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river, oppofite the marine fchool, where it was found the next day, mangled and bruifed in moft shocking manner. The coroner's inqueft fat on the body and brought in their verdictWiltul murder against perions unknown.-What renders this horrid transaction ftill more melancholy is, that the unfortunste man has left after him a wife and five fmall children, of whom he was the chief fopport.

water, which he caufed to be taken up, whea it proved to be the remains of the late Mr. Clarke, who was drowned in croffing the ford at Milltown, about three weeks fince.

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15.. Laft Saturday night Sheriff Read vifited feveral gaming tables, and after defpoiling them of their implements, such as Boxes," Dice, &e. threatened the perfons he found there, that if he ever again met them at fuch places he wou'd not only commit them to prison as pelts to focie ev, but also publish their names in the public papers.

26. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant reviewed the troops in garrifon at the PhoenixPark, and expreffed his approbation of their manœuvres and firings. The Countess of Tem ple, attended by a brilliant suite, was prefented, as were a great number of the nobility and gen. try, and a valt concourse of people.

A great number of counterfeit fhillings have within these few days come into circulation which are made of grain tin, covered with leaf filver. They reprefent thofe of Queen Anne, and are executed with great nicety, particularly in the milling. To obviate any objection to the found, which is very dull, a small crack is contrived in

each, and to this the perions who put them off

attribute the defect in ringing.

Dark fattin facques, with trains and light fat tio petticoats, form the new winter drefs-The bodies the colour of the petticoat, the fleeve the fame of the robe, but turned up with plain cuffe, like men's, the colour of the petticoat.

A very fingular Marriage. There are now living at Chelsea a married couple, who commenced matrimony as follows: The gentleman, a North Britain, married a lady of his own country; and on her decease, an Irish lady and on her deceale, the prefent wife, an Englishwoman, who was also three times married; first to an Englishman, next to an Irishman, and thirdly to her prefent husband, a North Britan.

A few days ago, a wretched woman decoyed a fine boy, near five years old, from his father's door in Abbey-street, and fecreted him until late in the evening, when the ftripped him quite na ked, and left him in the market-houle, Thomas-ftreet, where the difconfolate parent found him between nine and ten o'clock at night: fufpicion fell on a woman in Dirty-lane, who is faid to follow this infernal pra&tice; her lodgings were searched, but no part of the plunder could be found, and the thief got off; he was how ever, a few nights after, detected in a fimilar attempt in Capel-street, and lodged in the New Gaol.

A fecond fraud committed by a baker in Conflantinople, is pushed by the very excellent cuftom of nailing him by the ear to his own doorpoft for two hours, that the delinquent may be fully known and execrated by the public. Would not fuch an ordnance be attended with the beft confequences in this kingdom?

29. Mr. Cordner of Henry-freet, going down to Poolbeg, perceived something to float on the

BIRTH 'S.

T Lifmallen, the lady of John Dillon, Elq; of a daughter.In Dominick-ftreet, the lady of John Bagot, Efq; of a daughter.-At the caftle of Malahide, the lady of Colonel Tak bot, of a daughter.—In Kilkenny, the lady of the rev. archdeacon Palmer, of a daughter.— The lady of Bernard Fitzpatrick, Elq. of a foo.

At Clanebrenny, co. Meath, the lady of Robert Wade, Efq; of a daughter.- -At Edmundítown, co. Mayo, the lady of Charles Costello, Efq; of a fon.

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T Cark, Mr. Henry Dver, furgeon, to the widow M'Mahon,-Mr. Saunders, of Abhey-freet to Mils Ward, of Jervis-street Near Caftledermot, Mr. Alexander Stillas, to Mifs Hill, of Ballymore-Euftace. Thomas ConBor, of Edenderry, King's co. Efq; to Mifs Peggy Dunn, of Newberry, co. Kildare Hounds-Wood, co. Mayo, John D'Arcy, E'q to Mifs Frances Blake.-David Beatty, Efq; to Mifs Bell.-Thomas Pearole, Eft; to Mifs June Spiller, of Corke-to Corke, John Elmore, Efq to Mifs Role of Ballinterry-George Waller, Efq; to Mifs Gault. DE A TH S.

aged 99-At Larne, in the 'co. of Antrim, AT Belfait, Mr? Robert Moore, ship-mafter, Richard Nicholson, in the hundred and tenth year of his age. He was three times transport ed to America for theep-tealing; yet, notwithftanding his being fo great a multon-monger in his younger days, towards the evening of life he became remarkably pious, and in every fenie of the word, an efeful citizen, and a good mian.— In Kilkenny, the wife of the rev. Mr. Pack.— On her way to the fouth of France, the lady of Mathew O'Reily, Efq; of Dominick-streetAt Millbrook, co. Meath, Mis Margart Her vey In Molefworth-ftreet, the relict of the late rey. Dr. Wynne.-At Coney Borough, in the King's co aged 96, Mr. Wm. Sikes, one of the people called Quakers.-At Swords, the rev, Fowler Comyns.-At Ballygreen, co. Clare, the wife of John Singleton, Efq:-At Rofcrea, the relict of John Smith, of Corbally, Eiq.-la Abbey-ftreet, the wife of Croaldale Molony, Efq;

In Cumberland-street, Dr. O'Rielly, of the co. Kildare.-A: Curraghmore, Charles Polior, Efq;-In Aungier-ftreet, Richard Willon, Esq; aged 82.At Knockrenny, co. Rofcommed, John Dillon, baron Kilkenny, Weft, &c. earl of Rofcommon, aged 62. His lordship leaving no iffue, the title devoles to Robt. Dillon, Elgi of Clenbrock, whofe ancestor, Sir Tho. Dillon (lord chief juftice of the queen's beach in Eliza beth's reign) was fecond fon of James Dillon, first earl of Roscommon.

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HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE:

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Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge,

For NOVEMBER, 1782.

General Elliot's Letter, giving an Account of the Deftruction of the Gun-boats, &c. before Gibraltar, having particularly diftinguifbed Captain Curtis, we think we cannot gratify our Readers more than by giving a Likeness of him.

A Tour to Celbridge, by Dr. Samuel John- of the Liffey, and to fearch among the

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amnicolifts for that entertainment which eluded my parfuit in the urbanity of the capital; letters, which the officiousness

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nor perhaps is the rational fegregated from the brute creature, by any more discernable discrimination than an eager defire to vifit different countries, to explore new objects, and to accumulate fresh materials for the verfatility of contemplative invef tigation. Sir Thomas Browne fays, that were the regions of his fecond fate of existence left to his election, he would choofe to be the inhabitant of a planet, rather than of a fixed star. Without ftaying to examine, whether there is not more of humour than folidity in this whimsical preference, we may venture to pronounce that the faculties of the mind flagnate by confinement, and that change of place will naturally produce viciffitude of ideas. There is, befides, this certain advantage in travelling,it makes us independent of other mens labour; observation preserves from prejudice, teaches to moderate credulity, and affifts to detect impofition. I was naturally led to thefe reflections by a retroípect to the occurrences of a day lately fpent in the vicinage of Dublin. Having vifited every thing worthy the notice of a ftranger in the metropolis of Ireland, and being fatigued by conviviality without converfation, fociety without felection, conftitutional bumpers, and ftale aneclotes, I determined to explore the banks Hib. Mag. Nov. 1782.

my part, had put into my hands at my leaving London, ferved to introduce me among others to two ladies who happened to be at that time refident in Dublin. The name of Mrs. Greville is too well known in the world of tafte and fashion to depend for celebrity on the perishable memorial of a fugitive itinerary; and Mrs. Jephfon, who poffeffes all the powers of captivation, without brandishing any of the weapons of allurement. I had fcarcely intimated to thefe ladies my fatiety of the town, and my wifh for a rural excurfion, when Mrs. Greville offered me a place in her coach, which had been just ordered to the door to convey Mrs. Jephson, a dignified clergyman, then prefent, and herfelf, to the feat of colonel Marlay at Celbridge. The clergyman I afterwards found to be the brother of colonel Marlay, whofe villa was to be the calpe of our peregrination; as I liked the company, I did not hesitate to accept the accommodation. Though we paffed with a rapid velocity over little more than three leagues of high road to Celbridge, I obferved many ftately manfions, many well difpofed enclosures, and more towering plantations than any eye but that of a native of Scotland would difcover in the black circumference of the whole Caledonian hoA aa a

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rizon. The pleafure I received from the tranfient contemplation of fuch fcenes, was often interrupted by the fight of tattered mendicants, who crawled from their hamlets of mud on the way fide, to howl for charity, or to gaze in torpid fufpenfion at the ordinary phænomenon of a paffing equipage. National reflections are always illiberal, and often ill founded; the poverty of the loweft clafs of people in Ireland, is generally imputed to laziness, but fagacity will not reft fatisfied with fuch a folution, especially when it is confidered that the rifque of a halter is intuitively preferable to the certainty of famine, and that the rags of thefe miferable bipeds might be mended with lefs trouble than they are worn; and in a fhorter time than if they are fhaken off, they can again be indued. This remark muft however occur to every fojourner in Ireland, that the tranfitions in the fcale of opulence are by no means gradual as in England, from abundance to competency, from luxury to convenience, from the elegancies to the neceffaries of life; but from fuperfluities to indigence, from the riot of profufion to the fouleft dregs of fqualidity and wretchedness; fo that there feem to be few intermediate links in the great defcending chain of property. When the ftropituofity of rotal progreffion rendered the modulation of ordinary difcourfe inaudible, the ladies and the dean had recourfe to fong, that we might not rely for our entertainment folely on the gratification of vision; the dean began by chaunting fome verfes of a fublime anthem, in a firain of harmony which might have excited extraordinary emotions in a Webfter or a Manzuoli; the ladies, who joined in the chorus, affured me he was a perfect master of the fcientific part of mufic, and my auditory organs did juftice to his powers of vocal execution: by degrees the serious tenor of facred melody was exchanged for the lighter airs of the Beggar's Opera; and before we reached the Cherry tree (a magnificent public houfe at the village of Lucan, within a league of Celbridge) our small company had vocalized all the fongs of the opera in fuch a manner as i never heard them executed upon any theatre in London. An overturn, occafioned by our coachman's driving over fome pigs and children who were lying together in the middle of the road, obliged us to defcend from our vehicle at the Cherry tree. While the carriage was refitting, and the ladies readjufting their drefs, which had fuffered fome difcompofure from the accident, I entered into converfation with the publican. I was naturally led to make fome enquiries a

bout the place I was going to vifit, and the character of the owner. The fubftance of my hoft's information was, that Celbridge was reckoned one of the mo beautiful villas on the river; but fquire Conolly's was the grandelt feat in the whole world; the colonel, he told me, had long ferved in the army with great reputation, but had quitted it on fom: difguft, or to have more cilure for the bufinefs of agriculture, in which he takes great delight, and is very fkilful. His cloathing was of goat-fkins faftened toge ther with leathern thongs, and girt rou! the middle by a fafh, which he had wor in all the late wars. Since his retirement he had never fhaved his beard, which hung below his waift, and was quite white, though his age was but little on the dusky fide of fifty. His love of fequeftration being generally known, his gate wai feldom befieged with idle vifitors, and many were deterred from approaching it by the fear of a twelve pounder planted at the orifice of a fide wall, commanding the entrance to the manfion; this piece c ordnance being loaded up to the muzz't with boiled potatoes, fpontaneously dif charged its vegetable ammunition in the faces of all who laid hold of his knocker without business or invitation.

This account was fo choaked with col loquial barbarifm and idiomatic anomaly, that I had fome trouble to felect a litte grain of the narrator's' meaning from the rank exuberance of his unweeded diction. In a fhort time afterwards we fet forward and arrived at the place of our deftication. My curiofity was firft excited by the aperture in the wall, which might have been intended for the purpose mentioned by my communicative landlord; but as the party came by invitation, I had little fear of fuffering by any fudden explosion.— Colonel Marlay met us foon after our en trance, and received us with that polite and difengaged affability more proper to the character of a foldier and a gentlema than to the favage rufticity of discontest and folitude.

Though it is too commonly the prac tice of compilers of journals to swell their meagre pages with unimportant events and trivial circumftances, to prefent littl to the reader but what was too obviousto escape notice, or too infignificant to deferve it; yet I fhall not think the little dignity of these sheets impaired by a particular defcription of this gentleman, drefs and figure. By comparing the authenticity of ocular knowledge with the fallacioufnefs of legendary rumour, conviction will at laft find her fober mediun between the dangerous aufterity of hete

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