mouths open! Do you not see how you are cajoled and degraded, by the paltry subscriptions made for you at different times and in various parts of the nation; which serve only to make your slavery more servile and base, and your misery of longer duration? I revere generous subscribers and collectors, but I scorn the means! Ye poor, take a far. ther look into your rights, and you will see, that, upon the principles of reason and justice, every peaceable and useful person has a right, yea, "Divine Right" to be satisfied with the good of the land! Besides, is it not monstrously provoking to be robbed by wholesale, and relieved by retail! Look again, and you will see that public Collections, Subscriptions and Charities are nothing more than the apappendages of Corruption, Extortion, and Oppression! If the benevolent Father of the Universe did not send amongst mankind provisions enough, and more than enough, and running over, such is the waste of the great and the gluttinous, that many of you poor, would get none at all! Say not, there fore, ye Oppresed, "there is a famine, or scarcity of provisions in the Land!" It would be false. The land contains plenty and if provisions were (as they ought to be) reduced to your wages, you would enjoy your unquestionable right; a comfortable sufficiency. : THE IRISH MUSIC. Cambrensis, the traducer and morenemy of the Irish Nation, compelled by the force of truth, gives the foliowing eulogium on the Irish Music; and as it comes from a person, who takes every opportunity to defame and villify the Irish character in every thing, it is but fair to conclude, that, in this he has done no more than justice: "The attention of this people," (says he, speaking of the Irish, )to musical instruments, I find worthy of commendation; in which their skill is, beyond all comparison, superior to that of any other nation I have seen; for in all these, the modulation is not slow and solemn, as in the instruments of Britain, to which we are accustomed; but the sounds are rapid and precipitate, yet at the same time sweet and pleasing. It is wonderful, how in such a precipitate rapidity of the fingers, the musical proproportions are preserved; and by their art, faultless throughout, in the midst of their complicated modulations, and intricate arrangements of notes, Hearken! O ye poor of the land! by a rapidity so sweet, a regularity so Po you fret and whine at oppression irregular, a concord so discordant, the 66 yes,"" "" Then, as yè do, so did melody is rendered harmonious and your fathers before you," and, if you perfect, whether the cords of the do no more, your children may whine diatessaron or diapente are struck toafter you! Awake, arise, arm your gether; yet they always begin in a selves, with truth, justice and reason, soft mood and end in the same, that lay seige to corruption, and your unity all may be perfected in the sweetness and invincibility shall teach your op- of delicious sounds. They enter on, 3 M 2 But, besides the destruction of your trade, and the means of subsistence, you have the mortification to see your bread eaten by Dragoon and Hunting Horses, Spaniels, &c. and your paren tal, affectionate, loving, prevident and tender guardians, can give you a good reason why it is their own! ..and and again leave their modulations with so much subtility, and the tinglings of the small strings sport with so much freedom under the deep notes of the bass, delight with so much delicacy, and sooth so softly, that the excellence of their art seems to lie in concealing it."Cambrens. Topograph. distinct. 3. cap. 11. REVIEW OF SWADLING PREACHERS. the Swadlers, and very deservedly-He certainly has not the fire and inspired vehemence in his discourses, of Mungo the black Swadler, who beats the big Drum in the 42d Regiment, nor the learning in Theologicks of Mr. Gribbins the cast cloathsman, nor that holy ugliness, which in Surgeon Short's face, beams terror on the Prince of darkness-but still the Major has a je ne scai quoi of sanctity and a tout ensemble in his language, and seems so impressed with the sense of his high office of soul saver and combatter of Popery and Sin, that it would not be easy to find his equal; he wants energy, but he has great pathos; his burning love of God and of his neighbour, transports him to a degree of holy extasy-when he exclaims, neither thrones, nor diadems shall separate me from the love of God and my loyalty, it has a great effect-when he weeps in the pulpit for sinners, he is peculiarly interesting-he is fond of the attitude of Paul before Festus, and it becomes him; John Pack the Evangelist painter has drawn him in this attitude-His zeal on some occasions eats him up, his anger against the foes of God is outrageously pious, he is then a terrific advocate for the Lordhis doctrine is not entirely orthodox, for he maintains that restitution is a The Antipopery brigade, or Saints Errant of this city, have become encreased to a very miracle-at a late review and embodyment, a corps was denominated the Methodist Invincibles, and another body of Saints got the title of the Legion of Grace; amongst the Dispensers of the word, the Lord has showered an abundance of gifts, and has glorified each Apostle in his way. It must be pleasing to the pious soul to see how God honors sinners into vessels of election, and with that holy view we shall speak of some of the chief Swadlers, that now buffet Satan and bilk the Whore of Babylon in the City of Dublin-we shall be gin with noticing the pious, qualities, and qualifications of that holy man, that we had so often occasion to mention with reverence—it is needless to observe, that we allude to the most damnable sin, and he holds the Major. It is not easy to say, whether this man has done more for the Throne or for the Altar, in his double capacity of Constable and Apostle, he has so bound over and swaddled to effect, that he rates not higher as a thief catcher, of which he is the first, than as a collector of strayed sheep into the fold of grace, as a Divine or Swadling Preacher-nor is it easy to decide, whether the tortures that he formerly inflicted on the bodies of sinners against the State, are not equalled by the comfort he now pours by preachment into the souls of sinners against the Lord. The Major is esteemed a first-rate Preacher amongst doctrine, "What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my own," which heresy was first broached by Sir John Falstaff-he holds removing the mammon of iniquity, in the shape of spoons, watches, or pictures from sinners, to be a cardinal virtue, lest they set their hearts upon such vile things and forget the Lord for this he quotes Saint Paul, who he says, remarks in his epistle to the Thessalonians, He that takes a purse, takes trash, and trash if taken, is not worth returning. He has made many converts, and is considered by Mrs. Latouch very nearly equal to the divine preacher man, whom next we shall review, the Holy Mr. Cowper. Trial Sketch of the trial of young Howard, the wire-drawer, who was convicted and acquitted at the Kilkenny Summer Assizes of this year, before Justice Osborne, for the murder of William Butler, in the month of May last-by a Kilkenny Protestant, in a Letter to the Editor of the Irish Magazine. SiR, My signature as a Protestant, will not be, with you, I flatter myself, a presumption of my unworthiness as a Patriot, nor will the facts contained in the following communication lose any of their credibility, by being related by one whose prejudices and natural feelings should go to suppress their publication, were he not animated with the desire of doing justice to the oppressed Catholic, and of standing forth the champion, but the une biassed one, of historical truth. To the certainty of what is here advanced, I can bear testimony, for the most part, as an eye-witness, and where I have been obliged to consult extrinsic do⚫cuments; it was after the fullest and most scrupulous discussion of their accuracy and authenticity I consented to make use of them. Provided the facts on which the present narration is founded, were so notorious in themselves, and so calculated to interest the minds of the many, that nothing is less to be apprehended than a substantial error in their detail. Let us to the trial. On the morning of Friday the 25th of August, ult. Judge Osborne proceeded to the City Court house, where he was met by the rank, the poverty, the party, and the disinterested, unprejudiced individuals of all persuasions, who like myself, went there to hear justice pronounced on those, by whom justice had been most glaringly outraged. Out of a pannel of fifty-six persons, chosen from the city, and such county gentlemen as had freeholds in the city, a Jury was formed at length, after numerous aud repeated challenges on the part of the prosecu tion, and of the defence. Many of our high Protestant folk were rejected, in consequence of an avowal, that they had assisted the culprit as an Orangeman with money for his deliverance. Two Roman Catholics, Major Bryan who was Foreman, and P. Denn, Esq. together with ten Protestants, entered the Jury-box on this important case. Counsellor Burrows opened the prosecution in one of those mild speeches, wherein the strength of a good cause is usually strangled, by a ridiculous endeavour to reconcile and appropriate the opposite extremes of party ap plause. Thus, instead of detailing and insisting on the strong facts and features which governed the indictment, he expatiated sweetly on the philosophical concord which seemed exclusively to belong to, and to have originated in the County Kilkenny. Here was none of that acrimonious rancour of religious, or rather irreligious feelings which stimulated to savage aggression in other parts of our ill-fated ilse. We had made gigantic strides in our progress to genuine toleration, although every voucher of the futility of such a supposition was to be found in the very constitution of the Jury-pannel, and in the inte rested help of Magistrates, and the impunity which closed the entire proceeding. From the leading evidence (M'Grath) against the prisoner, the Court learned, that about the middle of May last, a number of little boys were in the habit of assembling on the place called the parade at Drum-hour, to hear the Kerry band, which they sometimes accompanied to the barrack, and then returned peaceably. Howard, with some graceless young jacknapes began to fancy, that as the band of the Kerry regiment was popish, the circumstance of the crowd assembling each night, did not argue much for the loyalty of the musicians or their hearers, flushed with this conviction on their loyal minds; this knot of ruffianly banditti met met Evidence returning as usual with some of his play-fellows, late in the evening. Frowns and angry looks, and angry words were the prelude to more serious warfare. Prisoner aimed a blow at witness, which he retorted on his adversary. Howard was knocked down, and on recovering himself, he was heard to exclaim, "M'Grath, by G-, I will take your measure;" the following night renewed the skirmishing between those heroes. Some shouting was heard in the streets, in consequence a few of the guard were ordered against the rioters, who most intrepidly dispersed at their first appearance. Evidence scampered home, and in his way met the deceased, an unoffending boy of fifteen, who had never done the slightest injury to mortal. Curiosity prompted them to travel in the direc, tion of Howard's house, from an upper window in which, prisoner levelled his yeoman's piece, and though intreated by a Mr. Colles who appeared in evi dence for him, to forbear, he obstinately and deliberately discharged the contents of his musket through the body of Butler. Much ingenuity was exhausted by Counsel for the defence, to shew that prisoner's house was attacked, and that personal safety urged him to act as he did. But the witnesses examined on his behalf, it was imagined, from the deep shades of improbability and self contradiction that checkered their entire evidence, would have rendered his acquittal impossible. His fond mother, influenced no doubt by the anxieties of a parent's tenderness, deposed, that she heard the stones of the rioters strike against her door, though she for her life, could not hear the dear son's shot. But the most important of all the informations which this interesting trial contributed to dedevelope, was the discovery of the Orangeman's Oath, its nature, its object, its condition. A Sexton of the name of Aikenhead was cross-examined by Mr. Burrowes, who acquitted himself much more satisfactorily in this instance, than in his opening speech. Pray are you an Orangeman? What need you care, was the Charterschool answer. Was it not to become more loyal you became an Orangeman? Doubtless. Could no man be loyal but an Orangeman? Yes. Could a Roman Catholic be loyal? Yes. Could he be very loyal? He could. Could not he therefore be an Orangeman? No he could not-in a start. Why could not he? Because he is not qualified. Why is he not quali fied? Because he is not a Protestant-in a great fury, A great deal besides of very curious matter, had been doubtless elicited by the ingenious interrogatories of the Counsellor, did not his Lordship think it adviseable to interdict the further relation of these orange mysteries, not from any sympathy we are sure. It was likewise made to appear, that an Orangeman's Oath was conditional, that he is bound to con, ceive himself released from the bon dage of loyalty, whenever the King did not support the Protestant Ascen dancy. Now in the minds and rea sonings of these reptiles, Catholic Emancipation is incompatible with this monster Ascendancy; of course, when the measure of national happiness and political wisdom shall have been sanctioned by Parliamentary approba tion, these wretches are sworn and notorious traitors to their King, as they are now the sworn enemies of the li berty of his people. And how can people talk seriously of the security Roman Catholics enjoy in this land of their birth and sufferings, whilst their enemies, their deadly mortal enemies, are not only permitted to remain unmolested, but are besides encouraged by the protection of, fostered into honour and importance, by the countless media of Court favour and Castle interest, which the bigotted imps of a corrupt junta are sure always to avail themselves of in behalf of their vile abettors. After a and trial which lasted from eleven in the forenoon to six in afternoon, and dur ing which the confederated energies of eloquence and law had been brought respectively to bear on their own case, by each bench of Lawyers, the Judge charged the Jury at full length, and with a becoming inclination to the side of mercy, in the instance before us. The Jury shortly - returned with a verdict of manslaughter, which compelled his Lordship to sentence this atrocious young wiredrawer, to twelve months imprisonment and burning on the hand, together with degradation from the Orange corps, of which he was, and proved himself a worthy member. Although the award did not come up to the wishes of a very crowded court, who from a personal acquaintance with the circumstances of the transaction, were convinced that the killing in the present instance was murderous; yet justice obtained a great triumph, in the culprit's confinement, and in the discovery that was made of the expedients recurred to, in order to rescue him from the fate he richly merited. During the trial his behaviour was that, which would not have dishonoured the hardihood of the most inveterate delinquent, with the greatest composure and the most marked indifference, he remained unagitated and recollected in the dock, as if he was at breakfast, occasionally sporting an orange handkerchief, and after sentence, wished to expostulate with the Judge on the severity of his punish ment.. Political method of disbanding Yeomen, practised by a Connaught Officer shortly after the Ballinamuck business. Yeomen take care, From the front to the rear, To the mountains you may gang you If you conceive the following fact worthy of a place in your celebrated miscellany, by inserting it, you will much oblige yours, Poor A CONSTANT READER. Sometime in the year ninety-eight, at that ferocious period, when the Magna Charta of plunder, unchained upon the peasantry of Kilkenny and its neighbourhood; those legalized, armed banditti, whose hungry loyalty could discover treason, where it discovered food, and whose attachment to the constitution was a love of freequarters, it happened that CastleComber and its environs, in consequence of the expedition of General Murphy, were frequently visited by the priviledged marauders of the day, and more than ordinary vengeance inflicted on the rebellious beef, mutton, and fowl of the inhabitants. Phillip's house was often the scene of merry Orange gambols to the Yeomen, who, used to come punish the disloyalty of the ducks and geese, whilst the army used to go punish the disloyalty of the owners. A sweeping excursion had nigh depopulated his farm-yard of its feathered insurgents, when stung with rage, he hied him to the Priest, and in his own seditious! dialect, besought him earnestly to procure from the magistrate a protection for his ducks. jocularity of the application convulsed the Justass's sides with laughter, and his Majesty's most gracious pardon was extended to the dunghill the barn-> door and benroost, much to poor Phillip's comfort. The humorous ARMY |