shall, in the presence of the said Mayor, take his corporal oath, duly and faithfully to execute all and every thing, regarding the said office, according to and name one honest and discreet man the said city, or the greater part there- or any other officer or minister, whatsoever, of us, our heirs or successors, or as often as it shall be necessary to be held ed $, before the Mayor of said city, and his uccessors, and before the Recorder of said city, or his or their deputy or deputies. (161) And that in the same court they demand, real, personal, and mixed, as well of all and every territory and tenement within the city and county of the said city, and within the parishes or any of them aforesaid, and their limits, boundaries and precincts, as of all and every debt, to whatever sum, or sums it may amount. (162) And that they may and shall have power to hear, examine, discuss and determine, all' and every manner of pleas of debts, accounts, trespasses, conventions, detideceptions, contracts, causes, matters and demands whatsoever. And nues, that court shall be the court of Re cord. (163) And further we will, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do grant unto the Mayor and Citizens of said city, and their succes-. sors, that the Mayor of the said city, for the time being, be clerk of the Market, within the said city, and county of the said city, suburbs, precincts and liberties of the same. (164) And that they and their successors may have, perform and execute the assize and as: say of bread, wine, and ale; the keep ing and the assize of measures and weights, and of all other things whatsoever that belong to the clerk of the market in the said city and county of the said city of Kilkenny; and may du ly punish trespasses of the said assize of bread, wine, and ale, and may correct and amend the defects of measures and weights, and other things belonging to the clerks of the market of the said city and county of the same. (165) And that no other clerk of the market, or any other officer or minister of us, our heirs and successors, shall enter or dare to enter into the said city or county of the said city, to the limits or precincts of the same, to do or execute any thing belonging to or touching the said office. (166) And that, all profits and issues of such assize and assay, arising in the said city and county FOR JANUARY, 1811. Vol. V. of the said city, may belong to the Mayor and citizens of said city, and their successors; for the assistance and relief of the citizens of said city and their successors, without any share to be given to us, our heirs or successors hereafter, for ever. (To be continued.) Burning of English Manufactures, BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA. This terrible expedient to aunihilate every trace of English enterprize, is put into force by every Sovereign and State on the Continent. It is not only the forerunner of the extirpation of British industry, but an evidence of the degraded condition of all the ancient dynasties. The wretched King of Prus sia is reduced to the humbled condition of a common executioner; for he must attend in person to see the faggot applied to every species of British produce, colonial or manufactured. Within the last month, he had no less than 1,400 hogsheads of Sugars burnt, in the same manner precisely that cabins were burnt in Ireland, with all the forms of military parade, drums beating, and musquets firing. To the discredit of our country, Buonaparte's system of burning has been borrowed from the advice of an Irishman, who, near a centu ry since, advised us, in our own defence, to burn every thing English, except the coals. DEAN SWIFT, a Protestant divine, must very justly be accused of this horrid system, so wickedly imitated by a Popish adventurer: and to aggravate every loyal and constitutional feel ing, a Protestant Prince, to the disgrace and terror of the Protestant interest, and humiliation of the Protestant Ascendancy, is the agent of this dreadful measure: a mere hanginan is the representative of the house of Brandenburg become, in the service of a Popish Despot; a man who once dictated to the North of Europe, who aspired to the Roman Empire; a man who bought Irish Rebels as he would dogs, to punish them for their treasons. The Protestant interest, and the commercial grandeur E of of Britain, are crumbling into pieces, by the very hand that once wielded the conquering sword of the Great Frederic, in the legitimate causes of Kings, of Religion, and Commerce. And even after submitting to these base and profane terms, what is the condition of this once great monarch? He is obliged to pawn his crown jewels, to pay his enemy the expence of pulling him down; and even here the climax of his debasement does not finish. The Great Frederic's successor has received a written notice that his license to reign is withdrawn; that he must provide himself with some other employment. Oh! horrid BUONAPARTE! you have the insolence to order FREDERIC to depart; you dare to say that he "LEASES TO REIGN." Shocking impiety! dreadful sacrilege! to whom shall an unfortunate Prince look for succour, for rein. statement on the Throne of his august Ancestors? If the Ban Infantry, the Riding-house Bloodhounds, Woulaghan, and the Enniskilleners refuse their aid, the House of Brandenburgh must inevitably be erased from the list of Monarchs. BAPTISMAL FETE. On Tuesday, 25th December, being Christmas day, the worthy and pious Major gave a religious and brotherly fete champetre, at his newly acquired seat near Rathmines, for the purpose of bestowing on it a name, which might convey to posterity the virtues and loyalty of its humane possessors.At four o'clock, the Major took the chair, and after delivering a pious exhortation to his sanctified auditory, proceeded to perform the ceremony of baptizing the Villa; Messrs. La Touche and Dugdale appeared as sponsors, and expressed much satisfaction at the happy and holy distortions of countenance from which beamed all the illuminations of grace and thankfulness. The manner of throwing up his eyes, so concealed the pupils by holy ecstacy, that the whitened spaces appeared like two little heavens scarcely lit by descending suns, whose orbs were scarcely visible. In, this transport of spirit the company joined with the exclamation of holy ! holy! holy! and the rapture of inspiration terminated in a slumbering swoon, from which they were awakened by a hymn, struck from the lungs of brother Kent, the baconer. After this impressive act of Methodistical rhapsody, Mr. Latouche proposed that the sacred spot should be called "Golgotha," as the most appropriate name; while Mr. Dugdale argued, from many excellent precedents, for its being called the "Field of Blood;" but the Major happily reconciled the difference, by proposing that it might be called "Potters Field." On the propriety of this appellation, Mr. La Touche assented, in a pathetic and manly piece of eloquence; and to confirm his opinion, by reading alound the ten first verses of the 27th chapter of St. Mathew. The parties then sat down to dinner, and the "Potters Field," and its benevolent Possessor, were drank with much zeal and decorum; after which, the Major delivered a most edifying discourse to the neighbours in arms, who assembled on the loyal occasion, and echoed the words of their commander, by three cheers, for the Potters Field and the Major! HEN CATCHING. A certain fat Lady, the wife of a Geachmaker, who keeps a Villa near ARTANE, has taken such a diflike to the crowing of Cocks and the cackling of Hens, that she has determined to have the whole race of domestic fowl removed from the neighbourhood; particularly the infits, that the poor people who carriage pafles, fhall be interdicted from enkeep cabins on the road, through which her tertaining fowl: for this humane purpose, the has applied to Mr. Juftice Axletree, to affit in the capture and tranfportation of the wishes fulfilled, that a detachment of the Pooffending Poultry; and to implicity are her ice fcours the country with as much vigilance and military parade, as if an army of Garavats were to be brought to battle. A Sermon TO THE DAGGER SOCIETY, In behalf of Children made Orphans, by the Law of the Land, or in other words, whose Fathers were hanged through "Vigour beyond the Law," in support of the Constitution, in 1798. "Ye will go into hell-fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels." Brethreu in loyalty and faith,-The comfortable text which I have chosen, is taken from that holy instrument which you have so often wielded in defence of all that is dear to loyalty I mean the HOLY EVANGELISTS; yes, my brethren, ye will find the words of my text in black and white in that book, and that is a book every word of which is true-sorry am I to say that every word of that book is true-It is not like an act of parliament, through which an ingenious man might drive a coach and six, but it is like the tower, my own citadel, out of which there is no getting but through the door. You must be regenerated to loyalty, to pass under Jemmy O'Brien's key, to the light of this world, from that prison-and to escape the sentence of bible writ, you must be purified, and GOD knows how such devils as ye can be purified, to pass to the light of heavenly glory, and not be sunk to everlasting darkness, as my text warns you, with the devil (GOD preserve me) and all his bloody, terrible angels. My brethren, I was once a horrid sinner; I believe I was nearly as bad as the worst amongst you, but now I have got the Grace, and I am a Vessel of Election, and cannot sin. Alas! my Brethren, do you know the history of my sinfulness? My crimes began before I could speak; my first abomination was suckling a Popish nurse, and so ill did her impious milk agree with my little orthodox, protestant, and loyal bowels, that I got the gripes, which had nearly sent me where ye will go, into hell-fire, with the devil and his angels. Another sin of my infant years, was going in my nurse's arms to Mass, and making a play-thing of ་ E 2 what she called her padderan, which your unrighteousness about the town-my first fruits, my tythes, my property, for feited to me, as the representative of Majesty, by the disaffection of villanous United Irishmen, Rebels and Traitors; what have ye done? like Ananias and Saphira, ye have come to me with lies in your mouths;. ye have said that you could not find a spoon, or a cup, or a watch, when, ye villains, ye had dismantled whole sideboards, and found nothing too hot nor too heavy. How can ye face me here this day, ye impu. dent vagabonds? what can ye expect in the next life but fire, brimstone, and the society of the devil and his angels? Yes, there will be a riding-house set up in hell, and the big-gest black devil in hell to scalp your backs for the injustice ye have done me. I see ye are sorrowful and frighted into contrition; your state is truly deplorable, but still as Between the stirrup and the ground, Mercy was sought and mercy was found," I can give ye hope; I carry now in my breeches pocket a conditional reprieve, for any one of ye that repent; but alas! what is repentance, (as the Papists well remark) without restitution? I can do nothing for ye, if ye do not assist yourselves: I am only the humble instrument of the Lord, that he has put between your souls and the devil and his angels; my interference is only conditional; I can hear your confession and give you absolution, but my absolution is nothing without restitution upon your part; come then, I shall receive you as the strayed sheep, I will embrace you as the prodigal son.-If ye cannot give all, give what is left. I will receive back from ye the spoons, money and watches that remain, and I will put up with the loss of what ye have spent only give me, in God's name, what remains, and give me every information against those who have conccaled any property. Thus you may secure your precious souls, and thus alone can I interpose with the LORD, and keep ye out of the provosts of hell, and the society of the devil and his an gels. Our object this day is to assist the rising generation, and to instil a love of loyalty and allegiance in tender minds; let them rival their illustrious ancestors in deeds of fame; train them to a steadiness of face, a quickness of reply, and a firmness of conscience, that may yet immortalise them on the green-cloth; tell them of Poor Jemmy, who stood CURRAN, and all his wit and ingenuity tell them of Tom Reynolds and SHEERS's Armstrong, men unscared by GOD or Devil; keep always a great model before them, and parade and drill them till each soldier becomes a general. (Here the children were all shewn, each holding the Evangelists in one hand, and a little dagger in the other, and the Major became so affected, that he was only able to utter the words of the great Nelson, "I hope every man here will do his duty.") Upon which the collectors arose and quested the assembly. Amongst those who held plates were seen Sir Ruebens Legboard, the Dog, Biblemouth, Firethatch, Hawtry, White, Archy Jacob, Mr. Conway Daggerman of the Messenger, and Bob Lattitat, from Carlow; the collection was considerable; but we are sorry to add, that the Dog spied Bob Lattitat putting half a crown in his pocket; the matter caused a scuffle, which produced much disorder, but which was observed to subside upon the entry of his Reve rence the Major ! ! ! ! ! ! |