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LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

The Beauties of Ireland. By J. N. Bitzwza, Esq.Vel.H,
Mr. Brewer is an able and industrious antiquary,
' who, after doing much in illustrating the history and
topography of England and Wales, has turned his at-
tention to Ireland—a country equally fertile in 'objects
of interest. To a careful digest of the best authorities,
' which are sought after and examined with great care,
Mr. Brewer adds the result of much personal ob.erva•
tion, wisely determining to take nothing on' trust the
correctness of which can possibly be ascertained. The
second volume of the Beauties of Ireland contains the
concluding portion the Province of Leinster, a compre.
bensive account of the County of Cork, and a portion f
that f Munster —pat ts of the country teeming in objects
of interest and importance, as is proved in this work.
The volume is illu.,trated with twelve fine engravings.
Alan-ugh no extract can do justice to the diversified
character of a work of thi, soft, yet we shall quote a
not ce of the celebrated Ead of Cork:
This Nobleman was the second son of Alr. Roger Boyle. who
was descended of a Herefordshire family, but who lived, In cir.
cnmstances of no great affluence, near Faversham, in Kent. ile
became a student in the Middle Temple; but "finding his mewls
unable to support him at the Inns of Court," be entered the ser-
vice of Sir Richard Manwood, Lord Chiet Baron of the Beekeeper,
as one of his clerks. Perceiving, to use his own wotds, " that this
employment would not raise a fortune," he repaired to Ireland,
then the scene of enterprise with many nglishmen, who had more
courage and talent than property, or prospect of success in their
native country. He arrived at Dublin on the 23d June, 1588; at
which time his whole wealth consisted of 271. 3s. in money; two
tokens given him by his mother, namely, a diamond ring and a
bracelet of gold ; his wearing apparel, and his rapier and dagger.—
The sera was propitious to adventure, but he quickly found that
more, for his personal advantage, was to be done by politic schemes
and cool ;peculation, than by the rapier and dagger, in a country
torn by faction, and in which defeat was invariably followed by
forfeihire.
The manner in which an adventurer, so destitute of connections
In his own country ; and possessing nu more than 271. 3s. and his
rapier and dagger, when he landed in Ireland, could, without a pro-
fession, amass a fortune so large as that of the Earl of Cork, is one
of the wonders of the times in which he pourished. He has left,
written by himself, what he terms his trite rententlPrences, or some
account of his life, up to the year 1632. From this account we find
that he acquired with his first wife, who died shortly atter her
marriage, an estate of 5001. per annum ; but this slender, though
curious, piece of auto-biography, throws little light on the means
by which he obtained any other parts of his great forture.—
By certain law officers and officers of state, in Ireland, he was ac-
cused to Queen Elisabeth of having '• used the purse of some Foreign
Prince to supply him with money." But this accusation was not
made good; and we are therefore, in justice, to suppose that the
suspicion arose merely from the very natural surprise, generally ex-
pressed, that a man, apparently without resources, should be en.
abled to make purchases so extensive.
After his triumphant justification of himself against this serious
charge, employments of state, and titles of honour, fell thickly upon
him. In 1616, be was created Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghall ;
and in 1620, Viscount Dungarvon, and Earl of Cork. We have
already adverted to the numerous manors purchased by him. for the
sum of 15001. of the ill-fated Sir Walter Raleigh. His fifth goo,
Robert Boyle, is the favourite of posterity, as an experimental phi-
losopher of the highest class ; and many descendants of this " great
Earl" have reflected lustre on the Peerage.
• In a letter to the Earl of Warwick, Lord Cork states, that,
prior to the breaking out of the rebellion in 1641, his revenue, " be-
sides his houses, demesnes, parks, and other royalties," yielded him
501. a day rent.

Sikes Leaves; Poems mod Sketches. By ELIZABETH
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'WILLIII7OIID MILLS. Post Bvo. London, 1826•

However much some may admire the oriental ima-
gery of one poet, or the chivalrous spirit of another, we
confess we are partial to those subjects which every per-
son cao judge of, feel, and appreciate ; we are, in short,
attached to the domestic school of poetry, and of this
class are the poems now before us. They are ushered
to the world without preface or dedication, and with
merely an introductory paragraph ; in which, after
alluding to Angelica Kauffman's failure in sketching
nature, or representing Homeric heroes on canvass, be-
cause she only understood woman, the fair Author says
of herself :

An when I strive of bolder minds
To catch the breathing tone;
A woman's heart sweeps &slimy lyre,
And woman speaks alone."
The Sibyl's Leaves, which we •enture to prophecy will
be in great favour with the public, consist of several
short poems full of nature, true., and beauty. Son eof
the prose sketches also possess great merit. What
parent or child, we would ask, can read the following
fines, and not be struck with the tenderness and affec-
tion which they breathe?

Oh! let my farewell breathe of thee,
For thou art all in all to me ;
Though fitful thoughts are e'er me throws,
My spirit clings to thee alone :
The arms I seek, the lips I press,
Gave me my very first caress.
I cannot find one eye to mine
So constant, dear, and fond as thine ;
That voice whose sweetness stills my sigh
Is hers who sang my lullaby:
The breast which bides my tearful smile
Did all my infant ills beguile.
I owe thee all—and I will give
This life-throb to thee while I live ;
And joy may pats, and hope may part,
And change and chance may try this heart:
Or youth may smile its rainbow hue,
Yet still to thee shall all be true.
My heart, my thought, my soul is wild,
But yet I am thy darling child ;
And still, wbene'er I catch thine eye,
I see a mother's pride steal by :
I give thee joy, and teach thee fear,
Excite thy smile, and ill thy tear.
Hope mingles with perplexity,
I know whene'er thou look'st en me;
Whene'er my echoing song is sent
Over earth's troubled element :
Or when my changeful spirit's strife
Reason the awfulness of life.
I .we thee all—and fear not thou;
The purest wreath which decks my brow
Thy hand shall twine—thy heart bestow
The green leaf 'd myrtle's flow'r of snow :
And joy may pass, and hope may part,
And ehange and chance may try this hart ;
Or youth may smile in rainbow hue,
Yet still to thee shall all be true!

We are happy to learn that several looms in the
neighbourhood of Spitallields are again in active work, and the
aspect of &Ennio that distressed district seems again brightening up
Among the many places of public resort, yesterday,
for the amusement of the holiday folks, Woodford, in Essex, bad
its numerous and respectable visitants. That good old caterer for
public amusement and rural treats, Mr. Tom Rounding, of the
Wells, having made out a good bill of fare, of which his visitors
might make a comfortable and pleasant repast, via. cock.fightind
for breakfast, cudgel playing for lunching, jingling matches for
dinner, and, far dessert, grinning through a horse collar for a gold
laced hat. The w►ole was well conducted, and was one of the
most pleasant rural fetes is the vicinity of the Metropolis. To
company Was most numerous and respectable. On t►is day, as
usual, much sport is expected. Among other amusements, is a
pony i size be. a silver cur.

SERGEANT'S INN, VAT 15.

IMPORTANT LZGAL QDRSTION•WA KRUM V. MIL LARD,

In this case a procreiing was had before Mr. Justice
Fong, in which the plaintiff was required to shew cause
why the defendant should not be allowed to defend in
form! peuperis. It was an action brought by Wakeley,
the Editor of The Lancet, against Anne Millard, a wi•
dow, to recover damages for a libel published by her
respecting him. Several actions have been brought
fur this libel against a number of booksellers, and the
circumstances from which it arose, it appears, were
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The late husband of the defendant was Formerly su-
perintendent of the Theatre of Anatomy of St. Thomas's
Hospital in the Boriogh. One of the duties of the
situation was to receive the subjects brought by the
di resurrection men," and, in behalf of the students, and
of-the Medical Professors of the hospital, then Mr.
Green, and Sir Ast!ey Cooper, to negotiate with them
for the purchase. In 1820 a rival school of anatomy
raised its head in the Borough for summer lectures by
a Mr. Liraini,er, which was so very successful that it
excited much jealousy and apprehension in some of the
other schools, with respect to the abatement of the num-
ber of pupils. Millard was discharged in 1822 from his
situation at St.Tironias's Hospital, w ithout having heard
of any compla against him. He soon afterwards en-
gaged with Mr. Grainger, as superintendent of the
school of anatomy, at the bead of which that Gentleman
was. It was alleged in the libel, that the services of
Millard were received with jealousy ; and that upon a
sham appointment to superintend the removal of a
subject (torn the London Hospital, he was entrapped
as a resurrection-man, taken before a Magistrate,
prosecuted with rigour, and committed to Ctildbath-
fields prison under the Vagrant Act. The consequence
of this imprisonment upon his mind was, that it increased
his previous ill health, and at length brought him to
his grave. He left a wife and six children uuprovided
for: his widow, whe.her justly or unjustly, declared,
the imprisonment of her husband to be the result of a
combination, and pursued all whom she chose to con-
ceive were parties to it. She carried some of her docu-
ments to Mr. Wakeley, the Editor of the Lance!, and
he promised in one of the.numbers of that work to pub-
lish them. He, however, did net perform that promise,
and she published a narrative, in which was contained
the libel in question. In it a number of the most re-
spectable prac.itioners were accused of having peise-
toted her husband "unto death." Others were assailed
with charges of peculating and misapplying public
funds, and staten.ents were made respecting the mode
of pri curing subjects for anatomical theatres, which, if
true, it woulsl have been better .to have withheld.—
Amongst others the plaintiff is charged as having joined
her husb.nd's persecutors; and she re-published the,
report of a trial, in which he brought an action against
the Hope Insurance Company, to recover the value of
some property destroyed by the burning of his house in
Argyll-street, in August, 1820. This republication,
with some remarks containing serious accusations,
formed the chief ground of the action.
An affidavit was now put in from the defendant, in which she
deposed, that she was not worth 31. after the payment of her debts,
and prayed to be allowed to defend the suit in peeperi.s.
LOFTY appealed in behalf of the plaintiff, and
opposed the prayer of the petition. He cited the opinion
of Mr. Baron Hirllock, who, in his work on :he Law of
Costs, page 229, edition 1810, says, that a defendant in
a civil action is never allowed to defend it as a pauper.
Mr. BLACHIGRD, in behalf of the defendant, said he
should be able to prove that she was entitled to he de-
feuded in forma pauperis. It would be most singular
in principle it a subject were allowed to do a voluntary
act, or to sue in forma pauperis, whilst he might be
dragged before the Court, and not allowed any deence,
if he had not the' means of defraying the f.-es of Court.
But in the case of " Rex sr. Right, 2d. Stra. 1.041 it
was said, "It is a singular favour to admit a defendant
a pauper ; but if such defender will plead a dilatory
plea, the Court will dispauper him." In Viner's Abridge-
ment it was said, " A defendant cannot be admitted in
forma pauperis without first moving the Court by a
late rule." The 2d of Geo. IL cap. 28, enacts, "That
persons arrested on a caries, or information, relating to
the Customs, may be admitted to defend in forme paa•
reds?' The principle was then recognised by status
though that of the 11th of Henry VII. cap. 12, enabled'
persons to sue as paupers, but did not name defendants.
Mr. Justice Paarr..—l cannot take Viner's Abridge-
ment. 1 must be governed by the latest authority—
that of Mr. Baron Hullock, who is alive and well now,
and will, I hope, long continue so. I see here, he says,
a defendant in a civil action cannot be admitted to de-
fend in forme pauperis, because no person can be ad.
mined to sue or defend as a pauper but under some
Act of Parliament, and the Statutes of the 11th and
23d of Henry VIII. contain no provision en behalf of
the defendant, but merely enables the plaintiff to sue in
that form; and if the Courts had a discretionary power,
without the authority of a Statute, to admit persons in
civil suits to proceed in forma pauperis, they would, in
effect, possess a power of dispensing, in many instances,
with the operations of Statutes relative to costs. This is
quite clear.
The subject being considered one of importance In a constita.
tional pelt.' of view, a Petition has been drawn up by some Gen-
tlemen who took an Mutest in the ease, and handed to Mr. Hume,
with a request that he would present it to the House of Commons.
Mr. Home, considering it a question of law, has put the Petition
into the hands of the Attorney-General, with whom it now lies.

T,te Grand Duke CONSTANTINZ is apppointed Gene.
Tabulato of all the Russian and Polish armies.
Sir JAMBI WEASIDIS MACKINZIE, of Scatwell, Bart.
M. P. for tke county of Ross, has been appointed Lord lieutenant
of the county in room of the late Sir Ilicsoa Maeasinsis, of
Gairloch, Bart.
The Oriental Club, wishing to make its society some-
what more general, has come to the resolution of adosittiog .100
new members, who have nothing oriental about them but their
love of good living.
ItICIIIARDSONs GOODLIICE, AND CO. beg to call the
attention of their Friends and the Public to the Zast Lonely that
will ever be drawn in this kingdom. The Scheme contains Sts
nixes of £lO,OOO, with various ether Capitals, the whole to be
drawn in Ow Day, the nth of JULY. Ricaaansow, Goormecr.,
and Co. recommend an early purchase, as there will bean advance
in Price of at least AI 4s. per Ticket on the 58th of MAY. Tickets
ot.d Shares in variety of Numbers are on Sale at their Cam, 144,
Bank-buildings, Comhill.
At the battle of Falkirk, Major Macdonald, of one
of the Macdonald Regiments, having dismounted an
English Officer, took possession of his horse, which WAS
very beautiful, and immediately mounted it. When the
English cavalry fled, and a retreat was sounded, the
horse ran off with the unfortunate W. Macdonald, not-
withstanding all his efforts to restrain it, nor did it stop
till it was at the head of the Regiment, of which, ap-
Parcotly, its master ss as the Commander. He was im-
rnediately taken prisoner; and his desire to possess a fine
horse ultimately cost him his life upon the scaffold.