ing, we suppose, the duties of subjects to their sovereign), and secondly, must have impressed them with a conviction of the necessity of discharging these duties in order to obtain eternal happiness. If, then, this has been done, with what propriety can it be said, that sentiments of honour have never been instilled into them; and a spirit of just and social pride and of improvement has never opened upon them?- In his general remarks, at the close of the volume, Mr. Carr again adverts to the spirit of proselytism which, he says, characterizes the Government of Ireland, and bestows too or three pages of declamation, for we cannot call it reasoning, in order to prove, as far as we can discover his object, the necessity of establishing Popish schools, and of making a provision for the Popish clergy. He thinks that the latter should be put on the same footing with the Dissenting ministers, who receive an annual allowance from our Government. Where he discovered the spirit of proselytism which gives him so much uneasiness, and why, if it existed, a Member of the Church of England, as we conclude Mr. Carr to be, should be alarmed at it, we are equally at a loss to conjecture. Certain it is, that the present Government of Ireland, whose liberality and wisdom he praises without measure, has displayed nothing of such a spirit; and equally certain is it that the last viceroy afforded no encouragement to Protestant proselytism. The latter, on the contrary, disgusted every loyal Protestant by his marked partiality to the Romanists; and it is notorious that, in one instance, he persecuted one of the King's best Protestant subjects, In order to flatter and court the Papists! The former, though less prone to persecution, is certainly not more disposed to make proselytes;-Indeed, Mr. Carr himself observes, "an Englishman who has never visited Ireland would perhaps be surprized to hear that Ca tholic priests of high rank;"-Dr. Troy, for instance, whose father kept a whisky shop, in one of the meanest parts of Dublin, and who has no rank but what he has received from the Pope, now the basest of Buonaparte's minions-" are frequently honoured with invitations to the Castle, and are noticed with the gracious attentions which are due to their character by the representative of majesty." This is very like the spirit of proselytism! But what will possibly surprize an Englishman more, will be to hear, that the representative of majesty, of a Protestant King, has issued his orders, to all persons within the sphere of his influence, not to write against Popery, and has made his Chaplain, a Protestant clergyman, the herald of his pleasure, upon this occasion! And this representative, too, is a whig, who admires King William, annually celebrates the Revolution, and fervently joins in the convivial wish that "the Princes of the House of Brunswick may never forget the principles that placed their ancestors on the throne!!!" And what were these principles, but the principles of resistance to Popery, which it was the boast of the whigs to oppose and to crush in every possible way! And are we destined silently to contemplate the contradiction and inconsistency which strongly NO. XCIX. VOL. XXV. F strongly mark so many of the public characters of the present day! Will no one raise the voice of honest indignation against them; and explain to the world the glaring difference between the principles which they profess and the practices which they pursue?—If so, England is sunk indeed; all her spirit; all her enegy is gone; and her present apathy may reduce our posterity, at no very remote period, (less than ten centuries) to the necessity of effecting another reformation, and another revolution! That there are circumstances in the present times to justify serious apprehensions for the safety of the established church, must be obvious to every man of observation and reflection. If the members of that church, then, will not combine their efforts to avert the impending danger; if they will not employ the instruments which a protecting Providence has placed in their hands for repelling the insidious attacks of Popery, on the one hand, and the united assaults of fanaticism and profligacy, on the other, they will be guilty of a most scandalous neglect of duty, and will richly deserve to lose the vast benefits which they at present enjoy, in the possession of a pure faith and of a Protestant King. We have now done with Mr. Carr's thoughts on religion; on which subject we strenuously advise himnever more to employ his pen. Our author's excursion to the celebrated Lake of Killarney, affords him an opportunity of introducing an anecdote of Lord Castlereagh, highly honourable to that nobleman's humanity. "In the season of 1787, as the present Lord Castlereagh, then Mr. Stewart, was enjoying the pleasure of an aquatic excursion with his schoolfellow and friend, Mr. Sturrock, near Castle-Stewart, the scat of his Lordship's father, the Earl of Londonderry, unaccompanied by any other person, a violent squall of wind upset the boat, at the distance of two miles at least from shore. Lord Castlereagh, who was an excellent swimmer, recollecting that Mr. Sturreck could not swim, immediately on the boat sinking directed his attention to his friend, swam to him, placed a piece of a broken oar under his breast, recommended him, with the most encouraging composure and presence of mind, to remain as long as he could on this piece of timber, and when fatigued to turn himself on his back, which he showed him how to effect by placing himself in that position. He continued swimming near his friend, occasionally raising his hands, in the hope that some one might discover their perilous situation. Mr. Sturrock, father to the young friend of Lord Castlereagh, and Mr. Clealand, his Lordship's tutor, had been looking at the boat previous to the squall, which they had taken shelter from in a temple in the gardens of Mount Stewart. Upon the storm subsiding these gentlemen quitted the place, immediately missed the boat, and concluded that she was lost. Most providentially they found in the harbour a small boat, into which they sprang, with feelings which it would be in vain to describe, and after rowing with all their vigour for a mile and a half, they at last discovered, as the waves rose and fell, a hat, and not far from it a hand waving; they redoubled their exertion, and came up to Lord Castlereagh, who implored them not to mind him, but instantly to go to his companion. • Never mind me,' said his Lordship, for God's sake go to Sturrock, or he Γ he will be lost; leave me, I think can support myself till you return.' They accordingly left him, and arrived at the critical moment when his young friend had just risen, after sinking the first time, and seizing him by his hair, they drew him quite senseless and exhausted into the boatanother minute, and all would have been over. They then returned to his Lordship and rescued him also. I leave the reader to imagine the alternate agony and joy, which must have characterized the whole of this awful and impressive scene." Mr. Carr, on the authority of Mr. Whitelaw, rates the population of Ireland at five millions; this may be accurate enough, but it proves a great increase, which is by no means compatible with that systematized oppression which he represents the people of Ireland to labour under, and all its consequent misery. He is certainly incorrect in estimating the Romanists at two-thirds of the whole population; when, by authentic documents, published by Dr. Duigenan, to which Mr. Carr appears to be a perfect stranger, it has been made evident that the proportion of Romanists to Protestants is not more than five to three. At Kilkenny our author met with a company of gentlemen Dramatists, who levied contributions on the public for charitable purposes. These efforts of humanity drew forth the following effusion from his benevolent muse. "Amid the ruins of monastic gloom, Where Nore's translucent waters glide along, Genius and Wealth have rais'd the tasteful dome, - "In Virtue's cause they take a nobler aim : "There, if the tear on beauty's cheek appears, "Nor, if the laughter-loving nymph delight, "So if Pomona's golden fruit descend, "Blest be the reas'ning mind, the social zeal, And while it teaches us to think, to feel, "Thus る "Thus aided, see his rescued genius spring, Oft deck'd with smiles, his spirit shall explore, To him shall sweetly, as his Avon's, sound." Towards the close of his book Mr. Carr delivers one of the most unqualified, and, truth compels us to say, one of the most undeserved panegyrics that we ever read. Mr. Grattan is the subject of it; and he is represented by our author, as" a great man-one of the greatest orators and politicians of the age." We have no objection to have Mr. Grattan's speeches and writings compared with the Letters of Junius, though we think him as incapable of composing such Letters, as of writing "God save the King" but, when we see him held up as the first of statesmen and politicians, we feel it necessary to refresh the memory of the public, and of Mr. Carr himself, on whose eulogy we shall say nothing more, but request that the author will, in a subsequent edition, accompany it with the following extract from the "Report from the Committee of Secrety of the House of Lords, in Ireland, August 30, 1798. 2 "Evidence of John Hughes, of Belfast, one of the principal rebels: Whilst he was in Dublin, in April, he dined with Neilson (another rebel) at the Brazen Head. Next day Neilson called him up at five o'clock, and they went to Sweetinan's, near Judge Chamberlain's, to breakfast. Sweetman was then in prison, but Neilson lived in his house. Neilson took Sweetman's carriage to Mr. Grattan's, and brought him along with him. When he, Neilson, told him he had something to say to Mr. Grattan in private, and desired him to take a walk in the domain. Neilson, however, introduced him to Mr. Grattan first; and Mr. Grattan ordered a servant to attend him to shew him the grounds. He returned in about half an hour; went into Mr. Grattan's library: Neilson and Grattan were then together. Grattan asked a variety of questions touching the state of the country in the North; how many families had been driven out, and how many houses burnt by the Government or the Orangemen? Grattan said he supposed he was an United Irishman; he said he was. Grattan asked him how many United Irishmen were in the province; he said he reckoned 126,coo. Grattan asked how many Orange men there? He said about 12,000. Grattan made no particular answer. Neilson and he left Grattan's house about twelve in the day; they walked to their carriage, which was at Enniskerry; he asked Neilson what had passed between Grattan and him. Neilson evaded the question, but said generally, that he had gone down to Grattan to ask him whether he would come forward, and that he had sworn him. That Grattan had promised to meet him in Dublin before the next Tuesday. He left Dublin that evening, and returned to Belfast. "Q. You have said that you were introduced to Mr. Grattan by Sa muel muel Neilson, at his house at Tinnehinch, in April last. Recollect your self, and say whether you can speak with certainty as to that fact? "A. I certainly can. About the 28th of April last I went to Mr. Grattan's house, at Tinnehinch, with Samuel Neilson; on going into the house we were shewn into the library. Neilson introduced me to Mr. Grattan, and I soon after walked out, and left them alone for full half an hour. I saw a printed constitution of the United Irishmen in the room. Q. Can you say that Mr. Grattan knew it to be the constitution of United Irishmen ? "A. I can, for he asked me some questions about it. He asked me also a variety of questions about the state of the North. When we were! going away I heard Mr. Grattan tell Neilson, that he would be in town on or before the Tuesday following; and I understood Neilson that Mr. Grattan had visited him in prison, and on our return to town, Neilson told me that he had sworn Mr. Grattan; Neilson and I breakfasted that› morning at the country house of Sweetman, who was then in prison, and went from thence to Mr. Grattan's in Sweetman's carriage."? One part of Hughes's evidence is contradicted by another of the traitors, Neilson, who says, that he "never did swear Mr. Grattan, nor had he ever said that he swore him," but he admits that he had had two interviews with Mr. Grattan, at Tinnehinch, in April, 1798, and that he either shewed Mr. Grattan the last constitution of the Society of United Irishmen, or explained it to him, and pressed him to come forward." It ought to be remembered, that Mr. Grattan has never, to our knowledge, from that time to the present moment, contradicted the testimony of either of these men. Yet the charge which that testimony involved, was nothing less than misprision of treason!!!Mr. Carr gives ten quarto pages of extracts from the speeches of this first of politicians; and in the next chapter are six pages of extracts from the speeches of Mr. Curran. In his "general remarks," alluding to the celebration of the Revolution in Dublin, on the 4th of November, our author says: "This annual commemoration, which I have described, ought, in my humble opinion, to be discontinued; the tendency of it is to remind twothirds (three-fifths) of the population of Ireland, whom it is the professed object of Government to conciliate and attach, that that day was a day of humiliation to them; and to make the subject as painfully intelligible as possible, the bands of the different regiments which assist in military gala at this offensive ceremony, play the following tunes- The Protestant Boys have carried the Day; Croppies lie down; and the Boyne Water.'" We are rather surprized that Mr. Carr's liberality, and his tenderness for the feelings of the Romanists, does not extend a little farther, and lead him to propose the abolition of sundry oaths, which the Duke of Bedford, and all the Whigs now in office, must have taken, expressive of abhorrence of the impious and idolatrous tenets of the F3 Church |