Scatter'd the London-pride around;

The black clouds roar'd with horrid found;
The vivid lightning flash'd again

And laid the laurel on the plain;
But foon fucceeds a heavenly calm,
Soft dews defcend and fhours of balm
The fun fhoots forth his kindeft ray
And shamrock ftrenthens every day,
And rais'd by heaven's affiftance bland,
Bids fair to spread o'er all the land;
The guards the blafted laurel's roots,
The nurtured laurel upward shoots,
And gratefull wreaths its dark green bows
To grace great Shamrock's aged brows.

MORAL.

Take heed, learn wisdom, hence weak man,
And keep a good friend while you can;

If to your friend you are unkind,

E'en Jove will be against you join'd;
Reflect that every act you do

To ftrengthen him, doth ftrenghten you;
To ferve you he is-willing-able-
Two twifts will make the ftrongest cable
To bind a friend and keep him steady,
To have him e'er in reach and ready.

THEBOR.

We have in a former paper mentioned, that attempts were made by perfons too high in rank and office in this country to form focieties in this kingdom, under the appellation of orangemen, the members of which were bound to each other by an atrocious oath. In this we were contradicted, and the silence of preffes which were once patriotic, gives us up for the affertion. In the caufe of our country and truth, we are not ashamed to ftand alone. That fuch focieties do exift, we have indubitable proof The following is a copy of the obligation by which this bafe brotherhood is joined together:

ORANGE MAN's OATH.

I, A. B. do hereby fwear, that I will be true to the king and government, and that I will EXTERMINATE as far as I am able, the CATHOLICS of IRELAND,

QUESTIONS, &c.

2. Where are you? 4. At the houfe of bondage.-2 Where are you going? A. To the Promised Land.2. Stand faft yourself! A. Through the Red fea.-2 What is your hafte? A. I am afraid.-dont be afraid, for the man who fought your life is dead.-2. Will you hold it or have it? A. I will hold it.

Signs of the Orange-men.

Take your right hand, and put it to your right hunch, turn round, faying, great is the man that fent me; then take your left hand and fay, welcome brother Prince of Orange.

Let this be contrafted with the United Irishman's oath as taken from the report of the fecret committee, and the people of England will easily fee, who are the real traitors to their country, although there are no Orangemen hanged, or fent to gaol:

TEST

TEST,

In the awful prefence of God, I, A. B. do voluntarily declare, that I will perfevere in endeavouring to form a brotherhood of affection among Irishmen of every religious perfuafion, and that I will also perfevere in my endeavours to obtain an equal, full and adequate reprefentation of ALL the people of Ireland in Parliament.

I do further declare, that neither hopes, fears, rewards, or punishments, fhall ever induce me, directly or indirectly to inform or give evidence, against any member or members of this or fimilar focieties, for any act or expreffion of theirs, done or made collectively or individual, " in or out of the fociety-in pursuance of the Spirit of this obligation."

From the candid reading of this oath, it will appear that no man who takes it, is thereby precluded from bringing his brother United Irishman to juftice, if guilty of any real crime-for every misdemeanor checks that brotherhood of affection, by which alone the defirable object of reform can be obtained.

To the PRINTER of the PRESS.

SIR,

BEFORE I proceed, let me call the attention of the pub

lic to a report induftriously, though, I hope, falfely diffe minated, that your Prefs, like the Northern Star, if it cannot be bought, muft be fuppreffed by profecutions, or torn down by military force :-This is a ferious object to the minifters of the crown-but on them i do not callthey have read the law, and heard the prophets-they have despised both-but in the words of as great a man as ever ftood forth the advocate of fociety, of peace and of National liberty, I call upon those who compose the Juries of this Country" to guard the liberty of the Prefs, that great "Centinel of the ftate, that grand detector of public Impofture."-I call upon them to guard it because, "when it finks, there finks" with it, in one

Common

common grave, the liberty" of the fubject, and the fecarity of the Crown."-I fay the Prefs being extinguished the people will become enflaved, and the flavery of the people is the inevitable ruin of the Prince.

Now to my fubject

Two things I fhall proceed to point out

Firft. Having fhewn in my former letter, the corrupt, bafe, and cruel conduct of Judges, while they were depen, dent on the Crown, and fubject to its influence, I will now point out the means applied by parliament to remedy these evils, and

Secondly, I will make known a fubterfuge by which thofe who exercife the powers of government in Ireland have, on many occaffions, fuperceded that remedy.

As the firft point-in the thirteenth year of King WilHam the Third, the legislature of England taking into confideration the perfecutions and cruelties by which many innocent perfons had been afflicted, during the tyrannic reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts, and in order to give efficacy to the bill of rights, by which unusual and severe punishments are prohibited, refolved upon remedying, as far as poffible, fuch evils, by raising the Judges to a ftate of independence, that would enable them, without apprehenfion of difmiffal from office, to fpurn at any infidious or unconftitutional attack which the monarch or his dependents might attempt againft their honour and integrity. For this purpose it was enacted that the Commiffions of the Judges fhould be made, not as formerly, durante bene placito but quamdiu bene fes gefuerint, that their falaries should be ascertained and established, and that they should not be removed, except on addreffes to the King from both houses of parliament.

His prefent majefty, in the fecond year of his reign, with an apparent zeal for the freedom of the people, which,

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as it held forth a generous regard for their properties, their liberties and their lives, juftly obtained for him a novel title paramount to all others he, or any of his predeceffors, ever held A PATRIOT King! fent a meffage to the English houfe of Commons, that breathed the pure fpirit of his then youthful heart, and which furprized all who recollected that his Majefty had been educated under a Scotch tutor, the Earl of Bute, and had received his nursery inftruction and cabinet admonitions from a German mother the late princefs dowager of Wales-In that meffage the King,s minifter informed the reprefentatives of the people of England in the name of their fovereign, "that his majefty looked upon the independence and uprightness of the Judges as fential and as one of the beft fecurities of the rights and liberties of his fubjects, and as most conducive to to the bonour of the Crown.

This meffage, as it ought, was received with gratitude. -It was confidered a royal harbenger to future happiness and in confequence thereof a bill paffed both houses of parliament, and was, of courfe, affented to by the Crown, whereby it is enacted, that Judges are to be continued in their office during good behaviour, notwithstanding any demife of the crown (which was formerly held to vacate their feats) and their full falaries are abfolutely fecured to them during the continuance of their commiffions.

Thus has the ftatute of William the Third confiderably improved the adminiftration of juftice, as far as law could create affurance, fecured to the PEOPLE of -ENGLAND.

I fay fecured to the people of England; for many years elapfed before the PEOPLE of IRELAND could obtain from her parliament fuch a fecurity for the impartial adminiftration of Juftice, even though his Majefty, as by his royal meffage to the English Commons confidered the independence of the English Judges moft conducive to the honour of the English Crown.

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