and persons who have not much time to enter into a course of extensive reading; comprised in 1291 pages, by Counsellor Clinch, editor of the Evening Express, and brother-in-law to that great literary character Doctor Brenan.Sold to one of the young orators of Mount Jerome, for two tenpennies.

An Essay on the utility of Louse Traps, by the Chief Magistrate of Police, bought by Larry Tighe for the use of his new Government Bridewell.'

Modern Anecdotes of the House of Leinster, by the joint pens of the Major and his Larry. The first impression of this work sold for 1000%.

The Priest-killer's Manual, compiled by Limberlip of Mountrath, dedicated to the Purple Marksmen of Ireland, by Wollaghan the boy-shooter; handsomely printed at the Enniskillen press, bought by Halpin for the use of the head-pike office, Palmerstown.

Treatise on the nature of private Property and Banking, by Sir Wm. Alexander, late of the police, intended for the instruction of publicans and coach owners; bought by Jugsmeller Manning for three dollars.

Musquet Arguments against Popery, collected from the papers of the Bible Society, by Hall the Yeoman, bought by Holland the Kevin-treet nailor.

Bible Exercises for the use of loyal men, by Scarlet the nailor, bought by McCaskey for the Board of Ordnance.

A Statistical View of the Dominions which Benjamin the II. King of the Beggars, now happily governs, in one volume, with plans and elevations accompanied by an ingenious proposal for sweeping the streets of Dublin, by the female subjects of Ben, an improve ment first suggested by that refined Scotchman Major Taylor, as a mark of his deference to Irish feelings. It also submits a piece of domestic economy to his Loyal Majesty, which must enlarge the comforts of the officers of his Court, so far as an additional supply of carpets and looking-glasses

can contribute ; which is, to whitewash
the 2000 old women who are not able
to work, instead of putting shifts on
them, while whitewashing could be
done so cheap as four-pence each score
once every month, whereas it stands the
establishment by the shifting, not less
than four shillings annually for each
The author, who we learn is
person.
a Scotchman, says, that lime-washing
will prevent the breed of vermin, de
stroy the itch, and dissipate animal
effluvia, at present so intolerable, that
it reaches the Deputy Governor's
Drawing-room in spite of every pre-
caution, and even the wine-vaults to the
injury of the claret.

Proposals for the detection of the Canal Breakers and Caravats, lately submitted to the Major, by Doctor Brennan. The Doctor shows that under the pretence of collecting the populace occasionally at wrestling matches, their sentiments and secrets can be obtained, and the detection of rebels facilitated. This memoir was read at the meeting of the Battalion of Testimony, and the author, received the prize for the best treatise on manhunting.

The Rev. Doctor Hamill's proposals to the Catholics of Ireland, to hang up their petition for Emancipation in the Fish-market, instead of disgracing the Chapels with such follies; a new edition, edited by that brief writer, Counsellor Chinch, with an oration to the same purpose, by that accomplished speaker, George Keogh, Esq. Bought by little Father Byrne, purveyor to Doctor Brennan's witt publication, the Milesian.

Doctor Brennan's complaint against his mother for selling the family estate of 91. 13s. a year to Robert Cornwall, of the county Carlow, showing the cruelty of the same Robert for withholding the property, and the outrage ous criminality of Mr. Balfe, the Attorney, who lately sold the Doctor's bed, his library of ballads, two surMount touts, and a manuscript history of

Mount Jerome, for a debt due by the poor Doctor to the Attorney. The Doctor's principal object for publishing this work, is to justify himself against the reflections made on his moral character, for allowing his mother to take refuge in Channel-row, where she died of porrige, on the 11th of May, 1811.

Diseases caused by the Stone, writ ten by Barney Byrne,, Apothecary, of Ballinasloe, humbly dedicated to his learned friend, Father Larkin, the bare rack builder.

Hints for the improvement of the Fine Arts, for enlarging the School of Chemistry, and the School of Botany, for the purpose of ascertaining the propagation of Buttercups, with a new plan of a trap for catching. Hedge sparrows, to furnish the department of Zoology, in the Dublin Society House. This sketch on the Fine Arts and Natural History, is the production, of William Thorpe, Esq. Plasterer and Alderman, bought by Noah Sod, of Patrick's Close, Bird Catcher, Yeoman, and Boy-killer.

Observations on the cultivation and application of Oats, by Lord Kilfoy, late of the Commissariat Department, and at present one of the proprietors of unheeled Boots, who attend MurRhy's Smoking Club.

Campaigns against Coaches, by Harry Walker, late of the Cock of the North, Money Collector for the Majar, at present a private in the Masslane Army.

New improvements on the construction of Fire Engines, Dog Carts, and Blowing Horns, by Dust Murphy,

Correspondence, in a series of Letters, between Doctor Brennan, the Ma

jor, Captain Huddlestone, Tipperary Fitzsimons, and Limberlip, the Priestkiller, for the purpose of blowing up Cox's Magazine; bought for the Mount Jerome Library.

Clerical Lectures, by Justice Drury, delivered to a numerous assemblage of Students in the Art of Healing, at the Doctor's celebrated Dispensary on the Dunghills in Marlborough-st. bound in one volume with his Coombe Campaign, bought by Judith Cosley, midwife and nurse-tender to the Regiment of Beresford's Blood-hounds.

A list of houses burned, men flog. ged, tortured, half and whole banged, women and children shat and bayonet ed, compiled by authority of the biggest and best man in Carlow. Printed at the Orange Press in Mitre-alley.

Dugdale's Lives of Saints, who were buttermilked and gravelled, converting the mere Irish from Treason and Popery, bought by Pulley Gallagher, Chaplain to the Child-trap at Delgany

Anecdotes of Birmingham Preachers, who saved the County of Warwick from the wrath of Heaven, and who died in Workhouses.

Barney, Byrne's Appeal to the Public against Coombe Drury, who seized on Barney's Timber-yard and Saw. pits, by virtue of an act passed into Major Law, by the Battalion of Testimony, for sequestrating the Property of Papists,, suspected of building En gates and Whiskey Puncheons to for ward Keegan's Rebellion.

A description of Larry Tighe's Maid Brewery removed by the Ma jor from Thomas-street to Bridewell, bought by a servant of Colonel Littlehales.

COUNSELLOR

nor gownes, nor under the same degree weare any damaske nor satin in their gownes, but only esquires for the king's body, upon paine to forfeit for every default xl. s. And that no yeoman of the crowne, nor none other shall, under the degree of esquire or gentleman weare in their doublets damaske or satin, nor gownes of chamlet, upon paine to førfeit for every default fourtie shillings. And no servant of husbandrie, nor common la bourer, shall weare in their clothing any cloth whereof the broad yard shall pass the price of two shillings; nor suffer their wives to weare any clothing of higher value than is before li mited to their husbands. Nor shall

they suffer their wives to weare any veile or kercheffe whose price ex. ceedeth twentie pence."

What would our merchants in Broadway and Maiden-Lane say to such fashions. Our wenches would not buy such veils or kerchiefs to wear on washing days.

"Nor shall they weare any hosen whereof the paire shall passe eighteene pence, upon paine of three shillings and four-pence."

If our ladies were not to exceed that price for their hose; they must go bare legged.

The ordinance then gives the pains and forfeitures to the king, to be employed in the expenses of his honourable house. So the more there was of law breaking the better for the king's house. "But pains and forfeitures in and for the premises within the county palatine of Chester, shall be to my lord the prince; and within Examshire, to the archbishop of York, and his successors; and within the bishoprick of Durham, to the bishop of Durham, and his successors."-Thus every little vanity of the women was forty pence clear gain to the bishop and his successors of the see of Durham," after the feast of the epiphanie next coming, but not before." And if the words that follow

were of any other man than King Edward the fourth, I might scruple to utter them; but what was fit for that gallant prince to decree, I should not be too fastidious to utter, nor this honourable court disdain to give ear to.

And it is ordained and enacted, by the authority aforesaid that is, King Edward the fourth" that no manner of person under the estate of a lord shall weare from the said feast any gowne or mantell, unlesse it be of such length that (he being upright) it shall cover his privy members and his buttocks, upon paine to forfeit to our sovereign lord the king, for every default, twentie shillings."

The rigour of this ordinance is, however, tempered by some exceptions, and has, among others, this proviso provided that the same act be not prejudicial to m master John Gurthorpe, the deane of the king's chappel." Thus master Gurthorpe, though under the estate of a lord, was not so far prejudiced by the act but that he might stand upright, and show. himself gratis to the king, which no other man else could do under twenty shillings a time; and why? Because master John was the king's dean! and` the king would charge him nothing.

If the gentlemen for the prosecution ask to what purpose I read such ́statutes, I will tell them. It is to moderate their enthusiasm for old English laws and ordinances, and to render them better contented with the institutions and usages they have.

Still if there were no worse laws than these masquerading regulations, distinguishing the community, like the Hindoo casts, we might laugh at their absurdity; but the laws against artisans in England are of a more cruel

nature.

The hardship, for instance, of making justices, who never laboured, the judges of the poor man's labour, its intensity and its remuneration, is not equitable. They are not, in that respect, treated as free agents; they are

Counsellor Sampson's Speech.

not judged by their peers. The qualifications of those English justices are no qualifications for arbitration of such kind-They may be "most sufficient knights and esquires, with freehold, copyhold, or customary estate;" they may be of the peace and the quorum." They may be loyal men to church and state; but such will be too apt to scorn a leather apron. It is not with their back to the fire, and their belly to the table, that they can, perceive the poor man's wants. When they have eat their capon, and swallowed their sack, with their reins well warmed, and then turn round to take their with their backs to the table nap, and their belly to the fire, they are not the better qualified to judge the poor man's case. Sir Guttle may calculate, that if the lean rascals were to feed well, they might wax as fat as gentlemen.And Justice Drowsy might conclude, that, as there was but a time for all things, if the handicrafts got more time to sleep, there would not be enough left for gentlefolks. If Justice Testy has the gout, and his shoe should pinch, it would be reason for putting all the ragamuffins in the stocks. This may be exaggeration : Perhaps it is: but if there be any truth in it, let it go for what it is worth.

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-There exists at this day a law in England, that artificers in foreign countries, not returning within six months after warning given them by the British ambassador where they reside, shall be deemed aliens, and forfeit all their lands and goods, and be incapable of any legacy or gift. By it the industrious man, whose only crime is the possession of some useful art, and having transported himself to a country where, instead of groaning under taxes and tithes, he might enjoy the fruits of his labour, and the blessings

Stat. 5, Geo. I. c. 27.

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of equal laws, is subject to be re-
manded, like a prison-breaker, by an
ambassador, sent among us, possibly
for the purpose of debauching our
people, insulting our government, and
planning our destruction.

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Other statutes inflict fine, imprisonment, pillory, and ear-slitting, upon such as encourage any artisan to seek a better lot; and this they call "seducing artisans."

I recollect, in my native city, a
a passage
strong instance of this kind. At
Londonderry there was
across a river, as inconvenient as ei
ther of our ferries. The desidera-
tum was a bridge. The honour of
the achievement was reserved for
Mr. Lemuel Cox of Boston. He
brought with him a few chosen work,
men, and employed a number of the
poor labourers of the country. They
learned from their American fellow-
labourers how much better industry
was rewarded in the western world.
They addressed themselves to their
honourable employer. He was not
guilty of seducing them, nor they of
being artizans. He was put in prison.
His innocence was manifest, and he
was released; but such was the en-
vious return for the greatest benefit
that city ever knew,

Shall we, then, second the inten tion of the oppressor? Shall we, by such prosecutions, drive from our hospitable shores those who increase and revenue? Shall we too hunt our stock of industry, population, the wanderers like frighted birds, that find no twig unlimed, no bough to light upon? Shall, we, without law or precedent, and in the teeth. of a non-usage, as old as the annals of our country, rake up the embers of the English common law to find a pretext for doing what never was done before, and never should be done?

5 Geo. I. c. 27. 23 Geo. II. c. 13, 14 Geo. III. c. 71. If 2 L 2