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| Notices of ‘Dr. Efmond-—- Lord Mountjoy. 
gnere writer; Mr. Giffard became a militia 
officer, and Mr. R. fucceeded him as editor. 
The character of the print, now under his 
fole aufpices, befpoke {till more ftrongly the 
character of Mr. R’s mind. According tofome, 
it was conduéted with zeal and intelligence ; 
according to others, it was marked -by the 
moft deteftable {cyrrility, and irritating info- 
lence. 
life from that period, until the embodying 
‘of the yeomanry, in which he obtained a 
command of fome men, in a remote .part of 
the town, and until the commencement of 
the préfent troubles in Ireland, when his 
zeal became more than ever ‘cOnfpicnous. Of 
the circumftances of his arrefting Lord Edward 
Fitzgerald, from whom he met ‘his death, 
and the melancholy confequences attending 
that tranfa€tion, the public are fully i in pot 
feffion. 
- Qn the 14th of June, Dr. Efmond,"a lieu- 
tenant of the Kildare yeoman cavalry, was 
executed on Carlifle-bridge, purfuant to the. 
fentence of a court-martial, by, whom. he’ 
was found guilty of having affitted the people 
in their attack on Profperous, a “manufac- 
turing village, in the county of Kildare. 
Of the hiftory of this gentleman the public 
know little, nor is there much: in it Which 
can intereft them. To him life was an_un- 
ruffled ftream, down whofe placid current he 
glided, tafting every {weet which improving 
fortune, and jncreafing friends, fuccefsful | 
loye, and domeftic happinefs, could offer, 
until.the political tempeit thickened round 
him, and plunged him into ruin! He was 
the younger brother of Sir Thomas Efmond, 
the prefent head of a very old family in the 
county of Wexford, but of which the patri- 
mony had been confiderably diminifhed,. Mr. 
Efmonds however, though a younger brother, 
Was not atany time a diftreffed man. He was 
early apprenticed to. a furgeon of eminence, 
with whom having completed his: appren- - 
ticefhip, he entered into bufinefs for himfelf, 
His family connexions, and an eafy elecanes 
ef mannets, which added confiderably to the 
recommendatoxy influence ofa fine perfon, 
foon procured for him a degree,of prac- 
tice in his profeffion which enabled him to 
live in a ftyle of fomething more than. com- 
Fort; but he’ was not long to depend on his 
practice as afurgeon. A lady, pofieffed ofa 
perfonal fortune of 12,000}, and a confider- 
able landed property, encouraged his ad- 
dreffes, and accepted his hand.. With her he 
had now, for a ‘confideredle time, enjoyed 
every comfort, and every pleafure, which 
fuch a connexion may be fuppofed to afford, 
when the breaking out. cf the in fuethion, 
and. the attack on Profperous, near which he 
lived, called him to the commiflion of the 
erime for which his life has been the forfeit. 
It is impoflible to conceive, but that Dr. Ef- 
fMond’s firft motives to engage in what is 
galled the popular caufe, muft have been , 
‘honourable and patriotic,-—-but, ia pejusruers 
Montaiy Mac. No, xxxit.0 
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Little of importance occurred in his’ 
479. 
is the weaknefs, the misfortune of human’ 
nature, How few can afcertain the precife 
paint at which, in the pracefs of the moft * 
laudable principle towards. its extreme, 
virtue begins to be a yice, and wifdom. gives’ - 
place to folly, His condué at the place of : 
execution, was that of a man neither‘ inféne 
fible to his fituation, noy finking under its. 
horror; he was colle&ed, but he | appeared - 
to feel the. ferioufnefs. of death,. By his ré- 
jection of the comfort derived fram clerical. 
affiftance in the laft moments of life,: he. 
feemed to ditbelieve the efficacy of the mer 
chanical appendages of devotion. 
Killed, in an ation with the fursentaae 
at Rofs, on the sth of June, Luke, Baron. 
Mountjoy, a nobleman whofe public conduct * 
made no man his enemy, and whofe private: 
life was erabellifhed: by every grace, which» 
tafe, learning, and mild manners, could throw * 
around it. His lordthip was not illuftrious by: 
birth. His grandfather was, in the early part. 
of his life, an hired domeftic ; but the caprice 
of fertune left him at his death i in.poffeffion - 
of ayery confiderable fortune ; which, by the 
fuccefsful exertions of his fon, the father of 
his lordihip, and an affiduous partizan of the 
Irifh court, was yet farther increafed. His 
lordihip having fucceeded to the poffeffion of 
property thus prepared for him by the good 
fortune and iaduftry of his two anceftors, and” 
having finifhed his collegiate ftudies at Gam- 
bridge,. was elected a reprefentative in parlja=. 
ment for theounty of Dublin, which he cone. 
tinued to reprefent, until he was called to the. 
Houfe of Peers. In no part of his parlig- 
mentary career, did he affect the charatter of 
a zealous patriot; and yet, in fome occafions, 
he exerted himfelf, on the popular fide, with » 
zealand ability. Of thef intermittent efforts . 
for. the people, the moft fplendid was. that - 
which his loydfhip made to obtain 4 fyftem ef. 
- protecting duties for the manufaétures of Ire- 
land. Since the opening of Irifh commerce, ° 
in the year 1779, this meafure had become . 
_a great favourite of the public; it had been 
found, that the mere privilege. of ‘exporting | 
their manufa€tures could be of little real ufey. 
while the fuperior fkill, induftry, and capital, 
of Great Britain, enabled her to underiel the 
Irifh in their own market; it wag therefore. 
defired that parliament fhould impofe fuch 
duties on the importation of Britith manue : 
factures, particularly woollens, as fhould coun- » 
teract the f fuperior advantages which fhe en- : 
joyed over the lrifh mani fa@turer. By thefe, 
it was faid, Ireland would be able to ftand a: 
competition with the manufacturer of Great 
Briain, and ultimately avail herfelf of ‘her’ 
many natural, advantages which, without 
that proteétion, muft for eyer remain ufelefs. 
—Mr, Gardiner was of this opinion; and 
after the queftion had long been agitated, in- + 
deed influenced the public mind, he propofed'ta 
the houfe of commons a motion declaratory > 
of the neceflity of fuch a’ fyitem. of duties. 
In the fpeech by which he prefaced his. mo-. 
3 Q i Motion, 
