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‘VOL. XVI)
on i +). Sweet Kath Ni Arn, weryt
sees ° (From the Drogheda Argus.)
‘ Sweet Kati ni Ara! the days ore gone bya
|, When I gazed on the light of her blue Jaughingeye 3;
hen the song from her lip to my heart sent a thrill,
y Ast heard it float wildly from valley to hill. , . .
| Q, there's nothing so dear as love of young days,
» , When the first breath of passion around the heart plays,
| As it played around mine, when by lane Derrevaragh,
:, J pledged the fond vow to sweet Kaiti ni Ara.
+ Sweet Kaui'ni Ara! ah, where is she now?) |.”
*» Does sbe wander like me, where the gr-en lindens bow.
*\To the breeze that awakens their mysticaltone? > |
2° Does she sigh, as I sigh, for the days that are fown; |
«oT fly to the mountains, I climb the wild bills. °
+ Teall to the echoes—they answer we siill, 1"
© Aa sweeping away over lene Derrevaragh,
+«Dhey bear my sad plaint for sweet Kati ni
‘Ara
ce . . ves i A Health t0 Sweet Eriu,
pours Sot Here’s a health to sweet Eria
. hen roaming afar, : » z
~ She shines in her beauty, .
My soul's guiding star: :
1 O, ‘tis long since the green hills
> Of Cavaal saw! s
Erin avourneen! «
ae My : os Erin avourneen !
5 vidas Slaa laght go bragh!
“Here's a health told friendships, « .-
iendsbipe,«
rh
OF my heart when a boy, >
| Mid the wreek of my hop
Nature still keape her law
: Mav’air vourneen !c8 2-3) yi
VB Mavair vourneen'! -) 9 050:
Slen laght go bragh!~ = a
, “ std bar :
, Oh! the land of the shamrock, . . «
And harp basa spell, .,: | xb}
| For this lone heart of mine, 5°
__, That ao language can tell: 5
Though “tis long since the green bills +;
OF Cavan I saw! oy) ype
Ly Eric avourneen!
Se, Esin avourneen! -2-5
Slan leght go bragh!—Mrs. Crawford.
bao
2%): [Prom the Dublin Rey “
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry
Flood, M. P., Colonel of the Volunteers ; containing Remi-
niscences of the Irish Commons, and an Account of the Grand
National Convention of 1783. By Warden Flood, Esq., late
Captaia 516t Regiment.” Dublia::1838.,... 1
’ ss. + [Continued from our last.) {{) 9) <> ahh
About this time Flood went to England,and was followed thither
by Lord Charlemont, whose friendship for bim cantet be con-
templated without pleasure.’ Nothing indeed could be more re-
fined, more delicate, more beautiful, than the affection between
these two noble persons, -The earl loved Flood almost: to en-
thusiasn ; he was a kind of idol, to which his heart constantly
turaed,: The fllowing letier, written at this period, proves the
foudaess that subsisted between them: Freed ®
ean ats
ne , ‘ . * Piccadilly, 1766.
“T set out with a thorough confidence that I was travelling
towards you.: Arrived in London, my first care was 10 send to
the Su. James's Coffee House.’ The answer was that you were
gone to Paris, but were expected back in a very few days; and
the next morning | received your billet, with an secount of your
having been obliged to set aut for Ireland, 1! had expected the
utmost pleasure in meetin, © * The unexpected
absence of a beloved mistress could scarcely have affected me more.”
The same sentiments recur afier the lapse of yearst
pa be te by eee erh e * June 15,1775. *
“You tell me that you. wish I should pay‘ you a visit at
Farmley. .So do I, most sincerely; nothing could give me
more pleasure. Is there upon earth a maa | love more than
yeu, or in whose company | find more delight? My atfection
for you must be proof against every thing, since even an interval
of devotion (it is, thank fate, no more) in the idem sentire de re-
od gi se
pxblica has not been able to affect it,” |
ag ue : "Jan. 1, 1782."
“ Well, but my dearest Harry, I can write no more; m
in to fail me, and I must conclude.’ My’ spirits are
nd that cireumstance may perhaps make me see
aan unfavourable light; but I do‘not like the present
progress of affairs. There is, to be sure, one luminous spot al
which I love to gaze, and which administers comfort vader all
oppression’. ¢ You may guess what that spot is, wher I as-
gure you that Iam, my dearest, dear Flood,
more than affectionate friend,” °°" - L
Oa the 14th of October, a cew viceroy, Lord Townshend, wa
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your faithful and | gi.
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Si) wou, NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19,' 1842.
sent over. + The nomination of this nobleman to the vice-royalty
of Treland was state joke. With no talents but for drinking,
with’ no pursaits higher than those of low humour, jesting, and
debauchery, he was thought well adapted to govern a people
whom their conquerors regarded ag not the soberrst in the world,
and who had ever been remarkable fur a cordial sympathy witb
wit and festive accomplishments, in, whomsoever they. were
found. They had been heretofore menaced out. of freedom ;
Lord Townshend was sent over to laugh them! out of liberty.
It-was scarcely possible, argued his employers, to suspect a man
of 80 humorous @ countenance of dishonesty or intrigue... His
administration accordingly presents a motley mixture of states-
manship and butfoonery,—of legal enactments and Fescennine
fun. ‘Ministers revelled in @ state-saturnalia; and the most
solemn acts of the constitution were thought fit and proper sub-
jects for derision... "The viceroy was a droll fellow; his govern-
ment was a farce, only less ludicrous than the-imaginary rule
of Sancho Panza, because attended with the worst consequences,
and exercised on the most important matiera in the world,—the
laws and constitution of @ people. In early life the companion
in arms of the gallant Wolfe, he attempted, on the death of that
general, to snaich the glory which he had died in achieving from
the hands of the deceased, and was obliged to apologize in, writ
ing to his superior officer for dis unblushing etre
occasion.. His afier-years were on a par with th
trovnery, and his rule in Ireland justified the anticipations of all
‘| honest men, it being a8 profligate, as disgraceful, as debasing
and intemperate, as any since the odious days of Sirafford.. He
did not, as we eaid before, throw even the mantle of dignity over
his proceedings. By the aristocracy he was pitied as a blot
upon their order; by the common prcpte he was despised and
lnughed at.” He made no secret of the state of slavistiness to
Lord Narth, to whieh he bad consented ta submit; and.it hes
been credibly said thai this representative of royalty did with
his own viceregal hand design and sketch a caricature represent-
ing himself with hands and fect tied (a symbol of his inability
to do anything but at the beck of the English minister,) which
caricature he not only exhibited to his friends in private, bat had
even the impudence to have published and publicly ‘sold. ,' By
the few respectable supportera of the government he wes
thoroughly contemaed; but those who, like Provost: Andrews,
had their own ends to attain, did not disdain to be the associaies
of his drunken frolics, and the applauders of his indecent wit.¢—
By the English ministry who sent him he was treated
indiguity to which no man but one in whom all high sentiments
of honour were completely stifled, would have submited. = The
abuses of the law courts in Ireland had been ‘long a popular
subject of reform. . The judges, who then held their seats at the
pleasure of administration, were subservient, unjust; and cor-
ropt. The elegant periphrasis in which Lord Mansfield elothed
acertain maxim of English law,—viz. Justice must be drawn
from pure fountains,—would not apply to the ermined syco-
phante of those days. Lord Townshend, in bis first speech from
the viceregal throne, directed the atteotion of parliament to this
point; and both houses soon passed the heads of a bill, ordain-
tng that jodges should in future hold their, seats, not during
pleasure, but during good behaviour. ,.The bill was sent over
to England for approval,—there: deprived of its best provisions,
returned to this country, aad thrown out by parliament as an
insulting mockery.’ The Lord Townshend, who may be said
to have introduced the. bill, nevertheless retained office.->But
the rejection of this measure was speedily eompensated by the
passing of another measure,—that great one to which Ireland's
greatest and best men had so long devoted themselves. This
was a bill for limiting the duration of parliament, ., Ic was in-
troduced by Lucas in November 1767, end passed into a law on
the 12th of February io the following year.
The moti
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ives were not the purest which caused this act of
grace. The parliament had more than once passed:a bill of.
nearly similar provisions,—not because they sincerely wished
it to become the law of the land (for it had been cunningly ar-
ranged that it wasto be quashed by the Irish privy council) but
because they wished to gull tbe people into a belief that they
were not entiraly dishonest, und thereby often made themselves
popular for short periods.’ The odiund of rejection lay, there-
fore, on the privy council. But that upright body, having long
boroe public execration on this account, became at lengih desi-
rous to shift the burthen fron: their owa shoulders, and transfer
it to their brethren of the privy council in Eagland.., With this
design, they refused to reject the bill of 1768, but sent it to Eng-
land, hoping that the same game. would be played there, and
the bill thrown into the fire, or perhaps aniended by the attor-
ney-general’s errand-boy., The English council resolved. to
disappoint them: to the dismay, of the Trish borough- buyers,
they returned the bill with the alteration of octennial for septen-
nial, put an end to the session, and declared the parliament was
issolved, To the House of Lords the bill was an extremely
seasonable boon. Their boroughs became at once sources of
octennial revenue; and their exuliation at the moment was
peo and indecent, They read the bill thrice on the same day.
‘aud passed it with only three dissentient voices,—-the chancellor,
Lord Lifford; Lord Annaley; an) Hutchinson, bishop of Killa;
—honourable senators, who hal perhaps no boroughs to |+t out
for sale. ‘ This was a great stride to independence, and it was
yne nicht’ than are perhaps
heard Provost Andrews say,
influence oft
jeutenant says more gond thi
0 during a whole seeaion”
e | an active part
16 600 far the
rictly true, bat what q spegch for the House
arRe
No doubt it might hi
RLEMONT, Pe 159,
One Hanoy’ Lt
vvceevaa y NOW 4T.
achieved principally by the labours of Flood.” It tended much
to diminish the evils of which’ we have spoken in a previous
party re as Ne Dats 8 peatt bts
Pl was in this yeor that Me. Flood first thought of pro
aseat inthe parliament of Great Britain, and even commission- .;
ed bis friend Lord Charlemont to enter into a negotiation with
one of the! Pit! family’ relating’ to it.' What: first turned his
thoughts into that channel, can now’ only be surmised. That
he looked for a nobler siage and more: extensive topics than he *
could expect ever to find in the then wretched senate of his own”
fi i i : that be was ~
s 2 s. and the |
faithlessness of those even on his own side of public’ questions,
we have ‘also reason’ to believe. © We’ have seen the helpless”
condition to which the country was reduced, and we have traced,”
one by one, the measures supported by Flood, all of which would ~
have materially assisted, if passtd, to render her prosperous”
and happy. ‘But venal majorities rendered useless the most >
strenuous efforts; and the very men in whom Flood most warm- ~
ly confided, were by his owa account frequently the most ready’ |
to thwart, to oppose, and to benay bi en Mr.’ Ftood
was io London,” says Hardy,* “he more then once declared ©
to Mr. Forbes, ‘that he had been betrayed ofiener when taking
the House of Commons in Treland, ‘thao he
thought it necessary to state. ' Except some particular persons,"
continued he, *men indeed of the most unserupulous and deliz
care honour, everyone whom I entrusted a parliamentary mo=
tion to, or plan of conduct for the session, almost 4 siformily be- .
trayed me.'" His veneration of Lord Chatham had always |
been great; and seeing all labours useless in Ireland, he might
have hoped, by maintaining her cause in the councils of Great ©
Britain, if not to awaken sympathy and procure redress, to”
arouse at least enquiry into her condition. The negotiation
commenced with Mr. Joho Pitt on the subject, was not conclud
el, Flood had always been anxious tu enier parliament un
shackled by pledges io patrons: He bad no objection to buy |
their constituencies, but he would not sell his conscience This \*
rigid independence may have proved an obstacle to his views of ©
obtaining an English seat at that time; ‘and the better state of
things which on the passing of the octennial bill appeared to be
springing up in Ireland, may have been another inducement not
to press too eagerly for a representation in that country. He
therefore sat down once more in the Irish parliament; and bad
become so popular, that in 1769 he was returned as representa~
tive by two constituencies. | In the Journals of the Commons, ‘ ~
we find the following: * Henry Fivod, Esq. being chosen a burs
gess for the borough of Callan’ in the county of Kilkenny, and‘
also a burgess for the borough of Longford in the county of **
Longford, made bis election to serve forthe borough of Callan; *
and the speaker was ordered to issue a new writ for Longford “
in his places ~ s fy . ’ es
A melancholy episode in Mr. Flood's life occurred this year.” '
I) must have been consoling to him, however, that it was forced
on him, and that with an earnestness that almost demonstrates
how engerly his challenger thirsted for his blood.’ Mr. Agar, a’ °*
penileman of large property in’ Callan, had for a long period °°
contested the representation with the family of Flood.’ In those
days, duelling was a fashionable accomplishment, and every S
public man resorted to it for redress on the most trivial circum *
stance. | Agar challenged Flood. ‘They met.” The former was" ‘
8 first-rate shot; but he was bit by his opponent, and slightly |
wounded. Exasperated a1 the result, he again challenged him
ona most unfair and floolish pretext.” The result of the hgh is
detailed ia a leer which we transcribe from’ Gratian's Life, °°
lately published by his sons wen seat
joer Mr. Bushe to Mr. Grattan, ©.) >).
: 1 ** September 17
“ My dear Harry,—I must postpone every other topic 1
form you that on Friday last a duel was fought. between Larry -»
Flood and Mr. Agar the elder, in Dunmore Park, near Kilken- + «
ny.io which Mr. Agar was unfortunately killed.» As Mr. Flood
was not the challenger, end as it was out of bis power to avoid
it, he has oothing to reproach himself with. .'The capse was a
case of pistols belonging 10 Mr. Agar, which Mr. Keogh lost at
Burochureh in the riots about ten months ago. | | hear that the. »>
unfortunate gentleman bad ofien. asked Mr. Flood about them,» +
who always suid that *be bad ther not, and was not acconnis,
abte for ibem,> , But on Friday they produced a challenge, ta
my great surprise; for if there were any offence it was as much
an offence any day these ten months as it was on that day,
They stood at about fourteen yards agunder.. Before they fired, *
Mr. Agar questioned Mr, Flood about the pistols in a threate! .
ing and offensive: manner.’ Mr. Flood answered very delib
ately, * You know T will not answer you while you ask me
that manner.’ Mr, G. Bushe, who was Mr. Flood’ friend, sid .
something to Agar to induce him to ask in another manasr, and -
not bring such an affair on himself so neediessly, but without
effect." He lsid down one pistol and rested the otheron bis arm
to take his aim. “Both Mr. G.B. and Mr. Roib bis owo friend
called to him to fire fairly—(N.B besides the unfairness of using +
a rest, it was parjcularly untair at that time, for Mr. Av had ©
proposed they should stand alongside a quick-set hedge, but Mr,
Roth declared ¢ there should be na levelling !)--vpon their cally...
ing out he desisted and tavk agoiber posture, aod fired first and.
missed. He then took yp anosher pistol and said to Mr. Flood, a
* Fire, you scoundrel !"“ Mr, Flood thereupon presented his piss
18,p-343, 1th December, 1762,
* Life gf Charlemont, ples,
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