than Portugal. If he appreciates the deftruction of thrones, and the fubver fion of conftitutions, let him quote Hindoftan and Ireland to illuftrate his eloquence If Lord Fingal would continue to effend the public ear, and exhibit his ignorance, if not worse, his meabnefs, let him at once fay, as a Catholic, that the Wellesleys who govern the perfecting Cabinet of England, are the friends of Catholic Emancipation, and the patronsof Trifa ndependente. AN ADDRESS 10 THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND. Fellow Countrymen, If ever there were a period, at which Ireland ne.ded the moft manly conftitutional exertion of her fons, it is the prefent; when her trade lies mouldering beneath the damp of minifteris reach ery when her agonizing foul feems to burst asunder, ftruck with the terror of that hedra-National Bankruptcywhich now appears confpicuous in the train of woes inflicted on us by the UNION Who is he that bears the name of-IRIS MAN, and will not exert him felf at a time not to pronounce the UNION! Yes, my Countrymen, in the Union alone we are to look for the fource of Ireland's woes. Is it not time that our unrum bered woes" fhould ceafe? Is it not time that Irishmen thould feel for the lard that gave them birth," and hide the cripple tardy-gaited nigh" of flavery, and a dependance far more galling to the Irifh heart than flavery. "Who like a foul and ugly witch doth limp So tediously?" Is it not time that our Parliament should When like a matron butcher'd by quence by the accurfed ineafure of the sher sons, spectacle Of horror and affright to passers-by, rein ?" The ti es, my Countrymen, are big with evet; the ftorm is gathering.Apply then. ere it be too late, the proper remedy to the wounds of your bleed ing country. What is the cause of our to be wifhed for? Is there an individual amongst you, my Fellow-Countrymen, who does not fk him-Does he love his country?abominate the fatal measure? Let me The wretch muft exclaim, that he loves his country! And can he love his coun try and not deteft the cause of all her woes? Is there an individual amongit you whofe foul if he poffeffes a human one) could be in fuch open war with prefent indefcribable diftrefs? 1 hefitate fentinient and humanity as not to admi • The dreadful coufoquences of a fużnen bankruptcy are inc nceivable. There is only aeed an alarm to bring on a failure of faith.-FATNAL AM. REV. nilter to the wounds of a bleeding coun try the balm of confolation and redress? If there be fuch an one amongfl you, le the wretch be debarred your fociety let ence, let the name of Man be denied him--pendence," which fhall foon be raifed by face; there they fhall hear the ora of " of confittency, refufe to petition for a Repeal of the Union ?—You cannot, if you pay the flightest regard to the honor of human nature, which loudly requires that a nation fhould not betray fuck inconfiftency Let the voice of Emancipation be bufh, whilst we fech the ftrong impulfe of true and genuine patriotism; nay, let the abfurd idea be fcouted from the volume of your mind. Grafp not at the untenable air-purfue not a phantom which (could it be cun.. jured-up into exiftence) would not ferve the people I called Emancipation an abfurd idea;-yea, it is (with deference" to its disinterested fupporters) replete with abfurdity, and big with alarming confequences! Let me afk an Eman-. cipationist, Will the Government grant, us Emancipation without receiving from us in return fome compenfation, for a favour which Government would have us to imagine the greatest political bleffing we can enjoy. It thou filent? I then aufwer for thee, that the prefent Government never will. And pray, what can we give the Government in return for Emancipationif not Religion? What have we on this earth, if not our religious feeling, of which we can boaft? Is it not abfurd to fuppofe that the Catholic Unión. The answer is evident. Then let Catholics will facrifice Religion, that noble characteristic of reasoned animation, on the altar of political rank? Is it not abfurd, on the other hand, to imagine that our Proteftant Government will grant us fuch a dangerous equalization of rights? The doctrine of Emancipation carries abfurdity on its very face. De we demand Emancipation?-the Government demands a Veto--and what is the conceffion of a Veto to a Proteftant King, but the leaving at his difpofal the Catholic religion? If thou believe it not, go and learn the truth from the immortal Clinch, that true Irishman; if thou art candid, he fhall convince thee, for indeed he has drank deeply at the fountain of true reafon. Fall, thou wretched apoftate from religion and country, at the knees of any? How can you at the present period Fidelis, an Inimicus-Veto, a Trotter, (who is truly worthy to watch the Hef perian garden of our liberties) and wafh away in tears of true repentance, that name, which, fubfcribed to Vetoifm, proclaimed you a deferter from religion and country. Such is the Veto, which, I hope, we will always refuse to a Proteftant King. Such is the Emancipation, to whole idea, not on y he who has the honor to address you, but many many of his Catholic brethren annex abfurdity and dangerous confequences. exprefs more unequivocally your love for the land that gave you birth, than by burfting the chain of the fatal Union? Oh! then, my beloved Countrymen, meet and Repeal. "Emancipation was fought for and could not be found." Yes ;-you were refused it, because the true Catholic would not immolate the unspotted victim-Religion, at the feet of the gilded idol-Mammon. Yes ;-you were re fufed it, because the true genuine Irish Catholic could not feel the ambition of a few aristocrats, because his high unBut here a few Catholics, with whofe conquered soul titled with a noble pride, interested policy my political creed caa- could not bend to the attractive, but (to not chime, will tell me that Emancipa- him) the vaio delufive charms of lacre tion was fought for and could not be or power. May Emancipation never vi found; of courfe we may petition for at us alloyed with fuch drofs! for power Repeal of the Union, and may not be redreffed. To this I anfwer, in the first place, that a favour, the refufal of which would not affect our vital interents, is lefs attainable than a redress of grievances, where that redress is most intimately connected with our true and most important concerns Alk your felves, my Countrymen, whether Emancipation be fointimately acquainted with your vital concerns as a Repeal of the and lucre are furely drofs, when not refined by the pure flame of religious fentiment. Reject fuch a thought as the Emancipation on fach terms, when it hurls into deftruction the only fasting monument of Catholic pride-religious feeling. Is there amongst you, my Countrymen, a wretch, who at this time would advife you to petition for Emancipation, and thereby endeavour to divert you from from from the grand question of Repeal? Let the wretch enter with awe and veneration into the tottering hovel of the unhired mechanic: there he may learn an instructive leffon on the effects of the Union. Who will dare to imagine that this poor mechanic is now fhivering on that bed from which he is never to raise an animated frame, because he was not Emancipated? Fhere is no one fo blind as to believe it. There the wretch that does not fympathize with his country may find the foul of genuine patriotifm-for there is 冷 ............. Within, a heart Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold." There you will hear him fay-" Give ús our Parliament and I still live.” Reprefentatives of the British domi nions, (and amongst you there are many honeft men) hear and attend! Happy are thofe amongst you whom it does not reproach! Minifters, fear and tremble! The groan of diftrefs fhall pierce even the thick array of corruption and bigo. try with which a humane throne is in vested; your names thall be handed down to pofterity as crimes, and Pereevalism fhall enlarge the catalogue of guilt. "yrants tremble! L' Histoire va vous en juger." Yes;-the pages of our history thall groan beneath the burthen of your crimes. "Murder, parricide and treafon, are modelt appellations, when compared to that conduct, (for which no language has yet provided a name) by which a king is betrayed, and a nation ruined," faid an indepen dent member of parliament in the laft reign. was there ever a time at which that fentence, truly worthy of golden characters, should be fo often or fo loudby pronounced as at the prefent? Much difgrace has been entailed upon us, by thofe religious diftinctions to which we have paid a fhameful idolatry. Decry all thofe narrow-minded distinctions be tween Protestant and Catholic. Fie upon them! Religious Bigotry “ is an unweeded garden." Erafe from the tablets of your memory thofe lines of religious difcrimination; let them never more be heard of! at least, let them be hushed into a deep filence, especially at this time, when ftarvation fits like a cockatrice, brooding on the walls of every city in the land; when the torch of virtuous conftitutional freedom, that fome years ago fhed its fweet influence on our trade, is ftruggling to afford a fickly ray to point out the gloom of Tara's Hall-Suffer it not to be extinguished, my Countrymen; but-MEET AD REPEAL THE UNION. CAMOENS. THE PRESENT LORD MAYOR. We are happy to have to announce that the prefent Lord Mayor, Alderman Hone, with every becoming principle of character, has not countenanced the fhameful extortion of Five Shillings, which his four immediate predecefors exacted from the Retailers of Spirits in the City of Dublin. We hope his Lordfhip's example will operate to deter his fucceffors from a breach of the law and their duty, fo inconfiftent with the character of a Chief Magiftrate, whom the law intended hould be the father of the industrious, rather than their oppreffor. Flis Lordship feels as we do→→ that in this time of general distress, when the people of this great, though decaying city, are literally unable to dif charge the inceffant and weighty taxation impofed by the legiflature, it would be highly criminal to aggravate their condition, by levying any unauthorized contributions Belides the indignity and breach of moral character, the office, as well as the magiftrate, would fuffer in the public opinion, by breaking the fo lemn oath that he took to govern his fellow-citizens juftly. We We hope the Aldermen, Stamer, Darley, Trevor and Pemberton, in their refpective characters, as Lord Mayors, will take an inftructive leffon of magisterial principle from their good friend Alderman Hone, and make adequate compenfation to the poor people, whom they had the audacity to opprefs, by terrifying them by infiquations, more in the character of Lord Camden's mifgovernment, than becoming the peace ful adminiftration of the Duke of Richmond. Thefe four Aldermen might excufe their petty dilapidations, by the urgency of their domestic concerns, but as they are now paid tive hundred pounds a year for doing justice, they cannot plead any pecuniary inconvenience :therefore we requeft, we even infift, that they do now reftore the money we allude to, or we will apply to Mr Pole, or to his illuftrious brother, for a remedy in this cafe, as foon as that great of. ficer returns from reaping his iron laurels in the tented fields of Lufitania. THE LAST PUNIC WAR. A FRAGMENT: Never before Published. (Continued from Page 459.). His firft plan was the paffing a law to impofe a melet or fine on all thofe who fpent more than a certain portion of their time in the enjoyment of light, communicated by the rays of the fun, as he judged that this interdiét would anfwer another, befide the two-fold purpose of curtailing the meafure of their existence by confining them in unventilated rooms, and accelerating their temporal ruin, by obhging them to barricade their windows, deftroy their balconies, and burn wax, or other tapers in their houfes, to avoid the threatened penalty for permitting the day light to enter their dwellings. His fecond plan was the iffumg a penal edit, whereby he enjoined all the inhabitants of Iberus to drink a certain quantity of water, feebly impregnated with the juice of the foreign plant before alluded to; this beverage being strongly tinctured with the refin of other deleterious vegetable fubilances, which were mixed with it by the venders of this articis in confeq-ince of the edict, foon developed its noxious qualities in the ghostly visages of the flanders, who be-came enfeebled, and relaxed, in proportion to the quantity which each of them confumed of this poifonous liquid. His third plan was the publishing a proclamation that offered large rewards to fuch of the inhabitants, as would (wallow co-, pious draughts of a certain intoxicating liquor, which, in confequence of the extraordinary effects it produced in the perfons to whom it was administered, fuch as making them howl like beats of prey-utter incoherent imprecations, fimilar to the priests of Apollo, after fundamentally inhaling the fmoke of opium-deferibing circles and various other geometrical figures with a kind of unfteady, redling attitude, not unlike a galley toffed about during a ftor-applymg their clenched fifts forcibly to the faces of their friends, fo as to make vifible imprefions thereon, with other ter rifying fymptoms, induced the philafəphers and wife men of Iberus to believe that the chief ingredient infufed in this liquor, had been brought from the lake Tartarus, by the agent of the infernal divan hiufelf. His propofed bounty was not intended to be conferred on the perfons who became mad by drinking the fatal liquor, in the ufual way of beflowing rewards, that is to fay, by paying each man in proportion to the qu'n. tity he drank, but rather by a mode peculiar to his own inventive genius ;namely, that each perfon who before ufed to pay one eight mince for a fiogie flaggen of it, fhould then receive three Baggons for the fame fum. These feve ral devices, he used to say, would an fwer |