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Cranes, Finches, Nightingales and
Quails,

Our Peacocks, Woodcocks, Daws, and
Craiks ;

Our Bulls, and Bears, and Wolves,

and Hares,

Strong Steeds, and Hunters, Colts, and Meares,

Pig, Bacon, Bullock, Wither, Roe,
Buck, Badger, Levrett, Lamb, and Doe.
Vane, Speakers, Crokers, Prettie Singers,
Hoppers, Skippers, Dancers, Springers.
The Hills, and Dales, Springs, Meades,
and Bowers ;

Churches, Staples, Pews, and Towers:
Bishops, Deacons, Deans, and Parfons,
Vicars, Proctors, Sextons, Mafons;
The Coffin, Bier, the hollow Cave,
The
apparatus of the Grave.

The Moon, and Stars, Froft, Winter,
Snow,

The Owl, the Raven, and the Crow.. Blake, ountain, Afhe, Rush, Heath, and Fern;

The Torrent Flood, the Stony Bourn. The Gay, the Lively, Prim and Bold, ; The Bigg, the Little, Young, and Old, Small and Greatmen, Richmen, Good

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Placemen, Stewards, Supple Trimmers; Turners, Carters, Leaders, Drivers, Servants, Kitchenmen, and Weavers; Riders, Walkers, Jumpers, Drapers,

Kites, Moorcocks, Murrs, Gulls,Cootes. Plowmen, Forrefters, and Reapers:

and Drakes.

The Hook, and Line, Boat, Weir, and
Bate,

To catch the Fish you pleale to eat;
As Pyke, and Roach, Codd, Salmon,
Trout ;

Carp, Sturgeon, Herring, Eel, and
Sprat,

Pjace, Crab, and Soal, Tench, Bream,
and Britt.

The Orchard, Meadow, Grove, and Park,

The Berry, Bramble, Twigg, and Bark. Stone, Hedges, Gates, and Styles, and Dikes,

Rice, Clover, Beans, Straw, Hay, and Stacks:

Farmers, Hofkinsons, and Judkins, Gookins, Jenkins, Rankins, Rudkins,

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The Batts, and Matts, the Natts, the Watts,

The Hodges, Ridges, Madges, Potts. The Stopfords, Stratfords, Coles, and Craffords,

Alcocks, Haycocks, Crawleys, Traffords,

The Rowleys, Bayleys Murdocks, Ladleys,

Newells, Howells, Cooks, and Bradleys,

The Naylors, Braziers, Smiths, and Graydons,

Gookins, Ludlows, Verners, Heydons, The Sirrs, and Swans, Shoes, and Sheebottoms,

Hempenftalls, and Higginbothams, The Jones's, Downs's Fownes's, Monfons,

Hobfons, Jobfons, Jackfons, Johnfons,
Gibfons, Gayfons, Leefons, Wilfons,
Thompsons, Grierfons, and Tilfons,
With Nelfon, Matfon, Willington,
Lewin, Langley, Billington.
And many more-but let us ftop!
And this fond prayer offer up:
May Erin's fons of ev'ry caft,
Be Irishmen from first to lalt!
Nor name or creed divide them!

Dublin, Nov. 24, 1810.

On the injustice and partiality of social confederations, from the French Encyclopedie.

Are not all the advantages of fociety on the fide of the rich and powerful? Are not all lucrative employments tilled by them alone? Are not all favours, all exemptions referved for them? And is not public authority entirely in their favour? If a man of weight robs his creditors, or commits other knaveries, is he not always fure of impunity? The ftrokes he bestows with his cane, the acts of violence he commits, the murders even, and affaffinations, of which he is guilty, are they not all affairs which are hushed up, and of which there is not the least mention made at the end of fix months? Let this fame man be rob

bed, the whole police is inftantly in motion, and woe to the innocents he may happen to fufpect. Does he pafs through a dangerous place? The guards take the field to escort him. Does the axle-tree of his carriage break? Every body flies to his relief. Is there a noife at his door? A word from him and ali is filent. Does the crowd incommode him? He makes a fign, and every body makes way y? Does a waggoner happen to be in his way? His attendants are ready to knock him on the head. And fifty people on foot going about their affairs, fhall be cruthed, fooner than an idle knave be retarded in his

equipage. All thefe marks of refpec do not coft him a farthing, they are the privilege of the rich man, and not the price of his riches. How different is the picture of the poor! The more humanity stands indebted to him, the more does fociety refufe him; every gate is fhut against him, even thofe where he has a right to enter; and if he fometimes obtains juftice, it is with more difficulty than another would obtain a favour. If ftatute-labour is to be performed, a militia to be drawn, it is them he has the preference. Befides his own burthens, he always bears that from which his neighbour has credit enough to get exempted. On the fmaileft accident that happens to him, every body gets a ta diftance from him; if his poor cart is overturned, fo far from being affifted by any body, I reckon him lucky if he efcapes the jeers of the faucy domeftics of fome young duke who is paffing by.

In a word, all gratuitous affittance flees from him in the day of need, precifely because he has not wherewithal to pay it; but I look upon him as a loft man, if he has the misfortune to have an honeft heart, an amiable daughter, and a powerful neighbour. (Encyclopedie, au mot Economie. Morale & politique.) O Rouffeau, how much thou difcourageft the writer who has the fame ideas with thyself! But how much he admires thee!

Thomas

Thomas Becket and Thomas Cranmer he has left nothing but an odious name

compared.

[By the celebrated Boffuet.]

"Saint Thomas of Canterbury refifted the attempts of unjuft Kings;

Thomas Cranmer abandoned his conscience to them, and indulged their paffions:

The one banished, his property conffcated, perfecuted in his own, and in the perfons of his dearest friends, afActed in every way, purchased the glocas liberty of fpeaking, what his cononce dictated for truth, with a gene

contempt for all the conveniencies of life and for life itself;

The other, to pleafe his Prince, fpent his life under a fhameful diffimulation, and an outward conformity in every thing to a religion, which he inwardly condemned.

The one, combated even to blood for the minuteft rights of the Church, and by maintaining her prerogatives, as well thofe, which Jefus Chrift had ob. tained by his death, as thefe, which pious Princes had endowed her with, defended the very out-works of the Holy City:

he other, furrendered to the Kings of the earth her most facred trust; the Word, Worfbip, Sacraments, Keys, Cenfures, Authority, even Faith itself.In a word, every thing was enflaved, and the whole ecclefiaftical authority being united to the Regal Throne, the Church had no more power than the State thought proper to grant her.

The one, intrepid and a model of piety through the whole courfe of his life, was yet more fo at its final period;

The other, always, daftardly and trembling, at the approcah of death, fhrunk even below himfelf, and at the age of three fcore and two, facrificed even to the dregs of a defpicable life, his faith and confiance. Accordingly,

to pofterity; nor can any thing but force of wit and quirk, which plain and ftubborn facts give the lie to, excufe him even to his own party:

But the glory of Saint Thomas of Canterbury will live as long as the Church, and his virtues, which France and England have venerated, with a kind of emulation, will never be forgotten."

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS,

We have received information from the ftag teftimony of Robert Connolly, That the lucubration, called Neftor's Feaft, wherein our beloved friend Dr. Brenan is abufed, and our Magazine infulted, and an aged Gentleman of the name of Keogh moft wantonly maimed and traduced. And Whereas we understand this outrage has been perpetrated by a half-witted Coxcomb, of great malevolence, and long a public nuifance to the town, committing li terary and lawless outrages under various difguifes:-one time as Jack Squintum-at other times as Phelim O'Hara of Thomond-Raymond EuftaceP. Q. X. Z. Hackbal Jackadandy, Jack Jackanapes, Spectacle Jack, &c. -He belonged to the Dagger Club, held in Thomas-ftreet, and was one of the Catholicus Ipfe, or Drumfouffle Gang that was broken by our Magazine. Now, withing to rid this City of fuch pefts, We hereby offer a dozen of our best bound Irish Magazines to any one who will apprehend him in the course of ten days, and bring him to our Shop, fo that We may have a full length likeness of him drawn for the front of next January Magazine. N, B. He was formerly in the fervice of the great Duke of Marlboro', and accompanied him in his famous retreat across the Sierra of Marlboro' Green.

Given at our Office, this first day of December, 1810.

WALTER Cox.

BY COUNSELLOR SAMPSON.

It is a hard law upon every Irish man who would treat of his own coun

try affairs, that in order to gain belief he must say only what an Englisman has said before him. That is, he must

speak with the tongue of the enemy A simple author, speaking of one of the rebellions, uses this pathetic observation: "Every Englishman who fell, died with twenty tongues in his mouth. But when the Irishman fell, he never spake more."

siast.

This way of writing, like Lazarus begging the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, is not to my mind; yet I shall adopt it rather than expose myself to be set down for an enthuCambden, in his Britannia, p. 680, says of the Irish, that they are courageous, ingenious, remarkable for the beauty of their persons, of wonderfully fine complexion and owing to the flexibility of their muscles, of great agility," And in p. 789: "These people are all dowed with vigour of body, strong and lofty minds, and acute genius. They are warlike, dauntless, patient of fatigue, cold and hunger, amorous, '· benevolently hospitable, constant in love, implacable in hatred, unsuspect ing, passionate for glory, and ardent in all their pursuits.'

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Finglass, chief-baron of the exche. quer, in the time of Henry VIII.

says,

"That the English statutes, passed in Ireland, are not observed eight days after passing them; whereas those laws and statutes made by the Irish on their hills, they keep firm and stable without breaking them for any favor or reward."

Sir John Davies, who, as Mr. Plow den observes, had still better opportunity of knowing the Irish, being the : DECEMBER, 1810.

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first justice that ventured on circuits out of the English pale, says, "That there is no nation under the sun that than the Irish; or will rest better sa love equal and indifferent justice better tisfied with the execution thereof, when although it be against themselves."" upon a just cause they do desire, it, Now, this from an English enemy, for so he was at the end of the bloody war of fifteen years, is pretty strong testimony. Yet, this same author,' who had been Attorney-general in Ireland in James's reign, says, that the multitude were "brayed as it were in a mortar." And it was he who went so far as to recommend "the

maistering the Irish by the sword, and breaking them by warre, in order to make them capable of obedience and good seede." Now, what could be the use maistering them by the sword, or breakof braying the multitude in a mortar, ing them by warre, if they were so contented with equal and indifferent justice, even when it was against themselves? Would they not have been as capable of good seede, if they had favored with indifferent justice against not been brayed in the mortar, but themselves? But then they would have been content! And it shall be my

business to shew you, that that never was the wish of the English, or of the Anglo-Irish. And since we are upon the subject of this attorney-general, it may be as well to quote him have occasion presently to refer to him now to this purpose, though we shaft, again for another. In his discovery of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued, Ist. he says ing the time of my service in Ireland (which began in the first year of his the provinces of that kingdome, in Majesty's Raigne) I have visited all sund y

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"Bellicosi sunt, ingeniosi, corporum lincamentis conspicui, mirifica carnis mollitie, et propter musculorum teneritudinem agilitate incredibili." And (p. 789) "In universum gens hæc corpore valida et imprimis agilis, animo forti et elato, ingenio acri, bellicosa, vitæ prodiga, laboris frigoris et inedia patiens, veneri indulgens, hospitibus perbenigna, amore constans, inimicitiis implacabilis credulitate levis, glorie a avida, contumelia et injuræ impatiens, et ut inquit ille olim, in omnes actus vehementissima."

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sundry journies and circuits: wherein I have observed the good temperature of the year the fruitfulness of the soyle the pleasant and commodious seats for habitations; the safe and large ports and havens, lying open for trafficke into all the west parts of the world; the long inlets of many navigable rivers; and so many great lakes and fresh ponds within the lands, as the like are not be seene in any part of Europe; the rich fi hings, and wilde fowle of all kinds; and, lastly the bodies and minds of the people, endued with extraordinary abilities of

náture."

Now, in these fruitfulness of soil, these fishing and hunting grounds, and "these commodious seats for habi. tations," lay the whole mystery, why "the multitude were brayed in the mortar," maistered by the sword, and broken by warre, and deprived of every benefit of justice, save her sword: for of that attribute, justice has not been niggardly towards them. Now my friend, keep these "commodious habitations," in your eye, and you will have the master-key of the history, and understand the whole.

I shall just subjoin the testimony of the learned Sir Edward Cooke, 4 Inst. 349,

"For," says he, "I have been informed, by many of them that have had judicial places there, and partly of mine own knowledge, that there is no nation of the Christian world that are greater lovers of justice than they are, which virtue must of necessity be accompanied with many others."

So much for the country and character of the Irish. Such a country, and such a people, ought to constitute an earthly paradise. Yet has it been,

for six or seven centuries, the pre-eminent abode of misery.-Before we enter upon the unfortunate epoch of English invasion, and all the curses entailed by our English ancestors, upon our Irish ancestors, let us make ourselves a little acquainted with our English ancestors-it will not be tediousthere is little in any author concerning them before Cæsar, who, in his histo ry, de Bello Gallicio, describes them thus: After excepting the men of Kent, whom he states to be more civilized, he continues- Those of the interior sow no corn, but live on milk and flesh, and cover themselves with skins, and dye themselves with woad, which gives them a skey-blue colour(" ceruleum colorum") and makes them more horrible in battle.They wear their hair about their ears, and shave all but the head and upper lip. Ten or twelve of them take their wives in common, and generally brothers go with brothers, and children with their parents; and those who have had most to do with the virgins, are reputed the fathers of the chil dren!!!

Now what do you say to our sky. blue ancestors? Were they painted for war, or not?

And may not this be the reason that their descendants, notwithst handing their mixture with Danes, Saxons and Normaus, have never got rid of this biue tinge, and are still to be the nation of the Blue Devils ?

Horace represents them as a nation of aliens or foreigners in the universe, and calls them" Penitus toto disjunc tos orbe Britannos." If this was not true, in fact, when Horrace wrote it, it was a true prophesy; for though they have pretended that the Irish pa

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Intere os plerique frumenta non serunt, sed lacte & carne vivunt: pellibusque sunt vestiti. Omnes vero se Prittanni vitro inficiunt, quod cæruleum efficit colorem; atque hoc horribiliore sunt in pugna adspectu: capilloque sunt promisso; atque omni parte corporis rasa, præter caput & labrum superius. Uxores habentdení duodenique inter se communes; & maxime fratres cum ftatibus, & parentes cum liberis: sed si qui sunt ex his nati, eorum habentur liberi, a quibus plurimum virgines quæque ductæ sunt.

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