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fwer every purpofe of Carthage, and gratify the volatile anger of the goddefs. He reafoned thus-and although his arguments were the refult of infernal intuition, they appeared copent by depriving the islanders of the natural light to which they have always been accuftomed, and obliging them to perform 'their manual labours, and study the knowledge of their different profeffions by the light of tapers, they will foon become purblind-weakness of the fight, in molt cafes, ends in total blindness; blind people generally fall into fiffures of the earth, bog holes (for they had bogs in Iberus) or rivers. Thus will destroy one third of the population of Iberus Thofe who drink poifonous li quids become emaciated in their perfons and exhausted of their vigour; and as the defire of generation is faid to be provsked by repletions, in depriving them of nutritious aliment, and obliging them to fubftitute a poifonous juice in its place, it will impede procreation, and this plan calculate will curtail another third of the population The premiums I ender for drinking the liquor of infanity, by ordering it to be given almoft gratuitously to the islanders, will powerfully further my fcheme, as in their mo ments of inebriety and madness they will forget that they have fathers or mothers, brothers or filters, wives or children, friends or country, and they will enlist in the armies of Carthage, and they will run in the fulness of their intoxicated rage to man her gallies, where they fhall die by the fwords of the Romans, and fuch of them as are not impelled to engage in either of these fatal capacities, will, in their infane wrath, murder their brethren, or otherwife vio. late the laws, for which they fhall be fhot to death with arrows, and this will deftroy the remaining part of the popuation.

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IRELAND AND HOLLAND. From the Times--an English paper.

We concur eptirely with that Paper in its opinion of Bonaparte; and we think the picture of Holland contained in that article is fubftantially accurate. There is no doubt that Bonaparte is a tyrant; there is no doubt, that he is rapacious, and faithlefs and remorfeless. And when the perfons who wield the powers of Government are of that defcription, it is not in nature, that the people who are fubject to them fhould be happy; it is not in nature, that they should not be miserable! But we wish to make fome application of this intelligence from Holland to our own cafe. We wish it to be taken as a warning to this nation for to that point is the going, and propelled on by the fame caule. Who have more rapacity than our Tax'makers? And if thefe men have not anihilated, without compenfation, two-thirds of the Public Debt, it is only because they would by that put a ftop at once to the robbery of the people, annually of many millions, by Loans, which is only another word for fraudulent levies. Their forbearance in not taking two thirds of the property of the public creditor away, proceeds from the fame motive as their lenity to the houfe of Solaid. They feared to touch the fanctuary of their loan tranfactions. To get the people's money by Taxes, is not half food enough for their keen appetite for plunder; and if loans, could be annihilated, they would pine away with defpair as well as absti nence. As to the perfidy of these men, look at Ireland! Has Bonaparte done any thing more faithiefs to Holland than they have to Ireland! We fay→ No! nor any thing helf so cruel! Why what do you talk of the Hollander,

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diftress? Is nobody to have any feelings but the Hollander? Is an Irishman to lie on the fame rack, and be filent? Have not Minifters taken the property of Irifhmen, in a manner more diftreffing than the robbery upon the Hollanders, and preceded by, and accompanied with cruelty of a more malignant nature? They tortured Ireland before they robbed her, and they mock her now that both are done! Talk of bad qualities, fuch as tyranny, cruelty, perfidy, and, rapacity, and match your Minifters if you can! But fhall not the fame caufes have the fame results here as in Ireland, as in Holland? Will the People of England for ever efcape the last refult of these wicked difpofitions? Will not they, like the Irish and the Hollanders, come to the extremeft wants that men can bear? Why! infatuated Englishmen, half of you have come to that already-you, and your wives, and children! The fate of Holland is mercy, and peace and plenty, compared with yours; for if two-thirds of the Hollander's property are taken away, the remainder will purchace comparative plenty; and you have not money to give your children the food that health requires! If we had time, we might talk to you too of India! Who that hates Bonaparte's oppression of the Dutch will not feel too for India. Let India and let Ireland be blotted from the map, and from man's recollection, before we go upon the continent to weep over the miseries of any people.

IRISH LITERATURE.

The elegant Irish Poem of O'Gnive's which we gave in our laft, is now reprinting by W. Cox, 150, Abbey street. helrifh original is accurately compared with the molt Authentic manufcript copies, and a literal tranflation, by heophilus O'Flanagan, A. B. former Jy scholar of Trinity College, Dublin;

alfo a poetical Verfion by an eminent literary gentleman, with notes, a learn ed introduction, written by the fame hand, is prefixed to the work. It will be given to the Irish public, in a new and elegant Irish and English letter ; and on fine paper. Price 1s. Sd.

O'Gnive was hereditary bard, or philofopho-poeta to the house of O'Neill, the poem is the vigorous effufion of eminent Irish genius, ftimulated to exertion by furrounding calamities, at a gloomy period of unexampled oppreffion and defperate national commotion, when the Irish ander the gallant Tyrone, attempted to expel the English under the gloomy dominion of Elizabeth.

Mr. Deighan's Irish Geography is finished-and nearly ready for publi cation. We fufpend our opinion of the execution of the work until we have it complete before us. But thus much we feel ourselves compelled to declarethat a pure native Geography has long. been much wanting in our fchoolsand out of them alfo. The only work that we can recollect, which ap proaches this point is, at prefent, incomplete. The Statistical furveys of fome of our counties having never been published-and indeed thofe which have are not without many flagrant inftances of mistake, mifreprefentation, and matter totally irrevalent to Irish affairs. We obferve this under the hope that other fources of information have been fought. Indeed we have heard, that the author has perfonally vifited the different counties to collect materials from the refident perfons of information.

CANOVA, the celebrated Italian fta. tuary, is at prefent engaged upon two coloffal ftatues in bronze of Bonaparte, one on foot, the other on horseback.-The latter will, it is faid, surpass in size the largest known works of the kind whether ancient or modern.

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rorift reply to the English terrorist,"Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur ;" by altering the names of things, we do not change their nature and what is tyranny in France cannot be enobled in

In a Letter written by Counsellor Samp- Ireland by the appellation of "loyalty," of royalty," or of "aigour be ̧ond the

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Your flattering exprefions, my deareft friend, and the intereft you take in my fate, are reward enough for any trouble it can coft me, to give my opinion upon the topics you point out; and to relate the fequel of my itory. As in every work fome method must be observed, I fhall take the ürft that prefents itfelf; and in adopting the order of your questions, make each the fubject of a feparate letter.

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You express your wonder, that in a civilized country, either nonfters should be found to plan fuch deeds, or inftruments to execute them. But it is furely lefs wonderful that they should happen during the first convulfire throws of a nation burfing the bonds of ancient thraldom; a people long ufed to abject fubmifion, fuddenly, and violently becoming mafters; and where hoftile interference of foreigners, malevolent intrigues, and ferocious threats, had carried rage and despair into the hearts of the multitude, than that they fhould happen under a regular and fettled government.

To speak of the terror in France, is, I must lay, to begin with the most pain. ful part of my task. To defend or jullify the enormities committed on that great theatre, could leaft of all be expected The ftate and parliamentary proceedfrom one of my principles or feelings.ings of England, and alfo the proclaHe who has been devoted to the cause mations of the Duke of Brunswick, at of liberty, and a martyr to the defire of the head of a foreign army, before any promoting human happiness, must turn terror had been praised, threatened the with molt natural abhorrence from the people of France with fire and sword. vices by which the idol of his heart has The fate of fuch meafures under Burbeen prophaned. But fince the world goyne, and the others in America, was has been made to refound with these a fufficiently recent example to havẹ crimes; fince they have been celebrated ferved as a warning against that mode through the univerfe by eloquence, fo of dragooning, if perverte men were camuch beyond my pretenfions, until every pable of taking a leffon from experience echo has been wearied with the repeti- or measuring with a judicious eye, the tion of them, it would be an idle affec- prefent and the past. tation to go over a ground fo beaten. I could however with, that those who have been fo zealous in proclaiming the fufferings of the victims to the French terror, had been themselves more innocent of them that their machinations, intrigues, and interference, had not tended to promote them. And I could further with, that if they were innocent of that terror, they had been alfo guilt lefs of one more cruel and more horrible: for too truly may the French terNovember, 1810.

Then if we must wonder at mad cruelty, let it rather be, that fuch deeds could be perpetrated under a government vaft and powerful; which had neither interest nor temptation to be any thing but juft! Of the terror in Ireland my former correfpondence may have given you fome faint idea: fome hifto ries fince published in more detail, may have fallen into your hands and indeed the horror of those enormities, in fpite of all the pains taken to fupprefs 3 a

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it, feems at length to have made its way to the hearts and understandings of the intelligent and virtuous in moft parts of the civilized world. And perhaps it is now in England alone that they are leatt known or felt. I muft. obferve, neverthelefs, that every hiftorian who has treated of them, feems more or lefs tinctured with the fpirit of the times, and to crouch under the fentiment we deplore fo that whilft it is above all things meritorious to blazen the crimes of the French revolutionifls, it is held treafonable and defperate to fpeak of thofe of Ireland, as if the ancient proverb, "we are born to fuffer," was intended for the edification of Irishmen alone!

For this reafon I think it due to juftice and to truth, to draw fome lines of impartial comparifon between thefe two parties.

Firit. In France the Jacobin chiefs were not, as I ever could learn, avaricioufly interefled; few of them enriched themselves; and it was not until after the fall or decline of their fyftem, that great fortunes were made in France out of the public fpoil. Now in Ireland murderers, denouncers, and traitors, were loaded with rewards. And he of the Irish who committed the most cruelties against his countrymen was diftinguithed with moit favor.

Secondly. In France, though death was wantonly inflicted in a way to make human nature fhudder, yet the crime of corporal torture was not reforted to even where guilt was proved in ireland torture of the innocent, merely to extort acculation, was the avowed fyftem, and indemained as "loyalty and vigour beyond the law!"

Thirdly. In France, the Catholic clergy were banished in Ireland, they were hanged. Many of the French have fince returned, and live happy in their native country: thole Langed in Ireland, can never more return.

Fourthly. In France, it was a queftion which of two principles of government fhould prevail; in Ireland, it was whether there fhould be a national or a foreign government. I cannot give much credit to the English minifters for their zeal in this controverfy. For, as Mr. Sheridan pointedly obferved, "England had incurred a ruinous debt of fix hundred millions of pounds sterling-one half of which was to pull down the Bourbons, and the other half to set them up "No more confitent was it to fend King George's troops to protect the perfon of the Pope in Rome, and then to tell him that his coronation-oath prevented him from giving relief to his Catholic fubjects at home.

Fifthly. There was no inftance in France of men being put to death for faving the lives of their perfecutors la Ireland it was done.

Sixthly. I never could hear that that moft brutal of all ferocity, the forcible violation of female chaility, bad made part of the fyltem of terror in France, that it did in Ireland, is too deplorably

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There is a ftory related, and ftrong. ly attelled to me, which it would be unjuft to fupprefs:-'wo young ladies of the Orange or Government faction, whofe father, Mr. H- G-, had rendered hi felf, by violent cruelty, ob noxious and who (fhame of their fex) had performed with their own hands, many acts of torture and indignity, fell into the power of the rebels. Their con. fciences fuggefted that they ought to fhare the fate which the Irish women had fuffered on fimilar occafions. They addreffed themselves to certain young officers of the rebel detachment, requesting their protection from the mob, but offering, as to them, to furrender their perfons at difcretion. The rebel officers replied, with dignity and gene rofity, that they had taken arms against the enemies of their country-to punifi their crimes, but not to imitate them.

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I might push this parallel much further-but it would be uf lefs, and it is certainly disgusting: ftill, however, your queftion recurs-how inflruments can be found in any country to execute fuch

deeds as make us fometimes deteft our very species, and almoft wish to be of any other?

Grave and true as this reflection is, det us not, my dearest friend, pufh it too far. And above all, in chriftian and charitable hope, let us prefume, that all who have had part in thefe crimes, are not in equal guilt. Might it not be pof fible that even fome are innocent?

Without recurring to the tyrannies of remote or ancient nations, and all their hiftories are pregnant with fuch inftances, let us take that of England alone in her civil wars. Multitudes have fallen, innocently, for what did not concern them. Witnefs the wars of the white and the red rofe. Yet, in those wars,

all the noble blood was attainted with treafon and rebellion: whilst the vulgar rotted without name. All England was in action on one fide or other; but it would be too violent to fay, there was no man of either party innocent.

At an after period, when in the name of the Ever living God of Peace and Love, the pile was lighted to burn He. retics and Schifmatics, and those who would neither fwear nor fubfcribe to new doctrines, and articles of credence, understood by nobody, were caft into the flames: and thofe that did fubfcribe and fwear to them, were, in their turn, as the ballance of dominion fhifted, caft into the flames. When the child yet unborn, was ripped from the mother's womb, and caft into the flames; and when the whole nation was fanaticifed on the one fide or the other-was no man innocent?

In all the wars of conqueft and of plunder, in which England has had her ample fhare was no man innocent?

In all the cruelties committed in

America, in Africa, and in India, by the English-was no man innocent ?

In all the barbarous crimes committed by our anceflors, the English, against our ancestors, the Irish, as bloody as thofe which have happened in our own days was no man innocent?

When you will have answered all these queftions, you will have found the folution of your own.

Let us endeavour to cherish the most

confolatory fentin ent. Example, education, habit, ignorance; the influence of power, the fmooth feductions of corruption and of luxury; the warmth of paffion, the baneful effects of calumny and imposture; miftaken zeal, which degenerates into bigotry; the weakness of the coward, and the preffure of the tythe goadings of neceflity, are fo many rant; the temptations of wealth, and fatal fnarés ever lying in wait for the integrity of miferable man. None have ever fuddenly become confummate in iniquiFew caufes fo bad but may put on fome ty, the gradations are often infenfible. fhew of fairnefs: and the human mind, feldom free from bias of fome kind, finds too eafy an excufe in fophiftry and felfdelufion, for its first deviations; but the path of rectitude, once forfaken, is not eafily regained.

Such is the human heart; its iffaes are ftrange and infcrutable; and the paths of error many and intricate. I have often witneffed, with deep regret, these early conflicts between virtue and error, in the breaft of thofe I loved. I have feen them ftruggle; I have feen them fuffer; I have feen them falter, and I have feep them fall. I have feen them turn away from me, whilt my heart was yet warm towards them and have lamented it in vain: and I have feen, that when the foul first proves recreant to truth, and first fwerves from the acknowledged principles of immutable and eternal juftice, it is from that moment difficult to fay how far its aberrations may extend. In the beginning it will fearch for pre

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