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MIGNON'S SONG IN REMEMBRANCE OF ITALY.

TBANiLATED FRO)[ THE GERXXX OP owermi, BY MRS. HEBANS

Know'st thou the land where blooms the citron bowers t
Where the gold orange lights the dusky grove?
High waves the laurel there, the myrtle flowers,
And thro' a still blue heaven the sweet winds rove.
Know'st thou it well'!—there, there, with thee,
0 Friend ! 0 loved one ! fain my steps would flee !

Know'st thou the dwelling?—there the pillars rise,
Soft shines the hall, the painted chambers glow ;
And forms of marble seem with pitying eyes
To say—" poor child ! what thus hath wrought thee woe ?"
Know'st thou it well l—there, there, with thee,
0 my Protector', homewards would I flee!

Know'st thou the mountain?—high its bridge is hung,
Where seeks the mule through mist and cloud his way ;
There lurk the dragon-race, deep caves among,
O'er beetling rocks there foams the torrent-spray ;
Know'st thou it well :—with thee, with thee,
There lies my path ; 0 Father ! let us ace !

GIVE ME THE PENNY CUP.

PROM TUR MORNING POST.

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CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

WFIO ARE THE TRAITORS ?

TO THE ROMAN C ATHOL ICS OP IRELAND.

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I will not conceal from you that, immediately after the formation
of the government, Lord Grey did entrust to me personally the prepa-
ration of that measure. I was assisted by the advice of three of my
colleagues.—Lord Durham's speech at Gateshead.
It was Lord Durham then, it seems, and not Lord J. Russell, who
was the author of the Reform Bill !—and yet poor Lord Durham has
received no deputations—no thanks—no speeches—no Cup!—Country
Paper.
• My dear Lord Jospil you've seen, no doubt,
In all the country papers,
The tidings of the Gateshead rout,
The toastings, and the tapers !
Anlhow the truth popped out at last,
Who drew " the measure" up,
So now the soft illusion pa,t,—
Give me the Penny Cup !
Long days and nights each clause we weighed;
Each section pondered through ;
The present and the speech were made
To ALTHORP, BROUGHAM, and voi: :
But, bless my heart'.—they quite rtii+ti,Jk.
You should not taste a sup ;
Your speech, you know, was not your Wok,—
'Give me the Penny Cup
" Alone we did it" 'mid the glare
Of thunder-flash and rain,
Like Macbeth's witches,--and, where
• Shall such three meet again
Hubbi2, bubble !"—thus we sund.—
Stir the cauldron up !
" Tod and trouble" in we flung,—
Give Ire :he Penny Cup 1
No civic goblet, gift of Go r: ,
Supplies my thirsting
In glasses GRAHAM fills his grog,
• *. " From glass ntntessivo's sips :
• Thus full-groten patriots quaff their wine,
While yc•il, almost apup,
In burn gold reflected shine.-
- Give me the Penny Cup

If poesy could win a name.
The wreath hadv:leck'd thy brow,—
The pillar raised to " Carlos' " fame,*
Were taller far than thou!
But humbler mead is humbler men's,
Yet as we drew it up.
And as you only nibb'd the pens—
dive me the Penny Cup !
• " Don Carlos." a Tragedy, by Lord J. Russell, selling price
410 Os. 6d., published ditto £1 —'s Catalogue of Books, 1833.

" Mr. Pease, the member for the southern division of Dur-
ham, defended his support of the Irish Coercion Bill, on similar
grounds to those assigned by. Mr. Hill; but he did not confine
his accusation to ONE member. He is reported to have said,
-severe/ members had requested him to support the measure,
who wished but dare not support it themselves. Mr. Hill's
avowal, and Mr. Pease's assertion, have elevated this matter
far beyond a personal dispute; it involves the CHARACTER OF
THE house OF COAMONS."—Extracted from Saunders's News-
letter, .Nrov.43, 1833.
Black Rock, Dec. 2, 1833.
GENTLEMEN,—In the above conclusive evidence of
disinterested legislators, (I rather think one of them a
Quaker, a sect of religionists that admit neither perjury
nor the murder of heretics to be articles of faith, as your
Papal creed does—see- 12th article of' the Trent Addi-
tions,) you read the confirmation of all I have been for
thirteen years endeavouring to impress, as well upon
your minds as upon the conviction of our besotted rulers,
that, until you renounce these atrocious foreign doctrines,
with the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of an Italian impostor,
who invented them solely for the maintenance of his own
usurped and most despotic tyranny, you will ever be the
most degraded of slaves, occasionally perfidious as legis-
lators; and, in addition, when the Church of Rome re-
quires your support, the most treacherous and most ttea-
satiable of subjects. You must return, my unfortunate
countrymen, to the religion that was preached in Ireland,
litst by St. Paul in person, and afterward by St. Patrick,
before you ever can be trusted by a sound Protestant go-
vernment to legislate honestly for a Protestant Church
and State; you dare not do so. Your cannon law, your
,'cinneils, your sworn profession of faith, your
Pope's decretda, all vont Trent doctrines, force
you to
53, when, your chiral requires your political services,
both persecutors of your Protestant fellow-subjects and
treitors to your King. :11 history proves what I state to
he I rue, from the earliest invention of the Papal system.
st the dreadful violationsof your.,-awn most solemn
parlia.uenfary oaths, and the stilirniore infamous equivo- -
cations of ye':r profligate representatives,:n vindication
of their perjurte.. low accurately havt these abject
and perfidious me,: fulfilled my every :prediction as to
their legislative perfidy. Reflect also on de condiiet of
the Irish and Belgic prelate._ ,e-tly a few years back
latter swore to suppor.. the C011:2 'tien Or the Nether- !
lands ; but because the constitution lai's'il4cl for 06 to-
leration of all religious sects, the then pcc,,, tetlare i the
oath to be null and void. lia.absolve,; th„i„g:, and all I
the faithful from its observance, art; the prince.
shop of the reaLi, and the ciersry, reL.--,t7ed their ane-
giance to their Kin`. as you all 'could do to-ne,..rrow- if
commanded by the same despot; for your liege and.luiy
sovereign lord, the Pope, in the eyes of the Belgians;und
at all former periods, has pubii, H.- declared, " That 7..)
Roman Catholic can take an octh o/
_fidelity to a king or
constitution that tolerates all religious sects:' HOW be-.
sotted, then, must be that ideot ruler or statesman wh,
could ever admit Papists to make laws for a Protestatit.
kingdom'. May God forgive ours who did so; for as (.er-
lain as the admission the Gauls into the Roman
senate, in the rein of the Emperor Claudius, accelerated
the destruction of the Roman empire, so certain will the
Romish Bill of 1829 insure unsuy,ported by the Re-
form Bill) the dismemberment of the British empire.
Gentlemen, I have in the above declaration contained
in my motto found the reward all my exertions in sup-
port of the church and monarchy, for all I have endured'i
all I have sacrificed of health, of fortune, and of exalted
preferment in that same church, rather than abate an iota
of that determined resolution I formed years back, never
(whilst I had strength to hOld my pen) to cease denoun-
cing the demoniac system of.mixed and trea-
son, falsely called the Catholic relieh do, gentlemen,
lock with hope to a period not very far ,tant when you will
voluntarily throw off this debasir. shivery and superstition,
and, rejecting the ecclesiastical tyranny of a foreign
usurper forced upon you by England, that you will return
to the ancient religion of your fathers, whom Bede informs
us were so purely Christian, "that the Irish bishops would
not actually eat their meat under the same roof where a
popish prelate was." When you are sufficiently enlight-
ened, my countrymen, to be entitled to the name of
44 Irish freemen,"—(l consider you in your present state
as only Italian slaves living in freland,)—when you have
sufficient resolution to repeal the union with Rome, then
I will join you in calling for a repeal of the union with
England. Here is an answer and an equitable proposal
to all your patriotic and treasonable ravings. You talk
of liberty, indeed! why a chimney-sweeper may just as
-. • well petition for liberty to work in white tabinet breeches.
Let Mr. O'Connell have honour and sincerity enough to
clear off his and your papal filth first, and then I will join
you all in respectfully petitioning King and Parliament
for the establishing a domestic legislature for national,
but not imperial, purposes in College- green.—Gentlemen,
I always am. your anxious and sincere friend,
HARCOURT LEES.

THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR IS DISCRETION.—Orator
Henly once ventured to horsewhip a fellow on a race-
course. A certain nobleman, who had, upon a certain
occasion, served the orator the same sauce, was standing
byrand lookingon with the greatest astonishment. "Your
lordship," said Henly, with a knowing wink, "your lord-.
ship and I know whom we horsewhip."
It is thus that some men are excessively valorous upon
occasions. Give them their own choice of person and
a.. artunity, and no bantam cock that ever strutted over
..• upon two legs can afford a picture of more cle-
f' ..n and ferocity,
era 'lc for instance, Daniel O'Connell, as stout a
Iwo " ever stood on shoe leather, if you let him select
the sdveti,..lry, together with the various contingencies of
tiawanti Own. It is true that he has a vow in heaven,
which rfafillAs him to hold his hands off those whom- he
*Nig, riot zhowe to fight; but then that has nothing to say
to_ ti e ppcsons ,and the occasions which put him on his
ioettle. It is but a -very few years since he was determined
tn*ht the Pone--we forget whether it was with powder
amilk/Vorwitithebayonet—provided his Holiness would
%Ad Lnfa Ireland at the head of an inrading