The insertion of the following Original Lines if thought worthy No generous impulfe wings his fong's In Lethe's ftream unnoticed and unknown own." Bafe is that wretch who fans ambitions flame, Whom av'rice nurtures and corruption rears, Dead to the dictates of a virtuous fhame Dead to his country's moans, his country's tears. Full oft the great ones of another land, Receive the laboured tribute of his lays, Lays that are fcattered with a lavish hand, In virtues odium and in vice's praise. Loved by his friends, refpected by his foes, See native Genius from his country far, Stem the dark torrents of unnumber'd woes, And fall the victim of a ruthlefs war. For him refounds no dirge, no fun'ral knell, Oblivion blights the laurels he had won, In Britons caule he nobly fought and fell, No meed awaits him, he was ERIN's fon. Thus have we feen on fair Columbias plain, Wild wars, dread arms in rude collifion ring, Seen Erin's heroes fride o'er heaps of flain, To guard their native foil and aged King. But ah! behold the clouds of fadnels lour, And wrapt the warring fcene in lurid gloom, Defeat and death in that ill-omeaed hour, a place in your Magazine, wil! Configned the hope of Erin to the tomb. be considered a favour conferred on a youthful Correspondent and Constant reader. A TRIBUTE TO DEPARTED WORTH Curfed be the bard who wakes the tuneful ftring, To court the great with adulation vile, Who fawns the flatterer of a tyrant King, And barters honour for the Regal fmile. The love of freedom bade the Spaniard rife, Brave Liniers peal'd the tecfin of aların, Revenge and hate alike illumed his eyes, Levelled his high foul and nerved his po And lo the ferried line in bright array, Opes its broad bofom to the iron ftorm, Waves its proud pendant in the blaze of day, And valour ftrides forth in its native form. As when invited by the fragrant breeze, The veffel cleaves majestically grand, The vaft expanfion of the azure feas, And views receding far the dizzy land, The Zephyr Sylphs in mazy clusters cling, And wanton wildly on the tumid fail, Joy drops redundant from each tiny wing, And hope expands the canvas to the gale. Deep in a lurking pool the veffel glides Hope bricks appalled and flies the erring helm, The circling furges lafh her groaning fides, And ruthless ruin, rules the raging realm. Whirl'd in the fateful gulf the finks amain, Her gia at timbers drifted o'er the deep, Pronounce the feaman's wild exertions vain, And down they fink in everlafting fleep. Thus on the verge of fair Columbias coaft, Hibernia's children found an early grave, Repelled, defeated by a rabble host, A British daftard led the Irish brave. Mufe ceafe the ftrain, obtrude a fable veil, Lo mem'ry budders and affection weeps, From her fwoln eyes the briny tear drops fteal, She flies in fpirit where her TROTTIR fleeps. Ardent, yet calm, prefaging, yet refigned, She faw him foremoft in the ranks of fame, His country's good alone employ'd his mind, Gave his foul vigour and his eye-balls flame. His little column rush'd forth to the Atrife, Full many a Spaniard in the charge expires, Commercial Report. DUBLIN is a melancholy picture of our rapid decline, abandoned by the opulenty and robbed of the advantages of being the Capital of an Independent Nation, it is advancing into the moft languid and inert ftate. The trifling trade, wrested by our Legislature and our armed Citizens, from Englifh monopoly, has difappeared with our Parliament, and this City, which every re turning winter filled with our Senators, their families and connexions, has loft that buttle and fpirit which a refident Legislature muft ever communicate. Lord Caftlereagh debating on the infamous measure of a Legislative Union, declar ed, that a Dublin fhopkeeper lived in more luxury than a London banker. Should this mimic of Pitt's, deign to revifit this City, and inspect the faces and books of cur fhopkeeepers, he would find, that he had removed from this race of men, that en vied felicity which he fo invidiously described. After a fifteen years war, and after expending two hundred millions on ruined Kings, and fruitlefs Expeditions, the only efficient conqueft made by the magnanimous Minifter, and his Irish minion, was that of Ireland, from whence they have removed every veftige of commerce, with our natural protectors, who though not literally in captivity, have departed with the Conqueror, to whom they bafely betrayed our ftrong places, and our liberties. Barracks are the Palaces now erecting in the Irish metropolis, and 7,000 foldiers in the centre of it, are the reprefentatives of our fugitive Ariftocracy. The ridiculous tales fabricated of a handful of Spanish peasants defeating the French veterans, if not fpeedily realifed, and Spain preferved from the House of Corfica, will tend to the deftruction of English induftry. The ftaple manufacture of England must not only be injured, but absolutely extinguished; Spanish Wool being the prin ciple material; without it, a yard of fuperfine cloth cannot be made, and as no fubIftitute can be had in any other region of the globe, the policy of Bonaparte will be applied in the moft rigorous manner, to prevent it ever again to vifit the English loom. Canal Making is advancing with much appearance of Spirit, this is the great com munication of commercial relations, we were promised by the Usion; for it, we have given up the trade of the world. Cutting Canils through an impoverished country, without manufactures, or with out any variety of fol or climate, or mineral productions, not common to every part of Ireland, we conceive to be a great national abfurdity. Canals are of national importance in verv extenfive countries,, compofed of various climates, where the rude produce of provinces remote from each other may be ex changed for such articles as local fituations and variety of heat and foil may tend to render peculiar to their refpective geograpical pofitions. This great dit netian of climate or produce cannot exit in Ireland, fo that the tranfit of our domestic industry s not neceffary, or in fuch demand, as to make it a national undertaking, with the exception of a few boats of Lime-ftone, Turf, or Brick, we poffels no art cle in cae County not as common in another. Canals are of conú lerable importance in countries like England, where all the tow 18, or a great number of them, are devoted to certain fpecies of trades, and where the entire population is employed in the different branches or divifions of labour. To arrive at this extenfive circulation of induftry, it requires a nation to previously have the trade of the universe, as the entire labour of a people would not be neceffary fer domeftic confumption. England is a large workshop where her population is employed, and its labour fold in every market in the world. Their Canals are neceffary, as they tend to convey the immenfe quantity of manufactures intended for foreign countries, to the fea ports, and to diftribute through the manufacturing diftricts, the raw materials, which commerce collects from every climate in the universe. Cutting Canals ia Ireland, is as rational an improvement in our domestic economy, as Gulliver defcribes of the architecture of a certain nation, where they begin their boufes on the roof, and finish them by leaving the foundations for the last act of the atift. We are inclined to think, it is an English artifice, this of Canal making, like that of the Farming Society, to keep the public mind engaged on frivolous, or useless pursuits, while the great Commercial emminence, which nature particularly intended for us, is ftudiously kept out of view. Befotted and degraded, a great proportion of our men of wealth, and our population, are betrayed into the most stupid admiration of Canals, and Hog-breeding, and the artificers of our degradation, the Union makers, who brought our industry to an English market, fmile at the common delufion. State of Public Affairs. THE English Prints are filled with reports of battles in Spain, and as usual, when no accounts are in circulation from the French armies, the most brilliant successes are profusely given to what the British term Patriots. Every odium attending defeat and cowardice, are as unsparingly flung on the French. These remind us of the victories the same authorities reported of the Russians, while the severe winter of Poland rendered the French inert and silent, but when the Vernal sun; removed the impediments of ice and snow, the beaten French repaired their military fame, and the English news-makers by recording the defeat and submission of the Autocrat, atoned for the misrepresentations of a season. Bonaparte's birth has been celebrated in Paris, August 14th, where he beheld in person, the most brilliant exhibitions of joy and festivity, by his good people of Paris. If any serious opposition was in existence in any country where his armies are, it is very unlike his character, his passion for fame and power, to leave the doubtful field, and apprehended contest, for the silly pleasure of civic adalations. NAPOLEON'S ARRIVAL AT PARIS. On the 14th, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, their Majesties the Emperor and Empress arrived at St. Cloud, in good health. At 5 o'clock, all the Theatres were opened for the free admission of the public; and at six, the anniversary of the Emperor's birth day was announced by several discharges of artillery. The same evening, a splendid entertainment was given in the garden of the Senate. The fine weather was peculiarly favourable for this purpose. The Senate chose that occasion, that the public attention should not be divert |