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MONG the monsters which the Infurrection Act, paffed in 1796, called into loyal activity, none have furpaffed the Walking Gallows for atrocity, nor more diftinguished for moral depravity; the revolution ary monfter Couthon, or his affociate Carriere, though diflinguifhed for the numerous victims they offered up at the shrine of terror, for the variety of their monstrous talents, were fuperior only in cruelty, in proportion to the extent of the theatre they acted on, and the population delivered over to their management. The Walking Gallows only wanted victims; his foul like Couthon's, or FitzGibbon's, or F's was formed to enjoy the most finished fealt of human mifery. This wretch, of whom we have but an imperfect account, was born in Upper Newcastle county of Wicklow, about the year 1756, he was bred an apothecary in JANUARY, 1810.

Dublin, a bufinefs that may be ranked amongst the most peaceable and humane purfuits, at the fame time by the opportunities it affords to reconcile imperfect understandings to a tafte for cruelty, afforded but triffling gratifications to the impatient genius. of our hero; drawing a tooth, or opening a vein, though they might afford amufement to petty or unenterprifing talents. were beneath the afpiring genius of Hepenftat, his ar dent mind rejected the trifling game afforded by his profeffion, under the reftriction of the law. The difturbed ftate of the country, and the power transferred from the magiftrates to the army, inspired him with an opportunity of uniting the character of a gentlemans with thofe of judge and executioner, his fpeculations were fpeedily reduced into activity, by the intereft of his brother, then a clerk in the Dublin police, by whofe influ