us, our heirs and successors, of our special grace and certain knowledge and meer motion do grant unto the said Mayor and Citizens of the city of Kilkenny and to their successors, that the Mayor and Citizens of the said city for the time being, or the greater part of them, of whom we will the Mayor to be one, may yearly and every year for ever hereafter, on the aforesaid Monday next following the feast of St. John the Baptist, or any other day they may think expedient, without any farther license or authority from us, our heirs or successors, and shall elect and nominate two of the most upright inhabitants of the said city to be Coroners of the county of the said city of Kilkenny, for one entire year from the feast of St. Michael the Archangel next following said election, to do, execute and exercise all and every act touching or regarding the office of Coroner of said city, and county of the said city. (134) And that the said Coroners or Coroner shall take a corporal oath, in the presence of theMayor and Aldermen, or the greater part thereof, of whom let the Mayor be one, duely and faithfully to execute every thing touching or regarding said office, before they be admitted to enter upon, or to exercise the same. (135) And after taking this oath as prescribed in these presents, he or they so elected and nominated shall be Coroners of the city, and the county of said city, of Kilkenny. (136) Nor shall any other Coroner or Coroners of us, our heirs or successors, enter, or for any reason presume to introduce himself or them selves into the county of said city, to exercise any act belonging to or regard. ing the Coroners of said city. (137) And if it should happen that the Coroners of said city, or one of them, should within one year after being so elected, nominated and sworn, or during the time of their or his office, die or be removed (which Coroners or Coroner not behaving well in said office we will have removeable at the will and discretion of the Mayor for the time being, of said city, and the Aldermen, or greater part thereof, of which the Mayor is to be one) then and so often, it may and shall be lawful for the Mayor and Citizens of said city or the greater part theroof, of whom let the Mayor be one, without any farther license or authority to be had or obtained from us, our heirs or successors, to assemble themselves in the Tholsel of said city, or any other place within the said city they shall think proper, within fifteen days next following such death or removal of said Coroner or Coroners, and to elect and prefer one or two Citizens of said city, as the case will require, in the room and to supply the place of said Coroners or Coroner so dead, removed, or departed from office. (138) And the said Coroner or Coroners so elected and preferred having first taken the corporal oath as aforesaid, may and shall have power to exercise every act touching or regarding the said office, for the remainder of that year, and further until another or others of the inhabitants or Citizens shall be elected and nominated in their place. And so as often as the case shall happen. SALE OF PICTURES. Sir Rubens Legboard having concluded the sale of his valuable Gallery of Portraits-Messrs. F. W. Conway, and Stevenson the Pawnbroker, have taken the house that was formerly occupied by Mr. Parker the snuffman, at the Corner of Christ Church lane in Skinner-row, which they have fitted up in the best stile, for the reception of Pictures, and the accommodation of the amateurs and virtuosi of the kingdom. The gallery now contains the following Pictures, which possess considerable merit in their respective cha racters: No. 1. The dagger-man's progress. This piece has all the variety of action, character, and countenance, which are necessary to explain the subject; the meanness of his origia is happily described described in the occupation at which he is seen when a boy-the intermediate avocations of his life are uncommonly well expressed, until he arrives, like the Dog in office, at the climax of infamy. In this character the determined ferocity of his countenance is strongly expressed, and reminds one of a "Venetian Bravo assinating a gentleman," by Rembrant-Artist unknown. No. 2. The way to grow rich.. This is an historical painting. It shews how, by a well concerted plan, a partnership may be entered into between a poor, cunning, unprincipled man, and a rich, simple, unsuspecting one: how the former may avail himself of a legal flaw to deprive his patron of a great deal of property; and, like the viper in the fable, sting to death the hand which restored it to existence. On the back of this picture is written" if a Pawnbroker so much the better." This piece possesses great excellence in colouring and handing.-Artist, Mr. Cox. No. 3. The ruins of modern Carthage-A capital painting-Not inferior to the Ruins of Palmyra, by REDESDALE. The spectator discovers a traveller copying inscriptions from mouldering monuments and mutilated statues; the most remarkable figure in the piece is a representation of an antiquarian, digging in the rubbish for an Alderman's wig-Artist, Erin go Bragh. are seen behind him; some with their tongues out, and others with their fingers in their ears.-DOCTOR DRUMSNUFFLE is described with a port folio before him, in which he appears to be entering notes preparatory to his reply; all the circumjacent crowd are seen sneering, while clouds of snuff, like the sands of Arabia, seem to envelope the whole Meeting. JACK SQUINTUM ap pears to be taking an observation of Watty Cox with his spy glass;-by an optical illusion, which the lanthorn of the Repository causes, Dr. Drumsnuffic's nose is made to serve Jack for a quadrant.-CON CATSPAW is delineated with a whetstone and a dagger in his hands; this figure only wants a great coat and a dark lanthorn to make it a perfect counterpart of Sir Joshua Reynolds's painting of GUY FAWKES, when proceeding to blow up the houses of Parliament.—Mr. FINNERTY is drawn in a very graceful attitude, addressing himself to the Meeting.-The merit of this painting can only be discovered by a critical examination; the colouring is of the brightest kind; as a picture of portraits, it comprehends more of the qualities which make a perfect one, than any in the collection; the figures are so lively, and so strongly express what they are about, that a spectator has nothing to wish for-Artist, Mr. Cox-who attended the Meeting for the purpose of painting this picture. No. 5. WATTY in quod.-This No. 4. The Catholic Meeting at painting exposes at one view to the the Repository This picture is cer- spectator, all the progressive steps of tainly not inferior to the "Wise Men, information, pleading, trial, condemby Segers."The prominent figures are nation; and one week's imprisonment. GRAVITYGAG, LAWYER BRAWLWEL, A representation of the Judgment DOCTOR DRUMSNUFFLE, JACK SQUIN- Hall is accurately taken-BLADDER. TUM, CON. CATSPAW, and Mr. CHOPS and SIR DUPLICATE TRIAN FINNERTY-GRAVITY GAG, is re- GLE are seen vehemently pleading for presented in the attitude of MARK WATTY, and the Major paying their ANTONY, addressing the Romans, fees-this picture bears strong marks but his mouth is drawn too wide of hardness, and want of transparency; open-BRAWLWELL is drawn with his and the ignorance of Irish anatomy is nose awry, and his features highly in-visible in the manner that all the flated with the force of declamation figures are painted-Artist-His-M a groupe of Major Fitzgerald's grooms AG(To be Continued.) Anecdote Anecdote of Bonaparte, Being lately on a visit at a public school in Paris, he remarked a very handsome boy, about 13 years old, more than ordinarily attentive to his study. The Emperor being much taken with his appearance, proposed several mathematical questions to him, which he solved with a promptitude much beyond what might be expected from one of his years. The boy was then questioned by BONAPARTE as to his name, and family: he blushed deeply, and was silent. The preceptor of the seminary advanced, and informed the Emperor that the child was a foundling-Bonaparte again adfrom him if he new aught relative to dressed the lad, and requested to hear his parents. The innocent youth, overwhelmed with confusion, tremu lously replied; " my Leige, I have ed by the child's manner, immediately no father."-Bonaparte, visibly affect said to the boy; "My child, I will be your father"And he has actually made a noble provision for the maintenance, education, and establishment of the boy-yet this is the man whom the hirelings of our infamous oppressors describe as a "Monster in human shape!!!" NEW WEEKLY PAPER IN LONDON. We have been favored, with the Prospectus of a New Paper called the Harp; the Proprietors, we understand, are young Irishmen, of considerable ability. The object of the publication is to diffuse a more general knowledge of the Irish character in the British Island, where we are sorry to say, it is not treated with the respect and indulgence which our services and sufferings merit. Indeed, for our part, were it not flattering to our feelings to see Irish talent exhibited even among our detractors, we would avoid the servility and debasement of the Irish name, by descend. ing to complain or remonstrate to the only People in the world who possess a natural and immoveable detestation and contempt for the name of Irishman. PROSPECTUS. APPEARING before the Public of these Kingdoms as Proprietors of a new Paper, and, of course, candidates for public support, we beg leave to state the motives that influence our undertaking, and to present the usual Prospectus of the principles on which it is to be founded. That the Press of the metropolis, constituted as it is at present, is calculated to keep alive and to diffuse that spirit of free enquiry in political and religious matters, without which the liberties of ENGLISHMEN cannot be preserved, we are by no means disposed to deny; but that this Press is, generally speaking, the mouth-piece of liberal, generous, and just principles, we do not conceive equally evident. It is a fact shamefully notorious, that the interests. of a great and vital part of the empire of that part of the empire emphatically denominated its "right arm"-have been ing to stem or turn, the current of public the world with travels in Kamtschatka or The columns of an English newspaper are filled with the brutal exploits of a pugilist, while scarcely a para graph graph is squandered on the proceedings of the freemen of the second city of the empire. But although the thinking' people of England will not condescend to waste their time in the perusal of volumes written on Irish subjects, they may perhaps be induced to cast a passing glance on the brief pages of a Paper which will espouse the cause of their own liberties, while it endeavours to call their attention to those of their Irish brethren.-Although the prominent and characteristic feature of "THE HARP" will be the advocacy of the Irish cause, let it not be understood that we mean to confine ourselves to it alone. Convinced as we are, that, in exciting a spirit of political enquiry into the state of Ireland, we discharge a meritorious duty to the empire at large; yet we should hold ourselves as mere unworthy bigots, if the sacred cause of liberty and political justice were not as dear to us in one country as in the other. Without attaching ourselves to any party, without mingling in the paltry wrangles of contending factions, but taking our stand with the Empire and the Constitution, we will, therefore, watch over the rights and liberties of the WHOLE people. In the prosecution of this undertaking we are aware of the difficulties we shall have to encounter. Our attempt is bold, but it is honest; we tread an unbeaten way, but truth is our polar star;—we adopt an orphan cause, but we appeal to the common sense, if not to the generosity, of a nation: we may fail, but we have the authority of the best critic of antiquity, that แ even to fail, in a great attempt, is glorious." Since the Revolution, no public print established in London has dared to set out on the principles we have adopted -no Newspaper has had the hardihood to wage a continual war against the cherished prejudices of the English nation; and we therefore expect assistance from the liberality and talent of both countries. In these awful times, so momentous in event and so dreadful in prospect; when "the resources of a great empire continue to be squandered only in the purchase of national ruin and disgrace;" and when, with invasion threatening our shores, a spirit of intolerance in one half of the state paralyses all the mental and physical energies in the other; it becomes no honest man to be silent. Englishmen must be disabused of the errors they so obstinately entertain with regard to their brethren of Ireland, that the latter may at length experience the blessings of better government; and justice must be done to the Irish name and nation. that, for the salvaEdinburgh Review. Such are the designs and outline of "THE HARP." With motives, principles, and views like these; with independence never to be shaken, and integrity never to be bought; we fearlessly advance to the discharge of the important duty which we have imposed on ourselves, and we are sanguine in our hopes of encouragement from a patriotic public. From the extensive connections both in England and Ireland which the Proprietors enjoy, and the sale throughout the empire which a publication acting up to the professions we make is likely to ensure, it is not, we presume, too much to promise, that "THE HAIP" will be found a useful vehicle for Advertisements to the mercantile world. 1 During the sessions of the Imperial Parliament particular attention will be paid to the Reporting of Irish business, in general so very much neglected; and in the prosecution of this part of our duty we will endeavor to obtain lists of the names of the members present at the discussion of Irish questions, that the people of the sister country may see by how many of the imperial senators their concerns are attended to. In the last session, the fate of Jeffery, the sailor, attracted the attendance of three or four hundred members (and we are not sorry that it did so); while Ireland was taxed nearly to distraction, without the presence of almost as many members as (in the technical parliamentary language) made a house. Elucidations of English and Irish history, characteristic sketches of either country, Anecdotes of celebrated Irish characters, Essays on the Fine Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, &c. &c. will be thankfully received and duly inserted. -The Theatres, in particular, shall not be neglected; and as often as we can, consistently with our graver duties, we shall make our Readers laugh at the fashionable vices and follies of the day. Gentlemen who write for emolument, and who may be inclined to favour "THE HARP" with their productions, will meet the most liberal treatment. Subscriptions two guineas a year, (to be paid yearly or half-yearly) will be received at the Printers and Publishers', Messrs. BALLINTINE & BYWORTH, Duke-street, Adelphi; Messrs. KEATING, BROWN, & Co.'s, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square; at the York Coffee-house, St. James's-street, and at the Stratford Coffee-house, Oxford street. THE * The Daggerman of the Messenger, and Jack Squintum and Dr. Drumsnuße, published an account of a dinner as given by Mr. Keogh, where they introduce a number of characters as objects of State vigilance, as conspirators, and traitors; for this composi tion Counsellor Clinch has prosecuted Robert Connolly, who came to him and offered to give up the author, and to make an affidavit that Conway was the author of all his letters to Doctor Brenan, to which his own name was signed, and to make him a public apo logy for his slanders. DECEMBER, 1810, 4 B |