this ungenerous! this odious measure! For my part, I shall bear in my heart the consciousness of having done my duty, and in the hour of my death, I shall not be haunted by the reflexion of having basely sold, or meanly abandoned, the liberties of my native land! I will resist this measure to the last gasp of my existence, and with the last drop of my blood; and when I feel the hour of my dissolution approaching, I will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom.”

Gentlemen,-These are words worthy to be kept in remembrance, had all men felt like him, Ireland would still be a nation! not a bankrupt province de pending for her existence upon the charity of Great Britain! Gentlemen, I ask you at what altar are you sworn? is it at the altar of independence, fidelity, and virtue? is it not at an altar placed within the fane and temple of the Court, within the alluring precincts, and under the softening atmosphere of Royal Influence ; behold the shrine at which you make this unworthy sacrifice! it is adorned with gay hopes and tempting offers, and all the fascinating patronage of place, office, and commission; the feathered Mercury, with his appropriate symbols, his purse, his twisted emblem of reward and punishment; Ceres with her well stored cornu copia, and Venus with her loosely-vested damsels, ready for her young fellows, who burn with March impatience to break the bonds of celibacy? such are the pillars that support the Admiralty, such are the laurels that adorn them! the destined rewards,

for those who labour disinterestedly in the harvest of laudable and virtuous ambition..

I have heard of ingratitude; and College critics have, in their private lectures, indulged in satires against the catholics and their conduct to Mr. Grattan; the catholics have not been done justice to, had they acted in the manner described, they would now stand acquited, and acquitted by those who are not the least ready to condemn. The catholics proceeded openly; they met, resolved, and addressed most undisguisedly; some of them differed in opinion from Mr. Grattan, and transferred their petition from their old friend to a new advocate, but they did not act as you have done, they did not plot, they did not undermine, they did not betray; ill treated and long deceived by many parties, their wearied minds scarce knew upon what shore to cast either the anchor of confidence or of hope; but you—you befriended, honored, raised and flattered, by the strenuous and virtuous exertions of your chosen representative, turn against him without a cause, and basely cast him off at the very moment of his highest integrity and estimation. The catholics may have been more than imprudent,you have been less than honest, for you have smiled in the face of that man whom you intended to wound to the heart; let it not then be said, that the catholics have acted as basely as you have done, for they have been only ungrateful, while you have been treacherous, or rather say, that there is no body of men in Ireland, so ungenerous, so ungrateful, and so treacherous as yourselves.

It is not, however, too late to redeem your charac

ter; you have still time to correct the evil, and in some degree to efface the shame of your present conduct, and if possible, relieve yourselves from that opprobrium with which you are loaded by every honourable man in the community. Do not turn aside from those public memento's that have been held up to your view; though they cannot excite a feeling of gratitude, they may, perhaps, kindle the blush of shame, and extort from your repentance the reward that is due to virtue.

You have sacrificed the noblest feelings of the human heart; do not complete your disgrace, by casting into the loaded balance the corrupted remains of a treacherous understanding; you have lost all character for honor, preserve at least some sense of feeling, and though your are deaf to the voice of gratitude, be not insensible to the claims of talent.

LETTER V.

To the Gentlemen of Trinity College.

Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur

GENTLEMEN,

The subjoined came to me last night marked "Sailor's Letter," I understand it has been favourably received by the Board of Admiralty.

Yours, &c.

AMICUS.

SIR,

I recommend to you a young man of letters; he has studied the Adventurer, the Rambler, and the Paysan Parvenu, he is well meaning and good na- · tured in disposition, unassuming in manner-classi- cal in mind, and upright in principle- he is a candidate for honest fame, and wishes ill to no man-he was of old an admirer and friend of a very industrious harmless set of Ladies and Gentlemen, who procured an honourable livelihood by acting at Crow-Street Theatre-he never intended them any harm, for his object was not to undermine them, but to get on the boards, if not at Crow-Street, perhaps at St. Stephens !-the Admiralty-C**lt*n H*u*e! -Downpatrick-Athlone-Dublin University, or elsewhere, so that he never was their competitor-: and though once considered as such, he bears them no spleen, and is now (as then) quite devoid of illnatured wit-pert dull humour, and "uncommon impudence"-he does not wish to pass for what he is not and could never be taken for-and as he is desirous that the public should judge whether he deserves encouragement, he submits to their consideration certain extracts from an obsolete work of his which he proposes to republish, under the title of Annus Mirabilis; or Hibernia Rediviva; it was the best natured of his productions, and affords a fair specimen of his talents;-though humble, he is not a poor unbefriended author; there are many honest. and good fellows fully sensible that-he merits encouragement, and though "he cannot command success, he will endeavour to deserve it."

The prospectus is this-Six Familiar Epistles in 110 small octavo pages, with lines to hang Notes upon-appropriate motto's-extracts from Greek and Latin school books that are not forgotten, (tho' the quoter has just re-entered College)-apt quotations from Italian authors that were studied during Travels on the Continent after Circuit; - they have been carefully and literally read through, understood perfectly, and could be translated with ease; -the frontispiece does not contain his picture, but the following line affords a striking likeness:-"s Ven rerer ne immodicam hanc epistolam putares"-the Finale will be equally modest and more characteristic— it will apologize for "six heavy stages" thanks for patience in bearing my "roughness, my mistakes and my wanderings," for "Beggar that I am, I poor even in thanks," "I have no reward to offer (or to take) if I can avoid it," the concluding word will be modest and classical "PLAUDITE.” " *

Such, Gentlemen, is the precious volume on which the author builds his hope of rising to eminence, perhaps to office-and whether in his profession or out of it, it matters little; as his object is to faire la chose; rem! quocunque modo REM!-may I entreat of you to use your good offices in his behalf with the Members of the Dublin University-Provost, Fellows, and Scholars. I request, in this instance, their support. As literary characters, and patrons of men of letters, they rank high; and they would not be so illiberal as to reject the author on account of the patrons he looks up to, and the examples he follows, * See the Familiar Epistles.