of the chickens in a farm yard, at the frightful return of the hawk. Same day a ftrong detachment of the police pulled down feveral pofted bills, advertifing the Irish Magazine; the offending papers were fafe ly lodged at the Head Office; it was confidently rumoured, at the fame time, that fuch weighty offences, threaten not only the houfes they are laid on, but the dignity of magiArates, conftables, and women, hol ding or retaining any authority; all of whom, including bricks and perfons, are not fafe in their refpective fituations, while fuch publications are permitted to be hawked, fold, or paf ted up; contrary to the ftatutes, in tuch cafes made and provided. On Tuesday an infpection of the Yeomany took place, in Stephen's green; the feven or eight (pectators were highly gratified at the military manner the entire body went through their evolutions. Sir Charles Afgill, who infpected the corps, narrowly efcaped being thrown off his horfe, as the generous animal ftartled at the coarfe noife of a piper's chaunter, playing the American tune of Yankee Doodle. This is not the first time the gallant general felt inconvenience from the effects of the American rebellion. Yefterday being the anniverfary of the birth-day of Benjamin 1 (Haughton) King of the Beggars, the fame was obferved, with the ufual demonfrations of joy, among all the loyal inhabitants of Channel-row. An additional quantity of warm porridge, of a tronger confiflence than that ufually feen in the establishment, was ferved to each perfon. Several toafts were drank in feafoned fmall beer after dinner: among others were the following: "Our prefent Majefty, and may Channel-row be ever governed by law. "The Caufe of Liberty all over thefe dominions." "The Memory of Alderman Faulkner and Hackball-one the founder of our constitution, and the other one of our n.oft illuftrious fellow subjects." "The Memory of Benjamin I. who exchanged the buttle for the fceptre." A new inftitution, of a literary kind, is about to be established in this city, under the patronage of that illufirious nobleman and general, Sir Arthur the Brave. It is to be a kind of college, where every Proteftant candidate for a feat in the City Affembly must prove, as a qualification for the exercife of his legislative rank, that he can read. As feveral perfons heretofore had obtruded themselves into feveral august afsemblies, without fufficient education, it is expe&ted that the objects of the inftitution will extend to city grand jurymen. On Sunday, prayers were read by the chaplain of Newgate, in the chapel; himself and an affillant were the only perfons prefent. After divine fervice, the bread was diftributed to 260 prifoners, who profefs the popifh faith. Had they a chaplain paid out of the taxes, they would have the politeness to attend at prayers; but where there are congregations without priefts, and minifters without congregations, one mult do without prayers, and the other without hearers. nell, a few days back, in one of the Law courts, where he appeared as an evidence on a trial. It is scarcely credible that a Chriftian government would employ, as a cenfor of the morals, and a guardian of the lives and properties of the people, fuch a man as the barrifter defcribed this abortion to have been; and yet this man has been an Irish magiftrate! Dean Swift thought in his day that the conftitution of England was, to the Irish people, Magna Farta,' and we apprehend the appointment of fuch protectors of the people as this man, does not afford us at present a more perfect enjoyment of that conftitution. he barrister told him ‘to his beard,' and in hearing of the multitude, that he had been difgracefully expelled the College of Surgeons for mal-practices; that he had been a vender of quack medicines; that he had been an informer, and joined the battalion of tellimony under Jemmy O'Brien, but had at length been entrusted with the comm fhion of the peace, uuder Lord Caftlereagh's government, from which fituation he has been removed on completion of the dirty work which he had undertaken, "Hear this, ye wife men of the land!" that one, driven with ignominy from a li beral and enlightened incorporated body, an outcast of his profession, a very excrefcence of the community, has been invested with a power to pay domiciliary vifits, and exercife every other appertaining function of a civil magistrates in ill-fated Ireland! When the Counsellor's oration had conclu ded, Dy, grinn'd horrible a ghallly fmile,' and talked fomewhat of guns and fwords; but the lawyer happily remembered, and reminded him of his courage, on the night of Mr. Emmett's infurrection. When this hobbling anatomift was leading the foldiers into Cork-ftreet, on the alarm being raised that the rebels were advancing, he ran into an entry, and fell proftrate on his face ; in which fituation he was found by fome infurgents, whofe olefactory nerves deceived them into an opinion that it was a dead body; fo that, like the Stinkbin en of the Cape of Good Hope, by the effluvia of his carcafe, which infected the circumambient air he faved his life LEARNED CHARGE TO A Kilkenny Summer Affizes, 1809. Leffee ord Kilkenny a. ld eld. Counsel spoke to evidence. Lord N-y.-Gentlemen of the Jury, Counsel on both fides having run the full length of their tether. it is now, thank God, come to you and me, Gentlemen, the Defendant is a molt relpectable honest mapthere he is -1 am fure it is he-I know him by the likeness to his father. Come here Old eld, give me your hand. Oldfield, you are a Tipperary man, though it seems you now live in the county of Kilkenny. Gentlemen of the Jury, it is an honor and a credit to have fuch men fettle in it. I know all the Oldfields well. Oldfield you come from Kilcooly, all your family are tenants to Sip William Barker. Oldfield, I love you and all your family, my family has great obligations to yours-tea of you came at one time to vote for my brother. affure you Oldield, I have a very grateful recollection of it-I never will forget it but I tell you what, Oldfield, every life in your lease is as dead as a berzing. THE 1 THE ALARM. Men of Ireland! Once more are your religious and patriotic principles called into act on, The Veto, heretofore preffed on us, by the infidious machinations against Catholicity and Infh Liberties, is, under a different form, offered for our adoption. Irishmen -I call upon you to remember your ancestors, who for three centuries withflood a prof ription, more bloody than thofe of Nero or Domitian. I call on you to give this irreligious, this foul attempt against your moral happiness and national character, its final rejection. I will not offer theological reafoning, to convince you of its molt iniquitous import-as that has been already done, to an extent equal to the magnitude of the queftion. But l'entreat you to exercife your unbi. affed judgments, as frifhmen and Catholics; and you will be convinced that not only the exiftence of your religion is involved in the confideration of the propofed measure-but the independence of your pofterity, to all fucceeding generations. What is a Veto? Let them disguise it as they may," it is to veft a power in his Majefty, enabling him to appoint or reject what Catholic Bishop he pleafes in future. What if his Majefty fhould appoint the ro. teltant Archbishop of Tuam to be Catholic Primate, and Doctor Duigenan to fucceed Doctor Troy? I fay, if a Veto is conceded, it would be morally impoffible for the Catholics to prevent fuch appointments Suppofe Mr. Giffard entered into holy orders, it is not imprfible, under the propofed regulation, but he might become a Catholic Bishop: for, by this new penal law, any pers fon oppoling Mr. Gafard lubjects himself to a "premunire;" that is, forfeiture of goods, imprifonment, banishment, or death, as the cafe may be. Very well! Mr. Giffard requires the priests throughout his diocefe to teach their respective flocks that the doctrine of tranfubflantiation is idolatry, and purgatory a fuperttition; they would probably refufe; he would, of courfe, fatpend them, and appoint priests from Mr. Beresford's fupplementary yeomen. Some may fay, this is fuppofing what will never happen ;'-but I appeal to your knowledge and common fenfe, is it not the Bishops who brdain the pricfts? And, if his Majefty can appoint fuch Bishops as Dr. Duigenan or Mir, Giffard-or a Catholic priest who would care as much for you, or your religion, as either of them-ask yourselves to what confequences fuch a power may lead? Now, if it was not the wifh of the British Government to destroy the Catholic religion in Ireland, why need they be fo uneafy to have this Veto granted to his Majefty? for it will not give him one foot of territory, on the whole earth, more than he is already poffeffed of; it will not add one shilling more to his own coffers, or to the national treasury; it will not give him the additional popula tion of one vilage, to make him ftronger; nor will it be a better pledge of loyalty from the clergy or laity, for they have already fworn allegiance to him. No, Irish Catholics! any of the fe confequences are not looked forbut I will tell you what the British Miniftry expect by its accomplishment. They imagine that thofe hopes you have always cherished, of being delivered, one day or other, from worse than an Egyptian bondage, will thereby be extinguilhed. They know that the Irish Catholic Hierarchy is the last remnant of that hope-the laft last plank of Irish independence by which the people can now hold. They know, that, if they fucceed, they can virtually appoint priefts, who would tell you, that it was a grievous mortal fin not to be content with tythes; that the abfentee landlords, who drain the last shilling of the Irish peasant's labour, and spend it in Eng land, are the most humane men living; and that it would be revolting against your Maker to say you were injured or oppreffed. Obferve the ingenuity manifefted, in this new attack on our religion. Heretofore they failed in corrupting our Bishops ;-" now." fay they, "we will try to cajole the laity; and if we can fucceed with them, altho' the Bishops may continue firm in their determination, yet, if we cannot carry our point as to the Veto itself, we will effect what may be as advanta geous-we will divide the people from the clergy, and we can manage both at our le fure." with them in what they may do- Irishmen ! be on your guard! Do not in any wife pronounce on the Veto as a theological queftion-leave that to be determined by the Bishops, the great majority of whom are honeft, and not to be bribed or intimidated. Remember that the Irish Catholic Bishops have been the faith ful depofitaries of your doctrine and difcipline for three hundred years You know they have suffered privations the molt mortifying, and penal ties the most ignominious; they have been imprifoned, they have been banished, they have been gibbetted and they have been fuffocated, as Currie informs us. Rely on it, they will not now betray you. Concur -- No, Irishmen! let them re-enact the penal code we know how to fuffer-but we know not how to barter our religious creed for the perishable acquifitions of this world. At prefent you feel your condition to be that of extreme poverty and oppreffion; but once allow the Veto to be carried, and you will have to contend with the Protellant tytheproctor and the Catholic inquifitor. The former will rob you of the fruits of your industry, and the latter will oblige you to fupprefs your forrow for the deftruction of a religion that you will always continue firmly attached to and to confummate your fufferings, it will be the interest, and confequently the indefatigable reach of your religious teachers, to affure you that you ought never believe or ex. pect that Providence intended you fhould ever be other than the moft abject, outraged, and degraded slaves, which can at this day be exhibited to a Chriftian World. I am ORELLANA. TO' MAJOR SIRR, fiflant Juflice то WILLIAM PEMBERTON, Alderman, Combmaker, and Head Police Magiflrate. My Dear Sirr, Your well known activity, here tofore fo much diftinguifhed in the billory of our misfortunes, interrupted by the return of law, ftill continues, though in a very abridged manner. to be very troublefome to me, not only by the ill natured difpofition expreffed in your words, but in the manner your fpeculations are reduced into practice, by the ragged deputies acting under your inftructions. To be plain, Sirr, you have, by words of in timidation, attempted to deter several perfons in Dublin from felling my Magazine you have told William, M'Donald, of Anglefea-freet, that none but rebels would be concerned in fuch a fcandalous publication, and that the intention of its circulation is to promote rebellion. As to the first of your affertions, I venture to say publicly, Sirr, that it is a grofs and palbable , as men, the most diflin. guifhed in the trade for their loyalty, fell it; and fo far is the intention of the proprietor from infinuating any thing of a difloyal meaning in its pa ges, that I defy you, or the most dif cerning and literate of your keeneyed affiftants, to quote one paffage of a rebellious tendency. I hope, Sirr, you do not prefume to identify yourself with the government, fo far, as, to tell the world, that whatever reflects on your conduct, or invites your indignation and perfanat feelings, muft tend to excite rebellion. J can affure, you, Sirr, that however efteemed you are among the people of this country, no reflection on your manners or character would, in any remote degree, tend to an act of rebellion Were even your person facri legioufly attacked by any profane hands, and hung out to public ridia cule, it would not in any manner af fect the public tranquillity, nor fhake the allegiance of one of his Majetty's fubjects. Befides attacking my reputation, and injuring my property in theory, your quads, as you call your conftables, have pulled down my poll ing bills, and carried away the prin ted labels from the doors of feveral perfons who fell the Irish Magazine. Of this conduct I warn you. Notwithftanding the high confideration you ap pear in, in the opinion of the benevo lent houfe of Richmond, if repeated, I will te ch you, that if I undertake to engage the law to grapple with you, the whole intereft of the houfe of Talavera will not be able to extricate you from its ftrong arm, nor prevent the Proprietor of the Irish Magazine of adequate remuneration for any injuries he may fuftain by an illegal zeal, exercifed on the part of Major Sirr. |