1. "WILLIAM BRISTOW, Sovereign of Belfast, by "trade a Minister of the Church of England. This in"fernal Mountebank, unites the cruelty of an Inquisitor to all the chicanery of a vicious Priest."

2. "CHICHESTER SKEFFINGTON, High Sheriff of the County of Antrim: This villain inherits all the "vices of Tyranny, as a descendant of the first English "Robbers."

3.

FAIRBROTHER, about 5 feet 3 inches high, ruddy complexion, a clothier, in Tenter's Lane, " in the Liberty, one of Corbally's Jury."

4." LUTTRELL, this villain is remarkably "ill-looking, about 5 feet 5 inches high, black complexion, wears a uniform, and his hair in a queue."

5.

- PETTIGREW, 5 feet 6 inches high, "black complexion, 33 years of age, lives in Linen-hallstreet, a Serjeant in Dick's Company, a Juryman of << young Hart's,' &c. &c. &c.

After singling out nineteen persons for destruction, the Paper from which we have quoted, affects to be astonished at any imputations on its humanity, and talks with as much confidence of its honour and integrity as the Courier, the Morning Post, or the Morning Chronicle.

Extract.

We are constantly witnessing the impudent affecta'tion of cowardly moderation, acting in partnership with Tyranny, against the Union Star, which they accuse of 'inculcating principles of assassination.

'We certainly do not advise, THOUGH WE DO NOT DECRY ASSASSINATION, as we conceive it is the only 'mode at present within the reach of Irishmen, to bring 'to justice the Royal Agents, who are constantly exer

< cising rapes, murders, and burnings, through our devoted Country; we appeal to thy noble and venerated name, O! BRUTUS, &c.

Yes, Prince of Patriot Assassins, &c, thus we defend assassination, and clear it from the rubbish of Ignorance, and falsehoods of despotism, which were too often suc'cessful in confounding the characters of a man who destroyed a tyrant, and him who, to gratify private revenge, ་ or urged by avarice, might sell himself to murder an innocent fellow-creature."

In another of these Papers, HIS MAJESTY is accused of having issued a WARRANT for destroying the TowN OF BELFAST.

Extract.

Those acts are strong reasons for loving the Lord's Anointed, who issue their Royal Warrant in the following humane and pious manner George, by the Grace of God, we command you to burn the Town of Belfast, &c. Such is our Royal Pleasure. Burning a town by the Grace of God, and by a man calling himself the Father of his People, might be strong reasons for saying, From such Grace, and from such Parents, Q

• Lord deliver us.

Irishmen! your Country is represented by Brethren ⚫ of virtue and ability; they plead your cause at Lisle; 'they negotiate for an Independent Irish Republic in the teeth of that diplomatique spy, MALMESBURY. They are countenanced and encouraged by the French Com'missioners; and we have some hopes, that Ireland will be seen in the Political Map of Europe, when her cowardly cruel Step Sister is consigned to the insignificance her crimes justly merit. Should some unfortunate event

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put off your delivery, by England purchasing an im'mediate peace, you should not despond Peace will be ⚫ only temporary-It may be productive of some political comforts, as we may then openly praise and study 'the glorious truths France is capable of proclaiming. → • Communication with that Country will be revived, and liberty will gain new strength, and knowledge be more Consequently despotism must die, and

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• Irishmen will go to the funeral.'

We assure our Readers we have copied the least offensive passages of one of the least offensive Papers before us. Yet could Lord MOIRA, with a bundle of those very Papers in his pocket (if he had them not there, he is still more culpable, for he could not walk the streets of Dublin without having them thrust into his hand) with a certain knowledge that Witnesses had been murdered, Juries intimidated, Soldiers perverted from their duty, or, if faithful, assassinated, and whole districts threatened with the exterminating vengeance of the French - yet, we say, could Lord MOIRA, with this and more pressing forward on his mind, most honourably suppress all mention of it, and gratify his "philanthropy" with a laboured philippic against an army to which He and his Tenants owe their lives, and a Government to which his Country will be indebted for its safety.

With respect to the UNION STARS we cannot consent to disgrace Our Paper with any farther Extracts from them; but if any of Our Readers should be curious to see what Irish Jacobins can write, and English Jacobins applaud, they may inspect them at Our Publisher's, with whom they are left for that purpose.

We cannot dismiss the subject of Ireland, without inserting the Address of the City of Londonderry to Lord CAMDEN, which would of itself do away from the mind of every reasonable man, all doubt with respect to the conduct of Government in the North of Ireland, if any such doubt could yet exist. We are aware that this Address has already been given to the Public in the Daily Papers, but we could not reconcile it to our notions of duty, to refuse such a document a place in our Publication.

That Londonderry should shut its gates against atheistic Anarchy, can be a matter of no surprize to those who are conversant with the most brilliant page of Irish History. In its abhorrence of those execrable proceedings, so justly animadverted on in this judicious Address, we recognize the same principles that prompted and animated its ever-memorable defence of a tempered and virtuous freedom. The Corporation and Commons of Londonderry see no resemblance between the sacred Cause for which their glorious ancestors bled, and the modern code of the pretended Rights of Man-that impudent libel upon liberty that base forgery, by which a fraudulent appeal is made to some of the best feelings of the heart, for the purposes only of pillage and of murder.

To His Excellency Joln Jeffries, Earl Camden, Lord Lieutenant-General, and General Governor of Ireland.

May it please Your Excellency,

We, the Mayor, Community, and Citizens, of the City of Londonderry, in Common Council assembled, this 7th day of Dec. 1797, feel ourselves peculiarly called upon at this juncture, to express our grateful sense of the vigilance and vigour which have distinguished and given efficacy to Your Excellency's Government.

When those execrable Banditti, who call themselves United Irishmen, Had not only the basenes to coalesce with our Forcign Foes, in meditating

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the overthrow of that Constitution which had given Freedom and Prosperity to our Country, but had also the audacity to denounce horrid vengeance against all who should oppose them; when they even proceeded to realize those menaces by every species of barbarous Outrage; when the Arms of such as were deemed Loyal were extorted from them by midnight violence; when Committees of Assassination were formed, and their suggestions deplorably executed; when Terror imposed silence upon Witnesses, and made even the honest Juror shrink from his duty; it was bvious in such circumstances, that the ordinary exercise of Law could not but prove ineffectual, and the Credit and Commerce of the Country, the Security of Property, of Life, the Existence of the Community, as well as the unanimous Voice of the well-disposed Inhabitants of Ireland, indispensably called for an exertion of Legislative and Executive Authority more adequate to the melancholy Exigencies.

We are assured your Excellency, trained as you have been from your earliest infancy in the warmest attachment to our invaluable Constitution, deplored the painful necessity of departing even for a time from its mild and liberal principles, by adding to the Penal Code Laws which give summary powers: the powers thus entrusted have been cautiously resorted to; they have been executed with wisdom and mercy, nor have they, we are confident, been extended to any District where the circumstances of the Country did not loudly demand their exercise. While, therefore, none but disappointed Traitors complain, you possess the approbation of every unprejudiced Irishman.

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We in particular, from our situation as the resident Magistracy of this Northern City, have had the fullest opportunity of knowing both the necessity, the execution, and the consequences, of those extraordinary meaand we should be wanting to ourselves in Spirit, Honour, and Truth, if we did not bear testimony to the facts which we have witnessed. We are at this time peculiarly called on to do so, in consequence of a gross mis-statement made by a Noble Personage in another Kingdom, from whom, considering his rank and character, better information and less of party prejudice might fairly have been expected: we willingly attribute to total ignorance of existing circumstances, what it would be painful to impute to any dishonourable view; but to the statements made by him relative to the measures adopted by the Government of this Kingdom, and especially to that audacious assertion, that the Proceedings " in question" were not merely particular acts of cruelty, but that those acts of cruelty "formed a part of the system acted upon," we give the most direct and unequivocal contradiction; nay, we are bold to affirm, and we defy the ingenuity of malice to disprove, that the general conduct both of the Ma