POETRY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE IRISH MAGAZINE. Perhaps, Sir, the following Gilpin account of a Dublin favourite, may suit your Magazine. Yours, &c. HUMBUGDOTATOS. This Poem is most humbly dedicated to a certain Club in W―ll-m-Street. Of howling murderous deeds in print, The God now left him in the lurch He thus his fortune made. Full many a time at Quarter tense, He'd tell of many a popish plot, Ife'er he stopt at boggling pause; Then Vigour walked his lusty round, ; Each caught his neighbour's fire Each form shook its pond'rous mole With anti-popish ire. All nodded as our hero spake- A neat petition next dress'd up' O! What was Johnny's inward joy But ah, where will I get a muse, Jahn pleased the men of orange well, So 'spite of all his labours past, -And he fell down the hill Three years in penitence he spent, Some say the statute has no ears, For better days have come. Let John then sing LONG LIVE THE KING, And CHARLEY too the BOLD, Again too he may loudly bark, • There is a God of that name in Col- Patent. MISCELLANIES, NEWS, &c":" CATHOLIC meetings have taken place in almost all the Counties of Minster, Leinster and Connaught. The Catholics of Kilkenny deserve particular praise for the manner in which they have acted for themselves. They have shewn a sensible and patriotic example to their Catholic fellow-countrymen, by adopting a separate petition. 'Tis evident that the country should not be tied by the Dublin aristocracy. The Kilkenny gentlemen have seen into the views of the place-hunters, and title-hunters, and have shaped their conduct by this knowledge. We are told that their petition is drawn up with peculiar energy and spirit. am convinced that an entire and per fect co-operation of all his Majesty's subjects, enjoying equal rights and privileges, gives us the best security for resisting the power of the foreign enemy. I have the honour to be, with many thanks for your letter, dear Sir, your very obedient humble servant. CLIFDEN. P. Byrne, Esq. FROM THE RIGHT HON. HENRY London March. 7, 1808. MY DEAR SIR, I was favoured with your letter, containing a resolution, unanimously voted by a meeting of the Roman Catholics of the County and City of Kilkenny, expressing their approbation of my services. In answer to which, I beg to return to you and to them my warm and cordial thanks-assuring them, at the same time, that I consider, with an unaltered and unalterable conviction, the privileges which they seek inseparable from the interest of the country, and founded at once both in policy and justice.-I am dear Sir, your very faith ful and humble servant. I have had the honour of receiving your letter of the 19th, inclosing the P. Byrne, Esq. resolutions of the Catholic meeting, held at Kilkenny on the 17th. I beg through you to return my best thanks to those most respectable persons who have been pleased to approve of my conduct and to assure them that I shall continue to use every exertion in my power to obtain the repeal of the Penal Code operating against the Catholics exclusively.-I hold it to be a question as much affect ing Irish Protestants as Irish Catholics, and in fact Englishmen equally-for I HENRY GRATTAN. FROM THE HON. F. C. PONSONBY. SIR, Dublin, March, 7, 1808. I am concerned that the letter which (by the direction of the Catholics of the County and City of Kilkenny, assembled at the Tholsel on the 17th of February last, you did me the honour of writing, should this day only have reached me. I lose not, however, a moment in requesting you to express, to to that most respectable body, my very grateful thanks for the high honour they have conferred upon me- and to assure them, that although very few opportunities of evincing my attachment to their interest have hitherto presented themselves I nevertheles presume to hope that the Catholics of Ireland will ever find me anxious to meet their wishes, and to the best of my ability forward their views. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant. P. Byrne, Esq. C. F. PONSONBY. LIBERALITY seems to be making great strides ainong the Protestant nobility and gentry of Ireland. We think that they consult their interest as well as the gratification of every honourable feeling by their coming forward in behalf of their brethren," SOME say that an old woman is paid a large salary in England for dreaming on affairs of state. We know that there is such a custom in Iceland. THE critics think that there was no need of a blind boy on the Dublin stage as there were blind men enough there before, CAN any correspondent inform us whether the author of the FAMILIAR EPISTLES has departed this life or not. If he is still amongst the quick, how can his Genius have patience to be so long idle. Surely if he renewed his critic labours, he might expect a very plentiful harvest at Crow-Street. A CHARITABLE citizen told a friend of his the other day, that a poor woman having sent him word that she was dead, he gave the only guinea he had about him for her funeral expences, THE UNION OF STRENGTH AND GRACE. The following advertisement of a Methodist Grocer appeared some time since in an English newspaper."Wanted a porter who fears the Lord and can carry three hundred weight. Anecdote of Thomas Paine. THIS extraordinary man, so distinguished for his infidelity and republican principles, after his escape from the hands of Robespierre, returned to America, sitting one day at Evans's Hotel in Baltimore, over his favourite, a bottle of Brandy. A gentleman observed how fortunately he preserved his life from his British and French enemies,-Thomas replied, "Providence protects, but I know, I do not owe my life to the prayers of priests, or to the friendship of kings; patience, a good constitution, and plenty of this, laying his hand on the bottle, will bear a man through an age of difficulties." |