trymen to witness, if in that business I have compromised the claims of my country, or temporized with the power of England; but there was one thing which baffled the effort of the patriot, and defeated the wisdom of the Senate, it was the folly of the theologian!

3. When the Parliament of Ireland rejected the Catholic petition, and assented to the calumnies then uttered against he Catholic body, on that day she voted the Union: if you should adopt a similar conduct, on that day you will vote the separation. Many good and pious reasons you may give; many good and pious reasons she gave; and she lies THERE, with her many good and pious reasons!

4. That the Parliament of Ireland should have entertained prejudices, I am not astonished; but that you,—that you, who have as individuals and as conquerors, visited a great part of the globe, and have seen men in all their modifications, and Providence in all her ways,-that you, now, at this time of day, should throw up dikes against the Pope, and barriers against the Catholic, instead of uniting with that Catholic to throw up barriers against the French, this surprises; and, in addition to this, that you should have set up the Pope in Italy, to tremble at him in Ireland; and, further, that you should have professed to have placed yourself at the head of a Christian, not a Protestant league, to defend the civil and religious liberty of Europe, and should deprive of their civil liberty one-fifth of yourselves, on account of their religion,-this-this surprises me!

5. This proscriptive system you may now remove. What the best men in Ireland wished to do, but could not do, you may accomplish. Were it not wise to come to a good understanding with the Irish now? The franchises of the Constitu tion -your ancestors were nursed in that cradle. The ances tors of the petitioners were less fortunate.

6. The posterity of both, born to new and strange dangers, let them agree to renounce jealousies and proscriptions, in order to oppose what, without that agreement, will over

power both. Half Europe is in battalion against us, and we are devoting one another to perdition on account of mysteries, when we should form against the enemy, and march!

GRATTAN.

38. THE KAVANAGH.

HE Saxons had met, and the banquet was spread,

THE

And the wine in fleet circles the jubilee led;

And the banners that hung round the festal that night,
Seemed brighter by far than when lifted in fight.

II.

In came the O'Kavanagh, fair as the morn,

When earth to new beauty and vigor is born;

They shrank from his glance, like the waves from the prow, For nature's nobility sat on his brow.

III.

Attended alone by his vassal and bard

No trumpet to herald, no clansmen to guard-
He came not attended by steed or by steel:
No danger he knew, for no fear did he feel

IV.

In eye and on lip his high confidence smiled

So proud, yet so knightly-so gallant, yet mild;
He moved like a god through the light of that hall,
And a smile, full of courtliness, proffered to all.

"Come pledge us, lord chieftain! come pledge us!" they cried; Unsuspectingly free to the pledge he replied;

And this was the peace-branch O'Kavanagh bore-
"The friendships to come, not the feuds that are o'er !"

But, minstrel, why cometh a change o'er thy theme? Why sing of red battle-what dream dost thou dream? Ha! "Treason!" 's the cry, and "Revenge!" is the call, As the swords of the Saxon surrounded the hall!

VII.

A kingdom for Angelo's mind! to portray
Green Erin's undaunted avenger that day;

The far-flashing sword, and the death-darting eye,
Like some comet commissioned with wrath from the sky.

VIII.

Through the ranks of the Saxon he hewed his red way-
Through lances, and sabres, and hostile array;
And, mounting his charger, he left them to tell
The tale of that feast, and its bloody farewell.

IX.

And now on the Saxons his clansmen advance,

With a shout from each heart, and a soul in each lance:
He rushed, like a storm, o'er the night-covered heath,
And swept through their ranks, like the angel of death.

X.

Then hurrah! for thy glory, young chieftain, hurrah!
Oh! had we such lightning-souled heroes to-day,
Again would our "sunburst" expand in the gale,
And Freedom exult o'er the green Innisfail!

J. AUGUSTUS SHEA.

39. ON AMERICAN TAXATION.

[Burke is the greatest of Irish statesmen, and unsurpassed as a writer; by universal consent he stands equal to Lord Chatham. As an orator, he derived little advantage from personal qualifications; his voice and delivery were not good, hut the extent and variety of his powers in debate were greater than that of any other orator in ancient or modern times. When he rose to give

his speech on American taxation, the evening was far advanced; the debate was dull, and many of the members had withdrawn to neighboring rooms. The first sentences of his wonderful exordium awakened universal attention: the report of what was going on spread in every direction, and the members came crowding back until the hall was crowded to overflowing, and it reBounded throughout the speech with the loudest expressions of applause. Lord Townsend exclaimed, at the close of one of those powerful passages in which the speech abounds: "Heavens, what a man is this! Where could le acquire such transcendent powers?" Col. Barre, in the fervor of his excit ment, declared that if it could be written out he would nail it on every church door in the kingdom. Gov. Johnston said "it was fortunate for the noble lords (North and Germaine) that spectators had been excluded during the debate, for if any had been present they would have excited the people to tear the noble lords in pieces on their way home."]

COULD

OULD any thing be a subject of more just alarm to America, than to see you go out of the plain high road of finance, and give up your most certain revenues and your clearest interests, merely for the sake of insulting your colonies? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of three-pence. But no commodity will bear threepence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of men are resolved not to pay.

2. The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings. of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden, when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave ! 3. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fund, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. You are, therefore, at this moment, in the awkward situation of fighting for a phantom; a quiddity; a thing that wants, not only a substance, but even a name; for a thing which is neither abstract right, nor profitable enjoyment.

4. They tell you, sir, that your dignity is tied to it. I know not how it happens, but this dignity of yours is a terrible incumbrance to you; for it has of late been ever at war with your interest, your equity, and every idea of your policy

Show the thing you contend for to be reason, show it to be common sense, show it to be the means of obtaining some use ful end, and then I am content to allow it what dignity you please. But what dignity is derived from the perseverance in absurdity, is more than I ever could discern !

5. Let us, sir, embrace some system or other before we end this session. Do you mean to tax America, and to draw a productive revenue from thence? If you do, speak out: name, fix, ascertain this revenue; settle its quantity; define its objects; provide for its collection; and then fight, when you have something to fight for. If you murder, rob; if you kill, take possession: and do not appear in the character of madmen, as well as assassins,-violent, vindictive, bloody, and tyrannical, without an object. But may better counsels guide you!

BURKE,

FOR

40. ENTERPRISE OF AMERICAN COLONISTS.

OR some time past, Mr. Speaker, has the Old World been fed from the New. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, if America, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.

2. Turning from the agricultural resources of the colonies, consider the wealth which they have drawn from the sea by their fisheries. The spirit in which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought to raise your esteem and admiration. Pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.

3. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold, that they are at