mes of profperity, with indefatigable An Ode for Auguft. ir a portion of the skill, hat wakes to fame the laureat lyre, paint each bufy vale and hill, Vnen fultry stars the welkin fire! his bright month a prince was born, f the Britannic throne the heir, ole virtues civil life adorn .nd add new luftre to the year. fweet to wander in the shades erfum'd by many a fickly flower, n whence to view, thro' funny glades, The country in pacific power, ere golden harvests deck the plain, ind, as the fav'ring zephyrs fan, ad agriculture yields its grain nto the eager arms of man! inks be to Heaven for the fame, and to great George, our gracious king, ole potent navies, ftill fupreme, rotect the wealth the feafons bring. ion and Erin, happy lands, cure beneath his legal fway, il till defy the ruthless bands Who Gallic tyranny obey. men in the east the rifing fan Reveals his glorious orb to fight, fplendid journey once begun, He climbs the blue ethereal height: us virtue, in the morn of life, Looks forward to the heavenly prize, fues it with a generous ftrife, And gains perfection in the skies. ylvania. AGLAUS. THERE is no fcience whatever -- its properties and applied them to practice-we are indebted for the prefent improved procefs of bleaching. Were chemical knowledge more generally cultivated and diffufed, we would hear of fewer difappointments in the progress or perfection of the different arts. The brewer, for in SIR, gazine. C. S. itance, fhould be accurately acquaint- To the Editor of the Hibernian M ed with the influence of the prefence, and the effect of the exclufion of atmofpheric air-the power of minute changes of temperature in forwarding HAVING read with pleafure ti or retarding fermentation-together claffical infcription inferted in you with other caufes and effects, natu- magazine of laft April, which re rally connected with this invaluable corded the merits of a house-dogfcience, and on the knowledge of beg leave, through your imparaly which, the ultimate perfection, and to give the tranflator of it my opis confequently much of the fuccefs of of his production and his critici his bufinefs depends. The glafs ina-Vapid is the tranflation, without nufacturer and potter fhould poffefs fpark of the fire of the original-a an intimate acquaintance with the na- puerile in the extreme is his critici ture of the different earthly or faline What can it fignify whether an matters, and their different degrees of adverb is accented on the laft fyllable fufability-for' the procefs of glafs- or not? If Weftmonafterienfis cha making principally confifts in uniting to accent fubter and fortiter, was a vitrifiable earth with a faline fub- of fuch material confequence as t ftance; and the formation of china- occafion'a remark to his difadvantage ware, porcelain, earthenware, tiles, Could not the beauty of the what &c. is founded on fimilar chemical atone for a peculiarity in trifles ?— principles. Even the prefent improved But did A. D. (for that is his fignaitate of printing has been rendered at- ture) never hear of typical errors? tainable, in a material degree, by the Surely any fcholar must have seen, at practical application of this fcientific the first glance, that evicine was knowledge to the metallic fubftance that defcription; even A.D. him of the type from which the impreffion has tranflated it, as if there had been is taken, as well as to the texture of no error of the prefs, neighbouring the paper which receives it; and the hall,'-and muft, therefore, have compound acid of keir has proved no known that vicineque domus' wert inconfiderable advantage to the Bir- the words intended.But in no one mingham manufactories. Impreffed particular is A. D. more a pedant with a due conviction of the para- than in his notes. What can le mount importance of the cultivation mean by faying, that fometimes pe of this branch of science, our rivals, dator has a very bad meaning? H the French, have given it a peculiar latro a good meaning? has redes department in their national inftitution good meaning? Prædater here dans of arts, fciences, and manufactures, in the identical felf-fame fente, es and the most beneficial confequences preffive altogether of a gang of plu have already refulted to the object of derers. that inflitution from the experimental application of the attainments in che I remain, A. D. 1 Your's, B.C. For Walker's Hibernian Magazine. HAVING difcontinued the def cription of my laft tour at Boyle, I shall now proceed with a further account of my journey, taking my route by Sligo, which town I thall hereafter notice. There are two roads leading from Boyle to Sligo-the old one paffes directly through the Curlieu mountains: thofe ftupendous hills are nearly the igheft of any in Ireland, rifing graJually, at the extremity of the town, until they feem to lofe their lotty heads the clouds. I fancy that the mieralogift would, in thefe mountains, ind ore of fome kind, or perhaps a oal vein, which would amply conenfate the proprietors of this tract; I am the more inclined to this fuppo tion from infpecting a fpa, at the oot of the mountain, ftrongly impregnated with iron ore. It has been geally remarked, by most travellers hrough this country, that its treafures re buried, without even a feeming inlination, on the part of the inhabiants or landed proprietors, to make experiments which would fully repay hem for their trouble and expence. I now took the new road, and left he Curlieu mountains to my left affing, for fome fmall diftance, by he winding river of Boyle, one part of which much refembled that uni erfally admired romantic fpot, the Wicklow Dargle. Being fummerime, the banks were covered with ged and youthful fishermen, waiting atiently for the unfufpecting fifh to wallow the fatal bait. This river mpties idelf into Lough Key, which before defcribed at its other extremiy; this charming theet of water neertheless prefented itself to my view with encreafed delight.-I now paffed Over a country barren for many miles, n which was formerly a deer-park of Auguft, 1808. great extent, belonging to fir Harry with cottages interfperfed in thofe wild parts, built in a nice ftyle, which I understood were erected by lord Lorton for the cottagers: I counted feveral of them nicely flated and glazed; and confefs his lordship's plan, if univerfally followed, would not only add to the comforts of our too much neglected peafantry, but give the face of the country an appearance of cheerfulness and decency, instead of the fqualid wretchedness which it at prefent too generally prefents-the miferakle hovels of the poor tenants of our foil exhibiting fuch a lamentable picture of poverty, oppreffion, and indolence, as at once thocks and difgufts the enlightened and philanthropic contemplator. Purfuing my journey, I foon arrived at Hollybrook, the feat of counfellor Folliot. The manfion is fome distance from the road, to which you proceed by an avenue planted with full grown trees; I very much admired the building and its fite-I underftand it was built many years back by general Folliot. The houfe is lofty, and, though not entirely modern, is yet a comfortable refidence for a gentleman of fortune-and, to do mr. Folliot, its prefent proprietor, justice, he is continually adding to its improvement and embellifhment, and lives in a fuitable ftyle. At the rere of the houfe is a very handfome grove of trees, and a beautiful lake called Lough Arran, abounding in fish, and rendered highly picturefque by a number of fmali iflands which diverfifies the profpect The demefne wall bounds the road for confiderably above a mile; and on parting with it, I could not but acknowledge that Hollybrook poffeffed attractions not always to be met with in the feats of the gentry. the I have now been fome few miles in county of Sligo-and muft add 3 R another another to the many who have unexceptionably, defcribed its inhabitants, from the proprietor to the peafant, as of the molt hofpitable difpofition.Paffing onward, I came to a little vilJage, called Caftle Baldwin. formerly I prefume belonging to the Baldwin family, of whom there are now no traces in thofe parts-(fic tranfit gloria mundi!) From the road I pbferved an old caft'e, too finall to admit the idea of its ever being a place of much strength or confequence. In its vicinity is another village, confifting of but a few cabins, and remarkable only for a cattle fair, hell twice a year, which is generally throngly attended. The county of Sligo is rather a hilly country; its hills, however, in general, are verdant-and are covered with thofe flocks which at once pourtray on our minds the idea of primeval fimplicity, and indulge mankind with their various benefits: the mutton of this county is confidered as the beft in Ireland. Inow reached a place called the Haltway-houfe--a village, with a houfe of entertainment which alone renders it worthy of notice, being a convenient station for breakfafting between Boyle and Sligo; altho,' to judge from its accommodations, it does not feem to be much frequented. -Having refrefhed myfelf, I proceeded onward; but muft obferve, that near the Halfway-houfe I obferved a church, (the only one on 12 miles of my route,) called Tawney church. I underflood that its congregation confifted of eight parishes, forming a union: the church, however, was not of extraordinary fizenor had it the common appendage to houfes of worthip of a bell; a finall belfrey appeared, but no fteeple.Thofe unions of parithes, tho' beneficial to the clergymen, are highly injurious to the caufe of religion-and I own I never view a new facred edifice without fatisfaction: it must ap pear very unequal for the extent c eight parithes to have but one place of worthip-and that attended onir by the curate, the rector living at diftance of feveral miles from it. At fome miles diftance ftands the town of Collooney-rendered notable by the gallant defence made by the Limerick militia, under col. Veteke and the yeomanry corps, againft de invading force, under general Hum bert, in the year 1798. The inhab tants thewed me the fpot where the action took place; the rocks prefenc the marks of bullets and thot from the firing. The town confifts of o freet, with very few good hous the church has a decent appearance, having a steeple and very fmall fpire This town belongs to Joihua Edward Cooper, efq. of Mercury, whofe beau tiful feat and demethe merit particula notice; he is alfo one of the reprete tatives for the county in the Imper Parliament. W.P. Abbey-Boyle, Aug. 13, 1808. (To be continued.) Cato Junior-a Character. WHILST venality ftalks bareface abroad, and is publicly expofed every rank in life; when the ge of one's country' feems to be a be phrafe, and the pretended ficklers for liberty are daily wrangling, even in print, for the loaves and the fifhe, happy for this country there ftill re mains a Cato junior. This nobleman, defcended from 1 race of kings, retains all their prince ly virtues. In domeftic life he is tru exemplary, and his generofity a beneficence are manifeited upon eve laudable occafion. He is the profeffed patron and r promoter of the fine arts, and friend to merit in every departm of literature. Above the lore penfion, he acts from felf-convid without being biaffed by the influente! of a junto, or blinded by the topaly of a party, as he will acknowledge of art, than Kite's Recruits did of that natural curiofity, a king Charles's Guinea, fhould be loud in de crying a merit they are incapable of knowing, and confequently of rationally deciding on. none but thofe who act from difinterested principles of real patriotifm. Such a man is at once the ornament and bulwark of the ftate; the very contraft of our filken lords-the butterflies of ftate, who flutter round a minifter in the funfhine of his power, but difappear when his influence is nipt by the froft of difgrace. Review of O'Kelly's Giants, Caufeway and Lake of Killarney, DEAR SIR, YOU have done me fingular honour in fubmitting your publication to my perufal and correction; the former I find a very pleating one, but the latter I feel myfelf fo pertectly inadequate to, that I fear an inftant recantation of your partial opinion will be the inevitable refult of my beft endeavours. However, though my judgment may be justly taxed, my candour fhall not-(I with all your readers may act on the fame principle); and I fet out by declaring, that your choice of a fubject, in the Giants' Causeway, has laid you under difficulties, that no man of ordinary capacity or genius could poffibly fur. mount with honour to himfelf, or pleasure to his readers. The fubject is fo confined, fo deftitute of variety, and affords fo limited a field for defcription, or poetical imagery, that though tafte and found judgment may (and I am fure will) approve it, the vulgar aggregate, from want of comprehenfion or difcernment in the operations of nature or art, will, in the abundance of natural and artificial ftupidity, condemn what they cannot poffibly understand, and cenfure what they want tafte and difcernment to approve. Nay even men of the beft information and difcernment are divided on the fubject no wonder then that perfons who know no more of the operations of nature, or the refinements 4 The Cowper's Hill of fir John Denham, Pope's Windfor Foreft, and your own Killarney, are fo abundant in their defcriptive properties, and natural beauties, that any man above figuring in the Dunciad, may derive fome degree of credit, by expatiating on the fubject: for, various as' the defcriptions may be, the objects are fill the fame, and confequently muft inspire the fame agreeable ideas and pleating fenfations. The fugitive pieces annexed I have perufed with attention, but they are. fo many and various, that a particu lar detail would be tedious in the repetition; fuffice it to fay, that a few hours deliberate attention to clerical errors, and a fuller explanation of local circumstances, will render trem a novel entertainment to the curious; particularly as the flamp they bear is vifibly original. I thall therefore only add, that from the parucular honour I had of intimately and generally knowing the character and virtues of the late right reverend doctor Egan, I am bold to affirmi tht in your elegy on that eminent prelate, you have holden the mir ror up to nature.” Your Itinerary, I very much admire: firft, as a liberal testimony of gratitude well founded, and fecondly as a work of confummate ingenuity for the obligations you acknowledge have been conferred, by all, or moit of your friends, in a tyle fo nearly fimilar, that finding different epithets and terms of expreffion, without tautology, or adverting to infipid repetitions, muft be the refult of genius and induftry, which work I think you have happily executed, and will, I am confident, have a verypleafing effect. Your |
