complished would hardly have devised so refined an act of specious perfidy. It was a particular feature of Reynolds's infamy, that he seems to have felt a gratification in witnessing the effects of his proceedings on the unfortunate families of his victims. A few days after the arrests at Bond's, he paid a visit of condolence to Mrs. Bond, and even caressed the child she was holding in her arms. He paid a similar visit of simulated friendship to the wife of Lord Edward Fitzgerald on the 16th of March. Mr. Reynold's son must tell the particulars of this interview;" She (Lady Fitzgerald) also complained of a want of gold; my father told her he had given Lord Elward fifty guineas the preceding night, aud would have sent her fifty more in the course of that day, which promise he performed. Neither of these suns were ever repaid. In the course of their conversation, my father mentioned his intention of leaving Ireland for a time; on which she took a ring from her finger and gave it to him, saying she hoped to hear from him if he should have anything of importance to communicate, and that she would not attend to any letter purporting to come from him, unless it were sealed with that ring, which was a small red cornelian, engraved with the figure of a dancing satyr."

Mr. Reynolds having deprived himself of his pistols, on the 15th of March, the act was considered by him, and at a later period, it would seem, was recog nized by Government, as one done for the public service, for these pistols were replaced by Major Sirr, and the bill for the case purchased on this occasion, by the Major for his friend, was duly presented to Mr. Cooke, and the subsequent payment of it was not forgotten.

1789, July 26, Major Sirr, for pistols for Mr. Reynolds.

So much for the friendship's offerings of Mr. Thomas Reynolds. Again, and furnishing the initials of the person who discovered and gave up Lord Edward:-

The son of Mr. Reynolds has very industriously endeavoured to impress the readers of his book with the opinion that there were a variety of circumstances, so suspicious in their nature, in the conduct of Murphy on the occasion of the arrest of Lord Edward, as to be totally inexplicable. In short, he plainly insinuates, though he does not say it in express terms, that Murphy was privy to the door being left open, by which Sirr and his party gained admission, and as he was standing at the window when they entered that he must have seen the party in the street on their arrival at the house.

If Mr. Reynold's father had been living, he could probably have informed him that there was not the slightest ground for these insinuations; thongh the disclosure of Lord Edward's place of concealment was not made by him, from his subsequent intimacy with the agents of Government he could hardly have been mistaken as to the quarter from which it did come. The person who gave that information was amply rewarded for it—he received 1,000. and the initials of his name were not those of Nicholas Murphy. Nor was Murphy at large when the payment was made. The following date, letters, service, and sum paid for it, show the groundlessness of the suspicions entertained by Mr. Reynolds June 20th, 1798. F. H. Discovery of L. E. F., 1,000%"

Lord Edward's death, with sundry minute particulars not generally known, is the subject of our next extract.

Two surgeons attended daily on Lord Edward Fitzgerald. It was supposed, the evening of the day before he died, he was delirious, as we could hear him with a very strong voice crying out, "Come on! come on! d-n you, come on!" He spoke so loud, that the people in the street gathered to listen to it. He died the next day early in the morning, on the 3rd of June. The surgeons

attended and opened the body: then he was seen for the first time by the prisoners. The bowels were opened, and whatever was found there was thrown under the grate, and then the part opened was sewn up. He had about his neck a gold chain, suspending a locket with hair in it.

Thus died one of the bravest of men, from a conviction, I believe, that his projects would ameliorate the condition of his country. I shall endeavour to describe his person he was, I believe, about five feet seven inches in height, and a very interesting countenance; beautiful arched eyebrows, fine grey eyes, handsome nose, and high forehead-thick, dark-coloured hair, brown, or inclining to black. I think he was very like the late Lady Louisa Conolly about the nose and eyes. Any person he addressed must have admired his manner, it was so candid, so good-natured, and so impregnated with good feeling; ;—as playful and humble as a child—as mild and timid as a lady-and, when necessary, as brave as a lion. He was altogether a very fine, elegantly formed man. Peace to his name!

Something more than already quoted relative to the infamous Captain Armstrong and his bearing to the Sheareses :

Captain Armstrong did not think it necessary to state, that at his Sunday's interview he shared the hospitality of his victims; that he dined with them, sat in the company of their aged mother and affectionate sister, enjoyed the society of the accomplished wife of one of them, caressed his infant children; and on another occasion (referred to by Miss Steele) was entertained with music-the wife of the unfortunate man, whose children he was to leave in a few days fatherless, playing on the harp for his entertainment!

Dr. Madden's volumes do not abound with passages which can be very readily made available as extracts; but we have helped ourselves to several that have been chosen by fellow contributors to the periodical press. There is another, giving a last appeal by the younger Sheares to the court on his trial; but which was answered by the Attorney General, craving an execution on both brothers the very next morning :

"My Lords, I have no favour to ask of the court: my country had decided that I am guilty, and the law says that I shall suffer: it sees that I am ready to suffer.

"But, my lords, I have a favour to request of the court that does not relate to myself. My lords, I have a brother, whom I have ever loved dearer than myself; but it is not from any affection for him alone that I am induced to make the request. He is a man, and therefore, I would hope, prepared to die, if he stood as I do, though I do not stand unconnected; but he stands more dearly connected. In short, my lords, to spare your feelings and my own, I do not pray that I should not die-but that the husband, the father, the brother and the son, al comprised in one person, holding these relations, dearer in

life to him than any other man I know ;—for such a man, I do not pray a pardon, for that is not in the power of the court; but I pray a respite--for such time as the court, in its humanity and discretion, shall think proper. You have heard, my lords, that his private affairs require arrangement. I have farther room for asking it: if immediately both of us be taken off, an aged and revered mother, a dear sister, and the most affectionate wife that ever lived, and six children, will be left without protection, or provision of any kind. When I address myself to your lordships, it is with the knowledge you will have, of all the sons of our aged mother being gone. Two have perished in the service of the king; one very recently. I only request that, disposing of me with what swiftness, either the public mind or justice requires, a respite may be given to my brother, and that the family may acquire strength to bear it all. That is all I wish-I shall remember it to my last breath, and I will offer up my prayers for you to that Being, who has endued us all with sensibility to feel. That is all I ask. I have nothing more to say."

The rebellion of the United Irishmen, strange to say, was characterised by more loss of life in cold blood, than in battle.

Throughout the country, the total loss on both sides, in this rebellion, is estimated by Plowden, Moore, Curran, and Barrington, at about 70,000; 20,000 on the side of the Government, and 50,000 on that of the insurgents. It is generally admitted by all, but more especially by the Rev. Mr Gordon, that very many more were put to death in cold blood, than perished in the field of battle. The number of deaths arising from torture, or massacre, where no resistance was offered, during the year 1798, forms the far greater portion of the total number of slain in the contest. The words of Mr. Gordon are, “I have reason to think, more men than fell in battle, were slain in cold blood. No quarter was given to persons taken prisoners as rebels, with or without arms."

Now for a good anecdote :

"You

One of the most eminent physicians of New York, pointed out to me, in a public assemblage in that city, in 1835, a gentleman of a grave and respectable appearance, and seemingly of retired and unassuming manners. see that middle-aged man in black?" said the American physician; "I guess you were very anxious to have him hanged in the old country a few years ago. His name is Watson; he managed to get over here, and he has lived amongst us some years. He has turned out here a very quiet inoffensive, industrious He follows his profession, and has had the good sense to take no part whatever in our politics. I reckon," continued my informant, "that society goes on in the old country pretty much as well as it did since he left it. is here attending to his business, which, perhaps, he did not do at home, and gaining his livelihood in a creditable manner. I have a notion, the very worst way in the world to improve a man, is to hang him—or to benefit society, is to put folks to death who don't know how to behave themselves, or to support their families. We keep them alive here, in order to teach them how to do

man.

both."

He

This was Watson of Thistlewood notoriety. We conclude with certain notices of Lord Clare :

Lord Clare, in some things, was a man of somewhat similar taste, but of a very different temperament. He hunted down his game, not for the pleasure of the chase, but on account of his antipathy to the creature he pursued. His natural disposition was by no means sanguinary; his feelings were warm, impetuous, ungovernable; he was capable of forming ardent friendships and of doing generous actions. But his violent temper, his arrogant disposition, his loose principles, and unbounded ambition, made his love of power and command a domineering passion which brooked no opposition, and converted his sense of offended pride into implacable resentments. With respect to the leaders of the United Irishmen, who had given him no personal offence, he not only refrained from obstructing their overtures to enter into terms with the Government, but his exertions were successfully used in their behalf when other members of the Privy Council were clamorous for their prosecution. The recollection of his conduct on these occasions was probably not forgotten by M'Nevin, when he spoke of his lordship, with all his grievous faults, as "an Irishman after all." Mr. Moore has recorded a trait of his character, in reference to Lord Edward Fitzgerald, which shows his nature to have been intended for better things than his political course would lead one to expect of him. A few days previously to the arrests at Bond's, he said to Mr. Ogilvie, "For God's sake, get that young man out of the way; the ports shall be open to him." On another occasion, of no less peril to an individual implicated in an attempt to procure the assistance of a military force from the French Government, he gave that individual timely information of his danger, and thus enabled him to effect his escape. This circumstance never has been made public; but I see no reason why it should be withheld, or that an act of justice to the memory of one whose conduct on other occasions has been deservedly reprobated should be left undone. The late Archibald Hamilton Rowan owed his life to a communication made to him by Lord Clare. The statement of the fact may cause the justice of the opinions expressed on the subject of his lordship's conduct in the case of the Sheares to be called in question; but the inconsistencies of Lord Clare's character it would be a difficult matter to reconcile or to account for. It is, however, far more gratifying to the writer to have one trait of generosity to record of such a man, than to corroborate previous statements by new evidence of his vindictiveness.

My authority for the above-mentioned fact is a physician long and intimately acquainted with Rowan, a gentleman of unquestionable veracity. He was informed by Rowan a short time before his death, that the first intimation he received of the detection of Dr. Jackson's correspondence with the French Directory, and of the discovery by Government of a paper in his own handwriting, composed by Theobald Wolfe Tone, and copied by him, (Rowan,) setting forth the political state of Ireland, had been communicated to him while he was confined in Newgate, (undergoing the sentence imposed on him for publishing and distributing a "seditious libel,") by a person sent to him expressly by Lord Clare, for the purpose of acquainting him with his dangerous position.

Rowan, promptly acting on the information, easily found means of escaping from gaol, and fled to France.

ART. III. Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, &c. By G. T. VIGNE, ESQ., F.G.S. 2 vols. Colburn.

MR. VIGNE has been an industrious traveller in the east, if the length of time he has there spent, and the number of his journeys, as well as the novel ground which he sometimes penetrated, be considered. He has, however, shown himself to be an adventurous wanderer in search of new or out-of-the-way scenes, rather than possessed of that science, and those literary accomplishments by means of which riches may be gathered in a trodden path, and the most barren regions invested with enticing charms. Still his volumes necessarily present a good deal that will stimulate, if not satisfy, curiosity; and, we must add, where his pen is feeble, or his written information vague and doubtful, his pencil and his pictorial representations are ready to make amends, and to elicit approval.

It appears that Mr. Vigne wandered from England in 1832, without any very definite arrangement with regard to length of absence, or region of travel; having at last reached the north-western boundary of India, and returning home after a lapse of seven years. We have, however, no intention of keeping company with him during his route, or even of anxiously endeavouring to pick out many of the more curious entries in his journal. Much of the ground over which he has walked, and was early in traversing, other travellers and investigators have recently made comparatively familiar to us, and with more vividness as well as minuteness and accuracy. It may in general terms be stated that his journeys and researches take their peculiar character from being chiefly devoted to the territories which stretch along with, or are adjacent to, the Indus, and which in fact form its basin. He accordingly has contributed to the more complete tracings of that far-winding river; and he avows a proud satisfaction in knowing that he had probably seen more of it than any other person ever did. I drank," he continues, "of many of its springs, and at the sources of many of its minor branches; and I alone have visited many of its mountains, lakes, and glaciers, which discharged their tributary streams in the shape of ready-formed and furious torrents. I remembered with pleasure that I had crossed all the rivers of the Punjab higher up in their mountain channels; that I had forded the Shy-York at Nuba; that I was the first European who had been ferried across the Indus at Iskardo; that I had crossed the Chunab in Kishtawar, and the Ravi at Chumba; that no living traveller but myself had drunk of the sacred element in the GungaBul, the most holy lake that Kashmir can boast of; that, in the same regions I had ascended to the Kosanag, the birthplace of the farfamed Hydaspes; that the waters in contact with our boat, might have once sparkled in the Gomul, up which I had marched with the Lohanis to Ghuzni, or have descended to Atok in the river of

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