Such, then, is our conception of the bill which ought | narrative should produce conviction and pity-shame, to be brought into Parliament-a maximum regulated abhorrence, and despair! by the greatest amount of poor-rates ever paid, and annually diminishing at the rate of 10s. per cent. till they are reduced 20 per cent. of their present value; with such a preamble to the bill as will make it fair and consistent for any future Parliament to continue the reduction. If Mr. Scarlett will bring in a short and simple bill to this effect, and not mingle with it any other parochial improvements, and will persevere in such a bill for two or three years, we believe he will carry it; and we are certain he will confer, by such a measure, a lasting benefit upon his country-and upon none more than upon its labouring poor.

England seems to have treated Ireland much in the same way as Mrs. Brownrigg treated her apprentice for which Mrs. Brownrigg is hanged in the first volume of the Newgate Calendar. Upon the whole, we think the apprentice is better off than the Irishman: as Mrs. Brownrigg merely starves and beats her, without any attempt to prohibit her from going to any shop, or praying at any church, her apprentice might select; and once or twice if we remember rightly, Brownrigg appears to have felt some compas. sion. Not so Old England, who indulges rather in a steady baseness, uniform brutality, and unrelenting oppression.

Let us select from this entertaining little book a short history of dear Ireland, such as even some profligate idle member of the House of Commons, voting as his master bids him, may perchance throw his eye upon, and reflect for a moment upon the iniquity to which he lends his support.

We presume there are very few persons who will imagine such a measure to be deficient in vigour. That the poor-laws should be stopped in their fatal encroachment upon property, and unhappy multiplication of the human species-and not only this, but that the evil should be put in a state of diminution, would be an improvement of our condition almost beyond hope. The tendency of fears and objections will all For some centuries after the reign of Henry II, the lie the other way; and a bill of this nature will not be Irish were killed like game, by persons qualified or accused of inertness, but of rashness, cruelty, and unqualified. Whether dogs were used does not apinnovation. We cannot now enter into the question pear quite certain, though it is probable they were, of the poor-laws, of all others that which has under- spaniels as well as pointers; and that, after a regular gone the most frequent and earnest discussion. Our point by Basto, well backed by Ponto and Cæsar, Mr. whole reasoning is founded upon the assumption, that O'Donnel or Mr. O'Leary bolted from the thicket, and no system of laws was ever so completely calculated were bagged by the English sportsman. With Henry to destroy industry, foresight, and economy in the II. came in tithes, to which, in all probability, about poor; to extinguish compassion in the rich; and, by one million of lives may have been sacrificed in Iredestroying the balance between the demand for, and land. In the reign of Edward I. the Irish who were supply of, labour, to spread a degraded population settled near the English requested that the benefit of over a ruined land. Not to attempt the cure of this the English laws might be extended to them; but the evil, would be criminal indolence; not to cure it gra- remonstrance of the barons with the hesitating king dually and compassionately, would be very wicked. was in substance this: You have made us a present To Mr. Scarlett belongs the real merit of introducing of these wild gentlemen, and we particularly request the bill. He will forgive us the freedom, perhaps the that no measures may be adopted to check us in that severity, of some of our remarks. We are sometimes | full range of tyranny and oppression in which we connot quite so smooth as we ought to be; but we hold sider the value of such a gift to consist. You might Mr. Scarlett in very high honour aud estimation. He as well give us sheep, and prevent us from shearing is the greatest advocate, perhaps, of his time; and the wool, or roasting the meat.' This reasoning prewithout the slightest symptom of tail or whiskers- vailed, and the Irish were kept to their barbarism, decorations, it is reported, now as characteristic of the and the barons preserved their live stock. English bar as wigs and gowns in days of old-he has never carried his soul to the treasury, and said, What will you give me for this?-he has never sold the warm feelings and honourable motives of his youth and manhood for an annual sum of money and an office he has never taken a price for public liberty and public happiness-he has never touched the polí. tical Aceldama, and signed the devil's bond for cursing to-morrow what he has blessed to-day. Living in the midst of men who have disgraced it, he has cast honour upon his honourable profession; and has sought dignity, not from the ermine and the mace, but from a straight path and a spotless life,

MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN ROCK.
REVIEW, 1824.)

have the wisdom of our rulers, at the end of near six centuries, "Read" Orange Faction" (says Captain Rock) here, and you in statu quo-The grand periodic year of the stoics, at the close of which everything was to begin again, and the same events to be all reacted in the same order, is, on a miniature scale, represented in the history of the English government in Ireland-every succeeding century being but a renewed revolution of the same follies, the same crimes, and the same turI: whoever may suffer by such measures, Captain Rock, at bulence that disgraced the former. But "Vive l'enemi!" say least, will prosper.

And such was the result at the period of which I am speaking. The rejection of a petition, so humble and so reasonable, was followed, as a matter of course, by one of those daring rebellions into which the revenge of an insulted people naturally breaks forth. The M'Cartys, the O'Briens, and all the other Macs and O's, who have been kept on the alert by similar causes ever since, flew to arms under the command of a chief

(EDINBURGH tain of my family; and as the proffered handle of the sword had been rejected, made their inexorable masters at least feel its edge' (pp. 23-25,)

Memoirs of Captain Rock, the celebrated Irish Chieftain, with some Account of his Ancestors. Written by himself. Fourth Edition. 12mo. London, 1824.

newed and refused. Fifty years afterwards the same request was reUp again rose Mac and O,-a just and necessary war ensued; and after the usual THIS agreeable and witty book is generally suppos-murders, the usual chains were replaced upon the ed to have been written by Mr. Thomas Moore, a gen- Irishry. All Irishmen were excluded from every spetleman of small stature, but full of genius, and a stea-cies of office. It was high treason to marry with the dy friend of all that is honourable and just. He has Irish blood, and highly penal to receive the Irish into here borrowed the name of a celebrated Irish leader, religious houses. War was waged also against their to typify that spirit of violence and insurrection which Thomas Moores, Samuel Rogerses, and Walter Scotts, is necessarily generated by systematic oppression, and who went about the country harping and singing rudely avenges its crimes; and the picture he has against English oppression. No such turbulent guests drawn of its prevalence in that unhappy country is at were to be received. The plan of making them poetsonce piteous and frightful. Its effect in exciting hor-laureate, or converting them to loyalty by pensions of ror and indignation is in the long run increased, we £100 per annum, had not been thought of. They dethink, though at first it may seem counteracted, by barred the Irish even from the pleasure of running the tone of levity, and even jocularity, under which he away, and fixed them to the soil like negroes. has chosen to veil the deep sarcasm and substantial terrors of his story. We smile at first, and are amused—and wonder, as we proceed, that the humourous

'I have thus selected,' says the historian of Rock, 'cursorily and at random a few features of the reigns preceding the Re formation, in order to show what good use was made of those

three or four hundred years in attaching the Irish people to | kidnapping of O'Donnel-all truly Anglo-Hibernian their English governors; and by what a gentle course of al-proceedings. The execution of the laws was rendered teratives they were prepared for the inoculation of a new re-detestable and intolerable by the queen's officers of ligion, which was now about to be attempted upon them by justice. The spirit raised by these transactions, be

the same skilful and friendly hands.

Henry the Seventh appears to have been the first monarch sides innumerable smaller insurrections, gave rise to to whom it occurred that matters were not managed exactly as the great wars of Desmond and Hugh O'Neal; which, they ought in this part of his dominions: and we find him-after they had worn out the ablest generals, discomfitwith a simplicity which is still fresh and youthful among our ed the choicest troops, exhausted the treasure, and rulers-expressing his surprise that his subjects of this land embarrassed the operations of Elizabeth, were termin. should be so prone to faction and rebellion, and that so little ated by the destruction of these two ancient families, advantage had been hitherto derived from the acquisitions of and by the confiscation of more than half the territohis predecessors, notwithstanding the fruitfulness and natural rial surface of the island. The two last years of advantages of Ireland."-Surprising indeed, that a policy, such as we have been describing, should not have converted O'Neal's wars cost Elizabeth £140,000 per annum, the whole country into a perfect Atalantis of happiness-should though the whole revenue of England at that period not have made it like the imaginary island of Sir Thomas fell considerable short of £500,000. Essex, after the More, where "tota insula velut una familia est !”—most stub-destruction of Norris, led into Ireland an army of born, truly, and ungrateful must that people be, upon whom, above 20,000 men, which was totally baffled and deup to the very hour in which I write, such a long unvarying stroyed by Tyrone, within two years of their landing. course of penal laws, confiscations, and insurrection acts has been tried, without making them in the least degree in love Such was the importance of Irish rebellions two centuries before the time in which we live. Sir G. Carew attempted to assassinate the Lugan earl,-Mountjoy compelled the Irish rebels to massacre each other. In the course of a few months, 3,000 men were starved to death in Tyrone. Sir Arthur Chichester, Sir Richard Manson, and other commanders, saw three children feeding on the flesh of their dead mother. Such were the golden days of good Queen Bess!

with their rulers.

Heloise tells her tutor Abelard, that the correction which he inflicted upon her only served to increase the ardour of her affection for him; but bayonets and hemp are no such" amoris stimuli." One more characteristic anecdote of those times, and I have done. At the battle of Knocktow, in the reign of Henry VII, when that remarkable man, the Earl of Kildare, assisted by the great O'Neal and other Irish chiefs, gained a victory over Clanricarde of Connaught most important to the English government, Lord Gormanstown, after the battle, in the first insolence of success, said, turning to the Earl of Kil-I., six northern counties were confiscated, amounting dare, "We have now slaughtered our enemies, but to complete the good deed, we must proceed yet further, and-cut the throats of those Irish of our own party!''* Who can wonder that the Rock family were active in those times!'(pp. 33-35.)

By the rebellions of Dogherty in the reign of James

to 500,000 acres. In the same manner, 64,000 acres were confiscated in Athlone. The whole of his confiscations amount to nearly a million acres; and if Leland means plantation acres, they constitute a twelfth of the whole kingdom according to Newenham, and a tenth according to Sir W. Petty. The most shocking and scandalous action in the reign of James, was his attack upon the whole property of the province of Connaught, which he would have effected, if he had not been bought off by a sum greater than he hoped to gain by his iniquity, besides the luxury of confisca tion. The Irish, during the reign of James I., suffered under the double evils of a licentious soldiery, and a religious persecution.

Henry VIII. persisted in all these outrages, and aggravated thein by insulting the prejudices of the people. England is almost the only country in the world (even at present) where there is not some favourite religious spot, where absurd lies, little bits of cloth, feathers, rusty nails, splinters, and other invaluable relics, are treasured up, and in defence of which the whole population are willing to turn out and perish as one man. Such was the shrine of St. Kieran, the whole treasures of which the satellites of that Charles the First took a bribe of £120,000 from his corpulent tyrant turned out into the street, pillaged the Irish subjects, to grant them what in those days were sacred church of Clonmacnoise, scattered the holy called graces, but in these days would be denominated nonsense of the priests to the winds, and burnt the the elements of justice. The money was paid, but the real and venerable crosier of St. Patrick, fresh from graces were never granted. One of these graces is the silversmith's shop, and formed of the most costly curious enough, That the clergy were not to be permaterials. Modern princes change the uniform of regi-mitted to keep henceforth any private prisons of their ments; Henry changed the religion of kingdoms, and own, but delinquents were to be committed to the was determined that the belief of the Irish should public jails.' The idea of a rector, with his own priundergo a radical and Protestant conversion. With vate jail full of dissenters, is the most ludicrous piece what success this attempt was made, the present state of tyranny we ever heard of. The troops in the beginof Ireland is sufficient evidence. ning of Charles's reign were supported by the weekly fines levied upon the Catholics for non-attendance upon established worship. The Archbishop of Dublin went himself, at the head of a file of musketeers, to disperse a Catholic congregation in Dublin,—which object he effected, after a considerable skirmish with the priests. The favourite object,' (says Dr. Leland, a Protestant clergyman, and dignitary of the Irish church) of the Irish government and the English Parliament, was the utter extermination of all the Catholic inhabitants of Ireland.' The great rebellion took place in this reign, and Ireland was one scene of blood and cruelty and confiscation.

'Be not dismayed,' said Elizabeth, on hearing that O'Neal meditated some designs against her government; tell my friends, if he arise, it will turn to their advantage-there will be estates for those who want.' Soon after this prophetic speech, Munster was destroyed by famine and the sword, and near 600,000 acres forfeited to the crown, and distributed among Englishmen. Sir Walter Raleigh (the virtuous and good) butchered the garrison of Limerick in cold blood, after Lord Deputy Gray had selected 700 to be hanged. There were, during the reign of Elizabeth, three invasions of Ireland by the Spaniards, produced principally by the absurd measures of this princess for the reformation of its religion. The Catholic clergy, in consequence of these measures, abandoned their cures, the churches fell to ruin, and the people were left without any means of instruction. Add to these circumstances the murder of M'Mahon, the imprisonment of M'Toolet and O'Dogherty, and the

* Leland gives this anecdote on the authority of an English

man.

Cromwell began his career in Ireland by massacreing for five days the garrison of Drogheda, to whom quarter had been promised. Two millions and a half of acres were confiscated. Whole towns were put up in lots, and sold. The Catholics were banished from three-fourths of the kingdom, and confined to Connaught. After a certain day, every Catholic found out of Connaught was to be punished with death. Fleetwood complains peevishly, that the people do not transport readily,'—but adds, ' it is doubtless a work in which the Lord will appear.' 'Ten thousand Irish were

There are not a few of the best and most humane Englishmen of the present day, who, when under the influence of fear or anger, would think it no great crime to put to death people sent as recruits to the Spanish army. whose names begin with O or Mac. The violent death of

Smith, Green, or Thompson, would throw the neighbourhood but little would be really thought of the death of anybody into convulsions, and the regular forms would be adhered to-called O'Dogherty or O'Toole.

'Such was Cromwell's way of settling the affairs of Ireland, and if a nation is to be ruined, this method is, perhaps, as good as any. It is at least, more humane than the slow lingering process of exclusion, disappointment, and degradation, by which their hearts are worn out under more specious forms of tyranny; and that talent of despatch which Moliere attributes to one of his physicians, is no ordinary merit in a practitioner like Cromwell :-"C'est un homme expéditif, qui aime a depêcher ses malades; et quand on à mourir, sela, se fait avec lui le plus vite du monde." A certain military duke, who complains that Ireland is but half-conquered, would, no doubt, upon an emergency, try his hand in the same line of practice, and, like that" stern hero," Mirmillo, in the Dispensary,

"While others meanly take whole months to slay, Despatch the grateful patient in a day!"

Among other amiable enactments against the Catholics at this period, the price of five pounds was set on the head of a Romish priest-being exactly the same sum offered by the same legislators for the head of a wolf. The Athenians, we are told, encouraged the destruction of wolves by a similar reward (five drachmas); but it does not appear that these heathens bought up the heads of priests at the same rate-such zeal in the cause of religion being reserved for times of Christianity and Protestantism.'-(pp. 97-99.)

Nothing can show more strongly the light in which the Irish were held by Cromwell, than the correspondence with Henry Cromwell, respecting the peopling of Jamaica from Ireland. Secretary Thurloe sends to Henry, the lord-deputy in Ireland, to inform him, that a stock of Irish girls, and Irish young men, are want. ing for the peopling of Jamaica.' The answer of Henry Cromwell is as follows:- Concerning the supply of young men, although we must use force in taking them up, yet it being so much for their own good, and likely to be of so great advantage to the public, it is not the least doubted but that you may have such a number of them as you may think fit to make use of on this

account.

'Among the many anomalous situations in which the Irish have been placed, by those "marriage vows, false as dicers' oaths," which bind their country to England, the di| lemma in which they found themselves at the Revolution was not the least perplexing or cruel.* If they were loyal to the king de jure, they were hanged by the king de facto; and if they escaped with life from the king de facto, it was but to be plundered and proscribed by the king de jure afterwards.

"Hac gener atque socer coeant mercede suorum."-VIRGIL.
"In a manner so summary, prompt, and high mettled,
"Twixt father and son-in-law, matters were settled."

In fact, most of the outlawries in Ireland were for treason committed the very day in which the Prince and Princess of Orange accepted the crown in the banqueting-house; though the news of this event could not possibly have reached the other side of the Channel on the same day, and obedience, was at that time in actual possession of the gothe lord-lieutenant of King James, with an army to enforce vernment, so little was common sense consulted, or the which nothing less than the confiscation of the whole island mere decency of forms observed by that rapacious spirit, and at the restoration, despoiled the natives of no less than could satisfy; and which having, in the reign of James I. ten million six hundred and thirty-six thousand eight liundred and ninety-two acres more, being the amount, altogether, (according to Lord Clare's calculation), of the whole superficial contents of the island.

Thus not only had all Ireland suffered confiscation in the course of this century, but no inconsiderable portion of it had been twice and even thrice confiscated. Well might Lord Clare say, "that the situation of the Irish nation, at the revolution, stands unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world." —(pp. 111-113.)

By the articles of Limerick, the Irish were promised the free exercise of their religion; but from that period till the year 1788, every year produced some fresh penalty against that religion-some liberty was abridged, some right impaired, or some suffering increased. By acts in King William's reign, they were 'I shall not need repeat any thing respecting the prevented from being solicitors. No Catholic was algirls, not doubting to answer your expectations to the lowed to marry a Protestant; and any Catholic who full in that; and I think it might be of like advantage sent a son to Catholic countries for education was to to your affairs there, and ours here, if you should think forfeit all his lands. In the reign of Queen Anne, any fit to send 1500 or 2000 boys to the place above men- son of a Catholic who chose to turn Protestant got tioned. We can well spare them; and who knows but possession of his father's estate. No Papist was althat it may be the means of making them Englishmen, lowed to purchase freehold property, or to take a I mean rather Christians. As for the girls, suppose lease for more than thirty years. If a Protestant dies you will make provisions of clothes, and other accom-intestate, the estate is to go to the next Protestant heir, modations for them.' Upon this, Thurloe informs Henry Cromwell, that the council have voted 4000 girls, and as many boys, to go to Jamaica. Every Catholic priest found in Ireland was hanged, and five pounds paid to the informer.

though all to the tenth generation should be Catholic. In the same manner, if a Catholic dies intestate, his estate is to go to the next Protestant. No Papist is to dwell in Limerick or Galway. No Papist is to take an annuity for life. The widow of a Papist turning About the year 1652 and 1653,' says Colonel Law- Protestant to have a portion of the chattels of deceased rence in his Interests of Ireland, the plague and fa- in spite of any will. Every Papist teaching schools to mine had so swept away whole counties, that a man be presented as a regular Popish convict. Prices of might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a liv-catching Catholic priests from 50s. to £10, according ing creature, either man or beast, or bird, they being all dead, or had quitted those desolate places. Our soldiers would tell stories of the places where they saw smoke-it was so rare to see either smoke by day, or fire or candle by night.' In this manner did the Irish live and die under Cromwell, suffering by the sword, famine, pestilence, and persecution, beholding the confiscation of a kingdom and the banishment of a race. 'So that there perished (says Sir W. Petty) in the year 1651, 650,000 human beings, whose blood somebody must atone for to God and the king!!'

In the reign of Charles II., by the Act of Settlement, four millions and a half of acres were for ever taken from the Irish. 'This country,' says the Earl of Essex, lord-lieutenant in 1675, has been perpetually rent and torn, since his majesty's restoration. I can compare it to nothing better than the flinging the reward on the death of a deer among the packs of hounds. where every one pulls and tears where he can for himself.' All wool grown in Ireland was, by act of Parliament, compelled to be sold to England: and Irish cattle were excluded from England. The English, however, were pleased to accept 30,000 head of cattle, sent as a gift from Ireland to the sufferers in the great fire!-and the first day of the sessions, after this act of munificence, the Parliament passed fresh acts of exclusion against the productions of that country.

to rank. Papists are to answer all questions respecting other Papists, or to be committed to jail for twelve months. No trust to be undertaken for Papists. No Papist to be on grand juries. Some notion may be formed of the spirit of those times, from an order of the House of Commons, that the sergeant-at-arms should take into custody all Papists that should presume to come into the gallery! (Commons' Journal, vol. iii. fol. 976.) During this reign, the English Parliament legislated as absolutely for Ireland as they do now for Rutlandshire-an evil not to be complained of, if they had done it as justly. In the reign of George I. the horses of Papists were seized for the militia, and rode by Protestants; towards which the Catholics paid double, and were compelled to find Protestant substitutes. They were prohibited from voting or being high or petty constables. An act of the English Parliament in this reign opens as follows:

*Among the persons most puzzled and perplexed by the two opposite royal claims on their allegiance, were the clergymen of the established church; who having first prayed for King James as their lawful sovereign, as soon as Wilthe success of the Jacobite forces in the North, very pruliam was proclaimed took to praying for him; but again, on dently prayed for King James once more, till the arrival of Schomberg, when, as far as his quarters reached, they returned to praying for King William again.'

'Whereas attempts have been lately made to shake off the subjection of Ireland to the Imperial crown of these realms, be it enacted,' &c. &c. In the reign of George II. four-sixths of the population were cut off from the rights of voting at elections, by the necessity under which they were placed of taking the oath of supremacy. Barristers and solicitors marrying Catholics are exposed to all the penalties of Catholics. Persons robbed by privateers during a war with a Catho-confession of weaknesses constitutes the chief charm and And here,' says the gallant Captain Rock,-' as the free olic state, are to be indemnified by a levy on the Ca- use of biography-I will candidly own that the dawn of tholic inhabitants of the neighbourhood. All mar- prosperity and concord, which I now saw breaking over the riages between Catholics and Protestants are annulled. All Popish priests celebrating them are to be hanged. This system,' (says Arthur Young) has no other tendency than that of driving out of the kingdom all the personal wealth of the Catholics, and extinguishing all their industry within it! and the face of the country, every object which presents itself to travellers, tell him how effectually this has been done.'Young's Tour in Ireland, vol. ii. p. 48.

sage, in which the author alludes to the hopes that were raised at another great era of partial concession and liberality-that of the revolution of 1782,-when, also, benefits were conferred which proved ábortive, because they were incomplete-and balm poured into the wound, where the envenomed shaft was yet left to rankle.

fortunes of my country, so dazzled and deceived my youthful eyes, and so unsettled every hereditary notion of what I owed to my name and family, that-shall I confess it?-I even hailed with pleasure the prospects of peace and freethe boyish enthusiam of the moment, to sacrifice all my dom that seemed opening around me; nay, was ready, in own personal interest in all future riots and rebellions, to the one bright, seducing object of my country's liberty and repose.

When I contemplated such a man as the venerable Charlemont, whose nobility was to the people like a fort who introduced the polish of the courtier into the camp of over a valley-elevated above them solely for their defence; the freeman, and served his country with all that pure, Platonic devotion, which a true knight in the times of chivalry profferred to his mistress ;-when I listened to the eloquence of Grattan, the very music of freedom-her first, fresh matin song, after a long night of slavery, degradation, and sorrow; when I saw the bright-offerings which he brought to the shrine of his country,-wisdom, genius, courage, and and domestic virtues, without which the loftiest talents stand patience, invigorated and embellished by all those social isolated in the moral waste around them, like the pillars of Palmyra towering in a wilderness!-when I reflected on all this, it not only disheartened me for the mission of discord which I had undertaken, but made me secretly hope that it might be rendered unnecessary; and that a country, which might yet-in spite of the joint efforts of the government could produce such men and achieve such a revolution, and my family-take her rank in the scale of nations, and be happy!

Such is the history of Ireland-for we are now at our own times; and the only remaining question is, whether the system of improvement and conciliation begun in the reign of George III. shall be pursued, and the remaining incapacities of the Catholics removed, or all these concessions be made insignificant by an adherence to that spirit of proscription which they professed to abolish? Looking to the sense and reason of the thing, and to the ordinary working of humanity and justice, when assisted, as they are here, by self-interest and worldly policy, it might seem absurd to doubt of the result. But looking to the facts and persons by which we are now surrounded, we are constrained to say that we greatly fear that these incapacities will never be removed, till they are removed by fear. What else, indeed, can we expect when we see them opposed by such enlightened men as Mr. Peel -faintly assisted by men of such admirable genius as Mr. Canning, when royal dukes consider it as a com- My father, however, who saw the momentary dazzle by pliment to the memory of their fathers to continue this which I was affected, soon drew me out of this false light of miserable system of bigotry and exclusion,-when men hope in which I lay basking, and set the truth before me in "Be not deceived, act ignominiously and contemptibly on this question, a way but too convincing and ominous. who do so on no other question,-when almost the only boy," he would say, "by the fallacious appearances before you. Eminently great and good as is the man to whom Irepersons zealously opposed to this general baseness and land owes this short era of glory, our work, believe me, will fatuity are a few whigs and reviewers, or here and last longer than his. We have a power on our side that there a virtuous poet like Mr. Moore? We repeat will not willingly let us die;' and, long after Grattan shall again, that the measure will never be effected but by have disappeared from earth,-like that arrow shot into the fear. In the midst of one of our just and necessary train of light behind him, the family of the Rocks will clouds by Alcestes, effecting nothing, but leaving a long wars, the Irish Catholics will compel this country to grant them a great deal more than they at present re-ever-watchful care of the legislature, and fostered by that continue to flourish in all their native glory, upheld by the quire, or even contemplate. We regret most severelynursing-mother of Liberty, the Church."" the protraction of the disease,-and the danger of the remedy; but in this way it is that human affairs are carried on!

GRANBY. (Edinburgh Review, 1826.,

Granby. A Novel, in Three Volumes. London, Colburn,

1826.

We are sorry we have nothing for which to praise administration on the subject of the Catholic question -but, it is but justice to say, that they have been very zealous and active in detecting fiscal abuses in Ireland, in improving mercantile regulations, and in detecting Irish jobs. The commission on which Mr. Wallace THERE is nothing more amusing in the spectacles presided has been of the greatest possible utility, and of the present day, than to see the Sir Johns and Sir does infinite credit to the government. The name of Thomases of the House of Commons struck aghast by Mr. Wallace, in any commission, has now become a the useful science and wise novelties of Mr. Huskisson pledge to the public that there is a real intention to in- and the chancellor of the exchequer. Treason, Dis. vestigate and correct abuse. He stands in the singu- affection, Atheism, Republicanism, and Socinianismlar predicament of being equally trusted by the rulers the greatest guns in the Noodle's park of artilleryand the ruled. It is a new era in government, when they cannot bring to bear upon these gentlemen. such men are called into action; and, if there were Even to charge with a regiment of ancestors is not not proclaimed and fatal limits to that ministerial lib- quite so efficacious as it used to be; and all that reerality-which, so far as it goes, we welcome without mains, therefore, is to rail against Peter M'Cullough a grudge, and praise without a sneer-we might yet and political economy! In the mean time, day after hope that, for the sake of mere consistency, they day, down goes one piece of nonsense or another. might be led to falsify our forebodings. But alas! The most approved trash, and the most trusty clathere are motives more immediate, and therefore, ir- mours, are found to be utterly powerless. Twopenny resistible; and the time is not yet come, when it will taunts and trumpery truisms have lost their destructive be believed easier to govern Ireland by the love of the omnipotence; and the exhausted commonplaceman, many than by the power of the few-when the paltry and the afflicted fool, moan over the ashes of imbecil and dangerous machinery of bigoted faction and pros- ity, and strew flowers on the urn of ignorance! Gentituted patronage may be dispensed with, and the ves- eral Elliot found the London tailors in a state of mutisel of the state be propelled by the natural current of ny, and he raised from them a regiment of light caval. popular interests and the breath of popular applause. ry, which distinguished itself in a very striking manIn the mean time, we cannot resist the temptation of ner at the battle of Minden. In humble imitation of gracing our conclusion with the following beautiful pas-this example, we shall avail ourselves of the present

This sketch we think exceedingiy clever. But we are not sure that its merit is fully sustained by the actual presentment of its subject. He makes his debut after it is half over; but in the dialogue which follows at dinner very characteristically, by gliding in quietly with Miss Jermyn, he seems to us a little too resolute*This is the gentleman who now keeps the keys of Lifely witty, and somewhat affectedly odd-though the and Death, the Janitor of the world.