(From the Evening Herald.) To FREDERICK WILLIAM CONWAY, Editor of the Freeman's Journal and In point of words, Mr. Conway, you have much the advantage of me, as you have an unlimited use of your dying friend the Messenger, while I can scarcely command a single column in any newspaper. You in fact have a just and legitimate property in the Weekly Messenger, as part of your wages, drawn from the estate of the Freeman's Journal, are appropriated to pay wretched Dwyer for the injuries he sustained by the libels of the Messenger. You skulk through the columns of that print, under the fictitious signature of Robert Connolly; but William Conway I will undertake to cudgel you from your hiding place, and exhibit you in your natural character to the public eye, with your patron Mr. Scully, or your ci-devant master, Mr. Martin, at Cunnemara. I shall bind you to the counter of the Freeman's Journal Office, or send you from whence you came, to the HARAM of your Parliamentary friend in Connaught. You borrow the name of poor Robert Connolly to attack me--I am too well acquainted with the stupidity of Robert, to believe the shivering wretch is even capable of reading, much less writing the letters that bear his name : for Robert Connolly formerly printed part of the Irish Magazine, from which office dismissed him for his habitual indolence and gross inca pacity. You accuse me of being an assassin, because I was the author of the UNION STAR. Admitting the charge of proscription to be fairly brought home to the character of that publicacation, where will the odium rest, if a fair comparison is made of the Union Star with the horrid circumstances that provoked its existence? Perhaps William Conway, like any other Orange Apologist, for elevated enormities, and noble murderers, will insist that emptying our villages into prison-ships, a practise very common in the year 1797, as not assassination, putting the people out of the protection of the Law, or half-hanging them, were not acts of assassination-to me they appear as such; and in the ardent and impatient character of a young mind roused by a sense of exquisite feeling, at seeing not only strangers agonizing under the most beastly cruelties, but my aged Father swept off with his neighbours by the hand of Carhampton into a dungeon, I arrayed myself with those generous sufferers, who were taught by the principles of the Constitution to resist oppression, and among other acts of my industry, to stem the authorised desolation, I produced the Union Star. So far Mr. Conway have you compelled me to justify myself against the character of an assassin, which your hired рец would fix on me. "One murder makes a villian, Lords are priviledged to kill, And numbers consecrate the crime." But you are to take with you, Sir, that the Union Star was intended only to guard the Union against the intrusion of such men as Reynolds or O'Brien, or such as you would have been yourself in 1798, had you the opportunity; and not to encourage assassination. You invidiously sneer at the gun. smith turning author-this feeble at tempt at ridicule loses its weight, for had I the advantages of a Charter. School Education like Mr. Conway, I might affect to be a gentleman be cause I had no trade, and an author because I wanted bread. I would then be fully qualified to pistol any other gentleman in defence of my honour, or write him down, to enable me to go to market-for authors or gentlemen have not as yet learned to live without eating. Had Mr. Conway been a newspaper hack in the times of Paine and Franklin -Franklin, his great talents would have driven the printer and staymaker, from their literary obtrusion on his manor, to their respective workshops, with as much success as he drove Dwyer from his calling, and the Weekly Messenger in a consumption. Laying aside the right of authorship, which I very early assumed in preference to the vice and the anvil, to sooth the agonies of my country, and to avenge the atrocious indignities heaped by a Luttrell on my parent, I defy a man existing in any rank of life, to fix any act of cowardice, meanness, or dishonesty on Walter Cox: either as a politician, an author, or a .tradesman. I had the honour of enjoying the confidence and intimacy of the greatest and most virtuous men that ever adorned this ill-fated country; and after a lapse of thirteen years, I possess the esteem of such of them as have escaped the whirlwind of civil desolation. i was tampered with by the terrors of the triangle, and the fascinations of the treasury, and I owe nothing either to my friends or my enemies; I escaped being involved in the ruin which overtook the other leaders of the rebellion, by surrendering myself as the author of the Union Star, with the express advice and im pression of my friends, as the proclamation exposed me to a discovery, by the extraordinary reward offered for my detection, and I the more readily made terms as there was not on record a single instance of the Union Star having brought the slightest injury upon any individual. I not only enjoyed the confidence of A. O'Connor, Lord Edward Fitzge rald, T. A. Emmet, and Dr. Mac Nevin for the character I ever preserved amongst honest men, but was a member of that body whose Ambas, sadors were accredited in the greatest empire upon earth. Like your friend, Mr. Beresford, I represented the City of Dublin in the great council of the nation, where I was placed by fifty times as many electors, as all his Totence could ever procure. You have said that I abuse Mr. Beresford and Major Sirr; they may thank you and your Messenger for the information. The Egis of the Messenger is wisely thrown over the two gentlemen to protect them against the Irish Magazine, but in vain. If the Irish Magazine even falls under the united strength of Conway the Mes senger man, and his two friends, [ could produce other miscellanies as expressive as its pages, I could shew the backs of my fellow citizens, on which Mr. Conway may read the merits of his allies in very legible cha racters. You also accuse me of abusing Mr. Scully-I resist the foul accusation, I spoke of Mr. Scully only as a public man, but chastised his presumption, who dare red hot from the country, and unknown in Dublin, march for ward and in his own proper person assert, that he Mr. Scully ought to lead the Catholics of Ireland. Mr. Conway, you must admit this to be a very impertinent assumption on his part, for if Mr. Scully were stripped of his rent rolls, I presume to say that his talents or acquirements would not qualify him for the charac ter he aspires to under your ridiculus puffing: no more than your literary father would be justified in asserting, that his Charter-School was all the Protestant seminaries in Ireland." For the present I shall take leave of you and Mr. Scully, but it is only until another column can be spared me in the Evening Herald. To the Editor of the Irish Magazine. Having read in your patriotic Magazine for August last, the letter of an Antiquarian, requesting some of your Correspondents to furnish materials for elucidating the origin of certain Sir names: and as I have made that profound science my chief study for some months past, I believe I can in some sort accommodate your correspondent with the etymology of the different names contained in his letter-I shall begin with the name of Hussey, it being the most simple. It is very common with us to call a brawling, passionate, scowling virago a Hussey, hence the derivation of that name: I find it had its origin so far back as the invasion of Milesius, and was first applied to a drunken serjeant's wife who accompanied that celebrated warrior. The next name is Scullythis I find Sir, is a corruption of the word Scull-lye, a place prepared in a slaughter-house, in which the butchers of antiquity used to throw their sheeps' heads, it contained a brine composed of pot ash and salt, to preserve the heads until applied for by purchasers; hence it was called a lye, just as the chandlers call their preparations a soap lye, and the scull of the sheep being thrown thereinto, obtained for it the name of Scull lye. The next name is Drumgoole-this I have discovered to be a corruption of the word Drum-gold, it had its origin in Italy, and was given to a Shewman's drummer, whose talent for drum beating and teaching dogs to dance, brought such crowded audiences to his theatre, that the ingenious drummer was said to drum the gold out of their pockets; hence the etymology of Dromgoole. The next name is Conway-this name I found great difficulty in tracing to its source, but in reading the memoirs of Jonathan Wilde, I there saw its derivation. It is compounded of the words Connan to know, and way a road; that is, to know a road: alias to way lay, alias to lie in ambush. It is treated very scientifically by Jonathan, he traces it through a series, of biography up to Cain, who way laid his brother Abel and slew hiri, so that Cain was the first Conway. Hence it may be said of every one who way lays another to rob or murder him, or who lies in wait to injure his neighbour in his property, feelings, or reputation, that he is a-Conway. The last name I give you the etymology of is Finn, this is corruption of the Irish word Fion, that is to say in English, White. The reason assigned by the Irish Historian for this name being given to certain families in Ireland, was in consequence of their assembling in a white uniform, vulgarly ycleped shirts: which they wore over their cloaths when they went on foraging parties in the day, or marauding in the night; hence they obtained the name of Fions or Whites, which has of late been corrupted into White-, boys, whom you Mr. Editor must have often heard of; they were some thirty years back very numerous in the Counties of Kilkenny and Carlow, but of late we hear little about their exploits. I hope in my next to satisfy your Correspondent fully as to. the origin of O'Connell and O'Gor mon-in the interim, if he desires further information on this subject, his request will be cheerfully complied with-by-Yours, Sept. 21st. 1810. A VIRTUOSO. By a letter from Kilkenny, the most afflicting account of the ravages done by the Irish Magazine have been received. Mr. Magrath expresses the greatest uncasiness at the printed report of his demise, in the Irish Magazine, and to clear up the certainty of his existence, has had a conference with Mr. Byrne his Lawyer, by whose legal advice he has made an affidavit before Harry Sheerman, which puts the disputed case in the most satisfactory point of view. Mary Magrath the Sorcerer, has been examined about the statement of her case, by a Veto Committee appointed for the purpose, and insisted on the truth of her narrative, which she offered to provein the presence of the gentlemen, by appealing to a pack of cards, or an experimen of cup-tossing; but with much credit to the enlightened understanding of the Jury on witch craft, refused the assistance of the art of necromancy. Mr. Flakestand of Kilkenny, has dismissed his Clerk for reading the Irish Magazine, and has advertised for another in his place, who must qualify himself, by swearing he never will countenance the obnoxious publication. Mr. William Williams, Scavenger to the Coporation of Kilkenny, has undertaken to sweep the Irish Magazine from that ancient City. We ad vise this man of dirty occupation to avoid interfering with our property, lest we should be compelled to wrestle with him, before twelve of our fellowcitizens, which might be highly inconvenient to his fortune and finances. The Enniskillen newspaper, and its heavy author are still carping at the notice we have taken of the Chapel burners, in that enlightened seat of intolerance and murdering loyalty. If we are wrong in our animadversions, let the learned author vindicate his obscure paper, by producing the affida. vits of some of the most respectable of the brave Enniskilleners to disprove our statement; we know the favourite residence of the late Lord Enniskillen, from our knowledge of its Jurymen, can furnish any number of book. hands necessary for any purpose, where the use of the faggot or dagger, a la Wolloughan is to be justified. His Highness the Prince of Orange is at present on a visit in the City of Limerick. This poor broken Prince must feel additional misery at the melancholy change in his fortune and condition, by reflecting that Limerick, was the concluding scene, of the military misfortunes of another royal fugitive like himself, whom a former Prince of Orange drove from his Throne and Country. An Evening paper in an attempt to ridicule the Aggregate Meeting, says, "none of our respectable merchants attended. The very cause of the Meeting, the UNION, was the cause of their absence, for alas! they are all insolvent, and the apprehension of arrest for Debt, compelled them to cling to their families, instead of their country. We hope that the spirit which all the Irish people evince for a repeal of the Union, will not be carried to any intemperate extremities, for should any interruption take place between the the two countries, we would be obliged to eat all our beef, mutton, and butter, and should run the chance of being starved for want of tobacco. Lord Castlereagh and his English masters, who purchased the indepen dence of Ireland, by the Act of Union, have discovered-they have loosened the connexion instead of binding it, for the people of Ireland are awakened from the idiotism of religous jealousies by their common distresses, they are to a man aware, that their British friends though they allow but one part of Ireland to pray, have forced all to fast. Though a people may be duped out of their independence with impunity, yet it is dangerous to starve them. The head or the heart may go astray, but the stomach is always unerring. At At the Aggregate Meeting convened to consider on the immediate Repeal of the Union, more than twenty thousand persons attended, who unanimously agreed the necessity of restoring the Constitu tion of 1782. We understand a numerous Counter Meeting took place in town at the same time, at least 8,000 attended, with as many muskets and a large train of Artillery. A very large and commodious College, for the accommodation of UNIONISTS, is now erecting near Kilmainham, whose manner of reasoning is so conclusive, that Mr. Foster expresses the highest opinion, their arguments will have the surest effect on those treasonable associations that presume to meet, under the pretences of relieving the poor, and employing industry. Some people say that such Seminaries, are well calculated to reason with part of a people, but, when they undertake to manage the intire, they fail in the undertaking. ST. ANDREW'S WATCH undertook to conquer America. Burgoyne and Corpwallis, if alive could tell how far the experiment succeeded. The Farming Society have requested an additional number of musquet UNIONISTS in Connaught, to assist in repres sing the passion for using Irish manufactures, which is rapidly advancing in that province, not less than 400 sheep have already been tasted contrary to Law and the intention of the Society, in one parish in the county Mayo, within the last fortnight. own Our determination to use our goods, has given so much pain to our masters in England and is so seriously felt in that polished nation, that 4,000 kick knee'd nailors out of employment, have volunteered to assist conveying qur travelling mutton from the feeding coyuties to the sea shore. By a letter received in Wexford from a gentleman in Berlin, a most extraordinary circumstance is stated to have occurred in that city in July last. As his Majesty the GREAT Frederick was passing from his Palace on foot, to his daily occupation, in specting the new military road making by order of Bonaparte,his Serene Majesty was accosted by one Murphy an Irishman, who composed part of a cargo of Irish Rebels, purchased by the Hero of the north, from his British allies in the year. 1799 Murphy wrested a measuring rod, which the monarch carried in his hands, and so severely applied it to the back of the degraded hero, that little hopes, are entertained of his recovery. Col. Brown promised to conquer America with St. Andrew's Watch, the British Grenadiers tried the experiment and failed.; As St. Andrew's Watch is much better armed in 1810, than it was in 1775, and much better commanded, under its present Officer Major Sirr, we trust it will be found at its post, whenever any dispute may occur that threatens to make any other abridgement of the British dominions. On the utility of the Pike and Bow, and the necessity of restoring them to use in battle, by a Nation, particularly one not suffici ently supplied with fire arms, in a Letter to Major General Lee, written by Doctor Franklin. They still talk big in England, and threaten hard; but their language is somewhat civiller, at least, not quite so disrespectful to us. By degrees they come to their senses, but too late I fancy for their interest. We have got a large quantity of salt-petre, one hundred and twenty ton, and thirty more expected. Powder-mills are now wanting; I believe we must go to work and make it by hand. But I still wish, with you, that pikes could be introduced, and I would add bows and arrows: these were good weapons, not wisely laid aside: 1st, Because a man may shoot as truly with a bow as with a common musket. 2d. He can discharge four arrows in the time of charging and discharging one bullet. 3d. His object is not taken from his view by the smoke of his own side, 4th. A flight of arrows seen coming upon them, terrifies and disturbs the enemies' attention to his business. 5th. An arrow striking in any part of a man puts him hors du combat till it is ex tracted. 6th. Bows and arrows are more easily. provided every where than muskets and ammunition. Polydore Virgil, speaking of one of our battles against the French in Edward the Third's reign, mentions the great confusion the enemy was thrown into, saggitturum nube, from the English; and concludes, Est res profecto dictu mirabiles, ut tantus ac potens exercitus a solis fère Anglicis sagitta❤ riis victus fuerit; ao Anglus est fagitti potens et id genus armorum valet. If so much execution was done by arrows when men wore some defensive armour, how much more might be done now that is out of use ! An |