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published and circulated all over the 
world long before I was born. 
Nov. 4. Davip Everarp Forp. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
, SIR, “1 : 
OUR’ correspondent: Cs Ry | says 
Uethat Elia’ has° stated’ that) the 
author of tlle’ Begear’s Petition’ was 
an uSher 10 a’ school? Pray, sir, donot 
believe’ Elia: the ‘wily rogue asserted 
it merely to draw from me the stupen- 
dous secret, he’ knowing that I held 
secrets in‘store, connected with that 
poem, much more important than the 
mere name! of the’ author, and which 
secret he was anxious to draw out of 
me; and’ now, in’ laying the name 
before’ the public, f know not whether 
it is not less to oblige your correspon- 
dent €.R: than the disconsolate friend 
of Elia, who seems, by his own ac- 
count;'to be, alas! no more; but who 
could, when living, twist me round 
his fingers. 
Behold, then, the name, ye curious 
thousands,—Dr. Josiah Webster. 
J Vox Emissa. 
¢ ——— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
‘SIR; 6? 
A S asupplement to the ecclesias- 
a tical article»inserted at page 
325-9 of the last volume of your inva- 
luable Miscellany, I herewith send 
you a statement of the incumbents of , 
the frish’ bishoprics, showing their 
connexion with seats in the Commons, 
House of Parliament, the dates of 
their appointments, and arranged in 
the order in which they sit in the 
Peers House of Parliament, pursuant 
to the Act of Union; a clause of which 
enacted, that one archbishop and three 
bishops should sit one session of Par- 
liament in rotation. SoH. 
The following ‘sat in the first session 
of the seventh Parliament of the United 
Kingdom, and first of George 1V. 
assembled April 21, 1820. 
Tuam.—Vie Right Hon. William 
Poer le Trench, D.v. brother of the 
Earl of Clancarty, created a bishop in 
1802, and preferred to the arehbishop- 
rie of Tuam, primacy of Connaught, 
and bishopric of Ardagh, in 1819. ‘This 
Right Rev. prelate supported by his 
vote the ‘second reading of the Bill of 
Pains and Penalties, against her late 
Majesty; but voted against the third 
reading. He was one of the most 
active and efficient co-adjutors of the 
Committee for the relief of the dis- 
wesses of Ireland in 1822, 
Discovery of the Author of the * Beggar's Petition.” 
567 
Leiyhlin and Ferns.—The Bishop of 
this see, in this session, was the Right 
Hon. R. P. T. Lofius (vide Clogher). 
Helwas succeeded in 1822, ‘at, Leigh- 
lin and Ferns, by the present prelate, 
Thomas Elrington, p.p. preferred from 
Limerick, to which he was appointed 
in 1820. 
Cloyne.—Charles_ Morgan Warbur- 
ton, D.D. was preferred to this bishop- 
ric in 1820, from Limerick, to which he 
was appointed in 1806. 
Cork and Ross:—The Hon. Thomas 
St. Lawrence, p.p. 1807... This Hon. 
and Rev. prelate voted in favour of 
the Bill of Pains and Penalties against 
her late Majesty in. all its, stages. 
Ferns and Cloyne did not vote at all. 
George IV. 2d session, 1821, 
Armagh.—The prelate who filled 
the archiepiscopal see of Armagh, in 
this session, was the Right Hon. Wm. 
Stuart, D.p. who died in 1822, and was 
succeeded by,the Right Hon, John 
George de la Poer Beresford, D.D. 
who was appointed to the bishopric of 
Raphoe in 1806; archbishop of Dub- 
lin in 3820, from whence he was pre- 
ferred to the archbishopric of Armagh, 
and primacy of all Ireland. The 
favours bestowed on this family, at the 
expense of the Irish and British peo- 
ple, ‘exceeds belief. There is no 
means of ascertaining correctly the 
amount they annually receive 5 but it 
is speaking within bounds to say, that 
it exeeeds the means of subsistence of 
more than 20,060 Irish families ; no 
fewer than eight of the family hold- 
ing church preferment; andi there are 
two (J. C. and H. B. Beresford,) on 
the Irish pension-list’ for no less than 
23371. 10s. per annum each, for loss 
of office as ‘wine-tasters at the port of 
Dublin; (vide page 26, Parliamentary 
Return, No. 596, session 1822.) The 
Marquis of Waterford is head of, the 
family, and influences about six votes 
in the House of Commons (vide ‘Times 
newspaper of the 20th of February, 
1823, for a very interesting exposition 
respecting them). 
Killalve.and Kilfenora.—The prelate 
who satin Parliament for this see, in 
this session, was Richard Mant, p.p. 
preferred to Down and Conner in 
1823; and was succeeded at Killaloe 
by AlexAnder Arbuthnot, p.p. C. Ar- 
buthnot, who sits in Parliament for St. 
Germain’s, Cornwall, influences also 
the vote of the member for Cashel, in 
Ireland. 
~ Kilmore.—George de la Poer Beres- 
ford, 
