Litchfield enquirer., 1832-11-15

tteo DeTmot Mac MoFrogh or the ConqneR ot Ireland has just been issued from the Boston press, nea octave OfIoe pages. is spoken Ofin high terms hy the editors of tAs ieerasy emporium. It w be read with much pleasure, we doGbt not, by the friends o the muses, and will in hO degree deracl from literary reputation of s learned aad iinstrious author.
 "Nothng has occurred for n long time, observes
 the Boston AdvOca,e the history CfiiteratWre, more remarkable than this. A poemi playful. sa.irical and ansiere statesman, the learhed cvaR, the deep 'schoIar the acute politician. the un eonquerable controversaist! And yet wereaily have agreeable in tle history of gsnius and earAing, of great versatility of talent; the unlon oT Ee Oposes os RlRyiuI humor, and peOioaGd rcseaEch.
 The ex-Presdent has occasionally been kpOyn to
 have wOoed the mUeee in few aaR1as bui this is the erst attempt at any thing like eontingous poem. His friends might well have trembled for his fme5 iethey haa known he was venturing On 90 hazardous an ex. pertinent, at an age when those who arc practsed
 poets ia their yoalh lose all the fife and orce of fan cy. and when those who were poets cannot acc qu.re the s'noothness and refinement of the art:
 Nevertheless Mir. Adams has been ensinenisy suc- ceesui n this ancifn hat elegant rpg Ot his teis- ure hours He has chosen ff his theme the events which led to lhe p0ssessioN 0i Ireland by Enganl ip ane twelfth century, and as has always heeM the tact. since the days of Eye and Helen in all c0aquesis and of all. s. .1
 Dermont, King Of Leins,er, seiaes aud carries off Rovergil'a, wife of Ororic, stho. a return, attacks Uerinonl and drives him out 0f the kingdom. He ap- plies to Henry of England for seor, and ravages his k'ngdom which he consents io hold i1 sassaaae un- der the crown "f Eaglaad. Henry availef hmsetf of .h's cla and through i.achiesed the entire coaquesi
 This outline Mir. Adams has wrOush, Hp to heau- liiu' moral illustrating the ires but as he cOnceises, false maxim that History is PhiloeoRly teaching by greater fortune tn the world than l: deserves. His. tory, as tt sh0ud be written and read. in thr scnol of morals teaching sometime: hy ss.mple. . Int much says Mir. A. would ask ,lle yasng men and women of my native country, who may charge m idle evening w,hthe perNsal of the history which now dedicate to them what sort of philosophy wonld he taught by Dermot Mae Morrogh which resulted in tie epaqnest of Ire!and." He adds, with we'll deserSed sneers "Dayid Hume, passes tofaa pAicht hstoria0" tory as has heretofore been written !. worldly the a'- ten'ion of man ever as distinguished and as grave, as IS Mr. Adams and he has perhaps chosen the best possible vehicle tor lasiraGng it, This is no other than the sudiedly negligent Hleaeafe, celebrated sn the Italian schools poetry, bai irst snccsssiy gralied iHio the English language, by Lord Byron, n his inimable BePpo and Don Juan; ihe last 2 pocm epr m oss sancy and truth to nature. We say nothing of hs im- mol alcs, bot ofits powers.s Me- Adams has success fully followed this modelone which seels mOst easy oi ima'!on and yet is most dilcnlt It has been ra- deemed in the present instance from avery thing Ot fensiye. which gives much point to Byron satire tor T E much easier to 6e ssasts when you disregard decency than 1t is to be witty. and severe, without be. ing Tn the slightest degree, Indecent, or rude. Ia no measure applicable 10 poegy, istheFe so slight shade as in this, between the sublime and tho ridicuons There s scarcely middle groaad ofmediocrity, and cessfally unsucccssfoly attempted. Iorm of poetry which we have always prelerredto nll oilere Tor emb0dying once, the grave and gay the lively and severe, the irifing and pathetic Mr. Adams has k,amm alf sn RNea0 etsn at the imaginative a,heic. hn. the satire t decnies pnlisled and seveFe and the friends of the
 lstngnshed author have n0 cause to regret that he has condercended 10 trife with few oi his leisure hours, and has given the results to the world.
 In tils lsreace, Me. AdatnS says s:-" The subleel was well adapted the composition oi anshstatica' iale and such deliver it 10 the judgmentspf ny coanify It is intended also as moral tales teacng the citizens of these States, o both sexes the srtne of genaic pieayF ofdevo,iou their conn'ry. by w sss S , ' vader by the joint agency of i0ate marriage vows unprincipled ambition, and religious impos'ure."
 Capt. Alden Partridge. formerly of yVest Point. m more recently Principal ofths United States Scient ic and MiIi,sry Academy at Middlctown, Conn. an' Norwich, Vt. has been elected Prcsden, of Jefferson College in the state of Mississippi.
 Ns.o,Jersey.-We learn fom Trenton, .ha, Mr sou,hard was yesterday iDdac,ed ia,o office, and tool the oa,hs prescribed by law. His inaugural adilfss was eloquent and replete wiih generous and libera sentiments, declaring his intention to act as tse Gov ernor of the Etaie, and of party.-N, r. c. Ad
 It will he remembered shaa Gen. McAr,hur, late Governor of Ohio, was candidate for Congress. an, last his election ht vote only. His opponent wa Wm. Allen there is some probability that his rigI' | to sea, will be cones,ed.-I'he Chilicoihe Gaze Of the 24.h uIt. says :-.. We understand that Wm Allea's rgh, to seat in i,s 23d Congress from ii disrict will be contested on the gosnds .hai sher were number of illegal votes east for aim-sucb minors, aiiens and dsfranchised persons; and that
 one of the townshps in this coaay, one af ihe rrus tees, who was himsei casdida.e sat as Judge fth
 election, which is contrary U she law of iIis State regulating eIectons tic believed that these ground can be fully sustained hy proof.''
 1 A pamphlet has been pallished ia South Cafalin wi.h ihe following ii.le: !" Hes wiil nullifcaiio work I" The ship Andes, from New York, was wrecked Q ths shoal near Tybse on she 28sh alt. and Iost ma ofhsr cargo.
 l The S,. Louis Repablcan of lAe 2lst uIs. state ,ha. ,e cholera shal dais raging is iIms city aa alarmag extent. Niaesy-,ree eases had occsrre
 ia ten days thiry-ahrse sfsshich lad ternipaied f
 taly.
 New Orleans, at the latest accounts, was extremeI
 unhealtly-.nore @ ian 1t had Lees 6or sen years.
 h is stated in ths Boston Daily AAverisar that M
 Webster is preparing io gise bs views io ihs pSbl
 on ths subject Of safeasion in replyao Mr. Calhonl | Wh-aa a-