sa°5 
480 Treland— Answer to Correspondents. os Lies 
has excited considerable ti iy at Willian F Moon ggicaif nlinigige| of the 
bay eee cy ap if. edu-  parisiof-Atinan. 7.4 F 
tiful’specimens” of “petrified mosses, “Mixed rE REDAN Dermonnenemnnnnnanns 
with hyndstongue and other vegetable sub- Population of Ireland.—Summary from 
stanées, haye been found upon the bank on. ~ réturns Of 1821—not yet printed } Ing Z 
which the water drops. ster, there are 1,785,763 inhabitants— Mun- 
“The remaiiis of a whale have been found ~ ster, 2;005,365.—Ulster, 2,007,095 and 
four, feet deep, under, the coarse clay at in Connaught, 1,053,918, — Total indreland, 
Blair-drummond, ona part of the property 6,846,949. ere pay og 
that had been covered © with moss. The Married. W. Godfrey, esq.,¢ Hestog of 
propriétor intends to remove the bones to ‘Sir “John ‘Godfrey,’ bart.,” of “Kile an 
Edinburgh) to be placed in the museum. Abbey, to Mary, datighter oF J! Colfsmath, 
Married.] (At Langhom, John Nichol, — esq., of Flesk Castle,’ Killarney. At St. 
esq., Cwritdr) to Miss’ Agnes Little. —At Audien’s Church, Dublin, William; Muglits, 
Gretna-Green, Lieut. Williams, (sonof R.  esq., 63d reg., nephew, ,of the Jate| William 
Williams; esq; barrister), to Ann, only Vaughan, esq.,, to Anne, reli¢t. of : James 
daughter of John Benton, esq-, of Houghton Coghlan, esq. BERN. sini oa ‘tan 
House, Northampton, Died,| At Eelfast, the Rev. De MMul- 
Died,] At Dupplin Castle, only child of len, Roman_ Catholic Bishop ‘of Down and 
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thomas and Lady Ham- Connor.—Lately, at Malahide, 98) J. Haig, 
mond 2 At’ Mousewald, Dumfries-shire, esq. s1.p. late physician’ to’ thé Forees ‘ut 
the Rev. Jacob “Dickson, minister of that Cork. This truly skilful’ and zealous" offi- 
parish, at avery advaneed agei— Rev. Peter cer, began his career‘under: Adm. ‘Saunders, 
Young) 49,miristér/of the SecessionChurch, in the Mediterranean, where (although’then 
in Jedburgh:-sAt Gladswood,'70, nearMel- a very young man), he had suflicient; nerve 
rose.J» Hilly:.esqu of, Walthamstow.—At to innoculate the Dey of ‘Algiers... The 
 Losset,; House,,-Argyleton,, Capt. James Emperor of Morocco. was also his patient. 
Nash; R.N. of. Farnham.—At Langholm, Dr. Haig served his country in the reigns of 
Mr. W.. Recutfon.—At Baxter’s Cross, near George II, III, and TV.—At Ballinrobe, 
Maxwell’s ‘Town, J. Finlay, esq, late of Mary, wife of J. Mc Robert, esq!’m.». 
Dumfries—At Annan Manse, 42, Rev. surgeon of the {Oth Hussars.) 1) S97 
if (4viafon 
f°" WNSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.” * % 0% 
_. We. have -to; acknowledge the favour of a beautiful collection of Danish songs’ and 
ballads, of which a specimen will be seen among the poetical articles of: the»piresent 
month. . One, or more, of these very interesting translations will appear in’edch suc- 
ceeding number. di areictr tinned ot iT 
We do not insert the verses of our Edmonton correspondent, for this reason,—that as 
our Own éars ie¥er yet could be reconciled to an alternation of blank and rh pming lites 
which thtows every response to the distance of sixteen syllables, we suspec ‘tha ‘there 
may be some of our readers whose ears are in the same predicament. Either let tis have 
rhyme,:or no rhyme,» No half-and-half measures in what pretends to be poetiyy ol! i gilt 
“An Old: Reader” puts.a question to us, which, without inquiry in other iquarters, we 
cannot answer....Perhaps it may not be impossible fora Constant\ Reader tor conjecture 
why we are not, as yct, quite off-hand at such responses. 5% i besueetl degd 
Jj. K. invades’ the proyince of the pulpit rather too. much, for. oun; purposes9ekis 
communication is, therefore, left for him at the publishers’. srordce anid 
- We suspect that our correspondent. W, R. meant to laugh at us for, the exter tto which 
the controversy about the “ Beggay’s Petition”’ has been carried in our pages. _ We should 
suppose, that fey of our readers would care very much who was the author of ‘sueli 
stanzas as the following, in the poem communicated, as proving themselves, ’ y internit 
evidence, to be from the same pen as the petition :— FRU US, TCA 
: . *« A poor old man Once went to wood, ” mig Yipee vols 
“ Distress’d far want of fucl ; . pine. § ae 
“Tat he might thaw his languid blood, SEF R SMSOUEE OAL ep 
“ And boil his siraple gruel.” fre 3 mada oF 
And yet this is the best stanza of the whole nine ; for, lackadaisical as it is, it willyran of, 
the tongue.) If the other stanzas would have done the same, we would haye printed the, 
whole,.asia ‘good, quiz on the pathos of simpleness. ye eee 
* Ye smock-frock’d cottager, mousse Uoinw 
«* Placing your pottager aj Dik solbpevcsy 
MM PH Gabe Yi ; ; “Upon the whste-scoured shelf,” ; 5 ee Hi t4., 
is not a pottage, eitlier in poetical or grammatical seasoning, suited to our palate.” ie 
will,:therefore,, be returned to the cook, when called for. Ur A61)7 GIOG, OIe Best } 
“’ Several-yaluable articles, that came too late for the’ present month, -are reserved Mur! 
future insertion ; Others, as not equally to our ‘purpose, ‘are left at*the publishers, ‘ve! 
retuned, ‘Our Correspondents’ are” requested to’ remember, ‘that communications not? 
post-paid will never come to ‘hand : . bat we should be obliged:to allthose avho shaye;mots 
to make use of the General! Postyiifthey would: remeniber «to Wite only on,one} side of, 
the paper. Those: writers who haye had no immediate,connexiontwith the press,can, hay, 
no conception of the difference this makes in the trouble of Editors and the printers, 1 ¢ 
NB. The Meteorological Report, for want of direct address to the publishers, Came 160 tte. 
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