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County of Tyrone,

to wit.

No. III.

WILLIAM MERKLEY, drummer in the Wexford regiment of militia, came before me, one of his Majesty's juftices of the peace for the county of Tyrone, this day, and made oath on the Holy Evangelifts, that he remembers the flogging of priest O'Neil in Youghal, in May or June 1798, that he himfelf was one of thofe who flogged him; that after receiving (as he thinks) about 300 lafhes at different periods, he heard him confefs to Lord Loftus, that he had figned the death warrant of a foldier who had been murdered fome time before. Deponent further fwears, that there was no wire twisted in the cats with which the priest was flogged, but that they were the fame as were always ufed in the regiment.

his

William X Merkley, mark.

Sworn before me at Aughnacloy,

April 14, 1804.

THO. FORESYTH.

No. IV.

County of Tyrone, VALENTINE LOFTUS, private in the Wexford to it. Sregiment of militia, came before me, one of his Majefty's juftices of the peace for the county of Tyrone, this day, and maketh oath on the Holy Evangelifts, that he was prefent at the flogging of priest O'Neil in Youghal, and that being then a drummer, was one of them who flogged him; that he heard prieft O'Neil confefs before he was tak en down from the triangles, that he had figned the death warrant of a foldier who had been murdered fome time before. Deponent further fwears, that the cats with which the priest was flogged, were the fame as were always used in the regiment.

Sworn before me at Aughnacloy, April 14, 1804.
THO. FORESYTH.

Valentine Loftus.

No. V.

County of Tyrone regiment, fweareth, that he remembers the flogging of

} THOMAS CUMMINS, drum-major of the Wexford

to wit. priest O'Neil in the town of Youghal, in the latter end of May or beginning of June 1798, that after being tied up, and receiving about 50 lashes, Lord Loftus afked him, whether he would confefs any knowledge of the murder of a foldier, as deponent believes, of the Meath regiment of militia? if he would, the remainder of his punishment should be remitted; he the priest anfwered; that it was told to him in confeffion, and that he could not divulge it; on which the punishment went on. He then faid, that if bishop Coppinger was fent for, he could tell it to him; that the bifhop was fent for, but could not be found; on which the priest said, that if father John M-Guire, parish priest of Youghal, was fent for he would tell him; that M'Guire came, and feemed greatly agitated on feeing the priest tied up, and asked Lord Loftus if he had any thing against him? that Lord Loftus answered, he had not, and that he merely wanted. him to take O'Neil's confeffion; that M'Guire requested not to be forced to have any communication with him, as he was a bad man, and a scandal

*He fled from Youghal when the plot was discovered, and has not refided there ever fince,

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to the profeffion he belonged to; Lord Loftus then asked him (M'Guire) whether it was the duty of his religion to conceal murder, though revealed to him in confeffion? he anfwered, it was not, and that none but a bad man would conceal it; on which he was permitted to retire; that the punishment commenced again, and in a fhort time the priest faid, that if he was let down he would confefs; that deponent then heard him acknowledge, that he had fighed the death warrant of the foldier who was murdered, on which he was let down. Deponent further fwears, that there was no wire or tin in the cats with which the priest was flogged, but that they were the fame as are ufed in the regiment.

Sworn before me at Aughnacloy, April 10, 1804
THO. FORESYTH.

Thomas Cummins.

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IN confequence of your commendation of Mrs. Crefpigny's Letter to her Son, J put that publication into the hands of fuch of my children as were old enough to be benefited by it. While they were perufing it with much attention, and, apparently, with confiderable advantage, it was reported, and generally believed, that at an entertainment given by Mrs. C. at her hufband's beautiful villa at Camberwell, the received a lady who has long lived, and still continued to live, in open adultery with a married man. Scarcely was this circumstance known in my family, when I perceived that Mrs. C.'s publication loft its effect on the minds of my children., One morning, my eldest daughter, feeing the book upon the table, afked me, with great fimplicity, whether her mama would on any account fuffer her e fto be vifited by a woman who had loft her character. I replied (of cour(e) certainly not; for no woman of reputation, who had any respect for virtue, or, indeed, for herself, would affociate with a female whofe character had been tarnished. My daughter then inquired whether rank and connection made any differeuce in fuch a cale. I replied that the rules of virtue were the fame in all fituations of life, and could not admit of any exception; that a female of gh rank who tranfgreffed thofe rules was quite as infamous, as one of meaner fiation, and abundantly more mifchievous, on account of the greater influence of her example; and that therefore those women who make an exception in favour of fuch a female, by admitting her into their fociety, prove their regard for virtue to be counterfeit, and in reality fix as deep a ftain upon their own characters as they would do by affo ciating with the loweit proftitute...

I exceedingly lament, Sir, that the usefulness of Mrs. C.'s Letters, in my family, fhould be diminied by her conduct on the above occafion; the work, indeed, is not in it elf, lefs excellent on that account, but unless moral preceptors enforce by their example the principles they inculcate, their lefons, however judicious and talutary, cannot be expected to produce much effect upon beings who are far more difpofed to be led by example even when good, and much more fo when pernicious, than to liften to ad monition and advice.

I am, Sir,

Your conftant reader,

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Addington, Mr. the affertion that he was
not in favour with his Majefty refuted,
297.

Advertisements, fpecimens of fome iffued
by the candidates at the late election for
Middlefex, 441.

Africans, and other inhabitants of the tor-
rid zone inferior to those of temperate
climates, and why, 47.

Alps, remarks on their fublime wonders,
19.

America, conjectures on its original popu
lation, 270.

Annual Review, ferious accufations against
its ed tor, and ftrictures on the general
management of that work, 215,-219.
Annual Reviewers, ftriking inlances of
their ignorance, malice, and bad prin-
ciples, 107-109.

Apologues, or Fables, remarks on their ori-
gin, 472.

Articles of the Church, not to be Calvinif-
tically interpreted, 180.

thofe of Lambeth quoted, 357-
Remarks on them, 358.

Afia, fcanty knowledge of it poffeffed by the
ancients, and sketch of the progrels of
different travellers in the earlier ages,
161.

-, new reason why it was firft inhabited,
407.

Afiatics, on an ancient connection between
them and the Celts, 458.

Aftrology, project for the revival of that
fcience, 406.

Aftronomy of the Hindoos proved to be of
no remote antiquity, 270,

Augereau, inftance of his ferocity and cruel-
ty at Venice, 194.

Auftin, St. definition of his doctrine, 181.
Auftria, its power and refources, 16.
Authors, account of feveral who figured in
the 13th century, 232.

Barras, account of his fcandalous intrigues
with the Venetian amb ffador, previous
to the fall of that republic, 192.
Battles, remarks on thofe of the ancients,
22-25 on the most celebrated fince the
invention of gun-powder, 26-30.
Beattie, the late Dr. biographical account
of, 383.

Bedford, the late Duke of, defence of, Mr.
Bowles's attack upon him, 309-315.
Blushing, confidered unfafh onable, and the
beft means of deftroying that propensity,

210.

deemed worthy of a dedication to God,
403.

Britain, fketch of its political state in 1792,
243-in 1795, 248

Buffon, fome account of, and his writings,
452.

Burdett, Sir F. charged with being a mem-
ber of the Correfponding Society, &c.
390.

Burke, Mr. remarks on the verification of
his predictions, 223-Lord Hamilton's
remarks on his character and talents,
298.
Buonaparte, his attempts to bribe the newf-
paper proprietors in 1802 expreffed, 60.
fummary of his proceedings in

the Venetian territory, 192.

his aufwer to the deputies
from the Venetian fenate, previous to the
fubversion of that government, 196.
admiffion of his great military

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Calvinifm, farther remarks on, 353.
Calvinifts and Arminia ș, remarks on the

controversy between them, 333-the na-
ture of their prejudices explained, 335.
Camelford, Lord, doubts as to his religious
principles, 214.

Cape of Good Hope, its importance as a re-
fidence for fick Europeans, on the r paf-
fage to India. 145.

, remarks on the policy of making it a
free pot, &c. 146-on its importance to
Britain, 151.

ftetiftical sketch of it, 149.

its advantages to Great Erit in, 63.
Catherine II. of Kuffia, her advice to Paul I.
relative to his conduct towards the French,
483.

Catholics, fend a miffion in 1802 to Buc-
naparte, to urge him to renew the war,
323-proofs of the dilimulat.on of their
clergy, 325.

-, fpecimens of their loyalty and
allegia ce, 420-436.

Celta, remarks on their origin, and on the
partiality of inquirers into it, 450.
Celtic Language, remarks on its progrefs
in eastern countries, 459.

Ceylon, acconnt of the natives of that island,
their cafts, &c. 122.

Chapels, fashionable account of, and the
kind of fervice performed in them, 208-
Chancellor

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Circaffians, account of their manners, &c.
162.

Claffics, Latin, their literal interpretation
condemned, 369.

Columbo, account of, the manners of its
inhabitants, 118.

Comm ns, the former, Houfes of, remarks
an their infringement on the privileges of
the conftitution, 203.

Conceit, French, its hardihood, 454.
Confellion, auricular, remarks on, 234.
Co jugal Affection, novel, reason for it in a
man, 405.

Conjurors, veneration of, and confidence
in their predictions by the natives of In-
da, 115-117.

Cruelty to animals, reafon of, in children,

277.

Cofmogony, new fyllem of, 404.

Courts of Love, of the 12th century, ac-
count of thofe fingular inftitutions, 340.
Dancing, the modern method of, a conta-
mination of vi gin purity, 210.
Dante, account of that post, 340
Da wn, Dr. ludicrous amadverfion on
his theor es, 391-396.

Daubery, Mr. his efut tion of the ftric-
tures on him by Overton, 175.
Delicacy, remarks on falle and real, 280.
Denmark, account of its populat.on, &c.
18.

Drefs, prefent ftate of, amongst the French,
58.

d fcription of the indecent mode of,
among th Fre. ch fen ales, 280.

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English, their curious cond & to the Dutch
on the conqueft of the Cape, 67.
Englishmen, reafons for their determination
to refift invafion, 293.

Engraving, cenfures on the prefent mecha-
nical way of performing that ar, 185.
Errors, in books, fingular method of correct-
ing them in Germany, 139.

Fables, remarks on their origin, &c. 472.
Faith, diff re ce between that of a Church
of England man and a Calvinist, 174.
Fame, lamentations on her capricio fness,
348.

Fever, on the refemblance between that di-
feafe in the Eaft and Weft Indies, 387.
Finance, Mr. Chalmers's opinions on, refu-
ted by M'Arthur, 77-80.

Fingal, Lo d, remarks on his Correfpond.
ence with Lord Redefda'e, 419-430.
Fox, Mr. his exclufion from the ministry
fhewn to have been at the ftrict com-
mand of his Majefty, 301.

Frederic the Great, inftance of his want of
humanity, 474-on his fatirical writing,

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their outrages on the fall of Venice,

their incongrous mixture of finery
and filth, 279.

-, at Açre, farther pr of of their ha
ving ben poifoned by order of Buona-
parte, 388.

vanity a predominant feature in
their character, and its confequences, 95.
modern picture of their ftate, 283.
French fwindler, curious anecdote of one,

51.

French and English manners, sketches of, 15,
Friendship

Friendship, reflections on the lofs of after a
long duration, 349.
Gauls, utility of the thickness of their skulls
in ancient times, 457.
Geography, a cient, importance of its ftudy
amongft youth, 106.

Geometr ciens, new information for, 405.
German prolixity, in literature, fingular in-
ftance of, 139.

Germans, rema ks on their progress in lite-
rature fince the reformat on, 1.
Godwin, Mr. obfervations on his talents
and attainments, 221-object of his Life
of Chaucer, 224.

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his juft remarks on abftract confi-
derations of political affairs, 337.
Gower the author of " De Confeffione

Amant s "his chara&r vindicated, 346.
Grace, in what light confidered by the Cal-
vinists, 494.·

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Gravity, novel way of defcribing it, 405.
Greek and Latin languages, critica remarks
on the r ponunciation, 183

Gre.k Teftament, on the princip 1 printed
editions of it, 140.

Gu ea-worm, that difeafe fapposed to be

comunicated by con agion, 388.
Grenvil e party, defcription of, by a writer.
in prife of the late adm niftration, 94.
Gun-boats, the French, on the neceffity of
exterminating hem, 388.

Harlots, not to be confecrated by the em-
braces of royalty, 399.

Hemfterhuis, Tiberius, biographical ac-
couut of, 476.

Hindoos, Dr. Robertfon's arguments in fa-
vour of their claims to literature and fci-
ence cifuted, 268.

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the alleged antiquity of the aftro-
nomy proved t be groundiefs, 270
Homer, remarks on the origin of his poem
the Iliad, 265.

Hone-bird of India, account of, 129
Honour, its laws, which goven people of
fashion, defined, 206.

Horfe, oig n of the difeafes of that animal,
278.

Hottentots, their character, and oppreffive

conduct of the Dutch towards them, (2.
Japan, furpifing population of that coun-
try, 167.

Jedo, the capital of Japan, its extraordinary
encumference, 167.

Jefuits, caufes which led to their banish-
ment from Portugal, 475.

Jews, fome new and general claims made
by thofe people, 467.

Iceland, its former eminent fuccefs in lite-
rature, 18.

Ichneumon, account of that curious ani-
mal, 125.

Indians, sketch of their manners, penances,
punishments, &c. 117.

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India Company, the Erith, their averfion
from the population of Chriftianity, 65.
Informers, refutation of the charge, that a
body of them were kept by the Society for
the Suppreffion of Vice, .73.

, common, inftances of their uti

lity, 74.
Ireland, the depraved state of its inhabitants
urged in juftification of the correfpond--
ence between Lords Fingal and Redeídale,
316.

Juries, ftriking remarks on the defects of
trials by them, 159.

ftrictures on their frequent want of
common fenfe, 208.

Juftification by Fa th, proper definition of
it, 255, 256-conditions of juftification,
257-confequences of it, 262.

Kan, fome account of, and the nature of
his philofophy, 488

King of Candy, defcr ption of his territory,

120.

King of Portugal, account of the attempt
on his life in 1750, 475..
Lamb th articles quoted, 357.

Lnguage, the ancient English, as ufed by
Chaucer, not difficult to be understood,
341.

Latin and Greek term nations, critical re-
marks on the r pronunciation, 183.
Law of honour, the modern defined, 206.
Laws, curious, rel tive to matrimony at the
Cape of Good Hope, 64.

Liberty, in what cafe it may be inferior to
flavery, 450.

Literature, Auftrian, account of, 16-see also
Germans.

Literature of France, its early ftate, and ori-
gin of the Gens de Lettres, 449. 1
Living, sketch of the ftyle of, in Englund,
during the 13th century, 240.
Locke, Mr. his obfervations on the intole-
rant fp rit of Popery, 329.

London, remarks on its progreffive enlarge-
ment, 470.

Louis XVIII. his expulfion from Venice do
manded by the Directory in 1796, 190.
Malay flaves, their character, 65.
Manners and drefs, remarks on thofe of
people of fashion, 211.

Mannucci, the three, of Venice, (celebrated
printers,) account of, and their works,

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