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A new tdinon, confidcrably improved and enlarged ; in vhlch are inferred fcvcral curious Pieces, by Lady Craven, the Marquis of Cannanhen, the Earls of Carlille, Buchan, Nugent ; the Lords Palmerfton, Mulgrave, Holland ; Sir j. Moore, Right Hon. C. ]. Fox, Right Hon. R. Fitzpatrick, Sir W. Jones, Dr. B. Franklin, J. Wilkes, D. Garrick, R. B. She- ridan, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Mr. Grey, Mr. Mafon, Caleb Whitcford, G.Ellis, R. Cum- bciland, B. Edwards, Eiqrs. Capt. E. Thompfon, &c. &c. which were not in the former Edition ; to. gethcrwith feveral Pieces, now firft printed from the Authors* Manufcripts. 'J'he Whole carefully revifed, arrinj^ed, and coricded, in Six Volumes, Price iSs. fewcd. C V ] CONTENTS. Page nr H E Gowns — _— . — 5 A Logical Song — — - ■ * 9 Epigram, — Dear Cupid, I crit-d, fee- < ■■ jj Song, Celia, you'll kill me, &c. ■ ■■ ibid. Anfwer • — it Epigram, — Friend Thomas, 8cc. — — 12 A Lyric Love Epifile ibid. Rondeau ' — — J 5 Expoftulation ■ ■ ■ ■■ ibid. Epitaph ■■ ■■ — — — ■■ ibid, Farewel to Liberty ' ■■ ■ " 16 Revival of Eritifh Spirit ■■ 1 9 Extracts from Lord Mulgrave, on Eloquence — 2.1 EpiiUe from Mr. Stoviu to Dr. Gilby _. 24 Lines to Mr. Stoviu ay Lord Carlifle, to Lord Fitzwilliam — — 2? Mrs. Sheridan on her Brother's vioHn w ■■ ■ ' 30 Her Brother's lyre to Mrs. Sheridan — — 31 To George EHis, Ef«| ; by Sir J, Moore ■■ 3J L' Amour Timide — — — 36 Song, Ceafe to blame, &c. ■ - ■ ■ ibid. Triumph of DuUnefs — — — — — 37 Harwood Houfe — — . . — —,43 General Burgoyne's Prologue to Zara ■ 49 On Lord Chatii'am's Buft ■ 51 Order, a Poem ■■ ■■ ^ ■ » ibid. Verfes to Mifs Almon . 58 The Congratulation — — — 60 Verfes to the Feither'd Ladies > — 64 Verfes by Mr. Garrick, to Mr. Hofkins — — 65 Birth of Twaddle •— — 66 Lines by Mr. Hayley, to Mr. Wright — 68 To Mr. Stovin, on his marriage ■■ ■ ■ 71 Elegiac Lilies, on the Death of a Wife — jz Lines by Mr. Jerningham, on Mrs. Montagu — 74. Dialogue between a certain Perfon and his Minifter 7> Epigram, — To rob the public, &c. — • — 76 On Mr. Gilbert depriving the Maids of Honour of Candles 77 On the fame • — — ,— ibit!. [ vi ] ^)6c to Mr. Pitt ♦ Page 78 Hint to a Great Man — — 83 Hpigrtm to two Secretaries — — ibid. Line* by Mr. Carrick, on Melts. Duke and Hart — 84 To Celia, now Lady Wray 85 To Sir Jofcj.h Miwbcy — — ibich On feeing a Lady-Bird — — — i- 86 A thcniglu on new Milk ibii. Familiar Verfci — — — ibid; Verfes on my own Horfe — S7 OaCclia killing a flea — • — - Ibid. Love _ — _-—■ ibid. On a Black Sow -^_ — —— 8^8 On Clora'i fingiag ■ 9* Bagatelle — — ^— — 93 To Delia, on feeing two cats 94 Dialogue on a blade bone • • ibid. Written on the Thames — — "~~ 95 On the bioody Tenth of May * — ibid. Epigrammatic thoughts — — ibid. Iitcinporc on a Porttr - 96 - ■ ■ on a Pig — — — ibid. To Cocha ibid. A Crmj p.rilon ' 9? On new featinga pair of Breeches ■ ibd. On a peck of Coals — — — ibid. Epigrams on Dr. Pr— — n ■ ibid to 106 Prologue to the Maid of Honour — — ibid. Epigrams — — — • J08 Ode to the prefent omnipotent Minifler ■ 109 The Sybili Leaf ' — 113 Letter from Admiral Pitt ■ ■ ' uS Ship news extraordinary — — 120 A Political receipt-book for 1784 123 I>obby cf che Houlc of Commoiis — — I30 Drawings - ■ • 133 Manufcripts ^ — — — — 134 A wclldr-fl Minifter is a National Benefit — 136 IViiical Quadrille 338 Epift'e to the Rev. Dr. Robcrtfon ^ — 241 Parody by Mr. Erfki- e — - 150 Lord Gr — h — m's Diary ■ J51 State paper,— Hints to our Editors •— p 154 .'kale of ^oor OU tngUud — — ^ iS^ [ vii 3 Hints to Mr. Pretivman, the Commls r- Page 157 To a Lady of Tory Principles — — _ 159 Epigram on Chattertou — — — ibid. Ode, bv a Dry Salter near Oxford, to his friend Joe D. i6o On Mil's Seward's Lfiuifa, by Mr. Haylcy 169 Confiftency of a Patriotic Alderman — — 170 TheDelavaliid — — — — 171 Vive le Scrutin — ' ■■ ' I74 L/^UREAT ELECTFON — — 177 Probationary Odes By Sir Cecil Wray — — - — 181 By Lord M ve ' ■ —^ 184 By Sir Jofeph Mawbey — — — 1S5 By Mr. Macpherfon — '— 191 B/ Mi-. Mafon — — — — — — 19a By Mr. J. Macpherfon '— — — 197 By the Attorney GencKal ■ — 200 By Mr. Wiaxa'll — — — — 203 By Mr. Michael Angelo'Taylor — - — ao6 By Major John Scott _— — —210 Ode for New Year's Day, by Sir Gregory Page Turner 213 Irregular Ode, by the Rt. Hon. Harry Dundas — — 215 Piiidaric, by Lord Mountmoiris — — • ■ 220 Ode, by Lord Thurlow — — — 225 Irregvihr Ode, by the fanie ■ ■ — 228 Irregular Ode, by the Rev. I>r. Prettyraan — 234 Ode, by Lord Mountmorris ' ' • <• 245 Prohibitory Mandate — — _ ^.^z Paiody, by the Marquis of Graham — — 258 Ode to his Majefty, on the death of W. Whitehead — 26x Epitaph on W. Whitehead — — — 264 New Coalitions — — — — ibid. Political Codicil, to a Great Man's Will — 265 Impromptu to the Hon. Mrs. Darner, by Mr. J. T — 11 267 To Sir Joibua Reynolds on his portrait of Mifs Kemble ibid. On the nuptials of Lord Althorp, (now Earl Spencer) and Mifs Bingham, by Sir W. Jones — 269 Receipt to make a Jockey ■ " • 1 ■ ■ 277 Spring, by Mr. Francis Knight ■ 278 On the Candle and Window fax — aSo Lines to Mr. Pitt — — ■ — — ibid. Advertifement Extraordinary ■ ■ — 281 At the Beef-ltake club -- . 282 Bon Mot of Dr. Johnfon — ■ — af.^ On the Portraiti of the ihrec PrincefTes by GaJnibor«ugh 284 f vii, ] ■|os, now RolliS No. I. . No. II. HI. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. !X. X. XI. XII. I. I'art II. N Ill Cdc tv.. the Rifiht Hon. W. lia Page aS6 287 290 292 295 — 299 — 303 3" 329 — ^7« — 347 357 368 — 375 3?3 39 » A N ASYLUM FOR FUGITIVE PIECES. THE GOWNS: A TALE, FROM WESTMINSTER-HALL IN TRIN I TY TERM, I783« BY MR. L— — , Very early one morning (the date Fll fet down, 'Twas the next after Erlkine kifs'd hands for his gown,) Two damfels to whom all the four inns of court Pay their conflant attention and daily refort ; Near kinfwomen too, and feen always together, And in perfon as like as two birds of a feather; Met in Weftminfter-hall ; unattended, to fettle A quarrel, where each had been put on her mettle. SL'k, the elder, was graceful, a dignified daine ; Stuf, the younger, more lively, both rivals in fame ; And, as two of a trade, they fay, never agree, So thefe ladies were never from jealoufy free, B • Their fpute, «% more { fiiit. J C 6 ] Their fuitors u-erc many, more niim'rous far Than famM Obcrca*s— in fhort, the whole bar: Their chara<5^ers likev.ife were none of the beil, For when Virtue's made eafy — you all know the refl. But each had her favourites — this was their game, And for Erfkine each flood on her fcparate claim. Time and place they appointed to end thedifpute,' Not with piilol and fword, but with tongue acute, And as S/i/jfwsiS the plaintiff, flie open'd the ** You rtolc him," fhe cried with a violent roar, *' Falfe pretences you us'd, as you fervM me before, In fpite of the llatute, your age and decline, Having more than you fatisfy, flill you take mine; I have borne without murmuring all your late trickS| Not doubting your name for a jilt you would fix ; But ni bear it no longer, this laft is fo flagrant, I'll have you whip'd out of the hall for a vagrant. For your latter f fedu6lions, to tell you my mind, I car'd not while Er(kine ftaid with me behind, For he was my favourite, he had my heart, Since Dunning and I did in Alliburton part ; With him I might hope higher honours to gain Than e'er fell to you and your fuU-bottom'd train. I'll tell you how falfe and deceitful you are ; Your rullling, and varnifli, and proflitute air, f Alludes to the late promotions. Are [ 7 ]• Are but vanity traps for my favourite youth, For which Ibme have quitted me, Honour and Truth, But he'll fee your artifice — Then, Ma'am, I hear ^ That your health's not fo found — (but I wont be f fevere, f Tho' fome folks, they fay, are not what they appear) But to cut matters fliort — give me Erlkine again, I alk for no favour — my right to him's plain — I'll have him, that's flat ; if you don't let him go ftraight, As fare as I'm Woollen I'll take you to Bovv-ftreet. Silk heard with compofiire the charges of flealth, Falfe, pretences, and fraud : but this about health, (By the way 'twas an impudent infinuation) Threw her into a fit of moil: furious paifion. Up flie jump'd in an inllant, aloft flew her band. She fliook her full-bottom, and brandifli'd her hand- *' Here, Tipftaff," (lie bawl'd, but (he foften'd her tone. When flie faw the Hall empty, themfelves all alone, (For Stuff was the ilronger at leaft two to one.) ** Your flander and railings became fuch a ninny, Whom ev'ry low rSfcal may have for a guinea — That I'll not deign to anfwer, I'll have fatisfadion,. In the face of my cjuntiy, by bringing my adion. For the reil, your preUimption furprifes me quite, What madnefs is this ? ^V/.v^j how giddy your flight ? B z To T 8 ] To Erlkine pretend — wherc's your merit, I wonder I 'Tis high time indeed to keep Ibme people under ; He*6 mine by juft title, I us*d no falfe charms, He came, led by Sympathy, into my arms ; His courtfliip to me was with honour addrefs'd ; When he left you, the Hall approbation exprefsM, Nay, a few his taile doubted, andfome thought him wrong. For liking your (lovenly perfon fo long: So your clamour is idle, pray let's hear no more, Tho* I learn, by report, you have flanders in llore, -And pretend (but the trick won't avail you this time) /have only your leavings, that you\'e had his prime, But who can believe fo unjuft an afperfion ? If while he was your's, he made any exertion, Of talents excelling, or parts fupeifine, Do you claim the honour ? moll clearly 'tis mine- He ftudied and pradtis'd my favour to gain ; ere you the reward ? oh, how endlefs the pain ! Jut if Hill you perfifl, nor your claim will renounce, Here is Juilice at hand, flie'll decide it at once." Her fpeech was fcarce ended, when fudden appear'd. Her worihip's flate-coach coming thro' Palace-yard, (For 'twas Term-time, and Juflice, in formal pro- ceiTion, Came to open her courts to the noify profelllon :) Wide open'd the doors, and there enter'd the Hall, Clerks, conftables, officers, rabble and all j Next, t 9 L Next, her Highnefs's train came in funeral pace, DrefsM in black robes and Icarlet, with fword aud with mace ; Then, Jiiftice herfelf— whom our difputants eyeing, Fell proflrate before her, and 5.7^'began crying, «* Great lady, you only can give me relief; Hear, Jullice, oh hear 1" but her worfhip was deaf, Htr bandage was not on her eyes, but her ears : (So falfe is the form that in pidures fhc w^ears, And I hope the miftake our young painters will cure. For {he fees well enough, tho' (lie fquints, to be fure :) This 5"///^* quickly faw, and of fpeech difappointed, She puU'd out her purfe, and at Erfkine (lie pointed* Silk us'd the fame rhet*ric ; her worfhip took both ; ** Dear ladies," quoth flie, *' to decide I am loth, But fince you will have it, and nought ehe will pleafe, Hear with filence the fentence that Juflice decrees— You, Stuff, take his old gown j here, Silk, take his new ; I'll have Erjkine myfelf ; fo dear ladies adieu.** A LOGICAL SONG. "Why, Chloe, thus fquander your prime. In debate between fear and temptation ? If adulterous love be a crime. Why quarrel with plain fornication ? B 3 JJut But your beauties with age you may If)fe : Then feize the fliort moment of joy I If not — then with confidence ufe. What by ufing you cannot dcllroy. Come, come, bid our tranfports begin, Ere we lofe both our youth and our Icifure : Sure, *tis better repenting a fin, Than regretting the lof$ of a pleafure, EPIGRAM. UEAR Cupid (Icried) do confult with your mother. To fubdue my dear Chloe's infenfible heart 1 Kind Cupid obey'd ; Venus too playM her part, And my Chloeat length fell in love with another ! SONG. CeLTA ! you'll kill me, by the Lord ! You know I've fuflcrM like a martyr ; Nor have I yet had one kind word, Nor feen an inch above your garter. Can you forget, ungrateful maid, How long my conllant flame has laded ? What nonfenfe I have fung and faid^ What ink and paper I have wafted? Ah, cruel nymph ! you know full well, With what a pure becoming zeal, I've begg'd your fnowy bofom's fwell, And cy^yy other fvvcll to feel ! Ami C* .1 3 And round your taper waiil to twine, Each inlet of delight to prove. Our hearts, our lips, our fouls to join ! And can you Hill, Hill doubt my love ? What, unconvinced ? the devil's in it ! Well then, this proof Ihall calm your fears. And if one warm expreffive minute, Speak not more love than days of tears. Unlefs each palpitating nerve, Each kindling ve^n confefs me true. Treat me at length as I deferve, And banifh me from joy and you ! ANSWER. Be quiet, Sir ! begone, I fay ! Lord blefs us ! how you romp and tear ! There ! I fwear ! Now you have left my bofom bare ! 1 do not like fuch boiflerous play, So take that faucy hand away. Why now, you're ruder than before—. Nay, I'll be hang'd if I comply — Fyel I'll cry ! Oh— I can't bear it— I fliall die I — I vow I'll never fee you more ! But— are you fure you've (hut the door ? B 4 B P i- EPIGRAM. Friend Thomas, I have ken your fpoiifc, And never faw a plainer creature I And as for you, the world allows Your face has fcarce a human feature. Say then, what method you purfue ? Your boys are Loves, your girls arc Graces ! •* Why, madam, they'd be ugly too, •* If we begot them with our faces /" A LYRIC LOVE E*PISTLE. (found in a convent at PARIS.) Tune— '< Oh, my kitten, niy kitten." Oh ! my P y, my P y, And, oh ! n'iy P y, my dear-a, Sucli a fine hnfband as I, You can't find far or near-a. Though the taxes go up, up, up, And the funds all go down, down, down-a. And the rats they run backward and forward, And my head it turns round, round, round-.> Though Sir C — 1 begins to look queer, And once more thinks of turning his coat ; Since he's got no more guards in his rear, And his failors, alas I cannot vote. And though taxes, &c. &:c. Yet t '3 J Yet foon on my foes I ftiall thunder — The Whigs fliall all (hriuk from my rage. And the people fhall view us with wonder, When our Cabinet's all come of age. Though the taxes, &c. I can talk, of my candour and truth, With Jack W — s and D — s at my heels ; *Twas the leaft of the tricks of my youth. To make T— w purloin his own feals. Though the taxes, &c. For the B — ps I've canting and pray'rs ; For the people Tve nonfenfe and beer ; Oh! when I climb'd up the back-flairs, I took the right fow by the ear. Though the taxes, &c. Then halle to become a fine bride, From the gloom of a convent emerging 5 In me you may fafely confide, For I, like yourfelf, am a virgin I Now the taxes, Ssc, SONG. Oh ! ril reform ; I will, I fwear ! To Hymen I'll addrefs my vows, And ril beget a fon and heir. And tend my flicep, and milk my cows, And dofe and fatten with my fpoufe ! B 5 And J H ] And ril grow fond of fimple nature, Free from vain arts, and dull grimaces, And doat upon each flattcn'd feature, Of rural love's athletic graces, With mottled arms, and cherub faces. And now the ruilic's toil I'll fliare, And wield the fork, and trail the rvike ; Now at the fermon fit and ft are, 'Till dull obfervers (liall miftake, And fancy I am broad awake. And I will tafte the fportfoian's joys. With hounds and guns purfue my prey ; And find fuch raptures in a noife, That all the wond'ring 'fquires lliall fay, 1 am as wife and blefs'd as they. Then to the feftive hall I'll pafs. And in the jovial chorus join j And (ick'ning o'er th' unfinifli'd glafs, I'll fwear our pleafures are divine. When dullnefs is improv'd by wine. Yes, I'll reform I vain world, adieu ! Henceforth, with rural joys content, A life of reafon Til purfue, Of all my former lins repent—- And die a cuckold and a faint. RONDEAU- [ IS 3 R O N D E A U» By two black eyes my heart was won. Sure never wretch was more undone! To Celia with my fuit I came, But flie, regarcUefs of her prize, Thought proper to reward my flame By two black eyes ! AN EXPOSTULATION. When late I attempted your pity to move, Why feem'd you fo deaf to my pray'rs ? Perhaps it was right to diflemble your love — But — Why did you kick me down flairs ? EPITAPH. Here is my much-lovM Celia laid. At reft from all her earthly labours I Glory to God ! peace to the dead ! And to the ears of all her neighbours ! B 6 A FARE" [ i6 ] A FAREWEL TO LIBERTY. OCCASIONED EY THE DISSOLUTION OF THE LAST PARLIAMENT, Fuimui *7rocs : fuit lUumy ct ingcm Gloria Teucrorum, ViRG. FaREWEL, fweet Liberty, farcwcl I Wilt thou no more in Albion dwell ? Wilt thou forfake our fea-girt Ihore ? And blifs our hills and dales no more ? Gay mountain nymph, of fprightly mien, Where will thy graceful form be feen ? Goddefs of foul-infpiring eye, Where will thy waving treffes fly ? What favour'd nation fliall behold Thy banner, bright with bumifti'd gold, And many an emblematic fign, Of deeds atchiev'd by thee and thine 5 Bright with th' illuminating rays That ihy Britannia's name emblaze ? For glorious was the name we gain*d, While Liberty in Albion reign'd ! And many a bard's melodious tongue, Thee and thy mighty prowefs fung. AllurM by thee, the tuneful train Pour'd their exhilarating ilrain ; And culture cloth'd our hills and dales ; And coaainerce fpread unnumber'd fails. ^ By [ '7 ] . By thee our happy ifland rofe Superior to furrounding foes ; Her offspring, prodigal of life, In marfhal'd fields of deadly flrife. By thee the fierce alTault repelM ; By thee in valiant deeds excel'd ; And fir'd with thy ingenuous flame, EarnM laurels of immortal fame — And muft we clofe the radiant fcenc ? Alas I alas ! and have we been ? And is our age of glory paft ? Are we of Freedom's fons the lafl ? O, my deluded friends, beware ! Left tangled in the fatal fnare. Ye fall from your exalted ft ate, And grieve when grief ihall be too late. Alas ! mifguided men, in vain I pour the monitory ftrain : In vain my feeble accents plead : Determined on the wrccklefs deed, And blind with Zeal's unhallow'd fires, Ye fpurn the birthright of your fires. Thofe rights for which your fires withftood Oppreffion ev'n in fields of blood. Or freely their hearts* treafure fhed. Ye raftily yield ; and, in their ftead. Receive the chains that (hall difgrace The foremoft of the human rac€ : For who of thofe that are, or were, May with Britannia's fens compare? Say, is there one ilkidrious flate. Of antient or of modern date. Where, from the cottage to the throne. The rights of men were better known ? Ah ! that thefe rights, Britannia's boaft, Should inconfid'rately be loft ! — Farewel, fweet Liberty I no more Shall raptur'd bards on Albion's fliorc, Fir'd with thy animating flame. The heirs of everlafting Fame, To hymn thy bold atchievements dare ; But pine and think of what they were : And cherifli fecret grief, and figh, And weep for Albion's wrongs, and die. But ere, fweet Liberty, we part,. Accept this tribute of my heart ; A broken heart that bleeds to fee, Britannia w ill no more be free : Farewel ! but let thy parting figh, Bequeath a melancholy joy; Nor this poor, plaintive verfe refufe, The laft oblation of a Briti(h Mufe. THE [ 19 } . THE REVIVAL OF BRITISH SPIRIT; AN ODE, Written soon after Rodney's victory in the west indies, I. Lo ! along the fea-girt fliores^ Now the Britifli lion roars ; Tremble ev'ry daring foe I RoiisM with anger and difdain. See 1 he fliakes his ftiaggy mane ; See ! his eyes with ardour glow. Ye who would impofe the yoke, On the free-born and the brave, Who will fliield you, fave. From the vengeance ye provoke ? 11. Glowing with the love of fame, Fir'd with honourable fhame. Shame for recent floth behold I Albion, never known to yield, Haflens to th' embattl'd field ; And with native vigour bold. Bids her navy fcour the deep ; Bids her pealing thunder roar, Shake with terror Gallia's Ihore, And the raging billows fweep. Raifc . [ :^o ] III. Raife the voice of Triumph, raifc .* Rodney claims our willing praife ; And from every hill and dale. Let the joyful voice arife, Till it cleave the vaulted Ikies. Hail propitious leia, hail ! Now Britannia's fons again, Glov.'ir.g with congenial fires. Claim the birthright of their fires. The dominion of the main. IV. Britifli fpirit uncontroul'd Wakes as in the times of old ; Wakes as when of late the Gaul, Felt his vain ambition quell'd, And with agony beheld, His Atlantic iflands fall ; While his dupe, vindidive Spain, Th' inaufpicious league deplorM : Yet provokes the Fritifli fv»'ord; And fliall weep and wail again. V. Belgia too ! let Belgia join. Envious in the bafe defign. Envious of an antient friend : Belgia with contrition due, Shall her recklefs folly rue, And to fuppliant prayers defcend, Let t »■ J. Let her join the foul intrigue ; Britain, in herfelf fecure, Shall the furious fliock endure, And confound th* ungrateful league* VI. Britilh hearts be firm and true ! Scorn them ! fcorn th' ambitious crew 1 Be united, and defy The collected florm that roars, All around your happy fliores. Envious of your golden Iky. Valiant as your fires of old, Trufl in him vvhofe fovereign fvvay, Heaven and earth, and feas obey: Go ! be refolute and boldi extracts from the second volume of lord mulgrave's essays on elocvuence, lately published. We now come to fpeak of Tropes, Trope comes from the Greek word Trcpo^ to turn. I believe that tropes can only exifl in a vocal language, for I do not recoiled to have met with any among the favages near the Pole, who converfe only by figns ; or if they ufed any, I did not underftand them. Ariflotle is of opinion, that horfes have not the ufe of tropes. — Dean Swift feems to be of a con- trary opinion j but be this as it may, tropes are of [ " ] * of very grent importance in Parliament, and cannot enough recommend them to my young readers. *' Ircpcs are of two kinds : — fuch as tend to illuf- tratc our meaning ; and, idly, fuch as tend to ren- der it obfcure. The firfl arc of great ufc in the fcrmo pcdejlris ; the fcccnd in the fublime. They give the oi luagna Jonam \ or, as the fame poet fays in another place, the ore rotundo ; an exprelfion, which fliews, by the bye, that it is as necclfary to round your mouth, as to round your periods. — — But of this more hereafter, when I come to treat of ftiouthiiig^ or, as the Latins call it, elocutio, ** In the courfe of my rcflciflions on tropes, I have frequently lamented the nant of thcfe embel- lifliments in our modern log-hoch, Strabo fays they were frequently employed by the ancient failors j nor can %ve wonder at this difference, fincc our young feamen are fuch bad fcholars ; not fo in other countries ; for I have feen children at the ifland of Zanti, who knew more of Greek than any Firft Lieutenant. Now to return to tropes, and of their ufe in Parliament. I will give you fome ex* amples of the moft perfedl kind in each fpecies, and then quit the fubjett : only obferving, that the worfl kind of tropes are puns; and that tropes, when ufed in controverfy, ought to be very obfcure ; for many people do not know how to anfwer what they do not underhand, ** Suppofe [ =13 ] ^ ** Suppofe I was dellroiis of prefling forward any nieafure, and that I apprehended that the oppofite party v\iflied to delay it, I flionld perfonify procraf- fination by one of the following manners: — I. " This meafure appears to he filtered through the drip-JIone of procrafiinatioju^'* This beautiful phrafe was invented by a near relation of mine, whofe ta- lents bid fair to make a moft diftinguiflied figure in the fenate. 2, ** This is another cl:Jh cooked up by the procrajli- nating JpiritJ^ The boldnefs of this figure, which was invented by Mr. Drake, cannot be too much admired. 3. *' This appears to he the lajl hair in the tail of pro- crafiinat'on" *' The Mafier of the Rolls, who firit ufed this phrafe, is a moil eloquent fpeaker ; but I think the two former inilances much more beautiful, inaf- much as the latter perfonification is drawn from a dumb creature, which is not fo fine a fource of me- taphor as a Chriflian, *' Having thus exhaufted the fubjed of metaphors, I lliall fay a hvf words conz^TmngfimiUes, the fecond cf tropical figures, in point of importance. POETICAL . [ ^^4 ] POETICAL EPISTLE IROM JAMES STOVIN, ESCL: TO WILLIAM GILEY, M. D. OF WINTERTON IN LINCOLNSHIRE. In human life, fince little elfe appears, Than change of folly with a change of years ; Since Youth its baubles feeks, Old Age its ihells. And firmer Manhood wears his cap and bells : Forgive th' impcrfed eflay cf your friend, Whofe obje£l*s paftime, and to pleafe whofe end. In childhood's dawn, when all the frame is weak, Nor can we firmly walk, nor freely fpeak ; When the impendant jaw, and vacant flare, Our few ideas, and want of thought declare j When, hung with filver bell, the coral red, Tho' oft rejected, dill we take for bread ; When nurfes fcarce, or quick-ey'd mothers find, Marks of fome future greatnefs in the mind ; Say, what a thing forlorn is riling man, Tho' form'd by nature on fo wife a plan ? Where is that wifdom, where that ardent fire^ Which after-crouds fhall envy and admire ? That courage which tranfmits a deathlefs name, And points the road to everlafling fame ; Which Cato urg'd to a6t the patriot's part, And glows as warm in Britifh Eliott's heart I That love of Liberty, which Fox infpires. And fills his patriot foul with facred fires ; Tho f 55 ] The tongue with future Senates may engage, Now wails with grief, or fqualls with vengeful rage ; Dull are the eyes, and round and plump the face, Where innocence alone has left a trace ; To guefs the palfions we in vain effay, When o'er their marks are quickly wip'd away, Like clouds in March, when weflern winds prevail, Which vanifli foon before the rifing gale; • Leaving all ether bright, and pure, and clear, Till other florms arife, and other clouds appear. ^Such is the infant flate — fuch Man's firil days, Exenjpt from cenfure, and unworthy praife ; And were no future deeds our care to claim, And give us up to good or evil fame, Unnotic'd fhould w'e live, unnotic'd die. As weeds that fpring, and only weeds fupply. But pafs we now to life's extremeft verge, Where ills await, and crowded frailties urge; When weak in body, and deprefled in mind, Behold the falling ruins of mankind I Worn out with crofles, and fubdu'd by care, He hoards up wealth might blefs a Harving heir; 1'11-temper'd, peevifli, querulous, and vain, He loves to cenfure, backbite, and complain ; Experienc'd deeply in the ways of man. Eager his fmallefl blemillies to fcan ! Hark, with what fpleen he blackens all the crimes, In which he wantonM in his hey-day times ; But f ^b ] But now when paflion prelTes him no more, He e*en is good and virtuous at fourfcore : Youth he condemns as thonghtlefs and profane, And manhood fjafles not without a (lain ; Rafh, confident, prefuming, void of rule. Ever in haftc to fliew itfelf a fool ; Impetuous in purfuit of fancy 'd good, And fnatching blils, whilfl blifs is yet in bud. With endlefs railing thus he fwells his theme, And proudly hopes paft errors to redeem ; But hopes in vain, for ne'er can Pride erafc Th' unnumber'd follies of his youthful days. What period then of life is free from fault, And Man, vvhen lives he as he ever ought ? In youth ? in age ? or in the middle fpan. When moft his pow'rs the moft exalt tlie man ? In youth how feeble, age how incomplete, And ev'n in vigour, but abjcdly great ! Still hoping time will add to Wifdom's (lore, And give to-morrow things deny'd before : To fond delufive Hope a willing prey, Charm'd with what (liall be, heedlefs of to-day j By fatal paffions hurried to excefs, Which ferve alike to charm, delude, deprefs : Check all the nobler efforts of the mind, To low purfuit s, and vulgar tracks confin'd ; Obfcure the reafon, make e'en virtue nod. And to a biute dcbafe the form of God. In [ ^7 ] In life throughout, in every feparate part. Or we defpife the head, or blame the heart ; Or curfe the paffions, and their baleful train Of ills that lead to never-ending pain. Thus trav'lers dread the fun's intenfer blaze, And wifli for cooler and more temp*rate days ; But dread alike autumnal pouring rains, The blafls of Spring, and Winter's icy chains. I. S. LINES ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR OF THE PRECEDING. Proceed, my friend, nor check thy Mufe's flight That nobly dares Parnaffus' utmoft height ; Whofe fcarce fledg'd wings fo boldly 'tempt to foar Its lofty fummit, and its fweets explore. The firil eflay proclaims to thee belong The pleafing grace and energy of fong : So fweet thy ethic lines in number roll, At once they teach and captivate the foul, *Tvvas fo harmonious Pope fublimely fung ; Thus gentle Gay, and ever plaintive Young. Go, perfevere like them ; inform mankind With ev'ry virtue, ev'ry good refin'd : Nor meanly floop, nor proHitute thy lays To fordid envy, or unworthy praife. Be £ .8 ] Be facred Truth thy great unerring guide, (To follow her be e'er thy nobleft pride.) Then fliall thy name to future ages fland, Enrolled high among the tuneful band ; Thy fame, thy glory uridiminifli'd be, Till walleful Time brings on Eternity, Cuncrfbury, 0£V. 16, 1784. I.T. THE EARL OF CARLISLE TO EARL F I TZWILLIAM, ON HIS RECOVERY FROM A SEVERE ILLNESS WHEN AT ETON SCHOOL. FItz William's health's my glorious theme, My rapture, vifion, and my dream : Adieu, ye mournful llrains ; No figns of grief, no ardent fear. For you, my Fitz, no gufhing tear, No louring figh remains. For you, reviv'd again, I may Invit6 the fweet, the jocund lay ; With you again I'll roam, 'Mongfl: murm'ring Thames' ozer bowers, 'Mongft Henry's fliades, 'mongfl Henry's towers, Or Windfor's awful dome. I know, [ 29 3 I know, my Fitz, you think my foul Is too impatient of controul. Too like the giddy throng ; But ah ! I mifs the friendly voice, Which or to praife, or could rejoice, Or tell me I was wrong. Too oft will bards devote their lays- To IntereiVs flirine, to fulfome praile, Too long of greatnefs fing ; Not fo with mc thefe numbers flow. Not from an outward flatt'ring fliow, But thefe from friendfliip fpring. But next my Mufe to Warren pay The tribute of a grateful lay ; O fing his friendly hand ! Tell how he did my friend refVore, How intelleftual Pluto's pow'r Became at his command. What pangs wou'd elfe have rent my heart- We mull not, cannot, will not part ; O flop thy hally woid — For ah I to us it is not giv'n, W^ith words t' oppofe the will of Heav'n, Its high Almighty Lord. MRS, [ 30 1 MRS. SHERIDAN ON HER BROTKEr's VIOLIN. OWEET inftrumcnt of Iiina for whom I n:ourn, •* Tuneful companion of my Lycid's hours, •* How lieft thou now negledled and forlorn ! •* What ikilful hand iliall now call forth thy pow'rs i •* Ah ! none like his can reach thofe liquid notes, ** So foft, fo fwcet, fo eloquently clear, *' To live beyond the touch, and gently float *' In dying modulations on the ear !" Thus o*er my Lycid's lyre as I complainM, And kifs'd the firings where he was wont to play, While yet in penfive fadnefs I remain'd, Methought it Izgh'd, and fighing feem*d to fay— *' Ah I me, forlorn, forfaken, now no more ** Shall fame and jufl applaufe around me wait ; " No power my gentle Matter can reftore, *' And I, alas ! will fhare his haplefs fate. •* Fled is that fpirit, chillM that youthful fire, •* Which taught thofe llrains with harmony replet-e^ ♦* And cold that hand which only can infpire •* My fenfelefs form to utter founds fo fweet. >* Thofe t S' .1 ^* Thofe founds melodious ne'er again ihaill pieaf^, <' No tuneful ftrain from me (hall ever flow ; ** Save o'er ray trembling firings a iighing brees: :, ** To call one fad, foft note of tender woe. ** Elfc, ah ! for ever mute let me remain, ** Unftrung, untun'd, forgotten let me be ; ** Guard me from curious eye, and touch prophane, ** And let me reft in mournful fympathy ! ** One fate with thee, dear Mafter, let me (hare ; ** Like thee in fiient darknefs let me lie ; ** My frame without thee is not worth my care ! ** With thee alone it liv'd, with thee (hall die !" HER brother's LYRE TO MRS. SHERIDA:^ BY MR, PRATT, This fald — afolemn filence breath'd around, Cecilia wept upon her Lycid's lyre, The penfive breeze then gave a fighing found, And the firings feem'd to tremble and expire. One hollo^v murmer, like the dying moan. Was heard to vibrate then, with p:iufes flow, From the fad inllrument, when thus the tone Gave modulations of a fofter woe. C 2 «« Cea;>j [. 3^ ] **.Ceafe, beauteous Mourner! partner of my grief! ** Tuneful alTociate of nny loll defpair, ** Thou, only thou, canft bring this breail relief ; ** Thy Sympathy alone can footh my care. •' What though—ah, llroke fevere ! our Lycid's d€ad, ^' *' Nor more, alas ! can ravifli mortal ear ! *' What though the foul of melody is fled, " His bleil attendant, to th' harmonious fphere; ** Struck by Cecilia's hand I yet may live ; ** Her magic touch again can tune my frame ; *' Her cherub voice my fpirit yet revive, *' And founds of heavenly forrow grace my fame. ** But fliould nor dulcet fong, nor mufic*s art, *' Nor focial fighs, which mourn the youth we love, ** Have power to heal the fifler*s wounded heart, ** Nor to ihefe chords forlorn a folace prove ; ** Ah! Hill together let our forrows join, *< And tliis fad form yet boaft thy gentle aid; *' Lycid's companion fure fhould ftill be thine ; '■' i\]\[ OionldM thou kifs the brings where he ha^ TO t 33 1 TO GEORGE ELLIS, E S QJl. RACE?, A EALLAD, BY THE LATE SIR JOHN" MOORE, EART., O George, I've been, I'll tell you where, But lirlt prepare yourfelf for raptures ; To paint this charming, heavenly fair. And paint her well, would afk whole chnptcrs, Fhic creatures I've view'd many a one, Wi:h lovely Ihapcs and angel faces j But I have feen them all outdone, Ey this iweet maid, at races. Lords, Commoners, alike fhe rules, 1'akes all who view her by furprife, Makes e'en the wifeit look like fools, Nay more, makes fox-hunters look wife» Her fiiape— 'tis elegance and eafe, Unfpoil'd by art, or modern drefs, But gently tapering by degrees. And finely, " beautifully lefs." Her foot — it was fo wonderous fmall, So thin, fo round, fo Aim, fo neat,. The buckle fairly hid it all. And feem'd to fink it with the weight, C 3 And I 34 J And juft above the fpangled fho^. Where many an eye did often glance, Sweetly letiring from the view, And (ten by llealth, and fccn by chance ; Two femier ankles peeping out, Stood like Love's heralds, to declare That all uithin the petticoat Was firm, and fall, ** and round, and fait And then (he dances — better far Than heart can think, or tongue can tcllf Not Heinel, Banti, or Guimar, L*er mov'd fo graceful, and fo well; So enfy glide her beauteous limbs^ True as the echo to the found, She feems, as through ihc dance (he (kims^ To tread on air, and fcorn the ground. And there is lightning in her eye, One glance alone might well infpire The clay-cold breaft of Apathy, Or bid the frozen heart catch fire. And Zephyr on her lovely lips Has (pread his choiceft, fweetefl rofes ; And there his heavenly nectar lips, And there in breathing fweets repofes» And t 35 1 Arul thcre*3 fuch mufic when fljc*fpea^3^ You may believe me, when I tell ye, I'd rather hear her, than the fqucaks Or far-fam'd fqiialls of Gabriel! i. And fparkling wit, and ueady fenfc, In that fair form with beauty vie } But ting'd with virgin diihdenoe, And the iok bluib of modet^y, Had I the trcafures of the world, All the fun views, or the feas boriovv,- (Elfe may I to the devil be huri'd) rd lay them at her feet to-morrow. But as we Bards reap only Bays, Nor much of that, though nought grows on it ; I'll beat my brains to found her praife, And hammer ttiem into a fonnet : And if ihe deign one charming fmile. The bleft reward of all my labours | ril never grudge my pains, or toil, But pity the dull 'Squires, my neighbour* C 4 L'AMOUR [ 36 J L'A M 6 U R T I M I D E. BY THE SAME, If in that breaO, (o good, (o piire^ ConipafTion ever lovM to dwell, Pity the forrovvs I endure, The caufe — I maftnot — dare not tell. The grief that on my quiet preys — That rends my heart — that checks my tongue- 1 fear will laft me all my days, JBut feel it will not lad mc long, SONG. BY THE SAME. Chase to blame my melancholy, Though with iighs and folded army, I mufe with filence on her charms ; • Cenfure not — I know 'tis folly. Yet, thefe mournful thoughts poflefling, Such delights I find in grief, That, could Heaven aftbrd relief, My fond heart would fcorn the blefling. THE [ 57 ]. THE TRIUMPH OF DULLNESS, A f O E M : CCCASIONED BY A LATE GRACE PASSED IN THK UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. , Still her old empire to reJloreJJye tries, For born a goddefs, DULLNESS never dies. Pope's Dunciad, introduction. 1 HE licentioiifnefs of modern Poets has been no unfrequent, nor, I mnft confefs, undeferving fiib. jecft of the fevereft cenfure. I believe the itifolence of wit in this Univerfity has been, at lead, equal to that of every other part of the world : we have very lately had our Heroic Epiftles, our Poems, and our Pamphlets, which have moll: audacioufly prefumed to violate the myllic dignity of age and office, and with unparalleled impiety to tell the world, that theProfef-" forial Chair is not always ihe feat of Chrillinn meck- nefs and primitive fimplicity, nor a College Lodge the feat of Apollo and the Mufes. Theiiuthor of the foU lOvv'ing flieets emulates not fuch audacity ; confcioiis that decency is due to age, ai d refpeft to office, he is content, for thef-^ke of fubordination, to let a W — C 5 exhibit I 38 ] exhibit Oran-Outangs, nnd a PI— expel pamphleteers vrithofiteven a fnrcaflic obfervation : his only aim is to draginto the face of day, of ridicule, and of contempt^ men w ho have neither the pretenfions of more than partial literature, thedignity of age, the influence of lortune, or the privilege of rank, to entitle them to abrogate laws and overturn fyftcms founded inwifdom and fandified by experience, becaufe they happen to thwart their private unprincipled views, or to impede the progrefs of their infolent ambition. The * abfurdity of a late Grace, which gave occafion to the following lines, has been too notorious to need almoft any explanation here ; fuflice it therefore to * Fcr tilt be In. fit of the curious reader the author has here fub- j'^incil the Grace, which, tor per'pixuityland clajjical e/^eancr, he ap- pr-hends can fc.irccly be equalled by any compofition fince the Au- ^ftjn age : Cam mo6 nuper in Academia invalucrir, ut unur(qulfi]uc fere fo" piiJKarurnaliqueinhbi aiixilii caufa inter lludia profequcnda, quae ad >; adum baccaiauvcaiui in arbitus fptvHanr, fub privati tuioris nomine afvifcat, non fine acaJemixinfamia ct graviflimistorum cxpcnfisqui fumraolabore fuo ?: curi riudiofos alunt. PJaceat vobis, ut d quia in poiUrum fchoLirls inter bif.nnlum gra- ivm fufcepruri'S, ii-ter d'lAi fludJa profcquen 'a cujuflib.t ufus fuei it jMxilio intra acadeniiam direc^e vc! iiid'.r.->ft< , flipendio aut mercede foniufli, five privati tuioris f.-u alio quocunque fub nomine hujuf- modi, oronfm fibi aditum ad fcnioiitatcm baccalaureis rcfervatam pr^clLfuiu intelligat. Provifo tamcn, nc ii qui anno proximc fc- quenti adinittcndi fa .t ad refroiiiicudura qrasdioni, hoc llatuto te- i.CiUitr. fay, [ 39 3 fay, that difappointment was the foundation, perfecu- tion the objecfl, and that the neceiTary effewever in this in»tdncc a proper degree of rcfcntment in the junior part of the fe- nate } it was with difficulty that this gentleman's dcgFce paflcd the Houfe of Incurables, and the White Hoods we;e ovcrpoTrered oniy by ilie privilege which the Dodtors poficfs of voting aiuorf^ft them* G 6 to [ 4^ ] to common delicacy*, would have remembered, that the Uniyerfity a few days before had thought him much more fit to manage his father's hounds than to fuperintend academical education. This is a true and exacf^ ftate of fads. I am fure, candid Reader, let thy age or rank be what it will, as thou wouldft fupport learning and education, and difcourage indolence and ignorance, thou wilt apr plaud my moiive, whatever thou may ft think of jiiy rhymes. i-ii. THE TRIUMPH OF DULLNESS. VV HERE great St. John's, in Gothic pomp array 'd,'^ Cafts o'er the muddy tide a fuUcn Ihade, And many a branching elm conceals in night Her flumb'ring fons, and hides the peering light j Kcught but deep filence 'mid the gloom prevails. Save where deep Inorings frequent load the gales; Or fave, v.hen logic's jarring tribes advance, Schoiafric thunders wake them from their trance. • Where great St. John's pours forth ! er nun/i-ous fons, Ilnr Gotus And Vand..l5, Huttentots and Hono. Vid. Man. Cv.r. :n Tibl. Bod. Bending Bending with grief, on fquallid earth reclia'd,-' Breathing the fecret anquifli of her mind, Sat Dullness, mighty miilrefs of the fcene ; _*> Sad were her looks, diforder'd was her mien, -» Her dulky robes were torn, her raven hair Loofe o'er her flioulders hung in wild dcfpair ; The wither'd poppies dropped around her head, While fafi: flie dropp'd her tears, and thus (lie faid !- ** Blefi: wns the age, blefl the triumphant hour, ** When Granta bow'd obfequious to my power ; » " When each, like Margaret's * owls, at peep of dayy '* Blink'd at the fun, and fled the piercing ray, *' With Wolfius cramm'd, or Bergerfdicius fed, ** And metaphyfic fogs enwrapp'd each head. *' Witnefs, ye hallow'd walls, for ye have feen *^ The full orb'd glories of your gracious Qiicen ; *' Witnefs, ye groves, whofe murky haunts among, ** While circling frogs hoarfe croak'd their ev'ning fong, ** Erfl: my own Rutherford, profoundefl fage ! " Cull'd every wreath that decks his ample page, '* And flcill'd to grope in Nature's darkeft lore, ** Nobly r7^^r'^whate'er was clear before ; ** While Folly fcofF'd,meekLearning'sfons were mute, " And fchoolmens' jargon fwell'd each fierce difpute : • Margaret Countefs of Richmond, foi-ndrefs of St. John's CO Ic^e. «* How .[ 4^ I ** How chang'd, alas ! from hev whofe princely brow *• Bade M afters reverence, an^ ftifFDof^ors bow ; * V^Vhile as- 1 iblk*d along, ea<:h groaning fod ** Teera'd vvith fredi dunces whertfoe'ier I trodr *• Ah, fadreverfc! with each incrcafmg year •* The waning fplendors of nriy reign appear, ** Coop*d in thcfe limits, all that now remain ** Of fornner grandeur, and my wide domain ;■ •* Here, here alone, my leaden fceptre rules •* Some numbering dunres, feme lethargic fbols-, •* Who loyal rtill, ftill fteady to my caufe, ** Defend my precepts, and protect my laws," Scarce had flie fpoke, o'ervvhelm'd with fobs and- tears, "Wher^ C-— — , * her great prime minifter, appears:-' C her arch counfcUor, her chief fupport. The truftiefl fervant of the Johnian court : Each morn beheld his labours for her right,. Which fcarce were ended with departing light. Search Granta round, who e'er fo fkiird as he, For Johnian wit, or Johnian fophiHry ? Who e'er fo IkilPd the mangled word to twift With torturing pun, or thrid the maze of Whift ? * A wfU -known pcrfonase In the Univcrfity, noted for hjs f uMic kftiUTS, whin, and |n)Iitics. Who r 45 1 Who e'er Co fkilPd in coffee-houfe debate, * 1^ fliow the hidden fprings that move theftate ? When fiercely fputtering in his vieful mood,f With half-formM fpeech he frightens — Mr, Jude, J Such was the hero, who, by nature led, And cholic's angry fummons, left his bed. And onward prefsM, at Cloacina's call. To feek her grotto near the college wall ; Whofe tatter'd leaves, from ufelefs Newton torn-. His pockets fiird, in either hand was borne A page of Hoyle, to fludy, as he paid His liberal offerings to the footy maid. Sad Dullnefs fpyM her fav^ite fronv afar, And hail I fhe cry'd, all hail I illullrious C . The welUknown voice he heard, and flraight forgot His vifit to the goddcfs of the grot ; . . * Pleas'd at his hade, the goddefs ceas'cT to figh, A gleam of hope quick glancing from her eye ; With mutual yawns the greetings firil begin, She broadly grinned, and he return *d the grin. When thus the goddefs : ** Thank propitious Fate, *' That gives fuch comforts in my abjeft llate > * This gentleman Is to be feen from four till feven in the after* noon every day at Judc's. •J- ** \fadntf« laughing In her vieful mood,'* Dry den, |, The mailer of an eminent coffee-houfe In Cambridge. " By . [ 44 ]. ** By thee infpir'd, hope and ambition roll *' •* Spring tides oi new-born fancies o'er my foul ; •* Mcthinks I fee the glories of my reign •'^ Thrive by thy care, and blollbm forth again, *' I know thy head is for contrivance form'd, ** As by true loyalty thy breaft is warm'd ; ** O I may thy foul, like mine, new ardour feel •* To aid thy miltrefs with this wonted zeal; *• O ! fet to work that^^/zf- intenti've brain, ** Thy genius cannot labour long in vain ; ** Long has thy life obeyM my gentle rule, *' Supremely ftupid, uniformly dull. *' Then roufe, my faithful fervant, nobly dare, *' Schemes fuch as thine may wake a monarch's care : '^ Who knows but G uiay, like another James, '* Affcrt my caufe, and vindicate my claims. '* Hufti, my prophetic tongue, nor e'er relate ** The wonders whicii my raptur'd thoughts create ! ** How glad St. John's, X like Trinity may feall- ** A king, and glory in a royal giieft ; *' How priggifli P , as Arnold's felf fliall teach, *• JMay greet the monarch in a Latin fpeech ; * When Liberty and Virtue r3ll Spring Utles of fancy c)'cr the poet's foul. Vicic Haylcy's Epiftle to Howard. J A proper bait for a Johnian ; they are envious of the excel- Icrcies of ll.c nc'ghbouiing college. •* A new [ 45 ] *' A new Albumazar, by K -pi g made, ** By Johnian Undergraduates be pJay'd, ** And thou, wy C , at G — ge's high manda'^ niiis, ** Tagg'd with dog Latin, write an ignoramus. ** Mark too, my fon, the rich preferment's charms, *' The bright rewards that wait thy conquVing *' arms, *' Should at thy fctt expiring fcience fall, *' Perchance a bifiiopric, at leail a flail.'* She fpoke ; the hero tow'r'd above the Ikies, Lawn fleeves and mitres danc'd before his eyes ! He laughs, tranfported at his future lot. And thinks he's dubb'd a Bifliop on the fpot ; Long time he dwelt upon the pleafing theme, As one entranc'd j — then, waking from his dream, He thus replies : •* I fly, great Queen, I fly ** At thy command, to conquer or to die : *' Oft have I ihiaiy fworn (and thou haft heard ** The folcmn found, and ratify'd the word) '* Should Senfe or Science e'er aflault thy throne, ** I'd lliake my Gorgon wig, and Hare them into »'• • flone : ** Since thou and Arnold bade St. John's be mine, * ** (Let parents judge) I'veferv'd no caufe but thine. * Mr. C— — Tuccecdcd the fub-preceptor and tatorlhip of St. John's, Sooner t 46 ] ** Sooner fhall M d -f quit a T t^s thronf, ** Preferring England's intereilto hia own ; •* Sooner (hall Warfon, from his courtier wirvg^, *' Shed balmy flattVy in the ears of kings ; ** Sooner (hall Marg'iet*3 herd forfake their mud, ** And feek the lavings of the cryllal flo«d ; ** Sooner black, bearifli K , wirh brow ferctif, ** Shall gently fmile, than I defert my Queen. ** Marfhall-'d, whene'er I call, thy Johnian foni *• Shall form a phalanx firm as Macedon's j ** Fix*d as the bafis of the marble rock, ** Shall ftem whole tides of wit, and brave tlve furiou* fhock. •* Nor think on us thy only hope depends, •* Far diftant roofs conceal as zealous friends. *' Blow loud the trump, immortal war proctaim- •* 'Gainft brilliant wit, and fcientific fame ; ♦* Dunce fhould'ring dunce fhall rife in deep array, •* And ftrew with Folly's choicell fl;.w'rs thy way. •' But far above the reft, with large fupplies «* Triumphant Queen's (hall greet thy wond'ring- eye3, ** Queen's, where enthron'd the great Goliah H rules, *' The fenate's terror, bugbear of the fchools : ♦' This. f M— d, fellow of K— 's College, M— r for the univcrfity, a,^d S r G 1. II This name was given lo ihc leverend tutor In a fcurrllous pam- phlet, which V as treated with mailed contempt by every one i but i 47 1 ** This is the champion fure, by Fate decreed, ** In gloomy ranks thy martial troops to- lead; ** Himfelf an hoft, thy empire's beft defence, *' Arm'd with the mail of hardened impudence. ** Be mine the tafk to win him to our caufe ; ** Tho* fierce his foul, and unreiirainM by laws, ** As tygers favage, rude as troubled feas, '* Pow*r fcarce can tame him, pleafure fcarce cafif^ pi cafe, ** Be thine, my much-lovM Miftrefs, round his head ** Damp thick*ning fogs, and murky mifls to fpread ; ** Quench in his breaft each fpark of genius' fire, ** Till Senfe and Science with a hifs expire."" Well pleas'd^ the Goddefs rais*d her leaden eyes, And yawning loud — approv'd his fage advice; The yawn divine o'er all the hallow'd ground In magic circles flowly crept around, Low fleepy murmurs fiil'd the dark abode, And elm-trees nodded, and confefs'd the God; Thro' Marg'ret's courts the potent opiates fly, And ev'ry Johnian yawns by fympat/iy, but fo agreeable ar>; 'cveral traits in this gentlet-nan's chara^er t(* Tome inGaliali's of oM, that the unlverfity has ever fince dignified him wich this title. 6n [ 4S ] ON HARWOOD.H0US£, THE RESIDENCE OF EDWIN LASCELLES, ESQ^ IN YORKSHIRE, He^E Hunger ilalk'd in flarving Ciuler's * day, Where now infpiring Plenty Urows the way. Bleft change ! tlie former Ions of Sorrow cry. When wealth employ'd lo greets the plaiifive eye. Witnefs, ye fykan fcenes, gay cultiir'd land, Vitnivian polifli, and the ta.lcful band ; • Sir J-'hn Cutler, a rich ufurcr lo the laft century, on whoft tharaQcr Mr. Pope has animadveried. It IS faid that he precluded the faini r,limmeiaigs of a farthing cancilc, when bufinefs would not juftiiy the cxpence of the light. He was formerly the owner of the premifes where the fumptu- ous ftrufVure new ftands ; many are the anecdotes io the town of Harwood concerning the parfimony of this perfon ; among ihe reft, the author of " Vetbia," a poem, relates in a note that ** His method was to bring with him, fiom London, only one man-fervant; to have a lingle joint made ready, which after the firft wa»m onfet, ferved them cold until the bones were picked, ^hcn a fopply was brought to fatisfy in the fame way.— The diftance of the manfion from Harwood was under a mile, from •whence he hired a woman \o make his bed twice a-week, and to perform on that day the arrear-work of the intervals." The t 49 1 The winding ftream that laves the flow'ry (horcs. And rifing beauties that each day explores ; All, all confefs the noble feftive fare, The finifli'd elegance, and friendly chair ! Fly quick, for ever fly, ye venal crew, Ye meagre heirs of Avarice, adieu ! Hence to your dark abodes, where Mis'rj' dwells. And pine the doleful tenants of your cells. Thirll: 'midfl: the flore, nor know what comforts mean, All ye that from yourfelves fo furtive glean. Long may thy chimnies fmoke ; abundance reign, And laughing Lares join the buxom train ; While arts and fcience grace the fplendid pile. Sweet claffic dome I fair phccnix of our ille I Leeds, 17S4. R U S T I C U S. TROLOGUE TO ZARA. BY GENERAL BURGOYNE. SPOKEN EY LORD RAWDON, AT BOSTON. In Britain once (it fiains th' hifloric page) Freedom was vital-ftruck by party-rage : Cromwell the fever watch'd, the knife fupplied, She madden'd, and by fuicide Ihe died. Amidol r so ] Amidfl the groans funk every liberal art. That poUfli life, or humanize the heart ; Then fell the ftage, ^uell'd by the bigot's roar, Truth fell with Senfe, and Shakefpeare charm'd no more. To footh the times too much refembling thofe. And lull the care-tirM thought, this flage arofe ; Proud if you hear, rewarded if you're pleas'd, We come to minifter to minds drfeafed. To you, who, guardians of a nation's caufe, Unfheath the fword to vindicate her laws. The tragic fcene holds Glory up to view, And bids heroic Virtue live in you ; Unite the Patriot's with the Warrior's care, And while you burn to conquer, wifli to fpare: The comic fcene prefides o'er focial life. And forms the hulband, father, friend, and wife ; To paint from nature, and with colours nice. Shew us ourfelves, and laugh us out of vice. Now fay, ye Bofton prudes, (if prudes there are) Is this a tafk unworthy of the fair ? Will fame, deconnn, piety refufe A call on Beauty to condu6t the Mufe ? Perilh the narrow thought, the lland'rous tongue ! When the heart's right, the a(5tion can't be wrong. Behold the teft, mark at the curtain's rife, How Malice flirinks abafli'd at Zara's eyes J WRITTEN t y- 3 WRITTEN IN 1782, UPOV THE BUST OF THE EARL OF CHATHAM. Her trophies faded, and jcvcnM her fpear. See England's Genius bend o'er Chatham's bier. No more her fails thro' every clime unfurl'd, Shall fpread his dilates o'er th' admiring world ; No more {hall accents nervous, bold, and ftrong. Flow in full periods from his matchlefs tongue. Yet 111 a 11 thy name, great Shade, from age to age, Bright in poetic and htfloricpage^ Thine and thy country's fate congenial tell. By thee flie triumph'd, and with thee fhe fell. ORDER; A POEM. Unhappy man, thro' life's fucccffive years, From youth to age, fay how thy reafon errs ; Still prone to weep thy miferies below, Regardlefs of the fource from whence they flow ; On Nature charging, and her perfect laws, Thofe ills thy follies, or thy vices cauljp. But [ 5= ] But know thou this, Nature, to all a friend, Direds each being to its proper end ; To happinefs points out the certain road— To follow Nature, as to follow God. Ere Time had birth, or the fun's radiant light Diffolv'd the reign of Chaos and old Night, Nature \inform'd, in rude diforder lay, And held in anarchy a lavvlcfs fway. But God commands — all civil difcords ceafc, And warring elements unite in peace j Syrtems in Order flrait begin to roll. And friendly parts compofe one beauteous whole. To Nature thus th' Eternal Mover faid, ** Thro' all my works be Order's laws obeyM ; ** Order decreed the certain path to blifs, ** None e'er fliall err, who flridly move by this." Look then around, the univerfe furvey, And follow Nature, as flie leads the way ; To yonder ample arch dired thine eye. And view the perfeft Order of the Iky. Fix'd in his orb, fee with refulgent ray. The conftant fun lights up the genip.l day ; While fhining worlds melodionily advance, And form around the planetary dance. Sec [ 53 1 See the pale moon adornM with borrow'd light, More faintly gilds the dulky (hades of night ; In bright array, fhe leads her flarry train, Obeys the earth, and guides the {welling main. Her flarry train, by the fame rule confinM, Obfequious wait, nor leave the queea behind ; But all in perfe(5l harmony confpire, To move as Order and its laws require. To earth dcfcend — fee mountains, woods, and vales, The murm'ring waters, and the whifp*ring gales ; 'Whatever wings the lovely realms of Day, Lives on the land, or fwims along the fea : In Order all purfue the ends defigned, ProportiouM to their flation, and their kind. Rains feed the earth ; nor does the earth deny To fend 'em back in vapours to the flcy ; Seas fill the fprings— the fprings again repay Their grateful tribute to the flowing fea. Night follows day — feafons the year divide, 'Twixt Winter's nakednefs, and Summer's pride; And flow'rs and fruits, (the fummer's rich fupply) Rife, bloom, and flourilli,— ficken, fade, and die. D Without [ 54 1 Without controul, unerring Infiin^l reigns, And fee, each brute the genVal law maintains ; Unchanging verges to the deflin'd goal, True as the needle trembles to the pole. But Man, the fport of ev'ry paffion made, Ey all carefs'd, and yet by all betray'd ; From Order's flow'ry path perverfely flrays, And wanders on in Error's crooked maze ; And, fpite of Nature, and in Reafon's fpight, Purfues wrong meafiires, and neglct^s the right. But mark how, rifing from this fatal fourcc. Vice pours along, refifllefs in its courfe ; And, like fome raging flood, without controul, Heaps woes on woes, and deluges the foul. Hence Love and Hate, in wild diforder join'd, Difturb his reafon, and diftrad his mind ; Delulive Hope, and more delufive Fear, Now raife him up, now link him in defpair. Hence Anger burns, and pale Dejedion chills, ' Envy torments, and pining Sorrow kills ; And every paflion in its turn deftroys Someprefent blifs, or leffens future joys. From hence Excefs, parent of Sloth and Eafe, Calls forth the lurking feeds of each difeafe j And [ 55 ] And Death, grim tyrant ! haflens on his pace, To fliortcn half the date of human race. Hence injnr'd Innocence opprefiion feels. And Perfecution threatens whips and wheels ; And Juflice mourns, deprefs'd by perjur'd tools, A prey to Malice, and a fcorn to Fools. Hence War with thoufands heaps the fanguine plain, And Liberty deplores a Tyrant's reign ; In guilty ftate thus conquering Csefar rode, And drc-nch'd Pharfalia's field with Roman blood ; Thus Philip's fon ran mad with martial pride. And Nero, once a faint, tiirn*d parricide. A favage life our ruflic fathers led, Acorns their food, and mother Earth their bed; Rough in their habit, in their manners rude, A lawlcfs, cruel, and ignoble crowcj. But Order rofe, the beauteous child of Jen e. Parent of Pleafure, Harmony, and Love ; Smiling fhe rofe, and Difcord took it's flight, The favages grew mild, the rude polite; Thus fpedres vanifli at th' approach of light. } Then Peace triumphant wav'd her olive wand. And chearful Plenty crown'd each happy land ; P 1 Then Then laws were made to curb unruly Might, And Juflice held th' impartial fcales of Right. The nuptial torch then firfl began to flame, And blended Int'reft pointed at one aim ; Hence fprung the tender focial ties of life. Friend, Father, Brother, Iliifband, Child, and Wife. Then towns were built, and mutual leagues were made, And ftatcs were foriiiM by Order^s pow' And man forfook the cave, and fylvan fhadc. ;agues were f'rfiil aid, f Thus poets tell, by Orpheus* lays infpir'd, Tygers grew mild, and filently admir*d ; Thus walls and towVs around Amphion throng, And (lately Thebes was built by magic fong. Then patriots rofe, who tyranny withftood, And greatly futfer'd, for their country's good ; Here Codrus dies, friend to th* Athenian flatc, And brave Timoleon feals his brother's fate ; There Rf gulus to fure deftru£tion runs, And Brutus bleeds for Rome, in both his fons. Then arts were known, and fciences began To polifli and refine the ways of man ; Here blufliing grapes the fpreading vines adorn, And fertile fields turn white with waving corn; In f 57 1 In verdant pastures there the cattle f^ray, While jovial (hepherds chaunt the rural lay. Here Navigation fpreads her fwelling fails, Rides on the waves, and courts the profp'roiis gales ; And Commerce round the globe begins to roll, And wafts the wealth of India to the Pole» Then Sculpture firil in due proportion (hone ; And beauty feem'd to breathe in living ftone j Then mimic Paint deceiv'd the wond'ring eye. And each bold figure feem'd a flander-bye. Then Archite<^turc heav'd feme lofty dome, The pride of Athens, Babylon, or Rome, Such are thy ftriic^ures, Carlifle, fuch their ilatc, Nobly fublime, and regularly great ; Where Grace and Art, in full perfection join'd, Reflect the image of their mailer's mind. But, daring Mufe, reflrain thy tow*ring wing, Unable thou that lofty theme to fing ; That lofty theme adorns a Mufe's lays, Whofe wit fliall charm, till Tafte itfeif decays. Thus Order firft the favage world refmM, Reformed their manners, and improv'd their mind. Say t 58 3 , Say then, weak man, is happinefs thy care } Be timely wife, nor truft thyfclf too far ; Kcflrain thy paflions, call thy reafon in, And quell the fierce exulting foe within; To Order*s ftandard be thy aif^s confinM, Let Order rule the fallies of thy mind : With flrideft care thy lelTer world command. As moves the greater by the Almighty's hand ; As fliifts no ftar but by his fovVeign fway, So follow thou, as Order points the way ; From this foundation fure to climb to blifs, None e'er fhall err, who flric^tly move by this. VERSES BY MR. ALMON, TO ins DAUGHTliR ON HER BIRTH-DAY. y tliofc his former bounty fed : A: Bowood, buried quick, he lies ; To dig him up no mortal tries. With [ 8i ] With down-caft eyes the joylefs Premier fate,- Revolving in his fearful foul, The various turns of chance at Court ; And now and then a figh he flole, And tears began to fpout. CHORUS. Revolving, kc. The mighty Watkin griev'd to fee Love was not in the next degree ; Place he fang is toil and trouble. Eloquence is empty bubble, Never ending, flill beginning, Boring flill, and ever cloying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying; Lovely Dufidas^ns belide thee, Take the bride the K— g provides thee. The Liv'ry rend the Hall with loud applaufe; The Scot was crown'd, but Watkin won the caufe. Young P///, unable to conceive his pain, Gaz'd on the Scot, And blefs'd his lot, And lookM and drank, and fmiled and drank, And eat and drank, and drank again. At length, with loxf, wine, pride, and flattVy drunk ; The boy quite lick, beneath the table funk, CHORUS. Young P///, &:c. E 3 No\7 f 8-^ 3 Now ilrike, Sir Watkin, crack yourllrings afunder, And roufe him, like a rattling peal of thunder; Hark, hark, the well-known found, That voice how it rang, In his ears what a twang. For help, in a fright, he flares round. Revenge, revenge, here Charles Fox cries^ See the Whigs how ihey rife. See the whips that they bear, How they rave, hifs, and llare. And the furies that flafh from their eyes. ' Behold a faithful band. Each a rod in his hand ! They're Miiifters Gholls, that by 7r;«/.V wereflain, And unbury'd remain, Sure to rife up again. Give the juftice due To the injui'd crew. EehcM, how they carry each vote in the Houfe! How they point to the Treafiiry Seat ! With what firm addreffes their Sovereign they meet I Sir Watkin ceafed — the mob made hafle, withjoy To draw the coach, and windows to dellroy j But, alas ! on the way. There happen'd a fray, Where they all ran away. Not a mortal would ilay. To refcue the coach, or deliver the boy.— A HINT r 83 ] A HINT TO A GREAT MAN. iLIuftrioiis Minion, to whofe mighty rule, The Court and Senate bends, tho' late from fchoot, Who with high nofe, our abjeft ftate furveys, Our Commerce, Navy, Conftitution, Teas. Exciife an humble friend, to either nation, For wifliing when thou'rt next at calculation ; You'd leave out Prettyman and Jenky big With mifchief, and call in the learned Pig; His poring fnout might find, or cloven paw. What Ordv ne'er weigh'd, or brighter Rofe forefaw j Confute the merchant's llatemenr, prove thine own, And fix fagacious Rutlatidon his throne. N. B. The reader willexcufe rhime of Teas, it i« from an Irifliman. EPIGRAM. THE TWO SECRETARIES. No wonder the Premiier fo fturdy fhould feel, When he deals both in cunning and blows ; In the houfe he depends on his weapon of Steel "* And at home he plays under the Ro/cf * Mr, Steel is the whippei-in of the members upon a divinon . ■J: Mr. Rofe manages the intrigues In Downing- ftreet. E 4 THE [ 84 ] THE FOLLOWING STANZAS WERE WRITTEN I'/ THE LATE DAVID GARRICK, ON THE OPENING OF AN ACADEMY, BY MESS. DUKE AND HART, FOR THE PURPOSE OF TEACKIN G- ClOWN GENTLEMEN TO DANCE. Marseilles * no more may boall his art, Which forms the youth of France j For you inrLrudi, great Duke and Hart, Grown gentlemen to dance. He only bends the pliant twig ; You ftrike a bolder flroke ; You fofren rocks, make mountains gig, AiiQ bend the knotted oak ! • A 1 ^ed French tJancing maHer. ne [ 85 ) ^hefolhnmng curious Specimen of Profe verfified (for ^jh cannot gi've the produHions the name of Poetry) are faidto hanje been ivritten hy Sir Cecil l^ray. Impartia- lity, hovjever, obliges us to declare, JVe do not think fuch puerile compofitions could ever ha-vs been ^^vritten by that Gentleman ] his education having been liberal, and his knoiviedge of language univerfally admitted,— JVith this Apology -Mejhall give the?n to our readers as copied vej-^ batimfrom the Ne-x\f papers. TO CELIA (NOW LADY WRAY) ON POWDERING HER HAIR. EXTEMPORE. Thy locks, I trow, fair maid, Don't never want this aid : Wherefore thy powder fpare, And only comb thy hair. TO SIR JOSEPH MAWBEY, PROPOSING A PARTY TO GO A FISHING FOR WHITE BAIT. Worthy Sir>r, we all are wifhing, You'd come with us a White Bait filhing, E 5. [ 86 ] ON SEEING A LADY BIRD FLY OFF CELTa's NECK, AFTER. HAVING TERCHED- ON IT FOil MANY MINUTES, — I Thought (God blefs my foul !) Yon lady bird her mole — I thought — but devil take the thing. It piov'dmy error — took to wing.— A THOUGHT ON NEW MILK, Oh I how charming is new milk ! Sweet as fugar, fmooth as filk I FAMILIAR VERSES, ikDDRESSED TO TWO YOUNG GENTLEMEN AT THE HOUNcLCW ACADEMY. Take notice, roguelings, T prohibit, Your walking underneath yon Gibbet : Have you-uot heard, my little ones, Of RrA\J Head and Bloody Bn?ics ? ■ How do you know but that the c fellow, Mny ftep down quick, and you up fwallow ? VERSES L 87 3 VERSES ON MY OWN HORSE, JUST AFTER HUNTING, IN THE MANNER OF" JEB*S HORSE. Vv ITH aged fire, and youthful vigour lining, My horfe's nerves have made his finevvs flrong ; The fweat has oiPd his limbs — he*s fwift of courfe 5 Oh ! rpy brave, my fleet, my hunting horfe. ON CELIA KILLING A FLEA, Thou great epitome of little death, ?A\ hail ! How bled: thy fate beneath my Celia's lovely nail. No more thou'lt Ikjpfromfheetto flieet alive and well, The fair one's nail and finger toU'd thy pading-bell. N. B. The allufion here to the noife made by the animal's fiidden death, is beautifully defcriptive of a paffing-bell. Sir Cecil's knowledge of ancient hii- tory appears from the foliov/ing: O CyBEIE loved Atys, Attes, or Attine, He was a boy, and took the name of Pine, Ghafte v.'as his heart— itiviolate as mine, E 5 C 88 3 In her Temple, whoever touchM garlic ne'er enter'd, lint Bacchus's rites in that Temple were center'd. i^tys forgot his vow, and fuch his fatal fate, That by himfelf he made himfelf emafculate. So thus the Goddefs, with a love like mine, In pity turned the faid Atys to a Pine. N. B. It is a known fa(fi:, that the Temple of Cy- bele was never prophaned, that it was opened not by hands, but prayers, and that none were permitted to enter who had tailed garlic. A knowledge of the Heathen Gods gives a Poet command over the moil beautiful paflages of Prophane Hillory. O N A B L A C K S O W, WITH A LITTER OF THIRTEEN PIGS, To the head of that fow, what aback, chine {a\ and tail {h)^ Here, John, bring toPorkey (r) fome milk and forpc (a) The chine is always confrJcred the niceft part of the poik; eitht;r rc'tOcd or boiled, antl is monlirous tine eating Nvhcn Norfolk tuik^es are in feafon. {h) The tail of a little ro^fled pi^ is a nice morfcL \() Foikcy waslhc fow't narne. Defirc 'k C ^9 ] Befire your miilrefs, and Patty (d) my coufm, To come look at the Mother and her baker's {e) do«. zen. How fweet is the fmell of the llraw in her flye ! {fy It is a mixture of oaten, of wheaten, and rye. Call out my Lord Lungs {g) and his half-brother Billy, And the Lady in blue that came down in the dilly ; And aflc the two men with the grey powder'd wigs, To come and behold my fine litter of pigs. What an eye has this fat little creature indeed ! But no wonder at that, 'tis the true Chinefe {b) breed. [JJ Patty is an abbreviation of the Chriftian name Martha, Patty contains but five letters, and Martha has fix. fe) A baker's dozen is thirteen. ffj Stye is the name of a place where hogs, pigs, and fows are ufually kept. I difteied with my friend Sir Jofeph, who always kept his hogs without any llraw, and they lay on the bare pavemejit. CgJ My Lord Lungs, fo called from the great noife he always makes in the Houfc of Commons. He was once bit by a mad dog, called Bullion, at the Mint, and has never been properly in his fenfes fince that time. I love him very much or I Ihould not have feat him a pig. (bj China is a great place in the Eaftern world, where I have never been in. But I have cups and faucers, and tea, and a Man- darin, and two fire-fcreens that were adlually made there. This r 90 ] This black one I'll fend to Northumberland's (/) Duke, The white one's befpoke by my dear coufin Suke ; {k) Another mnft go to Churchill (/), that's fettled, Or Churchill will be moft damnably nettled ; Number four, five and fix, and feven and eight, Mull be fent up to Wood's {m), for the Committee Fete ; And the man that is filled {») fliould certainly dine, If he had not been kill'd, on the pig number nine. Eleven and twelve to Chelfea {c) I'll fend, I think to the chaplain, and he'll be my friend. Thirteen {:) Northumberland's Duke, is the Duke of NorihnmbirlanH, His wife was a very good fort of a woman, and wore a fine dia- moud ftomacher at the Caftle at Dublin, when the Duke was Lord Lieutenant there. (kj Couf.n Suke is the dauiihttr of .-ny father's fifter's-biother. /A Churchill, once a vender of mcdicinef, now a manufac- iure» of voies. , „.• ■ Wood'?, a place -where troth is made of meat and bones ; a cVuifii l-houfe alfo for dead coaftabks. (;..) Killed. The term for a body out of which the life has been laken. (cj Chelft 2, » place near Ranelaph, a great burthen to thp. ^^in^uup, which I mean to have pulled djwn toward-: klTening [ 9> 3 Thirteen my dear wife has told me (he means To drefs here at home, with fage (/) chop'd in the brains ; And the belly (7), fhefays, fliall beftuffedwith fwcet things, With priiins and currants— a difli fit for Kings ; And egg (r) fauce we will have, and potatoes and butter, And ^ve'll eat till neither one word more can we ut- ter. the national dcbf. By ymttlng down this place, a parcel of ufe- lefs men will die, and confeqjently a great faving follow. //>) Sage chopped in the biains is very common, and if the little tongue is put among them, it makes the difh better. (q) Belly is the place which contained the entrails, and, when ftnftcd with fweet thuigs, is deliciouf. {rj E^N^ fautc is comnnon in Ireland with pigs. (j) Potatoes, a vegetable ihaped fomcth'ng like a turnip, but more like an apple. Tht-y are {old in Covent-Garden, and the Iriih are \trv fond of th?rn. I M- [ 92 3 IMPROMPTU ON CLORA's SINGING. WRITTEN SOON AFTER THE AUTHOR HAD BEEN ADMITTED TO THE HONORARY DEGREE Of A. M» Who's {t) that— that fet's my heart a bobbhig I' With note more fweet than Rcd-hrcafi Rohhin ! If Clora ! — ah, how mighty cruel, To feed {n) Love's flame with voca^. fud I (r) The Eroiefii, and Oxymoron^ are in the firft couplet moft happily blended ; how energetic the interrogation! how illuflrative the fimple articulifed particle — a bobbing f The ingenious author/ it is faid, has often lamented that the meafure would not admit of the repetition — a bobbing^ a b-jbb'inr — The cffc£l of which would certainly have been prodigious! [^tt) — " Feed levels Jicime with vocal fuel .'"] What cnn be more ap^ojitcly oppofitf, than the finely conceived ccnilagiating partick-s of a true lover's heart being blown into a blaze by the irreliflible ven- ;Jlaiion3 of an harmonious pipe ? B A G A« [ 93 3 BAGATELLE. ON A FAIR lady's SLIPPING HER FOOT INTO A GARDEN CANAL IN THE VICINITY OF ISLING- TON SPA. See Delia but one falfe ftep make, And pop her foot in yon {x) flill lake, y^ round her {y) toes, in (a) pretty pride, The gold and filver fifhes glide; (*) " Still /a/te."] — The pfeudo critia of the day objefled to this Synecdoche^ as rather too extenfively decorated for a fj/'s garden ; hvit Diotiyjius HallarnaJJut, we truft, would have allowed our Poet to have introduced the Pacific Ocean itfelf, if he had thought proper, as the more lively hypctyfofn to dignify his fubjedl. {y) « Toi?;."] — Here, in truejfimplicity, theEnglifli Baronet evi- dently excells the moft dignified of the ancients : Briartus, for ex- ample, painted by the latter with a numerical Jhew of bands, like the Li-vcry of London in Common Hall aflcmbled— leaves nothing for the playfulnefs of fancy to work upon. Not fo our bard ;— when he delicately fpeaks of Delia i toes, he does not intrufively tell you whether Ihe had threes four ^ or five on the emerged foot : but leaves the anatomical difpofition of the lovely toes to the reader's own imagination. {%_) " Preny pride /"] — The aUterative hauly oi pretty jbride muft ftrik.e the moil carelefs perufer. So [ 94 ] So Veniis^ dipping in the main, Drew (^0 fliell and fait fifli in her train ! DAMONy EXTEMPORE TO DELIA, ON SEEING TWO CATS PLAY TOGETHER. See -Dr/;', Dcly, charming fair, How PuJJeys play upon that chair ; Then, Dely^ change thy name to JJ'raji And thou and I will likewifc play. A DIALOGUE CONCERNING A BLADE BONE. Says I one day unto my wife, I never faw in all my life Such a ^.W^ 3^;:^. Why fo, my dear? Says flie. The matter's very clear, Says J, for on it there's no meat For any body for to eat. (*) *' ShtU andjah fjh.'"'\ This difcrimiiiaUon is defervcdly admi- red by the naturalilis, as difplayjng a pifcaltry knowledge equal to the fi ill -rate broker in B'lHingfgale Mcrhct ! — In Ihort, it wereneed-^ lefs to particularize the poetical beauties of our illuftrious author, who is an ornament to the BntiJJ} BeHa Lettra^ and whofe works, when more generally ri? Can't eat your cake and have it too ! J WRITTEN AT SIXTEEN, ON T H E R I VER T H A M E S, Let the river Ifis do what it can, The river Thame will run as it ran. It muft be remarked, the Tame and the Ifis joined| produce the appellation of Tamefi^ now Thames* ON THE BLOODY TENTH OF MAY. This is a day to riot dear, I'his is a day for my fmall beer, When conflables attack C. Fox, And conflables meet fatal knocks. E P I G R A M ]M A T I C THOUGHTS. What is virtue ? what is fame ? Fond ideas, empty air ; ^Friendfliip what? a filly name, Gold alone fliall be my care. C. W, E X T E ]\^ [ 96 J EXTEMPORE TO A TCRTER, Porter fitting on thy fack, Late thy fack has fate on thee; Lift it once more on thy back, That thy flrength the world may fee. EXTEMPORE TO A PIG, WALKING UNDER A RUIN. Foolish Pig I no longer Hay, 0*er thee ruins hangs on high; Quickly take thy felf away, Or thy fudden fate is nigh. TO C O E L I A, IN EXCUSE FOR A CERTAIN ACCIDENT WHICH'- HAPPENED THE AUTHOR IN HER COMPANY, > COELIA do not fay, O fie ! ' In that lu.'W my love has fpoke ; Truft me 'twas an erringy^/6, Thro* a neihcr pajjage broke. A^ C O ^S'y [ 97 I A COMPARISON, OUR ELY a n.\:oman to a 7n7ch-el may With J-uflice be compar'd, for they Are hard to find, and dear when good and fvveet, When bad, they're cheap, and found in ev'ry flreet. ON NEW SEATING A PAIR OF SCARLET PLUSH BREECHES. 1 HRICE three years, and fomething more Have I thefe pinfli breeches wore ; Now forc'd, e'er yet the tenth compleated, Through too much fitting, to be feated I AN IDEA ON A PECK OF COALS. 1 BUY my ccaU hy p clss^ that we May have ^e.mfiejh ^.ndfrcjh, d'ye fee ! EPIGRAMS } ON THE REV. DR. P 1^ TT — iMAn's DUPLICITY. What fliall reward bold Pretty's well-tiqj.Mfenfe, -For turning ncnv an Ir'Jh e'videncc ? An IrlJJy BlJIj-pricK's the recom pence ! — ANOTHER. Il OW happy, alas I had it been for poor Pitt, \^ IFyv'dl^ W^Q Pretty man J ntver had writ ! A N Oo t 9^ J ANOTHER. In vain for random errors of the day, 'Gainft thine fliall hofts of witling foes declaim ; VVhofe honej! face 2inA faithful form difplay. Full refutation of his lyingnamc! ANOTHER. — - Scelera ipfa 7iefifque Hac Mercede phcent^-—^ Cries Pratyman^ *' Confider, Sir, My lacred cloth, and charafler." The indignant minifter replied, *' This ne'er had been^ had Orde ne'er lyed." The patient Prieft at lafl relented, And all his mafier ivij}j\l, invented : Then added, with a faint-like whine, *' But the next Mitre jmif be mine 1''^ ANOTHER, That Pr—tt— man's fo pale, fo fpare, No caufe for wonder now aftbrds ; He lives, alas ! on empty fare, Who lives by eating his ovm ivords* A N O- [ 99 3 ANOTHER. Faith in the church, all grave divines contend. Is the chief hold when future hopes depend. How hard then Britain^ lot ! — for who hath/^//^ To credit half what Dodor PreUy faith ? ANOTHER. (by sir CECIL WRAY.) Oh, if I thought that Pretty could lye, I'd hifs'd him, I would, for my Scrutiny ! My poor Scrutiny ; — My ilcar Scrutiny ! My heart it down finks — I wilh I could die ! ANOTHER. (by sir JOSEPH MAWBEY.) JL-ORD Bacon hang'd poor Hog, For murd'ring, without pity, man ; And fo Ihould Pitt, by Gog, That kill-truth, Do6tor Prettyman-^ For fay I will, fpite of his wig, He's far below the learned Pi^ £> A N O [ roo ] ANOTHER. BY THE SAME. Says IFray to me, which is moft witty, The learned Pig, or Parfon Pretty ? S^ys I, I thinks, the latter is more wifer, Piggy tells truth alone ; — but Pretty lyes, Sir. ANOTHER. (not by the same.) Three Parfons for three different Patrons writ, For Rockingham, for Portland, and for Pitt. The firft, in fpeakirig Truth furpafs'd : The next could write it too — not fc the lafl. — The pride of Churchmen to be beat wa-s loth — So Prcttyman^ the oppofite to both ! ANOTHER. How much muft Ireland, P///, and Pretty prize. Who fvvears, at all events, to equal — lyes. A N O- 0- t 50! J ANOTHER, Pr E TTr, the other night, was tripping caught ; Forgive him, Pitt ;— he'll not repeat the fault— The bell may err— milled by wine and youth— His RcvVence drank too hard ; and told— //'f trnth ! Ev'n thou, Ihould generous wine o'ercome thy fcnle, May ralhly llumbie gw the fame offence. ANOTHER. There are who think all State affairs The worft of wicked worldly cates, To mingle with the prielUy leaven ; Yet furc the argument's uncouth — Trctty (liall c^oiihly fpread the truth, A Miniikr of Earth, and Heaven, ANOTHER. While modem Statefmen glean from prieftly txibes^, ^ev*rendCrwr;z'.r, and fanccimonious fcnbes ; '*ris love of truth^yzr. vain the hope, alas I To make this Holy TJy.t for G(?//r/pafs. F A N O* f 102 3 ANOTHER. CjAINST Pretty^ iinhoHnefs vain *tis to rail; With a courtly Divine that's of little avail.-— What parfon, polite, would not virtue offeod, And maintain a great falfUood, to fave a great friend } ANOTHER. If St. Peter was made, Of Religion the head, For boldly his mafter denying ; Sure Pretty may hope At leaft to be Pope, For his greater atchievements in lying, ANOTHER. Says Prettyman, " I'H fib, d'ye fee, If you'll reward me freely." <' Ije on, cries P:/7, and claim of me '1 h'.- BiiJiopric of E— LYE-'V AN t toi 3 ANOTHER. J IS faid the end mzy fandlify the meanly And pious frauds denote a fpecial grace : Thus Preif/s lye his mafter nobly fcreens — Himfelf, good inan I but feeks a letter place, ANOTHER. Sons of Patrick! (cries Orde) fet up iliop in your bog, And you'll ruin the trade of John Bull and Nick Frog/ *' That's a lie (replies Pitt) we Ihall gain by their riches ; If we wear Irijh 5'6/;7;,they mud wear Englljh Breeches.^* ~<* You both lye (exclaims P?y?7) but let me lye too : And compar'd with my lye, what you fay will feem true I" ANOTHER. For pert malignity obferv'd alone. In all things elie unnotic'd and unknown ; Obfcurely odious, Trcttj pafa'd his dnys, Till more inventive talents won cur lays. ** Now write, he cries, an Epigram's my pr'dej Who wou'd have known me, if I ne'er had iy'd ?" F2 AND- [ 104 ] ANOTHER. V'\' ITH pious wine, and hypocritic fnivel, Our forefathers faid, ** Tell truth, and fliame the Devil ;" A nobler way bold Pr — It— n is trying, He feeks tojbamc the Devil — by outlying. ANOTHER. Maxims, f:iys Prcn, and adages of old, Were circumfcrib'd, .though clever ; Thus Truth, they taught, not always fliould be told ; But I maintain, not ever. ANOTHER. In the drama of Congreve, how charm'd do we read Of Sphitext the Par/on, and M^j/hvell the Cheat i But in life would you Hudy them clofer indeed, For equal originals—fee Downing-J^rcct, A N O t tos 3 A N O T H E R» Pitt and Pretty came from College To ferve themfelves, and ferve the iUtei ^nd the world miift all acknowledge Half is done — fo half may wait : Tor Fretty fays, *tis rather new, When even half they fay — 13 truc^ ANOTHER. GRAND TREATY OF LYING. The Devil and Pretty a treaty have made, On a permanent footing to fettle their trade ; 'Tis the commerce of lying — and this is the law ; The Devil imports him all the lyes that are ra\\: ; Which, checkM by no docket, uncloggM with a fee, The Priefl manufactures, and vends duty free\ Except where the lye gives his confciencc fuch trou- ble. The internal expence ftiould have recompence double. Thus to navigate falfehood no bar they'll devife \ But Hell muft become the Emporium of Lyes. Nay, the Bifhops themfelves, in pulpit. to bark it, Muft fupply their confumption, from Satan's o^mi market^ While reciprocal tribute h paid for the whole, In a furplufage i>— /^«— ^ of P— tt— 's foul. F 3 PRO- PROLOGUE TO THE MAID OF HONOUR, WRITTEN EY THE HON. HENRY FHIFFS. SrC-KEN BY MR. KEMBLE, 1 HE Maid of Honour—** Pfhaw 1'*— methinks you cry, •* Maids are a fubjcc!^ for a comedy ; •* Mournful or gay, alike they'd furnifli fport— •* RufleH's half-dozen, or lix at Court.'* Too long has ConQedy to flander grown, Tlattei'd your weaknefj, to conceal its own : Has rais'd your mirth, by pcrfonal allulion, Giv*n Error fiiame, and Innocence coni"iirion ; Kas floop'd, an envious plaudit to create, To mock the wife, or vilify the great — Too long the proftitiited Mufe we've feen The nurfe of Prejudice, and friend of Spleen. To night, far other fcenes we bring to view, Jull thought, chalie humour^in ihort, fomcthing new : O'er cloy'd with jeils on taxes, earth, air, moon, ■politics, candles, day-light, and balloon ; A good old Englifli author we revive — Call Slander off, and bid true Satire live ; "Without alluiion, lafli fome gcn'ral vice, Inperious PowV, and bragging Cowardice— Throv/ [ I07 1 Throw the foors cap in air — and let it hit them, "Whofe heartsf appropriate, or heads think 'twill £t them ! Our author's graver fcenes difplay a mind By Honour form'd, by virtuous Love relin'd ; Shew how his heroine delcrv'd her name By wakeful jealoufy of maiden fame, By gen'rous palfion, patience of offence, And evVy grace of female excellence. Fir*d by the lubjecft, the nice bonnds of art His Mufe 6'eileaps, and ruflies to the heart, Diidains the pedant rules of time and place, Extends the period, and expands the fpace; From flate to ftate, without a paufe, dai'es run, Whilll, with a thought, ** the battle's loll and won ;" Impetuous Fancy rides the veering wind, And adionlcfs Precifion lags behind. As in rich trees the too luxuriant flioots Weaken the flock, and choak the faireft fruits ; So wild exub'rance hurts our Author's play. Which, with a fparing hand, is prun'd away ; With caution touch'd, and fork'd with timid art, (Some grafts inferted, to complete each part) We've plac'd it in this garden of the town, Where weak, exotic plants have fometimes grown— Oh— then let Maflinger's, like Britini oaks, Gain flrength from time, unfell'd by critic ftrokes ! F 4 E P I' t loS ] EPIGRAM ON THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE, WBITTEN IN CONSEQUENCE OF HER GRACE*3 CAN* VAS IN SUPPORT OF MR. FOX. ARRAY'D in matchlcfs beauty Devon's Fair, In Fox*s favour takes a zealous part : But, Oh ! wiiere*er the /n'/fcrcr comes — beware ! She fiipplicates a vote, Rudjreals a heart. EPIGRAM. While you, Great George^ for knowledge hunt, hn<\Jha}p conduHors change for hlunt^ The Empire's out of joint ; Franklin a wifer path purfues, i\nd all your thunder heedlefs views, By flicking to the point. E P I- El P I G R A M ON THE PHRASE, ** KILLING TIME." BY VOLTAIRE. [Time is fup;ofed to fj>eak.] " LORSQUE, pour s*amafer, fans cefle ils s'ever- tuent " Ces Mefficurs les haniains, ils difent qu'ils me tneiit ; *' Moi, je ne vant de rien *♦ Mais, ma fois, je m'en venge bien." *' There's fcarce a point wherein mankind agree *' So well as in their boad of killing me : ** I boaft of nothing, but when I've a mind, ** I think I can be even with mankind.'* O D E TO THE PRESENT OMNIPOTENT MINISTER, Great Mimder, Pitt ! was I blefl with much v.ir, In verfe all your virtues I'd tell ; Nor coii'dyou declaim, on this favourite theme. Half fo long, or fo loud, or fo well ! [ iio ] But if you'll admit, great Miniikr Pitt ! My hearty good will for the deed ; ril invoke evVy IMiife, evVy word pick and chufe> And in praife, your felf-praife I'll exceed. But firfl:, my dear boy — Jet me here give you joy, Of a pure and immaculate birth ; For, from what I can hear, from yourfelf and elfe- where, I am fure, you're no fon of the Earth ! With talents divine, ah ! how would you fliine, Cou'd the Commons their confidence lend ; But that's no great thing, you've the Lords and the K , And the Commons you fure can fufpend ! As to Indian Reform, which has rais'd fuch a florm, Lord I how hotly they handled your Bill ! When I vow and declare, circumftanc'd as wc were, I think, 'twou'd have done us no ill. Charles Fox, it is true, much mere vig'rous than you, Really meant an efiicicnt nieafure ; While you, not in vain, fought e!fed to refrain, So your Bill might create no difpleafure. In [ III ] In the midH of your glory, 'tis a damnable uory, That fomething (liou'd flill be- a wanting ; The* 'tis but a trifle, yet Mufe fain vvou'd flifle. That, in place, Hill for povv'r you're a panting* Did Bard Hanb'ry furvive, perhaps he'd contrive Some fimile to your Situation -, And right archly might ling, how Hans Carvel'^ fam'd ring Wou'd fit both your finger and flation. Yonr finger once there, you have nothing tc fear, Tho' no joy, nor much rell, can eniuz j But flill you're a-doing, what prevents others wooing, And Impotence ftill prevents you 1 What'tho' thus difgrac'd, 'tis fomc comfort at leal>. That the fountain of honour you flow ,• And by Peerage fecurc ev'ry burgage tenure, Yet continue as pure as the fnow. Jack Robin's rat-catching,'tis faid,v/as your hatching> And fiire this was innocent play — Had it come from another, 'twould have made a damn'd pother, -But you remain bright as the day ? • F 6 If [ m J If diircmbling be truth, dear immaculate youth. In a Pitt, (not a iiv//) truth is found ; But if truth is definM, by fpeaking one's mind, In faith I'm afraid weVe aground I But, young innocent quack, I will now flate a fad, From which you*ve deriv'd much eclat, And ilill my heart fwells, when I think of the Pells, By which youVe kept Malice in awe ! This, this was a deed, which none e'er can exceed ! Though, perhaps, on fair calculation, tVe might cry, take the Pell, it will fave us from hell; With your gift, you have dealt us d— — . Tom Tickle* February 27, 1724. T H E f 1X3 ] THE SYBIL'S LEAF; A POLITICAL CHRONOLOGY FOR I787. Jan, 14. MR. P brought into the Houfe of I heads of two biih ; one fbr laying certain rellriclions on the liberty of the- prefs ; and the other fbr enabling his Ma- jcfty to apply a full moiety of all fums vefl- cd in the public funds, for the immediate exigencies of the C— n I Feh, 3» Lord De 1 tarred and feathered by an enraged multitude in the North ; who afterwards conveyed his Lordfhip to the bottom of one of his own coal-pits, where he did a month's penance before he was rellored to light ! — — 20, Mr. Beauf— y, Member for Y — mouth, was drowned in a large vat of his own fweet wine, at his manufactory, Lambeth-marfli ! Mar. 12. Earl T le diflocated his collar-bone, by tumbling down a lofty flight of back-flairs, at St. James's ! *— 27, Lord V — 11 — rs recovered by the Operators of the Humane Society, after having laia fifieea [ ir+ ] fifteen minutes at the bottom of a bafon of gold and filver fifli, into which he imfortu- nately fell, as he was intently admiring the divinities of his own perfon ! — 30. I'he Weftminfter Scrutiny ended, (every procrafliuating art being exhaufled by the Court party) when Mr. Fox was de- clared duly elected, by a clear majority of 486 votes 1 ■ ■ 31. IMr. Hnjiings appeared at the bar of the n3W Court of Ea/I Indian Judicature, and fwore he had made no more than tiuo thou- J'ahd pounds during his long Government at Bengali Major Scott told the Cryer, that all the Court fcci had bQQti prcvioujly paid ! April 1. Was married, and not before, Sir Cecil Wr—y^ Barr» to the celebrated Widow H — h — /, of St. James's-fquare ; the cere- mony was performed by Dr. Prettyvian : — 'Ere the i\'anton flocking was thrown by the playful bride-maids, the happy CcciW poe- tical genius had contrived, that the follow- ing couplet, pinned on her pillow, fliould meet the amorous eye of the beloved, viz, *' The fair tli^t walch'd the poll for me, « 'Tis fair that I Ihould foU for Ihe. '* C. W." April C IIS 3 Jpril 10. Yefterday, and not before, the election of a Mayor of Garret ended ; — Sir JefFery Dun- ilan, to the furprize of all Batterfea, gave his intereft to Lord Mahon, whereupon his Lordfhip was declared duly ele^edy and was chaired by the mob accordingly. Sir Cecil Wray, the oppolite candidate, vvho has mifcarried in e-veiy eleBlon in which he has of late been concerned, was fo much mor- tified at the decifion, that he fainted away in the arms of a C/jImney Sivcepcr ; but was at length brought to himfelf by being three, times Jiick^d in the river Thames ! Afay I. A Tournament was held this day in the vale of Arezzo, the birth-place of Petrarch, in which a combat took place between Signor Pacchierotti and Signor Savoi ; the caufe of the quarrel ivas a contention for thefmiles of Signora Piozzi^ widow of the late Sig- nor Piozzi— After a fevere conflict, at leall: as long as an Italian Opera of tivo aBs^ victory was declared in favour oi Pacchicrottly who demanded the hand of the Lady in marriage : — a due performance of all the riies^ was adhered to by the bride-groom. " Her hand he feiz'd, and to a ihady bank, *' Thick over head with verdant roof imboar'd, '* He led her nothing kaih! Mjy t "6 ] Majf 8. A patent pafied the Privy Se.il, creating Sir Richard Perrot a Peer of Great Britain, v.'ith tlie ufualflri-ng of titles, Earl,\ifcount, Baron, and duplicate Baron ! — This crea- tion is expedcd to give great umbrage to the celebrated Devonfliire i?£7//>; who has been waiting night and day in the Premier's lob- by, with a genealogical fchedule, as long as Ccd^valladerh, to prove, that his preten- fions to the dignity are at leafl eijual to thofe of the above named Baronet ! -«— ~ 14. Yefterday an experiment was made of the Copenhagen mode of punifhing criminals, being the firil attempt fmce the Dani(h fyftem of government has been introduced in England. The notorious rum Senator was cafed in one of his own contra(5l pun- cheons, and walked by way of fpeiftacle, from the India Houfe to St. James's palace. The ordinary of Newgate being indifpofed, he was attended by Dr. Prettyman, w!io grayed by him all the way with the utmoft fervency. 28. Mr. Cumberland's Tragedy of the Battle of HaJIings has had a lun againft Major Scott's faFce of the fame name. — The fuc- cefs is declared in favour of the latter, with a majority of three nights ! Ju::e [ 1^7 J June 4. The mob who colleded round Alderman Wilkes, in Mooifields, on Sunday morning iail, to hear his fermon, declare he is very little inferior to the noted ^/^ci field-preach- er. — It was obfer\'able he repeated an entire chapter from the book of Kings, fave the 4.5th verfe, which he (kipped I •— 15. The 74 ^««>/)> which the Earl of Lonfdale has prefented to Government, was this day launched at high wind, from off a hill in Cumberland. It is the firi^ fliip of war that ever was conilruded on the .^/r^W/t?^^ prin- ciple. Commodore Johnflone was to have had the command of this vcflel, had he not differed with the noble Earl. Lord Hood, has, however, recoirimended a Captain who has praftifed the mode of managing/»jf} imder his Lordlhip, and of courfe is quali- lied for the airy expedition. corv t 1-8 I COPY OF A LETTER FROM ADMIRAL PITT, TO MR. SQiJiRT, SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY, DATED TREASURY, IN SAFETY BAY, FEB. I3, 1784. SIR, 1 HE fleet being in a great want of fupplies, and from the letters I had received expecting the fame daily to arrive, I failed with the fquadron under my command, in hopes of falling in with tliem, as alfo to fniflrate a defin;n I learnt Count Rupee had formed of intercepting them, and to which end he was cruizing with the whole of his fleet. Early in the day of the 12th we fell in with our fuccours, and in the fame moment efpied from our maft-head the Count bearing down. We immedi- ately prepared for action, covering the tranfports with the ordn?nceflores on board, with the whole line. I fignified to the officers and men the importance of the contefl we were about to engage, by inform- ing them, that did the Count fucceed in his attempt of cutting off the fupplies, nothing lefs than the de- iJrudion of his Majeily*s fleet, and with it the lofs of [ 1^9 J f>f our national confequence and fecurity mu{^ follow. During our preparations for adion, the Prince of St, Alban's fleet, under the command of Admiral Grofvenor, appeared in the Offing. Count Rupee's fqnadron hauled the wind, and lay too, waiting the coming up of the Prince of St Alban's, who was on board the Admiral's fliip. At five in the afternoon the Prince fent a flag, with- a meflage, fignifying, that though he fhould fecure to us the fupplies now fent, yet luilefs his Majeft^ would give up to him the fovereignty of our feas, and fuffer a commander of his nominating to havo the direction of the fleet now under my command^ he would immediately join Count Rupee againfl his Majeily's forces. 1 fent for anfwer, that I fliould communicate this mefl^age to the Lords of the Ad- miralty, and would, foon as received, forward him the anfwer. On which the feveral fleets returned to their refpedive flations. It is not for me to advife on a matter of fuch importance, but cannot avoid mentioning, that the whole of our crew are ready to fupport his Uto- pian Majefly, and his people, in their ineflimable rights and privileges againftthis formidable alliance. ^And though the united fleets may out-number us, the t i^o ] the juflice of our caufe, and the alTiftance of the Almighty, are fuificieiit to overthrow any hoft of foes. 1 am, Sir, Your obedient fervant, W. PIT T. SHIP NEWS EXTRAORDINARY. On Saturday the 14th of Februar}^ 1784, at i P.M. the Fox, commanded by Commodore Blaclheard, was towed into the R.:ce of Portland^ in great diilrefs. She had fallen in vvith the enemy's fleet that morn- ing, and had for fome time kept up a fmart r««- ^'^^^Z'fi^^^ '■> ^"^ ^" unlucky Stink-poty from one of the enemy's fmall craft, had raked her fore and «//, and threw the whole crew into diforder. From that moment the men deferted their quarters, and every thing was in confufion. In this condition it was found necelTary to tack about, and proceed for King*s-Arms Creek, in order to get frefli proviiions, and to repair damages : the Fox being at this time extremely /c«/iu her bottom^ and of courfe going very heavily. The t "■ 3 Tf.->e fillcvj'ing IS an Extra^ of a Litter from an rfficcr on hoard the Fox, gi'vi'ng an account of the prcced-ng Tranf a Nitons, ** OUR ill fiiccefs during our late cruize, is " attributed to feveral caui'es. In the firft place, ** though we had our full complement of men, yet *' the crews had not received any wages fmce the *' month of December : add to this, that we were ** poorly viv?t:ualled, and badly fupplied with ord- ** nance llores ; notwithtlanding which, fuch wa3 •* the raftinefs and obflinacy of Commodore Bladheardy ** that, contrary to all advice, and without the *' fmalleft profpe(5l of fuccef?, he infilled on our ** bearing down to engage the enemy's fleet, becaufe, *' forfooth, he had pledged himfelF to fome of his •* bottle companions at a tavern meeting fo to do. ** As foon as we hove in fight, we' perceived that ** the enemy were before -hand with us, having ** taken oofleffion of our cLi anchoring ground, •* where they Iny in a ftrong pofirion, faftly •* moored with fprings upon their cables. In this •* lituation it was impracticable to force them, and ** it was foon obferved that our fire could make no •* imprefiion on the enemy's line. The Commodore ** exerted £ I" ] ** exerted himfclf as much as poflible ; and I bc- •* Jieve, during the whole adion, the speakin« •* TRUMPET was never out of his hand; but, alas I ** it was to very little purpofe, for fo great vvas the •* noife and confufion, that fcarce one word could ** be heard diflinflly. However you will probably •* fee at full length in the news-papers, what was •* intended to ht fpoken ; and people you know fliould ** be judged by their intentions. ** Our Ihip IS now in fuch a Jthf-iy condition, from '** the efFe(5ts of the enemy's stink pots, that we •* are more like a dung large than a man of war ; and ** there is fuch a dcvilijh flench on board, that I ♦* fuppofe we ftiall be obliged to perform a fort of •* quarantine, as if we had come from Malo?i^ or ** fome port up the Levant, and had the plague on ** board. ** In my private opinion, the Fox* (though for- " -merly a pr:me failor) has never fleered well fmce '* lafl fpring, whtn Commodore Bladheard iovQt(^\\\m' *•' felf into the command of the combined fleets — -** On that occalion he went to the King's Yard, «' and of his own authority, without any leave from ** the Admiralty, ordered the fliip to be taken into '* dock and raifed \ as alfo to have an entire fet o'^ ** new fails. — After this, when the fliip came out of ** deck, fhe was found to be fo cra-li^ fo high in the ** water, [ "5 ] •' water, To loaded with her upper works, and to ** fpread fuch a deal of canvas, that the moft ex- ** perienced mariners cautioned the Commodore ** againft going to fea in her, as he mufl: be in ** imminent danger of foundering or ofcr/ft:ng. ** Commodore Blackbeard, however, paid fo little ** regard to the advice of \i\i prudent friends^ that he ** fwore by G — d he would undertake (without ** (hifting a fail, or cracking a rope) to ccndu6t her ** fafe to the East Indies. — Adieu! my dear friend, *' God fend us peace ! for we are not likely to gain ** any thing by war. — Pray offer my bed refpeds to ** our good friends at the St, Albam,*^ A POLITICAL RECEIPT BOOK, FOR THE YEAR 1784. HOW TO MAKE A PREMIER. Take a man with a great quantity of that fort of words which produces the greateft eflfed upon the jtiarjy^ and the leaft upon the feiv : mix them with a large proportion of afre6led candour and ingenuouf- nefs, introduced in a haughty and contemptuous manner. Let there be a great abundance of faJlTiood concealed under an apparent difmterellednefs and intregrity ; and the two lafl be the moH profefled, whea [ IH ] ^hen the former is moft praftifed. Let his engage- ments and declarations, however folemnly made, be broken and difreg:irded, if he thinks he can pro- cure aftenvards a popular indemnity for illegality and deceit. He mult fiibfcribe to the dctf^rine of paffive obedience, and to the exercife of patronage, independent of his approbation ; and be carelefs of creating the moft formidable enemies, if he can gratify the perfonal revenge and hatred of thofe who employ him, even at the expence of public ruin and general confufion. HOW TO MAKE A SECRETARY OF STATE. Take a man in a violent paffion, or a man that never had been in one j but the firfl is the beft. Let him be concerned in making an ignominious peace, the articles of which he could not comprehend, nor cannot explain. Let him fpcak lo\id, but yet never to be heard ! and to be the kind of man for a Secre- tary of State, when nobody eUe will accept of it, HOW TO MAKE A PRESIDENT. Take a man v.-ho all his life loved office, merely for its emoluments ; and when meaAnes, which be had approved, were evidently unfortunate, let 'him be notoiious for relinquifliing his fliflrc of the refpon- i [ i^S ] refponfibility of them, and be iligmatized for poli- tical courage in the period of profperity and co'.v- ardice, when there exifls but the appearance of danger. HOW TO MAKE A CHANCELLOR. Take a man of great abilities, with a heart as black as his countenance. Let him poffefs a rough inflexibility, without the leaft tinfturc of generofity or affedion, and be as manly as oaths and ill-man- r.ers can make him. He fliould be a man who will acl politically with all parties, hating and deriding every one of the individuals which compofe them, KOW TO MAKE A MA3T£:^ OF THE ORDNANCE. Take a man of a bufy meddling turn of mind, with juft 33 much parts as will Jiiake him troubl.- fome, but never refpedtable. Let him be fo per- feftly callous to a fenfe of perfonal honour, and to the diilinftion of public fame, as to be marked f >r the valour of infulting where it cannot be reveng* ed ; f and if a cafe fliould arife, where lie attempts to injure reputation, becaule it is dhnificd and ahjhit, he Ihould polTefs di/cretion enough to apolcgife^ and to recant afterwards^ if it is di^atcd'io him to do io^ t '■■' What care I h: tV.e K 's Blith d^y ?'' G not- [ 126 ] notwithftanding any previous declared refolutions t'^//(7r»£y, without paffion?, and without parts. Let him be one who will feize the firll opportunity of renouncing his connexions with the firil man who draws him out of obfcurity, and ferves him.—If he has no aftedions or friend^ fliips, fo much the better ; he will be the more ready to contribute to his own advantage. He ftiould be of a temper fo pliable, and a peifeverance fo inef- fedlual, as to lead his mafter into trouble, difficul- ties, and ruin, when he thinks he is labouring to overcome them. Let him be a man v»'ho has cun- ning enough, at the fame time, to prey upon, and deceive franknefs and Qonfidence, and who, v/hen he can no longer avail himfelf of both, will facrificc even his charaAer in the caufe of treachery, and prefer the interefts refulting from it to :hs virtuous diftindions of honour and gratitud(^. G 2 HCW r "8 2 KOW TO MAKE A SECRETARY AT WAR. Take a man that will take any thing. Let him pclTefs all the negative virtues of being able to do no harm, but at the fame time can do no good ; for they are qualifications of a courtly nature, and may in time recommend him to a fituation fomething worfe, or fomething better, ilOW TO MAKE A W AR DRO RE-KEEPZR , OR PRIVY-PURSE. Take the mod Supercilious fool in the nation, and let him be in confidence in proportion to his ^i; nor a nee. now TO make a surveyor-general of the ORDNANCE. Take a Captain in the Navy, as being the moft acquainted with the Army ; he fliould have been a few vcars at fea, in order to qualify him for the direction rid management of works aJ}:orc\ and let him be *.;ie v.ho will faciifice his connexions with as much afe as he woiild rcnour.ce his profeffion. HOW [ 1^9 ] h6\v to make a peer. Take a man with, or without pnrts, of an an* cicnt or new family, with one or with two boroughs at his command, previous to a diirohuion. — Let him renounce all former profeflions and obligations,- and engage to bring in your friends, and tj fupport' you himfelf. — Or, Take the Country Gentleman who the leall expects; U, and particularly let the honour be conferred when he has done nothing to deferve it. now TO MAKE SECRET INFLUENCE. Ta'kE a tall ill-looking man, with more vanity,' and lefs rcafon for it, than any perfon in Europe. — He (liould be one who does not polfefs a lingle con- folatory private virtue, under a general public de- teHation. His pride and avarice fhould increafe with' his profperity, whilrt they lead him to negle<^ and defpife the natural claims of indigence in his own' family. If fuch a man can be found, he will eafily be made the iniligator as well as the inllrument of a cabal which has the courage to do mifchief, and the cowardice of not being refponfible for it ; convinced^ that he can never obtain any other importance than that to be deprived from the execution of purpofes G 3 evidently [ '3<^ 3 Evidently purfued, for the eiiablifhment of tyranny vpoii the wreck of public ruin* LOBBY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMOl^S. Pearson 'having been at the trouble to have the Lobby luibinied up for anti-thbatfs^ moft of tho ]\Iembcrs, whole harangues are too Jtarned to be un- derftood within the Houfe, and who therefore ad- journ to explain to each other what they could not oiherwifc make comprehenfible, have determined on £t:-n^ up a little library of feledl compofitions. Such of them who have a genius for Xh^ Belles Lcttres^ mean to prefent their own wo:ks in manufcript : and as all roen have not a literary turn, thofe who are didin- guiflied by their eminence in^^//?//w^, will contribute their aid in decorating the Lobby, according to that pai iicular/i?r f / 17je foUinvifjg it a Schedvle of a Pari of the Paint« 1N§S, b'c. in l^cftidtt* A view of the Cave of Famine ; a lean ghaflly fgure placed as a centinel at the entrance.— -A/^//<^ frcm Churchill f by Mt\ Macdonald. Judas f ■3- ] Jud-as Ifcariot ia th^ ad of bttrayi?ig,'^h fketch la charcoal, iV/-. John Rchinfo'ri. St. Dunilan reletting his interview with the Devil. — A copy. Sir jR. m:. Two iDutch Gamblers quarrelling at AU fvun,'^ After the matiucr of Tenlcru HiJH, K h S /. A Sadler*s-VVells Rope-dancer^ balancing an fw/zy f>itcbcr on his chin. Lord /i— ^— «— ^--^r. The Polifh Dwarf fpeakin^ through a trumpet, with an intention to pafs for the Ir/J) Gianu Capt.J. L /. A Mifer cutting up a Naval Flag^ and converting it into Money Bags, Sir Thomas FrankHfu MANUSCRIPTS. My own private Memoirs, interfperfed with fc- veral iiutty fayings of mine. — Together with the flory of the Dutchman and Owl, which occafioncd Wilberforce to laugh, and fpit the hot foup in Jen- kinfon's face. Alfo my intrigues in the Opera- Houfe gallery. By Mr, Fillim. G 4 A Word' [ '3^ ] A Wcrd to the Cabinet CounJI; with the parable of the Wife Men of Gotham. Alfo the Secret Hif- Tory of Sir Robert VValpole*s Biickfkin Breeches- inaker ; with Anecdotes of my own IVaJJjcriKcman^ and other imp-nant nutters. To which will be added, the Story of the Cat and the Bull -, -and the Art of making Tc^(h\ Lord Nugent » A Supplement to Lord Cheflerfield's Hints on PoUtenr/i, Alfo marginal Notes to the Complete Farrier ; and Inftruttions how to manage a Kennel c>t Hounds. Sir G, P. Turner, Rules by which a Man may raifc himfel'f and Fa- hiHy to Grt:nfi:ur ; fliffering in cfTentials from the other work with this title. Lord Vifcount N-v-Ve, A Parallel between a Britifh Senator and a Chi- tiefcKing; in whi^h the management of hogs \s\\\ be oppofed to the art oi plcnving ; a ceremony which feme Eaflern Sovereigns are obliged to go through, before they can be admitted to govern. To which. v/ill be added, fceptical douhts, whether grunting haa not always been found nfeful in oratory. Sir Jofiph Maix^hy. DRAW- C 135 1" D R A VV I N G S. A Reprefentation oi Jack the Painter fetting fire to Portfmouth Dock-yard. The Watchnian ajlccp. Lord Hood, An aftion between t^voT^wichJlJJnng boats, and a King's frigate, in thick y^g- ; which may be miflaken- fovthe fmoke of guns ; and the boats, confequently, iorjhips of 58 ] ficre was a proof of his willingnefs to re^ivard his friends; on the other there was a fcourge for his enemies, peace or war — in utrumque paratus. But whether it n-as peace or war, it was not eafy to de- termine ; tor the fniiles of the peace-fide, and the frowns on the w?r fide were fo equally diflributed ! that the bulls and bears knew not what to do ; but as the Minillcr was well drcft, and wore an olive branch, fi(ftious or natural, ihc b\ills got the better of the bears, and the funds rofe two per cent. Such is the benefit of wearing a changing-coloured coat, trimmed with olive. POLITICAL CLUADRILLE; OR, THE NATIONAL C AR P-TL A YER S. AMERICA. I Believe I {[\-x\\ play alone -, no, I ivill call a Iiti?;o. 1 can't lofe the g^ime ; I have three matadores in my hcin^, KING or FRANC2, You did v^cll to call me, for I am/rcwr in every full ; btfidcs, I know how to fincfc the canh^ and value my.Vlf upon playing dl the g.imc, HOLLA i>D. [ ^39 3 >^OLLAND. I Willi I had not played that cloulle game', I have- not got a T:riimp now, yet \ Jkiiffied well. Oh, I am a heaji ! I wifli I had not \izm forced to play i I (hall lofe all my fjh. KING OF SPAIN. What did you call me for ! I flian't get a tricks You know how the At// c-^.w went with me. IRELAND. lafk leave. Do you give me ? I fliall/Azy c.W, if yo\i force me, SCOTLAND. I ;V they termed their charge />«'iZ't//n/f;,. f Nor could Offaviiis fcvrn the page.] — It appears ;rie read it, called him a Pompeian. '-^ Titus Llvius eloquentije et fiiei praeclarus in primis Cn. Pomptium tantis Isudibu^ tulit, ut Pom» peianum Auguftus eum a]Vpellaret 3 rte^ue id amiiitrcc ecium 0^- cj»>" A-NNAL. L. IV. cap. 34- H Nor Nor gricv'd to hear him boldly praife The principles of former days ; To hear him with perfuafive art. The priv'leges of men aflert. A PARODY O^ *■"' BLEST AS TH' IMMORTAL GODS 13 HE.'* BY THE HON, HENRY ERSKINE. U R U N K as a dragon fure is he, The youth that dines or fups with thee; " And fees and hears thee, full of fun, Loudly laugh, and quaintly pun. 'Twas this firfl made me love my dofe, And rais'd fiich pimples on my nofe ; For while I fillM to every toaft, T^Ty health was gone, my fenfcs loft. I found the claret and champagne, Inflame my blood, and mad my brain ; The toaft fell fault'ring from my tongue, I hardly heard the catch I fung. I felt my gorge and ficknefs rife ; The candles danc'd before my eyes ; My fight grew dim, the room turn'd round, i ti:mbkd fenfelefs on the ground ! I.OIID LORD G 's DIARY. Lord Mekotnle's Diary has become fo univerfal a theme of polite criticii'm, that it feems many of our young courtiers intend to follow the example, by keep- ing a regifler of fuch parts of their conduct as they think moll 'ivorthy of being tranfmitted to poflerity. The following fpecimen of this new mode of Mifccl- laneous Memoir^ though well known in the fafliionable world, may perhaps be new to our country conef- pondents. LORD G 'S DIARY, DURING THE FIRST WEEf^ OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT. May 20. Went down to the Houfe — fworn in — odd faces — afked Pearfon who the new people were — he feemed crofs at my afking him, and did not know — I took occafion toinfped the water- clofets. N. B. To tell Rofe, that I found three cocks out of repair— did n*t know what to do — Icit my name at the Duke of ^eenjherry^s — dined at Wil-fe'i — the peafe tou^h — Lord Apjlcy thought they ouglit to he boiled in ^tTim-^VUUcn very •vi? m in favour of Jm ^v:atcr — Fin for the new H 2 mode [ '5^ ] mode — and much talk of taking thefenfe of the f/«i— but happily I prevented matters going to extremity. May 21, Bought a tooth-pick cafe, and attended the Treafury Board — nothing at the Houfe but fwearing — rode to Wilhcrforce*i at Wimbledon — /*///, Jhurlovjy and Duftdas, 'njater-fucky — we all wondered why perch have fuch large mouths, and IVillerforce faid they were like Mu /grave's^' red champagne rather ropy — away at eight— *-J/ji:tioK.vs horle ilarted at a wind-mill — he oflf — N. B. To bring in an A home in a dilly — we after his horfe — children crying, Fox for et^er ! — Dundas. ftretching to whip them-^he off too. 2 2, Sick all day — lay a-bed — Villiers If ore J me, 23. Hjde-Par' — Pitt—Hamilton, Sec. — Mofl of UB agreed it was right to h-iv to Lord Delaval^ Pitt won't to any one, except the nex\) Pecn-^ Dined at Piti'^s — Pitt'*s foup never fait enough — Why muft Prcttyman dine with us? — Piit fays, to-.day he will not lupport Sir Cecil U'ray-^Thuv' lo-zv wanted to give the old tonji — Pift grave — prob.'ibly Ins is rlic lealon for letting Prcttyman fiay.. 24. Houe [ '53 3 2^, Houfe — Weftminfter Eledion — we fettled to always make a noife when Burke gets up — we ballotted among oiirfelves for a fkeplng Comtnlttet in the Gallery — Steele always to call us when Fin fpeaks — Lord Delaval our dtor friend !— ^ Private mefiage from St* Javies\ to Pitt — He at laft agreed to fupport Sir CcciL 25. Bankes won't vote with us againfl GrctrjiUe''^ Bill — Englifli obflinacy — the Duke of Richmond tcazes us-^nonfenfe about confidency — what right has be to talk of it ? — but muft not fay fo, DutiHas thinks worfe of the Weflminflcr bufiricfs than but too hearty to indulge abfard fcru- ples. 26. Court — King in high fpirits, and attentive rather to the Duke of Grofton — ^ccn more fo to Lord Camden — puzzles us all — So it is pof. fible the Duke of Richmond will confent to leave the Cahinet ! — Dinner at Dundas's^ — too many things aukwardly ferved — Joke about Rofe's thick legs, like Rohinfonh^ in flannel. H 3 STATE. [ 154 ] STATE- PAPER, PICKED . UP AT THE DOOR OF WESTMINSTER- ABBEY ON SUNDAY LAST, AND SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED FROM THE SERMON-CASE OF THE REY. DR. Pl^ETTY- M— 'N. >?IN'T8 TO OUR F.DITORS, t. 10 write down every idia of a ParlhWKfttary. jRt/o,n ; hut repfxTciuin^' Mr. l*itr j\t the fnmc time vietenninccl to funport that nicaCiire iU a man and .t Mltiijit! i. To be cautious of faying nny thing in favour of the once facred mode of 7rial by Jury ! ^. To offer up daily inccnfe at the too variahU flirine of his Grace the Duke of Ridm) th 4. To prepare the way for the Marquh of Lanf^ d'lvn^s return to the Cabinet, by ftrewingit with the moll grateful flowers of paragraphical panegjTic. 5. To continue the well-rung changes on the fiJioui ; — infamous l-^oiccrahk l-^iufcrruil /— • and nwjl d-mn-llc Coalition. 6. To accufc Charles of every poflible crime under Heaven ; and to flrip Lord l LcrtJ I-'^nd alk their ««wrj — it will be pleafiiig to them to found out thtir own titles! — Lord E!/iot is to be an exception, or he will tedioufly go through ever}^ degree of his dignity in giving an nnfwer I — All letters frf>m Eerke'ey/quare to be brought in with- out mentioning Loni Sbelburne^s name, or even Mr, Rifih ; — the Treofury mejjenger to carry the red ho.x as •ufual to Charles J enkinf on before it is fent to Buck- incham houfc, — —Don't blunder a fccond time and que n ion Lord Mvuntmorrls ns to the life of a ha.k* ncy chairman ! it is wrong to judge by aplcar- (incesl herd G — h — ;/; may be admitted to the iibrary^ — he car/t ready and therefore won^t damage the books ! IL X T E M- [ rs9 3 EXTEMPORE to a lady of tory principles, appearing at the theatre royal in dublin, with an orange lilly in her breast, on king William's birth-night. BY the late JOHN ST. LEPGER, ESQ^ Thou little Tory, why the jeft. Of wearing Orange in thy bread ; When that fame breaft betraying fliews. The whitenefs of the rebel rofe. EPIGRAM. ON chatterton. All think, now Chatterton is dead, His works are \NOxt\\ preferring ! Yet no one, when he was alive, Would keep the bard homfayi'!.':^. H 6 O.xfor/^ t i6o ] Oxford^ Sept, 29, 178^. The following ODE was found among the papers of Counfellor D ; it is fuppofed to have been written by a Dry Salter in the neighbourhood of Oxford ; and it was devoutly to be wiflied, that the poor Counfellor had followed the advice it con- tains, as he would not then have ftarved himfelf to death with cold lafl: Februar)'. If it be not too long, or too dull for your purpofe, you will oblige feveral of your admirers by giving it a place ; and among the reft, TOBY TASTELESS. A FAMILIAR EPISTLE, PARAPHRASED FROM HO- RACE, AND ADDRESS!' D TO MY FRIEND JOE D — . *' Mrhi eft propofitum in taberna mori." Vet. Car, — * Good friend, be ca'm. Why fliouldft then fret, Bccaufe the nation runs in debt, And taxes grow on taxes ? Do, prithee, wait till time and tide And noftrum for the ill provide. And f North his hand relaxes ? Hor. car. xl. lib. it. ♦ Quid beUlcofus Cantaber et Scythes Hirpinc Q;jinti, cogiiet Adria Divifus obj.ed^to, rcmittas ■\ The reader wlU p'Tccivt from thi;-, and the two following ft..nza«, luat the ej i!\ls^ wus v/rillen bei'ur* the late changes in the fighting [ i6i ] What is't to thee, if on the fea, At hide andfeek our Admirals play With wags of France and Spain ; Or if our merry Generals choofe, On rebel foil, 2.1 f aft and Lcfe To fpend a whole campaign ? Tut I thou art fafe, man, never fear;. 1 he Yankees cannot fure thisycar. To Britain waft their fighters ; Thou know'fl one Arnold t'other day^ SmotherM the rogues, like eels in hay^ And burnt their rotten lighters* •}■ I note, befides, in thee, dear Joe, \ And faith I'm griev'd to find it ioy fighting and political world. For the refl: the author feems to havft confidcred Great Britain under the Idea of an apple in acyder-prefs, snd the Premier, as the man at the fcrew. The thought is not a bad one, by the fame token that his Lordlliip, when he left work, did not fuft'er the engine to relax ; but gave it in it's ftrained ftate to a frelh man, who drew it a little tighter, and gave it to a third, who will probably foon give it to a fourth, who will give it to a fifth,, and fo on ad iKfinitum, until the poor apple be not only drained of its pulji, but utterly annihilated. ■^ nee trepldes in ufum Piokentjs aevi pauca. A Tncak* [ i6= ] A fneaking love of gold : 'Twere worth a groat to know how firfc Avarice, fo free a bofom curft » I fear me thou grow'lt old, * But fliall I tell thee how I heard A Bifhop, -[■ with a fapient beard, This folly once deride ? He faid, indeed, he provM it too. That Nature's real wants were few. And ejfily fupply'd. • Avarice being generally efleemed the vice oFoId age : whethet from the perverfencfs of human nature, which gives increafing value to wealth, while it is every moment beconning of lefs ccn- fequence, or that nature as it grov.'s again towards earth, <' Is dull and heavy, falliicned for the jputney," Ai my library is unfortunately out at pawn at prefcnr, I cannot with fufficient accaracy determine. f By your leave, Mafter Editor, here muft be fome miflake in this place. The doftrine ycu fpcak of, could not come from a: Bilhop : not becaufe they are not contented with a little ; not be- caufe thty are not unfolititous of pomp and power ; not becaufe rhey arc not v/holly free from avarice, — but bctaufe that none of them Wi-iX beards. Printn": Dci^iU The.1 [ i63 ] Then damn it— s'blood thou makes one fwe^r Why all this toil to fplit a hair. And fwell a ufelefs heap ; When thou might'll glide along at eafe, No bairns to breed, no wife to pleafe. And live, like me, dog cheap ? t Believe me, Joe, youth wanes apace : And fee already every grace On tip-toe to be gone ; For hoary age, with wrinklM mien, That fcares each charm as foon as feen,. Is hobbling briftly on. Oh ! then adieu to foft delights, To carelefs days, and amorous nights, And hours of fweet repofe ; Anxiety fucceeds, and pain That fliuts the languid eye in vain, Nor reft nor {lumber knows. X Dofl thou repine, man ? mark the rofe, At morn with vernal "tints it glows, f fugit retro Levis juventas, et ducor, ardii Pcllente lafcivos amores Canitia, facUemque fomnum. J Non fcmper idem floiibus tft honf^r Verois. And I '64 1 And breathes its fweets around ; At eve behold it pale and dead, Its beauty loft, its fragrance fled. And withering on the ground, * Mark too the morn : now full and fair She (hines, and earth, and fea, and air Sraile in the yellow gleam ; Anon her glories disappear, And not a ftar that gilds the fphere, But yields a brighter beam. Then, prithee ceafe the impatient ftrain ; I blufli to hear a man complain That life expires too foon. What's life ? A bubble of an hour ; Falfe as the wind ; frail as the flower, And changeful as the Moon. f Why wilt thou then with boundlefs fchemcs,. Disjointed as a fick man's dreams, Perplex thy bounded mind ; And, grafping at the future hour, Xet flip the prefent from thy power ? Oh, impotent and blind I • — — nequi uno Luna rubeiis nitct Vuhu. •f -——■ Quid ajtcrnls mlnorein Cfflliiils *ninuun fatigaof Say,. r 165 ] Say, fhould'H thou an Ephemera fpy/ Would*fl thou not laugh till either eye Swam joyoufly in tears ; To hear the lilly infedl fay, I quit the pleafures of to-day^ To toil ioT future years ? That fiUy infeft, Joe, art thou ; I know it by thy wrinkled brow- But come, of this no more^ f Be once a man, forego thy cares, Kick Lyttleton on Coke down ftairs, And meet me at the Boar — Where idly lolling on this bench, I with my pipe, thou with thy wench— For thou, old boy, I know, Though paft the hey-day of thy youth, Hafl Ibll, cum pace, a colt's tooth — What ! have I touch'd thee, Joe ? f Cur non Tub aha vel platano, vel hac, Pinu jacentes fie teinere, et rofa Canos odorati capillos Fotaraus un Delaval: Yet on thy knees, to honours crawl, Oh ! fo did hc-^LorJ Delaval, An evil fprite poflefled Sau^\ And fo it once did Delavah Mufic did foon the fenfe recall Of Ifrael's King, and DelavaU Saul rofe at David's vile cat-call, ^-Not fo the wifer Delaval, 'Twas money's fv/eeteftyS/, la, fu\ Til at chear'd the fenfe of Delaval-^ When royal pow'rfliallinftall, With honours new Lord Delai'al ; Who won't fay — the miraculous hawl. Is caught by faithful DdaiirJ, 'Gainft rapine would'fl thou preach like FavL Thus did religious DcIavaL Yet fcreen th« fcourgcs of Bengal^ Thus did benignant DrJaval, To future times recorded fliail. Be all the worths of Dc'aval: E'en GiTian, or the great Fingal, Shall yield the wreath to Delaval, From Prince's court to cobler's ihil^ Shall found the name of De.'avj.': C 174 1 For neither fceptre nor the awl, Are flrong and keen as Delaval^ Some better praife than this poor fcrawl, Shall fing the fame of Delaval : For fure no fong can ever pall, That celebrates great Dclaval : Borne on all fours, the fame fliall fpravvl, To latelt UxViQ^oi Dtlaval : Then come, ye Nine, in one great fquall, Proclaim the worths oi Ddai'al, FINIS. Tfjc annotatiQm of the learned an expcBcd, VIVELE STRUTIN!!! *"T^13UT what fays my good Lord Bljhop of Lon- don to this fame Wcfmhifer fcruthiy-^x.h\s daily com- bination of nteSjfacred ^nd prophane ! ceremonies re- Vgicus and political, under his hallowed roof of St, Anne*s church, Soho? Should his Lordfliip be unac- quainted with this curious procefs, let him know it is briefly this : — At 10 o'clock the High Bailif opens iiis inquifition in the veflry for the perdition of votes , where he never fails to be honoured with a crouded auditory; — at 11 o'clock the Hi^h Pricfl mounts his roi^rum in the church for the f ah at ion of fouls ^ vvith- ( ut a fmgle hodj to attend him \ even his corpulent woiihjp [ J75 ] ^vcrflilp the clerJcy after the firft introdiiclory a n^??^ filing off to the vellry, to lend a hand towards r^ap- kig a quicker haw eft ! — The alternate vociferations from Church to Veflry, during the different fervices, were found to crofs each other Ibmetimes in refponfes fo appofite, that a gentleman who writes fliort-hand was induced to take down part of the church-medley dialogue of one day, which he here tranfcribes for general information on a fubjed of fuch fmgular im- portance, viz. High Bailiff, — I cannot fee that this herefdler\% a juft vote. Curate — " In tly Jtght no man Uiung JJmU he jufjn ^^ fudr Mr. Fox.— I defpife the pitiful machinations of my opponents, knowing the juft caufe of n\y electors muft in the end prevail ! Curate.—" And ivith thj favourable klndnep J]:alt J.oic " defend him as ivith aJlncJd /" Witness. — He fwore d n to him if he did not give Fox a plumper I Clerk . — * * Good Lord dc.ii'cr us /" ^ Mr, IM-RG-N, — I ftand here as counfel for Sir Cecil Wray. I 2, Curati:. f J/6 ] CCRATE.-~*' A general pefiilence vifitcd the land^ Ser* " penti and Frogs deJiUd the ho^' temple /" Mr. Ph— PS. — Mr. High Bailiff, the audacity of that fellow oppofite to me would almofl juftify my chaftifing him in this facrcd place; but I will content myfelf with roll- ing his heavy head in the neighbouring kennel. Curate. — *' Give peace incur timc^ O Lord !^^ Sir. Cecil Wray. — I rife only to fay thus much, that is concerning myfelf — tho' as for the matter of myfelf, I don't care, Mr. High Bailift", much about it. Mr. Fox.— Hear ! hear \ hear ! Curate. — ** If thou Jhalt fee the afs of him that hatelh ** thee lying lotdcr hishirdeti^ tl^oii f ah fur eh " help him /" Sir Cecil Wray. — I trufl — and I dare fay — at leafr I hope I may venture to think — that my Right Hon. Friend 1 Ihould fay cncmy^ fully comprehends what I have to offer in my own defence. CLRATE.-f-*' As for VI? ^ I am a i\:orm, and no man; a ** very fcorn of men^a?:d the outcafl of the people! ** fcarfulmfs and trcmhlin^ are come vfon mc^ *t -^ an horrll^le dread ovLrivhilr>i(d ?ne /'* High [ 177 ] Hi<; H Bai L I FF.— As that ,^//, r thtri, fays he did not vote for Fox, who did he poll for ? C u R A T E. — * * B A R A B B A 8 ! — «^v Bavahhm iv«i d robber ! L A U R E A T E L Tj. C T I O N. HASTY SKETCH OF WEDN^DAV's BUSINESS, AT THE LORD CHAMblLRLAlN*5 Ol'FlCE. J N confeqiiencc of the late general notice com* municated through the channel of the public prints,- of an rpcn elt^ion for the vacant ofHce of Pott Lavreat to their Majellies, on the terms of probationary com* pofitions, a connderable number of the moil eminent chara6lers in the'fafhionabJe world, aflembled at the Lord Chamber} ain^% office^ Stable-yard, St, James's, oa Wednefday laft, between tlie hours of twelve and two, when Mr. Ramus was immediately difpatched to Lord Sali(bury*s, acquainting his Lordfliip therewith, and foliciting his attendance to receive the feveral candidates, and admit their refpedlive tenders. His Lordfliip arriving in a ihort time after, the follow- ing Noblemen and Gentlemen were immediate!/ prefented to his Lordfliip by John Cahert^jiinr, E/^; in quality of Secretary to the office. Jama Ely, Efq* and iVir. Samuel Betty ^ attending alfo as firft and fe«- I 1 cond [ >78 ] cond clerks, the following lift of candidates was made out forthwith, and duly entered on the roll, as a pre- liminary record to the fubfequent proceedings. The Right Rev. Dr. William Markham, Lord Archbifhop of York. The Right Hon. Edward Lord Thurlow, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. The Right Hon. Robert Earl Nugent, of the king- dom of Ireland. The Right Hon. Harvey Redmond Vifcount Mountmorris, ditto. The Right Hon. Conflantine Lord Mul grave, ditto. Sir George Hovvard, K. B, Sir Cecil Wray, Baronet- Sir Jofeph Mawbey, ditto. Sir Richard Hill, ditto. The Rev. William M^fon, B. D. The Rev. Thomas Warton, ditto. The Rev. George Prettyman, D. D. I'epper Arden, Efq; Attorney General to his jVIajcfty. Michael Angelo Taylor, Efq; M. P. James M'Pherfon, Efq. ditto. Major John Scott, Efq ; ditto. Nath. Wraxhall, Efq; ditto. William Hayley, Efq; Arthur Murphy, Efq; Richard Cumberland, Efq; Monf, i '79 I TMonf, Le Mefurier, Membre du Parlement, (I'Angleterre. Monf. Le Texier, Le6teur des Comedies. The feveial candidates having taken their place? at a table provided for the occafion, the Lord Cham- berlain in the politeft manner fignified his vvifli that each candidate uoiild forthwith recite fuch fample o£ his poetry, as he came provided with for the occa^ lion ; at the fame time moil modellly confeffing his ■own inexperience in all fuch matters, and intrcatiiig their acqiiiefcence therefore in his appointment of his friend, Mr. Bclplni of the Haymarket Theatre, as an aundaJToy like the brazen fliield of thy chieftain ! Thou arr bold to confront diff^racc, and fliame is un- known to thy brow, — but tender is the youth of thy Leader; who droopcth his head like a faded Lilly- leave not Fitio in the day of defeat, when the Chiefs of the Counties fly from him like a herd from the galled Deer. — The friends of Pltto are fled. He is alone — Lelay: bhimfelf down in defpair, andfleep kniteth up his brow. — Soft were his dreams on the green bench. — Lo ! the fpirit of Jcnl^y arofe, pale as the nufl of the morn,— twilled was his long lank form— his eyes winked as he whifpered to the child in the cradle. ** Rife, he fayeth— arife, bright babe of the dark clofet ! The fhadow of the '1 hrone fiiall cover thee, like wings of a hen, fweet Chicken of the back-flair brood ! Heed not the Thanes of the Counties; they have fled from thee, like Cackling Geefe from the hard bitten Fox ; but will they not rally and return to the charge?— Let the hofl: of the King be numbered : they are as the funds on the bar- ren fliore. — There is Powno^ who followeth his migh- ty leader, and chaceth the ftall-fed flag all day on the dufly road. — There is iZ-p'-awr/o, great in arms, with the beaming flar on hi^ fpreading breafl— Red is the fcarf [ ^99 ] fcarf that waves over his ample fliowlders — Gigantic are his ftrides on the terrace, in purfuit of the royal footlleps of lofty Gcorg'o, No more will I number the flitting fliades of Jen- ky ; for behold the potent fpirit of the blackbrowed Jackoo. — 'Tis the Rattci Rolinfo, who worketh the works of darknefs ! Hither I come, faith Ratten — Like the mole of the Earth ; deep Caverns have been my refling Place, the ground Rets are my food. — Secret minion of the Crown, raife thy foul ! Droop not at the fpirit of Fcxan, Great are thy Iocs in the fight of the many tonguedwrr — Shake not thy knees, like the leaves of the afpen on the milly hill — the doors of the Stairs in the pollern are locked, the voice of thy foes is as the wind, which whiflleth through the vale ; it paiTeth away like the fwift cloud of the night. The breath of Giicdfo, ililleth the fiormy feas.-— Whilfl thou breatheft the breath of his noftrils, tliou lliall live for ever. — Firm ilandtth thy heel in the Hall of thy Lord. JMighty art thou in the fight of Gvjelfc^ illulhious leader of tlie friends of G^\Kclfo\ great art thou, O lovely iuip of the inferior clofet ! O lovely .Gu2rdi:^.n of the Royal Junto I K i JS^o VII [ ioo ] No. VII. EY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. I. Indite, my Mufe! indite l fuhpocnad is thy lyre ! The praifes to record^ which rules of Court require I 'Tis thou, O Clio ! Mufe divine, And beft of all the CouncllKmQ, ;Mu11 plead my caufe ! — Great Hatfield's Cecil bids me fing, — The tallefl:, fittefl man, to walk before the King I II. OiSaPJhurys Earh the riril, (fo tells th' hiftoric p:\gQ) 'Twas Nature's will to make moil wonderfully fage j But then, as if too lib'ral to his mind. She made him crook'd before, and crook'd behind.* 'Xis not, thank Ileav'n I my Cecil, fo with thee i Thou lafl of Cecils, but unlike the fiill ; Thy body bears no mark'd deformity : — The Gods dec reedy c.nd j ud^^ment vjas 7-eicii'd f Fcr veins of Science are like vein- of Gold I I'urc, for a timic, they run ; They end as they begun, — Alas ! in nothing but a heap of mould ! * Raj in obfcr^cs that Robert Cecil, the Flrft Eail of Sallfljury, yas of a great gen jus, and tho' crooked before and behind, Nature fupplied that defcd with noble endowments of n,ind, i:[. Shall t ^01 ] Jir. Shall T, by eloquence controul, Or challenge fend to mighty Rolle Whene'er on Peers he vents his gall ? Uplift my hands to pull his nofe, And twill and pinch it, 'till it grows Like mine, afule, and fmall ? Say, by what proccfs may I once obtain A ^jerdlcl. Lord, nor let mey}/f in vain ! In Commons, and in Ct/^r/i below, My aBioTis have been try'd, — There clients^ who pay vno^you kntyiv^ Retain the ilrongeft fide I True to thefe tcnns^ I preach'd in politics for Pitf, /And KenyorCs la^jj maintain'd againft his Sov'reign'& iir/V / What tho' my father be a porpus. He may be moved by Habeas Corpus^-^' Or by a call^ whene'er the State, Or Fit! requires his vote and weight, — I tender hail for Bootle's i\:arm fuppcjrt. Of all the plans of MiniiTiers and Court 1 IV. And Oh ! fliould Mrs, Arcen blefs me with a cbild^ A lovely boy, as beauteous as myfelf, and mild ; The little Pepper would fome caudle lack : Then think of Arden's wife, My pretty Plaintiff's life, K J The [ ^02 ] The beft of caudle's made of bcft of fack Let thy decree But favour me, My iills and /r/r/}, r clutters and detaintn^ To ArcJjy I'll refign Without difce ox fine ^ Mtachments^ jcplications and retainers! To Juries, Bench, Exchequer , Seals, To ClarJry Court, and Z^or^j, I'll bid adieu : No more demurrers nor appeals ; My iir.Vj /?/" frror fliall hzjudgd by you ! V. And if perchance great Br, Armld^ovX^ retire, Fkrigu'd with all the troubles of St. James's Choir ;. My Odes two merits fhall unites J Bearcroft, my friend,. His aid will lend^ And fet to mufic all I write \ Ltl me, then, Chamberlain, without ^Jtaiv^ Tor June the Fourth prepare, The praifes of the King, In lega] lays to fing, Until they rend the air, AnAprove my equal fame in poe/[y and laiv ! "l This Gentleman is a great performer upon the Piano Forte^ WIS well as the Speaking Trumpet, and Jew's Harp. No. VIII. f 203 ) No. VIII. BY \Vi -M W — X— 'LL, ESQi M. P» I. Murrain feize the Houfeof Commons, Hoarfe catarrh their windpipes fliake, Who, deaf to travell'd Learning's fummonSy Rudely coiigh'd whene'er I fpake ! JVor//', nor Fox^s thund'ring cciirfe, Nor e'en the Speaker, tyrant, fliall have force To fave thy walls from nightly breactxs, From WraxaWs votes, from H^raxall*s fpeeches. Geography y terraqueous maid, Defcend from globes to llatefmen's aid I Again to heedlefs crowds unfold Truths unheard, tho' not untold : Come, and once more unlock this vafly world- Nations, attend ! the map of Earth\ unfurl'd. II. Begin the fong, from where the Rhine, The Elbe, the Danube, Wefer rolls — Jofepby nine circles, forty feas are thine— Thine, tv/enty million fouls Upon a marifh flat and dank States, Six and One., j; 4 Dam [ 204 1 Dam the dykes, the Teas embanlty M angle the Don I A cridiron's form the proud Efcurial rears, While South of Vincent's Cape anchovies glide ; Bur, ah 1 o*er Tagus, once auriferous tide, A prieft-rid Queen, Braganza*s fccptre bears — Hard fate I that Lilbon's Diet-drink is know^ To cure each crazy conjliiution but her pvvn, III. I burn, I burn, I glow, I glow, With antique and with modern lore; I rufh from liofphorus to Po, To Nilus from the Nore. Why were thy pyramids, O Egypt ! rais'd But to be meafurM, and be prais*d ? ■Avaunt, yc Crocodiles ! your threats are vain \. On Norway's fcas, my foul, unfhaken, Brav'd the Sea-Snake and the Crakcn ; And fliall I heed the River's fcaly train ? Afric, I fcorn thy Alligator band I Quadrant in hand I take my fland, And eye thy mofs-clad needle, Cleopatra grand \ O, that great Pompey's pillar were my own ! Eighty-eight feet the fliaft, and all one flone ! But hail, ye loft Athenians ! Hail alfo, ye Armenians ! Hail Kail once ye Greeks, ye Romans, Carthaginians ! Twice hail yc Turks, and thrice ye Abyffinians I Hail too, O Lapland, with thy fquirrels airy I Hail, Commerce-catching Tipperary 1 Hail, wonder-working IVIagi I Hail Ourang-Outang ! Hail ! Anthropophagi I Hail, all ye cabinets of every flate. From poor Marino's Hill, to Catherine's empire great ! All, all have chiefs, who fpeak, who write, who feem to think, CarmM-tbcns, Sydney s^ Rut'andi^ piper, pen?, and ink, IV. Thus, through all climes, to earth's remotcfl: goal, From burning Indus to the friezing Pole, In chaifesj and on floats, In dillies, and in boats, Now on a camel's native flool, Nov,' on an af?, now on a mule. Nabobs, and Rajahs have 1 feen ; Old Bramin's mild, young Arabs keen ; Tall Polygars, Dwarf Zemindars, Mahomed's tomb, Killarney'slake, the fane of Am- nion, With all thy kings and queens, ingenious :\Ir. Sal- 4JMOX ! ^' K S Yet [ ^o6 ] Yet vain the raajefties of wax, Vain the cut velvet on their backs— George, mighty George, is flefli and blood-— Ko head he wants of wax or wood ; His heart is good ! (As a King's Ihou'd) And every thing he fays is underflood^ No. IX. ON THE BIRTH-DAY. lY MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR, ESC^ M. P. ONLY SON OF SIR ROBERT TAYLOR, KNIGHT, AND LATE SHERIFF ; ALSO SUB-DEPUTY, VICE CHAIRMAN TO THE IRISH COMMITTEE, WELCH JUDGE ELECT, fe'f. t5c. Hail, all hail, thou natal day. Hail the v^ry half hour, I fay, On which great George was born ! Tlio' fcarcely i'edg'd, I'll try my wing, — And tho', alas, I cannot fing, I'll crow on this illuilrious morn ! Sweet bird, that chirp'fl the note of folly^ So pleafantly, fo d roily ! — Thee ofr, the flable-yards amrog, ^ I woo, and emtiUle thy fong ! ^ Thee r ^07 1 The e, for my emblem flill I chofe 1 Oh ! with thy voice infpire a Chicken of the mufe I II. Thee too my Jint'ering mufe invokes, Thy guardian aid I beg, Thou great Assessor, fam'd for jokes. For jokes of face and leg ! So may I oft* thy ftage-box grace, (The firfl in beauty as in place) And fmile, refponfive to thy changeful face ! For fay, renowned mimic, fay. Did e'er a merrier croud obey Thy laugh-provoking fummons, Than with fond glee, cnraptur'd lit, Whene'er with unJefgnlug ii\'f^ I entertain the Commons ? Lo ! liow I fliine St. Stephen's boail !. There firfl of Chuh, I rule the mr/? / There I appear, Pitt's Chanticleer^ The Bantatn Cock to oppolitions f Or like a hen. With watchful ken, Sit clofe and hatch — the IrifliPropolitions ! III. Behold, for this great day of pomp and pleafure,. The Houfe adjourns, and i'm at leifure ! If tkou art fo, come, mufe. of fport, K 6 Wita [ ^o8 1 With a few rhymes, Dtlight the times. And coax the Critic Buffo, and enchant the Court ! By Heaven llic comes ! — More fwife than profe. At her command, my metre flows ! Hence ye weak warblers of the rival lays I Avaunt ye Wrens, ye Codings, and ye Pies ! The Chick of Laiv fliall ^.vln the prize. The Chick of Lav.^ ^ii-xW peck the bays 1 So, when again the State demands our care, Tierce in my laurelM pride, I'll take the CJiair I Gilbert, I catch thy bright invention, With fomewhat more oi found retention ! * But never, never on ihy prof e V\\ border — rcrfe, lofty founding Fcrfe, fliall *' Call to Order /'* Come, facred Nine, come, one and all, Attend your fav'rite Chairman's call ! Oh ! if I well have chirp'd your brood among. Point my keen eye, and tune my brazen tongue I And liark ! with Elegiac graces, ** I beg that gentlemen may take their places 1* Didadic m/dfe, with m.eafur'd flate, Be thine to harmonize debate ! Thine, mighty Clio, to refound from far, '* — The door, the door I — the bar, the bar I** * No rcfl . • colons on the organization of M'. Gilbert's brain, js intended here 5 but rather a pathetic reflection on the continual DiabttCb of fy f^r^at a mcmbsr ! Stout [ 209 ] Stout Pcarfon damns around, at her dread word ; — •' Sit down," cries Clement/on^ and grafps his filver fvvord ! IV. But lo ! where Pitt appears, to move Some new refolve of hard digeftion I Wake then, my mufe, thy gentler notes of love^ And in perfuafivc numbers, **/«^ the ^ucjion.^^ The Qneftion's gain'd — the Treafury Bench rejoice 1 ** All hail, -thou IcaJ of men, (they cry) with mi^htieft voice !" — Bled founds ! my ravifh'd eye furveys Ideal Ermins, fancied Bays ! Rapt in St. Stephen's future fccnes, I fit perpetual Chairman of ihc JFajs and Mea-^s, Ceafe, ceafe, ye Bricklayer-Crew, my fire to praife,. His mightier offspring claims impartial lays ! The Father climb'd the ladder, with a hod, The Son, like General Jackoo, jumps alone, by God f No. X. [ 31-0 ] No. X. IRREGULAR ODE, BY MAJOR JOHN SCOTT, M. P. StC. &C, I. Why does the loitering fun retard his wain,. When this glad hour demands a fiercer ray ? Not fo he pours his fire on Delhi's plain. To hail the Lord of /ifia's natal day. T^rrc in mute pomp and crofs-legg'd flate, The Rajah Foots Mohammed Shah await. There Mcialar, There Bifnagar^ There OuJe and proud Bahar, in joy confederate !— ir. Curs'd be the clime, and curs'd the laws that lay Infulting bond, on George's fov^reign fway. Arife, my foul, on wirjgs of fire, To God's anointed, tune the lyre ; Hail, George, thou all-accomplifn'd King.! Jiift type of him who rules on highl Hail ! inexhaufted, boundlefs fpring Of facred truths and Holy Majelly f Grand is thy form, — 'bout five feet ten, Thou well built, worthiefl:, beft of men ! Thy chell: is flout, thy back is broad, — Thy i'ages view thee, and are aw'd. Lo! I; *ir J Lo I how thy white eyes roll ! Thy whker eye-brows flare !' ,, Honell foul ! Thou'rt witty as thou'rt fair! III. North of the Drawing-Room, a clofet ftands ; The facred nook, St. James's Park commands ! Here m feqnefler'd State, great George receives. Memorials, Treaties, and long lifts of thieves ! Here alL the force of fov'reign thought is bent, To fix Reviews, or change a Government ! Heav'ns ! how each word with joy Carmarthen takes ! Gods I how the lengthen*d chin of Sidney fliakes I BlelTing and blefs'd the fage aflbciates fee, The proud, triumphant league of incapacity; - Withfubtle fmiles, With innate wile?. How do thy tricks of flate, great George, abound ?• So in thy Hampton's mazy ground, The path that wanders In meanders. Ever bending, Never ending, Windmg runs the eternal round. Perplexed, involved, each thought bewiider'd moves, In fliort, quick turns the gay confulion roves ; Contending themes the embarrafs'd liftenenlwulk,. LoH in the Labyrinths of the devious tallf ! IV. No\7 C 21. ] IV. Now (hail the Levee's eafe thy foul unbend, j. Fatigu'd with Royalty's feverer care ; Oh! hnppy few ! whom brighter liars befriend; Who catch the chat, the witty whifper fliare. Methinks I hear, In accents clear, Great Brunfwick's voice ftill vibrate on my car.. Y SIR GREGORY PAGE TURNER, SART. M. P. LORD WARDEN OF ELACKHEATH, AND RANGER OF GREENWICH-HILL, DURING THE CHRIST* MAS AND EASTER HOLIDAYS. STROPHE. O DAY of high career, FirH: of a month, ^-nay more — firil of a year; A inona"ch day^ that haih indeed no peer I Let [ "4 ] Let huge BuzagUos glow In ev'ry corner of the ifle, To melt away the fnow : And like to May, Be this month g-iy ; And with her at hop— ftep — ^jump, play ; Dance, grin and fmile ! Ye too, ye Maids of Honour^ young and old, Shall each be feen, With a neat I'jarming patent iz'd machine ! Becaufe, *tis faid, that chafiity is co^d! ANTISTROPHE, But ah ! no roles meet the fight ; Nor jf//9 1 But Heev'n betook us weil ! and keep us weife ! Leike thunder, burilan at thy dreed command; '* Keep, keep thy tongue," a warlock cries. And waves his 2;o\vden waund. Noo, laddies ! gi' your baugpipes breeth again; Blaw the loo'd, but folemn, ftrain; Thus wheil I hail with hairt-felt pleafure, In Majefty fedate, In pride elate, The fmuith cheek's Laird of aw the treefure ; Onward he ftalks in froonan ftate ; Na fuiliih fmiles his broos unbend, Na wuU he a bleithfeme luik on aw the lalTes lend. Hail to ye, lefTer lairds ! of mickle wit ; Hail to ye aw, wha in weife cooncil fit, Fra' Tommy Toon/end up to IVuUy Put ! Weel fauryour heeds ! but noo na mair To ye maun I the fang confeine; To nobler heights the mufe expands her wing, 'Tis he, whafe eyne and wit fa brightly (heine, 'Tis Geourge demands her care ; Breetons ! boo doon your heeds, and hail your king; See ! whare with Atlanean flioulder Amazing each beholder. Beneath a tott'ring empire's weight, full fix feet high he ftands, and therefore — great ; VI. Come [ ^^^ 1 VI. Come then, aw ye poors of v. iif: I Gi* me great Geourge's glories to rehearfe ; And as I chaunt his kingly avvks, The lift'nan warld fra* me falllairn Hoo fuiift he rides, hoc flow he walks, And weel he gets his Qiieen wi' bairn. Give me, with all a Laureates art to jumble, Thoughts that foothe, and words that rumble I Wifdom and Empire, Bruni'wick*s Royal line, Tame, Honour, Glory, Ahijefly divine ! Thus, croon'd by his lib'ral hand, Give me to lead the choral band ; — Then, in high-founding words, and grand, Aft fall my peipe fv\ell with his princely name, And this eternal truth proclaim: — 'Tis Geourge, Imperial Geou.^ge, who rules Bri- tannia's land I No. XIII. riNDARiC, EY THE RIGHT HON. HERVEY REDN'ONT, LORD VISCOUNT MOUNTM RRIS, OF CASTLE MORRIS, OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND, StC. SlC. I- Awake, Hibernian lyre, awake, To harmony thy firings attune, O t^c'je their tr/mbling tongues uyfpakc The glories of the fourth of June. Aufpicious morn ! When George was born, To [ ^21 1 To grace (by deputy) our Iri{h throne, North, fouth, aifu^ well-, Of kings the befl, Sure now he's ^zquall'd by hirafelf alone ! Throughout the ailonifli*d globe fo loud his fame will ring, Te D/f them s/lves fliall hare the flrains, the dum fliall fing, IL Sons of Fadruig, * flrain your throats, In your native IriAi lays, Sw^rtter than the fcre^ch-owl's notes > Howl aloud your fovVeign's praife* Qiiick to his hallow 'd fane be led A milk-white Bull, on foft potatoes fed. His curling horns and ample neck Let wreaths of verdant fliamrock deck 5 And perfum'd flames, to radc the iky, Let fuel from our bogs fiipply ; Whilil we to George's health, a en till the bcvl fu-is o'er, Rich^/v7;?.'ri of Ufquebaugh and fp^irkli.v^ Whikey po'jr. IIL Of d/thlefs fame immortal he.ji'^, A brave and patriotic band, ^lark where lerne's Voluti/^r^r, Array'd in bright difurder ftand. * Ancitfti udUi-' r,ivcn to St. i'iirldc.-. L The [ 2" ] The lawyers* corps, red fac'dwith black. Here drive the martial merchants back, Here Sligo's bold brigade advance, There Lim'rick*s Ifegions found their drum, Here Galvvay*s gallant fquadrons prance. And Cork Invincibles are overcome. The Union firm of Coleraine, .Are fcatter'd o'er the warlike plain, "While Tipperary Infantry purfues The Clognikelty horfe, and Ballyfliannon blues 5 Ah ! fliould renowned Brunfwick chufc, (The warlike Monarch loves reviews) To fee th^fe heroes in our Ph^nix fight. Once more amidfl a wond'ring crowd, Th' enraptur'd prince might cry aloud , " Oh ! Amherfl, what a h/V'nly fight !'* t The loyal crowd with fliouts fliould r/nd the Ikies, To bare their Sov'reign make a Sp^^ch fo wife. IV. Thrtfewere the bands mid tempefts foul, Who taught their mafler, fomewhat loth, To grant (Lord love his libVal foul !) Commerce and conftitution both. 1 The celebrated fpeech of a Great Perfonage, on reviewing the Canr.p at Cox-h»:ath, in the year 1779, when a French invafion w s apprehended j ihe report of which animating apoftrophe is fup- pofed to have ftruck fuch terror into the brcafts of our enemies, as 10 have been the true occafion of their rclin(]uilhins the t^eJien, How t "3 ] How Prtce reftorM, This gracious Lord Would tache them as the fcripturcs fay, At laijlc, that if The Lord doth give, The Lord doth likewife take away, Fr^dora like this who /verfaw ! We will, h/'nceforth, for /ver more, Be after making /v'ry law, Great Britain fhall have made before. || V. Hence, loath'd monopoly. Of av'rice foul, and navigation bred. In the drear gloom, Of BritifliCuflom-houfe Long-room, 'Mong*il cockets, clearances, and bonds unholy, Hide thy detefted head. But, come thou Goddefs, fair and free, Hibernian reciprocity I (Which manesy if right I take the plan. Or /Ife the tr^ity D/vil burn ! To get from England all we can ; And give her nothing in return !) Thee, Jenky, Ikill'd in courtly lore. To the fivaie lip'd William bore, He Chatham's fon (in George's reign Such mixture was not held a ilain) 11 The Fourth Propofuion. L 2 Of [ "4 ] Of garifli day-light*s eye afraid, Through the pollern-gate convey'd. Indole and midnight cabinet, Oft the fdTcret lovers met. Hade thee, nymph, and quick bring o'er Commerce from Britannia's fliore, Manufadures, arts, andlkill, Such as may our pockets fill, And, with thy left hand, gain by flealth, H^lf our Sifter's envied wealth, 'Till our illand fliall become Trade's complete /mporium, f Thi^fe joys, if reciprocity can give, Goddefs, with thee h/nceforth let Paddy live ! VI. Next to great George be peerlefs Billy fiing ; Hark I \\tfpakiS^ his mouth he opes, Phrafcs, periods, figures, tropes, Stramefrom his millifluous tongue. O ! had he crown'd his humble fupplicant's hopes, And given him Jiear his much lov'd-J'itt, Beyond the liii.its of the bar to fit. How with his praife? had the St. Stephen's rung I Though P( mpey boall not all his patron's pow'r^, Yet oft liave kind Hibernia's Peers To raJt' his fp^^ches lent their ears, 60 in the Senate, had his tongue, for hours, f Vide Mr, Orilw's Spccc es. Foremoft [ "5 ] ForemoU, amid the youthful yelping pac>:, That crow and cackle at the Premier's back, A flow of Irifli rhetoiick let loofe, Beneath the C^Ai^/; fcarce, and far above the^^^. No. XIV. BY LORD THURLOW, LORD H I G H C MANCELLOR Of GREAT-BRITAIN. C U O R U 6r Accompanied vjitb Speaking TrumptH* rTuRLY-biirly, blood and thunder, This is a day, ye Gods, for wonder I This is a day for fun and drinking, This is a day tor damning, finking; For this day big George was born. At twenty-three minutes pafl two in the mom. RECITATIVE. Accompanied with douhle hajjcs, cxept the tenth line^ thM on Nature, and himfelf relies. in. Tis mine to keep the confdence of the King ; To me each fecret of his heart is ihown :' Who then, like me, fliall hope to fing Virtues to all, but me, unknown ? * This fim'le of myfciri made the other day, cominrr out of Wertminfter Abbey. Lord UxbridTe heard it. I think, however, that I have improved it here by the turn which follow. L s Say, Say, who, like me, fhall win belief To tales of his paternal grief : When civil rage, with flaughter dyed The plains beyond th' Atlantic tide ? Who can like me, his joy attefl, Though little joy his looks confeft. When Peace, at C<7«wrtv's call reftorM, Bade kindred nations flieath the fword ! How pleas'd he gave his people's wiliies way, And turn'd out North^ when North refus'd to Hay ! How in their forrows fliaring too, unfeen, Tor Roclilnghajn he mourn'd, at Wind/or with the Queen ? VI, His bounty too, be mine to praife, Hyfelf the example of my lays. A Teller in reverfion I, And unimpair'd I vindicate my place. The chofen fubje^t of peculiar grace, Hallow'd from hands oi Biirh^s^z^^nQmy : f I cannot here withhold my particular acknowledgements to iry virtuous ycui-ig friend, Mr. Pitt, for the noble manner in which hecontenrie 1 f n the fubjcft of my re- er' on, that the moft religi- ous obftrrvance muft be paid to the R'iyal fr mife. And I am perfon- ally the more obliged to him, as i)% the cafe of the yludhors of the Imprejl the other day, he did not think il ncccflary to Ihew any re- gard whatfyevcr to a Rsjal Pahnt, And C ^31 1 For f fo his royal word my Sovereign gave j And facred have I found that "joord alone, When not his Grandfire'sPi?/^«/, and his own To Cardiff^ and to Sarnies , their pofls could favCr Nor fhoiild his chaftity be here unfung, That chaftity, above his glory dear ; X But Harvey, frowning, pulls my ear. Such praife, Ihe fwears, was fatire from my tongue. V. Fir'd at her voice, I grow prophane, A louder yet, and yet a louder ftrain ! To Thur low's lyre more daring notes belcJng, Now tremble every rebel foul ! While on the foes of George I roll The deep-ton'd execrations of my fong. In vain my brother's piety, more meek, Would preach my kindling fury to repofe ; Like BaJaatn^s afs, were he infpir'd lo fpeak^ 'Tvvas vain ! refolv'd I go to curfe my Prince's foes. VI. ** Begin [ Begin !" fierce Harvey cries. See ! the WhigSy how they rife ! J Ioriginal!y\vrote this line, But Hai-vey frowning, as /he hear", Zee. It was altered as ic now ftands, by my d— mn'd Bilhop of a bro- ther, for the fake of an alluiion to T'^irgih ■ — Cynthyus tiurem L 6 Wl^at C ^3^ 1 What, petitions prefent I How tcizc and torment ! D — mn their bloods, d — mn their hearts, d— ma 4heir eyes. See yon Tobcr band, Each his note in his hand ! The WitnclTes they, whom I brow beat in vain ; 'Unconfiis'd they remain. Oh ! d — mn their bloods again ! Give the curfes due To the fajdious crew ! Lo ! ffeilgivooii too, waves his § Fltt-pots on high ! Lo ! he points where the bottoms yet dry, The Vifage Immaculate bear ! Be jrc^givoo^ d — mn'd, and double d— mn'dhis wart, D — mn Fox^ and d — mn Nor//^ ; D — m n Portland's mild worth; D — mn Devon the good. Double 1) — mn all his name ; I) — mn FitzwiiUam''s blood. Heir o\' Rriking/jam*s fame. ^ I am told that a fconixlrel of a potter, one Mr. fVtJgivcod, is making io,coofi i:t'>"g.fot:, and «;ther vile utcnfils, with a figure of JWr. Pitt, in the bottom j round the head is to be a motto. We will fyit, On Mr. Pitt, And other fuch damn'd rhymes I'uited Co the ufes of the different vJlVls. D — mn f ^35 ] D — inn Sheridan's wit, The terror of Piit ; J) — mn LoitglVrough^ my plague — wou'd his hag-pipe were fpilt ! D — mn Derhy'% longfcroll, Fiird with names to the brims ; D — mn his limbs, d — mn his foul, D — mn his foul, d — mn his limbs. With Stormoni^s cursM din, Hark ! Carlijlc chimes in, D — mn thctn \ d — mn all the partners of their fin, D — mn them, beyond what mortal tongue can tell; Confound, fink, plunge them all to deepeft, blackeft Hell : No. XV. [ ^34 1 No. XVI. IRREGULAR ODE, FOR MUSIC, BY THE REV. DR. PRETTYMAK, THE NOTES, (EXCEPT THOSE WHEREIN LATIN 13 concerned) by JOHN ROBINSON, ESQ^ RECITATIVE, BY DOUBLE VOICES. ^^^ Hail to the Lyar^ whofe all perfuafive flrain, Waked by the mafter touch of art, And prompted by th* inventive brain, (h) Winds its fly way into the eafy heart, (a) " Hail to the lyar."J It was fuggelUd to mc that my friend the Dotftor, had here followed the example of Voltaire, in deviating from common Orthography. Lyar inftcad oi Lyre, he conceives to be a reading of peculiar elegance in the prefent inftance, as it puts the reader in fufpence between an inanimate and a living inflrument* However, for my own part, I am rather of opinion tliat th's feeming mif-fpelling arofe from the Doctor's following the fame well known circumfpeilion which he exerclftfd in the cafe of Mr. Wedgwood, and declining to give his ode under his bandy preferring to repeat it to Mr. Dclpini's Amanuenfis,who very probably may have committed that and limilar errors in orthography. {b) " Winds iti fly way," &«c.] A line taken in great part from Milton. The whole pilfage (which it may not be unpleafing to rccal TO the r_'colleiliuii of the leader) has been clofcly imitated by my fi iend Pretty man in a former work. *< I under a fair pretence of friendly ends <* And wi.'1-plac'd wo:ds of glozing court'fcy, " E; ited with reafons net unplaufible, ** yy^wd me into (be tajy heir'.ed man, <♦ Aiid hug lii u into fua.ts. Com vs. Solo, t ^35 1 Solo. (c) Hark ! do I hear the golden tone Rerponfive now ! and now alone I Or does my fancy rove ? Reafon-born convidicn, hence-— And frenzy-rapt be ev'iy fenfe. With the Untruth I love. Propitious fiction, aid the fong ! Poet and Prieft to thee belong. SEMI-CHORUS. (//) By thee infpir'd, e'er yet the tongue was glib> The Cradle infant lifp'd the nursVy fib ; Thy votVy in matiirer youth, Pleafed he renounced the name of truth. And often dared the fpecious to defy. Proud of theexpanfive, bold, uncovered lie. (c) " Golden tone," &c.J The epithet may feem at firfl- more proper for the inftrument, but It applies here with great propriety to the found. In the ftiifteft fenfe, what is golden found but the foond of gold ? and what could arife more naturally in the writer's mind upon the prefent occafion ! " Frenzy rapt," Scc.j Auditis ? An me ludit amabilis Infania? (6//?, Alone it Hands Conspicuous Fabulist! RECITATIVE, Tor the cdeoratcd female finger frcm Mancbcjler* Sy7np'.onj oj' Jluta — p'ansjjl-no^ Now in cotton robe array'd Poor Manufadurc, tax-lamenting maid, Thy (lory heard by her devoted wiieel. Each bufy founding fpindle hufli'd-- (<) *' Sin frcm his forehead fprung."j *< A goddefs armed '< Out cf ihy head I fi'iang." Set Milton's Birth of Sin, FUGE. [ ^57 J r U G E. Now dreading Irifli rape, Quick fliifring voice and Iliape— DEEP BASE, from Birmh'.ghavu "With vifage hard, and furnace fiufliM, And black hair*d cheft, and nerve of fteel, The fex -hang'd lilVner Hood In furly pen five mood. AIR, accompanied ^^nih doulU hajjoom^ t^c% While the promife-maker fpoke The anvil mifled the wonted ftroke ; In airfufpended hammers hung. While PitCs own frauds came mended from that A I R. Sooth'd with the found the prieft grew vain, And all his tales told o'er again, And added hundreds more ; By turns to this, or that, or both, He g_ave the fancflion of an oath, ^.nd then the whole fore-fwore. *' Truth," he fung, was toil and trouble, ** Honour but an empty bubble"— [ ^38 ] Glo^fier'% aged — Lonelon dying — Poor, too poor, is fimple lying I If the lawn be worth thy wcnriiig, Win, oh I win it, by thy fvvearing. FULL CHORUS REPEATED. Grand deluder ! Arch iiTipoilor, &:c. PART 11. RECITATIVE, accompanied, ENOUGH the parents* praife— feeof deceit, The fairer progeny afcends \ E'vajion, nymph of agile feet. With half veil'd face ; ProfeJJicn^ whifp'ring accents fweet And many a kindred fraud attends ; Mutely dealing courtly wiles, FavVing nods, and hope-fraught fmiles, A fond amulive tutelary race. That guard the faith of Kings, and of King! FRIENDS, Bnt chiefly thee I woo, of changeful eye, In courts, y'clept Duplicity ; Thy fond looks on mine imprinting, Vulgar mortals call it fquinting— » Baby, [ 239 ] Baby, of art and int'rtft bred, Whom, ikaling to the back-flairs' head, In fondling arms— with cautious tread; (f) Wrinkle, twinkle Jenky bore. To the baize-lin'd clofet door. AIR. Sweeteft nymph, that liv'll: unfeen Within that loved recefs — Save when the clofet councils prcfs, And juntos fpeak the thing they mean; (f) " Wrinkle, twinkle, &c."] It muft have been already obfert- ed by the frgacious reader, that our author can coin an epithet as well as a fable. Wrinkles are as frequently produced by the motion cf the part, as by the advance of a^c. The head of the diftingullTi- ed pcrfonage heredefcribed, though in the prime of its faculties, has had mors exerclfe in every fenfe than any head in the world.- Whether he means any allulion to the worfhipof the rifing fua, and imitates the Perfian pritfts, Nvhofe grand ad of devotion is to turn round : or whether he merely thinks that the working of the head in circles will give an analogous effc£l to the fpecies of argunr.ent i.i v/hich he excels, we muft remain in the dark ; but certain it is that whenever he reafons in public, the capita and wonderful part of his frame I am alluding to, isconcinualy revolving upon its axis j and his eyes, as if dazzled with rays which dart on him exciuliveiy, twinkle in their orbs at the rate of lixty twinks to one revolution. I truft I have given a rational account, and not far- fetched| both of the wrinkle and twinkle in this ingenious compound. Tell [ 240 ] Tell me, ever bufy power, Where fliall I trace thee in that vacant hour ? Art thou content, in the fequellered grove, To play with hearts and vows of love ? Or, emulous of prouder fway, Doft thou to lilVning Senates take thy way ? Thy prefence let me ftill enjoy Withi?^^, and the lie-loving boy. A I R. (g) No rogue that goes Is like that Ro/cy •Orfcatters fuch deceit : Come to ray breafl— There ever reft — Affociate counterfeit I (g) " No rogue that goes," 8ic.] Thecandid reader will put no improper interpretation on the wo'd rogue. Pretty i*'"g;uc, dca* rogue, Sec. are terms of erdcarnient to one fex ; pleafant rogue, v/itty rogue, apply as familiar compliments to the ether. Indeed facetious rogue Is the coiTimon table appellation of this gentlemaa FART t MI ] PART III. LOUD SYMPHONY. BUT lo ! what throngs of rival bards ! More lofty themes 1 more bright rewards i See anew Apollo fit ! Pattern and arbiter of wit ! The laureat wreath hangs graceful from his wand I Begin, he cries, and waves his whiter hand. 'Tis George^ i natal day — Parnaffian Pegafus away — Grant me the more glorious fleed Of royal Brunf-imck breed — I kneel, I kneel, And at his fnowy heel, Pindaric homage vow ; He neighs ; he bounds ; I mount ; I fl}'^!— The air-drawn crolier in my eye, The vifionary mitre on my brow. Spirit of Hierarchy exalt the rhym?, .And dedicate to George the lie fubiime. AIR FORA BISHOP. (h) Hither, brethren, incenfe bring To the mitre giving King. (h) " Hitlicr hrethitn," ccc] When this ode is performed irt Wcltniinftcr Abbey (as doubtkfs it will be) this air is dellgncd for the Rev. or rather the Right Rev. author. The numerous bench (for there will hardly be more than three abfentees) who will begin the chaunt of the lubo{td with the reft of the ode, and had only accidentally fallen into the fame drawer of Mr. Pitt s bureau in which he had lately millaid Mr, Gibbins's note. Mr. Bank's tcftimony was alfo folicited to the fame efFeft ; but he had left off vouching for the prefent feflTion. Mr. Pepper Arden, indeed with the mofl intrepid liberality engaged to find authority for it in the ftatutes at large : on which Signor DJpini, with his ufual tcrfe- nefs of repartee, inftantly exclaimed. Ha ! ha ! ha ! However the difficuhy was at length obviated by an obfervation of a noble Lord that in the cafe of the King verfus Atkinfon, the Houfe of Lords had eftabli/hed the right of judges to amend a record, as Mr. Quarme had informed his Lordihip immediately after his having voted for that declfion. Here end Mr, Tiohiufcn^s notes. " A prefent God, *' Heavy Hanover, " Abject Commons," Sec, The [ ^44 ] All proclaim a prefent God— (On the necks of all he trod) A prcfcnt God, A prefent God. Halklujah l The Imitation will be obvious to the claffical reader, ■ Proefensdivus habebitur Auguftus, <2^je£lis Britanni?, Impciio,^»-c imitation in the fame light. We fhall clofc this fubje:! by obfcrving how much belter OR A viBus applies in the imitation than In the original ; and how well the untruth nf Icrne's volunteers joining in the deifi- cation exemplifies the dedicatory addrefs of the lie SUBLIME. [We are ferry that the preceding compoiition doe* not come ont \mder the immediate dirediori of the Rev. Author ; but he afFe^ls concealment, as well in the publication as in the writing — perhaps from falfe modefty, or perhaps from the peifuafion that his difiivowal of a performance will be a leading proof of its authenticity.] No. t ^45 1 No. XVII. WE have been favoured by the official correfpon- dent, who has continued with fo decided and Hat- tering a preference, to communicate to us every fiower and fprig of the poetical Bouquet^ which has been produced on the prolific fubjed of the Laureat. fliip — with the following duplicate Ode, on the part of the Riglit Hon. Fifcount Mounmorris. The rea- fons of this double diligence on the part of his Lordfliip, afcer fo admir-ible a difplay of his talents, as was exhibited in his former produvStion, are ex- plained in the following letter froin himfelf to a noble Lord. My Lord, Being informed from undoubted authority, that the learned Pi.rrot^ whom your Ltrdfliip has thought proper to nominate to the dignity of your AflelTor, knows no language but his own ; it feemed to mc probable he might not underuand IriJJ), Now as I recoiled my lail Ode to have proceeded on the orthography of that kingdom, I thought his entire igriorance of the tongue, mi.h', oc-ihaps, be feme hindrance to his judgment upon its merit. — On r.tcount of this unhappy ignorance, therefore, en M t:..e [ 146 ] the part of the worthy Buffo ^ of any language but Italian^ I have taken the liberty to prefent your Lordlliip, and him, with a fecond Ode, written in JLngViJlj', \vhich I hope he will find no difficulty in iinderftanding, and which certainly has the better chance of being perfedtly corre«5l in the true Englilli idiom, as it has been very carefully revifed and al- tered by my worthy friend, Mr. Henry Dundas, I have the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordfliip's devoted fervant, MOUNTMORRIS, PROBATIONARY ODE, DOM OF 1RELAI>D. I. Ye gentle nymphs who rule the fong, Who Uray T'heJJalian groves among, With forms fo bright and airy ; Whether you prize Pierian fhades, <^ Or lefs refined, adorn the glades, I And wanton with the lufly blades, J Of fruitful Tifperary ; Whether t »47 J Whether you fip Aonia*s wave. Or, in thy ftreams, fair Liffy^ lave % Whether you talle ambrolial food, Or think /<7/dr/^w quite as good, Oh, liflen to an Irijh Peer, Who has vvoo'd your fex for many a year! II. Gold! thou bright benignant power, Parent of the jocund hour ! Say, how my breaft has heav'd with many a ilorm. When thee I worfliippM in 2i female form ! Thou, whofe high and potent (kill. Turns things and perfons at thy will I Thou, whofe omnipotent decree, Mighty as Fate's eternal rule, Can make a wife man of a fool. And grace e'en loathed deformity; Who ftraitnefs gives to her that's crooked. And Grecian grace to thofe that's hooked ; Who fmooths the mount on Laurah back, And wit fupplies to thofe that lack { Say, and take pity on my woes, Record my throbs, recount my throes ; How oft I figh'd. How oft I dy'd, How oft difmifs'd How feldom kiis'd. M 2 Hovw [ hs ] How oft, fair PlyUi^a, when thee I woo'd, With cautious forcfight, ail thy charms I viewM I 0*tr many a fed, How oft I trod, To count thy acres o'er ! I Or fpent my time. For marie or lime, * "With anxious zeal to bore ! How Cl/piJ then — all great and powerful fate, Perch'd on the vantage of a rich eftate j When for his darts, he us'd fair fpreading trees. Ah ! ^v/jo cou'd fail, that fliot with (hafts like thefe ! * When Lord Mountmorris went dewn Into the country, feme years ago, to ^ay his addrefles to a Lady of large fortune, whole name we forbear to mention, his Lordlhip took up his abode for ftveral days in a fmall public-houfe in the ncighbourbcod of her rcfidence, and employed his time in making all proi)er enquiries, and prudent obfci-vations upon the nature, extent, and value of her property : — he was feen meafuring the trees with his eye, and was at laft found in the a£\ of boring for marie; when being voughly irt-iiojfted by one of the lady's fervantF, to avoid chal- tift.mcnt, he conf^flVd his name, and delivered his amorous cte- doi^tials. The an. our .terminated, as ttu ihoufand others of the i;oble Lord"$ have done. III. Oh, E ^49 1 III. Oh, fad example of capricious fate \ Sue Irljhnen in vain ? Does Pcmpey*^ felf^ the proud, the great, P'ail e'en a maid to gain !— — What boots my form fo tall and llhn^ My leg fo Hout — my beanl fo grim ; Why have I Alexander'* & bend, Emblciu of conqucil never gain'd ? A nofc fo long — a back fo flrait, A Chairman's mien —A Chairman's gait ! Why wafted ink to make orations, Drjiign'd to teach unlilVning nations \ Why have I view'd th' ideal Clock, (a) Or mourn'd the vilionary hour, Griev'd to behold, with well bred (hock, The fancy'd pointer, verge to four ? M 3 Then fa) An allufion is here made to a fpeecU publiihed by the noble Lord, which, as the title-page imports, was intended to have been fjioken ; in which his Lordfhip, towards the conclulion, gravely remaiks — '< Having, Sir, fo long encroached upon the patience of *< the Houfe, and obferving by the clock that the hour has become " fo cxcefTively late, nothing remains f«F me, but to return my *' fincere thanks to you. Sir, and the other Genilemen of this " Houfc, for the particular civility, and. extreme attention, with *' which I have beea heard '.—the interefling natuic of the occa- '* fioa Then with a bow, proceed to beg A general pardon on my leg ; ** Lament that to an hour fo late," •* 'Tvvas mine to urge the grave debate,*' ** Or mourn the refl, untimely broken I** All this to fay, all this to do. In form fo native, neat, and new. In fpeech intended to be fpoken ! But fruitlefs all, for neither here or ther« My kg has yet obtained m^ flace^ ov fair ! IV. Pcmpcys there are of every Ihape and fize { Some are the great y'clep'd, and fome the little < Some with their deeds that fill the wond'ring fkies. And fome on Ladies' laps, that eat their vidual ! *Tis Morris' boaft — 'tis Morris pride, To be to both allied ; That of all the various Pompcys, he Forms one complete epitome ; ** fion, has betrayed me into a much greater length than I had any *' idea originally of running into; and if the cafual warmth (3/"/)6er *' momcKty has led me into the leaft perfonal indelicacy towards any •' man alive, I am ever ready to beg pardon of him and this Houfc, ** Sir, for having fo done.'* Prepared Prepar'd alike fierce fa<5i:ion's hofl to fight, Or thankful, Hoop, official crwnbi to bite ;• No equal to himfelf on earth to own, Or watch, with anxious eye, a Treafuty-hone ! As Rome's fam'd Chief, imperious, llifF, and proud,- Fawning as curs, when fupplicating food ; In him their feveral virtues all refide, The peerlefs Puppy, and of Peers the pride I- V. Say, Critic Buffo^ will not powers like thefe, '^^tn thy refin'd faflidious judgment pleafe \ A common Butt to all mankind, *Tis my hard lot to be ; O let me then fome juftice find. And give the Butt tome!— Then, deareft D'EL, Thy praife I'll tell, And with unprojlituted pen, In IVhartori's pure and modeft firain, Unwarp'd by Hope, unmov'd by Gain, ril call thee *' bed of hufbands," and ** moH chaile of men," M 4 Thea ( 55^ 1 Then from tny pridine labours I'll relax, Ihen ii-il! I Jay the Tree unto the '^ Ax ! Of all iny former grief, Refign the bus'nefs of the anxious chace, And for part failures, and for pa ft difgrace, Here find a fnug relief! — The vain piirfuit of female I give o'er, And, Hound of Fortune, fcour chc town no more I I T is with infinite regret that we have to inform our readers, that the Poetical Olirnpie, which has beca fo long held on the fubjed of the Laureatfliip, is now put a final period to, and 'that by authority which defies refiflance, and impofes filenceupon cri- licifm. The following is an account of the circum- ilance. Last Sunday fe*nnight, being the 17th of the pre- fent month. Anno Domini, 1785, jufl as his M was afcending the ftaii*s of his gallery to attend di- * This line is literally tranfcrlbed from a fpeech of Lord "Mountnro rib's, when candidate fome years ago for the reprefcn- taiion of the city of Wellminftcr* vine [ 'is ] \ine worfliip at Windsor, he was furprifed by the appearance of a little, thick, fquat, red-^aced man, who in a very odd drefs, and kneeling upon one knee, prefented a piece of paper for the royal acceptation. His M — amazed at the fight of fiich a figure in fuch a place, had already given orders to a beefeater to dif- mifs him from his prefence ; when by a certain hafly fpafmodic mumbling, together with two or three promj-t quotations from Virgil, the perfon was dif- covered to be no other than the P.cv. Mr. Thomas. J4^baHofi, himfelf, drefTcd in the official vcfture of his profefTorfliip ; and the paper which he held in his hand being nothing elfe but a fair written petition, defigned for the infpedion of his M . Our Gracious S made up for the feeming rude- ncfs of the firil: reception, by a hearty embrace Ofi recognition ; and the contents of the petition being forthwith examined, were found to be pretty nearly as follow : — We omit the common place compliments generally introduced in the exordia of thcfe applica- tions, as *' relies upon your Majefly's well known clemency ;" " convinced of your Royal regard for the interelt of your fubjeds;".** penetrated with the full- eft convi£Vion of your wifdom and juftice," &c. ^c. w4iich, though undoubtedly very true, when confi- dered as addrelTed to George the Third, ?f:igbt^ per- haps, as matters of mere form, be applied to a So- IM 5 verci^n, [ ^S4 ] vcreign, who neither had proved wifdom or regard for his fubjeds in one aft of his reign,— and proceed to the fubflance and matter of the complaint itfelf. It fets forth, ** That the petitioner, Mr, Thomas^ "* had been many years a maker of poetry, as his •• friend Mr. Sadln; the pafliy-cook of Oxford, and •* fome other creditable witnelTes could well evince ; '* that many of his works of fancy, and more parti- ** cularly that one which is known by the name of •' Criticifms upon Milton, had been well received by the •* learned ; that thus encouraged, he had entered the •* lift, together with many other great and refpeda- ** ble candidates, for the honour of a fucceflion to *' the vacant Lanreatjkip ; that a decided return had •' been made in his favour by the officers calculated ** to judge ; namely, the Rt. Hon. the Earl of S. and •* the learned Signor Dclpini, his Lordfliip's worthy •' coadjutor; that the Signor's delicacy, unhappily ** for the petitioner like that of Mr. Corhctt, in the ** inftance of the Weftminfter ele6tion, had inclined *' him to the grant of a Scrutiny ; that in confe- ** quence of the vexatious and pertinacious perfe- *' verance on the part of feveral gentlemen in this iile- •* gal and opprelTive meafure, the petitioner had been *' feverely injured in his fpirits, his comforts, and •* his interelt; that he had been for many years en- " gaged I 255 1 "' gaged in a mofl laborious and expenfive under- * taking, in which he had been honoured with the •* mofl liberal communications from all the Univer- ** fities in Europe ; to wit, a fplendid and mofi: cor- ** re(5t edition of the Poemata Minora^ of the immor- ** tal Mr. Stephen Duck ; that he was alfo under po- ** litive articles of literary partnerfhip with his bro- ** ther, the learned and well known Dr. Jofeph^ to ** fupply two pages per day in his new work, " now in the prefs, entitled his Effay on the life and ** Kvritings of Mr, Thomas Hickathrift ; in. ** both of which great undertakings, the progrefs ** had been mofl eflentially interrupted by the great •* anxiety and dillrefs of mind, under which the pe« ** titioner has, foe fome time, laboured, on account *■* of this inequitable fcrutiny ; that the petitioner is- ** bound by his honour, and his engagement, to pre-- ** pare an Ode for the birth-day of her mofl gracious ** Majeily, which he is very defirous of executing " with as much poetry, perfpicuity, and origina- " lity, as arc univerfally allowed to have charader> " zed his lafl effufioD, in honour of the Natal Anni- ** verfary of his Royal Mailer's facred felf; that ** there are but fix months to come for fuch a pre- *' paration, and the petitioner has got no farther " yet than *' Hail Mufe !" in the firll flanza, which " very much inclines him to fear he lliall not be M 6 *« able [ ^.-6 ] '* able to finifli the whole in the Ihort period above- '* mentioned, unlefs his M — fliould be gracioufly ** plcafed to order fome of his Lords of the Bed- ** chamber to aflill him, or (lioiild command a ter- •* mination to the 'vexatious enquiry now pending. ** In humble hopes that thefe feveral confidcrations ** would have their due influence with his M > ** the petitioner concludes with the ufual prayer, ** and figned himfelf as underneath, Scc. &:c. ** Tho. Wharton, b. d. §ic. &:c.** Such was the influence of the above admirable rrp- peal on the fvmpathetic feelings of M , that the fermon, which we underfland was founded upon the text, ** Let hbn hep his tongue from cjll^ and his lips that they /peak no untruth ;'* and which was nnt preached by Dr. Prettyman^ was entirely neglected, iind a meflfage inflrntly written, honoured by the iign Ma lual, and directed to the oflice of the Right Hon. Lord Sydney, fecretary for the home depart, ment, enjoining an immediate rcdrefs for Mr.Thcmas, ^nd a total fufpenfion of an further proceedings in a meafurevhich (as the energy of royal eloquence cxprefled it) was of fuch unexampled injuftice, ille- gality andoppreffion as that oi a/cn^thy after a fair poll, snda eciJtdj-up(rurity of admitted fuJJ'ragis, 1 his mef fage, C HI J fage, conveyed as its folemnity well required, by no- other perfon than the honourable young Tommy him- felf, fecretary to his amazing father, had its due in- fluence with \\\t court \ the noble Lord broke his wand ; Mr. Dclp'.m executed a Chaconc, and tried at a Sovterfet \ he grined a grim obedience to the man- date, and caUing for pen, ink and paper, vrrote the following letter to the Editor : ** Monjieury ** On vous reqnis, you are hereby commandie t\ot to pooblifli any more of de OJc Pr.hatlona're — 7twn chcr ami, Alojijieur Gcrge k Roi fays it be ver bad to vex Monlieur le petit Homme avec le grand paunck — Mojijieur IJ^jartcuy any more vid fcrutinee; je vous comma nde dercfore to finife— Que le Roi fo it louo —God fave de King ! mind vat I fay — ou le grand George and le bon Dicii damn votre ame & bodie, vos jambes & vos pies, for ever and ever — pour ja- mais, *' Signed, ** DELPINI,*' PARODY. [ ^58 3 PARODY. A fragment: SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY THE MOST NOBLE- THE MARQJJIS OF GRAHAM, Sunt et mlhl carmlna, VIRG; I. 'TwAS at the Grocer's Feail, forlndi^ won By Chatham's bea reliefs fon, Aloft, in lufcioiis flate. The virgin Statefman fate On barley-fugar throne. Fat Aldermen were plac'd around, Their brows with fpreading antlers bound, (So City Spoufes fliould be crown'd) The gentle Grenville by his fide Sat, like a purfy Dutchman's bride. And two vaft chairs contain'd his vafl backfide !' Welcome, welcome, welcome guefts ! Eat while ye may. Eat while ye may, Eat while ye may I Ne'er will ye more behold fuch feafls ! ' II. The [ ^59 T II, The God-like Prettyman hard by. Amid the feftiveband, At once began to ling, and lie :— - The lies, the notes, afcend as high* As themes like his demand ! The fong began from Temple's toil, Who left his Stowe's enchanting foil, (Strong Coalition's pow'r to foil !) Guy Vaux's dark difguife the Peer bely'd— Up the back-flairs unfeen he hied. When he to George's cMfet preft. To fliare the forrovvs of his royal breall : Then ifTiied forth the dread command " Prelates, defend your King / Arm, arm, J5ft/-^ cba?nher Band T^ The lill'ning Cits admire the found ! *' Another Buckingham /" they fhout around — ** Another Buckingham /" the plaiflered roofs re- bound ! With ravifli'd ears Young Billy hears : And fays, " A fig ** For ev'ry Whig 1'^ A-ftance his Chaplain leers ! III. The C ^60 ] III. The praife of Artfcn next the Bard enraptured fmig \ O glorious eloquence of Arden's torigue '. Lo, where the legal wonder comes ! *' Waiters, a frefli fupply of p'umbs 1'* With more than mortal grace He tliews his nofclefs face ! — Ah nofe ! — of far more worth than Rollo's thumbs ! Pepper, in the blood-ftain'd field, Having Rollo's rage repell'd I — Heroes never mind their nofes ; — Both his thumbs great Rollo lofes I Devon's glory Flies before yc I Triumph, Tepper I— Rollo, yield! SoothM with the found, the youth grew vain I Scarce willi'ii his friend a nofe again ! And thrive his triumphs he rcnew'd o'er Frcedon:»*s proflrate flrain I The Secretary fourly fmii'd. To fee fuch pertnefs in his child ! And while he North and Fox defy'd, Chang'd his hand, and chcck'd his pride ! IV. Pro. C 261 3 IV. Prophetic, he forcniovvs The modern Phcehus'^ woes. He fung Sir Cecil, matchlefs bard. By WeHminfter Eleftors Scouted, fcoiited, fcoated, fcouted ! Spiti of all his great Proteflors, His gratitude's reward. Defericd in his utmofl need, In vain he feeks to rear his head ; In vain he feeks to fcrutinize, E'en Murphy does not back his lies. All melancholy fat the angry Boy, Revolving in his mind The fickle temper of John Bull\^ Nor now to fweetmeats felt inclin'd, Nor eat his belly-full, V. - The rev'rend Lyriil joy'd to fee, That Love was in the next degree ; But, ahl! ! . -. DESVNT CETERA. ODE C ^6. ] ODE TO HIS MAJESTY, ON THE DEATH OF W, WHITEHAED, ESQ^ POET LAUREATr BY A POOR POET, Will, whitehead, sire, hath wifh'd the world good night — Pray who fliall fabricate your jtgxt I'var'^s Ode ? As /moft laudably can nW and lun/f, Let me the line with George's viriuesy load ! My Mufe's wings, jiifl like a flying coach, [far I Shall mount you from this earth, good Lord! ho>T Up to your favourite Georgian Star, And bring you down again as found's a roach ! God blefs you. Sire, take my advice and try, — I know my trade (Tm Aire on't) well enough ; None (hall work cheaper for you. Sire, than /, Nor in the tuneful iA:ork put better Jiuf ! Sire, if you'll me Laureat, I declare rU chauntyoviy if you do but take the air ; And if it fhould your Royal humour fuit, I'll fmg your horfe to hoot A Or if you hunt—i)^Q. chace fliall fwell my hrcath^'^^ 1*11 bring you in for ever at the death \ And [ ^('i 1 And fwear the huntfmen> with the rabble-rout That follow Majefj, were allthroi^n out f Then will I laud the King, thejagy ih^ grounds^ And linging, make more noife than all the hounds. To Ihew you I'm no nggarJ in my way, I'll alfo put in verfe your Royal fpecches ; And of fame's temple fill athoufand niches, With the rare things that you ^dWJing ox fay I To recommend my politics — I glory In being what folks call a red hot Tory ;— Ev'ii from my foul, I hate Charles Fox, More than a beauty doth/mallpou ! Damn Liberty that ro^^es a King, And makes him like a Bull at ring.— SuhjeHs are mules, are afles, humble hacks. All bora with. /addles on their backs ! But, Sire, perchance you've been le-rhym^dfo long^ Your Royal ear \i Jick of Birth-day Song ! In this cafe, you'll be better fcr'V^dhy none ; For order me the * Salary and Wine, I'll whifper to Apollo and the Nine, And fo contrive to let the Ode alone ! . * The Laureat's annual gratuity is One Hundred PounJs a year, and a Bu tt of Sack. AM f ^^4 J AN EPITAPH CN W. W — 7E — D, ■ S(i. INTENDED FOR HIS MO-- KUMENT in WES MINSTER ABBEY, Beneath this Honc a Poet Laureat lies, Nor great, nor good, nor foolifti, nor yet wife ; Not meanly hiin:ible, nor yet fwellM with pride,, He fimply liv'd — and juft as fimply died : Each year his Mufe producM a Birth- day Ode, Compos'd \\ith flattery in theufual mode : For this, and but for this, to G 's praife. The Bard was penlion'd, and receiv'd the Bays. NEW COALITIONS. When foes like oil and vinegar imite, Whicii are wrong principles, and which are right ? When Piety and Blafphemy agree. Can there a flranger Coalition be ! O befi: of Kings ! cries W — kes, for ever live ! Subjects like W— kes, fays G , kind Fortune give! Such blelTed pray'r,. and fweet ejaculation, ]V1uft furely tend to edify the nation ! Party will ceafe, and Faction's brawl mufl end. When the kind M— r— ch calU the Rebel friend. THl C ^05 1 THE FOLLOWIXG ROUGH DRAFT OF A POLITI- CAL CODICIL TO A GR£AT MAn's WILL, WAS ACCIDENTALLY FOUND, JULY I784. NEAR THE PARK-GATE OF LUTON HOO. iN" addition to my former will and teilament, I be- queath to the Picm'.cr^ the only fpark of patri tlfm in my pofleHion ; becaufe lie appears to have been ne- gledcd in this article, by his independent father ; and I do not think he will employ it any more than rayfelf, to the inconven'en^c of the Cro^vn, — I would leave him my cjntcmpt for the Houfe of Conwians in its rulrtual capacity^ were it not, that he already poflelTes an ample fliare of that commanding quality I I relinquifli my grcatncfs of foul to the Earl G—'UJ-r : trufting that he can find room fur it in his own breafl I I refign to Lord PFiy^;: — /j my courtly fervi'ify. He flands, it is true, more in need of my irJ^pe.id nce^ but the fmall fliare that remains with me of th^ virtue, 1 mean to difpofe of more at large I s To Lord C n I leave my cojifjicncy ; as he will ,ufe it with ceconomy, it will probably ferve him the duration of fhe prefent Miniilry. — 1 leave him alfo my opinion^ becaufe he has none of his own ; fiiould this part of my boon fall fhort, I humbly recommend him ( 266 ] him to the bounty of Lord Sydney^ who has a larger Hock of felf -opinion^ than any other man in ChriHen- dom! I leave to the Harwich Member^ a manufcript con- taining the Secret Memoirs of Jonathan Hlliithc Thief Catcher^ which I requeft may be bound by way of 7«- troduBion to his own life. I bequeath him alfo my Duplicity^ as he muft have cxhaufted his own in the faithful fervice of his late noble mafter ! I bequeath to the viajority of the Houfe of Lords^ in- cluding the tievj Peers^ my Independence, It is a trifling portion, but I doubt not, they will make a little go a great way. To the Houfe of Commons, I give my credulity^ that the further promifes of the Minifler may be attend- ed to, and with fo firm a belief, that when next he pledges himfelf, there Jhall he 710 dijjblution of Parlia- ment, a reliance may Hill be placed on his word, and ^he Heufe be again deceived ! I bequeath to the People of En^land^ as the befl: le- gacy in my power, my infenfibility \ — it will enable them to bear with temper, the yoke of prerogative^ which I laboured unfuccefsfully to efte6t! B TE. 1 M- IMPROMPTU TO THE HON. MRS. DAMER, ON SEEING HE% CUPID CATCHING A BUTTERFLY. BY J. T LL, ES(>, DaMER ! thy fatire jult we own, For now, alas I mankind are grown The foplings of an hour! Yet fimpering fbns of fafliion view The clay, more ductile far than you, Confefs fair Beauty's power ! The antient Cupid (liot his dart, Unerring thro' each manly heart, From Beauty's fparklingeye ! Behold I the cafe is alter'd quite. For modern Cupids now delight To catch a Batterfly ! TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, ON HIS PORTRAIT OP MISS KEMBLE, IN THE EXHIBITION AT THE AOYAL ACADEMY. While hands obfcene, at vicious Grandeur's call, With mimic Harlots clothe th' indignant wall, Deflruftive fnares for youthful paflion fpread. The flacken'd bofom and the faithlefs bed, * * See tl e prints from pidures of a certain nobleman's miftrcfles ja alraoft eyer/ ihop winclcv. The painter's name is effaced. Thy f ^68 ] Thy pencil J RiynoUs^ innocently gay, To Virtue leads by Pleafiire's flovC'ry way; Li blufhing honour decks the tim'rous bride, Or maid vvhofe thoughts confederate angels guide ; For thy rare fkill, to furface unconfin'd, Through every genuine feature pours the n.ind. Should the wild rage of other PijKncs compare With Corinth's pert the Britifh Drama's fair, (Though art may Palmer's f vaniQi'd form deplore> And SatchclPs eyes unpiclur'd beam no more) : If firm duration crowns thy juft delign, Nor all its foft limiiitudcs decline, In Am^/r's look chaftis'd will yet be feen What one bright daughter of the Stage has been— Referv'd, though ming'ing with the loud the vain, And unfcduc'd where fyren pleafares reign, Where dames undone at focial ruin fmile, While echoM fcandal fliakes a guilty pile. PleasM we behold, by thy cjngcijial hand, III native charms embodied, Virtue Hand ; For Vice can ne'er its odious tracec hide. The glance of Lewdnefs, or the fwell of Pride • Mark'd to be fliunn'd, and lligmatiz'd by Fate, Sure, in each vary'd giiife, of fcorn or hate, O'er all the face its dire effufions flioot, ^ As branches ftill are modell'd by the root, f The late Mrs. Prlctbard 's d.u;glucr, of whom thc'r is no poitrai'. Bur, t ^^9 3 But, for our love when grace and merit vie, Attraa the decent, check the lawlefs eye : Th* inflru6tive canvas moral worth excites, hn^ Reynolds paints the leflbns Job?tfo?t writes. Should Time, whofe force our hopeo in vain \vl:h- fland, Blaft the Nymph^s face, and fliake the Painter*s hand ; Yet may thefe tints divide the fame they give, And Art and Beauty bid each other live ! THE MUSE RECALLED, AN ode; OC-CASIONED BY THE tCUPTlAlS OF *LORD VIS- COUNT ALTHORP AND MISS LAVINIA BINGHAM, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF CHARLES LORt) LU^AN', MACRH 6, I 781. BY SiR Vv'lLL'AW J;N2S. Return, ceieaiai Mufe, By whofe bright fingers o'erm.y infm: !.c:id, 1 ull'd with immortal fymphohy, were fpread Frelh bays and flow'rets of a thoufar.d hue? j » No'.v Earl rj:«,-.fcr. N Rct.ua Return thy golden lyre, Chordcd with funny rays of temper'd fire, Which in Aflras's fame I fondly hung. But I reclaim : but ah ! fweet maid, Bereft of thy propitious aid My voice is runelefs, and my harp unflrung. In vain I call — What charm, what potent fpell. Shall kindle into life the long unvvaken'd fhell I Haftc ! the well-wrought balket * bring, Which two filler Graces wove, When the third, whofe praife I fing, Blufhing, fought the bridal grove, Where the fiow defcending fun Gilt the bow'rs of Wimbledon. In the vafe myflerious fling Pinks and rofes, geni'd with deu', Fiow'rs of ev'ry varied hue ; Daughters fair of early fpring, Laughing fweet with fapphire eyes, Qr with Iris* mingled dyes-: Then around the bafket go, Tiipping light with filent pace, While with folemn voice and flow, 7'.hrice pronouncing, thrice I trace * Wifs Lo>iira B'roliarn, anc^ M-fs Frances Molcfvvovth, hdr cuuiiiij decked £ bafket- vrirk. rijljaKeik aH'i liov/tr-, to hold the On [ =71 ] On the lilken texture bright, Chara<^er*d in beamy light, Names of more than mortal pow'r, Svveeteil influence to diflfufe ; Names, that from her fliadieft bow*r Draw the foft reludant Mufe. Firil-, I with living gems enchafe The name of her, whom for this, fcfliv^dny. With zone and mantle elegantly gay, The Graces have adorn 'd — herfelf a Grace, Molefworth — hark ! a fwelling note Seems on Z'.phyr's wings to float : Or has vain Hope my fl:itterM (en^c beguilM ? Next, her who braided many a f ow'r, To deck her filler's nuptial bow'r, I^ingham, with gentle heart, and afped mild. The charm prevails — I hear, I hear Strains nearer yet, and yet more near. Still, ye n3imphs and youths advance, Sprinkle dill the balmy fhowV, Mingle ftill the mazy dance ; Two names of unrefifted pow'r, Dehold ! in radiant charaelers I wr"te— O rife ! O leave thy fecret Ihrine, N 2 Eqx" [ ^r- ] For they, who all thy nymphal train outfliinc, Diincannon, * heav'nly Mufe, and Devonihirc f invite. Saw ye not yon myrtle wave, Heard ye not a warbled Urain ? Yes! the harp, which Clio gave, Shall his ancient found regain. One dearer name remains. Prepare, prepare! She comes — how fwift th' impatient air Drinks the rifmg arcent fweet I Soon the charm fhall be complete. Return, and wake the filent itring; Return, fweet mufe, for Althorp bids me fmg : 'Tis flie — and, as flie fmiles, the breathing lyre Leaps from his filken bands, and darts ethereal fire. *' Bright fon of ev*ning, lucid flar, *' Aufpicious rife, thy foftenM beam, *' Admii'd ere Cynthia's pearly car *' O'er heav'n's pure azure fpreads her gleam : ** Thou faw'fl the blooming pair, ** Like thee, ferenely fair, * Lady Heniictta Spencer, fecond clnu*hrer of John Earl S; ca- *cr, a;;cl wife ot Lord Duncanncn, eldeft fon of the Earl cf Etf- bcro.if b. f laciy Heorgina, elded du:g' tor of Earl Spencer, nrd wife tf W'i;ii^mCavciulljI, fifth Tulce cf Dcv'cnll.ire^ *• By ( 2/3 f ** By love united and the nuptial vcJW 5 ** Thou fcell the mirthful train ♦* Dance to th' uiilabour'd itrain, ** Seeil bound with myrtle evVy youthful brow. *• Shine forth ye filver eyes of night, •* And gaze on virtues crovvn'd with treafures of *' delight. «* And thou, the golden -traced child of mom, *' Whene'er thy all-infpiring heat '* Bids buriling rofe-buds hill and mead adorn, ** Sje them with Qv*ry gift that Juvc beftows, *» With cv*ry joy replete, •* Save, when they melt at light of human woes ! *' Flow fmoothly, circling hour, *' And o'er their heads unblended pleafure pQur : *' Nor let your fleeting round *' Their mortal tranfports bound, '* But fill their cup of blifs, eternal pow'rs, " Till time himfelf fhall ceafe, and funs (hall blaze ** no more. ** Each morn reclinM on many a rofc, ** Lavinia's * pencil fliall difclofe * The Countefs Spencer has an extraordinary talent for dravr- IftT hifto.ic fubjeancing [ ^7* I ** Dancing with cv'ry Grace and evVy Mufe, *' Siiall bid thavallies kugh, and licav'niy beaffis *' di^ufe." Si.e ceafes ; and a flrange delight Still vibrates on my ravifli'd ear : What floods of glory drown my light I What fcenes I viovv ! what founds I hear ! Tiiis for my friends — but, gentle nymphs, no m.oi:^ Del re I with fpells divine the miife recall : \I'hen, fativl hr.rp, thy trnniicnt rnptiire o*er, Calm I replace thee on the facrcd wall. Ah I fee how lifelefs hangs the lyre, Not lightning now, but glitt*ring wircf '3^e to the brawling bar, and wrangles high, Bright-haif'd Sabrina calls, ajid rofy-bofom'd Wyc> A RECEIPT t 277 J A RECEIPT TO MAKE A JOCKEfrf Take a peftle and mortar of moderate fize, Into Qiieenfbcrry's head * put Bunbury's ryes ; f Cut Dick Vernon's throat, and fave all the blood, To anfu'er your purpofe there's none half fo good ; Pound Clermont % to dud, you'll find it expedient, The world cannot furnifli a better ingredient ; From Fox and Fitzpatrick take plenty of fpirit, Succefsful or not, they have always that merit. Tommy Panton's addrefs § ; John Waftell's advice ; [\ A touch of Prometheus ; 'tis done in a trice. New Fl a t.** N 5 SPRING? * *rhe Di^ke is faid to have the longcfl turf head,- with but a fingle eye. f Sir Charles's eyes are fo good, that he can fee the horfes the length of the Beacon, a four-mile courfe at Newmarket. J Lord Clermont haa loft more money on the tuif than per- nnps any mail in England. § Mr. Panton is reckoned the mofi polite man on the turf- II Mr. Waftell's fkill in the breed of horfes is remarka'ol?, and his advice is fought after by the young fpo: ters. ** The New Flf.t is the laft Courfe that has been made at Newmsrker. Pcrhaj)S our readers may wilh to know the names of the ditTcrent Cooifes at Newmarket, The fyliowin^ vve b-- Ikve ;s a correft lili ;■ Beacoj* [ ^78 J SPRING; AN ODE. BY FRANCIS KNIGHT, JUN» O Spring, relenting maid! appear. Unbind again the frozen ground ! In beauty deck the fmiling year. And fcatter vernal rofes round : O come ! and with thy radiant "hand In purple paint the weflern Iky ; O come I and let thy cheerful hand Remove th' obftruding clouds, andbidpaleWinterfly, • By wanton zephyrs fann'd, the rofe In pride furveys its op'ning bloom, The violets evVy charm difclofe. And fill the air vvirh rich perfume ; Bc-acon Courfe Is four m le?, and In t' e Sporting CaknJar is marked . — — — -^ B. C. Round Courfe, four miles, marked ■ — R. C. Duke's Courfe, four ditto •■ ■ ■ ■ " D. C. Ditto, In Courfe ■ D. I. Rov/ley Mil ; - R- M. Biinbury Mllo '» B. M. Abingioa Mlh ■ • Ab. M. Ancalter Mi'e An. M. RowIey-Poft-MI'e to tlic port in tic Furxe^, 3 quarters of a mile* New tUt — N. F. AU [ 279 ] All nature is with beauty crown'd, The trees put on their varied hues, The rich verdure dyes the ground, And every charm appears t court the rural inufe, O thou ! by whofe divine command, Each louring tempeft left our ifle; Thy bleflings deal with liberal hand. And bid thy toiling fervants fmile : Let Winter turn his gloomy car, And yield to Spring's delightful fvvay « Fly with his (hivering train afar, *■ Nor with tempcftuous clouds deform the rofy I\Iay, Unclouded in the azure fky, Let the bright Sun his oib difplay. Each lloim and threat'ning cloud defy, And cheer us with his genial ray : Let blooming Spring unrivall'd reign, An earned of the grateful fiore Which Autumn flicds on eveiy plain : And Man thy praife Ihall fing, and thy great po-.v'r adore. N 6 rrix t -So J [The following Lines are handed about, and fald to be the Pi-oduc* tion of a young Gentleman, now at Wcftminftcr-School ; a Copy of them he inclufcd in a Letter to ihi Minlftcr.] ON THE CANDLE AND WINDOW TAX. Jove fald, *' Let there be light"— and lo. It iriftant was, and freely given To every creature under heaven : SaysP — , '* I will not have it fo — ** Darknefs much better fuits my views ; •' Let darknefs o'er the land diffnfe. ** Henceforth I inil, that all fliall pay *' For every light, by n'gbt or ^laj," He faid — and, as he'd been a God, The venal herd obey'd his nod. LINES TO MR. PITT. • N HIS CONTINUING IN OFFICE FOR THE G00I> OF THE NATION^ You always are boafting of honour and candour, Yet falfe is your fpeech, and deceitful your looks ; To apply the old proverb toxou is no (lander, *' 'J is Htaven fei^ds :rie:U, but the Devil fends cooks. ADVER- ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDI^JARY, JULY, 1784, Missing, from the genealogies of the new Peers- three Fathers, five li^ot/ers, nmt Grandfathers, fourteerr Gravdmothn s, twenty Great-grandfathers, and nearly twice the number of Great-grandmothers— 'AMo fome complete generations of an ejiors. If any perfon can give notice 'at the Herald's Office of any Fathers, Mothers, Grandfathers, Grand^ ?noihcrs, Gr c at -gratid fathers, and Great-grandmothers^ worth ov:ning, of the names of C — D — , //— »' L , P — E , &c, &c. &c. fo as that the faid Fathers, Mothers, Grandfathers, Great -grandfathers^ and Great-'grandmoihers may be taken and reflored to the advertifers ; the perfon fo informing, for every fuch notice, fliall receive one guinea reward, and no q^uejiiom Jl:all he afcd. \ And if any perfon v/ili undertake to find ^«f(y?<7rr ly the grneratio>7, for every legular dcfcent of not lefs than three, and not more than fin, he fliall receive Hvo gui/ie.'s each r.nceflor ; and for every regular de- cent of not lefs than^A-, and no more than ten, he fiiall TCQt'wc five gjiiiieas each anceflor, and fo in pro- portion for any greater number. A hand- A handfome compHmeni will alfo be given in addition to the rewards above propofed, for any anccftors vf\iO diftinguifli'd themfelves under James the Second, Charles the Second, and Charles the Firll:, in tiie caiife of Prercgaiive, Likewife an extraordinary, price will be paid for the difcovery of ^;;v arxeftor of remote antiquity and high family I fuch as the immortal Duke RAlo^ companion of ]J":Uiain the Cctiqucror^ and founder of the prefcnt ilkiftiious family oi RoUe, N. B. No greater rewards will be offered, as the Heralds have received diredions for making «r;t'. EY A GEN^TLEMAN WHO DINED BY IWITATION' AT THE EEE7-STEAK CLUB OVER COVENT- GARDEN THEATRE, At a famous old club, for Beef-fteaks you will fee Great men of all parties, and every degree ; There mirth and good humburfor ever you'll findj Nor fquabbles, nor riots, to ruffle the mind. I once vvas a guefl, and for ever fliall fing, That a noble Beef-lkak is a glorious thing. Learn hence, ye great flatefmen, the in and theo;//, Vv'ho keep fuch a pother and make fuch a rout^ That [ =93 } That a rump of Old England, when cut into fteaks^. Will foften the heart, and old friendfliip awakes, I once was a gueft, and for ever Ihall iing, That a noble Beaf-fteak is a glorious thing. Lord Sandwich and Wilkes when met at this place. Ne'er fpeak of fearch-warrants as any difgrace; The Peer fings his catch, and Wilkes cracks his joke^. While the fleak piping hot on the table does fmoke. I once was a gueft, and forever fliall fmg, That a noble Beef-fteak is a glorious thing. In St> Stephen's great hall, the good old Lord Clare" Did vow to his God, and as merrily fvvear. That his Burgundy bright would heal every fore. But Beef- (leaks and porter I am fure will do more. I once was a gueft, and for ever ftiall ling, That a noble Beef-lleak is a glorious thing, BON MOT OF DR. JOHNSON. boON after his Majeil:y*s accefllon to the throne he conferred a penlion of 300I. per annum on Dr. John- f)n, for his many valuable writings. Churchill at- tacked the Dodor in his poem of the Ghofl, and in bitter terms call'd him Penfioner, &c. When John- fon read the invedive, he id^id-^Jf I ca/it hear this I dnit defers c my moneys LINES [ 184 ] ON THE PORTRAITS OF THE THREE PRINCESSES, PAINTED BY MR. GAINSBOROUGH. tlfcOW dar*c]'il thou, mortal, impioufly prefume To paint with fading tints coeleftial bh.om ? How could'ft thou on fuch radir»nt beauty gaze, Un injured by the fplcndonr of its rays ? Some angel, fure, has lent his friendly aid, To Iketch the features of each royal maid. What fweetnefs fbftens that majellic air! What goodnefs beams from each diilinguifli'd fair! What fpirit animates each lovely face ! And in each limb, what fyrametry and grace ! Such were the forms, that blefs'd the fiiepherd's eyes On Ida% mount, contending for the prize. Such the three Graces of ca:leilial mold. That charm'd the fculptors and the bards of old. Confummate artiil ! friy, from whence you drew The precepts of thy art, fo jud, fo true ? With freedom thus, who bade thy pencil flow, Such force, inch f.veetncfs in thy colours glow \ Hail thou, to give pcrfcCrion to thy piece. Studied the u'crks of ancient Rome and Greece ? llaOr [ 2«S ] Haft thou lurvey'd the celebrated * ruh Of ancient beauty ? or each niodern fchoot With critic eje co?npar\l, compar'd thy mind V/ith all thefe wonders of a tafte refin'd ? Ah, no; thy matchltis ikill with fcorn difclaims, 1 he fancied merit built on pompous names. Like great Cor.cglo, Nature's pencil fraught With inborn genius, and by practice taught, He vicvv'd even RaphaeVt, works, with confcious pridc^ And ♦* Vm a painter Jill,'' the artift cryM I f O'er fcas or Alps let other artifts roam, In quefl of l^cauties, which you find at home; Such charms our BritiJ}} Ny?nphs alone poffcfg, And none but C'-^^rcugh\ pencil can exprcft t The canon or flandard o£ beauty, formed by Polyclctuj. Plin. 34. 8> f Sec Dapilc'5 JLIfc of Correjio^ SHORT t ^'6 ] SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF THE R O L L O S, NOW R O L L E S, FAITHFULLY EXTRACTED FROM THE RECORDS OF THE HE:?ALDS* Oi FICE. ToHN ROLLE, Efq; is dcfcendcd from the an- cient Duke Rollo, of Ncrmandy : Rollo paffed over into Britain, anno 983, where he foon begat ano- ther Rollo, upon the wife of a Saxon drummer. — Our young Rollo was diftinguiflied by his gigantic ftature, and was flain by Hildebrand, the Danifh Champion, in a fit of jealoufy. We find in Camden, that the race of the RoUos fell into adverfity in the reign of Stephen, and in the fucceeding reign, Gaf- pcr de Rollo was an Oftler in Denbighfliire : But dur- ing the unhappy contefls of York and Lancafler, the venerable Bede, and indeed the Chronicle of Croy- land have it, that the RoUos became Scheriffs of Devon j ** Scheriji Devonienfes Rolli fueruiit ;"— and in another pafl"age, *' arreji averunt Dcbitores plurimi Rol* ** Icrum ;" hence a doubt in Fabian, whether this Rollo was not Bailiff, ipfe potius (juam Schcrlffis, From this period, however, they gradually advanced in circumflances. Rollo, in Henry the 8th being [ iS7 ] amerced in 8co Marks for pilfering two manchettg of Beef from the King's Buttery, the which faith Selden, facillhne fay avit. In 7th and 8th of Phil, and" Mar. three Rollos indeed were gibbeted for piracy, and from that date the family changed the final O of the name into an E. h\ the latter annals of the Rollos, now Rolics, but little of confequence is handed down to us ; we have it that Timothy RoUc of Plympton, in the 8th of Qtieen Anne, endowed three Alms Houfes in faid town. Jeremiah, his fecond fon, was counted t.he fattcll man of his day, and Dorothea Rolle, his third coiuin, died of a terrible dyfentery. From this pe- riod Rolles have buril upon public notice, with fuch a blaze of fplendour, as renders all further accounts of this iliuilrious race entirely unneccffary. E^XTRACr [ -^«8 I EXTRACT FKOM THE ROLLIAD, AN ETiC POJt?*^ IN TWELVE BOOKS, SHORTLY TO EE PUB"" LISIIED. JUNE 28, 1784. v/hEN Norman R ol. {owght fair Albion*s coafl-, (Long may his offspring prove their countr}'s boall !) Thy genius, Britain, Aire infpir'd his foul To blefs this illand with the race of Ro/L; llhiihious Rolk ! O may thy hononr'd name Roll down diftinguifliM on i\\c Rolls of fame ! Still fiiil be found on Devon*s county polls ! Still future fenates boall their future Rollcs / Since of all Rolls which in this world we fee, The world has ne'er produc'J a Roll like thee; Hot Rolls and butter break the Briton's faft, Thy fpceches yield a more fublime repaft. ComparM to thine, how fmall their boafted heat \ Nor, mix'd with treacle, are they half fo fweet. O'er P.oUs of parchment Antiquarians pore, Thy mind, O Rclle^ affords a richer flore. . Let thofe on law or hiflory who write, I'o P4ls of Parliament refort for light, Whilfl o'er our Senate from our living Rollff Beam the bright rays of an enlighten'd foul ; In wonder loll, we flight their ufelefs fluff. And feel one RoHc of Parliament enough. The, The Ikill'd mufician, to direct his band, Waves high a Roll of paper in his hand ; When Pitt would drown the eloquence of Burke, You feem the Rolk bed fuited to the work ; His well-train'd band, obedient know their cue, And cough and groan in unifon with you. Thy God-like anceftor, in valour tried, Still bravely fought by conqu'ring William's fide j In Britifli blood he drench'd his purple fword, Proud to partake the triumphs of his Lord ; So you, with z^al, fupport through each debate, The conqu'ring William of a later date. Whene'er he fpeaks, attentive flill to chear The lofty nothings with a friendly — Hear, And proud your leader's glory to promote, Partake his triumph in a faithful vote. Ah ! fure while coronets like hailftones fly, When Peers are made, the Gods alone know why t Thy hero's gratitude, O Rolky to thee A ducal diadem might well decree ; Great RoUoi's title to thy houfe reftore, Let E ufurp the place of O no more Then Rollc kinfifelf fliould be what RoUo \\ as before \ CR ITI- I 290 ] CRITICISMS ON THE ROLLIAD. No. I, ** Cetiitc Roiriani Scrijlorcs, ccdicc Grxti.'' Nothing can be more confonant to the advice of Horace and Ariilotle than the condu(ft of our author throughout this poem. The artioa is one^ entire^ and great event, being the procreation of a child on the wife of a Saxon Dnwimcr, The Poem opens with a moft laboured and maflerly defcriprion of a Storm, J^o':o\ Hate of mind in this arduous iltuation is finely psintcd : Now J^olio florms more louJIy than the wind, Now doubts and black defpair perplex his mind ; Hopeltfs to fee his vefiel fafely haibour'd, He hardly knows Mv^ f^arhoard from his Jaruoard! That a hero in dillrefs fliould not know his r'rA^t hand from his kft^ is mod natural and affeding ; in other hands, indeed, it would not have appeared fufficiently poetical^ but the technical exprcfllons of our author convey the idea in all the llaxe of mcta' phor. The florm at length fubfides, and Rollo is fafe- ly landed on the coall of Snjjlx, Some of his fol. Jowers dilbover and conduct him to the country- houfe of ])a7ue Shipton, a l-.uly of exq\iiiitc beauty, and frjt Concidnnc to tlic Vpurpcr Harohh Her like- Rcls (we all knov.) is ilill pVeferved at the wax- work i r =91 ] work in Fleet-flreet. To this Lady he relates with great modefty his former adions, and his delign of conquering England, in which,' (charmed with the grace with which he eati and tells fiories) flie promifes to affifl: him, and they fet off together iox London, In the third book Bame Shlpton^ or as the author fliles her ShiptonlH^ propofes a party to \.\\q puppet-JJjevj \ on the walk they are furprized by a fhower, and retire under Temple Bar, where Shiptortia forgets her fide- lity to Harolil, We are forry to obferve that this in- cident is not fufiiciently/»<7^//rrt/ ; nor does Shiptonia part with her chaility in fo folemn a manner as DiJo in the JZnc'ul, In the opening of the fourth book likevvife we think our author inferior to Virgil^ whom Jie exactly copies, and in fome places tranflates. He begins in this manner : But now (for thus it was decreed above) Shiptonia fails excelTively in love ; In every vein, great R^llo's eyes and fame Light up, and then add fuel to the flame ! His words, his beauty, ^ick imihin her breaj}^ Nor do her cares afford her any refl. Here we think that Virgi'i'% *' b^rent infixi pecftore vultus verbaque," is ill tranflated by the profaic viovd flick. We mufl; confefs however, that from the dcfpair and death of Shiptonia^ to the battle of //.//- t 292 ] r^^f, in which RoHo with his own hand kills the Saxon Drumm^y and carries oft' his wife, the Poem abounds with beautiful details. But the lixth book, in which RoV.o alinoft defpairing of fuccefs, defccnds into a "Kiglt Cellar, to confult the illujhious Merlin on his fu* ture deftiny, is a mafler-piece of elegance. From this book, an extrad has already been given In the different papers ; but as the Philofopher's magic lanthorn exhibits the charaders of all RoUo'% eec/jcs ; to the verfes, which he repeated in the Hoafe of Commons; to a pamphlet .Tgainll Mr. Madan, by Richard Hill, Efqj and to an ekgint parody oi amicus i:OLratcs, a?nicus Plato, fed ma^is .nmlca fveri/asf in the very words adopted by our author ;' all thefe, except indeed the pamphlet, we prefume to be too well known to require any ilkif- tration. The promife of immortality to the worthy Bironet, by means of the prefent poem, is truly in the fpirit of the clalfics. The modefty of Virgil, indeed on a fimilar occafion, led him to infert t,- faving claufe of " Si quid mea carmina poffint," but our Poet, with the confidence of fuperior geniuff,- fays to his mufe, in the ftile of Horace, — — — ** Sume fuperbiam Quaefitam mentis." Our author feems very fond of Mr. Dundas, Whofe exalted foul, N Though cold and cautious criticifm may perhaps flart at the boldnefs of the concluding line, and will Tcntv.re to pronaiince it the moll maflerly ftroke of the [ 3" ] the fubllme to be met with ifi this or any other poem, and may be jullly {did, what Mr. Pope has lo happily fly led — *' To fiiatch a grace beyond the reach of art." JEj/hy on Criticij'nu Aswed-fpair of offering any thing equal to this lofty flight of genius to the readier of true tafle, we lliall conclude with recommending to him the im- mediate perufal of the whole poem, and, in the name oi an admiring Public, returning our heart- felt thanks to the wonderful author of this invaluable work. No. VT. November, 1784. As we are credibly informed, that many perfons of hte have in vain enquired of their bookfellers for the former impreliions of the RoUiad, we are happy in being able to give notice, thus early, of a new edition, the t-i\:enty-firfi, now preparing for the piefs with all polfible difpatch. This, like many of the preceding, will be enriched with confiderable additions ; of which we purpofe hereafter to give 'ome account. In the mean time, however, to gra- tify fuch of our readers, as may have been hitherto unfortunately difappointed in their fearch after the work [ 3'^ J work itfelf, we (hall prefent the public with fomc further extracFts from the lafl edition, accompanied as before, with our obfcrvatioiis. We mentioned long fincc, that mort of the paf- fages intended to be fclc^led for our criticifms, were contained in the fixth book, where Mcrl-n by means of a magic lantern, facws to Duke Rotlo the great charadcrd, coteinporaries, and friends of his illuf- trious defccndanr, ^ir. Rolie, This book, whe- ther it be from the fubje(fr, or, as we fonietimes flat- ter ourfelves, from the recommendation of our com- mentary, has been generally admired, above all the reft ; and of confequence, it has been revifed, cor- rected, and improved with uncommon care by the author in fucceflive editions of the poem. Thus in the 7iinetcenth he introduced for the firfl time, his Epifoclc Parfcnicy on the vifion of Dr. Prettyman ia St, ]\Iargaret*s pulpit ; and in the nx:entleth^ the vifion of the new Board of Indian Commillioners. At the fame time, alfo, he very much enlarged the defcrip- tion of the Houfe of Commons, with Vvhich he ju- dicioufly prepares the reader for the exhibition of Mr. RoUe, and the ether political heroes of the age on that theatre of their glory. Maps of the country round Troy have been drawn from the Iliad ; and we doubt not, that a plan of St. Stephen's might now be delineated with the utmofl accuracy from the Roliiad. Merlia: I t 3'3 ] Merlin firfl: uflieis Duke Rollo into the lobby ; marks the fituation of the two entrances ; one in front, the other communicating laterally with the Court of Requefls ; and points out the topography of the fire-place and the box •in which Sits Pcarfon^ like a pagod in his niche ; The Gomgom Pcarfon^ vvhofe fonorous lungs With ** Ji.cnce ! room there /" drown an hundred tongiicSv — 'Ihis pafTage is in the very fpirit of prophecy, which delights to reprefent things in the mod lively manner. We not on!y fee but hear Pearfon in the execution of his office. The language too, is truly- prophetic ; unintelligible, perhaps, to thofe to whom it is ar drelTed, but perfectly clear, full, and forcible to thofe who live in the time ot t'^e accomplifliiiient. Duke RoUo might reafonably be fuppofcd to ilare at the barbarous words, Pa^cd and Gomgom ; but we, who know one to fignify an Indian Idol, and the other an Indian inftruincnt of mulic, perceive at once the peculiar propriety with which fuch images are applied to an officer of a Houfe of Commons, fo con-jpletely Indian as the prefent. A writer of lefa judgment would have contended him.felf with com- paring. Pearfon hngly to a ^ Statue [ 314 3 Statue in his nich— and with calling him a Stcntot-y perhaps, in the next Jine : but fuch unappropriated fimilies and meta- phors could not fatisfy tiie nice tafte of our author. The defcription of the lobby alfo furniflies an op- portunity of interfperfing a paflage of the tender kind, in praife of the Fomona who attends there Tvith oranges. Our poet calls her HucJIcria^ and by a dexterous flroke of art, compares her to Sh'ptonia^ whofe amours with RoUo form the third and foiirtk books of the RoUiad. Behold the lovely wanton, kind and fair As bright Sh ptonia^ late thy tender care ? Mark how her winning fmiles, and witching eyes On yonder unfledg'd orator Die tries : Mark with what grace (he offers to his hand. The tempting orange, piide of China's land ! This gives rife to a panegyric on the medical vir- tues of oranges, and an oblique cenfure on the inde* cent praAice of our young fcnatcrs, who come down drunk from the eating-room, to deep in the gal* Icry. O ! take, wife youth, the Htfperean fruit, of ufe '\\\j lurgs to cherifh with balfamic juice: With [ 3«5 I With this thy parch'd roof moiflen ; nor confumc Thy hours, and guineas in the eating-room, Till, full of claret, down with wild uproar, You reel, and, ftretch'd along the gallery, fnore. From this the poet nnturally Aides into a general caution, againll the vice of drunkennefs, which he more particularly enforces, by the inftance of Mr. Pitt's late peril from the farmer at Wandfworth, Ah ! think, what danger on debauch attends ; Let I'itt, once drunk, preach temperance to his friend,- ; How, as he wander'd, darkling, o'er the plain. His reafon drown'd in Jenkinfon's champaigne, A rullic's hand, but thatjuft Fate withftood, Had (lied a Premier's for a Robber's blood. We have been thus minute, in tracing the tranfi- tions in this inimitable paflage, as they difplay in a fuperior degree, the wonderful Ikill of our poet, wh could thus bring together an orange-girl, and the prcfcnt pure and immaculate miniller ; a connection, which, it is more than probable, few of our reader would in any w ife have fufpe6led. ■■■ *' Ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut fpeciofa de hinc miracula promat.'* Fiom [ 3«6 ] From the lobby we are next led into the feveral Committee rooms, and other offices adjoining ; and among the reft, Meilin, like a noble Lord, whofe Diary was fome time lince printed, takes occafion to inJfeH the ivatcr-cloJctSy Where offerings, worthy of thofe altars, lie ; Speech, letter, narrative, remark, reply, With dead born taxes, innocent of ill, With canccUM claiifes of the India Bill ! Thcvt pious Northcoie'*s week rebukes ^ and here The lofty nothings of the Scrutlncecr ; And reams on reams of trails, that without pain. IncelTant fpring from Scenes prolific brain. Yet wherefore to this age fliOuld names be known, But heard and then forgotten in their own ? Turn then, my fon, &c. &c. This-pafTage will probably furprife many of our rea- ders, who mull, have difcovercd our author to he, as every gO')d and wife man muft be, firmly attached to the piefent fyficm. It was tiarural for Dante to {end his enenjies to hell j but it feems firange that our poet fliould place the writings of hTs own friends and fellow-labourers in a water-clofet. It has indeed been hinted to us, that it might arife from envy to find fome of them better rewarded for their exertions in the ctuie than himfelf. But though great minds have [ 3'7 ] have fometimes been fubjed to this paflion, wc c; n- jaot fuppofe it to have influenced the author of the Rolliad in the prefent inftance. For in that cafe we doubt not he would have (liewn more tendernefs to his fellow-fufFerer, the unfortunate Mr. Northcotc, who, after facrificing his time, degrading his pro- feflion, and hazarding his ears twice or thiice every week, for thefe two or three years pall, has at length confeflTed his patriotifm weary of employing his ta- lents for the good of his country, without receiving the reward of his labours. To confefs the truth, wc ourfelves think the apparent lingularity of the poet's condu(ft on this occafion, may be readily afcribed to, that independence of fuperior genius, which wc noticed in our lall number. We there remarked with what becoming freedom he fpoke to the mini- fler himfelf; and in the paflage now before us, wc may find traces of the fame fpririt, in the allulions to the coal-tax, gauze-tax, and ribboi -tax, as v»cji as tlie unexampled alttrations and :( regions of the celebrated India Bill. Why then ihould it appear extraordinary, that he fliouid take the fame liberty with two or three brother-authors, uliich he had before taken with thejr mailer ; and without fcruple intimate, what he and every one clfe mull think of t^eir produftions, notwithflanding he may poflefs all poffible charity for the good intention of their en- deavours ? We cannot difmifs thefe criticifms with- in cu: r 3i» J ©ut obferving on the concluding lines, how happily our author here again, as before by the mention of Sbiptofiiay contrives to recall our attention to the per- fonages more immediately before us, Merlin and Duke Rolio ! No. \ir. November, 1784. We come now to the Sanctum Sanctorum, the Holy of Holies, where the glory of political integrity ihines vifibly, fince the flirine has been purified from Lord John Ca-venMJly, Mr. Foljamhc, Mr. Coke, Mr- Baker, Major Hartley, and the reft of its pollutions. To drop our metaphor, after taking a minute fur- \ty of the lobby, peeping into the eaiing-room, and infpe6ting the water-clofets, we are at length ad- mitred into the Houfe itfelf. The tranfition here is peculiarly grand and folemn. Merlin^ having cor- reflcd himfelf for wafling fo much time on infignifi- cant objects, (Yet wherefore to this age fliould names be known But heard, and then forgotten in their own ?) immediately directs the attention of Rollo to the doors of the Houfe, which are reprefented in the vifion, as opening at that moment to gratify the hero's curi- ofity; C 3') 3 o^.ty ; then the prophet fuddenly cries out, in tli: language of ancient religion, . Procul 6 procul eile profani ! Turn then, my fons, where to thy hallow'd eye Yon doors nrifold — Let none prophane be nigh! It feems, as if the poet in the preceding defcrip* lions had purpofely ftooped to amufe himfelf with the Go7ugom Pcarfon^ Huc/^eria, Major Scoti, Mr, North- eotc, and the Reverend aii'hor of the Scrutineer ^ X.\i2i^ he might rife again with the more flriking dignity on this great occafion. Such of our readers as are acquainted with the old editions of the Rolliad, mull: certainly remember the defcriptions of the bar, the gallery for flrangers to fit in, and members to deep in, the clock, the mace, and the Speaker's chair. Thefe have undergone little or ne alterations, except, perhaps in one or two places, the correction of an innacurate rhyme, era feeble epithet. We (hall therefore pafs them over in filcnce, and proceed diredly to the Treafury Bench : Where fit the gowned Clerks, by anci«nt rule, '] his on a chair, and that upon a flool ; Where ftands the well pil'd table, cloath'd in green : There on the left the Treafury-bench is feen, P 2 No f 320 ] ^o fatin covering decks th' unfightly boards ; No velvet cufliion holds the youthful Lords. And claim illuftrious bums fuch fmall regard ? Ah ! bums too tender for a feat fo hard I The four firfl: lines of the above quotation include all. that was originally faid of the TreafLir}-bench. The four lafl are entirely new. Nor, we trufl, will their beauty be found inferior to their novelty. They touch on a fubjecH: of much offence to the young friends of the minifler ; we mean, the bar- barous and gothic appearance of the benches in the Houfe of Commons. The Treafury-bench itfelf looks no better than a ^rfi form in one of our public f^hooh. No fatin covering decks th' unfightly boards ; No velvet cufliion holds the youthful Lords. This couplet flates with much elegance the mat- ter of complaint, and glances with equal dexterity at the proper remedy. The compofition is then judi- cioufly varied, and the whole art of the poet is em- ployed to intereft our feelingg in favour of the ne- celTary innovation, '* And claim illuflrious bums fuch fmall regard ? ** Ah I bums too tender for a feat fo hard !" Every r 3" 1 Every critic knows the interrogation to be a figure of the mofl powerful efFe6t. Hence it is not unfre- quently employed by Firgil to give point to a reflec- tion, as ** Tantaenc animis coeleftibus ira ?** And if our readers are defiroiis of feeing its full force in the prefent inftance, they have only to fub« ftitute the following verfe, which exprefles the fame fentiment in a more direct manner, ** Illuftrious bums might metit more regard.'* How flat, how fpiritlefs this, in comparifon of the other ? Nor is the interrogation the only flrotig figure employed in this admirable paflage. This is immediately fucceeded by an interjection, with an exclamation of the moft pathetic kind — Ah ! btims tootfcnder for a feat fo hard ! Who can read the firfl line of the couplet without feeling his fenfe of national honour moft deeply in- ured by the fuppofed indignity ? and who can read the laft without melting into the moft unfeigned commiferation for the actual fuffering, to which the youthful Lords are at prefent expofed ? It. muft, doubtlefs, be a feafonable relief to the minds of our P 3 readers [ 3" ] readers to be informed, that Mr. Pitt, as it has beeji faid ia fome of the daily papers, means to propofe for one article of his Par II anient i.ry Refo)m^ to cover the feats in general with crimfon fatin, and to de- corate the Treauiry-bench in particular with cufliionsof crimfon velvet ; one of extraordinary di- menfions being to be appropriated to Mr. /F. Gren- vii'/e. The epithet te»Jfr in the lafl line we were at firft difpofed to confider as merely fynonimous with yeuthfuU But a friend, to whom we repeated the palTage, fufpefted that the word might bear fome more' emphatical itw^z : and this conjecture indeed leems to be efiabliflied beyond doubt, by the ori- ginal reading in the manufcript, which has fmce been obligingly communicated to us. Alas ! that bums fo larc by pednnts fcarr'd, Sore from the rod, fnould iuffer feats lo hard I We give thefe verfes, not as admitting any com- parifon with the text as it now ftands, but merely by way of commentary, to illuflrate the Poet's mer.ning. From the Trcofury-hnch^ we r.fccad one Hep to the There [ 3'3 J There too, in place advanc'd, as in comlnz'id. Above the beardlefs rulers of the land, On a bare bench, alas I exalted fit, The pillars of Prerogative and Pitt ; Delights of Afia, ornainents of man, I'hy Sovereigns Sovereigns, happy Hindoilan ! This pafflige has been fo much changed, as to be rendered in a manner perfediy new. The move- ment of the lines is, as the hibjecl required, more elevated than that of the preceding: yet the pre- vailing fentiment excited by the dclcripti<"n of the Treafury-bench, is artfully touched by our author, as he pafles, in the Hemillitch. On a bare bench, alas ! — Which is a beautiful imitation of \'irgirs ■ — Ah I filice in nuda. The pompous titles fo liberally beflou'ed oti tha Bengal SquaJ^ as the pehnylefs hirelings of Oppoiition affed to call them, are truly Oriental tafle ; and \Vq doubt not, but every friend to the prcfent happy Government will readily agree in the juflice of ftiling them, pillars of Prerogative and Pitt^ delight of Afia^ and ornaments of man ; neither, we are alTured can P 4 any any man of any party objed to the lad of their high dignities, SoTere'gns of the Sovereigns of India ^ fince the Company's well known fale oi Shah Allum to his own Vizir is an indifputable proof of their fupr^- macy over the Great Mogul. As our author has been formerly accufed of pla- giarifm, we muft here in candour confefs, that he feems, in his defcription of the India-bench, to have had an eye to Milton's account of the Devil* ^ throne ^ which, however, we are told, much exceeded the poflible fpiendor of any Lidia-bench, or even the magnificence of Mr. Haflings himfelf. High on a throne of royal flate, which far Outilione the wealth of Ormus, or of Ind, Or where the gorgeous Eaft, with lavifh hand, Show'rs on her King, barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted fate. This concluding phrafe, our readers will obferve, is exaftly and literally copied by our author. It is alfo worthy of remark, that as he calls the Bengal Squad The pillars of Trerogative and Pitt, So lililton calls Belzeehuh^ A pillar of ftati [ 3^5 ] Though it is certain that the expreffion here quoted' may equally have been fuggefled by one of the Per- fian titles, faid to be engraved on a feal of Mr, Hajiingi^ where we find the Governor-General ftiled. Pillar of the Empire. But we Avail leave it to our readers to determine, as they may think proper, on the mofl probable fource of the metaphor, whether it were in reality derived from Beheehub or Mr. Hafiings* From the above general compliment to the India- bench, the Poet, in the perfon of Ma-lin, breaks out into the following animated apoHrophe to fome of the principal among our Leadenhall-Ilreet Go- vernors : All hail ! ye virtuous patriots without blot, - The minor Kinfon, and the Major Scott ; • And thou of name uncouth to Britiih ear, From Norman fmugglcrs fprung, Le IMefnrier. Hail, Smiths ! and Wraxall, unabafli'd to talk, Tho' none will liften ! hail too. Call and Palk : Thou, Barwell, julland good, whofe honour'd name, Wide as the Ganges rolls, fliall live in fame, Second to Haflings, and Vanfittart, thou A fccond Haflings ; if the Fates allow. The bold, but truly poetical apocope, by which the MeiTrs. Jikinfon and Jcnhnjon are called the two klrt- P 5 fon; [ 3^6 ] fons^ is already familiar to tlic public. The mbwr Kiftfni, cr K'tnfon the Icfs^ is obvioTlfly Mr, Athnfon % Mr. Jaillnfon being ccml'eflecily greater than Mr, Al- k'}ifony or any other man, except one, in the king- dom. — The antithesis of the Major Scott to the winor Khifon, feems to afccrtain the fenfe of the word Major, as fignifying in this place //'^'o-r/'^z.vr ; it might mean alfo the eUcr \ or it might equally refer to the military rank of the gentleman intended. This is a beautiful example of the figure fo much admiied by the ancients imder the name of the Paronomafm, or Fun, They who recolie6l the light in which our author before rcprefented Major Scott, as apamphlet- tcer, fit only to furnifli a ivatcr-clnfit, may polT.b'y wonder to find him here mentioned as the greater Scott 'y but whatever maybe his literary talents, h*^ ixiuftbe acknowledged tobe truly great, and worthy of the confpicuoiis place afiigned him in his capa- city of agent to Mr. Hajihigs, and of confequence chief manager cf the Bc/igal Sf/ucif/ ; ami it muft he remembered that this is the character in which ue are now confidering him. The circumftance of Mr. Le Mifiirier\ origin from T^orvian fmu^'gJcn has been erroneoully fuppofed by feme critics to be defigned for a reproach ; but they could not pofiibly have fallen into this millake, if they had for a moment leiiected that it ib addrclied by Mcr.in to RoUo, who was hia.fcli f 327 I Kimfelf no mere than a Norman pWate, Sm-gglifig and piracy in heroic times were not only edeemed not infamous, but abfolutely hononrabie. The Smiths, CalUndi Palk of our poet refemble the Alcaxidrumque, Haliumque, Noemonaque, Pryta- nimque, oi Hon:cr and Firgil ; who introduce thofe gallant warriors for the fake of a fmooth verfe, and difpatch them at a ftroke without the diftinaion of a fingle epithet. Our Poet too has more profelTedly imitated Virgil in the lines refpefting Mr. Vanfutart, now a candidate to fuccecd Mr. Hafdngi — And, Vanfittart, thou A fccond Haflings, if the Fates allow; — —Si qua fata afpera rumpas, Tu Marcellus eris ! The paflage however is, as might be hoped from the genius of our author, obvioully improved in the imitation ; as it involves climax, mod happily ex- prefTcd. Mr. ^^mW/has been panegyricized in the lines immediately foregoing, as J'tcond to Uafiings^ inferior to :\Ir. Haftings alone in virtues ; but of Mr. ninfut^rt it is prophefied, that he will be a Jeouul ILjJings', fecond indeed in time, but equal perhaj)3 P 6 in t 3^^ ] in the dlftingulfhing merits of that great and good man, in obedience to the Court of Diredors, at- tention to the intercHs of the Company in prefe- rence to his own, abftinence from rapacity and ex- tortion, juflice, and policy towards the Princes, and humanity to all the natives of Hindoftan. The in- genious turn on the words, fecond to Hajiings^ and z. ficcnd HaJiingSy would have furni(hed matter for jkvhole pages to the Dionyfius's, Longinus*s, and Quintilian's of antiquity, though the affe£led delicacy of modern talle may condemn it as quibble and jingle. We iliall conclude this number by inferting, with- out any comment, our author's new project for the improvement of the India-bench, with which he clofes the apoflrophe above quoted. Oh ! that for you, in Oriental {late, At eafe reclin'd, to watch the long debate. Beneath the gallery's pillarM height were fpread, (With the Queen's leave) your \Varren's ivory bed ! No. VIIT. t 3^9 1 Norf VIII^ December, 1784*- I N" every new edition of this incomparable pocnr, it has been the invariable practice of the author, to take an opportunity of adverting to fuch recent circumflances^ as have occured lince the original publication of it, relative to any of the illuflrious charadlers he has celebrated. The public has lately been aiTured, that the Marquis of Graham is elected Chancellor of the Univerfity of Glafgovv, and has prefented that learned body with a complete fet of the engravings of Piranefi, an eminent Italian artift j of which, we are happy to acquaint the diletanti, a few of the remaining fets are to be purchafed at Mr. Alderman BoydcU's printfhop, in Cheapfide, price twelve pounds twelve fl\illings each. Aa anecdote refleding fo much honour upon one of the favourite charaders of our author, could not pafs unnoticed in the Rolliad ; and accordingly, in his lafl edition, we find the following complimentary lines upon the fubjea : If right the Bard, whofe numbers fweetly flow. That all our knowledge is ourfelves to know ; A fage [ ^so ] A fage like Graham, can the world produce, Who in full fenate calPd hmifelf a gnofc ? Th' admiring Commons, from the high-born youth, With wonder heard this undifputed truth j Exulting Glafgow claim'dhim for her own, And plac'd the prodigy on Learning's throne. He then alludes to the mngnificent prefcnt above- mentioned, and concludes in that happy vein of alliterative excellence, for which he is fo jullly ad- mired With gorgeous gifts from gen'rous Graham grac'd. Great Glafgow grows the granary of tafte. Our reader? will doubtlefs recoiled, tliat this is not the firll tribute of applaufe paid to the diilin- guilhed merit of the pub!ic-fpirited young Noble- man in queiVion. In the fxrft edition of the poem, his charader was drawn at length, the many ft-r- vices he has rendered his country were enumerated, and we have lately been alTurcd by our worthy friend and correfpondent, Mr. Malcolm Ai'Grcgor, the in- genious author of the Heroic Epidle to Sir Williani Chambers, and other valuable poems, that the fol- lowing fpiritcd verfcs, recording the ever-nicmorable circumflance of his Lordfliip's having pi oc\ircd for the [ J3' ] the inhabitants of the Northern extremity of oxir Ifland, the ineftimable privilege of exempting their poileriors from thofe ignominious fymbols of flavery vulgarly denominated Irceches^ are aftually univer- fally repeated with enthufiafm, throughout every part of the Highlands of Scotland Thee, Graham I thee, the frozen Chieftains blefs, Who feel thy bounties thro' their fav'rite drefs ! By thee they view their refcuM country clad, In the bleak honours of their long-lofl plaid ; Thy patriot zeal has bar'd their parts behind, To the keen whirlings of the wint'ry \^ind ; While Laiids the dirk, while lalTes bag-pipes prize And oat-meal cake the want of bread fupplies ; Th^ fcurvy fkin, while fcaly fcabs enrich. While contaft gives, and brimftone cures the itch. Each breeze that blows upon thofe brawney parts,. Shall wake thy lov'd remembrance in their hearts ; And while they freflien from the Northern blart, So long thy honour, name, and praife fliall laft. W« [ 33^' ] W« need not call to the recolledion of the claflieal reader, Dum juga mentis aper, fliivios dum pifcis amabit. Semper honos, nomenque tuum laudefque man«- bunt. And the reader of tafte will not hefitate to pro- nounce, that the copy has much improved upon, and very] far furpafled the original : in thefe lines we alfo find the mod Ariking inflances of the beau- ties of alliteration ; and however fome faflidious critics have affeded to undervalue this excellence, it is no fmall triumph to thofe of a contrary fentiment to find, that next to our own incomparable author, the moft exalted genius of the prcfeiit age has not difdained to borrow the afiiftance of this ornament, in many palTages of the beautiful dramatic treafure with which he has rectntly enriched the Hage. It is neceflary for us to add, that it is the new tragedy of the Carmelite to which we allude ? — A tragedy, the beauties of which, we will venture confidently to aflert, will be admired and felt, when thofe of Shake- fpeare, Dryden, Otway, Southerne, and Rowe, fliall be no longer held in eftimation. As examples of alliterative beauty, we ihall feie«ft the foilo^^ing : — The * r 333 3 The hand of Heav'n hangs o*er me and my hmife, To their untimely graves feven fens fwept oflf. Again, So much for tears— tho' twenty years they flow— • They wear no channels in a widow's cheeks. The alternate alliteration of the iecond line, in this inflance, feems an improvement upon the art, to the whole merit of which Mr, Cumberland is himfelf unquellionably entitled. Afterwards we read, Trcafures hoarded up, Wich carking care, and a long life of thrift. In addition to the alliterative merit, we cannot here fail to admire the jiidicioufly fele(5ted epithet of carking ; and the two lines immediately following, although no example of that nierit, fliould not be omitted — Now, without Intereft, or redemption fwallow'd, Ey the devouring bankrupt waves for ever. How [ 33+ ] How ftriking is the comparifbn of the ocean, to a bankrupt fwallowing without interell or redemption the property of his unfortunate creditors? vvliere ilnll we find a fimile of equal beauty, unlefs fomc may pollibly judge the following to be fo, which is to be found in another part of tjie fame fublinje work, of two pcrfons weeping , We will fit, Like fountain (latues, face to face oppofed^ And each to other tell our grier'3 in tears, Yet neither utter word Our readers, we truft, will pardon our having been diverted from the talk we have undertaken, by the fatisfddion of dwelling on a few of the miny beauties of this juftly popular and univerfally ad- mired tragedy, which in our humble opinion infi- nitely furpalTes every other theatrical compofition, being in truth an alTembiage of every pcffible drama- tic excellence ; nor do we believe, that any produc- tion, whether of ancient or modern date, can exhi- bit more uncommon and peculiar fele^ilion of lan- guage, a greater variety of furprifing incidents, a more rapid fuccelfion of extracudioary difcoveries, a more curioi:s collection of de'criptions, limilies, metaphors, images, florms, fliip.v recks, challenges^ aad yil.ons. or a more mifcv.Laneous and llr.king pidture [ 335 1 j)ii?lure of the contending paflions of love, hatred, piety, madnefs, rage, jealoufy, remorfe, and hunger, than this unparalleled performance prelents to the admiration of the enraptured fpedator, Mr. Cum- berland has been reprefented, perhaps unjuftly, as particularly jealous of the fame of his cotemporaries, but we are perfuaded he will not be offended when, in the ranks of modern writers, we place him fecond only to the inimitable author of the RoUiad. To return from the digreffion into which a fubjcift fo reducing has involuntarily betrayed us, the reader will recolle(fl that in our lall we left Merlin gratify- ing the curiofity of Rollo, with a view of that Aflem- bly of which lie is himfelf one day defined to be- come fo confpicuous an ornament. After having given the due preference to the India Bench, he proceeds to point out to him others of the moft dif- tinguiflied fupporters of the prefent vii-LUous Admi- nirtracion. Having already mentioned the moft con- fidential friends of the Miiiil'icr, he now introduces US to the acquaintance of an aiftive young Member, who has upon all occafions been pointedly fevere -upon the noble Lord in the blue ribbon, and who is remarkable for never having delivered his fentiments upon any fubjei*^, whether relating to the Eaft-Jn- dics, the Reform of Parliament, or the Weftminfter £kdion, ^^ithout a copious dilfertation upon the principles^ t 336 ] princrples, caufes, and condu<^ of the Americt* %var. Lo ! Bcaufoy rifes, friend to foft repofe, Whofe gentle accents prompt the Houfe to dofc ! His cadence juft, a genVal lleep provokes, Alnioft as quickly as Sir Richard's jokes. Thy fluiTibers, North, he flrives in vain to break. When all are fleeping thou would*11 fcarcer n-ake ; Though from his lips fevere invecftives fell, Sharpas the acid he delights to fell. In explanation of the laft line, it may be perhapi neceflary to apprife our readers that this accomplifli- ed orator, although the elegance of his di£lion, and fmoothnefs of his manner, partake rather of the pro- perties of oil, is in his commercial capacity, a dealer in vinegar. The fpeaker alluded to under the name of Sir Richard, is probably the fame whom our au- thor, upon a former occafion* filled Sleep-giving poet of a fleeplefs nighr. The limits of our paper will not allow us to en- large upon the various beauties with which this part of the work abounds; we cannot, howeverj omit the pathetic defcription of the Speaker's fituation, Moc the admirable compar ifon of Lord Mahon prey- ing. r 337 ] in-g on his patience, to the vulture devouring the liver of Prometheus. The neccflity of the Speaker's continuing in the chair while the Houfe fits, natu. rally reminds our author of his favourite Virgil : •fedit asternumque fedebit Infelix Thefeus.- There Cornwall fits, and, oh ? unhappy fate ! Mull fit for ever through the long debate ; Save, when compell'd by Nature's fov'reign will, Sometimes to empty, and fometimes to fill, painful pre-eminence ! he hears, 'tis true. Fox, North, and Burke, but hears Sir Jofeph too. Then follows the fimile Like fad Prometheus, faflen'd to his rock, In vain he look? for pity to the clock ; In vain th' effects of flrength'ning porter tries, And nods to Bellamy for frefh fupplies j While vulture like, the dire Mahon appears, And, far more favage, rends his foft'ning ears. P. S. The Commentator on the Roiliad having obferved that his criticifms have lately been com- piled and publiilied in the form of a pamphlet, begs leave to fay that his refpe(51s for the public v/ould never have permitted him to offer them, in fo im- perfect [ 338 ] perfect and undigeiled a flate, to their infpe» t 34« 1 exertions in behalf cf his country ; and particularly mfupport of the purity of its democracy^ i^c, l^c. Cur author, now making a very eafy and natural tranfition from the noble Duke*s pairiotiftn in general^ to his conftitutional abhorrence of all hcrough manw faHory in particular^ grows inflamed with the con- templation of fuch uncommon excellence ; finds himfelf unable to reflrain the fury of his admiration ; perceives his Prgafui running away with him ; foams, blows, and frets, till half-choaked with the generous rage that had feized him, he begins to feel, for the firfl time, his power fink beneath the vaft tulk of his fubjeft, and that for once in his life materia fuperavit opus, His wonderworks itfelf ofFin hctniflichcs \ in little po- etic fpafms ; in half lines, fuch as the learned reader knows ever chara6lerife the poetry of the ancient claffics, in fituations of difficulty and paffion, and all that his labouring mufe is capable of bearing is fuch lialf formed abortions uS the following How fliall I find words ? What power in language I — — Affift me, all ye nine ! Defcription's felf is lame. He [ 315 ] fie concludes this flrain of conviilfive harmony miW « parody A Mufe : a Unk !— my kingdom for a Mufe I RecolleiSting jiift at this moment that there were other parts of this great man's charader, though perhaps lefs fufceptible of poetical ornament, yet better calculated for general entertainment, he fud- denly takes leave of his bcroks ; and bearing io mind that the fame of the noble houfe of Percy had been rather tranfmitted to poflerity on account of their anions, than by the lludied puffs of their hidorians, he inftantly determines upon telling a ftory, and ju- dicioufly adopting a new meafure fuited to the new occafion (for no author underftands better — reddere convenientia cuique, than the immortal writer of the Rolliad) he thut proceeds : A T A L E, AT Brookes's once it fo fell out The box was pufliM with glee about ; With mirth reciprocal inflam'd, "'Twas faid, they rather /)At>'V than gam J; A gen'rous impulfe through them ran, Andy?i7«V to aftuate evVy man ; Q^z 'But [ 34^ ] But as all human pleafures tend -At fome fad moment to an end, The hour at lafl approach'd, when lo •Jwas time fot every one to go. —Now, for the firft time it was feen, A certain fiim unown'd had been ; To no man's fpot direftly fix'd, Eut plac'd — ambiguoufly betwixt ; So doubtfully indeed it lay, That none with confidence could fay This cafli is mine— I'm certain on't —But moil declin'd with — " Sir, I won't, '* I can't in confcience, urge a right, *' To what I am not certain quite." 'Northu7nhrias Dukcy who wifll'd to put An end to this polite difpute, Whofe generous nature yearn'd to fee The fmallefl fliew of enmity, Arofe and faid — '* This cafli is mine j *' For being afk'd to day to dine, *' You fee I'm furbelow'd and fine : ** With full made lleeves and pendent lace, *' Reiy on't, this was juft the cafe, ** That when by chance my arm I mcv'd, ** The money from me then I fhov'd ; ** This clearly fliews how it was fliifred." Thus foid — the rhyno then he lifted. — " Hold I [ 34S ] «« Hold, hold, my Lord"-- fays thoughtlefs Hare, Who never made his purfe his cire ; A man who thought that money's ufe Was real comfort to produce. And all the pleafiires fcorn'd to know. Which from \is /fiug enjoyments flow ; Such as ilill charm their gladden'd eyes, Who feel the blifs of Avarice. ** Hold, hold, my Lord—hovr is it knowiv *' This c.ifli is certainly your own ? ** We each might urge as good a plea, ** Or Fox, or Sheridan, or mc ; ** But we, tho' lefs it were to blame, *' Difdain {o pitiful a claim. *< Then her.- let me be arbitrator. ** 1 vote the money to the Waiter." Thus oft will generous Folly think, But Prudence parts not io with chink. On this occaiion fo it was. For gravely thus my Lord Duke fays ; ** Confider, Sir, how great the fum, ** To full eight guineas it will come : *♦ Shall I, for your quaint verbal play, *' Confign a whole eftate away ? ** Unjuft ! ridiculous ! ahaird ! ** I will not do it, on my word ; *' Yet rather than let fools deride, *' I give my fat to divide ; CL3 [[ So [ i^(^ 3 •* So *twixt the Waiter and myfelf^ •* Place equal portions of the pelf; •* Thus eighty fliiilings give to Ralph^ •' To Alnv^ick's Duke the other half." Hiire and the reft (imprudent croud !) At this decifion laugh'd aloud : •* What," fay thefe wild unthinking mett> ** Are you and Ralph fo equal then ? •* Will Percys noble houfe defcend *' To take a Waiter for a friend ^ ** Or he who plenty never lacks, •* Thus with a Scruh^ go meanly fnackf, •* And be partaker in a gain, *< That e'en the prouder poor difdain ?'* «* Rail, if you like, replied the Duke,. *' Then to himfelf his portion took,** Thus, fpite of all the witlefs rakef?, 1 he Duke and Waiter part the Ihkes* MORALS. -i. This maxim, then, ye fpendthrifts know,, 'Tis money makes the mare to go, a. By no wife man be this forgot, A penny favM's a penny got. 3, This rule keep ever in your head, Half a loaf's better than no bread. 4. Though t 347 3 4. Though fome may rail, and others laugh, In your own hand (i'lli keep the flatf* 5. Forget not, Sirs, fince Fortune's fickle, Many a little makes a mickle. 6. By gay mens* counlels be not thwarted j Fools and their money foon are parted. 7. Save, fave, ye prudent — who can know How foon the high may be quite low ? S. Of Chriilian virtues hear the fum, True charity begins at home. 9. Neglc^ not farthings, cnrekfs elves, Shillings and pounds will guard thcmfeUtfr 10, Get calh, with honour, if you can, But fiill to get it be your plan. Such an incident fo admirably related as tfie reader has perceived the above to be, can require no inducement of collateral teftimony for the moH implicit belief of it, and can receive no illuftration or ornament from the moH elaborate criticifm. No. X. January, 1785. Although in our lafl number, as well for the fake of variety as of an opportunity to difplay the univerfality of our Author's genius, we gratified the 0^4 reader t 34S J reader with a fyedmtn of his talents in a metre dif- ferent from that in which we have hitherto been accuftomed to admire him, we have by no means cxhaufied the beauties of that part of his work in which the charaifters of the lending Members of the Houfe of Commons are fo poetically and forcibly delineated. What can be more fublime or pic- tureffjue than the following defcription : Erefl in perfon, fee yon knight advance, With trufty 'fquire, who bears his (hicld and lance, The Quixote Howard ! Royal Windfor's pride, And Sancho j'ancha Powney by his fide : A monarch's champion, with indignant frown And liaughty mein, he calls his gauntlet down ; Majeitic fits, and hears, devoid of dread. The dire Philippics whizzing round his head. Yor.r venom'd fiiafts, ye fons of Fa6\ion fpare,. However keen, they cannot enter there. And how ivell do thofe lines immediately fucceed- ing, defcribe the manner of fpeaking of an orator of fuch conliderable Kve/g/.^t and authority I He fpeaks, he fpeaks ! Sedition's chiefs around, With unfeign'd terror hear the folemn found. While little Powney chears with livelier note, And fli-^res his triumph in a filent vote. Some [ 349^ 1 Some have ignorantly objeded to this as an indance of that figure for which a neighbouring kingdom is- fo generally celebrated, vulgarly diftinguiflied by the appellation of a Bull, erroneoufly conceiving a filent vote ta be incompatable with the vociferation here alluded to ; thofe, however, who have attend- ed parliamentary debates, will inform them, that numbers who moft loudly exert themfelves, in what is called r/^mnV/^fpeakers, are not upon that account, entitled to be themfelves confidered as fuchi — Our author has indeed done injuflice to the worthy mem* ber in qiieftion, by daffing him among the num- ber of mutes, having uniformly taken a very ac- tive part in all debates relating to the militia, of which truly conftitutional body, he is a moll re- fpe^lable pillar, and one of the nK)ft confpicuous ornaments. It is unqueftionably the highefl praife we can be- ilow upon a member of the Britifli Houfe of Com- mons, to fay, that he is a faithful reprefentative of the people, and upon all occafions fpeaks the real fentiments of his conilituents ; nor can an honcft ambition to attain the firil dignities of the llate, by honourable means, be ever imputed to him as a ciiiue ; the following encomium therefore nniil: be acknowledged to have been judly merited by a nobl'-^ Lord, whofe inikpc^idtnt and dijmtarjlcd condu^l has-- 0^5 drawn C 350 ] drawn upon him the cenfures of difappointed fa6lion. The Noble Convert, Berwick's honour'd choice, That faithful echo of the people's voice, One day to gain an Irifli title glad, For Fox he voted — fo the people bade ; 'Mongft Englifli Lords ambitious grown to fit. Next day the people bade him vote for Pitt ; To join the flream, our Patriot nothing loth. By turns difcreetly gave his voice to both. The title of Noble Convert, which was bellowed upon his Lordfliip by a Speaker of the degraded Whig fadion, is here moll judicioully adopted by onr Author, implying thereby that this denomina- tion, intended, no doubt to convey a fevere reproach, ought rather to be confidered as a fubje^l of pane- gyris : this is turning the artillery of the enemy again ft themfelves " Neque lex eft juftier ulla, &c." In the next charafter introduced, fome perfons may perhaps objed on the feeming impropriety of allud- ing to a bodily defed ; efpecially one who has been the confequence of a moft cruel accident ; but when it is confidered chat the mention of the perf >nal im- petfedion is made the vehicle oi an elegant compli- ment t 351 ] nient to the fuperior qualifications of the mind, this^ ©bjedicn, the' founded in liberality, will naturally fall to the ^ound. The circumflance of one of the Reprefentatives of the firfl city in the world having lofl his leg, while bathing in the fea, by the bite of a fliark, is well known ; nor can the dexterity with which he avails himfelf of the ufe of an artificial one, have efcaped the obfervation of thofe who have feen him in tl-e Iloufe of Commons, any more than the remarkable humility with which he is accuftomed to introduce his very pointed and important obfervations upon the matters in deliberation before that augufc afiembly. *' One moment's time mif;ht I prefume to beg?" Cries modeft Watfon, on his wooden leg ; That leg, in which fiich wond'rous art is fhewHy It almofl feems to ferve him like his own ; Oh ! had the moniker, who for breakfafl eat That lucklefs limb, his nobler nodd'e met. The bell of workmen, nor the bell of wood, Had fcarce fupply'd him with a head fo good. To have afierted that neither the urmoft extent cf human (kill, nor the greatefl: perfcdion in the ma- terials,, could have been equal to an undertaking lb- Q^6 ardivouoy [ 35^ ] ardiiou?, would have been a fpecies of adulation fo fulfome, as to have fliocked the known modefty of the worthy magiftrate ; but the forcible manner in which the difficulty of fupplying fo capital a lofs is cxprefled, conveys, with the utmoft delicacy, a hand— feme, and, it mull: be confclTcd, a moll jullly merited compliment to the Aldewnan's abilities. The imitation of celebrated writers is recommend- ed by Longinus, and has, as our readers muft have frequently obferved, been pra6^tifed with great fuc- cefs, by our author ; yet we cannot help thinking that he has pulhed the precept of this great critic, fomewhat too far in having condefcended to copy, may we venture to fay with too much fervility, a genius fo much inferior to himfelf as Mr. Pope, ia the following lines : Can I Newhaven, Fergufon forget, While Roman fpirit charmF, or Scottifli wit ? Macdonald, (billing a refulgent liar To light alike the lenate and the bar, And Hailey, conllant to fupport the throne, Great follower of its interefls and his own. 1 he fubftitution of Scottifli for Attic, in the fecond line, is unquellif nably an improvement, fince how- ever Attic wit nay have been proverbial in ancient times, [ 3S3 ] times, the natives of Scotland are confelTedly dif- tinguiflied among modern nations for this quality^ that the alteration certainly adds confiderable force' to the compliment. However happily and juftly the chara<5^ers are here defcribed, we cannot think this merit fufficient to counterbalance the objedion wc haveprefumed to fuggefl:, and which is principally founded upon the extreme veneration and high refpe6l we entertain for the genius of our author. Mr. Addifon has ob- ferved, that Virgil falls infinitely Ihort of Homer in the characters of his Epic Poem, both as to their variety and novelty, but he could not with juftice have faid the fame of the author of the Rolliad ; and we will venture to alTert, that the lingle book of this Poem, now under our confideration, is, in this refpe(5i:, fuperior to the whole, both of the Iliad and the yEneid together. The charadlers fucceed each other with a rapidity that fcarcely allows the reader time to admire and feel their feveral beau- ties. Galloway and Gideon, in themfelves a hoii, Of York and Coventry the fplendid boai>, Whitbread and Ongley, pride of Bedford's vale, This fam'd for felling, that for faving aJe ; And [ J54 ] And N y P 1, as the morning fair. Bright as the fun, but common as the air; Inconflant nymph ! who llill with open arms, To ev'ry Minifter devotes her cliarms. But when the Poet comes to defcribe the characfler of the Jfcro of his work, the prefent Member for the county of Devon, whom Merlin points Out to his iiluftrious anceftor, as utiiting in himfelf all the va- rious merits of the worthies whofe excellencies he has recorded, he feems to rife even above himfelf,-— It is impoirible to do juftice to his charadcr, without tranfcribing the whole, which would exceed the limits of our work ; we fliall therefore only give to our readers the concluding lines, becaufe they con- tain charaderillic obfervanons upon other diftin- guilhed Members, moll of whom have hitherto paifed imnoticed. In thee, my fon, fliall ev'ry virtue meet To form both fenator and m.an complete, A mind like Wray's, with flores of fancy fraught, The wife Sir Watkin's vafl extent of thought, Old Nugent'? %le, fublimc, yet ne'er obfcure, With B Grammar, as his confcience pure, Brett's brilliant fallies, Martin's llerling fcnfe ; And Gilbert's wit, that never gave offence. Like [ 3S5 1 Like Wilkes, a zealot in his fov^reign's caufc,. Learn'd as Macdoriald in his country's laws. Acute as Aubre)"-, as Sir Lloyd polite, As Eaflvvicke lively, and as Ambler bright, The juftlce of the compliment of Sir Cecil Wray,. will not be difputed by thofe who have been fortu- nate enough to have met with the beautiful fpeci- iTi£ns of juvenile poetry, with which fome of his friends have lately indulged the public. Johannes Scriblerus, a lineal defcendant of the- learntd, and celebrated Martinus, reads *' Starling ** Martin's fenfe," — alluding to that powerful oppo- nent of the deteilable Coalition having recommend- ed, that a bird of that fpecies fliould be placed on the right of the Speaker's chair, after having been taught to repeat the word Coalition, in order to re- mind the Hoiife of that difgraceful event, which had nearly eflabliflied an efficient and flrong' government in this country : to which fevere and admirable ftroke of fatire, the objeft of it clumfily and uncivilly anfwered-Thatwhilil that gentleman fat in thehoufe, he believed the Starling might be allowed to perform his office by deputy ; we have, however, ventured to differ from this great authority, and fliall con- tinue to read, ** Martin's Sterling fenfe," as well, becaufe we are of opinion, that thefe words are pe- culiarly [ 3r6 1 toiliarly applicable to the gentleman alluded to, as that it does not appear probable our author ftiould have been willing to make his poem the vehicle of an indecent farcafm upon a peribn of fucli eminent abilities. The compliment to Mr. B G , in the comparifon of the purity of his language, to the in- tegrity of his conduct, is happily conceived ; but that to the ingenious Mr. Gilbert, the worthy chair- man of the Committee of Supply, is above all praife, and will, we are perfuaded, notwithflanding the vio- lence of party, by all fides be admitted to be flri(5l!y jud. Having now concluded our obfervations up9n this part of the Poem — we iliall clofe them with remark- ing, that as our author evidently borrowed the idea of this vifion, in which the chara6Ver of future times are defcribed, from Virgil, he has far furpalT- ed his original, and as his defcription of theprefent Houfe of Commons, may not improbably have cal- led to his' mind the Pandsmonium of Milton, we do not fcruplc to aflert, that in the execution of his dcfign, that great mafler of the fublime has fallen infinitely fliort of him. No. XI* t 357 I No. XT. January, 178^. Amongst the various pretenfions to critical ap- probation, which are to be found in the excellent and never-fufliciently to be admired produdion, which is the object of tliefe commentaries, there is one that will ihike the claffical obferver as peculiarly prominent and praife-worthy ; — namely, the un- common ability fhevvn by the author, in the fclec- tion of his heroes^ T\\t perjona that are introduced in the coiirfe of this poem, are characters that fpeak for themfelves. The very mention of their names, is a fummons to approbation j and the relation of their hiilory, if given in detail, would prove nothing more than a lengthened panegyric. Who that has heard of the names of a Jenkivfon, a Robin/on, or a DiPiJaSy has not in the fame breath heard alfo iihat thry are? This is. the fecret of our author*s fcience and excellence. It is ihis that enables him to omit the dull detail of introducT:oiy explanation, and to faden upon his bufinefs, if one may ufe the expref- fion, llap-dafli, and at once. Semper ad even turn feftinat, et in medias res, Non fecus ac notas auditorem rapit. Hor, Honjer C 3J8 ] Homer himfelf yields, in this refpe£t, to our au- thor; for who would not perceive the evident in- juftice done to the modern bard, if we were to place the wifdom of an Vly-Jjes on any competition with the experience of a Pitt j to mention the bully ^"^a-, as half fo genuine a bully, as the bully 7 ; if we were to look upon NeJIor as having a quarter of the intcrefting circumlocution of the ambagiouf Nugent ; to confidcr AcbiHes as pofllfled of half the anger of a RoUe^ or to fuppofe for a moment, that the famous Ku^oi-uK t;? of anticjuiry, could run nearly fo faft in a tvrg-^, as the member for Devon in ^ fright. To conceive the yellow-haired Pcr, and behaviour of all thofc benefadlors of their country, who at prefent adorn the lioufe of Peers, thereby conforming himfelf to modern ufage, and at the fame time diilinguidi- ing the victorious Rollo*s prowefs in fubduiug an ad- verfary, who dies infinitely harder than either Tur- rus or Hedtor, Without farther comment, we fh'ill now proceed to favour our readers with a few extra fay,, that our au- thor does full jaftice to every part of his character* He confiders him as a walking warehoufe of fafts of all kinds, whether relating to hiftory, aftronomy, metaphylics, heraldry, fortifications, naval tad^ics, or iT.idwifery ; at the fume time reprefenting him as a kind of habcrdalher of fmall talents, which he re* tails to the female part of his family, inftrudling them in the myftery of precedence, the whole art of fcented pomatums, the doflrine of falves for broken heads, of putty for hrokn iviudo-i^s^ &ic. &c. PART f 373 1 PART II. No. I. Although we interfered a little in our laft number with the fyflematic progrefs of our plan, in order to gratify the eager curiofity of the political and literary world, refpeding fo diflinguifhed a charaaer as the Marquis ^Buckingham, for whofe hil^ory, given with fuch admirable ability as it then was, rigid order, it ^rill be granted, was mod: judicioufly difpenfed with ; we yet wifli our readeis to underftand, that that wide and ample field of po- etical difculTion, the Houfe of Commons, is by no means as yet exhauiled ; and we make hafte to relieve them from any apprehenfion they might entertain of that fort, by the fubjoined extract from the im- mortal poem whofe beauties it is our avowed duty to illuftrate. Merlin points next to Sir Samuel Hannay, Bart, a nime recolle^ed with great grati- tude in the Houfe, for there are few Memlers in it to whom he has not been ferviceable. This worthy chara6ler indeed has done more to difprove Martial^s famous aifertion, Kon cuicnnqnc datum ejl habere NasUM ,. than any individual upon record. The author proceeds — R 5 But I 374 1 Bat why, my Hannay, does the ling'ring miife. The tribute of a line to thee refufe ? Say, what diilinction moil delights thine ear. Or Philo Pill, or Philo-Minijier ? O! may*ft thou none of all thy titles lack,. - } Or Scot, or Statefman, Baronet, or Quack ; For what is due to him, whofe conflant view is Preventing private or a public lues ? Who that read the above d^fcription do not, during^ the firft iraprelTion of it, fuppofe that they fee the worthy Baronet once more the pride oi front advert t.fcment — once more difpenfing difregard and obli- vion amongil all his competitors ; and making your Lcakcsy your Lockycrs,. and your VcUos, ■hide their diminifhed heads, Proceeding to Sir Samuel's politics, our author re- lEarks, Confiftent ftiri, fee equal views pervade His prefent friendfiiips, and his former trade ; For fine, e*en Scandal, rand confefs it fit. The foe t' P — xls (hou'd be the iriend to P — tt. There is a razure in the MS. in the fourth word of the Lul Hlc, and whether the f ri^ letter of it is meant [ 375 3 meant to fignify the Greek r, or the Englifli p, <^'e cannot undertake to determine ; but fo far as wc underiland the pafTage, we think it conveys a very pretty compliment to both the gentlemen included in it, Firgil has a line much in point here, with the alteration of only a fingle word. jfafH redit f/ V i R G o — rcdeunt Saturnla Regna, If the rigour of profody would permit the infcr- tion of Mercurialia, inftead of Saturnia, the learned reader will perceive that the allufion would have been perfed, In the pafll^ges which immediately follovr, the Poet goes on to felicitate the community upon the pro- bable advantages to be derived to them from the junction o^ the two iiluftrious perfonages above men- tioned. He divides his congratulation into two parts. He firil confiders the confequences of the union, as they may afted the body pcrfonal ; and, fe-' •condly, as they may concern the hody politic^ Upon the former fubje6l he fays,- This famous pair, fo happily combin'd. No rilqiics fliall man from wand'ring beauty finuj- For, fliould not chafre example fave from ill, T»here's fiill a refuge in the other's pill. R 6 W-:h [ 3/6 } "With a ftetch equally brief and mafterly as the above, he defcribes his hopes on the other branch of his divifion. The body politic no more fliall grieve The motly ftains that dire corruptions leave ; No dangrous'humours (hall in fed the ftate, Nor rcttcn-rnembers haften Britain's fate. Our author who, notwithftanding his ufual and chara6leriftic gravity, has yet not unfrequently an obvious tendency to the fportive, condefcends now to take notice of a rumour, which in thefc times had been univerfslly circulated, that Sir Sa- muel had parted with his^fc//fr, and difpofed of it to a gentleman often mentioned, and always with infinite and due refped in the RoHiady namely Mr. Vundas, Upon this he addrefles Sir S. with equal truth and good humour in the following coup- let :— Then fhall thy mcd'clne boaH: its native bent. Then fpread its genuine blelfHig — to prevent. Our readers cannot but know that it was by the means of a noflrum, emphatically called a Specific, by which Mr. D. fo long contrived to pre'vent the conftitutional lues of Parliamentary Reform. Ihe author however does not profcfs to give implicit credit [ 377 ] credit to the faflof Sir Hannay's having ungratefully difpofed of his favourite recipe, the happy fource of his livelihood and fame ; the more fo as it appears that Mr. D. had found the very v/ or d /pecijic, fuffici- cnt for protradling a dreaded Political evil on the three feveral inflances of its application. Under this impreflion of the thing, the Poet ftrongly recom- mends Sir Samuel to go on in the profecution of his original profeflion, and thus expreffes his wifli upon the occafion, with the correft tranfcript of which we lliall clofe the hiilory of this great man. In thofe fnug corners may'il: thou fill I be read Where nature's tribute modellly is paid ; Or near fam'd Temple-bar may fome gooddame Herfelf pad fport, but yet a friend to game Difpenfe thy ^///j, and eternize thyfajfie. ime,j ' 5 Merlin now calls the attention of our hero to a man whom there is little doubt thi-s country will Jong remember, and Hill lefs, that they will have abundant reafon for fo doing, namely, Mr. Secre- tary Orde. It may feem odd by what latent af- fociation our author was lead to appeal next to the Right Hon. Secretary, immediately after the de- fcriptionofa ^lackDo^or; but let it be recollected in the firft place, to the honour of Sir Samuel Hannay^ that [ 37S ] that he is perhaps the only man of lys or^er that ever had a place in the Britifli Houfe of Commons ; and in the fecond, that there are fome leading circum- ftances in the charader of Mr- O/v/r, which well en- title him to rank under the very fame defcription as the worthy Baronet himfelf. We all know that the mofl famous of all phyficians, Le MeJccin maJgre luiif is reprefented by MoUcre, as a man who changes the feat of the heart, and reverfes the entire pofition of the vital parts in the human body. Now let it be afked, has not Mr. Orde done this mofl completely and effe6tually, with refpe£t to the general hocJy of the State ? — Kas he not transferred the heart of the Em- pire ? — Has he not changed the fcene of its clr^u^a* iioHy and altered the fituation of the vital part of the whole, from the left to the right, from the one lide to the other, from Great Britain to Ireland t — Surely no one will deny this; and therefore none will be now ignorant of the natural gradation of thought, by which our author was led, from the contemplation of Sir Samuel Hannay, to the cha-- r?6ler of ^vlr. Orde. We know not whether it be worth remarking, that the term Le Midcc'm malgrilid^ has been tranf- lated into Englifli with the ufual incivility of that people to every thing foreign, by the uncourtly phrafe of Mcck-Do^or . — We truft, however, that no ©iie t 379 I one will think it applicable in this interpretation tcr Mr. Orde^ as it is pretty evident he has difplayed no mockery in his ftate pra£lices, but has performed the charafter of Moliere's MeJecln, even beyond the notion of the original ; by having effeded, in fad and fober truth, to the full as complete a change in the pofition of the Cceur c^cV Empire, as the lively fancy of the Dramatifl had imputed to his pbyfician, with refped to the human body, in mere fpeculative joke. With a great many apologies for fo long a note, we proceed now to the much more plcafant part of our duty -y — that of tranfcribing from this excellent compofition ; and proceed to the dcfcription of Mr. Orde's perfon, which the Poet commences thus : Tall and ercvfl^ unmeaning, mute and pale, O'er his blank face no gleams of thought prevail; Wan as the man in claffic flory fam'd, Who told Old Priam that his Ilion flam'd ; Yet foon the time vvill come when fpeak he (hall. And at his voice another Troy fltaliyi// / The excellence of this defcription confiils, as that of a portrait always muil, in a mofl fcrupulous nnd inveterate attention to likenefs. — Thofe who know the original, wi!l not queftion the accuracy of fefem- r 380 ] refemblance on this occafion. The idea convey 'd in the lafl line, And at his voice another Troy fhall fall ! is a fjoirited imitation of t\\t fuimus Trocs, fuit lllum^ of Virgil, and a moft Statefman-like anticipation of the future fate of England. — The aiitiior now takes an opportunity of fliewing the profundity of his learning in the Britilh hiftory. — He goes on to fay, Caefar, we kno\v, with anxious effort try'd To fwell. with Britain's name, his triumph's pride ; Oft' he effay'd, but flill elTay'd in vain ; Great in herfelf, flie mock'd the menac'd chain ; But fruitlefs all, — for what was Caefar's/zi-^r^, To thy all-conquering fpeeches — mighty Orde I ! \ Our author cannot fo far refifl his claffical pro- pcnfity in this place, as to refrain from the follow- ing allufion ; v/hich, however, muil be confefled at leail, to be applied with juflice : — Air.phion's lyre, they fay, could raife a 7(hvjn, Orde's elocution pulls a Nation down. He proceeds with equal f]>irit and erudition to another circumflance in the earlier periods of Eng- iilli hiflory. ^ Tie r 3S< ] The laboring bofom of the teeming North, In vain long pouiM her valiant offspring forth, For Goth or Vandal^ once on Britifli fhore, Relax'd his nerve, and conqiier'd States no more. Not fo the P^andalosi the modern time, This lafcr offiprifig of the Northern clime ; He, with a breath, gives Britain's wealth away, And fmiles, triumphant, o'er her fetting ray. It will be ncceflary to obfcrve here, that after much enquiry and veiy laborious fcarch, as to the birth-place of the Right Hon. Secretary (for the honour of which, however difficult now to difcover* Hibernia's cities will doubtlefs hereafter contend) we found' that he was born in Northumberland; which, added to other circumflances, clearly efta- blilhes the applicability of the defcription of the word Goth, ScC, and particularly in the lines v»here he calls him the Vandal of the modern time, The later offspring of the Northern clime. Having inveftigated, with an acumen and minute- nefs feldom incident to genius, and very rarely met with in the fublimer poetry, all the circumllances attending an event, which he emphatically defcribes as the Revolution oi feventeen hundred and eighty Jive^ he makes the following addrefs to the Englifli : No [ i^^ ] No more, ye Englifli, high in claflic pride, The phrafe uncouth of Ireland's fons deride ; For fay, ye wife, which mod performs the fool. Or he who Jpi\7ki — or he who aL^s — a Bull» The poet catches fire as he runs — — Poctica furgit Tempcilas. He approximates now to the magnificent, or per* haps more properly to the Mania of poetry, and, like another Cajjandray begins to try his hand at prophecy — like her he perdids truly, and like her, for the prefent at leair, is not perhaps very implicitly credited. — He proceeds thus : *Rapt into future times, the mufe furveys The rip*ning wonders of fuccecding days. Sees proilrate Albion, all her fplendour gone 1 In ufelefs flate her prilline ftate bemoan : Sees the fair fources of her pride and lliew In purer flreams, and happier channels flow ; Sees her at once of wealth and honour fliorn, No more the nations envy, but their fcorn, O ! fed example of capricious Fate, Portentous warning to the proud and great ; Sees Comn^erce quit her defolated ifle, And feek in other climes a kinder foil ; Sees [ 383 ] Sees i^w lerne rife from England*s flame, And buiM on Britljh ruin, Irijh fame. The Poet in the above pafTage, is fiippofed to have had an eye to Juno^i addrefs to jEcIus in the firft book of the yEneid. Gens inimica mihi Tyrrhenum navigat asquor, Ilium in Italiam portans, Victos que Pt- NATES. PART If, No. ir. \^ E now retiin to tiie dying Drummer, whom we left in the middle of his eulogy on the Marquis of Buckingham. » It being admitted, that the powers of the human mind depend on the number and alfociation of our ideas, it is eafy to fnew that the illuftrious Marquis is entitled to the highefl rank in the fcale of human tnteljigencc. His mind poflelTes an unlimited power of inglutition, and his ideas adhere to each other with fuch tenacity, that whenever his memory is llimulated by any powerful interrogatory, it not only .difcharges a full anfwer to that individual queftion, but likewife fuch a prodigious flood of collateral knowledge, derived from copious and repeated in- fufions. t 38+ ] fiifions, as no common fkull would be capable of containing. For thefc rcafons, his Lordlhip's fip- nefs for the department of the Admiialty, a depart- ment conne(51ed with the whole cyclopoedia of fcience, and rcqniring the greateil variety of talents and exertions, feems to be pointed out by the liand of Heaven; — it is likewife pointed out by the Dying Drummer, who defcribes in the following lines, the immediate caufe of his nomination e'- en the great day, when Buckingham, by pairs, Afcended, heaven-impell'd, the K — 's back-ftairs 5 And panting, breathlefs, flrain'd his lungs to fliow, From Fox's bill what mighty ills would flow ; That foon, its fource corrupt^ Opinion^ s thready On India deleterious Jircams ^voudjl^ed'y That Hailings, Munny Begum, Scott, mud fall. And Pitt, and Jenkinfon, and Leadenhall ; Still, as with flammering tongue he told his talc, Unufual terrors Brunfwick's heart alTail ; Wide ftarts his white wig from his royal ear, And each particular hair flands flifF with fear. We flatter ourfelves that few of our readers are fo void of tafle, as not to feel the tranfcendant beau- ties of this defcription. Firfl, we fee the noble Marquis mount the fatal fleps ** by pairs," i, e, by two at a time j and with a degree of effort and fa- tigue ; [ JSJ J tigiic: and then he is out of breath, which is per- fectly natural. The obfcurity of the third couplet, an obfcurity which has been imitated by all the mini- flerial writers on the India Bill, arifes from a con- fufion of metaphor, fo inexpreflibly beautiful, that Mr. Haflings has thought fit to copy it almofl ver- batim, in his celebrated letter from Lucknow.— The effects of terror on the Royal Wig, are happily imagined, and arc infinitely more fublime than the *' Jlef.runtqve coma** of the Roman poet, as the at- tachment of a wig to its wearer, is obvioufly more generous and difinterefled, than that of a perfon's own hair, which naturally participates in the good or ill fortune of the head on wiiich it grows. But to proceed. — Men in a fright are ufually generous ; — on that great day, therefore, the Marquis obtained the promife of the Admiralty. The Dying Drum- mer then proceeds to defcribe the Marquis's well- known vifion, which he prefaces by a compliment on his Lordfliip's extraordinary proficiency in the art of lace-making. We have all admired the Parlia- mentary exertions of this great man, on every fub- jed that related to an art, in which the county of Buckingham is fo deeply interefied; an art, by means of which Britannia, (as our author happily exprefles it) Puckers round naked breafts a decent trimming, Spreads the thread trade, and propagates old women ! How r 3S6 ] How naturally do we feel difpofed to join with the Dying Drummer, in the pathetic apoftrophc which he addrefles to his hero, when he forcfees that this attention will neceflarily be diverted to other objefts : — Alas 1 no longer round thy favourite Stowe, Shalt thou thy nicer art to artifts (how; No more on thumb-born cuftiions deign to trace With Critic-touch, the texture of bone-lace ; And, from feverer toils, fome moments robbing. Reclaim the vagrant thread, or truant bobbin ! Far other fcenes of future glory rife To glad thy fleeping, and thy waking eyes : As bufy Fancy paints the gaudy dream, Ideal docks, with fliadowy navies teem : Whatever on fea, on lake, on river floats, Ships, barges, rafts, Ikiffs, tubs, flat-bottom'd boats — Smiths, foilors, carpenters, in bufy crowds. Mail, cable, yard, fail, bow-fprit, anchor, fhrowds* Knives, gigs, harpoons, fwords, haudfpikes, cutlafs -blades. Guns, piftols, fwivels, cannons, carronades : AH rife to view i — all blend in gorgeous fliow ! Tritons, and tridents, turpentine, tar I— tow! We will take upon ourfelves to attefl, that neither Homer nor Virgil ever produced any thing like this. How [ 3S7 ] How amiable, how interelling, is the ccndefcenfion of the illuflrious Marquis, while he aflifls the old women in his neighbourhood in making bone-lace! How artfully is the modefl appearance of the afore- faid old women's culhions, (which we are alfo told were dirty cudiions) ccntrafted with the fplendour and magnificence of the fubfequent vifion ! How maflerly is the llru/, thy deeds divine. FINIS. m i m & •-^ ^ ^ «^^^ ^ .^ ? ^m