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land.-Unnatural it is to dwell with the invader, for in his worse than vandal rage he has burnt the records of once peace-flowing Erin, and in the blood of the bard his coward steel is red.-Unnatural it is in truth, for his treacherous heart bursts with • venemous hatred for the progeny of GAEL-for they lead his heroes in • the fight, and in honour and in sci⚫ence they are before him.-The

but let me not mention his ugly gilt clad name, for his heart is foul and • dark as his deeds;" he ceased awhile, and then resumed, " Renowned and ⚫ noble once was the state of Erin, many were her schools of science, and of war; her name was honoured among the chieftains of the world; the sages of the nations came in crowds to her shore in the search of knowledge; the surrounding barbari ans humbly brought the price of their safety, and confessed the warlike glories of her sons, and sung the praise of the heroes of the Western isle; far resounding in deed was the • voice of her land. But as great and as powerful shall she yet rejoice; loftier honour and happiness remain for the children of her sons, for the hour is not far distant in which the strength of the usurper shall crumble, and wind-outstripping is the pro'gress of the day, in which the horn of the power of Erin shall sound throughout his land; in which his hated, faithless race shall crouch and bow before the resuscitated spirit of Innisfail. Remember thou bard that sittest yonder in lonely silence, remember the words of the Chief of Uladh; speak then thou child of the song; speak then to the chainweary children of Mileadh, for as sure as the raw breeze, the messenger • of winter shakes the lifeless leaf from the branch, so sure shall their truth bring to the face of Erin. Now bards raise the song of way; let the music of the battle go abroad; Chieftains, rise to the tilt; display

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6 your skill and valour in fight." The hero ceased, and threw himself on his seat; martial sounds float on the air; the warriors separate for the fight; a hundred face to face, wait the signal of the chief. He arose, and grasped his spear in both his hands; he raises it up in the air, and hurls it against a shield that hung in the midst of the hall. They begin; spears tower high; swords dazzle the sight; fire flashes from their eyes; javelins recoil from the hard coat of the glittering shield ; the noise convulses the air; it pene trated my brain; sleep fled from my eyes, and I awoke. I looked around; the hall was dreary and sad; I found it was all the frolic of my rest; the sun was scattering his beams through the gaping walls; the morn was lovely on the hills; I arose, and left the deluding mansion of the Chieftain of Uladh.

Newry, Dec. 23, 1811.

O'NIALL.

Short Character of the British Flag.

The following concise description of the modern character of the British Flag, by Sir Francis Burdett, in the English House of Commons, on the late debate on the address to the Prince Regent, is quoted by the new editor of the Patriot, for the purpose of exhibiting his strength as an hired politician, by refuting the Baronet.

Indeed the successor of Camillus, Martin, Marcus, and Scourge, to the management of Mr. Pole's newspaper, treats the subject with some modera tion, but his materials and argumenta are as weak, unskilfully selected, and as imperfect as any production of his outrageous predecessors.

"In looking over the history of the last eighteen years, we find the valour and resources of our country in no instance employed in the defence and restoration of Freedom; but al

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most constantly, in endeavouring to prevent the oppressed from becoming free, or to re-plunge them into slavery, to reharden the grasp of despotism, and to sharpen the half blunted fangs of per. secution, so that the BRITISH FLAG, formerly the dread of ty ranny, appears through this long and disgraceful period, to have waved only in hostility to the liberties and happiness of mankind."

own extinction, for the wages each person expected, as the price of his patriacide, is as undeniable an evidence as any that could be produced, of the correctness of the Baronets character of the FLAG of his country.

That it has contributed to re-sharpen the half blunted fangs of persecution, is equally true; for we say, that there is not one of the anniversary massacres committed on the Irish Catholics, that the Orange murderers do not, perpetrate under the same Flag, which they uniformly bear with them on every exNor is there

Laying aside the injuries it inflicted on the rational and sober Constitution adopted in France in 1791, by lending its private aid to the Combined Des-eursion of desolation. pots, its subsequent refusal of peace to France; the frantic disorders it kept alive in that unhappy country, by subsidizing the revolutionary ruffians, and subsidizing their enemies, until a distracted and exasperated people were obliged to seek repose in the iron hands of despotism. So far has the British Flag, instead of being employed in the restoration of Freedom,

one Chapel burned from Tullow to Enniskillen, or to Kilrea, in the County of Derry, that is not accompanied by the same Flag, unfurled in due solemnity over the smoaking ruins, borne by the orange banditti.

waved only in hostility to the liberties and happiness of mankind.” The uniform tyranny it protects on the ocean, is another evidence of this implacable spirit of hostility to the rights and liberties of mankind. Denmark and the United States of America have repeatedly witnessed and felt the invariable hostility that follows this flag, so far as the destruction of a capital, the plunder, confiscation and slavery of Danish and American trade and citizens, can express unprovoked hostility. To go at large into a history of this flag in its external relations, would far exceed our limits; its operations on our unfortunate country are so irritating, that, we forbear to go at large into an investigation. It has passed through so many hands and ap plied as the instrument of so many passions, that, it assumed many charac ters excusable. But, that it has waved in hostility to liberty, when it spread its proud crosses over its ready battalions, at the doors of an Irish senate, who were deliberating on its

Botany Bay.

Letters have been lately received in town from the Reverend Mr. Harold in Botany Bay.-Mr. Harold was Parish Priest of Rathcoole, and Saggard; and in the month of October, 1795, was transported on charges of rebellion, on the information of a person of the name John Walsh. The letters state that he is in excellent health and spirits, exercising his clerical duties with success and happiness. He is assisted by a no less personage than the celebrated Peter Ivers from Carlow, a representative for that county, in the provincial committee of Leinster; and was one of the per sons arrested at Oliver Bond's house in Bridge-street, on the information of Tom Reynolds, Monday the 12th of March, 1798; and contrary to the stipulations entered into and agreed on between Lord Castlereagh's government and the state prisoners, Mr. Ivers was transported.

The Corporation of Dublin.

1s enlightened association being informed by some person who can read English,

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English, that, a certain publication printed by Fitzpatrick, did reflect on the course of Corporation Justice, met on Friday the 17th of January, and agreed unanimously that the same book contained a gross falsehood. We say some person who could read, not a member, must have informed the Corporation of the offending book; it appears clearly that the Corporation having inserted the reflection, must not have read it, because, their attempt to refute it must have been drawn up by some person who did not read the book, or any part of it, untill the answer had been first written

The paragraph states, "that the Catholic more than doubts of obtaining the same measure of justice, of favor or respect from the Mayor, Recorder, Alderman, &c. that is accorded to his Protestant neighbour, and that he lives in continued apprehension, lest he or his family may become victims of some malicious accusation, and that he is a cringing a cringing dependant, and almost a suppliant for common justice."

We say the Corporation, has not refuted one passage in this paragraph, and even their sweeping resolution goes no farther than to say, it is an inflammatory production, and finishes another resolution by saying they would not deign to descend to notice it, were it not calculated to mislead the ignorant.

Well done Messieurs of the Corporation, how careful you have lately become of the ignorant; we must be a sorry community if any condition of it could produce a more perfect sample of ignorance than yourselves. Pretty language from Sims the barber, Thorpe the plaisterer, Pemberton the comb maker, Craig the naggin man, Finn groom of the close-stool, to Lord Ross; Sirr the police-man, Mark Magrath the deputy meal man, and the other eleves, of the Foundling and Blue-coat Hospitals. If you do not furnish as correct samples of iguance as any in Ireland, Alderman Emerson,

one of your illustrious body, whe usually took a fortnight to read the Freeman's Journal,ought to be Provost of Trinity College.

The resolutions call the paragraph a false and unfounded calumny; mea of such elevated characters ought to be believed, men who feel so much for

the ignorant ought to have one defe-
rence paid them.
rence paid them. But, we will ask
them a few questions, which we hope
they will please to answer at their next
meeting; that the ignorant may be in-
structed. Are not Catholics excluded
by a late bye law of the corporation of
Merchants, from exercising the business
of Master Coal Porter, or Coal Mea-
suier? Are not Catholics so studi.
ously excluded from the City Grand
Juries, that, you are obliged to keep
some individuals of yourselves, without
any interval, many years on the came
juries? has not old Wilson the Iron-
monger been more than forty years on
every City Grand Jury, in that period,
though Dublin contains at least 200,000
Catholics? It would appear strange,
that amongst such a population you
could not find a Catholic of adequate
property and education as would fit
him, as well as old Wilson, in the
long space of forty years, to be a Jury.
Wilson may
be a great quisearre
certainly: but is there no Catholic a
capable of being a Juryman as either
Sims the Shaver, or little Leet the
Taylor? It is to be hoped, you
be able to prove by some future res
lutions, that the Catholic has the pri
vilege of becoming a Coal Porter, and
all the protection in person and
property of the trial by jury, and that
what we now say is a base and un-
founded calumny.

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We ask you also to prove that your fourth resolution is correct, where you say the Duke of Richmond's adminis tration has been distinguished for its moderation? We know the public prosecutions carried on at his Grace's instance against the Catholics, agamst five millions of men, are highly ap

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Corporation character of the Duke of Richmond.

proved by you, but will you insist such prosecutions were acts of modera

tion.

Your fifth resolution says you have obtained great advantages under the Duke's administration, you certainly have, one half of you were enrolled in the bankrupt calendar when he came to the Vice Regal Crown, and though you wanted wisdom and credit, as tradesmen; he had such an high of you, that he discovered you opinion had as much of both as would make He bestowed you eminent Justices. 6002 a year each, you on eighteen of and every day, you sit disposing of your wisdom, where you formerly disposed of your creditors.

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You have insinuated, that equal justice is done to the Catholic with the Protestant; this is an impudent and notoriou. falsehood. We will cite one recent circumstance to expose your impertinence; when the jury swearing on the trial of Doctor Sheridan, did not one of the most obnoxious of your body, Major Sirr, beard the court, insult the learned prisoner; by publicly instructing the Clerk of the Crown, who he should swear as jurors, and was not every Catholic gentleman who appeared, rejected, and every Protestant gentleman who was suspected of not being an Orangeman rejected? Is this conduct equal justice? Are such abuses equal justice? Are they evidences that a Catholic is tried by his peers or by his enemies?

Corporation character of the Duke

of Richmond.

The bigotted ignorance and corrupt servility of the Dublin Corporation, was never more unequivocally expressed against the Catholics, against the interests of Dublin, and the prosperity of the entire country, than at the Quarter Assembly, Friday 17th January, by the following resolution which was passed, with only One dissentient voice.

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Resolved. That a dutiful and humble Address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, expressing our most grateful acknowledgements, for continuing to us the advantages we derive from the mild, yet firm and constitutional administration of his Grace the Duke of Richmond."

The reader will observe that the leading intention of these stupid and literate half-paupers; is to impress a totion on the English mind, that the Protestants of Dublin highly and unanimously approve of the late inveterate and unrelenting prosecutions, carried on by the advice and under the patronage of the Duke of Richmond, whose administration is now so load'y panegyrised merely for its No measures have been claims. decided hostility to the Catholic spared, no violence is unrewarded, which could be converted against the only men, who at this day are the best and most numerous in the fleets and armies of Britain. The same Duke has snatched a certain adventuring Lawyer from the hands of his creditors, from the clutches of the bailifs, and armed the man with official distinction and authority, for the vitipuration and characteristic hostility he was distinguished by, against his country in the persons of the Catholic population, and it is for such conduct the needy and beggarly servility of the Corporation, call on the Prince Regent to continue the Duke of Richmond.

They further thank the Regent for the advantages they enjoy under his Graces administration, this we admit in its fullest meaning, eighteen of the addressing Gentlemen whom bankruptcy, and insurmountable poverty had harrassed through life, have been plucked from among the privileged rabble by his Grace, to administer a discontented population of justice, or in other words to watch 300,000 inhabitants, reduced to the severest

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severest misery by the Act of Union, and the emigration of the Gentry of the country. The remainder of the addressors are provided for by every opportunity, or expect to be so; the very destruction of this great city afford them a miserable and guilty existence. The building of barracks which are enveloping the city, afford many of these men a subsistence, which they term advan. tages, but which indicate nothing to the other inhabitants but a determined resolution, to silence the popular voice, and perpetuate the fate of Dublin, now wasting into ruins and trembling with indigence, by the melancholy effects of an extinguished legisiature,

And these men now presume in the face of Ireland, and in the depopu lated streets of Dublin, and before the abandoned counters of the afflict. ed tradesmen, to assure the Prince Regent, and insinuate to the people of England, that Dublin is thriving and the people happy and reconciled, under the administration of the Duke of Richmond.

The real condition of Dublin is not to be taken on the authority of Corporation barbers, menial servants, old soldiers, cooks, taylors and plaisterers, it may be discovered by one hours' inspection, and expressed in a few words. Our canals are useless, ⚫ our custom-house deserted, our merchants bankrupts, our legislature extinguished, our exchange unfrequent ed, and our poor-houses and prisons overstocked; industry pining in silence, the police man and the soldier, rioting in all the pride of authority. and all the intoxication of abundance. Our youth are passing alternately to the barrack and the gallows, and the aged to the work-house. So much for the advantages enjoyed under the house of Richmond.

Catholic Emancipation.

This favourite object which occupies so much of the public mind,

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can be obtained in the short space of six weeks, at the trifling expence eight or nine pounds. This is, by a voyage to the United States of Ame rica, the consequences of this simple mode of emancipation, are, enjoyment of the most rational liberty, yet known in the history of the world; an unlimited communication with mercantile industry, neither restricted by corporations, nor embarrassed with tax gatherers. Abundance so equally distributed or so easily obtained, that a Philadelphia newspaper," the Democratic Press, of August the 228, printed by our countryman, John Binns, says, there are not TWEN TY in the vast continent, now or ganized in that mighty North Ame rican republic, (which lacks only Ca• nada to complete the empire, Jin want of either fuel, food, cloathing or lodging. This is emancipation indeed, a country 2,000 miles square, so happily si. tuated that has not twenty poor per sons, is so strange to us, who see nothing but excessive misery that it appears scarcely credible, as our astonishment is attracted at such marks of prosperity, how must that of an American be, when he learns, there are three millions of human beings this day in Ireland, that have neither fuel, food, clothing, or lodging, but such as a father of a family in a coun try where such articles are 200 per cent, cheaper than in America, can obtain for five pence a day. Even in proud, monopolizing, manufac turing Britain, who scourges the earth to extort its produce, we have official returns that two years since, there were one million and seventyeight thousand of her people, so unable to procure bread, that they were at that time supported in the Work-houses, by taxes wrung from the other wretches, whose condition was not much more enviable, as it is only industry that pay taxes.What must be the condition of Bri tain at this day, her taxes advance. ing and her trade extinguished, when

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