wound until it closed upon it! He was found next day by a British patrole, with a benignant smile of conscious virtue on his countenance, with life sufficient remaining to point to the fatal depository of his secret. In searching the wound was found the cause of his death; for the surgeon declared that it was not in itself mortal, but rendered so by the irritation of the paper. Thus fell the patriot soldier

"Cut off from glory's race,

"Which never mortal was more fond to run;

"Unheard he fell!

"In rank a corporal, he was in mind a hero. His name 'Lavery; his country, Ireland: Down was his county, and the parish Moira, in which a chaste monument records at once His fame, and the gratitude of his illustrious commander and countryman Lord Rawdon. While memory holds her scat, thy deed, O generous victim! shall be present to my mind: I would not for worlds have lost thy name. How would it have lived in Greek or Roman story! Nor the Spartan hero of Thermopyla, nor the Roman Curtius, have in self-devotion gone beyond thee! Leonidas fought in the presence of a grateful country; thou wert in a strange land, unseen. Curtius had all Rome for his spectators; the corporal was alone in a desert! He adopted the sentiment without knowing the language, and chose for his epitaph

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

The success of his exertions on this occasion is well known. The popularity gained by it was not confined to the house, or the objects of his humanity, but was diffused throughout the country, and established him, in the public opinion, as a speaker of the very first promise.

The next debate of consequence in which we find him taking an active part, was on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, on which occasion he took a dif ferent line from those with whom he generally acted.

His speech upon this occasion was considered as one of the most powerful against the measure; and, as given in the parliamentary debates, would do great credit to our publication, if our limits would admit of its insertion.

Some time after, an interesting debate upon an adjournment took place, in which, after a speech replete with sound argument and logical deduction, he thus pathetically concludes:

"But if none of those reasons have any weight, let me call your attention to the crying necessities of our starving manufacturers; and I do it with a greater confidence from a conviction that these unfortunate men will find a warm advocate in the breast of every man whom I have now the honour to address. It is true, hopes of relief are held out to those wretched people, but Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.'

"The subject, Sir, belongs not to party; it is a subject of humanity, and as such comes home to every breast. I would not, Sir, wound your feelings by dwelling upon the sad tale of complicated woe, the dismal portion of these unhappy men. The melancholy picture, alas! requires not the high colouring of pathetic description: every corner of your capital gives proof of its existence, and there is nothing but complaining in your streets.”

"It is not long since a group of famished figures (impelled by hunger) sought those gates for succour; they were seen flitting like spectres through your avenues, the moving shadows of their former selves; they clung round your portals, imploring bread,

bread, but they sought not the bread of idleness; they sought by honest labour to earn the bread of industry for their famished women and their craving infants. For this have I heard them styled licentious; but where are the marks of their licentiousness? I will tell you, that hunger, which forces through stone walls, was here arrested at your threshold through respect to you. Was this licentious? What did they demand? They asked you as a boon for what, if they had been licentious, should have been their punishment-they asked you for hard labour! Did this in these men seem licentious? Yet there are those who say they were licentious; and they are all honourable men. I am sure there is no man here who is indifferent to the distresses of a fellow-creature. Shall we then pity the sorrows of an individual, and shall that soft affection lose its force when the objects of its operation are multiplied? Shall we feel the sufferings of one man, and shall we be indifferent to those of one thousand? That we may

remove those distresses as far as lies in our power; and that we may carry through the business of the nation, at present impeded by faction, I shall vote against the adjournment."

We again find him taking an active part in the debate upon the Irish Propositions, where he most strenuously and ably opposed those regulations, as disadvantageous to his country. The lovers of wit and strong irony will find much to gratify and amuse them in his speech on this occasion. He also opposed the doctrine of attachments, in which, although

not

not a lawyer, he shewed much depth of research and extent of legal reading.

At this period the Major's character brought him into the foremost ranks as a public speaker; accordingly we find him taking the lead in a great question respecting the police of the country, the management of which he not only arraigned with his usual acuteness of reasoning and force of argument, but also demonstrated by calculation, to the fullest conviction of every man, that the protection afforded by the police as it then stood, was not only far less. efficient, but much more expensive, than that of London accordingly an amelioration took place.

For his exertions on this occasion the freedom of the city of Dublin was voted to him.

We soon after find him pleading the cause of the foundlings, which obtained for him the honourable distinction of Governor of the Charity, to which he was unanimously elected: thus manifesting to the world that the scope of his philanthropic mind embraced every object of compassion, from helpless infancy to decrepit age.

In the great question of Catholic Emancipation, Major Doyle took an early and decided part in its favour, and was one of its first and most powerful advocates.

About this period his reputation as a soldier and a senator attracted the notice of the Prince of Wales, and we accordingly find him enjoying the confidence and friendship of this illustrious prince, who honoured him with the post of private secretary, in which he continued

continued until his Royal Highness's establishment was dissolved.

The war which broke out in 1793 called him back to his original profession, and once more gave scope to the energies of his mind in the military art: he immediately offered his services to raise a regiment of his countrymen for the service of government. Mr. Dundas, the secretary of state of the day, acceded to his proposal with a fairness which did him much credit; availing himself of the military reputation and popularity of this officer, rather than excluding him upon political grounds, which a mind less liberal might have done. Upon this occasion his royal patron honoured the corps with the appellation of "The Prince of Wales's Irish Regiment," and it was numbered the 87th.

The raising a regiment is in general rather a drawback to popularity: but from the manner in which this was conducted, it produced the opposite effect and the rapidity with which it was levied confirmed the wisdom of selecting this officer for the purpose. Soon after the completion of the regiment, he was by brevet promotions raised to the rank of colonel, and was selected by his old commander Lord Rawdon, now Earl of Moira, to accompany him on his expedition to the Continent, in 1794.

The judicious movements of his lordship are well known. In the march of the army to join the Duke of York, Colonel Doyle was ordered to take post with his young corps at the village of Alost, to cover the movements of the army, this being supposed the probable