concerns of Ireland; at the fame time, he miffed no opportunity of improving himfelf, not only in the theoretic, but the practical, knowledge of his profeffion; in the latter view, as well as fpurning a life of inglorious inactivity, he determined to enter as a Volunteer into the Imperial fervice, that Power being then at war with the Turks, and had actually proceeded a confiderable way on his route to Belgrade, recently the principal scene of action, when a pacification between the Court of Vienna and the Porte neceffarily fuperfeded his defign. This anecdote of Lord Hutchinfon's profeffional cha racter is far from being generally known. To this fhould be added the relation of another circumstance, which equally evinced his Lordship's magnanimity, and quick fenfe of honour. On the occafion of the General Election in Ireland, in 1783, the reprefentation of the City of Cork was warmly contested: his Lordship's father was one of the candidates, and, in the event, returned elder Member. In the course of the election, fome language held by the late Sir John Conway Colthurft, Bart. with refpect to his Lordship's father, induced him, whose filial affection was equal to his fpirit, to call the Baronet to a perfonal account. On hearing that the latter expreffed his determination to engage him with fwords, on their firit meeting, the Noble Lord, then Colonel Hutchinson, caused his adverfary to be acquainted, that he was better killed in the science of defence than, probably, he imagined (Colonel H. being efteemed one of the best swordsmen in the kingdom), and recommended the ordinary mode of fighting with piftols. A meeting after wards took place, but which, on account of the interference of the friends of both parties, was not attended with ferious confequences.

The fubfequent remarkable occurrences in the Memoirs of Lord Hutchinfon are certainly of more public intereft; they are, however, more generally known, and many of the circumftances of too recent date, and too fully before our readers, to require touching upon in detail: a general notice of fome of thefe will fuffice. A few years after the period laft alluded to, he was brought into the Irish Parliament, on the fucceffion of his elder brother to the Peerage, as Reprefentative for a Borough (Taghmon, in the

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county of Wexford), in which the family were fuppofed to poffefs the neceffary degree of influence. At the General Election in 1790, the Right Hon. John Hely Hutchinton refigned his pretenfions for Cork, which City he reprefented more than twenty years, in favour of his fon, till Colonel Hutchinfon, whom he strongly recom mended to the Electors, in an eloquent and affecting addrefs, as a most eligible and unexceptionable perfon to fucceed him of courfe, he had the whole of his father's influence in his favour, which then included nearly the whole of the Corporation of Cork, and a refpectable thare of the Government intereft. This election was rather a contested one; the candidates being, befides Colonel Hutchinfon, Mr. Longfield (now Lord Viscount Longueville) and Mr. Bousfield, the author of fome political productions, particularly one in anfwer to Mr. Burke's celebrated "Reflections on the French Revolution." The refult of this election was, that Mr. Longfield and Colonel Hutchinfon were returned by a confiderable majority; and from that period his Lordship was a frequent, as well as a very able and eloquent speaker, on the important queftions which were agitated in the Irish Parliament.

Soon after the late eventful war had commenced on the Continent, and before Great Britain was forced to become a party, his Lordship repaired to the fcene of action, in order to improve himself farther in the practical part of his profeffion. It is faid, he visited the French camp, while the once popular and fortunate La Fayette commanded on the frontiers; and he certainly was foon after prefent at fome of the most important movements and operations of the Pruffian and Auftrian forces, under the command of that juftly celebrated General, the Duke of Brunfwick.

In a very fhort time after Great Britain became a party in the war, his Lordship, eager to fignalize himself in the fervice of his country, accompanied his friend, the gallant and much lamented Abercromby, as a Volunteer, in the first expedition to Holland, or, more properly fpeaking, to Belgium. On this occafion he difplayed an uncommon degree of refolution and intrepidity; and it is faid, he was one of the firit to enter the trenches at the fiege of Valenciennes. His Lordship

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was soon after raifed to comniand, and, progreffively, to the rank of Major. General, in which capacity he ferved during the late unhappy rebellion in Ireland, and near Caitlebar, a detachment under his command was oppofed to a much fuperior force, chiefly compofed of French veteran troops, led on by General Humbert: in this affair, the enemy had neceffarily the advantage; but General Hutchinson evinced equal bravery and skill in his operations, and, not long after, he affiited in the final discomfiture of the French invaders, when they furrendered to the British troops, by capitulation.

In the fecond expedition to Holland, the General was engaged in services the most perilous and active, and on every occafion distinguished himself in the most honourable manner. In the lalt general action which took place in the peninfula of North Holland, he fignalized himself with the greatest eclat, when he led on Lord Čavan's brigade, in confequence of that Officer's being difabled in the early part of the action; on this occafion General Hutchinfon received a fevere wound in the thigh throughout the various difpatches from the Chief Commanders on that expedition, his name and fervices were mentioned in the most honourable manner, particularly in that from the Royal Duke, defcriptive of the important action just alluded to.

In a few months after this, his Lordfhip had occafion to distinguish himself in a way very different from his recent profeffional exertions, but in an inftance where, perhaps, his talents fhone with a fuperior luftre, and in a fervice of much more importance to his country -we allude to the difcuffion of the great national question of the UNION in the Irish Houfe of Commons: on this occafion General Hutchinson really diftinguished himself, and on the 17th of February 1800 delivered one of the molt argumentative, as well as eloquent and impreflive, ipeeches, perhaps, ever

pronounced in a Legislative Affembly. One part, particularly, contains such a comprehenfive and irrefragable demonftration of the fuperior policy of Union, that we cannot refrain from extracting it.

"Irish independence, if it could be obtained without guile, it would be the height of folly and madness to aim at. Suppofe for a moment, that there was no honeft prejudice in favour of Great Britain-no common links of attach. ment-no ties of blood-no fimilarity of manners, laws, and language; yet ftill I fay, that connection and union with Great Britain ought to be the counsel and found policy of Ireland. Surely it is better for you to be a component part of a great and free Empire, than a weak and petty State, alone, and refting on the forbearance of France, a treacherous and defpotic Ally!"

His Lordship's fervices in Egypt are too well known, of too recent a date, and too fully before our Readers, through various mediums, to require expofition in the prefent inftance. It is of perfect notoriety, that after the death of his illuftrious and ever-to-belamented precurfor in command, Sir Ralph Abercromby, the reicuing the whole of that valuable country from our late adverfaries is chiefly to be attributed to the gallantry, skill, and profeffional exertions of his Lordship; and of this the Sovereign feemed fo fenfible, that he was honoured with the Red Ribbon of the Order of the Bath worn by his friend and predeceffor; and at the clofe of the Egyptian warfare, which was terminated by General Hutchinfon in a way to highly honourable to himself, and serviceable to his country, he was honoured by a ftill higher mark of the Royal favour, in being elevated to a Peerage of the United Kingdom by the title of Lord Hutchinfon, Baron of Alexandria, and of Knocklofty, in the county of Tipperary.

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fent the one as the period of all vice, and the other as the blameless and golden age. Perhaps this obfervation may not be wholly unfounded; and

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the remark made by others, of more acute penetration, may be juit--that all ages will, if accurately examined, be found equal in their virtues and their crimes; and that the world is neither better nor worse now than it was three or four thousand years ago.

It may, however, I think, be with much truth declared, that every age, though on the whole neither more virtuous nor more vicious than the preceding, has its characteristic faults and excellencies; which flourish and decay, and gradually give place to others of a newer fashion. It has been faid, that the fashionable virtue of the prefent age is Charity; and which I fincerely with may be true, fince there are certainly a multitude of jins among us which require to be covered by her extenfive mantle. Were I to venture to point out the prevailing vice (and which alone even Charity herself can fcarcely be hoped to hide entirely), I fhould name that most heinous one, CONJUGAL INFIDELITY.

My propofition will perhaps be allowed to be juft, when I ftate, that under this term of Infidelity I mean to include every breach, the least as well as the greateft, of that folemn vow and promife which is made, before the altar of God, by both parties who enter into this important (let not my readers fmile when I fay) this holy ftate of life; and that I confider the smallest breach of the love and duty reciprocally due from the husband and the wife to each other, as almoft undoubtedly introductive of the greateft crimes that either of them can be guilty of against God and mankind.

with fenfe enough to counterfeit for awhile the most engaging mildness of manners and tenderness of difpofition, after marriage throws off the mark; and valuing herfelf on preferving her virtue, thinks herself at liberty to dif regard every other tie of love and duty, Such a woman perhaps sports with the mifery the creates, and glories in it as a mark of her power over a man whom all her unkindnefs fails to alienate and who may ftill continue true to his part of the engagement, from motives the most pure and praife-worthy.

Nor is the companion to this portrait lefs deferving our compation, or (to the difgrace of the men be it spoken) lefs frequent. Here we fhall fee a mild and timorous female, unufed to reproof, unhackneyed in the ways of the world, subject to the brutal ferocity, the unfeeling haughtiness, of fome tyrannic Lord and Mafter; who, far from confi dering her as his equal, his dearest and beft half, the confidential friend of his bofom, and the facred repofitory of his nearest concerns, looks on her only as a flave, deftined to obey his will and tremble at his nod; or perhaps as the mere vehicle by which his name and family are to be continued-the subject of his fenfual pleasure and his capricious endearments, at thofe hours when he is tired of gaming, drinking, or other vicious, though fashionable, amufe ments.

If this be, as unhappily it is, the fituation of many in the married state, it may be worth while enquiring from whence thefe evils fpring; which, indeed, threaten to put an end to the inftitution itself, or at least to deftroy all hopes of happiness in it in the eyes of every reafoning perfon of either fex.

With respect to the men, when we fee how early boys are introduced into public life, and fuffered to be witnefies of fcenes" which thame the confcious cheek of truth"-when we reflect to what language they are daily and hourly permitted to liften-when we fee the ftate of Youth entirely blotted out from the book of fashionable life, and the fchool boy fuddenly start up into man

practifed-Are we any longer to won der at the exceffes into which they are carried headlong? And when the bloom of virtue is deftroyed, and debauchery has obtained complete poffeffion both of his mind and person, rendering them equally disgustful to

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the eye and the heart of female delicacy, if at last, by the mediation and importunity of friends and relations, and by the hypocrify of a few weeks, he obtains the hand of a virtuous woman in marriage-what must be expected to be the refult but diftaste and difguft? And this will be refented by the offender with all that malignity which the vicious ever bear towards those they have injured.

As to the female fex, I wish to deliver my fentiments in a gentler way; and yet there are furely faults on their fides which will not yield to gentle medicines. Among thefe ftand foremolt, as the leaders of thofe bands moft hoftile to connubial felicity, Pride and Affectation-A pride which induces them to confider themselves as degraded by doing their duty-which Tooks on every conceffion made to their hulbands as unbecoming a woman of Spirit; the most dangerous, and, let them forgive me when I add, the most deteftable character, when carried to its full extent, ever affumed by thofe who were "framed for the tender offices of love" a pride which blinds them to their own defects, and emblazons their excellencies beyond even the flatteries of a lover-an affectation which pre. vents them from acknowledging what they feel, and introduces a caprice destructive of their own and their hufband's peace. I will proceed no far ther in this unpleafant defcription.

In addition to thefe, failings, peculiar to each sex, ought to be mentionedthe thoughtless indifference with which this most awful engagement is entered into by the young, the old, and the middle-aged-the utter ignorance before-hand of what they are about to dothe inattention at the time as to what they are doing-and the forgetfulness, afterwards, of what they have done.

For BETTER for WORSE; for richer for

poorer; in fickness and in health; till DEATH us do part! Do these words mean any thing? And how are they confiftent with separate maintenance, feparate beds, feparate pleasures, and that great root of all evils, DIVORCES? If people come together with an intention, or even a confcioufnefs of the poffibility (not to fay the probability), of violating every condition on which they are joined, except thofe contained in the marriage fettlement, the performance of which may be compelled by law, it would be better at once to omit trifling with what is by fome religions efteemed a facrament, and to depend wholly on the Indenture Tripartite.

I know it is often alledged, by both parties, that the tempers and difpofition of the other are fo bad, they can't be borne with; and that it is better to part than to live in perpetual quarrels and uneafinefs. But whence does this complaint arife? From hypocrify before marriage, and want of patience and tenderness afterwards. Let but every married perfon, husbands as well as wives, keep in mind one fingle maxim, and I will venture to infure an end to at least two-thirds of the quarrels which arife between them. This maxim, therefore, I shall give my fair readers as a charm-it confists of three Greek words, which I will prefent to them in their original character, with the English pronunciation and tranflation; and which if they will repeat three times deliberately, before they utter one intended hafty expreffion, they need not doubt of fecuring the love and tenderness of their buf bands; whom I enjoin reciprocally to practice it when it comes to their turn:

Ανεχή και Απιχε.
An-ekou kai Ap-ekou.
BEAR AND FORBEAR.