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THE NEWSPAPER . > In gown and slippers loosely dress'd , And breakfast brought—a -welcome guest , — Wbatis it gives the meal a sast ? Thepapet . Wbsn uew-lsld eggs the table grace , And smoking rolls are in their place , Say--what enlivens ereaj face ? The paper . la -rain tha-nm . 1 « hissing liot , In Tain rich hywn stores the pot , If the Tile newsman h&s sot brought The paper . What iat can make the man of law Neglect the deed © rplea to draw , Co . w , FA rtt » indictment flaw ?
The paper . What ist can soothe his client ' s woe , And make fti * n qnife forget John Doe , As well as Mr . Bicbard Roe ? The paper . What is'fc absorbs the wealthy tifc , The half-pay sob , the fool , the wit , The toothless aunt , the forward chit ? The paper . Tyhat 1 st informs the country round What's stoles or strayed , -what * lost or found , — WhValjora , and who ' s pufun&ei ground ? The 5 &per ,
What tells yon all that's done and said , — The fall ef meal , the rise of bread , And . hotr the Yankee * " go a-head" ? The paper What is it gives the price of stock , - Tells of the plans of Ga new dock , And eTery ship that rounds " the rock" ? The paper "What speaks of thieves and purses taken , And murders done , and maids forsaken , And average price of Wiltshire bacon ? The paper What is it tells the farmer ^ loss , Of ozsa , con , and sheep , and horse , A £ d how the tariff does him cross ? The paper .
Abroad , at home , infirm or stout , In health , or raving with the gout , Who possibly can do without The paper ?
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TO THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM . Tefriends of freedom , would yon brave Tyrannic rage , and free the slave From mis " ry , want and paia ? Enlighten first the human mind With ideas of the noblest kind ; Then break oppression ' s chain Why do ye starve ? see nature ' s soil In rich abundance round yon smile , The gift of earth and heaven ; The valleys sing , the hills rejoice , Wh 2 e man , the slave of evTy vice , From all their sweets is driver .
¦ not tbose whose lawless might Usurps by fraud , your native right , In palaces to dwelL Their strength Is in your lack of sense To keep your labour , gold and pence , Their barrier , is your hell 2 Ifow justice calls ; the truth obey ! Your mental fetters cast away , In reason ' s purest light ; And be ye free to breathe the air Trom all the ills of sordid care , In moral manhood bright .
stoop sot in "vain , to slave and toil for titled fraud that sobs the soil , And lives in idleness ; Tour gardens dress—your meadows mow , And reap the corn , you sweat to sow , To feed the fatherless . : sor be fey views anur'd astray , When on your zadient sober way An erring world to save ; 2 ? er let ignoble passions rise To draw you from the peerless prize , To min and the grave .
When right shall reign , and kindness smile O'er nature ' s rich productive soil , Instead of tyranny ; Sublimely high your flags nnfnrl'd Will wave all o ' er this pond * rons world In glorious liarmuuj . And labour ' s sons in peace will live , While heaven and earth fcheir treasures give Han ' s soda ] soon to bless ; No kings will role—no lords be known , When Eien -no prond superiors on , To blight their happiness . J . Booth . Hill Cottage , near Button 31111 , Wigan .
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THEPOOK MA ^ S COMPANION , APOLITICAL AND STATISTICAL ALMANACE FOB 1844 . Leeds : J . Hobson , Market-street . Xiondon i Cleave , Sboe-l&ne . Were -we , of the race that rate /* at aB like ordinary mortals , we should occasionally find ourselves in some queer dilemmas . For instance , an Editor is allowed to praise or censure any book , the work of another ; and who shaii gainsay his perogative 1 Bnt let Mm turn Author himself ) and let him be judgedlsy the law to which others are subject , he TTonld be deemed presumptions indeed , were lie to praise Ms own handiwork . Fortunately , the mysterious " we" is often the ** outward and "risible sign " of some "best possible pubic iinstructor" witk more heads than one . This , ( Allah be praised I ) isOTrcase . 2 ! rae , we isvenot quite bo many eyes as " Argus ;
pni we xiaTe more than one good pair constantly on tie look ont ; and , this being the case , our readers Xnsy take it for granted that we have a head for every pair of eyes , to say nothing of " grey-goose quills" in proportion . Courteous pnbKc ! we have a book to review : a Threepenny Annual of real " Useful Euowltdge " and sterling common sense ; matters not io ^ begot for threepence every day ; and indeed bnt rarely found in books of larger size and costlier price . Our readers will have not forgotten the name of the publisher ; and if any of them think they hsveheard ! sonie ~ vrhere thai the name of Editor of this paper is very like thai of the almanack publisher , we beg of them not to forget what we have just said about heads ; and * * suppose ihat " "N o . 2 , " " No . 3 , " or any other " No . " they please , is that which , under the Editorial ** , " bow diseourseth to them .
We had written thus far vmen , in casting our eyes BpOB a back number of our ever racy contemporary , Punch , we observed a review by Punch ' s own self of "Punch ' s Pocket Book for 1844 . ' . Avast with all maiden-like coyness , after this ! Gentle reader , whether it bts " We" No . 1 , " We" No . 2 , or " We " 1 * 0 . 3 , ' twill matter not . We have Punch for a precedent ; and , qnoiing his words , we say , Solaen ' s Poor Man ' s Companion for 1 £ 44 is "FIBst-eaTB in XVKRT DEPAKTMEST . " To think of adding to ibe above recommendation ; to try to improve upon the Delphian words of the great oracle of wit and "wisdom , Punch , would be Tforse than moon- £ traek madness . We might as weB try To gild refined gold , to paint the lily ; To throw a perfume on the violet "
We -will , therefore , let our readers judge for themselves , so far as a specimen will enable them to do , of the work before us . Let ns premise the principal of the contents . In addition to the usual information in an Almasack , there wall be found , amongst many other highly important tables , "A return of th e number of all persons committed to any prison in . England or Wales , -for any offence in a Union Workhonse established under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act . " This return comprises the years 1836 , 7 , 8 , 3 . 40 , 1 , and 2 , exhibiting , at one view , the working of lie "Boon . " in the manufacture of * crime f shewing that in the last seven years , no less than ten thousand eight hundred and sixty < -mne .
persons have been committed to prison for breaches of workhouse regulations ! Then we have ibe expense , yearly , from the 1 st of January , 1815 , to the 31 st of March , 1843 , of the Yeomanry Cavalry ; i . e ^ Peterloi Butchery Yorkshire Noodles , &c . &c . Then a ihHand complete account of ibe nnmber of the British forces , and cost of the same for the last three years . Statistics of the Metropolitan Police . This alone would make the book worth all the money to any missionary about to proceed to Chisa ; as from it he might inform the * Celestials" of Jhe blessings in store for them : when Sir James Graham ' s ** ftew PoKee" shall be established at Hong Kong I The SBmber of Private and Joint Stock Banks registered
m eaeb year from 1820 to 1842 , Moch valuable information on Savings' Banks and Friendly Societies . -The Statistics of Emigration for 1842 . Legislative History of the Corn Laws . This is a most important document , showing the duties payable on the importation of foreign wheat under the various Acts wMeh h&ve been passed from the reign vf Charles II . fa ) the present time ; and showing also that ** Corn laws" are not a matter of yesterday , as many suppose ; but that they have been in full operation for DOW nearly iwo liundred years . Then we have valnable Tables on Parliamentary Kepresenlation , Taxation , Education , &c . && Toe Statistics o ? Mortality in Engl and is a document of much interest
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The Census of 1841 , and tables compiled therefrom , is one of the most important features of the book . We give tie following extracts from an article of surpassing importance entitled : —
THE STATISTICS OP CHIME . One of the greatest anomalies that presents itself to the mind of the enquirer , in relation to the Conditionof-England-question , ia the . fact that with the vast increase in our means of producing weallh , and the increase in the aggregate amount of wealth , there should be roch an increase in the amount of CBIME . We have increased our means ol producing wealth ; for it is now computed , by persons conversant with the snbjeet , that weliave a non-consuming-producing power , mechaslcal and chemical , equal to the labonrof six hundred millien pair of " hands , " in addition to the manual labour of the country ; while , fifty years ago , the mechanical and chemical producing power was computed as equal to
only fifteen million pair of hft T " *" : we have increased the aggregate amount of wealth la the country ; for while the pessessions of our legitimate aristocracy have tremendously risen in value , we have also bad brought into existence beneath eur very noses , another abis-TOCRACT 07 "WEALTH ASD LONG CHIMKtES , more powerful , and more loeaUhji , than the legitimate aristocracy itself ; so much so , that it was made matter of boast at public meetings by the " Capitalists" themselves , that " they are able to bny-up the Aristocracy of Eng . land : " and we have also had an increase of crime ; for the Criminal Records ., for the last forty years shew an increase SEVEN TIMES in amount ! Of the three facts fast enumerated there can be no doubt .
The latter fact is most humiliating to us , sb a nation . One of the old characteristics of England was , the good conduct of its population ; and in no particular waB this good conduct more conspicuous , than in obedience to the latcs . Englishmen have ever been famed for great skill , indomitable perseverance , and untiring industry but , above all , and before all , have they b een f a med for a ready and cheerful obedience to authority . It has ever been matter of boast that the appearance of a constable ' s batoon was sufficient to uphold the majesty of the law : that before it the most turbulent quailed ; the most strong fell powerless . Nor was this ready and cheerful obedience to law , witheld from the enactments that secured life and property . In no conntry on earth was property more secure , or life or limb more respected than in England . It is notorious that this was the fact Whatever , then , can have wronehttbe change in the character of oar population that the Crininal Statistics indicate ?
Such a result certainly otts ^ ht have accompanied the increase in our means of producing wealth , Tfeat Increase , ordinary men would say , should rather have tended to repress Crime : and it undoubtedly would have had such an effect , had proper means existed to dutHbuie to -& li . their lair scare of the wealth result * ing from sscb increased mean * . . There never was an instance on earth of a hard-working and skilful population , who could by the exercise of their bodily powers and their ingenuity , procure the necessaries and some of the comforts of lite * , there never was as instance ol a people so aitunte , becoming thieves and robbers . Chime , under Bucn circumstances , is comparatively unknown . But , on the other hand , there never was an instance where hardwork and great skill did net secure lor the labonrers plenty to eat , and drink , and wear , that CB . 1 ME did not abound . And can this be wonSerefl at ? Could any other result be expected ? Povertt is the gTeat parent of CK 1 ME . It is the
fashion to attribute it to ignorance '" : but an " ignorant" people , well-fed and well-clad , will not thieve and st 6 aL They may * ' shog-on" through life , not living ; dead to all intellectual Bensibility ; unable to appeciate the least of the glorious emanations of Blind . They may be all this ; but they -will x > ot pilfer * and rob . They would have no inducement . The only wants they would know of , their animal ones , would be sufficiently provided for : why tben should they not respect property ? Bat with an ill-fed people ; with a population starving ; ¦ with extreme poverty as the lot of THE TVOBKEBS , amid stores of onheaped wealth ; -with a » ute of things like this , what else can be expected than that taking " should be resorted to ? Will "intellectual acquirements" ever convince a people bo circumstanced that it is their duty to starve ? Will ail the " education" in the -world teach men so situated , that it is their duty to lie down and die , that property may be respected ? It would be arrant folly to expect it !
Poverty amongst the workers must ever ind ore CHIME : and the only way to remove the foul stain from off the Record of our national Morality , is for our rulers to better the physical condition of the people . THE ! hate the hej . ss to do this . Those means superabound . When they have acquired the knowledge how to apply them to that result , then will they decrease crime . But until they do so apply those abundant means , all their other efforts will be vain , as they have hitherto been . They may multiply the police and constabulary forces ; they may build a piison in every town ;
they may introduce their •• BileDt" and their separate " systems of discipline ; they -may increase the rigour of the " rules : ** they may do all this , and increase the number of places of worship , an 3 ministers of the gospel ; nay , they may even " educate" the people , either in Poseyite or Dissenting schools : the ; may do whatever they list , or misdirected ingennity can devise : but until they mend the physical Cu > ditio > ' of the l&bourera , 1 hey never trillpul a slop even lo the increase of ^ CRIME . Let them however once exterminate Poverty ; and Crime will be found to have takes its flight also .
ihsA this work of extermination is much needed , the following DAMSJSG KECOBD bnt too abundantly proves J it is taien from the CbimjnaL Bjbtubns for 1842 . Let it be looked at , even though with shame ; for it is a geeat fact , and ought to be extensively known , that the proper means to remedy it may be devised . The tabular statement is extracted from the "Criminal Tables for the year 184 2 ; " preceded by " Explanations and calculating , by Mr . Redgrave , of the Home Office , who ceinpUed and prepand the said Tables . " "The Criminal Tables compiled from the Registers of Commitments for Trial , kept in the Borne Department , again show a considerable increase ; and the numbers in 1842 exceed those of the preceding year by 3549 persons , er 12 8 per cent The progressive increase of Commitments , which , with a slight exception in 1838 . has continued during the last seven years , and within that period has reached nearly 50 per cent , ( 49-2 ) is shown by the following figures : — -
1836 20 . S 84 ; increase 1-0 per cent 1837 23 612 ; „ 12-5 1838 .... 23 094 ; decrease 2-2 ,, 1 S 39 24 . 443 ; increase 5-8 „ 1840 27 , 187 ; „ 11 - 2 „ 1841 , 27 , 760 ; „ 2-1 1342 31 , 309 ; „ J 2-8 „ " Within the above seven years , in the extensive and populous Counties of York , Lancaster , Chester , Stafford , and Salop , the Commitments have doubled ; and also in Honmontb , Rutland , and Westmoreland .
" To show bow far this great increase has arisen in the Manufacturing , as compared with the Agricultural Counties , the following calculations have been made of the aggregate increase of Commitments , during the last three yeara , in the thirteen English Connties , having relatively the largest proportional manufacturing and mixed , and agricultural population . In the Counties classed as agricultural , the agricultural population , in the Census of 1831 , ranged from 56 to 45 per cent . ; in the Counties classed as manufacturing and mixed , the proportion of that population ranged from S 6 to 71 per cent . Then follews a most valuable mass of Statistics ranged under appropriate heads and occupying not less than eight pages of Nonpareil type . We have not room to enumerate even the he&dB ; the reader must refer to the work itself . The article thus concludes : —
It must be borne in mind that the foregoing Tables and Calculations relate only to England and Wales . There are separate Tables for Scotland and Ireland . In Scotland , the number of persons committed for trial or bailed , for the year 1842 , was 4189 . Of that number , 284 were transported ; 2609 imprisoned , for various periodB ; 221 fined ; 11 discharged on sureties ; 20 received no sentence ; 31 ontlawed ; 8 found insane ; 388 not guilty ; and 616 discharged without trial . If ¦ we add tbe 4189 offenders in Scotland to the 31 , 309 in Ensland , we shall find the TOTAL NXTMBEB . of Committals for Crime in Great Britain , for the year 1842 , tote 35 , 4283
To show at a glance what the regular increase of crime has been dnring the last forty years , the number of Committals for each year , from 1805 to 1843 IS here given . It ihoald be remarked that prior to th 9 year 1805 ,. no authentic record of committals was kept What reason onr forefathers had for not " oodking " them , we can scarcely at present divine : it might be that there were so fete , that it was not deemed or importance to note them , Ba that as it may , the Record since 1805 is sufficiently degrading to our national character . It plainly indicates that we have social diseases at work , eating into the moral heart of society : and the lesson to be drawn from it ia , that we stand much in need of a physician . Where is that physician to be found ? Here are the facts : facts in figures . They tell a woeful tale . ' IKCBEASS OF CRIME .
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„ Commit- ) -r' -.-.. ' ComMit- I v : Commityeax ^ tab . l YeaK -j tab . j icare - | tab . 1805 ' -4 , 605 i 1818 13 , 932 1 83 1 19 , 647 6 i 4 , 346 ] 19 14-254 2 20 , 829 7 i 4 , 446 I 1820 13 , 710 3 26 , 072 8 I 4 , 735 j 1 13 ; 115 4 22 , 451 9 ! 5 350 I - 2 12 , 241 5 20 , 731 1810 i 5 , 146 S 12 . 253 . 6 20 , 984 01-5 337 4 13 , 868 1 23 , 612 12 ! 6 576 5 14 , 437 8 23 , 094 13 ; 7 J 64 « 16 J 64 9 24 , 443 2-4 ! 6 , 390 7 17 , 924 1840 27 , 187 15 ' 7 , 898 8 16 , S 64 1 27 , 760 16 9 , 091 9 i 8 , * 75 2 31 , 309 17 13 , 932 1830 18 , 107 We commence in 1805 with 4605 ; we end in 1 * 42 with 31 , 309 ; or just upon aSBVBN times ikcbease I Is not it time we asked— " where to are we going' ? An article from the pen of the compiler on " The New Tariff—Free Trade—and the Condition of the People , " concludes the work . The whole comprises HXly-fonr pages of closely but neaily printed matter , and the price Three Pencel To onr readers
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we can couMiettUoualy recommend The Poor Man ' s Companionffw ^^ assured that they bare to read it to aclcnowledge , as they will do one and all , that it ia " west bate in eveby depabt-MENT . " '
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more than rest or food ,, and have not a symptom remaining of what I used to experience when I felt occasionally as if my life was ebbiflg away . Thus I am fully persuaded , in my own mind , and by my own experience , confirming as it does the testimony of many able and important judges , that the very ntedioine we take In thin manner to give us strength , does in Mallty produce an increase of falntness , lasaitude , and general debility . " Tbe " Voice" will be found an able auxiliary to the Temperance Movement , and should be read by all seekers after truth .
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day' to be held i throughout the nation , to celebrate tbe triumph of Protesttvniani amidst the blackened walla and the mangled corpses of tbe ill-fated inhabitants of Droghedar |
CHABACTER OF CHOMWELl IN IRELAND . " Cromwell left behind him a name in Ireland ,, whicb Is mentioned with horror down even to the present day The curse of Cromwell light on year or , may yon suffer all that a tyrant like Cromwell would iniict—ia one of the most blighting imprecations which an Irishman can use . The massacres of Wexford and Drogfeeda are yet green in the memery of the people of Ireland ; and not only ia Cromwell hated as the author of these horrible atrocities , but , as if these were not enough ; , he is also denounced as ( he author of numberless cruelties and acts of destruction in places that he never so much as Visited . ; In almost all parts of Ireland traditions are preserved of the atrocity of the ¦ Bloody Cromwell , ' and ruina are pointed out hundreds of miles
distant from the'tract of conntry to which his operations were comfined , las the work of this cruel and exterminating destroyer . It would seem as if upo » his memory were thrown the infamy of all the crimes which the Royalists , Confederates , and Puritans bad committed , even before he dreamed of coming to the country . The atrocities , also , of the Parliamentarian army , which he left behind him to complete the subjugation of tbe country , seem all to have been set down to the aceount of the Bloody CromwelL * This is partly owing , ' says Dr . Taylor , ' to the artifices of those who wiBhed to { persuade the Irish , in a subsequent generation , to take up arms in defence of the House of Stuart ; and still more to the conduct of his soldiers and their descendants , who so long swayed the destinies of Ireland . '" !
THE SIEOEiOF DERRY— "NO SURRENDER . " " James and his generals were completely disconcerted by this spirited defence of the citizens . The siege was pressed , and thejartillery plied their missiles of ' destruction against the j place with greater perseverance than ever . The citizajna , taunting James and bis army , sent to tell them they ! might spare their powder and shot in making a breach , aa the gates were thrown open to them , and they ' might enter if thny dared . After eleven days of assault , James withdrew from the siege , irritated and disappointed ; and in a tone of querulous rage , he reproached the Irish soldiers for allowing themselves to be foiled , exclaiming that ' had they been English they could have brought him the walla stone by stonev * Marshal Rosen was left in command of the French and Irish forces ; and James left for Dublin , to open in person the Irish Parliament
" Marshal Rofsen conducted the siege with vigour and perseverance ; but still without success . The gallant spirit ef the garrison remained unabated . Though suffering from famine , from disease , and pestilence , their rallying cry was still , * No surrender . ' Long nights of watching , days and weeks of fasting , and months of fatigue and suffering , and constant danger , had not broken down the spirits of the brave defenders of Derry . Their clergy inspired them with new courage , preached consolation to them by day and night , and kept ] up their hope and faith by renewed promises of success . Two months had now passed , and the famine had become dreadful within the walls . The most loathsome objects were devoured as food , —horse-H ash , dogs , cats ; rats , and mice , and even salted and
dried bides , were eagerly sought after and purchased . At length help approached : a fleet of thirty sail was observed within ] sight , laden with supplies for their relief . The help bad come from England , where the news of the garrison ' s brave defence bad now reached . The fleet was ander the command of Major-General Kirk , a thorough-paced miecreant , whose cruel butcheries in the Bouth of Englaud , when in the service of King James , had made him both feared and generally detested . It is inexplicable how William should have selected such a Scoundrel for the command in such a delicate and important affair as tbe relief of the
beleagued Protestant city of the north . But he did « o ; and Kirk , ] whose heart was utterly hardened against the sufietings of his fellow-creatures , made no attempt to relieve the garrison , but taunted them with messages , and finally sailed away without granting them the slightest relief . The Irish army , enco u ra g ed by his delay , made baste to oppose him by throwing a boom across the river , and planting batteries against his ships . His ironical parting advice to the besiegers , before setting sail down Loch Foyle , was < to be good husbands of their provisions' —an advice from which they had a too ] melancholy presage of the dreadful suffering that followed .
" Fancy the thousands of hungry eyes watching the fleet of ships filled with provisions , almost securely within their reach ; and then , heart-sick , famished , and utterly hopeless , ; imagine the wild shriek ef agony which rose upon the air , when they saw the . ships destined for their succour , swing from their moorings , set Bail , and disappear . What a blight has now fallen upon the withered hearts of the besiegers . Surely they must now surrender , having not a hope of rescue left But no I ! The cry is still ' no surrender 1 * Gaunt and half-dying men stalk , like spectres , about
the streets , threatening death to the traitor who should speak of a surrender . The plague was now within the walls , to add its horrors to the famine and sufferings of the siege . Food , even tbe most l « ath * ome , was scarcely now to be bad ; but the garrison , with desperate , and seemingly not with empty threat , declared that theywould j « eat the Irish , and then one another , EOoner thau yield t' General Hamilton , one of the leader of the besieging Irish , endeavoured to subdue tbe Dairymen by kindness and entreaty ; but they reproached him wjth his treachery , and still reiterated « no surrender f * ! * * - ?
. ' The garrison were now redaced to the very last stage of famine and despair . The preachers could now no longer cheer j them . ' Our spirits sunk , and onr hopes were expiring , ' says Mackenzie ; and the thousands within the : walls of Derry looked forward' only to capitulation or death . The defenders , but lately so valiant , now wan and haggard , could scarce crawl along the dismal streets . Many fell down as they walked , and died where they lay . The air became laden with the noisome pestilence . But joy came at last . Cheer up , brave men of j Derry , for help is at hand . After all your long and weary watcnings , —after famine , and suffering , and wretchedness , —hope ia fulEUed , and the defenders see relief approaching at last
" It waa a bright summer day , tbe 30 th of July , that straining eyes , looking out across the waste of waters towards the north-east , beheld some ships approaching . The news spread , ! and crowds turned out to gaxa . Soon the Bhipa were seen beating up the beautiful waters of Lough Fuyle , add rapidly neariog the city . They proved to be the Dartmouth frigate , with a convoy of three vessels laden with provisions . The eyes of the famishing thousands were at once rivetted upon them , in all the earnestness of suspense and expectation . But there still lay the enemy ' s boom between them * and their approaching aid . The Irish meanwhile manned their batteries en * either side of the Iiougb , and thundered against the approaching ships , which briskly
returned the fire ; One ot the victuallers now reached the boom , and striking against it with great force , snapt it asunder ; but tbe rebound drove the vessel ashore . The Irish shouted with joy , tbe besieged on the walls groaned in despair . Suddenly the Irish prepared to board her , when , firing a broadside against them , she righted , and floated off . The little fleet now passed the boom together , and sailed slowly and safely up to the quays of the city . Tbe delirium of joy which succeeded ; can only be imagined . The multitude which crowded round the ships ceuld only gasp their thanks ; they bad scarcely strength left to speak them . And yet strength was found to , set the bells of tbe battered cathedral ringiDg , while the cannon thundered at once death and reioicirjc from the walls .
" On the day following , Marshal Rosen raised tbe siege , which had lasted one hundred and five days . Altogether , about B . QQO people bad perished within the walls , during that period , from famine , disease , and the shot of the enemy . And thus ended the famous siege of Derry , one of the best contested struggles between half-armed citizens behind their walls , a n d a numerous and well-appointed army . Though the defence was one of Protestants against Catholics , yet it was a defence of which all Ireland may be justly proud . There is one other noble defence of the same bind which it yet falls to us to record—namely , the defence of Limerick , by the Irish Catholics , which also proves , no less than Derry , tbe indomitable courage , fortitude , and endurance , of which all ranks and classes of Irishmen are capable , j It is now fall time that history were deprived of it 8 patty taint , and that Irishmen o ! all creeds cherished in common the memory of such glorious defences as those of Dsrry and Limerick .
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DESTRUCTION OF THE INQUISITION AT \ MADRID . The Rev . Mr . Kellogg , Principal of Knox College , Illinois , United States , and who recently attended the annual meetings of the "Londsn Missionary Society at Leeds and Bradford , sent the following account of the destruction of the Inquisition at Madrid , first , to the Western Citizen , jpublished at Chicago , ; Illinois ; and afterwards to a London paper . It is the sabstance ~ o ? a lecture delivered by Colonel Lemanonski , in the cabin of a Bteam-bo&t , in ¦ wiiich they were fettow passengers . Colonel Lemanonski was for more thaa twenty years an officer under Napoleon . He has fought scores of battles , received fourteen wounds , lived on horse-flesh and the batk of trees , with snow and ice for hia beverage , and once , at least , in his life , maddened with thirst , has opened a vein Mid drank his own blood . After these deeds and sufferings of martial life , he has been for some ysars a minister of Christ in theUnitttd Stater . But , ad retii . —
In the year 1809 , being then at Madrid , my attention was directed to the Inquisition in the neighbourhood of that city . Napoleon had previously issued a decree for the suppression of this institution , wherever his -victorious troops should extend their arms . I reminded Marshal Sonlt , then Governor of Madrid , of tbis decree , who directed me jto proceed to destroy it . I informed him that my regiment , tbe » thof the Polish Lancers , waa insufficient ( or such a service , but that if he would give me twd additional regiments I would undertake the work . He accordingly gave me the two required regiments ., one of which , the 117 th , was under the command of Celonel de Lile , who is now , like myself , a minister ef the gospel . He it pastor of one of the evangelical churches in Marseille * . With these troops .
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J proceeded forthwith to the Inquisition , which , wa » situated absnl five miles from the city , the Inquisition was surrounded by a wall of great strength , and * de » fended by about 400 soldiers . When we arrived at the w all I add r essed one of the s entin e l s , and summoned the holy fathers to surrender to the Imperial army , and open the gates of the inquisition . The sentinel , who was standing on the wall , appeared to enter into con * versation for a few moments with some one within , at the dose of which he presented his musket and shot one of my men . This was a signal for attack , ami I ordered my troops to fire upon those who appeared on tbe wall .
It was soon obvious that it was an unequal warfares . The walla of the Inquisition were covered with the soldiers of the holy office ; there was alss a breastwork upon the wall , behind which they kept continually , only as they partially exposed themselves when they discharged their muskets . Onr troops were ib the open plain , and exposed to a destructive fire . We had no cannon , nor could we scale the walls , and the gates successfully resisted all attempts at forcing them . F sawihst it was necessary to change the mode of attack * , and directed some trees to be cut down and trimmed , and brought on the ground to be used as battering rams . Two of them wera taken up by detachments of men , as numerous as could work to advantage , and brought to bear npon the walls with all ibe power which they could exert , regardless of the fire which
was poured upon them from tbe walls- Presently the walls began to tumble , and under the well-directed and persevering application of the ram , a breach was made , and the imperial troops rushed Into the Inquisition . Here we met with an incident which nothing but Jesuitical effrontery is equal to . The Inquisitor-General , followed by the Father Confessor in their priestly robes , all came out of their rooms as we were making our way into the interior of the Inquisition , and wittt long faces , and arms crossed over their breasts , their fingers resting on their shoulders , as though they had been deaf to all the noise of the attack and defence , and had but just learned what was going on , they addressed themselves in the language of rebuke to their own sol ^ diers , say ing— " Why do you fight our friends , th 9 Preneh ?"
Their intention , apparently , was to make us think , that this defence was wholly unauthorised by them , hoping , if they could produce in our minds a bell « & thai they were friendly , they alioulji have a better opportunity in the confusion and plunder of the Inquisition to escape . Their artifice was too shallow ,, and did not succeed . I caused them to be placed under guard , and all of the soldiers of tbe Inquisition to be secured as prisoners . We then proceeded to examine the prison-house of helL We passed through room , after room , found altars and crucifixes , and wax candles in abundance , but could discover no evidences of iniquity being practised there : nothing of those peculiar features which we expected to find in an
Inquisition . Here was beauty and splendour , and the most perfect order on which my eyes had ever rested . The architecture—the proportions were perfect . The ceiling and floors of wood were scoured and highly polished . The marble floors were arranged with a strict regard to order . There was everything to please the eye and gratify a cultivated taste ; but where were those horrid instruments of torture of which we had been told , and where those dungeons in which human beings were said to be buried alive ? We searched in vain . The holy fathers assured us that they had been beliedthat we bad seen all ; and I was prepared to give up the search , convinced that tbis Inquisition was different from others of which I had heard .
But Colonel De Lile was not so ready as myself to give up the search , and said to me , " Colonel you are commander to-day , and , as you say , ao it must be ; bnt if you will be advised by me , let this marble floor be examined more . Let some water be brought in , and poured upon it , and we will watch , and see , if there is any place through which it passes more freely than others . " I replied , "do as you please , Colonel , " and ordered water to be brought accordingly . The slabs of marble were large and beautifully polished . When the water had been poured over the floor , much to the dissatisfaction of the Inquisitors , a careful examination was made ef every seam in the floor , to see it the water passed through . Presently Colonel de Lile exclaimed , that he bad found it By the side of one of these
marble slabs the water paBsed through fast , as though there was an opening beneath . All hands were now at work for further discovery . The officers with their swords , and the soldiers with their bayonets , seeking to clear | out tbe seam and rise up the slab . Others , with the butts of their muskets , striking the slab with all their might to break it , while the priests remonstrated agalnat our desecrating their holy and beautiful house . While thus engaged , a soldier , who was striking with the butt of bis musket , struck a spring , and the slab flaw up . Then the faces of the inquisitors grew pale , and , as Belsbaezir , when tbe hand writing appeared on the wall , so did these men of Belial Bhake and quake in every bone , joint , and sinew . We looked beneath the marble slab , now partly up , and we saw a staircase . I
stopped to the table , and took frem the candlestick one of the candles , four feet i n l e n g th , which was burning , that I might explore what was before us . A 3 I WE 3 doing this , I waa arrested by one of the Inquisitors , who laid his hand gently on my arm , and with a very demure and holy look , said , "My son , you must not take that with your profane and bloody hand ; it is hojy . " " Well , well , " I eaid , " I . want something that la holy , to « see if it will not shed light an iniqmW 5 I will bear , the responsibility . " I took the candle and proceeded down the staircase . I now discovered why the water revealed to as this passage . Under the floor was a light ceiling , except at the trap door , which could not be rendered close : hence the success of CoL
de Lite ' s experiment As we reached the foot of the stairs wo ^ entered a large square room , which was called the Hall of Judgment In the centre of it was a large block , and a chain fastened to it . On this they bad been accustomed to place the accused , chained to his seat . On one side of tbe room was one elevated seat , called the throne of judgment Tbis the Inquisor-General occupied , and on either side were seats less elevated for the holy fathers when engaged in the solemn business of the Inquisition . From this room we proceeded to the right , and obtained access to small cells , extending the entire length of tbe edifice ; nnd here , what a sight met our eyes ! How has the religion of Joaus been abased and slandered by its professed friends .
These cells wera places of solitary confinement ; where the wretched ebjects of Inquisitorial hate -were confined year after year , till death released them of their sufferings , and tbere their bodies were suffered to remain until they were entirely decayed , and the rooms had become fit for others to occupy . To prevent this practice being offensive to those who occupied the Inquisition , there were fines or tubes extending to the open air , sufficiently capacious to carry off the odour from those decaying bodies . In these cells we found the remains of some who bad paid the , debt of nature ; some of them had been dead , apparently , bat a snort time ;
while of others , nothing appeared 2 > nt their bones , still chained io the floor of their dungeon . In others we found the living sufferer of every age and of both sexes , from the young man and maiden to those of threescore and ten years , all as naked as when they were born into the world . Our soldiers immediately applied themselves to releasing these captives of their chains , stripped themselves in part of their own clothing to cover these wretched beings , and were exceedingly anxious to bring them up to the light of day . But aware of the danger , I insisted od their wants being aupplied , and being brought gradually to the light as they could , bear it
When we had explored these cells , and opened the prison doers of those who yet survived , we proceeded to explore another room on the left Here we found the instruments of torture , of every kind which the ingenuity of men or devils could invent At the sight of them , tbe fury of oar soldiers refused any longer to be restrained . They declared , that every inquisitor , monk , and soldier of the establishment deserved to be put to the torture . We did not attempt any longer to restrain them . They commenced , at once , the work of torture with the holy fathers . I remained till I saw
four * different kinds of torture applied , and-then retired from the awful scene , which terminated not while one individual remained of the former guilty inmates of this ante-chamber of hell , on whom they could wreak revenge . As soon as the poor sufferers from the cells of the Inquisition could . with safety be brought out of Kh 3 ir prison to the light of day , ( sews having been spread far and near , that numbers had been rescued from the Inquisition , ) all who had been deprived o £ friends by the holy office , came to inquire if theirs were among the number .
O , what a meeting was there ! About a hundred who had been buried alive for many years , were how restored to tbe active world ; and many of them found here a son and there a brother , and some , alas : could recognise no friends . The scene was such that tie tongue can describe . When this work of recognition was over , to complete the business in which I had engaged , I went to Madrid , and obtained a large quantity of gunpowder , which I placed underneath the edifice , and in ita vaults ; and aa "we applied the slow match * there was a joyful sight to thousands of admiring eyes . O ! it would have done your hearta good to see it ; the . walls and massive towera of that proud edifice were , raised towards the heavens , and——the Inquisition of Madrid was no morel I
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* The fourth kind of torture from which this , then , daring man of many fights and many honors , hurried away with sickened heart ; was called the Virgio . When used , theprisoner was compelled to embrace it , and it waa so constructed with -machinery Inside , that it returned the embrace with tinrelaxing and -murderoos tag : tot its embracing the prisoner cans » d it totianst forward some Iron spikas concealed in Ita breast , whicn then pierced the breast of the prisoner * Thus bound and pierced by the Tiijjln ' '* embi » iej the victim learned , by lingering torments , the horrible mockery of the religion of love in the deadly cruelty Of ite false professors .
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THE SPEECH OF MR . GEORGE GAME DAY , ON " FREE TRADE" AND THE "FREE TRADERS . Tenth edition ; Price Sixpence . London : Olliver , 59 , Pall-mall . We have heard muoh of the " triumphs" of the Anti-Corn Law League at the various county meetings held vrithin the last twelvemonth . These triumphs have been trumpeted forth as a sort of wholesale conversions of the farmers ; but which conversions we know to be all a hum , the meeting ^ befog composed generally not of farmers but of country ahopkeeperB , and all the hanKers * on and dupea of the League which can bo collected together for miles round by the thirty shilling agents sent
for that purpose a week or two previous . Of course a few farmers attend the meeting out of curiosity ; and when-the counter jumpers and penny-whistlers have had their yell for " Free Trade , " forthwith we have it announced that the county of - has proclaimed for the movement ! or that shire has issued its " pronunciamento . " Glorious triumphs J " Down with your dust , boys i Swallow yoar gruel , yon Spooney , and tip ub your five hundreds . We re the lads to spend it for you" ! At some places the farmers have mustered , and the result has been the thrashing of the mouthers , instead of the " conversion" of the listeners—Huntingdon to wit . There Bright John ana Soeuey O'Moore got such a
dressing as will induce them , we Bhould think , to escbew any further attempts at ' * pronunciamentoB * ' in thai portion of " tha agricultural districts . " Take our advice dear John and Rogue ;; confine your displays to ticket meetings and eighteen penny admission " talks . " Don ' t try the open air . The Z > ay-light is far too strong for you whose "deeds being evil , have had to grope through the "darknesB" of in-door " snuggeries" wherever you are known , because , being known , you are justly hated by your wretched serfs and trampled upon slaves . On tbe 17 th June last , * " county meeting" waa held at Huntingdon , when , after Messrs . Bright and Moore had had their Bay , Mr . G . G . Day , a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood , replied to their mystifications , and of course the * gentleman' repealers
( . John and Roguey ) did not fail to exhibit their good breeding by the most unseemly and disgraceful interruptions during the speech of tbeir talented opponent . We hardly wonder at their loss of temper ( if they had any to lose ) when we consider the terrifio castigation to which they were subjected . Their constant interruption is a proof how every stroke of the lash wielded by Mr . Day told upon their wiuoing carcases . Mr . Day took up the arguments of the Freebooters one after the other , and in the moat admirable manner confuted their miserable sophisms , "tearing them to pieces and hurling them in their teeth . " The result waa their complete discomfiture ; their free-trade amendment being rejected by a > large majority . No extract that we could find room for would do justice to this excellent speech . The whole must be read for the full appreciation of its merits .
At the cloBe of the " speech" is an exposure of the unblushing falsehoods of Mr . Roguey Random Robert Moore which would make that persoaage , were he not a Leaguer , ashamed to exhibit himself in the company of any man or men having the least regard for truth . A precious specimen he is of the honesty of tbe whole gang . The . present edition being the tenth , we should suppose that the original cost of publication has long since been returned . We therefore Bubmit to Mr . Day the propriety ef publishing a " People ' s Edition" at the price of a penny . At its present price it is beyond the reach of the mass of those who ought to peruse it . Hoping that this suggestion may be be acted upon , we , in the meantime , heartily recommend the present Edition to Chartist lecturers , working men ' s reading rooms , and all who can afford to purchase it .
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THE BAIRNSLA FOAKS' ANNUAL , AN POGMOOR OLMENALK FOR 1844 . Leeds : Alice Mann , Duncan-street . London : Strange , Paternoster-row . Thi ? , asits title betokens , is an Almanack in the Barnsley dialect , and will be found amUBing to those who admire comicalities of this sort . As a specimen of the author ' s " style" we give the opening ol' his preface : — "TUT READERS .
" Well , ah do declare , bah time doz but slip on , ta besusr . Wha , it nobbat looks like't tuther day sin ah wrate to yo befoar , it dnzant haektly ; an here we / ar , poppin into anuther year , » z thowtless an oz unconsarn'd sz a donkey goin past a guide-poast Well , so it iz ; an , e wun sense , ita happan az weel it iz so , for if we wor ta try ta think a all at had past , aa wot wor ta cum , wha , we sud want heads az big az maantains , an memories ta strong bz SaraBon ' s aim . Then , wot objects we snd look )—wha , it ad tack a man three weeks ta wesh hiz face ; an wun on biz thinks ad be sa paarful . it ad be enif ta knock a stoan-wall dun a
mile off . Hey , yo may weel laugh &e me Bay Id so ; bnt tben , yo naw , am nobbat e jokin like , becos my real , jennine idea iz , at we owt to be consarn'd ivvery day a a wer lives , boath abaght wet wiv duo , an wot wir goin ta do ; if we doant , we sal spend wer bit a time in a backads an forads way , summat like a spinner in a band -walk .. But , al say no more up a this bead , for if a do , Bum on yo al begin a roatin , & see that varry plainly ; an ah suddant like ta witness owt at aoart , cos sum on yo iz nean so varry hansum when yor smiiein . Well , th « n , enuf ' s bin sed op a that subject ; an , it next place , an mean ta tell yo at hav been as near lost azotutcber e explorin t ' gravity at gloab . "
For the author ' s adtentures while M explorin t'gravity at gloob " , we must refer our readers to the " Olmeaiek" itself , the price of which is Sixpence .
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A VOICE FROM THE VINTAGE ; or , THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE . Bv the Author of " The Women of England . " London : Fisher and Co . This i 3 a " People ' s Edition , " price One Shilling , of a work not the least recommendation of which is its author ' s name—Mrs . Ellis , the great female
moralist of the present day . As an authoress , Mrs . Ellis has , we believe , been tbe instrument of no Email amount of good ; but hitherto her works have been shut out from the great bulk of the people whose means are not equal to the purchasing of expensive publications , and we wish that the work before us had , if it could have , —been produced at half its present price . No further . recommendation Will be needed than what the following extracts will themselves convey : —
TKB AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCE . " Without entering generally upon the question of health , a question -which has been circumstantially examined by judges more able than myself , and in relation to which many important and interesting facts are now laid before tbe public , tending clearly to prove , that , instead of suffering from fotal abstinence , most persons by whom it has been fairly tried , have experienced not only no injury to their health , hut considerable benefit ; I may perhaps be allowed to add a few words on the subject of my own experience , which may possibly derive additional weight from the circumstance of iny
having been , for many years of my life , an obstinate disbeliever in the tmcacy of temperance principles to effect any lasting or extensive good ; while of all respectable societies , that for the promotion of total abstinence— . that which I cow esteem it an honour and a privilege to advocate , would have been most repulsive to my feelings to join . Indeed , such was my contempt for the system altogether , that 1 often pronounced it to be a mockery of common sense , and at the same time frequently asserted my belief , that nothing could be more likely than tbe restraint of a public pledge to create an immediate inclination lo break it . ..
" For two years—years I may say of total ignorance on this point , during which I took no pains to make myself better informed—I treated the subject with the utmost contempt whenever it was brought under notice . By degreeB , however , it began to wear a different aspect before the world in general , and facts were too powerful in its favour to be disputed . By degrees it began also to assume with me somewhat more of a personal character . I could not see bow I was right while indulging in what was so fearfully destructive to others , and to some -whom I bad known and loved . Yet such was the force of habit ; such my willingness lo believe what doctors told me , that wine was necessary to my health , at that time far from good ; and such , also , was my dependence upon stimulants , for increasing the strength of which I of ten felt miserably in want , that three years more elapsed before I had the resolution to free myself practically , entire , and I now trust for ever , from the slavery of this dangerous habit .
" Four years of total abstinence from everything of an intoxicating nature , it has now been my happy lot to experience ; and if tbe improvement in my health and spirit * , and the increase of strength during that time , be any proof in favour of the practice , I am one of those who ought especially to thank God for the present , and take courage fur the future . "Like many other women , and especially those wfao are exempt from the necessity of active exertion , I was , while in the habit of taking wine for my health , subject to almost constant Buffering from a mysterious kind of frinteing , -which rendered me at times wholly unfit either for mental or bodily effort , but which X always found to be removed by a glass of wine . My spirits ,
too , partook of the malady , for I was equally subject to fits of depression , which also were relieved , in some degree , by the same remedies . During the four years in which I hate now entiraly abstained from the use of such remedies , I have been a total stranger to these distressing sensations of sinking and exhaustion ; and I say this with thankfulness , because I consider Buch ailments infinitely more trying than absolute pain . That time of the day at which it is frequently recommended to take a glass of wine and a biscuit , I now spend as pleasantly as any of the four-and-twenty honrs , without either ; and when fatigued by Wholesome exercise , which is a totally " different thing from the exhaustion above alluded to , I want nothing
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THE REBEL PROVOST , OR THE TWO CITIZENS . Glasgow , Miller , Bell-street . This is a tale of Glasgow in the olden time , by J . O . La Mont , whose reoent work , ? ' The Grave of Ixemua , " we lately reviewed . It is in the author ' s usual style , having for its moral that which the author never oraits , the beauty of virtue and the advancement of the cause of universal liberty . We give the annexed pioture of Glasgow as it was : would that some features of the pioture had been retained amidst the mass of modern improvements ; there would then be less of that misery and filth abounding which so disgraces the " Queen of the West '' at the present time .
GLASGOW AS II WAS . "An hundred andthirty years ago . the Western Metropolis possessed not even the semblance of those township gualificationfc that now elevate her to the highest ahd the first rank amongst the structures of the universe . With solitary exceptions , her streets were narrow , crooked , and dirty ; the houses , then , though chiefly built of free-stone , presented not the traits of beauty and of elegance in thei * externals , that so much adorn and enrich her present appearance . They were built of irregular height , and boasted no feature in architecture , save what the eccentric , or , if you like it , independent whim of the lairds thought proper to evince . The Tolbooth , the Hie' Kirk , and the College were the pride of the citizans in the olden time , as the tW 9 latter especially claim the admiration of her sons in our own day .
" The Saut-Mercatand Hie'jGate were then the principal marts of beauty as well as trade . In both streets , adjoining the Tolbooth , the shops were all within piazzas , which gave the city in that quarter aa elegant appearance , by the number and regularity of tbe lengthy line of pillars . The Wares within , especially in the Saut-Mercat , were of costly materiet , chiefly intended for the " custom" of the wealthy citizens . However much a modern may doubt or ridicule the belief , it is a fact , and the remains of elegance still observable attest ita truth , that to a stranger visiting Glasgow these shops appeared of singularly imposing grandeur .
" The Saut-Mercat and Hie' Gate , by right ef eminence as direct thoroughfares , and trade emporiums , claimed priority of attention from strangers who might then visit the gude toon . The curve-line formed by the junction of the Hie' Gate and Saut-Mercat describad the entire length of the city , which might extend some three-fourths ot a mile , a little way from tbe Green , or Clyde , en the south , to the npper termination of the Hie' Gate , at tbe " Castle Loan . " On the north-westw ard , where the present commerce , trade , and grandeur of Glasgow seat their focua , there waa , at that time , scarcely a vestjge of hamlet or inhabitants . Towards the north-east , from the Galloway to tbe Hie * Kirk , the city was chiefly populated ; and there did the toiHog and the lazy , the virtuous and the ne ' er-do-weel .
the thrifty and the vicious , accumulate comfort and peace , poverty and crime . From lack of labourers , few of the puir folks of thote days , willing to labour , went to the labour market without returning with their due reward . Young men , by industry and frugality , and the perseverence of a few short years , seldom made respectability an aim -without attaining their object . The worthy bad always affluence within their reach , without grasping at a favourable circumstance , or Beising an" advantage . There weie no signs of poverty apparent , unless where and When indulgence in sloth , or participation in crime were the agents visible that ranked the fallen with tbe few who were shunned by the Well-meaning as wicked and worthless . "
Though printed at Glasgow , we presume the work can be had of the London publishers .
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THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF IRELAND . Parts 2 and 3 . London , Strange , Paternoster Row . ( This work , the first part of which we noticed some time back , is continued with unabated spirit . The following extracts—all we can find room for—will best exhibit its merits :
CROMWELL AT PR . OGHEDA * " Arrived before the town , Cromwell immediately summoned the governor to surrender , which was refused . Some delay occurred in the arrival of the artillety from Dublin , but so sooner had it come up , than he commenced thundering against the walls , and epeedily effected a bleach . He now determined to take the place by storm . Twice did his bravest men mount the breach , and twice were they repelled with great slaughter . Cromwell rallied them to a . third effort , and himself led the assault . A terrlble Btrugnle « n » ued . but the impetuosity of tide besiegers bore down every opposition , and they wero at last successful . Colonel Wall being killed at the head of his regiment , his soldiers threw down their arms .
on tbe piomise of quarter ; and Cromwell and his men now rushed into the town . The garrison , however , waa nob yet subdued . They had thrown up three intrenchmeiits behind the walls , and defended every inch of ground , fighting bravely and desperately at the corner f every street At last , the town was completely in the hands of the enemy , and all resistance ceased . A dreadful slaughter immediately ensued . Cromwell , with tin infernal coolness , issued bis orders for the massacre of the entire garrison , and they were accordingly indiscriminately put to the sword . A number of the inhabitants—soldiers , officers , priests , women , and children—took shelter in the great church of tbe town ,
where they imagined they would be safe from the fury of Cromwell ' s soldiers . But tho saeredness of the place did not save them from destruction : they were butchered like the rest The brave governor Sir Arthur Aston , Sir Edward Terney , Colonels Warren , Fleming , and Byrne , together with all the officers , were put to the sword , though they had been promised mercy when they laid down their arms . The horrible slaughter continue i for several days : it is said that for nearly a week the streets of Drogbeda ran with blood . Thirty only of the brave defenders of Drogheda survived ; and these , even more luckless than the rest , were shipped off as al&ves to the plantations in BarbadoeB .
"Lest our statement of the above transaction may appear exaggerated , we shall give Cromwell's own account of it , in a dispatch written on the spot , immediately after the town bad been taken . After describing the desperate resistance of tbe enemy , admitting that * through the advantages of tbe place , and the courage God waB pleased to give the defenders , our men were forced to retreat quite out of the breach , not without soma considerable loss ; ' —he adds , that his veterans were induced to make a second attempt , ' wherein , ' says he , ' God was pleased to animate them so , that they got ground of the enemy , and , by the goodness of God , forced him to quit his intrenchmenta , and after a very hoc dispute , the enemy having both horse and foot , and we foot only within the walls , tbe
enemy gave ground , and our men became masters . ' Then he adda , having effected a passage for his cavalry into the town , ' the enemy retreated , diverse into the Mill-Mount , a place very strong and of difficult access , being exceeding high , having a good graft , and strongly palisadoed ; the governor , Sir Arthur Aston , and diverse considerable officers being there , our men getting up to them , were ordered by me to put them all to the sword , and indeed , being in the heat of action , I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town , and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men , Diverse of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge iuto the other part of the town , Where about one hundred of them possessed St . Peter ' s church steeple , some the west gate , and others a strong round tower next the gate called St Sunday , —these being summoned to yield to mercy , refused ; whereupon I ordered tbe steeple of St ; Peter ' s church to be fired . The ! next day the other two towers were summoned , in
one of which was about six or seven score , but they refused to yield themselves ; and we , knowing that hunger must compel them , Bet only good guards to secure them from running away , till their stomachs were come down . From one of the said towers , notwithstanding tbeir condition , they killed and wounded some of our men : when they submitted , tbeir officers were knocked on the head , and every tenth man of the soldiers killed , and the rest shipped for the Barbadoes ; the soldiers in the other tower were all spared , as to their lives only , and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes . I believe all the friars were knocked on the head promiscuously but two , the one of which was Father Peter Taaf , brother to the lord Taaf , whom the soldiers took tbe next day and iflade an end of ; the other was taken in the round tower , under the repute of lieutenant , and when he understood that the officers in that town had no quarter , he confessed he was a friar , but that did not nave him . '
? ' Snch was the siege and butchery of Drogheda—the successful issue of which Cromwell , in bis dispatches to the Parliament , ascribes 'to Gad alone ' , ! characterising it as " a marvellous great merry . ' It is indeed horrible to find the name of the Most High so often employed by legalised destroyers , to give a sanction to their works of carnage . The M ahomedan conqueror puts a whole nation to the swon ? ., and straightway he falls on bis face and cries , 'Allah , il Allah I God is great" The Imperial Catholic tramples down the population of tho richest and most fertile countries in the world , and then goes ir . proceasien to the
magnificent cathedral , where , araidat the hallelujahs of a thousand choristers , he gives praise to God , as the worker of all his cruelty ! And the avenging Protestant , mad with fury and far ^ ticiam , immolates crowds of defenceless beings , as d while still reeking with the i blood of slaughtered women and children , he turns up his eyes to God , and returns him thanks for the' marvellous great JTiercy' J ' I wiflh' —tbas runs the conclusion of Cromwell's despatch to the Parliament—• I wish that all honest hearts may give the glory of this to God alone , to whom the praise e > f this mercy belongs . ' And the Parliament responded te the call of Cromwell , for It forthwith appointed « A thanksgiving
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instant five men , armed with pistols and bludgeons , entered the house of John Melia ,, a ^ farmer ( about eight o'clock in the evening ) who residesfat , Tristerna ^^ barony of Moygoisb , and felonioasly carried away the chante *' of bis bagpi pes , leaving ton , as Shakspeaae says , " m melancholy as the dsone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe . * SuWnspector Porter , " that he may go p ipe for justice , " bis offered a reward for Old appifehenaioa Qt UWW discordant vilteUwi
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 16, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct832/page/3/
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