Ha! whence those cries? what means yon boding bell?

The tender tear, the soul dissolving sigh,

It toils much lov'd Maria's fun'ral knell!

The swains in anguish hear the doleful tale.

Alas! sweet flow'ret, have thy beauties flown,

While blooming fair in all their youthful pride?

While ev'ry grace and virtue was thine own?

Sweetly they bloom`d—buťah! too soon they died.

Ye swains no more your flow'ry garlands weave,

Nor deck your roseate bow`rs to meet her smile,

But weeping cypress bring t' adorn her grave,

Who

sorrows keenest anguish could beguile.

No more she views, with smiles your

rustic glee

While frolic gambol'd on the daisied plain, Her gentle breast from pride and envy

free,

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slow,

To such exalted worth you'll not deny, But let soft pity's streams profusely flow, That bell again!-hark, now with sul len sound,

It calls Maria to her earthly bed:

Lo! now the sad procession closing round,

Consigns her to the mansions of the dead!

And must that bosom where the graces

play'd,

And, while her loss corrodes each anguish'd heart,

She basks in bliss, and hymns her Maker's praise.

Sweet maid adieu !-yet shall fond Memory keep,

Thy form still blooming in each tortur'd

breast

And M-sg-ve declared 'twas so pretty a lie,

That he wish'd he had known it in time

for his Book,

But G-ff-rd can see in, it omens most sinister,

Fit for those times of the fagot and stake,

When good-natured men, like himself and the M-n-ster,

Roasted each other for piety's sake.
Och, Paddy M'Kew!

Give the Devil his due, &c. &c.

Then here's to your health, my brave Earl of F-ng II!

Who have saved Church and State from this terrible shake;

In life may you meet with no crosses at all,

Except those which your own honest finger may make;

And if you'll thus watch o'er the lives of your betters,

The service, as usual, they'll gratefully

querid."

SCOTCH

We have with sentiments of deep regret, to inform our readers, that the unpleasant duty of recording the demise of that ornament of religion and or er, Mr. Hezekiah Limberlip, of Dolphin sebarn, has devolved on us. He ded on Saturday evening, in consequence of a severe cold he contracted during the last fair of Donnybrook, which baffled all the skill of General Coombe Drury, and other loyal medical men, from the May pole in stoneybatter to Bray-head. Mr. Limberlip has been inspector of Pagpipes, and censor of the Ballad Press, since the year 1803, and it being his duty to re

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strain disloyal tunes, and seditious songe, he very incautiously continued traversing the rents in the Fair, dur ng the week of its continuance, without taking any regular sleep, than such as a redundancy of Whiskey compelled. He was a Lieutenant in the Circular-road Army, and served with great credit under Colon Whipcord, n the Rebell on of 1798. was to his observations and loyal ingenu ity, with the assistance of the late Justice Bell, the presert Justice Wills, and lame Godfrey, that the office of Bagpipe Censor was instituted. It is notorious, that seditious Bagpipes have done as much injury

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injury to the State, as any missile weapons used in the Rebel armies.

They are a kind of musical Culverins, which have contributed to shoot their ammunition in such order, as to excite an enthusiasm that can scarcely be resisted by the best served Artillery. It was to a well concerted disposition of eleven Bagpipes, that kept up such an incessant discharge of " Erin go Bragh," at the battle of Ross, which contributed to the amazing success of the Rebels, in that tremendous conflict. It was on the night of the 23d of June, 1303, that Mr Limberlip and the Jusfice fortunately surpr sed a Piper, concealed in a ditch near Crumlin, and to that circumstance the office of Censor owes its origin. The fellow was apparently drunk, But by the situation of his fingers, and 'the great charge in his Bag; it was as clear as noon day, he was on the point of playing off, "Paddys ever more' for the purpose of arousing all the Rebel heads and Pike-heads in the neighbourhood.— He was taken into custody, but as they meant to bring him to the Castle, they did not half hang him, as the Justice on the first view suggested: They tied him very well on the wheel of a Waggon, and ext day produced him at the Castle.There he was examined by the Secretary, with the assistance of Mr. Foster, and the Archbishop of Dublin, who ordered the Bagpipes to be confiscated, and the Musical Engineer into close confinement. The Council was so well pleased with the vigilance and observations of the two Gentlemen, that they ordered a Commission to be made out for each Gentleman, authorising Mr. Limberlip, to search for, and confiscate all seditious songs, song singers, and Bagpipes, from island-bridge fo Sandymount, and from the banks of the Canal ten miles South and West, with power to licence all Loyal Pipers to exercise their trade, in all fairs, patrons, and other public places, within the same lines of Jurisdiction; and further, to honor the Justice s posterity, as he had been Close-stool Guager and Knife-boy, to the late Baron Hamilton, the Justice was authorised to have a Knife-board Gutes, worn across his shield, in the same manner that a band, is added to the Duke of Richmond's Arms, as a mark of Basfardy.

On Tuesday morning, about ten o'clock, at his house in St. James's-street, Kilkenny, the Right Rev. James Lanigan, D. D. R. C. Bishop of Ossory, and formerly Professor of Mathematics in the University of Nantz. To do justice to a chaFaster like his, illuminated by various

natural and acquired excellencies, and that shed such lustre on the high station he occupied, as it would be unreasonable to attempt it in the scanty column of a news paper. An early prepossession for literary pursuits charmed him away from domestic happiness, and from the society of every respectable connection. His progress in the earlier studies marked him out for one, fit to visit those foreign places of education, where his self-banished countrymen used to fetch the sacred spoils of science and piety wherewith to comfort a persecuted flock in the dark night of their oppression. Here academical honors te tified his success in the different stages of a College course, at the termination of which he was appointed to read lectures, in one of the upper departments of sciAn intellect inquisitive and capa cious, delicacy of perception, a faithful memory, a judgment that could both combine and discriminate, with admirable accuracy, in the most intricate and pr plexed reasoning; all these informed 1 mind that could sport with ease through the different intermediate ranges of knowledge, from the rudiments of classical learning, up to the sublime part of theo. logy.

ence.

Thus prepared-what wonder be acquitted himself well of the vario's duties inseparable from the state of a Dignitary and Ecclesiastic?-An enlightened instructor, the unction that accompanied his words found their way to the human heart; and even the obstinate and conta macious were often softened into submis sion by his tenderness and urbanity. But his virtues will not be easily forgotten they will live entombed in the friendly recollections of a generous and inconso lable acquaintance. Society will regret the loss of him who was eminently gifted with social endowments: Charity will sor row the absence of him, whose charitable deeds were enhanced in value by the secrecy, and unostentatious manner of their performance; and the philantropist will embalm with the tear of friendsip the memory of him, whose heart was beaevolence itself, and who never felt more happy than in exercising that viria”.

In Clonmel, on the 16th instant, very deservedly regretted by her numerous friends, Miss Catherine Gorman, sister to Mr. Thomas Gorman, Printer. She endured a long and painful sickness with christian resignation and exemplary pie ty; and her memory will be regarded by the lovers of charity, her constant and final study being directed to that great consideration.