your Jast breath with a deliberate and studied lie? Why will you, in that hour when grace and repentance are known to subdue the heart until then invulnerable to their power-why in that awful hour, will you heap profitless perdition upon your souls? I earnestly exhort you to use the short time allotted you in this life in reflecting seriously on all your sins, but particularly, the last great and grievous crimes for which you die-make the most ample atonement to offended society that remains in power. In the solemn interval between this and the execution of your sentence, humble yourselves before man, and before God. Dare not to impose upon the one, for you know you cannot deceive the other-let not the consideration of any thing in this world, from which you are so soon to part, interfere with those dispositions which alone can prepare you for that to which you are going-that your repentance may be effectual, let it be sincere and full, and unqualified-nor render it an additional charge upon your souls, by the frauds of subterfuge and reservation.-I have fulfilled duty in endeavouring to point out your's, and it is, at this moment, my most anxious and heart-felt prayer, that you may reconcile yourselves to your offended God, by devoting what is left you of a perishable world in cultivating that and repentance grace which alone can fit you for the blessings of eternal life. my Extract from the SPEECH of Mr. CURRAN, on the trial of Owen Kirwans in Ireland, for High Treason. IT is clear there are but two modes of holding States, or the Members of the same State, together, namely com munity of interest or predominance of force; the former is the natural bond of the British empire; their interest their hopes, their danger, can be no other than one and the same, if they are not stupidly blind to their own situation; and stupidly blind indeed must they be, and justly must they incur the inevitable consequence of that blindness and stupidity, if they have not fortitude and magnanimity enough to lay aside those mean and narrow jealousies, which have hitherto prevented that community of interest and unity of effort, by which alone we can stand, and without which we must fall. But force only can hold the acquisitions of the FRENCH CONSUL; what community of interest can he have with the different nations that he has subdued-and plundered: Clearly none. Can he venture to establish any regular and protected system of religion amongst them? Wherever he erected an altar, he would set up a monument of condemnation and reproach, upon those wild and fantastic speculations, which he is pleased to dignify with the name of Philosophy, but which other nien, perhaps, because they are endowed with a less aspiring intellect, conceive to be a desperate, anarchical Atheism, giving to every man a dispensing power for the gratification of his passions, teaching him that he may be a rebel to his conscience with advantage, and to his God with impunity. Just as soon would the Government of Britain venture to display the Crescent in their Churches, as an honorary member of all faiths to shew any reverence to the Cross in his dominions. Apply the same reasoning to liberty;-can he venture to give any reasonable portion of it to his subjects at home, or his vassals abroad? The answer is obvious; sustained merely by military force, his unavoidable policy is to make the Army every every thing, and the People nothing? If he ventured to elevate his soldiers into citizens, and his wretched subjects into freemen, he would form a confederacy of mutual interest between both, against which he could not exist a moment. If he relaxed in like manner with Holland, or Belgium, or Switzerland, or Italy, and withdrew his armies from them, he would excite and make them capable of instant revolt. There is one circumstance which just leaves it possible, for him not to chain them down still more rigorously than he has done, and that is the facility with which he can pour military reinforcements upon them in case of necessity. But destitute as he is of a marine, he could look to no such resource with respect to any insular acquisition, and of course he should guard against the possibility of danger by so complete and merciless a thraldom as would make any effort of resistance physically impossible, His conduct must be so swayed by the permament pressure of his situation, by the controul of an unchangeable and inexorable necessity, that he connot dare to relax or relent, without becoming the certain victim of his own humanity of contrition, I may be asked, are these merely my own speculations, or have others in Ireland adopted them; I answer freely, non meus hic sermo est. It is, to my own knowledge, the result of serious reflec tion in numbers of our countrymen. In the storm of arbitary sway, in the distraction of torture and suffering, the human mind had lost its poise and its tone, and was incapable of sober reflection; but by removing these terrors from it, by holding an even hand between all parties, by disdaining the patronage of any sect or faction, the people of Ireland were left at liberty to consider her real situation and interest, and happily for herself, I trust in God, she has As to the humbler orders of our same same that you entertained of popular what sympathy does he feel for Frenchinen, whom he is ready by thousands to bury in the ocean, in the barbarous gambling of his wild ambition? What sympathy then could bind him to you? He is not your countryman— the scene of your birth and your childhood is not endeared to his heart by the reflection, that it was also the scene of his. He is not your fellow Christianhe is not, therefore, bound to you by any similarity of duty in this world, or by any union of hope beyond the grave. What then could you suppose the object of his visit, or the consequence of his success? Can you be so foolish as not to see that he would use you as slaves, while he held you? and that when he grew weary, which he soon would become of such a worthless and precarious possession, he would carry you to market in some treaty of peace, barter you for some more valuable con and revolutionary France fourteen years ago? Have you any hope that if the First Consul got possession of your island, he would treat you half so well as he does those countries at his door, whom he must respect more than he can respect or regard you? And do you know how he treats those unhappy nations? You know that in Ireland there is little personal wealth to plunder -that there are few churches. to rob. Can you then doubt that he would reward his rapacious Generals and Soldiers by parcelling out the soil of the island among them, and by dividing you into lots of serfs to till the respective lands to which they belonged? Can you suppose that the perfidy and treason of surrendering your country to an invader, would to your new master be any pledge of your allegiance? Can you suppose, that while a single French soldier was willing to accept an acre of Irish ground, that he would leave that acre in the possession of a man, who had shewn himself so wickedly and so stupidly dead to the suggestions of the most obvious interest, and to the ties of the most imperious moral obligations? What do you look forward to with respect to the aggrandisement of your sect? Are you Protestants? He has abolished Protestants with Christianity. Are you Catholics? Do you think he will raise you to the level of the Pope? Perhaps, and I think he would not— but if he did, could you hope more privilege that he has left his Holiness? and what privilege has he left him? He has reduced his religion to be a mendicant for contemptuous toleration, and he has reduced his person to beggary and to rags. Let me ask you a a further question-Do you thing he would feel any kind-hearted sympathy for you? - Answer yourselves by asking cession, and surrender you, to expiate by your punishment and degradation, the advantage you had given him by your follies and your crimes. ADDRESS TO BRITONS. By Mr. B. ARKLE OF LIVERPOOL. "Calm is my soul, nor apt to rise in arms, BRITONS attend-your Country Ancient Ancient Rome. When mistress of the world and giving laws to mankind, this was the motto of her gallant and warlike sons: 66 Life has no charms, nor any tercors fate, if Rome and glory call.” Such was the language of a people who loved their country to enthusiasın, and these, I trust, are the sentiments which at this time animate and inspire every British bosom. You are told by a perfidious and restless foe, that the dawn is overcast, that the great the important day, big with the fate of freedom and of Britain, is at hand-that the time in which she is to perish in the struggle draws nigh, when the sun of her glory shall be set, her consequence in the scale of nations destroyed, and her very name extinguished for ever. Such are the mighty boasts of the Corsican Ajax, master of the MamaLukes of Egypt, and of the seven-fold shield of France!-BONAPARTE, the usurper, turbulent and faithless, who has neither reverence for God, nor pity for mankind, has threatened to deprive you of every blessing, and to exterminate yourselves and your children with the sword. If my words have no weight, learn part of the history of this implacable tyrant: On his landing in Egypt, he attempted to conciliate the affections of the natives, by vilifying and degrading the Christian Religion that Religion which has brought peace and happiness to millions, and on which we rest for our salvation-that Religion, whose influences, were they to terminate with life, it would be highly profitable for mankind to cul tivate. At Jaffa he caused 4000 Turks, who had taken refuge in a temple, to be brought out and butchered by the French soldiery, the bloody tyrant feasting his eyes on the horrid spectacle. From such instances of irreligion and cruelty, let us learn what we may expect. On England he has set his eye, and on England he wishes to fasten his fangs. He has sworn by the goddess of reason, and he has commanded his Cardinals to pray. At the rage of the tyrant, Britons be not dismayed, and as his Cardinals pray' from compulsion, you have very little to fear. The desponding Trojans of old exclaimed, they had been Trojans, but were so no more! BRITONS we are, and BRITONS We will be. Shall I call to your remembrance the chosen few, who, with LEONIDAS their magnanimous leader, gloriously fell at the pass of Thermopyle in defence of their country? It was a tyrant who roused their indignation, and to curb his ambition they sacrificed their lives. It was there they sealed the love of their country with their blood, and on that spot they immortalized their names. But why go abroad to find heroes worthy your imitation, when so many illustrious examples are recorded in the history of Britain. How often has the same foe who now threatens our destruction, been assailed in his own country with signal success, and compelled to yield ! Look back on the battles of Poictiers, of Agincourt, and of Cressy! A handful of Britons rendered for ever illustrious by their valour! O WARWICK, and TALBOT, how dear to your country! Have you, my countrymen, forgotten Elizabeth's reign? Have you forgotten the swelling words and gigantic preparations of proud Spain? The face of the deep was covered-the ocean groaned under her mighty fleet, THE INVINCIBLE ARMADA! But how soon was her pride humbled and her glory laid laid waste. the veteran legions of France-nay, the very flower of her army, with her most Popular General at their head, and at last compelled them to retire, vanquished and covered with disgrace. Here is a trophy more brilliant than any furnished either by ancient or modern history. Mark the discomfi→ ture of the mighty CONSUL! Of him with whom we have now to contend, and who, till that hour, had made his boast, that thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice had killed the slain But in what language shall I introduce to your notice a Hero and Statesman, who is the ornament of his country and the delight of mankind. Whose life has been one series of services to Britain, and whose actions are at once, dignified, virtuous, and splendid. Serene in the midst of danger, calm and collected in the rage of battle; the resources of his mind are adequate to every change in the scale, and to every turn of fortune, equally qualified to give counsel in the senate, or inspire courage in the field; even in misfortune, commanding our esteem and admiration-In victory modest, temperate, and humane-Such is the character of the NOBLE MARQUIS CORNWALLIS. His conduct in the East Indies merits the warmest panegyric, and in Ireland his services will never be forgotten. "Fama Marcelli ut luna inter minores." The great Earl of CHATHAM, at whose cloquence and wisdom all Europe stood astonished, said he had sought men to fight the battles of his country, and he found them in the mountains of the North. Sweet be thy repose, O ABERCROMBIE, descendant of Fingal! born to serve thy country, to bleed, nay to die in her Thy handful was opposed to cause. an |