ME COX, SIR, By allowing the following lines on the death of Lord Clare, a place in your Patri atic Magazine, you will much oblige A CONSTANT READER. They were written some time back, by a Lady long admired for wit, beauty and virtue—her juvenile works were held in much esteem all over Europe, her accomplishments were many, but her beanty in particular was so transcendent, that the in the decline of life, she captivated the most illustrious person in those realms, whose ancestors were of Hanoverian extraction, and to whom she was united in marriage, in the memorable year 1800; and what is not more surprising than true, at the ceremony, by a premeditated design, the ring, (which may be called a magic one) was slipped on her neck, instead of her finger; from this circumstance, and a breach in the marriage promise, or rather mor, riage articles, she became alarmed, suspicious and unhappy, she indulges her melancholy at times, by performing a few parts in tragedy, two of which, no actress that ever trod the stage could paint the scenes more faithful, namely, Isabella, which she acts annually every January, and the Mourning Bride, almost every night, except the sepenteenth of March, on which night, by way of relaxation from grief, she goes through the Comedy of Errors. Such matches as this are frequently the occasion of separate beds, and is often followed with disgust and infidelity on the part of the wife, nay, they sometimes end in a total separaThis puts me in mind of the answer an Irishman made his wife, (an Englishwoman,) when she asked why he looked so sad and he so lately married? tion. Why the Devil take myself," said he, "my good girl, but I think we would live better together if we were asunder." ELEGY, In dust beneath yon monumental stone Obscurely placed, unnoticed—and uŋknown, Lies the remains of one imperious CLARE: His soul immortal-is, the Lord knows where ! Nay, even his passing friends--and they Cannot with pity's tear his grave bedew. So the fierce ruler of unrival'd Rome, And tho' the wretch amused himself with play, While her imperial towers in ashes lay: HIBERNIA, In long oblivion let the traitor sleep, Yet can we pass his cold sepulchre by, Yes Clare, though Chatham did with thee combine, The dreadful deed was Castlereagh's and thine! But tho' your arm discharged the mortal dart, Which drank the vital blood of Erin's heart; Tho her great annals for so many years Are marked with woes, and blotted with her tears, She can forgive you yet-yes injured isle, Your children bears their sorrows with a smile. When nations leagued, conspired her over O'CONNOR. Freshford, December 5th, 1811. FROM THE SHAMROCK-A NEW SONG, In commemoration of the evacuation of the city of New-York, by the British troops, on the 25th November, 1783, entitled THE AMERICAN DRUM, Dedicated to GEORGE CLINTON, V. P. U. s. A.- -by the Author, J. v. s. ' Air, The modes of the court se common are grown, alias, Lyllibullera Bullenala, Welcome, welcome, blessed day wel- Welcome, welcome, blessed day, weł When our Yankies march'd in with the Like skunks-they slunk off, from th AMERICAN DRUM. AMERICAN DRUM. The exasperations which the merchants and farmers of America, feel every day at impressing of their countrymen, and spoilations of their properties by the Bri tish, have had its due effect on the Congress. A warlike attitude is at length adopted, and an army appointed in case hostilities are indispensably necessary, to seize upon the two extensive provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia, where there is no adequate force to make any res st*ance. The Irish in the State of New York, will form a very considerable majority if not the entire force, that is to add the last remnant of British America, to enlarge the area of Republican empire, and increase its citizens. Thus the Orangemen are recruiting the American armies, and lending an indirect hand to the diminution of British power at home and abroad. The men they have burnt out of their dwellings, are upon the point of retaliating one injury for another, they are preparing to pull the British standard from the walls of Quebec. The Marquis of Abercorn, Mr. Brownlow, and the other great landed proprietors of the Counties of Tyrone, Armagh and Down, and leaders of the Orange faction, in those populous districts, may one day be accountable to the empire for the misfortunes which their bigotry, have almost rendered inevitable. ENGLAND. The Legislature of this country is sitting, and among other important subjects, has been engaged debating on the laws, and constitution of the night watch esta Welcome, welcome, blessed day, wel come, A thousand times welcome, whenever you come ; Like the great Doctor Dwight, in The foe curs'd the sound on th' AMERI- May we ever united and happy remain Whilst the sun rules the day or the stars shine by night, In fair or foul weather, in heat, frost or rain, Let Feds and Republicans (at) this time u nite. Welcome, welcome, blessed day, wel come, A thousand times welcome, whenever you come. (Then) Secula, Seculorum, Push about the brisk jorum, (And) Viva! Huzza!-for th' AMERI CAN DRUM, blishment. All the talents of both parties were employed on the great inquiry, and we are proud to hear, WE have been nearly acquitted by the House of Commons of the late minders in the British Capital. We were on the very precipice of conviction, were it not for the unrivalled eloquence of our countryman Mr. S eridan, Play-actor and Law-maker, who proved to the apparent satisfaction of the house, that Williams, who murder. ed himself was not an Irishman. We are afraid the pains taken by Mr. Sheridan to acquit US, in this case, may bring on him and his countrymen out of America, the indignation of Mr. Perceval and his swaddling ministry, and whenever the nopopery mob of London in their wisdom and piety, revive the spirit of 1780, by burning all the Irsih chapels in London, that Mr. Sheridan, will be counted in, among the burnt offerings. DOMESTIC. The shooting season has been rather dull this winter, there were only two papists killed in the metropolis. One in Hanoverlane, (a very proper name for a shooting district,) another in Aungier-street. The two gentlemen who performed the ceremonies, are not yet, either hanged, or promoted. Sheilds the yeoman, who shot the poor boy in Kevin-street, was afterwards promoted to the place of mailcoach guard, and Brown, the yeoman, who shot the boy at the Pigeon-house, has been appointed a letter-carrier to the fame establishment. Thus four murders com mitted in our dying metropolis in the open day, in the presence of hundreds of witnessca, witnesses, and not one word of horror, about them was ever expressed in the House of Commons, or " hospital of incur ables." Williams murdered in the wrong place, if he done a small party of killing in another country we know, he might be a post-master, or a Sexton before now. had the sense of taking this last notice t quit in proper time. Had they the precaution of transporting themselves to America, after the PARSON half hanged them, in 1797, they could have preserved their child. Some people will not learn, by any warning, unul it is too late. If any but an Irishman, or Irishwoman, were half hanged, by the way of notice of eject. ment, they would have absconded in proper time, and not have increased the penal ty levied for disobedience and contempt. OBITUARY. There has been no shooting in Enniskillen, since the 12th of July last, when the boy, Mayvournagh, was killed. This may be attributed to the discreet movement of the boy's father and mother, who On the 5th of January, at Johnstown, eo. Kildare, Mary Molony, a poor pauper, whose only subsistance was such casual relief as the charity of the inhabitants of the village afforded. Her meaus of living for many years, was by remittances from her brother John Farrell, on board the Royal Navy, who allowed her half his pay as a man before the mast, which terminated at his death in the year 1798, as he was executed on. board the Sandwich of 74 guns, for having taken an active part in the mutiny at the Nore. Farreli was well educated, and at the death of his father became posse›sed of 20007. which he giddily dissipated, and was obliged to seek a livelihood by entering himself in the British fleet. He was a delegate from the Brunswick, commanded by the late Lord Lecale, and obtained leave from the mutineers for him to pass through the fleet, which was proved against him on the court martial. In York-street, 18th of Jan. Mr. Thos. Pointon, a man highly esteemed for his upright character and most excellent disposition On the 10th of last month, of a fall from his horse, which he bore with christian patience, Mr. Jameson Kitties, one of the 29 English Civilizers, mentioned in the report of the Hibernian Bible Society at their late sitting. Mr Kittles was deputed by his musket missionary MAJOR We are obliged to apologize to our Bumerous readers, for not giving them the promised portrait of Major Bingham, now comined in Kilmainham Goal; our face maker in the Kilmainham district, assures us, he has made use of every. stratagem, to catch a glimpse of the distinguished gentleman; but, like Lord Louth, he is so cautious of appearing Outside of his apartments, he has contrived to baile the most industrious. His coyness to avoid doing to our gallery, is to be attributed to the very criminal assiduity of a man of the name of Dano, the goaler, who, we know is instructed by the enchantment of pecuniary underatanding, to contrive to exclude any person from an entrance into his domi brethren to attend the society to request 59 Bibies for the use of as many of the brethren, who have undertaken the care of souls, in the vicinity of their quarters, in the villages of Glassneven and Finglass He had performed the object of his jour ney, and had reached the canal bridge on his return, with his sacred bundle axed on his horses rump, when he unfortu nately got in contact with a car loaded with turf, his horse took fright, and gal loped with such velocity, that poor Kittles, who was a stranger to such speed, was flung off and killed on the spot. The affrighted instrument of this act of mat tyrdom continued his flight until stopped, with the remainder of his holy freight at the turnpike of Drumcondra. The remains of the deceased were deposited on the ensuing day inGlassnevin church-yard, attended by the 38 survivors, who chaunt ed a valuable collection of Birmingham hymus to the pace of interment, where the body was given to the earth under three well-directed vollies. A funeral sermon commemorate she Apostolic and military labours of the lamented modern Briton, was preached in the evening the Rev. Mr. Crowley, to a numerous company of soldiers, their wives and side arms. by In Townsend-street, in her 22d year, Mrs. Ann Taylor, daughter of Mr. Talbot Fyan, of Poolbeg-street. BINGHAM. nion, whose appearance is above the rank of a dairy-man. Mr. Duun most be not only an enemy to the fine arts, but, at variance with the law; Mr. Bing. ham, was by wisdom of the Unspotted Ermine," decreed as a public example, and so far has ths Goaler, inverted the course of justice, he will not allow us to place the gallant Major, in our historical PILLORY. We will let Mr. Dunn, and our readers know, we are so determined to preserve the property we have in Mr. Bingham's face, that we have or dered our painter, Mr. Muns, to the County Mayo, on a Magazine circuit, to bring up the face alive, or dead, whesever it appears in that County. |