serve out of the Country, meant a Manifesto from the War-Office, on which the Troops were to meet and consult. To assist in crushing the Rebellion in Ireland, the Morning Chronicle had sense enough to remark, must needs be an alarming measure to the Jacobins of both Clubs, and he immediately set himself about counteracting the Ministry, as he supposed, and advising the Soldiers to deliberate. Some one, however, who had read the Debates in his own Paper, and had penetration enough to discover the meaning of them, informed him that this "deliberation" originated with the Troops themselves, and consisted merely in asking one another if they were willing to stand forth for their King and Country in the present emergency. "Do you say so?"-quoth the Patriotic and perspicacious Editor-" Adzooks! then, I "must advise the Soldiers not to deliberate. I had like

to have made a terrible mistake here; I am glad it "was discovered in time"-and immediately appeared the following:

"The new Bill is in every point of view objectionable: to ENCOU" RAGE THE ARMY to deliberate, is a measure so alarming," &c. &c.-Morning Chronicle, June 22.

Such is the change of language one day can produce! and such is the consistency of those boasted advocates of political integrity and virtue !

UNJUST AGGRESSION.

WHILE we are closing our accounts with our other Correspondents, it would be the height of ingratitude not to take some notice of him, with whom we have more than

than once had occasion to interchange civilities,-our Antagonist in the Morning Chronicle.

We really wished to have done with the subject of Lord EDWARD FITZGERALD,-We wished sincerely not to have been obliged to enter upon it. We were forced to do so by the gross and impudent mis-statements which were circulated upon the subject; which, to have suffered to go uncontradicted, when we had the means of contradiction in our power, would have been to make ourselves in some measure parties to the delusion attempted to be practised upon the Public here, and to the libellous imputation thrown upon the execution of the law in the Sister Kingdom.

It was asserted over and over again in all Companies, that the Officers who were sent to apprehend Lord EDWARD FITZGERALD had no Warrant, and that they fired at him before he had begun to make any resistance. These assertions were daily gaining ground, and making considerable impression upon the minds of many wellmeaning People. We knew them to be false. We proved them to be so, by producing Mr. SWAN's sworn Affidavit, which We affirmed, and do again affirm, in spite of all the law-learning of our Antagonist, to be of unimpeached credit, and decisive of the point in question, so long as it remains uncontradicted by an evidence of equal solemnity.

But is there (it may be asked) a possibility of its being contradicted? Was there any body present during the Arrest, who is not a party to the transaction, and consequently interested in telling the same story?—Yes; Murphy was present, the Friend, the Partizan, the host Where is his Affidavit in contra

of Lord EDWARD.

diction to Mr. SWAN's? If in contradiction to it any

thing could have been sworn or said, there can be little doubt that such a counter-testimony would have been industriously procured, and unsparingly used. But there is no such thing. Away then with all silly attempts to invalidate the clear and convincing testimony of Mr. SWAN; and shame on the attempt to blast his character! -Mr. SWAN is an honest and respectable Man, and NOT A TRAITOR. Had he died of his wounds, as his companion, Mr. RYAN, did, he would have fallen in the execution of his duty to his Country. His Friends might have wept, but they would have had no reason to blush for him.

Such is our opinion. Such we believe will be the opinion of the PUBLIC, in defiance of any flimsy and fantastical involutions of argument, or any. "quips and cranks" of metaphor, which may be employed to bring them back into error upon the subject. The Public may be misled by a false statement, when there is nothing opposed to it. But it is too much to expect that they should knowingly abjure truth and wilfully recant conviction.

So much for the subject of our Antagonist's last effusion; of which we now finally take our leave. As to the person of our Antagonist, or his pedigree ;-We have no desire to talk about them.-Our business is with his writings. We conjectured, from the damning evidence of style, that he must be the same Writer with whom we had been forced into the disgraceful necessity of contending several times in the course of our Work. He pleads guilty to the accusation. We thank him for gratifying our curiosity. But as we cannot accuse ourselves of having suffered any one of his literary enormities to go unpunished, either by Prose or Verse, at the time of its

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being committed, We have no intention of raking up his old offences; but shall content ourselves with assuring him in perfect soberness and sincerity, that we never should have gone out of our way to meet him, had he not commenced what we conceived a most cc Unjust Aggression" upon us;-that we have never quarrelled with his Statement of Facts, except where we knew we could disprove it; and never laughed at his style, except when we thought it infinitely ridiculous.

THE following Popular Song is said to be in great vogue among the Loyal Troops in the North of IRELAND. The Air, and the turn of the Composition, are highly original. It is attributed (as our Correspondent informs us), to a Fifer in the DRUMBALLYRONEY VOlunteers.

BALLYNAHINCH.

A NEW SONG,

I.

A certain great Statesman, whom all of us know,
In a certain Assembly, no long while ago,
Declared from this maxim he never would flinch,
"That no Town was so Loyal as BALLYNAHINCH,"

II.

II.

The great Statesman it seems had perused all their faces, And being mightily struck with their loyal grimaces; While each Townsman had sung, like a Throstle or Finch, "We are all of us Loyal, at Ballynahinch.”

III.

The great Statesman return'd to his Speeches and Readings;
And the Ballynabinchers resum'd their Proceedings;
They had most of them sworn "We'll be true to the Frinch*,
So Loyal a Town was this BALLYNAHINCH!

IV.

Determin'd their Landlord's fine words to make good, They hid Pikes in his haggard, cut Staves in his wood; And attack'd the King's Troops-the assertion to clinch, That no Town is so Loyal as BALLYNAHINCH.

V.

O! had we but trusted the Rebels' Professions,

Met their Cannon with smiles, and their Pikes with conces

sions :

Tho' they still took an ell, when we gave them an inch,
They would all have been Loyal-like BALLYNAHINCH.

VIRI ERUDITI,

Si vobis hocce poematium, de navali laude Britanniæ, paucis annis ante conscriptum, nuperrimè recensitum atque emendatum, forté arrideat, quærite in proximis vestris tabulis locum quendam secretum atque securum, ubi repositum suâ sorte perfruatur. Quod si in me hanc

Hibernicé pro FRENCH.

gratiam