kingston chronicle pts a nec rege nec pofulo sed utroque vol x saturday march 7 1829 no xxxvi poetry youth and age by s t coleridge verse a breeze mid blossoms straying where hope chugs feeding like a bee both were mine life weota maying with nature hope aod poesy wheu i was young when i was youn ah woful when ah for the change twixtnow and then this house of clay oot built with hands this body that does me grievous wrong oer hill and dale and sounding sands how lightly then itflashd along like those trim boats unknown of yore on winding lakes and rivers wide that ask no aid of sail or oar that fear no spite of wind or tide nought cared this body for wind or wea ther when youth and i lived int together flowers are lovely loveis flowerlike friendship is a sheltering tree o the joys that come down showerlike of beauty truth and liberty ere i was old ere i was old i ah woful ore which tells ma youths oo longer here o youth for years so merry and sweet tis known that thou and were one ill think it but a false conceit i ilh t for the second a good wife or wouldnt it be better not to have any wife at all well he thought for a long time without being able to make up his raiod what to wish for night was coming on and so donagha ga thering a great bundle of firewood up he tied it well with his gad and heaving it up on his shoulder away home with him do nagha was fairly spent with the work of the day so that it was no wonder he should find the load on his shoulder rather too much for him and stumbliug with weari ness he was obliged at length to throw it dowu sitting upon his bundle poor do nagha was in great botheration and the night was closing in fast and he knew whatkindofa welcome hed have before biin if he either staid out too late or return ed without full load of firing would to heaven says he in distress and forgetting the power of his wish would to heaven this bro3na could carry me instead of my be ing obliged to carry it immediately the brosna began to move on with him and seated on the top of it poor donagha cut a mighty odd figure surely for until he reached his own door he never stoppod roaring out a thousand murders he was so vexed with himself at having thrown away one of his wishes so foolishly his wife vauria mary was stauding at the door bell hath not yet tolld ttvmrtvlip thy vesper aud thou weft aye a masker bold what strange disguise hast now put on to make believe that thou art gone i see these locks in silvery slips this dragging gait this altered size but springtide blossoms on thy lips and tears take suushiue from thine eyes life is but thought so think i will that youth aud i are housemates still liltehauy from the london literary gazette legends of tht lakes or sayings and do ings at kiltamey colleted chiefly from the mss of it adotphus lynch esq of the kings german legion by t crofton crokcr2 vols lmo london 1829 j ebes and co continued there was once along time ago a poor man whose name was donagha dee and he lived in a small cabin oot far from a forest in the heart of the county kerry ireland at that time was not so bare as it is now but was covered with great ft j rests inasmuch that it is said a squirrel might have travelled from dingle de couch to the city of cork without once touching the ground now you must know that do nagha was a very poor man and bad a scolding wife so that between his wife and ins poverty he could scarcely ever get a moments peace a raau might per haps put up with across word now and then from a woman if site was pretty or looking out for him ready to givo him a good sulettiug but she was fairly struck dumb at seeing donagha so queerly inouut- cd and at hearing him crying out in such a manner l hen she came a little to her self she asked donagha a thousand questi ons about how he came to be riding upon a brosna and poor donagha bitig s0 questi oned could not help telling her the whole story just as it happened it was then that she was mad angry in earnest with him to think that he would throw away his luck donagha wornoutand perplexed was not able to bear it aod at length cried out as loud as he could i wish to heaven i wish to heaven that ireland was between us nosooocrsaid than doceforhe was whipp ed up by a whirlwind and dropped at the northeastern side of ireland where dona- ghadee now stauds aud vauria house and all was carried off at the same time to its most southwestern spot beyond dingle and not far from the great atlantic ocean the place to this day is known by the name of tig ua vauria or marys house and when people would speak of places wide asunder it has become a sort of pro verb to say 4 as far as tig na vauria from dauaghadee aod lints the reason sir the lowercanada watchman no viii pro patsia to depart in the minutest article from tht nicety and strictness of punctilio is as to national honolit ttstofi- dangt i ous maittirtw javits to louis joseph papineau esq had any other good aboutherbui milucki- sir ly douaghas wife had nothing at all to when i last addressed myself personally recommend her for besides being cross to yon oo the subject of your conduct at she was as old and as ugly as the black gen- opening the present session of tie provin- tteman himself so you may well suppose cial parliament i did not expect that i they had but adogandqattish sort of life should thus early be under the uopleasant one morning in the beautiful month of necessity of paying you a similar visit i may donagha was quietly smoking his co0enpipe in the chimneycorner when then convicted you in the face of your couutry of having gone officially ioto the his wife coming in from the well with a presence of the representative of our most can of water opened upon him all at once gracious sovereign with a base and de ns if there were a thousand beagles in her j signing falsehood oo your lips but throat you lazy goodfornothing though amidst my hopes of wiser measures stocagh said she have you nothing else to and happier limes i did not anticipate do this blessed morning but to sit poking o- th ushe with yoor doodeen stuck iu your jaw wouldnt it be fitter for you to be gathering a brosna firewood than to be setting there as if you were fasteucd to the sieshtheen low scat with a twclvepeo- ny nail all this shesaid and much more to which donagha made no reply but qui etly took his billhook and gad and away with him to the forest i dont kuow what i public criminal of no ordinary character any very particularly glaring act on your part deserving a direct and immediate vi sitation oo mine yet had i called to mind the philosophical maxim of the poet that one false step forever damns the rest i ought to have been assured that a career like yours commenced in malice and ini quity must inevitably terminate in crime and confusion you are indeed sir a are reported in the third person to have made use of the following language mr speaker trusted few persons could entertaiu such servile sentiments or lend themselves to he the instruments of such a man as lord dalhousie a man who was deaf to every sentiment but tbose of pride prejudice and despotism sentiments that were fostered by those who surrouud- cd him and which deservedly stigmatized him as the author of all the evils which had been inflicted upon this country a man who had been deservedly recalled with dugrace a man disgraced in the eyes of his sovereign of his country aud of the province be had so deeply injured sir that you uttered his language io your place ou the occasion alluded to i have nit doubts whatever of this i am well ad vised as well through other channels of in formation as by the printed report of the debate but were the case otherwise i could easily have recognized it as the off spring of your heated imagination and in solent temper it bears the very impress of your soul it is the foul abortion of your malignant heart and carries along with it tvery characteristick of that spirit of enmity which it has ions been your stu dy how o wreak oo a great patriot preat hero an a great man a man to use your own mode of express 0 whose life and character are as far heoiid the re ich of your petty malevolence as his ivnk and dignity ire superior to pl hian vnlpwiff aud rude- or a ll purpose at present f defend him from the attacks of so despicable an assassin as you arc lord liaraent before the country and the world aud in the sight and hearing of your co-ad- juters messieurs nelson viger aud cu- villier declared that the still higher situ ation the noble lord would soon be called on to fill would be the best proof that he had not iucorred the disapprobation of go vernment was it when mr stanley whom i dare say you will not accuse of flattery to lord dalhousie or deceit to yourself said in his place in the house of commons that he could not refrain from loing the noble earl who was at the head of the government in canada the justice of observing that he mr stanley felt convinced that the noble earl if he had uotthe good fortune to give satisfaction to the petitioners had acted in conformity with the instructions he had received from government was it when lis lordship lust emlvrkod with such distin guished honours for his native country car ryiug iu this hnnd the recorded approba tion as governor in chief of every loyal and enlightened man in the province and in his heari a deep seuse of the good wishes of every individual of humanity respectability or was it when his lord ship wjs so graciously received by the kin and his ministers will ho report of truiv sir if his he hi administration disgrace housie was that the canadians had now a man who would shake hands with them my information does not authorize me to state positively that you are the author of this most ungenerous sneer and uncom plimentary remark towards sir james kempt aud indeed you are upon the whole an nimal whose ars are too long to be saddled with any observation of point but mr cuvillier is an auction eer and of consequence a licensed wit by profession at al events this shaking- hands business shews in a most extraor dinary light your very wtighty reasons for aceusiug lord dalhousie of pride and pre judice let me ask you whether it is pride and prejudice in toy honest man to de cline shaking hands with a personal ene my and a common calumuiitor of his fame are you not a personal enemy of lord dalhousie and have ycu uoipuhlick- ly avowed youiself to he so the litlle honour that may be left to you alter such an avowal will not allow you to do other wise than to answer in the affirmative have you ever meddled with lord dal- housies character in private or calumnia ted his reputation as a governor in pub- lick dare you hesitate for an answer 1 if you da i will send for proof of the first to vour friends and of the other to vour ii is a disgrace rarely m he exj own manifesto and speeches iu and out of perienced vio in this age iud country- parlhtieiit as well as those midnight but you have said that lotd dalhousie i rhapsodi which von are said to have ut- disgr ted in ihe eves of his country vbat tered preparatory to the complaint soul country 7 if you mean ft rent britain i home against his lordship iidyouevi yon state what is not only false hut mail- 1 pollute the walls of downing street with rious there is not within the whole com pass of that gre t nation distinguished as it is above all uthers for worth virtue aod talent a nobleman who is more highly punish not to respected or more extensively beloved than dalhousik neither needs nor will he thank mc for si unnecessary a piece of service my preset object has a different tendency it is not 0 defend but to save hnl tocondemu t is first to exhi- lrd dalhousie but if you confine his bit you i your country and the world is a digraee to what you call your country designing vm ystcmatirc camuitor and defamer public worth aod integrity and ih ony the nation canadienne i understand you nd find myself at uo loss to conceive i in the se piece to transmit your name he extent magnitude aud consequeuce to posterity as one every way deserving j of such disgrace when promulgated to infamy disgrace scorn and derision j the world by you the hired the well- with conduct of the house of as- paid calumniator of the puhlirk as well sembly 0 the expulsion of one of its own private character of lord dalhou- membeitf f delinquencies over which sie if even proven i maintain they possess uo o much for the falsehood of your jurisdiction i shall not at present inter- j statement i come next uuisdkfamation fere thmizh perhaps i may take another you assert with an audacity very suitable j crown and your sen aual 7 aud do you now suppose that you or any of your gang are fit to he taken by the hand by such h man as lord dalhousie his lordship is loo much of a man of honour too much of a gcutlc- inau and too little of a polincian to grasp by the hands those whom he cannot trust with his fame 1 once had the mortifica tion to see a droukeu scavenger with his dirty broom ou his shoulder come up to a peer of the realm and for no other cause or provocation than his being a lord abuse i j in iu the most opprohtous epithets to myself aud others who stood by this was a scene of disgust aud abhorrence but to the noblemau himst if it was oolyoueof merriment he gave the scavenger a his abuse opportunity to express mv sentiment on a measure fraught with danger to the con stitution and alarm to the country- i shall only in the language of lord chatham say that it was the act of a mob and not of a senate it resembles in a remarka ble degnethe proceedings of the judge of hell as described by the poet guossius hmc rhadamanthushabctduris sima regna castigarmie auditque dolos subiiritque fatiri sir my charge against you is threefold falsehood dffamattos and scutl- rilitt you say that lord dahousie was deservedly recalled with disgrace and that he ia man disgraced in the eyes of his sovereign and country sir were you a man whose veracity was undoubted until to the hole teuorof your character aud conduct that lord dalhousie is a msu ws immediately changed into expressions of praise and gra- judg we titudc sir if you will have the gooduess mace from the table ne potism most excellent oie you to your shoulder we shall behold eof seutiment and character tell us o exact representation of the scavenger pray thee where you have culled the d lis broom vith this exception that deaf to every sentiment but those of pride j t0 transfer that prejudice and despotism most excellent fore you to your now i should be apt so far to give belief if one miuf judge from itsuatureaud to your assertion as to call upon you to j extent tl at it could not have come through produce proof of your avermcuts but i a much purer channel your owu perso- produce proot ot y wheu honest men meet with such a fellow you are branded as you have for veals f en as the personal enemy of lord dal- 1 tra- made him so quiet with her may be he wasnt in fighting humour and may be he thought it bestto get out of her way for they say a good retrate is better than a bad fight any day a beautiful fine day it was sure enough the sun was dancing through the trees and the little birds were singing like so many pipers at a pattern so that it was like a new life to douagha who feel ing the cockles of hisheart rise within him took up his billhook aud began to work as contented as if he had nothing at home to fret him but he wasnt long at work when he was amazed at the sound of a voice that seemed to come out of the middle of the wood and though it was the sweetest voice he had ever heard he couldnt help being frightened at it too a little for there was something in it that wasnt like the voice of man woman or child donagha do- nogha said the voice but donagha didnt much like to answer donagha said the voice again so when donagha heard it again he thought may be it would be bet ter for him to speak here i am says he and then the voice answered back a- gian donagha dont be frightened said the voice 4 for sure im only st brandon thats sentto tell you because youre a good christin and minds your duty you shall have two wishes granted to you so take care what you wish for donagha och success to you for one saint any how said donagha as he began to work again think ing all the time what iu the wide world he had best wish for would he take riches for bis first w sh then what should he take as been as mc p housie his defame in publick and ducer in private life they very naturally j put their own construction upon your state ment without troubling you for proof be ing satisfied that he who will malign with out cause will stab without justice that he who scruples not to asperse in gratifi cation of personal reseutmeut will have do hesitation to arraign without evidence but bo tftauda the fact do you really dare to affirm in your place iu the assem bly that lord dalhousie was recalled with disgrace y thank god that vour notions oi disgrace are different from mine i shall hereby nothing of my right to maintainfrom aught that we have seen or heard to thecoutrary that lord dalhousie has not been recalled at all aud that his lordship is to this hour governor in information upon which you found your you have cot yet heto paid the crown o- statement i fear this is a thing which therwise your clamour against lord lal- yoti will take credit to your prudeuce for housie would long ere now have ceased ntlbuomrng it is most true that n thievish- nd be probably turned ioio abject adula- lyinclined menial discharged ht his lord- ion but i have becu told that you are a mau of extensive reading if so yon cau be at no loss ii what part of parodist lost to find a more apt parallel you will there find your own rounterpan as faith fully depicted n rve found herself reflect ed when she first beheld her shadow in the pool as to your scurrility sir it is worthy both of yourself the cause which you ad vocate in the vocatiou of scurrility you appear to be exceedingly well versed it seems to he your native element as filth is that of vermin you have heeo thought eloquent i think so too but it is only iu scurrility did i not know by your ship was ouce of a lime much and fomdy caressed for authcutick inormaiiou with respect tu bis masters private character aod bearing was it from this despicable scoundrel ibis suitable pander to your valvar curiosity that you collected vour information iwill not say absolutely that it you got 1 i was but from whatever source your information it is most cer- nal observation with whatever intelligence aud scrutiny it might have been exercised i beg leave totally to exclude and deny wliht your notions of society really are 1 principles that you area native of this have uo means of beig acquainted b ufa province 1 should have no hesitation from though from a variety of circumstances the style and character of your language aod the company whom you court and to apply at billingsgate for a certificate of keep i fear as a gentleman that i must your nativity but scurrility is a trade so low rate your is tu fat beneath as you conceive that he has been actually recalled 1 thank you to shew mc tho marks the em blems or the tokeos of this disgrace i presume you conceive it to be au extraor dinary mark of disgrace to he called from the pitiful government of a pitiful people like the sation canadienne having neither knowledge of their rights nor gratitude for their privileges as a british people to the military command of a quarter of the globe a command which the proudest intoxicated with impudence there is uo end of your rudeness frantick with rage there arc no bounds to your malevolence chief of these provinces but granting the high aud the low among such as do has r i not coiocide with you in opinion are e- qually objects of your hatred and resent ment no character however pure is safe from your envy and falsehoods no virtue however exalted is secure from the base instruments of your jealousy and reveuge the very air is tainted with the poison of your malignant disposition and the coun try resounds with your abuse of characters not only your superiors in murals but in rank aud dignity virtue and patriotism sir you seem to traffick in defamation you move in an orbit of publick slander and have rallied round you as satellites all the baser feelings of a rancorous aud dia bolical heart stand up thou malicious demagogue thou insolent defamer of go vernors executive councillors and all men in this province having authority in the administration of justice and govern ment come forth i say and if we can not penetrate into the rancour and rotten ness that perpetually agitate thy turbulent bosom let us at least behold that brazen countenance capable only of reflecting the basest and most distorted images yes there thou art we view thee but des pise thee we behold thee but spurn thee we contemplate thee but loathe thee as a reptile to be shunned if possible but if not to be trampled upon in the debate wbich took place on the resolutions for expelling mr christie you estimate them at a very naiura sphere therefore that of lord del housie your owu cur to be beneath yourself such men as you herd not with the noble and the great- it is true that the same planer gave you hirth but there are or ders and distinctions of men as well as of beasts and in the same degree that the croaking crawling toad is inferior to the majeslick lion so are you different from lord dalhousie you early felt your own insiuificance and tlis inferiority i know not whether ii proceeded from the envy of your nature or the clownishncss of your hirih hut his lordship was but a little time in this province when you shrunk in to your owu native atmosphere and the only romedj left to a person iu your con dition was the pitiful and unmanly under taking of pulling after you those who stood above you but especially his lord ship because he stood above all at the top of the gradation now that his lordship isgoue and you cooceive yourself exult ed a little beyond your natural sphere you era of rome could not confer is it upon have the cowardice and baseness to reduce men in disgrace that such honors and he- h character and publick reputation to a befits are bestowed in this generous and level w lib your own hut sir you have just nation but which of the scullions in the kings kitchen told you or some of your friends lately in eugland that lord dalhousie was disgraced iu the eyes of his sovereign when and where was this disgrace earned and consummated was it when his lordship was nobly fighting the bautles of bis country io egypt in the west indies in spain and in france was it when he was shedding his blood in the caise ofeurope aud of freedom or was it when like a man and a patriot and in the exercise of the delegated func tions if that sovereign in whose eyes you say he is disgraced he withstood you and your desperate despairing crew when you so clamorously and insanely assailed the the constitution and the dearest rights of every true briton iu the province was it when the minister in his place in par- may 1828 undertaken a difficult tsk- a task which neither yourself nor the whole myrmidons of your faction congregated around you will ever be able to execute lord dal housie sits secure in the inist of an im pregnable fortress of private worth ami public esteem reared by his deeds fortifi ed by his integrity and embellished by the approbation of his sovereign and country agaiost which neither the cla mour of party nor the poisoned salts of malevolence can ever prevail et tell us whether it was you or your frieud mr cuvillier in a late private discussion of tle merits of the present administration who observed that after all the only dif low so gross aod so loathsome that uo man however equivocal his rcputntiou eau he injured by it and it is only the grubs of the earth that traftick in it at the end of the session i pnuutti ywu wfii b meu tell us the amount of your gains if your profits be equal to your industry you will be able to lay up a capital that will enrich your posterity without rendering them cither the envy of others or respectable in eheirown eyes as to the principal object af your inveterate malice his escutcheon tti too pure and his coronet too exalted to e any ways stained or disturbed by such ribaldry as yon are master of if you io- nend that it should have any effect i would nherefore advie you to vend your poison among your own circle there it may do ood to all parties whilst its use will serve to roovict the utterer of baseness the circulators will he punished as acces sories their punkhmeot will indeed be dissimilar but equally effectual the lat ter will die an ignominious death and be forgotten the former will uudergo no ignominious death too but his memory will live to be deplored by his posterity and execrated by his countrymen but who are you sir who thus stand forth as the head and champion of all the disaffected aud disseusious of all the evil and ignoble spirits in the country by what right of inheritance have you thus he- come at once the advocate of sedition aod the calumniator of all men iu legitimate au thority if you have any other titles but those of a cowardly heart aod a malevo lent disposition produce them i entreat of you but conscience whispers to you that you cannot she also tells you that with ihe exception of a few acres of ground aud a disrelish of british government aud supe riority vu have oo other inheritance you will not of course and the publick is not houud to take my word for this i am ference betw it an t of lord dal- ihcreforo bound to prove it- in doing so seelebaie iu the house of commons s adduce as my first wituess a gtsutle ou the civil government of canada 2d man whom i dare say you venerate very much and whose veracity i presume you will oot be disposed to call in question ml i kuow of this gentleman myself h that he is reported to be a rank democrat and to have taught you the elements of your politicks he was himself too iu bin time a noted politician and for some time held a seat in that branch of the legislature of which you say yourself for i deu the fact that you are spkakkr iu that ca pacity the venerable gentleman in question said something rude and insulting to a bro ther representative this reproeutative was not to be overdone iu acts of benevo lence of this kind accordingly sent a ci vil message to ue venerable iiou ncm begging bis company at a certaiu place next morning to meet one or two lie ads it is a very extraordinary circumstauce nd has never yet been accounted fortlougl this affair took place mauy years since that too venerable member though ml etc with the characteristiek politeness of his coun tryman neither availed himself of the in vitation of his friend nor scut uy apology for his absence it is sagely presumed that some family concerns called hilukway ra ther hurriedly be that as it may he was never rgaiu seen in bis place in tl e ak m- biy ami his seat is bow occupied by a de scendant every way woithy of the sire what relation you sir bear to this ve nerable man of the people 1 v ill leave yourself aod others to determine let me only add that if you do not iuiciil his lly- ine propiusities you art fulli idmijual as well in giving as in receiving lutitlttious of honour- the hole province laughed at you wheu mr m pulled you l the nose in the lobby of the house ol assi mblj aud you had the courage to tell him that you would prosecute him you in a j think me personal- but do you really think that any tiling can he none personal than tel ling n man lift i be is deaf to cvtry senti ment but pride prejudieo ttbu nputism do you no in effect anil in fact call sueo a man ncouittds do you not oeuoi in ate him as a miu destitute of every scuin ent of honour and principle of justice and what man of honour or courage would take taunt or insult from ou who inherit nei ther by bilthf and upon whose heart uo ex ample or custom can make any impression through life without doors to use a parliamentary phrase the province has yet to e ro tho grounds of your pretensions to ihe invidious office of publick censor and still more infa mous profession of general calumniator whence tell us this singular assumption of precedency w houce this robe these emblems of authority iih which you have invested yourself forthat authority must indeed be threat which gives you a censu ring and condemning power over the high est and gravest offiu s ol jviruiient what uew dignity is this which iu have exclusively appropriated tooureli pro duce your patent i leg of you lor ii as hitherto eluded il our senses of touch and vision 1ron which of tie gicl ami vir tuous actio us of your liie bis it ttaaui led i have knowu you lor man years ao to none of those can 1 trace it i kuow u what wiu esteem as acts of virtue and uu- manily but i will tell you oie or two that i do not consider iu that light 1 uo not esteem it either virtuous geneious vc uu- maue in you to have shut jour heart und your purse against the claims ol tne suiier- ers from the newiiruuswuk coujtgiuon at a time wheu every other heart auu purse in the province and in the empire was throw n opeu to their uecessiues and wleu as speaker you had pocketed mauy thou sand pouuds of the publick money ileir solicitations though made by gentlemen everyway your superiors were received i with the cold inhuman remark that the uf- 1 ferers were hut des anglols undergoing the i yft of a ww fwqpmimmni an infernal one deeds of charity ought to be done in private uor will 1 inult the leading object of your malice by contrast ing hid cuuduct on this occasion with yours it will be sufficient to say that were i to do so the publick would be at no loss up on whom to fix the stigma o pride preju dice and despotism lorn dalhousies charity has ever been munificent yours has always been confined to a vote iu the house of assembly he always gave away his own in elemosynar gilts you were contented and gratified by disposing ol the property of otheis do you reneuber but why should i insult the publick with a catalogue of your crimes are they not already wejlunowu do we oot find ample proofs of them in every countenance at the bare nieulioo of your uiiniu is not the name of yapikkav by- word and a proverb is it not held in derision by all who wish well to the coun try is it not synonymous not only with pride prejudice and despotism but with every ti iog that is ridiculous bigot ted and obstinate are not the very cahots now called fopineaus but let us behold you in another character let us behold you within doors as the phrase has it you were brought up to the law a most n ami res profession in which in a letter from pope to arbuifnot dated 26th july 1731 he says to re form and not to chastise i am afraid u impossible aud that the best precepts as well as the best laws would prove ofmau use if there were no examples io enforce them to attack vices in the abstract without touching persons may be safe fight ing indeed but it is fifthtiug with shadows mv greatest comfoit and encouragement to proceed hasheen to see that tl ose who hove no shame and no fear of any thing else have appeared touched by my satires t lc