At his lodgings in Newgate, Mr. Bob Moore formerly an eminent Attorney, but more distinguished for his faceetious and convivial temper. His wit though not of a description suitable to recommend its possessor to the societies of polished life was strictly, original, and so much above the abilities of any of the candidates for faine in a certain line of humour, that it is reasonably conjectured by men of ceep and inquisitive research, that Bob had no equal among his cotemporaries in any nation in Eu. rope. The late Chief Justice Paters, with whom Bob frequently travelled on circuit as Register, had such a predeliction for Bob, and his humour, that he preferred his society to that of the moft learned at the bar. A volume of anecdotes could be given of the Judge and his chum, did not the chastity of our pages exclude the subject. Bob was clerk of the seal of the Kings Bench, and acting clerk of the Crown, employments which he successively forfeited by his at tachment to his pleasures, as by the demise of his learned friend, he lost a patron who so, valged him that no representation he eye! strongly made against his interests could have any operation to his prejudice, Men of other taste having succeeded to the honors of the Bench. Mr. Moore's talents were undervalued, and at length fell so low from the rank they formerly held at the bar, that he was dis missed. A man is not only the architect of his own fortune, bat even by his vices may be the cause of the elevation of others. Bob, by sacrificing his profession to accormodate the festive enjoyments of his companions, fell from Opulence into indigence, and was succeeded by Mr. Pollock, who with more economy and less table talents, was better qualified for the trust, the a gentleman of some humour, yer not so much attached to the exercise of it, as to omit a golden op portunity, by which he has had the fortune to exchange his condition as an obscure attorney for opulence and respectability. Mr. Moore's mismanagements, to which Mr. Pollock owes his rapid prosperity, were very generously coinmisserated by his successor, for Mr. Pollock very kindly took us flen friend into his hare, where he perimed. the part of head Jester jester. The change though rendered comfortable by the urbanity of Mr. Pollock, must have become humiliating to poor Bob, if reflection ever aggravated his misfortunes. Gulliver had the misfortune to incur the displeasure of the Queen of Lilliput, by his imprudent zeal, Bob, though not accused of committing any breach of decency, lost his situation, not for his own act, but for want of politeness, as he refused to accuse himself as the bearer of a certain ferid air, that intruded itself on the notice of the company, at a card party of ladies, Bob was abruptly deprived of his place as as head jester, and condemned to serve in the kitchen for his obstinacy. Naturally of an easy temper that could accommodate itself to the varying features of life, he became as gay and en. tertaining among his humble companions, in his subterraneous appointment as ever distinguished his better days, but capricious forsune, that wantons with the proudest authority, pursued our Hero, to the very depths of his obscurity, for after indulging himself a little beyond the strength of his constitution, he roiled from the top of the kitchen stairs, and in his way came in contact with the footman, bearing a large dish of meat to the dining parlour, on whom he lay untill assistance was procured to draw the ruins and the half smo thered menial from under his enormous body; for this he was sent to a neighbouring watch house, and for ever dismissed from the roof of his old friend. Though we have mentioned that he died in Newgate, let it not be understood, that any thing unbe. coming a gentleman, brought him to that abode of suspicion and guilt. It was at the solicitation of Mr. M'Dowell the keeper, he took up his abode in Green street. At Mr. M.Dowell's hospitable table, poor Bob, was enabled to resume his former spirits, where every thing that could tend to rescue his drooping years from affliction was most cheerfully administered, and so far did this generous treatment suc ceed, that Bob "shook his years away," daily over the smoaking viands and animating bottle. Notwithstanding every friendly effort of his generous host, to prolong his life, by a regular series of chearful hours, poor Bob and his Wit, that often set the table in a roar, were obliged to submit to the stern messenger of Death, and in the arms of his friend he expired, unconscious of ever in any of the most careless moments of his life, of having inflicted an injury, or having entertained in his mind, any sentiment unbecoming an honest man. His remains were conveyed in decent order, attended by a numerous crowd of his friends, to the Burial Ground of Drumcondra, where they were interred with religious solemnity. On Summer-hill, Captain Tisdall Colonel of the Battle Axe Guards, and a Pensioner of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. His rank in the houshold army, of our Vice Roys, had been obtained through the patronage of the late Duke of Leinster, in whose service the Caprain was retained, during the more lively periods of that venerated Nobleman's life, to whom he acted as Love Caterer; his discretion in this department, was truly valuable, and his selections, were in every instance, sound and serviceable. The Captain, was more universally known by the names of Nosey Tisdall, from a breach of depression in the Nasal Organ, which disfigured his Visage very considerably. His prudence in his own business, was not as correctly regulated, as it was, when exercised for his illustrious Patron, for, his Nose, fell a victim to his pleas sures, and the wretched remnant of it, declared in its Ruins, the History of its Military Owner, who survived it for more than forty years. THE IRISH MAGAZINE, OR Monthly Asylum FOR NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY. FOR FEBRUARY, 1810. With this Month's publication, we give a Representation of the manner of Illuminating an Irish village, previous to the Rebellion. The Candlesticks are of the Persic order of architecture; any slight deviation from it is, that the ancient columns were stationary, and the modern ones were constructed for rambling. THE first place of notoriety for the ufe of pitched caps, to any extent, was in the vicinity of the little town of Profperous, in the county of Kildare. A Captain Swayne, who commanded a party in that district, frequently amufed his friends and convivial parties with his auto de fe's, which he perfected fo highly, that no member of the memorable Claudian. family could form a burning cap to laft longer, communicate more torture, and impel the fuffering bearer to traverse more ground in any given fpace of time. Mr. Plowden, is his Hiftory of Ireland, like a true Englithman, conceals the provocations that hurried the Irish into rebellion, is quite filent on Swayne and his pitch caps, and rapidly steps on to attack the reputation of Doctor Efmond, whom the book-making BriFebruary, 1810. ton accufes of heading the rebels on the fatal evening of the 24th of May, 1798; difgracing, as he terms it, his name, his character, and his religion, by the bafest ingratitude, at a time, when his brethren of the higher orders in Dublin were giving examples of loyalty and duty, by numerous addreffes, expreffing their unfeigned attachment to their king and happy conftitution. As to the addreffes and conduct of rich Catholics, including the ancient families and the rubbish upstarts,-from our intimate knowledge of both, the antiquated fwollen pride of the firft, and the imita tive agrant arrogance of the latter, they are no authorities to regulate the thinking and independent character of the Irish Catholics With being the most illiterate of the p ule, the worst landlords and matters in IreG land, |