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 hopes of revival. They will only crackle in the French furnace; and be diipated, in a moment, and for ever, in the tench and vapour of their noiome revolutions. Hitherto, in the unhine, in the genial air, of our contitutional liberty, our commerce has been an ever-green. With a revolution of our ytem, there would be a revolution of our climate. It would be the dreadful ign, at once, and the fatal completion, of our remediles fall.

"Perih our commenrce; live our contitution." So poke Mr. Grattan in the Irih Houe of Commons, on the buines of the Irih propoitions, everal years ago. He was not accued of undervaluing the commerce of Ireland. Yet it is not this gentleman to whom I referred, as the great and original authority. This is Rh