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ftablifhed, we are enabled to pre- the habit of another, they fhould beallowed to improve and divelify with out encroaching too much on national tafte.

fent to our correfpondents a numerous lift of articles appropriate for the feafon, which have already received the ftamp of approbation from many a fair votary of tafte and elegance. As the rage for variety and novelty is not in the leaft diminished, it will require our utmost attention and care to felect for our delineation thofe fuperior articles, in each particular fpecies of costume, which fhall fecure to us that public confidence which we have hitherto fo largely poffeffed; and we trust we fhall not be found to flacken in our endeavours to render our communications worthy the attention of our numerous correfpondents. In our various labours we afpire not only to defcribe, but alfo to inftruct; and by this means we hope to aid British females in their approach to that tafteful and correct flyle of coftume to which they appear rapidly advancing; for it is not (as we have obferved in a former number of this work) becaufe an article is deemed fashionable and novel, that it must be adopted by females of every difcription, or that it can be conftantly worn on every occafion. The due diftinction which marks the feveral orders of fociety, the difference in figure, in feature, and in the feveral periods of the day, must be attended to if we would afpire to that decorum in our external decoration which is infeparable from a good tafie; and which extends from the most folid to the most trifling particulars.

The Spanish hat, of most becoming and fimple conftruction, is appropri ate only to full drefs, or the carriage; for the streets it is certainly ill-adapt. ed, being too commanding and glar ing. All the diftinguishing poiars of the Spanish coftume are very ftriking, and poffeffes much arinefs and grace; and are confequently b. alculated for thathigher order of decoration which thould diftinguishe the evening, or full drefs. We are induced to offer these remarks for the prefent general rage for almoft every fpecies of the Spanith habit, doubtlef arifing from a noble ardour in the prefent magnanimous cause in which our nation is engaged; and from that natural affociation of feeling which defcends from greater to leffer things. But while we exprefs our admiration at a praife worthy enthusiasm, we with not to digrefs from the exprefs purpofe of thefe remarks, which is intended to point out to the fair individual not only what is moft advantageous, but alfo what detracts from her perfonal charms. To come therefore more immediately to our purpofe: We obferve feveral elegant improvements in the mantle, cloak, and peliffe: and amidst the diverfity which prefents itself, we mention the following as the most felect and elegant. Cloaks or, mantles of grassgreen or purple velvet, or of fine Vigonia, or Merino cloth, lined The Spanish coftume which now throughout with farfnet, and trimmed fo univerfally prevails, is in itfelf mort. with fpotted ermine, or other fur.attractive and graceful; and blended The fearlet mantle is frequently orna(as it now is) with the fathions of mented with borders of black velvet our ifle, produces a moft becoming in the Tulcan ftyle, with full collars and advantageous effect. But we to correfpond. Peliffes (which are, muft here take occafion to obferve, alternately formed of velvet cloth, or that the Spanish ftyle is better adapted farfnets) admit alfo of much variety for evening or full drefs. When a in their conttruction; fome arc nation ike Great Britain, which is formed plain, with high full collars; rich in its own ingenuty, borrows and clafps of gold or cut fteele confine

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their becoming increafe of lengt and our females feem not incline. prefent to depart from the grace medium.

The hofoms of robes never conprifed more variety or more tale.— They are of divers conftruction; h. that of the appliqued ftomacher, c tage front and clafped in the autics form, are moft remarkable for becoming and attractive effec. 1 long fleeve of lace or other transpare

fleeve, or full top, correfpond 2; with the robe, ftill holds its place u full drefs; and although the long tra is at prefent but partially adopted, v:: every lady has her round robe for par ties, made to lie about a quarter of a yard on the carpet. Thefe robes are now contidered moft appropriate and elegant when formed of fuperfine e broidered cloth, or velvet; but for nets are nevertheless allowed to have a place amidst a fashionable felection. Muflins alfo of morons, amber, of rofe colour, worn over white far or fatin, with correfpondent l fleeve, or one of lace, with appl qued ftomacher, trimmed with an row rich vandyke edging, and wo with a white fatin Spanish hat, most tafteful and beautiful style coftume.

them in front from the throat to the feet. Others have large fancy capes, or a fort of fcapulaires trimmed with ermine, falling over the fhoulders. The opera mantle is ufually worn fhort and cut to a point behind; if of white fatin it is trimmed with goffamer fur or fwanfdown; if of cloth, with fpotted ermine or blue fox. White tippets are not fo general as laft feafon; but they are an article fo neat and appropriate, that they will never be entirely exploded. The materials with a thort fatin ur Ruffian bonnet, of cloth or velvet, ornamented with chenille, or curled flofs trimming, is exceedingly unique and elegant. The Minerva helmet, tormed of the union fatin, with the patriotic plume, is a moft attractive and diftinguithing article in this line. Velvet bonnets with full tiara fronts, with ends pendant on the left fide, after the Hungarian ftyle, blend with the ftraw bonnets of the fimple cottage form; the former are worn with fhort lace veils, and the latter trimmed with a ribbond or handkerchief appropriate to the feafon. No fhelter for the pedestrian fair can be more confiftent and becoming than this laft-mentioned article. Spanish hats for full drefs, are formed of fatin, frofted velvet, and gold or filver tiffue. Satin caps blended with lace, with full tiara fronts, formed of curled feathers, or leaves, are moft becomingly adapted for ladies of mature years. Lace caps in the Armenien and Roman of imperial knotted muflin, butte flyle, and well fuited to the morning, down the back, and worn with ab or half drefs. Coronets, tiaras, and vandyke ruff of muflin or lace, richly ornamented con.bs, in gold, tened in front of the throat w flver, or gems, are feen to ornament brooch of jewellery. There is an the hair in full drefs; amidit this finite and fplendid variety in the fplendid fpecies of decoration, the cle of trinkets fince our latt com Spartan diadem is moft novel and ele- nication; and the tafte and inges gant. The bandeau is a good deal difplayed in the conftru&ipn of n exploded, and flowers (though fill ornaments cannot be furpaffed. T permitted to mix in the gay variety) are too numerous to particular are not certainly fo well calculated for but we take occafion here to re the winter as more brilliant decorati- that the most elegant clafps for The walls of gowns continue ceffus are now exhibited at the b

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Morning robes are formed either in fimple French wraps, fitting clofe the form, or in round gowns of p muflin or cambric, with high was

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nt marts, of fashion-they are fay the fame! Then comes winter, -fuite with the brooch, and are alTo bridle up the floods, rnately of diamonds, pearl, cut And periwig with fnow the bald-fate eele, gold or filver. We confider em a moft confiftent and attractive rnament. Shoes are worn more owy than we have remembered em for fome time. They are formI of deep winter colours, embroired at the toes in coloured filks, and gold, or filver. Nothing, howeer, can furpafs in elegance the white tin flipper, nor any fhoe be too ain for common occafions. There no change worthy of remark in oves, White French kid invariably elong to full drefs. The moft fafhinable colours for the feafon are arlet, purple, bright amber, grafsreen, and morone shots.

wifts M. S. The Toper. A Soliloquy. Lolling in an drm-Chair before a Fire Bottles and Glaffes on the Table-Time, Twelve at Night.

WELL, thank Heaven, my wife's one to bed, and I'll fit here fot an our or fo, and have a little enjoy ent.But, alas there's no fweet ithout a bitter-I must go to bed o by-and-bye! Now, let's feeothing will ferve my wife, but I muft uy an estate and retire into the couny-curfe the coutry-a week in the ountry is a month in town. What re hills and dales, ffelds and farms to e,-alderman of Portfoken ward eeman of the Vintner's company, nd-member for Newport! What inrest have I in trees or cows, beyond prning one, and eating the other -and that I can do very well in town -hefides, I am for the best part of the reation, and we are all agreed upon what part that is that's ourselves! i monkeys could talk, they would

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* Our Correspondent says, that this scrap as found with the other MSS St. Patrick's Abbey, but he thinks its character very luf icious.

December, 1808.

Oh!! how I fhudder !-but I muft go, for the Devil drives! Where, where fhall I go to? She will not leave England, or, methings I should like Lisbon, and I could have no ob jection to Madeird. As to views, what are they?-There is but one growth that I care any thing for, and that's the vine-there's no fea like the Red Sea, no profpect like the Devil's Punch-Bowl; no lake like the lake of Geneva; and as to water in general, there's none like eau de vie, in particular! If, now, I could have all these combined with a fine Champaign country, I thould not think the country fuch a bad thing

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What are you faying about me? Come to bed, you fot! (The husband taking up the candle and going)

My time is come! Town or counto bed after all! try, what fignifies which-I muft

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THAT the fift maffacre in the Irish rebellion of 1641 was perpetrat ed by the proteftant garrifon of Carrickfergus, was afferted by dr. Curry of Dublin, in his Hiftory of the Civil Wars of Ireland,' publifhed in 1775; and has been lately repeated by a mr. Plowden, in an Hiftorical view of the State of Ireland,' publifh ed in 1803; with this addition, that the truth of the fact is fupported on the authority of lord Clarendon."*

From these injurious charges, to refcue the memory of the perfons maligned, and that of the noble perfonage quoted, will be found a matter of little difficulty; it is only neceffary to to trace the report to its origin.

Twenty-one years after the rebellion had broken our, a phamphlet was published in London, Printed for its author, R. S. 1662.' The time chofen for its appearance was after the

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II. and the duke of York, which pre fented a favourable opportunity o throw obloquy on his proteflant fubjects in Ireland. The fettlemen of the kingdom was then under the confideration of the king and council of England. In the tract alluded to, we find the following paffage: A bout the beginning of November, 1641, the English and Scotch forte in Knockfergus murdered, in une night, all the inhabitants of the territo ry of Ifland Magee, to the number f above three thousand men, women, and children, all innocent perfons, in a time when none of the catholics of that country were in arms, or rebelli on. Note, This was the first maffac committed in Ireland on either fides."

Such is the foundation of the report. The paffage contains, however, in itself, its own refutation. If the atrocious act alluded to took place about the biginning of November, as the pamphlet afferts, it could not in poffibility be the firfl maffacie n either fide,' because the rebellion had broken out on the 2 3d of the preceding month; and we know, on various authorities, particularly on that lord Clarendon himfelf, that with the fpace of ten days the Roma catholices had, with most barbaros inftances of cruelty, murdered an is credible number of proteftants. Os what principle then are we to accou for his lordship being refered to in fup port of an affertion, that the prote ants fet the example of maffacre, which affertion the quotation is contradiction? If his lordthip's evi

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Hence deferves the credit which thofe who refer to him admit that it does, follows, from thefe his own words, hat it cannot be true, either that this was the first maffacre, or that none of the catholices of Ireland were at he time in arms or rebellion. Neither can it poffibly be true that the atrocity mentioned happened about the beginning of November.

The fact, upon inquiry, is found to be this; that whatever did occur in Iand Magee was in the January following the breaking out of the rebellion. Afther the followers of fir Phelim O'Neill, as Leland mentions, had almost exhaufted their barbarous malice, in thofe outrages which as dr. Curry himself fays, fir Phelim in his laft moments declared preffed his confcience yery much, though he faid that they were done contrary to his intention. The month is eftablithed beyond all question by the depoftion of Bryan Magee, a catholic, fon of Owen, whofe family were among the chief fufferers at Ifland Magee.* The affidavit fets forth all the horrors of fuch a fcene, with minute precifion enumerating the perfons killed, and ftating the day to be the 8th of January,' which it will be found fell that year on a Sunday. In corroboration of thefe, we find by the teftimonies of James Mitchel, of Island Magee, that he was at Ballycarry, on the fabbath day about fermon-time, in the afternoon of which day the Irish of the lile Magee were murdered;' of confequence, it must now be evident, that inftead of being the first maffacre, it was ten weeks fubfequent to the commencement of thole, fcenes which preffed on the dying moments of the

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Owen Magee's depofition is preferved in Trinity callege, Dublin page 2716 of the volume of depolitions lettered County of Antrim,

It deferves to be mentioned, to the honour of Owen O'Neill, afterwards general of the Irish forces, that he abhored the cruelties committed by the followers of fir Phelim.-In detetation of their conduct he even burned fome of their houses.

ferocious fir Phelim himself, which induced the deteftation of his fucceffor OwenO'Neill, and which every good catholic and proteffant has deplored from that age to the prefent.

An immediate caufe may be difcovered for the unhappy event taking place at the tinie now established, viz. in the destruction of between 60 and 80 British, in their quarters at Portna, on the Banfide, in the county of Antrim. This party, under the command of capt. Fergus M'Dowal, had been difperced at the diftance of half a mile' from each other, and were maffacred without refiftance. This happened only five days prior to the affair of Ifland Magee, and at an inconfiderable distance. A more remote incitement may have been the maffacre of lord Grandifon's troop of horfe on their quarters at Tanrogee (Tandragee), which happened a few weeks earlier, The furvivors of this corps would naturally exafperate their fellow foldiers at the battle of Lifburn, betwixt the garrifon of which town and that of Carrickfergus there was a daily communication. But it is unneceffary to cite more of those incidents, which almoft daily occured, and were too well calculated to infpire a detire of revenge on both fides.

It is now clear that Dr. Curry's affertion, that Leland had no authority for transferring the time of the massacre in Inland Magee, from November to January, fails to the ground, as well as his bolder affertion, that "It can never be found in the collection of original depofitions now in poffeffion of the univerfity of Dublin." In that very collection the author of

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