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ROVE WATER, A TALE. BY THE O'HARA
F.-1311LY. 8 Vul:4.—Simpkin and 31a:shill.

This is evidently the work of a writer intimately ac-
quainted with the sons of Erin, and who, with a strong
(,tent for observation, combines the rare power of sketch-
ily.; with vivacity and force whatever scenes and characters
Ly is desirous of describing with effect. It is to be
Lamented that religions differences should so long have
thrown a (lark shadow over a hunt capable, but for
that, of unfolding all the finest energiis of national
character. and obtaining all the blessings of civil pros-
pane. " The Boyne Water" is to be valued, not only
far the intimate acquaintance with nature and life
which its author displays, but for his thorough know-
le!:e of the ground he occupies, and his power over
Cie b elings which be wishes to Excite. His aim
i. m purity the political atmosphere of Hibernia;
a,,.1 for this purpose he works up the materials of his
l::1;cy with the judgment of a master. Ile would fain that
Ireland should receive that unreserved communion of in-
terest which we owe to her as a .sister kingdom. lie
would extinguish religious feuds, and extirpate political
prejudice. In a word, he would have
• the world
At peace. and all at peace with one another."

• • -
IVc extract the following from the Intl adurfory Lefler
of Aura. O'HARA, which precules the narrative of his
Ftmily :
I will assert, that none now lire. who for the wanton cherishing,
in self-deluding ignorance. of very ridiculous prejudices, would
posevere in any ungenerous style of sentiment and conduct towards
MIT fellow-countrymen. The generation capwhle of doing so has
Vaised away. It has passed away with (yod will remember him)
a••cimt Bob Spittle," who, as we have beard our grandtacher
tell, while the Roman (. otholie population of this little place
I.ssxl, as was their wont, from chapel to chapel, upon the TIMIS.
Cay tni the las: week In Lod, the climax of their great time of fast
atooinerce, used to bit at his door in the suburbs, cooking
tiisher4 of barn over a temporary lire, eating them hot and hot, out
of the frying.nan, and, now and then, bidding forth on a fork, in
bitter pLasa.ory, a highly browned slice to the scandalized and
lenrittiecl crowds, or banning ttiem and spitting at them. as they
Eitel up their eyes, and quickened their pilgrim steps by his un.
/Or thrt•shnl,l.

n•peat it t the English and Scnteh blood at present in Ire.
HO will not revolt at the simple truth. And even if, in accept-
g the simple truth, it becomes necessary, rot only to allow a
nes' ;lather to the caps of their more Irish fellow-citizens. but to
a'!..ract than. feather from their proper plume, stilt I prophecy their
li,gneso to do so. In the tirst instance, they are not men to
liar borrowed plumes ; in the second, their own will be ample
trAtt;',l, after the cLutiction ; i o the third, frieir neighbour's cap
trd i .tik more respectable, and they know that respectable neigh_
hours sways odd to a man's individual respectability. Besides.
as I have shown, they are, by this time, cooled down 111..0 more
mfiNtieette.., and less inveteracy than their former war by repre-
seuta•iv<, Bob Spittle ; in fact, there is stow nothing for inveteracy
to feed upon ; Were is no Irt•tle to be fought for political pre:loud.
Lance; the old hope (with which I am far, very tar from „charging
them) of anivers.at proselytism or extermination, no longer seems
primal, or capable of being entertoined ; identity with the mil-
haw around them, and, by that means, identity with the
greatness and wealth of England. is now the laudahle ambi-
eon of—(to use a phrase occasionally applied to them by the mid-
g classes of Irish Cattiolics)—every '• haste Protestant;" in
a tened, they feel, that w become any thing. they must lynonie
t!Aeaeo ; as Lishinen, respectable; respec'sble by the g• n,ral
tai-racter of the country; by the character of those that stand by
heir hide, as well 'as by their 'two ; anti thus it is niturary their
volley to do justice to that cliorocter ; to restore to it its full and
teal pretensions, even though they be called on to ji!ld up to the
arl.:rt stock some of their own pre•tosi r a; a ti again,
th y c.innoi be angry with any person who would he p them to cons-
-IP.ce such an arrangement. . .

• Ina mint not forget, either, of what men the Protestants of
Ite'an I are the dniczndasita: of the men who framed tit • peltion
of ugh;; who fought and bled at Naoeby and Marston Moor; or
else who stood out in the wildemesseo of Sanlund, for liberty of
onscienca and a national religion. Be assured that the deacen.
Wants of ouch men too highly estimate ouch a struggle, not to adnii*,
to the fullrot extent that can be shown, the claims of others to zeal
ar.d bray: iv. in a similar one; and sectarian difference, or a con•ic.
nun of their tellow.countrymen having been in error, will here have
nt iAlienre: the principle of the thing is too powerful. They are
bate to Admit and respect in others, what, after all, must cnnobleo
tticr own name and recoVectitios. And name, good name, at least,
they do not wish to monopolize. Inheriting it, as they do, that
t'tit inheritance makes them w;wthy of it—transmitted virtue
1r..-•s virtue; and being worthy of it, that worth coolers the noble
'l,l to roPecl it, even in an armed enemy, not to speak of those
:1.• are no bingo r enemies, but, to all intents and purposes, fellow.
ti•intry ;um for it they be not fellow-conntrynien, what term chill
,c.r,s Cie taititia of the two parties ? I know one that might,
au. I dislike to use it.