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CALDWELL. fession, and gave his advice and his praise ungrudgingl wherever they might kindle or direct a generous emulatic As a festive companion he seems to have been utter unequalled; and has left on record more of the happie strokes of a fancy at once classic, keen, and brilliant, tha the most habitual wit of the age. It may yet be a lesse worth the memory of those who feel themselves neglect by nature, that with all his gifts, Curran's life was not th one which would satisfy a man desirous of being happ But let no man imagine that the possession of the mo fortunate powers, is an excuse for error, still lessa obstruction to the sense of holy obedience; our tr emblem is in the Archangel, bending with the deepes homage, as he rises the highest in intellectual glory."- October 20, 1817. SIR JAMES CALDWELL WAs descended from a family which came over fro Ayrshire, in Scotland, in the beginning of the seventeent century, he was settled at Ross Bay, afterwards calle Castle Caldwell, in Fermanagh. He was created a baronet June 23, 1683. At the Revolution his services were o the highest importance, as appears by the following cas enclosed in a petition to King William. The State of the Case of Sir James Calduwell, Bart. That he staid in Ireland in all the late troubles at and near Enniskillin till the end of the year 1689, and raised and maintained a regiment of foo and two troops of horse, at his own charge, and kept the same at the great passes at Belleck and Donegal, between Conaught and the province o Ulster, which was of such consequence, that it hindered communication between the enemies in the said province of Conaught (which were very numerous) from joining or recruiting those besieging Londonderry That the said Sir James Caldwell was besieged with a detached party from Colonel Sarsfield, of about the namber of two thousand foot, and three troops of dragoons, abont the 3rd of May, 1689, and was forced to send t Enniskillin, Castle Hume, and other neighbouring garrisons, for relief which came on the Sth of May, and joined the forces, which Sir Jame Caldwell had, who then fought the enemy near Sir James's house, and routed them, killing about a bandred and twenty, took seventy prisoners two cannon, many small arms, and about forty horses, from the enemy.