of romantic feeling which can affect only the Earl of Fingal? In a
parish where there are four thousand Catholics and fifty
Protestants, the Protestants may meet together in a vestry meeting
at which no Catholic has the right to vote, and tax all the lands in
the parish 1s. 6d. per acre, or in the pound, I forget which, for
the repairs of the church--and how has the necessity of these
repairs been ascertained? A Protestant plumber has discovered that
it wants new leading; a Protestant carpenter is convinced the
timbers are not sound; and the glazier who hates holy water (as an
accoucheur hates celibacy, because he gets nothing by it) is
employed to put in new sashes.

The grand juries in Ireland are the great scene of jobbing. They
have a power of making a county rate to a considerable extent for
roads, bridges, and other objects of general accommodation. "You
suffer the road to be brought through my park, and I will have the
bridge constructed in a situation where it will make a beautiful
object to your house. You do my job, and I will do yours." These
are the sweet and interesting subjects which occasionally occupy
Milesian gentlemen while they are attendant upon this grand inquest
of justice. But there is a religion, it seems, even in jobs; and it
will be highly gratifying to Mr. Perceval to learn that no man in
Ireland who believes in seven sacraments can carry a public road, or
bridge, one yard out of the direction most beneficial to the public,
and that nobody can cheat the public who does not expound the
Scriptures in the purest and most orthodox manner. This will give
pleasure to Mr. Perceval: but, from his unfairness upon these
topics I appeal to the justice and the proper feelings of Mr.
Huskisson. I ask him if the human mind can experience a more
dreadful sensation than to see its own jobs refused, and the jobs of