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al& appreciated Dy ono. and though by me mast theply f,lt,
wuniol hot earruwly do jostle*: ti the weal snug: air
Wlsims short oar rarefies. 1 sluiuld paint kiss. slut I 'Would
wolenspi the portrait if he were nut himself present. as a No-
bleman whine manly modesty sines out prevent him fr
reeling the valor Ohio perornee in hia smite land, and who
pn.fesa to ail lbe Mime*s of tither eisuntries, that most
eerie's, one of tiring ..alai to hit style. 1 nimbi ilinwiihe
hint to y..is as the inheritor. nut only of hislathil'a pislihe
snirit, hot of all 'theme elegant tastes which entibelloaril
his prende life mingling the names of Sage nail Sehutur
with that of iatriut. I stubld paint him as the limplw
llosliallsd and Father, in his own Ware, his /fish
savellowiled by homilies both living and luanithate. swell us
mine lint nor own i,.land iif loveliness. ever mfralleled. All
this I would attempt if 1 were nut checked liy Arc vrevenee
of the Noble l'erems himself. lint pose kiivnbilz:
sir lbe Maw will sop ly every Jadeite!, it my pwirnit
of Inds. odors I name to you, US 1 du with heartfelt pleaiture.
" The Earl of Cliarleinuot."

need nut say, that this wait mss reeehred with en-
tilos ihim. •
The Noble ILried rose alea walk be tulip felt the honour
the e.iiiipane had conferred MO hiss. He kit it with pride as
an Iri•h•nan, becalm. it
.tral! the spostsarans of his
rmint. yowls Heed ht them to accept his thanks, and
to loliere, that the lidtbeita of Ireland were dear to his
beast. tiorn and eatiroote4 is the ptire:4 principles of p...
triinism—lirinntites WWh hem easefully lain lii•
by his Moe revered Pareuttlia love of Ireland was the
list seninstem at his Childhood: it wall the itsl peewit he
learnt, and it will be the last he stroll &vet.
His Lordship then seer—s" The Harp of Erin; may it
never be siren to thorned "
Mr. Smith sang—* The Harp Oaf— 'Mop ea lime:
ll'aPs,"
The nest toast ws•—s" The Dube of Retlhostmi"
His Lordship then proposed es • toass.we. kite prismatic
Talent of Ireland"
Hound, that he was possid ogee la the roots tbii.Gen-
times whose talents reflected lame me the dramatic page
a:lreland. Illuntiasted as that page always was by the
laniertal weeks of Goldsmith and of Ilheridan, it seined
fresh stories from the resplendent genies of • Malaria aua

of • Sight.
After some hesitaties, Mr. lotus rose and sold—. Wy
Lord, if I rise before my distiaguished Irked, it is becaose
As is • Theatre the eyes a wee,
After • well-grata Ateseleatee the stage,
Are idly best on him that sat ewers.
My Lord, you hive emsferred *pew me a great and very un-
merited delineates, by asooristowg me with the dramatic
therefore of • country which ha produted • Cowen ye, a
Farowheir, • Southera, • Shwas*, sad the diatiemeisbed
Ge•ittemais with whole same you have dome me the honour
of connect's( sloe. I shell say little of lily gratitude, be-
ranee every person here most luster that 1 im most deeply
thankful; nod I shell mot speak of • deilciency is desert,
breaded' I would ovoid that easemeat I. vale glory, which,
with the overwesohi( egotism of aa oetereal:oee, and, I may
roll it, episosetal humility, deprecates the distinction for ,
whirls it thirsts; am the cosetniry, I will vesture to lay-claim
to owe merit, that of bevies endeavoured to net upon the
emotions by appealing to the howoorable principles of our
nature. In one heater** I have depicted the Naming' of the
victims of 'testiest depredations, from whose erten • deaf ear
has be.. so long homed by the men who. while they affeet to
be the Prow/girt." toed that they ought to be the protectors
of m inkind,—..'Apilinnee..)--In another, I bate spoken that
indigents abhorrence with which every professor of my reli.
gins emitemplates that istulersuce which i. so injuilowsly
laid to its charge, and I have eatleavuored to call out from
the public mind that expression of contemptuous extern.
lion with which we all survey the illustrious idiot who his
blasted grain with his role —fLoad up .lease .—Tbis is
the only merit which I can claim, sod f r this I have re-
ceived, area this night, a better reward thou the applause
of a whole Theatre of others. You have given ine..a leaf
from that prised with which you have eactrclid the hones
of the lest poet of our country, and I weir it with the
Name nwslialion with which • soldier bear" the small
badge of his detail-time, in following at • dISIAOCO the
triumphal cat of as illastrious Chet --".4op!ause.)Tiliil
is, halted. • triumph. Petrarch sad Tams were crowned
Cu the capitol, hat the lover of Lams, sad the author of
Jersaaleist Delivered, could sot hew felt more 'multi's, emo-
tions upon the capitol thee the lusher of Lolls Rookh, ex.
periesees at this moment. leased has produced the first
Captais and the hest Poet Oahe age; bat if Wellington him.
eel( were to otters to his native faked, he unsold not be
received with half ibis basest Ittumge of the beart.—( Loud
applause J—We see peed of Wellington, bet we are fund
of Moore. Goldsmith moths *sly rut poet shot Ireland
had prodseed•Moore los equalhd him in simplirity, sod
far surpassed him In imaginaties. I. Goldsmith we bud
the peueiveoeas .1 the nosing. which, through those glim-
mering windows, we the clueing *so of the brightest and
proudest &poor country has ever witnessed; bait in Moore,
with the wasters's& of shiseveoiagore behold its illmaiostion.
His thoughts, if I may emptily so fanciful as illostestiss, are
like those beautiful little birth which Campbell dimerihes,
xhaining in a Traas•Athatic weasel; or, like Anse birds, to
use the Port's temparioes, they meal atoms of the rainbow.
Voltaire has obseveolohnt Doesseme was the wily great me-
siciao who had hee• a great writer. Mr. Moore has de.
privrd him of the singleness of that praise. To him we are
hobbled, not telly (or his owe delicious musk, but for the
immortal poetry to which be has wedded the Melodies of
!relined. With the magic of Prospero, be has give, • more
sohstantial. hut still a celestial form, to the spirits of sound,
and he has clothed, with she lime texture of his beautiful
pluaoriloge, the Ankle of his own kilned, which his insagioa-
lion ha. converts. 4 into a region of eitelsehtment.—(Loud
nephew )—ltt the fervour *Oh which we are kindled by
his poetry, we are templed to believe is the migration
of snub., and to hut" that the Bard of Teo., after having
been .rapt in Elysian', bad returned to earth withunt haw-
ing drank of lathe, unless that sometimes we perceive the
*vibe genii's of Anacreon yielding to the loftier inspire.
rations of Alert's, and hear the ormndings of that lyre which
rousrd the Greeks to the remembrance of their wrongs, and
nride tyrants tremble open their thrones.--(Loed applause.)
—Hat I must furisear—l will not violate the comport into
which we have entered, that the eeltbottion of literary glory
shall slut be profaned by a reference to any ruder topics.
kvery political animosity should here subside ; and if a .crib-
bier of tragedies may use an allustinn to the 66.4 tragedian
of Cities', • k. the Fortes be lolled to sleep in the temple of
Apullo*."—( Load applartee.)
Mr. MATLIIIII •spressed his llnnolte In Meier tint emphatic
tumor. He said that the homier of being considered worthy
of notice, as an Author, in the presence of Mr. Moore, sod
in a company assembled to celebrate his geeing, was greeter
than he had before that night ever hoped to enjoy.
I.nril CHARLEIIONT now called for a bumper for the
'Pee Mr. Moore. The toast was received with the must
mai bet applause.
Mr. THOMAS 1100112 Mid—" My, Lord Cherlertiont, and
Gentlemen. I sin deputed by my father to thank you, and
must say, that I feel this Itiosdnees more deeply elms than
that which was underfed directly epos myself. We hive
read of a Jamb youth, is ancient times, to whom the eight
our a sword. uplifted neer hie father's heed gave the powers of
utterance, snit lit spoke and saved him. What fear effected
to that insane, gratitude, I feel, wontil produce in the pre-
seat ; and though I had been dumb all my life, words *mild,
I think, have beret forth to thank you. la the mime of that
venerable father and myself, I offer Ton, atistletiosni, my
wed drep.reti surkeuwleigments; and allow me to MIA, that
am this day ofeertbal recollect itsos, there Is so owe who deaerive
to b.• remembered inure ardeully time he; to, it I tittee've
hick I e..anot persuade myself) rose.balf of the &Munn'
you hare this day heaped epos use, to hist, and to 11w Mit.
cation whirh be stengeled heed bogie* me, I owe it all —yea,
tkailenieso, to hien mid an admirable mattber.okok of the
warmest hearts, eves this lard of warm heart. e'er pen.
stored; obtuse higluvt smkitlea for her vow has ever Owen,
that 'whin-mit rat sad imbued', approbation err Ins eoretry.
who h, thank Gott, she lives this day to witness."
laird CIienLEMONT Neal PVC..O Mr. Etna*, and the
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The Noole energise AN then give—m The health of It ichprA
Power, Esq. soil the Theatrical Society of Kilketnty"—
**LiCII he prefaced by au •pproptiste panegyric el! that