ence the future Walking Gallows, was enabled to exchange the pestle for the fword, by being appointed an enfign in the W. Militia. Nothing remarkable occurred in onr hero's military life until the latter part of the year 1795, when he commanded a flying party for traversing a certain diftrict apportioned out to his difcretion, in part of Wellmeath, then declared under the ftatute out of the King's protection. Hepenital, late at night entered the village of Moyvores at a moment that the innocent inhabitants were enjoying repofe after the labours of the day, but, alas, the angel of darkness hovered over the retreats of industry-Hepenital ordered the alarming drum to beat, and in a hurry each inhabitant with becoming horror perceived the minifters of terror at bis bad fide; the night frefounded with the taunts of one party and the fereams of the other; after fome unfinished murders the authorized vifitors had a poor man of the name of Smyth, and his tvo fons dragged into the ftreet, and in the prefence of the aged fire, Hepenital ordered the cord of a drum to be taken off, and with his own hands hung each of the young men fucceffively across his athletic fhoulders, until the spark of life was com. pletely extinguished, after the fatigue he underwent by the convulon of the agonizing young men, Hepenstal found himself unable to go through the operation with the wretched parent whne he ordered him to be fhot, which was inmediately done, and

next morning the affrighted villager witneffed the three bodies drawn through the street in military triumph, at the tail of a car. After this our hero was not particularly diftinguished for any uncommon act of cruelty, hanging and torture became fo univerfally in practice, that the cafual amufements he frequently enjoyed in his peculiar way were fcarcely noticed. Hepenftal died in his bed, at his brother's houfe in St Andrew-street, in 1804, of the most fhocking diftemper, his body was litterally devoured by vermin, and the agonies of his fufferings were aggravated by the most awful expreffions, declaring the tortures of a foul apparently furrcunded with all the inpatient meffengers of hell, from whofe embraces he appeared to attempt to efcape, until the molt excruciating torments exhaufted the ftruggling materials of mortality. His remains were conveyed under the care of a few watchmen, to St. Andrew's burying ground, about two o'clock in the morning, and there depofited, but fo fecretly has the spot been concealed, left fome disloyal hands fhould violate the valuable fhrine, that no inquirer. however ingenious, could accurately fay, "Here lies the Walking Callows." His brother the attorney and fecretary to the police, has fince paid the debt of mortality, and his corpulent and accomplished widow is at prefent the wife of the celebrated Doctor Patrick Duigenan.

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raculous vifitation to convince them of their abominations, we will "fet mark on them," whereby they may be avoided. Another cogent reafon offered us is, that one man is very friendly, and ferves our offended reader in the way of trade, another is difpleafed because he thinks the cloth ought to protect a wicked minifter of the gofpel; but we tell thofe difinterefted creatures what we fuppofe they are ignorant of, it is a maxim in focial as well as civil law, that punishing the impious is reward ing the virtuous. Bafe and degenerate Irishmen! worfe than Efau, you would barter "for a mefs of pottage," not only your birth rights here, but your hopes of Heaven hereafter! To fuch we fay, let them go on, fit affociates and panygerifts of thofe wicked men, whofe turpitude they defend.

Their refentments fhall not at all influence our conduct, we will perfevere undeviatingly in that track which we have for ourselves prefcribed. The day may come, when the Irish lion aroufed, will thake the vermin off his mane, and whenever it does arrive, we expect to fee thefe gentry humble converts to our opinions. It is our purpose to continue the exhibition of fuch characters, as he who from the fancied charity of private concealment, attempts infidioufly to undermine the little remnant of Irish liberties, which remain to us, by propofing fuch measures as a Veto. We will offer to public exe cration, the idiotic magiftrate, who makes every principle of justice fubfervient to his private refentments or his vicious propenfities; we will never forbear with the blood ftained Orangemen, until they relinquish their fanguinary ies; we will never fpare that most dangerous of man kind, a human fiend in facerdotal habit. In fine, every man who appears

before the tribunal of public opinion, whofe influence or example poffeffes a tendency to extinguish public fpirit whose fubferviency would lead him to footh his countrymen into apathy or infenfibility of their degraded lot, or whose morals are contaminating the rifing generation, by the peftilen tial contagion of bad example, fhall receive at our hands that caftigation, not indeed commensurate to their beings, but at least co-extenfive with our abilities-of every fuch tranfgreffor, be his rank in life what it may, be his wealth equal to that of Crafeus, be his affected piety in prefence of his fuperiors ever fo hypocritically masked, we will continue to give drawings from life, as ftrongly characteristic as our fafety will warrant us in doing. Sir William Draper faid that Junius" delighted to mangle carcaffes with a hatchet ;" fo have our enemies faid of the Irish Magazine, not that we have tranfcendant vanity to infinuate, that the mantle of Junius has fallen upon us, but how can we hope to escape the infectious breath of flander, the

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whifperings away of character," if Junius did not please fo excellent a fcholar and fo upright a foldier, as Sir William, whofe opinion was an anticipation of Lord ansfield's and exactly that of our revilers, namely, that the greater the truth the greater the libel," and fo it is and ever has been in any country whofe go. vernment is imbecile, fraudulent and oppreffive, and as the fountain once polluted corrupts all its fubordinate

reams, fo does the habits, maxims, and morals of a wicked adminiftration, poifon and pollute every claís which unfortunately happens under its jurifdiction; to them and to that numerous class of fatellites who perform their revolutions by its attraction, truth is not barely difagreeable it is outrageous An Irish preis has

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been once extinguished, i et Armis fuch may be our fate, for we have already experienced the heavy hand of power to that extent that impotent tyranny could inflict. While we are permitted to exift, our pages never fhall intentionally be devoted to the ebullitions of pointed refentment or the overflowings of perfonal gall; we will never pretend to explore the recefes of the human heart, and ma levolently affign evil motives to the conduct of any perfon, except his deportment is fairly before us as a

public man-to this rule will we in flexibly adhere, the refentments of the weak and wicked we do expect, and are ready to fuftain, but we poffefs indubitable proofs that our principles are molt grateful to every Irishman, who withs to fee the progrefs of ruthless tyranny, fanaticifm, and moral depravity, impeded in its

head long course,' and to every man, who either in himfelf or his pofterity looks forward with ardent hopes to Ireland's regeneration."

THIS Society was eftablished here for fome years fince, for the purposes of reviving and preferving the ancient mufic of Ireland, and in particular the mufic of the Irish Harp an inftrument which in the days of our forefathers refounded in the halls of our nobles. Its exhilarating founds are calculated to awaken the foul to deeds of valour, and its milder me lodies to fan the flame of love, or kindle foft defire. "Strike the Harp in my hall, faid the great Fingal, aud let Finga!! hear the fong." Whilft the members of this fociety were profecuting the defign of the Inftitution, they found in one of their members, Mr. Edward Bunting a powerful auxiliary, one indeed who had long preceded them in the purfart, and who had followed it with perfeverance, with ardour, and with fuccefs. To attain his favourite objects, this gentleman has carried his relearches into all the ancient volumes of mufic that he could difcover, and, in order to make till greater acquirements, travelled over the greater part of Ireland, and in the wilds of the mountains, and in the

receffes of the glens called from the fimple fongs of the peafantry, many of the finest airs of our ancient bards Thefe national airs, thus refcued from oblivion, we are happy to know, are now published, and, of courfe, beyond all danger of being loft.

To this gentleman, therefore, the country is indebted for restoring and preferving fuch valuable relics of ancient genius.

Senfible of the importance of his labours, and the ability with which he has accomplished the object of his purfuit, the members of the Belfalt Harp Society determined, as a mark of individual refpect and public esteem, to invite him to a fplendid entertainment, on Wednesday, the 20th inft. at O'Neill's Hotel. In the afternoon about fifty gentlemen received him with every mark of respect; and at five o'clock they fat down to a fumptuous dinner, elegantly ferved up, with excellent wines, &c.

Gilbert M'Ilveen, Esq in the Chair. Wm Steevenson Esq. Vice Prefident

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fter the cloth was removed, the

following toafts were given :

The

The Memory of Mifs Brook, to whom our country is indebted for her elegant tranflation of ancient Irish poetry.

The Memory of Charles O'Connor, the Irish antiquary, and friend of Dr. Johnfon.

The Memory of O Halloran, the hiftorian.

The Memory of O'Flaherty, author of the Ogygia.

The Irish Harp, and may its ftrains be once more heard in the Hall of our Nobles.-Duet, "The Laft Minftrel of Erin."

The Dublin Harp Society. After this toaft the Chairman arofe, and addreffed the company to the following effect :

GENTLEMEN,

"Previous to the toaft I am about to propofe, permit me to take the opportunity of expreffing the fentiments which actuate myself, and I doubt not, all thofe prefent.

"In propofing the health of the Gentleman, to commemorate whofe fervices we have now met, I cannot avoid publicly exprefling, in my own name, and that of the Society in which I have the honour to prefide, the fenfe of the obligations we owe to him.

or feventeen years actively en. gaged in refcuing from oblivion' the few relics of our national mufic, which have efcaped the devaftations of time, he has at length achieved, what had often before been unfuccessfully attempted.

*Buntin commence his refearches ear ly in 1792, and collected fome mufic, as wells tome performers for the Harp

"From former failures, we may appreciate the difficulty of the undertaking. From our own regrets for thofe trains which are now loft for ever, we may judge what is due to him who preferved a part.

"By the publication of the ancient melodies of reland, he has fixed an era in the hiftory of its national mufic, and left writing should fail, he has alfo been the happy means of reftoring the ancient mode of preferving it, by a fucceffion of Irish Bards.

"Of this valuable truft we are the guardians and depofitories-this is the origin of our fociety, and left it fhould droop, it is invigorated by a principle that wuft ever endear it to the hearts of Irishmen.

"If the love of our country be the end, the love of fellow-creatures is the means by which we attain itfor be it remembered, and to the honor of the man from whom this Society derives its origin be it spoken, that our existence is fecnred by being cemented by the facred bond of charity.f

"I could fay much more did not the expref ffion of my own feelings refrain you from giving vent to yours.

"Permit me therefore to propofe the health of Mr. Edward Bunting -the reviver of the ancient mufic of Our country-aud may his exertions be crowned with the fuccefs of merit.

The health of Mr. Bunting was