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The Numbers of this Work will be forwarded by mail to any part of the United States, on the receipt of a year's subscription by the Publisher, OLIVER EVERETT, No. 13, Cornhill, Boston. SKETCHES OF THE IRISH BAR.NO. V. The Solicitor-general, Mr. Joy. "For do but mark the jeers and notable scorns SHAKSPEARE. MR. JOY, the present Solicitor-general for Ireland, and the anti-papistical associate in office of the chief advocate of the Roman Catholic claims, is the son of a literary man, who was the editor of a newspaper in Belfast. To the violent spirit which characterised the democratic lucubrations of the father, I am inclined to attribute a mistake into which the public have fallen with respect to the juvenile propensities of the son. The Solicitor-general is commonly considered to have been addicted to liberal principles in his early life, and has been reproached with having started a patriot. But whiggism is not a family disorder, nor have I been able to discover any grounds for thinking that Mr. Joy was at any time the professor of opinions at variance with his present political creed. Since he was called to the Bar, which was in the year 1788, I cannot find a single deviation in his conduct from the path of obvious prudence, which his instinctive tendencies would naturally have led him to adopt, and to which his matured experience must have instructed him to adhere. It required little sagacity to perceive that by allying himself with the religious and aristocratic passions of the prosperous faction, he was much more likely to attain distinction, than by any chivalrous dedication of his abilities to a more noble, but unrequiting cause. Had he had the misfortune to inherit so sterile and unprofitable a patrimony as the love of Ireland, he might still, perhaps, have risen to eminence and honour. But his success would have been achieved in despite of his principles. By choosing a different course he has succeeded through them. Instead of the difficult and laborious path by which so few have won their way, and which is filled not only with obstacles but thorns, he selected the smoother road, the progress in which is as easy as it is sure-which is thronged by crowds, who, instead of impeding individual advancement, sustain and bear each other on-and which not only leads with more directness to a splendid elevation, but is bordered with many fertile and rich retreats, in which those who are either unable or unwilling to prosecute their journey to the more distant and shining objects to I which it conducts at last, are certain of finding an adjacent place of secure and permanent repose. In this inviting path, the weak and the incapable may sit down in ease and luxury, even in the lowest gradations of ascent; while the more vigorous and aspiring receive an impulse from the very ground they tread, and are hurried rapidly along. Mr. Joy could not fail to see the advantages of this accelerating course, nor do I impute much blame to him for having yielded to its allurements. He has, perhaps, acted from that kind of artificial conviction, into which the mind of an honourable man may at last succeed in torturing itself. Conscience, like every other judge, may be misled, and there is no advocate so eloquent as self-interest before that high, but not infallible tribunal. Whatever were his motives in choosing this judicious though not very exalted course, Mr. Joy soon distinguished himself by his zeal in his vocation, and became prominent among the VOL. V. No. 30.-1823. 61 |