Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Irish Politicians.

All the reasonable men in the country, on observing the intemperate zeal of the Jacobins for war, exclaim, " Let us understand the business before we proceed to fight about it ; because a certain good, old, venerable book says, understand first and then rebuke." But these rational gentlefolks do not recollect that the Jacobins are led to the charge by two Irishmen, William Duane and Baptiste Irvine, who are governed by principles similar to those of Major O'Flaherty. " Arrah my honeys fight first and settle the difference afterwards." But a far higher authority is that of Pantagruel, who sent Panurge to the Sybil of Panzouch, before he would determine whether it was or was not lawful to consult a witch.--Ibid.