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inorfel of holefum juftafs into the bargin. Transportation for ever and ever, and feven years afther-transportation for life is the word : O vogh! the divle a less, my dear hunny's ! And let a fartin part of the propheartys go for the use of innoscent and lyle fufferers, anether part for the fupport of the poor families, and the refht for to pay the expinces of the

crappy thravlers auver the vauther. The fhkape-graces fhould be fould for a time long enuff to fober their thoughts and to make an humbel and hard-vorking life a welkim thing to um, and thin they fhould have lubberty, under fartin restrictions, to do their misfarthinet fowls and boddies awl the good they cud, upon their own account-that is, on t'other fide of the faweet Atlantic. Many a dead rubblę mite have dun a grate dale of good auver there by this time, infhtid of finging "Erin ga braugh" in Peg Trantum's fwifhkey-fhop, nine muiles below hell. As to hell itself, I believe aff an Irish rubble was to knock for admittance at the gates king Beelzebub, who you know is an owld rubble, and lofht too much by the biznis awlreddy, wood not let him in, but cafht a fheep's eye at him, and bid him, “ Go be damned fome fwhere else!?" So I am,

Maifhther Ram's-eye,

Yewr moafht obeydhent, humble farvant

Two command,

Patrick Teague O'Brallaghaan,

Knight of the fhkiver.

Ballykilknockmedownorangeman, near Caftle Blunder

gun, in the county of Pullaliew, Jew-lye the 5th, one thou fent, feven under it, and nine to eat.

POST SCRAP.

Aff the rubble.crushers of Irelint would wish to be lile to the very centre of the fowle of their harts within, fo as to make even juftiss and marcy kifs and embrace each other,

let

let them hear a pinnatint rubble give them inftruckfhins how they should be after proceeding. The innoscent childer of the hangt rubble should be condemned to marcy as surely as ever the father was condemned to juftifs. They fhould be taken from the mother, fed, clothed, properly instructed, and the fting of rebellion drawn from their little harts. They fhould not be left in the care of thofe that would be for fhorpening and timpering it to the very blueness of a fifh-hook. Now woodn't this be better than to let them ripen in the fhpirit of the divle, and fo to have the throb bell of hanging them all up like fo many flitches of fat bacon fwhin they wood be big? Do you want lile fupjacks? Fwhy, there is the making of hole duzzens of them fhivering with cowld and begging 'pon the 'count of their burnt cabins !

No. II.

Sometime in 1798, I met with a French-English Song, replete with great humour, the genuine effufion of Euglith loyalty. The gallant and univerfally-excellent naval conduct of our esteemed Admiral, Sir John Borlafe Warren, being at that time the general fubject of loyal applaufe, I vampt, altered, and added to the feng, as a fmall tribute to his worth.

On the first anniverfary of the memorable fifth of June,. being at a public entertainment with a very large number of the more respectable loyalifts in this town and vicinity, they called upon me for a fong. Though no finger, I attempted to gratify them by finging my new-modelled compofition, and to make up in humour what I could not furnish in melody. It was received with hearty applaufe; and to this day I am frequently asked for copies of it, Through want of

time, not being able to gratify more that one friend in this particular, I infert it here, and bid an eternal adieu to fongmaking and fong-finging, excepting thofe fongs which celebrate the praife of Him whom we are all made to glorify!

THE

FRENCH SAILOR'S TRIUMPH.

Vat mean you John Anglishe to make dis grande pother,
'Bout your beef and your podhen, your dis, dat, and
d'oather?

Pray, fair, vat you mean? Den is Frenfhe-nan a teef?
Do you dheenk he'd go ftole your dhaam pothen and beef?
Dherry dhone, dhone, dhone Dherry, dhone.

Vat tho' pour Frenfhe-man have no bothen to eat?
You knowse they have vrogs, dat delectable meat;
Vitch make frigaffe vid bon foup and fallat,
And fuit very vell vid grande Frenshe-man's pallat.
Dherry dhone, &c.

You fay dat your beef make you no fear de goan ;
But remember, Jon Anglifhe, ve make you to roan,-
Ven ourselfs led de vay, at von, two, tree, foive battel,
And your Anglois cannon at our backfides did rattel.
Dherry dhone, &c.

But now I muft tell you (vid moshe complaifaance)
We daught for to pay you von vifit from Fraance;
And if Burlesque War-ben vou'd let us come over,
We'd fail to Killalla, or land just at Dovre.

Dherry dhone, &c.

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Mal pefte! that dhaam War-hen! she won't go avay,
But in de Breft harbour force Frenshe fleet to fthay;
She cackle and crow, and fhe play fufh dhaam frolicke,
She give pauvre Frenfhe failere von fit of the cholicke.
Dherry dhone, &c.

Once this War-hen go off vid all her dhaam fhicken,
And take up von, two, tree, nine, feven, five, Frenfhe:
mershan-man, all for der picking,

And our Admiral fhrug up and make a grande wry mouth, To hear dat dey all vos got fafe into Plymouth.

Dherry dhone, &c. 2

Now fthop that beeg laugh! Mark vot coame by and by!
Our Admiral dhake out his glaas for to spy,-

Then hollows, "Up anchor! there's no thing to fear!
The War-hen is gone, and the coaft is all clear !"

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So vee fail out amain, and vee daught to do foamthing,
But War-hen and fhickens, vid ball big as pomkin,
Come pounce us, and pelt us, and make sush dhaam clatter,
Dat von, two, tree, Frenfhe ship was fall dhone in the water.
Den vee might all fing Morblieu! Dberry dbone, &c. 73
But the fport of this War-hen it did not fthop here;
She make for de frolicke Frenfhe navy pay dear;
She broke all our rigging, fine fail, and beeg maafth,
And feex of our ships fhe made prizes at last.

Dherry dhone, &c.

Den our Admiral, in the very grande paffione,

Refolved to do foamthing for good of our nation,

"Make off, you dhaam dhogs!" fays he, "make no delay!" So vee dhake up de heel, and vee all roan avay.

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• In a profaic tone reckoning on his fingers, which he holds up to hew

the number.

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No. III.

To open, if poffible, the eyes of fome of the late rebels to the peculiar evils which any government on French principles, fubstituted in this country for the prefent government, would mof certainly bring upon themfelves, I fhall quote fome of the established political maxims of the French nation relative to Chriflianity at large, and Popery in particular. They are copied from Du Contrat Social, i. e. "the Social Contract," a compendium of fuch aphorifms or precepts by the celebrated infidel John James Rouffeau. In the preface to this work we are told, that "high honours have been recently paid to the memory of Rouffeau by the National AfJembly of France, avowedly from a perfuafion that this very treatife of his had prepared the way for the revolution which bas lately taken place in that country."-Dub. Edit.

Speaking of old heathenish fyftems of faith and worship, he proceeds There is ftill another and a more extravagant kind of religion, which gives to mankind two legislations, a two chiefs, and two countries; requires from them con"tradictory duties, and prevents their being devout men

and citizens at the fame time. The religion of the Lamas "is of this fort, fo is that of the Japanese, and the Roman Cathons faith may be juftly included in the number. The "latter may be called the religion of the Priefts; and "there refults from it a kind of mixt and unfocial duty " which is without a name!! This religion in particular is "fo evidently bad, that it would be lofing time to demon"ftrate its evils !!!"[Page 305.31

Speaking of that spirit of religious intolerance which he conceives to characterize Popery, he fays Thofe who "make a diftinction between civil and religious intolerance are certainly in my opinion mistaken: they must be infe

"perable;

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