I saw thee the prospect of ruin despise,

And firm, mid destruction, thy progress pursue;
When oft would a tear at thy danger arise,

And hide thy strong efforts awhile from my view.
But, shade of the mighty! thine efforts were vain,
To rouse in my cause each degenerate son;
Their spirits recoil'd at the prospect of pain;

They bow'd to their fears, and the brave were undone!

Foul falsehood rejoic'd, when MD...... had trac❜d
His name on the scroll thy destroyers unfurl'd;
Truth wept o'er the word, that she would have eras'd,
And Infamy publish'd the tale to the world!

When Treachery's triumph at length was complete,
And Death, the resource of the wretched was near,
I heard thy bold accents-when high on his seat,
They shook the proud heart of Injustice with fear!
Collected and calm, in the soul-trying hour,

Firm, firm, was thy footstep, nor faulter'd thy breath ;
Thou smild'st at the utmost exertion of power,
Resign'dst thy great spirit and triumph'dst in death!
O, Russell! tho' high o'er thy mouldering dust
No sculptor has chisell❜d thy actions in stone,
Nor rear'd the tall column, nor moulded the bust,
To grace the green sod that embosoms my son;
Yet there will the muse, in her sorrow, recline,

And cull sweetest flow'rets, to strew on thy grave;
The bosom of friendship thy name shall enshrine,
And dwell with delight on the deeds of the brave,
Farewell, blessed spirit! the finger of Fame
Has twin'd her fair chaplet thy brow to adorn
In ages to come will she boast of thy name,
And tell thy sad story to millions unborn."

:

She ceased to complain-and her harp's silent strings.
No longer were swept to the numbers of woe;
But, rising from earth on the cloud's fleecy wings,
She heav'd a fond sigh for her hero laid low!

A physician in Belfast, formerly an intimate companion of T. Russell's, but who afterwards basely joined in offering a reward for his apprehension,

PROSPECTUS FOR A NEW DAILY PAPER,

ENTITLED

"BOMBASTO EGOTISTICO'S EVENING POST."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CAP OF LIBERTY.
SIR,

Having determined upon encountering the trial of a daily Newspaper, I would request an early insertion of this my Prospectus. My Paper, for many reasons, ought to succeed, for, beyond a doubt, I am the greatest writer this world ever produced. For eighteen years I have carried on a weekly publication, containing nothing but dry, unalluring politics. I have sought none of the aids of poetry, of news, of advertisements; nothing to tickle the fancy, to gratify cupidity, or to entice the curiosity; I have appealed to the understanding, the sober sense and reason, the reflecting capacity of my readers, whose foibles I have never flattered, and whose vices, if they had any, I have always censured. I have always been a contemner of frivolity and effeminacy; I have always been an angry censurer of idleness, extravagance, gaming, and drunkenness; I have ever uniformly reprobated that degrading want of principle which could induce a man to leave his debts unpaid while he had sufficient property in his possession: I have, in short, rather rejected than made use of allurements of any kind: and, therefore, I prided myself upon carrying on for so many years, and with such unrivalled and dazzling talents, under all circumstances of difficulty and danger, whether at large or in a prison, whether at home or abroad, this publication, undeniably the most eloquent in point of diction, the most profound in point of reasoning; in short, the most famous in the world, and that, too, without any, even the smallest degree of assistance from any human being. I thought mine not only the most respectable periodical publication in England, nay, in the world, but I thought it the only one that merited that appellation. My abilities are unrivalled I stand as it were alone-a mass of sense amidst a host of fools. But it appears now, that the newspapers are respectable part of the Press," and that the new stamp laws are intended as merely a protection of that respectable part, against such writers as the renowned Bombasto Egotistico, who, upon this occasion, has been named outright! Now, therefore, without stopping to laugh at the miserable-ness of this pretence, be it hereby declared to all those whom it may concern, that I mean to avail myself of this protection!

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My Paper being an evening paper, shall follow close upon the heels of that prime tool of Corruption, "The Courier." Those who may choose to be deceived by that Paper, to adopt and cherish its base and sanguinary principles, and to believe its atrocious calumnies and lies, will stand in no need of my Paper, which shall be, like myself, the mirror from whence truth shall be reflected. But those who wish to see those lies exposed, to see the false pretences which are put forth through that channel, instantly detected; those who who wish to see the measures which are first announced in that Paper, instantly commented with an unequalled degree of perspicuity and talent, those persons shall find in my Paper an instructive and useful companion. As things now stand, the Newspaper Press is divided between two factions, both of which are hostile to the interests of the people at large. No truth which is useful to the nation, makes its appearance in the writings of the Editors of those Papers. Some of them are more immediately devoted to one faction, some to the other faction; some leaning to one faction or the other occasionally, but uniformly devoted to stock-jobbers and to that immense tribe who are concerned in the affairs of the paper-money; so that, taking the whole together, it is a mass of stupidity, fraud, and falsehood; which mass it will be my endeavour to expose, to dissipate, and to destroy the effects of.

Another strong motive to this undertaking, is, the pressing necessity of speedily noticing what passes in Parliament, of which I think myself able to give a better account than is given by the lazy and selfish wretches, whose comments are stupid when compared to mine, who now disgrace the daily Press. Never was there a time so full of events as the present. The fate of England will probably depend upon what the Parliament shall do during this very session. To wait a week, in order to be able to observe on what passes in Parliament, at such a crisis, is to neglect the means of doing a great part of the good that I know myself able to do. "Sufficient unto the day be the evil thereof;" a week produces a load so great as to make it impossible to disengage one's self from it.

The nation is too well accquainted with My manner of doing things, to make it necessary for ME to enter into any particular detail as to minor objects. Indeed, I need not say any thing to induce any one to believe, that, if I clap my shoulder to this sort of undertaking, all the questions relating to commerce, manufactures, agriculture, improvements of every kind, affairs connected with foreign nations,

and, in short, every matter deeply interesting to the nation, will, in my paper, he more clearly laid before the people, and far more ably discussed, than in any of those vehicles which have been denominated "the respectable part of the Press;" but which I say are, and which I will very speedily prove to be, a disgrace to literature, to politics, to morals, and to real religion.

The time and place of publication will be mentioned hereafter: 1 shall only add, at present, my advice to the Reformers in general, and particularly to those who have been distinguished for their intelligence and their spirit, never forgetting to name, with admiration, those of Lar cashire, Yorkshire, and the brave and virtuous Reformers of Scotland; my advice to them is, to so manage the matter as to divide, between twenty, thirty, or forty of them, the expence of this daily Paper: to twenty, it will cost about twopence a-week each. It will go by the post; and they will day by day be in possession not only of so much information as those who take The Courier, but of a great deal more information, for My splendid talents will render My Paper more valuable to you than either meat or drink.

Thus, then, instead of crushing my Publication, all the machinations against it shall but extend its circulation and give force to its efforts. During the period I was abroad, that is, from the time I ran away, until I again returned, I did an immensity, but corruption shall find that I am capable of doing a vast deal more.

An account of the market prices of stocks, an account of bankrupts, and so forth, will appear of course; but the type will be superior to any that was ever used in England or even in Europe, being expressly made for my writings, least they should be degraded by being sent forth to the world by type similar to those used by the insignificant writers of the day. As to advertisements, I must of course) take the money for them; but I will never unitate "the RESPECTABLE part of the Press" by inserting the puffs of Quacks, or of that profligate thing called the Lottery, unless I am paid at least treble, which I must, of course, accept, as an encouragement to persevere in my patriotic exertions. No young person shall, if I can withstand temptation, even have the mind corrupted by any thing that proceeds from under the name of

BOMBASTO EGOTISTICO.

N. B. A paper-mill is about to be established for the sole purpose of doing justice to my unrivalled merits, by giving forth my sentiments upon the best FOOL'S CAP.

BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF MR. KNIGHT.

A SECOND Letter has, it seems, been received from Mr. J. Knight by his family. The treatment he experiences in Lancaster Castle, will raise the indignation of every humane mind. He is allowed to correspond with none but his afflicted wife and family, and all his letters are transmitted to Lord Sidmouth previous to their reaching their destination. He has been deprived of his own clothes, and has been badged with the motley dress of a malefactor, and his own surtout has been unfeelingly denied him.

Is not this infamous?-but it is only similar to the general tenour of the conduct of the worshipful trio. This is only part of the infernal system which is now about to commence throughout the nation. We hope, however, that the pride of Englishmen will never let them submit to such arbitrary oppression. We hope they will stand forward and demand why an Englishman should thus be harrassed unnecessarily, to please the depraved passions of any set of men whatever. If a man is suspected of crimes, and if sufficient reasons exist to imagine such suspicions are well founded, the suspected party should be imprisoned, but there his punishment should end, until a Jury of his countrymen decided upon his guilt or innocence. But why such a person's letters to his friends or relations should be considered so far less sacred than those of another individual, as to warrant the inspection of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, we are at a loss to conjecture. If the man is innocent, it is punishing him without a trial, which is contrary to the principles of true justice; but what care Ministers for justice? their object is unlimitted power-their views are its attainment. This we have seen in the affair of the 16th of August, at Manchester, and through all the subsequent transactions in that quarter. Lord Castlereagh attempted to brazen out the whole affair, and indeed succeeded partially in the House of Commons, but not a single syllable of his speeches fuond credence beyond the walls of St. Stephens. If any credulous individual has paid the least attention to his impudent assertions, let him read the following extract of a letter published by Major Cochrane, late of the 15th Hussars, relative to what actually occurred at Manchester on that fatal day :

"After the arrival of the 15th Lussars to assist in dispersing the Meeting (the Yeomanry having previously, and in their absence advanced to the hustings), and when I was