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• DUBLIN, SEPTEIIIIIEB 3.

HALL& OF MY POREFATHERS.

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When die sem of my y4t,h tith its bloom was declining,
Which butted o'er my, path in the senuner able,
~ And Op goy dream of Fisk" its empire resigning,
libitligin'd my eyes to a wield fuU of strife,
I int's°4 fill‘flikillmitsre to sober relation,
pentiorgl odi slimes to food ireaserp, dear;
And woeifil wisiond in mama skilwanw. •
-To mak for my hews, but the stranger was there !
itailr et ,ay forefathers! ateelering la nary
; Sens the eche with sighs through year shade;
Ilwervitsfs the woodspigems, pishitirelymeing,
• Death-like the treading yes forest deemed :
There was a time when the harp softly thrilling,
Tales of rename and of valour could tell;
Halo ! I must quit yes, however
Home of my fathers, far ever farewell!

Mr. Thomas Phelps, for merchant, in Capel-street,
Dublin, was robbed at the latter end of last month of
an immense quantity of different sorts of fur: Search
was instantly made after the robbers arid property, but
without effect; until at length; infortnation was given
by Mrs. Drought, proprietress of a hit manufactory in
Dublin, that a man, named Bryan Smith, who keeps a
cellar at No. 1, Bachelor's-walk, had offered her for
sale some fur, of which, he said, he had a large quan-
tity. His cellar was searched, and all the fur (the
trinsie value of which is BW.) that had been stolen from
Mr. Phelps, was found, there. The accounts gives by
Bryan Smith, and his wife, Julia Smitb,-of the manner
in which the fur came into their possession, is, that it
was left with them *by_ a man who is in the habit of
trading backwards and forwards between England and
Dablin. Both Bryan and Julia Smith have been corn-
- milted to Newgate by the Magistrates of Henry-street
Police Of for receiving goods, knowing them to
he stolen.
This morning, about four o'clock, the premises in the
rear of the house, No. 83. Capel-street, belonging. to
Mr. Hickey, brush-maker, were discovered to be On
fire. The Royal Exchange and National, fire•engines
were quickly on the spot, and cornaunced playing'
with great effect; however, the concerns where the fire
originated, with part of an adjoining house, were
consumed.

Pattern, who was convicted of a rape at the last
Warwick Assizes, underwent the awful sentence of the
law on Saturday. Mr. Secretary Pimp. after a full
consideration of the case, declaring that he could not,
consistently with his duty, advise his MAJESTY to grant
the prisoner any extension of the Royal mercy.
At Sarson, near Southampton, lately, a shepherd ob-
served a hawk descend and rise again immediately with
something in its claws, ascending to a considerable
height in the air, when it suddenly fell to the ground
he ran to the spot, and found the hawk dead, and a
stoat, which had sucked its blood during its aerial ascen-
sion, making off into a hedge.
The following extraordinary scene has just taken
place at a village near Nancy. At the moment the
Cure of the village nes about pronouncing, his bene-
diction at the close of vespers, a young Missionary, be-
longing to a troop that are exhibiting in the-neighbour-
hood, started up and said—.“ Stop. father, there are
hete seven seamen unworthy to receive your benedic.
tion—seven women guilty of adultery. This they have
revealed to me in confession." He then pointed out
the sever/ women, and forced them to quit the church.
Aprocesk verbal was drawn up, and transmitted to the
Bishop avid the Procureur-General.
A lI&nv TO MOTHRRE.—AII young animals naturally
delight to be in the open air, and in perpetual motion ;
but we signify our disapprobation of this intention of
Nature by confining our infants .mostly is houses, and
swathing them from the time they are born as tightly
as .pussible. This natural instinct appears. very strong
when we see a child released from its confinement, in
the short interval betwixt pulling off its dy-clotbes, and
swathing it again before,it is. put,to sleep. The evident
tokens of delight which the liule creature shews in re-
coveting the free use of his limbs, and the strong ra
luetence it discovers to be again remitted to its bon-
dage, one should think would strike conviction of the
cruelty and absurdity of this practice into the most
stupid of mankind.—Dr. Citegory.
AMERICAN Seam:lat.—The whole number, of
people in .the United States, by the late census, is
9,689.000. Of' this number, it is stated that 2,085,0001
are engaged in agriculture, 349,000 in manufactures,:
and 12,000 in commerce. Only the efficient or labimr-
in& persons in each class appear to have been enume-
rated. Add the women, the children, and.the invalids,
anti there will be hand to' be about 8,000,000 in the
ariieuhural class, 200,000 in the commercial, and
1,300,000 in the manufacturing. In England the agri-
cuktiral class does not exceed one-third of the whole po- '
pulation. This one-third is not only sufficient to pro-
duke bread, stuff), and provisions enough for themselves,
and the other two•thiids, *but also to produce enough
wool for all the extensive woollen factories its the king-
dom. with the exception of a small quantity of fine
quality. The wool produced amounts annually to
234)04,000
.of dollars in value. Tour-fifths of our
os. are employed to produce the same effects that
follow. from the labfors of one-third of the British
nation. -American Paper.
Sroituna. PAasorts...-The foudne3 that seized the
regular Clergy for the pleasures of the chase did not
appear tilt after the Conquest. The Saxon Clergy
were expressly forbidden the amusement.. King EDGAR
ditects the Priest " to be neither a hunter, nor hawker,
nor yet a tipler ; but to-keep close to his books, as be-
comes a man of his order." The spiritual law still pre-
:mod its severity. and forbad to spiritual persons the
amusement of the chase. •This prcbably was rather
designei to check what might, by the excess, estrange,
them from their sacred function. The common law,
froin a principle Of pod. sense and humanity, per-
mitted the recreation, becausanothing could. contribute
more effectually to. the performance of their duty than
good health resulting from fit exercise, as nothing could
disqualify them so gready as the disorders arising from
a sedentary life. This indulgence, probably, soon
ended in abuse. In the twelfth century Abelard was
unhappy in piesiding over a monastery of huntsmen,
and Chaucer flings eine ridiculebn the sporting Monk.
Madly! _the Arise became so necessary an appendage
to thoLielonbadaal State, that *Very Soo bad a number
of .patinis- that of Norwich. thirteen; and.-the .sixth
astertualy which the King claimed on the death of a
Prelate was his kennel of hounds.

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di &saw 110U811.
Pithy lbws; was charged wick ets° following daring rubbery :
Abratiarti Msyniik the Night Compplie Aktgate parish, stated,
1044.:ibesit bM O'clock yeeterday iffaksho be was sitting up it the
waft= WWI after the watchmen had ilk he fen asleep us.
gime a on hikawaltiog, be found his pooket had been picked•
• kii wit*. Thomas T.ip, the hostile, amid, that be came into
the Watehlionie Agee 'half-past one, when ht met dse:pifearier cop
log mt. who 4/14rmaking some (riveters* mime went away. He
&mid ebit ion Mendes asleep, who,- en aaltakiag, 4114 b. hos area
robbed of Ms match. Rs apprehended him a *whom afterwards
at a coteseheikikaorandeditch. The pramsr, in ti nee, said be
sold prove be was row at. Dartlsokoniw Par. sttbn dew,-
-Remanded.
Mr. _fishier fetteived a letter from. t bmab, 'who. ceded
Elisabeth Locke, satin that site was a cellateral descendant of
the gene John I.ocke, author of the " Famy on the Und. ioppned.l
lag," and that'sbe was in service at No. I, Colkge-streec, IfitheoL
Her grandfather had hem, she stated, a hair-dresser in the City of
London, and .had taken- a violeot part it the affair of Wilkes • she
wished to learn to what Compare he bank belonged, Bud whether she
was not entitled to some pecuniary aid, as the descendant of a citi-
sea of London, if she mild expect none as the relative of one of
the greatest geniuses England ever produced: Inquiries were
made, and It was frond that a persist of the mote of Locke had been
an active partisan of Wilkes, but it could not be ascertained to
what. Company he belonged. or whether be belonged to any.
Samatn-saaaatoo.—The keeper of one of the booths_ in Bar-
tholomew Fair,was brought before the LORD Marva, charged with
laving offered gingerbread for sale on Sunday evening,-and with
having obstructed two of the City Olken la the performance of
*their duty.
The Loam M*ros said, the whole of the keepers of those booths
which were placed open the fens-pavement should knob that they
were there merely upon sufferance, and that he bad the power to
order the immediate removal of-ad of them. In fact they were
liable to heavy penalties under the new Street Act. His Lordship,
however, thought the two nights' confinement Racket punish-
ment, and was unwilling to prejudice the sale of the defendant's
gingerbread.
GUILDHALL.
Raessoesamw 1411160414 of upwards of twenty primmer*
(mostly boys)Jitought before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman
Bennis, for offences at the fair, only two are recognised as having
Winks custody before. A desperate gang, however, made a bold
attempt on Monday night to crest, a panic in the fair. About 400
fellows, just after dusk, hunted a bullock from Holborn towards
the fair. A great number of them were armed with sticks, and
the uproar and alarm occasioned by its passing up King-street,
scrota SmithbeM, and theough Losg.lane, surpassed description.
Only on. person was secured—Robert Vont, an apprentice to
Mr. Manion, glazier, New-street, dhoe-lane. He was seized while
shouting " Tern ban into the fair! deer 'ens ! what a lark !"
The prisoner denied having followed the animal farther than from
•Aadresv's church, flolbern, and said he was merely holding
mehlarntp, and shouting so keep him of the pavement, when the
seised him.
The•priseser's master spoke favourably of, the boy's conduct till
within a fortnight, since which time be had become connected with
mite bad characters.

Mr. Alderman Batman said, that be could either fine him five
pounds, of commit him to Beidewsll far two months; but as the
master preferred to pay the line himself, rather than let the boy go
to prison, the worthy Alderman advised him to take the lad before
the City Chamberlain, to be dealt with as be thought lit.

BOW-STRUT.
A young fellow, named CAselet &sit*, was brought before Sir
Ibenass Mama, on Monday night, charged with haying *den a
salt-of mourning, and divers monies, from tote John Nice.
John Kith is an honest Irish shoemaker, hying at No. 1, Comp-
tomplace, Brunswick-square, and Charles ;Smith (the prisoner) was
a sort of protege of his—a distressed youth of about nineteen years
old, to whom, in pure charity, he was conmiunicating the ,costa
of the " gentle craft ;" and eery unpntly Charles Smith requited
Ms. Some eight or nine days ago, John Rice's wife and one of,
his children died, leaving him with several other children, much im-
poverished by herking illness, and deeply distressed by her death.
Distressed as he was, however, he sri.l continued his kindness to.
Charles Smith, for in order to save him the expense of a separate
lodging, he gave him kave to sleep with him and his remaining
children. Accordingly be slept with them the lint night after the
poor woman and her child were removed from their home to the
grave ; and ea the very nun intorninnhe rose early and decamped
with-his henehetoes toile sleek of money, dressed in the suit of
mounting which the distressed husband. had borrowed from his
neighbours, for the purpose of deeently attending kis wife's funeral.
From that time nothings was heard of him until last Monday after-
noon, when two of John Rice's sacs—little urchins, not more thin
ten or eleven years of age, accidentally saw Charles Smith strutting
about Bartlemy Fair in their father's borrowed mourning; and in-
stantly springing upon hiin, like a couple of young terriers, they
clung to him until, by their crits, they attracted the notice of a City'
police °Seer, who forthwith took hien into custody, and brought
him to this Ace.

In the meantime the boys fetched their father, honest John Rice,
who brought with him the clothes which the prisoner bad lett be-
kind him. He was then stripped of his stolen sables—which, by
the bye, fitted him about as well as a shirt would fit a walking-stick ;
and having once more clad himself in• his own garments, be was
Committed for trial, without attempting-to say °Deward indefinite.
The same evening a lad, named Arose Manioruild, was also caw
initted. for trial by Sir R. Blum charged with having stolen a
Oantity of military gorgets, silver buckles, Ste. the propeity of Mr.
Hutting, a military ornaniestntaker, in King-street, Covent-garden,
IMO whose shop the prisoner had gone, pretending-to seek employ-
bent is an errand-boy. He was detected in consequou of his
offering to'sell the stolen property to a Jew, who, not koowing
wetly how to deal with articles of that description, took him to a
trade-sedan who happened to have beard of the robbcry,snd he gave
him in charge to an othcer.
Yesterday a decent-looking woman, named Jaw Statek, was
brought before Mr. Nlntanutt, charged with robbing her master, a
Mr. Willis, of Charlotte-street, Black friars =road.
The mincer bid formerly qualified herself by theft for an asp.
lum In the, Refuge for the Destitute, from which 'institution she
afterwards passed into the service 6( a family as a " completely re-
formed young woman." In that family she remained twelvemonths
without any impeachment of her reformation, and she then came
into the service of Mr. Wallis with a good character; but she bad
not lived in his service more than eleven months, when she ab-
sconded (coin his house, during his absence in the country, taking
with her a considerable quantity of plate, linen, &c. and leaving a,
note behind her, informing him that his house had been robbed
whilst under her care, and as she bad no idea who was the thief,
she had thought fit to absent herselt lest she should be suspected
It wad afterwards ascertained that she herself bad pledged.sha
-stolen property with several differ ens pawnbrokers, who now as.
tended to give their evidence against her, and she was fully cons.
mimed to take her trial for the theft. .
.U* May, a travelling higglet, and William Moore, a chimney.
sweeper out of place, were committed by the same Magistrate for
future examination, on suspicion of having stolen two horses, which'
were found in their possession, at a public-house in Uxbridge, by
the constable of that place, who, upon searching their persona,_
found a couple of silver teaspoons; of which they could give 'a.
ociser.aeconat than that they bad picked them up on the torliiihni
road on this side at Oxford. One of the horses is a gray Mk Ind
the other a brown cart-horse, blind of one eye.
Two Gentlemen were yesterday stopped in endeavouring
make their way into the public office. They were resisted at id
street-door by an officer placed there for that purpose; but they
contrived to get past this obstacle, persisting that they bad a right
to enter the once where public business was being transacted.
One of the Gentlemen stated, on being summoned to give an
account of his conduct, that he had a country friend with him to
whom be was anxious to show, amongst other things, the manner
in which the business of Police offices was conducted. He would
not have persisted in peening his way in as he had done, bad he
not conoidered that it was a public office, and as such, one into
which be bad a right to enter.
Mr. Mnissinut. Jammed both the Gentlemen, that they wen
much mistaken in supposing that office to be open to the public.--
It was a private room, in which business was transacted for tb*,
furtherance of public Justice. None could claim a right to cone'
there, but the parties actually commented in the business on either.
side; and all others who were allowed to be present, were then
by courtesy akine.—After this admunitioo, the Gentlemen were
allowed to remain.

111.1111.110110130141TREET.
Mr. Tate, a boakaseamseer, 'twain to Holborn, appeared to
answer to a elate of swank preferred against him by Mr. James
St. the Deputy OVerseer of the united- parishes of St. Giles's
St.;burp, who stated that be went late the
et tb la Holborn, last sight, where the defend-
was edling boalip After hating banked down a copy d
,0 Isstimisr do auctioneer asked what hook he should next
dm pismire of odor* to their nodes ; a looketwo cried oat
lidma r aki Mr. Taos, Waking that it was meant as an
ot down ihont his duke aid adataking fdr. Blip for the

Weeder, began Maine azol otheridseassaultiog him. Dlr. Neer
accordingly gave the auctieneer over to she watchman.
The auctiona, in defence, said 'that Dir. Wogs had -beet fer.
some dole using very inaproper lanilear, and he therefopeendea-
vounstl to turn Minuet at. the shop.. -The Magistrate Append the
auctioneer to pat in bail, appear at the Sessions.
A parish watchman was :used St. for appearing in a state of ine-
briety at the office.
Charles Burt= Lane, the apprentice of Mr. Spilsbury, of Po-
land-street, one of the witnesses agbinst Ahdrhead, whom we yes-
terday stated to-have enlisted into the -service of the least India
ir.i.pasy, has been taken into custody by the orders-of the Magis-
trates, midis at present in prison, to be brought up in a week, and
then disposed of as may best suit the ends of justice.
A young man named William affiliktets, in the service of Mr.
Ward, a baker, in Glasshouse street,. Regent-street, was Charged
with stealing a check or draft for 1135 les. 6d. the property of
11r. Gabby, a tailor, in Leicester-street, Regent-street.
lIIIt appeared by the evidence brought forward, that some days
ago the prisoner came to the shop of Mr. Gabby with bread front
Mr. Ward, who was their baker, and soon after. he left the shop,
the draft lu question was missed off the desk ; the prisoner was sus-
pected and taken into custody, when nine sovereigns were found in
his pocket, but no check. •
A Mrs. White, a baker, in King-street, Soho, said, that a
fortnight before Mr. Gabby` Ma Check, the prisoner came in one
day, and enquired for his brother, saying that he had found a check
for 1511. and he could make both their fortunes; but he afterwards
-told her, that when he took the cheek to be paid at the Banker's In
the city, the clerk there stopped it.
The prisoner said, that be did find a check some time ago for
1511. and took it to the Banker's, where be told them he had found
it, and they said he was a very honest lad, and be should have some-
thing sent him for his trouble ; but although he bad expended 15s.
of his own matey in Venting about after the owner, he never got
sixpence from the Busk or any one else. As for this cheek of Mr.
Gabby's, be certainly found, much to his surprise, a check of 1351.
las. ed. amongst his accounts when he got home, but be did not
know who it belonged to, and he was so indignant at the way in
which be was treated about the fanner check, and the bad hand he,
made of it, that be flung this one away in disgust.—liemanded.
A youth, about eighteenosamed Edward Cleveiand, late a groom in
the service of Mr. Robinson, a Gestiensan of fortune, residing at
No. 60, Greek-street, Sobo-sguare, who has been • several days in
custody, charged with committing very extensive depredations on
his master's property, was brought before the Magistrate for final
examination. It appeared tbnprisooer, in concert with his mother
and others, had robbed his master of property to a very consi-
derable amount. Various other articles (not Mr. R.'s) were found
at the house of the prisoner's mother, some of which were marked
with the tame of Mr. Hammond, the prisoner's former master.
Within these few days, and since the prisoner has been in custody,
a letter has been thrown into the area of Mr. Robinson's house,
addressed to that Gentkinan, well worded and written, but evi-
dently in a feigned band, which describes a plot laid for the
robbery of his house and the destruction of his whole family,
either by setting the place on fire,or otherwise; which would have
been effected had not the apprehension of " one person," as the let-
ter says, now in custody, broken up the design. The writer says,
that were he known to be the author of such information, his life
would be the sacrill* Since the receipt of this letter, many cir-
cumstances have, struck the minds of Dir. Robluson and his family.
Suck as the prisoner Clealand basing been often, since his dismis-
sal, found at all hours, late and/ early, in the house, without any
one being able to tell how he gat In, and his pretences, to which
much attention was not paid, was, that he came to get something
out of hit box, which was left, because be bad borrowed 41. of the
housekeeper. Since the information conveyed in the anonymous
letter, bk. Robinson has adapted every means of security, having
a good supply of arms, arc. In the house, and makes a reeniar
nightly match tome that every thing is secured.
The prisoner Wasluily committed for trial, on the charge of
stealing two articles of jewellery, which were produced and iden-
tified by Mr.: Robinson.
The prisoner Observed, that he supposed there must be a sort of
trial, and, until then, be should not say alt thing.