the breafts of the rural band of per formers. The Windows of each houfe through the country are ordered to be closed, under a fevere penalty The orders would have extended to the doors, only the most part of them have anticipated the Mowing Decree. Every thing that flands in the way to interrupt a good British harveft, will come under the fweeping fcythe. PRINTING PRESSES, thofe curfed engines of infubordination, will give confiderable impediment, but the fuperior temper of old English fleel, and the hereditary skill of the MOWER, will bear away every oppofition.

DUKE OF RICHMOND,

ther example of his Grace's refpect for the people of this country. The well known Giffard, whofe vulgar and rancorous character has been rendered fo obnoxious to the Catholic body, that our furprife at the avowed patronage he receives only equals our astonishment, at the temerity of any adminiftration, at this perilous period, that would prefume to affect an attackment to Catholic rights, and at the fame moment be fo profufe in rewarding their calumniator. Giffard has got a finecure of 1400 a year, and his fon a Judge's place in the illand of Ceylon!

His Grace is praised by Mr John Burke Fitzfimons, in the refpectable columns of the Hibernian Journal, for the pleasure his Grace takes in promoting the happiness of the people of this country. If giving power to the 'moft detetted, and heaping rewards and honors on the most malignant of our revilers, are confulting our hap pinefs, we cannot deny the need of acknowledgement. If his Grace's benevolence is to be 'the theme of interefted and purrid adulation, we would

The deference his Grace pays to public opinion, and the etteem he has for the Irish people may be beft underlood by a thort review of his adminiftration. Between him, Major Sirr, and the hero of Talavera, a rigid and expenfive fyftem of police has been put over the declining city of Dublin, and the Major virtually made minifter of it, though Alder-afk from what public act of his reign man Pemberton, a comb maker, is allowed to be the nominal chief. If his Grace confulted the public fentiment in Dublin, he is very well affured that even among the ignorant and bankrupt afcendancy corporation, he could have felected a more refpected perfon than Town Major Sirr, to fill the office of Minister of Police. Such is his Grace's predilection for this man, that we are confident if Jen my O'Brien had not tumbled on the gallows, that favourite knight of the dag ger would not have been left out of office.

Leaving the obnoxins police, its ignorant aldermen, and pert lawyers, its privileged barbers, tinkers, and bankrupt deputies, in the exercife of their high powers, we will quote ano

can it be justified? Is his gift of forty pounds, to relieve the imprisoned deb tors on the Jubilee affair, or the tenpounds propofed to fuccour the ftarv ing manufacturers in the Liberty, whofe unprecedented miferies arife from the fpirit of monopoly, and thirst of power of his countrymen, fuch elevated examples of vice-regal munificence as to excite more regard than contempt for the virtues which a venal prefs attributes to every man in authority? It is in vain we know to rebuke the wicked while they enjoy power, we are fo confcious that if fome of the mighty affections that fhake Europe does not alter our condition, or alarm our perfecutors, our industry will be impeded, and our character misreprefented.

PORT

PORTLAW SPORTSMEN.

fhedding the blood of thousands of
our countrymen when they are over-
whelming with an in pportable load

To the Editor of the Irish Magazine. of taxes, a people already exhaufted

SIR,

and impoverifhed-when they are at-
tempting to almost deprive us of our
existence as a people, by withholding
from us thofe rights and privileges we
have fo long and so nobly struggled
for, by treating our claims (the claims
of four millions of loyal fubjects, who
have fhed their laft drop of blood in
their defence, and without whofe fpi-
rit for the fupport of their king and
country, would their armies be unre-

Peing thoroughly convinced that nothing can more effectually prevent the repetition of a most wapton, irreJigious, and premeditated infult, of fered to a community, compofing by a va mejority the population of the place in which it was committed, than the public exposure of the crime, that the infamous perpetrators of it fhould feel they are well known, I will takecruited and their fleets: unmanned, it as a favor done me, and a general piece of fervice to the community at large, if you ofert the following abominable act of which there is the

cle reft evidence.

Two or three men in the neigh bourhood of Portlaw, whofe fituations in life rank them in that clafs of the people called Gentlemen, took a fhoot ing excursion into the wood, where either game not being plenty, or not being expert at the ufe of the gun, or rather withing to referve their amunition for better fport, they affixed a target to the gate of the Chapel, and had the good fuccefs of perforating the door with a number of balls-the holes they made are now to be feen, and have been seen by thoufands of people, who frequent that houfe as the dwelling of that Being whom they adore. The perpetrators of this nefarious and wanton act refide in the neighbourhood, and are known to have been folely actuated by a spirit of rancour the bafcft paffion human nature is capable of-to them, and of hoftility to their religion,

It is really a matter very much to be deplored, that at a crifis fo awful as the prefent, when our powerful and inveterate enemy is fo rapidly fubjugating the whole Continent-when Our miniftry are fo inconfiderately

their commerce crippled, and their
fhores left open to the attacks of an
enemy, too fatally known to be an
overmatch for the rest of Europe)
with fuch fovereign contempt, at this
awful crifis, when Union and Har-
mony fhould be the watchwords of
the country-when its peace fhould
be preferved by all poffible means, do
we fee it to be disturbed by thofe ap-
pointed to be its very guardians, both
holding refponfible fituations under
the prefent government, one a justice
of the peace, the other a commiffion-
ed officer in the army. We frequent-
ly hear of the difgraceful acts com-
mitted by a deluded, heartbroken peo-
ple, and to which they are driven by
every fpecies of oppreffion, but no
footer are they known, than they are
delivered up to the arm of justice, to
infct on them fuch punishment as
will prevent their future inroads on
the peace
of the country. It remains
now to be feen, whether rank will
fcreen fome from the vengeance of the
law, whilft it punishes others, goaded
into the committal of those acts by in-
tolerance and irritation, the never-
failing fources of riot and confufion.

It is not with a defign of re-kind-
ling a fpirit of diffention amongst my
countrymen that I now write you, but
it is from a well-grounded confidence

that

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hat fuch difgraceful and unwarrant able acts are highly prejudicial to the fecurity of the people. And in this 'country where fo various are the 'modes of worship, it is of confiderable importance that whatever ideas individuals may form of their neigh. bour's religion, they should at leaft be compelled to delift from offering violence to any temple dedicated to the fervice of God. When fuch wanton and intemperate proceedings are paffed over by those who are invefted with the power of executiug the laws, the ufual, nay, natural confequence is, that the lower order of people who have ever, even in the bloody perfecuting reign of an Elizabeth clung faft to the forms of their religion, will imagine themfelves entitled to a retaliation, that may in the end proceed to very serious mischiefs

And though our Pro Patria Chancellor of the Exchequer has ftrained every nerve. has used every effort in his power, again to plunge this country into that ocean of ignorance, to which English tyranny and oppreffon had driven her, but from which the fo radiantly emerged, again to ftiffle public opinion by aiming a deadly blow not only at the freedom. but at the very existence of the Prefs of this country; yet muft he be aware, that though he conceives that in the pre fent order of things, it is requifite that all public tranfactions should for the future be wrapt up in forgetfulnefs, and concealed from the people, and that total annihilation was the moft defirable for attaining this object; yet, I fay, he must be well aware, that the Prefs of Ireland never will entirely fo stoop to venality, fo meanly crouch to power, or be fo degraded, as to become the organ of tyrannic and unqualified fervitudeand thanks to that still remaining portion of our liberty, thanks to our FREE PRESS, we have ftill through

it left to us, a medium whereby to communicate our fufferings and our diftreffes to the reft of Europe, and of handing down to posterity the foul, bigotted, and difgraceful acts of a miniftry, already pranded and ftigmatized for their imbecillity and want of talent in the government of a nation, whofe Public Vices, if not very fpeedily checked, portend the molt calamitous of all evils. a Public Fall! Yours, &c. &c.

P. F H. M.

Waterford, July 4, 1810.

Account at the Vifitation at aj OXMANTOWN ACADEMY,

The annual vifitation took place at

the Golden Leg College, Oxmantown. Several of the young Atudents felected for their abilities and appear. ance to be reared up aldermen, were examined by the vilitors and govern ois, and evinced confiderable taste and improvement, in the different branches of municipal and literary furje&s.— Mafter Bulbrooks was awarded a fine miniature picture of Iderman Emerfon for the beft anfwers on Sixpenny Juftice, and on the ft: tutes for gover ning the Court of Confcience. Mafter Firethatch received a picture of Claudius, for the best explanation of different law cafes, and adjudications in Thoffel jurifprudence, during the judicial adminiftration of Alderman Hart, from the reports of Donohoe, his deputy. Malter Biblemouth was awarded a neat volume of the New Teftament, for the shrewd anfwers he made to questions put to him, on the beft plan of arranging ftationary grand juries. The young candidates fung fever al corporation dinner fongs, with much talle and eclat. "Croppies lie down," the "Boyne Water," and the "Go-boy O," particularly excited the admiration of the company, by the fuperior manner of execution. From

the

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