"Ast Danaum progenes Agamemnonique phalanges, member, or to the house: I meant A member then started up, saying, nothing; King, lords and commons, "I rise to reply to the right honourlords, king and commons,-com- "able member."--Lord Chatham mons, lords and king;tria juncta | turfed back, and fixed his eye on the in uno.-I meant nothing! indeed orator,who instantly sat down dumb: I meant nothing."-" I don't wish then his lordship returned to his seat, to push the matter further," said repeating as he hobbled along, the lord Chatham, in a voice a little above verses of Virgil: a whisper then, in a higher tone, "the moment a man acknowledges his 16 error, he ceases to be guilty.--I "have a great regard for the honour"able member, and as an instance of "that regard, I give him this advice:" a pause of some moments ensued,-then, assuming a look of unspeakable derision,-he said in a kind of colloquial tone,-"Whenever that member When his refulgent arms flash'd through the shady "means nothing, I recommend him to "say nothing." "Ut videre virum, fulgentiaque arma per umbras, Ingenti trepidare metu,-pars vertere retro, "Seu quondam petiere rates,-pars toll ere vocem Exiguam,-inceptus clamor frustratur hiantes." But Argive chefs, and Agammemnon's train, Fled from his well-known face, with wonted fear, They rais'd a feeble cry, with trembling notes: -46 But the most extraordinary instance of his command of the house, is, the manner in which he fixed indelibly on Mr. Grenville, the appellation of "the gentle shepherd." At this time," a song of Dr. Howard, which began with the words, "gentle shepherd tell On one occasion,-while he was speaking, Sir William Young called But the weak voice deceiv'd their gasping throats. out, question, question!"-lord Then placing himself in his seat,-he Chatham paused,then fixing on Sir exclaimed, Now let me hear what - William a look of inexpressible disgust, "the honourable member has to say exclaimed,“ pardon me Mr. Speak-" to me ?" On the writer's asking the 46 er, my agitation: when that mem- gentleman, from whom he heard this "her calls for the question, I fear I anecdote,if the house did not laug↳ "hear the knell of my country's ruin. at the ridiculous figure of the poor When the Prussian subsidy, an un-member?" No sir," he replied, "we popular measure, was in agitation in" were all too much awed to laugh." the house of commons, lord Chathain justified it with infinite address: insensibly, he subdued all his audience, and a murmur of approbation was heard from every part of the house. Availing himself of the moment, his lordship placed himself in an attitude of stern defiance, but perfect dignity,me where," and in which each stanza and exclaimed in his loudest tone,- ended with that line, was in every "Is there an Austrian among you? mouth. On some occasion, Mr. 566 Let him stand forward and reveal Grenville exclaimed, "where is our "himself." (6 money ? where are our means? I On another occasion, immediately say again, where are our means? after he had finished a speech, in the "where is our money?" he then sat house of commons, he walked out of down,-and lord Chatham paced slowit; and, as usual, with a very slowly out of the house, humming the line step. A silence ensued, till the door was opened to let him into the lobby. 66 - Gentle Shepherd tell me where."The effect was irresistible, and sestle on Mr. Grenville the appellation of "the gentle shepherd." "is abstemious, temperate and regular. "Mr. Rigby indulges more in conviA gentleman mentioned the two last "vial pleasure, is an excellant bʊn circumstances to the late Mr. Pitt;"vivant. amiable and engaging. Mr. the minister observed, that they were "Pitt, by the most manly sense, and proofs of his father's ascendancy in the fine sallies of a warm and sportive house; but that no specimens remain." imagination, can charm the whole ed of the eloquence, by which that day, and, as the Greek said, his enascendancy was procured. The gen-tertainments please even the day tleman recommended to him to read" after they are given. Mr. Rigby slowly his father's speeches for the re-" has all the gybes and gambols, and peal of the stamp-act; and, while he "flashes of merriment, which set the repeated them, to bring to his mind," table in a roar; but-the day after, as well as he could, the figure, the " cruel headach at least frequently look, and the voice, with which his "succeeds.-In short, I wish to spend father might be supposed to have pro- all my days with Mr. Pitt, but I nounced them. Mr. Pitt did so, and am afraid that at night, I should admitted the probable effect of the" often skulk to Mr. Rigby and his speech thus delivered. "friends." In private intercourse, lord Chatham though always lofty, was very insinuating. The prince of Wales, the grandfather of our preseut sovereign, and Mr. Pitt, were once walking in the garden at Stow, apart from the general company, who followed them at some distance. They seemed to be engaged in earnest conversation; lord Cobham expressed to Mr. Belson, from whom the writer received this anqcdote, an apprehension of Mr. Pitt's drawing the Prince into some measures which his lordship disapproved. Mr. Belson observed to his lordship, that the tete-a-tete could not be of long duration. "Sir," said his lordship with eagerness, 66 you don't know Mr. "Pitt's talent of insinuation; in a very short quarter of an hour he can persuade any one of any thing." As a companion in festive moments Mr. Pitt was enchanting. Mr. Wilkes closed a humorous comparison, after Plutarch's manner, of Mr. Pitt, with Mr. Rigby, by the following words:" In there more private "characters both Mr. Pitt and Mr. Rigby have generosity and spirit in other things they differ; Mr. Pitt 66 3 Mr. Pitt's acceptance of a peerage would have been defensible, if it had not had the fatal effect of lessening the belief of public virtue, already shaken by the apostacy of Mr. Pulteney.His insisting on the retention of Canada,-which might have proved an effectual check on the rebellious projects of the American colonists,-in preference to the islands, which France was willing to cede to us, was, at the time, a matter of surprise to many: M. de Vergennes used to mention it, as one of the greatest political errors that had ever been committed. DUBLIN IN 1822. (From the New Monthly Magazine.) Dublin is a miniature of London: it is built like a metropolis, and has its squares It is not like any of the and great streets. great provincial towns which are places of trade, and only inhabited by persons more or less directly connected with trade; nor is it, like Bath, a great theatre of amusement. It exhibits the same variety of ranks as London. It has its little court, its viceroy, with all the attendants upon his reflected royalty; it has its little aristocracy and its leaders of bon ton; it has its corpo ration; it has its Lord Mayor, and all the . pageantry of city grandeur; it has its manufacturing, its mercantile, and its mo- nied interests: it is the Westminster of Ireland, and is accordingly the locus in quo of judges, barristers, attorneys, &c. Almost every thing we find in London may be found also in Dublin. The difference is but in degree, and the similitude may be traced in the minutest details. Dublin has its club-rooms, just as we have ours in St. James's-street; there are also balls on the same aristocratic plan as ours at Almack's; and the gardens attached to the Rotunda are, during the season, lighted up in humble and distant imitation of Vauxhall.Dublin too resembles the English capital, in its ebbs and flows. At the commencement of the long vacation the gentlemen of the long robe take wing, and the whole movcable population disembogues itself into the cottages, villas, and mansions which line the Bay. Before the Union the resemblance was, no doubt, more complete; and the state of society then existing must have been exceedingly worthy of observation, and the varieties it presented highly entertaining. The recollections of this period cherished by the elder inhabitants of Dublin are very lively, and their representations of the great excitement and festivity which prevailed are probably correct. While the rich nobles and gentry were attending in their places in the parliament, all was gaiety and animation. The wealth which was necessarily diffused, increased the shrewdness and enlivened the humour of the most quickwitted people of Europe. The very chairmen, porters, and shoe-blacks (a fraternity now, alas! nearly extinct) partook the general hilarity, and cracked such jokes and said such excellent things as they are now seldom heard to ut, ter. The mob, perhaps to the extinction of the Irish parliament, took a warm interest in the subject of its debates, which were of a popular nature; and several choice spirits arose, whose feats and prowess are recorded in many a ballad and ditty. Parties ran high, and one quarter of the city was sometimes arrayed against the other. The coal-porters were at one time at variance with the weavers of the Liberty; the burden of their war-cry ran thus :-- slang arose, and very generally prevailed While Dublin was the seat of legislature, there was a great commixture of the Bar with the members of the House of Commons: almost every lawyer of any eminence had a seat in parliament; the scene was a strange one. Not merely all interests, but all the varieties of human character had their suitable representations. In the British House of Commons the active men are all endowed with much the same qualities: there is some small distinction between the great orators and the men of business; every man is expected, however, to exhibit good sense and information. In the Irish We'll not leave a weaver alive in the Combe, parliament it was not so. Business was We'll cut their weft, and we'll break their loom." carried on there in every possible diversity But the feuds of the coal-porters and of means. There were the fighting memweavers are now nearly forgotten. Had bers, ready to take off an obnoxious man if they not had a bard, we should not now, he did but "bite his thumb;" there were have mentioned them. At this period a the jokers, who prostrated a foe with a bon after playing off his puns and saying his mot, or a sacer at his expense; there were passing some time in the hall of the Four the vehement declaimers, whose weapon.Courts, as it is called, cach day; and here, was invective, and who leveiled abuse at him whose views and reasonings they could not impugn. Let any one look to the Irish debates, and he will find ample fund for astonishment. The entire city used to be pervaded with anxiety upon the subject under discussion in the house. Multitudes used to throng its avenues and cheer the popular members. All this is now past, and the scene is comparatively dull; but there is much yet in Dublin to repay enquiry skilfully directed, and to excite interest. The great proprietors no longer residing in Dublin, the first place in society has naturally devolved to the Bar, which, generally speaking, is held in higher estimation in Ireland than in this country. The profession is by no means so much detached as here, and a counsillor, as he is terma-Temple and Lincoln's Inn. ed, is expected to be not merely acquainted The traders of Dublin are divided into with law, but to be well-informed on every three descriptions, which are strongly dissubject, and he is accordingly regarded as tinguished. There is the Corporation class, an authority upon all points. An English which is perhaps, the least reputable; the practitioner would be much surprised at great Catholic body, and the Presbyterian, the course of an Irish barrister's life. The which last is chiefly engaged in the linen courts do not sit till near eleven o'clock, and American trade. It is among the and no business is dene after dinner.- second that the stranger will find most There are no inns of court, and each indi- matter for observation. Their religion has vidual lives in that part of the city he raised a line of demarcation between them chooses. The judges lead an easy life; and other classes of the community, and in there is seldom any press of business, and consequence they retain more traces of the in Chancery we believe there is not (when old Irish customs and mode of life. The will the same be said of the English court?) institution of fasting two, and often three a single case in arrear. Nor is this strange, days each week, as well as in Lent, is a when it is considered that, for a country so great prevention of social intercourse begreatly inferior in wealth and size, thetween Catholics and Protestants. The same number of courts and judges is con- rules of the Church are observed in Dublin stituted. Strictly, this is not the case as to with the utmost strictness,-a strictness Chancery, there being in Ireland no vice- unknown elsewhere. Among themselves chancellor; but when the business of ap- they live in a style of great hospitality and peals in the House of Lords, and the duty luxury. Indeed the same may be observof the Chancellor there as speaker, are con- ed of the mode of life of all classes in Dubsidered, the position may be made with lin. The market is very fine; the supply safety. The courts are all held in the of fish, that prime article in an epicure's same building, to which also are attached catalogue of the goods of life, ample and the various law offices.-It is a very head-regular in all its species, shell, white, red, some edifice. In the centre stands a fine &c. The common beverage, that most circular hall with a dome, and the passages used, and though cheapest, most prized, is to the courts open around. It is the cus-whisky-punch. tom for all barristers, whether having any business or not, to attend each day during term a few hours in this hall, around which they walk, intermixed with attorneys and suitors. Here circulate, speaking without a metaphor, all the tattle and news of the city. There can be no more agreeable lounge. The late Mr. Curran was in the habit of Though called puucla it would, however, as most frequently drunk, be more properly denominated toddy; ti e essential difference being, as we apprehend, that punch contains lemon and that toddy does not. Whisky is of two kinds-malt, and corn, that is made from barley or from oats, the first of which is most esteemed. But there is another distinction, and that and with the anticipation of separating to impart its sweet melancholy. To dinner belong your discussions of politics, and sombre dissertations on the weather. More jocund themes attend supper. There is maid, who has been eoy and reserved during the preceding hours, at length smiles favour. It may perhaps, be affirmed that literature has made less progress among the Catholic gentry of Dublin then any descrip tion of individuals in these countries.-They are, however, in their manners easy and chearful, and endewed with that natural courtesy which is the great characteristic of the Irish people. In England we are too much a people of business-a “nation of shopkeepers," as we are somewhat severely called. Our gravity does tend to is between parliament whisky, and poteen, | all sit down with fresh zest for enjoymené, or whisky made in defiance of parliament and all its ordinances, in a small still or pot. This last acquires, from the use of turf or peat in the process, a smoked taste, as to the agreeableness of which there is a great diversity of sentiment, the strong pre-mirth and song and laughter; and the ponderance of authorities being in favour of the smoke. The spirit is an excellent spirit," a dainty spirit," as Shakespeare says. It is not very palatable to one who has revelled on claret and hock and burgundy, but it is sweet and delicious to those tated to drink it, and it is extremely innocent. It may be safely said, that an excess in quantity of alcohol can be taken in no shape less injurious; and assuredly the potency of its malignity is well tried. The good old days are gone when the door was used to be locked, and the guests kept in durance till they became quite drunk: but a great deal of hard drinking yet pre-produce somewhat of moroseness. In Irevails in Dublin. The middle classes are land every man seems to be more or less a very much disposed to the enjoyments of man of pleasure. We see few persons the table; nor are they without a tendency wedded to and delighting in one occupato another modish vice. They play cards tion as with us at home. There is a large for sums small and trivial indeed in the body, the Presbyterian settlers in the north, apprehension of a dowager at Bath, or a to whom these observations apply with less man of mettle in town, but yet consider- force; but there is no question that the able when the circumstances of the parties original Scottish character has been much are taken into account. The wife of a mellowed by transplanting into the Irish man not worth, root and branch, as the soil. We are apt to confound the various saying is, 10,000. perhaps not half that descriptions of Irish, but the distinctions sum, will lose on occasion six or eight or are worth remarking. In Dublin a juditen pounds at loo; and her husband will cious cicerone may point out the dissipated be guilty of a more masculine indiscretion, and refined southern, the primitive Mileand perhaps double that amount. Supper sian of the west, and the more sober and is, in Dublin, a meal of great enjoyment. stern inhabitant of the north, all strongly At supper, it was that often during the contrasted to an observing eye, and the latter years of the last century, the whole brogue of each varying in character and company used to stand up, join hands, and richness. In England many a wealthy sing altogether the bold national anthem manufacturer or factor would prefer to hear of Erin go bragh. The effect of this was himself termed tradesman to gentleman; wonderful. It was enough to have ani- but on the other side of the water it is not mated the veriest slave and coward. Old so. Every man is there a gentleman.and young, the aged sire, and the youthful we cannot better illustrate this fact than by beauty, all united their voices and hands. mentioning that the term esquire is almost we apprehend that many a democrat must universally applied. There is no middle thus have been created. Stubborn, indeed, class in Ireland; there are no individuals must have been the heart that could thus who can be content with being well fed resist the example of age and the influence and clothed, remaining in their original of enthusiastic beauty. This meal con- grade in society. As soon as an Irish tinues to be the chosen one. During the trader makes a little money, he extends his course of the previous evening, the mem- domestic, not his mercantile establishment. bers of the party have become acquainted He applies the surplus not to augmentation with each other; restraint has worn off of his capital, but to increase of his plealittle friendships have grown up-people sures. There is a great want of proper have attached themselves to each other- pride, and a great prevalence of vanity.— the belles have selected their admirers, and į People retire from trade in Ireland with |