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now every day lessened the complaints.

Tuesday, died two men. Latitude 37° 55'. Wind squally and changed against us.

Wednesday, died one man. Mr. Taylor was now able to come out of his cabin supported by two men; his recovery was slow, but he attended his duty from this time.

Thursday, strong gales continued with rain. Died Mr. Steven, master's mate, a fine lad of about thirteen years old, son to the deceased captain; he was taken ill on the last Sunday, but concealed it until the next day, when he was bled twice he was thought to be better that night, but the next morning he was so ill that bleeding a third time was thought necessary, but to no effect.

Friday, strong gales and rain. No death this day, for the first since the 16th of October; and only three men died after this, who had lingered a long time under something of the bad effects of the fever. We had a continuance of the same unpleasant, stormy weather until Thursday, November 11, Latitude 42° 16'.

Friday 12, moderate and fair. Made soundings in ninety-five fathom water.

Saturday, at nine, saw the land. South coast of Nova Scotia, Sounded in fifty fathoms. The men of the 85th were now suffering severely from the cold; they had no kind of bedding, but slept in a bare hammock, nothing of the kind being allowed them on embarking from Jamaica, notwithstanding that application had been made, and the captain having represented the likely ill consequence of men changing at that

time of the year from the West Indies to the neighbourhood of New-. foundland; but they were most hu-, manely treated by general Bowyer, upon our arrival in Halifax, where they were immediately supplied. with a sufficient quantity of bedclothing, and money to buy them other warm articles. We hardly lost sight of land after this, and got into Halifax harbour on Wednesday the 17th, when we met with so generous a reception as to make us forget our late distresses.; We were put under quarantine to the 30th of this month, but were supplied with every article that would make us comfortable, from the shore; and the admiral, sir A. Mitchell, who was there, as well as the general, regretted the necessity of keeping us so long confined from any other society.

The necessary officers were now appointed to the ship by the admiral; a surgeon was the most necessary one in our present situation; though there were very few seized with any thing like the yellow fever, we had several sick, and we got a gentleman on Friday, that is, the second day after we came into the harbour, well deserving the charge.

After we got out of quarantine the sick were put into the navy hospital, which is an uncommon comfortable one, and where they all recovered before we sailed. We got several articles put in, particularly spars for Portsmouth dockyard, and left Halifax under the command of captain Joseph Spear, on Sunday the 16th of January. Nothing particular occurred on this passage. We arrived at Spithead on Sunday the 13th of February, where we performed a quarantine of four days.

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The Fratique master, according to his orders, got all the wearable articles belonging to the deceased officers, and took them to some distance from the anchoring places, where they were sunk *.

Letter from Edmund Burke to Col.

Vallaney (never published).

WAS obliged to make amends

their new ally. By showing their conformity and connection, you, perhaps, give some better authority to both, than either were before possessed of. Your system of solv ing many difficulties by the disposition of colonies, to apply the events and personages of the ancient country to their new sett ement, is very ingenious; and, when supported by strong analogies of fact, very probable. However, we must net

I your conversation system we set out

by your book, for which I give you my best thanks: it is indeed a work of uncommon sagacity and erudition, and as entertaining as it is instructive. I often thought I was reading Warburton.

Your industry in collecting such a body of matter does you great credit: by the relations you have discovered, and the new combinations you have made; and what you have brought from the remotest quarters to bear naturally on the subject, a true distinctive character of genius appears in the work. This is as much as I am qualified to say. Whether your system is fully established is beyond my decision. I know that for the first time you have interwoven and connected, in a manner not easy to be hereafter separated, the "Irish Antiquities," with those of polite and learned nations, which are not a whit less uncertain than those of

by admitting one of the fundamental parts of the story to be enfeebled by the fabulous and the forged, so far as it is said in the local particulars. We are in this system obliged to establish the credit of our witness by falsifying the circumstances of his testimony; and to prove that the things are true in some respect, though the relaters mean to decrive in others! This may leave some doubt even in a mind like mine, which, in all matters of interesting research, does certainly not like to be disappointed: But whether we readers can even assure ourselves perfectly that we shall ever arrive at the end of our journey, we have all the reason to be pleased with the guide and the companion. Will you have the goodness to pardon me for reminding you of what i ener before took the liberty to mention; my earnest wish that some of the

The reader is referred to No. 52, page 551, of the Medical and Physical Jooma'. 1802, for doctor Harness's report on this successful and new mode of treating the ye low fever at its commencement. In a note, which does honour to the editor of that valuable work, is the following passage:

"Our admiration of the uncommon merit of this officer (lieut. D.) naturally led us to inquire whether his conduct had been properly represented to those who have the pow to reward it; and we were assured that it had. We also learned, that apprehending a s duties of captain and master of the ship might possibly devolve on him as well 4 those of the surgeon and mate, he devoted himself to the study of navigation, and in a short time made such a progress in the practical part of it, as would have enabled hist to condur the ship home with satety!-We hope this note will induce his friends to gratity us with more particular information respecting him and his future promotion

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ancient Irish historical monuments should be published as they stand, with a translation in Latin or English. Until something of this kind be done, criticism can have no secure anchorage. How shall we be enabled to judge of histories or historical discussion on English affairs, when references are had to Bede, to the Saxon Chronicle, to Ingulphus, and the rest, whilst those authors lurked in libraries, or, what is worse, lay in the hands of individuals? If nothing else could be done, I should wish to see complete, that remaining morsel of the Brehon laws in sir John Sebright's M.S.

You have published enough as a specimen, to excite curiosity, and the world has given credit to your labours, and are petitioners for the whole to the bounty which has given us a part.

There is no doubt of a subscription sufficient to defray the expense. I assure you, when I

borrowed those books upwards of twenty years ago, I had first leave to transmit them to Ireland. I did it with a hope and view that something of the kind which I recommended should be done, if any person of ability should be found to do it. That ability has been found. But if any accident should happen to you and to Mr. O'Connor, what security have we that any other like you should start up?

You will have the condescension to give me the pardon I once more request for the liberty I take in proposing trouble to you, which nothing but the high honour and esteem I have for you could induce me to, as well as the desire I have, that I and the rest of the world should be under fresh obligations to your ability and public spirit, which has done so much for making the new and old Ireland better known to its inhabitants.

I am, dear sir, &c.

Edmund Burke.

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POETRY.

ODE for the NEW YEAR, 1802.

By HENRY JAMES PYE, Esq. Poet-Laureat,

O, from Bellona's crimson car

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At length the panting steeds unbound;

At length the thunder of the war

In festive shouts of peace is drown'd:
Yet, as around her monarch's brow
Britannia twines the olive bough,
Bold as her eagle-eye is cast,
On hours of recent tempest past;
Through the rude wave and adverse gale,`
When free she spread her daring sail,

Immortal glory's radiant form

Her guiding load-star through the storm;

Directed by whose golden ray,

Through rocks and shoals she kept her steady way:

"My sons," she cries, " can honour's guerdon claim,

"Unsoil'd my parent worth, unstain'd their sovereign's fame?"

Albion! though oft by dread alarms

Thy native valour has been tried,

Ne'er did the lustre of thy arms

Shine forth with more refulgent pride

Than when, while Europe's sons, dismay'd,
Shrunk recreant from thy mighty aid;
Alone, unfriended, firm you stood,
A barrier 'gainst the foaming flood.
When mild and soft the silken breeze,
Blows gently o'er the rippling seas,
The pinnace then may lightly sweep,
With painted oar the halcyon deep:

But

But when the howling whirlwinds rise,
When mountain billows threat the skies;
With ribs of oak the bark must brave
The inroad of the furious wave;
The hardy crew must to the raging wind
Oppose the sinewy arm, th' unconquerable mind.

In every clime where ocean roars,

High though thy naval banners flew ;
From where by Hyperborean shores
The frozen gale ungenial blew,
To sultry lands that Indian surges lave,
Atlantic isles, and fam'd Canopus' wave;
Though from insulted Egypt's coast

Thy armies swept the victor host,

From veteran bands where British valour won,

The lofty walls of Ammon's godlike son:

Useless the danger and the toil

To free each self-devoted soil,

Auxiliar legions from thy side

Recede to swell the Gallic conqueror's pride :

While on Marengo's fatal plain,

Faithful to honour's tie, brave Austria bleeds in vain.

Not fir'd by fierce Ambition's flame,

Did Albion's monarch urge his car
Impetuous through the bleeding ranks of war,

To succour and protect his nobler aim.

His guardian arm, while each Hesperian vale,
While Lusitania's vine-clad mountains hail
Their ancient rights and laws restor❜d,

The royal patriot sheaths th' avenging sword;

By heaven-born Concord led, while Plenty smiles,
And sheds her bounties wide to bless the sister isles.

ODE for his Majesty's BIRTH DAY, 1802.

O more the thunders of the plain,
The fiery battle's iron show'r,

Terrific, drown the duteous strain

That greets our monarch's natal hour;

Peace, soaring high on seraph wings,
Now strikes her viol's golden strings;

Responsive to the thrilling note,
Symphonious strains of rapture float.

While grateful myriads in the pean join,

By the Same,

And hail her angel voice, and bless her form divine.

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