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choly. This is a disease which is common to the inhabitants of all mountainous countries, and is called by Dr. Cullen, in his Synopsis, nostalgia.. JoHe became unable to do his duty, and was sent to the hospital. As soon as his mother heard of his illness she set off on foot to see him. She was, however, refused admittance to the apartment where he lay, as it was thought the sight of her would only nourish his malady. She was outrageous at this refusal, and so passionate in her exclamations and appeals, that she was obliged to be taken by force from the door. The young man from the inside heard all that passed, and in an instant his melancholy became frenzy, as violent as her own. He started out of bed, rushed upon the centinel at the gate, knocked him down, wrested his gun and bayonet from him, and instantly, (to use the phrase of my narrator,) took to the hills. A party was sent after him. He swam rivers, crossed bogs, and mountains, his pursuers still following him. Often when he was on one hill, they saw him from another.

He went forwards upwards of twenty miles in this manner, and at length arrived breathless and exhausted, at his mother's little mansion. He had nothing in his hand, for he had left the gun and bayonet sticking in one of the many bogs he crossed over. His sisters put him to bed, pur

posing to take him to a place of greater security when he awoke. A friend was planted above the house to give notice of the soldiers' approach.

For some hours this Argus continued wakeful at his post--but his eyes were at length sealed up, by a soporific, superior even to the wand of Cadmus. Strolling about, he stumbled on ap private still at work, and drank such a quantity of whiskey as threw him into a profound sleep.

A mountain may appear rather a public place for a private still; but it should be remembered that if they could be easily seen, the distillers could likewise easily see, and that at such a dis tance too, as would give them, (and did give them,) full leisure to secure themselves. In the mean time the soldiers arrived, and proceeding to the house found the poor maniac asleep, his sisters watching round him, ya * 161 Log

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The serjeant consoled them as much as was in his power. I joined my endeavours to his, and assured them that their brother, when brought/ back to the regiment would be an object of medical kindness, and not of military punish ment. When I left them, they were tolerably composed, the more particularly as the serjeant at my request, humanely consented to let the young man stop till the following morning, and left two men to look after him.

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honest serjeant, that I made a little circuit, and kept company with him upwards of four miles. I found him and his little party rational and intelligent, to a degree that I should not have expected from men of their condition, and as modest in their conversation, as they had been mild in their demeanour. They belonged to a Northern Irish militia regiment. dt se potky to As I may not have another opportunity, I dannot forbear! availing myself of the present one, to express my warm approbation of the wise and judicious measure, of the interchange of the militias of England and Ireland. Among many advantages that will, I trust, hence berdek rived, it will not be the least, that of making the two countries better known to each other, and that while it awakens kindness, if it does not destroy, it will lessen prejudice.mp

bhope the conduct of the Irish militia in England, will be such as to leave favourable impressions of their country behind them. It is the more likely to be so, as they are commanded by their own country officers, who understand their nature, and can better manage them than Englishmen can possibly do. Írish nature requires a vigorous, but a flowing rein. English system, which is well adapted to English nature, only makes it restive and violent, and, while it provokes its mettle, does not increase its speed.

The conduct of the English militia in Ireland, as far as I have had an opportunity of knowing, has been in the highest degree correct and exem

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and disposition to conciliation, not more honourable to themselves, than creditable to their officers.

These latter will, probably, at times, find Ireland a heavy residence, but they will quit it with reluctance, and they will remember it with regard. What was unfavourable will be forgotten, and what was agreeable will be remembered. It may not have, it has not, splendour and decoration to to grace the noon-day of prosperity, like England-but there is in human life, as in the revolution of time, midnight as well as mid-day, and it is to cheer and brighten the midnight of adversity, that it is peculiarly fitted, It may not have, it has not, much of amusement for the gay, or much of elegance or refinement for the fashionable; but it has ever society for the solitary, kindness for the sick, consolation for the afflicted, and sympathy for the distressed.

In the hour of sorrow or danger, and in the languor of sickness and suffering, this sympathy is as necessary to the greatest man, as to the meanest, and the want of it is the highest aggravation of the evils of their condition. The mighty spirit of Cæsar did not burst, until he

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received the stab of his distinguished Brutus; and an exalted hero of our own days, who had braved danger in every form, found consolation when dying in the tear which ran down the cheek of the rugged seaman who bent over him, and in the warm kiss of commiseration he asked from him.

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I WAS requested by a gentleman to accompany him hither to see his son, who is very ill. We had a pleasant drive in his gig, and performed a journey of ten miles, through a mountainous country, in an hour and half.

nor My host is a Methodist, and a very worthy {man. Methodism of late years has greatly increased in this part of Ireland. It is a curious fact, that after the last rebellion, several who were concerned in it, turned drinkers, and others died mad. Numbers became Methodists. The enthusiasm of politics, gave place to the enthusiasm of religion. The high-wrought fever,