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:se;t TO 'THE- gAGLIte
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Awsy, *Way, my, glorious bird;:
O'er !Maintain, rock, and sea;
Away upon the tempest'airrini•-•
Thine own as swift and free!
The kid is out upon the hill,
The leveret on the plain ;
The sea-bird startled from the rock,
Files trembling o'er the main!

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BM onward, onward, stoop not thou
• For battle, spoil, or, prey ;
While laugh the gUitering beams of morn,
Speed on thy glorious way!
Proudly thou soared the fields of light,
The sky's dub-crested king,
Witb terror on thy crimson beak, ,
And thunder on thy wing !
Fierce wand'ring child of liberty,
bly heart bounds at tby sight,
As sweeping over land sod sea, :,"
1 track thine airy flight! , • e•
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Or hear thee in the lowering cloud
Colo the tempest call—
Whitenining thy brood plumes in the hail,
Bre it begins to tall!

And oft thy dark and rushing wing

I vainly wis► were mine,
To-bear me over plain and wave,
O'er temple, tower, and shrine !
t And free, dike thee, toy gallant bird,
The sky's blue derhs to roam—
My pathway through the swelling clouds,
The alpine heights my home!

NOBILITY OF IRELAND►

According to the valuable " Statistical Tables of
Ireland," by Cesar Moreau,-Esq. F.R.S. just published by Tnut-
tel-and Co. it is stated, in page 13, that in July, 1627, the nutufaer
of the Irish Nobility was 219, viz.-1 Duke, 14 Marquisses, 76
Earls, 48 Viscounts, 70 Barons, and 4 Peereses.
There are 135 Irish Peers married, 27 widowers, and 45 bathe-
Iota: Of the 162 married and widower, 38 are without children ;
and the rernainlne 154 haat now living 279 sons, and 256 daugh-
ters. Foot Irish Peers are Knights of the Garter, 10 are of the
Bath ~and 18 of St. Patrick.
Among the 28 Representative Peers in the British Parliament,
7 have been created English Peertrainee their election ; among the
Wit Irish Nobility, 66 are also British Peers. The ancestors of the
Irish Peers becameennobled as follows-3 as princes of the Blood
Reid. 8 as Courtiers, Bas younger branches of Nobility, 41 as
Statesmen, 7 for Naval. Service, 23 for• Military Service, 6 for Di-
plomatic, 11 Legal Service, 11 by Marriage, and 121 by influence
of vieiltb.
The .deseent a 13 Poen egg be traced to the 11th century, that
of to to the 12th century, 12 to the 13th, 13 to the 14th, 10 to the
35th, 37 to the 16th, 31 to the 17th, and 2 to the 18th century ;and
Monsieur Cesar Moreau his linable to trace, with accuracy,
the genealogies of 28 Peen; they are therefore omitted. The
ancestors of 48 Irish Peers were foreigners. .
-The number of Catholk Peers are--S tor Ireland, via.s—t Bab,
4 Viscounts, sad 2 Barons. lii.Scotland only 2 Earls, and in &g-
-land 8, sin.-1 Duke, 1 Ball, and 6 Barons. The aumbcr of Isiah
Barmiets is 91, =cog theta 5 only are Catholics.

EDINBURGH, Oc r. 20.

•
• The Countess of MORTON has presented to the.Relyal
Society a variety of models, formerly the, property of
Smeaton, the Engineer, together with several drawings
and plans of the celebrated Eddystone.: Among the
other curiosities accompanying thic donation, as ,the.
mass of lead Mkt' was taken from the stomach of the
poor man who swallowed it in a fluid state, during the
conflagration of the wooden „sit ucture. which .preceded
Smeaton's far•famed light-house: This. man lived for
some time, but died in consequence of the accident in
Exeter Infirmary, when the production of the lead
convinced his medical attend.snts that his story was
correct, of which they were till then sceptical,
. Susan Hutchison, a poor woman residing in 1106
Close, Lanongate, was delivered of a child .about.
week ago, which is since dead. None of her neighbours
having seen her on Sunday, her house"was entered, when
alle-was found dead on the floor, in the most wretched
state of poverty. This poor creature had not even a blanket
to cover her.;,and the cause of her death is .believed to
have arisen entirely from starvation!
• ,A 'fine youth, of the name of John Lhind, belonging
10 Ilse London and .Leith smack Ocean, was union's,
lonely di owned in the Thames while the vessel was
lying at the wharf dirring-barlist trip. He was in the
boat alongside washing his wieners, and in getting on
brawl by the painter (the rope bT which.,tbe boat is
ipacho). gri.p yo.y. ind le fell inth The river.' the
captain heard , hfs.csr and the plunge, and say) hien
disappear, and rapecting he would rise again; was pre,
perecf.with an oar to assist him, bit he had sunk for
esp..
,Tb'e
.body wis not found till die lipse of some
dam. when it was decently interred at the,Old.
ping,cianipany's.expense.
/seciannts :bave.teaclied town of the death of Mr.
gderrird Fraser, I-formerly wood merchant, at Inierneis,
*sr very. &fleeting circumstances. Mr. Fraser left
bia_resislence in Spathes-via on Facie'y last, with the
intention 47isitingInverness and embarked in a small
CA64l,4;lnverfarrikes, on COO Mess, (or DOchgerroch
I,mh on the Caiestosuan Canal, accompanied by, a 'ier-
vinst:,,Day. hid closed, when they reached Dochgar-
thch,, and the'nigbt Was-very dark; but Mr. Fraser, in
nppefs4in io the advice of the boatmen, persisted in
goingforward withbis, companion. Instead of kitp.;
mg the highroad, 'they took the southern bank of floe
canal, and had not proceeded faric when bOth 'fell into'
tbe.water and. were drowned. • • "
. 'Tuesday..is the 'Sloop Tidide;*Liibekiltis in-
deavouring to get out of that.'pOrt, the wind Worsts*
eery fresh from Ale woods, five sad Ors went into i boat
to give Lee a tow out; when about a &tan shot finial
the shore there came a sudden squall which upset the
boat, four of the men swim to" the shore, but the fifth,
a•nonisg man of,the name of Wylie, *as drowned.
T• uesday, as some men were delivering a cargo at
St.llivirre, near Inverkeithiog, one of the men slipt
fitim the gangway, and fell. into the water, and before
he could be extricated, be was drowned. • • •
'fisturdap se'nnight Jahn Walker', carder between
Aochtermuchty and,Cupar, was on hie wohp:lie, he.
missed his way And was precipiited, along with the
horse and cart, over a descent offotuteenfeet;and wis
so much injured that he diedin.a few mintiter.
Wednesday evening a seapitNdluriniftl?ia Alieiesey
pleasure, was received. by LonoFitovoar f(ni./nAie
who aas sentenced to death at our list Assisea.
for housebreaking and, theft, and.wllo,aceor,dirig to his
sentence, was to have been executed on Wedtiesdap
first. From a humane wish to-ptevent hirfeelings horn
beiligsfintked in case that the application for theiey'
had been unsuccessful,. he triad never been Infaimed 7olf
iethiving been made, and, be was there(twncyjr,ite over-
powered when the information was communicated to
hini, which was done by two of the Magistrates, ACV
eight o'clock in the evening. His feelings,were froinch
agitated, that he burst into tears, and continnecktosen
and sob like a child till after midnight... Sintypliei
period ofhis condemnation he has- been truly .
and conducted himself with great propriety,-to! t pee
who have visited him for the purpose of communicating
religious instruction.—Wassow Chronicle.