annum, and several have smaller ones. The farms in Kildare are in general larger than in most of the other counties; and the leases, which formerly were for thirty-one years and three lives, are granted at present for twenty-one years and one life. Mr. Rawson says,* "Farms are frequently taken in partnership; and that lands are advertised to be let to the best bidrder." He states, also," that lands are often hired by persons without any property ;" and this appears to be a common practice throughout , the kingdoin.' 'KING'S COUNTY. have each from five to six thousand a year. Besides these, there are a great many land holders, who own estates of from 1500l. to 2000l. per annum; of these indeed no county has more. The leases in general are for three lives, and partnership leases are common. 'Lord Callan has a good estate. Lord Ashbrook, 7000l. per annum. Lord Kilkenny, 8000l. Lord Besborough, 17,000 acres. Lord Clifton, 20,000 acres. Sir Edward Loftus, a good estate. Lord Or. mond, 32,000l. Sir John Blundel, 5000l. Sir William Morris, 3000l. Mr. Bryan, 3000/. Lady Or mond, 10,000l. Sir Wheeler Cuff, a good estate. The Floods, 90001. Dr. St. George, 30007. Mr.Tighe, 60007. Mr. Murphy, 6000l. Mr. Bunbury, 4000.' 6 LIMERICK. 'Lord Digby possesses in this county an entire barony, called Geshill; which contains 10,822 acres, or forty-seven-town-lands. His lordship grants no lease on lives; and lets only for the determinable number of twenty-one 'Lord. Courtenay's property in years. I am, however, sorry to this county, though a large portion say, that I could not observe on his of it was sold for 200,000l. is still lordship's estate any signs of a equal in extent to 42,000 acres, superior tenantry. Lord Ross and and produces at present 38.0007. Lord Charleville, whose leases run per annum, but, when out of lease, for twenty-one years and a life; will bring at least 100,000l. Lord Mr. D. B. Daly, Mr. Stepney of Limerick, independently of his proDurrah, Mr. Bernard, and others,perty in the city of Limerick, has have all large estates in this county; but the above noblemen possess 80 much of it, that the remaining landholders are scarcely sufficient to make a grand jury; and on that account it is sometimes difficult to form one.' "KILKENNY. In this county there are some large proprietors; one of whom, Lord Besborough, possesses an estate of 17,000 acres; about 2000 of which are let on leases for ever.+ Lord Clifton has one of 20,000 acres, with the towns of Graiguet and Gowran. Lord Ormond, I have been informed, is the owner of property here to the amount of 32,000l. per annum. Lord Mountnorris has four or five thousand acres, and Lord Desart, Lord Car. rick, Mr. Tighe, and Mr. Bryan, • Survey of Kildare, 1808, p. 15. 6000l. per annum. Lord Clare, a minor, 9000L. Lord Southwell, 10,000. Lord Charleville, 5000l. Lord Sandwich, and the Count de Salis, each 15,000l. Mr. Oliver, 9000l. Lord Massie, 7000l. Lord Egremont, 3000%. Lord Adare, 6000. The Marquis of Headford, 2000. Sir Edward Harrop, 5000/. Mr. Pigot, 10,000l. Lord Ken. mare, 3,800 acres. Lords Cork, Dorchester, and Charleville, have each large property in this county: and the case is the same with Sir William Barker. Mr. Creed, of Bruff, as a grazier, holds 10,000%. per annum. Mr. Lyons, of Croom, holds from four to six thousand. In general the leases run for thirtyone years, and three lives. Lord Courtenay's land is let only for years: but the farms, if I may use the term, are colonizing, and I am assured by the graziers, that people pay more rent than bullocks 'Lord Darnley has landed property in this county to the amount of 12,000l. per annum. His leases are for thirty-one years and a life; but his lordship endeavours to con. fine the tenant to occupancy. The Marquis of Headford has 14,000l. in this county, and in Cavan. Lord Lansdowne has 60,000 acres. But ' his land is let on perpetuity leases. Lord Sherborne has 10,000l. per annum. Lord Fingal, 7000/. Lord Tarra, 7000. Mr. Corbally has 10,000l. but this property not all in fee. The Marquis Wellesley, 6000%. Mr. Bligh and Sir Marcus Somer. ville have each 5000l. per annum ́; and there are a great many proprietors who possess annual incomes of from two to three thousand. 'In my opinion there are in this county as many proprietors with incomes not less than 25007. per annum, as would compose two resident grand juries. Cork, Down, and Meath, have a far greater num ber of wealthy landed proprietors than any of the other counties of Ireland.' of Bath and Mr. Shirley, the latter of whom has 33,000 acres; but both these properties exhibit the most wretched cultivation.' 'MAYO. This county is one of those which is possessed chiefly by immense land owners, but there are parts of it, such as Erris, which, like Joyce's Country, and Connamara in Galway, seem to be uncultivated wastes, and in other part so it there are tracts of "moorland," occasionally covered with water: the fee, however, still belongs to individuals. Lord Dillon has here a large estate, which produces nearly 18,000/. per annum, let on determinable leases, and it appears that it must occupy a very large extent of country, as there are upon it 2100 registered freeholders, who no doubt have a great number of under tenants. When I visited Mayo, I was advised not to attempt crossing this estate to Roscommon; I, however, experienced no inconvenience but from the hardness of the roads, and my not understand. ing the Irish language, which is here universally spoken. As far as I went, I found the farms by nomeans small. The Marquis of Sligo has 20,000l. per annum; Lord Lucan 10,000l. Mr. Palmer and Lord Tyrawley have each the same; Mr. Brown has 15,000l. Lord Clanmorris 10,000. Sir Neil O'Donnel, Colonel Jackson, and Mr. Rutledge, each 70007. and there are many others who have property of inferior value in various gradations.' SELECTIONS FROM CAPTAIN down by his lordship, in any book in his library :- That may be, sir,' said the judge, in an acrid contemptuous tone, but I suspect that your library is very small.' His lordship, who, like too many of that time, was a party zealot, was known to be the author of several anonymous political pamph lets, which were chiefly conspicuous for their despotic principles and excessive violence. The young barrister, roused by the sneer at his circumstances, replied that true it was that his library might be small, but he thanked Heaven that, among his books, there were none of the wretched productions of the frantic pamphleteers of the day. I find it more instructive, my lord, to study good works than to compose bad ones; my books may be few, but the title pages give me the writer's names: my shelf is not disgraced by any of such rank absurdity that their very authors are ashamed to own them.' He was here interrupted by the judge, who said, 'Sir, you are forgetting the dignity you owe to the judicial character.' Dignity! exclaimed Mr. Curran ; my lord, upon that point I shall cite you a case, from a book of some authority, with which, per. haps, you are not unacquainted. A poor Scotchman, upon his ar rival in London, thinking himself insulted by a stranger, and imagining that he was the stronger man, resolved to resent the affront, and, taking off his coat, delivered it to a by-stander to hold; but, having lost the battle, he turned to resume his garment, when he ROCK'S COMMON PLACE BOOK, discovered that he had unfortu nately lost that also-that the trus tee of his habiliments had decamped during the affray. So, my lord, when the person who is invested with the dignity of the judgmentseat lays it aside, for a moment, to enter into a disgraceful personal contest, it is vain, when he has been worsted in the encounter, that he seeks to resume it—it is in vain that he endeavours to shelter himself behind an authority which he has abandoned.' Judge Robinson-If you say another word, sir, I'll commit you.' Mr. Curran Then, my lord, it will be the best thing you'll have committed this term.' The judge did not commit him; but he was understood to have solicited the bench to interfere, and make an example of the advocate, by depriving him of his gown, and to have met so little encouragement, that he thought it most prudent to proceed no further in the affair. Juggling VERSUS PHILOSOPHY. Frederic the Great once sent for the learned Jew, Mendelsohn, to come to Potsdam. It happened to be Saturday, on which day Jews are not allowed to ride on horseback or in coaches. Mendelsohn, therefore, entered the royal residence on foot. The officer on duty, a sprig of nobility, who, of course, had never read any of Mendelsohn's writings, on being told who he was, and that he was a Jew, asked, amidst a volley of oaths and guard-room wit, what could have procured him the honour of being called to the king? The terrified philosopher replied, with the true casuistry of Diogenes, I am a slight-of-hand player.'-Oh!" said the lieutenant, that's another affair;' and suffered the juggler Mendelsohn to pass, when he would have examined who knows how long?the philosopher Mendelsohn, and perhaps have arrested him in the guard-room; since it is well known that more jugglers than philosophers pass through palace-gates.. ROCK NOTICES. WATTY COX's Chapter of Accidents' came too late for this week's Gazette-it shall appear next week. COBBETT stands over for next week. I am glad that a Second Edition of O'Connell's Trial has been already published. LONDON :-J. Robins and Co. Ivy Lane. Paternoster Row; J. Robins, jun. and Co, 38, Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin; and all Booksellers, &c. Lord Byron's Residence at Missolonghi. more cause of unhappiness than Lord Byron himself. LORD BYRON. THE above engraving represents the residence of this Noble of Na- Indeed, his life teaches an importure, at Missolonghi, in Greece, tant lesson. Born to rank and forwhere he had gone to aid in the tune-endowed with transcendant liberation of an oppressed and ill- talents-and recognised as the first used people, and where death un- poet of the day-a casual observer fortunately terminated his useful might be tempted to ask, what career. There is something in the could make such a man unhappy? fate of this great man which fills-Alas! so much of individual the mind with melancholy. We happiness depends upon the conknew him to be endowed with duct and caprice of others, that talents which fall to the lot of few; carthly possession and enviable at and, in the exercise of those talents, tributes are frequently the cause of he uniformly advocated the cause that infelicity, against which the of man. "Tis true his mind was inexperienced consider them sovesometimes gloomy, and his muse reign remedies. With Byron, this sometimes erratic, but these faults was peculiarly the case: for, if faults they be arose from the scarcely had manhood left his imgoodness of his heart, and the sen- press on his chin, than we find him sibility of his nature. He looked, an alien from his native land; the as it were, through the conditions object of gross calumny; and, at of men; and, sceing such numbers once, a husband and a father, with miserable, he tacitly identified his out the consoling presence of a wife fate with theirs, and became un- or child. happy as much on their account as on his own and few men had But what need I tell herewhat every one already knows. It was not to write his memoir that I took up the pen; my object was to show that Byron was uniformly the friend of Ireland, and the admirer of the Irish character. What a noble fellow,' said Lord Byron, was Lord Fitzge rald!-and what a romantic and singular history was his! If it were not too near our times, it would make the finest subject in the world for an historical novel.' What was there so singular in his life and adventures?' I asked. 'Lord Edward Fitzgerald,' said he, was a soldier from a boy. He served in America, and was left for dead in one of the pitched battles, (I forget which,) and returned in the list of killed. Having been found in the field after the removal of the wounded, he was recovered by the kindness and compassion of native, and restored to his family as one from the grave. On coming Medwin's Conversations of Lord a Byron. back to England, he employed limself entirely in the duties of his corps and the study of military tactics, and got a regiment. The French Revolution now broke out, and with it a flame of liberty burnt in the breast of the young Irishman. He paid this year a visit to Paris, where he formed an intimacy with Tom Paine, and came over with him to England. There matters rested, till, dining one day at his regimental mess, he ordered the band to play ca ira," the great revolutionary air. A few days afterwards he received a letter from head-quarters, to say, that the king dispensed with his services. 'He now paid a second visit to America, where he lived for two years among the native Indians; and once again crossing the Atlantic, settled on his family estate in Ireland, where he fulfilled all the duties of a country-gentleman and magistrate. Here it was that he became acquainted with the O'Connors, and in conjunction with them zealously exerted himself for the emancipation of their country. On their imprisonment he was proscribed, and secreted for six weeks in what are called the liberties of Dublin; but was at length betrayed by a woman. 'Major Sirr, and a party of military, entered his bed-room, which he always kept unlocked. At the voices he started up in bed, and seized his pistols; when Major Sirr fired and wounded him. Taken to prison, he soon after died of his wound, before he could be brought to trial.Such was the fate of one who had all the qualifications of a hero and a patriot! Had he lived, perhaps Ireland had not now been a land of Helots.' Not long before his death, Lord Byron wrote the following Stanzas. They breathe his noble sentiments; and show that he felt for the degradation of my country. Moore, our own sweet bard, has acknow. ledged their merits, by saying that they supersede the necessity of his writing on the same subject. But let not his name be thine idol alone! On his right hand behold a Sejanus appears[thine own!Thine own Castlereagh! Let bim still be A wretch never named but with curses and jeers. Till now, when this Isle, that should blush for his birth, [on her soil, Deep, deep as the gore which he shed Seems proud of the reptile that crawled from her earth, [and a smile!And for murder repays him with shouts Without one single ray of her genius,without [race,The fancy, the manhood, the fire of her The miscreant who well might plunge Erin in doubt, If she ever gave birth to a being so base! If she did, may her long-boasted proverb he bushed, [tile can spring! See the cold-blooded serpent, with venom Which proclaims that from Erin no repfull flushed, [king! Still warming its folds in the heart of a Erin! how low [ranny, till Shout, drink, feast, and flatter! Oh Wert thou sunk by misfortune and ty Thy welcome of tyrants bath plunged thee {still! The depth of thy deep in a deeper gulph My voice, though but humble, was raised in thy right; below My vote, as a freeman's, still voted thee free; My arm, though but feeble, would arm in thy fight; And this heart, though ontworn, had a Or if aught in my bosom can quench for an hour though sore, Which, though trod like the worm, will not turn upon power, 'Tis the glory of Grattan-the genius of Moore !' pose of gratifying the morbid My contempt of a nation so servile, curiosity of the idle and wealthy, those whose youthful hose well saved a world too wide for their shrunk shank,' ran a risk for several days past of being mistaken for the lusus nature. On Tuesday, however, the boys about College Green thought they had discovered the living shadow, in the person of a tall, thin, spare, gentleman. He did, indeed, look like a tenant of the grave; for he appeared not to be an inhabitant of the earth, and yet was on it.' He was dressed in a shabby-genteel suit of black, and seemed as if he wished to make his way undiscovered. A crowd, however, was soon collected about him; and, to avoid the gaze of the million, he was compelled to take refuge in Alderman Archer's, the Dublin bibliopole's shop. Here it was discovered that the suspected Anatomie Vivante was no other than Alderman John Claudius Beresford, who was wont to excite other feelings than those of curiosity. His occupation, however, is gone-I trust for everand, though some voices were heard calling out Ninety-eight !—the general feeling was pity. Before the mob dispersed, Mr. Talbot Glascock made his appearance; and, learning the cause which had collected the people, broke forth These are sentiments which sink deep into the heart, and are as honourable to Lord Byron as they are flattering to Irishmen. Many other proofs of his sympathy for our condition might be quoted; but want of room prevents it. My readers, however, can now procure a volume which contains all these, and something more. I allude to 'Clinton's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron," a work published in a form so useful, and at a price so convénient, that every man may procure a copy. It contains the best and most minute account of his lordship's life and eccentricities that has yet been published, and furnishes such copious specimens of the noble bard's works, that it in a great measure supplies the place of five guinea editions. In fact, every thing worth knowing will be found in this usefal volume; and, such as cannot afford a dozen shillings at once for the book itself, can procure it in numbers at three pence each, at such times as may suit their convenience. In addition to a likeness of Byron, engraved on steel, the work contains no less than forty illustrative embellishments, from de. signs by the celebrated George Cruikshank. These engravings alone are worth more than the price charged for the work. ACCIDENTS, OCCURRENCES, &c. KEPORTED BY WATTY COX, Information for this Gazette. THE LIVING SKELETON.-It having been generally reported that the Anatomie Vivante was to have paid our city a visit, for the pur *Published by J. Robins and Co. IvyJane, London; and J. Robins jun. and Co. Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin. 1825. into the following apostrophe :- Conscience does make skeletons of us all; And Beresfords of great pith and strength, A NEW MINING COMPANY. The company which has just been formed under this title, promises to be of incalculable advantage to Ireland. Friend Cropper is the projector; and, at a meeting of the shareholders the other day, at the Commercial Buildings, detailed the plan. He said the business was not to dig minerals from the bowels of the earth, but to enrich the country by another and far more expeditious method. Every body knew that the people of Ireland were humbled in the scale of being, because they lived in lowly houses; that they ate potatoes, because they could not live without food; and, that they brought children into the world, because boys and girls got married. From all this it was clear, that the miseries of the nation arose from the want of capital. England abounded in money. The people had so much of it they knew not what to do with it; and, as an instance of its superabundance, he mentioned, that notwithstanding the number of commercial associations which had recently been formed, a huudred pound share sold, a few days back on the Stock Exchange, for three halfpence. Is not that, said the worthy projector, a proof that English capitalists have more money than they know how to invest? How comes it then that some portion of this money has not found its way to Ireland? The answer was plain. There was not a proper facility of intercourse established. To obviate this defect, and to unite the two countries more intimately, the present company was formed. Steam was certainly a great improvement in facilitating intercourse between distant places, but what was it to tunnels? Monied men don't like to risk their persons and property on water; but what is to prevent both from visiting Dublin when they can walk over on dry land ? A bridge was mentioned, but that was liable to many objections. A tunnel, therefore, was the thing. The progress of the one under the Thames proved its practicability; and, to make one under St. George's Channel was quite as easy as under the Thames, except that it would require more money and time. Don't be alarmed, five hundred and fifty years will accomplish it, at the trifling expenseof 999,000,000,000%. This sum it is proposed to raise in five pound shares; and those who wish to inspect the model, may see it at Mr. Simples, the city archi |