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0171TLIIII, MAY 20.
T:i r. iNgrALLATioN.
ne ewoomy look place ye•terclas, and was a specimen.
ernisib or. At au ea-ly hour thane oar's of the
etedi.sl al.utteil to company iserr crow.lcil with rank, fa.
dot, and lwauty; the fles:lemono in Comet roost wine, the
La cs on rich and heart foil aftire,6Oronisogallones.llier woe Of
the 4 Ito ollionot a•sen,lolages wr ev. rla yhroriial•sa a
iu ihr fluff. rent .trust tilioll:111 whirl. the proOcer-si in wait to
pas., likewase al...played wool' of the lie tidy atdl£ash,ou fir
the toietooopolis, toeing chiefly orritloe.l by very elegantly
females, allow g.oy appearaure asi le.l greatly too the
epleiooliour of She iireise. The ihrong beneath 41.11.41 rota-
iniialion,; it ;reined as if hail lansitil Unlit all its
iiihnliitAnt* tin ilie r • 0.1 lOU It it Le.
came impios.ilde in break a tro•-age thooongli the crowd.
The streets were lined with usilitay, from the Castle 10
She west gate of the Cathedral.
The Knights installed were—.
The Alartpois of Thum ..... I ; the Marquis of Sligo; the
Earl of Enniskillen; anal the Earl of Lotigfoorol.
The orda installed Eiiight in the prom:ignite /0 the Coothe.
drat was Earl 11 Nrilt. In Ilse rear of the installation ar-
raettenieut moved the ramming a Talbot with her snide, oc-
retrying several carriages; the Poke and Pooches% of Lein.
toter, the Illastiona awl loorcl •ss of lhowooshire, the
1414rcluo,leos of Sligo. the C toss of Claw ickarolel Sir
Edward and Lady Raker, Allen. Lady Foorhes,
all in liantioniste iiimpagew, tool aitilmg greatly In the affect
of the rune.

The day was, tot the whole, very Lytton,'le in the pro-
erevoto.
tiorrthly •wniu¢Lrr Epellenry gave a greod hall In the
Knight., I:wittirt v, alga (tetrarv, who athutloll its their robes
lavtallatoot drevitt.

Nliw, O'Neill is enffseeil at Crow-street Theatre, end will
make her first appearance use the 241 k of July.

lIITORY OF DUBLIN.

The following short metnoir of the life of the
celebrated Desisi Kirwan, lA extricted from White-
law and Walsh's new History of Dublin—a work
which, in addition to other merits, contains biogra-
phical notice., or curious and original atiecdote., of
many distinguished natives of Ireland :

" This extraordinary man was born in Galway, in 1754.
He went at the age of seventeen to the Danish Wend of St.
Croix. in the West Indies, where he remained for six years.
Ihi his return he 'molted at St. Omer's, took Orders, and
becatne Roman Catholic Chaplain to the Neapolitan Am.
bassador, in 1778. After two years solemn deliberation, be
conformed to the Established Church, in 1767, and preached
fur the first time in Si. Peter's Church, in June, in that
.ve ar. Here immense crowds thronged to hear him, and in
the following year the Governors of the Parochial Schools
rime to a resolation, That hum the effects which the stir-
molls of the Rev. W. B. Kirwan bad from the pulpit, his
officiating in the metropolis Ought to be considered a pecu-
liar nal I advantage, and that Vestries should be called,
to consider the most effectual method of securing to the city
an instrument ander Providence of such public benefit.*
He was now presented to the Prebend of Hostile, sad the
parish of St. Nicholas-Without; ■nd in 1800, to the Dean.
cry of Killals, by Lord Cornwallis. Every testimony that
could mark the admiration of the public, was roamed
upon him. Besides the immense contributions which
his sermons called forth, his portraits were painted and
engraved ; he was presented with addresses, pieces of
plate., ask the freedom of the Corporations; ■od, in
1742, a man chose energetic oratory was congenial to his
o • is, introduced him to the notice of the Irish Parliament iu
these word.: This man preferred our country and our reli-
gion,atid brought to both genius superior to what he found
in tither. He called forth the latent virtues of the human
heart, and taught men to discover a mine of clarity in them-
spirt..., of which the owners wage uoconscious. He came to
tuterrupt the repose of the pulpit, and shake one world with
the thonders of another. But in fettling the lamp of charity
be exhausted the lamp of life.' The vitileure of his efforts
had brunglit on a spitting of blood, and he fell a victim to
his exertions on the lilt of October, 1605. His funeral was
attended by a long train of charity children from the cliff.,
rent schools in Dublin, which his eloquence had so tmiuently
contributed to support and extend.
" Kirwan was the foamier of a new school of pulpit ora-
tory in Dublin. His sermons were the result of much ['-
boor and attention. He committed them to memory with
the most exact precision, but he delivered them in a mann. r
so apparently unpremeditated, that they bad the effect of
natural and unstudied elocution. On one occeasion, some
interruption to the service, in a crowded church, took place ;
when lie returned home, he composed • discourse can the
propriety of behaviour in the house of God, which he de-
termined should lee his subject when next called on to
preach. Supposing, however, that it would have more
effect if it seemed unpremeditated, and to arise (tom
sonic immediate cause; he gave out a different text,
and commenced on another topic. What he had calcu-
lated on took place; the disturbance again occurred.
He broke of the discourse he had begun, and abruptly
thundered a reproof from the pulpit, the more solemn and
impressive, as it seemed sudden and unpremeditated. We
had beard this mentioned as a proof that all his sermons
were extemporanemis; but his great mind was above dis.

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gnise, and he candidly communicated to us the real circum.
stance. His action has been taxed with extravagance; he
literally 'came to disturb the repo►e of the pulpit;' it was bes
customs to remove the cushion, that the sound elicited front
the Imanls, both by his hands and feet, might add to the
effect of his impassioned delivery; strange as it was, the oe-
cesium' were so appropriate, and accompanied by such
energy."( thought and potency of language, that the whole
seemed perfectly natural and congruous. lie had many
per.unal ileßciencies.—a weak voice. ■n oblique eye, and an
unprepossessing countenance; but they were never noticed
in the pulpit—the profound attention of his bearers reme-
died the one, and the ardent feelings of his mind irradiated
the other. His sqle of eloquence died with him. lie had
many imitators, but genius was wanting to sanction their
attempts. They were principally distinguished by an extra.
tragauce4 adieu, which is now happily banished from our
pulpit,
.011 some other Kirwan arise to give it corrency.
He has been succeeded by many charity sermon preachers of
another itchool, whose hies attainments and admirable cum.
positions adorn and promote the mitered cause in which they
are exerted; but the mine of charity,' is not wrought as it
was wont to he. ' The voice that shook one world with the
thunders of another' is heard uo more; he that uttered it
liar been removed to that other world, and the mantle of
Elijah has fallen upon no successor."

I'IIrAURICE FITZGERALD, Eq. M.l).l)as left town
fut Paris.

It i► Muted in the Gazette de F►ance. that plea-
owe camp. consming of about 40,000 men. are to
be formed this summer in Alsace, and thst u dis.
Marshal is to take the command.

A letter from Leghorn states, that o revolution
had taken plice at Tunis ; the BET iind Ell his
funily hoeing been turssocred, it new BEY St t
up by the Algerines, who h.a obtained the oaten-

The Fox Club held their Monthly Meeting on
Sour( y !art, thew—Al of —ALBEMARLE in theChsir.
when this steady 111111 inflexible bin I of Whigs bad
rra,on to congratillote themselves mid the coentry
oil the arkuowledg►nent ut length of the truth of the
principles which they have uniformly asserted. and
which, if acted uu when recommended by Mr. Fox.
would have slowed the empire [ruin its peseta linen.
ciel cuabarratanwnts.