BOROUGH-MONGERS.

"It is well known that the price of boroughs is from fourteen to sixteen thousand pounds, and has in the course of not many years, increased one third; a proof at once of the extravagance and audacity of this abuse, which thus looks to immortality, and proceeds unawed by the times, and uninstructed by example, and in moments which are held alarming entertains no fear, conceives no panic, and feels no remorse which prevents the chapman and dealer from going on at any risk with his villainous little barter, in the very rockings and frownings of the elements, and makes him tremble indeed at liberty, but not at crimes.

CORRUPTION.

"Make your people honest, says the court→→→ make your court honest, say the people; it is the higher classes that introduce corruption-thieving may be learned from poverty; but corruption is learned from riches. It is a venal court that makes a venal country-that vice descends from above. The peasant does not go to the castle for the bribe, but the castle candidate goes to the peasant, and the castle candidate offers the bribe to the peasant, because he expects, in a much greater bribe, to be repaid by the minister; thus: things go on; 'tis impossible they can last.

The laws did in my judgement afford the crown sufficient power to administer the country, and preserve the connection with Great Britain; but our ministers have despised the ordinary track, and plain, obvious, legitimate, and vulgar bonds between the king and the subject; they have resorted to the guinea and the gallows, as to the only true and faithful friends of government, and try to hang when they can't compel; they have extended the venal stipendary principle to all constituted authorities; they have given the taint to the grave corporator as well as the senator, and have gone into the halls and streets to communicate the evil to the middling and ordinary part of society.

REFORM.M

In that American contest we saw that reform which had been born in England, and banished to America, advance, like the shepherd lad in holy writ, and overthrow Goliah. He returned riding on the wave of the Atlantic, and his spirit moved on the waters of Europe."

SELF-LEGISLATION.

Self-legislation is life, and has been fought for as for being. It was that principle that called

forth resistance to the House of Stuart, and baptized with royalty the House of Hanover, when the people stood sponsors for their allegiance to the liberty of the subjects; for kings are but satellites, and your freedom is the luminary that has called them to the skies; but your fatal compliances (speaking of the then parliament) have caused a succession of measures which have collected upon us such an accumulation of calamity, and which have finally, at an immense expence, and through a sea of blood, stranded these kingdoms on a solitary shore, naked of empire, naked of liberty, and be, reft of innocence, to ponder on an abyss which has swallowed up one part of their fortunes, and yawns for the remainder."

He thus finely pourtrays some of the great political characters of Ireland.

MR. FLOOD.

"Mr. Flood, my rival, as the pamphlet calls him--and I should be unworthy the character of his rival, if in his grave I did not do him justicehe had his faults, but he had great powers, great public effect; he persuaded the old, inspired the young; the castle vanished before him; on a small subject he was miserable; put into his hands a distaff, and like Hercules, he made sad work of it, but give him the thunderbolt, and he had the arm of a Jupiter; he misjudged when he transferred himself to the English parliament; he forgot that

he

was a tree of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty; and his seat in the British parliament is a caution to the friends of union to stay at home, and make the country of their birth the seat of their action!

MR. BURGH,

Afterward Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

"Mr. Burgh, another great person in those scenes, which it is not in the little guile of this author to depreciate. He was a man singularly gifted with great talent, great variety, wit, oratory, and logic; he too had his weakness; but he had the pride of genius also; he strove to raise his country along with himself, and never sought to build his elevation on the degradation of Ireland.

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"I moved an amendment for a free export; he moved a better amendment, and he lost his place; I moved a declaration of right: my last breath will I support the right of the Irish Parliament,' was his note to me, when I applied to him for his support: he lost the chance of recovering his place, and his way to the seals, for which he might have bartered. The gates of promotion were shut on him, as those of glory opened.

EARL OF CHARLEMONT.

"In the list of injured characters, I beg leave to say a few words for the good and gracious Earl of Charlemont; an attack not only on his measures, but on his representative, makes his vindication seasonable; formed to unite aristocracy and the people, with the manners of a court, and the principles of a patriot; with the flame of liberty and the love of order, unassailable to the approaches of power, of profit, or of titles, he annexed to the love of freedom a veneration for order, and cast on the crowd that followed him the gracious shade of his own accomplishments: so that the very rabble grew civilized as it approached his person; for years did he preside over a great army without pay or reward, and he helped to accomplish a great revolution, without a drop of blood.

Let slaves utter their slander, and bark at glory which is conferred by the people; his name will stand; and when his clay shall be gathered In the dirt to which it belongs, his monument, whether in marble, or in the hearts of his countrymen, shall be consulted as a subject of sorrow, and a source of virtue.

"See the chart of your credit, an evanescent speck just rising above the plane of the horizon,