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ufed by the Dublin bakers, as they have been long aware of the difguftful tafte it gave to the bread, as well as the injury it received in its appearance.

And in confequence of repeat ed loffes they fuftained by ufing this copperas barm, with the ftudied infults and delays, they received from the half chemifts and half brewers, they undertook to have a barm made in a manner where poisonous ingredients were as unneceffary as difadvantageous; as nothing but pure corn will anfwer in the procefs they have adopted, to protect them felves against the poifons as well as against the infolence of the brewers.

The legislature has enacted laws to difcourage the too frequent ufe of ardent fpirits, and intended that the public should have a found and nourishing drink, made from pure malt, but this care of the legislature has been rendered ufelefs, to any one but to the brewere, who fill continue to fport with the laws, and traffic in the health of their fellow citizens.

It was not medicine for the fick, nor poifon for the ftrong, the legiflature intended, when it liberally encouraged brewing, at the expenfe of diftillation. It was real undifguifed malt drink was the object, not liquorice-ball water, infufions of coriander feed, cochylus, burnt molaffes, and Copperas, It was brewers not apothecaries the law intended to patronize.

We have to acknowledge there is a brewery in Ufher Street, that cannot be charged in any manner with practising any of

thefe dangerous acts to which se allude, but this may be accounted for, as the proprietor is a gentle man, and embarked in the bufi nefs with a princely fortune, which he has generously applied to fupport the character of the Irish brewing trade: whereas the other brewers were taken from the very rabble, fuch as common porters, journeymen bakers, and other of the very lowest of our mechanies, and by superior application of chemical inge nuity, have arrived to greater opulence than any other trademen in the country.

We will at other convenient opportunities fay more on thể brewing trade.

ROYAL MANUFACTORY
AT PARIS.

NAPOLÉON, PRINCIPAL. THE proprietor at great expenfe and labour, has compleated this very extenfive establishment, and is now ready to furnish ang territory in proportion to its ex tent, local fituation, and population, with a King, of any age, fize, or education; warranted found, free of blemish, and of difpofing mind. Any perfon not perfectly exact to the defcription given st the time of fale, fhall be taken back, and the money returned.

Specimens and patterns may be viewed at the manufactory, by applying to Monf. Tallyrand, foreman; or at the Stahdt houie, Amfterdam, the Cities of Hanover, and Naples; and in a few days at Madrid, for which office there is now a uew fign preparing at Bayonne,

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Old or infirm Dukes repaired on the most reasonable terms: Specimens may be feen at Stutgard, Munich and Drefden Kings reduced to a proper and convenient fize, of which fpecimens may be had at Vienna, and Koningfberg. Premature derangement in living monarchs cured, by the magnanimous Alexander, who is at present fettling the head of his Swedish majefty, it having fuftained confiderable damage under the hands of an English trepanner.

ALDERMANIC OBITUARY.

IN Capel Street, Alderman Vance; this man was a grocer by trade, and paffed through the different degres of municipal honours, with fome eclat among his brethren,

His unequalled talents at the table, had no rival in the Corporation fince the days of Alderman Swettenham, of whom it is proud ly faid, that before habitual intemperance had impaired his great powers, could at one meal difpatch a well grown turkey, and a moderate fized pair of twin fucking pigs. But for weight at the trencher, or measure at the bottle, poor Vance had often carried off the palm of victory from any cotemporary, who had the hardihood to enter the lifts on a regular feeding conteft.

Within the laft leven or eight wears, his friends at the board, beheld with deep regret, the bealth, appearance, and appetite of their friend, in a rapid ftate of decline,

Fond remembrance reanimates the feftive city board, when it dwells on the well-fed hero, and his dexterity at difpofing of rabbits and wild fowl, but a melancholy dullness fufpends the paf

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fing of the circling glafs, when the late reverses in his appetite touch the generous ear.

Since the loft days of health he has alternately and eating, tried goats whey and port wine, one to restore his health and the other his fpirits, but the latter pleafant medicine had been fo often applied, that the other made. but little progrefs, either in allaying the flying pains of the gout, or quenching the flame that devoured his face, which always appeared fo highly ignited, that it required eyes of eagle ftrength, to infpect even his nofe, without encountering a very difagreeable and painful fenfation.

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KING'S BENCH.

Application has been made for liberty to file an information against the proprietors of the Evening Herald and Correfpondent; for inferting in their respective papers an account of outrages that caufed the death of the REV. THADEUS DUANE, P.P. of Mount rath, by a gang of Orange men, the 12th of July list. The application, founded on extraordinary affidavits made by fome officers of the Volunteer Corps of the town; the affidavits ftated," That it has been customary, for wenty years paft, to the knowledge of Deponents,

and for time beyond the memory, of any one living, as they believed, for the inhabitants of faid town of Mountrath, to celebrate the anniversary of the 12th of July, by illuminations, in which the inhabitants, without any diftinction of Religion whatever, united."-This is a good round fample for affidavit makers, its appearance, is well and reafonably dreffed, the Catholics of Mountrath who are ten to one non Catholic, are here fworn to be carrying Grange flags, drums and mufquets, to celebrate a battle that transferred their properties to Dutch in invaders ! ! ! It is expected the privates. will follow their officers and make auother affidavit, that will how the Catho lics killed their own priest

ORIGINAL POETRY.

SIR,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE IRISH MAGAZINE.

Your inserting the following beautiful diftich and translation, comprising the contents of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Ane is of Virgil in your next Number, I am sure will please the admirers of your inimitable Magazine. You cannot want the Irish type in Dublin as we do here; the beauty of that language is best seen in its own dress.

CORK, NOVEMBER 9, 1808.

I am your's,

Pastor, Arator, Eques, pavi, colui, superavi,
Boves, arva, hostes, fronde, ligone, manu.

Amaodajre, ám Ojreaṁ,ām RidireĠalġnjoṁaċ, Als lejr zur ofleas, gur ċmpeaf, gur lagėlojdeafa,

An tread, an tiomajre, cumus mo bajlcbjoċbá, le pejileann coille le'm cuingir lem glaicbrjoğmar.

The following lines extracted from a very old prophecy consisting of seventy-two lines, may find room in one of your future Numbers.

Tjocfajo dul eaċ gan cup cru, na xjlle frjan re nojuliao,

fa jażajġib tjuż finbeo beaċ, go hupċpjċċujn Da Heizean.

TO LORD C▬▬H.

The rain pours down-the city looks forlorn,
And gloomy subjects fuit the howling morn,
Close by my fire, with doors and windows faft,
And Sweetly fhelter'd from the driving blast,
To gayer thoughts I bid a day's adieu,
To ipend a scene of folitude with you.

So oft has black revenge engrofs'd the care,
Of all the leisure' hours man finds to fpare;
So oft has guilt in all its thoufand dens,
Called forth the vengeance of chastising pens;
That when I fain would cafe my heart on you,
No thought is left untold-no pahon new.
From flight to flight the mental path appears,
Worn with steps of near fix thousand years,
And filled throughout with every scene of pain,

From CAIN to STEWART, and back from STEWART to CAIN.
Alike in cruelty, alike in hate,

Io guilt alike, and more alike in fate;

Go, fecond Judas, true likeness of the first,
And ftrew thy blasted head with homely duft-
In ashes fit in wretched fack cloth weep-
And with unpitied forrows cease to sleep.
Go, haunt the tombs, and fingle out the place,
Where earth itself fhall fuffer a difgrace,
Go, Spell the letters on fome mouldering ura,
And ask if he who fleeps there can return.
Go, count the numbers that in filence lie,
And learn by study what it is to die.
For fure that heart-if any heart you own,
Copceits that Man expires without a groan;
That he who lives, receives from you a grace,
Or death is nothing but a change of place;
That peace is dull, that joy from forrow fprings,
And tyranny, the raree-how of kings.

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Elfe why thefe fcenes that wound the feeling mind,
This fport of death, this cock-pit of mankind,
Why fobs the widow in perpetual pain,
Why cries the orphan "Oh my father's flain!"
Why hangs the fire his paralytic head,
And nods with manly grief My fon is dead!"
Why drops the tear from off the fifter's cheek,
And fadly tells the forrows he would fpeak?
Why lifps the infant on its mother's lap,
And looking round the parlour "where is Pap?"
Why weeps the mother as the question's asked,
Kiffing an answer as the easiest task?

Oh! could I paint the paffions I can feel,
Or point a horror that would wound like steel,
To thy unfeeling, unrelenting mind,

I'd fend a torture, and relieve mankind.

Since then no hopes to civilize remain,

And all petitions have gone forth in vain,

One prayer is left, which dreads no proud reply,
That He who made thee breathe, would bid you quick-

ly dis,

SINNE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE IRISH MAGAZINE.

MR. EDITOR,

By giving a place in your Magazine to the following Latin lines, written by the Late Rev. MARCUS BARRETT, whilft profeffor of Rhetoric in the College of Car low, and delivered by one of his pupils, at the public diftribution of premiums, you will much oblige A CONSTANT Reader,

CARMEN PARÆNETICUM,

QUOD

IN SOLEMNI PRÆMIORUM DISTRIBUTIONE,

Habitâ die 28vo. mensis Junii, A. D. 1805,

RECITAVIT INGENUUS ADOLESCENS

JOCOBUS O'KEEFFE,

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IN SEMINARIO CORLOVIENSI R. CATH. CONVICTOR.

MONTIS in excelsi posuerunt vertice Musas,
Difficilesque aditus veteres finxere poetæ.
Scilicet, ut moneant quanto doctrina labore
Quærenda, et quanti sua munera vendat Apollo,
Ipse manu ridens laurum prætendit, et omnes
Suaviter invitat,quorum felicior audet
Sublimes tentare vias industria, sacræ,
Quam Deus ipse gerit, decerpere frondis honorem
Hactenus, & Socii, studiis rivalibus, altum
Agrè adnitentes Pindi conscendere clivum
Fessa trahebamus corpuscula; mille labores,
Mille morabantur lentos discrimina passus.

Ah! quoties, cum mane novo rauco ore metallum
Aurea discuteret retinentis vincula Somni,
Triste ministerium duri devovimus æris!

Surge, age, quid cessas ?"-oculus obstringit inertes
Segnities; en signa canunt, pænamque minantur :”
Me sopor adfigit lecto; jam stiría pendet
Culminibus, crebroque gemunt aquilone fenestræ.
Ter conatus eram stratis evolvere corpus ;
Ter revoluta toro languentia membra recumbunt.
Sed juvat ezhausti quondam meminisse laboris i
Suavior et capitur condita labore voluptas.

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