Union is where one link unites

All in community of rights.

has been a woolstapler, but he failed; then he turned Cabinet maker; however, he has still an eye to the WOOLSACK. If he can only convince the old gentleman of the farmer's danger, and that he is the only person that can defend him against it, and so persuade the old gentleman to give him the mace, which he holds in his hand, he is set up. That, however, which you take to be a telescope is no such thing. It is an optical machine, so constructed, that very thing which is seen through it, appears deformed and horrible. But the old gentleman, who is rather near-sighted, and thinks as you do, that it is merely a common telescope, will look through it with out suspicion.'

While my conductor spoke, he who held the seeming telescope raised it to the old gentleman's eye. At the same instant, a vivid flash of lightning illumined the room, and a dreadful peal of thunder burst, as if immediately over our heads. Looking to the bright circle of

What of that merchant would be said,

To argue from the laws of trade,

light, I perceived in the midst of it a hideous fiend, with eyes of liquid sulphur, and horns glowing like red-hot iron; a mouth vomiting forth amber-coloured flames, and an enormous tail showering sparks of various coloured fire. While I looked, the fiend vanished; again the thunder rolled, and I perceived in the room a strong smell of sulphur. The circle of light had entirely disappeared, and we were in total darkness. But, presently, where the fiend had vanished, there appeared, incircled by a faint light, a decrepid figure, that looked to me like an old clothes-woman; for she had a bundle at her back, and what seemed three old hats upon her head, and she supported her feeble steps with a ragged ashen staff. The farmer uttered a loud cry of terror, his eyes stared wildly, and his hair stood an end; and falling flat upon his back with affright, a quantity of money fell out of his pocket on the floor. And now a deep sepulchral voice was heard, saying; "Behold the scarlet whore!”

Who, when you've paid him, should withhold

The goods for which you gave your gold?

-Thy wife-fire and faggots-broiling and stewing-steel and poison-Tremble-Thy wife, thy wife! -Tremble! tremble! tremble!!!?

6 I'faith, they have played their puppets well,' said my conductor, they have contrived to frighten both the farmer and the old gentleman: you see he is giving his mace to that fellow on his right hand, who has succeeded in making him believe that no one else is able to defend him against these terrible enemies. Yes, they have gained their point, and I see have contrived to pick up the farmer's money too. The poor fellow is frightened out of his wits at the sight of that feeble old hag, whom he takes for a Boggy-bo that he has dreaded from his cradle; of whom he has been told a thousand frightful stories, of her roasting people alive, and whisking folks post to the devil upon the back of a BULL. He will now dream of nothing but fire and faggots, and red cloaks, and raw-head and bloody-bones, and will use his wife worse than ever.'

The public faith is pledged,* once given

'Tis sacred as the voice of Heaven.

'But what has his wife to do with his dreams?' said I,

' or how can she help them?'

That he will not trouble himself to enquire,' answered my conductor. He will do or think just what these fellows shall chuse to teach him; a word is enough to set him on. If they were to tell him now that he could kick off his own head with his great toe, he would be afraid to take a step for fear of knocking them together.'

I was sick of this scene; and in the confusion which the terror of the farmer occasioned, left the room with my conductor, unobserved.

Lho Gma Smnaratsch. Tom. II. fol. 234.

*Surely the conscience of ministers might be affected by the violation of those pledges given to the Catholics at the time of the UNION, (it signifies not whether expressed or implied;) surely they might feel compunction at betraying a nation to dishonour, and then with-hold

CACOPHRON.

Not if 'twere rashly pledged

ing from her the paltry recompense that bribed her to

disgrace.

The men who perpetuate a crime, commit it; and as long as the present, or any ministry, continue the restrictions on the Irish Roman Catholics, they are deeply responsible for a gross and dishonourable breach of common faith and honesty. It is in vain they attempt to shelter themselves under the plea of the King's personal feelings. It will not be readily supposed that his ma jesty, whose principal glory will hereafter rest on the repeal he has made of the severer penal statutes in Ireland, can be actuated by the illiberal spirit which his self-named friends, but real enemies, charge to his account.

Though we are not inclined in general to violent mea sures, yet think that impeachment and imprisonment in the Tower would be too gentle a punishment for those secret advisers, who have not only unhinged the most delicate springs of the constitution to serve their own private views, but have done their best to cast obloquy

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