Fortune is fickle, and man is changeable; and it was, therefore, wisely said that no life can be pronounced happy or unhappy, virtuous or vicious, till its close. May he, then, who aspires to lead his country onward to freedom and prosperity, pursue his object with as much rectitude, and better fortunes, than those who went before; and so act as that whether fortune frown or smile he may have the approval of his own conscience, and be deserving of the world's regard: and to that end, let him follow the advice of the oracle to the stoic Zeno, who, when he inquired after what manner he should live, received for answer

"Consult the dead!"

APPENDIX.

Report of Dr. Macneven in relation to Mr. Emmet's
Monument.

WE assemble to receive the report of the measures which have been adopted for completing the noble monument raised within view of this spot. You are all aware that we had lately among us a person of extraordinary endowments, one whom we knew intimately, whom we loved affectionately. Nor was it only for his bland manners, and fine sensibilities of heart, and constancy in friendship, and firmness in principle: his character had also an elevating influence on the fame of his country. He ranked among the highest of its gifted sons who display its fertile genius and its social spirit, who introduce the name of Ireland to the respect of the world. Commensurate with his value to relatives and friends, and to this his long-adopted home, was the appalling sensation that pervaded our city on the sudden occasion of his lamented death. THOMAS ADDIS EMMET fell unadmonished by previous illness, in the midst of his forensic achievements, in this hall, in this field of his renown. It happened, not inaptly to the tenor of his course, that he began his advocation at the bar of New-York as counsel for the Manumission Society, vindicating the rights of man in the person of the African; and that he closed his brilliant career while defending a most humane bequest to superannuated seamen; having commenced and concluded his transatlantic life in the service of liberty and charity.

Emmet was moulded in Nature's happiest combination to fit him for his destined service. He possessed the physical qualities necessary to an accomplished speaker, with high intellect to master and employ knowledge; with imagination and feeling to sway the passions and the heart, and with the power of incessant labour to collect, discipline, and

perfect the varied materials of his argumentative and impassioned oratory. When we see a man thus favoured by natural talents, and thus accomplished by education, we behold one of nature's rarest, finest works. It is not surprising that his removal in one unexpected moment from this busy life's vocations to the oblivious silence of the tomb should produce, as it did, a general burst of sorrow and a common sense of bereavement. This feeling speedily showed itself in a meeting of citizens convened by public advertisement on the evening of the 21st of December, 1827. It was there resolved, "That a subscription be opened for erecting a monument to the late Thomas Addis Emmet, commemorative of his virtues and genius."

The resolution then adopted stands accomplished in the monument close by, which will evermore throw a melancholy grandeur on the cemetery of St. Paul's church. It is a marble monolithe of thirty feet elevation. It is inscribed on three sides in three languages. That part of the English inscription beginning with the words In America, and ending with the word brilliant, was written by Gulian C. Verplanck, a representative from this city in the Congress of the United States. The entire Latin inscription is from the classic pen of John Duer, counsellor at law; and the few lines of Irish were furnished by the Right Rev. Dr. England, Bishop of Charleston. These compositions, so chaste and beautiful, were spontaneously offered by gentlemen not intimately connected in friendship with the deceased, nor liable to the weakness or bad taste of flattery; but being superior themselves in genius and learning, they freely gave to merit the generous applause which it is most sure of receiving from kindred desert.

In the first moment of enthusiasm, the subscription was injudiciously limited to a small sum for each subscriber,— but as the idea of a more noble work soon suggested itself to persons of taste, it was seen that more ample means than the first contributions would be necessary. At this juncture a new impulse was given to the subscription by friends and clients of the deceased, and by public-spirited individuals who wished to encourage the adoption of the present beautiful and costly obelisk.

While inquiries were being made for estimates and a suitable material, news arrived of the so-called Catholic

Relief Bill having passed the British parliament, with a spiteful prohibition annexed against receiving any more Catholic rent, under pain of forfeiture to the crown. On

all this being known to us here, the friends of Ireland dis solved their association, and turned over to the monument fund the sum then remaining in the hands of their treasurer. Mr. Sampson, who moved for this appropriation, observed that "while we rejoiced in the triumph of civil and religious liberty, and paid due honours to the living patriots, it might be well to remember those who are no more. In doing so we should act worthily, and give to those who may at some future day have to sustain the same great cause at the peril of life and liberty, in defiance of the tyrant's vengeance, to feel and hope that though their sufferings may be great, yet that they will not be forgotten; that at the hour of death, or in the dungeon's silent gloom, when no friendly voice can reach their ears, no friendly step approach them, no other consolation than the proud consciousness of virtue bear them up; yet, that if they live and die faithful, uncorrupted, and unsubdued, they will not be left forgotten in a neglected grave. It may be difficult," continued the eloquent speaker, "where multitudes have devoted themselves with equal magnanimity, to distinguish or select; but sometimes occasions will present themselves where the honouring of one is the honouring of all, and where, for the sake of all, the opportunity should not be lost."

The net sum in the treasurer's hands was one thousand and six dollars and sixty-six cents; the friends of Ireland in Brooklyn added to it all that accrued with them since the last payment of rent, twenty dollars; the friends of Ireland in Charleston, South Carolina, sent one hundred dollars; and those in Savannah one hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents, to aid the same patriotic purpose. All felt that those moneys originally raised to subserve religious liberty in Ireland, though they could not any longer be applied to that particular object, remained nevertheless appropriated to the cause of Ireland, and would now be well employed in doing honour to the enlightened policy of the United Irishmen, and to the national character abroad. So conspicuous a memorial of what this is capable of exhibiting in its best form is what no Irishman can behold without emulation, and no American can look on without respect.

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Those who would lightly asperse the Irish, or, without due allowance for their unhappy position at home, who would exaggerate their faults, we will beckon to this monument, and it will disarm their censure,-perchance it will touch their hearts for a noble people, suffering long adversity without debasement, and who never in all their thraldom had the meanness to be reconciled to their oppressions.

This affecting memorial will also bestow on our countrymen a universal education: the rapid education of example, the happy inspiration of what is just, noble, and beautiful in morals and conduct, which transforms the character at a glance, and which, like divine grace, received in an instant, purifies the affections and actions for ever. Of the thousands upon thousands who have emigrated, and who still emigrate, to this blessed land, how many, under the pressure of English misrule, have lost the advantages of a good education! We see the finest materials in the world, the best heads and the best hearts running to wild and unprofitable luxuriance, like our own rich prairies of the west, for want of due cultivation. I wish, for the love I bear my native country, that her sons would venerate the genius of their ancient land, and that keeping ever present to their thoughts the noble instances it affords of talent, probity, and honour, they would so revere themselves as never to swerve from the dignity of their origin. It is not to our commemorated countryman alone that this monument is devoted; it is not his excellence alone that it records, but it turns the mind back in melancholy contemplation upon those national virtues which he eminently exhibited,-a love of liberty for all Irishmen, a love of independence for all Ireland, that neither time nor exile could diminish, that violence could not intimidate, and disaster could not subdue.

It is the historical fate of patriotism when exerted in advance of general intelligence to attract the vengeance of alarmed power, while it receives only the timid assent of hesitating friends. Persecuted on one side, unsustained on the other, the monumental fane of genius alone survives, and like the splendid ruins in the Palmyrene desert, gains a solemn sublimity from the surrounding desolation.

Must prudence, then, hold patriotism back until all are duly prepared for the exercise of their rights? until they learn without a preceptor to remedy their wrongs, and to