* When nature is wounded through all her dearest ties, she must turn on the hand that stabs, and endeavour to wrest the poignard from the grasp that aims at the life-pulse of her heart. And this she will do in obedience to that immutable law, which blends the instinct of self-preservation with every atom of human existence. And for this, in less felicitous times, when oppression and sedition succeeded alternately to each other, was the name of Irishman, blended with the horrible epithet of cruel But when the sword of the oppressor was sheathed, the spirit of the oppressed reposed, and the opprobrium it had drawn down on him was no longer remembered, until the unhappy events of a late anarchial period [1798] revived the faded characters in which that opprobrium had been traced. The events alluded to were the atrocities which chiefly occurred in the county of Wexford, and its adjoining and confederate district. Wexford is an English colony, planted by Henry the Second, where scarcely any feature of the original Irish character, or any trace of the Irish language is to be found. While in the barony of Forth, not only the customs, manners, habits, and costume, of the ancient British settlers still prevail, but the ancient Celtic language, has been preserved with infinitely less corruption than in any part of Britain, where it has been interwoven with the Saxon, Danish, and French languages. In fact, here may be found a remnant of an ancient. British colony, more pure and unmixed than in any other part of the world. And here were committed those barbarities, which have recently attached the epithet of cruel to the name of Irishman!