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OBITUARY OF REMARKABLE PERSONS.

IN London, Feb. 9, of a broken neck, by his horse stumbling, the Marquis of Thomond, at the ad. vanced age of 85 years. His lord. ship inherited all the indifference to his own country, that distinguished bis ancestors, the Earls of Inchiquin since their conformity to the infant Church of England in the reign of Elizabeth. This noble family since that memorable reign, have been ho nored with all the rewards which their fidelity merited. They not only accommodated themselves to the religion and politics of the Ens glish settlers, but took very active military situations against the impa tient and obstinate natives, who dared to dispute with arms the right of sequestration insisted on by the armed Apostles, or by argument seemed to doubt their divine mission. Irish History describes one Earl of Inchiquin burning three hundred friars in their convent, and another betraying his unfortunate sovereign, by surrendering all his strong places in Munster to Cromwell's officers, Cork, Youghall, Kinsale, Bandon Bridge, Moyalla, and besides betrayed into their hands several good harbours for the convenience of their shipping. During the time he held these garrisons for the regicides, he was so convinced of the attachment of the Irish to the interests of the family of the murdered Charles, that he would not suffer an Irish soldier into any post he commanded in. Like Ormond he took two sides, but his unfortunate country he un formly rejected; foreign honors he courted at any hands, kings or re

bels, and the debauched Charles the Second took the associates of his father's murderers into his councils, and through every successive reign since, the Murrough O'Briens have been highly favored.

A few days since, at Newmarket, county Clare, in the 96th year of his age, Michael O'Farrell, the wellknown monarch of the mendicants of Munster, over whom he reigned for seventy years, with mildness, justice and moderation; he oftener dispensed bounty to, than exacted tribute from, his subjects, and in the course of his long reign was never accessary to the death of one human being. Hackball, the renowned king of the beggars in Dublin, sported a vehicle which removed his au gust body from place to place, by one of the tribe of Balaam, counsellors, ycleped a jack-ass, but king O'Farrell disdained any assistance of this kind, and made use of what has tore furnished him with to bear him. about, namely, a stout pair of legs. He, however, had for his support a long quarter staff, which he occasionally used for his protection, having no body guards; this staff was adorned towards the head with brass nails, &c. which gave it very much the appearance of a sceptre.-He did that of Buonaparte, nor any such not wear an imperial crown like frippery gewgaw's as that king-maker has decorated the noddies of his servile tribe with, but a hat resembling that of a cardinal in shape in size indeed it was large enough for the aforesaid ruler of France, with the four kings of his kindred to take

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shelter from a shower of rain, and his great coat would cover a tent for them it is therefore evident, that our royal hero was of a large stature which is certainly the case; he was also well made, had a majestic de portment, with a very intelligent and benign countenance,

At his house in Leeson-Street, Alderman Hutton. This man was bred a Currier, a business which he followed till his death; in his person were united all the mechanical exactness, scrupulosity of forms, and holy severity of language, which sec. tarian singularity is usually dressed in, particularly in men of moderate abilities and mean education. Cor. poration distinctions operated con. siderably to give a tone of consequence and a form of countenance which he always affected, when deal ing with what he considered his inferiors; but when his business as a magistrate introduced him to any interview with the higher ranks, he brought another face and language into company, instead of downright insolence it became downright ser vility.

His zeal to promote, what he termed, the light of the blessed Gos.. pel in Ireland, was such, that at a considerable expense he imported an English Saint, who had been called from a mechanic's workshop to be a preacher of the word, and such was the spirit in the Currier and his journeyman, that the Alderman's drawing-rooms were fitted up with pulpit, benches, and other conveni encies and decorations, tending to, give as much ease and comfort to his converts, as their divine meditations merited. After three years experiment in this laboratory of grace, he contemplated a design of adding dignity to the new explanation of the faith, by the erection of an extensive building, which he had nearly

compleated, and would have finished, had not a serious dispute taken place between him and his fellow labourer, tho' trivial in the beginning it terminated in the dissolution of the holy brotherhood. The good Alderman would have the Society dis tinguished by the name of Curriers, in honor of his original profession; and his holy assistant, on the other hand, notwithstanding his divine mission, proudly insisted they should be called Cowpers, So obstinately did each side insist on their favourite object, that the old women who originally subscribed towards the new temple, refused to advance any more money. One party would be Cowpers and the other Curriers, and as no settled arrangement had been made, the Holy Place in York-street remains unfinished. The Cowpers have borrowed the use of an old Tabernacle in Plunket-street, where they hear the word from their ́ favourite but the Curriers have no stationary place of salvation as yet, which inconvenience must be considerably prolonged by the angel of death taking off the Aldermanic Chieftan.

The Alderman had a most holy regard to the observance of order and decorum of the Sabbath, while he served the office of Lord Mayor; his vigilance against the ungodly was exemplary-though he seldom chastised the profaners in their persons, and left the living untouched, the inanimate were severely handled; huxter-shops were frequently emp tied of their silent stock of cabbages, potatoes, butter and bacon, and their proprietors left to feed on their tears, while the elect in Whitefriar-street, were saying long grace over the con. fiscated properties, and the canticles of divine praise were offered up for the Holy One who fed the poor and sent the ungodly hungry away.

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The most Rev. Dr Oliver Plunket

ARCHBISHOP of ARMAGH &c & c

Eng for the Irish Magazine.

IRISH MAGAZINE

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MONTHLY ASYLUM

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NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY.

For MARCH, 1808.

LIFE OF Dr. OLIVER PLUNKET.

"We may fee Imperious necessity drag old age, dignity, innocence and learning from their native country, before a foreign jurifdiction, upon a manufac tured plot, fupported by fuborned profligacy; and we may fee the reverend victim, fuffering by the hand of a foreign executioner, without a friend or countryman near him, to foften the agony of death, and imploring the mercy of God, not for himself, but for his perfecutors, his accufers and judges."

THE illuftrious martyr with whofe likeness we this month prefent our readers, was defcended from a noble family in Ireland, finding himfelf called to an ecclefiaftical life, he left his country young, and went into Italy, and at Rome entered on the courfe of ftudies neceffary for the catholic miffon; he fo diftinguifhed himself during the period of his education, that he was honoured with the degree of of Doctor and chofen profeffor of divinity, which he continued to teach for almoft twenty years. His repu. tation for virtue and learning being fery great, and the fee of Armagh fall ing vacant, he was appointed and confecrated Bishop to it, about the year

(O'Donoghoe's Letters.)

1669, and immediately sent over to Ireland, to govern the flock committed to his charge. Dr. Plunket's epifcopal condu& was fo pure and fo mild, that even Burnet, "who as Dr. Milner fays, amongit all his lies never told one in favour of a Catholic, bears teftimony to his wisdom, and sobriey, as a man who was folely employed in the functions and duties of his profeffion, never meddling in the affairs, or engaging in the intrigues of flate; adding, that he was condemned. upon the evidence of fome lewd Priefs whom he had cenfured, and of other brutal profligate men, who finding that fwearing was become a profitable trade in England, went over

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