Ah! well I knew that Mary, She had a tongue, she had a tongue. Once I had, &c. When spring is coming early, And skies are blue, and skies are blue; And trees are budding fairly, And corn is new, and corn is new; What clouds the sunny morrow Of nature then, of nature then? And turns young hope to sorrow? Oh, fickle men! oh, fickle men! Once I had a true love, I loved him well, I loved him well; But since he's found a new love, Alone I dwell, alone I dwell.” With these examples we consign the work to the applause of the public, and to the unquestioned admiration of all the lovers of excellent fictions. It is at once entertaining and full of judicious remarks upon the people of Ireland and many subjects of literature and importance which are connected with them: in short, it is a performance equally agreeable and instructive. There is also much originality in Mr. Griffin's Tales; he is no copyist of the common Irish characters, but an able delineator of real manners. council began thus: The citizen Ternant (and to call on me to say, whether I am a friend has delivered to me the letter, wherein you in- to the French revolution, I would declare that Tenche form me, that yielding, &c. you had determined I have it in abhorrence.' to recal him from his mission, as your minister Coxe tells me, that a little before Hamilton plenipotentiary to our republic.' He had un- went out of office, or just as he was going out, derscored the words our republic.' He said, taking with him his last conversation; and, that certainly ours was a republican govern- among other things, on the subject of their ment; but yet we had not used that style in differences, For my part,' says he, I avow this way: that if any body wanted to change myself a monarchist; I have no objection to a its form into a monarchy, he was sure it was trial being made of this thing of a republic; only a few individuals; and that no man in but,' &c. In conversation with the United States would set his face against it Baldwin, and Brown of Kentucky, Brown more than himself; but that this was not says, that in a private company once, consistwhat he was afraid of: his fears were from ing of Hamilton, King, Madison, himself, and another quarter; that there was more danger some one else making a fifth, speaking of the of anarchy being introduced. He adverted to federal government,' Oh!' says Hamilton, a piece in Freneau's paper of yesterday: he say the federal monarchy; let us call things said he despised all their attacks on him per- by their right names, for a monarchy it is."" sonally, but that there never had been an act In 1798, when Adams was president, Mr. of the government, not meaning in the execu- Jefferson relates, that in a conversation with tive line only, but in any line, which that him," he said that no republic could ever last paper had not abused. He had also marked which had not a senate; and a senate deeply the word republic thus, where it was applied and strongly rooted, strong enough to bear up to the French republic. He was evidently sore against all popular storms and passions; that and warm ; and I took his intention to be, that he thought our senate as well constituted as it Jefferson's Memoirs and Correspondence. Evo. I should interpose in some way with Freneau, could have been, being chosen by the legisla Vols. III. and IV. London, 1829. Col-perhaps withdraw his appointment of trans-tures-for if these could not support them, he burn and Bentley. lating clerk to my office. But I will not do it. did not know what could do it; that perhaps THE two concluding volumes of this valuable His paper has saved our constitution, which it might have been as well for them to be contribution to the history of an important was gallopping fast into monarchy, and has chosen by the state at large, as that would period have just appeared, and continue to be been checked by no one means so powerfully as insure a choice of distinguished men, since as attractive as the two which preceded them. by that paper. It is well and universally known, none but such could be known to a whole Volume III. resumes the correspondence of that it has been that paper which has checked people; that the only fault in our senate was, Mr. Jefferson during his residence at Paris at the career of the monocrats; and the President, that it was not durable enough; that hitherto the sanguinary times of the French Revolu- not sensible of the designs of the party, has not, it had behaved very well; however, he was tion (commencing with a letter to Mr. Jay, with his usual good sense and sang froid, looked afraid they would give way in the end. That July 19th, 1789); and his unvarnished, though on the efforts and effects of this free press, and as to trusting to a popular assembly for the prefavouring, accounts of the atrocities committed seen that, though some bad things have passed servation of our liberties, it was the merest before his eyes, convey the most horrible ideas through it to the public, yet the good have chimera imaginable; they never had any rule of those diabolical transactions. But we avoid preponderated immensely." of decision but their own will; that he would political topics; and for this reason also abstain as lief be again in the hands of our old comfrom similar discussions in the ensuing letters, mittees of safety, who made the law, and exewritten by Mr. Secretary Jefferson, at New "Knox, in a foolish, incoherent sort of a cuted it at the same time; that it had been York, Philadelphia, &c. 1790, 1, 2, 3, 4, and speech, introduced the pasquinade lately printed, observed by some writer (I forget whom he subsequent years. Our extracts, therefore, called the funeral of George W-n and James named), that anarchy did more mischief in one must be miscellaneous, and less calculated to W-n, king and judge, &c., where the Presi- night than tyranny in an age; and that in afford an accurate idea of the work than if we dent was placed on a guillotine. The President modern times we might say with truth, that went into its more prominent features. was much inflamed, got into one of those pas-in France anarchy had done more harm in one "February 16th, 1793. E. Randolph tells sions when he cannot command himself; ran night than all the despotism of their kings J. Madison and myself a curious fact, which on much on the personal abuse which had been had ever done in twenty or thirty years." he had from Lear. When the President went bestowed on him; defied any man on earth to The following bon-mot and anecdote relate to New York, he resisted for three weeks the produce one single act of his since he had been to the same person :efforts to introduce levees. At length he in the government, which was not done on the yielded, and left it to Humphreys, and some purest motives; that he had never repented others, to settle the forms. Accordingly, an but once the having slipped the moment of reantechamber and presence-room were pro- signing his office, and that was every moment vided; and when those who were to pay their since; that, by God, he had rather be in his court were assembled, the President set out, grave than in his present situation; that he preceded by Humphreys. After passing through had rather be on his farm than to be made emthe antechamber, the door of the inner room peror of the world; and yet that they were was thrown open, and Humphreys entered charging him with wanting to be a king. That first, calling out with a loud voice, the Pre- that rascal Freneau sent him three of his sident of the United States.' The President papers every day, as if he thought he would was so much disconcerted with it, that he did become the distributor of his papers; that he not recover it the whole time of the levee; could see in this nothing but an impudent deand when the company was gone, he said to sign to insult him: he ended in this high Humphreys, Well, you have taken me in tone. There was a pause. Some difficulty in once, but, by God, you shall never take me in resuming our question; it was, however, after a second time."" a little while, presented again, and he said there seemed to be no necessity for deciding it now." The importance of a free press is put in a strong light by the annexed: In August this subject is revived by another attack. So that even thus early there were great differences between republican Washington and republican Jefferson, both presidents of the New World. the "At a dinner given by the bar to federal judges Chase and Peters, present about twenty-four lawyers, and William Tilghman in the chair, this toast was given, Our king in old England.' Observe the double entendre on the word king. In a conversation between Doctor Ewen and the President the former said one of his sons was an aristo crat, the other a democrat. The Presiden 6 asked if it was not the youngest who was the "June 10th, 1793. Mr. Brown gives n the following specimen of the frenzy whic "May 23d. I had sent to the President prevailed at New York on the opening of th yesterday draughts of a letter from him to the new government. The first public ball whi Provisary Executive Council of France, and of took place after the President's arrival ther one from myself to Mr. Ternant, both on the Colonel Humphreys, Colonel W. S. Smit occasion of his recal. I called on him to-day. and Mrs. Knox, were to arrange the He said there was an expression in one of monials. These arrangements were as them, which he had never before seen in any low:-a sofa at the head of the room, rais of our public communications, to wit, our conversation with him yesterday, said, Sir, if on several steps, whereon the President republic.' The letter prepared for him to the all the people in America were now assembled, Mrs. Washington were to be seated. Hamilton was almost, if not entirely, monarchical; for, says our author: "E. Randolph tells me, that Hamilton, in cer f T દ્ 6 6 for which, not the tenants of the air, but the | of a manner and appearance very different from | triot, and you have set others down that air itself, has been laid under tribute. The that of Mr. Damer. He was tall and well thwarted you, and you hope to be a great man magnificently gilded covers of a quarto edition proportioned, dressed very plainly, with a red, some day or another. And on the score of of Henry's Bible lay on his right hand, re-laughing countenance, and two large black your own darling passion, the study of human flecting the light of four wax candles, which eyes, which seemed to be always rambling in nature, what say you? This is a kind of anawere supported in candlesticks of massive sil- search of amusement. Well, Damer,' said tomy you cannot study without subjects. The ver, richly carved. A solid and elegant side- Mr. Leonard, the gentleman just described, more men you know, the more you'll know of board was loaded with all the splendours of the I totally disagree with you in every one of their nature.' But I have got one subject family plate and glass. On a secretaire, at a your plans. I think you will do no service continually within my reach, and which I can little distance from the table, were placed a whatever to the peasantry, I think you do not dissect at will,' said Francis, laying his finger quantity of books in plain dark binding, and understand them sufficiently. (Mr. Damer over his heart. Did Jean Jacques Rousseau—' stamped on the covers with the impress of the smiled.) I think though they are ignorant The wretch, the quack, the hypocrite, the Society for the diffusion of Christian Know- and naked (poor fellows !), and Papists to boot, knave, the coward! You make my blood tingle ledge. In a corner, less brilliantly illumined, they have as fair a chance of going to heaven to my fingers' ends to hear him named.' the eye of the curious observer might detect a as the best of ourselves; that is my idea, poor Well, well, he knew the heart, however,' parcel of small pamphlets, stitched in blue devils! even though they do break out now said Francis, smiling at her energy; and did covers, and bearing on their title-pages the and then; human nature is human nature; he find it necessary to expose himself to the various denominations of The Dairyman's and my idea is, that all the funds and sub- dangers of collision with the mob of men? He Daughter,' The Conversion of Timothy De- scriptions in the world will not get half a laid his own heart bare, and found it a mirror lany from the Errors of the Church of Rome,' dozen more souls into heaven than were on of the whole species. Who knew more of the The Lough Derg Pilgrim, a Tale,' 'Father their way before. Half a dozen is the out-heart than Massillon? and yet every body was Clement, a Roman Catholic story,' and many side.' And would not the salvation of one,' surprised where a quiet priest could have found other productions of a similar tendency. There said Mr. Damer, lifting the cote roti to his such extensive opportunities of observation. was something in the air of the whole apart- lips, be worth the whole cost, and all the But what says D'Alembert to that? Massillon ment that was calculated to impress the be- exertions of the Society together? Be worth painted all his splendid gallery of sinners and of holder with an instantaneous conviction of the sixty thousand a year?' Sixty million!' saints-his magnificent portrait of the true wealth, the self-contentedness, and the piety of Besides the bickerings and heartburnings Christian-his appalling picture of the infidel the owner. It had little of mere fashion, but that have broken up the frame of society in his lukewarm devotee his false penitenta great deal of that species of luxury which in our country, the division of families, the his Mary Magdalen-his sensualist-all from England is denominated comfort, and in Ire-sundering of early attachments, the fomenta- the same original, all from the close study of land falls little short of magnificence. The tion of civil disunion, and the diffusion of his own single heart; and yet so true to the person of the proprietor was entirely in cha- all uncharitableness in private life? My idea life, that there breathes no soul in human form racter, or, in the cant of connoisseurs, in keep- is, that for the one soul we save by this busi- that may not find itself reflected in his pages as ing with his possessions. His hair was short ness, we lose fifty.' For shame, Tom,' said in a faultless mirror.' I read none of your and sleek, his head round as a bullet, his face Mrs. Damer, you are growing worse and papistical sermons,' said Esther; but friend plump and peachy, his eyes meek and sancti- worse every day.' I don't pretend to any D'Alembert, and the other eulogists of that monious, with a little spark of earthly fire, great sanctity,' said Leonard. You, my fair French priest, have overlooked one circum(the result of some harmless and habitual self- and fat and sanctimonious sister, know me a stance that might have lessened their wonder mdulgence,) gleaming unsteadily through the long time, and know me to be a blunt plain as to the source of his knowledge.' And what pal, like the pata of the Venus Erycina. fellow, that thinks he does his duty when he was that, I pray you?' The confessional.' His legs, shining in black silk, were crossed, so takes care of his neighbour's body, and leaves Esther,' said Francis, after bending his eyes 23 to expose the calf to the influence of a his soul between him and his Creator. There on her for a moment in silence, you have cheerful coal-fire, and a bunch of fine gold is the difference between us. Damer is as struck me dumb.' 6 You were dumb already. seals reposed on an incipient paunch. No honest a fellow as any body, but his charity all diar, starched and impudent, obscured the evaporates in smoke. If I find a poor fellow Mashing rotundity of his beardless jaws; a malin cravat, of the purest white, alone encircled his short neck-for he had the good taste to sit in full dress to his wine. Thus cushioned in the zephyrs, not in the poetical, but the practical, sense of the phrase, sipping his cote zeti, and glancing occasionally, while the conrenation proceeded, at the columns of a Dublin daily paper, sat Mr. Kirwan Damer, the owner of this mansion, and of the adjoining estate of Glendearg, in the county above intimated. To heighten the domestic picture, in a lounger, on the opposite side of the fire-place, sat Mrs. Damer, as well conditioned as her husband, dressed nike him in black, with a trim cap of white muslin surrounding her fair and full and rather languid countenance. The lady, too, was reading. But that we have already suffered the names to escape us, the reader might suppose that we were describing a wealthy you are bound to love them all, the poor and er and his helpmate, in their handsome rich, the mean and the noble, the dull no less parlour at the Glebe. He would be, however, than the gifted, the vicious as well as the holy. totally in error. Mr. Damer was merely an The dullest man you meet does his utmost to Irish country gentleman of our own time. The please you, and you should do as much by him. Flash has vanished, the Canfinny is forgotten, What book is that near you with the leaf turned the chiefs of their race are no more regarded, down? A volume of Shakespeare.' And the duellist, the drunkard, the libertine, and what says that stage-playing fellow? Does he the gambler, have all been exiled from the pale not bid you use men better than they deserve, of Irish society, or compelled to wear their for the lesser their desert the greater is your vices in a veil. A class of men has succeeded, merit in using them well?' On the score of to which even those who have an interest in its Christianity, Esther-nay, on the score of morification must accord a preference. Those rals-I plead guilty; but I never set up for a who wish to know the character of that class good Christian, you know.' That's a proper should know the Damers. On the other side speech. And on the score of patriotism, what of the table, near Mrs. Damer, sat a gentleman say you? You have set yourself up for a pa starving on my estate, why (Heaven forgive There is much acuteness and spirit in a dia- "I will be candid, Esther. There are many among them that I think hardly worth the pains of pleasing.' There you are very wrong again, Francis,' said Esther with considerable warmth · I had rather strike you talkative. If you hope to write a good book, or to be a great orator, you must talk with all, listen with all, and learn to please all. Put Jean Jacques out of your head. What has all his moping availed him but to win the admiration of all the morbid sentimentalists in Europe?—to crown him king of the day dreamers? But that stageplaying fellow near you used his eyes and ears as well as his imagination; and what has been his recompense? Universal empire.'' In conclusion, we must quote some of the very pretty poetry with which these volumes are adorned. "You never bade me hope 'tis true, The vow should bind with maiden sighs "Once I had a true love, I loved him well, I loved him well; How oft we've wandered lonely, Through yon old glen, through yon old glen; I was his treasure only, And true love then, and true love then: But Mary's singing brought me To sigh all day, to sigh all day; By lone Glencree at even, I passed him late, I passed him late; His head it hung, his head it hung; Ah! well I knew that Mary, She had a tongue, she had a tongue. Once I had, &c. When spring is coming early, And skies are blue, and skies are blue; And trees are budding fairly, And corn is new, and corn is new; What clouds the sunny morrow Of nature then, of nature then? And turns young hope to sorrow? Oh, fickle men! oh, fickle men! Once I had a true love, I loved him well, I loved him well; But since he's found a new love, Alone I dwell, alone I dwell." With these examples we consign the work to the applause of the public, and to the unquestioned admiration of all the lovers of excellent fictions. It is at once entertaining and full of judicious remarks upon the people of Ireland and many subjects of literature and importance which are connected with them: in short, it is a performance equally agreeable and instructive. There is also much originality in Mr. Griffin's Tales; he is no copyist of the common Irish characters, but an able delineator of real manners. * · council began thus: The citizen Ternant (and to call on me to say, whether I am a friend has delivered to me the letter, wherein you in- to the French revolution, I would declare that * Tenche form me, that yielding, &c. you had determined I have it in abhorrence.' to recal him from his mission, as your minister Coxe tells me, that a little before Hamilton plenipotentiary to our republic.' He had un- went out of office, or just as he was going out, derscored the words our republic.' He said, taking with him his last conversation; and, that certainly ours was a republican govern- among other things, on the subject of their ment; but yet we had not used that style in differences, For my part,' says he, I avow this way: that if any body wanted to change myself a monarchist; I have no objection to a its form into a monarchy, he was sure it was trial being made of this thing of a republic; only a few individuals; and that no man in but,' &c. In conversation with the United States would set his face against it Baldwin, and Brown of Kentucky, Brown more than himself; but that this was not says, that in a private company once, consistwhat he was afraid of: his fears were from ing of Hamilton, King, Madison, himself, and another quarter; that there was more danger some one else making a fifth, speaking of the of anarchy being introduced. He adverted to 'federal government,' Oh!' says Hamilton, a piece in Freneau's paper of yesterday: he say the federal monarchy; let us call things said he despised all their attacks on him per- by their right names, for a monarchy it is."" sonally, but that there never had been an act In 1798, when Adams was president, Mr. of the government, not meaning in the execu- Jefferson relates, that in a conversation with tive line only, but in any line, which that him, "he said that no republic could ever last paper had not abused. He had also marked which had not a senate; and a senate deeply the word republic thus, where it was applied and strongly rooted, strong enough to bear up to the French republic. He was evidently sore against all popular storms and passions; that and warm; and I took his intention to be, that he thought our senate as well constituted as it Jefferson's Memoirs and Correspondence. 8vo. I should interpose in some way with Freneau, could have been, being chosen by the legisla Vols. III. and IV. London, 1829. Col-perhaps withdraw his appointment of trans-tures-for if these could not support them, he burn and Bentley. lating clerk to my office. But I will not do it. did not know what could do it; that perhaps THE two concluding volumes of this valuable His paper has saved our constitution, which it might have been as well for them to be contribution to the history of an important was gallopping fast into monarchy, and has chosen by the state at large, as that would period have just appeared, and continue to be been checked by no one means so powerfully as insure a choice of distinguished men, since as attractive as the two which preceded them. by that paper. It is well and universally known, none but such could be known to a whole Volume III. resumes the correspondence of that it has been that paper which has checked people; that the only fault in our senate was, Mr. Jefferson during his residence at Paris at the career of the monocrats; and the President, that it was not durable enough; that hitherto the sanguinary times of the French Revolu- not sensible of the designs of the party, has not, it had behaved very well; however, he was tion (commencing with a letter to Mr. Jay, with his usual good sense and sang froid, looked afraid they would give way in the end. That July 19th, 1789); and his unvarnished, though on the efforts and effects of this free press, and as to trusting to a popular assembly for the prefavouring, accounts of the atrocities committed seen that, though some bad things have passed servation of our liberties, it was the merest before his eyes, convey the most horrible ideas through it to the public, yet the good have chimera imaginable; they never had any rule of those diabolical transactions. But we avoid preponderated immensely." of decision but their own will; that he would political topics; and for this reason also abstain as lief be again in the hands of our old comfrom similar discussions in the ensuing letters, mittees of safety, who made the law, and exe written by Mr. Secretary Jefferson, at New "Knox, in a foolish, incoherent sort of a cuted it at the same time; that it had been York, Philadelphia, &c. 1790, 1, 2, 3, 4, and speech, introduced the pasquinade lately printed, observed by some writer (I forget whom he subsequent years. Our extracts, therefore, called the funeral of George W-n and James named), that anarchy did more mischief in one must be miscellaneous, and less calculated to W-n, king and judge, &c., where the Presi- night than tyranny in an age; and that in afford an accurate idea of the work than if we dent was placed on a guillotine. The President modern times we might say with truth, that went into its more prominent features. was much inflamed, got into one of those pas-in France anarchy had done more harm in one "February 16th, 1793. E. Randolph tells sions when he cannot command himself; ran night than all the despotism of their kings J. Madison and myself a curious fact, which on much on the personal abuse which had been had ever done in twenty or thirty years." he had from Lear. When the President went bestowed on him; defied any man on earth to The following bon-mot and anecdote relate to New York, he resisted for three weeks the produce one single act of his since he had been to the same person :efforts to introduce levees. At length he in the government, which was not done on the yielded, and left it to Humphreys, and some purest motives; that he had never repented others, to settle the forms. Accordingly, an but once the having slipped the moment of reantechamber and presence-room were pro- signing his office, and that was every moment vided; and when those who were to pay their since; that, by God, he had rather be in his court were assembled, the President set out, grave than in his present situation; that he preceded by Humphreys. After passing through had rather be on his farm than to be made emthe antechamber, the door of the inner room peror of the world; and yet that they were was thrown open, and Humphreys entered charging him with wanting to be a king. That first, calling out with a loud voice, the Pre- that rascal Freneau sent him three of his sident of the United States.' The President papers every day, as if he thought he would was so much disconcerted with it, that he did become the distributor of his papers; that he not recover it the whole time of the levee; could see in this nothing but an impudent deand when the company was gone, he said to sign to insult him: he ended in this high Humphreys, Well, you have taken me in tone. There was a pause. Some difficulty in once, but, by God, you shall never take me in resuming our question; it was, however, after a second time."" a little while, presented again, and he said there seemed to be no necessity for deciding it The importance of a free press is put in a strong light by the annexed: In August this subject is revived by another attack. now." So that even thus early there were great differences between republican Washington and republican Jefferson, both presidents of the New World. "May 23d. I had sent to the President yesterday draughts of a letter from him to the Provisary Executive Council of France, and of one from myself to Mr. Ternant, both on the occasion of his recal. I called on him to-day. Hamilton was almost, if not entirely, moHe said there was an expression in one of narchical; for, says our author: them, which he had never before seen in any "E. Randolph tells me, that Hamilton, in of our public communications, to wit, our conversation with him yesterday, said, 'Sir, if republic.' The letter prepared for him to the all the people in America were now assembled, 6 * * "At a dinner given by the bar to the federal judges Chase and Peters, present about twenty-four lawyers, and William Tilghman in the chair, this toast was given, Our king in old England.' Observe the double entendre on the word king. In a conversation between Doctor Ewen and the President, the former said one of his sons was an aristocrat, the other a democrat. The President asked if it was not the youngest who was the democrat? 'Yes,' said Ewen. Well,' said the President, a boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing; and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty.' A short space for so great a change!! Another story of infant etiquette in making states. 999 "June 10th, 1793. Mr. Brown gives me the following specimen of the frenzy which prevailed at New York on the opening of the new government. The first public ball which took place after the President's arrival there, Colonel Humphreys, Colonel W. S. Smith, and Mrs. Knox, were to arrange the ceremonials. These arrangements were as follow:-a sofa at the head of the room, raised on several steps, whereon the President and Mrs. Washington were to be seated. The him." The annexed, if true, will change many an opinion respecting Washington. 6 gentlemen were to dance in swords. Each for the public can soon discriminate between | lowed in less than two years after his escape at one, when going to dance, was to lead his the hand of a master and that of his follower; Kilquane, is thus related by Mr. M'Gregor :. partner to the foot of the sofa, make a low it is in history and topography that book- "Kerry was his next place of refuge; and obeisance to the President and his lady, then making becomes an evil, for thus are errors here he lay concealed for some time, with a few go and dance; and, when done, bring his perpetuated; and, trifling as a name or date trusty servants, in a wood near Tralee, compartner again to the foot of the sofa for new may be considered, a want of accuracy in either, pelled to support himself and his followers at obeisances, and then to retire to their chairs. at once destroys our confidence in the authen- the expense of the neighbouring peasantry. It was to be understood, too, that gentlemen ticity of other statements." Among various depredations committed by should be dressed in bags. Mrs. Knox con- The patient and laborious investigations of them, some cattle were taken from a poor trived to come with the President, and to fol- the antiquary, and the minute details of the woman named Moriarty. She complained to low him and Mrs. Washington to their destina- honest biographer, have been too often unjustly her brother, who applied to the English gotion; and she had the design of forcing an turned into ridicule; for who is there that can vernor of Castlemain for assistance. The goinvitation from the President to a seat on the deny the important results produced by cir-vernor granted him seven musketeers and sofa. She mounted up the steps after them cumstances apparently unworthy of attention? twelve horsemen, under the command of one unbidden; but, unfortunately, the wicked sofa Who, for instance, that is intimately acquainted Kelly, an Irishman, who followed the track of was so short, that when the President and with the particulars of the late extraordi- the cattle, till they came to a wood four miles Mrs. Washington were seated, there was not nary Clare election can doubt that the wearing east of Tralee, where they resolved to take up room for a third person; she was obliged, of a bit of lead, called a "liberator medal," their quarters for the night; but perceiving a therefore, to descend in the face of the com- occasioned the return of Mr. O'Connell ? and to fire not far off, they advanced towards it, and pany, and to sit where she could. In other his return has been (justly or not, it is impos- discovered six persons sitting in a ruined house. respects the ceremony was conducted rigor. sible for us to say) ascribed the measure of They all fled at the entrance of the soldiers, ously, according to the arrangements; and the Catholic emancipation. To offer a topographi- except an old man, whom Kelly struck with President made to pass an evening, which his cal illustration of the same argument, we hap- his sword, and nearly cut off his arm; upon good sense rendered a very miserable one to pen to know that the Chain Bridge across the which his wretched victim exclaimed, Spare Thames at Hammersmith owes its existence to my life, for I am the Earl of Desmond!" But a joke at a supper-table. finding that the earl would be unable to travel Mr. M'Gregor's present volume embraces from loss of blood, his executioner bade him the history of Ireland under the Tudors; and prepare for death, and then struck off his head, is carefully compiled from common sources in which was sent to England, and fixed upon an agreeable and rather anecdotical manner-London bridge. Kelly was rewarded for this but the curse of the copyist hangs over him. service with an annual pension of £20; but he Unlike his great original, whose little volumes was afterwards hanged at Tyburn." every where shed new rays upon history, those Circumstantial as this account, even in Mr. of Mr. M'Gregor faithfully hand down the M'Gregor's abridgment, appears to be, we can blunders and errors of his predecessors. We inform him, that the Earl of Desmond fell, not could point out many, but will content our- by the hand of Kelly, but by that of Donald selves with a single example, as no doubt the M'Donald Imorietaghe, on the 11th of NovemHistory of Ireland announced as in preparation ber, 1584 :-and thus might we proceed. by Mr. Moore for Dr. Lardner's Cyclopædia, will correct the various mistakes and misrepresentations of former historians, who have done little more than copy one from the other, without reference to a single original or authentic document. Mistakes and misprints in Cox's History, which was published in the reign of William III., are repeated in Leland; and where Dr. Leland blunders, there Mr. M'Gregor is wrong also. The example we take will be circumstances connected with the death of the Earl of Desmond, in the reign of Elizabeth. The Christmas of 1582 he is represented by all historians as lurking in the wood of Kilquaig, near Kilmallock, in the county of Limerick, where he was attacked, his followers slain, and the earl, with his countess, escaped by concealing themselves, up to their necks in water, under the bank of a river. did so. Dr. Rush tells me that he had it from Asa Green, that when the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation, that he had never, on any occasion, said a word to the public which shewed a beef in the Christian religion, and they thought they should so pen their address as to force him at length to declare publicly whether he was a Christian or not. They However, he observed, the old fox was too cunning for them. He answered every article of their address particularly, except that, which he passed over without notice. Bush observes, he never did say a word on the subject in any of his public papers, except in his valedictory letter to the governors of the states, when he resigned his commission in the army, wherein he speaks of the benign inence of the Christian religion.' I know that Guverneur Morris, who pretended to be in his secrets, and believed himself to be so, has often told me that General Washington beDeved no more of that system than he himself By this we understand that Washington Esbelieved the Christian dispensation; and have not a word to add. True Stories from the History of Ireland. By The following quotation affords at once a fair specimen of Mr. M'Gregor's style and the lawless state of Ireland: the period to which it refers is the close of Henry VIII.'s reign. "Commercial jealousies raged to such an extent during this reign, between the principal sea-ports on the southern and western coasts of Ireland, as frequently to occasion fierce hostilities both by sea and land. A war of this nature was carried on for twelve years between the merchants of Limerick and Galway, which was attended with some bloodshed, and terminated only by the interposition of the crown. Another piratical war was carried on between Waterford and some of the ports in the neighbourhood of Cork, in which many instances of bravery were displayed which would have been creditable to regular forces. Take the following as an instance. On the 20th of February, 1537, four ships laden with Spanish wines, and consigned to the merchants of Waterford, were driven by a tempest into Cape Clear, Kinsale, and Baltimore. Sir Fineen O'Driscol, the hero of this part of the coast, had his residence at the castle of Dunalong, or the Ship-castle, on the island of Innisherkin; and his name was dreaded from the Bristol channel to the mouth of the Shannon. The prizes which he and his natural son Gilly Duff, or Black Gilbert, took by sea or land, were stored up in the Shipcastle; and here open house was kept for the gentry and pedlars, who came from all quarters to purchase bargains of wine, brandy, drapery, or other goods-the produce of their piracies. On the tempestuous night above mentioned, Gilly Duff was rowing along the shore in his launch, when the Santa Clara appeared in disNotwithstanding what we have said, the attention tress at the entrance of Baltimore harbour. will do something towards making future historians accunow bestowed even by the romance writer upon history He approached to offer assistance, and proposed, rate. We may refer to Miss Crumpe's "Geraldine of for three tuns of wine, to bring her safely into laboured through some scores of volumes, as well as many than an hour she was securely moored under Desmond;" to produce which, the fair writer must have port. The bargain was struck, and in less original papers. Now, it oddly enough happens, that Mr. M'Gregor (if we are not very much mistaken) has recently published a topographical history of the very county where this event is represented to have taken place, and was, therefore, we should have supposed, peculiarly qualified to correct the statement in Cox and others, and to inform us that no such place as Kilquaig exists in the county of Limerick - although there is a portion of the parish of Kilquane, a mile east of Kilmallock, which, from the discovery of numerous human bones, and its local character, is, beyond question, the place alluded to. And thus has a misprint (for it is no more) been allowed to remain uncorrected for more than a century. The Earl of Desmond's death, which fol The Library of Entertaining Knowledge. the castle of Dunalong. The captain and crew | painted by Cooper, and as well engraved by discovered it, as he has done a multitude of expressed gratitude for their deliverance, and Raddon, enhance its value. We find only one valuable documents, in the State Paper Office; Gilly Duff increased it by inviting them to the new note; in which Sir W. Scott, speaking of and the kind attentions paid by Mr. Peel, castle, where, he said, the fire of hospitality the elfin traditions peculiar to the wild scenery amid all the weighty affairs of politics, to the was never out on his father's hearth. The where the Avon-Dhu, or River Forth, has its interests of literature-one of the noblest captain and his wearied mariners gladly ac-birth, observes, that the opinions entertained chaplets with which a minister can bind his cepted the invitation, and enjoyed the food and about these beings are much the same with brow. festivity of Sir Fineen O'Driscol, till, sunk in those of the Irish, so exquisitely well narrated sleep and wine, they left their vessel to her by Mr. Crofton Croker; and he continues-fate. They were instantly clapt in irons, the galleys of Gilly Duff boarded the vessel, and before morning every pipe of wine which she contained was stored in the vaults of the castle, or the cellars of the adjoining Franciscan convent. When the merchants of Waterford received intelligence of this act of piracy, they equipped a well-armed vessel, which sailed on the 3d of March for Baltimore, under the command of Captain Dobbyn; who coming up sud-of some talents, who translated the Psalms denly with the Santa Clara, boarded her on into Gaelic verse. He had formerly been mi. one side, while Gilly Duff with his men fled nister at the neighbouring parish of Balquidout at the other: and after firing several guns der, and died at Aberfoil in 1688, at the early at the castle, Dobbyn brought off his prize. age of forty-two. He was author of the SeBut this was not a sufficient satisfaction to the cret Commonwealth, which was printed after Waterford merchants for the insult and injury his death, in 1691-an edition which I have which they had sustained; they, therefore, fitted never seen-and was reprinted in Edinburgh, out a squadron of three ships, well appointed 1815. This is a work concerning the fairy trate its general character, without occupying and victualled, and manned by four hundred people, in whose existence Mr. Kirke appears so large a proportion of our page as we should men, which sailed for Baltimore, under the to have been a devout believer. He describes otherwise be tempted to allot to its merits. The command of Captains Woodlock and Dobbyn. them with the usual powers and qualities very first page is a fair specimen: the chapter Sir Fineen O'Driscol and the inmates of Duna- ascribed to such beings in Highland tradition. treats of the clothes-moth and other tent-making long castle were still carousing over the Spanish But what is sufficiently singular, the Rev. caterpillars; and the writer says: "There are wines, when at day-dawn, on a fine April morn- Robert Kirke, author of the said treatise, is at least five different species of moths similar ing, the watch-tower bell gave notice that a believed himself to have been taken away by in manners and economy, the caterpillars of hostile squadron was in sight, and in a few the fairies, in revenge, perhaps, for having let which feed upon animal substances, such as minutes they cast anchor before the castle. in too much light upon the secrets of their furs, woollen cloths, silk, leather, and, what The battlements were instantly manned, and commonwealth. We learn this catastrophe to the naturalist is no less vexing, upon the all the artillery of the fortress opened its fire from the information of his successor, the late specimens of insects and other animals preon the ships: but this was answered with such amiable and learned Dr. Patrick Grahame, served in his cabinet. The moths in question effect by Woodlock's little squadron, that a also minister at Aberfoil, who, in his Sketches are of the family named Tinea by entomolobreach was speedily made; and the Waterford- of Perthshire, has not forgotten to touch upon gists, such as the tapestry moth (Tinea tapetians, led on by Lieut. Grant, rushed to the the Daoine Shie, or men of peace. The Rev. sella), the fur moth (Tinea pellionella), the storm with a resolution that proved irresistible Robert Kirke was, it seems, walking upon a wool moth (Tinea vestianella), the cabinet -forced the barbacan, burst into the castle, little eminence to the west of the present moth (Tinea destructor, Stephens), &c. The and hoisted St. George's standard on the top of manse, which is still held a Dun Shie, or moths themselves are, in the winged state, the tower. Sir Fineen O'Driscol had already fairy mound, when he sunk down, in what small, and well fitted for making their way made his escape to Dunboy; but Gilly Duff, seemed to mortals a fit, and was supposed to through the most minute hole or chink, so that it perceiving that all was lost, resolved to perish be dead. This, however, was not his real fate. is scarcely possible to exclude them by the closein the ruins of the castle. Seizing a flaming Mr. Kirke was the near relation of Graham ness of a wardrobe or a cabinet. If they canbrand, he applied it to a powder barrel, and of Duchray, the ancestor of the present Ge- not effect an entrance when a drawer is out, or both victors and vanquished were instantly neral Graliam Stirling. Shortly after his fu- a door open, they will contrive to glide through launched into eternity. Grant alone stood un-neral, he appeared in the dress in which he the key-hole; and if they once get in, it is no injured, in a recess of one of the tower win-had sunk down, to a medical relation of his easy matter to dislodge or destroy them, for dows, while the flames were crackling around, own, and of Duchray. 'Go,' said he to him, they are exceedingly agile, and escape out of and burning beams and melting lead falling on to my cousin Duchray, and tell him that I sight in a moment. Moufet is of opinion that every side. At that moment Lieut. Butler, am not dead. I fell down in a swoon, and the ancients possessed an effectual method of seeing the perilous condition of his gallant com- was carried into Fairyland, where I now am. preserving stuffs from the moth, because the rade, scized a cross-bow, and fastening a cord Tell him, that when he and my friends are as-robes of Servius Tullius were preserved up to to a steel bolt, shot it up to Grant, who tying sembled at the baptism of my child (for he had it to the stone mullion of the window, slided left his wife pregnant), I will appear in the down in a moment, and found himself secure room; and that if he throws the knife which in the arms of his companions. The men of he holds in his hand over my head, I will be Waterford continued five days on the island, released, and restored to human society.' The during which they captured or destroyed seventy man, it seems, neglected for some time to depinnaces belonging to O'Driscol, ruined the Castle and convent, and returned in triumph, loaded with booty." "An eminently beautiful little conical hill, near the eastern extremity of the valley of Aberfoil, is supposed to be one of their peculiar THIS new Part is truly deserving of its title, haunts, and is the scene which awakens, in for it conveys much entertaining knowledge Andrew Fairservice, the terror of their power. while it pursues the interesting exposition of It is remarkable that two successive clergymen insect architecture, certainly one of the most of the parish of Aberfoil have employed them-curious branches of entomological inquiry. As selves in writing about this fairy superstition. in the preceding Part, the subject is most ably The eldest of these was Robert Kirke, a man treated; and the multitude of wood engravings render the study of these extraordinary creatures in all their wonderful ways as obvious as it is interesting. We could not open a page any where without falling upon extracts to justify this high opinion; but as the generality of our readers will probably procure the work itself, we shall confine our examples to those limits which will, we trust, sufficiently illus the death of Sejanus, a period of more than five hundred years. On turning to Pliny to learn this secret, we find him relating, that stuff laid upon a coffin will be ever after safe from moths; in the same way as a person once stung by a scorpion will never afterwards be stung by liver the message. Mr. Kirke appeared to a bee, or a wasp, or a hornet! Rhasis again him a second time, threatening to haunt him says, that cantharides suspended in a house night and day till he executed his commission, drive away moths; and, he adds, that they -which at length he did. The time of the will not touch any thing wrapped in a lion's The Waverley Novels. Vol. VIII. Rob Roy. baptism arrived. They were seated at table; skin;-the poor little insects, says Réaumur Vol. II. Edinburgh, 1830, Cadell and Co.; the figure of Mr. Kirke entered; but the sarcastically, being probably in bodily fear of London, Simpkin and Marshall. Laird of Duchray, by some unaccountable so terrible an animal. Such are the stories, THIS publication goes on most prosperously-fatality, neglected to perform the prescribed which fill the imagination even of philosophers, so prosperously, indeed, as to be a subject of ceremony. Mr. Kirke retired by another door, till real science entirely expels them. The continued wonder even to those most sanguine and was seen no more. It is firmly believed effluvium of camphor or turpentine may some in bookselling, and the greatest admirers of that he is at this day in Fairyland.'" times kill them when in the winged state, but the genius of the author. The present vo- A postscript contains the Duke of Montrose's this will have no effect upon their eggs, and lume, concluding the delightful novel of Rob original letter to the government relative to seldom upon the caterpillars; for they wrap Roy, has very little of additional literary il- the seizure of Killearn while collecting his themselves up too closely to be easily reached lustration; though the frontispiece from Les-rents; and with great propriety mentions the by any agent except heat. This, when it can lie, and a vignette, with two horses charmingly indefatigable zeal of Mr. Robert Lemon, who be conveniently applied, will be certain either |