The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-26 00:00:00

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Niumseß 6260.
NEW TRtATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. EXTte,
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, December 26,
his Maieety's Servants will act the Tragedy of
GEORGE BARNWELL. The f
Tboroughgoed, Mr. Powell; Barnwell, Mr. Thompson; done at
George Barnwell, Mt. Cooper; Trnemen. Mr. Barnard;
Blunt Mr W. H. Williams. Millwood, Mrs. W. West; Maria, Consery
MimsSmithson; Lucy, Mrs. Greer. ence tI7
After which jfrst Hine), a new Comic Pantomime, called very a
GOG AND MAGOG; public
Or, HARLEQUIN ANTIQUARY.
With nen Scenes, Music, Machinery, Dresses, Tricks, and °win
Embellishmeats. assn
Robin Goodfellow, Mr. Fitzwilliam ; dog, Mr. Sampson ; Lair
?dam, Mr. Highloan; Harlequin, Mr. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, L.
Mr. Bartlett; Clown, Mr. Southby. Columbine, Miss Tree. L'Xf
Boxes, is • Second Price, 3i. 6d.—Pit, ss. 6d.; Second boy
Price' as—Lower Gallery, Is.; Second Price, ts.—Upper let
Gallery, is. ; Second Price, ad. et
Flaw for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Spring, at the
Bes-01111ce, in the R tondo, from Ten till Four, where Family U
Boxes may be engaged, and a Private Box had nightly ; also I
of Mr. Huokham, of Bond-street.
To-morrow, The Dramatist: Vapid, Mr. Marva—mad Old
sad Tenni.
On Saturday, The nosy Daidyy and Old and Yoneg.
•
. 'THEATRE ROYAL, EVENT—GARDEN. .
mous EVENING, THURSDAY, December 26
will be acted the Tragedy of
DOUGLAS.
Lbrd Randolph, Mr. Egerton ; Glenalven, Mr. Yid(
Norval, Mr. Mason ; the Stranger Mr. Bartley. Lady R
dolpb, Mrs. Faucit; Anna, Mrs. Yining.
After which will be produced (Ist time) a new grand Cr
Pantomime, called
HARLEQUIN AND THE OGRESS;
Or, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY OF THE WOO
. Ogress, the Fairy (afterwards Pautaloon), Mr. Br
•Prinee•Ageff (afterwards Harlequin), Mr. Eller; Abr
*Mee (afterwards Whirligig), Mr. J. S. Grimaldi ;
°ribber, Porter to the Castle (afterwards Clown),
mater the Sleeping Beauty (afterwards Columbine
Brissak.
Boxes, ; Second Price, ss. ad.—Pit, ss. 6d.;
Price, as.—Lower Gallery, es. ; Second Price, 1.1
Gallery, is. ; Second Price, 6d.
To:nsorrow, the Play of The Stranger.
The Tragedj .of the Earl of Essex is rehearse'
be performed on Monday next: The Earl of Essex
ready; Queen Elisabeth, Miss Lacy; Rutland,
Kelly.
Positively the LAST NINE NIGHTS of
JERRY, as the new Burletta of GREEN I
or Tom sod Jerry's Tour, will be producer
January 6, Ists, in a style of accuracy
hitbsrtu unequalled.
ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAT
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, 1
11 slid during the Week, will be pre/
brated Out end Out Classic, Comic, Op,
Moralistic, Aristopbanic, Lucalic, Analyti
Panoramic, Camera Obscuratic Extravag
Fan, Frolic, Fashion, and Flash, in Three
TOM AND JERRY
OR, LIFE IN LON'S
Corinthian Tom, Mr, Wrench ; Jerry I
Reeve ; bogie, Mr. Wilkinson ; Jemmy
Hoe. Dick Trifle, Mr. Bishop ; ,Sqc
Buckingham; Primeat, Mr. Elliott; (/
Tartar (Constable of the Night), Mr.
Jack (the Gas Light Man), Mr. Cha
Mr. Paula; Dusty Bob, Mr. Walbour
Mr. St. Albin and Miss Simpson. Aft
Kate, Mrs. Baker; Sue, Mrs. Wayl
rnersley ; Mrt.Tattar, Mrs. Daly; 110
After which will be presented an en
mime, callef
HARLEQUIN'S H
• OR, WHO KILLED
Rinaldo (afterwards Hartequi
Gray (afterwards Pantaloon),
(afterwards Clown), Signor Pa
Columbine), Miss Simpson.
In the course of the Pantomir
Mill.
• Boxes, 45.; Pit, Is.; ;
and the Performance to cum
Seven.
NEW OLYMPIC THEATR
SIT
PHIS EVENING, r
Tomorrow, and Sat
the 63th, eatb, and 67th ben
JOAN
Joan of A
Eed of Act 11. The C
After which a grand T
Operatic, • Comic, Mc'
One Act, called
THE TW
In Scene H. the Fao
goners at work.
To which will be adi
Pantomime, which
HARLEM:
OR, THE FAI
With Now Music,
Dances, Dresses, a/
any former product'
Harlequin, Mr. G
Cygoetta, aftcrws
after wards Pentair
Clown, Mr. Had'
Lover, Mr. Sulk
Miss E. Scott.
Grand ['Airy F
Vine, and !dim
Stage.
The Doors
furmence comr
Pit ts.—Gaile
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NUMBER 6260

NEW TRtATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, December 26,
his Majesty's Servants will act Ow Tragedy of
GEORGE BARNWELL.
Tboroughgood, Mr. Powell; Barnwell, Mr. Thompson ;
George Barnwell, Wt. Cooper; Trneman. Mr. Barnard;
Blunt Mr W. H. Williams. Millwood, Mrs. W. West; Maria,
Miss Smithson; Lucy, Mrs. Orger.
After which j first time), a mew Comic Pantomime, called
GOG AND MAGOG;
Or, HARLEQUIN ANTIQUARY.
With nett Scenes, Music, Machinery, Dresses, Tricks, and
mbellishmests.
Robin Goodfellow, Mr. Fitzwillism ; dog, Mr. Sampson ;
Magog, Mr. Highman ; Harlequin, Mr. Ridgway ; Psntsloon,
Mr. Bartlett; Clown, Mr. Southby. Columbine, Miss Tree.
Boxes, ra • Second Price, 3i. ad.—Pit, ss. 6d.; Second
Price' at —Lower Gallery, Is.; Second Price, is.—Upper
Gallery, is. ; Second Price, ad.
IPlaoes for the Boxes to ho taken of Mr. Spring, at the
Box-Ollce, in the R 4unda, from Ten till ?our, where Fiala,
Boxes may be engaged, and a Private Box had nightly ; also
of Mr. Huokhem, of Bond-street.

EXTitACT FRG,

DATUM

The funds closed
done at 88 50 after
' sevinence arrived i
mince the price. The
very active, however,
public that war woul
owing to such atteml
ssurance to the coot,
rain their former ground
li:change was very
hours, but the tran,fers
teusive2 The English .
vested by them in French
tends to support the 1\
liftmen here ao bold
the French Funds
Tbey have expected
it in vain much longer,
where a sun•►-'-

To-imorrow, The Dramatist: Vapid Mr. Elliston--sand Old
sod Toarm.
Oa Saturday, The nosy Dady,and old sad Yeaag.

'THEATRE R 017,44 _
mous EVENING, THURSDAY, December 26,
will be acted the Tragedy of
DOUGLAS.
Used Randolph, Mr. Egerton ; Glenalvon, Mr. Yates ;
Norval, Mr. Mason ; the Stranger, Mr. Bartley. Lady Ran-
dolph, Mrs. Faucit; Anna, Mrs. Yining.
After which will be produced (Ist time) a aew grand Comic
Pantomime, called
HARLEQUIN AND THE OGRESS;
Or, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY OF THE WOOD.
Ogress, the Fairy (afterwards Pantaloon), Mr. Barnes;
IPrinee-Aaoff (afterwards Harlequin), Mr. Eller; Abnab, his
*quire (afterwards Whirligig), Mr. J. S. Grimaldi ; Grim
°ribber, Porter to the Castle (afterwards Clown), Mr. Gri-
maldi the Sleeping Beauty (afterwards Columbine), Miss
Brissa.
Boxes, ; Second Price, as. fid.—Pit, as. sd.; Second
Price, sa.—Lower Gallery, vs.; Second Price, is.—Upper
(hitery, is. ; Second Price, Gd.
To:nsorrow, the Play of The Stranger.
The Tragedy.of the Earl of Essex is in rehearsal, and will
be performed on Monday next: The Earl of Essex, Mr. Mae-
ready; Queen Elisabeth, Miss Lacy; Rutland, Miss F. H.
Kelly.

obtaining 5 per cent.
sore to vest it io the 1

quite true that Freachtuear
Wed a few thousand -

Positively the LAST NINE NIGHTS of TOM AND
JERRY, as the new Bulletin of GREEN IN 'NANCE,
or Tom cod Jerry's Tour, will be produced on Monday,
January 6, 1613, is a style of accuracy and splendour
hitbortu unequalled.
ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND.
PHIS EVENING, THURSDAY, December 26,
and during the Week, will be presented the cele-
brated Out and Out Classic, Comic, Operatic. Diderclir,
Moralistic, Aristopbanic, Lucalic, Analytic, Terpsicheric,
Panoramic, Camera Obscuralic Ettraysgenza Burtetta
Fan, Frolic, Fashion, and Plash, in Throe Acts, called

TOM AND JERRY;
OR, LIFE IN LONDON.
Corinthian Torn, Mr, Wrench ; Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. John
Reeve ; Logio, Mr. Wilkinson ; Jemmy Green, Mr. Brown ;
Hon. Dick Trine, Mr. Bishop ; 'Squire Hawthorn, Mr.
Buckingham; Priment, Mr. Elliott; O'Boozle, Mr. Salter;
Tarter (Constable of the Night). Mr. Daly ; Cribb, Mr. Lee ;
Jar* (the Gas Light Man), Mr. Chapman; Billy Waters,
Mr. Paulo; Dusty Bob, Mr. Walbourn. Principal Dancers,
Mr. St. Albin and Mias Simpson. Atilt:ea Sal, Mr. Sanders.
Kate, Mrs. Baker; Sue, Mrs. Waylett ; Jane, Mis; Ilam-
Ineraley ; Mrt.Tattar, Mrs. Daly ; Mrs Devis, Mrs. Bryan.
After which will be presented an entirely new Casio Panto-
mime, called

HARLEQUIN'S HOLIDAY;
• ou, WHO KILLED THE DOCI
Loaf& (afterwards Harlequin), Mr. W. Kirby; Grim
Gray (afterwards Pantaloon), Mr. Daly ; Justice Hangall
(afterwards Clown), Signor Paulo. Juslinn (afterwards
Columbine), Miss Simpson.
In the course of the Pantomime a View of Brixton Tread
Mill.
Boxes, 4a.; Pit, ss. ; Oallery, is. Doors opened at Six,
and the Performance to commence at a Quarter before
Seven.

NEW OLYMPIC THEATRE, NEWCASTLE-STREET,
STRAND,
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, December 26,
Tomorrow, and Saturday, will be performed, for
the 630, <Mb, and 67th baste, the celebrated Melo-Drama of
JOAN OF ARC.

Joan of Are, Mrs. Egerton.
Eed of Act 11. The Coronation of Charles of France.
Altar which a grand Tragic, Terrific, Horrific, Heroic,
Operatic,' Comic, Melo-dramatic, Burlesque Parody, iu
Gee Act, called
TILE TWO GALLEY SLAVES ;
In Scene IL the Fac-simile of the Tread Mill, with Pri-
soners at work.
To which will be added (first time) a New Grand Comic
Pantomime, which has been long in preparation, called
HARLEQUIN AND THE CI GNICT ;
OR, THE FAIRIES OF THE SILVER LAKE.
With Now Music, Scenery, Machinery, Tricks, Changes,
Dances, Deesses, and Decorations, exceeding in splendour
any former production at this Theatre.
Harlequin, Mr. Goadby (his first appearance en this stage);
' Cygnetta afterwards Columbine Miss Adcock ; Ilumpo,
afterwards Pantaloon, Mr. T. G. [dower; Jumpo, afterwards
Clown, Mr. Hartland ; Benasker, the Sorcercrr, afterwards
Lover, Mr. Suttee. Sylpberina, Fairy of the Silver Lake,
Miss E. Scott.
Grand Fairy Ballet, by Miss Griffith, Miss Ilibbert, Miss
Vine, abd Miss Romer, being their first appearance on this
Stage.
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The Doors will be opened at Six o'Clock, end the per.
formance commence at a quarter before Seven.—Hosea ss.—
?it Mi.—Gallery Is.

This day is published, price is. sewed, or Twenty-Ave for
One Owned,
ASERIOUS CALL to DEVOUT and HOLY
LIFE. Abridged from the Abridgment of the Original
Work of the Rev. W. Law, A.M.
By A LAYMAN.
Printpd for J. Nun), Oreat Queen-street, Uncoltl's fun'
fields : Sold by Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers'-court, and
N. ilaiteb, Piccadilly.

A WOULD-BE BIGAMIST.

Mr. Lawson, formerly minister at Kirkmahoe (adjoining to
Dumfries) was a most worthy and respectable character, and
moth beloved by all the country round, but more particularly
by his own parishioners. Once, about a Martinmas term,
st farmer's servant in the parish, a foolish young fellow,
called on him. and told him he had a great mind to get married,
• Very well, John,' said he, • there is nothing wrong In that.
Who is the happy woman you are going to make your wife?'
•• Oh? Sir,' said the lad, • I am rather at a loss just now, and
ealled upon you to give me advice In my present difficulty.
Them are two young women whom I love nearly alike: one
of them I would prefer a little, end only a very little, to the
other ; now what I would ask of you, Sir, is this, might I not
marry the,. both ?'—' That,' said Mr. Lawson, • according to
the law of this country•, is not allowable: hut do you think
both of them are willing to take you for a husband ?'—• 0 yes,'
said he, • I think I am pretty sure of that.'—' Very well,' said
the minister, ' marry the one you like best as soon as con-
venient, and in two or three months after you may come to me,
and 11
will .ee what can be done about getting you the other
also." That was done accordingly; but for a long time after-
wards there was no word from John. At last it happeued, on
a beautiful day in the month of April following, that Me. I
Lawson met his old acquaintance, in a narrow lane, driving a
cart loaded with hay. The lad barely touched his hat, and
wished to push on.—' Stop, stop, John,' said the minister, I
wish to speak with you.' • What do you want, Sir ?' said
John• rather tartly. • o,' said Mr. Lawson, ' you never come
back to consult me about what you spoke of some time ago.'
• What was that,' said John, very hastily. o,' said the good
man, ' you were to speak about taking another wife.'—• An-
other wife, Sir!' cried he; • 0 sad! 0 sad! I wish you
would rather loose me from the one you tied me to ; will you
just stop a moment, and see what shins she has made me with
kicking,' and with this began to loosen down his stocking, in
great haste. ' Hout, trout John, cried the minister, • we'll see
these another time ;" and so rode off, folly sadsiled that John
thought otte wife was enough, and rather too much for him.

in trade as we do, place . -
very want of enterprise which pioduces investment
in Government Securities, to a certain extent prevents
its reaching such a point as to make the rentes avail-
able at a very high price, because what individuals are
afraid of doing is done by Societies, who find capital
so valuable that subscribers obtain from 5 to 20 per
cent. for the use of their money. There are fifty ways
of investing money safely in Paris, to produce 6 or 7
per cent., and therefore it is highly improbable that
the Funds should ever reach 100. Many of the re-
ports which I alli.ded to yesterday were repeated upon
the Exchange, but without effect. The Funds were
not lower yesterday than on Tuesday, for on Tuesday
afternoon, at five o clock, they were done to some ex-
tent at 87.
I have already informed you, and I did it upon
undoubted authority, that the King of FRANC& has
for some time been in frequent communication with
DE Casts. This seems a mystery to some people,
who thing that DE CAZ ES is not a man of talent ; but
he has had talent enough to persuade the KING that
he is so, and that is sufficient. If Louts had his own
way, DE CAZES would, in lees than twenty-four hours,
be called to the Presidency.
His MAJESTY is very well aware that the world thinks
less favourable of the moyeas of the Ex-Minister than he
does, but this endears the Duke to the Sovereign, who.%
imagines that he has more discrimination in distovir.
ing his talents. The last time that the Duke was with
the Kinn, Madame D— was present. "
said Louts, " what do you think of him ?—west
pas an homme de grauds moyens—l brought him tor-
ward ; but for me his talents would have remained in
obscurity." DE CAZ es at any rate knew how to flat-
ter his master, and that is a great point in a Minister.
Louts is known to write a great deal, and to write
well. Whenever any very striking pamphlet, on the
right side, and by an anonymoas author, was pub-
lished, DE CazEu heard it pretty generally reported
that the KING was the author. The little comedy,
called La jamille Glinet was thus fathered upon
the " Father of his people ;" and a romance,
in which it is recommended to unite all parties, had•
the same fate. The hero of the romance, who is sup-
posed to be a fool, recommends the plan, and says—.
" See of what a galled is composed —how different and
'unpleasant arc the ingredients separately, and how
acellent together." The KING was flattered in hav-
ing the idea of the Ballad ascribed to him, and laughed
when he heard that he had a new title—l'honone a la
lalade; but them was a little gaucherie in supposing
the sallad-maker to be an idiot. This was soon felt,
and the KING declared to every body that he was not
the author of the book which DE CazEs had ascribed
to him.

Public opinion is, if possible, still more positively
pronounced against war; but it is generally thought
that the Government desire it. There is, however, one
obstacle which speaks decidedly against its probabi-
lity—" Who is to pay the piper?" Russia cannot,
Austria cannot, England will not, and we all know that
France cannot. The French Ministry have, indeed,
attempted to humbug the nation by pretty stories
of their resources, but it is out of their power to go
to war without a great increase of taxation, which
cannot take place without serious danger to the exist-
ing dynasty. It will be ludicrous to most men in
England„tto hear that M. de Sr. CRICQ and the Mi•
niatry boast, at this time of day, about the balance
of trade. M. Sr. CRICQ pretended, in the Chamber,
that it was in favour of France, in the proportion of
90 millions of francs upon a trade of 400 millions.
The Count de VA u BLANC, in a work published this
week, on the other hand proves that the balance of
trade annually, viz.—the excess of exports above the
amount of imports, is only three millions of francs.
Two days ago Sir SIDNEY Sinra called at the
British Embassy, and in his way met the Duke of Wm:
wrozow ;—they entered into conversation, in the
course of which the Duke emphatically said " My
dear Admiral, you may rest assured that there will
be no war."
You have heard that a new political work, called
the Regulateur, was seized at its second number.—l
have attempted to procure the first to send to you,
but such has been anxiety to procure it that the last
was sold for 40 francs, although the publishing price
was not half so many sous.

Letters from Copenhagen communicate the extraor-
dinary fact, that the merchants there are shipping
barley and oats to the port of Konigsberg, the late
harvest having proved so very unproductive fur these
sorts of grain.

Not only are the complaints great in Hanover re-
specting the very low price of corn, but it is said,
such is the depressed value of butcher's meat, that,
remote from large towns, cattle are slaughtered for
very little more than the cost of the bides.
A correspondent informs us, that not more than
half an acre is sown to wheat in 14 estates in the
parish of South Tawtoo, most of them being un-,
tenanted.—Ereter Gazette, Dec. 21.
NORFOLK MEETINO.—In compliance with a requi-
sition signed by several hundred "occupiers of land,
tradesmen, and others affected by the severe and unpre-
cedented distresses of agriculture," the High Sheriff of
Norfolk (Sir R. P. Joonztt, Bart.) has convened
" a County Meeting of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy,
and others," to be held at St. Andrew's• hall, Norwich,
on Friday, the 3d of January, " for the purpose of
taking into consideration those distresses, and the
best means of relieving diem."

. Post
equivocally denied. He never laid out a penny for
Any such purpose.
Mr. Daiscou, said, that it was totally unnecessary
for Alderman Nugent to enter into any defence on the
subject.—(Hatr, hear.)
Mr. J. B. Fitzsimons then rose, and after address-
ing the Guild in strong terms of abhorrence at the atro-
cious attack on his Excellency, moved a Resolution
expressive of the detestation the Guild entertains of
the outrage committed at the Theatre, the perpetrators
of which he looked on as assassins.
This Resolution was seconded by Mr. Glascock.
On being put from the Chair, it passed unanimously.
A Committee was then appointed to prepare an Ad-
dress ; they retired for that purpose, and returned in
about an hour, when Mr. Glascock read an Address,
which the Committee had prepared.
It was unanimously adopted by the Meeting as the
Address of the Guild.

Mr. Gtascocx. moved the thanks of the Guild to
Mr. Johnston, Private Secretary to the Lord Lieu-
tenant, for his spirited conduct on the occasion of the
outrage committed at the Theatre, on the night of his
Excellency's visit.
This Resolution was objected to by many Members
of the Guild, on the ground of its being out of
order ; several voices exclaiming, " it is not in the
Requisition."
Mr. J. B. FITZSIMONS seconded Mr. Glascock's
Resolution.
Mr. WILLIAMS said, that if the Resolution was
pressed. he would move as an amendment, that the
thanks of the Guild should be given to Alderman
Maley.
Mr. FITZSIMONS said, that he understood this trick-
ery, but that he would be sorry that Alderman Dar-
ley should be made the 'scape-goat:of a party.
Mr. WILLIA MS. said, that Ise was Wit a Member of
the Corporation, and heOltr. Williams) did not un-
derstand trickery. He moved, uan amendment, that
the thanks of the Meeting should be given to Alder-
man Darley, and the other Police Magistrates who
acted on that occasion.
Mr. FITZSIMONS observed, that a little reflection
might suggest to the Gentleman some reasons why he
should not press the amendment.
Alderman Sit VTII submitted to the Meeting, that if
it was objectionable in point of form to pass thuse Re-
solutions, the Guild might act as the Common Council
did at the late Assembly; that is, postpone both Re-
solutions to the next meeting of the Guild.
This suggestion was acted on by the movers and
seconders of the Resolution and Amendment, both of
which were withdrawn.

Mr. FITZSIMONS moved, that the Master of the
Guild should wait on Mr. Johnston, in order to aster
tain when his Excellency would be pleased to receive
the Address.

Alderman NUGENT said, that he would write a let-
ter to the Secretary on the subject.
It was urged, that it would be more respectful to
wait on Mr. Johnston for that purpose.
Alderman NvotaT again observed, that he would
write.
The Meeting then adjourned sine die.

'OTHER.

[From the Cork Advertiser of Friday last.]
MORE INCENDIARY OUTRAGES.

tertain.

DESTRUCTION OF TITHE CORN IN THE LIBER-
TIES or Coax.—Yesterday morning, about three
o'clock, a party of Whiteboys, mostly mounted, and
some armed, went to the house of the sexton of the
parish of White Chuich, in the North Liberties of this
city, whom they swore generally to answer different
questions, the first of which was, whether he had any
arms, or knew any person in the parish having arms;
whether he served any processes for the clergyman of
the parish, or had any processes or decrees by him.
They then swore him particularly not to have any
thing to do in future with the cle,rgyman's tithes ; on
whica he asked, if he did not, would they allow any
one else ; he received for answer, they would not, if
they could prevent it. They then demanded fire, which
he, thinking they wanted to light a pipe, got them,
and having ascertained from him, that he had nei-
ther pitch nor tar, they made him take the fire
between two sods of turf, to a neighbouring hag-
gart, where one stack of tithe corn was lodged, which
they immediately set fire to, and which, though very
damp from the late rains, was in a blaze before he had
time to return to his own house, not a distance of 200
sards. Fortunately, it was the outer stack ; the di-
rection that the wind blew in, saved the remainder of
the corn in the haggart.
We noticed in our last the burningof corn, tee. the
property of a farmer near Ballinhassig. The incen- ,
diary spirit, with all the demoniacal feeling attendant'
on midnight or matin work, is abroad, and we regret
to say, that whilst it has hitherto kept its wanton ra-
vages in the distant parts of the county, it more im-
mediately threatens the neighbourhood of our city.
The following fresh list of outrages will put our
readers in possession of the state of things in this part
of the Island :

[From the Milesian Magazine.)

On Thursday evening the house of Arthur Morcott,
Esq. of Hermitage, near Doneraile, was attacked,
and a demand made for arms, but having been disap-
pointed, the insurgents threatened to set his haggait
on fire, for which purpose they procured a sod of turf
from the kitchen fire. After a short time they returned,
and said, that in compliment to Mr. Norcott's ann,
they would not do it at that time. Their numbers
could not be ascertained.

On the same night, the house of Benjamin Creagh,

Postulant—l wish to become a freemason. I have
read much about it, and if I can be satisfied upon
some points, I shall embrace the profession of ma-
sonry.
Brother—Sir, you are right ; it is the most honour-
able association upon earth ; no man should omit the
opportunity of becoming a mason, if in his power. It
makes him another man in respect to his feelings to-
wards himself, the Deity and mankind, and the feel-
ings of the Deity and mankind towards him.
Postulant—These are serious inducements to con-
firm my purpose, but I wish for more than assertion.
When I see those points proved my wavering. will
be corrected, and I do not doubt hut you will do it
readily. Proceed.
Brother—el shalt dear up any doubts you may en-

Postulant—Pray is masonry more ancient than
Christianity?
Brother—lt is more ancient than Christianity.
Postulant—Do you think a man can be made a
better man, and more acceptable to God and man, by
the aid of masonry ?
Brother—Masonry makes a man what Christianity
should make him.
Postulant—l am therefore to understand that Chris-
tianity in its conceived perfection can be assisted and
improved by masonry; that loving God above
all things, and our neighbour as ourselves, is
not enough ; and that masonry can go further, and
make the law of GO be better fulfilled.
Brother—lf a man be a good mason, he is the per-
fection of human nature.
Postulant—ls he a better man than a good Chris-
tian, who lover God above all thieve, and his neigh-
bour as himself? I would not wish for greater per-
fection.
Brother—That is the characteristic of a good ma-
son, philanthropy and morality.
Postulant—Then I apprehend every good Christian
is a mason, though he does not know it, like Mo-
liere's man, who was talking prose all his life, though
he did not know what prose was.
Brother—A good mason cannot be a bad man.
Postulant—lt may be so, but that is a negative me-
rit. I thought masonry was a refiner of Christian mo-
rality : a rectifier of the spirit inculcated by the Chris-
tian scheme ; in short, that Christianity, when run off
in the alembic of masonry, lost the empyreuma or
burnt taste or essential oil of the system, be it Chris-
tian, Jewish, Mahometan ; that it made a punch
for all palates, and took more waters than before it
was distilled into its charming neutrality.
Brother—l say a good mason must be a good
man.

Postulant—Do you pretend to say a good man is
made a better man by being made a mason ?
Brother—No ; but if he observes the rules of ma-
sonry, he is fortified in his goodness, and masonry
binds him stronger to his ties of social obligation.
Postulant—Can a man who loves God above all
things, and his neighbour as himself, be bound down
by a harder penalty than that by which the Christian
Religion binds him, when it assures him neither the
adulterer, &e. shall enter Heaven ?

Brother—You would not talk of masonry thus if
you understood it.
Postulant—Nor would you equivocate thus if you
could make me understand a better way of being a
good man than the way I find laid down for me by
Christ in the New Testament. I fear masonry is like
the elixir for making men who are in health better;
and that death is oftener the consequence than a cure
of that disease, which shows itself by eating, drink-
ing, sleeping, and feeling their good effects.
Brother—How can you revile what you do not
know ?

Postulant —I do not revile; I only say that Chris-
tianity will make me as good as 1 wish to be. You
seem to wish to improve Christianity : it is like put-
ting spectacles on every nose we meet. I fear, like
masonry, there are more blinded by your illumination
than made to see their way better ; it is wearing a sur-
tout coat in the dog days.
Brother—Masonry fortifies the good, and deters
the bad.

Postulant—lt may fortify the good for aught I know,
but how it deters the bad I know not ; for I do not
know a man stained with infamy that is not a mason
free and accepted. I never hear of a Mall'S being degrad-
ed for public crime or private villainy by freemasons.
I really think brotherhood amongst you is rather ne-
gatively manifested, for you bear criminality with bro-
therly forbearance, till it reaches you individually ;
for he a man what be may, he never ceases to be a
mason.

Brother—That is all his own fault, not the fault of
masonry ; we cannot alter man's nature; if they are
bad masons, so much the worse fur themselves.
Postulant—This is cant. Does masonry make a
man better than Christianity makes him? I fear it
makes him worse, for I never saw a good man made
better. I saw many good men made bad men, and I
never saw a bad man alter, unless for the worse, by
masonry.
Brother—That is not the fault of our brotherhood ;
there are bad men every where; even amongst the
Apostles there was a Judas.
' Postulant—Yes ; hut it was not Apostle society
made him a Judas, and when he became a Judas,
he was turned out of the lodge of Apostles. Do you

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you are never found planting on a barren
soil. or reconciling Swiss and Swede. Your object
is to get money and fools, and to tern both loth, pro-
fit of the unprincipled members of the order. The oath,
of an Orangeman is plausible ; so is the oath of an
United Irishman. They are the most simple set at
words ever strung together ; yet out of them spring
daggers, fire, faggots, orange lillies, pikes, and anniver ,
sary murders. Masonry, I fear, is the oldest and
most plausible scheme for enrolling fools who enlist
for home service, but when they once join the reg&-
ment, they are drafted wherever they are wanting,
•and if they refuse, are shot for mutiny.
Brbther—You seem to know as much es if you
were made.
. Postulant—l know nothing more then the genera!,
scheme of entrapping fools for the interested views of
crafty men. I judge the tree by its fruits.
Brother—The best men in society are masons.
Postulant—And there is not a miscreant in society
that is not a mason ; it promises so much, that al-
though prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church 4
every adventuring character amongst them commences
his reprobacy by becoming a mason ; shall I resit
some of them for you ?
Brother—lf you did it would not disgrace the in' slid
tution.
Postulant—l wish not their disgrace, but I wish not
to be fooled out of my money, for you will not make
me, as the cant goes, for nothing. Suppose I was a
mason, and, like a thousand brother masons before
me, I was put into the dock for any crime, what good
would result from my brother judges, brother jurors,
and brother gaolers, about the court being masons?
Brother—Nor should there result good to a man
who disgraced his obligation.
• Postulant—So my disgrace upon the order leanly
felt when I have brought myself to helplessness
then I may cry in vain, " Pity me, at least you, Olt I
my friends, pity me ;" and, like Jeremy, I may lament
in vain. The money I gave to be a brother would
make a now-silent brother lawyer plead for me,
though I was a villain. I now give the sign--no one
sees it in the dock. Do you call this humbug? Had
I committed the greatest crimes ; had I lived in
open adultery, starved my wife, nay, murdered her;
had I robbed every body and individual who trusted
me, I might still sit a master mason, I would be of
the Grand Lodge unreproved. Does thin invite to
masonry ?
Brother—You assert what is not ; no infarnomt cha-
racters are allowed to be masons ; our order boasts
the most perfect characters, fit to be adduced as ho-
nours to human nature and to all the cardinal virtues,
men who are without equal. I shall name them if you
please.
Postulant—l like the phrase "honours to human
nature and the cardinal virtues ;" I shall borrew front
you, and I shall speak of disgrace to human nature
and the cardinal virtues, and of men who are elites
to aver, thing human and divine. Do you think.any
moral society would admit into brotherhood • • • •
• • ", and thousands besides that I could same,
all freemasons ; in short, name me a public Villain
who is not a mason? •
Brother—Name me a public villain who is not a
Catholic, or Protestant, or Presbyterian ; is it their
religion that is to blame for their villainy? -
Postulant—No; but they leave their religion before
they embrace villainy; and masonry seems never tno
embrace them cordially till they have renounmed all
That all religion inculcates. Religion disowns rim,
bacy, but masonry never disowns till the culprit can -
not pay. There is a rule for expelling bankrupt bre-
thren, but no notice is in writing amongst them for
expelling a.bankrupt in honesty or honour. Dees as..y
lodge-book record the expulsion of a rich man for se
clueing a brother's wife, or for swindling a rather, tic
for killing a brother in a duel, or. even quati
fled murderous way ? I fear not. You c *me
is the fact so. Were not Mr. 0. and Mr. L.
brothers, and did one mason in Dublin interfsre in that
fratricidal matter?
Brother—Become a mason and you wilt see thinr
in a new light. I cannot explain mysteries to yte,.
but you are entirely in the dark upon the btasisese.
Postulant—l shall never pay five guineas for yteo
illumination, where a farthing.candle in my.Christftl,,
lantern makes me walk as secure from dirt mad da,,•
ger, as you can with your fine masonic gas-light
yours.

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ESCAPE of FIVE PRISONERS PEI tit 1, XERICIC
GAOL.

On the morning of Thursday last it Was diseovered that t
following privateers had made their escape from the New Cos: .4
Gook, vim. s--Denrid Leaky, sea. Jelin Owen, Patrick Cake,.
and &Mild Reedy who were capitally convicted at the ks•
Anises, for the abduction of Miss fkold, but judgment retpite,i
for the opinion of the twelve Judges; and Dena Doody,
pat off his trial for the murder of Buckley, the Crown witness.
An inquiry was immediately instituted before sorb Members r,t
the Committee of Superintendence as were then in town, sae.,
it appeared that these men had been secured by the turnkey; ~,
the ward at night-fall ou the eventag before, and when he retail,.
ed to open the ward at daybreak, he found the outward door
the building open, and the lock hanging on the harp, withmit
having sustained any injury ; the interior doors leading to the ye! s
remained locked, but a bar wascut and forced in three of then..
so as to admit of the passage of a man through, and the doors i.
the five cells in which the prisoners had been coedited were eye..
and the locks remaining without the least ieiury.
It further appeared that the men had made their way through
the privy into the sewer, and, having effected a pomp bf r, -
moving the masonry on one side of the grate placed to secure i.,
they link forced their way through the are& of the anter out-
side the gaol wall. It was manifest that Einistaaee mart have
been given from the outside, and that the preparadi. far the
escape matt have occupied a considerable lsngtY of time. • 'Me
vigilante nod exertions of the police are ttareariag to IFNI 04
atm.—Limerick CAromiele.

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QMA PRIVATE LETTER, IRELAND. Esq. was attacked for arms, in the same neighbour- ever expel a Judas from your lodge?
Pasts, Dec. 19, lett I•', . 1: •••-.01.•.....- hood; but this party being also disappointed in their men are allowed in a society, it makes me salmi ' - •
—aro.---- We extrliet the following report from the Dublin search, they, threatened to destroy his property, par- charmer of the body. ! T;
I yesterday at 88, but they were Morning Post : '
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cll."ad not arms " against the next time Brother—There are bad men in Christianity/ 94,s i -
r the regular hour. No hews of On Saturday a Meeting of the Guild of Mer-that does not disgrace the purity of the quistisok,.
I in the course if the day to inflii- chants was held in the Guild Hall, Wellington-
We have been favoured with the following extract scheme. Masonry is founded upon Christisp. perfec. . .
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e agents of certain Ministers were Quay, for the purpose of considering the propriety from a respectable correspondent:— tion, tl,e love of God and our neighbour.
DONERAILL, WEDNIIIIIDAY WZG.MT. Postolant —Sad men are. reprobated and diSostll4j ,
r, 'in attempting to persuade the of presenting an address to his Excellency the Lord " , •.'. . .
Ad be declared, and it is chiefly Lieutenant, regarding the atrocious outrage which ' 'Ns part of the country is in a bad state, and from every religious association of Christians. TIN*.
Ipts, and the absence of any official took place at the Theatre, ob Satuiday, the 14th while I-write, there is a fire tirning, apparently about Christian religion is perfect in itself, and man canoe.
intrary, that the funds do not re- instant. a mite on the road from this town to 'Mallow, no doubt be better than it makes him. As to your maeonry, I
the work of incendiaries.''
mind. The bustle upon the Stock- At half-past two dclock Alderman Nugent, Senior suspect that it is a trick meant for the use of states-
We are concerned to find, that three of Mr. 14- men and cunning rogues ; they form an associatioss
y considerable fur three or four Master, took the Chair. The Master stated,.that in
fern were not, by any means, ex • congequtenee of the liiitisess of Me Meeting. he would rents Lane's sheep at Coolmore, were plucked of built upon principles such as leaguing to serve God
their wool by some- miscreants, on Monday nightlast, above all things, and your neighbour as yourself.
ish hold firmly, and as the capital hold the 11.111 open for half an hour. The Master
leaving the poor animals in such a state of lacerated Iltis is what Christianity binds you to du; and tun-
s'rench funds is great, their firmness then vacated the Chair,
carcass, as too give but little chance of their recover- soary, aveiling itself of the principle, forms a society
Market. Them are some Eng- At a quarter past three, the Chair was re-taken by
ing the barbarus treatment. How much it is to be to do this—swears its tuenibers thatle, they will do what
Ad as to hold in anticipation that the Alderman. •
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will, ere long, be at par..-- The re4eisitienalt.he "was was then read regretted, that these nightly_ depredators do hat spare ,by Gbd's special grace, alone they can do--entorta
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awes...heir best frieteehrlier ittrteltiftrtrlttgry se. money for initiation, levies a tax on you for coatinu-
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, - The Master attires* the Meeting, and stated the lected a man who more entirety devotes his saipk ante in the body, swears you to secrecy, and
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taut -eapitat, and the difficulty of object for which he had called the Members of the means to the comfort of his poor neighbours, than the makes by-laws that bind you to whatever they mean
t. in any way, 'induces its posses- Guild together. The worthy Alderman mentioned proprietor of Coolmore. you should do, for the interest of the more cunning i
a Funds, even at 4 per cent. It is that it had been said that he had Subscribed fur the > , men amongst them. If your scheme be to better man-
;chola', when they have accumu- purpose of sending persons to the Theatre on the CURIOUS DIALOGUE BETWEEN A POSTULANT kind, why have you not a lodge for admitting paupers?
id francs, instead of venturing it night: of the outrage; this he most positively and un- FOR FREEMASON ORDINATION AND A No; every man .must pay.for being a mason, and,
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