WALKER'S HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE: OR, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge. FOR FEBRUARY, 1802. This Months Magazine is embellished with a capital View of the New Four Courts, King's Inns, Public office &c. Accompanied by a Minute Defcription. Of the Four Conrts. cature were first erected for the adminiltration of juftice, in the year 1110, fix years before Henry III. granted Magna Charta to the Irifh, ta entry of which was fince found he red-book of the exchequer in Dublin. In the year 1359, a fecond uftice was appointed at a falary of 40 marks. The courts of juftice in Chrift's-church-lane, were rebuilt in 3. From this time little mention made of the courts until the year 16, when the foundation of King'sas was laid, and they were opened for bufinefs in 1784. common pleas. The chancery chamber is commodious, and the toute enfemble well lighted, richly ornament public bufinefs. The building is a confiderable ornament to the city, and honorable to the architect Mr. Gandon, of whofe pofeffional skill it is a striking proof. Thefe courts and public offices form one grand pile of excellent architecture, the fituation of which is favourable, and has a good effect when viewed at a distance, or from the oppofite fide of the river Liffey, on whote banks they are erected. The eastern wing is now finishing to complete the building, which is 433 feet in extent; the wings being 99 On the 13th of March 1786, the feet in length. On the western fide Lundation ftone of the new four- arǝ the roll's office, the hanaper, urts, was laid by his grace the duke king's bench, and remembrancer's Rutland, in prefence of the lord offices; on the eastern fide are the of chancellor, the judges and king's fices of the exchequer. The princitouncil; and ont he 3d November pal front is compofed of fix columns 6, they were opened as effoign of the corinthian order; the feveral day for the judges. When we enter courts within radiating from a large the hall, the first on the left hand is circular hall, 64 feet in diameter; court of exchequer, next the adjoining thefe are the judges apartCourt of chancery, next the court of ments, jury-rooms, coffee-houfe, reling's bench, and laftly the court of fectory, library, mufeuin &c. &c. the March, 1802. I like the original. He grants indeed that his ftature is the fame as that o the man of Europe. He might hav admitted, that the Iroquois were larger and the Lenopi, or Delawares, tall er than people in Europe generall are. But he fays their organs of ge neration are smaller and weaker tha thofe of Europeans. Is this a fact I believe not; at least it is an obser vation I never heard before. The have no beard.' Had he known th pains and trouble it costs the men pluck out by the roots the hair th grows on their faces, he would hav feen that nature had not been defic eat in that refpect. Every nation ha its cuftoms. I have feen an India beau, with a looking glafs in his hand examining his face for hours togethe and plucking out by the roots ever hair he could difcover, with a kind tweezer made of a piece of fine bra wire that had been twisted round ftick, and which he ufed with gre dexterity. They have no ardo for their females.' It is true, they not indulge thofe exceffes, nor dit In fpeaking of this magnificent public building, where the late earl of Clare difpenfed juftice, with fuch advantage to the public, and fuch credit to humfelf, we are unavoidably led to pay a tribute to his memory. He was born in the year 1750; his father John Fitzgibbon was deemed a man of great forenfic knowledge. He gave his fon an excellent education, to which nature added a brilliant genius and found capacity. Lord Clare was educated in trinity-college, and afterwards reprefented it in parliament. He is charged with fome youthful levities, but when he once applied himself to the ftudy of his profeffion, he foon left his competitors behind, and rofe to the firft office in the ftate, where his application, his ability, his penetration, his difpatch, were of the utmoft fervice to thofe, who applied to the court of chancery for redrefs. His life impartially written will be useful to all young ftudents; and, however the shafts of alice, or the infinuations of envy may be pointed at a man, now at fell from his labours in the grave,-ver that fondnefs which is cuftana pofterity will truly appreciate his merit, and acknowledge that he was an honeft man, a fincere friend, a friend to his king and country; an enemy to treafon and fedition, to fraitors and rebels. He died in Elyplace on the 28th of January 1802, defervedly regretted by every good man, and the unbiaffed hiftorian will perpetuate his memory. Merrion-Row 26 Februaý 1802. F. in Europe; but this is not owing a defect in nature, but in manners.Their foul is wholly bent upon wa This is what procures them glory mong the men, and makes them admiration of the women. To t they are educated from their earli youth. When they purfue gar with ardour, when they bear the f tigues of the chafe, when they fo tain and fuffer patiently hunger a cold; it is not fo much for the la of the game they purfue, as to co vince their parents and the council the nation that they are fit to be e rolled in the number of the warrio The fongs of the women, the dar of the warriors, the fage council the chiefs, the tales of the old, triumphal entry of the warriors turning with fuccefs from battle, a the refpect paid to thofe who dift guith themfelves in war and in fub g their enemies in fhort, every tice of polgamy is not common Does this favour of frigidity, or want of ardour for the female Neith do they feem to be deficient in natu ral affection. I have feen both fathers and mothers in the deepest af fiction, when their children have been dangerously ill, though I believe affection is stronger in the defcending than the afcending fcale, and though cuftom forbids a father to grieve immoderately for a son flain in battle. That they are timorous and cowardly,' is a character with which there is little reafon to charge them, when we recollect the manner in which the Iroquois met Monf. who marched into their country: in which the old men, who fcorned to By, or to furvive the capture of their town, braved death, like the old Romans in the time of the Gauls, and in which they foon after revenged themfelves by facking and destroying Montreal. But, above all, the un haken fortitude with which they bear the most excruciating tortures, and death when taken prifeners, ought to exempt them from that character. Much lefs are they to be characterifed as a people of no vivacity, and who are excited to action or motion only by the calls of hunger and thirit. Their dances, in which they fo much delight, and which to an European would be the most fevere exercife, fully contradict this; not to mention their fatiguing marches, and the toil they voluntarily and cheerfully undergo in their military expeditions. It is true, that when at home, they do not employ themselves in labour or the culture of the foil: but this again is the effect of cuftoms and manners,--which have affigned that to the province of the women. But it is faid, they are averfe to fociety and a focial life. Can any thing be more inapplicable than this to a people who always live in towns or clans? Or can they be faid to bave no republique,' who conduct all their affairs in national coun ing they fee or hear tends to infpire em with an ardent defire for militafame. If a young man were to cover a fondness for women before has been to war, he would become the contempt of the men, aud the tom and ridicule of the women. Or we he to indulge himself with a pave taken in war, and much are werehe to offer violence in order gratify his fuit, he would incur inle difgrace. The feeming frigiEy of the men, therefore, is the efof manners, and not a defect of nature. Befides, a celebrated waror is oftener courted by the females, that he has occafion to court; and this is a paint of honour which the men im at. Inftances fimilar to that of Ruth and Boaz, are not uncommon among them. For though the Home modeft and diffident, and fo bath that they feldom lift up their eres, and fcarce ever look a man full in the face, yet, being brought pin great fubjection, cultom and angers reconcile them to modes of ding, which, judged of by Eurons, would be deemed inconfiftent h the rules of the female decorum propriety. I once faw a young ow whofe hufband, a warrior, ad died about eight days before, hafng to finish her grief, and who, tearing her hair, beating her breast, and drank fpirits, made the tears How in great abundance, in order the might grieve much in a thort ce of time, and be married that tening to another young warrior. manner in which this was viewed by the men and women of the e, who flood round, filent and en fpectators of the fcene, and difference with which they anSweted my question refpecting it, that it was no unufual cm. I have known men advanced in years, whofe wives were old and paf child-bearing, take young wives, dave children, though the prac convinced me cils |