1789. Irish Parliamentary Intelligence. of all payments made by the Commiffioners of Palice, down to the 25th inftant March; ordered accordingly. Houfe adjourned to the 11th of April. Friday, April 11.] This day the House met, pursuant to adjournment, and as foon as the Speaker took the chair, Mr. Tighe prefented a report of the Commiffioners of Impreft Accounts, which were ordered to be on the table. Mr. M'Clean from the Impreft Office, prefented feveral accounts, which were ordered to lie on the table. Sir Henry Hartftonge now called the attention of the Houfe; be faid, that previous to the laft adjournment, he had the honour to move, that the grand Committee of Courts of Juftice do fit on this day. His motive for moving for that committee was, that the conduct of a learned judge, who went the laft Munfter circuit, in refpect to a trial that took place at Limerick, fhould be enquired into, a conduct which had given much uneafinefs in that part of the country, and which (be apprehended was not altogether very legal: the ground of the trial was on an ejectment brought by Crosbie Morgan, Efq. againft Mr. David Fitzgerald, of Ballinyany, in the county of Limerick, for fome houfes and lands be held by leafe from Alexander Cornwall, Efq. He said that he had a petition from Mr. Fitzge rald, the party aggrieved, to prefent, ftating the whole of the traniaction, which he begged might be now received. The petition was accordingly received and read; after which, Sir Henry moved, that it be referred to the graad Committee of the Courts of Juftice. Ordered accordingly. Mr. Prime Serjeant in the chair: The petition of David Fitzgerald, which had been referred to the committee, was now read, and Counsellor Calbeck examined, as a witness upon the occafion; when after much debating, the Attorney General faid, that the conduct of the learned Judge on that occafion, was fuch as no man of profeffion could defend; it was an illegal act; it was without precedent; and as he was fatisfed that the proceeding of the learned Judge arose from an error in judgment, he now withed that the whole should be buried in .oblivisa; and that no refolution fhould be put on it; for bis part, he would never vote for a refolution to pass a centure on a Judge, except he was convinced that he had acted from corrupt motives; be faid we are all liable to error; and moved that the chairman do now leave the chair. Mr. Curran, and Mr. Beresford fupported the motion, which was agreed to nem, con. which pa: an end to the business. After Mr. Curran had feverely reprobated the conduct of Mr. Chat terton, an affociate Judge, for his discharging a jary in a criminal cale at Clonmell, which he declared to be highly illegal: the Houfe, from the nature of the business, getting rather out of humour, Captain Burgh moved the queftion of adjournment, which after a few words from Mr. Curran, was agreed to. Houte adjourned. 12.] No buftaefs of any consequence. Houle adjourned. 14.] Sir Francis Hutchinfon rofe to obferve izveral items in the accounts delivered to the 43 Commiffioners of Police: he thought it ftrange that a charge should be made for Johnson's Dic tionary, Chambers's Dictionary, and other books; all which charges were not only unneceffary, but exorbitant;the fum of twenty guineas had been charged for a feat in St. Andrew's church; what could this be intended for? Was it to in ftru&t the police in the principles of the Chriftian religion, which they have all feemed to have forgotten? For looking-glaffes, no less than 1201. to four different attornies, who had transacted business for the police, 2001. along with feveral other moft extraordinary items: he therefore moved, "that several accounts delivered in by the Commiffioners of Police, are reprehensible; of fuch a nature as deferve the cenfure of the Houfe, and ought to be difcontinued." The Right Hon. Mr. Malon, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer agreed, that feveral of the articles were charged exceedingly high, but could not agree to a general cenfure like that proposed. The Right Hon. Mr. Grattan declared, that it would be abfurd to fay that any establishment fhould be tolerated in fuch afeleis extravagance as that which had been noticed;for gilt paper, there had been charged 400l. Now if gentlemen would calculate what quantity one hundred pounds would purchase, and divide it among the gentlemen of the Police, who generally made ufe of gilt paper, and eftimate how much a man could write, it must be evident, that if one fourth of the paper charged in the year had been used, the gentlemen of the Police mult have written themselves into a confumption. Here was a phyfical impoffibility against the jui tice of the charge. Other very extraordinary charges had also been made for books; for fets of the ftatutes; for Bolingbroke's Abridgment, &c. &c. This charge, he obferved, was rather inadmiffible, becaufte all thofe Police gentlemen had been Aldermen and Magiftrates, prior to the formation of the establishment, and could they be fuppofed to be totally ignorant of their duty? Could they be fuppofed to have not a fingle law book in their poffeffion? The charge of Johnfon's Dictionary, he oblerved, was a laughable expence, what could be the intent of it? Did they want to learn to spell correctly? Heaked how would gentlemen like a mittimus, made cat in the style of Johnfon? Upon the whole, he mult fay, that the quantum of their charges was enormous, and their quality ridiculous; and be thought it most prudent to deter a motion of this kind until next teffion. Sir Francis Hutchinson wifhed for a committee, and moved that the accounts be taken into confideration on the 1th of May next. Mr. Maton was againit the motion, as in the Committee of Accounts next feffions, all thote articles would undergo a fcrutiny, and fuch as thould be confidered improper, would be pointed out. Motion withdrawn. Mr. Grattan now rofe, and moved the following refolutions, which he prefaced by a fine and eloque of fpeech: Refolved, that the exemption of barrea land (when improved) for a certain number of F years 44 Irish Parliamentary Intelligence. years from payment of tythe, would contribute ral. "Refolved, That potatoes are the principal food of the poor of Ireland, and are in the greater part of the kingdom exempted from tithe. "Refolved, That it would greatly contribute to relieve the poor of the fouth of Ireland, if the benefit of faid exemption was extended to them. Refolved, That this House is ready to give the owners of tithe, further and more effectual remedy for the recovery of the fame, provided faid owners of tithes fhall conform to rateages to be afcertained by act of Parliament. ·་ Refolved, That the better to fecure the refidence of the clergy, a moderated tax on nonrefidents would be expedient." The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved for adjournment, and was feconded by the Provoft; on which the question of adjournment was agreed to. Houfe immediately adjourned to the 19th. Bill for repealing an act, paffed in the 33d of Bill for amending law for registering of free- whee in Jan. of Ballyduggan, county of Galway, in trustees, His Excellency was then pleased to make a 66 My Lords and Gentlemen, "It is his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's Wretched State of Science in Portugal. W 'HEN pofterity fhall perufe the hiftory of the enlightened nations of Europe of the eighteenth century, and shall be told of the happy effects of inoculation, and the successful method then practifed of treating the fmall-pox, they extraordinary cafe which happened in Portugal will hardly believe the following account of an laft September. The patient was feven-and-twenty years of age, of a corpulent and phlethoric habit, his blood veffels looked as though they would burst (and he was always eating) to fatisfy three or four with plenitude; he ate enough at every meal, moderate perfons. This young man was seized with the small pox, in the beginning of September, when the weather in that climate is commonly hot: he had used fea bathing for some time before. The physician who first attended him was at was prefently difcovered, that he had a bad con firft abfolutely ignorant of his diforder; but it He was immediately confined to his Buent fort. bed, and in an apartment where not a breath of air was admitted; neither the blood vesels nor the inteftines were emptied, nor any other powe erful or fudden evacuation procured; he was kept the whole time fweating in blankets, and plied occafionally with warm fudorific medi cines. The confequence of this treatment is obvious his body was covered with one univerfa was attempted, but the patient was then expir fca'e. At the turn of this diforder a bleeding direction of an able and skilful English or French ing. That he would have recovered under the phyfician, it were prefumption to affirm; ne verthelef, that he might have recovered, lo at tended, there are very probable and rational grounds to believe. This extraordinary treatment is not much to be wondered at, when the ftate of medicine in Portugal is exposed. The whole kingdom cannot furnish a regular furgeon, nor is there any one by invate skill or dexterity that has the imallett pretenfions to the appellation. Portuguele Crookedly, and bleeding ovenly, to that, if gery does not go beyond fetting broken leg 1789. A new Voyage to Otaheite. chirurgical skill, he muft abfolutely perish for want of proper affiftance. (In a journey of two bundred miles from north to south, and the most frequented road in Portugal, one scarcely meets with a glazed window, or cultivated spot. All is wretchedness, penury, and want.) Chemistry and anatomy, which are the very foundation of the healing art, are among the Portuguese totally difregarded: a fmattering of them, indeed, is lamely taught the Students at Coimbra; but the application of these noble branches to their refpective end is never afterwards thought of. These are indisputable facts, and a Portuguefe, who has a regard to veracity, dare not contradict them. Happy countrymen! truly happy! if fully fenfible of your own fuperior condition. The loweft clafs, in fickness or corporal accidents, have more skill employed for their recovery, than crowned heads in many other countries. Maxims and Obfervations, moral and phyfical. CATHARINE DE MEDICIS, N the 5th of January, 1589, Catharine de Medicis departed a world which the femed born to trouble, unregretted by a people whom she had involved in all the cruelleft diftreffes of a civil war. Her reftless ambition would not suffer her to be contented with that fhare of power which the had obtained by corrupting the minds and morals of her fons, and of her fubjects; leading them into the most deftructive vices by every art and blandifhment: but, finding thofe vile methods infufficient to fecure to her the fole government of the king. dom, the fomented that difcord which ended in the rain of her family. The duplicity of her conduct prevented her from gaining a friend; and her cruelty rendered every good man her enemy. Daring and prefumptuous while unopposed, timorous and confounded when danger approached, her life was a series of alternate desperate undertakings, and mean and treacherous conceffions: uniform in the malevolence of her defigus, but inconftant in her actions; fteady in her aim, but variable in the means the used to attain it; by artifice and fubterfuge the fought to ward off, for the prefent hour, the dangers the had incurred by ber rafhnefs, without attending to the new diftreffes wherein the obliquity of her procedure matt involve her. By nature fhe was endowed with fome fuperiority of talents, which enabled her to become eminently wicked; and the maffacre of St. Bartholomew will ever fix an indelible flain on the French nation, and render her memory deteftable to all pofterity. TRUTH. The great and illuftrious men of antiquity thought do virtue more commendable than a #nct observance of their word. They looked on it as the first foundation of justice, the bond of ty, and the chief fupport of fociety. There nothing in which a wife man is more diftinguibed from a fool than by his promiles. The indifcreet make them lightly, and as often they are demanded: the man of judgment Beault, wishin hemleli before he enters into any 45 engagement. The one forgets immediately what he has faid: the other having once made you depend, will never revolt, what loss or detriment foever it may happen to be to him. If the show of any thing be good, I am fure fincerity is better; for, why does any man diffemble, or feem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have fuch a quality as he pretends to? to counterfeit and ditiemble being to put on the appearance of fome real excellency. Whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in fallehood and diffimulation, it is loon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, becaule it brings a man under an everlasting jealoufy and fufpicion, fo that he is not believed when he fpeaks truth, nor trufted, when, perhaps, he means honeftly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is fet fast, and nothing will then ferve his turn, neither truth nor falfehood. A new Voyage to Otaheite. Extract of a letter from a midshipman (aged fixteen) on board his Majelty's fhip Bounty, commanded by Captain Bligh, now on her voyage to Otaheite, under the immediate pa tronage of his Majelty; for the purpote of conveying from thence, to the islands of St. Vincent and Jamaica, the growing plants of that valuable production of that vegetable kingdom, the Bread Fruit Tree, indigenous co that inland, and to leveral of the other illes in the South Seas. Bounty, I Simon's Bay, in False Bay, (Cape of Good Hope) June 17th, 1788. paffage fince leaving Teneriffe, and of the exceeding bad weather we experienced off Cape Horn. I do affure you, the account which Lord Anfon gave of it is very true, and not in the least exaggerated, as has been generally fuppofed; and the report which Captain Bligh will give, (as most likely his voyage will be publifhed) will I dare venture to affirm, corre fpond with mine in every particular; and perhaps deter future navigators from attempting to double that Cape at so improper a season of the year. We left Teneriffe on Thurfday the 10th of January, after staying there four days. I wrote to you from thence by a Spanish pacquet, which was to have failed in two days for Cadiz. After we left Santa Cruz, we shaped our course weiterly towards the coaft of Brazil, and from that road, till we got into the lat. of 30 S. we had the most pleafing weather imaginable, and always plenty of filh. I have drawn one of every fort we caught, and alfo fuch birds as I could get a good fight of; fo that I hope, by the time I come home I fhall have a tolerable collection. On Saturday morning the 16th of February, we faw a lail, which next morning we came up with, and found her to be a South Sea whalefilberman, bound for the Cape of Good Hope.in a few days afterwards, we got out of the N. E. trades, entered the Variables, and now and then met with a gale that used us rather roughe 46 Poetry. ly, and which went very much against the grain, At noon, the east part of Staten Land made -- During the 29 days we were beating off the POE The Redbreaft. By Mrs. Bond Hopkins. 21 who chear'st the heavy hours Jan. we made this land, we had the wind conftantly I fuppofe there never were feas, in any part met off Cape Horn, for height, and length of of the known world, to compare with those we fwell: the oldeft feaman on board never faw any thing equal to them; yet Mr. Peckover, our gunner, was all the three voyages with Captain Cook. There are only fourteen buildings in this Falfe Bay is only frequented by town; one of them is very long, and confifts of ftore houses. shipping in the time of the north-eaft winds; deeming it dangerous to lie in Table Bay after the firft of May. Cape Falfe and the Cape of The bay we Good Hope form the entrance, which is fix east and west, by true compass. leagues across, bearing from each other nearly are now in lies about eleven miles from the Cape of Good Hope, on the weft fide of Falle Bay, and is the only fafe one for shipping to be in; yet it is too wild and open; and befides, not for although there is good anchorage without, having it in our power to get neceffaries conve Few people refide aiently, and which you may be tupplied with There is a plentifully, when within. here, therefore every thing of confequence fent from Cape Town in waggons. I fend this by 2 French merchantman, bonod convenient wharf built for the use of ships. for l'Orient. T E. We are all well on board. о N The distance from Cape Horn to the Cape The run, being of Good Hope is 4052 miles. performed in thirty-three days, is confequently 123 miles each day, or five miles and 1-19th each hour. The diftance from the Cape of Good And from Cook's Hope to Adventure Bay in Dieman's land 6032 miles. From Adventure to Cook's Streights in New Zealand, 1262 miles. Streights to Otaheite 2309 miles. The diftance therefore from the Cape of Good Hope to Oa heite is 9613 English miles, and from Cape Hor to Otaheite, by the Cape of Good Hope, 13,665 miles. T R Y. The food thy wants demand; From Nature's frozen hand. HOEBUS to diftant regions now is fled, Poetry. are The lowing oxen from the field now throng, The moon difplays now her refplendent light, The fearful, wary mifer, fordid elf! The pearly midnight dew-drops now descend, A deadly form enwraps his mind in fright. The Shortest Day. ARIST my store Day: RISE, my Mufe, infpire my lay, Teil how old Time, with fwifteft wings, On all fides heaps of snow abound, While winds blow bleak, and fnow defcends; In's cottage, with a num'rous train, Here's fnow in piles where flowers grew. G The Mifer's Wonder. An Epigram. RIPUS, the greatest gripe alive, } } Alights, |