So, after waiting a very reasonable time with all due policy and patience, for some attack to be made upon his immaculate character-and finding that he has been considered as too contemptible to be noticed in a public print, the virtuous captain at length comes forward with a formidable philippic written by himself against HIM· SELF-" Huddlestone, versus Huddlestone--merely to have an opportunity of replying to something as a vehicle for exhibiting to Gt the abuse and calumnies which have been levelled at it, through the sacred person of its champion,-or, in other words, it is a kind of practical experiment, substituting one kind of service for another just as though he were to say, although I have not been able to swear myself into a situation, perhaps I may succeed in writing myself

into one.

But weak and wicked, indeed, must that Gt be, which would degrade itself by an association with a wretch of his description. The hour in which Captain Huddlestone might, have established himself as an Informer, is gone by: and the government of the kingdom in this day, is, thank God, very different from that that unfortunate year '98, whose conFOR MAY, 1812, VOL. V.

duct will ever reflect the most abhorrent ignominy on their memories who composed it.

Such an advocate, indeed, as Captain Hrepresents himself to be, for he avows himself to be" callous to character, and insensible to shame, but tremblingly alive to the reputation of his friends and of the government.” Such an advocate was, indeed, resorted to in that day of desolation and depravity-but theconsequenceswere so degrading and so vicious, that even that Gt was ashamed of the fel lowship, and to get rid of the monster, suffered him to finish bis execrable life on that scaffold, to which he pad brought many an innocent and help

less victim.

From the depravity of human nature, a second James O'Brien may come forward and insult Gt with an offer of his best services: but the period is past, when one party would accept of them,or another party suffer them to exist.-Nothing breat disinterested patriotism could prevail on so enlightened and virtuous a mind as Captain Huddlestone possesses, to change his religion-and resign his commission, merely to become, like other patriotic Gentlemen, the Saviour of his country!

Captain Huddlestone's conduct appears so meritoriousand praise-worthy. that I shall relate, for his information, certain anecdotes of a little Justice of Peace, who lived in the South east of the kingdom, in the memorable year of '98—and, he, too, was a little Captain; and he too, wanted a little place: to obtain which, he employed his days in the most flagrant acts of cruelty and injustice, half hanging some without a trial, and flogging others, without even grounds for suspicion.Such was the employment of his days

but his nights were devoted to a different purpose. In the course of his domiciliary perambulations, numberless were the attempts that were made on his precious life-BY HIMSELF. 2 F

Scarce

Scarce a morning came that he could not produce bullets that had been fired at him in the dark-from his own pistol; or expose his clothes,cut in many places, by his own dagger. Placards were posted on all the gates, threat ening him with death: but the ignorant and wicked brute had not ingenuity enough to disguise his own hand-writing-whichat once detected the impostor, and rendered him obnoxious: however, like the good Captain Huddlestone, as he would be taken notice of in some way-Ile, in a foaming fit of Loyalty, made an attempt on the life of a Gentleman. This gave Gt an opportunity of getting rid of the tyrant: he was prosecuted, found guilty, and deprived of the commission of the Peace. Jemmy O'B. had his day, and so had the little Justice.-Let Mr. Captain Huddlestone try his hand. Mr. Captain Huddlestone may in future, write to himself,and against himself-He may villify his precious character-threaten his valuable life, and proclaim himself the gladiator of a Gt which despises him. All this he may do-but I shall only laugh at him. The hour of him, and all the like of him ('tis a familiar phrase, but it is Irish) has, thank heaven, gone by. The Gov-t of Ireland sees that her best friends are the Sons of Ireland! and although an apostate Adventurer may have HUMBUGGED it once-yet, in future, it cannot be imposed upon.

RODERICK.

and mousing, may cause a stagnation in the two businesses, but not to any alarming extent, as we think the mea who have learned to build ships and make musquets, in defiance of a British legislature, will in time surmount any difficulties in the manufacture of Razors and Traps, to the disappointment of the same house of Parliament. The Americans have one resource against the meditated interdiction; if they give a shilling for a Razor or Mousetrap, made at home, instead of giving two-pence for one made in England, the starved Mousetrap Engineeers will soon find their way to a country, where those two diseases of despotism, beggary and nobility, do not exist.

MAJOR O'DONOGhue.

The drubbing given to this officer, in the Common Council of Dublin,by Giffard, we hope will not have any unpleasant effects on the loyalty of Catholic soldiers. Two evils might arise out of the conscious contempt, and ridicule a Catholic gentleman is exposed to, by seeking honors, for his services. One is, that he might be weak enough to retire from a service, which does not protect him from the handsandtonguesof domesticenemies; the second is, be might be tempted to imitate Coriolanus, and take refuge from the Demagogues, in the armies of the enemy. Giffard was dismissed from his place in the Custom House, by Lord Hardwicke, for insulting the Catholic body-he now insults the Catholic soldiery, and instead of

papers.

ENGLISH MOUSETRAPS.

A Sir Charles Mordaut, in the English Parliament,threatens the people of America, with the loss of Mouse Traps and Razors, if they persist in their non-intercourse laws; this dreadful denunciation against shaving

and his salary trebled; perhaps, Mr. Giffard thinks,that the public defence should not be trusted to Papists, and that a Papist who intrudes on the army, is a busy medler, who minds other people's business, and neglects his own. We know, however, that if Major Donoghue was wicked enough to fight for his own country, instead of Mr, Giffard's country, the orator

could

made dreadful ravages. Brtish policy has prevented the restoration of the ruined mills, where its influence was regarded; for instance the beautiful and magnificient mills at Kilmainham, belonging to Guinness and company, were not rebuilt after the conflagration, which must be attributed to the Albion and Globe English companies, who, if they had any wish for millworkswould have rebuiltthem. With the north-wall wind-mill they were as reprehensible, because if they had rebuilt that beautiful and useful work, it would be there to this day, and the mariner and the meal-man would have a distinct mark, by which they could navigate in safety their ships or carts. Sil Costigan and Nick Rowe had two special goodmillsburnt, bnt their independent spirits would not suffer the ruins of their concerns, to be monuments of English influence or of their own indolence; they replaced the unfortunatemills and every man who has and eye on the comforts of the tumbler, or the grandeur of our city, may see the two structures hurlingtheir immense wings in eternal succession, from every quarter of the surrounding country,defying the enemies of our tables and prosperity.

CANAL BREAKING.

The magistrates and free-holders of the County of Westmeath, have agreed to a long string of resolutions, against the poor people who have been breaking the canals, for the purpose of preventing the exportation of pota toes and grain, now at an enormous price, unknown heretofore, in the memory of man. The resolutions, threats and rewards, published on this awful occasion, and done as such things are usual in Ireland, to terrify by the means of the gallows, as if hunger could be appeased by the fear of death. It is an unhappy condition of this country, that the people are divided into two castes, directly in opposition in all cases to each other;

e poor are all Irish, and the righ all

English; two circumstancesthat have arisen from our melancholy history. The lands were taken from the Irish, and the takers bestowed said lands on themselves, and to this hour the same takers hatethepeople they hadrobbed. We have Gallowses, Farming Socie ties, Dublin Societies, Religious Crimping Societies, and Orange Societies, every one of real English feature and character, to which these resolution makers have in some manner contributed; but, we have not one Society for bettering the condition of the labouring classes, by raising their wages, to make the creatures able to enjoy some of the comforts of wholesome food, fuel, raiment and lodging,to which at least three millions of human beings,living in a plentiful country, are strangers. No Society has yet appeared since Strongbow and his robbers polluted our soil, that had the humanity to remove the peasant one point from the excessive misery, he iscondemned to, by the wretched pittance of fivepence a day, the average price of labour through Ireland; and with this crying injustice before theireyes, every moment those Lords and would be Lords, at Mullingar, call on the people for their allegiance, for allegiance to eternal hunger,toprevent famine; as if man under the exaspe rations of want, could understand he had any interest in the happiness of the cruel instruments of his wrongs. Leave off yourhypocrisyandwhining, and cant, wicked men; restore the country you have trafficked awayabolish those societies you have instituted for starving your countrymen, to pamper strangers and rivals, and let the people among whom you have the courage to live, have a more adequate reward for their toils and their forbearance.

HALL THE YEOMAN. The public have been much puzzled to know why Fowler the Smith, should be hanged for killing his

brother