thefe remarks found it, as stated before, and in that collection he could not find the flighteft prefumption for tranfferring the date from January back to November against all hiftorical evidence and tradition.. It is now time to inquire how far mr. Plowden,* in our day (who has even outdone dr. Curry in his), is fupported by the noble author he has puoted; and what juftice he renders his lordthip in the following paffage of his Hiftorical view of the fate of 'Ireland,' viz. ་ let, for the purpofe of deceiving the credulous, has been fince dignified with the title of an appendix,' and bound up with lord Clarendon's wel known Hiftorical view of the affairs of Ireland,' as if it was one part of a work in which it repeatedly mecis with its own refutation. Accordingly, an advertisement prefixed both to English and Irith editions of his lordthip's work, certifying that the copy had been carefully compared with two manufcripts in the archbishop of Dublin's library, except this very ap pendig. In juftice to lord Clarendon, it must be mentioned, that he admits one Of fuch materials have dr. Curry fact, that contradicts most of our an mnr. Plowden, both catholic aunaauthorities, and is contrary the gene- lifts, compofed their narratives of this rally received notion, that the rebellion delicate and important point of histofirft broke out by a general maffacre ry. of all the proteftants, that could be found, in cold blood.' The text of lord Clarendon fays the very reverfe! This fpurious tale, that proteftants committed the firft aggretion, would never have attracted attention, had it at fo lately as 1720 been connected by a cunning device with the name of that noble hiftorian, and foilted upon the public on his authority; though, as I have already fhewn by an unpueftionable paffage from himself, that it was contary to his lordship's opinion, and his direct affection. So fhallow aparufice can no longer deceive, when it is mentioned, that the paffage of late afcribed to his lordthip's pen, inftead of being his, is verbatim the first paragraph of the identical pamphlet noticed at the beginning of thefe remarks as having been (what its own tide declares) the work of an anonymous writer, under the fignature of R. S.-This pamph N 0 T E. * Dr. Curry, though a moft zelous partiian, did not venture to father the report on leri Clarendon : but mr. Plowden, with that confidence which the proftfors of the law find neceffary, gives it to his lordship without ceremony mr. Milner, an English omru catholic oifhop, does the tame in his Inquiry, published in 1803. (To be concluded in our next.) The Force of love. A Fraginent. FLORA ORMOND was on the point of marriage with the hon. Augufus Stewart, when he fuddenly died. Flora fell into a fainting fit when the dreadful news reached her cars, and, on her recovery, tore her hair, and wrung, in all the agony of distraction, her fair hands: her relations hung over her and befought her to be calm; but, breaking from them, fhe was not feen that day, anti returned the next morning a wild maniac! Reafon had fled its station, and every one hunned the approach of the harmless Flora ;-her moft favourite children of nature, who had fed by her bountiful hand-her penfioners-all looked with forrow and affright on the melancholy maniac. She would walk out penfively from her abode when the rain fell in torrents; the ftorm of the weather accorded with the perturbation of her botom; and, going to the end of the copfe, near a fmall farm of her father's, would fhe feat herfelf under an old oak that grew near, and warble the fong of her departed lover. One One day a young gentleman (who proved to be a kinfiman and the heir to Stewart) paffed her on foot as he was feeking her parent, upon fone bufinefs concerning his departed relative, whofe perfon he ftrongly refembled. Being of his amiable difpolition, he gazed with pity on her lovely face, and, ftepping haftily back, feated himself by her fide. He took her feverith hand while he foftly whispered, 'poor, poor Flora!' -She looked at him fome minutes wiftfully her large blue eyes then began to roll with terrific wildnefs, while her beautiful features were convulfed with agony, Stretching out her arms, the uttered a piercing cry, and fell on his bofom, the name of Stewart trembling on her lips. She fell nearly fenfelefs on the grafs; and he, having procured fome water, put afide the ringlets of her light hair, and befprinkled it over her face. The fweetness of her innocent fmile and delighted look now to powerfully ftruck him, that he fighed with pain as he made an attempt to leave her, faying, How much I pity thee, fweet Flora! Haplefs Ormond! Heaven affift thee !-Adieu !' You shall not leave me,' faid the, careffing him with fondnefs, while the delicate bluth faded from her check, you shall not leave me; now I fee you once more-hold you again to my heart-Ah! my Auguf tus, I have been treated most unkind ly in your abfence. Look at my arms, cried the, drawing up the fleeve of her muflin robe; fee the blows I have fuffered; and I was obliged to teal out to make a freth garland of flowers.' She then took fome faded rofes from her hair, and fcattered them at her feet. But now you are come,' continued the, with an affectionate smile, I need not fear your care of me, and we will walk together, and fing together as we used, and not one will dare to fay, Flora, you thall not do fo The gentleman, whofe name was Clarence, was much affected; he had fonlly loved his coufin, and now could not fee the youthful victim before him without hedding tears Farewell, beauteous Flora! dear,' unfortunate girl! he exclaimed, no longer able to bear the fcene- Good angels watch over and restore thee.' * Cruel Stewart !' iffued from her lips, as the held him forcibly by the arm, till the fudden exertion overpowering her. She reeled and fumbled, her head dathing violently against a large ftone. She was inmediately flunned, and borne home by Clarence to her diftracted father. From this day Clarence could ne ver leave her fide; whatever he faid was a law, except in firring from her, which the would never be prevailed upon to do. She now began to liften to the voice of reafon; the best of phyficians attended her; fhe travelled for change of climate, and joyful was the time that brought back her fenfes; for Flora Ormond was beloved by every one. The delighted parent now lived but in the fmiles of his Flora: the name of her loft lover was never mentioned to her. P.efent to her memory for ever was his image in the one who was living the fame affectionate fmile greeted her appearance; the fame pleafing arts he tried to amufe her; and the fame voice founded in tender accents on her ear. Her affections were now of courfe his; and was it poffible for Clarence, who had never loved, to behold the charms of Flora's perfon and mind without adorning? In one word, he offered her his hand, and the time appointed for their marriage arrived. Flora's plain fimplicity of drefs made her native lovelinefs this day more engaging than ever. Her complexion, which was of fair and blooming, bore the intelligence of bluthing timidity. A neat and unadorned white robe, fitted Human Beings: Sketches from real Life, under the Characteristics of Pride, let whatever be its fhape, or, if you pleafe, a quality that hath been more condemned or more praifed, more detefted or more che rifhed, more reviled or more honoured, than pride. And how hath this come to pafs?-truly, unless under one denomination many qualities are fignified, it would poze a philofopher to anfwer the question. Without pretending to philofophize, let us help the philofopher to a few sub jects, which he may anatomize at his leafure, and lecture upon when he picafes. to her shape, fhowed her fine-formed ger-one more kifs-Oh! thou ri limbs to advantage. Her bright eyes, gid hearts, to whom I appeal, relent of a clear azure blue, gliftened with They liften not to me they the tear of tenderness, Her yellow feize my all- Farewell, my Flora. fportive hair, confined only by a di- Yet another farewell, thou victim of amond comb, fell in natural inglets love and fenfibility! upon her forehead and neck; and her voice, lowered by extreme delicacy, breathed the foft tones of an angel. The friends affembled, the clergyman arrived. Flóra made her appearance as defcribed. She penfively fmiled on Clarence, and the ceremony was began to be read. When nearly finished, her counten. ance loft its placidity, becoming pale and wild, and her whole frame was convulfed. Fixing her eyes on one part of the room with a fearful expreffion in them, the exclaimed, look! look! fee! he floats in air! his head is crowned in everlafting rofes! how brilliant is his beauty! he fmiles! he beckons !-Auguftus oh! Auguftus, you do not call in vain. I come, I come and the funk upon the floor. The colour heightened in her checks: her voice was low, but energetic, as the pronounced these words, grafping the The pride of poverty prefent us hand of Clarence in hers, which was with very few productions. Not cold and clammy: Thou beft of many men in modern times are proud m. I die. That vifion fixed my of being poor. The virtuofo will, doom. Last night it came, and.... therefore, know how to value the Oh the pang of death is on me; following curiofity. Egeftofus hates he pulls, he gripes me hard with his the very name of wealth: he afferts, cold hand. Darknefs, fpreads around that no man who poffeffes more than - My Clarence! -father-friends what the loweft neceflities of life deall all farewell! And mand, can put his hand upon his Flora's eyes closed for ever. Oh! heart, and declare himself free from my departed love,' cried Clarence, frand and oppreffion. Every thing diftractedly clafping his arms around that incrcafes the conveniences or exthe body, dear angelic remains! illence he defpites :-every thing that are thefe lips never more to be ani- embellishes fociety he ridicules.— mated? Muft this heart, 1 now The arts he fcorns, and at fcience he prefs to mine, lie cold, cold for ever! fcoffs. His wants are his boaft: his It must not be; revive! revive! mifery is his pride. He acknowledges my Flora. Hear thy Clarence call that he has defires which he cannot thite-fee him kneeling by thy fide gratify, while he denominates the -Alas! the never more will fee or means of fucfi gratification, debating hear me People, ftand off Tear labour, fervile obedience, deceitful her not from me-one moment lon- cruelty and licenfed plunder. - He We was well educated, but he has long fince forgotten his acquirements: he has had friends, but he has loft them through neglect: he has had expectations (nay, in the days of his youth The has even framed hopes), but he never had exertion. In poverty and in premature old age he is haughty and vindictive and, while he defpifes every thing, he is envious of every body. In extolling poverty he confoles himself for being poor, and in indulging his fpleen he endeavours to blunt the edge of neceflity. Pride in poverty is a quality of fomewhat different complexion; and of this Honefius affords us a tolerable good inftance. Honefius is poffelfed of cultivated talents; he is an earnest votary of the arts, and an enthusiaft in the purfuits of fcience. One ufeful science, indeed, he has thought beneath his researches, it is the knowledge of the world. Without being vain of his acquirements, or of claiming the homage due to fuperior abilities, he knows no difference between his fituation of life and that of men who are bleffed with wealth or power. His exertions have no patron, and he ftarves because he cannot itoop. The frequent rebuffs, that his affuming equality has received, render him refentful, hauty, and forbidden. He conftrues the fligintett difregard into infult, and fills every public paper, to which he can obtain accefs, with his irritable effufions, while, at the fame time, he affects to confider his literary merit as no particular diftinction, and to derive his right to univerfal familiarity from no other title than that of being a human being. The pride of wealth may be found in this commercial city under ten thoufand forms, but in none more perfect than in my plump and hearty friend, Frank Firkin, ef. This gentleman, with all the moft powerful appetites of human nature, determined, at a very early period of his exiftence, to be tich. His defires and his hunger fomewhat militated against this determination, but he foon found commodious corners in this metropolis, where he could fatiate the one for sixpence and the other for a groat; and, therefore, by dint of the most ftrenu ous application to the arts of traffick ing, he is become, in spite of thefe two drawbacks, extremely rich.But Frank is not the man to conceal the charming hoards from the eyes of admirers: he is refolved to let all the world know, in as economical a method as poffible, what a proud and wealthy fellow is the once poor and fubfervient Frank Ferkin. For this purpose he has taken an economical fpoufe out of a neighbouring kitchen: he has covered her head with lace, and her fides with filk, and has fet her intoxicated mind all a gog for fplendour.-He has economically purchased a large rotten houfe, at no greater price than the worth of its dirt, and has economically furnished it from top to bottom with fcraps of finery from every auction he could hear of. He gives dinners and balls economically, to thofe only who can be of fervice to his connexions; but then, thofe gorgeous treats are the fubject of his converfation, for months afterwards, to all whom it is not worth his while to invite to them. His prefent ftudy is how he may economically fet up his coach but mrs. Firkin has notions on the fame fubject, upon principals not quite fo economical; and it is ten to one that, long before half of the embrio greatnefs with which his lady is pregnant, can be brought into exiftence, my good friend Frank Firkin, efq. weary of this exhibition of his wealth, will fig again for thofe humble corners, where he could fatisfy his molt craving defires for fixpence or a groat. The pride of libertini/m might furnith us with numerous illuftrious examples. Let us fix our attention upon yonder nobleman, who wooes Ins looking-glafs in vain to prøupence h him handfome. This confounded her domeftic establishments, and on glafs, Scipion,' exclaims his lordship her affection for their offspring, than on that which fhe was most defirous to be thought to poffefs; and which the fometimes doubted, and fometimes believed, endowed her perfon with the very fulness of perfection. The authority of his lordship on this point was indubitable; and, while it relieved her heart of a load of anxiety, it difpofed her breaft to every demonftration of her gratitude. This fympathy of vanity in the flattering pair speedily took the name of love: and the court of the king's bencar has firmly eftablifhed the claims of both parties to the pride of irrefiftable charms. to his valet, forbids me to mingle with thofe defiring and defitable angels this evening-give me the rouge.' De angels, mi lor, will telt de dam looking glafs dat it lie,' replies the familiar and flattering valet. Without any claim to perfonal attractions of any fort; without any paffion but vanity without any addrefs but that of prefurring impudence, his lordship 1ies forth for the conqueft the of air-conqueft did I fay ?The important coxcomb demands only the confirmation which yielding beauty will give to the power of his attractions he feeks the homage only of that conqueft which he cannot enjoy.And are there women who can liften to fuch imbecile fluction; ho, Jured by no other bate than the voice of flattery, can fo far flatter the vanity of a withered, fallow, and déticable intriguer,as to facrafice the honour of a butband, the happiness of children, and the eternal peace of a virtuous mind, to fuch a wretch's pride of li bertinifm ? Alas! there are: and the painted feducer, armed with the repo. iation of unfeen and inconceivable attractions, enters the coteries of beauties in fearch of another prize. The pride of talents holds the fcep tre of a wide-extended realm. Not ten thonfand claffes would contain all its fubjects. From the fupercilious minifter of flate, who delivers royal rebukes to the officious rabbie, down to the duftman, who pells through the diurnal folio of news at an aie-houfe door, all men believe that they poffefs all the talents neceffary for governing an empire. From the heavy editors of the critical review down--down-even fo low as thieving Theodore, who puns through the pages of the Satirift, there is not a fcribler who does not believe that he poffeffes all the talents requitie for literary judicature.-Thefe laft demand no less than an effay to themfelves, and therefore to them alone I thall hereafter devote a whole one. The pride of beauty naturally follows that of the libertine, and is helt exemplified in his victim. But many have afferted that yonder deferted moзrner was never handfome; nor that, although the earnefily defired to be thought to, was the herfelt fully perfuaded of the force of her charms, until their tranfcendant luftre was afferted by that experienced connoiffeur in beauty, her noble feducer. The conflant endearments of her husband might indeed have fufiiciently affured her of their efficacy in one, and that the beft, inftance of WHEN general Wellesley evinced their influence! But, alas! the his intention of attacking their left, honeft man complimented her more the enemy began a distant cannonade, frequently on her tafte or her mental but changed his polition with great acquirements, on the elegance of feadiness and excellent judgment, Memoirs of Sir Arthur Wellesley. K. B. Lieutenant General of has Majey's Forces, Chief Secretary, to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland &c. &c. (Continued from page. 666.) when |