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A coni]tendiuu9 index and tabic of ctuttents will render it useful ibr reference, «s t^ biographical dictionary, ti^hhough the names are dot arranged . in alpbalrtn/cal order. , There is some novelty ^n an attempt to afford a brief bpt accurate record of ' ohc thousand reumrkable individuals — st;^tetinien, divines, jurists, poet«f, phi* losopliiTs, hi:her^how deeply indebted thi! Uaion is to Irish settlersi, Irish literature, and Irish valor, and how foolivsh or wicked those persons are who seek ta proscribc*or quarrel with the natural ally of our republic, a naiioh determined to gain that ind«- pendencu wliich its gallant sous powerfully aiclcd America 40 attain ^d p^ serve. ,' " It would have been desirable to give at greater length the lives of those who had attained to distinction in the various departments oJT human ;pursuit, could that have been accomplished without sdch an increase in ikc size and cost of the work as would materially lessen its circulation. \ These pages alford abundant proofs, (hat Irishmen and their sohs were - second to lioiie, in faithfulness to popular institutions, and in cflbrts, in 1776 and 1S12, to uphold the independence of the Union— that they are' the liberal Iriends and natrons of science and the useful arts, everywhere — that they know the vame of a ^government founded on mild and equal laws, and despise those wjio would barter liberty jfor worldly wealth or igristocratic connexion — and that on both sides of the Atlantic, and in every quarter of the globe| the sons of the Emerald Isle, have been honorably distinguished for ^ajc^city^and courage, learning, skill, and manlv 'enterprise. ' ^' '■ \ The vices iind crimen which attlict society are partly caused by ignoiaiice^. but more by a lack of integrity in n>any persons by no means deficient iii in- , telligencc. Our most jdangerous characters kn,ow too much ; and a repfal of . the naturalization laws would but divide us into citizens and alions, the fa- vored and the proscribed, (he slaves iand their masters, having separate feel- ings and interests. The'lgnorant may be instructed, prejudices removed, aiid defective laws amiended, but how shall we get rid ol the incubus brought dp by a legion of insincere politicians ? ' Who were the first settlers in America? Aliens to a man — ^foreignerft— i, " strangers — many of them unlearned — these were the pioneers who acquired'' n citizenship b^ cultivating the soil, by retrieving it from barrenness — not by \ being born on it. The "l^tive Amepcan Associations" of our day arc the/- \ descendants of those alien strangers, and if we compare their conduct to the V emigrants Ytf ho now reach our shores with that of the savages who were tJbe '^ " Nijitive Anierican Associations" of a former age, it trill be seeii that the cljSi- dren of tbe foreigner, who was met on the. beach by the i|^d mAtk of t^^eic^t* , and welcomed to America as a part of the great family of tnta, ar^ow or* li^^ ganized, anxious, earnest, unwearied in their*dnbrts to Ury a tax from even' Uie most impoverished of the kindred of their sires, for the privilege of Iand«. 1 ing on our shores— to denoimce the hardjr seitlers from Europe, as if they , : ' were an inferior, degraded race — to obtaia legislative provisions for treatin|r '■'- " them as their serfs and bondmen, to be taxed at their will, governed at their ' diacretitm, never admitted as brethren io the exercise of common rights, but ':i-- j^ ' INTBODtJCTIOM. / T always subject to an order to go into immcdinie banishment, tinder, a gaf em. . "^^'i-^S'iho'^S"- s^Eii^of such -r.v;-r.:S «r u in c« Xt ,!,i. volunio is ,.ul.lished-it is to renujid them thai h.. tu th FJ a A ht- iu..r . tlla, ,h..sc who arc burn under a had '^uvvmmvm km- a -W r ,. k.iv t a u ick a good one, and that as they hear the unairc ol God. ht wi -S e'en 6 a tempt •• to tun! them away Tnmi a r..rt.i.a ol «l'at ^"^ Vu2 was « vea hy its M Jkcr to all mankind.. with no natural mark, to des- upright course of conduct. *'7»"*«'/!;,f_'^"" institutions arc the best means xra^{:jS^^ S^troo^the liiTi^^ oath (tor administering which William Orr died oirthe ^,«^»^fi»lJ)' ^^^Tr^^^ ^f the oppressed. ' The pil- This country has been f";.^.'^?^";*^ ' ^^ grim fiithcrs were self-banished <'««J^'^ 1^"'^^ Cdom here tw6 hundred foved land of thdr sir«s-they soughlt "^ '"^J^^J^^jif^J'^iK otitlawed which our Union would not be worth preseryii^. ...^Jggiiimself to the The hVwc author of these^ *^'fTl'^^^r g,u*\^^i piJepIs acquaintdSei of the cotirteous '^'«'l"i., "/j tf ^^^^^^^ were bom. in.the, Scohish 5"R»»'''"*^' J«p,;Hen side bv side with the gal- tongue. Botli his R>^an«lf{;'^«j/"»S^aVCd^ Son which had.degmd- : lant Mercer, agamst the house of BW^^r;^ ""'JJionof an EnsliSh proviScC;. Gd their "apient nation, I'Y '^'^"""S 'X^*'^.^""^^^^^^^^^ In Canada, he en- and its cfergy to a dependance on ."'l^,SP™ ^f ^^'^^"n'd advocate of liberty," deavorcdfor many years to prove •"'"^f '^ 'J.J"^"'' Mo doing, and aiding in fulfilment of his pledge to the go«Jl f-^^fwell-knoXwishes of the con. in efforts in 1837-'38 to carry into f «'^^^„^/,.''^'\;X«^ie^^ he was out- gresses of 1775 and 1812. relative »° P?"*'';?^; XXJ*^^^^ fawed by monarchy, rvhtch pr»«nft^ X'lois aKvere i^risonment. In in its turn, further impoverished him H * •^"SJ'J^^Engbnd acceptable, the time of trouble anS difficulty I"f J *Pf f/ SJd to the public, as a to- ment to j«e Jn^itutions. ^^ ,^^^ ] ^ /^ , -'■ i stsw X UKlit '' evri UMt y ~~i •— ... 1 * ''.' . \, "■ i--:-:/-'-^' :\i-.,: »!; • f -■■■ er, a gafen- )ns and such jiu tlu' I'urth iHMit liavt' a uajjc ol' God, of that earth imrkd to dcs- nnd in 1707,. subject these piTsoi'mion, ho shall stop - r the colonial )f the siatners t, and ainone ined, this vol- u the earnest I the hour of li that no peo- c more abuse hnn the coun* n, and Moore, erald Ihle, dis- . , the line ima« icter." y increase the e, i8»li!?htened, sfactibn of the ic- best means »88 may be dif- of the United istering which sed. Thepil- heir youth, the re tw6 \»undred -the oti'tlaweil md the climate r for that heav- linioa^ without g^imself to the K^flis parepts asSheir native le with the gal- ich had^degrad- ncli*h province;. Canada, he en- cate of liberty," Ding, and aiding shes of the con- ic, he was out- bile democracy, ^risonment. In ; and acceptable, ! public, as a to- herished atuch- -r i f ■n THE LIVES OF REMARKABLE IRISHMEN, &c. 1» ROBERT t^ULTON. WHAT^lrsUIreland to do with him? Is the magician of the ninetcdiWi century— he who annihilated, and taught his pupils ol every chine to annihi- late, as it were, both time and space-he whose genms first conjured un that vast Leviathan of the deep, which the dwellers on the banks of the Indus, the Ganges, and the Amazon, behold with terror and amazemcnt-a power which bus already revolutionized the science of war, dimmished the distance between Europe and America one half, for all purposes of tniyel, and be- stowed a^peed and certainty on sailing which dely the controlling iiiUuin. ccs even of winds and waves-is he, the master spirit of the age, also ol Irish pairenwge ? It is even so. . ' vi u u c .k„ -k;, Mark yonder gallant ship, just issuing from the- noble harbor of the chij city of America, prepared l)y the aid of steam to breast the liillows, and.ac- complish in two weeks, or less, a voyage across the wide Atlantic, heretofore often the work of months ! Who rlanned,..built, and navigated the lirst of her kind ? Robert Fulton, the son of anj^feh father and an Irish mother. He it jvas among the sons of men who (ilRfetablif'hed and perfected steara- navicliion on the seas, lakes, and rivers or|piis great globe, who conlerred on AiSlrica benefits of incalculable value. '" ' « i • • Mr. Fulton was born at Little Britain, Lancaster Qounty, Pcnnsylvama, m 1765. His father and'inoiher, like the father and mother of Andrew Jack- son, were humble emigrants from old Ireland, with little education and less wealth— persons of that class whom short-sighted pohticians, of an aee gone by, would have mulcted in ten dollars each, by way of discour- a*inff the humble and industrious from seeking that home and freedom here which an older world denies. ' \;oung Robert received a common education at an English school— discovered a taste for drawing and mechanics— went to Philadelphia and painted portraits and landscapes, as a means of living- sailed for London in 1786-re8ided for several years there, ih the house of B^njtirain West, the great American painter— took out, inl?9*» several pat- ents, and published a work on canal navigation— removed in 17% to laris, and there resided for seven years in the house of Joel Badow, the Americao , ; .Minif^ter, studied the principal European languages, and 3he higlier branches of science; projected the first Panorama exhibited atTatis— and, bting en- couraged by Chancellor Livingston, who had arrived in France as the repre- sentative of the United Stales, began to mak6 experiments with small- steamboats on the river Seine. A larger one was built, which broke asunder" —a second, completed in 1803, wa? successful, and proved the truth ot His I. t ' The'English government invited Mr. Fulton to London in 1804, but his ex- • Pertons not Iwm in Ireland, but of Iriuli pmrentaye, «• dtatinguiihed bjr on« rtw Mon their nsBMi-if of nwT* raoiota Iiieh descent, by two Man. J I * ■OBERT rOlTON— 8J» KfcnAr.D 8TEEW. pcrimcnts with refiToiKjc to inarhinerj- of f.nn,.. mn then roduircd worr no, tilt wuUirs uf the- Hudson river, n steamboat of considtrahle sizi— thin miuil, cr, nn«rnno hcr-.and finally n fricate. which hore his name'. His IHm. 1, SZU^^T^'^ "•r"'^ '"■"'J'e^inP. ^vlKii the patent whidM?Lvn« ston and iHrnsoifhad taken out was contested, and in a creat de-^ne r.^, . r.^-i Wait, hy their quibbles and villanous forms and procedure, invented to?„f Er ITS'' ••"* •"''^™'''^ ""'y ''^'«»"«^ <8f •»'« ';»'=*»«« -^f "nc Tarl of the ,Z" ll;X . BliiKhr' l""!""*"' '«J"eland f«d An.erica-,fnd it is aii »: cauffiit a sliffht cold. Xhc lawyers •etlinff h ni, and the cold InstPJin,! i dea h, which took place at New V«rk, on the if4 h of FebrSn v iSe SS i^' CO ding ,o the N. V. Evening Post], isiS, in ,he 44th yer7h aire ''£ national demonstrations of unaffected sorrow for the loss of the Washing. , n Mechanics-he who had drawn the most distant parts of the Union nearer to t^chother-who had appPu-d a power by mean8\)f which the MiS- pi and Missouri, the St. Lawrence and the Amazon, the Rhine and tJ^lud^ Bon, could be navigated with ease and certainty-wwe uSverea" throii nut iter .r.. ««t'P" ••"'•^'•'•^t*'^''^"*''' •"•' hi" monument will 3e for • - fkf ;r^ steamships crossing tTie Atlantic or Pacific, or stemming the Ohi^^ chfte^T.^h ' '^- ??•""'' ''^*^ ^'i'^'^W'' "' «»»« Shannon, w llTfof ever a "S .-the^rSf^aThilrillTcSi!;^ "^^""^ -''««- - ^- - -"t? ' S^tuh. n """" amiable, s«^i«I, and very'liferal. pSemK on. Tn I„5^V ''^ 'o ^'^nn":^ Mr. Fulton with the military defence of the coun trl ^l.i??'.^'- ^"""^^ i*"'?'*) offered him the coLm^nd of the rSiem' i^tt^i'^^nfV ^vT^'^ i ^^^'"'' ^' »»« dSed bo h si uS" ISV5 "L »-. of.Mr. Fulton's deatlr. 8ay» the Evening Post, of Februarir ^ ' IS^' r ''?" e°«f"ffed, m conjunction with the committee on coast and hS' bor defence, m constructing a vessel-of-war. to be propelled by steaitaTJ^L grand engme was within a few weeks of completion. wheJ the news of ?X1 ?«''=*'«^ »he country, and its ingenious and^^inoomparablc inventoT wSs Th.f«livT*''"''^''^-r«c.^^'^"^'^''^^'^' D-ColrfenSisWhioSeJ^n Thursday. January 7, 1808. Dr. Beach married Mr. Fulton to^iL IfanS Livingston, daughter of Walter Livingston of the Upper Maottt: SIR RICHARD STEELE. ' ' S« RicHAKD Steele, son to a counsellor at law, the nrivate merntnr^ tn »h/. Duke of Ormond, was bom in Dublm. Ireland, 1676, aJTdiedTLoSo? 1st Sept.. another account says in Wales,) 1729, aged 53 years He was tW fe ngand responsible man for the Spectator, the Tatlek thTGiJARmAN «ml Tatlfr'^^'lS"*"' ^^^'^ ''""' ^^ ""^'^ '"' commenct?in im He be^i dS Sh.ri»i?r*"'°["Se-€nlisted as a private soldier when a youth. Sd got & andl.i'^ Mr.^n'*'*'*!^ ?' '° do»8r-fo"ght a duel whe/a militanr d: "cKfanH^rn" t^r^"* *'"T^^ *^* ^^^^ '^/»'»' »>« «word-W«,t7/the w^S S! ~'"°'* **''*"^ |)lay8-wa8 a player at Drury Lane, and wen paid^bewme a warm partisan writer whUe a member of the British LtThrSkf- ,tt '^r^ & ^'' ««We«f.P«Pe" in « the ESgLhSS Spr «n -iTin /^*'**y/?:'"*f,*^*'° *" ^'^^ seditious libels, and Sir Richard, aL HoJ« if P^^^"''* of himself in a three hours' speech, was expelled from tJie House of Commons, by a vote of 245 against 152. He Was a ffreat «nH most sincere reformer of 'the vii^es and foIlS of the iefMrhL tI^ fldtJ I ? MAJOR GEKERAL'MONTOOSrCRT. 3 Hjuircd, worr not -nrrived at K.w ndant of a <'oun- niid imvi;,'m«'(l oii lizu— tliiu aiiDih- > Hi'r t'nnu- was hich Mr. Living- di'prte rendirid ey did the grtai invcnU'd to im- pari of tliL' jTcjj. »nd it i.s sail) hi- •Id, hastened lii.- iry (i}ic 23d, ac- if his age. TJir the Washinfftdij 'ic Uuion nearer li thp Mi!>«issip> ic and tliu Hud- rsal throughout will endure for • iming the Ohio, )e for ever asso- , them in motic^n men who were emory with en- ;nt Jefferson, in of the coiujtry, •f the regiment both situations; t, of February, coast and har- f stearti. T*is » the news of c inventor was ogfapher. On > Miss Harriet ». Bcretary to the in London, 1st tie was the fa- and the work> ftTABDiAN, and He began the iroath, and got 1 a military of- >rd— w«ote^the ary Lane, and . of the British "^ ) Englishman^ d Sir Richard, expelled from its a great and \as very faults J i taught him how to probe the faults of others, and adapt instruction to their ne- cewities. His works have been often published and are much read in America. Addison was liilhe colonists-Yadopted their cause as his own, and V America as his country— ftod, in 1775, Became commandcr-iu-chief of the con- tinental forces in 'Canada. Irishmen! Although there are great faults in the administration of govern- irient in thn United States, forget hot, I pray you, that the democratic system under which we live, is most favorable to liberty; and that the,f^ead of knowledge, the encouragement of temperance, the cultivation of those benev- olent f eeling s for which you are proverbially distinguiffied, with an unceasing ▼»g»lanflMkt4ie exercise of your elective rights, will do mueh to increase the *appin«|lf America, much toward the independence of Ireland. For you, for IreeiraiH, and for America, RICHARD MONTGOMERY, your illustrious countryman, was bravely contending 68 yeafs ago, amid the frosts and storms ol Canada, when he was, on the night of the 31st of December, 1775, slain be«^ fore the walls of Quebec, by a discharge of grape-shot, which killed his aids *r same time, and, by preventing the capture, essentially changed the destiny of Canada. The bodies of the general and his aids, Macpherson and Cheese- man, were found oa the morning of Jan. 1, 1776. On the 16th of June, ^818, the general's remains were removed from Quebec to St Paul's churchyard, New York, and interred near a monument erected by Congress to his mem- ' ory. His age-stricken widow lived to see the remains of her hero thus hon- ored, 43 years nearly after his friend, the governor of Canad?, had buried his body within the walls of Quebec. His career was truly brilliant. He reduced Fort Chamblv, Canada, captured St. John's and Montreal, and would have stormed Quebec, had not the only gun fired from the enemy's battery checked his eareer, at 38 years of age. To that numerous class who would proscribe the Irish fanner or mechanic, °'u* L r ri™ °°'y^ °^ * principle at war with the Christian rule of equal rights which holds out a warm hope to the oppressed of every land, kindred, and tongue, in the great Declaration of American Independenee, I would say— " When all might have been lost by treachery, who was it that sold his coun- try—who was the traitor ? Benedict Arnold, a native American. Where then were the Irish ? Where the Pennsylvania Line V Where the sons and grand- ? ^ % * •' ROBEBT EMMET. ?rvi'„°"w ^™*"' ' 'i^T^^ the birigrapby of Generals Sullivan. OlintonVSlark. Irvme, Waf ne. and ^Montrfomory. of Colonels. Fitzgerald, Moyljm' ProSor Stewart, and Camnbel|,o Commodore Baxry. of Majors Croi^hni., MacdonS ' ? vn.^''"'"'i t"' . °/ '*»9™<«n' R«'»d. Imiih. Car.'oll.^utledffe. IVIcKeSn ^Lynch.-and Taylor, whose sifftfatures. with that of Charles Thomson, To the fmr. ?i.U ?, '''^^K-''"''"*,T' °f"'' ^'^ ^""'y' 1"6, attest our nat?o™ WtS 1^110 tTiis 1 reathini world, a plonow republic, the asylunx of the oppressed m earth, and as sucll a type of heaven. - 'Turn also to the nameToT?!^ Pre^ identClmton. Andrew Jacksotf. President McKinJy. Dr, R™msay. G^ern^r^' ' ,';"/' •''f',^f'^"»A«»dBn'?^ Smilie,.nnd of a hundred* other dS flushed cliarftcters on this side of the water-nmlrk the elforia of FX..n,l S nJ/li'i'"''';'" ^^'' ?r/*'; ''f (••'«»» -legislajures-an^ hasten to'dTs- solvi our a*s.)cwtK.nR, and blush that any oCthe childreispf the revolution Sr? Ir •' 'T' P'"^'"''u"'l'''''^" '» the memory 6f the frSnds^LJ bcTeE „ tors of their country m theTiour of itg. utmost need. - Fowr Pariiamem had in 1770 to he people of Ireland. •• You had ever^ been friendly to the riehts of mankind-and we acknowledge with pleasure ahd Avith gratitude, that S \ ROBEPtT EMMET.' .■■V .X. ■ and LnifJn'' "'" ^^P.*'"'"''"' ISPV""" y°"»'' of talent, Character, education, and bononUileconnexions, wjrs trad in DflWin, before Lord Norburv*. and Barons S-ThTo^d*' J'fV ^W ''"'^^ "^' »"f""«n«tV-Hsing in DubR ule S Wtere «f inl ^"'^r' i''' r^""- ^^PP'^a'^^'d that Mr! Emmet and his friefds M^tere as jealous of FreacljinierO-nnce as they were of English domination Ernmet was dorcnckd I,y Rurfowe., and MacIilIy-^Leonard MacNa Uy, th^ iS^dTTnJrrV''' '»! '^T^'^^nti Jot/n Fleming, an ostle/frorJ L kc'fwin W l' ■ ''^'T'.^'''"^' ^^"I"'^'' ^''" ^'^^ '''« «°«» Pf the scheme, t^^at .1 J^rn \v ^"l''r'.!l"'' °.' '''' ^ W5l't/«^/.«ir/y mention, he found too iSt? ha^ ilv onU r , "^ Imie reliance to be pfaced on an undisciplined multitude. foS I '^'^''^'^ '" a band/nnd accuston.eTI to be ruled by tenor, cruelty, and sTrr^n. ^''Tm •• i^"T^ '^''? """r"^ "■ '"«"»'» «^'er ihe revolt, by feS ull^ff •"'^"'"'T'^ "'*"='' T"!' &""""try, humanity, and love ofiountS. He Av^s found gudty put to.death'oa the 20th of September, 1803. bcheadS andk« body mut.latcd. Dowdal, Quigley. Allen, and Stafford, seem tJ •Bg^e been his pnncipal aids. . ■Inhis "Recollections of Curran," Counsellor Phillips truly remarks, ^'that so unprepared was the ffovernment for a revolt, that there was not a single bal with which to supply the artillery-and that had the followers of Emmet int« ^P"?^°" ^<^°^-« °f.'^''i?™°" conduct, the castle of Dublin must have fallen J^&^ P05?cssion." Mr. Emmet was then but 23 years old, had graduated at Dublin Vniversity, and " was gilTed with abilities and virtues which reS aered him an object of universal esteem. Every one loved— every one re- mn^S Y.^' Sf P^.ts of antiquity were his companions-its patriots his models-.its republics hiS admiration." His trial mky be said -to have beei^ secret— the public were excluded— the military filled every comer, every av- hoSse'' '^ ^''^ ""^ ""'^ ^^^^^ ^^ colored clothes aUowed to enter theVourl- ^t'nhf 'n«P>'«<^'a»thor of Lalla Rookh, the friend and cotemporary of Emmet at college, thus beautifully alludes to him^n his Irish Melodies :— O breathe not his name ! let it sleep in the shaje ' . • Where, cold and jinhonorejt his relics are laid ! Sad, sUent, and dfu-k, be IKe teare that we shed, Am the night^ew that falls on the grata o'er bm heid.^ €' I Iran, OlintonVStark, > Moyljiri, Proctor, :hnii, Macdonougb, tutled>?p, McfCean, .■3 Thomson, to the ir nation's entrance >r th« oppressed on tmes of Vio« Pres- tamsay, Governors' idrcd otiicr distin- ?(rt)ri8 of. Edmund lier lioeral «nd en- Ji4 hapten .to'dis- >a8hel,.«mns now over sixty i^ars of age. \ > • ^/"""feuan, .ana » ; / REV. ADi^M CL'ARKE, LL. b. ' » J^tL"rlT7SS"'m" nr^vfl'*' r 'i'''''' !!"^ P'"[*'*?'* °"™*'»» «'=holar, wasibom >.^ther HI 17()0, .61, or M (he (lid not know^yhich,) at Moybeg, in thect)untT ol Londonderry, Ireland 8orHe authorities fix the date of hi^ birth at 1761 ^nd HO 6ne t-an v/ouder that the -learned dispute whether Ossian and Fin^ . - -'^r' "ri"f ' '" ^"r.'*' •""''' '^'•^'" '*"« '*''^™«'» 'J"'=t«'' who lived over mo- ^/iars afPFr them, could not ascertain how old he was. His mothw Jas from beolland. Under ,W-csley, Dr. Clarke became a successfiM SeT of tW ' Methodist connexion, and was a veVyvofuminouswritW. Among bis works' ai^e the Bibliographical Dictionary* and a Commentary on the BibL Hp tnamed Miss Cooke, of powbridge,Wnd,l^ • &r2li'Tsrt'^l:?"^iTr'^ repubKJl;^ism; and died 7c&S, . ^ 1 .1 ' • • ^Vl^^ selected by the government of England to sudcn .riSrun&E'"' '^^^^^^^ " \;t^A !!fi? ''n'''^ children, of whoin three fons and three daughters survived • Jphlu • TH^r ° u^'^ last acts of his life w^s the establiskent i W schools n Ulster.. He wasbuned in the Wesleyan Chapel, City Road, Lon^ don m the vault next to^t in which the iisftes of the late JohTwedev niodlder m repose. He presided on three several occasions in the EngU^ Methodist-Conference, and thrice in the Irish C6nfe>€nce. ^ ^^gusa ' ^nnyj52i- "''-.''" °?^?^"'» has produced more usefully^learaed men than Ireland. considering Its numbers? Have somg Americans forgotten what' this U^ra • • owes to Allison and other Irish te^ers of an age gone by; from whoiri to ' many of the best and bravest of<^r revolutiona^ fat^rs fJanXhSr^^ timents? Have they heard of Robert Fulton, Maria Edceworth JonathM. ' tX^l'A.^^i'lH'':^ Kirwan. Adam Clirke, R ,R IhTridt', sSr Rkh"' ard Ste?lei At chbishop Usber, James Doyle, Bishop Berkeley, EdmiiDd JB. ■^ ; "^>... "t <- .' -. .'^ ■;-"-. ■ : • i- ^;,v:X<;„.- ; 'j» - — — ' : ■■- ' ^ 4 ;■-,'. • ■.., • *H- ■ ; / -•■■ . ■ • ■ ... ■ ^ i. 9 • vs. OOTLE— COMMODORE JOHN BABRT. Daniel O'Oonnell, Sir Philip ani Dr. Francis, Qavid Ri^say, Elizabeth an«3 Anthony Hamilton, Sheridan Knowlcs, Lady IVlprgan, of Drennan, Roscom- mon, Denhanj, Brownson, 'Q^ullivan, CongreVe, Farquhar, Hutchinson, the O'Connors, Lever, Lover, l^rdncr, Maxwell, Parnell, Fliillips, Sloaue. Sterne, Williamson, Wood, Shiel, and a thousand ojher names l^nown to fame? Where is the American not recreant to the principles of/^HQ who would not feel proud to call the distinguished persons I have n^med,' his countrymen and countrywomen ? / :) DR. DOYLE, BISHOP OF KILDAR/ * The Right Reverend Jahies Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, an em- ment, eloquent, truly sincere minister of the Roman Catholic Church — one of Ireland's noblest, purest patriots, and firmest and most disinterested friends — was a native of that country— descended from an ancient and honorable fam- ily — and died at Carlow, June 15th, 1834. He was educated at the University . of Coipibra in Portugal, and the youngest man who had ever obtained the rank of bishop in his church in Ireland. His able and manly defence of Catholicism; in answer to Magee and others, and his anxiety to better the condition, and increase the happincits of his countrymen, endeared him tc^ the Irish, while his" great learning, and the noble purposes to which it was applied, entitle him to be regarded as one among the ablest friends of his- country. He was a strong advocate for a system of Taws, which should compel thefrich to maintain the . destitute poor, instead of carrying millions of<«dollars trflother lands to be ex- pended in useless luxury. Mr. O'Connell, at one time adopted hia views of a poor law, but on mature reflection dissented from them, ^d in reply to a most severe and sarcastic letter from Dr. Doyle, denounced consistency as^". rascally doctrine!*' Dr. Doyle never had the command of money, and dierfhot worth a farthing, devoting the greater part of his income to tlue poor, and his house and books to his successor. How different this course was fron),^t of those protestant Irish bishops who hoard up millions of dollars, plunoel^ from the poor, and devise their ill-gotten wealth, to unpriacipled/profligat^ or pamper- ed absentees ! 1 f- C' COMMODORE JOHN-BAHRY. CoMHonoRE Barbt was bom in Wexford, Ireland, (jwhere- his &ther was a farmer,) and commanded the first war vessel commissioned by the United States Congress. He was a bold and brave man, and a successful officer, and i»termed the father of our navy. Lord Howe oflered him twenty thousand guineas, and the command of the best frigate in the British navy, if he would leave •the Yankees,-but an honest Irishman cannot be bought. In Februaiy, 1781, he sailed in the frigate Alliance from Boston, carrying Col. Latuens on his embassy td France. On his return he fought the war vessel Atalanta and her consort, the brig Trespass^ and made them both strike their colors. He was dangerously wounded, but soon 8aile4^^in for France, with La&yette and Count Noailles, and fought an enemy's vessel on his return. Under the elder Adams' administration he superintended the building of the United States frigate. 1 While cruising in the West Indies, he was hailed oy & British frigate i^th ** What ship is that ?" The revolutionary veteran grasping his trumpet,'re- p li ed , ** The fri ga te Un i t ed St at e s, co m m and e d- b y o ne s au cy^Fadrflairyvtodf- an Irishman, half a Yankee. Who are you ?" \ Commodore Barry died and was buried in Philadelphia. The inscription fa his tomb, which is in St. Mary's (catholic) burial ground,tt as follows ; , « I,et the patriot, the sgldier, and the Christian, who yisii these mansions of , Elizabeth aTi«3 innan, Roscom- iutchinspn, the liillips, ySloaue. imes l^nown ta les of/ '70 who ve n^amed,' bis :fi. leighlin, an em- ];hurch — one of rested friends — honorable fam- t the University >tained the rank of Catholicism; ' condition, and Irish, while his" 1, entitle him to [e was a strong to maintain the . lands to be ex- 1 hia views of a reply to a most Y asj^". rascally dieohot worth ', and his house [^,^t of those laeKa from the ate9>or pampei- is father was a e United States T, and is^termed usand puineae, le would leave n, carrying Col. the war vessel loth strike their bt France, with 1 on his retuin. building of the ish frigate \^th bis trumpet,^re- «ck flnryvtadf- rhe inscriptiOD as follows ; , ise mansions of ' «n)GE C5AM^T0»— RET. TKEOfiAtfi MATHEW. • 7 the dead, view this monument •with rpsnoi . t.„»^ .«. 1 . , . mains of Johhfiar^V He was born nth,-r«'.mv*r\'ir'''r '^fPOS'ted the re- Ainirica was the Ihi^cto^^XatZi^^^ and honor. In the revolm Lnr/wir S. . \'VN ^^^^^^ «*^ '"« usefulness the United States, ho ^£,^1^ 'Si iff ^ and afterward became its Comma EL Ch?ef ''w^f "'.?''V"'^"' l^^^^ '' bled in the cause of Freedom but U Lhi, 5^ r *^,^/°"?'}t o^en and once peaceful virtues which IZT'S^ASu^^^^^ '"*'•'" "»« itable.and not less belovc/bvTrfam k- .ml 1^ f '^''"^\^'"*'.' J^ country. In a full belief of the di^tSSf he^o^'^^^^^^ '^T ^ ^'^ 5"'^«''"' sofd hJio the armsof his Redeemer on the l^i'^'i''^•^'''•^^^ ^9th year of his age. His affecSt?^^? lu '^'^I"'™''". 1803. in the erecJd.,, to perpetrate Es mme S^^e hTar^'of^^ n/*"'' '?^?'^"^ 1° *^ . , .cuurus 01 nis pubhc and private virtues » "* ' en^igran blood anV .hrvairorgeLS^il'^^^^^^^^^ g6orrcaso;7oli7l4"KtS^^^^^ Irish Catholics werrver^ cruel t^^^^^^^^ »'>« «?ain9t Ireland was allowed tolstrult or edtate^nv othe^^^^^^ £'*'l°"'' i" olic to a Prolestant-W Id TinrriS ^'^ ?« '>«'^««^ ft>>- marrying a Cath- .to preach lo CatholicrweJe^Te hate -by tII^SJo?^^^^^^^ '"''^ ''^'*"'» -marrying a Catholic was to be degraded " a«o™ey «te. no papist teas allowed /o r j^;£/^rM o^S^^^^ ''^^ barristers and attorneys werp oWi.roHf«L„;-.k- -^ 'Vj^Oi George 2d, clients if CatholirTnrby 9,h Geo °e 27ni^^^^^ bound to make good to VT,^eZnt^aU\f.,Z'lT^VtT^}!'^ "? ^'^^"""^ ^e^e Catholic king ravaging Se I ish coasts" '"'''"'*^ ^^'^'' privateers of any JUDGE CRAMPTON. in fe^.^'^'as hor^ri^o^f,^t£^%S^^^^^^ of Queer's Bench called to the bar in 1810. He hfs a ml d f2,l2.« ° ^""^^^ "? "^'^' ^"^^ '^a' fluency of speech, and was alwavs fSit .1 « '' V'^P^'^'^f '"? appearance, ic emanation/ wCLo?SySthL?vpri^ abuses cajled whigs, came iii^£ri^EJlZMrT^^^:r''''^''i^ Solicitor General, got a seat in thp Pnml-^^cf . ' ^ .Vrampton, was made the Irish Reform bfll, (It a ^y^TiberZSrclli;! Wnt lT",^5' ?«' "P er who had made him a placeina^ acSt O'SL^ii f''?"''^** *« P^'^' nor on the one side, and Peel anrWeEell o? tbp mhlr'^n?'^'^"' ?>°- uation was micomfortable, but the Ss rewaldS KJ™ w °^ *'°"''^r 'U" "*- a day or two before they lost their mwer In p„iJ it ^^ V^^*^°° the Bench quired ereat distinction In the i'Lw.^ but h?« ornli— •^"''^^•^™°^P*''" »«• is the 6ct that he was the oriSto? of thfL»?.T'"^ '"""'" "^ »Pi»'o". Ireland-in that gloriousXld?rpreceded IthWo^ movement in sowed the good Ld for that nLrSopic J^^er ^^^'^''^'"'^"y y*"*^^^^ •nd Judges Burton, Smmi^oJrrdTpeJrT' ^^" ^'^''^ ^"''*'" Pennefather, REV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 'THia-jvonderful man is a native of Corlr hi. ni.<.. ^e -j . , .. . _8ine«re uuly disinterested minister '#■■, • ■ •■■ ■ d BICHABD BRmsLET SKERQlliN. \i ,oi" the Roman Catholic faith— as regards slavery, an abolilionist— and the '• • yTcat and very successful apostle of sobriety and , temperance in 4he Emerald Isle. He heartily approves of O'Connell's movements, which he powerfully supports by his exerticms to banish intemperance— is an energetic promoter of the elforts recently made to educate the whole people— an active repealer — and opposed to Lord Brougham's scheme for pensioning the Irish Catholic Clergy. r take the following particulars relative to Father Mathew from Kohl's ' Tour in Ireland in Ifc^i!. Mr. Emi saw Faihor Xi. at the Tt mpefance Hall, Kilrush.— five millions of the Irish hail lakt-ti liie tempera i o pledge at his hands since he instituted the Irish Temperance Association, .pril 10, 1838, which was nearly 3,000 a day ou ilie average of the whole live ears. He is a handsome man, of imposmg appearance, well huilt and propur imed.and about the sanie height and figure - ' as ISapuloon. His cotuitenance is fresh and beaming with health, his move- vff ments and address are simple and unafiected, his features regular and full of iniiducss Avith firmness, his forehead is straight, high, and commanding, his nose aquiline ; and although fifty-four years old, he is in full possession of mental and bodily vigor. Father Mathew has a fine and delicate hand, dresses elegantly, and is eloquent, with a clear voice, a, globing zeal, and a , firm conviction of the Sacredness of his cause. The progress of Irishmen and their descendants, in every land, under every form of government, and in every species of human pursuit, is indeed onward and speedy. We hear a great deal about the Saxon race in the United States Senate. Where or in what are they ahead of their .Celtic brethren ? Observe the march toward p(^wer, trust, and confidence, of such Iri^shmen as O'Connelj, Mathew," " - - -• ■ '-' - TTM j-_ ^ !■— J Dalton, ton, Wellesley, Avonmore, within ihe last century. While less mamy, less courageous nations, have patiently home the yoke of the spoiler, Ireland has never ceased to press forward toward independence. The struggles at Aughrim and the Boyne» the terrible days of 1798, the elforts for a repeal of the Union with England, are evidences that Ireland prizes rational liberty, and that she deserves to be free. Where in America^do we find more effecliyc fiiends of free institutions than among our Irish fellow- citizens ? We m: .- strive to repudiate the debt America owes to Ireland— we may foll(Av the t cample of other repudiators, get up native societies, and abuse a gencrou? rcditor— but mighty as are oar people, strong and ^ov^erful if united, it is vc unlikely that in the present age they will be able to pay the debt our cou iry owes to Irish Literaturp, Science, Valor, and improve- ment in the useful arts. V ' ■J....- ../■■ RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. m This brilliant genius; aiid enlightened statesman, perhaps the most splendid, and clTective oaitor whose wit and elu()uence ever adorned the British Senatel Chamber, died in London, July 7tii, ISKi. Hc Was born in Dublin in Sept., 1151, but on what day liis biographer, Moore, is unable to tell. His father and grandfather were men of learning and genius— his mother, Frances Sheridan, a fascinating nuvciisi. Mr. S. himself was a brilliant orator, of splendid imaginative powcr.^s were his countrymen Curran, (^rattan, Burke, and Plunkett — to the Union he was much op|)osed, as also to negro slavery — lus-patriotism..was-lus ruin thad he. Eiaccrdy joined the tor i e s, l ike L Qr d _ Chancellor Plunkett, a pension and a peerage would have been his. As a statesman, legislator, and author, his name will go down to posterity with honor. His speeches, and his " School for Scandal," " Duenna," " Critic," **Bivals," &c., are dese^^'edly very popular. In bis latter yeius he suffered 'k: ^Ji'- ■ •«' ..to abolitionist— and the -ance in the Emerald which he powerfully a energetic promoter -an active repealer — g the Irish Catholic \Iathew from Kohl's rush. — fire millions of Is since he instituted iras nearly 3,000 a day me man,' of imposmg inie height and figure ith health, his moVe- es regular and full of [ind commanding, his ' in full possession of e and delicate hand, globing zeal, and a. ery land, under every iuit, is indeed onward i in the United States c brethren 1 Observe :ishmen as O'Connell, Kilwarden, Crawford, jurne, ShielyWelling- Laliy, Lawless, and iently home the yoke toward independence, lys of 1798, the efforts :s that Ireland prizes ere in America^ do we ong our Irish fellow- i owes to Ireland — we native societies, and ', strong and {>o\^erful •y will be able to pay , Valor, and improve- IDAN. i aps the most splendid, ned the British Senatel n in Dublin in Sept., Ic tQ tell. Ilis father ■his mother, Frances a brilliant orator' of irran, (jrattan, Burke, Iso to negro slavery — the . tojics, like Lord * JOmt AMD REintT SHEAEES. 9 great poverty, and died withnhe bailiff close by ready to drag him to a dun- S^.°»- .y'^^ Wolsey, he was deserted by George the 4th, the prince he had so taithlufly served ; and the nobility, of whose hollow cireles he had for many years been the ornament,, shunned his dying couch. 'The ignorant mob and ▼Hi?" great are alike forgetful of friends and beneiactors— Bums learned that before Sheridan ; and Moore's lines on the latter's dving moments should be imprinted on the sodl of evety true friend of tjie principle of democracy : (♦ Qh it sickcn.s the heart to see bosoms so hollow, \ And friendships sorfalse in the ?reat and hi!;h-born— To think wliat a long line of Titles may follow The relics of him who died friendless and lorn ! How proud they can press to the funeral array ,, Of him whom they shunned In his sickness and sorrow- How bailiffs may seize the last blanket to-day. Whose pall shall be held up by Nobles to-morrow. JOHN AND HENRY SHEARES. These affectionate brothers, illustrious martyrs for the cause of their coun- try ^nd humanity, were, on the 14th a[ July, 1798, publicly executed in Dub- lin. Iheir lather, Mr. H. Sheares, was an eminent banker in Cork, a kinsman oi the Earl of Shannon, who had 13 Irish boroughs for sale when the Union took place, which he sold to the British governtnent at $60,000 eachn. Henry &. was bom in 1753, John in 1766— they were educated at Dublin University and Henry's estate was worth $5,000 a year. They were amiable, intelli- gent men, of unsullied fame, and members of the executive of the United Inshnien, when arrested. Their betrayer was a sworn brother. Captain John \yarnlord Armstrong, of the militia of King's County, who obtaiiicd their plans under the guise of a true patriot, and perfidiously told all to the infa- mous Castlereagh and the malignant Clare, repeating their every conversa- tion. This mean, mercenary villain, is yet alive, a royal magistrate ; and of such stuff, m Ireland and Canada, are magistrates and judges too often made. \fr*"i.- ^"*^ '' ^^"^ ™'*'^® ^^'y evident, that, in so far as the government at Washmgton would cherish such wretches, the race would be found far V4rio ^^i'^'^k'^V" Canada was grasped in 1837-'38, as Ireland had been m 1798- 99. On the 20th of May, Sunday, Armstrong visited the Sheareses for the last time, shared theur hospitality, sat beside their aged mother »nd affec- tionate sister, and near to the wife of one of them, caressing her children while one of the ladies played the Irish harp. Thence he hastened to CasI teieragh, to urge the arrest of his victims and earn, the price of their blood as an informer.- The cloven foot of treachery crossed their threshold no more. Ihe ways of God are unsearchable. This foulest of all spies lives in wealth ; Lord Eldon, who was the lickspittle of royalty, and labored unwea- riedly to accomplish the legal murder of Hardy, Thclwall, and others, died in ftis bed, of old age. Talk of the torture, the rack, human punishments? Wliy 18 It that a creature like Armstrong, so infinitely baser than our worst ' laeas of a demon, was ever created ? Judas Iscariot was but a third-rate villam when compared with Armstrong, who actually visited his victims in prison, to condole with them, and pump them; nor did they once suspect nim. He professed to disbelieve in^ hereafter. Upon his evidence ALONE v'^'^J^*" PowerfuUy by other testimony, a packed orange jury found the DrotliM t)guilty— they clasped each other in their arms— were nnlprpd f or pt. J -tlreir fainilies shed bitter tears— Henry's ten children had seen their poor rather leave his dwelling never to return .'—poor innocents !— but Judas Armstrong clutched the gold-Captain Clibbom, his accomplice, had a bribe of ASOO from the secret service money-andthe sun on July the 14th, saw these fteUish monsters rejoicing over the ruin they had caused, whUe for the noble have been his. As a )wn to posterity with "Duenna," "Critic," tter yeius he suffered 'ii- 10 brothers Sh^ea hangman c}io| days, and fur cruelties 01 GSRE^iL JiiUES CUKTOK— EDMUND BtTBKE. ^8 it would rise no more. They were hanged, and theu lh«v' ned their he ids off, Armstrong looking on. It was in the^^ d for jlm'ahy to tbej heartless Saxon aristocracy who inflected tbes« i^iuciiicB, thajti^Jamles Buchanan's services to the Castlereagh gang„>were thought wortpy of note— they were remembered, by a Consulate. Where is Clibbora ? Is he in America '{ The brothers Shear«s were bom in Cork, and wefe members, of the Protestant Episcopal Church. During the trial tlie elder brother begged hard tHathis brotlicr migh^ be spared, but Toler (Norbary) tu-gied their execution the day al'ier trial, and lit was so ordered. Well might Tone exclaim, "Unhappy'is the, Man and the Nation whose destiny depends on the will of another:*' ' '.« r ■ - * MAJOR GENERAL JAMES CLINTON, I I* ■ . ■• • ■ ^ This gerftleman. the son of Col. Charles, and tjie brother^ of Governur George Clinton, was born on the 9th of August, 1736, and dLed'on the 22d of December, 1S12, aged 73 years. Both his pJM??^^ were^om Longford, in. Ireland— Ji^s wife's name was Mary DeWitt, and his thira son, DeWitt Clin- ton, becatnd-a candidate for tlie office of President, immediately before his father's death. , / James Clinton accompanied the brave Montgom^ to the siege of Quebec, in 1775 — fought with courage, skill, and perseveramce, on tbeside of " a couK* try all our ^wn," during the war of the revolutkm— joined Sulliran in his dan- gerous campaign of 1779 against the British/and northwestern Indians— at- tained the rank of Major Geni-ral in the armies of the Union^ — and was blessed with long life to see his country become' af^eat and powerful nation." His eldest daughter, Mr6. 3Iary Spcn^r, was married to Ambrose Spencer, Chief Justice of tfie State of New Yjwk. » ) ^EDMUND BURKE. Edmttnd Burke, one of the most eminent, deep-thinking men any age or country ever produ^d, was bom at Carlow, Cork County, Ireland, January 1, 1730, and died Ivm 8th, 1797. He was educated at Dublin University— ap- plied for the log^ professorship ^t Glasgow, .but ^ras refused ? was enthusi- asticallv attacMd to the cause of 177G ; and, but for the entreaties of his aged sire, who wasra catholic solicitor in Dublin, would have become an American citizen. Hia/essay^n the Sublime and Beautiful, and other works, are well known, anMiis career in the British Parliament, where he represented Bris- tol, was brilliant as his genius. He married a daughter of the learned Dr. Nugent^ Catholic Irishman, whose dictionary is in very general use, and who fi^te an able essay in favor of Catholic Emancipation, but was no dem- ocrat. /in early life he nobly advocated the cause Of .;^mcrican republican- ism^ut took office afterwards imder the coalition ministrj', and got a large on, and joined the tories in their abuse of France, -Price, Priestley, and itHf^ral, institutions, about the same time. Nevertheless, he was a great and d man, w ith a far-s eeing judgment. I Mr. Burice wa$ for a time a member of the British govemhient, and in par- liament fre4uently reminded its members of the loyalty of the Irish Catholics during the American war, and the beneficial influence exercised over them by their prelates. In a tetter to Sir H. Langrishe, he truly remarked that tlie ■•t';.-^; .:f>. iged, aud thcu th<^v' . It was in thvise rho infl^cicd tlres« reagh gaBc„>were isolate. Where is r&of the Protestant fgcd hard tHat-his cution thcdayarier "Unhappy iis tho^ another:*' ' fTON Jther^ of Governur [liea "on the 22d of roni Longford, in. son, DeWitt Clin- ;diately before his e siege of Quebec, 6' side of "a couu* lilliran in his dan> item Indians— at- 1— and was blessed ful nation." Ambrose Spencer, i J men any age or reland, January 1, n University — ap- led ; was enthusi- reaties of his aged ome an American ;r works, are well represented Bri> }f the learned Dr. general use, and , but was no dem- ■rican republican- [, and got a large ce, Priestley, and e was a great and inent, and in par- he Irish Catholics ised over them by etnarked that tlte CBAIILM O'COSOB, THE HMSH AlfTIQTJABir— BB. CHARLES o'coROB. 11 intention of the laws-agaln^t their religion "Was to reduce the Catholics of . Ireland Jo a, misetable Jiopnlace, without property, without estimation, with- -^ out edudaition. They divided the bation into t^o distinct bodies. wiZut** common interest, sympathy, or connexion ! The old code was a machine of rov^ri^hi^lff' *'''* '1 '^""/'i"'']"!: »'»« oppression, degradation, and im- povenshmcnt of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature it- ^ self, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." ■ In 1790, Mr. Burke, in his Reflections on the.French ReVoiution, foretold that It would end, as itlUd, m a military despotism, and retired to private life ■ m 1794, on a pension of $o,500. His works are published in 16 vols., 8Vo. CHARLES O'CONOR, THE IRISH ANTICwArY. Charles O'CoNOR wasborn atBalanagare in the County ofVoscommon, in 1.10, and died in July 1791, aged eighty-one years. He waltSL-ended - irom lorlogh, the last able sovereign of Ireland ; from Catlial Crov^eai'rh whose valor and abilities, admitted even in English history, and illustrated^in song, went far to compensate for the defects of Us brother Roderic ; and from • Fehni, who, with 2000 6f his name, fell at Athuhree, A6gust 6th, 1316 • S which 1 -fated struggle, the fest hope of the ancient Irish perished. (See • Campbells beautiful poem.l In his youth, the penal laws against Catholics • existed m their full rigor ; but he, nevertheless, received a liberal education, under^he tuition of Bishop O'Rourke, his^ncle. in the concealment of a eel- lar. He became a widower at the age of twenty-eight, and devoted the re- maining fifty years of his lifWo the regeneration of his country. He explored Irish history, and made a vahiablecolleicticn of ancient books. His abilities as a writer, his pure morals, and-great amiability of temper, secured to him the esteem^ arid friendship of Dpctors Johnson and Leiand, Lord Lyttleton. Colonel Vallancey, and most of the learned men of thkt bright era in English lUerature. He accomplished all that the learning and virtue of one man -" could effect for the fame and literature of his country ; and, late in life, in conjunction with Dr Curry and Mr. Wise, founded the first association ever formed m Ireland, for the purpose of procuring a redress of the grievances under which the Catholics had suffered for centuries. He is admitted, on all Hands, to have been a faithful historan, and too sturdy a moralist to prefer even Ireland to truth. His works are therefore a standard reference. His "Dissertation on Irish History," and " Introduction to Curry's Review" have gone^ through many editions. His memoirs were; published in Dublin, by lUeehan, but I have been unable to procure the vdlume. .^ was of the an- -cient laith, and has transmitted his opinions, religious anf^political, to his numerous descendants. Among these are Matthew O'Conor, of Dublin, an able writer on Irish affairs, ThomaS O'Conor, of New York, and the O'Conor Don. DR. CHARLES O'CONOR. ^This distinguished Irish historian of the present century^ was a grandson of the celebrated antiquary of his-namc, and brother of the la to O'Conor Don, M. r. lor the County of Roscommon. He was a Catholic priest, and was for many yerfrs chaplain to Lady Buckingham, and librarian of the Duke's mag- nihcent and costly collection at Stowe. His literary labors are numerous and extensive, and evince vast labor and research. Among them are " The Let- ters of Columbanus,^' 2 fols. ;8vo., «A Narrative of the most interesting events in Modern Irish Historj^," 8vo., and " Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis." I vols., 4to. The last and most important is his " Rerum Hibemicarum Scrip- tores Veteres. four ponderous quarto volumes in Latin, which throw great light upon the ancient history of Ireland. »-? -Hii-Lotteya of Coluinbanua drew duw u u pon htm hea vy ccnsu»» ftter riowden. who devoted a whole voljime to vehement satire and invective ^gainst "the most learned doctor." as he styles him. Dr. O'Conor died on ae29thof July, 1828, at his brother's seat at Balanagare. f :m^. tz < ■■ 'mux snriFT— OLIVER GOtDSlUTS... DEAN SWIFT. / Dr. Jo^JATOAN Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Riblin, was bom on St. An- drew's day, 30th of Nov., 1GG7, at Cashcl in tlie county of Tipperary, Ireland -—he was descended of a very respectable family, but his fatlier died before his birth, his mother was in indigent circumstances, and he soon tasted of ad- versity. Dr. Swift was a man of great learning, and infinite wit and humor. His numerous writings are much read and admired. Two years before his death he lost his reason, and died in furious lunacy, Oct. 19th, 1745; aged 78. Dr. Swift was a true friend of his op^csscd country, but lacked candor as a politlGian, and kindness of heart asa^man, as bis memoirs too truly show. His works Were edited by Sir Waller Sct^l, willi an accounl of his life, and published in 12 octavo volumes, about 1815, oc '20. His.Dtapiei^ Letters — Gulliver's Travels— and Correspoiidence, have been extensively rcftd. Origi- nally a whig, in King William's time, he became a tory under Anne ; was at onetime very unpopular with his countrymen, but lived to be their idol, and had ever been their friend. In Dr. King's Anecdotes, I find it stated that excessive indulgence in drink- ing Avine was the true cause of th^ lunacy which obscured the latter days of this eminent Irishman. Pope, to^astened his ' death by feeding on high seasoned dishes, and drinkmg spirits OLIVER G6I.DSMITH. en OtivfE GoLBSMiTH, a Celebrated poet of Irelajid^ne of the best and kindest ol — was the son of a country clergyman — ! ford, Ireland — cdiicated at tl^Universitie ; with a view to his adoptiJ^Hhe medica continent of Europe, often penniless, an I, i under the roof of a peasant. His first boo! ; ap; lite Literature. His Traveller— Deserted Vill izen of the World — Histories of GreeceJRom« lure — She Stoops to Conquer— and the JGood many enduring monuments of his fan^e. He World," ever ready to cry, miscellaneous writer — the Buma and most delightful of authors at Pallas, (or Elphin^ inLohs^- Dublin, Leydcn, and Edinburgh, ifession. He wandered over the ebted to bis flute for a lodgini>: ared in 1759 — an Essay on Po- ge — ^Vicar of Wakefield— Cit- England, and Animated Na- Matured Man, arc among the \was a trae " Citizen of the Hail to that land, wliatevefr land it be, Which struggling hard, i/panting to belfrve ! natural, melodious, af- ery bosom, and will ren- He die4 in Lrondon, April 4th, 1771— but his poet fecting, and beautifully descriptive, finds an echo in e der his name immortal. / [ Dr. Goldsmith's works, (like Miss Edgeworth'si,) areUmpng theinestimable benefits conferred by the Irish on America. Their aulhor died before he had attamed the age of 43, haying been born Nov. 29th, 1 eimiary embarrassment shortened his days. It harassed for £5 to Edinburgh, lest his creditor, a linen draper, si death-bed to a jail. Imprisonment, poverty, and want, tury, too often suffered by the brightest jewels of Englisl to republican America for that great and humane effort^ L imprisonment for debt, and secured the household fumitui poor from the grasp of those harpies who dispense law, 1. It is said that pe- iums, too, who wrote uld carry him off his ere, in the last cen- iterature. Thanks she has abolished and utensils of the t forget justice in tli I ... t rpsidonn f* in L o P'^QWi nftnr ^ ia i yfoi at a chemist's on Fish-street Hill-r-he set up as a p%sician— cotild not \ live by it — accepted the ushership of a Classical School at anight .have the means of subsistence — retuined penoiles \ to London after a \ %■ .'■' Peckham, that he was bom on St. An- of Tipperary, Ireland his I'atlier died before i he soon tasted of ad- afinite wit and humor. Two years before his t. 19th, 1745, aged 78. but lacked candor as a moirs too truly show, ccounl of his life, and Iis.D4:api£c^ Letters — ;ensively refed. Qrigi- r under Anne ; was at ;d to be their idol, and e indulgence ia drink- ired the latter days of I by feeding on high OU3 writer — the Buraa it delightful of authors , (or Elphin^ inLohg^- ;ydcn, and Edinburgh, He wandered over the his flute for a lodgint-: 1759 — an Essay on Pe- ar of Wakefield— Cit- nd, and Animated Na- Man, are among the true "Citizen of the aatuntl, melodious, af- y bosom, and will ren- imong the'i'nestimable bior died before he had 1. It is said that pe- !ums, too, who wrote lUld carry him off his ere, in the last cen> literature. Thanks she has abolished and utensils of the t forget justice in /... ^ CHIEP~JUST1CE THORNTOX. 18 S^ "iSJ^J'ftSi S£^^ ^''^ "'"V'''^ I^;view-rented a uiiser. Stairs, wlKTeSop Pel v& '"O^'?'^'' ^^^ bv Break-x\eck there as a booksbK's hack hP^lT. ^"^ ched room with one chair- ces and revien^ S nii'.r.icles anria^^^^^^^ "S't? ^"'^ ''^'^''^' ™« P'**"*' he wote his "Essav on pSt J^^^^ ^. , ^ 'abors were meredible. Here ful things/which (aJfidl iu fv r^^™^^^^^^ many utjier elegant and grace- - in. the .ra'teful h' S oH isSitr "ear^^^^^^ t'« '°«™»n^ A «-« with l^r. Johnson, and Sir Joslurftpvnr.U«n,?ir I %^ ^became, acq^ainted were his faithful fricJ, J' TlXar .raf Iu^ST'^^^^ ^^^'^^ -and took some comfort 3i.t Sfr= i '''^V i u?^^^ 'odgings-igave suppers hini-thefearofaiSwlsiorh^rfl •''"'' hjm-small debts oppressed as spectres to roma-^Jce r^i Ic slS rhl f ^^^^^^''^ ^^'J"''? bills wereTerrible ed^dljvcr GoldsmitirfoS a'eTuge'i n!!£^°»i^^^^ ^'^^^^^ warm-heart- pa^tei&i,^;;/^^^^?!'?!?? ^r" ^« 'r' - ^^^ -'^ smith. -&contrW to "uSKhy.!^[?.^*i-^r'' "^ «'?y^ ^nd means as Gold, by nlayi^on the flutc-bv ZcS'^^ *"°««^" different places, bed'and a"d inner a?"he iiXeSs1,v.^Lf' ^^"'^^"te-by disputing*^ for a a doctor and apotl ccarv W SnT .^ aBsisfing a chemist-by practising as port be tn.e)-Ey aSorsTm H fnr5 ^«'j'^^'"-fy.a«,eraptinff the stage (if re- Srudgery ; tirouVomSre' w'hcjf o7 Sh'Srs L^^ "^'^ ^^*'""'^ try^^oSSuThavl S b t?er7eV:rde" TJ1u?''^'*'^K '^T'^^^^^ i"dus. trutji and justice, implanted bvEvPn,„ A"d J».dg'nf by those principles of. smith affoidsoneoth'^r'^L^tic^^^^^^^^ on the continents -f -;",Li!iy- pHysician — could not L atfPeckham, that he ilesb to London after a -CHIEF JUSTICE THORNTON. the'^LciStarl.rwerlS^JrstS^^^ Thornton, a phTsTclan ' °"^"'' *'"°'^ ^^^'^ ^^^ DK Matthew the^'tt'^SbTcr^v^rS ^&^{l'='°" J? '""^ °ffi- °f P'««ident of revolutionary congretf of 5?7ra^ . If '""^^''^'7'*^ * '"«'"ber of the dence, in Novembellf that year L^^f^'' ° '^r de^'"?*^"" ot indepen- June 24, 1803,- in iS 89th Veaf wi^JT? f o™ '"^ .Inland in 1714, and died ter of the most t£ant i.sSositi^ .n /?k^ relig.ous-a protestant dissen- [rv""An honest man " °'/Pof on-and the epitaplv on his grave-stone is J^ice of the Common Heas^anTwL'nT'^ '".^^^ Hatapsfire as Chief Supreme Court. Bmhrwa; a tn^? f '^'"'^"'^/^''^'i to the bench of the «h(n of the centre ?e"at on Snfrof juS '*"' ^"' ''''^" °' '""^ P'^'-^*^ a4^Sr-Xranfr?a1ytr;°^^^^^^^ heedless,, another dence?" - ^^® ^"^ "'^^ done for America and its Indepen^ nei?IrSrn?Sd'StL^^^^^^^^^ '*• ^^^K'^' ^he list of emi- °f'f« Union for theirTe'SinX "elj." '^''""'' ^'^'^ '^^^ ^^"'^"d weU [ ymelligent advocatf^ya«iotism and jro rpf „, ^^"P^religious freedom. - • •- — 'I M COIOREL JAKES 81 / / J«nre^to^6nrey an idea of the indebtednes^ of Americ. to Ireland and / *T?T' '» 'h^name of the O.mnpotent. T " "' ' "'^ / faithful td1nd«st& iSD!';£°"f rir^^ '^ \''« ^^'^ -'««'«. * bow. inestim^le valuf o o^rSntrv "TCT'f'i '»^'^»'»"'<=«. ««d laborers, of Congress to .he Irish natiS^n L t^il^'^^ ^""^T^ °^ America"-«,id jml safe asylum from DOTe'rtv a„/^ Z ?'*'''*"" °*^ ^?'^" *««»d «ff«rf ii which n,any"LCd^sTyourcoi;ti^^^^^ oppression also ; an asylum and affluence, and berraiSriS to n?i^^i ?k*'? "^ ^"."""^ bospiAlity, p^ace. interest, and affecti^r™^^ ""^ ^^ ""n^* '**' of consanguSty, mutual in nsVaSi'lhl «d^mtfe„fX'?f> V^^^ »»'« ^"* Volunteer, orable resolutions "ended ^n^t^« f'^" »nJ«^Pen«ence breathed in their mem- acknowlgdSt o?imeri«i ?rlH ^"^J^'I" ''** ^"S"«b goremment intoTn own T,Vto|Tt'S(-o kVoTn Sd te Z^^^^ a treaty of peace, than did our Aracric* in thiStSh Spn^^fn/T"^"' ^T^"!^" ^^o pled the cause of woWaAlotXS feS -tual bene\cto?i^^^^^ ,„«„ can victories werrSed^tJiovKA'^^^ Ameri- Bu^nl'tJVrogiro^^^^^^^ «»«!;-» «f G^eral * change in his policy towarHTrJ,^^^r of the Minister to the necessity of Irelanland AmSS^. and thp fc ' »i^ T'f'iT ^^ •»««" ^«**"«d between , land, of habiSsTof^read ._d f^^^^^^ ^ *'?.^"' *'°""»'^ ^ ««*'<=h of the Americans. It ' LmS kf^- PrnS ^^ 4» ^^e side of-., justice empioyed tho^e S hLt ^u^"^T'''- ^"'^ * niysleriSus and. final Wto turn' backTpo'^l^raMk™ «*«» palm of empire. The result nf fh^ A^r / J , ?"ogance of her brow the n Catholic KelirfBill waMtyi S^^ » *' ^^'* "" ^"^"'^' 'H'» »«>« Roman oflSS^^S^;'^^^^-^'-^^^ ^e 4d the nanles as wtts Charles ThotiMM ? r!^^io T i^^ST^* ^^^l^^^ Rwledge.sonslf irisC' a^d7ho5««i' J K°°"*5 X'^f">'>«^ E«»^"d grandfathers wereZTiM' "'"^ ^'*"*** (?a»roU, whose of EShm\V\^fweSh^''°i'"° Englishmen. fourteen ormo) 01 ine crown of Bntam, ten of them were natives of the Unite f descendants TO Scotsmen, 1 bred subjects [Kingdom. COLONRt J AMES &J H^P^ i »^u^-^.^-s.i«t:^s2^^ ea to Ireland and ration of American '76, We find thr^« to whom may be MigresB. Irislimen cause of- American )f patriots who dc> the west, perilled vitb his lords and I colonies, a bold, . and laborers, of )f America"— said 5—" would afford n also ; an asylum hospii|]ity, peace, langumity, mutual e Irish Volunteers led in their mem- )remmeut into an ice, than did our 11781. Without r the grip of her ntly^successful if urkes, Sheridans, ed the cause of :ed by their argu- ' ort. ;feat of the latter former. Ameri- page 287, of the efeat of G^eral the necessity of foirmed between itrj^ in search of ; o^ the side' of", eripus and final t bjanished fmm of her brow the** Id the Roman ■■*•■• add fii^d the nanfes ves of Ireland — 1. land Edward lairoll, whose descendants o Scotsmen, id bred subjects :d Kingdom. r dEOKOE TATLOB— GEORGE KEAlk * i« X?ri™.hL^™u ''"" ^'«J«'P^?'J«''^e. »nd one of the most energeticupholdert «l the republic. He was a native of Ireland, and died in 1806. aeed 93 vMnT Colonel Smith came, to America when verv loim- with Vj-^Vkf- "^X®*"- who settkHl on the bank* of the SusqSSTHroLlS firS co^'' >Lord Mountjoy affirm, as he did, in the Irish Parl^pnfiTM" i^^ '?'?''* Xi5'^o;;:r'"^r r^ S«W'Provi.io.?s.aii cS4!who3emal! Kinker amonrtL ^".1/^^^ was no iiencdi^t Arnold „or swindling usuriof. liave acted thus. Christ bids us beware of the civeSclal * GEORGE TAYLOR. GEORtft TArioR, of Pennsylvania— one of the fathera of thp irr,>mt ronnKi:. was bom in Ireland in 17l2^ His &ther iafa i^esbyJer J^ Mr'-'sSi'V^lh'^'" George arrived in Americaf his SXs we e wld^^^^^^^ Mr. Savag^B for his passage money. Adversity proved an invaluable tousher and our Irish patriot grew up to lianhood a boU intrepid, SSSt ^"l oi the ngh s of the human race-was delegatpd Wthe people of pSnsvltSnfJ ipiS™;'-'".^"-"^ ^''""^f ^^^^^«'• 1776-si^dX5«=IarrdSS ^r^»^ "1 *''"' °^™?' «°«1 yielded to none in manly resolution aSfimSea his'ier;^;.;"'^ " '"'" *^''*- «^ ^^^ *' ^«»«i ^^^rtiary Sd. l^S A part of our Irish and other settlers are disliked by many for their Dovertv— tut It shouM be remembers! that immigrants have bfougSinfo the uK w^ A them many milhons of dollars in specic-and if the welrthyfordCTerTto be welcomed, why should the poor man: be denounced ! JosepVweifinto Ect« a poor slaje^Robert Fulton's parents were poor Irish emilrantryet who?£ '»'«* 1^- H .r L •GOVERNOR EDWARD RUTLEDGE. This ^ntleman-a youn-er son of Dr. John Rutledge, an Irish emiCTant Tduo^pT?'' \T^Y°'"'-^' "^"! 1 -5-was born ia Charlfs on?Novemb?rS^ htnadvecTtv L n'.'" "glaftd. and commenced practice as a barrSter in h 8 S brother Julm t r 'T f^''^"»^»'« ""^l ^'h»^/nt» 'J'ough less so than uioeiuir oroiner, jolm. Dr. Ramsay srrves him the charactor nf a wiet «„.. «o«^ upright ma,,, ,,,d |,c l,aj chAjaor .o £ Me o "he fo,i's„Scf^ ♦GOVERNOR M'KEAN, OF PENNSYLVANIA. naJfS'if Kd'*''Ho'tT *'"' ^''^^" for^imigration-his parents were nauves oi Ireland. He sat as a member of the revolutionary conirress ^Z^J'Tv °* !''" .Declaration of Independence, and fo?^nine Tears goremor of Pennsylvania. Governot M»Keau was bornSn New Londoi ' „ Je^svivama, March 19th, 1734 ; educated hy Dr. Allison ?b«ame a lawyc?: ttl ■^''\li}° «''f compress held in New York, 1765; wa^ Sdem of De^a' ^SnVSf'pfesiSIInVTfl"'' ^'" P^,-,id-t of Congress! HeCs once a wat 181? M^M W Sl'^'h-' """^ '''''•I »'/'•« «?e of 83, on the ?4th of Jun™ / ••CHARLES CARROLt, OF CARROLLTON. 1737^Xa^ed*'!f Pri"' ''""n S^".?''P°""' '° Maryland, September 20th, very WShv ^Hp S^f/'"'' ^''H'V "^" ^f*"**^"" «*" «» IrisJ>'n«n. and If A TT • ?"o ^® ^*® * mwjiber of the revolutionary con ? once a warm ! ?4th of June, terian church, sat in it from inia, 50 year* fathers. TON. ptemb'er 20th, [rishman, and ;ss, a Senator )ecIaration of rellesley mar- ' country from 3 persecution, having taken n that of Mr. when the en- rroU was op- CIIARLES THOMSON. 17 tionary congress, and one of the sijjners of the DcclanitJon of 4in«,:« .. t^j pendence. His ancestors were fr^m Ire and -l^sfSerwn; nT. '"''*; they were never heard of more-it is supposed that the rhip foddered S ■CHARLES THOMSON. under the Consttiution they had adopted. He was hnrn in i7Tn . ,. '^ ?' an, pious, patriotic IrishJaa ; and a? the age o7e em^. em IntldX^ Irt /and o Pennsylvania, with his three elder b?othcrs-fhe ceSratrcuWrnn CIS Alhson (h.s countryman) was his teacher ih Philadelph ia-and xliZZ • cS errs"te^;rM?'A'' ^"•^^^'^'^ panti'ngTo btoSe fr^e it i 1 t.iu£ens was neid m 1774, Mr. Thomson was chosen to record thpir hr,«.„J;i ed hint to thousands), to oin the spirits of the brave L^d free thrWashinT tons, Montgomeries, Sullivans, Waynes, Duanes, Taylors and other S men, who look down with complacency from a better worid^n the siene?of former penis and former triumphs, in which they were partakere Irishman ThoS^^ "'""^ ^""'^-^ •'y ^^« b"«»-ss ofLtfol'Vemember'cte SiScTafrploX'^""''*^''''^ ''^''^'''' ^ *^ -""^^ ""'"^^^ "-' at Newark,1n Delaware, on the 10th ofTptemberS ^U^^^^ ThS* reiaiy alter the death of his lady, until his own decease. 1 he longevity of this family has been remarkable: 1st. William, died in Virginia, aged 93 years. 2d. Alexanderj-died in Delaware, aged .... 80 do. da. Charles, dipd -" ^"^ • -° -» i t m .^t . HaniogtQii,JEn!^aged 94* di» ^h. Matthew, died m Pennsylvania, ^ed 5th. John, do. ^o. do. , 1749, educa- )f the revolu- 91 do. . -> 79 da •-^93 do. ' 6th. Mary.^died in Delaware; aged „ „„. These ilaen, with thiexception of the venerable secretary, were all agricUl- \ * Mf by anotlier account. / 18 crik turilts, tilled tbek own lands with their own hands, and were temperate in tbeirbabits throughout their long 'Mid virtuous lives. . ' In a copy of the Berts and Sehuylkiir Journal, many years old, I find the following particulars relative to Mr. Thomson :— ^ ■ ' He was about six feet high, erect in his gait, dignified in hiMei interesting m his conversation. Dr. Franklin was "^^ •«< "■ "•end— they agreed in everything but religion. Mi John Thomson, and was born in the county of DerrI Gortede, and parish of Maharaw, in the first w)|clr the particular day can not be specified. He when ahput ten ycars.old, accompanied by board the ship in w|)ich they were passemj Delaware ; and by an. act of injustice^ his piflf!e?ty, of consid'erable amount, was withheld from his sons, then iWlReir minority, in a'foftign country,' with- out kindred, without friends', witht.ut money, left to follow the leadings of Divine Providence : yet they vW^Yj experienced the protecting care of Him who IS the father of the fatherless: Charles had a great taste for leaminc and, under the instruction of that distinguished scholar. Dr. AllisoiK became a great proficient in Latin, Greek, and Frenc^. f- The writer in the Berks Joiirnal, gives a most interesting account of hi» ' ''*?"' ♦? ™'- Thomson^s dwelling, an ancient, retired, but spacious mansion, ten mUes from Philadelphia. Mr. T's last remark was, " Money, money! is th« God of tbif world"— a trtith worth rcmemberintr. iment, and intimate 'd sun of e town of ... 1731, but „.^ with his father, ^the^s. His father died on Iter entering the Capes of -~^A CH-RISTOP^ER COLLES. " ^THtt troly practical and sagacious engmeer arrived in the United State* ftom Ireland, of which country he was a native, nine or ten years before the BUM J /u? "^o™"on- He delivered a series of public lectures in 1772, at Philadelphia, says Cadwallader D. Colden, " on the subject of lock-navigation'* —and De Witt Clinton bears voluntary testimony that Mr. Colles "was the "farst person who suggested to the government of the state [of New York! the Canals and improvements on the Ontario route. CoUes was a man of ••-good character— an ingenious mechanician, and well skillecl in the math- ematics. Unfortunateli- for him-, and perhaps for the public, he was gen- " « W considered a/ufifiartyirqipctor, and Rs plans were sometimes treated ^with ridicule, and AWAylKred with di8tr,ufet." ^ ,4 m^ Almost contenip(aimiHn» the p^lg^ inb^^ion of some of our #ater.courses by GaMMMBBlton," saP^Hleilly, " the question of in- tenial improvement WiP^IPfeseflWd to the legislature of" New York by Mr. Colles— and in 1784 his plans were referred to a committee, who, as Govfernor Umton inlorms us, were opposed to undertaking the work at the public ex- pense, but willing to allow Mr. Colles and those who might Join him in the enterprise, to do so as an incorporated company. Again, in 1785, Mr. Colles brought the canal-navigation question before the legislature, who appropriated only $125 in the supply bill to enable him to sunrey the route, which he did, and published the results "in a pamphlet, en- titled " Proposals for the Speedy Settlement of (Re Waste aud Vnapproprtated Lands on the Western Frontier of New York, and for the Improvement of the Inland IVavtgation bettoeen Albany and Ostvego." It was printed m 1785. at New York, by Samuel Loudon. • , In Colles's pamphlet h^ tells the legislature that his proposed canal iinprove- ment would greatly increase our exports, foreign commerce and inland trade. ^ i. til .u 5i^ — ' .-.~.~~^^ »-. ^^|>y.to, luicijjii uuiuuierce anu iniana iraae, aetHe^fae^ wmtry, wmbl u it to c an y mi litary stores and provision s t6 ublic, he was gea- sometimes treated (HI of sooie oi otir ' le question of iii% New York by Mr; who, as GoTfernor : at the publie ex- it join him in tfa* uestiim before the to enable him to n a pamphlet, en- id Vnappropriatei mprovement of ih* rinted in 1785, at ied canal improve- and inland^trade, ' TtSions toAiSI&ikt ad give the states as large as the io was in tjhe As* a was referred ♦'* COMMODORE CHAEtXS imfAST. Most 1 intiP-- 10 sSrS^'iifilyffe "')'* t'^^V' '*'*'!'"'''* ''^"^'- Co"e» furnished Mr/ .u„, JT b *V?* ^^ extending the naTigution to Lal{c Erie." Dr. Hosack «ho remarks, withrcspcct to Gouvcrneur Morris's suggestions in 1800 anSfiS «ral Schuyler's in 1797, relative to extending the cSl to take eS W^ journals of the legislature show that Ay Smith, in 478G and Dro^lt Olmsiopher Co les. toot the same view of th/s mJawre\efoVe they 5 d W to the project ol uniting the great lakes with the ocean. Colles wa? far before Edt*„"? ',r r^^T'"^ »' ?"d •« P«»««ing i'« consideratioi, on tiTe IJiskture .h?Mr2 ?• ' ^Tf^ P'""*""'' "."•• «"«"«>"». Mr CioUes struggled JonffaaS iits'" iS^M/J^lS''?."''^ f "',V8'" i" ^^h he'ived.^"Geiiusa„f^ «ni8, sijs JVU. tolden, "much ab6vQ the sphere \% which he seems dSrly foSd ifi hTS. made mM,)r,j,pro,em,„,^„hi|,#j, J, ^ o« an IrishSaL Titarf er >8 directed for more full information-second, by Ss De Witt Climn5' and C. D. Colden's statements— and. lastly bv Mr PhnX. Tf:^».„ iw '"'°? the Croton Aqueduct, ih which he' So^I ul' CoU^'LX^^^^^ of a reservoirand pipes to carry water into and through New Yo?k! W WH . I Judge Cooper, father of the Naval Historian.KjfferS to wmracT to do whft r Colles had proposed to carr\' into effei-t in-l77A tk^St k A *°^o '<^nat , .lsoadoptefaSlanbyColles\Xifwa\^^^^^^ IHs^rbeT^S^S Ivwhile hundreds, of miflions of the national treasure are wa^?edTC,!^'.,v our politu:al pot,?ntates, Colles and Fulton" and meS "keXm a?e t^ oK ^harassed and impoverished, or go down to Ih^ gra4 unrewSd. ' - , ♦coAmqdo bk nHjjrF^^^ --% ^ * Jiii-. _^ Charles SxEWAR^was bom at Philadelphia, iuly 28th 1778 W« ««,—.- *^ ,-j^.' I"t > -:- 20 CfOMUOOORE C^AKLES 8TEWABT. and joined the Unite4 Slaves fSe Snder ?;.L /^ '? ^ t^^entielh year, he was promoted to the command of ?hp«nh°'fe'^ ^"^^ ^"y- I" ^800 French schooners tJ^ SiTanf Ditnf nfTf ,^P«"'°«°V '=''P*"«'^ ^^^^ Bridger. carryinff S"nLe-noi,ndnrf H i ^ ''"f ^^ ?"°^' a'^o the Louisa and Chi dren Vf temrstWsm VfrS^f'"'''^ ^ muliitude of Spanish women schooner had JesertXhe n and loot J..^ •°''^S''^'^ "^'^ *"'' "«^ ^^ their be took command of thrbri^ SireranJ T.'° 'fl^ *° St Domingo. In 1802 for Ins gallant induct in aSS'onTrSw^^ In Novomberri805, a »p?end d dinnpr JnJ '^'''r «"stamed much dama^ Decatur by the citizens Taeor^Sown a SkTJ clT^^' Stewart Jnd"^ assisted by General Pimn nnH «lrV wtoich General Mason presided, beginning^--. ^'''''°' ^"^ the song was composed and sung that eveZg; ■ • , -.■■♦•■ 1 i^r'',,'?- 1*"" f 5' "'"'''" P«"'«^e ended! Wh '*;'»^':'1«!^'''? bnard let us gratefully thron? -- - Y f'r """^"^ ^'*'' '^^ '''•'^•' the laurel shall wave ^ And form a bnght wreathfor the brow of tirblave.'' faS^^^^SSSeSM J^ ^n^;?' ?^ St^w^Sd United States their-possessed, o sea t^seek the i^^^^^^ '^'^.^ ^" *»»« th«,ra at New YorTt, for its protection M^m.a^ *^^™^' 'i^'^^d of placing to become a mdtob^r of 'L? cTbinT' buf L^iol'fr^'fK'"!'^ .^^P'«'» S»«^a« took the command of the SSte Ki^mfnn of aq '^* ^™°'- ^» 1813 he Picton, of 16 guns, a merfihSan caS 1 it! ^^^^ the son and ship Susan. On the SS of F^bruarv lS?l' fh ^ i^- ^'^^ ^'^'^ ^'^• with the British war+ship Levant of 9i «?5' i^vf*"^ Constitution fell in ' after an engagement of fo«y Ses in^to^hf th^A^J °-^ ^ ^"»«' ^"^ victorious, and the British ships suirenjered ^ ' ^*°«"««» a'ms were Hitt^^J.^Je^Tk^^^pr;^^^^^ Cooper, in his Naval usual, the enemy firing much L?teffh,nnn«''™^". ''°'*' "«'«''' ''^as ™^ hulled oftener during fhi? eL'lmenf^^^^^^^^^ ^J*" Constitution was though she suffered less in her^Jr%T?hLi L Ve ±£.'**^^ ^^a^les, had not an officer hurt. '''^^™**^ "»»«« combat with the Ja»a. She ex;SS"arirSi? «hip on this occasion, vessel to engage two enemies aid escape bS Ltf^ »»'««al for a single curnng to the Constitutronr however she a3>r^?i?'j ?** ["l ^'«»» tJ^'sSc- and the manner in which shocked and B i^th^ "'' ^'^''"• «PPo"ents, ' antagonists down to leeward, when thev wlrp .n^ smoke-foix:ing her two or forefopt-is among the mosrSiam LTn« endeavoring to cross her stem ^ After his return to the Ked Stes T» "'"^ "^ ? V** """a's-" Captain Stewart with hefrZomonhectZT'^^^^^^ honored box, Md gave,Jiim a public d^nnil"' n« 1-^' P^^^^nte<* hipi with a gold snuff- latur^of kl tiVe sC! PeSvania n^^ Kant victory, and directed theTovSo/J; ^ZJ" TJ'.f ^^'^'^'^^ ^«' <»« bVil- sented to hfm, in testimony of fhdr sense of hf^M" ?-'''H*' ^.^««» »» ''e pre- \ taring two British ships of , Warof sSL^L fL '''"^"'^'**'' ™«"ts '" cap- Congress also voted him^ a goEell^S°'ll°I!!Z'fa^Cya ne and Levant ttd pa t u.d a vote of hankTroS^rh?g " ^'f ° °^ ^^ ^^^ '^vem h Commodore Stewart was placed rcoinlT,£'p'*"l?""''°' *=°"^°«: and next year took charge of the Amer^cTsnH ^^ ^!?"^Ji'"' ''*' "» 1816, Lewasseat to the |>ac|c in I'slof^^^^^^^^^^ . ■4»-- ■i to sea in the merchant a of an Indiamali, ac- in his twentielhvear, eJoiin Barry. In 1800 :periment, captured the i guns, also the Louisa ude of Spanish Women iptain and crew of their St. Domingo. In 1802 modore Preble's thanks istained much damai^^f Captains Stewart an■ ■ 11 throng', wave, le brave.*' /:-.,: 'aptains Stewart'lijid ew ships bf war the y, instead of placing •itcd Captain Stewart e honor. In 1813 he ns, and destroj'ed the id the brig Lord Nel- le Constitution fell in ane of 34 guns, and American arms were Cooper, in his Naval I both sides, was un- he Constitution was ler previous battles, with the Java. She hip on this occasion, unusaal for a single So far from this oc- both her opponents, Ke— forcing her two ig to cross her stem ival annals." New York honored in with a gold snuff- ladelphia, the Iegi». thanks fof his bril- ted sword to be pre- shed merits in cap- Cyane and Levant. CHASLES LtrcAS. ■'^21 iJ^rTnt ^h 1? hardship. H»s character is that of a benevolefit and intelt «r1n it K f ' i ^^ ''^^" no.mnated a candidate for the Presidency and weU leir valiant conduct, anklin, 74, in 1816, le Me^terranean— imand of the Navy J '^ • CHARLES LUCAS. ' This famous Irish patriot, who established in Dublin as an Pnmnp tn »«.«„, tTbom^n ml'i'^r' ^r°""^^^'^ opprcssorl-'TkrFZ^ was Dora m nid, m Clare Countv— Was self-i>dii(>atPi1 nF k.»nKi„ •;."':"*'"» apothecary that he mi.ht subsist^anTj^Sn^^ the mfamous rnlers of Ireland-bade defiance to their enS nn^Llro^ malice-asserted the absolute right of Ireland to enjoyThe bS fnTaufnd^^ on self-government-and, being ^sessed of a fine KaK^f resp^ S5 ! f T"!' * '=°™?^'^°«' the wield the pen, as much as we do MacdmSi^iOT*'® to- liberty, who can to fight our battles. The soldier and S^^fe'^'^^^' «"«* Monteomeries when worn out in the service-^ thl^'^hl^l !^^^^^ **' °»h?r bounty pure and uncompromisin ^^ ^^-> Enm's chUdren £, wSSkTh^r?""'.. Heryo«th,haUhJJ^tJ?,,'^^JSSj^^r^^^^^^^^ LoHB ' * ^°^^ =^^^RD FITZGERAL.D. MarJ? DutT^srofSl^e^^a'nd^^^^^ of Ireland's only duke, bv Emeli« born in London. OctSTsUi'^Jes f^f,'«fC'^« ^"'^^ of Richmond, wij -the 19th-to Charleston. MLoSni 8^^^ sent with his regiW 4^„«"««° freedom, and zeilous to sSe fri^h ' ^J'"*'"^ "'"''"^'y »"««hed fo shp. tothp French revolution h/^' J "independence. For his friend- Bruish army, and died of hswound^^t deprived of his commission in the' the strikefor freedohi, Xh but foJ lSf°''' Dublin. June 4th, 1798, dur 1 ""n T'?^?'' ^^^h was his populantv i,T" *"•* *!?''*'>' ^""Jd proSw? On the 19th of May, 1798 Lord Si^'i^*"*' and military skifl. ' *^^*'™«"t^and vexation of mind, ^uZA tjl *^Tt ® "' «dded tb hard enable advantage of the ablest ^nH™ " "***''♦ ""d Ijeland lost the incal. officer, who was favomble to theiaSon and^ff"™''*'' »"'' popular mi "ta' Four thousand dollars had beei SroSl- ''^? -^^^^^ "'^ "« oPP'essors. ^ found in Nicholas Murphv's hon,P m **/" ^'^ apprehension, and he wa*- dungeon, his house made a b«rack hth^^^ """^ ^^P' Aftyfive Weeks in Z stroyed, and he had to give hSw bai a'"- '' ^"^' ^^ ''»™«"'e &c , dj! io'S^f' ^^?P/•'^d to Lorf^t b;otte*'?i;i"n l^' ^%'^» arrested'and HL*^'u*'*L''**d embarrassed. Had ipL ^S''* °*. ^-e^ster, but got fi!?.,^?'* $6000 8 year. S Vet ^h« „„^*™ ?• Reynolds he might have and dishonest one common para£e t.iTJ'^^^ ^""^d give the honest tocle of unclean birds theWaven wo^ / W^i What ."strange rS Castlereagh, side by side for eJirj^S^r*' ^fl J^eynolds, Armstronir. i2d counttymen. LordEdwatJmSS^^^ th« carelessness, for 8 m every age and ictors, does not steel of human suffering, e it discourages the id generous spirit to r Freedom's banner, owed perhaps, like ed family surround- !rty and destitution JW may enjoy, cilybf Dublin. m ages and climes i perhaps cool the ess whose services B' liberty, who can md Montgomeries, >n br other bounty ion of the press, if Jf adversity in/the aple? ' / tan and O'CoiineU low, low. D. duke, by Emelia Kichmond, was nth his regiment erely attached to • For his friend- nmission in the' tth, 1798, during would probably tary skill, r a gallant resis- . added to hard d lost the incal- 'opular military oppressors, on, and he was" re weeks in the miture &c., de- as arrested and iinster, but got be might have ive the honest strange recep- rmstrong, and (BOHHODOBE BIACXIONOUOH— CAFTAIN BLAKEXET* /'. SH award of Madam de Genlis, and related to a Brittsh f?iinily„6f rank. (Seis Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis.) She died in indig^«e in Pans, Louis Phillippe, with whom she was educated, taking no mii£e of her. The betrayer of his lordship and the Council of the Union, was Thomas Reynolds. Reynolds, joined the Union, wom^d himself mto Lord Edward Fitzgerald's confidence, was a delegate for JLeinstei, treasurer of Kildare, went to a frie&d, and for 500 guineas at fijrsif^aia; a promise ot 5000 more, au- thonzed him to go to the castle and tell Castl^gh that the Lemster dele- gates were to meet secretly at Oliver Bondljl^n the 12th of Ma|^ with their papers, to organise an insurrection. On tEBt memorable nighte^thir* teen delegates were there arrested, their papers seized, the day of Mfplt as- certained, and Messrs. Emmet, MacNevin, Bond, Sweetman, and the Jack- sons, laid hold of. Lord E. Fitzgerald and Counsellor Sampson escaped. Reynolds remained unsuspected, continued to disclose all he could to the English power, and received from the secret service money £1000, September 29S1; other £2000 Nov. 16th— on January 19, 1799, £1000— and March 4th, £1000--also June 14, 1799, £1000— in all, £6000. Another informer was Captain Armstrdhg, of -the King's County militia. These arrests Ofieated the revolt The government deferred their measures, as Gosford and Head did in Canada, to encourage and ripen a partial outbreak, and then shed oceans of the blood of their betrayed and injured brethren. Michael Reynolds, a worthy Irishman, warned the Union agamst Thomas, and woultfhave kiUed him had they permitted it. •COMMODORE MACDONO UGH. Cattain Thomas Macdonough, the hero of Lake Champlam, iPfef Inah origin, ilis worthy Presbyterian ancestors emigrated from Scotland to the north of Ireland in the seventeenth century, to avoid the persecuuons of the second Charles, and his profligate court. The commodore's father was a na- tive of Ireland, and an officer of valor and deserved distinction in the war of the revolution. The victory on Lake Champlain, over a superior opposing force, decided thewarintl^at quarter, and stopped and scattered Prevost a 14,000 men for ever. ... ... , ^ j » j Congress thanked the commodore for his skill and bravery, and presented him a medal of gold— New York also thanked him, and added a present of -an estate of lOOQ acres of land.' - . „. 1 • u- v Well they might ! He taught England a lesson on Lake Champlam, which her statesmen will not soon forget. The brilliant exploits of the war of 1812, were but a foretaste of what might have been expected had it contmued ; and will make British lords and commons cautious how they provoke a quarrel' with us, now that our numbers, skill, and resources, are immensely increased. Commodore Macdonough was bom in the state of Delaware, but waa brought up and educated in New England. During the last ten or twelve years before the war of 1812, he resided in Iljiddletown, Connecticut, where he married into one of the most respectably families in that beautiful village. The next morning after the n^sof his splendid victory arrived at Middle- town, he M a son bom. He/was a youne man of about 28 years of age when he gained a victory on the lakes, inteUigent, modest, enterprising, vid signally brave. He was with Decatur at Tripoli,^ and volunteered with that gallant offi66r in the bold ai^ successful attack on the frigate, which they boarded and afterwards blewpp. I against Lord ith&ps now, in of his gallant aela, wfaowaa CAPTAIN JOHNSTON BLAKELEY. * Johnston fit AKELST, a captain in the United Sutea Navy during the war with EngUnd in 1812, was a native of Ireland, the son of •& imm\grant to f^ u .•Nv !i.*- V^ CAPTAIN JAMES m'kEOW. Ilortli Carolina. He entPrp^ tk- „ . „ pomted to command th?W?sp-frl?Khh Ki^j^r'^'P'"?'^ '^ i^OO-was ap. near each other— the fitRt R-i-^n \ ,°^*' "« ^^11 m with four Rn.l ^^. «he struc* her colors! bu hf ^^1?"^ ^^*'"' °^ ^^ g""«^ ^^ 7ough^ S stk Ji^,?''^' ^^« AvonTeSrnst?aTer°&r^°°'''^' -^^A^as nCSflf^'i^^''"'*™ Is'«. and has ne?^^ «;n^« k ^^^t Wasp was afterVard olina^CHiBred his orphan chiJd to hn L. . fin^ been heard of. 4North Car perate enga°gement\efweT"fh5*Sin^*P*'*^ '*"ri°g the late des- ell, ,s the theme of unSiI nrais^ !a '^i? Wa«P. W which he glorioSv legs carried away by^ bairhp^E' ^^'^' ^*^"»g Pa« of the calves of S ^ade;him sink f^r ti^^ Siel4w!s 0^^^^ '''"'If'' ''^'^ thighs, which prevai on him to go below'- a^T. °° '''^ Hn«s, but no entretties couM ers, with a full determSaZn ^m^^JV-''^ ^'^"^^ »>« ^^aded the bSrd- . tempt While climbing into the Sni^" antagonist, or perish in th^at- etrated the ton of hi« ct»ii ^'^^PSgmg, two balls from the Wasn'sin«t hand on his &hLd?tKher"coS°"/ l'""'"^^ ^^' ^^.^^1X7^ gaimed, 'My God! C God -^ an^rn^1^ v'^"*''*^*"? ^« sword, he ex! Reindeer was surrendered by thecanS''* I'^t'' °? ^'^ ''^ deck The degree being in a state to exLute ^hem.f« ^''t'H' »« individual of a highe? deer's men was woundeH «n t^ 1 ? 1 °»«ancholy. office. 6ne of the R »;« passed through K3e?a^5rl1.^^^'^'°^°'^- ^bouthalf of the ramrod «icated, it bLme Ssa%?o slw i off T''""''^' ^/^« ^' coJld K Z 'k '° " ["•' '^'^y of doi7g we?p. " ''^ ^'^'^ *o «°« of his temples. The May the sons oKeCckwS ^iT"'"' S"^ °'^'>- Where Sarsfield the brave onn/'w^^"*' ?'"^^^ ft T «■"''■" ''""d all inVadera to chase From,heflowerofaliislands,01dES;Srfe^, . m. \ CAPTAIN JAMES M'KioN. lj^pa?S5ia^^^^^ was stationed to the royalists. « After this order had been n?«?''if °«»«'ed to be abandon^ S- SnT Ik.V'''*"^ ^P^^^"*' deliverid at the ^^0^^*^^' l?^^' Charl2 «; ^""'Vh.^l*-" ?f ™y «tory, thouchrsuhnrS'!2?-°!; *^« Friendly Sons with twenty-five men, promisin«r to rilffn^^k > "^ demanded leave to remain ^ gyfoMfsc grante d . W ith fhih «r. . 1 "^ i .^"^ attempt. Jfig, Jolto wort, of .ilanSi™, T™ ;■'" i,'°J 'J« P"" "?« P'»'ectedS,W CAPTAIN JANES' U'SEOU. -4^ 25 Jan in 1 800-was ap. es ship Rein(Jeer, June leans killed of wound- _ ten sail of merchant- rthem, full of valua. in with four sail, not 8 guns, he fought and IS another enemy was ! Wasp was afterward aeard of. 4North Car- pense of the state, as him their thanks and leer. ,and Reindeer, given iea of the perils of a daring the late des- which he gloriously of the calves of his 1 both thighs, which t no entreaties could 5 headed the board- Jr perish in the at- tne Wasp's top pen- chin. Placing one . his sword, he ex- is own deck. The ividual of a higher One of the Rein- t half of the ramrod fore it could be ex- his temples. The ten will they fight £ihannon, nnoD— »y» was stationed to be abandoned sa, (says Charles ^e Friendly Sons lecame indignant the Irish warrior 1 leave to remain - attempt, Hi8_ R! SJ?^ *°. ^'? grave, not unh(!nored^t unrewarded ; ^nd left to ser^e thnf on.f !^ "k""*? "* *°°'^«' department/a son, (John M'Ke^h.) from wS that country has often received, and will I doubt not, often aS recdvl d^S tier of onr ^.tZ^^ gallant IrisKman who successfully dtefended thi bZ- tier,,x)l our State when assailed by in immensely superior force j and whoT mg left as the inheritor of his virtues and hotioraJle nS, oHe distSjiS: ed representjitive in Congress, John M'Keon." / '7« "'strnguisU- the°edUor from S'n- "''•*"/• °'^ l^' ^^l^, I fmd a better addressed to L^l^\"h^=r BToJtvtESd'!-' "•^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ fctuetsZ . " On the 13th day of Octoberinst., we wereordered tobereadv foractinn nt frnl^'ft'^f u '^^ "^'r ^- ^' *»^f P'^st five; threfcSn wXdiSmS fv^™^ ^^Tt^ °-? "^^^ °PP°"'« side of the river at us. whenwVimmediS ly commenced the fire from ourfott. The detachmenUf CdSn M'Sn v nn !k! °f.«7«V^'^'u°V^''°*' directed against Newark, opposite the fort • sSd Th?^i'*"^ " fourth.shot, we discovered , that the courXuse was on fi?e The magazme at Fort George was once on^fire. but extinguished bv the elt my's engme. The firing continued, without intermission on ehhe? side^ for mw^ S XJe °bm?JS skiff IZTJ"' ^f P^- ?*'^.«°°' *» '^' sourSLS! oi wnose Dravery, skill and good conduct in the act on, too much cannot h^ S r'?"""«'^ »^ fi"^* ^ith great eflTect, considering the size of 7e piece beine Sm k'' P""""^"' T'^ our defence was shivered almosrinto splSs 2 would have contmued it still longer; but the enemy commencL The £e 'i^?h bombshells on the fort, and having lost two men-by th?b«r3 ifVtwehS pound cannon placed on the north block-house-and beinrieft with onlvVJ^ S!^l"~"ir°'?'""*''*°? officer, Capt. Leonard, orde^fd a reTriatfrJmSe" f h^h t "^^r tha« «P"'« * handful of men to the danger of shells aSJjns! which we had no defence. The retreat was ordered to the wocS^ in thf reaJ pt Up 80 w"'^. . »? '« «» elegant, able, and attachments-^nd true to liberty and fhp I™^!S^"^'^^'?? "» ^'^ feelings and , rous, including Irish meUSeras LaCSh'' h" u^^ ^"'''^ «'« »«™e- Life of Lord Byron, a translation of A nn!^ ?w' V**^>>story of Ireland, the For his melodies aloAeheTclived ttff^^^^^^^^ hundred dollars a year for life H^ in„i! '^° ^^T'^ "'^ »^o thousand four British Parliamentior Li J/k^^^ a seat in the self, hke Southey, too poor in a nernninrv cl . *« honor, considering him- Pendent part there, pfom the uSdoril? M^^lV*''* an effective anf inde- of l400doUar8 a year-he is a rSeiler if J^f^^^^^^ counted a good whig and true to the Jirtv V"'?**'^« "0*. an^ generally ac- ned a Miss Dyke mSny yea^ sdJe f«« JuV*^^ r "^T ^ Y^^ °^ age, mar- mg of his days in ease aKSt* ^ "^* ^"""''y' «"^ «P^««J« tffe even- thaVoSSShe^KeT'w^ ^'* Mooreamore powerful agitator tifi.1 and musiiarveSes Ir^wriS^^ fSmTlriK '''V " ^Jm Moore¥beaSI I ry Irish brain. Thev harP mnr» J^™ »«» /"sn heart, and stamped on eve- ^ speeches, which wa& S,tSn whC^hV'° °»°^V''«° O'Connell's longest «om.din?on.from geneffi toge^^^io*'^ T^^^^ ^"?^''"'' "« ^'S dangerous agitator than lo'Pnnn^fli^ V ,^°°™as Moore is in fact, a more tabll homeTepig S wTsf £%l'f^^^^^^^ ^"'^'ly i» Ws'comfor! heart of the Irish, ^d he LS to bittka^iS^f?^ 1'^'*''"^' *? »^« '"""st sighs, with enth«^iastic ble^ii^and r««L^-rK l^^® ®?™'» ^^tl* tea" and poet O'Connell fights in tfafSni^w' ^^* {^e voice and verse of the «de.^.Com.ell.Kreraid%ThrMSw-2^ ^'^^ ^^"''^ ''y his who now stand at the head of all mo«l «?«^ ? ^ 'J^^ S'^At triumvirate his own peculiar post Thpv fnrlh^k ?»?vement8 m Erin, each occupying rock.^hrch isTeKt aJd bLSSJ^onTe'^lT? ^ "' '^"^ wond^usTham! to which Erin's people lJokXwKh?oitaffa^^^^ -"P °^ Irishtame, and were bom in the wuth of IrelaJd and iS thf „t? i.k''T'"5^/?2«- >^" 'hree nenrnJahh^^euinKer^^riJitJ-e^ view.W^JSrr^?4ro7^^^^^ ^'' ?r« f«'* disaii'i^inted on a near\ • frie;id.d/trj^n^rN.i7«;Jn"t|,S^ Inalefter'S you and me. mvdear HHil.L,n -» .Y ^"'.fO"*» he says, "As tdpoUtics. between Jponthat hf/lTbS""F?A7SoSri*^^^^^ Ae subject, the evil tendency of demimcThw hpfe to -thmk seriously on every g effects of such vould rather kiss uit, arrogant pol- ended in the ez- Bs held in Dublin j M»ce. The Mar. I }re's speech was | iOBgj Coincideii„ , s moment, filled ited as men, and ralty from their ! been bjr mizing ing only for themlTves-a^nd while n^.^^^^^ '''"^ °*^ kings-the reign- tion long acquaiZd wi'th frerSitm1nn„ *^'"i ^"' ^TV** '"'« ^'^^ * »»- look down with necXr nL«nrf : .* frf */='^ "P°" ^^'"^ <^ bimsel? must assertinrtKEa^Sv feS.^ ' V?k * °^ '"*°' ''«»'»' "^^ enlightened man. man hasVmpreSd upln him^^^^^^^ 'Tv,^^ ^S** the Almighty Work! . craft or tyrijinv that w™'»^'^-f- '^ ^^ ' '''»«^'»" of priest- his Mairp? flnj V- *"*' ^9«Ia aeface its lineaments, and doinff iustice both tn cSenW tt hlf ' ''^T^»''S fr«« and undebased befofi the worfd* hi8melodie?,futwhrwSdl.^r*ri^^T'^*^'^ on him by Mr. Moored truth Ireland's Wa^Hwhnfir ^°ri'^^ ^*?f .°°« error, the bard who is in try. the m^^S^UeuliTc^'&'^eT'^' ^" *'« *°^«' °^" ^» -«»■ I might Bail thee with prouder, with happier brow . Bn»>o"" could Hove thee more deeply than nwf« vi^X& Sl&^1h?;£^r' ^^ Sloperton Cottag^ near De- he w^uld represem thek in the Brhis? Pa lifrnlm f 1°" f ^r"""^ »»>« a letter to a friend : " ^ Pariiament, he thus described him in .n:^;i:^dr2^^£^3'X;,^^,J«^^ covered with books^ little dfstance, and thSiKSf ^S^man l^^^^^^^ ^P*" »» » something in the whole cut of ff tX ES^ • fife T^ ^"^ without an actor's affectation "easv a, ivS^ ' r'^^f^ "s ^^ actor, but MICHAEL KELLY. . ftth^^jSr^ta'^'S.™ * Ij.r'l'™ l"™ ta„ Dublin in 1762, wh«. ki. them, of Monk Lewis's " Casrie SnecS. » « w™5 n° *"^ TP Pl«««!. *n»onsr Also for " Blue Beard " hr Poor^f n i ^^ Demon," and " Venoni/* — • '^^^ - «"■"'*. iiy "Hon. -John .^Snpncerand himseff— Col^ The Young Hussar" e— "GustavusVasa** 1- » . «"«' '""•■"'■-MTO KAHSiY-OEOROE ClIKTOirr «e,e publi^ed in 1826, o^^LrjardiateS'." jJ^ST ''"' i^- \ «f ^^-'^'"'^-.OENEBAL SULLIVAN. ■ '' .he re.„l. iT 774 hV«a7i'„°c'SJ?e5!^\'ffiA° Si'SS'E "f!''"" gress, on the 9th of Anmiet rfrit ^Ja «eciea a luaior-Oreneral by Con- . imerican army to ^TbaltlJs rf^^^^^ "^ht division/of the At the latter &e eamlstirenfre^telwSi, f"^^'°^' «°'*- G«nnantown. seized the bridle orKo^ Xn thTrS.fAn^' '° ?^°'^ ^"i»^«' "»«* He was three years PresidLiItnf ^fJT \-^^ °^"/'y surrounded him. States District Ee tS ni.d^A^^^"^''''^ afterwards United Banks of th^e MaS bo e teTriEmil^^' T^^^^ ^'ifJ^ ^^W^^' "^^^ '^^ Sullivan was sent in 1779, with about fi2Snc„L ^'°P ^^T *J5.'««!. General ton, Poor, Hand, and MaxxJ^ll who LvLtlnT t** i?*°' ""^er Generals Clin- Rangers) under Brandt th^Rm^rc r Jit ^ i'^o '°^i*?^ «°** B"''«l» (Buyer's fore them, destrbyS^LylnSv^^^^ ^^em* be- eveiythingthatcbuld beLefS to thir^^ ^^T '^*"'*' ^<'"««' "o™' ««»<» resJt waf an effectuif^rreSL^V^^^^^^^ The / / •DAVID RAMSAY. Teln^h&"'^n^ldl^&''tA, ^°^>}?;f «"' ^«« ^om in Lancaster. Ireland Dr/fi^msay prove/^^^^ ^Se Snd 7^1^ '^^"V ^"™«/ fr"™ in the legislature and executive councH nf sSfp ° -^ revolutiop of 1776, He was sent to the contSal S^rL fn nsa Z^'^'^'^'T} -"^'i^ ^'' P^"" body for a year '"*«="'»». congress m 1782, and presided m that august South Carohna. annearpd in itqa tu^ -d ••• lVi ' °^''" '"^ sketch of tually proscribed^;S.8 accost If^L^Tu ?°^«™'°«°! « one time vir- who sold it. ''".'^'"^y s^»c«o«nt of the revolt, by prosecutions against those ;*m/aJOR. GENERAL GEORGE CLINTON. /• New York ^ _ overnor ot He was President of the a^SSSSSrSSgsaS CINTOW. ressed the audienee, ihed in America, the able persons. They at Margate. &.N. ' es of the American 1 Sullivan, a teacher Governor SuUivaq n Hampshire before jor-General by Gon- ght division of the , and. Germantown. exj)ose his life, and rly surrounded him, 1 afterwards United Qilitary nature was the Oneidas, bribed lied perhaps by a BofNew York and hawk and scalping- - d could take effect, rry Vajley, and the leit careef. General nder Generals Clin- nd British (Bmler's m, drove them be- J, horses, com, and could do so. The jer injury. bom in Lancaster, rorthy farmer from revolutiop of 1776, and with his pen. ided in that august cs, §11 27 vols. In itory pf South Car- States, up to 1808. ». His sketch of It at one time vir« tions against those ITON. . ovemor of IS President of the constitution of the X firm, honest, oa- BB,IGADIBS-GEREBAL WdtLFK TONE. 89 /• pable friend of civil and religious freedom. General- Clintoii was the firit rpn- 1S19 wt ?'i '^n?* 1739, and died at Washington on the 20th of AnriL RpS^k"*' S!'"!'"" ^s.»h« youngest son of his father. a\d educated bv* Scotch presby.erian mmister-he studied law ^with cLf^ticeSmitW •f ml'h rrT** "} ^''.^ «°»««. was appointed cl5k of Uls erTorty b^ame adSt HP w '"'°"'^' parliament, and sat in the congress of n76 at Phu! adelphja. He was present at the declaration of independence which had I.i. te t"airie field'^ be"liS ^"r"'"' a^rigad^rgTneXftfarm?, he nf ^Hk tt J •'e'o'e the mstrument was transcribed for the siffnaturea f?9oTp *f; .?"''" '''^ "'^ constitution of tKe State of New yS, ApS iJi?h'« hCf^°'*" S°^«"or. His jjallant defence of Fort mSiX h'Sliy\totJi:^?S;EL\r^^°^^^ ..^fr.r'L^u"^"" "^^^ the friend and confidant of Washington, and was de. Em t'^ ^*"}r' J.*** ""Y'^^ ^"««* *o command the armies of the TeTdutiot ^?chv LT^,'^- ^'^^^^^^^Y' «e was hostifi both to moSy S nave been Inendly to his ejevation to the presidency o^the Union. ^ BRIGADIER. GENERAL WO^FE TONE./ prison of that .9ity on 4he 19th S NoveS. ITOS, hS^^^^^^ > rdative,nor fnend near him. His efforts in IrdM^d?F«Sc J wd AmwKi S^'i"'' »««''»?«» "ssociations, schemes, invasions,^ to werySheJ^ ™nfrK ""^ ^^ which vEnglish domination might be got rid oJSere tliJS SSS Sfshmen' IZ^t T^'T^. * ^*^«'' ""^ pll^S the aSaSon ?f uniieu irishmen, a most formidable instrament for revolt and nprUi parties, and succeS^ott^^^^^^^^ by the enlightened of the wicked absurdS of E SSdU,r7*"°"' ^e rallied them both upon future union-showLg that tfriesSor^rV'^e ^^^^^ P'ospectsfof franchise was the best seJur v nf nS f ^^"^ Catholics to the elecWe «ib?ei'of'ihe S" of LTpft'^Ilf- delegates with therpetition on he of Secretary^oSe ,?Am^^^^^^^ he resfg^^ed ,,i, office farther ,omplimnnt^thi^"h«"wr>;^.nt^^^^ ■- ^^--"^j »v tcu iiim xneir tnan ks. wi flh .ji pounqs, for services which they ^id S uneration over-nav '' ' « uu .i*- ves ns ,fhe following )unty of Kildare— his mise of such talents, t fortune his parents i earljr and eminently off the prize of ortj- rom the chair,, whiBn the societj. "* , he had opportunities of his own ; of pei^- idation of a colonial 'vemed him through igth a sacrifice. ' te his first pamphlet, declared his princi- tory ; I am addicted iJlub, and read with mself, wbich he did, They proposed put- d him professionally nd is bound to sup- penly broached his snt oh behalf of the minted with any one itulions had created rjend and love each disinterested effdrr ' power to bestow : ^ith a salary of two ' liberal distinction, utiDg: among them- leir delegates when I medal, and fifteen lis countrymen, his ween the Catholics the enlightened of y refotm^that of ed them both upon i^PPy prospects, of ics to the elec^ve and how insignifi* ion! I ir petition on ihe resigned his office eir thanks. wiai.a _ ich they said "no at Havre, France, (een permitted to ias inhis pocket-> TVlLLrAM MICHAEL BTlt^. 31 ^•esented himself to the Minister of Wat, who referred hira to General ^larke, the son of an Irishman, Tone could scarcely speak' one word of French, yet he went to Camot, and persuaded ih'e French government to send the great General Hoche, 15,000 French troops, 50,000 stand of arais, and artil- lery, to invade Ireland. O^ving to a storm and Grouchy's raisnianuaement, the invasion failed. In 1797 he persuaded France to send another expedition to Tid Irish liberty, but Fulton had not then his steamboajs in use, dltd it failed His third effort was also attended to by France, but- Humbert its general was fas 1 ; Tone was taken. His conduct before the Eni^lish Court iVLirtial was- truly heroic— he defended himself with manly fineness, and gloried in the part he had acted. "Into the service of tiia Frenrli republic," said this vir- tiious>high-iEitided patriot, fl quote Belsiiam,] "I ori£ri„aHv enterwl with the view of fserving my. countrv From that inutive I have encountered the toils and terrors of the held ol" l)utlle ; I have braved thi; dangers of the sb, cov- ered with the triumphant fleets of the power I opposed ; 1 have sacrificed my prospects m life ,v I hiiye courted poverty; I have left my wife unprotected, and my children fatherless. After doing this for what L thought a good cause, :t is but little that I die for it. In such a cause as this siiccess is eyervthins. I have attempted that in which Washington succeeded and Kosciusko' failed. What awaits me I am ayvare of, but I scorn to supplicate or complain. What- ever I have written, spoken, or acted, in relation to>this country, and its con- nexioa with Great Britain, which I conceived to be the bane of its prosperity u^'^L *^°7' ^^^ ^^ """' ''^^'^y ^° ™^^* ^^^ consequence. Having sustained a high rank in the French service, I only wish, if the court possesses such a power, that they will award me the death of a soldier." This request was refused by the Lord Lieutenant,, and ... the pure spirit of Ireland's noblest son ascended to heaven, to plead at the bar of Omnipotence jor the land he loved, and await in patience tjie almighty fiat yet to go lorth, that Hibemia's sorrows and sufferings are at en end, and thatJ*he yoke of the tyrants of the earth shall oppress her no more. 7 Sir E. L. Bulwer admits that "two thirds of the army of Great Bri4in are Irish"— and Mr. Tone explains why this is so—" the armf 'of En"girndiMHP^ nisery of Ireland"— or, as the Duke of Richmond rerfarked ported by the misery „., _ ^...,^ „. x»v^.w.i„iu .ciuariteu when Lord Lieutenant, « a high-priced loaf and low wages are the king's b^st Recruiting Sergeants." Had the Mutineers at the Nore, adds Sir Jonah Barnngton, chosen to carry the B»*tstrtieet into an Irish port, no power could have prevented them, and had the insurrection been begun it is probable they would have done so. IVansfer the Irish in the BritiA fleew to.l'rance, said .Mr. Grattan, and where is the British Navy ? . WILLIAM MICHAEL BrRNE. Thr gentleman was hanged at Dublin, on Wednesdav, July aOth, 1798, for the ollence of being a United Irishman, on the oaths of^"paid and periured in- lornftfS. He was a fine youth, and but one year married— juries organized— escape^impossible. The people often forget and desert their truest friends— when Jesus was on earth they cried, "crucify him, crucify him !" Not so the r/^no Jl^ and powerful. Reynolds, the belrayer, had from them, $200,000,' with ^10i),000 to his family. This apathy of the people is one of the most effec- tual arguments -used by the friends of oppression to those they wish to decoy. Ihey say— «« How^tarely is it that the people are faithful to those who risk ftll for their good !" . ' The day bcfc^e this noble young Iri shman was eTecut pIl, tbp TCnprlisl. a n - ihormesmuUBim, Offeted hima^e paVdon if he would slj^^^iiiM^ tha^ Lord Edward Fitzgerald had urged him to join the insurrection— but (see Pieces of Irish History, p. 149) "when the proposal was made known to him, he spurned it with abhorrence." And it is the Byrnes and the Fitzgerald* that the tories of America wotild banish if they dared. Thomas Beynolds and Artluq; M'Guinness, or Guinness, of PubliP, hiMliag . • V' ^ ■\ ,ootosn Attttr, nent in that line-he is referrpH tn in L!f ^ been employed on this conti* Mr. Byme was 21 or nS 21 vp-rfn'^r ^^'^^ ^^ pa'l«anient. for the cUe of loving KLrtti bet A«^l!r"^^'1 ''J^ '''^^^ "^^^^ritf Seward) with a ^egref of couTgeVrta^te^^^^ °**^ ^'' '^'^ (•*y» ♦ Counsellor Sampson, in his Memoirs, thurspTaks of Bv™-'- a ,^ preservation of whose lifrhanti!^ the execution of William Byme, the many of the prisler?to a„ agreemen^CnS^^^^ '*" '^' signature of all thunder-struck bv wich E^/ W '^ ®u •"^T^^^^^^^n*]- We were when I learned that £«3 ComSalHs hadTp^ 5"'- ^ '^V *''*' '"?'« *ff«««* •ution, but that the facdon hS^velborle him in th™"" "^ ^f"*'""^ »•»«*«•- ■nrrounded the scaffold, and that Wrvomh^J^K ''°""/''- The terrorists Jeath ! This deed fill^ me vXth hottor 1 1^^ n ""'^t' "O^'^^ted, to hi. William Bynie nntillhaJfbSmeCif e,S;^^^^^^^^ anything of Mon prison. Throneh fevor of Mr ll,«K ™„„ . r"^ 7"" """ "» o»«" com- as his^^counsel, he obKleare to cSit S"^ fnend, and then employed al; and^ertainly u„^Zr S^beconcSdr^rnZ^r *^' ^°^J'!,* °^ *''» ^- PerfectAeroism, he possessed, h's life was X?^^^^ *"^ would exculpate himself, at the exnen^P nf .hi , ,' •"" «s offer.' It is not •offerings and oppressions of thp nS«n.. P- l '"°!*'=« ""s of rebel- Ireland, or a system rfTss Suranirhe S' tK" "* ?' govern^enx of "> the grave, would have been its boAt»nHn™i thousands now in exile or lue ani in courage to defeK." o™ament, and the foremost in vir. ' - COLONEL JOHN ALLEN. par?4h xEfflf^S^^^^^^ Ireland, and took an active its op^essors. On the 7th of 7une 1791'^^^^^^^^ Maidstone, Englatid. along wiS Serai Arthnrn^n ^"^^ 5' ^'^h treason, at and others. Father CoigTev wa^^con^cf^ w ^^^o'. benjamin P. Binns, acquitted. Mr. Allen wfnti JmldSelv t^Pr^lf ''?''*'i ^^' '^^ '««' ^^»« tomnt. and advanced to the rSof ffln2 « i ^1' ^? "*'' ^^^ ^"ny «« "eu- •f the most daring and herd" chlract« u'l \^" ^'"^r'' ^^'«=h '^"e iwty at the taking^of SaTRodrSo S* SnJ.r' A ^ '^""^ ^^^ '^^ «t«™in? aWethethighVSenhehadga^Sfhe w^l VTf ''"' TV^^l ^"""''^ ^lonelcy. He was taken Driso^^L^S r^ ^T^"^ °^ ^^'^ was his ronna. Luckily for him he h«A ir<.l!r%;.V ' ?" ^"^.^e'&nborhood of Co- Had he fallen ^imo thThaSds of th«^^?"i.P"'?*I ''?*'»«' Spanish army, cf his capture, he woSd have been t,^nH!Sv">? ^^Y '^"^^ ^^Y'^ii ' «-pJiuesofh«.ti^ ^^rSJ^a^^r^ af sarprise.Ifindthn nployed on thiscond* parliatnent. :led by royal authoritr md met his fate (says Bynie'a death :— bridewell, it was an- f^illiam Byrae, th« for the signature of emment]. We were s the more affected of remitting theexe- incil. The terrorists ed, undauBted, to his known anything of irith him in our com- I, and then employed le -sabject of his tri- 'oge, and pure and on condition that he on of the deceased ■eated this offer was [reposition, ♦ and tell lor to him you Would IS offer.' It is not acquainted with the , to feel the dignity ' generosity, sacred lore so, when it is r years of age, was sw days, received a of a first child. He le persecutions and was of. a Catholic the arms of rebel- the government of Is now in exile or the foremost in rir- lOHIl 0i*KEEFi Id foi 33 md took an active ■rs ago, to remove •r high treason, at enjamin P. Binns, but the rest were the army as lieu- nces, which were led the storming everely wounded I of this was his fi nf ^ w i th o thtt^ Laon fnd had stiH "X-'^?*h'°'"1^^^^^ ''' Montrairail and « PsSS Tha?Lt«„? ^^^-^u^^J**.' V8 subject, at the second occupation (i -^ »i ! J^^nffeance might be glutted after a sleep of seventeen vears— dWp«Thih^"'°^'^°°^ to surrender him on French ground. The geS d armes whp happened to conduct him i^ere soldiers, and lie an officer -tE -«pm ""f ."™^^''' ''*'^««» ^^^ recollections and their du?y- between the waSn/f.ST Pf'' "^"^ the. " toeyr'W^ere at the last Station of French ground Thev li^ flaofi£%!^f'''''i'^'V^^'" "•« iiightatavillagSEa lea'Je O^ Sh S thS; ca;e &" W«r I'-Jfvi^ed a strong r5,m for the prrsone' If n/vTSirrm'^iins^r"'^ ^^T^ '^^^ ^° »»^ d^livTred to tRe . iRnvS^fSS^^'* -'"n""?"' ''''° '^"^ ^»* Robert Emmet ip the revolt of ffi trtUcimifli? ^T ^» ^f'? tb^ Pe«»ce, with his fam ly,Sd „i cSonef ijlenr^ ''^ ^^^"^ sketches, l^e thus speaks of his intiWcy will l.j™^!,r^ * '°"u^ ®^T°i°^ ^^h^^ ^^ ^i^ "8 while my daughters plaved for !L^' ''^ "ever have I been able to prevail upon him to take a cud Ka or ^te anythmg with us. He made a resolution to accept no dinners Uce he Tik^itlReS^at V^! .»»« adhere so strictly tLt ^iS we 'dSto! fil^j V * Restaurant in Pans, 'twas so^s for s^ous. After our deoarture hi. «n Sir'?'^*'""'^'^^' ^*T.^ '^°* ^°' h'^t^o "s'ers, very old aSs,olivl on their jomtmcome and his own. I should rather say LnT/br for as one Sffn T^'kT'*'* ""^^ recognise a man broken by service and vears flSt foco-f ''H"^ "^"^ *^ ??}?y campaigns ! Strangely enough one Sf tS ^hplHnn ^%'^f^'^''^ *hat of Major Sirr, so infamously notorioSs during the Sse fen^ ArnVV°''"-S'*J°' ofD«blm-hut his mother could not rfc^! . Sff.YKiT,'^|?.*o-.dayv He entered. Dublin with one packet and leftlt ^,?t?K""*- P* **'i?V* ^*<* "<>''«=« '"^d 'J^ere prepared.*^ Tl/is was the rt ton to his own home ofthe man who rose up a^inst tyramiyftrty years bS fore. He found it asl^e had left it, in the hands of stranSfe/erlSSS had changed m Europe-nothing in Ireland." "°^®"- *«^erything rhborhood of Co- le" Spanish army, known anything } suffer the pidns i others returned ^ JbHN O^KEEFE. J 'v This celebrated dramatic '^author, wasibom at Dublin Ireland ^ itAy »»a' died atSouthampton, February 4. 'laSSiJ his ^thTearS aauve of King's County, and Us motiier an O'Connor, of w2rfprd.Hr » ^ CiNIEt TRACFf .-CHARLES KEOTAL BUSHK x.yAi, ii epomm-iaw— then "Tbp Ajrreeable Surorise "and " f .o Rn„^ 7 Quaker-The Birthdav-Omai-Se Pr Loners at^^^^^ ThpT'-r^'^T"* Wi^ii^ ''n'r""*^-^°^V" * Camp-The Poor Soldier-Le Glenadfer-TJiP ' W^klow Moun^ms-KanitscI,atka-Pe6ping Tom, &c H^ life haTSso be^ pubhslied ,ri two volumes and a volLmS of hi^ poems? He was a man liuS ; Jrh''."!!'' drollerv-gladdened the hearts of'^his auditors, sent th^m f„/aTr f'^'^i""'^ in his works was the consistent advocate of sTnceritJ^ InA X "^ '"''A^*'- *^'"?">' "^ ^''^ ^'^''^^'^es of character a?e trdy S3' «nd show a carefai attention to life and manners ^ original, AANIEL TRACE Y, M.D. ' ' k&;f^*^''"*'!!i T"^ 'J.'^T- '" ?oscrea, in the Cotinty of Tipperarv, Ireland ^ tTe^'ll fT*^ ""•■ ''^''''?™' ^" ^^«' ^^ terribKvS^^tC^rliie tePv ^ II ^^^'"if 'J"P'-^r'«n. on his youthful mind. He was e/u?atS at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a graduate, and was for somt vlr^ g practice in Ireland, as a.physieian. In 1825 he becamJ a settler TcZdl tt^v^rltZTl^irT '"^ '^'''''"^ .popularity, and was elected a membe; pi parliament, by court mar- ie of giving a le» "With a quick !affoId, evidently , UWTENANIVCOLONEL THOMAS VBXSXtm, ^ But who sliall lighUy say that fame ^no'*»'ngb«t an empty name? ^ ' Where memorj' of the mighty dead *• ' T,.^*l^?"''-worn pilgrim's wistful eye, Ihe brightest rays of cheering shed, . Xliat pomt to immortality. ' *. JBauL^VtttSronThi? din St V"^« ^'^ ^ J""«-and in the ^ a royalist regimeiTt LtJeated to C^Amhlr '''. ^T °^ '^' '^^^ ^^'^ ^^^^^^^ *Kcould-and prepared for the onslaS^h^ of "S^U^^ °k° Pnsoners-Milled all thw 7 LIEUTENANT-COtONEL THOMAS BRERETbN. 4"tha^Tln7in'^^^^^^^^^^ contrast in Ireland. ^^ yi^^ z.X l^e S^oi ihVfl^.^^^ a'^-^'^'^'^C ^^^"^ '" P«^« Bristol in lS31,was brave asa lion but wh^ ^n*' '^'iT^ the terrible riots in making his soldiers trample the EnS^ Tp £ ^^ ^"^ revenge for ages of oppression the? h»rnt^h!rn ^T^' ??*"' '^^ ^°^^ linle : ace, &c.„in Bristol, he shot Wmself mIJ * t^ Custom House, Bishop's Pal- ; bom in King's CoxmiYXS,M^"7fnttT^ i^^^T* ^r^'"" ^» Januart 11th, 1832. ' In 1797 »«,»„; ' . ' *"" ^'«^ "» ^'s fiftieth year i his utlEie Col! Cofhlan-S' had se"vS with" htT '° '^ •^^?* ^"•^»««' ^^ I of the world for twenty-five-yeaJs when T„ ifiP^^K 'f.P"^»»°'\ i" "any part. : ^cer of the Bristol district, and waTwesented S Sf '^ ffi*""^ inspecting Lid- ; ''^'i a «WQrd value two hushed guiC^sl token o^^h'-' °^ '*'' "Siment ; The imnfediate cause of the Brisfnl rW «' » ^ • °^ \^^" esteem. I reform-bill ^ artful frauffiaSK ?17''' """""'u' ^'^'^ '^^ E°gl«l» Wetherell, who had madsEseff venr obnoS^Vl' ■ '''^ ^"^'^'^^^^ ^ir C. proposition for lessening the SlnsS>dT^)^T ^^ ^?\oPPPsitio& to every , a member of parliament, pretenS ^nrlj"'^. Englishmen groaned. A^ detested. When he arri;eratXS A^muS/^t P'^^'^'.^^ ^*« J^^^'y into the river Avon, threw stones at his caSLi*'^ :^'*'i*'**^'J?'' '° ^^'°^ h™ while he crouched and ran into th« m! ''?"'"J«' «»<* demolished the doors, constable, then made He ogous%tTon"r'' ^^ '"^'"'''^ °' «?««S wounded many-a cry of vengeance wifrn^l^^^- ^^?P^^' *"^ ^''''^'^^ and and shipwrights ^-oine^d their fSenTefS^ the evening the sailors corned the Mansion -House, from whTch Sir Phlll^ ''?u'*^^f ' '''^''^^^ ^od disguise. A troop of the 3d Draffortn, »rr:» a lu *"*^ ^^^ Mayor escaped in Mng « God save the Kh^^-Sl^LVItn^'^'^^ "°^? '^^^'«* them, and fired on the people and murdered somf of fe''?i. Next day the soldiers with stones-the troops ^ain fired anTkilled «„^~^''^ /??'« *^^"«d. them then moved to the Bridewell, hberated tKrifo '^*"""'**' some-the people jail, a massy fortress or basti e tha^had cost^h„?r''~.r°^ ,"«» *" '^^^ new It, hberated the prisoners, wd S th- "t^r^^ down the toll-houses and the GloucSter SS „%"? fire-they next burned' was speedily reduced to a pile of asheE-and S ^'"""Tthe bishops palace House. These were the LvementsSvrrJrt^^^y the King, when invited tHi^w fh tif/? ^l* ^,!?''*° **» d^speration-^ven T days, according to annual%SomTd5ri^"no^%l.Mar of London, in these accepted, for fear of the vengeanS of"he fZwt^Ai ^ «PP°'ntment he had capital ! sc»ut-e oi me justly mdignant citizens of his own ^J;Q'QnglJBrftr ft tnnwaB a4^tlii . h«. i ..r.i.. ^■■... -^ -Y""^ ^ *^' «"treiop was a t the head iif thn m;i;i i i- Had not rl^d^d proper aitEv f?om ♦£. "?'? "ary, and conceiving that Jie to shoot down people in coKloShTKw''/^^ P?^^''' *nd being unwillinj •ale. This wa» hV crime The tJlr'"'"''^*^ '*'"«'»«' *•»« "tilens whoK »"artial,of his reluc^^Te to shoot drfwn^^K^^^ T'"'"''* ^'^^'^ * «o"t^ •mce 10 snoot ddwn bodies of oppressed, maddened where his wire, m his body, and be the first and 38 MiUOR-eENEEAL mTTOK— GOV. BBTAH, SfJS'^l,:^;^^ ""^^o against W a brdre to tho soul-and the LTwho coufd"m,t inT"'^' "u^"^ ^^^ ">« «>»' cut hi^ jured, harassed brethren hrstenedtn ,hi/ if"'"'' '° '^^'^ '^e blood of his £ whom he tenderly WedXenden? 'Jl'''^ °J^-, % l^'A two daughtirs WtreJaidinihesiientrtoiiibifpStL^^ " ^?^ relative-and Iiis"remahis g°^j,before hin. to tt w"!ld S" sJiSrC'^'t' ™«^h"'. ^ho had fortStely - her iyrnntsf^^^^^^^^^ and prosperofas- selves ior having committed ihT^Hmiof SusL f 'T"^f '« shool„tl,em- ocnt countrymen! Poor Brereton" h?s hiSt^E ° 'f T ^^^n theirlnno- May he meet his beloved wife 3"nh M, ?^ ^.'^ "''^eed a sad one— very where sin and sorrow Ire unknown W i'l" *" 1^^* ^"'"'^•^f W^^sed anle£ condemn the merciful, nor "uS^y" hi fe^i^^^^ T"' •'l!^'.^ of all wilf Sot- on the oppressed ! ^^^ ,'^ '^<=« ^'oni i"m who had compassion :,:;;. MAJOR-GENERAL IRVINE. V ^^ ' '^'prSSr^^SnS-^ ^fc,i:r^«^ »^« I^ite;! St.tes.and November, 1711. at FenhanaghfnVela^^^^^^^^ ^™"'?'» »''« 3dof a British war ship until the pe^ of^ 77;^°V'''''f* ''" ^""'■8«^°» "» boaitl Pennsylvania-was a (i»ember^of the staS'^nn'^ r^ '^^'^'^ ^' Carlisle S commanded a regiment of th^ knnsvilnn.rr '°"t *" 1774-raised and Inshmen-was taken prisoner in CunS.^,^t Ime in January, 177G, chieflj till exchanged-was , then Sd ?n comm^T' r S""^*"" "'S'^»^«' «'™tfi2^ reg,ment-and was intrusted b^wishfuS ?n ,"fii'''*''l''°u"'^ Pennsylvania Northwest Frontier, then threatenofl T^,i ifl/^l with the defence of the war he Wds sent to OonVess nn J h„S^ ^^^ ^''.''^\ ""'I Indians. After the constitution for PennsylvfnTa ThU if '^*^ '''■^^ convention to frame « r. ?'. t™^"'=«'» freedom and^he rTi^oKi"''';'- ^T'^r I^P-ienced war! Philadelphia, ia his 93d yeat. ^. ^ ol. man, died July 29tli, 1804, at «EORaE BRYAN: aoVERNQ^ OP PENNSYLVANIA ^ fou^nTitrrsSttreSdrctTf'^a^di?? 7^''='' ^\^'^ adopted country. He mgton a free r^vn^h^^Gelfe^T^^^^^^ " under Vash! Anierv^a in earl>Jife, ahd re^^dftSladdnhh'" ?r""^' ^*'""^' «»™« ?«> in Cqmmerce-Bul in 1765 wa8 sent to rl„^ "** ^^ '^^' *^ ^rst engaged oppressive acts of our i^iported Br" ish Sef, V" •''^'^r''^'" «^^«« the . dence, he took an active" bold, and ve^ dSfrt' „o """^ *''*^ ^" °^' ^»«'«Pen- , and was elected Vice-president of Ih^sunremp ^.v m the cause of freedom-:-^ , vama. In 1788 he Ava&'^clected governor o'^^fh^! executive council of Pennsyl- Tied m his efforts to procure the mssLi '^l^^f a'*:-*-'n 1789 he was unwea- .gradual abolition of slavery rhere-^and so- J. P^oj«»»?d bv him for the , supreme^court of PennsylvL^ GovernTBrvn' T^"PP°T'"^ «*" the iwsscssed a vigorous understand n A SL,^" died m January. 1791, and Mty.miued with long experiei^^f 1^ pv '•"^'?°'>^'?"'^««^'«»sullied iiteg- Jind;arpiable.anda«l^uAarASS He^^ pi^ CQA^ONEL TSMC Prtiltii. \ against him. a brire sed i|i the court cut him i|d the blood of his I'n- «e left two daughters itJTe— and bis"remaius er, who had fortunately igent, and prosperotis— required to shoot, tlicm- slioot d^^ He was born in Dublin, in 172'6— his parents were poor people, persdhs of the liumbler class. But he was an apt scholar and a brave soldier. In early life he chose the army as a profession— rose hi^ghier and higher, the reward of most uncommon merit— and in 1761 \Vas brought into the English parliament by his countryman, Lord/Shelburne. Barre could not fawn and truckle— no .^ri'irlil-heartcd Irishman ever can. He oppo.-ed the British government when .wrong; they threatteneJ him With loss of office; he was not rich, but his mind was his kingdom ; he remained honest. " . * Of course he was' punished. Government took from him the situations lie held, of governer of Stirling Castle in Scotland, and, adjutant-geneml of the British anay. They went farther— they dismissed him from the army alto^ geUier. No matter— he pc'rsevered. Ond day, when denouncing Lord North, he frankly declared, " that the conscience df the Ministers was seared with guilt, and their titrpitude unexampled.^' ,' > When melT's minds had cooled , down^Barre's prophecies relative to America been carried to fulHlment— and new rulers placed in po\T^er— the injus- tice done hin/w£js thought of, and a pension of £2,300 a year granted him, which he gave up and was ap^iointed to an office of emolumeju, with no diffi- cult duties. He died on the 1st (some say the 4th) of July, 1802, aged 76 years. In old age he was stoi\e-blind. So'was America's great enemy, his • old opponent. Lord North. They met in Batli, and on being introduced to . each other. Lord North said, " Colonel, you and I have often been at variant:? ; but I believe there are no people in the wbrld, who would be more clad to SEE each other." ■ . " Miss Edgeworth, with her usual good taste, enumerates Colonel Barre among those Irishmen of whom their country may \M\ be proud. In his first lecture delivered at the University Chapel, in 1841, on the American, Revolution, Dr. Jared Sparks said, that " Colonel Barre, who was joined by a few other true friends to America, ai\d who had himself served in America during the [French] war, made a speech against the Stamp Act, which may be pronounced one of the finest specimens of extemporaneous elo- quence ever uttered. In this admirable speech Colonel Barre first used the phrase ' Sons of Liberty,' as applied to' Americans, which was afterward adopted vtiiYi such enthusiasm by the ardent patriots in every part of the con- tinent, and was so well suited to the popular feeling at that time that it be- came the bond of union among theit leaders, ^nd produced an almost magical effect on the ears of the people." ;^ _ . _' ^ _ • _ ^^ _i_ WILLIAM OBR; ' ;hman— who, when s great republic io Canadians, lifted up Though perjury doomed thee, dear Orb, to the grave, ' ^ Thy blood to OUR Unioi) mote eoergf gave. V . , ' ■• J ■ ■ ..V . ' - • • TpB immortal men^ory'of this glorious martyr for Ireland's freedom, is sweet to the soulaof millions of his countrymen. He wqp a worthy gentle- man of Ulster, who loved Green Erin n^ore than' his life, and assisted in swel- / '' i' 40 WILLU9 OXB. I melancholy. hoiyoF, and indignaS ThrSarv tf'"'"'* f »''« ^««Pest tion consisted of several thousand men hL^SW** '*^^*"*'*'* ''^^ «ecu. company of artillery, the whol^ LmJn^ if n •* ^°°^' ^"^ cannon; and a ; j*«4hisdying dUm^LTin a&^^^^^^^^ To these mJoiJ jiis deportment Was firm/unsJakeT'aJdTm^rJ^^^^ most mdusrnous habits : and in the charaSs Af I., if S'^.'^ ^^^^Is and of • wisely, for British goB. The tare »e»Sj''i'"°."' ""■ >« ^i »wi)m Iiapes will assist in.presenSK?shoTtho7^^^^^ Thank heaven, thS nghts. what British goveramfm is ^""^^ ^^'^ T^ b^ careless of theiJ leading star and follows its guidancf though sfom^^^^^ P'^fT'« ^^' h« If hfr *"•* '•T^^^' '"'^"s« his desSny^his ciSsp lilT'' '^'"j'a^f done If heTias pursued it undauntedly and fSfulfv hf !^ ^\ t««n""re true one. his fortune or of his life, but nem of S JS'„^ may sbffer shipwreck of that brave and honest man, who wShout to?Sf "* " J"8 honor. Such was mighty talents, and of rha midiirsSofwET/" ^^^'^'^''^ S^V-^ «' " , habitation, and with whose h6nest name I^Sf ^ "^'.""^ '\^°^^ ''A fa its such was Wtf/,a«, Orr. He was no boTstfuffir^"'^ P'°"'' .'° ^^ identified- lov« -was for his country, and his Z^lS^on^^^'^A v^^""^^ '«"^«'- lJ« have never seen him as T hnir. T„.. « '^"^ "^ deliverance. You whn countryman ; but SSupoJ wKrJnfSI^/^LTf '^ V'^ ^"^^"S^ dwelt within his brist. An4 thoS i? matter If "'"k^^'^ '^« ^"^"^^^ «hat «» i ■/. . ■ icnficed to the moloch ears of the eighteenth ^as executed thereon i of hisYeUow citizens WW, quitted the /laife r napless countryman, a sentence was inter- icture of the deepest o attended the execu. with cannon; and a ■e. To these Mr. Orr ly tone of voice, and the last instant of 'Plary Morals and of Id. lather, and neigh- ore his country wa* actions ; and his last a soon be emancipa- ited Irishmen's oath a that he had sworn e drunk. Truly did le and death are not Mts which show the 1^ a Scottish, Ameri- songs of the north, of the blessed, and an important chup. 5n to his advocate,* i he drew a picture ^ank heaven, these be careless of their int's- foaxiin, unite at prmoiple for his nl, will havf done been the true one. iffer shipwreck of honor. Such was lendid ge^us or to most apt to fix its to be identified— iring leader, ilia ranee. You, who 1 plain and hodest d the virtues that are the outward et, let jme say, he^ r proportiQns, was es and traitors to stile government, I \ .«* J^HK WARNFOBD A^MSTROKO tnsu r r4ct49rk'iittr- - • 41 " • In the presence of God I do voluntarilv declare thnt T i»nH ^^^^^^ Sadeavoring to.form a brotherhood of afi-ectKm^^^^^^ hgious persuasion, and. that I will also persevere mKSvor^ to nhtafn *i equal, full, and adequatp representation of all the peK of Snd ' ■ Z?n T ^'f ""^ f^^ ^""'"* ^'^ '« »he:acf of p'iyer Mercvtas ostfi ■ opon the sole condition that he would acknowledge himS tot a fufltJ man. His fortitude was assailed through the affections Tahrntltr nil i^ ^ears andprayers, and lamentations of a beloved wfrandftSSut^U^^'' k-l fa?he;t''o^^wr'5f '^ *'^.«^ *^« affectionfof^l„d\lMnTfe£ ?f fe w -^^ *°'^ happy home. Li/e ^as dear, for he was Sihe' season :Ja ^^^' enjoyment. Children and wife were dear, and friends were dpa? "jte«f *" V^r r"' •'** '^''^^^ «"'' h'« <'"'h were5ear"r still •'"' nessJd'fh?m7wt'ts^l":''""^^' '' ' '^^« ^^""^ '' »«^^ ^^ thoSwho wit- t^'^'^l^l^rrZXr'^^^^^^ ^^^- ^^^ presiceteTaSl'Sl •'fl.rlJt^.u^®. ^'''^"* close^-here let the curtain fall. I will not lead vn.< SJ fStJLl"^" *"*' ^** *°'J[?^«^ «?"**»» °»»''<'«^ too Wdeous lo be told too foul to have a name.' Let this serve as the «pitome of Ireland's histnn;! deirdrhlf «il?1J^t':r' and cr„elty ; a V^mtm t"al wwffi -;;;k if .L ' "" *"'*' and; torture, and ruin, to such men as this allipd if«ir ^t^rS— •'^' ""T'P' ""l^'^ ' '^"^ 'f I have any dtle "o youi favor « IhllJl^'''' °' **'*9*'' J^^'''^ y°" partiality woild imput J?o meJbut thiJ itifcS °' "* ""y oPPo^'ion to this misrult sincere.^ r3ute. And t u to take unlawful that this enact* id 'peep of day aged, rewarded, : they aimed, for ^ J(|HN»WARNFOED ARMSTRONG.' We hear a great deal ~ about Vacation in these timw -■nil if thn »i.<»i- ^«Mter pu«„e . p|« by whiqh men amy be rSdTreS wTs^r'SJd bel!«^S 42 JOHN WiCBNFORD ARJISTHONG. '■a 't: \ , on?icSrtt"Ste"i^? -'"^ could neithe^r^d^or wrl.e, not • 1 to deliver up wSwd fc^M t^ ^^'^5^ ^'?'''^''t^!4^t' »«r ^ .1 mense rewards in nicn; Sled Sciumi^^^^^^^ I™' the very poorest and Avorst educi^ed r./fnr? T^,"T"' ™"">' thousands of Inlbrniers and spiek eZd onl v he fnln I ' ^^•^"larslup went) of tfte people. \ haps in no land a?e the ma^S n% /,? r """"^ '}''' '''"""^ °^'^J>« »?e! Per- : ^ and France they are beh"d tlic Un ed sf.'.n' "' '^'f^ ""^-'^ ?■ ^'- I" I^"l»in ' ' Union, the officers apSted to tK^lf» . ""l^l"!?;.';" this highly favored 'I hundred thousand SfnersonJo.ViiJ^'''*^^^^^^ could either r6ad or writ?^ S^^^^^T ^*^"' '^^"^^ ^ would be well to reflecTupon the letn^^l . • f ^ ^? undervalued, however, it . many peoples, who have nTintLr,.nLl H""^ '^"#.^' °'' '^'^ ^^'^^'of ) . reading aAd writing. """'' possession the keys of human knowledge, were tempted by EnglS golS to LS- ?^p f J^-^''t ^"'^ informers who was, in 1798, an officer of ^he S„„'i'^^ ^'^J'''"i^."r'«& the eighteenth century, licly. thanked, JeS;j,'and tl eS^W S 'J? ^'^ ^"^^ ""^'^ P"^ magistrate. I am told that he stiuS Jodi^ roy^l Ammission as a British - victims of his'youthful denrai^itv W f,?fr '•"•!«"='"? '" «''! a^e oyer the innocent him. A perusal of my 2mo?^'^^^^^^^^ 3'S i?"" ^^"'"' ""^^'^ hired to his character, while the fonL^li ^ ^^^ ^^^""'^^ ^'^ "fford a clue for obeying his oSers lo't^tuS wX"iii il' thl" « ''■ Y''''' ^"""^J^^ which he was merely a vile instTumem n ft ♦"• , ^""^'i government, of apology to the reader f«r in trll?.?^' i" "^ *'"^ '="'°'"'' ^^^ '"rm an ample couldt morfhSrSbleThan to t "o^hal^oT; '^'°^^' ""' \™"'^«' ^^^ honored sUch monsters as RevnnlL a?! a ^*-S*'r™'*^^'»' that used and United Irishmen? i^eynolds and Armstrong • Who can blame the me'JceS'ry lis, w^^^^^^^^^ Sov^ K^' ''T ^^"^ ^««"'P^^v« "^ the his step.J-to spHntVhis priS ftfrr"^ J"' victim-to dod^e about path, which well awl es tTSTt^^n^^^^p^'^ ^°".se, pud crawl a^out his Burke, « the seSs Kstr Jcti^n are sol^ S^ P??- *'"^ ^"'^'^ »« these, says ' itudes. The blood of wSesomrkiS U fr/."^}^'ZTP '^"'^ «°«'«1 hal are surrounded with snared An !).„t? ^ ^^cted. Their tables and beds ' ^ and comfo.^hK'SJ^'^er^ ii^f ?«,giy«i 1^ Providence to make life \ This species of universal suEScvLtS""^?^' °^ ^^"""^ '''"* t°™?°t. ; behind your chair the arbUer 5 vou?'l ?p l^/f*! ^^^""^"^ ''«"*'»' '^ho waits degrade and abase manS nn/t j ^""^ fortune, has such a tendency to i state of mind, which alone can m„f ^^^'T '^"'^ ^^^hat assured and liberS God that I wo^d sooneTbS m^^^^^^^ Tnl^T^^' ••° ''^"^hat I vow to opinions I disliked, and get ff of the m^n^n^f l,^*"" '■ ™'°e«'iate death for fret him with a feverish fein" tainted wl and h,s opmions at once, than to servitude ; to keep him aboS'eZnd I i-^l''!^''''''*'"P/' ''^^ ««ntagious rupted himself anS c^uJtinJXboutWi; "'""'''* ""^'^ of putrefaction: cor- ofttSSfiafs^t^^^^^^ cantUe and corporate monopSs Ln £ hoT^' '*°u ''^",'?'°^ *°*^ °^" »»"- results. Armstrong aSa1nheoS;rv.i^ ^^"* ^t f«"ow«& trial and its what would gratify thrruHnffDowirsJh^^^^^^^ "^""^l^ °°'y ^^'"^^ to do der in cold blood whnpli; tg f/ S f Vh J ° ^ ^^L^l^^^^''" *"«" ""t to mur- .. _ ^ ■■ -4 ... .1 I. >'■. * \ ^ \ . to society-will rpsult y prcji^Gpt, u-JiiJe inteff- riMn^lntl Mr- La- ghan, that that bov(Twr^nn\^Z.tV V ^"'^ P^ thf ^ame time said to Wolla' ihan's gun, and e/dSvS oTri h'fr.t'l "'^' '^^ "'"" ^°' '^"M "^ ^^olla- off, graled her i«S^s S.lid ho him^.r """"' T^^^"'^'^ »'*« Sm Went ed on a form-turned^ hi^eves and^i d ^^m7 ' ' '''i°/ ^'^^^"'^d-lean- laghan's firing the gun, he weJt out at S do^ «n'i' ^^^-^r ""^^ <^" ^ol- and said, « Is nbt t^e do" dead vet ?" HU ^ ,K ^ '?• ""i^^"'^ ^™« '"^turned dead enough ;" upon wWch WoIKlh^n rnlr i^f« •'^P'r ' " ^^ y>^' ^"' h« « " For fear he is nSt, let him tlk i ?h ?. » t'ti' .(^"»§f "« gun at him again,) her son's head, when tfeTl-and& ^^'^^^«^at that mstam hold^g u^ whaVeV^^aS^fbryDol^^^^^^^ Armstrong,1,ommanLr KrSi^a STv^' ^'""l^ '■''}'^'^ •'^^» Capt trayed thishearses, ' K'^' ?'' '^'P'''^'' '« them on the spotT This order wis LfnJi n °^. '^'"'"Sing them in, but to shoot poral K.) coJ^mumJated this toTe ctps """^^'"^ ^^'^^ ^^^'^' «"*^ ^' (^or- Kinyfcol'tfSti?TaM7„'''hl?'''^-'^ A™«^'o«.^ of the ANY REBeIs WHOM iiE SUITED ^'^^Tn^f'*^ ^^ ^^^^ command to do the same." LieutSt Tomi,n"„ '°l''.,'''!,P'^ople "nder his swore that as to the rebels "k wTLnol. if ^^'^^^ given.not to bring in prisoners " S«""ally miderstood that orders were count?ytitt"t r^LlV'^U'vIrilVbd-P^'^^r °^ ^!l^ ^'^^^ ^° -" the duty to shoot anyrebTthevmetZhh al '?'J understood it was their heard that other^corps had'siSr'cl.ttTonTKhtl^ria""'' ^"' ""' ^'^'^ ^^Sti^i'ii^^^SiTr^^^^ to the land oFBridsh jSstic? W^^^^^^ ? ^'^'PP'"^ '»»«'» ^« could his comrades in c^Shavell^terwile' ' Thev I '"'^f "^l" ."^ down the disarmed Irish, monthraLr tbTrJt.^^''^™^^^^^fb^*'^ «^^^ walking into their houses and m?,r^»;r t« '^'^olt was over, in- c6d blood, , could tSey ^n^lh^SlZi^TtZVtX^ "^ ' - .^^Ptam^mstrong received no censurrbli 1!^^ ±^1 1 » r. Ws wishes. VXtSTeh^^ Marquis of Corawallis affent forPWi^lJ P"«">g ona show (if justice, the irt martial, of which ober, 1798, by order ?g"e*niaker, on the , -ff . \ ♦■ >■;■ 44 TBK REItLTS. y r -T-r . ^"J'n^A^^l^^^^*^^ ULSTErI^ENBRALS ANDREW ^^ AND ALEXANDER, AND COL. EDMUND O'REtL^LY. roett against Algiers, was aa Irishman-some of the Sost 5iSmn,1K ^ " atS;^ wlre'S^e?ir'^^^^ at the tttK FoSn^tl 3^nT!!f th r. ,t V ^^ *P-?«gh O'Reilly, an eminent catholic divine ftresi- dent of the catholic cjjUege in Antwerp, and a near relative of Henrv O'Rpmr the learned aut^hor of the History of Rochester and wSm N^^^ ist ot^TtSattetSr"" °' ^"'"'^»/' wasto7eligh7ed''whhlS Zhi^lU5^^Tlf^^^ his papers at his ^^fPfaysT^Sr Lfelf-S SSSi^SiaS;: . il^lSlSrhJijugraT^^^^^^ -- ^- principSTytrel Andrew O'Reilly, Count O'Reilly, General of Cavalry.in the Austrian armr A may be considered as the last warrior of that disSgS£ class SfSV ■ o^cers,4he contemporaries or eleves of the Lacys. S^S^TLoudons Brad^ «nd Browns, so renowned in th^ reigns of Maria Theresa and Jbsenh TT fr- *• 2^ the second son of James O'Remy of BaTnco^^^^^ ^ Sl.?''^,^ra ^''°f*^*"^^>^'«f Thomas, tl^'jS^ \ SfiustrSL Arrnv 1;^"^ «»»« remnants of Z^ on h L aI J i ^k"'^!^"^-. /" ^»y' 1809, be was Governor of Vienna. •nd on him devolved the tink of honoraBly capitulatins with Nanoleon ihi ^'""'^Lf^^.^^' .^°""* O'ReiUy died at the^ KnTty-two '^n vfenna ChS';? •''^P^ *••" r'' ofWeral of Cavalryin thrSrirn'Arn^!and SLSvtaTho?nrM"?l'-2^''''J"P^^^ ^''^^ °^ M*"» Theresa. H^sister SedSfi *^'''*- No son or daughter inherits his b<^ors. He ; Colonel Edmund Biii O'Reilly, Governor of Lanesborough, gave Ginckle no ' iulhS,""%{"T ?' '^''f ??r '^^ Shannon, prevfousTth? battle Sf iTn/ .J J^t* Governor of AtLlone, Maior-General John Wauchope, a Sipni S^«**^'»«'»"' '^aAed Colonel O'Rdilly that General Ginckle t^uld SSks on th r' ** '\^ Lanesborough ford, and the latter threw uj Z^g ^?n„!i "^^ Connau^ht side, so that the design had to be abandoned. ThS Sme XV •?'* r''*^/u^ni?^*'»««"«»«°^*«dP0^«rf«l house ofS E;^^!^?; i l'^i. ?^.^!!?,"I*^^^" "^^'^°.^^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ nob ilit y ^fT Hs tPr ' " 1 ^ oTeillv Kan„ "^"^ possessions m 1607-Ke was a son d^ Col. PhUip C»VhnuL • Jallynacargy Castle, who commanded the troop» of the IrisK SS .2?*'' '" ^?'*^'° .*.•»? 1™« "^ C^iarles I. In King James'STarmy, ia 169° «<»'»1^0PPO8mg English domination were Cdf ^aw, author of «nd was King i^xn^i^xZl^rl^rtZS^^ member of the Jristparliamem thai v^nr fn '^J!- ^^"^^ Oge O'Reilly wai and John Reitly reprtJented the Coumrof ^^^^^ oT "'^ S^^""' '^"'^ ^hi"P J»ad raised one regiment of IboraKothpr nV .^^^""'^ ^/'"'J'*^ ^"'' ^^o reared to France (^th the S aray ^''r .h/<^,?r^T' ^fr^"^ J*™««. his ^randson,a captain in the re"St of n N ^•^"^^'^^'l 9^ I'lmerick, and con3idered_^(says aiacGeoheg^) cSKf ?he ch^, ' 'V\l '"'? '?'S«''«' ^«» he Irislt bards, in 1787, nTen4ns Mad^m m ' •„^'«''^«'' *he historianof , „ '^'ngr the last of that noble but Sortun^t«Tn,^^^^^^^^^^ countess of Cavan, as ' (says^O'Callaghan in his GreeL Boo^^^^^^^^^^ oflshoots aiid Cayan, and there are not a few in impri^n n ^ ««'% survive4ii Meath hi^.hy,arede^5Snt:'^aS^^^ , ^^^^^^tS:t^ I-land,in the ye^ His careQnwas brilliant and successfSl til .l.n^/°i^^ ''Tl'''^ »" «"ly age. difon. He was.a catholic, but o^wha fill' f*/^^^^^ "'^ tte Algerine expe^ . been able to ascertain. Hi; death tlk pkS in SnL^n n^^* '^*°J ^ ^'^^^ ^«t The armament fitted out by Spain aS? ^.^P^^'^^^f a^ryadvaofted age. .^ast centqry. and placed unde^rlhe SoSSdt ^r"' ^°Tl^ i.*** close ofX , was one of a most Ibrmidable charLte?^ Thiri «'"*''■' ^^^ Conde O'Reilly. ' wclve Ingates. and thirty-three sma 1« JtluZ-lu "'' ''P^'^^-hattle. ships General Romana, who fell beLe Sw a^'tlJ^'' T rT^ "^^^'^^O mSi. f,=»»°»«°10'B^iIly.and thwa«e7hhh'"eat1v k c^^^^^^^ the-^ beach near Alders 80 onn iU!,!>,Lk f ^ council and elsewhere. On- >yasion.-bm,hey S'itS.^drceruToA'^ /^treated wiUi CTeat loss • thp ivr^^I ^ ^ " *"® *^"y' ?«' inghtened. and ot^ained an imSe qTanJ ^^ft, taf/sto'^es^r *° ^^ 5^ ^^^ ^^ some to have displayed but Jittll «! ,„ ^ . i ."® commander is said bv he attacked: He was at thVt . °^''"*'^ ***^J?' °' knowledge of the coS I son of Col. Philip troops of the Irish nes's^^rmy, iii 169^ 'Belliy, comnundcr ;.: .HENRY JO,y M'CRACKEN.' , l)aSf o^SSlS S^TT*'^^'*^ Wsfi;rmy atthe #di:^^t nies, Previo^t'ofhe sTrifee fo^fi^S hy Ihe English auSS! tensive business. « treedom he Was a cotton manufacnirer in ex- ^f^'^'^'^^^^^^ Tlielrishad. Vfod Irishmen singinff^thrMaTseilots hvm„"f '\*°'^ ^^^^ '^d the ^ and bravel»/4c «e(,«?« were drfeaS Ln5^«K " n^°™5v, -^'" fig'»t''>g long Jiung by orders of Xe barbaro,!; S t^ ^^^ ^^"^'^* M'Cracken seized 3 jVf.hisn'byecomynTonJ .^^JTeS^^^^ ':Ifawhil,>idX • I. were confined by th^ helmpf wK;„i. it I^j J°® "^'d' l*'^ loose, flowinff locks I his pye beamed Wh S^ fl« S ^21?.""='' ?^ ^" ""^'^ bro^Ste his.bative mountains, and gSota?^^^ i The damps of the aun« "»»y' ''y the judicious .manr^ Sis battfe Sf wlrJ^r' '?"T ^i'^l '*•* general was made prisoner. In of irS L cJJ^'^^S received a flesh wound in Ws leg. In tL campaign ot 1776, he served under General Gates at Ticonderoca who estee^d h.^ ti^iTcr°V"J^' TVT ^'^^^a^ifitary talentrbuTfbr "his SowTedge'S i^iudK nV hi- u? ^"i °f. ^""' ^'»^^ ^'^ «y« ^as neatly c^ujil to a measurb iVoffifp/ Ite'!^? andjlistances, a talenf of incalcufable lonsequence in Th?S;«t^L w,J K* °^'^'^ campaign he wastjreated a brlgadiS-generat aS&i andXthir.* f "'''* "^^i^^^^ effieientofficer, received Snc?«' t~.fc o tnankii of congress for his "brave, prudent, and soldieriv Snr.?« -^^ * conspicuouWpart in the caiiipaign thaUended in CornwSlisJ SdtiZi rf hK^-^'l'^S " valuable fe,S;at the close of the war in mSKeamJbn iSn'-w^^* '''9'^'%^f ^eWral St. Clair in the com- »bte treaty anyL?l.?tS;^*S°""''l' ^""^^"^^ *»"« I°*«ns, made a favor- WKsi !!^.k L '/"A?""* ''""«'* on,the shore of Lake Erie. 17TO hp ^pifiti?"^ ?^^ "^^ '?*''l"S °° *h« »"*«k «n Stony Point, in July, Si Lrhe altf ?n*K2° •*"• 5"?*^' ^u^^*^'* ** ^«« «"PPo««d wodd prove SeSd »o nrS?,!S ^ '^^"u'^ i"'° *^« ^°''^«' »t" he might die on the Sember of thTtti^*'"?"*' '*'*' ''^ recovered. In 1787 he subscribed as a Se"mcoLtfSJdr„^teVl°°7f''™' the instrument which declared the S^ctober 1SS ri^o^rw ^'""'^^ '° ''^P»'» °^ the supreme law! Chmeh S«.p; n' <5e°"«» ' Wayne's remains Were removed to Radnor derLlSron 5?;!% ^;r?y^r»l«' ^y Ws son Isaac~the'Cincinna?X SmrfohfsSlm^o'^fhlS'*" **'^'"' appropriated «500 to erect a Snnfejfi'l'!? ?/J."!^F^°' 'ft 1776, felt the full force of a remark of Gov. pMji'yaai. mat " ao pnca w too mkm m hi. rmiii r.ip th« w.«i«.*u..w^- -*■ i ¥ f "SJdenel V^JT^ * '! '"" *l"^" '^'^' ^*^ f"' ^^ 6 mftlmWfclide of OUT A WWCT" 6m;t«?{„^'"'**T**° ^^ 5^ ^"»^f>^ «» subjection to a>foreigt» 1 S-" Let ^^Z ^'* '*P^y *° "° ^''^^^ »*' the Irish toluntecK, exclaS ^ SloughSb^aSXSnSlL'^'' i« * Pro^e wl^^ .trengtk "traoNT yrme, •ne of the signers of the irope, took an early and IS a member of tlie con- ch met in Philadelphia, the most accomplished In March, 1776, he be- nor, and took the field listed in framing a con- inted Chief Justice 6f i of the Unhed Statf^fe. naiji died January 23d, ume, and learn what fs! _ ' WJT. EDWARD BB05IO00I.Kt REY, EDWAllD DROMGOOLE. If WAYNE. as bom at East'town, er was a tanner and a !r had commanded a . ^e, at the battle of the 2. the youthful and 775, was unanimously n 1776, commanded a lisplayed both courage i Thompson into Can- le behaved with great ! judicious .'?*" ™ great respectability and undeubted patriotism, before whom ne toolc the oath of allegiance and fidelity, administered at his own request, *°M* <'^"'fi'='**eof "f^'i'ch he\:onstantly kept with him. Mr. Droingoole travelled during the war of the revolution, everywhere, performing M mmisterial functions. He was in the neighfcbrhood of Halifax, worth Carolina, when the news of the Declaration of Independence was received, and after preaching to a large congregation, he read to ihem from his stand, at the request qj^ Wilie Jones, Esquire, and other distinguished patriots of -the town, that ever-memorable manifesto. ° • , • ^lol^™***"' Brunswick County, Virginia, where he resided until his death m 18J&, in the 84th y«ar of his age, having been a minister of the gospel for . more than threescore years. ,,,, . He intermarried with Rebecca Walton in that county, whose ancestors had immigraled at an early period fiom England to Virginia, but whether they descended from the family of the bishop who compiled tl^e polyglbtt bible, .^r f rom old Izaak the fisherman, is not clearly ascertained. They livetf Ban. ' pdy together— raised and educated a family of children, of whom George C. uromgoole, at present a mepjber of Cppgress, is the youngest— and left them a competency, acquired neithter by. speculation npr extortion, but the result of economy and honest industry. Of such are the nqbility of America. The class who prefer to wepve, sew, and plough, rather than gamble cSlite in Idleness, are the bone and sinew of free institutions. The weavers of Europe are among the earliest and most nsefbl clasr of American immigraiits-Columbus was a weaver and the son of a^Weaver; but -ina iMiivca in hig-d«^ hud eH i abliabed no Luman-taiiff nor tweiily-y ear / CM ^Ir L^n ,, . ..JLi "" toiauuDMcu uu uumau>uinu uui iweuiy-year- ahen-bdl to add to the difficulty, expense, and perils attendant on a settlement ot the western world by their adventurous brethren from beyond the AUantio .Tt!!i *^ ]»2^«n royalty ttied the experiment in part, prior to the revolution, t prodoeed effects that had.not been dearly witicipat^; 4ff ^ EEVOLUXION'Anr COLOXELSF, .C0:L0-?IELS MOYLAN, STEWART.PROCTOR, ArltEl • ; ■• ' . FITZtJERALD. " . • •ho f^ ']"'!•''"'? ^"' "'"'^ "^ ^^^^ .ftcts relative to these Hibernian heroes of Mr^i^f^^^'l^''''''''''"'' " ^"''i''"' «*'»"♦ ^>'« ^'- Custis, was an officer of cav- ' •': Twn ?• ^™T«=*>\^7'- «f 177G, often attached to the person of the genel " Moylan, Carroll, and a thousr ::d fieroes may sleep in the silent tomb but -^Colonel Walteb. Stewabt, who commanded the foarth PennsvlTania ^ - ^ ment at the Batde of Brapdy wine, and ol" whose opportune Srv and mHuary skill, honorable mention is made by Mr. CustisI was a native of Ire- ; ■" ^^ ^*s Wa"y Stewart, says Custis, " who, at the battle of the Brandv- wmc, commanded the 4ih Pennsylvania regiment, composed of newly-raised ^ S;« .^ '^"J ^'i""", *^." ^'''''^ ^'''^^'^y ^''^^^ duwn^wo files ; The youn; ^ ^ beami lH^AV'^^f^'T^' ^^^'" Stewart-called in the army th/S ?hp fc t^-f ^'?"J tis charger, and, placing himself ih the gap madTby ^ SSiAaSSj'J^^'^ "^"^ '^^^" -"'^' -y •><'y«' tIeL ieK j M^^!Ia u ^"'^ ''^°°^ ^^'^ flowedon behalf of; American liberty-the no- I blest and bravest spirits from, the Emerald lUe have perilled life and freedom' ' for the stars and stripes. Subtract from the defenders of the Union the IriX ? S^r 5 M ^^^"^ *='"'^'^'"' ^"*^ ^''« ^^"1 undertake to show tha Uie rerSinl i be nS? w\^ P'^'-r*'' *'^'^- •'T'^"^ ^ When shall this debt of gSd; . be paid^? When will America be able to publish a record like this vo ume * ^anlysonsof the Union, wlio^have draVn the sword in deSj^ I nP p^^"*!*^'? ?'^^'y "^ ^''^ American War, he tells^is that « two regiments • ?ivStT'¥rV2^P'i ''" -'T?' ^"^.Sot under arms." Who srpresShe I revolt? The Pennsylvania Line. And who were ihey ? In vol 2 d 2Vq Kamsyr tells us, f that the common soldiers were for the irSsI part Siivea 1 tly were^Afel rntr' 'r'/° ^™"''^* ^>' ^^^ acc^We^^^/'L o? Sh 1 oSpentee'' discipline, courage, or attachment to the cause j inSlS'l^*^ ^" tes have no weighty claim of gratitude upon the Irish-no ■ mJn w.^?"^' 'i? " *'"' y** ?'*^» •>•§ s'^o'd '" defence of &e rights of Irish" I sZv ^t' ''r''"' T", th«y wJ'o»nd<^r General Wayne, ki 791. sormtd ? oS Thf?? h bS^^'^ tlicRoyalists^to surrender at^he point of the ^^ t f»™;l Tj ,1: rVr"^'^'^?' W^*' were'they, under the same general that 1 Son' TlM°fcr%"1 ''^" plains 0/ the Miami, in fron^ of a 'r Jya &™^ Tl.ee-fourths of the troops were Irishmen. During the war of f independence, > where was the Irishman who shrunk from dange?, left hTs col- ' prs, and became a tury ? . There Wiv. not one. Ail of ihcm proved true t^^^^^^ 1 popular government which durin-r threescore v< ars 1 as "^Jver Ihed a droS of human blood, nor ba».shed a single individud Ibr political oSnces" ^ ' !^r^±.^ri!^.^^ t he old Blue Twolution, and commanded by Washinelon. In the cnmnnimT nf iwa ^a mgton. At the batUe of Prmceton occurred that touching sCftie consecrated ^lustoiy to mrlaau .g wmembranw. THe Amerkaa Ut^ wor^ doSn u T ;'*■ OCTOR, Jtl^gi Ilibemiaa heroes of ton P. Custis, who is as an officer of cav- person of the gerier- i-quarters. Teeling, I the silent tomb, but ile liberty is dear to roarth Pennsylvania portune bravery and was a native of Ire- «ttle of the Brandy- )sed of Mewly-raised wo files ; the young the army the Irish ih the gap made by boys, these felloA/s ;an liberty— the no- led life and freedom the Union the Irish, jvr that the remain- is debt of gratitude rd like this volume, < in defence of green lat " two regiments Vho suppressed the In vol. 2, p. 218, J most part natives •idental tie of birth, liment to the cause upon the Irish— no fthe rights of Irish- le, in 1791, stormed le point of the bay- same general, that in front of a royal During the war of danger, left his col- m proved true to a, 'never ^hed a drop :al oircnces." gallant and distin- '^ the whole of the' ■ . liate command" of ^ cer in the old Blue / in the dawn of tbe paign of 1776, and de-camp to Wash- : sSehe consecrated roop6, worn down ''^■l"-;- ■ ' JOHN SMILIE. I* cal rig to his soldiers «\VlJlvnn^;„o„V"'^^'^f"^^ and been placed .h»e .fa tSfofblT»«'''","|r •"'''" "' "'"1^'' ^' ^=^ was aioar of musketry, followei bv "om" ifia, fS'-shoufi'lV,""" r JOHN SMILIE. ■a^^l^fi^"^^^^ Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in thp House of Representatives in Congress, after John r ' Pnlhnnn i • ' u J"* election, when he was found to be beyond the nower of.lVp A lio„ t ^^^^^^^ tifo^isr^' ^^f- ^H'™'^" ?f trtsrin^'oJng^^^^^^^^^ veL?Sence''J^ ^8^2" & f /f "A^T.^ *" ^ naturalization after fij; fcer IfilP thnf'tV^o A ^^»t Ifind by « the United Slates Gazette^' of Novem- ..'rIIk' ■ ^'*«.A™«"can tones kept an evil«ye upon him ever aS Ne»t month^the venerable patrio t pat ri o t breat hed his last,-oa-the-30th^f ^ obituarv notice, from tho/uraBKin^t^.. n. ^ Intem,en^ of tSX tarasTs •- " '^^''^^'-^ ^"^^onai "Died, in this citjr, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, the venerable John Smdie, a representative in Congress Lm Pennsylvania, kged K 74 yejnj • Mr. Smilie btd been resident ia America mora than flHy yean. I: 50 ^vriLtiiit cohtHAS. He was a nauve of Irelan*, but amving in this country at an earfv see wnm engaged in the war oT the revolution Lth in civil and miEtSJffiiS Since tha period he has never been out of public servic*, n c^veKs ?n ._thel^,slature of Pennsylvania, and of the United States, Si wSseve'rS capaciues he has distinguished himself as the firm and oade^adni suppoJSr of repubhcan government, and of his country's rights irthefommenc" raent of the present session, the estimation in which <,e was held wi?cv£ of pS^Tr r'"''"'«''l' ^"^1'°'^"'' station of Chairman ofVheCommiuee ^vJt^ v!o^ delations. He has descended to the tomb of his fathers, crowned with years and honor, carrying with him the profound regrets S his btimate acquamtances, and the respect of all mankind." intimate 15, I cfucAHbn t 'WHre. h^Wf^ear.i ♦WILLIAM COLEMAN. iitT^f p^l*'"'" ^^fe' journalist was born in Boston JJJassacfiJlHfcn the New York, on tlie morning of Monday,' Jul/ 13th, 1829, in thlHIEr of Hn TV ««/^?i'«d »» the Post, in 1815. that his father was a n^^^Kut lm,m Ireland, but he was a^teady opponent of the United Smennm^ never once breathgd an audible wist, throvgh his- pres^for freeS IV^m a f«f &Vk''? !? 't 'S"'' «f his forefathers. He was edSatS for the b^r unje? the celebrated Mr. Pearson of Andover. and acquired the rSSbn of an ShSiVi?'^ '"'=?''''^"^ ^"^^^y^^ •" Greenfield? on the ConJecS river which chos^ Jim as its representative m the Massjichusetts legislature When Ae famous Massachusetts insurrection, headed by Daniel sKrbrokc out William Coleman was one of those who took uparms to dispe«e the inSJ: If JuVS'°^ particulars I take from the N. Y. Evening Post of the I4th "In th^year 1794, Mr. Coleman married the lady who is now Ms widow and came to this city where he entered upon the Uctice^ of law fim as a Kanc^Sen"£rT^?'°",^^'^''='' '4^ ^' aCt"tL:.an"k&l'rS oi: u * . *, During the ascaidancy of the federal partv in this state, he was appointed reporter of the S^reme Court, a sSk,rfr?m which " XuS'u™ ^^''' ^A'" >^' .'^^^ R'^^y became a rJ£i ty?" wpr^Pan *H * ™°.,^«V"a^dis^mguishedfederaIistsin this city, among whom W.^,Sr ?W^?.?' Col- Troup, Col. Richard Varick, Archibald gS ^ref tcKlinhHf 'fT^- ?^r'^?y' ^"^^'J '"^^ PJ«" of procuring a dany' paper to^b«!^bhshed here, which should be the organ of their party. Mr Coleman, who was recoinmended by the boldness ofhis character tlie vSl[ and clearness of his style, and his acuteness in conLoversrwarapS^ and requested to become its editor. He undertook the charged? the new pal Jemb^rf isSl^" ""^^'^ '^ the Evening Post was issued on the iLJ^t tion of oSfl?i long edit^ial career Mr. Coleman sustained the repufa- Stcd Skips A^tK' '''''^ *"*• *'=,!'^'= fionductors of the public press iS the snmllf t^ ^ n"*® ^^'^ ""'"^^ ^e enjoyed the intimacy and confidence of some of the most illustrious men of whom our history has to b«ist -and the satTou.^thK''" ^"' ^^^'^H '^' *"''"g« «f t^°^ wh?;:Sducted « insdtitStlf.hn^"'' P*'"i^ «fi'»« /evolution, whose wisdom framed the eShemtoJl ir°"7w'^'''/"''.'^^^ test w^^ed be^wfeK f^^^ Ainencan people. In the long and bitter conl -der^his .dircctioB, twk^a-leitding- Kn^'uIlfirhs'eSr"'''*'.^- ^° ;''?«^Pa«y he adhered with rctt .^'^■" i WlLLiAS OOLEKJUt. 81 try at an early age, wa» and military caiJachles. rvic*, in conventions, in Jtates, in which severail id ondeviating supporter ts. At the commence* \ie Was held was evin- irman of the Committee of his fathers, crowned i regrets of his intimate J)(asEachj[HHfen the house in l^Hptreet, 29, in thffPR^ear of r was a native of Dub- ! United Irishmen, and ess, for freedom from a icated for the bar under I the reputation of an he Connecticut river, ftts legislattu-e. When iniel Sheys, broke out, f iS to disperse the insuc- j ening Post ef the I4th ] rho is now his widow, | dice of law, first as a 'f )rt time, and afterward ! federal party in this i situation from which i le a, minority, (lis city, among whoiji ; ick, Archibald Gracie, in of procuring a daily a of their party. Mr. is character, the vigor ' wsy, was applied to, harge of the newpa- ^ he Evening jPost, un- J^ He was so strongly opposed to the wnx of 1812, that he stood in great per- sonal danger. In 1819, when he and Governor Qinton were no longer friend- ly, he made the followmg remarks in the Post :— » I understand that Mr. Clin- ton fomplams of my editorial course towirds him as an act of ingratitude, for - that at a time of great excitement in people's minds, during the last war. it was he who interposed to prevent my house being torn down, and perhaps my hfi: itself from being sacrificed. , It is true, that at the time aUuded to, when he i^as mayor, by the appointm^t of thefederal party, and when I had the honor to tlunfc with him, upon the subject of the wat and the general ad- , ministration, I once mentioned to him, as the Chief Magistrate of the city, that I had, among the anonymous threats that I was in the habit of receivinir daily, one in my possession of such a nature, as led me to believe that some% thing like a not was likely to take place that ilight, if not prevented by the . . W'^en Bonaparte returned to France from Elba, Mr. Coleman showed more bitterness toward him than even the despots of EuTopc-he was angry at them because they had not shot or guillotined him inJ813: / " With emotions of astonishment, (says Mr. Coleman), we see that Napo- feon Bonaparte, has again possessed himself of the throne of France, forcine ffifiu {."" to quit tas kingdom and lus countm We shall see the light , /and fickle French people who but yesterday hailef with enthusiastic delight ' ^fl^^iuT^ of the race of Bourbon, to-day rending the air with acclamations ot joy, that the Corsican whom they denominated, a bloody tyrant, a demon in hiiman shape, had returned to bless them. The first idea that occurs is how Sc '?7"^*5i*'r'Tfu^y,^5^™!^ i" permitting a man to live, who had a thousand times forfeited his lite to the laws, and whose existence could not but hourly endanger tlie peace of the world !" He goes on to denounce Napoleon as a "Wood-stained villain," a « stain on the human species," " a blot on the earth," " a wretch, a monster," &c.-praise! the Bourbons-sneers at American victories^and indeed durinff the whole of tlT'/-'' ?T^^^? '^} '^' ^""''l^ «^ New Orleans, proved himself an ef- K!^i V^? of England, harassed and annoyed his own country, traduced SS',?*'^ ' ^*^'^°«' J«ffe?son. and all who stood up for America, and lauded the Bourbons to the skies. r «, ouu ,i,f"" ^uv"" ^^ established the Evening Post, Messrs. Clinton, Spence^ and * the republicans, removed him from the office of Clerk of the Circuit in New York sta^, and put J. M'Kesson in his place^e then issued his journal i« ^reneral Hamdtpn's patronage, as his organ in New York. «« The writer^of these sketches has read with attention much of the Eveniuir Post, from 1802 till 1819 when Mr. C. became a less active cont/ibutor to ite columns, and acknowledges that it displayed great ability, independence originality, and mdustry-that it fearlessly ekposid many abVset-effectSy Recked in numerous instances the party in power wLh wrong or corrupt- and was^the work ol a bo d, frarless, and, I think, honest even wKere mistaken man, with a vigorous understanding, though somewhat violent/in temper. . It IS unjust to censure any matt for the sincere expression of bis honest ooia- wns m lavor of or against any particular, form of government, whether it be monarchy or democracy Pope denounced the selfishness of his age, so did the poets and historians of Greece and Rome, so did the federal editor WiUiam Coleman, so did Thomas Moore. When we take into consideration tha J a large portion of the eaders and supporters of the so-called democratic party i^\'r"^h^:!.s^;trlri^^^^^^^^^ ^K^r. coieVi; »«M r.- Ik Cif — 5 w..«ut, aiiu m iniwer, iuiu mat J«ir. uoiei told, for the puWic advantage, and to his own injury, many unpleasant tri lu^r:'^ui':^:3!t^±l'^±^ll^^^ «'--d^is path. truths he opinions of wgich J" ver the Union by the ired with the closest :o avow its naioe and ■ought to feel grateful for the good he did. mocracy here— re turned — - - - we cyj Iffl Cobbett denounced the abuses of de WlM greater crimes of an aristocratic system there-w^s impoveriXd- if PhL?"K^ti!'"'~''""^''''7-'^*^**T'*-*'»™«««<'- Moore, a sincere friend kil^frl^' ^.^ very antipodes of a democrat, lashed the vices and follies of lus own country; clothed m immortal verse the meanness and criminal policy S2 am PDWABD WttLXAW CtLOSBTSt :<-■■* #■ ■*m Av*^ , -smceritv, and doubted the™|S^^^^^ °' '^^' ^'f for'their;, the unsldUuJness or vices of thj^aioritv ofV^f P^''?''" '^''?™' l'ecatise,of *' • pocrjsy, racan sycophancv and o»?nE^ ,the peophe, and tlic avarice, W- InaUCcMeman'smLy^biiDs XrP ?n ''%°^,™^^^^^ - ft'llowiug extract iromXs'iSh^^^ \7dlpt!f^K"\r''^"»^'^'^ Forbes, (a liberal,) from the city of mshin^Z''*'!'* ^7 ^^r''^ '^*^ Viscount • It is less importan that we slo^uhl all o. r£i ' '^'l"' M?an>rty years ^mce? Jibel; or hoii-tien, than ihat we ihou hlTv^ - ^^^^?" •" ^^«? » ^^^tJi or a turentow; and if found tol^a^e yet sollnn^^^^ «'»^>«- cffort made to provide'a rernX ' L^ i^ .nt^'''^"*'",' '^** ^^*''*' ^'^o^''^ be att , man and Moore, ^d e^TMauhew Carey |h^ T^ •''' T ^"'^'^ ^^"'» 'Cole- ,; . «aiTdiliu(i hopeless. Can iSreTrii^^tT/'i- r" dymg, declared our moral ' ♦ Washington ? Here it i?: ' '^^"'^ ^'"'^ * '««*"y' »«, Wall streettr at ■ I ■ S • A^^i^, 'I''' .*'?.^?"^'/"°'''' that meanest rage. ' wt-f ' 'kJ*^^'"'''''!"'"''"" ••»*»'« van of life; ' ^^'e nobler passibns w»ge 4heir heated strife J, ^"f'^'«'''P°"eftin^l«"nberintherearj ' ' ^^"'''f'^f^y 'Pint iMhisbarte.i„g land; ' Turned hfe to traffic, set.the demon gold , . So oose abroad, tl.atYirt«e's self is.sold, ■ :y^»''5""^"?nc«..t™th,a,id honesty, are matfe - ■ . ^»'•"eandfaH,like6ther^yaresofS" gui Mr, Coleman was succeeded by William Rifio„ c,^ . l iished.editor, and by the late AV^lliam L^^get^^ ^'^^'^' '^^ P'"^^^"* distill ^iR EDWARD William: ghosbie. barox^t. ' . of the rebels had exjercised in tlie lawn ne-ir Th *'"' ^'?^''* ^useX- wijieh he could not prevent. Such wZ Sv ^°"'* * ^^-'^ days belbre, ter his jdeath the royil officers so in^.d^M k" i ^ S^^^raent in Irdand. Af- land.' -In 1800 she appliei S Tcr oflh^ pIj^ '^T>^ ^^^ ^° "^ ^« ^&- goons who tried- her l\usband AnTu was refrl^'^Th^"''"- ''»' *=°* ^^ ^^- §i#:dward's entire innocence, when LSw^r^^^ w.tnesse^o prove the fTovrrnment agents, prevenTod from w;!^!^; ' ^' '^ ™ Jr^t^^^''"? among- sentmel put his bayone tS thek broasr tSfb th "°"" "^J*^ testifying-tlife and he was well-informed of t lei^ erSd st P^'^ ^^ere loyal hrotestants, at the hauteur and cruelty of the nVbnnV ^"^^Y^''^^ ''^"^ had spurned trvmcn-he had comnla ne.l tJ ?t v?i ? Powerful towards his poor coun- .ef5l^le colony tha^S a fSral t.te^ Ht^rf?'"^^^^''^"^ """"^^ ""^^ ^'^^ man, but no^edress was ever liv'en ^^^'^n^'^^ 'i'''*^^ and injured . "Balloon Crqpbie," was thrLTaprnn^f EdvVard'» brother, well known as loon, and took a\urney into ,he skv^n tV^J^ '^^ Hibernian bal- mechanic, of imti^ensrsLture/ofSt^l/K''?'^' ^^ Y""^ ™°«t ingenious ' O'Connell, very like him k fa e and Ct''^' r° T ''''^' '''"«' than^Daniet erow^ls who rushed to see him set «fffc 'n \1*' ^'S''*'. *' * ^^o"- Of the several were killed JLnrCro^i^himsefl?"'''?'° England in his balloon, iin and Holyhead, but .ras tSn ouTafive "^^^"^ '""^ *^" ''* '*«*^^» Dub- Aiie Reverend James q--^— "" < t 1 ) h ti r o V^ lunil WBt^lI-^' •'g^^" -^'f^Q^*^^^^ of the Ifttlf>HgtHllli«llwt <.hllt.Al. !■ I ,-.;•» -r-^ ^\ ** I tlieir vile colTeagrnes r • 5 of that day for their ^ an system, becatiseof*' ;, and the avajricc, liy- in whom they trusted. . nng strdnger than the f Moore, tb Viscount • lan fbrty years since ? er it was a truth era • n it is liict or carica- lat there should be au ' ^ compared with .Cole- :, declared our moral ' in Wall street ior at »'TBE ptriDB^ WEtLirroTON. 53 Jo,force4hem to ^ive eyidence t, the present distii>- -k '. "^'■■^ BAItON^T.' led courts^aijxtiaL^t hanged because 20ft- a few daysbelbre, ent in Irdand. Af- e had to fly to B^gl re the court of dra- witnesse^Q prove iderstanding among" aftd testifying— tlife e loyal i)rotestants, heart had spurned rds his poor coun- id mose like a mis- brave and injured le^ well known as i an Hibernian bal- 1 d most ingenious ' taller than Daniel as a lion. Of the and in his balloon, sea between Dub- / ' f - JUS IJUKl?! ^ oners had been tortured bv-rcnprftP.1 «,.««;■«»» . i- , - against him, an.d appear to have Been nfS f° ^«rce;them to ^ive evidence dftion than that of his condcmratior"^Z nfln'''' '"'"' "^T «° '''^'' '^™- • don i^'ent.pns this'as theTSon X .!.» T^ '^^'Jl''*^^^ '»"d Mr. Gor- defiancc of law, withlield the re^,3. ^ '?'''"^"' "^^''« court-martial, ia faWily-as also tlit" ?he eSioT f ^ '^"'' *■'?"> his wife And unusual bou?, and attended wl^hntrL? the sentence was precipitate, at an thesemeace. After he xSsT.aL'r not warranted by from it, and exposed oi^aTk^^' body, was* abused, his heail severe J - WlW ^JlS'i:,^^^^ what numbe/s have- whencomparedtoth^^ElJSr^S;;^,!^^^^^ .» .■■^_. — ■ •- \ .. •* \.-'«- ■ ■ ,' -^ ' fHE;DUK^.QF WELLINGTONS ■- ' ^ Peer, edWcd a Eton then sent In ir^„i\-^5^^ Mommgton„a poorlrish- . He entered, the ium? as an eS i^^^^^^^ f''^^'^' H^^s. lieutenaut-cploncl of the sU 'ID On L»]?Af"'"'™''"^; ,''"i««on ^ecliijie purchase»'and liuiiily S^cS-w^t on Z f ™?»y.oW pfficers, through fought aiiAtelhughterMv wlileS' Jn r. ^ '^^lif"*""^ service in Ireland- . Naneoloii- touhe Sistant Jotk of !St V.ll ®r ^''^.".'''"^'"y "^ ^^^n^^inff oracle and manly S" ple^clS' Spfe r"''^'^ '^ ^^^ and every hoS Franc'e-liad aSothct 3ln7^fTii ' *^? foreign armies who garrisoned hard-workeJ 7e4.1e S Sail htZT''^ *°^"? from the pockets of the/ of Britain_(8,?„ Prim?Min S7f FnlnS T""t"-'?-fi*'?^'^^ 'J** '»™«/ cipation because it wL fS th .. if °'^'#''?,^^ yjeldedCatholic en«m! hinaer.it. In 1830 iVe ^Ive ll ?o tt W^'''"'^""' be depended' uporTto with peel. • "^ ^y ^° ^^^ W'gS'i And' now again holds office tain, but , said to be excSlv «kJ ^ ''I?"^ '^°f ' .* '^'""' ™ii«a'y cap- ' recommended a stroS^Xent^n^^r^"'*'*'?^"*' '^°'- 'For OanaL £ of all r'eal popular SJS^pX; Iinrt^^f'*'"["P"°?^t''"'^^'^« 'absence o: ./^.. ;r" " ajxmunation. /A host of his poor relatives have pen- ill one of thpsonnrrijc *^ - .?;^.:| •*' \ the''Si5c';Sa^dtSpTn5if Llt^^^^^^^ -^ --" have obtained never.cpuld have stoo6&r£^^f!^t'^L5^^^^ never could havrstoodXT^T^T^ "»^^«1^ .^ ellington's Success. Castlereagh the Irish ParlLmenHn V?lf ?! t ?' ^'"J."" °.^ ^^'^^^^ Wellington entered he %lis khT ?cSaS J-P^'^*" Wellesky, As Sir Arthur execute, bv order yCasSeL/.nHP°*K" ?P™™^»^ «« -Lord Gathcart. to ingratitude on tL rccSds of h sto^ ^°Tf ^'l.' ^*T ^^u" ^^^ ««»chery and Canada, let rio man ^SS^^T^i^Ji fi?!^..!^" jd be ten anyestjes in "g'ngJlHSliothn mBrdcrcrg^and fobbe f u of their , let it not be i'nrtmttim that Do-;« j_i.. . was a t sippe ! ! !^ ^ support it. Wdlington toolc no rest till Nef . Of Ire- hly accomplished, ^ i reform, likely to As hat " catholic priB- » «• .•^ if'* iC .»• fl ^ .X t. 54 THE DUKE or WtLUISQtOK—V. ft PATRIOTS. k- The Duke of Wellington took as active a part in the Housp of T«r^« thesetUementof the Canada question-18a8 tolLllSTiv io? of'.h" . walm. Agreeing with Sir Francis Head, and the Upper CanLdaTnril ^^ they jMre called he protested against the union S the^woSfada J bS,^^ a country 1500 miles long.-cbuld not be governed convSmf^^^ colony, with its French English, and GenSan^ZuSraSll^^pn. Chrisuan sects, someiupheld by^ovemment. anS some not-ite bf^ Sff" and counties eight hundred miles from any chpitaHow J that cou?l t' chosen; becauSe the people of the two Canadas haw nn r^n^J!. ° " *® except in Je possessio*;, o? the exclusi^ nriSuon of ZTSrT'T secure which they require British protection; and because^l^lK^ ' population did not desire this union, which would. throuXthe uniLd i^" gidatur*. embrace the discontented spirits of both colon Jpf«^ri. 7®' of tSe chimera, in a dependency tif^EnglanrofloS '^^^^^^ Jresppnsibility to the electors of members of tha 'legislature^ T^^^^ persisted ill; but it adds no strength to the exSveleknlr^ monWa^ the hearts Of the Canadian people e^ecuuve agents of Britain, in His, grace's brother. .Richard CoUey Welleslev. MAiiout«i'n„ \xr^r. . S ChSJi:- r^^T' ^°'™^''y ^'«^ <=^^^°«' o7CiS. a g^SuS' ter ot Charles Carroll [see page 161 voted for nfiri!->m<,»I t.'^'«""aaugn- catholic emancipaiionLw^ ^govLlt-seneZlfl^^^^^ tenant of Ireland-iretired on a large pefs on-wL bonllS^^^ 20, 1760. and died in London, Sepi. 25. 1842%i7mother of tV^^**?.' ''.""*' survived then- father 50 years and died irherSdi^eS' eav 5' Wnf'h^' sons peers of Btitfun. ' * """'year, leaving tour of her . His brother Hehrt was secretary of the treasurv in iftno ^^a ^ ■' j, $100,000 damages. Ladv^Emilv. ths f.i.tJrZ T!f^fnl.^Y9\''^' ^"^ got' , «100.000 damages ^Y^:^^^^ tlTfra^U ChXtrCmS xied to the Duke ui fveuu the wives of two brothers. The eldest^sonand]heij Nearly six feet and a half in height, with a Herculean fornfm perfect proportions, a voice like Stcntor. and strength of Ajax; £yer uneJiu:»lled m athletic exercises, and unsubdued in single combat, whole bodies-^ m|En had been overcome by him, an4 he seemed totally un- conscious that he yas net eqi^lly unconquerable at the cannon's mouth. His mind and character wtre of the same energetic cast with his person; and though deficient m the advantages of finished education, he had been a mem- ■ 1^? Uvl^i®^^',® legislature, and his mercantile concerns were extensive." Ol M'Clary's conduct in the heat of battle, Swett adds, (page 35)—" During .«this tremendous fire of musketry and roar of cannon. M'Clary's gigantic voice was heard, animating and encouraging the men as though he would inspire every bartl tjiat sped, with his own fire and energj'." _A|ter the Skhat. says Swett, (page 48.) « M'Clary, as attentive to the wants ol his men as desperate in fighting them, galloped to Medford, and returned with dressings ^or the 'wounded. He ordered Capt. Dearborn to advance toward the neck, with liis company, while he crossed over to reconnoitre the enemy: He was returning when a cpnnon-ball from the Glasgow tore him to ' pieces. No smaller wegipon seemed worthy to destroy the gigantic hero." General Henry Dedrboi;n, who was a lieutenant at Bunker Hill, published a letter in the New. Hampshire Patriot, iii wliich he says, "Gen. M. M'Clary, Epsom, was in the battle- from begiiming to end." Michael M'Gary was then' a captain., " ' * David M'Gregor, a revolutionary tidier, commanded the sixth,iiompany .of the battahon in which Michael M'Clary served. He was the son of the Presbyterian minister of Londonderry— of Irish parentage and Scottish origin —his ancestors having probably fled to Ireland after the massacre of Glencoe. His iather, the Rev. David M'Gregor^ savs Whitoil, page 151, " a presbyterian° minister of Londonderry, long'eminent for piety, eloquence, and usefulness, died m the Ipurse of the revolut^na|c war, after having exerted an impbrtant . influence uAreparing the minds Of t^ people to engage in that perilous con- test." Ca« M'Gregoj* died In Western New York, in 1827. BRiGApiil-GENERAii George Reid wrs bom at Londonderry, New Hamp- shire, in 1734. His parents were Irish emiigrants from the province of Ulster ; part of the Scotch colony of presbyierians who settled in Ir^and during the reign of Charles II. -to avoid religious persecution. He received an exeellfent education, was *-very brave, feariess man, and went for national independence With all his heart. General Reid was a grand-uncle of one of the most eminent, able, and use- ful among our public journalists. Horage Greeley of the New York Tribune. shire Historical So- bs, the New Hamp- wno 18 partly 6f bo«hem or Scotch-lri A descent. At the battle of Bunker Hill, John Stark* commanded the first New Hamp- shire regiment, (afterward commanded by Col. Cilley,) and George Reid serv- ed as his lieutenant-cbloiiel. . He was also at the hard-fought field of Benning- *n, and served during the war with credit and honor. When the three N. H. •i # four score ind one S S dlith fn"^'' ''?'' adventure, and lived to sS [Col. James RSdoTRo^.\nfi\^°°^^ ded the second NSvrHSCnLn'*r''''V'?'^^ Whiton, comman- P#atTiconderoS^iS?SmlSr-'^^^^^^ He took the small the Ssfof SbTn^r'nSli'^olf'r"''''^''"'^' ^^^^ Hampshire, on ■ oC Ireland, with" hi^ gnrndij- h^^^^^^^^^^ ^'^ »-^h ! _ J^dond^rxy m: IVlS-Presbyteriansli^^.t^HgJ- hSJoS^faS • »em7!h?^SJ!raS'd1rom73°^"'™'""^^ •"- ^^ »^^« '=°'"™-ce.' his company, early Tnm^V^^^^^^^^ '° ^^^ relief of Boston, with a member of the^:l„ ul^'orSil^ln/if ^"^ ^" ''"^'^^ '? ''»« ^^^^'^^^ «f rlst N. H. Militia in^»-^and commaL.^^^^^^ appomted Major ofthe nington, mider St^rk^by h'^fconduri wh-V^h"^^ ""' "*' *'^?^'^ °^ ^'^«- crtionsdurinjr the war were «uS as aSS^^^^ ^°- ^'^"^^ "^'^'*- "'« ^x* be expected to reader to a coumrl Z i I ^"^ ^»P«-\"enced republican might m health and weahi-lln^ ^ho had lately and started oH: By the ?me he reaS^ r' '" k^T'' f- ^? ^^ ^^ ^'^ J'«»se, teers had incrfease7tda ,Wand He .^^^^^^^ ^"""^ ^^^^ '^^ ^'^'»»- mission from the Massiohn^^Mc n ».ramediately received a colonel's corn- hours . enlis"d%£Tu„ted™^^^ of Safety, ^nd^in less than twb , where his conduct was brave ^nd" fpS?.!^ a gallant band to Bunker Hill, of the advance-gua7d! aM GreeneS e • • n?fh'T™?"^^''J'»« ''Sht wmg 'morning w>n Se H^ss^s werrsurbri ^d^ fc^f l'?, °^ ^'^°'°",' °\«^« from-Bufcgoyne's army to destrov the C w ^o^onel ^aum was detached horses, a?d forage. Stark rtS[ ft ,.%] f^^^ Hampshire forces, and get catUe, K i^ct, lought, and on the 16th of Au..r,Kt 1777 Jo! 3 ■•^ *'., i of them—was wfth (w Jersey. His bro- yc^Hill. ra brigadier-general nty of Rockingham. ure, and lived to see fr,1815. ) Whiton, comman- He took the small It i@ probAble that *fcw Hampshire, on ated from the north sixteen settlers in hard-worting far- at the commence^ ef of Boston, with ind to the duties of inted Major of the t the battle of Bon- at credit. His ex- id republican might oward, for he lived the, great age of 6th of .September, timph in America, lie son of '^ Scots- ' noticed here. His 1 at the University af the province of f John Stark was th the 28th of our 1843, oil th^ 8th lat hardy and val- ;an republic. He ts w;ho had lately t», with the linen art of War in his ontrol of Canada. an reached Stark, e the manufactu- gates of his miller lad in his house,~ e army of volun- a colonel's coai- in less than two to Bunker Hill, i the right wmg Trenton, on the n was detached , and get cattle, .ugi i st . 1777, de ^ ••^ ;■: ^-OEJfEUAL STARK— LIEUTE3IA5rr.OSK.' '-' ;\ gj portion of the human faniilv" "le^happiest, because the most virtuous ^oSmemr^^^^^^ i.rpT*- ''• *'°°P^ ^^'® ocarfy all taken. v uiiutnag pined his famous victor es, while Concress werp vmJnrr tho^ ♦? • ^^^'.^^^ fie had received were.dest^ctive of SryluLdSfon f Dn ZST^'r «»a£|a Stat^anXXS^a^^ouKaS^^^^^^^^ ^ 'I I lyere taken pris- le 'disheartened. / ive a victory as K ■'. > N, *'..♦■ J < - 1 i 58 THE FATTEN^— GOfFE—N*CUNTOCE-(^8TAHK—BAirnt—BOT9E. His parents were fromth? north of Ireland, ptobably of the same Oris wha werje executed in 1797-'8, for love of country. ^With hira at Bennington, say the N. H. Society's Collections, were.Jacob McQuadeV Samuel McAffee (wlip digd), John Wallace, James MtLaugijlin, occ. ■[ ' .- . : ■ , ■fiiB; Pattens.— Judge Matthew Patten and Captain Samuel Patten, were tWQ of the flrst settlers in Bedford. They were from Ulster.-in Irelafid— and in -tte N. H.Xlollections, lieutenant John Patten, John Patten, jr., Samuel PatQjn, James Patten, and Robert Patten, are' enumerated among the noble ~ band of '^ revolutionary patriots who served their cmiiitry in tie glorious stfugglejbr independence." T^ Major John Goffe is another of the. patriots of Irish descent, enumerated in the New Hampshire Collections, who served honorably through the war of independence. * t ^ The Rev. Dr.Samuei^MacCi:.intock, of Greenland, the chaplain to Stark's^, New Hampshire regiment, was in the battle of Bunker Hill, intrepidly by "his exhortations, pmyers, and example, encouraging and animating them to the unequal conflict." He was of the race of Scottish covenanters, who had* settled in Ireland in the^seventeenth century, to avoid persecution, and had been chaplain to Gofie's regiment in the war of 1756. Major Caleb Stark, eldest son of General John Stark, served under his father's command in the war of independence— entered the army at th'e age of sixteen, as quarter-master of the Ist New Hampshire Regiment, of which he was after;Hrards adjutant and next brigade-major, aud aid-4e-camp to his father. He fought at Bunker Hill and Trenton, and at the battles in Septem- ber and October, 1777, which preceded Bbrgpyne's surrender. He was born Decembers, 1759;. died August 26, 1838, and was buried in the family place of interment, Dunbarton, N.H. Amon^ the Irishmen and children of Irishmen, mentioned in the New Hampshire records as having bravely struggled for American freedom in the war of independence, at the risk of life and property, I find the names ol Captain Thomas M'Laughlin— Patrick O'Fling— Patrick O'Murphy— John O'Neill— Valentine Sullivan (who was taken m the retreat from Canada, and died- in a British prison)— Lieut. Andrew M'Gafiey, of Epsom— George Mo- Sbannon, who was killed at Bunker Hill— the Orrs, M'Quades, Goffes, &c. IRISH NOVELISTS, POETS, AND DRAllIATISTS. JoHK Banim— Samuel Boyse— Henbt Brooke— Wilmai^Cableton— St>- SANNAH Centlivbe— William Congreve— John CumnifimAH— Thomas Dermiidt— Sir John Denham— George Farquhar — Gebald Griffin- Charles Johnston— Henrt Jones— Hugh Eellt— Last CABOtniE Lamb— . Charles Lever— ^Patrick Linden— Samuel Lover,— AooLrHus I^ncb— Edward LtsaghtMThables Macxlin— Rev. C. R. Matuein— W. H. Maxwell— ABTHtnt Mub|;^— Thomas Pabnell— J. Augustus Shea- Frances Sheridan— Henrt Tbe^ham— Rev. Charles Wolfe. _ John Banim, the elegant and tender-hearted author of « The Conscript's Sister, * Tales of the O^Hara Family,\ani many other interesting works, died young, not long since. He was a Dative of Ireland, amiable but unfortunate. At 17 years of age he obtained the first prize as the best draughtsman in the Dublin Academy of Arts— at 19 he wrote the Leinster Journal, in his native city, Kilkenny, mto wide circulation— at 22 he produced Damon and Pythias, - fiuccessful tragedy at Covent Garden— and was at 25 a successful novelist. tragedy i nnMOtr -ittanir-was X400 m dtbl,* helpless invalid, threatened % his creditor! with an English prison, and his boakseller a bankrupt. Samuel Botse, a writer of great poetical talent, but dissolute habits, was he son of Joseph Boyse (an eminent dissenting minister), a^d bom in Dublin imU— B0T9E. ' . V f the same Orrs who^ allections, were Jacob ' , James Mt^Laugmin, Samuel Patten, were Ister.'in Ireland — and n Patten, jr., Samuel ited among the noble jililtry in the glorious I descent, enumerated ly through the wair of le chaplain to Stark's" !r Hill, intrepidly by id animating them to^ ;ov>enantel:s, who had* persecution, and had irk, served under his the army at th'e age I Regiment, of which i aid-^e*camp to his he battles in Septem- ;nder. He was born id in the family place [ition«d in the New rican freedom in the - [find the namies oi ck O'Murphy— John eat from Canada, and Epsom— George Mo- ades, Goffes, &c. RAllIATISTS. tAI^^ CASLETOif— Sv- nnnifc&AH— Thomas -Gebjlld Gkiffin — DT Caboune Lamb— ■ADOLrHxrs I^ncb — . MATimro— W. H. . AvGXTSTUs Shea-— Wolfe. of * The Conscript's erestlng works, died ibje but unfortimate. draughtsman in the ramal, in his native Damon and Pythias, I successful novelist. MOOKE— CARLETOX— CENTLIVnE— COJfORETE— GRUtlK, kft '09 r F°? '.P^^'ir'*^'' *;[?'T« °f poems in 1741, in Scotland— and ."The Deitv » described by Henry Fiehhng as "a very noble poem;" in 1740. Hlhr ey aL praises It m his Meditations. He also published "Albion's Triumph/^a hS Zl:t!:S'^^^^:^-^^ -'^ -'^-- of ml^ellan?;^ was born^at fiantaven, in Ireland, in 1706. and died Oct. l(nh 1783 He wrote « The Earl of Essex," " Gustavus Vasa." and eleven oSer pS. and cherished through hfc a sincere love foi: freedom in its^iest senw ^ ■ "Trn'iti"':^!!!. ^of •''■^''T-'.? P^'y^J^^^ I"sh a»t'»o' of the present times, wrote "Traits .^nd Stones ot the Irish Peasantry," The Galway Piper" "Mickev S7; ," ^.1^1" ^^"*!i' ?**« ^"^'^ ^''^'^'^^'" " Moll R™ WeSng.'' .1 tS' ~ StlSCfcr^^ °"^ °'^''' '"^^ ^'^ '^^ the:stS;y.teK^ ,f,K^'*^,^*",^'?-'.T"VRE— author of "The Busy Body," "A Bold Stroke for StK'?"'^ "^\" Wonder." which s.iU ke J possLion oHhe !S^e*,S " oJ« P'ays-was born in Ireland about 1667. . She was very captiva^inifin her manners-had three husbands-and died in 1723. Her maideS name iS ' dent 3 cEarScfer'"'*^' ^"^^^^l ""' * ^^"'^^^ ^^^Is » plot. inci- WiiLiAM CoNOREVE was bom in 1762. "For the place fsavs Johnson! It was said^by himself Ihat he owed his nativity to ESgland"; Jnd by eS 'body else that he was born in Ireland. He was educated first in Kllkennv ' and afterward in Dublin." He died in London, Jan. 29, 1728-'9. I'SS Ite "'• -5*" -T^ '•f "«"> ?^ ^^^ ^'Shest kind ; he is an origbal wrifw! Hk iTc*""^^ neither the model of his plot, nor the manner of hfs diaSe " His plays and poetry fill sevelral volumes. uio i^uc. n.ii"'' T^?''*"!i'\°4!i"' ""i ^J®?*"* pastoral poet and dramatist, was born in Dublin, Ireland. 1729, and died 1773. He wrote the farce of Love in a Jtfi at tlie age of 17, and his works form part of the collections of "the Britll ' -„T!I" j^'u^"''^""^' * P°" of. talent, wasjbom at Ennis, Ireland, in nVs S^ii? '^''"^'' mtemperance in 1802 His poems contain many passages of taste, elegance, and fancy. ' i'<»o»agca Sir John Denham, the poet, was bom in Dublin in 1615, where his father held the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, He was eduTS at Oxford ZZ" ^f" ^"^V " ^rP'''% ?'"'" * »'^»«'ation of " Carjifajor " aS • pi!fT»^^l considered [says Johnson]- as one of the fathers of English S i?^ I .°if-^ ^°J^^ r^^* °!?f.^* !°'".^'^ ^"'^ gratitude." He was a royal- 1 tn^Jt W'^ estate^during dharles the First's troubles, but held oflSce and a knighthood under Charles the Second. • "* «^ ouu in?fi7l^f T^'lTU'^"' ''/^P' «»««tssful and interesting comic poet, was bom Ir iSS- J;°"<*°»Ii8 fatiier emigrated to PennI syivania, whUe a part of the family remained in Ireland. Al twenty yesJts of age GriHin went to London, and contrived to live by reportmff for the press •ontributiRg articles to magazines, and acting as Uie d&udge.of ft great pub^ I N eO J0HNST0N-JOOT8--KEI.LT--lAllB--tHVKk— tlia)ra--tOTBK--lTMOH. ll9[iiBgr house. Next year he WW sought after as a reviewer, and as a con. tributor to periodicals In 1827, the publication of the Hollandtide estabhsh! ed his H-putation-and his pathetic and impassioned tale, " The Colleffians '» p aced,h,m .n a high ^ank among Irish novelists. He was nominaSy the ?K ' li,-^'™"' m' '° ^^^^' ♦? ^*'"y '° M'- Moore their request that the Insb melodist would represent their ancient city in the British parliament-! and at one tim,e resolw^ecome a minister of the Roman Catholic Church Two years before hw(^eatft he Jo ned the christian brotherhood, who devofe themselves to the iifatniction of the poor-and his brother has Written a vol! ume codfaining bis memoirs. ' "^ » • »ui ' m^"*?.^^^ Johnston, author of " Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Gluim-a » " The Reverie," " A Flight to the Paridise of Fools," " Juniper Jack J» S •was born in Ireland, and died in India, about 1800. ^ '' *"" Hknby Jones, a hatiw of Drogheda^^^was originally a joumeymau brick- ayer. He was a good dramatio poet, but died in 1770, in a garret in Lwndob the result^of his ojsjji. caprice, prodigality, and fickleness. ^uaon, Hugh Kellt, a clwer, successful, and very persevering author, was bom m Ireland, m 1739, and died in England in 1777. He legan life Ts^ stay-maker, then turned hackney-writer, was admitted to the bar as a lawver and lastly turned author. His works, ate, the Memoirs of a Magdalen a ""j^'r^'^f P\^'/ poem-the Romance of ftn Hour-Clementina, a tra-edv-- and thfe School for Wives. False Delicacy, and a Word to the Wise!°come^ .u^o?I*^f 't°^''™ ^V}^ was bom on the 13th of November, 1785, and died on the 2oth of January l827-she^wasn daughter of Frederick PonsJnby. Earl of Besborough, but whether she #a8 a native of Ireland, the country of her fam- T^'i^tT "*"* Positfvely ascertained. She married William Lamb, now Lord Melbourne, when ui her 2pth year* understood several of the iivinVand dead languages, was lively and brilliant in conversation, and a great favorite ^ Lord Byron, who, if we are to believe Captain Medwyn, used her cruelly She IS the author of " Gleharvon," "AdaReis," and "Gi^ham Hamilton^' novels of much merit, and was the friend of Wellington, De Stael. and other Illustrious persons. Dropsy caused her death, after a long ilhiess. Charles Lever, is a native of Ireland, editor of the Dublin University Marazme (as Harry Lorregucr), and author of " Our Mess," « Charlr-s O'Mal- ley, and " Jack Hiftton," the merits of which novels are very frenerallv Known and appreciated. His magazine is ultra-tory. Patrick Linden was an eminent Irish poet, some of whose eleacnt Verses are preserved in " Miss Brooke's Reliques.^' ^™^'*"?5' ^^^^' a painter, poet, novelist, and dramatist— author of " Rorv ^r?T' V'J^^J'*"'^^^ '^^ West,".«« Handy Andy." "Legends and StS ol Ireland" "Treaffllre Trove," &c. Mr. Lover 'is an Irishman by S talent, and feelmg, a man of wit and huipor, and said to be " a repealer " Adolphits Ltncit, author of « Crofton Croker's Legends," and lieutenant in the British army, is a native of Ireland. The Limerick Chronicle, of May 30th, 1838, states that he embraced the doctrines of the church of Rome in the convent chapel of Killamey, about that time. Edward Ltsaght, a witty and convivial member*f the Irish bar, was oto- posed to the Union, a trae patriot, a poet of celebrityTtundthe author of m^ " e tory destroyers of Irish independence. Lord (^ unpalatable effusions to the j „j, ^ tlereagh admitted that if such songs as " May he m whose hand,'" wvre gen- erally sung throughout Ireland, they would excite a greater opposition to the Umon of 1800, than all the speeches against it in the Irish Pariiamenf It concludes with 4hese lines: — '' J 4'^ J Betrerc Yum^ yog sport with oua Island ; Ton're my ieighftoV, bat, Butt, tti* iaiaWn' Nature's favorite spot, AxAPdtoanerbeahot Than turrenar th* bights, qf mm^ItUaid I ^ LOTBH— LTNCa. viewer, andasacoa- Hollandtide establish* e, " The Collegians," ras noiniBatcd by the heir request that the British parliament — man Catholic Church. :herhood, who devote ler has written a vol- intures of a Guinea," "Juniper Jack,f &c., a journeymau brick- a a garret in Loudon, sverine author, was He began life as a > the bar as a lawyer, rs of a Magdalen, a mentina, a tragedy— to the Wise, come- er, 1785, and died on ck Ponsonby, Earl of Bcountryof herfam- William, Lamb, now iral of the living and and a great favorite yn, used her cruelly. Graham Hamilton," , De Stacl, and other g illness. 3 Dublin University s," « Charles O'Mal- i are very generally vhose elegpnt vprses !t— author of "Rory Liegends and Stories irishman by birth, , be " a repealer." /^ ds," and lieutenant c Chronicle, of May church of Rome in e Irish bar, was op>. the author of muiy indence. Lord Ca^ se hand,'" were gen- eater opposition to ;e Irish Parliamenf. i 'mm/ .;/' '/' m -t t' 4f. > » / • -? K ' x»' ■/' -/n ' -nr '*^' / V ^ ' A f A h V ' 1 ^ \ w < . .< ->i - \ 1 " » < ' '■ /^i „ . . ,■ i • k t A " / /; 7 -^-— . •* }: V -4 ■>l- .'"if; ■V- i;.-,-. ^ ■ ^MACKWN— MATURIN- - MAXWEI,I>-MUHPiny-jiP^^Ij._sir£.V- . ■• 91 ^fe-'''^ ^v'"'u'''r*J' .MacLau^Win. was'born,;4me say, in Dublin, ofliem in the North of Ireland/in 1690. His father av,s from the Cowity ^ •of S' Rnvn?'"T''T'^.'' ^ ''^^ °^ '^'''^'^ '" ^^'"^ •^^"'^«'« '^"ny «t the battle »i3^fhJ' ''''',"''' ',°?'' #''« ^'^'^ ™°'«''« "^efo^e 'he ^ bom in Subhn vfJ'^'^ ?'^r *"" .^^^ l^'^ °f O'^tober. 1824. Among his writings are, he cl^i^^^Tt^ZS'o^SS^Ia: ^'" ^^^'«^--^«' ^- He wasa William H. Maxwell, a nativd of Ireland, is the author of several of the tTe K St P"^'''Wns of the present day. He wrote Wild Sports of Ihf n l "Pur'n^- of .Waterloo-Hector O'Halloran-My Life-Memoirs of the Duke of Wellington— The Bivouac, &c i«"ioirs oi honf ^n"r«i^"77* f^ f^"" ^""^ dramatic and miscellaneous writer, was**' Avhcl thrrJT'?n'^^?V' '^^\- Hi«^''^'"a« are two arid twenty. V ™JL- ^^.'"'"l Paughter and several comedies and farces still keep ° possession of he stage. Toward the close of his life he published an ex- cellent translation of TaciAJs. and Garricks Life, and died In June^is^ ' . I'lOMAS Parnell, the poet, and friend of Gay, Swift, and Pope, was bom sav^"^''".T^l'^'«'^"«ated there, and died in Julv. I7I7. SamueUoh.S w>f ■"* i?^ verses there is more happiness than pains ; he is sprightlv w^sTi'^^S' f'^'/'ry-^ delights, though he nevir ravishes." K.eS ' was a contributor to the Spectator and Guardian, wrote a Life of Homer prefixed to Pope's translation, and officiated as Vicar of Finglassnear Dub- Anno » 'n** /*"® ^^ ^^^, «onftellation of wits which rendered the reign of hrhtrf^' ? |-T'-^"'^K'i^"'*''* ^** ^'^^e S'^en to English versification Its higliebt polish, in which his poetry surpasses that of Pope himself feels"' "' '"^''^ ^^^ of Zoilis." and "tL Origin ™f the John Aooustus Shea, an Irish poet, many years resident, in the Unite* nfS.'J^f^*''^I"'i'^.?"5;:of€qrk,inNovember,•*1802. He is the author fn «ji "i"?'r L^''\^^''' °^*^e Green Banner," a Work of merit, publi.^hed m 1843-Adolph, which aiipeared in ISSl-Rudekki, printed i^ London in-' 1827— and lyric compositions, among which' his "Lines to the Ocean" ' nave obti^nied a broad ahd end-- • ' ihmnii lopujar i ty. ''W iVlr Sliea was a m^lHb^ of the cfi^urtfh of Rome, and eaucated for^ N.n 1'^ ^^i .,^'"0''^'"« 'I't'matc companions in early life were Bishop Eng- and, and the celebrated Irish artifels, Maclise and Hogan— and it-was ht* good fortune to enjoy tllte friendship of Sir Walter Scott and Thomas Camp- oeu. He published a volume of Poems in ilinope at the age of twenty "'^fci..-' 62 ' SHERIDAN — 'T9E8HAH — ^WOLFX — CLINTQN. ' , * V'- f I I,' '4 3f, :■ 1^ ^^rff' ,*-f ^r.' 'V' . 'i and» in 1835, a volume entitfed • BSrnassiau Wild Flowers.^ He had been, at various times, connected with the National Intelligencer, Telegraph, Chronicfe (Pluladelphia), Lady's Book, and other periodicals, either as a reporter or contributor; and assistejl Mr. Greeley of the Tribune, from the commencement of that journal, till Augjist, 1845. One day that month he ' ■«rent to Connecticut to deliver a poetic address, ireturued to New Yqrk sick, , and soon died. , ■ ; ' 1 became acguaintdd tvith Mr. Shea in 1838. He was an enthusiastic , friend to Cai • adian Independence — an Irish repealer— and the first Secretary of the ' Association for Catholic Emancipation' in New'York, his friend Dr. MagNeveu being then president. Frances Sheridan was the grand-daughter of Sir Oliver Chamberlain, of Dublin, in which city she was boni in May, 1724* and married Mr. Thomas Sheridan when in her twenty-third year. A dispositioii naturally ^ happy was improved by a refined education, jiud she appears to have , ■ been a vgry^complished female at the time of her marriage. Her hus- band was exposed .to many trying vicissitudes, whicfi -his wife endufed v^ith fortitude and cheerfulness, but at length she sunk under a rapid de- cline at Blois, in France, Sept. 26, 1766,; in her 42d year. She was denied " Christian burial-as a heretic, and but for the exertion of JVlajor Maurepas, her husband's friend, her body had been excluded from the church-yard becauj^e of her o^^ Her children, Richard Brinsley, Charles Francis, Alicia; and .Maria^^^e chiefly indebted to het excellent instruction for the celebrity they attained in life. She attained' a high rank among 'me literary females of her country, and her writings have rtceived the' ap- probation ^f the most eminent of her contemporaries; of Dr. Johnson, Dr. Young, Richardson, Murphy, and Garrick. Mrs* Sheridan's published , works are.the fascinating novel of Sidney Biddulph ; Nourjahad ; and the ' "DiscQvery, attd The Dupe. "A Trip to Bath," a comedy,is .alsQ ascribed' to her pen. , , ■■...,.. H^KRY Tresham, R. a., historical painter, was bom in Dublip, in 174?, and studied under the elder West. He completed hia studies inJtaly, and on his return filiighed seveiral pictures in grand style. '. He was also a poet of no mean talent, and published the odd but well written poem called the Sea-Sick Minstrel ill 1796; also, Rome at the close of the 18th -feentury, . 4to, 1799 ; and a heroic epistle toBonaparte, frorh Britannicus, 1813. His' "/death took' place June 17th, 1814. ' v /' Rev. CHARLE3 Wolfe, author of the well known lin6s on Sir John Moore's buHal, and other poetical pieces of deserved celebrity, was the youngest son of Theobald Wolfe, Esq., of Blackball, Kildare/ was born in, Dublin,,Dec. 14th, 1791, and died an Ijish Couatry Curate, in Ulster, on the 21st of Feb'y, 1822, aged 3Q years. - -5%^^ -^ ^ ; i - < f ■' .. „,•■.'. ■/>■'■■■'".'•'' '/'"■■■;■' . I .... 1 ■ -n"/ C(^EONEL' CnK^tEB CLJNT6N./; _-.4:; *v Dt'RiNo the civil wars irt England in the reign of Charlc*ithe First, Wil- liam Clinton was distinguished for his attachment to the rbyal cause. On vllIB failuntS he sought refuge, with many other mtlitary officers who had adhered to tlrei StnartSi on the continent of Europe. After spfendiug some timfe in France and Spain, he went secretly to -Scotland,, where lie Huirried a /ady of the name of Kennedy. He finallvsettled in Ireland, wheife he Bti-, lettviti^ R soti" named' janies, a nutive uf lliu Eiiienild lsl6, tll6ll liut" /o years old, and who married Miss Elizabeth Smith, an English lady, i^hosc'^ather was a captain in Cromwell's army. His son, Charles Clinton, (was born in the county of E6ngford and provmce of Leinster, Ireland, in* 1890 and great care was bestowed on his education by his parents.' Pes- \ .*,-• ■p" srs.^ He had been, igencer, Telegraph, >dicals, either as a 3 IVibune, from the day that, month he [ to.New Yqrk sick, "^as an enthusiastic d the first Secretary Work, his friend •liver Chamberlain, ; and married Mr. >positioii naturally I appears to haVe arriage. Her Iras- his wife endul-ed under a rapid de- . She was denied ' : JVlajor Maurepas, n the church-yard r, Charles Francis, ent instruction for hi^ rank among e received the' ap- i; of Dr. Johnson, eridan's published ourjahad ; and the y,is .alsQ ascribed' in Dublin, in 174?, udies in Jtaly, and (e WQS also a poet xi poem called the - the 18th -feentury, tmicus, 1813. His* lin6s on Sir John celebrity, was the dare/wasborn in, rai^le, in Ulster, oa N./: ■leSi the First, Wil- rWal cause. On officers who had 'COLONi:!, CHARLES CLINTON. J 63 er Bpenyiug some ivhere he'Hi;arried I reland, whefe he UU loie, UlQiT iXXll , an English lady, I, Charles Clinton, iinster, Ireland, ih^ biis parents.' Pes- ■Si , se ledln the wilderness, several famiUe.s purchasing adjoiS farms ' ^ afiabihty aiifl polished manners 6f a nolito -entle^nai " Snnn nf 11 i • arrival he was appointed by the governor a^ustlceoS peaS^d aftpr"" wards pronfoted to the station of a Jud-e of the Coi?mn^^K«/t!. - Comity of.Ulster He settled in a part-o^the Luiitr^^^^^^^^ r^H"^^^^^^ ^'^ ^''« ""''«°^' ''V«'-' >vi'd, covered wUh Sad e^. posed to the incursions Of the Indians ;■ cultivated his farm educated hts" Itt^ltf'?'^ assistance of ihe Rev. Daaiid Th^. aKbS an rni^ mstefr v^o had studiedlit Aberdeen), and being aii excellm inathemS 'teian. acted occasionallfas a land-surveyor ' *''^'^''"^"^ matliemati- . In 1 756, hwwas appointed by the British Governor, Sir Charles^ Hardv a .Lieutenant Colonel of the New Yoct militia, a'^id commanded a reSn^ at the capture of Foft Frontenac, now Kingston, in Ca lada Hts S &S::SS^r'^ mmatthecap^rc^e ^^^^^ .SiSSeSltS^^ft^ ■ to his adopted country, two son^.-edndated under, his own eye Zl tat. S by him to ove and cherish and suffer for the great principles of civ ? ad religious hberty who deserved and obtained 1i high E in the esteem aT4frr£i.5;?dtt so^ia mtercqirrse He was the active and untiring friend of die Sg a„ J jud cheerful y aided hundreds ^ poor settlers from the old world to o^bS -tiS i"Ln h^^^^^^^^^ -gemteman Jic luimud aii acquaintance, whicTTwfts produced litr ties of a distant consangumity, but whidjl hpen^i into an iutiicy which oX con* r„n.J*i® ""^r*'' ^i""«' Clinton the nppninlment of Sheriff of the City of New York than nn. ^a.T SlK»rJ,";i'.r;rior«^''- -ocmeu, preferring .^.^flel^tgi-r^S: ->. ■• ■- , -Av .,.,.- -g-r "' ■' ', .'- - • J ♦ .I' '..-« .: , -.1 , . ,. .; •• w,,',, <\"\, . . '■■ ^1 - ... k i :i' k y.K-- . r 64 of which he dechned. - preferringa Hfe^f independence, in the bosom of his fomily,a))d siiWuid- ed by his colony of frien* and oountrymeu, to the aliurements of office ' and unreal pageaiitr^ of rank. :, • ' ^ Colonel Cli (iron left four sons and one daughter. Of the sons, iflexander was educjttfed ^Nassau College, practised as a physician, and died with- out chddren. «ftarles was a surgeon in the British ariliy. Of the lives of '^James |^nd George, very brief notices are given in jhis volume, which Qon- tanied m the hrst edition, an erroneous statement, pages 14 and 54, to the '- effect that a sister of De Witt Clinton and grand-daughter of Colonel Clin- ton, was the pother of Ambrose and John C. Spencer. Their fatlier. Chief < .Justice Spencer, married successively two daughters of General James Clin- ton, but the mother of the Messrs. Spencer was a' Miss Caufield of New England, his first wife. , >^ Colonel Clinton died on the 19th of Nov. 1773. He lived to see his son George admitted to the bar, and in successful practice, and also to witness^ hjs tnumphant election for Ulster County, to the Colonial Assembly, in mi9, after a formidable opposition from thfe influence of the crown. The youtliful patriot* immediately espoused the caus6 of Ws country, was re-eleeted by the Ulster freemen, and nobly perseVered during a lengthened, and most honorable aijd successful public career. In 1775, he was at Bunker Hill ; iu^'76 in Congress voting for ind6pendence, and then joining the armies as a brigadier general ; in '77,; he was tlie first republican governor of the en- franchised state of New York.. The councils of their father were certainly not lost uppn the children of' Charles Clinton, who expired at the ad- ' yanced age of eighty-three, ",J)reathing an hrdent spirit of patriotism, and, m his last moments, conjuring his sons to stand by the liberties t)f America " Colonel Clinton's wife, the mother of his children, was Elizabeth Deniston, sister to Alexander, who accompanied him to America, and purchaseijthfe next adjoining farm. She was a native of Ireldnd; His daughter Catharine married Colonel James McClaughey, " as brave an officer as America ' could boast of," and who signalized himself in the defence Of Fort Mont- gomery, and on other occasions during the war of hidependence. ' » ' ^ The confidence that Was given to. his gralid father by the Irishmen:who v' accompanied him to America— and to his father'and uncle in tlj'e wars of 1759 and 1776— was not withheld from Pe Witt Clinton during the strug- gle of 1812. In an address adopted at^a immerous meeting of the Irisl»>" Citizens of New York to De Witt Clinton, presented March 16th. I8l5, bv Dr. M'Neven, Denis M'Carthy, Thomas Addis Emmet; and Charles Chris'- Uan, they thus enumerate his services to the cpuntry during the war of •; 181 Z I % - " In the late perilous §tate of our countryf you devised the plans of de-*^ fence which gave security to this great metropolis of American commerce, ' and preserved this most important military post from the possession or attempts of the enemy. Your exertions were no less strep'uous and sue- ' ceselul m .obtaining liinds raised on the credit of our corporation, for the ' i^naintenance and payhicnt of the forces. By such acts, without parade, alj^pst unseen, you iifforded to the general government, the resources and " ^,S°'"' °^ which, at that perrbd of alarm, it stood so much in newl." They add, that " Iri . sh rep ublic ans have, niornover, peculiar motiyes of Rc knnw- — leageraent. in the fiiir enjoyment oTcitrzenship, in the freest and happiest wlMkatlt^jh.^Tt^r'J^^'^^'?^ jonld |flv« warred nirainit the overwhelinlng Inflnenco and -!r„r^l "^' •«"»'"" "f **8 ^My anJ Livingston, nnd wm ni«cd lorank and Influence u Uw —SUA 01 iiM'peopi^. — ' -'^ ■■ « 'Al ) * '< »■) * ■ .,^„. qr^e Crinton, who cerliill, rose to the rs, which only his er the colonial go- rliich he dedined,- niJy.ajidsftjKpund- urements of office he sons, Jtlexander in, and died with-- y. Of the live« of jlume, which qon- ildand 54, to the !r of Colonel Clin- Theirfatlier, Chief - eneral James Clin- } Caufield of New ved to see his son ind also to wnnes9§r Assembly, in ri<)9» )wn. Theyoutliful y, was ret-eleeted gthened, and most IS at Bunker Hill ; ning the armi.es as overnor pf^ the en- ' ;her were certainly sxpired at the ad- ' of patriotism, and, ertiesiof America." Elizabeth Deniston* and purchase^sthife aughter C^thalfine fficer as America nee of Fort Mont- pendence. ' f"''' the Irishmen, who i icle in tb*e w^rs of during the stnig- jeting of the Irisl»^' rch 16th. 1815, by ind Charles Chris- luring the war of • i the plans of de-*^ lerjcan commerce, the .possession or trepuojjs and sue- ' orporation,.for the i, without parade, the resources and 1 in newl." They BBV. DR, WILLIAM PORTER. 6S iraunity of the univeVse, it would ill become them to forgetrthat to vou{ -.inly ri'L'^T '!^«T^'-«. *bted for that inestimable privi Se wffi seofitor ojthfe United St^tesJ you stood foifemost in pre .arin- ancrcar! rymg into Mw tfie existing mode of naturalization. By tl is act the te?ft of residenc^6 was reduced to f e ^rom fourteen years; a pcS so-S thaut was intended to opera^ as aaexclusion Jf ,11 pfe^so^ifS of a'FoS ■ H«^r?.o!;^^''?ft''f TfCfA^tlywpeared in the public prints giving intima- Sfi tS vvho?.'/ ?f V- ^'"'*9^^' °f NY., the gr^eat grandson of CoL cSes Olinton, who has in his possession the papers of lii$ family, was about to publish a memoir of his father, De Wat Clinton. Such a Lrwmild fur° nish important^addifons tojhe materiSls for American history a^exp^ - ^^?!t n^^ 1 ^t^ • '"yf '7. "^ ^^ rnpLmetits of poliucians and pa tres pre vioustoand dunng the laft war. ft .might also go back to the tines of colonial vassalage, and'tlubw new rays of light on the bioVaphy o? tlfe mora iftth'^^^r^'P^l^f 17?9.%vhose desceudaiirilvf Kined Sk tS^ln L^°"fh^' 7'^°,'^'^^ H?"?^."^« °f *^»e people of the sta- V\>x^ York than any other family in thie Uhiqn. - ' THE REJV. DR. WILLIAM PORTER. Oh, never shall earth see a moment so'splendid ! 1 hen, then, had one hymn of deli verance blended : Ihe tongues of all nations, how sweet had ascended/ . The first no^e of; liberty, Erin! fVom thW. 5^ But shame dn those tyrants, who envied the hlessine And shame on their light race, unworthy it? ^od. Who, at death's reeking altarjike furies caressin-' v 1 he young l|ippe of freedom, baptized it in blood ! itjle MOORE's MKIiODIEIi. ;4tT^il,f'"i^7V't?"'^'^te*"SeIWIH. and patriotic presbyterian divine, the aiher of the late Senate^' Porter-of Louisiana, was i native of the north o1 Ireland, and pastbr t)f the congregation wtich worshipped at Grey a" bey S#T'°"^'5' "' H county olDown. Hewas much beloved by the fnecS&i»?»'i"v ^4 P'*""!^".*^ exemplary, tis connexipns. highly re! K,n.'^ 1? 'J"t'«al>« er .he wa.s;causti(5; humorous, and exceedinglv ?WnH iJt «"'^^"^- H'^aiS^P'^ ^e ^^« a republi^i-a'rftemberof the H s 1nflf!p„I'''^'^' l"i^W''?^*V-S°'»S: frie»dJgirnoble cause of 798^ His influence, minghtriessj'and character.lnatm^ ' enslavers of his^countrlrmen. When the editbrmiidvprooriellir id" the Northern Star at Belfastfwere thrown i«ttf•dlmgeolJ7^SfficcS»tiSn^r form of tnal.vhe wrote sime splendid essays foy itJ^qd^ihSRlord Castle' ^^fi?„1 r *^" ^'f'^\m Earl of Londonderry, teaced the«bSii-they El T^ ^* f then} victim ; a court-manial wasaiastify assenfbled bV Castlereaghs orders, cbmposed of suitable instruments of crime. Dr K!!f'^''' ^***' 5^ arreked. tried for sedition, which meant the propaga- Xion of opinions displeasing to the rulers of Ireland ; and-execute/betwleii WhfC^I* 1^^"'"? ^?'^^^ ^"'^ his meeting-house in Grey ibb^y-^tes. Sf Ms nm r. /"^'^f '«<^ i« J'«w of his once peaceful home, the residence fhi^fho u ""'u hQart-broken wife, and y^om^g family, and in sight of he chapel where he h^d so often lig^ up his vSice to the Gpd- of hiaven »n earnest prayer for the dn| i"°- -ri — ._ t^-i_ . r .. . . . r" Qtiyeapf ndknnw j 4g_gJL"!est Pjayer lo Ifnland from th e handoPthu reest and happiest l *"^"e' Rpoiler, for the hejaling of these intestine divisions whicJi had weak* whelming Inflnence and ank and inflqenc^ u Uw ened his country, and fpr strength from above t6 the flock of whith he was t ! ZV* '^'^ i^"* "^ "^embers might ^e enabled tabapr with patience the unknown trials and difliculties of life. Dr. Portei^tawi^vct before hiff muraerers, for such 8ui[ely were the unjust judges wh||^[||p|erea^ had ^^'- »■ ,. % <•■ '<»^] moc fEii. confi in si^feT crovyued t ritaiii Were was i— but jle" wiis |uirrie(i tothe pin ni.iri ^jfi m^t(6i|?p|jlris .itce - '^ " MnH^I^ cllri!sti|t| ^ itlf ricil^, t»< ircli<<;aRtI.e^iih, co'? .V Iv*. wit (,»« ^ (\ ?^'v* 4 ' »i '■;^ -•*•', !«*' /\ ^ ' i ^^'"^ ''tS'9 before recorded in Dnblin iiy andjresoluterMle charges against him were ^Jjfi£exccmioM, and in -the pfirhe 3*i^(rfr6m amoiiij the liviiig. He lasTpang Avas ' weakened by his , 'Watched overalls \V^ido\v4^ed her '^•i^iilrtprotectcd Jiis fptfierlcss boys, and SkVisdom. When Jiis mo.«t crnel ^ "c^ccuiur, Jwrcrj^siiflF^Mp, ccmHtiitte^sn^ the cities a^d villages of Britani Were #nt)ft»te'd-^iien WiUiani Porter was sacrificed/vast bodies ot hireling troapa^^arded his tormentors from the rage of 'an ininred and uisiilted people. '%!' ^ / /Theconyentiottor synod of clergy nii#to which Dr. Porter belonged, were UHited to^er by a form of church government, independent of the >• state, nx Ulst9r--||By had become an impoftant political power. hen, m, 1773: ftlMt 1774, the imfeeling conduct of Scottish and Irish \ landldrds' drove mamthousands of the farmers i^nd laborers to America, , .where ;liey com])o.46*% great part of the army which began and conchicted -•. the VVar ot Itidependence. TJie Irish landlords' had been employed for .sever{>l years, uf) to 1776,''in expelling tlieir Protestant tenants, and turning . their land i^to grazings. The oppressed Presbyterians removed to Araeri^ •ca) and old Irishmen Often state, that in the time of the American revolu- >. h \K' contains a li.st of ^^39 passengers at Philadelphia from Newry, Belfast, ,Waterford,iand Lonilb'uderry, between July 11, and AugiisJ; 30,' 1774. ^oon after this a nation' ot jirmed Iris,hmen, undivided by faction, and as.v York in, 1844! These are, inde^^daiigerous thcrvii^ors in the fanguage-oMlenfy Morton to ifore the battle of Bothwell Bri^e, as I find j^ in ^.„ ' stood* triumphant, trinpiijlis. 1 coil the Presbyterian *01d^Iort: "•O re brought uj punishtnen seosions w dering at its It was on cruel career oil English, a^d Frt; andgenefoiisspi ,. brethren, tl^t the last and \Yorst evil which God &0]»le whom he had ouce cliosen ; the last and ^'c*st .jMindiiess.aiid haniiies.'r.gPheart was the bloody dis- ^i:sundor their city, eveir when the. eiiemy were thun- "Junc, 179.8, tWt the Marquisf 6ornwallis, wfiose, ITntlnent was sto^)[)('d by American, Irislw'Scottish, ^iots, rook the pui'reme command in Irpla|f^ ^ 'oble Ijr. I'Arter, ♦^oughr to rouse the peopftjjtt^fijsSRtltJi- M verance, through appeals like the anuoxed pafody. But vain wh e re -fore ign ffl* l ^* ;+^ »^ t- ■■" . ■ * r "^?r ALEXANDER PORTER. . ^ ' This gentleman was many years a judge of the supreme Qourt in Loui- siana, twice elected to the Senate of the Uuioh by that state/and aliketlis- tmguished for us social qualities, moral worth, and sreat learning. He fefhi .f" ?/P''^l\"i h's "ative country, Ireland, by the martyrdom of hts father, the Rev. Dr. Porter, a short sketch of whose life precedes this, 'iifl?^ Porter died on the 13th of Januarj^, 1844, at his beautiful plaiita- Sf^f MI ''^'.^'"HS'^"^' aged 58 years, after a long protracted and pamtui Illness, and his remains w^te buried at- Nashville in Teunessee He was a very old and intimate personal frienrbf Henry Clay, wlio.saL prin- ciples ^nd patriotism he held in high esteem. ^ *o «^prm On the 2d of February. 1844, his death was announced by Messrs. Bar- s?T u" »?^"«"^ "' t>« United States ^late, and by iviessrs. Vance and Shdell mthe House of Representatives, "their remarks furnish an account of his useful and interesting life. , ^ rvMr. Benton, of Missouri, said:— " ' .. / ?*« I am the oldest personal friend whom the illustrious ddceased can have ,n this floor, and amongst the oldest whom he can havD in the United . J: fu- } 'f»ow sir, more than the period of a geiicnition-more than the thjM ofca c|nt^iqf— smca, the then emigrant Irish boy, Alexander ...forter, igftl mj^'r'met pi^e banks of the Cumberland rivor, at Nashville Ir a! 1 <*SW*'««^i§*»n)rc.rpe judge in his adopted state ; twic* a Senator m the Congress qftheJlfnited-Sliitps; wearing alt jiis honors, fresh and growmg to the last mdm«it ftf hi§ life— an(T;.the announcement of hi.<» dea-.h fallowed by the adjonrnirient.of, tJie two Houses of the American lie and !fcrownirig*conclusioji to a beginning so j i- CoiigEe,«.s ! AVfiat art humble, and so.appa¥8i5^y hopeless ! . . . Our decease'd brother walJiot an American citizen by the accident of birth: he* became so by the t^hoice of his own wjf, and by the operation of our laws. The ewMrtTSf his' life, and the business of this* ed gireathoJior dnd fortune in this coniuiy, he returned tori ti visit fo his native laHiL a^d to tl»e cqptinent of Europe. It wa« an 9dcasion of honest esjultatili^irfor the orphfuyinnii- gmnt boy to return to th^ land., of his fathers, rich in the goods dMfcs life, and clothed witli the hoitOr^ (rff the. American Senate. Burth^dpl^s a meWncholy one to liim. His soul sicktened at the state of his f«Iow-men mthe old world, (I hacMjt from his oXyn fipf^aud he returned from.that visit with strdhger fet^iifi^ Jhan ever irffavor of hisi adopted country." Senator Barrow thus (fe^ribes hiss deceased colleagvie: «« JbDGK Pouter was born ill the land of Ciirran, and his fathaLv^iJ ^ co- temporary;and friend of that brillant orator Und incom7pt;ible plHfot. The father of Judge Porter was a man of piety and classical ediiWion, and was by profession a minister of the Gospel; but' the fire ofvpatriolism and the love of libertv.glowed so warmlv in his bosom that he threw ""='" **— the" \ 4iHd-f»utt»it-tJte^bttnM»hed armotrt-trf a soldier, and re5ii/i,c. 'to conquer or die in defence of his country's freetlpm. Hjsfory informs »s what ^vas the result of jjie patriotic attempt, madflah 1798, By some'6f a beginning so »y the accident of by the operation }f this ^ay, show t was yi t% great-; n. his i)Itei\di'hg fpf*" iS so. by la\V an4, •,. les so hf chiSiice" ' , r adopted ciitllcn • idded to the*stock ha^, brought to it, Wic services— the is mind., ' , ' ■ or dnd fortune in 1 to tl»e cqptinent the orpbaifcimnii- goods I^^Bs life, f his fWlow-men eturned from^hat ted country." •< fathfllLwaij ^ cot ble PiWot. The il edu«|||ion, and )f>patriotiam and - tiirew asidfi the * ^ ^ ALEXANOSR POIt,TER. i^ Inch lier,and~: js|ory infomijs us \, By §ome'6f4he rom tfie thraldom i^e lea^n \ father of -Judge Pprtfcr felU martyr in the cause of freedom, anil yjv^ exe- cuted as a rebel. Judge Porter thus becairie in early'life fatherless and without R home, and he wasfor.c;ed to" abandon his own, his native land,, ami seek'rch.ge ui a Idna of .strangers. To this countrv, the asylum- of the V;■,■ A--^ r^ ■'.:*■■ J^/ #^-< S"'^ WILLIAM iROWN. •'.V,- all iht \% % ^:^ ¥J 'S* " I remember well, gentlemen, the f ime, the dausn iht incidents of the ' S°Z;if;, l^M*^' "^'*" -^^ ^"^t^'"^' ^R^ •'»•««' mffir on Kd of a flat boat ..^^..tJfcMce nd the river* m the hope of bettering mJTfortnne. f -was irotmff. I ^f0^^T^S^l?^^",'\^-!''''^^'\ '*".'' ^ ^«'' '"^v^'S fril«ds that I loved I was •!nP^ - poor a ulTBad ya to try whether I coul.l 8uc(?eedV tlie profrssiou which 1 had choseii I well remember how httle I heeded the movement^ of he boat as she sioxvly. receded from a spo^nsecrked to me by soTnahy afTections. ^ Sn.h was the state of my felings-lich the mis-lviiiffs that Khlni""- "'""^ that^othin^. bnt a fear "ocJt ridicule ^.^ILKonld attach to my irre^johition, prevented me "from getting on shore at the lirst convenient opportunity, and returning to spend my life ther?'^ ' wr"?,f , ?"^' never forgot the scenes of his youth ; he was' very charita- HisVml en KnT I ° '^^ ^'°°'^'. '?■ "^'^ *''^ di^treied, tocomfort the mourner. «i« o colloquial powers, ability as a debat^-femild and conrteons man- Ht« .;rirr"'"T-'' *^*^*' ?■'•''•''"' rendered hiV a favorite in the Senate. AnU.r^.Z\ ''}''T'' "" .''''" ^° '''^ '^'^^^ possessions, and forty thousand h« .. f ^«Mneathed to other retons. I believe that he died Childless. It IS to bo regretted tliat-whrfeTne Bi " " " as to drive thousands jQ|wheir be«t citizt found m the United St^^so pr*j|idiced Porter should be treated as alien* The f of Sir Robert Feel, delivered in,the Ht^isfe^ 1830, will show how much more correctly th< the worth of^ Irishmen, although he has fools like ourselves. «• if 'fhlVrf'^'i f''T'.'y,^'\9''^ H office an'a p(HPer he Ji^ohcc enjoyed, if the presen fwhig] Mim0y, i^ore tha.i the last, coulJ^ire the decla- rauoi^f Parliament that England and Ireland should .slSiheir fortunes i^Uthl®' ^"r '^/^*^ was unavoidable, that thejr would fight united togeth^ and by their union attain that triumphant, success whieh they Tr^r!r tii ^^i ^^ *'"^^X '^ ^''"J" ^^■*""« ^''^Jded. Hc hoped, top, that out of rr?r« %Pfoi''e,^^:oi"J not be misled- by the declamation^f tUiected pa- iTf^v ^..'•^•^'^^M^*'^?''^^'^^'"'^''*^"^'"^. of. Dublin coWd In-, uiduced Sl.Sh^ii®r--T^"'^^ of-Belginra .and Paris, 'ihey %\:buld\vell consider wJi,pthef t«r had^ie same justifiable cause of opposition to tiie Goyem- A^entj.an^eveuA^ien tjipy.ha^d settled tjiat point, he trusted that they government are sp unwise to exile, a parry ishbuld be 'ssire that men l^c Judge g extract from a speech immons, in De(*(5mber, statesman estimated :ots to contend with. J^Sf H rf-° "^"^ 'T^''*^- ^•'^'l'''^'^"^ condition of those countries in if ^dikt^u .1 i- '«r'^."""s "'«? t"c-jjieftt;iii conuiuon oi tnose countries in «^^«!l>^i'^'''''"\'1^?^''.'*-l?'*^" place, with the state in which they . .*^er«f^Q(ore the revoiir%]ds had taken place." - '*fi«» #- . 4 -~- WILLIAM BROWN, " 4 A ejBander, father of William arfd James Brown, and their entcrprisin- brothers was a native of th(-county of Antrim in Ireland, wher^liis eldeS son^Wi bam was born, at Ballymena The family were for some time ex- tensively engivaed m the linen trade of the north; and it is said that the unsettled comlitionof ihe-bountry previous to the revolt of 1798, was a leading cause ol their removal to Yorkshire in England t^u^ml^ tlie close, ?1 h!^ century Mr. Brown and his four .^ns cmjgrated froKi J->igland to„ BaltimoreMii Maryland, m 1800, where tJ^y established ameiOantile house under the firm ot Alexander Brown ahd Sons, and extended the sale of ^'^"'s'}-???P"»'»*=tiires so far, that it was considered advisable for the eldest n«o», Vyilham, to return to England alid establish a IiokCo in Liveriiool. -Iflig 4fi.duU U1-180S, after, a resi-deHw-t^etjghl yeary rn-thcrUniiua Htfre^ and Ills fipm have for the last twenty years be^nthe mostcxtensiveeKport- ers of manufactured goods in fhe British ei'npire. The other brothors ex- tended the bnsiuess to New Or|eans^^hiladelphia, and New York. In N L * incidents of the board of a flat boat e. I -was Noting, I hat I loved. I was le profession which ! movements of tl^e me by so many he misgivings that icule which wonld 1 shore at the lirst there." ' i was very charita- nifort the monrner. id courteons man- )rite in the Senate, and forty tlionsand he died (Childless, ent are sp muvise a parry (should be at men llkfC Jndgft let from a speech )ns, in December, iteSman estimated 1 to contend \yith, ^ncc enjoyed, ire the decla- Iheir fortunes ouTd light united ccess wliieh they d, toQ, that out of )n/jof lUi'ected pa- eotild l«! induced mUruell consider in to tlie Goyem- trusted that they those countries in ite hi wliich they their enterprising , wher^lii.s eldest for some time ex- t is said that the - It of 1798, was a t6\,VaF<.lf tlie cIosQi ited frott» J-iiglan ;hcd a meiOatitile ctended tlie sale of il)lo ifor tiie eldest iifo in LiverjTpql. cxteii.«ive.export-S )thGrbrothors ex- d New ¥orlv. In ■#■ Liverpool the firm VWILLIAM BROWN. 1 *flK n m % v Brown ; m New York, Brown, Brothers tc Co. The youngest brother resides jn New York, the eldest at Liverpool The others liave recently retired from trade. The selling of American produce in ifncland, and the purchase and ex- portation of British manufactured goods for the American markets, was the first line of business. This was soon mingled with an extensive agency trade; other merchants consigned cargoes of goods to the houses of Messrs. ^ Brown in Liverpool and Baltimore, from England and from America respec- tively, and drew advances of money upon such goods, without vvaitin'^ for the ultimate sales. In process of time, says theoLondon Morning Chroinclej the commerce between Liverpool aiurAmerica, through the agency tif the'' Liverpool house, became so great, or rather, it should be safd, the com- merce of England with the four quarters of the globe ran so mrieh through the agency of this house, thatthe buying and .selling of gobds^ either as principals or as agents, was. in a great measure, departed from, and the negotiation of bills, or rather the transferring of payments from one country to another on account of other buyers and Wllers, was chiefly attended to. In 1836, the transactions of the hou.«e ot\W. & J. Brown, in Liverpooli an;onnted to fifty millions of dollars. The failure of nearly one thoii.sand banks in the United States, in 1837, to redeem their notes and other obliga- tions in specie, involved and seriously injured the Messrs. Brown. Amerii can commerce ought never to have rested on such a fragile fabric as the in- numerable bank note factories of the Union, each of them tempted to issue more paper than its managers could pay ; many, i.f not most of them, con- " trolled by unprincipled gamblers and .speculators, without any real restraint ■ on their secret operations, hcfwevcr dishonest; few of their managers sub- ject to any piuiishmcnt, however criminal tlieir conduct might be; no, check or regulator exi.sting whereby their solv^ency could be tested ; nor any bankrupt law; under which broken" and fraudulent establishments could be swept out of existence with tlte least possible loss to the stockholders, : and equal dividfends to creditors. ' ' The British government savv that the fall of (he Liverpool Rothschild would fid nianniaerurers, and all connected wither if tlie United Kingdom — the Directors of ithorized Mr. Brown to draw from the _ rec|nire, to the extent of nine and a half 'Slim he borrowed and speedily repaid, and" his personal fortune is now estimated in England at nine or ten millions of dollars, although as to that nothing certain can be pSIitively known.,80 long as he is extensively engaged in credit transactions. It may be pre- sumed that it is ample as his wishes. / " e Mr. Brown is described in the Mor7ii4g Chronicle as being " a liberal in. general politics, but moderate in his/opinions." In other words, he is a Whig— offering a decent, friendly opposition to a few of Sir Robert Peel's views, and pressing him now and then for measures calculated to place ,-• fewer restraints-or taxes onl the foreign trade of England. He opposed the *' I Ea.stJndia.Copipaiw's mon^opoly of the China trade, and assisted in pre-^ "♦ ]^eiuing its renewal, and, h(^ united with John Gladstone and others in se- aring Mr. .Canning's and Mr. Huskissoii's return to the House of Commons ^ Livei-pool, chiefly becausip of their free-trade principles. ^nce 1837, Mr. Brown has\confined his bu.siness more to banking thari ■ibrraerry ; and after forty-four years of active life iis a merchant, with greaf and iiivalnahle experience in all matters relating to the commerce of the United States, England, and the world, he came forward in May, 1844, as rtietw+rirei 'wttdi-comatr in 1841 a population of 1,264,000 persons, within a space of 700 square miles; includes within its boundaries, Liverpool, Oldham, Manchester, Salford, Rochdale, Bolton, and A^hton, aqd had previously been represented in Parliament by upholdeirs of tlie coru-laws and landed iudaopoly. His involve or alFeot the merchr employed by them, in eve the Bank bf England me, bank in specie, any sum millions of dollars. Half 72 WILUAM BKOyrK, J ■» opinions, owing to his position and the positions of his partners, his hich and honorable character, extensive transactions, vast power, practical knowledi^e, and avowed " free trade" pritieiplef , ihnst be intercstinir to the people <)t Ameriba; I, therefor^, state his opinions f/ora his addresses to the freeholders, delivered a few days before the electioni/rom the hustings at Manchester and Newton. ^ He holieved that Sir Robert Peel was as much a friend to free trade as himself, and would support him in so far as he carried out his prihcinle of buyius 111 the cheapest market, and sellinj? in the dearest . It was of no importance to Enj.'land whether; of the 52 f,'oycrnmeiUs of Enfope, one take the surplus products of our industry if the other 51 pay us for them A great evidence of national prosperity would be that the iinpprts of Eu«r.' land would be double the value of her exports. It would prove that her ■ merchants were obtainiuK a profit on their ventures. He had i)aid a visit to the United States in 183S; the southern planters told him they were for free trade with England, beea^Jse she took their cotton at a modnrate rate of duty ; the mannfaoturers wanted prohibitive duties, to enable their nation to become powerful like Eugland-but the farmers assured him that they wanted^the market of the wprld for their grain and provisions, and it depended ou English legislation Avhether they went for her or against her as to trade. He vvas an economist at heart, but wisiicd England to remaiti a first rate power; to accomplish which, Jie desired the removal of all protective and all coinitervaiHng duties and bounties. The duties which the tinted States lay upon our (BritiMi) exports to them, average, at this time, 32i per cent. ; the duties wliich we (the English) lav npoii our imports Irom thiem, average 52j jwr cent. But if we exclude from tlie list ot imports, cotton, which is essential to our manutiictures, then the duties, which wo (the English) lay upon our imports from the United States, amount to 260 per cent. What, friendly feelinsrs can we expect from a nation to whom we thus act .' He tlioujjht that if the bill, restricting labor m factories to ten hours a day, were ])as.sed, it would produce better prices for goods and better wages to workmen, for a^ime, but in the end act as a bounty to rival countries to increase their rnanufactnres^it would induce the building of more mills, and macliinery, and perhaps the market now open would then be shut to our industry, bv which, also, the British operauve might suffer.* He was a member of the church of En"-land, but no Inseyite His experience in the United States induced liim to think that the ballot was not a prptection to the voter, for a man's opinions always got to be known. He was opposed to war, and ^^•ould bind the nations ui tlie boDd ol peace, by the tie of mutual benefits, and a common interest. The I nited States employ nearly a million of men, and i)roduce . to the extent of 250 mjllions of dollars value, yearlv, of the fabrics which ' Jinglaud would supply them, with much greater mutual advantage. The ' exports from Britain to the United States have receded, in Kilue, from 12 millions sterling, per anniim, to about half that amount. Our restrict ive, anti-commercial policy has compelled the United States to issue hostile tariffs--it has built np their; mannfactures. England had risen in spite of restriction, because of the physical energy of her working population, her . mnieral wealth, accumulated capital, enterprising merchants, and the position of the British l.sland.s. He would entirely remove the duty on foreign gram, to aid the laboring classes,, who were incremsing half a million a year. In Ireland, ini some parts, the laboring people are obliged to hve for weeks together on buttermilk, and probably on potatoes and South Lancashire ^being the mosr populous county in the United King. r.,„.!lnn]?L^ J ^o 1^ We \yorkin? cl«ss to earn cnoneh to support the Inndeil nristorrscy, anit J?n.h»r ,™.^Vr^Ji ir^i?"i P""'«i?"? '" homo tit u n.uch hisher prico than was piid by the like class. SiSf «rite?S^l!Sy ' **"*®.i' ""fJ""* S;"'" "^ "'"*'"K '" fiictories. fhn remedy was free conuuercr « >artners, his high |)ower, practical Htere8tii)g to the liis addresses to roni the hustings to free trade as t his priiicipie of t.. It Was of no of Enfope, one lay ns for them, imports of Eng- 1 prove that her had paid a visit in they were for a mo«i9rate rate to enable their issnrcd him that rovisions, and it ■ or against her, gland to remain removal of all le duties which iverage, at this I lay upon onr de from tlie list then the duties. United States, expect from a •estricting labor ;ce better prices he end act as a it would induce le market now Iso, the British of England, but d liim to think man's opinions uonld bind the and a common . n, and jiroduce., 3 fabrics which Ivantage. The ' in v^lue, from Our restrictive, :o issue hostile isen in spite of population, her lants, and the ■e the duty on reusing half a pie are obliged 1 potatoes and le United King* WILLIAM BROWN. 73. dom, and Mr. Brown at the head of its commercial men, the conteij; ex- cited much intciost, iiiul J^.o-f I yotfes we?e' polled. Mr. William Entwisle, the caiulidiite of tiie Conservatives or landed interest, a retired maiuiructu- rer, whose wealth is invested in laud, r6ei •-• ■ ■•■,>, I'fincl in Graham's IMagazin'e tift„ account of .this brave Irishman, by J. • Feniiimore Cooper, wllo frankly ackjiowledges. that there was a short period in Avhich the " nam6 and services " of John Shaw, " stood second to none on the list. of gallant seamen with which the present navy of the re- r public commenced jts brilliant. career.*^ Commodore Shaw's family, was of , English origin. In 1690, his grand-" father, ali officer in KjJ|g Willia'm's army, passed into Ireland and married there! One of,hi» sons, the father of tlie Commodore, served as an officer in the 4th regiment of horse,^ and was present at the battle of Minden. He married Elizabeth Barton, of Kii^Lenna, and their gon John was born at Mount IVIallick, Queen's County, Ireland, in 1773.' In 1790, John sailed for New .York, in coranaiLy,.witn an^ elder brotheri^and "during the ensuing seven years made four voyages to Canton. When only 25 yea* s old he was raised to the rank of Lieut^hant in the tJ. S. NaVy, and obtained the command of the war schooiw Enterprize, pierced for twelve long sixes, • with a crew of 76 men, in wmch he fought hin3 or ten actions w^h sucr 'cess or credit. "Jn one sense," says Mr. Cooper", " she was more useful than any other craftuhat ever sailed under the j^gi" In 1800 his iship en- gaged and captured several French- pritkteere, and great nan^cal^skill and . courage were displayed. He took the 'Seine, 4^uns, |pr miftir— the Citdyenne, 6 gups, 57 men — a.ljirge three-masted higger^ — L'Aigle,4^*gnns, 78 iiien — Le Flambeau, 12 guns (heavier met|d than the Enterprize), and 110 men— ;the Partline, 6 guns and 40 men-^aiht I,«^adaloup^ene, 7 guns and 45'men, all French vessels^ He had not be^ijtHfi|e yeWs^Hi the Ame-' ricau Navy, and in six moii|^hs of that tim^ his.a KMLQ '' had captured -eight privateers and letters' of jtnarque, and fough^SBH^pirited actions. 'Soon after the peace. of 1801'he lldd a lieutenant's hal^Riy — only $240 a year— and married Elizabeth Palmer, a young-lady of the Society of'^Friends, m Philadelphia. He waS' twice married. ^, " ~ , In 1806 he was ordered to irepair^to New Orleans, to' construct a flotilla • of gu\iboats for the .defence of the Mississippi.' In February, 1807, he ap- peared off J«fatchez, wi|li a flotilla, mounting gl guns, ahd mannedjwith, 448 men, ready for Biirr'i force, which dispersed. In 1808, he took cnirge' of tiie Navy yard, Norfolk, having beenKpiised4)y JUr. Jefferson to the rank ' of post-captain. • ' '• ," *' i .j • ' In 1814'Capt. S took ^mmand of the squadron lying 'uLHie Thames, bet\^'een NewLondSla smH Nqjwich, which consisted of th^Vni^d States, 44, Macedonian, 38, and Hornet, 18. In 1815,^6, hei.v4*«or«bdWt a Isar hi Command of the Ahiencan squadron in tbejtfumterranean. He re- 4mtied to the U. S. in the ConstellatiotuIkKeillutr. 18l7, ^ud vilited his ' family after an absence of nearly five ygarsT, '• , , ^\, * Commodore Sha\«|Uiever went to sea agaia in comiriand^ He was puf m charge of. the BosToihJ^avy y&F^, then of Vhai ^t Chartejipn) S. C. On ■^he 17ili of Sept., 1823, afl;^e ag6qf^ fifty, he died at PhilacKlphia, where ,hq had established/" ' • - .^ .*. " No' man," says flag inider which hi ble, manly, ju§t ; hi ^ of fme presence,", ki] served under hinji'."; ^ Shears before. ':\ «J^ ^ er, " wag braver^ or mauPWiling to serve the His chsfi^acter was ^ncere« truthful, honora- . r ^rank and warm-hearted^ ** H^^^as a ms^n ' w otficers w&re m6te ^elpye3*by those whd ' 11, n i 4< ••»■ , -i '-4. ^ «* «"/ X [. 4 vp Ai da thj lai thi ge 11 an 'of Li( Ml th( CO *ral .W( an de th< fat hu /th( he 'ck C,' ■\m an mi lai *if • .• « ,r f: rishman, by J. was a short tood second to avy of the re- : 90, his grand- •' [1 and married 1 as an ofRcer ' Minden. He I was born at [ohn sailed foi* J the ensuing yeafs old he i obtained the ve long sixes, ° ions wah sucr s more useful his ship en- itipal^skill and ^ m^tr-the^ Ligle,4«'gnns, terpri'ze), and ip^ene, 7 guns s^U the Ame-' had captured irited actions, —only $240 a 3ly of'^Friends, ruct a flotilla • , 1807, he ap- mannedwith, le toolt cnirge m to the rank ^e Thames, United States, «b(Aft ^ l^ar lean. He re- ad vilited his . f> •■'■ He was puf piii S. C. On slphia, where J to serve the thful, honora- , ^i^as a mi^n ' }y those whd ' ■■*♦ ' REV. JAMES coiow' REV. JAMj&S I AM-indebto/I to a memoir in rnanuscript,1(if^bV this intrepid Irish patriot * ?-!- .r'*i '■,'^'"'. ^'■'':}]^'^^ Valentine Derry, of tl^e French art^y,, fpr a very iir- 79 SS' m rf lerQ.stiiij^.slcctcli ot^ iiis brief but eve'iitful careclr. ^ *• ' ^JWr. Coi;,'ly was n descendant of ancient iHsh tribes,' '' His grandfather, toigi/, invented and constructed the famous boom at Fort Culnlac for'the j,H- T.'»r(W«l . :l 7i IT/ \ 4 ^;tto|l>^4e of Devry ; and, with three of his brpthers, was afterwards kilfed I at the bnttler of Kilci)mmaden,«otlierwise c'alled iVughtimTgallaritly fighting iorlrelaud's independence at the head of hisl regimfent, .after Luttttel had betrayed his country. _His mother's father, 0"J)\)nnell, Avith sev^of his broa: thers, were .slaui while defending the bridge atjthe\battlc of the Bdyne',.The^ pbed, that the badge pf foreign servitude he would never wear. The proDKrty of^his ancestors was wrested from therikJJy thfe'^trangei^. aj(id his frfther was a plain farmer.* Three of big broth^.ancltoth liis pjM-ents, stirvived his untimely end. » " . fH«"^s educated ^n France, at the College of Lonibard, where he endea- / vpred to effect a much Heeded refortn, in which he was opposed by the^i Arclibishop gf Pans, Wlio had hi,s prisons and his lcttre*de cachet in thoSe days, as aLso^two Irish bishops; but success attended his efforts untir thjB breakmg out of the French revoliltion, when he nari-owly escaped thaW lantfcrn.^flew to Di^pe in 1789, reached Armagh, and frnjlSd the people in tffie midst of a, ciVd Avar— religion being the pretext, Shd many lea » rations, Ijecause the Church of England u'^as stronger, and the CathoUc8^> .weaker there than in any other i)art of Ireland^ A phurcli and king- mob ' .'WAS raised, PliHtidelphia fashion, but wirfi the e.xectufve at their bach ; "^ and after taking an oath to extiriiate tlil Cathqlics, they robbed, burnt, and ' destroyed wholesale, called themselves Oran'gemeu, and w^a nrotected by the Iwsh attorneir-general.. In 179G, these riifliiins att^clf^Mr. iCoigl^ '."^ father's house, his parents being then over 70 ye^irs of age, fired over one ..^hundred .«:Iiot.'^ into the house, sJigliUy wounded his father, an(Ldfrecti«»g . their blunderbussBii ab his heacU^tlireatfined him with instant death uul^s ' -> he abjured his. c«urch a»d . •+-. . •:>'« '■■11 -■ ..• ;I'J1 ■f. t . ^ / ,far exceeded the worst "exoesses under the yoke of Robespierre. JVlr. Mac , Veagh, a^ioo'r maa in the barqny of O'Neiland East, had a lovely anil.vir- , tuouswife. The church- aiftl king mob attached his house; tlestroyed his' t little property, and, shocking to relate, tied him up tightly vVith-ropes (ho "^ beggui^ thqLt they would take hi^ life), while font of the hellish myriilidons" ^-^afV'r'-^ •-. *'- ' ' '- . i-'-'^^'v-:^;^ ■■■■ ''' * '^ ' ..-■■•t', ,.'.,■ :•;';- ■'.'-■■ ■ ; ■' . I ■"■;..'. • *■ A f w^ . . ^^-' '■■ ' ^ ¥* m. i'- '' ■ ' i .'. ' -. '■ - , ... ) . IK . . ,■■ \ ,■ ■ ■ ^ ^- I ' . f I* / . « ,"■'-.- ", " ■■■-■■ 1 !■ ■ ' W •'■ - ' .'■■.',..',■ ■' f .. i'O ' / *^>A i j t » ' -^^ = i*/? i^"*jy»*#piMW ^^':^ ■■vf> v'.- ■ - '■ < i . ■ ■ 1 . ! r ; -■ - tV •!-■■■ '■ '■■ r. ^- ' ■ •* f ■ ' ■ V' V 76 RSV. JAMES COIGtr. '^ .- -'-r of faction dishonored the mother of his infants in hfs presence. Mr. (\)itjly etigaged Counsellor Leonard MacNally, since fonnd to h»ve been in The pay of England, to prosecnte the authqE^s of tliese ontrages; biiftlicGo- 'vernmeut officials tliwarted all his efforLs, and Lord Castler^agh, Marcus Beresford,- and Nicholas Price marked him (Cdigly) out as an object of their vengeance. ' ^ ' - ° It is Mr. Coigly's opinion that, under tlie old pretence of* zojjl against popery, not one Catholic family wonkl have-l/ccn left in the nine couiities' of Ulster, had not the humane Quakers aiitl Dissenters, often at the ri.'ik of their hves and property, afforded them timely aitl and„protectio!).„, He was not a friend to the French revolution at the time he had to leave - Pari.s in 1789 ; but it is probaWo that the course taken by the En!>Ii.- and make important dis'coveries. . Though a Catholic priest hiniself, he ' hesitates not to denohuce this'person and all like him Avho pro.stitme re- ligion to bad purposes. Wolfe Tone, in his meni>^irs,.-:Si£kji# ll^t the Catlip-r lie clergy and leaders in 1798, were- not so fond of ^legislative refariii*a^j . desirous of a mono|)oly for thoir church.' If this" M'as so witli some, Coigly ' was guiltless, btit th(j apprehension' of such a change may have added some really honest men , to the Orange Iq^ions. The villain GrifMls-. was selected to attend Coigly, by Dr. DpHglas, a Catholic bishop in-Lon- don, and tiie spiritual.aid of one of his countrymen whom he Jiud Jiamed was denied. • .Father Coigly was arrested on a charge of high ti-eas6?i," sent to Maid- stone jail, ill Kent, examined before iVJr. Win.. Pitt, Lord Grenville, and the- Privy Council in London, and. there told by the Lord Chancellor of Va\^- land, that if he wonid return exiilicit answers to the. questions put to him, the Council would at any time meet at Ins sunimons, au4 personal in- dulgence and other advantages would thence accrue to liim. When tried for • his life at Maidstone, before Mr. Justice Duller, the government oau.scd'a mutitateil coJ)y of his secret, examination bejipie, the Privy Council Jo be put in- evidence against him. Frederick Dflftoii;;of Newry, Wjis.aVit*^ ness for the crown oii his trial. Richard Smith and Henry' Tomsett swore that a paper of a treasoiiable nature was fouiu^ in Fath(>r Coi^Iy's great-coat pocket. Before the trial they proposed ,tQ abscond, or give evidence in his favor, if pa.id £600 each ! In his lettei' to his fiitjiid, Capt. Derry, wiitten after he had beeif (^ndcmiiQd.td die, he ayers that no such paper was iii his pocket, unless tl^^j^itnesseshad put it there'; and men- tions that .when arrested at MargsSplie called for a magistrate, and iir- sisted that ail his pajiers should be examined, in his presence, on which twdSbfflceral produced handcuffs, and tpld j^iim they would put them or .himif he did not desist. ' ' ' .When before the Privy .Coimoil, Mr. Pitt asked him, and urged hijn to 'answer, whether he was a member of the Corresponding Soriet)t, or con- nected with the Whig Club, or .some other of the British i)olitical a.s.^ocia- • lionei or the bear.pr of any political mes.sage to Fnmce, and he said he ■ wu » am, fep e titing iH a -wo ft la t- .tm tl it; -sc afruld- Wliat a t c r ribl B cuuditiuit~ the political affairs of the British nation must have been in, \vlien reasQjls of state^supesrceded -justico and ccpjity, ant|. requir6(l of such men as • ; Willipiri Pitt and hU colleagues of tjiat day, the Judicial miirder, for ftucU\ rlr"iui^ty W«8» of th^^^dble i^iud truly liberal Coigly ! Does hi8> mutilntpd V i : yc -i nc 'vr At '■•■VI ■: • w! ;nce. Mr. Coifrly «ve been in the ges; but •the Go- tler^asb, Marcus in object of their ! of zojfl against ;ie nine eonnties' en at the risk of tectio!)., ,, ' ' 5 he had to leave •- ' the £ng!i.~ii ;'iu- nent ordered hi* i London, liwnteu, ^d assassination, released. , From * ied to arrest hirav. allows. IS, a "pretended' laiued nine days ;o turn informer, riest hiniself, he ' ho prostitute re- U' tbat the Cutjip-r ' ilative refarrti*a^{.. ith §offle, Coif^Iy ' nay hnxe added ' villain GrifMls^ 3 bishop in-Lon- ti he Jiud named i?i, sent to Maid- renville, and the- uicellor of En^- fions put to him, in4 personal jn- , When tried Tor • rnment caused *a y Council Jo be vry, Wjis.aVit* Henry Tomsett Father Coigly's bscond, or give • his fritjiid, Capt. ers tlia't no such there'; and meu- gisy-ate, and in- seuce, on wUich Id put them oa »d urged liiin to Soriet)^ or co'n- lolitical as.^ocia- • and he said he RKV. JAAfES CblGLT. ■...n 'I vrSfMr^r^"!"''' ^u^°""°r' fonnerlrhighsherifTof Cork County, wastriefl. T s IS ^^- '■ «'^"»^«'^ ^J^^-^iff. Lnne, sw.ore thai aJett^^^kSl L O'Cottor ° ^^t'tj^'^:^ .^°. Mr, Cojgly. vvas in ihe WnS 'f rffi oL Down ' ' f J T[ ' d)l B couditiun 1, ^vhen roasQjls f such mctr a>* nurder, for such IS his- mutilntpd Mr Connor's acqu,tta Uhe government had him instantly Sfesid S • some new charge, and Jiad Mr. Coigly been declared inSenrheaS ^Sr^alirSfflS"'- °-' " '"^'^ '»»» ■"^- ■ He r'j «,™ hu'^lIr'J'? '"^ •■"'"",■ '"'"' "'"'' ™ •'" ^^^'^ =* ^'«to'y of his past lifl?and rfien Sid tliem m the thre^ M|ilgd' I never wguld attempt to save my life by%weaHng agai. st Sy S bS ' : • ' JS:*^''^.?"^"'^ ?" and confiding i„ tfe goodness If my SawouS ' • ^«#i8e the sattehtes^f despotism, and'^heerfully go tb- Jeath wrth thS ' >>-^fiminess and fortit^de^f soul.Vhiph' innocence, purity pf cbnsciS S a good Oause never faij to mspire." - , -/^ /^ "■'t.iwice, ana ,^ ^ 1' .,„^?1'"^''^"'^ '"^ catholic countrymen, he adds-^« My-brethreii. it iS noi '" * " Siffi^°'IT"''*°'?"S«dbyyourrehgioatoa,fs\ver8S^^^^ : :. " V. 5?t),^?-. "?' discoveries •as.they (tlie clergy) think proper t2 ?eS * ' , ',^H the truth, toyoiJr God alon?"x«" "e responsWiAiit S a^!i:!- Pr^L";.^!->'"Pv--"o Procfeds-witli .Jch C^^gKu^S^ V, > .'fl hffllta of his. diity,^d^|wrv«ft»tt8rl«f aa^t iti .».■;'. . ' ^i°*'^'?l'^■loo^t"•^<;®■.^?j"'8tferia^J)u entirlly to de-stroy the most endeawng ties bQthof com& and religion.'' ■'-, ■ > : ^" . ; . ndtof!lS"ii f^ ^'^^^f'^^, thesT.skejches of ibph pharj^cte^ hoiiors aiJd . »: 78 jjMtSi oiAott. \^' n> : '«• 'ii tyrs for tneir cree.d and country in the memorable l't98, he fran^)^ owns^:. ^ hi9 abhorrence of .the conduct of such state-toorls as the late Bishop M&c* donell of Upper Canada, Bishop t^ftij^e of Montreal, Bishop Douglas, and all pensioned hirelings, wl^ther of monarchical or republican power, who . have prostituted the religion bf Christ to sucli purposes as the good Father Coigly, in his celU and about lo appear ^ the bar of Omnipotence, so un- 'equivocally condemns. " Return-to youtbishop (said Coigly to Griffith^, and tell himifrom'me, to send jne a.priest unlimited as to spiritual author- ity and understanding, otherwise to send none at all— as I most earnestly request, and that for the sake " .not be embittered. by aur^uments founded on bigotry and prejudice." The Bishop's agent, or rather, the agent of tfeie English government, next endSavojed to induce him to say that yhich would criminate my friepd,„_ the late Benjamin Pembenon Binns, of Philadelptiia, Of whom a brief notice appears in this volume — but he woi^d not— on which Griffiths replied very ' signifiicahtly that he w.a8 neMier empowered to prohiise him a reprieve*: Bor a respite, .bat urged him to be silent at the^pface of execution Griffiths ftir^h'er excused .his ourn ^conduct towards Father Coigly, by affirming that ^ his was ^ the general practicd of the catholiq clergy ftf Ehglandf i This pious christian minister was then removed t^acell with Iwo doors, *even locks,- six bojts, and' a double-|;rated window which adniitted very .little, lightVthe same in which the bold Scotchman," Parker, who headed, the insurrection in the liavy, had beer^ tormehted:- He earnestly Wked to see his friend Capt Pehy:r.rbut the * govet^menl which boasted of its hu- manity, add of English liberality ahd,chrilization,mbre brutal and savage - *^ than the negro or Indian; or terrihedinto a.s6rie^ of acts of cruelty which., \ -,;the impartial liistoriau never can'' defend,, very, peremptorily refused his. ■4 request. > " ' ' . T ' " ' ' ♦« ^ , Dr. Madden js mistaken, where he says in his life of Emniet, that H was ' .. Alderman John Binns Of Philadefphia, who wfis tried" with* Coigly, and O'Connor. It was his brother Benjamin, vtho wrote ipein 1M9, that he , suffered three years of solitary continiement, in England, '\vithout the use of books, pens, ink or paper, land was refused a trial because tfiey had no evildence x>n which to convict him. How like Hoyt and Butler's conduct with "the French Housa^NeW York< which they so dreadfully harrassed ! . m' Thank Heaven, opprM^tk ^nnot.now be carried to the QXteift de.scribed ' above, eitner in England v I am indebted to a letter Ann his companion,, fit P. Binns, for an accoiini .of the Rev. Mr Cdigly's dea^h! He was drawn to the place of ex^ciuion on Pennington Heath, on the JTtJ^ of June, 1798, andon'hisjourney from the Krisoii at Maidstone, readl||0me Latin .and English prayers, knelt on the . urd^e and^sung a psalm. Griffiths the priest attended him on the scaffpld, " aiM at length gavn him what the Catholics call Absolution. Having as- < cendM the fatal ladder, he spoke to the people for half an hour, declariilig ^ Aat his life had beetJ sacrificed by ^rjured witiiesses. His language and manner were Jcind and affi^ctioRate, insomuch, that tlie auditors and even .< ,the "albldi^rs on duty shed tbars." After being strahgled, he was- beheaded ... . Jw'hileyel alive, aad,,hia'hl!aift«takjBn out. .. '" " v The following truly liWPB and catholic address of the noble Irish mftrtyr, ^4^ W the l'e(l|jleaf Ireland,»^th, 1798, ten days ', before he perished qo the spalTold'; af^er wl&n • his K(i»ly w.is mutilated alM ttur9\Vn into a shell, witli quickUme, j&nd buried ^i tine fo^t of the^gai-l loVt>1t, iri MiydMone, itent, E|gl%pd. -■^ ,- " . , ^^^-4--,}^' ? ..g' ''\ I '■ t te Bishop Mfcc- p Douglas, ^nd an power, who he good Father potence, so un- ' gly to Griffith^ piritual author- most earnestly I moments may* sjudice." 'l^ iveniment, next late my friepd, m a brief notice ths replied very him a reprieve ' •'' ition Griffiths Y affirming that ^ ' " landr ' ■■ ivith two doors, adniitted very ' !r, who headed, nestly 3sk6d to isted of its hu- ital and savage< n , f cruelty which . ily refused his net, that rt was ' ith" Coigly, and n 1^9, that he I'ithout the use ise ^ey had no Jiitler's conduct ully harrassed ! Xtertt described 1 colonies like , for an accoiiii: !e of execution mrney from the ; a, knelt on the on the scafTpld, m. Haviwg as- honr, declaring 8 language and Jitors and even ' was- beheaded > •le Irish martyr, , 1798,-teirdtiys was mutilated (091 of the"|[tti-l ^VV. iAMES COICLT. 79 S?S?;SMo.Cj'Sof';tt ;» i.,.hen,in .he name break tile loleinn engagements Tunim,Fri^XhftTn'/n IT^-""'", >""'' »"". "«*«' '» gloripusly entered MowTihyJrbr^Zn/fZl:l^^ ^^^"«'' y" »"^''« Seariienruot to the SY<^^J^rJ"itZt^n f^ f'^'us persuwrion. No, my brethren f specious mark they affi ^o^lh^ e"a?a' infl.fe'nf^^^ f Ir?iand, ^.dc'r wbateWr 'received his insthjctions at thc^rUe or^nWir n^u r y?"'.«h*«»'. who having sectetly • 4ctters, talsehopds littte short of Khfiii.ri? 'li^ "'^ '?"*' "* *"* Mandates or pastoral ^ ^the name «r^d-wtetheriw a cofat^vn^^r It '**'.'? °''^V '""V^ "I'*'" >«" «> « uities of somnieichborta" Mt^v?S'W.V *^* *?? ""'. ?"'"^'"' '" ■**'«' the importu- a.£'S ™»'°„,SS;, ^°3iSii?i'' sr*,.""' ?""?!»• ' •*" <"■«> •>»»•■ *■ -j.ii_ • "• • '. you»bavel}ieea j0dr ofVtlie-M. » wn|j|t«a4|i«Uyat- m Orr sealed wUh^iTb,;^, aw'Xch^ we CaZS« SX..& ^'*"* '*"' '?" I hope, I trost, I believe that we sfaaU aJIroeet tmrether wHptp «««h.ii k.»- i-., How fgnoramthea, or how wicked, m,«t1^ maX, wK^mpfjS^^ flOt ptjbliflhed this fefcetc1» of a good man's life, witly^ the Vie\v "to IPeople n» Amenca agiiinstthe Jln^tish. g<*«.ernment ,^ dur ^^1^ -..r-d*^ ^/''^■l ^H?^ "'^'"^ o" a revolt In Cpnfcda. fend committed npts of grei,t and verlKwairton C^ty upon iW ft^es ftiid nroSeSes of ' man^whom the.rj,<5kno«M'T«dgedmyf,ltefuid driven ime armenSuoS iL*?a'' '°^}fHl^'iniel^ho\y results of imperfect uSuKignS' dkSurflS'^'":' '^M \f '^'^ bjf examples, how n^oessa^rit ikS ' all-ourtioDulationshould be educated tborofighlyand virtuouslj?. Y fear "^" H^ffP'd "npf dp ,tfm yjogrpf B nf fiiimn ti, improvoiiiuMfc mi< l ':''?: J." J\ 1 ' tf .. '*■ im thong -< ■A .all'oiir (iop ■ > bayonet 14 i^W." m..icllopte. ^dveut«Siji^ and t6« nfew. that m the •* "•" < Vk. »».' ^V-/ — *>1i «■ <•' •r "« w *■.■■■% * %. 1i ? V 80 HKXRT FLOOD. HENRY FLOOl This extraordiRar^Tii^, the great rival of Grattaii, flourished in the most btriUiant era of Tn^h history; was a son of Wdrden Flood, the Lord-Chief- Justice, and bohVin Ireland in 1732. He was educated lor a lawyer, but passed his life in. the midst of fierce political agitation, and died in hi.s sixtiet^i year, in 1791. i3[|:Tlood possessed a clear intellect, a cultivated understanding, with imf^ifeionedt eloquence, and was ever anxious to increase the prosperityijof his countty, secure its independence, and inj^ove its political coiistitution. He left his great property to the University of Dubkn, to ri)!|jiuaiii a professership in the native. Erse or Irish^ %nd for premiums f^r tj^mpositions on the literature set aside. Like most Irish gentlemen of his d rf. Ireland, but the he was a dnelli ;«wll was it, and in a sectwid duel with one of the Agars, shot him through the heart. • Peter Burroughs, who had the best means of knowiqg Mr. Flood'^ character, and was a good judge, describes him as " the ablest man Ireland ever produced — indisputably the ablest man of his own tirnes." The younger Grattan tells xis that he was a capital tragedian-, and made for phblic life. His acceptance of the office of Vice treasurer of Ireland greatly injured Tiis influence. THe salary was^'^l 5,000 a year. / » The younger Grattan also says ofAFlood, that his father, was very intimate with him in early life ; that Flood enjoyed from Wis youth van in^epeuilent fortune— $20,000 a year ; that he was mdustrioufB/ an excellent classical scholar, wrote poetry with much taste, translated two' books of • HomeFi and the finest speeches of Demo.stheues, studied Cicero, and repeated, with taste and feelmg, his finest pai^sages by hear|'; that he w-as the first man who gave a spirit and a tone to Irish liberty ; and that hi.s convivial habits rendered him very populak He took offic^ in 1775, under a profligate lord-lieutenant; countenanced the address of October tlie 16th, and the vote to* send 4,000 Irishmen in Noyemher, that yeari to fight against America— " armed negotiators," ^ he .'(Flood) called tnem. But thi.s measure was most forninate for the Irish.i and with the enthusiasm felt for the Americans throughout Ireland at that tirate, proved almost equal to a reinforcement on behalf of democracy to^ the new world. It gav« birth to the Volunteers, who took the place of the regular army ; ■wrhile, of the Irish' who crossed the A'tlantic, many joined the rebelg, and <)thers, like Lord Edward Fitzgerald, imbibed t^ei'r principles* and retutned -to Europe, prepared for revolutions. Flood saw the danger Ireland was in of failingj > tusleep after the concessmis of Englcaid, and exerted hin|self to the very utmost to effect that reform in the state of the represeutatjon, in the Honsw of Co|nmons, which would have i)roved a barrier to thk gross venali^ ,- which enabled Pitt and C/astlereagh, in the hour of daiJger^ to carry tim' Union. He failed. Lord Charleiuont, well-rneaning, but \veak, played unconsciously into the hands of the English party. The volunteers met, and demanded a real representation of the Irish people, and that rotten boroughs should be swept off. Mr. Flood's excellent^ plan was adopted in convention — it was honest, n'o^le; just. The base hirelings, Fitzgii»bou and Yelverton, exerted themselves to crush a measure wjhich would have peacefully secured Irish freetlom; the 138 placenieu votdd on the wde of their bread and butter. Conolly and tire rest of thel whigs (always < ireacherous where ^he people were concerned) gave Floojd no support ; 93 memberii skulked, and the noble patriot was defeated, 158 to 49. Mr. ■^^" i K, - II ■ la a * S( . (iruttan voted for the gch»mo of rsforni, ii»< look ; a i i cfit'j pnrt to seture it. 11 ""jp . K, '•^ Mr. Flood was the great rival of Henry Grattan, while opposing the . oppressive measures of England for the subjugation of hui country. Flood I "WM RUperiAr t6 Grattan in political di.scernniciit, more rt publican, and far — tesiK fWendly to English power. He pointed \>nt tfl|r wcalii^efss of IreWndV- toiegaards, as oftered by England w'hen she was weak i m 1782T7Grattaa -^; i-H' led in the most the Lord-Chief- r a lawyer, but ud died in his ct, 9. cultivated ,er anxious to ;e, and ini^ove e University of Irish, and for xmll was it, and in nt the duelli heart ^g MK Flood's ?st man Ireland 1 tirries." The ana made for Ireland greatly ither, was very 1 nis youth i-an us/ an excellent d two' books of ■ 3d Cicero, and r|'; that he w-as ■y ; and that his ^in 1775, under ctober tlie 10th, , to fight against lem. ' But thi.s husiasm felt for Tiost equal to a It gavtj birth to tiile, of the Irish- thers, like Lord led -to Europe, vas in of falling self to tlie very an, in the Hoiis<» t gross venality fer^ to carry the It \\eak, played volunteers met, and that rotten un was adopted ings, Fitzgii)bou lich would have 1 on the side of whigs (always- I no support ; 93 158 to 49. Mi-. lart to stciife it. f: RtCHARD KIRT^AN. l^- 81 ar^ the majority orthe Irish House of Commons weUt against hirp.but' the res It proved that he was right. Had his counsel beeirtakci? the Zm h^JZfV^'' 'r '^ .^ '''^ ""^^^^ "°^ have hap%ned-l7eB Mr Pi^^ ^ * retomed parliament and been truly independent, assertor^fh^'jnr''^'':?"' ^^^;;the most violent and Jmpas..ioned t^f B ^ 1- B ^ independence." He was at the same time a member of It wS'te^r.1!''- J°I ^r^ester, and of the Irish, for Kilbe|Sn batflP^ r.?lInH *®V^^P!;'l'c"^'^'°?^**«3«*'^a"''iv«'«a^ of the fatal uf^ .u\ ?^^H^^u\'^^f^ **»® Saxon defeated the Gael, and tram-bled on him. that the Jrish Lords and Commons resolved that I eland Ta dtetincl ?n fcZ'*?M P*ri'a"Le»tof her own, the sole Legislature thereofTand S»« n 1 ^** °/ K-*^, ^?« English Parliament admitted that EnglaUd cou d ^nassno law to bmd Ireland, without her cojisent. This wal gained by mJ'TT^^' '^"^^^ribery (as in Scotland) changed the scene in S ^ Messrs. Fox and Pitt deceived Grattan but not Flood. That great chief- tam savv that the declaration wrung from England's aristocracy^Jas only to gam tmie^o betray his country. The feeling in England was^ahvLT o SJrT *«-IV«h and Scotch. " To whatever Independence IMlnrnr ' adtanee her clam [said the London Annual Register for 1790] */« is in realitt nothing more than the province and servant of England » , * 'f " js/ortunate for America that she is not saddled with political tests founded on sectarian feelings in religian. Our statesmen were wisely S^IUtl ^9^5*/"''"'-°"" "^ *h^^'^ '^^- ^" ^783, the Irish Volunteers riS„i^ :if?*K° "PuT^;*"^^ *^ Dungannon, and unanimously and firmly Twe^ inn h« If^ P«;;''^?»ent must be refo»ned and^orruption putdowZ Twelve -months after. Government emissaries had intrediiced the ques- jonwhethfer Catholics shouldiiave the rights pf election, and tlJs caTsed SSi?S-'°'ll? '?, ^t^V" October, when the Irish National Congress met.in Dublin. thi8„ Catholic, question weakened them much. I^lood took ti& *'°"^^' »" /avor of Catholic emancipation/and ^(jual ■4 •It \ IICIIARD KIR Wan, LL.D le kindred scien- his Elements of tlie German and Dr. Kirwan its being and noted family ia was educated at St. This distinguished writer on geology, chemistry, and ees, was the- author of many useful works, among v ' ' Mineralogy, in two octavo volumes, were translated other languages. Lady Morgan, in her Book of the Boudoir, describe |at Cfegg Castle, Galway, the descendant of an anci Omnaught, and states that'he was born in 1734. /x,c «*«, euucaien at 01 qmer^s, m France, and electfed a membeir of the Rdyal Societies of London agd Edinburgh, and of the Academies of Stockhoton, Upsal, Jena, Phihidel- P*'J»' ?"f Berlin ; also President of the Royal IHsh Academy, and Dootor I *7 ^\^*V^*w ^^ the University of Duljlin, As a/nemist, for many years he ; Jtood afone ; and the Government made him In|ipector.gen«eal of the Roval Mmes in Ireland. His Geological Essays, Analysis of Mineral Water*. Logic, or an Essay on Reason, Metaphysical/Essays. Esswr on Phlogiston. and his work on the Temperature of Diffirent Latitudes, are held in de- servbd esteem. ' / Dr. Kirwan, being a liberal in politics, ^as sworn Wnft nf tha " TTn j t^d f ,.-•• ,-\ flgj Meii '^^^S^f^^'pfEuT^nOrmNe^SnevMa^aredSreS^S^ lie as a leader. Hia death took place iivLondoa ia 1812. le opposing the country. Flood publican, and far nef=s of IreWnd's in 1782— Grattau i -''■-4- ''A /■■■ •2 J. ANB T. HCAKn — HCNKT, RICHARD AND MA«U KDGRWORTR> JOHN AND TONY M'CANN. ' There came to the Seaeh a poor exitfr of Erin, f ^ ThedewonhUthinrbbe was heavy and chill; / " 'For his coMntry he sighed, as, bytjgu^ight repaiiing, ' To wander alone by the heay^m^ten hill.^CAMPBRtb John M'Cann, a leading member of the famous society of frienos of Irish Independence, was the fellow-prisoner of Mr. Thomas Trenor in the Castle PrJvdt, Dublin, in 179g; and was tried in the Court of King's Bench. Dublin; on the 17th of July that year,, for htgh-treasot|^ ; or, in othelr word^, fpr the " love he bore to freedom and his native land, yet to be th^ blessed abode of millions of happy freemen. Thoihas Reynolds, the yile wretch who hatd been hired by the English power to beuay his unsuspecting comrades, (afterwards bis British Majesty's Consul at Lisbon;) was -a principal wit- ness against him, as was one Guiuness or M'Guinness, a person of the same stamp. Mr. M'Cann was a^an of excellent character, in the prime of life, and a member of the Roman Catliolic Church. But the better the man the more anxious were George Ill.'s mutes to stri^glehirii out of the way. He was executed amid the hu'/zas o& infuriated Orangemen, and.bt% memory is venerated by the great and good among hi^ countrymen. -/^ ■> ToNT M'Cahn of Duudalk, brother to John, was- secretly accused J) j: •John Hughes of Belfast, one of the jnfamous band of government hiformfr.* aniji traitors to their country, of favoring an immediate/ rising oftbefriend» , of I Irish independence, in Junie, 1797, as were Lowry and Teeling. Mr. M'Cann afterwjwds went ipto exjie.met -With the Scottish po^t, Campbell.' nuthor of " The Pleasures of Hojie," in Hamburg— told him his mournful tale — ^ana excited a deep interest in his generous and susceptible breastl " Campbell" wrote his beautiful ballad of " The Exil^-of Erin" to the ancieiit Irish oS " Eriii go bragh." aind thus immortatized ^e banished patriot [zed the 'I HENRY., •RICHARIJ, AND MARIA El)GEWORTH': Henrt EisEx Edge^orth de Firw(>nt', fathor-confessor to Louis XV/.,. •was bom ^£ Edgeworthstown, Ireland, in 1745. Ijis father had renounced! Srotestantiski, and removed with his family to France, He attended the ing to the scaffold, ascended it with him, and when the executioner placed his head unddr the guillotine, exclaimed, " Son of Saint Louis, as- cend to. heaven !" He died May 21st, 1807. . , "^ Richard Lovell Edgewosth, a-gentienian distinguished for the vfcrsatility of his talents, was of Irish parentage, and bom at Bath, in 1744. His family residence was at Edgeworthstown, in the South of Ireland. He was edu- cated at Trinity College, Dublin, In. 1767, he contrived a telegraph, and died June 13, 1817, leaving several vejry useful publications behind him.as alegacy to mankind. Mr. E. xvhh true to Ireland, aiid voted in its last parliament for "no union with Britain." His efforts to diriinbogs, aiid in making r'ailwayk^ and. improving Irish agricult^ire, were very beneficiaf.". Among his work» ar6 Poetnr Explained— Essays on Practical Edncaiion— Professional Edu- cation—Essays on Roads— Essays on the Philosophical Transactions, &,c. 41&w^ four times married. ' '. \ ' .Ma^ia Edo|:\vorth, one of the most illustrious female writers of the pteis- ent age, is the daughter of R. L. Edgeworth, and was bom at Edgeworths- Jreltod) ' " " ■7 I'- a* a nat the family settled, in tbe-jreign of Qxie e n Elizab eth: thr i . ! .* Her mother vva# a native of Scotland, and her father was married thricfe. after her dearth in 1772* ^lea Edge worth's moral and educational work& United States; they are always new, v ■\ ■ j'H * ' '. . ■!";>i; ,*>*ffo been often renrinte* iu the Uni ORTR. rPBELIii frienas of Irish » in the Castle Bench, Dublinil words, for the ° blessed abode retch who hsKl ing comrades, principal wit- person of the r, in the prime ; the better the hiih out of the ^emen, and,bt% itrymen. , •/• ' ly accused J)j: nent ^nfo¥mfr.« g of the friends , Teeling. Mr> o^t, Campbell.' n hi^ mournful eptible breast. ." ' to the ancieiit jd patriot ' ^ WORTH': to Louis XV/.,. had reuouncedi e attended the le executioner iaint Louis, as- r the vfersatility 14. His family He was edu- rnph, and died him. as a legacy parliament for iking railwayK long his work» ifessional Edu- ansactions, &c. ers of the p res- it Edgeworths- e e n Elizabethy- Hiarried thricfe» ;atioim} works^ ! always uew^'i € MTAtTKR BR jibss, . • / > ^T BUKOK— BOBSBT AOBAIH. 88 always, raterestmg. Her untiring efforts to encourage, establish, and sup- port a system of public instruction by which all might profit, afford the highest evideiicei of her Sound judgment and true patriotism. Many of our readers doubtless remember the satisfaction with which at various periods'* of their lives they perused this generous Irishwoman's Moral Tales, Tales of Fashionable Life, Parent's Assistant, Earlv Lessons, Popular Tales, Patrop- ." age, Belinda, Castle Rackrent, Absentees', &c. Her acquaintance tvith tho- history, literature and manners of France is as profound s^s her informa- tion on the manners of Ireland. Her works are deservedly ponular tliroqah^ ' out Europe. f;- | T.| Although Miss Edgeworth realized a large sum^ of mon% fey her Yinili- cations, there was no copyright law, protecthig autj^ors injreland, Wl ths Union m 1801. .^igUah works wer6 reprinted, aoid sold in fi-eland— cheap editions— and Gibbon ^mplained, Blackstone a«>aii>biined, as Boz aad others now very unjustly complain of America, but until the union there was no remedy, for uo such measufe cbuld find favor with the Irish ^ parliament. . > "V ° •„ The Essay .On, Irish Bulls and several ednpational treatises were^ls'artlT written by Miss JE., and- partly by her father.i She is now about 76 yearsi of age. • . WALTER HUSSEY BURGH. • yr -': -i^.. '■ : ' : ■ f>- 4 Tlie Chief nfbn of the Irish Exchequer, the" contemporary of 6ratt;th and Flood, una^e of themost eloquent, able, and upright patriots Ireland ^Ver iii;oduc%d> wag the son of Ignatius Hussey, an Irish lawyer of high .tepute and great opulence, and was born in 1742. In youth he acquired ' fame as a poet, and was called to the bar in 1769, before he had read a , $ingle law book: In 1775, in thp Irish pariianient, he opposed an address (falling the mqvement in the United States o rebellion, also a bill to ,send . 4000 Irish troops to keep down liberty jn America, and to authorize Protes- tant soldiers fo.be imported into Ireland to watch the conduct of Jts C^tho- "lic counties, . He it was, who successfully advised the Irish govei^ent to arm the Irish vdluiiteers— and, with Flood and Grattan, he siHpporfed the rjesolve for free trade for Ireland, in 1779— threw up his office/under the crown, and in 1780, boldly asserted the right of Ireland to political uide- pendence, denying England's power to bind her in any case whatever. In London they Vg^d a. perpetual, mutiny bill for the Irish, while for them-: , selves, in ^ngllmil, they only voted ityeariy. Ireland was indignant — she nullified— Burgh, Grattan, Flood, and Yelverton, ^vere all nullifiers in these days— and successful onqp too. Burgh was the Irish Romilly— he softened the terrors of a prison to the poor debtor— received the approbation of the University of Dublin, of which he was a representative — and in June, 1782, bccanie chief Baron of the* Exchequer. BUt the death of a beloved wife jrt, and while on ^^circuit at Armagh, he was seized with a ' ■* \, Oct. 16th, 1783, i!l his 41st jrear. Blessed be hjs memory, failing of a desir^ to buiid his fortunes on the degradation ut Was tlm^ery antipodes of a Clare, aCastlereagh, ^id a ' . !.:•' Ill .OBEllT APRAlN.LLt). ^ * ^ " ' ■ J ■ *■.■«■ ' ■-■'-■ * ■* ,• ' ■ ' ^ ' ^' nted a Virilliiig asylum to thousands of Scottish Pres- e' cruelly .persecuted py the prdtestant religious ma- Britaiii in th^ daVd of •dik second Charles. Noteless btbk feve: he ha' of his „, 'Blresfoi - Gathofic Irelaiij byterians, who jdrity tliat govet 5' . ' ■ n % n't* •I » V « '■>■, ■} J- 1.. ': '^' I .' 84 ROBERT ADR4IN. t "*" - , » cheerfully did the.presbyterians and catholics of the province of Ulster receive -rtiany proscribed French families wiiom the edict of Names, and the bigotry of Louis the 14th, had placed without the pale of tUpir coun- try's protection. • Robert Adrain, who was for many years professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Columbia College, New York, Was born on the 30th of Soptember, 1775,at.Carrickfergus in Ireland, and died on the 10th of August, 1843, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, aged nearly 68 years. His father was a native pf France, which he left on the revocation of the edict of Naiites, the' intolerance of the political church united with the state, dominant, and tiph^ld by the catholic majority of the time, having di'iveu„tlieprote6tant minority into foreign lands. Such is the spirit of •" nativeism" ^id clerical intolerance here. It would refuse an asylum to the persecuted' of our ;day, from other countries^it would banish or make- helots of the natives of America, who might venture to telieve a little less ot a littltj! more than t^e established state creed of the church and state party of bur day might authorize. ^ . Robert >vas the eldest 9f five childreji, and lost both his ' parents in his 15th year. He was ail excellent mathematician and^lingui-st, and taught school at Ballycarry when only hi his 16th year. Mr. -Mortimei', a gentle- man of great wealth and influence in Cumber, engaged him as an instruc- tor of his children; but\vhen th^ Irish people made an effort in 1798, ta shake off their ancient opiiressors, Robert Adrain took the command of a company of the- United Irish, while Mr. Mortimer^ being an officer of the. English authorities, was offerii^ a reward of fifty^pdVnds for his capture.' At the battle of Saintfield, Mr. Mortimer received' a iportal blow, but it so happened thatMr. Adjrain having refused his assent tjb some measure pro- post^ in his division of thd'army, received a daiigcrou^ wound- in thebaCk' from one of his own men the day before the batiJe, jnid was reported to be dead. This stopped further search after him — and after several narrow es-. capes from the hands of.Irelahd's enemies he found a refuse in Neiv York, then sufferhig frofli the yiUow fever. ' He first t&ught an acadctny at Prince- town, N. J. therf became principal of the York County Academy, next took charge of the academy^t Reading, and became a Valuable contributor to Baron's •'Mathematical Correspondent," and afterwards editor of the Analyst, which he continued; for several years in PllHadelphia. ' . ", In 1810 he was appointed Professor of Mathentatics and Natural Philo- sophy in Queen's (now Rutger's) College, New Brunswick, had the -degree of Doctor of Law^ conferred on him, and was soon after ifected a member of seveiral of the philosophicalfsqcieties in Europe and America. He edi ted the third American edition ofsJiHjtton's Course of Matheniatics, and made important corrections, adding ma^y valuable notei^, and an elemen- tary treatise on Descriptive Geometry. On the decease of Dr. Kemp, Dr. Adrain was, electoil, in 1813, Professor •of Math^atics and Natural Philpsopliy in Columbia College, New York; soon after :i^ich he published a paper on the figure and magnitude of the earth, ailft«|^avity, wliich obtained for him great cel6brity in Europe. " He contributed to the periodicals of the day, edited the Mathematical piary in 1825, and was looked up ,to as having no superior'tungng the mathemati- cians of America; The ease and facility with which 'he imparted instruc- \Uon, his fluency in reading the Greek and Latin autliors> and extensive ac- G[uaiutance with general literature, his social flisposition, strong understand* ing, and high conversational pOweifs, caused the- ^indents and professors greatly to regret his resignafcon of his office in l^ze. . The senior mathe- matioal class had his portrait taken by the distingnisfied Trisli arrist, Tpg . V ii '^. til ' Ir rii tr es tr ' SI tri of "tw all wi thi of th( tli< it: Z DV^ m 3U for rni thi wa siz be -mi aeV T M ham ; aii adniiraliTeTikenessTfrorruiivHicH the aicCt)mpanying engraviBg has been copied. , ' -, . ' After leaving New York, he held for several years a professorship in Iho University of P^it^ylvauia, of which institution he was vice-provost. To- !. L ince of Ulster if Nantes, and of tUpir coun- theinatics and rn on the 30th >n the 10th of i8 years, ocation of the lited with the ! time, having 5 the spirit of ! an as'yhim to anish or make, ive a httle less ich and state parents in his it, and taught imei", a gentl^- as an instruc- ort in 1798, ta sniimand of a I officer of the. or his capture. )low, but it so measure pro- lOd- in the back' reported to be !.ral narrow es-. ! in Neiv York, einy at Prince- emy, next took contributor to t of the Arudyst, '«'•#■ '• Naturjil Philo- lad the -degree :ted a member @riea. He edi theinatics, and nd an elemen- 1813, Professor je. New York; ignitude of the n Europe. ' He latical piary in he matheinatf- iparted instruc- i extensive ac- ng uuderstand- aiid professors i senior mathe* riBJi artjpt, Ing- sui giaus' stroll^, reiijtati . infidelity Dr. Adrain rATRER NICHOLAS 8BKEHT. .his memory and- the other faculties^ - life he^s a suicere Christian, audf tn M tli^ore difficult passages of ScMffn Wis ^p^Jlectyand pure and fervent piety, were cited as a :.me„e.hat the study of the abstrtisesciencis tends to liberty in 1798. were condemned bv the LalKnt^/fm^ civd and rehgious of the great'autfaor of mn^S-uLnXi ^'■"»°cracy, m the election to the presidency. In iXxl^'^rtil'-t^th ^'^'r^'^ .daycall themselves, w^re tHeS,ly"eS Ss whom tubmen ITS f^^' found on th s continent^- and «rr^fof..i *^ a^ ■ .-. "^®" as iJr. Adraui .,rrevi,feuJeS 1,^71 .f' ""^ ^''^ ''™ ''" »<> the informers who swore ax^av tS ives lino n^fn s^' ^^^ "2^" J'^^'* U was clearly proved that the J were airgmSess ^ ''''^^''°" ^'™^ sizes. Edward Duffy, Hugh Ward and M^rhaKrifir' ** *^ ^*''*" ^' lb. ■ engraviijg has :^ .N/"<', ^ifSiMUpm' ' ^ #*■"-?* .^ € ■r r IMAGE EVALUATION ^ TEST TARGET (MT-S) 112 ^' .,„'«. !?-»■« #•' ai ■ riTtJk^Tili m^ Sdences- CorporgliQn < r. as WBT Mum sTmiT WnSTIi,N.V. USM ( 714) 178^503 >.. r""" -..llf-.Kl.; '■■■i"^. ■I ••.-. , ) vi?' V- »*, d^ 01 * ■i.f;' ■ .^ H KKV. OK. {OHM MVKPHT. tocracy. The results of the revolution of 1688 seem to have been on the whole injtiribus to Ireland. That event placed the monarch within the power of the clerp, nobility and gentry, and gave them the best title to plunder the people. Since then the premier of England is the king for the nobles, who rule, as with a rod of iron, the cruelly op- pressed though very patient millions. - .^ Thomas Shbehv. of the Lodge, Esq., a warm friend and relative of Father Nicholas Sheehy, was executed about i^is time on a charge of being too fond of his countrv and Irish independence. Musgrave slanders him, and the orange blood-hounds had a Keen scent after property. REV. JOHN MURPHYj D.D. The Catholic clergymen y/ha did join, in the efforts of 1798, to shake off the yoke of the stranger, were few in numbeir. and have been grossly slan- dered—but they^proved manly, honest, and faithful leaders of the people, and I am neither surprised at, nor sorry for the iuflnence such men have preserved, in preference to the lazy, pensioned IiireHngs of state paid creeds. The Catholic believes in the doctrine of the trinity, in the resur- rection, in eternal, life, in the ascension of Christ, a^d in many other scrip- ture mysteries. So does the Protestai^ There a^e other ii^^omprehen- Bible points of faith on which they differ, but why shouldTthey deliounce each other ? ' Is one mystery less incomprehensible than another ? Surely not. The Rev. Dr. John Murphy, of Boolavogue, in Wexfort), was opposed to the United Irish system, until the royalists burned his chapel. Before the rising in Wicklow and Wexford, says Plowden, not one jcatholic priest was to be found in the ranks of the U. I. except Father Roche, then und^r ccnsiue. Dr. Murphy wasA farmer's son, in the parish of Ferns, and completed his studies at the University of Seville in Spain, where he took the degree of Doctor in Divinity in 1785. He was a profound scholar, an amiable man, of the inost correct and unblemished deportment, earnest and sincere in his manner, as a preacher, very influential in his religious exhortations, light complexioned, strong, agile, well made, about five feet niife inches in height, and iii his 45th year, when he gave up life and its enjoyments for the love he bore to Ireland and freedom.. Dr. Murphy began his career in defence of life and property, about the 27th of May, 1798, and to the hour of his death was a terror to the tories. causing them, from fear of retaliation, to spare many lives and much pro- perty they would have destroyed. He was humane to a fault, and so well was his character known, that at his capture many letters were found on his person from ladies, who trusted to his kinVlness of heart to interfere and prevent the death or harsh usage of their husbands. His bravery is ac- knowledged by all parties, and his memory held in deserved esteem, among the best and purest of his patriotic count^men. His enduring momiment% is, as it ought to be. in the hearts of Irishmen. In the various battles, ending with the defeat at Vinegar Hill, no leader was more conspicuous than Dr. Murphy. Moreover, he was shrewd, collected, and possessed a sound judgment to control his constitutional warmth. At Vinegar Hill, the Irish were badly armed. In 1797, the fo- l[eigner had disarmed them. Musgrave states that 70,630 pikes, 48,1 09 guns, 4,463 pistols, and 4,183 s^|^'were that year taken from them in Ulster and Leinster— and sijgMjro revolt, the wealthy have combined to render the condition of tmhiVoter more and more miserable. The Scottish High- landers were iionorably distinguished in '98, by their kindness to the Irish, whose language they spoke fluently. Not a soldier among them, says the I: KEV. D>. JOHN MWHT— riTRn J. NDKPHT. have been on oiiarch within them the best England is the le cruelly op* ■i nd relative of ihafge of being slanders him, rty. 87 18, to shake off n grossly slan? of the people, ich men have of state paid ', in the resur* ny other scrip- ii|^omprehen- they denounce )ther i Surely opposed to the efore the rising riest was to be uid^r ccnsiu«. completed ai» the (degree of amiable man, uid sincere in exhortations, niife inches in enjoyments for rty, about the r to the tories, ind much pro- It, and so well vere found on interfere and bravery is ac* isteem, among ng monument % Hill, no leader was shrewd, constitutional 1 1797, the fo* 8, 48,109 guns, them in Ulster ined to render Scottish High- ss to the Irish, hem, says the Rev. James Gordon, woiild accept even a drihk of buttermilk, without pay- ing the full value. . ' , The battle of Viuegar Hill was fought on the 2l8t of June, and the tories and Orangemen defeated the United Irish after a desperate struggle, in which Father Murphy did his duty nobly. The IrLsh camp, a very strong position, was carried, their artillery taken, and very many of them put to the sword. The bulk of the Irish aristocracy were to be; found in the ranks of the stranger— they had no sympathy witluthe people. After the rout, the prisoners were divided among the British regiments as they moved separately to their destinations on several points of the* Island. To each regiment were assigned 120 prisoners more or less, ac- cording to the number of days* march before it, with orders to hang a cer- tain number every day before starting. A sergeant was named Provost- Marshal. One morning thirteen instead of twelve were marched out and " strung up." " You have brought out one too many," obseri'ed the cof- poral. " Nj^matter," was the reply, " I'll give credit for one to-morrow." About aootTwere given as a present to the King of IVussia, and subse- quently made^risoners by Napoleon, en maisse, at the battle of Jena. The heroic Father John Muipliy, was taken prisoner a few days after the battle of Vinegar Hill, and chrried to Sir James DnfTs head-quarters at Tullow. where the most insulting -language was used towards him by the general officers. They did not stand upon ceremony — there was no time to prepate for ^rial— no sending for testimony— they murdered their noble-heartfed prisoner, a few hours after he was brought in ! ! ! TTiey tied ~ him with cords, bufletted him, whipped him, put a rope round his neck, and hanged him, took down the body before he was dead, cut his throat, took out his bowels, severed his head from his shoulders, exposed his body to the brutality of the worst of the orangemen. and then burnt it. His soul ascended to heaven ; his career on earth was that of a soldier for his G&d 'and his countiy ; he was a trujB martyr for the rights of his race ; and where is the tru6 Christian that can doubt for a moment his participation in the eternity pf bliss prepared for the righteous i FATHEk John MuRPHT, aid-de-camp to his«reat namesake, fell in the battle near Gore's Bildge. He was a true friend to his country, andi^ier- fully offered up his life in it^ defence. On his buttons were figuA|edl%f a dove and crucifix. He stood by the people in every action, till his u|itovirard death. There may be those who wiil say that the catholic and presbyterian preachers (for there were no established church clergymen found in the ranks of the defenders of Ireland's civil and religions -rights, animating their countrymen in the hour of battle, and sharing its dangers) were out of the line 'of their duty. I do not think so. The noblest page of Scot- land's annals is that which shows her faithful ministers in the midst of their persecuted flocks, singing God's praises ui the hills and mountains, and preparing to fight their country's enemies for the sake of what they believed to be the cause of eternal truth upon the earth. These men ul^ged the people never to bow the knee to tyranny oyer the human mind, and were ready for the torture, the guillotine, transportation, the dungeon, the bayonet, or the musket-ball ; always prepared to prove their sincerity, by offering up their lives as a sacrifice, in the good cause they had espoused. If, then, the presbyterian is delighted with a perusal of the lives of those noble souls, whose cbnsistent bravery graces the pages of " the Scottish Worthies," how can he withhold the meed of approbation, so gloriously earned by the Murphys, the Cloiglys, the Roches, the Harrolds, Kellys, Kearnses. Kavanagbs, Redmonds, and Sweenys, of 1798, in catholic Ireland ? If the lazy and bloated among the priesthood, established in England and Ireland by law. had shown a like sympathy with the people, and a like confidence in heaven and the divine nature of their religion, th o y would ito t BOW b e lo o k ed^ipoiraa a c an cer on t he b o dy p o Utio, wiuch ~ 4 n rmur rRiNcn. d.d.— cm pmiir francu. Uie people oiily wait an opportunity to cast off. I would gladly extend Uiis eulogy to the cle«gy of catholic or presbytcrian Canada, did the scenes of 1837 to 1839 warrant it, wiiich I think they do not. Bannockburu was won against fearful odds, and the Scottish catholic priesthood have much of the merit, If equal success did not attend the courageous Irishmen at Aughrim. the heroic energy of the venerable father Stafford did not fail to deserve itk* r 1 r <*■ 4 ■ i ^ * «•• ■H. si'- . DR. AND SIR PHILIP FRANCIS-DR. FRANCIS HUTCHESON— KANE ^^J?>*?A-^ETITIA PILKINGTON-FREDKRICK PILOK-BOYLE St. #LE6SR-N. TATE-MARY TIGHK^ROBERT WOOD-REV. LAWRENCE ^ STERNE-JOHN.TOLAND. i^"«i:.i>u» • ■' " . " . . ■ PhIlif Francis. D. D., an eAiinent protestant divine, was the spn of an Irish dean, and father of the celebrated Sir Philip Francis. He is well known to the reading public by his excellent translations of Horace and Demo.sthe- nes. which the brothers Harper have reprinted in America, and was the author of Eugenia and Constantia. tragedies. He died in March. 1773. Sir Philip Francis. This accomplished scholar, oratpr, and statesman, was bom in Dublin in 1740, and educated at St. Paul's school. In 1773 he was made a member of the Council of Bengal— remained six years in India -opposed Warren Hastings' measures there— fought a duel with Hastings, and was shot thfougti the body— took his seat, in tlve English Parliament "\ n$4— voted with the whigs^aided in the impeachment of Hastings— wa« friendly to reform in parliament, and the abolition of the slai^ctrade -^was • It to really wonderful, «lwt the profesMn of the ancient reliftion of tre^^haTe ao long remained peaccAil and patient under perwcutjon. The Enfflith Chui^^B^, Is for the moat part, a clumay pretext for robbing the Iriih of a toart of the fmit^^Hr labor •to enrich Kngliahnien and their connexion*. Bishop Tomlin left three miOllIRr dollars to bis famUy, saTed out of the Irish j and Dr. Wjirburton, Bishop of Ck»^e, Aained hn diocese of « Tery lane sum annuaUy, but returned none of it in works ol charity. He was a poor piper's son, and amassed tSOOfOO of plunder. When Irishmen coMpliJii, these, holy prebites uke great delight in shooting them. t r » —f, «''''jf,JP"« "l^'J'^ **"*' entitles the transaction, the particulars of which I quote front' Mr. O'Callaghan's Grecii.Book,"a little salutary blomi-leltiiig." Mr. PatricI? Doyle, a «"Sfi.'' Newtonbilhry, a Catholic, was illenlly requested 'to pay tithes to the Rev. jkt. McCIfaitock. a connexion of Lord Roden, and his late brother^the Bishop otClogHer. Mr. Doyle said that the tithes, amounting to eleren dollars, and no more, wouM not be due till No- !"!!*"•./!" Saturday, the I8th of June, 1831, however. Mr; Doyle's catUe we»e seized, and to be sold by auction, aftei^^big adverUsed fof sale fai the name of the panon. This was the inarfceUday, and there wai a Urge crowd assembled to attend the sale. Lord Dunham's orange yeomanrv, and the police, who were kept ih readiness in the yard of his lordship's agent. Cuitaln Graham, were tuned out to guMfdlhr catUe, on their l>eing taken from the pound. Some of the people began to jeer tb^ yeomen upon the use to which they were applying their new clothing and arms, and a few stones having likewise been thrown, by/ some children, from amongst the gathering multitude, the yeomanry lircd, until fourteoi persons were shot dead upon the spot, and several wounded ! Some saved their lives, by swimming through th» river Slauey. A ball grazed the head of Mr* Doyle's eWest son John, sweeping away one of his eyes, and depriviiig him of the sighl of the other. He is still " ".""/■ And «ymingman,Tl!illey Doyle, was killed. He was a fine handsome fellow, six feet high, made Bi proportion, universally liked in the neighborhood, knd only in his iwenty-second year. A mraket-baU tore its way through Mrs. Mulroony, iaA her unborn tabe, leaving tiie lifeless ami bleeding rennains of both exposed to the public eye, all this in S* "US".?''**® •''"«« '•''*»ke church, and Christ Jesus ! " For the blood thu shed," says Mr. 0'Callagfaan,« no redress was obtained— no punishment inflicted." ^ It ftimmn tn nu«. thai an IWr fiVMn M«#*ktn« VUftlkAVM TmUm a«.j m#t.t...i m«..^-.L— a^ _i.ji_*. - . ■i5E*!!IL!S."^: *^1™ " ^?? '''fJ?*''? Fathers John and Michael Murphv for sirdtaig dot OB their swords, it would be fanpossiUe not to feel contempt for tbemi It to a fret. tlMt Lord Grey's whig government coinmenced its cai«er hi Irelsno by MOO tTtlielaw.sult8. brought to recover as many fiirthtags. At the first quarter sessions of 183S. for Gashel hi Tippeiary. 9MI civil procetaes were enteisd by the parsons for tytbes. ■oawforapaBBy.soiiMforalua^Mmyi < r- / m adiy «xteud I the scenes ckbuni was have much Irishmen at 1 not fail to ON-KANE JOYLE St. AWRENC8 B spn of an well known Demo8the- nd was the li, 1773. statesman. In 1773 he ars in India h Hastings, Parliament itings— was trade -r was V hare m , is for r labor dollan lined hia m MRTc r.«miD ty. He was a uil, these. Ao/y I quote from rick Doyle, a the Rev. Mr. Cloghtr. Mr. be due till No- fe seized, and This was the rd Famham'a his lordsfaip'a iken from tiie ich they were HI thrown, by until fourteen their lives, by lest son John, r. He is still ilsome fellow, nd only in his id her unbom lye, all this in IS shed," says irding dot hy for sir they nil in Irelaina by ter sessions of at for tytbes. HCTCIIK.SOX-t>IIM:A-III.KlkuTON~l.II.OK— 8T. LEOGR— TATE— TIUHE. 89 made a Kiii{,'lit of tire Bath— pjnl.li.shed about thirty «neechps and political paniphiots some of tliom very able and spirited— and is beliuvod by many to bu the antlioiof the U'liiTsof Jiuiiiis. FuAMis Hi'TCMKsoN. D. D. This celebrated scholar, and distinjjiiishod writer on moral philosophy, Was bom in the north of Ireland, where his father was a presbyteriaii minister, on the 8th of Aiiynst, 1694— had the clmrire of a eon>,'re«atioii in Dubliajor some time, and published •• An inquiry mto the ideas of Beauty and Virtue.? He removed to Glasgow, became professor of phiIo.Hophy in the University -there, and died mueU regretted in 17-17. He wrote 'a treatise an the Passions; anil his son ^ published his .system of Moral Philosophy in two volumes, (luano, with an account of his life by Dr. Leecham. Kaxk O'Hara, descended from an ancient and respectable Irish famil), was born in Dublin about the year 1733, ami educated at Trinity College: u Hara had an e.\quisite taste for music, and was well skilled in musical composition, which, with his social tfud lively humor, introduced him to all the wits and literati of his dav. He was an especial favorite of the Earl of Morningtoii. the Duke of Welliiigton's father. It was his misfortune, in his latter y«aMrto lose his sight, imd he died at his house, near Dublin, June 17tli, 1782. 0-Hara was the buthor of a-iiew species of comic opem called the English Burletta. His firamatic works are, Midas— The (Jolden Pippin-Apnl Day— and Tom .Tlibinb. burlettas-and the Two Misers, a musical drama. / . . Letitia Pilkinoton, th^ daughter of Doctor Van Lewin, a phylfcian of Dublin, was born in that city in. 1712. Her husband was a clergyman, and m author. Mrs. Pilkingtou was one of Deaii SAviffs female coterie ; and. perliap.s, surp^assed all the pftty iii wit and genius, not less than in levity Mie is the author of some interesting poetry, and died in Dublin in 1750 Her " Memoirs," bv herself, and he^.Letters, are still entertaining. I niav here, also, name Marv Barber, another of Swift's bas hlen society, who was born lu Dublin, m the same year as Mrs. P. She published a volume ot elegant and iiioral poems, under the .patronage of Dean Swift and Lor.l Oirery, and died in 1757. • . Fkeperick Pilo.v, a native of Cork, Ireland, is thi author of an Essay on the character of Hamlet— The Invajsion, or a Trip to Brighton^Thc Hu- mors of au Election-Hwid He wbuld be a Solditr, a comedy performed with applause at Covent Garden, 1786. The author began to be courtoil by the fashionable, gave way to intemperate habits, and died in 1788, aged 38. » . Francis Barry Boyle St. Leqer, was the son of a highly respectable famdy in Ireland— born in Sept., 1799, and died Nov. 20, I829, a«'ed 30 He 18 the author of •• Gilbert Earle," " Tales of Passion," and"" The Blount Manuscriuts," wdrks characterized by intense feeling, a through in- sight into human nature, the developement of the passions of tlie mind and a coniplete knowledge of the world. ' V Nahum Tatr. a dramatic poet, whb was bom in Dublin, 1652, became poet laureat, and helped Brady to turn David's Psalms into metre. Hi; died in 1715, at the Mint, where heihad taken refuge to escape bitter ncrse- ciition from his creditors. ' , ' Mary Tkihr— The father of this lovely wonmn was the Rev. William Klavlilord^ of Dublin, where she was born in 1774 ; him slip lost in her in- luncy, but by the care of her excellent mother her line intellectual powers M ere d(>^veIoped and cultivated. She married her cousin, Henry Tighe, and tl>d romantic seat of Rosannay in Wicklow, became the Temple of la.«t^ of the Muses, and the social virtues. .Some of her poems are of rare tjierit. Sir John Carr, speaking of her poem of " Psyche," says that it • • d/splays great fancy, and much richness and variety of language," «1 Lady Morgan speaks of its interesting author as ♦• Uie charmiha lycho of poetical fame, and my (her) most dear and early friei^ ••di< -ood X i ^Jii ^ ^jAggte^ '^ iiafr^^ ' 9d WOOD — STERNE — TpLAND. ! +t \y,\ .1 *■■ n ■ % Her poetical works went through many editionR, and she died on the 24th of March, 1810. in her 37th year, after «ix years of jtrotractcd malady. Her amiable husband wa« a member of the Irish narliamcnt-lMsfore tlie union ; and represented the county of Wicklbw in the British k>j^i»!atiire, at the time of his death. He wrote " the Statistical History of t|ie County of Kit* kenny," thick 8vo., 1799, and wrote it well. Robert Wood. — This accomplished scholar and statesman ^was born at Rivcrstown, in the coiuity of Meatii, Ireland, in 1716. He travelled through Greece, Egypt, and Palestine— published in 1753, a^splendid work in folio, eirtitlcd " The Ruins of Palmyra, or Tadmor in the Desert."— in 1757. " The ' Ruins of Balbec,*'— and his Kssay on Homer's Life and Writings appeared after his death, which took place in 1771. Lord Chatham appointed him Under Secretary of State in England, in 1759, and his works have been translated into French, Spanisii, German, and Italian. *' The Ruins " were republished in French, at Paris, in 1819. Lawremcc Sterne.— This humorous and satirical writer, a clergyman of the Church of England, was Imni at Clonmell, in Ireland, in November, 1713, and educated at Cambridge, in England. His father was a lieuten- ant ill the British army, and an uuele, a prebendary of Durham, obtained for him the rectory ot Sutton, while his wife's interest procured him ait- other rectory, or living, as they call it in England. For the first twenty years of his clerical life he wrote nothing for the public, except tlie History of a Watch Coat. Between 1759 and 1766, he wrote Tristram Shandy, in nine volumes, in a BtyIe^;hiefly Original and< very pleasiiig. In 1768 he produced his Sentimeutail Journey, a vtrell known work, even more enter- taining than Tiristrem. Mr. Stenie was also the atithor of four volumes of Sermons. He died of pulmonary consumption, in' March 1768, leaving a widow and one daughter. His private character was very indiflerent, and not in keeping with his geniu^, " affording anpther proof that the power of conceiving and expressiiig strong feelings, by no miMins implieathat they will infTitence the conduct" ^ - "^ The works of Lawrence ISteme have iiibreased the indebtedness of America to the men of learning and genius who were cradled in the Eme- rald Isle, but appearances iudickte that the chiMren of the new world will amply repay the pbligation. - -e^ John Toland, one of the founders of modem deism, was bom in the north of Ireland, Nov. 30th, 1669, and educated at Redcastle, near Londonderry, from whence he went to Scotland in 1687. He was educated a Catholic; studied at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Oxford, and Leyden: and possessed an original and well-constmcted mind. He denied that his, first l:.great work, ** Christianity not Mysterious," was intended as an attack on religion ; it ' was published in London in 1696. He sqon after went home to Ireland, where tlie pulpits anathematized hrm,^d']JHiblic shunned him, a jury who owned they did not understand his book condemned it to the flames, the parliament denounced him aibl caused his work to be burnt by the Dublin turigman; and he had to fly; In 1698 he wrote Milton's Life, and edited fe^. voluminous politics: declaring himself a. Whig, and a trae frie|id.to civil a>id religious toleration. His trae name was Janus Junius Toland, but the Irish schoolmaster shortened it to Johii. He lived aiid died an author by^rofession ; was in 1703 at the Courts of Berlin and/Hahover, where he was received with great resptict; ,and was afterwards patronized by Lord Oxford. He possessed vast erudition and great powers of mind, . and is the author of 155 books, not a few of which have been translated into foreign languages. Des Maiseauz wrote his life, which is prefixed to his posthumous works ; and his death took place at an obscure lodgings house, ia a poor carpenteifs near Loudon, March 11, 1722. - \ A ■ ■ "" , . ■ .i •' h^a s ^^m ^ tU m^ifb'&i^af ' ii-" ' t e^i* . \ >n the 24th Indy. Her he union ; ire, at the nty of KiU as bom at ad through rk in foho, 1757, "The" lanpeared >intvd him have been tins " were rgyman of N'ovember, a lieutea- I. obtained td him ait- rst twenty the History Shandy, in n 1768 he lore enter- irblumes of leaving a ferent, and ihe power npUe» that edness of I the Erne- world will n the north udonderry, 1 Catholic ; ssessed an Teat work, "elision ; it to Ireland, El jury who flames, the the Dublin and edited i friepd.to us Toland, lid died an I ilahover, patronized rs of mind, translated prefixed to re lodging!- THOMAS TMOIOa. THOMAS TRENOR. fl , Our land, the ftnt garden of Libertv't tree, i Hm been, and ahall yet be, the land of tile free.— CAMriiLL. Thc yenerable Thomas Tijenor, an extensive (ind Wealthv shipowner of Dublih,and who succeeded I^rd Edward Fitzgerald as Treasurer of the United Irish Society, when his lordship was appointed Comitifuider-in- Chief of the North, is perhaps the only survivor of the delegates who/were arrested at Oliver Bond's, Dublin, on^e 12th of March, 1798. Hej^sides with his aged spouse in the city'^f New York« and is indebtpd'^to the friendly, republican spirit of the American government for aii/imicial i|p- pointment in the. Customs, the duties of which are, 1 trust, fiot very bur* thensome, for^the incumbent is 78 years of a^e. The narrative of his per- sonal adventi»es since his arrest is exceedingly interesting, and throws additiqiial lighton ttie history of the eventful period in which his j^ountij last struggled to preserve the rank of an independent nation, etren to the dbeddiug of blood. ■"' .. ^ On the day of their arrest the delegates dined at Dublm Castle, with an officer placed betw^een ea^h prisoner, for better security. Mr. Trenor was then confined in the Birmingham Tower,Hn the Castle-yard, along with Messrs. Bynle and MfCann (who were executed), and remained there several weeks. He had a fine roquelaure.'-or cloak, on which he usually : sat, and two sentinels stood guard continuatly in his ptisOn roonsu Aii English noblenuui, fearing that the sentinels would become too friendly to the prisoners, complained to the Castle, and they were ordered to stand outside. Mr. Trenor from this moment planned his escape. He asked for some hair-powder, and got it ; took his roquelaure with him one evening when he went to the privy, closely pressed to his body* witliin his clothes, so "^ that it was unobserved by the guards ; and while tney waited at the door to escort him back, he begm talking aloud, and himself answered, as if several persons were within, hastily powdered his hair and whiskers, changed the shape of his hat, unfolded and put oh his roquelaure, disguised his voice, walked out boldly, passed his sentinel, who took him for one of the captains of the guard, and deliberately departed by the wicket-gate of the Castle, which was closed at his heels, so that he could not have - escaped had he been a minute later. His guards were immediately impri^ soned ; the authorities were positive he bad bribed them ; and when he returned to Dublin many months after, they were ^till. in custody on his account ; ^ , He went to the house of one friend, then to that of another, and had not l^ft the first place three minutes when a company of soldiers rushed in in search of him. Next night he actually spent in the house of the informer, Thomas Reynolds, who was then at nis country-seat of Kilkea Castle, a mock prisoner, the better to deceive his brethren of the United Irish Socie- ty. Mt. Trenor wrote Reynolds, telling him where he was ; that he had caused one of his own (Trenor's) ship9 to be got ready for sea; and that if he Oleynplds) knew where Lord Ed\md Fitzgerald was hiding, to sand for him ; and that he might put on a sailor's dress and hat, with a coil of ropo on his shoulders, and in this disguise come to him in Dublin. 1. J Reynolds got Trenor's letter he wohld instantly have informed the Irish government, and had him arrested agaui ; but the orange soldiery who guarded the former thought he was a true inaii, and that the arrest was real, and would neither let Trenor's messenger near him, nor carry him any message. This saved Trenor's life. He* waited long for Lord Edvvard, for whose apprehension a great reward was then offered ; but finally escaped firom Dublin, without knowing what had become of his lordship^ Ukttu Natumal IntMigenter of the year 180|^ find the following brief ■^ny i-'lK3e-1!t-'>l4£T "iMJf ■ ''JSSWBiStaSi*!!!! g - Bfeg t^ a ^ -y— fe f'-: ^!^ '- i iA^^ ■ i \ (-, ''V 92 THOMAS TRENOR. A/ narratiwi by Mr. Trtnior, diitoj tit LnAsiiiffhurgh, March 2n(l, that year : •' ( huvo f)ocii four yoars sliut up in a dmigetm— i was arrested in the begiiitiiiin the same [p in an,uii- onntry was conrt of St. his govern - ihtained the lout liis con- •e were two nigh the in- to America, 'as so highly » l£ave, he y accoinpa- r) but that 1 telling him,. (by tiie bye best distinc- foaqajj^ the lonse^lence philosopher lit calling to ler could we 3 living, but nitty; being ii^eed, my constitution [ had a little or less than tire and part aptains took me to make oUars, more . thibition ! I a monstrous . JefTersonfe ments, or of licial papers ped out the respondencc irefuUy con- tie following •*^ THOMAS TRENOR— rKTEtt IVERS— WII,UAm/c>»RBITT. 95 youth. Hisfriend Ivers. h/s^"StwSi^fi,^"eS'Sd''t''^''"ri^ peasant— enerffetic— brave ar n iir.?, Z^Lr.V "^® A®^* old— the son of a tnal or formal sentence, and it i^tJXbfp ti.af .?o r^ P?^ ^"^V'^^' "^"'^^"^ Morr,s, and Coloael BlackweU of hrSdSrmv S^^^^^ "^""^^ the dishonest, trafficking senate of HaraCh toTeZlfi^h ^'?" -'^ ^^ Corlfitt stiam more sSK^Sra^l,. S ," " ."S Sii'nM»-Trenor mode «ame was Catharine Eustace ; she ^^l^^^^'P^^^i^lf^ T 14 TROMAI TKKNOK. 1 V JT merly Lientonant-Govemor of Lowxr ConaJo, and hill many relativwi among the il.)miimiil party, among whom Major-Gciierul Euhtacc was not thn Irnut indiiciitial Li Anirrica, Mr. Trenor was for seventeen years an cxtcnRive manufac- turer oi iron in Vermont, employinj? about 160 pfrfonR in that branch. But the vacillating legislation of ConKru.-*» prcvunti'il Ins ultimate succcM. His family consisiod of his wife and tlieir seven children. Had ho not escaped from the Caslle i.r^vdt. lie wonld have l)cen executed, like lus coml-ades ; but ho is snared to close his eyes in a land of freedom, in the midst of lus kindred and -dcKccndants, in peace and comfort. I le is large and well built, and must have been, when m his prime, a handsome and very stout and powenul Hinn. It is probably God's will that he be not gathered^ lus fathers until the loved land of his youth is emancipated. It is «istomary to accuse poor men of engaging in perilous enturwrizes with a view to im- prove their personal fortunes, but Mr. Trenor risked life in youth, and pnt at hazard domestic comfort and great wealth, that he might increase the happiness, or rather that he might remove the misery, of millions less fa- vored tlian himself.* And as success failed to attend his pauiotic efforts,. it is highly honorable to ftesident Jackson that he jilaced in an easy situauon, in the decline of life, this proscribed son of the Emerald Isle. In politics Mr. Trenor is a Jeflersonian democrat. He was the inend and supporter of Dc Witt Clinton till the hour of his death, and cherishes his memory as tliat of a true friend to his country and mankind. Though banished from Ireland for ever, Mr. Trenor obtained permission from the British governmsnt, in 1832, to spend nuietv days in Dublin, under Uie eye of the royal police, for the settlement of certaui urgent private affairs. His old enemy, Mmor Sirr, gave him a hearty welcome^^ he dined and chatted with Daniel CConnell ; shed a tear o'er the graves of his an- cient comrades in a revolt which cost England a hundred mdlions of dol- lars, and Ireland many thousands of her noblest sons ; took a, long, a last fttfewell of the shores of his native Erin, the s<;eiie of his early joys aiid sorrows ; and returned to Columbia, the honie of his childreii, to await m l^tience tlic fiat of his Creator in the land of the fearless and free Though dark roll oenn't thousand waves Upon her distant shore, The land that holds our fathers' graves • Strong memoiy shall restore. » i The firteads we left-'i-the scenes we loved, la early freshness rise ; '. And, like warm tears When souls aie moved, ' They dim yet bless our eyes. Agaia we hail thrinoraing smoke Of home's dear hallowed hearth ; We hear, the lark'i bfithe strain, that woke To lift— ta love— to mirth. Oh, fcir and fcr the vision glows— . t - , Home's greeting throng appears: Once more we pluck the sweet wild roe* « We plucked in former years! W It's balmy dew Is on our che^, * Pure,trembUng, glistening, clear; Ah, no i— too phun the mo|stener speaks ; 'tis still the Exile's tear t Yet fill— fill high— while memory's light That tribute-tear illumes ; 'T will lead her wdnilerer, e'en at night, ^Vheie Erin's Shanupck bkwms. V. "W '%'; *r*.» any relativw titacc U'UA not live manufac- i bronch. But 8UCCCM. Hin t! not cscnpod lis com^-uues; 3 midst of his intl wi:\\ built, rcry stout and itheretWo lus I is ciii8tomaiy a view to im- outii. and wt it increase the lillions less fa- riotic efTortflxit easy situation, the friend ami , cherifdics his ed pcrmissioTi Dublin, under urgent private tme-r he dined ve8 of his an- lillions of dol- aJoug, a last early joys and !n, to await ia i free xanmsiior ci^c«-.s. p. lajiotiixk. * 96 ARClIBISII^aP USIIKJI. JninM UMhor. pmtrstnnt ar irovenuiidiii u oro nitht-r iloHiiniic "m '" liaS -'"'rr-'-"" ""•/•'•"rvl. he vcr.eU' .Jvv'r.u'Xb V S-' ..,.; 1 X T '^ •"*• ''>^ "«' ^"y^' »»''>''y «'<"-inj,' the tivll w«rs lie W1U4 Miv.tod Uy Curd.na Ui »''^"; of the samn family as the archlnshop but fie xyas a catholic, the so., of a fanner. ^ieZk^,°!cit'R orders m the church, a.id l^cam6 a very snccts«r„I teaehrr of vo uth u Lo.i.lo.r. He dwjd .n.t?^. ai^d his writings, which are elJeant i.Sons and .noral. are : A Treatise on a Newr Syste^of I'hdLphy-uS bv a S. D..LANGTREE. Jills gentleman, who, with Mr. John L. CSullivan, established that abla par 1837, was a native of the north of Ireland, a son of the C Mat^hliS Lan},nree. a distmjfuished WesleyaiuninistcMhere. Me camJ^to NeS S about the year 1832. where he hadJiLritorial cUge of t W?ckerbo^k5\ Magazine foir a short time, and aJnTrds assisted Colo el Snein^oSf du,.t...g the literary de|.artment ofTfte Commerdial Advertiser iS ms he ,.re. oved to Washnigton-joined Mr. O'Sullivan in edlUng " the Jletro! pol.ta.,," a political jonnial-next embarked in that important undertoki^ff ^lio Democratic Review-printed and published the Madison K«f£ Congress-and filially retired to his farm on the JamerSiier in \?S?nS rte/" *n^f" "'"' ^""""^ "'"«»*• *»« «>'««» of bilious fever hi IsJi £ the noonday of life, as true a patriot, and as kind a friend as ever man S counirv mourned. His general character was humaie and WoSS he was of mild and gentle manners, and social habits, and had recSvS an edncation that em.iienUy qualified him for the correct perforaS ,rf th" duties of a critic and literary censor. """uuiii,e oi ine Although I had but a slight acquaintance with Mr. Lanetree he wtote ™?,."'?uL'^""V^''''« ' *■» »" Pf'«»» i'« Rochester, o. a^hS connX^ed xviththe^ Canada troubles, expressing the kindest sympK for mv situation and Uiat of my family-aiid his efforts to persuadrMessre vJX Bnren. Forsyth, t^., to shorten the duration of my confinSment, oMessSn Its hardships, were imwearied.* In a letter, dated \V«,hington.&»pt.S , • In iMking otct my correapondrace with Mr. Lanirtree. I find inliia lettot. m... -.l dcnce. of a deep and abiding (Kteroat in the n„ostion of^Sn^dianfreSdom lS7^'^ a number of the Dcmmratic Review, he «,«..< i herewiih wXSe dicui^r )^^ mg the Carolinc.atiU, alaa. ua.vcnge'd ! rfeie w«n. »mc C t^ijS^^TTS; 'W M t. O. LANCTRKC. 183f». ho conveyed to me the pleasin? assiirancq thai even my trivinl sufTcf ing». ill ilic Krcat caune of hitiiuiii treed om.vi'cre not ovirlooUcd by iwino ot Irelaiid'H truuHt frieiida. " Tlic widowol Theobald Wolfc Tone, lb>« illuu- trious Irish patriot," said lie, *• i*topt aWpy house soniu time siii^e to express her detep regret and iiidi!,'in!\ioii that Buch ^ conviciioTi as yonrs sliould have iHjeii recorded in America. She sweined to- feel a» the deepest pa|pl of the humiliation, the jilunHnre it would dilluse in Ensland. . IhiH Uidy, _ with whom so many memories ar« connected, lives in this nciKhborhood, creatly admired and respected— and her heart is as warm tend her head a» , clear as in tiie few sunny days of her youth, whcii the radiance of 8* — Stootxitny of Uic article on Lonl Dnrham'i Report which IsentyoO. ivsrijh you would nd room lor thu slitjlil tribute which it pay» loPhpinvBdr rtiiul boino thoughta ot Mkiog , vou to review llea.lV Report lor lis in like iiiomier, Ijiit with tbtn»il■• al.taiit.,kc.,at the public expense. " I be*" wiy* he, " that until we can confer th* franking privilege ou the nation, by redueing the iK«tage to the dtiiiocrat|« itaiidard of a cmt wt letterr-in which good cause, having broVeu groufld, 1 h«|.c you will HAtaiii the Democratic Review— that youwiU make your lett*rrK noinlire ol a charge to you than pur tluK them into the post-otlice." Our olKcialu upend Komc I« to 20 millions of doitett ao;eai on war. and ita materials, though we have no one to light with, but when M*. Preston King, Mr. Greeley, and othera pushed on Congress the chtiip poKtagt syHtcm, the slave-lioliliug south oppoaed it— succeeded in the ten cent voHj— and Prisideni I'olk pliicljd one ot the moat determined opponents of cheap postugp irt the olUcc ..t; postmaster .gooernl, to or- inniso a system which Its enemies had prophesievJ that C..tigre»« woyld recede |rom' Cheap postage is one of the great and powerful weapons by whiqh eicctlvc inilUutions arc ' to be upheld for the general gooiie coinj)etent to in- terfere. To .the former, (forsyth of t:corgia). I applie.l, but he took so little pm» to show an extreite distaste tor tlie-Kubicct, tlwt I cut the interview short, feeling it perlccUy hopeleaa. as far as he was concerned. Failing in this quarter, wliere Irom constitutiosal coMnesa and, probably, southern pretfilcctiops which tend to the antipodes ot the aiinexa. tion of Oinada, little was to Ih> expected, I wrote fully tonn inlliiential Iriend »t New \ ork, ■nd enclosed to him your letters, for the purpose oljiaviiic; the whole sidyect brought be- fore the President, under the most titvorablc and ufrfwrfrful auspices. In the last rchori, wr wUl place the matter iu such a light in the Deip^ratic Review, as wiU concentrate upun t. ' • weight of public opinion that iimst have a lavorabic result. ... , . , . Your letter to the shcrilT, waaa ijowerful production, and must make him writhe. I do BOt blame you for resorting to that,^or any similar means of resenting the uninanly perse- cution with which these oHicials seem to dog you, in a spirit so uiiw«.rthy our mstituiions Mr Forgvth told me he thought youif, eiilargemciitjiy the Execuiivf alr(l^ciller improlmble. Could vou write me a ^'Td article on thp couditiOB and pro8p«-cts. of the popular cat;s^u»^ • England, i.e. the Cliartlsts? As lor tUo^wiU-tryasiiry bill, t wonUI not give it even siij.port witMitthe specie c liii: e. As one in:in, I trust our party will lie toiind vnmn lor this vita^ featurew Tli<- iniicliiiierv of'wparation, the Irtcks,;fault8, &c., I rcijnr.l ;ik !i,lt<.gell.rr iicii. '-'essentias, which miuiil he very readily tlrfnwn biit'asa.sop »<> the LanL.iv^ '}^^'-''""^^,- ' r\ ,1 isi ni" »' ' " • ■■■-—"•'■ ».».ti.»...l i«5 .»"!• t'nr »li.. vi-hl nl Ihp Ni Stars, [copies! first time, on tne wothuikh •" m': iiij"""a. ...«:•» ". .^...s<"—- — .".T,' ; ;. ". ' i T. solution, energy, niid iJffsisTcrance ! The spasms ot ilie great pajicr »>"hble (;||*;";';|J;-<|J" liich mitjiil tie very readily tlrfnwn biittis a. sop to the l.an.. .iv^ iiitereM. of Nov. he wrote " 1 am much obliged l»* you for tlic si^M ol the N.)i •.nen. i of Fcargus/ O'Connor's Leeds iiapcij. Tiiey opened the curtain to iiu; ix>i' tl..- 1 the workings ol' tlin national mass oi' Kn-jjjuul. Wlrit a field is t'lere. (or re- solution, energy, niid iSfksTcrance ! The^pasms of llie great pajn-r bubble (.jis-teiidoil t.. burstlnK.by 'tKo z.-al with \v«hich every party. Whig and Tory, have aprhed Pitt s iiiachi- aery ) , as it rocks and sways to and fro, with Uie workhigs of this dread pino of !, \\ip illllb- I to express lira fliiuuld sepest pa|pi Thi» Uidy, , jfhborhood, ler head a» Mice oj^ 6a *h you would htK of aHklng Unnti of voui ittafnid the M) was among " b ciivouruuej , and rptardcd ol* rlcrkD, as* an confer the •tandard of a ill MAtain the you than pur* ' iIoll«ri a-year Prrtton King, ! Riave-holdiug ltd one of the i;oncrnl, to or- ri'codn from ' nylUutions arc ' been allowed row, I will aec iilitinn will be krA, why yoM ulcHt coiuttruc- latrrer in yojir iinjictent tn in- little pains to ing it perfectly I constitutional uf the annria- 1 at New York, :t* brought be- last renort, wr icntrate upuu u 1 writhe. I do uniiutnly pente- [)ur institutions ' lor iinprobni'le,, I'pulur cat;s>^ii*' it even Mi;ipon IS for this vita! , !l,ltl>K<'lhrr uoii- iiitert'^l." r the NiU'.iieti. in to iiu! i'nr tl."' is t'lero. ('or r<- le ((lis.ti'inl«;it.and ftuitpiniotts at) era of political regenerfttibn as ever dawned upon inafikimi neetncd streamitig from her own heart and homestead ujpon 4a cnmptiired and enthusiastic people." * May she live to see thfe land Of her fatlicrs "great, glorious, and free," as the country of hor adoption ! - . ^ , ' \Vith a tnie and honest heart, a noble en^thnsteJuniatlio ransc of )inman happincM^4»4»wrm Jiiid vividsiragjriiJatioiirM^^ of the future deimny'^this lively world of ours, Mr. lAngtree penned some of the most fcpletidid^ articled, in the Democratic {leview nnu other American pc- riodicaTs. Like Lea;!»ctt'f reminiscences thejtarc'eyery way worthy of pre5*. ervutidii, and we trust that some kindred spirit will 'underta!ke-th^ pleasing task of- coIlecti|ig and arranging them ,fqr llie press, with a life of the gi/tcd author/' ' ' '"* . I have said ihat his lieart beat high with cheering hope of- human hap- pinessv-neeJ I add, that he was a democrat .' Such was his 'political creed. Not of that school, how«ver, wlio^deign to adopt litid use the ma- - chine of government as an orpinize'd means of public pluijder—npr of those who spen'd their lives endeavouring to bring confusion and mystery , into the currency, the taritf,.and the law, and to (^ncouratre oxtravaganee in dress, dis.solutenpss in manner^; and aiprofu8e(cxpen(diturG for the gain' of a fe^^, out of the blood and sweat of iiqured miHions With the trading democracy of our tim^, who live byjieeming, an4 evencover a multitude of iniquities willi the mantle of Jelfersou, nrofessing the creed of the free, the better to deceive, entrap and enslave, the 'pure spirit of S. D. LAngtree ° had 110 affinity. He loved as his life the free institutions of America. May t\iey outlive the assaults of 'pretet}(led friends and avowed enemies. n /GSaRGE CANNING. Fathbe aho "S ON. cnea, ut< L.M. GcoRC^ CANNiNh, father of fbe emtnent statesman of that name, was an unfortunate litefSKjichar»ctei*^born fftGarvagh, Londonderry county, Ire-'' land, ill tlie year 1745. Hewas opeii hearted, gobd natured, cateless of inqney, and married a handsome woma», of Irish birlh or' origin, without fortune; removed to London and studied law ; was called t© the bar, but did hot obtain practice ; wrote severahpoems of merit, and clever jpolitical tracts, and became ai*parti8«m of John Wilkes, and companicii of WJiite- head, Keate. Churchill, Lloyd, and the elder Colman. Mr. Canning . after- wards turned wine-merchalit, an occupation very ?ll adapted to his free and easy habits, soon failed in business, and died of a broKen heart en the 1 1th of April, 1771, leaving his infant son, the future premier of England,^ precisely a year old, andiiis widowiiin such straitened crircuiftstancea, that after trying to earn a scanty siibsistencd by teaching a small djiy-school, she hade to turn actress to obtain support for herself and boy. She married a Mr. Reddish, an actor at one of the I^ondoiWUieatres. Her third husband was a gentleman of t^e name of Hunn. *, ll . ; When fortune favored her aspiring son he was very kind to his old' mother. She nursed him in want and penury, and haiCHhe satisfaction to witness his literary triumphs, and splendid-political career, and to share ia her old age in tite many comforts which power and alBuenc6 can readily procure. ^ • ^ , > ' Georoe Canmimo, only son of the above, was bom m an obscure tene- ment in Ldbdou; on the Uth of April, 1770, and educated at Ej^and Ox- -ford. He obtained a seat, in the House of Conunons for Nev^port, in 179^ when only 23 years old"— studied law, but was never called to the bar— ^ wrote " the Pilot that Weathered the Storm," in 1800, and the poem of " New Mon^lity," soon after. His correspondence with Albert Gallatin on , Amehcau aSain, was highly creiditlrible to the talents of both gentlemen t^' m / >^ '98 CEOROE CANKIKO^ I:f! i ! but it is evident from the whole' tenure of his life, that Mr. Canning had no faith ih the firmness, capacity and intelligence of the American 'people to carry into practical operation the admirable theory of their popular sysT^ tem of government. He a.'s.serted, and doubtless believed, ^ at IcWt feared, that tinder the pleasing forms of democracy the mass^ would .liltimutely find themselves subjugared to the yoke of alternate factions of artful politicians, lawyers, brokers, bankers, organized iiricsthoods, traders in constitutions, monopolists, state-quacks,, and other dealers in men's ■ lives and fortunes. Such also peemed to be the latest view taken by Ed- mund BurUe, and it was the. impression which a view of life and maimers in Ai^erican society left ort the mind of Thomas Moore, where he asserts that the people lacked wisdom to choose wise and faithful rulers and luw- • givers. Let no man take umbrage at the candor of such men, but let every true friend of elective institutions strive to extend the blessings of a liberal education to every section of the Union. On the death of Mr. Pitt, and th^advent of Mr. Fox to power, in 1806, , Mr. Canning resigned the office of^reasurer of the Navy, to which the ► former had appointed him. When Mr. Fox .died, Mr. Canning became > Secretaryof State for foreign affair.-^, his friend Jenkinson (Lord Liverpool) Hoipe Secretary, and Lord Castlereagh minister for the colonies. Canning aud Castlereagh quarrelled about the unfortunate expedition to Walcheren, \ and^ fought a duel, in which Mr. Ellis (Lord Sea ford) was Mr. Canning's \ second. Fn 1812,yith the Jeflersous, the Hamiltons,the Dunopns, and the Clintons'of\|^ Union, it is buUust that we take into carefultionr j sideration the differences that existed ift'th? situations in which they wei^: -respectively placed. « , ■ , I •■' It is evjdenrthat the liberal, enlightehed, and intellectual portion of the British c6nlmuhity, who fondly desire an amelioration of their political in- • stitutions without the intervention of a violent revolution, looked with hope and confidence to Mr. Canning's advent to power— Byron immortalized his ■' name— even Brougham, his great antagonist, was hushed to silence. But the intolerant, the bigoted, the avaricious, and meanly-proud, hiirrassed his < spirit, branded and proscribed him as an adventurer becanse born to no hereditary fortune, tliwarted his benevolent views, blighted his genius, vexed his noble^soul, broke his heart, and hunted him, as it were, to an early grave. A few generous spirits, men with large and lofty thoughts >_.Spnd patriotic feelings, who shared his aspirations for the moral greatness •^ of England; and •• hoped t6 see her banner ever in the van of civilization, everiu the front rank of the march of human improvement." c^sj^d' around him to fight his battle against the many. Becausethey wCTe few,. h,e was branded as acaballer and intriguer. He powerfully advocated catholic emancipation for Ireland— th,e abolition of the slave trade for chris- 'tianity— a return of the glorious days of Themistocles an4jAlcibiades, AgPHilnin^amLLycurgiiB^ for Greece—ftU^ th^ recnfrmUQU of ijpopendence '1^ ■^i 1 (or South America. Mr. Cannmg's faults and failings were manifold. I leave it to others more fully to discuss them. This brief sketch is but an index, guiding and directing the inquiring mind to those more ample and usefiil records where his words and actions are fully and impartially stated anaset forth. • ning had 111 'people )ular sysy at Ic^ ag would ictioiis of s, traders ill men's 1 byEd- aiiiiers in seits tiiat uid law- let every r a liberal , in 1806, bicli the became iverpool) Csliiiiiiig alcheron, ]!anuing's ig's Am- l in 1822 England, ces once le nation, ?4, called he gene- lere, and li cliaran- ! Burkes, Ounopup, efultion- J ley wei^ '!^ 1 m of the litical in- I'ith hope tlized his ice. Hut assed his jrn to no s genius, jre, to an thoughts greatness ilization, cl«itei*il> t'CTc few,.^ dvocated for chris- cibiades, pendence y ROBERT HOLMES. 9» Than Mr. Canning there have been few more elegant orators in British history, fn the House of Commons he was the soul of wit. I regret that he opposed the repeal of the test otifhs required of dissenters hi those days, ftnd exhibited no enlarged, or liberal views of social reform. Yet who can wonder at his course, when we behold learned and intellecttial statesmen in America, in 1845, coming forward to head a faction o( nativists, whi> would proscribe the European, yet cling to British laws and usages, and give us a dominant, privileged, sectarian hierarchy, to persecute the minod- ty, liecause of their faith ! Mr. Canning niarried in 1799, Joan, a daughter of General Scott of Edin- burgh, (whose sister married the Duke of Portland,) and two sons, and a daughter (the Marcjiioness of Clanricarde.) survived his death, "Which was caused by lumbago, and accompanied with pains so acute thai his cries and screams could be heard distinctly at a considerable distance from Dev- onshire House, for several hoius before his wouudcd spirit parted from its clay tenement. During his illness, his wife, who .tendelly loved him, never left his bedside, but \\;^ted lijion and nur sJii^ iih, at the risk of health and life— nor conld-all the entreaties of their flBives iixduce her to leave the task in other hands. Politibal friendships are feeble and transient, but^e love of a woman like JNIrs; Canning is enduring as eternity. Mr. Canning di6d on the Sti^ of August, 18^7, aged 57 years, and was succeeded by Lord Goderich, now Earl of Ripon, who, as Mr. Robinson, in 1816, had introduced the ever-to-be-detested corn-law, for the gain of a few and the oppression of the millions, into the Ho^use of Commons. Had Mr. Canning, 4)r his successor, refused fo bend their wills so as to govern the United Kingdom in accordance with the wishes of the landed aristo- cracy, monied capitalists, privileged clergy, and other monopolists who, in those days supplied the two houses of parliament with members, they could not have held the reins of state a month. Though lifted from pov- erty to the highest pinnacle of power in England, it was as one of the privileged few, and for their benefit ; and also for that of the millions, but only in so far as it did not come in oppositira to the wishes of the aristo- cracy of the church, the purse, and the broaa acres. ROBERT HOLMES. ' 'The French revolution was glorious at its dawning, and gave a fresh im- /pulse to that patriotism which was generated in Ireland by the declaration of American Independence in 76, and of Irish Independence in '82. Its purer principles would have remained untarnished, had not the tyrants* of Europe, with the rich clergy of the duirch of England, the tory nobility,, the worst of the whigs, and tlie holders of public stocks, hi that country, at their back, waged a deadly war on young freedom in defence of ancient j)ro(iigacy and legalised oppression. Robert Emmet and Robert Holmes, in the College Historical Society, Dublin, were comrades; and'liight after night did they discuss the blessings of constitutional liberty, in debates which carried the hearts of the youth of Dublin University with them. Mr. Holmes married Robert Emmet's sister,. ^nd was called to the Irish bar iii. 1795. When Pitt conceived the idea' of effecting a political union of the two kuigdoms, by stirring up a rebellion in Ireland which he was prepared to ifei ' " """ tantsh— when, to itse the words of Sir James i7^*-mnrders w e r r • to others ding and ds where h. • committed by the sword of justice, badly disguised by tlie solemnities which invested them," Mr: Holmes went mto retirement. To the Union he offered a firm opposition; and in the ablest pamphlets of the day con- tended, as a protestant, for equal freedom to his catholic brethren. WheaRobert Enunet returned f^om Brussdd iu 1802, Mr. Holmes todtno I ii tl" M r^:'^ 1.'' 100 THE CAMPBELLS OF CUXRRT VALLET. part ih the fatal movements that shortened his friend's days, bnt was nev- erthel^ss suspected, apprehended, andjodged for a long time in the dismal dmigcons of Kiimainham. Mr. Holmes soon rose to eminence as a lawyer— and now, nearly eighty* years of age, is often the opponent of O'Coimell, in the courts— abounds with \yit and Irumor— has refused every offer of every government to give him -power and office, and holds to ther same manly nrinriplc«! the same love of freedom and hatred to oppression, whetiier Roman or Russian or British, which characterized his early tlays. In religion he is a presby- terian of tlie secession church; that is. the sect whose ministers trust in God and their congregations, and refuse to acn^pt tiie bribe of state pen- sions m exchange for their personal and political inilueiice in aid of the powers that be, whether right or wrong. • ^'^•/^o''"cs, in 1799, wrote and published a very remarkable pamphlet' m the form of an address to the people of Ireland relative to the intended union with England. She died in 1804, leaving one daughter. It is thought that the deaths of her father arid mother and two brothers, the banishment of the third, and the sad oc^dition of her beloved couutrv. tended to shorten her days. ' _.,. THE CAMPBELLS'OF CHERRY VALLEY. •Colonel Samuel Campbell, the last of the early settlers of Cherry Valley, W. Y.,wa^born^of Irish parents in Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1738. and at four years of age came to reside with his father, James Campbell, in Cherry Valley, on the farm where he died in Sept., 1824, at the age ol 86 years It was then a wilderness with no settlements beyond It. In the war of the revolution. Colonel Campbell, espoused, with all his soul, the cause of freedom; and as an officer of the N. Y. mihtia rendered to his country very many important services-fought well at the battle of Ori^- kany under rierkimer-took the command of his regiment when Cox fell, !!?ff ^™"f^'So*^ the remnant of it at the close Of that disastrous fight. He suffered the loss of all he had when Butler and Brandt massacred so many innocent persons in 1778-hi8 wife and family were carried away captive Jm£h?'''^''.T°"i^' ?*L^'3?'^"'',h'« buildings burnt, and his moveables utteriy wasted. In 1783, Generals Washington s»Hd Geo. Clinton, and Colo- nel Humphreys,^8pent a night under his roof, and gratefully acknowledged his services, and the zeal he had ever shovjjii for his country's cause. In religion. Colonel Campbell was a true sfiKstian, in politics a consistent h^rr;iay%lTeTsXS ^'"' '"^'*' "^' ^ His farm i.s owned by his grandson, James S. Campbell, in March, 1812, S,; ^^""^ 7' "^f * member of the Assembly of New York, and supported Governor lompkms m his effort to prevent the old United States Bank h^nds^bSbel^^&c ^^ *" * monopoly, with a six million capital. aJ1& ^:^''^ ^u"*'^?'''". "^f® ^'f Col. Samuel Campbell, was a native of v«£v «-f. K^ *^'*"^ * Causeway. Ireland. She emigrated to Cherry S7 aI'}^' P^"*"*^' "^^^'^ '" her 21st .year, and next year married w ;« ^ -f commencement of the \^ar for freedom in '76 a fort was X bv^^SSi''--— — C.and.four of her children were parried ly by MUISO captive^ i-II8(VXle ae raI Jamea Clin - . -^^ W^somed the family in exchange for the lady of Col. Butler, Mrs. iSw?; l^f "" f I"*'®'® chnstiati, possessed great fonitude and intellectual ?hS f «1 l\''^*^,**l*^f iJ'l'' ^«8cendant8 widely spread over this continent. aue died on the 17th of February, 1836, in her 93d year. Her maiden name )nt was ne\*- 111 the dismal leariy eighty 'ts — abounds vernment to •inciplcs, the n or Russian is a presby- ters trust in if state pen- 1 aid of the le pamphlet '~ the intended D:hter. It is jrothers, the ed country. lerry Valley, lire, in 1738, s Campbell, t the age oi d it. In the Ills soul, the lered to his ttle of Oris- len Cox fell, s fight. He ed so many vay captive moveables I, and Colo- Lnowledged i cause. In I consistent nth his o^v1l flarch, 1812, J supported States Bank lion capital, a native of 1 to Cherry sar married a fort was I'ere carried la meaXUa -^^ m KART JEMISON. 101 used.west of that city. Mr. Robert Campbell wav .sranirm7"whJo Sf feti" nfterits I' r '"'^ under th^gallant Herkimer%\Yhe S le S ous dee is nre r^Por u? P'*''^ among the great and good men whose vir- tHo^^tl c^ are recorded as an example to future ages He left one son - W„'^T":'p " ^^'"''^'" °/ Schoodack, Renssalaer Counfy* ' nn,l . . i 1 *^-^'^r''*=^i' was the eiilest son of Colonel Samuel Campbell anJ'i rVr 'ii^ ^'''' "^^^^^ ^^^Y ^^Ptive into Ca,m.la by tl e Indi-' nf tI,iV/J f v^ succeeded the late Simeon De Witt as Snrveyor-(^neral 1^' Sr,^:„° "ir^J^^^"^ —I times a .nember ofT/SS ture He died at the age of 77, at his residence in Cherry Valley rn2l '1\- ^l"'?""';' "f New York, author of tl.e^Annals of Trvon County or the border warfare of New York during the Revolutio,. U 2 uS w"Jon776" ?hT/'^"7 ""rf"'''^ '^ honored'and JeS^d iJ in s^!.H V! . Their ancestors had probably removed from Ar-ylcshire L^n *!' '° t.'^«."o"h of Ireland, during the persecutioiis of tjTe seven! teenth denrury. ni the times when the Stewarts broudit two of the clSs of their clan a Marquis and an Earl of Argyle, to the^block in Ed^burgh trLSl'f,i''f H ""'"' '° '*'« '«f°'"f"^'* '«''&■«». «»J oppositio toahe cmei Snd Sst. '"■ '^""•"'y'"^" by the profligate assiciates of ChSesTi I «o.w;fT" ^''™Pb?,"« who is a l^^vyer in good practice in New York is the Kmesttr' J S^r^'^if '• °' ^^^y ^^'i^y' ^^''^ «t*" ''^^^ on his faAe?^ noraestead J. S. was the second son of Col. Samuel Camubell VV W C entered Union College at 19, graduated at 21, studied K under Chan" cellor Kent, and is now one of the members of Congress'electU Neir York S'tStr'.'t'r'^ ^^^" rf °^'''« »'*«y -^o hav^aLp^ed the prh,cip *« of the ultra-tones of England, and ultra-fe.leralists of 1798 here, a'-Si ist men of foreign birth and yho deny thatthe sufferers from thedXoUsrS l„T r^ r^'^" *^ American freedom. I regret to see a.. ',^6 Hgen AmX WV. f '^T^"''^"^ of persecuted Irishmen and Scotchmen.^ whose forefathers have inscribed their names among the brave defender of th^ principles of Washington and Jefferson, come forwar. .1 ?845 as th^ cLm mon of cvcliisiveness the curse of the old world. Mr \VW Campbell true basis of pure Christianity, lies at the bottom of all true libertv3 equality," but they do not tefl us uhere to find 'Native iTerc^^^^^^^ that sacred volume.- .1 doubt whether we shall find any SaSon S 21 years among tlie Urethra in the church oi the lirst christiLfs .Ai« MARYJEMISON, OR THE WHITE WOMAN , ^^ the imsiage across, at sea.. They seftR'thSe^^T^eXv^a^^ of ,,« ^r"""^ attacked by six Indians and four Frenchme^?"," the sorSi^ of 1755. who carried off M^ and her family-sci^lped hSX. n2ff utler. Mrs. intellectual s continent, aiden name 1^ 102 SIR JONAH BAllRIlfbTOK. I^l i t*- sist^ and brothers — ^but took her andjifiie brother to Pittsburgh, then held by the French and Indians — adopt^ her as an Indian, carried her to the Genesee Flats—and married her tQ^SJieiiinjee, an Indian, by wliom she had • a son, Thomas Jemison. Her husband died in 1759rand she married again ill t-7(>l, to anotlier Indian nam^ Gardeau, by whom she had t^ix sons and daughters. She says tliat tij^ipeoplc could hve mofe happily than the In- diaiis did until spirituous U^'uors werehitroduced among thcin. During the war of tlie Revolution, jtlie tribe she belonged td assisted the British — Colonels Butler and Ij^ndt often made her house their home. In 1779» General Sullivan ai)^ his army attacked the Indian settlement, near Can- andaigoa— the Intj^ns retreated towards Buifalo, and their villages were burnt — peace fji^bwed — a track of land was granted to Alary— her sons Thomas imd^John quarreled, and the younger killed the elder with his tbmahawk — the Chiefs, in council, justified John (the survivor) on account of the provocation he had received. Her grandson, Jacob Jomison (son to , Thomas) went to Dartmoutli College in 1816, was well, educated there, and is a physician. In Nov. 1811. her husband died, aged 1D3, audwas buried with his best clothing on. Her youngest son Jesse was murdered in 1812, when 28 years old, by the brother who had killed her eldest son^; Thomas, who in his turn' was killed in a quarrel in 1817. Her dauglit|^r8 married Indians and have families. John left two widows and nine ' children. In 1822-^, Mary Jemison sold her land, 17,927 acres, excepting ^ about 1000 reserved for herself, on the Genesee river, to Micali Brooks and others. A'friend'of mine visited Mary in 1830, in the valley of the Genesee, be- tween the high banks, in the place wh^re she took refuge from Sullivan's army, half a century before. She was about 90 years old — had a strong uorth of Ireland accent^and was nearly blind. She had had a line constitu- tion, and had always shinned fire-water and tobacco. My friend saw her' again in 1831. '," Never (said he) did I meet with a more "kind-hearted woman, or with one of her age retaining such vivacity aud buoyancy of spirits. Her grandson Peter Jemison was appointed assistant sur;jreou on board a man-of-war and died suddenly in the Mediterranean The lu/ dians punish witchcraft as they do murder, and she was at one time sus- pected; but tliere was no proof. Thirty-nine of her grand-children, and fourteen great-grarid-children were living in 1842; and her life was pub- lished that year in a neat pocket volume by Seaver of Batavia." This wonderful woman died on the 19th of Sept. 1833, in a house which she had purchased on the Bufialo Creek reservation ; aged about 91 y^ears, and a marble slab near the Seneca Mission Church, marks her grave. Hei' three daughters died in the autumn of 1839, aged 69,63, and 58 years— and her numerous posterity will soon take their departure for the territory west of the Mississippi, if they have not already done so. Mary Jemison was short of stature, and very white for a woman of her age— she lived 76 years with the Indians, and her adventures were- iar more marvellous than the most popular of our romance writers could have imagined for a herouie less real tliaii the little Irishwoman of the Genesee Flats. T . . SIR JONAH HARRINGTON. Thtii friah Judgft, the agrflftfthle author of " Personal Sketches." voted against the Union in the last pturliament held in Ireland, but was an artful tool of the foreign tenants of Dublin Castle for all that— just such another as Thomas Reynolds, except that he shunned the witness box — mixing in tjie company of gentlemen, aud stlUng their most secret and confidential conversation to the govemmeat of the day. He says he was initiated by ^Oik. r - ,•■ . Ii, then held I her to the om she had ' arried again ix sous and han the In> During the le British — 5. hi 1779, U near Can- illages were f— her sons er with his on account ison (son to , ;ated there, [)3, aud< was s murdered • eldest son^ !r. daughtt^rs s and nine ' s, excepting ^ Brooku and ienesee, be- n Sullivan's, ad a strong iuc coiistitu- ?iid saw her' Liud-hearted buoyancy of surgeon on II Tlje lur le time sus- hiidren, and fc was pub- louse which ant 91 years, grave. Hei' years — and emtory west )man of her •es were- iar \ could have the Genesee clics." voted JOHN BINOHAM. lOd hin Jnend Dr Duigenan mto the secret orange club/qalled the Aldermen of Skinners Alley, Dublin, previous to 1.T95, and tha|l he used his connexion with the country gentlemen, as a relative and friend, to betray them In his S»ketches he states that a month before the rev6lt (viz. in April 17<».S)he took occasion to visit Wexford— dined at Ladv Ccvfclough's, a near relative of his wife, spoke uiireservedly to Messrs. Grt^gaii, Harvey, Keogh. the Mieareses, and others, (too soon to be his and/ his comrades' vicnin'* )— warned the company to be more reserved before HfM (the school-fellow anrt companion of some of them from boyhood !)— but afterwards accepted an invitation to Mr. Harvey's at Bargy Castle— listened attentively to all the schemes and opinions then there offered, both before dinner and over the bottle after it— and next morning wrote to the" LonTLeutenaiTvs' Secretary iim of a coming iiisurriection ! No wonder it was that (Cooke) -to warn him „. „^ — .„.,g .,.,..xi^v;i.uu : «o.wonuerii Nr Jonah Barsingtoo got promotion over his brother barristers ! To the Irish government of that day the traitor to Ireland was invaluable. Let his name be the expression by which to distinguish that insincerity which no oth^r wickedness call equal— let him be called Judas not Jonah ' But he assures us that he did not give names nor pl^,es in his reports. Who will believe him .' He wrote /row Wexford, recommended that a garrison should be sent there iii.staiitly, and adds, that within three months all the jovial /party were executed e.xcept Mr. Hatton who " unaccountably escaped," and himself. With Sir Jonah for the tyrant's s^ in April, in the guise of a bosom friend, who can feel surprized at liis statement that Messrs Gro- gan, Harvey, Keogli, Colclough, &c., had been made examples of In Harrington's Sketches he cjogiBs^ note sent him by Lord Castlereagh, re- lusing him the Solicitor-Gefteralshipt^^t is evident that he did not \^te for tbe Union, becau.se he held himself higfier than the government held him, or because there was an understanding on the subject between him and castlereagli, that he should preserve appfearances to catch a liberal con- stituency In his hi.story of Ireland, to which George IV., the Dukes of York, and Wellington, and the Earls of Shannon, Fariiiiam, Liverpool, and Limerick, were original subscribers. Sir Jonah admits that while pretend- ing to oppose the Union, he was the base instrument of Castlereagh and the enemies of Ireland, to offer bribes and make converts to It. For a sample of the proof, see " John Bingham." JOHN BINGHAM, LORD CLANMORRIS. The first Baron Clanmorris bought his honors by the sale of his soul CQuntry, conscience, and constituents, and is dead. Sir Jonah Barrin<'(on' in page 377 of volume 2d of his " Memoirs of Ireland," ackiiowled-es^that he was the go-between, between the English bribers and the saleable Irish memoers. He says." I was deputed to learn from Mr. Bingh&m what his expectations from government for his scats were ; he proposed to take from the goverument £8.000 (!»3S,000) for his two seats for Tuam, and oppose the Union. Government afterwards added a peerage and £1 5,000 («73.000) for the borough." Bmgham was made " Lord Clanmorris," an Irish peer, and got #110.000 in cash.- for selling his own and the other votes at .his command, to Pitt and George III. for a Union which would degrade Ireland American novel readers— je that fall in love with British aristocracy— look 4!.!!l"!!?l'l^' "!^?! '"fe'^^^'^^Ti'?"^^^ opp ressors of their r>ir-e» ;t,slmid may grow-greatrbtkiris in'simrTSf TKe^Tigarchs of land, loans and law, and the loyalty-preaching parsons. Our stock-jobbing, betting, gambling statesmen, bankers, and land speculators are bad. As privileewi and banded mto cabals, under " safety-fund," and other plausible impSst- ures, they are, perhaps, the nearest approach to Europe's •• lords spiritual an* temporal," that American folly and credulity is yet prepared to vas an artful luch another i — mixing in confidential t initiated by 104 BISHOP HUGHES. '<■.(" JOHN HUGHES, Roman Catholic Bishop of New Y|>rk. Idolatry:— fatal word, which hns mliscd more iwords, lighted uioi« firei, and inhninanlzed more bearu, than-tho whole vocabulary of the passioni beside* ! , It is^ very difficult Xo crive a true and unbiased account of the lives of men who, like Bishop Hughes, ht».vo taken a prominent part in matters of controversy of deep and abiding interest to society, unitil after their death or long retirement from public concerns. Nor sItouW I have attempted this brief sketch, had not some of his'inore' recent if^fters placed on record his personal history and the views he takea^iff thosa. public matters in which, iff his judgment, it is right and proper for a jifehite oTiiis church to offer an (xpinion or to interfere. In a letter addressed to Mr. James Harper, the last Rfayor of New York, soon after the PhiladelphiA riots (May 17, 184.^, Bishop Hughes gives some particulars of his early history, " It is twenty -seven years (says he) since I came to this country. I be- came a citizen therefore as soon as my majority of age and other-circum- stances permitted. My early artce.stors were from VVale? ; and very pro- bablJ^ shared with Strongbow and his companions in the \)lnnder which rewarded the first successful invaders of lovely but un^o|tHNate^Irclaud. Of course, from the time of their conversion frjJm Paganiam, they were Catho- lics. You, sir, who must be afSquainfed XC'itfiT the njlmuicholy annals of religious intolerance in. Ireland, may remember, ih|it \^»en a traitor to his country, and, for what I kn6w, to hi,s creed al.so, wished to make his peace to the Irish government of Queen Elizabeth, MacMahon, Prince of Mona- ghaii, the traitor's work, which he volunteered to accomplish, was "to root out the whole Sept of the Hughes."— He did not, however, succeed in destroy- ing tlieni, although he " rooted them out"— proving, as la moral fo|^^|ture times, that persecution cannot always accomplish what- it proposST In the year 1817, a descendant of the Sejjt of the Hughes, came to the United States of America. He was the son of a farmer of moderate but comforta- ble mean.''. He landed on the.se shores friendless, and with but a few gui- neas in liis jmrse. He never received of the charity of any man ; he never borrowed of any man witliont repaying; he never had nujre than a few dollars at a time ; he never had a patron — in the Church or out of it ; and it is he who- has the honor to address you now, as Catholic Bishop of New York." Bisliop Hughes, when he enH^ed the college, was ti stranger to his pre- decessor. Bishop Dubois. For tlie first nine months he prosecuted his stu- dies under a private preceptor, and during the ensuing seven or eight years completed his education, teaching at the same time such classes as were "assigned to him. He was then ordained Priest, and stationed at Philadel- phia. Eleven years afterwards he was sent, not by his, own choice, to be coadjutor to the Bishop of New York ; where, says he, " one of the first things that struck me, as a deplorable circumstance in the condition of my ' flock, was the ignorance and vice to which the children of catholic and emigrant parents were expo.sed." " Thousands of the children of poor ca- tholic parents are growing up without education, simply because that which tlie law has provided, as interpreted and administered under tlie Public School Society, requires a violation of their rights of conscience. The numbgr of such cliildren may be from nine to twelve thousand. Of these, the catholics, by bearing a double taxation, educate four or five thou- be considered as receiving only such education as is afforded in the streets of New York." On the Bishop's return from a journey to Europe, in 1840, he found that Governor Seward, in his annual message, had directed tlie attention of the .:%■ nm&alced mora he lives of I matters of ' tlioir death 3 attempted d OH record ; matters in is church to' New York, gives some intry. I be- :her'circum- id very pro- uder wliich L Ireland. Of NVe^eCatho- ly annals of "aitor to his ie his peace :e of Mona- was •• to root I in destroy- al fo|i^lture roposST In o tile United ut comforta- t a few gui- n ; he never s than a few It of it ; and ihop of New r to his pre- iited his stu- r eight years sses as were at Philadel- :hoice, to be ; of the first ditiou of my catholic and ^. of poor ca- lecause that d under tlie conscience, ousand. Of or five thou- the restinay^ in the streets e found that ention of the ■\ BISHOP irutiHES. 105 legislature to that class of children. " especially in our large cities, whom orphanage, the depravity of j)arents, or some (orm of a(;cident or misfortune seems to have doomed to hopeless poverty and iciiorance." " The '«^ -t — !-~!-.i— .i .-. - j__ imrmgh~it"MJ"ii."A,"».VJ ^^i' \V'''';!^i'r.^v,' ''"' ^ ^ "°.'^'*»^"W'y cry plensing indeed. It st r cagth-^ ^SSSStatt."' "''"'"''•"" *"' ""''"'•'• «"'i«auseustobecome"a"^i?em in^m!."i2i.?n?«'1? ,"•*' education, founded upon religious differences of belief, are unsoitcd ™^~f l"^ nstitutions; and, whether recommended by goTemor or bishop, whig or do- mociat, should receite the veto of erery tnie republican. """"Pi wmg w w Il06 BISHOP RrOHKS. f- gwn; and "that he (the Rnpenntendent) should expect the epeedv downfall ♦of Popery. If eveiy where throughout E.irope it (Kinsj James\^ tranSn of tl»|protestant B.ble] was taught in every icl^pol. a.rd to every d"id»Tc . . ^pos rejrard the.r sulyeot^ as their pmperrv. and usuVp he divhip- ^ prerogative of prescnbinjr their reli{rioa*-fai h. Colonel Stone atHth^ .rarno..'sb,b.e.,8made a standard book in onr common schools; in orde? that popery may be put down, and the Catholic, the Jew. and the uS- nan converted to what he terms the American « nationar reltion "He decides, as did Henry the VIHth. that the national religion is n mestant^ and every catholic, and all othfers who venture to dissent frL^tJe creed S- h?;"/" ^•"F ^^"'T"^ ^'H'« ^'«^*^«^ »« uphold schools avowedh^es- ^ Sa/ A V° P" .^'^T' '^T' '?''»'°"' opinions, and comjiel all to adopt the «aW«Acrfornaport a protestant churclTthey dS not belong to, and the taxes levied from American citizens. Catholics ^rnTn,^: ""^ Unitarians, to uphold publi<^ schjfels avowX^stablished ' proSamcS^ %'^J,'''^'V^.' r"'** °^ '^I '«P"blic^he national " 'T" edueation forms the infant mind, . ' . ^ Just as the twig is bent tJte tiee^s inciin^." nl/i!! t°"L*°»^Y that conscience is protected to a« by the constitution, if all are taxed to bend the education of onr yoHth to the purpose of con- verting catholics to a protestant na?,ona/- faith: Miin is an SatiJe anU mal. and acquires the Lbits. feelings, and sentiments of his n^mctoS Is he born of protestant parents, and by them educated, he become?^; bl: hever m the Bible Are his pkrents Hindoos? he grows up a M^ShrppIr of Brama. Are they Turks > he becomes a xMti^uIman In Italv "he fSSbvfe^aS°"'Ti;.''f °'^' in England an EpiscoThan; in Snd! ^il ■ ^ ^* ^i?® character of man is formed for him by early educa- K«^n «»""2""'**"^r c'rcumstances. And the question is-' Shall we fehl ^ dissent from the royal edition of the English bible, to uphold nritSt T™Tr ^S*"""'^ by taxation, to put down popery, while they are thiis also obliged to maintain other schools in accordance with thew own views of religion and church government ." « Is this system of W -''' syhtism and opposition. t>f strife and contention, to go on for ever '• S are our conimon schools upheld by all. to be for all. and shall the false assmion. that there ought to be a favored and a pereecuted class be put r»Mii;l!^«T'^® ?^iv?'***°,? '?"^'**^'.*® coadjutor of his diocese Secame h?SdSd?lSmSfT "'"'^ ^t *^^°« ^^''"^^'^ °^ *^««'"^ '»--^' J'jR^"i!!A^u "^"."^ *^"'"? °^ contention. My dispositioft is. I trust, both Sp^AnV ^«"«vol«nt-, As a proof of this. 'l may mention that I have h«^ K« n'''"*' altercation with a human being in my life-that I !^r.- 7»"k''*'*. °$''a8'o« to call others, or be called myself, before SSLtlv wT,!' °^ *« T^- '^ " »™^ that public duty hL not unf^ S??on^M^^n P?" ™«. the necessity of taking my stand In moral oppo- siUon to i^mciples which I deemed injurious and unjust . But even ♦h/.^ T t^.t:^ T 1*^- '•—-" - >..oy..»cu iiijuiuiua mm uiijuBi. cut even geste beuyeeirthe cause and the person of the advocate arrayed againit m^- ^ In t^e cqndu^t of Bishop Hughes with reference to education, I see BISHOP IIVGHKS. 107 murh to praise — aotnething to censure. He fonnd his people taunted ' • with their ignorance, and he sought a conhtitutioual remedy which would not violate their rights of conscienc^fe. Dr. Browulee, and many other protestaiit writers of celebrity, had a.s.serted that the catholic church was upheld by the ignorance of its supporter!'. Bishop -Hufrhes replied by askiriij that catholic children should be educated in the public schools; but that, as,8i royal edition of the protfestant bible was taught there, avow- " edly as a ^,ins to put down his church, and as evidence that we had in New York TV national predominant, which means a law established, reli- gion, he desired that no book should be taught which violated the right of conscience. He says he is oppo.sed to Church and State unions, a matter m which nearly all denominations in all countries have been alike blamea- ble. hi a late lecture he admitted thfit " If the catholics had sinned on this subject, as he was, ready ip concede, it could not be denied, on the other hand, that, in their regard, the iniquities of their fathers had been visited on their -children to the third and fourth generation. There was certainly no denomination of Christians that had so little reason to be in love with ChuMh and State unions, as the catholics. In most catholic countriest -themsolves, that Union holds their religion in a species of degrading bondage." Again— speaking of the design aschbed to the British government of » forming a political union with the Irish catholic church— he said, that "the people and their clergy, and, above all, their faithful and vigilant hierarchy, .will never at this late day, permit the ministry, of their religion to be polluted, York, it gave us a civic cbrporation, upon tlie principle of violating the t:on- stitutiou Its members had sworn to uphold, for they were ])ledgtd K) with- hold office from all adbpted citizens, although these hatl been imitcd to share equa rights her^, on solemnly abjuring the governments of their birth aiyl all others. U was pledged, too, in defiance of the constitution, to uphold protestantascpndancy, or, as Col. Stone had It, a national relieion —and I firnily believe, that but for the mild, peaceful; and chrislian-like conduct of Bishop Hughes and the clergy of his order, the insulted catho- /hcs would have resented the studied injustice done them, and tliee\erto be lamented scenes of Philadelphia,* been repeated in New York thp not J ire. :,_ — : ~ —""v-t- .•..tj..vo, ijtvcj iiuu uiiy cor- respondence with him, is not connecteji with, nor an admirer of tlie church government of, the Roman Catholic church, was bred a presbytcrian and has sent his children for years to the presbytcrian Sunday school.-*, where the edition of jhe liible to which catholics conscientiously object, is regularly M*.?.^-*?^ "'^^*''; '^V* meeting of the protestant clergy of Uie Presbytcrliuj, Baptist, Methodist, tpiscopaiian, Lutl.uran, Independent, and other orders, in PhiiadeluLia; wa^ failed to form an « American Protestant Association" thcie. It was formed— and the con- slitution commences with a," Whereas we beliTC the system of Popcrv to be, in its Drin- ciplcK and tendency, subversive of civil and religious liberty, and destructive to tlie suiritual welfare 01 men, we unite," &c. One of the objects of \he 90 Philadelphia preachers who iigned it was to " 1 o awaken the attentions of the community to the dangers which threaten the liberties, and the pubhc and domestic instilutious, of these United Slates, from tha assaults of Romanism." In their address, of which 1,5,000 copies were printed as a first edition, they reprobate Uic Jesuits, an order of men whose avowed principles are really dangerous to sMietv. and who liave been expelled at various periods from both catholic and protestant countries Tiiev call the Pope the Antichrist of St. John, Daniel, and the Re/elat ions-quote authorities to show that Romanism is a damnable doctrine— describe catljolic missionaries as •' Pooish emissaries who are busily scattering the seeds of death"— point to the " leaders o? the Roman Church in tjie United States, a large and increasing body pf erclesiastics, mostly foreigners, who have no ties of birth or blood to aUach Uicm to our soil," who are '• alien in ■ympathyand interest from the mass of the American people," a*d whose " system has a loreign head. Its bishops owe a paramount allegiance to the Pope. All ccslesiuK'ieal at), imintments, mcluding those of the pastors of their ohurches, emanate directly or kidirectlv ■ ^"'S.*?""' •••,••.*• •.*"? *•»«*<« ^^y oPRoman Catholics in this country, may, on any Kiveii * poWico/ or ecclesiastical question, be controUed and guided by a secrJt mandate froin the SlVi-II'- They alsorefer to Pope Greg;oryXVI'8 letter of August, 1832, for his assertion that liberty of conscience, Mberty of opmion, liberty of the press, aim the separation of church Md state, are four of the sorest evUs with which a nation can be afflicted, and they !?o back to Peter Dens, to show that Rome beheveddt was right to put heretics to death » the IS 000 iirotestant ministers of the Union are eamesUy invited to retaU their violent and provokinjr language, and societies against forqigners and the pope are suggested as auxiliaries. Who ran wwHler that 90 violent^rtizan pTeachetsJrf one city, with the press at their contro;. IZ ^!L5 """' ««""?«, ""dJmorancftand phsjudice on both sides, should have i.ro.lnccd ^'^j**'?^^ ?f.T' ^}^> *'"*=^ *"• foifever^eflcct disgraceon all concerned ? Werln" ■"lu . n ««*«>? HuRhes and his clergy, as far as a moderate Presbyterian may, frbin f„k W, °2?", Ci'tt'olic, I here record to ^heir Honor, the spirit of christian forbiaranca vrbKb tbev disomved in IS44 : » anirit irliiAK a' .VI.UIU wwv" Honor, me spmi ot cnnstian torbearanca V^ they displayed in 1844 ;. a spirit wlii61i, seconded as it was by many of our New Yo rk pro tas ta nt aler^ytewqwd^ghtfttlyt h e ri sk wte r i a of havl i irthe TsgmK of the"^^ (popeiy note of London andPhUadSlphia renewed in the commeicial emporium of America, as « new aigumest agidiut^e^iiTa inatitutions. ^-\ > .<*' THE NEW-YORK EXAIUIVER, IVo. «• ^'iii favoir of re- al iiilerferclice ; flatiiig thetjon- edgfd t() Avith- buen invited to meijts of their e constitution, ational religion I christian-like insulted catho- md the e\er to !W York, the )ndon, lias, not tish empire. ;r had any cor- r of the church isbytcrian, and )ol.s where the it, is regularly bytcrliu), Baptist, Pniladcluhia, vtat led — and the con- to be, in its priO' ' Tc to tiin spiritual ia preaciirrs who rs which threaten States, from tha ley reprobate the society, and who Lountries. T^iey luote amijoriiics larics as •' Popish ' " leaders "q? the losiastics, ninstly iLoare <• alien in e " syNtem Ims a ec.«ilcsius:ical ap- ctly or kidirectiy lay, on any given ' landatu from the for his nKsertion afatinn of church 1 they i;o back to ith ! The 18,000 It and provokinjj ixiliarics. Who at their cnntro/, J have proilnccd med? Differing ?rian may, from tian forbcaranca my of our New NEW-YOKk, NOVEMBER 25. 1844. RSIS or the onlE ium of America, THa soiff s or tbb bmbralii zbxb, OR Lives of Renutrkable Irishmen, and Persons of Irish Origin in America, BY WILLIAM L. MACKENZIE. Th§ first number of this work, as a specimen, was published here, in March last, by Burgess & Stringer, who sold an 'impression of about three thousand copies from stereotype plates, and inform me that very '" many itiquiries have since been made for the rest of the volume. The Truth-Teller, Freeman's Journal, Tribune, Herald, Aurora, and other papers of this city, and the Boston Pilot, Albany Argus and At- las, and nearly fifty other periodicals throughout the Union, have men- tioned the book with approbation. Messrs. Thomas and Charles O'Conor, Robet-t Emmet, Dr. Mac Neven, John M'Keon, J. G. Hutton, Henry O'Reilly, John Tracey, and several other generous, public-spirit- ed citizens, have subscribed and paid for a number of copies, towards enabling me to continue the publication without loss or parting with . the copyright. - As a scheme of proscription, or war of races and religions, has been agreed on by- Messrs. Daniel Webster, James Watson Webb, Hale & Hallock, Brooks of the Express, Hall of the Commercial, Charles King, Edward Curtis, Senator Arched and their confederates, in the foreign unovement, miscaHed " native," by which they hope to divide the Re- 'pjublic against itself, tear in two the flag of the Union — the stars for "citizens by chance" — for "citizens by choice" the stripes — and as some representatives have been sent to Congress from Philadelphia and New- York, with instructions to stir up strife between their'^i^ls^^en of many creeds, the natives of many lands, and disturb the naturalizi'tion laws, as wisely settled by Thomas Jefferson, ^e Witt Clinton, and the Congress of 1802, it seems desirable that the true-hearted sons of this free soir, who, during ages of revolution, war, trouble, and proscription, in the old world, have welcomed as their brethren the oppressed, the persecuted, the patriotic, and the enterprising, whate'er their creed or country,, should be reminded, of what the Sons of the Emerald Isle and their descendants have done to establish and maintain our free institu- tions, f In a political sense, then, " the Lives of Remarkable Irishmen," if faithfully, and Judiciously compiled, will form a truly interesting and useful volume, containing many facts valuable for reference in future years, and embracing in eight or ten numbers, at 12^ cents each, or one dollar for the whole, brief biographical sketches of more than one thou- sand pejTsons of celebrity. The rnanuscript copy for four or five additional numbers is now ready for the compositor, and the object of this statement Is to induce those who approve of the undertaking to exert themselves to obtain and send me lists of subset ibers, thereby to diminish the risk of loss, on the out- TaythMmiist be incurred^ ing, Sec. Although 3000 copiesof number one sold quickly,- that sale was found insufficient to defray the cost of its publication. My opinions, as stated in number one and els^here, have subjected me to much abuse of a very violent character, from the journals of the &ction called *' native," here and in Philadelphia.; Four months since, I was aj^inted to, and now fill, a situation of small emolument and *- •& % "^ M ».th D.,,K.| W„b«er', ■• kUh .„d kin," ,he ™i.K*y ■MMMmk-^kt y.xf ^ >,^*^" ,»' pnasible terms „.„. A^a„„ "of the.old Saxon^'race." . ■ Wf . '' Editors friendly fo the object I have in vii.w «/;il ,i r- . * ; «„, Ai, .,..e j„._,„d ini.v;,,,,.ir:,:;s»";l *'ri "'fct New-York, Nov. 20, 1841. " VV. L. &ACKENZIE. NOTICES OF THE FIRST NUMBER a very geimral circulntion.-JV. V. Tribuue <=«""»'y»'en. It must comiimiid pen.everance which diHtiniruiHh oiir nmiZZ .?*"""■' ?««"««""»• and fiardy f.e embodied in a worrof'^t e S SJi^^toL^ ?" «;" .^''^''-Je what interest may it earnestly to the p.^onLe of Se wto £« ,h^ I- • ^'rV""'"" . ^« <=«""nena tVir fi^lhern, or admire the n" nv es?im«l?l«^nf„l r '""'',«'''!«'' ""«> »»e the home of _ A large portion of the mo.st disririS^iKo.i „„..:„.. __j ,_. ... I.n?e'bef„ G;me„"or''„"f iS 'JSff^l f"'""^ "V^ ?»«'«''""'» of this country lives of dislinguiXd ri" .men'' m.J^t be^ Srvaco."Zi^''r i'^'' *h''"=''«'' «'' "•« who are willing to regard with T- ndor the 2m P^v' ^^''^ "» "" •"" «='»'*«"« the patriotic sons of d^rK^J |,ri"le who h""^'",''''"'''''''' "-^^^^ ''«»«' ""^ heart of try L their home, as well as tl e ir retriiu from „n^/"""' • 'T' '"^"P'^'^ «"' ««""- work eould not Imve fallen i,rheSHm„dHha^CJ"„'l-?i "^^"^'V '»»''• This kenzie, whose ability as a powe2| write' »^ hp^n fh„ '^ "if "I!"'"'' ^^"'- I" Muc- An "interesting and valuable publication."-F««„««V Journal, N. V. feel, proud of. Those liberal a.irf i„»i«ril' 7 •• °5* V""*!" "" *"''*' ""'ght justly there^re no grea'tmenlivrJ. ofj.1!SlT.:\L"tj^:'^^ -»'!' ««•«?! «o b4vd tha't iaxop rlo-^a there are no »r«r,T V • """ '"^«'"?enHndividuals who al Its origin m toryisro. it will certainly diii,E ignorance ' fend the character of hisancestorm-lfwS?, sJuna^Sin^ mmsmp- -^ cI^SL' ^' *""' '""'■'"" "'""'«'' «''•''«'•- «<• "«»r one hui,drerSmen.-S«,t& @X!!^^iS&'" "'"""'"'' ""' '" '"''^''' '^ '^':°""« occasidS fbr his" te^i^s?^-i--dil^^ A mbst I'onipiled wil ning Herald I and interestin g littl« .at care and ability. Every Irishman must have it. RnbliMtiqn^nhowingataglaiHifr^fae •s ■•X »iaS:!iS^1oL\?ll'se'S^^^^^ the two great e-en:, PfSL?rSjS.t!:^ It Will be ^^ the n.e,„ory of th, benefacC o/'ffirXn" £re« ir^fi^^^ v^ ■ have complain" tiiftlly circillated igli a citizen, on o he on ttuj'^st the aristacjniLev hiigo me by no- Ibel willing to pecuniary loss, he goodness to en, as early as CKENZIE. wild Remnrkabie Rc or Descent, bjf Siringer. It 1« h n, ' Ireliinil, onij '\fi a It miisit coiiiiimud !oiintrte8''h{ive al- ioiisin. and fiardy vhat interest may . We cointnend y he the home ot (eneroiia and op- iice is beginning InesB, and in now ty for another rt^ n or thia country e tiketches of the > all our citizens lead and heart of lupted our conn- itive land. This r, Will. L. Mac- orious labors oi J. Y. itrioiic devotion rtli might justly ; to believlB that «r- "s ishmen.— &ittf& occasion for his inadian patriot, is an energetic orthy an actual trocure a copy. n must have it. ..«',' ,!*■. ''' • ' Z' .» / f \ "i^ ■' / * M -j«— '%. xw-thepriroir' vo great essen., »n. It will be xioustontaia 0. rf4^ « > " ^ \: ■' 'A .■ " '-.-."" ■,^- ■" .' - . ■ # ■ ' A ^ A X * * '^- .• . y ■' • ' " - ■■■ ■■ -/■ - - • % V ^ 1 ^^^^^H ^^^^^^H ^^^H ^^^^^^^^H ^^H ^H ■MM|H w n a \ V ^■^- ■■^\ G- m t'^. "C^. h