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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. B.—Yesterday the following
Address from the might Hon. the LORD MAYOR,
Sheriffs, Commons, and Citizens of the City of
Dublin, was presented to his Excellency the
Most Noble the Marquis of WELLESLEY, Lord
Lieutenant, &c.:—
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,
'We, the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Commons, and Citizeni of
the City of Dublin, in Common Council assembled, anxiously
embrace the earliest occasion of tendering to your Excellency

our most sincere and cordial congratulations upon your Excel_
lency's appointment to the illustrious station of Lord Lieutenant

of Ireland.

In the delegation of this high authority to your Excellency,
so deservedly dear to our affections, by the united considerations
of birth, family, and character, we re-cognise the same feeling of
attachment which has uniformly characterised the acts of our
revered Sovereign towards thisrt of his Kingdom, whilst your
Excellency's exalted reputation, long-experienced wisdom, and
eminently distinguished talents, afford us the best ground of
assurance, that this new instance of his Majesty's favour will
prove not less conducive to the interests of his Irish People,
than it has been congenial to their wishes, and gratifying to their
feelings.
From your Excellency's known and affectionate attachment
to this your native country, we are convinced that the disturb-
ances which have affected part of the interior, already engage
your most serious consideration ; and if, notwithstanding the
firm and merciful administration of justice which has recently
taken place, the same spirit of licentiousness and insubordination
should unhappily continue, we feel we may anticipate, with con-
fidence for our country, all that can be accomplished by a firm
and temperate execution of the laws, and a just and efficient
exercise of the power with which your Excellency is invested.
With pride we recognize in your Excellency a Freeman of
our ancient and loyal Corporation ; and most sanguinely trust,
that your arrival in this Island will prove the harbinger of re-
turning tranquillity and union; and that, when you render up
to our beneficent Sovereign the high trust which he has corn-
niitted to your hands, you may retire ;from the Administration
of this country, with the delightful consciousness, that your
efforts for its peace, prosperity, and happiness, have been crowned
with success.

The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Clerks, and Cor-
poration, having this day waited on his Excel-
lency with the foregoing Address, he was pleased
to return the following Answer :

Among the various emotions with -which I received this
most affectionate and loyal Address, I feel pecUliar satisfaction
in observing your ardent sentiments of gratitude and dutiful at-
tachment to our beloved and most gracious Sovereign.
It will
.be my grateful task to convey to his Majesty this re-
newed testimony of the affection of his faithful Citizens of Dub-
lin; and, as such pledges of your sentiments cannot fail to
prove most acceptable to his benevolent heart, I am, persuaded
that your reception of my appointment to the Government of
Ireland will tend to confirm me in the confidence and favour of
my Sovereign. " •
The kindness of your sentiments of personal regard towards
me, has made an impression on my heart, which no language
Can express, and no time or circumstances can efface.
Animated by these testimonies of public esteem, I undertake
the duties of my arduous station- with .cheerfulness, though not
without an awful sense.of the weight of the great charge.
You may be.assurecl, that the disturbances which have pre-
vailed to so calamitous an extezitinAhe country, have engaged
my most serious and anxious attention. _

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Obedience to the law must be established—not merely for the
dignity of the Government, or for the protection of property,
but for the happiness and prosperity of the people, whose con-
dition must ever be miserable while it shall be more safe to
violate than to obey the law.

It is the brighrest ornament of the Crown of our benignant
Sovereign, that the King of these realms is:sworn, at the august
ceremony of his Coronation, to administer law and justice in
mercy in all his judgnients.
In representing the sacred person of his Majesty in this
country, it will be my primary obligation. to dispense this bless-
ing to my native country ; and I trust that such a course of Ad-
ministration may, in process of time, restore the principles of
order and lawful Government.

I recollect, with the most cordial pleasure, the early moments
of my public life, when my conduct was distinguished by the
approbation of your ancient and loyal Corporation, and when
I had the honour of being enrolled in the distinguished list of
the Freemen of this my native City.
,Since.that period of time I have been called upon to serve
my Sovereign and my Country. in various stations, and 'in dis-
tant climates ; wherever my lot has been east, I have endea-
voured not to disgrace my family or my country.
Now, if, under the favour of my gracious Sovereign, and of
Providence,.l should be enabled to restore peace and concord to
Ireland, my long public career will be closed with happiness,
honour, and genuine glory. In attempting this great and glo-
rious work, I rely on the confidence and co-operation of my
countrymen ; and your conduct inspires an ardent hope that I
shall nut be disappointed..
Jan. 7,1822.

TO THE EDITOR OF •
THE CORK MERCANTILE CIIRONrCEE.
• consequence of a better which- appeared in your.
Paper of the 31st.. tat., addressed to you by. the Reverend D.
ill'Swiney, Parish Priest of the.Randon Parishes,' in which it
IS stated that 'no outrage of any kind has been committed in
" those Parishes, nor ludxxlin any other part of this Country,
" except that arms were taken,, and perhaps, in snore instances
" were said to be taken, in a certain neighbourhoOd ai some
" distance from this Town:" • • • • . • .

We, the undersigned magistrates, zesalmg in Bandon and
its vicinity, assembled in the Court-house this day, deem
it necessary to declare, that 'unhappily such is not the fact,
as on the night of Friday, the 21st of December last,, the
houses of dr. Samuel Hosford, and Mr. Robert Wiseman,
both of Queensfort, in the parish of Kilbro,anlone of the
b`
Bandon parishes, were attacked by an armed banditti, who"
robbed the former of two guns, and the latter of one gun, a
case of pistols, and a sword; that various other acts of. out-
rage, amounting to no less than attacks on thirty-fiVe houses,
a list of which we subjoin, were.pfirpetrated in the adjoining
parishes of Brinny, TemPlemartini and Murragh, all in the
immediate neighbourhood of the 13aadon parishes, and within
a short distance of this town ; and that a great proportion of th 6
well-disposed, from apprehension of personal ill-treatment, have
conceived it necessary to take]refugein Bandon.

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We are, Sir,
Your obedient humble Servants, •
Bandon; . ' Joseph .Jervois, ProVogt of
Charnbre Corker, Bandon,
Maskelyne Alcock, Wm. S. Bernard,
Thomas Hornibrook, - Nathaniel'Evanson, .
Ekins Waring, • Samuel Beamish,
Wm. Henry Herriek-,!;, Benjamin Popham.
Bandon, 4th Jan. 1822.
[Then follows the list of outrages.] -
i. --or-- •

DARING ATTACK ON RYE COURT HOUSE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE.SOUTHERN REPORTER.

" Rye Court, Saturday morning, f o'clock.
" A most daring attacktwas made this morning' between the
hours of twelve and one o'clock, on: Rye Court .11ouse, by a
party of armed White Boys. The- family were alarmed by an
attempt to force the front door, accompanied by a constant
firing, and reiterated shouts. Most' fortunately, preparations
'had been made, and they were successfully repulsed by a smart
fire kept up by Mr. Rye and Mr. S. Godsell, assisted by a!guard
which Mr. Rye had in the house since the cornthencernent of
the disturbances.

" Those misguided men broke allAlte windows in the front
of the house, and quite demolished as extensive green-house
that formed one of 'the wings."

FOREIGN LITERATURE.

No. LIV.

L•CE:soLocit, i, e. (EzioLoGY, a Didactic Poem, in four
Cantos, with Historical Notes, by M. T. of MacoN. 12uto.
Paris, 1821.
This .poem, the author informs us, has been
written several years, and " its ptibliCation de.
layed on account of the interest taketi by the
French in state affairs." We were not aware

that politics were so unfriendly to the literary en-
joyments of our Gallic neighbours ; and If this
continues, they must renounce their representa-
tive government, for there is no tolerating one so
uupoetical!

A poem less, you will say, is no such great
misfortune. Much greater, perhaps, than you
imagine, and I should have been very sorry that
(Enology for instance, had been lost .to us.
The first canto of this poem is devoted to the
Wine of the Ancients, and exhibits a pleasing and
light erudition ; such, indeed, as we might ex-
pect from.a poet and a wine bibber. The learn-
ed may tell us who was the inventor of wine, who
planted the first vineyard, what year the first
vintage was gathered : in short, what means Noah
employed to clarify his wines : that is their affair,
we do not require so much from a poet of Macon.
The learned may also be supposed to be better ac-
quainted with the cellars of the Greeks than
with those of Burgundy, and consequently, to
esteem less highly the Cote rotie than. the famous
nechantes with which. Homer takes such delight
in fuddling all his heroes. As for us, who know
something of those tnatters,we shall say with M. T.,
N'enviez pas le vin-que buviaent vos andtres :
Car ils ne furent pas en tout nos meilleurs maitre*.
It is.certain that the progress of wine has fol-
lowed that of the human mind ; 'but the poet
does well to remark, to the honour of the an-
cients, that if they did drink bad wine, at least
they drank it pure, and would have deemed it a
sacrilege to' have 'mixed a single 'drop of water
with it. This culpable mixture was thought of
at a later period. _

Le premier, dans son yin, MQampus mit de I'eau.
And his memory, as M. T.reminds us, was justly
denounced to the execration of posterity. An old
poet, whose name I have forgotten, has placed
M6lampus in the infernal regions, by the side of
the greatest criminals, which proves that long be-
fore Beccaria, they knew well how to appor-
tion punishments to crimes.

Th.e author again calls our attention to the
Bacchic exploits of the antients, exploits which
Homer has worthily celebrated, and which re-
flect more honour on his heroes than the taking
of Troy, a little paltry town which resisted their
efforts ten long years, while it would not have
held out 'against us as many minutes. These
great men, I assure you, did not drink small
draughts, for some of the goblets they made use
of are in our possession, and which they emptied
at a single draught. It is impossible to look at
these vessels without being struck with admira-
tion ; and indeed it is more especially where an-
tiquity drinks that it is entitled to our vene-
ration.

M. T.. treats, in his second Canto, on the choke
of Wines, and the precautions to be taken for
keeping them. The following one is particu-
larly important :
Dans
la mime retraite flvitez de loger
• Les vins qui de leer fleur n'ont pu se &gager
Et ecux qui tOlis les aus, quand la vigne fermente
Agilent leurs.voisins du feu qui le tourmente.
It is because, according to the very philoso-
phical remark of the poet of Macon, old wines,
-like old men, are in want,
De repos, et de paix, doux plaisirs de cet Age
Helas ! qu'•ignore encore la jeunesse volaye. .
M. T. cannot recommend us too earnestly to
take care of our wines ourselves nor would it;
be derogatory, even in a „Peer, to go into his cel-
lar, when -.we know,

Que Guillaume premier au bruit de ses tambours
DvSeendait dans la sienne, au mins tousles buitjours.

Pour visiter ses vine, en faire rinventaire

Qu'il ne confiait pas, nltlipe a son sccrkaire.
1 regret that M. 'l'. did not relate here an
anecdote of which he can scarcely be ignorant,
and.to which the subject naturally led. William
proposed one day to his Academy this great,
questiOn : " Why is wine of Champagne eller-
vescent ? That learned body considered a long
time, and at length asked the King for four of
five dozen of-Champagne to make such experi-
ments as were necessary for the solution of the
question. " Let there all go to the ," said
" Will drink my wine withont them."
In so doing he, he shewed his wisdom, for the
problem would tint have been solved until the
last bottle had been emptied. Besides, after
having examined why the wine of Champagne
effervesces, those Gentlemen would have
wished to know why those of Burgundy and
Bordeaux are not effervescent ; and from expe-
riment to experiment, all his Majesty's wine
would have been exhausted ; and though the
Academy might be very learned, where is the
wine-drinker; be he monarch or subject, who
would have sacrificed his cellar to. it ?

But to return to our Poem. The precepts and
recommendations of the Author are catiforinable
to those given in the learned writings of a Noble
Peer, whose name is never-pronounced by Wine-
drinkers except wilh the greatest respect. But
I do not see why M. T. should reproach Count
Chaptal for having been silent respecting the
wines of Macon. That writer has spoken of the
'wines of Burgundy, and, in spite of a certain di-
vision which vinous geography does not and
will never acknowledge, Macon is still, and Ma-
con Will always he, in Burgundy. It is true the
Constituent Assembly wished it otherwise'; but
the wine-bibhers fortned -the strongest party,
and, thanks to them, Burgundy and Champagne
are still retained.

We need not ask to which wines our poet gives
the preference. To those of Alacon; without: a

doubt; and if country be dear to all generous
hearts, are not its rights still more sacred when
it is a wine country ? I, therefore, applaud tile
noble feelings which dictated these verses :

O ma chore patrie ! O lieux cliers a Bacchus!
Puissiez vous, par mes vers, titre encore plus c,onnus f.
•
Vain .eipoir ! sur vos vies votre glOire se fonde,
Et, bien mieux (pie mes vers, ils enivrent le morlde..
I believe it. When afterwards the poet
con asserts that the wines of his ,conutry, even
those accounted of the second quality,
N'en soit psi me:ins l'orgiteil des lieux de leur naissance,'
Et tout le deseipoir dei vignobles de France,

I can still excuse tbis rapturous patriotic effusion ;
but I have heard that it will not pass every where
without opposition. The Champinois, when the
pre-eminence of wines is in question, are not
very patient and forbearing ; and if; Burgundy
has her poets, Champagne has also hers„.who
know how to maintain the honour of her vine=
yards. I am told there is one who is already
tuning his lyre ; and we shall see whether th,..
sparkling Ai is less inspiring than the unctitQus
Chenas and the racy .Tullienas.
These are the discussions I like ; we gain at
least something by them„and they gave birth t 3
a-spirit of emulation which proves beneficial to
our tables: It has been remarked that memo-
rable in the annals of the vintage is that year is
which war breaks out between the poets of
Macon and those of Reims; the rival wines are
always better, however otherwise may be the
quality of the verges,

- The Utitif,y of Wine is the subject of the third
Canto. Are you ill ? you have at hand a physi-
cian more powerful, in the opinion of M. T., than
the God of Epidaurus. The doctor is in the
cellar; bring him up. The poet cites-very im-
posing authorities in support of his opinion—
Hippocrates, Guy, Patin, and Rabelais. Modern
physicians entertain similar doctrines; and all
recommend it 3 well knowing, from personal ex-
perience, its good effects
Car maint sage doetear, qui ]'ordonne aujourdhui,
Comore ses devauciers, en fait l'essai sur lui;
Et l'on ma souvent dit dit que c'etait a leur table,
Que nous devions chercher ce remecle agreable. .

This is for the body. As for the mind, the ser.
-vices rendered to it by wine are undeniable. It
-raises the spirits, and promotes vivacity and
mirth. All travellers who have passed through.
Macon have observed these effects.

The vine leaves of Bacchus unite very well
with the laurel of Apollo ; and M. T. names
many illustrifius poets who have been at the same
time very illustrious wine-drinkers, Woe there-

fore to them who drink nothing but water : good
wine inspires good verses, and I suspect A‘le
author of CE nology had drunk a glass too -much
when he composed his third canto, but espe-
daily the episode which terminates it, and which
I,regret that I cannot insert here.

In the fourth and last canto, M. T. celebrates
the Pleasures of Drunkenness. What will Reason
say ? Whatever she pleases ; our poet is very in-
different concerning her opinion. •

Cette fiere raison dont on fait tant de bruit,
Un peu de vin la chasse. Eh bien quand elle fuit
Antis, que perdons nous ? Je crois fort peu de chose;
Un ennuyeux tyran qui j'amais ne compose..

It is certain that Reason is very choice as to
her mode of life, and on this account many
people come to the determination to do without
her.. We .shOuld, however, be, quite :iu error if
w.e supposed that M. T. considers all drunken-
ness as meritorious. On the contrary, it is, in
. his opinion, a great crime.to.become intoxicated
with 'bad wine, especially with such as has bee►►
adulterated ; for in the tavern, as in l'arnassus,
Rien n'eat beau gue le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable,
or drinkable, as the poet of Macon says. By the
way, this doctrine ought to gain our author Some
favour with the. moralists, if there are any so un-
reasonable as to forbid us to arink too • much
when the wine is good.
Before we take leave of our author, I would
recommend him, in another edition; to 'Correct
many prosaic and negligent verses which4'occur
but too often in the course of his poem,' and some
vicious constructions which we are surprised to
Meet in a work generally written with correct-
ness. :• C.