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nity ; the whole figure kingly, or more, of a king of those beings, who 

 could " take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of 

 the sea." 



We hope that this fine picture will be among the first that are 

 engraved. It will be only a due tribute to the painter's fame. 



We give the following hint to the melodramatists. It is too pathetic 

 for our sensibilities. 



" On one occasion a bailiff, ' wishing to do the thing genteel/ dis- 

 guised himself so successfully as actually to mislead the servant of 

 Sir Thomas Lawrence into the belief that he was a gentleman who 

 wished to sit alias to be taken off, rather than to take his master off. 

 He was accordingly admitted, and introduced into the show-room till 

 Sir Thomas Lawrence could be apprized of his visit, .who soon made 

 his appearance when, to his astonishment, he found the strange gentle- 

 man on his knees, in the utmost agony of tears, before the portrait of a 

 venerable lady habited in mourning. Sir Thomas, with all his graceful 

 kindness and eloquence, raising the stranger, begged to know to whom 

 he was indebted for the honour of a visit, and the cause of his exces- 

 sive grief. The Dispenser of " unholy writ" overpowered by the 

 talents of the painter and the gentleness of the man, confessed that he 

 was overcome by remorse at the unexpected sight of the picture, which 

 so greatly resembled his dear lost mother, who, by imprudence, he had 

 reduced from a state of opulence, to misery, want, and the grave. He 

 then explained the true object of his visit, but assured Sir Thomas that 

 such were his feelings and admiration of his talents, that any arrange- 

 ment the most convenient to him he would with pleasure accept, and 

 that he should for ever regard him as the maker of a ' sinner saved/ " 



In the pause of the English Attorney-GeneraFs libel functions, the 

 Irish Diabolus has taken up the trade. The proprietor of the Dublin 

 Evening Post has been called on to plead. The paper is a very clever 

 one, and has been for a long time the organ of the " Association/' and 

 every kind of party, person, and doctrine, that could, in the words of 

 Captain Rock's historian, 



Make the fun stir 

 In Ulster, Leinster, Connaught, Munster; 



but unless O'Connell and his compatriots spoke treason, we can discover 

 no treason in the Dublin Evening Post. The Freeman's Journal is still 

 more deeply stricken : for it is said to have no less than four ex-officios 

 against it. And the Attorney-General is determined to make Mr. Henry 

 Grattan plead, Mr. Grattan being no longer the proprietor ! 



Why all these symptoms of belligerency are going on, in the pacific admi- 

 nistration of Mr. Archdeacon Singleton, is beyond our fathoming. With a 

 Lord Lieutenant who, possessingnomorethan<150,000a-year, relieves the 

 starving weavers by buying five pounds worth of waistcoats from them 

 at a time, which may, in all human probability, last his Grace for twice 

 the number of years, we cannot conceive why this irritation should 

 continue an hour. The law of the Irish press, however, is so incom- 

 parably fitted for encouraging it in licentiousness, that perhaps we ought 

 to feel no surprise at the active vigilance of the Diabolus on the other 

 side of the water. In England but two proprietors of a paper must 

 register. In Ireland, if there were five hundred, all their names must 



