clare could have been; a print whofe pages eternally teem with foul and fcurrilous invec tive against Bonaparte, in whofe ruthle's character it cannot find the leaft fpot of luminous tint, to relieve its black atrocity; a print whofe political

SIR,

As a recommendation (to the Catholics of one Newspaper in preference to another, could not find its way to public perufal through the medium of a rival print, and as your publication has obtained fo extenfive a circulation in this kingdom, I take the.

principle and profituted talent. The third, is "The Freeman's Journal;" a print affecting alternately the cant of loyalty, and language of patriot ifm, and whofe fervile obfequiousness to every party from whom it can expect an advertisement, cannot fail of being difcovered by a reader of the meaneft capacity, fhould he look in. to it but for one week; a print

whole

whofe heterogenous effays are easily found to be a combination of barbarous poetic compofition, and fhallow medicated profe. The fourth is " The Hibernian Journal;" of which, be it fufficient to fay, that it is edited by one of Beresford's Riding-houfe flog. gers, and its pages filled with the lucubrations of an illiterate Methodist. "The Evening Poft" is fo far before the others in point of character, by being perfectly harmlefs, that I fhall forbear at prefent defcribing it. The other prints exhibit not enough of either talent or treachery to merit

comment.

Mr. Fofter by his recent impofition on the Irish Prefs, hopes to extinguifh it, he would deny us the laft confolation of the oppreffed, the means of communicating to Europe our intolerable fufferings; therefore, under this additional burthen, it is the bounded duty of the Irish people, and more particularly the Catholics, to fupport the Evening Herald-if they will not ftrain every nerve to preferve an independent prefs, they do not deferve one. It may be urged that fome of the other prints have a more extended circulation, on account of the paucity of the advertisements in the Herald, but I fhall obferve, that it is in the power of the Catholics to give a pre-eminent character for domellic utility to the Herald, by bestowing on it thofe favors which they at prefent lavish on Orange hireling, and ungrateful prints, I will not infult the understandings of that clafs of Irifhmen, to whom this communication is principally directed, by dwelling longer on the manifold merits of this excellent newfpaper.Concluding, I request all thofe Catholics who fhall read this letter, to try the Herald but for one week, and as I entertain no doubt of their ta

JEMMY FARRELL
the Brewer.

We learn with extreme pleafure, that a jury of our fellow-citizens did, by a verdic against this brewer a few days back, convict him of having de famed this widowed lady, this daugh ter of affliction, who has drank of the cup of misfortune to its very dregs.

We would wish to fay that the Damages had been commenfurate with his means, and expiatory of his crime-which was, that of having charged her in a public company, with repeating a molt fanguinary and difloyal toast. To the Catholics of this kingdom we addrefs this article, and call upon them to remember that this lady's father, Mr. Henry Jackfon and her hufband, Mr. Oliver Bond, were members of that Protef tant affociation, who firft dared to fay that the enslaved Catholics ought to be admitted into the bofom of the conftitution. They were chiefs in that formidable, though mistaken league, who thought, that by feparating this ifland from Great Britain, it would give us a national character, promote our commercial and agricultural interefts, dettroy for ever religious feuds, and thereby render permanent our focial happiness, and infure our inde. pendence until time fhould be no more. How far they were right this is not a season to difcufs; but in recalling their fufferings to the memo ries of our countrymen, it is neceffary to recur to the causes of them fufferings,

Mr.

Mr. Jackfon, after a long imprifonment. was obliged to tranfport himfelf and his property to America, and by the contingencies attending fuch a ren oval, his Itock as we are well informed, fuffered a diminution of more than one half. Mr. Bond was tried, and convicted of treafon ; but in confequence of the compact made between the ftate prifoners and the then miniitry, he was to emigrate to ano. ther country and we need hardly remind our readers that he died in the New Prifon; and that, under circumftancesas explainable as the death of Pichegru in the prifon at Paris.

It therefore appears, that the firft political error, which drew down on thete iruhmen the indignation of government, was an exertion to enfran. chife Roman Catholics, and the fecond, an incorporation with all sects and claffes to reflore Ireland to its primitive independence; which if accomplished (and that it can be fuppofed for a moment, fuch a change would ferve this country) who would profit by it so much as the Catholics, who are the great majority of its population? And yet a Roman Catholic, with the knowledge of thefe gentlemens' virtues, and their fufferings, chiefly borne to remove his fhackles, can be found to flander and defame in the overflowings of his rancorous loyalty, the laft precious faving of the wrecks of two Irith families, whofe patriotifm and misfortunes fhall be recounted in Ireland by generations yet unborn.

When we contemplate this foul, ungrateful, inhuman, and unmanly attack on this lady, and while we remember fo cruel and unprovoked an attempt to infufe the laft drop of bitternels in the waters of affliction, let us not forget, that it is JEMMY FARRELL, the Catholic brewer, who has done the evil.

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The burning of Pat. Mahon's at Artane, by a detachment of the Riding-houle army. The colouring is well done; but the illumination lofes its effect by its opposition to the fun, which appears declining from the meridian, half concealed in a diftant clump of trees. The Banker appears very folicitous to light the entire of the thatch at one moment, toencrease the grandeur of the fcene, and the terror of the flying family.

Sir Duplicate Triangle flogging a Pawnbroker at the poor man's door, is an excellent loyal composition; the colouring is an excellent ftyle of grandeur, and the agony of the man finely expreffed. Sir Duplicate is ra. ther too much flattered by the painter -his nofe is not long enough, nor is the contour of his face dentated, as in the original,

An original picture, shewing the manner of drowning Popish priests in the year 1641. This valuable paint ing was painted at the expenfe of the Coote family, for the use of the Soci. ety, inftituted in London, for Propagating Religion in Foreign parts. It reprefents feveral bundles of priests tied back to back, like fo many bales of goods, fpread on the ground, and old Sir Charles Coote, with a company of English divines, infpecting the packages, while a crowd of foldiers are employed throwing the bodies into the river. This picture of fuffering Popery was purchased for Dr. Duige

nan.

The Major collecting at a charity fermon, for the ufe of a fociety of thirty-one perfons, who have a tabernacle in Dublin for converting the Irish, and propagating the gofpel

among

among the heathens. The Major's face is made to appear with holy anx iety for the cause of the gofpel, while a Moravian taylor with fallen eye-lids places a tenpenny on the plate. This excellent picture had nearly been fpoiled, by the prophane hands of fome painter who got accefs to it by fome illicit means, and contrived to make a drawing in the back ground, of Jemmy O'Brien fharpening his dagger.

A portrait of Sims the barber, painted by Solomon Major. This valuable article is intended for the hall of the Common Council, to perpetuate the rememberance of the bav. ing orator, whofe eloquence and reli gious attachment to the Memory of our Great Deliverer, deferves the gra titude of posterity.

A likeness of Dr, Trevor, painted for a museum intended to be erected for the prefervation of portraits of itluftrious men. This picture is fuch an accurate reprefentation of the philanthropic Doctor, that it is frequently fent to different parts of the United Kingdom for the gratification of fuch loyal people of rank as efteem the reSpected original. It has just returned from Bath, from a visit to Lord Redefdale, Tom Reynolds, Sir William Scott, and other of our religionists and patriots.

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MAJOR S———'s LIBRARY.

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A very neat pocket volume, written by Sir J, on the nature and convenience of Pawnbrokers' duplicates, was bought by Major Mangleback, for Irs. Jordan. The book is intereft ng to money lenders, as the author is a Judge ................................................................................. of the subject.

The Life and Memoirs of Mrs. Jordan; with a Catalogue of her children, vulgar and royal, Irish and English, with anecdotes of their refpective fathers, from the play houfe to the throne; by an unknown hand. This valuable production was bought by a member of the Society for Difcountenancing Vice and the Promotion of Virte.

The Life and Memoirs of Juftice B; beginning when his loyal and afpiring mind was engaged managing Judge Hamilton's clofe ftool, thro the fubfequent varieties of his adventurous days, as a cryer in the court of Exchequer, a trading magiftrate, a man-hunter with Jemmy O'Brien, a travelling agent of the Bank of Ireland, a character which he performed with much ingenuity. His manner of having a forged note fixed in a fellows pocket, is very capitally defcribed, and the fignal made ufe of when a thing was ready for execution, to call in the brotherhood, is fo well planned, that any fteady man would learn from it to make a fortune.

A curious Treatife on Public Economy; written by the Major; fhewing the great faving that could be made by hanging public offenders, inftead of transporting them. The learned Major very ingeniously proves that a fellow could be well hanged for an expenfe not more than two pounds prefent manner of the civil code, it three and fixpence, whereas by the really coft the public one hundred and eight pounds four and tenpence to transport one. He alfo advifes, that fome fhort procefs might be adopted to fave the expenfe of a tedious trial and execution, by restoring to the ufe of the travelling gallows, the dagger, and the Riding-house jury, which would not (land the public in more than eight fhillings each convict, provided the gentlemen exe.

cutioners