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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Poetry of the Anti-jacobin - Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, - of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, - the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of - Carlisle, and Others. - -Author: George Canning - John Hookham Frere - W. Pitt - Marquis Wellesley - -Editor: Charles Edmonds - -Release Date: November 15, 2020 [EBook #63778] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN *** - - - - -Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -[Illustration: - - _The GIANT FACTOTUM amusing himself_ -] - - - - - POETRY - OF - THE ANTI-JACOBIN: - COMPRISING THE CELEBRATED - POLITICAL AND SATIRICAL POEMS, - OF - THE RT. HONS. G. CANNING, JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE, W. PITT, THE MARQUIS - WELLESLEY, G. ELLIS, W. GIFFORD, THE EARL OF CARLISLE, AND OTHERS. - - - EDITED, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, ETC. - - BY - CHARLES EDMONDS, - EDITOR OF THE “PYTCHLEY HUNT, PAST AND PRESENT,” ETC., ETC. - - - _THIRD EDITION, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED, WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES - GILLRAY._ - - - NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS. - LONDON: SAMPSON LOW & CO., _Limited_. - 1890. - - - - - EDITOR’S PREFACE. - - -The fate which usually attends political and satirical writings that owe -their origin to passing events, has in no way affected the POETRY OF THE -ANTI-JACOBIN, which, after a lapse of more than ninety years, still -continues to interest and amuse. Public opinion never fails, sooner or -later, to arrive at a just conclusion as to the merits both of -individuals and actions; and though it may often neglect to preserve a -meritorious work, never perpetuates a worthless one. Poetry which lashed -with so remorseless a hand the patriotic proceedings, and held up to -ridicule the persons and habits, of the most distinguished Whig leaders, -must have possessed no common merit to have won the encomiums of such -liberal politicians and such critics as MACKINTOSH and JEFFREY, MOORE -and BYRON. - -MOORE, in his _Life of Sheridan_, observes: “_The Rolliad_ and _The -Anti-Jacobin_ may, on their respective sides of the question, be -considered as models of that style of political satire whose lightness -and vivacity give it the appearance of proceeding rather from the -wantonness of wit than of ill-nature, and whose very malice, from the -fancy with which it is mixed up, like certain kinds of fire-works, -explodes in sparkles”. This criticism might be applied to some of his -own political squibs. - -As the poems refer to occurrences long since past, a rapid glance at the -state of events at that time (1797–8) may render them more intelligible -to the generality of readers. - -The affairs of England were then in a critical position. The ministry of -PITT was carrying on a fierce war with republican France, the necessity -for which had split the public into two great parties. The liberal party -alleged, that “the whole misfortunes of Europe and all the crimes of -France had arisen from the iniquitous coalition of kings to overturn its -infant freedom;—that, if its government had been left alone, it would -neither have stained its hands with innocent blood at home nor pursued -plans of aggrandizement abroad; and that the Republic, relieved from the -pressure of external danger, and no longer roused by the call of -patriotic duty, would have quietly turned its swords into pruning-hooks, -and, renouncing the allurements of foreign conquests, thought only of -promoting the internal felicity of its citizens”. - -These sentiments, though supported by the extraordinary eloquence of -FOX, SHERIDAN, ERSKINE, and others, had but little weight with the -minister or the great body of the public. It was impossible to deny that -the power of the French Republic was daily increasing, and threatened -the subjugation of the greater part of Europe. BUONAPARTE had overrun -Italy, and broken the power of Austria, which, by the treaty of Leoben, -was compelled to cede the Netherlands to France, allow the free -navigation of the Rhine, and recognise the independence of the -newly-erected Italian republics. Spain, also, had declared war against -Britain, which was thus left to contend singly against the power of -France; for the Directory had refused the basis of peace proposed by -LORD MALMESBURY, that of a mutual restitution of conquests. To add to -these embarrassments, during the year 1797 credit became affected, and -the Bank of England suspended cash payments; mutinies broke out in the -fleets at Spithead and the Nore; and Ireland was on the verge of -rebellion. But the talents of PITT were equal to the occasion, and his -power rose higher than ever, when his prognostications were shortly -after (in December, 1797) confirmed by the unprovoked attack upon -Switzerland by the French. The impolicy of this proceeding was equal to -its infamy; for nothing ever done by the revolutionary government -contributed so powerfully to cool the ardour of its partisans in Europe, -and to open the eyes of the intelligent and respectable classes in every -other country to its ultimate designs. Its effect on the friends of -freedom in England may be judged of from the indignant protest of SIR -JAMES MACKINTOSH, himself once a warm admirer of the French Revolution, -who, in his defence of JEAN PELTIER, in 1803, for a libel on BUONAPARTE, -declared, “the invasion and destruction of Switzerland an act, in -comparison with which all the deeds of rapine and blood perpetrated in -the world are innocence itself”. Even before this, the true character of -the revolution had been detected by the democratic COLERIDGE, who gave -public utterance to his feelings of horror and disgust in that noble -_Ode to France_ written in February, 1797. In a word, to say nothing of -her other conquests, France, at the beginning of 1798, had three -affiliated republics at her side, the Batavian, Cisalpine, and the -Ligurian; before its close she had organized three more, the Helvetic, -the Roman, and the Parthenopeian. - -PITT’S influence was further increased by the threatened invasion of -Great Britain by the French, a proceeding which, as it affected every -class in the country, raised the national enthusiasm to the highest -pitch, inflamed as it already was by the recent glorious victories off -Cape St. Vincent and Camperdown. That they were likely to be in earnest -had been already shown by their expeditions to Bantry Bay and -Pembrokeshire, and BUONAPARTE’S boast at Geneva, that “he would -democratize England in three months,” proved how much he relied upon the -support of the malcontents both in Great Britain and Ireland. The -estimates and preparations for defence were, enormous; taxes, to an -extent utterly unknown before, were laid on; the Volunteer Bill was -passed (SHERIDAN assisting), by which, in addition to the regular army, -a hundred and fifty thousand volunteers were, in a few weeks, in arms; -THE KING was authorized by another bill, in the event of an invasion, to -call out the levy, _en masse_, of the population; the Alien Bill was -reenacted; and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act continued for -another year. - -But the genius of one man, however great, can effect but little, unless -suitably supported by others. The sagacious mind of PITT had long seen -that his party in Parliament were, with very few exceptions, no match -for his numerous opponents, powerful both in talent and social position; -among whom were FOX, SHERIDAN, ERSKINE, HORNE TOOKE, WHITBREAD, -NICHOLLS, COURTENAY, FITZPATRICK, the DUKES of NORFOLK and BEDFORD, LORD -STANHOPE, the DUCHESS of DEVONSHIRE, and others. He was always anxious, -therefore, to secure whatever available talent presented itself, and -immediately on their appearance enlisted under his banners CANNING, -JENKINSON, HUSKISSON, and CASTLEREAGH, all men of the same standing, for -the first three were born in 1770, and the last in 1769. - -The important assistance of CANNING was immediately felt, for he was, in -the words of BYRON, “a genius—almost a universal one; an orator, a wit, -a poet, a statesman”. Though he entered Parliament at the early age of -23 (in 1793), and attained the post of Under-Secretary of State for the -Foreign Department two years after, he was by no means inexperienced -either as a writer or as an orator; for while a student at Eton he had -won distinction by his contributions to _The Microcosm_, a weekly paper -published by the more advanced Etonians, and also in the discussions of -their Debating Society, which were conducted with strict regard to -parliamentary usages. And afterwards, while studying for the law, he -took an active part in the proceedings of the debating societies of the -metropolis, in which he achieved so much reputation as to lead to his -introduction to PITT, whose party he unhesitatingly joined. - -CANNING early saw the necessity of the Government’s possessing some -literary engine, which, like the Whig _Rolliad_, published some years -before, should carry confusion into the ranks of its enemies. In a lucky -hour he conceived the idea of _The Anti-Jacobin_, a weekly newspaper, -interspersed with poetry, the avowed object of which was to expose the -vicious doctrines of the French Revolution, and to turn into ridicule -and contempt the advocates of that event, and the sticklers for peace -and parliamentary reform. The editor was WILLIAM GIFFORD, whose vigorous -and unscrupulous pen had been already shown in his _Baviad_ and -_Mæviad_; and among the regular writers were: JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE, -JENKINSON (afterwards EARL OF LIVERPOOL), GEORGE ELLIS (who had -previously contributed to the Whig _Rolliad_), LORD CLARE, LORD -MORNINGTON (afterwards MARQUIS WELLESLEY), LORD MORPETH (afterwards EARL -OF CARLISLE), BARON MACDONALD, and others. These gentlemen entered upon -their task with no common spirit. Their purpose was to blacken their -adversaries, and they spared no means, fair or foul, in the attempt. -Their most distinguished countrymen, whose only fault was their being -opposed to government, were treated with no more respect than their -foreign adversaries, and were held up to public execration as traitors, -blasphemers, and debauchees. So alarmed, however, became WILBERFORCE and -others of the more moderate supporters of ministers at the boldness of -the language employed, that PITT was induced to interfere, and, after an -existence of eight months, _The Anti-Jacobin_ (in its original form) -ceased to exist. - -_The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin_ is not exclusively political. _The -Loves of the Triangles_, a parody on DR. DARWIN’S _Loves of the Plants_, -is, in the opinion of a celebrated critic (Lord Jeffrey) of the highest -degree of merit; as is also _The Progress of Man_, a parody on PAYNE -KNIGHT’S _Progress of Civil Society_; and _The Rovers_, a burlesque on -the German dramas then in vogue, the extraordinary plots of which, as -well as their language, alternately ultrasentimental and domestically -bathotic, well marked them out for ridicule, is distinguished by sharp -wit and broad humour of the happiest kind. CANNING and his coadjutors in -this piece did a real service to literature, and assisted in a -purification which GIFFORD, by his demolition of the Della Cruscan -school of poetry, had so well begun. Of _The Friend of Humanity and the -Knife-grinder_ it is unnecessary to speak; perhaps no lines in the -English language have been more effective, or oftener quoted. - -But CANNING’S greatest power is shown in _New Morality_, which, being -the last of the series, seems to have been reserved as a concentrating -medium for his pent-up scorn and contempt of the Whigs and their -adherents. So that their blows fall thick (for he was powerfully -seconded by Frere, Gifford, and Ellis), they care little who suffer from -them, and the modern reader is surprised to find CHARLES LAMB and other -non-intruders into politics, figuring as congenial conspirators with TOM -PAINE! - -It is somewhat difficult to regard PITT in the character of a Wit and a -Poet, as from the narrative of most of his biographers, he might be -considered as uniformly cold, stiff, and unbending; but his intimate -friend WILBERFORCE, in his _Memoirs_, thus describes him: “PITT, when -free from shyness, and amongst his intimate companions, was the very -soul of merriment and conversation. He was the wittiest man I ever knew, -and what was quite peculiar to himself, had at all times his wit under -entire controul. Others appeared struck by the unwonted association of -brilliant images; but every possible combination of ideas seemed always -present to his mind, and he could at once produce whatever he desired. I -was one of those who met to spend an evening in memory of Shakespeare, -at the Boar’s Head, Eastcheap. Many professed wits were present, but -PITT was the most amusing of the party, the readiest and most apt in the -required allusions.” It is not, therefore, at all unlikely, that he now -and then contributed witty verses to _The Anti-Jacobin_, in addition to -those which the Editor has, on probable grounds, ascribed to him in the -present volume. - -“Critical commentary,” says a critic of the previous edition, “on the -merits of _The Anti-Jacobin_, would be superfluous. Its satire is -distinguished for the terse language of its poignant personality, which -was often excessively stinging, but seldom offensively coarse. Its best -contributors, CANNING and FRERE, were not mere pamphleteers in verse, -like the writers for _The Rolliad_. They had poetical inspiration and a -sprightly joyousness springing from a genial play of the mental -faculties. They were ‘Conservatives’ not only in their politics but in -their loyal adherence to the ordinances and traditions of classical -English literature. False sentiment, tumid diction, mawkish cant, were -chastised by them with exemplary efficacy. On the fourth edition of the -complete work (1799, 2 Vols. 8vo, containing both prose and poetry), -they placed the epigraph, _Sparsosque recolligit ignes_; and in the very -last paper (No. 36), the motto on discontinuance was exquisitely happy:— - - “‘We shall miss thee; - But yet thou shalt have freedom. - So to the elements - Be free; and fare thou well!’ - -“And these lines, taken from _The Tempest_ (probably by CANNING), have -been prophetic of the popularity of their witty verse, still quoted and -admired by all lovers of the genius that is airily elegant and strong.” - - CHARLES EDMONDS. - - WATER ORTON, BIRMINGHAM. - - - - - ADDITIONS TO THE PRESENT EDITION. - - -Numerous new Biographical and other Notes. - - Additions and Corrections to the List of presumed AUTHORS of “THE - POETRY”. - - Selections from the PROSE portion of the work, written by the RT. HON. - G. CANNING and his coadjutors. - - Account of the various EDITIONS of _The Anti-Jacobin_, and its - successors. - - Enlarged articles on the opposition NEWSPAPERS abused by _The - Anti-Jacobin_ writers. - - The curious ABUSIVE AND SATIRICAL INDEX to _The Anti-Jacobin_; and - specimens of a similar Index to _The Anti-Jacobin Review and - Magazine_. - - Selections from _The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine_—the successor - to _The Anti-Jacobin_—showing that though written by a different - body of Authors, both works were animated by the same spirit. - - - - - EDITIONS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN; - AND ITS SUCCESSORS. - - - THE ANTI-JACOBIN, or WEEKLY EXAMINER. Sparsosque recolligit ignes. - From Nov. 20, 1797, to July 9, 1798. 4to. - - London. - - Nos. 1 to 36; with a Prospectus (complete). - - —— The Same. Second and third editions, in 4to. - - —— The Same. Fourth edition, revised and corrected. 2 vols. 8vo. - - London, 1799. - -Every Number contained Poetry, the presumed Names of the Authors of -which will be found in the Table of Contents of the present volume. - - * * * * * - - THE POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 4to. - - London, 1801. - -This volume includes the whole of the POETRY contained in the original -_Anti-Jacobin_, with a few verbal corrections. Previous to its -publication, it was announced that it would be illustrated by 40 plates -expressly designed by GILLRAY; but they never appeared. Numerous -editions in 12mo subsequently appeared, but without any additions, till -those mentioned below. - - * * * * * - - THE POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. A New Edition, with Explanatory Notes - by CHARLES EDMONDS. 12mo. - - London, 1852. - - —— The Same. Second edition, by CHARLES EDMONDS; with additional - Notes, the original Prospectus (by the Rt. Hon. G. CANNING), and a - complete List of the Authors. Illustrated by six etchings after - the designs of JAS. GILLRAY. 12mo. - - London, 1854. - - * * * * * - - THE ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE; or Monthly Political and - Literary Censor. From the commencement in July, 1798, to its close - in 1821. (_The first few vols. contain engravings by Gillray and - others, and much_ POETRY _is scattered through the volumes_.) 61 - vols. 8vo. - - London, 1798–1821. - -For reasons stated on a previous page, CANNING and other political -friends of PITT thought it prudent to withdraw themselves from the -original _Anti-Jacobin_, but by a preconcerted arrangement it was -determined that the spirit which had pervaded that work, and which had -had so powerful an effect on the popular mind, and thereby, in -connection with Gillray’s caricatures, so undoubtedly strengthened the -hands of the Ministry, should not die, if it could be kept alive by -other and congenial writers. In the words of MR. FOX BOURNE (in his -valuable work on _English Newspapers_, 1887): “Though _The Anti-Jacobin_ -made its last appearance on July 9, 1798, there was started a few days -before a monthly _Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine_ of the same -politics, but much less brilliant, and more ponderous. Strange to say, -it also was edited by a GIFFORD, or one who so called himself. JOHN -RICHARDS GREEN was a bold and versatile adventurer, who, having to fly -from his creditors in 1782, returned from France in 1788, as JOHN -GIFFORD, and was connected with several newspapers [including the -establishment of _The British Critic_], besides editing _The -Anti-Jacobin Review_. [He also wrote a _History of France_, and other -works.] Befriended in many ways by PITT, he wrote a four-volume pamphlet -[3 vols. 4to, and also 6 vols. 8vo, both dated 1809], styled the _Life -of William Pitt_, after his patron’s death. JAMES MILL, the friend and -associate of JEREMY BENTHAM, was glad to earn money in his struggling -days by writing non-political articles for _The Anti-Jacobin Review_. -WILLIAM GIFFORD, it is hardly necessary to state, besides editing Ben -Jonson’s Works, and other useful occupations, was the first editor of -_The Quarterly Review_ in 1809.” - -In the British Museum are two copies of _The Anti-Jacobin Review and -Magazine_. In one of them the first six vols. contain the Names of the -Authors of most of the articles, among whom are the REV. JOHN WHITAKER, -author of _The History of Manchester_, the REV. SAM. HENSHALL, author of -works on Domesday Book, the REV. C. E. STEWART, a copious poetaster, -etc., and many other clergymen. - - * * * * * - - THE NEW ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW. Delenda est Carthago. - -Nos. 1 to 3 seem to be all that were published, and appeared May 6, June -9, and June 23, 1827; price two shillings each. - -No. 2 includes what is called a _Patriot Portrait Exhibition_, which is -continued in No. 3. In the latter No. is also an article entitled -_Canningiana_. Published by Saunders and Otley. - - * * * * * - - THE NEW ANTI-JACOBIN; a Monthly Magazine of Politics, Commerce, - Science, Literature, Art, Music, and the Drama. - -Consists of only Nos. 1 and 2. Published by Smith, Elder, & Co., and -Carpenter & Son; dated respectively April and May, 1833. - -No. 2 contains _Horace in Parliament_; an Ode to William Cobbett; being -a Parody on Horace—_In Barinen_, Ode 4, Lib. 2. It is accompanied by a -full-length portrait of Cobbett. - -The above two works, in accordance with their titles, advocate high Tory -principles; but though written with great spirit they had but a very -short existence. Copies of both will be found in the British Museum. - - * * * * * - - ENGLISH ACTORS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, AND EYE-WITNESSES OF THE - SAME. - -The most complete details hitherto furnished on these interesting -subjects will be found in the Nos. for October, 1887, and July, 1888, of -_The Edinburgh Review_, the work of MR. JOHN G. ALGER, the Paris -correspondent of _The Times_. They have since been published in a -volume. (_Englishmen in the French Revolution_: Low & Co., 1889.) - -[Illustration] - - - - - CONTENTS OF THE POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN, - WITH THE NAMES OF THE AUTHORS. - - -The following notices of the writers of the POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN -are derived from the copies mentioned below, and each name is -authenticated by the initials of the authority upon which each piece is -ascribed to particular persons:— - - C. CANNING’S own copy of the Poetry. - B. LORD BURGHERSH’S copy. - W. WRIGHT the publisher’s copy. - U. Information of W. UPCOTT, amanuensis. - -[Although many of the pieces in the following list are attributed to -wrong authors, it has been thought more convenient to reprint them as -they stood in the previous edition, in order to insert any corrections, -as far as FRERE is concerned. These are derived from the information of -FRERE himself given to his nephews, who afterwards edited his works in -1872. They are therefore placed beneath the Title of the piece—between -brackets. - -The pieces, printed in _Italics_—between brackets—appear for the first -time in an edition of _The Poetry_.—ED.] - - PAGE. AUTHORS. - - PROSPECTUS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN 1 Canning. - - Introduction 12 Canning. - - Inscription for the Apartment in Chepstow - Castle, where Henry Marten, the Regicide, 16 Southey. - was imprisoned thirty years - - Inscription for the Door of the Cell in - Newgate, where Mrs. Brownrigg, the 16 Canning, C. - Prentice-cide, was confined previous to Frere, C. - her execution - - The Friend of Humanity and the Knife 23 Frere, C. - Grinder Canning, C. - - The Invasion; or, the British War Song 25 Hely Addington, W. - - La Sainte Guillotine: a New Song, attempted Canning, C. - from the French 29 Frere, C. - Hammond, B. - - [By _Canning_ and _Frere_ only.] - - [_Meeting of the Friends of Freedom_] 32 Claimed by Frere. - - - Canning, C. - The Soldier’s Friend 38 Frere, C. - Ellis, B. - - [By _Canning_ and _Frere_ only.] - - Sonnet to Liberty. 39 Lord Carlisle, B. - - Quintessence of all the Dactylics that ever 41 Canning, B. - were, or ever will be, written Gifford, W. - - Latin Verses, written immediately after the 43 Marq. Wellesley, U. - Revolution of the Fourth of September - - Translation of the above 45 Frere, B. - - [PEARCE, in his _Memoirs of the Marquis Wellesley_, gives the credit of - this translation to the sixth EARL of CARLISLE.] - - The Choice; imitated from _The Battle of - Sabla_, in Carlyle’s Specimens of Arabian 48 G. Ellis, B. - Poetry - - The Duke and the Taxing Man 52 Bar. Macdonald, C., - B. - - Epigram on the Paris Loan, called the Loan 54 Frere, B. - upon England - - [Not claimed by _Frere_.] - - Ode to Anarchy 55 Lord Morpeth, B. - - Song, recommended to be sung at all - _convivial_ meetings convened for the 58 Frere, B. - purpose of opposing the Assessed Tax Bill - - [By _Canning_, _Ellis_, and _Frere_.] - - Lines written at the close of the year 1797 61 - - Translation of the New Song of _The Army of 63 - England_ - - Epistle to the Editors of _The 68 - Anti-Jacobin_ - - [This _Epistle_ is now known to have been written by the HON. WM. LAMB, - (afterwards second VISCOUNT MELBOURNE, and Prime Minister). He was then - only in his nineteenth year.] - - To the Author of the _Epistle to the 71 Canning, C. - Editors of the Anti-Jacobin_ Hammond, B. - - Ode to Lord Moira 78 G. Ellis, C., B. - - A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox 83 G. Ellis, C. - Frere, B. - - Acme and Septimius; or, the Happy Union. 88 G. Ellis, C. - - [_Mr. Fox’s Birth-Day_] 90 - - To the Author of the Anti-Jacobin 95 Mr. Bragge, - afterwards Bathurst. - - Lines written under the Bust of Charles Fox 99 Frere, B. - at the Crown and Anchor - - Lines written by a Traveller at Czarco-zelo - under the Bust of a certain Orator, once 99 G. Ellis, B. - placed between those of Demosthenes and - Cicero - - [JAS. BOSWELL, jun., asserts, on the authority of the nephew of the - great statesman, that the above lines were written by PITT. This is not - improbable: see Note on page 101.] - - - Canning, C. - The Progress of Man. Didactic Poem 102 Gifford, W. - Frere, B. - - [Cantos 1 and 2 by _Canning_ only; and Canto 23 by _Canning_ and - _Frere_ only.] - - The Progress of Man, _continued_ 107 Canning, C. - Hammond, B. - - Imitation of Bion. Written at St. Anne’s 111 G. Ellis, B. - Hill Gifford, W. - - The New Coalition: Imitation of Horace, 114 - Lib. 3, Carm. 9 - - [_The Honey-Moon of Fox and Tooke_, another - version of the same by the REV. C. E. 116 - STEWART; published in the _Anti-Jacobin - Review_, vol. i.] - - Imitation of Horace, Lib. 3, Carm. 25 119 Canning, C. - - Chevy Chase 125 Bar. Macdonald, C., - B. - - Ode to Jacobinism 129 - - Canning, C. - The Progress of Man, _continued_ 133 Frere, C. - G. Ellis, B. - - The Jacobin 141 Nares, W. - - The Loves of the Triangles. A Mathematical 150 Frere, C. - and Philosophical Poem Canning, B. - - [All but the last three lines _Frere’s_.] - - The Loves of the Triangles, _continued_ 158 G. Ellis, C., W. - Canning, B. - - [Down to “Twine round his struggling heart,” by _Ellis_. From “Thus, - happy France,” to “And folds the parent-monarch,” by _Canning_, - _Ellis_, and _Frere_. The next twelve lines, which were not in the - _first_ edition, 1798, were added by _Canning_.] - - Brissot’s Ghost 165 Frere, B. - - [Not claimed by _Frere_.] - - Canning B., W., C. - The Loves of the Triangles, _continued_ 170 Gifford C. - Frere C. - - [By _Canning_, _Ellis_, and _Frere_.] - - A Consolatory Address to his Gun-Boats. By 182 Lord Morpeth, B. - Citizen Muskein - - - Canning, B., C. - Elegy on the Death of Jean Bon St. André 185 Gifford, C. - Frere, C. - - [By _Canning_, _Ellis_, and _Frere_.] - - Frere, C. - Ode to my Country, MDCCXCVIII 193 B. B., C. - Hammond, B. - - [This is not claimed by _Frere_.] - - Ode to the Director Merlin 199 Lord Morpeth, B. - - Frere, C. - The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement 205 Gifford, C. - G. Ellis, C. - Canning B., C. - - [Act 1, Sc. 1 and 2, by _Frere_—Song by _Canning_ and _Ellis_; Act 2, - Sc. 1 and 3, and Act 3, by _Canning_; Act 2, Sc. 2, and Act 4, by - _Frere_. The preliminary prose by _Frere_ and _Canning_.] - - - Frere B., C. - The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement, 224 Gifford C. - _continued_ Ellis, C. - Canning, C. - - An Affectionate Effusion of Citizen Muskein 236 Lord Morpeth, B. - to Havre-de-Grace - - Translation of a Letter from Gifford, C., B. - Bawba-dara-adul-phoola, to 242 Ellis, C., B. - Neek-awl-aretchid-kooez Canning, C., B. - Frere, C., B. - - [By _Canning_, _Ellis_, and _Frere_.] - - [_Buonaparte’s Letter to the Commandant at 248 - Zante_] - - Ode to a Jacobin 251 - - Ballynahinch; A New Song 255 Canning, C. - - De Navali Laude Britanniæ 257 Canning, B. - - [Translation of the above 260 The late A. F. - Westmacott.] - - [_Valedictory Address_] 263 - - Canning, B. C. - New Morality 271 Frere, C. - Gifford, C. - G. Ellis, C. - - LINE. - - 1 From Mental Mists Frere, W. - - 15 Yet venial Vices, &c. Canning, W. - - Bethink thee, Gifford, &c. These lines were - 29 written by CANNING some years before he had - any personal acquaintance with GIFFORD. - - 71 Awake! for shame! Canning, W. - - 158 Fond Hope! Frere, W. - - 168 Such is the liberal Justice Canning, W. - - Frere, W. - 249 O! Nurse of Crimes! Canning, W. - G. Ellis, W. - - 261 See Louvet Canning, W. - - 287 But hold, severer Virtue Frere, W. - Canning, W. - - Frere, W. - 302 To thee proud Barras bows Canning, W. - Ellis, W. - - 318 Ere long, perhaps Gifford, W. - Ellis, W. - - 328 Couriers and Stars Frere, W. - Canning, W. - - 356 Britain, beware Canning, W. - - 372 So thine own Oak attributed to W. - Pitt. - -“WRIGHT, the publisher of the _Anti-Jacobin_, lived at 169, Piccadilly, -and his shop was the general morning resort of the friends of the -ministry, as DEBRETT’S was of the oppositionists. About the time when -the _Anti-Jacobin_ was contemplated, OWEN, who had been the publisher of -BURKE’S pamphlets, failed. The editors of the _Anti-Jacobin_ took his -house, paying the rent, taxes, &c., and gave it up to WRIGHT, reserving -to themselves the first floor, to which a communication was opened -through WRIGHT’S house. Being thus enabled to pass to their own rooms -through WRIGHT’S shop, where their frequent visits did not excite any -remarks, they contrived to escape particular observation.” - -“Their meetings were most regular on Sundays, but they not unfrequently -met on other days of the week, and in their rooms were chiefly written -the poetical portions of the work. What was written was generally left -open upon the table, and as others of the party dropped in, hints or -suggestions were made; sometimes whole passages were contributed by some -of the parties present, and afterwards altered by others, so that it is -almost impossible to ascertain the names of the authors. Where, in the -above notes, a piece is ascribed to different authors, the conflicting -statements may arise from incorrect information, but sometimes they -arise from the whole authorship being assigned to one person, when, in -fact, both may have contributed. If we look at the references, 167, 185, -we shall see CANNING naming several authors, whereas LORD BURGHERSH -assigns all to one author. CANNING’S authority is here more to be relied -upon. _New Morality_ CANNING assigns generally to the four contributors. -WRIGHT has given some interesting particulars by appropriating to each -his peculiar portion.” - -“GIFFORD was the working editor, and wrote most of the refutations and -corrections of the _Lies_, _Mistakes_, and _Misrepresentations_.” - -“The papers on finance were chiefly by PITT: the first column was -frequently kept for what he might send; but his contributions were -uncertain, and generally very late, so that the space reserved for him -was sometimes filled up by other matter. He only once met the editors at -WRIGHT’S.” - -“W. UPCOTT, who was at the time assistant in WRIGHT’S shop, was employed -as amanuensis, to copy out for the printer the various contributions, -that the author’s handwriting might not be detected.”—_E. Hawkins._ - - - - - “THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING AS A MAN OF LETTERS.” - -[The following is part of a review, under the above title, of the -present editor’s previous edition of _The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin_, -and appeared in _The Edinburgh Review_ of July, 1858. It is reprinted in -the _Biographical and Critical Essays_ of A. HAYWARD, Esq., Q.C., 2 -vols., 8vo., 1873. It is introduced here as throwing some additional -light on the _Writers of the various pieces_.] - - -“... We can hardly say of CANNING’S satire what was said of SHERIDAN’S, -that— - - “‘His wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, - Never carried a heart-stain away on its blade’. - -But its severity was redeemed by its buoyancy and geniality, whilst the -subjects against which it was principally aimed gave it a healthy tone -and a sound foundation. Its happiest effusions will be found in _The -Anti-Jacobin_, set on foot to refute or ridicule the democratic rulers -of revolutionary France and their admirers or apologists in England, -who, it must be owned, were occasionally hurried into a culpable degree -of extravagance and laxity by their enthusiasm....” - -“We learn from MR. EDMONDS that almost all his authorities practically -resolve themselves into one, the late MR. W. UPCOTT, and that he never -saw either of the alleged copies on which his informant relied. As -regards the principal one, CANNING’S own, after the fullest inquiries -amongst his surviving relatives and friends, we cannot discover a trace -of its existence at any period. LORD BURGHERSH (the late EARL OF -WESTMORELAND) was under fourteen years of age during the publication of -_The Anti-Jacobin_; and we very much doubt whether either the publisher -or the amanuensis (be he who he may) was admitted to the complete -confidence of the contributors, or whether either the prose or poetry -was composed as stated. In a letter to the late MADAME DE GIRARDIN, _à -propos_ of her play, _L’École des Journalistes_, JULES JANIN happily -exposes the assumption that good leading articles ever were, or ever -could be, produced over punch and broiled bones, amidst intoxication and -revelry. Equally untenable is the belief that poetical pieces, like the -best of _The Anti-Jacobin_, were written in the common rooms of the -confraternity, open to constant intrusion, and left upon the table to be -corrected or completed by the first comer. The unity of design -discernible in each, the glowing harmony of the thoughts and images, and -the exquisite finish of the versification, tell of silent and solitary -hours spent in brooding over, maturing, and polishing a cherished -conception; and young authors, still unknown to fame, are least of all -likely to sink their individuality in this fashion. We suspect that -their main object in going to WRIGHT’S was to correct their proofs and -see one another’s articles in the more finished state. Their meetings, -if for these purposes, would be most regular on Sundays, because the -paper appeared every Monday morning. The extent to which they aided one -another may be collected from a well-authenticated anecdote. When FRERE -had completed the first part of _The Loves of the Triangles_, he -exultingly read over the following lines to CANNING, and defied him to -improve upon them:— - - “‘Lo, where the chimney’s sooty tube ascends, - The fair TROCHAIS from the corner bends! - Her coal-black eyes upturned, incessant mark - The eddying smoke, quick flame, and volant spark; - Mark with quick ken, where flashing in between, - Her much-loved _Smoke-Jack_ glimmers through the scene; - Mark, how his various parts together tend, - Point to one purpose,—in one object end; - The spiral grooves in smooth meanders flow, - Drags the long chain, the polished axles glow, - While slowly circumvolves the piece of beef below:’ - -“CANNING took the pen and added— - - “‘The conscious fire with bickering radiance burns, - Eyes the rich joint, and roasts it as it turns’. - -“These two lines are now blended with the original text, and constitute, -we are informed on the best authority, the only flaw in FRERE’S title to -the sole authorship of the First Part. The Second and Third Parts were -by CANNING. - -“By the kindness of [the late] LORD HATHERTON, we have now before us a -bound volume containing all the numbers of _The Anti-Jacobin_ as they -originally appeared, eight pages quarto, with double columns, price -sixpence. On the fly-leaf is inscribed: ‘This copy belonged to the -Marquess Wellesley, and was purchased at the sale of his library after -his death, January, 1842. H.’ On the cover is pasted an engraved label -of the arms and name of a former proprietor, CHARLES WILLIAM FLINT, with -the pencilled addition of ‘Confidential Amanuensis’. In this copy -CANNING’S name is subscribed to (amongst others) the following pieces, -which are also assigned to him (along with a large share in the most -popular of the rest) by the most trustworthy rumours and -traditions:—_Inscription for the Door of the Cell in Newgate where Mrs. -Brownrigg, the Prenticide, was confined previous to her execution; The -Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder_; the lines addressed _To the -Author of the Epistle to the Editors of The Anti-Jacobin_; _The Progress -of Man_ (all three parts); and _New Morality_.[1] - -“With the single exception of _The Friend of Humanity and the -Knife-Grinder_, no piece in the collection is more freshly remembered -than the _Inscription for the Cell of Mrs. Brownrigg_, who - - “‘Whipp’d two female ’prentices to death, - And hid them in the coal-hole’. - -“The Answer to _The Author of the Epistle to the Editors of The -Anti-Jacobin_ is less known, and it derives a fresh interest from the -fact, recently [_c._ 1854] made public, that _The Epistle_ (which -appeared in _The Morning Chronicle_ of January 17, 1798) was the -composition of WILLIAM LORD MELBOURNE. The beginning shows that the veil -of incognito had been already penetrated. - - “‘Whoe’er ye are, all hail!—whether the skill - Of youthful CANNING guides the ranc’rous quill; - With powers mechanic far above his age, - Adapts the paragraph and fills the page; - Measures the column, mends whate’er’s amiss, - Rejects THAT letter, and accepts of THIS; - Or HAMMOND, leaving his official toil, - O’er this great work consume the midnight oil— - Bills, passports, letters, for the Muses quit, - And change dull business for amusing wit.’ - -“After referring to ‘the poetic sage, who sung of Gallia in a headlong -rage,’ _The Epistle_ proceeds:— - - “‘I swear by all the youths that MALMESBURY chose,[2] - By ELLIS’ sapient prominence of nose— - By MORPETH’S gait, important, proud and big— - _By Leveson Gower’s crop-imitating wig_, - That, could the pow’rs which in those numbers shine, - Could that warm spirit animate my line, - Your glorious deeds which humbly I rehearse— - Your deeds should live immortal as my verse; - And, while they wonder’d whence I caught my flame, - Your sons should blush to read their fathers’ shame’. - -“Happily the eminent and accomplished sons of these fathers will smile, -rather than blush, at this allusion to their sires, and smile the more -when they remember from which side the attack proceeded. It is clear -from the Answer, that, whilst the band were not a little ruffled, they -had not the remotest suspicion that their assailant was a youth in his -nineteenth year. Amongst other prefatory remarks they say:— - -“‘We assure the author of the epistle, that the answer which we have -here the honour to address to him, contains our genuine and undisguised -sentiments upon the merits of the poem. - -“‘Our conjectures respecting the authors and abettors of this -performance may possibly be as vague and unfounded as theirs are with -regard to the EDITORS of _The Anti-Jacobin_. We are sorry that we cannot -satisfy their curiosity upon this subject—but we have little anxiety for -the gratification of our own. - -“‘It is only necessary to add, what is most conscientiously the truth, -that this production, such as it is, is _by far the best_ of all the -attacks that the combined wits of the cause have been able to muster -against _The Anti-Jacobin_.’ - -“The Answer opens thus:— - - “‘BARD of the borrow’d lyre! to whom belong - The shreds and remnants of each hackney’d song; - Whose verse thy friends in vain for wit explore, - And count but _one good line_, in eighty-four! - Whoe’er thou art, all hail! Thy bitter smile - Gilds our dull page, and cheers our humble toil!’ - -“The ‘one good line’ was ‘By Leveson Gower’s crop-imitating wig,’ but -the Epistle contains many equally good and some better. The speculations -as to its authorship afforded no slight amusement to the writer and his -friends.... - -“_New Morality_ is commonly regarded as the master-piece of _The -Anti-Jacobin_; and, with the exception of a few lines, the whole of it -is by CANNING. It appeared in the last number, and he is said to have -concentrated all his energies for a parting blow. The reader who comes -fresh from DRYDEN or POPE, or even CHURCHILL, will be disappointed on -finding far less variety of images, sparkling antithesis, or condensed -brilliancy of expression. The author exhibits abundant humour and -eloquence, but comparatively little wit; _i.e._, if there be any truth -in SYDNEY SMITH’S doctrine ‘that the feeling of wit is occasioned by -those relations of ideas which excite surprise, and surprise _alone_’. -We are commonly prepared for what is coming, and our admiration is -excited rather by the justness of the observations, the elevation of the -thoughts, and the vigour of the style, than by a startling succession of -flashes of fancy. If, as we believe, the same might be said of JUVENAL, -and the best of his English imitators, JOHNSON, we leave ample scope for -praise; and _New Morality_ contains passages which have been preserved -to our time and bid fair to reach posterity. How often are the lines on -_Candour_ quoted in entire ignorance or forgetfulness of their -author.... - -“The drama of _The Rovers_, or _Double Arrangement_, was written to -ridicule the German Drama, then hardly known in this country, except -through the medium of bad translations of some of the least meritorious -of SCHILLER’S, GOETHE’S, and KOTZEBUE’S productions. The parody is now -principally remembered by Rogero’s song, of which, Mr. Edmonds states, -the first five stanzas were by CANNING. “Having been accidentally seen, -previously to its publication, by PITT, he was so amused with it that he -took a pen and composed the last stanza on the spot....” - -“CANNING’S reputed share in _The Rovers_ excited the unreasoning -indignation, and provoked the exaggerated censure, of a man who has -obtained a world-wide reputation by his historical researches, most -especially by his skill in separating the true from the fabulous, and in -filling up chasms in national annals by a process near akin to that by -which CUVIER inferred the entire form and structure of an extinct -species from a bone. The following passage is taken from NIEBUHR’S -_History of the Period of the Revolution_ (published from his Lectures, -in two volumes, in 1845):— - -“‘CANNING was at that time (1807) at the head of foreign affairs in -England. History will not form the same judgment of him as that formed -by contemporaries. He had great talents, but was not a great Statesman; -he was one of those persons who distinguish themselves as the squires of -political heroes. He was highly accomplished in the two classical -languages, but without being a learned scholar. He was especially -conversant with Greek writers. He had likewise poetical talent, but only -for Satire. At first he had joined the leaders of opposition against -PITT’S ministry: LORD GREY, who perceived his ambition, advised him, -half in joke, to join the ministers, as he would make his fortune. He -did so, and was employed to write articles for the newspapers and -satirical verses, which were often directed against his former -benefactors. - -“‘Through the influence of the ministers he came into Parliament. So -long as the great eloquence of former times lasted, and the great men -were alive, his talent was admired; but older persons had no great -pleasure in his petulant, epigrammatic eloquence and his jokes, which -were often in bad taste. He joined the Society of the Anti-Jacobins, -which defended everything connected with existing institutions. This -society published a journal, in which the most honoured names of foreign -countries were attacked in the most scandalous manner. German literature -was at that time little known in England, and it was associated there -with the ideas of Jacobinism and revolution. CANNING then published in -_The Anti-Jacobin_ the most shameful pasquinade which was ever written -against Germany, under the title of _Matilda Pottingen_. Göttingen is -described in it as the sink of all infamy; professors and students as a -gang of miscreants; licentiousness, incest, and atheism as the character -of the German people. Such was CANNING’S beginning: he was at all events -useful, a sort of political Cossack’ (_Geschichte des Zeitalters der -Revolution_, vol. ii., p. 242). - -“‘Here am I,’ exclaimed RALEIGH, after vainly trying to get at the -rights of a squabble in the courtyard of the Tower, ‘employed in writing -a true history of the world, when I cannot ascertain the truth of what -happens under my own window.’ Here is the great restorer of Roman -history—who, by the way, prided himself on his knowledge of -England—hurried into the strangest misconception of contemporary events -and personages, and giving vent to a series of depreciatory -misstatements, without pausing to verify the assumed groundwork of his -patriotic wrath. His description of ‘the most shameful pasquinade,’ and -his ignorance of the very title, prove that he had never seen it. If he -had, he would also have known that the scene is laid at Weimar, not at -Göttingen, and that the satire is almost exclusively directed against a -portion of the dramatic literature of his country, which all rational -admirers must admit to be indefensible. The scene in _The Rovers_, in -which the rival heroines, meeting for the first time at an inn, swear -eternal friendship and embrace, is positively a feeble reflection of a -scene in GOETHE’S _Stella_; and no anachronism can exceed that in -SCHILLER’S _Cabal und Liebe_, when Lady Milford, after declaring herself -the daughter of the Duke of Norfolk who rebelled against Queen -Elizabeth, is horrified on finding that the jewels sent her by the Grand -Duke have been purchased by the sale of 7000 of his subjects to be -employed in the American war.[3] - -“Amongst the prose contributions to _The Anti-Jacobin_, there is one in -which, independently of direct evidence, the peculiar humour of CANNING -is discernible,—the pretended report of the meeting of the Friends of -Freedom at the Crown and Anchor Tavern.[4] The plan was evidently -suggested by TICKELL’S _Anticipation_, in which the debate on the -Address at the opening of the Session was reported beforehand with such -surprising foresight, that some of the speakers, who were thus -forestalled, declined to deliver their meditated orations. - -“At the meeting of the Friends of Freedom, ERSKINE, whose habitual -egotism could hardly be caricatured, is made to perorate as follows, -&c.... A long speech is given to MACKINTOSH, who, under the name of -_Macfungus_, after a fervid sketch of the Temple of Freedom which he -proposes to construct on the ruins of ancient establishments, proceeds -with kindling animation, &c....[5] - -“The wit and fun of these imitations are undeniable, and their injustice -is equally so. ERSKINE, with all his egotism, was, and remains, the -greatest of English advocates. He stemmed and turned the tide which -threatened to sweep away the most valued of our free institutions in -1794; and (we say with LORD BROUGHAM) ‘Before such a precious service as -this, well may the lustre of statesmen and orators grow pale’. -MACKINTOSH was pre-eminently distinguished by the comprehensiveness and -moderation of his views; nor could any man be less disposed by temper, -habits, or pursuits towards revolutionary courses. His lectures on _The -Law of Nature and Nations_ were especially directed against the new -morality in general, and GODWIN’S _Political Justice_ in particular. - -“At a long subsequent period (1807) CANNING, when attacked in Parliament -for his share in _The Anti-Jacobin_, declared that ‘he felt no shame for -its character or principles, nor any other sorrow for the share he had -had in it than that which the imperfection of his pieces was calculated -to inspire’. Still, it is one of the inevitable inconveniences of a -connection with the Press that the best known writers should be made -answerable for the errors of their associates; and the license of _The -Anti-Jacobin_ gave serious and well-founded offence to many who shared -its opinions and wished well to its professed object. In WILBERFORCE’S -_Diary_ for May 18, 1799, we find ‘PITT, CANNING, and PEPPER ARDEN came -in late to dinner. I attacked CANNING on indecency of _Anti-Jacobin_.’ -COLERIDGE, in his _Biographia Literaria_, complains bitterly of the -calumnious accounts given by _The Anti-Jacobin_ of his early life, and -asks with reason, ‘Is it surprising that many good men remained longer -than perhaps they otherwise would have done adverse to a party which -encouraged and openly rewarded the authors of such atrocious calumnies?’ - -“Mr. Edmonds says that PITT got frightened, and that the publication was -discontinued at the suggestion of the Prime Minister. It is not unlikely -that CANNING, now a member of the House of Commons and Under-Secretary -of State for Foreign Affairs, found his connection with it embarrassing, -as his hopes rose and his political prospects expanded. Indeed, it may -be questioned whether a Parliamentary career can ever be united with -that of the daily or weekly journalist without compromising one or both. -At all events, the original _Anti-Jacobin_ closed with the number -containing _New Morality_, and CANNING had nothing to do with the -_monthly review_ started under the same name.” - - - - - THE _ANTI-JACOBIN_ AS AN AID TO GOVERNMENT. - - [Considering _The Anti-Jacobin_ from a national as well as a - literary point of view, we cannot do better than use a portion of an - Essay on English Political Satires by the late JAS. HANNAY, in the - _Quarterly Review_, April, 1857.] - - -“... In the case of _The Anti-Jacobin_, what are we to say? A hundred -opinions may be adopted respecting the French Revolution. Some hate it -with unmitigated hatred. Some regret it, but accept its consequences as -beneficial to mankind on the whole. Some cherish its memory as a new -political revelation of which they hope to see still further results. -But a candid man of any of these persuasions must remember that the aim -of _The Anti-Jacobin_ was to keep _Britain_ from revolution during -1797–8. It was therefore necessary to fight as our soldiers afterwards -did in Spain—to wage such a _literary_ war as suited the agitated spirit -of Europe. While we blame CANNING, therefore, for speaking as he did of -MADAME ROLAND, we must not forget the indecorum of her Memoirs, or that -it was from persons of her party that vile aspersions were cast upon the -character of MARIE ANTOINETTE. There were men quite ready to begin the -same work over here that had been done in France, and that in a spirit -of vulgar imitation, and under quite different circumstances. They had -to be shot down like mad dogs; for a cur, though contemptible in -ordinary cases, becomes tragic when he has hydrophobia. - -“For _The Anti-Jacobin_ must be claimed an honour which can be claimed -for scarce one of the works we have passed under review. Let us waive -the question how much we may have owed it for helping to inspire that -unity and stout insular self-confidence which carried us through the -great war,—whole within and impervious without. Let us consider it only -in a literary point of view, and we shall find it enjoying the rare -distinction that its best Satires live in real popular remembrance. The -_Knife-Grinder_, with his - - “‘_Story! God bless you, I have none to tell, sir_,’ - -is almost as widely known as our nursery rhymes. - -“But if _The Anti-Jacobin_ excels all similar works in popularity, and -in the eminence of its contributors, it also excels them in another -important particular. It contains on the whole a greater number of -really good things than any one of them. The _Loves of the Triangles_, -in which, - - “‘Th’ obedient Pulley strong Mechanics ply, - And wanton Optics roll the melting eye!’ - -is an irresistible parody, and likely to keep the original of Darwin -[_Loves of the Plants_] in remembrance. Gray’s Odes have survived the -burlesques of Colman; and the _Country and City Mouse_ of Prior and -Montague is neglected by nine-tenths of those who read with admiration -the _Hind and the Panther_. But Darwin’s case is peculiar. Other poems -live in spite of ridicule; and his _Loves of the Plants_ in consequence -of it. The Attic salt of his enemies has preserved his reputation. - -“There is always a purpose in _The Anti-Jacobin’s_ view something more -important than the mere persiflage that teases individuals. Like the -blade of Damascus, which has a verse of the Koran engraved on it, its -fine wit glitters terribly in the cause of sacred tradition.” - - - - - DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. - - - THE GIANT FACTOTUM AMUSING HIMSELF. (FRONTISPIECE.) - - PITT, with his right hand is playing at cup and - ball; the latter being a globe to denote his - influence over foreign countries as well as at home. - His right foot is supported by DUNDAS and - WILBERFORCE, and is extended to be submissively - kissed by his ministerial followers, foremost of - whom is CANNING. With his left foot he has crushed - the Opposition. On the same side is a document - labelled “Resources for supporting the War,” with a - collection of coin, evidently destined for foreign - subsidies. On his right side are various official - returns of volunteers, seamen, regulars, and - militia. He is thus prepared to carry on the war - abroad, and maintain tranquillity at home. - - THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER. Page 23 - - Scene, the Borough of Southwark, with a portrait of - GEORGE TIERNEY, its able and radical representative. - Published Dec. 4, 1797, as a graphic illustration of - the Parody of Southey’s poem, _The Widow_. - - LORD LONGBOW, THE ALARMIST, DISCOVERING THE MISERIES OF - IRELAND. Page 78 - - A characteristic portrait of the gallant and - excellent EARL OF MOIRA, afterwards MARQUIS OF - HASTINGS, and Governor-General of India. The - engraving is in ridicule of his complaint, in the - House of Lords, of the cruelties exercised by the - Government troops on the Irish Rebels. In the - distance is seen Moll Coggin, an Irish witch, - mounted on a black Ram with a blue tail, and on the - hill an Oak-boy, carrying an uprooted oak, on the - branches of which are numerous swans—in allusion to - the unfounded nature of his charges. - - THE LOYAL TOAST. Page 94 - - Representing the DUKE OF NORFOLK giving at a dinner - at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in honour of the - birth-day of FOX his famous toast, “Our Sovereign’s - Health—The Majesty of the People”. On the left is - JOHN NICHOLLS, Member for Tregony; next to him is - the DUKE OF BEDFORD; on the other side of the table - are SHERIDAN and FOX. - - DESIGN FOR THE NEW GALLERY OF BUSTS AND PICTURES. Page 99 - - The statue of FOX was placed between those of - Demosthenes and Cicero, by the EMPRESS CATHERINE OF - RUSSIA, as a compliment to him for having - successfully opposed the sending of the armament - prepared by PITT, in conjunction with Prussia and - Holland, to compel her to give up Ockzakow which she - had seized. As this caricature, including the - verses, was originally published in March, 1793, the - latter in _The Anti-Jacobin_ must have been - suggested by them. - - THE REPUBLICAN RATTLESNAKE FASCINATING THE BEDFORD - SQUIRREL. Page 285 - - In allusion to the influence exercised by FOX over - FRANCIS, fifth DUKE OF BEDFORD, who had become one - of the most zealous of the popular party. - - - - - PROSPECTUS - OF - THE ANTI-JACOBIN; - OR, - WEEKLY EXAMINER, - - The FIRST NUMBER of which will be published on MONDAY, the 20th of - NOVEMBER, 1797, to be continued every Monday during the sitting of - Parliament. Price 6d. - - ——_Possit quid vivida virtus - Experiare, licet: nec longe scilicet hostes - Quærendi._ - - -At a moment, when whatever may be the habits of inquiry and the anxiety -for information upon subjects of public concern diffused among all ranks -of people, the vehicles of intelligence are already multiplied in a -proportion nearly equal to this encreased demand, and to the encreased -importance and variety of matter, some apology may perhaps be necessary -for the obtrusion of a new Paper upon the World; and some account may -reasonably be expected of the views and principles on which it founds -its pretensions to notice, before it can hope to make its way through -the crowd of competitors which have gotten the start of it in the race -for public favour. - - [As this _Prospectus_ was written by MR. CANNING, and it has been - prefixed only to the former edition of the _Poetry_ by the present - Editor, it is again considered an interesting addition to the - present one.] - -The grounds upon which such pretensions have usually been rested by -those who have engaged in undertakings of this kind, are accuracy, -variety, and priority of Intelligence, connections at home, -correspondence abroad, and, above all, a profession of impartial and -unprejudiced attention to all opinions, and to all parties and -descriptions of men. - -On none of these Topicks is it Our intention to enlarge. - -Of Our means of information, and of the use which We make of them, our -readers will, after a very short trial, be enabled to form their own -opinion. And to that trial We confidently commit ourselves: professing, -however, at the same time, that if the only advantage which We were -desirous of holding out to our Readers, were that of having it in our -power to apprize them an hour or a day sooner than those Journals, which -are already in their hands, of any event however important—We should -bring to the undertaking much less anxiety for success, and should state -our claims on public attention with much less boldness, than We are -disposed to do in the consciousness of higher purposes, and more -beneficial views. - -Novelty indeed We have to announce. For what so new in the present state -of the daily and weekly PRESS (We speak generally, though there are -undoubtedly exceptions which we may have occasion to point out -hereafter) as THE TRUTH? To this object alone it is that Our labours are -dedicated. It is the constant violation, the disguise, the perversion of -the Truth, whether in narrative or in argument, that will form the -principal subject of our WEEKLY EXAMINATION: and it is by a diligent and -faithful discharge of this duty—by detecting falsehood, and rectifying -error, by correcting misrepresentation, and exposing and chastising -malignity—that We hope to deserve the reception which We solicit, and to -obtain not only the approbation of the Country to our attempt, but its -thanks for the motives which have given birth to it. - -These are strong words. But We are conscious of intending in earnest -what they profess. How far the execution of our purpose may correspond -with the design, it is for others to determine. It is ours to state that -design fairly, and in the spirit in which we conceive it. - -Of the utility of such a purpose, if even tolerably executed, there can -be little doubt, among those persons (a very large part of the -community) who must have found themselves, during the course of the last -few years, perplexed by the multiplicity of contradictory accounts of -almost every material event that has occurred in that eventful and -tremendous period; and who must anxiously have wished for some public -channel of information on which they could confidently rely for forming -their opinion. - -But before We can expect sufficient credit from persons of this -description, to enable us to supply such a defect, and to assume an -office so important, it is natural that they should require some -profession of our principles as well as of our purposes; in order that -they may judge not only of our ability to communicate the information -which We promise, but of our intention to inform them aright. - -To that freedom from _partiality_ and _prejudice_, of which We have -spoken above, by the profession of which so many of our Contemporaries -recommend themselves, We make little pretension—at least in the sense in -which those terms appear now too often to be used. - -We have not arrived (to our shame perhaps we avow it) at that wild and -unshackled freedom of thought, which rejects all habit, all wisdom of -former times, all restraints of ancient usage, and of local attachment; -and which judges upon each subject, whether of politicks or morals, as -it arises, by lights entirely its own, without reference to recognized -principle, or established practice. - -We confess, whatever disgrace may attend such a confession, that We have -not so far gotten the better of the influence of long habits and early -education, not so far imbibed that spirit of liberal indifference, of -diffused and comprehensive philanthropy, which distinguishes the candid -character of the present age, but that We have our feelings, our -preferences, and our affections, attaching on particular places, -manners, and institutions, and even on particular portions of the human -race. - -It may be thought a narrow and illiberal distinction—but We avow -ourselves to be _partial_ to the COUNTRY _in which we live_, -notwithstanding the daily panegyricks which we read and hear on the -superior virtues and endowments of its rival and hostile neighbours. We -are _prejudiced_ in favour of _her_ Establishments, civil and religious; -though without claiming for either that ideal perfection, which modern -philosophy professes to discover in the other more luminous systems -which are arising on all sides of us. - -The safety and prosperity of _these kingdoms_, however unimportant they -may seem in abstract contemplation when compared with the more -extensive, more beautiful, and more productive parts of the world, do -yet excite in our minds a peculiar interest and anxiety; and will -probably continue to occupy a share of our attention by no means -justified by the proportional consequence which speculative reasoners -may think proper to assign to them in the scale of the universe. - -We should be averse to hazarding the smallest part of the practical -happiness of _this Country_; though the sacrifice should be recommended -as necessary for accomplishing throughout the world an uniform and -beautiful system of theoretical liberty: and We should at all times -exert our best endeavours for upholding its constitution, even with all -the human imperfections which may belong to it, though We were assured -that on its ruins might be erected the only pillar that is yet wanting -to complete the “_most glorious fabrick which the Integrity and Wisdom -of man have raised since the Creation_”. - -If, as Philosopher MONGE[6] avers, in his eloquent and instructive -address to the Directory, “_The Government of England and the French -Republick cannot exist together_,” We do not hesitate in our choice; -though well aware that in that choice we may be much liable, in the -opinion of many critics of the present day, to the imputation of a want -of candour or of discernment. - -Admirers of military heroism, and dazzled by military success in common -with other men, We are yet even _here_ conscious of some qualification -and distinction in our feelings: We acknowledge ourselves apt to look -with more complacency on bravery and skill, when displayed in the -service of our Country, than when We see them directed against its -interests or its safety; and, however equal the claims to admiration in -either case may be, We feel our hearts grow warmer at the recital of -what has been atchieved by HOWE, by JERVIS, or by DUNCAN, than at the -“_glorious victory of Jemappe_,” or “_the immortal battle of the bridge -of Lodi_”. - -In MORALS We are equally old-fashioned. We have not yet learned the -modern refinement of referring in all considerations upon human conduct, -not to any settled and preconceived principles of right and wrong, not -to any general and fundamental rules which experience, and wisdom, and -justice, and the common consent of mankind have established, but to the -internal admonitions of every man’s judgment or conscience in his own -particular instance. - -We do not dissemble,—that We reverence LAW,—We acknowledge USAGE,—We -look even upon PRESCRIPTION without hatred or horror. And we do not -think these, or any of them, less safe guides for the moral actions of -men, than that new and liberal system of ETHICS, whose operation is not -to bind but to loosen the bands of social order; whose doctrine is -formed not on a system of reciprocal duties, but on the supposition of -individual, independent, and unconnected rights; which teaches that all -men are pretty equally honest, but that some have different notions of -honesty from others, and that the most received notions are for the -greater part the most faulty. - -We do not subscribe to the opinion, that a sincere conviction of the -truth of no matter what principle, is a sufficient defence for no matter -what action; and that the only business of moral enquiry with human -conduct is to ascertain that in each case the principle and the action -agree. We have not yet persuaded ourselves to think it a sound, or a -safe doctrine, that every man who can divest himself of a moral sense in -theory, has a right to be with impunity and without disguise a scoundrel -in practice. It is not in our creed, that ATHEISM is as good a faith as -CHRISTIANITY, provided it be professed with equal sincerity; nor could -We admit it as an excuse for MURDER, that the murderer was in his own -mind conscientiously persuaded that the murdered might for many good -reasons be better out of the way. - -Of all these and the like principles, in one word, of JACOBINISM in all -its shapes, and in all its degrees, political and moral, public and -private, whether as it openly threatens the subversion of States, or -gradually saps the foundations of domestic happiness, We are the avowed, -determined, and irreconcileable enemies. We have no desire to divest -ourselves of these inveterate prejudices; but shall remain stubborn and -incorrigible in resisting every attempt which may be made either by -argument or (what is more in the charitable spirit of modern reformers) -by force, to convert us to a different opinion. - - -It remains only to speak of the details of our PLAN. - -It is our intention to publish Weekly, during the Session of Parliament, -a Paper, containing, - -First, An Abstract of the important events of the week, both at home and -abroad. - -Secondly, Such Reflections as may naturally arise out of them: and, - -Thirdly, A contradiction and confutation of the falsehoods and -misrepresentations concerning these events, their causes, and their -consequences, which may be found in the Papers devoted to the cause of -SEDITION and IRRELIGION, to the pay or principles of FRANCE. - -This last, as it is by far the most important, will in all probability -be the most copious of the three heads; and is that to which, above all -others, We wish to direct the attention of our Readers. - -We propose diligently to collect, as far as the range of our own daily -reading will enable us, and We promise willingly to receive, from -whatever quarter they may come, the several articles of this kind which -require to be thus contradicted or confuted; which will naturally divide -themselves into different classes, according to their different degrees -of stupidity or malignity. - -There are, for instance (to begin with those of the highest order), the -LIES of the Week; the downright, direct, unblushing falsehoods, which -have no colour or foundation whatever, and which must at the very moment -of their being written, have been known to the writer to be wholly -destitute of truth. - -Next in rank come MISREPRESENTATIONS which, taking for their groundwork -facts in substance true, do so colour and distort them in description, -as to take away all semblance of their real nature and character. - -Lastly, The most venial, though by no means the least mischievous class, -are MISTAKES; under which description are included all those Hints, -Conjectures, and Apprehensions, those Anticipations of Sorrow and -Deprecations of Calamity, in which Writers who labour under too great an -anxiety for the Public Welfare are apt to indulge; and which, when -falsified by the event, they are generally too much occupied to find -leisure to retract or disavow:—A trouble which We shall have great -pleasure in taking off these Gentlemen’s hands. - -To each of these several articles We shall carefully affix the name and -date of the Publication from which We may take the liberty of borrowing -it. - - -With regard to the PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT, We shall not fail to mark -to Our Readers the progress of the public business; though it does not -enter into our Plan to give a regular detail of the Debates: nor would -the limits of our Paper allow of it. - -We have a further reason for not occupying this province, which will -equally account for our determination, not to receive Advertisements—our -earnest desire not to lessen the circulation of any existing Public -Print. - -It is obvious upon every ground of fairness and of policy, that We must -entertain this desire very strongly with regard to the respectable -Papers which are directed by principles and attachments like our own: an -attachment (We have no wish to disguise it) to the cause of a -GOVERNMENT, with whose support, whose popularity and consequent means of -exertion, the circumstances of the present times have essentially -connected the existence of THIS COUNTRY as an independent Nation. - -As little should we wish to circumscribe the sale of those JOURNALS, -upon whose errors or perverseness, upon whose false statements and -pernicious doctrines We reckon for the main support, as they have been -the principal cause of our undertaking. These We would entreat to -proceed with fresh vigour and increased activity. It is our wish to be -seen together, and to be compared with them. Every week of -misrepresentation will be followed by its weekly comment; and with this -corrective faithfully administered, the longest course of MORNING -CHRONICLES or MORNING POSTS, of STARS or COURIERS, may become not only -innocent but beneficial. - -With these views then We commence our undertaking. Whatever may be the -success or the merit of its execution in our hands, the want of -something like it has so long been felt and deplored by all thinking and -honest men, that We cannot doubt of the approbation and encouragement -with which the attempt will be received. - -We claim the support, and We invite the assistance, of ALL, who think -with US that the circumstances and character of the age in which We live -require every exertion of every man, who loves his COUNTRY in the old -way, in which till of late years the LOVE of one’s COUNTRY was professed -by most men, and by none disclaimed or reviled; of ALL who think that -the PRESS has been long enough employed principally as an engine of -destruction, and who wish to see the experiment fairly tried whether -that engine, by which many of the States which surround us have been -overthrown, and others shaken to their foundations, may not be turned -into an instrument of defence for the one remaining COUNTRY which has -ESTABLISHMENTS to protect, and a GOVERNMENT with the spirit, and the -power, and the wisdom to protect them; of ALL who look with respect to -public honour, and with attachment to the decencies of private life; of -ALL who have so little deference for the arrogant intolerance of -JACOBINISM as still to contemplate the OFFICE and the PERSON of a KING -with veneration, and to speak reverently of RELIGION, without -apologizing for the singularity of their opinions; of ALL who think the -blessings which we enjoy valuable, and who think them in danger; and -who, while they detest and despise the principles and the professors of -that NEW FAITH by which the foundations of all those blessings are -threatened to be undermined, lament the lukewarmness with which its -propagation has hitherto been resisted, and are anxious, while there is -yet time, to make every effort in the cause of their COUNTRY. - - * * * * * - - Published by J. WRIGHT, No. 169, opposite Old Bond Street, - Piccadilly: by whom Orders for the Papers, and all Communications of - Correspondents, addressed to the Editor of the ANTI-JACOBIN, or - WEEKLY EXAMINER, will be received. Sold also by all the Booksellers - and Newsmen in Town and Country. - - - - - POETRY - - OF - - THE ANTI-JACOBIN. - - - - - No. I. - - - INTRODUCTION. - - Nov. 20, 1797. - -In our anxiety to provide for the amusement as well as information of -our readers, we have not omitted to make all the inquiries in our power -for ascertaining the means of procuring poetical assistance. And it -would give us no small satisfaction to be able to report that we had -succeeded in this point precisely in the manner which would best have -suited our own taste and feelings, as well as those which we wish to -cultivate in our readers. - -But whether it be that good Morals, and what we should call good -Politics, are inconsistent with the spirit of true Poetry—whether “_the -Muses still with freedom found_” have an aversion to _regular_ -governments, and require a frame and system of protection less -complicated than king, lords, and commons:— - - “Whether primordial _nonsense_ springs to life[7] - In the wild war of _democratic_ strife,” - -and there only—or for whatever other reason it may be, whether physical, -or moral, or philosophical (which last is understood to mean something -more than the other two, though exactly _what_, it is difficult to say), -we have not been able to find one good and true Poet, of sound -principles and sober practice, upon whom we could rely for furnishing us -with a handsome quantity of sufficient and approved verse—such verse as -our readers might be expected to get by heart, and to sing; as the -worthy philosopher MONGE describes the little children of Sparta and -Athens singing the songs of Freedom, in expectation of the coming of -_the Great Nation_. - -In this difficulty we have had no choice but either to provide no poetry -at all—a shabby expedient—or to go to the only market where it is to be -had good and ready made, that of the _Jacobins_—an expedient full of -danger, and not to be used but with the utmost caution and delicacy. - -To this latter expedient, however, after mature deliberation, we have -determined to have recourse; qualifying it at the same time with such -precautions as may conduce at once to the safety of our readers’ -principles, and to the improvement of our own poetry. - -For this double purpose, we shall select from time to time from among -those effusions of the _Jacobin_ Muse which happen to fall in our way, -such pieces as may serve to illustrate some one of the principles on -which the poetical as well as the political doctrine of the NEW SCHOOL -is established—prefacing each of them, for our readers’ sake, with a -short disquisition on the particular tenet intended to be enforced or -insinuated in the production before them—and accompanying it with an -humble effort of our own, in imitation of the poem itself, and in -further illustration of its principle. - -By these means, though we cannot hope to catch “_the wood-notes wild_” -of the Bards of Freedom, we may yet acquire, by dint of repeating after -them, a more complete knowledge of the secret in which their greatness -lies than we could by mere prosaic admiration; and if we cannot become -poets ourselves, we at least shall have collected the elements of a -_Jacobin_ Art of Poetry for the use of those whose genius may be more -capable of turning them to advantage. - -It might not be unamusing to trace the springs and principles of this -species of poetry, which are to be found, some in the exaggeration, and -others in the direct inversion of the sentiments and passions which have -in all ages animated the breast of the favourite of the Muses, and -distinguished him from the “vulgar throng”. - -The poet in all ages has despised riches and grandeur. - -The _Jacobin_ poet improves this sentiment into a hatred of the rich and -the great. - -The poet of other times has been an enthusiast in the love of his native -soil. - -The _Jacobin_ poet rejects all restriction in his feelings. _His_ love -is enlarged and expanded so as to comprehend all human kind. The love of -all human kind is without doubt a noble passion: it can hardly be -necessary to mention that its operation extends to _freemen_, and them -only, all over the world. - -The old poet was a warrior, at least in imagination; and sung the -actions of the heroes of his country in strains which “made Ambition -Virtue,” and which overwhelmed the horrors of war in its glory. - -The _Jacobin_ poet would have no objection to sing battles too—but _he_ -would take a distinction. The prowess of Buonaparte, indeed, he might -chant in his loftiest strain of exultation. _There_ we should find -nothing but trophies and triumphs and branches of laurel and olive, -phalanxes of Republicans shouting victory, satellites of despotism -biting the ground, and geniuses of Liberty planting standards on -mountain-tops. - -But let his own country triumph, or her allies obtain an advantage: -straightway the “beauteous face of war” is changed; the “pride, pomp, -and circumstance” of victory are kept carefully out of sight, and we are -presented with nothing but contusions and amputations, plundered -peasants, and deserted looms. Our poet points the thunder of his blank -verse at the head of the recruiting serjeant, or roars in dithyrambics -against the lieutenants of pressgangs. - -But it would be endless to chase the coy Muse of _Jacobinism_ through -all her characters. _Mille habet ornatus._ The _Mille decenter habet_ is -perhaps more questionable. For in whatever disguise she appears, whether -of mirth or of melancholy, of piety or of tenderness; under all -disguises, like _Sir John Brute_ in woman’s clothes, she is betrayed by -her drunken swagger and ruffian tone. - -In the poem which we have selected for the edification of our readers -and our own imitation this day, the principles which are meant to be -inculcated speak so plainly for themselves, that they need no previous -introduction. - - - INSCRIPTION[8] -_For the Apartment in Chepstow Castle, where Henry Marten, the Regicide, - was imprisoned thirty years._ - - For thirty years secluded from mankind - Here MARTEN lingered. Often have these walls - Echoed his footsteps, as with even tread - He paced around his prison: not to him - Did Nature’s fair varieties exist; - He never saw the sun’s delightful beams, - Save when through yon high bars he pour’d a sad - And broken splendour. Dost thou ask his crime? - He had REBELL’D AGAINST THE KING, AND SAT - IN JUDGMENT ON HIM; for his ardent mind - Shaped goodliest plans of happiness on earth, - And peace and liberty. Wild dreams! but such - As Plato loved; such as with holy zeal - Our Milton worshipp’d. Blessed hopes! awhile - From man withheld, even to the latter days - When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill’d! - - - IMITATION. - INSCRIPTION - _For the Door of the Cell in Newgate, where Mrs. Brownrigg, the - ’Prentice-cide, was confined previous to her Execution._ - - For one long term, or e’er her trial came, - Here BROWNRIGG linger’d. Often have these cells - Echoed her blasphemies, as with shrill voice - She screamed for fresh Geneva. Not to her - Did the blithe fields of Tothill, or thy street, - St. Giles, its fair varieties expand; - Till at the last, in slow-drawn cart she went - To execution. Dost thou ask her crime? - SHE WHIPP’D TWO FEMALE ’PRENTICES TO DEATH, - AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. For her mind - Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes! - Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine - Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog - The little Spartans; such as erst chastised - Our Milton when at college. For this act - Did Brownrigg swing. Harsh laws! But time shall come - When France shall reign, and laws be all repeal’d! - - [HENRY MARTEN was one of the most interesting and remarkable of the - Regicides, not only from his abilities and consistent honesty, but - from the elegance of his manners, his wit, and the fascinating - gaiety of his conversation; and, moreover, from his humane - disposition and generosity to fallen foes. His private life, - however, was disgraced by the most reckless debauchery, which might - seem more appropriate in such libertines as Rochester and Sedley - than in a coadjutor of the strict Puritan party. But from a note in - Grey’s edition of _Hudibras_, pt. ii., ch. i., p. 313, it would - appear that the general opinion at that time was that profligacy of - a pronounced character was indulged in privately by more than a few - of that sanctimonious sect. - - He was the son of Sir Henry Marten, LL.D., a loyal Judge of the - Admiralty. After receiving a learned education at Oxford, he entered - one of the Inns of Court, and travelled in France. Having a stake in - Berkshire—for he inherited a property of £3000 a year, besides - several thousand pounds in money—he was elected, 1640, one of the - members for the county in the last two Parliaments of King Charles - I. His chief seat was at Becket, in the parish of Shrivenham. He - afterwards obtained a grant of £1000 a year to him and his heirs out - of the forfeited estates of the Duke of Buckingham. His early - marriage with a rich widow, selected by his father, but not affected - by himself, also benefited his finances. - - From the commencement of the Civil Wars he was a violent Republican; - and as early as 1643 openly expressed his opinion of the - desirability of the destruction of the King and his children, for - which rather premature advice he was expelled from the House of - Commons, and underwent a short imprisonment in the Tower. He was - appointed by the House of Commons a Colonel of Horse and Governor of - Reading, but made less mark as a soldier than as a rapacious spoiler - of the adherents of the King, which earned him the opprobrious - nickname of “Plunder-master General”. - - Being empowered to dispose of the Regalia and royal trappings, he - once invested GEORGE WITHER—who had been made one of Cromwell’s - Major-Generals—with them, and so accoutred induced the old Poet to - strut up and down Westminster Abbey to the scandal of right-thinking - people. - - To him also were referred the alterations in the public arms, the - Great Seal, and the legends upon the money. Upon the latter was a - shield bearing the cross of St. George, encircled by a palm and - olive branch, and inscribed _The Commonwealth of England_, and on - the reverse, _God with us, 1648_; which occasioned the remark “that - God and the Commonwealth were not on the same side”. - - Nothing apparently could damp the ill-timed jocosity too often - prevalent in those troublous times, for at MARTEN’S trial, 16th - October, 1660, Ewer, who had been his servant, swore that “at the - signing of the warrant for the King’s execution he did see a pen in - Mr. CROMWELL’S hand, and he marked Mr. MARTEN in the face with it, - and Mr. MARTEN did the like to him”. But many of his excesses were - condoned in the eyes of both his friends and enemies by his generous - and humane spirit. - - D’ISRAELI, in his _Commentaries on the life and Reign of Charles - I._, describes the ingenious way in which MARTEN saved the life of - DAVID JENKINS, a loyal and obstinate Welsh judge, who, when brought - to the bar of the House of Commons to answer for imprisoning several - persons for bearing arms against the King, peremptorily disowned - their jurisdiction, and defied them in the following bold terms: - “‘But, Mr. Speaker, since you and this House have renounced your - allegiance to your Sovereign, and are become a den of thieves, - should I bow myself in this House of Rimmon the Lord would not - pardon me’. The whole House were electrified.... He was voted guilty - of high treason without any trial. The day of execution was then - debated. HARRY MARTEN, who had not yet spoken, rose, not to dissent - from the vote of the House, he observed, but he had something to say - about the time of the execution. ‘Mr. Speaker,’ said he, ‘everyone - must believe that this old gentleman here is fully possessed in his - head resolved to die a martyr in his cause, for otherwise he would - never have provoked the House by such biting expressions. If you - execute him, you do precisely that which he hopes for, and his - execution will have a great influence over the people, since he is - condemned without a jury. I therefore move that we should suspend - the day of execution, and in meantime force him to live in spite of - his teeth.’ The drollery of the motion put the House into better - humour, and he was reprieved. After being kept in various prisons - for eleven years, he was released by Cromwell, and died in 1663, - aged eighty-one.” - - Another instance may be given of MARTEN’S felicitous humour and - humane temper. When the Commons had rid themselves of the Sovereign, - _they voted the Lords to be dangerous and useless_. But MARTEN - proposed an amendment in their favour; namely, that _they were - useless, but not dangerous_. - - His speeches in the House were represented to have been not long, - “but wondrous poynant, pertinent, and witty. He was exceedingly apt - in apt instances; he alone hath sometimes turned the whole House.” - - He wrote several tracts on parliamentary subjects, and _Verses on - the Death of his Nephew, Charles Edmonds, 7th July, 1661, æt. 30_. - But the most amusing of the publications bearing his name is one - entitled _Familiar Letters to his Lady of Delight; also her kinde - Returnes: with his Rivall R. Pettingall’s Heroicall Epistles_. - Printed by Edmundus de Speciosâ Villâ [_i.e._, EDMUND GAYTON]. - _Bellositi Dobunorum_ [Oxford], 1662 and 1663, 4to. Another edition, - with additions, appeared in 1685. “These epistles,” says D’ISRAELI, - “paint to the life the loose habits and _espiègleries_ of this witty - profligate; and I think they have been referred to by some - inconsiderate writers as a _genuine_ correspondence.” They were - probably altogether concocted by GAYTON. He was severely attacked in - various scurrilous lampoons, some of which are printed among the - _Rump Songs_, 1662. - - On his trial he was found guilty and sentenced to death; but the - good feeling created among many who had in his prosperous days - enjoyed his society and hospitality, and even among many of his - former opponents by his generous treatment of them when in danger, - stood him in good stead, and it was by a well-timed and humorous - appeal to the Judges—such as he himself might have used—that his - life was saved. Henry, fourth Viscount FALKLAND, whose virtuous and - heroic father fell at the first Battle of Newbury while fighting for - the King, said to the Judges: “Gentlemen, ye talk here of making a - _sacrifice_: it was old law that all sacrifices were to be without - spot or blemish; and now you are going to make an old rotten rascal - a sacrifice”. This piece of wit pleased his Judges, and his sentence - was commuted to imprisonment for life. He was confined in Chepstow - Castle, Monmouthshire, for twenty years, and died in September, - 1680, aged seventy-eight. - - He must have felt some contrition for his vicious life, for some - time before his death he made this epitaph, by way of _acrostic_, on - himself: - - H ere, or elsewhere (all’s one to you, to me), - E arth, air, or water gripes my ghostly dust, - N one knowing when brave fire shall set it free. - R eader, if you an oft tryed rule will trust, - Y ou’ll gladly do and suffer what you must. - - M y life was worn with serving you and you, - A nd now death’s my pay, it seems, and welcome too. - R evenge destroying but itself, while I - T o birds of prey leave my old cage, and fly. - E xamples preach to the eye, care (then mine says) - N ot how you end, but how you spend your days. - - “In Cromwell’s time CHEPSTOW CASTLE served as a place of - imprisonment for Jeremy Taylor; and, after the Restoration, it - received a less illustrious occupant in the person of HARRY MARTEN, - the Regicide, whose imprisonment here has attracted more than its - share of notice in consequence of the foolish lines written by - SOUTHEY in his days of republicanism and pantisocracy, but which are - as untrue in _fact_ as they are mischievous in _sentiment_. As to - the _fact_, it is notorious that MARTEN—at all events after the - first few years of his imprisonment—was little more than a prisoner - on parole; allowed to visit the neighbouring gentry, and occupying - at Chepstow Castle, with his family and servants, spacious and - comfortable apartments in the tower which still bears his name. As - to the _sentiment_, the lines received their best antidote in the - clever parody of Canning and Frere in _The Anti-Jacobin_.”—_Annals - of Chepstow Castle_, by J. F. Marsh, 1883; 4to.] - - [Mrs. Elizabeth Brownrigg was executed at Tyburn on Monday, 14th - Sept., 1767, for murdering one of her apprentices, Mary - Clifford.—ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. II. - - - Nov. 27, 1797. - -In the specimen of JACOBIN POETRY which we gave in our last number was -developed a principle, perhaps one of the most universally recognised in -the Jacobin creed; namely, “that the animadversion of _human law_ upon -_human actions_ is for the most part nothing but _gross oppression_; and -that, in all cases of the administration of _criminal justice_, the -truly benevolent mind will consider only the _severity of the -punishment_, without any reference to the _malignity of the crime_”. -This principle has of late years been laboured with extraordinary -industry, and brought forward in a variety of shapes, for the -edification of the public. It has been inculcated in bulky quartos, and -illustrated in popular novels. It remained only to fit it with a -poetical dress, which had been attempted in the INSCRIPTION for CHEPSTOW -CASTLE, and which (we flatter ourselves) was accomplished in that for -MRS. BROWNRIGG’S CELL. - -Another principle, no less devoutly entertained, and no less sedulously -disseminated, is the _natural and eternal warfare of the_ POOR _and the_ -RICH. In those orders and gradations of society, which are the natural -result of the original difference of talents and of industry among -mankind, the Jacobin sees nothing but a graduated scale of violence and -cruelty. He considers every rich man as an oppressor, and every person -in a lower situation as the victim of avarice, and the slave of -aristocratical insolence and contempt. These truths he declares loudly, -not to excite compassion, or to soften the consciousness of superiority -in the higher, but for the purpose of aggravating discontent in the -inferior orders. - -A human being, in the lowest state of penury and distress, is a treasure -to the reasoner of this cast. He contemplates, he examines, he turns him -in every possible light, with a view of extracting from the variety of -his wretchedness new topics of invective against the pride of property. -He, indeed (if he is a true Jacobin), refrains from _relieving_ the -object of his compassionate contemplation; as well knowing that every -diminution from the general mass of human misery must proportionably -diminish the force of his argument. - -This principle is treated at large by many authors. It is versified in -sonnets and elegies without end. We trace it particularly in a poem by -the same author [SOUTHEY] from whom we borrowed our former illustration -of the Jacobin doctrine of crimes and punishments. In this poem, the -pathos of the matter is not a little relieved by the absurdity of the -metre. We shall not think it necessary to transcribe the whole of it, as -our imitation does not pretend to be so literal as in the last instance, -but merely aspires to convey some idea of the manner and sentiment of -the original. One stanza, however, we must give, lest we should be -suspected of painting from fancy, and not from life. - -The learned reader will perceive that the metre is SAPPHIC, and affords -a fine opportunity for his _scanning_ and _proving_, if he has not -forgotten them. - - Cōld wăs thē nīght wīnd; drĭftĭng fāst thĕ snōws fĕll; - Wīde wĕre thē dōwns, ānd shĕltĕrlēss ănd nākēd: - Whēn ă poōr wānd’rēr strŭgglĕd ōn hĕr joūrnĕy, - Wēāry ănd wāy-sōre.[9] - -[Illustration: ] - -This is enough; unless the reader should wish to be informed how - - Fāst o’ĕr thē blēāk hēāth răttlĭng drōve ă chārīōt; - -Or how, not long after, - - Loūd blĕw thē wīnd, ūnhēārd wăs hēr cŏmplāinĭng— - Ōn wĕnt thĕ hōrsemān. - -We proceed to give our IMITATION, which is of the _Amœbæan_ or -_Collocutory_ kind. - - - SAPPHICS. - THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER. - - FRIEND OF HUMANITY.[10] - - “Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? - Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order— - Bleak blows the blast; your hat has got a hole in’t, - So have your breeches! - - “Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones, - Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike- - -road what hard work ’tis crying all day “Knives and - Scissars to grind O!” - - “Tell me, Knife-grinder, how you came to grind knives? - Did some rich man tyrannically use you? - Was it the squire? or parson of the parish? - Or the attorney? - - “Was it the squire, for killing of his game? or - Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining? - Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little - All in a lawsuit? - - “(Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?) - Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, - Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your - Pitiful story.” - - KNIFE-GRINDER. - - “Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir, - Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers, - This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were - Torn in a scuffle. - - “Constables came up for to take me into - Custody; they took me before the justice; - Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish- - -Stocks for a vagrant. - - “I should be glad to drink your Honour’s health in - A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence; - But for my part, I never love to meddle - With politics, sir.” - - FRIEND OF HUMANITY. - - “_I_ give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first— - Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance— - Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, - Spiritless outcast!” - - [_Kicks the Knife-grinder, overturns his wheel, and exit in a - transport of Republican enthusiasm and universal philanthropy._] - - - - - No. III. - - - Nov. 30, 1797. - -We have received the following from a loyal correspondent, and we shall -be very happy at any time to be relieved, by communications of a similar -tendency, from the drudgery of Jacobinical imitations. - - - THE INVASION;[11] - OR, THE BRITISH WAR SONG. - - _To the Tune of_ “Whilst happy in my native land”. - - I. - - Whilst happy in our native land, - So great, so famed in story, - Let’s join, my friends, with heart and hand - To raise our country’s glory: - When Britain calls, her valiant sons - Will rush in crowds to aid her— - Snatch, snatch your muskets, prime your guns, - And crush the fierce invader! - Whilst every Briton’s song shall be, - “O give us Death—or Victory!” - - II. - - Long had this favour’d isle enjoy’d - True comforts, past expressing, - When _France_ her hellish arts employ’d - To rob us of each blessing: - These from our hearths by force to tear - (Which long we’ve learned to cherish) - Our frantic foes shall vainly dare; - We’ll keep ’em or we’ll perish— - And every day our song shall be, - “O give us Death—or Victory!” - - III. - - Let France in savage accents sing - Her bloody Revolution; - We prize our country, love our king, - Adore our constitution; - For these we’ll every danger face, - And quit our rustic labours; - Our ploughs to firelocks shall give place; - Our scythes be changed to sabres; - And clad in arms, our song shall be, - “O give us Death—or Victory!” - - IV. - - Soon shall the proud invaders learn, - When bent on blood and plunder, - That British bosoms nobly burn - To brave their cannon’s thunder: - Low lie those heads, whose wily arts - Have plann’d the world’s undoing! - Our vengeful blades shall reach those hearts - Which seek our country’s ruin; - And night and morn our song shall be, - “O give us Death—or Victory!” - - V. - - When, with French blood our fields manured, - The glorious struggle’s ended, - We’ll sing the dangers we’ve endured, - The blessings we’ve defended: - O’er the full bowl our feats we’ll tell, - Each gallant deed reciting; - And weep o’er those who nobly fell - Their country’s battle fighting— - And ever thence our song shall be, - “’Tis VALOUR leads to VICTORY”. - - * * * * * - - [The following Song which furnished the hints for the one above was - written by MILES PETER ANDREWS, M.P. for Bewdley, and a dealer in - gunpowder; but his Plays, Prologues, Verses, &c., by no means - resemble so active a composition. He, with other members of the - “_Della Crusca_,” was savagely attacked and extinguished by W. - Gifford in “_The Baviad_”. His song was set to music by Sir HENRY - BISHOP. He died in 1814. - - I. - - Whilst happy in my native land - I boast my country’s charter, - I’ll never basely lend my hand - Her liberties to barter. - The noble mind is not at all - By poverty degraded; - ’Tis guilt alone can make us fall, - And well am I persuaded, - Each free-born Briton’s song should be, - “Oh! give me Death or Liberty!” - - II. - - Though small the pow’r which Fortune grants, - And few the gifts she sends us, - The lordly hireling often wants - That freedom which defends us. - By law secur’d from lawless strife, - Our house is our _castellum_; - Thus, blessed with all that’s dear in life, - For lucre shall we sell ’em? - No,—ev’ry Briton’s song should be, - “Oh! give me Death or Liberty!” - ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. IV. - - - Dec. 4, 1797. - -We have been favoured with the following specimen of Jacobin Poetry, -which we give to the world without any comment or imitation. We are -informed (we know not how truly) that it will be sung at the meeting of -the Friends of Freedom; an account of which is anticipated in our -present paper.[12] - - - LA SAINTE GUILLOTINE. - =A New Song.= - ATTEMPTED FROM THE FRENCH. - - _Tune_—“O’er the vine-covered hills and gay regions of France”. - - I. - - From the blood-bedew’d valleys and mountains of France, - See the Genius of Gallic INVASION advance! - Old ocean shall waft her, unruffled by storm, - While our shores are all lined with the “_Friends of Reform_”.[13] - Confiscation and Murder attend in her train, - With meek-eyed Sedition, the daughter of PAINE;[14] - While her sportive _Poissardes_ with light footsteps are seen - To dance in a ring round the gay _Guillotine_.[15] - - II. - - To _London_, “the rich, the defenceless”[16] she comes— - Hark! my boys, to the sound of the Jacobin drums! - See Corruption, Prescription, and Privilege fly, - Pierced through by the glance of her blood-darting eye. - While patriots, from prison and prejudice freed, - In soft accents shall lisp the Republican creed, - And with tri-colour’d fillets, and cravats of green, - Shall crowd round the altar of _Saint Guillotine_. - - III. - - See the level of Freedom sweeps over the land— - The vile Aristocracy’s doom is at hand! - Not a seat shall be left in a House _that we know_, - But for _Earl_ BUONAPARTE and _Baron_ MOREAU. - But the rights of the Commons shall still be respected, - Buonaparte himself shall approve the elected; - And the Speaker shall march with majestical mien, - And make his three bows to the grave _Guillotine_. - - IV. - - Two heads, says the proverb, are better than one, - But the Jacobin choice is for Five Heads or none. - By Directories only can Liberty thrive; - Then down with the ONE, Boys! and up with the FIVE! - How our bishops and judges will stare with amazement, - When their heads are thrust out at the _National Casement_![17] - When the _National Razor_[17] has shaved them quite clean, - What a handsome oblation to _Saint Guillotine_! - - [The following _Lines_ were written by an ardent reformer, W. - ROSCOE, the accomplished author of the “Life of Leo X.,” and other - works, to commemorate the taking of the Bastille (14th July, 1789), - and the publication by the National Assembly (on 20th August - following) of the famous “Declaration of Rights”—a manifesto which - became the creed of the Revolution, and which promulgated, as the - basis of social government, the specious but impracticable doctrines - of _liberty_, _equality_, and _the sovereignty of the people_ - exercised by universal suffrage. How the hopes and anticipations of - moderate reformers, as embodied in these lines, were falsified by - the spoliations and massacres which rapidly followed are but too - well known. - - When, therefore, the _Anti-Jacobin_ was established to combat the - principles of the Revolution, these _Lines_ were, for party - purposes, maliciously referred to, and significantly recommended to - be “recited on the anniversary of the 14th August”. To make this - allusion more clear, it must be remembered that on the 10th August, - 1792, after frightful massacres, the Hotel de Ville was seized and - the Tuileries stormed. On the 13th the king and family were - imprisoned in the Temple. His deposition, the dismissal of the - Ministers, and the formation of a National Convention, on more - popular principles than the Legislative Assembly, were decreed by - the victors. On the 14th Le Brun became Minister for Foreign - Affairs, Danton for Justice, and Monge for Marine; while the - Girondist Ministers, Roland, Servan, and Clavière, resumed their - former functions as Ministers of the Interior, War, and Finance - respectively. - - The Song, _La Sainte Guillotine_, was evidently written as a - _Contrast_, and not as a _Parody_—a few lines at the beginning only - excepted, which serve as an introduction to verses on another - promised phase of the Revolution, the invasion of England.—ED.] - - - LINES. - - Written for the purpose of being recited on the Anniversary of the 14th - of August. By WILLIAM ROSCOE, Esq. - - O’er the vine-covered hills and gay regions of France, - See the day-star of liberty rise; - Through the clouds of detraction unsullied advance, - And hold its new course through the skies! - An effulgence so mild, with a lustre so bright, - All Europe with wonder surveys; - And, from deserts of darkness and dungeons of night, - Contends for a share of the blaze. - - Ah! who ’midst the horrors of night would abide, - That can breathe the pure breezes of morn? - Or who, that has drunk the pure crystalline tide, - To the feculent flood would return? - When the bosom of Beauty the throbbing heart meets, - Ah, who can the transport decline? - Or who, that has tasted of Liberty’s sweets, - The prize but with life would resign? - - Let Burke like a bat from its splendour retire, - A splendour too strong for his eyes; - Let pedants and fools his effusions admire, - Entrapt in his cobwebs like flies. - Shall insolent Sophistry hope to prevail - Where Reason opposes her weight, - When the welfare of millions is hung in the scale, - And the balance yet trembles with fate? - - But ’tis over—high Heaven the decision approves, - Oppression has struggled in vain, - To the hell she has form’d Superstition removes, - And Tyranny bites his own chain. - In the records of Time a new era unfolds, - All nature exults in its birth; - His creation benign the Creator beholds, - And gives a new charter to earth. - - Oh! catch the high import, ye winds, as ye blow; - Oh! hear it, ye waves, as ye roll, - From regions that feel the sun’s vertical glow, - To the farthest extremes of the Pole. - _Equal rights, equal laws_, to the nations around, - Peace and friendship its precepts impart, - And wherever the footsteps of man shall be found, - He shall bind the decree on his heart. - - * * * * * - - [The Account of what was “anticipated to take place at the _Meeting - of the Friends of Freedom_”—alluded to on page 29—duly appeared in - _The Anti-Jacobin_, but has never hitherto formed a part of the - collection of its Poetry. As it is marked by much ability, and has - been often quoted, it appears to the editor desirable to introduce - some portion of it into the present edition of the _Poetry_. - - - MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM. - - The _House of Russell_ being given, LORD JOHN and LORD WILLIAM both - rose at once. - - LORD JOHN made a very neat, and LORD WILLIAM a very appropriate - speech. - - ALDERMAN COOMBE made a very impressive speech. - - MR. TIERNEY made a very pointed speech. - - MR. GREY made a very fine speech. He described the ministers as - “bold bad men”—their measures he repeatedly declared to be not only - “weak, but wicked”. - - MR. BYNG said a few words. - - GENERAL TARLETON and the _Electors of Liverpool_ being given, the - General, after an eulogium on Mr. Fox, begged to anticipate their - favourite concluding toast, and to give “_The Cause of Freedom all - over the World_”. This toast unfortunately gave rise to an - altercation which threatened to disturb the harmony of the evening. - Olaudah Equiano, the African, and Henry Yorke, the mulatto, insisted - upon being heard; but as it appeared that they were entering upon a - subject which would have entirely altered the complexion of the - Meeting, they were, though not without some difficulty, withheld - from proceeding further. - - MR. ERSKINE rose, in consequence of some allusions which had been - made to Trial by Jury. He professed himself to be highly flattered - by the encomiums which had been lavished upon him; at the same time - he was conscious that he could not, without some degree of reserve, - consent to arrogate to himself those qualities which the partiality - of his friends had attributed to him. He had, on former occasions, - declared himself to be clothed with the infirmities of man’s nature; - and he now begged leave in all humility to reiterate that - confession; he should never cease to consider himself as a feeble, - and with respect to the extent of his faculties in many respects, a - finite being—he had ever borne in mind, and he hoped he should ever - continue to bear in mind, those words of the inspired Penman, “Thou - hast made him less than the angels, to crown him with glory and - honour”. These lines were indeed applicable to the state of man in - general, but of no man more than himself; they appeared to him - pointed and personal, and little less than prophetic; they were - always present to his mind; he could wish to wear them in his breast - as a sort of amulet against the enchantment of public applause, and - the witcheries of vanity and self-delusion; yet if he were indeed - possessed of those superhuman powers—all pretensions to which he - again begged leave most earnestly to disclaim—if he were endowed - with the eloquence of an angel, and with all those other faculties - which we attribute to angelic natures, it would be impossible for - him to do justice to the eloquence with which the Honourable - Gentleman who opened the meeting had defended the Cause of Freedom, - identified as he conceived it to be with the persons and government - of the DIRECTORY. In his present terrestrial state he could only - address it as a prayer to God and as counsel to Man that the words - which they had heard from that Honourable Gentleman might work - inwardly in their hearts, and in due time, produce the fruit of - Liberty and Revolution. - - He had not the advantage of being personally acquainted with any of - the Gentlemen of the DIRECTORY; he understood, however, that one of - them (MR. MERLIN) previous to the last change, had stood in a - situation similar to his own—he was, in fact, nothing less than a - leading Advocate and Barrister in the midst of a free, powerful and - enlightened people. - - The conduct of the DIRECTORY with regard to the exiled Deputies had - been objected to by some persons on the score of a pretended rigour. - For his part he should only say that having been, as he had been, - both a Soldier and a Sailor, if it had been his fortune to have - stood in either of those two relations to the DIRECTORY—as a Man and - as a Major-General he should not have scrupled to direct his - artillery against the National Representation:—as a Naval Officer he - would undoubtedly have undertaken for the removal of the Exiled - Deputies; admitting the exigency, under all its relations, as it - appeared to him to exist, and the then circumstances of the times, - with all their bearings and dependencies, branching out into an - infinity of collateral considerations, and involving in each a - variety of objects political, physical, and moral; and these again - under their distinct and separate heads, ramifying into endless - subdivisions which it was foreign to his purpose to consider. - - Having thus disposed of this part of his subject, MR. ERSKINE passed - in a strain of rapid and brilliant allusions over a variety of - points characteristic of the conduct and disposition of the present - Ministry; Mr. Burke’s metaphor of “the Swinish Multitude,” Mr. - Reeves’ metaphor of the “Tree of Monarchy,” “the Battle of Tranent,” - “the March to Paris,” the phrase of “Acquitted Felons,” and the - exclamation of “Perish Commerce”—which last expression he declared - he should never cease to attribute to Mr. Windham; so long, at - least, as it should please the Sovereign Dispenser to continue to - him the power of utterance and the enjoyment of his present - faculties. He condemned the expedition to Quiberon, he regretted the - “Fate of Messrs. Muir and Palmer,” he exulted in the “Acquittal of - Citizens Tooke, Hardy, Thelwall, Holcroft and others,” and he - blessed that Providence to which (as it had been originally allotted - to him (Mr. Erskine) the talents which had been exerted in their - defence) the preservation of those Citizens might perhaps be - indirectly attributed. He then descanted on the captivity of La - Fayette, and the Dividend on the Imperial Loan. - - After fully exhausting these subjects, MR. ERSKINE resumed a topic - on which he had only slightly glanced before. In a most delicate and - sportive vein of humour he contended, that if the people were a - Swinish Multitude, those who represented them must necessarily be a - Swinish Representation. It would be in vain to attempt to do justice - to the polite and easy pleasantry which pervaded this part of MR. - ERSKINE’S speech. Suffice it to say that the taste of the Audience - showed itself in complete unison with the genius of the Orator, and - the whole of this passage was crowned with loud and reiterated - plaudits. After a speech of unexampled exertion, MR. ERSKINE now - began to enter much at length into a recital of select passages from - our most approved English authors, concluding with a copious extract - from the several Publications of the late MR. BURKE; but such were - the variety and richness of his quotations which he continued to an - extent far exceeding the limits of this paper, that we found - ourselves under the necessity, either of considerably abridging our - original matter, or omitting them altogether, which latter - alternative we adopted the more readily as the greater part of these - brilliant citations have already passed through the ordeal of a - public and patriotic auditory; and as there is every probability - that the circumstances of the times will again call them forth on - some future emergency. - - MR. ERSKINE concluded by recapitulating, in a strain of agonizing - and impressive eloquence, the several more prominent heads of his - speech:—He had been a Soldier and a Sailor, and had a son at - Winchester school—He had been called by Special Retainers, during - the summer, into many different and distant parts of the - country—travelling chiefly in Post-chaises—He felt himself called - upon to declare that his poor faculties were at the service of his - Country—of the free and enlightened part of it at least—He stood - here as a Man—He stood in the Eye, indeed in the Hand of GOD—to whom - (in the presence of the Company and Waiters) he solemnly appealed—He - was of Noble, perhaps, Royal Blood—He had a house at Hampstead—was - convinced of the necessity of a thorough and radical Reform—His - Pamphlet had gone through Thirty Editions—skipping alternately the - odd and even numbers—He loved the Constitution, to which he would - cling and grapple—And he was clothed with the infirmities of man’s - nature—He would apply to the present French Rulers (particularly - BARRAS and REUBEL) the words of the poet:— - - “Be to their Faults a little blind; - “Be to their Virtues very kind, - “Let all their ways be unconfin’d, - “And clap the Padlock on their mind!” - - And for these reasons, thanking the Gentlemen who had done him the - honour to drink his Health, he should propose “MERLIN, _the late - Minister of Justice, and Trial by Jury!_” MR. ERSKINE here concluded - a speech which had occupied the attention and excited the applause - of his Audience during a space of little less than three hours, - allowing for about three quarters of an hour, which were occupied by - successive fits of fainting, between the principal subdivisions of - his discourse.—MR. ERSKINE descended from the Table, and was - conveyed down stairs by the assistance of his friends. On arriving - at the corner of the Piazzas, they were surprized by a very - unexpected embarrassment. MR. ERSKINE’S horses had been taken from - the carriage, and a number of able Chairmen engaged to supply their - place; but these fellows having contrived to intoxicate themselves - with the money which the Coachman had advanced to them on account, - were become so restive and unruly, so exorbitant in their demands - (positively refusing to abide by their former engagement) that MR. - ERSKINE deemed it unsafe to trust himself in their hands, and - determined to wait the return of his own more tractable and less - chargeable animals. This unpleasant scene continued for above an - hour. - - MR. SHERIDAN’S health was now drunk in his absence and received with - an appearance of general approbation;—when in the midst of the - applause MR. FOX arose, in apparent agitation, and directed the - attention of the Company to the rising, manly virtues of MR. - MACFUNGUS. - - MR. MACFUNGUS declared that to pretend he was not elated by the - encomiums with which MR. FOX had honoured him was an affectation - which he disdained;—such encomiums would ever form the proudest - recompense of his patriotic labours—he confessed they were cheering - to him—he felt them warm at his heart—and while a single fibre of - his frame preserved its vibration, it would throb in unison to the - approbation of that Honourable Gentleman. The applause of the - Company was no less flattering to him—he felt his faculties - invigorated by it, and stimulated to the exertion of new energies in - the race of mind. Every other sensation was obliterated and absorbed - by it; for the present, however, he would endeavour to suppress his - feelings, and concentre his energies for the purpose of explaining - to the Company why he assisted now for the first time at the - celebration of the Fifth Revolution which had been effected in - regenerated France. The various and extraordinary talents of the - Right Hon. Gentleman—his vehement and overpowering perception, his - vigorous and splendid intuition would for ever attract the - admiration of all those who were in any degree endowed with those - faculties themselves or capable of estimating them in others; as - such, he had ever been among the most ardent admirers, and on many - occasions, among the most ardent supporters of the Right Hon. - Gentleman—he agreed with him in many points—in his general love of - Liberty and Revolution; in his execration of the War; in his - detestation of Ministers; but he entertained his doubts, and till - those doubts were cleared up, he could not, consistently with his - principles, attend at the celebration of any Revolution whatever. - - These doubts, however, were now satisfactorily done away. A pledge - had been entered into for accomplishing an effectual radical - Revolution; not for the mere overthrow of the present System, nor - for the establishment of any other in its place; but for the - effecting such a series of Revolutions as might be sufficient for - the establishment of a Free System. - - MR. MACFUNGUS continued he was incapable of compromising with first - principles, of acquiescing in short-sighted temporary palliative - expedients: if such had been his temper he should assuredly have - rested satisfied with the pledge which that Right Hon. Gentleman had - entered into about six months ago on the subject of Parliamentary - Reform, in which pledge he considered the promise of that previous - and preliminary Revolution, to which he had before alluded, as - essentially implicated. - - “Whenever this Reform takes place,” exclaimed MR. MACFUNGUS, “the - present degraded and degrading system must fall into dissolution; it - must sink and perish with the corruptions which have supported it. - The national energies will awake, and shaking off their lethargy as - their fetters drop from them, they will follow the Angel of their - Revolution, while the Genius of Freedom soaring aloft beneath the - orb of Gallic Illumination will brush away as with the wing of an - Eagle all the cobwebs of Aristocracy. But before the Temple of - Freedom can be erected in their place, the surface which they have - occupied must be smoothed and levelled—it must be cleared by - repeated Revolutionary Explosions from all the lumber and rubbish - with which Aristocracy and Fanaticism will endeavour to encumber it, - and to impede the progress of the holy work.—The sacred level, the - symbol of Fraternal Equality, must be passed over the whole.—The - completion of the Edifice will indeed be the more tardy, but it will - not be the less durable for having been longer delayed—Cemented with - the blood of tyrants, and the tears of the Aristocracy, it will rise - a monument for the astonishment and veneration of future ages. The - remotest posterity, with our children yet unborn, and the most - distant portions of the Globe, will crowd around its Gates and - demand admission into its Sanctuary.—The Tree of Liberty will be - planted in the midst of it, and its branches will extend to the ends - of the Earth, while the Friends of Freedom meet and fraternize and - amalgamate under its consolatory shade. There our Infants shall be - taught to lisp in tender accents the Revolutionary Hymn—there with - wreaths of myrtle, and oak, and poplar, and vine and olive and - cypress and ivy; with violets and roses and daffodils and dandelions - in our hands we will swear respect to childhood and manhood and old - age, and virginity and womanhood and widowhood; but above all to the - Supreme Being.—There we will decree and sanction the Immortality of - the Soul.—There pillars and obelisks, and arches and pyramids, will - awaken the love of Glory and of our Country.—There Painters and - Statuaries, with their chisels and colours, and Engravers with their - engraving tools will perpetuate the interesting features of our - Revolutionary Heroes; while our Poets and Musicians, with an - honourable emulation, strive to immortalize their memory. Their - bones will be entombed in the Vault below, while their sacred Shades - continue hovering over our Heads—those venerated Manes which from - time to time will require to be appeased by the blood of the - remaining Aristocrats.—Then Peace and Freedom, and Fraternity and - Equality will pervade the whole Earth—while the Vows of - Republicanism, the Alter of Patriotism, and the Revolutionary - Pontiff, with the thrilling volcanic Sympathies, whether of Holy - Fury or of ardent Fraternal Civism, uniting and identifying, produce - as it were an electric Energy.” - - MR. MACFUNGUS here paused for a few moments, seemingly overpowered - by the excess of Sensibility, and the force of the ideas which he - was labouring to convey.—The whole Company appeared to sympathize - with his unaffected emotions. After a short interval, he recovered - himself from a very impressive silence, and continued as follows: - - “These prospects, Fellow-Citizens, may possibly be deferred. The - Machiavelism of Governments may for the time prevail, and this - unnatural and execrable contest may yet be prolonged; but the hour - is not far distant; Persecution will only serve to accelerate it, - and the blood of Patriotism streaming from the severing axe will - call down vengeance on our oppressors in a voice of Thunder. I - expect the contest, and I am prepared for it.—I hope I shall never - shrink nor swerve nor start aside wherever duty and inclination may - place me. My services, my life itself, are at your disposal—Whether - to act or to suffer, I am yours—With HAMPDEN in the field, or with - SIDNEY on the scaffold. My example may be more useful to you than my - talents: and this head may perhaps serve your cause more - effectually, if placed on a pole on Temple Bar, than if it was - occupied in organizing your Committees, in preparing your - Revolutionary Explosions, and conducting your Correspondence.” - - MR. MACFUNGUS said he should give, as an unequivocal test of his - sentiments, “BUONAPARTE AND A RADICAL REFORM”. - - The conclusion of MR. MACFUNGUS’S speech was followed by a - simultaneous burst of rapturous approbation from every part of the - room. The applause continued for several minutes, during which MR. - MACFUNGUS repeatedly rose to express his feelings. - - The conversation now became more mixed and animated; several - excellent Songs were sung, and Toasts drank, while the progressive - and patriotic festivity of the evening was heightened by the vocal - powers of several of the most popular Singers. A new Song written by - Captain MORRIS received its sanction in the warmest expression of - applause. The whole company joined with enthusiasm in their old - favourite Chorus of Bow! Wow!! Wow!!!] - - * * * * * - - [MACFUNGUS stands for SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH, who, after studying - medicine in Edinburgh, settled in London, and wrote for the - opposition newspapers, particularly the _Morning Post_, Daniel - Stuart, the proprietor, being his father-in-law. The first work that - brought him into notice was his _Vindiciæ Gallicæ_ (1791), in reply - to Burke’s _Reflections_ on the French Revolution, which splendid - philippic it greatly surpassed in philosophic thought, sound - feeling, and common sense. It was enthusiastically received by the - Liberal party, whose leaders eagerly sought his acquaintance and - co-operation; and when the _Association of the Friends of the - People_ was formed, he was appointed Secretary. His subsequent - successful career as an Advocate, Indian Judge, Member of - Parliament, Minister under Lord Grey, and as an English historian, - bore out the promise of his youth. He was born in 1765 and died in - 1832.—ED.] - - - - - No. V. - - - Dec. 11, 1797. - -We have already hinted at the principle by which the followers of the -Jacobinical sect are restrained from the exercise of their own favourite -virtue of charity. The force of this prohibition, and the strictness -with which it is observed, are strongly exemplified in the following -poem. It is the production of the same author [SOUTHEY] whose happy -effort in English Sapphics we presumed to imitate; the present effusion -is in Dactylics, and equally subject to the laws of Latin Prosody. - - - THE SOLDIER’S WIFE. - - Wēāry̆ wăy-wāndĕrĕr, lānguĭd ănd sĭck ăt hĕart, - Trāvĕllĭng pāinfŭlly̆ ōvĕr thĕ rūggĕd roăd; - Wīld vĭsăg’d wāndĕrĕr—āh fŏr thy̆ hēavy̆ chănce. - -We think that we see him fumbling in the pocket of his blue pantaloons; -that the splendid shilling is about to make its appearance, and to -glitter in the eyes, and glad the heart of the poor sufferer. But no -such thing—the bard very calmly contemplates her situation, which he -describes in a pair of very pathetical stanzas; and after the following -well-imagined topic of consolation, concludes by leaving her to -Providence. - - Thy husband will never return from the war again; - Cold is thy hopeless heart, _even as charity_; - Cold are thy famished babes—_God help thee_, widow’d one! - -We conceived that it would be necessary to follow up this general rule -with the particular exception, and to point out one of those cases in -which the embargo upon Jacobin bounty is sometimes suspended;[18] with -this view we have subjoined the poem of - - - THE SOLDIER’S FRIEND. - DACTYLICS. - - Come, little Drummer Boy, lay down your knapsack here: - I am the soldier’s friend—here are some books for you; - Nice clever books by TOM PAINE, the philanthropist.[19] - Here’s half-a-crown for you—here are some handbills too— - Go to the barracks, and give all the soldiers some. - Tell them the sailors are all in a mutiny. - - _Exit Drummer Boy, with handbills and half-a-crown.—Manet Soldier’s Friend._ - - Liberty’s friends thus all learn to amalgamate, - Freedom’s volcanic explosion prepares itself, - Despots shall bow to the fasces of liberty. - Reason, philosophy, “fiddledum diddledum,” - Peace and fraternity, higgledy, piggledy, - Higgledy, piggledy, “fiddledum diddledum”. - - _Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera._ - - - SONNET.—TO LIBERTY. - - Just Guardian of man’s social bliss! for thee - The paths of danger gladly would I tread: - For thee! contented, join the glorious dead, - Who nobly scorn’d a life that was not free! - - But worse than death it pains my soul to see - The Lord of Ruin, by wild Uproar led, - Hell’s first-born, ANARCHY, exalt his head, - And seize thy throne, and bid us bow the knee! - - What though his iron sceptre, blood-imbrued, - Crush half the nations with resistless might; - Never shall this firm spirit be subdued: - In chains, in exile, still the chanted rite, - O LIBERTY! to thee shall be renew’d: - O still be sea-girt ALBION thy delight! D. - - - - - No. VI. - - - Dec. 18, 1797. - -We cannot enough congratulate ourselves on having been so fortunate as -to fall upon the curious specimens of classical metre and correct -sentiment which we have made the subject of our late Jacobinical -imitations. - -The fashion of admiring and imitating these productions has spread in a -surprising degree. Even those who sympathise with the principles of the -writer selected as our model, seem to have been struck with the ridicule -of his poetry. - -There appeared in the _Morning Chronicle_ of Monday a _Sapphic Ode_, -apparently written by a friend and associate of our author, in which he -is however travestied most unmercifully. And to make the joke the more -pointed, the learned and judicious editor contrived to print the ode _en -masse_, without any order of lines, or division of stanza; so that it -was not discovered to be _verse_ till the next day, when it was -explained in a hobbling _erratum_. - -We hardly know which to consider as the greater object of compassion in -this case—the original _Odist_, thus parodied by his friend, or the -mortified _Parodist_ thus mutilated by his printer. “_Et tu, Brute!_” -has probably been echoed from each of these worthies to his murderer, in -a tone that might melt the hardest heart to pity. - -We cordially wish them joy of each other, and we resign the modern -_Lesbian lyre_ into their hands without envy or repining. - -Our author’s DACTYLICS have produced a second imitation (conveyed to us -from an unknown hand), with which we take our leave of this species of -poetry also. - - - THE SOLDIER’S WIFE.[20] - - DACTYLICS. - - “Wēāry̆ wăy-wāndĕrĕr,” &c. &c. - - IMITATION. - - DACTYLICS. - - _Being the quintessence of all the Dactylics that ever were, or ever - will be written._ - - HUMBLY ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR OF THE ABOVE. - - Wearisome Sonnetteer, feeble and querulous, - Painfully dragging out thy demo-cratic lays— - Moon-stricken Sonnetteer, “ah! for thy heavy chance!” - - Sorely thy Dactylics lag on uneven feet: - Slow is the syllable which thou wouldst urge to speed, - Lame and o’erburthen’d, and “screaming its wretchedness!” - - . . . . . . . . .[21] - - Ne’er talk of ears again! look at thy spelling-book; - _Dilworth_ and _Dyche_[22] are both mad at thy quantities— - DACTYLICS, call’st thou ’em—“God help thee, silly one!” - - [The following is the _Sapphic Ode_ alluded to above, which was - intended by the poet of the _Morning Chronicle_ as a “retort - courteous” to the _Friend of Humanity_. The printer of that paper, - unfortunately, being new to “such branches of learning,” and not - dreaming it could be intended for _poetry_, printed it as below. The - mistake seems to have been immediately discovered, for it - re-appeared next day (Dec. 12) in the guise of verse.—ED.] - - - THE COLLECTOR AND THE HOUSEHOLDER. - - _The Hint taken from the Anti-Jacobin, “Needy Knife-Grinders”_ - - _H._ Greedy Collector, whither are you going, thus with your - inkhorn in your buttonhole, and ledger so snugly underneath - your coat? Say, greedy Collector. - - _C._ Much I rejoice that I have met you here, friend: turn back, - I pri’thee, ’tis with you I want to speak; I am come on - business of importance—gentle Householder. - - _H._ Greedy Collector, well I know your business, ’tis for my - taxes you are come to dun me; well! ’tis the last time you - will have a right to ask me for money. Buggy, no longer do - I drive a smart one; smash went my gig, as long [ago] as - Easter; down Highgate hill we tumbled altogether, horse, - wife, and I, Sir. One broke his knees, and[23] another - broke his collar-bone; there’s an end of pleasuring on - Sundays. Take my last payment; there is your two pounds - twelve shillings and ninepence. - - _C._ Gentle householder, much are you mistaken; Order, Religion, - Constitution, Laws, and rational freedom, all demand from - you a—triple assessment. - - _H._ Triple Assessment! What beside the old tax? - - _C._ Certainly: come, deposit, I’m a waiting. - - _H._ Wait and be damned. What is it you are after? - - _C._ Ten pounds eleven. - - _H._ Ten pounds eleven! have I not informed thee gig I have none? - I’ve sent it to the hammer; Pay for a gig and not [to] have - it! - - _C._ But you had one at Easter! - - _H._ Easter is past and gone. I’ll never pay thee. - - _C._ Gentle Householder, then I must proceed to shew thee a - little bit of parchment, called a writ of distringer [for - _distringas_]. - - [_Exit_ Collector to take possession of the Householder’s - bed and furniture. - -The verses which we here present to the public were written immediately -after the Revolution of the 4th of September. We should be much obliged -to any of our classical and loyal correspondents for an English -translation of them. - - - LATIN VERSES - _Written immediately after the Revolution of the 4th of September._ - - Ipsa mali Hortatrix scelerumque uberrima Mater - In se prima suos vertit lymphata furores, - Luctaturque diù secum, et conatibus ægris - Fessa cadit, proprioque jacet labefacta veneno. - - Mox tamen ipsius rursúm violentia morbi - Erigit ardentem furiis, ultróque minantem - Spargere bella procul, vastæque incendia cladis, - Civilesque agitare faces, totumque per orbem - Sceptra super Regum et Populorum subdita colla - Ferre pedem, et sanctas Regnorum evertere sedes. - - Aspicis! Ipsa sui bacchatur sanguine Regis, - Barbaraque ostentans feralis signa triumphi, - Mole giganteâ campis prorumpit apertis, - Successu scelerum, atque insanis viribus audax. - - At quà Pestis atrox rapido se turbine vertit, - Cernis ibi, priscâ morum compage solutâ, - Procubuisse solo civilis fœdera vitæ, - Et quodcunque Fides, quodcunque habet alma verendi - Religio, Pietasque et Legum fræna sacrarum. - - Nec spes Pacis adhuc—necdum exsaturata rapinis - Effera Bellatrix, fusove expleta cruore. - Crescit inextinctus Furor, atque exæstuat ingens - Ambitio, immanisque irâ Vindicta renatâ - Reliquias Soliorum et adhuc restantia Regna - Flagitat excidio, prædæque incumbit opimæ. - - Una etenim in mediis Gens intemerata ruinis - Libertate probâ, et justo libramine rerum, - Securum faustis degit sub legibus ævum; - Antiquosque colit mores, et jura Parentum - Ordine firma suo, sanoque intacta vigore, - Servat adhuc, hominumque fidem, curamque Deorum. - Eheu! quanta odiis avidoque alimenta furori! - Quanta profanatas inter spoliabitur aras - Victima! si quando versis Victoria fatis - Annuerit scelus extremum, terrâque subactâ - Impius Oceani sceptrum fædaverit Hostis! - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. VII. - - - Dec. 25, 1797. - -We have been favoured with a translation of the Latin verses inserted in -our last Number. We have little doubt that our readers will agree with -us, in hoping that this may not be the last contribution which we shall -receive from the same hand.[24] - - Parent of countless crimes, in headlong rage, - War with herself see frantic _Gallia_ wage, - Till worn and wasted by intestine strife, - She falls—her languid pulse scarce quick with life. - But soon she feels through every trembling vein, - New strength collected from convulsive pain: - Onward she moves, and sounds the dire alarm, - And bids insulted nations haste to arm; - Spreads wide the waste of war, and hurls the brand - Of civil discord o’er each troubled land, - While desolation marks her furious course, - And thrones subverted bow beneath her force. - - Behold! she pours her Monarch’s guiltless blood, - And quaffs with savage joy the crimson flood; - Then, proud the deadly trophies to display - Of her foul crimes, resistless bursts away, - Unaw’d by justice, unappall’d by fear, - And runs with giant strength her mad career. - - Where’er her banners float in barbarous pride, - Where’er her conquest rolls its sanguine tide, - There, the fair fabric of establish’d law, - There social order, and religious awe, - Sink in the general wreck; indignant there - Honour and Virtue fly the tainted air; - Fly the mild duties of domestic life - That cheer the parent, that endear the wife, - The lingering pangs of kindred grief assuage, - Or soothe the sorrows of declining age. - - Nor yet can Hope presage th’ auspicious hour, - When Peace shall check the rage of lawless Power; - Nor yet th’ insatiate thirst of blood is o’er, - Nor yet has Rapine ravaged every shore. - Exhaustless Passion feeds th’ augmented flame, - And wild Ambition mocks the voice of Shame; - Revenge, with haggard look and scowling eyes, - Surveys with horrid joy th’ expected prize; - Broods o’er each remnant of monarchic sway, - And dooms to certain death his fancied prey. - - For midst the ruins of each falling state, - ONE FAVOUR’D NATION braves the general fate— - One favour’d nation, whose impartial laws - Of sober Freedom vindicate the cause; - Her simple manners, midst surrounding crimes, - Proclaim the genuine worth of ancient times; - True to herself, unconquerably bold, - The rights her valour gain’d she dares uphold; - Still with pure faith her promise dares fulfil, - Still bows submission to th’ Almighty will. - - Just Heav’n! how Envy kindles at the sight! - How mad Ambition plans the desperate fight! - With what new fury Vengeance hastes to pour - Her tribes of rapine from yon crowded shore! - Just Heav’n! how fair a victim at the shrine - Of injured Freedom shall her life resign, - If e’er, propitious to the vows of hate, - Unsteady Conquest stamp our mournful fate, - If e’er proud France usurp our ancient reign, - And ride triumphant o’er th’ insulted main! - - · · · · · - - Far hence th’ unmanly thought—the voice of Fame - Wafts o’er th’ applauding deep her DUNCAN’S name. - What though the Conqueror of th’ Italian plains - Deem nothing gain’d, while this fair isle remains; - Though his young breast with rash presumption glow, - He braves the vengeance of no vulgar foe: - Conqueror no more, full soon his laurel’d pride - Shall perish—whelm’d in Ocean’s angry tide; - His broken bands shall rue the fatal day, - And scatter’d fleets proclaim BRITANNIA’S sway. - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. VIII. - - - Jan. 1, 1798. - -A correspondent has adapted the beautiful poem of the BATTLE OF SABLA, -in “Carlyle’s Specimens of Arabian Poetry,” to the circumstances of the -present moment. We shall always be happy to see the poetry of other -times and nations so successfully engaged in the service of our country, -and of the present order of society. - - - THE CHOICE. - (FROM THE BATTLE OF SABLA, BY JAAFER BEN ALBA.) - - I. - - Hast thou not seen th’ insulting foe - In fancied triumphs crown’d? - And heard their frantic rulers throw - These empty threats around? - “Make now YOUR CHOICE! The terms we give, - Desponding Britons, hear! - These fetters on your hands receive, - Or in your hearts the spear.” - - Can we forget our old renown; - Resign the empire of the sea; - And yield at once our sovereign’s crown, - Our ancient laws and liberty? - - Shall thus the fierce destroyer’s hand - Pass unresisted o’er our native land? - Our country sink, to barb’rous force a prey, - And _ransom’d_ ENGLAND bow to _Gallic_ sway? - - II. - - “Is then the contest o’er?” we cried, - “And lie we at your feet? - And dare you vauntingly decide - The fortune we shall meet? - A brighter day we soon shall see; - No more the prospect lours; - And Conquest, Peace, and Liberty - Shall gild our future hours.” - - Yes! we will guard our old renown; - Assert our empire o’er the sea; - And keep untouch’d our sovereign’s crown, - Our ancient laws and liberty. - - Not thus the fierce destroyer’s hand - Shall scatter ruin o’er this smiling land; - No barb’rous force shall here divide its prey; - Nor _ransom’d_ ENGLAND bow to _Gallic_ sway. - - III. - - The foe advance. In firm array - We’ll rush o’er Albion’s sands— - Till the red sabre marks our way - Amid their yielding bands! - Then as they lie in death’s cold grasp, - We’ll cry, “OUR CHOICE IS MADE! - These hands the sabre’s hilt shall clasp, - Your hearts shall feel the blade”. - - Thus Britons guard their ancient fame, - Assert their empire o’er the sea, - And to the envying world proclaim, - One nation still is brave and free— - - Resolv’d to conquer or to die, - True to their KING, their LAWS, their LIBERTY: - No barb’rous foe finds here an easy prey— - _Un-ransom’d_ ENGLAND spurns all foreign sway.[25] - -The following poem has been transmitted to us, without preface or -introduction, by a gentleman of the name of IRELAND.[26] We apprehend -from the peculiarities of the style, that it must be the production of a -remote period. We are likewise inclined to imagine, that it may contain -allusions to some former event in English history. What that event may -have been, we must submit to the better judgment and superior -information of our readers, from whom we impatiently expect a solution -of this interesting question. The editor has been influenced solely by a -sense of its poetical merit. - - - [JA’FAR SON OF ’ULBAH, OF THE BANU-L-HÂRITH. - - The Poet, with two companions, went forth to plunder the herds of - ’Ukail, a neighbour-tribe, and was beset on his way back by detached - parties of that tribe in the valley of Sahbal, whom he overcame and - reached home safely. - - That even when under Sahbal’s twin peaks upon us drave - the horsemen troop after troop, and the foemen pressed us sore— - They said to us—“Two things lie before you: now must ye choose— - the points of the spears couched at you, or, if ye will not, - chains”. - We answered them—“Yea, this thing may fall to you after fight, - when men shall be left on ground, and none shall arise again; - But we know not, if we quail before the assault of Death, - how much may be left of life: the goal is too dim to see”. - We strode to the strait of battle: there cleared us a space around - the white swords in our right hands which the smiths had furbished - fair. - To them fell the edge of my blade on that day of Sahbal dale, - and mine was the share thereof whereover my fingers closed. - ED.] - - - THE DUKE AND THE TAXING-MAN.[27] - - Whilome there liv’d in fair Englonde - A Duke of peerless wealth, - And mickle care he took of her - Old Constitution’s health. - Full fifty thousand pounds and more - To him his vassals paid, - But ne to King, ne Countree, he - Would yield th’ assessment made. - The taxing-man, with grim viságe - Came pricking on the way; - The taxing-man, with wrothful words, - Thus to the Duke did say: - “Lord Duke, Lord Duke, thou’st hid from me, - As sure as I’m alive, - Of goodly palfreys _seventeen_, - Of varlets _twenty-five_”. - Then out he drew his gray goose quill, - Ydipp’d in ink so black, - And sorely to SURCHARGE the Duke, - I trowe, he was ne slack. - Then ’gan the Duke to looken pale, - And stared as one astound, - Twaie coneynge Clerks[28] eftsoons he spies - Sitting their board around. - “O woe is me,” then cried the Duke, - “Ne mortal wight but errs! - I’ll hie to yon twaie coneynge Clerks, - Yclept Commissioners.” - The Duke he hied him to the board, - And straight ’gan for to say, - “A seely[29] wight I am, God wot, - Ne ken I the right way. - “These varlets twenty-five were ne’er - _Liveried in white and red_; - Withouten this, what signifie - Wages, and board, and bed? - “And by St. George, that stout horseman, - My palfreys _seventeen_, - For two years, or perchance for three, - I had forgotten clean.” - “Naie,” quoth the Clerk, “both horse and foot - To hide was thine intent, - Ne seely wight be ye, but didst - With good advisament.[30] - “Surcharge, surcharge, good Taxing-man, - Anon our seals we fix, - Of sterling pounds, Lord Duke, you pay - Three hundred thirty-six.”[31] - - - EPIGRAM ON THE PARIS LOAN,[32] - CALLED - THE LOAN UPON ENGLAND. - - The Paris cits, a patriotic band, - Advance their cash on British freehold land. - But let the speculating rogues beware— - They’ve bought the _skin_, but who’s to kill _the bear_? - - - - - No. IX. - - - Jan. 8, 1798. - - - ODE TO ANARCHY. - - BY A JACOBIN. - - (BEING AN IMITATION OF HORACE, ODE XXXV. BOOK I.) - - _O Diva, gratum quæ regis Antium!_ - - Goddess, whose dire terrific power - Spreads from thy much-loved Gallia’s plains - Where’er her blood-stain’d ensigns lower, - Where’er fell Rapine stalks, or barb’rous Discord reigns! - - Thou, who canst lift to fortune’s height - The wretch by truth and virtue scorn’d, - And crush with insolent delight, - All whom true merit rais’d, or noble birth adorn’d! - - Thee, oft the murd’rous band implores, - Swift darting on its hapless prey: - Thee, wafted from fierce Afric’s shores, - The Corsair Chief invokes to speed him on his way. - - Thee, the wild Indian Tribes revere; - Thy charms the roving Arab owns; - Thee, kings, thee tranquil nations fear, - The bane of social bliss, the foe to peaceful thrones. - - For, soon as thy loud trumpet calls - To deadly rage, to fierce alarms, - Just Order’s goodly fabric falls, - Whilst the mad people cries, “To arms! to arms!” - - With thee Proscription, child of strife, - With Death’s choice implements, is seen, - Her Murderer’s gun, Assassin’s knife, - And, “last not least in love,” her darling _Guillotine_. - - Fond Hope is thine,—the hope of Spoil, - And Faith,—such faith as ruffians keep: - They prosper thy destructive toil, - That makes the Widow mourn, the helpless Orphan weep. - - Then false and hollow friends retire, - Nor yield one sigh to soothe despair; - Whilst crowds triumphant Vice admire, - Whilst Harlots shine in robes that deck’d the Great and Fair. - - Guard our famed Chief to Britain’s strand! - Britain, our last, our deadliest foe: - Oh, guard his brave associate band! - A band to slaughter train’d, and “nursed in scenes of woe”. - - What shame, alas! one little Isle - Should dare its native laws maintain! - At Gallia’s threats serenely smile, - And, scorning her dread power, triumphant rule the main. - - For this have guiltless victims died - In crowds at thy ensanguined shrine! - For this has recreant Gallia’s pride - O’erturned Religion’s Fanes, and braved the Wrath Divine! - - What Throne, what Altar, have we spared - To spread thy power, thy joys impart? - Ah! then, our faithful toils reward! - And let each falchion pierce some loyal Briton’s heart. - - - [THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSLATION, BY DUNCOMBE, OF - HORACE’S ODE TO FORTUNE, - _Of which the above Ode is a parody_. - - O Goddess, whose propitious sway - Thy Antium’s favourite sons obey; - Whose voice from depth of woe recalls - The wretch, and triumphs turns to funerals; - - From Thee, rich crops the needy swain - Implores. Thee, sovereign of the main, - The mariner invokes, who braves - In a Bithynian bark the Cretan waves; - - Thee, Scythians, wandering far and near, - And unrelenting Dacians, fear: - The warlike sons of Italy; - Cities, and realms, and empires, worship Thee. - - Mothers of barbarous monarchs dread, - And purple tyrants, lest thou tread - With spurning foot, and scatter round - The sculptured column on th’ encumbered ground; - - And lest the fickle crowd should break - Their bonds; and with loud clamours wake - The peaceful to assert their right - By force of arms, and quell usurping might. - - Ruthless necessity prepares - The way for Thee; and ever bears - Huge nails in her strong hands of brass - The wedge, the hook, and lead’s hot molten mass. - - Thee Hope and white robed Faith, adore, - So rarely found!—She, when no more - Thou smil’st, attends the fallen great - Stript of his gay attire and stately seat. - - But venal crowds and harlots fly: - And, if the flowing casks are dry, - When to the dregs the wine they drink, - From friendship’s yoke the false associates shrink. - - Thy aid for Cæsar Rome implores, - Conduct him safe to Britain’s shores, - The limits of the world; and lead - Our new-raised bands against the trembling Mede. - - Alas! we mourn our crimes, our scar - And brethren slain in civil wars: - How oft have Roman youth embrued - Their savage hands in streams of social blood! - - What has this Iron Age not dared? - What Gods revered? What Altars spared? - O! point again the blunted steel, - And let the Massagete our vengeance feel!—ED.] - - * * * * * - - -The following Song is recommended to be sung at all _Convivial_ -Meetings, convened for the purpose of opposing the Assessed-Tax Bill. -The correspondent who has transmitted it to us informs us that he has -tried it with great success among many of his well-disposed neighbours, -who had been at first led to apprehend that the 1–20th part of their -income was too great a sacrifice for the preservation of the remainder -of their property from French Confiscation. - - You have heard of REWBELL,[33] - That demon of hell, - And of BARRAS, his brother Director; - Of the canting LEPAUX, - And that scoundrel MOREAU, - Who betray’d his old friend and protector. - - Would you know how these friends, - For their own private ends, - Would subvert our Religion and Throne?— - Do you doubt of their skill - To change Laws at their will?— - You shall hear how they treated their own. - - ’Twas their pleasure to look, - In a little blue book, - At the Code of their famed legislation, - That with truth they might say, - In the space of one day - They had broke every Law of the Nation. - - The first law that they see, - Is “_the Press shall be free_!” - The next is “_the Trial by Jury_”: - Then, “_the People’s free Choice_”; - Then, “_the Members’ free Voice_”— - When REWBELL exclaim’d in a fury— - - “On a method we’ll fall - For infringing them all— - We’ll seize on each Printer and Member: - No period so fit - For a desperate hit, - As our bloody month of _September_. - - “We’ll annul each election - Which wants our correction, - And name our own creatures instead. - When once we’ve our will, - No blood we will spill, - (But let CARNOT be knock’d on the head). - - “To _Rochefort_ we’ll drive - Our victims alive, - And as soon as on board we have got ’em, - Since we destine the ship - For no more than one trip, - We can just make a hole in the bottom. - - “By this excellent plan, - On the _true Rights of Man_, - When we’ve founded our _fifth Revolution_, - Though _England’s_ our foe, - An army shall go - To _improve_ HER corrupt Constitution. - - “We’ll address to the Nation - A fine Proclamation - With offers of friendship so warm: - Who can give BUONAPARTE - A welcome so hearty - As the friends of a THOROUGH REFORM?” - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. X. - - - Jan. 15, 1798. - -For the two following poems we are indebted to unknown correspondents. -They could not have reached us at a more seasonable period. - -The former, we trust, describes the feelings common to every inhabitant -of this country. The second, we know too well, is expressive of the -sentiments of our enemies. - - - LINES, - WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1797. - - Loud howls the storm along the neighbouring shore; - BRITAIN indignant hears the frantic roar: - Her generous sons pour forth on every side, - Firm in their country’s cause—their country’s pride! - See wild Invasion threats this envied land: - Swift to defend her, springs each Social Band: - Her white rocks echoing to their cheerful cry, - “GOD AND OUR KING!”—“ENGLAND AND VICTORY!” - - Yes! happy BRITAIN, on thy tranquil coast - No trophies mad Philosophy shall boast! - Though thy disloyal sons, a feeble band, - Sound the loud blast of treason through the land; - Scoff at thy dangers with unnatural mirth, - And execrate the soil which gave them birth; - With jaundiced eye thy splendid triumphs view, - And give to FRANCE the palm to BRITAIN due: - Or,—when loud strains of gratulation ring,[34] - And lowly bending to the ETERNAL KING, - Thy SOVEREIGN bids a nation’s praise arise - In grateful incense to the fav’ring skies— - Cast o’er each solemn scene a scornful glance, - And only sigh for ANARCHY and FRANCE. - - Yes! unsupported _Treason’s_ standard falls, - _Sedition_ vainly on her children calls, - While Cities, Cottages, and Camps contend, - Their King, their Laws, their Country to defend.[35] - - Raise, BRITAIN, raise thy sea-encircled head; - Round the wide world behold thy glory spread; - Firm as thy guardian oaks thou still shalt stand, - The dread and wonder of each hostile land; - While the dire fiends of discord idly rave, - And, mad with anguish, curse the severing wave. - - QUEEN of the OCEAN, lo! she smiles serene, - ’Mid the deep horrors of the dreadful scene; - With heartfelt piety to Heav’n she turns— - From Heav’n the flame of British courage burns— - She dreads no power but HIS who rules the ball, - At whose “great bidding” empires rise and fall; - In HIM, on peaceful plain, or tented field, - She trusts, secure in HIS protecting shield— - GALLIA, thy threats she scorns—BRITAIN SHALL NEVER YIELD. - AN ENGLISHWOMAN. - - - TRANSLATION OF THE NEW SONG - OF THE - “ARMY OF ENGLAND”. - - WRITTEN BY THE CI-DEVANT BISHOP OF AUTUN.[36] - - WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR. - - Good Republicans all, - The Directory’s call - Invites you to visit JOHN BULL; - Oppress’d by the rod - Of a King, and a God,[37] - The cup of his misery’s full. - - Old JOHNNY shall see - What makes a man FREE; - Not parchments, nor Statutes on Paper; - And stripp’d of his riches, - Great Charter, and breeches, - Shall cut a FREE Citizen’s caper. - - Then away, let us over - To _Deal_, or to _Dover_— - We laugh at his talking so big; - He’s pamper’d with feeding, - And wants a sound bleeding— - _Par Dieu!_ he shall bleed like a pig! - - JOHN, tied to the stake, - A grand baiting will make, - When worried by mastiffs of France; - What REPUBLICAN FUN, - To see his blood run, - As at _Lyons_, _La Vendée_, and _Nantz_![38] - - With grape-shot discharges, - And plugs in his barges, - With _National Razors_ good store, - We’ll pepper and shave him, - And in the _Thames_ lave him— - How sweetly he’ll bellow and roar! - - What the villain likes worse, - We’ll vomit his Purse, - And make it the guineas disgorge; - For your RAPHAELS and RUBENS - We would not give two-pence; - Stick, stick to the PICTURES OF GEORGE. - - No Venus of stone, - But of good flesh and bone, - Will do for a true Democrat; - When weary with slaughter, - With JOHN’S Wife and Daughter, - We’ll join in a little _chit-chat_. - - The Shop-keeping hoard, - The Tenant and Lord, - And the Merchants,[39] are excellent prey: - At our cannon’s first thunder, - _Rape_, _pillage_, and _plunder_ - The _Order_ shall be _of the day_. - - French fortunes and lives, - French daughters and wives, - Have _five honest men_ to defend ’em! - And BARRAS and Co. - When to _England_ we go, - Will kindly take JOHN’S _in commendam_. - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XI. - - - Jan. 22, 1798. - -We have said in another part of our paper of this day, “that though we -shall never begin an attack, we shall always be prompt to repel it”. - -On this principle, we could not pass over in silence the EPISTLE TO THE -EDITORS OF THE _Anti-Jacobin_, which appeared in the _Morning Chronicle_ -of Wednesday, and from which we have fortunately been furnished with a -motto for this day’s paper. - -We assure the author of the epistle, that the answer which we have here -the honour to address to him, contains our genuine and undisguised -sentiments upon the merits of the poem. - -Our conjectures respecting the authors and abettors of this performance -may possibly be as vague and unfounded as theirs are with regard to the -EDITORS of the _Anti-Jacobin_. We are sorry that we cannot satisfy their -curiosity upon this subject—but we have little anxiety for the -gratification of our own. - -It is hardly to be expected, that the character of the epistle should be -taken on trust from the editors of this volume; it is thought best, -therefore, to subjoin the whole performance as it originally appeared—a -mode of hostility obviously the most fair, and in respect to the -combatants in the cause of Jacobinism, by much the most effectual. They -are always best opposed by the arms which they themselves furnish. -Jacobinism shines by its own light. - -To the respectable names which the author of the following address has -thought proper to connect with the “ANTI-JACOBIN,” no apology is made -for thus preserving this otherwise perishable specimen of dulness and -defamation. He who has been reviled by the enemies of the -“ANTI-JACOBIN,” must feel that principles are attributed to him, of -which he need not be ashamed: and when the abuse is conveyed in such a -strain of feebleness and folly, he must see that those principles excite -animosity only in quarters of which he need not be afraid. - -It is only necessary to add, what is most conscientiously the truth, -that this production, such as it is, is _by far the best_ of all the -attacks that the combined wits of the cause have been able to muster -against the “ANTI-JACOBIN”. - - - EPISTLE TO THE EDITORS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN.[40] - - _Hic Niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto!_ - - To tell what gen’rals did, or statesmen spoke, - To teach the world by truths, or please by joke; - To make mankind grow bold as they peruse, - Judge on existing things, and—weigh the news; - For this a PAPER first display’d its page, - Commanding tears and smiles through ev’ry age! - - Hail, justly famous! who in modern days - With nobler flight aspire to higher praise; - Hail, justly famous! whose discerning eyes - At once detect MISTAKES, MIS-STATEMENTS, LIES;[41] 10 - Hail, justly famous! who with fancy blest, - Use fiend-like virulence for sportive jest; - Who only bark to serve your private ends— - Patrons of Prejudice, Corruption’s friends! - Who hurl your venom’d darts at well-earned fame— - Virtue your hate, and Calumny your aim! - - Whoe’er ye are, all hail!—whether the skill - Of youthful CANNING guides the ranc’rous quill; - With powers mechanic far above his age, - Adapts the paragraph and fills the page; 20 - Measures the column, mends whate’er’s amiss, - Rejects THAT letter, and accepts of THIS; - Or HAMMOND,[42] leaving his official toil, - O’er this great work consume the midnight oil— - Bills, passports, letters, for the Muses quit, - And change dull business for amusing wit:— - His life of labour at one gasp is o’er, - His books forgot—his desk beloved no more! - Proceed to prop the Ministerial cause; - See consequential MORPETH[43] nods applause; 30 - In ev’ry fair one’s ears at balls and plays - The gentle GRANVILLE LEVESON[44] whispers praise: - Well-judging Patrons, whom such works can please; - Great works, well worthy Patrons such as these! - - Who heard, not raptured, the poetic Sage - Who sung of Gallia in a headlong rage, - And blandly drew with no uncourtly grace - The simple manners of our English race— - Extoll’d great DUNCAN, and, supremely brave, - Whelm’d BUONAPARTE’S pride beneath the wave? 40 - I swear by all the youths that MALMESBURY[45] chose, - By ELLIS’[46] sapient prominence of nose, - By MORPETH’S gait, important, proud, and big— - By LEVESON GOWER’S crop-imitating wig, - That, could the pow’rs which in those numbers shine, - Could that warm spirit animate my line, - Your glorious deeds which humbly I rehearse— - Your deeds should live immortal as my verse; - And, while they wonder’d whence I caught my flame, - Your sons should blush to read their fathers’ shame! 50 - - Proceed, great men!—your office is not done; - Proceed with what you have so well begun: - Load FOX (if you by PITT would be preferr’d), - With ev’ry guilt that KENYON ever heard— - Adult’rer, gamester, drunkard, cheat and knave, - A factious demagogue and pension’d slave! - Loose, loose your cry—with ire satiric flash: - Let all the Opposition feel your lash; - And prove them to these hot and partial times, - A combination of the worst of crimes! 60 - - But softer numbers softer subjects fit: - In liquid phrases thrill the praise of PITT; - Extol in eulogies of candid truth - The Virgin Minister—the Heav’n-born Youth; - The greatest gift that fate to England gave, - Created to support and born to save; - Prompt to supply whate’er his country lacks— - Skilful to GAG, and knowing how to TAX! - With him companions meet in order stand— - A firm, compact, and well-appointed band; 70 - Skill’d to advance or to retreat, DUNDAS,[47] - And bear thick battle on his front of brass; - GRENVILLE with pond’rous head, which match’d we find - By equal ponderosity behind.—— - - But hold, my Muse; nor farther these pursue!— - Great Editors, we have digress’d from you; - From you, to whom our trivial lays belong, - From you, the sole inspirers of our song! - Proceed:—urge on the same vindictive strain, - To gain the applauses of great MALMESBURY’S train; 80 - With jaundiced eyes the noblest patriot scan: - Proceed—be more opprobrious if you can; - Proceed—be more abusive ev’ry hour; - To be more stupid is beyond your power. - - - TO THE AUTHOR OF THE EPISTLE TO THE EDITORS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. - - _Nostrorum sermonum candide judex!_ - - Bard of the borrow’d lyre! to whom belong - The shreds and remnants of each hackney’d song; - Whose verse thy friends in vain for wit explore, - And count but _one good line_ in eighty-four! - Whoe’er thou art, all hail! Thy bitter smile - Gilds our dull page, and cheers our humble toil! - - For _yet_—though firm and fearless in the cause - Of pure Religion, Liberty, and Laws,— - Though TRUTH approved, though fav’ring VIRTUE smiled, - Some doubts remained: WE _yet_ were _unreviled_. 10 - - Thanks to thy zeal! those doubts at length are o’er! - Thy suffrage crowns our wish!—WE ask no more - To stamp with sterling worth each honest line, - Than Censure, cloth’d in vapid Verse like thine! - - But say—in full blown honours dost thou sit - ’Midst BROOKES’S ELDERS[48] on the BENCH OF WIT, - Where HARE,[49] chief-justice, frames the stern decree, - While with their learned brother, sages three, - FITZPATRICK,[50] TOWNSHEND,[51] SHERIDAN, agree? - - Or art thou One—THE PARTY’S flattered fool,[52] 20 - Train’d in _Debrett’s_, or _Ridgway’s_ civic school— - One, who with rant and fustian daily wears, - Well-natured RICHARDSON![53] thy patient ears;— - Who sees nor Taste nor Genius in these times, - Save PARR’S[54] _buzz_ prose,[55] and COURTENAY’S[56] kidnapp’d - rhymes?[57] - Or is it he,—the youth,[59] whose daring soul - With _half a mission_ sought the Frozen Pole;— - And then, returning from the unfinish’d work, - Wrote _half a letter_,—to demolish BURKE? - Studied Burke’s manner,—aped his forms of speech; 30 - Though when he strives his metaphors to reach, - One luckless slip his meaning overstrains, - And loads the blunderbuss with BEDFORD’S brains.[60] - - Whoe’er thou art—ne’er may thy patriot fire, - Unfed by praise or patronage, expire! - Forbid it, Taste!—with Compensation large - Patrician hands thy labours shall o’ercharge![61] - BEDFORD and WHITBREAD shall vast sums advance, - The _Land_ and _Malt_ of Jacobin Finance! - - Whoe’er thou art—before thy feet we lay, 40 - With lowly suit, our _Number of to-day_! - Spurn not our offering with averted eyes! - Let thy pure breath revive the extinguished _Lies_! - _Mistakes, Mis-statements_, now so oft o’erthrown, - Rebuild, and prop with nonsense of thy own! - Pervert our meaning, and misquote our text— - And _furnish us a motto for the next_! - -[Illustration: _LORD LONGBOW, the Alarmist, discovering the Miseries of -IRELAND.——with the puffing out of the little farthing Rush-light, & ye -story of Moll Coggin._] - - - ODE TO LORD MOIRA. - - I. - - If on your head[62] some vengeance fell, - MOIRA, for every tale you tell, - The listening Lords to cozen;[63] - If but one whisker lost its hue, - Changed (like Moll Coggin’s tail) to blue, - I’d hear them by the dozen. - - II. - - But still, howe’er you draw your bow,[64] - Your charms improve, your triumphs grow, - New grace adorns your figure; - More stiff your boots, more black your stock, 10 - Your hat assumes a prouder cock, - Like Pistol’s (if ’twere bigger). - - III. - - Tell then your stories, strange and new,[65] - Your Fathers fame[66] shall vouch them true; - So shall the _Dublin Papers_; - Swear by the stars[67] that saw the sight, - That infant thousands die each night,[68] - While troops _blow out their tapers_. - - IV. - - SHUCKBURGH[69][70] shall cheer you with a smile, - MACPHERSON[71][71] simpering all the while, 20 - With BASTARD[71][72] and with Bruin:[73] - And fierce NICHOLL,[74] who wields at will - Th’ emphatic stick, or powerful quill, - To prove his country’s ruin. - - V. - - Each day new followers[75] crowd your board, - And lean expectants hail my Lord - With adoration fervent: - Old THURLOW,[76] though he swore by G— - No more to own a master’s nod, - Is still your humble servant. 30 - - VI. - - Old PULTENEY[77][78] too, your influence feels, - And asks from you th’ Exchequer Seals, - To tax and save the nation: - TOOKE trembles,[79] lest your potent charms - Should lure CHARLES FOX from _his_ fond arms, - To YOUR Administration.[81] 36 - - - [TRANSLATION OF HORACE, BOOK II., ODE VIII. - - BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. - - Avenger of insulted truth, - Had Heaven, Barine, dimm’d one tooth; - Or bade, in justice bade, thee wail - A speck upon a single nail— - I’d trust thee: but ere well the vow - Has passed those treacherous lips, there glow - New beauties mantling o’er thy cheek; - And thee the youth, thee only seek. - - It profits thee to be forsworn - By thy dead mother’s hallowed urn; - By heaven, and each mute nightly sign, - And every deathless power divine. - Yes: Venus laughs well-pleased, and lo! - The gentle Nymphs are laughing too; - And Cupid, who his burning darts - Whets with fresh blood from lovers’ hearts. - - Boyhood is rising to thy sway, - Thy train of slaves augments: e’en they, - Who swore thy threshold to forsake, - Hug the fond chain they cannot break. - Thee for their sons pale mothers fear, - The frugal father for his heir: - And plighted maidens, lest thy charms - Keep the false truants from their arms.—ED.] - - - NOTES TO THE ODE TO LORD MOIRA. - -[This Ode, written by GEORGE ELLIS, refers to the wish of a “Third -Party” in the House of Commons, who were dissatisfied with the conduct -of the war, the embarrassed state of the finances, and the alarming -situation of the country, to have an interview with LORD MOIRA, with a -view to effect a change of Ministry. The following extracts from a -letter from his Lordship to COL. M‘MAHON, dated June 15, 1797, will -throw some light on this negotiation. “They requested that I would -endeavour, on the assurance of their support, to form an administration, -on the principle of excluding persons, who had on either side made -themselves obnoxious to the public. I strenuously recommended them to -form an alliance with MR. FOX’S party, that might be satisfactory to -themselves, and reduce to strict engagement the extent of the measures, -which MR. FOX, when brought into office by themselves, would propose. -Hitherto nobody has been designated to any particular office but SIR -WILLIAM PULTENEY. The gentleman had said that he was the person whom -they should be most gratified in seeing CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, and -I had professed to them and to him that there was not any person with -whom I could act more confidently. I added, the introduction of LORD -THURLOW, SIR W. PULTENEY, and myself, into the Cabinet, would not assure -the public of a change of system.”—ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XII. - - - Jan. 29, 1798. - -The following Ode[A] was dropped into the letterbox in our Publisher’s -window. From its title—“A BIT OF AN ODE TO MR. FOX”—we were led to -imagine there was some mistake in the business, and that it was meant to -have been conveyed to Mr. Wright’s neighbour, Mr. Debrett, whom we -recollected to have been the Publisher of the “Half of a Letter” to the -same gentleman, which occasioned so much noise (of horse-laughing) in -the world. Our politics certainly do not entitle us to the honourable -distinction of being made the channel for communicating such a -production to the public. But, for our parts, as we are “not at war with -genius,” on whatever side we find it, we are happy to give this Poem the -earliest place in our Paper; and shall be equally ready to pay the same -attention to any future favours of the same kind, and from the same -quarter. - -The Poem is a free translation, or rather, perhaps, imitation, of the -twentieth Ode of the second Book of HORACE. We have taken the liberty to -subjoin the passages of which the parallel is the most striking. - - - A BIT OF AN ODE TO MR. FOX.[82] - - I. - - On[83] grey goose quills sublime I’ll soar - To metaphors unreach’d before, - That scare the vulgar reader: - With style well form’d from Burke’s best books— - From rules of grammar (e’en HORNE TOOKE’S) - A bold and free Seceder. - - II. - - I[84] whom, dear Fox, you condescend - To call your “Honourable Friend,” - Shall live for everlasting: - That[85] Stygian Gallery I’ll quit, - Where printers crowd me, as I sit - Half-dead with rage and fasting. - - III. - - I[86] feel! the growing down descends, - Like goose-skin, to my fingers’ ends— - Each nail becomes a feather: - My cropp’d head[87] waves with sudden plumes, - Which erst (like Bedford’s, or his groom’s) - Unpowder’d, braved the weather.[88] - - IV. - - I mount, I mount into the sky, - “Sweet[89] bird,” to[90] _Petersburg_ I’ll fly; - Or, if you bid, to _Paris_; - Fresh missions of the _Fox and Goose_ - Successful Treaties may produce; - Though PITT in all miscarries. - - V. - - Scotch,[91] English, Irish _Whigs_ shall read - The Pamphlets, Letters, Odes I breed, - Charm’d with each bright endeavour: - _Alarmists_[92] tremble at my strain, - E’en[93] PITT, made candid by champaign, - Shall hail ADAIR “_the clever_”. - - VI. - - Though criticism assail my name, - And luckless blunders blot my fame,[94] - O![95] make no needless bustle; - As vain and idle it would be - To waste one pitying thought on me, - As to[96] “unPLUMB a RUSSELL”.[97] - - - [LYRICS OF HORACE, BOOK II., ODE XX. - - TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. - - Borne on no weak or vulgar wing, - Upward through air, two-form’d, I’ll spring; - Nor longer grovel here, but soar - Where Envy shall pursue no more. - Not I, from humble lineage sprung, - Not I, dear Patron, whom thy tongue - Summons to fame, will fear to die, - Or bound by Styx’s fetters lie. - - A rougher skin my legs assume; - My upward limbs the cygnet’s plume - Invests; my shoulders, fingers feel - The feathery softness o’er them steal. - - Fleeter than Icarus now I’ll haste, - A tuneful swan, to Libya’s waste, - And heaving sands, where Bospor’s wave - Tosses, or Arctic tempests rave. - Me Colchis, Dacia me shall learn, - Who hides her fear of Marsian stern; - Me Scythia’s hordes, the well-trained son - Of Spain, and he who quaffs the Rhone. - - From my mock bier be far away - The loud lament, the funeral lay; - And, tribute to my fancied doom, - Far the vain honours of the tomb!—ED.] - - [The charge of FOX’S having sent ADAIR to St. Petersburg, to - counteract the measures of PITT’S government, first broached in Mr. - Burke’s “Letter on the Conduct of the Minority,” has been vigorously - contradicted, yet so late as April, 1854, it was alluded to as a - fact by Lord Malmesbury in the House of Peers. It was, however, on - this occasion again authoritatively denied by LORD CAMPBELL, who - took occasion to observe that SIR ROBERT ADAIR was “now in his 90th - year, and for many years had served his country with great assiduity - and fidelity. He had been sent by successive ministers [Mr. Fox, - Lord Grey, _Mr. Canning_ (who assisted in libelling him so often in - the pages of the present work), Lord Wellesley, Lord Palmerston, the - Duke of Wellington] to Vienna, to Constantinople, to Brussels, and - to Berlin, and had represented the Crown of England upon some - occasions of very great importance, in which he had uniformly - acquitted himself to the satisfaction of the Government and for the - benefit of his country. He believed a more honourable man had not - lived in this country at any time.” - - The following denial by Sir Robert Adair himself is copied from his - autograph statement, prefixed to the _Life of Wilberforce_, - published in 1838:—“This idle story is here accredited by Mr. - Wilberforce, and inserted by his sons, without due examination. It - was grounded on a journey I made to Vienna and St. Petersburg in - 1791. Doctor Prettyman [_sic_], Bishop of Winchester, in a work - entitled _The Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt_, published by him - in 1823, brought forward the fact of my having gone upon this - journey as a criminal charge against Mr. Fox, who, as he pretends, - sent me upon it with the intent of counteracting some negociations - then carrying on between Great Britain and Russia at St. Petersburg. - I answered his accusation, I trust successfully, in two letters - published by Longman & Co. [_Two Letters from Mr. Adair to the Bp. - of Winchester, in answer to the charge of a High Treasonable - Misdemeanour brought by his Lordship against Mr. Fox and himself in - his Life of the Rt. Hon. W. Pitt_, 8vo., 1821], and explained the - circumstances which induced me in my travels in 1791 to visit the - two capitals above mentioned.—ROBERT ADAIR: 1838.” - - The “Mission” was, however, firmly believed in, and PITT was urged, - but in vain, by the Duke of Richmond and others of the Government, - to arrest FOX for high treason. - - The following extract from the _Political Memoranda of Francis, - fifth Duke of Leeds, now first printed from the Originals in the - British Museum; edited by Oscar Browning, for the Camden Society_, - 1884, is an illustration of the rumours current at the time, and - many years after. - - “Saty. 24 Novr. 1792. LORD ST. HELENS dined with me. After the - Ladies were gone upstairs we conversed, for some time on Foreign - affairs.... Speaking of the Russian business of last year he - reprobated in the strongest terms the conduct of FOX in sending an - agent, MR. ADAIR, to Petersburg to counteract the negociations of - this Court at that of Russia. He told me he knew for certain that - MR. ADAIR had shewn to some English merchants at Petersburg the - Empress’ Picture set in diamonds which had been given to him. That - it was not one of the sort usually given, but of much greater value, - being set round with large Brilliants, and the whole Picture covered - with a Table Diamond instead of Chrystal. That this was a present - seldom made but on some very particular occasion or to some great - favorite (I remember to have seen such a one in the possession of P. - Orlow). LD. ST. H. thought it must have been worth six or seven - thousand pounds, and of too much value probably to have been meant - for MR. ADAIR. The conclusion we both very naturally drew from this - circumstance was not very favorable to MR. FOX.” - - The following additional particulars relating to the connection - between FOX and ADAIR may not be thought out of place here. They are - extracted from the highly interesting and important _Croker Papers, - being the Correspondence and Diaries, 1809–1830, of the Rt. Hon._ J. - W. CROKER, _M.P., Edited by Louis J. Jennings. M.P._, 3 vols., 8vo., - 1884. - - The first is in these terms: “When ADAIR, whose father was a - surgeon, went as FOX’S Ambassador to Russia, LORD WHITWORTH, then - the King’s Minister, made a good joke, which tended not a little to - lower ADAIR, and defeat his object. ‘Est-ce un homme très - considérable, ce M. d’Adair?’ asked the EMPRESS. ‘Pas trop, Madame,’ - replied Lord Whitworth, ‘quoique son père était grand seigneur - [saigneur].’” The other is taken from a very long statement on - various matters, made by K. George IV., when Prince of Wales, to - Croker personally. Adair’s wife, the Prince said, was a Frenchwoman - with whom ANDREOSSI, when here as Buonaparte’s Minister, intrigued. - THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE told him—the Prince of Wales—that Mrs. - Adair had offered her a bribe of £10,000 down, and as much more - whenever she might want it, if she would communicate the Cabinet - secrets, with which the French thought she could not fail to be - acquainted, through her intimacy with all the leaders of the - Government. This caused a breach between FOX and ADAIR. But the - former could only tell ADAIR that an obstacle—which he could neither - reveal nor overcome, but which did not affect or alter FOX’S - personal regard for him—prevented his appointment to be FOX’S - Under-Secretary of State.—_Croker Papers_, i. 293.—ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XIII. - - - Feb. 5, 1798. - - - ACME AND SEPTIMIUS; OR, THE HAPPY UNION - CELEBRATED AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN. - - FOX,[98] with TOOKE to grace his side, - Thus address’d his blooming bride— - “Sweet! should I e’er, in power or place, - Another Citizen embrace; - Should e’er my eyes delight to look - On aught alive save JOHN HORNE TOOKE, - Doom me to ridicule and ruin, - In the coarse hug[99] of _Indian_ Bruin!” - He spoke;[100] and to the left and right, - NORFOLK hiccupp’d with delight. - TOOKE,[101] his bald head gently moving, - On the sweet patriot’s drunken eyes - His wine-empurpled lips applies, - And thus returns in accents loving: - “So, my dear[102] CHARLEY, may success - At length my ardent wishes bless, - And lead, through discord’s low’ring storm, - To one grand RADICAL REFORM! - As, from this hour I love thee more - Than e’er I hated thee before!” - He spoke, and to the left and right, - NORFOLK hiccupp’d with delight. - With this good omen they proceed;[103] - Fond toasts their mutual passion feed; - In FOX’S breast HORNE TOOKE prevails - Before[104] rich _Ireland_ and _South Wales_;[105] - And FOX (unread each other book), - Is Law and Gospel to HORNE TOOKE. - When were such kindred souls united? - Or wedded pair so much delighted? - - - [ACME AND SEPTIMIUS. FROM CATULLUS. - - SEPTIMIUS said, and fondly prest - The doating ACME to his breast:— - “My Acme, if I prize not thee - With love as warm as love can be, - With passion spurning any fears - Of growing faint in length of years, - Alone may I defenceless stand - To meet, on Lybia’s desert sand, - Or under India’s torrid sky, - The tawny lion’s glaring eye!” - LOVE, before who utter’d still - On the left-hand omens ill, - As he ceased his faith to plight - Laugh’d propitious on the right. - Then ACME gently bent her head, - Kiss’d with those lips of cherry red - The eyes of the delightful boy, - That swam with glistening floods of joy; - And whisper’d as she closely prest— - “SEPTIMIUS, soul of ACME’S breast, - Let all our lives and feelings own - One lord, one sovereign, Love alone! - I yield to love, and yield to thee, - For thou and love are one to me. - Though fond thy fervent heart may beat, - My feelings glow with greater heat, - And madder flames my bosom melt - Than all that thou hast ever felt.”—ED.] - - [The following account of the celebration of FOX’S Birth-day, - printed in the _Anti-Jacobin_, has not hitherto appeared in the - editions of the _Poetry_. _The Song by Mr. Fox_ refers to the - Subscription raised, after a meeting at the Crown and Anchor, in the - summer of 1793, for relieving him in his then present need, and - purchasing an Annuity for him. A Caricature by GILLRAY on this - meeting was published on the 12th June, 1793. - - - MR. FOX’S BIRTH-DAY. - - The public, distracted with the various accounts of the celebration - of Mr. Fox’s Birth-day, naturally turn to us for an authentic detail - of that important event—from a recollection of the correct and - impartial statement we gave in a former Number, of what passed at a - MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM [page 32]. - - To justify their confidence, we have had recourse to the _Morning - Post_ and _Morning Chronicle_ (the _Courier_ being too stupid for - our purpose), whose statements we have carefully read, and corrected - from the information of several gentlemen who were present. We are - thus enabled to lay before our readers a genuine narrative of the - whole proceeding, which we defy the tongue of Slander to controvert - in any material point. - - As Mr. Fox’s reputation had been for some time on the decline, it - was thought necessary by the party (who are in great want of a - _Head_) to make as respectable an appearance as possible on the - present occasion. It was therefore suggested (at a previous meeting - of confidential friends) that if the unfortunate shyness which - subsisted between the _Whig Club_ and the _Corresponding Society_ - could be opportunely removed by a few unimportant concessions on the - part of the former, such a number of citizens might be readily - procured from that respectable body as would serve to give the day - an _éclat_ it had not experienced since the fatal schism of 1792. - - This hint, so reasonable in itself, was immediately adopted, and Sir - FRANCIS BURDETT, who was well acquainted with their haunts, was - ordered into the neighbourhood of Smithfield with a competent number - of tickets. He was on the point of setting out, when the Editor of - the _Morning Post_ observed, that _forgery_[106] was so common at - present, that he hardly thought it prudent to admit all who might - come with a bit of scribbled paper: on this it was determined to - distribute the price of admission amongst a certain number of people - to be selected by the Envoy:—these, it was rightly concluded, would - not fail to appear, from motives of vanity, as they could have no - other possible chance of dining with the Premier Dupe, we would say - Duke, in England. It now remained to determine the sum: this, after - a short discussion, was fixed at Eight Shillings and Sixpence per - head, “which,” said the Editor of the _Morning Post_, “will shew we - cannot he persons of mean rank, since we can afford, in hard times, - to give so much for a dinner”;[107] and Citizen BOSVILLE was desired - to advance the money upon the credit of the Whig Fund. - - Previous to the meeting, the chairman dispatched a note to Sir - WILLIAM ADDINGTON, requesting that the Crown and Anchor might be - exempted from the visitation of his runners during the morning of - the 24th [Jan., 1798]. To this Sir WILLIAM assented, on condition - that it should be recommended to the gentlemen, to leave their - pocket-books and watches at home, that there might be as little - temptation as possible to break the peace. Thus everything was - arranged with a precaution that seemed to set accident at defiance. - - Before four o’clock the passage to the LARGE ROOM was crammed, when, - on a hint that dinner was on the point of being served, one of the - head waiters advanced to the great door, and opened a wicket for the - admission of the company, as fast as they paid down their money. Two - or three had already passed in good order, when Mr. John Nicholls - advanced, and instead of 8s. 6d., produced to the astonished - receiver, _seventeen_ of his PRINTED SPEECHES, which, valuing them - at sixpence a-piece, he contended would make up the sum required. - These “_assets_” however, were absolutely rejected; and a violent - dispute was on the point of commencing, when Sir CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS - stept forward, and whispering a few words, which we did not hear, - obtained leave for his friend to pass. The Speeches were therefore - deposited, and Mr. NICHOLLS was already got within the wicket, when - the man suddenly pulled him back by the coat, and the dispute - recommenced with more violence than ever. Upon inquiry into the - cause of this new tumult, we found that a wag (whom we afterwards - discovered to be Mr. JEKYLL) had played the member for Tregony a - trick; having taken an opportunity, in the crowd, of extracting the - _genuine_ speeches from the pocket of the Honourable Member, and - replacing them by the same number of the _spurious_ ones, printed - for Mr. WRIGHT, the publisher of this Paper. These the waiter very - properly refused to receive, alleging, and indeed truly, that - instead of _six_ pence a-piece, the whole seventeen were not worth - _six_ farthings. - - This altercation continued so long, that the company grew impatient; - and Mr. BRYAN EDWARDS, a little ashamed of his friend, who still - continued obstinate, offered to furnish his quota. Harmony now - seemed to be restored, when all at once a cry of astonishment broke - forth that beggars all description. On putting his hand into his - pocket for the price of admission, Mr. E. suddenly turned pale, and - exclaimed, “by G—, gentlemen, some of you have picked my pockets!” A - hundred voices instantly repeated the same cry, and a dreadful scene - of confusion and uproar took place. - - Ardebant cuncta et fracta compage ruebant. - - What the consequence would have been, it is impossible to say, had - not the waiter, with an air of authority, commanded the doors to be - shut at each end of the passage, and every man to exhibit the - contents of his pocket. A faint cry of No! No! was over-ruled; and - Sir FRANCIS BURDETT produced an old Red Cap from the bosom of his - shirt, which he put into the hands of the Duke of BEDFORD, who was - appointed collector-general _by acclamation_. With this his Grace - went, from man to man, executing his duty with the utmost fairness - and impartiality; and when he had finished, poured out the contents - of the cap before them all. These, it must be confessed, were a - little heterogeneous, consisting, besides a large sum of money, of a - brass knocker (this was immediately claimed by the landlord), a - pewter pot squeezed together, a pair of pattens, a pint decanter, a - duck ready trussed for dressing, a great quantity of potatoes, and a - vinegar cruet. What was most extraordinary was, that though, as his - Grace afterwards declared, the money was found in very unequal - portions, yet the total sum, which was £222, 5s. 6d., being divided - among the company, amounting to 523 persons, produced 8s. 6d. for - each individual, with the exception of the _Member_ for _Tregony_, - who brought nothing but his speech, and Capt. MORRIS, who pays for - everything with a Song. - - Nothing material occurred during the Dinner, which was allowed to be - excellent of its kind, and where no such dish as Cow-heel (as - maliciously reported in _The True Briton_) made its appearance. - - As soon as the cloth was removed, the Duke of NORFOLK took the Chair - amidst repeated plaudits,[108] and addressed the Company in these - words: - - “Three virtuous Men, Citizens, have stood up in defence of - Liberty—MAXIMILIAN ROBESPIERRE, COLLOT D’HERBOIS, and CHARLES JAMES - FOX:—The first is guillotined; the second transported to _Cayenne_; - and the third”——Here all eyes were immediately upon Mr. FOX, who now - entered the room, supported by Citizens JOHN GALE JONES and JOHN - HORNE TOOKE—“As the Right Hon. Gentleman (resumed the Duke, a little - peevishly) has mistaken his cue, and appeared sooner than he ought, - I shall spare his modesty the panegyric I was preparing, and shortly - conclude with proposing the health of CHARLES JAMES FOX.”—This was - drank with three times three. - - As soon as the clamour had subsided, Mr. FOX arose and said, “That - language, at least any which he could boast, was inadequate to the - exquisite feelings of gratitude which at once delighted and - oppressed him, at the sight of so numerous and so respectable a body - of free and independent Citizens, met for a purpose which would make - this the proudest and the happiest day of his life”. Having dwelt a - little on this idea, Mr. FOX observed, “that he would not interrupt - the conviviality of the day by a long Speech: he knew there were - several present who came to hear him make a long Speech, but he - would not make a long Speech—to what purpose should he do it?—what - could he add to the Speech lately delivered by him, and so - faithfully recorded in the ANTI-JACOBIN, a contemptible Publication, - but one to which the praise of Accuracy could not be denied. The new - and extraordinary circumstances of the times called for new and - extraordinary measures: he would, therefore, if they pleased, - compress what he had to say into a _Song_—(_loud applauses_)—One - word only.—He owed both the _burden_ and the _idea_ of this Song to - the _Morning Chronicle_. He had yesterday, the 23rd, found there A - BEGGING ADDRESS to the Nation, with DATE OBOLUM BELISARIO prefixed - to it as a Motto. This had pleased him much, and this morning at - breakfast he had endeavoured to adapt it, _mutatis mutandis_, to his - own circumstances: he should now have the honour of giving it.” - - - SONG BY MR. FOX. - - _To the Tune of_ - “Good People of England, and all who love Ale.” - - Good People of England, of every degree, - Lords, Commoners, listen, O! listen to me; - Republicans, Royalists, all—mark my ditty— - You’ll find I’ve a number of claims on your pity— - Date Obolum Belisario. - - Ye who heard me assert that Lord NORTH, now so mourn’d, - Was a _beast_ to be shunn’d, was a _fool_ to be scorn’d, - Yet who saw me, with real or fancied alarms, - Take the _fool_ to my councils, the _beast_ to my arms, - Date Obolum Belisario. - - Ye who heard me declare the SUBSCRIBERS of REEVES - Were a scoundrel collection of cut-throats and thieves, - Yet who saw me immediately after repair, - And SUBSCRIBE at the Long-Room in Hanover Square, - Date Obolum Belisario. - - Ye who heard—when Invasion was close at our door, - And _Parker_ and Liberty rul’d at the _Nore_— - Ye who heard—no; I mean, who DID NOT HEAR me speak, - While SHERIDAN,[109] damn him! affected to squeak, - Date Obolum Belisario. - - Ye who heard me repeat that Resistance, at length, - Was reduc’d, by PITT’S Bill, to a question of _Strength_, - And that _prudence_ alone—— - - We know not how far Mr. FOX might have proceeded, had he not been - interrupted by a jangling of bells from the Side-table which - immediately drew all eyes that way. This proceeded from Capt. - MORRIS, who had fallen asleep during Mr. FOX’S Song, and was now - nodding on his chair, with a large paper Cap on his head, ornamented - with gilt tassels and bells, which one of the company had - dexterously whipped on unperceived. The first motion was that of - indignation; but the stupid stare of the unconscious Captain, who - half opened his eyes at every sound of the bells as his head rose or - fell, and immediately closed them again, _somno vinoque gravatus_, - had such a powerful effect on the risible faculties of the Company, - that they broke, as if by consent, into the most violent and - convulsive fits of laughter; Mr. FOX himself not being exempt from - the general contagion. - - As soon as the Captain was made sensible of the cause of this - uproar, he attempted to pull off the Cap, but was prevented by a - Citizen from the _Corresponding Society_, who maintained that the - Company had a right to be amused by the Captain in what manner they - pleased; and that, as he seemed to amuse them more effectually in - _that state_ than in any other, he insisted, for one, on his - continuing to wear the Cap. This was universally agreed to, with the - exception of the Duke of NORFOLK. The Captain was therefore led to - the upper table, with all his “jangling honours loud upon him!” - Here, as soon as he was seated, his Noble Friend called upon him for - a Song. - - The Captain sang the “PLENIPO” in his best manner. - - This was received with great applause; and then the Duke gave “The - Defenders—of Ireland”—(_three times three_). - - Captain MORRIS then began - - “And all the Books of Moses”;— - - but was interrupted, before he had finished the first line, by Mr. - TIERNEY, who declared he would not sit there and hear anything like - ridicule on the Bible.[110]—(_Much coughing and scraping_.)—Mr. - Erskine took God to witness, that he thought the Captain meant no - harm;—and a gentleman from Cambridge, whose name we could not learn, - said, with great _naïveté_, that it was no more than was done every - day by his acquaintance. Mr. TIERNEY, however, persisted in his - opposition to the Song, and Captain MORRIS was obliged to substitute - “Jenny Sutton” in the place of it. - - But the good humour of the company was already broken in upon, and - Mr. TIERNEY soon after left the room (to which he did not return) - with greater marks of displeasure in his face than we ever remember - to have seen there. - - The Duke now gave RADICAL REFORM (_three times three, followed by - continued shouts of applause_). - - A Counsellor JACKSON attempted to sing “Paddy Whack,” but was soon - silenced, on account of his stupid perversion of the words, and his - bad voice. - - Citizen GALE JONES then rose and said—that he was no Orator, though - he got his living by oratory, being Chairman of a Debating Society. - He had also written a book—which he was told had some merit. He did - not rise to recommend it, but he thought it right to _hint_, that - those who wished for Constitutional information might be supplied - with it at the Bar; the price was trifling—Eighteen-pence was - nothing to the majority of the Company;—to himself, indeed—(here Mr. - HORNE TOOKE called out Order! Order! with some marks of - impatience)—He begged pardon, he would say no more—there was no one - whom he valued like Mr. TOOKE, there was no one indeed to whom he - was under such obligations; the very shoes he had on were charged by - Citizen HARDY to Mr. TOOKE’S account—Mr. TOOKE was also a great - friend to a Radical Reform—he loved a Radical Reform himself; the - Poor must always love Radical Reforms—he should therefore beg leave - to propose the health of Mr. JOHN HORNE TOOKE.—(_Three times - three._) - - Mr. TOOKE rose, and spoke nearly as follows: “You all know, - Citizens, in what detestation I once held the Man whose Birth-day we - are now met to commemorate. You cannot yet have forgot the ‘TWO PAIR - OF PORTRAITS’ I formerly published, nor the glaring light in which I - hung up him and his father to the execration of an indignant - posterity. You must also be apprized of the charges of Corruption, - Insurrection, and Murder (_much hissing and applause, the latter - predominant_) which I brought against him, justly, as I must still - think, at a former Election for Westminster. How happens it then, - you will say, that I now come forward to do him honour? I will tell - you. At the last Election for Westminster, I had still my suspicions - of his sincerity; he appeared too anxious to preserve measures with - the spruce and powdered Aristocrats who usually attended him to the - Hustings; nor was it till the fourth or fifth day before the close - of the Poll, that those suspicions were removed. Aware that he was - losing ground among the People, he determined to make one great - effort to re-establish his popularity. He therefore came forward, - and addressed the free and independent Electors in front of the - Hustings, in a Speech, of which the remembrance yet warms my heart. - From that moment, I marked him as my own! Retractation was - impossible; and the panegyric he lately delivered on a Radical - Reform, in a House which I despise too much to name, was the natural - and inevitable consequence of that day’s declaration. You may - remember, that when I addressed my Friends, I only said, ‘Gentlemen, - Mr. FOX has spoken my sentiments; he has even gone beyond them—but I - thank him’.—What I then said I now repeat, with regard to his Speech - on a late occasion—‘I AM MOST PERFECTLY SATISFIED WITH HIS CONDUCT; - NOR DO I WISH TO ADVANCE ONE STEP IN THE CAUSE OF REFORM, BEYOND - WHAT MR. FOX HAS PLEDGED HIMSELF TO GO!!!’”[111] - - Mr. TOOKE then begged leave to propose Mr. FOX’S health for the - second time, and sat down amidst a thunder of applause.[112] - - The Duke of NORFOLK observed to the Company, that as they had drunk - the health of a Man dear to the People, he would now call upon them - to drink the health of their Sovereign[113]—here a hiccup - interrupted his Grace, and a most violent cry of “No Sovereign! no - Sovereign!” resounded through the room, and continued for several - minutes, notwithstanding the earnest entreaties of the Duke to be - heard. Order was, however, restored at length, when his Grace gently - chid the Company for taking advantage of a slight infirmity of - nature, to impute a design to him which was wholly foreign from his - heart—(_loud applause_). He augured well, however, of their - patriotism, and would now afford them an opportunity of repairing - the injury they had done him, by giving the Toast as he - intended—“THE HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN—THE MAJESTY OF THE - PEOPLE”.[114]—(_Loud and incessant shouts of applause._) - - A disgusting scene of uproar and confusion followed, which we shall - not attempt to detail. The Chairman sank under the table in a state - of stupefaction, and the rest of the Company, maddened alike with - noise and wine, committed a thousand outrages, till they were - literally turned into the streets by the Waiters. As many of them as - could speak were conducted home by the watchmen; others were - conveyed “in silent majesty” to the Round-house; and not a few of - them slept out the remainder of the night upon the steps of the - neighbouring houses. The Reporters of the Jacobin Papers were sought - out, and conveyed home by the pressmen, devils, &c., and one poor - youth, whom we afterwards found to be a Writer in the _Morning - Chronicle_ (hired for the day by _The True Briton_)[115] had his - pockets picked of a clean white Handkerchief and a Notebook, after - being severely beaten for deserting his former Employers. - -[Illustration: '_The] - - - - - No. XIV. - - - Feb. 12, 1798. - -It has been our invariable custom to suppress such of our -correspondents’ favours as conveyed any compliments to ourselves; and we -have deviated from it in the present instance, not so much out of -respect to the uncommon excellence of the Poem before us, as because it -agrees so intimately with the general design of our paper—to expose the -deformity of the French Revolution, to counteract the detestable arts of -those who are seeking to introduce it here, and above all, to invigorate -the exertions of our countrymen against every Foe, foreign and domestic, -by showing them the immense and inexhaustible resources they yet possess -in British Courage and British Virtue! - - - TO - THE AUTHOR OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. - - FOE TO THY COUNTRY’S FOES! ’tis THINE to claim - From Britain’s genuine sons a British fame— - Too long French manners our fair isle disgraced; - Too long French fashions shamed our native taste. - Still prone to change, we half-resolved to try - The proffered charms of FRENCH FRATERNITY. - - Fair was her form, and FREEDOM’S honour’d name - Conceal’d the horrors of her secret shame: - She claim’d some kindred with that guardian pow’r, - Long worshipp’d here in Britain’s happier hour: - Virtue and Peace, she said, were in her train, - The long-lost blessings of ASTRÆA’S reign— - But soon the vizor dropp’d—her haggard face - Betray’d the FURY lurking in the GRACE— - The false attendants that behind her press’d, - In vain disguised, the latent guilt confess’d: - PEACE dropt her snow-white robe, and shudd’ring show’d - AMBITION’S mantle reeking fresh with blood; - Presumptuous FOLLY stood in REASON’S form, - Pleased with the power to ruin,—not reform; - PHILOSOPHY, proud phantom, undismay’d, - With cold regard the ghastly train survey’d; - Saw PERSECUTION gnash her iron teeth, - While _Atheists_ preach’d the _eternal sleep of death_; - Saw ANARCHY the social chain unbind, - And DISCORD sour the blood of human kind; - Then talk’d of Nature’s Rights, and Equal Sway; - And saw her system safe—AND STALK’D AWAY! - - Foil’d by our ARMS, where’er in ARMS we met, - With ARTS LIKE THESE the foe assails us yet. - Hopeless the fort to storm, or to surprise, - More secret wiles his envious malice tries; - Diseas’d himself, spread wide his own despair, - Pollutes the fount, and taints the wholesome air. - - While many a Chief, to glory not unknown, - Alarms each hostile shore, and guards our own, - ’Tis THINE, the latent treachery to proclaim; - An humbler warfare, but the cause the same. - In vain had POMPEY crush’d the PONTIC HOST, - And chas’d the pirate swarm from every coast; - The crew that leagu’d their country to o’erthrow; - The base confederates of a GALLIC[116] foe; - Had not the Civic Consul’s watchful eye - Track’d through the windings of conspiracy, - Exposed, confounded, shamed, and forced away, - The “JACOBIN REFORMER[117] of his day”. - - ’Tis THINE a subtler mischief to pursue, - And drag a deeper, darker, plot to view; - Whate’er its form, still ready to engage, - Detect its malice, or resist its rage; - Whether it whispers low, or raves aloud, - In sneers profane, or blasphemies avow’d;[118] - Insults its King, reviles its Country’s cause, - And, ’scaped from Justice, braves the lenient Laws: - Whate’er the hand in desperate faction bold, - By native hate inspired, or foreign gold; - Traitors absolved, and libellers released, - The recreant Peer, or renegado Priest;[119] - The _Sovereign-people’s_ cringing, crafty slave, - The dashing fool, and instigating knave, - Each claims thy care; nor think the labour vain— - VERMIN HAVE SUNK THE SHIP THAT RULED THE MAIN. - - ’Tis THINE, with Truth’s fair shield to ward the blow, - And turn the weapon back upon the foe: - To trace the skulking fraud, the candid cheat, - That can retract the falsehood, yet repeat; - To wake the listless, slumb’ring as they lie, - Lapt in th’ embrace of soft security; - To rouse the cold, re-animate the brave, - And shew the cautious all they have to save. - - Erect that standard ALFRED first unfurl’d, - Britain’s just pride, the wonder of the world; - Whose staff is Freedom’s spear, whose blazon’d field - Beams with the CHRISTIAN CROSS, the REGAL SHIELD; - That standard which the PATRIOT BARONS bore, - Restored, from RUNIMEDE’S resounding shore; - Which since consign’d to WILLIAM’S guardian hand, - Waved in new splendour o’er a grateful land; - Which oft in vain by force or fraud assail’d, - Has stood the shock of ages—and prevail’d. - - Yes! the BRIGHT SUN OF BRITAIN yet shall shine— - The clouds are earth-born, but his fire divine; - That temperate splendour, and that genial heat, - Shall still illume, and cherish Empire’s Seat; - While the red Meteor, whose portentous glare - Shot plagues infectious through the troubled air; - Admired, or fear’d no more, shall melt away, - Lost in the radiance of HIS BRIGHTER DAY! - -[Illustration: '_DESIGN] - - - LINES. - _Written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown and Anchor._ - - I’ll not sell Uncle NOLL, Charles Surface cries;— - I’ll not sell CHARLEY FOX, John Bull replies: - Sell him, indeed! who’ll find me such another?— - Fox is above all price; so hold your pother. - _Morning Post, Feb. 6._ - -To make our readers some amends for this miserable doggrel, we will -present them, in our turn, with some lines written _under a bust_, NOT -_at the Crown and Anchor_, by an ENGLISH TRAVELLER just returned from -Petersburgh. We believe they are more just; we are certain they are more -poetical. - - - LINES. - _Written by a Traveller at Czarco-zelo under the Bust of a certain - Orator, once placed between those of Demosthenes and Cicero._ - - I. - - THE GRECIAN Orator of old, - With scorn rejected PHILIP’S laws, - Indignant spurn’d at foreign gold, - And triumph’d in his country’s cause. - - II. - - A foe to every wild extreme, - ’Mid civil storms, the Roman Sage - Repress’d Ambition’s frantic scheme, - And check’d the madding people’s rage. - - III. - - Their country’s peace, and wealth and fame, - With patriot zeal their labours sought, - And Rome’s or Athens’ honoured name - Inspired and govern’d every thought. - - IV. - - Who now, in this presumptuous hour, - Aspires to share the Athenian’s praise? - —The advocate of foreign power, - The Æschines of later days. - - V. - - What chosen name to Tully’s join’d, - Is thus announced to distant climes? - —Behold, to lasting shame consign’d, - The _Catiline_ of modern times![120] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XV. - - - Feb. 19, 1798. - - - THE PROGRESS OF MAN.[121] - - =A Didactic Poem,= - - IN FORTY CANTOS, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY: CHIEFLY OF A - PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCY. - - DEDICATED TO R. P. KNIGHT, ESQ. - - - CANTO FIRST. - - CONTENTS.—The Subject proposed.—Doubts and Waverings.—Queries not to - be answered.—Formation of the stupendous Whole.—Cosmogony; or the - Creation of the World:—the Devil—Man—Various Classes of - Being:—ANIMATED BEINGS—Birds—Fish—Beasts—the Influence of the Sexual - Appetite—on Tigers—on Whales—On Crimpt Cod—on Perch—on - Shrimps—on Oysters.—Various Stations assigned to different - Animals:—Birds—Bears—Mackerel.—Bears remarkable for their - fur—Mackerel cried on a Sunday—Birds do not graze—nor Fishes fly—nor - Beasts live in the Water.—Plants equally contented with their - lot:—Potatoes—Cabbage—Lettuce—Leeks—Cucumbers.—MAN only - discontented—born a Savage; not choosing to continue so, becomes - polished—resigns his Liberty—Priest-craft—King-craft—Tyranny of Laws - and Institutions.—Savage Life—description thereof:—The Savage - free—roaming Woods—feeds on Hips and Haws—Animal Food—first notion - of it from seeing a Tiger tearing his prey—wonders if it is - good—resolves to try—makes a Bow and Arrow—kills a Pig—resolves to - roast a part of it—lights a fire—APOSTROPHE to fires—Spits and Jacks - not yet invented.—Digression.—CORINTH—SHEFFIELD.—Love, the most - natural desire after Food.—Savage Courtship.—Concubinage - recommended.—Satirical Reflections on Parents and Children—Husbands - and Wives—against collateral Consanguinity.—FREEDOM the only - Morality, &c. &c. &c. - - Whether some great, supreme o’er-ruling Power - Stretch’d forth its arm at Nature’s natal hour, - Composed this mighty whole with plastic skill,[122] - Wielding the jarring elements at will? - Or whether, sprung from Chaos’ mingling storm, 5 - The mass of matter started into form? - Or Chance o’er earth’s green lap spontaneous fling - The fruits of autumn and the flowers of spring? - Whether material substance unrefined, - Owns the strong impulse of instructive mind, 10 - Which to one centre points diverging lines, - Confounds, refracts, invig’rates, and combines?[123] - Whether the joys of earth, the hopes of heaven, - By man to God, or God to man, were given?[124] - If virtue leads to bliss, or vice to woe? 15 - Who rules above, or who reside below?[125] - Vain questions all—shall man presume to know? - On all these points, and points obscure as these, - Think they who will,—and think whate’er they please! - - Let us a plainer, steadier theme pursue— 20 - Mark the grim savage scoop his light canoe; - Mark the dark rook, on pendent branches hung, - With anxious fondness feed her cawing young.— - Mark the fell leopard through the desert prowl, - Fish prey on fish, and fowl regale on fowl;— 25 - How Lybian tigers’ chawdrons[126] love assails, - And warms, ’midst seas of ice, the melting whales;—[127] - Cools the crimpt cod, fierce pangs to perch imparts, - Shrinks shrivell’d shrimps, but opens oysters’ hearts;—[128] - Then say, how all these things together tend 30 - To one great truth, prime object, and good end? - - First—to each living thing, whate’er its kind, - Some lot, some part, some station is assign’d. - The feather’d race with pinions skim the _air_—[129] - Not so the mackerel, and still less the bear;[130] 35 - _This_ roams the _wood_, carniv’rous for his prey![131] - _That_ with soft roe pursues his _watery_ way:[132] - _This_, slain by hunters, yields his shaggy hide;[133] - _That_, caught by fishers, is on _Sundays_ cried.—[134] - - But each contented with his humble sphere, 40 - Moves unambitious through the circling year; - Nor e’er forgets the fortune of his race, - Nor pines to quit, or strives to change his place. - Ah! who has seen the mailed lobster rise, - Clap her broad wings, and soaring claim the skies?[135] 45 - When did the owl, descending from her bow’r, - Crop, ’midst the fleecy flocks, the tender flow’r; - Or the young heifer plunge, with pliant limb, - In the salt wave,[136] and fish-like strive to swim? - - The same with plants[137]—potatoes ’tatoes breed—[138] 50 - Uncostly cabbage springs from cabbage seed; - Lettuce to lettuce, leeks to leeks succeed; - Nor e’er did cooling cucumbers presume - To flow’r like myrtle, or like violets bloom. - —Man, only,—rash, refined, presumptuous man, 55 - Starts from his rank, and mars creation’s plan. - Born the free heir of nature’s wide domain, - To art’s strict limits bounds his narrow’d reign; - Resigns his native rights for meaner things, - For faith and fetters—laws, and priests, and kings. 60 - - (_To be continued._) - -We are sorry to be obliged to break off here. The remainder of this -admirable and instructive Poem is in the press, and will be continued -the first opportunity. - - THE EDITOR. - - [The following is the commencement of Knight’s poem:— - - Whether primordial motion sprang to life - From the wild war of elemental strife; - In central chains the mass inert confined, - And sublimated matter into mind: - Or, whether one great all-pervading soul - Moves in each part and animates the whole; - Unnumbered worlds to one great centre draws, - And governs all by pre-established laws: - Whether in fates’ eternal fetters bound, - Mechanic nature goes her endless round: - Or ever varying, acts but to fulfil - The sovereign mandates of Almighty will;— - Let learned folly seek, or foolish pride, - Rash in presumptuous ignorance, decide.—ED.] - - [Eminent as Richard Payne Knight was as a classical scholar and - archæologist, his poetical powers were not highly appreciated by his - literary contemporaries, as is amusingly shown in a letter from - Horace Walpole, dated 22nd March, 1796, to the Rev. W. Mason, in - which he declares how much he is “offended and disgusted by Mr. - Knight’s new, insolent, and self-conceited poem”. He winds up thus: - “I send you a parody on two lines of Mr. Knight, which will show you - that his poem is seen in its true light by a young man of allowed - parts, MR. CANNING, whom I never saw. The originals are the two - first lines at the top of page 5:”— - - “Some fainter irritations seem to feel, - Which o’er its languid fibres gently steal”.—KNIGHT. - - “Cools the crimp’d cod, to pond-perch pangs imparts, - Thrills the shelled shrimps, and opens oysters’ hearts.”—CANNING. - - It is evident from this that Canning had thought of parodying the - poem immediately after its publication, and that Walpole had seen a - specimen in manuscript, nearly two years before its publication in - the _Anti-Jacobin_, in which the two lines (28, 29) are thus - altered:— - - “Cools the crimpt cod, fierce pangs to perch imparts, - Shrinks shrivell’d shrimps, but opens oysters’ hearts”. - - By an oversight, Peter Cunningham, in his edition of Walpole’s - Letters, attributes the latter’s attack to a previous production of - Knight’s, published in 1794, entitled _The Landscape: a didactic - Poem in three Books_, a work which had excited Walpole’s high - indignation by expressing opinions opposed to his own.—ED.] - - - - - No. XVI. - - - Feb. 26, 1798. - -The specimen of the poem on the “Progress of Man,” with which we -favoured our Readers in our last Number, has occasioned a variety of -letters, which we confess have not a little surprised us, from the -unfounded, and even contradictory charges they contain. In one, we are -accused of Malevolence, in bringing back to notice a work that had been -quietly consigned to oblivion;—in another, of Plagiarism, in copying its -most beautiful passages;—in a third, of Vanity, in striving to imitate -what was in itself inimitable, &c., &c. But why this alarm? has the -author of the “_Progress of Civil Society_” an exclusive patent for -fabricating _Didactic_ poems? or can we not write against Order and -Government without incurring the guilt of Imitation? We trust we were -not so ignorant of the nature of a didactic poem (so called from -_didaskein_, to teach, and _poema_, a poem; because it teaches nothing, -and is not poetical) even before the _“Progress of Civil Society”_ -appeared, but that we were capable of such an undertaking. - -We shall only say further, that we do not intend to proceed regularly -with our Poem; but having the remaining thirty-nine Cantos by us, shall -content ourselves with giving, from time to time, such extracts as may -happen to suit our purpose. - -The following passage, which, as the reader will see by turning to the -Contents prefixed to the head of the Poem, is part of the First Canto, -contains so happy a deduction of MAN’S present state of Depravity, from -the first slips and failings of his Original State, and inculcates so -forcibly the mischievous consequences of _social_ or _civilized_, as -opposed to _natural_ society, that no dread of imputed imitation can -prevent us from giving it to our readers. - - - PROGRESS OF MAN. - - Lo! the rude savage, free from civil strife,[139] - Keeps the smooth tenour of his guiltless life; - Restrain’d by none, save Nature’s lenient laws, - Quaffs the clear stream, and feeds on hips and haws. - Light to his daily sports behold him rise! 65 - The bloodless banquet health and strength supplies.[140] - Bloodless not long—one morn he haps to stray[141] - Through the lone wood—and close beside the way - Sees the gaunt tiger tear his trembling prey; - Beneath whose gory fangs a leveret bleeds, 70 - Or pig—such pig as fertile China breeds.[142] - - Struck with the sight, the wondering savage stands, - Rolls his broad eyes, and clasps his lifted hands! - Then restless roams—and loaths his wonted food; - Shuns the salubrious stream, and thirsts for blood. 75 - - By thought matured, and quicken’d by desire,[143] - New arts, new arms, his wayward wants require. - From the tough yew a slender branch he tears, - With self-taught skill the twisted grass[144] prepares; - Th’ unfashioned bow, with labouring efforts bends 80 - In circling form, and joins th’ unwilling ends. - Next some tall reed he seeks—with sharp-edg’d stone - Shapes the fell dart, and points with whiten’d bone.[145] - - Then forth he fares. Around in careless play, - Kids, pigs, and lambkins unsuspecting stray; 85 - With grim delight he views the sportive band, - Intent on blood, and lifts his murderous hand. - Twangs the bent bow—resounds the fateful dart, - Swift-wing’d, and trembles in a porker’s heart. - - Ah, hapless porker! what can now avail[146] 90 - Thy back’s stiff bristles, or thy curly tail? - Ah! what avail those eyes so small and round, - Long pendent ears, and snout that loves the ground?[147] - - Not unreveng’d thou diest!—in after times[148] - From thy spilt blood shall spring unnumber’d crimes. 95 - Soon shall the slaught’rous arms that wrought thy woe, - Improved by malice, deal a deadlier blow;[149] - When _social_ man shall pant for nobler game, - And ’gainst his fellow man the vengeful weapon aim. - - As love, as gold, as jealousy inspires,[150] 100 - As wrathful hate, or wild ambition fires, - Urged by the statesman’s craft, the tyrant’s rage, - Embattled nations endless wars shall wage, - Vast seas of blood the ravaged field shall stain, - And millions perish—that a _king_ may reign! 105 - - For blood once shed, new wants and wishes rise;[151] - Each rising want invention quick supplies. - To roast his victuals is man’s next desire, - So two dry sticks he rubs, and lights a fire. - Hail fire, &c. &c. - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XVII. - - - March 5, 1798. - -We are obliged to a learned correspondent for the following ingenious -imitation of BION.—We will not shock the eyes of our fair readers with -the original Greek, but the following _Argument_ will give them some -idea of the nature of the Poem here imitated. - - - ARGUMENT. - - Venus is represented as bringing to the Poet, while sleeping, her son - Cupid, with a request that he would teach him Pastoral Poetry—Bion - complies, and endeavours to teach him the rise and progress of that - art:—Cupid laughs at his instructions, and in his turn teaches his - master the Loves of Men and Gods, the Wiles of his Mother, - &c.—“Pleased with his lessons,” says BION, “I forgot what I lately - taught Cupid and recollect in its stead only what Cupid taught me.” - - - IMITATION, &c.[152] - - WRITTEN AT ST. ANNE’S HILL. - - Scarce had sleep my eyes o’erspread, - Ere Alecto sought my bed; - In her left hand a torch she shook, - And in her right led JOHN HORNE TOOKE. - O thou! who well deserv’st the bays, - Teach him, she cried, Sedition’s lays— - She said, and left us; I, poor fool, - Began the wily priest to school; - Taught him how MOIRA sung of lights, - Blown out by troops o’ stormy nights;[153] - How ERSKINE, borne on rapture’s wings, - At clubs and taverns sweetly sings - Of _self_—while yawning Whigs attend— - _Self_ first, last, midst, and without end;[154] - How BEDFORD piped, ill-fated Bard;[155] - Half-drown’d, in empty Palace-yard; - How LANSDOWNE, nature’s simple child, - At BOWOOD trills his wood-notes wild—[156] - How these and more (a phrenzied choir) - Sweep with bold hand Confusion’s lyre, - Till madding crowds around them storm - “FOR ONE GRAND RADICAL REFORM!” - - TOOKE stood silent for a while, - Listening with sarcastic smile; - Then in verse of calmest flow, - Sung of treasons, deep and low, - Of rapine, prisons, scaffolds, blood, - Of war against the great and good; - Of Venice, and of Genoa’s doom, - And fall of unoffending Rome; - Of monarchs from their station hurl’d, - And one waste desolated world. - - Charm’d by the magic of his tongue, - I lost the strains I lately sung, - While those he taught, remain impress’d - For ever on my faithful breast. - DORUS. - - - [BION. IDYLLIUM III. THE TEACHER TAUGHT. - - TRANSLATED BY FAWKES. - - As late I slumbering lay, before my sight - Bright VENUS rose in visions of the night: - She led young Cupid; as in thought profound - His modest eyes were fixed upon the ground; - And thus she spoke: “To thee, dear swain, I bring - My little son; instruct the boy to sing”. - No more she said; but vanished into air, - And left the wily pupil to my care: - I,—(sure I was an idiot for my pains), - Began to teach him old bucolic strains; - How PAN the pipe, how PALLAS formed the flute, - PHŒBUS the lyre, and MERCURY the lute: - LOVE, to my lessons quite regardless grown, - Sang lighter lays, and sonnets of his own, - Th’ amours of men below, and gods above, - And all the triumphs of the queen of love. - I, sure the simplest of all shepherd swains, - Full soon forgot my old bucolic strains; - The lighter lays of LOVE my fancy caught, - And I remembered all that Cupid taught.—ED.] - - * * * * * - -Something like the same idea seems to have dictated the following -Stanzas, which appear to be a loose imitation of the beautiful Dialogue -of Horace and Lydia, and for which, though confessedly in a lower style -of poetry, and conceived rather in the _slang_, or _Brentford_ dialect, -than in the classical Doric of the foregoing Poem, we have many thanks -to return to an ingenious academical correspondent. - - - THE NEW COALITION.[157] - - I. - - FOX.—When erst I coalesced with North - And brought my _Indian bantling_ forth[158] - In place—I smiled at faction’s storm, - Nor dreamt of _radical reform_. - - II. - - TOOKE.—While yet no patriot project pushing, - Content I thump’d old Brentford’s cushion, - I pass’d my life so free and gaily; - Not dreaming of that d——d _Old Bailey_. - - III. - - FOX.—Well! now my favourite preacher’s _Nickle_,[159] - He keeps for PITT a rod in pickle; - His gestures fright th’ astonish’d gazers, - His sarcasms cut like Packwood’s razors. - - IV. - - TOOKE.—_Thelwall’s_[160] my man for state alarm; - I love the rebels of _Chalk Farm_; - Rogues that no statutes can subdue, - Who’d bring the French, and head them too. - - V. - - FOX.—A whisper in your ear, JOHN HORNE,[161] - For _one great end_ we both were born, - Alike we roar, and rant, and bellow— - Give us your hand, my honest fellow. - - VI. - - TOOKE.—Charles, for a shuffler long I’ve known thee: - But come—for once, I’ll not disown thee; - And since with patriot zeal thou burnest, - With thee I’ll live—or hang _in earnest_. - - - [HORACE. BOOK III., ODE IX. - - HORACE.—Whilst I was fond, and you were kind, - Nor any dearer youth, reclined - On your soft bosom, sought to rest, - Not Persia’s monarch was so blest. - - LYDIA.—Whilst you adored no other face, - Nor loved me in the second place, - Your Lydia’s celebrated fame - Outshone the Roman Ilia’s name. - - HORACE.—Me _Chloe_ now possesses whole; - Her voice and lyre command my soul: - Nor would I death itself decline, - Could I redeem her life with mine. - - LYDIA.—For me young lovely _Calaïs_ burns, - And warmth for warmth my heart returns. - Twice would I life for him resign, - Could _his_ be ransomed thus with _mine_. - - HORACE.—What if the God, whose bands we broke, - Again should tame us to the yoke! - What if my _Chloe_ cease to reign, - And _Lydia_ her lost power regain! - - LYDIA.—Though Phosphor be less fair than _he_; - _Thou_ wilder than the raging sea; - Lighter than down; yet gladly I - With _thee_ would live, with _thee_ would die.—ED.] - - * * * * * - - [Another version of this Ode published in the _Anti-Jacobin Review_, - vol. 1, pp. 597–8 (the successor to the _Anti-Jacobin_), may perhaps - not be considered out of place here. It was written by the Rev. C. - E. Stewart, a constant contributor to the former journal. - - - THE HONEY-MOON OF FOX AND TOOKE. - - _Donec gratus eram tibi._ - - FOX.—Since Fox of his Tooke is possest, - No sorrows my bosom can harass; - What Director was ever so blest? - I’m greater, far greater than Barras. - - TOOKE.—If Fox to his consort is true, - And this blest Coalition sincere, - I’ll engage as a private with you, - Nor envy thy fame, Robespierre. - - FOX.—You once were the worst of my foes, - E’en Pitt I detested not more, - When you dar’d my Election oppose, - And eternal antipathy swore. - - TOOKE.—Not to you was my hatred confin’d, - Your father I styled “The Defaulter,” - Drew a portrait of both, and consign’d - Both father and son to the halter. - - FOX.—Drive these hated reflections away; - For you I would gladly resign. - Jockey Norfolk, big Bedford, and Grey; - But they answer your purpose and mine. - - TOOKE.—Whate’er you attempt or intend, - I am yours, and will bring at your call, - Binns, Gurney, Scott, Ferguson, Frend, - Corresponding Society—all. - - BOTH.—Thus reconcil’d, fond, and delighted, - Together we’ll ride in the storm, - While Jacobin Clubs, all united, - Make a radical, perfect Reform.—ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XVIII. - - - March 12, 1798. - -We are indebted for the following exquisite imitation of one of the most -beautiful Odes of Horace, to an unknown hand. All that we can say is, -that it came to us in a blank cover sealed with a ducal coronet, and -that it appears evidently to be the production of a mind not more -classical than convivial. - - - ODE. - - Whither, O Bacchus, in thy train,[162] - Dost thou transport thy votary’s brain - With sudden inspiration? - Where dost thou bid me quaff my wine, - And toast new measures to combine - The _Great_ and _Little Nation_? - - Say, in what tavern I shall raise[163] - My mighty voice in Charley’s praise, - And dream of future glories, - When FOX, with salutary sway - (Terror the Order of the Day), - Shall reign o’er King and Tories? - - My mighty feelings must have way![164] - A toast I’ll give—a thing I’ll say, - As yet unsaid by any,— - “OUR SOV’REIGN LORD!”—let those who doubt - My honest meaning, hear me out— - “HIS MAJESTY—THE MANY!” - - Plain folks may be surprised, and stare,[165] - As much surprised as BOB ADAIR - At Russia’s wooden houses; - And Russian snows, that lie so thick;[166] - And Russian boors[167] that daily kick, - With barbarous foot, their spouses. - - What joy, when drunk, at midnight’s hour,[168] - To stroll through Covent Garden’s bow’r, - Its various charms exploring; - And, ’midst its shrubs and vacant stalls, - And proud Piazza’s crumbling walls, - Hear trulls and watchmen snoring! - - Parent of wine, and gin, and beer,[169] - The nymphs of Billingsgate you cheer; - Naiads robust and hearty; - As Brookes’s chairmen fit to wield - Their stout oak bludgeons in the field, - To aid our virtuous party. - - Mortals! no common voice you hear;[170] - _Militia Colonel, Premier Peer, - Lieutenant of a County_! - I speak high things! yet, god of wine, - For thee, I fear not to resign - These gifts of royal bounty. - - - [HORACE. BOOK III., ODE XXV. TO BACCHUS. - - TRANSLATED BY FRANCIS. - - Whither in sacred ecstasy, - BACCHUS, when full of thy divinity, - Dost thou transport me? To what glades? - What gloomy caverns, unfrequented shades? - In what recesses shall I raise - My voice to sacred Cæsar’s deathless praise, - Amid the stars to bid him shine, - Ranked in the councils of the powers divine? - Some bolder song shall wake the lyre, - And sounds unknown its trembling strings inspire. - Thus o’er the steepy mountains’ height, - Starting from sleep, thy priestess takes her flight: - Amazed, behold the Thracian snows, - With languid streams where icy Heber flows - Or Rhodopé’s high-towering head, - Where frantic choirs barbarian measures tread. - O’er pathless rocks, through lonely groves, - With what delight my raptured spirit roves! - O thou, who rul’st the Naiad’s breast; - By whom the Bacchanalian maids, possessed - With sacred rage inspired by thee, - Tear from the bursting glebe th’ uprooted tree; - Nothing or low, or mean, I sing, - No mortal sound shall shake the swelling string. - The venturous theme my soul alarms; - But warmed by thee the thought of danger charms. - When vine-crowned Bacchus leads the way, - What can his daring votaries dismay?—ED.] - - [The preceding Ode, written in the character of Charles Howard, - eleventh DUKE OF NORFOLK, refers to the famous toast, “Our - Sovereign’s health—THE MAJESTY OF THE PEOPLE,” proposed by his Grace - at a Banquet at the “Crown and Anchor Tavern,” Strand, on the 24th - January, 1798, given to celebrate the birth-day of C. J. FOX. For - this toast and other sentiments promulgated at the meeting, his - Grace a few days after received notice of his dismissal from the - Lord-Lieutenancy of the West Riding of Yorkshire and his Colonelcy - in the Militia, and on the 6th of February Earl Fitzwilliam was - gazetted to the former office, vice the Duke of Norfolk, _resigned_. - But sixteen years earlier, this _Toast_ was not considered - seditious; for in the _General Advertiser_ of the 13th of April, - 1782, then edited by Perry (afterwards the eminent proprietor of the - _Morning Chronicle_), we find an account of a dinner of the electors - of Westminster held the preceding day at the Shakespeare Tavern, - _Earl Fitzwilliam_ in the chair. The first toast given by his - Lordship was, “THE MAJESTY OF THE PEOPLE”. It was drunk by the Earl - of Effingham, the Earl of Surrey (afterwards Duke of Norfolk, and - the subject of the present remarks), Mr. Secretary Fox, Burke, - Windham, Dean Jebb, J. Churchill, Brand Hollis, Dr. Brocklesby, &c. - Thus the identical toast was proposed and drunk by the Earl of - Fitzwilliam, to whom the Lord-Lieutenancy now taken from the Duke of - Norfolk was given. It is not a little remarkable that Lord - Fitzwilliam himself was dismissed by his new Tory allies, Oct. 23, - 1819, from the same Lord-Lieutenancy of the West Riding of - Yorkshire, having signed the requisition for the York meeting, at - which resolutions were passed condemning the measures of Ministers - (Lords Liverpool, Eldon, Bathurst, Castlereagh, Palmerston, &c.), - respecting the Manchester Reform Meeting, called by Henry Hunt, on - 16th August, at which occurred what is known as the “Peterloo - Massacre”.—ED.] - - - [“THE MAJESTY OF THE PEOPLE,” AS GIVEN ON FOX’S BIRTH-DAY. - - The company was a very large one, but the estimated number of 2000 - diners is surely an error. The Duke of Norfolk presided, supported - by the Duke of Bedford, the Earls of Lauderdale and Oxford, - Sheridan, Tierney, Erskine, Capt. Morris (who produced three new - songs for the occasion), and Horne Tooke; the latter became - reconciled to Fox by the explanation the latter gave of his - sentiments on parliamentary reform. On the cloth being removed, he - rose and said, “We are met in a moment of most serious difficulty to - celebrate the birth of a man dear to the friend of freedom. I shall - only recall to your memory that not twenty years ago, the - illustrious GEORGE WASHINGTON had not more than two thousand men to - rally round him when his country was attacked. America is now free. - This day full two thousand men are assembled in this place. I leave - the application to you. I propose to you the health of CHARLES JAMES - FOX.” - - In the course of the evening the Duke’s health was drunk with great - enthusiasm. He returned thanks, and concluded his speech with these - words, “Give me leave to call on you to drink, Our Sovereign’s - health, - - “THE MAJESTY OF THE PEOPLE”. - - After this toast had been drunk and warmly applauded, the Duke gave - successively, “The Rights of the People,” “Constitutional Redress of - the Wrongs of the People,” “A speedy and effectual Reform in the - Representation of the People in Parliament,” “The genuine Principles - of the British Constitution,” “The People of Ireland, and may they - be speedily restored to the Blessings of Law and Liberty”. - - On the 6th of February, the next monthly meeting of the _Whig Club_ - was held at the London Tavern, Ludgate Hill. The DUKE OF NORFOLK - presided. He gave as a toast, “The Man who dares be honest in the - worst of times— - - “CHARLES JAMES FOX”. - - FOX returned thanks, and then toasted - - “THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE”. - - He subsequently proposed the health of the Duke of Norfolk in a most - powerful speech. He adverted to the dismissal of the DUKE. “No - reason had been officially assigned; it was, however, generally - understood that it had arisen from the eulogium pronounced on - GENERAL WASHINGTON. Was it to be wondered at, that the noble Duke, - who had uniformly opposed the American war, should have done so? - What Englishman, what man of any country, whose heart was animated - with a love of freedom, did not venerate the name of that - illustrious patriot? It seems also “a toast” has given offence—the - Majesty of the People. I do not know upon what times we are fallen, - but the sovereignty of the people of Great Britain is surely a thing - not new to the language, to the feelings, nor the hearts of - Englishmen. It is the basis of the whole system of our Government. - It is an opinion, which if it be not true, King William was an - usurper. By what right did the glorious and immortal King William - the Third, whose portrait is placed on our chair, come to the throne - of these realms, if not by that of the sovereignty of the people?... - The King holds his title by an Act of Parliament. Who called that - Parliament? King William the Third. By what right did he obtain it? - By a Convention representing the sovereignty of the people. The - Convention of Representatives in fact did the thing. It is whimsical - enough to deprive the noble Duke of his appointments for an offence - which, if he had not committed during the reigns of George I. and - George II., would have subjected him to the charge of being a - Jacobite, and an adherent of the exiled family.... Of the persons of - his Majesty’s Ministers I will not say a word. There are several of - them to whom I may fairly say this sentiment is not new. One member - of the Cabinet (the Duke of Portland) is still a member of this - club; another (Mr. Windham) was a member; and a third (Earl Spencer) - long gloried in holding the same tenets. How often with the two - first have we drunk the sentiment in this room! What did they mean - when they drank the Sovereignty of the People? What, but that they - recognised by this approved and customary method a truth which - belongs to all people in reality, but is the avowed basis of the - Government of England, that the people of every country are its - legitimate Sovereign, and that all authority is delegated from and - for them? I should be ashamed, on account of my old respect for - those persons, if they did not honestly avow this to be their sense - of the sentiment.” - - While adverting, on this occasion, to the dismissal of the DUKE OF - NORFOLK from his Lord-Lieutenancy and Colonelcy of Militia, FOX - remarked, “I have nothing the Ministers can take from me. I am still - indeed a Privy Councillor, at least I know nothing to the contrary; - and if this sentiment entitles the Noble Duke to this animadversion, - I shall certainly feel that I am equally entitled to this mark of - his Majesty’s displeasure.” This anticipation was verified shortly - afterwards. - - On the 1st of May following, at the Freemasons’ Tavern, another - dinner of the _Whig Club_ took place. FOX was in the chair, and - gave, as the first toast— - - “THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN”. - - The Duke of Norfolk proposed “The Health of the Man who dares be - Honest in the worst of Times— - - “CHARLES JAMES FOX”. - - FOX responded in a most impressive speech. He said: “On any other - occasion, he should have contented himself with returning thanks, - but in the very peculiar embarrassments in which the country was now - plunged, he thought it necessary to say a few words in the only - place in which he thought it might be useful for him to deliver his - sentiments. The circumstances and events of public affairs of late - had induced him and many of his friends to abstain from their usual - assiduous attendance in Parliament. Their exertions for the - preservation of the Constitution had been of no avail; two years ago - they had seen the repeal of the Bill of Rights carried by a - triumphant majority; they had seen the functions of the - Constitutional Law suspended, on alarm created by the Ministers - themselves; and however well-founded the alarm might now be, he - scorned the idea that it was necessary for him to attend in his - place in the House of Commons, for the purpose only of vindicating - himself from the vulgar calumny that he was not an enemy to a - foreign invasion. It would be an insult on his whole life if such a - declaration could be expected from him. He believed there was not a - voice in the assembly he addressed which was not in unison with his - own—namely, that every man who heard him was both ready and willing - to stand forth in defence of his country, with the spirit that - belongs to Englishmen. He found no fault with those who thought it - necessary to make these professions elsewhere. Thus much only would - he say in this place for himself. _The present Government of the - country, he had no hesitation in saying, was a Government of - Tyranny. They had adopted the principles of Robespierre, and their - object was to establish tyranny in England._ Look at the situation - of the Sister Kingdom; our own will soon be the same. He had no - remedy to recommend but that the friends of freedom should be united - and firm, and wait for better times. Tyranny was now the order of - the day in every country in Europe. Notwithstanding the arbitrary - proceedings of our own Ministers, he was persuaded the unanimous - feeling of the country, the universal determination of every man in - it was to be ready to take the field against a foreign foe; and, - indeed, they had a powerful motive to do so, for if they were - united, they had a better chance to get rid of the tyranny of their - own Ministers than they could possibly have by the success of a - foreign invasion. Even in his present retirement he should be ready - to come forward, in every constitutional effort, to regain our lost - liberties; and he should be in the foremost of the ranks to repel - the invasion of a daring enemy.” - - This speech led to a most important consequence—the erasing from the - Privy Council Book the name of one of the most illustrious statesmen - which had ever adorned it. FOX’S name was struck out by the King on - the 9th of May. - - On the 6th of June, after the dinner at the _Whig Club_, the DUKE OF - BEDFORD proposed “THE HEALTH OF CHARLES FOX,” and remarked in severe - terms on Ministers having caused the King to strike his name out of - the list of the Privy Council. FOX said: “It would be most unfit for - him to say a word respecting the Noble Duke’s allusion to a - circumstance personal to himself. Would to God the time of the - Ministers had been always employed in such _frivolous fooleries_ as - settling who should be _Honourable_ and who _Right Honourable_, and - deliberating on the titles most befitting their friends and - supporters.” FOX, with some of his supporters, seceded from - Parliament in 1797, and returned to the House of Commons in 1802 to - defend the Peace of Amiens, and he was persuaded to continue his - parliamentary attendance by the urgent request of friends, with - whose wishes he felt himself bound to comply.—ED.] - - - - - No. XIX. - - - March 19, 1798. - -For the authenticity of the enclosed Ballad we refer our readers to a -volume of MS. Poems discovered upon the removal of some papers, during -the late alterations which have taken place at the Tax-office, in -consequence of the Reports of the Finance Committee. - -It has been communicated to our printer by an ingenious friend of his, -who occasionally acts for the Deputy Collector of the Parish of St. -Martin in the Fields; but without date, or any other mark, by which we -are enabled to guess at the particular subject of the composition. - - - CHEVY CHASE.[171] - - God prosper long our noble king, - Our lives and safeties all: - A woeful story late there did - In Britain’s Isle befall. - - DUKE SMITHSON, of NORTHUMBERLAND, - A vow to God did make, - The choicest gifts in fair England, - For him and his to take. - - “Stand fast, my merry men,” he cried, - “By MOIRA’S Earl and me, - And we will gain place, wealth and pow’r, - As arm’d neutrality. - - “Excise and Customs, Church and Law, - I’ve begg’d from _Master_ ROSE; - The Garter too—but still _the Blues_ - I’ll have, or I’ll oppose.” - - “Now God be with him,” quoth the KING, - “Sith ’twill no better be; - I trust we have within our realm - Five hundred good as he.” - - The DUKE then join’d with Charley FOX, - A leader ware and tried, - And ERSKINE, SHERIDAN, and GREY - Fought stoutly by his side. - - Throughout the English Parliament, - They dealt full many a wound; - But in his king’s and country’s cause, - PITT firmly stood his ground. - - And soon a law like arrow keen, - Or spear, or curtal-axe, - Struck poor DUKE SMITHSON to the heart, - In shape of _Powder-tax_.[172] - - Sore leaning on his crutch, he cried, - “Crop, crop, my merry men all; - No guinea for your head I’ll pay, - Though Church and State should fall.” - - Again the taxing-man appear’d— - No deadlier foe could be; - A schedule of a cloth-yard long, - Within his hand bore he. - - “Yield thee, DUKE SMITHSON, and behold - The assessment thou must pay; - Dogs, horses, houses, coaches, clocks, - And servants in array.” - - “Nay,” quoth the DUKE, “in thy black scroll - Deductions I espye— - For those who, poor, and mean, and low, - With children burthen’d lie. - - “And though full sixty thousand pounds - My vassals pay to me, - From Cornwall to _Northumberland_, - Through many a fair countée; - - “Yet England’s church, its king, its laws, - Its cause, I value not, - Compar’d with this, my constant text, - _A penny sav’d, is got_. - - “No drop of princely _Percy’s_ blood - Through these cold veins doth run; - With _Hotspur’s_ castles, blazon, name, - I still am _poor_ SMITHSON. - - “Let England’s youth unite in arms, - And every liberal hand, - With honest zeal, subscribe their mite, - To save their native land: - - “I at _St. Martin’s_ Vestry Board, - To swear shall be content, - That I have children eight, and claim - _Deductions ten per cent._” - - God bless us all from factious foes, - And French fraternal kiss; - And grant the king may never make - Another _Duke_ like this.[173] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XX. - - - ODE TO JACOBINISM. - - March 26, 1798. - - I. - - Daughter of Hell, insatiate power, - Destroyer of the human race, - Whose iron scourge and madd’ning hour - Exalt the bad, the good debase; - Thy mystic force, despotic sway, - Courage and innocence dismay, - And patriot monarchs vainly groan - With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone! - - II. - - When first to scourge the sons of earth, - Thy sire his darling child design’d, - Gallia receiv’d the monstrous birth— - VOLTAIRE inform’d thy infant mind; - Well-chosen nurse! his sophist lore - He bade thee many a year explore! - He mark’d thy progress, firm though slow, - And statesmen, princes, leagued with their invet’rate foe. - - III. - - Scared at thy frown terrific, fly - The morals (antiquated brood); - Domestic Virtue, social Joy, - And Faith that has for ages stood: - Swift they disperse, and with them go - The friend sincere, the gen’rous foe.— - Traitors to God and man avow’d, - By thee now rais’d aloft, now crush’d beneath the crowd. - - IV. - - Revenge, in blood-stain’d robe arrayed, - Immersed in gloomy joy profound; - Ingratitude, by guilt dismay’d, - With anxious eye wild glancing round, - Still on thy frantic steps attend: - With Death, thy victim’s only friend, - Injustice, to the truth severe, - And Anguish, dropping still the life-consuming tear. - - V. - - Oh swiftly on my country’s head, - Destroyer, lay thy ruthless hand; - Nor yet in Gallic terrors clad, - Nor circled by the _Marseilles band_, - (As by th’ initiate thou art seen), - With thund’ring cannon, _guillotine_, - With screaming Horror’s funeral cry, - Fire, Rapine, sword, and chains, and ghastly Poverty. - - VI. - - Thy sophist veil, dread goddess, wear, - Falsehood insidiously impart; - Thy philosophic train, be there, - To taint the mind, corrupt the heart; - The gen’rous virtues of our isle, - Teach us to hate and to revile; - Our glorious Charter’s faults to scan, - Time-sanction’d truths despise, and preach THY RIGHTS OF MAN. - AN ENGLISH JACOBIN. - - [The original poem, of which the above is an imitation, is - subjoined:— - - - HYMN TO ADVERSITY. - - BY THOMAS GRAY. - - Daughter of Jove, relentless power, - Thou tamer of the human breast, - Whose iron scourge, and torturing hour, - The bad affright, afflict the best! - Bound in thy adamantine chain, - The proud are taught to taste of pain, - And purple tyrants vainly groan, - With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. - - When first thy sire to send on earth - Virtue, his darling child, designed, - To thee he gave the heavenly birth, - And bade thee form her infant mind, - Stern, rugged nurse! thy rigid lore - With patience many a year she bore: - What sorrow was, thou bad’st her know, - And from her own she learnt to melt at others’ woe. - - Scared at thy frown terrific, fly - Self-pleasing Folly’s idle brood, - Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, - And leave us leisure to be good. - Light they disperse, and with them go - The summer friend, the flattering foe; - By vain prosperity received, - To her they vow their truth, and are again believed. - - Wisdom, in sable garb arrayed, - Immersed in rapturous thought profound, - And Melancholy, silent maid, - With leaden eye that loves the ground, - Still on thy solemn steps attend: - Warm Charity, the general friend, - With Justice, to herself severe, - And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. - - O, gently on thy suppliant’s head, - Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand! - Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, - Nor circled with the vengeful band - (As by the impious thou art seen), - With thundering voice, and threatening mien, - With screaming Horror’s funeral cry, - Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty. - - Thy form benign, O goddess! wear, - Thy milder influence impart, - Thy philosophic train be there, - To soften not to wound my heart. - The generous spark extinct revive; - Teach me to love and to forgive; - Exact my own defects to scan, - What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.—ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXI. - - - April 2, 1798. - -We promised in our Sixteenth Number, that though we should not proceed -regularly with the publication of the Didactic Poem, the PROGRESS OF -MAN,—a work which, indeed, both from its bulk, and from the erudite -nature of the subject, would hardly suit with the purposes of a Weekly -Paper,—we should, nevertheless, give from time to time such extracts -from it as we thought were likely to be useful to our readers, and as -were in any degree connected with the topics or events of the times. - -The following extract is from the 23rd Canto of this admirable and -instructive Poem;—in which the author (whom, by a series of accidents, -which we have neither the space, nor indeed the liberty, to enumerate at -present, we have discovered to be MR. HIGGINS, of _St. Mary Axe_) -describes the vicious refinement of what is called civilized society, in -respect to marriage; contends with infinite spirit and philosophy -against the factitious sacredness and indissolubility of that -institution; and paints in glowing colours the happiness and utility (in -a moral as well as political view) of an arrangement of an opposite -sort, such as prevails in countries which are yet under the influence of -pure and unsophisticated nature. - -In illustration of his principles upon this subject, the author alludes -to a popular production of the German Drama, the title of which is the -“REFORMED HOUSEKEEPER” [_The Stranger_], which he expresses a hope of -seeing transfused into the language of this country. - - - THE PROGRESS OF MAN. - CANTO TWENTY-THIRD. - CONTENTS. - - ON MARRIAGE.—Marriage being indissoluble the cause of - its being so often unhappy.—Nature’s laws not consulted - in this point.—Civilized nations mistaken.—OTAHEITE: - Happiness of the natives thereof—visited by Captain - Cook, in his Majesty’s Ship _Endeavour_—Character of - Captain Cook.—Address to Circumnavigation.—Description - of His Majesty’s Ship _Endeavour_—Mast, rigging, sea-sickness, - prow, poop, mess-room, surgeon’s mate—History of one.—Episode - concerning naval chirurgery.—Catching a Thunny Fish.—Arrival - at Otaheite—cast anchor—land—Natives - astonished.—Love—Liberty—Moral—Natural—Religious—Contrasted - with European manners.—Strictness—License—Doctor’s - Commons.—Dissolubility of MARRIAGE recommended—Illustrated by a game - at Cards—Whist—Cribbage—Partners changed—Why not the same in - Marriage?—Illustrated by a River.—Love free.—Priests, Kings.—German - Drama.—KOTZEBUE’S “Housekeeper Reformed”.—Moral employments of - Housekeeping described—Hottentots sit and stare at each other—Query, - WHY?—Address to the Hottentots—History of the Cape of Good - Hope.—Resumé of the Arguments against Marriage.—Conclusion. - - - PROGRESS OF MAN. - EXTRACT. - - Hail! beauteous lands[174] that crown the Southern Seas; - Dear happy seats of Liberty and Ease! - Hail! whose green coasts the peaceful ocean laves, - Incessant washing with its watery waves! - Delicious islands! to whose envied shore - Thee, gallant COOK! the ship _Endeavour_[175] bore. - - There laughs the sky, there zephyr’s frolic train, - And light-wing’d loves, and blameless pleasures reign: - There, when two souls congenial ties unite, - No hireling _Bonzes_ chant the mystic rite; - Free every thought, each action unconfin’d, - And light those fetters which no rivets bind. - - There in each grove, each sloping bank along, - And flow’rs and shrubs and odorous herbs among, - Each shepherd clasp’d, with undisguis’d delight, - His yielding fair one,—in the Captain’s sight; - Each yielding fair, as chance or fancy led, - Preferr’d new lovers to her sylvan bed.[176] - - Learn hence, each nymph, whose free aspiring mind - Europe’s cold laws,[177] and colder customs[178] bind— - O! learn, what Nature’s genial laws decree— - What Otaheite[179] is, let Britain be! - - · · · · · - - Of WHIST or CRIBBAGE mark th’ amusing game— - The partners _changing_, but the SPORT the _same_. - Else would the gamester’s anxious ardour cool, - Dull every deal, and stagnant every pool. - —Yet must _one_[180] Man, with one unceasing Wife, - Play the LONG RUBBER of connubial life. - - Yes! human laws, and laws esteem’d divine, - The generous passion straiten and confine; - And, as a stream, when art constrains its course, - Pours its fierce torrent with augmented force, - So, Passion[181] narrowed to one channel small, - _Unlike_ the former, does not flow at all. - —For Love _then_ only flaps his purple wings, - When uncontroll’d by priestcraft or by kings. - - Such the strict rules, that, in these barbarous climes, - Choke youth’s fair flow’rs, and feelings turn to crimes; - And people every walk of polish’d life[182] - With that two-headed monster, MAN and WIFE. - - Yet bright examples sometimes we observe, - Which from the general practice seem to swerve; - Such as presented to Germania’s[183] view, - A KOTZEBUE’S bold emphatic pencil drew: - Such as, translated in some future age, - Shall add new glories to the British stage; - —While the moved audience sit in dumb despair, - “Like Hottentots,[184] _and at each other stare_”. - - With look sedate, and staid beyond her years, - In matron weeds a _Housekeeper_ appears. - The jingling keys her comely girdle deck— - Her ’kerchief colour’d, and her apron _check_. - Can that be Adelaide, that “soul of whim,” - _Reform’d_ in practice, and in manner prim? - —On household cares intent,[185] with many a sigh - She turns the pancake, and she moulds the pie; - Melts into sauces rich the savoury ham; - From the crush’d berry strains the lucid jam; - Bids brandied cherries,[186] by infusion slow, - Imbibe new flavour, and their own forego, - Sole cordial of her heart, sole solace of her woe! - While, still responsive to each mournful moan, - The saucepan simmers in a softer tone. - - · · · · · - - [The following extracts will give some idea of PAYNE KNIGHT’S poem. - - Hail! happy States, that fresh in vigour rise - From Europe’s wrecks beneath Atlantic skies! - Long may ye feel the blessings ye bestow; - Nor e’er your parents’ sickly symptoms know! - But when that parent, crush’d beneath the weight - Of debts and taxes, yields herself to fate; - May you her hapless fugitives receive, - Comfort their sorrows, and their wants relieve! - For come it will—th’ inevitable day, - When Britain must corruption’s forfeit pay, - Beneath a despot’s, or a rabble’s sway. - - After a glowing description of the amours of a shepherd and - shepherdess, he thus speaks of _Marriage_:— - - Bless’d days of youth, of liberty, and love! - How short, alas! your transient pleasures prove! - Just as we think the sweet delights our own, - We strive to fix them, and we find them flown:— - For fix’d by laws, and limited by rules, - Affection stagnates and love’s fervour cools; - Shrinks like the gather’d flower, which, when possess’d, - Droops in the hand, or withers on the breast: - Feels all its native bloom and fragrance fly, - And death’s pale shadows close its purple dye. - While mutual wishes form love’s only vows, - By mutual interests nursed, the union grows; - Respectful fear its rising power maintains, - And both preserve, when each may break, its chains. - But when in bands indissoluble join’d, - Securely torpid sleeps the sated mind; - No anxious hopes or fears arise, to move - The flagging wings, or stir the fires of love: - Benumb’d, the soul’s best energies repose, - And life in dull unvaried torpor flows; - Or only shakes off lethargy to teaze - Whom once its only pleasure was to please.—ED.] - - In illustration of these peculiar doctrines of Love and Marriage, - the authors of the present Parody introduced into the first twenty - lines of the preceding “Extract,” the very free statements on these - subjects which appear in Chapters 8, 12, 14, 16, 17, of the - narrative of Cook’s First Voyage to the Pacific in the “Endeavour,” - in 1768, derived, by the editor, Dr. John Hawkesworth, from the - Diary of Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Banks, who accompanied Captain - Cook.—ED.] - - [LORD ERSKINE, after dinner, inveighed bitterly against Marriage; - and smarting, I suppose, under the recollection of his own - unsuccessful choice, concluded by saying that a wife was _a tin - canister tied to a man’s tail_, which very much excited the - indignation of Lady Ann Culling Smith, who was of the party. “Monk” - Lewis took a sheet of paper, and wrote the following neat epigram on - the subject, which he presented to Her Royal Highness [the Duchess - of York]:— - - “Lord Erskine at marriage presuming to rail, - Says, _a wife’s a tin canister tied to ones tail_; - And the fair Lady Ann, while the subject he carries on, - Feels hurt at his Lordship’s degrading comparison. - But wherefore degrading? if taken aright, - A tin canister’s useful, and polished, and bright, - And if dirt its original purity hide, - ’Tis the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied.” - —_Journal of T. Raikes_, ii. - 56.—ED.] - - [RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, eminent as he was as a classical scholar and - archæologist, was not successful as a poet or moralist, and this is - shown in an amusing manner in a letter from Horace Walpole to the - Rev. W. Mason, dated 22nd March, 1796, in which he declares how much - he is offended and disgusted by Knight’s “_new_ insolent and - self-conceited poem,” alluding to his _Progress of Civil - Society_,—the former one being “_The Landscape_, a didactic poem in - three books,” 4to, pub. 1794, of which mention has already been - made. - - In 1816 he was examined before a Select Committee of the House of - Commons on the proposed purchase by the Government of the Elgin - Marbles; but his estimate of their value as works of the highest art - was much below that of other artistic witnesses, such as Flaxman, - Westmacott, Chantrey, B. West, and others. For these statements he - was severely criticised in vol. 14 of the _Quarterly Review_, and in - a squib, reprinted in the _New Whig Guide_ in 1819. He valued the - collection at £25,000; Gavin Hamilton’s estimate was £60,800, and - Lord Aberdeen’s £35,000; for which latter sum they were obtained by - the Government. He bequeathed his collection of ancient Bronzes, - Greek Coins, &c.—valued at £50,000—to the British Museum. - - He represented Ludlow till 1806. He was a supporter of FOX, upon - whom he wrote a Monody. He was never married, and he was succeeded - in his fine property, including Downton Castle, near Ludlow, &c., on - his death in 1824, by his brother, Thomas Andrew Knight, one of the - most scientific of horticulturists, and he in turn was succeeded by - his grandson, Andrew Johnes Rouse Boughton, second son of the late - Sir W. E. Rouse Boughton, Bart., who added by royal license in 1856 - the name of Knight to his patronymic.—ED.] - - [The drama (here nicknamed _The Reformed Housekeeper_), but entitled - by the author “_Misanthropy and Repentance_,” was produced at Drury - Lane Theatre, Sheridan being then lessee, as “_The Stranger_,” on - the 24th March, 1798. The following was the cast:—_The Stranger_, J. - P. Kemble; _Baron Steinfort_, John Palmer; _Francis_, R. Palmer; - _Peter_, Suett; _Tobias_, J. Aikin; _Solomon_, Wewitzer; _Count - Wintersen_, Barrymore; _Mrs. Haller_, Mrs. Siddons; _Countess - Wintersen_, Mrs. Goodall; _Charlotte_, Miss Stuart. It was - considered by competent authorities as one of Kemble’s finest - efforts, and was performed on twenty-six successive nights. Some of - our most eminent actors and actresses have essayed the principal - parts. Miss O’Neill made her last appearance on the stage in the - character of Mrs. Haller, 13th of July, 1818. - - The acting version purported to be altered from the German by Benj. - Thompson (afterwards Count Rumford), but it is likely that all or - most of the alterations came from the skilful hands of Sheridan, - assisted by Kemble. The pathetic song introduced, “_I have a silent - sorrow here_,” was written by the former. Two other versions of the - drama appeared in the year 1798—one by A. Schinck, and the other by - G. Papendick—but neither has been acted. - - Kotzebue tells us in his _Autobiography_ that this play of his was - acted at the Imperial Palace of _The Hermitage_, St. Petersburg, - under his superintendence while manager of the Imperial Company of - German Comedians, and excited visible emotion in the Emperor Paul. - He himself saw it acted at Tobolsk during his exile in Siberia. The - vast and splendid palace of _The Hermitage_ is now given up to the - Arts. It contains the enormous collection of Pictures accumulated by - the Russian sovereigns (including the Houghton Gallery formed by Sir - Robert Walpole), together with a Gallery of Sculpture, one of the - finest assortments of Antique Gems in the world, a museum of Grecian - and Etruscan Antiquities, and a library of rare Books and - Manuscripts. - - An awful event took place during the performance of this play a - short time after its production. John Palmer, an eminent comedian, - while acting the principal character, at Liverpool, on the 2nd of - August, 1798, expired on the stage. He had recently suffered severe - domestic bereavements, which are supposed to have given a painful - application to some passages in the third act in which he had to - utter the words: “There is another and a better world”. In the first - scene of the fourth act, his agitation increased; he fell into the - arms of the performer of the part of Baron Steinfort, and died - without a groan. A narrative of this shocking event, published - immediately afterwards, by the same performer, disposes of the - generally-received but more emotional tradition that Palmer’s - earthly career was terminated while pronouncing the above words. He - was in his fifty-seventh year. - - This is not the only instance of so impressive an end, for a similar - death-stroke overtook Joseph Peterson, an excellent actor, in - October, 1758, while representing _The Duke_ in _Measure for - Measure_. In act 3, sc. 1, in reciting the words— - - “—Reason thus with life: - If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing - That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art—” - - he dropped into the arms of Moody, who personated _Claudio_, and - never spoke more!—ED.] - - [“One other noted character we visited—the one who, according to - William Taylor of Norwich, was the greatest of all. This was AUGUST - VON KOTZEBUE, the very popular dramatist, whose singular fate it was - to live at variance with the great poets of his country, while he - was the idol of the mob. He was at one time (about this time (1801) - and a little later) a favourite in all Europe. One of his plays, - _The Stranger_, I have seen acted in German, English, Spanish, - French, and, I believe, also Italian. He was the pensioner of - Prussia, Austria, and Russia. The odium produced by this - circumstance, and the imputation of being a spy, are assigned as the - cause of his assassination by [C. L. Sand] a student of Jena, a few - years after our visit [March 3, 1819]. He was living, like Goethe, - in a large house and in style. I drank tea with him, and found him a - lively little man, with small black eyes. He had the manners of a - _petit-maître_.”—_Crabb Robinson’s Diary_ (1801), i. 115.—ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXII. - - - April 9, 1798. - - - TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. - -SIR,—I saw, with strong approbation, your specimen of ancient Sapphic -measure in English, which I think far surpasses all that Abraham -Fraunce, Richard Stanyhurst, or Sir Philip Sidney himself, have produced -in that style—I mean, of course, your sublime and beautiful -_Knife-Grinder_, of which it is not too high an encomium to say, that it -even rivals the efforts of the fine-eared democratic poet, Mr. Southey. -But you seem not to be aware, that we have a genuine Sapphic measure -belonging to our own language, of which I now send you a short specimen. - - - THE JACOBIN. - - I am a hearty Jacobin, - Who own no God, and dread no sin, - Ready to dash through thick and thin - For freedom: - - And when the teachers of Chalk-Farm - Gave Ministers so much alarm, - And preach’d that kings did only harm, - I fee’d ’em. - - By BEDFORD’S cut I’ve trimm’d my locks, - And coal-black is my knowledge-box, - Callous to all, except hard knocks - Of thumpers; - - My eye a noble fierceness boasts, - My voice as hollow as a ghost’s, - My throat oft washed by factious toasts - In bumpers. - - Whatever is in France, is right; - Terror and blood are my delight; - Parties with us do not excite - Enough rage. - - Our boasted laws I hate and curse, - Bad from the first, by age grown worse, - I pant and sigh for univers-[187] - al suffrage. - - WAKEFIELD[188] I love—adore HORNE TOOKE, - With pride on JONES[189] and THELWALL[190] look, - And hope that they, by hook or crook, - Will prosper. - - But they deserve the worst of ills, - And all th’ abuse of all our quills, - Who form’d of strong and _gagging Bills_[191] - A cross pair. - - Extinct since then each speaker’s fire, - And silent ev’ry daring lyre,[192] - Dum-founded they whom I would hire - To lecture. - - Tied up, alas! is ev’ry tongue - On which, conviction nightly hung,[193] - And THELWALL looks, though yet but young, - A spectre.[194] - B. O. B. - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXIII. - - - April 16, 1798. - -We cannot better explain to our readers the design of the poem from -which the following extracts are taken, than by borrowing the -expressions of the author, Mr. HIGGINS, of _St. Mary Axe_, in the letter -which accompanied the manuscript. - -We must premise, that we had found ourselves called upon to remonstrate -with Mr. H. on the freedom of some of the positions laid down in his -other didactic poem, the “Progress of Man”; and had in the course of our -remonstrance hinted something to the disadvantage of the _new -principles_ which are now afloat in the world, and which are, in our -opinion, working so much prejudice to the happiness of mankind. To this -Mr. H. takes occasion to reply—[195] - -“What you call the _new principles_ are, in fact, nothing less than -_new_. They are the principles of primeval nature, the system of -original and unadulterated man. - -“If you mean by my addiction to _new principles_ that the object which I -have in view in my larger work [meaning the ‘Progress of Man’] and in -the several other _concomitant_ and _subsidiary_ didactic poems which -are necessary to complete my plan, is to restore this first, and pure -simplicity; to rescue and to recover the interesting nakedness of human -nature, by ridding her of the cumbrous establishments which the folly, -and pride, and self-interest of the worst part of our species have -heaped upon her;—you are right. Such is my object. I do not disavow it. -Nor is it mine alone. There are abundance of abler hands at work upon -it. _Encyclopedias_, _Treatises_, _Novels_, _Magazines_, _Reviews_, and -_New Annual Registers_, have, as you are well aware, done their part -with activity and with effect. It remained to bring the _heavy_ -artillery of a didactic poem to bear upon the same object. - -“If I have selected your paper as the channel for conveying my labours -to the public, it was not because I was unaware of the hostility of your -principles to mine, of the bigotry of your attachment to ‘things as they -are,’ but because, I will fairly own, I found some sort of cover and -disguise necessary for securing the favourable reception of my -sentiments; the usual pretexts of humanity, and philanthropy, and fine -feeling, by which we have for some time obtained a passport to the -hearts and understandings of men, being now worn out or exploded. I -could not choose but smile at my success in the first instance, in -inducing _you_ to adopt my poem as your own. - -“But you have called for an explanation of these principles of ours, and -you have a right to obtain it. Our first principle is, then—the reverse -of the trite and dull maxim of Pope—‘_Whatever is, is right_’. We -contend, that ‘_Whatever is, is wrong_’; that institutions, civil and -religious, that social order (as it is called in _your_ cant) and -regular government, and law, and I know not what other fantastic -inventions, are but so many cramps and fetters on the free agency of -man’s _natural intellect_ and _moral sensibility_; so many badges of his -degradation from the primal purity and excellence of his nature. - -“Our second principle is, the ‘_eternal and absolute perfectibility of -man_’. We contend, that if, as is demonstrable, we have risen from a -level with the _cabbages of the field_ to our present comparatively -intelligent and dignified state of existence, by the mere exertion of -our own _energies_; we should, if these _energies_ were not repressed -and subdued by the operation of prejudice, and folly, by KING-CRAFT and -PRIEST-CRAFT, and the other evils incident to what is called civilized -society, continue to exert and expand ourselves in a proportion -infinitely greater than anything of which we yet have any notion:—in a -_ratio_ hardly capable of being calculated by any science of which we -are now masters: but which would in time raise man from his present -biped state to a rank more worthy of his endowments and aspirations; to -a rank in which he would be, as it were, _all_ MIND; would enjoy -unclouded perspicacity and perpetual vitality; feed on _oxygene_, and -never die, but _by his own consent_. - -“But though the poem of the PROGRESS OF MAN alone would be sufficient to -teach this system and enforce these doctrines, the whole practical -effect of them cannot be expected to be produced, but by the gradual -perfecting of each of the sublimer sciences;—at the husk and shell of -which we are now nibbling and at the kernel whereof, in our present -state, we cannot hope to arrive. These several sciences will be the -subjects of the several _auxiliary_ DIDACTIC POEMS which I have now in -hand (one of which, entitled THE LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES, I herewith -transmit to you), and for the better arrangement and execution of which, -I beseech you to direct your bookseller to furnish me with a handsome -Chambers’s Dictionary; in order that I may be enabled to go through the -several articles alphabetically, beginning with _Abracadabra_, under the -first letter, and going down to _Zodiac_, which is to be found under the -last. - -“I am persuaded that there is no science, however abstruse, nay, no -trade or manufacture, which may not be taught by a didactic poem. In -that before you, an attempt is made (not unsuccessfully, I hope) to -_enlist the imagination under the banners of Geometry_. _Botany_ I found -done to my hands. And though the more rigid and unbending stiffness of a -mathematical subject does not admit of the same appeals to the warmer -passions, which naturally arise out of the _sexual_ (or, as I have heard -several worthy gentlewomen of my acquaintance, who delight much in the -poem to which I allude, term it, by a slight misnomer no way difficult -to be accounted for—the _sensual_) system of Linnæus;—yet I trust that -the range and variety of illustration with which I have endeavoured to -ornament and enlighten the arid truths of Euclid and Algebra, will be -found to have smoothed the road of Demonstration, to have softened the -rugged features of Elementary Propositions, and, as it were, to have -strewed the _Asses’ Bridge_ with flowers.” - -Such is the account which Mr. HIGGINS gives of his own undertaking, and -of the motives which have led him to it. For our parts, though we have -not the same sanguine persuasion of the _absolute perfectibility_ of our -species, and are in truth liable to the imputation of being more -satisfied with _things as they are_, than Mr. HIGGINS and his -associates;—yet, as we are, in at least the same proportion, less -convinced of the practical influence of didactic poems, we apprehend -little danger to our readers’ morals from laying before them Mr. -HIGGINS’S doctrine in its most fascinating shape. The poem abounds, -indeed, with beauties of the most striking kind,—various and vivid -imagery, bold and unsparing impersonifications; and similitudes and -illustrations brought from the most ordinary and the most extraordinary -occurrences of nature—from history and fable—appealing equally to the -heart and to the understanding, and calculated to make the subject of -which the poem professes to treat rather amusing than intelligible. We -shall be agreeably surprised to hear that it has assisted any young -student at either University in his mathematical studies. - -We need hardly add, that the plates illustrative of this poem (the -engravings of which would have been too expensive for our publication) -are to be found in Euclid’s Elements, and other books of a similar -tendency. - - - LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES.[196] - ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTO. - - Warning to the profane not to approach—Nymphs and Deities of - Mathematical Mythology—Cyclois of a pensive turn—Pendulums, on the - contrary, playful—and why?—Sentimental Union of the Naiads and - Hydrostatics—Marriage of Euclid and Algebra.—Pulley the emblem of - Mechanics—Optics of a licentious disposition—distinguished by her - telescope and green spectacles.—Hyde-Park Gate on a Sunday - morning—Cockneys—Coaches.—Didactic Poetry—Nonsensia—Love delights - in Angles or Corners—Theory of Fluxions explained—Trochais, the - Nymph of the Wheel—Smoke-Jack described—Personification of - elementary or culinary Fire.—Little Jack Horner—Story of - Cinderella—Rectangle, a Magician, educated by Plato and - Menecmus—in love with Three Curves at the same time—served by - Gins, or Genii—transforms himself into a Cone—the Three Curves - requite his passion—Description of them—Parabola, Hyperbola, and - Ellipsis—Asymptotes—Conjugated Axes.—Illustrations—Rewbell, - Barras, and Lepaux, the three virtuous Directors—Macbeth and the - Three Witches—the Three Fates—the Three Graces—King Lear and his - Three Daughters—Derby Diligence—Catherine Wheel.—Catastrophe of - Mr. Gingham, with his Wife and Three Daughters overturned in a - One-horse Chaise—Dislocation and Contusion two kindred Fiends—Mail - Coaches—Exhortation to Drivers to be careful—Genius of the - Post-Office—Invention of Letters—Digamma—Double Letters—Remarkable - Direction of one—Hippona the Goddess of Hack-horses—Parameter and - Abscissa unite to overpower the Ordinate, who retreats down the - Axis-Major, and forms himself in a Square—Isosceles, a Giant—Dr. - Rhomboides—Fifth Proposition, or Asses’ Bridge—Bridge of - Lodi—Buonaparte—Raft and Windmills—Exhortation to the recovery of - our Freedom—Conclusion. - - - THE LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES. - A Mathematical and Philosophical Poem, - INSCRIBED TO DR. DARWIN. - - CANTO I. - - Stay your rude steps, or e’er your feet invade[197] - The Muses’ haunts, ye sons of War and Trade! - Nor you, ye legion fiends of Church and Law, - Pollute these pages with unhallow’d paw! - Debased, corrupted, grovelling, and confined, 5 - No DEFINITIONS[198] touch _your_ senseless mind; - To _you_ no POSTULATES[199] prefer their claim, - No ardent AXIOMS[200] _your_ dull souls inflame; - For _you_ no TANGENTS[201] touch, no ANGLES meet, - No CIRCLES[202] join in osculation[203] sweet! 10 - - For _me_, ye CISSOIDS,[204] round my temples bend - Your wandering curves; ye CONCHOIDS[205] extend; - Let playful PENDULES quick vibration feel, - While silent CYCLOIS rests upon her wheel; - Let HYDROSTATICS,[206] simpering as they go, 15 - Lead the light Naiads on fantastic toe; - Let shrill ACOUSTICS[207] tune the tiny lyre; - With EUCLID sage fair ALGEBRA[208] conspire; - The obedient pulley[209] strong MECHANICS ply, - And wanton OPTICS roll the melting eye! 20 - - I see the fair fantastic forms appear, - The flaunting drapery, and the languid leer; - Fair sylphish forms[210]—who, tall, erect, and slim, - Dart the keen glance, and stretch the length of limb; - To viewless harpings weave the meanless dance, 25 - Wave the gay wreath, and titter as they prance. - - Such rich confusion[211] charms the ravish’d sight, - When vernal Sabbaths to the Park invite. - Mounts the thick dust, the coaches crowd along, - Presses round Grosvenor Gate th’ impatient throng; 30 - White-muslined misses and mammas are seen, - Linked with gay cockneys, glittering o’er the green: - The rising breeze unnumbered charms displays, - And the tight ankle strikes th’ astonished gaze. - - But chief, thou Nurse of the Didactic Muse, 35 - Divine NONSENSIA, all thy soul infuse; - The charms of _Secants_ and of _Tangents_ tell, - How Loves and Graces in an _Angle_[212] dwell; - How slow progressive _Points_[213] protract the _Line_, - As pendent spiders spin the filmy twine; 40 - How lengthened _Lines_, impetuous sweeping round, - Spread the wide _Plane_, and mark its circling bound; - How _Planes_, their substance with their motion grown, - Form the huge _Cube_, the _Cylinder_, the _Cone_. - - Lo! where the chimney’s sooty tube ascends, 45 - The fair TROCHAIS[214] from the corner bends! - Her coal-black eyes upturned, incessant mark - The eddying smoke, quick flame, and volant spark; - Mark with quick ken, where flashing in between, - Her much-loved _Smoke-Jack_ glimmers thro’ the scene; 50 - Mark, how his various parts together tend, - Point to one purpose,—in one object end; - The spiral _grooves_ in smooth meanders flow, - Drags the long _chain_, the polished axles glow, - While slowly circumvolves the piece of beef below; 55 - The conscious fire[215] with bickering radiance burns, - Eyes the rich joint, and roasts it as it turns. - - So youthful Horner rolled the roguish eye, - Cull’d the dark plum from out his Christmas pie, - And cried, in self-applause—“How good a boy am I”. 60 - - So she, sad victim of domestic spite, - Fair Cinderella, pass’d the wintry night, - In the lone chimney’s darksome nook immured, - Her form disfigured, and her charms obscured. - Sudden her godmother appears in sight, 65 - Lifts the charmed rod, and chants the mystic rite. - The chanted rite the maid attentive hears, - And feels new ear-rings deck her listening ears;[216] - While ’midst her towering tresses, aptly set, - Shines bright, with quivering glance, the smart aigrette; 70 - Brocaded silks the splendid dress complete, - And the Glass Slipper grasps her fairy feet. - Six cock-tailed mice[217] transport her to the ball, - And liveried lizards wait upon her call. - Alas! that partial Science should approve - The sly RECTANGLE’S too licentious love! - For _three_ bright nymphs, &c., &c. - - (_To be continued._) - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXIV. - - - April 23, 1798. - - - THE LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES. - A Mathematical and Philosophical Poem. - - (_Continued._) - - CANTO I. - - ALAS! that partial Science should approve 75 - The sly RECTANGLE’S[218] too licentious love! - For _three_ bright nymphs the wily wizard burns;— - _Three_ bright-eyed nymphs requite his flame by turns. - Strange force of magic skill! combined of yore - With Plato’s science and Menecmus’ lore.[219] 80 - In _Afric’s_ school, amid those sultry sands - High on its base where Pompey’s pillar stands, - This learnt the Seer; and learnt, alas! too well, - Each scribbled talisman, and smoky spell: - What muttered charms, what soul-subduing arts, 85 - Fell Zatanai[220] to his sons imparts. - - GINS[221]—black and huge! who in Dom-Daniel’s[222] cave - Writhe your scorched limbs on sulphur’s[223] azure wave; - Or, shivering, yell amidst eternal snows, - Where cloud-capp’d Caf[224] protrudes his granite toes; 90 - (Bound by his will, _Judæa’s_ fabled king,[225] - Lord of _Aladdin’s_ lamp and mystic ring.) - Gins! ye remember!—for your toil conveyed - Whate’er of drugs the powerful charm could aid; - Air, earth, and sea ye searched, and where below 95 - Flame embryo lavas, young volcanoes[226] glow,— - Gins! ye beheld appall’d th’ enchanter’s hand - Wave in dark air th’ _Hypothenusal_ wand; - Saw him the mystic _Circle_ trace, and wheel - With head erect, and far-extended heel;[227] 100 - Saw him, with speed that mocked the dazzled eye, - Self-whirled, in quick gyrations eddying fly: - Till done the potent spell—behold him grown - Fair _Venus’_ emblem—the _Phœnician_ CONE.[228] - - Triumphs the Seer, and now secure observes 105 - The kindling passions of the _rival_ CURVES. - - And first, the fair PARABOLA[229] behold, - Her timid arms, with virgin blush, unfold! - Though, on one _focus_ fixed, her eyes betray - A heart that glows with love’s resistless sway; 110 - Though, climbing oft, she strives with bolder grace - Round his tall neck to clasp her fond embrace, - Still ere she reach it, from his polished side - Her trembling hands in devious _Tangents_ glide. - - Not thus HYPERBOLA;[230]—with subtlest art 115 - The blue-eyed wanton plays her changeful part; - Quick as her _conjugated_ axes move - Through every posture of luxurious love, - Her sportive limbs with easiest grace expand; - Her charms unveiled provoke the lover’s hand; 120 - Unveiled, except in many a filmy ray, - Where light _Asymptotes_[231] o’er her bosom play, - Nor touch her glowing skin, nor intercept the day. - - Yet why, ELLIPSIS,[232] at thy fate repine? - More lasting bliss, securer joys are thine. 125 - Though to each fair his treacherous wish may stray, - Though each, in turn, may seize a transient sway, - ’Tis thine with mild coercion to restrain, - Twine round his struggling heart, and bind with endless chain. - - Thus, happy France! in thy regenerate land, 130 - Where TASTE with RAPINE saunters hand in hand; - Where, nursed in seats of innocence and bliss, - REFORM greets TERROR with fraternal kiss; - Where mild PHILOSOPHY first taught to scan - The _wrongs_ of PROVIDENCE, and _rights_ of MAN; 135 - Where MEMORY broods o’er FREEDOM’S earlier scene, - The _Lantern_ bright, and brighter _Guillotine_; - _Three_ gentle swains evolve their longing arms, - And woo the young REPUBLIC’S virgin charms; - And though proud _Barras_ with the fair succeed, 140 - Though not in vain th’ Attorney _Rewbell_ plead, - Oft doth th’ impartial nymph their love forego, - To clasp thy crooked shoulders, blest _Lepaux_! - - So, with dark dirge athwart the blasted heath, - _Three_ Sister Witches hailed the appalled Macbeth. 145 - - So, the _Three_ Fates beneath grim Pluto’s roof, - Strain the dun warp, and weave the murky woof; - ’Till deadly Atropos with fatal shears - Slits the thin promise of the expected years, - While ’midst the dungeon’s gloom or battle’s din, 150 - Ambition’s victims perish, as they spin. - - Thus, the _Three_ Graces on the Idalian green - Bow with deft homage to Cythera’s Queen; - Her polished arms with pearly bracelets deck, - Part her light locks, and bare her ivory neck; 155 - Round her fair form ethereal odours throw, - And teach th’ unconscious zephyrs where to blow, - Floats the thin gauze, and glittering as they play, - The bright folds flutter in phlogistic day,. - - So, with his daughters _Three_, th’ unsceptered Lear 160 - Heaved the loud sigh, and poured the glistering tear: - His daughters _Three_, save one alone, conspire - (Rich in his gifts) to spurn their generous sire; - Bid the rude storm his hoary tresses drench, - Stint the spare meal, the hundred knights retrench; 165 - Mock his mad sorrow, and with altered mien - Renounce the daughter, and assert the queen. - A father’s griefs his feeble frame convulse, - Rack his white head, and fire his feverous pulse; - Till kind Cordelia soothes his soul to rest, 170 - And folds the parent-monarch to her breast. - - Thus some fair spinster grieves in wild affright, - Vexed with dull megrim, or vertigo light; - Pleased round the fair, _Three_ dawdling doctors stand, - Wave the white wig, and stretch the asking hand, 175 - State the grave doubt, the nauseous draught decree, - And all receive, though none deserve, a fee. - - So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn,[233] glides - The Derby dilly, carrying _Three_ INSIDES. - One in each corner sits, and lolls at ease, 180 - With folded arms, propt back, and outstretched knees; - While the pressed _Bodkin_, punched and squeezed to death, - Sweats in the midmost place, and scolds, and pants for breath.[234] - - (_To be continued._) - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXV. - - - April 30, 1798. - - - BRISSOT’S GHOST.[235] - - As at the Shakespeare Tavern dining, - O’er the well replenished board - Patriotic chiefs reclining, - Quick and large libations poured; - While, in fancy, great and glorious, - ’Midst the democratic storm, - FOX’S crew, with shout victorious, - Drank to _Radical Reform_; - - Sudden, up the staircase sounding, - Hideous yells and shrieks were heard; - Then, each guest with fear confounding, - A grim train of Ghosts appeared: - Each a head, with anguish gasping, - (Himself a trunk deformed with gore), - In his hand, terrific, clasping, - Stalked across the wine-stained floor. - - On them gleamed the lamp’s blue lustre, - When stern BRISSOT’S grizzly shade - His sad bands was seen to muster, - And his bleeding troops arrayed. - Through the drunken crowd he hied him, - Where the chieftain sate enthroned, - There, his shadowy trunks beside him, - Thus in threatening accents groaned: - - “Heed, oh heed our fatal story, - (I am BRISSOT’S injured Ghost), - You who hope to purchase glory - In that field where I was lost! - Though dread PITT’S expected ruin - Now your soul with triumph cheers, - When you think on our undoing, - You will mix your hopes with fears. - - “See these helpless, headless spectres, - Wandering through the midnight gloom: - Mark their Jacobinic lectures - Echoing from the silent tomb; - These, thy soul with terror filling, - Once were Patriots fierce and bold”— - (Each his head, with gore distilling, - Shakes, the whilst his tale is told). - - “Some from that dread engine’s carving - In vain contrived their heads to save— - See BARBAROUX and PÉTION[236] starving - In the Languedocian cave! - See, in a higgler’s[237] hamper buckled, - How LOUVET’S soaring spirit lay! - How virtuous ROLAND,[238] helpless cuckold, - Blew what brains he had away. - - “How beneath the power of MARAT, - CONDORCET, blaspheming, fell, - Begged some laudanum of GARAT,[239] - Drank;—and slept,—to wake in hell! - Oh that, with worthier souls uniting, - I in my country’s cause had shone! - Had died my Sovereign’s battle fighting, - Or nobly propp’d his sinking throne!— - - “But hold!—I scent the gales of morning— - Covent-Garden’s clock strikes One! - Heed, oh heed my earnest warning, - Ere England is, like France, undone! - To St. Stephen’s quick repairing, - Your dissembled mania end; - And, your errors past forswearing, - Stand at length your Country’s Friend!” - - [The preceding ballad is parodied from the one by Glover, entitled— - - - ADMIRAL HOSIER’S GHOST. - - As near Porto-Bello lying - On the gently swelling flood, - At midnight with streamers flying, - Our triumphant navy rode: - There while VERNON sat all-glorious - From the Spaniard’s late defeat, - And his crews, with shouts victorious, - Drank success to England’s fleet: - - On a sudden, shrilly sounding, - Hideous yells and shrieks were heard, - Then each heart with fear confounding, - A sad troop of ghosts appeared: - All in dreary hammocks shrouded, - Which for winding-sheets they wore, - And with looks by sorrow clouded, - Frowning on that hostile shore. - - On them gleam’d the moon’s wan lustre, - When the shade of HOSIER brave - His pale bands was seen to muster, - Rising from their wat’ry grave: - O’er the glimmering wave he hied him, - Where the Burford rear’d her sail, - With three thousand ghosts beside him, - And in groans did VERNON hail. - - Heed, O heed, our fatal story, - I am HOSIER’S injured ghost. - You who now have purchas’d glory, - At this place where I was lost; - Though in Porto-Bello’s ruin - You now triumph free from fears, - When you think on our undoing, - You will mix your joy with tears. - - See these mournful spectres sweeping - Ghastly o’er this hated wave, - Whose wan cheeks are stain’d with weeping, - These were English Captains brave. - Mark those numbers pale and horrid, - Those were once my sailors bold, - See each hangs his drooping forehead, - While his dismal tale is told. - - I by twenty sail attended - Did this Spanish town affright, - Nothing then its wealth defended - But my orders not to fight. - O! that in this rolling ocean - I had cast them with disdain, - And obey’d my heart’s warm motion - To have quell’d the pride of Spain. - - For resistance I could fear none, - But with twenty ships had done - What thou, brave and happy VERNON, - Hast achiev’d with six alone. - Then the Bastimentos never - Had our foul dishonour seen, - Nor the sea the sad receiver - Of this gallant train had been. - - Thus, like thee, proud Spain dismaying, - And her galleons leading home, - Though condemned for disobeying, - I had met a traitor’s doom: - To have fallen, my country crying - He has play’d an English part, - Had been better far than dying - Of a griev’d and broken heart. - - Unrepining at thy glory, - Thy successful arms we hail; - But remember our sad story, - And let HOSIER’S wrongs prevail. - Sent in this foul clime to languish, - Think what thousands fell in vain, - Wasted with disease and anguish, - Not in glorious battle slain. - - Hence with all my train attending - From their oozy tombs below, - Through the hoary foam ascending, - Here I feed my constant woe. - Here the Bastimentos viewing, - We recal our shameful doom, - And our plaintive cries renewing, - Wander through the midnight gloom. - - O’er these waves for ever mourning, - Shall we roam deprived of rest, - If to Britain’s shores returning, - You neglect my just request; - After this proud foe subduing, - When your patriot friends you see, - Think on Vengeance for my ruin, - And for England sham’d in me.] - - - - - No. XXVI. - - - May 7, 1798. - - - LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES. - -The frequent solicitations which we have received for a continuation of -the LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES have induced us to lay before the public -(with Mr. Higgins’s permission) the concluding lines of the Canto. The -catastrophe of Mr. and Mrs. Gingham, and the episode of Hippona, -contained, in our apprehension, several reflections of too free a -nature. The conspiracy of Parameter and Abscissa against the Ordinate is -written in a strain of poetry so very splendid and dazzling as not to -suit the more tranquil majesty of diction which our readers admire in -Mr. Higgins. We have therefore begun our extract with the Loves of the -Giant Isosceles, and the Picture of the Asses-Bridge, and its several -illustrations. - - CANTO I. - - EXTRACT. - - ’Twas thine alone, O youth of giant frame, - Isosceles![240] that rebel heart to tame! - In vain coy Mathesis[241] thy presence flies: - Still turn her fond hallucinating[242] eyes; - Thrills with _Galvanic_ fires[243] each tortuous nerve, - Throb her blue veins, and dies her cold reserve. - —Yet strives the fair, till in the giant’s breast - She sees the mutual passion’s flame confessed: - Where’er he moves, she sees his tall limbs trace - _Internal Angles[244] equal at the base_; - Again she doubts him: but _produced at will_, - She sees _th’ external Angles equal still_. - - Say, blest Isosceles! what favouring power, - Or love, or chance, at night’s auspicious hour, - While to the Asses-Bridge[245] entranced you strayed, - Led to the Asses-Bridge the enamoured maid?— - The Asses-Bridge, for ages doomed to hear - The deafening surge assault his wooden ear, - With joy repeats sweet sounds of mutual bliss, - The soft susurrant sigh, and gently-murmuring kiss. - - So thy dark arches, _London Bridge_, bestride - Indignant Thames, and part his angry tide, - There oft—returning from those green retreats, - Where fair _Vauxhallia_ decks her sylvan seats;— - Where each spruce nymph, from city compters free, - Sips the froth’d syllabub, or fragrant tea; - While with sliced ham, scraped beef, and burnt champagne, - Her ’prentice lover soothes his amorous pain;— - There oft, in well-trimmed wherry, glide along - Smart beaux and giggling belles, a glittering throng: - Smells the tarr’d rope—with undulation fine - Flaps the loose sail—the silken awnings shine; - “Shoot we the bridge!” the venturous boatmen cry; - “Shoot we the bridge!” the exulting fare[246] reply. - —Down the steep fall the headlong waters go, - Curls the white foam, the breakers roar below. - The veering helm the dexterous steersman stops, - Shifts the thin oar, the fluttering canvas drops; - Then with closed eyes, clenched hands, and quick-drawn breath, - Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the gulf beneath. - Full ’gainst the pier the unsteady timbers knock, - The loose planks, starting, own the impetuous shock; - The shifted oar, dropp’d sail, and steadied helm, - With angry surge the closing waters whelm— - Laughs the glad Thames, and clasps each fair one’s charms, - That screams and scrambles in his oozy arms. - Drench’d each smart garb, and clogged each straggling limb, - Far o’er the stream the Cockneys sink or swim; - While each badged boatman,[247] clinging to his oar, - Bounds o’er the buoyant wave, and climbs the applauding shore. - - So, towering Alp! from thy majestic ridge[248] - Young Freedom gazed on Lodi’s blood-stained _Bridge_; - Saw, in thick throngs, conflicting armies rush, - Ranks close on ranks, and squadrons squadrons crush; - Burst in bright radiance through the battle’s storm, - Waved her broad hands, displayed her awful form; - Bade at her feet regenerate nations bow, - And twined the wreath round BUONAPARTE’S brow. - Quick with new lights, fresh hopes, and altered zeal, - The slaves of despots dropp’d the blunted steel: - Exulting Victory owned her favourite child, - And freed Liguria clapp’d her hands, and smiled. - - Nor long the time ere Britain’s shores shall greet - The warrior-sage, with gratulation sweet: - Eager to grasp the wreath of naval fame, - The GREAT REPUBLIC plans the _Floating Frame_! - O’er the huge plane gigantic _Terror_ stalks, - And counts with joy the close-compacted balks: - Of young-eyed _Massacres_ the Cherub crew, - Round their grim chief the mimic task pursue; - Turn the stiff screw,[249] apply the strengthening clamp, - Drive the long bolt, or fix the stubborn cramp, - Lash the reluctant beam, the cable splice, - Join the firm dove-tail with adjustment nice, - Through yawning fissures urge the willing wedge, - Or give the smoothing adze a sharper edge. - Or group’d in fairy bands, with playful care, - The unconscious bullet to the furnace bear;— - Or gaily tittering, tip the match with fire, - Prime the big mortar, bid the shell aspire; - Applaud, with tiny hands, and laughing eyes, - And watch the bright destruction as it flies. - - Now the fierce forges gleam with angry glare— - The windmill[250] waves his woven wings in air; - Swells the proud sail, the exulting streamers fly, - Their nimble fins unnumber’d paddles ply: - Ye soft airs breathe, ye gentle billows waft, - And, fraught with Freedom, bear the expected Raft! - Perch’d on her back, behold the Patriot train, - MUIR, ASHLEY, BARLOW, TONE, O’CONNOR, PAINE! - While TANDY’S hand directs the blood-empurpled rein. - - Ye Imps of Murder! guard her angel form, - Check the rude surge, and chase the hovering storm; - Shield from contusive rocks her timber limbs, - And guide the sweet Enthusiast[251] as she swims! - - And now, with web-foot oars, she gains the land, - And foreign footsteps press the yielding sand: - The Communes spread, the gay Departments smile, - Fair Freedom’s Plant o’ershades the laughing isle: - Fired with new hopes, the exulting peasant sees - The Gallic streamer woo the British breeze;[252] - While, pleased to watch its undulating charms, - The smiling infant[253] spreads his little arms. - - Ye sylphs of DEATH! on demon pinions flit - Where the tall Guillotine is raised for PITT: - To the poised plank tie fast the monster’s back,[254] - Close the nice slider, ope the expectant sack; - Then twitch, with fairy hands, the frolic pin— - Down falls the impatient axe with deafening din; - The liberated head rolls off below,[255] - And simpering Freedom hails the happy blow! - - [The following lines of Dr. Darwin’s, in Canto ii., gave great - offence to the Government:— - - So, borne on sounding pinions to the west, - When tyrant-power had built his eagle nest; - While from his eyry shriek’d the famish’d brood, - Clench’d their sharp claws, and champ’d their beaks for blood, - Immortal FRANKLIN watch’d the callow crew, - And stabb’d the struggling vampires, ere they flew. - —The patriot-flame with quick contagion ran, - Hill lighted hill, and man electris’d man: - Her heroes slain awhile Columbia mourn’d, - And crown’d with laurels Liberty return’d. - - The warrior, Liberty, with bending sails, - Helm’d his bold course to fair Hibernia’s vales; - Firm as he steps along the shouting lands, - Lo! Truth and Virtue range their radiant bands; - Sad Superstition wails her empire torn, - Art plies his oar, and Commerce pours her horn. - - Long had the giant-form on Gallia’s plains - Inglorious slept, unconscious of his chains; - Round his large limbs were wound a thousand strings - By the weak hands of confessors and kings; - O’er his closed eyes a triple veil was bound, - And steely rivets lock’d him to the ground; - While stern Bastile with iron-cage inthralls - His folded limbs, and hems in marble walls.—ED.] - - - NOTES TO LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES. - - [The general features of Dr. Darwin’s extraordinary poems, the - “_Loves of the Plants_,” and the “_Economy of Vegetation_,” which - are so admirably ridiculed in the preceding pages, may be gathered - from the following specimens:— - - - ARGUMENT. - - The Genius of the place invites the Goddess of Botany—She - descends—is received by Spring and the Elements—Addresses the Nymphs - of Fire—Love created the Universe—Chaos explodes—All the Stars - revolve—Colours of the Morning and Evening Skies—Exterior Atmosphere - of inflammable Air—Fires at the Earth’s Centre—Animal - Incubation—Venus visits the Cyclops—Phosphoric Lights in the - Evening—Bolognian Stone—Ignis fatuus—Eagle armed with - Lightning—Discovery of Fire—Medusa—The Chemical Properties of - Fire—Lady in Love—Gunpowder—Steam-engine—Labours of Hercules—Halo - round the Heads of Saints—Fairy rings—Death of Professor - Richman—Cupid snatches the thunderbolt from Jupiter—The great Egg of - Night—Naiad released—Frost assailed—Whale attacked—Ice-Islands - navigated into the Tropic Seas—Rainy Monsoons—Elijah on Mount - Carmel—Departure of the Nymphs of Fire like sparks from Artificial - Fireworks, &c. - - “Nymphs! you disjoin, unite, condense, expand, - And give new wonders to the Chemist’s hand; - On tepid clouds of rising steam aspire, - Or fix in sulphur all its solid fire; - With boundless spring elastic airs unfold, - Or fill the fine vacuities of gold; - With sudden flash vitrescent sparks reveal, - By fierce collision from the flint and steel; - Or mark with shining letters Kunkel’s name - In the pale phosphor’s self-consuming flame. - So the chaste heart of some enchanted maid - Shines with insidious light, by love betray’d; - Round her pale bosom plays the young desire, - And slow she wastes by self-consuming fire.” - - These poems, produced in that dreary time for English poetry which - elapsed between the disappearance of Cowper and Burns and the advent - of Scott and Byron, had, in spite of their glaring absurdities, no - lack of warm admirers. Miss Seward, in her _Life of Dr. Darwin_, - published in 1804, sets no limits to her admiration:—“We are - presented,” she says, “with an highly imaginative and splendidly - descriptive poem, whose successive pictures alternately possess the - sublimity of Michael Angelo, the correctness and elegance of - Raphael, with the glow of Titian; whose landscapes have, at times, - the strength of Salvator, and at others the softness of Claude; - whose numbers are of stately grace, and artful harmony; while its - allusions to ancient and modern history and fable, and its - interspersion of recent and extraordinary anecdotes, render it - extremely entertaining. * * * Each part is enriched by a number of - philosophical notes. They state a great variety of theories and - experiments in Botany, Chemistry, Electricity, Mechanics, and in the - various species of Air, salubrious, noxious, and deadly,” &c.] - - - THE SCOTTISH “POLITICAL MARTYRS”. - - [THOMAS MUIR, the younger, of Hunter’s Hill, a promising young - advocate of the Scottish Bar, and of nigh respectability, was tried - at Edinburgh, 30th and 31st of August, 1793, before Lord Justice - Clerk (Braxfield), Lords Henderland, Swinton, Dunsinnan, and - Abercromby, for Sedition. The weightiest charge against him was that - of “_lending_” a copy of Paine’s _Rights of Man_ to a person who - begged a reading of that popular book. He was found guilty, and - sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation. On the 17th of the - ensuing month, the Rev. THOS. FYSHE PALMER, a Unitarian Minister of - Dundee, and an ex-fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge, was tried at - Perth for publishing a seditious Address, and sentenced to seven - years’ transportation. On their arrival at Woolwich, in a revenue - cutter, they were put on board separate hulks, and assisted at the - common labour on the banks of the river. MUIR, soon after his - arrival in New South Wales, effected his escape, in an American - vessel, to South America, whence he proceeded to Spain. During this - voyage, in an action with a British frigate, he received a wound in - the head, from which he recovered; but on his arrival at his - destination, he was imprisoned by the Spanish authorities, until, on - the application of M. de Talleyrand in the name of the then - government of France, he obtained his release. He then went to - France, and died at Bourdeaux [or Chantilly] in 1799; aged 33. - PALMER served out his seven years, but died on the homeward voyage. - - Other Trials soon followed. At the close of December, 1793, MR. - SKIRVING, MR. GERRALD, and MR. MARGAROT were tried at Edinburgh on - similar charges of seditious practices, and were all sentenced to - fourteen years’ transportation. The former two died soon after - reaching New South Wales. MAURICE MARGAROT, who appears to have - conducted himself throughout with the most abandoned and shameless - profligacy, was the only one of these convicts—his fourteen years - over—who ever set foot again in Britain. - - GERRALD was a man of very superior ability, and a favourite pupil of - Dr. Parr’s, as is mentioned by De Quincey in his famous essay on - that noted Whig pedagogue. - - On the Scottish “political martyrs” Lord Cockburn, in his posthumous - _Examination of the Trials for Sedition in Scotland_, published in - 1888, which deals with the twenty-five trials of the above-named - five and of thirty-two others, between 1793 and 1849, passes his - deliberate verdict, that, with the exception of Muir, not one of - them was guiltless. But, like ordinary criminals, they were entitled - to a fair and impartial trial; and their trials were, one and all, - iniquitous. Of the six judges who presided in the first fourteen - (1793–94), five were dull, timid nonentities; the sixth, Lord - Justice Clerk Braxfield, was, says Lord Cockburn, “a profound - practical lawyer, and a powerful man; coarse and illiterate ... - utterly devoid of judicial decorum, and though pure in the - administration of civil justice, when he was exposed to no - temptation, with no other conception of principle in any political - case except that the upholding of his party was a duty attaching to - his position. Over the five weak men who sat beside him, this coarse - and dexterous ruffian predominated as he chose.” But Jedburgh—no, - nor the Bloody Assize itself—could scarcely match one scene in - Gerrald’s trial:—“‘After all,’ he was urging in his defence, ‘the - most useful discoveries in philosophy, the most important changes in - the moral history of man, have been innovations. The Revolution was - an innovation, Christianity itself was an innovation.’ Instantly - upon this, the following interruption took place:—Lord Braxfield: - ‘You would have been stopped long before this, if you had not been a - stranger. All that you have been saying is sedition. And now, my - Lords, he is attacking Christianity.’ Lord Henderland: ‘I allow him - all the benefit of his defence. But ... I cannot sit here as a judge - without saying that it is a most indecent defence....’ The juries - were packed as never, surely, before, or afterwards.” - - With such judges, such juries, and, at least, in two cases, false - witnesses, it might seem easy to anticipate the result; but the - result transcends anticipation. In almost every case a light - sentence would have amply met the requirements of justice; but the - judges all shared Lord Swinton’s opinion that “it is impossible to - punish Sedition adequately, now that torture has been abolished”. So - they strove to supply the deficiency by Transportation, a punishment - unwarranted by precedent. - - With respect to Margarot’s trial at Edinburgh, the following is a - vivid memory of Lord Cockburn’s boyhood:— - - “MARGAROT came from the Black Bull [in Leith Street] to be tried, - attended by a procession of the populace and his Convention friends, - with banners and what was called a tree of liberty. This tree was in - the shape of the letter M, about twenty feet high and ten wide. The - honour of bearing it up by carrying the two upright poles was - assigned to two eminent Conventionalists, and the little culprit - walked beneath the circular placard in the centre, which proclaimed - liberty and equality, &c. I was looking out of a window in the old - Post-Office, which was then the northmost house on the west side of - the North Bridge. I think I see the scene yet. The whole North - Bridge, from the Tron Church to the Register Office, was quite empty - at first; not a single creature venturing on that bit of sand, over - which the waves were so soon to break from both ends. The - Post-Office and the adjoining houses had been secretly filled with - constables, and sailors from a frigate in the roads (I think _The - Hind_, Capt. Cochrane), all armed with sticks and batons. No soldier - appeared, it being determined that this civic insurrection should be - put down by the civil force, unaided, at least, by scarlet. As soon - as the tree, which led the van, emerged from Leith Street, and - appeared at the north end of the bridge, Provost Elder and the - Magistrates issued from some place they had retired to (I believe - the Tron Church), and appeared, all robed, at the south end. The day - was good. There was still not one person—I doubt if there was even a - dog—on any part of the space, being the whole length of the bridge, - between the two parties. But the rear of each was crammed with - people, who filled up every inch as those in front moved on. The - Magistrates were in a line across the street, with the Provost in - the centre, the city officers behind this line, and probably a - hundred loyal gentlemen in the rear of the officers. The two parties - advanced steadily towards each other, and in perfect silence, till - they met just about the Post-Office. The Provost stepped forward - about a pace, so that he almost touched the front line of the - rebels, when, advancing his cane, he commanded them to retire. This - order probably would not have been obeyed; but, at any rate, it - could not have been obeyed speedily, from the crowd behind. However, - all this was immaterial; for, without waiting one instant to see - whether they meant to retire or not, the houses vomited forth their - bludgeoned contents, and in almost two minutes the tree was - demolished and thrown over the bridge, the street covered with the - knocked down, the accused dragged to the bar, and the insurrection - was over.” - - On February 20th, 1837, a meeting took place at the Crown and Anchor - Tavern, Strand, for commencing a subscription to erect monuments in - London and Edinburgh to the memory of the above five Reformers. - Joseph Hume, M.P. was in the chair; Colonel Perronet Thompson, Mr. - Dan. Whittle Harvey, and fifteen other members of Parliament were - present. A lofty obelisk was erected on the Calton Hill to the - memory of the “Scottish Martyrs,” but London did not sympathize with - the movement.—ED.] - - - JOEL BARLOW. - - [JOEL BARLOW, born in 1756 in Connecticut, was educated as a - Presbyterian minister, but afterwards turned Deist. Before this - change he translated the Psalms into metre, and his version is still - used in the churches of New England. He now adopted the Law, and - engaged in periodicals—one, _The Anarchist_, which was political in - its character, and exercised great influence. In 1788, after - visiting England, he went to Paris, where he joined the Girondists. - In 1791, he returned to England, where he published the first part - of his _Advice to the Privileged Orders_, in which he assails the - whole system of Government pursued in monarchical Europe, the Church - establishments, the standing armies, the judicial organisations, and - the financial systems which belong to the old governments. In - February, 1792, he published a political poem, which he entitled - _The Conspiracy of Kings_; also a Letter to the _Convention_ - advising the separation of Church and State. So great did his - reputation become that he was fixed on by the London Constitutional - Society to present their Address to the _Convention_. After various - political transactions in the interest of France, and also in - commercial speculations which made him a rich man, he left Paris in - 1805, living on his estate in America till 1811, when he was sent as - Minister Plenipotentiary to Paris. But Napoleon being on his Russian - Expedition, he followed him to Wilna; but the fatiguing journey - proved fatal: he died 26th December, 1812. He wrote at an early age - a poem, _The Vision of Columbus_, which acquired great popularity, - and which he afterwards enlarged as _The Columbiad_. Among other - works he published (in 1796) a mock-heroic poem, _Hasty Pudding_, - which is generally considered his best work.—ED.] - - - THEOBALD WOLFE TONE. - - [THEOBALD WOLFE TONE, the founder of the ASSOCIATION OF UNITED - IRISHMEN, was born in Dublin in 1764, and, after passing through - Trinity College, came to London to prosecute his legal studies, - which he soon forsook for politics, being induced thereto by the - indignation excited in his breast by the persecution of the Irish - Catholics, whose cause, although himself a Protestant, he warmly - advocated. With the view of getting their grievances redressed, he - founded the society of UNITED IRISHMEN, which gave great alarm to - the English Government. His liberty being menaced, he went to - America, and thence to France, where he arranged with Gen. Hoche the - expeditions to Bantry Bay and the Texel. Being appointed - Adjutant-General, he served in several of the French armies, and - lastly in Gen. Hardi’s expedition to Ireland in October, 1798. The - vessel he was aboard of was captured by the English, and he was - conveyed to Dublin, tried by a Court-Martial, and sentenced to be - hanged. He anticipated his execution, however, by committing suicide - in prison, 19th November, 1798.—ED.] - - - ARTHUR O’CONNOR. - - [On the 21st and 22nd May, 1798, ARTHUR O’CONNOR (proprietor of a - Dublin newspaper, _The Press_), JOHN BINNS (an active member of the - _London Corresponding Society_), JOHN ALLEN, JEREMIAH LEARY, and - JAS. O’COIGLY, _alias_ Jas. Quigley, _alias_ Jas. John Fivey (a - Priest), were tried at Maidstone for High Treason. ROBERT FERGUSSON - was counsel for Allen. O’COIGLY only was found Guilty, and was - executed 7th June, on Pennenden Heath. After being suspended for ten - minutes, he was cut down and his head severed from his body: the - disgusting remainder of his sentence was remitted. He met his death - with great fortitude, and denying to the last the charge of - treasonable correspondence abroad. In the _State Trials_, vols. 26 - and 27, are included the Life of the prisoner; Observations on his - Trial; Address to the People of Ireland; and Letters, all written by - himself during his confinement in Maidstone Gaol. His real name, he - says, was the Rev. Jas. Coigly, and his age 36. “Can you imagine a - man more treacherous and profligate than O’COIGLY?” said Sir James - Mackintosh to DR. PARR. “Yes, Sir, he might have been worse: he was - a parson—he might have been a lawyer; he was a traitor—he might have - been an apostate; he was an Irishman—he might have been a - Scotchman.” When it is recollected that Mackintosh was a Scotchman - and a lawyer, and that he had written in defence of the French - Revolution against Burke, these observations of Dr. Parr were both - insolent and uncalled for. - - A Portrait of “Arthur O’Connor, late Member in the Irish Parliament - for Borough of Philipstown, painted by J. Dowling, engraved by W. - Ward,” was published in London, 18th April, 1798. Another Portrait - in military uniform is to be found in Barrington’s _Memoirs of the - Union_. He figures also in several of GILLRAY’S _Caricatures_. - - In the _Birmingham Daily Post_ of April 2, 1888, it is stated that - THE HON. R. E. O’CONNOR, M.A., barrister-at-law, the latest addition - to the Legislative Council of New South Wales, is a grandson of - ARTHUR O’CONNOR, one of the leaders of the United Irishmen, who died - a General in the service of France. - - When O’CONNOR was acquitted by the Jury, on the above-named - occasion, but before the Judge had given orders for his release, a - strange scene occurred in court, an attempt being made, as it was - alleged, by SACKVILLE, EARL OF THANET, ROBERT FERGUSSON (in after - years known as CUTLAR FERGUSSON, Judge-Advocate-General), and others - to facilitate his escape in order to avoid further charges about to - be preferred against him, Binns also being implicated for this - exploit, which was unsuccessful, but attended with violence. These - confederates were tried at the Bar of the Court of King’s Bench, - 25th April, 1799. The Counsel for the Crown were Sir John Scott - [Lord Eldon], Law [Lord Ellenborough], Sir W. Garrow, Sir C. Abbot, - &c., while the defendants had the powerful advocacy of Erskine and - others. His Lordship and Mr. Fergusson were found guilty after a - long and ingenious defence by the latter, which presaged his future - eminence as a Counsel. LORD THANET was ordered to pay a fine of - £1000; to be imprisoned in the Tower for a year; and to give - security for good behaviour for seven years on the expiration of the - sentence; himself in £10,000, and two sureties in £5000 each. - FERGUSSON was ordered to pay a fine of £100; to be imprisoned in the - King’s Bench prison for one year; to give security for good - behaviour for seven years from the expiration of the sentence; - himself in £500, and two sureties in £250 each.—See _State Trials_, - vols. 26 and 27.—ED.] - - - JAMES NAPPER TANDY. - - [“A person who afterwards made a considerable figure in the local - affairs of Ireland raised himself about this time into considerable - notoriety by his patriotic exertions. This was Mr. JAMES NAPPER - TANDY, a gentleman in the middle station of life, without talent or - natural influence, had become a warm advocate in the corporation of - Dublin; he debated zealously in public, he argued strenuously in - private, and persevered in both with indefatigable ardour. His - person was ungracious—his language neither eloquent nor - argumentative—his address neither graceful nor impressive—but he was - sincere and persevering—and though in many instances erroneous and - violent, he was considered to be honest. His private character - furnished no ground to doubt the integrity of his public one—and, - like many of those persons who occasionally spring up in - revolutionary periods, he acquired celebrity without being able to - account for it, and possessed influence without rank or capacity. In - 1796, Mr. Tandy lost all his popularity, and nearly his life, by his - apparent want of courage in an affair between him and Mr. Toler, - then Solicitor-General, afterwards Lord Norbury, and Chief Justice - of the Common Pleas. Mr. Tandy having signified to Mr. Toler his - desire to fight him, the Chief Justice readily accepted the offer. - Both parties manœuvred very skilfully; but Mr. Tandy delaying his - ultimatum too long for the impatience of the Solicitor-General, he - brought him before the House of Commons for a breach of privilege, - and prosecuted him for sedition. Mr. Tandy escaped to the Continent, - entered the French Service, invaded Ireland, was, with his - confederates, arrested by the British Envoy at Hamburg, 24 Nov., - 1798, contrary to the law of nations: the Minister of France claimed - them as French citizens, and the Senate, unwilling to offend either - power, came to no decision on the subject. Tandy was thereupon taken - to Ireland and condemned to be hanged—was pardoned by Lord - Cornwallis, and sent back to France, where he died a French - General.”—Barrington’s _Memoirs of the Union_, vol. 1, where is a - portrait of Tandy.—ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXVII. - - - May 14, 1798. - -The gallant defence of the ISLES OF ST. MARCOU would justify a more -serious celebration than is attempted in the following poem; and the -modest and unassuming manner in which LIEUTENANT PRICE gives the account -of services so highly meritorious, adds to the hope which we entertain -that he will meet a more solid reward than any verse of ours or of our -correspondent’s could bestow. - -CITIZEN MUSKEIN, if he understands Horace, and can read English, will be -amply rewarded for the victory of which he has, no doubt, by this time, -made a pompous report to the Directory, by the perusal of the 14th Ode -of the 1st Book, for which we have to return our thanks to a classical -correspondent. - - - A CONSOLATORY ADDRESS TO HIS GUN-BOATS. - - BY CITIZEN MUSKEIN. - - _O navis! referent in mare te novi fluctus._ - - O gentle Gun-Boats, whom the Seine - Discharged from Havre to the main; - Now leaky, creaking, blood-bespattered, - With rudders broken, canvas shattered— - O tempt the treacherous sea no more, - But gallantly regain the shore. - - Scarce could our guardian goddess, Reason, - Ensure your timbers through the season. - Though built of wood from famed Marseilles, - Well-manned from galleys, and from jails, - Though with LEPAUX’S and REWBELL’S aid, - By PLEVILLE’S[256] skill your keel was laid; - Though lovely STAEL, and lovelier STONE,[256] - Have worked their fingers to the bone, - And cut their petticoats to rags - To make your bright three-coloured flags; - Yet sacrilegious grape and ball - Deform the works of STONE and STAEL, - And trembling, without food or breeches, - Our sailors curse the _painted_ ——.[257] - - Children of Muskein’s anxious care, - Source of my hope and my despair, - GUN-BOATS—unless you mean hereafter - To furnish food for British laughter— - Sweet GUN-BOATS, with your gallant crew, - Tempt not the rocks of SAINT MARCOU; - Beware the Badger’s bloody pennant, - And that d——d invalid LIEUTENANT! - - - LYRICS OF HORACE. ODE XIV., BOOK I. - - TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. - - O Ship, fresh billows soon again - Shall bear thee to the boisterous main! - Firm, keep the port. See, see thy side, - Without a single oar to guide! - Wounded by tempests is thy mast; - Thy sail-yards groan beneath the blast; - Nor can thy keel, uncabled, brave - The swelling of th’ imperious wave. - Torn are thy sails! nor Gods hast thou, - When danger threats, to hear thy vow. - Though born of noblest wood, ’twas thine - To tower a vigorous Pontic pine; - ’Tis vain thy race, thy name, to prize: - Nought on his painted stern relies - The trembling seaman. Storms afar - Thicken to mock thy strength: beware. - - Thou, who wast late my anxious fear, - Thou now my fondest, tenderest care: - O shun, dear Ship, those tossing seas - Which part the white-cliff’d Cyclades! - - [MUSKEIN was an inhabitant of Antwerp, whom the Directory not only - appointed to superintend the construction of the flat-bottomed boats - for the invasion of Great Britain (usually called by the French - sailors “_bateaux à la Muskein_”), but made a “_capitaine de - vaisseau_”. An attack was ordered to be made upon the two small - islands of SAINT MARCOUF (each not more than 200 yards in length), - of which, in July, 1795, SIR SIDNEY SMITH, with the Diamond frigate, - had taken unobstructed possession, and which were considered to give - to the English great facility in intercepting between the ports of - Havre and Cherbourg. The islands are situated off the river Isigny, - on the coast of Normandy, and about four miles distant from the - French shore. After being garrisoned with about 500 seamen and - marines, including a great proportion of invalids, these small - islands were placed under the command of LIEUT. CHARLES PAPPS PRICE, - of _The Badger_, a cruiser-converted Dutch hoy, mounting four, or at - most six, guns. - - On the 8th April, 1798, MUSKEIN, with 33 flat-bottomed boats, with a - body of troops on board, and a few gun-brigs, was about to make a - combined attack on the two islands, but was driven off by two - British frigates, THE DIAMOND, _Capt. Sir R. J. Strachan_, and THE - HYDRA, _Capt. Sir Francis Laforey_, and stood into Caen river. While - there for three weeks, repairing damages, he was joined by seven - heavy gun-brigs, and about 40 flat-boats and armed fishing vessels, - bringing with them additional troops. - - On the 6th May, LIEUT. PRICE received information that an attack was - meditated during the night. By 10 p.m., owing to the prevailing - calm, the small naval force on the station, consisting of the 50–gun - ship, ADAMANT, _Capt. Wm. Hotham_, 24–gun ship, EURYDICE, _Capt. - John Talbot_, and 18–gun brig-sloop, ORESTES, _Capt. W. Haggitt_, - had not been able to approach nearer to the islands than six - miles—precisely what the assailants wanted. The attacking force - consisted of 52–gun brigs and flat-bottomed boats, having on board, - as was reported, about 6000 men. At day-break, on the 7th, the - flotilla was seen drawn up in a line opposite to the south-west - front of the western redoubt; and instantly was opened, upon the - brigs and flats composing it, a fire from 17 pieces of cannon, - consisting of four 4, two 6, and six 24 pounder long guns, and three - 24 and two 32–pounder carronades, being all the guns that would - bear. The brigs remained at a distance of from 300 to 400 yards, in - order to batter the redoubt with their heavy long guns, while the - boats, with great resolution, rowed up until within musket-shot of - the battery. But the guns of the latter, loaded with round, grape, - and canister, soon poured destruction amongst these, cutting several - of the boats “into chips,” and compelling all that could keep afloat - to seek their safety in flight. Six or seven boats were seen to go - down, and one small flat, No. 13, was afterwards towed in, bottom - upwards. She appeared, by some pieces of paper found in her, to have - had 144 persons on board, including 129 of the second company of the - Boulogne battalion. - - The loss sustained by the British garrison amounted to one - private-marine killed, and two private-marines and two seamen - wounded. According to one French account, the invaders lost about - 900 in killed or drowned, and between 300 and 400 wounded. As a - reward for their conduct on this occasion, Lieutenants PRICE and - BOURNE were each promoted to the rank of Commander. The former died - a Post Captain, at Hereford, in 1813, aged 62.—_James’s Naval - History_, vol. ii., pp. 128–131: ed. 1886.—ED.] - - [M. PLÉVILLE was Minister of Marine, and, shortly after this - unsuccessful _début_ of the famous flotilla, was succeeded by - Rear-Adm. Bruix, who directed Rear-Adm. La Crosse to take the - command, and to make a second attack upon the islands. This, - however, the French Government declined to make.—ED.] - - - HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS. - - HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS.—[“Among the literary celebrities of the French - Revolution was Helen Maria Williams, at whose house were wont to - assemble the most distinguished of the liberal writers of France, - her own reputation giving considerable _éclat_ to these meetings. - She wrote some of the most beautiful hymns in our language, was a - prisoner under the _reign of terror_, and published a work on the - French Revolution which is full of the most touching incidents, and - adorned with specimens of the ardent and pathetic poetry, the - product of French genius under the excitement of those most - mysterious days. A. Humboldt was much attached to her, and committed - to her care the translation and publication of some of his most - elaborate works. - - “She had two nephews, ATHANAS and CHARLES COQUEREL, whom she - educated, and who both attained considerable fame, one in the - theological and the other in the political field. Athanas was for - some time the preacher in the Protestant Church at Amsterdam, and - married the daughter of a Swiss gentleman, the only person I have - ever known on the Continent to adopt the dress and profess the - opinions of an English Quaker. Miss Williams maintained intimate - relations with her English friends, was familiar with the great - lights of the Revolution, and her conversation was most instructive, - entertaining, and varied. All her sympathies were on the side of - freedom, and though she was not so prominent as to be persecuted by - the Emperor, like Madame de Staël, she was the object of a good deal - of suspicion and narrowly watched by the police.”—_Autobr. - Recollections by Sir John Bowring_, pp. 353–4.—ED.] - - [MISS WILLIAMS, for some years, wrote that portion of the _New - Annual Register_ which relates to France. Among many other - productions she was the author of the song _Evan Banks_ (to the tune - of _Savourna Delish_), which has often been attributed to Burns; a - novel called _Julia_, and a _Tour in Switzerland_. Horace Walpole - called her in his CORRESPONDENCE a “scribbling trollop”. - - She lived for many years, and until the death of that gentleman—in - Paris, 1818—under the _protection_ of JOHN HURFORD STONE, a man of - letters, who in the early part of the French Revolution had removed - with his wife to Paris, where he formed an intimacy with Miss - Williams. She was born about 1762, and died in Paris in 1827 as a - friend to the Bourbons, and the enemy of the Revolution! - - This MR. STONE was born at Tiverton in 1763. While in Paris he was - in the confidence of the Directory, and became one of the chief - printers there. In 1805, he brought out an edition of the _Geneva - Bible_, and published several English reprints; also Miss Williams’s - translation of HUMBOLDT’S _Travels_. His brother, WM. STONE, was - tried in 1796 for High Treason, for holding treasonable - correspondence with him.—ED.] - - - ELEGY - ON THE DEATH OF JEAN BON ST. ANDRÉ. - -The following exquisite tribute to the memory of an unfortunate -republican is written with such a touching sensibility, that those who -can command salt tears must prepare to shed them. The narrative is -simple and unaffected; the event in itself interesting; the moral -obvious and awful.—We have only to observe, that as this account of the -transaction is taken from the French papers, it may possibly be somewhat -partial.—The DEY’S own statement of the affair has not yet been -received. Every friend of humanity will join with us in expressing a -candid and benevolent hope, that this business may not tend to kindle -the flames of war between these two unchristian powers; but that, by -mutual concession and accommodation, they may come to some point (short -of the restoration of JEAN BON’S head on his shoulders, which in this -stage of the discussion is hardly practicable) by which the peace of the -Pagan world may be preserved. For our part, we pretend not to decide -from which quarter the concessions ought principally to be made. It is -but candid to allow that there are probably faults on _both sides_, in -this, as in most other cases. For the character of the DEY we profess a -sincere respect on the one hand; and on the other, we naturally wish -that the head of JEAN BON ST. ANDRÉ should be reserved for his own -guillotine. - - - ELEGY; OR, DIRGE. - - I. - - All in the town of TUNIS, - In Africa the torrid, - On a Frenchman of rank - Was played such a prank, - As LEPAUX must think quite horrid. - - II. - - No story half so shocking, - By kitchen fire or laundry, - Was ever heard tell,— - As that which befel - The great JEAN BON ST. ANDRÉ.[258] - - III. - - Poor John was a gallant Captain, - In battles much delighting; - He fled full soon - On the first of June— - But he bade the rest keep fighting. - - IV. - - To Paris then returning, - And recovered from his panic, - He translated the plan - Of _Paine’s Rights of Man_, - Into language Mauritanic. - - V. - - He went to teach at Tunis— - Where as Consul he was settled— - Amongst other things, - “That the people are kings!” - Whereat the DEY was nettled. - - VI. - - The Moors being rather stupid, - And in temper somewhat mulish, - Understood not a word - Of the doctrine they heard, - And thought the Consul foolish. - - VII. - - He formed a _Club_ of _Brothers_, - And moved some resolutions— - “Ho! ho! (says the DEY), - “So this is the way - “That the French make _Revolutions_”. - - VIII. - - The DEY then gave his orders - In Arabic and Persian— - “Let no more be said— - But bring me his head! - These _Clubs_ are my aversion”. - - IX. - - The Consul quoted WICQUEFORT, - And PUFFENDORF and GROTIUS; - And proved from VATTEL - Exceedingly well, - Such a deed would be quite atrocious. - - X. - - ’Twould have moved a Christian’s bowels - To hear the doubts he stated;— - But the Moors they did - As they were bid, - And strangled him while he prated. - - XI. - - His head with a sharp-edged sabre - They severed from his shoulders, - And stuck it on high, - Where it caught the eye, - To the wonder of all beholders. - - XII. - - This sure is a doleful story - As e’er you heard or read of;— - If at Tunis you prate - Of matters of state, - Anon they cut your head off! - - XIII. - - But we hear the French Directors - Have thought the point so knotty; - That the DEY having shown - He dislikes JEAN BON, - They have sent him BERNADOTTÉ. - -On recurring to the French papers to verify our Correspondent’s -statement of this singular adventure of JEAN BON ST. ANDRÉ, we -discovered, to our great mortification, that it happened at ALGIERS, and -not at TUNIS. We should have corrected this mistake, but for two -reasons—first, that ALGIERS would not stand in the verse; and, secondly, -that we are informed by the young man who conducts the Geographical -Department of the _Morning Chronicle_, that both the towns are in -Africa, or Asia (he is not quite certain which), and, what is more to -the purpose, that both are peopled by Moors. TUNIS, therefore, may -stand. - -[MARSHAL BERNADOTTÉ, the French _Prince of Monté Corvo_, died as CHARLES -JOHN XIV., _King of Sweden_, 8th March, 1844, in his eighty-first year. -He married, in 1798, EUGENIA-BERNARDINA-DÉSIRÉE DE CLARY, daughter of a -Marseilles merchant, and sister of MADAME JOSEPH BUONAPARTE (Queen of -Spain). “She, who was not a common-place person,” says MADAME DE -RÉMUSAT, in her valuable _Memoirs_, “had before her marriage been very -much in love with Napoleon, and appears to have always preserved the -memory of that feeling! It has been supposed that her hardly -extinguished passion caused her obstinate refusal to leave France.” She -survived her husband many years, and died in Paris, in the Rue d’Anjou -Saint Honoré. Her husband was succeeded on the throne of Sweden by their -son, OSCAR I., who married JOSÉPHINE, _daughter of_ EUGÈNE BEAUHARNAIS, -Duc de Leuchtenberg, and _granddaughter of the_ EMPRESS JOSEPHINE. - -BERNADOTTÉ owed his elevation to the throne to the misgovernment of -Gustavus IV., who had brought the nation to the verge of ruin, and who -was deposed in 1809, when his uncle, the Duke of Sudermania, became king -as Charles XIII.; and the next year, BERNADOTTÉ was elected _Crown -Prince_, and successor to the throne. - -In 1813, he rendered great assistance to the Allies, for, as Crown -Prince, he joined the confederacy against France with 30,000 men; and, -after defeating Marshal Ney, with great loss, on the 6th September, he, -on the 18th October, with the co-operation of Blücher, again defeated -him at the decisive Battle of Leipsic; and, on the 19th, the Emperor -Alexander, the King of Prussia, and the Crown Prince, entered the great -square of Leipsic, amidst the acclamations of the inhabitants. He was a -decided democrat, and hated by Napoleon, but was the only sovereign of -the revolutionary branch who was permitted to retain his dominions after -the great reaction in 1814. The choice made of this great soldier of -fortune excited the surprise of all Europe at the time, but the wisdom -of it was soon demonstrated by his prudent conduct. He had distinguished -himself from all Napoleon’s other marshals by his clemency in victory. -For half a century before his accession, Sweden had not known the peace -and prosperity in which he left the country on his death. - -In T. RAIKES’S _Diary_ will be found some interesting anecdotes of -BERNADOTTÉ’S gratitude for services rendered him while a young -subaltern. But one is of a more startling nature, as it records his -narrow escape from the death intended for him by the widow of the late -king, who had purposely prepared a poisoned cup of coffee for him, which -she herself presented to him at her own table. Having been suddenly -warned, he succeeded in forcing it upon her. She resolutely accepted her -fate, and died during the night.—ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXVIII. - - - May 21, 1798. - -We have received the following letter, with the poem that accompanies -it, from a gentleman whose political opinions have hitherto differed -from our own; but who appears to feel, as every man who loves his -country must, that there can be but one sentiment entertained by -Englishmen at the present moment. - -Were we at liberty, we should be happy to do justice to the author, and -credit to ourselves, by mentioning his name. - - - TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ANTI-JACOBIN”. - -SIR,—However men may have differed on the political or constitutional -questions which have of late been brought into discussion—whatever -opinions they may have held on the system or conduct of -administration—there can surely be now but one sentiment as to the -instant necessity of firm and strenuous union for the preservation of -our very existence as a people; and if degrees of obligation could be -admitted, where the utmost is required from all, it should seem that in -this cause the opposers of administration stand doubly pledged; for with -what face of consistency can men pretend to stickle for points of -constitutional liberty at home, who will not be found amongst the -foremost at their posts to defend their country from the yoke of foreign -slavery? - -That there should be any set of men so infatuated as not to be convinced -that the object of the enemy must be the utter destruction of these -countries, after making the largest allowance for the effects of -prejudice and passion, it is not easy to conceive. Such, however, we are -told, there are. They believe, then, that after a long series of -outrage, insult, and injury, in the height of their animosity and -presumption, these moderate, mild, disinterested conquerors will invade -us in arms, out of pure love and kindness, merely for our good, only to -make us wiser, and better, and happier, and more prosperous than before! - -Future events lie hid in the volume of Fate, but the intentions of men -may be known by almost infallible indications. Passion and interest, the -two mighty motives of human action, determine the Government of France -to attempt the abolition of the British Empire! and if, abandoned by God -and our right arm, we should flinch in the conflict, that destruction -will be operative to the full of their gigantic and monstrous -imaginations!—Harbours filled up with the ruins of their towns and -arsenals, the Thames rendered a vast morass, by burying the Imperial -City in her bosom—but I will not proceed in the horrible picture. - -Are we then, it may be asked, to wage eternal war?—No; a glorious -resistance leads to an honourable peace. The French people have been -long weary of the war; their spirit has been forced by a system which -must end in the failure of the engagement to give them the plunder of -this country. They will awake from their dream, and raise a cry for -peace, which their government will not dare to resist. The monarchs of -Europe must now begin clearly to perceive that their fate hangs on the -destiny of England; they will unite to compel a satisfactory peace on a -broad foundation; and peace, when war has been tried to the utmost, will -probably be permanent. A few years of wise economy and redoubled -industry will place us again on the rising scale; and if the pressure of -the times may have rendered it necessary sometimes to have cast a -temporary veil over the statue of Liberty, she may again safely be shown -in an unimpaired lustre. - -Of the following verses I have nothing to say: if it should be decided -that the greatness of the object cannot bear out the mediocrity of the -execution, I will not appeal from the decision. - - - ODE TO MY COUNTRY. - MDCCXCVIII. - - S. 1. - - Britons! hands and hearts prepare: - The angry tempest threatens nigh, - Deep-toned thunders roll in air, - Lightnings thwart the livid sky; - Throned upon the wingéd storm, - Fell DESOLATION rears her ghastly form, - Waves her black signal to her Hell-born brood, - And lures them thus with promised blood: - - A. 1. - - “Drive, my sons, the storm amain! - Lo, the hated, envied land, - Where PIETY and ORDER reign, - And Freedom dares maintain her stand. - Have ye not sworn, by night and hell, - These from the earth for ever to expel? - Rush on, resistless, to your destined prey, - Death and rapine point the way.” - - E. 1. - - Britons! stand firm! with stout and dauntless heart - Meet unappall’d the threatening boaster’s rage; - Yours is the great, the unconquerable part, - For your loved hearths and altars to engage, - And sacred LIBERTY, more dear than life— - Yours be the triumph in the glorious strife. - Shall theft and murder braver deeds excite - Than honest scorn of shame and heavenly love of right? - - S. 2. - - Turn the bright historic page! - Still in glory’s tented field, - Albion’s arms, for many an age, - Have taught proud Gallia’s bands to yield. - Are not WE the sons of those - Whose steel-clad sires pursued the insulting foes, - E’en to the centre of their wide domain, - And bowed them to a BRITON’S reign?[259] - - A. 2. - - Kings, in modest triumph led, - Graced the SABLE VICTOR’S arms:[260] - His conquering lance, the battle’s dread;— - His courtesy the conquered charms. - The lion-heart soft pity knows, - To raise with soothing cares his prostrate foes; - The vanquished head true valour ne’er oppress’d, - Nor shunn’d to succour the distress’d. - - E. 2. - - Spirit of great ELIZABETH! inspire - High thoughts, high deeds, worthy our ancient fame; - Breathe through our ardent ranks the patriot fire, - Kindled at Freedom’s ever-hallowed flame; - Baffled and scorned, the Iberian tyrant found, - Though half a world his iron sceptre bound, - The gallant Amazon could sweep away, - Armed with her people’s love, the “INVINCIBLE” array.[261] - - S. 3. - - The BOLD USURPER[262] firmly held - The sword by splendid treasons gained; - And Gallia’s fiery genius quelled, - And Spain’s presumptuous claims restrained: - When lust of sway, by flattery fed,[263] - To venturous deeds the youthful monarch led, - In the full flow of victory’s swelling tide - Britain checked his power and pride. - - A. 3. - - To the great BATAVIAN’S name[264] - Ceaseless hymns of triumph raise! - Scourge of tyrants, let his fame - Live in songs of grateful praise. - Thy turrets, BLENHEIM,[265] glittering to the sun, - Tell of bright fields from warlike Gallia won; - Tell how the mighty monarch mourned in vain - His impious wish the world to chain. - - E. 3. - - And ye famed heroes, late retired to heaven, - Whose setting glories still the skies illume, - Bend from the blissful seats to virtue given— - Avert your long-defended country’s doom. - Earth from her utmost bounds shall wondering tell - How victory’s meed ye gained, or conquering fell; - Britain’s dread thunders bore from pole to pole, - Wherever man is found, or refluent oceans roll. - - S. 4. - - Names embalmed in honour’s shrine, - Sacred to immortal praise, - Patterns of glory, born to shine - In breathing arts or pictured lays: - See WOLFE, by yielding numbers pressed, - Expiring smile, and sink on victory’s breast! - See MINDEN’S plains and BISCAY’S billowy bay - Deeds of deathless fame display. - - A. 4. - - O! tread with awe the sacred gloom, - Patriot Virtue’s last retreat; - Where Glory, on the trophied tomb, - Joys their merit to repeat; - There CHATHAM lies, whose master-hand - Guided through seven bright years the mighty band, - That round his urn, where grateful Memory weeps, - Each in his hallowed marble sleeps. - - E. 4. - - Her brand accursed when civil discord hurled,[266] - Britain alone the united world withstood, - RODNEY his fortune-favoured sails unfurled, - And led three nation’s chiefs to Thames’s flood. - Firm on his rock the VETERAN HERO[267] stands; - Beneath his feet unheeded thunders roar; - Smiling in scorn, he sees the glittering bands - Fly with repulse and shame old CALPE’S hopeless shore. - - S. 5. - - Heirs or partners of their toils, - Matchless heroes still we own; - Crowned with honourable spoils - From the leagued nations won. - On their high prows they proudly stand, - The godlike guardians of their native land; - Lords of the mighty deep triumphant ride, - Wealth and victory at their side. - - A. 5. - - Loyal, bold, and generous bands, - Strenuous in their country’s cause, - Guard their cultivated lands, - Their altars, liberties, and laws. - On his firm, deep-founded throne, - Great BRUNSWICK sits—a name to fear unknown, - With brow erect commands the glorious strife, - Unawed, and prodigal of life. - - E. 5. - - Sons of fair Freedom’s long-descended line, - To Gallia’s yoke shall Britons bend the neck?— - No; in her cause though fate and hell combine - To bury all in universal wreck, - Of this fair Isle to make one dreary waste, - Her greatness in her ruins only traced,— - Arts, commerce, arms, sunk in one common grave— - The man who dares to die will never live a slave. - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXIX. - - - May 28, 1798. - -In a former number, we were enabled, by the communication of a classical -correspondent, to compliment CITIZEN MUSKEIN with an Address to his -Gun-boats, imitated from a favourite Ode of Horace. Another (or perhaps -the same) hand has obligingly furnished us with a composition, which we -have no doubt will be equally acceptable to the citizen to whom it is -addressed. - - - ODE TO THE DIRECTOR MERLIN. - HORACE, B. I., O. V. - - Who now from Naples, Rome, or Berlin, - Creeps to thy blood-stained den, O MERLIN, - With diplomatic gold?—to whom - Dost thou give audience _en costume_? - - _King Citizen!_—How sure each state - That bribes thy love shall feel thy hate; - Shall see the democratic storm - Her commerce, laws, and arts deform. - - How credulous, to hope the bribe - Could purchase peace from MERLIN’S tribe! - Whom, faithless as the waves or wind, - No oaths restrain, no treaties bind. - - For us—beneath yon SACRED ROOF, - The NAVAL FLAGS and arms of proof, - By British valour nobly bought, - Show how true safety must be sought! - - [THIERS, in his _History of the French Revolution_, frequently - asserts the incorruptibility (with the exception of BARRAS) of the - French Directory. But ALISON, in his History, exposes the - extraordinary conduct of M. DE TALLEYRAND, then Minister of Foreign - Affairs, towards the Envoys from the United States of America, who - complained that an immense number of American vessels had been - seized by the French Government under a decree of Jan., 1798, which - directed that all ships having for their cargoes, in whole or in - part, any English merchandise, should be held lawful prize, whoever - was the proprietor thereof, from the single circumstance of its - coming from England or its foreign settlements. The Envoys were told - that nothing could be done till their Government had advanced a sum - equal to 1,280,000_l._ as a loan, and 50,000_l._ as a douceur to the - Directors. These terms were, of course, indignantly rejected. The - Hanse Towns, too, only obtained licenses to navigate the high seas - by the secret payment of 150,000_l_. to the Republican rulers.—ED.] - - - [LYRICS OF HORACE. BOOK I., ODE V. - - TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. - - What slender youth, all essenced o’er, - In sweet alcove or rosy bower, - Now woos thee, Pyrrha, to be kind? - For whom these tresses dost thou bind, - Thus simply neat? O how shall he, - Poor youth! bewail the boisterous sea, - Rough with black tempests! How accuse - Capricious Gods, and broken vows! - - Fond dupe! he hopes—so sweet that kiss— - Thou’lt still be witching, still be his! - What treacherous gales beset his way, - Ah! little knows he! Hapless they, - Who ne’er thy faithless smiles have tried! - —That I have ’scaped the whelming tide, - A tablet and my dripping vest, - Hung up in Neptune’s fane, attest.—ED.] - - - - - No. XXX. - - - June 4, 1798. - -Our ingenious correspondent, MR. HIGGINS, has not been idle. The -deserved popularity of the extracts which we have been enabled to give -from his two didactic poems, the _Progress of Man_, and the _Loves of -the Triangles_, has obtained for us the communications of several other -works which he has in hand, all framed upon the same principle, and -directed to the same end. The propagation of the New System of -Philosophy forms, as he has himself candidly avowed to us, the main -object of all his writings. A system, comprehending not politics only -and religion, but morals and manners, and generally whatever goes to the -composition or holding together of human society; in all of which a -total change and revolution is absolutely necessary (as he contends) for -the advancement of our common nature to its true dignity, and to the -summit of that perfection which the combination of matter, called MAN, -is by its innate energies capable of attaining. - -Of this system, while the sublimer and more scientific branches are to -be taught by the splendid and striking medium of didactic poetry, or -_ratiocination in rhyme_, illustrated with such paintings and -portraitures of essences and their attributes as may lay hold of the -imagination while they perplex the judgment;—the more ordinary parts, -such as relate to the conduct of common life and the regulation of -social feelings, are naturally the subject of a less elevated style of -writing; of a style which speaks to the eye as well as to the ear,—in -short, of dramatic poetry and scenic representation. - -“With this view,” says MR. HIGGINS (for we love to quote the very words -of this extraordinary and indefatigable writer),—“with this view,” says -he, in a letter dated from his study in St. Mary Axe, the window of -which looks upon the parish pump,—“with this view I have turned my -thoughts more particularly to the German stage, and have composed—in -imitation of the most popular pieces of that country, which have already -met with so general reception and admiration in this—a Play; which, if -it has a proper run, will, I think, do much to unhinge the present -notions of men with regard to the obligations of civil society, and to -substitute, in lieu of a sober contentment, and regular discharge of the -duties incident to each man’s particular situation, a wild desire of -undefinable latitude and extravagance,—an aspiration after shapeless -somethings that can neither be described nor understood,—a contemptuous -disgust at all that _is_, and a persuasion that nothing is as it ought -to be;—to operate, in short, a general discharge of every man (in his -own estimation) from every tie which laws, divine or human, which local -customs, immemorial habits, and multiplied examples, impose upon him; -and to set them about doing what they like, where they like, when they -like, and how they like,—without reference to any law but their own -will, or to any consideration of how others may be affected by their -conduct. - -“When this is done, my dear sir,” continues Mr. H. (for he writes very -confidentially)—“you see that a great step is gained towards the -dissolution of the frame of every existing community. I say nothing of -_Governments_, as _their_ fall is of course implicated in that of the -social system;—and you have long known that I hold every Government -(that acts by coercion and restriction—by laws made by the few to bind -the many) as a _malum in se_,—an evil to be eradicated,—a nuisance to be -abated,—by force, if force be practicable; if not, by the artillery of -reason, by pamphlets, speeches, toasts at club-dinners, and though last, -not least, by didactic poems. - -“But where would be the advantage of the destruction of this or that -Government, if the form of Society itself were to be suffered to -continue such as that another must necessarily arise out of it and over -it?—Society, my dear sir, in its present state, is a _hydra_. Cut off -one head,—another presently sprouts out, and your labour is to begin -again. At best you can only hope to find it a _polypus_;—where, by -cutting off the _head_, you are sometimes fortunate enough to find a -_tail_ (which answers all the same purposes) spring up in its place. -This, we know, has been the case in France; the only country in which -the great experiment of regeneration has been tried with anything like a -fair chance of success. - -“Destroy the frame of society,—decompose its parts,—and see the elements -fighting one against another,—insulated and individual,—every man for -himself (stripped of prejudice, of bigotry, and of feeling for others) -against the remainder of his species;—and there is then some hope of a -totally new _order of things_,—of a _Radical Reform_ in the present -corrupt system of the world. - -“The German Theatre appears to proceed on this judicious plan. And I -have endeavoured to contribute my mite towards extending its effect and -its popularity. There is one obvious advantage attending this mode of -teaching;—that it can proportion the infractions of law, religion, or -morality, which it recommends, to the capacity of a reader or spectator. -If you tell a student, or an apprentice, or a merchant’s clerk, of the -virtue of a Brutus, or of the splendour of a La Fayette, you may excite -his _desire_ to be equally conspicuous; but how is he to set about it? -Where is he to find the tyrant to murder? How is he to provide the -monarch to be imprisoned, and the national guards to be reviewed on a -white horse?—But paint the beauties of _forgery_ to him in glowing -colours;—show him that the presumption of virtue is in favour of rapine -and occasional murder on the highway—and he presently understands you. -The highway is at hand—the till or the counter is within reach. These -_haberdashers’ heroics_ come home to the business and the bosoms of -men.—And you may readily make ten _footpads_, where you would not have -materials nor opportunity for a single _tyrannicide_. - -“The subject of the piece which I herewith transmit to you is taken from -common or middling life; and its merit is that of teaching the most -lofty truths in the most humble style, and deducing them from the most -ordinary occurrences. Its moral is obvious and easy; and is one -frequently inculcated by the German dramas which I have had the good -fortune to see; being no other than ‘_the reciprocal duties of one or -more husbands to one or more wives, and to the children who may happen -to arise out of this complicated and endearing connection_’. The plot, -indeed, is formed by the combination of the plots of _two_ of the most -popular of these plays (in the same way as Terence was wont to combine -two stories of Menander’s). The characters are such as the admirers of -these plays will recognise for their familiar acquaintances. There are -the usual ingredients of imprisonments, post-houses and horns, and -appeals to angels and devils. I have omitted only the _swearing_, to -which English ears are not yet sufficiently accustomed. - -“I transmit at the same time a _Prologue_, which in some degree breaks -the matter to the audience. About the song of Rogero, at the end of the -first Act, I am less anxious than about any other part of the -performance, as it is, in fact, literally translated from the -composition of a young German friend of mine, an _Illuminé_, of whom I -bought the original for three-and-sixpence. It will be a satisfaction to -those of your readers who may not at first sight hit upon the tune, to -learn that it is setting by a hand of the first eminence.—I send also a -rough sketch of the plot, and a few occasional notes.—The _geography_ is -by the young gentleman of the _Morning Chronicle_.” - - - THE ROVERS; OR, THE DOUBLE ARRANGEMENT. - - Dramatis Personæ. - - PRIOR of the ABBEY OF QUEDLINBURGH, very corpulent and cruel. - - ROGERO, a prisoner in the Abbey, in love with MATILDA POTTINGEN. - - CASIMERE, a Polish emigrant, in Dembrowsky’s legion, married to - CECILIA, but having several children by MATILDA. - - PUDDINGFIELD and BEEFINGTON, English noblemen, exiled by the tyranny - of King John, previous to the signature of Magna Charta. - - RODERIC, Count of SAXE WEIMAR, a bloody tyrant, with red hair, and an - amorous complexion. - - GASPAR, the minister of the Count—author of ROGERO’S confinement. - - YOUNG POTTINGEN, brother to MATILDA. - - MATILDA POTTINGEN, in love with ROGERO, and mother to CASIMERE’S - children. - - CECILIA MÜCKENFELD, wife to CASIMERE. - - Landlady, Waiter, Grenadiers, Troubadours, &c., &c. - - PANTALOWSKY and BRITCHINDA, children of MATILDA, by CASIMERE. - - JOACHIM, JABEL, and AMARANTHA, children of MATILDA, by ROGERO. - - CHILDREN OF CASIMERE AND CECILIA, with their respective Nurses. - - SEVERAL CHILDREN—fathers and mothers unknown. - - _The Scene lies in the town of Weimar, and the neighbourhood of the - Abbey of Quedlinburgh._ - - _Time from the 12th to the present century._ - - - PROLOGUE.[268] - - IN CHARACTER. - - Too long the triumphs of our early times, - With civil discord and with regal crimes, - Have stain’d these boards; while Shakespeare’s pen has - shown - Thoughts, manners, men, to modern days unknown. - Too long have Rome and Athens been _the rage_; - - [_Applause._ - - And classic Buskins soil’d a British stage. - - To-night our bard, who scorns pedantic rules, - His plot has borrow’d from the German schools; - The German schools—where no dull maxims bind - The bold expansion of the electric mind. - Fix’d to no period, circled by no space, - He leaps the flaming bounds of time and place. - Round the dark confines of the forest raves, - With _gentle_ Robbers[269] stocks his gloomy caves; - Tells how Prime Ministers[270] are shocking things, - And _reigning Dukes_ as bad as tyrant Kings; - How to _two_ swains[271] _one_ nymph her vows may give, - And how _two_ damsels[271] with _one_ lover live! - Delicious scenes!—such scenes _our_ bard displays, - Which, crown’d with German, sue for British, praise. - - Slow are the steeds, that through Germania’s roads - With hempen rein the slumbering post-boy goads; - Slow is the slumbering post-boy, who proceeds - Thro’ deep sands floundering on those tardy steeds; - More slow, more tedious, from his husky throat, - Twangs through the twisted horn the struggling note. - - These truths confess’d—Oh! yet, ye travell’d few, - Germania’s _plays_ with eyes unjaundiced view! - View and approve!—though in each passage fine - The faint translation[272] mock the genuine line; - Though the nice ear the erring sight belie, - For _U twice dotted_ is pronounced like _I_;[272] [_Applause._ - Yet oft the scene shall nature’s fire impart, - Warm _from_ the breast, and glowing _to_ the heart! - - Ye travell’d few, attend!—On _you_ our bard - Builds his fond hope! Do you his genius guard! - - [_Applause._ - - Nor let succeeding generations say - A British audience _damn’d_ a German play! - - [_Loud and continued Applauses._ - - _Flash of lightning.—The ghost of_ PROLOGUE’S GRANDMOTHER _by the - Father’s side, appears to soft music, in a white tiffany - riding-hood._ PROLOGUE _kneels to receive her blessing, which she - gives in a solemn and affecting manner, the audience clapping and - crying all the while.—Flash of lightning._—PROLOGUE _and his_ - GRANDMOTHER _sink through the trap-doors._ - - - THE ROVERS; OR, THE DOUBLE ARRANGEMENT. - - - ACT I. SCENE I. - - _Scene represents a room at an inn, at Weimar—On one side of the stage - the bar-room, with jellies, lemons in nets, syllabubs_, _and part of - a cold roast fowl, &c.—On the opposite side, a window looking into - the street, through which persons (inhabitants of Weimar) are seen - passing to and fro in apparent agitation_—MATILDA _appears in a - great coat and riding-habit, seated at the corner of the - dinner-table, which is covered with a clean huckaback cloth; plates - and napkins, with buck’s-horn-handled knives and forks, are laid as - if for four persons._ - -MAT. Is it impossible for me to have dinner sooner? - -LAND. Madam, the Brunswick post-waggon is not yet come in, and the -ordinary is never before two o’clock. - -MAT. [_With a look expressive of disappointment, but immediately -recomposing herself._] Well, then, I must have patience. [_Exit -Landlady._] Oh Casimere!—How often have the thoughts of thee served to -amuse these moments of expectation!—What a difference, alas!—Dinner—it -is taken away as soon as over, and we regret it not!—It returns again -with the return of appetite.—The beef of to-morrow will succeed to the -mutton of to-day, as the mutton of to-day succeeded to the veal of -yesterday. But when once the heart has been occupied by a beloved -object, in vain would we attempt to supply the chasm by another. How -easily are our desires transferred from dish to dish!—Love only, dear, -delusive, delightful love, restrains our wandering appetites, and -confines them to a particular gratification!... - - _Post-horn blows; re-enter_ LANDLADY. - -LAND. Madam, the post-waggon is just come in with only a single -gentlewoman. - -MAT. Then show her up—and let us have dinner instantly; [_Landlady -going_] and remember—[_after a moment’s recollection, and with great -earnestness_]—remember the toasted cheese. - - [_Exit Landlady._ - - CECILIA _enters, in a brown cloth riding-dress, as if just alighted from - the post-waggon._ - -MAT. Madam, you seem to have had an unpleasant journey, if I may judge -from the dust on your riding-habit. - -CEC. The way was dusty, madam, but the weather was delightful. It -recalled to me those blissful moments when the rays of desire first -vibrated through my soul. - -MAT. [_Aside._] Thank Heaven! I have at last found a heart which is in -unison with my own. [_To Cecilia_]—Yes, I understand you—the first -pulsation of sentiment—the silver tones upon the yet unsounded harp.... - -CEC. The dawn of life—when this blossom [_putting her hand upon her -heart_] first expanded its petals to the penetrating dart of love! - -MAT. Yes—the time—the golden time, when the first beams of the morning -meet and embrace one another!—The blooming blue upon the yet unplucked -plum!... - -CEC. Your countenance grows animated, my dear madam. - -MAT. And yours too is glowing with illumination. - -CEC. I had long been looking out for a congenial spirit!—my heart was -withered—but the beams of yours have rekindled it. - -MAT. A sudden thought strikes me—Let us swear an eternal friendship. - -CEC. Let us agree to live together! - -MAT. Willingly. - - [_With rapidity and earnestness._ - -CEC. Let us embrace. - - [_They embrace._ - -MAT. Yes; I too have loved!—you, too, like me, have been forsaken. - - [_Doubtingly, and as if with a desire to be informed._ - -CEC. Too true! - -BOTH. Ah these men! these men! - - LANDLADY _enters, and places a leg of mutton on the table, with sour - krout and prune sauce; then a small dish of black puddings_—CECILIA - _and_ MATILDA _appear to take no notice of her._ - -MAT. Oh, Casimere! - -CEC. [_Aside._] Casimere! that name!—Oh, my heart, how it is distracted -with anxiety. - -MAT. Heavens! Madam, you turn pale. - -CEC. Nothing—a slight megrim—with your leave, I will retire— - -MAT. I will attend you. - - [_Exeunt_ MATILDA _and_ CECILIA; _Manent_ LANDLADY _and_ WAITER, _with - the dinner on the table._ - -LAND. Have you carried the dinner to the prisoner in the vaults of the -abbey? - -WAITER. Yes—Pease soup, as usual—with the scrag end of a neck of mutton. -The emissary of the Count was here again this morning, and offered me a -large sum of money if I would consent to poison him. - -LAND. Which you refused? - - [_With hesitation and anxiety._ - -WAITER. Can you doubt it? - - [_With indignation._ - -LAND. [_Recovering herself, and drawing up with an expression of -dignity._] The conscience of a poor man is as valuable to him as that of -a prince.... - -WAITER. It ought to be still more so, in proportion as it is generally -more pure. - -LAND. Thou say’st truly, Job. - -WAITER. [_With enthusiasm._] He who can spurn at wealth when proffered -as the price of crime, is greater than a prince. - - _Post-horn blows.—Enter_ CASIMERE _(in a travelling dress, a light - blue great coat with large metal buttons, his hair in a long queue, - but twisted at the end; a large Kevenhuller hat; a cane in his - hand)._ - -CAS. Here, Waiter, pull off my boots, and bring me a pair of slippers. -[_Exit Waiter._] And hark’ye, my lad, a basin of water [_rubbing his -hands_] and a bit of soap. I have not washed since I began my journey. - -WAITER. [_Answering from behind the door._] Yes, Sir. - -CAS. Well, Landlady, what company are we to have? - -LAND. Only two gentlewomen, Sir.—They are just stept into the next -room—they will be back again in a minute. - -CAS. Where do they come from? - - [_All this while the_ WAITER _re-enters with the basin and water;_ - CASIMERE _pulls off his boots, takes a napkin from the table, and - washes his face and hands._ - -LAND. There is one of them, I think, comes from Nuremburgh. - -CAS. [_Aside._] From Nuremburgh! [_with eagerness_] her name! - -LAND. Matilda. - -CAS. [_Aside._] How does this idiot woman torment me!—What else? - -LAND. I can’t recollect. - -CAS. Oh, agony! - - [_In a paroxysm of agitation._ - -WAITER. See here, her name upon the travelling trunk—Matilda Pottingen. - -CAS. Ecstasy! ecstasy! - - [_Embracing the Waiter._ - -LAND. You seem to be acquainted with the lady—shall I call her? - -CAS. Instantly—instantly—tell her her loved, her long-lost—tell her—— - -LAND. Shall I tell her dinner is ready? - -CAS. Do so—and in the meanwhile I will look after my portmanteau. - - [_Exeunt severally._ - - _Scene changes to a subterranean vault in the Abbey of Quedlinburgh, - with coffins, ’scutcheons, death’s heads and crossbones—toads and - other loathsome reptiles are seen traversing the obscurer parts of - the stage._—ROGERO _appears, in chains, in a suit of rusty armour, - with his beard grown, and a cap of a grotesque form upon his - head—beside him a crock, or pitcher, supposed to contain his daily - allowance of sustenance.—A long silence, during which the wind is - heard to whistle through the caverns._—ROGERO _rises, and comes - slowly forward, with his arms folded._ - -ROG. Eleven years! it is now eleven years since I was first -immured in this living sepulchre—the cruelty of a Minister—the -perfidy of a Monk—yes, Matilda! for thy sake—alive amidst the -dead—chained—coffined—confined—cut off from the converse of my -fellow-men. Soft!—what have we here! [_stumbles over a bundle of -sticks._] This cavern is so dark that I can scarcely distinguish -the objects under my feet. Oh—the register of my captivity. Let me -see; how stands the account? [_Takes up the sticks, and turns them -over with a melancholy air; then stands silent for a few minutes, -as if absorbed in calculation._]—Eleven years and fifteen -days!—Hah! the twenty-eighth of August! How does the recollection -of it vibrate on my heart! It was on this day that I took my last -leave of my Matilda. It was a summer evening; her melting hand -seemed to dissolve in mine, as I prest it to my bosom. Some demon -whispered me that I should never see her more. I stood gazing on -the hated vehicle which was conveying her away for ever. The tears -were petrified under my eyelids. My heart was crystallized with -agony. Anon—I looked along the road. The diligence seemed to -diminish every instant; I felt my heart beat against its prison, -as if anxious to leap out and overtake it. My soul whirled round -as I watched the rotation of the hinder wheels. A long trail of -glory followed after her, and mingled with the dust; it was the -emanation of Divinity, luminous with love and beauty, like the -splendour of the setting sun; but it told me that the sun of my -joys was sunk for ever. Yes, here in the depths of an eternal -dungeon, in the nursing cradle of hell, the suburbs of perdition, -in a nest of demons, where despair in vain sits brooding over the -putrid eggs of hope; where agony woos the embrace of death; where -patience, beside the bottomless pool of despondency, sits angling -for impossibilities. Yet, even _here_, to behold her, to embrace -her! Yes, Matilda, whether in this dark abode, amidst toads and -spiders, or in a royal palace, amidst the more loathsome reptiles -of a court, would be indifferent to me; angels would shower down -their hymns of gratulation upon our heads, while fiends would envy -the eternity of suffering love.... Soft, what air was that? it -seemed a sound of more than human warblings. Again! [_listens -attentively for some minutes._] Only the wind; it is well, -however; it reminds me of that melancholy air, which has so often -solaced the hours of my captivity. Let me see whether the damps of -this dungeon have not yet injured my guitar. [_Takes his guitar, -tunes it, and begins the following air, with a full accompaniment -of violins from the orchestra._ - - [_Air, Lanterna Magica._] - - - SONG. - - BY ROGERO. - - I. - - Whene’er with haggard eyes I view - This dungeon that I’m rotting in, - I think of those companions true - Who studied with me at the U— - —niversity of Gottingen— - —niversity of Gottingen. - - [_Weeps, and pulls out a blue kerchief, with which he wipes his eyes; - gazing tenderly at it, he proceeds_— - - II. - - Sweet kerchief, check’d with heavenly blue, - Which once my love sat knotting in!— - Alas! Matilda _then_ was true! - At least I thought so at the U— - —niversity of Gottingen— - —niversity of Gottingen. - - [_At the repetition of this line_ ROGERO _clanks his chains in - cadence._ - - III. - - Barbs! Barbs! alas! how swift you flew - Her neat post-waggon trotting in! - Ye bore Matilda from my view; - Forlorn I languish’d at the U— - —niversity of Gottingen— - —niversity of Gottingen. - - IV. - - This faded form! this pallid hue! - This blood my veins is clotting in, - My years are many—they were few - When first I entered at the U— - —niversity of Gottingen— - —niversity of Gottingen. - - V. - - There first for thee my passion grew, - Sweet! sweet Matilda Pottingen! - Thou wast the daughter of my tu— - —tor, law professor at the U— - —niversity of Gottingen— - —niversity of Gottingen. - - VI. - - Sun, moon, and thou vain world, adieu, - That kings and priests are plotting in: - Here doomed to starve on water gru— - —el,[273] never shall I see the U— - —niversity of Gottingen— - —niversity of Gottingen. - - [_During the last stanza_ ROGERO _dashes his head repeatedly against - the walls of his prison; and, finally, so hard as to produce a - visible contusion; he then throws himself on the floor in an agony. - The curtain drops; the music still continuing to play till it is - wholly fallen._ - - [The character of ROGERO is a quiz upon SIR ROBERT ADAIR, who - received his education at Göttingen, and fell in love with his - tutor’s daughter. His relative, LORD ALBEMARLE, says in his - _Reminiscences_: “Throughout life my kinsman was an enthusiastic - admirer of the fair sex, which he generally ‘loved, not wisely, but - too well’”. He married, in 1805, Mdlle. Angélique Gabrielle, - daughter of the Marquis d’Hazincourt and the Comtesse de Champagne. - - ADAIR was the son of Mr. Robert Adair, sergeant-surgeon to K. George - III., by his wife LADY CAROLINE KEPPEL, daughter of Wm. Anne, second - Earl of Albemarle. He was educated at Westminster School and - Göttingen University; called to the Bar, but never practised. He - contested Camelford in 1796; and was M.P. for Appleby, 1799–1802, - for Camelford, 1802–1812. He was sent by FOX as Minister - Plenipotentiary to Vienna in 1806; and by his old adversary CANNING - to Constantinople in 1808; and also to Berlin. He was Ambassador to - Constantinople, 1809–11, and to Belgium, 1831–5. He was a facile - writer, and wrote several spirited pamphlets, including defences of - his relatives, Francis, Duke of Bedford, and Admiral Keppel, Fox, - and other Whigs. He contributed to the _Political Eclogues_ a poem - called _Margaret Nicholson_, in which George III., Pitt, Jenkinson, - &c., were ridiculed, and the _Song of Scrutina_ (on the “Westminster - Scrutiny”), in the style of Ossian, in the _Probationary Odes for - the Laureateship_. He was the author also of an account of his - _Mission to the Court of Vienna_; and his _Negotiations for the - Peace of the Dardanelles_: 3 vols., 8vo. For his services in the - latter business he was made G.C.B. He was born 24th May, 1763, and - died 3rd Oct., 1855. - - There is a curious circumstance connected with the composition of - this song, the first five stanzas of which were written by CANNING. - Having been accidentally seen, previous to its publication, by PITT, - who was cognisant of the proceedings of the “Anti-Jacobin” writers, - he was so amused with it, that he took up a pen and composed the - last stanza on the spot.—ED.] - - [This drama was produced at the Haymarket Theatre, July 26, 1811, - with alterations and additions, and some introductory matter, which - contained smart hits at the Quadrupeds, which then desecrated the - stage of Covent Garden Theatre. Liston performed _Rogero_; Munden, - _Casimere_; Mrs. Glover, _Matilda_; Mrs. Gibbs, _Cecilia_. The - following Prologue, written by George Colman the younger, in - imitation of Pope’s prologue to _Cato_, was spoken by Elliston:— - - To lull the soul by spurious strokes of art, - To warp the genius, and mislead the heart; - To make mankind revere wives gone astray,[274] - Love pious sons who rob on the highway;[275] - For this the foreign muses trod our stage - Commanding _German schools_ to be the rage. - Hail to such schools! Oh, fine _false feeling_, hail! - Thou badst _non-natural nature_ to prevail; - Through thee, _soft super-sentiment_ arose, - Musk to the mind like civet to the nose; - Till fainting taste (as invalids do wrong), - Snuff’d the sick perfume, and grew weakly strong. - Dear Johnny Bull! you boast much resolution, - With, thanks to Heaven! a glorious Constitution: - Your taste, recovered half from foreign quacks, - Takes airings, now, on English horses’ backs; - While every modern bard may raise his name, - If not on _lasting praise_, on _stable fame_. - Think that to Germans you have given no check, - Think how each actor hors’d has risk’d his neck; - You’ve shewn them favour: Oh, then, once more shew it - To this night’s _Anglo-German, Horse-Play_ Poet!—ED.] - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXXI. - - - June 11, 1798. - - We have received, in the course of the last week, several long, and - to say the truth, dull letters, from unknown hands, reflecting in - very severe terms on MR. HIGGINS, for having, as it is affirmed, - attempted to pass upon the world, as a faithful sample of the - productions of the German theatre, a performance no way resembling - any of those pieces which have so late excited, and which bid fair - to engross, the admiration of the British public. - - As we cannot but consider ourselves as the guardians of MR. - HIGGINS’S literary reputation, in respect to every work of his which - is conveyed to the world through the medium of our paper (though, - what we think of the danger of his principles we have already - sufficiently explained for ourselves, and have, we trust, succeeded - in putting our readers upon their guard against them)—we hold - ourselves bound not only to justify the fidelity of the imitation, - but (contrary to our original intention) to give a further specimen - of it in our present number, in order to bring the question more - fairly to issue between our author and his calumniators. - - In the first place we are to observe, that MR. HIGGINS professes to - have taken his notion of German plays wholly from the translations - which have appeared in our language. If _they_ are totally - dissimilar from the originals, Mr. H. may undoubtedly have been led - into error; but the fault is in the translators, not in him. That he - does not differ widely from the models which he proposed to himself, - we have it in our power to prove satisfactorily, and might have done - so in our last number, by subjoining to each particular passage of - his play the scene in some one or other of the German plays which he - had in view when he wrote it. These parallel passages were - faithfully pointed out to us by Mr. H. with that candour which marks - his character; and if they were suppressed by us (as in truth they - were), on our heads be the blame, whatever it may be. Little, - indeed, did we think of the imputation which the omission would - bring upon Mr. H., as in fact our principal reason for it was the - apprehension that, from the extreme closeness of the imitation in - most instances, he would lose in praise for invention more than he - would gain in credit for fidelity. - - The meeting between Matilda and Cecilia, for example, in the first - act of _The Rovers_, and their sudden intimacy, has been censured as - unnatural. Be it so. It is taken, _almost word for word_, from - _Stella_, a German (or professedly a German) piece now much in - vogue; from which also the catastrophe of MR. HIGGINS’S play is in - part borrowed, so far as relates to the agreement to which the - ladies come, as the reader will see by and bye, to share Casimere - between them. - - The dinner-scene is copied partly from the published translation of - _The Stranger_, and partly from the first scene of _Stella_. The - song of Rogero, with which the first act concludes, is admitted on - all hands to be in the very first taste; and if no German original - is to be found for it, so much the worse for the credit of German - literature. - - An objection has been made by one anonymous letter-writer to the - names of Puddingfield and Beefington, as little likely to have been - assigned to English characters by any author of taste or - discernment. In answer to this objection we have, in the first - place, to admit, that a small, and we hope not an unwarrantable, - alteration has been made by us since the MS. has been in our hands. - These names stood originally Puddincrantz and Beefinstern, which - sounded to our ears as being liable, especially the latter, to a - ridiculous inflection—a difficulty that could only be removed by - furnishing them with English terminations. With regard to the more - substantial syllables of the names, our author proceeded, in all - probability, on the authority of Goldoni, who, though not a German, - is an Italian writer of considerable reputation; and who, having - heard that the English were distinguished for their love of liberty - and beef, has judiciously compounded the two words _Runnymede_ and - _Beef_, and thereby produced an English nobleman, whom he styles - _Lord Runnybeef_. - - To dwell no longer on particular passages, the best way perhaps of - explaining the whole scope and view of Mr. H.’s imitation will be to - transcribe the short sketch of the plot which that gentleman - transmitted to us, together with his drama, and which it is perhaps - the more necessary to give at length, as, the limits of our paper - not allowing of the publication of the whole piece, some general - knowledge of its main design may be acceptable to our readers, in - order to enable them to judge of the several extracts which we lay - before them. - - - PLOT. - - Rogero, son of the late minister of the Count of Saxe Weimar, having - while he was at college, fallen desperately in love with Matilda - Pottingen, daughter of his tutor, Doctor Engelbertus Pottingen, - Professor of Civil Law; and Matilda evidently returning his passion, - the Doctor, to prevent ill consequences, sends his daughter on a - visit to her aunt in Wetteravia, where she becomes acquainted with - Casimere, a Polish Officer, who happens to be quartered near her - aunt’s, and has several children by him. - - Roderic, Count of Saxe Weimar, a prince of a tyrannical and - licentious disposition, has for his Prime Minister and favourite - Gaspar, a crafty villain, who had risen to his post by first - ruining, and then putting to death, Rogero’s father. Gaspar, - apprehensive of the power and popularity which the young Rogero may - enjoy at his return to Court, seizes the occasion of his intrigue - with Matilda (of which he is apprized officially by Doctor - Pottingen) to procure from his master an order for the recall of - Rogero from college, and for committing him to the care of the Prior - of the Abbey of Quedlinburgh, a priest, rapacious, savage, and - sensual, and devoted to Gaspar’s interests—sending at the same time - private orders to the Prior to confine him in a dungeon. - - Here Rogero languishes many years. His daily sustenance is - administered to him through a grated opening at the top of a cavern, - by the landlady of the Golden Eagle at Weimar, with whom Gaspar - contracts, in the prince’s name, for his support; intending, and - more than once endeavouring, to corrupt the waiter to mingle poison - with the food, in order that he may get rid of Rogero for ever. - - In the meantime, Casimere, having been called away from the - neighbourhood of Matilda’s residence to other quarters, becomes - enamoured of and marries Cecilia, by whom he has a family; and whom - he likewise deserts after a few years’ cohabitation, on pretence of - business which calls him to Kamtschatka. - - Doctor Pottingen, now grown old and infirm, and feeling the want of - his daughter’s society, sends young Pottingen in search of her, with - strict injunctions not to return without her; and to bring with her - either her present lover Casimere, or, should that not be possible, - Rogero himself, if he can find him; the Doctor having set his heart - upon seeing his children comfortably settled before his death. - Matilda, about the same period, quits her aunt’s in search of - Casimere; and Cecilia, having been advertised (by an anonymous - letter) of the falsehood of his Kamtschatka journey, sets out in the - post-waggon on a similar pursuit. - - It is at this point of time the Play opens—with the accidental - meeting of Cecilia and Matilda at the Inn at Weimar. Casimere - arrives there soon after, and falls in first with Matilda, and then - with Cecilia. Successive _éclaircissements_ take place, and an - arrangement is finally made, by which the two ladies are to live - jointly with Casimere. - - Young Pottingen, wearied with a few weeks’ search, during which he - has not been able to find either of the objects of it, resolves to - stop at Weimar, and wait events there. It so happens that he takes - up his lodgings in the same house with Puddingfield and Beefington, - two English noblemen, whom the tyranny of King John has obliged to - fly from their country; and who, after wandering about the continent - for some time, have fixed their residence at Weimar. - - The news of the signature of Magna Charta arriving, determines - Puddingfield and Beefington to return to England. Young Pottingen - opens his case to them, and entreats them to stay to assist him in - the object of his search.—This they refuse; but coming to the Inn - where they are to set off for Hamburgh, they meet Casimere, from - whom they had both received many civilities in Poland. - - Casimere, by this time tired of his “DOUBLE ARRANGEMENT,” and having - learnt from the waiter that Rogero is confined in the vaults of the - neighbouring abbey _for love_, resolves to attempt his rescue, and - to make over Matilda to him as the price of his deliverance. He - communicates his scheme to Puddingfield and Beefington, who agree to - assist him; as also does young Pottingen. The Waiter of the Inn, - proving to be a _Knight Templar_ in disguise, is appointed leader of - the expedition. A band of Troubadours, who happen to be returning - from the Crusades, and a company of Austrian and Prussian Grenadiers - returning from the Seven Years’ War, are engaged as troops. - - The attack on the Abbey is made with success. The Count of Weimar - and Gaspar, who are feasting with the Prior, are seized and beheaded - in the refectory. The Prior is thrown into the dungeon from which - Rogero is rescued. Matilda and Cecilia rush in. The former - recognises Rogero, and agrees to live with him. The children are - produced on all sides—and young Pottingen is commissioned to write - to his father, the Doctor, to detail the joyful events which have - taken place, and to invite him to Weimar to partake of the general - felicity. - - - THE ROVERS; OR, THE DOUBLE ARRANGEMENT. - - - ACT II. - - _Scene, a Room in an ordinary Lodging-house at Weimar_—PUDDINGFIELD - _and_ BEEFINGTON _discovered sitting at a small deal table, and - playing at All-fours—Young_ POTTINGEN, _at another table in the - corner of the room, with a pipe in his mouth, and a Saxon mug of a - singular shape beside him, which he repeatedly applies to his - lips, turning back his head, and casting his eyes towards the - firmament—at the last trial he holds the mug for some moments in a - directly inverted position; then replaces it on the table with an - air of dejection, and gradually sinks into a profound slumber—the - pipe falls from his hand, and is broken._ - -BEEF. I beg. - -PUDD. [_Deals three cards to_ BEEFINGTON.] Are you satisfied? - -BEEF. Enough; what have you? - -PUDD. High, low, and the game. - -BEEF. D——n! ’Tis my deal. [_Deals; turns up a knave._] One for his -heels! - - [_Triumphantly._ - -PUDD. Is king highest? - -BEEF. No. [_Sternly_] The game is mine. The knave gives it me. - -PUDD. Are knaves so prosperous? - -BEEF. Aye, marry are they in this world. They have the game in their -hands. Your kings are but _noddies_[276] to them. - -PUDD. Ha! ha! ha! Still the same proud spirit, Beefington, which -procured thee thine exile from England. - -BEEF. England! my native land! when shall I revisit thee? - - [_During this time_ PUDDINGFIELD _deals, and begins to arrange his - hand._ - -BEEF. [_Continues._] Phoo, hang All-fours; what are they to a mind ill -at ease? Can they cure the heartache? Can they soothe banishment? Can -they lighten ignominy? Can All-fours do this? O, my Puddingfield! thy -limber and lightsome spirit bounds up against affliction with the -elasticity of a well-bent bow; but mine—O! mine— - - [_Falls into an agony, and sinks back in his chair. Young_ - POTTINGEN, _awakened by the noise, rises, and advances with a - grave demeanour towards_ BEEFINGTON _and_ PUDDINGFIELD. _The - former begins to recover._ - -Y. POT. What is the matter, comrades,[277] you seem agitated. Have you -lost or won? - -BEEF. Lost! I have lost my country. - -Y. POT. And I my sister. I came hither in search of her. - -BEEF. O, England! - -Y. POT. O, Matilda! - -BEEF. Exiled by the tyranny of an usurper, I seek the means of -revenge, and of restoration to my country. - -Y. POT. Oppressed by the tyranny of an Abbot, persecuted by the -jealousy of a Count, the betrothed husband of my sister languishes in -a loathsome captivity; her lover is fled no one knows whither, and I, -her brother, am torn from my parental roof, and from my studies in -chirurgery, to seek him and her, I know not where—to rescue Rogero, I -know not how. Comrades, your counsel. My search fruitless—my money -gone—my baggage stolen! what am I to do? In yonder Abbey—in these -dark, dank vaults, there, my friends, there lies Rogero—there -Matilda’s heart. - - - SCENE II. - - _Enter_ WAITER. - -WAITER. Sir, here is a person who desires to speak with you. - -BEEF. [_Goes to the door and returns with a letter, which he opens. On -perusing it his countenance becomes illuminated, and expands -prodigiously._] Ah, my friend, what joy! - - [_Turning to_ PUDDINGFIELD. - -PUDD. What? tell me—let your Puddingfield partake it. - -BEEF. See here. - - [_Produces a printed paper._ - -PUDD. What? - - [_With impatience._ - -BEEF. [_In a significant tone._] A newspaper! - -PUDD. Ah, what sayst thou?—A newspaper! - -BEEF. Yes, Puddingfield, and see here [_shows it partially_], from -England. - -PUDD. [_With extreme earnestness._] Its name? - -BEEF. The _Daily Advertiser_. - -PUDD. Oh, ecstasy! - -BEEF. [_With a dignified severity._] Puddingfield, calm -yourself—repress those transports—remember that you are a man. - -PUDD. [_After a pause, with suppressed emotion._] Well, I will be—I am -calm—yet tell me, Beefington, does it contain any news? - -BEEF. Glorious news, my dear Puddingfield—the Barons are -victorious—King John has been defeated—Magna Charta, that venerable -immemorial inheritance of Britons, was signed last Friday was three -weeks, the third of July, Old Style. - -PUDD. I can scarce believe my ears—but let me satisfy my eyes—show me -the paragraph. - -BEEF. Here it is, just above the advertisements. - -PUDD. [_Reads._] “The great demand for Packwood’s Razor Straps”— - -BEEF. Pshaw!—what, ever blundering!—you drive me from my patience. See -here, at the head of the column. - -PUDD. [_Reads._] - - “A hireling print, devoted to the court, - Has dared to question our veracity - Respecting the events of yesterday; - But by to-day’s accounts, our information - Appears to have been perfectly correct. - The Charter of our Liberties received - The royal signature at five o’clock, - When messengers were instantly dispatched - To Cardinal Pandulfo; and their majesties, - After partaking of a cold collation, - Returned to Windsor.”—I am satisfied. - -BEEF. Yet here again—there are some further particulars [_turns to -another part of the paper_]. “Extract of a letter from Egham—My dear -friend, we are all here in high spirits—the interesting event which -took place this morning at Runnymede, in the neighbourhood of this -town”— - -PUDD. Ah, Runnymede! enough—no more—my doubts are vanished—then are we -free indeed! - -BEEF. I have, besides, a letter in my pocket from our friend, the -immortal Bacon, who has been appointed Chancellor. Our outlawry is -reversed!—What says my friend—shall we return by the next packet? - -PUDD. Instantly, instantly! - -BOTH. Liberty! Adelaide! revenge! - - [_Exeunt—Young_ POTTINGEN _following and waving his hat, but - obviously without much consciousness of the meaning of what has - passed._ - - _Scene changes to the outside of the Abbey.—A Summer’s Evening; - Moonlight._ - - _Companies of Austrian and Prussian Grenadiers march across the - stage confusedly, as if returning from the Seven Years War.—Shouts - and martial music._ - - _The Abbey Gates are opened; the Monks are seen passing in - procession, with the_ PRIOR _at their head; the choir is heard - chanting vespers.—After which a pause; then a bell is heard, as if - ringing for supper; soon after, a noise of singing and jollity._ - - _Enter from the Abbey, pushed out of the gates by the_ PORTER, _a_ - TROUBADOUR, _with a bundle under his cloak, and a Lady under his - arm_; TROUBADOUR _seems much in liquor, but caresses the_ FEMALE - MINSTREL. - -FEM. MIN. Trust me, Gieronimo, thou seemest melancholy. What hast thou -got under thy cloak? - -TROU. Pshaw! women will be inquiring. Melancholy! not I. I will sing -thee a song, and the subject of it shall be the question—“What have I -got under my cloak?” It is a riddle, Margaret—I learnt it of an -almanac-maker at Gotha—if thou guessest it after the first stanza, thou -shalt have never a drop for thy pains. Hear me—and, d’ye mark! twirl thy -thingumbob while I sing. - -FEM. MIN. ’Tis a pretty tune, and hums dolefully. - - [_Plays on her balalaika._ - -TROU. - - I bear a secret comfort _here_,[278] - - [_Putting his hand on the bundle._ - - A joy I’ll ne’er impart; - It is not wine, it is not beer, - But it consoles my heart. - -FEM. MIN. [_Interrupting him._] I’ll be hang’d if you don’t mean the -bottle of cherry-brandy that you stole out of the vaults in the abbey -cellar. - -TROU. I mean!—Peace, wench; thou disturbest the current of my feelings— - - [FEM. MIN. _attempts to lay hold on the bottle_; TROUBADOUR _pushes - her aside, and continues singing without interruption_. - - This cherry-bounce, this loved noyau, - My drink for ever be; - But, sweet my love, thy wish forego; - I’ll give no drop to thee! - - [_Both together._] - - TROU. { This } cherry-bounce { this } loved noyau, - F. M. { That } „ { that } „ - - TROU. { My } drink for ever be; - F. M. { Thy } „ - - TROU. } But, sweet my love, { thy wish forgo! - F. M. } „ { one drop bestow, - - TROU. { I } keep it all for { me! - F. M. { Nor } „ { thee! - - [_Exeunt struggling for the bottle, but without anger or animosity, - the_ FEM. MIN. _appearing by degrees to obtain a superiority in the - contest._ - - - END OF ACT II. - -ACT THE THIRD—contains the éclaircissements and final arrangement -between CASIMERE, MATILDA, and CECILIA; which so nearly resemble the -concluding act of _Stella_, that we forbear to lay it before our -readers. - - - ACT IV. - - _Scene, the Inn door; Diligence drawn up._—CASIMERE _appears - superintending the package of his portmanteaus, and giving - directions to the_ PORTERS. - - _Enter_ BEEFINGTON _and_ PUDDINGFIELD. - -PUDD. Well, Coachey, have you got two inside places? - -COACH. Yes, your Honour. - -PUDD. [_seems to be struck with_ CASIMERE’S _appearance. He surveys him -earnestly without paying any attention to the_ COACHMAN, _then -doubtingly pronounces_] Casimere! - -CAS. [_turning round rapidly, recognizes_ PUDDINGFIELD, _and embraces -him._] My Puddingfield! - -PUDD. My Casimere! - -CAS. What, Beefington too! [_discovering him_]—then is my joy complete. - -BEEF. Our fellow-traveller, as it seems! - -CAS. Yes, Beefington—but wherefore to Hamburgh? - -BEEF. Oh, Casimere[279]—to fly—to fly—to return—England—our -country—Magna Charta—it is liberated—a new æra—House of Commons—Crown -and Anchor—Opposition— - -CAS. What a contrast! you are flying to liberty and your home—I, driven -from my home by tyranny, and exposed to domestic slavery in a foreign -country. - -BEEF. How domestic slavery? - -CAS. Too true—two wives—[_slowly, and with a dejected air—then after a -pause_]—you knew my Cecilia? - -PUDD. Yes, five years ago. - -CAS. Soon after that period I went upon a visit to a lady in -Wetteravia—my Matilda was under her protection. Alighting at a peasant’s -cabin, I saw her on a charitable visit, spreading bread-and-butter for -the children, in a light-blue riding-habit. The simplicity of her -appearance—the fineness of the weather—all conspired to interest me—my -heart moved to hers—as if by magnetic sympathy. We wept, embraced, and -went home together: she became the mother of my Pantalowsky. But five -years of enjoyment have not stifled the reproaches of my conscience—her -Rogero is languishing in captivity—if I could restore her to _him_! - -BEEF. Let us rescue him. - -CAS. Will without power[280] is like children playing at soldiers. - -BEEF. Courage without power[281] is like a consumptive running footman. - -CAS. Courage without power is a contradiction.[282] Ten brave men might -set all Quedlinburgh at defiance. - -BEEF. Ten brave men—but where are they to be found? - -CAS. I will tell you—marked you the waiter? - -BEEF. The waiter? - - [_doubtingly._ - -CAS. [_in a confidential tone_]. No waiter, but a _Knight Templar_. -Returning from the Crusade, he found his Order dissolved, and his person -proscribed. He dissembled his rank, and embraced the profession of a -waiter. I have made sure of him already. There are, besides, an -Austrian, and a Prussian grenadier. I have made them abjure their -national enmity, and they have sworn to fight henceforth in the cause of -freedom. These with young Pottingen, the waiter, and ourselves, make -seven—the Troubadour, with his two attendant minstrels, will complete -the ten. - -BEEF. Now then for the execution. - - [_With enthusiasm._ - -PUDD. Yes, my boys—for the execution. - - [_Clapping them on the back._ - -WAITER. But hist! we are observed. - -TROU. Let us by a song conceal our purposes. - - - RECITATIVE ACCOMPANIED.[283] - - CAS. Hist! hist! nor let the airs that blow - From night’s cold lungs our purpose know! - - PUDD. Let Silence, mother of the dumb, - - BEEF. Press on each lip her palsied thumb! - - WAIT. Let Privacy, allied to sin, - That loves to haunt the tranquil inn— - - GREN. } And Conscience start, when she shall view - THOU. } The mighty deed we mean to do! - - GENERAL CHORUS—_Con spirito._ - - Then friendship swear, ye faithful bands, - Swear to save a shackled hero! - See where yon abbey frowning stands! - Rescue, rescue, brave Rogero! - - CAS. Thrall’d in a monkish tyrant’s fetters - Shall great Rogero hopeless lie? - - Y. POT. In my pocket I have letters, - Saying, “Help me, or I die!” - - _Allegro Allegretto._ - - CAS. BEEF. PUDD. GREN. TROU. } Let us fly, let us fly, - WAITER, AND POT. _with enthusiasm_. } Let us help, ere he die! - - [_Exeunt omnes, waving their hats._ - - _Scene, the Abbey Gate, with Ditches, Drawbridges, and Spikes; - Time, about an hour before Sunrise.—The conspirators appear as - if in ambuscade, whispering and consulting together, in - expectation of the signal for attack.—The_ WAITER _is habited as - a Knight Templar, in the dress of his Order, with the Cross on - his breast, and the scallop on his shoulder._—PUDDINGFIELD _and_ - BEEFINGTON _armed with blunderbusses and pocket-pistols; the_ - GRENADIERS _in their proper uniforms.—The_ TROUBADOUR _with his - attendant minstrels bring up the rear; martial music: the - conspirators come forward, and present themselves before the - Gate of the Abbey.—Alarum; firing of pistols; the Convent appear - in Arms upon the Walls; the Drawbridge is let down; a body of - choristers and lay-brothers attempt a sally, but are beaten - back, and the Verger killed.—The besieged attempt to raise the - Drawbridge_; PUDDINGFIELD _and_ BEEFINGTON _press forward with - alacrity, throw themselves upon the Drawbridge, and by the - exertion of their weight preserve it in a state of depression; - the other besiegers join them, and attempt to force the - entrance, but without effect._—PUDDINGFIELD _makes the signal - for the battering-ram.—Enter_ QUINTUS CURTIUS _and_ MARCUS - CURIUS DENTATUS _in their military habits, preceded by the Roman - Eagle; the rest of their Legion are employed in bringing forward - a battering-ram, which plays for a few minutes to slow time, - till the entrance is forced.—After a short resistance, the - besiegers rush in with shouts of Victory._ - - _Scene changes to the interior of the Abbey.—The inhabitants of the - Convent are seen flying in all directions._ - - _The_ COUNT OF WEIMAR _and the_ PRIOR, _who had been found feasting in - the Refectory, are brought in manacled. The_ COUNT _appears - transported with rage, and gnaws his chains.—The_ PRIOR _remains - insensible, as if stupefied with grief._—BEEFINGTON _takes the keys - of the Dungeon, which are hanging at the_ PRIOR’S _girdle, and makes - a sign for them both to be led away into confinement.—Exeunt_ PRIOR - _and_ COUNT, _properly guarded.—The rest of the conspirators - disperse in search of the Dungeon where_ ROGERO _is confined._ - - - END OF ACT THE FOURTH. - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXXII. - - - June 18, 1798. - -We are indebted for the following imitation of CATULLUS to a literary -correspondent. Whether it will remove the doubts we formerly expressed, -of CITIZEN MUSKEIN’S acquaintance with the classics, from the minds of -our readers, we cannot pretend to say. It is given to us as a faithful -translation from the French—as such, we present it to our readers; -premising only, that though the _Citizen Imitator_ seems to have -_Sans-culottized_ the original in two or three places, yet he everywhere -expresses himself with a _naïveté_ and truth in his verse that we seek -for in vain in many of his countrymen who have recorded their victories -and defeats in very vulgar prose. - - - AN AFFECTIONATE EFFUSION OF CITIZEN MUSKEIN TO HAVRE-DE-GRACE. - - Fairest of cities,[284] which the Seine - Surveys ’twixt Paris and the main, - Sweet HAVRE! sweetest HAVRE, hail! - How gladly with my tatter’d sail,[285] - Yet trembling from this wild adventure, - Do I thy friendly harbour enter! - - Well—now I’ve leisure, let me see - What boats are left me; one, two, three— - Bravo! the better half remain; - And all my heroes are not slain. - And if my senses don’t deceive, - I too am safe,[286]—yes, I believe, - Without a wound I reach thy shore - (For I have felt myself all o’er); - I’ve all my limbs, and, be it spoken - With honest triumph, no bone broken. - - How pleasing is the sweet transition[287] - From this vile Gun-boat Expedition; - From winds and waves, and wounds and scars, - From British soldiers, British tars, - To his own house, where, free from danger, - MUSKEIN may live at rack and manger; - May stretch his limbs in his own cot,[288] - Thankful he has not gone to pot; - Nor for the bubble Glory strive, - But bless himself that he’s alive! - - HAVRE,[289] sweet Havre! hail again, - O! bid thy sons (a frolic train,[290] - Who under CHÉNIER welcomed in, - With dance and song, the _Guillotine_). - In long procession seek the strand; - For MUSKEIN now prepares to land, - ’Scaped, Heav’n knows how, from that cursed crew - That haunt the rocks of SAINT MARCOU. - - - [TO THE PENINSULA OF SIRMIO. - UPON THE RETURN OF THE POET TO HIS COUNTRY HOUSE THERE. - - _Translated_ from CATULLUS. - - Sirmio, of all the shores the gem, - The isles where circling Neptune strays; - Whether the vast and boisterous main - Or lake’s more limpid waves they stem, - How gladly on thy waves I gaze! - How blest to visit thee again! - - I scarce believe, while rapt I stand, - That I have left the Thynian fields - And all Bithynia far behind, - And safely view my favourite land. - Oh bliss, when care dispersing yields - To full repose the placid mind! - - Then when the mind its load lays down; - When we regain, all hazards past, - And with long ceaseless travel tired, - Our household god again our own; - And press in tranquil sleep at last - The well-known bed so oft desired— - - This can alone atonement make - For every toil. Hail, Sirmio sweet! - Be gay, thy lord hath ceased to roam! - Ye laughing waves of Lydia’s lake, - Smile all around! thy master greet - With all thy smiles, my pleasant home!—ED.] - - - - - No. XXXIII.[291] - - - June 25, 1798. - -After the splendid account of BUONAPARTE’S successes in the East, which -our readers will find in another part of this paper,[292] and which they -will peruse with equal wonder and apprehension, it is some consolation -to us to have to state, not only from authority, but in verse, that our -government has not been behindhand with that of France; but that aware -of the wise and enterprising spirit of the enemy, and of the danger -which might arise to our distant possessions from the export of learning -and learned men being entirely in their hands, ministers have long ago -determined on an expedition of a similar nature, and have actually -embarked at Portsmouth on board one of the East India Company’s ships -taken up for that purpose (the ship _Capricorn_, Mr. Thomas Truman, -Commander), several tons of _savans_, the growth of this country. The -whole was conducted with the utmost secrecy and dispatch, and it was not -till we were favoured with the following copy of a letter (obligingly -communicated to us by the Tunisian gentleman to whom it is addressed) -that we had any suspicion of the extent and nature of the design, or -indeed of any such design being in contemplation. - -The several great names which are combined to render this Expedition the -most surprising and splendid ever undertaken, could not indeed have been -spared from the country to which they are an ornament for any other -purpose than one the most obviously connected with the interests of the -empire, and the most widely beneficial to mankind. - -The secrecy with which they have been withdrawn from the British public, -without being so much as missed or enquired after, reflects the highest -honour on the planners of the enterprise. Even the celebrity of DOCTOR -PARR has not led to any discovery or investigation: the silent admirers -of that great man have never once thought of asking what was become of -him; till it is now all at once come to light, that he has been for -weeks past on shipboard, the brightest star in the bright constellation -of talents which stud the quarter-deck of the _Capricorn_, Mr. T. Truman -(as before mentioned), Commander. - -The resignation of the late worthy President of a certain Agricultural -Board[293] might indeed have taught mankind to look for some -extraordinary event in the world of science and adventure; and those who -had the good fortune to see the deportation from his house, of the -several wonderful anomalies which had for years formed its most -distinguished inmates,—the stuffed ram, the dried boar, the cow with -three horns, and other fanciful productions of a like nature, could not -but speculate with some degree of seriousness on the purpose of their -removal, and on the place of their destination. - -It now appears that there was in truth no light object in view. They -were destined, with the rest of the _savans_, on whom this country -prides itself (and long may it have reason to indulge the honest -exultation), to undertake a voyage of no less grandeur than peril; to -counteract the designs of the Directory, and to frustrate or forestal -the conquests of Buonaparte. - -The young gentleman who writes the following letter to his friend in -London is, as may be seen, interpreter to the Expedition. We have -understood, further, that he is connected with the young man who writes -for the _Morning Chronicle_, and conducts the _Critical, Argumentative_, -and _Geographical_ departments. Some say it is the young man himself, -who has assumed a feigned name, and, under the disguise of a Turkish -dress and circumcision, is gone, at the express instigation of his -employers, to improve himself in geographical knowledge. We have our -doubts upon this subject, as we think we recognise the style of this -deplorable young man in an article of last week’s _Morning Chronicle_, -which we have had occasion to answer in a preceding column of our -present paper. Be that as it may, the information contained in the -following letter may be depended upon. - -We cannot take leave of the subject without remarking what a fine -contrast and companion the vessel and cargo described in the following -poem affords [_sic_] to the “NAVIS STULTIFERA,” the “SHIPPE OF FOOLES” -of the celebrated BARCLAY; and we cannot forbear hoping that the -_Argenis_ of an author of the same name may furnish a hint for an -account of this stupendous Expedition in a learned language, from the -only pen which in modern days is capable of writing Latin with a purity -and elegance worthy of so exalted a theme, and that the author of a -classical _preface_[294] may become the writer of a no less celebrated -voyage. - - - TRANSLATION OF A LETTER, - (IN ORIENTAL CHARACTERS) - FROM BAWBA-DARA-ADUL-PHOOLA,[295] - DRAGOMAN TO THE EXPEDITION, - TO NEEK-AWL-ARETCHID-KOOEZ, - SECRETARY TO THE TUNISIAN EMBASSY. - - DEAR NEEK-AWL, - - You’ll rejoice, that at length I am able, - To date these few lines from the captain’s own table. - Mr. Truman himself, of his proper suggestion, - Has in favour of science decided the question; - So we walk the main-deck, and are mess’d with the captain, - I leave you to judge of the joys we are wrapt in. - - At Spithead they embark’d us, how precious a cargo! - And we sail’d before day to escape the embargo. - There was SHUCKBOROUGH,[296] the wonderful mathematician; - And DARWIN, the poet, the sage, and physician; - There was BEDDOES, and BRUIN, and GODWIN, whose trust is, - He may part with his work on _Political Justice_ - To some Iman or Bonze, or Judaical Rabbin; - So with huge quarto volumes he piles up the cabin. - There was great DR. PARR whom we style _Bellendenus_, - The Doctor and I have a hammock between us. - ’Tis a little unpleasant thus crowding together, - On account of the motion and heat of the weather; - _Two_ souls in one berth they oblige us to cram, - And Sir John[297] _will_ insist on a place for his ram. - Though the Doctor, I find, is determined to think - ’Tis the animal’s hide that occasions the stink; - In spite of th’ experienced opinion of Truman, - Who contends that the scent is exclusively human. - But BEDDOES and DARWIN engage to repair - This slight inconvenience with _oxygen_ air. - - Whither bound? (you will ask). ’Tis a question, my friend, - On which I long doubted; my doubt’s at an end. - To Arabia the Stony, Sabæa the gummy, - To the land where each man that you meet is a mummy; - To the mouths of the Nile, to the banks of Araxes, - To the _Red_ and the _Yellow_, the _White_ and the _Black_ seas, - With telescopes, globes, and a quadrant and sextant, - And the works of all authors whose writings are extant; - With surveys and plans, topographical maps, - Theodolites, watches, spring-guns and steel-traps, - Phials, crucibles, air-pumps, electric machinery, - And pencils for painting the natives and scenery. - In short, we are sent to oppose all we know - To the knowledge and mischievous arts of the foe, - Who, though placing in arms a well-grounded reliance, - Go to war with a flying artillery of science. - - The French _savans_, it seems, recommended this measure, - With a view to replenish the national treasure. - First, the true _Rights of Man_ they will preach in all places, - But chief (when ’tis found) in the Egyptian Oasis: - And this doctrine, ’tis hoped, in a very few weeks - Will persuade the wild Arabs to murder their cheiks, - And, to aid the _Great Nation’s_ beneficent plans, - Plunder pyramids, catacombs, towns, caravans, - Then enlist under Arcolé’s gallant commander, - Who will conquer the world like his model ISKANDER. - His army each day growing bolder and finer, - With the Turcoman tribes he subdues Asia Minor, - Beats Paul and his Scythians, his journey pursues - Cross the Indus, with tribes of Armenians and Jews, - And Bucharians, and Affghans, and Persians, and Tartars,— - Chokes the wretched Mogul in his grandmother’s garters, - And will hang him to dry in the Luxembourg hall, - ’Midst the plunder of Carthage and spoils of Bengal. - - Such, we hear, was the plan; but I trust, if we meet ’em, - That _savant_ to _savant_, our cargo will beat ’em. - Our plan of proceeding I’ll presently tell;— - But soft—I am call’d—I must bid you farewell: - To attend on our _savans_ my pen I resign, - For, it seems, that they _duck_ them on _crossing_ the Line. - - * * * * * - -We deeply regret this interruption of our oriental poet, and the more -so, as the prose letters which we have received from a less learned -correspondent do not enable us to explain the tactics of our belligerent -philosophers so distinctly as we could have wished. It appears, in -general, that the learned Doctor who has the honour of sharing the -hammock of the amiable oriental, trusted principally to his superior -knowledge in the Greek language, by means of which he hoped to entangle -his antagonists in inextricable confusion. DR. DARWIN proposed (as might -be expected) his celebrated experiment of the Ice-island,[298] which, -being towed on the coast of Africa, could not fail of spoiling the -climate, and immediately terrifying and embarrassing the sailors of -Buonaparte’s fleet, accustomed to the mild temperature and gentle gales -of the Mediterranean, and therefore ill qualified to struggle with this -new importation of tempests. DR. BEDDOES was satisfied with the project -of communicating to Buonaparte a consumption, of the same nature with -that which he formerly tried on himself, but superior in virulence, and -therefore calculated to make the most rapid and fatal ravages in the -hectic constitution of the Gallic hero. The rest of the plan is quite -unintelligible, excepting a hint about Sir J. S.’s intention of -proceeding with his ram to the celebrated Oasis, and of bringing away, -for the convenience of the Bank, the treasures contained in the temple -of Jupiter Ammon. - - - FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.[299] - - The Priority of Intelligence which has ever distinguished OUR PAPER - will, We trust, receive additional lustre from the extraordinary - News which We now lay before the Public. We received it by a Neutral - Ship, which arrived in the River last night; and feel ourselves much - indebted to the attention of our Correspondent, a Currant Merchant - at _Zanté_, for its early communication. Without arrogating to - ourselves that merit which is (perhaps) justly our due, We think - ourselves justified in asserting that it is not only the earliest, - but, if We are not much mistaken, the only account which will appear - in the Prints of this Day respecting the Successes of BUONAPARTÉ. - - - COPY OF A LETTER FROM GENERAL BUONAPARTÉ TO THE COMMANDANT AT ZANTÉ. - - “_Athens, 18 Prairial._ - - “CITIZEN GENERAL, - - “Victory still attends us. I inclose you a Copy of a Letter which I - have this day written to the Directory. Health and Fraternity. - - “BUONAPARTÉ.” - - “_Head-Quarters_, Salamis, _18 Prairial_. - - “Citizens directors, - - “The brave Soldiers, who conferred Liberty on _Rome_, have continued - to deserve well of their Country. _Greece_ has joyfully received her - Deliverers. The Tree of Liberty is planted on the _Piræus_. Thirty - thousand Janizaries, the Slaves of Despotism, had taken possession - of the Isthmus of _Corinth_. Two Demi-brigades opened us a passage. - After ten days’ fighting, we have driven the _Turks_ from the - _Morea_. The _Peloponnesus_ is now free. Every step in my power has - been taken to revive the antient spirit of _Sparta_. The Inhabitants - of that celebrated City, seeing _black broth_ of my Troops, and the - scarcity of specie to which we have been long accustomed, will, I - doubt not, soon acquire the frugal virtues of their Ancestors. As a - proper measure of precaution, I have removed all PITT’S gold from - the Country. - - “Off this Island we encountered the Fleet of the SULTAN. The - Mahometan Crescent soon fled before the three-coloured flag. Nine - Sail of the Line are the fruits of this Victory. The CAPTAIN PACHA’S - Ship, a second rate, struck to a National Corvette. My Aide-de-Camp - will present you with the model of a _Trireme_, which was found - among the Archives of _Athens_. Vessels of this description draw so - little water, that our Naval Architects may perhaps think them more - eligible than Rafts, for the conveyance of the _Army of England_. - Liberty will be sufficiently avenged, if the ruins of a Grecian City - furnish us with the means of transporting the Conquerors of _Rome_ - to _Britain_. - - “On landing at this Island, I participated in a Scene highly - interesting to Humanity. A poor Fisherman, of the family of - THEMISTOCLES, attended by his Wife, a descendant of the virtuous - PHRYNE, fell at my feet. I received him with the Fraternal embrace, - and promised him the protection of the Republic. He invited me to - supper at his Hut, and in gratitude to his Deliverer presented me - with a memorable _Oyster Shell_, inscribed with the Name of his - illustrious Ancestor. As this curious piece of antiquity may be of - service to some of the DIRECTORY, I have inclosed it in my - Dispatches, together with a Marble Tablet, containing the proper - form for pronouncing the Sentence of _Ostracism_ on _Royalist - Athenians_. - - “KLÉBER, whom I had ordered to _Constantinople_, informs me that the - Capital of Turkey has proved an easy conquest. _Santa-Sophia_ has - been converted into a Temple of Reason; the _Seraglio_ has been - purified by _Theo-Philanthropists_, and the liberated Circassians - are learning from our Sailors the lessons of Equality and - Fraternity. A Detachment has been sent to Troy, for the purpose pf - organizing the Department of _Mount Ida_. The Tomb of ACHILLES has - been repaired, and the Bust of BRISEIS (which formed part of the - Pedestal) restored to its original state, at the expense of the - Female Citizen BUONAPARTÉ. - - “The Division of the Fleet destined for Egypt has anchored in the - Port of _Alexandria_. BERTHIER, who commands this Expedition, - informs me that this Port will soon be restored to its ancient - pre-eminence; and that its celebrated _Pharos_ will soon be fit to - receive the _Reverbères_ which have been sent from the _Rue St. - Honoré_. - - “BARAGUAY D’HILLIERS, with the Left Wing of the _Army of Egypt_, has - fixed his Head-quarters at _Jerusalem_. He is charged to restore the - Jews to their ancient Rights. Citizens Jacob Jacobs, Simon Levi, and - Benjamin Solomons, of Amsterdam, have been provisionally appointed - Directors. The Palace of _Pontius Pilate_ is re-building for their - residence. All the vestiges of Superstition in _Palestine_ have been - carefully destroyed. - - “I beg you will ratify a grant which I have made of the _Temple of - the Sun_ at _Palmyra_ to a Society of _Illuminati_ from _Bavaria_. - They may be of service in extending our future conquests. - - “I have received very satisfactory accounts from DESAIX, who had - been sent by BERTHIER with a Demi-brigade into the interior of - _Africa_. That fine Country has been too long neglected by - Europeans. In manners and civilization it much resembles France, and - will soon emulate our virtues. Already does the Torrid Zone glow - with the ardour of Freedom. Already has the Altar of Liberty been - reared in the _Caffrarian_ and _Equinoctial Republics_. Their - regenerated inhabitants have sworn eternal amity to us at a Civic - Feast, to which a detachment of our Army was invited. This memorable - day would have terminated with the utmost harmony, if the CAFFRARIAN - COUNCIL of ANCIENTS had not devoured the greatest part of General - Desaix’s État-Major for their supper. I hope our Ambassador will be - instructed to require that Civic Feasts of this nature be omitted - for the future. The Directory of the _Equinoctial Republic_ regret - that the scarcity of British Cloth in Africa, and the great heat of - the climate, prevent them from adopting our _costume_. - - “We hope soon to liberate the _Hottentots_, and to drive the - perfidious _English_ from the extremities of Africa and of Europe. - _Asia_, too, will soon be free. The three-coloured flag floats on - the summit of Caucasus; the _Tigrine Republic_ is established; the - _Cis_ and _Trans-Euphratean Conventions_ are assembled; and soon - shall _Arabia_, under the mild influence of _French Principles_, - resume her ancient appellation, and be again denominated ‘the - HAPPY’. - - “In the course of the next Decade I shall sail to the Canal which is - now cutting across the _Isthmus of Suez_. The Polytechnic School and - Corps of Geographical Engineers are employed in devising means for - conveying my heavy artillery across the great Desert. Soon shall - _India_ hail us as her Deliverers, and those proud islanders, the - _Tyrants of Calcutta_, fall before the _Heroes of Arcola_. - - “The Members of the National Institute who accompanied the Squadron - to Egypt, have made a large collection of Antiquities for the use of - the Republic. Among the scattered remains of the Alexandrine - Library, they have found a curious Treatise, in Arabic, respecting - _Camels_, from which it appears that Human Beings, by proper - treatment, may, like those useful animals, be trained to support - thirst and hunger without complaining. Many reams of papyrus have - been collected, as it is thought that during the present scarcity of - linen and old rags in France, it may answer all the purposes of - paper. CLEOPATRA’S celebrated Obelisk has been shipped on board the - Admiral’s Ship _L’Orient_, cidevant _Sans Culottes_: Another - man-of-war has been freighted with the _Sphinx_, which our Engineers - removed from _Grand Cairo_, and which, I trust, will be thought a - proper ornament for the Hall of Audience of the Directory.—The cage - in which BAJAZET was confined, has been long preserved at _Bassora_; - it will be transmitted to Paris as a proper model for a new _Cayenne - Diligence_.—I beg leave to present to the Director MERLIN, a very - curious book, bound in Morocco leather, from Algiers. It is finely - illuminated with gold; and contains lists of the various fees - usually received by Deys and their Ministers from Foreign - Ambassadors. A broken Column will be sent from _Carthage_. It - records the downfall of that Commercial City; and is sufficiently - large for an Inscription (if the Directory should think proper to - place it on the Banks of the _Thames_), to inform posterity that it - marks the spot where _London once stood_. - - “Health and Respect, - “BUONAPARTÉ.” - -[Illustration] - - - - - No. XXXIV. - - - July 2, 1798. - - - ODE TO A JACOBIN. - FROM SUCKLING’S ODE TO A LOVER. - - I. - - UNCHRISTIAN JACOBIN whoever, - If, of thy God thou cherish ever - One wavering thought; if e’er HIS word - Has from one crime thy soul deterr’d,— - Know this, - Thou think’st amiss; - And to think true, - Thou must renounce Him all, and think anew. - - II. - - If, startled at the _guillotine_, - Trembling thou touch the dread machine; - If, leading sainted Louis to it, - Thy steps drew back, thy heart did rue it,— - Know this, - Thou think’st amiss; - And to think true, - Must rise ’bove weak remorse, and think anew. - - III. - - If, callous, thou dost not mistake, - And murder for mild Mercy’s sake; - And think thou followest Pity’s call, - When slaughtered thousands round thee fall,— - Know this, - Thou think’st amiss; - And to think true, - Must conquer prejudice, and think anew. - - IV. - - If, when good men are to be slain, - Thou hear’st them plead, nor plead in vain; - Or, when thou answerest, if it be - With one jot of humanity,— - Know this, - Thou think’st amiss; - And to think true, - Must pardon leave to fools, and think anew. - - V. - - If, when all kings, priests, nobles hated, - Lie headless, thy revenge is sated, - Nor thirsts to load the reeking block - With heads from thine own murd’rous flock,— - Know this, - Thou think’st amiss; - And to think true, - Thou must go on in blood, and think anew. - - VI. - - If, thus, by love of executions, - Thou provest thee fit for revolutions; - Yet one achieved, to _that_ art true, - Nor wouldst begin to change anew,— - Know this, - Thou think’st amiss; - Deem, to think true, - All constitutions bad, but those bran new. - - [The preceding “ODE TO A JACOBIN” is parodied from the following - - - ODE TO A LOVER, - - BY SIR JOHN SUCKLING. - - I. - - Honest lover whosoever, - If in all thy love was ever - One wav’ring thought; if e’er thy flame - Were not still even, still the same,— - Know this, - Thou lov’st amiss; - And to love true, - Thou must begin again, and love anew. - - II. - - If, when she appears i’ th’ room, - Thou dost not quake, and art struck dumb; - And, in striving this to cover, - Dost not speak thy words twice over,— - Know this, - Thou lov’st amiss; - And to love true, - Thou must begin again, and love anew. - - III. - - If, fondly, thou dost not mistake, - And all defects for graces take, - Persuad’st thyself that jests are broken, - When she has little or nothing spoken,— - Know this, - Thou lov’st amiss; - And to love true, - Thou must begin again, and love anew. - - IV. - - If, when thou appear’st to be within, - Thou let’st not men ask and ask again; - And when thou answer’st, if it be - To what was ask’d thee, properly,— - Know this, - Thou lov’st amiss; - And to love true, - Thou must begin again, and love anew. - - V. - - If, when thy stomach calls to eat, - Thou cut’st not fingers ’stead of meat; - And with much gazing on her face, - Dost not rise hungry from the place,— - Know this, - Thou lov’st amiss; - And to love true, - Thou must begin again, and love anew. - - VI. - - If, by this thou dost discover - That thou art no perfect lover; - And desiring to love true, - Thou dost begin to love anew,— - Know this, - Thou lov’st amiss; - And to love true, - Thou must begin again, and love anew.—ED.] - - - - - No. XXXV. - - - July 9, 1798. - -The following popular song is said to be in great vogue among the loyal -troops in the North of Ireland. The air and the turn of the composition -are highly original. It is attributed (as our correspondent informs us) -to a fifer in the Drumballyroney Volunteers. - - - BALLYNAHINCH.[300] - A NEW SONG. - - I. - - A certain great Statesman[301] whom all of us know, - In a certain assembly, no long while ago, - Declared from this maxim he never would flinch, - “That no town was so _loyal_ as Ballynahinch”. - - II. - - The great statesman, it seems, had perused all their faces, - And been mightily struck with their loyal grimaces; - While each townsman had sung, like a throstle or finch, - “We are all of us _loyal_ at Ballynahinch”. - - III. - - The great statesman return’d to his speeches and readings; - And the Ballynahinchers resumed their proceedings; - They had most of them sworn, “_We’ll be true to the Frinch_,”[302] - So _loyal_ a town was this Ballynahinch! - - IV. - - Determined their landlord’s fine words to make good, - They hid pikes in his haggard, cut staves in his wood; - And attack’d the king’s troops—the assertion to clinch, - That no town is so _loyal_ as Ballynahinch. - - V. - - O! had we but trusted the _rebels’_ professions, - Met their cannon with smiles, and their pikes with concessions; - Tho’ they still took an _ell_ when we gave them an _inch_, - They would all have been _loyal_—like Ballynahinch. - - VIRI ERUDITI, - -Si vobis hocce poematium, de navali laude Britanniæ, paucis annis ante -conscriptum, nuperrimè recensitum atque emendatum, forté arrideat, -quærite in proximis vestris tabulis locum quendam secretum atque -securum, ubi repositum suâ sorte perfruatur. Quod si in me hanc gratiam -contuleritis, devinctus vobis ero et astrictus beneficio. - - ETONENSIS. - - - DE NAVALI LAUDE BRITANNIÆ. - - Successu si freta brevi, fatisque secundis, - Europæ sub pace vetet requiescere gentes, - Inque dies ruat ulteriús furialibus armis - GALLIA, tota instans à sedibus eruere imis - Fundamenta, quibus cultæ Commercia vitæ - Firmant se subnixa;—tuisne, BRITANNIA, regnis - Ecquid ab hoste times; dum te tua saxa tuentur, - Dum pelagus te vorticibus spumantibus ambit? - - Tu medio stabilita mari, atque ingentibus undis - Cincta sedes; nec tu angusto, Vulcania tanquam - Trinacris, interclusa sinu; nec faucibus arctis - Septa freti brevis, impositisque coercita claustris. - Liberiora Tibi spatia, et porrecta sine ullo - Limite regna patent (quanto neque maxima quondam - Carthago, aut Phœnissa Tyros, ditissima tellus - Floruit imperio) confiniaque ultima mundi. - - Ergone formidabis adhuc, ne se inferat olim, - Et campis impuné tuis superingruat hostis? - Usque adeone parúm est, quod laté litora cernas - Præruptisturrita jugis, protentaque longo - Circuitu, et tutos passim præbentia portus? - Præsertim australes ad aquas, Damnoniaque arva, - Aut ubi Vecta viret, secessusque insula fidos - Efficit objectu laterum; saxosave Dubris - Velivolum laté pelagus, camposque liquentes - Aeria, adversasque aspectat desuper oras. - - Nec levibus sanè auguriis, aut omine nullo - Auguror hinc fore perpetuum per secula nomen: - Dum nautis tam firma tuis, tam prodiga vitæ - Pectora, inexpletâ succensa cupidine famæ, - Nec turpi flectenda metu; dum maxima quercus, - Majestate excelsa suâ, atque ingentibus umbris, - Erigitur, vasto nodosa atque aspera trunco; - Silvarum regina. Hæc formidabilis olim - Noctem inter mediam nimborum, hyemesque sonantes, - Ardua se attollit super æquora; quam neque fluctûs - Spumosi attenuat furor, aut violentia venti - Frangere, et in medio potis est disrumpere ponto. - - Viribus his innixa, saloque accincta frementi, - Tu media inter bella sedes; ignara malorum, - Quæ tolerant obsessæ urbes, cúm jam hostica clausas - Fulminat ad portas acies, vallataque circúm - Castra locat, sævisque aditus circumsidet armis. - - Talia sunt tibi perpetuæ fundamina famæ, - Ante alias diis cara, BRITANNIA! Prælia cerno - Inclyta, perpetuos testes quid maxima victrix, - Quid possis preclara tuo, maris arbitra, ponto. - - Hæc inter, sanctas æternâ laude calendas - Servandas recolo, quibus illa, immane minata - Gentibus excidium, totum grassata per orbem - Ausaque jam imperiis intactum amplectier æquor, - Illa odiis lymphata, et libertate recenti - GALLIA, disjectam ferali funere classem - Indoluit devicta, et non reparabile vulnus. - Tempore quo instructas vidit longo ordine puppes - Rostratâ certare acie, et concurrere ad arma, - Ætheraque impulsu tremere, Uxantisque per undas - Lugubre lumen agi, atque rubentem fulgere fumum. - - Cerno triumphatas acies, quo tempore IBERÛM - Disjectos fastus, lacerisque aplustria velis - Horruit Oceanus:—quali formidine Gades - Intremere, ut fractâ classem se mole moventem - Hospitium petere, et portus videre relictos! - - Quid referam, nobis quæ nuper adorea risit, - Te rursús superante, die quo decolor ibat - Sanguine BELGARUM Rhenus, fluctusque minores - Volvebat, frustra indignans polluta cruore - Ostia, et Angliaco tremefactas fulmine rupes. - - Cerno pias ædes procúl, et regalia quondam - Atria, cæruleis quæ preterlabitur undis - Velivolus Thamesis; materno ubi denique nautas - Excipis amplexu, virtus quoscumque virilis - Per pelagi impulerit discrimina, quælibet ausos - Pro Patriâ. Híc rude donantur, dulcique senescunt - Hospitio emeriti, placidâque quiete potiti - Vulnera præteritos jactant testantia casus. - - Macte ideó decus Oceani! macte omne per ævum - Victrix, æquoreo stabilita BRITANNIA regno! - Litoribusque tuis ne propugnacula tantúm - Præsidio fore, nec saxi munimina credas, - Nec tantúm quæ mille acies in utrumque parantur, - Aut patriam tutari, aut non superesse cadenti; - Invictæ quantúm metuenda tonitrua CLASSIS, - Angliacæ CLASSIS;—quæ majestate verendâ - Ultrix, inconcussa, diú dominabitur orbi, - Hostibus invidiosa tuis, et sæpe triumphis - Nobilitata novis, pelagi Regina subacti. - - - [TRANSLATION OF THE PRECEDING POEM.[303] - - By the late A. F. Westmacott, Esq. - - MEN OF LEARNING, - - If by chance the following little poem, on the naval glory of - Britain, written a few years since, and very lately revised and - corrected, please you, look in your nearest tablets for some private - and secure place, where it may be placed to enjoy its good fortune. - Should you confer on me this favour, I shall be bound to you by the - obligation of your kindness. - - ETONIAN. - - - ON THE NAVAL GLORY OF BRITAIN. - - If buoy’d by short success and fav’ring chance, - Wide Europe’s peace-destroyer, restless France, - Each day still onward rush with fresh alarms, - And threaten ruin with her furious arms; - Ruin to all whereon is based the throne - That life’s sweet charities have made their own; - Fearest thou, Britain, for thy rock-girt realm, - With seas that foam around and whirlpools to o’erwhelm? - - Still in the midst of ocean firmly placed, - Circled by mighty waves thy seat is based! - Not by a strait enclosed, as that fair soil - Where Fabled Vulcan plies his fiery toil; - Within no narrow bay thy waters roll, - No yawning gulf, no barrier rocks control. - Wider thy space, thy realm no limit knows, - Not Tyre so rich, not Tyrian Carthage rose. - Wilt thou yet fear, lest here the haughty foe, - Thy fields o’er-run, and still unpunished go! - Is it then nought to view th’ extended strand - O’er which stern crags like beetling turrets stand, - And countless ports in safe embrace expand? - Look to thy southern waves, to Devon’s fields, - Or where green Vectis[304] trusty harbour yields, - Spreading her friendly arms; or Dover’s height - Looks on the sea with widespread canvas white, - And, perched on high, the liquid plain surveys, - And adverse cliffs that bound the wat’ry ways. - - Not by vague augury, nor omen slight, - I view thy name through endless ages bright; - While thy firm crews still prodigal of life - Insatiate burn for fame and dare the strife. - No coward fear they know, while stands erect - The mighty oak with boughs umbrageous decked; - Majestic, high, with knotted trunk, the Queen - Of woods! Hereafter, o’er the waters seen - ’Mid the dim midnight of the sounding storm - Aloft ’twill rear the terrors of its form; - In vain the roaring surges round it break, - In vain the winds their uncurbed vengeance wreak, - Throned on such pow’rs, surrounded by the sea, - The circling waves have scarce one fear for thee. - Thou know’st not ills that towns besieged await, - When hostile columns thunder at the gate; - Pitch their dread camp with fatal ramparts round, - And with fierce arms enclose the leaguered ground. - - Such is to thee the base of lasting fame, - To Heav’n Britannia still the dearest name! - Gladly I view the glories of the fight, - Perpetual witnesses of deathless might, - To show, bright conqueress, nations yet to be, - What dared, what did the mistress of the sea. - - ’Mid these the day with praise eternal blest - Earns memory’s tribute most, when, direful pest, - Denouncing ruin to the world, while she - Dared grasp the sceptre of the unconquer’d sea, - Wild with new license, mad with hatred’s heat - France, grieved and humbled, viewed her ruined fleet! - Saw how all hopes one fatal wound could mar - When well-manned squadrons armed their prows for war! - When the sky trembled, and o’er Ushant’s tide - Red glared the smoke and sickly light supplied. - - I see the conquered lines, what time proud Spain - With tattered sailcloths thickly strewed the main; - How Cadiz quailed when back the shattered fleet - Sought, in the port it left, a safe retreat. - Why should I tell what smile of Vict’ry beamed, - When Rhine’s fair wave with Belgic slaughter gleamed; - When humbled waters tow’rds the sea it sped, - Mad that its mouths with native blood were red, - While England’s thunders rolled above its rocky bed? - - I see afar the domes that crown the tide, - Where Thames uncounted sails in triumph glide: - Here, the brave souls whom manly courage drove - Through the deep’s perils in a holy love - Of country, find in thy maternal breast - Their toil rewarded and their daring blest! - Dismissed at length from duty nobly done - They wane in quiet ’neath the noontide sun, - Recal the dangers of their byegone wars, - And boast appealing to their manhood’s scars. - - On in thy race of glory, conqueress, on! - For every age thy sea-girt realm is won! - Think not the fortress which thy shores uprear, - Nor thy rock bulwarks shall inspire such fear, - Nor the brave thousands who obey thy call, - With thee to rise, or not survive thy fall, - As the dread thunders of that untamed host: - Thy fleet, Britannia, is thy proudest boast; - Awful, majestic, firm; its flag unfurl’d - Shall long wave lordly o’er the conquered world; - Hateful to foes for triumphs yet to be, - The rightful Sovereign of the subject sea.—ED.] - - - - - No. XXXVI.[305] - - - MONDAY, July 9, 1798. - - _We shall miss thee; - But yet thou shalt have freedom— - —So! to the Elements - Be free, and fare thou well._ - —THE TEMPEST. - -We have now completed our Engagement with the Public. The ANTI-JACOBIN -has been conducted to the close of the Session in strict conformity with -the Principles upon which it was first undertaken. - -Its reception with the Public has been highly favourable:—it certainly -has been out of proportion to any merit which has appeared in the -execution of the Work. This is not said in the mere cant of Authorship. -We are sensible that much of our success has been owing to the improved -state of the Public mind;—an improvement existing from other causes, and -to which, if We have in any degree contributed, it has in return -operated to our advantage, by a reaction more than equal to any -impression which our exertions could have produced. There is, however, -one species of merit to which We lay claim without hesitation:—We mean -that of the Spirit and Principles upon which We have acted. That Spirit, -We trust We shall leave behind us. The SPELL of _Jacobin -invulnerability_ is now broken.[306] - -We know from better authority than that of CAMILLE JORDAN, that one of -our Daily Papers was, _early_ in the French Revolution, purchased by -France, and devoted to the dissemination of tenets, which, at the period -to which We allude, seemed necessary to the success of the Ruling Party. - -For some time matters went on swimmingly. The Editors of the favoured -Prints divided their time and their attention between _London_ and -_Paris_; and the superiority of the governing Party in France, over its -Opponents, was as duly, and as strenuously maintained in the English -Papers, as in the “_Journal du Père de Chène_,”[307] “_Journal par L’Ami -du Peuple_,”[308] or any other Journal that issued from the Presses of -the Jacobin Society. - -As the principles of the Revolution, however, acquired consistency in -France, the struggle between the Governing Party and its Opponents -became an object of less moment, and the Jacobins had leisure, as they -long had had inclination, to turn their views to this Country. - -A State, enjoying under a Government which they had proscribed as -utterly incapable of producing either, as much freedom and happiness as -comport with the nature of Man, was too bitter a satire on the decision -of these new SOLONS, to be regarded with patience; and the pens which -had been so industriously employed in celebrating the plunderers and -perturbators of France, were now engaged in the benevolent design of -recommending their principles, and their plans of ameliorating the -condition of the human race by Atheism and Plunder, to the serious -notice of the People of _Great Britain_. - -Affairs seemed rapidly hastening to a crisis: _France_ saw with delight -the numbers seduced by the sophistry of her Writers, and by the alluring -prospects of proscription and plunder; and her Agents, who snuffed the -scent of blood like Vultures, already anticipated the Revolution which -they now believed inevitable; when the Ministry, who had viewed the -progress of the evil with an anxious but unterrified eye, roused -themselves into unexampled energy, and called on the Nation to rally -round the Constitution which they had received from their Forefathers. - -The call was gloriously answered;—Thousands and tens of thousands sprung -forth in its defence; and the barbarous hordes which so lately -threatened its destruction, overawed by their numbers, shrunk from the -contest without a struggle, and vanished from the field. - -But the nature of a Jacobin is restless. His hatred of all subordination -is unbounded, and his thirst of plunder and blood urgent and insatiable. -In arms he found himself infinitely too weak to obtain his purpose; he -must, therefore, have recourse again to artifice; and by fallacies and -lies, endeavoured to subvert and betray the judgment of those he could -not openly hope to subdue. - -For this purpose, the Press was engaged, and almost monopolized in all -its branches: Reviews, Registers, Monthly Magazines, and Morning and -Evening Prints, sprung forth in abundance. - -Of these last (the only Publications with which We have any immediate -concern), it is not too much to say, that they have laboured in the -cause of infamy, with a perseverance which no sense of shame could -repress, and no dread of punishment overcome. The objects committed to -their charge were multifarious. They were to revile all Religions, but -particularly the Christian, whose DIVINE FOUNDER was to be blasphemously -compared to _Bacchus_, and represented as equally ideal, or, if real, -more bestial and besotted! They were to magnify the power of _France_, -on all occasions; to deny her murders; to palliate her robberies; to -suppress all mention of her miseries, and to hold her forth to the -unenlightened Englishman as the mirror of justice, and truth, and -generosity, and meekness, and humanity, and moderation, and tender -forbearance:—and, on the other hand, they were to depreciate the spirit, -and the courage, and the resources of _England_: they were to impede, if -possible, and if not, to ridicule and revile, every measure which the -honour, the prosperity, or the safety of the Country might imperiously -require; they were to represent the Government as insidiously aiming to -enslave the Nation, by every attempt to maintain its Independence; and -the majority of both Houses, the great body of Proprietors, as anxious -to scatter and confound that wealth, which _their_ Patrons alone, the -respectable sweepings of _Craven-House_, and the _Crown_ and _Anchor_ -Tavern, were solicitous to augment and preserve. - -These, our readers will allow, were no common objects, and if they have -looked into the _Morning Chronicle_, _Morning Post_, and _Courier_ -Journals to which our attention has been chiefly directed, they must -have seen that their attainment was sought by no common means; by an -_invariable_ course of Falsehood and Misrepresentation—such, at least, -was our idea on the first perusal of these Papers, an idea which every -succeeding one served to strengthen and confirm. - -To detect and expose this Falsehood, and to correct this -Misrepresentation, became at length an object of indispensable -necessity: a variety of applications of the most malignant nature had -obtained currency and credit, from the unblushing impudence with which -they were first obtruded on the Public by the Agents of Sedition, and -the apathy with which they were suffered to pass uncontradicted by those -who despised them for their atrocity, or ridiculed them for their -folly:—these were unfortunately operating on the less enlightened part -of the Nation; and it was from a full conviction of the pernicious -effects they were calculated to produce, that we finally determined to -step forth (after patiently waiting to see whether the business would -not be taken up by abler hands), and to oppose such antidotes to the -evil, as a regard for truth, and a sincere love and veneration for the -Constitution under which we have flourished for ages, could supply. - -How we have succeeded must be left to the judgment of the Public. If we -might venture, indeed, to conjecture from the support which we have -experienced, the result would be flattering in an unusual degree. Three -complete Editions of our Paper (a circumstance, we believe, as yet -without a precedent) have been disposed of, and the demand for them -still increases. - -But the motives of Profit, as will readily, we believe, be granted to -us, have little influence on our minds: we contemplate the extensive -circulation of our Paper with pleasure, solely from the consideration of -the VAST NUMBERS of our Countrymen whom we have fortified by our -animadversions against the profligate attacks of the Agents of Sedition, -whether furnished by the _Whig Club_, the _Corresponding Society_, or -the _Directory of France_. - -Calculation was not originally our delight. Nor was it till after we saw -the wonderful effects which it produced in the pages of the Jacobinical -Arithmeticians that we were tempted to adopt it. Our first Essay, -however, was crowned with the most complete success. In our Seventh -Number, we gave (still following the laudable example of the Jacobins, -who, when a Ship is to be fitted out, or a Regiment raised, for the -purpose of defending our Country from an insolent and barbarous foe, -nicely calculate how many idle mouths might be fed by the sums -required)—We gave, we say, as accurate a statement as we could form, of -the number of People that might be supplied with wholesome food for one -day, by the SURCHARGE levied on the DUKE OF BEDFORD—a statement which, -we are happy to add, placed the matter in so clear a light that we have -since had no occasion to repeat it. - -Our Readers will not _now_ be surprised if we again have recourse to -_Calculation_ to prove the advantages which (we love to flatter -ourselves) have been derived from our Paper. Our Sale (to say nothing of -the new Editions which have been disposed of) has regularly amounted to -_Two Thousand Five Hundred_ a week; on an average of several Papers, we -find the Lies which have been detected to amount to _six_, and the -Misrepresentations and Mistakes to _an equal number_. This furnishes a -total of _twelve_, which, multiplied by _thirty-five_, the number of the -last ANTI-JACOBIN, gives a total of _four hundred and twenty_. - -If we now take the number of Subscribers (2500) and multiply them by -seven, a number of which every one’s family may be reasonably supposed -to consist, we shall have a product of 17,500; but as many of these have -made a practice, which we highly approve, and cannot too earnestly -recommend, of lending our Papers to their poorer Neighbours, We must -make our addition to the sum which We evidently take too low at 32,500. -We have thus an aggregate of 50,000 People, a most respectable minority -of the Readers of the whole Kingdom, who have been put effectually on -their guard, by our humble though earnest endeavours, against the -artifices of the seditious, and the more open attacks of the profligate -and abandoned Foes of their Constitution, their Country, and their God. - -Further, if we multiply 50,000, the number of Readers, by 420, the exact -number of Falsehoods detected—say 500—for We ought to take in bye-blows, -and odd refutations in notes, &c.—the total of Twenty-five Millions will -represent the aggregate of Falsehood which We have sent out of the -World. - -We have more than once repeated that we entered upon this part of our -task, not from any vain hope of convincing the Writers themselves. We -knew this to be impossible; the forehead of a _Jacobin_, like the shield -of AJAX, is formed of seven bull-hides, and utterly incapable of any -impression of shame or remorse—but we are convinced that we have -rescued, as we stated above, Fifty Thousand persons from their -machinations, and taught them not only a salutary distrust, but a -contempt and disbelief, of every laboured article which appears in the -Papers of this description. - -Nor can We be accused of presumption in this declaration, when it is -considered that the conviction on which We so confidently rely is not -the effect of a _solitary_ impression on our Readers’ minds, but of one -four hundred and twenty times repeated (this being the fair amount of -the number of Lies, &c., We have detected)—an agglomeration of impulse -which no prejudice could resist and no preconceived partialities weaken -or remove. - -Here then We rest. We trust We have “done the State some service”;—We -have driven the Jacobins from many strongholds to which they most -tenaciously held.[309] We have exposed their Principles, detected their -Motives, weakened their Authority, and overthrown their Credit. We have -shewn them in every instance, ignorant, and designing, and false, and -wicked, and turbulent, and anarchical—various in their language, but -united in their plans, and steadily pursuing through hatred and -contempt, the destruction of their Country. - -With this impression on the Minds of our Readers WE TAKE OUR LEAVE of -them. Their welfare is in their own hands; if they suffer the Jacobins -to regain any of the influence of which We have deprived them, they will -compromise their own Safety; but WE shall be blameless—_Liberavimus -animas nostras_.—WE HAVE DONE OUR DUTY. - - - POETRY. - - _New Morality._ - - From mental mists to purge a nation’s eyes; - To animate the weak, unite the wise; - To trace the deep infection that pervades - The crowded town, and taints the rural shades; - To mark how wide extends the mighty waste - O’er the fair realms of Science, Learning, Taste; - To drive and scatter all the brood of lies, - And chase the varying falsehood as it flies; - The long arrears of ridicule to pay, - To drag reluctant dulness back to day; 10 - Much yet remains.—To you these themes belong, - Ye favoured sons of virtue and of song! - - Say, is the field too narrow? are the times - Barren of folly, and devoid of crimes? - - Yet, venial vices, in a milder age, - Could rouse the warmth of POPE’S satiric rage: - The doating miser, and the lavish heir, - The follies and the foibles of the fair, - Sir Job, Sir Balaam, and old Euclio’s thrift, - And Sappho’s diamonds with her dirty shift, 20 - Blunt, Charteris, Hopkins,—meaner subjects fired - The keen-eyed Poet; while the Muse inspired - Her ardent child—entwining, as he sate, - His laurel’d chaplet with the thorns of hate. - - But say,—indignant does the Muse retire, - Her shrine deserted, and extinct its fire? - No pious hand to feed the sacred flame, - No raptured soul a poet’s charge to claim? - - Bethink thee, GIFFORD; when some future age - Shall trace the promise of thy playful page;— 30 - “[310]The hand which brushed a swarm of fools away - Should rouse to grasp a more reluctant prey!”— - Think then, will pleaded indolence excuse - The tame secession of thy languid Muse? - - Ah! where is now that promise? why so long - Sleep the keen shafts of satire and of song? - Oh! come, with taste and virtue at thy side, - With ardent zeal inflamed, and patriot pride; - With keen poetic glance direct the blow, - And empty all thy quiver on the foe:— 40 - No pause—no rest—till weltering on the ground - The poisonous hydra lies, and pierced with many a wound. - - Thou too!—the nameless Bard,[311]—whose honest zeal - For law, for morals, for the public weal, - Pours down impetuous on thy country’s foes - The stream of verse, and many-languaged prose; - Thou too! though oft thy ill-advised dislike - The guiltless head with random censure strike,— - Though quaint allusions, vague and undefined, - Play faintly round the ear, but mock the mind;— 50 - Through the mix’d mass yet truth and learning shine, - And manly vigour stamps the nervous line; - And patriot warmth the generous rage inspires, - And wakes and points the desultory fires! - - Yet more remain unknown:—for who can tell - What bashful genius, in some rural cell, - As year to year, and day succeeds to day, - In joyless leisure wastes his life away? - In him the flame of early fancy shone; - His genuine worth his old companions own; 60 - In childhood and in youth their chief confess’d, - His master’s pride, his pattern to the rest. - Now, far aloof retiring from the strife - Of busy talents, and of active life, - As from the loop-holes of retreat he views - Our stage, verse, pamphlets, politics, and news, - He loathes the world,—or, with reflections sad, - Concludes it irrecoverably mad; - Of taste, of learning, morals, all bereft, - No hope, no prospect to redeem it left. 70 - - Awake! for shame! or e’er thy nobler sense - Sink in th’ oblivious pool of indolence! - Must wit be found alone on falsehood’s side, - Unknown to truth, to virtue unallied? - Arise! nor scorn thy country’s just alarms; - Wield in her cause thy long-neglected arms: - Of lofty satire pour th’ indignant strain, - Leagued with her friends, and ardent to maintain - ’Gainst Learning’s, Virtue’s, Truth’s, Religion’s foes, - A kingdom’s safety, and the world’s repose. 80 - - If Vice appal thee,—if thou view with awe - Insults that brave, and crimes that ’scape the law; - Yet may the specious bastard brood, which claim - A spurious homage under Virtue’s name, - Sprung from that parent of ten thousand crimes, - The _New Philosophy_ of modern times,— - Yet, these may rouse thee!—With unsparing hand, - Oh, lash the vile impostures from the land! - - First, stern PHILANTHROPY:—not she, who dries - The orphan’s tears, and wipes the widow’s eyes; 90 - Not she, who sainted Charity her guide, - Of British bounty pours the annual tide:— - But _French_ PHILANTHROPY;—whose boundless mind - Glows with the general love of all mankind;— - PHILANTHROPY,—beneath whose baneful sway - Each patriot passion sinks, and dies away. - - Taught in her school to imbibe thy mawkish strain, - CONDORCET, filtered through the dregs of PAINE, - Each pert adept disowns a Briton’s part, - And plucks the name of ENGLAND from his heart. 100 - - What! shall a name, a word, a sound, control - Th’ aspiring thought, and cramp th’ expansive soul? - Shall one half-peopled Island’s rocky round - A love, that glows for all creation, bound? - And social charities contract the plan - Framed for thy freedom, UNIVERSAL MAN! - No—through th’ extended globe his feelings run - As broad and general as th’ unbounded sun! - No narrow bigot _he_;—_his_ reason’d view - Thy interests, _England_, ranks with thine, _Peru_! 110 - _France_ at our doors, _he_ sees no danger nigh, - But heaves for _Turkey’s_ woes th’ impartial sigh; - A steady patriot of the world alone, - The friend of every country—but his own. - - Next comes a gentler Virtue.—Ah! beware - Lest the harsh verse her shrinking softness scare. - Visit her not too roughly;—the warm sigh - Breathes on her lips;—the tear-drop gems her eye. - Sweet SENSIBILITY, who dwells enshrined - In the fine foldings of the feeling mind; 120 - With delicate _Mimosa’s_ sense endued, - Who shrinks instinctive from a hand too rude; - Or, like the _Anagallis_, prescient flower, - Shuts her soft petals at the approaching shower. - - Sweet child of sickly FANCY!—her of yore - From her loved _France_ ROUSSEAU to exile bore; - And, while ’midst lakes and mountains wild he ran, - Full of himself, and shunn’d the haunts of man, - Taught her o’er each lone vale and Alpine steep - To lisp the story of his wrongs, and weep; 130 - Taught her to cherish still in either eye, - Of tender tears a plentiful supply, - And pour them in the brooks that babbled by; - Taught by nice scale to mete her feelings strong, - False by degrees, and exquisitely wrong; - For the crush’d beetle, _first_,—the widow’d dove, - And all the warbled sorrows of the grove; - _Next_ for poor suff’ring _Guilt_; and _last_ of all, - For parents, friends, a king and country’s fall. - - Mark her fair votaries, prodigal of grief, 140 - With cureless pangs, and woes that mock relief, - Droop in soft sorrow o’er a faded flower; - O’er a dead Jack-Ass pour the pearly shower; - But hear, unmoved, of _Loire’s_ ensanguined flood, - Choked up with slain; of _Lyons_ drenched in blood; - Of crimes that blot the age, the world, with shame, - Foul crimes, but sicklied o’er with Freedom’s name; - Altars and thrones subverted; social life - Trampled to earth,—the husband from the wife, - Parent from child, with ruthless fury torn,— 150 - Of talents, honour, virtue, wit, forlorn, - In friendless exile,—of the wise and good - Staining the daily scaffold with their blood,— - Of savage cruelties, that scare the mind, - The rage of madness with hell’s lusts combined,— - Of hearts torn reeking from the mangled breast,— - They hear,—and hope that ALL IS FOR THE BEST. - - Fond hope! but JUSTICE sanctifies the prayer— - JUSTICE! here, Satire, strike! ’twere sin to spare! - Not she in British Courts that takes her stand, 160 - The dawdling balance dangling in her hand, - Adjusting punishments to fraud and vice, - With scrupulous quirks, and disquisition nice: - But firm, erect, with keen reverted glance, - Th’ avenging angel of regenerate _France_, - Who visits ancient sins on modern times, - And punishes the POPE for CÆSAR’S crimes.[312] - - Such is the liberal JUSTICE which presides - In these our days, and modern patriots guides;— - JUSTICE, whose blood-stain’d book one sole decree, 170 - One statute, fills—“the People shall be Free!” - Free! By what means?—by folly, madness, guilt, - By boundless rapines, blood in oceans spilt; - By confiscation, in whose sweeping toils - The poor man’s pittance with the rich man’s spoils, - Mix’d in one common mass, are swept away, - To glut the short-lived tyrant of the day;— - By laws, religion, morals, all o’erthrown:— - Rouse, then, ye sovereign people, claim your own: - The license that enthrals, the truth that blinds, 180 - The wealth that starves you, and the power that grinds! - So JUSTICE bids.—’Twas her enlighten’d doom, - Louis, thy holy head devoted to the tomb! - ’Twas JUSTICE claim’d, in that accurséd hour, - The fatal forfeit of too lenient power. - Mourn for the Man we may;—but for the King,— - Freedom, oh! Freedom’s such a charming thing! - - “Much may be said on both sides.”—Hark! I hear - A well-known voice that murmurs in my ear,— - The voice of CANDOUR.—Hail! most solemn sage, 190 - Thou drivelling virtue of this moral age, - CANDOUR, which softens party’s headlong rage. - CANDOUR,—which spares its foes;—nor e’er descends - With bigot zeal to combat for its friends. - CANDOUR,—which loves in see-saw strain to tell - Of _acting foolishly_, but _meaning well_; - Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, - Convinced that _all_ men’s _motives_ are the same; - And finds, with keen discriminating sight, - BLACK’S not _so_ black;—nor WHITE _so very_ white. 200 - - “FOX, to be sure, was vehement and wrong: - But then, PITT’S words, you’ll own, were _rather_ strong. - Both must be blamed, both pardon’d; ’twas just so - With FOX and PITT full forty years ago! - So WALPOLE, PULTENEY;—factions in all times - Have had their follies, ministers their crimes.” - - Give me th’ avow’d, th’ erect, the manly foe, - Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow; - But of all plagues, good Heav’n, thy wrath can send, - Save, save, oh! save me from the _Candid Friend_! 210 - - “BARRAS loves plunder, MERLIN takes a bribe,— - What then!—shall CANDOUR these good men proscribe? - No! ere we join the loud-accusing throng, - Prove,—not the facts,—but, that _they thought them wrong_. - - “Why hang O’QUIGLEY?—he, misguided man, - In sober thought his country’s weal _might_ plan: - And, while his deep-wrought Treason sapp’d the throne, - _Might_ act from _taste in morals_, all his own.” - - Peace to such Reasoners! let them have their way; - Shut their dull eyes against the blaze of day; 220 - PRIESTLEY’S a Saint, and STONE a Patriot still; - And LA FAYETTE a Hero, if they will. - - I love the bold uncompromising mind, - Whose principles are fix’d, whose views defined; - Who scouts and scorns, in canting CANDOUR’S spite, - All _taste in morals_, innate sense of right, - And Nature’s impulse, all uncheck’d by art, - And feelings fine, that float about the heart: - Content, for good men’s guidance, bad men’s awe, - On moral truth to rest, and Gospel law. 230 - Who owns, when Traitors feel th’ avenging rod, - Just retribution, and the hand of GOD; - Who hears the groans through _Olmütz_’ roofs that ring, - Of him who mock’d, misled, betray’d his King— - Hears unappall’d, though Faction’s zealots preach, - Unmov’d, unsoften’d by FITZPATRICK’S Speech.[313] - - That Speech on which the melting Commons hung, - “While truths divine came mended from _his_ tongue”; - How loving husband clings to duteous wife,— - How pure Religion soothes the ills of life,— 240 - How Popish ladies trust their pious fears - And naughty actions in their chaplains’ ears.— - Half novel and half sermon, on it flow’d; - With pious zeal THE OPPOSITION glow’d; - And as o’er each the soft infection crept, - Sigh’d as he whin’d, and as he whimper’d, wept;— - E’en CURWEN[314] dropt a sentimental tear, - And stout ST. ANDREW yelp’d a softer “Hear!” - - · · · · · - - Oh! nurse of crimes and fashions! which in vain - Our colder servile spirits would attain, 250 - How do we ape thee, _France!_ but, blundering still, - Disgrace the pattern by our want of skill. - The borrow’d step our awkward gait reveals: - (As clumsy COURTENAY[315] mars the verse he steals.) - How do we ape thee, _France!_—nor claim alone - Thy arts, thy tastes, thy morals, for our own, 260 - But to thy WORTHIES render homage due, - Their[316] “hair-breadth scapes” with anxious interest view; - Statesmen and Heroines whom this age adores, - Though plainer times would call them Rogues and Whores. 260 - - See LOUVET, patriot, pamphleteer, and sage, - Tempering with amorous fire his virtuous rage. - Form’d for all tasks, his various talents see, - The luscious Novel, the severe Decree. - Then mark him welt’ring in his nasty sty, - Bare his lewd transports to the public eye. - Not _his_ the love in silent groves that strays, - Quits the rude world, and shuns the vulgar gaze. - In LODOISKA’S full possession blest, - One craving void still aches within his breast; 270 - Plunged in the filth and fondness of her arms, - Not to himself alone he stints her charms; - Clasp’d in each other’s foul embrace they lie, - But know no joy, unless the World stands by. - The fool of vanity, for her alone - He lives, loves, writes, and dies but to be known. - - His widow’d mourner flies to poison’s aid, - Eager to join her LOUVET’S parted shade - In those bright realms where sainted lovers stray, - But harsh emetics tear that hope away.[317] 280 - Yet hapless LOUVET! where thy bones are laid, - The easy nymphs shall consecrate the shade.[318] - There in the laughing morn of genial spring, - Unwedded pairs shall tender couplets sing; - Eringoes o’er the hallow’d spot shall bloom, - And flies of Spain buzz softly round the tomb.[319] - - But hold, severer virtue claims the Muse— - ROLAND the just, with ribands in his shoes—[320] - And ROLAND’S spouse, who paints with chaste delight - The doubtful conflict of her nuptial night;— 290 - Her virgin charms what fierce attacks assail’d, - And how the rigid Minister[321] prevail’d. - - And ah! what verse can grace thy stately mien, - Guide of the world, preferment’s golden queen, - NECKAR’S fair daughter,—STAEL the Epicene! - Bright o’er whose flaming cheek and pumple[322] nose - The bloom of young desire unceasing glows! - Fain would the Muse—but ah! she dares no more, - A mournful voice from lone _Guyana’s_ shore,[323] - Sad QUATREMER-the bold presumption checks, 300 - Forbid to question thy ambiguous sex. - - To thee, proud BARRAS bows;—thy charms control - REWBELL’S brute rage, and MERLIN’S subtle soul; - Rais’d by thy hands, and fashion’d to thy will, - Thy power, thy guiding influence, governs still, - Where at the blood-stain’d board expert he plies, - The lame artificer of fraud and lies; - He with the mitred head and cloven heel;— - Doom’d the coarse edge of REWBELL’S jests to feel;[324] - To stand the playful buffet, and to hear 310 - The frequent ink-stand whizzing past his ear; - While all the five Directors laugh to see - “The limping priest so deft at his new ministry”.[325] - - Last of th’ ANOINTED FIVE behold, and least, - The Directorial LAMA, Sovereign Priest,— - LEPAUX;—whom atheists worship;—at whose nod - Bow their meek heads _the Men without a God_.[326] - - Ere long, perhaps, to this astonish’d isle, - Fresh from the shores of subjugated _Nile_, - Shall BUONAPARTE’S victor fleet protect 320 - The genuine Theo-Philanthropic sect,— - The sect of MARAT, MIRABEAU, VOLTAIRE,— - Led by their Pontiff, good LA RÉVEILLÈRE. - Rejoiced our CLUBS shall greet him, and install - The holy Hunchback in thy dome, _St. Paul_! - While countless votaries, thronging in his train, - Wave their red caps, and hymn this jocund strain:— - - “_Couriers and Stars_, Sedition’s evening host, - Thou _Morning Chronicle_ and _Morning Post_, - Whether ye make the Rights of Man your theme, 330 - Your country libel, and your God blaspheme, - Or dirt on private worth and virtue throw, - Still, blasphemous or blackguard, praise LEPAUX! - - “And ye five other wandering bards, that move - In sweet accord of harmony and love, - COLERIDGE and SOUTHEY, LLOYD, and LAMB & CO. - Tune all your mystic harps to praise LEPAUX! - - “PRIESTLEY and WAKEFIELD, humble, holy men, - Give praises to his name with tongue and pen! - - “THELWALL, and ye that lecture as ye go, 340 - And for your pains get pelted, praise LEPAUX! - - “Praise him each Jacobin, or Fool, or Knave, - And your cropp’d heads in sign of worship wave! - - “All creeping creatures, venomous and low, - PAINE, WILLIAMS, GODWIN, HOLCROFT, praise LEPAUX! - - “—— and —— with —— join’d,[327] - And every other beast after his kind. - - “And thou, _Leviathan_! on ocean’s brim - Hugest of living things that sleep and swim; - Thou, in whose nose, by BURKE’S gigantic hand 350 - The hook was fixed to drag thee to the land, - With ——, ——, and ——, in thy train, - And —— wallowing in the yeasty main,—[328] - Still as ye snort, and puff, and spout, and blow, - In puffing, and in spouting, praise LEPAUX!” - - · · · · · - - BRITAIN, beware; nor let th’ insidious foe, - Of force despairing, aim a deadlier blow; - Thy Peace, thy Strength, with devilish wiles assail, - And when her Arms are vain, by Arts prevail. - True, thou art rich, art powerful!—thro’ thine Isle 360 - Industrious skill, contented labour, smile; - Far Seas are studded with thy countless sails; - What wind but wafts them, and what shore but hails! - True, thou art brave!—o’er all the busy land - In patriot ranks embattled myriads stand; - Thy foes behold with impotent amaze - And drop the lifted weapon as they gaze - - But what avails to guard each outward part, - If subtlest poison, circling at thy heart, - Spite of thy courage, of thy pow’r, and wealth, 370 - Mine the sound fabric of thy vital health? - - So thine own Oak, by some fair streamlet’s side, - Waves its broad arms, and spreads its leafy pride, - Tow’rs from the earth, and rearing to the skies - Its conscious strength, the tempest’s wrath defies. - Its ample branches shield the fowls of air, - To its cool shade the panting herds repair. - The treacherous current works its noiseless way, - The fibres loosen, and the roots decay; - Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all 380 - That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. - - O thou! lamented SAGE! whose prescient scan - Pierc’d through foul Anarchy’s gigantic plan, - Prompt to incredulous hearers to disclose - The guilt of _France_, and Europe’s world of woes;— - Thou, on whose name each distant age shall gaze, - The mighty sea-mark of these troubled days! - O large of soul, of genius unconfin’d, - Born to delight, instruct, and mend mankind! - BURKE! in whose breast a Roman ardour glow’d; 390 - Whose copious tongue with Grecian richness flow’d; - Well hast thou found (if such thy country’s doom), - A timely refuge in the sheltering tomb! - - As, in far realms, where eastern kings are laid, - In pomp of death, beneath the cypress shade, - The perfum’d lamp with unextinguish’d light - Flames through the vault, and cheers the gloom of night: - So, mighty BURKE! in thy sepulchral urn, - To Fancy’s view, the lamp of Truth shall burn. - Thither late times shall turn their reverent eyes, 400 - Led by thy light, and by thy wisdom wise. - - There _are_, to whom (_their_ taste such pleasures cloy) - No light thy wisdom yields, thy wit no joy. - Peace to their heavy heads, and callous hearts, - Peace—such as sloth, as ignorance imparts! - Pleas’d may they live to plan their country’s good, - And crop with calm content their flow’ry food! - - What though thy venturous spirit loved to urge - The labouring theme to Reason’s utmost verge, - Kindling and mounting from th’ enraptur’d sight; 410 - Still anxious wonder watch’d thy daring flight! - While vulgar minds, with mean malignant stare, - Gazed up, the triumph of thy fall to share! - Poor triumph! price of that extorted praise, - Which still to daring Genius Envy pays. - - Oh! for thy playful smile, thy potent frown, - To abash bold Vice, and laugh pert Folly down! - So should the Muse, in Humour’s happiest vein, - With verse that flowed in metaphoric strain, - And apt allusions to the rural trade, 420 - Tell of _what wood young_ JACOBINS _are made_; - How the skill’d gardener grafts with nicest rule - The _slip_ of coxcomb on the _stock_ of fool; - Forth in bright blossom bursts the tender sprig, - A thing to wonder at—[329] perhaps a _Whig_: - Should tell, how wise each half-fledged pedant prates - Of weightiest matters, grave distinctions states, - That rules of policy, and public good, - In Saxon times were rightly understood; - That kings are proper, _may be_ useful things, 430 - But then, some gentlemen object to kings; - That in all times the minister’s to blame; - That British liberty’s an empty name, - Till each fair burgh, numerically free, - Shall choose its members by _the Rule of Three_. - - So should the Muse, with verse in thunder clothed, - Proclaim the crimes by God and Nature loathed. - Which—when fell poison revels in the veins— - (That poison fell, which frantic _Gallia_ drains - From the crude fruit of Freedom’s blasted tree) 440 - Blot the fair records of Humanity. - - To feebler nations let proud _France_ afford - Her damning choice,—the chalice or the sword, - To drink or die;—O fraud! O specious lie! - Delusive choice! for _if_ they drink, they die. - - The Sword we dread not:—of ourselves secure, - Firm were our strength, our peace and freedom sure. - Let all the world confederate all its powers, - “Be they not backed by those that should be ours,” - High on his rock shall BRITAIN’S GENIUS stand, 450 - Scatter the crowded hosts, and vindicate the land. - - Guard we but our own Hearts: with constant view - To ancient morals, ancient manners true; - True to the manlier virtues, such as nerv’d - Our fathers’ breasts, and this proud Isle preserv’d - For many a rugged age: and scorn the while - Each philosophic atheist’s specious guile; - The soft seductions, the refinements nice, - Of gay Morality, and easy Vice; - So shall we brave the storm; our ’stablish’d pow’r - Thy refuge, EUROPE, in some happier hour. 461 - But, FRENCH _in heart_, though Victory crown our brow, - Low at our feet though prostrate Nations bow, - Wealth gild our Cities, Commerce crowd our shore, - LONDON MAY SHINE, but ENGLAND is NO MORE! - -[Illustration: _The Republican Rattle-snake fascinating the Bedford -Squirrel._ _The Rattle Snake is a Creature of the greatest subtilty; -when it is desirous of preying upon any Animal which is in a situation -above itself it fixes its Eye upon the unsuspecting object & by the -noise of its Rattle fascinates & confounds the unfortunate Victim till -losing all Sense & discernment, it falls a prey into the Mouth of the -horrid Monster._ Pliny’s Nat. Histr. vol. 365—] - - - FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. - -In the last Address which We shall have to make to the Public, We would -willingly review the whole of what has been advanced by Us under the -different Heads of our Paper, and leave behind us a Summary of our -Opinions upon the state of each subject as We found it, and as We -conceive it to stand at the moment when our labours are concluded. - -Upon no point, if We are to speak our sincere opinion, is the task more -easily to be executed, or in a less compass, than in what relates to -Foreign Politics. - -In other times, the relations of States to each other have been matter -of great study, and difficulty; have been embarrassed with a diversity -of views, and a complication of interests, which it might require much -experience to calculate, and much political sagacity to reconcile. - -At present, there is but one relation among all the States of -Europe:—one, at least, there is so paramount, as to confound and swallow -up all inferior considerations. - -FRANCE IS BENT ON THE CONQUEST AND RUIN OF THEM ALL. To repel this -Conquest, to ward off this ruin, various means are tried, according to -the power or the prudence of the different Nations. War, Treaty, -Supplication, Bribery, timid Neutrality, implicit Submission, and, -finally, an Incorporation into the Map of the _Great Republic_, are all -at this moment exemplified in the conduct of the Countries which -surround us. - -Our lot, a lot imposed upon us by necessity, but which if it were not so -imposed upon us, whoever is not blind, judicially blind to the conduct -of _France_ towards us, and every other Country, would claim by choice, -is WAR. - -The relation in which we may stand to the other States of Europe, or -they to each other, is comparatively of little moment. They may -reciprocate Missions, and propose Treaties,—the _Ligurian Republic_ may -make Peace or War with the _Cisalpine_; the _Cisalpine_ with the -_Roman_;—either of them with the KING of SARDINIA, with _Tuscany_, or -with _Naples_; and the greater Powers may mediate, or embroil the -quarrel, may offer their protection, and talk of their Dignity:—But the -question does not lie there.—_France_ has the power and the will to -controul, to oppress them altogether; to limit or extend their -Boundaries, as she sees good; to approve or annul their Internal -Regulations, as well as their stipulations with each other: And while -she has that power, whether it be by strength in herself, or by the -sufferance of others; whether she may choose to vex and harass them in -mass, or detail; to keep peace between them, or to set them at variance; -to work their revolutions by her own arms, or to delegate that sacred -office to their neighbours; or, finally, to insist upon their performing -it each for themselves;—the result to us is the same. The People of -Europe are equally enslaved;—it matters not whether they are manacled -separately, or bolted to the links of a long chain which connects and -coerces them in a fellowship of misery. - - _Mortalia corda - Per gentes humilis stravit pavor._ - -To Us, the relation of these unhappy Powers, is either that of Friends -forced into a Foreign Army to fight against us, or placed, hand-cuffed, -on the Deck of a Line of Battle Ship to receive our fire—or it is that -of a Captive languishing in a Dungeon against which We are making an -attack, and who does not dare to acknowledge his Friend, till he can -hail him as his Deliverer. - -The Contest between _Great Britain_ and _France_, then, is not for the -existence of the former only, but for the Freedom of the World. To look -to partial Interests, to talk of partial Successes, as bearing upon the -main object and general issue of the War, is to take a narrow and -pitiful view of the most momentous and most tremendous subject that ever -was brought under the consideration of mankind. - -If _Great Britain_, insensible of what she owes to herself and to the -World, flinches (for she _cannot fall_), in the Contest;—she throws away -not herself alone, but the peace and happiness of Nations. If she -maintain herself stoutly;—to speculate on the mode, the time, the means -by which success adequate to the immensity of the object at stake is to -be attained, were, indeed, presumptuous;—but We risk, without -apprehension of being thought sanguine in our hopes and expectations, or -of being contradicted by the event, the sentiment of the greatest Orator -of ancient times—“It is not, it cannot be possible, that an Empire -founded on injustice, on rapacity, on perfidy, on the contempt and -disregard of everything sacred towards God, or among Men;—it is not -possible that such an Empire should endure.” - -[Illustration] - - - - - NOTES TO “NEW MORALITY”. - - - JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL.D. (page 278). - -“I have read a communication from GEORGE III. to one of his ministers, -on the subject of the riots in which PRIESTLEY’S house was burned. HIS -MAJESTY says, in his short emphatic way, that the riots must be stopped -_immediately_; that no man’s house must be left in peril; and then he -orders the march of certain troops, &c., to restore peace; and concludes -with saying that, as the mischief did occur, it was impossible not to be -pleased at its having fallen on PRIESTLEY rather than another, that he -might _feel_ the wickedness of the doctrines of democracy which he was -propagating.”—_J. W. Croker_ (_MS._).—[ED.] - - - MADAME DE STAEL (page 282). - -“MADAME DE STAEL was at Mickleham, in Surrey, in 1793, with Talleyrand, -Narbonne, Jaucourt, Guibert (who proposed to her), and others. There was -not a little scandal about her relations with Narbonne (see Fanny -Burney’s Letters). Narbonne’s place was supplied by Benjamin Constant, -who had a very great influence over her, as in return she had over him. -At Coppet, she found consolation in a young officer of Swiss origin, -named Rocca, twenty-three years her junior, whom she married privately -in 1811. She had married Baron de Stael in 1786, and in 1797 they -separated. He died in 1802; and she in 1817.”—_Life of Mad. de Stael, by -A. Stevens_, 1880. - -“On the 28th of January” (says Crabb Robinson in his _Diary_, 1804), “I -first waited on MADAME DE STAEL. I was shown into her bedroom, for -which, not knowing Parisian customs, I was unprepared. She was sitting, -most decorously, in her bed, and writing. She had her night-cap on, and -her face was not made up for the day. It was by no means a captivating -spectacle, but I had a very cordial reception, and two bright black eyes -smiled benignantly on me. After a warm expression of her pleasure at -making my acquaintance, she dismissed me till three o’clock. On my -return then I found a very different person——the accomplished -Frenchwoman surrounded by admirers, some of whom were themselves -distinguished. Among them was the aged WIELAND. There was on this, and, -I believe, on almost every other, occasion, but one lady among the -guests: in this instance FRAU VON KALB. MADAME DE STAEL did not affect -to conceal her preference for the society of men to that of her own -sex.” - -COUNT D’ORSAY related of MADAME DE STAEL, whose character was discussed, -that one day, being on a sofa with MADAME DE RÉCAMIER, one who placed -himself between them exclaimed: “Me voilà entre la beauté et l’esprit!” -She replied: “That is the first time I was ever complimented for -beauty!” MADAME DE RÉCAMIER was thought the handsomest woman in Paris, -but was by no means famed for _esprit_.—_Crabb Robinson’s Diary._ - -“MADAME DE STAEL was a perfect aristocrat, and her sympathies were -wholly with the great and prosperous. She saw nothing in England but the -luxury, stupidity, and pride of the Tory aristocracy, and the -intelligence and magnificence of the Whig aristocracy. The latter talked -about truth and liberty and herself, and she supposed it was all as it -should be. As to the millions, the people, she never enquired into their -situation. She had a horror of the _canaille_, but anything of _sangre -azul_ had a charm for her. When she was dying she said; ‘Let me die in -peace; let my last moments be undisturbed’. Yet she ordered the cards of -every visitor to be brought to her. Among them was one from the DUC DE -RICHELIEU. ‘What!’ exclaimed she, indignantly; ‘what! have you sent away -the DUKE? Hurry. Fly after him. Bring him back. Tell him that though I -die for all the world, I live for _him_.’”—_Bowring’s Autobr. -Recollections_, pp. 375–6. - -MADAME DE STAEL prepared her _bons-mots_ with elaborate care, some being -borrowed.... She was ugly, and not of an intellectual ugliness. Her -features were coarse, and the ordinary expression rather vulgar. She had -an ugly mouth, and one or two irregularly prominent teeth, which perhaps -gave her countenance an habitual gaiety. Her eye was full, dark, and -expressive; and when she declaimed, which was almost whenever she spoke, -she looked eloquent, and one forgot that she was plain. On the whole, -she was singularly unfeminine; and if, in conversation, one forgot she -was ugly, one forgot also that she was a woman.—_J. W. Croker’s -Note-Books._—[ED.] - - - THE REV. GILBERT WAKEFIELD (page 284). - -“It is well known that the French Revolution turned the brains of many -of the noblest youths in England. Indeed when such men as COLERIDGE, -WORDSWORTH, SOUTHEY, caught the infection, no wonder that those who -partook of their sensibility, but had a very small portion of their -intellect, were carried away. Many were ruined by the errors into which -they were betrayed; many also lived to smile at the follies of their -youth. ‘I am no more ashamed of having been a Republican,’ said SOUTHEY, -‘than I am of having been a child.’ The opinions held led to many -political prosecutions, and I naturally had much sympathy with the -sufferers. I find in my journal, Feb. 21, 1799 (says Crabb Robinson): -‘An interesting and memorable day. It was the day on which GILBERT -WAKEFIELD was convicted of a seditious libel, and sentenced to two -years’ imprisonment. This he suffered in Dorchester Gaol, which he left -only to die. Originally of the Established Church, he became a -Unitarian, and Professor at the Hackney College. By profession he was a -scholar. His best known work was an edition of Lucretius. He had written -against PORSON’S edition of the _Hecuba_ of Euripides.’ It is said that -PORSON was at a dinner-party at which toasts were going round, and a -name, accompanied by an appropriate sentence from Shakespeare, was -required from each of the guests in succession. Before PORSON’S turn -came, he had disappeared beneath the table, and was supposed to be -insensible to what was going on. This, however, was not the case, for -when a toast was required of him, he staggered up and gave: ‘Gilbert -Wakefield—what’s _Hecuba_ to him, or he to _Hecuba_?’ WAKEFIELD was a -political fanatic. He had the pale complexion and mild features of a -Saint, was a most gentle creature in domestic life, and a very amiable -man; but when he took part in any religious or political controversy, -his pen was dipped in gall. The occasion of the imprisonment before -alluded to was a letter in reply to WATSON, Bishop of Llandaff, who had -written a pamphlet exhorting the people to loyalty. WAKEFIELD asserted -that the poor, the labouring classes; could lose nothing by French -conquest. Referring to the fable of the Ass and the Trumpeter, he said: -‘Will the enemy make me carry two panniers?’ and declared that, if the -French came, they would find him at his post with the illustrious -dead.”—[ED.] - - - JOHN THELWALL (page 284). - -“COLERIDGE and SOUTHEY spoke of THELWALL, calling him merely ‘John’: -SOUTHEY said: ‘He is a good-hearted man; besides we ought never to -forget that he was once as near as possible being hanged, as there is -some merit in _that_’.”—_Crabb Robinson’s Diary._—[ED.] - - - JEAN PAUL MARAT (page 284). - -The following remarkable account of this scientific monster is given in -an “Historical Account of the Warrington Academy, an institution in -Lancashire,” published in the _Monthly Repository_, by the Rev. W. -Turner, of Wakefield. - -“After the departure of DR. REINHOLD FORSTER, various unsuccessful -attempts were made to engage a foreigner in the capacity of teacher of -the modern languages—a M. FANTIN LA TOUR, a M. LE MAITRE, _alias_ MARA, -and a MR. LEWIS GUERY; but none of them continued for any length of -time.... There is great reason to believe that LE MAITRE, _alias_ MARA, -was the infamous MARAT.... It is known that he was in England about this -time [1774], and published in London “A Philosophical Essay on the -connection between the Body and the Soul of Man,” and, somewhere in the -country, had a principal hand in printing, in quarto, a work of -considerable ability, but of a seditious tendency, entitled—‘_The Chains -of Slavery: a work wherein the clandestine and villainous Attempts of -Princes to ruin Liberty are pointed out, and the dreadful Scenes of -Despotism disclosed, etc.; London, sold by J. Almon.... T. Payne, and -Richardson and Urquhart, 1774._’ MARA, as his name is spelt in the -Minutes of the Academy, very soon left Warrington, whence he went to -Oxford, robbed the Ashmolean Museum, escaped to Ireland, was apprehended -in Dublin, tried and convicted in Oxford, under the name of LE MAITRE, -and sentenced to the hulks at Woolwich. Here one of his old pupils at -Warrington, a native of Bristol, saw him. He was afterwards a Bookseller -in Bristol, and failed; was confined in the gaol of that city, but -released by the Society there for the relief of prisoners confined for -small sums. One of that society, who had previously relieved him in -Bristol Gaol, afterwards saw him in the National Assembly in Paris in -1792.” - -Grave doubts have, however, been thrown upon the accuracy of the above -statement by HENRY A. BRIGHT, B.A., in a paper published in the -_Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire_, 8vo, -vol. xi., session 1858–9. Yet it was an establishment that might have -attracted such a mind as Marat’s. “At WARRINGTON ACADEMY (says Mr. -Bright), were collected some of the noblest _literati_ of their day. -Here the free thought of the English Presbyterians first began to -crystallize into the Unitarian theology which they have since -maintained. Here, for a time, was the centre of the liberal politics and -the literary taste of the entire county.... The Academy was founded in -1757, and was closed in 1786. It was visited by John Howard, W. Roscoe, -T. Pennant, Currie, the biographer of Burns, &c. The first Tutors -appointed were DR. JOHN TAYLOR of Norwich, Tutor in Divinity, MR. HOLT -of Kirkdale, Tutor in Natural Philosophy, MR. DYER of London, Tutor in -Languages and Polite Literature, whose duties, however, were taken by -MR. (afterwards the REV. DR.) AIKIN, father of the celebrated Physician -and Mrs. Barbauld. DR. PRIESTLEY succeeded DR. AIKIN.” - -DR. PRIESTLEY, who is addressed by COLERIDGE as “Patriot, and Saint, and -Sage,” was succeeded by JOHN REINHOLD FORSTER, a German Scholar and -Naturalist, who accompanied Captain Cook in his second voyage, DR. -ENFIELD, author of _The Speaker_, and the REV. GILBERT WAKEFIELD, were -Tutors. Among the students were MR. SERJEANT HEYWOOD; ARCHIBALD HAMILTON -ROWAN, the Irish rebel; the REV. H. MALTHUS; LORD ENNISMORE; SIR JAMES -CARNEGIE of Southesk; MR. HENRY BEAUFOY, etc., all strong Whigs. The -name of neither MARA nor LE MAITRE appears on the Minutes of the -Academy. - -For the latest contribution to the history of MARAT’S sojourn in England -we are indebted to the researches of MR. H. MORSE STEPHENS, of Balliol -College, Oxford, who, in his elaborate and painstaking _History of the -French Revolution_ (1886), which includes facts unknown to Carlyle and -earlier historians, gives the following account of that -“arch-destroyer”; but, as he calls him, “a much maligned individual”:— - -“JEAN PAUL MARAT,” says he, “was born at Boudry, near Neufchatel, in -Switzerland, on April 13, 1742. His father, who spelt his name ‘MARA,’ -was a physician of some ability, and on being exiled from his native -island of Sardinia for abandoning the Roman Catholic religion, had taken -up his residence in Switzerland; and married a Swiss Protestant. JEAN -PAUL was the eldest of three sons; his next brother settled down as a -watchmaker at Geneva, and his youngest brother entered the service of -the Empress Catherine, and distinguished himself in the Russian army -under the title of the Chevalier de Boudry. JEAN PAUL was from his -childhood of an intensely sensitive and excitable disposition, and also -so quick at his books that he became a good classical scholar, and -acquainted with most modern languages. As his chief taste, however, -seemed to be for natural science, he was intended to follow his father’s -profession, and was, at the age of eighteen, sent to study medicine at -the University of Bordeaux. He there obtained a thorough knowledge of -his profession, but devoted himself particularly to the sciences of -optics and electricity. From Bordeaux he went to Paris, where he -effected a remarkable cure of a disease of the eyes, which had been -abandoned as hopeless both by physicians and quacks, by means of -electricity. From Paris he went to Amsterdam, and, finally, to LONDON, -where he set up in practice in _Church Street, Soho_, then one of the -most fashionable districts in London. He must soon have formed a good -practice, for he stopped in London, with occasional visits to Dublin and -Edinburgh, for ten years, and only left it to take up an appointment at -the French court. While in London he wrote his first book, and in 1772 -and 1773, he published the first two volumes of a philosophical and -physiological _Essay on Man_. The point he discussed was the old problem -of the relation between body and mind, and he treated it in a very -interesting manner from the physiological point of view. He held some -extraordinary theory about the existence of some fluid in the veins -which acted on the mind; which, however, does not impair the interest of -his inquiries into the cause of dreams, or diminish the respect felt for -his wide reading and extensive knowledge both of ancient and modern -philosophical and medical authors. He shows a wide knowledge of Latin -and Greek literature, and while writing in good English freely quotes -French, German, Italian, and Spanish writers. In one part of his book he -declared that it was ridiculous for any one to make psychical researches -without having some knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and openly -attacked HELVÉTIUS for despising scientific knowledge in his famous _De -l’Esprit_. VOLTAIRE naturally took the side of HELVÉTIUS, and did the -young author the honour of noticing, and very severely criticising, his -book. MARAT himself translated it into French, and published it at -Amsterdam in 1775. His next work was of a political character. He had -got mixed up with some of the popular societies in England, which were -striving to obtain a thorough reform of the representation of the people -in the House of Commons, and, in 1774, published a work, which he -entitled THE CHAINS OF SLAVERY. In this book, which is partly historical -and partly political, he begs the electors to take more care in the -choice of their representatives. It is written in a very declamatory -style, and strikes the note of the responsibility of representatives to -their constituents, which is the key-note of all his political ideas. -The book is published in quarto, and is printed on fine paper, so that -it can hardly have been meant to appeal to the populace, but it, -nevertheless, procured him the honorary membership of the popular -societies of _Newcastle_ and other great northern cities. Subsequently -he again returned to his profession, and after publishing a medical -tract in 1775, of which no copy is known to exist, he published _An -Inquiry into the Nature, Cause, and Cure of a singular Disease of the -Eyes_, in 1776. [See _Academy_ of September 23, 1882.] In this little -pamphlet there is no violent language; it describes the disease and the -cases he had cured in perfectly simple language, and shows, at least, -that he was no mere quack, but a scientific physician. On June 30, 1775, -he had, while on a visit to _Scotland_, received the honorary degree of -M.D. from the _University of St. Andrews_ for his eminence as a doctor, -and had probably received similar compliments from other Universities, -because, on June 24, 1777, JEAN PAUL MARAT, ‘médecin de plusieurs -facultés d’Angleterre,’ was appointed, for his good character and high -reputation as a doctor, physician to the body-guard of the Comte -d’Artois, with a salary of a thousand livres a year and allowances. To -take up this court appointment he moved to Paris, and soon acquired a -large practice there, and the name of ‘physician of the incurables,’ -from the number of hopeless cases he was successful in treating. He also -moved in the best society about the court, and won the affections of the -_Marquise de l’Aubespine_ for saving her life. For some reason or other, -most probably because he had obtained a competent fortune, and desired -to satisfy his ambition, he resigned his court appointment in 1783, and -devoted himself to science. He had long observed the phenomena of Heat, -Light, and Electricity, and in the course of the next five years -published the result of his experiments, and presented them to the -_Academy of Sciences_. His hard work won him the friendship of BENJAMIN -FRANKLIN, but the violence with which he attacked his adversaries, and -his audacity in doubting the conclusions of NEWTON, prevented him from -obtaining a seat in the Academy of Sciences. When he recognised that -this hostility to himself prevented due recognition of his work, he -determined to win the approbation of the Academy by concealing his name; -and his translation of the _Optics_ of NEWTON, which was covered by the -name of _M. de Beauzée_, and published in 1788, was at once crowned by -the very Academy which had rejected him. - -“His political work during these years was confined to a treatise, in -imitation of BECCARIA, on the subject of Punishments. The approach of -the States-General, however, revived his political enthusiasm, and in -the March of 1789, when he believed himself to be dying, he published -his _Offrande à la Patrie_, which was followed in quick succession by a -supplement and other pamphlets. Of these, distinctly the most able is -the _Tableau des Vices de la Constitution Anglaise_, which he presented -to the Assembly in September, 1789. In it he points out what he had -learnt in the popular societies of England, that the English people was -by no means so well governed as it was supposed to be; that the -influence of the king and the ministry was overwhelming through the -extent of patronage, and that the rich there bought seats in the House -of Commons as they bought estates. - -“MARAT then felt that he could not express himself frequently enough in -pamphlets, and on September 12 appeared the first number of a journal -written entirely by himself, called the JOURNAL DU PEUPLE, which title -was changed to that of _Ami du Peuple_, or _The People’s Friend_, with -the fourth number. - -“To understand the man, it is necessary to get rid of preconceived -ideas. Suspicious and irritable, excitable and sensitive to an extreme, -he attacked everybody, and attacked them all with unaccustomed violence; -but with all this, he was in private life a highly educated gentleman. -The extent of his attainments appears from his numerous works, and it -must be remembered that he could not for years have been a fashionable -physician and held a court appointment without being perfectly polite -and well-bred. His faults arose from his irritable and suspicious -nature, and years of persecution made him half-insane towards the end of -his life; but in September, 1789, he was in perfect possession of his -senses, and the very popularity of his journal showed how congenial his -gospel of suspicion was to the Parisians.”—[ED.] - - - JEAN PAUL MARAT’S SISTER. - -The Right Hon. J. W. Croker, in a letter to John Winter Jones, dated -23rd October, 1854, says that COLIN, who had been Marat’s printer or -publisher, “introduced him to Marat’s sister, who was as like her -brother, he said—and as from all pictures and busts I readily -believed—as ‘_deux gouttes d’eau_’. She was very small, very ugly, very -sharp, and a great politician. Her ostensible livelihood was making -watch-springs, but she told me she was pretty easy in her circumstances, -and I either gathered from her, or saw cause to suspect, that she had -some secret charitable help.”—[ED.] - - - LARÉVEILLÈRE-LEPAUX (page 283). - -LARÉVEILLÈRE-LEPAUX left orders in his will that his _Memoirs_ were to -be printed and published. His heirs were not proud of the part the -DIRECTOR had played, so, after complying with the terms of his will and -_printing_ the _Memoirs_, they _destroyed the whole issue at once_; and -the only copy extant is the one which, in accordance with the law of -France, was sent to the _Bibliothèque Nationale_ at Paris. - - - THE THEOPHILANTHROPISTS. - -These (_Gr._ “Lovers of Gods and Men”) were a sect of _Deists_ which -appeared in France amid the confusion and disorder of the first -Revolution. While the State was indifferent to all forms of Religion, -and the Republican Directory was afraid of the Christianity which -prevailed in the Church, a felt consciousness of the necessity of some -religion led many to adopt a form of worship adapted to Natural -Religion. - -“This Sect” (says SOUTHEY, in the _Quarterly Review_, vol. xxviii.) -“began with more circumstances in their favour than ever occurred to -facilitate the establishment of a religion or of a sect. Many persons of -considerable influence and reputation engaged in the project with zeal, -and it was patronised by LA RÉVEILLÈRE LÊPAUX, one of the Directory.... -His motives for putting himself at the head of the Theophilanthropists -are said to have been twofold: if the scheme succeeded, he intended to -become their High Priest; and he hated Christianity. Through his means -the Theophilanthropists obtained a decree from the Government giving -them a right of holding their meetings in the Churches, as national -buildings, which were open to any religion, but belonged to none. - -“Nearly twenty Churches in Paris were taken possession of; but by -occupying so many, they injured themselves.... They took up too extended -a position, and had neither numbers nor means answerable to the scale -upon which they set out.... Their _Service_ began at noon, and lasted -about an hour and a half. It was, they said, a worship for those who had -no other, and a moral society for those who had. The _Ritual_ consisted -of Prayers, Hymns original or selected from the best French Poets, -readings from their Manual, and Discourses. The _Hymns_ were, in -general, judicious, and set to good music, and the _Prayers_ well -composed; but had their books been stript of all that they had borrowed -from the Gospel, and from the works of Christian writers, they would -have been meagre indeed. In one part of the Service there was a short -pause, during which the congregation were expected to consider each in -silence what his own conduct had been since the last of these meetings. -A basket of fruit or flowers, according to the season, was placed upon -the altar, as a mark of acknowledgment for the bounties of the Creator; -and over the altar was the inscription, _Nous croyons à l’existence de -Dieu, et à l’immortalité de l’âme_.... LA RÉVEILLÈRE, in a speech at the -Institute, declaiming against Christianity, as being opposed to the -liberty of mankind, expressed his wish that a form of religion were -adopted, which should have only _a couple of articles_. He wished also -for a religion without priests; and this, it was pleasantly observed, -would be like a Directory without a Director. - -“This was the _Creed of the Theophilanthropists_. And on each side of -it, the following sentences were inscribed in their temples, to take -place of the Decalogue:— - - “‘Adore God, cherish your fellow-creatures; render yourselves useful to - your - country. - Good is whatever tends to preserve man, or to perfectionate him. - Evil is whatever tends to destroy him, or to deteriorate him. - Children, honour your fathers and mothers; obey them with affection, - solace - their old age. Fathers and mothers, instruct your children. - Wives, behold in your husbands the heads of your houses. Husbands, love - your wives, and render yourselves mutually happy.’ - -“At _Marriage_ the bride and bridegroom were to be coupled with ribands, -or garlands of flowers, the ends of which were to be held on each side -by the elders of their respective families. The Bride received a ring -from her husband, and a medal of union from the head of the family. -There was a rite also for infants.... When a member _died_, the other -members of the Society were invited to place a flower upon the urn, and -pray the Creator to receive the deceased into his bosom. The Decades and -National Holidays were observed by these Anti-Christians, and they had -four Holidays of their own, for Socrates, St. Vincent de Paule, Jean -Jacques Rousseau, and Washington,—oddly assorted names! Two of them, -however, stand well together in this kalendar, for the one, who was a -Christian, established the Foundling Hospital at Paris; and the other, -who was a sentimentalist, a philosopher, and a Theophilanthropist, sent -his own children to it.... - -“LA RÉVEILLÈRE used to take praise to himself for having, in his -Directorial character, humbled the Pope and the great Turk. The -Anti-Christian language of the Directory, and its persecution of the -Clergy, are imputed to him; so far his colleagues were willing to go -with him; but his zeal for Deism they regarded as ridiculous.... In the -way of pecuniary aid, he could obtain little:—_beaucoup d’argent_ was -what the Directory were accustomed to demand, not to give.... - -“Their _Service_ at Paris was numerously attended while it was a new -spectacle, and the subject of conversation; but more than two-thirds of -the persons thus assembled were idlers. But this concourse soon abated; -there was nothing attractive in the ceremonies, nothing to impose upon -the imagination or the senses. A propagandist reported from Montreuil -that the readings and orations had been heard by an audience _avide de -morale_, but he had observed with pain that the _matériel_ of the -worship was not what it should have been.... It was got up at Bourges in -better style; the orator there officiated in a white sash ornamented -with blue flowers, before an altar upon which an orange tree was placed: -and at the _fête des époux_, the Theophilanthropists carried _two -pigeons_ in procession, as an emblem of conjugal tenderness, and placed -them upon the altar of the country!” - - * * * * * - -[The literary association of LAMB with COLERIDGE and SOUTHEY [says SIR -T. N. TALFOURD, in his life of LAMB,] drew upon him the hostility of the -young scorners of _The Anti-Jacobin_, who, luxuriating in boyish pride -and aristocratic patronage, tossed the arrows of their wit against all -charged with innovation, whether in politics or poetry, and cared little -whom they wounded. No one could be more innocent than LAMB of political -heresy; no one more strongly opposed to new theories in morality—which -he always regarded with disgust. The very first number of _The -Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine_ [this was, however, a new work, by -different hands, but imbued with the same spirit as _The Anti-Jacobin_] -was adorned by a caricature of GILLRAY’S, in which COLERIDGE and SOUTHEY -were introduced with asses’ heads, and LLOYD and LAMB as toad and frog. -In the number of July, 1798 [of the original _Anti-Jacobin_] appeared -the well-known poem of _New Morality_, in which all the prominent -objects of the hatred of these champions of religion and order were -introduced as offering homage to LEPAUX, a French charlatan,—of whose -existence LAMB had never even heard. Not content with thus confounding -persons of the most opposite opinions and the most various characters in -one common libel, the party returned to the charge in their number for -September [of _The Anti-Jacobin Review_], and denounced the young poets -in a parody on the _Ode to the Passions_, under the title of _The -Anarchists_. They are reprinted in the present volume.—ED.] - -[The cause of Coleridge, Southey, Lloyd, and Lamb, being thus satirized -as persons of the same politics, was the conjoint publication of their -works. In the spring of 1796, COLERIDGE published vol. i. of his -_Juvenile Poems_, including three Sonnets by LAMB; in May, 1797, there -appeared a new edition, with many poems by LLOYD and LAMB. _The Fall of -Robespierre_, an historic drama, was published Sept. 22, 1794: the first -act written by COLERIDGE, the second and third by SOUTHEY. It is not -difficult to understand why COLERIDGE was so severely attacked by the -Government writers. In 1795, at the early age of 23, he delivered, at -Bristol, some public lectures, reflecting in warm terms on the measures -of PITT. Three of them were published at Bristol at the end of 1795—the -first two together, with the title of _Conciones ad Populum_; the third -as _The Plot Discovered_. The eloquent passage in conclusion of the -first of these addresses was written by SOUTHEY. That he was considered -by ministers a dangerous character is proved by his having been for some -months watched by a Government spy while residing at Stowey, providing -for his scanty maintenance by writing verses for _The Morning Post_. It -was his fortune also to excite the ire of BUONAPARTE, by his -anti-gallican writings in the same paper; and a benevolent intimation of -his danger by Baron von Humboldt and Cardinal Fesch alone prevented his -being arrested while in Italy. (See p. 284.) - -SOUTHEY thus alludes to the attack upon him (by GILLRAY, in his famous -caricature), in a letter addressed to C. W. W. WYNN, dated Hereford, -August 15, 1798:—“I have seen myself _Bedfordized_, and it has been a -subject of much amusement. HOLCROFT’S likeness is admirably preserved. I -know not what poor LAMB has done to be croaking there. What I think the -worst part of _The Anti-Jacobin_ abuse is the lumping together men of -such opposite principles; this was stupid. We should have all been -welcoming the _Director_, not the _Theophilanthrope_. The conductors of -_The Anti-Jacobin_ will have much to answer for in thus inflaming the -animosities of this country. They are labouring to produce the deadly -hatred of Irish faction; perhaps to produce the same end. Such an -address as you mention might probably be of great use; that I could -assist you in it is less certain. I do not feel myself at all calculated -for anything that requires methodical reasoning; and though you and I -should agree in the main object of the pamphlet, our opinions are at -root different. The old systems of government, I think, must fall; but -in this country the immediate danger is on the other hand,—from an -unconstitutional and unlimited power. BURLEIGH saw how a Parliament -might be employed against the people, and MONTESQUIEU prophesied the -fall of English liberty when the Legislature should become corrupt. You -will not agree with me in thinking his prophecy fulfilled. Violent men -there undoubtedly are among the democrats, as they are always called; -but is there any one among them whom the ministerialists will allow to -be moderate?” _The Anti-Jacobin_ certainly speaks the sentiments of -Government.’—ED.] - - * * * * * - - - WORDSWORTH, COLERIDGE, SOUTHEY (page 284). - -[“The passionate verdicts given, both _pro_ and _con_, in reference to -WORDSWORTH, COLERIDGE, and SOUTHEY, may now be looked back upon with -some wonder, but all three had made themselves obnoxious to the charge -of renegadism. WORDSWORTH had accepted the office of stamp-distributor -from Lord Lonsdale; SOUTHEY, after attempting to suppress his -demagogical drama of _Wat Tyler_, became a violent Tory, bringing a hot -partisanship into the ranks to which he fled; and COLERIDGE, a -Tom-Paineite in politics and a preaching Unitarian, ended by adopting -all the doctrines of orthodoxy.”—_Sir John Bowring._—ED.] - - * * * * * - - - EDMUND BURKE (page 286). - -“ADAIR told me a great many things about BURKE, and FOX, and -FITZPATRICK, and all the eminent men of that time with whom he lived -when he was young. He said ... that FITZPATRICK was the most agreeable -of them all, but HARE the most brilliant. BURKE’S conversation was -delightful, so luminous and instructive. He was very passionate; and -ADAIR said that the first time he ever saw him he unluckily asked him -some question about the wild parts of Ireland, when BURKE broke out: -‘You are a fool and a blockhead. There are no wild parts in -Ireland.’ ... There was an attempt to bring about a reconciliation -between him and FOX, and a meeting for that purpose took place of all -the leading men, at Burlington House. BURKE was on the point of yielding -when his son suddenly made his appearance unbidden, and, on being told -what was going on, he said: ‘My father shall be no party to such a -compromise,’ took BURKE aside, and persuaded him to reject the -overtures. That son ADAIR described as the most disagreeable, violent, -and wrong-headed of men, but the idol of his father, who used to say -that he united all his own talents and acquirements with those of FOX -and everybody else, &c.”—See _The Greville Memoirs_, i. 136–7.—[ED.] - -[The following remarkable passage occurs in a pamphlet written by TOM -PAINE, entitled: _Thomas Paine to the People of England, on the Invasion -of England; Philadelphia, printed at the Temple of Reason Press, Arch -Street, 1804_. - -“The original plan, formed in the time of the Directory (but now much -more extensive) was to build one thousand boats, each sixty feet long, -sixteen feet broad, to draw about two feet water, to carry a twenty-four -or thirty-six pounder in the head and a field-piece in the stern, to be -run out as soon as they touched ground. Each boat was to carry a hundred -men, making in the whole one hundred thousand, and to row with twenty or -twenty-five oars on a side. Bonaparte was appointed to the command, and -by an agreement between him and me, I was to accompany him, as the -intention of the expedition was to give the people of England an -opportunity of forming a government for themselves, and thereby bring -about peace.”—ED.] - - * * * * * - - - THE COURIER. - -THE COURIER, in the time of the war, was the great paper; it obtained a -large circulation, and consequently exercised considerable influence. It -was started by JOHN PARRY in 1792, and he carried it on for some years -with tolerable success, till he was ruined in 1799 by a government -prosecution for a libel on the Emperor of Russia. It was bought by -DANIEL STUART, who left _The Morning Post_ for _The Courier_ in 1803. -During three years, says he, at the time of the overthrow of BUONAPARTE, -_The Courier_, by the able management of PETER STREET, who was editor -and half-proprietor, sold steadily upwards of 8000 per day; during one -fortnight it sold upwards of 10,000 daily. At the end of 1809, S. T. -COLERIDGE contributed to it some Essays on the Spaniards; and in 1811 he -wrote for it on a salary. At this time the paper was much under -ministerial direction. From about the year 1818 till 1829 _The Courier_ -was conducted by W. MUDFORD, with whom WILLIAM STEWART was a proprietor. -After 1819 D. STUART took no interest in it, and parted with his last -share in it in 1822. After the year 1825, JAMES STUART, a Scotch -gentleman of great talent and respectability—the same that unfortunately -killed SIR ALEXANDER BOSWELL in a duel, and was author of _Travels in -the United States_—became editor. True to his principles, he gave in -this capacity every support in his power to the Whig or Liberal party. -He was appointed by LORD MELBOURNE to the situation of Factory -Inspector, which he held till his death, at the age of 74, in 1849. When -JAS. STUART obtained his factory appointment, SAM. LAMAN BLANCHARD -became editor. The paper having become, like other evening papers, less -profitable than of old, the proprietors sold it to the party they had so -long opposed. It took Tory politics; LAMAN BLANCHARD, of course, -resigned; and a few short years were sufficient to destroy a journal -which had once been the most valuable newspaper property in England. Its -last number appeared 6th July, 1842. - -It is a curious, but not creditable, circumstance that _The Courier_ was -in the habit of re-printing, from year to year, without acknowledgment, -the able leading articles from _The Liverpool Courier_, written by the -Rev. Richard Watson, secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, by -whom, in conjunction with his friend, Mr. Kaye, this newspaper was -established upon loyal and constitutional principles. - -“_The Courier_, in 1814, was supplied by R. Peel, Lord Palmerston, and -J. W. Croker, with political squibs and lyrics, resembling in general -features _The Anti-Jacobin_ and _The Rolliad_. The verses are chiefly -parodies of Moore’s _Irish Melodies_, or of Byron’s songs, and are far -above the ordinary level of such compositions.... The various pieces -were collected and published in 1815, under the title of _The New Whig -Guide_.”—_Croker Papers_, vol. i., p. 58. - -This statement contains several inaccuracies. The pieces forming _The -New Whig Guide_ were first collected and published in 1819, _and not in -1815_, for BYRON’S _Fare thee well_ was not written till April, 1816. -The parody on it was entitled _The Leader’s Lament. By the Right Hon. -George Ponsonby_. A. Hayward says in his review of _The Poetry of the -Anti-Jacobin_, in _The Edinburgh Review_, 1858—that “CANNING has been -traditionally credited with the parody of Moore’s. _Believe me, if all -those endearing young charms_, the gentleman addressed being a -distinguished commoner afterwards ennobled (the first LORD METHUEN), who -was far from meriting the character [of a foolish fop] thereby fastened -on him”. The other parodies were by JOHN CALCRAFT, the Hon. W. H. -LYTTELTON, DUDLEY NORTH, M.P., KIRKMAN FINLAY, M.P. for Glasgow, &c. MR. -METHUEN, in return, wrote many clever squibs and parodies against the -Tories, which were collected, under the title of _The New Tory Guide_, -and reproduced, like its rivals in 1819. “Talking of _The Morning -Chronicle_,” says T. MOORE (_Diary, 19th March, 1831_), “PAUL METHUEN -told us he was the author of almost all those about _The Rat Club_; -which are certainly some of the best.” - - - THE STAR. - -THE STAR, the first London daily Evening Newspaper, was started in 1788 -by PETER STUART, brother to DANIEL STUART, of _The Morning Post_. Its -first editor was ANDREW MACDONALD, author of _Vimonda_, a tragedy, and -other works: and after him another Scottish poet, John Mayne, author of -_The Siller Gun_, was editor. ROBERT BURNS was offered an engagement to -write poetry for it, at the rate of one guinea an article per week. The -arrangement was not completed. It was to PETER STUART that BURNS -addressed his “Poem, written to a gentleman who had sent him a -Newspaper, and offered to continue it free of expense”. The facetious -Bob Allen, of whom Charles Lamb has such pleasant reminiscences, was for -many years a contributor to this paper. Subsequently, DR. A. TILLOCH, -editor of _The Philosophical Magazine_, was for many years editor of -_The Star_. After Oct. 15, 1831, _The Star_ became incorporated with -_The Albion_ newspaper, under the title of _The Albion and Evening -Star_. - -_The Star_ was during many years the leading newspaper on the Whig side, -CAMPBELL the poet being one of its writers after 1804, when he was -engaged at a salary of four guineas a week. The clear profits of this -paper in 1820 were said, on apparently good authority, to amount to -£6000. - - - THE MORNING CHRONICLE. - -THE MORNING CHRONICLE was, with one exception (_The Public Ledger_, -which started in 1760), the oldest of the daily papers up to the period -of its discontinuance March 19, 1862. The latest number in the British -Museum is dated Dec. 31, 1861. - -It was established on Whig principles, 28th June, 1769, by WILLIAM -WOODFALL, who carried it on with great success till 1789. - -Woodfall, in addition to other talents requisite to the success of a -newspaper, possessed two, which were of essential service to it, namely, -his prodigious memory, which enabled him to report Parliamentary Debates -without the aid of notes, and the excellence of his Theatrical -Criticisms, which, as MR. FOX BOURNE, in his copious and valuable work -on _English Newspapers_, 2 vols., 8vo., 1887—one to which the editor of -the present publication has been under frequent obligations—says, “are a -neglected mine of wealth for students of Theatrical History”. - -On WOODFALL’S death, in 1803, it was sold to JAMES PERRY, who borrowed -£500 from RANSOME & CO., the bankers, and some more from BELLAMY, the -wine merchant—who was also caterer and doorkeeper to the House of -Commons—and entered into partnership with a Charterhouse schoolmaster -named GRAY, who had just received a legacy of £500. With that joint -capital, the two bought _The Chronicle_, the DUKE OF NORFOLK making -PERRY a present of a house in the Strand, which he converted into a new -publishing office. A few other influential Whigs, also, contributed a -further sum, which, as the late SIR ROBERT ADAIR, who is so often -satirized in _The Anti-Jacobin_, and who was a subscriber to the fund, -informed the editor of the present work, was £300. - -PERRY was on good terms with his contributors, and made _The Morning -Chronicle_ a more prosperous and influential journal than had ever -before been known in England. GRAY provided the heavy articles, PERRY -those of lighter sort; and after GRAY’S death, which happened when he -had been part proprietor for only a few years, other writers were -employed, among them JAS. MACKINTOSH and SHERIDAN, and in later times T. -CAMPBELL and T. MOORE, who contributed verse, and JOHN CAMPBELL, then a -young barrister, who was the Theatrical Critic, and was still so in -1810. T. CAMPBELL, on coming to London in 1802, was engaged as a -political writer, but this not being his forte, he, with great judgment, -confined himself to poetical pieces, among which were _Ye Mariners of -England_, and _The Exile of Erin_. PERRY had another and equally famous -contributor. In Sept., 1793, S. T. COLERIDGE, then aged nineteen, “sent -a poem of a few lines to PERRY, soliciting a loan of a guinea for a -distressed author,” which prayer was immediately granted. In 1796, he -accepted an offer of Perry’s to write in it, but the arrangement was -never carried out. In later years, COLERIDGE wrote some other poems for -_The Morning Chronicle_, and his friend CHARLES LAMB was an occasional -writer of prose for it. - -PERRY continued as the general manager of the paper till his death on -6th Dec., 1821; but before this he had left much of the editing to -others, his first assistant after GRAY’S death being ROBERT SPANKIE, -ultimately attorney-general of Bengal. The next was JOHN BLACK, who had -joined him in 1810; and upon him, when PERRY died, the entire management -devolved. - -After PERRY’S death the paper was purchased for £42,000, by WILLIAM -CLEMENT, by whom it was held till 1834, when it was sold to SIR JOHN -EASTHOPE for £16,500. - -In 1843, JOHN BLACK was dismissed to make way for ANDREW DOYLE, who had -been Foreign Editor, and had married Sir John’s daughter. Black died in -1855. - -On 26th July, 1847, SIR JOHN EASTHOPE, who had been carrying on the -paper at a loss for some time, sold it to the Duke of Newcastle, W. E. -Gladstone, Sidney Herbert, and other influential Peelites. Its new -Editor was JOHN DOUGLAS COOK, who had for some time been one of the -reporters of _The Times_, and who gathered round him a brilliant staff -of contributors, including George Sydney Smythe, afterwards Lord -Strangford, Gilbert Venables, Abraham Hayward, William Vernon Harcourt, -and Thackeray. Its business manager was WILLIAM DELANE, the father of -the clever young editor of _The Times_, JOHN THADDEUS DELANE. - -_The Chronicle_ lingered on as a would-be Peelite organ till the autumn -of 1854, when by a curious arrangement, the paper, with all its plant, -was sold to Serjeant GLOVER, for £7500, on the understanding that, if he -continued to support in it the Peelite policy, he should have the money -back with interest, being paid £3000 a year for three years. That -contract soon fell through, as GLOVER preferred to draw a subsidy from -LOUIS NAPOLEON, and to make other experiments. At the close of 1854, the -circulation of _The Morning Chronicle_ averaged only about 2500, while -that of _The Morning Post_ was about 3000, that of _The Morning Herald_ -about 3500, that of _The Daily News_ about 5300, that of _The Morning -Advertiser_ about 6600, and that of _The Times_ about 55,000. - -The last number of _The Morning Chronicle_ appeared March 19, 1862, when -what at one time had been the most influential journal in the country -altogether ceased to exist. - -Of this paper SHERIDAN speaks in _The Critic_, and to it BYRON addressed -a _Familiar Epistle_. For its columns W. HAZLITT wrote some of the -finest criticisms in our own or any other language. Some of the early -_Sketches by Boz_ appeared in it, but they were really commenced in the -old _Monthly Magazine_. DICKENS’S father was one of the staff. HAZLITT -also contributed to it Parliamentary Reports, as at a later period did -C. DICKENS. - -Among other distinguished writers in _The Morning Chronicle_ were Lord -Brougham, the Duke of Sussex, David Ricardo, Cyrus Redding, Albany -Fonblanque, James and John Stuart Mill, John Payne Collier, Eyre Evans -Crowe, Charles Buller, Lord Holland, Joseph Parkes, Michael Joseph Quin, -George Hogarth, James Fraser, W. Hazlitt, secundus, Lord Melbourne, W. -Johnson Fox, Henry Mayhew, Lord Palmerston, A. B. Reach, Alex. and -Charles Mackay, Tom Taylor. - - - THE MORNING POST. - -THE MORNING POST, the next _daily_ paper in order of date to _The -Chronicle_, first appeared in 1772, and was probably projected by JOHN -BELL. Three years subsequently the REV. HENRY BATE (who took in 1784 the -name of Dudley, and was created a baronet in 1816) joined it, and was -connected with it till the end of 1780, when he quarrelled with his -colleagues, and set up _The Morning Herald_, the first number of which -appeared on Nov. 1 in the same year. In June, 1781, he was sentenced to -a year’s imprisonment for an atrocious libel on the Duke of Richmond. He -was (says Horace Walpole, in his _Journal of the Reign of George III._), -the worst of all the scandalous libellers that had appeared, both on -private persons as well as public. His life was dissolute, and he had -fought more than one duel. Yet Lord Sandwich had procured for him a good -Crown living, and he was believed to be pensioned by the Court. He died -in 1824. - -After BATE, as editor, came the REV. W. JACKMAN (or JACKSON)—an equally -discreditable clergyman,—and he was succeeded by JOHN TAYLOR (author of -_Monsieur Tonson_), for whom PETER PINDAR (DR. JOHN WOLCOT) wrote -whimsical verses. - -In 1792, MR. TATTERSALL was the responsible proprietor, who, knowing -more about horses and sport than about the elegancies of literature, DR. -WOLCOT continued to be the chief writer; and who, besides his clever -verses, gave much information upon affairs of the prize-ring and kindred -amusements. In 1795, TATTERSALL sold the entire copyright, with house -and printing materials, for £600. The circulation then was only 350 -daily. - -The purchaser was MR. DANIEL STUART; and MR. CHRISTIE, the auctioneer, -was also a proprietor. Previous to this time, ROBERT BURNS was applied -to, to supply poetry, but none was ever sent. DANIEL STUART was not -twenty-nine when he bought _The Morning Post_; and JAMES (afterwards SIR -JAS.) MACKINTOSH, who was his brother-in-law, and was a regular -contributor, was his senior only by a year. - -After 1790, the same ANDREW MACDONALD, who had been editor of _The -Star_, furnished poems, as did WORDSWORTH, SOUTHEY, C. LLOYD, and other -verse writers. At the commencement of 1798, S. T. COLERIDGE—then only -twenty-five—was engaged to contribute poetry. The Odes, _Fire, Famine, -and Slaughter_; _France_; _Dejection_; and that on _The Departing Year_; -with twenty or thirty other pieces, since included in his Poetical -Works, among which was _Love_—one of the most popular poems of this -age—were first published in _The Morning Post_. To these must be added -the first draught of _The Devil’s Thoughts_, a piece afterwards much -altered. About 1800, the paper was supplied with some excellent pieces, -in prose, including Fashionable Intelligence, short pungent articles, -and jokes, by CHARLES LAMB. - -In 1798 its sale was over 2000; and so well had DANIEL STUART managed -his property—being exceedingly well served by his principal assistant, -GEORGE LANE—that when he left _The Morning Post_ for _The Courier_, in -1803, the circulation amounted to 4,500. It, therefore, stood higher in -point of sale than any other morning paper, the order in respect of -numbers from high to low being this: _Morning Post_, _Morning Herald_, -_Morning Advertiser_, _Times_. The amount received for it was about -£25,000. According to JOHN TAYLOR, editor of _The Sun_, in his _Records -of my Life_, _The Morning Post_ was afterwards purchased by Government -to silence attacks on the PRINCE REGENT. - -Much of the success of _The Morning Post_ was undoubtedly owing to the -writings of COLERIDGE. He afterwards declared that he had wasted the -prime and manhood of his intellect in writing for _The Morning Post_ and -_Courier_. Among his contributions to the former (March 19, 1800) was -his famous character of WILLIAM PITT. The last time he wrote in it was -in August, 1802. - -A very competent judge, THOMAS DE QUINCEY, thus alludes to COLERIDGE’S -political writings:—“Worlds of fine thinking,” he says of the daily -press, “lie buried in that vast abyss, never to be disentombed, or -restored to human admiration. Like the sea, it has swallowed treasures -without end, that no diving-bell will bring up again. But nowhere -throughout its shoreless magazines of wealth does there lie such a bed -of pearls, confounded with the rubbish and ‘_purgamenta_’ of ages, as in -the political papers of COLERIDGE. No more appreciable monument could be -raised to the memory of COLERIDGE, than a re-publication of his Essays -in _The Morning Post_, but still more of those afterwards published in -_The Courier_.” These have since been reprinted under the title of -_Essays on his own Times_. - - - - - APPENDIX. - - - THE ANARCHISTS.—An Ode. - - [A Parody on Collins’s Ode to the Passions.] - - —Numero plures, virtute et honore minores, - Indocti stolidique et depugnare parati.—_Hor._ - - When Anarchy, sworn foe to Kings, - O’er Gallia wav’d her crimson wings, - Ere yet she spoil’d with iron hand - Fair Europe’s desolated land; - Her offspring here, a spurious brood, - In faction nurs’d, inur’d to blood, - Elate with Hope, perplex’d with Fear, - Would often raise the listening ear; - And all their mother’s wonders tell, - And throng around her secret cell, - Ranting, bribing, whispering, trembling, - Urging, boasting, and dissembling. - By turns they felt the Gallic mind - Enlarg’d, unprejudic’d, refin’d; - Till once, by all the goddess fir’d, - Beyond Discretion rapt, inspir’d; - Seditious, false, and prone to ill, - They eager snatch’d the grey-goose quill. - And as they oft had heard apart - The wonders of Sedition’s art, - Each, for Madness rul’d the hour, - Would prove his own subversive power. - - First PAINE his _Rights of Man_ display’d, - But could no more—for falsely cross’d - Ev’n by the friends himself had made, - Enraged he fled to Gallia’s coast. - Next PRIESTLEY tried, to whom ’twas given - Mankind’s free-agency to tell; - Ordain’d to point the road to heaven, - In pure free will he points—to hell! - With meagre visage THELWALL came, - In lectures told his sufferings sore; - Till purple tyrants blush’d with shame - And crowds the suffering saint adore. - But thou, O GODWIN! meek and mild; - Speak thy metaphysic page: - Now it cheer’d a laggard age, - And bade new scenes of joy at distance hail; - When tyrant Kings shall be no more, - When human wants and wars shall fail, - And sleep and death shall quit the hallow’d shore. - ’Twas thus he strove to sap the throne. - With borrow’d arts and weapons not his own, - While Gallia clapp’d her hands, and hail’d her favourite child. - - And longer had he sung—but, strange to say, - WAKEFIELD, the dragon-fly, rush’d on; - Eager he sought the bold rebellious fray, - And burst with anger and disdain - The web of sophistry in twain - Which GODWIN, patient sage! had spread - To catch the fluttering insects of the land. - Treason upreared her arm to strike, - Rebellion grasped the murd’rous pike, - And though, sometimes, each maddening pause between, - Soft Discretion, joined with Fear, - Whisper’d her councils in his ear, - Still Anarchy upheld the busy scene, - And raised her shield of brass to guard her vot’ry’s head. - - Next HOLCROFT vowed in doleful tone - No more to fire a thankless age, - Oblivion marked his labours for her own, - Neglected from the press and damn’d upon the stage. - See! faithful to their mighty dam, - COLERIDGE, SOUTHEY, LLOYD, and LAMB, - In splay-foot madrigals of love. - Soft moaning like the widowed dove, - Pour side by side their sympathetic notes. - Of equal rights and civic feasts - And tyrant Kings and knavish Priests - Swift through the land the tuneful mischief floats. - And now to softer strains they struck the lyre, - They sung the beetle, or the mole, - The dying kid, or ass’s foal, - By cruel man permitted to expire. - But O, how altered was the sprightlier hour! - When FOX, the Parthian hero, rose to view; - He o’er the rest high-towering like a steeple - Leagued with a “Corresponding” crew, - Pledged in large floods of wine “their Majesties—the People”. - - The royal tribe accept the proffered power. - Kings from the forge, dictators from the plough, - Peeping from forth their allies low, - Before the fallen arch-seceder bow; - LEPAUX bade Gallia hail his name, - But old St. Stephen bowed his head for shame. - - See NORFOLK last, with BEDFORD roll, - He of Bacchus’ favours proud, - The sovereign mob most eloquent addressed; - But soon he spied the mirth-inspiring bowl, - Whose ruby treasures charmed his soul the best; - They would have thought who heard him speak, - ’Twas Falstaff, with his minions at his back, - High primed with valour, turbulence, and sack, - Aping the monarch to a wondr’ing crowd. - While BEDFORD proud his lesson to rehearse, - With studious labours urged the bold reply: - Shouts of applause ran rattling through the sky: - And he, the hero of the day, - Right glad their servile suffrage to repay, - Shook golden bounty from his swelling purse. - - O, England! heav’n-defended land! - With power to “threaten and command,” - Say, is thy former spirit broke, - To crouch beneath a foreign yoke, - And listen to the idiot strains - Of slaves thy better sense disdains, - As erst, in many an ardent hour, - You awed an adverse haughty power. - Thy lofty mind, to Freedom true, - May well retain what then it knew. - Where is thy former patriot soul, - Above deceit, above controul? - Arise! as in that happier time - United, fearless, bold, sublime. - ’Tis said, and I believe the tale, - Thy efforts then could more avail, - Could more true happiness dispense, - With Order, Morals, virtue, Sense, - Than all that fires with party rage - This boastful philosophic age. - Arise! with manly zeal advance, - To curb the lawless power of France; - O, bid her mad endeavours cease, - And give the willing nations PEACE! - —_Fabricius._ - -[Illustration] - - - THE PASSIONS. - - _An Ode for Music._ - - WILLIAM COLLINS. - - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, - While yet in early Greece she sung, - The Passions oft, to hear her shell, - Throng’d around her magic cell, - Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, - Possess’d beyond the Muse’s painting; - By turns they felt the glowing mind, - Disturb’d, delighted, rais’d, refin’d, - Till once, ’tis said, when all were fir’d, - Fill’d with fury, rapt, inspir’d, - From the supporting myrtles round - They snatch’d her instruments of sound, - And, as they oft had heard apart - Sweet lessons of her forceful art, - Each, for Madness ruled the hour, - Would prove his own expressive power. - - First Fear, his hand, its skill to try, - Amid the chords bewilder’d laid, - And back recoil’d, he knew not why, - Even at the sound himself had made. - - Next Anger rush’d his eyes on fire, - In lightnings own’d his secret stings, - In one rude clash he struck the lyre, - And swept with hurried hand the strings. - - With woful measures wan Despair - Low sullen sounds his grief beguil’d, - A sullen, strange, and mingled air, - ’Twas sad by fits, by starts ’twas wild. - - But thou, O HOPE! with eyes so fair, - What was thy delighted measure? - Still it whisper’d promis’d pleasure, - And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! - Still would her touch the strain prolong, - And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, - She call’d on ECHO still through all the song; - And where her sweetest theme she chose, - A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, - And Hope enchanted smil’d, and wav’d her golden hair. - - And longer had she sung,—but, with a frown, - REVENGE impatient rose, - He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down, - And, with a withering look, - The war-denouncing trumpet took, - And blew a blast so loud and dread, - Were ne’er prophetic sounds so full of woe. - And ever and anon he beat - The doubling drum with furious heat; - And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, - Dejected PITY at his side - Her soul-subduing voice applied; - Yet still he kept his wild unalter’d mien, - While each strain’d ball of sight seem’d bursting from his head, - - Thy numbers, JEALOUSY, to nought were fix’d, - Sad proof of thy distressful state! - Of differing themes the veering song was mix’d, - And now it courted LOVE, now raving call’d on HATE. - With eyes upraised, as one inspir’d, - Pale MELANCHOLY sat retir’d, - And from her wild sequester’d seat, - In notes by distance made more sweet, - Pour’d through the mellow horn her pensive soul: - And dashing soft from rocks around, - Bubbling runnels join’d the sound; - Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, - Or o’er some haunted streams with fond delay, - Round a holy calm diffusing, - Love of peace and lonely musing, - In hollow murmurs died away. - - But oh! how alter’d was its sprightlier tone! - When CHEERFULNESS, a nymph of healthiest hue, - Her bow across her shoulders flung, - Her buskins gemm’d with morning dew, - Blew an inspiring air that dale and thicket rung, - The hunter’s call to Faun and Dryad known; - The oak-crown’d Sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen, - Satyrs and Sylvan boys were seen, - Peeping from forth their alleys green; - Brown EXERCISE rejoic’d to hear, - And SPORT leapt up, and seized his beechen spear. - - Last came JOY’S ecstatic trial; - He with viny crown advancing, - First to the lively pipe his hand address’d; - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, - Whose sweet entrancing voice he lov’d the best. - They would have thought who heard the strain, - They saw in Tempe’s vale her native maids, - Amidst the festal sounding shades, - To some unwearied minstrel dancing: - While, as his flying fingers kiss’d the strings, - LOVE framed with MIRTH a gay fantastic round, - Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound: - And he, amidst his frolic play. - As if he would the charming air repay, - Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings. - - O MUSIC! sphere-descended maid, - Friend of PLEASURE, WISDOM’S aid, - Why, goddess, why to us denied, - Lay’st thou thy ancient lyre aside? - As in that lov’d Athenian bower, - You learn’d an all-commanding power, - Thy mimic soul, O nymph endear’d, - Can well recall what then it heard. - Where is thy native simple heart, - Devote to virtue, fancy, art? - Arise, as in that elder time, - Warm, energetic, chaste, sublime! - Thy wonders, in that god-like age, - Fill thy recording Sister’s page. - ’Tis said, and I believe the tale, - Thy humblest reed could more prevail, - Had more of strength, diviner rage, - Than all which charms this laggard age, - E’en all at once together found - Cecilia’s mingled world of sound. - O bid our vain endeavours cease, - Revive the just designs of Greece; - Return in all thy simple state! - Confirm the tales her sons relate. - -[Illustration] - - - - - THE ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE - - - FOR JULY, 1798. - - MAGNA EST VERITAS ET PRÆVALEBIT. - - _Art. 1. The Republican Judge, or the American Liberty of the Press, - as exhibited, explained, and exposed, in the base and partial - Prosecution of William Cobbett, for a pretended Libel against the - King of Spain and his Embassador, before the Supreme Court of - Pennsylvania. With an Address to the People of England._ - - _By Peter Porcupine. 8vo., pp. 96. Price 2s. Wright, London._ - - The past writings of Mr. William Cobbett, who has assumed the - appellation of Peter Porcupine, are too well known in England to - require any explanation from us, either of _their_ tendency, or of - the author’s principles. Were any doubt entertained on the subject, - nothing more would be requisite to dispel it than a mere reference - to the comments of all the Jacobin Reviewers; who have, without - exception, in defiance alike of decency and of truth, lavished on - them the most indiscriminate censure and the most scurrilous abuse. - Strange as it may appear, it is indisputably true that the - individual exertions of Mr. Cobbett have more essentially - contributed to give a proper tone to the public spirit in America - than all the efforts of the well-disposed part of the native - Americans: for a considerable length of time he combated alone a - host of foes, “himself a host”; stemmed the impetuous tide of - democracy; and checked the irruptions of French anarchy and atheism, - which threatened to overwhelm the American States, and, with the - ruins of their confliction, to crush everything for which the - Americans, at the period of their revolution, professed to fight, - and which they have ever since professed to cherish. The adoption of - such a line of conduct was alone sufficient to draw down upon our - author the vengeance of all whose treasonable designs his manly - efforts were intended to defeat. Accordingly, nothing was spared by - the infuriated advocates of anarchy to injure him in the public - mind, and, by blasting his reputation, to deprive him of that credit - which was indispensably necessary to secure the success of his - works. No imputation however base, no lie however atrocious, none of - those black and diabolical arts, in short, which, issuing from the - bubbling cauldron of democracy, were so skilfully employed to - blacken the first and fairest character in France, as a necessary - prelude to the establishment of the _virtuous_ republic of the Great - Nation, were neglected in the _glorious_ attempt to achieve the ruin - of this worthy individual. When these were found to fail of - producing the desired effect, recourse was had to personal - threats—the coward’s weapon—with the hope of inducing him, by the - means of intimidation, to quit a country in which his enemies - endeavoured to convince him that his life was daily exposed to most - imminent danger. But neither the dread of calumny, nor the fear of - assassination, could lead the object of their persecution to forego - his laudable design. He manfully persevered, and has at length, - though not without infinite difficulty, succeeded in opening the - eyes of the Americans to their own interest, and in the infamous - machinations of France, and of American traitors in the pay of - France—for England is not the ONLY country in which foreign gold is - employed as a stimulus to domestic treason.[330] In the course of - his exertions to produce this desirable end, honest Peter had - occasion to comment on the pusillanimous conduct of the Spanish - monarch, in bending the knee to, and forming an alliance with, the - base plunderers and assassins of his family, and on the insidious - and criminal efforts of the Spanish ambassador to strengthen the - hands of the French faction in America. These comments, it seems, - excited the indignation of Don Carlos Martinez de Trojo, who - determined to bring the author to condign punishment; and it was the - very unwarrantable conduct which the latter experienced on the - occasion that gave rise to the publication before us. - - PETER begins his tract by stating the dangers to which he knew - himself exposed, on account of his political principles, when he - established his residence in the state of Pennsylvania, “where the - government, generally speaking, was in the hands of those who had - (and sometimes with great indecency) manifested an uniform - partiality for the sans-culotte French, and as uniform an opposition - to the ministers and measures of the federal government”. That men - should ever be placed in situations of trust and importance, whose - principles are avowedly adverse to the constitution whence they - derive their subsistence, and which it is their bounden duty to - protect, is a circumstance that would excite universal astonishment - if it did not, unhappily, so often occur. Still the frequency of its - occurrence does not alter its nature, nor should it be allowed to - diminish that ample portion of censure which must ever attach to the - authors of such appointments. It is such conduct as this that - justifies one of the wisest observations that ever fell from the pen - of Voltaire—“A GOVERNMENT CAN ONLY PERISH BY SUICIDE”—an observation - confirmed by the fate of every country that has been recently - reduced beneath the iron yoke of republican France. - - Aware of his danger, our author thought the best means of averting - it was, by seeking for some standard, as a safe rule for his conduct - in respect to the liberty of this press. “The English press was said - to be _enslaved_; but, when I came to consult the practice of this - enslaved press, I found it still to be far too free for me to - attempt to follow its example. Finally, it appeared to me to be the - safest way, to form to myself some rule founded on the liberty - exercised by the _American press_. I concluded that I might without - danger go as great lengths in attacking the enemies of the country - as others went in attacking its friends: that as much zeal might be - shown in defending the general government and administration as in - accusing and traducing them: and that as great warmth would be - admissible in the cause of virtue, order, and religion, as had been - tolerated in the wicked cause of villainy, insurrection, and - blasphemy” (p. 21). Alas! Peter, at this time, knew but little of - the “spirit and temper,” as MR. BARRISTER ERSKINE would express it, - of democracy and Jacobinism. He knew not that the men who profess - those principles are for the most part vindictive, malignant, - oppressive, and intolerant; and that under the mask of liberty they - exercise the most insupportable tyranny over their families and - dependents, and that in their general conduct to their - inferiors—unless when impelled by interest or urged by ambition, - they irritate their passions with toasts and flattery, from a - tavern-chair, or influence their minds by seditious discourses and - treasonable insinuations, from a tribune or a scaffold—they are - supercilious, arrogant, insolent, and overbearing. He knew not, it - would seem, that those whose whole duty is to defend the laws often - _sleep on their posts_, while their enemies are ever vigilant, - active, and alert; that when the former are attacked, a tardiness of - zeal, amounting nearly to torpor, secures, with few exceptions, - impunity to the assailant; whereas any exposure of the latter draws - forth a malignity of revenge which is the certain fore-runner of - persecution. Indeed, the inveteracy of the discontented, of that - class which includes all those who aspire to the possession of place - and power, and are little scrupulous about the means of attaining - them; and all the determined revolutionists or subverters of - established institutions, may be traced to a natural source. Unable - to support by reason a cause which reason disavows, unable to - strengthen by arguments positions which set all argument at - defiance, it becomes their business to inflame by passion and to - dazzle with sophistry. Hence arises an extreme facility of exposing - their weakness and detecting their infamy, and not having the means - of resisting such exposure, being wholly destitute of the sentiments - which are necessary for a successful reply, they are reduced to the - degrading alternative of abandoning the field to a triumphant - adversary, or of seeking, by the adoption of violent measures, to - punish the opponent whom they did not dare to encounter. This it is - that renders revenge an active principle in _their_ minds. - - The first step taken by the Spanish ambassador was an application to - the federal government to prosecute our author “for certain matters - published in his Gazette against himself and that poor, unfortunate, - and humbled mortal, Charles IV., King of Spain”. The government - consented, and Peter was accordingly bound over to appear in the - federal district court before _Judge Peters_. Don Carlos, however, - soon found that his prosecution would be more likely to succeed, if - brought in a district where the defendant had more personal enemies, - and where the people were more generally disposed to the adoption of - revolutionary principles. A memorial was, accordingly, “delivered in - to the federal government, requesting that the trial might come on - before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, of which Court _McKean is - Chief Justice_”. Of this _republican_ Judge our author gives such an - account as must convey to English minds a strange idea of the - administration of _republican_ Justice. It is to be found in P. - 22—When Britons contemplate the character here delineated, and - contrast it with the characters of their own Judges to which even - the licentious tongue of faction has not dared to impute the - smallest stain, their bosoms must glow with satisfaction of the most - exalted kind; they must exult in the superior excellence of that - form of government and of those laws which effectually secure them - from the evils of a vicious, corrupt, or partial distribution of - justice. After giving an historical detail of the proceedings - against him, accompanied by copies of the warrant to apprehend him, - the imputed libels, the bill of indictment, and the Judge’s charge, - Peter exclaims—“This, when it comes to be served up in Britain, will - be a dish for a king. The royalists will lick their lips, and the - republicans will cry, God bless us! The emigrations _for liberty’s - sake_ will cease, and we shall have nothing but the pure - unadulterated dregs of Newgate and the Fleet, the candidates for - Tyburn and Botany Bay—Blessed cargo! All _patriots_ to the backbone: - true philanthropists and universal citizens: fit for any place but - England in this world and heaven in the next!” - - But, notwithstanding the Judge’s charge, the most partial and - scandalous charge, we conceive, that ever was delivered _out of - France_, the Grand Jury refused to find the bill, and the - prosecution of course ceased. The Judge, not less disappointed than - the prosecutor, on this occasion, took an early opportunity—to his - infamy be it recorded!—of declaring from the Bench that the Grand - Jury would not _do their duty_. What would the disaffected in this - country say were any British Judge to use such language? The gross - imputations cast upon the character of our author by this - _impartial_ Judge, have extorted from Peter a tribute of justice to - himself which the occasion most amply justifies. As the account here - given perfectly accords with all the information we have received - from persons of undoubted veracity who know him well, and as it - fully corroborates the opinion we ourselves have formed of him, from - an attentive perusal of his publications, we shall extract it for - the satisfaction of our readers:—“It hardly ever becomes a man to - say much of his private character or concerns; but on this occasion - I trust I shall be indulged for a moment. I will say, and I will - make that saying good, whosoever shall oppose it, that I never - attacked any one, whose private character is not, in every light in - which it can possibly be viewed as far beneath mine as infamy is - beneath honour. Nay, I defy the city of Philadelphia, populous as it - is, and respectable as are many of its inhabitants, to produce me a - single man who is more sober, industrious, or honest; who is a - kinder husband, a tenderer father, a better master, a fonder friend, - or (though last not least) a more zealous and faithful subject. - - “Most certainly it is unseemly in any one to say this much of - himself unless compelled to it by some public outrage on his - character; but when the accusation is made notorious so ought the - defence; and I do again and again repeat, that I fear not a - comparison between my character and that of any man in this city: - no, not even with that of the very Judge, who held me as the worst - of miscreants. His Honour is welcome, if he please, to carry this - comparison into _all_ the actions of our lives, public and - _domestic_, and to extend it beyond ourselves to _every branch of - our families_. - - “As to my writing, I never did slander any one, if the promulgation - of useful truths be not slander. Innocence and virtue I have often - endeavoured to defend, but I never defamed either. I have, indeed, - stripped the close-drawn veil of hypocrisy; I have ridiculed the - follies, and lashed the vices of thousands, and have done it - sometimes perhaps with a rude and violent hand. But these are not - the days for gentleness and mercy. Such as is the temper of the foe, - such must be that of his opponent. Seeing myself published as a - rogue, _and my wife a whore_; being persecuted with such infamous, - such base and hellish calumny in the _philanthropic_ city of - Philadelphia, merely for asserting _the truth_ respecting others, - was not calculated, I assure you, to sweeten my temper, and turn my - ink into honey-dew. - - “My attachment to order and good government, nothing but the - impudence of Jacobinism can deny. The object not only of my own - publications, but also of all those which I have introduced or - encouraged, from the first moment that I appeared on the public - scene to the present day, has been to lend some aid in stemming the - torrent of anarchy and confusion. To undeceive the misguided, by - tearing the mask from the artful and ferocious villains who owing to - the infatuation of the poor, and the supineness of the rich, have - made such fearful progress in the destruction of all that is amiable - and good and sacred among men. To the government of this country in - particular it has been my constant study to yield all the support in - my power. When that government, or the worthy men who administer it - have been traduced and vilified, I have stood forward in their - defence, and that too, in times when its friends were some of them - locked up in silence, and others giving way to the audacious - violence of its foes. Not that I am so foolishly vain as to - attribute to my illiterate voter a thousandth part of the merit my - friends are inclined to allow it. As I wrote the other day to a - gentleman who had paid me some compliments on this score, ‘I should - never look on my family with a dry eye if I did not hope to outlive - my works’. They are mere transitory beings to which the - revolutionary storm has given life, and which with that storm will - expire. But, what I contend for and what nobody can deny, I have - done all that laid in my power, all that I was able by any means to - accomplish in order to counteract the nefarious effects of the - enemies of the American government and nation. - - “With respect to religion, altho’ Mr. M’Kean was pleased to number - it among the things that were in danger from the licentiousness of - the press, and of course from poor _me_, I think it would puzzle the - devil himself to produce from my writings, a single passage, which - could, by all the powers of perversion be twisted into an attack - upon it. But it would on the contrary be extremely easy to prove, - that I have at all times, when an opportunity offered, repelled the - attacks of its enemies, the abominable battalions of Deists and - Atheists, with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and - with all my strength. The bitterest drop in my pen has ever been - bestowed upon them; because, of all the foes of the human race, I - look upon them, after the devil, as being the greatest and most - dreadful. Not a sacrilegious plunderer from Henry VIII. to - Condorcet, and from Condorcet to the impious Sans-culottes of - France, has escaped my censure. All those, who have attempted to - degrade religion whether by open insults and cruelties to the - clergy, by blasphemous publications or by the more dangerous poison - of the malignant modern philosophy, I have ranked amongst the most - infamous of mankind, and have treated them accordingly.” - - In the concluding part of his tract the author clearly convicts the - Judge of the most decided and most flagrant partiality. He quotes a - number of infamous libels, on religious and political subjects, - which had never roused the indignation, nor even excited the - censure, of those whose duty it is to preserve the public peace and - to enforce a due observance of the laws. If, indeed, we were to - judge, from this specimen, of the mode of administring justice in - America, in matters of libel, we should conclude, that every degree - of licentiousness is allowed to those who seek to debauch the minds - of the people, to seduce them from their allegiance, and to dissolve - every tie which religion and morality have formed for the happiness - of men in a social state, while the upright supporters of virtue, - whose labours are directed to the prevention of anarchy and - rebellion, by detecting the views and exposing the machinations of - their abettors, are the sole objects not merely of _pro_secution but - of _per_secution. - - The abuse bestowed on the mild and beneficent sovereigns of these - realms by the Democratic factions in the American Congress, is - almost equal in severity to the censures lavished by some members of - opposition during the _last_ parliament in the British Senate, on - the Kings of Prussia and Hungary, _before_ those monarchs had become - allies of _France_. - - The following extracts will, at once, afford a criterion of the - political principles of public men, in the State of Pennsylvania, - and a curious specimen of republican _morality_. - - “The _Governor_ (Mifflin) attended at a civic festival, when the - following toasts were drunk, which were published in most of the - newspapers.[331] - - “‘Those _illustrious citizens_ sent to Botany Bay. May they be - _speedily recalled_ by their country in _the day of her - regeneration_.’ - - “‘May the spirit of parliamentary reform in Britain and Ireland - _burst the bonds of corruption, and overwhelm the foes of liberty_.’ - - “‘The _sans-culottes_ of France. May the robes of _all_ the - _Emperors_, _Kings_, _Princes_, and _Potentates_ [not excepting the - _King of Spain_] now employed in suppressing the flame of liberty, - be cut up to make breeches.’ - - “This is pretty ‘_decent_’ in a _Governor_; but without stopping to - remark on the peculiar _decency_ of his toasting a gang of - _convicts_, let us come to another instance of his conduct, full as - ‘_decent_’ as this. - - “At the civic festival, held in this city in 1794, to celebrate the - dethronement of ‘our great and good ally, Louis XVI.’ there were - ‘assembled,’ according to the ‘_procès verbal_’ which was sent to - the Paris convention, ‘the CHIEFS, _civil and military_’. This - _procès verbal_ contains a letter to the convention, in which the - following honourable mention is made of the governor. ‘The Governor - of Pennsylvania, that _ardent friend of the French republic_, was - present, and partook of _all our enthusiasm_ and _all our - sentiments_.’[332] - - “I believe they spoke truth; for the cannons of the State were - fired, and military companies, with drums beating and colours - flying, attended the execrable fête, one of the ceremonies of which - was _burning the English flag_; and as to the sentiments contained - in the _oaths_ and _speeches_ (for there were both) they abounded in - insults towards almost all the princes of the earth, but - particularly the King of Great Britain. - - “A Judge of Pennsylvania, REDMAN, was, in November, 1795, caught - thieving in the shop of MR. FOLWELL, the dry-goods merchant in Front - Street. MR. FOLWELL detected him, took the money ($300) from him, - and kicked him into the street. His _friends_, among the most - intimate of whom was His Excellency the Governor, advised him to - _retire_; and he is still living at his ease about 20 miles from the - city. No justice was ever done to him; he was never censured, not - even in the newspapers! Such is the cowardly, base, and worthless - press of America. Such are _republican judges_, and such is - republican morality! But this is not the worst. I know a Judge who - _committed murder_! wilful murder, and that, too, previous to his - appointment by this our republican Governor! - - “I only give a sort of hint here. One day or other if it pleases God - to spare my life, I will publish such a collection of facts as will - shock the universe. - - “A Pennsylvania _Judge’s wife_ had, a little while ago, a child, by - a man who kept a livery stable. The _lady_ says, the stableman is - the best of the two and so has married him, though _his Honour_ is - still living. I need not name the parties, for though the cowardly - newspapers have never noticed the affair it is notorious enough. - - “There are more bastards born annually in the single state of - Pennsylvania, than in all the British dominions: and as to - cuckoldom, I will only say that every paper teems with - _advertisements of wives eloped_ from the bed and board of their - husbands. I do not hence insinuate that there are _no good people_ - here. There are many. As many as in most countries; but then people - will, and do allow, that the morals of the country are approaching - fast to that state, which has never yet failed to prove the ruin of - every thing held in esteem amongst men.” - - In proving the falsehood of the assertion so frequently repeated, as - well on this as on the other side of the Atlantic, that “in - _America_ the press is _free_ and truth is _not_ a libel,” our - author adverts to a letter of DR. PRIESTLEY’S on that subject which - he promises hereafter to expose more fully (a promise which we trust - he will not forget); and then introduces the following curious - anecdote, which we extract for the benefit of the Doctor’s political - friends and admirers in Europe. “But since the Doctor wrote that - letter it seems experience has changed his opinion. He has suffered - the just punishment of his malignancy against his country; he has - been cheated, neglected, and scorned. He is now in an obscurity - hardly penetrable; he is reduced to poverty and bursting with - vexation” (may a restless spirit of innovation, springing from, and - nourished by, a bigotted vanity and a turbulent pride ever - experience a similar fate)! All this has had an effect; and I will - state as a fact, which I call upon him to deny if he can, that he - has lately declared “that _Republican governments are the most - arbitrary in the world_”! This MACHIAVEL had said before, and this - all unprejudiced men of reading and observation had long since - admitted; but, we confess we little expected to hear DOCTOR - PRIESTLEY subscribe to the creed of the one, or to the - acknowledgments of the other. Adversity, however, is an able - advocate in the cause of TRUTH. - - The Address to the People of England, which is prefixed to the - publication, is short, but pointed and expressive. It breathes the - true spirit of a Briton. Of the literary merit of the work, after - the ample analysis which we have given of its contents, and the - extracts which we have made, little remains to be said. We agree - with the publisher, who in the Advertisement says: “The author has - been more anxious to strengthen his arguments than to polish his - style, to convince the judgment than to flatter the taste,” but - those critics must be more “_delicate_” or fastidious who can reject - substantial advantages for fanciful defects. Though Peter aim not at - embellishments, he possesses great strength and energy of language, - and generally writes with more accuracy than most of the American - authors, who, be it observed, have a phraseology peculiar to - themselves. This tract contains much important information, and we - strenuously recommend it to the serious perusal of our countrymen; - particularly to such of them as are disposed to question the - superior advantages which they enjoy, over ALL republican states - under our own well-poised and limited MONARCHY. The following - admonitions with which the author concludes, will, we trust, have a - due effect on the minds of those to whom they are addressed. “Such, - _Britons_, is the fruit of republican government _here_; not among - the apish and wolfish French, but among a people descended from the - same ancestors as yourselves. When your monarchial government bears - such fruits, let it, I say, be hewn down and cast into the fire; but - till that disgraceful and dreadful day comes, watch over it with - care and defend it to the last drop of your blood, preserve it as - you would a golden casket, the apple of your eye, or the last dear - gift of your dying parents. With this I conclude, praying the God of - our fathers to lead you in the practice of all their virtues, to - give wisdom to your minds and strength to your arms, to keep you - firm and united, honest and generous, loyal, brave, and free; but - above all, to preserve you from the desolating and degrading curse - of revolutionary madness and modern _republicanism_.” - - - - - PETER PORCUPINE’S WILL. - - - [By WILLIAM COBBETT. Published in _The Anti-Jacobin Review and - Magazine_; or Monthly Political and Literary Censor: from July to - December, 1798. Vol. i., pp. 725–8.—ED.] - -In the name of Fun, Amen. I PETER PORCUPINE, Pamphleteer and Newsmonger, -being (as yet) sound both in body and in mind, do, this fifteenth day of -_April_, in the Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and -ninety-seven, make, declare, and publish, this my LAST WILL AND -TESTAMENT, in manner, form, and substance following; to wit: - - IN PRIMIS, - -I leave my body to Doctor Michael Lieb, a member of the Legislature of -Pennsylvania, to be by him dissected (if he knows how to do it) in -presence of the Rump of the Democratic Society. In it they will find a -heart that held them in abhorrence, that never palpitated at their -threats, and that, to its last beat, bade them defiance. But my chief -motive for making this bequest is, that my spirit may look down with -contempt on their cannibal-like triumph over a breathless corpse. - -_Item._ As I make no doubt that the above said Doctor Lieb (and some -other Doctors that I could mention) would like very well to skin me, I -request that they, or one of them may do it, and that the said Lieb’s -father may tan my skin; after which I desire my Executors to have seven -copies of my Works complete, bound in it, one copy to be presented to -the Five Sultans of France, one to each of their Divans, one to the -Governor of Pennsylvania, to Citizens Maddison, Giles, and Gallatin one -each, and the remaining one to the Democratic Society of Philadelphia, -to be carefully preserved among their archives. - -_Item._ To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councils of the City of -Philadelphia, I bequeath all the sturdy young hucksters, who infest the -market, and who to maintain their bastards, tax the honest inhabitants -many thousand pounds annually. I request them to take them into their -worshipful keeping; to chasten their bodies for the good of their souls; -and moreover to keep a sharp look-out after their gallants; and remind -the latter of the old proverb: _Touch pot, touch penny_. - -_Item._ To T—— J——son, Philosopher, I leave a curious Norway Spider, -with a hundred legs and nine pair of eyes; likewise the first black -cut-throat general he can catch hold of, to be flead alive, in order to -determine with more certainty the real cause of the dark colour of his -skin; and should the said T—— J——son survive Banneker the Almanack -Maker; I request he will get the brains of said Philomath carefully -dissected, to satisfy the world in what respects they differ from those -of a white man. - -_Item._ To the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, I will and -bequeath a correct copy of Thornton’s plan for abolishing the use of the -English language, and for introducing in its stead a republican one, the -representative characters of which bear a strong resemblance to -pot-hooks and hangers; and for the discovery of which plan, the said -society did, in the year 1793, grant to the said language maker 500 -dollars premium. It is my earnest desire, that the copy of this valuable -performance, which I hereby present, may be shown to all the travelling -literati, as a proof of the ingenuity of the author and of the wisdom of -the society. - -_Item._ To Doctor Benjamin Rush, I will and bequeath a copy of _The -Censor_ for January, 1797; but, upon the express condition, that he does -not in anywise or guise, either at the time of my death, or _Six months -after_, pretend to speak, write, or publish an eulogium on me, my -calling or character, either literary, military, civil, or political. - -_Item._ To my dear fellow labourer Noah Webster, “gentleman-citizen,” -Esq. and News-man, I will and bequeath a prognosticating barometer of -curious construction and great utility, by which, at a single glance, -the said Noah will be able to discern the exact state that the public -mind will be in in the ensuing year, and will thereby be enabled to -_trim by degrees_ and not expose himself to detection, as he now does by -his sudden lee-shore tacks. I likewise bequeath to the said -“gentleman-citizen,” six Spanish milled dollars, to be expended on a new -plate of his portrait at the head of his spelling book, that which -graces it at present being so ugly that it scares the children from -their lessons; but this legacy is to be paid him only upon condition -that he leave out the title of _’Squire_, at the bottom of said picture, -which is extremely odious in an American school-book, and must -inevitably tend to corrupt the political principles of the republican -babies that behold it. And I do most earnestly desire, exhort and -conjure the said ’Squire news-man, to change the title of his paper, -_The Minerva_, for that of _The Political Centaur_. - -_Item._ To F. A. Mughlenburg, Esq., Speaker of a late house of -Representatives of the United States, I leave a most superbly finished -statue of Janus. - -_Item._ To Tom the Tinker, I leave a liberty-cap, a tricoloured cockade, -a wheel-barrow full of oysters, and a hogshead of grog: I also leave him -three blank checks on the bank of Pennsylvania, leaving to him the task -of _filling them up_; requesting him, however, to be rather more -merciful than he has shown himself heretofore. - -_Item._ To the Governor of Pennsylvania, and to the late President and -Cashier of the Bank of the said State, as to joint Legatees, I will and -bequeath that good old proverb: _Honesty is the best policy_. And this -legacy I have chosen for these worthy gentlemen, as the only thing about -which I am sure they will never disagree. - -_Item._ To T—— Coxe, of Philadelphia, citizen, I will and bequeath a -crown of hemlock, as a recompense for his attempt to throw an odium on -the administration of General Washington; and I most positively enjoin -my Executors, to see that the said crown be shaped exactly like that -which this spindle-shanked legatee wore before Gen. Howe, when he made -his triumphal entry into Philadelphia. - -_Item._ To Thomas Lord Bradford (otherwise called Goosy Tom), -Bookseller, Printer, News-man, and member of the Philosophical Society -of Philadelphia, I will and bequeath a copy of the peerage of Great -Britain, in order that the said Lord Thomas may the more exactly -ascertain what probability there is of his succeeding to the seat, which -his noble relation now fills in the House of Lords. - -_Item._ To all and singular the authors in the United States, whether -they write verse or prose, I will and bequeath a copy of my Life and -Adventures; and I advise the said authors to study with particular care -the 40th and 41st pages thereof; more especially and above all things, I -exhort and conjure them never to _publish it together_, though the -bookseller should be a saint. - -_Item._ To Edmund Randolph, Esq., late Secretary of State, to Mr. J. A. -Dallas, Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania, and to His Excellency, -Thomas Miffin, Governor of the said unfortunate State, I will and -bequeath, to each of them, a copy of the sixteenth paragraph of -Fauchet’s _intercepted letter_. - -_Item._ To Citizen John Swanwick, member of Congress, by the will and -consent of the sovereign people, I leave bills of Exchange on London to -an enormous amount; they are _all protested_, indeed, but if properly -managed, may be turned to good account. I likewise bequeath to the said -John a small treatise by an Italian author, wherein the secret of -pleasing the ladies is developed, and reduced to a mere mechanical -operation, without the least dependence on the precarious aid of the -passions. Hoping that these instances of my liberality will produce, in -the mind of the little legislature, effects quite different from those -produced therein by the King of Great Britain’s pension to his parents. - -_Item._ To the Editors of the _Boston Chronicle_, the _New York Argus_, -and the _Philadelphia Merchants’ Advertiser_, I will and bequeath one -ounce of modesty and love of truth, to be equally divided between them. - -I should have been more liberal in this bequest, were I not well -assured, that one ounce is more than they will ever make use of. - -_Item._ To Franklin Bache, Editor of the _Aurora of Philadelphia_, I -will and bequeath a small bundle of French assignats, which I brought -with me from the country of equality. If these should be too light in -value for his pressing exigencies, I desire my executors, or any one of -them, to bestow on him a second part to what he has lately received in -Southwark: and as a further proof of my good will and affection, I -request him to accept of a gag and a brand new pair of fetters, which, -if he should refuse, I will and bequeath him in lieu thereof—my -malediction. - -_Item._ To my beloved countrymen, the people of Old England, I will and -bequeath a copy of Doctor Priestley’s _Charity Sermon for the benefit of -poor Emigrants_; and to the said preaching philosopher himself, I -bequeath a heart full of disappointment, grief, and despair. - -_Item._ To the good people of France, who remain attached to their -sovereign, particularly to those among whom I was hospitably received, I -bequeath each a good strong dagger: hoping most sincerely that they may -yet find courage enough to carry them to the hearts of their abominable -tyrants. - -_Item._ To Citizen M——oe, I will and bequeath my chamber looking-glass. -It is a plain but exceeding true mirror; in it he will see the exact -likeness of a traitor, who has bartered the honour and interest of his -country to a perfidious and savage enemy. - -_Item._ To the Republican Britons, who have fled from the hands of -justice in their own country, and who are a scandal, a nuisance, and a -disgrace to this, I bequeath hunger and nakedness, scorn and reproach; -and I do hereby positively enjoin on my executors to contribute five -hundred dollars towards the erection of gallowses and gibbets, for the -accommodation of the said imported patriots, when the legislators of -this unhappy state shall have the wisdom to countenance such useful -establishments. - -_Item._ My friend, J. T. Callender, the runaway from Scotland, is, of -course, a partaker in the last mentioned legacy; but as a particular -mark of my attention, I will and bequeath him twenty feet of pine plank, -which I request my executors to see made into a pillory, to be kept for -his particular use, till a gibbet can be prepared. - -_Item._ To Tom Paine, the author of _Common Sense_, _Rights of Man_, -_Age of Reason_, and a _Letter to General Washington_, I bequeath a -strong hempen collar, as the only legacy I can think of that is worthy -of him as well as best adapted to render his death in some measure as -infamous as his life: and I do hereby direct and order my Executors to -send it to him by the first safe conveyance with my compliments, and -request that he would make use of it without delay, that the national -razor may not be disgraced by the head of such a monster. - -_Item._ To the gaunt outlandish orator, vulgarly called the Political -Sinner, who in the just order of things follows next after the last -mentioned legatee, I bequeath the honour of partaking in his -catastrophe; that in their deaths, as well as in their lives, all the -world may exclaim: “_See how rogues hang together_”. - -_Item._ To all and singular the good people of these States, I leave -peace, union, abundance, happiness, untarnished honour, and an -unconquerable everlasting hatred to the French Revolutionists and their -destructive abominable principles. - -_Item._ To each of my Subscribers I leave a _quill_, hoping that in -their hands it may become a sword against every thing that is hostile to -the government and independence of their country. - -_Lastly._ To my three brothers, Paul, Simon, and Dick, I leave my whole -estate, as well real as personal (first paying the foregoing legacies) -to be equally divided between them, share and share alike. And I do -hereby make and constitute my said three brothers the Executors of this -my LAST WILL; to see the same performed, according to its true intent -and meaning, as far as in their power lies. - - PETER PORCUPINE. - - Witnesses present, - - Philo Fun, } - Jack Jockus. } - - - - - THE VISION OF LIBERTY. - - - _Written in the manner of Spenser._ - -[As the virulent style of political writing prevalent ninety years ago -is now but little known, the present edition of _The Poetry of the -Anti-Jacobin_ seemed a convenient medium for giving some specimens of it -which appeared in _The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine_, a work -conducted on the same principles, but by different writers, and with the -cognizance of the government. Two of them were by W. COBBETT, who, had -he been less arrogant and contentious, and more consistent, would have -been, in the words of Lord Dalling, “a very great man in the world; as -it was he made a great noise in it”. (See pp. 311–319.) - -_The Vision of Liberty_ is by C. KIRKPATRICK SHARPE, an author and -artist much esteemed by Scottish antiquarians, of which specimens only -need be given. Of _The Anarchists_, the author is not known.] - - I. - - O wretched man, how long wilt thou refuse - Thy Maker’s favour, and His mercy great? - How long thy worldly happiness abuse, - And growl and grumble at thy present state? - Seeking accursed change both soon and late, - And newest modes allured still to try— - England, beware God’s wrath to aggravate, - For foreign magic blinds thy charmed eye, - And Liberty, sweet Liberty, is now the constant cry. - - II. - - As on my couch in slumber’s arms I lay, - A vision did my senses entertain; - Of late, me thought in France I miss’d my way, - Amid a columnless deserted plain; - No man or beast upon it did remain, - Swept off by Discord’s wide destroying strife: - Ne planted fence, ne field of waving grain, - Marking the toiling farmer’s busy life, - But ruined huts and castles, brent, were wondrous rife. - - III. - - Yet on this plain, most goodly to behold, - Saw I a temple tow’ring to the sky, - The dome where of was made of basest gold, - Most false, but yet most lovely to the eye; - And rotting pillars reareth it on high, - Of ghastly human heads, and clotted gore, - With dust, y’mixt the mortar doth supply, - While foulest birds still round this temple soar, - And filthy serpents hiss, and giant hyenas roar. - - IV. - - Among the heads that did the mass compose, - Three royal skulls were there—one of a king— - Meek saint, who never once revil’d his foes, - His bloody foes that him to scaffold bring; - One of a maid; O heaven! that I could sing - With Spenser’s tongue, her spotless purity, - Her holy zeal, in courts so rare a thing, - By lawless fiends condemn’d she was to die, - And sent, untimely sent, to seek her native sky. - - V. - - The third I marked with melancholy eyes, - A female head, that once a crown did wear, - Cut off in life’s full bloom, now low she lies, - The loose loves weeping o’er her early bier, - Nor Virtue’s self denies a tender tear; - So young a creature, wonder not she fell, - And left the paths of chastity severe, - Debauched by a court where lust did dwell - Like treach’rous Circe, skill’d in many a witching spell. - - VI. - - Ah! where are now her gorgeous robes of state, - The glitt’ring gems that did her fairness deck? - The cringing nobles that on her did wait, - The high-born dames that kneeled at her beck? - Alas! a ghastly face, a bloody neck, - A simple winding-sheet is now her share; - Look here, ye proud ones, on this mighty wreck, - And learn what perishable stuff ye are, - From her poor mangled carcase, once so sweet and fair. - - VII. - - And on the ground there lay a murder’d child, - A piteous sight it was, and full of woe, - Who, when alive, by every art defil’d, - With poison, they at last did overthrow, - Wretches, who never ruth or conscience know; - O lovely flowret cropt by villain hands, - How will thy butchers dread th’ almighty brow, - Arm’d with frowns, when each at judgment stands, - And God the meed of murder from His throne commands. - - VIII. - - Then o’er the portal was this motto plac’d, - “The house of liberty,” in gold y’writ, - And, vent’ring in, I stood like one amaz’d - Such sights of horror on my heart-strings smit. - There Infidelity, in moody fit, - Hugg’d Suicide—there Rage, and deadly Fears, - There Lechery, with goatish leer did sit, - And Murder, quaffing up his victim’s tears, - With thousand other crimes, too foul for human ears. - - IX. - - In ’mid the house an image stood in state, - Like to VOLTAIRE in visage and in shape, - Wither’d his heart with fellest rage and hate - Shrivell’d and lean his carcase like an ape - And numerous crowds upon the same did gape, - As he all-naked stood to every eye; - Above an altar covered with crape, - And formed of his books one might descry, - Profane and lewd it was, and cramm’d with many a lie. - - X. - - And still from ’neath the altar roared he, - As from a bull lowing in cavern deep, - “Come worship me, _O men_, come worship me; - Spit on the cross, of Jesus take no keep, - I promise you an everlasting sleep; - The soul and body both shall turn to clay; - Ye penitents, why do ye sigh and weep? - Let not damnation’s terrors you affray, - Come learn my lore that drives all foolish fears away”. - - · · · · · - - XIV. - - Next came that cursed felon THOMAS PAINE, - Mounted upon a tiger fierce and fell; - And still a shower of blood on him doth rain, - With tears that from the eyes of widows well; - Loud in his ears the cries of orphans yell; - The axe impending o’er his head alway - While devils wait to catch his soul to hell, - The knave is fill’d with anguish and dismay— - And anxious round he looks, even straws do him affray. - - XV. - - Then saw I mounted on a braying ass - WILLIAM and MARY, sooth, a couple jolly; - Who married, note ye how it came to pass, - Although each held that marriage was but folly. - - · · · · · - - XVIII. - - Then came MARIA HELEN WILLIAMS STONE, - Sitting upon a goat with bearded chin; - And she hath written volumes many a one; - Better the idle jade had learned to spin. - - · · · · · - - XIX. - - Next mounted on a monster like a louse, - With parchments loaded, came a man of law,[333] - Sprung from an ancient Caledonian house, - Cunningly could he quibble out a flaw; - And this sage man would chatter like a daw, - To prove the moon green cheese, and black, pure white, - Spitting out treason from his greedy maw; - To breed sedition was his chief delight, - And scratch men’s scabs to ulcers still with all his might. - - XX. - - Then on an Irish bull of skin and bone, - A foul churl[334] rode, who still a harp would strum, - A harp Hibernian, stringless saving one, - Well tun’d to harsh sedition’s growling hum; - He hit the bull on which he had his bum - Full many a bitter pang, nor gave him rest— - Dealing his blows on Teagues that round him come, - Grieving the while for man and brute opprest, - Chaunting the Irish howl, abhorr’d of man and beast. - - XXI. - - O IRELAND, spot accurs’d—tho’ glorious fair, - Shines there the sun, the flowers enamell’d blow, - And scent, with fragrance sweet, the balmy air, - Rippling the gliding pools that softly flow; - No noxious reptile there to man a foe - Abides, but black revenge with cautious plan, - Cool-blooded cruelty with torments slow, - Springs rank; with weeds the goodly soil’s o’er-ran, - And all the reptile’s venom rankles in the man. - - XXII. - - Then in a gorgeous car of beaten gold, - Drove on a portly man, of mighty rank,[335] - A person comely, of extraction old; - But, carrion-like, his reputation stank; - Sly was the wight, with crafty quip and crank, - To cram with glittering coin his bursting bags; - Yet whilom taxing-men play’d him a prank, - By catching in their traps some strayed nags, - And eke some livery slaves, in miser’s livery rags. - - XXIII. - - Then on a turtle came proud London’s Mayor, - Followed by Aldermen, a frowsy crew, - Strong smelling of Cheapside, and luscious fair, - Yet apoplexy made his followers few. - Long antlers on the head of each man grew, - So that they seem’d a host of moving horn; - Anon as on they came they’d mump and chew, - Stuffing their guts from dawning of the morn, - Till shades of evening fell—for eating only born. - - XXIV. - - On a cock sparrow fed with Spanish flies, - A swilling Captain came, with liquor mellow, - And still the crowd in hideous uproar cries,[336] - “Sing us a bawdy song, thou d——d good fellow”, - Incontinent he sets himself to bellow, - And shouts with all the strength that in him lies; - The Citizets exclaim, “He’s sans pareilly O”; - The Citizens in raptures roll their eyes, - And drink with leathern ears, the fool’s lewd ribaldries. - - XXV. - - On came these wights, and many more beside, - Thick as the grains of sand upon the shore, - Thick as a swarm of flies in summer tide, - That on a dunghill hive and hover o’er; - Most had their hides all scall’d, their trousers tore; - Many sans breeches, shameless trudg’d along, - And many a noble knave and titled w——e, - With Irish bog-trotters would crowd and throng, - Carolling catches base, and filthy French chanson. - - XXVI. - - Like roaring waves they cover’d all the plain; - And tho’ equality they still requir’d, - Each cudgell’d sore his breast with might and main, - Each to get foremost ardently desir’d. - Some fell into the dirt, and foul were mir’d, - The rest rode over them and took no heed. - Their yells, with patriotic ardour fired, - So made my flesh to quake with very dread, - That Morpheus left my couch, and all the vision fled. - -The insertion of the foregoing poem (which was never printed) into your -entertaining and useful publication, will much oblige, - - Your humble servant, - C. K. - -[Illustration] - - - - - INDEX TO THE _ANTI-JACOBIN_. - - - _4th Edition, 1799; 2 vols., 8vo._ - - - A. - - _Abuse_, a new and approved method of conveying, vol. i., p. 502. - - _Acme and Septimius_, or the Happy Union, vol. i., p. 452. - - _Advertisements_: Government strenuously advised to withdraw them from - the Jacobin Papers, vol. ii., p. 119. - - _Advertisements_, Government, withdrawn from the Jacobin Papers, vol. - ii., pp. 308, 490. - - _Address_ of City of Londonderry to Lord Camden, vol. i., p. 356; His - Lordship’s Reply, 358. - - _Ad—r_, Mr. Robert, tries to imitate Mr. Burke’s style, vol. i., p. - 377—fails egregiously—mistakes a coffin for a corpse—transmutes - the head of the house of Russell into lead, p. 378—writes half a - letter to Mr. Fox—and puts the world in high good humour, p. 422. - - _Agricola_: his letter on the advantages of a well-regulated economy, - vol. i., p. 583. - - _Anecdotes_ respecting Lord Duncan’s victory, vol. i., pp. 38, 107. - - _Appropriate_ Speech—See Lord William Russell. - - _Assessed Taxes_: benefits arising from trebling them, vol. i., p. - 16—horrible effects of, vol. i., pp. 347, 503. - - _Assessed Taxes_ evaded by the Duke of Bedford—See _Bedford_, Duke of. - - - B. - - _Bachelor_: his letter, vol. i., p. 258—his definition of a patriot, - vol. i., p. 261. - - _Bacchus_: a life of him forged by the _Morning Chronicle_ for the - diabolical purpose of burlesquing the life and death, and - resurrection and ascension of Our BLESSED SAVIOUR, vol. i., p. - 220, &c. - - _Ballynahinch_, a _loyal_ town of Lord Moira’s—a meeting of rebel - delegates held there, vol. i., p. 83. - - _Ballynahinch_, a new song, vol. ii., p. 603. - - _Ballynahinchers_: loyal countenances of, read by Lord Moira, vol. - ii., p. 507—loyal professions of, heard by ditto—rob the king’s - stores—debauch his troops—attack them, and are cut to pieces, vol. - ii., p. 519. - - _Bedford_, Duke of: his Surcharge of 25 Servants and 17 Horses, vol - i., pp. 230, 254. - - _Bedford_, Duke of: justified for evading the Assessed Taxes, by the - _Morning Post_, vol. i., p. 255—and by the _Morning Chronicle_, p. - 297—proved to have gained much honour by evading the Assessed - Taxes, by the _Morning Post_, vol. i., p. 256—cleared from any - attempt to evade the Assessed Taxes, by a note of admiration, by - the _Courier_, p. 350. - - _Beresford_, Mr., character of him, vol. ii., p. 556. - - _Bit_ of an Ode to Mr. Fox, vol. i., p. 422. - - _Blockade_ of the Seine, vol. i., pp. 571, 616. - - _Blasphemy_ attempted without success by the _Morning Post_, vol. i., - p. 505—and by the _Courier_—fully succeeded in by the _Morning - Chronicle_, vol. i., p. 325, &c. - - _Bosville_, Mr., Banker to the Corresponding Society, vol. i., p. 409. - - _Brownrigg_, Mrs.: Inscription for the Door of her Cell in Newgate, - vol. i., p. 35. - - _British Merchant_, his Letter on the misrepresentations of the Party, - with respect to the continuance of the War, vol. i., p. 593. - - _Brissot’s_ Ghost, vol. ii., p. 236. - - _Burdett_, Sir Something: his affectionate mention of Mr. Paine at the - Shakespeare Tavern, vol. i., p. 136. - - _Burdett_, Sir Francis, runner to the Corresponding Society, vol. i., - p. 408. - - _Buonaparté_: his health given by Mr. Macfungus, vol. i., p. 35—his - Letter to the Commandant at Zanté, vol. ii., p. 535. - - - C. - - _Camille Jordan_, asserts that one of our Jacobin Newspapers is in the - pay of France, vol. i., pp. 507, 622; vol. ii., pp. 17, 51, 86, - 488. - - _Cambridge Intelligencer_, detected and exposed, vol. ii., pp. 263, - 296. - - _Chevy Chase_; a Ballad to the Tune of, vol. ii., p. 21. - - _Choice_, The: an Ode, vol. i., p. 263. - - _Clare_, The Earl of, Character of, vol. ii., p. 544. - - _Clare_, Earl of: proposes a question respecting the extent of Lord - Moira’s DUPERY, vol. ii., p. 518. - - _Clever_: See Mr. Robert Ad—r, vol. i., p. 422. - - _Coughing_ and laughing: See Mr. John Nicholls, vol. i., p. 186. - - _Courtney_, Mr., fully convicted of kidnapping—rhymes, vol. i., p. - 376. - - _Coalition_, The New: an Ode, vol. i., p. 599. - - _Coalition_ of Kings, vol. ii., p. 546. - - _Constant_ Reader: his Letter on the Designs of our foreign and - domestic Enemies, vol. i., pp. 544, 597. - - _Courier_, The; a mad—and foolish—and odious—and contemptible paper, - _passim_. Picked up by a Gentleman in the streets, for the sake of - its superior information!!! vol. ii., p. 230. - - - D. - - _Detector_: his Letter on the pretended Treaty of Pavia, vol. i., p. - 474—On the Treaty of Pilnitz, vol. ii., p. 37—On the Coalition of - Kings, vol. ii., p. 546. - - _Description_ of a very extraordinary Plant now growing at Paris, vol. - ii., p. 573. - - _Description_ of Mr. Fox’s Radical Reform, vol. i., p. 396. - - _Description_ of a Scribbler for the Jacobin Papers, vol. i., p. 613. - - _Description_ of the Jacobin Prints, vol. ii., p. 119. - - _Decius Mus_: his account of the Secessions in the Roman Common - Wealth, vol. i., p. 261. - - _Dismissal_ of the Duke of Norfolk, vol. i., p. 429. - - _Duncan_, Lord: Anecdotes relative to his Victory, vol. i., pp. 38, - 107. - - _Duke_, The, and the Taxing Man, vol. i., p. 265. - - _Dupery_ of Lord Moira, vol. ii., pp. 36, 518, &c., &c. - - - E. - - _Edwards_, Mr. Bryan: offers to pay for Mr. Nicholls’ dinner at the - Crown and Anchor—finds his pockets pick’d—his exclamation thereat, - vol. i., p. 410. - - _Elegy_ on the Death of Jean Bon Saint André, vol. ii., p. 314. - - _Epigram_ on the Loan upon England, vol. i., p. 267. - - _Epistle_, Poetical, to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin, vol. i., p. - 371. Reply to ditto, vol. i., p. 371. - - _Epistle_, Poetical, to the Author of the Anti-Jacobin, vol. i., p. - 486. - - _Erskine_, Mr.: his definition of Himself at the Meeting of the - Friends of Freedom—clothed with the infirmities of man’s nature—in - many respects a finite being—disclaims all pretensions to - superhuman powers—has been both a soldier and a sailor—has a son - at Winchester school—has been called by special retainers into - many parts of the country, travelling chiefly in post-chaises—is - of Noble, perhaps, Royal Blood—has a house at Hampstead—faints - between the subdivisions of his discourse—is conveyed to his - carriage—tricked by the chairmen who were hired to draw it—and - finally taken home by his own horses, vol. i., p. 125, &c. - - _Expedition_ against Ostend, vol. ii., pp. 367, 377, 442, 486, 596. - - - F. - - _Finance_, vol. i., pp. 16, 44, 85, 143, 212, 244, 313, 391, 607; vol. - ii., p. 224. - - _Foreign Intelligence_, vol. i., pp. 41, 73, 105, 138, 170, 206, 238, - 267, 305, 339, 382, 424, 453, 491, 528, 560, 600, 629; vol. ii., - 23, 57, 101, 136, 174, 206, 239, 280, 318, 346, 389, 430, 461, - 499, 540, 577, 608. - - _Foreign Intelligence Extraordinary_, vol. ii., p. 535. - - _Fox_, Mr.: his Speech at the Meeting of the Friends of Freedom, vol. - i., p. 92—his Radical Reform described, 396—Celebration of his - Nativity at the Crown and Anchor, 408—his Speech, 412—his Song, - 413—A Bit of an Ode to, 422—Lines written under a Bust of him, - 489—his dismissal from the Privy Council, vol. ii., p. 293. - - _French Revolution_, origin and progress of, vol. i., p. 22. - - _French Revolution_, not to be defended or illustrated by a comparison - with the civil wars of this country, vol. ii., p. 17. - - _Friend of Humanity_ and the Knife-Grinder, vol. i., p. 71. - - _Friends of Freedom_, Meeting of the, vol. i., pp. 91, 125. - - _Freemason’s_ observations on the Duke of Norfolk’s toast, vol. i., p. - 587. - - _Francis_, Mr.: his Novel of a Pamphlet grievously abused by the - _Morning Chronicle_, vol. ii., p. 338. - - - G. - - _German_ Stage: see the “Rovers”. - - _Government_ Advertisements: see _Advertisements_. - - _Guillotine_, la Sainte: a new Song attempted from the French, vol. - i., p. 136. - - - H. - - _Head_ of the Russells, transmuted into lead, vol. i., p. 377. - - _Higgins_, Mr., of Saint Mary Axe—see “Progress of Man,” “Loves of the - Triangles,” the “Rovers,” &c. - - _How_ to praise one’s friends, vol. i., p. 397. - - _Horrible_ Effects of the Assessed Taxes, vol. i., pp. 347, 503. - - _Hoche_, General: his Instructions to Colonel Tate, vol. i., pp. 480, - 498. - - - I. - - _Imitation_ of Horace, lib. iii. carm. xxv., vol. i., p. 627. - - _Instructions_ for Colonel Tate, vol. i., pp. 480, 498. - - _Introduction_, The, vol. i., p. 11. - - _Introduction_ to the Poetry, vol. i., p. 31. - - _Invasion_, The; or, The British War Song, vol. i., p. 103. - - _Ingratitude_, the characteristic vice of Jacobinism, vol. i., p. 579. - - _Italicus_: his letter on the plunder of the French in Italy, vol. i., - p. 367. - - - J. - - _Jacobin_, The, vol. ii., p. 133. - - _Jacobin_ Papers, an epidemic malady among them, vol. ii., p. 120. - - - L. - - _Latin_ Verses, De Navali Laude Britanniæ, vol. ii., p. 604. - - _Lead_—see _Head of the Russells_. - - _Letter_ to Earl Moira on the state of Ireland, vol. i., p. 77, 109, - 161. - - _Letter_ from Letitia Sourby, vol. i., p. 195—from a Bachelor, p. - 258—from Decius Mus, p. 261—from an Irishman, 299—from Italicus, - 367—from Monitor, 370—from Adolphus Hicks, 380—from a Constant - Reader, 534—from Agricola, 583—from Speculator, 586—from a - Freemason, 587—from a Symposiast, 589—from a British Merchant, - 593—from a Constant Reader, 597—from Mucius, 623—from Historicus, - vol. ii., p. 17—from an Irishman, 35—from a Sucking Whig, 53—from - a British Seaman, 93—from an Anti-Catiline, 128—from Samuel - Shallow—from a Friend to the Landed Interest, 269—from Historicus, - 491—from A. Z., on Original Principles with respect to the French - Revolution, 499—from a Calm Observer, 525—from Hibernicus, - 554—from Perseus, 558—from a Church of England Man, 561—from Cato, - 564—from Hortensius, 573. - - _Letter_ from General Buonaparte to the Governor of Zanté, vol. ii., - p. 535. - - _Lies_, vol. i., pp. 46, 115, 156, 178, 217, 248, 322, 346, 395, 453, - 460, 499, 538, 573, 612; vol. ii., pp. 2, 4, 43, 78, 116, 151, - 193, 227, 304, 330, 377, 440, 481, 512. - - _Lille_, translation of a letter from, vol. i., p. 26. - - _Lines_ written at the close of the year 1797, vol. i., p. 330. - - _Lines_ written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown and Anchor, - vol. i., p. 489. - - _Lines_ written under the Bust of a certain Orator, not at the Crown - and Anchor, vol. i., p. 490. - - _List_ of ships and vessels belonging to France, Spain, and Holland, - taken, &c., since the commencement of the war, vol. ii., p. 120. - - _Loves_ of the Triangles: a Mathematical and Philosophical Poem, vol. - ii., pp. 162, 200, 274. - - - M. - - _Manners_ and Character of the Age, vol. ii., p. 564. - - _Marten_, Henry: inscription for his apartment in Chepstow Castle, - vol. i., p. 35. - - _Macfungus_, Mr.: his speech at the meeting of the Friends of Freedom, - vol. i., p. 131. - - _Meeting_ of the Friends of Freedom, vol. i., pp. 91, 125. - - _Misrepresentations_, vol. i., pp. 19, 47, 117, 157, 180, 218, 252, - 293, 324, 347, 396, 436, 470, 501, 541, 577, 615; vol. ii., pp. 8, - 46, 79, 121, 154, 195, 231, 307, 333, 441, 484, 515 597. - - _Mistakes_, vol. i., pp. 56, 124, 159, 188, 221, 257, 351, 397, 439, - 473, 504, 543, 581, 620; vol. ii., pp. 12, 48, 84, 126, 154, 199, - 235, 308, 338, 385, 443, 484, 519. - - _Misapprehension_ on the subject of the proposed Increase of the - Assessed Taxes, vol. i., p. 190. - - _Moira_, Lord: the singularity of his conduct, vol. i., p. 58—his - story of the Child and the Rush Light contradicted, p. 188—his - weakness, p. 252—lays it down as a general principle, that the - liberty of the press is destroyed in Ireland, p. 274—is referred - to the Press and the Dublin Evening Post, p. 275—famous for acting - a bull, vol. ii., p. 14—duped to an extraordinary degree, p. 86—a - great physiognomist, p. 517—a great dupe, p. 518, &c., &c., &c. - - _Moira_, Lord: Letter to, on the State of Ireland, vol. i., pp. 77, - 109, 161. - - _Moira_, Lord: Ode to, vol. i., p. 380. - - _Moira_, the late Earl of: his account of the celebrated enchantress, - Moll Coggin, vol. i., p. 299. - - _Moll Coggin_: the late Earl of Moira’s account of her, vol. i., p. - 299. - - _Morning Chronicle_, calls the Thanksgiving for Lord Duncan’s Victory - a _Frenchified Farce_, vol. i., p. 157—insults the King—maligns - the Parliament—belies the Resources—ridicules and reviles the - spirit of the Nation—advises unconditional submission to - France—declares that our arms are without energy, our hearts - without courage, and our sword at the service of every puny - whipster, vol. ii., p. 85, &c. - - _Morning Chronicle_: its impiety—its blasphemy—its falsehood—its - historical, geographical, and political ignorance—its insolence, - baseness, and stupidity—_passim_, _passim_. - - _Morning Chronicle_, the editor of: why called the Père du Chène, vol. - ii., p. 471. - - _Muskein_, Citizen: his Consolatory Address to his Gun-boats, vol. - ii., p. 312—his Affectionate Address to Hâvre de Grace, vol. ii., - p. 498. - - - N. - - _Narrative_ of the Riot at Tranent, vol. i., p. 59. - - _Naval History_, vol. i., p. 222. - - _Neutral_ Navigation, vol. i., pp. 398, 505. - - _New Morality_, a Poem, vol. ii., p. 623. - - _New_ and approved method of conveying abuse, vol. i., p. 502. - - _Neat_ Speech—see _Lord John Russell_. - - _Nicholls_, Mr. John: his faculties confounded by Mr. Pitt’s speech, - vol. i., p. 47—treated very unkindly by his associates, vol. i., - p. 186—has his pockets picked by Mr. Jekyl of his _genuine_ speech - at the Crown and Anchor—offers seventeen of the _spurious_ ones in - payment for his dinner at _ditto_—is refused admittance, vol. i., - p. 410. - - _Nicholls_, Mr. John: a great Parliament man, but thought to be very - tart and sour by Mrs. Deborah Wigmore, Mr. Wright’s housekeeper, - vol. i., p. 553. - - _Norfolk_, Duke of: his speech at the Crown and Anchor, vol. i., pp. - 412, 418—his dismissal, vol. i., p. 429—observations on his toast, - by a Freemason, vol. i., p. 587—defended by a Symposiast, vol. i., - p. 589—curious account of his dismissal from the French Papers, - vol. i., p. 614; vol. ii., p. 16. - - - O. - - _Ode_ to Anarchy, by a Jacobin, vol. i., p. 301. - - _Ode_ to Lord Moira, vol. i., p. 380. - - _Ode_, a bit of an, to Mr. Fox, vol. i., p. 422. - - _Ode_ to Jacobinism, vol. ii., p. 53. - - _Ode_ to my Country, 1798, vol. ii., p. 342. - - _Ode_ to the Director Merlin, vol. ii., p. 388. - - _Ode_ to a Jacobin, vol. ii., p. 576. - - _Origin_ and Progress of the French Revolution, vol. i., p. 22. - - - P. - - _Pavia_, Treaty of, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. i., p. 474. - - _Père du Chène_, appellation of: why given to the editor of _The - Morning Chronicle_, vol. ii., p. 471. - - _Pilnitz_, Treaty of, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. ii., p. 37. - - _Poetry_, vol. i., pp. 31, 69, 103, 168, 199, 236, 263, 301, 329, 371, - 421, 452, 486, 524, 556, 597, 620; vol. ii., pp. 21, 53, 95, 133, - 162, 200, 236, 274, 312, 339, 387, 415, 446, 497, 528, 576, 603. - - _Porcupine_, Peter, a spirited and instructive writer, vol. i., p. - 332. - - _Prisoners of War_, vol. i., pp. 234, 277, 326; vol. ii., p. 310. - - _Prize of Dullness_, vol. i., pp. 421, 448, 522; awarded, vol. i., p. - 552. - - _Progress of Man_, a Didactic Poem, vol. i., pp. 524, 558; vol. ii., - p. 97. - - _Proceedings_ of the Whig Club, vol. ii., p. 260. - - _Prologue_ to the Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement, vol. ii., p. - 420. - - - R. - - _Ram_—see _Sir John Sinclair_. - - _Review_ of the proposed plan of Finance, vol. i., p. 143. - - _Review_ of the Session, vol. ii., p. 583. - - _Rovers_, the; or, the Double Arrangement, vol. ii., pp. 420, 446. - - _Russell_, Lord John, makes a very neat Speech, vol. i., p. 126. - - _Russell_, Lord William, makes a very appropriate Speech, vol. i., p. - 126. - - - S. - - _Sale_ of the Land Tax, vol. ii., p. 1, 269. - - _Secession_ of the Opposition, observations on, vol. i., p. 36. - - _Secret_ Expedition of British _Savans_, vol. ii., p. 529. - - _Sinclair_, Sir John, embarks with his Ram in the Capricorn on a - secret expedition, vol. ii., p. 532. - - _Soldier’s Friend_: an Ode, vol. i., p. 169. - - _Song_: a new one, appointed to be sung at all _Convivial_ Meetings - convened for the purpose of opposing the Assessed Tax Bill, vol. - i., p. 303. - - _Sonnet_ to Liberty, vol. i., p. 169. - - _Sourby_, Letitia: her letter, vol. i., p. 195. - - _Speculator_: his observations on Cardinal Antici’s letter to - Buonaparte, vol. i., p. 586. - - _Symposiast’s_, A, defence of the Duke of Norfolk’s celebrated toast, - vol. i., p. 589. - - - T. - - _Tate_, Colonel; his instructions, vol. i., pp. 480, 498. - - _Tooke_, Horne: his speech at the Crown and Anchor, vol. i., p. 417. - - _Translation_ of the Latin verses written after the Revolution of the - fourth of September, vol. i., p. 201. - - _Translation_ of the new song of the “Army of England,” vol. i., p. - 331. - - _Translation_ of a letter from _Bawba-dara-adul-phoola_ to - _Neek-awl-aretchid-kooez_, vol. ii., p. 532. - - _Treaty of Pavia_, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. i., p. 474. - - _Treaty of Pilnitz_, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. ii., p. 37. - - - U. - - _Unattached_ Officers, vol. i., p. 362. - - _Unjust_ Aggressions, vol. i., pp. 420, 440, 549; vol. ii., pp. 522, - 600. - - _Union Star_: extracts from, vol. i., p. 352. - - - V. - - _Verses_, Latin, written after the Revolution of the fourth of - September, vol. i., p. 201; translation, vol. i., p. 236. - - _Vision_, The: written at St. Ann’s Hill, vol. i., p. 598. - - _Voluntary_ Contributions, vol. i., pp. 465, 534. - - - W. - - _Weekly Examiner_, vol. i., pp. 19, 46, 115, 156, 178, 217, 248, 293, - 322, 346, 395, 435, 468, 498, 534, 573, 607; vol. ii., pp. 4, 43, - 78, 116, 151, 191, 227, 263, 296, 330, 377, 405, 440, 475, 512, - 596. - - _Wickham_, Mr.: his note to the Helvetic Body on his recal, vol. i., - p. 388—answer to ditto, vol. i., p. 426. - - _Wigmore_, Deborah, housekeeper to Mr. Wright, awards the Prize of - Dullness, vol. i., p. 552. - - - - - INDEX TO VOL. I. - OF THE - _ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE_. - - -[This Index and the two preceding articles (by W. Cobbett, pp. 311–319) -are reprinted in order to show that the same spirit which pervaded _The -Anti-Jacobin_ was continued in its successor, _The Anti-Jacobin Review -and Magazine_, although the Editor and Contributors were different.] - - - A. - - Alfred—Letters of Ghost of, reviewed, No. 1, p. 62; - object of, 63; - opinion concerning Erskine; - ditto, concerning the acquittals, 1794; - Letters, Monthly Review of, reviewed, 68. - - Algernon Sidney, an enthusiast in Republicanism, 451; - illegally condemned, 452. - - Almanack of revolutions, 789; - illustrates the wild system of innovation, _ib._; - account of Switzerland, 792. - - America, 4; - infected by French principles; - Congress of, democratic members abuse our sovereign, 14; - buildings described, 222. - - American Annual Register, 829; - composed by Calender, a refugee Scotch democrat; - assertions, false; - reasoning, trivial; - language and manner, coarse and vulgar, 830; - author tries to be witty on Burke, 833; - praises Jefferson, Tom Paine, and the French Revolutionists, _ib._ - - Analytical Review analysed, 3; - Review of Wakefield’s reply, reviewed, 75; - idea of the constituents of independence, 76; - consistently with itself ridicules prayer, 77; - Analytical Reviewers, not critics, but partisans, 83; - endeavour to influence juries, 84; - enraged for the prosecution of Johnson, 85; - give no account of the books they censure, 86; - Analytical Reviewer of Godwin’s Memoirs, illustrates his own morals, - politics, and religion, 99; - expects a time when Mrs. Wollstonecraft’s conduct will be admired, - _ib._; - asserts the proceedings of the French Directory and English - Government to be the same, 182; - abuses due laws and government, _ib._; - declamatory abuse of Mr. Gifford’s address, 185; - whom the Analytical think the friends of liberty, 186; - praises Charlotte Smith’s _Delmont_, 190; - attacks Murphy’s _Arminius_, 193; - Abuses Bowdler’s _Reform of Ruin_, 195; - Invective of, against Peter Porcupine, _ib._; - tries wit, 197; - blasphemous comparison by, of Godwin, to the Supreme Being, 335; - God of, not the God of Christians, _ib._; - abuses Peter Porcupine, 342; - principles of, 344; - praises of Jones, the itinerant lecturer, 345; - Gerald, _ib._; - enraged at an allusion to the French faction at home, 448; - abuses Mr. Noble for praising the gospel, and censuring the English - regicides, 449; - exclaims against the punishment of regicides, 450; - defends Ludlow, the murderer of his king, 451; - styles a conspirator the fairest character in English history, 452; - defends the _United Irishmen_, 464; - abuses Mr. Budworth, for praising the answerer of Paine, 465. - - Anarchists, ode to, 365. - - Anecdotes of Republican judges, 15; - political, 212. - - Annual Register, New, principles of, 150; - patronised by H. M. Williams, _ib._; - conducted by a dignitary of the Church, hostile to our established - institution, 348; - anecdote of that conductor, 349; - praise of Oldfield’s _Defence of Universal Suffrage_, 456; - high praise of Erskine on the War, 697; - exposed, 698; - character of, _ib._; - remarks on, 700. - - Anti-Gallican Spirit commended, 107. - - _Anti-Jacobin_ newspaper praised, 55. - - _Anti-Jacobin Review_, reason of adopting that title, 1; - plan of, 3; - proposes to counteract Jacobinical criticism, 5; - preface of, to reviewers reviewed, 55; - object, 56; - observations of, on the constitution, 60; - prophesies the destruction of the French fleet by Nelson, 123; - opinion of, on obedience to constituted authorities, 61; - opinion of duelling, 153; - declaration of political principles, 166; - discusses Locke’s _Opinions on Government_, 167; - explains the duty of obedience, 169; - defines the constitution to be what is actually constituted, 170; - opinion of, on pulpit politics, 304; - political creed of, 314; - illustrated and enforced, _ib._; - states the reciprocal duties of sovereign and subject, _ib._; - principles of, 315; - exposes the Anti-Christian doctrines of the Monthly Reviewers, 316; - canvasses the opinions of Dr. Geddes, 318; - character of La Fayette, 345; - declares the _Letter to the Church of England_ the text book of its - principles, 402; - recommends to the Bishops to suppress schism among the established - clergy, _ib._; - admonishes Mr. Wansey, on his insolent and foolish letter to the - Bishop of Salisbury, 415; - admonishes fathers of families to discountenance Jacobinical - writings, 434; - proves the authenticity of Scriptures against Socinians and _Deists_, - 439; - abused by the _Literary Census_, 667; - reason of the abuse, its support of the Constitution, _ib._ - - Aristotle, Gillies’s translation of, reviewed, 253; - fate of his writings, 255; - life of, 257; - analysis of his speculative works, 258; - error of these works, _ib._; - organon, 261; - misunderstood by the school-men, _ib._; - his zoology, the most perfect of his works, 387; - sagacious discoveries and comprehensive knowledge, _ib._; - searches too much for efficient causes, 389; - ethics and politics, part of the same general system, 390; - analysis of happiness, virtue, and habit, 391; - application of principles, 392; - jurisprudence, 393; - social affection, 394; - importance of his work at present, 395; - inculcates the necessity of subordination, 396; - anticipates Adam Smith, 397; - demonstrates the absurdity of the levelling system, _ib._; - the folly of hasty innovations, _ib._ _See_ Gillies. - His opinions on commerce, 513; - honoured agriculture more than trade, 516; - had he lived in Britain, might have thought differently, _ib._; - the SAGE THINKS THE FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION THE FIRST IN DIGNITY, - _ib._; - doctrines on education little more than copied by succeeding writers, - 517; - tests of good government, 518; - refutes the absurd opinion that all men are fitted to govern, 519; - sentiments on demagogues and faction, _ib._; - illustrated in the Corresponding Societies and Whig Club, 520; - admirable book on sedition and revolutions, _ib._; - addresses the WILL, as well as the UNDERSTANDING, 523. - - Associations, legal, praised, 137; - address to. _See_ Gifford. - Exhortation to, 210. - - - B. - - Barras’ motion, concerning, and cause, 144. - - Barristers, Irish, encroach on the office of the Judge, by laying down - the law, 540; - inaccurate, _ib._ - - Bedford, Duke of, contributions to the State, 20. - - Bisset, Dr., reply of, to a letter in the _Monthly Review_, 588; - charges the Priestleyan dissenters with a design to subvert our - establishment, 590; - quotes Priestley’s declaration to that effect, _ib._; - reprobates the metaphysical politics of Priestley’s _First Principles - of Government_; and Price, on _Civil Liberty_, _ib._; - vindicates Burke, for opposing the repeal of the Test Act, 591; - his anonymous antagonist, supposed to be Anthony Robinson, linen - draper, dissenting preacher, and debating society orator, _ib._ - - Blasphemy, punishment of, according to Burn. _See_ Geddes. - - Boaden’s _Cambro Britons_, reviewed, 415; - just description of invaders and invaded, 416; - ranting phraseology, _ib._; - farcical strainings after humour, _ib._; - admonished to discontinue writing as soon as a relish for works of - genius shall again prevail, 417. - - Boffe, De, publications of, 845. - - Bond, Oliver, testimony of, 300. - - Book clubs, either through ignorance or design, circulate hurtful - writings, 475; - account of one at Maidstone, _ib._; - proposed regulations for rendering them useful, _ib._; - praised by the _Monthly Magazine_, 476; - the praise of that performance renders them suspicious, _ib._ - - Bowles, the champion of the British Constitution, reprobated by the - _Critical Review_, 678. - - Brissot, avowed design to abolish monarchy, 27; - conformity of French conduct to his declaration, _ib._; - memorable report of, 512. - - _British Critic_ praised, 343; - abused by the _Literary Census_, because hostile to atheists and - levellers, 667. - - Brothers’s Letters to Miss Cott, a fellow lunatic, 568. - - British public characters, reviewed, 634; - arrogant dedication to the King, 635; - strange assortment of characters, _ib._; - imperfect and trifling execution, _ib._; - bungling daub of Mr. Fox, 636; - sketch of Mr. Pitt less imperfect, but very inadequate to the - original, _ib._ - - Buonaparte, entirely differs from the great Condé, 32; - expedition of, 123; - denies the existence of Christ, 372; - proclaims his veneration for Mahomet, _ib._; - original letters from him and army, 647; - object of his expedition, _ib._; - legislative talents of, 649; - campaign of, in Italy, 770. - - - C. - - Cambridge _Intelligencer_ abuses the most respectable characters in - Ireland, 130. - - Camille Jordan, address from, reviewed, 180; - unjustly treated by the _Analytical_, 481. - _See_ Gifford. - - Catholics, Irish, Grattan’s intrigue with, 39; - Catholic emancipation a mere pretext, 293. - - Catiline _liberality_ and _moderation_, cant terms of, 443. - - Cato, of Utica, speech against conspirators who invited the Gallic - nation to invade their country, 441. - - _Census, Literary_, reviewed, 666; - abuses works and characters friendly to the constitution, 667; - reviles Messrs. Pitt, Burke, Dundas, and Lawrence, _ib._; - praises Paine, Sheridan, and Fox, _ib._; - reprobates the Anti-Jacobin Reviewers for defending order, morals, - religion, and the British constitution, _ib._ - - Chatham, Earl, conduct, character, measures, and success of, 576; - contrasted with those of Lord Holland, _ib._ - - Christian ministers vindicated, 429; - religion vilified by impious and obscene publications, 435; - the firmest basis of every virtue, _ib._; - professors of, adjured to discourage Jacobinism, _ib._; - writings in vain plead to Jacobinical Reviewers, 437. - - Clare, Chancellor, speech of, 461; - wise and able, 462. - - Cléry’s _Journal of Louis XVI._, 42; - animated and interesting, 43; - Lamballe’s head carried about, 44. - - Cobbett, efforts of, in America, 7. - _See_ Peter Porcupine. - - Committee, Secret. _See_ Ireland and Irish. - - Connor’s, O’, _State of Ireland_, examined, 463; - address, ditto, _ib._; - copious extracts from, by the _Analytical_ Reviewers, 464; - defends the _United Irishmen_, _ib._; - testimony at Maidstone, 290. - - _Considerations on Public Affairs_, reviewed, 25; - author of, anti-Gallican, not anti-Jacobin, 32; - ditto, 263; - erroneously considers our contest as with the physical force of - France only, 264; - proposes merely a defensive war, 265; - dangerous tendency of certain positions, 266; - affected imitation of Burke, 267; - inaccuracy of language, 268. - - Conspiracy against Social Order, with the part taken by the Jacobinical - Reviews, 591. - - Constitution, British, its principles illustrated, 468; - antiquity, nature, and excellence, _ib._; - history and principle, epochs, 469; - Mr. Reeve’s assertion respecting, 470; - the Duke of Norfolk’s, ditto, _ib._; - Reeve’s principle discussed and defended from English history, 471; - ditto, from Lord Coke, 472. - - Contributions, voluntary, praised, 135; - ridiculed by Unitarian dissenters, 136; - Quakers’, pretence of scruples of conscience shown from their own - conduct to be unfounded, _ib._; - proof of loyalty to the king, and attachment to the country, 140. - - Cornwallis, praises the proceedings of his predecessors, 490; - speech of, 491; - praises the regulars and militia, _ib._ - - _Courier_, abuses the friends of Government, 158; - conduct of, respecting France, considered, 203; - justifies the proceedings of France, extols her resources, and abuses - England, 204; - patronised by Lord Moira, 205; - account of the Report of the Secret Committee, 247; - endeavours to revive the spirits of Jacobins, 486; - a disgrace to the English press, 376; - justifies every enormity of the French, _ib._; - threatens to prosecute the _Anti-Jacobin_, _ib._ - - _Critical Review of Wakefield’s Reply_, reviewed, 73; - praises Wakefield, 75; - supports Kingsbury’s address to Dr. Watson, 78; - inveighs against the Bishop, 79; - remarks of, resemble those of the French regicides, 81; - great praise of Edmund Oliver, 179; - commends those parts of Monboddo’s _Metaphysics_ which ascribe - preeminent evil to England, 667. - - - D. - - David, a painter, gives the Deity the face of Robespierre, 22. - - Democracy, apostrophe to, 35. - - _Derwent Priory_, a novel, frivolous and extravagant, 417. - - Directory, French, account of, 8; - wish to suppress Cléry’s narrative, 51; - arrogance of, 122; - policy of, respecting foreign powers, 124; - motives of, for proscribing the moderate members, 143; - arts of, 493; - tyranny of, 494; - tries to excite dissension in foreign states, _ib._ _See_ France and - History. - Falsehood, injustice, and violence of, to Switzerland, 505. _See_ - Underwald and French. - - Dissenters, political conduct of, 626; - active members of the Corresponding Society, 631; - Hardy, the shoemaker, one of their number, _ib._; - preacher of the tribe appeared to his character, _ib._; - chief supporters of Thelwall’s lectures, _ib._; - Paine, once a dissenting preacher, 632: - Godwin, a dissenting minister, _ib._; - Gilbert Wakefield, ditto; - conductors of the _Monthly_, _Analytical_, and _Critical_, ditto, - _ib._; - conductors of the _Chronicle_ and _Courier_, ditto; - abstain from voluntary contributions, _ib._; - fast increasing, 633; - the designs of their chief apostles discussed and exposed by Dr. - Bisset, 590. - - Dissenters, Irish, declared, by Dr. Jackson to be determined - Republicans, and friends of the French Revolution, 294. - - Dublin, instructions to citizens of, by Grattan, 38. - - Duigenan’s answer to Grattan, _ib._ - - - E. - - Economists propagate principles inconsistent with the well-being of - society, 4. - - Ego, Counsellor, soliloquy, 355. - - _Emigrant_, a novel, appendix, 741; - moral, political, and religious tendency of, 742; - gross and licentious sentiments of, 743; - supposes the public law of Europe mouldering into ruins, 744; - proposes the destruction of history to be replaced by romance, 745; - a vehicle of revolutionary doctrines, 746. - - Emmet’s evidence before the Secret Committee, 299. - - Erskine, supposed author of the _Secession from Parliament_, 19; - his egotism disgusting, 20; - his testimony at Maidstone, 28; - speech of, at the Whig Club, discussed, 526; - advances a position contrary to reason and truth, _ib._; - copies the language and rant of Kingsbury, the dissenting minister - and razor-maker, _ib._; - his allegations sanctioned by the _authority_ of John Ball, Wat - Tyler, and John Cade, 527. - - - F. - - Fantoccini, political, 364. - - La Fayette, praised by the _Analytical Review_, 345. - - Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, transcribes the resolutions of National - Committee, 293; - innocence defended by the _Morning Chronicle_, 379. - - Fox, secession of, discussed, 17; - duty as a member of Parliament, 18; - conduct of, 19; - proposed plan of ministry under, 20; - resentment of, for the dismissal of the Duke of Norfolk, 90; - observation of, in the Whig Club, concerning associations, 138; - testimony at Maidstone, 285; - promulgates his political creed at a tavern, 487; - adopts Gilbert Wakefield’s opinions, 488; - sentiments of, respecting Ireland, _ib._; - thinks the punishments of traitors cruelty, _ib._; - defence of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, _ib._; - insult to his constituents, 489; - libel on parliaments, _ib._; - abuse of anticipated taxes, 490; - letter to, 530; - attachment of, to the accused, and convicted of sedition and treason, - 531; - reprobated, _ib._; - conduct at Maidstone, considered, 532; - contrasted with Pitt. _See_ Pitt. - - France, regicides of, find advocates in our metropolis, 2; - principles and intrigues of, 4; - not physical force of, formidable, but moral, 25; - between monarchy and republic of, difference, of contest, 30; - state of, Jacobinical, capital of, 33; - internal state of, 122. - - Fraunces, an American Jacobin, 843; - lends his wife, _ib._; - extorts money from a dupe on account of the loan, _ib._; - conduct of, illustrates Jacobin morality, 844. - - French, a nation of plundering banditti, 124; - philosophers of, 445; - Republic, conduct of, to the Venetians, 460; - to the United Provinces, _ib._; - to the Germans, 461; - now the time to crush, 495. - _See_ Directory and History, army, proceedings of, at Berne, 508. - - Friends of the People, recommend Oldfield’s _Defence of Universal - Suffrage_, 456. - - - G. - - Geddes, Dr., chiefly known as an arraigner of the Scriptures, 694. - - Gerald, Joseph, praised by the _Analytical_, 346. - - _Geraldina_, a novel, reviewed, 668; - ignorance, frivolity, and folly of, 669. - - Gifford, John, preface to, _see_ Jordan’s _Address_, 180; - a zealous and able champion of our laws, religion, and morals, 181; - abused by the Jacobins, _ib._; - address from, to the loyal associations, 183; - list of Directory for England, Scotland, and Ireland, 184; - salutary tendency, and ability of execution, 185; - Second Letter of, to Mr. Erskine, review of, reviewed, 678; - as a champion of the constitution, he, according to the _Critical_ - Reviewers, deserves no quarter, _ib._; - attacks the legal champion of opposition, surrounded by his army of - tropes and figures, misrepresentations, egotism, and anachronism, - _ib._; - exposes Mr. Erskine’s falsifications of dates, 679; - illustrates the wrong conclusions in which the lawyer abounds, 680; - proves the proceedings of seditious societies and demagogues to have - been the causes of the proclamation, 1792; - forcible extracts from, 681; - refers Mr. Erskine to the Report of the Irish Committee, _ib._ - - Godwin, edits the Posthumous Works of his wife, 91; - inculcates the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, _ib._; - reprobates marriage, 93; - considers Mary Godwin as a model for female imitation, 94; - certifies his wife’s constitution to have been amorous, 96; - memoirs of her, _ib._; - account of his wife’s adventures as a kept mistress, 97; - celebrates her happiness while the concubine of Imlay, _ib._; - informs the public that she was concubine to himself before she was - his wife, 98; - declares no person in his right senses will frequent places of public - worship, _ib._; - morals examined, 331; - if his principle be granted, his deduction not absurd, 332; - his principle refuted, 333; - praised by the _Analytical_, 335; - compared to the Supreme Being, _ib._ - - Government can only perish by suicide, 9. - _See_ Constitution, Directory. - - Grattan, answer to, 37; - character and projects of, 38; - arguments for Catholic emancipation, 40; - evidence concerning, 298. - - - H. - - Hamilton, on the United States, 841; - an able and staunch advocate for the American government, _ib._; - hostile to France, _ib._; - persecutions by Jacobins, 842. - - Harper, Goodloe, speech of, reviewed, 421; - divides revolutionists into philosophers, Jacobins, and - Sans-Culottes, 422; - account of the artifices of French agents, 423. - - Hedgehog, Humphrey, abused by the Jacobinical Reviewers, 343; - causes of their abuse, 344. - - Henshall, strictures of, on the Duke of Leinster’s and Mr. Sheridan’s - motions, 300; - character of, 310; - treatise on the Saxon and English languages, 381; - proposes the most effectual means of explaining Anglo-Saxon words, - 382; - proves the Saxon language the spring of pure English, 384; - marks the changes of the English language, _ib._; - critique on the _Diversions of Purley_, 385; - general character of, 386; - strictures of, on the _Gentleman’s Magazine_ and _Analytical Review_, - 579; - vindicates his _Treatise on Saxon Literature_, 580. - - History of politics, foreign and domestic, 119; - general view of affairs in America and Europe, _ib._; - congress at Rastadt, 120; - Mr. D’Arnim’s Answer to the King of Prussia, 121; - discipline and courage of British seamen, 123; - reflections, 125; - domestic affairs, 127; - origin and progress of the Irish rebellion, _ib._; - religion, a mere pretence, 128; - real cause, Jacobin conspiracy, _ib._; - objects of the rebellion, separation from Britain, 129; - friends of Government abused by the Jacobin prints, 130; - an awful crisis, 240; - congress at Rastadt, _ib._; - general confederacy recommended, 241; - consequences of the late King of Prussia’s conduct, _ib._; - Russia, _ib._; - Naples, _ib._; - despotic power of the Directory, 243; - France boasts of her virtue, _ib._; - wretched state of French finance, 245; - indecision of the Emperor, 363; - spirit and vigour of Russia and Turkey, _ib._; - inactivity of Prussia, _ib._; - conduct of the French at Milan, 370; - anarchy of the Cisalpine Republic, _ib._; - objects of the revolutions from French politics, and French power, - _ib._; - French, try to exclude British manufactures from the Continent, 374; - in vain, _ib._; - Nelson’s victory, 483; - immediate effects of, 484; - accession of ships to Britain, _ib._; - Nelson’s victory prevents revival of rebellion in Ireland, 485; - effects of Nelson’s victory, 605; - proceedings at Rastadt, _ib._; - march of the Russian army, 607; - internal state of France, 608; - Erskine’s speech at the Whig Club, 609; - plan of finance, 610; - resolutions of merchants and bankers, _ib._; - conduct of opposition, 611; - political state of Europe, 734; - French declare war against Naples and Sardinia, 737; - views of the French government, 738. - - Hoche, General, differs from Turenne, 32; - life of, dedicated to the eternal Republic, by Rousselin, 754; - birth and parentage of, 755; - his father a dog-keeper, himself a groom, _ib._; - learns philosophy from Rousseau and French novels, _ib._; - enters the army, 756; - a corporal, _ib._; - a commander-in-chief, 758; - compared to Neptune, _ib._; - put in prison, 759; - released, 760; - conquers La Vendée, 761; - proposes to invade England, 762; - seized with a disorder in his bowels, 767; - death and character of, 768. - - Holcroft’s _Knave or Not_, reviewed, 51; - literary character of Holcroft, 52; - novels, _ib._; - object of them, and his play the same, viz., to overturn our - constitution and level rank and property, 53; - execution feeble, _ib._; - an inaccurate observer and superficial reasoner, 54; - though trifling, calculated to do much mischief, _ib._; - admonished of the inadequacy of his powers and knowledge, _ib._ - _See_ Jacobinism, Revolution, &c. - - Holland, Lord, contrasted with Lord Chatham, 576. - - Horsley’s, Dr.—able defence of the Church, 554; - masterly observation on the political principles of Calvin, 627. - _See_ Bishop of Rochester. - - - J. - - Jacobin, a receipt for making one, 617: - half-educate him, _ib._; - place him under a dissenting schoolmaster, _ib._; - let him read Dr. Priestley’s writings, _ib._; - initiate him in debating societies, _ib._; - preach in a conventicle, _ib._; - write for the _Monthly Magazine_ or _Analytical Review_, _ib._; - read Erskine’s Pamphlet, _ib._ - _See_ Loan of wives. - - Jacobin, faction exists in this country, 1; - Jacobins employed in the States at war with France, 27; - Republic, rapacious spirit of, 29; - capital, 38; - catch words of, 76; - authors of revolutions, 422; - principles of, adopted by the _Annual Register_, 458; - prints and speeches. _See_ _Courier_, _Chronicle_, _Post_, &c. - - Jacobinism, daily, weekly, monthly and annual vehicles of, 2; - its malignant and intolerant spirit, _ib._; - characterised, 12; - rise, progress, and effects of, 109; - promoted by certain Reviews, _ib._; - history of (_see_ Barruel), defined, 223; - worse than ancient democracy, _ib._; - worse than former levelling principles, 224; - than Cromwellianism, _ib._; - religious scepticism leads to, 225; - promoted by visionary metaphysics, 226; - promoted by Voltaire, D’Alembert, Diderot, 359, 712; - promoted by Mrs. Macaulay, 713; - by Price and Priestley, _ib._; - all dissenters not equally favourable to, 716; - Socinians, Jacobinical, _real_ Presbyterians, loyal, _ib._ - - Jones, the Lecturer, praised by the _Analytical_, 346. - - Ireland and Irish, crown and government of, 38; - rebellion, causes of, 158; - system of government respecting, 374; - insurrection, account of, 424; - barbarities of the rebels, 425; - state of, 490; - union with, recommended, 491. - - Irishmen, United, attempts of, to seduce the soldiers, 293; - connection with the London Corresponding Society, 299. - - - K. - - King, parent of the constitution, 471; - proved from records, _ib._; - from the various parts and instruments of government, 472; - opinion of Coke on this subject, 473. - _See_ Constitution and Reeves. - - Kingsbury answers the Bishop of Landaff, 78; - first a dissenting minister, then a writer on razors, _ib._; - predicts the Irish traitors will be successful, 82. - - _Knave or Not_, a superficial but dangerous work, 51. - _See_ Holcroft. - - - L. - - Lamballe, Madame, her head carried about to display Jacobin humanity, - 44. - - Lashknave, Lawrence—account of the Corresponding Society, 220; - letter from, 701. - - Lauderdale, Earl of, assertion of, respecting trade, refuted, 336; - friendship of, with Brissot and his coadjutors, 513. - - Lavater’s _Address to the Directory_, 280; - a mixture of adulation and abuse, _ib._; - praises the French Revolution, 282; - reprobates the invasion of Switzerland, _ib._ - - Lecturers, Pulpit, in London, often methodistical and ignorant, 399. - - Letter to the Bishop of Salisbury, 409; - petulant insolence of, 410; - elegant extracts from, _ib._; - refined phraseology, 411; - abuse of, 412; - scandalous insinuation of, against an eminent prelate, 413. - - Letter to _The Anti-Jacobin Review_ on modern Catilines, and the - evidence at Maidstone, 593; - to Mr. Fox, reviewed, 530 (_see_ Fox); - to the Bishop of Rochester from Mr. Rhys, reviewed, 534; - position that war is, in all cases, unchristian disproved, _ib._; - no precepts against it delivered by our Saviour, 533. - - Liberality, real, an excellent quality, 440; - term often misapplied by Jacobins, _ib._ - - Licentiousness of the press, 1. - - Lloyd’s Edmund Oliver, declamatory abuse of the military profession, - 177; - censures the war with the regicides, 178; - proposes to level rank and property, 179; - doctrines praised. _See_ Critical and Analytical. - - Loan of wives, a practice among Jacobins. _See_ Fraunces. - - Louis XVI., Cléry’s journal of confinement and sufferings of, 42; - persecution of, 43; - brutal treatment of, 45; - audacious insolence to, 46; - abused by newspapers, 47; - exemplary conduct of, 48; - monstrous trial of, 49; - execution of, 50. - - _Lovers’ Vows_ reviewed, 479; - object, tendency, and character, 480. - - - M. - - Mallet du Pan, _British Mercury_ of, reviewed, 403; - object of the work, _ib._; - throws light on French principles, _ib._; - able and useful advice in the preface, 404; - gratitude to the British nation, 405; - analysis and extracts, 406; - account of Swiss cantons, 407; - description of a Swiss wedding, 408; - account of affairs in Italy, 493; - account of the destruction of Helvetic liberty, 501; - character of the French Revolutionists, 502; - effects on other nations, 503; - state of resources of Switzerland, 504; - character of Weiss the French partisan, 506; - conduct of, 507; - pathetic description of the last efforts of Berne, 509; - reflections, 511; - character of Buonaparte, 513; - _British Mercury_ recommended to all crowned heads, _ib._; - general character of the work, 515. - - _Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman_, reviewed, 91; - fable, object, and principles of, 92; - asserts that her friend Jemima’s understanding was sharpened and - invigorated by her occupations as a thief and a prostitute, _ib._; - _particular_ description of Maria and her lover, 93; - restraints on adultery, according to Maria, a flagrant wrong to - women, _ib._ - _See_ Godwin and Wollstonecraft. - - Martinez’ persecution of Peter Porcupine, 9; - proceedings of, 10. - - Menard, infamous pretext of, for invading Switzerland, 511. - - Meyers, De, _Fragments on Paris_, 268; - criterion of the state of a nation, _ib._; - dress and amusements at Paris, 269; - extracts from, 270; - strictures on, 271; - state of the arts and sciences at Paris, 272; - his account recommended to votaries of innovation, 273; - character of his work, 279. - - Mifflin, Governor, republican morality of, 14; - celebrates the dethronement of Louis XVI., _ib._; - praises the Botany Bay citizens, _ib._ - - Ministry, proposed plan of, by Mr. Fox, 20. - - Moira, Earl of, patronises the _Courier_, 204; - his letter to Colonel Mahon discussed, 206; - censured, 207; - unfounded account of Ireland, 294; - speech in the Irish Parliament, considered, discussed, and censured, - 461. - - Monboddo’s _Ancient Metaphysics_, review of, reviewed, 565. - _See_ _Monthly_ and _Critical Reviews_. - - Monroe’s _View of the Conduct of the Executive_, considered, 824; - Monroe, of the French faction in America, 825; - a promoter of Jacobin doctrines, 826. - - _Monthly Magazine_ detected, 198; - published by a French citizen, _ib._; - patronised by the Directory, 199; - dialogue from, 327; - praises book clubs, 476 (_see_ R. Phillips and Jacobin Prints); - detection of, 570; - John Thelwall a contributor to, _ib._; - sneers at loyalty, 572; - abuses Lord Auckland, _ib._; - reviles Lord Carlisle, 573; - inveighs against Mallet du Pan, _ib._; - reprobates Peter Porcupine, _ib._; - slanders Mr. Harper, _ib._; - all because enemies to Jacobinism, _ib._ - - _Monthly Review_, to be reviewed by _The Anti-Jacobin_, 3; - dangerous tendency of, 56; - character and operations of, 58; - unfriendly to the constitution as actually constituted, 60; - review of, 68; - arts of, to prevent the circulation of constitutional works, 71; - reviewed, 171; - false statement by, 172; - curious observation of, _ib._; - examined, 173; - false and absurd remark of, on Switzerland, 174; - ignorance of, 175; - praises the _Spirit_ of the Public Journals, 331; - asserts Oldfield’s _Abuse of Parliament_ to be demonstration, 453; - praises his support of universal suffrage, 456; - praises Lord Moira for _apologising_ for our officers (_see_ Spirit - of Public Journals and Jacobin Prints); - quotes the most exceptionable passages of Monboddo’s _Metaphysics_, - 567; - ridicules David and Solomon because kings and Scripture characters, - 569. - - Moore, Dr., a friend of Brissot, 513. - - _Morning Chronicle_ resembles the _Monthly Review_, 58; - dialogue from, 326; - account of Tierney’s speech, 377; - extracts from, 378; - continues its virulence, 379; - invectives against the saviours of Ireland, 497; - idea of rebellion, 498. - _See_ Spirit of Public Journals and Jacobin Prints. - - _Morning Post_, invectives of, against ministers, 497. - _See_ Jacobin Prints and Spirit of Public Journals. - - Murphy, venerable literary character of, 191. - _See_ Arminius. - - - N. - - Naples, loyalty and patriotism of, 493. - _See_ History. - - Nelson, splendid victory of, 483; - momentous consequences from, 484. - _See_ History. - - Noble’s _Lives of English Regicides_, 445; - extracts from, 446; - matter excellent, composition reprehensible, 448. - - Norfolk, Duke of, evidence at Maidstone, 289; - assertions respecting the British constitution refuted, 470; - doctrine of the sovereignty of the people erroneous, 473. - - - P. - - Paine, Thomas, letter of, to the people of France, 21; - examined, 22; - praises the French Revolution, 23; - supposes extraordinary virtues in the number _five_, 24; - doctrines of, propagated by the Corresponding Society, 111; - praises the French Directory, 141; - reasons like the Analytical Reviewers, _ib._; - a flatterer of tyrants, 142; - his _Rights of Man_ lead to ruin, 143; - a member of tyrannical clubs, 145. - - Paris, state of, 272; - a scene of theft and robbery, 273; - people of, disaffected to the government, 275; - corrupted morals of, 277; - former happiness of, _ib._ - - Parliament, Irish, report of Committee of, contains an historical - sketch of Irish rebellion, 292; - of means of diffusion, _ib._; - treasonable newspapers, _ib._; - general result of, 295. - - Parry threatens to prosecute _The Anti-Jacobin_ for attacking the - _Courier_, 376; - challenged to do so, _ib._ - - Pennsylvania, court of, 11; - famous for bastards and cuckoldom, 15; - civic feast in Philadelphia, _ib._ - - _Perry_, a brisk, bouncing liquor, wants strength, 248. - - Phillips, R., editor of the _Monthly Magazine_, 200; - history of, _ib._; - conduct at Leicester, _ib._; - confined two years for sedition, _ib._; - establishes the _Monthly Magazine_, _ib._; - other labours of, in the cause, 201; - praised by the Analytical, _ib._; - the friend of Holcroft, Wakefield, and Godwin, _ib._; - purveyor-general to Jacobins, 325; - undertakes to TEACH our King, who, of his subjects, deserve reward, - 635; - supposed to be sprung from Paul Phillips, clerk of the parish, and - president of _an ale-house club for managing the nation_ in the - reign of Queen Anne, _ib._ - - Pitt, the Right Hon. William, contrasted with Mr. Fox, 575; - education and juvenile studies, 576; - honourable election of, _ib._; - addicted neither to gaming nor debauchery, 577; - political principles and conduct of, _ib._; - risks popularity for the good of his country, 578; - measures and success of, 579; - farther contrasted with Mr. Fox, 702. - - Poetry, explanation of the print, 115; - Progress of Liberty, 116; - Congratulatory Ode, 117; - United Irishmen, 118; - Wanderings of Iapis, 228; - Address to the Premier Peer in imitation of Horace, 233; - Jacobin Council, 235; - sent with a Shilling, 236; - Ages of Reason, _ib._; - Epistle from Miss Seward to Mr. Lister, 237; - Anarchists, an Ode, 365; - Honey Moon of Fox and Tooke in Imitation of Horace and Lydia, 597; - Lines to Lady Nelson, _ib._; - song on Admiral Nelson’s Victory, 599. - - Polybius, admirable, general principles of government, thinks a mixed - constitution the best, 521. - _See_ Gillies. - - Porcupine, Peter, efforts of, in America, 7; - Republican Judge, _ib._; - attempts of Spanish Ambassador against, 9; - examines the _justice_ of the REPUBLICAN JUDGE, 11; - characterizes republican justice, 12; - Jacobinism, _ib._; - Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats, 342; - abused by the _Analytical Review_, _ib._; - will of, 725; - _Diplomatic Blunderbuss_ of, _ib._; - excellent tendency and able execution, 836; - _Political Censor_ of, for January, 1797, 836; - ditto, for March, 1797, 839; - eloquence and ability of both, _ib._ - - Porcupiniana, 479; - strictures on the Whig Club, _ib._; - on Volney the Atheist, 592; - on Priestley, _ib._ - - Portland, Duke of, junction with Mr. Pitt justified, 206; - obligations of the country to him and friends, 474. - - Price. _See_ Jacobinism and Dissenters. - - Priestley, Dr., reduced state of, 16; - declares Republican governments to be most arbitrary, _ib._; - Original Letters to, reviewed, 146; - authority of, referred to, to sanction the abuse of the Church, 476; - misrepresentations of, 555; - the firebrand philosopher, 592; - declared intention to blow up the Church, 626. - - Prints, Jacobin, concur in asserting that the facts, reported by the - Secret Committee, were before known to them, 247; - accuse the Navy Board of inactivity, 377; - misrepresentations and falsehoods of, noted, 379; - ditto, 496. - - Prospectus of the _Anti-Jacobin Review_, 1; - of the old _Englishman_, 601. - - Prostitution. _See_ Mary Wollstonecraft. - - - Q. - - Quakers, contributed nothing _voluntarily_ to the State, 136; - pretence of conscience unfounded, 137; - loyalty of, exposed, 356; - origin and principles of the sect, 357; - farther exposed, 709; - ten commandments of, 711. - - - R. - - Reform, a veil for the most dangerous conspiracies, 139. - - Reformers, in unison of counsels with France, 66; - coincidence traced, _ib._ - - Regicides, English, Lives of (_see_ Noble); - French have sworn hatred to the Monarchy, even of the Supreme Being, - 446. - - Reviews, democratical, the mere instruments of faction, 2. - - Revolution, French, three classes of friends of, 741; - proposes to establish universal Pyrrhonism, 743; - germs, principles, and causes of, 746; - expressions built upon, 747. - - Rivers’s _History and Conduct of the Dissenters_, reviewed, 626; - character of John Knox, 627; - dissenters inimical to our establishment, _ib._; - character of Price, 629. - - Robespierre praised by republicans and levellers, 22. - - Robinson’s (Mrs.) _Walsingham_, reviewed, 160; - literary character of, 161; - political principles, _ib._; - misrepresents the manners of the great, and state of the poor, 162; - admonished to read Blair’s _Lectures_, 163; - not to go beyond her depth, 164. - - Robinson’s, Anthony, _View of the English Wars_, 613; - life and character of the author, 614; - apprenticed to a dissenting linen-draper, _ib._; - a sectarian preacher, 615; - an orator in debating societies, _ib._; - his work a mere vehicle of Jacobinism, 617. - - Rousseau, character of, 360; - doctrine of, 748; - political, 749. - - - S. - - Saint Lambert, principles of morality, 796; - new catechism, 797. - - Sallust, remarks of, on false moderation towards conspirators, 442. - - Scriptures defended against Socinians and Deists, 439; - attacks on, give them new force, _ib._; - revilers of (_see_ Geddes). - - Secession. _See_ Fox. - - Seditious meetings, Bill for restraining, praised, 66. - - _Shears, Report of Trial of_, reviewed, 540. - - Sheridan’s testimony at Maidstone, 286. - - Smith’s (Charlotte) _Young Philosopher_ reviewed, 187; - she has talents for novel-writing, _ib._; - defects, egotism, and repetition of the same story, _ib._; - politics beyond her reach, 188; - abuse of kings, _ib._; - blunder about Roman demagogues, _ib._; - frivolous and false remarks, 189; - praised by the _Analytical_, 190. - - Social order defended against the principles of the French revolution, - by Abbé de Voisin, 772; - ability of the work, 773; - principles of Government, 775; - confutation of the _Rights of Man_ doctrines, 776; - confutation of the _Abbé Sièyes_, 779. - - Society, Corresponding, object of, 111 (_see_ Thomas Paine); - account of. _See_ Lawrence Lashknave. - - Societies, Debating. _See_ Police Magistrates. - - Spirit of the public journals, 324; - contains the quintessence of Jacobinism, _ib._; - extracts from the most Jacobinical publications, 325; - address of, to the soldiers, 328. - _See_ _Monthly_, _Critical_, and _Analytical Reviews_; _Courier_, - _Post_, _Chronicle_, _Monthly Magazine_, and R. Phillips. - - Stiguer, the Swiss patriot, high character of, 503. - - Stonehouse’s Letters to Priestley, 146; - predict the downfal of every government, 148; - exhibit every feature of the Jacobin character, _ib._; - praise the new _Annual Register_, 150. - - Switzerland and Swiss. _See_ Mallet du Pan and History. - - - T. - - Talleyrand, Perigord, a friend of Opposition Members, 151. - - Taxation, plan of, on income justified, 487. - - Thanet, Earl of, evidence of, at Maidstone, 290. - - Theatre, 114–248–479. - See _Cambro Britons_, _Lovers’ Vows_, &c. - - Thomas’s _Consequences of an English Invasion_, reviewed, 459; - sermon on public worship, 672. - - Toasts, seditious, 69; - _standing_ of the Corresponding Society and Whig Club, 80. - _See_ Fox and the Duke of Norfolk. - - Tooke, John Horne—_Diversions of Purley_ considered, 385; - political anecdotes of, _ib._; - literary merit ascertained, 386 (_see_ Henshall); - _Diversions of Purley_, reviewed, 655; - Portraits by (_see_ Pitt and Fox). - - Turenne, different from Hoche, 32. - - - U. - - _Underwald, Fall of_, reviewed, 663; - tyranny of the Directory, 664; - perfidy of, 665. - - - V. - - Vaurien, review of, reviewed, 685; - merit as a satirical performance, _ib._; - exhibits the consequences of Godwin’s Political Justice, 686; - describes the various modes of seizing on property, 687. - - Voltaire, observations of, concerning government, 9; - character, 360; - philosophy, religion, and morality of, 751; - life of, by Verney, 816. - - Vultures, modern, 812. - - - W. - - Wakefield, admonition to, 36; - Reply to the Bishop of Landaff, 72; - Letter to the Attorney General, 151; - scurrilous abuse of Mr. Pitt, 152; - asserts all human governments to be incorrigibly profligate, 154; - pretends to control legislature, magistracy, and administration, 155; - character and motives of, examined, 156; - letter of, to Mr. Wilberforce, 551. - - Wansey, Letter of, to the Bishop of Salisbury, answered, 542; - deplorable malady of, 544. - - War, causes of, the French doctrines and revolution, 27. - - Whig Club tends to the subversion of the Constitution, 60 (_see_ Fox - and the Duke of Norfolk); - proceedings of, versified, 303; - Erskine’s speech at, 609. - _See_ Fox, Jacobinism, and Corresponding Society. - - Whitbread, evidence of, at Maidstone, 290. - - Williams, Helen Maria, Jacobinical principles of, 146; - patronizes the New Annual Register, 158. - - Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Mary, Memoirs of, 94; - keeps her father in awe, _ib._; - lively fancy without knowledge and habits of reasoning, _ib._; - _so qualified_ becomes one of the _Analytical_ Reviewers, _ib._; - _undertakes_ to answer Burke, 95; - answer such as might have been expected, _ib._; - her constitution testified by her husband to have been _amorous_, - _ib._; - Rights of Woman characterised, _ib._; - her passions inflamed by celibacy, 96; - falls in love with a married man, _ib._; - at the breaking out of the war betakes herself to our enemies, _ib._; - intimate with the French leaders under Robespierre, 97; - with Thomas Paine, _ib._; - taken by Imlay into keeping, _ib._; - her husband declares that her soul had panted for that connection, - _ib._; - her doctrines, illustrated by her example, _not new_, _ib._; - _as old as prostitution_, _ib._; - proposes to elude her creditors, _ib._; - deserted by her keeper, _ib._; - derives particular gratification from Hamilton Rowan, _ib._; - pursues her keeper to England, _ib._; - her great aversion to this country, _ib._; - being without a lover attempts to drown herself, 98; - appointed kept mistress to the philosopher Godwin, _ib._; - married to the philosopher, _ib._; - does not believe in future punishments, 99; - from the time she became enlightened discontinued public worship, - _ib._; - her life illustrates Jacobin morality and religion, _ib._; - high praises of her life, doctrines, and conduct by the _Analytical_ - Reviewers, 101; - prophetic apostrophe to her by them, 402. - _See_ Maria, Godwin, Prostitution, and _Analytical Review_. - - - THE END. - ------ - -Footnote 1: - - On the subject of the respective authorship of the contributions to - _The Anti-Jacobin_, see _The Works of John Hookham Frere, in verse and - prose, with Prefatory Memoir. Edited by his Nephews, H. and Sir Bartle - Frere_, and _The Edinburgh Review_ for April, 1872, p. 476. - -Footnote 2: - - It will be remembered that these eminent persons were chosen by Lord - Malmesbury to accompany him on his mission to Lille and were - associated with him in the abortive negotiations for peace. - -Footnote 3: - - It is surprising that the satirist’s attention was not attracted to - the scene in _Stella_, in which one of the heroines describes the - rapid growth of her passion to its object: “I know not if you observed - that you had enchained my interest from the first moment of our first - meeting. I at least soon became aware that your eyes sought mine. Ah, - Fernando, then my uncle brought the music, you took your violin, and, - as you played, my eyes rested upon you free from care. I studied every - feature of your face; and, during an unexpected pause, you fixed your - eyes upon—upon me! They met mine! How I blushed, how I looked away! - You observed it, Fernando; for from that moment I felt that you looked - oftener over your music-book, often played out of tune, to the - disturbance of my uncle. Every false note, Fernando, went to my heart. - It was the sweetest confusion I ever felt in my life.” - -Footnote 4: - - The whole of this _jeu d’esprit_ has been claimed for FRERE, but on - unsatisfactory evidence. It is much more in CANNING’S way as a student - of oratory, which FRERE was not. - -Footnote 5: - - [See pages 32, 34.—ED.] - -Footnote 6: - - [A very eminent Mathematician and Physicist, and the inventor of - descriptive geometry; born in 1746. In 1792 he was appointed Minister - of Marine; and afterwards took an active part in the equipment of the - Army. After founding the _École Polytechnique_, he was sent into Italy - to receive the pictures and statues seized by Buonaparte. He then - joined the expedition to Egypt, and rendered great service both in the - war operations and in the labours of the _Egyptian Institute_, the - results of which were published by command of Napoleon in that - magnificent and extensive work the _Description de l’Égypte_. He died - in 1818.—ED.] - -Footnote 7: - - [Parodied from Payne Knight’s poem, “_The Progress of Civil Society_,” - which is admirably ridiculed in No. XV. _post_.—ED.] - -Footnote 8: - - [By SOUTHEY.—ED.] - -Footnote 9: - - [The original poem, by Southey, is here subjoined:— - - THE WIDOW. - - SAPPHICS. - - Cold was the night wind; drifting fast the snows fell; - Wide were the downs, and shelterless and naked; - When a poor wand’rer struggled on her journey, - Weary and way-sore. - - Drear were the downs, more dreary her reflections; - Cold was the night wind, colder was her bosom: - She had no home, the world was all before her, - She had no shelter. - - Fast o’er the heath a chariot rattled by her: - “Pity me!” feebly cried the poor night wanderer. - “Pity me, strangers! lest with cold and hunger - Here I should perish. - - “Once I had friends—but they have all forsook me! - Once I had parents—they are now in heaven! - I had a home once—I had once a husband— - Pity me, strangers! - - “I had a home once—I had once a husband— - I am a widow, poor and broken-hearted!” - Loud blew the wind, unheard was her complaining; - On drove the chariot. - - Then on the snow she laid her down to rest her; - She heard a horseman: “Pity me!” she groaned out. - Loud was the wind, unheard was her complaining; - On went the horseman. - - Worn out with anguish, toil, and cold and hunger, - Down sunk the wanderer; sleep had seized her senses: - There did the traveller find her in the morning— - God had released her.] - - 1796. - -Footnote 10: - - [GEORGE TIERNEY, M.P. for Southwark, who in early times was among the - more forward of the Reformers. “He was,” says Lord Brougham, “an - assiduous member of the _Society of Friends of the People_, and drew - up the much and justly celebrated Petition in which that useful body - laid before the House of Commons all the more striking particulars of - its defective title to the office of representing the people, which - that House then, as now, but with far less reason, assumed.” - Notwithstanding the above severe verses, Tierney served under Canning - as Master of the Mint, during the latter’s short administration in - 1827.—ED.] - -Footnote 11: - - [In Feb., 1797, about 1400 Frenchmen landed at Pembroke, but - surrendered without resistance to the country people, whom Lord CAWDOR - (who had been elevated to the Peerage in the preceding year) had armed - with scythes and pitchforks. He was succeeded by his elder son, who - was created Earl Cawdor in 1827, and died 1860.—ED.] - -Footnote 12: - - [This account will be found on p. 32, _et seq._—ED.] - -Footnote 13: - - See proclamation of the Directory. - -Footnote 14: - - The “_too long calumniated_ author of the _Rights of Man_”.—See a Sir - Something Burdett’s speech at the Shakspeare, as referred to in the - _Courier_ of Nov. 30. - -Footnote 15: - - The Guillotine at Arras was, as is well known to every Jacobin, - painted “_Couleur de Rose_”. - -Footnote 16: - - See _Weekly Examiner_, No. 11. Extract from the _Courier_. - -Footnote 17: - - _La petite Fenétre_, and _la Razoire Nationale_, fondling expressions - applied to the Guillotine by the Jacobins in France, and their pupils - here. - -Footnote 18: - - [The original poem is here subjoined:— - - THE SOLDIER’S WIFE. - - DACTYLICS. - - Weary way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart, - Travelling painfully over the rugged road; - Wild-visaged wanderer! Ah! for thy heavy chance. - - Sorely thy little ones drag by thee barefooted, - Cold is the baby that hangs at thy bending back— - Meagre and livid, and screaming its wretchedness. - - Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony, - As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe, - Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy haggard face. - - Thy husband will never return from the war again; - Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity— - Cold are thy famished babes—God help thee, widowed one!] - - 1795. - -Footnote 19: - - [“Walked to the Old Bailey to see DAVID ISAAC EATON in the pillory. - The mob was decidedly friendly to him. His having published PAINE’S - _Age of Reason_ was not an intelligible offence to them.”—_Crabb - Robinson’s Diary_, i. 386. - - The Proclamation against _Seditious Writings_, however, was supported - by some influential Whigs. “PITT had previously sent copies of it to - several members of the Opposition in both Houses, requesting their - advice,” says Lord Malmesbury. Whether PITT desired it or not, no - measure could have been more effectual for dividing the Whig - party.—ED.] - -Footnote 20: - - [See p. 38.—ED.] - -Footnote 21: - - My worthy friend the bellman had promised to supply an additional - stanza; but the business of assisting the lamplighter, - chimney-sweeper, &c., with complimentary verses for their worthy - masters and mistresses, pressing on him at this season, he was obliged - to decline it. [A quiz at the third stanza, which was contributed by - COLERIDGE.—ED.] - -Footnote 22: - - [Thomas Dyche was a clergyman, and kept a school at Stratford-le-Bow. - He was the author of an English dictionary, a spelling-book, a Latin - vocabulary, &c. He died about 1750. Thomas Dilworth, whose educational - works were long popular, was for some time his assistant, and then set - up a school for himself at Wapping. He died in 1781.—ED.] - -Footnote 23: - - [_and_ should have been omitted.—ED.] - -Footnote 24: - - [The Latin Verses, much admired at the time, were written by the - Marquis WELLESLEY at Walmer Castle, in 1797, at the desire of PITT, - and were published after the author’s departure for India, in the - _Anti-Jacobin_. The beautiful translation of them was by Lord MORPETH, - afterwards sixth Earl of CARLISLE, whose mother was the daughter of - GRANVILLE LEVESON GOWER, first Marquis of STAFFORD. He died in 1848.] - -Footnote 25: - - The original poem as translated, or rather paraphrased, by Prof. J. D. - Carlyle, is here subjoined:— - - THE CHOICE. - - Sabla! thou saw’st th’ exulting foe - In fancied triumphs crown’d: - Thou heard’st their frantic females throw - These galling taunts around: - - “Make now YOUR CHOICE—the terms we give, - Desponding victims, hear! - These fetters on your _hands_ receive, - Or in your _hearts_ the spear.” - - “And is the conflict o’er,” we cried, - And lie we at your feet, - “And dare you vauntingly decide - The fortune we must meet? - - “A brighter day we soon shall see, - Tho’ now the prospect lowers, - And Conquest, Peace, and Liberty - Shall gild our future hours.” - - The foe advanc’d—in firm array - We rush’d o’er SABLA’S sands, - And the red sabre mark’d our way - Amidst their yielding bands. - - Then as they writh’d in death’s cold grasp, - We cried, “OUR CHOICE is made! - These _hands_ the sabre’s hilt shall clasp, - Your _hearts_ shall have the blade!” - - As Carlyle’s version is although a spirited not a faithful one, the - Editor is induced to present a literal translation, from _Translations - of Ancient Arabian Poetry, by C. J. Lyall_, 1885, 8vo., p. 10. The - contest was not a battle but one of the frequent skirmishes between - neighbouring clans. _Sabla_ is Carlyle’s rendering of _Sahbal a Wady_, - in Arabia, overlooked by twin peaks. - -Footnote 26: - - [W. H. Ireland, the Shakespeare forger.—ED.] - -Footnote 27: - - [The above ballad refers to an attempt by FRANCIS, fifth DUKE OF - BEDFORD, to escape the payment of the Assessed Taxes upon twenty-five - of his servants, on the plea that as the Helpers did not wear a - Livery, and were engaged by the week, they were not liable to the - duty. This defence was, however, unsuccessful.—ED.] - -Footnote 28: - - _Twaie coneynge Clerks._—_Coneynge_ is the participle of the verb to - _ken_ or _know_. It by no means imports what we now denominate a - _knowing one_: on the contrary, _twaie coneynge clerks_ means _two - intelligent and disinterested clergymen_. - -Footnote 29: - - _Seely_ is evidently the original of the modern word _silly_. A _seely - wight_, however, by no means imports what is now called a _silly - fellow_, but means a man of simplicity of character, devoid of all - _vanity_, and of any strange, ill-conducted ambition, which, if - successful, would immediately be fatal to the man who indulged it. - -Footnote 30: - - _Good advisament_ means—_cool consideration_. - -Footnote 31: - - [FRANCIS, fifth DUKE OF BEDFORD, died after a severe surgical - operation, March 2, 1802, at the early age of thirty-six. “The Duke of - Bedford’s energetic and capacious mind,” says Lord Ossory, “his - enlarged way of thinking, and elevated sentiments, together with the - habits and pursuits of his life, peculiarly qualified him for his high - station and princely fortune. He was superior to bad education and - disadvantages for forming his character, and turned out certainly a - first-rate man, though not free from imperfections. His uprightness - and truth were unequalled; his magnanimity, fortitude and - consideration, in his last moments, taken so unprepared as he was, - were astonishing.” - - On the 16th March, C. J. Fox, in moving for a new writ for the borough - of Tavistock, vacated by Lord John Russell, who had succeeded to the - titles and estates of his deceased brother, took occasion to pronounce - a beautiful and glowing eulogium on his departed friend and firm - supporter.—ED.] - -Footnote 32: - - [The _Anti-Jacobin_ (in No. 8) thus speaks of the threatened invasion - of this country, for which “they have publicly formed, and (as they - term it) _organized_ their ARMY OF ENGLAND. Its Advanced Guard is to - be formed from a chosen Corps of Banditti, the most distinguished for - Massacre and Plunder. It is to be preceded, as it naturally ought, by - _the Genius of French Revolutionary Liberty_, and it will be - _welcomed_, as they tell us, ‘on the _ensanguined_ shores of Britain, - by the generous friends of Parliamentary Reform’. In the interval, - however, till these golden dreams are realized, it is necessary that - this ‘_Army of England_,’ while it yet remains in France, should be - fed, paid, and clothed. For this purpose a new and separate fund is - provided (in the same spirit with the rest of their measures), and is - to be termed ‘THE LOAN OF ENGLAND,’ to be raised by anticipation on - the security and mortgage of all the Lands and Property of this - Country. This _gasconade_, which sounds too extravagant for reality, - is nevertheless seriously announced by a message from the Executive - Directory; and we are told that the Merchants of Paris are eagerly - offering to advance, on such a security, the money which is to defray - the expenses of the Expedition against this country.”—ED.] - -Footnote 33: - - [The above verses refer to the memorable events of the 18th Fructidor, - Sept. 4, 1797 (the model of Prince Louis Napoléon’s _coup d’état_, - Dec. 2, 1851), when Rewbell, Barras, and Laréveillère-Lepaux, on the - plea that the Republic was in danger, got rid of their - fellow-directors, Carnot (grandfather to the present President of the - French Republic) and Barthélemy, who were replaced by Merlin and - François de Neufchateau, dispersed by military force the members of - the Five Hundred and the Ancients, fifty-three of whom were condemned - to transportation—banished the editors, &c., of forty-two - newspapers—annulled the elections of forty-eight departments—and - effected other arbitrary measures without opposition. The springs of - the movement were throughout directed by Buonaparte, seconded by Hoche - and Augereau. This event was the true era of the commencement of - military despotism in France. But THIERS considers “the Directory by - these means prevented civil war, and substituted an arbitrary but - necessary act of power, carried out with energy, but with all the - mildness and moderation that revolutionary times would allow”.—ED.] - -Footnote 34: - - [Alluding to the National Thanksgiving for the three great naval - victories achieved by Lords Howe, St. Vincent, and Duncan. On this - occasion the King and Queen, with their family, the Houses of Lords - and Commons, &c., went in procession to St. Paul’s, where Divine - Service was performed. The Government Papers attributed to the - Opposition Press a desire to throw discredit on this proceeding. “The - consequence of the Procession to St. Paul’s” (says the _Morning Post_, - of Dec. 25) “was, that _one_ man returned thanks to the Almighty, and - _one_ woman was _kicked_ TO DEATH.”—ED.] - -Footnote 35: - - [Mary Frampton, in her journal (Dec. 20, 1797), gives a lively account - of the King’s attendance at St. Paul’s for Duncan’s Victory on the - 11th Oct. “The King,” she says, “stopped under the dome, and conversed - for some time with Lord Duncan and the sailors; and, to the great - scandal of good church-goers, did not hold his tongue for any - considerable time together during the service.... Pitt was attacked at - Temple Bar by three ruffians, who rushed from the mob and seized upon - the door of his carriage undoubtedly with an intent to drag him out, - but three of the Light Horse Volunteers rode up, and backing their - horses against them, sent them head over heels to the place from - whence they came, rather faster than they ventured out.” Page 99.—ED.] - -Footnote 36: - - [PRINCE TALLEYRAND.—ED.] - -Footnote 37: - - GENERAL DANICAN, in his Memoirs, tells us, that while he was in - command, a felon, who had assumed the name of Brutus, chief of a - revolutionary tribunal at Rennes, said to his colleagues, on Good - Friday, “Brothers, we must put to death this day, at the same hour the - counter-revolutionist Christ died, that young devotee who was lately - arrested”: and this young lady was guillotined accordingly, and her - corpse treated with _every possible species of indecent insult_, to - the infinite amusement of a vast multitude of spectators. - -Footnote 38: - - The reader will find in the works of PETER PORCUPINE [W. COBBETT] (a - spirited and instructive writer) an ample and satisfactory commentary - on this and the following stanza. The French themselves inform us, - that by the several modes of destruction here alluded to, upwards of - 30,000 persons were butchered at Lyons, and this once magnificent city - almost levelled to the ground, by the command of a wretched actor - (COLLOT D’HERBOIS), whom they had formerly hissed from the stage. From - the same authorities we learn, that at Nantz 27,000 persons, of both - sexes, were murdered; chiefly by drowning them in plugged boats. The - waters of the Loire became putrid, and were forbidden to be drunk, by - the savages who conducted the massacre:—that at Paris 150,000, and in - La Vendée 300,000 persons were destroyed.—Upon the whole, the French - themselves acknowledge, that TWO MILLIONS of human beings (exclusive - of the military) have been sacrificed to the principles of EQUALITY - and the RIGHTS OF MAN: 250,000 of these are stated to be WOMEN, and - 30,000 CHILDREN. In this last number, however, they do not include the - unborn; nor those who started from the bodies of their agonizing - parents, and were stuck upon the bayonets of those very men who are - now to compose the “ARMY OF ENGLAND,” amidst the most savage - acclamations. - - [At the beginning of the revolution, some companies of children, - called _Bonsbons_, were dressed and drilled as National Guards, as a - compliment to the Dauphin, who to please the Parisians sometimes - donned that uniform. Similar companies were afterwards formed in - Brittany, and employed to shoot those poor wretches whom the two - guillotines could not dispatch in sufficient numbers!—_Biog. Univ._, - art. _St. André_.—ED.] - -Footnote 39: - - At Lyons, JABOGUES, the _second_ murderer (the Actor being the - _first_), in his speech to the Democratic Society, used these - words—“Down with the edifices raised for the profit or the pleasure of - the rich; down with them ALL. COMMERCE and ARTS are useless to a - warlike people, and are the destruction of that SUBLIME EQUALITY which - France is determined to spread over the globe.” Such are the - consequences of RADICAL REFORM! Let any merchant, farmer, or landlord; - let any husband or father consider this, and then say, “_Shall we or - shall we not contribute a moderate sum_, IN PROPORTION TO OUR ANNUAL - EXPENDITURE, _for the purpose of preserving ourselves from the fate of - Lyons, La Vendée, and Nantz?_” - - STYPTIC. - -Footnote 40: - - [Probably written by the Rt. Hon. John Courtnay.] - -Footnote 41: - - Line 10.—[One of the distinguishing features of the “ANTI-JACOBIN” - was their articles devoted to an exposure of the “Lies, - Misrepresentations, and Mistakes” of the Opposition Press.—ED.] - -Footnote 42: - - Line 23.—[George Hammond, at this time Canning’s colleague as - Under-Secretary of State; the latter being succeeded by John Hookham - Frere.—ED.] - -Footnote 43: - - Line 30.—[Lord Morpeth, son of the (fifth) Earl of Carlisle who was - satirized by Byron in “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”.—ED.] - -Footnote 44: - - Line 32.—[George Granville Leveson Gower, eldest son of the first - Marquis of Stafford, born in 1758, became second Marquis in 1803, and - created Duke of Sutherland in 1833. He was one of Canning’s intimate - college companions.—ED.] - -Footnote 45: - - Line 41.—[James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury, one of the most - distinguished of English diplomatists. His “Diaries and - Correspondence,” published by his grandson, the third Earl, throw much - light on the transactions of the eventful period to which they - refer.—ED.] - -Footnote 46: - - Line 42.—[George Ellis, the accomplished editor of the “Specimens of - the Early English Poets, and of Early English Metrical Romances,” &c. - In early life he contributed to the _Rolliad_, being the author of - Nos. 1 and 2, in Part I., and Nos. 1 and 2, in Part II. Of the - _Political Eclogues_ he wrote the one entitled “Charles Jenkinson”. In - the _Probationary Odes_, he wrote No. II. “Ode on the New Year, by - Lord Mulgrave,” and No. XX. “Irregular Ode for the King’s Birth Day, - by Sir G. Howard”. Afterwards, however, he became much attached to - Pitt, and acted as Secretary to Lord Malmesbury during his - unsuccessful negotiations with the French for peace, at Lisle, 1797. - Horace Walpole thus alludes to him, in a letter of 24th June, 1783: - “English people are in fashion at Versailles. A Mr. Ellis, who wrote - some pretty verses at Bath two or three years ago, is a favourite - there.” Sir Walter Scott addressed to him Canto V. of “Marmion”. He - died in 1815, aged 70.—ED.] - -Footnote 47: - - Line 71.—[The Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas (afterwards created Viscount - Melville), in the Commons, and Lord Grenville in the Lords, were - Pitt’s most efficient supporters.—ED.] - -Footnote 48: - - Line 16.—[Brookes’s Club was the grand rendezvous of the Whigs.—ED.] - -Footnote 49: - - Line 17.—[JAS. HARE was M.P. for Knaresborough, and one of the most - brilliant wits of the Whig Party. At Eton his verses were hung up as - specimens of excellence. Great expectations were raised as to his - eloquence in the House of Commons. But his timidity was so great that - he broke down in his first speech, and this failure, joined with - delicate health, prevented a second attempt. Horace Walpole speaks of - his “brilliancy and fire,” and of his own inferiority to him. His - _bons mots_ were innumerable. He died in 1804. The following is Lord - Ossory’s opinion of the social talents of some of the best talkers of - his day:—“Horace Walpole was an agreeable, lively man, very affected, - always aiming at wit, in which he fell very short of his old friend, - GEORGE SELWYN, who possessed it in the most genuine but indescribable - degree. HARE’S conversation abounded with wit, and perhaps of a more - lively kind; so did BURKE’S, though with much alloy of bad taste; but, - upon the whole, my brother the General [FITZPATRICK] was the most - agreeable man in society of any of them.”—MS., R. Vernon Smith.—ED.] - -Footnote 50: - - Line 19.—[General FITZPATRICK was one of Fox’s most attached friends - and political supporters. BOSWELL, speaking of a dinner at - BEAUCLERK’S, 24th April, 1779, says, on a celebrated wit being - mentioned (believed to be Fitzpatrick), “JOHNSON replied, ‘I have been - several times in company with him, but never perceived any strong - power of wit. He produces a general effect by various means; he has a - cheerful countenance and a gay voice. Besides his trade is wit. It - would be as wild in him to come into company without merriment, as for - a highwayman to take the road without his pistols.’” WALPOLE (in his - _Journal of the Reign of George III._, i. 167, and ii. 560) describes - him as “an agreeable young man of parts,” and mentions his “genteel - irony and badinage”. He was Lord Shelburne’s brother-in-law, at whose - house Johnson might have met him, as well as in Fox’s company. Rogers - (_Table Talk_, p. 104) said that Fitzpatrick was at one time nearly as - famous for his wit as Hare. He possessed no mean poetic talents, - particularly for compositions of wit, fancy, and satire. To the - _Rolliad_ he contributed “Extract from the Dedication”; Nos. v., ix. - and xii., in Part I.; and No. v. in Part II. In the _Political - Eclogues_, he wrote “The Liars”; and “Pindaric Ode” (No. xv.)—also, - “Incantation for raising a Phantom, imitated from Macbeth,” in the - _Political Miscellanies_. - - GENERAL RICHARD FITZPATRICK’S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF. - - “MY OWN EPITAPH. - - “Whose turn is next? This monitory Stone - Replies, vain Passenger, perhaps thy own. - If, idly curious, thou wilt seek to know - Whose relics mingle with the dust below, - Enough to tell thee, that his destin’d span - On Earth he dwelt,—and, like thyself, a Man. - Nor distant far th’ inevitable day - When thou, poor mortal, shalt like him be clay. - Through life he walk’d unemulous of fame, - Nor wish’d beyond it to preserve a name. - Content, if Friendship, o’er his humble bier, - Drop but the heartfelt tribute of a tear; - Though countless ages should unconscious glide, - Nor learn that ever he had liv’d, or died. - “R. F.” - - Such is the epitaph placed on a stone sarcophagus in the usual form, - in the churchyard at Sunninghill, close to the house where Gen. - Fitzpatrick’s friend, G. Ellis, died.—Nichols, _Lit. Illustr._, vol. - vii., pp. 633–4.—ED.] - -Footnote 51: - - Line 19.—[Lord JOHN TOWNSHEND, the second son of the first Marquis - Townshend. He represented Cambridge till ousted by PITT at the general - election in 1784. In 1788 he became the colleague of FOX for - Westminster. He afterwards represented Knaresborough for twenty-five - years: his colleague in 1797 was HARE. He had great powers of wit and - satire. In the _Political Eclogues_ (subjoined to _The Rolliad_), he - wrote the one entitled “Jekyll”. To the _Probationary Odes for the - Laureatship_ he contributed No. xii., in ridicule of Warren Hastings’s - agent, Major John Scott, M.P. Also, the “Dialogue between a certain - personage and his Minister,” in imitation of the Ninth Ode of Horace, - Book III.—ED.] - -Footnote 52: - - Line 20.—[Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, then M.P. for Boroughbridge.—ED.] - -Footnote 53: - - Line 23.—[JOHN RICHARDSON, M.P. for Newport, Cornwall, and one of the - proprietors of Drury Lane Theatre. In the _Rolliad_ he was the author, - in Part I., of Nos. iv., x., and xi.; and in Part II. of Nos. iii. and - iv. He wrote No. iv. of _Probationary Odes_, in ridicule of Sir R. - Hill, Bart.; No. xix. on Viscount Mountmorres, and the concluding - prose portion. To the _Political Miscellanies_ he contributed, “This - is the House that George Built,” and in conjunction with Tickell, the - “Epigrams by Sir Cecil Wray,” “Pretymaniana,” and “Foreign Epigrams”. - In the latter Dr. Laurence assisted them. Also “A Tale: At Brookes’s - once it so fell out”. “Theatrical Intelligence Extraordinary.” - “Epigram: Who shall Expect the Country’s Friend?” “A new Ballad: Billy - Eden,” in conjunction with Tickell. “Proclamation.” He died in - 1803.—ED.] - -Footnote 54: - - Line 25.—[The Rev. SAMUEL PARR, LL.D., was not only a great scholar, - but an uncompromising Whig, and one of Fox’s most enthusiastic - supporters. His conversational powers were great, and his arguments - were enforced by boldness, dogmatism, and arrogance, which qualities, - however, did not always exempt him from stinging retorts even from the - fair sex. The following, among other attacks, appears in Crabb - Robinson’s interesting _Diary_, ii. 457:— - - A RECIPE. - - To half of BUSBY’S skill in mood and tense - Add BENTLEY’S pleasantry, without his sense: - Of WARBURTON take all the spleen you find, - And leave his genius and his wit behind. - Squeeze CHURCHILL’S rancour from the verse it flows in, - And knead it stiff with JOHNSON’S heavy prosing. - Add all the piety of ST. VOLTAIRE, - Mix the gross compound—_Fiat_ DR. PARR. - - His person, in full canonicals, with capacious wig, unfailing tobacco - pipe and tankard, is, with the effigies of many other noted - politicians of the period, introduced into a spirited bacchanalian - scene by Gillray, published in 1801, entitled _The Union Club_.] - -Footnote 55: - - BUZZ PROSE.—The learned reader will perceive that this is an elegant - _metonymy_, by which the quality belonging to the outside of the head - is transferred to the inside. _Buzz_ is an epithet usually applied to - a large wig. It is here used for swelling, burly, bombastic writing. - - There is a picture of HOGARTH’S (the Election Ball, we believe), in - which there are a number of Hats thrown together in one corner of the - room; and it is remarked as a peculiar excellence that there is not a - Hat among them of which you cannot to a certainty point out the owner - among the figures dancing, or otherwise distributed through the - picture. - - We remember to have seen an experiment of this kind tried at one of - the Universities with the _wig_ and _writings_ here alluded to. A page - taken from the most happy and elaborate part of the writings was laid - upon a table in a barber’s shop, round which a number of wigs of - different descriptions and dimensions were suspended, and among them - that of the Author in question. It was required of a young student, - after reading a few sentences in the page, to point out among the wigs - that which must of necessity belong to the Head in which such - sentences had been engendered. The experiment succeeded to a miracle. - The learned reader will now see all the beauty and propriety of the - _metonymy_. - -Footnote 56: - - Line 25.—[JOHN COURTENAY was for many years one of the men of mark in - the House of Commons for his ability, independent spirit, erudition, - and coarse sarcastic wit. He was born at Carlingford, Ireland, in - 1738. Having obtained the patronage of George, Viscount Townshend, - Lord-Lieutenant (1767–72), he became the principal writer in the - “_Batchelor_,” a government paper, distinguished by genuine wit and - humour, conducted by Simcox, a clergyman; Richard Marlay, afterwards - Bishop of Waterford and Lismore; Robert Jephson, a dramatic poet of - note; the Rev. Mr. Boroughs, and others. The chief task of these - advocates of the Castle was to counteract the “_Baratarian Letters_,” - an Irish imitation of _Junius_, which, attacking the Lord-Lieutenant’s - government, received contributions from Flood, and first published - Grattan’s character of Chatham. At the “Coalition,” 1783, he was - appointed Surveyor-general of the Ordnance, and henceforward attached - himself to FOX. He wrote, among other works, _A Poetical Review of the - Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1786_; - _The Rape of Pomona, an Elegiac Epistle from the Waiter at Hockrel to - the Hon. Mr. Lyttelton, 1773_; _Philosophical Reflections on the late - Revolution in France_; and a _Biographical Sketch of his own Life_. In - his _Epistles in Rhyme_ he thus ridicules Horace Walpole’s _Strawberry - Verses_ on the two Misses Berry:— - - “Who to love tunes his note, with the fire of old age, - And chirps the trim lay in a trim Gothic cage.” - - Walpole, however (_Correspondence_, ix. 434–5), good-naturedly laughed - at them, saying that these verses on himself were really some of the - best in the whole set. Courtenay was a member of _The Literary Club_, - founded by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and figures in several of Gillray’s - caricatures. He it was who, referring to Gay’s _Beggars’ Opera_, - designated the author the _Orpheus of Highwaymen_. He died 24th March, - 1816.—ED.] - -Footnote 57: - - KIDNAPP’D RHYMES.—Kidnapp’d implies something more than _stolen_. - It is, according to an expression of Mr. Sheridan’s (in the - “Critic”), _using other people’s “thoughts as gipsies do stolen - children—disfiguring them, to make them pass for their own”_. - - This is a serious charge against an author, and ought to be well - supported. To the proof then! - - In an Ode of the late LORD NUGENT’S are the following spirited lines: - - “Though CATO liv’d—though TULLY spoke—[58] - Though BRUTUS dealt the godlike stroke, - Yet perish’d fated ROME!” - - The author above mentioned saw these lines, and liked them—as well he - might; and as he had a mind to write about Rome himself, he did not - scruple to enlist them into his service; but he thought it right to - make a small alteration in their appearance, which he managed thus. - Speaking of Rome, he says it is the place - - “_Where_ CATO liv’d”:— - - A sober truth! which gets rid at once of all the poetry and spirit of - the original, and reduces the sentiment from an example of manners, - virtue, patriotism, from the _vitæ exemplar dedit_ of LORD NUGENT, to - a mere question of inhabitancy. _Ubi habitavit Cato_—where he was an - inhabitant-householder, paying scot and lot, and had a house on the - right-hand side of the way, as you go down _Esquiline_ Hill, just - opposite to the poulterer’s. But to proceed— - - “_Where_ CATO liv’d; where TULLY spoke, - Where BRUTUS dealt the godlike stroke— - —_By which his glory rose_!!!” - - The last line is _not_ borrowed. - - We question whether the history of modern literature can produce an - instance of a theft so shameless, and turned to so little advantage.] - -Footnote 58: - - [Horace Walpole, in a letter to Hannah More, quotes one word of these - verses incorrectly, writing:—“Though Cato _died_,” an error which P. - Cunningham allows to pass, as also another, that _Mr._—instead of - _Lord_—Nugent wrote them.—ED.] - -Footnote 59: - - Line 26.—[Sir ROBERT ADAIR. Some observations on his alleged mission - to St. Petersburgh to counteract the measures of Government will be - found on a subsequent page. The publication here satirized is entitled - “Part of a Letter from Robert Adair, Esq., to the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox; - occasioned by Mr. Burke’s mention of Lord Keppel in a recent - publication,” London, Debrett, 1796, and is by no means a contemptible - composition. It is called “_Part_ of a Letter,” because it is a - portion of a longer one, being only the part devoted to a vindication - of the writer’s uncle, Admiral Lord Keppel, and of Fox; with - characteristic delineations of Sir G. Saville, the Marquis of - Rockingham, Lord North, and George Byng, M.P., on all of whom he - passes great compliments.—ED.] - -Footnote 60: - - _And loads the blunderbuss with_ BEDFORD’S _brains._—This line is - wholly unintelligible without a note. And we are afraid the note will - be wholly incredible, unless the reader can fortunately procure the - book to which it refers. - - In the “Part of a Letter,” which was published by MR. ROBT. ADAIR, in - answer to MR. BURKE’S “Letter to the D. of B.,” nothing is so - remarkable as the studious imitation of Mr. Burke’s style. - - His vehemence, and his passion, and his irony, his wild imagery, his - far-sought illustrations, his rolling and lengthened periods, and the - short quick pointed sentences in which he often condenses as much - wisdom and wit as others would expand through pages, or through - volumes,—all these are carefully kept in view by his opponent, though - not always very artificially copied or applied. - - But imitators are liable to be led strangely astray; and never was - there an instance of a more complete mistake of a plain meaning, than - that which this line is intended to illustrate—a mistake no less than - that of a _coffin_ for a _corpse_. This is hard to believe or to - comprehend—but you shall hear. - - MR. BURKE, in one of his publications, had talked of the French - “_unplumbing_ the dead in order to destroy the living,”—by which he - intended, without doubt, not metaphorically, but literally, - “_stripping the dead of their_ LEADEN COFFINS, _and then making them_ - (_not the_ DEAD _but the_ COFFINS) _into bullets_”. A circumstance - perfectly notorious at the time the book was written. - - But this does not satisfy our author. He determines to retort MR. - BURKE’S own words upon him; and unfortunately “reaching at a - metaphor,” where MR. BURKE only intended a fact, he falls into the - little mistake above mentioned, and by a stroke of his pen transmutes - the illustrious HEAD of the house of RUSSELL into a metal, to which it - is not for us to say how near or how remote his affinity may possibly - have been. He writes thus—“_If_ MR. BURKE _had been content with - ‘unplumbing’ a dead Russell, and hewing_ HIM (observe—not the coffin, - but HIM—the old dead Russell himself) _into grape and canister, to - sweep down the whole generation of his descendants_,” _&c., &c._ - - The thing is scarcely credible; but IT IS SO! We write with the book - open before us. - -Footnote 61: - - Qu.—Surcharge? - -[Footnote: - - [62]HORACE, ODE VIII., BOOK II. - IN BARINEM. - - _Ulla si juris tibi pejerati - Pœna, Barine, nocuisset unquam, - Dente si nigro fieres, vel uno - Turpior ungui_, - - _Crederem. [64]Sed tu simul obligâsti - Perfidum votis caput, enitescis - Pulchrior multo_, juvenumque prodis - Publica cura. - - [66]Expedit _matris cineres_ opertos - Fallere, et toto [66]_taciturna noctis - Signa_ cum cœlo, gelidâque Divos - Morte carentes. - - _Ridet hoc, inquam, [67]Venus ipsa; rident - Simplices [69]Nymphæ, ferus et [73]Cupido - Semper ardentes acuens sagittas_ - Cote cruentâ. - - Adde quod pubes tibi crescit omnis, - [74]_Servitus crescit nova; [75]nec priores - Impiæ tectum dominæ relinquunt, - Sæpe minati._ - - Te suis matres metuunt juvencis; - Te [76]_senes parci, miseræque [77]nuper - Virgines nuptæ, tua ne retardet - Aura Maritos._ - -® - -Footnote 63: - -Line 3.—[Referring to LORD MOIRA’S complaints against the Government -agents, for unnecessary cruelty to the Irish rebels.—ED.] - -Footnote 65: - -Line 13.—[The following attack upon Lord Moira, “for his patriotic zeal, -and the correctness and propriety with which he gave, in the upper House -of Parliament, an account of the insurrection upon his estates, and in -other parts of Ireland,” is extracted from the “_Batchelor_”. These -observations were there pointed at the father of Lord Moira, but have -been adapted by the Author of the _Ode_ and the Artist to the son. - -_Lord Moira._—“My Lords, I rise to return my thanks to the Noble Lord -who spoke last. I can testify the truth of all he has asserted. At the -time of the Insurrection in the North, I had frequent and intimate -conversations with that celebrated enchanter, _Moll Coggin_. I have -often seen her riding on a black ram with a blue tail. Once I -endeavoured to fire at her, but my gun melted in my hand into a clear -jelly. This jelly I tasted, and if it had been a little more acid, it -would have been most excellent. The Noble Lords may laugh; but I declare -the fact upon my veracity, which has never been doubted. Once I pursued -this fiend into my ale cellar: she rode instantly out of my sight into -the bung-hole of a beer barrel. She was at that time mounted on her -black ram with the blue tail. Some time after, my servants were much -surprised to find their ale full of _blue hairs_. I was not surprised, -as I knew the blue _hairs_ were the hairs of the ram’s _blue tail_. -Noble Lords may stare, but the fact is as I relate it. This _Moll -Coggin_ was the fiend who raised the _Oak-boys_ to rebellion. I was also -well acquainted with the two Cow-boys mentioned by the Noble Lord; they -were my tenants, and were certainly endowed with supernatural powers. I -have known one of them tear up by the roots an Oak two hundred feet -high, and bear it upright on his head four miles! his party were on that -account called Oak-boys. Noble Lords may laugh, but I speak from certain -knowledge. The Oak-tree grew in my garden, and I have often seen five -hundred Swans perching on its boughs; these swans were remarkable for -destroying all the snipes in the country—they flew faster than any snipe -I ever saw, and you may imagine a small bird could make but a feeble -resistance in the talons of a swan. I hope, my Lords, you will pardon my -wandering a little from the present subject,” &c.—ED.] - -Footnote 68: - -Line 17.—[“One night after _nine o’clock_, a party of Soldiers saw a -light in a house by the road-side—they went and ordered it to be -extinguished immediately: the people of the house begged that the light -might be suffered to remain because there was a child belonging to the -family in convulsion fits, who must expire for want of help if the -people were to be without fire and candle; _but this request_ HAD NO -EFFECT.” _Lord Moira’s Speech in the House of Lords, November 22, 1797._ -This statement was, however, satisfactorily disproved. The incident -forms a feature in the accompanying engraving. Notwithstanding official -denials, it has long been admitted that the conduct of the Soldiery in -Ireland was simply infamous. Billeting on Catholics and reputed -malcontents of the better class appears to have been invariably as an -unlimited licence for robbery, devastation, ravishment, and, in case of -resistance, murder. Sir Ralph Abercromby, on assuming the command of the -army in Ireland, declared, in general orders, that their habits and -discipline were such as to render them “formidable to everybody but the -enemy”. The just severity of this phrase was confirmed by the subsequent -experience of Lord Cornwallis.—ED.] - -Footnote 70: - -Line 19.—[Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh, distinguished by his -scientific researches, married the daughter and sole heiress of Jas. -Evelyn, Esq. of Felbridge, Surrey, by whom he had an only daughter, -Julia, who became, in 1810, the wife of the Earl of Liverpool. Sir -George, on the decease of his father-in-law in 1793, assumed the -additional surname of Evelyn. He died in 1804, having been five times -returned to Parliament for the county of Warwick.—ED.] - -Footnote 71: - -Line 20.—[Sir John Macpherson, Bart. was M.P. for Horsham, and for a -short period Governor-General of India.—ED.] - -Footnote 72: - -Line 21.—[Col. Bastard was M.P. for Devon. He was returned with Mr. -Rolle, the hero of “_The Rolliad_,” on the Pitt interest.—ED.] - -Footnote 78: - -Line 31.—[Sir William Pulteney was M.P. for Shrewsbury, and no Member in -the House was more looked up to. He was the second son of Sir James -Johnstone, Bart., of Westerhall, and brother of Governor Johnstone. He -married the cousin of Lt.-Gen. Henry Pulteney, surviving brother of -William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, assuming the name of Pulteney. The -General left immense wealth, “the fruits of his brother’s virtues!” as -Horace Walpole sarcastically phrases it. The greater part of it he -bequeathed to the said cousin. Sir William Johnstone Pulteney died in -1805. His daughter was created Countess of Bath.—ED.] - -Footnote 79: - -The trepidation of Mr. Tooke, though natural, was not necessary; as it -appeared from the ever-memorable “Letter to Mr. M‘Mahon” (which was -published about this time in the _Morning Chronicle_, and threw the -whole town into paroxysms of laughter), that in the Administration which -his Lordship was so gravely employed in forming, Mr. Fox was to have no -place! - -Footnote 81: - -Line 36.—[Of M‘MAHON it is said in T. RAIKES’S _Journal_ (November, -1836):—“George IV. never had any private friends: he selected his -confidants from his minions. M‘MAHON was an Irishman of low birth and -obsequious manners: he was a little man, his face red, covered with -pimples; always dressed in the blue and buff uniform, with his hat on -one side, copying the air of his master, to whom he was a prodigious -foil, and ready to execute any commissions, which in those days were -somewhat complicated.” He was private secretary and keeper of the privy -purse to King George IV. when Prince Regent, was sworn of the Privy -Council, and created a Baronet, 7th August, 1817, with remainder, in -default of male issue, to his brother. SIR JOHN died 12th September, -1817, the title devolving on his brother THOMAS, a distinguished -military officer, who was Adjutant-General of Her Majesty’s forces in -India, Lieut.-Gov. of Portsmouth, Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army, -&c. - -SIR JOHN M‘MAHON left a large personal property, amounting to £90,000. -One of his bequests is thus worded: “To THOMAS MARRABLE, a dear and -esteemed friend, £2000; and with my last prayers for the glory and -happiness of the best-hearted man in the world, the PRINCE REGENT, I -bequeath him the said Thomas Marrable, an invaluable servant”. The -latter was a member of the household of King George IV., and one of his -confidential agents. A full-length portrait of him as one of the -procession is given in Sir G. Nayler’s history of the coronation of that -monarch. - -Among Gillray’s _Caricatures_ is an amusing one, engraved but not -designed by him, published in 1804, representing the Heir-Apparent, -mounted on a tall horse, with the much smaller person of M‘Mahon -consequentially riding on a diminutive steed at his side, passing the -gates of Carlton House. The quotation from Burns engraved on it suggests -that the Prince might still prove a worthy occupant of the throne.—ED.] - -Footnote 82: - -[As if written by ROBERT ADAIR, who had previously indited “HALF _a -Letter to Mr. Fox_”.] - -[Footnote: - - [83]Non usitatâ nec tenui ferar - Pennâ biformis per liquidum æthera - Vates. - [84]——Non ego, quem vocas - Dilecte, Mæcenas, obibo, - [85]Nec Stygiâ cohibebor undâ. - [86]Jamjam residunt cruribus asperæ - Pelles, et album mutor in alitem - [87]Supernê, nascunturque leves - Per digitos humerosque plumæ. - Visam gementis littora Bosphori, - Syrtesque Gætulas,[89] canorus - Ales,[90] Hyperboreosque campos. - [91]Me Colchus, et qui[92] dissimulat metum - * * * - * * * me peritus - Discet Iber Rhodanique[93] potor. - Absint[94] inani funere neniæ, - [95]Luctusque turpes et querimoniæ. - [96] —— —— —— sepulchri - Mitte supervacuous honores. - -® - -Footnote 88: - -[MR. PITT’S Tax upon Hair-powder proved a failure; many of the public -declining its use. Those who continued it were called “_guinea-pigs_,” -the tax being a guinea per head.—ED.] - -Footnote 97: - -[For an explanation of this allusion, see Note at p. 74.—ED.] - -[Footnote: - - [98]Acmen Septimius suos amores - Tenens in gremio, mea, inquit, Acme, - Ni te perdite amo, &c. - [99]Cæsio veniam obvius Leoni. - [100]Hoc ut dixit, Amor sinistram, ut ante - Dextram, sternuit approbationem. - [101]At Acme leviter caput reflectens, - Et dulcis pueri ebrios ocellos - Illo purpureo ore suaviata, - Sic, inquit, mea vita,[102] Septimille, &c. - [103]Nunc ab auspicio bono profecti - Mutuis animis amant, amantur. - Unam Septimius misellus Acmen - Mavult quam[104] Syrias Britanniasque.[105] - -® - -Footnote 105: - -_I.e._, The Clerkship of the Pells in Ireland, and Auditorship of South -Wales. - -Footnote 106: - -[On 7th Feb., 1796, a _forged_ French newspaper called _L’Eclair_, -containing false intelligence, was circulated in London for -stock-jobbing purposes. On 3rd July a verdict of £100 was given against -D. STUART, proprietor of _The Morning Post_, for sending the above paper -to the proprietors of _The Telegraph_, by which it was discredited; and -on the following day, a verdict of £1500 was given against Mr. -Dickinson, for falsely accusing Mr. Goldsmid, the money-broker, of -forging the above. It announced a peace between Austria and France.—ED.] - -Footnote 107: - -_Morning Post_, Jan. 25. - -Footnote 108: - -_Morning Chronicle_, Jan. 25. - -Footnote 109: - -This appears to allude to Mr. SHERIDAN’S conduct during the _Mutiny_. - -Footnote 110: - -This is not the first time that we have heard of Mr. TIERNEY’S -discouragement of impiety. However we may disapprove of this gentleman’s -political principles, we are not insensible to the merit of such -conduct. - -Footnote 111: - -_Morning Post_, Jan. 25. - -Footnote 112: - -_Morning Chronicle_, Jan. 25. - -Footnote 113: - -_Morning Chronicle_, _Morning Post_, _Morning Herald_, &c. - -Footnote 114: - -The Company seem to have recollected (had _his Grace_ forgotten?) that -the DUKE of NORFOLK has _another_ SOVEREIGN, to whom he has recently, -more than once, sworn Allegiance; and under whom he _now_ holds the -LIEUTENANCY of the WEST RIDING of the COUNTY OF YORK, and the Command of -a REGIMENT of MILITIA. - -Footnote 115: - -See _The True Briton_, of Thursday, Jan. 25. - -Footnote 116: - -Conjuravere Cives nobilissimi Patriam incendere—_Gallorum_ gentem -infestissimam nomini Romano in bellum arcessunt—Dux Hostium cum exercitu -supra caput est.—ORAT. CATON. ap. SALLUST. - -Footnote 117: - -Tum Catilina polliceri tabulas novas, proscriptionem locupletium, -Magistrates, Sacerdotia, rapinas, alia omnia quæ bellum atque lubido -Victorum fert.—SALLUST. - -Footnote 118: - -[“A Correspondent cautions us against making a profane use of MR. -WILBERFORCE’S appearance on Sunday; that gentleman would not have been -so ungodly as to gallop there without a sufficient reason—it was the -fulfilment of some Prophecy; and the horse he rode might be related to -the White Horse of the Revelations.”—_Morning Chronicle_, Jan. 11, -1798.—ED.] - -Footnote 119: - -[This refers to Charles Howard, eleventh DUKE OF NORFOLK, (who gave, at -a public dinner, the famous toast of “Our Sovereign’s health, the -Majesty of the People,”) and to John Horne Tooke, who was a regularly -ordained clergyman, and had been tried for High Treason and -acquitted.—ED.] - -Footnote 120: - -[These lines allude to the Empress Catherine’s placing in her gallery -the bust of Fox between those of Demosthenes and Cicero, as a token of -gratitude for his exertions in defeating the project of PITT, who, in -conjunction with Prussia and Holland, had, in 1791, prepared a powerful -armament to compel her to give up Ockzakow, which she had seized. The -Court party delighted in stigmatizing FOX as the modern _Catiline_. “But -the part which he took in parliament subsequent to 1793, (says _Sir N. -W. Wraxall_), and the eulogiums lavished by him on the French -Revolution, soon changed the Empress’s tone. She caused the bust to be -removed; and when reproached with such a change in her conduct, she -replied, ‘C’étoit Monsieur Fox de _Quatre-vingt-onze_ que j’ai placé -dans mon cabinet’.”—_Wraxall’s Posthumous Memoirs_, vol. 1, pp. 435, -436. - -“It seems to have escaped general notice, (says Sir James Prior in his -Life of Burke), that the misfortunes of Poland in her final partition -may be, in some degree, attributed, however undesignedly on their part, -to Mr. Fox and the Opposition, in the strong and unusual means made use -of to thwart Mr. Pitt in the business of Ockzakow. They lay claim, it is -true, to the merit of having prevented war on that occasion. But if war -had then taken place with England for one act of violence comparatively -trivial, Russia, in all probability, would not have ventured upon a -second and still greater aggression, involving the existence of a -nation, with the certainty of a second war. Nothing, after all, might -have saved Poland from the combination then on foot against her; but it -is certain that Mr. Pitt, from recent experience, had little -encouragement to make the attempt.” - -It is a curious circumstance that, though the _plate_ illustrating these -_Lines_ was published, according to its inscription, on the 17th March, -1792, the five stanzas engraved on it are identical with those which -appeared in the _Anti-Jacobin_ of 12th Feb., 1798, though these were -introduced as written “by an English Traveller just [_sic_] returned -from Petersburgh”. - -Assuming the date on the engraving to be correct, we might account for -the _parachronism_ on the supposition that the author of the earlier -_plate-stanzas_ availed himself of the appearance of the _Lines written -under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown and Anchor to reproduce -them_—six years afterwards—with a few verbal alterations, to adapt them -to a later period—and with an equivocal statement as to the period of -their first production. - -The following are the alterations in the reprinted version:— - - Stanza 2 line 3, frantic _for_ lawless. - „ 3 „ 1, their country’s _for_ domestic. - „ 3 „ 1, and wealth and _for_ external. - „ 3 „ 3, honoured _for_ sacred. - „ 4 „ 1, now _for_ then. - „ 4 „ 3, advocate _for_ tool confessed. - „ 4 „ 4, later _for_ modern. - „ 5 „ 2, thus _for_ now. - „ 5 „ 4, Catiline _for_ Cataline. - „ 5 „ 4, modern _for_ later.—ED.] - -Footnote 121: - -[Written to ridicule Richard Payne Knight’s _Progress of Civil Society_, -a Didactic Poem, in Six Books. London, 1796, 4to.—ED.] - -Footnote 122: - -_Ver._ 3. A modern author of great penetration and judgment observes -very shrewdly, that “the cosmogony of the world has puzzled the -philosophers of all ages. What a medley of opinions have they not -broached upon the creation of the world. Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, -and Ocellus Lucanus have all attempted it in vain. The latter has these -words—_Anarchon ara kai ateleutaion to pan_—which imply, that all things -have neither beginning nor end.” See Goldsmith’s _Vicar of Wakefield_; -see also Mr. Knight’s Poem on the _Progress of Civil Society_. - -Footnote 123: - -_Ver._ 12. The influence of Mind upon Matter, comprehending the whole -question of the Existence of Mind as independent of Matter, or as -co-existent with it, and of Matter considered as an intelligent and -self-dependent Essence, will make the subject of a larger Poem in 127 -Books, now preparing under the _same_ auspices. - -Footnote 124: - -_Ver._ 14. See Godwin’s _Enquirer_; Darwin’s _Zoonomia_; Paine; -Priestley, &c. &c.; also all the French Encyclopædists. - -Footnote 125: - -_Ver._ 16. _Quæstio spinosa et contortula._ - -Footnote 126: - -_Ver._ 26. “Add thereto a tiger’s chawdron.”—Macbeth. - -Footnote 127: - -_Ver._ 26, 27. - - “In softer notes bids Lybian lions roar, - And warms the whale on Zembla’s frozen shore.” - _Progress of Civil Society_, Book I. ver. 98. - -Footnote 128: - -_Ver._ 29. “An oyster may be crossed in love.”—Mr. Sheridan’s _Critic_. - -Footnote 129: - -_Ver._ 34. Birds fly. - -Footnote 130: - -_Ver._ 35. But neither fish, nor beasts—particularly as here -exemplified. - -Footnote 131: - -_Ver._ 36. The bear. - -Footnote 132: - -_Ver._ 37. The mackerel—there are also _hard-roed_ mackerel. _Sed de his -alio loco._ - -Footnote 133: - -_Ver._ 38. Bear’s _grease_, or _fat_, is also in great request; being -supposed to have a _criniparous_, or hair-producing quality. - -Footnote 134: - -_Ver._ 39. There is a special Act of Parliament which permits mackerel -to be cried on Sundays. - -Footnote 135: - -_Ver._ 45 to 49. Every animal contented with the lot which it has drawn -in life. A fine contrast to man, who is always discontented. - -Footnote 136: - -_Ver._ 49. _Salt wave_—wave of the sea—“_briny wave_”.—Poetæ passim. - -Footnote 137: - -_Ver._ 50. A still stronger contrast, and a greater shame to man, is -found in plants;—they too are contented—he restless and changing. _Mens -agitat mihi, nec placida contenta quiete est._ - -Footnote 138: - -_Ver._ 50. _Potatoes ’tatoes breed._ Elision for the sake of verse, not -meant to imply that the root degenerates.—Not so with man— - - Mox daturus - Progeniem vitiosiorem. - -Footnote 139: - -_Ver._ 61–66. Simple state of savage life—previous to the pastoral, or -even the hunter state. - -Footnote 140: - -_Ver._ 66. First savages disciples of Pythagoras. - -Footnote 141: - -_Ver._ 67, &c. Desire of animal food natural only to beasts, or to man -in a state of civilized society. First suggested by the circumstances -here related. - -Footnote 142: - -_Ver._ 71. Pigs of the _Chinese_ breed most in request. - -Footnote 143: - -_Ver._ 76. First formation of a bow. Introduction of the science of -archery. - -Footnote 144: - -_Ver._ 79. Grass twisted, used for a string, owing to the want, of other -materials not yet invented. - -Footnote 145: - -_Ver._ 83. Bone—fish’s bone found on the sea-shore, shark’s teeth, &c. -&c. - -Footnote 146: - -_Ver._ 90. Ah! what avails, &c.—See Pope’s _Description of the death of -a Pheasant_. - -Footnote 147: - -_Ver._ 93. “With leaden eye that loves the ground.” - -Footnote 148: - -_Ver._ 94. The first effusion of blood attended with the most dreadful -consequences to mankind. - -Footnote 149: - -_Ver._ 97. _Social_ Man’s wickedness opposed to the simplicity of savage -life. - -Footnote 150: - -_Ver._ 100, 101. Different causes of war among men. - -Footnote 151: - -_Ver._ 106. Invention of fire—first employed in cookery, and produced by -rubbing dry sticks together. - -Footnote 152: - -[Written in the character of C. J. FOX, at his seat, St. Anne’s Hill, -near Chertsey, during his secession from Parliament from 1797 to 1802. -His fondness for the Greek Poets is well known.—ED.] - -Footnote 153: - -[Alluded to at page 79.—ED.] - -Footnote 154: - -[Erskine was noted for his intense vanity, which procured him the -nickname of _Ego_. Sir John Bowring, who knew him well, gives in his -_Autobiography_ several instances of this peculiarity, one of which is -here inserted. “The master-string of his mind was vanity; its -vibrations trembling to the very end of his existence. He said, ‘When -the Emperor Alexander came to England, Lord Granville told me that the -Emperor wished to see me. I went. He received me with particular -attention, and said he was very anxious to make my acquaintance. He -spoke English as well as you do. “You are a friend and correspondent,” -he said, “of my most valued friend La Harpe?” “Yes, sire.” “Is he a -regular correspondent?” “Yes, a very kind one.” “Has he been so of -late?” “Well, if your Majesty will cross-examine me, I must own he -owes me a letter.” He put his hand into his pocket, and drew forth a -letter addressed to me. “Yes, there is his answer. I intercepted it -that I might have the pleasure of knowing Lord Erskine.” I gave -Alexander all my writings and speeches, which he received with many -expressions of satisfaction.’”—ED.] - -Footnote 155: - -[On April 3, 1797, an open-air meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster -was held in Palace Yard, during very inclement weather (Westminster Hall -having been shut against them by order of the keeper), to consider of an -address to his Majesty to dismiss PITT’S ministry. FOX and the Duke of -Bedford took part in the proceedings. Meetings were held about the same -time all over the country for the same object.—ED.] - -Footnote 156: - -[After Lord Shelburne’s resignation of the office of Prime Minister, -consequent on the coalition of Fox and Lord North, he was created -Marquis of Lansdowne, and withdrew almost entirely from public life, -passing his time principally at his magnificent seat, Bowood, near -Calne, Wiltshire.—ED.] - -Footnote 157: - - NOTES TO THE “NEW COALITION”. - -[The Secret History of FOX’S coalition with LORD NORTH, his former -adversary,—a proceeding which entailed on him much odium,—was first -brought to light by the publication of the “Memorials and Correspondence -of Charles James Fox,” begun by the late Lord Holland, and edited by -Earl Russell. It was occasioned by his disgust at the conduct of the -Earl of Shelburne, for while FOX as one of the Secretaries of State -under the Rockingham Administration was treating with Dr. Franklin for -peace with the United States through the agent of the Cabinet (Thomas -Grenville) Lord Shelburne, the other Secretary of State, was, through -_his_ agent Oswald, privately thwarting his measures, and that with the -concurrence of the King! The consequence of the Coalition was the fall -of Lord Shelburne’s ministry, and Fox and Lord North’s “taking the -Treasury by storm”.—ED.] - -Footnote 158: - -[The _India Bill_ brought in by FOX, shortly after his accession to -office, was the signal for his downfall. The Bill passed the House of -Commons by large majorities, but when it reached the Lords, the King, -who hated FOX, empowered Earl Temple to declare that he would consider -everyone who supported the measure as personally his enemy. The Bill was -consequently lost on the second reading by a majority of eighty-seven -against twenty-nine. The Coalition Ministry resigned, and PITT, then in -his 23rd year, became Prime Minister.] - -Footnote 159: - -[JOHN NICHOLLS, M.P. for Tregony, was blind of one eye, and altogether -remarkably ugly. His delivery was ungraceful, and his action generally -much too vehement. He wrote _Recollections and Reflections during the -Reign of George III._, 2 vols. 8vo., 1822. His hostile pamphlet on the -_Income Tax_ is marked by great ability.—ED.] - -Footnote 160: - -[On the 14th April, 1794, THELWALL was in the chair at a supper of one -of the Divisions of the Reformers, and blowing off the head of a pot of -porter said, “This is the way I would have all kings served”.—ED.] - -Footnote 161: - -[JOHN HORNE TOOKE was educated for the Church, and in 1760 became vicar -of _New Brentford_. Resigning this he studied the Law, but being a -clergyman was refused admission to the Bar. At first he supported PITT, -then a _promising_ Reformer, publishing in 1788 his “Two Pair of -Portraits,” disadvantageously contrasting FOX and his father with Pitt -and his father. But Pitt not fulfilling his hopes, he became his bitter -opponent and softened his animosity towards FOX. In 1775 he was -imprisoned for a libel on the king’s troops in America. In 1790 he was -an unsuccessful candidate for Westminster; the other candidates being -FOX and Admiral Sir Alan Gardner. In 1794 he was tried, in company with -THELWALL and others, for high treason, when all were acquitted. In 1796 -he again stood for Westminster, and failed; but in 1801 he obtained a -seat in Parliament for Old Sarum, on the nomination of Lord Camelford. A -remarkable memoir of him was contributed to the _Quarterly Review_, vol. -7, by Lord Dudley, Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Canning’s -administration, 1827–8.—ED.] - -[Footnote: - - HOR. LIB. III., CARM. XXV. - DITHYRAMBUS. - - [162]Quo me, Bacche, rapis, tui - Plenum? quæ nemora, aut quos agor in specus, - Velox mente novâ? - [163]Quibus - Antris egregii Cæsaris audiar - Eternum meditans decus - Stellis inserere, et consilio Jovis? - -® - -Footnote 164: - - Dicam insigne, recens, adhuc - Indictum ore alio. - -Footnote 165: - - Non secus in jugis - Exsomnis stupet Evias, - Hebrum prospiciens. - -Footnote 166: - - et nive candidam - Thracen, ac _pede barbaro - Lustratam Rhodopen_. - -Footnote 167: - -There appears to have been some little mistake in the Translator -here—_Rhodope_ is not, as he seems to imagine, the name of a woman, but -of a mountain, and not in _Russia_. Possibly, however, the Translator -may have been misled by the inaccuracy of the traveller here alluded to. - -Footnote 168: - - Ut mihi devio - Rupes, et vacuum nemus - Mirari libet! - -[Footnote: - - [169]O Naiadum potens - Baccharumque valentium - Proceras manibus vertere fraxinos. - [170]Nil parvum, aut humili modo, - Nil mortale loquar. Dulce periculum est, - O Lenæe, sequi deum - Cingentem viridi tempora pampino. - -® - -Footnote 171: - -[This clever parody has reference to the attempt made by the DUKE OF -NORTHUMBERLAND to evade payment of PITT’S Income-tax. To mitigate the -severity of the pressure on persons with large families, a deduction of -ten per cent. was allowed to persons who had above a certain number of -children. Among others the Duke was not ashamed to avail himself of this -clause.—ED.] - -Footnote 172: - -[See Note at p. 84 in “_A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox_,” line 18.—ED.] - -Footnote 173: - -[SIR HUGH SMITHSON married Lady Eliz. Seymour, great-granddaughter of -Joceline, eleventh Earl of Northumberland, who was the last of the male -Percies. He was created DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND in 1766. The hero of this -Ballad was his son, who died in 1817.—ED.] - -Footnote 174: - -The ceremony of invocation (in didactic poems especially) is in some -measure analogous to the custom of drinking toasts; the corporeal -representatives of which are always supposed to be absent, and -unconscious of the irrigation bestowed upon their names. Hence it is, -that our Author addresses himself to the natives of an island who are -not likely to hear, and who, if they did, would not understand him. - -Footnote 175: - -His Majesty’s ship _Endeavour_. - -Footnote 176: - -In justice to our Author we must observe, that there is a delicacy in -this picture, which the words, in their common acceptation, do not -convey. The amours of an English shepherd would probably be preparatory -to marriage (which is contrary to our Author’s principles), or they -might disgust us by the vulgarity of their object. But in Otaheite, -where the place of a shepherd is a perfect sinecure (there being no -sheep on the island), the mind of the reader is not offended by any -disagreeable allusion. - -Footnote 177: - -Laws made by parliaments or kings. - -Footnote 178: - -Customs voted or imposed by ditto, not the customs here alluded to. - -Footnote 179: - -M. Bailly and other astronomers have observed, that in consequence of -the varying obliquity of the Ecliptic, the climates of the circumpolar -and tropical climates may, in process of time, be materially changed. -Perhaps it is not very likely that even by these means Britain may ever -become a small island in the South Seas. But this is not the meaning of -the verse—the similarity here proposed relates to manners, not to local -situation. - -Footnote 180: - -The word _one_ here, means all the inhabitants of Europe (excepting the -French, who have remedied this inconvenience), not any particular -individual. The Author begs leave to disclaim every allusion that can be -construed as personal. - -Footnote 181: - -As a stream—simile of dissimilitude, a mode of illustration familiar to -the ancients. - -Footnote 182: - -Walks of polished life, see “Kensington Gardens,” a poem. - -Footnote 183: - -Germania—Germany; a country in Europe, peopled by the Germani: alluded -to in Cæsar’s Commentaries, page 1, vol. ii. edit. prin. See also -several Didactic Poems. - -Footnote 184: - -A beautiful figure of German literature. The Hottentots remarkable for -staring at each other—God knows why. - -Footnote 185: - -This delightful and instructive picture of domestic life is recommended -to all keepers of boarding-schools, and other seminaries of the same -nature. - -Footnote 186: - -It is a singular quality of brandied cherries that they exchange their -flavour for that of the liquor in which they are immersed.—See Knight’s -_Progress of Civil Society_. - -Footnote 187: - -This division of the word is in the true spirit of the English as well -as the ancient Sapphic. See the “Counter-Scuffle,” “Counter-Rat,” and -other poems in this style. - -Footnote 188: - -[The Rev. Gilbert Wakefield wrote several pamphlets against government, -of which no notice was taken, until his Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff -appeared, when the Attorney-General instituted a prosecution against -him. He was found guilty and imprisoned; during which imprisonment a -subscription of £3000 among his friends supported his wife and family -very comfortably.—ED.] - -Footnote 189: - -[John Gale Jones was an active political agitator for many years. In -1810, he was the conductor of the debating club, denominated the -“British Forum,” which at one of its meetings discussed the propriety of -the exclusion of strangers from the House of Commons during the debates -on the Walcheren Expedition. For his observations the House, -disregarding his apology, committed him to Newgate.—ED.] - -Footnote 190: - -[“John Thelwall left his shop (that of a silk mercer) to be one of the -Reformers of the age. After his acquittal he went about the country -lecturing. Sometimes he was attended by numerous admirers, but more -frequently hooted and pelted by the mob. In order to escape prosecution -for sedition, he took as his subject Greek and Roman history, and had -ingenuity enough to give such a colouring to events and characters, as -to render the application to living persons and present events an -exciting mental exercise. I heard one or two of these lectures, and -thought very differently of him then from what I thought afterwards. -When, however, he found his popularity on the wane, and more stringent -laws had been passed, to which he individually gave occasion, he came to -the prudent resolution of abandoning his vagrant habits, and leading a -farmer’s life in a beautiful place near Brecon.... He was an amiable man -in private life, an affectionate husband, and a fond father. He -altogether mistook his talents—he told me without reserve that he -believed he should establish his name among the epic poets of England; -and it is a curious thing considering his own view’s that he thought the -establishment of Christianity, and the British Constitution, very -appropriate subjects for his poem.... THELWALL, unlike Hardy, had the -weakness of vanity; but he was a perfectly honest man, and had a power -of declamation which qualified him to be a mob orator. He used to say -that if he were at the gallows with liberty to address the people for -half-an-hour, he should not fear the result; he was sure he could excite -them to a rescue. I became acquainted with him soon after his acquittal, -and never ceased to respect him for his sincerity, though I did not -think highly of his understanding.”—_Crabb Robinson’s Diary_, 1790 and -1799.—ED.] - -Footnote 191: - -[These “Gagging Bills,” of 1796, required that notice should be given to -the magistrate of any public meeting to be held on political subjects; -he was authorized to be present, and empowered to seize those guilty of -sedition on the spot; and a second offence against the act was -punishable with transportation. So exasperated were the Opposition with -this measure that Fox and a large part of the minority withdrew -altogether for a considerable time from the House.—ED.] - -Footnote 192: - -There is a doubt, whether this word should not have been written _liar_. - -Footnote 193: - -These words, of _conviction_ and _hanging_, have so ominous a sound, it -is rather odd they were chosen. - -Footnote 194: - -[The hero of the above song was Charles Howard, eleventh Duke of -Norfolk, who both as a member of the House of Commons (while Earl of -Surrey), and afterwards as a peer, was one of FOX’S most strenuous -supporters. SIR N. WRAXALL thus describes him: “Nature, which cast him -in her coarsest mould, had not bestowed on him any of the external -insignia of high descent. His person, large, muscular, and clumsy, was -destitute of grace or dignity, though he possessed much activity. At a -time when men of every description wore hair-powder and a queue, he had -the courage to cut his hair short, and to renounce powder, which he -never used except when going to court. In his youth he led a most -licentious life, having frequently passed the whole night in excesses of -every kind, and even lain down, when intoxicated, occasionally to sleep -in the streets, or on a block of wood. In cleanliness he was negligent -to so great a degree that he rarely made use of water for the purpose of -bodily refreshment and comfort.” Complaining one day to Dudley North -that he was a martyr to the rheumatism, and had ineffectually tried -every remedy for its relief, “Pray, my lord,” said he, “did you ever try -a clean shirt?” It must not be forgotten, however, that he was a -munificent patron of literature, for he defrayed the entire expense of -printing Taylor’s Translation of Plato, 5 vols. 4to.; Dallaway’s History -of Sussex, 2 vols. 4to.; and Duncumb’s History of Herefordshire, 2 vols. -The initials B. O. B. refer to _Mr._ (afterwards _Sir Robert_) _Adair_, -who is often alluded to in these pages.—ED.] - -Footnote 195: - -[These observations are directed against Godwin’s work on “Political -Justice,” which, on its first appearance, excited extraordinary -attention. His aim was to represent the whole system of society as -radically and essentially wrong, and to extirpate all those principles -which uphold its present constitution. The existence of the Deity is -spoken of as an hypothesis, and the ethics are worthy of the religion. -HOLCROFT reviewed it in the “Monthly Review,” but was doubtful whether -to praise or blame it.—ED.] - -[“I noticed (says CRABB ROBINSON in 1811) the infinite superiority of -GODWIN over the French writers in moral feeling and tendency. I had -learned to hate Helvetius and Mirabeau, and yet retained my love for -GODWIN. This was agreed to as a just sentiment.”—ED.] - -Footnote 196: - -[Written in ridicule of Dr. DARWIN’S _Loves of the Plants_.] - -Footnote 197: - -Ver. 1–4. Imitated from the introductory couplet to the _Economy of -Vegetation_: - - “Stay your rude steps, whose throbbing breasts infold - The legion fiends of glory and of gold” - -This sentiment is here expanded into four lines. - -Footnote 198: - -Ver. 6. _Definition_—A distinct notion explaining the genesis of a -thing.—_Wolfius._ - -Footnote 199: - -Ver. 7. _Postulate_—A self-evident proposition. - -Footnote 200: - -Ver. 8. _Axiom_—An indemonstrable truth. - -Footnote 201: - -Ver. 9. _Tangents_—So called from touching, because they touch circles, -and never cut them. - -Footnote 202: - -Ver. 10. _Circles_—See Chambers’s Dictionary, article “Circle”. - -Footnote 203: - -Ver. 10. _Osculation_—For the _osculation_, or kissing of circles and -other curves, see Huygens, who has veiled this delicate and inflammatory -subject in the decent obscurity of a learned language. - -Footnote 204: - -Ver. 11. _Cissois_—A curve supposed to resemble the sprig of ivy, from -which it has its name, and therefore peculiarly adapted to poetry. - -Footnote 205: - -Ver. 12. _Conchois_, or _Conchylis_—A most beautiful and picturesque -curve; it bears a fanciful resemblance to a _conch_ shell. The conchois -is capable of infinite extension, and presents a striking analogy -between the animal and mathematical creation—every individual of this -species containing within itself a series of _young_ conchoids for -several generations, in the same manner as the Aphides and other insect -tribes are observed to do. - -Footnote 206: - -Ver. 15. _Hydrostatics_—Water has been supposed, by several of our -philosophers, to be capable of the passion of love. Some later -experiments appear to favour this idea. Water, when pressed by a -moderate degree of heat, has been observed to simper, or simmer, as it -is more usually called. The same does not hold true of any other -element. - -Footnote 207: - -Ver. 17. _Acoustics_—The doctrine or theory of sound. - -Footnote 208: - -Ver. 18. _Euclid and Algebra_—The loves and nuptials of these two -interesting personages, forming a considerable episode in the third -canto, are purposely omitted here. - -Footnote 209: - -Ver. 19. _Pulley_—So called from our Saxon word to PULL, signifying to -pull or draw. - -Footnote 210: - -Ver. 23. _Fair sylphish forms_—_Vide_ modern prints of nymphs and -shepherds dancing to nothing at all. - -Footnote 211: - -Ver. 27. _Such rich confusion_—Imitated from the following genteel and -sprightly lines in the first canto of the “Loves of the Plants”: - - “So bright its folding canopy withdrawn, - Glides the gilt landau o’er the velvet lawn, - Of beaux and belles displays the glittering throng, - And soft airs fan them as they glide along”. - -Footnote 212: - -Ver. 38. _Angle_—Gratus puellæ risus ab Angulo.—_Hor._ - -Footnote 213: - -Ver. 39. _How slow progressive Points_—The Author has reserved the -picturesque imagery which the _theory of fluxions_ naturally suggested -for his “Algebraic Garden,” where the _fluents_ are described as rolling -with an even current between a margin of _curves_ of the higher order -over a pebbly channel, inlaid with _differential calculi_. - -In the following six lines he has confined himself to a strict -explanation of the theory, according to which lines are supposed to be -generated by the motion of points, planes by the lateral motion of -lines, and solids from planes, by a similar process. - -_Quære_—Whether a practical application of this theory would not enable -us to account for the genesis or original formation of space itself, in -the same manner in which Dr. Darwin has traced the whole of the -organized creation to his six filaments—Vide _Zoonomia_. We may conceive -the whole of our present universe to have been originally concentred in -a single point; we may conceive this primeval point, or _punctum -saliens_ of the universe, evolving itself by its own energies, to have -moved forward in a right line, _ad infinitum_, till it grew tired; after -which the right line which it had generated would begin to put itself in -motion in a lateral direction, describing an area of infinite extent. -This area, as soon as it became conscious of its own existence, would -begin to ascend or descend, according as its specific gravity might -determine it, forming an immense solid space filled with vacuum, and -capable of containing the present existing universe. - -Space being thus obtained, and presenting a suitable nidus, or -receptacle for the generation of chaotic matter, an immense deposit of -it would gradually be accumulated; after which, the filament of _fire_ -being produced in the chaotic mass by an _idiosyncrasy_, or self-formed -habit, analogous to fermentation, _explosion_ would take place; _suns_ -would be shot from the central chaos; _planets_ from _suns_; and -_satellites_ from _planets_. In this state of things the filament of -_organization_ would begin to exert itself in those independent masses -which, in proportion to their bulk, exposed the greatest surface to the -action of _light_ and _heat_. This filament, after an infinite series of -ages, would begin to _ramify_, and its viviparous offspring would -diversify their forms and habits, so as to accommodate themselves to the -various _incunabula_ which Nature had prepared for them. Upon this view -of things it seems highly probable that the first effort of Nature -terminated in the production of vegetables, and that these, being -abandoned to their own _energies_, by degrees detached themselves from -the surface of the earth, and supplied themselves with wings or feet, -according as their different propensities determined them in favour of -aerial and terrestrial existence. Others, by an inherent disposition to -society and civilization, and by a stronger effort of _volition_, would -become men. These, in time, would restrict themselves to the use of -their _hind feet_; their _tails_ would gradually rub off by sitting in -their caves or huts, as soon as they arrived at a domesticated state; -they would invent _language_ and the use of _fire_, with our present and -hitherto imperfect system of _society_. In the meanwhile, the _Fuci_ and -_Algæ_, with the _Corallines_ and _Madrepores_, would transform -themselves into _fish_, and would gradually populate all the submarine -portion of the globe. - -Footnote 214: - -Ver. 46. _Trochais_—The Nymph of the Wheel, supposed to be in love with -Smoke-Jack. - -Footnote 215: - -Ver. 56. _The conscious fire_—The sylphs and genii of the different -elements have a variety of innocent occupations assigned them; those of -fire are supposed to divert themselves with writing _Kunkel_ in -phosphorus.—See _Economy of Vegetation_: - - “Or mark, with shining letters, Kunkel’s name - In the pale _phosphor’s_ self-consuming flame”. - -Footnote 216: - -Ver. 68. _Listening ears_—Listening, and therefore peculiarly suited to -a pair of diamond ear-rings. See the description of Nebuchadnezzar in -his transformed state— - - “Nor flattery’s self can pierce his _pendent ears_”. - -In poetical diction, a person is said to “_breathe the_ BLUE _air_,” and -to “_drink the_ HOARSE _wave_!”—not that the colour of the sky or the -noise of the water has any reference to drinking or breathing, but -because the poet obtains the advantage of thus describing his subject -under a _double relation_, in the same manner in which material objects -present themselves to our different senses at the same time. - -Footnote 217: - -Ver. 73. _Cock-tailed mice_—Coctilibus Muris. _Ovid._—There is reason to -believe that the _murine_, or _mouse_ species, were anciently much more -numerous than at the present day. It appears from the sequel of the -line, that Semiramis surrounded the city of Babylon with a number of -these animals. - - _Dicitur altam - Coctilibus Muris cinxisse Semiramis urbem._ - -It is not easy at present to form any conjecture with respect to the -end, whether of ornament or defence, which they could be supposed to -answer. I should be inclined to believe, that in this instance the mice -were dead, and that so vast a collection of them must have been -furnished by way of tribute, to free the country from these destructive -animals. This superabundance of the _murine_ race must have been owing -to their immense fecundity, and to the comparatively tardy reproduction -of the _feline_ species. The traces of this disproportion are to be -found in the early history of every country.—The ancient laws of Wales -estimate a cat at the price of as much corn as would be sufficient to -cover her, if she were suspended by the tail with her fore-feet touching -the ground.—See Howel Dha.—In Germany, it is recorded that an army of -rats, a larger animal of the mus tribe, was employed as the ministers of -divine vengeance against a feudal tyrant; and the commercial legend of -our own Whittington might probably be traced to an equally authentic -origin. - -Footnote 218: - -Ver. 76. _Rectangle_—“A figure which has one angle, or more, of ninety -degrees”. _Johnson’s Dictionary._—It here means a right-angled triangle, -which is therefore incapable of having more than one angle of ninety -degrees, but which may, according to our author’s _Prosopopœia_, be -supposed to be in love with three, or any greater number of nymphs. - -Footnote 219: - -Ver. 80. _Plato’s and Menecmus’ lore_—Proclus attributes the discovery -of the conic sections to Plato, but obscurely. Eratosthenes seems to -adjudge it to Menecmus. “_Neque Menecmeos necesse erit in cono secare -ternarios._” (Vide _Montucla_.) From Greece they were carried to -Alexandria, where (according to our author’s beautiful fiction) -_Rectangle_ either did or might learn magic. - -Footnote 220: - -Ver. 86. _Zatanai_—Supposed to be the same with Satan.—Vide the _New -Arabian Nights_, translated by Cazotte, author of “_Le Diable -amoureux_”. - -Footnote 221: - -Ver. 87. _Gins_—the Eastern name for Genii.—Vide _Tales of ditto_. - -Footnote 222: - -Ver. 87. _Dom-Daniel_—a submarine palace near Tunis, where Zatanai -usually held his court.—Vide _New Arabian Nights_. - -Footnote 223: - -Ver. 88. _Sulphur_—A substance which, when cold, reflects the yellow -rays, and is therefore said to be yellow. When raised to a temperature -at which it _attracts oxygene_ (a process usually called _burning_), it -emits a blue flame. This may be beautifully exemplified, and at a -moderate expense, by igniting those _fasciculi_ of brimstone _matches_, -frequently sold (so frequently, indeed, as to form one of the London -cries) by women of an advanced age, in this metropolis. They will be -found to yield an _azure_, or blue light. - -Footnote 224: - -Ver. 90. _Caf_—the Indian _Caucasus_.—Vide _Bailly’s Lettres sur -l’Atlantide_, in which he proves that this was the native country of Gog -and Magog (now resident in Guildhall), as well as of the Peris, or -fairies, of the Asiatic romances. - -Footnote 225: - -Ver. 91. _Judæa’s fabled king_—Mr. HIGGINS does not mean to deny that -Solomon was really king of Judæa. The epithet _fabled_ applies to that -empire over the Genii, which the retrospective generosity of the Arabian -fabulists has bestowed upon this monarch. - -Footnote 226: - -Ver. 96. _Young volcanoes_—The genesis of burning mountains was never, -till lately, well explained. Those with which we are best acquainted are -certainly not viviparous; it is therefore probable, that there exists, -in the centre of the earth, a considerable reservoir of their eggs, -which, during the obstetrical convulsions of general earthquakes, -produce new volcanoes. - -Footnote 227: - -Ver. 100. _Far-extended heel_—The personification of _Rectangle_, -besides answering a poetical purpose, was necessary to illustrate Mr. -HIGGINS’S philosophical opinions. The ancient mathematicians conceived -that a cone was generated by the revolution of a triangle; but this, as -our author justly observes, would be impossible, without supposing in -the triangle that _expansive nisus_, discovered by Blumenbach, and -improved by Darwin, which is peculiar to animated matter, and which -alone explains the whole mystery of organization. Our enchanter sits on -the ground, with his heels stretched out, his head erect, his wand (or -_hypothenuse_) resting on the extremities of his feet and the tip of his -nose (as is finely expressed in the engraving in the original work), and -revolves upon his bottom with great velocity. His skin, by magical -means, has acquired an indefinite power of expansion, as well as that of -assimilating to itself all the _azote_ of the air, which he decomposes -by expiration from his lungs—an immense quantity, and which, in our -present unimproved and uneconomical mode of breathing, is quite thrown -away. By this simple process the transformation is very naturally -accounted for. - -Footnote 228: - -Ver. 104. _Phœnician Cone_—It was under this shape that Venus was -worshipped in Phœnicia. Mr. HIGGINS thinks it was the _Venus Urania_, or -Celestial Venus; in allusion to which, the Phœnician grocers first -introduced the practice of preserving sugar-loaves in blue or -sky-coloured paper—he also believes that the _conical_ form of the -original grenadier’s cap was typical of the loves of Mars and Venus. - -Footnote 229: - -Ver. 107. _Parabola_—The curve described by projectiles of all sorts, as -bombs, shuttlecocks, &c. - -Footnote 230: - -Ver. 115. Hyperbola—Not figuratively speaking, as in rhetoric, but -mathematically; and therefore blue-eyed. - -Footnote 231: - -Ver. 122. _Asymptotes_—“Lines, which though they may approach still -nearer together till they are nearer than the least assignable distance, -yet being still produced infinitely, will never meet”.—_Johnson’s -Dictionary._ - -Footnote 232: - -Ver. 124. _Ellipsis_—A curve, the revolution of which on its axis -produces an ellipsoid, or solid resembling the eggs of birds, -particularly those of the gallinaceous tribe. _Ellipsis_ is the only -curve that embraces the cone. - -Footnote 233: - -[“Romantic Ashbourn.” The road down Ashbourn Hill winds in front of -Ashbourn Hall, then the residence of the Rev. Mr. Leigh, who married a -relation of CANNING’S, and to whom the latter was a frequent visitor. A -clever parodical application of this couplet was made by O’CONNELL to -LORD STANLEY’S section of a party of six, who wished to hold the balance -of power, during PEEL’S short administration in 1835. He altered it to -“The Derby Dilly,” carrying _six_ insides.—See the Greville Memoirs, -vol. 3, pp. 236, &c.—ED.] - -Footnote 234: - -[Thus sings Dr. Darwin of the Loves of the Plants: - - “_Two_ brother swains, of Collins’ gentle name, - The same their features, and their forms the same, - With rival love for fair Collinia sigh, - Knit the dark brow, and roll the unsteady eye. - With sweet concern the pitying beauty mourns, - And soothes with smiles the jealous pair by turns. - - “Woo’d with long care, Curcuma, cold and shy, - Meets her fond husband with averted eye. - _Four_ beardless youths the obdurate beauty move - With soft attentions of Platonic love.”—ED.] - -Footnote 235: - -[BRISSOT was one of the first movers in the outbreak of the French -Revolution, and with twenty other Girondists suffered death under the -guillotine, October 30, 1793. He was one of the most virtuous as well as -most accomplished _littérateurs_ of the time.—ED.] - -Footnote 236: - -Such was the end of these worthies. They were found starved to death in -a cave in Languedoc. Vide _Barrère’s Rep._ - -[CHARLES BARBAROUX was one of the most distinguished and energetic of -the Girondists. As he opposed the party of Marat and Robespierre, he -was, in 1793, proscribed as a Royalist and an enemy of the Republic. He -wandered about the country, hiding himself as he best could for thirteen -months, when he was taken, and perished by the guillotine, June 25, -1794.—ED.] - -[JÉROME PÉTION DE VILLENEUVE was a prominent member of the Jacobin Club, -and a great ally of Robespierre. Being elected MAIRE DE PARIS in -Bailly’s stead, he encouraged the demonstrations of the lowest classes, -and the arming of the populace. He then joined the Girondists. On their -defeat by the army of the Convention, he fled in July, 1793, into -Bretagne. A short time after the corpses of himself and Buzot were found -in a corn-field near St. Emilion, partly devoured by wolves. They were -supposed to have died by their own hands. He was extremely virtuous in -all his domestic relations; but his public career shows him to have been -weak, shallow, ostentatious, and vain.—ED.] - -Footnote 237: - -See LOUVET’s _Récit de mes Périls_. - -Footnote 238: - -This philosophic coxcomb is the idol of those who admire the French -Revolution _up to a certain point_. - -Footnote 239: - -This little anecdote is not generally known.—It is strikingly -pathetic.—GARAT has recorded this circumstance in a very eloquent -sentence—“O toi, qui arrêtas la main avec laquelle tu traçais le progrès -de l’esprit humain, pour porter sur tes lèvres le breuvage mortel, -d’autres pensées et d’autres sentimens out incliné ta volonté vers le -tombeau, dans ta dernière délibération.—(GARAT, it seems, did not choose -to poison _himself_.)—Tu as rendu à la liberté éternelle ton âme -Républicaine par ce poison qui avait été partagé entre nous comme le -pain entre des frères.” - -“Oh you, who stayed the hand with which you were tracing the progress of -the human mind, to carry the mortal mixture to your lips—it was by other -thoughts and other sentiments that your judgment was at length -determined in that last deliberated act. You restored your republican -spirit to an eternal freedom, by that poison which we had shared -together, like a morsel of bread between two brothers.” - -Footnote 240: - -_Isosceles_—An equi-crural triangle—It is represented as a _Giant_, -because Mr. HIGGINS says he has observed that procerity is much promoted -by the equal length of the legs, more especially when they are long -legs. - -Footnote 241: - -_Mathesis_—The doctrine of mathematics—Pope calls her _mad -Mathesis_.—Vide _Johnson’s Dictionary_. - -Footnote 242: - -_Hallucinating_—The disorder with which Mathesis is affected is a -disease of _increased volition_, called _erotomania_, or _sentimental -love_. It is the fourth species of the second genus of the first order -and third class; in consequence of which, Mr. Hackman shot Miss Reay in -the lobby of the playhouse.—Vide _Zoonomia_, vol. ii., pp. 363, 365. - -Footnote 243: - -_Galvanic fires_—Dr. Galvani is a celebrated philosopher at Turin. He -has proved that the electric fluid is the proximate cause of nervous -sensibility; and Mr. HIGGINS is of opinion that by means of this -discovery, the sphere of our disagreeable sensations may be, in future, -considerably enlarged. “Since dead frogs (says he) are awakened by this -fluid to such a degree of posthumous sensibility as to jump out of the -glass in which they are placed, why not men, who are sometimes so much -more sensible when alive? And if so, why not employ this new stimulus to -deter mankind from dying (which they so pertinaciously continue to do) -of various old-fashioned diseases, notwithstanding all the brilliant -discoveries of modern philosophy, and the example of Count Cagliostro?” - -Footnote 244: - -_Internal Angles_, _&c._—This is an exact versification of Euclid’s -fifth theorem.—Vide _Euclid in loco_. - -Footnote 245: - -_Asses-Bridge_—Pons Asinorum—The name usually given to the -before-mentioned theorem—though, as Mr. Higgins thinks, absurdly. He -says, that having frequently watched companies of asses during their -passage of a bridge, he never discovered in them any symptoms of -geometrical instinct upon the occasion. But he thinks that with Spanish -asses, which are much larger (vide _Townsend’s Travels through Spain_), -the case may possibly be different. - -Footnote 246: - -_Fare_—A person, or a number of persons, conveyed in a hired vehicle by -land or water. - -Footnote 247: - -_Badged boatman_—Boatmen sometimes wear a _badge_, to distinguish them, -especially those who belong to the Watermen’s Company. - -Footnote 248: - -_Alp_, or _Alps_—A ridge of mountains which separate the North of Italy -from the South of Germany. They are evidently primeval and volcanic, -consisting of granite, toadstone, and basalt, and several other -substances, containing animal and vegetable recrements, and affording -numberless undoubted proofs of the infinite antiquity of the earth, and -of the consequent falsehood of the Mosaic chronology. - -Footnote 249: - -_Turn the stiff screw_, &c.—The harmony and imagery of these lines are -imperfectly imitated from the following exquisite passage in the -_Economy of Vegetation_: - - “Gnomes, as you now dissect, with hammers fine, - The granite rock, the noduled flint calcine; - Grind with strong arm the circling Chertz betwixt, - Your pure Ka—o—lins and Pe—tunt—ses mixt.” - - _Canto_ ii. line 297. - -Footnote 250: - -[_The windmill_, &c.—This line affords a striking instance of the sound -conveying an echo to the sense. I would defy the most unfeeling reader -to repeat it over without accompanying it by some corresponding gesture -imitative of the action described.—EDITOR.] - -Footnote 251: - -_Sweet Enthusiast_, &c.—A term usually applied in allegoric or technical -poetry to any person or object to which no other qualifications can be -assigned.—_Chambers’s Dictionary._ - -Footnote 252: - -[ANNE PLUMPTRE, who made herself known as one of the first introducers -of German plays, said: “_People are talking about an Invasion. I am not -afraid of an Invasion; I believe the country would be all the happier -if_ BUONAPARTE _were to effect a landing and overturn the Government. He -would destroy the Church and the Aristocracy, and his government would -be better than the one we have_”. Crabb Robinson’s _Diary_ (1810), i. -298.—ED.] - -Footnote 253: - -_The smiling infant_—Infancy is particularly interested in the diffusion -of the new principles. See the “Bloody Buoy”. See also the following -description and prediction: - - “Here Time’s huge fingers grasp his giant mace, - And dash proud Superstition from her base; - Rend her strong towers and gorgeous fanes, &c. - - · · · · · - - While each light moment, as it passes by, - With feathery foot and pleasure-twinkling eye, - Feeds from its baby-hand with many a kiss - The callow-nestlings of domestic bliss.”—_Botanic Garden._ - -Footnote 254: - -_The monster’s back_—Le Monstre Pitt, l’ennemi du genre humain. _See -Debates of the legislators of the Great Nation, passim._ - -Footnote 255: - -Atque illud prono præceps agitur decursus.—_Catullus._ - -Footnote 256: - -STONE.—Better known by the name of WILLIAMS. - -Footnote 257: - -We decline printing this rhyme at length, from obvious reasons of -delicacy; at the same time that it is so accurate a translation of -_pictis puppibus_, that we know not how to suppress it, without doing -the utmost injustice to the general spirit of the poem. - -Footnote 258: - -[Jean Bon St. André, deputy to the Convention for the Department of Lot, -during the reign of Terror, rivalled Marat and Robespierre in cruelty. -Having been appointed to remodel the Republican Navy, he was present at -the action of June 1, 1794, in which he shewed excessive cowardice. He -was afterwards Consul at Smyrna, where he was arrested by the Turks, but -released on the peace. Napoleon subsequently commissioned him to -organise the four departments of the Rhine, in which he succeeded. He -was created a Baron, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and Prefect of -Maure. He died in 1813 of a contagious malady caught while performing -charitable offices for the sick!—ED.] - -Footnote 259: - -Henry VI. crowned at Paris. - -Footnote 260: - -The Black Prince. - -Footnote 261: - -The Spanish Armada. - -Footnote 262: - -Oliver Cromwell. - -Footnote 263: - -Louis XIV. - -Footnote 264: - -William III. - -Footnote 265: - -Blenheim, Ramilies, &c., &c. - -Footnote 266: - -American War. - -Footnote 267: - -Lord Heathfield. - -Footnote 268: - -[Parodied from Pope’s Prologue to _Cato_.—ED.] - -Footnote 269: - -See _The Robbers_, a German tragedy [by SCHILLER], in which robbery is -put in so fascinating a light, that the whole of a German University -went upon the highway in consequence of it. - -Footnote 270: - -See _Cabal and Love_, a German tragedy [by SCHILLER], very severe -against prime ministers and reigning Dukes of Brunswick. This admirable -performance very judiciously reprobates the hire of German troops for -the _American_ war in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a practice which -would undoubtedly have been highly discreditable to that wise and -patriotic princess, not to say wholly unnecessary—there being no -American war at that particular time. - -Footnote 271: - -See _The Stranger; or, Reformed Housekeeper_, in which the former of -these morals is beautifully illustrated; and _Stella_, a genteel German -comedy [by GOETHE], which ends with placing a man _bodkin_ between _two -wives_, like _Thames_ between his _two banks_ in _The Critic_. Nothing -can be more edifying than these two dramas. I am shocked to hear that -there are some people who think them ridiculous. - -Footnote 272: - -These are the warnings very properly given to readers, to beware how -they judge of what they cannot understand. Thus if the translation runs, -“_lightning of my soul, fulgation of angels, sulphur of hell_,” we -should recollect that this is not coarse or strange in the German -language when applied by a lover to his mistress; but the English has -nothing precisely parallel to the original Mulychause Archangelichen, -which means rather _emanation of the archangelic nature_—or to -Smellmynkern Vankelfer, which, if literally rendered, would signify -_made of stuff of the same odour whereof the devil makes flambeaux_. See -Schüttenbrüch on the German idiom. - -Footnote 273: - -A manifest error, since it appears from the Waiter’s conversation (p. -211) that Rogero was not doomed to starve on water-gruel, but on -pease-soup, which is a much better thing. Possibly the length of -Rogero’s imprisonment had impaired his memory; or he might wish to make -things appear worse than they really were; which is very natural, I -think, in such a case as this poor unfortunate gentleman’s.—_Printer’s -Devil._ - -Footnote 274: - -Vide _The Stranger_. - -Footnote 275: - -_Lovers’ Vows._ - -Footnote 276: - -This is an excellent joke in German; the point and spirit of which -is but ill-_Rendered_ in a translation. A NODDY, the reader will -observe, has two significations, the one a _knave at All-fours_, the -other a _fool_ or _booby_. See the translation by Mr. Render of -_Count Benyowsky, or the Conspiracy of Kamschatka_, a German -Tragi-Comi-Comi-Tragedy, where the play opens with a scene of a game -at chess (from which the whole of this scene is copied), and a joke -of the same point, and merriment about pawns, _i.e._, boors being a -_match_ for kings. - -Footnote 277: - -This word in the original is strictly _fellow-lodgers_—“_Co-occupants of -the same room, in a house let out at a small rent by the week_”. There -is no single word in English which expresses so complicated a relation, -except perhaps the cant term of _chum_, formerly in use in our -Universities. - -Footnote 278: - -[The above song is a parody on that pathetic one—given below—written by -Sheridan, and introduced into Kotzebue’s drama of _The Stranger_, to be -overheard by the latter. It was sung by Mrs. Bland—as Annetta—to a -melody by the Duchess of Devonshire, in a manner, it is said, that -thrilled every heart. - - “I have a silent sorrow here, - A grief I’ll ne’er impart; - It breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear, - But it consumes my heart. - This cherish’d woe, this lov’d despair, - My lot for ever be; - So my soul’s lord, the pangs I bear - Be never known by thee! - - “And when pale characters of death - Shall mark this alter’d cheek; - When my poor wasted trembling breath - My life’s last hope would speak; - I shall not raise my eyes to heaven, - Nor mercy ask for me, - My soul despairs to be forgiv’n, - Unpardon’d, love, by thee!”—ED.] - -Footnote 279: - -See _Count Benyowsky_; where Crustiew, an old gentleman of much -sagacity, talks the following nonsense: - -Crustiew [_with youthful energy, and an air of secrecy and confidence_]. -“To fly, to fly, to the isles of Marian—the island of Tinian—a -terrestrial paradise. Free—free—a mild climate—a new-created -sun—wholesome fruits—harmless inhabitants—and liberty—tranquillity.” - -Footnote 280: - -See _Count Benyowsky_, as before. - -Footnote 281: - -See _Count Benyowsky_. - -Footnote 282: - -See _Count Benyowsky_ again; from which play this and the preceding -references are taken word for word. We acquit the Germans of such -reprobate silly stuff. It must be the translator’s. - -Footnote 283: - -We believe this song to be copied, with a small variation in metre and -meaning, from a song in _Count Benyowsky; or, the Conspiracy of -Kamschatka_, where the conspirators join in a chorus, _for fear of being -overheard_. - -[Footnote: - - AD SIRMIONEM PENINSULAM. - - [284]Peninsularum Sirmio, Insularumque, - Ocelle! quascunque in liquentibus stagnis, - Marique vasto fert uterque Neptunus; - [285]Quam te libenter, quamque lætus inviso, - Vix mi ipse credens Thyniam, atque Bithynos - Liquisse campos,[286] et videre te in tuto. - [287]O quid solutis est beatius curis - Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino - Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum. - [288]Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto? - Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis. - [289]Salve! O venusta Sirmio! atque hero gaude; - Gaudete! vosque Lydiæ lacus undæ; - Ridete[290] quicquid est domi cachinnorum! - -® - -Footnote 291: - -[The following _Letter_ probably alludes to the _Association for -promoting the Discovery of the interior parts of Africa_, of which Sir -John Sinclair was the presiding genius. “The result of their labours,” -says Hugh Murray, in his Account of African Discoveries, “has thrown new -lustre on the British name, and widely extended the boundaries of human -knowledge.”—ED.] - -Footnote 292: - -[Buonaparte’s Bulletin.—ED.] - -Footnote 293: - -[SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, the celebrated author of the _History of the Public -Revenue, the Statistical Account of Scotland_, and many useful -agricultural and other works.—ED.] - -Footnote 294: - -[Dr. Parr’s noted Latin Preface to his edition of _Bellendenus de -Statu_. T. De Quincey, in his famous dissection of Dr. Parr and his -writings, beseeches the “gentle reader” of Bellendenus to pronounce the -penultimate syllable _short_, and _not long_, as is usually done.—ED.] - -Footnote 295: - -[_I.e._, from BOB ADAIR, _a dull fool_, to NICHOLL [Nicholls], _a -wretched goose_.—ED.] - -Footnote 296: - -[Sir Geo. Aug. Wm. Shuckburgh, M.P., F.R.S., author of papers in the -Phil. Trans.—ED.] - -Footnote 297: - -[Sir John Sinclair.—ED.] - -Footnote 298: - -[The following are Dr. Darwin’s instructions for the _transportation of -Ice Islands_:— - - “There, Nymphs! alight, array your dazzling powers, - With sudden march alarm the torpid hours; - On ice-built isles expand a thousand sails, - Hinge the strong helms, and catch the frozen gales. - The winged rocks to feverish climates guide, - Where fainting zephyrs pant upon the tide; - Pass, where to Ceuta Calpé’s thunder roars, - And answering echoes shake the kindred shores; - Pass, where with palmy plumes, Canary smiles, - And in her silver girdle binds her isles; - Onward, where Niger’s dusky Naiad laves - A thousand kingdoms with prolific waves, - Or leads o’er golden sands her threefold train - In steamy channels to the fervid main; - While swarthy nations crowd the sultry coast, - Drink the fresh breeze, and hail the floating frost: - Nymphs! veil’d in mist, the melting treasure steer, - And cool with arctic snows the tropic year.” - -“If the nations who inhabit this hemisphere of the globe, instead of -destroying their seamen and exhausting their wealth in unnecessary wars, -could be induced to unite their labours to navigate these immense masses -of ice into the more southern oceans, two great advantages would result -to mankind, the tropic countries would be much cooled by their solution, -and our winters in this altitude would be rendered much milder, for -perhaps a century or two, till the masses of ice became again -enormous.”—ED.] - - * * * * * - -[DR. THOMAS BEDDOES, born at Shiffnal in 1760, was a scientific -Physician far in advance of his age; his _Popular Essay on Consumption_, -1779, his tracts entitled _Hygeia_, 1801, &c., may still be studied with -profit. He paid particular attention to the medical use of the -permanently Elastic Fluids, and avows that as “one rash experiment on a -patient would demolish a plan on which the hope of relieving mankind -from much of their misery is founded,” he made preliminary experiments -on himself in the case of _Oxygene_ and _Consumption_, as alluded to in -the text, _À propos_ of the artificial distribution of disease, it may -be mentioned that in _The Batchelor_, p. 189, is a method for -“discharging the Plague”. - -He wrote much on the political topics of the day, always taking the -liberal side, and attacking PITT with great virulence and eloquence. The -principles of the French Revolution were at first advocated by him with -the utmost enthusiasm, but he was soon disgusted by the excesses -committed. He was a student of German literature, and much admired by -Immanuel Kant. He was also an intimate friend of Darwin’s, whose -political opinions he shared, and whose works were intrusted to his -revision in manuscript. A few months after the publication of Darwin’s -_Botanic Garden_, its magnificent imagery and harmonious versification -inspired some admirers to say that the style of this work was a style -_sui generis_, and that it defied imitation. Dr. Beddoes maintained an -opposite opinion. Much as he admired the poem in question, he thought -that the Darwinian structure of verse might be imitated by a writer -possessed of inferior poetical powers, and in a few days he produced in -the same circle part of the manuscript of _Alexander’s Expedition to the -Indian Ocean_ as an unpublished work of the author of the _Botanic -Garden_. The deception completely succeeded, and some enthusiastic -admirers of the latter work pointed out with triumph “certain passages -as proofs of the position that the author in his happier efforts defied -imitation”. Beddoes’s success was the more extraordinary, as in the -“Introduction” to a considerable extract from his poem which he printed -in the _Annual Anthology_ for 1796, he states that he had never before -written twice as many lines of verse as the composition under notice -consisted of. - -As BEDDOES’S imitation of DARWIN is seldom met with, it may not be out -of character in a work of the present nature to give a specimen of it. - - AN IMITATION OF DARWIN. - - “Now the new Lord of Persia’s wide domain, - Down fierce Hydaspes seeks the Indian main; - High on the leading prow the Conqueror stands, - Eyes purer skies and marks diverging strands. - A thousand sails attendant catch the wind, - And yet a thousand press the wave behind; - Two veteran hosts, outstretched on either hand, - Wide wave their wings and sweep the trembling land. - Each serried phalanx Terror stalks beside, - And shakes o’er crested helms his blazing pride; - While Victory, still companion of his way, - Sounds her loud trump and flaunts her banners gay.” - -Further on, the Hero’s attention is attracted to the surrounding -landscape, which he thus apostrophizes:— - - “Ye fields for ever fair! Thou mighty stream! - Bright regions! blessed beyond the muse’s dream! - Thou fruitful womb of ever-teeming earth! - Ye fostering skies that rear each beauteous birth! - Trees, that aloft uprear your stately height, - Whose sombrous branches shed a noontide night! - Groves, that for ever wear the smile of spring! - Gay birds that wave the many-tinted wing! - Of reptiles, fishes, brutes, stupendous forms! - And ye, of nameless insects glittering swarms! - Sons of soft toil, whose shuttle beauty throws, - Whose tints the Graces’ earnest hands dispose, - Whose guileless bosom Care avoid and Crime, - Gay as your groves, and cloudless as your clime! - Primæval piles, that rose in massive pride, - Ere Western Art her first faint efforts tried! - Ye Brachmans old, whom purer æras bore, - Ere Western Science lisped her infant lore! - How will your wonders flush the Athenian sage? - How ray with glory my historic page?” - -In a letter to Hannah More, Horace Walpole says: “The poetry is most -admirable; the similes beautiful, fine, and sometimes sublime; the -author is a great poet, and could raise the passions, and possesses all -the requisites of the art.” In another lively epistle to the Misses -Berry (28th April, 1789), he says: “I send you the most delicious poem -upon earth. I can read this Second Part over and over again for ever; -for though it is so excellent, it is impossible to remember anything so -disjointed, except you consider it as a collection of short enchanting -Poems. ‘The Triumph of Flora,’ beginning at the fifty-ninth line, is -most beautifully and enchantingly imagined, and the twelve verses that -by miracle describe and comprehend the creation of the universe out of -chaos, are, in my opinion, the most sublime passage in any author, or in -any of the few languages with which I am acquainted.”—ED.] - -[Darwin was acquainted with Rousseau. He was a man of great bodily and -intellectual vigour, irascible and imperious, a strong advocate of -temperance, and for many years an almost total abstainer. His -professional fame was such that George III. said he would take him as -his physician if he would come to London. He formed a botanical garden -at Lichfield, about which Miss Seward wrote some verses which suggested -his _Botanic Garden_. The _Loves of the Plants_ had a singular success, -and was praised in a joint poem by Cowper and Hayley. It was translated -into French, Portuguese, and Italian. Darwin himself is said by -Edgeworth to have admired the parody (_Monthly Magazine_, June and -Sept., 1802, p. 115). Coleridge (_Biographia Literaria_, 1817, p. 19) -speaks of the impression which it made even upon good judges. - -In the _Anti-Jacobin Review_, vol. i. (1799), pp. 718–721, appear some -Latin verses [by Ben. Frere] which are thus introduced: “Among the -copies of verses which are annually produced as a public exercise called -TRIPOS, at Cambridge, we have selected the following as a beautiful -composition. The subject is Dr. BEDDOES’S _Factitious Air applied to the -Case of Consumptions_.”—ED.] - -Footnote 299: - -[This piece has not hitherto formed a portion of the editions of _The -Poetry_.—ED.] - -Footnote 300: - -[This spirited song refers to LORD MOIRA’S motion in the Irish House of -Commons, 19th of February, 1798, for an address to the Lord Lieutenant, -complaining of the excesses committed by the government authorities, -civil and military, and recommending that conciliatory measures should -be devised. He took occasion to praise the loyalty of his own tenants at -BALLYNAHINCH; but, unfortunately for him, shortly after, an insurrection -broke out at this very place, and a large number of pikes were found -secreted by the peasantry in his own woods. On June 12, General Nugent -attacked the rebels, 5000 strong, commanded by Munro, near Ballynahinch, -and routed them with great slaughter. This victory quelled the rebellion -in the north.—ED.] - -Footnote 301: - -[The EARL OF MOIRA was a gallant soldier, an eloquent orator, and a -sagacious as well as honest statesman. Having early in life achieved -much reputation for skill and courage during the American War, and -afterwards in Flanders, he subsequently turned his attention to -politics, particularly those of Ireland, his native country, which drew -on him repeated attacks from the Ministerial press. In 1812 he was -appointed Governor-General of India, and created MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. He -was the patron of THOMAS MOORE on his arrival in London. He died in -1825.—ED.] - -Footnote 302: - -_Hibernice pro_ French. - -Footnote 303: - -[A quite literal translation of this poem would be out of the question. -The fact is, the sentiment is superior to the execution. CANNING could -write much better if he chose. He might wish to fabricate an -ultra-patriotic schoolboy, and so wrote like one; but it is certain that -as a schoolboy he has written far better things. Either he wrote in a -hurry, or cooked up a school exercise; the introduction looks like it, -and the Latin Prose is as prosy as the verse is common-place.—A. F. W.] - -Footnote 304: - -The Isle of Wight. - -Footnote 305: - -[This valedictory Address, and the portion entitled FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE -which follows the Poem, have never hitherto formed a part of editions of -the Poetry.—ED.] - -Footnote 306: - -We see with some pleasure, that what we anticipated is beginning to take -effect. A NEW MAGAZINE and REVIEW is already advertised, under the same -Name which We had adopted, and professedly on the same Principles. We -have no knowledge of the undertaking, but from report, which speaks -favourably of it; but We heartily wish this, and every work of a similar -kind, a full and happy success. - -Footnote 307: - -Published by HÉBERT. - -Footnote 308: - -Published by MARAT. - -Footnote 309: - -See the Remarks on the Treaties of _Pilnitz_ and _Pavia_, &c.; on TATE’S -Manifesto; on Neutral Navigation; on the Treatment of Prisoners; on the -Continuation of the War for a Spice Island, &c., &c., &c. - -Footnote 310: - -See the motto prefixed to _The Baviad_, a satirical poem, by W. Gifford, -Esq., unquestionably the best of its kind since the days of Pope: - - Nunc in ovilia - Mox in reluctantes dracones. - -Footnote 311: - -The author of _The Pursuits of Literature_. [Now known to be T. J. -Mathias, editor of various Italian works, and teacher of Italian to the -family of K. George III.—ED.] - -Footnote 312: - -The Manes of Vercengetorix are supposed to have been very much gratified -by the invasion of Italy and the plunder of the Roman territory. The -defeat of the Burgundians is to be revenged on the modern inhabitants of -Switzerland. But the Swiss were a free people, defending their liberties -against a tyrant. Moreover, they happened to be in alliance with France -at the time. No matter; _Burgundy_ is since become a province of France, -and the French have acquired a property in all the injuries and defeats -which the people of that country may have sustained, together with a -title to revenge and retaliation to be exercised in the present or any -future centuries, as may be found most glorious and convenient. - -Footnote 313: - -The speech of GENERAL FITZPATRICK, on his motion for an Address of the -House of Commons to the Emperor of Germany, to demand the deliverance of -M. LA FAYETTE from the prison of Olmütz, was one of the most dainty -pieces of oratory that ever drew tears from a crowded gallery, and the -clerks at the table. It was really quite moving to hear the General talk -of religion, conjugal fidelity, and “such branches of learning”. There -were a few who laughed indeed, but that was thought hard-hearted, and -immoral, and irreligious, and God knows what. Crying was the _order of -the day_. Why will not the OPPOSITION try these topics again? LA FAYETTE -indeed (the more’s the pity) is out. But why not a motion for a general -gaol-delivery of all state prisoners throughout Europe? [This was -FITZPATRICK’S master-speech, and extorted the applauses of PITT himself, -who nevertheless resisted its arguments. BURKE said that LA FAYETTE, -“instead of being termed an ‘illustrious exile,’ ought always to be -considered, as he now was, an outcast of society; who, having no talents -to guide or influence the storm which he had laboured to raise, fled -like a dastard from the bloodshed and massacre in which he had involved -so many thousands of unoffending persons and families”.—ED.] - -Footnote 314: - -“Now all the while did not this stony-hearted CUR shed one -tear.”—_Merchant of Venice._ [JOHN CURWEN—member for the city of -Carlisle, from 1786 till 1812. He was a skilful agriculturist, and his -operations may be said to have given a new character to the business of -farming. He died in 1828, aged 73.—ED.] - -Footnote 315: - -See page 72, in the note, for a theft more shameless, and an application -of the thing stolen more stupid, than any of those recorded of Irish -story-tellers by Joe Miller. - -Footnote 316: - -See _Récit de mes Périls_, by LOUVET; _Mémoires d’un Détenu_, by -RIOUFFE, &c. The avidity with which these productions were read, might, -we should hope, be accounted for upon principles of mere curiosity (as -we read the _Newgate Calendar_, and the history of the _Buccaneers_), -not from any interest in favour of a set of wretches infinitely more -detestable than all the robbers and pirates that ever existed. - -Footnote 317: - -Every lover of modern French literature, and admirer of modern French -characters, must remember the rout which was made about LOUVET’S death -and LODOISKA’S poison. The attempt at self-slaughter, and the process of -the recovery, the arsenic and the castor oil, were served up in daily -messes from the French papers, till the public absolutely sickened. - -Footnote 318: - -_Faciles Napeæ._ - -Footnote 319: - -See Anthologia, _passim_. - -Footnote 320: - -Such was the strictness of this minister’s principles, that he -positively refused to go to Court in shoe-buckles. See Dumouriez’s -_Memoirs_. - -Footnote 321: - -See MADAME ROLAND’S _Memoirs_.—“_Rigide Ministre_,” _Brissot à ses -Commettans_. - -Footnote 322: - -The “pumple” nosed attorney of Furnival’s Inn.—“Congreve’s _Way of the -World_.” [... When you liv’d with honest _Pumple Nose_, the attorney of -Furnival’s Inn. Act 3, sc. 1.—ED.] - -Footnote 323: - -These lines contain the Secret History of QUATREMER’S deportation. He -presumed in the Council of Five Hundred to arraign MADAME DE STAEL’S -conduct, and even to hint a doubt of her sex. He was sent to _Guyana_. -The transaction naturally brings to one’s mind the dialogue between -Falstaff and Hostess Quickly in Shakespeare’s Henry IV. - -_Fal._ Thou art neither fish nor flesh—a man cannot tell where to have -thee. - -_Quick._ Thou art an unjust man for saying so—thou or any man knows -where to have me. - -Footnote 324: - -For instance, in the course of a political discussion REWBELL observed -to the EX-BISHOP [TALLEYRAND], “_that his understanding was as crooked -as his legs_”—“Vil Emigré, tu n’as pas le sens plus droit que les -pieds”—and therewith threw an ink-stand at him. It whizzed along, as we -have been informed, like the fragment of a rock from the hand of one of -Ossian’s heroes; but the wily apostate shrunk beneath the table, and the -weapon passed over him innocuous, and guiltless of his blood or brains. - -Footnote 325: - -See Homer’s description of Vulcan. First Iliad. - - Inextinguibilis vero exoriebatur risus beatis numinibus - Ut viderunt Vulcanum per domos _ministrantem_. - -Footnote 326: - -_The Men without a God_—one of the new sects. Their religion is intended -to consist in the adoration of a Great Book, in which all the virtuous -actions of the society are to be entered and registered. “In times of -civil commotion they are to come forward to exhort the citizens to -unanimity, and to read them a chapter out of the Great Book. When -oppressed or proscribed, they are to retire to a burying-ground, to wrap -themselves up in their great-coats, and wait the approach of death,” &c. - -Footnote 327: - -The Reader is at liberty to fill up the blanks according to his own -opinion, and after the chances and changes of the times. It would be -highly unfair to hand down to posterity as followers of _Leviathan_, the -names of men who may, and probably will soon, grow ashamed of their -leader. - -Footnote 328: - - Though the _yeasty_ sea - Consume and swallow navigation up. _Macbeth._ - -[Applied to S. Whitbread, M.P., _the Brewer_.—ED.] - -Footnote 329: - -_i.e._ Perhaps _a member of the_ WHIG CLUB—a society that has presumed -to monopolize to itself a title to which it never had any claim, but -from the character of those who have now withdrawn themselves from it. -“_Perhaps_” signifies that _even_ the WHIG CLUB _sometimes_ rejects a -candidate whose PRINCIPLES (_risum teneatis_) it affects to disapprove. -[Referring to the secession of the DUKE OF PORTLAND and others from the -Whig Club in consequence of their not approving of all the proceedings -of Fox and his more violent adherents. SHERIDAN met with so much -opposition to his entrance into the Whig Club, that he succeeded in -getting admitted only by stratagem.—ED.] - -Footnote 330: - -“It is notorious that the _French Directory have newspapers in their -pay_, not only in America, but in _every_ country in Europe. That there -should exist such MERCENARY TRAITORS AS TO RECEIVE THE PAY OF REGICIDES -AND ASSASSINS is still less astonishing than that there should be found -men in the different countries, and _men of rank_, too, so base, so -degenerate, and so _foolish_, as to give encouragement to their -treasonable productions” (p. 57). The author speaks truth; there is at -least _one_ newspaper of this description in _London_, which is -encouraged—to their shame be it spoken!—by _men of rank_, and by members -of the Legislature—_Representans du Peuple Souverain!_—who even degrade -themselves so far as to associate with the profligate miscreants who -compose its inflammatory pages.—REVIEWER. - -Footnote 331: - -“See BACHE of 11 February, 1795.” - -Footnote 332: - -The reader will not be surprised to hear that this is the identical -governor who wanted a few thousands of dollars from the French minister, -FAUCHET, and who drew _secretly_ 15,000 dollars out of the Bank of -Pennsylvania!! This man brought a whole litter of _bastards_ home to his -virtuous wife. He is a shameless blackguard, a drunkard, and everything -that can be named that is vile. Such is a _republican governor_; a chief -magistrate of state, who has infinitely greater powers over life and -property than King George has!! And this I have already pointed out on -sundry occasions. - -Footnote 333: - -[Lord Erskine.—ED.] - -Footnote 334: - -[T. Moore in his early college days.—ED.] - -Footnote 335: - -[Francis, fifth Duke of Bedford, see _Ballad_.—ED.] - -Footnote 336: - -[Capt. Charles Morris.—ED.] - - - ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES - - - 1. Pg. 17, changed “he was expelled the House of Commons” to “he was - expelled from the House of Commons”. - 2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. - 3. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. - 4. Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the - end of the last chapter. - 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. - 6. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Poetry of the Anti-jacobin, by -George Canning and John Hookham Frere and W. 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Pitt and Marquis Wellesley - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Poetry of the Anti-jacobin - Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, - of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, - the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of - Carlisle, and Others. - -Author: George Canning - John Hookham Frere - W. Pitt - Marquis Wellesley - -Editor: Charles Edmonds - -Release Date: November 15, 2020 [EBook #63778] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN *** - - - - -Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class='tnotes covernote'> - -<p class='c000'><b>Transcriber’s Note:</b></p> - -<p class='c000'>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p> - -</div> - -<div id='Frontispiece' class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_001.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic001'> -<p><em>The <span class='sc'>Giant Factotum</span> amusing himself</em></p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class='titlepage'> - -<div> - <h1 class='c001'><span class='xlarge'>POETRY</span><br /> <span class='small'>OF</span><br /> THE ANTI-JACOBIN:<br /> <span class='small'>COMPRISING THE CELEBRATED</span><br /> <span class='c002'>POLITICAL AND SATIRICAL POEMS,</span><br /> <span class='small'>OF</span><br /> <span class='c002'><span class='sc'>The Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, The Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, The Earl of Carlisle, and Others.</span></span></h1> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>EDITED, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, ETC.</div> - <div class='c004'><span class='small'>BY</span></div> - <div><span class='large'>CHARLES EDMONDS,</span></div> - <div><span class='small'>EDITOR OF THE “PYTCHLEY HUNT, PAST AND PRESENT,” ETC., ETC.</span></div> - <div class='c003'><em>THIRD EDITION, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED, WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES GILLRAY.</em></div> - <div class='c003'><span class='large'><span class='sc'>New York</span>: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS.</span></div> - <div><span class='large'><span class='sc'>London</span>: SAMPSON LOW & CO., <em>Limited</em>.</span></div> - <div><span class='large'>1890.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_v'>v</span> - <h2 class='c005'>EDITOR’S PREFACE.</h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>The fate which usually attends political and satirical -writings that owe their origin to passing events, has in -no way affected the <span class='sc'>Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin</span>, which, -after a lapse of more than ninety years, still continues to -interest and amuse. Public opinion never fails, sooner -or later, to arrive at a just conclusion as to the merits -both of individuals and actions; and though it may often -neglect to preserve a meritorious work, never perpetuates -a worthless one. Poetry which lashed with so remorseless -a hand the patriotic proceedings, and held up to -ridicule the persons and habits, of the most distinguished -Whig leaders, must have possessed no common merit to -have won the encomiums of such liberal politicians and -such critics as <span class='sc'>Mackintosh</span> and <span class='sc'>Jeffrey</span>, <span class='sc'>Moore</span> and -<span class='sc'>Byron</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Moore</span>, in his <cite>Life of Sheridan</cite>, observes: “<cite>The Rolliad</cite> -and <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> may, on their respective sides of the -question, be considered as models of that style of political -satire whose lightness and vivacity give it the appearance -of proceeding rather from the wantonness of wit than of -ill-nature, and whose very malice, from the fancy with -which it is mixed up, like certain kinds of fire-works, -explodes in sparkles”. This criticism might be applied -to some of his own political squibs.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_vi'>vi</span>As the poems refer to occurrences long since past, a -rapid glance at the state of events at that time (1797–8) -may render them more intelligible to the generality of -readers.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The affairs of England were then in a critical position. -The ministry of <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> was carrying on a fierce war with -republican France, the necessity for which had split the -public into two great parties. The liberal party alleged, -that “the whole misfortunes of Europe and all the crimes -of France had arisen from the iniquitous coalition of -kings to overturn its infant freedom;—that, if its government -had been left alone, it would neither have stained -its hands with innocent blood at home nor pursued plans -of aggrandizement abroad; and that the Republic, relieved -from the pressure of external danger, and no longer -roused by the call of patriotic duty, would have quietly -turned its swords into pruning-hooks, and, renouncing -the allurements of foreign conquests, thought only of -promoting the internal felicity of its citizens”.</p> - -<p class='c007'>These sentiments, though supported by the extraordinary -eloquence of <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, <span class='sc'>Sheridan</span>, <span class='sc'>Erskine</span>, and -others, had but little weight with the minister or the -great body of the public. It was impossible to deny -that the power of the French Republic was daily increasing, -and threatened the subjugation of the greater part -of Europe. <span class='sc'>Buonaparte</span> had overrun Italy, and broken -the power of Austria, which, by the treaty of Leoben, -was compelled to cede the Netherlands to France, allow -the free navigation of the Rhine, and recognise the independence -of the newly-erected Italian republics. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_vii'>vii</span>Spain, also, had declared war against Britain, which -was thus left to contend singly against the power of -France; for the Directory had refused the basis of peace -proposed by <span class='sc'>Lord Malmesbury</span>, that of a mutual restitution -of conquests. To add to these embarrassments, during -the year 1797 credit became affected, and the Bank -of England suspended cash payments; mutinies broke -out in the fleets at Spithead and the Nore; and Ireland -was on the verge of rebellion. But the talents of <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> -were equal to the occasion, and his power rose higher -than ever, when his prognostications were shortly after -(in December, 1797) confirmed by the unprovoked attack -upon Switzerland by the French. The impolicy of this -proceeding was equal to its infamy; for nothing ever -done by the revolutionary government contributed so -powerfully to cool the ardour of its partisans in Europe, -and to open the eyes of the intelligent and respectable -classes in every other country to its ultimate designs. -Its effect on the friends of freedom in England may be -judged of from the indignant protest of <span class='sc'>Sir James -Mackintosh</span>, himself once a warm admirer of the French -Revolution, who, in his defence of <span class='sc'>Jean Peltier</span>, in 1803, -for a libel on <span class='sc'>Buonaparte</span>, declared, “the invasion and -destruction of Switzerland an act, in comparison with -which all the deeds of rapine and blood perpetrated in -the world are innocence itself”. Even before this, the -true character of the revolution had been detected by -the democratic <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>, who gave public utterance -to his feelings of horror and disgust in that noble <cite>Ode to -France</cite> written in February, 1797. In a word, to say -<span class='pageno' id='Page_viii'>viii</span>nothing of her other conquests, France, at the beginning -of 1798, had three affiliated republics at her side, the -Batavian, Cisalpine, and the Ligurian; before its close -she had organized three more, the Helvetic, the Roman, -and the Parthenopeian.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Pitt’s</span> influence was further increased by the threatened -invasion of Great Britain by the French, a proceeding -which, as it affected every class in the country, raised -the national enthusiasm to the highest pitch, inflamed -as it already was by the recent glorious victories off Cape -St. Vincent and Camperdown. That they were likely -to be in earnest had been already shown by their expeditions -to Bantry Bay and Pembrokeshire, and <span class='sc'>Buonaparte’s</span> -boast at Geneva, that “he would democratize -England in three months,” proved how much he relied -upon the support of the malcontents both in Great -Britain and Ireland. The estimates and preparations for -defence were, enormous; taxes, to an extent utterly unknown -before, were laid on; the Volunteer Bill was -passed (<span class='sc'>Sheridan</span> assisting), by which, in addition to the -regular army, a hundred and fifty thousand volunteers -were, in a few weeks, in arms; <span class='sc'>The King</span> was authorized -by another bill, in the event of an invasion, to call out the -levy, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">en masse</span></i>, of the population; the Alien Bill was reenacted; -and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act -continued for another year.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But the genius of one man, however great, can effect -but little, unless suitably supported by others. The sagacious -mind of <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> had long seen that his party in -Parliament were, with very few exceptions, no match for -<span class='pageno' id='Page_ix'>ix</span>his numerous opponents, powerful both in talent and -social position; among whom were <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, <span class='sc'>Sheridan</span>, -<span class='sc'>Erskine</span>, <span class='sc'>Horne Tooke</span>, <span class='sc'>Whitbread</span>, <span class='sc'>Nicholls</span>, <span class='sc'>Courtenay</span>, -<span class='sc'>Fitzpatrick</span>, the <span class='sc'>Dukes</span> of <span class='sc'>Norfolk</span> and <span class='sc'>Bedford</span>, -<span class='sc'>Lord Stanhope</span>, the <span class='sc'>Duchess</span> of <span class='sc'>Devonshire</span>, and others. -He was always anxious, therefore, to secure whatever -available talent presented itself, and immediately on their -appearance enlisted under his banners <span class='sc'>Canning</span>, <span class='sc'>Jenkinson</span>, -<span class='sc'>Huskisson</span>, and <span class='sc'>Castlereagh</span>, all men of the same -standing, for the first three were born in 1770, and the -last in 1769.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The important assistance of <span class='sc'>Canning</span> was immediately -felt, for he was, in the words of <span class='sc'>Byron</span>, “a genius—almost -a universal one; an orator, a wit, a poet, a statesman”. -Though he entered Parliament at the early age -of 23 (in 1793), and attained the post of Under-Secretary -of State for the Foreign Department two years after, he -was by no means inexperienced either as a writer or as an -orator; for while a student at Eton he had won distinction -by his contributions to <cite>The Microcosm</cite>, a weekly paper -published by the more advanced Etonians, and also in -the discussions of their Debating Society, which were -conducted with strict regard to parliamentary usages. -And afterwards, while studying for the law, he took an -active part in the proceedings of the debating societies of -the metropolis, in which he achieved so much reputation -as to lead to his introduction to <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, whose party he -unhesitatingly joined.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Canning</span> early saw the necessity of the Government’s -possessing some literary engine, which, like the Whig -<span class='pageno' id='Page_x'>x</span><cite>Rolliad</cite>, published some years before, should carry confusion -into the ranks of its enemies. In a lucky hour he -conceived the idea of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, a weekly newspaper, -interspersed with poetry, the avowed object of -which was to expose the vicious doctrines of the French -Revolution, and to turn into ridicule and contempt the -advocates of that event, and the sticklers for peace and -parliamentary reform. The editor was <span class='sc'>William Gifford</span>, -whose vigorous and unscrupulous pen had been already -shown in his <cite>Baviad</cite> and <cite>Mæviad</cite>; and among the regular -writers were: <span class='sc'>John Hookham Frere</span>, <span class='sc'>Jenkinson</span> (afterwards -<span class='sc'>Earl of Liverpool</span>), <span class='sc'>George Ellis</span> (who had -previously contributed to the Whig <cite>Rolliad</cite>), <span class='sc'>Lord Clare</span>, -<span class='sc'>Lord Mornington</span> (afterwards <span class='sc'>Marquis Wellesley</span>), -<span class='sc'>Lord Morpeth</span> (afterwards <span class='sc'>Earl of Carlisle</span>), <span class='sc'>Baron -Macdonald</span>, and others. These gentlemen entered upon -their task with no common spirit. Their purpose was -to blacken their adversaries, and they spared no means, -fair or foul, in the attempt. Their most distinguished -countrymen, whose only fault was their being opposed to -government, were treated with no more respect than their -foreign adversaries, and were held up to public execration -as traitors, blasphemers, and debauchees. So alarmed, -however, became <span class='sc'>Wilberforce</span> and others of the more -moderate supporters of ministers at the boldness of the -language employed, that <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> was induced to interfere, -and, after an existence of eight months, <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> -(in its original form) ceased to exist.</p> - -<p class='c007'><cite>The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin</cite> is not exclusively political. -<cite>The Loves of the Triangles</cite>, a parody on <span class='sc'>Dr. Darwin’s</span> <cite>Loves -<span class='pageno' id='Page_xi'>xi</span>of the Plants</cite>, is, in the opinion of a celebrated critic (Lord -Jeffrey) of the highest degree of merit; as is also <cite>The -Progress of Man</cite>, a parody on <span class='sc'>Payne Knight’s</span> <cite>Progress of -Civil Society</cite>; and <cite>The Rovers</cite>, a burlesque on the German -dramas then in vogue, the extraordinary plots of which, -as well as their language, alternately ultrasentimental -and domestically bathotic, well marked them out for -ridicule, is distinguished by sharp wit and broad humour -of the happiest kind. <span class='sc'>Canning</span> and his coadjutors in this -piece did a real service to literature, and assisted in a -purification which <span class='sc'>Gifford</span>, by his demolition of the Della -Cruscan school of poetry, had so well begun. Of <cite>The -Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder</cite> it is unnecessary -to speak; perhaps no lines in the English language have -been more effective, or oftener quoted.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But <span class='sc'>Canning’s</span> greatest power is shown in <cite>New Morality</cite>, -which, being the last of the series, seems to have been -reserved as a concentrating medium for his pent-up scorn -and contempt of the Whigs and their adherents. So that -their blows fall thick (for he was powerfully seconded by -Frere, Gifford, and Ellis), they care little who suffer from -them, and the modern reader is surprised to find <span class='sc'>Charles -Lamb</span> and other non-intruders into politics, figuring as -congenial conspirators with <span class='sc'>Tom Paine</span>!</p> - -<p class='c007'>It is somewhat difficult to regard <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> in the character -of a Wit and a Poet, as from the narrative of most of his -biographers, he might be considered as uniformly cold, -stiff, and unbending; but his intimate friend <span class='sc'>Wilberforce</span>, -in his <cite>Memoirs</cite>, thus describes him: “<span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, when -free from shyness, and amongst his intimate companions, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_xii'>xii</span>was the very soul of merriment and conversation. He -was the wittiest man I ever knew, and what was quite -peculiar to himself, had at all times his wit under entire -controul. Others appeared struck by the unwonted -association of brilliant images; but every possible combination -of ideas seemed always present to his mind, and -he could at once produce whatever he desired. I was one -of those who met to spend an evening in memory of -Shakespeare, at the Boar’s Head, Eastcheap. Many -professed wits were present, but <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> was the most -amusing of the party, the readiest and most apt in the -required allusions.” It is not, therefore, at all unlikely, -that he now and then contributed witty verses to <cite>The -Anti-Jacobin</cite>, in addition to those which the Editor has, -on probable grounds, ascribed to him in the present -volume.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“Critical commentary,” says a critic of the previous -edition, “on the merits of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, would be -superfluous. Its satire is distinguished for the terse -language of its poignant personality, which was often -excessively stinging, but seldom offensively coarse. Its -best contributors, <span class='sc'>Canning</span> and <span class='sc'>Frere</span>, were not mere -pamphleteers in verse, like the writers for <cite>The Rolliad</cite>. -They had poetical inspiration and a sprightly joyousness -springing from a genial play of the mental faculties. -They were ‘Conservatives’ not only in their politics but -in their loyal adherence to the ordinances and traditions -of classical English literature. False sentiment, tumid -diction, mawkish cant, were chastised by them with -exemplary efficacy. On the fourth edition of the complete -<span class='pageno' id='Page_xiii'>xiii</span>work (1799, 2 Vols. 8vo, containing both prose and -poetry), they placed the epigraph, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Sparsosque recolligit -ignes</span></i>; and in the very last paper (No. 36), the motto on -discontinuance was exquisitely happy:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>“‘We shall miss thee;</div> - <div class='line'>But yet thou shalt have freedom.</div> - <div class='line in8'>So to the elements</div> - <div class='line'>Be free; and fare thou well!’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>“And these lines, taken from <cite>The Tempest</cite> (probably by -<span class='sc'>Canning</span>), have been prophetic of the popularity of their -witty verse, still quoted and admired by all lovers of the -genius that is airily elegant and strong.”</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>CHARLES EDMONDS.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Water Orton, Birmingham.</span></p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_xv'>xv</span> - <h2 class='c005'>ADDITIONS TO THE PRESENT EDITION.</h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>Numerous new Biographical and other Notes.</p> - -<p class='c010'>Additions and Corrections to the List of presumed <span class='sc'>Authors</span> of -“<span class='sc'>The Poetry</span>”.</p> - -<p class='c010'>Selections from the <span class='sc'>Prose</span> portion of the work, written by the -<span class='sc'>Rt. Hon. G. Canning</span> and his coadjutors.</p> - -<p class='c010'>Account of the various <span class='sc'>Editions</span> of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, and its successors.</p> - -<p class='c010'>Enlarged articles on the opposition <span class='sc'>Newspapers</span> abused by <cite>The -Anti-Jacobin</cite> writers.</p> - -<p class='c010'>The curious <span class='sc'>Abusive and Satirical Index</span> to <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>; -and specimens of a similar Index to <cite>The Anti-Jacobin Review -and Magazine</cite>.</p> - -<p class='c010'>Selections from <cite>The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine</cite>—the successor -to <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>—showing that though written by -a different body of Authors, both works were animated by the -same spirit.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_xvii'>xvii</span> - <h2 class='c005'>EDITIONS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN;<br /> <span class='large'>AND ITS SUCCESSORS.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Anti-Jacobin</span>, or <span class='sc'>Weekly Examiner</span>. <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Sparsosque recolligit ignes.</span> -From Nov. 20, 1797, to July 9, 1798. 4to.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c012'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>London.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>Nos. 1 to 36; with a Prospectus (complete).</p> - -<p class='c010'>—— The Same. Second and third editions, in 4to.</p> - -<p class='c010'>—— The Same. Fourth edition, revised and corrected. 2 vols. 8vo.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c012'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>London, 1799.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>Every Number contained Poetry, the presumed Names of the Authors of -which will be found in the Table of Contents of the present volume.</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c010'><span class='sc'>The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.</span> 4to.</p> -<div class='c014'>London, 1801.</div> - -<p class='c007'>This volume includes the whole of the <span class='sc'>Poetry</span> contained in the original -<cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>, with a few verbal corrections. Previous to its publication, it was -announced that it would be illustrated by 40 plates expressly designed by -<span class='sc'>Gillray</span>; but they never appeared. Numerous editions in 12mo subsequently -appeared, but without any additions, till those mentioned below.</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c010'><span class='sc'>The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.</span> A New Edition, with Explanatory Notes -by <span class='sc'>Charles Edmonds</span>. 12mo.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c012'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>London, 1852.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'>—— The Same. Second edition, by <span class='sc'>Charles Edmonds</span>; with additional -Notes, the original Prospectus (by the Rt. Hon. <span class='sc'>G. Canning</span>), and a complete -List of the Authors. Illustrated by six etchings after the designs -of <span class='sc'>Jas. Gillray</span>. 12mo.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c012'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>London, 1854.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c010'><span class='sc'>The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine</span>; or Monthly Political and Literary -Censor. From the commencement in July, 1798, to its close in 1821. -(<em>The first few vols. contain engravings by Gillray and others, and much</em> -<span class='sc'>Poetry</span> <em>is scattered through the volumes</em>.) 61 vols. 8vo.</p> -<div class='c015'>London, 1798–1821.</div> - -<p class='c007'>For reasons stated on a previous page, <span class='sc'>Canning</span> and other political friends -of <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> thought it prudent to withdraw themselves from the original <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>, -but by a preconcerted arrangement it was determined that the spirit -which had pervaded that work, and which had had so powerful an effect on the -popular mind, and thereby, in connection with Gillray’s caricatures, so undoubtedly -strengthened the hands of the Ministry, should not die, if it could be -kept alive by other and congenial writers. In the words of <span class='sc'>Mr. Fox Bourne</span> -(in his valuable work on <cite>English Newspapers</cite>, 1887): “Though <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> -made its last appearance on July 9, 1798, there was started a few days before a -monthly <cite>Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine</cite> of the same politics, but much less -brilliant, and more ponderous. Strange to say, it also was edited by a <span class='sc'>Gifford</span>, -or one who so called himself. <span class='sc'>John Richards Green</span> was a bold and versatile -adventurer, who, having to fly from his creditors in 1782, returned from France -in 1788, as <span class='sc'>John Gifford</span>, and was connected with several newspapers [including -the establishment of <cite>The British Critic</cite>], besides editing <cite>The Anti-Jacobin -Review</cite>. [He also wrote a <cite>History of France</cite>, and other works.] Befriended in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_xviii'>xviii</span>many ways by <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, he wrote a four-volume pamphlet [3 vols. 4to, and also -6 vols. 8vo, both dated 1809], styled the <cite>Life of William Pitt</cite>, after his patron’s -death. <span class='sc'>James Mill</span>, the friend and associate of <span class='sc'>Jeremy Bentham</span>, was glad -to earn money in his struggling days by writing non-political articles for <cite>The -Anti-Jacobin Review</cite>. <span class='sc'>William Gifford</span>, it is hardly necessary to state, besides -editing Ben Jonson’s Works, and other useful occupations, was the first editor -of <cite>The Quarterly Review</cite> in 1809.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>In the British Museum are two copies of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin Review and -Magazine</cite>. In one of them the first six vols. contain the Names of the Authors -of most of the articles, among whom are the <span class='sc'>Rev. John Whitaker</span>, author of -<cite>The History of Manchester</cite>, the <span class='sc'>Rev. Sam. Henshall</span>, author of works on Domesday -Book, the <span class='sc'>Rev. C. E. Stewart</span>, a copious poetaster, etc., and many other -clergymen.</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c010'><span class='sc'>The New Anti-Jacobin Review.</span> <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Delenda est Carthago.</span></p> - -<p class='c007'>Nos. 1 to 3 seem to be all that were published, and appeared May 6, June 9, -and June 23, 1827; price two shillings each.</p> - -<p class='c007'>No. 2 includes what is called a <cite>Patriot Portrait Exhibition</cite>, which is continued -in No. 3. In the latter No. is also an article entitled <cite>Canningiana</cite>. Published -by Saunders and Otley.</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c010'><span class='sc'>The New Anti-Jacobin</span>; a Monthly Magazine of Politics, Commerce, Science, -Literature, Art, Music, and the Drama.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Consists of only Nos. 1 and 2. Published by Smith, Elder, & Co., and -Carpenter & Son; dated respectively April and May, 1833.</p> - -<p class='c007'>No. 2 contains <cite>Horace in Parliament</cite>; an Ode to William Cobbett; being a -Parody on Horace—<cite>In Barinen</cite>, Ode 4, Lib. 2. It is accompanied by a full-length -portrait of Cobbett.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The above two works, in accordance with their titles, advocate high Tory -principles; but though written with great spirit they had but a very short -existence. Copies of both will be found in the British Museum.</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c010'><span class='sc'>English Actors in the French Revolution, and Eye-witnesses of the -same.</span></p> - -<p class='c007'>The most complete details hitherto furnished on these interesting subjects -will be found in the Nos. for October, 1887, and July, 1888, of <cite>The Edinburgh -Review</cite>, the work of <span class='sc'>Mr. John G. Alger</span>, the Paris correspondent of <cite>The Times</cite>. -They have since been published in a volume. (<cite>Englishmen in the French Revolution</cite>: -Low & Co., 1889.)</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_019.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_xix'>xix</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CONTENTS OF THE POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN,<br /> <span class='small'>WITH THE NAMES OF THE AUTHORS.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>The following notices of the writers of the <span class='sc'>Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin</span> are -derived from the copies mentioned below, and each name is authenticated by -the initials of the authority upon which each piece is ascribed to particular -persons:—</p> - -<table class='table0' summary=''> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>C.</td> - <td class='c017'><span class='sc'>Canning’s</span> own copy of the Poetry.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>B.</td> - <td class='c017'><span class='sc'>Lord Burghersh’s</span> copy.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>W.</td> - <td class='c017'><span class='sc'>Wright</span> the publisher’s copy.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>U.</td> - <td class='c017'>Information of <span class='sc'>W. Upcott</span>, amanuensis.</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class='c007'>[Although many of the pieces in the following list are attributed to wrong -authors, it has been thought more convenient to reprint them as they stood in -the previous edition, in order to insert any corrections, as far as <span class='sc'>Frere</span> is concerned. -These are derived from the information of <span class='sc'>Frere</span> himself given to his -nephews, who afterwards edited his works in 1872. They are therefore placed -beneath the Title of the piece—between brackets.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The pieces, printed in <em>Italics</em>—between brackets—appear for the first time in -an edition of <cite>The Poetry</cite>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<table class='table0' summary=''> - <tr> - <th class='c018'></th> - <th class='c019'><span class='small'>PAGE.</span></th> - <th class='c020'><span class='small'>AUTHORS.</span></th> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'><span class='sc'>Prospectus of the Anti-Jacobin</span></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_1'>1</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Introduction</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_12'>12</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Inscription for the Apartment in Chepstow Castle, where Henry Marten, the Regicide, was imprisoned thirty years</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_16'>16</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Southey.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Inscription for the Door of the Cell in Newgate, where Mrs. Brownrigg, the Prentice-cide, was confined previous to her execution</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_16'>16</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, C.<br />Frere, C.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Friend of Humanity and the Knife Grinder</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_23'>23</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, C.<br />Canning, C.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Invasion; or, the British War Song</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_25'>25</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Hely Addington, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>La Sainte Guillotine: a New Song, attempted from the French</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_29'>29</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, C.<br />Frere, C.<br />Hammond, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[By <em>Canning</em> and <em>Frere</em> only.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>[<em>Meeting of the Friends of Freedom</em>]</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_32'>32</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Claimed by Frere.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'><span class='pageno' id='Page_xx'>xx</span>The Soldier’s Friend</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_38'>38</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, C.<br />Frere, C.<br />Ellis, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[By <em>Canning</em> and <em>Frere</em> only.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Sonnet to Liberty.</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_39'>39</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Lord Carlisle, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Quintessence of all the Dactylics that ever were, or ever will be, written</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_41'>41</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, B.<br />Gifford, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Latin Verses, written immediately after the Revolution of the Fourth of September</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_43'>43</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Marq. Wellesley, U.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Translation of the above</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_45'>45</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[<span class='sc'>Pearce</span>, in his <cite>Memoirs of the Marquis Wellesley</cite>, gives the credit of this translation to the sixth <span class='sc'>Earl</span> of <span class='sc'>Carlisle</span>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Choice; imitated from <cite>The Battle of Sabla</cite>, in Carlyle’s Specimens of Arabian Poetry</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_48'>48</a></td> - <td class='c020'>G. Ellis, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Duke and the Taxing Man</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_52'>52</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Bar. Macdonald, C., B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Epigram on the Paris Loan, called the Loan upon England</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_54'>54</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[Not claimed by <em>Frere</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Ode to Anarchy</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_55'>55</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Lord Morpeth, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Song, recommended to be sung at all <em>convivial</em> meetings convened for the purpose of opposing the Assessed Tax Bill</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_58'>58</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[By <em>Canning</em>, <em>Ellis</em>, and <em>Frere</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Lines written at the close of the year 1797</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_61'>61</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Translation of the New Song of <cite>The Army of England</cite></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_63'>63</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Epistle to the Editors of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_68'>68</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[This <cite>Epistle</cite> is now known to have been written by the <span class='sc'>Hon. Wm. Lamb</span>, (afterwards second <span class='sc'>Viscount Melbourne</span>, and Prime Minister). He was then only in his nineteenth year.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>To the Author of the <cite>Epistle to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin</cite></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_71'>71</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, C.<br />Hammond, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Ode to Lord Moira</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_78'>78</a></td> - <td class='c020'>G. Ellis, C., B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_83'>83</a></td> - <td class='c020'>G. Ellis, C.<br />Frere, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Acme and Septimius; or, the Happy Union.</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_88'>88</a></td> - <td class='c020'>G. Ellis, C.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>[<em>Mr. Fox’s Birth-Day</em>]</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_90'>90</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>To the Author of the Anti-Jacobin</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_95'>95</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Mr. Bragge, afterwards Bathurst.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'><span class='pageno' id='Page_xxi'>xxi</span>Lines written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown and Anchor</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_99'>99</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Lines written by a Traveller at Czarco-zelo under the Bust of a certain Orator, once placed between those of Demosthenes and Cicero</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_99'>99</a></td> - <td class='c020'>G. Ellis, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[<span class='sc'>Jas. Boswell</span>, jun., asserts, on the authority of the nephew of the great statesman, that the above lines were written by <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>. This is not improbable: see Note on page <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Progress of Man. Didactic Poem</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_102'>102</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, C.<br />Gifford, W.<br />Frere, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[Cantos 1 and 2 by <em>Canning</em> only; and Canto 23 by <em>Canning</em> and <em>Frere</em> only.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Progress of Man, <em>continued</em></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_107'>107</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, C.<br />Hammond, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Imitation of Bion. Written at St. Anne’s Hill</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_111'>111</a></td> - <td class='c020'>G. Ellis, B.<br />Gifford, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The New Coalition: Imitation of Horace, Lib. 3, Carm. 9</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_114'>114</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>[<cite>The Honey-Moon of Fox and Tooke</cite>, another version of the same by the <span class='sc'>Rev. C. E. Stewart</span>; published in the <cite>Anti-Jacobin Review</cite>, vol. i.]</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_116'>116</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Imitation of Horace, Lib. 3, Carm. 25</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_119'>119</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, C.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Chevy Chase</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_125'>125</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Bar. Macdonald, C., B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Ode to Jacobinism</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_129'>129</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Progress of Man, <em>continued</em></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_133'>133</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, C.<br />Frere, C.<br />G. Ellis, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Jacobin</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_141'>141</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Nares, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Loves of the Triangles. A Mathematical and Philosophical Poem</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_150'>150</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, C.<br />Canning, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[All but the last three lines <em>Frere’s</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Loves of the Triangles, <em>continued</em></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_158'>158</a></td> - <td class='c020'>G. Ellis, C., W.<br />Canning, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[Down to “Twine round his struggling heart,” by <em>Ellis</em>. From “Thus, happy France,” to “And folds the parent-monarch,” by <em>Canning</em>, <em>Ellis</em>, and <em>Frere</em>. The next twelve lines, which were not in the <em>first</em> edition, 1798, were added by <em>Canning</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Brissot’s Ghost</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_165'>165</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[Not claimed by <em>Frere</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Loves of the Triangles, <em>continued</em></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_170'>170</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning B., W., C.<br />Gifford C.<br />Frere C.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[By <em>Canning</em>, <em>Ellis</em>, and <em>Frere</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'><span class='pageno' id='Page_xxii'>xxii</span>A Consolatory Address to his Gun-Boats. By Citizen Muskein</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_182'>182</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Lord Morpeth, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Elegy on the Death of Jean Bon St. André</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_185'>185</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, B., C.<br />Gifford, C.<br />Frere, C.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[By <em>Canning</em>, <em>Ellis</em>, and <em>Frere</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Ode to my Country, <span class='fss'>MDCCXCVIII</span></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_193'>193</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, C.<br />B. B., C.<br />Hammond, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[This is not claimed by <em>Frere</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Ode to the Director Merlin</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_199'>199</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Lord Morpeth, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_205'>205</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, C.<br />Gifford, C.<br />G. Ellis, C.<br />Canning B., C.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[Act 1, Sc. 1 and 2, by <em>Frere</em>—Song by <em>Canning</em> and <em>Ellis</em>; Act 2, Sc. 1 and 3, and Act 3, by <em>Canning</em>; Act 2, Sc. 2, and Act 4, by <em>Frere</em>. The preliminary prose by <em>Frere</em> and <em>Canning</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement, <em>continued</em></td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_224'>224</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Frere B., C.<br />Gifford C.<br />Ellis, C.<br />Canning, C.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>An Affectionate Effusion of Citizen Muskein to Havre-de-Grace</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_236'>236</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Lord Morpeth, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Translation of a Letter from Bawba-dara-adul-phoola, to Neek-awl-aretchid-kooez</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_242'>242</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Gifford, C., B.<br />Ellis, C., B.<br />Canning, C., B.<br />Frere, C., B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='small'>[By <em>Canning</em>, <em>Ellis</em>, and <em>Frere</em>.]</span></td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>[<cite>Buonaparte’s Letter to the Commandant at Zante</cite>]</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_248'>248</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Ode to a Jacobin</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_251'>251</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>Ballynahinch; A New Song</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_255'>255</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, C.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>De Navali Laude Britanniæ</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_257'>257</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, B.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>[Translation of the above</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_260'>260</a></td> - <td class='c020'>The late A. F. Westmacott.]</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>[<cite>Valedictory Address</cite>]</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_263'>263</a></td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c018'>New Morality</td> - <td class='c019'><a href='#Page_271'>271</a></td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, B. C.<br />Frere, C.<br />Gifford, C.<br />G. Ellis, C.</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<table class='table1' summary=''> -<colgroup> -<col width='7%' /> -<col width='69%' /> -<col width='23%' /> -</colgroup> - <tr><td class='c021' colspan='3'><span class='pageno' id='Page_xxiii'>xxiii</span></td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'>LINE.</td> - <td class='c022'> </td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l1'>1</a></td> - <td class='c022'>From Mental Mists</td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l15'>15</a></td> - <td class='c022'>Yet venial Vices, &c.</td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l29'>29</a></td> - <td class='c022'>Bethink thee, Gifford, &c. These lines were written by <span class='sc'>Canning</span> some years before he had any personal acquaintance with <span class='sc'>Gifford</span>.</td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l71'>71</a></td> - <td class='c022'>Awake! for shame!</td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l158'>158</a></td> - <td class='c022'>Fond Hope!</td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l168'>168</a></td> - <td class='c022'>Such is the liberal Justice</td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l249'>249</a></td> - <td class='c022'>O! Nurse of Crimes!</td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, W.<br />Canning, W.<br />G. Ellis, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l261'>261</a></td> - <td class='c022'>See Louvet</td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l287'>287</a></td> - <td class='c022'>But hold, severer Virtue</td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, W.<br />Canning, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l302'>302</a></td> - <td class='c022'>To thee proud Barras bows</td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, W.<br />Canning, W.<br />Ellis, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l318'>318</a></td> - <td class='c022'>Ere long, perhaps</td> - <td class='c020'>Gifford, W.<br />Ellis, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l328'>328</a></td> - <td class='c022'>Couriers and Stars</td> - <td class='c020'>Frere, W.<br />Canning, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l356'>356</a></td> - <td class='c022'>Britain, beware</td> - <td class='c020'>Canning, W.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><a href='#l372'>372</a></td> - <td class='c022'>So thine own Oak</td> - <td class='c020'>attributed to W. Pitt.</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class='c007'>“<span class='sc'>Wright</span>, the publisher of the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>, lived at 169, Piccadilly, and -his shop was the general morning resort of the friends of the ministry, as -<span class='sc'>Debrett’s</span> was of the oppositionists. About the time when the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite> -was contemplated, <span class='sc'>Owen</span>, who had been the publisher of <span class='sc'>Burke’s</span> pamphlets, -failed. The editors of the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite> took his house, paying the rent, taxes, -&c., and gave it up to <span class='sc'>Wright</span>, reserving to themselves the first floor, to which -a communication was opened through <span class='sc'>Wright’s</span> house. Being thus enabled to -pass to their own rooms through <span class='sc'>Wright’s</span> shop, where their frequent visits -did not excite any remarks, they contrived to escape particular observation.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>“Their meetings were most regular on Sundays, but they not unfrequently -met on other days of the week, and in their rooms were chiefly written the -poetical portions of the work. What was written was generally left open upon the -table, and as others of the party dropped in, hints or suggestions were made; -sometimes whole passages were contributed by some of the parties present, and -afterwards altered by others, so that it is almost impossible to ascertain the -names of the authors. Where, in the above notes, a piece is ascribed to different -authors, the conflicting statements may arise from incorrect information, but -sometimes they arise from the whole authorship being assigned to one person, -when, in fact, both may have contributed. If we look at the references, 167, -185, we shall see <span class='sc'>Canning</span> naming several authors, whereas <span class='sc'>Lord Burghersh</span> -assigns all to one author. <span class='sc'>Canning’s</span> authority is here more to be relied upon. -<cite>New Morality</cite> <span class='sc'>Canning</span> assigns generally to the four contributors. <span class='sc'>Wright</span> has -given some interesting particulars by appropriating to each his peculiar portion.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>“<span class='sc'>Gifford</span> was the working editor, and wrote most of the refutations and -corrections of the <em>Lies</em>, <em>Mistakes</em>, and <em>Misrepresentations</em>.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>“The papers on finance were chiefly by <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>: the first column was frequently -kept for what he might send; but his contributions were uncertain, and generally -very late, so that the space reserved for him was sometimes filled up by other -matter. He only once met the editors at <span class='sc'>Wright’s</span>.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>“<span class='sc'>W. Upcott</span>, who was at the time assistant in <span class='sc'>Wright’s</span> shop, was employed -as amanuensis, to copy out for the printer the various contributions, that -the author’s handwriting might not be detected.”—<em>E. Hawkins.</em></p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_xxiv'>xxiv</span> - <h2 class='c005'>“THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING AS A MAN OF LETTERS.”</h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>[The following is part of a review, under the above title, of the present editor’s -previous edition of <cite>The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin</cite>, and appeared in <cite>The Edinburgh -Review</cite> of July, 1858. It is reprinted in the <cite>Biographical and Critical Essays</cite> of -<span class='sc'>A. Hayward</span>, Esq., Q.C., 2 vols., 8vo., 1873. It is introduced here as throwing -some additional light on the <cite>Writers of the various pieces</cite>.]</p> - -<p class='c006'>“... We can hardly say of <span class='sc'>Canning’s</span> satire what was said of <span class='sc'>Sheridan’s</span>, -that—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘His wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,</div> - <div class='line'>Never carried a heart-stain away on its blade’.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>But its severity was redeemed by its buoyancy and geniality, whilst the subjects -against which it was principally aimed gave it a healthy tone and a sound -foundation. Its happiest effusions will be found in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, set on foot -to refute or ridicule the democratic rulers of revolutionary France and their -admirers or apologists in England, who, it must be owned, were occasionally -hurried into a culpable degree of extravagance and laxity by their enthusiasm....”</p> - -<p class='c007'>“We learn from <span class='sc'>Mr. Edmonds</span> that almost all his authorities practically -resolve themselves into one, the late <span class='sc'>Mr. W. Upcott</span>, and that he never saw -either of the alleged copies on which his informant relied. As regards the -principal one, <span class='sc'>Canning’s</span> own, after the fullest inquiries amongst his surviving -relatives and friends, we cannot discover a trace of its existence at any period. -<span class='sc'>Lord Burghersh</span> (the late <span class='sc'>Earl of Westmoreland</span>) was under fourteen -years of age during the publication of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>; and we very much -doubt whether either the publisher or the amanuensis (be he who he may) was -admitted to the complete confidence of the contributors, or whether either the -prose or poetry was composed as stated. In a letter to the late <span class='sc'>Madame de -Girardin</span>, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">à propos</span></i> of her play, <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">L’École des Journalistes</span></cite>, <span class='sc'>Jules Janin</span> happily -exposes the assumption that good leading articles ever were, or ever could be, -produced over punch and broiled bones, amidst intoxication and revelry. -Equally untenable is the belief that poetical pieces, like the best of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, -were written in the common rooms of the confraternity, open to -constant intrusion, and left upon the table to be corrected or completed by the -first comer. The unity of design discernible in each, the glowing harmony of -the thoughts and images, and the exquisite finish of the versification, tell of -silent and solitary hours spent in brooding over, maturing, and polishing a -cherished conception; and young authors, still unknown to fame, are least of -all likely to sink their individuality in this fashion. We suspect that their -main object in going to <span class='sc'>Wright’s</span> was to correct their proofs and see one -another’s articles in the more finished state. Their meetings, if for these -purposes, would be most regular on Sundays, because the paper appeared -every Monday morning. The extent to which they aided one another may be -collected from a well-authenticated anecdote. When <span class='sc'>Frere</span> had completed -the first part of <cite>The Loves of the Triangles</cite>, he exultingly read over the following -lines to <span class='sc'>Canning</span>, and defied him to improve upon them:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘Lo, where the chimney’s sooty tube ascends,</div> - <div class='line'>The fair <span class='sc'>Trochais</span> from the corner bends!</div> - <div class='line'>Her coal-black eyes upturned, incessant mark</div> - <div class='line'>The eddying smoke, quick flame, and volant spark;</div> - <div class='line'>Mark with quick ken, where flashing in between,</div> - <div class='line'>Her much-loved <em>Smoke-Jack</em> glimmers through the scene;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_xxv'>xxv</span>Mark, how his various parts together tend,</div> - <div class='line'>Point to one purpose,—in one object end;</div> - <div class='line'>The spiral grooves in smooth meanders flow,</div> - <div class='line'>Drags the long chain, the polished axles glow,</div> - <div class='line'>While slowly circumvolves the piece of beef below:’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>“<span class='sc'>Canning</span> took the pen and added—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘The conscious fire with bickering radiance burns,</div> - <div class='line'>Eyes the rich joint, and roasts it as it turns’.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>“These two lines are now blended with the original text, and constitute, we -are informed on the best authority, the only flaw in <span class='sc'>Frere’s</span> title to the sole -authorship of the First Part. The Second and Third Parts were by <span class='sc'>Canning</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“By the kindness of [the late] <span class='sc'>Lord Hatherton</span>, we have now before us a -bound volume containing all the numbers of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> as they originally -appeared, eight pages quarto, with double columns, price sixpence. On the -fly-leaf is inscribed: ‘This copy belonged to the Marquess Wellesley, and was -purchased at the sale of his library after his death, January, 1842. H.’ On -the cover is pasted an engraved label of the arms and name of a former -proprietor, <span class='sc'>Charles William Flint</span>, with the pencilled addition of ‘Confidential -Amanuensis’. In this copy <span class='sc'>Canning’s</span> name is subscribed to (amongst -others) the following pieces, which are also assigned to him (along with a large -share in the most popular of the rest) by the most trustworthy rumours and -traditions:—<em>Inscription for the Door of the Cell in Newgate where Mrs. Brownrigg, -the Prenticide, was confined previous to her execution; The Friend of Humanity and -the Knife-Grinder</em>; the lines addressed <cite>To the Author of the Epistle to the Editors -of The Anti-Jacobin</cite>; <cite>The Progress of Man</cite> (all three parts); and <cite>New Morality</cite>.<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c024'><sup>[1]</sup></a></p> - -<p class='c007'>“With the single exception of <cite>The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder</cite>, -no piece in the collection is more freshly remembered than the <cite>Inscription for -the Cell of Mrs. Brownrigg</cite>, who</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘Whipp’d two female ’prentices to death,</div> - <div class='line'>And hid them in the coal-hole’.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>“The Answer to <cite>The Author of the Epistle to the Editors of The Anti-Jacobin</cite> is less -known, and it derives a fresh interest from the fact, recently [<em>c.</em> 1854] made -public, that <cite>The Epistle</cite> (which appeared in <cite>The Morning Chronicle</cite> of January -17, 1798) was the composition of <span class='sc'>William Lord Melbourne</span>. The beginning -shows that the veil of incognito had been already penetrated.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘Whoe’er ye are, all hail!—whether the skill</div> - <div class='line'>Of youthful <span class='sc'>Canning</span> guides the ranc’rous quill;</div> - <div class='line'>With powers mechanic far above his age,</div> - <div class='line'>Adapts the paragraph and fills the page;</div> - <div class='line'>Measures the column, mends whate’er’s amiss,</div> - <div class='line'>Rejects <span class='fss'>THAT</span> letter, and accepts of <span class='fss'>THIS</span>;</div> - <div class='line'>Or <span class='sc'>Hammond</span>, leaving his official toil,</div> - <div class='line'>O’er this great work consume the midnight oil—</div> - <div class='line'>Bills, passports, letters, for the Muses quit,</div> - <div class='line'>And change dull business for amusing wit.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>“After referring to ‘the poetic sage, who sung of Gallia in a headlong rage,’ -<cite>The Epistle</cite> proceeds:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘I swear by all the youths that <span class='sc'>Malmesbury</span> chose,<a id='r2' /><a href='#f2' class='c024'><sup>[2]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>By <span class='sc'>Ellis’</span> sapient prominence of nose—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_xxvi'>xxvi</span>By <span class='sc'>Morpeth’s</span> gait, important, proud and big—</div> - <div class='line'><em>By Leveson Gower’s crop-imitating wig</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>That, could the pow’rs which in those numbers shine,</div> - <div class='line'>Could that warm spirit animate my line,</div> - <div class='line'>Your glorious deeds which humbly I rehearse—</div> - <div class='line'>Your deeds should live immortal as my verse;</div> - <div class='line'>And, while they wonder’d whence I caught my flame,</div> - <div class='line'>Your sons should blush to read their fathers’ shame’.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>“Happily the eminent and accomplished sons of these fathers will smile, -rather than blush, at this allusion to their sires, and smile the more when they -remember from which side the attack proceeded. It is clear from the Answer, -that, whilst the band were not a little ruffled, they had not the remotest suspicion -that their assailant was a youth in his nineteenth year. Amongst other prefatory -remarks they say:—</p> - -<p class='c007'>“‘We assure the author of the epistle, that the answer which we have here -the honour to address to him, contains our genuine and undisguised sentiments -upon the merits of the poem.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“‘Our conjectures respecting the authors and abettors of this performance -may possibly be as vague and unfounded as theirs are with regard to the -<span class='sc'>Editors</span> of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>. We are sorry that we cannot satisfy their -curiosity upon this subject—but we have little anxiety for the gratification of -our own.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“‘It is only necessary to add, what is most conscientiously the truth, that this -production, such as it is, is <em>by far the best</em> of all the attacks that the combined -wits of the cause have been able to muster against <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>.’</p> - -<p class='c007'>“The Answer opens thus:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘<span class='sc'>Bard</span> of the borrow’d lyre! to whom belong</div> - <div class='line'>The shreds and remnants of each hackney’d song;</div> - <div class='line'>Whose verse thy friends in vain for wit explore,</div> - <div class='line'>And count but <em>one good line</em>, in eighty-four!</div> - <div class='line'>Whoe’er thou art, all hail! Thy bitter smile</div> - <div class='line'>Gilds our dull page, and cheers our humble toil!’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>“The ‘one good line’ was ‘By Leveson Gower’s crop-imitating wig,’ but the -Epistle contains many equally good and some better. The speculations as to -its authorship afforded no slight amusement to the writer and his friends....</p> - -<p class='c007'>“<cite>New Morality</cite> is commonly regarded as the master-piece of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>; -and, with the exception of a few lines, the whole of it is by <span class='sc'>Canning</span>. It appeared -in the last number, and he is said to have concentrated all his energies -for a parting blow. The reader who comes fresh from <span class='sc'>Dryden</span> or <span class='sc'>Pope</span>, or even -<span class='sc'>Churchill</span>, will be disappointed on finding far less variety of images, sparkling -antithesis, or condensed brilliancy of expression. The author exhibits abundant -humour and eloquence, but comparatively little wit; <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i>, if there be any truth -in <span class='sc'>Sydney Smith’s</span> doctrine ‘that the feeling of wit is occasioned by those -relations of ideas which excite surprise, and surprise <em>alone</em>’. We are commonly -prepared for what is coming, and our admiration is excited rather by the justness -of the observations, the elevation of the thoughts, and the vigour of the -style, than by a startling succession of flashes of fancy. If, as we believe, the -same might be said of <span class='sc'>Juvenal</span>, and the best of his English imitators, <span class='sc'>Johnson</span>, -we leave ample scope for praise; and <cite>New Morality</cite> contains passages which have -been preserved to our time and bid fair to reach posterity. How often are the -lines on <em>Candour</em> quoted in entire ignorance or forgetfulness of their author....</p> - -<p class='c007'>“The drama of <cite>The Rovers</cite>, or <cite>Double Arrangement</cite>, was written to ridicule the -German Drama, then hardly known in this country, except through the medium -of bad translations of some of the least meritorious of <span class='sc'>Schiller’s</span>, <span class='sc'>Goethe’s</span>, -and <span class='sc'>Kotzebue’s</span> productions. The parody is now principally remembered by -Rogero’s song, of which, Mr. Edmonds states, the first five stanzas were by -<span class='sc'>Canning</span>. “Having been accidentally seen, previously to its publication, by -<span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, he was so amused with it that he took a pen and composed the last stanza -on the spot....”</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_xxvii'>xxvii</span>“<span class='sc'>Canning’s</span> reputed share in <cite>The Rovers</cite> excited the unreasoning indignation, -and provoked the exaggerated censure, of a man who has obtained a world-wide -reputation by his historical researches, most especially by his skill in separating -the true from the fabulous, and in filling up chasms in national annals by a process -near akin to that by which <span class='sc'>Cuvier</span> inferred the entire form and structure -of an extinct species from a bone. The following passage is taken from -<span class='sc'>Niebuhr’s</span> <cite>History of the Period of the Revolution</cite> (published from his Lectures, in -two volumes, in 1845):—</p> - -<p class='c007'>“‘<span class='sc'>Canning</span> was at that time (1807) at the head of foreign affairs in England. -History will not form the same judgment of him as that formed by contemporaries. -He had great talents, but was not a great Statesman; he was one of -those persons who distinguish themselves as the squires of political heroes. -He was highly accomplished in the two classical languages, but without being -a learned scholar. He was especially conversant with Greek writers. He had -likewise poetical talent, but only for Satire. At first he had joined the leaders -of opposition against <span class='sc'>Pitt’s</span> ministry: <span class='sc'>Lord Grey</span>, who perceived his ambition, -advised him, half in joke, to join the ministers, as he would make his fortune. -He did so, and was employed to write articles for the newspapers and satirical -verses, which were often directed against his former benefactors.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“‘Through the influence of the ministers he came into Parliament. So long -as the great eloquence of former times lasted, and the great men were alive, his -talent was admired; but older persons had no great pleasure in his petulant, -epigrammatic eloquence and his jokes, which were often in bad taste. He -joined the Society of the Anti-Jacobins, which defended everything connected -with existing institutions. This society published a journal, in which the most -honoured names of foreign countries were attacked in the most scandalous -manner. German literature was at that time little known in England, and it -was associated there with the ideas of Jacobinism and revolution. <span class='sc'>Canning</span> -then published in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> the most shameful pasquinade which was -ever written against Germany, under the title of <em>Matilda Pottingen</em>. Göttingen -is described in it as the sink of all infamy; professors and students as a gang of -miscreants; licentiousness, incest, and atheism as the character of the German -people. Such was <span class='sc'>Canning’s</span> beginning: he was at all events useful, a sort of -political Cossack’ (<cite><span lang="de" xml:lang="de">Geschichte des Zeitalters der Revolution</span></cite>, vol. ii., p. 242).</p> - -<p class='c007'>“‘Here am I,’ exclaimed <span class='sc'>Raleigh</span>, after vainly trying to get at the rights of -a squabble in the courtyard of the Tower, ‘employed in writing a true history -of the world, when I cannot ascertain the truth of what happens under my -own window.’ Here is the great restorer of Roman history—who, by the way, -prided himself on his knowledge of England—hurried into the strangest -misconception of contemporary events and personages, and giving vent to a series -of depreciatory misstatements, without pausing to verify the assumed groundwork -of his patriotic wrath. His description of ‘the most shameful pasquinade,’ -and his ignorance of the very title, prove that he had never seen it. If he had, -he would also have known that the scene is laid at Weimar, not at Göttingen, -and that the satire is almost exclusively directed against a portion of the -dramatic literature of his country, which all rational admirers must admit to be -indefensible. The scene in <cite>The Rovers</cite>, in which the rival heroines, meeting for -the first time at an inn, swear eternal friendship and embrace, is positively a -feeble reflection of a scene in <span class='sc'>Goethe’s</span> <em>Stella</em>; and no anachronism can exceed -that in <span class='sc'>Schiller’s</span> <cite>Cabal und Liebe</cite>, when Lady Milford, after declaring herself -the daughter of the Duke of Norfolk who rebelled against Queen Elizabeth, is -horrified on finding that the jewels sent her by the Grand Duke have been -purchased by the sale of 7000 of his subjects to be employed in the American -war.<a id='r3' /><a href='#f3' class='c024'><sup>[3]</sup></a></p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_xxviii'>xxviii</span>“Amongst the prose contributions to <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, there is one in which, -independently of direct evidence, the peculiar humour of <span class='sc'>Canning</span> is discernible,—the -pretended report of the meeting of the Friends of Freedom at the Crown -and Anchor Tavern.<a id='r4' /><a href='#f4' class='c024'><sup>[4]</sup></a> The plan was evidently suggested by <span class='sc'>Tickell’s</span> <cite>Anticipation</cite>, -in which the debate on the Address at the opening of the Session was -reported beforehand with such surprising foresight, that some of the speakers, -who were thus forestalled, declined to deliver their meditated orations.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“At the meeting of the Friends of Freedom, <span class='sc'>Erskine</span>, whose habitual -egotism could hardly be caricatured, is made to perorate as follows, &c.... -A long speech is given to <span class='sc'>Mackintosh</span>, who, under the name of <em>Macfungus</em>, -after a fervid sketch of the Temple of Freedom which he proposes to construct -on the ruins of ancient establishments, proceeds with kindling animation, -&c....<a id='r5' /><a href='#f5' class='c024'><sup>[5]</sup></a></p> - -<p class='c007'>“The wit and fun of these imitations are undeniable, and their injustice is -equally so. <span class='sc'>Erskine</span>, with all his egotism, was, and remains, the greatest of -English advocates. He stemmed and turned the tide which threatened to -sweep away the most valued of our free institutions in 1794; and (we say -with <span class='sc'>Lord Brougham</span>) ‘Before such a precious service as this, well may the -lustre of statesmen and orators grow pale’. <span class='sc'>Mackintosh</span> was pre-eminently -distinguished by the comprehensiveness and moderation of his views; nor could -any man be less disposed by temper, habits, or pursuits towards revolutionary -courses. His lectures on <cite>The Law of Nature and Nations</cite> were especially directed -against the new morality in general, and <span class='sc'>Godwin’s</span> <cite>Political Justice</cite> in particular.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“At a long subsequent period (1807) <span class='sc'>Canning</span>, when attacked in Parliament -for his share in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, declared that ‘he felt no shame for its -character or principles, nor any other sorrow for the share he had had in it -than that which the imperfection of his pieces was calculated to inspire’. Still, -it is one of the inevitable inconveniences of a connection with the Press that -the best known writers should be made answerable for the errors of their -associates; and the license of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> gave serious and well-founded -offence to many who shared its opinions and wished well to its professed object. -In <span class='sc'>Wilberforce’s</span> <cite>Diary</cite> for May 18, 1799, we find ‘<span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, <span class='sc'>Canning</span>, and <span class='sc'>Pepper -Arden</span> came in late to dinner. I attacked <span class='sc'>Canning</span> on indecency of <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>.’ -<span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>, in his <cite><span lang="es" xml:lang="es">Biographia Literaria</span></cite>, complains bitterly of the -calumnious accounts given by <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> of his early life, and asks with -reason, ‘Is it surprising that many good men remained longer than perhaps -they otherwise would have done adverse to a party which encouraged and -openly rewarded the authors of such atrocious calumnies?’</p> - -<p class='c007'>“Mr. Edmonds says that <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> got frightened, and that the publication was -discontinued at the suggestion of the Prime Minister. It is not unlikely that -<span class='sc'>Canning</span>, now a member of the House of Commons and Under-Secretary of -State for Foreign Affairs, found his connection with it embarrassing, as his -hopes rose and his political prospects expanded. Indeed, it may be questioned -whether a Parliamentary career can ever be united with that of the daily or -weekly journalist without compromising one or both. At all events, the -original <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite> closed with the number containing <cite>New Morality</cite>, and -<span class='sc'>Canning</span> had nothing to do with the <em>monthly review</em> started under the same -name.”</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_xxix'>xxix</span> - <h2 class='c005'>THE <cite>ANTI-JACOBIN</cite> AS AN AID TO GOVERNMENT.</h2> -</div> - -<p class='c025'>[Considering <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> from a national as well as a literary point of -view, we cannot do better than use a portion of an Essay on English Political -Satires by the late <span class='sc'>Jas. Hannay</span>, in the <cite>Quarterly Review</cite>, April, 1857.]</p> - -<p class='c006'>“... In the case of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, what are we to say? A hundred -opinions may be adopted respecting the French Revolution. Some hate it with -unmitigated hatred. Some regret it, but accept its consequences as beneficial -to mankind on the whole. Some cherish its memory as a new political revelation -of which they hope to see still further results. But a candid man of any -of these persuasions must remember that the aim of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> was to -keep <em>Britain</em> from revolution during 1797–8. It was therefore necessary to fight -as our soldiers afterwards did in Spain—to wage such a <em>literary</em> war as suited -the agitated spirit of Europe. While we blame <span class='sc'>Canning</span>, therefore, for speaking -as he did of <span class='sc'>Madame Roland</span>, we must not forget the indecorum of her -Memoirs, or that it was from persons of her party that vile aspersions were cast -upon the character of <span class='sc'>Marie Antoinette</span>. There were men quite ready to -begin the same work over here that had been done in France, and that in a -spirit of vulgar imitation, and under quite different circumstances. They had -to be shot down like mad dogs; for a cur, though contemptible in ordinary -cases, becomes tragic when he has hydrophobia.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“For <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> must be claimed an honour which can be claimed for -scarce one of the works we have passed under review. Let us waive the -question how much we may have owed it for helping to inspire that unity and -stout insular self-confidence which carried us through the great war,—whole -within and impervious without. Let us consider it only in a literary point of -view, and we shall find it enjoying the rare distinction that its best Satires live -in real popular remembrance. The <cite>Knife-Grinder</cite>, with his</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘<em>Story! God bless you, I have none to tell, sir</em>,’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>is almost as widely known as our nursery rhymes.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“But if <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> excels all similar works in popularity, and in the -eminence of its contributors, it also excels them in another important particular. -It contains on the whole a greater number of really good things than any one -of them. The <em>Loves of the Triangles</em>, in which,</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘Th’ obedient Pulley strong Mechanics ply,</div> - <div class='line'>And wanton Optics roll the melting eye!’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>is an irresistible parody, and likely to keep the original of Darwin [<cite>Loves of the -Plants</cite>] in remembrance. Gray’s Odes have survived the burlesques of Colman; -and the <cite>Country and City Mouse</cite> of Prior and Montague is neglected by nine-tenths -of those who read with admiration the <cite>Hind and the Panther</cite>. But -Darwin’s case is peculiar. Other poems live in spite of ridicule; and his <cite>Loves -of the Plants</cite> in consequence of it. The Attic salt of his enemies has preserved -his reputation.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“There is always a purpose in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin’s</cite> view something more -important than the mere persiflage that teases individuals. Like the blade of -Damascus, which has a verse of the Koran engraved on it, its fine wit glitters -terribly in the cause of sacred tradition.”</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_xxxi'>xxxi</span> - <h2 class='c005'>DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.</h2> -</div> - -<table class='table2' summary='DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES'> - <tr> - <td class='c026' colspan='2'>THE GIANT FACTOTUM AMUSING HIMSELF.</td> - <td class='c027'>(<span class='sc'><a href='#Frontispiece'>Frontispiece.</a></span>)</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026'> </td> - <td class='c028'><span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, with his right hand is playing at cup and ball; the latter being a globe to denote his influence over foreign countries as well as at home. His right foot is supported by <span class='sc'>Dundas</span> and <span class='sc'>Wilberforce</span>, and is extended to be submissively kissed by his ministerial followers, foremost of whom is <span class='sc'>Canning</span>. With his left foot he has crushed the Opposition. On the same side is a document labelled “Resources for supporting the War,” with a collection of coin, evidently destined for foreign subsidies. On his right side are various official returns of volunteers, seamen, regulars, and militia. He is thus prepared to carry on the war abroad, and maintain tranquillity at home.</td> - <td class='c027'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026' colspan='2'>THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER.</td> - <td class='c027'>Page <a href='#t23'>23</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026'> </td> - <td class='c028'>Scene, the Borough of Southwark, with a portrait of <span class='sc'>George Tierney</span>, its able and radical representative. Published Dec. 4, 1797, as a graphic illustration of the Parody of Southey’s poem, <cite>The Widow</cite>.</td> - <td class='c027'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026' colspan='2'>LORD LONGBOW, THE ALARMIST, DISCOVERING THE MISERIES OF IRELAND.</td> - <td class='c027'>Page <a href='#t78'>78</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026'> </td> - <td class='c028'>A characteristic portrait of the gallant and excellent <span class='sc'>Earl of Moira</span>, afterwards <span class='sc'>Marquis of Hastings</span>, and Governor-General of India. The engraving is in ridicule of his complaint, in the House of Lords, of the cruelties exercised by the Government troops on the Irish Rebels. In the distance is seen Moll Coggin, an Irish witch, mounted on a black Ram with a blue tail, and on the hill an Oak-boy, carrying an uprooted oak, on the branches of which are numerous swans—in allusion to the unfounded nature of his charges.</td> - <td class='c027'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026' colspan='2'>THE LOYAL TOAST.</td> - <td class='c027'>Page <a href='#t94'>94</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026'> </td> - <td class='c028'>Representing the <span class='sc'>Duke of Norfolk</span> giving at a dinner at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in honour of the birth-day of <span class='sc'>Fox</span> his famous toast, “Our Sovereign’s Health—The Majesty of the People”. On the left is <span class='sc'>John Nicholls</span>, Member for Tregony; next to him is the <span class='sc'>Duke of Bedford</span>; on the other side of the table are <span class='sc'>Sheridan</span> and <span class='sc'>Fox</span>.</td> - <td class='c027'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026' colspan='2'>DESIGN FOR THE NEW GALLERY OF BUSTS AND PICTURES.</td> - <td class='c027'>Page <a href='#t99'>99</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026'> </td> - <td class='c028'>The statue of <span class='sc'>Fox</span> was placed between those of Demosthenes and Cicero, by the <span class='sc'>Empress Catherine of Russia</span>, as a compliment to him for having successfully opposed the sending of the armament prepared by <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, in conjunction with Prussia and Holland, to compel her to give up Ockzakow which she had seized. As this caricature, including the verses, was originally published in March, 1793, the latter in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> must have been suggested by them.</td> - <td class='c027'> </td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026' colspan='2'>THE REPUBLICAN RATTLESNAKE FASCINATING THE BEDFORD SQUIRREL.</td> - <td class='c027'>Page <a href='#t285'>285</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c026'> </td> - <td class='c028'>In allusion to the influence exercised by <span class='sc'>Fox</span> over <span class='sc'>Francis</span>, fifth <span class='sc'>Duke of Bedford</span>, who had become one of the most zealous of the popular party.</td> - <td class='c027'> </td> - </tr> -</table> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_1'>1</span> - <h2 class='c005'><span class='large'>PROSPECTUS</span><br /> <span class='small'>OF</span><br /> THE ANTI-JACOBIN;<br /> <span class='small'>OR,</span><br /> <span class='large'>WEEKLY EXAMINER,</span></h2> -</div> - -<div class='boxtop c029'> - -<p class='c006'>The <span class='sc'>First Number</span> of which will be published on <span class='sc'>Monday</span>, -the 20th of <span class='sc'>November</span>, 1797, to be continued every Monday -during the sitting of Parliament. Price 6d.</p> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>——<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Possit quid vivida virtus</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Experiare, licet: nec longe scilicet hostes</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Quærendi.</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>At a moment, when whatever may be the habits of -inquiry and the anxiety for information upon subjects -of public concern diffused among all ranks of people, the -vehicles of intelligence are already multiplied in a proportion -nearly equal to this encreased demand, and to -the encreased importance and variety of matter, some -apology may perhaps be necessary for the obtrusion of a -new Paper upon the World; and some account may -reasonably be expected of the views and principles on -which it founds its pretensions to notice, before it can -hope to make its way through the crowd of competitors -which have gotten the start of it in the race for public -favour.</p> - -<p class='c009'>[As this <cite>Prospectus</cite> was written by <span class='sc'>Mr. Canning</span>, and it has been prefixed -only to the former edition of the <cite>Poetry</cite> by the present Editor, it is again considered -an interesting addition to the present one.]</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_2'>2</span>The grounds upon which such pretensions have -usually been rested by those who have engaged in -undertakings of this kind, are accuracy, variety, and -priority of Intelligence, connections at home, correspondence -abroad, and, above all, a profession of -impartial and unprejudiced attention to all opinions, -and to all parties and descriptions of men.</p> - -<p class='c007'>On none of these Topicks is it Our intention to enlarge.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Of Our means of information, and of the use which -We make of them, our readers will, after a very short -trial, be enabled to form their own opinion. And to -that trial We confidently commit ourselves: professing, -however, at the same time, that if the only advantage -which We were desirous of holding out to our Readers, -were that of having it in our power to apprize them an -hour or a day sooner than those Journals, which are -already in their hands, of any event however important—We -should bring to the undertaking much less anxiety -for success, and should state our claims on public attention -with much less boldness, than We are disposed to -do in the consciousness of higher purposes, and more -beneficial views.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Novelty indeed We have to announce. For what so -new in the present state of the daily and weekly <span class='sc'>Press</span> -(We speak generally, though there are undoubtedly -exceptions which we may have occasion to point out -hereafter) as <span class='sc'>the Truth</span>? To this object alone it is -that Our labours are dedicated. It is the constant violation, -the disguise, the perversion of the Truth, whether -in narrative or in argument, that will form the principal -subject of our <span class='sc'>Weekly Examination</span>: and it is by a -diligent and faithful discharge of this duty—by detecting -<span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>falsehood, and rectifying error, by correcting misrepresentation, -and exposing and chastising malignity—that We -hope to deserve the reception which We solicit, and to -obtain not only the approbation of the Country to our -attempt, but its thanks for the motives which have given -birth to it.</p> - -<p class='c007'>These are strong words. But We are conscious of -intending in earnest what they profess. How far the -execution of our purpose may correspond with the design, -it is for others to determine. It is ours to state that -design fairly, and in the spirit in which we conceive it.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Of the utility of such a purpose, if even tolerably -executed, there can be little doubt, among those persons -(a very large part of the community) who must have -found themselves, during the course of the last few years, -perplexed by the multiplicity of contradictory accounts of -almost every material event that has occurred in that -eventful and tremendous period; and who must anxiously -have wished for some public channel of information on -which they could confidently rely for forming their -opinion.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But before We can expect sufficient credit from persons -of this description, to enable us to supply such a defect, -and to assume an office so important, it is natural that -they should require some profession of our principles as -well as of our purposes; in order that they may judge -not only of our ability to communicate the information -which We promise, but of our intention to inform them -aright.</p> - -<p class='c007'>To that freedom from <em>partiality</em> and <em>prejudice</em>, of which -We have spoken above, by the profession of which so -many of our Contemporaries recommend themselves, We -<span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>make little pretension—at least in the sense in which -those terms appear now too often to be used.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We have not arrived (to our shame perhaps we avow -it) at that wild and unshackled freedom of thought, -which rejects all habit, all wisdom of former times, all -restraints of ancient usage, and of local attachment; -and which judges upon each subject, whether of politicks -or morals, as it arises, by lights entirely its own, without -reference to recognized principle, or established practice.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We confess, whatever disgrace may attend such a confession, -that We have not so far gotten the better of the -influence of long habits and early education, not so far -imbibed that spirit of liberal indifference, of diffused and -comprehensive philanthropy, which distinguishes the -candid character of the present age, but that We have -our feelings, our preferences, and our affections, attaching -on particular places, manners, and institutions, and -even on particular portions of the human race.</p> - -<p class='c007'>It may be thought a narrow and illiberal distinction—but -We avow ourselves to be <em>partial</em> to the <span class='sc'>Country</span> <em>in -which we live</em>, notwithstanding the daily panegyricks -which we read and hear on the superior virtues and -endowments of its rival and hostile neighbours. We are -<em>prejudiced</em> in favour of <em>her</em> Establishments, civil and -religious; though without claiming for either that ideal -perfection, which modern philosophy professes to discover -in the other more luminous systems which are arising -on all sides of us.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The safety and prosperity of <em>these kingdoms</em>, however -unimportant they may seem in abstract contemplation -when compared with the more extensive, more beautiful, -and more productive parts of the world, do yet excite in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span>our minds a peculiar interest and anxiety; and will probably -continue to occupy a share of our attention by no -means justified by the proportional consequence which -speculative reasoners may think proper to assign to them -in the scale of the universe.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We should be averse to hazarding the smallest part of -the practical happiness of <em>this Country</em>; though the -sacrifice should be recommended as necessary for accomplishing -throughout the world an uniform and beautiful -system of theoretical liberty: and We should at all times -exert our best endeavours for upholding its constitution, -even with all the human imperfections which may belong -to it, though We were assured that on its ruins might be -erected the only pillar that is yet wanting to complete -the “<em>most glorious fabrick which the Integrity and Wisdom -of man have raised since the Creation</em>”.</p> - -<p class='c007'>If, as Philosopher <span class='sc'>Monge</span><a id='r6' /><a href='#f6' class='c024'><sup>[6]</sup></a> avers, in his eloquent and -instructive address to the Directory, “<cite>The Government -of England and the French Republick cannot exist together</cite>,” -We do not hesitate in our choice; though well aware -that in that choice we may be much liable, in the opinion -of many critics of the present day, to the imputation of a -want of candour or of discernment.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>Admirers of military heroism, and dazzled by military -success in common with other men, We are yet even <em>here</em> -conscious of some qualification and distinction in our -feelings: We acknowledge ourselves apt to look with -more complacency on bravery and skill, when displayed -in the service of our Country, than when We see them -directed against its interests or its safety; and, however -equal the claims to admiration in either case may be, We -feel our hearts grow warmer at the recital of what has -been atchieved by <span class='sc'>Howe</span>, by <span class='sc'>Jervis</span>, or by <span class='sc'>Duncan</span>, than -at the “<em>glorious victory of Jemappe</em>,” or “<em>the immortal -battle of the bridge of Lodi</em>”.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In <span class='sc'>Morals</span> We are equally old-fashioned. We have -not yet learned the modern refinement of referring in all -considerations upon human conduct, not to any settled -and preconceived principles of right and wrong, not to -any general and fundamental rules which experience, and -wisdom, and justice, and the common consent of mankind -have established, but to the internal admonitions of -every man’s judgment or conscience in his own particular -instance.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We do not dissemble,—that We reverence <span class='sc'>Law</span>,—We -acknowledge <span class='sc'>Usage</span>,—We look even upon <span class='sc'>Prescription</span> -without hatred or horror. And we do not think these, -or any of them, less safe guides for the moral actions of -men, than that new and liberal system of <span class='sc'>Ethics</span>, whose -operation is not to bind but to loosen the bands of social -order; whose doctrine is formed not on a system of reciprocal -duties, but on the supposition of individual, independent, -and unconnected rights; which teaches that all -men are pretty equally honest, but that some have -different notions of honesty from others, and that the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>most received notions are for the greater part the most -faulty.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We do not subscribe to the opinion, that a sincere conviction -of the truth of no matter what principle, is a sufficient -defence for no matter what action; and that the -only business of moral enquiry with human conduct is to -ascertain that in each case the principle and the action -agree. We have not yet persuaded ourselves to think it -a sound, or a safe doctrine, that every man who can -divest himself of a moral sense in theory, has a right to -be with impunity and without disguise a scoundrel in -practice. It is not in our creed, that <span class='sc'>Atheism</span> is -as good a faith as <span class='sc'>Christianity</span>, provided it be professed -with equal sincerity; nor could We admit it -as an excuse for <span class='sc'>Murder</span>, that the murderer was in -his own mind conscientiously persuaded that the -murdered might for many good reasons be better out -of the way.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Of all these and the like principles, in one word, of -JACOBINISM in all its shapes, and in all its degrees, -political and moral, public and private, whether as it -openly threatens the subversion of States, or gradually -saps the foundations of domestic happiness, We are the -avowed, determined, and irreconcileable enemies. We -have no desire to divest ourselves of these inveterate -prejudices; but shall remain stubborn and incorrigible in -resisting every attempt which may be made either by -argument or (what is more in the charitable spirit of -modern reformers) by force, to convert us to a different -opinion.</p> - -<p class='c006'>It remains only to speak of the details of our <span class='sc'>Plan</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>It is our intention to publish Weekly, during the Session -of Parliament, a Paper, containing,</p> - -<p class='c007'>First, An Abstract of the important events of the -week, both at home and abroad.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Secondly, Such Reflections as may naturally arise -out of them: and,</p> - -<p class='c007'>Thirdly, A contradiction and confutation of the falsehoods -and misrepresentations concerning these events, -their causes, and their consequences, which may be found -in the Papers devoted to the cause of <span class='sc'>Sedition</span> and -<span class='sc'>Irreligion</span>, to the pay or principles of <span class='sc'>France</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>This last, as it is by far the most important, will in all -probability be the most copious of the three heads; and -is that to which, above all others, We wish to direct the -attention of our Readers.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We propose diligently to collect, as far as the range of -our own daily reading will enable us, and We promise -willingly to receive, from whatever quarter they may -come, the several articles of this kind which require to -be thus contradicted or confuted; which will naturally -divide themselves into different classes, according to their -different degrees of stupidity or malignity.</p> - -<p class='c007'>There are, for instance (to begin with those of the -highest order), the <span class='sc'>Lies</span> of the Week; the downright, -direct, unblushing falsehoods, which have no colour or -foundation whatever, and which must at the very moment -of their being written, have been known to the writer to -be wholly destitute of truth.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Next in rank come <span class='sc'>Misrepresentations</span> which, -taking for their groundwork facts in substance true, do -so colour and distort them in description, as to take away -all semblance of their real nature and character.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>Lastly, The most venial, though by no means the least -mischievous class, are <span class='sc'>Mistakes</span>; under which description -are included all those Hints, Conjectures, and Apprehensions, -those Anticipations of Sorrow and Deprecations -of Calamity, in which Writers who labour under -too great an anxiety for the Public Welfare are apt to -indulge; and which, when falsified by the event, they are -generally too much occupied to find leisure to retract or -disavow:—A trouble which We shall have great pleasure -in taking off these Gentlemen’s hands.</p> - -<p class='c007'>To each of these several articles We shall carefully -affix the name and date of the Publication from which -We may take the liberty of borrowing it.</p> - -<p class='c006'>With regard to the <span class='sc'>Proceedings in Parliament</span>, -We shall not fail to mark to Our Readers the progress of -the public business; though it does not enter into our -Plan to give a regular detail of the Debates: nor would -the limits of our Paper allow of it.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We have a further reason for not occupying this province, -which will equally account for our determination, -not to receive Advertisements—our earnest desire not to -lessen the circulation of any existing Public Print.</p> - -<p class='c007'>It is obvious upon every ground of fairness and of -policy, that We must entertain this desire very strongly -with regard to the respectable Papers which are directed -by principles and attachments like our own: an attachment -(We have no wish to disguise it) to the cause of a -<span class='sc'>Government</span>, with whose support, whose popularity and -consequent means of exertion, the circumstances of the -present times have essentially connected the existence of -<span class='sc'>this Country</span> as an independent Nation.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>As little should we wish to circumscribe the sale of -those <span class='sc'>Journals</span>, upon whose errors or perverseness, upon -whose false statements and pernicious doctrines We -reckon for the main support, as they have been the -principal cause of our undertaking. These We would -entreat to proceed with fresh vigour and increased -activity. It is our wish to be seen together, and to be -compared with them. Every week of misrepresentation -will be followed by its weekly comment; and with this -corrective faithfully administered, the longest course of -<span class='sc'>Morning Chronicles</span> or <span class='sc'>Morning Posts</span>, of <span class='sc'>Stars</span> or -<span class='sc'>Couriers</span>, may become not only innocent but beneficial.</p> - -<p class='c007'>With these views then We commence our undertaking. -Whatever may be the success or the merit of its execution -in our hands, the want of something like it has so long been -felt and deplored by all thinking and honest men, that -We cannot doubt of the approbation and encouragement -with which the attempt will be received.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We claim the support, and We invite the assistance, -of <span class='fss'>ALL</span>, who think with US that the circumstances and -character of the age in which We live require every exertion -of every man, who loves his <span class='fss'>COUNTRY</span> in the old way, -in which till of late years the <span class='fss'>LOVE</span> of one’s <span class='fss'>COUNTRY</span> was -professed by most men, and by none disclaimed or -reviled; of <span class='fss'>ALL</span> who think that the <span class='sc'>Press</span> has been long -enough employed principally as an engine of destruction, -and who wish to see the experiment fairly tried whether -that engine, by which many of the States which surround -us have been overthrown, and others shaken to their -foundations, may not be turned into an instrument of -defence for the one remaining <span class='sc'>Country</span> which has <span class='sc'>Establishments</span> -to protect, and a <span class='sc'>Government</span> with the spirit, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>and the power, and the wisdom to protect them; of <span class='fss'>ALL</span> -who look with respect to public honour, and with attachment -to the decencies of private life; of <span class='fss'>ALL</span> who have so -little deference for the arrogant intolerance of <span class='sc'>Jacobinism</span> -as still to contemplate the <span class='fss'>OFFICE</span> and the <span class='fss'>PERSON</span> of a -<span class='sc'>King</span> with veneration, and to speak reverently of <span class='sc'>Religion</span>, -without apologizing for the singularity of their -opinions; of <span class='fss'>ALL</span> who think the blessings which we enjoy -valuable, and who think them in danger; and who, while -they detest and despise the principles and the professors -of that <span class='fss'>NEW FAITH</span> by which the foundations of all those -blessings are threatened to be undermined, lament the -lukewarmness with which its propagation has hitherto -been resisted, and are anxious, while there is yet time, -to make every effort in the cause of their <span class='fss'>COUNTRY</span>.</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> -<p class='c009'>Published by <span class='sc'>J. Wright</span>, No. 169, opposite Old Bond Street, Piccadilly: by -whom Orders for the Papers, and all Communications of Correspondents, -addressed to the Editor of the <span class='sc'>Anti-Jacobin</span>, or <span class='sc'>Weekly Examiner</span>, will be -received. Sold also by all the Booksellers and Newsmen in Town and Country.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span></div> -<div class='section ph1'> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c030'> - <div><span class='xlarge'>POETRY</span></div> - <div class='c004'><span class='small'>OF</span></div> - <div class='c004'>THE ANTI-JACOBIN.</div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div> - <h2 class='c005'>No. I.</h2> -</div> -<h3 class='c031'>INTRODUCTION.</h3> - -<div class='lg-container-r c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nov. 20, 1797.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>In our anxiety to provide for the amusement as well as -information of our readers, we have not omitted to -make all the inquiries in our power for ascertaining the -means of procuring poetical assistance. And it would -give us no small satisfaction to be able to report that we -had succeeded in this point precisely in the manner which -would best have suited our own taste and feelings, as -well as those which we wish to cultivate in our readers.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But whether it be that good Morals, and what we -should call good Politics, are inconsistent with the spirit -of true Poetry—whether “<em>the Muses still with freedom -found</em>” have an aversion to <em>regular</em> governments, and -require a frame and system of protection less complicated -than king, lords, and commons:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Whether primordial <em>nonsense</em> springs to life<a id='r7' /><a href='#f7' class='c024'><sup>[7]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>In the wild war of <em>democratic</em> strife,”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>and there only—or for whatever other reason it may be, -whether physical, or moral, or philosophical (which last -<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>is understood to mean something more than the other -two, though exactly <em>what</em>, it is difficult to say), we have -not been able to find one good and true Poet, of sound -principles and sober practice, upon whom we could rely -for furnishing us with a handsome quantity of sufficient -and approved verse—such verse as our readers might be -expected to get by heart, and to sing; as the worthy -philosopher <span class='sc'>Monge</span> describes the little children of Sparta -and Athens singing the songs of Freedom, in expectation -of the coming of <em>the Great Nation</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In this difficulty we have had no choice but either to -provide no poetry at all—a shabby expedient—or to go -to the only market where it is to be had good and ready -made, that of the <em>Jacobins</em>—an expedient full of danger, -and not to be used but with the utmost caution and -delicacy.</p> - -<p class='c007'>To this latter expedient, however, after mature -deliberation, we have determined to have recourse; -qualifying it at the same time with such precautions as -may conduce at once to the safety of our readers’ -principles, and to the improvement of our own poetry.</p> - -<p class='c007'>For this double purpose, we shall select from time to -time from among those effusions of the <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Jacobin</span></i> Muse -which happen to fall in our way, such pieces as may -serve to illustrate some one of the principles on which -the poetical as well as the political doctrine of the <span class='sc'>New -School</span> is established—prefacing each of them, for our -readers’ sake, with a short disquisition on the particular -tenet intended to be enforced or insinuated in the production -before them—and accompanying it with an humble -effort of our own, in imitation of the poem itself, and in -further illustration of its principle.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>By these means, though we cannot hope to catch “<em>the -wood-notes wild</em>” of the Bards of Freedom, we may yet -acquire, by dint of repeating after them, a more complete -knowledge of the secret in which their greatness lies than -we could by mere prosaic admiration; and if we cannot -become poets ourselves, we at least shall have collected -the elements of a <em>Jacobin</em> Art of Poetry for the use of -those whose genius may be more capable of turning them -to advantage.</p> - -<p class='c007'>It might not be unamusing to trace the springs and -principles of this species of poetry, which are to be found, -some in the exaggeration, and others in the direct inversion -of the sentiments and passions which have in all -ages animated the breast of the favourite of the Muses, -and distinguished him from the “vulgar throng”.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The poet in all ages has despised riches and grandeur.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The <em>Jacobin</em> poet improves this sentiment into a hatred -of the rich and the great.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The poet of other times has been an enthusiast in the -love of his native soil.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The <em>Jacobin</em> poet rejects all restriction in his feelings. -<em>His</em> love is enlarged and expanded so as to comprehend -all human kind. The love of all human kind is without -doubt a noble passion: it can hardly be necessary to -mention that its operation extends to <em>freemen</em>, and them -only, all over the world.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The old poet was a warrior, at least in imagination; -and sung the actions of the heroes of his country in -strains which “made Ambition Virtue,” and which overwhelmed -the horrors of war in its glory.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The <em>Jacobin</em> poet would have no objection to sing -battles too—but <em>he</em> would take a distinction. The -<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>prowess of Buonaparte, indeed, he might chant in his -loftiest strain of exultation. <em>There</em> we should find nothing -but trophies and triumphs and branches of laurel -and olive, phalanxes of Republicans shouting victory, -satellites of despotism biting the ground, and geniuses of -Liberty planting standards on mountain-tops.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But let his own country triumph, or her allies obtain -an advantage: straightway the “beauteous face of war” -is changed; the “pride, pomp, and circumstance” of -victory are kept carefully out of sight, and we are -presented with nothing but contusions and amputations, -plundered peasants, and deserted looms. Our poet -points the thunder of his blank verse at the head of the -recruiting serjeant, or roars in dithyrambics against the -lieutenants of pressgangs.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But it would be endless to chase the coy Muse of -<em>Jacobinism</em> through all her characters. <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mille habet ornatus.</span></i> -The <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mille decenter habet</span></i> is perhaps more questionable. -For in whatever disguise she appears, whether of -mirth or of melancholy, of piety or of tenderness; under -all disguises, like <em>Sir John Brute</em> in woman’s clothes, she -is betrayed by her drunken swagger and ruffian tone.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In the poem which we have selected for the edification -of our readers and our own imitation this day, the -principles which are meant to be inculcated speak so -plainly for themselves, that they need no previous -introduction.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span> - <h3 class='c031'>INSCRIPTION<a id='r8' /><a href='#f8' class='c024'><sup>[8]</sup></a><br /> <span class='small'><em>For the Apartment in Chepstow Castle, where Henry Marten, the Regicide, was imprisoned thirty years.</em></span></h3> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>For thirty years secluded from mankind</div> - <div class='line'>Here <span class='sc'>Marten</span> lingered. Often have these walls</div> - <div class='line'>Echoed his footsteps, as with even tread</div> - <div class='line'>He paced around his prison: not to him</div> - <div class='line'>Did Nature’s fair varieties exist;</div> - <div class='line'>He never saw the sun’s delightful beams,</div> - <div class='line'>Save when through yon high bars he pour’d a sad</div> - <div class='line'>And broken splendour. Dost thou ask his crime?</div> - <div class='line'>He had <span class='sc'>rebell’d against the King, and sat</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>In judgment on him</span>; for his ardent mind</div> - <div class='line'>Shaped goodliest plans of happiness on earth,</div> - <div class='line'>And peace and liberty. Wild dreams! but such</div> - <div class='line'>As Plato loved; such as with holy zeal</div> - <div class='line'>Our Milton worshipp’d. Blessed hopes! awhile</div> - <div class='line'>From man withheld, even to the latter days</div> - <div class='line'>When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill’d!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 class='c031'><span class='small'>IMITATION.</span><br /> INSCRIPTION<br /> <span class='small'><em>For the Door of the Cell in Newgate, where Mrs. Brownrigg, the ’Prentice-cide, was confined previous to her Execution.</em></span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>For one long term, or e’er her trial came,</div> - <div class='line'>Here <span class='sc'>Brownrigg</span> linger’d. Often have these cells</div> - <div class='line'>Echoed her blasphemies, as with shrill voice</div> - <div class='line'>She screamed for fresh Geneva. Not to her</div> - <div class='line'>Did the blithe fields of Tothill, or thy street,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>St. Giles, its fair varieties expand;</div> - <div class='line'>Till at the last, in slow-drawn cart she went</div> - <div class='line'>To execution. Dost thou ask her crime?</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>She whipp’d two female ’prentices to death,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>And hid them in the coal-hole.</span> For her mind</div> - <div class='line'>Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes!</div> - <div class='line'>Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine</div> - <div class='line'>Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog</div> - <div class='line'>The little Spartans; such as erst chastised</div> - <div class='line'>Our Milton when at college. For this act</div> - <div class='line'>Did Brownrigg swing. Harsh laws! But time shall come</div> - <div class='line'>When France shall reign, and laws be all repeal’d!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[<span class='sc'>Henry Marten</span> was one of the most interesting and remarkable of the -Regicides, not only from his abilities and consistent honesty, but from the -elegance of his manners, his wit, and the fascinating gaiety of his conversation; -and, moreover, from his humane disposition and generosity to fallen foes. -His private life, however, was disgraced by the most reckless debauchery, -which might seem more appropriate in such libertines as Rochester and Sedley -than in a coadjutor of the strict Puritan party. But from a note in Grey’s -edition of <cite>Hudibras</cite>, pt. ii., ch. i., p. 313, it would appear that the general -opinion at that time was that profligacy of a pronounced character was indulged -in privately by more than a few of that sanctimonious sect.</p> - -<p class='c009'>He was the son of Sir Henry Marten, LL.D., a loyal Judge of the -Admiralty. After receiving a learned education at Oxford, he entered one of -the Inns of Court, and travelled in France. Having a stake in Berkshire—for he -inherited a property of £3000 a year, besides several thousand pounds in money—he -was elected, 1640, one of the members for the county in the last two Parliaments -of King Charles I. His chief seat was at Becket, in the parish of Shrivenham. -He afterwards obtained a grant of £1000 a year to him and his heirs out -of the forfeited estates of the Duke of Buckingham. His early marriage with a -rich widow, selected by his father, but not affected by himself, also benefited -his finances.</p> - -<p class='c009'>From the commencement of the Civil Wars he was a violent Republican; -and as early as 1643 openly expressed his opinion of the desirability of the -destruction of the King and his children, for which rather premature advice -he was expelled from<a id='t17'></a> the House of Commons, and underwent a short imprisonment -in the Tower. He was appointed by the House of Commons a Colonel of -Horse and Governor of Reading, but made less mark as a soldier than as a -rapacious spoiler of the adherents of the King, which earned him the opprobrious -nickname of “Plunder-master General”.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Being empowered to dispose of the Regalia and royal trappings, he once -invested <span class='sc'>George Wither</span>—who had been made one of Cromwell’s Major-Generals—with -them, and so accoutred induced the old Poet to strut up and -down Westminster Abbey to the scandal of right-thinking people.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>To him also were referred the alterations in the public arms, the Great -Seal, and the legends upon the money. Upon the latter was a shield bearing -the cross of St. George, encircled by a palm and olive branch, and inscribed -<em>The Commonwealth of England</em>, and on the reverse, <em>God with us, 1648</em>; which -occasioned the remark “that God and the Commonwealth were not on the -same side”.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Nothing apparently could damp the ill-timed jocosity too often prevalent in -those troublous times, for at <span class='sc'>Marten’s</span> trial, 16th October, 1660, Ewer, who -had been his servant, swore that “at the signing of the warrant for the -King’s execution he did see a pen in Mr. <span class='sc'>Cromwell’s</span> hand, and he marked -Mr. <span class='sc'>Marten</span> in the face with it, and Mr. <span class='sc'>Marten</span> did the like to him”. But -many of his excesses were condoned in the eyes of both his friends and enemies -by his generous and humane spirit.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>D’Israeli</span>, in his <cite>Commentaries on the life and Reign of Charles I.</cite>, describes -the ingenious way in which <span class='sc'>Marten</span> saved the life of <span class='sc'>David Jenkins</span>, a loyal -and obstinate Welsh judge, who, when brought to the bar of the House of -Commons to answer for imprisoning several persons for bearing arms against -the King, peremptorily disowned their jurisdiction, and defied them in the -following bold terms: “‘But, Mr. Speaker, since you and this House have -renounced your allegiance to your Sovereign, and are become a den of thieves, -should I bow myself in this House of Rimmon the Lord would not pardon me’. -The whole House were electrified.... He was voted guilty of high treason -without any trial. The day of execution was then debated. <span class='sc'>Harry Marten</span>, -who had not yet spoken, rose, not to dissent from the vote of the House, he -observed, but he had something to say about the time of the execution. -‘Mr. Speaker,’ said he, ‘everyone must believe that this old gentleman here -is fully possessed in his head resolved to die a martyr in his cause, for otherwise -he would never have provoked the House by such biting expressions. If -you execute him, you do precisely that which he hopes for, and his execution -will have a great influence over the people, since he is condemned without a -jury. I therefore move that we should suspend the day of execution, and in -meantime force him to live in spite of his teeth.’ The drollery of the motion -put the House into better humour, and he was reprieved. After being kept in -various prisons for eleven years, he was released by Cromwell, and died in 1663, -aged eighty-one.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>Another instance may be given of <span class='sc'>Marten’s</span> felicitous humour and humane -temper. When the Commons had rid themselves of the Sovereign, <em>they voted -the Lords to be dangerous and useless</em>. But <span class='sc'>Marten</span> proposed an amendment in -their favour; namely, that <em>they were useless, but not dangerous</em>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>His speeches in the House were represented to have been not long, “but -wondrous poynant, pertinent, and witty. He was exceedingly apt in apt -instances; he alone hath sometimes turned the whole House.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>He wrote several tracts on parliamentary subjects, and <cite>Verses on the Death -of his Nephew, Charles Edmonds, 7th July, 1661, <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">æt.</span> 30</cite>. But the most amusing of -the publications bearing his name is one entitled <cite>Familiar Letters to his Lady of -Delight; also her kinde Returnes: with his Rivall R. Pettingall’s Heroicall Epistles</cite>. -Printed by Edmundus de Speciosâ Villâ [<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i>, <span class='sc'>Edmund Gayton</span>]. <cite><span lang="es" xml:lang="es">Bellositi -Dobunorum</span></cite> [Oxford], 1662 and 1663, 4to. Another edition, with additions, appeared -in 1685. “These epistles,” says <span class='sc'>D’Israeli</span>, “paint to the life the loose habits -and <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">espiègleries</span></i> of this witty profligate; and I think they have been referred to -by some inconsiderate writers as a <em>genuine</em> correspondence.” They were probably -altogether concocted by <span class='sc'>Gayton</span>. He was severely attacked in various -scurrilous lampoons, some of which are printed among the <cite>Rump Songs</cite>, 1662.</p> - -<p class='c009'>On his trial he was found guilty and sentenced to death; but the good -feeling created among many who had in his prosperous days enjoyed his -society and hospitality, and even among many of his former opponents by his -generous treatment of them when in danger, stood him in good stead, and it -was by a well-timed and humorous appeal to the Judges—such as he himself -might have used—that his life was saved. Henry, fourth Viscount <span class='sc'>Falkland</span>, -whose virtuous and heroic father fell at the first Battle of Newbury while -fighting for the King, said to the Judges: “Gentlemen, ye talk here of making -a <em>sacrifice</em>: it was old law that all sacrifices were to be without spot or blemish; -<span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>and now you are going to make an old rotten rascal a sacrifice”. This piece of -wit pleased his Judges, and his sentence was commuted to imprisonment for -life. He was confined in Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, for twenty years, -and died in September, 1680, aged seventy-eight.</p> - -<p class='c009'>He must have felt some contrition for his vicious life, for some time before -his death he made this epitaph, by way of <em>acrostic</em>, on himself:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>H ere, or elsewhere (all’s one to you, to me),</div> - <div class='line'>E arth, air, or water gripes my ghostly dust,</div> - <div class='line'>N one knowing when brave fire shall set it free.</div> - <div class='line'>R eader, if you an oft tryed rule will trust,</div> - <div class='line'>Y ou’ll gladly do and suffer what you must.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>M y life was worn with serving you and you,</div> - <div class='line'>A nd now death’s my pay, it seems, and welcome too.</div> - <div class='line'>R evenge destroying but itself, while I</div> - <div class='line'>T o birds of prey leave my old cage, and fly.</div> - <div class='line'>E xamples preach to the eye, care (then mine says)</div> - <div class='line'>N ot how you end, but how you spend your days.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>“In Cromwell’s time <span class='sc'>Chepstow Castle</span> served as a place of imprisonment -for Jeremy Taylor; and, after the Restoration, it received a less illustrious -occupant in the person of <span class='sc'>Harry Marten</span>, the Regicide, whose imprisonment -here has attracted more than its share of notice in consequence of the foolish -lines written by <span class='sc'>Southey</span> in his days of republicanism and pantisocracy, but -which are as untrue in <em>fact</em> as they are mischievous in <em>sentiment</em>. As to the <em>fact</em>, -it is notorious that <span class='sc'>Marten</span>—at all events after the first few years of his -imprisonment—was little more than a prisoner on parole; allowed to visit the -neighbouring gentry, and occupying at Chepstow Castle, with his family and -servants, spacious and comfortable apartments in the tower which still bears -his name. As to the <em>sentiment</em>, the lines received their best antidote in the -clever parody of Canning and Frere in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>.”—<cite>Annals of Chepstow -Castle</cite>, by J. F. Marsh, 1883; 4to.]</p> - -<p class='c009'>[Mrs. Elizabeth Brownrigg was executed at Tyburn on Monday, 14th Sept., -1767, for murdering one of her apprentices, Mary Clifford.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_052.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. II.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r c003'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nov. 27, 1797.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>In the specimen of <span class='sc'>Jacobin Poetry</span> which we gave in -our last number was developed a principle, perhaps one -of the most universally recognised in the Jacobin creed; -namely, “that the animadversion of <em>human law</em> upon -<em>human actions</em> is for the most part nothing but <em>gross -oppression</em>; and that, in all cases of the administration of -<em>criminal justice</em>, the truly benevolent mind will consider -only the <em>severity of the punishment</em>, without any reference -to the <em>malignity of the crime</em>”. This principle has of late -years been laboured with extraordinary industry, and -brought forward in a variety of shapes, for the edification -of the public. It has been inculcated in bulky quartos, -and illustrated in popular novels. It remained only to -fit it with a poetical dress, which had been attempted in -the <span class='sc'>Inscription</span> for <span class='sc'>Chepstow Castle</span>, and which (we -flatter ourselves) was accomplished in that for <span class='sc'>Mrs. -Brownrigg’s Cell</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Another principle, no less devoutly entertained, and no -less sedulously disseminated, is the <em>natural and eternal -warfare of the</em> <span class='fss'>POOR</span> <em>and the</em> <span class='fss'>RICH</span>. In those orders and -gradations of society, which are the natural result of the -original difference of talents and of industry among mankind, -the Jacobin sees nothing but a graduated scale of -violence and cruelty. He considers every rich man as -an oppressor, and every person in a lower situation as -the victim of avarice, and the slave of aristocratical -insolence and contempt. These truths he declares -<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>loudly, not to excite compassion, or to soften the consciousness -of superiority in the higher, but for the purpose -of aggravating discontent in the inferior orders.</p> - -<p class='c007'>A human being, in the lowest state of penury and distress, -is a treasure to the reasoner of this cast. He contemplates, -he examines, he turns him in every possible -light, with a view of extracting from the variety of his -wretchedness new topics of invective against the pride of -property. He, indeed (if he is a true Jacobin), refrains -from <em>relieving</em> the object of his compassionate contemplation; -as well knowing that every diminution from the -general mass of human misery must proportionably -diminish the force of his argument.</p> - -<p class='c007'>This principle is treated at large by many authors. It -is versified in sonnets and elegies without end. We -trace it particularly in a poem by the same author -[<span class='sc'>Southey</span>] from whom we borrowed our former illustration -of the Jacobin doctrine of crimes and punishments. -In this poem, the pathos of the matter is not a little -relieved by the absurdity of the metre. We shall not -think it necessary to transcribe the whole of it, as our -imitation does not pretend to be so literal as in the last -instance, but merely aspires to convey some idea of the -manner and sentiment of the original. One stanza, however, -we must give, lest we should be suspected of painting -from fancy, and not from life.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The learned reader will perceive that the metre is -<span class='sc'>Sapphic</span>, and affords a fine opportunity for his <em>scanning</em> -and <em>proving</em>, if he has not forgotten them.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Cōld wăs thē nīght wīnd; drĭftĭng fāst thĕ snōws fĕll;</div> - <div class='line'>Wīde wĕre thē dōwns, ānd shĕltĕrlēss ănd nākēd:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>Whēn ă poōr wānd’rēr strŭgglĕd ōn hĕr joūrnĕy,</div> - <div class='line in28'>Wēāry ănd wāy-sōre.<a id='r9' /><a href='#f9' class='c024'><sup>[9]</sup></a></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div id='t23' class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_057.jpg' alt='_The FRIEND of HUMANITY and the KNIFE-GRINDER._—Scene. _The Borough, in Imitation of Mr. Southey’s_ Sapphics.—Vide. _Anti-Jacobin._ p. 15.' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic001'> -<p></p> -</div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>This is enough; unless the reader should wish to be -informed how</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Fāst o’ĕr thē blēāk hēāth răttlĭng drōve ă chārīōt;</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>Or how, not long after,</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Loūd blĕw thē wīnd, ūnhēārd wăs hēr cŏmplāinĭng—</div> - <div class='line in18'>Ōn wĕnt thĕ hōrsemān.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>We proceed to give our <span class='sc'>Imitation</span>, which is of the -<em>Amœbæan</em> or <em>Collocutory</em> kind.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>SAPPHICS.<br /> <span class='small'>THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'><span class='sc'>Friend of Humanity.</span><a id='r10' /><a href='#f10' class='c024'><sup>[10]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going?</div> - <div class='line'>Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order—</div> - <div class='line'>Bleak blows the blast; your hat has got a hole in’t,</div> - <div class='line in26'>So have your breeches!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones,</div> - <div class='line'>Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike-</div> - <div class='line'>-road what hard work ’tis crying all day “Knives and</div> - <div class='line in26'>Scissars to grind O!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Tell me, Knife-grinder, how you came to grind knives?</div> - <div class='line'>Did some rich man tyrannically use you?</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>Was it the squire? or parson of the parish?</div> - <div class='line in26'>Or the attorney?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Was it the squire, for killing of his game? or</div> - <div class='line'>Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining?</div> - <div class='line'>Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little</div> - <div class='line in26'>All in a lawsuit?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“(Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?)</div> - <div class='line'>Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids,</div> - <div class='line'>Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your</div> - <div class='line in26'>Pitiful story.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'><span class='sc'>Knife-Grinder.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir,</div> - <div class='line'>Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers,</div> - <div class='line'>This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were</div> - <div class='line in26'>Torn in a scuffle.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Constables came up for to take me into</div> - <div class='line'>Custody; they took me before the justice;</div> - <div class='line'>Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish-</div> - <div class='line in26'>-Stocks for a vagrant.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“I should be glad to drink your Honour’s health in</div> - <div class='line'>A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence;</div> - <div class='line'>But for my part, I never love to meddle</div> - <div class='line in26'>With politics, sir.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'><span class='sc'>Friend of Humanity.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<em>I</em> give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first—</div> - <div class='line'>Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance—</div> - <div class='line'>Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded,</div> - <div class='line in26'>Spiritless outcast!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c032'> - <div>[<em>Kicks the Knife-grinder, overturns his wheel, and exit in a transport of Republican enthusiasm and universal philanthropy.</em>]</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. III.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r c003'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nov. 30, 1797.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>We have received the following from a loyal correspondent, -and we shall be very happy at any time to be -relieved, by communications of a similar tendency, from -the drudgery of Jacobinical imitations.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE INVASION;<a id='r11' /><a href='#f11' class='c024'><sup>[11]</sup></a><br /> <span class='small'>OR, THE BRITISH WAR SONG.</span></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><em>To the Tune of</em> “Whilst happy in my native land”.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whilst happy in our native land,</div> - <div class='line in2'>So great, so famed in story,</div> - <div class='line'>Let’s join, my friends, with heart and hand</div> - <div class='line in2'>To raise our country’s glory:</div> - <div class='line'>When Britain calls, her valiant sons</div> - <div class='line in2'>Will rush in crowds to aid her—</div> - <div class='line'>Snatch, snatch your muskets, prime your guns,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And crush the fierce invader!</div> - <div class='line in4'>Whilst every Briton’s song shall be,</div> - <div class='line in4'>“O give us Death—or Victory!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'><span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Long had this favour’d isle enjoy’d</div> - <div class='line in2'>True comforts, past expressing,</div> - <div class='line'>When <em>France</em> her hellish arts employ’d</div> - <div class='line in2'>To rob us of each blessing:</div> - <div class='line'>These from our hearths by force to tear</div> - <div class='line in2'>(Which long we’ve learned to cherish)</div> - <div class='line'>Our frantic foes shall vainly dare;</div> - <div class='line in2'>We’ll keep ’em or we’ll perish—</div> - <div class='line in4'>And every day our song shall be,</div> - <div class='line in4'>“O give us Death—or Victory!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Let France in savage accents sing</div> - <div class='line in2'>Her bloody Revolution;</div> - <div class='line'>We prize our country, love our king,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Adore our constitution;</div> - <div class='line'>For these we’ll every danger face,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And quit our rustic labours;</div> - <div class='line'>Our ploughs to firelocks shall give place;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Our scythes be changed to sabres;</div> - <div class='line in4'>And clad in arms, our song shall be,</div> - <div class='line in3'>“O give us Death—or Victory!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Soon shall the proud invaders learn,</div> - <div class='line in2'>When bent on blood and plunder,</div> - <div class='line'>That British bosoms nobly burn</div> - <div class='line in2'>To brave their cannon’s thunder:</div> - <div class='line'>Low lie those heads, whose wily arts</div> - <div class='line in2'>Have plann’d the world’s undoing!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>Our vengeful blades shall reach those hearts</div> - <div class='line in2'>Which seek our country’s ruin;</div> - <div class='line in4'>And night and morn our song shall be,</div> - <div class='line in4'>“O give us Death—or Victory!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>When, with French blood our fields manured,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The glorious struggle’s ended,</div> - <div class='line'>We’ll sing the dangers we’ve endured,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The blessings we’ve defended:</div> - <div class='line'>O’er the full bowl our feats we’ll tell,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Each gallant deed reciting;</div> - <div class='line'>And weep o’er those who nobly fell</div> - <div class='line in2'>Their country’s battle fighting—</div> - <div class='line in4'>And ever thence our song shall be,</div> - <div class='line in4'>“’Tis <span class='sc'>Valour</span> leads to <span class='sc'>Victory</span>”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c009'>[The following Song which furnished the hints for the one -above was written by <span class='sc'>Miles Peter Andrews</span>, M.P. for -Bewdley, and a dealer in gunpowder; but his Plays, Prologues, -Verses, &c., by no means resemble so active a composition. -He, with other members of the “<em>Della Crusca</em>,” was savagely -attacked and extinguished by W. Gifford in “<cite>The Baviad</cite>”. -His song was set to music by Sir <span class='sc'>Henry Bishop</span>. He died in -1814.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whilst happy in my native land</div> - <div class='line in2'>I boast my country’s charter,</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll never basely lend my hand</div> - <div class='line in2'>Her liberties to barter.</div> - <div class='line'>The noble mind is not at all</div> - <div class='line in2'>By poverty degraded;</div> - <div class='line'>’Tis guilt alone can make us fall,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And well am I persuaded,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Each free-born Briton’s song should be,</div> - <div class='line in4'>“Oh! give me Death or Liberty!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'><span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Though small the pow’r which Fortune grants,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And few the gifts she sends us,</div> - <div class='line'>The lordly hireling often wants</div> - <div class='line in2'>That freedom which defends us.</div> - <div class='line'>By law secur’d from lawless strife,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Our house is our <em>castellum</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>Thus, blessed with all that’s dear in life,</div> - <div class='line in2'>For lucre shall we sell ’em?</div> - <div class='line in4'>No,—ev’ry Briton’s song should be,</div> - <div class='line in4'>“Oh! give me Death or Liberty!”</div> - <div class='line in40'><span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_063.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. IV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Dec. 4, 1797.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We have been favoured with the following specimen -of Jacobin Poetry, which we give to the world without -any comment or imitation. We are informed (we know -not how truly) that it will be sung at the meeting of the -Friends of Freedom; an account of which is anticipated -in our present paper.<a id='r12' /><a href='#f12' class='c024'><sup>[12]</sup></a></p> - -<h3 class='c031'>LA SAINTE GUILLOTINE.<br /> <span class='small'><b>A New Song.</b><br /> ATTEMPTED FROM THE FRENCH.</span></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><em>Tune</em>—“O’er the vine-covered hills and gay regions of France”.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>From the blood-bedew’d valleys and mountains of France,</div> - <div class='line'>See the Genius of Gallic <span class='fss'>INVASION</span> advance!</div> - <div class='line'>Old ocean shall waft her, unruffled by storm,</div> - <div class='line'>While our shores are all lined with the “<em>Friends of Reform</em>”.<a id='r13' /><a href='#f13' class='c024'><sup>[13]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Confiscation and Murder attend in her train,</div> - <div class='line'>With meek-eyed Sedition, the daughter of <span class='sc'>Paine</span>;<a id='r14' /><a href='#f14' class='c024'><sup>[14]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>While her sportive <em>Poissardes</em> with light footsteps are seen</div> - <div class='line'>To dance in a ring round the gay <em>Guillotine</em>.<a id='r15' /><a href='#f15' class='c024'><sup>[15]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'><span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To <em>London</em>, “the rich, the defenceless”<a id='r16' /><a href='#f16' class='c024'><sup>[16]</sup></a> she comes—</div> - <div class='line'>Hark! my boys, to the sound of the Jacobin drums!</div> - <div class='line'>See Corruption, Prescription, and Privilege fly,</div> - <div class='line'>Pierced through by the glance of her blood-darting eye.</div> - <div class='line'>While patriots, from prison and prejudice freed,</div> - <div class='line'>In soft accents shall lisp the Republican creed,</div> - <div class='line'>And with tri-colour’d fillets, and cravats of green,</div> - <div class='line'>Shall crowd round the altar of <em>Saint Guillotine</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>See the level of Freedom sweeps over the land—</div> - <div class='line'>The vile Aristocracy’s doom is at hand!</div> - <div class='line'>Not a seat shall be left in a House <em>that we know</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>But for <em>Earl</em> <span class='sc'>Buonaparte</span> and <em>Baron</em> <span class='sc'>Moreau</span>.</div> - <div class='line'>But the rights of the Commons shall still be respected,</div> - <div class='line'>Buonaparte himself shall approve the elected;</div> - <div class='line'>And the Speaker shall march with majestical mien,</div> - <div class='line'>And make his three bows to the grave <em>Guillotine</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Two heads, says the proverb, are better than one,</div> - <div class='line'>But the Jacobin choice is for Five Heads or none.</div> - <div class='line'>By Directories only can Liberty thrive;</div> - <div class='line'>Then down with the <span class='sc'>One</span>, Boys! and up with the <span class='sc'>Five</span>!</div> - <div class='line'>How our bishops and judges will stare with amazement,</div> - <div class='line'>When their heads are thrust out at the <em>National Casement</em>!<a id='r17' /><a href='#f17' class='c024'><sup>[17]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>When the <em>National Razor</em><a href='#f17' class='c024'><sup>[17]</sup></a> has shaved them quite clean,</div> - <div class='line'>What a handsome oblation to <em>Saint Guillotine</em>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>[The following <em>Lines</em> were written by an ardent reformer, <span class='sc'>W. Roscoe</span>, the -accomplished author of the “Life of Leo X.,” and other works, to commemorate -the taking of the Bastille (14th July, 1789), and the publication by the National -Assembly (on 20th August following) of the famous “Declaration of Rights”—a -manifesto which became the creed of the Revolution, and which promulgated, -as the basis of social government, the specious but impracticable doctrines of -<em>liberty</em>, <em>equality</em>, and <em>the sovereignty of the people</em> exercised by universal suffrage. -How the hopes and anticipations of moderate reformers, as embodied in these -lines, were falsified by the spoliations and massacres which rapidly followed -are but too well known.</p> - -<p class='c009'>When, therefore, the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite> was established to combat the principles -of the Revolution, these <em>Lines</em> were, for party purposes, maliciously referred to, -and significantly recommended to be “recited on the anniversary of the 14th -August”. To make this allusion more clear, it must be remembered that on the -10th August, 1792, after frightful massacres, the Hotel de Ville was seized and -the Tuileries stormed. On the 13th the king and family were imprisoned in the -Temple. His deposition, the dismissal of the Ministers, and the formation of a -National Convention, on more popular principles than the Legislative Assembly, -were decreed by the victors. On the 14th Le Brun became Minister for Foreign -Affairs, Danton for Justice, and Monge for Marine; while the Girondist Ministers, -Roland, Servan, and Clavière, resumed their former functions as Ministers -of the Interior, War, and Finance respectively.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The Song, <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La Sainte Guillotine</span></cite>, was evidently written as a <em>Contrast</em>, and -not as a <em>Parody</em>—a few lines at the beginning only excepted, which serve as an -introduction to verses on another promised phase of the Revolution, the invasion -of England.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>LINES.</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>Written for the purpose of being recited on the Anniversary of the 14th of August. By <span class='sc'>William Roscoe</span>, Esq.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O’er the vine-covered hills and gay regions of France,</div> - <div class='line in2'>See the day-star of liberty rise;</div> - <div class='line'>Through the clouds of detraction unsullied advance,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And hold its new course through the skies!</div> - <div class='line'>An effulgence so mild, with a lustre so bright,</div> - <div class='line in2'>All Europe with wonder surveys;</div> - <div class='line'>And, from deserts of darkness and dungeons of night,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Contends for a share of the blaze.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah! who ’midst the horrors of night would abide,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That can breathe the pure breezes of morn?</div> - <div class='line'>Or who, that has drunk the pure crystalline tide,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To the feculent flood would return?</div> - <div class='line'>When the bosom of Beauty the throbbing heart meets,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Ah, who can the transport decline?</div> - <div class='line'>Or who, that has tasted of Liberty’s sweets,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The prize but with life would resign?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>Let Burke like a bat from its splendour retire,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A splendour too strong for his eyes;</div> - <div class='line'>Let pedants and fools his effusions admire,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Entrapt in his cobwebs like flies.</div> - <div class='line'>Shall insolent Sophistry hope to prevail</div> - <div class='line in2'>Where Reason opposes her weight,</div> - <div class='line'>When the welfare of millions is hung in the scale,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And the balance yet trembles with fate?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But ’tis over—high Heaven the decision approves,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Oppression has struggled in vain,</div> - <div class='line'>To the hell she has form’d Superstition removes,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And Tyranny bites his own chain.</div> - <div class='line'>In the records of Time a new era unfolds,</div> - <div class='line in2'>All nature exults in its birth;</div> - <div class='line'>His creation benign the Creator beholds,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And gives a new charter to earth.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh! catch the high import, ye winds, as ye blow;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Oh! hear it, ye waves, as ye roll,</div> - <div class='line'>From regions that feel the sun’s vertical glow,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To the farthest extremes of the Pole.</div> - <div class='line'><em>Equal rights, equal laws</em>, to the nations around,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Peace and friendship its precepts impart,</div> - <div class='line'>And wherever the footsteps of man shall be found,</div> - <div class='line in2'>He shall bind the decree on his heart.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c009'>[The Account of what was “anticipated to take place at the <em>Meeting of the -Friends of Freedom</em>”—alluded to on page <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>—duly appeared in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, -but has never hitherto formed a part of the collection of its Poetry. As -it is marked by much ability, and has been often quoted, it appears to the -editor desirable to introduce some portion of it into the present edition of the -<em>Poetry</em>.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM.</h3> - -<p class='c034'>The <em>House of Russell</em> being given, <span class='sc'>Lord John</span> and <span class='sc'>Lord William</span> both rose -at once.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Lord John</span> made a very neat, and <span class='sc'>Lord William</span> a very appropriate speech.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Alderman Coombe</span> made a very impressive speech.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Mr. Tierney</span> made a very pointed speech.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Mr. Grey</span> made a very fine speech. He described the ministers as “bold -bad men”—their measures he repeatedly declared to be not only “weak, but -wicked”.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Mr. Byng</span> said a few words.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>General Tarleton</span> and the <em>Electors of Liverpool</em> being given, the General, -after an eulogium on Mr. Fox, begged to anticipate their favourite concluding -toast, and to give “<em>The Cause of Freedom all over the World</em>”. This toast unfortunately -gave rise to an altercation which threatened to disturb the harmony -of the evening. Olaudah Equiano, the African, and Henry Yorke, the mulatto, -insisted upon being heard; but as it appeared that they were entering upon a -subject which would have entirely altered the complexion of the Meeting, they -were, though not without some difficulty, withheld from proceeding further.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span><span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine</span> rose, in consequence of some allusions which had been made -to Trial by Jury. He professed himself to be highly flattered by the encomiums -which had been lavished upon him; at the same time he was conscious that he -could not, without some degree of reserve, consent to arrogate to himself those -qualities which the partiality of his friends had attributed to him. He had, on -former occasions, declared himself to be clothed with the infirmities of man’s -nature; and he now begged leave in all humility to reiterate that confession; -he should never cease to consider himself as a feeble, and with respect to the -extent of his faculties in many respects, a finite being—he had ever borne in -mind, and he hoped he should ever continue to bear in mind, those words of the -inspired Penman, “Thou hast made him less than the angels, to crown him -with glory and honour”. These lines were indeed applicable to the state of man -in general, but of no man more than himself; they appeared to him pointed and -personal, and little less than prophetic; they were always present to his mind; -he could wish to wear them in his breast as a sort of amulet against the enchantment -of public applause, and the witcheries of vanity and self-delusion; -yet if he were indeed possessed of those superhuman powers—all pretensions -to which he again begged leave most earnestly to disclaim—if he were endowed -with the eloquence of an angel, and with all those other faculties which we -attribute to angelic natures, it would be impossible for him to do justice to the -eloquence with which the Honourable Gentleman who opened the meeting had -defended the Cause of Freedom, identified as he conceived it to be with the -persons and government of the <span class='sc'>Directory</span>. In his present terrestrial state he -could only address it as a prayer to God and as counsel to Man that the words -which they had heard from that Honourable Gentleman might work inwardly -in their hearts, and in due time, produce the fruit of Liberty and Revolution.</p> - -<p class='c009'>He had not the advantage of being personally acquainted with any of the -Gentlemen of the <span class='sc'>Directory</span>; he understood, however, that one of them (<span class='sc'>Mr. -Merlin</span>) previous to the last change, had stood in a situation similar to his own—he -was, in fact, nothing less than a leading Advocate and Barrister in the -midst of a free, powerful and enlightened people.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The conduct of the <span class='sc'>Directory</span> with regard to the exiled Deputies had been -objected to by some persons on the score of a pretended rigour. For his part he -should only say that having been, as he had been, both a Soldier and a -Sailor, if it had been his fortune to have stood in either of those two relations -to the <span class='sc'>Directory</span>—as a Man and as a Major-General he should not have scrupled -to direct his artillery against the National Representation:—as a Naval Officer -he would undoubtedly have undertaken for the removal of the Exiled Deputies; -admitting the exigency, under all its relations, as it appeared to him to exist, -and the then circumstances of the times, with all their bearings and dependencies, -branching out into an infinity of collateral considerations, and involving -in each a variety of objects political, physical, and moral; and these -again under their distinct and separate heads, ramifying into endless subdivisions -which it was foreign to his purpose to consider.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Having thus disposed of this part of his subject, <span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine</span> passed in a -strain of rapid and brilliant allusions over a variety of points characteristic of -the conduct and disposition of the present Ministry; Mr. Burke’s metaphor of -“the Swinish Multitude,” Mr. Reeves’ metaphor of the “Tree of Monarchy,” -“the Battle of Tranent,” “the March to Paris,” the phrase of “Acquitted -Felons,” and the exclamation of “Perish Commerce”—which last expression -he declared he should never cease to attribute to Mr. Windham; so long, at -least, as it should please the Sovereign Dispenser to continue to him the power -of utterance and the enjoyment of his present faculties. He condemned the expedition -to Quiberon, he regretted the “Fate of Messrs. Muir and Palmer,” he -exulted in the “Acquittal of Citizens Tooke, Hardy, Thelwall, Holcroft and -others,” and he blessed that Providence to which (as it had been originally -allotted to him (Mr. Erskine) the talents which had been exerted in their defence) -the preservation of those Citizens might perhaps be indirectly attributed. -He then descanted on the captivity of La Fayette, and the Dividend on the -Imperial Loan.</p> - -<p class='c009'>After fully exhausting these subjects, <span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine</span> resumed a topic on which -he had only slightly glanced before. In a most delicate and sportive vein of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>humour he contended, that if the people were a Swinish Multitude, those who -represented them must necessarily be a Swinish Representation. It would be -in vain to attempt to do justice to the polite and easy pleasantry which pervaded -this part of <span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine’s</span> speech. Suffice it to say that the taste of the -Audience showed itself in complete unison with the genius of the Orator, and -the whole of this passage was crowned with loud and reiterated plaudits. After -a speech of unexampled exertion, <span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine</span> now began to enter much at -length into a recital of select passages from our most approved English authors, -concluding with a copious extract from the several Publications of the late <span class='sc'>Mr. -Burke</span>; but such were the variety and richness of his quotations which he continued -to an extent far exceeding the limits of this paper, that we found ourselves -under the necessity, either of considerably abridging our original matter, -or omitting them altogether, which latter alternative we adopted the more -readily as the greater part of these brilliant citations have already passed -through the ordeal of a public and patriotic auditory; and as there is every -probability that the circumstances of the times will again call them forth on -some future emergency.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine</span> concluded by recapitulating, in a strain of agonizing and impressive -eloquence, the several more prominent heads of his speech:—He had -been a Soldier and a Sailor, and had a son at Winchester school—He had been -called by Special Retainers, during the summer, into many different and distant -parts of the country—travelling chiefly in Post-chaises—He felt himself called -upon to declare that his poor faculties were at the service of his Country—of the -free and enlightened part of it at least—He stood here as a Man—He stood in -the Eye, indeed in the Hand of GOD—to whom (in the presence of the Company -and Waiters) he solemnly appealed—He was of Noble, perhaps, Royal Blood—He -had a house at Hampstead—was convinced of the necessity of a thorough -and radical Reform—His Pamphlet had gone through Thirty Editions—skipping -alternately the odd and even numbers—He loved the Constitution, to which -he would cling and grapple—And he was clothed with the infirmities of man’s -nature—He would apply to the present French Rulers (particularly <span class='sc'>Barras</span> and -<span class='sc'>Reubel</span>) the words of the poet:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Be to their Faults a little blind;</div> - <div class='line'>“Be to their Virtues very kind,</div> - <div class='line'>“Let all their ways be unconfin’d,</div> - <div class='line'>“And clap the Padlock on their mind!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c035'>And for these reasons, thanking the Gentlemen who had done him the honour -to drink his Health, he should propose “<span class='sc'>Merlin</span>, <em>the late Minister of Justice, and -Trial by Jury!</em>” <span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine</span> here concluded a speech which had occupied -the attention and excited the applause of his Audience during a space of little -less than three hours, allowing for about three quarters of an hour, which were -occupied by successive fits of fainting, between the principal subdivisions of -his discourse.—<span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine</span> descended from the Table, and was conveyed down -stairs by the assistance of his friends. On arriving at the corner of the Piazzas, -they were surprized by a very unexpected embarrassment. <span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine’s</span> -horses had been taken from the carriage, and a number of able Chairmen engaged -to supply their place; but these fellows having contrived to intoxicate -themselves with the money which the Coachman had advanced to them on -account, were become so restive and unruly, so exorbitant in their demands -(positively refusing to abide by their former engagement) that <span class='sc'>Mr. Erskine</span> -deemed it unsafe to trust himself in their hands, and determined to wait the -return of his own more tractable and less chargeable animals. This unpleasant -scene continued for above an hour.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Mr. Sheridan’s</span> health was now drunk in his absence and received with an -appearance of general approbation;—when in the midst of the applause <span class='sc'>Mr. -Fox</span> arose, in apparent agitation, and directed the attention of the Company -to the rising, manly virtues of <span class='sc'>Mr. Macfungus</span>.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Mr. Macfungus</span> declared that to pretend he was not elated by the encomiums -with which <span class='sc'>Mr. Fox</span> had honoured him was an affectation which he -disdained;—such encomiums would ever form the proudest recompense of his -<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>patriotic labours—he confessed they were cheering to him—he felt them warm at -his heart—and while a single fibre of his frame preserved its vibration, it would -throb in unison to the approbation of that Honourable Gentleman. The applause -of the Company was no less flattering to him—he felt his faculties invigorated -by it, and stimulated to the exertion of new energies in the race of mind. Every -other sensation was obliterated and absorbed by it; for the present, however, -he would endeavour to suppress his feelings, and concentre his energies for the -purpose of explaining to the Company why he assisted now for the first time at -the celebration of the Fifth Revolution which had been effected in regenerated -France. The various and extraordinary talents of the Right Hon. Gentleman—his -vehement and overpowering perception, his vigorous and splendid intuition -would for ever attract the admiration of all those who were in any degree endowed -with those faculties themselves or capable of estimating them in others; -as such, he had ever been among the most ardent admirers, and on many occasions, -among the most ardent supporters of the Right Hon. Gentleman—he -agreed with him in many points—in his general love of Liberty and Revolution; -in his execration of the War; in his detestation of Ministers; but he entertained -his doubts, and till those doubts were cleared up, he could not, consistently with -his principles, attend at the celebration of any Revolution whatever.</p> - -<p class='c009'>These doubts, however, were now satisfactorily done away. A pledge had -been entered into for accomplishing an effectual radical Revolution; not for the -mere overthrow of the present System, nor for the establishment of any other -in its place; but for the effecting such a series of Revolutions as might be -sufficient for the establishment of a Free System.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Mr. Macfungus</span> continued he was incapable of compromising with first -principles, of acquiescing in short-sighted temporary palliative expedients: if -such had been his temper he should assuredly have rested satisfied with the -pledge which that Right Hon. Gentleman had entered into about six months -ago on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, in which pledge he considered the -promise of that previous and preliminary Revolution, to which he had before -alluded, as essentially implicated.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“Whenever this Reform takes place,” exclaimed <span class='sc'>Mr. Macfungus</span>, “the -present degraded and degrading system must fall into dissolution; it must sink -and perish with the corruptions which have supported it. The national -energies will awake, and shaking off their lethargy as their fetters drop from -them, they will follow the Angel of their Revolution, while the Genius of Freedom -soaring aloft beneath the orb of Gallic Illumination will brush away as -with the wing of an Eagle all the cobwebs of Aristocracy. But before the -Temple of Freedom can be erected in their place, the surface which they have -occupied must be smoothed and levelled—it must be cleared by repeated Revolutionary -Explosions from all the lumber and rubbish with which Aristocracy -and Fanaticism will endeavour to encumber it, and to impede the progress -of the holy work.—The sacred level, the symbol of Fraternal Equality, must be -passed over the whole.—The completion of the Edifice will indeed be the more -tardy, but it will not be the less durable for having been longer delayed—Cemented -with the blood of tyrants, and the tears of the Aristocracy, it will -rise a monument for the astonishment and veneration of future ages. The -remotest posterity, with our children yet unborn, and the most distant portions -of the Globe, will crowd around its Gates and demand admission into its -Sanctuary.—The Tree of Liberty will be planted in the midst of it, and its -branches will extend to the ends of the Earth, while the Friends of Freedom -meet and fraternize and amalgamate under its consolatory shade. There our -Infants shall be taught to lisp in tender accents the Revolutionary Hymn—there -with wreaths of myrtle, and oak, and poplar, and vine and olive and -cypress and ivy; with violets and roses and daffodils and dandelions in our -hands we will swear respect to childhood and manhood and old age, and -virginity and womanhood and widowhood; but above all to the Supreme Being.—There -we will decree and sanction the Immortality of the Soul.—There pillars -and obelisks, and arches and pyramids, will awaken the love of Glory and of -our Country.—There Painters and Statuaries, with their chisels and colours, -and Engravers with their engraving tools will perpetuate the interesting -features of our Revolutionary Heroes; while our Poets and Musicians, with an -<span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>honourable emulation, strive to immortalize their memory. Their bones will -be entombed in the Vault below, while their sacred Shades continue hovering -over our Heads—those venerated Manes which from time to time will require -to be appeased by the blood of the remaining Aristocrats.—Then Peace and -Freedom, and Fraternity and Equality will pervade the whole Earth—while the -Vows of Republicanism, the Alter of Patriotism, and the Revolutionary Pontiff, -with the thrilling volcanic Sympathies, whether of Holy Fury or of ardent Fraternal -Civism, uniting and identifying, produce as it were an electric Energy.”</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Mr. Macfungus</span> here paused for a few moments, seemingly overpowered by -the excess of Sensibility, and the force of the ideas which he was labouring to -convey.—The whole Company appeared to sympathize with his unaffected emotions. -After a short interval, he recovered himself from a very impressive -silence, and continued as follows:</p> - -<p class='c009'>“These prospects, Fellow-Citizens, may possibly be deferred. The Machiavelism -of Governments may for the time prevail, and this unnatural and -execrable contest may yet be prolonged; but the hour is not far distant; -Persecution will only serve to accelerate it, and the blood of Patriotism streaming -from the severing axe will call down vengeance on our oppressors in a voice -of Thunder. I expect the contest, and I am prepared for it.—I hope I shall -never shrink nor swerve nor start aside wherever duty and inclination may -place me. My services, my life itself, are at your disposal—Whether to act or to -suffer, I am yours—With <span class='sc'>Hampden</span> in the field, or with <span class='sc'>Sidney</span> on the scaffold. -My example may be more useful to you than my talents: and this head may -perhaps serve your cause more effectually, if placed on a pole on Temple Bar, -than if it was occupied in organizing your Committees, in preparing your Revolutionary -Explosions, and conducting your Correspondence.”</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Mr. Macfungus</span> said he should give, as an unequivocal test of his sentiments, -“<span class='sc'>Buonaparte and a Radical Reform</span>”.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The conclusion of <span class='sc'>Mr. Macfungus’s</span> speech was followed by a simultaneous -burst of rapturous approbation from every part of the room. The applause continued -for several minutes, during which <span class='sc'>Mr. Macfungus</span> repeatedly rose to -express his feelings.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The conversation now became more mixed and animated; several excellent -Songs were sung, and Toasts drank, while the progressive and patriotic festivity -of the evening was heightened by the vocal powers of several of the most -popular Singers. A new Song written by Captain <span class='sc'>Morris</span> received its -sanction in the warmest expression of applause. The whole company joined -with enthusiasm in their old favourite Chorus of Bow! Wow!! Wow!!!]</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c009'>[<span class='sc'>Macfungus</span> stands for <span class='sc'>Sir James Mackintosh</span>, who, after studying -medicine in Edinburgh, settled in London, and wrote for the opposition newspapers, -particularly the <cite>Morning Post</cite>, Daniel Stuart, the proprietor, being his -father-in-law. The first work that brought him into notice was his <cite><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Vindiciæ -Gallicæ</span></cite> (1791), in reply to Burke’s <cite>Reflections</cite> on the French Revolution, which -splendid philippic it greatly surpassed in philosophic thought, sound feeling, -and common sense. It was enthusiastically received by the Liberal party, -whose leaders eagerly sought his acquaintance and co-operation; and when the -<em>Association of the Friends of the People</em> was formed, he was appointed Secretary. -His subsequent successful career as an Advocate, Indian Judge, Member of -Parliament, Minister under Lord Grey, and as an English historian, bore out -the promise of his youth. He was born in 1765 and died in 1832.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. V.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Dec. 11, 1797.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We have already hinted at the principle by which the -followers of the Jacobinical sect are restrained from the -exercise of their own favourite virtue of charity. The -force of this prohibition, and the strictness with which it -is observed, are strongly exemplified in the following -poem. It is the production of the same author [<span class='sc'>Southey</span>] -whose happy effort in English Sapphics we presumed to -imitate; the present effusion is in Dactylics, and equally -subject to the laws of Latin Prosody.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE SOLDIER’S WIFE.</h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Wēāry̆ wăy-wāndĕrĕr, lānguĭd ănd sĭck ăt hĕart,</div> - <div class='line'>Trāvĕllĭng pāinfŭlly̆ ōvĕr thĕ rūggĕd roăd;</div> - <div class='line'>Wīld vĭsăg’d wāndĕrĕr—āh fŏr thy̆ hēavy̆ chănce.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>We think that we see him fumbling in the pocket of -his blue pantaloons; that the splendid shilling is about -to make its appearance, and to glitter in the eyes, and -glad the heart of the poor sufferer. But no such thing—the -bard very calmly contemplates her situation, which -he describes in a pair of very pathetical stanzas; and -after the following well-imagined topic of consolation, -concludes by leaving her to Providence.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thy husband will never return from the war again;</div> - <div class='line'>Cold is thy hopeless heart, <em>even as charity</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>Cold are thy famished babes—<em>God help thee</em>, widow’d one!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>We conceived that it would be necessary to follow up -this general rule with the particular exception, and to -point out one of those cases in which the embargo upon -Jacobin bounty is sometimes suspended;<a id='r18' /><a href='#f18' class='c024'><sup>[18]</sup></a> with this view -we have subjoined the poem of</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE SOLDIER’S FRIEND.<br /> <span class='small'>DACTYLICS.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Come, little Drummer Boy, lay down your knapsack here:</div> - <div class='line'>I am the soldier’s friend—here are some books for you;</div> - <div class='line'>Nice clever books by <span class='sc'>Tom Paine</span>, the philanthropist.<a id='r19' /><a href='#f19' class='c024'><sup>[19]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>Here’s half-a-crown for you—here are some handbills too—</div> - <div class='line'>Go to the barracks, and give all the soldiers some.</div> - <div class='line'>Tell them the sailors are all in a mutiny.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='c036'><em>Exit Drummer Boy, with handbills and half-a-crown.—Manet Soldier’s Friend.</em></div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Liberty’s friends thus all learn to amalgamate,</div> - <div class='line'>Freedom’s volcanic explosion prepares itself,</div> - <div class='line'>Despots shall bow to the fasces of liberty.</div> - <div class='line in2'>Reason, philosophy, “fiddledum diddledum,”</div> - <div class='line in2'>Peace and fraternity, higgledy, piggledy,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Higgledy, piggledy, “fiddledum diddledum”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='c036'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.</span></i></div> - -<h3 class='c031'>SONNET.—TO LIBERTY.</h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Just Guardian of man’s social bliss! for thee</div> - <div class='line in2'>The paths of danger gladly would I tread:</div> - <div class='line in2'>For thee! contented, join the glorious dead,</div> - <div class='line'>Who nobly scorn’d a life that was not free!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But worse than death it pains my soul to see</div> - <div class='line in2'>The Lord of Ruin, by wild Uproar led,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Hell’s first-born, <span class='sc'>Anarchy</span>, exalt his head,</div> - <div class='line'>And seize thy throne, and bid us bow the knee!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What though his iron sceptre, blood-imbrued,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Crush half the nations with resistless might;</div> - <div class='line'>Never shall this firm spirit be subdued:</div> - <div class='line in2'>In chains, in exile, still the chanted rite,</div> - <div class='line'>O <span class='sc'>Liberty</span>! to thee shall be renew’d:</div> - <div class='line in2'>O still be sea-girt <span class='sc'>Albion</span> thy delight!    D.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. VI.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Dec. 18, 1797.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We cannot enough congratulate ourselves on having -been so fortunate as to fall upon the curious specimens of -classical metre and correct sentiment which we have -made the subject of our late Jacobinical imitations.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The fashion of admiring and imitating these productions -has spread in a surprising degree. Even those who -sympathise with the principles of the writer selected as -our model, seem to have been struck with the ridicule of -his poetry.</p> - -<p class='c007'>There appeared in the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite> of Monday a -<cite>Sapphic Ode</cite>, apparently written by a friend and associate -of our author, in which he is however travestied most -unmercifully. And to make the joke the more pointed, -the learned and judicious editor contrived to print the -ode <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">en masse</span></i>, without any order of lines, or division of -stanza; so that it was not discovered to be <em>verse</em> till the -next day, when it was explained in a hobbling <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">erratum</span></i>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We hardly know which to consider as the greater -object of compassion in this case—the original <em>Odist</em>, -thus parodied by his friend, or the mortified <em>Parodist</em> -thus mutilated by his printer. “<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Et tu, Brute!</span></i>” has -probably been echoed from each of these worthies to his -murderer, in a tone that might melt the hardest heart to -pity.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We cordially wish them joy of each other, and we -resign the modern <em>Lesbian lyre</em> into their hands without -envy or repining.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Our author’s <span class='sc'>Dactylics</span> have produced a second -<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>imitation (conveyed to us from an unknown hand), with -which we take our leave of this species of poetry also.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE SOLDIER’S WIFE.<a id='r20' /><a href='#f20' class='c024'><sup>[20]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>DACTYLICS.</div> - <div class='c004'>“Wēāry̆ wăy-wāndĕrĕr,” &c. &c.</div> - <div class='c004'>IMITATION.</div> - <div class='c004'>DACTYLICS.</div> - <div class='c004'><em>Being the quintessence of all the Dactylics that ever were, or ever will be written.</em></div> - <div class='c004'>HUMBLY ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR OF THE ABOVE.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Wearisome Sonnetteer, feeble and querulous,</div> - <div class='line'>Painfully dragging out thy demo-cratic lays—</div> - <div class='line'>Moon-stricken Sonnetteer, “ah! for thy heavy chance!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sorely thy Dactylics lag on uneven feet:</div> - <div class='line'>Slow is the syllable which thou wouldst urge to speed,</div> - <div class='line'>Lame and o’erburthen’d, and “screaming its wretchedness!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .<a id='r21' /><a href='#f21' class='c024'><sup>[21]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ne’er talk of ears again! look at thy spelling-book;</div> - <div class='line'><em>Dilworth</em> and <em>Dyche</em><a id='r22' /><a href='#f22' class='c024'><sup>[22]</sup></a> are both mad at thy quantities—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Dactylics</span>, call’st thou ’em—“God help thee, silly one!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>[The following is the <cite>Sapphic Ode</cite> alluded to above, which -was intended by the poet of the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite> as a “retort -courteous” to the <cite>Friend of Humanity</cite>. The printer of that -paper, unfortunately, being new to “such branches of learning,” -and not dreaming it could be intended for <em>poetry</em>, printed it as -below. The mistake seems to have been immediately discovered, -for it re-appeared next day (Dec. 12) in the guise of verse.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE COLLECTOR AND THE HOUSEHOLDER.</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><em>The Hint taken from the Anti-Jacobin, “Needy Knife-Grinders”</em></div> - </div> -</div> - - <dl class='dl_1'> - <dt><em>H.</em></dt> - <dd>Greedy Collector, whither are you going, thus with your inkhorn in your buttonhole, and - ledger so snugly underneath your coat? Say, greedy Collector. - </dd> - <dt><em>C.</em></dt> - <dd>Much I rejoice that I have met you here, friend: turn back, I pri’thee, ’tis with you I - want to speak; I am come on business of importance—gentle Householder. - </dd> - <dt><em>H.</em></dt> - <dd>Greedy Collector, well I know your business, ’tis for my taxes you are come to dun me; - well! ’tis the last time you will have a right to ask me for money. Buggy, no longer do I - drive a smart one; smash went my gig, as long [ago] as Easter; down Highgate hill we - tumbled altogether, horse, wife, and I, Sir. One broke his knees, and<a id='r23' /><a - href='#f23' class='c024'><sup>[23]</sup></a> another broke his - collar-bone; there’s an end of pleasuring on Sundays. Take my last payment; there is your - two pounds twelve shillings and ninepence. - </dd> - <dt><em>C.</em></dt> - <dd>Gentle householder, much are you mistaken; Order, Religion, Constitution, Laws, and - rational freedom, all demand from you a—triple assessment. - </dd> - <dt><em>H.</em></dt> - <dd>Triple Assessment! What beside the old tax? - </dd> - <dt><em>C.</em></dt> - <dd>Certainly: come, deposit, I’m a waiting. - </dd> - <dt><em>H.</em></dt> - <dd>Wait and be damned. What is it you are after? - </dd> - <dt><em>C.</em></dt> - <dd>Ten pounds eleven. - </dd> - <dt><em>H.</em></dt> - <dd>Ten pounds eleven! have I not informed thee gig I have none? I’ve sent it to the hammer; - Pay for a gig and not [to] have it! - </dd> - <dt><em>C.</em></dt> - <dd>But you had one at Easter! - </dd> - <dt><em>H.</em></dt> - <dd>Easter is past and gone. I’ll never pay thee. - </dd> - <dt><em>C.</em></dt> - <dd>Gentle Householder, then I must proceed to shew thee a little bit of parchment, called a - writ of distringer [for <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">distringas</span></i>]. - </dd> - <dt> </dt> - <dd>[<em>Exit</em> Collector to take possession of the Householder’s bed and furniture. - </dd> - </dl> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>The verses which we here present to the public were -written immediately after the Revolution of the 4th of -September. We should be much obliged to any of our -classical and loyal correspondents for an English translation -of them.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>LATIN VERSES<br /> <span class='small'><em>Written immediately after the Revolution of the 4th of September.</em></span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ipsa mali Hortatrix scelerumque uberrima Mater</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">In se prima suos vertit lymphata furores,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Luctaturque diù secum, et conatibus ægris</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Fessa cadit, proprioque jacet labefacta veneno.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mox tamen ipsius rursúm violentia morbi</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Erigit ardentem furiis, ultróque minantem</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Spargere bella procul, vastæque incendia cladis,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Civilesque agitare faces, totumque per orbem</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Sceptra super Regum et Populorum subdita colla</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ferre pedem, et sanctas Regnorum evertere sedes.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Aspicis! Ipsa sui bacchatur sanguine Regis,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Barbaraque ostentans feralis signa triumphi,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mole giganteâ campis prorumpit apertis,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Successu scelerum, atque insanis viribus audax.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">At quà Pestis atrox rapido se turbine vertit,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Cernis ibi, priscâ morum compage solutâ,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Procubuisse solo civilis fœdera vitæ,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Et quodcunque Fides, quodcunque habet alma verendi</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Religio, Pietasque et Legum fræna sacrarum.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Nec spes Pacis adhuc—necdum exsaturata rapinis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Effera Bellatrix, fusove expleta cruore.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Crescit inextinctus Furor, atque exæstuat ingens</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>Ambitio, immanisque irâ Vindicta renatâ</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Reliquias Soliorum et adhuc restantia Regna</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Flagitat excidio, prædæque incumbit opimæ.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Una etenim in mediis Gens intemerata ruinis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Libertate probâ, et justo libramine rerum,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Securum faustis degit sub legibus ævum;</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Antiquosque colit mores, et jura Parentum</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ordine firma suo, sanoque intacta vigore,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Servat adhuc, hominumque fidem, curamque Deorum.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Eheu! quanta odiis avidoque alimenta furori!</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Quanta profanatas inter spoliabitur aras</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Victima! si quando versis Victoria fatis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Annuerit scelus extremum, terrâque subactâ</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Impius Oceani sceptrum fædaverit Hostis!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_079.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. VII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Dec. 25, 1797.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We have been favoured with a translation of the Latin -verses inserted in our last Number. We have little doubt -that our readers will agree with us, in hoping that this -may not be the last contribution which we shall receive -from the same hand.<a id='r24' /><a href='#f24' class='c024'><sup>[24]</sup></a></p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Parent of countless crimes, in headlong rage,</div> - <div class='line'>War with herself see frantic <em>Gallia</em> wage,</div> - <div class='line'>Till worn and wasted by intestine strife,</div> - <div class='line'>She falls—her languid pulse scarce quick with life.</div> - <div class='line'>But soon she feels through every trembling vein,</div> - <div class='line'>New strength collected from convulsive pain:</div> - <div class='line'>Onward she moves, and sounds the dire alarm,</div> - <div class='line'>And bids insulted nations haste to arm;</div> - <div class='line'>Spreads wide the waste of war, and hurls the brand</div> - <div class='line'>Of civil discord o’er each troubled land,</div> - <div class='line'>While desolation marks her furious course,</div> - <div class='line'>And thrones subverted bow beneath her force.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Behold! she pours her Monarch’s guiltless blood,</div> - <div class='line'>And quaffs with savage joy the crimson flood;</div> - <div class='line'>Then, proud the deadly trophies to display</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>Of her foul crimes, resistless bursts away,</div> - <div class='line'>Unaw’d by justice, unappall’d by fear,</div> - <div class='line'>And runs with giant strength her mad career.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Where’er her banners float in barbarous pride,</div> - <div class='line'>Where’er her conquest rolls its sanguine tide,</div> - <div class='line'>There, the fair fabric of establish’d law,</div> - <div class='line'>There social order, and religious awe,</div> - <div class='line'>Sink in the general wreck; indignant there</div> - <div class='line'>Honour and Virtue fly the tainted air;</div> - <div class='line'>Fly the mild duties of domestic life</div> - <div class='line'>That cheer the parent, that endear the wife,</div> - <div class='line'>The lingering pangs of kindred grief assuage,</div> - <div class='line'>Or soothe the sorrows of declining age.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Nor yet can Hope presage th’ auspicious hour,</div> - <div class='line'>When Peace shall check the rage of lawless Power;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor yet th’ insatiate thirst of blood is o’er,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor yet has Rapine ravaged every shore.</div> - <div class='line'>Exhaustless Passion feeds th’ augmented flame,</div> - <div class='line'>And wild Ambition mocks the voice of Shame;</div> - <div class='line'>Revenge, with haggard look and scowling eyes,</div> - <div class='line'>Surveys with horrid joy th’ expected prize;</div> - <div class='line'>Broods o’er each remnant of monarchic sway,</div> - <div class='line'>And dooms to certain death his fancied prey.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>For midst the ruins of each falling state,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>One favour’d nation</span> braves the general fate—</div> - <div class='line'>One favour’d nation, whose impartial laws</div> - <div class='line'>Of sober Freedom vindicate the cause;</div> - <div class='line'>Her simple manners, midst surrounding crimes,</div> - <div class='line'>Proclaim the genuine worth of ancient times;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>True to herself, unconquerably bold,</div> - <div class='line'>The rights her valour gain’d she dares uphold;</div> - <div class='line'>Still with pure faith her promise dares fulfil,</div> - <div class='line'>Still bows submission to th’ Almighty will.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Just Heav’n! how Envy kindles at the sight!</div> - <div class='line'>How mad Ambition plans the desperate fight!</div> - <div class='line'>With what new fury Vengeance hastes to pour</div> - <div class='line'>Her tribes of rapine from yon crowded shore!</div> - <div class='line'>Just Heav’n! how fair a victim at the shrine</div> - <div class='line'>Of injured Freedom shall her life resign,</div> - <div class='line'>If e’er, propitious to the vows of hate,</div> - <div class='line'>Unsteady Conquest stamp our mournful fate,</div> - <div class='line'>If e’er proud France usurp our ancient reign,</div> - <div class='line'>And ride triumphant o’er th’ insulted main!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'> · · · · ·</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Far hence th’ unmanly thought—the voice of Fame</div> - <div class='line'>Wafts o’er th’ applauding deep her <span class='sc'>Duncan’s</span> name.</div> - <div class='line'>What though the Conqueror of th’ Italian plains</div> - <div class='line'>Deem nothing gain’d, while this fair isle remains;</div> - <div class='line'>Though his young breast with rash presumption glow,</div> - <div class='line'>He braves the vengeance of no vulgar foe:</div> - <div class='line'>Conqueror no more, full soon his laurel’d pride</div> - <div class='line'>Shall perish—whelm’d in Ocean’s angry tide;</div> - <div class='line'>His broken bands shall rue the fatal day,</div> - <div class='line'>And scatter’d fleets proclaim <span class='sc'>Britannia’s</span> sway.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_082.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. VIII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Jan. 1, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>A correspondent has adapted the beautiful poem of the -<span class='sc'>Battle of Sabla</span>, in “Carlyle’s Specimens of Arabian -Poetry,” to the circumstances of the present moment. -We shall always be happy to see the poetry of other -times and nations so successfully engaged in the service -of our country, and of the present order of society.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE CHOICE.<br /> <span class='small'>(FROM THE BATTLE OF SABLA, BY JAAFER BEN ALBA.)</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hast thou not seen th’ insulting foe</div> - <div class='line in2'>In fancied triumphs crown’d?</div> - <div class='line'>And heard their frantic rulers throw</div> - <div class='line in2'>These empty threats around?</div> - <div class='line'>“Make now <span class='fss'>YOUR CHOICE</span>! The terms we give,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Desponding Britons, hear!</div> - <div class='line'>These fetters on your hands receive,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or in your hearts the spear.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Can we forget our old renown;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Resign the empire of the sea;</div> - <div class='line'>And yield at once our sovereign’s crown,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Our ancient laws and liberty?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Shall thus the fierce destroyer’s hand</div> - <div class='line'>Pass unresisted o’er our native land?</div> - <div class='line'>Our country sink, to barb’rous force a prey,</div> - <div class='line'>And <em>ransom’d</em> <span class='sc'>England</span> bow to <em>Gallic</em> sway?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'><span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Is then the contest o’er?” we cried,</div> - <div class='line in2'>“And lie we at your feet?</div> - <div class='line'>And dare you vauntingly decide</div> - <div class='line in2'>The fortune we shall meet?</div> - <div class='line'>A brighter day we soon shall see;</div> - <div class='line in2'>No more the prospect lours;</div> - <div class='line'>And Conquest, Peace, and Liberty</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall gild our future hours.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yes! we will guard our old renown;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Assert our empire o’er the sea;</div> - <div class='line'>And keep untouch’d our sovereign’s crown,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Our ancient laws and liberty.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Not thus the fierce destroyer’s hand</div> - <div class='line'>Shall scatter ruin o’er this smiling land;</div> - <div class='line'>No barb’rous force shall here divide its prey;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor <em>ransom’d</em> <span class='sc'>England</span> bow to <em>Gallic</em> sway.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The foe advance. In firm array</div> - <div class='line in2'>We’ll rush o’er Albion’s sands—</div> - <div class='line'>Till the red sabre marks our way</div> - <div class='line in2'>Amid their yielding bands!</div> - <div class='line'>Then as they lie in death’s cold grasp,</div> - <div class='line in2'>We’ll cry, “<span class='sc'>Our choice is made!</span></div> - <div class='line'>These hands the sabre’s hilt shall clasp,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Your hearts shall feel the blade”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thus Britons guard their ancient fame,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Assert their empire o’er the sea,</div> - <div class='line'>And to the envying world proclaim,</div> - <div class='line in2'>One nation still is brave and free—</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>Resolv’d to conquer or to die,</div> - <div class='line'>True to their <span class='sc'>King</span>, their <span class='sc'>Laws</span>, their <span class='sc'>Liberty</span>:</div> - <div class='line'>No barb’rous foe finds here an easy prey—</div> - <div class='line'><em>Un-ransom’d</em> <span class='sc'>England</span> spurns all foreign sway.<a id='r25' /><a href='#f25' class='c024'><sup>[25]</sup></a></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>The following poem has been transmitted to us, -without preface or introduction, by a gentleman of the -name of <span class='sc'>Ireland</span>.<a id='r26' /><a href='#f26' class='c024'><sup>[26]</sup></a> We apprehend from the peculiarities -of the style, that it must be the production of a remote -period. We are likewise inclined to imagine, that it may -contain allusions to some former event in English history. -What that event may have been, we must submit -to the better judgment and superior information of our -readers, from whom we impatiently expect a solution of -this interesting question. The editor has been influenced -solely by a sense of its poetical merit.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>[<span class='sc'>Ja’far son of ’Ulbah, of the Banu-l-Hârith.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>The Poet, with two companions, went forth to plunder the -herds of ’Ukail, a neighbour-tribe, and was beset on his way -back by detached parties of that tribe in the valley of Sahbal, -whom he overcame and reached home safely.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>That even when under Sahbal’s twin peaks upon us drave</div> - <div class='line in2'>the horsemen troop after troop, and the foemen pressed us sore—</div> - <div class='line'>They said to us—“Two things lie before you: now must ye choose—</div> - <div class='line in2'>the points of the spears couched at you, or, if ye will not, chains”.</div> - <div class='line'>We answered them—“Yea, this thing may fall to you after fight,</div> - <div class='line in2'>when men shall be left on ground, and none shall arise again;</div> - <div class='line'>But we know not, if we quail before the assault of Death,</div> - <div class='line in2'>how much may be left of life: the goal is too dim to see”.</div> - <div class='line'>We strode to the strait of battle: there cleared us a space around</div> - <div class='line in2'>the white swords in our right hands which the smiths had furbished fair.</div> - <div class='line'>To them fell the edge of my blade on that day of Sahbal dale,</div> - <div class='line in2'>and mine was the share thereof whereover my fingers closed.</div> - <div class='line in56'><span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span> - <h3 class='c031'>THE DUKE AND THE TAXING-MAN.<a id='r27' /><a href='#f27' class='c024'><sup>[27]</sup></a></h3> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whilome there liv’d in fair Englonde</div> - <div class='line in2'>A Duke of peerless wealth,</div> - <div class='line'>And mickle care he took of her</div> - <div class='line in2'>Old Constitution’s health.</div> - <div class='line'>Full fifty thousand pounds and more</div> - <div class='line in2'>To him his vassals paid,</div> - <div class='line'>But ne to King, ne Countree, he</div> - <div class='line in2'>Would yield th’ assessment made.</div> - <div class='line'>The taxing-man, with grim viságe</div> - <div class='line in2'>Came pricking on the way;</div> - <div class='line'>The taxing-man, with wrothful words,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thus to the Duke did say:</div> - <div class='line'>“Lord Duke, Lord Duke, thou’st hid from me,</div> - <div class='line in2'>As sure as I’m alive,</div> - <div class='line'>Of goodly palfreys <em>seventeen</em>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of varlets <em>twenty-five</em>”.</div> - <div class='line'>Then out he drew his gray goose quill,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Ydipp’d in ink so black,</div> - <div class='line'>And sorely to <span class='fss'>SURCHARGE</span> the Duke,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I trowe, he was ne slack.</div> - <div class='line'>Then ’gan the Duke to looken pale,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And stared as one astound,</div> - <div class='line'>Twaie coneynge Clerks<a id='r28' /><a href='#f28' class='c024'><sup>[28]</sup></a> eftsoons he spies</div> - <div class='line in2'>Sitting their board around.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>“O woe is me,” then cried the Duke,</div> - <div class='line in2'>“Ne mortal wight but errs!</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll hie to yon twaie coneynge Clerks,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Yclept Commissioners.”</div> - <div class='line'>The Duke he hied him to the board,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And straight ’gan for to say,</div> - <div class='line'>“A seely<a id='r29' /><a href='#f29' class='c024'><sup>[29]</sup></a> wight I am, God wot,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Ne ken I the right way.</div> - <div class='line'>“These varlets twenty-five were ne’er</div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Liveried in white and red</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>Withouten this, what signifie</div> - <div class='line in2'>Wages, and board, and bed?</div> - <div class='line'>“And by St. George, that stout horseman,</div> - <div class='line in2'>My palfreys <em>seventeen</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>For two years, or perchance for three,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I had forgotten clean.”</div> - <div class='line'>“Naie,” quoth the Clerk, “both horse and foot</div> - <div class='line in2'>To hide was thine intent,</div> - <div class='line'>Ne seely wight be ye, but didst</div> - <div class='line in2'>With good advisament.<a id='r30' /><a href='#f30' class='c024'><sup>[30]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>“Surcharge, surcharge, good Taxing-man,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Anon our seals we fix,</div> - <div class='line'>Of sterling pounds, Lord Duke, you pay</div> - <div class='line in2'>Three hundred thirty-six.”<a id='r31' /><a href='#f31' class='c024'><sup>[31]</sup></a></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span> - <h3 class='c031'>EPIGRAM ON THE PARIS LOAN,<a id='r32' /><a href='#f32' class='c024'><sup>[32]</sup></a><br /> <span class='small'>CALLED</span><br /> THE LOAN UPON ENGLAND.</h3> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Paris cits, a patriotic band,</div> - <div class='line'>Advance their cash on British freehold land.</div> - <div class='line'>But let the speculating rogues beware—</div> - <div class='line'>They’ve bought the <em>skin</em>, but who’s to kill <em>the bear</em>?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. IX.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Jan. 8, 1798.</div> - -<h3 class='c038'>ODE TO ANARCHY.</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>BY A JACOBIN.</div> - <div class='c004'>(BEING AN IMITATION OF HORACE, ODE XXXV. BOOK I.)</div> - <div class='c004'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">O Diva, gratum quæ regis Antium!</span></i></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Goddess, whose dire terrific power</div> - <div class='line in2'>Spreads from thy much-loved Gallia’s plains</div> - <div class='line in2'>Where’er her blood-stain’d ensigns lower,</div> - <div class='line'>Where’er fell Rapine stalks, or barb’rous Discord reigns!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thou, who canst lift to fortune’s height</div> - <div class='line in2'>The wretch by truth and virtue scorn’d,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And crush with insolent delight,</div> - <div class='line'>All whom true merit rais’d, or noble birth adorn’d!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thee, oft the murd’rous band implores,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Swift darting on its hapless prey:</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thee, wafted from fierce Afric’s shores,</div> - <div class='line'>The Corsair Chief invokes to speed him on his way.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thee, the wild Indian Tribes revere;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thy charms the roving Arab owns;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thee, kings, thee tranquil nations fear,</div> - <div class='line'>The bane of social bliss, the foe to peaceful thrones.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>For, soon as thy loud trumpet calls</div> - <div class='line in2'>To deadly rage, to fierce alarms,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Just Order’s goodly fabric falls,</div> - <div class='line'>Whilst the mad people cries, “To arms! to arms!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>With thee Proscription, child of strife,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With Death’s choice implements, is seen,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Her Murderer’s gun, Assassin’s knife,</div> - <div class='line'>And, “last not least in love,” her darling <em>Guillotine</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Fond Hope is thine,—the hope of Spoil,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And Faith,—such faith as ruffians keep:</div> - <div class='line in2'>They prosper thy destructive toil,</div> - <div class='line'>That makes the Widow mourn, the helpless Orphan weep.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Then false and hollow friends retire,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Nor yield one sigh to soothe despair;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Whilst crowds triumphant Vice admire,</div> - <div class='line'>Whilst Harlots shine in robes that deck’d the Great and Fair.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Guard our famed Chief to Britain’s strand!</div> - <div class='line in2'>Britain, our last, our deadliest foe:</div> - <div class='line in2'>Oh, guard his brave associate band!</div> - <div class='line'>A band to slaughter train’d, and “nursed in scenes of woe”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>What shame, alas! one little Isle</div> - <div class='line in2'>Should dare its native laws maintain!</div> - <div class='line in2'>At Gallia’s threats serenely smile,</div> - <div class='line'>And, scorning her dread power, triumphant rule the main.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>For this have guiltless victims died</div> - <div class='line in2'>In crowds at thy ensanguined shrine!</div> - <div class='line in2'>For this has recreant Gallia’s pride</div> - <div class='line'>O’erturned Religion’s Fanes, and braved the Wrath Divine!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>What Throne, what Altar, have we spared</div> - <div class='line in2'>To spread thy power, thy joys impart?</div> - <div class='line in2'>Ah! then, our faithful toils reward!</div> - <div class='line'>And let each falchion pierce some loyal Briton’s heart.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>[<span class='small'>THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSLATION, BY DUNCOMBE, OF</span></div> - <div>HORACE’S ODE TO FORTUNE,</div> - <div><em>Of which the above Ode is a parody</em>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>O Goddess, whose propitious sway</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thy Antium’s favourite sons obey;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Whose voice from depth of woe recalls</div> - <div class='line'>The wretch, and triumphs turns to funerals;</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>From Thee, rich crops the needy swain</div> - <div class='line in2'>Implores. Thee, sovereign of the main,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The mariner invokes, who braves</div> - <div class='line'>In a Bithynian bark the Cretan waves;</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thee, Scythians, wandering far and near,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And unrelenting Dacians, fear:</div> - <div class='line in2'>The warlike sons of Italy;</div> - <div class='line'>Cities, and realms, and empires, worship Thee.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Mothers of barbarous monarchs dread,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And purple tyrants, lest thou tread</div> - <div class='line in2'>With spurning foot, and scatter round</div> - <div class='line'>The sculptured column on th’ encumbered ground;</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>And lest the fickle crowd should break</div> - <div class='line in2'>Their bonds; and with loud clamours wake</div> - <div class='line in2'>The peaceful to assert their right</div> - <div class='line'>By force of arms, and quell usurping might.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Ruthless necessity prepares</div> - <div class='line in2'>The way for Thee; and ever bears</div> - <div class='line in2'>Huge nails in her strong hands of brass</div> - <div class='line'>The wedge, the hook, and lead’s hot molten mass.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thee Hope and white robed Faith, adore,</div> - <div class='line in2'>So rarely found!—She, when no more</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thou smil’st, attends the fallen great</div> - <div class='line'>Stript of his gay attire and stately seat.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>But venal crowds and harlots fly:</div> - <div class='line in2'>And, if the flowing casks are dry,</div> - <div class='line in2'>When to the dregs the wine they drink,</div> - <div class='line'>From friendship’s yoke the false associates shrink.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thy aid for Cæsar Rome implores,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Conduct him safe to Britain’s shores,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The limits of the world; and lead</div> - <div class='line'>Our new-raised bands against the trembling Mede.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>Alas! we mourn our crimes, our scar</div> - <div class='line in2'>And brethren slain in civil wars:</div> - <div class='line in2'>How oft have Roman youth embrued</div> - <div class='line'>Their savage hands in streams of social blood!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>What has this Iron Age not dared?</div> - <div class='line in2'>What Gods revered? What Altars spared?</div> - <div class='line in2'>O! point again the blunted steel,</div> - <div class='line'>And let the Massagete our vengeance feel!—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c013' /> -<p class='c006'>The following Song is recommended to be sung at all -<em>Convivial</em> Meetings, convened for the purpose of opposing -the Assessed-Tax Bill. The correspondent who has transmitted -it to us informs us that he has tried it with great -success among many of his well-disposed neighbours, who -had been at first led to apprehend that the 1–20th part of -their income was too great a sacrifice for the preservation -of the remainder of their property from French Confiscation.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>You have heard of <span class='sc'>Rewbell</span>,<a id='r33' /><a href='#f33' class='c024'><sup>[33]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>That demon of hell,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And of <span class='sc'>Barras</span>, his brother Director;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>Of the canting <span class='sc'>Lepaux</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>And that scoundrel <span class='sc'>Moreau</span>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Who betray’d his old friend and protector.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Would you know how these friends,</div> - <div class='line'>For their own private ends,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Would subvert our Religion and Throne?—</div> - <div class='line'>Do you doubt of their skill</div> - <div class='line'>To change Laws at their will?—</div> - <div class='line in2'>You shall hear how they treated their own.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>’Twas their pleasure to look,</div> - <div class='line'>In a little blue book,</div> - <div class='line in2'>At the Code of their famed legislation,</div> - <div class='line'>That with truth they might say,</div> - <div class='line'>In the space of one day</div> - <div class='line in2'>They had broke every Law of the Nation.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The first law that they see,</div> - <div class='line'>Is “<em>the Press shall be free</em>!”</div> - <div class='line in2'>The next is “<em>the Trial by Jury</em>”:</div> - <div class='line'>Then, “<em>the People’s free Choice</em>”;</div> - <div class='line'>Then, “<em>the Members’ free Voice</em>”—</div> - <div class='line in2'>When <span class='sc'>Rewbell</span> exclaim’d in a fury—</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“On a method we’ll fall</div> - <div class='line'>For infringing them all—</div> - <div class='line in2'>We’ll seize on each Printer and Member:</div> - <div class='line'>No period so fit</div> - <div class='line'>For a desperate hit,</div> - <div class='line in2'>As our bloody month of <em>September</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“We’ll annul each election</div> - <div class='line'>Which wants our correction,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And name our own creatures instead.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>When once we’ve our will,</div> - <div class='line'>No blood we will spill,</div> - <div class='line in2'>(But let <span class='sc'>Carnot</span> be knock’d on the head).</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“To <em>Rochefort</em> we’ll drive</div> - <div class='line'>Our victims alive,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And as soon as on board we have got ’em,</div> - <div class='line'>Since we destine the ship</div> - <div class='line'>For no more than one trip,</div> - <div class='line in2'>We can just make a hole in the bottom.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“By this excellent plan,</div> - <div class='line'>On the <em>true Rights of Man</em>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>When we’ve founded our <em>fifth Revolution</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>Though <em>England’s</em> our foe,</div> - <div class='line'>An army shall go</div> - <div class='line in2'>To <em>improve</em> <span class='fss'>HER</span> corrupt Constitution.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“We’ll address to the Nation</div> - <div class='line'>A fine Proclamation</div> - <div class='line in2'>With offers of friendship so warm:</div> - <div class='line'>Who can give <span class='sc'>Buonaparte</span></div> - <div class='line'>A welcome so hearty</div> - <div class='line in2'>As the friends of a <span class='fss'>THOROUGH REFORM</span>?”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_095.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. X.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Jan. 15, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>For the two following poems we are indebted to unknown -correspondents. They could not have reached us -at a more seasonable period.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The former, we trust, describes the feelings common -to every inhabitant of this country. The second, we -know too well, is expressive of the sentiments of our -enemies.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>LINES,<br /> <span class='small'>WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1797.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Loud howls the storm along the neighbouring shore;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Britain</span> indignant hears the frantic roar:</div> - <div class='line'>Her generous sons pour forth on every side,</div> - <div class='line'>Firm in their country’s cause—their country’s pride!</div> - <div class='line'>See wild Invasion threats this envied land:</div> - <div class='line'>Swift to defend her, springs each Social Band:</div> - <div class='line'>Her white rocks echoing to their cheerful cry,</div> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>God and our King!</span>”—“<span class='sc'>England and Victory!</span>”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Yes! happy <span class='sc'>Britain</span>, on thy tranquil coast</div> - <div class='line'>No trophies mad Philosophy shall boast!</div> - <div class='line'>Though thy disloyal sons, a feeble band,</div> - <div class='line'>Sound the loud blast of treason through the land;</div> - <div class='line'>Scoff at thy dangers with unnatural mirth,</div> - <div class='line'>And execrate the soil which gave them birth;</div> - <div class='line'>With jaundiced eye thy splendid triumphs view,</div> - <div class='line'>And give to <span class='sc'>France</span> the palm to <span class='sc'>Britain</span> due:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>Or,—when loud strains of gratulation ring,<a id='r34' /><a href='#f34' class='c024'><sup>[34]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>And lowly bending to the <span class='sc'>Eternal King</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>Thy <span class='sc'>Sovereign</span> bids a nation’s praise arise</div> - <div class='line'>In grateful incense to the fav’ring skies—</div> - <div class='line'>Cast o’er each solemn scene a scornful glance,</div> - <div class='line'>And only sigh for <span class='fss'>ANARCHY</span> and <span class='sc'>France</span>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Yes! unsupported <em>Treason’s</em> standard falls,</div> - <div class='line'><em>Sedition</em> vainly on her children calls,</div> - <div class='line'>While Cities, Cottages, and Camps contend,</div> - <div class='line'>Their King, their Laws, their Country to defend.<a id='r35' /><a href='#f35' class='c024'><sup>[35]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Raise, <span class='sc'>Britain</span>, raise thy sea-encircled head;</div> - <div class='line'>Round the wide world behold thy glory spread;</div> - <div class='line'>Firm as thy guardian oaks thou still shalt stand,</div> - <div class='line'>The dread and wonder of each hostile land;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>While the dire fiends of discord idly rave,</div> - <div class='line'>And, mad with anguish, curse the severing wave.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Queen</span> of the <span class='fss'>OCEAN</span>, lo! she smiles serene,</div> - <div class='line'>’Mid the deep horrors of the dreadful scene;</div> - <div class='line'>With heartfelt piety to Heav’n she turns—</div> - <div class='line'>From Heav’n the flame of British courage burns—</div> - <div class='line'>She dreads no power but <span class='sc'>His</span> who rules the ball,</div> - <div class='line'>At whose “great bidding” empires rise and fall;</div> - <div class='line'>In <span class='sc'>Him</span>, on peaceful plain, or tented field,</div> - <div class='line'>She trusts, secure in <span class='sc'>His</span> protecting shield—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Gallia</span>, thy threats she scorns—<span class='sc'>Britain shall never yield</span>.</div> - <div class='line in42'><span class='sc'>An Englishwoman.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 class='c031'><span class='small'>TRANSLATION OF THE NEW SONG<br /> OF THE</span><br /> “ARMY OF ENGLAND”.</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>WRITTEN BY THE CI-DEVANT BISHOP OF AUTUN.<a id='r36' /><a href='#f36' class='c024'><sup>[36]</sup></a></div> - <div class='c004'>WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Good Republicans all,</div> - <div class='line'>The Directory’s call</div> - <div class='line in2'>Invites you to visit <span class='sc'>John Bull</span>;</div> - <div class='line'>Oppress’d by the rod</div> - <div class='line'>Of a King, and a God,<a id='r37' /><a href='#f37' class='c024'><sup>[37]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in2'>The cup of his misery’s full.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>Old <span class='sc'>Johnny</span> shall see</div> - <div class='line'>What makes a man <span class='fss'>FREE</span>;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Not parchments, nor Statutes on Paper;</div> - <div class='line'>And stripp’d of his riches,</div> - <div class='line'>Great Charter, and breeches,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall cut a <span class='fss'>FREE</span> Citizen’s caper.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then away, let us over</div> - <div class='line'>To <em>Deal</em>, or to <em>Dover</em>—</div> - <div class='line in2'>We laugh at his talking so big;</div> - <div class='line'>He’s pamper’d with feeding,</div> - <div class='line'>And wants a sound bleeding—</div> - <div class='line in2'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Par Dieu!</span></i> he shall bleed like a pig!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>John</span>, tied to the stake,</div> - <div class='line'>A grand baiting will make,</div> - <div class='line'>When worried by mastiffs of France;</div> - <div class='line'>What <span class='sc'>Republican fun</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>To see his blood run,</div> - <div class='line'>As at <em>Lyons</em>, <em>La Vendée</em>, and <em>Nantz</em>!<a id='r38' /><a href='#f38' class='c024'><sup>[38]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span>With grape-shot discharges,</div> - <div class='line'>And plugs in his barges,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With <em>National Razors</em> good store,</div> - <div class='line'>We’ll pepper and shave him,</div> - <div class='line'>And in the <em>Thames</em> lave him—</div> - <div class='line in2'>How sweetly he’ll bellow and roar!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What the villain likes worse,</div> - <div class='line'>We’ll vomit his Purse,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And make it the guineas disgorge;</div> - <div class='line'>For your <span class='sc'>Raphaels</span> and <span class='sc'>Rubens</span></div> - <div class='line'>We would not give two-pence;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Stick, stick to the <span class='sc'>pictures of George</span>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No Venus of stone,</div> - <div class='line'>But of good flesh and bone,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Will do for a true Democrat;</div> - <div class='line'>When weary with slaughter,</div> - <div class='line'>With <span class='sc'>John’s</span> Wife and Daughter,</div> - <div class='line in2'>We’ll join in a little <em>chit-chat</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_66'>66</span>The Shop-keeping hoard,</div> - <div class='line'>The Tenant and Lord,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And the Merchants,<a id='r39' /><a href='#f39' class='c024'><sup>[39]</sup></a> are excellent prey:</div> - <div class='line'>At our cannon’s first thunder,</div> - <div class='line'><em>Rape</em>, <em>pillage</em>, and <em>plunder</em></div> - <div class='line in2'>The <em>Order</em> shall be <em>of the day</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>French fortunes and lives,</div> - <div class='line'>French daughters and wives,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Have <em>five honest men</em> to defend ’em!</div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>Barras</span> and Co.</div> - <div class='line'>When to <em>England</em> we go,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Will kindly take <span class='sc'>John’s</span> <em>in commendam</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_101.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XI.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Jan. 22, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We have said in another part of our paper of this day, -“that though we shall never begin an attack, we shall -always be prompt to repel it”.</p> - -<p class='c007'>On this principle, we could not pass over in silence the -<span class='sc'>Epistle to the Editors of the</span> <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>, which appeared -in the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite> of Wednesday, and from -which we have fortunately been furnished with a motto -for this day’s paper.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We assure the author of the epistle, that the answer -which we have here the honour to address to him, contains -our genuine and undisguised sentiments upon the -merits of the poem.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Our conjectures respecting the authors and abettors of -this performance may possibly be as vague and unfounded -as theirs are with regard to the <span class='sc'>Editors</span> of the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>. -We are sorry that we cannot satisfy their curiosity -upon this subject—but we have little anxiety for the gratification -of our own.</p> - -<p class='c007'>It is hardly to be expected, that the character of the -epistle should be taken on trust from the editors of this -volume; it is thought best, therefore, to subjoin the -whole performance as it originally appeared—a mode of -hostility obviously the most fair, and in respect to the -combatants in the cause of Jacobinism, by much the -most effectual. They are always best opposed by the -arms which they themselves furnish. Jacobinism shines -by its own light.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span>To the respectable names which the author of the following -address has thought proper to connect with the -“<span class='sc'>Anti-Jacobin</span>,” no apology is made for thus preserving -this otherwise perishable specimen of dulness and defamation. -He who has been reviled by the enemies of the -“<span class='sc'>Anti-Jacobin</span>,” must feel that principles are attributed -to him, of which he need not be ashamed: and when the -abuse is conveyed in such a strain of feebleness and folly, -he must see that those principles excite animosity only -in quarters of which he need not be afraid.</p> - -<p class='c007'>It is only necessary to add, what is most conscientiously -the truth, that this production, such as it is, is <em>by far the -best</em> of all the attacks that the combined wits of the cause -have been able to muster against the <span class='sc'>“Anti-Jacobin”</span>.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>EPISTLE TO THE EDITORS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN.<a id='r40' /><a href='#f40' class='c024'><sup>[40]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Hic Niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto!</span></i></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To tell what gen’rals did, or statesmen spoke,</div> - <div class='line'>To teach the world by truths, or please by joke;</div> - <div class='line'>To make mankind grow bold as they peruse,</div> - <div class='line'>Judge on existing things, and—weigh the news;</div> - <div class='line'>For this a <span class='fss'>PAPER</span> first display’d its page,</div> - <div class='line'>Commanding tears and smiles through ev’ry age!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Hail, justly famous! who in modern days</div> - <div class='line'>With nobler flight aspire to higher praise;</div> - <div class='line'>Hail, justly famous! whose discerning eyes</div> - <div class='line'>At once detect <span class='fss'>MISTAKES, MIS-STATEMENTS, LIES</span>;<a id='r41' /><a href='#f41' class='c024'><sup>[41]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>10</div> - <div class='line'>Hail, justly famous! who with fancy blest,</div> - <div class='line'>Use fiend-like virulence for sportive jest;</div> - <div class='line'>Who only bark to serve your private ends—</div> - <div class='line'>Patrons of Prejudice, Corruption’s friends!</div> - <div class='line'>Who hurl your venom’d darts at well-earned fame—</div> - <div class='line'>Virtue your hate, and Calumny your aim!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span>Whoe’er ye are, all hail!—whether the skill</div> - <div class='line'>Of youthful <span class='sc'>Canning</span> guides the ranc’rous quill;</div> - <div class='line'>With powers mechanic far above his age,</div> - <div class='line'>Adapts the paragraph and fills the page;</div><div class='lnum'>20</div> - <div class='line'>Measures the column, mends whate’er’s amiss,</div> - <div class='line'>Rejects <span class='fss'>THAT</span> letter, and accepts of <span class='fss'>THIS</span>;</div> - <div class='line'>Or <span class='sc'>Hammond</span>,<a id='r42' /><a href='#f42' class='c024'><sup>[42]</sup></a> leaving his official toil,</div> - <div class='line'>O’er this great work consume the midnight oil—</div> - <div class='line'>Bills, passports, letters, for the Muses quit,</div> - <div class='line'>And change dull business for amusing wit:—</div> - <div class='line'>His life of labour at one gasp is o’er,</div> - <div class='line'>His books forgot—his desk beloved no more!</div> - <div class='line'>Proceed to prop the Ministerial cause;</div> - <div class='line'>See consequential <span class='sc'>Morpeth</span><a id='r43' /><a href='#f43' class='c024'><sup>[43]</sup></a> nods applause;</div><div class='lnum'>30</div> - <div class='line'>In ev’ry fair one’s ears at balls and plays</div> - <div class='line'>The gentle <span class='sc'>Granville Leveson</span><a id='r44' /><a href='#f44' class='c024'><sup>[44]</sup></a> whispers praise:</div> - <div class='line'>Well-judging Patrons, whom such works can please;</div> - <div class='line'>Great works, well worthy Patrons such as these!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Who heard, not raptured, the poetic Sage</div> - <div class='line'>Who sung of Gallia in a headlong rage,</div> - <div class='line'>And blandly drew with no uncourtly grace</div> - <div class='line'>The simple manners of our English race—</div> - <div class='line'>Extoll’d great <span class='sc'>Duncan</span>, and, supremely brave,</div> - <div class='line'>Whelm’d <span class='sc'>Buonaparte’s</span> pride beneath the wave?</div><div class='lnum'>40</div> - <div class='line'>I swear by all the youths that <span class='sc'>Malmesbury</span><a id='r45' /><a href='#f45' class='c024'><sup>[45]</sup></a> chose,</div> - <div class='line'>By <span class='sc'>Ellis’</span><a id='r46' /><a href='#f46' class='c024'><sup>[46]</sup></a> sapient prominence of nose,</div> - <div class='line'>By <span class='sc'>Morpeth’s</span> gait, important, proud, and big—</div> - <div class='line'>By <span class='sc'>Leveson Gower’s</span> crop-imitating wig,</div> - <div class='line'>That, could the pow’rs which in those numbers shine,</div> - <div class='line'>Could that warm spirit animate my line,</div> - <div class='line'>Your glorious deeds which humbly I rehearse—</div> - <div class='line'>Your deeds should live immortal as my verse;</div> - <div class='line'>And, while they wonder’d whence I caught my flame,</div> - <div class='line'>Your sons should blush to read their fathers’ shame!</div><div class='lnum'>50</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Proceed, great men!—your office is not done;</div> - <div class='line'>Proceed with what you have so well begun:</div> - <div class='line'>Load <span class='sc'>Fox</span> (if you by <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> would be preferr’d),</div> - <div class='line'>With ev’ry guilt that <span class='sc'>Kenyon</span> ever heard—</div> - <div class='line'>Adult’rer, gamester, drunkard, cheat and knave,</div> - <div class='line'>A factious demagogue and pension’d slave!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>Loose, loose your cry—with ire satiric flash:</div> - <div class='line'>Let all the Opposition feel your lash;</div> - <div class='line'>And prove them to these hot and partial times,</div> - <div class='line'>A combination of the worst of crimes!</div><div class='lnum'>60</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>But softer numbers softer subjects fit:</div> - <div class='line'>In liquid phrases thrill the praise of <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>;</div> - <div class='line'>Extol in eulogies of candid truth</div> - <div class='line'>The Virgin Minister—the Heav’n-born Youth;</div> - <div class='line'>The greatest gift that fate to England gave,</div> - <div class='line'>Created to support and born to save;</div> - <div class='line'>Prompt to supply whate’er his country lacks—</div> - <div class='line'>Skilful to <span class='fss'>GAG</span>, and knowing how to <span class='fss'>TAX</span>!</div> - <div class='line'>With him companions meet in order stand—</div> - <div class='line'>A firm, compact, and well-appointed band;</div><div class='lnum'>70</div> - <div class='line'>Skill’d to advance or to retreat, <span class='sc'>Dundas</span>,<a id='r47' /><a href='#f47' class='c024'><sup>[47]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>And bear thick battle on his front of brass;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Grenville</span> with pond’rous head, which match’d we find</div> - <div class='line'>By equal ponderosity behind.——</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>But hold, my Muse; nor farther these pursue!—</div> - <div class='line'>Great Editors, we have digress’d from you;</div> - <div class='line'>From you, to whom our trivial lays belong,</div> - <div class='line'>From you, the sole inspirers of our song!</div> - <div class='line'>Proceed:—urge on the same vindictive strain,</div> - <div class='line'>To gain the applauses of great <span class='sc'>Malmesbury’s</span> train;</div><div class='lnum'>80</div> - <div class='line'>With jaundiced eyes the noblest patriot scan:</div> - <div class='line'>Proceed—be more opprobrious if you can;</div> - <div class='line'>Proceed—be more abusive ev’ry hour;</div> - <div class='line'>To be more stupid is beyond your power.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span> - <h3 class='c031'>TO THE AUTHOR OF THE EPISTLE TO THE EDITORS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN.</h3> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Nostrorum sermonum candide judex!</span></i></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Bard of the borrow’d lyre! to whom belong</div> - <div class='line'>The shreds and remnants of each hackney’d song;</div> - <div class='line'>Whose verse thy friends in vain for wit explore,</div> - <div class='line'>And count but <em>one good line</em> in eighty-four!</div> - <div class='line'>Whoe’er thou art, all hail! Thy bitter smile</div> - <div class='line'>Gilds our dull page, and cheers our humble toil!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>For <em>yet</em>—though firm and fearless in the cause</div> - <div class='line'>Of pure Religion, Liberty, and Laws,—</div> - <div class='line'>Though <span class='fss'>TRUTH</span> approved, though fav’ring <span class='fss'>VIRTUE</span> smiled,</div> - <div class='line'>Some doubts remained: WE <em>yet</em> were <em>unreviled</em>.</div><div class='lnum'>10</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thanks to thy zeal! those doubts at length are o’er!</div> - <div class='line'>Thy suffrage crowns our wish!—<span class='fss'>WE</span> ask no more</div> - <div class='line'>To stamp with sterling worth each honest line,</div> - <div class='line'>Than Censure, cloth’d in vapid Verse like thine!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>But say—in full blown honours dost thou sit</div> - <div class='line'>’Midst <span class='sc'>Brookes’s elders</span><a id='r48' /><a href='#f48' class='c024'><sup>[48]</sup></a> on the <span class='fss'>BENCH OF WIT</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>Where <span class='sc'>Hare</span>,<a id='r49' /><a href='#f49' class='c024'><sup>[49]</sup></a> chief-justice, frames the stern decree,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_72'>72</span>While with their learned brother, sages three,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Fitzpatrick</span>,<a id='r50' /><a href='#f50' class='c024'><sup>[50]</sup></a> <span class='sc'>Townshend</span>,<a id='r51' /><a href='#f51' class='c024'><sup>[51]</sup></a> <span class='sc'>Sheridan</span>, agree?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Or art thou One—<span class='fss'>THE PARTY’S</span> flattered fool,<a id='r52' /><a href='#f52' class='c024'><sup>[52]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>20</div> - <div class='line'>Train’d in <em>Debrett’s</em>, or <em>Ridgway’s</em> civic school—</div> - <div class='line'>One, who with rant and fustian daily wears,</div> - <div class='line'>Well-natured <span class='sc'>Richardson</span>!<a id='r53' /><a href='#f53' class='c024'><sup>[53]</sup></a> thy patient ears;—</div> - <div class='line'>Who sees nor Taste nor Genius in these times,</div> - <div class='line'>Save <span class='sc'>Parr’s</span><a id='r54' /><a href='#f54' class='c024'><sup>[54]</sup></a> <em>buzz</em> prose,<a id='r55' /><a href='#f55' class='c024'><sup>[55]</sup></a> and <span class='sc'>Courtenay’s</span><a id='r56' /><a href='#f56' class='c024'><sup>[56]</sup></a> kidnapp’d rhymes?<a id='r57' /><a href='#f57' class='c024'><sup>[57]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_73'>73</span>Or is it he,—the youth,<a id='r59' /><a href='#f59' class='c024'><sup>[59]</sup></a> whose daring soul</div> - <div class='line'>With <em>half a mission</em> sought the Frozen Pole;—</div> - <div class='line'>And then, returning from the unfinish’d work,</div> - <div class='line'>Wrote <em>half a letter</em>,—to demolish <span class='sc'>Burke</span>?</div> - <div class='line'>Studied Burke’s manner,—aped his forms of speech;</div><div class='lnum'>30</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_74'>74</span>Though when he strives his metaphors to reach,</div> - <div class='line'>One luckless slip his meaning overstrains,</div> - <div class='line'>And loads the blunderbuss with <span class='sc'>Bedford’s</span> brains.<a id='r60' /><a href='#f60' class='c024'><sup>[60]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_75'>75</span>Whoe’er thou art—ne’er may thy patriot fire,</div> - <div class='line'>Unfed by praise or patronage, expire!</div> - <div class='line'>Forbid it, Taste!—with Compensation large</div> - <div class='line'>Patrician hands thy labours shall o’ercharge!<a id='r61' /><a href='#f61' class='c024'><sup>[61]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Bedford</span> and <span class='sc'>Whitbread</span> shall vast sums advance,</div> - <div class='line'>The <em>Land</em> and <em>Malt</em> of Jacobin Finance!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whoe’er thou art—before thy feet we lay,</div><div class='lnum'>40</div> - <div class='line'>With lowly suit, our <em>Number of to-day</em>!</div> - <div class='line'>Spurn not our offering with averted eyes!</div> - <div class='line'>Let thy pure breath revive the extinguished <em>Lies</em>!</div> - <div class='line'><em>Mistakes, Mis-statements</em>, now so oft o’erthrown,</div> - <div class='line'>Rebuild, and prop with nonsense of thy own!</div> - <div class='line'>Pervert our meaning, and misquote our text—</div> - <div class='line'>And <em>furnish us a motto for the next</em>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div id='t78' class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_114.jpg' alt='_LORD LONGBOW, the Alarmist, discovering the Miseries of IRELAND.——with the puffing out of the little farthing Rush-light, & ye story of Moll Coggin._' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span> - <h3 class='c031'>ODE TO LORD MOIRA.</h3> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>If on your head<a id='r62' /><a href='#f62' class='c024'><sup>[62]</sup></a> some vengeance fell,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Moira</span>, for every tale you tell,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The listening Lords to cozen;<a id='r63' /><a href='#f63' class='c024'><sup>[63]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>If but one whisker lost its hue,</div> - <div class='line'>Changed (like Moll Coggin’s tail) to blue,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I’d hear them by the dozen.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But still, howe’er you draw your bow,<a id='r64' /><a href='#f64' class='c024'><sup>[64]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Your charms improve, your triumphs grow,</div> - <div class='line in2'>New grace adorns your figure;</div> - <div class='line'>More stiff your boots, more black your stock,</div><div class='lnum'>10</div> - <div class='line'>Your hat assumes a prouder cock,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Like Pistol’s (if ’twere bigger).</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Tell then your stories, strange and new,<a id='r65' /><a href='#f65' class='c024'><sup>[65]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Your Fathers fame<a id='r66' /><a href='#f66' class='c024'><sup>[66]</sup></a> shall vouch them true;</div> - <div class='line in2'>So shall the <cite>Dublin Papers</cite>;</div> - <div class='line'>Swear by the stars<a id='r67' /><a href='#f67' class='c024'><sup>[67]</sup></a> that saw the sight,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_79'>79</span>That infant thousands die each night,<a id='r68' /><a href='#f68' class='c024'><sup>[68]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in2'>While troops <em>blow out their tapers</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Shuckburgh</span><a id='r69' /><a href='#f69' class='c024'><sup>[69]</sup></a><a id='r70' /><a href='#f70' class='c024'><sup>[70]</sup></a> shall cheer you with a smile,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Macpherson</span><a id='r71' /><a href='#f71' class='c024'><sup>[71]</sup></a><a href='#f71' class='c024'><sup>[71]</sup></a> simpering all the while,</div><div class='lnum'>20</div> - <div class='line in2'>With <span class='sc'>Bastard</span><a href='#f71' class='c024'><sup>[71]</sup></a><a id='r72' /><a href='#f72' class='c024'><sup>[72]</sup></a> and with Bruin:<a id='r73' /><a href='#f73' class='c024'><sup>[73]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>And fierce <span class='sc'>Nicholl</span>,<a id='r74' /><a href='#f74' class='c024'><sup>[74]</sup></a> who wields at will</div> - <div class='line'>Th’ emphatic stick, or powerful quill,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To prove his country’s ruin.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Each day new followers<a id='r75' /><a href='#f75' class='c024'><sup>[75]</sup></a> crowd your board,</div> - <div class='line'>And lean expectants hail my Lord</div> - <div class='line in2'>With adoration fervent:</div> - <div class='line'>Old <span class='sc'>Thurlow</span>,<a id='r76' /><a href='#f76' class='c024'><sup>[76]</sup></a> though he swore by G—</div> - <div class='line'>No more to own a master’s nod,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Is still your humble servant.</div><div class='lnum'>30</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Old <span class='sc'>Pulteney</span><a id='r77' /><a href='#f77' class='c024'><sup>[77]</sup></a><a id='r78' /><a href='#f78' class='c024'><sup>[78]</sup></a> too, your influence feels,</div> - <div class='line'>And asks from you th’ Exchequer Seals,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To tax and save the nation:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Tooke</span> trembles,<a id='r79' /><a href='#f79' class='c024'><sup>[79]</sup></a> lest your potent charms</div> - <div class='line'>Should lure <span class='sc'>Charles Fox</span> from <em>his</em> fond arms,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To <span class='fss'>YOUR</span> Administration.<a id='r81' /><a href='#f81' class='c024'><sup>[81]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>36</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>[TRANSLATION OF HORACE, BOOK II., ODE VIII.</div> - <div class='c004'>BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Avenger of insulted truth,</div> - <div class='line'>Had Heaven, Barine, dimm’d one tooth;</div> - <div class='line'>Or bade, in justice bade, thee wail</div> - <div class='line'>A speck upon a single nail—</div> - <div class='line'>I’d trust thee: but ere well the vow</div> - <div class='line'>Has passed those treacherous lips, there glow</div> - <div class='line'>New beauties mantling o’er thy cheek;</div> - <div class='line'>And thee the youth, thee only seek.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>It profits thee to be forsworn</div> - <div class='line'>By thy dead mother’s hallowed urn;</div> - <div class='line'>By heaven, and each mute nightly sign,</div> - <div class='line'>And every deathless power divine.</div> - <div class='line'>Yes: Venus laughs well-pleased, and lo!</div> - <div class='line'>The gentle Nymphs are laughing too;</div> - <div class='line'>And Cupid, who his burning darts</div> - <div class='line'>Whets with fresh blood from lovers’ hearts.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Boyhood is rising to thy sway,</div> - <div class='line'>Thy train of slaves augments: e’en they,</div> - <div class='line'>Who swore thy threshold to forsake,</div> - <div class='line'>Hug the fond chain they cannot break.</div> - <div class='line'>Thee for their sons pale mothers fear,</div> - <div class='line'>The frugal father for his heir:</div> - <div class='line'>And plighted maidens, lest thy charms</div> - <div class='line'>Keep the false truants from their arms.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>NOTES TO THE ODE TO LORD MOIRA.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>[This Ode, written by <span class='sc'>George Ellis</span>, refers to the wish of a “Third Party” -in the House of Commons, who were dissatisfied with the conduct of the war, -the embarrassed state of the finances, and the alarming situation of the country, -to have an interview with <span class='sc'>Lord Moira</span>, with a view to effect a change of -Ministry. The following extracts from a letter from his Lordship to <span class='sc'>Col. -M‘Mahon</span>, dated June 15, 1797, will throw some light on this negotiation. -“They requested that I would endeavour, on the assurance of their support, to -form an administration, on the principle of excluding persons, who had on -either side made themselves obnoxious to the public. I strenuously recommended -them to form an alliance with <span class='sc'>Mr. Fox’s</span> party, that might be satisfactory -to themselves, and reduce to strict engagement the extent of the measures, -which <span class='sc'>Mr. Fox</span>, when brought into office by themselves, would propose. -Hitherto nobody has been designated to any particular office but <span class='sc'>Sir William -Pulteney</span>. The gentleman had said that he was the person whom they should -be most gratified in seeing <span class='sc'>Chancellor of the Exchequer</span>, and I had professed -to them and to him that there was not any person with whom I could -act more confidently. I added, the introduction of <span class='sc'>Lord Thurlow, Sir W. -Pulteney</span>, and myself, into the Cabinet, would not assure the public of a -change of system.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span> -<img src='images/i_119.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Jan. 29, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>The following Ode[A] was dropped into the letterbox in -our Publisher’s window. From its title—“<span class='sc'>A Bit of an -Ode to Mr. Fox</span>”—we were led to imagine there was -some mistake in the business, and that it was meant -to have been conveyed to Mr. Wright’s neighbour, Mr. -Debrett, whom we recollected to have been the Publisher -of the “Half of a Letter” to the same gentleman, which -occasioned so much noise (of horse-laughing) in the world. -Our politics certainly do not entitle us to the honourable -distinction of being made the channel for communicating -such a production to the public. But, for our parts, as -we are “not at war with genius,” on whatever side we -find it, we are happy to give this Poem the earliest place -in our Paper; and shall be equally ready to pay the same -attention to any future favours of the same kind, and -from the same quarter.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The Poem is a free translation, or rather, perhaps, -imitation, of the twentieth Ode of the second Book of -<span class='sc'>Horace</span>. We have taken the liberty to subjoin the passages -of which the parallel is the most striking.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>A BIT OF AN ODE TO MR. FOX.<a id='r82' /><a href='#f82' class='c024'><sup>[82]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>On<a id='r83' /><a href='#f83' class='c024'><sup>[83]</sup></a> grey goose quills sublime I’ll soar</div> - <div class='line'>To metaphors unreach’d before,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That scare the vulgar reader:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_84'>84</span>With style well form’d from Burke’s best books—</div> - <div class='line'>From rules of grammar (e’en <span class='sc'>Horne Tooke’s</span>)</div> - <div class='line in2'>A bold and free Seceder.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I<a id='r84' /><a href='#f84' class='c024'><sup>[84]</sup></a> whom, dear Fox, you condescend</div> - <div class='line'>To call your “Honourable Friend,”</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall live for everlasting:</div> - <div class='line'>That<a id='r85' /><a href='#f85' class='c024'><sup>[85]</sup></a> Stygian Gallery I’ll quit,</div> - <div class='line'>Where printers crowd me, as I sit</div> - <div class='line in2'>Half-dead with rage and fasting.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I<a id='r86' /><a href='#f86' class='c024'><sup>[86]</sup></a> feel! the growing down descends,</div> - <div class='line'>Like goose-skin, to my fingers’ ends—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Each nail becomes a feather:</div> - <div class='line'>My cropp’d head<a id='r87' /><a href='#f87' class='c024'><sup>[87]</sup></a> waves with sudden plumes,</div> - <div class='line'>Which erst (like Bedford’s, or his groom’s)</div> - <div class='line in2'>Unpowder’d, braved the weather.<a id='r88' /><a href='#f88' class='c024'><sup>[88]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I mount, I mount into the sky,</div> - <div class='line'>“Sweet<a id='r89' /><a href='#f89' class='c024'><sup>[89]</sup></a> bird,” to<a id='r90' /><a href='#f90' class='c024'><sup>[90]</sup></a> <em>Petersburg</em> I’ll fly;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or, if you bid, to <em>Paris</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>Fresh missions of the <em>Fox and Goose</em></div> - <div class='line'>Successful Treaties may produce;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Though <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> in all miscarries.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Scotch,<a id='r91' /><a href='#f91' class='c024'><sup>[91]</sup></a> English, Irish <em>Whigs</em> shall read</div> - <div class='line'>The Pamphlets, Letters, Odes I breed,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Charm’d with each bright endeavour:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span><em>Alarmists</em><a id='r92' /><a href='#f92' class='c024'><sup>[92]</sup></a> tremble at my strain,</div> - <div class='line'>E’en<a id='r93' /><a href='#f93' class='c024'><sup>[93]</sup></a> <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, made candid by champaign,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall hail <span class='sc'>Adair</span> “<em>the clever</em>”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Though criticism assail my name,</div> - <div class='line'>And luckless blunders blot my fame,<a id='r94' /><a href='#f94' class='c024'><sup>[94]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in2'>O!<a id='r95' /><a href='#f95' class='c024'><sup>[95]</sup></a> make no needless bustle;</div> - <div class='line'>As vain and idle it would be</div> - <div class='line'>To waste one pitying thought on me,</div> - <div class='line in2'>As to<a id='r96' /><a href='#f96' class='c024'><sup>[96]</sup></a> “un<span class='fss'>PLUMB</span> a <span class='sc'>Russell</span>”.<a id='r97' /><a href='#f97' class='c024'><sup>[97]</sup></a></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_86'>86</span>[LYRICS OF HORACE, BOOK II., ODE XX.</div> - <div class='c004'>TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Borne on no weak or vulgar wing,</div> - <div class='line'>Upward through air, two-form’d, I’ll spring;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor longer grovel here, but soar</div> - <div class='line'>Where Envy shall pursue no more.</div> - <div class='line'>Not I, from humble lineage sprung,</div> - <div class='line'>Not I, dear Patron, whom thy tongue</div> - <div class='line'>Summons to fame, will fear to die,</div> - <div class='line'>Or bound by Styx’s fetters lie.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>A rougher skin my legs assume;</div> - <div class='line'>My upward limbs the cygnet’s plume</div> - <div class='line'>Invests; my shoulders, fingers feel</div> - <div class='line'>The feathery softness o’er them steal.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Fleeter than Icarus now I’ll haste,</div> - <div class='line'>A tuneful swan, to Libya’s waste,</div> - <div class='line'>And heaving sands, where Bospor’s wave</div> - <div class='line'>Tosses, or Arctic tempests rave.</div> - <div class='line'>Me Colchis, Dacia me shall learn,</div> - <div class='line'>Who hides her fear of Marsian stern;</div> - <div class='line'>Me Scythia’s hordes, the well-trained son</div> - <div class='line'>Of Spain, and he who quaffs the Rhone.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>From my mock bier be far away</div> - <div class='line'>The loud lament, the funeral lay;</div> - <div class='line'>And, tribute to my fancied doom,</div> - <div class='line'>Far the vain honours of the tomb!—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[The charge of <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> having sent <span class='sc'>Adair</span> to St. Petersburg, to counteract -the measures of <span class='sc'>Pitt’s</span> government, first broached in Mr. Burke’s “Letter on -the Conduct of the Minority,” has been vigorously contradicted, yet so late as -April, 1854, it was alluded to as a fact by Lord Malmesbury in the House of -Peers. It was, however, on this occasion again authoritatively denied by <span class='sc'>Lord -Campbell</span>, who took occasion to observe that <span class='sc'>Sir Robert Adair</span> was “now in -his 90th year, and for many years had served his country with great assiduity -and fidelity. He had been sent by successive ministers [Mr. Fox, Lord Grey, -<em>Mr. Canning</em> (who assisted in libelling him so often in the pages of the present -work), Lord Wellesley, Lord Palmerston, the Duke of Wellington] to Vienna, -to Constantinople, to Brussels, and to Berlin, and had represented the Crown -of England upon some occasions of very great importance, in which he had uniformly -acquitted himself to the satisfaction of the Government and for the -benefit of his country. He believed a more honourable man had not lived in -this country at any time.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>The following denial by Sir Robert Adair himself is copied from his autograph -statement, prefixed to the <cite>Life of Wilberforce</cite>, published in 1838:—“This -idle story is here accredited by Mr. Wilberforce, and inserted by his sons, -without due examination. It was grounded on a journey I made to Vienna and -St. Petersburg in 1791. Doctor Prettyman [<em>sic</em>], Bishop of Winchester, in a -work entitled <cite>The Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt</cite>, published by him in 1823, -brought forward the fact of my having gone upon this journey as a criminal -charge against Mr. Fox, who, as he pretends, sent me upon it with the intent -of counteracting some negociations then carrying on between Great Britain and -Russia at St. Petersburg. I answered his accusation, I trust successfully, in -two letters published by Longman & Co. [<cite>Two Letters from Mr. Adair to the -Bp. of Winchester, in answer to the charge of a High Treasonable Misdemeanour -brought by his Lordship against Mr. Fox and himself in his Life of the Rt. Hon. W. -Pitt</cite>, 8vo., 1821], and explained the circumstances which induced me in my -travels in 1791 to visit the two capitals above mentioned.—<span class='sc'>Robert Adair</span>: -1838.”</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span>The “Mission” was, however, firmly believed in, and <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> was urged, but -in vain, by the Duke of Richmond and others of the Government, to arrest <span class='sc'>Fox</span> -for high treason.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The following extract from the <cite>Political Memoranda of Francis, fifth Duke of -Leeds, now first printed from the Originals in the British Museum; edited by Oscar -Browning, for the Camden Society</cite>, 1884, is an illustration of the rumours current -at the time, and many years after.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“Saty. 24 Novr. 1792. <span class='sc'>Lord St. Helens</span> dined with me. After the Ladies -were gone upstairs we conversed, for some time on Foreign affairs.... Speaking -of the Russian business of last year he reprobated in the strongest terms -the conduct of <span class='sc'>Fox</span> in sending an agent, <span class='sc'>Mr. Adair</span>, to Petersburg to counteract -the negociations of this Court at that of Russia. He told me he knew for -certain that <span class='sc'>Mr. Adair</span> had shewn to some English merchants at Petersburg -the Empress’ Picture set in diamonds which had been given to him. That it -was not one of the sort usually given, but of much greater value, being set -round with large Brilliants, and the whole Picture covered with a Table -Diamond instead of Chrystal. That this was a present seldom made but on -some very particular occasion or to some great favorite (I remember to have -seen such a one in the possession of P. Orlow). <span class='sc'>Ld. St. H.</span> thought it must -have been worth six or seven thousand pounds, and of too much value probably -to have been meant for <span class='sc'>Mr. Adair</span>. The conclusion we both very naturally -drew from this circumstance was not very favorable to <span class='sc'>Mr. Fox</span>.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>The following additional particulars relating to the connection between -<span class='sc'>Fox</span> and <span class='sc'>Adair</span> may not be thought out of place here. They are extracted -from the highly interesting and important <cite>Croker Papers, being the Correspondence -and Diaries, 1809–1830, of the Rt. Hon.</cite> <span class='sc'>J. W. Croker</span>, <cite>M.P., Edited by Louis J. -Jennings. M.P.</cite>, 3 vols., 8vo., 1884.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The first is in these terms: “When <span class='sc'>Adair</span>, whose father was a surgeon, -went as <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> Ambassador to Russia, <span class='sc'>Lord Whitworth</span>, then the King’s -Minister, made a good joke, which tended not a little to lower <span class='sc'>Adair</span>, and -defeat his object. ‘<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Est-ce un homme très considérable, ce M. d’Adair?</span>’ -asked the <span class='sc'>Empress</span>. ‘<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Pas trop, Madame</span>,’ replied Lord Whitworth, ‘<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">quoique -son père était grand seigneur [saigneur]</span>.’” The other is taken from a very long -statement on various matters, made by K. George IV., when Prince of Wales, -to Croker personally. Adair’s wife, the Prince said, was a Frenchwoman with -whom <span class='sc'>Andreossi</span>, when here as Buonaparte’s Minister, intrigued. <span class='sc'>The Duchess -of Devonshire</span> told him—the Prince of Wales—that Mrs. Adair had offered -her a bribe of £10,000 down, and as much more whenever she might want it, -if she would communicate the Cabinet secrets, with which the French thought -she could not fail to be acquainted, through her intimacy with all the leaders -of the Government. This caused a breach between <span class='sc'>Fox</span> and <span class='sc'>Adair</span>. But the -former could only tell <span class='sc'>Adair</span> that an obstacle—which he could neither reveal -nor overcome, but which did not affect or alter <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> personal regard for him—prevented -his appointment to be <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> Under-Secretary of State.—<cite>Croker -Papers</cite>, i. 293.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_124.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XIII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Feb. 5, 1798.</div> - -<h3 class='c038'>ACME AND SEPTIMIUS; OR, THE HAPPY UNION<br /> <span class='small'>CELEBRATED AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Fox</span>,<a id='r98' /><a href='#f98' class='c024'><sup>[98]</sup></a> with <span class='sc'>Tooke</span> to grace his side,</div> - <div class='line'>Thus address’d his blooming bride—</div> - <div class='line'>“Sweet! should I e’er, in power or place,</div> - <div class='line'>Another Citizen embrace;</div> - <div class='line'>Should e’er my eyes delight to look</div> - <div class='line'>On aught alive save <span class='sc'>John Horne Tooke</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>Doom me to ridicule and ruin,</div> - <div class='line'>In the coarse hug<a id='r99' /><a href='#f99' class='c024'><sup>[99]</sup></a> of <em>Indian</em> Bruin!”</div> - <div class='line in2'>He spoke;<a id='r100' /><a href='#f100' class='c024'><sup>[100]</sup></a> and to the left and right,</div> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Norfolk</span> hiccupp’d with delight.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Tooke</span>,<a id='r101' /><a href='#f101' class='c024'><sup>[101]</sup></a> his bald head gently moving,</div> - <div class='line in2'>On the sweet patriot’s drunken eyes</div> - <div class='line in2'>His wine-empurpled lips applies,</div> - <div class='line'>And thus returns in accents loving:</div> - <div class='line'>“So, my dear<a id='r102' /><a href='#f102' class='c024'><sup>[102]</sup></a> <span class='sc'>Charley</span>, may success</div> - <div class='line'>At length my ardent wishes bless,</div> - <div class='line'>And lead, through discord’s low’ring storm,</div> - <div class='line'>To one grand <span class='sc'>radical Reform</span>!</div> - <div class='line'>As, from this hour I love thee more</div> - <div class='line'>Than e’er I hated thee before!”</div> - <div class='line in2'>He spoke, and to the left and right,</div> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Norfolk</span> hiccupp’d with delight.</div> - <div class='line'>With this good omen they proceed;<a id='r103' /><a href='#f103' class='c024'><sup>[103]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Fond toasts their mutual passion feed;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span>In <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> breast <span class='sc'>Horne Tooke</span> prevails</div> - <div class='line'>Before<a id='r104' /><a href='#f104' class='c024'><sup>[104]</sup></a> rich <em>Ireland</em> and <em>South Wales</em>;<a id='r105' /><a href='#f105' class='c024'><sup>[105]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>Fox</span> (unread each other book),</div> - <div class='line'>Is Law and Gospel to <span class='sc'>Horne Tooke</span>.</div> - <div class='line in2'>When were such kindred souls united?</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or wedded pair so much delighted?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>[ACME AND SEPTIMIUS. FROM CATULLUS.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Septimius</span> said, and fondly prest</div> - <div class='line'>The doating <span class='sc'>Acme</span> to his breast:—</div> - <div class='line'>“My Acme, if I prize not thee</div> - <div class='line'>With love as warm as love can be,</div> - <div class='line'>With passion spurning any fears</div> - <div class='line'>Of growing faint in length of years,</div> - <div class='line'>Alone may I defenceless stand</div> - <div class='line'>To meet, on Lybia’s desert sand,</div> - <div class='line'>Or under India’s torrid sky,</div> - <div class='line'>The tawny lion’s glaring eye!”</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Love</span>, before who utter’d still</div> - <div class='line'>On the left-hand omens ill,</div> - <div class='line'>As he ceased his faith to plight</div> - <div class='line'>Laugh’d propitious on the right.</div> - <div class='line'>Then <span class='sc'>Acme</span> gently bent her head,</div> - <div class='line'>Kiss’d with those lips of cherry red</div> - <div class='line'>The eyes of the delightful boy,</div> - <div class='line'>That swam with glistening floods of joy;</div> - <div class='line'>And whisper’d as she closely prest—</div> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>Septimius</span>, soul of <span class='sc'>Acme’s</span> breast,</div> - <div class='line'>Let all our lives and feelings own</div> - <div class='line'>One lord, one sovereign, Love alone!</div> - <div class='line'>I yield to love, and yield to thee,</div> - <div class='line'>For thou and love are one to me.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span>Though fond thy fervent heart may beat,</div> - <div class='line'>My feelings glow with greater heat,</div> - <div class='line'>And madder flames my bosom melt</div> - <div class='line'>Than all that thou hast ever felt.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[The following account of the celebration of <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> Birth-day, printed in the -<cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>, has not hitherto appeared in the editions of the <cite>Poetry</cite>. <cite>The Song -by Mr. Fox</cite> refers to the Subscription raised, after a meeting at the Crown and -Anchor, in the summer of 1793, for relieving him in his then present need, and -purchasing an Annuity for him. A Caricature by <span class='sc'>Gillray</span> on this meeting -was published on the 12th June, 1793.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>MR. FOX’S BIRTH-DAY.</h3> - -<p class='c034'>The public, distracted with the various accounts of the celebration of Mr. -Fox’s Birth-day, naturally turn to us for an authentic detail of that important -event—from a recollection of the correct and impartial statement we gave in a -former Number, of what passed at a <span class='sc'>Meeting of the Friends of Freedom</span> -[page 32].</p> - -<p class='c009'>To justify their confidence, we have had recourse to the <cite>Morning Post</cite> and -<cite>Morning Chronicle</cite> (the <cite>Courier</cite> being too stupid for our purpose), whose statements -we have carefully read, and corrected from the information of several -gentlemen who were present. We are thus enabled to lay before our readers a -genuine narrative of the whole proceeding, which we defy the tongue of Slander -to controvert in any material point.</p> - -<p class='c009'>As Mr. Fox’s reputation had been for some time on the decline, it was -thought necessary by the party (who are in great want of a <em>Head</em>) to make as -respectable an appearance as possible on the present occasion. It was therefore -suggested (at a previous meeting of confidential friends) that if the unfortunate -shyness which subsisted between the <em>Whig Club</em> and the <em>Corresponding Society</em> -could be opportunely removed by a few unimportant concessions on the part of -the former, such a number of citizens might be readily procured from that -respectable body as would serve to give the day an <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">éclat</span></i> it had not experienced -since the fatal schism of 1792.</p> - -<p class='c009'>This hint, so reasonable in itself, was immediately adopted, and Sir <span class='sc'>Francis -Burdett</span>, who was well acquainted with their haunts, was ordered into the -neighbourhood of Smithfield with a competent number of tickets. He was on -the point of setting out, when the Editor of the <cite>Morning Post</cite> observed, that -<em>forgery</em><a id='r106' /><a href='#f106' class='c024'><sup>[106]</sup></a> was so common at present, that he hardly thought it prudent to admit -all who might come with a bit of scribbled paper: on this it was determined to -distribute the price of admission amongst a certain number of people to be -selected by the Envoy:—these, it was rightly concluded, would not fail to -appear, from motives of vanity, as they could have no other possible chance of -dining with the Premier Dupe, we would say Duke, in England. It now remained -to determine the sum: this, after a short discussion, was fixed at Eight -Shillings and Sixpence per head, “which,” said the Editor of the <cite>Morning Post</cite>, -“will shew we cannot he persons of mean rank, since we can afford, in hard -times, to give so much for a dinner”;<a id='r107' /><a href='#f107' class='c024'><sup>[107]</sup></a> and Citizen <span class='sc'>Bosville</span> was desired to -advance the money upon the credit of the Whig Fund.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Previous to the meeting, the chairman dispatched a note to Sir <span class='sc'>William -Addington</span>, requesting that the Crown and Anchor might be exempted from -the visitation of his runners during the morning of the 24th [Jan., 1798]. To -this Sir <span class='sc'>William</span> assented, on condition that it should be recommended to the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>gentlemen, to leave their pocket-books and watches at home, that there might -be as little temptation as possible to break the peace. Thus everything was -arranged with a precaution that seemed to set accident at defiance.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Before four o’clock the passage to the <span class='fss'>LARGE ROOM</span> was crammed, when, -on a hint that dinner was on the point of being served, one of the head waiters -advanced to the great door, and opened a wicket for the admission of the company, -as fast as they paid down their money. Two or three had already passed -in good order, when Mr. John Nicholls advanced, and instead of 8s. 6d., produced -to the astonished receiver, <em>seventeen</em> of his <span class='fss'>PRINTED SPEECHES</span>, which, valuing -them at sixpence a-piece, he contended would make up the sum required. -These “<em>assets</em>” however, were absolutely rejected; and a violent dispute was -on the point of commencing, when Sir <span class='sc'>Christopher Hawkins</span> stept forward, -and whispering a few words, which we did not hear, obtained leave for his -friend to pass. The Speeches were therefore deposited, and Mr. <span class='sc'>Nicholls</span> was -already got within the wicket, when the man suddenly pulled him back by the -coat, and the dispute recommenced with more violence than ever. Upon inquiry -into the cause of this new tumult, we found that a wag (whom we afterwards -discovered to be Mr. <span class='sc'>Jekyll</span>) had played the member for Tregony a trick; -having taken an opportunity, in the crowd, of extracting the <em>genuine</em> speeches -from the pocket of the Honourable Member, and replacing them by the same -number of the <em>spurious</em> ones, printed for Mr. <span class='sc'>Wright</span>, the publisher of this -Paper. These the waiter very properly refused to receive, alleging, and indeed -truly, that instead of <em>six</em> pence a-piece, the whole seventeen were not worth <em>six</em> -farthings.</p> - -<p class='c009'>This altercation continued so long, that the company grew impatient; and -Mr. <span class='sc'>Bryan Edwards</span>, a little ashamed of his friend, who still continued obstinate, -offered to furnish his quota. Harmony now seemed to be restored, when -all at once a cry of astonishment broke forth that beggars all description. On -putting his hand into his pocket for the price of admission, Mr. E. suddenly -turned pale, and exclaimed, “by G—, gentlemen, some of you have picked my -pockets!” A hundred voices instantly repeated the same cry, and a dreadful -scene of confusion and uproar took place.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ardebant cuncta et fracta compage ruebant.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>What the consequence would have been, it is impossible to say, had not the -waiter, with an air of authority, commanded the doors to be shut at each end of -the passage, and every man to exhibit the contents of his pocket. A faint cry of -No! No! was over-ruled; and Sir <span class='sc'>Francis Burdett</span> produced an old Red Cap -from the bosom of his shirt, which he put into the hands of the Duke of <span class='sc'>Bedford</span>, -who was appointed collector-general <em>by acclamation</em>. With this his Grace went, -from man to man, executing his duty with the utmost fairness and impartiality; -and when he had finished, poured out the contents of the cap before them all. -These, it must be confessed, were a little heterogeneous, consisting, besides a -large sum of money, of a brass knocker (this was immediately claimed by the -landlord), a pewter pot squeezed together, a pair of pattens, a pint decanter, a -duck ready trussed for dressing, a great quantity of potatoes, and a vinegar -cruet. What was most extraordinary was, that though, as his Grace afterwards -declared, the money was found in very unequal portions, yet the total sum, -which was £222, 5s. 6d., being divided among the company, amounting to 523 -persons, produced 8s. 6d. for each individual, with the exception of the <em>Member</em> -for <em>Tregony</em>, who brought nothing but his speech, and Capt. <span class='sc'>Morris</span>, who pays -for everything with a Song.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Nothing material occurred during the Dinner, which was allowed to be excellent -of its kind, and where no such dish as Cow-heel (as maliciously reported -in <cite>The True Briton</cite>) made its appearance.</p> - -<p class='c009'>As soon as the cloth was removed, the Duke of <span class='sc'>Norfolk</span> took the Chair -amidst repeated plaudits,<a id='r108' /><a href='#f108' class='c024'><sup>[108]</sup></a> and addressed the Company in these words:</p> - -<p class='c009'>“Three virtuous Men, Citizens, have stood up in defence of Liberty—<span class='sc'>Maximilian -Robespierre</span>, <span class='sc'>Collot D’Herbois</span>, and <span class='sc'>Charles James Fox</span>:—The first -is guillotined; the second transported to <em>Cayenne</em>; and the third”——Here -<span class='pageno' id='Page_92'>92</span>all eyes were immediately upon Mr. <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, who now entered the room, supported -by Citizens <span class='sc'>John Gale Jones</span> and <span class='sc'>John Horne Tooke</span>—“As the Right -Hon. Gentleman (resumed the Duke, a little peevishly) has mistaken his cue, -and appeared sooner than he ought, I shall spare his modesty the panegyric I -was preparing, and shortly conclude with proposing the health of <span class='sc'>Charles -James Fox</span>.”—This was drank with three times three.</p> - -<p class='c009'>As soon as the clamour had subsided, Mr. <span class='sc'>Fox</span> arose and said, “That -language, at least any which he could boast, was inadequate to the exquisite -feelings of gratitude which at once delighted and oppressed him, at the sight -of so numerous and so respectable a body of free and independent Citizens, -met for a purpose which would make this the proudest and the happiest day of -his life”. Having dwelt a little on this idea, Mr. <span class='sc'>Fox</span> observed, “that he would -not interrupt the conviviality of the day by a long Speech: he knew there were -several present who came to hear him make a long Speech, but he would not -make a long Speech—to what purpose should he do it?—what could he add to -the Speech lately delivered by him, and so faithfully recorded in the <span class='sc'>Anti-Jacobin</span>, -a contemptible Publication, but one to which the praise of Accuracy -could not be denied. The new and extraordinary circumstances of the times -called for new and extraordinary measures: he would, therefore, if they pleased, -compress what he had to say into a <em>Song</em>—(<em>loud applauses</em>)—One word only.—He -owed both the <em>burden</em> and the <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">idea</span></i> of this Song to the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>. He -had yesterday, the 23rd, found there <span class='sc'>A begging Address</span> to the Nation, with -<span class='sc'>Date Obolum Belisario</span> prefixed to it as a Motto. This had pleased him -much, and this morning at breakfast he had endeavoured to adapt it, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">mutatis -mutandis</span></i>, to his own circumstances: he should now have the honour of -giving it.”</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div><span class='sc'>Song by Mr. Fox.</span></div> - <div class='c004'><em>To the Tune of</em></div> - <div>“Good People of England, and all who love Ale.”</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Good People of England, of every degree,</div> - <div class='line'>Lords, Commoners, listen, O! listen to me;</div> - <div class='line'>Republicans, Royalists, all—mark my ditty—</div> - <div class='line'>You’ll find I’ve a number of claims on your pity—</div> - <div class='line in34'>Date Obolum Belisario.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ye who heard me assert that Lord <span class='sc'>North</span>, now so mourn’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Was a <em>beast</em> to be shunn’d, was a <em>fool</em> to be scorn’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Yet who saw me, with real or fancied alarms,</div> - <div class='line'>Take the <em>fool</em> to my councils, the <em>beast</em> to my arms,</div> - <div class='line in34'>Date Obolum Belisario.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ye who heard me declare the <span class='sc'>Subscribers</span> of <span class='sc'>Reeves</span></div> - <div class='line'>Were a scoundrel collection of cut-throats and thieves,</div> - <div class='line'>Yet who saw me immediately after repair,</div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='fss'>SUBSCRIBE</span> at the Long-Room in Hanover Square,</div> - <div class='line in34'>Date Obolum Belisario.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ye who heard—when Invasion was close at our door,</div> - <div class='line'>And <em>Parker</em> and Liberty rul’d at the <em>Nore</em>—</div> - <div class='line'>Ye who heard—no; I mean, who <span class='fss'>DID NOT HEAR</span> me speak,</div> - <div class='line'>While <span class='sc'>Sheridan</span>,<a id='r109' /><a href='#f109' class='c024'><sup>[109]</sup></a> damn him! affected to squeak,</div> - <div class='line in34'>Date Obolum Belisario.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ye who heard me repeat that Resistance, at length,</div> - <div class='line'>Was reduc’d, by <span class='sc'>Pitt’s</span> Bill, to a question of <em>Strength</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>And that <em>prudence</em> alone——</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>We know not how far Mr. <span class='sc'>Fox</span> might have proceeded, had he not been interrupted -by a jangling of bells from the Side-table which immediately drew all -eyes that way. This proceeded from Capt. <span class='sc'>Morris</span>, who had fallen asleep -<span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>during Mr. <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> Song, and was now nodding on his chair, with a large paper -Cap on his head, ornamented with gilt tassels and bells, which one of the -company had dexterously whipped on unperceived. The first motion was that -of indignation; but the stupid stare of the unconscious Captain, who half -opened his eyes at every sound of the bells as his head rose or fell, and immediately -closed them again, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">somno vinoque gravatus</span></i>, had such a powerful effect -on the risible faculties of the Company, that they broke, as if by consent, into -the most violent and convulsive fits of laughter; Mr. <span class='sc'>Fox</span> himself not being -exempt from the general contagion.</p> - -<p class='c009'>As soon as the Captain was made sensible of the cause of this uproar, he -attempted to pull off the Cap, but was prevented by a Citizen from the <em>Corresponding -Society</em>, who maintained that the Company had a right to be amused -by the Captain in what manner they pleased; and that, as he seemed to amuse -them more effectually in <em>that state</em> than in any other, he insisted, for one, on his -continuing to wear the Cap. This was universally agreed to, with the exception -of the Duke of <span class='sc'>Norfolk</span>. The Captain was therefore led to the upper table, -with all his “jangling honours loud upon him!” Here, as soon as he was -seated, his Noble Friend called upon him for a Song.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The Captain sang the “<span class='sc'>Plenipo</span>” in his best manner.</p> - -<p class='c009'>This was received with great applause; and then the Duke gave “The -Defenders—of Ireland”—(<em>three times three</em>).</p> - -<p class='c009'>Captain <span class='sc'>Morris</span> then began</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“And all the Books of Moses”;—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c035'>but was interrupted, before he had finished the first line, by Mr. <span class='sc'>Tierney</span>, who -declared he would not sit there and hear anything like ridicule on the Bible.<a id='r110' /><a href='#f110' class='c024'><sup>[110]</sup></a>—(<em>Much -coughing and scraping</em>.)—Mr. Erskine took God to witness, that he thought -the Captain meant no harm;—and a gentleman from Cambridge, whose name -we could not learn, said, with great <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">naïveté</span></i>, that it was no more than was done -every day by his acquaintance. Mr. <span class='sc'>Tierney</span>, however, persisted in his opposition -to the Song, and Captain <span class='sc'>Morris</span> was obliged to substitute “Jenny Sutton” -in the place of it.</p> - -<p class='c009'>But the good humour of the company was already broken in upon, and Mr. -<span class='sc'>Tierney</span> soon after left the room (to which he did not return) with greater marks -of displeasure in his face than we ever remember to have seen there.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The Duke now gave <span class='sc'>Radical Reform</span> (<em>three times three, followed by continued -shouts of applause</em>).</p> - -<p class='c009'>A Counsellor <span class='sc'>Jackson</span> attempted to sing “Paddy Whack,” but was soon -silenced, on account of his stupid perversion of the words, and his bad voice.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Citizen <span class='sc'>Gale Jones</span> then rose and said—that he was no Orator, though he -got his living by oratory, being Chairman of a Debating Society. He had also -written a book—which he was told had some merit. He did not rise to recommend -it, but he thought it right to <em>hint</em>, that those who wished for Constitutional -information might be supplied with it at the Bar; the price was trifling—Eighteen-pence -was nothing to the majority of the Company;—to himself, -indeed—(here Mr. <span class='sc'>Horne Tooke</span> called out Order! Order! with some marks of -impatience)—He begged pardon, he would say no more—there was no one whom -he valued like Mr. <span class='sc'>Tooke</span>, there was no one indeed to whom he was under such -obligations; the very shoes he had on were charged by Citizen <span class='sc'>Hardy</span> to Mr. -<span class='sc'>Tooke’s</span> account—Mr. <span class='sc'>Tooke</span> was also a great friend to a Radical Reform—he -loved a Radical Reform himself; the Poor must always love Radical Reforms—he -should therefore beg leave to propose the health of Mr. <span class='sc'>John Horne Tooke</span>.—(<em>Three -times three.</em>)</p> - -<p class='c009'>Mr. <span class='sc'>Tooke</span> rose, and spoke nearly as follows: “You all know, Citizens, in -what detestation I once held the Man whose Birth-day we are now met to -commemorate. You cannot yet have forgot the ‘<span class='sc'>Two Pair of Portraits</span>’ I -formerly published, nor the glaring light in which I hung up him and his -father to the execration of an indignant posterity. You must also be apprized -of the charges of Corruption, Insurrection, and Murder (<em>much hissing and applause, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span>the latter predominant</em>) which I brought against him, justly, as I must still think, -at a former Election for Westminster. How happens it then, you will say, that I -now come forward to do him honour? I will tell you. At the last Election for -Westminster, I had still my suspicions of his sincerity; he appeared too anxious -to preserve measures with the spruce and powdered Aristocrats who usually -attended him to the Hustings; nor was it till the fourth or fifth day before the -close of the Poll, that those suspicions were removed. Aware that he was -losing ground among the People, he determined to make one great effort to -re-establish his popularity. He therefore came forward, and addressed the -free and independent Electors in front of the Hustings, in a Speech, of which -the remembrance yet warms my heart. From that moment, I marked him as -my own! Retractation was impossible; and the panegyric he lately delivered -on a Radical Reform, in a House which I despise too much to name, was the -natural and inevitable consequence of that day’s declaration. You may remember, -that when I addressed my Friends, I only said, ‘Gentlemen, Mr. <span class='sc'>Fox</span> has -spoken my sentiments; he has even gone beyond them—but I thank him’.—What -I then said I now repeat, with regard to his Speech on a late occasion—‘<span class='sc'>I -am most perfectly satisfied with his conduct; nor do I wish to -advance one step in the cause of reform, beyond what Mr. Fox has -pledged himself to go!!!</span>’”<a id='r111' /><a href='#f111' class='c024'><sup>[111]</sup></a></p> - -<p class='c009'>Mr. <span class='sc'>Tooke</span> then begged leave to propose Mr. <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> health for the second -time, and sat down amidst a thunder of applause.<a id='r112' /><a href='#f112' class='c024'><sup>[112]</sup></a></p> - -<p class='c009'>The Duke of <span class='sc'>Norfolk</span> observed to the Company, that as they had drunk the -health of a Man dear to the People, he would now call upon them to drink the -health of their Sovereign<a id='r113' /><a href='#f113' class='c024'><sup>[113]</sup></a>—here a hiccup interrupted his Grace, and a most violent -cry of “No Sovereign! no Sovereign!” resounded through the room, and continued -for several minutes, notwithstanding the earnest entreaties of the Duke to -be heard. Order was, however, restored at length, when his Grace gently chid -the Company for taking advantage of a slight infirmity of nature, to impute a -design to him which was wholly foreign from his heart—(<em>loud applause</em>). He -augured well, however, of their patriotism, and would now afford them an opportunity -of repairing the injury they had done him, by giving the Toast as he -intended—“<span class='sc'>The Health of our Sovereign—the Majesty of the People</span>”.<a id='r114' /><a href='#f114' class='c024'><sup>[114]</sup></a>—(<em>Loud -and incessant shouts of applause.</em>)</p> - -<p class='c009'>A disgusting scene of uproar and confusion followed, which we shall not -attempt to detail. The Chairman sank under the table in a state of stupefaction, -and the rest of the Company, maddened alike with noise and wine, committed -a thousand outrages, till they were literally turned into the streets by the -Waiters. As many of them as could speak were conducted home by the watchmen; -others were conveyed “in silent majesty” to the Round-house; and not -a few of them slept out the remainder of the night upon the steps of the neighbouring -houses. The Reporters of the Jacobin Papers were sought out, and -conveyed home by the pressmen, devils, &c., and one poor youth, whom we afterwards -found to be a Writer in the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite> (hired for the day by <cite>The -True Briton</cite>)<a id='r115' /><a href='#f115' class='c024'><sup>[115]</sup></a> had his pockets picked of a clean white Handkerchief and a -Notebook, after being severely beaten for deserting his former Employers.</p> - -<div id='t94' class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_132.jpg' alt=''_The' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XIV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Feb. 12, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>It has been our invariable custom to suppress such of -our correspondents’ favours as conveyed any compliments -to ourselves; and we have deviated from it in the present -instance, not so much out of respect to the uncommon -excellence of the Poem before us, as because it agrees so -intimately with the general design of our paper—to expose -the deformity of the French Revolution, to counteract -the detestable arts of those who are seeking to introduce -it here, and above all, to invigorate the exertions of -our countrymen against every Foe, foreign and domestic, -by showing them the immense and inexhaustible resources -they yet possess in British Courage and British Virtue!</p> - -<h3 class='c031'><span class='small'>TO</span><br /> THE AUTHOR OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN.</h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Foe to thy country’s foes!</span> ’tis <span class='fss'>THINE</span> to claim</div> - <div class='line'>From Britain’s genuine sons a British fame—</div> - <div class='line'>Too long French manners our fair isle disgraced;</div> - <div class='line'>Too long French fashions shamed our native taste.</div> - <div class='line'>Still prone to change, we half-resolved to try</div> - <div class='line'>The proffered charms of <span class='sc'>French fraternity</span>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Fair was her form, and <span class='sc'>Freedom’s</span> honour’d name</div> - <div class='line'>Conceal’d the horrors of her secret shame:</div> - <div class='line'>She claim’d some kindred with that guardian pow’r,</div> - <div class='line'>Long worshipp’d here in Britain’s happier hour:</div> - <div class='line'>Virtue and Peace, she said, were in her train,</div> - <div class='line'>The long-lost blessings of <span class='sc'>Astræa’s</span> reign—</div> - <div class='line'>But soon the vizor dropp’d—her haggard face</div> - <div class='line'>Betray’d the <span class='sc'>Fury</span> lurking in the <span class='sc'>Grace</span>—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_96'>96</span>The false attendants that behind her press’d,</div> - <div class='line'>In vain disguised, the latent guilt confess’d:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Peace</span> dropt her snow-white robe, and shudd’ring show’d</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Ambition’s</span> mantle reeking fresh with blood;</div> - <div class='line'>Presumptuous <span class='sc'>Folly</span> stood in <span class='sc'>Reason’s</span> form,</div> - <div class='line'>Pleased with the power to ruin,—not reform;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Philosophy</span>, proud phantom, undismay’d,</div> - <div class='line'>With cold regard the ghastly train survey’d;</div> - <div class='line'>Saw <span class='sc'>Persecution</span> gnash her iron teeth,</div> - <div class='line'>While <em>Atheists</em> preach’d the <em>eternal sleep of death</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>Saw <span class='sc'>Anarchy</span> the social chain unbind,</div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>Discord</span> sour the blood of human kind;</div> - <div class='line'>Then talk’d of Nature’s Rights, and Equal Sway;</div> - <div class='line'>And saw her system safe—<span class='fss'>AND STALK’D AWAY</span>!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Foil’d by our <span class='sc'>Arms</span>, where’er in <span class='fss'>ARMS</span> we met,</div> - <div class='line'>With <span class='fss'>ARTS LIKE THESE</span> the foe assails us yet.</div> - <div class='line'>Hopeless the fort to storm, or to surprise,</div> - <div class='line'>More secret wiles his envious malice tries;</div> - <div class='line'>Diseas’d himself, spread wide his own despair,</div> - <div class='line'>Pollutes the fount, and taints the wholesome air.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>While many a Chief, to glory not unknown,</div> - <div class='line'>Alarms each hostile shore, and guards our own,</div> - <div class='line'>’Tis <span class='fss'>THINE</span>, the latent treachery to proclaim;</div> - <div class='line'>An humbler warfare, but the cause the same.</div> - <div class='line'>In vain had <span class='sc'>Pompey</span> crush’d the <span class='sc'>Pontic host</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>And chas’d the pirate swarm from every coast;</div> - <div class='line'>The crew that leagu’d their country to o’erthrow;</div> - <div class='line'>The base confederates of a <span class='sc'>Gallic</span><a id='r116' /><a href='#f116' class='c024'><sup>[116]</sup></a> foe;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_97'>97</span>Had not the Civic Consul’s watchful eye</div> - <div class='line'>Track’d through the windings of conspiracy,</div> - <div class='line'>Exposed, confounded, shamed, and forced away,</div> - <div class='line'>The “<span class='sc'>Jacobin Reformer</span><a id='r117' /><a href='#f117' class='c024'><sup>[117]</sup></a> of his day”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>’Tis <span class='fss'>THINE</span> a subtler mischief to pursue,</div> - <div class='line'>And drag a deeper, darker, plot to view;</div> - <div class='line'>Whate’er its form, still ready to engage,</div> - <div class='line'>Detect its malice, or resist its rage;</div> - <div class='line'>Whether it whispers low, or raves aloud,</div> - <div class='line'>In sneers profane, or blasphemies avow’d;<a id='r118' /><a href='#f118' class='c024'><sup>[118]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Insults its King, reviles its Country’s cause,</div> - <div class='line'>And, ’scaped from Justice, braves the lenient Laws:</div> - <div class='line'>Whate’er the hand in desperate faction bold,</div> - <div class='line'>By native hate inspired, or foreign gold;</div> - <div class='line'>Traitors absolved, and libellers released,</div> - <div class='line'>The recreant Peer, or renegado Priest;<a id='r119' /><a href='#f119' class='c024'><sup>[119]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>The <em>Sovereign-people’s</em> cringing, crafty slave,</div> - <div class='line'>The dashing fool, and instigating knave,</div> - <div class='line'>Each claims thy care; nor think the labour vain—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Vermin have sunk the Ship that ruled the Main</span>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_98'>98</span>’Tis <span class='fss'>THINE</span>, with Truth’s fair shield to ward the blow,</div> - <div class='line'>And turn the weapon back upon the foe:</div> - <div class='line'>To trace the skulking fraud, the candid cheat,</div> - <div class='line'>That can retract the falsehood, yet repeat;</div> - <div class='line'>To wake the listless, slumb’ring as they lie,</div> - <div class='line'>Lapt in th’ embrace of soft security;</div> - <div class='line'>To rouse the cold, re-animate the brave,</div> - <div class='line'>And shew the cautious all they have to save.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Erect that standard <span class='sc'>Alfred</span> first unfurl’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Britain’s just pride, the wonder of the world;</div> - <div class='line'>Whose staff is Freedom’s spear, whose blazon’d field</div> - <div class='line'>Beams with the <span class='sc'>Christian Cross</span>, the <span class='sc'>Regal Shield</span>;</div> - <div class='line'>That standard which the <span class='sc'>Patriot Barons</span> bore,</div> - <div class='line'>Restored, from <span class='sc'>Runimede’s</span> resounding shore;</div> - <div class='line'>Which since consign’d to <span class='sc'>William’s</span> guardian hand,</div> - <div class='line'>Waved in new splendour o’er a grateful land;</div> - <div class='line'>Which oft in vain by force or fraud assail’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Has stood the shock of ages—and prevail’d.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Yes! the <span class='sc'>bright sun of Britain</span> yet shall shine—</div> - <div class='line'>The clouds are earth-born, but his fire divine;</div> - <div class='line'>That temperate splendour, and that genial heat,</div> - <div class='line'>Shall still illume, and cherish Empire’s Seat;</div> - <div class='line'>While the red Meteor, whose portentous glare</div> - <div class='line'>Shot plagues infectious through the troubled air;</div> - <div class='line'>Admired, or fear’d no more, shall melt away,</div> - <div class='line'>Lost in the radiance of <span class='fss'>HIS BRIGHTER DAY</span>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div id='t99' class='figcenter id004'> -<img src='images/i_139.jpg' alt=''_DESIGN' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_99'>99</span> - <h3 class='c031'>LINES.<br /> <span class='small'><em>Written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown and Anchor.</em></span></h3> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’ll not sell Uncle <span class='sc'>Noll</span>, Charles Surface cries;—</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll not sell <span class='sc'>Charley Fox</span>, John Bull replies:</div> - <div class='line'>Sell him, indeed! who’ll find me such another?—</div> - <div class='line'>Fox is above all price; so hold your pother.</div> - <div class='line in34'><cite>Morning Post, Feb. 6.</cite></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>To make our readers some amends for this miserable -doggrel, we will present them, in our turn, with some -lines written <em>under a bust</em>, <span class='fss'>NOT</span> <em>at the Crown and Anchor</em>, -by an <span class='sc'>English traveller</span> just returned from Petersburgh. -We believe they are more just; we are certain -they are more poetical.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>LINES.<br /> <span class='small'><em>Written by a Traveller at Czarco-zelo under the Bust of a certain Orator, once placed between those of Demosthenes and Cicero.</em></span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>The Grecian</span> Orator of old,</div> - <div class='line'>With scorn rejected <span class='sc'>Philip’s</span> laws,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Indignant spurn’d at foreign gold,</div> - <div class='line'>And triumph’d in his country’s cause.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>A foe to every wild extreme,</div> - <div class='line'>’Mid civil storms, the Roman Sage</div> - <div class='line in2'>Repress’d Ambition’s frantic scheme,</div> - <div class='line'>And check’d the madding people’s rage.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Their country’s peace, and wealth and fame,</div> - <div class='line'>With patriot zeal their labours sought,</div> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_100'>100</span>And Rome’s or Athens’ honoured name</div> - <div class='line'>Inspired and govern’d every thought.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Who now, in this presumptuous hour,</div> - <div class='line'>Aspires to share the Athenian’s praise?</div> - <div class='line in2'>—The advocate of foreign power,</div> - <div class='line'>The Æschines of later days.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>What chosen name to Tully’s join’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Is thus announced to distant climes?</div> - <div class='line in2'>—Behold, to lasting shame consign’d,</div> - <div class='line'>The <em>Catiline</em> of modern times!<a id='r120' /><a href='#f120' class='c024'><sup>[120]</sup></a></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_101'>101</span> -<img src='images/i_142.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_102'>102</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>Feb. 19, 1798.</div> - -<h3 class='c038'>THE PROGRESS OF MAN.<a id='r121' /><a href='#f121' class='c024'><sup>[121]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><b>A Didactic Poem,</b></div> - <div class='c004'><span class='small'>IN FORTY CANTOS, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY: CHIEFLY OF A PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCY.</span></div> - <div class='c004'>DEDICATED TO R. P. KNIGHT, ESQ.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<h4 class='c038'>CANTO FIRST.</h4> - -<p class='c039'><span class='sc'>Contents.</span>—The Subject proposed.—Doubts and Waverings.—Queries -not to be answered.—Formation of the stupendous -Whole.—Cosmogony; or the Creation of the World:—the -Devil—Man—Various Classes of Being:—<span class='sc'>Animated Beings</span>—Birds—Fish—Beasts—the -Influence of the Sexual Appetite—on -Tigers—on Whales—On Crimpt Cod—on Perch—on -Shrimps—on Oysters.—Various Stations assigned to different -Animals:—Birds—Bears—Mackerel.—Bears remarkable -for their fur—Mackerel cried on a Sunday—Birds do -not graze—nor Fishes fly—nor Beasts live in the Water.—Plants -equally contented with their lot:—Potatoes—Cabbage—Lettuce—Leeks—Cucumbers.—<span class='sc'>Man</span> -only discontented—born -a Savage; not choosing to continue so, becomes -polished—resigns his Liberty—Priest-craft—King-craft—Tyranny -of Laws and Institutions.—Savage Life—description -thereof:—The Savage free—roaming Woods—feeds -on Hips and Haws—Animal Food—first notion of it from -seeing a Tiger tearing his prey—wonders if it is good—resolves -to try—makes a Bow and Arrow—kills a Pig—resolves -to roast a part of it—lights a fire—<span class='sc'>Apostrophe</span> to -fires—Spits and Jacks not yet invented.—Digression.—<span class='sc'>Corinth</span>—<span class='sc'>Sheffield.</span>—Love, -the most natural desire after -Food.—Savage Courtship.—Concubinage recommended.—Satirical -Reflections on Parents and Children—Husbands -<span class='pageno' id='Page_103'>103</span>and Wives—against collateral Consanguinity.—<span class='sc'>Freedom</span> the -only Morality, &c. &c. &c.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whether some great, supreme o’er-ruling Power</div> - <div class='line'>Stretch’d forth its arm at Nature’s natal hour,</div> - <div class='line'>Composed this mighty whole with plastic skill,<a id='r122' /><a href='#f122' class='c024'><sup>[122]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Wielding the jarring elements at will?</div> - <div class='line'>Or whether, sprung from Chaos’ mingling storm,</div><div class='lnum'>5</div> - <div class='line'>The mass of matter started into form?</div> - <div class='line'>Or Chance o’er earth’s green lap spontaneous fling</div> - <div class='line'>The fruits of autumn and the flowers of spring?</div> - <div class='line'>Whether material substance unrefined,</div> - <div class='line'>Owns the strong impulse of instructive mind,</div><div class='lnum'>10</div> - <div class='line'>Which to one centre points diverging lines,</div> - <div class='line'>Confounds, refracts, invig’rates, and combines?<a id='r123' /><a href='#f123' class='c024'><sup>[123]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Whether the joys of earth, the hopes of heaven,</div> - <div class='line'>By man to God, or God to man, were given?<a id='r124' /><a href='#f124' class='c024'><sup>[124]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>If virtue leads to bliss, or vice to woe?</div><div class='lnum'>15</div> - <div class='line'>Who rules above, or who reside below?<a id='r125' /><a href='#f125' class='c024'><sup>[125]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_104'>104</span>Vain questions all—shall man presume to know?</div> - <div class='line'>On all these points, and points obscure as these,</div> - <div class='line'>Think they who will,—and think whate’er they please!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Let us a plainer, steadier theme pursue—</div><div class='lnum'>20</div> - <div class='line'>Mark the grim savage scoop his light canoe;</div> - <div class='line'>Mark the dark rook, on pendent branches hung,</div> - <div class='line'>With anxious fondness feed her cawing young.—</div> - <div class='line'>Mark the fell leopard through the desert prowl,</div> - <div class='line'>Fish prey on fish, and fowl regale on fowl;—</div><div class='lnum'>25</div> - <div class='line'>How Lybian tigers’ chawdrons<a id='r126' /><a href='#f126' class='c024'><sup>[126]</sup></a> love assails,</div> - <div class='line'>And warms, ’midst seas of ice, the melting whales;—<a id='r127' /><a href='#f127' class='c024'><sup>[127]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Cools the crimpt cod, fierce pangs to perch imparts,</div> - <div class='line'>Shrinks shrivell’d shrimps, but opens oysters’ hearts;—<a id='r128' /><a href='#f128' class='c024'><sup>[128]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Then say, how all these things together tend</div><div class='lnum'>30</div> - <div class='line'>To one great truth, prime object, and good end?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>First—to each living thing, whate’er its kind,</div> - <div class='line'>Some lot, some part, some station is assign’d.</div> - <div class='line'>The feather’d race with pinions skim the <em>air</em>—<a id='r129' /><a href='#f129' class='c024'><sup>[129]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Not so the mackerel, and still less the bear;<a id='r130' /><a href='#f130' class='c024'><sup>[130]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>35</div> - <div class='line'><em>This</em> roams the <em>wood</em>, carniv’rous for his prey!<a id='r131' /><a href='#f131' class='c024'><sup>[131]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><em>That</em> with soft roe pursues his <em>watery</em> way:<a id='r132' /><a href='#f132' class='c024'><sup>[132]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_105'>105</span><em>This</em>, slain by hunters, yields his shaggy hide;<a id='r133' /><a href='#f133' class='c024'><sup>[133]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><em>That</em>, caught by fishers, is on <em>Sundays</em> cried.—<a id='r134' /><a href='#f134' class='c024'><sup>[134]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>But each contented with his humble sphere,</div><div class='lnum'>40</div> - <div class='line'>Moves unambitious through the circling year;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor e’er forgets the fortune of his race,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor pines to quit, or strives to change his place.</div> - <div class='line'>Ah! who has seen the mailed lobster rise,</div> - <div class='line'>Clap her broad wings, and soaring claim the skies?<a id='r135' /><a href='#f135' class='c024'><sup>[135]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>45</div> - <div class='line'>When did the owl, descending from her bow’r,</div> - <div class='line'>Crop, ’midst the fleecy flocks, the tender flow’r;</div> - <div class='line'>Or the young heifer plunge, with pliant limb,</div> - <div class='line'>In the salt wave,<a id='r136' /><a href='#f136' class='c024'><sup>[136]</sup></a> and fish-like strive to swim?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>The same with plants<a id='r137' /><a href='#f137' class='c024'><sup>[137]</sup></a>—potatoes ’tatoes breed—<a id='r138' /><a href='#f138' class='c024'><sup>[138]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>50</div> - <div class='line'>Uncostly cabbage springs from cabbage seed;</div> - <div class='line'>Lettuce to lettuce, leeks to leeks succeed;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor e’er did cooling cucumbers presume</div> - <div class='line'>To flow’r like myrtle, or like violets bloom.</div> - <div class='line'>—Man, only,—rash, refined, presumptuous man,</div><div class='lnum'>55</div> - <div class='line'>Starts from his rank, and mars creation’s plan.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_106'>106</span>Born the free heir of nature’s wide domain,</div> - <div class='line'>To art’s strict limits bounds his narrow’d reign;</div> - <div class='line'>Resigns his native rights for meaner things,</div> - <div class='line'>For faith and fetters—laws, and priests, and kings.</div><div class='lnum'>60</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>(<em>To be continued.</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>We are sorry to be obliged to break off here. The -remainder of this admirable and instructive Poem is in -the press, and will be continued the first opportunity.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='fss'>THE EDITOR.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[The following is the commencement of Knight’s poem:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whether primordial motion sprang to life</div> - <div class='line'>From the wild war of elemental strife;</div> - <div class='line'>In central chains the mass inert confined,</div> - <div class='line'>And sublimated matter into mind:</div> - <div class='line'>Or, whether one great all-pervading soul</div> - <div class='line'>Moves in each part and animates the whole;</div> - <div class='line'>Unnumbered worlds to one great centre draws,</div> - <div class='line'>And governs all by pre-established laws:</div> - <div class='line'>Whether in fates’ eternal fetters bound,</div> - <div class='line'>Mechanic nature goes her endless round:</div> - <div class='line'>Or ever varying, acts but to fulfil</div> - <div class='line'>The sovereign mandates of Almighty will;—</div> - <div class='line'>Let learned folly seek, or foolish pride,</div> - <div class='line'>Rash in presumptuous ignorance, decide.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[Eminent as Richard Payne Knight was as a classical scholar and archæologist, -his poetical powers were not highly appreciated by his literary contemporaries, -as is amusingly shown in a letter from Horace Walpole, dated 22nd -March, 1796, to the Rev. W. Mason, in which he declares how much he is -“offended and disgusted by Mr. Knight’s new, insolent, and self-conceited -poem”. He winds up thus: “I send you a parody on two lines of Mr. Knight, -which will show you that his poem is seen in its true light by a young man of -allowed parts, <span class='sc'>Mr. Canning</span>, whom I never saw. The originals are the two -first lines at the top of page <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>:”—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Some fainter irritations seem to feel,</div> - <div class='line'>Which o’er its languid fibres gently steal”.—<span class='sc'>Knight.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Cools the crimp’d cod, to pond-perch pangs imparts,</div> - <div class='line'>Thrills the shelled shrimps, and opens oysters’ hearts.”—<span class='sc'>Canning.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c035'>It is evident from this that Canning had thought of parodying the poem immediately -after its publication, and that Walpole had seen a specimen in manuscript, -nearly two years before its publication in the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>, in which the -two lines (28, 29) are thus altered:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Cools the crimpt cod, fierce pangs to perch imparts,</div> - <div class='line'>Shrinks shrivell’d shrimps, but opens oysters’ hearts”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c035'>By an oversight, Peter Cunningham, in his edition of Walpole’s Letters, attributes -the latter’s attack to a previous production of Knight’s, published in -1794, entitled <cite>The Landscape: a didactic Poem in three Books</cite>, a work which had -excited Walpole’s high indignation by expressing opinions opposed to his -own.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_107'>107</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XVI.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c040'>Feb. 26, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>The specimen of the poem on the “Progress of Man,” -with which we favoured our Readers in our last Number, -has occasioned a variety of letters, which we confess have -not a little surprised us, from the unfounded, and even -contradictory charges they contain. In one, we are -accused of Malevolence, in bringing back to notice a -work that had been quietly consigned to oblivion;—in -another, of Plagiarism, in copying its most beautiful -passages;—in a third, of Vanity, in striving to imitate -what was in itself inimitable, &c., &c. But why this -alarm? has the author of the “<cite>Progress of Civil Society</cite>” -an exclusive patent for fabricating <em>Didactic</em> poems? or -can we not write against Order and Government without -incurring the guilt of Imitation? We trust we were not -so ignorant of the nature of a didactic poem (so called -from <em>didaskein</em>, to teach, and <em>poema</em>, a poem; because it -teaches nothing, and is not poetical) even before the -<cite>“Progress of Civil Society”</cite> appeared, but that we were -capable of such an undertaking.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We shall only say further, that we do not intend to -proceed regularly with our Poem; but having the remaining -thirty-nine Cantos by us, shall content ourselves -with giving, from time to time, such extracts as may -happen to suit our purpose.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The following passage, which, as the reader will see -by turning to the Contents prefixed to the head of the -Poem, is part of the First Canto, contains so happy a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_108'>108</span>deduction of <span class='sc'>Man’s</span> present state of Depravity, from -the first slips and failings of his Original State, and -inculcates so forcibly the mischievous consequences of -<em>social</em> or <em>civilized</em>, as opposed to <em>natural</em> society, that -no dread of imputed imitation can prevent us from giving -it to our readers.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>PROGRESS OF MAN.</h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Lo! the rude savage, free from civil strife,<a id='r139' /><a href='#f139' class='c024'><sup>[139]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Keeps the smooth tenour of his guiltless life;</div> - <div class='line'>Restrain’d by none, save Nature’s lenient laws,</div> - <div class='line'>Quaffs the clear stream, and feeds on hips and haws.</div> - <div class='line'>Light to his daily sports behold him rise!</div><div class='lnum'>65</div> - <div class='line'>The bloodless banquet health and strength supplies.<a id='r140' /><a href='#f140' class='c024'><sup>[140]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Bloodless not long—one morn he haps to stray<a id='r141' /><a href='#f141' class='c024'><sup>[141]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Through the lone wood—and close beside the way</div> - <div class='line'>Sees the gaunt tiger tear his trembling prey;</div> - <div class='line'>Beneath whose gory fangs a leveret bleeds,</div><div class='lnum'>70</div> - <div class='line'>Or pig—such pig as fertile China breeds.<a id='r142' /><a href='#f142' class='c024'><sup>[142]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Struck with the sight, the wondering savage stands,</div> - <div class='line'>Rolls his broad eyes, and clasps his lifted hands!</div> - <div class='line'>Then restless roams—and loaths his wonted food;</div> - <div class='line'>Shuns the salubrious stream, and thirsts for blood.</div><div class='lnum'>75</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>By thought matured, and quicken’d by desire,<a id='r143' /><a href='#f143' class='c024'><sup>[143]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_109'>109</span>New arts, new arms, his wayward wants require.</div> - <div class='line'>From the tough yew a slender branch he tears,</div> - <div class='line'>With self-taught skill the twisted grass<a id='r144' /><a href='#f144' class='c024'><sup>[144]</sup></a> prepares;</div> - <div class='line'>Th’ unfashioned bow, with labouring efforts bends</div><div class='lnum'>80</div> - <div class='line'>In circling form, and joins th’ unwilling ends.</div> - <div class='line'>Next some tall reed he seeks—with sharp-edg’d stone</div> - <div class='line'>Shapes the fell dart, and points with whiten’d bone.<a id='r145' /><a href='#f145' class='c024'><sup>[145]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Then forth he fares. Around in careless play,</div> - <div class='line'>Kids, pigs, and lambkins unsuspecting stray;</div><div class='lnum'>85</div> - <div class='line'>With grim delight he views the sportive band,</div> - <div class='line'>Intent on blood, and lifts his murderous hand.</div> - <div class='line'>Twangs the bent bow—resounds the fateful dart,</div> - <div class='line'>Swift-wing’d, and trembles in a porker’s heart.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Ah, hapless porker! what can now avail<a id='r146' /><a href='#f146' class='c024'><sup>[146]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>90</div> - <div class='line'>Thy back’s stiff bristles, or thy curly tail?</div> - <div class='line'>Ah! what avail those eyes so small and round,</div> - <div class='line'>Long pendent ears, and snout that loves the ground?<a id='r147' /><a href='#f147' class='c024'><sup>[147]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Not unreveng’d thou diest!—in after times<a id='r148' /><a href='#f148' class='c024'><sup>[148]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>From thy spilt blood shall spring unnumber’d crimes.</div><div class='lnum'>95</div> - <div class='line'>Soon shall the slaught’rous arms that wrought thy woe,</div> - <div class='line'>Improved by malice, deal a deadlier blow;<a id='r149' /><a href='#f149' class='c024'><sup>[149]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_110'>110</span>When <em>social</em> man shall pant for nobler game,</div> - <div class='line'>And ’gainst his fellow man the vengeful weapon aim.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>As love, as gold, as jealousy inspires,<a id='r150' /><a href='#f150' class='c024'><sup>[150]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>100</div> - <div class='line'>As wrathful hate, or wild ambition fires,</div> - <div class='line'>Urged by the statesman’s craft, the tyrant’s rage,</div> - <div class='line'>Embattled nations endless wars shall wage,</div> - <div class='line'>Vast seas of blood the ravaged field shall stain,</div> - <div class='line'>And millions perish—that a <em>king</em> may reign!</div><div class='lnum'>105</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>For blood once shed, new wants and wishes rise;<a id='r151' /><a href='#f151' class='c024'><sup>[151]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Each rising want invention quick supplies.</div> - <div class='line'>To roast his victuals is man’s next desire,</div> - <div class='line'>So two dry sticks he rubs, and lights a fire.</div> - <div class='line'>Hail fire, &c. &c.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_151.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_111'>111</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XVII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>March 5, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We are obliged to a learned correspondent for the -following ingenious imitation of <span class='sc'>Bion</span>.—We will not -shock the eyes of our fair readers with the original -Greek, but the following <em>Argument</em> will give them some -idea of the nature of the Poem here imitated.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>ARGUMENT.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c041'>Venus is represented as bringing to the Poet, while sleeping, -her son Cupid, with a request that he would teach him -Pastoral Poetry—Bion complies, and endeavours to teach -him the rise and progress of that art:—Cupid laughs at -his instructions, and in his turn teaches his master the -Loves of Men and Gods, the Wiles of his Mother, &c.—“Pleased -with his lessons,” says <span class='sc'>Bion</span>, “I forgot what I -lately taught Cupid and recollect in its stead only what -Cupid taught me.”</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>IMITATION, &c.<a id='r152' /><a href='#f152' class='c024'><sup>[152]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>WRITTEN AT ST. ANNE’S HILL.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Scarce had sleep my eyes o’erspread,</div> - <div class='line'>Ere Alecto sought my bed;</div> - <div class='line'>In her left hand a torch she shook,</div> - <div class='line'>And in her right led <span class='sc'>John Horne Tooke</span>.</div> - <div class='line'>O thou! who well deserv’st the bays,</div> - <div class='line'>Teach him, she cried, Sedition’s lays—</div> - <div class='line'>She said, and left us; I, poor fool,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span>Began the wily priest to school;</div> - <div class='line'>Taught him how <span class='sc'>Moira</span> sung of lights,</div> - <div class='line'>Blown out by troops o’ stormy nights;<a id='r153' /><a href='#f153' class='c024'><sup>[153]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>How <span class='sc'>Erskine</span>, borne on rapture’s wings,</div> - <div class='line'>At clubs and taverns sweetly sings</div> - <div class='line'>Of <em>self</em>—while yawning Whigs attend—</div> - <div class='line'><em>Self</em> first, last, midst, and without end;<a id='r154' /><a href='#f154' class='c024'><sup>[154]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>How <span class='sc'>Bedford</span> piped, ill-fated Bard;<a id='r155' /><a href='#f155' class='c024'><sup>[155]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Half-drown’d, in empty Palace-yard;</div> - <div class='line'>How <span class='sc'>Lansdowne</span>, nature’s simple child,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_113'>113</span>At <span class='sc'>Bowood</span> trills his wood-notes wild—<a id='r156' /><a href='#f156' class='c024'><sup>[156]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>How these and more (a phrenzied choir)</div> - <div class='line'>Sweep with bold hand Confusion’s lyre,</div> - <div class='line'>Till madding crowds around them storm</div> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>For one grand radical Reform!</span>”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Tooke</span> stood silent for a while,</div> - <div class='line'>Listening with sarcastic smile;</div> - <div class='line'>Then in verse of calmest flow,</div> - <div class='line'>Sung of treasons, deep and low,</div> - <div class='line'>Of rapine, prisons, scaffolds, blood,</div> - <div class='line'>Of war against the great and good;</div> - <div class='line'>Of Venice, and of Genoa’s doom,</div> - <div class='line'>And fall of unoffending Rome;</div> - <div class='line'>Of monarchs from their station hurl’d,</div> - <div class='line'>And one waste desolated world.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Charm’d by the magic of his tongue,</div> - <div class='line'>I lost the strains I lately sung,</div> - <div class='line'>While those he taught, remain impress’d</div> - <div class='line'>For ever on my faithful breast.</div> - <div class='line in38'><span class='fss'>DORUS.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>[BION. IDYLLIUM III. THE TEACHER TAUGHT.</div> - <div class='c004'>TRANSLATED BY FAWKES.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>As late I slumbering lay, before my sight</div> - <div class='line'>Bright <span class='sc'>Venus</span> rose in visions of the night:</div> - <div class='line'>She led young Cupid; as in thought profound</div> - <div class='line'>His modest eyes were fixed upon the ground;</div> - <div class='line'>And thus she spoke: “To thee, dear swain, I bring</div> - <div class='line'>My little son; instruct the boy to sing”.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_114'>114</span>No more she said; but vanished into air,</div> - <div class='line'>And left the wily pupil to my care:</div> - <div class='line'>I,—(sure I was an idiot for my pains),</div> - <div class='line'>Began to teach him old bucolic strains;</div> - <div class='line'>How <span class='sc'>Pan</span> the pipe, how <span class='sc'>Pallas</span> formed the flute,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Phœbus</span> the lyre, and <span class='sc'>Mercury</span> the lute:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Love</span>, to my lessons quite regardless grown,</div> - <div class='line'>Sang lighter lays, and sonnets of his own,</div> - <div class='line'>Th’ amours of men below, and gods above,</div> - <div class='line'>And all the triumphs of the queen of love.</div> - <div class='line'>I, sure the simplest of all shepherd swains,</div> - <div class='line'>Full soon forgot my old bucolic strains;</div> - <div class='line'>The lighter lays of <span class='sc'>Love</span> my fancy caught,</div> - <div class='line'>And I remembered all that Cupid taught.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c007'>Something like the same idea seems to have dictated -the following Stanzas, which appear to be a loose imitation -of the beautiful Dialogue of Horace and Lydia, and -for which, though confessedly in a lower style of poetry, -and conceived rather in the <em>slang</em>, or <em>Brentford</em> dialect, -than in the classical Doric of the foregoing Poem, we -have many thanks to return to an ingenious academical -correspondent.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE NEW COALITION.<a id='r157' /><a href='#f157' class='c024'><sup>[157]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Fox.</span>—When erst I coalesced with North</div> - <div class='line'>And brought my <em>Indian bantling</em> forth<a id='r158' /><a href='#f158' class='c024'><sup>[158]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>In place—I smiled at faction’s storm,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor dreamt of <em>radical reform</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Tooke.</span>—While yet no patriot project pushing,</div> - <div class='line'>Content I thump’d old Brentford’s cushion,</div> - <div class='line'>I pass’d my life so free and gaily;</div> - <div class='line'>Not dreaming of that d——d <em>Old Bailey</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'><span class='pageno' id='Page_115'>115</span>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Fox.</span>—Well! now my favourite preacher’s <em>Nickle</em>,<a id='r159' /><a href='#f159' class='c024'><sup>[159]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>He keeps for <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> a rod in pickle;</div> - <div class='line'>His gestures fright th’ astonish’d gazers,</div> - <div class='line'>His sarcasms cut like Packwood’s razors.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Tooke.</span>—<em>Thelwall’s</em><a id='r160' /><a href='#f160' class='c024'><sup>[160]</sup></a> my man for state alarm;</div> - <div class='line'>I love the rebels of <em>Chalk Farm</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>Rogues that no statutes can subdue,</div> - <div class='line'>Who’d bring the French, and head them too.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Fox.</span>—A whisper in your ear, <span class='sc'>John Horne</span>,<a id='r161' /><a href='#f161' class='c024'><sup>[161]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>For <em>one great end</em> we both were born,</div> - <div class='line'>Alike we roar, and rant, and bellow—</div> - <div class='line'>Give us your hand, my honest fellow.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Tooke.</span>—Charles, for a shuffler long I’ve known thee:</div> - <div class='line'>But come—for once, I’ll not disown thee;</div> - <div class='line'>And since with patriot zeal thou burnest,</div> - <div class='line'>With thee I’ll live—or hang <em>in earnest</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>[HORACE. BOOK III., ODE IX.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Horace.</span>—Whilst I was fond, and you were kind,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Nor any dearer youth, reclined</div> - <div class='line in10'>On your soft bosom, sought to rest,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Not Persia’s monarch was so blest.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Lydia.</span>—Whilst you adored no other face,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Nor loved me in the second place,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Your Lydia’s celebrated fame</div> - <div class='line in10'>Outshone the Roman Ilia’s name.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Horace.</span>—Me <em>Chloe</em> now possesses whole;</div> - <div class='line in10'>Her voice and lyre command my soul:</div> - <div class='line in10'>Nor would I death itself decline,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Could I redeem her life with mine.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_116'>116</span><span class='sc'>Lydia.</span>—For me young lovely <em>Calaïs</em> burns,</div> - <div class='line in10'>And warmth for warmth my heart returns.</div> - <div class='line in10'>Twice would I life for him resign,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Could <em>his</em> be ransomed thus with <em>mine</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Horace.</span>—What if the God, whose bands we broke,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Again should tame us to the yoke!</div> - <div class='line in10'>What if my <em>Chloe</em> cease to reign,</div> - <div class='line in10'>And <em>Lydia</em> her lost power regain!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Lydia.</span>—Though Phosphor be less fair than <em>he</em>;</div> - <div class='line in10'><em>Thou</em> wilder than the raging sea;</div> - <div class='line in10'>Lighter than down; yet gladly I</div> - <div class='line in10'>With <em>thee</em> would live, with <em>thee</em> would die.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c009'>[Another version of this Ode published in the <cite>Anti-Jacobin -Review</cite>, vol. 1, pp. 597–8 (the successor to the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>), -may perhaps not be considered out of place here. It was -written by the Rev. C. E. Stewart, a constant contributor to -the former journal.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'><span class='sc'>The Honey-Moon of Fox and Tooke.</span></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c008'> - <div><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Donec gratus eram tibi.</span></i></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Fox.</span>—Since Fox of his Tooke is possest,</div> - <div class='line in10'>No sorrows my bosom can harass;</div> - <div class='line in8'>What Director was ever so blest?</div> - <div class='line in10'>I’m greater, far greater than Barras.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Tooke.</span>—If Fox to his consort is true,</div> - <div class='line in10'>And this blest Coalition sincere,</div> - <div class='line in8'>I’ll engage as a private with you,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Nor envy thy fame, Robespierre.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Fox.</span>—You once were the worst of my foes,</div> - <div class='line in10'>E’en Pitt I detested not more,</div> - <div class='line in8'>When you dar’d my Election oppose,</div> - <div class='line in10'>And eternal antipathy swore.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Tooke.</span>—Not to you was my hatred confin’d,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Your father I styled “The Defaulter,”</div> - <div class='line in8'>Drew a portrait of both, and consign’d</div> - <div class='line in10'>Both father and son to the halter.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_117'>117</span><span class='sc'>Fox.</span>—Drive these hated reflections away;</div> - <div class='line in10'>For you I would gladly resign.</div> - <div class='line in8'>Jockey Norfolk, big Bedford, and Grey;</div> - <div class='line in10'>But they answer your purpose and mine.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Tooke.</span>—Whate’er you attempt or intend,</div> - <div class='line in10'>I am yours, and will bring at your call,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Binns, Gurney, Scott, Ferguson, Frend,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Corresponding Society—all.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Both.</span>—Thus reconcil’d, fond, and delighted,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Together we’ll ride in the storm,</div> - <div class='line in8'>While Jacobin Clubs, all united,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Make a radical, perfect Reform.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_118'>118</span> -<img src='images/i_159.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_119'>119</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XVIII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>March 12, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We are indebted for the following exquisite imitation of -one of the most beautiful Odes of Horace, to an unknown -hand. All that we can say is, that it came to us in a -blank cover sealed with a ducal coronet, and that it -appears evidently to be the production of a mind not -more classical than convivial.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>ODE.</h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whither, O Bacchus, in thy train,<a id='r162' /><a href='#f162' class='c024'><sup>[162]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Dost thou transport thy votary’s brain</div> - <div class='line in2'>With sudden inspiration?</div> - <div class='line'>Where dost thou bid me quaff my wine,</div> - <div class='line'>And toast new measures to combine</div> - <div class='line in2'>The <em>Great</em> and <em>Little Nation</em>?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Say, in what tavern I shall raise<a id='r163' /><a href='#f163' class='c024'><sup>[163]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>My mighty voice in Charley’s praise,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And dream of future glories,</div> - <div class='line'>When <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, with salutary sway</div> - <div class='line'>(Terror the Order of the Day),</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall reign o’er King and Tories?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_120'>120</span>My mighty feelings must have way!<a id='r164' /><a href='#f164' class='c024'><sup>[164]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>A toast I’ll give—a thing I’ll say,</div> - <div class='line in2'>As yet unsaid by any,—</div> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>Our Sov’reign Lord!</span>”—let those who doubt</div> - <div class='line'>My honest meaning, hear me out—</div> - <div class='line in2'>“<span class='sc'>His Majesty—the Many!</span>”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Plain folks may be surprised, and stare,<a id='r165' /><a href='#f165' class='c024'><sup>[165]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>As much surprised as <span class='sc'>Bob Adair</span></div> - <div class='line in2'>At Russia’s wooden houses;</div> - <div class='line'>And Russian snows, that lie so thick;<a id='r166' /><a href='#f166' class='c024'><sup>[166]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>And Russian boors<a id='r167' /><a href='#f167' class='c024'><sup>[167]</sup></a> that daily kick,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With barbarous foot, their spouses.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What joy, when drunk, at midnight’s hour,<a id='r168' /><a href='#f168' class='c024'><sup>[168]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>To stroll through Covent Garden’s bow’r,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Its various charms exploring;</div> - <div class='line'>And, ’midst its shrubs and vacant stalls,</div> - <div class='line'>And proud Piazza’s crumbling walls,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Hear trulls and watchmen snoring!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_121'>121</span>Parent of wine, and gin, and beer,<a id='r169' /><a href='#f169' class='c024'><sup>[169]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>The nymphs of Billingsgate you cheer;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Naiads robust and hearty;</div> - <div class='line'>As Brookes’s chairmen fit to wield</div> - <div class='line'>Their stout oak bludgeons in the field,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To aid our virtuous party.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Mortals! no common voice you hear;<a id='r170' /><a href='#f170' class='c024'><sup>[170]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><em>Militia Colonel, Premier Peer,</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Lieutenant of a County</em>!</div> - <div class='line'>I speak high things! yet, god of wine,</div> - <div class='line'>For thee, I fear not to resign</div> - <div class='line in2'>These gifts of royal bounty.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>[HORACE. BOOK III., ODE XXV. TO BACCHUS.</div> - <div class='c004'>TRANSLATED BY FRANCIS.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whither in sacred ecstasy,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Bacchus</span>, when full of thy divinity,</div> - <div class='line'>Dost thou transport me? To what glades?</div> - <div class='line'>What gloomy caverns, unfrequented shades?</div> - <div class='line'>In what recesses shall I raise</div> - <div class='line'>My voice to sacred Cæsar’s deathless praise,</div> - <div class='line'>Amid the stars to bid him shine,</div> - <div class='line'>Ranked in the councils of the powers divine?</div> - <div class='line'>Some bolder song shall wake the lyre,</div> - <div class='line'>And sounds unknown its trembling strings inspire.</div> - <div class='line'>Thus o’er the steepy mountains’ height,</div> - <div class='line'>Starting from sleep, thy priestess takes her flight:</div> - <div class='line'>Amazed, behold the Thracian snows,</div> - <div class='line'>With languid streams where icy Heber flows</div> - <div class='line'>Or Rhodopé’s high-towering head,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_122'>122</span>Where frantic choirs barbarian measures tread.</div> - <div class='line'>O’er pathless rocks, through lonely groves,</div> - <div class='line'>With what delight my raptured spirit roves!</div> - <div class='line'>O thou, who rul’st the Naiad’s breast;</div> - <div class='line'>By whom the Bacchanalian maids, possessed</div> - <div class='line'>With sacred rage inspired by thee,</div> - <div class='line'>Tear from the bursting glebe th’ uprooted tree;</div> - <div class='line'>Nothing or low, or mean, I sing,</div> - <div class='line'>No mortal sound shall shake the swelling string.</div> - <div class='line'>The venturous theme my soul alarms;</div> - <div class='line'>But warmed by thee the thought of danger charms.</div> - <div class='line'>When vine-crowned Bacchus leads the way,</div> - <div class='line'>What can his daring votaries dismay?—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[The preceding Ode, written in the character of Charles Howard, eleventh -<span class='sc'>Duke of Norfolk</span>, refers to the famous toast, “Our Sovereign’s health—<span class='sc'>the -Majesty of the People</span>,” proposed by his Grace at a Banquet at the “Crown -and Anchor Tavern,” Strand, on the 24th January, 1798, given to celebrate the -birth-day of <span class='sc'>C. J. Fox</span>. For this toast and other sentiments promulgated at -the meeting, his Grace a few days after received notice of his dismissal from -the Lord-Lieutenancy of the West Riding of Yorkshire and his Colonelcy in -the Militia, and on the 6th of February Earl Fitzwilliam was gazetted to the -former office, vice the Duke of Norfolk, <em>resigned</em>. But sixteen years earlier, this -<em>Toast</em> was not considered seditious; for in the <cite>General Advertiser</cite> of the 13th of -April, 1782, then edited by Perry (afterwards the eminent proprietor of the -<cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>), we find an account of a dinner of the electors of Westminster -held the preceding day at the Shakespeare Tavern, <em>Earl Fitzwilliam</em> in the -chair. The first toast given by his Lordship was, “<span class='sc'>The Majesty of the -People</span>”. It was drunk by the Earl of Effingham, the Earl of Surrey (afterwards -Duke of Norfolk, and the subject of the present remarks), Mr. Secretary -Fox, Burke, Windham, Dean Jebb, J. Churchill, Brand Hollis, Dr. Brocklesby, -&c. Thus the identical toast was proposed and drunk by the Earl of Fitzwilliam, -to whom the Lord-Lieutenancy now taken from the Duke of Norfolk -was given. It is not a little remarkable that Lord Fitzwilliam himself was -dismissed by his new Tory allies, Oct. 23, 1819, from the same Lord-Lieutenancy -of the West Riding of Yorkshire, having signed the requisition for the York -meeting, at which resolutions were passed condemning the measures of Ministers -(Lords Liverpool, Eldon, Bathurst, Castlereagh, Palmerston, &c.), respecting -the Manchester Reform Meeting, called by Henry Hunt, on 16th August, at -which occurred what is known as the “Peterloo Massacre”.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>[<span class='sc'>“The Majesty of the People,” as given on Fox’s Birth-day.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>The company was a very large one, but the estimated number of 2000 diners -is surely an error. The Duke of Norfolk presided, supported by the Duke of -Bedford, the Earls of Lauderdale and Oxford, Sheridan, Tierney, Erskine, -Capt. Morris (who produced three new songs for the occasion), and Horne -Tooke; the latter became reconciled to Fox by the explanation the latter gave -of his sentiments on parliamentary reform. On the cloth being removed, he -rose and said, “We are met in a moment of most serious difficulty to celebrate -the birth of a man dear to the friend of freedom. I shall only recall to your -memory that not twenty years ago, the illustrious <span class='sc'>George Washington</span> -had not more than two thousand men to rally round him when his country -was attacked. America is now free. This day full two thousand men are -assembled in this place. I leave the application to you. I propose to you the -health of <span class='sc'>Charles James Fox</span>.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>In the course of the evening the Duke’s health was drunk with great enthusiasm. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_123'>123</span>He returned thanks, and concluded his speech with these words, -“Give me leave to call on you to drink, Our Sovereign’s health,</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>The Majesty of the People</span>”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>After this toast had been drunk and warmly applauded, the Duke gave successively, -“The Rights of the People,” “Constitutional Redress of the Wrongs of the -People,” “A speedy and effectual Reform in the Representation of the People -in Parliament,” “The genuine Principles of the British Constitution,” “The -People of Ireland, and may they be speedily restored to the Blessings of Law -and Liberty”.</p> - -<p class='c009'>On the 6th of February, the next monthly meeting of the <em>Whig Club</em> was held -at the London Tavern, Ludgate Hill. The <span class='sc'>Duke of Norfolk</span> presided. He -gave as a toast, “The Man who dares be honest in the worst of times—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>Charles James Fox</span>”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Fox</span> returned thanks, and then toasted</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>The Sovereignty of the People</span>”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>He subsequently proposed the health of the Duke of Norfolk in a most -powerful speech. He adverted to the dismissal of the <span class='sc'>Duke</span>. “No reason had -been officially assigned; it was, however, generally understood that it had arisen -from the eulogium pronounced on <span class='sc'>General Washington</span>. Was it to be -wondered at, that the noble Duke, who had uniformly opposed the American -war, should have done so? What Englishman, what man of any country, whose -heart was animated with a love of freedom, did not venerate the name of that -illustrious patriot? It seems also “a toast” has given offence—the Majesty of -the People. I do not know upon what times we are fallen, but the sovereignty -of the people of Great Britain is surely a thing not new to the language, to the -feelings, nor the hearts of Englishmen. It is the basis of the whole system of -our Government. It is an opinion, which if it be not true, King William was -an usurper. By what right did the glorious and immortal King William the -Third, whose portrait is placed on our chair, come to the throne of these realms, -if not by that of the sovereignty of the people?... The King holds his -title by an Act of Parliament. Who called that Parliament? King William -the Third. By what right did he obtain it? By a Convention representing the -sovereignty of the people. The Convention of Representatives in fact did the -thing. It is whimsical enough to deprive the noble Duke of his appointments for -an offence which, if he had not committed during the reigns of George I. and -George II., would have subjected him to the charge of being a Jacobite, and an -adherent of the exiled family.... Of the persons of his Majesty’s Ministers -I will not say a word. There are several of them to whom I may fairly say this -sentiment is not new. One member of the Cabinet (the Duke of Portland) is -still a member of this club; another (Mr. Windham) was a member; and a -third (Earl Spencer) long gloried in holding the same tenets. How often with -the two first have we drunk the sentiment in this room! What did they mean -when they drank the Sovereignty of the People? What, but that they recognised -by this approved and customary method a truth which belongs to all -people in reality, but is the avowed basis of the Government of England, that -the people of every country are its legitimate Sovereign, and that all authority -is delegated from and for them? I should be ashamed, on account of my old -respect for those persons, if they did not honestly avow this to be their sense of -the sentiment.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>While adverting, on this occasion, to the dismissal of the <span class='sc'>Duke of Norfolk</span> -from his Lord-Lieutenancy and Colonelcy of Militia, <span class='sc'>Fox</span> remarked, “I have -nothing the Ministers can take from me. I am still indeed a Privy Councillor, -at least I know nothing to the contrary; and if this sentiment entitles the -Noble Duke to this animadversion, I shall certainly feel that I am equally -entitled to this mark of his Majesty’s displeasure.” This anticipation was -verified shortly afterwards.</p> - -<p class='c009'>On the 1st of May following, at the Freemasons’ Tavern, another dinner of -the <em>Whig Club</em> took place. <span class='sc'>Fox</span> was in the chair, and gave, as the first toast—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>The Sovereignty of the People of Great Britain</span>”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_124'>124</span>The Duke of Norfolk proposed “The Health of the Man who dares be -Honest in the worst of Times—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>Charles James Fox</span>”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Fox</span> responded in a most impressive speech. He said: “On any other occasion, -he should have contented himself with returning thanks, but in the very -peculiar embarrassments in which the country was now plunged, he thought it -necessary to say a few words in the only place in which he thought it might be -useful for him to deliver his sentiments. The circumstances and events of -public affairs of late had induced him and many of his friends to abstain from -their usual assiduous attendance in Parliament. Their exertions for the preservation -of the Constitution had been of no avail; two years ago they had seen -the repeal of the Bill of Rights carried by a triumphant majority; they had -seen the functions of the Constitutional Law suspended, on alarm created by -the Ministers themselves; and however well-founded the alarm might now be, -he scorned the idea that it was necessary for him to attend in his place in the -House of Commons, for the purpose only of vindicating himself from the vulgar -calumny that he was not an enemy to a foreign invasion. It would be an insult -on his whole life if such a declaration could be expected from him. He believed -there was not a voice in the assembly he addressed which was not in unison -with his own—namely, that every man who heard him was both ready and -willing to stand forth in defence of his country, with the spirit that belongs to -Englishmen. He found no fault with those who thought it necessary to make -these professions elsewhere. Thus much only would he say in this place for -himself. <em>The present Government of the country, he had no hesitation in saying, was -a Government of Tyranny. They had adopted the principles of Robespierre, and their -object was to establish tyranny in England.</em> Look at the situation of the Sister -Kingdom; our own will soon be the same. He had no remedy to recommend -but that the friends of freedom should be united and firm, and wait for better -times. Tyranny was now the order of the day in every country in Europe. -Notwithstanding the arbitrary proceedings of our own Ministers, he was persuaded -the unanimous feeling of the country, the universal determination of -every man in it was to be ready to take the field against a foreign foe; and, -indeed, they had a powerful motive to do so, for if they were united, they had -a better chance to get rid of the tyranny of their own Ministers than they could -possibly have by the success of a foreign invasion. Even in his present retirement -he should be ready to come forward, in every constitutional effort, to regain -our lost liberties; and he should be in the foremost of the ranks to repel -the invasion of a daring enemy.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>This speech led to a most important consequence—the erasing from the -Privy Council Book the name of one of the most illustrious statesmen which -had ever adorned it. <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> name was struck out by the King on the 9th of -May.</p> - -<p class='c009'>On the 6th of June, after the dinner at the <em>Whig Club</em>, the <span class='sc'>Duke of Bedford</span> -proposed “<span class='sc'>The Health of Charles Fox</span>,” and remarked in severe terms on -Ministers having caused the King to strike his name out of the list of the Privy -Council. <span class='sc'>Fox</span> said: “It would be most unfit for him to say a word respecting -the Noble Duke’s allusion to a circumstance personal to himself. Would to God -the time of the Ministers had been always employed in such <em>frivolous fooleries</em> as -settling who should be <em>Honourable</em> and who <em>Right Honourable</em>, and deliberating -on the titles most befitting their friends and supporters.” <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, with some of -his supporters, seceded from Parliament in 1797, and returned to the House of -Commons in 1802 to defend the Peace of Amiens, and he was persuaded to continue -his parliamentary attendance by the urgent request of friends, with whose -wishes he felt himself bound to comply.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_125'>125</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XIX.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c040'>March 19, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>For the authenticity of the enclosed Ballad we refer -our readers to a volume of MS. Poems discovered upon -the removal of some papers, during the late alterations -which have taken place at the Tax-office, in consequence -of the Reports of the Finance Committee.</p> - -<p class='c007'>It has been communicated to our printer by an ingenious -friend of his, who occasionally acts for the -Deputy Collector of the Parish of St. Martin in the -Fields; but without date, or any other mark, by which -we are enabled to guess at the particular subject of the -composition.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>CHEVY CHASE.<a id='r171' /><a href='#f171' class='c024'><sup>[171]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>God prosper long our noble king,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Our lives and safeties all:</div> - <div class='line'>A woeful story late there did</div> - <div class='line in2'>In Britain’s Isle befall.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Duke Smithson</span>, of <span class='sc'>Northumberland</span>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A vow to God did make,</div> - <div class='line'>The choicest gifts in fair England,</div> - <div class='line in2'>For him and his to take.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_126'>126</span>“Stand fast, my merry men,” he cried,</div> - <div class='line in2'>“By <span class='sc'>Moira’s</span> Earl and me,</div> - <div class='line'>And we will gain place, wealth and pow’r,</div> - <div class='line in2'>As arm’d neutrality.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Excise and Customs, Church and Law,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I’ve begg’d from <em>Master</em> <span class='sc'>Rose</span>;</div> - <div class='line'>The Garter too—but still <em>the Blues</em></div> - <div class='line in2'>I’ll have, or I’ll oppose.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Now God be with him,” quoth the <span class='sc'>King</span>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>“Sith ’twill no better be;</div> - <div class='line'>I trust we have within our realm</div> - <div class='line in2'>Five hundred good as he.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The <span class='sc'>Duke</span> then join’d with Charley <span class='sc'>Fox</span>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A leader ware and tried,</div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>Erskine</span>, <span class='sc'>Sheridan</span>, and <span class='sc'>Grey</span></div> - <div class='line in2'>Fought stoutly by his side.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Throughout the English Parliament,</div> - <div class='line in2'>They dealt full many a wound;</div> - <div class='line'>But in his king’s and country’s cause,</div> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Pitt</span> firmly stood his ground.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And soon a law like arrow keen,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or spear, or curtal-axe,</div> - <div class='line'>Struck poor <span class='sc'>Duke Smithson</span> to the heart,</div> - <div class='line in2'>In shape of <em>Powder-tax</em>.<a id='r172' /><a href='#f172' class='c024'><sup>[172]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sore leaning on his crutch, he cried,</div> - <div class='line in2'>“Crop, crop, my merry men all;</div> - <div class='line'>No guinea for your head I’ll pay,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Though Church and State should fall.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_127'>127</span>Again the taxing-man appear’d—</div> - <div class='line in2'>No deadlier foe could be;</div> - <div class='line'>A schedule of a cloth-yard long,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Within his hand bore he.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Yield thee, <span class='sc'>Duke Smithson</span>, and behold</div> - <div class='line in2'>The assessment thou must pay;</div> - <div class='line'>Dogs, horses, houses, coaches, clocks,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And servants in array.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Nay,” quoth the <span class='sc'>Duke</span>, “in thy black scroll</div> - <div class='line in2'>Deductions I espye—</div> - <div class='line'>For those who, poor, and mean, and low,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With children burthen’d lie.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“And though full sixty thousand pounds</div> - <div class='line in2'>My vassals pay to me,</div> - <div class='line'>From Cornwall to <em>Northumberland</em>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Through many a fair countée;</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Yet England’s church, its king, its laws,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Its cause, I value not,</div> - <div class='line'>Compar’d with this, my constant text,</div> - <div class='line in2'><em>A penny sav’d, is got</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“No drop of princely <em>Percy’s</em> blood</div> - <div class='line in2'>Through these cold veins doth run;</div> - <div class='line'>With <em>Hotspur’s</em> castles, blazon, name,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I still am <em>poor</em> <span class='sc'>Smithson</span>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Let England’s youth unite in arms,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And every liberal hand,</div> - <div class='line'>With honest zeal, subscribe their mite,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To save their native land:</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_128'>128</span>“I at <em>St. Martin’s</em> Vestry Board,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To swear shall be content,</div> - <div class='line'>That I have children eight, and claim</div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Deductions ten per cent.</em>”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>God bless us all from factious foes,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And French fraternal kiss;</div> - <div class='line'>And grant the king may never make</div> - <div class='line in2'>Another <em>Duke</em> like this.<a id='r173' /><a href='#f173' class='c024'><sup>[173]</sup></a></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_169.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_129'>129</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XX.</h2> -</div> - -<h3 class='c038'>ODE TO JACOBINISM.</h3> - -<div class='c042'>March 26, 1798.</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Daughter of Hell, insatiate power,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Destroyer of the human race,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Whose iron scourge and madd’ning hour</div> - <div class='line in6'>Exalt the bad, the good debase;</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thy mystic force, despotic sway,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Courage and innocence dismay,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And patriot monarchs vainly groan</div> - <div class='line'>With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>When first to scourge the sons of earth,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thy sire his darling child design’d,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Gallia receiv’d the monstrous birth—</div> - <div class='line in6'><span class='sc'>Voltaire</span> inform’d thy infant mind;</div> - <div class='line in4'>Well-chosen nurse! his sophist lore</div> - <div class='line in4'>He bade thee many a year explore!</div> - <div class='line in4'>He mark’d thy progress, firm though slow,</div> - <div class='line'>And statesmen, princes, leagued with their invet’rate foe.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Scared at thy frown terrific, fly</div> - <div class='line in6'>The morals (antiquated brood);</div> - <div class='line in4'>Domestic Virtue, social Joy,</div> - <div class='line in6'>And Faith that has for ages stood:</div> - <div class='line in4'>Swift they disperse, and with them go</div> - <div class='line in4'>The friend sincere, the gen’rous foe.—</div> - <div class='line in4'><span class='pageno' id='Page_130'>130</span>Traitors to God and man avow’d,</div> - <div class='line'>By thee now rais’d aloft, now crush’d beneath the crowd.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Revenge, in blood-stain’d robe arrayed,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Immersed in gloomy joy profound;</div> - <div class='line in4'>Ingratitude, by guilt dismay’d,</div> - <div class='line in6'>With anxious eye wild glancing round,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Still on thy frantic steps attend:</div> - <div class='line in4'>With Death, thy victim’s only friend,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Injustice, to the truth severe,</div> - <div class='line'>And Anguish, dropping still the life-consuming tear.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Oh swiftly on my country’s head,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Destroyer, lay thy ruthless hand;</div> - <div class='line in4'>Nor yet in Gallic terrors clad,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Nor circled by the <em>Marseilles band</em>,</div> - <div class='line in4'>(As by th’ initiate thou art seen),</div> - <div class='line in4'>With thund’ring cannon, <em>guillotine</em>,</div> - <div class='line in4'>With screaming Horror’s funeral cry,</div> - <div class='line'>Fire, Rapine, sword, and chains, and ghastly Poverty.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Thy sophist veil, dread goddess, wear,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Falsehood insidiously impart;</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thy philosophic train, be there,</div> - <div class='line in6'>To taint the mind, corrupt the heart;</div> - <div class='line in4'>The gen’rous virtues of our isle,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Teach us to hate and to revile;</div> - <div class='line in4'>Our glorious Charter’s faults to scan,</div> - <div class='line'>Time-sanction’d truths despise, and preach <span class='sc'>thy Rights of Man</span>.</div> - <div class='line in32'><span class='sc'>An English Jacobin.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_131'>131</span>[The original poem, of which the above is an imitation, is -subjoined:—</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>HYMN TO ADVERSITY.</div> - <div class='c004'>BY THOMAS GRAY.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Daughter of Jove, relentless power,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou tamer of the human breast,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Whose iron scourge, and torturing hour,</div> - <div class='line in6'>The bad affright, afflict the best!</div> - <div class='line in4'>Bound in thy adamantine chain,</div> - <div class='line in4'>The proud are taught to taste of pain,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And purple tyrants vainly groan,</div> - <div class='line'>With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>When first thy sire to send on earth</div> - <div class='line in6'>Virtue, his darling child, designed,</div> - <div class='line in4'>To thee he gave the heavenly birth,</div> - <div class='line in6'>And bade thee form her infant mind,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Stern, rugged nurse! thy rigid lore</div> - <div class='line in4'>With patience many a year she bore:</div> - <div class='line in4'>What sorrow was, thou bad’st her know,</div> - <div class='line'>And from her own she learnt to melt at others’ woe.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Scared at thy frown terrific, fly</div> - <div class='line in6'>Self-pleasing Folly’s idle brood,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy,</div> - <div class='line in6'>And leave us leisure to be good.</div> - <div class='line in4'>Light they disperse, and with them go</div> - <div class='line in4'>The summer friend, the flattering foe;</div> - <div class='line in4'>By vain prosperity received,</div> - <div class='line'>To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Wisdom, in sable garb arrayed,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Immersed in rapturous thought profound,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And Melancholy, silent maid,</div> - <div class='line in6'>With leaden eye that loves the ground,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Still on thy solemn steps attend:</div> - <div class='line in4'>Warm Charity, the general friend,</div> - <div class='line in4'>With Justice, to herself severe,</div> - <div class='line'>And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>O, gently on thy suppliant’s head,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand!</div> - <div class='line in4'>Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Nor circled with the vengeful band</div> - <div class='line in4'><span class='pageno' id='Page_132'>132</span>(As by the impious thou art seen),</div> - <div class='line in4'>With thundering voice, and threatening mien,</div> - <div class='line in4'>With screaming Horror’s funeral cry,</div> - <div class='line'>Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Thy form benign, O goddess! wear,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thy milder influence impart,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thy philosophic train be there,</div> - <div class='line in6'>To soften not to wound my heart.</div> - <div class='line in4'>The generous spark extinct revive;</div> - <div class='line in4'>Teach me to love and to forgive;</div> - <div class='line in4'>Exact my own defects to scan,</div> - <div class='line'>What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_173.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_133'>133</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXI.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>April 2, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We promised in our Sixteenth Number, that though -we should not proceed regularly with the publication -of the Didactic Poem, the <span class='sc'>Progress of Man</span>,—a work -which, indeed, both from its bulk, and from the erudite -nature of the subject, would hardly suit with the purposes -of a Weekly Paper,—we should, nevertheless, -give from time to time such extracts from it as we -thought were likely to be useful to our readers, and -as were in any degree connected with the topics or -events of the times.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The following extract is from the 23rd Canto of this -admirable and instructive Poem;—in which the author -(whom, by a series of accidents, which we have neither -the space, nor indeed the liberty, to enumerate at -present, we have discovered to be <span class='sc'>Mr. Higgins</span>, of -<em>St. Mary Axe</em>) describes the vicious refinement of what -is called civilized society, in respect to marriage; contends -with infinite spirit and philosophy against the -factitious sacredness and indissolubility of that institution; -and paints in glowing colours the happiness and -utility (in a moral as well as political view) of an arrangement -of an opposite sort, such as prevails in -countries which are yet under the influence of pure -and unsophisticated nature.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In illustration of his principles upon this subject, the -author alludes to a popular production of the German -Drama, the title of which is the “<span class='sc'>Reformed Housekeeper</span>” -<span class='pageno' id='Page_134'>134</span>[<cite>The Stranger</cite>], which he expresses a hope of -seeing transfused into the language of this country.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE PROGRESS OF MAN.<br /> CANTO TWENTY-THIRD.<br /> <span class='small'>CONTENTS.</span></h3> - -<p class='c039'><span class='sc'>On Marriage.</span>—Marriage being indissoluble the cause of its -being so often unhappy.—Nature’s laws not consulted in -this point.—Civilized nations mistaken.—<span class='sc'>Otaheite</span>: Happiness -of the natives thereof—visited by Captain Cook, in -his Majesty’s Ship <em>Endeavour</em>—Character of Captain Cook.—Address -to Circumnavigation.—Description of His Majesty’s -Ship <em>Endeavour</em>—Mast, rigging, sea-sickness, prow, poop, -mess-room, surgeon’s mate—History of one.—Episode concerning -naval chirurgery.—Catching a Thunny Fish.—Arrival -at Otaheite—cast anchor—land—Natives astonished.—Love—Liberty—Moral—Natural—Religious—Contrasted -with -European manners.—Strictness—License—Doctor’s Commons.—Dissolubility -of <span class='sc'>Marriage</span> recommended—Illustrated -by a game at Cards—Whist—Cribbage—Partners changed—Why -not the same in Marriage?—Illustrated by a River.—Love -free.—Priests, Kings.—German Drama.—<span class='sc'>Kotzebue’s</span> -“Housekeeper Reformed”.—Moral employments of Housekeeping -described—Hottentots sit and stare at each other—Query, -<span class='fss'>WHY</span>?—Address to the Hottentots—History of the -Cape of Good Hope.—Resumé of the Arguments against -Marriage.—Conclusion.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>PROGRESS OF MAN.<br /> <span class='small'>EXTRACT.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hail! beauteous lands<a id='r174' /><a href='#f174' class='c024'><sup>[174]</sup></a> that crown the Southern Seas;</div> - <div class='line'>Dear happy seats of Liberty and Ease!</div> - <div class='line'>Hail! whose green coasts the peaceful ocean laves,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_135'>135</span>Incessant washing with its watery waves!</div> - <div class='line'>Delicious islands! to whose envied shore</div> - <div class='line'>Thee, gallant <span class='sc'>Cook</span>! the ship <em>Endeavour</em><a id='r175' /><a href='#f175' class='c024'><sup>[175]</sup></a> bore.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>There laughs the sky, there zephyr’s frolic train,</div> - <div class='line'>And light-wing’d loves, and blameless pleasures reign:</div> - <div class='line'>There, when two souls congenial ties unite,</div> - <div class='line'>No hireling <em>Bonzes</em> chant the mystic rite;</div> - <div class='line'>Free every thought, each action unconfin’d,</div> - <div class='line'>And light those fetters which no rivets bind.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>There in each grove, each sloping bank along,</div> - <div class='line'>And flow’rs and shrubs and odorous herbs among,</div> - <div class='line'>Each shepherd clasp’d, with undisguis’d delight,</div> - <div class='line'>His yielding fair one,—in the Captain’s sight;</div> - <div class='line'>Each yielding fair, as chance or fancy led,</div> - <div class='line'>Preferr’d new lovers to her sylvan bed.<a id='r176' /><a href='#f176' class='c024'><sup>[176]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Learn hence, each nymph, whose free aspiring mind</div> - <div class='line'>Europe’s cold laws,<a id='r177' /><a href='#f177' class='c024'><sup>[177]</sup></a> and colder customs<a id='r178' /><a href='#f178' class='c024'><sup>[178]</sup></a> bind—</div> - <div class='line'>O! learn, what Nature’s genial laws decree—</div> - <div class='line'>What Otaheite<a id='r179' /><a href='#f179' class='c024'><sup>[179]</sup></a> is, let Britain be!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'> · · · · ·</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_136'>136</span>Of <span class='fss'>WHIST</span> or <span class='fss'>CRIBBAGE</span> mark th’ amusing game—</div> - <div class='line'>The partners <em>changing</em>, but the <span class='fss'>SPORT</span> the <em>same</em>.</div> - <div class='line'>Else would the gamester’s anxious ardour cool,</div> - <div class='line'>Dull every deal, and stagnant every pool.</div> - <div class='line'>—Yet must <em>one</em><a id='r180' /><a href='#f180' class='c024'><sup>[180]</sup></a> Man, with one unceasing Wife,</div> - <div class='line'>Play the <span class='fss'>LONG RUBBER</span> of connubial life.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Yes! human laws, and laws esteem’d divine,</div> - <div class='line'>The generous passion straiten and confine;</div> - <div class='line'>And, as a stream, when art constrains its course,</div> - <div class='line'>Pours its fierce torrent with augmented force,</div> - <div class='line'>So, Passion<a id='r181' /><a href='#f181' class='c024'><sup>[181]</sup></a> narrowed to one channel small,</div> - <div class='line'><em>Unlike</em> the former, does not flow at all.</div> - <div class='line'>—For Love <em>then</em> only flaps his purple wings,</div> - <div class='line'>When uncontroll’d by priestcraft or by kings.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Such the strict rules, that, in these barbarous climes,</div> - <div class='line'>Choke youth’s fair flow’rs, and feelings turn to crimes;</div> - <div class='line'>And people every walk of polish’d life<a id='r182' /><a href='#f182' class='c024'><sup>[182]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>With that two-headed monster, <span class='sc'>Man</span> and <span class='sc'>Wife</span>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Yet bright examples sometimes we observe,</div> - <div class='line'>Which from the general practice seem to swerve;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_137'>137</span>Such as presented to Germania’s<a id='r183' /><a href='#f183' class='c024'><sup>[183]</sup></a> view,</div> - <div class='line'>A <span class='sc'>Kotzebue’s</span> bold emphatic pencil drew:</div> - <div class='line'>Such as, translated in some future age,</div> - <div class='line'>Shall add new glories to the British stage;</div> - <div class='line'>—While the moved audience sit in dumb despair,</div> - <div class='line'>“Like Hottentots,<a id='r184' /><a href='#f184' class='c024'><sup>[184]</sup></a> <em>and at each other stare</em>”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>With look sedate, and staid beyond her years,</div> - <div class='line'>In matron weeds a <em>Housekeeper</em> appears.</div> - <div class='line'>The jingling keys her comely girdle deck—</div> - <div class='line'>Her ’kerchief colour’d, and her apron <em>check</em>.</div> - <div class='line'>Can that be Adelaide, that “soul of whim,”</div> - <div class='line'><em>Reform’d</em> in practice, and in manner prim?</div> - <div class='line'>—On household cares intent,<a id='r185' /><a href='#f185' class='c024'><sup>[185]</sup></a> with many a sigh</div> - <div class='line'>She turns the pancake, and she moulds the pie;</div> - <div class='line'>Melts into sauces rich the savoury ham;</div> - <div class='line'>From the crush’d berry strains the lucid jam;</div> - <div class='line'>Bids brandied cherries,<a id='r186' /><a href='#f186' class='c024'><sup>[186]</sup></a> by infusion slow,</div> - <div class='line'>Imbibe new flavour, and their own forego,</div> - <div class='line'>Sole cordial of her heart, sole solace of her woe!</div> - <div class='line'>While, still responsive to each mournful moan,</div> - <div class='line'>The saucepan simmers in a softer tone.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'> · · · · ·</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_138'>138</span>[The following extracts will give some idea of <span class='sc'>Payne Knight’s</span> poem.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hail! happy States, that fresh in vigour rise</div> - <div class='line'>From Europe’s wrecks beneath Atlantic skies!</div> - <div class='line'>Long may ye feel the blessings ye bestow;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor e’er your parents’ sickly symptoms know!</div> - <div class='line'>But when that parent, crush’d beneath the weight</div> - <div class='line'>Of debts and taxes, yields herself to fate;</div> - <div class='line'>May you her hapless fugitives receive,</div> - <div class='line'>Comfort their sorrows, and their wants relieve!</div> - <div class='line'>For come it will—th’ inevitable day,</div> - <div class='line'>When Britain must corruption’s forfeit pay,</div> - <div class='line'>Beneath a despot’s, or a rabble’s sway.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>After a glowing description of the amours of a shepherd and shepherdess, -he thus speaks of <em>Marriage</em>:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Bless’d days of youth, of liberty, and love!</div> - <div class='line'>How short, alas! your transient pleasures prove!</div> - <div class='line'>Just as we think the sweet delights our own,</div> - <div class='line'>We strive to fix them, and we find them flown:—</div> - <div class='line'>For fix’d by laws, and limited by rules,</div> - <div class='line'>Affection stagnates and love’s fervour cools;</div> - <div class='line'>Shrinks like the gather’d flower, which, when possess’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Droops in the hand, or withers on the breast:</div> - <div class='line'>Feels all its native bloom and fragrance fly,</div> - <div class='line'>And death’s pale shadows close its purple dye.</div> - <div class='line in2'>While mutual wishes form love’s only vows,</div> - <div class='line'>By mutual interests nursed, the union grows;</div> - <div class='line'>Respectful fear its rising power maintains,</div> - <div class='line'>And both preserve, when each may break, its chains.</div> - <div class='line in2'>But when in bands indissoluble join’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Securely torpid sleeps the sated mind;</div> - <div class='line'>No anxious hopes or fears arise, to move</div> - <div class='line'>The flagging wings, or stir the fires of love:</div> - <div class='line'>Benumb’d, the soul’s best energies repose,</div> - <div class='line'>And life in dull unvaried torpor flows;</div> - <div class='line'>Or only shakes off lethargy to teaze</div> - <div class='line'>Whom once its only pleasure was to please.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>In illustration of these peculiar doctrines of Love and Marriage, the authors -of the present Parody introduced into the first twenty lines of the preceding -“Extract,” the very free statements on these subjects which appear in Chapters -8, 12, 14, 16, 17, of the narrative of Cook’s First Voyage to the Pacific in the -“Endeavour,” in 1768, derived, by the editor, Dr. John Hawkesworth, from the -Diary of Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Banks, who accompanied Captain Cook.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c009'>[<span class='sc'>Lord Erskine</span>, after dinner, inveighed bitterly against Marriage; and -smarting, I suppose, under the recollection of his own unsuccessful choice, concluded -by saying that a wife was <em>a tin canister tied to a man’s tail</em>, which very -much excited the indignation of Lady Ann Culling Smith, who was of the -party. “Monk” Lewis took a sheet of paper, and wrote the following neat -epigram on the subject, which he presented to Her Royal Highness [the Duchess -of York]:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Lord Erskine at marriage presuming to rail,</div> - <div class='line'>Says, <em>a wife’s a tin canister tied to ones tail</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>And the fair Lady Ann, while the subject he carries on,</div> - <div class='line'>Feels hurt at his Lordship’s degrading comparison.</div> - <div class='line'>But wherefore degrading? if taken aright,</div> - <div class='line'>A tin canister’s useful, and polished, and bright,</div> - <div class='line'>And if dirt its original purity hide,</div> - <div class='line'>’Tis the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied.”</div> - <div class='line in32'>—<cite>Journal of T. Raikes</cite>, ii. 56.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_139'>139</span>[<span class='sc'>Richard Payne Knight</span>, eminent as he was as a classical scholar and -archæologist, was not successful as a poet or moralist, and this is shown in an -amusing manner in a letter from Horace Walpole to the Rev. W. Mason, dated -22nd March, 1796, in which he declares how much he is offended and disgusted -by Knight’s “<em>new</em> insolent and self-conceited poem,” alluding to his <cite>Progress of -Civil Society</cite>,—the former one being “<cite>The Landscape</cite>, a didactic poem in three -books,” 4to, pub. 1794, of which mention has already been made.</p> - -<p class='c009'>In 1816 he was examined before a Select Committee of the House of Commons -on the proposed purchase by the Government of the Elgin Marbles; but his -estimate of their value as works of the highest art was much below that of other -artistic witnesses, such as Flaxman, Westmacott, Chantrey, B. West, and others. -For these statements he was severely criticised in vol. 14 of the <cite>Quarterly Review</cite>, -and in a squib, reprinted in the <cite>New Whig Guide</cite> in 1819. He valued the collection -at £25,000; Gavin Hamilton’s estimate was £60,800, and Lord Aberdeen’s -£35,000; for which latter sum they were obtained by the Government. He -bequeathed his collection of ancient Bronzes, Greek Coins, &c.—valued at -£50,000—to the British Museum.</p> - -<p class='c009'>He represented Ludlow till 1806. He was a supporter of <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, upon whom -he wrote a Monody. He was never married, and he was succeeded in his fine -property, including Downton Castle, near Ludlow, &c., on his death in 1824, -by his brother, Thomas Andrew Knight, one of the most scientific of horticulturists, -and he in turn was succeeded by his grandson, Andrew Johnes Rouse -Boughton, second son of the late Sir W. E. Rouse Boughton, Bart., who added -by royal license in 1856 the name of Knight to his patronymic.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c009'>[The drama (here nicknamed <cite>The Reformed Housekeeper</cite>), but entitled by the -author “<cite>Misanthropy and Repentance</cite>,” was produced at Drury Lane Theatre, -Sheridan being then lessee, as “<cite>The Stranger</cite>,” on the 24th March, 1798. The -following was the cast:—<em>The Stranger</em>, J. P. Kemble; <em>Baron Steinfort</em>, John -Palmer; <em>Francis</em>, R. Palmer; <em>Peter</em>, Suett; <em>Tobias</em>, J. Aikin; <em>Solomon</em>, Wewitzer; -<em>Count Wintersen</em>, Barrymore; <em>Mrs. Haller</em>, Mrs. Siddons; <em>Countess Wintersen</em>, -Mrs. Goodall; <em>Charlotte</em>, Miss Stuart. It was considered by competent -authorities as one of Kemble’s finest efforts, and was performed on twenty-six -successive nights. Some of our most eminent actors and actresses have essayed -the principal parts. Miss O’Neill made her last appearance on the stage in the -character of Mrs. Haller, 13th of July, 1818.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The acting version purported to be altered from the German by Benj. -Thompson (afterwards Count Rumford), but it is likely that all or most of -the alterations came from the skilful hands of Sheridan, assisted by Kemble. -The pathetic song introduced, “<em>I have a silent sorrow here</em>,” was written -by the former. Two other versions of the drama appeared in the year -1798—one by A. Schinck, and the other by G. Papendick—but neither has -been acted.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Kotzebue tells us in his <cite>Autobiography</cite> that this play of his was acted at the -Imperial Palace of <em>The Hermitage</em>, St. Petersburg, under his superintendence -while manager of the Imperial Company of German Comedians, and excited -visible emotion in the Emperor Paul. He himself saw it acted at Tobolsk -during his exile in Siberia. The vast and splendid palace of <em>The Hermitage</em> -is now given up to the Arts. It contains the enormous collection of Pictures -accumulated by the Russian sovereigns (including the Houghton Gallery formed -by Sir Robert Walpole), together with a Gallery of Sculpture, one of the finest -assortments of Antique Gems in the world, a museum of Grecian and Etruscan -Antiquities, and a library of rare Books and Manuscripts.</p> - -<p class='c009'>An awful event took place during the performance of this play a short time -after its production. John Palmer, an eminent comedian, while acting the -principal character, at Liverpool, on the 2nd of August, 1798, expired on the -stage. He had recently suffered severe domestic bereavements, which are supposed -to have given a painful application to some passages in the third act in -which he had to utter the words: “There is another and a better world”. In -the first scene of the fourth act, his agitation increased; he fell into the arms of -the performer of the part of Baron Steinfort, and died without a groan. A narrative -of this shocking event, published immediately afterwards, by the same -performer, disposes of the generally-received but more emotional tradition that -<span class='pageno' id='Page_140'>140</span>Palmer’s earthly career was terminated while pronouncing the above words. -He was in his fifty-seventh year.</p> - -<p class='c009'>This is not the only instance of so impressive an end, for a similar death-stroke -overtook Joseph Peterson, an excellent actor, in October, 1758, while representing -<em>The Duke</em> in <cite>Measure for Measure</cite>. In act 3, sc. 1, in reciting the -words—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“—Reason thus with life:</div> - <div class='line'>If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing</div> - <div class='line'>That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art—”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c035'>he dropped into the arms of Moody, who personated <em>Claudio</em>, and never spoke -more!—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c009'>[“One other noted character we visited—the one who, according to William -Taylor of Norwich, was the greatest of all. This was <span class='sc'>August von Kotzebue</span>, -the very popular dramatist, whose singular fate it was to live at variance with -the great poets of his country, while he was the idol of the mob. He was at one -time (about this time (1801) and a little later) a favourite in all Europe. One of -his plays, <cite>The Stranger</cite>, I have seen acted in German, English, Spanish, French, -and, I believe, also Italian. He was the pensioner of Prussia, Austria, and -Russia. The odium produced by this circumstance, and the imputation of being -a spy, are assigned as the cause of his assassination by [C. L. Sand] a student -of Jena, a few years after our visit [March 3, 1819]. He was living, like Goethe, -in a large house and in style. I drank tea with him, and found him a lively -little man, with small black eyes. He had the manners of a <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">petit-maître</span></i>.”—<cite>Crabb -Robinson’s Diary</cite> (1801), i. 115.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_181.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_141'>141</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r c003'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>April 9, 1798.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 class='c038'>TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN.</h3> - -<p class='c043'><span class='sc'>Sir</span>,—I saw, with strong approbation, your specimen -of ancient Sapphic measure in English, which I think -far surpasses all that Abraham Fraunce, Richard Stanyhurst, -or Sir Philip Sidney himself, have produced in -that style—I mean, of course, your sublime and beautiful -<cite>Knife-Grinder</cite>, of which it is not too high an encomium -to say, that it even rivals the efforts of the fine-eared -democratic poet, Mr. Southey. But you seem not to -be aware, that we have a genuine Sapphic measure belonging -to our own language, of which I now send you -a short specimen.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE JACOBIN.</h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I am a hearty Jacobin,</div> - <div class='line'>Who own no God, and dread no sin,</div> - <div class='line'>Ready to dash through thick and thin</div> - <div class='line in28'>For freedom:</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And when the teachers of Chalk-Farm</div> - <div class='line'>Gave Ministers so much alarm,</div> - <div class='line'>And preach’d that kings did only harm,</div> - <div class='line in28'>I fee’d ’em.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>By <span class='sc'>Bedford’s</span> cut I’ve trimm’d my locks,</div> - <div class='line'>And coal-black is my knowledge-box,</div> - <div class='line'>Callous to all, except hard knocks</div> - <div class='line in28'>Of thumpers;</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_142'>142</span>My eye a noble fierceness boasts,</div> - <div class='line'>My voice as hollow as a ghost’s,</div> - <div class='line'>My throat oft washed by factious toasts</div> - <div class='line in28'>In bumpers.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whatever is in France, is right;</div> - <div class='line'>Terror and blood are my delight;</div> - <div class='line'>Parties with us do not excite</div> - <div class='line in28'>Enough rage.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Our boasted laws I hate and curse,</div> - <div class='line'>Bad from the first, by age grown worse,</div> - <div class='line'>I pant and sigh for univers-<a id='r187' /><a href='#f187' class='c024'><sup>[187]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in28'>al suffrage.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Wakefield</span><a id='r188' /><a href='#f188' class='c024'><sup>[188]</sup></a> I love—adore <span class='sc'>Horne Tooke</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>With pride on <span class='sc'>Jones</span><a id='r189' /><a href='#f189' class='c024'><sup>[189]</sup></a> and <span class='sc'>Thelwall</span><a id='r190' /><a href='#f190' class='c024'><sup>[190]</sup></a> look,</div> - <div class='line'>And hope that they, by hook or crook,</div> - <div class='line in28'>Will prosper.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But they deserve the worst of ills,</div> - <div class='line'>And all th’ abuse of all our quills,</div> - <div class='line'>Who form’d of strong and <em>gagging Bills</em><a id='r191' /><a href='#f191' class='c024'><sup>[191]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in28'>A cross pair.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Extinct since then each speaker’s fire,</div> - <div class='line'>And silent ev’ry daring lyre,<a id='r192' /><a href='#f192' class='c024'><sup>[192]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Dum-founded they whom I would hire</div> - <div class='line in28'>To lecture.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_143'>143</span>Tied up, alas! is ev’ry tongue</div> - <div class='line'>On which, conviction nightly hung,<a id='r193' /><a href='#f193' class='c024'><sup>[193]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>Thelwall</span> looks, though yet but young,</div> - <div class='line in28'>A spectre.<a id='r194' /><a href='#f194' class='c024'><sup>[194]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in36'>B. O. B.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_144'>144</span> -<img src='images/i_185.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_145'>145</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXIII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>April 16, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We cannot better explain to our readers the design -of the poem from which the following extracts are -taken, than by borrowing the expressions of the author, -Mr. <span class='sc'>Higgins</span>, of <em>St. Mary Axe</em>, in the letter which accompanied -the manuscript.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We must premise, that we had found ourselves called -upon to remonstrate with Mr. H. on the freedom of -some of the positions laid down in his other didactic -poem, the “Progress of Man”; and had in the course -of our remonstrance hinted something to the disadvantage -of the <em>new principles</em> which are now afloat in the -world, and which are, in our opinion, working so much -prejudice to the happiness of mankind. To this Mr. H. -takes occasion to reply—<a id='r195' /><a href='#f195' class='c024'><sup>[195]</sup></a></p> - -<p class='c007'>“What you call the <em>new principles</em> are, in fact, nothing -less than <em>new</em>. They are the principles of primeval nature, -the system of original and unadulterated man.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_146'>146</span>“If you mean by my addiction to <em>new principles</em> that -the object which I have in view in my larger work -[meaning the ‘Progress of Man’] and in the several -other <em>concomitant</em> and <em>subsidiary</em> didactic poems which are -necessary to complete my plan, is to restore this first, -and pure simplicity; to rescue and to recover the interesting -nakedness of human nature, by ridding her -of the cumbrous establishments which the folly, and -pride, and self-interest of the worst part of our species -have heaped upon her;—you are right. Such is my -object. I do not disavow it. Nor is it mine alone. -There are abundance of abler hands at work upon it. -<em>Encyclopedias</em>, <em>Treatises</em>, <em>Novels</em>, <em>Magazines</em>, <em>Reviews</em>, and -<em>New Annual Registers</em>, have, as you are well aware, -done their part with activity and with effect. It remained -to bring the <em>heavy</em> artillery of a didactic poem -to bear upon the same object.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“If I have selected your paper as the channel for -conveying my labours to the public, it was not because -I was unaware of the hostility of your principles to -mine, of the bigotry of your attachment to ‘things as -they are,’ but because, I will fairly own, I found some -sort of cover and disguise necessary for securing the -favourable reception of my sentiments; the usual pretexts -of humanity, and philanthropy, and fine feeling, -by which we have for some time obtained a passport -to the hearts and understandings of men, being now -worn out or exploded. I could not choose but smile -at my success in the first instance, in inducing <em>you</em> to -adopt my poem as your own.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“But you have called for an explanation of these -principles of ours, and you have a right to obtain it. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_147'>147</span>Our first principle is, then—the reverse of the trite -and dull maxim of Pope—‘<em>Whatever is, is right</em>’. We -contend, that ‘<em>Whatever is, is wrong</em>’; that institutions, -civil and religious, that social order (as it is called -in <em>your</em> cant) and regular government, and law, and I -know not what other fantastic inventions, are but so -many cramps and fetters on the free agency of man’s -<em>natural intellect</em> and <em>moral sensibility</em>; so many badges -of his degradation from the primal purity and excellence -of his nature.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“Our second principle is, the ‘<em>eternal and absolute -perfectibility of man</em>’. We contend, that if, as is demonstrable, -we have risen from a level with the <em>cabbages -of the field</em> to our present comparatively intelligent and -dignified state of existence, by the mere exertion of -our own <em>energies</em>; we should, if these <em>energies</em> were not repressed -and subdued by the operation of prejudice, -and folly, by <span class='sc'>King-Craft</span> and <span class='sc'>Priest-Craft</span>, and the -other evils incident to what is called civilized society, -continue to exert and expand ourselves in a proportion -infinitely greater than anything of which we yet have -any notion:—in a <em>ratio</em> hardly capable of being calculated -by any science of which we are now masters: -but which would in time raise man from his present -biped state to a rank more worthy of his endowments -and aspirations; to a rank in which he would be, as it -were, <em>all</em> <span class='sc'>Mind</span>; would enjoy unclouded perspicacity and -perpetual vitality; feed on <em>oxygene</em>, and never die, but -<em>by his own consent</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“But though the poem of the <span class='sc'>Progress of Man</span> -alone would be sufficient to teach this system and -enforce these doctrines, the whole practical effect of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_148'>148</span>them cannot be expected to be produced, but by the -gradual perfecting of each of the sublimer sciences;—at -the husk and shell of which we are now nibbling and -at the kernel whereof, in our present state, we cannot -hope to arrive. These several sciences will be the -subjects of the several <em>auxiliary</em> <span class='sc'>Didactic Poems</span> which -I have now in hand (one of which, entitled <span class='sc'>The Loves -of the Triangles</span>, I herewith transmit to you), and for -the better arrangement and execution of which, I -beseech you to direct your bookseller to furnish me with -a handsome Chambers’s Dictionary; in order that I may -be enabled to go through the several articles alphabetically, -beginning with <em>Abracadabra</em>, under the first letter, -and going down to <em>Zodiac</em>, which is to be found under -the last.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“I am persuaded that there is no science, however -abstruse, nay, no trade or manufacture, which may not -be taught by a didactic poem. In that before you, an -attempt is made (not unsuccessfully, I hope) to <em>enlist the -imagination under the banners of Geometry</em>. <em>Botany</em> I found -done to my hands. And though the more rigid and unbending -stiffness of a mathematical subject does not -admit of the same appeals to the warmer passions, -which naturally arise out of the <em>sexual</em> (or, as I have -heard several worthy gentlewomen of my acquaintance, -who delight much in the poem to which I allude, term -it, by a slight misnomer no way difficult to be accounted -for—the <em>sensual</em>) system of Linnæus;—yet I trust that -the range and variety of illustration with which I have -endeavoured to ornament and enlighten the arid truths -of Euclid and Algebra, will be found to have smoothed -the road of Demonstration, to have softened the rugged -<span class='pageno' id='Page_149'>149</span>features of Elementary Propositions, and, as it were, to -have strewed the <em>Asses’ Bridge</em> with flowers.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>Such is the account which Mr. <span class='sc'>Higgins</span> gives of his -own undertaking, and of the motives which have led him -to it. For our parts, though we have not the same -sanguine persuasion of the <em>absolute perfectibility</em> of our -species, and are in truth liable to the imputation of being -more satisfied with <em>things as they are</em>, than Mr. <span class='sc'>Higgins</span> -and his associates;—yet, as we are, in at least the same -proportion, less convinced of the practical influence of -didactic poems, we apprehend little danger to our -readers’ morals from laying before them Mr. <span class='sc'>Higgins’s</span> -doctrine in its most fascinating shape. The poem -abounds, indeed, with beauties of the most striking kind,—various -and vivid imagery, bold and unsparing impersonifications; -and similitudes and illustrations brought -from the most ordinary and the most extraordinary -occurrences of nature—from history and fable—appealing -equally to the heart and to the understanding, and -calculated to make the subject of which the poem -professes to treat rather amusing than intelligible. We -shall be agreeably surprised to hear that it has assisted -any young student at either University in his mathematical -studies.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We need hardly add, that the plates illustrative of this -poem (the engravings of which would have been too -expensive for our publication) are to be found in Euclid’s -Elements, and other books of a similar tendency.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_150'>150</span> - <h3 class='c031'>LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES.<a id='r196' /><a href='#f196' class='c024'><sup>[196]</sup></a><br /> <span class='small'>ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTO.</span></h3> -</div> - -<p class='c039'>Warning to the profane not to approach—Nymphs and Deities -of Mathematical Mythology—Cyclois of a pensive turn—Pendulums, -on the contrary, playful—and why?—Sentimental -Union of the Naiads and Hydrostatics—Marriage of -Euclid and Algebra.—Pulley the emblem of Mechanics—Optics -of a licentious disposition—distinguished by her telescope -and green spectacles.—Hyde-Park Gate on a Sunday -morning—Cockneys—Coaches.—Didactic Poetry—Nonsensia—Love -delights in Angles or Corners—Theory of Fluxions -explained—Trochais, the Nymph of the Wheel—Smoke-Jack -described—Personification of elementary or culinary Fire.—Little -Jack Horner—Story of Cinderella—Rectangle, a Magician, -educated by Plato and Menecmus—in love with Three -Curves at the same time—served by Gins, or Genii—transforms -himself into a Cone—the Three Curves requite his -passion—Description of them—Parabola, Hyperbola, and -Ellipsis—Asymptotes—Conjugated Axes.—Illustrations—Rewbell, -Barras, and Lepaux, the three virtuous Directors—Macbeth -and the Three Witches—the Three Fates—the -Three Graces—King Lear and his Three Daughters—Derby -Diligence—Catherine Wheel.—Catastrophe of Mr. Gingham, -with his Wife and Three Daughters overturned in a One-horse -Chaise—Dislocation and Contusion two kindred Fiends—Mail -Coaches—Exhortation to Drivers to be careful—Genius of the -Post-Office—Invention of Letters—Digamma—Double -Letters—Remarkable Direction of one—Hippona the Goddess -of Hack-horses—Parameter and Abscissa unite to overpower -the Ordinate, who retreats down the Axis-Major, and -forms himself in a Square—Isosceles, a Giant—Dr. Rhomboides—Fifth -Proposition, or Asses’ Bridge—Bridge of Lodi—Buonaparte—Raft -and Windmills—Exhortation to the -recovery of our Freedom—Conclusion.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_151'>151</span> - <h3 class='c031'>THE LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES.<br /> <span class='small'>A Mathematical and Philosophical Poem,<br /> INSCRIBED TO DR. DARWIN.</span></h3> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>CANTO I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Stay your rude steps, or e’er your feet invade<a id='r197' /><a href='#f197' class='c024'><sup>[197]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>The Muses’ haunts, ye sons of War and Trade!</div> - <div class='line'>Nor you, ye legion fiends of Church and Law,</div> - <div class='line'>Pollute these pages with unhallow’d paw!</div> - <div class='line'>Debased, corrupted, grovelling, and confined,</div><div class='lnum'>5</div> - <div class='line'>No <span class='sc'>Definitions</span><a id='r198' /><a href='#f198' class='c024'><sup>[198]</sup></a> touch <em>your</em> senseless mind;</div> - <div class='line'>To <em>you</em> no <span class='sc'>Postulates</span><a id='r199' /><a href='#f199' class='c024'><sup>[199]</sup></a> prefer their claim,</div> - <div class='line'>No ardent <span class='sc'>Axioms</span><a id='r200' /><a href='#f200' class='c024'><sup>[200]</sup></a> <em>your</em> dull souls inflame;</div> - <div class='line'>For <em>you</em> no <span class='sc'>Tangents</span><a id='r201' /><a href='#f201' class='c024'><sup>[201]</sup></a> touch, no <span class='sc'>Angles</span> meet,</div> - <div class='line'>No <span class='sc'>Circles</span><a id='r202' /><a href='#f202' class='c024'><sup>[202]</sup></a> join in osculation<a id='r203' /><a href='#f203' class='c024'><sup>[203]</sup></a> sweet!</div><div class='lnum'>10</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>For <em>me</em>, ye <span class='sc'>Cissoids</span>,<a id='r204' /><a href='#f204' class='c024'><sup>[204]</sup></a> round my temples bend</div> - <div class='line'>Your wandering curves; ye <span class='sc'>Conchoids</span><a id='r205' /><a href='#f205' class='c024'><sup>[205]</sup></a> extend;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_152'>152</span>Let playful <span class='sc'>Pendules</span> quick vibration feel,</div> - <div class='line'>While silent <span class='sc'>Cyclois</span> rests upon her wheel;</div> - <div class='line'>Let <span class='sc'>Hydrostatics</span>,<a id='r206' /><a href='#f206' class='c024'><sup>[206]</sup></a> simpering as they go,</div><div class='lnum'>15</div> - <div class='line'>Lead the light Naiads on fantastic toe;</div> - <div class='line'>Let shrill <span class='sc'>Acoustics</span><a id='r207' /><a href='#f207' class='c024'><sup>[207]</sup></a> tune the tiny lyre;</div> - <div class='line'>With <span class='sc'>Euclid</span> sage fair <span class='sc'>Algebra</span><a id='r208' /><a href='#f208' class='c024'><sup>[208]</sup></a> conspire;</div> - <div class='line'>The obedient pulley<a id='r209' /><a href='#f209' class='c024'><sup>[209]</sup></a> strong <span class='sc'>Mechanics</span> ply,</div> - <div class='line'>And wanton <span class='sc'>Optics</span> roll the melting eye!</div><div class='lnum'>20</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>I see the fair fantastic forms appear,</div> - <div class='line'>The flaunting drapery, and the languid leer;</div> - <div class='line'>Fair sylphish forms<a id='r210' /><a href='#f210' class='c024'><sup>[210]</sup></a>—who, tall, erect, and slim,</div> - <div class='line'>Dart the keen glance, and stretch the length of limb;</div> - <div class='line'>To viewless harpings weave the meanless dance,</div><div class='lnum'>25</div> - <div class='line'>Wave the gay wreath, and titter as they prance.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Such rich confusion<a id='r211' /><a href='#f211' class='c024'><sup>[211]</sup></a> charms the ravish’d sight,</div> - <div class='line'>When vernal Sabbaths to the Park invite.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_153'>153</span>Mounts the thick dust, the coaches crowd along,</div> - <div class='line'>Presses round Grosvenor Gate th’ impatient throng;</div><div class='lnum'>30</div> - <div class='line'>White-muslined misses and mammas are seen,</div> - <div class='line'>Linked with gay cockneys, glittering o’er the green:</div> - <div class='line'>The rising breeze unnumbered charms displays,</div> - <div class='line'>And the tight ankle strikes th’ astonished gaze.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>But chief, thou Nurse of the Didactic Muse,</div><div class='lnum'>35</div> - <div class='line'>Divine <span class='sc'>Nonsensia</span>, all thy soul infuse;</div> - <div class='line'>The charms of <em>Secants</em> and of <em>Tangents</em> tell,</div> - <div class='line'>How Loves and Graces in an <em>Angle</em><a id='r212' /><a href='#f212' class='c024'><sup>[212]</sup></a> dwell;</div> - <div class='line'>How slow progressive <em>Points</em><a id='r213' /><a href='#f213' class='c024'><sup>[213]</sup></a> protract the <em>Line</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>As pendent spiders spin the filmy twine;</div><div class='lnum'>40</div> - <div class='line'>How lengthened <em>Lines</em>, impetuous sweeping round,</div> - <div class='line'>Spread the wide <em>Plane</em>, and mark its circling bound;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_154'>154</span>How <em>Planes</em>, their substance with their motion grown,</div> - <div class='line'>Form the huge <em>Cube</em>, the <em>Cylinder</em>, the <em>Cone</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_155'>155</span>Lo! where the chimney’s sooty tube ascends,</div><div class='lnum'>45</div> - <div class='line'>The fair <span class='sc'>Trochais</span><a id='r214' /><a href='#f214' class='c024'><sup>[214]</sup></a> from the corner bends!</div> - <div class='line'>Her coal-black eyes upturned, incessant mark</div> - <div class='line'>The eddying smoke, quick flame, and volant spark;</div> - <div class='line'>Mark with quick ken, where flashing in between,</div> - <div class='line'>Her much-loved <em>Smoke-Jack</em> glimmers thro’ the scene;</div><div class='lnum'>50</div> - <div class='line'>Mark, how his various parts together tend,</div> - <div class='line'>Point to one purpose,—in one object end;</div> - <div class='line'>The spiral <em>grooves</em> in smooth meanders flow,</div> - <div class='line'>Drags the long <em>chain</em>, the polished axles glow,</div> - <div class='line'>While slowly circumvolves the piece of beef below;</div><div class='lnum'>55</div> - <div class='line'>The conscious fire<a id='r215' /><a href='#f215' class='c024'><sup>[215]</sup></a> with bickering radiance burns,</div> - <div class='line'>Eyes the rich joint, and roasts it as it turns.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>So youthful Horner rolled the roguish eye,</div> - <div class='line'>Cull’d the dark plum from out his Christmas pie,</div> - <div class='line'>And cried, in self-applause—“How good a boy am I”.</div><div class='lnum'>60</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>So she, sad victim of domestic spite,</div> - <div class='line'>Fair Cinderella, pass’d the wintry night,</div> - <div class='line'>In the lone chimney’s darksome nook immured,</div> - <div class='line'>Her form disfigured, and her charms obscured.</div> - <div class='line'>Sudden her godmother appears in sight,</div><div class='lnum'>65</div> - <div class='line'>Lifts the charmed rod, and chants the mystic rite.</div> - <div class='line'>The chanted rite the maid attentive hears,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_156'>156</span>And feels new ear-rings deck her listening ears;<a id='r216' /><a href='#f216' class='c024'><sup>[216]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>While ’midst her towering tresses, aptly set,</div> - <div class='line'>Shines bright, with quivering glance, the smart aigrette;</div><div class='lnum'>70</div> - <div class='line'>Brocaded silks the splendid dress complete,</div> - <div class='line'>And the Glass Slipper grasps her fairy feet.</div> - <div class='line'>Six cock-tailed mice<a id='r217' /><a href='#f217' class='c024'><sup>[217]</sup></a> transport her to the ball,</div> - <div class='line'>And liveried lizards wait upon her call.</div> - <div class='line'>Alas! that partial Science should approve</div> - <div class='line'>The sly <span class='sc'>Rectangle’s</span> too licentious love!</div> - <div class='line'>For <em>three</em> bright nymphs, &c., &c.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>(<em>To be continued.</em>)</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_157'>157</span> -<img src='images/i_198.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_158'>158</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXIV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>April 23, 1798.</div> - -<h3 class='c038'>THE LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES.<br /> A Mathematical and Philosophical Poem.</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>(<em>Continued.</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>CANTO I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Alas!</span> that partial Science should approve</div><div class='lnum'>75</div> - <div class='line'>The sly <span class='sc'>Rectangle’s</span><a id='r218' /><a href='#f218' class='c024'><sup>[218]</sup></a> too licentious love!</div> - <div class='line'>For <em>three</em> bright nymphs the wily wizard burns;—</div> - <div class='line'><em>Three</em> bright-eyed nymphs requite his flame by turns.</div> - <div class='line'>Strange force of magic skill! combined of yore</div> - <div class='line'>With Plato’s science and Menecmus’ lore.<a id='r219' /><a href='#f219' class='c024'><sup>[219]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>80</div> - <div class='line'>In <em>Afric’s</em> school, amid those sultry sands</div> - <div class='line'>High on its base where Pompey’s pillar stands,</div> - <div class='line'>This learnt the Seer; and learnt, alas! too well,</div> - <div class='line'>Each scribbled talisman, and smoky spell:</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_159'>159</span>What muttered charms, what soul-subduing arts,</div><div class='lnum'>85</div> - <div class='line'>Fell Zatanai<a id='r220' /><a href='#f220' class='c024'><sup>[220]</sup></a> to his sons imparts.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Gins</span><a id='r221' /><a href='#f221' class='c024'><sup>[221]</sup></a>—black and huge! who in Dom-Daniel’s<a id='r222' /><a href='#f222' class='c024'><sup>[222]</sup></a> cave</div> - <div class='line'>Writhe your scorched limbs on sulphur’s<a id='r223' /><a href='#f223' class='c024'><sup>[223]</sup></a> azure wave;</div> - <div class='line'>Or, shivering, yell amidst eternal snows,</div> - <div class='line'>Where cloud-capp’d Caf<a id='r224' /><a href='#f224' class='c024'><sup>[224]</sup></a> protrudes his granite toes;</div><div class='lnum'>90</div> - <div class='line'>(Bound by his will, <em>Judæa’s</em> fabled king,<a id='r225' /><a href='#f225' class='c024'><sup>[225]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Lord of <em>Aladdin’s</em> lamp and mystic ring.)</div> - <div class='line'>Gins! ye remember!—for your toil conveyed</div> - <div class='line'>Whate’er of drugs the powerful charm could aid;</div> - <div class='line'>Air, earth, and sea ye searched, and where below</div><div class='lnum'>95</div> - <div class='line'>Flame embryo lavas, young volcanoes<a id='r226' /><a href='#f226' class='c024'><sup>[226]</sup></a> glow,—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_160'>160</span>Gins! ye beheld appall’d th’ enchanter’s hand</div> - <div class='line'>Wave in dark air th’ <em>Hypothenusal</em> wand;</div> - <div class='line'>Saw him the mystic <em>Circle</em> trace, and wheel</div> - <div class='line'>With head erect, and far-extended heel;<a id='r227' /><a href='#f227' class='c024'><sup>[227]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>100</div> - <div class='line'>Saw him, with speed that mocked the dazzled eye,</div> - <div class='line'>Self-whirled, in quick gyrations eddying fly:</div> - <div class='line'>Till done the potent spell—behold him grown</div> - <div class='line'>Fair <em>Venus’</em> emblem—the <em>Phœnician</em> <span class='sc'>Cone</span>.<a id='r228' /><a href='#f228' class='c024'><sup>[228]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_161'>161</span>Triumphs the Seer, and now secure observes</div><div class='lnum'>105</div> - <div class='line'>The kindling passions of the <em>rival</em> <span class='sc'>Curves</span>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>And first, the fair <span class='sc'>Parabola</span><a id='r229' /><a href='#f229' class='c024'><sup>[229]</sup></a> behold,</div> - <div class='line'>Her timid arms, with virgin blush, unfold!</div> - <div class='line'>Though, on one <em>focus</em> fixed, her eyes betray</div> - <div class='line'>A heart that glows with love’s resistless sway;</div><div class='lnum'>110</div> - <div class='line'>Though, climbing oft, she strives with bolder grace</div> - <div class='line'>Round his tall neck to clasp her fond embrace,</div> - <div class='line'>Still ere she reach it, from his polished side</div> - <div class='line'>Her trembling hands in devious <em>Tangents</em> glide.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Not thus <span class='sc'>Hyperbola</span>;<a id='r230' /><a href='#f230' class='c024'><sup>[230]</sup></a>—with subtlest art</div><div class='lnum'>115</div> - <div class='line'>The blue-eyed wanton plays her changeful part;</div> - <div class='line'>Quick as her <em>conjugated</em> axes move</div> - <div class='line'>Through every posture of luxurious love,</div> - <div class='line'>Her sportive limbs with easiest grace expand;</div> - <div class='line'>Her charms unveiled provoke the lover’s hand;</div><div class='lnum'>120</div> - <div class='line'>Unveiled, except in many a filmy ray,</div> - <div class='line'>Where light <em>Asymptotes</em><a id='r231' /><a href='#f231' class='c024'><sup>[231]</sup></a> o’er her bosom play,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor touch her glowing skin, nor intercept the day.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Yet why, <span class='sc'>Ellipsis</span>,<a id='r232' /><a href='#f232' class='c024'><sup>[232]</sup></a> at thy fate repine?</div> - <div class='line'>More lasting bliss, securer joys are thine.</div><div class='lnum'>125</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_162'>162</span>Though to each fair his treacherous wish may stray,</div> - <div class='line'>Though each, in turn, may seize a transient sway,</div> - <div class='line'>’Tis thine with mild coercion to restrain,</div> - <div class='line'>Twine round his struggling heart, and bind with endless chain.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thus, happy France! in thy regenerate land,</div><div class='lnum'>130</div> - <div class='line'>Where <span class='sc'>Taste</span> with <span class='sc'>Rapine</span> saunters hand in hand;</div> - <div class='line'>Where, nursed in seats of innocence and bliss,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Reform</span> greets <span class='sc'>Terror</span> with fraternal kiss;</div> - <div class='line'>Where mild <span class='sc'>Philosophy</span> first taught to scan</div> - <div class='line'>The <em>wrongs</em> of <span class='sc'>Providence</span>, and <em>rights</em> of <span class='sc'>Man</span>;</div><div class='lnum'>135</div> - <div class='line'>Where <span class='sc'>Memory</span> broods o’er <span class='sc'>Freedom’s</span> earlier scene,</div> - <div class='line'>The <em>Lantern</em> bright, and brighter <em>Guillotine</em>;</div> - <div class='line'><em>Three</em> gentle swains evolve their longing arms,</div> - <div class='line'>And woo the young <span class='sc'>Republic’s</span> virgin charms;</div> - <div class='line'>And though proud <em>Barras</em> with the fair succeed,</div><div class='lnum'>140</div> - <div class='line'>Though not in vain th’ Attorney <em>Rewbell</em> plead,</div> - <div class='line'>Oft doth th’ impartial nymph their love forego,</div> - <div class='line'>To clasp thy crooked shoulders, blest <em>Lepaux</em>!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>So, with dark dirge athwart the blasted heath,</div> - <div class='line'><em>Three</em> Sister Witches hailed the appalled Macbeth.</div><div class='lnum'>145</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>So, the <em>Three</em> Fates beneath grim Pluto’s roof,</div> - <div class='line'>Strain the dun warp, and weave the murky woof;</div> - <div class='line'>’Till deadly Atropos with fatal shears</div> - <div class='line'>Slits the thin promise of the expected years,</div> - <div class='line'>While ’midst the dungeon’s gloom or battle’s din,</div><div class='lnum'>150</div> - <div class='line'>Ambition’s victims perish, as they spin.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thus, the <em>Three</em> Graces on the Idalian green</div> - <div class='line'>Bow with deft homage to Cythera’s Queen;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_163'>163</span>Her polished arms with pearly bracelets deck,</div> - <div class='line'>Part her light locks, and bare her ivory neck;</div><div class='lnum'>155</div> - <div class='line'>Round her fair form ethereal odours throw,</div> - <div class='line'>And teach th’ unconscious zephyrs where to blow,</div> - <div class='line'>Floats the thin gauze, and glittering as they play,</div> - <div class='line'>The bright folds flutter in phlogistic day,.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>So, with his daughters <em>Three</em>, th’ unsceptered Lear</div><div class='lnum'>160</div> - <div class='line'>Heaved the loud sigh, and poured the glistering tear:</div> - <div class='line'>His daughters <em>Three</em>, save one alone, conspire</div> - <div class='line'>(Rich in his gifts) to spurn their generous sire;</div> - <div class='line'>Bid the rude storm his hoary tresses drench,</div> - <div class='line'>Stint the spare meal, the hundred knights retrench;</div><div class='lnum'>165</div> - <div class='line'>Mock his mad sorrow, and with altered mien</div> - <div class='line'>Renounce the daughter, and assert the queen.</div> - <div class='line'>A father’s griefs his feeble frame convulse,</div> - <div class='line'>Rack his white head, and fire his feverous pulse;</div> - <div class='line'>Till kind Cordelia soothes his soul to rest,</div><div class='lnum'>170</div> - <div class='line'>And folds the parent-monarch to her breast.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thus some fair spinster grieves in wild affright,</div> - <div class='line'>Vexed with dull megrim, or vertigo light;</div> - <div class='line'>Pleased round the fair, <em>Three</em> dawdling doctors stand,</div> - <div class='line'>Wave the white wig, and stretch the asking hand,</div><div class='lnum'>175</div> - <div class='line'>State the grave doubt, the nauseous draught decree,</div> - <div class='line'>And all receive, though none deserve, a fee.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn,<a id='r233' /><a href='#f233' class='c024'><sup>[233]</sup></a> glides</div> - <div class='line'>The Derby dilly, carrying <em>Three</em> <span class='sc'>Insides</span>.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_164'>164</span>One in each corner sits, and lolls at ease,</div><div class='lnum'>180</div> - <div class='line'>With folded arms, propt back, and outstretched knees;</div> - <div class='line'>While the pressed <em>Bodkin</em>, punched and squeezed to death,</div> - <div class='line'>Sweats in the midmost place, and scolds, and pants for breath.<a id='r234' /><a href='#f234' class='c024'><sup>[234]</sup></a></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>(<em>To be continued.</em>)</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_205.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_165'>165</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c040'>April 30, 1798.</div> - -<h3 class='c038'>BRISSOT’S GHOST.<a id='r235' /><a href='#f235' class='c024'><sup>[235]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>As at the Shakespeare Tavern dining,</div> - <div class='line in2'>O’er the well replenished board</div> - <div class='line'>Patriotic chiefs reclining,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Quick and large libations poured;</div> - <div class='line'>While, in fancy, great and glorious,</div> - <div class='line in2'>’Midst the democratic storm,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> crew, with shout victorious,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Drank to <em>Radical Reform</em>;</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sudden, up the staircase sounding,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Hideous yells and shrieks were heard;</div> - <div class='line'>Then, each guest with fear confounding,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A grim train of Ghosts appeared:</div> - <div class='line'>Each a head, with anguish gasping,</div> - <div class='line in2'>(Himself a trunk deformed with gore),</div> - <div class='line'>In his hand, terrific, clasping,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Stalked across the wine-stained floor.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>On them gleamed the lamp’s blue lustre,</div> - <div class='line in2'>When stern <span class='sc'>Brissot’s</span> grizzly shade</div> - <div class='line'>His sad bands was seen to muster,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And his bleeding troops arrayed.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_166'>166</span>Through the drunken crowd he hied him,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Where the chieftain sate enthroned,</div> - <div class='line'>There, his shadowy trunks beside him,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thus in threatening accents groaned:</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Heed, oh heed our fatal story,</div> - <div class='line in2'>(I am <span class='sc'>Brissot’s</span> injured Ghost),</div> - <div class='line'>You who hope to purchase glory</div> - <div class='line in2'>In that field where I was lost!</div> - <div class='line'>Though dread <span class='sc'>Pitt’s</span> expected ruin</div> - <div class='line in2'>Now your soul with triumph cheers,</div> - <div class='line'>When you think on our undoing,</div> - <div class='line in2'>You will mix your hopes with fears.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“See these helpless, headless spectres,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Wandering through the midnight gloom:</div> - <div class='line'>Mark their Jacobinic lectures</div> - <div class='line in2'>Echoing from the silent tomb;</div> - <div class='line'>These, thy soul with terror filling,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Once were Patriots fierce and bold”—</div> - <div class='line'>(Each his head, with gore distilling,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shakes, the whilst his tale is told).</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Some from that dread engine’s carving</div> - <div class='line in2'>In vain contrived their heads to save—</div> - <div class='line'>See <span class='sc'>Barbaroux</span> and <span class='sc'>Pétion</span><a id='r236' /><a href='#f236' class='c024'><sup>[236]</sup></a> starving</div> - <div class='line in2'>In the Languedocian cave!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_167'>167</span>See, in a higgler’s<a id='r237' /><a href='#f237' class='c024'><sup>[237]</sup></a> hamper buckled,</div> - <div class='line in2'>How <span class='sc'>Louvet’s</span> soaring spirit lay!</div> - <div class='line'>How virtuous <span class='sc'>Roland</span>,<a id='r238' /><a href='#f238' class='c024'><sup>[238]</sup></a> helpless cuckold,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Blew what brains he had away.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“How beneath the power of <span class='sc'>Marat</span>,</div> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Condorcet</span>, blaspheming, fell,</div> - <div class='line'>Begged some laudanum of <span class='sc'>Garat</span>,<a id='r239' /><a href='#f239' class='c024'><sup>[239]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in2'>Drank;—and slept,—to wake in hell!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_168'>168</span>Oh that, with worthier souls uniting,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I in my country’s cause had shone!</div> - <div class='line'>Had died my Sovereign’s battle fighting,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or nobly propp’d his sinking throne!—</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“But hold!—I scent the gales of morning—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Covent-Garden’s clock strikes One!</div> - <div class='line'>Heed, oh heed my earnest warning,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Ere England is, like France, undone!</div> - <div class='line'>To St. Stephen’s quick repairing,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Your dissembled mania end;</div> - <div class='line'>And, your errors past forswearing,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Stand at length your Country’s Friend!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[The preceding ballad is parodied from the one by Glover, -entitled—</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>ADMIRAL HOSIER’S GHOST.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>As near Porto-Bello lying</div> - <div class='line in2'>On the gently swelling flood,</div> - <div class='line'>At midnight with streamers flying,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Our triumphant navy rode:</div> - <div class='line'>There while <span class='sc'>Vernon</span> sat all-glorious</div> - <div class='line in2'>From the Spaniard’s late defeat,</div> - <div class='line'>And his crews, with shouts victorious,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Drank success to England’s fleet:</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>On a sudden, shrilly sounding,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Hideous yells and shrieks were heard,</div> - <div class='line'>Then each heart with fear confounding,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A sad troop of ghosts appeared:</div> - <div class='line'>All in dreary hammocks shrouded,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Which for winding-sheets they wore,</div> - <div class='line'>And with looks by sorrow clouded,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Frowning on that hostile shore.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>On them gleam’d the moon’s wan lustre,</div> - <div class='line in2'>When the shade of <span class='sc'>Hosier</span> brave</div> - <div class='line'>His pale bands was seen to muster,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Rising from their wat’ry grave:</div> - <div class='line'>O’er the glimmering wave he hied him,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Where the Burford rear’d her sail,</div> - <div class='line'>With three thousand ghosts beside him,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And in groans did <span class='sc'>Vernon</span> hail.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Heed, O heed, our fatal story,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I am <span class='sc'>Hosier’s</span> injured ghost.</div> - <div class='line'>You who now have purchas’d glory,</div> - <div class='line in2'>At this place where I was lost;</div> - <div class='line'>Though in Porto-Bello’s ruin</div> - <div class='line in2'>You now triumph free from fears,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_169'>169</span>When you think on our undoing,</div> - <div class='line in2'>You will mix your joy with tears.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>See these mournful spectres sweeping</div> - <div class='line in1'>Ghastly o’er this hated wave,</div> - <div class='line'>Whose wan cheeks are stain’d with weeping,</div> - <div class='line in2'>These were English Captains brave.</div> - <div class='line'>Mark those numbers pale and horrid,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Those were once my sailors bold,</div> - <div class='line'>See each hangs his drooping forehead,</div> - <div class='line in2'>While his dismal tale is told.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I by twenty sail attended</div> - <div class='line in2'>Did this Spanish town affright,</div> - <div class='line'>Nothing then its wealth defended</div> - <div class='line in2'>But my orders not to fight.</div> - <div class='line'>O! that in this rolling ocean</div> - <div class='line in2'>I had cast them with disdain,</div> - <div class='line'>And obey’d my heart’s warm motion</div> - <div class='line in2'>To have quell’d the pride of Spain.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>For resistance I could fear none,</div> - <div class='line in2'>But with twenty ships had done</div> - <div class='line'>What thou, brave and happy <span class='sc'>Vernon</span>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Hast achiev’d with six alone.</div> - <div class='line'>Then the Bastimentos never</div> - <div class='line in2'>Had our foul dishonour seen,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor the sea the sad receiver</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of this gallant train had been.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thus, like thee, proud Spain dismaying,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And her galleons leading home,</div> - <div class='line'>Though condemned for disobeying,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I had met a traitor’s doom:</div> - <div class='line'>To have fallen, my country crying</div> - <div class='line in2'>He has play’d an English part,</div> - <div class='line'>Had been better far than dying</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of a griev’d and broken heart.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Unrepining at thy glory,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thy successful arms we hail;</div> - <div class='line'>But remember our sad story,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And let <span class='sc'>Hosier’s</span> wrongs prevail.</div> - <div class='line'>Sent in this foul clime to languish,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Think what thousands fell in vain,</div> - <div class='line'>Wasted with disease and anguish,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Not in glorious battle slain.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hence with all my train attending</div> - <div class='line in2'>From their oozy tombs below,</div> - <div class='line'>Through the hoary foam ascending,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Here I feed my constant woe.</div> - <div class='line'>Here the Bastimentos viewing,</div> - <div class='line in2'>We recal our shameful doom,</div> - <div class='line'>And our plaintive cries renewing,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Wander through the midnight gloom.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O’er these waves for ever mourning,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall we roam deprived of rest,</div> - <div class='line'>If to Britain’s shores returning,</div> - <div class='line in2'>You neglect my just request;</div> - <div class='line'>After this proud foe subduing,</div> - <div class='line in2'>When your patriot friends you see,</div> - <div class='line'>Think on Vengeance for my ruin,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And for England sham’d in me.]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_170'>170</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXVI.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c040'>May 7, 1798.</div> - -<h3 class='c038'>LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES.</h3> - -<p class='c043'>The frequent solicitations which we have received for -a continuation of the <span class='sc'>Loves of the Triangles</span> have -induced us to lay before the public (with Mr. Higgins’s -permission) the concluding lines of the Canto. The -catastrophe of Mr. and Mrs. Gingham, and the episode -of Hippona, contained, in our apprehension, several reflections -of too free a nature. The conspiracy of Parameter -and Abscissa against the Ordinate is written in a strain -of poetry so very splendid and dazzling as not to suit the -more tranquil majesty of diction which our readers -admire in Mr. Higgins. We have therefore begun our -extract with the Loves of the Giant Isosceles, and the -Picture of the Asses-Bridge, and its several illustrations.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>CANTO I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>EXTRACT.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>’Twas thine alone, O youth of giant frame,</div> - <div class='line'>Isosceles!<a id='r240' /><a href='#f240' class='c024'><sup>[240]</sup></a> that rebel heart to tame!</div> - <div class='line'>In vain coy Mathesis<a id='r241' /><a href='#f241' class='c024'><sup>[241]</sup></a> thy presence flies:</div> - <div class='line'>Still turn her fond hallucinating<a id='r242' /><a href='#f242' class='c024'><sup>[242]</sup></a> eyes;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_171'>171</span>Thrills with <em>Galvanic</em> fires<a id='r243' /><a href='#f243' class='c024'><sup>[243]</sup></a> each tortuous nerve,</div> - <div class='line'>Throb her blue veins, and dies her cold reserve.</div> - <div class='line'>—Yet strives the fair, till in the giant’s breast</div> - <div class='line'>She sees the mutual passion’s flame confessed:</div> - <div class='line'>Where’er he moves, she sees his tall limbs trace</div> - <div class='line'><em>Internal Angles<a id='r244' /><a href='#f244' class='c024'><sup>[244]</sup></a> equal at the base</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>Again she doubts him: but <em>produced at will</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>She sees <em>th’ external Angles equal still</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Say, blest Isosceles! what favouring power,</div> - <div class='line'>Or love, or chance, at night’s auspicious hour,</div> - <div class='line'>While to the Asses-Bridge<a id='r245' /><a href='#f245' class='c024'><sup>[245]</sup></a> entranced you strayed,</div> - <div class='line'>Led to the Asses-Bridge the enamoured maid?—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_172'>172</span>The Asses-Bridge, for ages doomed to hear</div> - <div class='line'>The deafening surge assault his wooden ear,</div> - <div class='line'>With joy repeats sweet sounds of mutual bliss,</div> - <div class='line'>The soft susurrant sigh, and gently-murmuring kiss.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>So thy dark arches, <em>London Bridge</em>, bestride</div> - <div class='line'>Indignant Thames, and part his angry tide,</div> - <div class='line'>There oft—returning from those green retreats,</div> - <div class='line'>Where fair <em>Vauxhallia</em> decks her sylvan seats;—</div> - <div class='line'>Where each spruce nymph, from city compters free,</div> - <div class='line'>Sips the froth’d syllabub, or fragrant tea;</div> - <div class='line'>While with sliced ham, scraped beef, and burnt champagne,</div> - <div class='line'>Her ’prentice lover soothes his amorous pain;—</div> - <div class='line'>There oft, in well-trimmed wherry, glide along</div> - <div class='line'>Smart beaux and giggling belles, a glittering throng:</div> - <div class='line'>Smells the tarr’d rope—with undulation fine</div> - <div class='line'>Flaps the loose sail—the silken awnings shine;</div> - <div class='line'>“Shoot we the bridge!” the venturous boatmen cry;</div> - <div class='line'>“Shoot we the bridge!” the exulting fare<a id='r246' /><a href='#f246' class='c024'><sup>[246]</sup></a> reply.</div> - <div class='line'>—Down the steep fall the headlong waters go,</div> - <div class='line'>Curls the white foam, the breakers roar below.</div> - <div class='line'>The veering helm the dexterous steersman stops,</div> - <div class='line'>Shifts the thin oar, the fluttering canvas drops;</div> - <div class='line'>Then with closed eyes, clenched hands, and quick-drawn breath,</div> - <div class='line'>Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the gulf beneath.</div> - <div class='line'>Full ’gainst the pier the unsteady timbers knock,</div> - <div class='line'>The loose planks, starting, own the impetuous shock;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_173'>173</span>The shifted oar, dropp’d sail, and steadied helm,</div> - <div class='line'>With angry surge the closing waters whelm—</div> - <div class='line'>Laughs the glad Thames, and clasps each fair one’s charms,</div> - <div class='line'>That screams and scrambles in his oozy arms.</div> - <div class='line'>Drench’d each smart garb, and clogged each straggling limb,</div> - <div class='line'>Far o’er the stream the Cockneys sink or swim;</div> - <div class='line'>While each badged boatman,<a id='r247' /><a href='#f247' class='c024'><sup>[247]</sup></a> clinging to his oar,</div> - <div class='line'>Bounds o’er the buoyant wave, and climbs the applauding shore.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>So, towering Alp! from thy majestic ridge<a id='r248' /><a href='#f248' class='c024'><sup>[248]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Young Freedom gazed on Lodi’s blood-stained <em>Bridge</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>Saw, in thick throngs, conflicting armies rush,</div> - <div class='line'>Ranks close on ranks, and squadrons squadrons crush;</div> - <div class='line'>Burst in bright radiance through the battle’s storm,</div> - <div class='line'>Waved her broad hands, displayed her awful form;</div> - <div class='line'>Bade at her feet regenerate nations bow,</div> - <div class='line'>And twined the wreath round <span class='sc'>Buonaparte’s</span> brow.</div> - <div class='line'>Quick with new lights, fresh hopes, and altered zeal,</div> - <div class='line'>The slaves of despots dropp’d the blunted steel:</div> - <div class='line'>Exulting Victory owned her favourite child,</div> - <div class='line'>And freed Liguria clapp’d her hands, and smiled.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_174'>174</span>Nor long the time ere Britain’s shores shall greet</div> - <div class='line'>The warrior-sage, with gratulation sweet:</div> - <div class='line'>Eager to grasp the wreath of naval fame,</div> - <div class='line'>The <span class='sc'>Great Republic</span> plans the <em>Floating Frame</em>!</div> - <div class='line'>O’er the huge plane gigantic <em>Terror</em> stalks,</div> - <div class='line'>And counts with joy the close-compacted balks:</div> - <div class='line'>Of young-eyed <em>Massacres</em> the Cherub crew,</div> - <div class='line'>Round their grim chief the mimic task pursue;</div> - <div class='line'>Turn the stiff screw,<a id='r249' /><a href='#f249' class='c024'><sup>[249]</sup></a> apply the strengthening clamp,</div> - <div class='line'>Drive the long bolt, or fix the stubborn cramp,</div> - <div class='line'>Lash the reluctant beam, the cable splice,</div> - <div class='line'>Join the firm dove-tail with adjustment nice,</div> - <div class='line'>Through yawning fissures urge the willing wedge,</div> - <div class='line'>Or give the smoothing adze a sharper edge.</div> - <div class='line'>Or group’d in fairy bands, with playful care,</div> - <div class='line'>The unconscious bullet to the furnace bear;—</div> - <div class='line'>Or gaily tittering, tip the match with fire,</div> - <div class='line'>Prime the big mortar, bid the shell aspire;</div> - <div class='line'>Applaud, with tiny hands, and laughing eyes,</div> - <div class='line'>And watch the bright destruction as it flies.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Now the fierce forges gleam with angry glare—</div> - <div class='line'>The windmill<a id='r250' /><a href='#f250' class='c024'><sup>[250]</sup></a> waves his woven wings in air;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_175'>175</span>Swells the proud sail, the exulting streamers fly,</div> - <div class='line'>Their nimble fins unnumber’d paddles ply:</div> - <div class='line'>Ye soft airs breathe, ye gentle billows waft,</div> - <div class='line'>And, fraught with Freedom, bear the expected Raft!</div> - <div class='line'>Perch’d on her back, behold the Patriot train,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Muir</span>, <span class='sc'>Ashley</span>, <span class='sc'>Barlow</span>, <span class='sc'>Tone</span>, <span class='sc'>O’Connor</span>, <span class='sc'>Paine</span>!</div> - <div class='line'>While <span class='sc'>Tandy’s</span> hand directs the blood-empurpled rein.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Ye Imps of Murder! guard her angel form,</div> - <div class='line'>Check the rude surge, and chase the hovering storm;</div> - <div class='line'>Shield from contusive rocks her timber limbs,</div> - <div class='line'>And guide the sweet Enthusiast<a id='r251' /><a href='#f251' class='c024'><sup>[251]</sup></a> as she swims!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>And now, with web-foot oars, she gains the land,</div> - <div class='line'>And foreign footsteps press the yielding sand:</div> - <div class='line'>The Communes spread, the gay Departments smile,</div> - <div class='line'>Fair Freedom’s Plant o’ershades the laughing isle:</div> - <div class='line'>Fired with new hopes, the exulting peasant sees</div> - <div class='line'>The Gallic streamer woo the British breeze;<a id='r252' /><a href='#f252' class='c024'><sup>[252]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>While, pleased to watch its undulating charms,</div> - <div class='line'>The smiling infant<a id='r253' /><a href='#f253' class='c024'><sup>[253]</sup></a> spreads his little arms.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_176'>176</span>Ye sylphs of <span class='sc'>Death</span>! on demon pinions flit</div> - <div class='line'>Where the tall Guillotine is raised for <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>:</div> - <div class='line'>To the poised plank tie fast the monster’s back,<a id='r254' /><a href='#f254' class='c024'><sup>[254]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Close the nice slider, ope the expectant sack;</div> - <div class='line'>Then twitch, with fairy hands, the frolic pin—</div> - <div class='line'>Down falls the impatient axe with deafening din;</div> - <div class='line'>The liberated head rolls off below,<a id='r255' /><a href='#f255' class='c024'><sup>[255]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>And simpering Freedom hails the happy blow!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[The following lines of Dr. Darwin’s, in Canto ii., gave great -offence to the Government:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So, borne on sounding pinions to the west,</div> - <div class='line'>When tyrant-power had built his eagle nest;</div> - <div class='line'>While from his eyry shriek’d the famish’d brood,</div> - <div class='line'>Clench’d their sharp claws, and champ’d their beaks for blood,</div> - <div class='line'>Immortal <span class='sc'>Franklin</span> watch’d the callow crew,</div> - <div class='line'>And stabb’d the struggling vampires, ere they flew.</div> - <div class='line'>—The patriot-flame with quick contagion ran,</div> - <div class='line'>Hill lighted hill, and man electris’d man:</div> - <div class='line'>Her heroes slain awhile Columbia mourn’d,</div> - <div class='line'>And crown’d with laurels Liberty return’d.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>The warrior, Liberty, with bending sails,</div> - <div class='line'>Helm’d his bold course to fair Hibernia’s vales;</div> - <div class='line'>Firm as he steps along the shouting lands,</div> - <div class='line'>Lo! Truth and Virtue range their radiant bands;</div> - <div class='line'>Sad Superstition wails her empire torn,</div> - <div class='line'>Art plies his oar, and Commerce pours her horn.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Long had the giant-form on Gallia’s plains</div> - <div class='line'>Inglorious slept, unconscious of his chains;</div> - <div class='line'>Round his large limbs were wound a thousand strings</div> - <div class='line'>By the weak hands of confessors and kings;</div> - <div class='line'>O’er his closed eyes a triple veil was bound,</div> - <div class='line'>And steely rivets lock’d him to the ground;</div> - <div class='line'>While stern Bastile with iron-cage inthralls</div> - <div class='line'>His folded limbs, and hems in marble walls.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_177'>177</span>NOTES TO LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[The general features of Dr. Darwin’s extraordinary poems, the “<cite>Loves of the -Plants</cite>,” and the “<cite>Economy of Vegetation</cite>,” which are so admirably ridiculed in -the preceding pages, may be gathered from the following specimens:—</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>ARGUMENT.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>The Genius of the place invites the Goddess of Botany—She descends—is received -by Spring and the Elements—Addresses the Nymphs of Fire—Love created -the Universe—Chaos explodes—All the Stars revolve—Colours of the Morning -and Evening Skies—Exterior Atmosphere of inflammable Air—Fires at the -Earth’s Centre—Animal Incubation—Venus visits the Cyclops—Phosphoric -Lights in the Evening—Bolognian Stone—<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ignis fatuus</span>—Eagle armed with -Lightning—Discovery of Fire—Medusa—The Chemical Properties of Fire—Lady -in Love—Gunpowder—Steam-engine—Labours of Hercules—Halo round -the Heads of Saints—Fairy rings—Death of Professor Richman—Cupid snatches -the thunderbolt from Jupiter—The great Egg of Night—Naiad released—Frost -assailed—Whale attacked—Ice-Islands navigated into the Tropic Seas—Rainy -Monsoons—Elijah on Mount Carmel—Departure of the Nymphs of Fire like -sparks from Artificial Fireworks, &c.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Nymphs! you disjoin, unite, condense, expand,</div> - <div class='line'>And give new wonders to the Chemist’s hand;</div> - <div class='line'>On tepid clouds of rising steam aspire,</div> - <div class='line'>Or fix in sulphur all its solid fire;</div> - <div class='line'>With boundless spring elastic airs unfold,</div> - <div class='line'>Or fill the fine vacuities of gold;</div> - <div class='line'>With sudden flash vitrescent sparks reveal,</div> - <div class='line'>By fierce collision from the flint and steel;</div> - <div class='line'>Or mark with shining letters Kunkel’s name</div> - <div class='line'>In the pale phosphor’s self-consuming flame.</div> - <div class='line'>So the chaste heart of some enchanted maid</div> - <div class='line'>Shines with insidious light, by love betray’d;</div> - <div class='line'>Round her pale bosom plays the young desire,</div> - <div class='line'>And slow she wastes by self-consuming fire.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>These poems, produced in that dreary time for English poetry which elapsed -between the disappearance of Cowper and Burns and the advent of Scott and -Byron, had, in spite of their glaring absurdities, no lack of warm admirers. -Miss Seward, in her <cite>Life of Dr. Darwin</cite>, published in 1804, sets no limits to her -admiration:—“We are presented,” she says, “with an highly imaginative and -splendidly descriptive poem, whose successive pictures alternately possess the -sublimity of Michael Angelo, the correctness and elegance of Raphael, with the -glow of Titian; whose landscapes have, at times, the strength of Salvator, and -at others the softness of Claude; whose numbers are of stately grace, and artful -harmony; while its allusions to ancient and modern history and fable, and its -interspersion of recent and extraordinary anecdotes, render it extremely entertaining. * * * Each part is enriched by a number of philosophical notes. -They state a great variety of theories and experiments in Botany, Chemistry, -Electricity, Mechanics, and in the various species of Air, salubrious, noxious, -and deadly,” &c.]</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>THE SCOTTISH “POLITICAL MARTYRS”.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[<span class='sc'>Thomas Muir</span>, the younger, of Hunter’s Hill, a promising young advocate -of the Scottish Bar, and of nigh respectability, was tried at Edinburgh, 30th -and 31st of August, 1793, before Lord Justice Clerk (Braxfield), Lords Henderland, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_178'>178</span>Swinton, Dunsinnan, and Abercromby, for Sedition. The weightiest -charge against him was that of “<em>lending</em>” a copy of Paine’s <cite>Rights of Man</cite> to a -person who begged a reading of that popular book. He was found guilty, and -sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation. On the 17th of the ensuing -month, the Rev. <span class='sc'>Thos. Fyshe Palmer</span>, a Unitarian Minister of Dundee, and an -ex-fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge, was tried at Perth for publishing a -seditious Address, and sentenced to seven years’ transportation. On their -arrival at Woolwich, in a revenue cutter, they were put on board separate -hulks, and assisted at the common labour on the banks of the river. <span class='sc'>Muir</span>, -soon after his arrival in New South Wales, effected his escape, in an American -vessel, to South America, whence he proceeded to Spain. During this voyage, -in an action with a British frigate, he received a wound in the head, from -which he recovered; but on his arrival at his destination, he was imprisoned -by the Spanish authorities, until, on the application of M. de Talleyrand in the -name of the then government of France, he obtained his release. He then -went to France, and died at Bourdeaux [or Chantilly] in 1799; aged 33. -<span class='sc'>Palmer</span> served out his seven years, but died on the homeward voyage.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Other Trials soon followed. At the close of December, 1793, <span class='sc'>Mr. Skirving</span>, -<span class='sc'>Mr. Gerrald</span>, and <span class='sc'>Mr. Margarot</span> were tried at Edinburgh on similar charges -of seditious practices, and were all sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation. -The former two died soon after reaching New South Wales. <span class='sc'>Maurice Margarot</span>, -who appears to have conducted himself throughout with the most -abandoned and shameless profligacy, was the only one of these convicts—his -fourteen years over—who ever set foot again in Britain.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Gerrald</span> was a man of very superior ability, and a favourite pupil of Dr. -Parr’s, as is mentioned by De Quincey in his famous essay on that noted Whig -pedagogue.</p> - -<p class='c009'>On the Scottish “political martyrs” Lord Cockburn, in his posthumous -<cite>Examination of the Trials for Sedition in Scotland</cite>, published in 1888, which deals -with the twenty-five trials of the above-named five and of thirty-two others, between -1793 and 1849, passes his deliberate verdict, that, with the exception of -Muir, not one of them was guiltless. But, like ordinary criminals, they were -entitled to a fair and impartial trial; and their trials were, one and all, iniquitous. -Of the six judges who presided in the first fourteen (1793–94), five were -dull, timid nonentities; the sixth, Lord Justice Clerk Braxfield, was, says -Lord Cockburn, “a profound practical lawyer, and a powerful man; coarse -and illiterate ... utterly devoid of judicial decorum, and though pure in the -administration of civil justice, when he was exposed to no temptation, with no -other conception of principle in any political case except that the upholding of -his party was a duty attaching to his position. Over the five weak men who sat -beside him, this coarse and dexterous ruffian predominated as he chose.” But -Jedburgh—no, nor the Bloody Assize itself—could scarcely match one scene in -Gerrald’s trial:—“‘After all,’ he was urging in his defence, ‘the most useful -discoveries in philosophy, the most important changes in the moral history of -man, have been innovations. The Revolution was an innovation, Christianity -itself was an innovation.’ Instantly upon this, the following interruption took -place:—Lord Braxfield: ‘You would have been stopped long before this, if -you had not been a stranger. All that you have been saying is sedition. And -now, my Lords, he is attacking Christianity.’ Lord Henderland: ‘I allow him -all the benefit of his defence. But ... I cannot sit here as a judge without -saying that it is a most indecent defence....’ The juries were packed as -never, surely, before, or afterwards.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>With such judges, such juries, and, at least, in two cases, false witnesses, it -might seem easy to anticipate the result; but the result transcends anticipation. -In almost every case a light sentence would have amply met the requirements -of justice; but the judges all shared Lord Swinton’s opinion that “it is impossible -to punish Sedition adequately, now that torture has been abolished”. So -they strove to supply the deficiency by Transportation, a punishment unwarranted -by precedent.</p> - -<p class='c009'>With respect to Margarot’s trial at Edinburgh, the following is a vivid -memory of Lord Cockburn’s boyhood:—</p> - -<p class='c009'>“<span class='sc'>Margarot</span> came from the Black Bull [in Leith Street] to be tried, attended -<span class='pageno' id='Page_179'>179</span>by a procession of the populace and his Convention friends, with banners and -what was called a tree of liberty. This tree was in the shape of the letter M, -about twenty feet high and ten wide. The honour of bearing it up by carrying -the two upright poles was assigned to two eminent Conventionalists, and the -little culprit walked beneath the circular placard in the centre, which proclaimed -liberty and equality, &c. I was looking out of a window in the old Post-Office, -which was then the northmost house on the west side of the North Bridge. -I think I see the scene yet. The whole North Bridge, from the Tron Church to -the Register Office, was quite empty at first; not a single creature venturing on -that bit of sand, over which the waves were so soon to break from both ends. -The Post-Office and the adjoining houses had been secretly filled with constables, -and sailors from a frigate in the roads (I think <em>The Hind</em>, Capt. Cochrane), all -armed with sticks and batons. No soldier appeared, it being determined that -this civic insurrection should be put down by the civil force, unaided, at least, -by scarlet. As soon as the tree, which led the van, emerged from Leith Street, -and appeared at the north end of the bridge, Provost Elder and the Magistrates -issued from some place they had retired to (I believe the Tron Church), and appeared, -all robed, at the south end. The day was good. There was still not -one person—I doubt if there was even a dog—on any part of the space, being the -whole length of the bridge, between the two parties. But the rear of -each was crammed with people, who filled up every inch as those in front -moved on. The Magistrates were in a line across the street, with the Provost -in the centre, the city officers behind this line, and probably a hundred loyal -gentlemen in the rear of the officers. The two parties advanced steadily -towards each other, and in perfect silence, till they met just about the Post-Office. -The Provost stepped forward about a pace, so that he almost touched -the front line of the rebels, when, advancing his cane, he commanded them to -retire. This order probably would not have been obeyed; but, at any rate, it -could not have been obeyed speedily, from the crowd behind. However, all -this was immaterial; for, without waiting one instant to see whether they -meant to retire or not, the houses vomited forth their bludgeoned contents, and -in almost two minutes the tree was demolished and thrown over the bridge, the -street covered with the knocked down, the accused dragged to the bar, and the -insurrection was over.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>On February 20th, 1837, a meeting took place at the Crown and Anchor -Tavern, Strand, for commencing a subscription to erect monuments in London -and Edinburgh to the memory of the above five Reformers. Joseph Hume, -M.P. was in the chair; Colonel Perronet Thompson, Mr. Dan. Whittle Harvey, -and fifteen other members of Parliament were present. A lofty obelisk was -erected on the Calton Hill to the memory of the “Scottish Martyrs,” but -London did not sympathize with the movement.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>JOEL BARLOW.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[<span class='sc'>Joel Barlow</span>, born in 1756 in Connecticut, was educated as a Presbyterian -minister, but afterwards turned Deist. Before this change he translated the -Psalms into metre, and his version is still used in the churches of New England. -He now adopted the Law, and engaged in periodicals—one, <cite>The Anarchist</cite>, -which was political in its character, and exercised great influence. In 1788, -after visiting England, he went to Paris, where he joined the Girondists. In -1791, he returned to England, where he published the first part of his <cite>Advice to -the Privileged Orders</cite>, in which he assails the whole system of Government -pursued in monarchical Europe, the Church establishments, the standing -armies, the judicial organisations, and the financial systems which belong to -the old governments. In February, 1792, he published a political poem, which -he entitled <cite>The Conspiracy of Kings</cite>; also a Letter to the <em>Convention</em> advising -the separation of Church and State. So great did his reputation become that -he was fixed on by the London Constitutional Society to present their Address -to the <em>Convention</em>. After various political transactions in the interest of France, -and also in commercial speculations which made him a rich man, he left Paris -in 1805, living on his estate in America till 1811, when he was sent as Minister -<span class='pageno' id='Page_180'>180</span>Plenipotentiary to Paris. But Napoleon being on his Russian Expedition, he -followed him to Wilna; but the fatiguing journey proved fatal: he died 26th -December, 1812. He wrote at an early age a poem, <cite>The Vision of Columbus</cite>, which -acquired great popularity, and which he afterwards enlarged as <cite>The Columbiad</cite>. -Among other works he published (in 1796) a mock-heroic poem, <cite>Hasty Pudding</cite>, -which is generally considered his best work.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>THEOBALD WOLFE TONE.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[<span class='sc'>Theobald Wolfe Tone</span>, the founder of the <span class='sc'>Association of United Irishmen</span>, -was born in Dublin in 1764, and, after passing through Trinity College, -came to London to prosecute his legal studies, which he soon forsook for -politics, being induced thereto by the indignation excited in his breast by the -persecution of the Irish Catholics, whose cause, although himself a Protestant, -he warmly advocated. With the view of getting their grievances redressed, he -founded the society of <span class='sc'>United Irishmen</span>, which gave great alarm to the English -Government. His liberty being menaced, he went to America, and thence to -France, where he arranged with Gen. Hoche the expeditions to Bantry Bay and -the Texel. Being appointed Adjutant-General, he served in several of the -French armies, and lastly in Gen. Hardi’s expedition to Ireland in October, -1798. The vessel he was aboard of was captured by the English, and he was -conveyed to Dublin, tried by a Court-Martial, and sentenced to be hanged. -He anticipated his execution, however, by committing suicide in prison, 19th -November, 1798.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>ARTHUR O’CONNOR.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[On the 21st and 22nd May, 1798, <span class='sc'>Arthur O’Connor</span> (proprietor of a Dublin -newspaper, <cite>The Press</cite>), <span class='sc'>John Binns</span> (an active member of the <em>London Corresponding -Society</em>), <span class='sc'>John Allen</span>, <span class='sc'>Jeremiah Leary</span>, and <span class='sc'>Jas. O’Coigly</span>, <em>alias</em> Jas. -Quigley, <em>alias</em> Jas. John Fivey (a Priest), were tried at Maidstone for High -Treason. <span class='sc'>Robert Fergusson</span> was counsel for Allen. <span class='sc'>O’Coigly</span> only was found -Guilty, and was executed 7th June, on Pennenden Heath. After being suspended -for ten minutes, he was cut down and his head severed from his body: -the disgusting remainder of his sentence was remitted. He met his death with -great fortitude, and denying to the last the charge of treasonable correspondence -abroad. In the <em>State Trials</em>, vols. 26 and 27, are included the Life of the -prisoner; Observations on his Trial; Address to the People of Ireland; and -Letters, all written by himself during his confinement in Maidstone Gaol. His -real name, he says, was the Rev. Jas. Coigly, and his age 36. “Can you -imagine a man more treacherous and profligate than <span class='sc'>O’Coigly</span>?” said Sir James -Mackintosh to <span class='sc'>Dr. Parr</span>. “Yes, Sir, he might have been worse: he was a -parson—he might have been a lawyer; he was a traitor—he might have been -an apostate; he was an Irishman—he might have been a Scotchman.” When -it is recollected that Mackintosh was a Scotchman and a lawyer, and that he -had written in defence of the French Revolution against Burke, these observations -of Dr. Parr were both insolent and uncalled for.</p> - -<p class='c009'>A Portrait of “Arthur O’Connor, late Member in the Irish Parliament for -Borough of Philipstown, painted by J. Dowling, engraved by W. Ward,” was -published in London, 18th April, 1798. Another Portrait in military uniform is -to be found in Barrington’s <cite>Memoirs of the Union</cite>. He figures also in several -of <span class='sc'>Gillray’s</span> <cite>Caricatures</cite>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>In the <cite>Birmingham Daily Post</cite> of April 2, 1888, it is stated that <span class='sc'>The Hon. R. -E. O’Connor</span>, M.A., barrister-at-law, the latest addition to the Legislative -Council of New South Wales, is a grandson of <span class='sc'>Arthur O’Connor</span>, one of the -leaders of the United Irishmen, who died a General in the service of France.</p> - -<p class='c009'>When <span class='sc'>O’Connor</span> was acquitted by the Jury, on the above-named occasion, -but before the Judge had given orders for his release, a strange scene occurred -in court, an attempt being made, as it was alleged, by <span class='sc'>Sackville, Earl of -Thanet</span>, <span class='sc'>Robert Fergusson</span> (in after years known as <span class='sc'>Cutlar Fergusson</span>, -Judge-Advocate-General), and others to facilitate his escape in order to avoid -further charges about to be preferred against him, Binns also being implicated -for this exploit, which was unsuccessful, but attended with violence. These -<span class='pageno' id='Page_181'>181</span>confederates were tried at the Bar of the Court of King’s Bench, 25th -April, 1799. The Counsel for the Crown were Sir John Scott [Lord Eldon], -Law [Lord Ellenborough], Sir W. Garrow, Sir C. Abbot, &c., while the -defendants had the powerful advocacy of Erskine and others. His -Lordship and Mr. Fergusson were found guilty after a long and ingenious -defence by the latter, which presaged his future eminence as a Counsel. <span class='sc'>Lord -Thanet</span> was ordered to pay a fine of £1000; to be imprisoned in the Tower for a -year; and to give security for good behaviour for seven years on the expiration -of the sentence; himself in £10,000, and two sureties in £5000 each. <span class='sc'>Fergusson</span> -was ordered to pay a fine of £100; to be imprisoned in the King’s Bench -prison for one year; to give security for good behaviour for seven years from -the expiration of the sentence; himself in £500, and two sureties in £250 each.—See -<cite>State Trials</cite>, vols. 26 and 27.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c037'> - <div>JAMES NAPPER TANDY.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[“A person who afterwards made a considerable figure in the local affairs -of Ireland raised himself about this time into considerable notoriety by his -patriotic exertions. This was Mr. <span class='sc'>James Napper Tandy</span>, a gentleman in -the middle station of life, without talent or natural influence, had become a -warm advocate in the corporation of Dublin; he debated zealously in public, -he argued strenuously in private, and persevered in both with indefatigable -ardour. His person was ungracious—his language neither eloquent nor -argumentative—his address neither graceful nor impressive—but he was -sincere and persevering—and though in many instances erroneous and violent, -he was considered to be honest. His private character furnished no ground to -doubt the integrity of his public one—and, like many of those persons who -occasionally spring up in revolutionary periods, he acquired celebrity without -being able to account for it, and possessed influence without rank or capacity. -In 1796, Mr. Tandy lost all his popularity, and nearly his life, by his apparent -want of courage in an affair between him and Mr. Toler, then Solicitor-General, -afterwards Lord Norbury, and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Mr. Tandy -having signified to Mr. Toler his desire to fight him, the Chief Justice readily -accepted the offer. Both parties manœuvred very skilfully; but Mr. Tandy -delaying his ultimatum too long for the impatience of the Solicitor-General, he -brought him before the House of Commons for a breach of privilege, and prosecuted -him for sedition. Mr. Tandy escaped to the Continent, entered the -French Service, invaded Ireland, was, with his confederates, arrested by the -British Envoy at Hamburg, 24 Nov., 1798, contrary to the law of nations: the -Minister of France claimed them as French citizens, and the Senate, unwilling -to offend either power, came to no decision on the subject. Tandy was -thereupon taken to Ireland and condemned to be hanged—was pardoned by -Lord Cornwallis, and sent back to France, where he died a French General.”—Barrington’s -<cite>Memoirs of the Union</cite>, vol. 1, where is a portrait of Tandy.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_222.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_182'>182</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXVII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>May 14, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>The gallant defence of the <span class='sc'>Isles of St. Marcou</span> would -justify a more serious celebration than is attempted in -the following poem; and the modest and unassuming -manner in which <span class='sc'>Lieutenant Price</span> gives the account -of services so highly meritorious, adds to the hope which -we entertain that he will meet a more solid reward than -any verse of ours or of our correspondent’s could bestow.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Citizen Muskein</span>, if he understands Horace, and can -read English, will be amply rewarded for the victory of -which he has, no doubt, by this time, made a pompous -report to the Directory, by the perusal of the 14th Ode -of the 1st Book, for which we have to return our thanks -to a classical correspondent.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>A CONSOLATORY ADDRESS TO HIS GUN-BOATS.</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>BY CITIZEN MUSKEIN.</div> - <div class='c004'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">O navis! referent in mare te novi fluctus.</span></i></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O gentle Gun-Boats, whom the Seine</div> - <div class='line'>Discharged from Havre to the main;</div> - <div class='line'>Now leaky, creaking, blood-bespattered,</div> - <div class='line'>With rudders broken, canvas shattered—</div> - <div class='line'>O tempt the treacherous sea no more,</div> - <div class='line'>But gallantly regain the shore.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Scarce could our guardian goddess, Reason,</div> - <div class='line'>Ensure your timbers through the season.</div> - <div class='line'>Though built of wood from famed Marseilles,</div> - <div class='line'>Well-manned from galleys, and from jails,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_183'>183</span>Though with <span class='sc'>Lepaux’s</span> and <span class='sc'>Rewbell’s</span> aid,</div> - <div class='line'>By <span class='sc'>Pleville’s</span><a id='r256' /><a href='#f256' class='c024'><sup>[256]</sup></a> skill your keel was laid;</div> - <div class='line'>Though lovely <span class='sc'>Stael</span>, and lovelier <span class='sc'>Stone</span>,<a href='#f256' class='c024'><sup>[256]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Have worked their fingers to the bone,</div> - <div class='line'>And cut their petticoats to rags</div> - <div class='line'>To make your bright three-coloured flags;</div> - <div class='line'>Yet sacrilegious grape and ball</div> - <div class='line'>Deform the works of <span class='sc'>Stone</span> and <span class='sc'>Stael</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>And trembling, without food or breeches,</div> - <div class='line'>Our sailors curse the <em>painted</em> ——.<a id='r257' /><a href='#f257' class='c024'><sup>[257]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Children of Muskein’s anxious care,</div> - <div class='line'>Source of my hope and my despair,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Gun-Boats</span>—unless you mean hereafter</div> - <div class='line'>To furnish food for British laughter—</div> - <div class='line'>Sweet <span class='sc'>Gun-Boats</span>, with your gallant crew,</div> - <div class='line'>Tempt not the rocks of <span class='sc'>Saint Marcou</span>;</div> - <div class='line'>Beware the Badger’s bloody pennant,</div> - <div class='line'>And that d——d invalid <span class='sc'>Lieutenant</span>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>LYRICS OF HORACE. ODE XIV., BOOK I.</div> - <div class='c004'>TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>O Ship, fresh billows soon again</div> - <div class='line'>Shall bear thee to the boisterous main!</div> - <div class='line'>Firm, keep the port. See, see thy side,</div> - <div class='line'>Without a single oar to guide!</div> - <div class='line'>Wounded by tempests is thy mast;</div> - <div class='line'>Thy sail-yards groan beneath the blast;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor can thy keel, uncabled, brave</div> - <div class='line'>The swelling of th’ imperious wave.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_184'>184</span>Torn are thy sails! nor Gods hast thou,</div> - <div class='line'>When danger threats, to hear thy vow.</div> - <div class='line'>Though born of noblest wood, ’twas thine</div> - <div class='line'>To tower a vigorous Pontic pine;</div> - <div class='line'>’Tis vain thy race, thy name, to prize:</div> - <div class='line'>Nought on his painted stern relies</div> - <div class='line'>The trembling seaman. Storms afar</div> - <div class='line'>Thicken to mock thy strength: beware.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thou, who wast late my anxious fear,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou now my fondest, tenderest care:</div> - <div class='line'>O shun, dear Ship, those tossing seas</div> - <div class='line'>Which part the white-cliff’d Cyclades!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>[<span class='sc'>Muskein</span> was an inhabitant of Antwerp, whom the Directory not only -appointed to superintend the construction of the flat-bottomed boats for the -invasion of Great Britain (usually called by the French sailors “<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">bateaux à la -Muskein</span></i>”), but made a “<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">capitaine de vaisseau</span></i>”. An attack was ordered to be -made upon the two small islands of <span class='sc'>Saint Marcouf</span> (each not more than 200 -yards in length), of which, in July, 1795, <span class='sc'>Sir Sidney Smith</span>, with the Diamond -frigate, had taken unobstructed possession, and which were considered to give -to the English great facility in intercepting between the ports of Havre and -Cherbourg. The islands are situated off the river Isigny, on the coast of Normandy, -and about four miles distant from the French shore. After being -garrisoned with about 500 seamen and marines, including a great proportion of -invalids, these small islands were placed under the command of <span class='sc'>Lieut. -Charles Papps Price</span>, of <em>The Badger</em>, a cruiser-converted Dutch hoy, mounting -four, or at most six, guns.</p> - -<p class='c009'>On the 8th April, 1798, <span class='sc'>Muskein</span>, with 33 flat-bottomed boats, with a body -of troops on board, and a few gun-brigs, was about to make a combined attack -on the two islands, but was driven off by two British frigates, <span class='sc'>The Diamond</span>, -<em>Capt. Sir R. J. Strachan</em>, and <span class='sc'>The Hydra</span>, <em>Capt. Sir Francis Laforey</em>, and stood -into Caen river. While there for three weeks, repairing damages, he was joined -by seven heavy gun-brigs, and about 40 flat-boats and armed fishing vessels, -bringing with them additional troops.</p> - -<p class='c009'>On the 6th May, <span class='sc'>Lieut. Price</span> received information that an attack was -meditated during the night. By 10 p.m., owing to the prevailing calm, the -small naval force on the station, consisting of the 50–gun ship, <span class='sc'>Adamant</span>, <em>Capt. -Wm. Hotham</em>, 24–gun ship, <span class='sc'>Eurydice</span>, <em>Capt. John Talbot</em>, and 18–gun brig-sloop, -<span class='sc'>Orestes</span>, <em>Capt. W. Haggitt</em>, had not been able to approach nearer to the islands -than six miles—precisely what the assailants wanted. The attacking force -consisted of 52–gun brigs and flat-bottomed boats, having on board, as was reported, -about 6000 men. At day-break, on the 7th, the flotilla was seen drawn -up in a line opposite to the south-west front of the western redoubt; and -instantly was opened, upon the brigs and flats composing it, a fire from 17 -pieces of cannon, consisting of four 4, two 6, and six 24 pounder long guns, and -three 24 and two 32–pounder carronades, being all the guns that would bear. -The brigs remained at a distance of from 300 to 400 yards, in order to batter the -redoubt with their heavy long guns, while the boats, with great resolution, -rowed up until within musket-shot of the battery. But the guns of the latter, -loaded with round, grape, and canister, soon poured destruction amongst these, -cutting several of the boats “into chips,” and compelling all that could keep -afloat to seek their safety in flight. Six or seven boats were seen to go down, -and one small flat, No. 13, was afterwards towed in, bottom upwards. She -appeared, by some pieces of paper found in her, to have had 144 persons on -board, including 129 of the second company of the Boulogne battalion.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The loss sustained by the British garrison amounted to one private-marine -<span class='pageno' id='Page_185'>185</span>killed, and two private-marines and two seamen wounded. According to one -French account, the invaders lost about 900 in killed or drowned, and between -300 and 400 wounded. As a reward for their conduct on this occasion, Lieutenants -<span class='sc'>Price</span> and <span class='sc'>Bourne</span> were each promoted to the rank of Commander. The -former died a Post Captain, at Hereford, in 1813, aged 62.—<cite>James’s Naval History</cite>, -vol. ii., pp. 128–131: ed. 1886.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c009'>[M. <span class='sc'>Pléville</span> was Minister of Marine, and, shortly after this unsuccessful -<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">début</span></i> of the famous flotilla, was succeeded by Rear-Adm. Bruix, who directed -Rear-Adm. La Crosse to take the command, and to make a second attack upon -the islands. This, however, the French Government declined to make.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Helen Maria Williams.</span>—[“Among the literary celebrities of the French -Revolution was Helen Maria Williams, at whose house were wont to assemble -the most distinguished of the liberal writers of France, her own reputation -giving considerable <em>éclat</em> to these meetings. She wrote some of the most -beautiful hymns in our language, was a prisoner under the <em>reign of terror</em>, and -published a work on the French Revolution which is full of the most touching -incidents, and adorned with specimens of the ardent and pathetic poetry, the -product of French genius under the excitement of those most mysterious days. -A. Humboldt was much attached to her, and committed to her care the translation -and publication of some of his most elaborate works.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“She had two nephews, <span class='sc'>Athanas</span> and <span class='sc'>Charles Coquerel</span>, whom she -educated, and who both attained considerable fame, one in the theological and -the other in the political field. Athanas was for some time the preacher in the -Protestant Church at Amsterdam, and married the daughter of a Swiss gentleman, -the only person I have ever known on the Continent to adopt the dress and -profess the opinions of an English Quaker. Miss Williams maintained intimate -relations with her English friends, was familiar with the great lights of the -Revolution, and her conversation was most instructive, entertaining, and -varied. All her sympathies were on the side of freedom, and though she was -not so prominent as to be persecuted by the Emperor, like Madame de Staël, -she was the object of a good deal of suspicion and narrowly watched by the -police.”—<cite>Autobr. Recollections by Sir John Bowring</cite>, pp. 353–4.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c009'>[<span class='sc'>Miss Williams</span>, for some years, wrote that portion of the <cite>New Annual Register</cite> -which relates to France. Among many other productions she was the author -of the song <cite>Evan Banks</cite> (to the tune of <cite>Savourna Delish</cite>), which has often been -attributed to Burns; a novel called <cite>Julia</cite>, and a <cite>Tour in Switzerland</cite>. Horace -Walpole called her in his <span class='sc'>Correspondence</span> a “scribbling trollop”.</p> - -<p class='c009'>She lived for many years, and until the death of that gentleman—in Paris, -1818—under the <em>protection</em> of <span class='sc'>John Hurford Stone</span>, a man of letters, who in -the early part of the French Revolution had removed with his wife to Paris, -where he formed an intimacy with Miss Williams. She was born about 1762, -and died in Paris in 1827 as a friend to the Bourbons, and the enemy of the -Revolution!</p> - -<p class='c009'>This <span class='sc'>Mr. Stone</span> was born at Tiverton in 1763. While in Paris he was in the -confidence of the Directory, and became one of the chief printers there. In -1805, he brought out an edition of the <cite>Geneva Bible</cite>, and published several -English reprints; also Miss Williams’s translation of <span class='sc'>Humboldt’s</span> <cite>Travels</cite>. His -brother, <span class='sc'>Wm. Stone</span>, was tried in 1796 for High Treason, for holding treasonable -correspondence with him.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>ELEGY<br /> <span class='small'>ON THE DEATH OF JEAN BON ST. ANDRÉ.</span></h3> - -<p class='c043'>The following exquisite tribute to the memory of an -unfortunate republican is written with such a touching -<span class='pageno' id='Page_186'>186</span>sensibility, that those who can command salt tears must -prepare to shed them. The narrative is simple and unaffected; -the event in itself interesting; the moral -obvious and awful.—We have only to observe, that as -this account of the transaction is taken from the French -papers, it may possibly be somewhat partial.—The -<span class='sc'>Dey’s</span> own statement of the affair has not yet been -received. Every friend of humanity will join with us in -expressing a candid and benevolent hope, that this business -may not tend to kindle the flames of war between -these two unchristian powers; but that, by mutual concession -and accommodation, they may come to some -point (short of the restoration of <span class='sc'>Jean Bon’s</span> head on his -shoulders, which in this stage of the discussion is hardly -practicable) by which the peace of the Pagan world may -be preserved. For our part, we pretend not to decide -from which quarter the concessions ought principally to -be made. It is but candid to allow that there are probably -faults on <em>both sides</em>, in this, as in most other cases. -For the character of the <span class='sc'>Dey</span> we profess a sincere respect -on the one hand; and on the other, we naturally -wish that the head of <span class='sc'>Jean Bon St. André</span> should be -reserved for his own guillotine.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>ELEGY; OR, DIRGE.</h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>All in the town of <span class='sc'>Tunis</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>In Africa the torrid,</div> - <div class='line in2'>On a Frenchman of rank</div> - <div class='line in2'>Was played such a prank,</div> - <div class='line'>As <span class='sc'>Lepaux</span> must think quite horrid.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'><span class='pageno' id='Page_187'>187</span>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No story half so shocking,</div> - <div class='line'>By kitchen fire or laundry,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Was ever heard tell,—</div> - <div class='line in2'>As that which befel</div> - <div class='line'>The great <span class='sc'>Jean Bon St. André</span>.<a id='r258' /><a href='#f258' class='c024'><sup>[258]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Poor John was a gallant Captain,</div> - <div class='line'>In battles much delighting;</div> - <div class='line in2'>He fled full soon</div> - <div class='line in2'>On the first of June—</div> - <div class='line'>But he bade the rest keep fighting.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To Paris then returning,</div> - <div class='line'>And recovered from his panic,</div> - <div class='line in2'>He translated the plan</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of <cite>Paine’s Rights of Man</cite>,</div> - <div class='line'>Into language Mauritanic.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He went to teach at Tunis—</div> - <div class='line'>Where as Consul he was settled—</div> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_188'>188</span>Amongst other things,</div> - <div class='line in2'>“That the people are kings!”</div> - <div class='line'>Whereat the <span class='sc'>Dey</span> was nettled.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Moors being rather stupid,</div> - <div class='line'>And in temper somewhat mulish,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Understood not a word</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of the doctrine they heard,</div> - <div class='line'>And thought the Consul foolish.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VII.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He formed a <em>Club</em> of <em>Brothers</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>And moved some resolutions—</div> - <div class='line in2'>“Ho! ho! (says the <span class='sc'>Dey</span>),</div> - <div class='line in2'>“So this is the way</div> - <div class='line'>“That the French make <em>Revolutions</em>”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VIII.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The <span class='sc'>Dey</span> then gave his orders</div> - <div class='line'>In Arabic and Persian—</div> - <div class='line in2'>“Let no more be said—</div> - <div class='line in2'>But bring me his head!</div> - <div class='line'>These <em>Clubs</em> are my aversion”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IX.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Consul quoted <span class='sc'>Wicquefort</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>Puffendorf</span> and <span class='sc'>Grotius</span>;</div> - <div class='line in2'>And proved from <span class='sc'>Vattel</span></div> - <div class='line in2'>Exceedingly well,</div> - <div class='line'>Such a deed would be quite atrocious.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>X.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>’Twould have moved a Christian’s bowels</div> - <div class='line'>To hear the doubts he stated;—</div> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_189'>189</span>But the Moors they did</div> - <div class='line in2'>As they were bid,</div> - <div class='line'>And strangled him while he prated.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>His head with a sharp-edged sabre</div> - <div class='line'>They severed from his shoulders,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And stuck it on high,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Where it caught the eye,</div> - <div class='line'>To the wonder of all beholders.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XII.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This sure is a doleful story</div> - <div class='line'>As e’er you heard or read of;—</div> - <div class='line in2'>If at Tunis you prate</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of matters of state,</div> - <div class='line'>Anon they cut your head off!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XIII.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But we hear the French Directors</div> - <div class='line'>Have thought the point so knotty;</div> - <div class='line in2'>That the <span class='sc'>Dey</span> having shown</div> - <div class='line in2'>He dislikes <span class='sc'>Jean Bon</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>They have sent him <span class='sc'>Bernadotté</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>On recurring to the French papers to verify our Correspondent’s -statement of this singular adventure of -<span class='sc'>Jean Bon St. André</span>, we discovered, to our great mortification, -that it happened at <span class='sc'>Algiers</span>, and not at <span class='sc'>Tunis</span>. -We should have corrected this mistake, but for two -reasons—first, that <span class='sc'>Algiers</span> would not stand in the -verse; and, secondly, that we are informed by the young -man who conducts the Geographical Department of the -<cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, that both the towns are in Africa, or -<span class='pageno' id='Page_190'>190</span>Asia (he is not quite certain which), and, what is more -to the purpose, that both are peopled by Moors. <span class='sc'>Tunis</span>, -therefore, may stand.</p> - -<p class='c007'>[<span class='sc'>Marshal Bernadotté</span>, the French <em>Prince of Monté Corvo</em>, died as <span class='sc'>Charles -John XIV.</span>, <em>King of Sweden</em>, 8th March, 1844, in his eighty-first year. He -married, in 1798, <span class='sc'>Eugenia-Bernardina-Désirée de Clary</span>, daughter of a -Marseilles merchant, and sister of <span class='sc'>Madame Joseph Buonaparte</span> (Queen of -Spain). “She, who was not a common-place person,” says <span class='sc'>Madame de -Rémusat</span>, in her valuable <cite>Memoirs</cite>, “had before her marriage been very much -in love with Napoleon, and appears to have always preserved the memory of -that feeling! It has been supposed that her hardly extinguished passion -caused her obstinate refusal to leave France.” She survived her husband -many years, and died in Paris, in the Rue d’Anjou Saint Honoré. Her husband -was succeeded on the throne of Sweden by their son, <span class='sc'>Oscar I.</span>, who married -<span class='sc'>Joséphine</span>, <em>daughter of</em> <span class='sc'>Eugène Beauharnais</span>, Duc de Leuchtenberg, and -<em>granddaughter of the</em> <span class='sc'>Empress Josephine</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Bernadotté</span> owed his elevation to the throne to the misgovernment of -Gustavus IV., who had brought the nation to the verge of ruin, and who was deposed -in 1809, when his uncle, the Duke of Sudermania, became king as Charles -XIII.; and the next year, <span class='sc'>Bernadotté</span> was elected <em>Crown Prince</em>, and successor -to the throne.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In 1813, he rendered great assistance to the Allies, for, as Crown Prince, he -joined the confederacy against France with 30,000 men; and, after defeating -Marshal Ney, with great loss, on the 6th September, he, on the 18th October, -with the co-operation of Blücher, again defeated him at the decisive Battle of -Leipsic; and, on the 19th, the Emperor Alexander, the King of Prussia, and -the Crown Prince, entered the great square of Leipsic, amidst the acclamations -of the inhabitants. He was a decided democrat, and hated by Napoleon, but -was the only sovereign of the revolutionary branch who was permitted to retain -his dominions after the great reaction in 1814. The choice made of this -great soldier of fortune excited the surprise of all Europe at the time, but the -wisdom of it was soon demonstrated by his prudent conduct. He had -distinguished himself from all Napoleon’s other marshals by his clemency -in victory. For half a century before his accession, Sweden had not known the -peace and prosperity in which he left the country on his death.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In <span class='sc'>T. Raikes’s</span> <cite>Diary</cite> will be found some interesting anecdotes of <span class='sc'>Bernadotté’s</span> -gratitude for services rendered him while a young subaltern. But one -is of a more startling nature, as it records his narrow escape from the death -intended for him by the widow of the late king, who had purposely prepared a -poisoned cup of coffee for him, which she herself presented to him at her own -table. Having been suddenly warned, he succeeded in forcing it upon her. -She resolutely accepted her fate, and died during the night.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_231.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_191'>191</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXVIII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>May 21, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We have received the following letter, with the poem -that accompanies it, from a gentleman whose political -opinions have hitherto differed from our own; but who -appears to feel, as every man who loves his country -must, that there can be but one sentiment entertained -by Englishmen at the present moment.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Were we at liberty, we should be happy to do justice -to the author, and credit to ourselves, by mentioning his -name.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ANTI-JACOBIN”.</h3> - -<p class='c043'><span class='sc'>Sir</span>,—However men may have differed on the political -or constitutional questions which have of late been -brought into discussion—whatever opinions they may -have held on the system or conduct of administration—there -can surely be now but one sentiment as to the -instant necessity of firm and strenuous union for the -preservation of our very existence as a people; and if -degrees of obligation could be admitted, where the -utmost is required from all, it should seem that in this -cause the opposers of administration stand doubly -pledged; for with what face of consistency can men pretend -to stickle for points of constitutional liberty at -home, who will not be found amongst the foremost at -their posts to defend their country from the yoke of -foreign slavery?</p> - -<p class='c007'>That there should be any set of men so infatuated as -not to be convinced that the object of the enemy must -<span class='pageno' id='Page_192'>192</span>be the utter destruction of these countries, after making -the largest allowance for the effects of prejudice and -passion, it is not easy to conceive. Such, however, we -are told, there are. They believe, then, that after a long -series of outrage, insult, and injury, in the height of -their animosity and presumption, these moderate, mild, -disinterested conquerors will invade us in arms, out of -pure love and kindness, merely for our good, only to -make us wiser, and better, and happier, and more prosperous -than before!</p> - -<p class='c007'>Future events lie hid in the volume of Fate, but the -intentions of men may be known by almost infallible -indications. Passion and interest, the two mighty -motives of human action, determine the Government of -France to attempt the abolition of the British Empire! -and if, abandoned by God and our right arm, we should -flinch in the conflict, that destruction will be operative -to the full of their gigantic and monstrous imaginations!—Harbours -filled up with the ruins of their towns and -arsenals, the Thames rendered a vast morass, by burying -the Imperial City in her bosom—but I will not proceed -in the horrible picture.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Are we then, it may be asked, to wage eternal war?—No; -a glorious resistance leads to an honourable peace. -The French people have been long weary of the war; -their spirit has been forced by a system which must end -in the failure of the engagement to give them the plunder -of this country. They will awake from their dream, and -raise a cry for peace, which their government will not -dare to resist. The monarchs of Europe must now begin -clearly to perceive that their fate hangs on the destiny -of England; they will unite to compel a satisfactory -<span class='pageno' id='Page_193'>193</span>peace on a broad foundation; and peace, when war has -been tried to the utmost, will probably be permanent. -A few years of wise economy and redoubled industry -will place us again on the rising scale; and if the pressure -of the times may have rendered it necessary sometimes -to have cast a temporary veil over the statue of -Liberty, she may again safely be shown in an unimpaired -lustre.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Of the following verses I have nothing to say: if it -should be decided that the greatness of the object cannot -bear out the mediocrity of the execution, I will not appeal -from the decision.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>ODE TO MY COUNTRY.<br /> <span class='small'>MDCCXCVIII.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>S. 1.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Britons! hands and hearts prepare:</div> - <div class='line in4'>The angry tempest threatens nigh,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Deep-toned thunders roll in air,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Lightnings thwart the livid sky;</div> - <div class='line'>Throned upon the wingéd storm,</div> - <div class='line'>Fell <span class='sc'>Desolation</span> rears her ghastly form,</div> - <div class='line'>Waves her black signal to her Hell-born brood,</div> - <div class='line'>And lures them thus with promised blood:</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>A. 1.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“Drive, my sons, the storm amain!</div> - <div class='line in4'>Lo, the hated, envied land,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Where <span class='sc'>Piety</span> and <span class='sc'>Order</span> reign,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And Freedom dares maintain her stand.</div> - <div class='line'>Have ye not sworn, by night and hell,</div> - <div class='line'>These from the earth for ever to expel?</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_194'>194</span>Rush on, resistless, to your destined prey,</div> - <div class='line'>Death and rapine point the way.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>E. 1.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Britons! stand firm! with stout and dauntless heart</div> - <div class='line in4'>Meet unappall’d the threatening boaster’s rage;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Yours is the great, the unconquerable part,</div> - <div class='line in4'>For your loved hearths and altars to engage,</div> - <div class='line'>And sacred <span class='sc'>Liberty</span>, more dear than life—</div> - <div class='line'>Yours be the triumph in the glorious strife.</div> - <div class='line'>Shall theft and murder braver deeds excite</div> - <div class='line'>Than honest scorn of shame and heavenly love of right?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>S. 2.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Turn the bright historic page!</div> - <div class='line in4'>Still in glory’s tented field,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Albion’s arms, for many an age,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Have taught proud Gallia’s bands to yield.</div> - <div class='line'>Are not WE the sons of those</div> - <div class='line'>Whose steel-clad sires pursued the insulting foes,</div> - <div class='line'>E’en to the centre of their wide domain,</div> - <div class='line'>And bowed them to a <span class='sc'>Briton’s</span> reign?<a id='r259' /><a href='#f259' class='c024'><sup>[259]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>A. 2.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Kings, in modest triumph led,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Graced the <span class='sc'>sable Victor’s</span> arms:<a id='r260' /><a href='#f260' class='c024'><sup>[260]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in2'>His conquering lance, the battle’s dread;—</div> - <div class='line in4'>His courtesy the conquered charms.</div> - <div class='line'>The lion-heart soft pity knows,</div> - <div class='line'>To raise with soothing cares his prostrate foes;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_195'>195</span>The vanquished head true valour ne’er oppress’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor shunn’d to succour the distress’d.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>E. 2.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Spirit of great <span class='sc'>Elizabeth</span>! inspire</div> - <div class='line in4'>High thoughts, high deeds, worthy our ancient fame;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Breathe through our ardent ranks the patriot fire,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Kindled at Freedom’s ever-hallowed flame;</div> - <div class='line'>Baffled and scorned, the Iberian tyrant found,</div> - <div class='line'>Though half a world his iron sceptre bound,</div> - <div class='line'>The gallant Amazon could sweep away,</div> - <div class='line'>Armed with her people’s love, the “<span class='sc'>Invincible</span>” array.<a id='r261' /><a href='#f261' class='c024'><sup>[261]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>S. 3.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>The <span class='sc'>Bold Usurper</span><a id='r262' /><a href='#f262' class='c024'><sup>[262]</sup></a> firmly held</div> - <div class='line in4'>The sword by splendid treasons gained;</div> - <div class='line in2'>And Gallia’s fiery genius quelled,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And Spain’s presumptuous claims restrained:</div> - <div class='line'>When lust of sway, by flattery fed,<a id='r263' /><a href='#f263' class='c024'><sup>[263]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>To venturous deeds the youthful monarch led,</div> - <div class='line'>In the full flow of victory’s swelling tide</div> - <div class='line'>Britain checked his power and pride.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>A. 3.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>To the great <span class='sc'>Batavian’s</span> name<a id='r264' /><a href='#f264' class='c024'><sup>[264]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in4'>Ceaseless hymns of triumph raise!</div> - <div class='line in2'>Scourge of tyrants, let his fame</div> - <div class='line in4'>Live in songs of grateful praise.</div> - <div class='line'>Thy turrets, <span class='sc'>Blenheim</span>,<a id='r265' /><a href='#f265' class='c024'><sup>[265]</sup></a> glittering to the sun,</div> - <div class='line'>Tell of bright fields from warlike Gallia won;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_196'>196</span>Tell how the mighty monarch mourned in vain</div> - <div class='line'>His impious wish the world to chain.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>E. 3.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>And ye famed heroes, late retired to heaven,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Whose setting glories still the skies illume,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Bend from the blissful seats to virtue given—</div> - <div class='line in4'>Avert your long-defended country’s doom.</div> - <div class='line'>Earth from her utmost bounds shall wondering tell</div> - <div class='line'>How victory’s meed ye gained, or conquering fell;</div> - <div class='line'>Britain’s dread thunders bore from pole to pole,</div> - <div class='line'>Wherever man is found, or refluent oceans roll.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>S. 4.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Names embalmed in honour’s shrine,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Sacred to immortal praise,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Patterns of glory, born to shine</div> - <div class='line in4'>In breathing arts or pictured lays:</div> - <div class='line'>See <span class='sc'>Wolfe</span>, by yielding numbers pressed,</div> - <div class='line'>Expiring smile, and sink on victory’s breast!</div> - <div class='line'>See <span class='sc'>Minden’s</span> plains and <span class='sc'>Biscay’s</span> billowy bay</div> - <div class='line'>Deeds of deathless fame display.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>A. 4.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>O! tread with awe the sacred gloom,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Patriot Virtue’s last retreat;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Where Glory, on the trophied tomb,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Joys their merit to repeat;</div> - <div class='line'>There <span class='sc'>Chatham</span> lies, whose master-hand</div> - <div class='line'>Guided through seven bright years the mighty band,</div> - <div class='line'>That round his urn, where grateful Memory weeps,</div> - <div class='line'>Each in his hallowed marble sleeps.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'><span class='pageno' id='Page_197'>197</span>E. 4.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Her brand accursed when civil discord hurled,<a id='r266' /><a href='#f266' class='c024'><sup>[266]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line in2'>Britain alone the united world withstood,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Rodney</span> his fortune-favoured sails unfurled,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And led three nation’s chiefs to Thames’s flood.</div> - <div class='line'>Firm on his rock the <span class='sc'>Veteran Hero</span><a id='r267' /><a href='#f267' class='c024'><sup>[267]</sup></a> stands;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Beneath his feet unheeded thunders roar;</div> - <div class='line'>Smiling in scorn, he sees the glittering bands</div> - <div class='line in2'>Fly with repulse and shame old <span class='sc'>Calpe’s</span> hopeless shore.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>S. 5.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Heirs or partners of their toils,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Matchless heroes still we own;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Crowned with honourable spoils</div> - <div class='line in4'>From the leagued nations won.</div> - <div class='line'>On their high prows they proudly stand,</div> - <div class='line'>The godlike guardians of their native land;</div> - <div class='line'>Lords of the mighty deep triumphant ride,</div> - <div class='line'>Wealth and victory at their side.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>A. 5.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Loyal, bold, and generous bands,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Strenuous in their country’s cause,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Guard their cultivated lands,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Their altars, liberties, and laws.</div> - <div class='line'>On his firm, deep-founded throne,</div> - <div class='line'>Great <span class='sc'>Brunswick</span> sits—a name to fear unknown,</div> - <div class='line'>With brow erect commands the glorious strife,</div> - <div class='line'>Unawed, and prodigal of life.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'><span class='pageno' id='Page_198'>198</span>E. 5.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Sons of fair Freedom’s long-descended line,</div> - <div class='line in4'>To Gallia’s yoke shall Britons bend the neck?—</div> - <div class='line in2'>No; in her cause though fate and hell combine</div> - <div class='line in4'>To bury all in universal wreck,</div> - <div class='line'>Of this fair Isle to make one dreary waste,</div> - <div class='line'>Her greatness in her ruins only traced,—</div> - <div class='line'>Arts, commerce, arms, sunk in one common grave—</div> - <div class='line'>The man who dares to die will never live a slave.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_239.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_199'>199</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXIX.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>May 28, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>In a former number, we were enabled, by the communication -of a classical correspondent, to compliment -<span class='sc'>Citizen Muskein</span> with an Address to his Gun-boats, -imitated from a favourite Ode of Horace. Another (or -perhaps the same) hand has obligingly furnished us -with a composition, which we have no doubt will be -equally acceptable to the citizen to whom it is addressed.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>ODE TO THE DIRECTOR MERLIN.<br /> <span class='small'>HORACE, B. I., O. V.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Who now from Naples, Rome, or Berlin,</div> - <div class='line'>Creeps to thy blood-stained den, O <span class='sc'>Merlin</span>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With diplomatic gold?—to whom</div> - <div class='line in2'>Dost thou give audience <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">en costume</span></i>?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>King Citizen!</em>—How sure each state</div> - <div class='line'>That bribes thy love shall feel thy hate;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall see the democratic storm</div> - <div class='line in2'>Her commerce, laws, and arts deform.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>How credulous, to hope the bribe</div> - <div class='line'>Could purchase peace from <span class='sc'>Merlin’s</span> tribe!</div> - <div class='line in2'>Whom, faithless as the waves or wind,</div> - <div class='line in2'>No oaths restrain, no treaties bind.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>For us—beneath yon SACRED ROOF,</div> - <div class='line'>The <span class='sc'>Naval Flags</span> and arms of proof,</div> - <div class='line in2'>By British valour nobly bought,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Show how true safety must be sought!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_200'>200</span>[<span class='sc'>Thiers</span>, in his <cite>History of the French Revolution</cite>, frequently -asserts the incorruptibility (with the exception of <span class='sc'>Barras</span>) of -the French Directory. But <span class='sc'>Alison</span>, in his History, exposes the -extraordinary conduct of <span class='sc'>M. de Talleyrand</span>, then Minister of -Foreign Affairs, towards the Envoys from the United States of -America, who complained that an immense number of American -vessels had been seized by the French Government under a -decree of Jan., 1798, which directed that all ships having for -their cargoes, in whole or in part, any English merchandise, -should be held lawful prize, whoever was the proprietor thereof, -from the single circumstance of its coming from England or its -foreign settlements. The Envoys were told that nothing could -be done till their Government had advanced a sum equal to -1,280,000<em>l.</em> as a loan, and 50,000<em>l.</em> as a douceur to the Directors. -These terms were, of course, indignantly rejected. The Hanse -Towns, too, only obtained licenses to navigate the high seas by -the secret payment of 150,000<em>l</em>. to the Republican rulers.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>[LYRICS OF HORACE. BOOK I., ODE V.</div> - <div class='c004'>TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>What slender youth, all essenced o’er,</div> - <div class='line'>In sweet alcove or rosy bower,</div> - <div class='line'>Now woos thee, Pyrrha, to be kind?</div> - <div class='line'>For whom these tresses dost thou bind,</div> - <div class='line'>Thus simply neat? O how shall he,</div> - <div class='line'>Poor youth! bewail the boisterous sea,</div> - <div class='line'>Rough with black tempests! How accuse</div> - <div class='line'>Capricious Gods, and broken vows!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Fond dupe! he hopes—so sweet that kiss—</div> - <div class='line'>Thou’lt still be witching, still be his!</div> - <div class='line'>What treacherous gales beset his way,</div> - <div class='line'>Ah! little knows he! Hapless they,</div> - <div class='line'>Who ne’er thy faithless smiles have tried!</div> - <div class='line'>—That I have ’scaped the whelming tide,</div> - <div class='line'>A tablet and my dripping vest,</div> - <div class='line'>Hung up in Neptune’s fane, attest.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_201'>201</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXX.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>June 4, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>Our ingenious correspondent, <span class='sc'>Mr. Higgins</span>, has not -been idle. The deserved popularity of the extracts which -we have been enabled to give from his two didactic -poems, the <cite>Progress of Man</cite>, and the <cite>Loves of the Triangles</cite>, -has obtained for us the communications of several other -works which he has in hand, all framed upon the same -principle, and directed to the same end. The propagation -of the New System of Philosophy forms, as he has -himself candidly avowed to us, the main object of all his -writings. A system, comprehending not politics only -and religion, but morals and manners, and generally -whatever goes to the composition or holding together of -human society; in all of which a total change and revolution -is absolutely necessary (as he contends) for the -advancement of our common nature to its true dignity, -and to the summit of that perfection which the combination -of matter, called <span class='sc'>Man</span>, is by its innate energies -capable of attaining.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Of this system, while the sublimer and more scientific -branches are to be taught by the splendid and striking -medium of didactic poetry, or <em>ratiocination in rhyme</em>, -illustrated with such paintings and portraitures of -essences and their attributes as may lay hold of the -imagination while they perplex the judgment;—the -more ordinary parts, such as relate to the conduct of -common life and the regulation of social feelings, are -naturally the subject of a less elevated style of writing; -<span class='pageno' id='Page_202'>202</span>of a style which speaks to the eye as well as to the ear,—in -short, of dramatic poetry and scenic representation.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“With this view,” says <span class='sc'>Mr. Higgins</span> (for we love to -quote the very words of this extraordinary and indefatigable -writer),—“with this view,” says he, in a letter -dated from his study in St. Mary Axe, the window of -which looks upon the parish pump,—“with this view I -have turned my thoughts more particularly to the -German stage, and have composed—in imitation of the -most popular pieces of that country, which have already -met with so general reception and admiration in this—a -Play; which, if it has a proper run, will, I think, do -much to unhinge the present notions of men with regard -to the obligations of civil society, and to substitute, in -lieu of a sober contentment, and regular discharge of the -duties incident to each man’s particular situation, a wild -desire of undefinable latitude and extravagance,—an -aspiration after shapeless somethings that can neither be -described nor understood,—a contemptuous disgust at -all that <em>is</em>, and a persuasion that nothing is as it ought -to be;—to operate, in short, a general discharge of every -man (in his own estimation) from every tie which laws, -divine or human, which local customs, immemorial -habits, and multiplied examples, impose upon him; and -to set them about doing what they like, where they like, -when they like, and how they like,—without reference to -any law but their own will, or to any consideration of -how others may be affected by their conduct.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“When this is done, my dear sir,” continues Mr. H. -(for he writes very confidentially)—“you see that a great -step is gained towards the dissolution of the frame of -every existing community. I say nothing of <em>Governments</em>, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_203'>203</span>as <em>their</em> fall is of course implicated in that of the social -system;—and you have long known that I hold every -Government (that acts by coercion and restriction—by -laws made by the few to bind the many) as a <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">malum in -se</span></i>,—an evil to be eradicated,—a nuisance to be abated,—by -force, if force be practicable; if not, by the artillery -of reason, by pamphlets, speeches, toasts at club-dinners, -and though last, not least, by didactic poems.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“But where would be the advantage of the destruction -of this or that Government, if the form of Society itself -were to be suffered to continue such as that another -must necessarily arise out of it and over it?—Society, -my dear sir, in its present state, is a <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">hydra</span></i>. Cut off one -head,—another presently sprouts out, and your labour -is to begin again. At best you can only hope to find it a -<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">polypus</span></i>;—where, by cutting off the <em>head</em>, you are sometimes -fortunate enough to find a <em>tail</em> (which answers all -the same purposes) spring up in its place. This, we -know, has been the case in France; the only country in -which the great experiment of regeneration has been -tried with anything like a fair chance of success.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“Destroy the frame of society,—decompose its parts,—and -see the elements fighting one against another,—insulated -and individual,—every man for himself (stripped -of prejudice, of bigotry, and of feeling for others) against -the remainder of his species;—and there is then some -hope of a totally new <em>order of things</em>,—of a <em>Radical Reform</em> -in the present corrupt system of the world.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“The German Theatre appears to proceed on this -judicious plan. And I have endeavoured to contribute -my mite towards extending its effect and its popularity. -There is one obvious advantage attending this mode of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_204'>204</span>teaching;—that it can proportion the infractions of law, -religion, or morality, which it recommends, to the -capacity of a reader or spectator. If you tell a student, -or an apprentice, or a merchant’s clerk, of the virtue of a -Brutus, or of the splendour of a La Fayette, you may -excite his <em>desire</em> to be equally conspicuous; but how is -he to set about it? Where is he to find the tyrant to -murder? How is he to provide the monarch to be imprisoned, -and the national guards to be reviewed on a -white horse?—But paint the beauties of <em>forgery</em> to him -in glowing colours;—show him that the presumption of -virtue is in favour of rapine and occasional murder on -the highway—and he presently understands you. The -highway is at hand—the till or the counter is within -reach. These <em>haberdashers’ heroics</em> come home to the -business and the bosoms of men.—And you may readily -make ten <em>footpads</em>, where you would not have materials -nor opportunity for a single <em>tyrannicide</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“The subject of the piece which I herewith transmit -to you is taken from common or middling life; and its -merit is that of teaching the most lofty truths in the -most humble style, and deducing them from the most -ordinary occurrences. Its moral is obvious and easy; -and is one frequently inculcated by the German dramas -which I have had the good fortune to see; being no other -than ‘<em>the reciprocal duties of one or more husbands to one or -more wives, and to the children who may happen to arise out -of this complicated and endearing connection</em>’. The plot, -indeed, is formed by the combination of the plots of <em>two</em> -of the most popular of these plays (in the same way as -Terence was wont to combine two stories of Menander’s). -The characters are such as the admirers of these plays -<span class='pageno' id='Page_205'>205</span>will recognise for their familiar acquaintances. There -are the usual ingredients of imprisonments, post-houses -and horns, and appeals to angels and devils. I have -omitted only the <em>swearing</em>, to which English ears are not -yet sufficiently accustomed.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“I transmit at the same time a <em>Prologue</em>, which in -some degree breaks the matter to the audience. About -the song of Rogero, at the end of the first Act, I am less -anxious than about any other part of the performance, -as it is, in fact, literally translated from the composition -of a young German friend of mine, an <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Illuminé</span></i>, of whom -I bought the original for three-and-sixpence. It will be -a satisfaction to those of your readers who may not at -first sight hit upon the tune, to learn that it is setting by -a hand of the first eminence.—I send also a rough sketch -of the plot, and a few occasional notes.—The <em>geography</em> -is by the young gentleman of the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>.”</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE ROVERS; OR, THE DOUBLE ARRANGEMENT.</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>Dramatis Personæ.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Prior</span> of the <span class='sc'>Abbey of Quedlinburgh</span>, very corpulent and -cruel.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Rogero</span>, a prisoner in the Abbey, in love with <span class='sc'>Matilda -Pottingen</span>.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Casimere</span>, a Polish emigrant, in Dembrowsky’s legion, married -to <span class='sc'>Cecilia</span>, but having several children by <span class='sc'>Matilda</span>.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span> and <span class='sc'>Beefington</span>, English noblemen, exiled by -the tyranny of King John, previous to the signature of -Magna Charta.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Roderic</span>, Count of <span class='sc'>Saxe Weimar</span>, a bloody tyrant, with red -hair, and an amorous complexion.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Gaspar</span>, the minister of the Count—author of <span class='sc'>Rogero’s</span> confinement.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='pageno' id='Page_206'>206</span><span class='sc'>Young Pottingen</span>, brother to <span class='sc'>Matilda</span>.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Matilda Pottingen</span>, in love with <span class='sc'>Rogero</span>, and mother to -<span class='sc'>Casimere’s</span> children.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Cecilia Mückenfeld</span>, wife to <span class='sc'>Casimere</span>.</p> - -<p class='c041'>Landlady, Waiter, Grenadiers, Troubadours, &c., &c.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Pantalowsky</span> and <span class='sc'>Britchinda</span>, children of <span class='sc'>Matilda</span>, by -<span class='sc'>Casimere</span>.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Joachim</span>, <span class='sc'>Jabel</span>, and <span class='sc'>Amarantha</span>, children of <span class='sc'>Matilda</span>, by -<span class='sc'>Rogero</span>.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Children of Casimere and Cecilia</span>, with their respective -Nurses.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Several Children</span>—fathers and mothers unknown.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>The Scene lies in the town of Weimar, and the neighbourhood of the Abbey of Quedlinburgh.</em></div> - <div class='c004'><em>Time from the 12th to the present century.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 class='c031'>PROLOGUE.<a id='r268' /><a href='#f268' class='c024'><sup>[268]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>IN CHARACTER.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Too long the triumphs of our early times,</div> - <div class='line'>With civil discord and with regal crimes,</div> - <div class='line'>Have stain’d these boards; while Shakespeare’s pen has</div> - <div class='line'>shown</div> - <div class='line'>Thoughts, manners, men, to modern days unknown.</div> - <div class='line'>Too long have Rome and Athens been <em>the rage</em>;</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Applause.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And classic Buskins soil’d a British stage.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>To-night our bard, who scorns pedantic rules,</div> - <div class='line'>His plot has borrow’d from the German schools;</div> - <div class='line'>The German schools—where no dull maxims bind</div> - <div class='line'>The bold expansion of the electric mind.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_207'>207</span>Fix’d to no period, circled by no space,</div> - <div class='line'>He leaps the flaming bounds of time and place.</div> - <div class='line'>Round the dark confines of the forest raves,</div> - <div class='line'>With <em>gentle</em> Robbers<a id='r269' /><a href='#f269' class='c024'><sup>[269]</sup></a> stocks his gloomy caves;</div> - <div class='line'>Tells how Prime Ministers<a id='r270' /><a href='#f270' class='c024'><sup>[270]</sup></a> are shocking things,</div> - <div class='line'>And <em>reigning Dukes</em> as bad as tyrant Kings;</div> - <div class='line'>How to <em>two</em> swains<a id='r271' /><a href='#f271' class='c024'><sup>[271]</sup></a> <em>one</em> nymph her vows may give,</div> - <div class='line'>And how <em>two</em> damsels<a href='#f271' class='c024'><sup>[271]</sup></a> with <em>one</em> lover live!</div> - <div class='line'>Delicious scenes!—such scenes <em>our</em> bard displays,</div> - <div class='line'>Which, crown’d with German, sue for British, praise.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Slow are the steeds, that through Germania’s roads</div> - <div class='line'>With hempen rein the slumbering post-boy goads;</div> - <div class='line'>Slow is the slumbering post-boy, who proceeds</div> - <div class='line'>Thro’ deep sands floundering on those tardy steeds;</div> - <div class='line'>More slow, more tedious, from his husky throat,</div> - <div class='line'>Twangs through the twisted horn the struggling note.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>These truths confess’d—Oh! yet, ye travell’d few,</div> - <div class='line'>Germania’s <em>plays</em> with eyes unjaundiced view!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_208'>208</span>View and approve!—though in each passage fine</div> - <div class='line'>The faint translation<a id='r272' /><a href='#f272' class='c024'><sup>[272]</sup></a> mock the genuine line;</div> - <div class='line'>Though the nice ear the erring sight belie,</div> - <div class='line'>For <em>U twice dotted</em> is pronounced like <em>I</em>;<a href='#f272' class='c024'><sup>[272]</sup></a> [<em>Applause.</em></div> - <div class='line'>Yet oft the scene shall nature’s fire impart,</div> - <div class='line'>Warm <em>from</em> the breast, and glowing <em>to</em> the heart!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ye travell’d few, attend!—On <em>you</em> our bard</div> - <div class='line'>Builds his fond hope! Do you his genius guard!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Applause.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nor let succeeding generations say</div> - <div class='line'>A British audience <em>damn’d</em> a German play!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Loud and continued Applauses.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c041'><em>Flash of lightning.—The ghost of</em> <span class='sc'>Prologue’s Grandmother</span> -<em>by the Father’s side, appears to soft music, in a white tiffany -riding-hood.</em> <span class='sc'>Prologue</span> <em>kneels to receive her blessing, which -she gives in a solemn and affecting manner, the audience clapping -and crying all the while.—Flash of lightning.</em>—<span class='sc'>Prologue</span> -<em>and his</em> <span class='sc'>Grandmother</span> <em>sink through the trap-doors.</em></p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE ROVERS; OR, THE DOUBLE ARRANGEMENT.</h3> - -<h4 class='c038'>ACT I. SCENE I.</h4> - -<p class='c039'><em>Scene represents a room at an inn, at Weimar—On one side of -the stage the bar-room, with jellies, lemons in nets, syllabubs</em>, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_209'>209</span><em>and part of a cold roast fowl, &c.—On the opposite side, a window -looking into the street, through which persons (inhabitants of -Weimar) are seen passing to and fro in apparent agitation</em>—<span class='sc'>Matilda</span> -<em>appears in a great coat and riding-habit, seated at -the corner of the dinner-table, which is covered with a clean -huckaback cloth; plates and napkins, with buck’s-horn-handled -knives and forks, are laid as if for four persons.</em></p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> Is it impossible for me to have dinner sooner?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> Madam, the Brunswick post-waggon is not yet -come in, and the ordinary is never before two o’clock.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> [<em>With a look expressive of disappointment, but immediately -recomposing herself.</em>] Well, then, I must have -patience. [<em>Exit Landlady.</em>] Oh Casimere!—How often -have the thoughts of thee served to amuse these moments -of expectation!—What a difference, alas!—Dinner—it is -taken away as soon as over, and we regret it not!—It -returns again with the return of appetite.—The beef of -to-morrow will succeed to the mutton of to-day, as the -mutton of to-day succeeded to the veal of yesterday. -But when once the heart has been occupied by a beloved -object, in vain would we attempt to supply the chasm by -another. How easily are our desires transferred from -dish to dish!—Love only, dear, delusive, delightful love, -restrains our wandering appetites, and confines them to -a particular gratification!...</p> - -<p class='c041'><em>Post-horn blows; re-enter</em> <span class='sc'>Landlady</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> Madam, the post-waggon is just come in with -only a single gentlewoman.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> Then show her up—and let us have dinner -instantly; [<em>Landlady going</em>] and remember—[<em>after a -moment’s recollection, and with great earnestness</em>]—remember -the toasted cheese.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit Landlady.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_210'>210</span><span class='small'><span class='sc'>Cecilia</span> <em>enters, in a brown cloth riding-dress, as if just alighted from the post-waggon.</em></span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> Madam, you seem to have had an unpleasant -journey, if I may judge from the dust on your riding-habit.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cec.</span> The way was dusty, madam, but the weather -was delightful. It recalled to me those blissful moments -when the rays of desire first vibrated through my soul.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> [<em>Aside.</em>] Thank Heaven! I have at last found -a heart which is in unison with my own. [<em>To Cecilia</em>]—Yes, -I understand you—the first pulsation of sentiment—the -silver tones upon the yet unsounded harp....</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cec.</span> The dawn of life—when this blossom [<em>putting her -hand upon her heart</em>] first expanded its petals to the penetrating -dart of love!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> Yes—the time—the golden time, when the first -beams of the morning meet and embrace one another!—The -blooming blue upon the yet unplucked plum!...</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cec.</span> Your countenance grows animated, my dear -madam.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> And yours too is glowing with illumination.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cec.</span> I had long been looking out for a congenial -spirit!—my heart was withered—but the beams of yours -have rekindled it.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> A sudden thought strikes me—Let us swear an -eternal friendship.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cec.</span> Let us agree to live together!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> Willingly.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>With rapidity and earnestness.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cec.</span> Let us embrace.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They embrace.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> Yes; I too have loved!—you, too, like me, have -been forsaken.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Doubtingly, and as if with a desire to be informed.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_211'>211</span><span class='sc'>Cec.</span> Too true!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Both.</span> Ah these men! these men!</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='sc'>Landlady</span> <em>enters, and places a leg of mutton on the table, with sour -krout and prune sauce; then a small dish of black puddings</em>—<span class='sc'>Cecilia</span> -<em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Matilda</span> <em>appear to take no notice of her.</em></p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> Oh, Casimere!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cec.</span> [<em>Aside.</em>] Casimere! that name!—Oh, my heart, -how it is distracted with anxiety.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> Heavens! Madam, you turn pale.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cec.</span> Nothing—a slight megrim—with your leave, I -will retire—</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mat.</span> I will attend you.</p> - -<p class='c041'>[<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Exeunt</span></i> <span class='sc'>Matilda</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Cecilia</span>; <em>Manent</em> <span class='sc'>Landlady</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Waiter</span>, -<em>with the dinner on the table.</em></p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> Have you carried the dinner to the prisoner in -the vaults of the abbey?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Waiter.</span> Yes—Pease soup, as usual—with the scrag -end of a neck of mutton. The emissary of the Count -was here again this morning, and offered me a large sum -of money if I would consent to poison him.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> Which you refused?</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>With hesitation and anxiety.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Waiter.</span> Can you doubt it?</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>With indignation.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> [<em>Recovering herself, and drawing up with an expression -of dignity.</em>] The conscience of a poor man is as -valuable to him as that of a prince....</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Waiter.</span> It ought to be still more so, in proportion as -it is generally more pure.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> Thou say’st truly, Job.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Waiter.</span> [<em>With enthusiasm.</em>] He who can spurn at -wealth when proffered as the price of crime, is greater -than a prince.</p> - -<p class='c041'><span class='pageno' id='Page_212'>212</span><em>Post-horn blows.—Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Casimere</span> <em>(in a travelling dress, a light -blue great coat with large metal buttons, his hair in a long queue, -but twisted at the end; a large Kevenhuller hat; a cane in his -hand).</em></p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Here, Waiter, pull off my boots, and bring me a -pair of slippers. [<em>Exit Waiter.</em>] And hark’ye, my lad, -a basin of water [<em>rubbing his hands</em>] and a bit of soap. I -have not washed since I began my journey.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Waiter.</span> [<em>Answering from behind the door.</em>] Yes, Sir.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Well, Landlady, what company are we to have?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> Only two gentlewomen, Sir.—They are just -stept into the next room—they will be back again in a -minute.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Where do they come from?</p> - -<p class='c041'>[<em>All this while the</em> <span class='sc'>Waiter</span> <em>re-enters with the basin and water;</em> -<span class='sc'>Casimere</span> <em>pulls off his boots, takes a napkin from the table, -and washes his face and hands.</em></p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> There is one of them, I think, comes from -Nuremburgh.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> [<em>Aside.</em>] From Nuremburgh! [<em>with eagerness</em>] her -name!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> Matilda.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> [<em>Aside.</em>] How does this idiot woman torment me!—What -else?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> I can’t recollect.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Oh, agony!</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>In a paroxysm of agitation.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Waiter.</span> See here, her name upon the travelling trunk—Matilda -Pottingen.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Ecstasy! ecstasy!</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Embracing the Waiter.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> You seem to be acquainted with the lady—shall -I call her?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_213'>213</span><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Instantly—instantly—tell her her loved, her long-lost—tell -her——</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Land.</span> Shall I tell her dinner is ready?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Do so—and in the meanwhile I will look after -my portmanteau.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Exeunt</span> severally.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c041'><em>Scene changes to a subterranean vault in the Abbey of Quedlinburgh, -with coffins, ’scutcheons, death’s heads and crossbones—toads and -other loathsome reptiles are seen traversing the obscurer parts of the -stage.</em>—<span class='sc'>Rogero</span> <em>appears, in chains, in a suit of rusty armour, with -his beard grown, and a cap of a grotesque form upon his head—beside -him a crock, or pitcher, supposed to contain his daily allowance -of sustenance.—A long silence, during which the wind is -heard to whistle through the caverns.</em>—<span class='sc'>Rogero</span> <em>rises, and comes -slowly forward, with his arms folded.</em></p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Rog.</span> Eleven years! it is now eleven years since I was -first immured in this living sepulchre—the cruelty of a -Minister—the perfidy of a Monk—yes, Matilda! for thy -sake—alive amidst the dead—chained—coffined—confined—cut -off from the converse of my fellow-men. Soft!—what -have we here! [<em>stumbles over a bundle of sticks.</em>] -This cavern is so dark that I can scarcely distinguish the -objects under my feet. Oh—the register of my captivity. -Let me see; how stands the account? [<em>Takes up the sticks, -and turns them over with a melancholy air; then stands silent -for a few minutes, as if absorbed in calculation.</em>]—Eleven -years and fifteen days!—Hah! the twenty-eighth of -August! How does the recollection of it vibrate on my -heart! It was on this day that I took my last leave of -my Matilda. It was a summer evening; her melting -hand seemed to dissolve in mine, as I prest it to my -bosom. Some demon whispered me that I should never -see her more. I stood gazing on the hated vehicle which -<span class='pageno' id='Page_214'>214</span>was conveying her away for ever. The tears were petrified -under my eyelids. My heart was crystallized with -agony. Anon—I looked along the road. The diligence -seemed to diminish every instant; I felt my heart beat -against its prison, as if anxious to leap out and overtake -it. My soul whirled round as I watched the rotation of -the hinder wheels. A long trail of glory followed after -her, and mingled with the dust; it was the emanation of -Divinity, luminous with love and beauty, like the splendour -of the setting sun; but it told me that the sun of -my joys was sunk for ever. Yes, here in the depths of -an eternal dungeon, in the nursing cradle of hell, the -suburbs of perdition, in a nest of demons, where despair -in vain sits brooding over the putrid eggs of hope; where -agony woos the embrace of death; where patience, beside -the bottomless pool of despondency, sits angling for -impossibilities. Yet, even <em>here</em>, to behold her, to embrace -her! Yes, Matilda, whether in this dark abode, amidst -toads and spiders, or in a royal palace, amidst the more -loathsome reptiles of a court, would be indifferent to me; -angels would shower down their hymns of gratulation -upon our heads, while fiends would envy the eternity of -suffering love.... Soft, what air was that? it -seemed a sound of more than human warblings. Again! -[<em>listens attentively for some minutes.</em>] Only the wind; it is -well, however; it reminds me of that melancholy air, -which has so often solaced the hours of my captivity. -Let me see whether the damps of this dungeon have not -yet injured my guitar. [<em>Takes his guitar, tunes it, and -begins the following air, with a full accompaniment of violins -from the orchestra.</em></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_215'>215</span>[<em>Air, Lanterna Magica.</em>]</div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 class='c031'>SONG.</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>BY ROGERO.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whene’er with haggard eyes I view</div> - <div class='line in2'>This dungeon that I’m rotting in,</div> - <div class='line'>I think of those companions true</div> - <div class='line in2'>Who studied with me at the U—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c041'>[<em>Weeps, and pulls out a blue kerchief, with which he -wipes his eyes; gazing tenderly at it, he proceeds</em>—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-l c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sweet kerchief, check’d with heavenly blue,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Which once my love sat knotting in!—</div> - <div class='line'>Alas! Matilda <em>then</em> was true!</div> - <div class='line in2'>At least I thought so at the U—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c041'>[<em>At the repetition of this line</em> <span class='sc'>Rogero</span> <em>clanks his -chains in cadence.</em></p> - -<div class='lg-container-l c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Barbs! Barbs! alas! how swift you flew</div> - <div class='line in2'>Her neat post-waggon trotting in!</div> - <div class='line'>Ye bore Matilda from my view;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Forlorn I languish’d at the U—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This faded form! this pallid hue!</div> - <div class='line in2'>This blood my veins is clotting in,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_216'>216</span>My years are many—they were few</div> - <div class='line in2'>When first I entered at the U—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There first for thee my passion grew,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Sweet! sweet Matilda Pottingen!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou wast the daughter of my tu—</div> - <div class='line in2'>—tor, law professor at the U—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>VI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sun, moon, and thou vain world, adieu,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That kings and priests are plotting in:</div> - <div class='line'>Here doomed to starve on water gru—</div> - <div class='line in2'>—el,<a id='r273' /><a href='#f273' class='c024'><sup>[273]</sup></a> never shall I see the U—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen—</div> - <div class='line in8'>—niversity of Gottingen.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c041'>[<em>During the last stanza</em> <span class='sc'>Rogero</span> <em>dashes his head repeatedly -against the walls of his prison; and, -finally, so hard as to produce a visible contusion; -he then throws himself on the floor in an agony. -The curtain drops; the music still continuing to -play till it is wholly fallen.</em></p> - -<p class='c009'>[The character of <span class='sc'>Rogero</span> is a quiz upon <span class='sc'>Sir Robert Adair</span>, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_217'>217</span>who received his education at Göttingen, and fell in love with -his tutor’s daughter. His relative, <span class='sc'>Lord Albemarle</span>, says in -his <em>Reminiscences</em>: “Throughout life my kinsman was an enthusiastic -admirer of the fair sex, which he generally ‘loved, not -wisely, but too well’”. He married, in 1805, Mdlle. Angélique -Gabrielle, daughter of the Marquis d’Hazincourt and the Comtesse -de Champagne.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Adair</span> was the son of Mr. Robert Adair, sergeant-surgeon to -K. George III., by his wife <span class='sc'>Lady Caroline Keppel</span>, daughter -of Wm. Anne, second Earl of Albemarle. He was educated at -Westminster School and Göttingen University; called to the -Bar, but never practised. He contested Camelford in 1796; -and was M.P. for Appleby, 1799–1802, for Camelford, 1802–1812. -He was sent by <span class='sc'>Fox</span> as Minister Plenipotentiary to Vienna in -1806; and by his old adversary <span class='sc'>Canning</span> to Constantinople in -1808; and also to Berlin. He was Ambassador to Constantinople, -1809–11, and to Belgium, 1831–5. He was a facile writer, -and wrote several spirited pamphlets, including defences of his -relatives, Francis, Duke of Bedford, and Admiral Keppel, Fox, -and other Whigs. He contributed to the <cite>Political Eclogues</cite> a -poem called <cite>Margaret Nicholson</cite>, in which George III., Pitt, -Jenkinson, &c., were ridiculed, and the <cite>Song of Scrutina</cite> (on the -“Westminster Scrutiny”), in the style of Ossian, in the <cite>Probationary -Odes for the Laureateship</cite>. He was the author also of an -account of his <cite>Mission to the Court of Vienna</cite>; and his <cite>Negotiations -for the Peace of the Dardanelles</cite>: 3 vols., 8vo. For his services -in the latter business he was made G.C.B. He was born -24th May, 1763, and died 3rd Oct., 1855.</p> - -<p class='c009'>There is a curious circumstance connected with the composition -of this song, the first five stanzas of which were written -by <span class='sc'>Canning</span>. Having been accidentally seen, previous to its -publication, by <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, who was cognisant of the proceedings of -the “Anti-Jacobin” writers, he was so amused with it, that he -took up a pen and composed the last stanza on the spot.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c009'>[This drama was produced at the Haymarket Theatre, July -26, 1811, with alterations and additions, and some introductory -matter, which contained smart hits at the Quadrupeds, which -then desecrated the stage of Covent Garden Theatre. Liston -performed <em>Rogero</em>; Munden, <em>Casimere</em>; Mrs. Glover, <em>Matilda</em>; -Mrs. Gibbs, <em>Cecilia</em>. The following Prologue, written by George -Colman the younger, in imitation of Pope’s prologue to <cite>Cato</cite>, -was spoken by Elliston:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To lull the soul by spurious strokes of art,</div> - <div class='line'>To warp the genius, and mislead the heart;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_218'>218</span>To make mankind revere wives gone astray,<a id='r274' /><a href='#f274' class='c024'><sup>[274]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Love pious sons who rob on the highway;<a id='r275' /><a href='#f275' class='c024'><sup>[275]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>For this the foreign muses trod our stage</div> - <div class='line'>Commanding <em>German schools</em> to be the rage.</div> - <div class='line'>Hail to such schools! Oh, fine <em>false feeling</em>, hail!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou badst <em>non-natural nature</em> to prevail;</div> - <div class='line'>Through thee, <em>soft super-sentiment</em> arose,</div> - <div class='line'>Musk to the mind like civet to the nose;</div> - <div class='line'>Till fainting taste (as invalids do wrong),</div> - <div class='line'>Snuff’d the sick perfume, and grew weakly strong.</div> - <div class='line'>Dear Johnny Bull! you boast much resolution,</div> - <div class='line'>With, thanks to Heaven! a glorious Constitution:</div> - <div class='line'>Your taste, recovered half from foreign quacks,</div> - <div class='line'>Takes airings, now, on English horses’ backs;</div> - <div class='line'>While every modern bard may raise his name,</div> - <div class='line'>If not on <em>lasting praise</em>, on <em>stable fame</em>.</div> - <div class='line'>Think that to Germans you have given no check,</div> - <div class='line'>Think how each actor hors’d has risk’d his neck;</div> - <div class='line'>You’ve shewn them favour: Oh, then, once more shew it</div> - <div class='line'>To this night’s <em>Anglo-German, Horse-Play</em> Poet!—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_259.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_219'>219</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXXI.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c040'>June 11, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c009'>We have received, in the course of the last week, -several long, and to say the truth, dull letters, from -unknown hands, reflecting in very severe terms on <span class='sc'>Mr. -Higgins</span>, for having, as it is affirmed, attempted to pass -upon the world, as a faithful sample of the productions -of the German theatre, a performance no way resembling -any of those pieces which have so late excited, and -which bid fair to engross, the admiration of the British -public.</p> - -<p class='c009'>As we cannot but consider ourselves as the guardians -of <span class='sc'>Mr. Higgins’s</span> literary reputation, in respect to every -work of his which is conveyed to the world through the -medium of our paper (though, what we think of the -danger of his principles we have already sufficiently -explained for ourselves, and have, we trust, succeeded in -putting our readers upon their guard against them)—we -hold ourselves bound not only to justify the fidelity of -the imitation, but (contrary to our original intention) -to give a further specimen of it in our present number, in -order to bring the question more fairly to issue between -our author and his calumniators.</p> - -<p class='c009'>In the first place we are to observe, that <span class='sc'>Mr. Higgins</span> -professes to have taken his notion of German plays -wholly from the translations which have appeared in our -language. If <em>they</em> are totally dissimilar from the originals, -Mr. H. may undoubtedly have been led into error; but -the fault is in the translators, not in him. That he does -not differ widely from the models which he proposed to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_220'>220</span>himself, we have it in our power to prove satisfactorily, -and might have done so in our last number, by subjoining -to each particular passage of his play the scene in -some one or other of the German plays which he had in -view when he wrote it. These parallel passages were -faithfully pointed out to us by Mr. H. with that candour -which marks his character; and if they were suppressed -by us (as in truth they were), on our heads be the blame, -whatever it may be. Little, indeed, did we think of the -imputation which the omission would bring upon Mr. H., -as in fact our principal reason for it was the apprehension -that, from the extreme closeness of the imitation in most -instances, he would lose in praise for invention more than -he would gain in credit for fidelity.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The meeting between Matilda and Cecilia, for example, -in the first act of <cite>The Rovers</cite>, and their sudden intimacy, -has been censured as unnatural. Be it so. It is taken, -<em>almost word for word</em>, from <cite>Stella</cite>, a German (or professedly -a German) piece now much in vogue; from which also the -catastrophe of <span class='sc'>Mr. Higgins’s</span> play is in part borrowed, -so far as relates to the agreement to which the ladies -come, as the reader will see by and bye, to share Casimere -between them.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The dinner-scene is copied partly from the published -translation of <cite>The Stranger</cite>, and partly from the first -scene of <cite>Stella</cite>. The song of Rogero, with which the -first act concludes, is admitted on all hands to be in the -very first taste; and if no German original is to be -found for it, so much the worse for the credit of German -literature.</p> - -<p class='c009'>An objection has been made by one anonymous letter-writer -to the names of Puddingfield and Beefington, as -<span class='pageno' id='Page_221'>221</span>little likely to have been assigned to English characters -by any author of taste or discernment. In answer to -this objection we have, in the first place, to admit, that -a small, and we hope not an unwarrantable, alteration -has been made by us since the MS. has been in our -hands. These names stood originally Puddincrantz and -Beefinstern, which sounded to our ears as being liable, -especially the latter, to a ridiculous inflection—a difficulty -that could only be removed by furnishing them -with English terminations. With regard to the more -substantial syllables of the names, our author proceeded, -in all probability, on the authority of Goldoni, who, -though not a German, is an Italian writer of considerable -reputation; and who, having heard that the English -were distinguished for their love of liberty and beef, has -judiciously compounded the two words <em>Runnymede</em> and -<em>Beef</em>, and thereby produced an English nobleman, whom -he styles <em>Lord Runnybeef</em>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>To dwell no longer on particular passages, the best -way perhaps of explaining the whole scope and view of -Mr. H.’s imitation will be to transcribe the short sketch -of the plot which that gentleman transmitted to us, -together with his drama, and which it is perhaps the -more necessary to give at length, as, the limits of our -paper not allowing of the publication of the whole piece, -some general knowledge of its main design may be -acceptable to our readers, in order to enable them to -judge of the several extracts which we lay before them.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>PLOT.</h3> - -<p class='c034'>Rogero, son of the late minister of the Count of Saxe Weimar, -having while he was at college, fallen desperately in love -with Matilda Pottingen, daughter of his tutor, Doctor Engelbertus -<span class='pageno' id='Page_222'>222</span>Pottingen, Professor of Civil Law; and Matilda evidently -returning his passion, the Doctor, to prevent ill consequences, -sends his daughter on a visit to her aunt in Wetteravia, where -she becomes acquainted with Casimere, a Polish Officer, who -happens to be quartered near her aunt’s, and has several children -by him.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Roderic, Count of Saxe Weimar, a prince of a tyrannical and -licentious disposition, has for his Prime Minister and favourite -Gaspar, a crafty villain, who had risen to his post by first ruining, -and then putting to death, Rogero’s father. Gaspar, -apprehensive of the power and popularity which the young -Rogero may enjoy at his return to Court, seizes the occasion of -his intrigue with Matilda (of which he is apprized officially by -Doctor Pottingen) to procure from his master an order for the -recall of Rogero from college, and for committing him to the -care of the Prior of the Abbey of Quedlinburgh, a priest, -rapacious, savage, and sensual, and devoted to Gaspar’s interests—sending -at the same time private orders to the Prior to confine -him in a dungeon.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Here Rogero languishes many years. His daily sustenance -is administered to him through a grated opening at the top of -a cavern, by the landlady of the Golden Eagle at Weimar, with -whom Gaspar contracts, in the prince’s name, for his support; -intending, and more than once endeavouring, to corrupt the -waiter to mingle poison with the food, in order that he may get -rid of Rogero for ever.</p> - -<p class='c009'>In the meantime, Casimere, having been called away from -the neighbourhood of Matilda’s residence to other quarters, -becomes enamoured of and marries Cecilia, by whom he has -a family; and whom he likewise deserts after a few years’ cohabitation, -on pretence of business which calls him to Kamtschatka.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Doctor Pottingen, now grown old and infirm, and feeling the -want of his daughter’s society, sends young Pottingen in search -of her, with strict injunctions not to return without her; and -to bring with her either her present lover Casimere, or, should -<span class='pageno' id='Page_223'>223</span>that not be possible, Rogero himself, if he can find him; the -Doctor having set his heart upon seeing his children comfortably -settled before his death. Matilda, about the same period, -quits her aunt’s in search of Casimere; and Cecilia, having been -advertised (by an anonymous letter) of the falsehood of his -Kamtschatka journey, sets out in the post-waggon on a similar -pursuit.</p> - -<p class='c009'>It is at this point of time the Play opens—with the accidental -meeting of Cecilia and Matilda at the Inn at Weimar. Casimere -arrives there soon after, and falls in first with Matilda, and then -with Cecilia. Successive <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">éclaircissements</span></i> take place, and an -arrangement is finally made, by which the two ladies are to live -jointly with Casimere.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Young Pottingen, wearied with a few weeks’ search, during -which he has not been able to find either of the objects of it, -resolves to stop at Weimar, and wait events there. It so -happens that he takes up his lodgings in the same house with -Puddingfield and Beefington, two English noblemen, whom the -tyranny of King John has obliged to fly from their country; -and who, after wandering about the continent for some time, -have fixed their residence at Weimar.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The news of the signature of Magna Charta arriving, determines -Puddingfield and Beefington to return to England. -Young Pottingen opens his case to them, and entreats them to -stay to assist him in the object of his search.—This they refuse; -but coming to the Inn where they are to set off for Hamburgh, -they meet Casimere, from whom they had both received many -civilities in Poland.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Casimere, by this time tired of his “<span class='sc'>Double Arrangement</span>,” -and having learnt from the waiter that Rogero is confined in -the vaults of the neighbouring abbey <em>for love</em>, resolves to attempt -his rescue, and to make over Matilda to him as the price of his -deliverance. He communicates his scheme to Puddingfield and -Beefington, who agree to assist him; as also does young Pottingen. -The Waiter of the Inn, proving to be a <em>Knight Templar</em> -in disguise, is appointed leader of the expedition. A band of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_224'>224</span>Troubadours, who happen to be returning from the Crusades, -and a company of Austrian and Prussian Grenadiers returning -from the Seven Years’ War, are engaged as troops.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The attack on the Abbey is made with success. The Count -of Weimar and Gaspar, who are feasting with the Prior, are -seized and beheaded in the refectory. The Prior is thrown into -the dungeon from which Rogero is rescued. Matilda and -Cecilia rush in. The former recognises Rogero, and agrees to -live with him. The children are produced on all sides—and -young Pottingen is commissioned to write to his father, the -Doctor, to detail the joyful events which have taken place, and -to invite him to Weimar to partake of the general felicity.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE ROVERS; OR, THE DOUBLE ARRANGEMENT.</h3> - -<h4 class='c038'>ACT II.</h4> - -<p class='c044'><em>Scene, a Room in an ordinary Lodging-house at Weimar</em>—<span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span> -<em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Beefington</span> <em>discovered sitting at a small -deal table, and playing at All-fours—Young</em> <span class='sc'>Pottingen</span>, <em>at -another table in the corner of the room, with a pipe in his mouth, -and a Saxon mug of a singular shape beside him, which he repeatedly -applies to his lips, turning back his head, and casting his -eyes towards the firmament—at the last trial he holds the mug for -some moments in a directly inverted position; then replaces it on -the table with an air of dejection, and gradually sinks into a profound -slumber—the pipe falls from his hand, and is broken.</em></p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> I beg.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> [<em>Deals three cards to</em> <span class='sc'>Beefington</span>.] Are you -satisfied?</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Enough; what have you?</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> High, low, and the game.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> D——n! ’Tis my deal. [<em>Deals; turns up a -knave.</em>] One for his heels!</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Triumphantly.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Is king highest?</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_225'>225</span><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> No. [<em>Sternly</em>] The game is mine. The knave -gives it me.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Are knaves so prosperous?</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Aye, marry are they in this world. They have -the game in their hands. Your kings are but <em>noddies</em><a id='r276' /><a href='#f276' class='c024'><sup>[276]</sup></a> to -them.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Ha! ha! ha! Still the same proud spirit, -Beefington, which procured thee thine exile from -England.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> England! my native land! when shall I revisit -thee?</p> - -<p class='c045'>[<em>During this time</em> <span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span> <em>deals, and -begins to arrange his hand.</em></p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> [<em>Continues.</em>] Phoo, hang All-fours; what are they -to a mind ill at ease? Can they cure the heartache? -Can they soothe banishment? Can they lighten -ignominy? Can All-fours do this? O, my Puddingfield! -thy limber and lightsome spirit bounds up against affliction -with the elasticity of a well-bent bow; but mine—O! -mine—</p> - -<p class='c045'>[<em>Falls into an agony, and sinks back in his chair. Young</em> -<span class='sc'>Pottingen</span>, <em>awakened by the noise, rises, and advances with -a grave demeanour towards</em> <span class='sc'>Beefington</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span>. -<em>The former begins to recover.</em></p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_226'>226</span><span class='sc'>Y. Pot.</span> What is the matter, comrades,<a id='r277' /><a href='#f277' class='c024'><sup>[277]</sup></a> you seem -agitated. Have you lost or won?</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Lost! I have lost my country.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Y. Pot.</span> And I my sister. I came hither in search of her.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> O, England!</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Y. Pot.</span> O, Matilda!</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Exiled by the tyranny of an usurper, I seek the -means of revenge, and of restoration to my country.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Y. Pot.</span> Oppressed by the tyranny of an Abbot, persecuted -by the jealousy of a Count, the betrothed husband -of my sister languishes in a loathsome captivity; her -lover is fled no one knows whither, and I, her brother, -am torn from my parental roof, and from my studies in -chirurgery, to seek him and her, I know not where—to -rescue Rogero, I know not how. Comrades, your counsel. -My search fruitless—my money gone—my baggage stolen! -what am I to do? In yonder Abbey—in these dark, -dank vaults, there, my friends, there lies Rogero—there -Matilda’s heart.</p> - -<h5 class='c038'>SCENE II.</h5> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c008'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Waiter</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Waiter.</span> Sir, here is a person who desires to speak -with you.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> [<em>Goes to the door and returns with a letter, which -he opens. On perusing it his countenance becomes illuminated, -and expands prodigiously.</em>] Ah, my friend, what joy!</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Turning to</em> <span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_227'>227</span><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> What? tell me—let your Puddingfield partake it.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> See here.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Produces a printed paper.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> What?</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>With impatience.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> [<em>In a significant tone.</em>] A newspaper!</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Ah, what sayst thou?—A newspaper!</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Yes, Puddingfield, and see here [<em>shows it partially</em>], -from England.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> [<em>With extreme earnestness.</em>] Its name?</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> The <cite>Daily Advertiser</cite>.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Oh, ecstasy!</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> [<em>With a dignified severity.</em>] Puddingfield, calm -yourself—repress those transports—remember that you -are a man.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> [<em>After a pause, with suppressed emotion.</em>] Well, I -will be—I am calm—yet tell me, Beefington, does it -contain any news?</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Glorious news, my dear Puddingfield—the -Barons are victorious—King John has been defeated—Magna -Charta, that venerable immemorial inheritance -of Britons, was signed last Friday was three weeks, the -third of July, Old Style.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> I can scarce believe my ears—but let me satisfy -my eyes—show me the paragraph.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Here it is, just above the advertisements.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> [<em>Reads.</em>] “The great demand for Packwood’s -Razor Straps”—</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Pshaw!—what, ever blundering!—you drive -me from my patience. See here, at the head of the -column.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> [<em>Reads.</em>]</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“A hireling print, devoted to the court,</div> - <div class='line'>Has dared to question our veracity</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_228'>228</span>Respecting the events of yesterday;</div> - <div class='line'>But by to-day’s accounts, our information</div> - <div class='line'>Appears to have been perfectly correct.</div> - <div class='line'>The Charter of our Liberties received</div> - <div class='line'>The royal signature at five o’clock,</div> - <div class='line'>When messengers were instantly dispatched</div> - <div class='line'>To Cardinal Pandulfo; and their majesties,</div> - <div class='line'>After partaking of a cold collation,</div> - <div class='line'>Returned to Windsor.”—I am satisfied.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Yet here again—there are some further particulars -[<em>turns to another part of the paper</em>]. “Extract of -a letter from Egham—My dear friend, we are all here in -high spirits—the interesting event which took place this -morning at Runnymede, in the neighbourhood of this -town”—</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Ah, Runnymede! enough—no more—my -doubts are vanished—then are we free indeed!</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> I have, besides, a letter in my pocket from our -friend, the immortal Bacon, who has been appointed -Chancellor. Our outlawry is reversed!—What says my -friend—shall we return by the next packet?</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Instantly, instantly!</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Both.</span> Liberty! Adelaide! revenge!</p> - -<p class='c045'>[<em><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Exeunt</span>—Young</em> <span class='sc'>Pottingen</span> <em>following and waving his -hat, but obviously without much consciousness of the -meaning of what has passed.</em></p> - -<p class='c009'><em>Scene changes to the outside of the Abbey.—A Summer’s Evening; -Moonlight.</em></p> - -<p class='c009'><em>Companies of Austrian and Prussian Grenadiers march across the -stage confusedly, as if returning from the Seven Years War.—Shouts -and martial music.</em></p> - -<p class='c009'><em>The Abbey Gates are opened; the Monks are seen passing in procession, -with the</em> <span class='sc'>Prior</span> <em>at their head; the choir is heard chanting -<span class='pageno' id='Page_229'>229</span>vespers.—After which a pause; then a bell is heard, as if ringing -for supper; soon after, a noise of singing and jollity.</em></p> - -<p class='c009'><em>Enter from the Abbey, pushed out of the gates by the</em> <span class='sc'>Porter</span>, <em>a</em> -<span class='sc'>Troubadour</span>, <em>with a bundle under his cloak, and a Lady under -his arm</em>; <span class='sc'>Troubadour</span> <em>seems much in liquor, but caresses the</em> -<span class='sc'>Female Minstrel</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Fem. Min.</span> Trust me, Gieronimo, thou seemest melancholy. -What hast thou got under thy cloak?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Trou.</span> Pshaw! women will be inquiring. Melancholy! -not I. I will sing thee a song, and the subject of it shall -be the question—“What have I got under my cloak?” -It is a riddle, Margaret—I learnt it of an almanac-maker -at Gotha—if thou guessest it after the first stanza, -thou shalt have never a drop for thy pains. Hear me—and, -d’ye mark! twirl thy thingumbob while I sing.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Fem. Min.</span> ’Tis a pretty tune, and hums dolefully.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Plays on her balalaika.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Trou.</span></p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I bear a secret comfort <em>here</em>,<a id='r278' /><a href='#f278' class='c024'><sup>[278]</sup></a></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Putting his hand on the bundle.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>A joy I’ll ne’er impart;</div> - <div class='line'>It is not wine, it is not beer,</div> - <div class='line in2'>But it consoles my heart.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_230'>230</span><span class='sc'>Fem. Min.</span> [<em>Interrupting him.</em>] I’ll be hang’d if you -don’t mean the bottle of cherry-brandy that you stole -out of the vaults in the abbey cellar.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Trou.</span> I mean!—Peace, wench; thou disturbest the -current of my feelings—</p> - -<p class='c041'>[<span class='sc'>Fem. Min.</span> <em>attempts to lay hold on the bottle</em>; -<span class='sc'>Troubadour</span> <em>pushes her aside, and continues -singing without interruption</em>.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This cherry-bounce, this loved noyau,</div> - <div class='line in2'>My drink for ever be;</div> - <div class='line'>But, sweet my love, thy wish forego;</div> - <div class='line in2'>I’ll give no drop to thee!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Both together.</em>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<table class='table0' summary=''> - <tr> - <td class='c022'><span class='sc'>Trou.</span></td> - <td class='c022'>{ This }</td> - <td class='c022' rowspan='2'>cherry-bounce</td> - <td class='c022'>{ this }</td> - <td class='c020' rowspan='2'>loved noyau,</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c022'><span class='fss'>F. M.</span></td> - <td class='c022'>{ That }</td> - - <td class='c022'>{ that }</td> - - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c022'><span class='sc'>Trou.</span></td> - <td class='c022'>{ My }</td> - <td class='c020' colspan='3' rowspan='2'>drink for ever be;</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c022'><span class='fss'>F. M.</span></td> - <td class='c022'>{ Thy }</td> - - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c022'><span class='sc'>Trou.</span> }</td> - <td class='c022' colspan='2' rowspan='2'>But, sweet my love,</td> - <td class='c020' colspan='2'>{ thy wish forgo!</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c022'><span class='fss'>F. M.</span> }</td> - - <td class='c020' colspan='2'>{ one drop bestow,</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c022'><span class='sc'>Trou.</span></td> - <td class='c022'>{ I }</td> - <td class='c022' rowspan='2'>keep it all for</td> - <td class='c020' colspan='2'>{ me!</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c022'><span class='fss'>F. M.</span></td> - <td class='c022'>{ Nor }</td> - - <td class='c020' colspan='2'>{ thee!</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class='c041'>[<em><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Exeunt</span> struggling for the bottle, but without anger -or animosity, the</em> <span class='sc'>Fem. Min.</span> <em>appearing by degrees -to obtain a superiority in the contest.</em></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>END OF ACT II.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_231'>231</span><span class='sc'>Act the Third</span>—contains the éclaircissements and -final arrangement between <span class='sc'>Casimere</span>, <span class='sc'>Matilda</span>, and -<span class='sc'>Cecilia</span>; which so nearly resemble the concluding act -of <em>Stella</em>, that we forbear to lay it before our -readers.</p> - -<h4 class='c038'>ACT IV.</h4> - -<p class='c039'><em>Scene, the Inn door; Diligence drawn up.</em>—<span class='sc'>Casimere</span> <em>appears superintending -the package of his portmanteaus, and giving directions to -the</em> <span class='sc'>Porters</span>.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Beefington</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Well, Coachey, have you got two inside -places?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Coach.</span> Yes, your Honour.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> [<em>seems to be struck with</em> <span class='sc'>Casimere’s</span> <em>appearance. -He surveys him earnestly without paying any attention to the</em> -<span class='sc'>Coachman</span>, <em>then doubtingly pronounces</em>] Casimere!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> [<em>turning round rapidly, recognizes</em> <span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span>, -<em>and embraces him.</em>] My Puddingfield!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> My Casimere!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> What, Beefington too! [<em>discovering him</em>]—then is -my joy complete.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Our fellow-traveller, as it seems!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Yes, Beefington—but wherefore to Hamburgh?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Oh, Casimere<a id='r279' /><a href='#f279' class='c024'><sup>[279]</sup></a>—to fly—to fly—to return—England—our -country—Magna Charta—it is liberated—a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_232'>232</span>new æra—House of Commons—Crown and Anchor—Opposition—</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> What a contrast! you are flying to liberty and -your home—I, driven from my home by tyranny, and -exposed to domestic slavery in a foreign country.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> How domestic slavery?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Too true—two wives—[<em>slowly, and with a dejected -air—then after a pause</em>]—you knew my Cecilia?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Yes, five years ago.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Soon after that period I went upon a visit to a -lady in Wetteravia—my Matilda was under her protection. -Alighting at a peasant’s cabin, I saw her on a -charitable visit, spreading bread-and-butter for the -children, in a light-blue riding-habit. The simplicity of -her appearance—the fineness of the weather—all conspired -to interest me—my heart moved to hers—as if by -magnetic sympathy. We wept, embraced, and went -home together: she became the mother of my Pantalowsky. -But five years of enjoyment have not stifled the -reproaches of my conscience—her Rogero is languishing -in captivity—if I could restore her to <em>him</em>!</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Let us rescue him.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Will without power<a id='r280' /><a href='#f280' class='c024'><sup>[280]</sup></a> is like children playing at -soldiers.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Courage without power<a id='r281' /><a href='#f281' class='c024'><sup>[281]</sup></a> is like a consumptive -running footman.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Courage without power is a contradiction.<a id='r282' /><a href='#f282' class='c024'><sup>[282]</sup></a> Ten -brave men might set all Quedlinburgh at defiance.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_233'>233</span><span class='sc'>Beef</span>. Ten brave men—but where are they to be -found?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas</span>. I will tell you—marked you the waiter?</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Beef</span>. The waiter?</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>doubtingly.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Cas</span>. [<em>in a confidential tone</em>]. No waiter, but a <em>Knight -Templar</em>. Returning from the Crusade, he found his -Order dissolved, and his person proscribed. He dissembled -his rank, and embraced the profession of a -waiter. I have made sure of him already. There are, -besides, an Austrian, and a Prussian grenadier. I have -made them abjure their national enmity, and they have -sworn to fight henceforth in the cause of freedom. These -with young Pottingen, the waiter, and ourselves, make -seven—the Troubadour, with his two attendant minstrels, -will complete the ten.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Beef</span>. Now then for the execution.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>With enthusiasm.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Pudd</span>. Yes, my boys—for the execution.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Clapping them on the back.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Waiter</span>. But hist! we are observed.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Trou</span>. Let us by a song conceal our purposes.</p> - -<h5 class='c038'>RECITATIVE ACCOMPANIED.<a id='r283' /><a href='#f283' class='c024'><sup>[283]</sup></a></h5> - -<div class='lg-container-l c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Hist! hist! nor let the airs that blow</div> - <div class='line in6'>From night’s cold lungs our purpose know!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Pudd.</span> Let Silence, mother of the dumb,</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Beef.</span> Press on each lip her palsied thumb!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Wait.</span> Let Privacy, allied to sin,</div> - <div class='line in6'>That loves to haunt the tranquil inn—</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_234'>234</span><span class='sc'>Gren.</span> } And Conscience start, when she shall view</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Thou.</span> } The mighty deed we mean to do!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>GENERAL CHORUS—<i><span lang="it" xml:lang="it">Con spirito.</span></i></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then friendship swear, ye faithful bands,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Swear to save a shackled hero!</div> - <div class='line'>See where yon abbey frowning stands!</div> - <div class='line in2'>Rescue, rescue, brave Rogero!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Cas.</span> Thrall’d in a monkish tyrant’s fetters</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall great Rogero hopeless lie?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Y. Pot.</span> In my pocket I have letters,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Saying, “Help me, or I die!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Allegro Allegretto.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<table class='table0' summary=''> - <tr> - <td class='c022'><span class='sc'>Cas. Beef. Pudd. Gren. Trou. Waiter, and Pot.</span> <em>with enthusiasm</em>.</td> - <td class='c020'>} Let us fly, let us fly,<br />} Let us help, ere he die!</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<div class='c015'>[<em><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Exeunt omnes</span>, waving their hats.</em></div> - -<p class='c041'><em>Scene, the Abbey Gate, with Ditches, Drawbridges, and Spikes; Time, -about an hour before Sunrise.—The conspirators appear as if in -ambuscade, whispering and consulting together, in expectation of -the signal for attack.—The</em> <span class='sc'>Waiter</span> <em>is habited as a Knight Templar, -in the dress of his Order, with the Cross on his breast, and the -scallop on his shoulder.</em>—<span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Beefington</span> <em>armed -with blunderbusses and pocket-pistols; the</em> <span class='sc'>Grenadiers</span> <em>in their -proper uniforms.—The</em> <span class='sc'>Troubadour</span> <em>with his attendant minstrels -bring up the rear; martial music: the conspirators come forward, -and present themselves before the Gate of the Abbey.—Alarum; -firing of pistols; the Convent appear in Arms upon the Walls; -the Drawbridge is let down; a body of choristers and lay-brothers -attempt a sally, but are beaten back, and the Verger killed.—The -besieged attempt to raise the Drawbridge</em>; <span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span> <em>and</em> -<span class='sc'>Beefington</span> <em>press forward with alacrity, throw themselves upon -the Drawbridge, and by the exertion of their weight preserve it in a -state of depression; the other besiegers join them, and attempt to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_235'>235</span>force the entrance, but without effect.</em>—<span class='sc'>Puddingfield</span> <em>makes the -signal for the battering-ram.—Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Quintus Curtius</span> <em>and</em> -<span class='sc'>Marcus Curius Dentatus</span> <em>in their military habits, preceded by -the Roman Eagle; the rest of their Legion are employed in bringing -forward a battering-ram, which plays for a few minutes to slow -time, till the entrance is forced.—After a short resistance, the -besiegers rush in with shouts of Victory.</em></p> - -<p class='c041'><em>Scene changes to the interior of the Abbey.—The inhabitants of the -Convent are seen flying in all directions.</em></p> - -<p class='c041'><em>The</em> <span class='sc'>Count of Weimar</span> <em>and the</em> <span class='sc'>Prior</span>, <em>who had been found -feasting in the Refectory, are brought in manacled. The</em> <span class='sc'>Count</span> -<em>appears transported with rage, and gnaws his chains.—The</em> <span class='sc'>Prior</span> -<em>remains insensible, as if stupefied with grief.</em>—<span class='sc'>Beefington</span> <em>takes -the keys of the Dungeon, which are hanging at the</em> <span class='sc'>Prior’s</span> <em>girdle, -and makes a sign for them both to be led away into confinement.—Exeunt</em> -<span class='sc'>Prior</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Count</span>, <em>properly guarded.—The rest of the -conspirators disperse in search of the Dungeon where</em> <span class='sc'>Rogero</span> <em>is -confined.</em></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>END OF ACT THE FOURTH.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_276.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_236'>236</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXXII.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>June 18, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>We are indebted for the following imitation of <span class='sc'>Catullus</span> -to a literary correspondent. Whether it will remove the -doubts we formerly expressed, of <span class='sc'>Citizen Muskein’s</span> -acquaintance with the classics, from the minds of our -readers, we cannot pretend to say. It is given to us as -a faithful translation from the French—as such, we present -it to our readers; premising only, that though the -<cite>Citizen Imitator</cite> seems to have <em>Sans-culottized</em> the original -in two or three places, yet he everywhere expresses himself -with a <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">naïveté</span></i> and truth in his verse that we seek for -in vain in many of his countrymen who have recorded -their victories and defeats in very vulgar prose.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>AN AFFECTIONATE EFFUSION OF CITIZEN MUSKEIN TO HAVRE-DE-GRACE.</h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Fairest of cities,<a id='r284' /><a href='#f284' class='c024'><sup>[284]</sup></a> which the Seine</div> - <div class='line'>Surveys ’twixt Paris and the main,</div> - <div class='line'>Sweet <span class='sc'>Havre</span>! sweetest <span class='sc'>Havre</span>, hail!</div> - <div class='line'>How gladly with my tatter’d sail,<a id='r285' /><a href='#f285' class='c024'><sup>[285]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Yet trembling from this wild adventure,</div> - <div class='line'>Do I thy friendly harbour enter!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_237'>237</span>Well—now I’ve leisure, let me see</div> - <div class='line'>What boats are left me; one, two, three—</div> - <div class='line'>Bravo! the better half remain;</div> - <div class='line'>And all my heroes are not slain.</div> - <div class='line'>And if my senses don’t deceive,</div> - <div class='line'>I too am safe,<a id='r286' /><a href='#f286' class='c024'><sup>[286]</sup></a>—yes, I believe,</div> - <div class='line'>Without a wound I reach thy shore</div> - <div class='line'>(For I have felt myself all o’er);</div> - <div class='line'>I’ve all my limbs, and, be it spoken</div> - <div class='line'>With honest triumph, no bone broken.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>How pleasing is the sweet transition<a id='r287' /><a href='#f287' class='c024'><sup>[287]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>From this vile Gun-boat Expedition;</div> - <div class='line'>From winds and waves, and wounds and scars,</div> - <div class='line'>From British soldiers, British tars,</div> - <div class='line'>To his own house, where, free from danger,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Muskein</span> may live at rack and manger;</div> - <div class='line'>May stretch his limbs in his own cot,<a id='r288' /><a href='#f288' class='c024'><sup>[288]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Thankful he has not gone to pot;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor for the bubble Glory strive,</div> - <div class='line'>But bless himself that he’s alive!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Havre</span>,<a id='r289' /><a href='#f289' class='c024'><sup>[289]</sup></a> sweet Havre! hail again,</div> - <div class='line'>O! bid thy sons (a frolic train,<a id='r290' /><a href='#f290' class='c024'><sup>[290]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Who under <span class='sc'>Chénier</span> welcomed in,</div> - <div class='line'>With dance and song, the <em>Guillotine</em>).</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_238'>238</span>In long procession seek the strand;</div> - <div class='line'>For <span class='sc'>Muskein</span> now prepares to land,</div> - <div class='line'>’Scaped, Heav’n knows how, from that cursed crew</div> - <div class='line'>That haunt the rocks of <span class='sc'>Saint Marcou</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 class='c031'>[TO THE PENINSULA OF SIRMIO.<br /> <span class='small'>UPON THE RETURN OF THE POET TO HIS COUNTRY HOUSE THERE.</span></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><em>Translated</em> from <span class='sc'>Catullus</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sirmio, of all the shores the gem,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The isles where circling Neptune strays;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Whether the vast and boisterous main</div> - <div class='line'>Or lake’s more limpid waves they stem,</div> - <div class='line in2'>How gladly on thy waves I gaze!</div> - <div class='line in2'>How blest to visit thee again!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I scarce believe, while rapt I stand,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That I have left the Thynian fields</div> - <div class='line in2'>And all Bithynia far behind,</div> - <div class='line'>And safely view my favourite land.</div> - <div class='line in2'>Oh bliss, when care dispersing yields</div> - <div class='line in2'>To full repose the placid mind!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then when the mind its load lays down;</div> - <div class='line in2'>When we regain, all hazards past,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And with long ceaseless travel tired,</div> - <div class='line'>Our household god again our own;</div> - <div class='line in2'>And press in tranquil sleep at last</div> - <div class='line in2'>The well-known bed so oft desired—</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This can alone atonement make</div> - <div class='line'>For every toil. Hail, Sirmio sweet!</div> - <div class='line'>Be gay, thy lord hath ceased to roam!</div> - <div class='line'>Ye laughing waves of Lydia’s lake,</div> - <div class='line'>Smile all around! thy master greet</div> - <div class='line'>With all thy smiles, my pleasant home!—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_239'>239</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXXIII.<a id='r291' /><a href='#f291' class='c024'><sup>[291]</sup></a></h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>June 25, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>After the splendid account of <span class='sc'>Buonaparte’s</span> successes -in the East, which our readers will find in another part -of this paper,<a id='r292' /><a href='#f292' class='c024'><sup>[292]</sup></a> and which they will peruse with equal -wonder and apprehension, it is some consolation to us to -have to state, not only from authority, but in verse, that -our government has not been behindhand with that of -France; but that aware of the wise and enterprising -spirit of the enemy, and of the danger which might arise -to our distant possessions from the export of learning and -learned men being entirely in their hands, ministers have -long ago determined on an expedition of a similar nature, -and have actually embarked at Portsmouth on board one -of the East India Company’s ships taken up for that -purpose (the ship <em>Capricorn</em>, Mr. Thomas Truman, Commander), -several tons of <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">savans</span></i>, the growth of this -country. The whole was conducted with the utmost -secrecy and dispatch, and it was not till we were favoured -with the following copy of a letter (obligingly communicated -to us by the Tunisian gentleman to whom it is -addressed) that we had any suspicion of the extent and -nature of the design, or indeed of any such design being -in contemplation.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_240'>240</span>The several great names which are combined to render -this Expedition the most surprising and splendid ever -undertaken, could not indeed have been spared from the -country to which they are an ornament for any other -purpose than one the most obviously connected with -the interests of the empire, and the most widely beneficial -to mankind.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The secrecy with which they have been withdrawn -from the British public, without being so much as missed -or enquired after, reflects the highest honour on the -planners of the enterprise. Even the celebrity of <span class='sc'>Doctor -Parr</span> has not led to any discovery or investigation: the -silent admirers of that great man have never once -thought of asking what was become of him; till it is now -all at once come to light, that he has been for weeks past -on shipboard, the brightest star in the bright constellation -of talents which stud the quarter-deck of the <em>Capricorn</em>, -Mr. T. Truman (as before mentioned), Commander.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The resignation of the late worthy President of a -certain Agricultural Board<a id='r293' /><a href='#f293' class='c024'><sup>[293]</sup></a> might indeed have taught -mankind to look for some extraordinary event in the -world of science and adventure; and those who had the -good fortune to see the deportation from his house, of the -several wonderful anomalies which had for years formed -its most distinguished inmates,—the stuffed ram, the -dried boar, the cow with three horns, and other fanciful -productions of a like nature, could not but speculate with -some degree of seriousness on the purpose of their removal, -and on the place of their destination.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_241'>241</span>It now appears that there was in truth no light object -in view. They were destined, with the rest of the <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">savans</span></i>, -on whom this country prides itself (and long may it have -reason to indulge the honest exultation), to undertake a -voyage of no less grandeur than peril; to counteract the -designs of the Directory, and to frustrate or forestal the -conquests of Buonaparte.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The young gentleman who writes the following letter -to his friend in London is, as may be seen, interpreter to -the Expedition. We have understood, further, that he is -connected with the young man who writes for the -<cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, and conducts the <em>Critical, Argumentative</em>, -and <em>Geographical</em> departments. Some say it is the -young man himself, who has assumed a feigned name, -and, under the disguise of a Turkish dress and circumcision, -is gone, at the express instigation of his employers, -to improve himself in geographical knowledge. -We have our doubts upon this subject, as we think we -recognise the style of this deplorable young man in an -article of last week’s <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, which we have -had occasion to answer in a preceding column of our -present paper. Be that as it may, the information contained -in the following letter may be depended upon.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We cannot take leave of the subject without remarking -what a fine contrast and companion the vessel and cargo -described in the following poem affords [<em>sic</em>] to the “<span class='sc'>Navis -Stultifera</span>,” the “<span class='sc'>Shippe of Fooles</span>” of the celebrated -<span class='sc'>Barclay</span>; and we cannot forbear hoping that the <em>Argenis</em> -of an author of the same name may furnish a hint for an -account of this stupendous Expedition in a learned -language, from the only pen which in modern days is -capable of writing Latin with a purity and elegance -<span class='pageno' id='Page_242'>242</span>worthy of so exalted a theme, and that the author of a -classical <em>preface</em><a id='r294' /><a href='#f294' class='c024'><sup>[294]</sup></a> may become the writer of a no less -celebrated voyage.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>TRANSLATION OF A LETTER,<br /> <span class='small'>(IN ORIENTAL CHARACTERS)</span><br /> FROM BAWBA-DARA-ADUL-PHOOLA,<a id='r295' /><a href='#f295' class='c024'><sup>[295]</sup></a><br /> <span class='small'>DRAGOMAN TO THE EXPEDITION,</span><br /> TO NEEK-AWL-ARETCHID-KOOEZ,<br /> <span class='small'>SECRETARY TO THE TUNISIAN EMBASSY.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-l c004'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Dear Neek-awl</span>,</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>You’ll rejoice, that at length I am able,</div> - <div class='line'>To date these few lines from the captain’s own table.</div> - <div class='line'>Mr. Truman himself, of his proper suggestion,</div> - <div class='line'>Has in favour of science decided the question;</div> - <div class='line'>So we walk the main-deck, and are mess’d with the captain,</div> - <div class='line'>I leave you to judge of the joys we are wrapt in.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>At Spithead they embark’d us, how precious a cargo!</div> - <div class='line'>And we sail’d before day to escape the embargo.</div> - <div class='line'>There was <span class='sc'>Shuckborough</span>,<a id='r296' /><a href='#f296' class='c024'><sup>[296]</sup></a> the wonderful mathematician;</div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>Darwin</span>, the poet, the sage, and physician;</div> - <div class='line'>There was <span class='sc'>Beddoes</span>, and <span class='sc'>Bruin</span>, and <span class='sc'>Godwin</span>, whose trust is,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_243'>243</span>He may part with his work on <em>Political Justice</em></div> - <div class='line'>To some Iman or Bonze, or Judaical Rabbin;</div> - <div class='line'>So with huge quarto volumes he piles up the cabin.</div> - <div class='line'>There was great <span class='sc'>Dr. Parr</span> whom we style <em>Bellendenus</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>The Doctor and I have a hammock between us.</div> - <div class='line'>’Tis a little unpleasant thus crowding together,</div> - <div class='line'>On account of the motion and heat of the weather;</div> - <div class='line'><em>Two</em> souls in one berth they oblige us to cram,</div> - <div class='line'>And Sir John<a id='r297' /><a href='#f297' class='c024'><sup>[297]</sup></a> <em>will</em> insist on a place for his ram.</div> - <div class='line'>Though the Doctor, I find, is determined to think</div> - <div class='line'>’Tis the animal’s hide that occasions the stink;</div> - <div class='line'>In spite of th’ experienced opinion of Truman,</div> - <div class='line'>Who contends that the scent is exclusively human.</div> - <div class='line'>But <span class='sc'>Beddoes</span> and <span class='sc'>Darwin</span> engage to repair</div> - <div class='line'>This slight inconvenience with <em>oxygen</em> air.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Whither bound? (you will ask). ’Tis a question, my friend,</div> - <div class='line'>On which I long doubted; my doubt’s at an end.</div> - <div class='line'>To Arabia the Stony, Sabæa the gummy,</div> - <div class='line'>To the land where each man that you meet is a mummy;</div> - <div class='line'>To the mouths of the Nile, to the banks of Araxes,</div> - <div class='line'>To the <em>Red</em> and the <em>Yellow</em>, the <em>White</em> and the <em>Black</em> seas,</div> - <div class='line'>With telescopes, globes, and a quadrant and sextant,</div> - <div class='line'>And the works of all authors whose writings are extant;</div> - <div class='line'>With surveys and plans, topographical maps,</div> - <div class='line'>Theodolites, watches, spring-guns and steel-traps,</div> - <div class='line'>Phials, crucibles, air-pumps, electric machinery,</div> - <div class='line'>And pencils for painting the natives and scenery.</div> - <div class='line'>In short, we are sent to oppose all we know</div> - <div class='line'>To the knowledge and mischievous arts of the foe,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_244'>244</span>Who, though placing in arms a well-grounded reliance,</div> - <div class='line'>Go to war with a flying artillery of science.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>The French <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">savans</span></i>, it seems, recommended this measure,</div> - <div class='line'>With a view to replenish the national treasure.</div> - <div class='line'>First, the true <cite>Rights of Man</cite> they will preach in all places,</div> - <div class='line'>But chief (when ’tis found) in the Egyptian Oasis:</div> - <div class='line'>And this doctrine, ’tis hoped, in a very few weeks</div> - <div class='line'>Will persuade the wild Arabs to murder their cheiks,</div> - <div class='line'>And, to aid the <em>Great Nation’s</em> beneficent plans,</div> - <div class='line'>Plunder pyramids, catacombs, towns, caravans,</div> - <div class='line'>Then enlist under Arcolé’s gallant commander,</div> - <div class='line'>Who will conquer the world like his model <span class='sc'>Iskander</span>.</div> - <div class='line'>His army each day growing bolder and finer,</div> - <div class='line'>With the Turcoman tribes he subdues Asia Minor,</div> - <div class='line'>Beats Paul and his Scythians, his journey pursues</div> - <div class='line'>Cross the Indus, with tribes of Armenians and Jews,</div> - <div class='line'>And Bucharians, and Affghans, and Persians, and Tartars,—</div> - <div class='line'>Chokes the wretched Mogul in his grandmother’s garters,</div> - <div class='line'>And will hang him to dry in the Luxembourg hall,</div> - <div class='line'>’Midst the plunder of Carthage and spoils of Bengal.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Such, we hear, was the plan; but I trust, if we meet ’em,</div> - <div class='line'>That <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">savant</span></i> to <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">savant</span></i>, our cargo will beat ’em.</div> - <div class='line'>Our plan of proceeding I’ll presently tell;—</div> - <div class='line'>But soft—I am call’d—I must bid you farewell:</div> - <div class='line'>To attend on our <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">savans</span></i> my pen I resign,</div> - <div class='line'>For, it seems, that they <em>duck</em> them on <em>crossing</em> the Line.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c007'>We deeply regret this interruption of our oriental poet, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_245'>245</span>and the more so, as the prose letters which we have received -from a less learned correspondent do not enable -us to explain the tactics of our belligerent philosophers -so distinctly as we could have wished. It appears, in -general, that the learned Doctor who has the honour of -sharing the hammock of the amiable oriental, trusted -principally to his superior knowledge in the Greek -language, by means of which he hoped to entangle his -antagonists in inextricable confusion. <span class='sc'>Dr. Darwin</span> proposed -(as might be expected) his celebrated experiment -of the Ice-island,<a id='r298' /><a href='#f298' class='c024'><sup>[298]</sup></a> which, being towed on the coast of -Africa, could not fail of spoiling the climate, and immediately -terrifying and embarrassing the sailors of -Buonaparte’s fleet, accustomed to the mild temperature -and gentle gales of the Mediterranean, and therefore ill -qualified to struggle with this new importation of -tempests. <span class='sc'>Dr. Beddoes</span> was satisfied with the project -of communicating to Buonaparte a consumption, of the -same nature with that which he formerly tried on himself, -but superior in virulence, and therefore calculated to -make the most rapid and fatal ravages in the hectic constitution -of the Gallic hero. The rest of the plan is quite -unintelligible, excepting a hint about Sir J. S.’s intention -of proceeding with his ram to the celebrated Oasis, and -of bringing away, for the convenience of the Bank, the -treasures contained in the temple of Jupiter Ammon.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_248'>248</span> - <h3 class='c031'>FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.<a id='r299' /><a href='#f299' class='c024'><sup>[299]</sup></a></h3> -</div> - -<p class='c034'>The Priority of Intelligence which has ever distinguished <span class='sc'>Our Paper</span> will, -We trust, receive additional lustre from the extraordinary News which We now -lay before the Public. We received it by a Neutral Ship, which arrived in the -River last night; and feel ourselves much indebted to the attention of our -Correspondent, a Currant Merchant at <em>Zanté</em>, for its early communication. -Without arrogating to ourselves that merit which is (perhaps) justly our due, -We think ourselves justified in asserting that it is not only the earliest, but, -if We are not much mistaken, the only account which will appear in the Prints -of this Day respecting the Successes of <span class='sc'>Buonaparté</span>.</p> - -<h4 class='c038'>COPY OF A LETTER FROM GENERAL BUONAPARTÉ TO THE COMMANDANT AT ZANTÉ.</h4> - -<div class='lg-container-r c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<em>Athens, 18 Prairial.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<span class='sc'>Citizen general</span>,</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>“Victory still attends us. I inclose you a Copy of a Letter which I -have this day written to the Directory. Health and Fraternity.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“BUONAPARTÉ.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<em>Head-Quarters</em>, Salamis, <em>18 Prairial</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Citizens directors,</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>“The brave Soldiers, who conferred Liberty on <em>Rome</em>, have continued -to deserve well of their Country. <em>Greece</em> has joyfully received her -Deliverers. The Tree of Liberty is planted on the <em>Piræus</em>. Thirty thousand -Janizaries, the Slaves of Despotism, had taken possession of the Isthmus of -<em>Corinth</em>. Two Demi-brigades opened us a passage. After ten days’ fighting, -we have driven the <em>Turks</em> from the <em>Morea</em>. The <em>Peloponnesus</em> is now free. -Every step in my power has been taken to revive the antient spirit of <em>Sparta</em>. -The Inhabitants of that celebrated City, seeing <em>black broth</em> of my Troops, and -the scarcity of specie to which we have been long accustomed, will, I doubt not, -soon acquire the frugal virtues of their Ancestors. As a proper measure of -precaution, I have removed all <span class='sc'>Pitt’s</span> gold from the Country.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“Off this Island we encountered the Fleet of the <span class='sc'>Sultan</span>. The Mahometan -Crescent soon fled before the three-coloured flag. Nine Sail of the -Line are the fruits of this Victory. The <span class='sc'>Captain Pacha’s</span> Ship, a second rate, -struck to a National Corvette. My Aide-de-Camp will present you with the -model of a <em>Trireme</em>, which was found among the Archives of <em>Athens</em>. Vessels of -this description draw so little water, that our Naval Architects may perhaps -think them more eligible than Rafts, for the conveyance of the <em>Army of England</em>. -Liberty will be sufficiently avenged, if the ruins of a Grecian City furnish us -with the means of transporting the Conquerors of <em>Rome</em> to <em>Britain</em>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“On landing at this Island, I participated in a Scene highly interesting -to Humanity. A poor Fisherman, of the family of <span class='sc'>Themistocles</span>, attended by -his Wife, a descendant of the virtuous <span class='sc'>Phryne</span>, fell at my feet. I received him -<span class='pageno' id='Page_249'>249</span>with the Fraternal embrace, and promised him the protection of the Republic. -He invited me to supper at his Hut, and in gratitude to his Deliverer presented -me with a memorable <em>Oyster Shell</em>, inscribed with the Name of his illustrious -Ancestor. As this curious piece of antiquity may be of service to some of the -<span class='sc'>Directory</span>, I have inclosed it in my Dispatches, together with a Marble Tablet, -containing the proper form for pronouncing the Sentence of <em>Ostracism</em> on -<em>Royalist Athenians</em>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“<span class='sc'>Kléber</span>, whom I had ordered to <em>Constantinople</em>, informs me that the -Capital of Turkey has proved an easy conquest. <em>Santa-Sophia</em> has been converted -into a Temple of Reason; the <em>Seraglio</em> has been purified by <em>Theo-Philanthropists</em>, -and the liberated Circassians are learning from our Sailors the lessons -of Equality and Fraternity. A Detachment has been sent to Troy, for the -purpose pf organizing the Department of <em>Mount Ida</em>. The Tomb of <span class='sc'>Achilles</span> -has been repaired, and the Bust of <span class='sc'>Briseis</span> (which formed part of the Pedestal) -restored to its original state, at the expense of the Female Citizen <span class='sc'>Buonaparté</span>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“The Division of the Fleet destined for Egypt has anchored in the Port of -<em>Alexandria</em>. <span class='sc'>Berthier</span>, who commands this Expedition, informs me that this -Port will soon be restored to its ancient pre-eminence; and that its celebrated -<em>Pharos</em> will soon be fit to receive the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Reverbères</span></i> which have been sent from the -<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Rue St. Honoré</span></i>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“<span class='sc'>Baraguay D’Hilliers</span>, with the Left Wing of the <em>Army of Egypt</em>, has -fixed his Head-quarters at <em>Jerusalem</em>. He is charged to restore the Jews to -their ancient Rights. Citizens Jacob Jacobs, Simon Levi, and Benjamin -Solomons, of Amsterdam, have been provisionally appointed Directors. The -Palace of <em>Pontius Pilate</em> is re-building for their residence. All the vestiges of -Superstition in <em>Palestine</em> have been carefully destroyed.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“I beg you will ratify a grant which I have made of the <em>Temple of the Sun</em> -at <em>Palmyra</em> to a Society of <em>Illuminati</em> from <em>Bavaria</em>. They may be of service in -extending our future conquests.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“I have received very satisfactory accounts from <span class='sc'>Desaix</span>, who had been -sent by <span class='sc'>Berthier</span> with a Demi-brigade into the interior of <em>Africa</em>. That fine -Country has been too long neglected by Europeans. In manners and civilization -it much resembles France, and will soon emulate our virtues. Already -does the Torrid Zone glow with the ardour of Freedom. Already has the Altar -of Liberty been reared in the <em>Caffrarian</em> and <em>Equinoctial Republics</em>. Their -regenerated inhabitants have sworn eternal amity to us at a Civic Feast, to -which a detachment of our Army was invited. This memorable day would -have terminated with the utmost harmony, if the <span class='sc'>Caffrarian Council</span> of -<span class='sc'>Ancients</span> had not devoured the greatest part of General Desaix’s État-Major -for their supper. I hope our Ambassador will be instructed to require that -Civic Feasts of this nature be omitted for the future. The Directory of the -<em>Equinoctial Republic</em> regret that the scarcity of British Cloth in Africa, and the -great heat of the climate, prevent them from adopting our <em>costume</em>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“We hope soon to liberate the <em>Hottentots</em>, and to drive the perfidious -<em>English</em> from the extremities of Africa and of Europe. <em>Asia</em>, too, will soon be -free. The three-coloured flag floats on the summit of Caucasus; the <em>Tigrine -Republic</em> is established; the <em>Cis</em> and <em>Trans-Euphratean Conventions</em> are assembled; -and soon shall <em>Arabia</em>, under the mild influence of <em>French Principles</em>, resume -her ancient appellation, and be again denominated ‘the <span class='sc'>Happy</span>’.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“In the course of the next Decade I shall sail to the Canal which is now -cutting across the <em>Isthmus of Suez</em>. The Polytechnic School and Corps of -Geographical Engineers are employed in devising means for conveying my -heavy artillery across the great Desert. Soon shall <em>India</em> hail us as her -Deliverers, and those proud islanders, the <em>Tyrants of Calcutta</em>, fall before the -<em>Heroes of Arcola</em>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“The Members of the National Institute who accompanied the Squadron to -Egypt, have made a large collection of Antiquities for the use of the Republic. -Among the scattered remains of the Alexandrine Library, they have found a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_250'>250</span>curious Treatise, in Arabic, respecting <em>Camels</em>, from which it appears that -Human Beings, by proper treatment, may, like those useful animals, be trained -to support thirst and hunger without complaining. Many reams of papyrus -have been collected, as it is thought that during the present scarcity of linen -and old rags in France, it may answer all the purposes of paper. <span class='sc'>Cleopatra’s</span> -celebrated Obelisk has been shipped on board the Admiral’s Ship <em>L’Orient</em>, -cidevant <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Sans Culottes</span></i>: Another man-of-war has been freighted with the <em>Sphinx</em>, -which our Engineers removed from <em>Grand Cairo</em>, and which, I trust, will be -thought a proper ornament for the Hall of Audience of the Directory.—The -cage in which <span class='sc'>Bajazet</span> was confined, has been long preserved at <em>Bassora</em>; it will -be transmitted to Paris as a proper model for a new <cite>Cayenne Diligence</cite>.—I beg -leave to present to the Director <span class='sc'>Merlin</span>, a very curious book, bound in Morocco -leather, from Algiers. It is finely illuminated with gold; and contains lists of -the various fees usually received by Deys and their Ministers from Foreign -Ambassadors. A broken Column will be sent from <em>Carthage</em>. It records the -downfall of that Commercial City; and is sufficiently large for an Inscription -(if the Directory should think proper to place it on the Banks of the <em>Thames</em>), to -inform posterity that it marks the spot where <em>London once stood</em>.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Health and Respect,</div> - <div class='line'>“BUONAPARTÉ.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_291.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_251'>251</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXXIV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'>July 2, 1798.</div> -<h3 class='c038'>ODE TO A JACOBIN.<br /> <span class='small'>FROM SUCKLING’S ODE TO A LOVER.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Unchristian Jacobin</span> whoever,</div> - <div class='line in2'>If, of thy God thou cherish ever</div> - <div class='line in2'>One wavering thought; if e’er HIS word</div> - <div class='line in2'>Has from one crime thy soul deterr’d,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou think’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to think true,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must renounce Him all, and think anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>If, startled at the <em>guillotine</em>,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Trembling thou touch the dread machine;</div> - <div class='line in2'>If, leading sainted Louis to it,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thy steps drew back, thy heart did rue it,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou think’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to think true,</div> - <div class='line'>Must rise ’bove weak remorse, and think anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>If, callous, thou dost not mistake,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And murder for mild Mercy’s sake;</div> - <div class='line in2'>And think thou followest Pity’s call,</div> - <div class='line in2'>When slaughtered thousands round thee fall,—</div> - <div class='line in8'><span class='pageno' id='Page_252'>252</span>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou think’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to think true,</div> - <div class='line'>Must conquer prejudice, and think anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>If, when good men are to be slain,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thou hear’st them plead, nor plead in vain;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or, when thou answerest, if it be</div> - <div class='line in2'>With one jot of humanity,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou think’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to think true,</div> - <div class='line'>Must pardon leave to fools, and think anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>If, when all kings, priests, nobles hated,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Lie headless, thy revenge is sated,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Nor thirsts to load the reeking block</div> - <div class='line in2'>With heads from thine own murd’rous flock,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou think’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to think true,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must go on in blood, and think anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>If, thus, by love of executions,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thou provest thee fit for revolutions;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Yet one achieved, to <em>that</em> art true,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Nor wouldst begin to change anew,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou think’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>Deem, to think true,</div> - <div class='line'>All constitutions bad, but those bran new.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_253'>253</span>[The preceding “<span class='sc'>Ode to a Jacobin</span>” is parodied from the following</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>ODE TO A LOVER,</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>BY SIR JOHN SUCKLING.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Honest lover whosoever,</div> - <div class='line in4'>If in all thy love was ever</div> - <div class='line in4'>One wav’ring thought; if e’er thy flame</div> - <div class='line in4'>Were not still even, still the same,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou lov’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to love true,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must begin again, and love anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>If, when she appears i’ th’ room,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thou dost not quake, and art struck dumb;</div> - <div class='line in4'>And, in striving this to cover,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Dost not speak thy words twice over,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou lov’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to love true,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must begin again, and love anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>If, fondly, thou dost not mistake,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And all defects for graces take,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Persuad’st thyself that jests are broken,</div> - <div class='line in4'>When she has little or nothing spoken,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou lov’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to love true,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must begin again, and love anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'><span class='pageno' id='Page_254'>254</span>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>If, when thou appear’st to be within,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thou let’st not men ask and ask again;</div> - <div class='line in4'>And when thou answer’st, if it be</div> - <div class='line in4'>To what was ask’d thee, properly,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou lov’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to love true,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must begin again, and love anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>If, when thy stomach calls to eat,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thou cut’st not fingers ’stead of meat;</div> - <div class='line in4'>And with much gazing on her face,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Dost not rise hungry from the place,—</div> - <div class='line in9'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou lov’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to love true,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must begin again, and love anew.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>If, by this thou dost discover</div> - <div class='line in4'>That thou art no perfect lover;</div> - <div class='line in4'>And desiring to love true,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thou dost begin to love anew,—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Know this,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Thou lov’st amiss;</div> - <div class='line in6'>And to love true,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must begin again, and love anew.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_255'>255</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXXV.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='c040'>July 9, 1798.</div> - -<p class='c007'>The following popular song is said to be in great vogue -among the loyal troops in the North of Ireland. The -air and the turn of the composition are highly original. -It is attributed (as our correspondent informs us) to a -fifer in the Drumballyroney Volunteers.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>BALLYNAHINCH.<a id='r300' /><a href='#f300' class='c024'><sup>[300]</sup></a><br /> <span class='small'>A NEW SONG.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A certain great Statesman<a id='r301' /><a href='#f301' class='c024'><sup>[301]</sup></a> whom all of us know,</div> - <div class='line'>In a certain assembly, no long while ago,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_256'>256</span>Declared from this maxim he never would flinch,</div> - <div class='line'>“That no town was so <em>loyal</em> as Ballynahinch”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The great statesman, it seems, had perused all their faces,</div> - <div class='line'>And been mightily struck with their loyal grimaces;</div> - <div class='line'>While each townsman had sung, like a throstle or finch,</div> - <div class='line'>“We are all of us <em>loyal</em> at Ballynahinch”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The great statesman return’d to his speeches and readings;</div> - <div class='line'>And the Ballynahinchers resumed their proceedings;</div> - <div class='line'>They had most of them sworn, “<em>We’ll be true to the Frinch</em>,”<a id='r302' /><a href='#f302' class='c024'><sup>[302]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>So <em>loyal</em> a town was this Ballynahinch!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Determined their landlord’s fine words to make good,</div> - <div class='line'>They hid pikes in his haggard, cut staves in his wood;</div> - <div class='line'>And attack’d the king’s troops—the assertion to clinch,</div> - <div class='line'>That no town is so <em>loyal</em> as Ballynahinch.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O! had we but trusted the <em>rebels’</em> professions,</div> - <div class='line'>Met their cannon with smiles, and their pikes with concessions;</div> - <div class='line'>Tho’ they still took an <em>ell</em> when we gave them an <em>inch</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>They would all have been <em>loyal</em>—like Ballynahinch.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_257'>257</span><span class='sc'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Viri Eruditi</span></span>,</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Si vobis hocce poematium, de navali laude Britanniæ, -paucis annis ante conscriptum, nuperrimè recensitum -atque emendatum, forté arrideat, quærite in proximis -vestris tabulis locum quendam secretum atque securum, -ubi repositum suâ sorte perfruatur. Quod si in me hanc -gratiam contuleritis, devinctus vobis ero et astrictus -beneficio.</span></p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Etonensis.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 class='c031'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">DE NAVALI LAUDE BRITANNIÆ.</span></h3> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Successu si freta brevi, fatisque secundis,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Europæ sub pace vetet requiescere gentes,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Inque dies ruat ulteriús furialibus armis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><span class='sc'>Gallia</span>, tota instans à sedibus eruere imis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Fundamenta, quibus cultæ Commercia vitæ</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Firmant se subnixa;—tuisne, <span class='sc'>Britannia</span>, regnis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ecquid ab hoste times; dum te tua saxa tuentur,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dum pelagus te vorticibus spumantibus ambit?</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Tu medio stabilita mari, atque ingentibus undis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Cincta sedes; nec tu angusto, Vulcania tanquam</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Trinacris, interclusa sinu; nec faucibus arctis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Septa freti brevis, impositisque coercita claustris.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Liberiora Tibi spatia, et porrecta sine ullo</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Limite regna patent (quanto neque maxima quondam</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Carthago, aut Phœnissa Tyros, ditissima tellus</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Floruit imperio) confiniaque ultima mundi.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ergone formidabis adhuc, ne se inferat olim,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Et campis impuné tuis superingruat hostis?</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Usque adeone parúm est, quod laté litora cernas</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Præruptisturrita jugis, protentaque longo</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><span class='pageno' id='Page_258'>258</span>Circuitu, et tutos passim præbentia portus?</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Præsertim australes ad aquas, Damnoniaque arva,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Aut ubi Vecta viret, secessusque insula fidos</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Efficit objectu laterum; saxosave Dubris</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Velivolum laté pelagus, camposque liquentes</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Aeria, adversasque aspectat desuper oras.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Nec levibus sanè auguriis, aut omine nullo</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Auguror hinc fore perpetuum per secula nomen:</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dum nautis tam firma tuis, tam prodiga vitæ</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Pectora, inexpletâ succensa cupidine famæ,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Nec turpi flectenda metu; dum maxima quercus,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Majestate excelsa suâ, atque ingentibus umbris,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Erigitur, vasto nodosa atque aspera trunco;</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Silvarum regina. Hæc formidabilis olim</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Noctem inter mediam nimborum, hyemesque sonantes,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ardua se attollit super æquora; quam neque fluctûs</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Spumosi attenuat furor, aut violentia venti</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Frangere, et in medio potis est disrumpere ponto.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Viribus his innixa, saloque accincta frementi,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Tu media inter bella sedes; ignara malorum,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Quæ tolerant obsessæ urbes, cúm jam hostica clausas</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Fulminat ad portas acies, vallataque circúm</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Castra locat, sævisque aditus circumsidet armis.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Talia sunt tibi perpetuæ fundamina famæ,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ante alias diis cara, <span class='sc'>Britannia</span>! Prælia cerno</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Inclyta, perpetuos testes quid maxima victrix,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Quid possis preclara tuo, maris arbitra, ponto.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Hæc inter, sanctas æternâ laude calendas</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Servandas recolo, quibus illa, immane minata</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Gentibus excidium, totum grassata per orbem</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ausaque jam imperiis intactum amplectier æquor,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><span class='pageno' id='Page_259'>259</span>Illa odiis lymphata, et libertate recenti</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><span class='sc'>Gallia</span>, disjectam ferali funere classem</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Indoluit devicta, et non reparabile vulnus.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Tempore quo instructas vidit longo ordine puppes</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Rostratâ certare acie, et concurrere ad arma,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ætheraque impulsu tremere, Uxantisque per undas</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Lugubre lumen agi, atque rubentem fulgere fumum.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Cerno triumphatas acies, quo tempore <span class='sc'>Iberûm</span></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Disjectos fastus, lacerisque aplustria velis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Horruit Oceanus:—quali formidine Gades</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Intremere, ut fractâ classem se mole moventem</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Hospitium petere, et portus videre relictos!</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Quid referam, nobis quæ nuper adorea risit,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Te rursús superante, die quo decolor ibat</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Sanguine <span class='sc'>Belgarum</span> Rhenus, fluctusque minores</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Volvebat, frustra indignans polluta cruore</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ostia, et Angliaco tremefactas fulmine rupes.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Cerno pias ædes procúl, et regalia quondam</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Atria, cæruleis quæ preterlabitur undis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Velivolus Thamesis; materno ubi denique nautas</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Excipis amplexu, virtus quoscumque virilis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Per pelagi impulerit discrimina, quælibet ausos</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Pro Patriâ. Híc rude donantur, dulcique senescunt</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Hospitio emeriti, placidâque quiete potiti</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Vulnera præteritos jactant testantia casus.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Macte ideó decus Oceani! macte omne per ævum</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Victrix, æquoreo stabilita <span class='sc'>Britannia</span> regno!</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Litoribusque tuis ne propugnacula tantúm</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Præsidio fore, nec saxi munimina credas,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Nec tantúm quæ mille acies in utrumque parantur,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Aut patriam tutari, aut non superesse cadenti;</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><span class='pageno' id='Page_260'>260</span>Invictæ quantúm metuenda tonitrua <span class='sc'>Classis</span>,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Angliacæ <span class='sc'>Classis</span>;—quæ majestate verendâ</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ultrix, inconcussa, diú dominabitur orbi,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Hostibus invidiosa tuis, et sæpe triumphis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Nobilitata novis, pelagi Regina subacti.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 class='c031'>[TRANSLATION OF THE PRECEDING POEM.<a id='r303' /><a href='#f303' class='c024'><sup>[303]</sup></a></h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c008'> - <div>By the late A. F. Westmacott, Esq.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Men of Learning</span>,</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c009'>If by chance the following little poem, on the naval glory -of Britain, written a few years since, and very lately revised -and corrected, please you, look in your nearest tablets for some -private and secure place, where it may be placed to enjoy its -good fortune. Should you confer on me this favour, I shall be -bound to you by the obligation of your kindness.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c032'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Etonian.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>ON THE NAVAL GLORY OF BRITAIN.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>If buoy’d by short success and fav’ring chance,</div> - <div class='line'>Wide Europe’s peace-destroyer, restless France,</div> - <div class='line'>Each day still onward rush with fresh alarms,</div> - <div class='line'>And threaten ruin with her furious arms;</div> - <div class='line'>Ruin to all whereon is based the throne</div> - <div class='line'>That life’s sweet charities have made their own;</div> - <div class='line'>Fearest thou, Britain, for thy rock-girt realm,</div> - <div class='line'>With seas that foam around and whirlpools to o’erwhelm?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Still in the midst of ocean firmly placed,</div> - <div class='line'>Circled by mighty waves thy seat is based!</div> - <div class='line'>Not by a strait enclosed, as that fair soil</div> - <div class='line'>Where Fabled Vulcan plies his fiery toil;</div> - <div class='line'>Within no narrow bay thy waters roll,</div> - <div class='line'>No yawning gulf, no barrier rocks control.</div> - <div class='line'>Wider thy space, thy realm no limit knows,</div> - <div class='line'>Not Tyre so rich, not Tyrian Carthage rose.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_261'>261</span>Wilt thou yet fear, lest here the haughty foe,</div> - <div class='line'>Thy fields o’er-run, and still unpunished go!</div> - <div class='line'>Is it then nought to view th’ extended strand</div> - <div class='line'>O’er which stern crags like beetling turrets stand,</div> - <div class='line'>And countless ports in safe embrace expand?</div> - <div class='line'>Look to thy southern waves, to Devon’s fields,</div> - <div class='line'>Or where green Vectis<a id='r304' /><a href='#f304' class='c024'><sup>[304]</sup></a> trusty harbour yields,</div> - <div class='line'>Spreading her friendly arms; or Dover’s height</div> - <div class='line'>Looks on the sea with widespread canvas white,</div> - <div class='line'>And, perched on high, the liquid plain surveys,</div> - <div class='line'>And adverse cliffs that bound the wat’ry ways.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Not by vague augury, nor omen slight,</div> - <div class='line'>I view thy name through endless ages bright;</div> - <div class='line'>While thy firm crews still prodigal of life</div> - <div class='line'>Insatiate burn for fame and dare the strife.</div> - <div class='line'>No coward fear they know, while stands erect</div> - <div class='line'>The mighty oak with boughs umbrageous decked;</div> - <div class='line'>Majestic, high, with knotted trunk, the Queen</div> - <div class='line'>Of woods! Hereafter, o’er the waters seen</div> - <div class='line'>’Mid the dim midnight of the sounding storm</div> - <div class='line'>Aloft ’twill rear the terrors of its form;</div> - <div class='line'>In vain the roaring surges round it break,</div> - <div class='line'>In vain the winds their uncurbed vengeance wreak,</div> - <div class='line'>Throned on such pow’rs, surrounded by the sea,</div> - <div class='line'>The circling waves have scarce one fear for thee.</div> - <div class='line'>Thou know’st not ills that towns besieged await,</div> - <div class='line'>When hostile columns thunder at the gate;</div> - <div class='line'>Pitch their dread camp with fatal ramparts round,</div> - <div class='line'>And with fierce arms enclose the leaguered ground.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Such is to thee the base of lasting fame,</div> - <div class='line'>To Heav’n Britannia still the dearest name!</div> - <div class='line'>Gladly I view the glories of the fight,</div> - <div class='line'>Perpetual witnesses of deathless might,</div> - <div class='line'>To show, bright conqueress, nations yet to be,</div> - <div class='line'>What dared, what did the mistress of the sea.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>’Mid these the day with praise eternal blest</div> - <div class='line'>Earns memory’s tribute most, when, direful pest,</div> - <div class='line'>Denouncing ruin to the world, while she</div> - <div class='line'>Dared grasp the sceptre of the unconquer’d sea,</div> - <div class='line'>Wild with new license, mad with hatred’s heat</div> - <div class='line'>France, grieved and humbled, viewed her ruined fleet!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_262'>262</span>Saw how all hopes one fatal wound could mar</div> - <div class='line'>When well-manned squadrons armed their prows for war!</div> - <div class='line'>When the sky trembled, and o’er Ushant’s tide</div> - <div class='line'>Red glared the smoke and sickly light supplied.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>I see the conquered lines, what time proud Spain</div> - <div class='line'>With tattered sailcloths thickly strewed the main;</div> - <div class='line'>How Cadiz quailed when back the shattered fleet</div> - <div class='line'>Sought, in the port it left, a safe retreat.</div> - <div class='line'>Why should I tell what smile of Vict’ry beamed,</div> - <div class='line'>When Rhine’s fair wave with Belgic slaughter gleamed;</div> - <div class='line'>When humbled waters tow’rds the sea it sped,</div> - <div class='line'>Mad that its mouths with native blood were red,</div> - <div class='line'>While England’s thunders rolled above its rocky bed?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>I see afar the domes that crown the tide,</div> - <div class='line'>Where Thames uncounted sails in triumph glide:</div> - <div class='line'>Here, the brave souls whom manly courage drove</div> - <div class='line'>Through the deep’s perils in a holy love</div> - <div class='line'>Of country, find in thy maternal breast</div> - <div class='line'>Their toil rewarded and their daring blest!</div> - <div class='line'>Dismissed at length from duty nobly done</div> - <div class='line'>They wane in quiet ’neath the noontide sun,</div> - <div class='line'>Recal the dangers of their byegone wars,</div> - <div class='line'>And boast appealing to their manhood’s scars.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>On in thy race of glory, conqueress, on!</div> - <div class='line'>For every age thy sea-girt realm is won!</div> - <div class='line'>Think not the fortress which thy shores uprear,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor thy rock bulwarks shall inspire such fear,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor the brave thousands who obey thy call,</div> - <div class='line'>With thee to rise, or not survive thy fall,</div> - <div class='line'>As the dread thunders of that untamed host:</div> - <div class='line'>Thy fleet, Britannia, is thy proudest boast;</div> - <div class='line'>Awful, majestic, firm; its flag unfurl’d</div> - <div class='line'>Shall long wave lordly o’er the conquered world;</div> - <div class='line'>Hateful to foes for triumphs yet to be,</div> - <div class='line'>The rightful Sovereign of the subject sea.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_263'>263</span> - <h2 class='c005'>No. XXXVI.<a id='r305' /><a href='#f305' class='c024'><sup>[305]</sup></a></h2> -</div> - -<div class='c033'><span class='sc'>Monday</span>, July 9, 1798.</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><em>We shall miss thee;</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>But yet thou shalt have freedom—</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>—So! to the Elements</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Be free, and fare thou well.</em></div> - <div class='line in28'>—<span class='sc'>The Tempest.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='drop-capa0_0_6 c046'>We have now completed our Engagement with the -Public. The <span class='sc'>Anti-Jacobin</span> has been conducted -to the close of the Session in strict conformity with the -Principles upon which it was first undertaken.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Its reception with the Public has been highly favourable:—it -certainly has been out of proportion to any -merit which has appeared in the execution of the Work. -This is not said in the mere cant of Authorship. We -are sensible that much of our success has been owing to -the improved state of the Public mind;—an improvement -existing from other causes, and to which, if We -have in any degree contributed, it has in return operated -to our advantage, by a reaction more than equal to any -impression which our exertions could have produced. -There is, however, one species of merit to which We lay -claim without hesitation:—We mean that of the Spirit -and Principles upon which We have acted. That Spirit, -We trust We shall leave behind us. The <span class='fss'>SPELL</span> of <em>Jacobin -invulnerability</em> is now broken.<a id='r306' /><a href='#f306' class='c024'><sup>[306]</sup></a></p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_264'>264</span>We know from better authority than that of <span class='sc'>Camille -Jordan</span>, that one of our Daily Papers was, <em>early</em> in the -French Revolution, purchased by France, and devoted to -the dissemination of tenets, which, at the period to which -We allude, seemed necessary to the success of the Ruling -Party.</p> - -<p class='c007'>For some time matters went on swimmingly. The -Editors of the favoured Prints divided their time and -their attention between <em>London</em> and <em>Paris</em>; and the -superiority of the governing Party in France, over its -Opponents, was as duly, and as strenuously maintained -in the English Papers, as in the “<cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Journal du Père de -Chène</span></cite>,”<a id='r307' /><a href='#f307' class='c024'><sup>[307]</sup></a> “<cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Journal par L’Ami du Peuple</span></cite>,”<a id='r308' /><a href='#f308' class='c024'><sup>[308]</sup></a> or any other -Journal that issued from the Presses of the Jacobin -Society.</p> - -<p class='c007'>As the principles of the Revolution, however, acquired -consistency in France, the struggle between the Governing -Party and its Opponents became an object of less -moment, and the Jacobins had leisure, as they long had -had inclination, to turn their views to this Country.</p> - -<p class='c007'>A State, enjoying under a Government which they had -proscribed as utterly incapable of producing either, as -much freedom and happiness as comport with the nature -of Man, was too bitter a satire on the decision of these -new <span class='sc'>Solons</span>, to be regarded with patience; and the pens -which had been so industriously employed in celebrating -the plunderers and perturbators of France, were now -<span class='pageno' id='Page_265'>265</span>engaged in the benevolent design of recommending their -principles, and their plans of ameliorating the condition -of the human race by Atheism and Plunder, to the serious -notice of the People of <em>Great Britain</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Affairs seemed rapidly hastening to a crisis: <em>France</em> -saw with delight the numbers seduced by the sophistry -of her Writers, and by the alluring prospects of proscription -and plunder; and her Agents, who snuffed the scent -of blood like Vultures, already anticipated the Revolution -which they now believed inevitable; when the Ministry, -who had viewed the progress of the evil with an anxious -but unterrified eye, roused themselves into unexampled -energy, and called on the Nation to rally round the Constitution -which they had received from their Forefathers.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The call was gloriously answered;—Thousands and -tens of thousands sprung forth in its defence; and the -barbarous hordes which so lately threatened its destruction, -overawed by their numbers, shrunk from the contest -without a struggle, and vanished from the field.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But the nature of a Jacobin is restless. His hatred of -all subordination is unbounded, and his thirst of plunder -and blood urgent and insatiable. In arms he found -himself infinitely too weak to obtain his purpose; he -must, therefore, have recourse again to artifice; and by -fallacies and lies, endeavoured to subvert and betray the -judgment of those he could not openly hope to subdue.</p> - -<p class='c007'>For this purpose, the Press was engaged, and almost -monopolized in all its branches: Reviews, Registers, -Monthly Magazines, and Morning and Evening Prints, -sprung forth in abundance.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Of these last (the only Publications with which We -have any immediate concern), it is not too much to say, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_266'>266</span>that they have laboured in the cause of infamy, with a -perseverance which no sense of shame could repress, and -no dread of punishment overcome. The objects committed -to their charge were multifarious. They were to revile -all Religions, but particularly the Christian, whose -<span class='fss'>DIVINE FOUNDER</span> was to be blasphemously compared to -<em>Bacchus</em>, and represented as equally ideal, or, if real, -more bestial and besotted! They were to magnify the -power of <em>France</em>, on all occasions; to deny her murders; -to palliate her robberies; to suppress all mention of her -miseries, and to hold her forth to the unenlightened -Englishman as the mirror of justice, and truth, and -generosity, and meekness, and humanity, and moderation, -and tender forbearance:—and, on the other hand, -they were to depreciate the spirit, and the courage, and -the resources of <em>England</em>: they were to impede, if -possible, and if not, to ridicule and revile, every measure -which the honour, the prosperity, or the safety of the -Country might imperiously require; they were to represent -the Government as insidiously aiming to enslave the -Nation, by every attempt to maintain its Independence; -and the majority of both Houses, the great body of Proprietors, -as anxious to scatter and confound that wealth, -which <em>their</em> Patrons alone, the respectable sweepings of -<em>Craven-House</em>, and the <em>Crown</em> and <em>Anchor</em> Tavern, were -solicitous to augment and preserve.</p> - -<p class='c007'>These, our readers will allow, were no common objects, -and if they have looked into the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, <cite>Morning -Post</cite>, and <cite>Courier</cite> Journals to which our attention -has been chiefly directed, they must have seen that their -attainment was sought by no common means; by an -<em>invariable</em> course of Falsehood and Misrepresentation—such, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_267'>267</span>at least, was our idea on the first perusal of these -Papers, an idea which every succeeding one served to -strengthen and confirm.</p> - -<p class='c007'>To detect and expose this Falsehood, and to correct -this Misrepresentation, became at length an object of -indispensable necessity: a variety of applications of the -most malignant nature had obtained currency and credit, -from the unblushing impudence with which they were -first obtruded on the Public by the Agents of Sedition, -and the apathy with which they were suffered to pass -uncontradicted by those who despised them for their -atrocity, or ridiculed them for their folly:—these were -unfortunately operating on the less enlightened part of -the Nation; and it was from a full conviction of the -pernicious effects they were calculated to produce, that -we finally determined to step forth (after patiently -waiting to see whether the business would not be -taken up by abler hands), and to oppose such antidotes -to the evil, as a regard for truth, and a sincere -love and veneration for the Constitution under which -we have flourished for ages, could supply.</p> - -<p class='c007'>How we have succeeded must be left to the judgment -of the Public. If we might venture, indeed, to conjecture -from the support which we have experienced, the result -would be flattering in an unusual degree. Three complete -Editions of our Paper (a circumstance, we believe, -as yet without a precedent) have been disposed of, and -the demand for them still increases.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But the motives of Profit, as will readily, we believe, -be granted to us, have little influence on our minds: we -contemplate the extensive circulation of our Paper with -pleasure, solely from the consideration of the <span class='fss'>VAST -<span class='pageno' id='Page_268'>268</span>NUMBERS</span> of our Countrymen whom we have fortified -by our animadversions against the profligate attacks of -the Agents of Sedition, whether furnished by the <em>Whig -Club</em>, the <em>Corresponding Society</em>, or the <em>Directory of France</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Calculation was not originally our delight. Nor was it -till after we saw the wonderful effects which it produced -in the pages of the Jacobinical Arithmeticians that we -were tempted to adopt it. Our first Essay, however, -was crowned with the most complete success. In our -Seventh Number, we gave (still following the laudable -example of the Jacobins, who, when a Ship is to be -fitted out, or a Regiment raised, for the purpose of -defending our Country from an insolent and barbarous -foe, nicely calculate how many idle mouths might be -fed by the sums required)—We gave, we say, as accurate -a statement as we could form, of the number of People -that might be supplied with wholesome food for one day, -by the <span class='fss'>SURCHARGE</span> levied on the <span class='sc'>Duke of Bedford</span>—a -statement which, we are happy to add, placed the -matter in so clear a light that we have since had no -occasion to repeat it.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Our Readers will not <em>now</em> be surprised if we again have -recourse to <em>Calculation</em> to prove the advantages which (we -love to flatter ourselves) have been derived from our Paper. -Our Sale (to say nothing of the new Editions which have -been disposed of) has regularly amounted to <em>Two Thousand -Five Hundred</em> a week; on an average of several Papers, -we find the Lies which have been detected to amount to -<em>six</em>, and the Misrepresentations and Mistakes to <em>an equal -number</em>. This furnishes a total of <em>twelve</em>, which, multiplied -by <em>thirty-five</em>, the number of the last <span class='sc'>Anti-Jacobin</span>, -gives a total of <em>four hundred and twenty</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_269'>269</span>If we now take the number of Subscribers (2500) and -multiply them by seven, a number of which every one’s -family may be reasonably supposed to consist, we shall -have a product of 17,500; but as many of these have -made a practice, which we highly approve, and cannot -too earnestly recommend, of lending our Papers to their -poorer Neighbours, We must make our addition to the -sum which We evidently take too low at 32,500. We -have thus an aggregate of 50,000 People, a most respectable -minority of the Readers of the whole Kingdom, -who have been put effectually on their guard, by our -humble though earnest endeavours, against the artifices -of the seditious, and the more open attacks of the profligate -and abandoned Foes of their Constitution, their -Country, and their God.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Further, if we multiply 50,000, the number of Readers, -by 420, the exact number of Falsehoods detected—say 500—for -We ought to take in bye-blows, and odd refutations -in notes, &c.—the total of Twenty-five Millions will represent -the aggregate of Falsehood which We have sent -out of the World.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We have more than once repeated that we entered -upon this part of our task, not from any vain hope of -convincing the Writers themselves. We knew this to -be impossible; the forehead of a <em>Jacobin</em>, like the shield -of <span class='sc'>Ajax</span>, is formed of seven bull-hides, and utterly incapable -of any impression of shame or remorse—but we -are convinced that we have rescued, as we stated above, -Fifty Thousand persons from their machinations, and -taught them not only a salutary distrust, but a contempt -and disbelief, of every laboured article which -appears in the Papers of this description.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_270'>270</span>Nor can We be accused of presumption in this declaration, -when it is considered that the conviction on which -We so confidently rely is not the effect of a <em>solitary</em> -impression on our Readers’ minds, but of one four -hundred and twenty times repeated (this being the fair -amount of the number of Lies, &c., We have detected)—an -agglomeration of impulse which no prejudice could -resist and no preconceived partialities weaken or remove.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Here then We rest. We trust We have “done the -State some service”;—We have driven the Jacobins -from many strongholds to which they most tenaciously -held.<a id='r309' /><a href='#f309' class='c024'><sup>[309]</sup></a> We have exposed their Principles, detected their -Motives, weakened their Authority, and overthrown -their Credit. We have shewn them in every instance, -ignorant, and designing, and false, and wicked, and -turbulent, and anarchical—various in their language, -but united in their plans, and steadily pursuing through -hatred and contempt, the destruction of their Country.</p> - -<p class='c007'>With this impression on the Minds of our Readers <span class='sc'>We -take our leave</span> of them. Their welfare is in their own -hands; if they suffer the Jacobins to regain any of the -influence of which We have deprived them, they will -compromise their own Safety; but <span class='sc'>We</span> shall be blameless—<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Liberavimus -animas nostras</span></i>.—<span class='sc'>We have done our -DUTY.</span></p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_271'>271</span> - <h3 class='c031'>POETRY.<br /> <br /> <cite>New Morality.</cite></h3> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><a id='l1'></a>From mental mists to purge a nation’s eyes;</div> - <div class='line'>To animate the weak, unite the wise;</div> - <div class='line'>To trace the deep infection that pervades</div> - <div class='line'>The crowded town, and taints the rural shades;</div> - <div class='line'>To mark how wide extends the mighty waste</div> - <div class='line'>O’er the fair realms of Science, Learning, Taste;</div> - <div class='line'>To drive and scatter all the brood of lies,</div> - <div class='line'>And chase the varying falsehood as it flies;</div> - <div class='line'>The long arrears of ridicule to pay,</div> - <div class='line'>To drag reluctant dulness back to day;</div><div class='lnum'>10</div> - <div class='line'>Much yet remains.—To you these themes belong,</div> - <div class='line'>Ye favoured sons of virtue and of song!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Say, is the field too narrow? are the times</div> - <div class='line'>Barren of folly, and devoid of crimes?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l15'></a>Yet, venial vices, in a milder age,</div> - <div class='line'>Could rouse the warmth of <span class='sc'>Pope’s</span> satiric rage:</div> - <div class='line'>The doating miser, and the lavish heir,</div> - <div class='line'>The follies and the foibles of the fair,</div> - <div class='line'>Sir Job, Sir Balaam, and old Euclio’s thrift,</div> - <div class='line'>And Sappho’s diamonds with her dirty shift,</div><div class='lnum'>20</div> - <div class='line'>Blunt, Charteris, Hopkins,—meaner subjects fired</div> - <div class='line'>The keen-eyed Poet; while the Muse inspired</div> - <div class='line'>Her ardent child—entwining, as he sate,</div> - <div class='line'>His laurel’d chaplet with the thorns of hate.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>But say,—indignant does the Muse retire,</div> - <div class='line'>Her shrine deserted, and extinct its fire?</div> - <div class='line'>No pious hand to feed the sacred flame,</div> - <div class='line'>No raptured soul a poet’s charge to claim?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_272'>272</span><a id='l29'></a>Bethink thee, <span class='sc'>Gifford</span>; when some future age</div> - <div class='line'>Shall trace the promise of thy playful page;—</div><div class='lnum'>30</div> - <div class='line'>“<a id='r310' /><a href='#f310' class='c024'><sup>[310]</sup></a>The hand which brushed a swarm of fools away</div> - <div class='line'>Should rouse to grasp a more reluctant prey!”—</div> - <div class='line'>Think then, will pleaded indolence excuse</div> - <div class='line'>The tame secession of thy languid Muse?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Ah! where is now that promise? why so long</div> - <div class='line'>Sleep the keen shafts of satire and of song?</div> - <div class='line'>Oh! come, with taste and virtue at thy side,</div> - <div class='line'>With ardent zeal inflamed, and patriot pride;</div> - <div class='line'>With keen poetic glance direct the blow,</div> - <div class='line'>And empty all thy quiver on the foe:—</div><div class='lnum'>40</div> - <div class='line'>No pause—no rest—till weltering on the ground</div> - <div class='line'>The poisonous hydra lies, and pierced with many a wound.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Thou too!—the nameless Bard,<a id='r311' /><a href='#f311' class='c024'><sup>[311]</sup></a>—whose honest zeal</div> - <div class='line'>For law, for morals, for the public weal,</div> - <div class='line'>Pours down impetuous on thy country’s foes</div> - <div class='line'>The stream of verse, and many-languaged prose;</div> - <div class='line'>Thou too! though oft thy ill-advised dislike</div> - <div class='line'>The guiltless head with random censure strike,—</div> - <div class='line'>Though quaint allusions, vague and undefined,</div> - <div class='line'>Play faintly round the ear, but mock the mind;—</div><div class='lnum'>50</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_273'>273</span>Through the mix’d mass yet truth and learning shine,</div> - <div class='line'>And manly vigour stamps the nervous line;</div> - <div class='line'>And patriot warmth the generous rage inspires,</div> - <div class='line'>And wakes and points the desultory fires!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Yet more remain unknown:—for who can tell</div> - <div class='line'>What bashful genius, in some rural cell,</div> - <div class='line'>As year to year, and day succeeds to day,</div> - <div class='line'>In joyless leisure wastes his life away?</div> - <div class='line'>In him the flame of early fancy shone;</div> - <div class='line'>His genuine worth his old companions own;</div><div class='lnum'>60</div> - <div class='line'>In childhood and in youth their chief confess’d,</div> - <div class='line'>His master’s pride, his pattern to the rest.</div> - <div class='line'>Now, far aloof retiring from the strife</div> - <div class='line'>Of busy talents, and of active life,</div> - <div class='line'>As from the loop-holes of retreat he views</div> - <div class='line'>Our stage, verse, pamphlets, politics, and news,</div> - <div class='line'>He loathes the world,—or, with reflections sad,</div> - <div class='line'>Concludes it irrecoverably mad;</div> - <div class='line'>Of taste, of learning, morals, all bereft,</div> - <div class='line'>No hope, no prospect to redeem it left.</div><div class='lnum'>70</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l71'></a>Awake! for shame! or e’er thy nobler sense</div> - <div class='line'>Sink in th’ oblivious pool of indolence!</div> - <div class='line'>Must wit be found alone on falsehood’s side,</div> - <div class='line'>Unknown to truth, to virtue unallied?</div> - <div class='line'>Arise! nor scorn thy country’s just alarms;</div> - <div class='line'>Wield in her cause thy long-neglected arms:</div> - <div class='line'>Of lofty satire pour th’ indignant strain,</div> - <div class='line'>Leagued with her friends, and ardent to maintain</div> - <div class='line'>’Gainst Learning’s, Virtue’s, Truth’s, Religion’s foes,</div> - <div class='line'>A kingdom’s safety, and the world’s repose.</div><div class='lnum'>80</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_274'>274</span>If Vice appal thee,—if thou view with awe</div> - <div class='line'>Insults that brave, and crimes that ’scape the law;</div> - <div class='line'>Yet may the specious bastard brood, which claim</div> - <div class='line'>A spurious homage under Virtue’s name,</div> - <div class='line'>Sprung from that parent of ten thousand crimes,</div> - <div class='line'>The <em>New Philosophy</em> of modern times,—</div> - <div class='line'>Yet, these may rouse thee!—With unsparing hand,</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, lash the vile impostures from the land!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>First, stern <span class='sc'>Philanthropy</span>:—not she, who dries</div> - <div class='line'>The orphan’s tears, and wipes the widow’s eyes;</div><div class='lnum'>90</div> - <div class='line'>Not she, who sainted Charity her guide,</div> - <div class='line'>Of British bounty pours the annual tide:—</div> - <div class='line'>But <em>French</em> <span class='sc'>Philanthropy</span>;—whose boundless mind</div> - <div class='line'>Glows with the general love of all mankind;—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Philanthropy</span>,—beneath whose baneful sway</div> - <div class='line'>Each patriot passion sinks, and dies away.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Taught in her school to imbibe thy mawkish strain,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Condorcet</span>, filtered through the dregs of <span class='sc'>Paine</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>Each pert adept disowns a Briton’s part,</div> - <div class='line'>And plucks the name of <span class='sc'>England</span> from his heart.</div><div class='lnum'>100</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>What! shall a name, a word, a sound, control</div> - <div class='line'>Th’ aspiring thought, and cramp th’ expansive soul?</div> - <div class='line'>Shall one half-peopled Island’s rocky round</div> - <div class='line'>A love, that glows for all creation, bound?</div> - <div class='line'>And social charities contract the plan</div> - <div class='line'>Framed for thy freedom, <span class='sc'>universal Man</span>!</div> - <div class='line'>No—through th’ extended globe his feelings run</div> - <div class='line'>As broad and general as th’ unbounded sun!</div> - <div class='line'>No narrow bigot <em>he</em>;—<em>his</em> reason’d view</div> - <div class='line'>Thy interests, <em>England</em>, ranks with thine, <em>Peru</em>!</div><div class='lnum'>110</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_275'>275</span><em>France</em> at our doors, <em>he</em> sees no danger nigh,</div> - <div class='line'>But heaves for <em>Turkey’s</em> woes th’ impartial sigh;</div> - <div class='line'>A steady patriot of the world alone,</div> - <div class='line'>The friend of every country—but his own.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Next comes a gentler Virtue.—Ah! beware</div> - <div class='line'>Lest the harsh verse her shrinking softness scare.</div> - <div class='line'>Visit her not too roughly;—the warm sigh</div> - <div class='line'>Breathes on her lips;—the tear-drop gems her eye.</div> - <div class='line'>Sweet <span class='sc'>Sensibility</span>, who dwells enshrined</div> - <div class='line'>In the fine foldings of the feeling mind;</div><div class='lnum'>120</div> - <div class='line'>With delicate <em>Mimosa’s</em> sense endued,</div> - <div class='line'>Who shrinks instinctive from a hand too rude;</div> - <div class='line'>Or, like the <em>Anagallis</em>, prescient flower,</div> - <div class='line'>Shuts her soft petals at the approaching shower.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Sweet child of sickly <span class='sc'>Fancy</span>!—her of yore</div> - <div class='line'>From her loved <em>France</em> <span class='sc'>Rousseau</span> to exile bore;</div> - <div class='line'>And, while ’midst lakes and mountains wild he ran,</div> - <div class='line'>Full of himself, and shunn’d the haunts of man,</div> - <div class='line'>Taught her o’er each lone vale and Alpine steep</div> - <div class='line'>To lisp the story of his wrongs, and weep;</div><div class='lnum'>130</div> - <div class='line'>Taught her to cherish still in either eye,</div> - <div class='line'>Of tender tears a plentiful supply,</div> - <div class='line'>And pour them in the brooks that babbled by;</div> - <div class='line'>Taught by nice scale to mete her feelings strong,</div> - <div class='line'>False by degrees, and exquisitely wrong;</div> - <div class='line'>For the crush’d beetle, <em>first</em>,—the widow’d dove,</div> - <div class='line'>And all the warbled sorrows of the grove;</div> - <div class='line'><em>Next</em> for poor suff’ring <em>Guilt</em>; and <em>last</em> of all,</div> - <div class='line'>For parents, friends, a king and country’s fall.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Mark her fair votaries, prodigal of grief,</div><div class='lnum'>140</div> - <div class='line'>With cureless pangs, and woes that mock relief,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_276'>276</span>Droop in soft sorrow o’er a faded flower;</div> - <div class='line'>O’er a dead Jack-Ass pour the pearly shower;</div> - <div class='line'>But hear, unmoved, of <em>Loire’s</em> ensanguined flood,</div> - <div class='line'>Choked up with slain; of <em>Lyons</em> drenched in blood;</div> - <div class='line'>Of crimes that blot the age, the world, with shame,</div> - <div class='line'>Foul crimes, but sicklied o’er with Freedom’s name;</div> - <div class='line'>Altars and thrones subverted; social life</div> - <div class='line'>Trampled to earth,—the husband from the wife,</div> - <div class='line'>Parent from child, with ruthless fury torn,—</div><div class='lnum'>150</div> - <div class='line'>Of talents, honour, virtue, wit, forlorn,</div> - <div class='line'>In friendless exile,—of the wise and good</div> - <div class='line'>Staining the daily scaffold with their blood,—</div> - <div class='line'>Of savage cruelties, that scare the mind,</div> - <div class='line'>The rage of madness with hell’s lusts combined,—</div> - <div class='line'>Of hearts torn reeking from the mangled breast,—</div> - <div class='line'>They hear,—and hope that <span class='fss'>ALL IS FOR THE BEST</span>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l158'></a>Fond hope! but <span class='sc'>Justice</span> sanctifies the prayer—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Justice</span>! here, Satire, strike! ’twere sin to spare!</div> - <div class='line'>Not she in British Courts that takes her stand,</div><div class='lnum'>160</div> - <div class='line'>The dawdling balance dangling in her hand,</div> - <div class='line'>Adjusting punishments to fraud and vice,</div> - <div class='line'>With scrupulous quirks, and disquisition nice:</div> - <div class='line'>But firm, erect, with keen reverted glance,</div> - <div class='line'>Th’ avenging angel of regenerate <em>France</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>Who visits ancient sins on modern times,</div> - <div class='line'>And punishes the <span class='sc'>Pope</span> for <span class='sc'>Cæsar’s</span> crimes.<a id='r312' /><a href='#f312' class='c024'><sup>[312]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_277'>277</span><a id='l168'></a>Such is the liberal <span class='sc'>Justice</span> which presides</div> - <div class='line'>In these our days, and modern patriots guides;—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Justice</span>, whose blood-stain’d book one sole decree,</div><div class='lnum'>170</div> - <div class='line'>One statute, fills—“the People shall be Free!”</div> - <div class='line'>Free! By what means?—by folly, madness, guilt,</div> - <div class='line'>By boundless rapines, blood in oceans spilt;</div> - <div class='line'>By confiscation, in whose sweeping toils</div> - <div class='line'>The poor man’s pittance with the rich man’s spoils,</div> - <div class='line'>Mix’d in one common mass, are swept away,</div> - <div class='line'>To glut the short-lived tyrant of the day;—</div> - <div class='line'>By laws, religion, morals, all o’erthrown:—</div> - <div class='line'>Rouse, then, ye sovereign people, claim your own:</div> - <div class='line'>The license that enthrals, the truth that blinds,</div><div class='lnum'>180</div> - <div class='line'>The wealth that starves you, and the power that grinds!</div> - <div class='line'>So <span class='sc'>Justice</span> bids.—’Twas her enlighten’d doom,</div> - <div class='line'>Louis, thy holy head devoted to the tomb!</div> - <div class='line'>’Twas <span class='sc'>Justice</span> claim’d, in that accurséd hour,</div> - <div class='line'>The fatal forfeit of too lenient power.</div> - <div class='line'>Mourn for the Man we may;—but for the King,—</div> - <div class='line'>Freedom, oh! Freedom’s such a charming thing!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“Much may be said on both sides.”—Hark! I hear</div> - <div class='line'>A well-known voice that murmurs in my ear,—</div> - <div class='line'>The voice of <span class='sc'>Candour</span>.—Hail! most solemn sage,</div><div class='lnum'>190</div> - <div class='line'>Thou drivelling virtue of this moral age,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Candour</span>, which softens party’s headlong rage.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Candour</span>,—which spares its foes;—nor e’er descends</div> - <div class='line'>With bigot zeal to combat for its friends.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_278'>278</span><span class='sc'>Candour</span>,—which loves in see-saw strain to tell</div> - <div class='line'>Of <em>acting foolishly</em>, but <em>meaning well</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame,</div> - <div class='line'>Convinced that <em>all</em> men’s <em>motives</em> are the same;</div> - <div class='line'>And finds, with keen discriminating sight,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Black’s</span> not <em>so</em> black;—nor <span class='sc'>White</span> <em>so very</em> white.</div><div class='lnum'>200</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“<span class='sc'>Fox</span>, to be sure, was vehement and wrong:</div> - <div class='line'>But then, <span class='sc'>Pitt’s</span> words, you’ll own, were <em>rather</em> strong.</div> - <div class='line'>Both must be blamed, both pardon’d; ’twas just so</div> - <div class='line'>With <span class='sc'>Fox</span> and <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> full forty years ago!</div> - <div class='line'>So <span class='sc'>Walpole</span>, <span class='sc'>Pulteney</span>;—factions in all times</div> - <div class='line'>Have had their follies, ministers their crimes.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Give me th’ avow’d, th’ erect, the manly foe,</div> - <div class='line'>Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;</div> - <div class='line'>But of all plagues, good Heav’n, thy wrath can send,</div> - <div class='line'>Save, save, oh! save me from the <em>Candid Friend</em>!</div><div class='lnum'>210</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“<span class='sc'>Barras</span> loves plunder, <span class='sc'>Merlin</span> takes a bribe,—</div> - <div class='line'>What then!—shall <span class='sc'>Candour</span> these good men proscribe?</div> - <div class='line'>No! ere we join the loud-accusing throng,</div> - <div class='line'>Prove,—not the facts,—but, that <em>they thought them wrong</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“Why hang <span class='sc'>O’Quigley</span>?—he, misguided man,</div> - <div class='line'>In sober thought his country’s weal <em>might</em> plan:</div> - <div class='line'>And, while his deep-wrought Treason sapp’d the throne,</div> - <div class='line'><em>Might</em> act from <em>taste in morals</em>, all his own.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Peace to such Reasoners! let them have their way;</div> - <div class='line'>Shut their dull eyes against the blaze of day;</div><div class='lnum'>220</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Priestley’s</span> a Saint, and <span class='sc'>Stone</span> a Patriot still;</div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>La Fayette</span> a Hero, if they will.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_279'>279</span>I love the bold uncompromising mind,</div> - <div class='line'>Whose principles are fix’d, whose views defined;</div> - <div class='line'>Who scouts and scorns, in canting <span class='sc'>Candour’s</span> spite,</div> - <div class='line'>All <em>taste in morals</em>, innate sense of right,</div> - <div class='line'>And Nature’s impulse, all uncheck’d by art,</div> - <div class='line'>And feelings fine, that float about the heart:</div> - <div class='line'>Content, for good men’s guidance, bad men’s awe,</div> - <div class='line'>On moral truth to rest, and Gospel law.</div><div class='lnum'>230</div> - <div class='line'>Who owns, when Traitors feel th’ avenging rod,</div> - <div class='line'>Just retribution, and the hand of <span class='sc'>God</span>;</div> - <div class='line'>Who hears the groans through <em>Olmütz</em>’ roofs that ring,</div> - <div class='line'>Of him who mock’d, misled, betray’d his King—</div> - <div class='line'>Hears unappall’d, though Faction’s zealots preach,</div> - <div class='line'>Unmov’d, unsoften’d by <span class='sc'>Fitzpatrick’s</span> Speech.<a id='r313' /><a href='#f313' class='c024'><sup>[313]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>That Speech on which the melting Commons hung,</div> - <div class='line'>“While truths divine came mended from <em>his</em> tongue”;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_280'>280</span>How loving husband clings to duteous wife,—</div> - <div class='line'>How pure Religion soothes the ills of life,—</div><div class='lnum'>240</div> - <div class='line'>How Popish ladies trust their pious fears</div> - <div class='line'>And naughty actions in their chaplains’ ears.—</div> - <div class='line'>Half novel and half sermon, on it flow’d;</div> - <div class='line'>With pious zeal <span class='sc'>the Opposition</span> glow’d;</div> - <div class='line'>And as o’er each the soft infection crept,</div> - <div class='line'>Sigh’d as he whin’d, and as he whimper’d, wept;—</div> - <div class='line'>E’en <span class='sc'>Curwen</span><a id='r314' /><a href='#f314' class='c024'><sup>[314]</sup></a> dropt a sentimental tear,</div> - <div class='line'>And stout <span class='sc'>St. Andrew</span> yelp’d a softer “Hear!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'> · · · · ·</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l249'></a>Oh! nurse of crimes and fashions! which in vain</div> - <div class='line'>Our colder servile spirits would attain,</div><div class='lnum'>250</div> - <div class='line'>How do we ape thee, <em>France!</em> but, blundering still,</div> - <div class='line'>Disgrace the pattern by our want of skill.</div> - <div class='line'>The borrow’d step our awkward gait reveals:</div> - <div class='line'>(As clumsy <span class='sc'>Courtenay</span><a id='r315' /><a href='#f315' class='c024'><sup>[315]</sup></a> mars the verse he steals.)</div> - <div class='line'>How do we ape thee, <em>France!</em>—nor claim alone</div> - <div class='line'>Thy arts, thy tastes, thy morals, for our own,</div><div class='lnum'>260</div> - <div class='line'>But to thy <span class='sc'>Worthies</span> render homage due,</div> - <div class='line'>Their<a id='r316' /><a href='#f316' class='c024'><sup>[316]</sup></a> “hair-breadth scapes” with anxious interest view;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_281'>281</span>Statesmen and Heroines whom this age adores,</div> - <div class='line'>Though plainer times would call them Rogues and Whores.</div><div class='lnum'>260</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l261'></a>See <span class='sc'>Louvet</span>, patriot, pamphleteer, and sage,</div> - <div class='line'>Tempering with amorous fire his virtuous rage.</div> - <div class='line'>Form’d for all tasks, his various talents see,</div> - <div class='line'>The luscious Novel, the severe Decree.</div> - <div class='line'>Then mark him welt’ring in his nasty sty,</div> - <div class='line'>Bare his lewd transports to the public eye.</div> - <div class='line'>Not <em>his</em> the love in silent groves that strays,</div> - <div class='line'>Quits the rude world, and shuns the vulgar gaze.</div> - <div class='line'>In <span class='sc'>Lodoiska’s</span> full possession blest,</div> - <div class='line'>One craving void still aches within his breast;</div><div class='lnum'>270</div> - <div class='line'>Plunged in the filth and fondness of her arms,</div> - <div class='line'>Not to himself alone he stints her charms;</div> - <div class='line'>Clasp’d in each other’s foul embrace they lie,</div> - <div class='line'>But know no joy, unless the World stands by.</div> - <div class='line'>The fool of vanity, for her alone</div> - <div class='line'>He lives, loves, writes, and dies but to be known.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>His widow’d mourner flies to poison’s aid,</div> - <div class='line'>Eager to join her <span class='sc'>Louvet’s</span> parted shade</div> - <div class='line'>In those bright realms where sainted lovers stray,</div> - <div class='line'>But harsh emetics tear that hope away.<a id='r317' /><a href='#f317' class='c024'><sup>[317]</sup></a></div><div class='lnum'>280</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_282'>282</span>Yet hapless <span class='sc'>Louvet</span>! where thy bones are laid,</div> - <div class='line'>The easy nymphs shall consecrate the shade.<a id='r318' /><a href='#f318' class='c024'><sup>[318]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>There in the laughing morn of genial spring,</div> - <div class='line'>Unwedded pairs shall tender couplets sing;</div> - <div class='line'>Eringoes o’er the hallow’d spot shall bloom,</div> - <div class='line'>And flies of Spain buzz softly round the tomb.<a id='r319' /><a href='#f319' class='c024'><sup>[319]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l287'></a>But hold, severer virtue claims the Muse—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Roland</span> the just, with ribands in his shoes—<a id='r320' /><a href='#f320' class='c024'><sup>[320]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>Roland’s</span> spouse, who paints with chaste delight</div> - <div class='line'>The doubtful conflict of her nuptial night;—</div><div class='lnum'>290</div> - <div class='line'>Her virgin charms what fierce attacks assail’d,</div> - <div class='line'>And how the rigid Minister<a id='r321' /><a href='#f321' class='c024'><sup>[321]</sup></a> prevail’d.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>And ah! what verse can grace thy stately mien,</div> - <div class='line'>Guide of the world, preferment’s golden queen,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Neckar’s</span> fair daughter,—<span class='sc'>Stael</span> the Epicene!</div> - <div class='line'>Bright o’er whose flaming cheek and pumple<a id='r322' /><a href='#f322' class='c024'><sup>[322]</sup></a> nose</div> - <div class='line'>The bloom of young desire unceasing glows!</div> - <div class='line'>Fain would the Muse—but ah! she dares no more,</div> - <div class='line'>A mournful voice from lone <em>Guyana’s</em> shore,<a id='r323' /><a href='#f323' class='c024'><sup>[323]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_283'>283</span>Sad <span class='sc'>Quatremer</span>-the bold presumption checks,</div><div class='lnum'>300</div> - <div class='line'>Forbid to question thy ambiguous sex.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l302'></a>To thee, proud <span class='sc'>Barras</span> bows;—thy charms control</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Rewbell’s</span> brute rage, and <span class='sc'>Merlin’s</span> subtle soul;</div> - <div class='line'>Rais’d by thy hands, and fashion’d to thy will,</div> - <div class='line'>Thy power, thy guiding influence, governs still,</div> - <div class='line'>Where at the blood-stain’d board expert he plies,</div> - <div class='line'>The lame artificer of fraud and lies;</div> - <div class='line'>He with the mitred head and cloven heel;—</div> - <div class='line'>Doom’d the coarse edge of <span class='sc'>Rewbell’s</span> jests to feel;<a id='r324' /><a href='#f324' class='c024'><sup>[324]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>To stand the playful buffet, and to hear</div><div class='lnum'>310</div> - <div class='line'>The frequent ink-stand whizzing past his ear;</div> - <div class='line'>While all the five Directors laugh to see</div> - <div class='line'>“The limping priest so deft at his new ministry”.<a id='r325' /><a href='#f325' class='c024'><sup>[325]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Last of th’ <span class='sc'>anointed Five</span> behold, and least,</div> - <div class='line'>The Directorial <span class='sc'>Lama</span>, Sovereign Priest,—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Lepaux</span>;—whom atheists worship;—at whose nod</div> - <div class='line'>Bow their meek heads <em>the Men without a God</em>.<a id='r326' /><a href='#f326' class='c024'><sup>[326]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_284'>284</span><a id='l318'></a>Ere long, perhaps, to this astonish’d isle,</div> - <div class='line'>Fresh from the shores of subjugated <em>Nile</em>,</div> - <div class='line'>Shall <span class='sc'>Buonaparte’s</span> victor fleet protect</div><div class='lnum'>320</div> - <div class='line'>The genuine Theo-Philanthropic sect,—</div> - <div class='line'>The sect of <span class='sc'>Marat</span>, <span class='sc'>Mirabeau</span>, <span class='sc'>Voltaire</span>,—</div> - <div class='line'>Led by their Pontiff, good <span class='sc'>La Réveillère</span>.</div> - <div class='line'>Rejoiced our <span class='sc'>Clubs</span> shall greet him, and install</div> - <div class='line'>The holy Hunchback in thy dome, <em>St. Paul</em>!</div> - <div class='line'>While countless votaries, thronging in his train,</div> - <div class='line'>Wave their red caps, and hymn this jocund strain:—</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l328'></a>“<cite>Couriers and Stars</cite>, Sedition’s evening host,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite> and <cite>Morning Post</cite>,</div> - <div class='line'>Whether ye make the Rights of Man your theme,</div><div class='lnum'>330</div> - <div class='line'>Your country libel, and your God blaspheme,</div> - <div class='line'>Or dirt on private worth and virtue throw,</div> - <div class='line'>Still, blasphemous or blackguard, praise <span class='sc'>Lepaux</span>!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“And ye five other wandering bards, that move</div> - <div class='line'>In sweet accord of harmony and love,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Coleridge</span> and <span class='sc'>Southey</span>, <span class='sc'>Lloyd</span>, and <span class='sc'>Lamb & Co.</span></div> - <div class='line'>Tune all your mystic harps to praise <span class='sc'>Lepaux</span>!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“<span class='sc'>Priestley</span> and <span class='sc'>Wakefield</span>, humble, holy men,</div> - <div class='line'>Give praises to his name with tongue and pen!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“<span class='sc'>Thelwall</span>, and ye that lecture as ye go,</div><div class='lnum'>340</div> - <div class='line'>And for your pains get pelted, praise <span class='sc'>Lepaux</span>!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“Praise him each Jacobin, or Fool, or Knave,</div> - <div class='line'>And your cropp’d heads in sign of worship wave!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_285'>285</span>“All creeping creatures, venomous and low,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Paine</span>, <span class='sc'>Williams</span>, <span class='sc'>Godwin</span>, <span class='sc'>Holcroft</span>, praise <span class='sc'>Lepaux</span>!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>“—— and —— with —— join’d,<a id='r327' /><a href='#f327' class='c024'><sup>[327]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>And every other beast after his kind.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>“And thou, <i><span lang="de" xml:lang="de">Leviathan</span></i>! on ocean’s brim</div> - <div class='line'>Hugest of living things that sleep and swim;</div> - <div class='line'>Thou, in whose nose, by <span class='sc'>Burke’s</span> gigantic hand</div><div class='lnum'>350</div> - <div class='line'>The hook was fixed to drag thee to the land,</div> - <div class='line'>With ——, ——, and ——, in thy train,</div> - <div class='line'>And —— wallowing in the yeasty main,—<a id='r328' /><a href='#f328' class='c024'><sup>[328]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Still as ye snort, and puff, and spout, and blow,</div> - <div class='line'>In puffing, and in spouting, praise <span class='sc'>Lepaux</span>!”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'> · · · · ·</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l356'></a><span class='sc'>Britain</span>, beware; nor let th’ insidious foe,</div> - <div class='line'>Of force despairing, aim a deadlier blow;</div> - <div class='line'>Thy Peace, thy Strength, with devilish wiles assail,</div> - <div class='line'>And when her Arms are vain, by Arts prevail.</div> - <div class='line'>True, thou art rich, art powerful!—thro’ thine Isle</div><div class='lnum'>360</div> - <div class='line'>Industrious skill, contented labour, smile;</div> - <div class='line'>Far Seas are studded with thy countless sails;</div> - <div class='line'>What wind but wafts them, and what shore but hails!</div> - <div class='line'>True, thou art brave!—o’er all the busy land</div> - <div class='line'>In patriot ranks embattled myriads stand;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_286'>286</span>Thy foes behold with impotent amaze</div> - <div class='line'>And drop the lifted weapon as they gaze</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>But what avails to guard each outward part,</div> - <div class='line'>If subtlest poison, circling at thy heart,</div> - <div class='line'>Spite of thy courage, of thy pow’r, and wealth,</div><div class='lnum'>370</div> - <div class='line'>Mine the sound fabric of thy vital health?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='l372'></a>So thine own Oak, by some fair streamlet’s side,</div> - <div class='line'>Waves its broad arms, and spreads its leafy pride,</div> - <div class='line'>Tow’rs from the earth, and rearing to the skies</div> - <div class='line'>Its conscious strength, the tempest’s wrath defies.</div> - <div class='line'>Its ample branches shield the fowls of air,</div> - <div class='line'>To its cool shade the panting herds repair.</div> - <div class='line'>The treacherous current works its noiseless way,</div> - <div class='line'>The fibres loosen, and the roots decay;</div> - <div class='line'>Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all</div><div class='lnum'>380</div> - <div class='line'>That shared its shelter, perish in its fall.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>O thou! lamented <span class='sc'>Sage</span>! whose prescient scan</div> - <div class='line'>Pierc’d through foul Anarchy’s gigantic plan,</div> - <div class='line'>Prompt to incredulous hearers to disclose</div> - <div class='line'>The guilt of <em>France</em>, and Europe’s world of woes;—</div> - <div class='line'>Thou, on whose name each distant age shall gaze,</div> - <div class='line'>The mighty sea-mark of these troubled days!</div> - <div class='line'>O large of soul, of genius unconfin’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Born to delight, instruct, and mend mankind!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Burke</span>! in whose breast a Roman ardour glow’d;</div><div class='lnum'>390</div> - <div class='line'>Whose copious tongue with Grecian richness flow’d;</div> - <div class='line'>Well hast thou found (if such thy country’s doom),</div> - <div class='line'>A timely refuge in the sheltering tomb!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>As, in far realms, where eastern kings are laid,</div> - <div class='line'>In pomp of death, beneath the cypress shade,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_287'>287</span>The perfum’d lamp with unextinguish’d light</div> - <div class='line'>Flames through the vault, and cheers the gloom of night:</div> - <div class='line'>So, mighty <span class='sc'>Burke</span>! in thy sepulchral urn,</div> - <div class='line'>To Fancy’s view, the lamp of Truth shall burn.</div> - <div class='line'>Thither late times shall turn their reverent eyes,</div><div class='lnum'>400</div> - <div class='line'>Led by thy light, and by thy wisdom wise.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>There <em>are</em>, to whom (<em>their</em> taste such pleasures cloy)</div> - <div class='line'>No light thy wisdom yields, thy wit no joy.</div> - <div class='line'>Peace to their heavy heads, and callous hearts,</div> - <div class='line'>Peace—such as sloth, as ignorance imparts!</div> - <div class='line'>Pleas’d may they live to plan their country’s good,</div> - <div class='line'>And crop with calm content their flow’ry food!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>What though thy venturous spirit loved to urge</div> - <div class='line'>The labouring theme to Reason’s utmost verge,</div> - <div class='line'>Kindling and mounting from th’ enraptur’d sight;</div><div class='lnum'>410</div> - <div class='line'>Still anxious wonder watch’d thy daring flight!</div> - <div class='line'>While vulgar minds, with mean malignant stare,</div> - <div class='line'>Gazed up, the triumph of thy fall to share!</div> - <div class='line'>Poor triumph! price of that extorted praise,</div> - <div class='line'>Which still to daring Genius Envy pays.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Oh! for thy playful smile, thy potent frown,</div> - <div class='line'>To abash bold Vice, and laugh pert Folly down!</div> - <div class='line'>So should the Muse, in Humour’s happiest vein,</div> - <div class='line'>With verse that flowed in metaphoric strain,</div> - <div class='line'>And apt allusions to the rural trade,</div><div class='lnum'>420</div> - <div class='line'>Tell of <em>what wood young</em> <span class='sc'>Jacobins</span> <em>are made</em>;</div> - <div class='line'>How the skill’d gardener grafts with nicest rule</div> - <div class='line'>The <em>slip</em> of coxcomb on the <em>stock</em> of fool;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_288'>288</span>Forth in bright blossom bursts the tender sprig,</div> - <div class='line'>A thing to wonder at—<a id='r329' /><a href='#f329' class='c024'><sup>[329]</sup></a> perhaps a <em>Whig</em>:</div> - <div class='line'>Should tell, how wise each half-fledged pedant prates</div> - <div class='line'>Of weightiest matters, grave distinctions states,</div> - <div class='line'>That rules of policy, and public good,</div> - <div class='line'>In Saxon times were rightly understood;</div> - <div class='line'>That kings are proper, <em>may be</em> useful things,</div><div class='lnum'>430</div> - <div class='line'>But then, some gentlemen object to kings;</div> - <div class='line'>That in all times the minister’s to blame;</div> - <div class='line'>That British liberty’s an empty name,</div> - <div class='line'>Till each fair burgh, numerically free,</div> - <div class='line'>Shall choose its members by <em>the Rule of Three</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>So should the Muse, with verse in thunder clothed,</div> - <div class='line'>Proclaim the crimes by God and Nature loathed.</div> - <div class='line'>Which—when fell poison revels in the veins—</div> - <div class='line'>(That poison fell, which frantic <em>Gallia</em> drains</div> - <div class='line'>From the crude fruit of Freedom’s blasted tree)</div><div class='lnum'>440</div> - <div class='line'>Blot the fair records of Humanity.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>To feebler nations let proud <em>France</em> afford</div> - <div class='line'>Her damning choice,—the chalice or the sword,</div> - <div class='line'>To drink or die;—O fraud! O specious lie!</div> - <div class='line'>Delusive choice! for <em>if</em> they drink, they die.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_289'>289</span>The Sword we dread not:—of ourselves secure,</div> - <div class='line'>Firm were our strength, our peace and freedom sure.</div> - <div class='line'>Let all the world confederate all its powers,</div> - <div class='line'>“Be they not backed by those that should be ours,”</div> - <div class='line'>High on his rock shall <span class='sc'>Britain’s Genius</span> stand,</div><div class='lnum'>450</div> - <div class='line'>Scatter the crowded hosts, and vindicate the land.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Guard we but our own Hearts: with constant view</div> - <div class='line'>To ancient morals, ancient manners true;</div> - <div class='line'>True to the manlier virtues, such as nerv’d</div> - <div class='line'>Our fathers’ breasts, and this proud Isle preserv’d</div> - <div class='line'>For many a rugged age: and scorn the while</div> - <div class='line'>Each philosophic atheist’s specious guile;</div> - <div class='line'>The soft seductions, the refinements nice,</div> - <div class='line'>Of gay Morality, and easy Vice;</div> - <div class='line'>So shall we brave the storm; our ’stablish’d pow’r</div> - <div class='line'>Thy refuge, <span class='sc'>Europe</span>, in some happier hour.</div><div class='lnum'>461</div> - <div class='line'>But, <span class='sc'>French</span> <em>in heart</em>, though Victory crown our brow,</div> - <div class='line'>Low at our feet though prostrate Nations bow,</div> - <div class='line'>Wealth gild our Cities, Commerce crowd our shore,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>London may shine</span>, but <span class='sc'>England</span> is <span class='fss'>NO MORE</span>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div id='t285' class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_327.jpg' alt='_The Republican Rattle-snake fascinating the Bedford Squirrel._ _The Rattle Snake is a Creature of the greatest subtilty; when it is desirous of preying upon any Animal which is in a situation above itself it fixes its Eye upon the unsuspecting object & by the noise of its Rattle fascinates & confounds the unfortunate Victim till losing all Sense & discernment, it falls a prey into the Mouth of the horrid Monster._ Pliny’s Nat. Histr. vol. 365—' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<h3 class='c031'>FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.</h3> - -<p class='c043'>In the last Address which We shall have to make to -the Public, We would willingly review the whole of -what has been advanced by Us under the different Heads -of our Paper, and leave behind us a Summary of our -Opinions upon the state of each subject as We found it, -and as We conceive it to stand at the moment when our -labours are concluded.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Upon no point, if We are to speak our sincere opinion, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_290'>290</span>is the task more easily to be executed, or in a less compass, -than in what relates to Foreign Politics.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In other times, the relations of States to each other -have been matter of great study, and difficulty; have -been embarrassed with a diversity of views, and a complication -of interests, which it might require much experience -to calculate, and much political sagacity to -reconcile.</p> - -<p class='c007'>At present, there is but one relation among all the -States of Europe:—one, at least, there is so paramount, -as to confound and swallow up all inferior considerations.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>France is bent on the conquest and ruin of them -all.</span> To repel this Conquest, to ward off this ruin, various -means are tried, according to the power or the prudence -of the different Nations. War, Treaty, Supplication, -Bribery, timid Neutrality, implicit Submission, and, -finally, an Incorporation into the Map of the <em>Great Republic</em>, -are all at this moment exemplified in the conduct -of the Countries which surround us.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Our lot, a lot imposed upon us by necessity, but which -if it were not so imposed upon us, whoever is not blind, -judicially blind to the conduct of <em>France</em> towards us, and -every other Country, would claim by choice, is <span class='sc'>War</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The relation in which we may stand to the other States -of Europe, or they to each other, is comparatively of -little moment. They may reciprocate Missions, and -propose Treaties,—the <em>Ligurian Republic</em> may make Peace -or War with the <em>Cisalpine</em>; the <em>Cisalpine</em> with the <em>Roman</em>;—either -of them with the <span class='sc'>King</span> of <span class='sc'>Sardinia</span>, with <em>Tuscany</em>, -or with <em>Naples</em>; and the greater Powers may mediate, or -embroil the quarrel, may offer their protection, and talk -of their Dignity:—But the question does not lie there.—<em>France</em> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_291'>291</span>has the power and the will to controul, to oppress -them altogether; to limit or extend their Boundaries, -as she sees good; to approve or annul their Internal -Regulations, as well as their stipulations with each other: -And while she has that power, whether it be by strength -in herself, or by the sufferance of others; whether she -may choose to vex and harass them in mass, or detail; -to keep peace between them, or to set them at variance; -to work their revolutions by her own arms, or to delegate -that sacred office to their neighbours; or, finally, to -insist upon their performing it each for themselves;—the -result to us is the same. The People of Europe are -equally enslaved;—it matters not whether they are -manacled separately, or bolted to the links of a long -chain which connects and coerces them in a fellowship -of misery.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mortalia corda</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Per gentes humilis stravit pavor.</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>To Us, the relation of these unhappy Powers, is either -that of Friends forced into a Foreign Army to fight -against us, or placed, hand-cuffed, on the Deck of a Line -of Battle Ship to receive our fire—or it is that of a -Captive languishing in a Dungeon against which We -are making an attack, and who does not dare to acknowledge -his Friend, till he can hail him as his Deliverer.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The Contest between <em>Great Britain</em> and <em>France</em>, then, -is not for the existence of the former only, but for the -Freedom of the World. To look to partial Interests, to -talk of partial Successes, as bearing upon the main object -and general issue of the War, is to take a narrow and -pitiful view of the most momentous and most tremendous -<span class='pageno' id='Page_292'>292</span>subject that ever was brought under the consideration of -mankind.</p> - -<p class='c007'>If <em>Great Britain</em>, insensible of what she owes to herself -and to the World, flinches (for she <em>cannot fall</em>), in the -Contest;—she throws away not herself alone, but the -peace and happiness of Nations. If she maintain herself -stoutly;—to speculate on the mode, the time, the -means by which success adequate to the immensity of -the object at stake is to be attained, were, indeed, presumptuous;—but -We risk, without apprehension of -being thought sanguine in our hopes and expectations, or -of being contradicted by the event, the sentiment of the -greatest Orator of ancient times—“It is not, it cannot -be possible, that an Empire founded on injustice, on -rapacity, on perfidy, on the contempt and disregard of -everything sacred towards God, or among Men;—it is -not possible that such an Empire should endure.”</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_335.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_293'>293</span> - <h2 class='c005'>NOTES TO “NEW MORALITY”.</h2> -</div> - -<h3 class='c038'><span class='sc'>Joseph Priestley</span>, LL.D. (page <a href='#Page_278'>278</a>).</h3> - -<p class='c043'>“I have read a communication from <span class='sc'>George III.</span> to one of his ministers, on -the subject of the riots in which <span class='sc'>Priestley’s</span> house was burned. <span class='sc'>His Majesty</span> -says, in his short emphatic way, that the riots must be stopped <em>immediately</em>; -that no man’s house must be left in peril; and then he orders the march of -certain troops, &c., to restore peace; and concludes with saying that, as the -mischief did occur, it was impossible not to be pleased at its having fallen on -<span class='sc'>Priestley</span> rather than another, that he might <em>feel</em> the wickedness of the doctrines -of democracy which he was propagating.”—<em>J. W. Croker</em> (<em>MS.</em>).—[<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<h3 class='c031'><span class='sc'>Madame de Stael</span> (page <a href='#Page_282'>282</a>).</h3> - -<p class='c043'>“<span class='sc'>Madame de Stael</span> was at Mickleham, in Surrey, in 1793, with Talleyrand, -Narbonne, Jaucourt, Guibert (who proposed to her), and others. There was -not a little scandal about her relations with Narbonne (see Fanny Burney’s -Letters). Narbonne’s place was supplied by Benjamin Constant, who had a -very great influence over her, as in return she had over him. At Coppet, she -found consolation in a young officer of Swiss origin, named Rocca, twenty-three -years her junior, whom she married privately in 1811. She had married Baron -de Stael in 1786, and in 1797 they separated. He died in 1802; and she in 1817.”—<cite>Life -of Mad. de Stael, by A. Stevens</cite>, 1880.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“On the 28th of January” (says Crabb Robinson in his <cite>Diary</cite>, 1804), “I first -waited on <span class='sc'>Madame de Stael</span>. I was shown into her bedroom, for which, not -knowing Parisian customs, I was unprepared. She was sitting, most decorously, -in her bed, and writing. She had her night-cap on, and her face was not made -up for the day. It was by no means a captivating spectacle, but I had a very -cordial reception, and two bright black eyes smiled benignantly on me. After -a warm expression of her pleasure at making my acquaintance, she dismissed -me till three o’clock. On my return then I found a very different person——the -accomplished Frenchwoman surrounded by admirers, some of whom were -themselves distinguished. Among them was the aged <span class='sc'>Wieland</span>. There was -on this, and, I believe, on almost every other, occasion, but one lady among -the guests: in this instance <span class='sc'>Frau von Kalb</span>. <span class='sc'>Madame de Stael</span> did not affect -to conceal her preference for the society of men to that of her own sex.”</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Count d’Orsay</span> related of <span class='sc'>Madame de Stael</span>, whose character was discussed, -that one day, being on a sofa with <span class='sc'>Madame de Récamier</span>, one who -placed himself between them exclaimed: “<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Me voilà entre la beauté et l’esprit!</span>” -She replied: “That is the first time I was ever complimented for beauty!” -<span class='sc'>Madame de Récamier</span> was thought the handsomest woman in Paris, but was -by no means famed for <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">esprit</span></i>.—<cite>Crabb Robinson’s Diary.</cite></p> - -<p class='c007'>“<span class='sc'>Madame de Stael</span> was a perfect aristocrat, and her sympathies were -wholly with the great and prosperous. She saw nothing in England but the -luxury, stupidity, and pride of the Tory aristocracy, and the intelligence and -magnificence of the Whig aristocracy. The latter talked about truth and -liberty and herself, and she supposed it was all as it should be. As to the -millions, the people, she never enquired into their situation. She had a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_294'>294</span>horror of the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">canaille</span></i>, but anything of <i><span lang="es" xml:lang="es">sangre azul</span></i> had a charm for her. When -she was dying she said; ‘Let me die in peace; let my last moments be undisturbed’. -Yet she ordered the cards of every visitor to be brought to her. -Among them was one from the <span class='sc'>Duc de Richelieu</span>. ‘What!’ exclaimed she, -indignantly; ‘what! have you sent away the <span class='sc'>Duke</span>? Hurry. Fly after him. -Bring him back. Tell him that though I die for all the world, I live for <em>him</em>.’”—<cite>Bowring’s -Autobr. Recollections</cite>, pp. 375–6.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Madame de Stael</span> prepared her <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">bons-mots</span></i> with elaborate care, some being -borrowed.... She was ugly, and not of an intellectual ugliness. Her -features were coarse, and the ordinary expression rather vulgar. She had an -ugly mouth, and one or two irregularly prominent teeth, which perhaps gave -her countenance an habitual gaiety. Her eye was full, dark, and expressive; -and when she declaimed, which was almost whenever she spoke, she looked -eloquent, and one forgot that she was plain. On the whole, she was singularly -unfeminine; and if, in conversation, one forgot she was ugly, one forgot also -that she was a woman.—<cite>J. W. Croker’s Note-Books.</cite>—[<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<h3 class='c031'><span class='sc'>The Rev. Gilbert Wakefield</span> (page <a href='#Page_284'>284</a>).</h3> - -<p class='c043'>“It is well known that the French Revolution turned the brains of many of -the noblest youths in England. Indeed when such men as <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>, <span class='sc'>Wordsworth</span>, -<span class='sc'>Southey</span>, caught the infection, no wonder that those who partook of -their sensibility, but had a very small portion of their intellect, were carried -away. Many were ruined by the errors into which they were betrayed; many -also lived to smile at the follies of their youth. ‘I am no more ashamed of -having been a Republican,’ said <span class='sc'>Southey</span>, ‘than I am of having been a child.’ -The opinions held led to many political prosecutions, and I naturally had -much sympathy with the sufferers. I find in my journal, Feb. 21, 1799 (says -Crabb Robinson): ‘An interesting and memorable day. It was the day on -which <span class='sc'>Gilbert Wakefield</span> was convicted of a seditious libel, and sentenced -to two years’ imprisonment. This he suffered in Dorchester Gaol, which he -left only to die. Originally of the Established Church, he became a Unitarian, -and Professor at the Hackney College. By profession he was a scholar. His -best known work was an edition of Lucretius. He had written against <span class='sc'>Porson’s</span> -edition of the <cite>Hecuba</cite> of Euripides.’ It is said that <span class='sc'>Porson</span> was at a dinner-party -at which toasts were going round, and a name, accompanied by an appropriate -sentence from Shakespeare, was required from each of the guests in succession. -Before <span class='sc'>Porson’s</span> turn came, he had disappeared beneath the table, -and was supposed to be insensible to what was going on. This, however, was -not the case, for when a toast was required of him, he staggered up and gave: -‘Gilbert Wakefield—what’s <cite>Hecuba</cite> to him, or he to <cite>Hecuba</cite>?’ <span class='sc'>Wakefield</span> was -a political fanatic. He had the pale complexion and mild features of a Saint, -was a most gentle creature in domestic life, and a very amiable man; but when -he took part in any religious or political controversy, his pen was dipped in -gall. The occasion of the imprisonment before alluded to was a letter in reply -to <span class='sc'>Watson</span>, Bishop of Llandaff, who had written a pamphlet exhorting the -people to loyalty. <span class='sc'>Wakefield</span> asserted that the poor, the labouring classes; -could lose nothing by French conquest. Referring to the fable of the Ass and -the Trumpeter, he said: ‘Will the enemy make me carry two panniers?’ and -declared that, if the French came, they would find him at his post with the -illustrious dead.”—[<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<h3 class='c031'><span class='sc'>John Thelwall</span> (page <a href='#Page_284'>284</a>).</h3> - -<p class='c043'>“<span class='sc'>Coleridge</span> and <span class='sc'>Southey</span> spoke of <span class='sc'>Thelwall</span>, calling him merely ‘John’: -<span class='sc'>Southey</span> said: ‘He is a good-hearted man; besides we ought never to forget -that he was once as near as possible being hanged, as there is some merit in -<em>that</em>’.”—<cite>Crabb Robinson’s Diary.</cite>—[<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_295'>295</span> - <h3 class='c031'><span class='sc'>Jean Paul Marat</span> (page <a href='#Page_284'>284</a>).</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c043'>The following remarkable account of this scientific monster is given in an -“Historical Account of the Warrington Academy, an institution in Lancashire,” -published in the <cite>Monthly Repository</cite>, by the Rev. W. Turner, of Wakefield.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“After the departure of <span class='sc'>Dr. Reinhold Forster</span>, various unsuccessful -attempts were made to engage a foreigner in the capacity of teacher of the -modern languages—a <span class='sc'>M. Fantin la Tour</span>, a <span class='sc'>M. le Maitre</span>, <em>alias</em> <span class='sc'>Mara</span>, and a -<span class='sc'>Mr. Lewis Guery</span>; but none of them continued for any length of time.... -There is great reason to believe that <span class='sc'>le Maitre</span>, <em>alias</em> <span class='sc'>Mara</span>, was the infamous -<span class='sc'>Marat</span>.... It is known that he was in England about this time [1774], and -published in London “A Philosophical Essay on the connection between the -Body and the Soul of Man,” and, somewhere in the country, had a principal -hand in printing, in quarto, a work of considerable ability, but of a seditious -tendency, entitled—‘<cite>The Chains of Slavery: a work wherein the clandestine and -villainous Attempts of Princes to ruin Liberty are pointed out, and the dreadful -Scenes of Despotism disclosed, etc.; London, sold by J. Almon.... T. Payne, -and Richardson and Urquhart, 1774.</cite>’ <span class='sc'>Mara</span>, as his name is spelt in the -Minutes of the Academy, very soon left Warrington, whence he went to Oxford, -robbed the Ashmolean Museum, escaped to Ireland, was apprehended in -Dublin, tried and convicted in Oxford, under the name of <span class='sc'>le Maitre</span>, and -sentenced to the hulks at Woolwich. Here one of his old pupils at Warrington, -a native of Bristol, saw him. He was afterwards a Bookseller in Bristol, and -failed; was confined in the gaol of that city, but released by the Society there -for the relief of prisoners confined for small sums. One of that society, who -had previously relieved him in Bristol Gaol, afterwards saw him in the National -Assembly in Paris in 1792.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>Grave doubts have, however, been thrown upon the accuracy of the above -statement by <span class='sc'>Henry A. Bright</span>, B.A., in a paper published in the <cite>Transactions -of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire</cite>, 8vo, vol. xi., session 1858–9. Yet -it was an establishment that might have attracted such a mind as Marat’s. -“At <span class='sc'>Warrington Academy</span> (says Mr. Bright), were collected some of the -noblest <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">literati</span></i> of their day. Here the free thought of the English Presbyterians -first began to crystallize into the Unitarian theology which they have -since maintained. Here, for a time, was the centre of the liberal politics and -the literary taste of the entire county.... The Academy was founded in -1757, and was closed in 1786. It was visited by John Howard, W. Roscoe, T. -Pennant, Currie, the biographer of Burns, &c. The first Tutors appointed -were <span class='sc'>Dr. John Taylor</span> of Norwich, Tutor in Divinity, <span class='sc'>Mr. Holt</span> of Kirkdale, -Tutor in Natural Philosophy, <span class='sc'>Mr. Dyer</span> of London, Tutor in Languages and -Polite Literature, whose duties, however, were taken by <span class='sc'>Mr.</span> (afterwards the -<span class='sc'>Rev. Dr.</span>) <span class='sc'>Aikin</span>, father of the celebrated Physician and Mrs. Barbauld. <span class='sc'>Dr. -Priestley</span> succeeded <span class='sc'>Dr. Aikin</span>.”</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Dr. Priestley</span>, who is addressed by <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span> as “Patriot, and Saint, and -Sage,” was succeeded by <span class='sc'>John Reinhold Forster</span>, a German Scholar and -Naturalist, who accompanied Captain Cook in his second voyage, <span class='sc'>Dr. Enfield</span>, -author of <cite>The Speaker</cite>, and the <span class='sc'>Rev. Gilbert Wakefield</span>, were Tutors. Among -the students were <span class='sc'>Mr. Serjeant Heywood</span>; <span class='sc'>Archibald Hamilton Rowan</span>, -the Irish rebel; the <span class='sc'>Rev. H. Malthus</span>; <span class='sc'>Lord Ennismore</span>; <span class='sc'>Sir James -Carnegie</span> of Southesk; <span class='sc'>Mr. Henry Beaufoy</span>, etc., all strong Whigs. The -name of neither <span class='sc'>Mara</span> nor <span class='sc'>Le Maitre</span> appears on the Minutes of the Academy.</p> - -<p class='c007'>For the latest contribution to the history of <span class='sc'>Marat’s</span> sojourn in England we -are indebted to the researches of <span class='sc'>Mr. H. Morse Stephens</span>, of Balliol College, -Oxford, who, in his elaborate and painstaking <cite>History of the French Revolution</cite> -(1886), which includes facts unknown to Carlyle and earlier historians, gives the -following account of that “arch-destroyer”; but, as he calls him, “a much -maligned individual”:—</p> - -<p class='c007'>“<span class='sc'>Jean Paul Marat</span>,” says he, “was born at Boudry, near Neufchatel, in -Switzerland, on April 13, 1742. His father, who spelt his name ‘<span class='sc'>Mara</span>,’ was a -physician of some ability, and on being exiled from his native island of Sardinia -for abandoning the Roman Catholic religion, had taken up his residence in -Switzerland; and married a Swiss Protestant. <span class='sc'>Jean Paul</span> was the eldest of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_296'>296</span>three sons; his next brother settled down as a watchmaker at Geneva, and his -youngest brother entered the service of the Empress Catherine, and distinguished -himself in the Russian army under the title of the Chevalier de -Boudry. <span class='sc'>Jean Paul</span> was from his childhood of an intensely sensitive and -excitable disposition, and also so quick at his books that he became a good -classical scholar, and acquainted with most modern languages. As his chief -taste, however, seemed to be for natural science, he was intended to follow his -father’s profession, and was, at the age of eighteen, sent to study medicine at -the University of Bordeaux. He there obtained a thorough knowledge of his -profession, but devoted himself particularly to the sciences of optics and electricity. -From Bordeaux he went to Paris, where he effected a remarkable cure -of a disease of the eyes, which had been abandoned as hopeless both by -physicians and quacks, by means of electricity. From Paris he went to Amsterdam, -and, finally, to <span class='sc'>London</span>, where he set up in practice in <em>Church Street, Soho</em>, -then one of the most fashionable districts in London. He must soon have -formed a good practice, for he stopped in London, with occasional visits to -Dublin and Edinburgh, for ten years, and only left it to take up an appointment -at the French court. While in London he wrote his first book, and in -1772 and 1773, he published the first two volumes of a philosophical and physiological -<cite>Essay on Man</cite>. The point he discussed was the old problem of the relation -between body and mind, and he treated it in a very interesting manner -from the physiological point of view. He held some extraordinary theory -about the existence of some fluid in the veins which acted on the mind; which, -however, does not impair the interest of his inquiries into the cause of dreams, -or diminish the respect felt for his wide reading and extensive knowledge both -of ancient and modern philosophical and medical authors. He shows a wide -knowledge of Latin and Greek literature, and while writing in good English -freely quotes French, German, Italian, and Spanish writers. In one part of his -book he declared that it was ridiculous for any one to make psychical researches -without having some knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and openly attacked -<span class='sc'>Helvétius</span> for despising scientific knowledge in his famous <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">De l’Esprit</span></cite>. -<span class='sc'>Voltaire</span> naturally took the side of <span class='sc'>Helvétius</span>, and did the young author the -honour of noticing, and very severely criticising, his book. <span class='sc'>Marat</span> himself -translated it into French, and published it at Amsterdam in 1775. His next -work was of a political character. He had got mixed up with some of the -popular societies in England, which were striving to obtain a thorough reform -of the representation of the people in the House of Commons, and, in 1774, -published a work, which he entitled <span class='sc'>The Chains of Slavery</span>. In this book, which -is partly historical and partly political, he begs the electors to take more care in -the choice of their representatives. It is written in a very declamatory style, -and strikes the note of the responsibility of representatives to their constituents, -which is the key-note of all his political ideas. The book is published in quarto, -and is printed on fine paper, so that it can hardly have been meant to appeal to -the populace, but it, nevertheless, procured him the honorary membership of -the popular societies of <em>Newcastle</em> and other great northern cities. Subsequently -he again returned to his profession, and after publishing a medical tract in -1775, of which no copy is known to exist, he published <cite>An Inquiry into the -Nature, Cause, and Cure of a singular Disease of the Eyes</cite>, in 1776. [See <cite>Academy</cite> of -September 23, 1882.] In this little pamphlet there is no violent language; -it describes the disease and the cases he had cured in perfectly simple language, -and shows, at least, that he was no mere quack, but a scientific physician. On -June 30, 1775, he had, while on a visit to <em>Scotland</em>, received the honorary degree -of M.D. from the <em>University of St. Andrews</em> for his eminence as a doctor, and had -probably received similar compliments from other Universities, because, on -June 24, 1777, <span class='sc'>Jean Paul Marat</span>, ‘médecin de plusieurs facultés d’Angleterre,’ -was appointed, for his good character and high reputation as a doctor, physician -to the body-guard of the Comte d’Artois, with a salary of a thousand livres a -year and allowances. To take up this court appointment he moved to Paris, -and soon acquired a large practice there, and the name of ‘physician of the -incurables,’ from the number of hopeless cases he was successful in treating. -He also moved in the best society about the court, and won the affections of -the <em>Marquise de l’Aubespine</em> for saving her life. For some reason or other, most -<span class='pageno' id='Page_297'>297</span>probably because he had obtained a competent fortune, and desired to satisfy -his ambition, he resigned his court appointment in 1783, and devoted himself to -science. He had long observed the phenomena of Heat, Light, and Electricity, -and in the course of the next five years published the result of his experiments, -and presented them to the <em>Academy of Sciences</em>. His hard work won him the -friendship of <span class='sc'>Benjamin Franklin</span>, but the violence with which he attacked his -adversaries, and his audacity in doubting the conclusions of <span class='sc'>Newton</span>, prevented -him from obtaining a seat in the Academy of Sciences. When he recognised -that this hostility to himself prevented due recognition of his work, he determined -to win the approbation of the Academy by concealing his name; and his -translation of the <cite>Optics</cite> of <span class='sc'>Newton</span>, which was covered by the name of <em>M. de -Beauzée</em>, and published in 1788, was at once crowned by the very Academy which -had rejected him.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“His political work during these years was confined to a treatise, in imitation -of <span class='sc'>Beccaria</span>, on the subject of Punishments. The approach of the States-General, -however, revived his political enthusiasm, and in the March of 1789, -when he believed himself to be dying, he published his <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Offrande à la Patrie</span></i>, -which was followed in quick succession by a supplement and other pamphlets. -Of these, distinctly the most able is the <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Tableau des Vices de la Constitution -Anglaise</span></cite>, which he presented to the Assembly in September, 1789. In it he -points out what he had learnt in the popular societies of England, that the -English people was by no means so well governed as it was supposed to be; -that the influence of the king and the ministry was overwhelming through the -extent of patronage, and that the rich there bought seats in the House of Commons -as they bought estates.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“<span class='sc'>Marat</span> then felt that he could not express himself frequently enough in -pamphlets, and on September 12 appeared the first number of a journal written -entirely by himself, called the <span class='sc'>Journal du Peuple</span>, which title was changed to -that of <cite><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ami du Peuple</span></cite>, or <cite>The People’s Friend</cite>, with the fourth number.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“To understand the man, it is necessary to get rid of preconceived ideas. -Suspicious and irritable, excitable and sensitive to an extreme, he attacked -everybody, and attacked them all with unaccustomed violence; but with all -this, he was in private life a highly educated gentleman. The extent of his -attainments appears from his numerous works, and it must be remembered that -he could not for years have been a fashionable physician and held a court -appointment without being perfectly polite and well-bred. His faults arose -from his irritable and suspicious nature, and years of persecution made him -half-insane towards the end of his life; but in September, 1789, he was in perfect -possession of his senses, and the very popularity of his journal showed how congenial -his gospel of suspicion was to the Parisians.”—[<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<h3 class='c031'><span class='sc'>Jean Paul Marat’s Sister.</span></h3> - -<p class='c043'>The Right Hon. J. W. Croker, in a letter to John Winter Jones, dated 23rd -October, 1854, says that <span class='sc'>Colin</span>, who had been Marat’s printer or publisher, -“introduced him to Marat’s sister, who was as like her brother, he said—and -as from all pictures and busts I readily believed—as ‘<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">deux gouttes -d’eau</span></i>’. She was very small, very ugly, very sharp, and a great politician. -Her ostensible livelihood was making watch-springs, but she told me she was -pretty easy in her circumstances, and I either gathered from her, or saw cause -to suspect, that she had some secret charitable help.”—[<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<h3 class='c031'><span class='sc'>Laréveillère-Lepaux</span> (page <a href='#Page_283'>283</a>).</h3> - -<p class='c043'><span class='sc'>Laréveillère-Lepaux</span> left orders in his will that his <cite>Memoirs</cite> were to be -printed and published. His heirs were not proud of the part the <span class='sc'>Director</span> -had played, so, after complying with the terms of his will and <em>printing</em> the -<cite>Memoirs</cite>, they <em>destroyed the whole issue at once</em>; and the only copy extant is the -one which, in accordance with the law of France, was sent to the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Bibliothèque -Nationale</span></i> at Paris.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_298'>298</span> - <h3 class='c031'>THE THEOPHILANTHROPISTS.</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c043'>These (<em>Gr.</em> “Lovers of Gods and Men”) were a sect of <em>Deists</em> which appeared -in France amid the confusion and disorder of the first Revolution. While the -State was indifferent to all forms of Religion, and the Republican Directory was -afraid of the Christianity which prevailed in the Church, a felt consciousness -of the necessity of some religion led many to adopt a form of worship adapted -to Natural Religion.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“This Sect” (says <span class='sc'>Southey</span>, in the <cite>Quarterly Review</cite>, vol. xxviii.) “began with -more circumstances in their favour than ever occurred to facilitate the establishment -of a religion or of a sect. Many persons of considerable influence and -reputation engaged in the project with zeal, and it was patronised by <span class='sc'>La -Réveillère Lêpaux</span>, one of the Directory.... His motives for putting himself -at the head of the Theophilanthropists are said to have been twofold: if -the scheme succeeded, he intended to become their High Priest; and he hated -Christianity. Through his means the Theophilanthropists obtained a decree -from the Government giving them a right of holding their meetings in the -Churches, as national buildings, which were open to any religion, but belonged -to none.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“Nearly twenty Churches in Paris were taken possession of; but by occupying -so many, they injured themselves.... They took up too extended a position, -and had neither numbers nor means answerable to the scale upon which they -set out.... Their <em>Service</em> began at noon, and lasted about an hour and a half. -It was, they said, a worship for those who had no other, and a moral society -for those who had. The <em>Ritual</em> consisted of Prayers, Hymns original or selected -from the best French Poets, readings from their Manual, and Discourses. The -<em>Hymns</em> were, in general, judicious, and set to good music, and the <em>Prayers</em> well -composed; but had their books been stript of all that they had borrowed from -the Gospel, and from the works of Christian writers, they would have been -meagre indeed. In one part of the Service there was a short pause, during -which the congregation were expected to consider each in silence what his own -conduct had been since the last of these meetings. A basket of fruit or -flowers, according to the season, was placed upon the altar, as a mark of acknowledgment -for the bounties of the Creator; and over the altar was the -inscription, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Nous croyons à l’existence de Dieu, et à l’immortalité de l’âme</span></i>.... <span class='sc'>La -Réveillère</span>, in a speech at the Institute, declaiming against Christianity, as -being opposed to the liberty of mankind, expressed his wish that a form of -religion were adopted, which should have only <em>a couple of articles</em>. He wished -also for a religion without priests; and this, it was pleasantly observed, would -be like a Directory without a Director.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“This was the <cite>Creed of the Theophilanthropists</cite>. And on each side of it, the -following sentences were inscribed in their temples, to take place of the -Decalogue:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“‘Adore God, cherish your fellow-creatures; render yourselves useful to your</div> - <div class='line in4'>country.</div> - <div class='line'>Good is whatever tends to preserve man, or to perfectionate him.</div> - <div class='line'>Evil is whatever tends to destroy him, or to deteriorate him.</div> - <div class='line'>Children, honour your fathers and mothers; obey them with affection, solace</div> - <div class='line in4'>their old age. Fathers and mothers, instruct your children.</div> - <div class='line'>Wives, behold in your husbands the heads of your houses. Husbands, love</div> - <div class='line in4'>your wives, and render yourselves mutually happy.’</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>“At <em>Marriage</em> the bride and bridegroom were to be coupled with ribands, or -garlands of flowers, the ends of which were to be held on each side by the -elders of their respective families. The Bride received a ring from her husband, -and a medal of union from the head of the family. There was a rite also for -infants.... When a member <em>died</em>, the other members of the Society were -invited to place a flower upon the urn, and pray the Creator to receive the -deceased into his bosom. The Decades and National Holidays were observed -by these Anti-Christians, and they had four Holidays of their own, for Socrates, -St. Vincent de Paule, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Washington,—oddly -<span class='pageno' id='Page_299'>299</span>assorted names! Two of them, however, stand well together in this kalendar, -for the one, who was a Christian, established the Foundling Hospital at Paris; -and the other, who was a sentimentalist, a philosopher, and a Theophilanthropist, -sent his own children to it....</p> - -<p class='c007'>“<span class='sc'>La Réveillère</span> used to take praise to himself for having, in his Directorial -character, humbled the Pope and the great Turk. The Anti-Christian -language of the Directory, and its persecution of the Clergy, are imputed to -him; so far his colleagues were willing to go with him; but his zeal for -Deism they regarded as ridiculous.... In the way of pecuniary aid, he -could obtain little:—<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">beaucoup d’argent</span></i> was what the Directory were accustomed -to demand, not to give....</p> - -<p class='c007'>“Their <em>Service</em> at Paris was numerously attended while it was a new -spectacle, and the subject of conversation; but more than two-thirds of the -persons thus assembled were idlers. But this concourse soon abated; there -was nothing attractive in the ceremonies, nothing to impose upon the -imagination or the senses. A propagandist reported from Montreuil that -the readings and orations had been heard by an audience <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">avide de morale</span></i>, -but he had observed with pain that the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">matériel</span></i> of the worship was not -what it should have been.... It was got up at Bourges in better style; -the orator there officiated in a white sash ornamented with blue flowers, -before an altar upon which an orange tree was placed: and at the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">fête des -époux</span></i>, the Theophilanthropists carried <em>two pigeons</em> in procession, as an -emblem of conjugal tenderness, and placed them upon the altar of the country!”</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c007'>[The literary association of <span class='sc'>Lamb</span> with <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span> and <span class='sc'>Southey</span> [says -<span class='sc'>Sir T. N. Talfourd</span>, in his life of <span class='sc'>Lamb</span>,] drew upon him the hostility of the -young scorners of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, who, luxuriating in boyish pride and aristocratic -patronage, tossed the arrows of their wit against all charged with innovation, -whether in politics or poetry, and cared little whom they wounded. -No one could be more innocent than <span class='sc'>Lamb</span> of political heresy; no one more -strongly opposed to new theories in morality—which he always regarded with -disgust. The very first number of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine</cite> [this -was, however, a new work, by different hands, but imbued with the same spirit -as <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>] was adorned by a caricature of <span class='sc'>Gillray’s</span>, in which <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span> -and <span class='sc'>Southey</span> were introduced with asses’ heads, and <span class='sc'>Lloyd</span> and <span class='sc'>Lamb</span> -as toad and frog. In the number of July, 1798 [of the original <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>] -appeared the well-known poem of <cite>New Morality</cite>, in which all the prominent -objects of the hatred of these champions of religion and order were introduced -as offering homage to <span class='sc'>Lepaux</span>, a French charlatan,—of whose existence <span class='sc'>Lamb</span> -had never even heard. Not content with thus confounding persons of the most -opposite opinions and the most various characters in one common libel, the -party returned to the charge in their number for September [of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin -Review</cite>], and denounced the young poets in a parody on the <cite>Ode to the Passions</cite>, -under the title of <cite>The Anarchists</cite>. They are reprinted in the present volume.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c007'>[The cause of Coleridge, Southey, Lloyd, and Lamb, being thus satirized as -persons of the same politics, was the conjoint publication of their works. In -the spring of 1796, <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span> published vol. i. of his <cite>Juvenile Poems</cite>, including -three Sonnets by <span class='sc'>Lamb</span>; in May, 1797, there appeared a new edition, with many -poems by <span class='sc'>Lloyd</span> and <span class='sc'>Lamb</span>. <cite>The Fall of Robespierre</cite>, an historic drama, was -published Sept. 22, 1794: the first act written by <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>, the second and -third by <span class='sc'>Southey</span>. It is not difficult to understand why <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span> was so -severely attacked by the Government writers. In 1795, at the early age of 23, -he delivered, at Bristol, some public lectures, reflecting in warm terms on the -measures of <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>. Three of them were published at Bristol at the end of 1795—the -first two together, with the title of <cite><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Conciones ad Populum</span></cite>; the third as -<cite>The Plot Discovered</cite>. The eloquent passage in conclusion of the first of these -addresses was written by <span class='sc'>Southey</span>. That he was considered by ministers a -dangerous character is proved by his having been for some months watched by -a Government spy while residing at Stowey, providing for his scanty maintenance -by writing verses for <cite>The Morning Post</cite>. It was his fortune also to excite -<span class='pageno' id='Page_300'>300</span>the ire of <span class='sc'>Buonaparte</span>, by his anti-gallican writings in the same paper; and a -benevolent intimation of his danger by Baron von Humboldt and Cardinal -Fesch alone prevented his being arrested while in Italy. (See p. <a href='#Page_284'>284</a>.)</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Southey</span> thus alludes to the attack upon him (by <span class='sc'>Gillray</span>, in his famous -caricature), in a letter addressed to <span class='sc'>C. W. W. Wynn</span>, dated Hereford, August -15, 1798:—“I have seen myself <em>Bedfordized</em>, and it has been a subject of much -amusement. <span class='sc'>Holcroft’s</span> likeness is admirably preserved. I know not what -poor <span class='sc'>Lamb</span> has done to be croaking there. What I think the worst part of <cite>The -Anti-Jacobin</cite> abuse is the lumping together men of such opposite principles; -this was stupid. We should have all been welcoming the <cite>Director</cite>, not the <cite>Theophilanthrope</cite>. -The conductors of <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> will have much to answer for -in thus inflaming the animosities of this country. They are labouring to produce -the deadly hatred of Irish faction; perhaps to produce the same end. -Such an address as you mention might probably be of great use; that I could -assist you in it is less certain. I do not feel myself at all calculated for anything -that requires methodical reasoning; and though you and I should agree in the -main object of the pamphlet, our opinions are at root different. The old systems -of government, I think, must fall; but in this country the immediate danger is -on the other hand,—from an unconstitutional and unlimited power. <span class='sc'>Burleigh</span> -saw how a Parliament might be employed against the people, and <span class='sc'>Montesquieu</span> -prophesied the fall of English liberty when the Legislature should become corrupt. -You will not agree with me in thinking his prophecy fulfilled. Violent -men there undoubtedly are among the democrats, as they are always called; -but is there any one among them whom the ministerialists will allow to be -moderate?” <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> certainly speaks the sentiments of Government.’—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<h4 class='c038'><span class='sc'>Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey</span> (page <a href='#Page_284'>284</a>).</h4> - -<p class='c043'>[“The passionate verdicts given, both <em>pro</em> and <em>con</em>, in reference to <span class='sc'>Wordsworth</span>, -<span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>, and <span class='sc'>Southey</span>, may now be looked back upon with some -wonder, but all three had made themselves obnoxious to the charge of renegadism. -<span class='sc'>Wordsworth</span> had accepted the office of stamp-distributor from Lord -Lonsdale; <span class='sc'>Southey</span>, after attempting to suppress his demagogical drama of -<em>Wat Tyler</em>, became a violent Tory, bringing a hot partisanship into the ranks to -which he fled; and <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>, a Tom-Paineite in politics and a preaching -Unitarian, ended by adopting all the doctrines of orthodoxy.”—<em>Sir John Bowring.</em>—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<h4 class='c038'><span class='sc'>Edmund Burke</span> (page <a href='#Page_286'>286</a>).</h4> - -<p class='c043'>“<span class='sc'>Adair</span> told me a great many things about <span class='sc'>Burke</span>, and <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, and <span class='sc'>Fitzpatrick</span>, -and all the eminent men of that time with whom he lived when he was -young. He said ... that <span class='sc'>Fitzpatrick</span> was the most agreeable of them -all, but <span class='sc'>Hare</span> the most brilliant. <span class='sc'>Burke’s</span> conversation was delightful, so -luminous and instructive. He was very passionate; and <span class='sc'>Adair</span> said that the -first time he ever saw him he unluckily asked him some question about the wild -parts of Ireland, when <span class='sc'>Burke</span> broke out: ‘You are a fool and a blockhead. -There are no wild parts in Ireland.’ ... There was an attempt to bring -about a reconciliation between him and <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, and a meeting for that purpose -took place of all the leading men, at Burlington House. <span class='sc'>Burke</span> was on the -point of yielding when his son suddenly made his appearance unbidden, and, -on being told what was going on, he said: ‘My father shall be no party to such -a compromise,’ took <span class='sc'>Burke</span> aside, and persuaded him to reject the overtures. -That son <span class='sc'>Adair</span> described as the most disagreeable, violent, and wrong-headed -of men, but the idol of his father, who used to say that he united all his own -talents and acquirements with those of <span class='sc'>Fox</span> and everybody else, &c.”—See <cite>The -Greville Memoirs</cite>, i. 136–7.—[<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_301'>301</span>[The following remarkable passage occurs in a pamphlet written by <span class='sc'>Tom -Paine</span>, entitled: <cite>Thomas Paine to the People of England, on the Invasion of England; -Philadelphia, printed at the Temple of Reason Press, Arch Street, 1804</cite>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“The original plan, formed in the time of the Directory (but now much more -extensive) was to build one thousand boats, each sixty feet long, sixteen feet -broad, to draw about two feet water, to carry a twenty-four or thirty-six pounder -in the head and a field-piece in the stern, to be run out as soon as they touched -ground. Each boat was to carry a hundred men, making in the whole one -hundred thousand, and to row with twenty or twenty-five oars on a side. -Bonaparte was appointed to the command, and by an agreement between him -and me, I was to accompany him, as the intention of the expedition was to give -the people of England an opportunity of forming a government for themselves, -and thereby bring about peace.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE COURIER.</h3> - -<p class='c043'><span class='sc'>The Courier</span>, in the time of the war, was the great paper; it obtained a large -circulation, and consequently exercised considerable influence. It was started -by <span class='sc'>John Parry</span> in 1792, and he carried it on for some years with tolerable -success, till he was ruined in 1799 by a government prosecution for a libel on the -Emperor of Russia. It was bought by <span class='sc'>Daniel Stuart</span>, who left <cite>The Morning -Post</cite> for <cite>The Courier</cite> in 1803. During three years, says he, at the time of the -overthrow of <span class='sc'>Buonaparte</span>, <cite>The Courier</cite>, by the able management of <span class='sc'>Peter -Street</span>, who was editor and half-proprietor, sold steadily upwards of 8000 per -day; during one fortnight it sold upwards of 10,000 daily. At the end of 1809, -<span class='sc'>S. T. Coleridge</span> contributed to it some Essays on the Spaniards; and in 1811 -he wrote for it on a salary. At this time the paper was much under ministerial -direction. From about the year 1818 till 1829 <cite>The Courier</cite> was conducted by <span class='sc'>W. -Mudford</span>, with whom <span class='sc'>William Stewart</span> was a proprietor. After 1819 <span class='sc'>D. -Stuart</span> took no interest in it, and parted with his last share in it in 1822. -After the year 1825, <span class='sc'>James Stuart</span>, a Scotch gentleman of great talent and -respectability—the same that unfortunately killed <span class='sc'>Sir Alexander Boswell</span> -in a duel, and was author of <cite>Travels in the United States</cite>—became editor. True -to his principles, he gave in this capacity every support in his power to the -Whig or Liberal party. He was appointed by <span class='sc'>Lord Melbourne</span> to the situation -of Factory Inspector, which he held till his death, at the age of 74, in 1849. -When <span class='sc'>Jas. Stuart</span> obtained his factory appointment, <span class='sc'>Sam. Laman Blanchard</span> -became editor. The paper having become, like other evening papers, less profitable -than of old, the proprietors sold it to the party they had so long opposed. -It took Tory politics; <span class='sc'>Laman Blanchard</span>, of course, resigned; and a few short -years were sufficient to destroy a journal which had once been the most valuable -newspaper property in England. Its last number appeared 6th July, 1842.</p> - -<p class='c007'>It is a curious, but not creditable, circumstance that <cite>The Courier</cite> was in the -habit of re-printing, from year to year, without acknowledgment, the able leading -articles from <cite>The Liverpool Courier</cite>, written by the Rev. Richard Watson, -secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, by whom, in conjunction with -his friend, Mr. Kaye, this newspaper was established upon loyal and constitutional -principles.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“<cite>The Courier</cite>, in 1814, was supplied by R. Peel, Lord Palmerston, and J. W. -Croker, with political squibs and lyrics, resembling in general features <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> -and <cite>The Rolliad</cite>. The verses are chiefly parodies of Moore’s <cite>Irish -Melodies</cite>, or of Byron’s songs, and are far above the ordinary level of such compositions.... -The various pieces were collected and published in 1815, under -the title of <cite>The New Whig Guide</cite>.”—<cite>Croker Papers</cite>, vol. i., p. 58.</p> - -<p class='c007'>This statement contains several inaccuracies. The pieces forming <cite>The New -Whig Guide</cite> were first collected and published in 1819, <em>and not in 1815</em>, for -<span class='sc'>Byron’s</span> <cite>Fare thee well</cite> was not written till April, 1816. The parody on it was -entitled <cite>The Leader’s Lament. By the Right Hon. George Ponsonby</cite>. A. Hayward -says in his review of <cite>The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin</cite>, in <cite>The Edinburgh Review</cite>, -1858—that “<span class='sc'>Canning</span> has been traditionally credited with the parody of Moore’s. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_302'>302</span><em>Believe me, if all those endearing young charms</em>, the gentleman addressed being a -distinguished commoner afterwards ennobled (the first <span class='sc'>Lord Methuen</span>), who -was far from meriting the character [of a foolish fop] thereby fastened on him”. -The other parodies were by <span class='sc'>John Calcraft</span>, the Hon. <span class='sc'>W. H. Lyttelton</span>, -<span class='sc'>Dudley North</span>, M.P., <span class='sc'>Kirkman Finlay</span>, M.P. for Glasgow, &c. <span class='sc'>Mr. -Methuen</span>, in return, wrote many clever squibs and parodies against the -Tories, which were collected, under the title of <cite>The New Tory Guide</cite>, and reproduced, -like its rivals in 1819. “Talking of <cite>The Morning Chronicle</cite>,” says <span class='sc'>T. -Moore</span> (<cite>Diary, 19th March, 1831</cite>), “<span class='sc'>Paul Methuen</span> told us he was the author -of almost all those about <cite>The Rat Club</cite>; which are certainly some of the best.”</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE STAR.</h3> - -<p class='c043'><span class='sc'>The Star</span>, the first London daily Evening Newspaper, was started in 1788 by -<span class='sc'>Peter Stuart</span>, brother to <span class='sc'>Daniel Stuart</span>, of <cite>The Morning Post</cite>. Its first -editor was <span class='sc'>Andrew Macdonald</span>, author of <cite>Vimonda</cite>, a tragedy, and other -works: and after him another Scottish poet, John Mayne, author of <cite>The Siller -Gun</cite>, was editor. <span class='sc'>Robert Burns</span> was offered an engagement to write poetry -for it, at the rate of one guinea an article per week. The arrangement was not -completed. It was to <span class='sc'>Peter Stuart</span> that <span class='sc'>Burns</span> addressed his “Poem, -written to a gentleman who had sent him a Newspaper, and offered to continue it -free of expense”. The facetious Bob Allen, of whom Charles Lamb has such -pleasant reminiscences, was for many years a contributor to this paper. Subsequently, -<span class='sc'>Dr. A. Tilloch</span>, editor of <cite>The Philosophical Magazine</cite>, was for many -years editor of <cite>The Star</cite>. After Oct. 15, 1831, <cite>The Star</cite> became incorporated -with <cite>The Albion</cite> newspaper, under the title of <cite>The Albion and Evening Star</cite>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><cite>The Star</cite> was during many years the leading newspaper on the Whig side, -<span class='sc'>Campbell</span> the poet being one of its writers after 1804, when he was engaged at -a salary of four guineas a week. The clear profits of this paper in 1820 were -said, on apparently good authority, to amount to £6000.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE MORNING CHRONICLE.</h3> - -<p class='c043'><span class='sc'>The Morning Chronicle</span> was, with one exception (<cite>The Public Ledger</cite>, which -started in 1760), the oldest of the daily papers up to the period of its discontinuance -March 19, 1862. The latest number in the British Museum is dated -Dec. 31, 1861.</p> - -<p class='c007'>It was established on Whig principles, 28th June, 1769, by <span class='sc'>William Woodfall</span>, -who carried it on with great success till 1789.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Woodfall, in addition to other talents requisite to the success of a newspaper, -possessed two, which were of essential service to it, namely, his prodigious -memory, which enabled him to report Parliamentary Debates without the aid -of notes, and the excellence of his Theatrical Criticisms, which, as <span class='sc'>Mr. Fox -Bourne</span>, in his copious and valuable work on <em>English Newspapers</em>, 2 vols., 8vo., 1887—one -to which the editor of the present publication has been under frequent -obligations—says, “are a neglected mine of wealth for students of Theatrical -History”.</p> - -<p class='c007'>On <span class='sc'>Woodfall’s</span> death, in 1803, it was sold to <span class='sc'>James Perry</span>, who borrowed -£500 from <span class='sc'>Ransome & Co.</span>, the bankers, and some more from <span class='sc'>Bellamy</span>, the -wine merchant—who was also caterer and doorkeeper to the House of Commons—and -entered into partnership with a Charterhouse schoolmaster named -<span class='sc'>Gray</span>, who had just received a legacy of £500. With that joint capital, the two -bought <cite>The Chronicle</cite>, the <span class='sc'>Duke of Norfolk</span> making <span class='sc'>Perry</span> a present of a -house in the Strand, which he converted into a new publishing office. A few -other influential Whigs, also, contributed a further sum, which, as the late <span class='sc'>Sir -Robert Adair</span>, who is so often satirized in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, and who was a -subscriber to the fund, informed the editor of the present work, was £300.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Perry</span> was on good terms with his contributors, and made <cite>The Morning -Chronicle</cite> a more prosperous and influential journal than had ever before been -known in England. <span class='sc'>Gray</span> provided the heavy articles, <span class='sc'>Perry</span> those of lighter -sort; and after <span class='sc'>Gray’s</span> death, which happened when he had been part proprietor -for only a few years, other writers were employed, among them <span class='sc'>Jas. Mackintosh</span> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_303'>303</span>and <span class='sc'>Sheridan</span>, and in later times <span class='sc'>T. Campbell</span> and <span class='sc'>T. Moore</span>, who contributed -verse, and <span class='sc'>John Campbell</span>, then a young barrister, who was the -Theatrical Critic, and was still so in 1810. <span class='sc'>T. Campbell</span>, on coming to London -in 1802, was engaged as a political writer, but this not being his forte, he, with -great judgment, confined himself to poetical pieces, among which were <cite>Ye -Mariners of England</cite>, and <cite>The Exile of Erin</cite>. <span class='sc'>Perry</span> had another and equally -famous contributor. In Sept., 1793, <span class='sc'>S. T. Coleridge</span>, then aged nineteen, “sent -a poem of a few lines to <span class='sc'>Perry</span>, soliciting a loan of a guinea for a distressed -author,” which prayer was immediately granted. In 1796, he accepted an offer -of Perry’s to write in it, but the arrangement was never carried out. In later -years, <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span> wrote some other poems for <cite>The Morning Chronicle</cite>, and his -friend <span class='sc'>Charles Lamb</span> was an occasional writer of prose for it.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Perry</span> continued as the general manager of the paper till his death on 6th -Dec., 1821; but before this he had left much of the editing to others, his first assistant -after <span class='sc'>Gray’s</span> death being <span class='sc'>Robert Spankie</span>, ultimately attorney-general -of Bengal. The next was <span class='sc'>John Black</span>, who had joined him in 1810; and upon -him, when <span class='sc'>Perry</span> died, the entire management devolved.</p> - -<p class='c007'>After <span class='sc'>Perry’s</span> death the paper was purchased for £42,000, by <span class='sc'>William -Clement</span>, by whom it was held till 1834, when it was sold to <span class='sc'>Sir John Easthope</span> -for £16,500.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In 1843, <span class='sc'>John Black</span> was dismissed to make way for <span class='sc'>Andrew Doyle</span>, who -had been Foreign Editor, and had married Sir John’s daughter. Black died in -1855.</p> - -<p class='c007'>On 26th July, 1847, <span class='sc'>Sir John Easthope</span>, who had been carrying on the paper -at a loss for some time, sold it to the Duke of Newcastle, W. E. Gladstone, -Sidney Herbert, and other influential Peelites. Its new Editor was <span class='sc'>John -Douglas Cook</span>, who had for some time been one of the reporters of <cite>The Times</cite>, -and who gathered round him a brilliant staff of contributors, including George -Sydney Smythe, afterwards Lord Strangford, Gilbert Venables, Abraham Hayward, -William Vernon Harcourt, and Thackeray. Its business manager was -<span class='sc'>William Delane</span>, the father of the clever young editor of <cite>The Times</cite>, <span class='sc'>John -Thaddeus Delane</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><cite>The Chronicle</cite> lingered on as a would-be Peelite organ till the autumn of 1854, -when by a curious arrangement, the paper, with all its plant, was sold to Serjeant -<span class='sc'>Glover</span>, for £7500, on the understanding that, if he continued to support in it -the Peelite policy, he should have the money back with interest, being paid -£3000 a year for three years. That contract soon fell through, as <span class='sc'>Glover</span> -preferred to draw a subsidy from <span class='sc'>Louis Napoleon</span>, and to make other experiments. -At the close of 1854, the circulation of <cite>The Morning Chronicle</cite> averaged -only about 2500, while that of <cite>The Morning Post</cite> was about 3000, that of <cite>The -Morning Herald</cite> about 3500, that of <cite>The Daily News</cite> about 5300, that of <cite>The -Morning Advertiser</cite> about 6600, and that of <cite>The Times</cite> about 55,000.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The last number of <cite>The Morning Chronicle</cite> appeared March 19, 1862, when -what at one time had been the most influential journal in the country altogether -ceased to exist.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Of this paper <span class='sc'>Sheridan</span> speaks in <cite>The Critic</cite>, and to it <span class='sc'>Byron</span> addressed a -<cite>Familiar Epistle</cite>. For its columns <span class='sc'>W. Hazlitt</span> wrote some of the finest criticisms -in our own or any other language. Some of the early <cite>Sketches by Boz</cite> -appeared in it, but they were really commenced in the old <cite>Monthly Magazine</cite>. -<span class='sc'>Dickens’s</span> father was one of the staff. <span class='sc'>Hazlitt</span> also contributed to it Parliamentary -Reports, as at a later period did <span class='sc'>C. Dickens</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Among other distinguished writers in <cite>The Morning Chronicle</cite> were Lord -Brougham, the Duke of Sussex, David Ricardo, Cyrus Redding, Albany Fonblanque, -James and John Stuart Mill, John Payne Collier, Eyre Evans Crowe, -Charles Buller, Lord Holland, Joseph Parkes, Michael Joseph Quin, George -Hogarth, James Fraser, W. Hazlitt, secundus, Lord Melbourne, W. Johnson -Fox, Henry Mayhew, Lord Palmerston, A. B. Reach, Alex. and Charles Mackay, -Tom Taylor.</p> - -<h3 class='c031'>THE MORNING POST.</h3> - -<p class='c043'><span class='sc'>The Morning Post</span>, the next <em>daily</em> paper in order of date to <cite>The Chronicle</cite>, -first appeared in 1772, and was probably projected by <span class='sc'>John Bell</span>. Three years -<span class='pageno' id='Page_304'>304</span>subsequently the <span class='sc'>Rev. Henry Bate</span> (who took in 1784 the name of Dudley, and -was created a baronet in 1816) joined it, and was connected with it till the end -of 1780, when he quarrelled with his colleagues, and set up <cite>The Morning Herald</cite>, -the first number of which appeared on Nov. 1 in the same year. In June, 1781, -he was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for an atrocious libel on the Duke of -Richmond. He was (says Horace Walpole, in his <cite>Journal of the Reign of George -III.</cite>), the worst of all the scandalous libellers that had appeared, both on private -persons as well as public. His life was dissolute, and he had fought more than -one duel. Yet Lord Sandwich had procured for him a good Crown living, and -he was believed to be pensioned by the Court. He died in 1824.</p> - -<p class='c007'>After <span class='sc'>Bate</span>, as editor, came the <span class='sc'>Rev. W. Jackman</span> (or <span class='sc'>Jackson</span>)—an equally -discreditable clergyman,—and he was succeeded by <span class='sc'>John Taylor</span> (author of -<em>Monsieur Tonson</em>), for whom <span class='sc'>Peter Pindar</span> (<span class='sc'>Dr. John Wolcot</span>) wrote whimsical -verses.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In 1792, <span class='sc'>Mr. Tattersall</span> was the responsible proprietor, who, knowing more -about horses and sport than about the elegancies of literature, <span class='sc'>Dr. Wolcot</span> -continued to be the chief writer; and who, besides his clever verses, gave much -information upon affairs of the prize-ring and kindred amusements. In 1795, -<span class='sc'>Tattersall</span> sold the entire copyright, with house and printing materials, for -£600. The circulation then was only 350 daily.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The purchaser was <span class='sc'>Mr. Daniel Stuart</span>; and <span class='sc'>Mr. Christie</span>, the auctioneer, -was also a proprietor. Previous to this time, <span class='sc'>Robert Burns</span> was applied to, to -supply poetry, but none was ever sent. <span class='sc'>Daniel Stuart</span> was not twenty-nine -when he bought <cite>The Morning Post</cite>; and <span class='sc'>James</span> (afterwards <span class='sc'>Sir Jas.</span>) <span class='sc'>Mackintosh</span>, -who was his brother-in-law, and was a regular contributor, was his senior -only by a year.</p> - -<p class='c007'>After 1790, the same <span class='sc'>Andrew Macdonald</span>, who had been editor of <cite>The Star</cite>, -furnished poems, as did <span class='sc'>Wordsworth</span>, <span class='sc'>Southey</span>, <span class='sc'>C. Lloyd</span>, and other verse -writers. At the commencement of 1798, <span class='sc'>S. T. Coleridge</span>—then only twenty-five—was -engaged to contribute poetry. The Odes, <cite>Fire, Famine, and Slaughter</cite>; -<cite>France</cite>; <cite>Dejection</cite>; and that on <cite>The Departing Year</cite>; with twenty or thirty other -pieces, since included in his Poetical Works, among which was <cite>Love</cite>—one of the -most popular poems of this age—were first published in <cite>The Morning Post</cite>. To -these must be added the first draught of <cite>The Devil’s Thoughts</cite>, a piece afterwards -much altered. About 1800, the paper was supplied with some excellent pieces, -in prose, including Fashionable Intelligence, short pungent articles, and jokes, -by <span class='sc'>Charles Lamb</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In 1798 its sale was over 2000; and so well had <span class='sc'>Daniel Stuart</span> managed his -property—being exceedingly well served by his principal assistant, <span class='sc'>George -Lane</span>—that when he left <cite>The Morning Post</cite> for <cite>The Courier</cite>, in 1803, the circulation -amounted to 4,500. It, therefore, stood higher in point of sale than any -other morning paper, the order in respect of numbers from high to low being -this: <cite>Morning Post</cite>, <cite>Morning Herald</cite>, <cite>Morning Advertiser</cite>, <cite>Times</cite>. The amount -received for it was about £25,000. According to <span class='sc'>John Taylor</span>, editor of <cite>The -Sun</cite>, in his <cite>Records of my Life</cite>, <cite>The Morning Post</cite> was afterwards purchased by -Government to silence attacks on the <span class='sc'>Prince Regent</span>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Much of the success of <cite>The Morning Post</cite> was undoubtedly owing to the -writings of <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>. He afterwards declared that he had wasted the prime -and manhood of his intellect in writing for <cite>The Morning Post</cite> and <cite>Courier</cite>. -Among his contributions to the former (March 19, 1800) was his famous -character of <span class='sc'>William Pitt</span>. The last time he wrote in it was in August, 1802.</p> - -<p class='c007'>A very competent judge, <span class='sc'>Thomas De Quincey</span>, thus alludes to <span class='sc'>Coleridge’s</span> -political writings:—“Worlds of fine thinking,” he says of the daily press, “lie -buried in that vast abyss, never to be disentombed, or restored to human -admiration. Like the sea, it has swallowed treasures without end, that no -diving-bell will bring up again. But nowhere throughout its shoreless magazines -of wealth does there lie such a bed of pearls, confounded with the rubbish -and ‘<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">purgamenta</span></i>’ of ages, as in the political papers of <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>. No more -appreciable monument could be raised to the memory of <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>, than a -re-publication of his Essays in <cite>The Morning Post</cite>, but still more of those afterwards -published in <cite>The Courier</cite>.” These have since been reprinted under the -title of <cite>Essays on his own Times</cite>.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_305'>305</span> - <h2 class='c005'>APPENDIX.</h2> -</div> - -<h3 class='c038'>THE ANARCHISTS.—An Ode.</h3> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>[A Parody on Collins’s Ode to the Passions.]</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>—<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Numero plures, virtute et honore minores,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Indocti stolidique et depugnare parati.</span>—<em>Hor.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>When Anarchy, sworn foe to Kings,</div> - <div class='line'>O’er Gallia wav’d her crimson wings,</div> - <div class='line'>Ere yet she spoil’d with iron hand</div> - <div class='line'>Fair Europe’s desolated land;</div> - <div class='line'>Her offspring here, a spurious brood,</div> - <div class='line'>In faction nurs’d, inur’d to blood,</div> - <div class='line'>Elate with Hope, perplex’d with Fear,</div> - <div class='line'>Would often raise the listening ear;</div> - <div class='line'>And all their mother’s wonders tell,</div> - <div class='line'>And throng around her secret cell,</div> - <div class='line'>Ranting, bribing, whispering, trembling,</div> - <div class='line'>Urging, boasting, and dissembling.</div> - <div class='line'>By turns they felt the Gallic mind</div> - <div class='line'>Enlarg’d, unprejudic’d, refin’d;</div> - <div class='line'>Till once, by all the goddess fir’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Beyond Discretion rapt, inspir’d;</div> - <div class='line'>Seditious, false, and prone to ill,</div> - <div class='line'>They eager snatch’d the grey-goose quill.</div> - <div class='line'>And as they oft had heard apart</div> - <div class='line'>The wonders of Sedition’s art,</div> - <div class='line'>Each, for Madness rul’d the hour,</div> - <div class='line'>Would prove his own subversive power.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>First <span class='sc'>Paine</span> his <cite>Rights of Man</cite> display’d,</div> - <div class='line in4'>But could no more—for falsely cross’d</div> - <div class='line'>Ev’n by the friends himself had made,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Enraged he fled to Gallia’s coast.</div> - <div class='line'>Next <span class='sc'>Priestley</span> tried, to whom ’twas given</div> - <div class='line in4'>Mankind’s free-agency to tell;</div> - <div class='line'>Ordain’d to point the road to heaven,</div> - <div class='line in4'>In pure free will he points—to hell!</div> - <div class='line'>With meagre visage <span class='sc'>Thelwall</span> came,</div> - <div class='line in4'>In lectures told his sufferings sore;</div> - <div class='line'>Till purple tyrants blush’d with shame</div> - <div class='line in4'>And crowds the suffering saint adore.</div> - <div class='line'>But thou, O <span class='sc'>Godwin</span>! meek and mild;</div> - <div class='line in8'>Speak thy metaphysic page:</div> - <div class='line in8'>Now it cheer’d a laggard age,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_306'>306</span>And bade new scenes of joy at distance hail;</div> - <div class='line in4'>When tyrant Kings shall be no more,</div> - <div class='line'>When human wants and wars shall fail,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And sleep and death shall quit the hallow’d shore.</div> - <div class='line in8'>’Twas thus he strove to sap the throne.</div> - <div class='line in8'>With borrow’d arts and weapons not his own,</div> - <div class='line'>While Gallia clapp’d her hands, and hail’d her favourite child.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And longer had he sung—but, strange to say,</div> - <div class='line in4'><span class='sc'>Wakefield</span>, the dragon-fly, rush’d on;</div> - <div class='line'>Eager he sought the bold rebellious fray,</div> - <div class='line in8'>And burst with anger and disdain</div> - <div class='line in8'>The web of sophistry in twain</div> - <div class='line'>Which <span class='sc'>Godwin</span>, patient sage! had spread</div> - <div class='line in4'>To catch the fluttering insects of the land.</div> - <div class='line in8'>Treason upreared her arm to strike,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Rebellion grasped the murd’rous pike,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And though, sometimes, each maddening pause between,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Soft Discretion, joined with Fear,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Whisper’d her councils in his ear,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Still Anarchy upheld the busy scene,</div> - <div class='line'>And raised her shield of brass to guard her vot’ry’s head.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Next <span class='sc'>Holcroft</span> vowed in doleful tone</div> - <div class='line in4'>No more to fire a thankless age,</div> - <div class='line'>Oblivion marked his labours for her own,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Neglected from the press and damn’d upon the stage.</div> - <div class='line'>See! faithful to their mighty dam,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>, <span class='sc'>Southey</span>, <span class='sc'>Lloyd</span>, and <span class='sc'>Lamb</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>In splay-foot madrigals of love.</div> - <div class='line'>Soft moaning like the widowed dove,</div> - <div class='line'>Pour side by side their sympathetic notes.</div> - <div class='line in8'>Of equal rights and civic feasts</div> - <div class='line in8'>And tyrant Kings and knavish Priests</div> - <div class='line'>Swift through the land the tuneful mischief floats.</div> - <div class='line in4'>And now to softer strains they struck the lyre,</div> - <div class='line in8'>They sung the beetle, or the mole,</div> - <div class='line in8'>The dying kid, or ass’s foal,</div> - <div class='line in4'>By cruel man permitted to expire.</div> - <div class='line'>But O, how altered was the sprightlier hour!</div> - <div class='line in4'>When <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, the Parthian hero, rose to view;</div> - <div class='line in8'>He o’er the rest high-towering like a steeple</div> - <div class='line in4'>Leagued with a “Corresponding” crew,</div> - <div class='line'>Pledged in large floods of wine “their Majesties—the People”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The royal tribe accept the proffered power.</div> - <div class='line in4'>Kings from the forge, dictators from the plough,</div> - <div class='line'>Peeping from forth their allies low,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Before the fallen arch-seceder bow;</div> - <div class='line in8'><span class='sc'>Lepaux</span> bade Gallia hail his name,</div> - <div class='line in8'>But old St. Stephen bowed his head for shame.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>See <span class='sc'>Norfolk</span> last, with <span class='sc'>Bedford</span> roll,</div> - <div class='line in4'>He of Bacchus’ favours proud,</div> - <div class='line'>The sovereign mob most eloquent addressed;</div> - <div class='line in4'>But soon he spied the mirth-inspiring bowl,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Whose ruby treasures charmed his soul the best;</div> - <div class='line'>They would have thought who heard him speak,</div> - <div class='line in8'>’Twas Falstaff, with his minions at his back,</div> - <div class='line in8'>High primed with valour, turbulence, and sack,</div> - <div class='line'>Aping the monarch to a wondr’ing crowd.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_307'>307</span>While <span class='sc'>Bedford</span> proud his lesson to rehearse,</div> - <div class='line in8'>With studious labours urged the bold reply:</div> - <div class='line in8'>Shouts of applause ran rattling through the sky:</div> - <div class='line in8'>And he, the hero of the day,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Right glad their servile suffrage to repay,</div> - <div class='line'>Shook golden bounty from his swelling purse.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O, England! heav’n-defended land!</div> - <div class='line'>With power to “threaten and command,”</div> - <div class='line'>Say, is thy former spirit broke,</div> - <div class='line'>To crouch beneath a foreign yoke,</div> - <div class='line'>And listen to the idiot strains</div> - <div class='line'>Of slaves thy better sense disdains,</div> - <div class='line'>As erst, in many an ardent hour,</div> - <div class='line'>You awed an adverse haughty power.</div> - <div class='line'>Thy lofty mind, to Freedom true,</div> - <div class='line'>May well retain what then it knew.</div> - <div class='line'>Where is thy former patriot soul,</div> - <div class='line'>Above deceit, above controul?</div> - <div class='line'>Arise! as in that happier time</div> - <div class='line'>United, fearless, bold, sublime.</div> - <div class='line'>’Tis said, and I believe the tale,</div> - <div class='line'>Thy efforts then could more avail,</div> - <div class='line'>Could more true happiness dispense,</div> - <div class='line'>With Order, Morals, virtue, Sense,</div> - <div class='line'>Than all that fires with party rage</div> - <div class='line'>This boastful philosophic age.</div> - <div class='line'>Arise! with manly zeal advance,</div> - <div class='line'>To curb the lawless power of France;</div> - <div class='line'>O, bid her mad endeavours cease,</div> - <div class='line'>And give the willing nations PEACE!</div> - <div class='line in32'>—<em>Fabricius.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_350.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_308'>308</span> - <h3 class='c031'>THE PASSIONS.</h3> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><cite>An Ode for Music.</cite></div> - <div class='c004'><span class='sc'>William Collins.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>When Music, heavenly maid, was young,</div> - <div class='line in12'>While yet in early Greece she sung,</div> - <div class='line in12'>The Passions oft, to hear her shell,</div> - <div class='line in12'>Throng’d around her magic cell,</div> - <div class='line in12'>Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting,</div> - <div class='line in12'>Possess’d beyond the Muse’s painting;</div> - <div class='line in12'>By turns they felt the glowing mind,</div> - <div class='line in12'>Disturb’d, delighted, rais’d, refin’d,</div> - <div class='line in12'>Till once, ’tis said, when all were fir’d,</div> - <div class='line in12'>Fill’d with fury, rapt, inspir’d,</div> - <div class='line in12'>From the supporting myrtles round</div> - <div class='line in12'>They snatch’d her instruments of sound,</div> - <div class='line in12'>And, as they oft had heard apart</div> - <div class='line in12'>Sweet lessons of her forceful art,</div> - <div class='line in12'>Each, for Madness ruled the hour,</div> - <div class='line in12'>Would prove his own expressive power.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>First Fear, his hand, its skill to try,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Amid the chords bewilder’d laid,</div> - <div class='line in6'>And back recoil’d, he knew not why,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Even at the sound himself had made.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Next Anger rush’d his eyes on fire,</div> - <div class='line in8'>In lightnings own’d his secret stings,</div> - <div class='line in6'>In one rude clash he struck the lyre,</div> - <div class='line in8'>And swept with hurried hand the strings.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>With woful measures wan Despair</div> - <div class='line in8'>Low sullen sounds his grief beguil’d,</div> - <div class='line in6'>A sullen, strange, and mingled air,</div> - <div class='line in8'>’Twas sad by fits, by starts ’twas wild.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But thou, O <span class='sc'>Hope</span>! with eyes so fair,</div> - <div class='line in4'>What was thy delighted measure?</div> - <div class='line in4'>Still it whisper’d promis’d pleasure,</div> - <div class='line'>And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!</div> - <div class='line in2'>Still would her touch the strain prolong,</div> - <div class='line'>And from the rocks, the woods, the vale,</div> - <div class='line in2'>She call’d on <span class='sc'>Echo</span> still through all the song;</div> - <div class='line in4'>And where her sweetest theme she chose,</div> - <div class='line in4'>A soft responsive voice was heard at every close,</div> - <div class='line'>And Hope enchanted smil’d, and wav’d her golden hair.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_309'>309</span>And longer had she sung,—but, with a frown,</div> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Revenge</span> impatient rose,</div> - <div class='line'>He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And, with a withering look,</div> - <div class='line in4'>The war-denouncing trumpet took,</div> - <div class='line'>And blew a blast so loud and dread,</div> - <div class='line'>Were ne’er prophetic sounds so full of woe.</div> - <div class='line in4'>And ever and anon he beat</div> - <div class='line in4'>The doubling drum with furious heat;</div> - <div class='line in2'>And though sometimes, each dreary pause between,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Dejected <span class='sc'>Pity</span> at his side</div> - <div class='line in4'>Her soul-subduing voice applied;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Yet still he kept his wild unalter’d mien,</div> - <div class='line'>While each strain’d ball of sight seem’d bursting from his head,</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thy numbers, <span class='sc'>Jealousy</span>, to nought were fix’d,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Sad proof of thy distressful state!</div> - <div class='line'>Of differing themes the veering song was mix’d,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And now it courted <span class='sc'>Love</span>, now raving call’d on <span class='sc'>Hate</span>.</div> - <div class='line in2'>With eyes upraised, as one inspir’d,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Pale <span class='sc'>Melancholy</span> sat retir’d,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And from her wild sequester’d seat,</div> - <div class='line in2'>In notes by distance made more sweet,</div> - <div class='line'>Pour’d through the mellow horn her pensive soul:</div> - <div class='line in4'>And dashing soft from rocks around,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Bubbling runnels join’d the sound;</div> - <div class='line'>Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole,</div> - <div class='line'>Or o’er some haunted streams with fond delay,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Round a holy calm diffusing,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Love of peace and lonely musing,</div> - <div class='line'>In hollow murmurs died away.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>But oh! how alter’d was its sprightlier tone!</div> - <div class='line'>When <span class='sc'>Cheerfulness</span>, a nymph of healthiest hue,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Her bow across her shoulders flung,</div> - <div class='line'>Her buskins gemm’d with morning dew,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Blew an inspiring air that dale and thicket rung,</div> - <div class='line in4'>The hunter’s call to Faun and Dryad known;</div> - <div class='line'>The oak-crown’d Sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen,</div> - <div class='line'>Satyrs and Sylvan boys were seen,</div> - <div class='line'>Peeping from forth their alleys green;</div> - <div class='line'>Brown <span class='sc'>Exercise</span> rejoic’d to hear,</div> - <div class='line'>And <span class='sc'>Sport</span> leapt up, and seized his beechen spear.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Last came <span class='sc'>Joy’s</span> ecstatic trial;</div> - <div class='line in4'>He with viny crown advancing,</div> - <div class='line in2'>First to the lively pipe his hand address’d;</div> - <div class='line'>But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Whose sweet entrancing voice he lov’d the best.</div> - <div class='line in4'>They would have thought who heard the strain,</div> - <div class='line in4'>They saw in Tempe’s vale her native maids,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Amidst the festal sounding shades,</div> - <div class='line in4'>To some unwearied minstrel dancing:</div> - <div class='line'>While, as his flying fingers kiss’d the strings,</div> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Love</span> framed with <span class='sc'>Mirth</span> a gay fantastic round,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound:</div> - <div class='line in2'>And he, amidst his frolic play.</div> - <div class='line in2'>As if he would the charming air repay,</div> - <div class='line'>Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'><span class='pageno' id='Page_310'>310</span>O <span class='sc'>Music</span>! sphere-descended maid,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Friend of <span class='sc'>Pleasure</span>, <span class='sc'>Wisdom’s</span> aid,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Why, goddess, why to us denied,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Lay’st thou thy ancient lyre aside?</div> - <div class='line in4'>As in that lov’d Athenian bower,</div> - <div class='line in4'>You learn’d an all-commanding power,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thy mimic soul, O nymph endear’d,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Can well recall what then it heard.</div> - <div class='line in4'>Where is thy native simple heart,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Devote to virtue, fancy, art?</div> - <div class='line in4'>Arise, as in that elder time,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Warm, energetic, chaste, sublime!</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thy wonders, in that god-like age,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Fill thy recording Sister’s page.</div> - <div class='line in4'>’Tis said, and I believe the tale,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Thy humblest reed could more prevail,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Had more of strength, diviner rage,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Than all which charms this laggard age,</div> - <div class='line in4'>E’en all at once together found</div> - <div class='line in4'>Cecilia’s mingled world of sound.</div> - <div class='line in4'>O bid our vain endeavours cease,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Revive the just designs of Greece;</div> - <div class='line in4'>Return in all thy simple state!</div> - <div class='line in4'>Confirm the tales her sons relate.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_353.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_311'>311</span> - <h2 class='c005'>THE ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE</h2> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div>FOR JULY, 1798.</div> - <div class='c004'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">MAGNA EST VERITAS ET PRÆVALEBIT.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Art. 1. The Republican Judge, or the American Liberty of the Press, as exhibited, -explained, and exposed, in the base and partial Prosecution of William Cobbett, -for a pretended Libel against the King of Spain and his Embassador, before the -Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. With an Address to the People of England.</em></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c012'> - <div><em>By Peter Porcupine. 8vo., pp. 96. Price 2s. Wright, London.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='drop-capa0_0_6 c047'>The past writings of Mr. William Cobbett, who has assumed the appellation -of Peter Porcupine, are too well known in England to require any -explanation from us, either of <em>their</em> tendency, or of the author’s principles. -Were any doubt entertained on the subject, nothing more would be requisite to -dispel it than a mere reference to the comments of all the Jacobin Reviewers; -who have, without exception, in defiance alike of decency and of truth, lavished -on them the most indiscriminate censure and the most scurrilous abuse. -Strange as it may appear, it is indisputably true that the individual exertions -of Mr. Cobbett have more essentially contributed to give a proper tone to the -public spirit in America than all the efforts of the well-disposed part of the -native Americans: for a considerable length of time he combated alone a host -of foes, “himself a host”; stemmed the impetuous tide of democracy; and -checked the irruptions of French anarchy and atheism, which threatened to -overwhelm the American States, and, with the ruins of their confliction, to -crush everything for which the Americans, at the period of their revolution, -professed to fight, and which they have ever since professed to cherish. The -adoption of such a line of conduct was alone sufficient to draw down upon our -author the vengeance of all whose treasonable designs his manly efforts were -intended to defeat. Accordingly, nothing was spared by the infuriated advocates -of anarchy to injure him in the public mind, and, by blasting his reputation, -to deprive him of that credit which was indispensably necessary to secure -the success of his works. No imputation however base, no lie however -atrocious, none of those black and diabolical arts, in short, which, issuing from -the bubbling cauldron of democracy, were so skilfully employed to blacken the -first and fairest character in France, as a necessary prelude to the establishment -of the <em>virtuous</em> republic of the Great Nation, were neglected in the -<em>glorious</em> attempt to achieve the ruin of this worthy individual. When these -were found to fail of producing the desired effect, recourse was had to personal -threats—the coward’s weapon—with the hope of inducing him, by the means of -intimidation, to quit a country in which his enemies endeavoured to convince -him that his life was daily exposed to most imminent danger. But neither -the dread of calumny, nor the fear of assassination, could lead the object of -their persecution to forego his laudable design. He manfully persevered, and -has at length, though not without infinite difficulty, succeeded in opening the -eyes of the Americans to their own interest, and in the infamous machinations -of France, and of American traitors in the pay of France—for England is not the -<span class='fss'>ONLY</span> country in which foreign gold is employed as a stimulus to domestic -treason.<a id='r330' /><a href='#f330' class='c024'><sup>[330]</sup></a> In the course of his exertions to produce this desirable end, honest -<span class='pageno' id='Page_312'>312</span>Peter had occasion to comment on the pusillanimous conduct of the Spanish -monarch, in bending the knee to, and forming an alliance with, the base -plunderers and assassins of his family, and on the insidious and criminal efforts -of the Spanish ambassador to strengthen the hands of the French faction in -America. These comments, it seems, excited the indignation of Don Carlos -Martinez de Trojo, who determined to bring the author to condign punishment; -and it was the very unwarrantable conduct which the latter experienced on the -occasion that gave rise to the publication before us.</p> - -<p class='c009'><span class='sc'>Peter</span> begins his tract by stating the dangers to which he knew himself -exposed, on account of his political principles, when he established his -residence in the state of Pennsylvania, “where the government, generally -speaking, was in the hands of those who had (and sometimes with great -indecency) manifested an uniform partiality for the sans-culotte French, and as -uniform an opposition to the ministers and measures of the federal government”. -That men should ever be placed in situations of trust and importance, whose -principles are avowedly adverse to the constitution whence they derive their -subsistence, and which it is their bounden duty to protect, is a circumstance -that would excite universal astonishment if it did not, unhappily, so often -occur. Still the frequency of its occurrence does not alter its nature, nor -should it be allowed to diminish that ample portion of censure which must ever -attach to the authors of such appointments. It is such conduct as this that -justifies one of the wisest observations that ever fell from the pen of Voltaire—“<span class='fss'>A -GOVERNMENT CAN ONLY PERISH BY SUICIDE</span>”—an observation confirmed -by the fate of every country that has been recently reduced beneath the iron -yoke of republican France.</p> - -<p class='c009'>Aware of his danger, our author thought the best means of averting it was, -by seeking for some standard, as a safe rule for his conduct in respect to the -liberty of this press. “The English press was said to be <em>enslaved</em>; but, when I -came to consult the practice of this enslaved press, I found it still to be far too -free for me to attempt to follow its example. Finally, it appeared to me to be -the safest way, to form to myself some rule founded on the liberty exercised by -the <em>American press</em>. I concluded that I might without danger go as great -lengths in attacking the enemies of the country as others went in attacking its -friends: that as much zeal might be shown in defending the general government -and administration as in accusing and traducing them: and that as great -warmth would be admissible in the cause of virtue, order, and religion, as had -been tolerated in the wicked cause of villainy, insurrection, and blasphemy” -(p. <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>). Alas! Peter, at this time, knew but little of the “spirit and temper,” -as <span class='sc'>Mr. Barrister Erskine</span> would express it, of democracy and Jacobinism. -He knew not that the men who profess those principles are for the most part -vindictive, malignant, oppressive, and intolerant; and that under the mask of -liberty they exercise the most insupportable tyranny over their families and -dependents, and that in their general conduct to their inferiors—unless when -impelled by interest or urged by ambition, they irritate their passions with -toasts and flattery, from a tavern-chair, or influence their minds by seditious -discourses and treasonable insinuations, from a tribune or a scaffold—they are -supercilious, arrogant, insolent, and overbearing. He knew not, it would seem, -that those whose whole duty is to defend the laws often <em>sleep on their posts</em>, while -their enemies are ever vigilant, active, and alert; that when the former are -attacked, a tardiness of zeal, amounting nearly to torpor, secures, with few -exceptions, impunity to the assailant; whereas any exposure of the latter draws -forth a malignity of revenge which is the certain fore-runner of persecution. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_313'>313</span>Indeed, the inveteracy of the discontented, of that class which includes all -those who aspire to the possession of place and power, and are little scrupulous -about the means of attaining them; and all the determined revolutionists or -subverters of established institutions, may be traced to a natural source. Unable -to support by reason a cause which reason disavows, unable to strengthen -by arguments positions which set all argument at defiance, it becomes their -business to inflame by passion and to dazzle with sophistry. Hence arises an -extreme facility of exposing their weakness and detecting their infamy, and -not having the means of resisting such exposure, being wholly destitute of the -sentiments which are necessary for a successful reply, they are reduced to the -degrading alternative of abandoning the field to a triumphant adversary, or of -seeking, by the adoption of violent measures, to punish the opponent whom they -did not dare to encounter. This it is that renders revenge an active principle in -<em>their</em> minds.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The first step taken by the Spanish ambassador was an application to the -federal government to prosecute our author “for certain matters published in -his Gazette against himself and that poor, unfortunate, and humbled mortal, -Charles IV., King of Spain”. The government consented, and Peter was -accordingly bound over to appear in the federal district court before <em>Judge -Peters</em>. Don Carlos, however, soon found that his prosecution would be more -likely to succeed, if brought in a district where the defendant had more -personal enemies, and where the people were more generally disposed to the -adoption of revolutionary principles. A memorial was, accordingly, “delivered -in to the federal government, requesting that the trial might come on before the -Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, of which Court <em>McKean is Chief Justice</em>”. Of -this <em>republican</em> Judge our author gives such an account as must convey to -English minds a strange idea of the administration of <em>republican</em> Justice. It is -to be found in P. <a href='#Page_22'>22</a>—When Britons contemplate the character here delineated, -and contrast it with the characters of their own Judges to which even the -licentious tongue of faction has not dared to impute the smallest stain, their -bosoms must glow with satisfaction of the most exalted kind; they must exult -in the superior excellence of that form of government and of those laws which -effectually secure them from the evils of a vicious, corrupt, or partial distribution -of justice. After giving an historical detail of the proceedings against him, -accompanied by copies of the warrant to apprehend him, the imputed libels, the -bill of indictment, and the Judge’s charge, Peter exclaims—“This, when it -comes to be served up in Britain, will be a dish for a king. The royalists will -lick their lips, and the republicans will cry, God bless us! The emigrations -<em>for liberty’s sake</em> will cease, and we shall have nothing but the pure unadulterated -dregs of Newgate and the Fleet, the candidates for Tyburn and Botany Bay—Blessed -cargo! All <em>patriots</em> to the backbone: true philanthropists and universal -citizens: fit for any place but England in this world and heaven in the next!”</p> - -<p class='c009'>But, notwithstanding the Judge’s charge, the most partial and scandalous -charge, we conceive, that ever was delivered <em>out of France</em>, the Grand Jury refused -to find the bill, and the prosecution of course ceased. The Judge, not -less disappointed than the prosecutor, on this occasion, took an early opportunity—to -his infamy be it recorded!—of declaring from the Bench that the -Grand Jury would not <em>do their duty</em>. What would the disaffected in this country -say were any British Judge to use such language? The gross imputations cast -upon the character of our author by this <em>impartial</em> Judge, have extorted from -Peter a tribute of justice to himself which the occasion most amply justifies. -As the account here given perfectly accords with all the information we have -received from persons of undoubted veracity who know him well, and as it -fully corroborates the opinion we ourselves have formed of him, from an attentive -perusal of his publications, we shall extract it for the satisfaction of our -readers:—“It hardly ever becomes a man to say much of his private character -or concerns; but on this occasion I trust I shall be indulged for a moment. I -will say, and I will make that saying good, whosoever shall oppose it, that I -never attacked any one, whose private character is not, in every light in which -it can possibly be viewed as far beneath mine as infamy is beneath honour. -Nay, I defy the city of Philadelphia, populous as it is, and respectable as are -many of its inhabitants, to produce me a single man who is more sober, industrious, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_314'>314</span>or honest; who is a kinder husband, a tenderer father, a better -master, a fonder friend, or (though last not least) a more zealous and faithful -subject.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“Most certainly it is unseemly in any one to say this much of himself unless -compelled to it by some public outrage on his character; but when the accusation -is made notorious so ought the defence; and I do again and again repeat, -that I fear not a comparison between my character and that of any man in this -city: no, not even with that of the very Judge, who held me as the worst of -miscreants. His Honour is welcome, if he please, to carry this comparison into -<em>all</em> the actions of our lives, public and <em>domestic</em>, and to extend it beyond ourselves -to <em>every branch of our families</em>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“As to my writing, I never did slander any one, if the promulgation of useful -truths be not slander. Innocence and virtue I have often endeavoured to defend, -but I never defamed either. I have, indeed, stripped the close-drawn veil of -hypocrisy; I have ridiculed the follies, and lashed the vices of thousands, and -have done it sometimes perhaps with a rude and violent hand. But these are -not the days for gentleness and mercy. Such as is the temper of the foe, such -must be that of his opponent. Seeing myself published as a rogue, <em>and my wife -a whore</em>; being persecuted with such infamous, such base and hellish calumny -in the <em>philanthropic</em> city of Philadelphia, merely for asserting <em>the truth</em> respecting -others, was not calculated, I assure you, to sweeten my temper, and turn my -ink into honey-dew.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“My attachment to order and good government, nothing but the impudence -of Jacobinism can deny. The object not only of my own publications, but also -of all those which I have introduced or encouraged, from the first moment that -I appeared on the public scene to the present day, has been to lend some aid in -stemming the torrent of anarchy and confusion. To undeceive the misguided, -by tearing the mask from the artful and ferocious villains who owing to the -infatuation of the poor, and the supineness of the rich, have made such fearful -progress in the destruction of all that is amiable and good and sacred among -men. To the government of this country in particular it has been my constant -study to yield all the support in my power. When that government, or the -worthy men who administer it have been traduced and vilified, I have stood -forward in their defence, and that too, in times when its friends were some of -them locked up in silence, and others giving way to the audacious violence of -its foes. Not that I am so foolishly vain as to attribute to my illiterate voter a -thousandth part of the merit my friends are inclined to allow it. As I wrote -the other day to a gentleman who had paid me some compliments on this score, -‘I should never look on my family with a dry eye if I did not hope to outlive my -works’. They are mere transitory beings to which the revolutionary storm has -given life, and which with that storm will expire. But, what I contend for and -what nobody can deny, I have done all that laid in my power, all that I was -able by any means to accomplish in order to counteract the nefarious effects of -the enemies of the American government and nation.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“With respect to religion, altho’ Mr. M’Kean was pleased to number it among -the things that were in danger from the licentiousness of the press, and of -course from poor <em>me</em>, I think it would puzzle the devil himself to produce from -my writings, a single passage, which could, by all the powers of perversion be -twisted into an attack upon it. But it would on the contrary be extremely easy -to prove, that I have at all times, when an opportunity offered, repelled the -attacks of its enemies, the abominable battalions of Deists and Atheists, with -all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength. -The bitterest drop in my pen has ever been bestowed upon them; because, of -all the foes of the human race, I look upon them, after the devil, as being the -greatest and most dreadful. Not a sacrilegious plunderer from Henry VIII. to -Condorcet, and from Condorcet to the impious Sans-culottes of France, has -escaped my censure. All those, who have attempted to degrade religion whether -by open insults and cruelties to the clergy, by blasphemous publications or by -the more dangerous poison of the malignant modern philosophy, I have ranked -amongst the most infamous of mankind, and have treated them accordingly.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>In the concluding part of his tract the author clearly convicts the Judge of -the most decided and most flagrant partiality. He quotes a number of infamous -<span class='pageno' id='Page_315'>315</span>libels, on religious and political subjects, which had never roused the indignation, -nor even excited the censure, of those whose duty it is to preserve the -public peace and to enforce a due observance of the laws. If, indeed, we were -to judge, from this specimen, of the mode of administring justice in America, in -matters of libel, we should conclude, that every degree of licentiousness is allowed -to those who seek to debauch the minds of the people, to seduce them from -their allegiance, and to dissolve every tie which religion and morality have -formed for the happiness of men in a social state, while the upright supporters -of virtue, whose labours are directed to the prevention of anarchy and rebellion, -by detecting the views and exposing the machinations of their abettors, are the -sole objects not merely of <em>pro</em>secution but of <em>per</em>secution.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The abuse bestowed on the mild and beneficent sovereigns of these realms -by the Democratic factions in the American Congress, is almost equal in severity -to the censures lavished by some members of opposition during the <em>last</em> parliament -in the British Senate, on the Kings of Prussia and Hungary, <em>before</em> those -monarchs had become allies of <em>France</em>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The following extracts will, at once, afford a criterion of the political principles -of public men, in the State of Pennsylvania, and a curious specimen of -republican <em>morality</em>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“The <em>Governor</em> (Mifflin) attended at a civic festival, when the following -toasts were drunk, which were published in most of the newspapers.<a id='r331' /><a href='#f331' class='c024'><sup>[331]</sup></a></p> - -<p class='c009'>“‘Those <em>illustrious citizens</em> sent to Botany Bay. May they be <em>speedily -recalled</em> by their country in <em>the day of her regeneration</em>.’</p> - -<p class='c009'>“‘May the spirit of parliamentary reform in Britain and Ireland <em>burst -the bonds of corruption, and overwhelm the foes of liberty</em>.’</p> - -<p class='c009'>“‘The <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">sans-culottes</span></i> of France. May the robes of <em>all</em> the <em>Emperors</em>, <em>Kings</em>, -<em>Princes</em>, and <em>Potentates</em> [not excepting the <em>King of Spain</em>] now employed in -suppressing the flame of liberty, be cut up to make breeches.’</p> - -<p class='c009'>“This is pretty ‘<em>decent</em>’ in a <em>Governor</em>; but without stopping to remark on -the peculiar <em>decency</em> of his toasting a gang of <em>convicts</em>, let us come to another -instance of his conduct, full as ‘<em>decent</em>’ as this.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“At the civic festival, held in this city in 1794, to celebrate the dethronement -of ‘our great and good ally, Louis XVI.’ there were ‘assembled,’ according -to the ‘<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">procès verbal</span></i>’ which was sent to the Paris convention, ‘the <span class='fss'>CHIEFS</span>, -<em>civil and military</em>’. This <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">procès verbal</span></i> contains a letter to the convention, in -which the following honourable mention is made of the governor. ‘The -Governor of Pennsylvania, that <em>ardent friend of the French republic</em>, was present, -and partook of <em>all our enthusiasm</em> and <em>all our sentiments</em>.’<a id='r332' /><a href='#f332' class='c024'><sup>[332]</sup></a></p> - -<p class='c009'>“I believe they spoke truth; for the cannons of the State were fired, and -military companies, with drums beating and colours flying, attended the -execrable fête, one of the ceremonies of which was <em>burning the English flag</em>; and -as to the sentiments contained in the <em>oaths</em> and <em>speeches</em> (for there were both) -they abounded in insults towards almost all the princes of the earth, but -particularly the King of Great Britain.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“A Judge of Pennsylvania, <span class='sc'>Redman</span>, was, in November, 1795, caught -thieving in the shop of <span class='sc'>Mr. Folwell</span>, the dry-goods merchant in Front Street. -<span class='sc'>Mr. Folwell</span> detected him, took the money ($300) from him, and kicked him -into the street. His <em>friends</em>, among the most intimate of whom was His -Excellency the Governor, advised him to <em>retire</em>; and he is still living at his ease -about 20 miles from the city. No justice was ever done to him; he was never -censured, not even in the newspapers! Such is the cowardly, base, and worthless -press of America. Such are <em>republican judges</em>, and such is republican morality! -<span class='pageno' id='Page_316'>316</span>But this is not the worst. I know a Judge who <em>committed murder</em>! wilful murder, -and that, too, previous to his appointment by this our republican Governor!</p> - -<p class='c009'>“I only give a sort of hint here. One day or other if it pleases God to spare -my life, I will publish such a collection of facts as will shock the universe.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“A Pennsylvania <em>Judge’s wife</em> had, a little while ago, a child, by a man who -kept a livery stable. The <em>lady</em> says, the stableman is the best of the two and so -has married him, though <em>his Honour</em> is still living. I need not name the parties, -for though the cowardly newspapers have never noticed the affair it is notorious -enough.</p> - -<p class='c009'>“There are more bastards born annually in the single state of Pennsylvania, than -in all the British dominions: and as to cuckoldom, I will only say that every -paper teems with <em>advertisements of wives eloped</em> from the bed and board of their -husbands. I do not hence insinuate that there are <em>no good people</em> here. There -are many. As many as in most countries; but then people will, and do allow, -that the morals of the country are approaching fast to that state, which has -never yet failed to prove the ruin of every thing held in esteem amongst men.”</p> - -<p class='c009'>In proving the falsehood of the assertion so frequently repeated, as well on this -as on the other side of the Atlantic, that “in <em>America</em> the press is <em>free</em> and truth -is <em>not</em> a libel,” our author adverts to a letter of <span class='sc'>Dr. Priestley’s</span> on that subject -which he promises hereafter to expose more fully (a promise which we trust -he will not forget); and then introduces the following curious anecdote, which -we extract for the benefit of the Doctor’s political friends and admirers in -Europe. “But since the Doctor wrote that letter it seems experience has changed -his opinion. He has suffered the just punishment of his malignancy against his -country; he has been cheated, neglected, and scorned. He is now in an obscurity -hardly penetrable; he is reduced to poverty and bursting with vexation” (may -a restless spirit of innovation, springing from, and nourished by, a bigotted -vanity and a turbulent pride ever experience a similar fate)! All this has had -an effect; and I will state as a fact, which I call upon him to deny if he can, -that he has lately declared “that <em>Republican governments are the most arbitrary in -the world</em>”! This <span class='sc'>Machiavel</span> had said before, and this all unprejudiced men of -reading and observation had long since admitted; but, we confess we little expected -to hear <span class='sc'>Doctor Priestley</span> subscribe to the creed of the one, or to the -acknowledgments of the other. Adversity, however, is an able advocate in the -cause of <span class='fss'>TRUTH</span>.</p> - -<p class='c009'>The Address to the People of England, which is prefixed to the publication, -is short, but pointed and expressive. It breathes the true spirit of a Briton. -Of the literary merit of the work, after the ample analysis which we have given -of its contents, and the extracts which we have made, little remains to be said. -We agree with the publisher, who in the Advertisement says: “The author -has been more anxious to strengthen his arguments than to polish his style, to -convince the judgment than to flatter the taste,” but those critics must be more -“<em>delicate</em>” or fastidious who can reject substantial advantages for fanciful defects. -Though Peter aim not at embellishments, he possesses great strength -and energy of language, and generally writes with more accuracy than most of -the American authors, who, be it observed, have a phraseology peculiar to -themselves. This tract contains much important information, and we strenuously -recommend it to the serious perusal of our countrymen; particularly to such -of them as are disposed to question the superior advantages which they enjoy, -over <span class='fss'>ALL</span> republican states under our own well-poised and limited <span class='fss'>MONARCHY</span>. -The following admonitions with which the author concludes, will, we trust, -have a due effect on the minds of those to whom they are addressed. “Such, -<em>Britons</em>, is the fruit of republican government <em>here</em>; not among the apish and -wolfish French, but among a people descended from the same ancestors as yourselves. -When your monarchial government bears such fruits, let it, I say, be -hewn down and cast into the fire; but till that disgraceful and dreadful day -comes, watch over it with care and defend it to the last drop of your blood, -preserve it as you would a golden casket, the apple of your eye, or the last dear -gift of your dying parents. With this I conclude, praying the God of our fathers -to lead you in the practice of all their virtues, to give wisdom to your minds and -strength to your arms, to keep you firm and united, honest and generous, loyal, -brave, and free; but above all, to preserve you from the desolating and degrading -curse of revolutionary madness and modern <em>republicanism</em>.”</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_317'>317</span> - <h2 class='c005'>PETER PORCUPINE’S WILL.</h2> -</div> - -<p class='c025'>[By <span class='sc'>William Cobbett</span>. Published in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine</cite>; -or Monthly Political and Literary Censor: from July to December, 1798. Vol. -i., pp. 725–8.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c007'>In the name of Fun, Amen. I <span class='sc'>Peter Porcupine</span>, Pamphleteer and Newsmonger, -being (as yet) sound both in body and in mind, do, this fifteenth day of -<em>April</em>, in the Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, -make, declare, and publish, this my <span class='sc'>Last Will and Testament</span>, in manner, -form, and substance following; to wit:</p> - -<p class='c048'><span class='sc'>In Primis</span>,</p> - -<p class='c007'>I leave my body to Doctor Michael Lieb, a member of the Legislature of -Pennsylvania, to be by him dissected (if he knows how to do it) in presence of -the Rump of the Democratic Society. In it they will find a heart that held them -in abhorrence, that never palpitated at their threats, and that, to its last beat, -bade them defiance. But my chief motive for making this bequest is, that my -spirit may look down with contempt on their cannibal-like triumph over a -breathless corpse.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> As I make no doubt that the above said Doctor Lieb (and some other -Doctors that I could mention) would like very well to skin me, I request that -they, or one of them may do it, and that the said Lieb’s father may tan my -skin; after which I desire my Executors to have seven copies of my Works complete, -bound in it, one copy to be presented to the Five Sultans of France, one to -each of their Divans, one to the Governor of Pennsylvania, to Citizens Maddison, -Giles, and Gallatin one each, and the remaining one to the Democratic Society of -Philadelphia, to be carefully preserved among their archives.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councils of the City of Philadelphia, I -bequeath all the sturdy young hucksters, who infest the market, and who to -maintain their bastards, tax the honest inhabitants many thousand pounds -annually. I request them to take them into their worshipful keeping; to chasten -their bodies for the good of their souls; and moreover to keep a sharp look-out -after their gallants; and remind the latter of the old proverb: <em>Touch pot, touch -penny</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To T—— J——son, Philosopher, I leave a curious Norway Spider, with -a hundred legs and nine pair of eyes; likewise the first black cut-throat general -he can catch hold of, to be flead alive, in order to determine with more certainty -the real cause of the dark colour of his skin; and should the said T—— J——son -survive Banneker the Almanack Maker; I request he will get the brains of said -Philomath carefully dissected, to satisfy the world in what respects they differ -from those of a white man.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, I will and bequeath a -correct copy of Thornton’s plan for abolishing the use of the English language, -and for introducing in its stead a republican one, the representative characters of -which bear a strong resemblance to pot-hooks and hangers; and for the discovery -of which plan, the said society did, in the year 1793, grant to the said -language maker 500 dollars premium. It is my earnest desire, that the copy of -this valuable performance, which I hereby present, may be shown to all the -travelling literati, as a proof of the ingenuity of the author and of the wisdom of -the society.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To Doctor Benjamin Rush, I will and bequeath a copy of <cite>The Censor</cite> -for January, 1797; but, upon the express condition, that he does not in anywise -<span class='pageno' id='Page_318'>318</span>or guise, either at the time of my death, or <em>Six months after</em>, pretend to speak, -write, or publish an eulogium on me, my calling or character, either literary, -military, civil, or political.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To my dear fellow labourer Noah Webster, “gentleman-citizen,” -Esq. and News-man, I will and bequeath a prognosticating barometer of curious -construction and great utility, by which, at a single glance, the said Noah will -be able to discern the exact state that the public mind will be in in the ensuing -year, and will thereby be enabled to <em>trim by degrees</em> and not expose himself to -detection, as he now does by his sudden lee-shore tacks. I likewise bequeath to -the said “gentleman-citizen,” six Spanish milled dollars, to be expended on a -new plate of his portrait at the head of his spelling book, that which graces it at -present being so ugly that it scares the children from their lessons; but this -legacy is to be paid him only upon condition that he leave out the title of -<em>’Squire</em>, at the bottom of said picture, which is extremely odious in an American -school-book, and must inevitably tend to corrupt the political principles of the -republican babies that behold it. And I do most earnestly desire, exhort and -conjure the said ’Squire news-man, to change the title of his paper, <cite>The Minerva</cite>, -for that of <cite>The Political Centaur</cite>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To F. A. Mughlenburg, Esq., Speaker of a late house of Representatives -of the United States, I leave a most superbly finished statue of Janus.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To Tom the Tinker, I leave a liberty-cap, a tricoloured cockade, a -wheel-barrow full of oysters, and a hogshead of grog: I also leave him three -blank checks on the bank of Pennsylvania, leaving to him the task of <em>filling -them up</em>; requesting him, however, to be rather more merciful than he has -shown himself heretofore.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To the Governor of Pennsylvania, and to the late President and -Cashier of the Bank of the said State, as to joint Legatees, I will and bequeath -that good old proverb: <em>Honesty is the best policy</em>. And this legacy I have chosen -for these worthy gentlemen, as the only thing about which I am sure they will -never disagree.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To T—— Coxe, of Philadelphia, citizen, I will and bequeath a crown -of hemlock, as a recompense for his attempt to throw an odium on the -administration of General Washington; and I most positively enjoin my -Executors, to see that the said crown be shaped exactly like that which this -spindle-shanked legatee wore before Gen. Howe, when he made his triumphal -entry into Philadelphia.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To Thomas Lord Bradford (otherwise called Goosy Tom), Bookseller, -Printer, News-man, and member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, -I will and bequeath a copy of the peerage of Great Britain, in order that the -said Lord Thomas may the more exactly ascertain what probability there is of -his succeeding to the seat, which his noble relation now fills in the House of Lords.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To all and singular the authors in the United States, whether they -write verse or prose, I will and bequeath a copy of my Life and Adventures; and -I advise the said authors to study with particular care the 40th and 41st pages -thereof; more especially and above all things, I exhort and conjure them never -to <em>publish it together</em>, though the bookseller should be a saint.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To Edmund Randolph, Esq., late Secretary of State, to Mr. J. A. -Dallas, Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania, and to His Excellency, Thomas -Miffin, Governor of the said unfortunate State, I will and bequeath, to each of -them, a copy of the sixteenth paragraph of Fauchet’s <em>intercepted letter</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To Citizen John Swanwick, member of Congress, by the will and -consent of the sovereign people, I leave bills of Exchange on London to an -enormous amount; they are <em>all protested</em>, indeed, but if properly managed, may be -turned to good account. I likewise bequeath to the said John a small treatise -by an Italian author, wherein the secret of pleasing the ladies is developed, -and reduced to a mere mechanical operation, without the least dependence on -the precarious aid of the passions. Hoping that these instances of my liberality -will produce, in the mind of the little legislature, effects quite different from -those produced therein by the King of Great Britain’s pension to his parents.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To the Editors of the <cite>Boston Chronicle</cite>, the <cite>New York Argus</cite>, and the -<cite>Philadelphia Merchants’ Advertiser</cite>, I will and bequeath one ounce of modesty and -love of truth, to be equally divided between them.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_319'>319</span>I should have been more liberal in this bequest, were I not well assured, -that one ounce is more than they will ever make use of.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To Franklin Bache, Editor of the <cite>Aurora of Philadelphia</cite>, I will and -bequeath a small bundle of French assignats, which I brought with me from -the country of equality. If these should be too light in value for his pressing -exigencies, I desire my executors, or any one of them, to bestow on him a -second part to what he has lately received in Southwark: and as a further -proof of my good will and affection, I request him to accept of a gag and a -brand new pair of fetters, which, if he should refuse, I will and bequeath him -in lieu thereof—my malediction.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To my beloved countrymen, the people of Old England, I will and -bequeath a copy of Doctor Priestley’s <cite>Charity Sermon for the benefit of poor Emigrants</cite>; -and to the said preaching philosopher himself, I bequeath a heart full -of disappointment, grief, and despair.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To the good people of France, who remain attached to their sovereign, -particularly to those among whom I was hospitably received, I bequeath each a -good strong dagger: hoping most sincerely that they may yet find courage -enough to carry them to the hearts of their abominable tyrants.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To Citizen M——oe, I will and bequeath my chamber looking-glass. -It is a plain but exceeding true mirror; in it he will see the exact likeness of a -traitor, who has bartered the honour and interest of his country to a perfidious -and savage enemy.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To the Republican Britons, who have fled from the hands of justice -in their own country, and who are a scandal, a nuisance, and a disgrace to this, -I bequeath hunger and nakedness, scorn and reproach; and I do hereby positively -enjoin on my executors to contribute five hundred dollars towards the -erection of gallowses and gibbets, for the accommodation of the said imported -patriots, when the legislators of this unhappy state shall have the wisdom to -countenance such useful establishments.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> My friend, J. T. Callender, the runaway from Scotland, is, of course, -a partaker in the last mentioned legacy; but as a particular mark of my attention, -I will and bequeath him twenty feet of pine plank, which I request my -executors to see made into a pillory, to be kept for his particular use, till a -gibbet can be prepared.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To Tom Paine, the author of <cite>Common Sense</cite>, <cite>Rights of Man</cite>, <cite>Age of -Reason</cite>, and a <cite>Letter to General Washington</cite>, I bequeath a strong hempen collar, -as the only legacy I can think of that is worthy of him as well as best adapted -to render his death in some measure as infamous as his life: and I do hereby -direct and order my Executors to send it to him by the first safe conveyance -with my compliments, and request that he would make use of it without delay, -that the national razor may not be disgraced by the head of such a monster.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To the gaunt outlandish orator, vulgarly called the Political Sinner, -who in the just order of things follows next after the last mentioned legatee, -I bequeath the honour of partaking in his catastrophe; that in their deaths, as -well as in their lives, all the world may exclaim: “<em>See how rogues hang together</em>”.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To all and singular the good people of these States, I leave peace, -union, abundance, happiness, untarnished honour, and an unconquerable everlasting -hatred to the French Revolutionists and their destructive abominable -principles.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Item.</em> To each of my Subscribers I leave a <em>quill</em>, hoping that in their hands -it may become a sword against every thing that is hostile to the government -and independence of their country.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Lastly.</em> To my three brothers, Paul, Simon, and Dick, I leave my whole -estate, as well real as personal (first paying the foregoing legacies) to be equally -divided between them, share and share alike. And I do hereby make and constitute -my said three brothers the Executors of this my <span class='fss'>LAST WILL</span>; to see the -same performed, according to its true intent and meaning, as far as in their -power lies.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>PETER PORCUPINE.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Witnesses present,</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'>Philo Fun, }</div> - <div class='line in2'>Jack Jockus. }</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_320'>320</span> - <h2 class='c005'>THE VISION OF LIBERTY.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div><em>Written in the manner of Spenser.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>[As the virulent style of political writing prevalent ninety years ago is now -but little known, the present edition of <cite>The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin</cite> seemed a -convenient medium for giving some specimens of it which appeared in <cite>The Anti-Jacobin -Review and Magazine</cite>, a work conducted on the same principles, but by -different writers, and with the cognizance of the government. Two of them -were by <span class='sc'>W. Cobbett</span>, who, had he been less arrogant and contentious, and more -consistent, would have been, in the words of Lord Dalling, “a very great man -in the world; as it was he made a great noise in it”. (See pp. <a href='#Page_311'>311</a>–319.)</p> - -<p class='c007'><cite>The Vision of Liberty</cite> is by <span class='sc'>C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe</span>, an author and artist -much esteemed by Scottish antiquarians, of which specimens only need be -given. Of <cite>The Anarchists</cite>, the author is not known.]</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O wretched man, how long wilt thou refuse</div> - <div class='line'>Thy Maker’s favour, and His mercy great?</div> - <div class='line'>How long thy worldly happiness abuse,</div> - <div class='line'>And growl and grumble at thy present state?</div> - <div class='line'>Seeking accursed change both soon and late,</div> - <div class='line'>And newest modes allured still to try—</div> - <div class='line'>England, beware God’s wrath to aggravate,</div> - <div class='line'>For foreign magic blinds thy charmed eye,</div> - <div class='line'>And Liberty, sweet Liberty, is now the constant cry.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>II.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>As on my couch in slumber’s arms I lay,</div> - <div class='line'>A vision did my senses entertain;</div> - <div class='line'>Of late, me thought in France I miss’d my way,</div> - <div class='line'>Amid a columnless deserted plain;</div> - <div class='line'>No man or beast upon it did remain,</div> - <div class='line'>Swept off by Discord’s wide destroying strife:</div> - <div class='line'>Ne planted fence, ne field of waving grain,</div> - <div class='line'>Marking the toiling farmer’s busy life,</div> - <div class='line'>But ruined huts and castles, brent, were wondrous rife.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>III.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yet on this plain, most goodly to behold,</div> - <div class='line'>Saw I a temple tow’ring to the sky,</div> - <div class='line'>The dome where of was made of basest gold,</div> - <div class='line'>Most false, but yet most lovely to the eye;</div> - <div class='line'>And rotting pillars reareth it on high,</div> - <div class='line'>Of ghastly human heads, and clotted gore,</div> - <div class='line'>With dust, y’mixt the mortar doth supply,</div> - <div class='line'>While foulest birds still round this temple soar,</div> - <div class='line'>And filthy serpents hiss, and giant hyenas roar.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'><span class='pageno' id='Page_321'>321</span>IV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Among the heads that did the mass compose,</div> - <div class='line'>Three royal skulls were there—one of a king—</div> - <div class='line'>Meek saint, who never once revil’d his foes,</div> - <div class='line'>His bloody foes that him to scaffold bring;</div> - <div class='line'>One of a maid; O heaven! that I could sing</div> - <div class='line'>With Spenser’s tongue, her spotless purity,</div> - <div class='line'>Her holy zeal, in courts so rare a thing,</div> - <div class='line'>By lawless fiends condemn’d she was to die,</div> - <div class='line'>And sent, untimely sent, to seek her native sky.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>V.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The third I marked with melancholy eyes,</div> - <div class='line'>A female head, that once a crown did wear,</div> - <div class='line'>Cut off in life’s full bloom, now low she lies,</div> - <div class='line'>The loose loves weeping o’er her early bier,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor Virtue’s self denies a tender tear;</div> - <div class='line'>So young a creature, wonder not she fell,</div> - <div class='line'>And left the paths of chastity severe,</div> - <div class='line'>Debauched by a court where lust did dwell</div> - <div class='line'>Like treach’rous Circe, skill’d in many a witching spell.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah! where are now her gorgeous robes of state,</div> - <div class='line'>The glitt’ring gems that did her fairness deck?</div> - <div class='line'>The cringing nobles that on her did wait,</div> - <div class='line'>The high-born dames that kneeled at her beck?</div> - <div class='line'>Alas! a ghastly face, a bloody neck,</div> - <div class='line'>A simple winding-sheet is now her share;</div> - <div class='line'>Look here, ye proud ones, on this mighty wreck,</div> - <div class='line'>And learn what perishable stuff ye are,</div> - <div class='line'>From her poor mangled carcase, once so sweet and fair.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VII.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And on the ground there lay a murder’d child,</div> - <div class='line'>A piteous sight it was, and full of woe,</div> - <div class='line'>Who, when alive, by every art defil’d,</div> - <div class='line'>With poison, they at last did overthrow,</div> - <div class='line'>Wretches, who never ruth or conscience know;</div> - <div class='line'>O lovely flowret cropt by villain hands,</div> - <div class='line'>How will thy butchers dread th’ almighty brow,</div> - <div class='line'>Arm’d with frowns, when each at judgment stands,</div> - <div class='line'>And God the meed of murder from His throne commands.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>VIII.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then o’er the portal was this motto plac’d,</div> - <div class='line'>“The house of liberty,” in gold y’writ,</div> - <div class='line'>And, vent’ring in, I stood like one amaz’d</div> - <div class='line'>Such sights of horror on my heart-strings smit.</div> - <div class='line'>There Infidelity, in moody fit,</div> - <div class='line'>Hugg’d Suicide—there Rage, and deadly Fears,</div> - <div class='line'>There Lechery, with goatish leer did sit,</div> - <div class='line'>And Murder, quaffing up his victim’s tears,</div> - <div class='line'>With thousand other crimes, too foul for human ears.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>IX.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In ’mid the house an image stood in state,</div> - <div class='line'>Like to <span class='sc'>Voltaire</span> in visage and in shape,</div> - <div class='line'>Wither’d his heart with fellest rage and hate</div> - <div class='line'>Shrivell’d and lean his carcase like an ape</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_322'>322</span>And numerous crowds upon the same did gape,</div> - <div class='line'>As he all-naked stood to every eye;</div> - <div class='line'>Above an altar covered with crape,</div> - <div class='line'>And formed of his books one might descry,</div> - <div class='line'>Profane and lewd it was, and cramm’d with many a lie.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>X.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And still from ’neath the altar roared he,</div> - <div class='line'>As from a bull lowing in cavern deep,</div> - <div class='line'>“Come worship me, <em>O men</em>, come worship me;</div> - <div class='line'>Spit on the cross, of Jesus take no keep,</div> - <div class='line'>I promise you an everlasting sleep;</div> - <div class='line'>The soul and body both shall turn to clay;</div> - <div class='line'>Ye penitents, why do ye sigh and weep?</div> - <div class='line'>Let not damnation’s terrors you affray,</div> - <div class='line'>Come learn my lore that drives all foolish fears away”.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'> · · · · ·</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XIV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Next came that cursed felon <span class='sc'>Thomas Paine</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>Mounted upon a tiger fierce and fell;</div> - <div class='line'>And still a shower of blood on him doth rain,</div> - <div class='line'>With tears that from the eyes of widows well;</div> - <div class='line'>Loud in his ears the cries of orphans yell;</div> - <div class='line'>The axe impending o’er his head alway</div> - <div class='line'>While devils wait to catch his soul to hell,</div> - <div class='line'>The knave is fill’d with anguish and dismay—</div> - <div class='line'>And anxious round he looks, even straws do him affray.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then saw I mounted on a braying ass</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>William</span> and <span class='sc'>Mary</span>, sooth, a couple jolly;</div> - <div class='line'>Who married, note ye how it came to pass,</div> - <div class='line'>Although each held that marriage was but folly.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'> · · · · ·</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XVIII.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then came <span class='sc'>Maria Helen Williams Stone</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>Sitting upon a goat with bearded chin;</div> - <div class='line'>And she hath written volumes many a one;</div> - <div class='line'>Better the idle jade had learned to spin.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'> · · · · ·</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XIX.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Next mounted on a monster like a louse,</div> - <div class='line'>With parchments loaded, came a man of law,<a id='r333' /><a href='#f333' class='c024'><sup>[333]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Sprung from an ancient Caledonian house,</div> - <div class='line'>Cunningly could he quibble out a flaw;</div> - <div class='line'>And this sage man would chatter like a daw,</div> - <div class='line'>To prove the moon green cheese, and black, pure white,</div> - <div class='line'>Spitting out treason from his greedy maw;</div> - <div class='line'>To breed sedition was his chief delight,</div> - <div class='line'>And scratch men’s scabs to ulcers still with all his might.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'><span class='pageno' id='Page_323'>323</span>XX.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then on an Irish bull of skin and bone,</div> - <div class='line'>A foul churl<a id='r334' /><a href='#f334' class='c024'><sup>[334]</sup></a> rode, who still a harp would strum,</div> - <div class='line'>A harp Hibernian, stringless saving one,</div> - <div class='line'>Well tun’d to harsh sedition’s growling hum;</div> - <div class='line'>He hit the bull on which he had his bum</div> - <div class='line'>Full many a bitter pang, nor gave him rest—</div> - <div class='line'>Dealing his blows on Teagues that round him come,</div> - <div class='line'>Grieving the while for man and brute opprest,</div> - <div class='line'>Chaunting the Irish howl, abhorr’d of man and beast.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XXI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O <span class='sc'>Ireland</span>, spot accurs’d—tho’ glorious fair,</div> - <div class='line'>Shines there the sun, the flowers enamell’d blow,</div> - <div class='line'>And scent, with fragrance sweet, the balmy air,</div> - <div class='line'>Rippling the gliding pools that softly flow;</div> - <div class='line'>No noxious reptile there to man a foe</div> - <div class='line'>Abides, but black revenge with cautious plan,</div> - <div class='line'>Cool-blooded cruelty with torments slow,</div> - <div class='line'>Springs rank; with weeds the goodly soil’s o’er-ran,</div> - <div class='line'>And all the reptile’s venom rankles in the man.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XXII.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then in a gorgeous car of beaten gold,</div> - <div class='line'>Drove on a portly man, of mighty rank,<a id='r335' /><a href='#f335' class='c024'><sup>[335]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>A person comely, of extraction old;</div> - <div class='line'>But, carrion-like, his reputation stank;</div> - <div class='line'>Sly was the wight, with crafty quip and crank,</div> - <div class='line'>To cram with glittering coin his bursting bags;</div> - <div class='line'>Yet whilom taxing-men play’d him a prank,</div> - <div class='line'>By catching in their traps some strayed nags,</div> - <div class='line'>And eke some livery slaves, in miser’s livery rags.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XXIII.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then on a turtle came proud London’s Mayor,</div> - <div class='line'>Followed by Aldermen, a frowsy crew,</div> - <div class='line'>Strong smelling of Cheapside, and luscious fair,</div> - <div class='line'>Yet apoplexy made his followers few.</div> - <div class='line'>Long antlers on the head of each man grew,</div> - <div class='line'>So that they seem’d a host of moving horn;</div> - <div class='line'>Anon as on they came they’d mump and chew,</div> - <div class='line'>Stuffing their guts from dawning of the morn,</div> - <div class='line'>Till shades of evening fell—for eating only born.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XXIV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>On a cock sparrow fed with Spanish flies,</div> - <div class='line'>A swilling Captain came, with liquor mellow,</div> - <div class='line'>And still the crowd in hideous uproar cries,<a id='r336' /><a href='#f336' class='c024'><sup>[336]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>“Sing us a bawdy song, thou d——d good fellow”,</div> - <div class='line'>Incontinent he sets himself to bellow,</div> - <div class='line'>And shouts with all the strength that in him lies;</div> - <div class='line'>The Citizets exclaim, “He’s sans pareilly O”;</div> - <div class='line'>The Citizens in raptures roll their eyes,</div> - <div class='line'>And drink with leathern ears, the fool’s lewd ribaldries.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'><span class='pageno' id='Page_324'>324</span>XXV.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>On came these wights, and many more beside,</div> - <div class='line'>Thick as the grains of sand upon the shore,</div> - <div class='line'>Thick as a swarm of flies in summer tide,</div> - <div class='line'>That on a dunghill hive and hover o’er;</div> - <div class='line'>Most had their hides all scall’d, their trousers tore;</div> - <div class='line'>Many sans breeches, shameless trudg’d along,</div> - <div class='line'>And many a noble knave and titled w——e,</div> - <div class='line'>With Irish bog-trotters would crowd and throng,</div> - <div class='line'>Carolling catches base, and filthy French chanson.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>XXVI.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Like roaring waves they cover’d all the plain;</div> - <div class='line'>And tho’ equality they still requir’d,</div> - <div class='line'>Each cudgell’d sore his breast with might and main,</div> - <div class='line'>Each to get foremost ardently desir’d.</div> - <div class='line'>Some fell into the dirt, and foul were mir’d,</div> - <div class='line'>The rest rode over them and took no heed.</div> - <div class='line'>Their yells, with patriotic ardour fired,</div> - <div class='line'>So made my flesh to quake with very dread,</div> - <div class='line'>That Morpheus left my couch, and all the vision fled.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>The insertion of the foregoing poem (which was never printed) into your -entertaining and useful publication, will much oblige,</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Your humble servant,</div> - <div class='line in20'>C. K.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_367.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_325'>325</span> - <h2 class='c005'>INDEX TO THE <cite>ANTI-JACOBIN</cite>.</h2> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div><em>4th Edition, 1799; 2 vols., 8vo.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c049'> - <div>A.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Abuse</em>, a new and approved method of conveying, vol. i., p. 502.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Acme and Septimius</cite>, or the Happy Union, vol. i., p. 452.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Advertisements</cite>: Government strenuously advised to withdraw them from the -Jacobin Papers, vol. ii., p. 119.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Advertisements</cite>, Government, withdrawn from the Jacobin Papers, vol. ii., pp. -308, 490.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Address</cite> of City of Londonderry to Lord Camden, vol. i., p. 356; His Lordship’s -Reply, 358.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Ad—r</cite>, Mr. Robert, tries to imitate Mr. Burke’s style, vol. i., p. 377—fails egregiously—mistakes -a coffin for a corpse—transmutes the head of the house of Russell into lead, p. 378—writes half a letter to Mr. Fox—and puts the -world in high good humour, p. 422.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Agricola</cite>: his letter on the advantages of a well-regulated economy, vol. i., p. 583.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Anecdotes</cite> respecting Lord Duncan’s victory, vol. i., pp. 38, 107.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Appropriate</cite> Speech—See Lord William Russell.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Assessed Taxes</cite>: benefits arising from trebling them, vol. i., p. 16—horrible effects -of, vol. i., pp. 347, 503.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Assessed Taxes</cite> evaded by the Duke of Bedford—See <em>Bedford</em>, Duke of.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>B.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Bachelor</em>: his letter, vol. i., p. 258—his definition of a patriot, vol. i., p. 261.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Bacchus</em>: a life of him forged by the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite> for the diabolical purpose -of burlesquing the life and death, and resurrection and ascension of Our -<span class='sc'>Blessed Saviour</span>, vol. i., p. 220, &c.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Ballynahinch</em>, a <em>loyal</em> town of Lord Moira’s—a meeting of rebel delegates held -there, vol. i., p. 83.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Ballynahinch</em>, a new song, vol. ii., p. 603.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Ballynahinchers</em>: loyal countenances of, read by Lord Moira, vol. ii., p. 507—loyal -professions of, heard by ditto—rob the king’s stores—debauch his -troops—attack them, and are cut to pieces, vol. ii., p. 519.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Bedford</em>, Duke of: his Surcharge of 25 Servants and 17 Horses, vol i., pp. 230, 254.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Bedford</em>, Duke of: justified for evading the Assessed Taxes, by the <cite>Morning -Post</cite>, vol. i., p. 255—and by the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, p. 297—proved to have -gained much honour by evading the Assessed Taxes, by the <cite>Morning Post</cite>, -vol. i., p. 256—cleared from any attempt to evade the Assessed Taxes, by a -note of admiration, by the <cite>Courier</cite>, p. 350.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Beresford</em>, Mr., character of him, vol. ii., p. 556.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Bit</em> of an Ode to Mr. Fox, vol. i., p. 422.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Blockade</em> of the Seine, vol. i., pp. 571, 616.</p> - -<p class='c010'><span class='pageno' id='Page_326'>326</span><em>Blasphemy</em> attempted without success by the <cite>Morning Post</cite>, vol. i., p. 505—and -by the <cite>Courier</cite>—fully succeeded in by the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, vol. i., p. 325, -&c.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Bosville</em>, Mr., Banker to the Corresponding Society, vol. i., p. 409.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Brownrigg</em>, Mrs.: Inscription for the Door of her Cell in Newgate, vol. i., p. 35.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>British Merchant</em>, his Letter on the misrepresentations of the Party, with respect -to the continuance of the War, vol. i., p. 593.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Brissot’s</em> Ghost, vol. ii., p. 236.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Burdett</em>, Sir Something: his affectionate mention of Mr. Paine at the Shakespeare -Tavern, vol. i., p. 136.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Burdett</em>, Sir Francis, runner to the Corresponding Society, vol. i., p. 408.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Buonaparté</em>: his health given by Mr. Macfungus, vol. i., p. 35—his Letter to the -Commandant at Zanté, vol. ii., p. 535.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>C.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Camille Jordan</em>, asserts that one of our Jacobin Newspapers is in the pay of -France, vol. i., pp. 507, 622; vol. ii., pp. 17, 51, 86, 488.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Cambridge Intelligencer</cite>, detected and exposed, vol. ii., pp. 263, 296.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Chevy Chase</cite>; a Ballad to the Tune of, vol. ii., p. 21.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Choice</cite>, The: an Ode, vol. i., p. 263.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Clare</em>, The Earl of, Character of, vol. ii., p. 544.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Clare</em>, Earl of: proposes a question respecting the extent of Lord Moira’s -<span class='fss'>DUPERY</span>, vol. ii., p. 518.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Clever</em>: See Mr. Robert Ad—r, vol. i., p. 422.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Coughing</em> and laughing: See Mr. John Nicholls, vol. i., p. 186.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Courtney</em>, Mr., fully convicted of kidnapping—rhymes, vol. i., p. 376.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Coalition</em>, The New: an Ode, vol. i., p. 599.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Coalition</em> of Kings, vol. ii., p. 546.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Constant</em> Reader: his Letter on the Designs of our foreign and domestic Enemies, -vol. i., pp. 544, 597.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Courier</cite>, The; a mad—and foolish—and odious—and contemptible paper, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">passim</span></i>. -Picked up by a Gentleman in the streets, for the sake of its superior information!!! -vol. ii., p. 230.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>D.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Detector</em>: his Letter on the pretended Treaty of Pavia, vol. i., p. 474—On the -Treaty of Pilnitz, vol. ii., p. 37—On the Coalition of Kings, vol. ii., p. 546.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Description</em> of a very extraordinary Plant now growing at Paris, vol. ii., p. 573.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Description</em> of Mr. Fox’s Radical Reform, vol. i., p. 396.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Description</em> of a Scribbler for the Jacobin Papers, vol. i., p. 613.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Description</em> of the Jacobin Prints, vol. ii., p. 119.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Decius Mus</em>: his account of the Secessions in the Roman Common Wealth, vol. -i., p. 261.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Dismissal</em> of the Duke of Norfolk, vol. i., p. 429.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Duncan</em>, Lord: Anecdotes relative to his Victory, vol. i., pp. 38, 107.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Duke</em>, The, and the Taxing Man, vol. i., p. 265.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Dupery</em> of Lord Moira, vol. ii., pp. 36, 518, &c., &c.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>E.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Edwards</em>, Mr. Bryan: offers to pay for Mr. Nicholls’ dinner at the Crown and -Anchor—finds his pockets pick’d—his exclamation thereat, vol. i., p. 410.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Elegy</em> on the Death of Jean Bon Saint André, vol. ii., p. 314.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Epigram</em> on the Loan upon England, vol. i., p. 267.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Epistle</em>, Poetical, to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin, vol. i., p. 371. Reply to -ditto, vol. i., p. 371.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Epistle</em>, Poetical, to the Author of the Anti-Jacobin, vol. i., p. 486.</p> - -<p class='c010'><span class='pageno' id='Page_327'>327</span><em>Erskine</em>, Mr.: his definition of Himself at the Meeting of the Friends of Freedom—clothed -with the infirmities of man’s nature—in many respects a finite -being—disclaims all pretensions to superhuman powers—has been both a -soldier and a sailor—has a son at Winchester school—has been called by -special retainers into many parts of the country, travelling chiefly in post-chaises—is -of Noble, perhaps, Royal Blood—has a house at Hampstead—faints -between the subdivisions of his discourse—is conveyed to his carriage—tricked -by the chairmen who were hired to draw it—and finally -taken home by his own horses, vol. i., p. 125, &c.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Expedition</em> against Ostend, vol. ii., pp. 367, 377, 442, 486, 596.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>F.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Finance</em>, vol. i., pp. 16, 44, 85, 143, 212, 244, 313, 391, 607; vol. ii., p. 224.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Foreign Intelligence</em>, vol. i., pp. 41, 73, 105, 138, 170, 206, 238, 267, 305, 339, 382, 424, -453, 491, 528, 560, 600, 629; vol. ii., 23, 57, 101, 136, 174, 206, 239, 280, 318, 346, -389, 430, 461, 499, 540, 577, 608.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Foreign Intelligence Extraordinary</em>, vol. ii., p. 535.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Fox</em>, Mr.: his Speech at the Meeting of the Friends of Freedom, vol. i., p. 92—his -Radical Reform described, 396—Celebration of his Nativity at the Crown -and Anchor, 408—his Speech, 412—his Song, 413—A Bit of an Ode to, 422—Lines -written under a Bust of him, 489—his dismissal from the Privy Council, -vol. ii., p. 293.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>French Revolution</em>, origin and progress of, vol. i., p. 22.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>French Revolution</em>, not to be defended or illustrated by a comparison with the -civil wars of this country, vol. ii., p. 17.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Friend of Humanity</cite> and the Knife-Grinder, vol. i., p. 71.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Friends of Freedom</em>, Meeting of the, vol. i., pp. 91, 125.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Freemason’s</em> observations on the Duke of Norfolk’s toast, vol. i., p. 587.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Francis</em>, Mr.: his Novel of a Pamphlet grievously abused by the <cite>Morning -Chronicle</cite>, vol. ii., p. 338.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>G.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>German</em> Stage: see the “Rovers”.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Government</em> Advertisements: see <em>Advertisements</em>.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Guillotine</em>, la Sainte: a new Song attempted from the French, vol. i., p. 136.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>H.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Head</em> of the Russells, transmuted into lead, vol. i., p. 377.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Higgins</em>, Mr., of Saint Mary Axe—see “Progress of Man,” “Loves of the Triangles,” -the “Rovers,” &c.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>How</em> to praise one’s friends, vol. i., p. 397.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Horrible</em> Effects of the Assessed Taxes, vol. i., pp. 347, 503.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Hoche</em>, General: his Instructions to Colonel Tate, vol. i., pp. 480, 498.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>I.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Imitation</em> of Horace, lib. iii. carm. xxv., vol. i., p. 627.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Instructions</em> for Colonel Tate, vol. i., pp. 480, 498.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Introduction</em>, The, vol. i., p. 11.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Introduction</em> to the Poetry, vol. i., p. 31.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Invasion</cite>, The; or, The British War Song, vol. i., p. 103.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Ingratitude</em>, the characteristic vice of Jacobinism, vol. i., p. 579.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Italicus</em>: his letter on the plunder of the French in Italy, vol. i., p. 367.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>J.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Jacobin</span></i>, The, vol. ii., p. 133.</p> - -<p class='c010'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Jacobin</span></i> Papers, an epidemic malady among them, vol. ii., p. 120.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_328'>328</span>L.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Latin</em> Verses, De Navali Laude Britanniæ, vol. ii., p. 604.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Lead</em>—see <em>Head of the Russells</em>.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Letter</cite> to Earl Moira on the state of Ireland, vol. i., p. 77, 109, 161.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Letter</cite> from Letitia Sourby, vol. i., p. 195—from a Bachelor, p. 258—from Decius -Mus, p. 261—from an Irishman, 299—from Italicus, 367—from Monitor, 370—from -Adolphus Hicks, 380—from a Constant Reader, 534—from Agricola, -583—from Speculator, 586—from a Freemason, 587—from a Symposiast, 589—from -a British Merchant, 593—from a Constant Reader, 597—from Mucius, -623—from Historicus, vol. ii., p. 17—from an Irishman, 35—from a Sucking -Whig, 53—from a British Seaman, 93—from an Anti-Catiline, 128—from -Samuel Shallow—from a Friend to the Landed Interest, 269—from Historicus, -491—from A. Z., on Original Principles with respect to the French -Revolution, 499—from a Calm Observer, 525—from Hibernicus, 554—from -Perseus, 558—from a Church of England Man, 561—from Cato, 564—from -Hortensius, 573.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Letter</cite> from General Buonaparte to the Governor of Zanté, vol. ii., p. 535.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Lies</em>, vol. i., pp. 46, 115, 156, 178, 217, 248, 322, 346, 395, 453, 460, 499, 538, 573, 612; -vol. ii., pp. 2, 4, 43, 78, 116, 151, 193, 227, 304, 330, 377, 440, 481, 512.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Lille</em>, translation of a letter from, vol. i., p. 26.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Lines</em> written at the close of the year 1797, vol. i., p. 330.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Lines</em> written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown and Anchor, vol. i., -p. 489.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Lines</em> written under the Bust of a certain Orator, not at the Crown and Anchor, -vol. i., p. 490.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>List</em> of ships and vessels belonging to France, Spain, and Holland, taken, &c., -since the commencement of the war, vol. ii., p. 120.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Loves</em> of the Triangles: a Mathematical and Philosophical Poem, vol. ii., pp. 162, -200, 274.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>M.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Manners</em> and Character of the Age, vol. ii., p. 564.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Marten</em>, Henry: inscription for his apartment in Chepstow Castle, vol. i., p. 35.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Macfungus</em>, Mr.: his speech at the meeting of the Friends of Freedom, vol. i., -p. 131.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Meeting</em> of the Friends of Freedom, vol. i., pp. 91, 125.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Misrepresentations</em>, vol. i., pp. 19, 47, 117, 157, 180, 218, 252, 293, 324, 347, 396, 436, -470, 501, 541, 577, 615; vol. ii., pp. 8, 46, 79, 121, 154, 195, 231, 307, 333, 441, 484, -515 597.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Mistakes</em>, vol. i., pp. 56, 124, 159, 188, 221, 257, 351, 397, 439, 473, 504, 543, 581, 620; -vol. ii., pp. 12, 48, 84, 126, 154, 199, 235, 308, 338, 385, 443, 484, 519.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Misapprehension</em> on the subject of the proposed Increase of the Assessed Taxes, -vol. i., p. 190.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Moira</em>, Lord: the singularity of his conduct, vol. i., p. 58—his story of the Child -and the Rush Light contradicted, p. 188—his weakness, p. 252—lays it down -as a general principle, that the liberty of the press is destroyed in Ireland, -p. 274—is referred to the Press and the Dublin Evening Post, p. 275—famous -for acting a bull, vol. ii., p. 14—duped to an extraordinary degree, -p. 86—a great physiognomist, p. 517—a great dupe, p. 518, &c., &c., &c.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Moira</em>, Lord: Letter to, on the State of Ireland, vol. i., pp. 77, 109, 161.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Moira</em>, Lord: Ode to, vol. i., p. 380.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Moira</em>, the late Earl of: his account of the celebrated enchantress, Moll Coggin, -vol. i., p. 299.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Moll Coggin</em>: the late Earl of Moira’s account of her, vol. i., p. 299.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, calls the Thanksgiving for Lord Duncan’s Victory a <em>Frenchified -Farce</em>, vol. i., p. 157—insults the King—maligns the Parliament—belies -the Resources—ridicules and reviles the spirit of the Nation—advises unconditional -submission to France—declares that our arms are without energy, -our hearts without courage, and our sword at the service of every puny -whipster, vol. ii., p. 85, &c.</p> - -<p class='c010'><span class='pageno' id='Page_329'>329</span><cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>: its impiety—its blasphemy—its falsehood—its historical, -geographical, and political ignorance—its insolence, baseness, and stupidity—<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">passim</span></i>, -<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">passim</span></i>.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, the editor of: why called the Père du Chène, vol. ii., p. 471.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Muskein</em>, Citizen: his Consolatory Address to his Gun-boats, vol. ii., p. 312—his -Affectionate Address to Hâvre de Grace, vol. ii., p. 498.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>N.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Narrative</em> of the Riot at Tranent, vol. i., p. 59.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Naval History</cite>, vol. i., p. 222.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Neutral</em> Navigation, vol. i., pp. 398, 505.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>New Morality</cite>, a Poem, vol. ii., p. 623.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>New</em> and approved method of conveying abuse, vol. i., p. 502.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Neat</em> Speech—see <em>Lord John Russell</em>.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Nicholls</em>, Mr. John: his faculties confounded by Mr. Pitt’s speech, vol. i., p. 47—treated -very unkindly by his associates, vol. i., p. 186—has his pockets -picked by Mr. Jekyl of his <em>genuine</em> speech at the Crown and Anchor—offers -seventeen of the <em>spurious</em> ones in payment for his dinner at <em>ditto</em>—is refused -admittance, vol. i., p. 410.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Nicholls</em>, Mr. John: a great Parliament man, but thought to be very tart and -sour by Mrs. Deborah Wigmore, Mr. Wright’s housekeeper, vol. i., p. 553.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Norfolk</em>, Duke of: his speech at the Crown and Anchor, vol. i., pp. 412, 418—his -dismissal, vol. i., p. 429—observations on his toast, by a Freemason, vol. i., -p. 587—defended by a Symposiast, vol. i., p. 589—curious account of his dismissal -from the French Papers, vol. i., p. 614; vol. ii., p. 16.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>O.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Ode</cite> to Anarchy, by a Jacobin, vol. i., p. 301.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Ode</cite> to Lord Moira, vol. i., p. 380.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Ode</cite>, a bit of an, to Mr. Fox, vol. i., p. 422.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Ode</cite> to Jacobinism, vol. ii., p. 53.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Ode</cite> to my Country, 1798, vol. ii., p. 342.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Ode</cite> to the Director Merlin, vol. ii., p. 388.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Ode</cite> to a Jacobin, vol. ii., p. 576.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Origin</em> and Progress of the French Revolution, vol. i., p. 22.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>P.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Pavia</em>, Treaty of, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. i., p. 474.</p> - -<p class='c010'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Père du Chène</span></i>, appellation of: why given to the editor of <cite>The Morning Chronicle</cite>, -vol. ii., p. 471.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Pilnitz</em>, Treaty of, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. ii., p. 37.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Poetry</em>, vol. i., pp. 31, 69, 103, 168, 199, 236, 263, 301, 329, 371, 421, 452, 486, 524, 556, -597, 620; vol. ii., pp. 21, 53, 95, 133, 162, 200, 236, 274, 312, 339, 387, 415, 446, 497, -528, 576, 603.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Porcupine</em>, Peter, a spirited and instructive writer, vol. i., p. 332.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Prisoners of War</em>, vol. i., pp. 234, 277, 326; vol. ii., p. 310.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Prize of Dullness</em>, vol. i., pp. 421, 448, 522; awarded, vol. i., p. 552.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Progress of Man</cite>, a Didactic Poem, vol. i., pp. 524, 558; vol. ii., p. 97.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Proceedings</em> of the Whig Club, vol. ii., p. 260.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Prologue</em> to the Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement, vol. ii., p. 420.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>R.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Ram</em>—see <em>Sir John Sinclair</em>.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Review</em> of the proposed plan of Finance, vol. i., p. 143.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Review</em> of the Session, vol. ii., p. 583.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Rovers</em>, the; or, the Double Arrangement, vol. ii., pp. 420, 446.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Russell</em>, Lord John, makes a very neat Speech, vol. i., p. 126.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Russell</em>, Lord William, makes a very appropriate Speech, vol. i., p. 126.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_330'>330</span>S.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Sale</em> of the Land Tax, vol. ii., p. 1, 269.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Secession</em> of the Opposition, observations on, vol. i., p. 36.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Secret</em> Expedition of British <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Savans</span></i>, vol. ii., p. 529.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Sinclair</em>, Sir John, embarks with his Ram in the Capricorn on a secret -expedition, vol. ii., p. 532.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Soldier’s Friend</em>: an Ode, vol. i., p. 169.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Song</em>: a new one, appointed to be sung at all <em>Convivial</em> Meetings convened for -the purpose of opposing the Assessed Tax Bill, vol. i., p. 303.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Sonnet</em> to Liberty, vol. i., p. 169.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Sourby</em>, Letitia: her letter, vol. i., p. 195.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Speculator</em>: his observations on Cardinal Antici’s letter to Buonaparte, vol. i., -p. 586.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Symposiast’s</em>, A, defence of the Duke of Norfolk’s celebrated toast, vol. i., p. 589.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>T.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Tate</em>, Colonel; his instructions, vol. i., pp. 480, 498.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Tooke</em>, Horne: his speech at the Crown and Anchor, vol. i., p. 417.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Translation</em> of the Latin verses written after the Revolution of the fourth of -September, vol. i., p. 201.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Translation</em> of the new song of the “Army of England,” vol. i., p. 331.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Translation</em> of a letter from <em>Bawba-dara-adul-phoola</em> to <em>Neek-awl-aretchid-kooez</em>, -vol. ii., p. 532.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Treaty of Pavia</em>, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. i., p. 474.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Treaty of Pilnitz</em>, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. ii., p. 37.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>U.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Unattached</em> Officers, vol. i., p. 362.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Unjust</em> Aggressions, vol. i., pp. 420, 440, 549; vol. ii., pp. 522, 600.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Union Star</cite>: extracts from, vol. i., p. 352.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>V.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>Verses</em>, Latin, written after the Revolution of the fourth of September, vol. i., p. -201; translation, vol. i., p. 236.</p> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Vision</cite>, The: written at St. Ann’s Hill, vol. i., p. 598.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Voluntary</em> Contributions, vol. i., pp. 465, 534.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c050'> - <div>W.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><cite>Weekly Examiner</cite>, vol. i., pp. 19, 46, 115, 156, 178, 217, 248, 293, 322, 346, 395, 435, -468, 498, 534, 573, 607; vol. ii., pp. 4, 43, 78, 116, 151, 191, 227, 263, 296, 330, 377, -405, 440, 475, 512, 596.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Wickham</em>, Mr.: his note to the Helvetic Body on his recal, vol. i., p. 388—answer -to ditto, vol. i., p. 426.</p> - -<p class='c010'><em>Wigmore</em>, Deborah, housekeeper to Mr. Wright, awards the Prize of Dullness, -vol. i., p. 552.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_331'>331</span> - <h2 class='c005'>INDEX TO VOL. I.<br /> <span class='small'>OF THE</span><br /> <cite>ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE</cite>.</h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>[This Index and the two preceding articles (by W. Cobbett, pp. 311–319) -are reprinted in order to show that the same spirit which pervaded <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> -was continued in its successor, <cite>The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine</cite>, -although the Editor and Contributors were different.]</p> - -<ul class='index c003'> - <li class='center'>A.</li> - <li class='c051'>Alfred—Letters of Ghost of, reviewed, No. 1, p. 62; - <ul> - <li> - <ul> - <li>object of, 63;</li> - <li>opinion concerning Erskine;</li> - <li>ditto, concerning the acquittals, 1794;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Letters, Monthly Review of, reviewed, 68.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Algernon Sidney, an enthusiast in Republicanism, 451; - <ul> - <li>illegally condemned, 452.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Almanack of revolutions, 789; - <ul> - <li>illustrates the wild system of innovation, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>account of Switzerland, 792.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>America, 4; - <ul> - <li>infected by French principles;</li> - <li>Congress of, democratic members abuse our sovereign, 14;</li> - <li>buildings described, 222.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>American Annual Register, 829; - <ul> - <li>composed by Calender, a refugee Scotch democrat;</li> - <li>assertions, false;</li> - <li>reasoning, trivial;</li> - <li>language and manner, coarse and vulgar, 830;</li> - <li>author tries to be witty on Burke, 833;</li> - <li>praises Jefferson, Tom Paine, and the French Revolutionists, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Analytical Review analysed, 3; - <ul> - <li>Review of Wakefield’s reply, reviewed, 75;</li> - <li>idea of the constituents of independence, 76;</li> - <li>consistently with itself ridicules prayer, 77;</li> - <li>Analytical Reviewers, not critics, but partisans, 83;</li> - <li>endeavour to influence juries, 84;</li> - <li>enraged for the prosecution of Johnson, 85;</li> - <li>give no account of the books they censure, 86;</li> - <li>Analytical Reviewer of Godwin’s Memoirs, illustrates his own morals, politics, and religion, 99;</li> - <li>expects a time when Mrs. Wollstonecraft’s conduct will be admired, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>asserts the proceedings of the French Directory and English Government to be the same, 182;</li> - <li>abuses due laws and government, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>declamatory abuse of Mr. Gifford’s address, 185;</li> - <li>whom the Analytical think the friends of liberty, 186;</li> - <li>praises Charlotte Smith’s <cite>Delmont</cite>, 190;</li> - <li>attacks Murphy’s <cite>Arminius</cite>, 193;</li> - <li>Abuses Bowdler’s <cite>Reform of Ruin</cite>, 195;</li> - <li>Invective of, against Peter Porcupine, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>tries wit, 197;</li> - <li>blasphemous comparison by, of Godwin, to the Supreme Being, 335;</li> - <li>God of, not the God of Christians, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>abuses Peter Porcupine, 342;</li> - <li>principles of, 344;</li> - <li>praises of Jones, the itinerant lecturer, 345;</li> - <li>Gerald, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>enraged at an allusion to the French faction at home, 448;</li> - <li>abuses Mr. Noble for praising the gospel, and censuring the English regicides, 449;</li> - <li>exclaims against the punishment of regicides, 450;</li> - <li>defends Ludlow, the murderer of his king, 451;</li> - <li>styles a conspirator the fairest character in English history, 452;</li> - <li>defends the <cite>United Irishmen</cite>, 464;</li> - <li>abuses Mr. Budworth, for praising the answerer of Paine, 465.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Anarchists, ode to, 365.</li> - <li class='c051'>Anecdotes of Republican judges, 15; - <ul> - <li>political, 212.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Annual Register, New, principles of, 150; - <ul> - <li>patronised by H. M. Williams, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>conducted by a dignitary of the Church, hostile to our established institution, 348;</li> - <li>anecdote of that conductor, 349;</li> - <li>praise of Oldfield’s <cite>Defence of Universal Suffrage</cite>, 456;</li> - <li>high praise of Erskine on the War, 697;</li> - <li>exposed, 698;</li> - <li>character of, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>remarks on, 700.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Anti-Gallican Spirit commended, 107.</li> - <li class='c051'><span class='pageno' id='Page_332'>332</span><cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite> newspaper praised, 55.</li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Anti-Jacobin Review</cite>, reason of adopting that title, 1; - <ul> - <li>plan of, 3;</li> - <li>proposes to counteract Jacobinical criticism, 5;</li> - <li>preface of, to reviewers reviewed, 55;</li> - <li>object, 56;</li> - <li>observations of, on the constitution, 60;</li> - <li>prophesies the destruction of the French fleet by Nelson, 123;</li> - <li>opinion of, on obedience to constituted authorities, 61;</li> - <li>opinion of duelling, 153;</li> - <li>declaration of political principles, 166;</li> - <li>discusses Locke’s <cite>Opinions on Government</cite>, 167;</li> - <li>explains the duty of obedience, 169;</li> - <li>defines the constitution to be what is actually constituted, 170;</li> - <li>opinion of, on pulpit politics, 304;</li> - <li>political creed of, 314;</li> - <li>illustrated and enforced, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>states the reciprocal duties of sovereign and subject, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>principles of, 315;</li> - <li>exposes the Anti-Christian doctrines of the Monthly Reviewers, 316;</li> - <li>canvasses the opinions of Dr. Geddes, 318;</li> - <li>character of La Fayette, 345;</li> - <li>declares the <cite>Letter to the Church of England</cite> the text book of its principles, 402;</li> - <li>recommends to the Bishops to suppress schism among the established clergy, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>admonishes Mr. Wansey, on his insolent and foolish letter to the Bishop of Salisbury, 415;</li> - <li>admonishes fathers of families to discountenance Jacobinical writings, 434;</li> - <li>proves the authenticity of Scriptures against Socinians and <em>Deists</em>, 439;</li> - <li>abused by the <cite>Literary Census</cite>, 667;</li> - <li>reason of the abuse, its support of the Constitution, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Aristotle, Gillies’s translation of, reviewed, 253; - <ul> - <li>fate of his writings, 255;</li> - <li>life of, 257;</li> - <li>analysis of his speculative works, 258;</li> - <li>error of these works, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>organon, 261;</li> - <li>misunderstood by the school-men, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>his zoology, the most perfect of his works, 387;</li> - <li>sagacious discoveries and comprehensive knowledge, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>searches too much for efficient causes, 389;</li> - <li>ethics and politics, part of the same general system, 390;</li> - <li>analysis of happiness, virtue, and habit, 391;</li> - <li>application of principles, 392;</li> - <li>jurisprudence, 393;</li> - <li>social affection, 394;</li> - <li>importance of his work at present, 395;</li> - <li>inculcates the necessity of subordination, 396;</li> - <li>anticipates Adam Smith, 397;</li> - <li>demonstrates the absurdity of the levelling system, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>the folly of hasty innovations, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i> <em>See</em> Gillies.</li> - <li>His opinions on commerce, 513;</li> - <li>honoured agriculture more than trade, 516;</li> - <li>had he lived in Britain, might have thought differently, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>the <span class='sc'>SAGE thinks the functions of religion the first in dignity</span>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>doctrines on education little more than copied by succeeding writers, 517;</li> - <li>tests of good government, 518;</li> - <li>refutes the absurd opinion that all men are fitted to govern, 519;</li> - <li>sentiments on demagogues and faction, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>illustrated in the Corresponding Societies and Whig Club, 520;</li> - <li>admirable book on sedition and revolutions, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>addresses the <span class='fss'>WILL</span>, as well as the <span class='fss'>UNDERSTANDING</span>, 523.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Associations, legal, praised, 137; - <ul> - <li>address to. <em>See</em> Gifford.</li> - <li>Exhortation to, 210.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>B.</li> - <li class='c051'>Barras’ motion, concerning, and cause, 144.</li> - <li class='c051'>Barristers, Irish, encroach on the office of the Judge, by laying down the law, 540; - <ul> - <li>inaccurate, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Bedford, Duke of, contributions to the State, 20.</li> - <li class='c051'>Bisset, Dr., reply of, to a letter in the <cite>Monthly Review</cite>, 588; - <ul> - <li>charges the Priestleyan dissenters with a design to subvert our establishment, 590;</li> - <li>quotes Priestley’s declaration to that effect, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>reprobates the metaphysical politics of Priestley’s <cite>First Principles of Government</cite>; and Price, on <cite>Civil Liberty</cite>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>vindicates Burke, for opposing the repeal of the Test Act, 591;</li> - <li>his anonymous antagonist, supposed to be Anthony Robinson, linen draper, dissenting preacher, and debating society orator, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Blasphemy, punishment of, according to Burn. <em>See</em> Geddes.</li> - <li class='c051'>Boaden’s <cite>Cambro Britons</cite>, reviewed, 415; - <ul> - <li>just description of invaders and invaded, 416;</li> - <li>ranting phraseology, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>farcical strainings after humour, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>admonished to discontinue writing as soon as a relish for works of genius shall again prevail, 417.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Boffe, De, publications of, 845.</li> - <li class='c051'>Bond, Oliver, testimony of, 300.</li> - <li class='c051'>Book clubs, either through ignorance or design, circulate hurtful writings, 475; - <ul> - <li>account of one at Maidstone, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>proposed regulations for rendering them useful, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>praised by the <cite>Monthly Magazine</cite>, 476;</li> - <li>the praise of that performance renders them suspicious, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Bowles, the champion of the British Constitution, reprobated by the <cite>Critical Review</cite>, 678.</li> - <li class='c051'><span class='pageno' id='Page_333'>333</span>Brissot, avowed design to abolish monarchy, 27; - <ul> - <li>conformity of French conduct to his declaration, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>memorable report of, 512.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><cite>British Critic</cite> praised, 343; - <ul> - <li>abused by the <cite>Literary Census</cite>, because hostile to atheists and levellers, 667.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Brothers’s Letters to Miss Cott, a fellow lunatic, 568.</li> - <li class='c051'>British public characters, reviewed, 634; - <ul> - <li>arrogant dedication to the King, 635;</li> - <li>strange assortment of characters, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>imperfect and trifling execution, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>bungling daub of Mr. Fox, 636;</li> - <li>sketch of Mr. Pitt less imperfect, but very inadequate to the original, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Buonaparte, entirely differs from the great Condé, 32; - <ul> - <li>expedition of, 123;</li> - <li>denies the existence of Christ, 372;</li> - <li>proclaims his veneration for Mahomet, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>original letters from him and army, 647;</li> - <li>object of his expedition, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>legislative talents of, 649;</li> - <li>campaign of, in Italy, 770.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>C.</li> - <li class='c051'>Cambridge <cite>Intelligencer</cite> abuses the most respectable characters in Ireland, 130.</li> - <li class='c051'>Camille Jordan, address from, reviewed, 180; - <ul> - <li>unjustly treated by the <cite>Analytical</cite>, 481.</li> - <li><em>See</em> Gifford.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Catholics, Irish, Grattan’s intrigue with, 39; - <ul> - <li>Catholic emancipation a mere pretext, 293.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Catiline <em>liberality</em> and <em>moderation</em>, cant terms of, 443.</li> - <li class='c051'>Cato, of Utica, speech against conspirators who invited the Gallic nation to invade their country, 441.</li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Census, Literary</cite>, reviewed, 666; - <ul> - <li>abuses works and characters friendly to the constitution, 667;</li> - <li>reviles Messrs. Pitt, Burke, Dundas, and Lawrence, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>praises Paine, Sheridan, and Fox, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>reprobates the Anti-Jacobin Reviewers for defending order, morals, religion, and the British constitution, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Chatham, Earl, conduct, character, measures, and success of, 576; - <ul> - <li>contrasted with those of Lord Holland, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Christian ministers vindicated, 429; - <ul> - <li>religion vilified by impious and obscene publications, 435;</li> - <li>the firmest basis of every virtue, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>professors of, adjured to discourage Jacobinism, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>writings in vain plead to Jacobinical Reviewers, 437.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Clare, Chancellor, speech of, 461; - <ul> - <li>wise and able, 462.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Cléry’s <cite>Journal of Louis XVI.</cite>, 42; - <ul> - <li>animated and interesting, 43;</li> - <li>Lamballe’s head carried about, 44.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Cobbett, efforts of, in America, 7. - <ul> - <li><em>See</em> Peter Porcupine.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Committee, Secret. <em>See</em> Ireland and Irish.</li> - <li class='c051'>Connor’s, O’, <cite>State of Ireland</cite>, examined, 463; - <ul> - <li>address, ditto, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>copious extracts from, by the <cite>Analytical</cite> Reviewers, 464;</li> - <li>defends the <cite>United Irishmen</cite>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>testimony at Maidstone, 290.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Considerations on Public Affairs</cite>, reviewed, 25; - <ul> - <li>author of, anti-Gallican, not anti-Jacobin, 32;</li> - <li>ditto, 263;</li> - <li>erroneously considers our contest as with the physical force of France only, 264;</li> - <li>proposes merely a defensive war, 265;</li> - <li>dangerous tendency of certain positions, 266;</li> - <li>affected imitation of Burke, 267;</li> - <li>inaccuracy of language, 268.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Conspiracy against Social Order, with the part taken by the Jacobinical Reviews, 591.</li> - <li class='c051'>Constitution, British, its principles illustrated, 468; - <ul> - <li>antiquity, nature, and excellence, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>history and principle, epochs, 469;</li> - <li>Mr. Reeve’s assertion respecting, 470;</li> - <li>the Duke of Norfolk’s, ditto, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>Reeve’s principle discussed and defended from English history, 471;</li> - <li>ditto, from Lord Coke, 472.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Contributions, voluntary, praised, 135; - <ul> - <li>ridiculed by Unitarian dissenters, 136;</li> - <li>Quakers’, pretence of scruples of conscience shown from their own conduct to be unfounded, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>proof of loyalty to the king, and attachment to the country, 140.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Cornwallis, praises the proceedings of his predecessors, 490; - <ul> - <li>speech of, 491;</li> - <li>praises the regulars and militia, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Courier</cite>, abuses the friends of Government, 158; - <ul> - <li>conduct of, respecting France, considered, 203;</li> - <li>justifies the proceedings of France, extols her resources, and abuses England, 204;</li> - <li>patronised by Lord Moira, 205;</li> - <li>account of the Report of the Secret Committee, 247;</li> - <li>endeavours to revive the spirits of Jacobins, 486;</li> - <li>a disgrace to the English press, 376;</li> - <li>justifies every enormity of the French, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>threatens to prosecute the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><span class='pageno' id='Page_334'>334</span><cite>Critical Review of Wakefield’s Reply</cite>, reviewed, 73; - <ul> - <li>praises Wakefield, 75;</li> - <li>supports Kingsbury’s address to Dr. Watson, 78;</li> - <li>inveighs against the Bishop, 79;</li> - <li>remarks of, resemble those of the French regicides, 81;</li> - <li>great praise of Edmund Oliver, 179;</li> - <li>commends those parts of Monboddo’s <cite>Metaphysics</cite> which ascribe preeminent evil to England, 667.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>D.</li> - <li class='c051'>David, a painter, gives the Deity the face of Robespierre, 22.</li> - <li class='c051'>Democracy, apostrophe to, 35.</li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Derwent Priory</cite>, a novel, frivolous and extravagant, 417.</li> - <li class='c051'>Directory, French, account of, 8; - <ul> - <li>wish to suppress Cléry’s narrative, 51;</li> - <li>arrogance of, 122;</li> - <li>policy of, respecting foreign powers, 124;</li> - <li>motives of, for proscribing the moderate members, 143;</li> - <li>arts of, 493;</li> - <li>tyranny of, 494;</li> - <li>tries to excite dissension in foreign states, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i> <em>See</em> France and History.</li> - <li>Falsehood, injustice, and violence of, to Switzerland, 505. <em>See</em> Underwald and French.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Dissenters, political conduct of, 626; - <ul> - <li>active members of the Corresponding Society, 631;</li> - <li>Hardy, the shoemaker, one of their number, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>preacher of the tribe appeared to his character, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>chief supporters of Thelwall’s lectures, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>Paine, once a dissenting preacher, 632:</li> - <li>Godwin, a dissenting minister, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>Gilbert Wakefield, ditto;</li> - <li>conductors of the <cite>Monthly</cite>, <cite>Analytical</cite>, and <cite>Critical</cite>, ditto, <cite>ib.</cite>;</li> - <li>conductors of the <cite>Chronicle</cite> and <cite>Courier</cite>, ditto;</li> - <li>abstain from voluntary contributions, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>fast increasing, 633;</li> - <li>the designs of their chief apostles discussed and exposed by Dr. Bisset, 590.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Dissenters, Irish, declared, by Dr. Jackson to be determined Republicans, and friends of the French Revolution, 294.</li> - <li class='c051'>Dublin, instructions to citizens of, by Grattan, 38.</li> - <li class='c051'>Duigenan’s answer to Grattan, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - <li class='center'>E.</li> - <li class='c051'>Economists propagate principles inconsistent with the well-being of society, 4.</li> - <li class='c051'>Ego, Counsellor, soliloquy, 355.</li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Emigrant</cite>, a novel, appendix, 741; - <ul> - <li>moral, political, and religious tendency of, 742;</li> - <li>gross and licentious sentiments of, 743;</li> - <li>supposes the public law of Europe mouldering into ruins, 744;</li> - <li>proposes the destruction of history to be replaced by romance, 745;</li> - <li>a vehicle of revolutionary doctrines, 746.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Emmet’s evidence before the Secret Committee, 299.</li> - <li class='c051'>Erskine, supposed author of the <cite>Secession from Parliament</cite>, 19; - <ul> - <li>his egotism disgusting, 20;</li> - <li>his testimony at Maidstone, 28;</li> - <li>speech of, at the Whig Club, discussed, 526;</li> - <li>advances a position contrary to reason and truth, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>copies the language and rant of Kingsbury, the dissenting minister and razor-maker, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>his allegations sanctioned by the <em>authority</em> of John Ball, Wat Tyler, and John Cade, 527.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>F.</li> - <li class='c051'>Fantoccini, political, 364.</li> - <li class='c051'>La Fayette, praised by the <cite>Analytical Review</cite>, 345.</li> - <li class='c051'>Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, transcribes the resolutions of National Committee, 293; - <ul> - <li>innocence defended by the <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, 379.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Fox, secession of, discussed, 17; - <ul> - <li>duty as a member of Parliament, 18;</li> - <li>conduct of, 19;</li> - <li>proposed plan of ministry under, 20;</li> - <li>resentment of, for the dismissal of the Duke of Norfolk, 90;</li> - <li>observation of, in the Whig Club, concerning associations, 138;</li> - <li>testimony at Maidstone, 285;</li> - <li>promulgates his political creed at a tavern, 487;</li> - <li>adopts Gilbert Wakefield’s opinions, 488;</li> - <li>sentiments of, respecting Ireland, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>thinks the punishments of traitors cruelty, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>defence of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>insult to his constituents, 489;</li> - <li>libel on parliaments, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>abuse of anticipated taxes, 490;</li> - <li>letter to, 530;</li> - <li>attachment of, to the accused, and convicted of sedition and treason, 531;</li> - <li>reprobated, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>conduct at Maidstone, considered, 532;</li> - <li>contrasted with Pitt. <em>See</em> Pitt.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>France, regicides of, find advocates in our metropolis, 2; - <ul> - <li>principles and intrigues of, 4;</li> - <li>not physical force of, formidable, but moral, 25;</li> - <li>between monarchy and republic of, difference, of contest, 30;</li> - <li>state of, Jacobinical, capital of, 33;</li> - <li>internal state of, 122.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><span class='pageno' id='Page_335'>335</span>Fraunces, an American Jacobin, 843; - <ul> - <li>lends his wife, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>extorts money from a dupe on account of the loan, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>conduct of, illustrates Jacobin morality, 844.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>French, a nation of plundering banditti, 124; - <ul> - <li>philosophers of, 445;</li> - <li>Republic, conduct of, to the Venetians, 460; - <ul> - <li>to the United Provinces, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>to the Germans, 461;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>now the time to crush, 495.</li> - <li><em>See</em> Directory and History, army, proceedings of, at Berne, 508.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Friends of the People, recommend Oldfield’s <cite>Defence of Universal Suffrage</cite>, 456.</li> - <li class='center'>G.</li> - <li class='c051'>Geddes, Dr., chiefly known as an arraigner of the Scriptures, 694.</li> - <li class='c051'>Gerald, Joseph, praised by the <cite>Analytical</cite>, 346.</li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Geraldina</cite>, a novel, reviewed, 668; - <ul> - <li>ignorance, frivolity, and folly of, 669.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Gifford, John, preface to, <em>see</em> Jordan’s <cite>Address</cite>, 180; - <ul> - <li>a zealous and able champion of our laws, religion, and morals, 181;</li> - <li>abused by the Jacobins, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>address from, to the loyal associations, 183;</li> - <li>list of Directory for England, Scotland, and Ireland, 184;</li> - <li>salutary tendency, and ability of execution, 185;</li> - <li>Second Letter of, to Mr. Erskine, review of, reviewed, 678;</li> - <li>as a champion of the constitution, he, according to the <cite>Critical</cite> Reviewers, deserves no quarter, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>attacks the legal champion of opposition, surrounded by his army of tropes and figures, misrepresentations, egotism, and anachronism, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>exposes Mr. Erskine’s falsifications of dates, 679;</li> - <li>illustrates the wrong conclusions in which the lawyer abounds, 680;</li> - <li>proves the proceedings of seditious societies and demagogues to have been the causes of the proclamation, 1792;</li> - <li>forcible extracts from, 681;</li> - <li>refers Mr. Erskine to the Report of the Irish Committee, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Godwin, edits the Posthumous Works of his wife, 91; - <ul> - <li>inculcates the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>reprobates marriage, 93;</li> - <li>considers Mary Godwin as a model for female imitation, 94;</li> - <li>certifies his wife’s constitution to have been amorous, 96;</li> - <li>memoirs of her, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>account of his wife’s adventures as a kept mistress, 97;</li> - <li>celebrates her happiness while the concubine of Imlay, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>informs the public that she was concubine to himself before she was his wife, 98;</li> - <li>declares no person in his right senses will frequent places of public worship, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>morals examined, 331;</li> - <li>if his principle be granted, his deduction not absurd, 332;</li> - <li>his principle refuted, 333;</li> - <li>praised by the <cite>Analytical</cite>, 335;</li> - <li>compared to the Supreme Being, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Government can only perish by suicide, 9. - <ul> - <li><em>See</em> Constitution, Directory.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Grattan, answer to, 37; - <ul> - <li>character and projects of, 38;</li> - <li>arguments for Catholic emancipation, 40;</li> - <li>evidence concerning, 298.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>H.</li> - <li class='c051'>Hamilton, on the United States, 841; - <ul> - <li>an able and staunch advocate for the American government, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>hostile to France, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>persecutions by Jacobins, 842.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Harper, Goodloe, speech of, reviewed, 421; - <ul> - <li>divides revolutionists into philosophers, Jacobins, and Sans-Culottes, 422;</li> - <li>account of the artifices of French agents, 423.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Hedgehog, Humphrey, abused by the Jacobinical Reviewers, 343; - <ul> - <li>causes of their abuse, 344.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Henshall, strictures of, on the Duke of Leinster’s and Mr. Sheridan’s motions, 300; - <ul> - <li>character of, 310;</li> - <li>treatise on the Saxon and English languages, 381;</li> - <li>proposes the most effectual means of explaining Anglo-Saxon words, 382;</li> - <li>proves the Saxon language the spring of pure English, 384;</li> - <li>marks the changes of the English language, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>critique on the <cite>Diversions of Purley</cite>, 385;</li> - <li>general character of, 386;</li> - <li>strictures of, on the <cite>Gentleman’s Magazine</cite> and <cite>Analytical Review</cite>, 579;</li> - <li>vindicates his <cite>Treatise on Saxon Literature</cite>, 580.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>History of politics, foreign and domestic, 119; - <ul> - <li>general view of affairs in America and Europe, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>congress at Rastadt, 120;</li> - <li>Mr. D’Arnim’s Answer to the King of Prussia, 121;</li> - <li>discipline and courage of British seamen, 123;</li> - <li>reflections, 125;</li> - <li>domestic affairs, 127;</li> - <li>origin and progress of the Irish rebellion, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>religion, a mere pretence, 128;</li> - <li>real cause, Jacobin conspiracy, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>objects of the rebellion, separation from Britain, 129;</li> - <li>friends of Government abused by the Jacobin prints, 130;</li> - <li><span class='pageno' id='Page_336'>336</span>an awful crisis, 240;</li> - <li>congress at Rastadt, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>general confederacy recommended, 241;</li> - <li>consequences of the late King of Prussia’s conduct, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>; - <ul> - <li>Russia, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>Naples, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>despotic power of the Directory, 243;</li> - <li>France boasts of her virtue, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>wretched state of French finance, 245;</li> - <li>indecision of the Emperor, 363;</li> - <li>spirit and vigour of Russia and Turkey, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>inactivity of Prussia, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>conduct of the French at Milan, 370;</li> - <li>anarchy of the Cisalpine Republic, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>objects of the revolutions from French politics, and French power, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>French, try to exclude British manufactures from the Continent, 374; - <ul> - <li>in vain, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Nelson’s victory, 483; - <ul> - <li>immediate effects of, 484;</li> - <li>accession of ships to Britain, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>Nelson’s victory prevents revival of rebellion in Ireland, 485;</li> - <li>effects of Nelson’s victory, 605;</li> - <li>proceedings at Rastadt, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>march of the Russian army, 607;</li> - <li>internal state of France, 608;</li> - <li>Erskine’s speech at the Whig Club, 609;</li> - <li>plan of finance, 610;</li> - <li>resolutions of merchants and bankers, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>conduct of opposition, 611;</li> - <li>political state of Europe, 734;</li> - <li>French declare war against Naples and Sardinia, 737;</li> - <li>views of the French government, 738.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Hoche, General, differs from Turenne, 32; - <ul> - <li>life of, dedicated to the eternal Republic, by Rousselin, 754;</li> - <li>birth and parentage of, 755; - <ul> - <li>his father a dog-keeper, himself a groom, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>learns philosophy from Rousseau and French novels, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>enters the army, 756; - <ul> - <li>a corporal, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>a commander-in-chief, 758;</li> - <li>compared to Neptune, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>put in prison, 759; - <ul> - <li>released, 760;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>conquers La Vendée, 761;</li> - <li>proposes to invade England, 762;</li> - <li>seized with a disorder in his bowels, 767;</li> - <li>death and character of, 768.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Holcroft’s <cite>Knave or Not</cite>, reviewed, 51; - <ul> - <li>literary character of Holcroft, 52;</li> - <li>novels, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>; - <ul> - <li>object of them, and his play the same, viz., to overturn our constitution and level rank and property, 53;</li> - <li>execution feeble, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>an inaccurate observer and superficial reasoner, 54;</li> - <li>though trifling, calculated to do much mischief, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>admonished of the inadequacy of his powers and knowledge, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - <li><em>See</em> Jacobinism, Revolution, &c.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Holland, Lord, contrasted with Lord Chatham, 576.</li> - <li class='c051'>Horsley’s, Dr.—able defence of the Church, 554; - <ul> - <li>masterly observation on the political principles of Calvin, 627.</li> - <li><em>See</em> Bishop of Rochester.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>J.</li> - <li class='c051'>Jacobin, a receipt for making one, 617: - <ul> - <li>half-educate him, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>place him under a dissenting schoolmaster, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>let him read Dr. Priestley’s writings, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>initiate him in debating societies, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>preach in a conventicle, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>write for the <cite>Monthly Magazine</cite> or <cite>Analytical Review</cite>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>read Erskine’s Pamphlet, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - <li><em>See</em> Loan of wives.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Jacobin, faction exists in this country, 1; - <ul> - <li>Jacobins employed in the States at war with France, 27;</li> - <li>Republic, rapacious spirit of, 29;</li> - <li>capital, 38;</li> - <li>catch words of, 76;</li> - <li>authors of revolutions, 422;</li> - <li>principles of, adopted by the <cite>Annual Register</cite>, 458;</li> - <li>prints and speeches. <em>See</em> <cite>Courier</cite>, <cite>Chronicle</cite>, <cite>Post</cite>, &c.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Jacobinism, daily, weekly, monthly and annual vehicles of, 2; - <ul> - <li>its malignant and intolerant spirit, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>characterised, 12;</li> - <li>rise, progress, and effects of, 109;</li> - <li>promoted by certain Reviews, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>history of (<em>see</em> Barruel), defined, 223;</li> - <li>worse than ancient democracy, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>worse than former levelling principles, 224; - <ul> - <li>than Cromwellianism, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>religious scepticism leads to, 225;</li> - <li>promoted by visionary metaphysics, 226;</li> - <li>promoted by Voltaire, D’Alembert, Diderot, 359, 712;</li> - <li>promoted by Mrs. Macaulay, 713; - <ul> - <li>by Price and Priestley, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>all dissenters not equally favourable to, 716;</li> - <li>Socinians, Jacobinical, <em>real</em> Presbyterians, loyal, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Jones, the Lecturer, praised by the <cite>Analytical</cite>, 346.</li> - <li class='c051'>Ireland and Irish, crown and government of, 38; - <ul> - <li>rebellion, causes of, 158;</li> - <li>system of government respecting, 374;</li> - <li>insurrection, account of, 424;</li> - <li>barbarities of the rebels, 425;</li> - <li>state of, 490;</li> - <li>union with, recommended, 491.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Irishmen, United, attempts of, to seduce the soldiers, 293; - <ul> - <li>connection with the London Corresponding Society, 299.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>K.</li> - <li class='c051'>King, parent of the constitution, 471; - <ul> - <li>proved from records, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>from the various parts and instruments of government, 472;</li> - <li><span class='pageno' id='Page_337'>337</span>opinion of Coke on this subject, 473.</li> - <li><em>See</em> Constitution and Reeves.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Kingsbury answers the Bishop of Landaff, 78; - <ul> - <li>first a dissenting minister, then a writer on razors, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>predicts the Irish traitors will be successful, 82.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Knave or Not</cite>, a superficial but dangerous work, 51. - <ul> - <li><em>See</em> Holcroft.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>L.</li> - <li class='c051'>Lamballe, Madame, her head carried about to display Jacobin humanity, 44.</li> - <li class='c051'>Lashknave, Lawrence—account of the Corresponding Society, 220; - <ul> - <li>letter from, 701.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Lauderdale, Earl of, assertion of, respecting trade, refuted, 336; - <ul> - <li>friendship of, with Brissot and his coadjutors, 513.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Lavater’s <cite>Address to the Directory</cite>, 280; - <ul> - <li>a mixture of adulation and abuse, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>praises the French Revolution, 282;</li> - <li>reprobates the invasion of Switzerland, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Lecturers, Pulpit, in London, often methodistical and ignorant, 399.</li> - <li class='c051'>Letter to the Bishop of Salisbury, 409; - <ul> - <li>petulant insolence of, 410;</li> - <li>elegant extracts from, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>refined phraseology, 411;</li> - <li>abuse of, 412;</li> - <li>scandalous insinuation of, against an eminent prelate, 413.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Letter to <cite>The Anti-Jacobin Review</cite> on modern Catilines, and the evidence at Maidstone, 593; - <ul> - <li>to Mr. Fox, reviewed, 530 (<em>see</em> Fox);</li> - <li>to the Bishop of Rochester from Mr. Rhys, reviewed, 534;</li> - <li>position that war is, in all cases, unchristian disproved, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>no precepts against it delivered by our Saviour, 533.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Liberality, real, an excellent quality, 440; - <ul> - <li>term often misapplied by Jacobins, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Licentiousness of the press, 1.</li> - <li class='c051'>Lloyd’s Edmund Oliver, declamatory abuse of the military profession, 177; - <ul> - <li>censures the war with the regicides, 178;</li> - <li>proposes to level rank and property, 179;</li> - <li>doctrines praised. <em>See</em> Critical and Analytical.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Loan of wives, a practice among Jacobins. <em>See</em> Fraunces.</li> - <li class='c051'>Louis XVI., Cléry’s journal of confinement and sufferings of, 42; - <ul> - <li>persecution of, 43;</li> - <li>brutal treatment of, 45;</li> - <li>audacious insolence to, 46;</li> - <li>abused by newspapers, 47;</li> - <li>exemplary conduct of, 48;</li> - <li>monstrous trial of, 49;</li> - <li>execution of, 50.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Lovers’ Vows</cite> reviewed, 479; - <ul> - <li>object, tendency, and character, 480.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>M.</li> - <li class='c051'>Mallet du Pan, <cite>British Mercury</cite> of, reviewed, 403; - <ul> - <li>object of the work, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>throws light on French principles, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>able and useful advice in the preface, 404;</li> - <li>gratitude to the British nation, 405;</li> - <li>analysis and extracts, 406;</li> - <li>account of Swiss cantons, 407;</li> - <li>description of a Swiss wedding, 408;</li> - <li>account of affairs in Italy, 493;</li> - <li>account of the destruction of Helvetic liberty, 501;</li> - <li>character of the French Revolutionists, 502;</li> - <li>effects on other nations, 503;</li> - <li>state of resources of Switzerland, 504;</li> - <li>character of Weiss the French partisan, 506;</li> - <li>conduct of, 507;</li> - <li>pathetic description of the last efforts of Berne, 509;</li> - <li>reflections, 511;</li> - <li>character of Buonaparte, 513;</li> - <li><em>British Mercury</em> recommended to all crowned heads, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>general character of the work, 515.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman</cite>, reviewed, 91; - <ul> - <li>fable, object, and principles of, 92;</li> - <li>asserts that her friend Jemima’s understanding was sharpened and invigorated by her occupations as a thief and a prostitute, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li><em>particular</em> description of Maria and her lover, 93;</li> - <li>restraints on adultery, according to Maria, a flagrant wrong to women, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - <li><em>See</em> Godwin and Wollstonecraft.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Martinez’ persecution of Peter Porcupine, 9; - <ul> - <li>proceedings of, 10.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Menard, infamous pretext of, for invading Switzerland, 511.</li> - <li class='c051'>Meyers, De, <cite>Fragments on Paris</cite>, 268; - <ul> - <li>criterion of the state of a nation, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>dress and amusements at Paris, 269;</li> - <li>extracts from, 270;</li> - <li>strictures on, 271;</li> - <li>state of the arts and sciences at Paris, 272;</li> - <li>his account recommended to votaries of innovation, 273;</li> - <li>character of his work, 279.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Mifflin, Governor, republican morality of, 14; - <ul> - <li>celebrates the dethronement of Louis XVI., <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>praises the Botany Bay citizens, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Ministry, proposed plan of, by Mr. Fox, 20.</li> - <li class='c051'>Moira, Earl of, patronises the <cite>Courier</cite>, 204; - <ul> - <li><span class='pageno' id='Page_338'>338</span>his letter to Colonel Mahon discussed, 206; - <ul> - <li>censured, 207;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>unfounded account of Ireland, 294;</li> - <li>speech in the Irish Parliament, considered, discussed, and censured, 461.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Monboddo’s <cite>Ancient Metaphysics</cite>, review of, reviewed, 565. - <ul> - <li><em>See</em> <cite>Monthly</cite> and <cite>Critical Reviews</cite>.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Monroe’s <cite>View of the Conduct of the Executive</cite>, considered, 824; - <ul> - <li>Monroe, of the French faction in America, 825;</li> - <li>a promoter of Jacobin doctrines, 826.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Monthly Magazine</cite> detected, 198; - <ul> - <li>published by a French citizen, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>patronised by the Directory, 199;</li> - <li>dialogue from, 327;</li> - <li>praises book clubs, 476 (<em>see</em> R. Phillips and Jacobin Prints);</li> - <li>detection of, 570;</li> - <li>John Thelwall a contributor to, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>sneers at loyalty, 572;</li> - <li>abuses Lord Auckland, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>reviles Lord Carlisle, 573;</li> - <li>inveighs against Mallet du Pan, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>reprobates Peter Porcupine, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>slanders Mr. Harper, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>all because enemies to Jacobinism, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Monthly Review</cite>, to be reviewed by <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite>, 3; - <ul> - <li>dangerous tendency of, 56;</li> - <li>character and operations of, 58;</li> - <li>unfriendly to the constitution as actually constituted, 60;</li> - <li>review of, 68;</li> - <li>arts of, to prevent the circulation of constitutional works, 71;</li> - <li>reviewed, 171;</li> - <li>false statement by, 172;</li> - <li>curious observation of, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>examined, 173;</li> - <li>false and absurd remark of, on Switzerland, 174;</li> - <li>ignorance of, 175;</li> - <li>praises the <em>Spirit</em> of the Public Journals, 331;</li> - <li>asserts Oldfield’s <cite>Abuse of Parliament</cite> to be demonstration, 453;</li> - <li>praises his support of universal suffrage, 456;</li> - <li>praises Lord Moira for <em>apologising</em> for our officers (<em>see</em> Spirit of Public Journals and Jacobin Prints);</li> - <li>quotes the most exceptionable passages of Monboddo’s <cite>Metaphysics</cite>, 567;</li> - <li>ridicules David and Solomon because kings and Scripture characters, 569.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Moore, Dr., a friend of Brissot, 513.</li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Morning Chronicle</cite> resembles the <cite>Monthly Review</cite>, 58; - <ul> - <li>dialogue from, 326;</li> - <li>account of Tierney’s speech, 377;</li> - <li>extracts from, 378;</li> - <li>continues its virulence, 379;</li> - <li>invectives against the saviours of Ireland, 497;</li> - <li>idea of rebellion, 498.</li> - <li><em>See</em> Spirit of Public Journals and Jacobin Prints.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Morning Post</cite>, invectives of, against ministers, 497. - <ul> - <li><em>See</em> Jacobin Prints and Spirit of Public Journals.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Murphy, venerable literary character of, 191. - <ul> - <li><em>See</em> Arminius.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>N.</li> - <li class='c051'>Naples, loyalty and patriotism of, 493. - <ul> - <li><em>See</em> History.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Nelson, splendid victory of, 483; - <ul> - <li>momentous consequences from, 484.</li> - <li><em>See</em> History.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Noble’s <cite>Lives of English Regicides</cite>, 445; - <ul> - <li>extracts from, 446;</li> - <li>matter excellent, composition reprehensible, 448.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Norfolk, Duke of, evidence at Maidstone, 289; - <ul> - <li>assertions respecting the British constitution refuted, 470;</li> - <li>doctrine of the sovereignty of the people erroneous, 473.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>P.</li> - <li class='c051'>Paine, Thomas, letter of, to the people of France, 21; - <ul> - <li>examined, 22;</li> - <li>praises the French Revolution, 23;</li> - <li>supposes extraordinary virtues in the number <em>five</em>, 24;</li> - <li>doctrines of, propagated by the Corresponding Society, 111;</li> - <li>praises the French Directory, 141;</li> - <li>reasons like the Analytical Reviewers, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>a flatterer of tyrants, 142;</li> - <li>his <cite>Rights of Man</cite> lead to ruin, 143;</li> - <li>a member of tyrannical clubs, 145.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Paris, state of, 272; - <ul> - <li>a scene of theft and robbery, 273;</li> - <li>people of, disaffected to the government, 275;</li> - <li>corrupted morals of, 277;</li> - <li>former happiness of, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Parliament, Irish, report of Committee of, contains an historical sketch of Irish rebellion, 292; - <ul> - <li>of means of diffusion, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>treasonable newspapers, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>general result of, 295.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Parry threatens to prosecute <cite>The Anti-Jacobin</cite> for attacking the <cite>Courier</cite>, 376; - <ul> - <li>challenged to do so, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Pennsylvania, court of, 11; - <ul> - <li>famous for bastards and cuckoldom, 15;</li> - <li>civic feast in Philadelphia, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'><em>Perry</em>, a brisk, bouncing liquor, wants strength, 248.</li> - <li class='c051'>Phillips, R., editor of the <cite>Monthly Magazine</cite>, 200; - <ul> - <li>history of, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>conduct at Leicester, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>confined two years for sedition, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>establishes the <cite>Monthly Magazine</cite>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>other labours of, in the cause, 201;</li> - <li>praised by the Analytical, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>the friend of Holcroft, Wakefield, and Godwin, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>purveyor-general to Jacobins, 325;</li> - <li>undertakes to <span class='fss'>TEACH</span> our King, who, of his subjects, deserve reward, 635;</li> - <li><span class='pageno' id='Page_339'>339</span>supposed to be sprung from Paul Phillips, clerk of the parish, and president of <em>an ale-house club for managing the nation</em> in the reign of Queen Anne, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Pitt, the Right Hon. William, contrasted with Mr. Fox, 575; - <ul> - <li>education and juvenile studies, 576;</li> - <li>honourable election of, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>addicted neither to gaming nor debauchery, 577;</li> - <li>political principles and conduct of, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>risks popularity for the good of his country, 578;</li> - <li>measures and success of, 579;</li> - <li>farther contrasted with Mr. Fox, 702.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Poetry, explanation of the print, 115; - <ul> - <li>Progress of Liberty, 116;</li> - <li>Congratulatory Ode, 117;</li> - <li>United Irishmen, 118;</li> - <li>Wanderings of Iapis, 228;</li> - <li>Address to the Premier Peer in imitation of Horace, 233;</li> - <li>Jacobin Council, 235;</li> - <li>sent with a Shilling, 236;</li> - <li>Ages of Reason, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>Epistle from Miss Seward to Mr. Lister, 237;</li> - <li>Anarchists, an Ode, 365;</li> - <li>Honey Moon of Fox and Tooke in Imitation of Horace and Lydia, 597;</li> - <li>Lines to Lady Nelson, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>song on Admiral Nelson’s Victory, 599.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Polybius, admirable, general principles of government, thinks a mixed constitution the best, 521. - <ul> - <li><em>See</em> Gillies.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Porcupine, Peter, efforts of, in America, 7; - <ul> - <li>Republican Judge, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>attempts of Spanish Ambassador against, 9;</li> - <li>examines the <em>justice</em> of the <span class='fss'>REPUBLICAN JUDGE</span>, 11;</li> - <li>characterizes republican justice, 12;</li> - <li>Jacobinism, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats, 342;</li> - <li>abused by the <cite>Analytical Review</cite>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>will of, 725;</li> - <li><cite>Diplomatic Blunderbuss</cite> of, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>excellent tendency and able execution, 836;</li> - <li><cite>Political Censor</cite> of, for January, 1797, 836; - <ul> - <li>ditto, for March, 1797, 839;</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>eloquence and ability of both, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Porcupiniana, 479; - <ul> - <li>strictures on the Whig Club, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>on Volney the Atheist, 592;</li> - <li>on Priestley, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Portland, Duke of, junction with Mr. Pitt justified, 206; - <ul> - <li>obligations of the country to him and friends, 474.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Price. <em>See</em> Jacobinism and Dissenters.</li> - <li class='c051'>Priestley, Dr., reduced state of, 16; - <ul> - <li>declares Republican governments to be most arbitrary, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>Original Letters to, reviewed, 146;</li> - <li>authority of, referred to, to sanction the abuse of the Church, 476;</li> - <li>misrepresentations of, 555;</li> - <li>the firebrand philosopher, 592;</li> - <li>declared intention to blow up the Church, 626.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Prints, Jacobin, concur in asserting that the facts, reported by the Secret Committee, were before known to them, 247; - <ul> - <li>accuse the Navy Board of inactivity, 377;</li> - <li>misrepresentations and falsehoods of, noted, 379; - <ul> - <li>ditto, 496.</li> - </ul> - </li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Prospectus of the <cite>Anti-Jacobin Review</cite>, 1; - <ul> - <li>of the old <cite>Englishman</cite>, 601.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Prostitution. <em>See</em> Mary Wollstonecraft.</li> - <li class='center'>Q.</li> - <li class='c051'>Quakers, contributed nothing <em>voluntarily</em> to the State, 136; - <ul> - <li>pretence of conscience unfounded, 137;</li> - <li>loyalty of, exposed, 356;</li> - <li>origin and principles of the sect, 357;</li> - <li>farther exposed, 709;</li> - <li>ten commandments of, 711.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>R.</li> - <li class='c051'>Reform, a veil for the most dangerous conspiracies, 139.</li> - <li class='c051'>Reformers, in unison of counsels with France, 66; - <ul> - <li>coincidence traced, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i></li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Regicides, English, Lives of (<em>see</em> Noble); - <ul> - <li>French have sworn hatred to the Monarchy, even of the Supreme Being, 446.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Reviews, democratical, the mere instruments of faction, 2.</li> - <li class='c051'>Revolution, French, three classes of friends of, 741; - <ul> - <li>proposes to establish universal Pyrrhonism, 743;</li> - <li>germs, principles, and causes of, 746;</li> - <li>expressions built upon, 747.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Rivers’s <cite>History and Conduct of the Dissenters</cite>, reviewed, 626; - <ul> - <li>character of John Knox, 627;</li> - <li>dissenters inimical to our establishment, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>character of Price, 629.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Robespierre praised by republicans and levellers, 22.</li> - <li class='c051'>Robinson’s (Mrs.) <em>Walsingham</em>, reviewed, 160; - <ul> - <li>literary character of, 161;</li> - <li>political principles, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>misrepresents the manners of the great, and state of the poor, 162;</li> - <li>admonished to read Blair’s <cite>Lectures</cite>, 163;</li> - <li>not to go beyond her depth, 164.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Robinson’s, Anthony, <cite>View of the English Wars</cite>, 613; - <ul> - <li>life and character of the author, 614;</li> - <li>apprenticed to a dissenting linen-draper, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>a sectarian preacher, 615;</li> - <li>an orator in debating societies, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>his work a mere vehicle of Jacobinism, 617.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Rousseau, character of, 360; - <ul> - <li>doctrine of, 748;</li> - <li>political, 749.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>S.</li> - <li class='c051'><span class='pageno' id='Page_340'>340</span>Saint Lambert, principles of morality, 796; - <ul> - <li>new catechism, 797.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Sallust, remarks of, on false moderation towards conspirators, 442.</li> - <li class='c051'>Scriptures defended against Socinians and Deists, 439; - <ul> - <li>attacks on, give them new force, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>revilers of (<em>see</em> Geddes).</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Secession. <em>See</em> Fox.</li> - <li class='c051'>Seditious meetings, Bill for restraining, praised, 66.</li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Shears, Report of Trial of</cite>, reviewed, 540.</li> - <li class='c051'>Sheridan’s testimony at Maidstone, 286.</li> - <li class='c051'>Smith’s (Charlotte) <cite>Young Philosopher</cite> reviewed, 187; - <ul> - <li>she has talents for novel-writing, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>defects, egotism, and repetition of the same story, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>politics beyond her reach, 188;</li> - <li>abuse of kings, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>blunder about Roman demagogues, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>frivolous and false remarks, 189;</li> - <li>praised by the <cite>Analytical</cite>, 190.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Social order defended against the principles of the French revolution, by Abbé de Voisin, 772; - <ul> - <li>ability of the work, 773;</li> - <li>principles of Government, 775;</li> - <li>confutation of the <cite>Rights of Man</cite> doctrines, 776;</li> - <li>confutation of the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Abbé Sièyes</span></i>, 779.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Society, Corresponding, object of, 111 (<em>see</em> Thomas Paine); - <ul> - <li>account of. <em>See</em> Lawrence Lashknave.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Societies, Debating. <em>See</em> Police Magistrates.</li> - <li class='c051'>Spirit of the public journals, 324; - <ul> - <li>contains the quintessence of Jacobinism, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>extracts from the most Jacobinical publications, 325;</li> - <li>address of, to the soldiers, 328.</li> - <li><em>See</em> <cite>Monthly</cite>, <cite>Critical</cite>, and <cite>Analytical Reviews</cite>; <cite>Courier</cite>, <cite>Post</cite>, <cite>Chronicle</cite>, <cite>Monthly Magazine</cite>, and R. Phillips.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Stiguer, the Swiss patriot, high character of, 503.</li> - <li class='c051'>Stonehouse’s Letters to Priestley, 146; - <ul> - <li>predict the downfal of every government, 148;</li> - <li>exhibit every feature of the Jacobin character, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>praise the new <cite>Annual Register</cite>, 150.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Switzerland and Swiss. <em>See</em> Mallet du Pan and History.</li> - <li class='center'>T.</li> - <li class='c051'>Talleyrand, Perigord, a friend of Opposition Members, 151.</li> - <li class='c051'>Taxation, plan of, on income justified, 487.</li> - <li class='c051'>Thanet, Earl of, evidence of, at Maidstone, 290.</li> - <li class='c051'>Theatre, 114–248–479. - <ul> - <li>See <cite>Cambro Britons</cite>, <cite>Lovers’ Vows</cite>, &c.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Thomas’s <cite>Consequences of an English Invasion</cite>, reviewed, 459; - <ul> - <li>sermon on public worship, 672.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Toasts, seditious, 69; - <ul> - <li><em>standing</em> of the Corresponding Society and Whig Club, 80.</li> - <li><em>See</em> Fox and the Duke of Norfolk.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Tooke, John Horne—<cite>Diversions of Purley</cite> considered, 385; - <ul> - <li>political anecdotes of, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>literary merit ascertained, 386 (<em>see</em> Henshall);</li> - <li><cite>Diversions of Purley</cite>, reviewed, 655;</li> - <li>Portraits by (<em>see</em> Pitt and Fox).</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Turenne, different from Hoche, 32.</li> - <li class='center'>U.</li> - <li class='c051'><cite>Underwald, Fall of</cite>, reviewed, 663; - <ul> - <li>tyranny of the Directory, 664;</li> - <li>perfidy of, 665.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='center'>V.</li> - <li class='c051'>Vaurien, review of, reviewed, 685; - <ul> - <li>merit as a satirical performance, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>exhibits the consequences of Godwin’s Political Justice, 686;</li> - <li>describes the various modes of seizing on property, 687.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Voltaire, observations of, concerning government, 9; - <ul> - <li>character, 360;</li> - <li>philosophy, religion, and morality of, 751;</li> - <li>life of, by Verney, 816.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Vultures, modern, 812.</li> - <li class='center'>W.</li> - <li class='c051'>Wakefield, admonition to, 36; - <ul> - <li>Reply to the Bishop of Landaff, 72;</li> - <li>Letter to the Attorney General, 151;</li> - <li>scurrilous abuse of Mr. Pitt, 152;</li> - <li>asserts all human governments to be incorrigibly profligate, 154;</li> - <li>pretends to control legislature, magistracy, and administration, 155;</li> - <li>character and motives of, examined, 156;</li> - <li>letter of, to Mr. Wilberforce, 551.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Wansey, Letter of, to the Bishop of Salisbury, answered, 542; - <ul> - <li>deplorable malady of, 544.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>War, causes of, the French doctrines and revolution, 27.</li> - <li class='c051'>Whig Club tends to the subversion of the Constitution, 60 (<em>see</em> Fox and the Duke of Norfolk); - <ul> - <li>proceedings of, versified, 303;</li> - <li>Erskine’s speech at, 609.</li> - <li><span class='pageno' id='Page_341'>341</span><em>See</em> Fox, Jacobinism, and Corresponding Society.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Whitbread, evidence of, at Maidstone, 290.</li> - <li class='c051'>Williams, Helen Maria, Jacobinical principles of, 146; - <ul> - <li>patronizes the New Annual Register, 158.</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li class='c051'>Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Mary, Memoirs of, 94; - <ul> - <li>keeps her father in awe, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>lively fancy without knowledge and habits of reasoning, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li><em>so qualified</em> becomes one of the <cite>Analytical</cite> Reviewers, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li><em>undertakes</em> to answer Burke, 95;</li> - <li>answer such as might have been expected, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>her constitution testified by her husband to have been <em>amorous</em>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>Rights of Woman characterised, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>her passions inflamed by celibacy, 96;</li> - <li>falls in love with a married man, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>at the breaking out of the war betakes herself to our enemies, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>intimate with the French leaders under Robespierre, 97;</li> - <li>with Thomas Paine, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>taken by Imlay into keeping, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>her husband declares that her soul had panted for that connection, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>her doctrines, illustrated by her example, <em>not new</em>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li><em>as old as prostitution</em>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>proposes to elude her creditors, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>deserted by her keeper, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>derives particular gratification from Hamilton Rowan, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>pursues her keeper to England, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>her great aversion to this country, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>being without a lover attempts to drown herself, 98;</li> - <li>appointed kept mistress to the philosopher Godwin, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>married to the philosopher, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>does not believe in future punishments, 99;</li> - <li>from the time she became enlightened discontinued public worship, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>her life illustrates Jacobin morality and religion, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ib.</span></i>;</li> - <li>high praises of her life, doctrines, and conduct by the <cite>Analytical</cite> Reviewers, 101;</li> - <li>prophetic apostrophe to her by them, 402.</li> - <li><em>See</em> Maria, Godwin, Prostitution, and <cite>Analytical Review</cite>.</li> - </ul> - </li> -</ul> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_342'>342</span><span class='sc'>The End.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c052' /> -<div class='footnote' id='f1'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r1'>1</a>. On the subject of the respective authorship of the contributions to <cite>The -Anti-Jacobin</cite>, see <cite>The Works of John Hookham Frere, in verse and prose, with -Prefatory Memoir. Edited by his Nephews, H. and Sir Bartle Frere</cite>, and <cite>The Edinburgh -Review</cite> for April, 1872, p. 476.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f2'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r2'>2</a>. It will be remembered that these eminent persons were chosen by Lord -Malmesbury to accompany him on his mission to Lille and were associated with -him in the abortive negotiations for peace.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f3'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r3'>3</a>. It is surprising that the satirist’s attention was not attracted to the scene -in <cite>Stella</cite>, in which one of the heroines describes the rapid growth of her passion -to its object: “I know not if you observed that you had enchained my interest -from the first moment of our first meeting. I at least soon became aware that -your eyes sought mine. Ah, Fernando, then my uncle brought the music, you -took your violin, and, as you played, my eyes rested upon you free from care. I -studied every feature of your face; and, during an unexpected pause, you fixed -your eyes upon—upon me! They met mine! How I blushed, how I looked -away! You observed it, Fernando; for from that moment I felt that you -looked oftener over your music-book, often played out of tune, to the disturbance -of my uncle. Every false note, Fernando, went to my heart. It was -the sweetest confusion I ever felt in my life.”</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f4'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r4'>4</a>. The whole of this <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">jeu d’esprit</span></i> has been claimed for <span class='sc'>Frere</span>, but on unsatisfactory -evidence. It is much more in <span class='sc'>Canning’s</span> way as a student of oratory, -which <span class='sc'>Frere</span> was not.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f5'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r5'>5</a>. [See pages <a href='#Page_32'>32</a>, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f6'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r6'>6</a>. [A very eminent Mathematician and Physicist, and the -inventor of descriptive geometry; born in 1746. In 1792 he -was appointed Minister of Marine; and afterwards took an -active part in the equipment of the Army. After founding the -<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">École Polytechnique</span></i>, he was sent into Italy to receive the -pictures and statues seized by Buonaparte. He then joined -the expedition to Egypt, and rendered great service both in the -war operations and in the labours of the <em>Egyptian Institute</em>, -the results of which were published by command of Napoleon -in that magnificent and extensive work the <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Description de -l’Égypte</span></cite>. He died in 1818.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f7'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r7'>7</a>. [Parodied from Payne Knight’s poem, “<cite>The Progress of -Civil Society</cite>,” which is admirably ridiculed in No. XV. <em>post</em>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f8'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r8'>8</a>. [By <span class='sc'>Southey</span>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f9'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r9'>9</a>. [The original poem, by Southey, is here subjoined:—</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>THE WIDOW.</div> - <div class='c004'><span class='small'>SAPPHICS.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Cold was the night wind; drifting fast the snows fell;</div> - <div class='line'>Wide were the downs, and shelterless and naked;</div> - <div class='line'>When a poor wand’rer struggled on her journey,</div> - <div class='line in18'>Weary and way-sore.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Drear were the downs, more dreary her reflections;</div> - <div class='line'>Cold was the night wind, colder was her bosom:</div> - <div class='line'>She had no home, the world was all before her,</div> - <div class='line in18'>She had no shelter.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Fast o’er the heath a chariot rattled by her:</div> - <div class='line'>“Pity me!” feebly cried the poor night wanderer.</div> - <div class='line'>“Pity me, strangers! lest with cold and hunger</div> - <div class='line in18'>Here I should perish.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Once I had friends—but they have all forsook me!</div> - <div class='line'>Once I had parents—they are now in heaven!</div> - <div class='line'>I had a home once—I had once a husband—</div> - <div class='line in18'>Pity me, strangers!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“I had a home once—I had once a husband—</div> - <div class='line'>I am a widow, poor and broken-hearted!”</div> - <div class='line'>Loud blew the wind, unheard was her complaining;</div> - <div class='line in18'>On drove the chariot.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then on the snow she laid her down to rest her;</div> - <div class='line'>She heard a horseman: “Pity me!” she groaned out.</div> - <div class='line'>Loud was the wind, unheard was her complaining;</div> - <div class='line in18'>On went the horseman.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Worn out with anguish, toil, and cold and hunger,</div> - <div class='line'>Down sunk the wanderer; sleep had seized her senses:</div> - <div class='line'>There did the traveller find her in the morning—</div> - <div class='line in18'>God had released her.]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>1796.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f10'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r10'>10</a>. [<span class='sc'>George Tierney</span>, M.P. for Southwark, who in early times -was among the more forward of the Reformers. “He was,” -says Lord Brougham, “an assiduous member of the <em>Society of -Friends of the People</em>, and drew up the much and justly celebrated -Petition in which that useful body laid before the House of -Commons all the more striking particulars of its defective title -to the office of representing the people, which that House then, -as now, but with far less reason, assumed.” Notwithstanding -the above severe verses, Tierney served under Canning as -Master of the Mint, during the latter’s short administration in -1827.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f11'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r11'>11</a>. [In Feb., 1797, about 1400 Frenchmen landed at Pembroke, -but surrendered without resistance to the country people, whom -Lord <span class='sc'>Cawdor</span> (who had been elevated to the Peerage in the -preceding year) had armed with scythes and pitchforks. He -was succeeded by his elder son, who was created Earl Cawdor -in 1827, and died 1860.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f12'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r12'>12</a>. [This account will be found on p. <a href='#Page_32'>32</a>, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">et seq.</span></i>—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f13'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r13'>13</a>. See proclamation of the Directory.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f14'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r14'>14</a>. The “<em>too long calumniated</em> author of the <cite>Rights of Man</cite>”.—See -a Sir Something Burdett’s speech at the Shakspeare, as -referred to in the <cite>Courier</cite> of Nov. 30.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f15'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r15'>15</a>. The Guillotine at Arras was, as is well known to every -Jacobin, painted “<cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Couleur de Rose</span></cite>”.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f16'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r16'>16</a>. See <cite>Weekly Examiner</cite>, No. 11. Extract from the <cite>Courier</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f17'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r17'>17</a>. <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La petite Fenétre</span></i>, and <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">la Razoire Nationale</span></i>, fondling expressions -applied to the Guillotine by the Jacobins in France, and -their pupils here.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f18'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r18'>18</a>. [The original poem is here subjoined:—</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>THE SOLDIER’S WIFE.</div> - <div class='c004'><span class='small'>DACTYLICS.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Weary way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart,</div> - <div class='line'>Travelling painfully over the rugged road;</div> - <div class='line'>Wild-visaged wanderer! Ah! for thy heavy chance.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sorely thy little ones drag by thee barefooted,</div> - <div class='line'>Cold is the baby that hangs at thy bending back—</div> - <div class='line'>Meagre and livid, and screaming its wretchedness.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony,</div> - <div class='line'>As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe,</div> - <div class='line'>Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy haggard face.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thy husband will never return from the war again;</div> - <div class='line'>Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity—</div> - <div class='line'>Cold are thy famished babes—God help thee, widowed one!]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>1795.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f19'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r19'>19</a>. [“Walked to the Old Bailey to see <span class='sc'>David Isaac Eaton</span> in -the pillory. The mob was decidedly friendly to him. His -having published <span class='sc'>Paine’s</span> <cite>Age of Reason</cite> was not an intelligible -offence to them.”—<cite>Crabb Robinson’s Diary</cite>, i. 386.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The Proclamation against <em>Seditious Writings</em>, however, was -supported by some influential Whigs. “<span class='sc'>Pitt</span> had previously -sent copies of it to several members of the Opposition in both -Houses, requesting their advice,” says Lord Malmesbury. -Whether <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> desired it or not, no measure could have been -more effectual for dividing the Whig party.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f20'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r20'>20</a>. [See p. <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f21'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r21'>21</a>. My worthy friend the bellman had promised to supply an -additional stanza; but the business of assisting the lamplighter, -chimney-sweeper, &c., with complimentary verses for -their worthy masters and mistresses, pressing on him at this -season, he was obliged to decline it. [A quiz at the third -stanza, which was contributed by <span class='sc'>Coleridge</span>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f22'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r22'>22</a>. [Thomas Dyche was a clergyman, and kept a school at -Stratford-le-Bow. He was the author of an English dictionary, -a spelling-book, a Latin vocabulary, &c. He died about 1750. -Thomas Dilworth, whose educational works were long popular, -was for some time his assistant, and then set up a school for -himself at Wapping. He died in 1781.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f23'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r23'>23</a>. [<em>and</em> should have been omitted.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f24'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r24'>24</a>. [The Latin Verses, much admired at the time, were written -by the Marquis <span class='sc'>Wellesley</span> at Walmer Castle, in 1797, at the -desire of <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, and were published after the author’s departure -for India, in the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite>. The beautiful translation of -them was by Lord <span class='sc'>Morpeth</span>, afterwards sixth Earl of <span class='sc'>Carlisle</span>, -whose mother was the daughter of <span class='sc'>Granville Leveson Gower</span>, -first Marquis of <span class='sc'>Stafford</span>. He died in 1848.]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f25'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r25'>25</a>. The original poem as translated, or rather paraphrased, by -Prof. J. D. Carlyle, is here subjoined:—</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>THE CHOICE.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sabla! thou saw’st th’ exulting foe</div> - <div class='line in2'>In fancied triumphs crown’d:</div> - <div class='line'>Thou heard’st their frantic females throw</div> - <div class='line in2'>These galling taunts around:</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Make now <span class='fss'>YOUR CHOICE</span>—the terms we give,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Desponding victims, hear!</div> - <div class='line'>These fetters on your <em>hands</em> receive,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or in your <em>hearts</em> the spear.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“And is the conflict o’er,” we cried,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And lie we at your feet,</div> - <div class='line'>“And dare you vauntingly decide</div> - <div class='line in2'>The fortune we must meet?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“A brighter day we soon shall see,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Tho’ now the prospect lowers,</div> - <div class='line'>And Conquest, Peace, and Liberty</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall gild our future hours.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The foe advanc’d—in firm array</div> - <div class='line in2'>We rush’d o’er <span class='sc'>Sabla’s</span> sands,</div> - <div class='line'>And the red sabre mark’d our way</div> - <div class='line in2'>Amidst their yielding bands.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then as they writh’d in death’s cold grasp,</div> - <div class='line in2'>We cried, “<span class='sc'>Our choice</span> is made!</div> - <div class='line'>These <em>hands</em> the sabre’s hilt shall clasp,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Your <em>hearts</em> shall have the blade!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>As Carlyle’s version is although a spirited not a faithful -one, the Editor is induced to present a literal translation, -from <cite>Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry, by C. J. Lyall</cite>, 1885, -8vo., p. 10. The contest was not a battle but one of the frequent -skirmishes between neighbouring clans. <cite>Sabla</cite> is Carlyle’s -rendering of <cite>Sahbal a Wady</cite>, in Arabia, overlooked by -twin peaks.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f26'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r26'>26</a>. [W. H. Ireland, the Shakespeare forger.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f27'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r27'>27</a>. [The above ballad refers to an attempt by <span class='sc'>Francis</span>, fifth -<span class='sc'>Duke of Bedford</span>, to escape the payment of the Assessed -Taxes upon twenty-five of his servants, on the plea that as -the Helpers did not wear a Livery, and were engaged by the -week, they were not liable to the duty. This defence was, -however, unsuccessful.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f28'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r28'>28</a>. <em>Twaie coneynge Clerks.</em>—<em>Coneynge</em> is the participle of the verb -to <em>ken</em> or <em>know</em>. It by no means imports what we now denominate -a <em>knowing one</em>: on the contrary, <em>twaie coneynge clerks</em> means -<em>two intelligent and disinterested clergymen</em>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f29'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r29'>29</a>. <em>Seely</em> is evidently the original of the modern word <em>silly</em>. A -<em>seely wight</em>, however, by no means imports what is now called a -<em>silly fellow</em>, but means a man of simplicity of character, devoid -of all <em>vanity</em>, and of any strange, ill-conducted ambition, which, -if successful, would immediately be fatal to the man who indulged -it.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f30'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r30'>30</a>. <em>Good advisament</em> means—<em>cool consideration</em>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f31'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r31'>31</a>. [<span class='sc'>Francis</span>, fifth <span class='sc'>Duke of Bedford</span>, died after a severe surgical -operation, March 2, 1802, at the early age of thirty-six. -“The Duke of Bedford’s energetic and capacious mind,” says -Lord Ossory, “his enlarged way of thinking, and elevated sentiments, -together with the habits and pursuits of his life, peculiarly -qualified him for his high station and princely fortune. He was -superior to bad education and disadvantages for forming his -character, and turned out certainly a first-rate man, though not -free from imperfections. His uprightness and truth were unequalled; -his magnanimity, fortitude and consideration, in his -last moments, taken so unprepared as he was, were astonishing.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>On the 16th March, C. J. Fox, in moving for a new writ for -the borough of Tavistock, vacated by Lord John Russell, who -had succeeded to the titles and estates of his deceased brother, -took occasion to pronounce a beautiful and glowing eulogium -on his departed friend and firm supporter.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f32'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r32'>32</a>. [The <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite> (in No. 8) thus speaks of the threatened -invasion of this country, for which “they have publicly formed, -and (as they term it) <em>organized</em> their <span class='sc'>Army of England</span>. Its -Advanced Guard is to be formed from a chosen Corps of Banditti, -the most distinguished for Massacre and Plunder. It is -to be preceded, as it naturally ought, by <cite>the Genius of French -Revolutionary Liberty</cite>, and it will be <em>welcomed</em>, as they tell us, -‘on the <em>ensanguined</em> shores of Britain, by the generous friends -of Parliamentary Reform’. In the interval, however, till these -golden dreams are realized, it is necessary that this ‘<em>Army of -England</em>,’ while it yet remains in France, should be fed, paid, -and clothed. For this purpose a new and separate fund is -provided (in the same spirit with the rest of their measures), -and is to be termed ‘<span class='sc'>The Loan of England</span>,’ to be raised by -anticipation on the security and mortgage of all the Lands and -Property of this Country. This <em>gasconade</em>, which sounds too -extravagant for reality, is nevertheless seriously announced by -a message from the Executive Directory; and we are told that -the Merchants of Paris are eagerly offering to advance, on such -a security, the money which is to defray the expenses of the -Expedition against this country.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f33'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r33'>33</a>. [The above verses refer to the memorable events of the -18th Fructidor, Sept. 4, 1797 (the model of Prince Louis -Napoléon’s <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">coup d’état</span></i>, Dec. 2, 1851), when Rewbell, Barras, -and Laréveillère-Lepaux, on the plea that the Republic was in -danger, got rid of their fellow-directors, Carnot (grandfather to -the present President of the French Republic) and Barthélemy, -who were replaced by Merlin and François de Neufchateau, -dispersed by military force the members of the Five Hundred -and the Ancients, fifty-three of whom were condemned to -transportation—banished the editors, &c., of forty-two newspapers—annulled -the elections of forty-eight departments—and -effected other arbitrary measures without opposition. The -springs of the movement were throughout directed by Buonaparte, -seconded by Hoche and Augereau. This event was the -true era of the commencement of military despotism in France. -But <span class='sc'>Thiers</span> considers “the Directory by these means prevented -civil war, and substituted an arbitrary but necessary -act of power, carried out with energy, but with all the mildness -and moderation that revolutionary times would allow”.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f34'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r34'>34</a>. [Alluding to the National Thanksgiving for the three great -naval victories achieved by Lords Howe, St. Vincent, and -Duncan. On this occasion the King and Queen, with their -family, the Houses of Lords and Commons, &c., went in procession -to St. Paul’s, where Divine Service was performed. -The Government Papers attributed to the Opposition Press a -desire to throw discredit on this proceeding. “The consequence -of the Procession to St. Paul’s” (says the <cite>Morning Post</cite>, -of Dec. 25) “was, that <em>one</em> man returned thanks to the Almighty, -and <em>one</em> woman was <em>kicked</em> <span class='fss'>TO DEATH</span>.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f35'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r35'>35</a>. [Mary Frampton, in her journal (Dec. 20, 1797), gives a -lively account of the King’s attendance at St. Paul’s for -Duncan’s Victory on the 11th Oct. “The King,” she says, -“stopped under the dome, and conversed for some time with -Lord Duncan and the sailors; and, to the great scandal of good -church-goers, did not hold his tongue for any considerable time -together during the service.... Pitt was attacked at Temple -Bar by three ruffians, who rushed from the mob and seized -upon the door of his carriage undoubtedly with an intent to -drag him out, but three of the Light Horse Volunteers rode up, -and backing their horses against them, sent them head over -heels to the place from whence they came, rather faster than -they ventured out.” Page <a href='#Page_99'>99</a>.—<span class='sc'>Ed</span>.]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f36'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r36'>36</a>. [<span class='sc'>Prince Talleyrand.</span>—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f37'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r37'>37</a>. <span class='sc'>General Danican</span>, in his Memoirs, tells us, that while he -was in command, a felon, who had assumed the name of Brutus, -chief of a revolutionary tribunal at Rennes, said to his colleagues, -on Good Friday, “Brothers, we must put to death this day, at -the same hour the counter-revolutionist Christ died, that young -devotee who was lately arrested”: and this young lady was -guillotined accordingly, and her corpse treated with <em>every -possible species of indecent insult</em>, to the infinite amusement of a -vast multitude of spectators.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f38'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r38'>38</a>. The reader will find in the works of <span class='sc'>Peter Porcupine</span> [<span class='sc'>W. -Cobbett</span>] (a spirited and instructive writer) an ample and -satisfactory commentary on this and the following stanza. -The French themselves inform us, that by the several modes -of destruction here alluded to, upwards of 30,000 persons were -butchered at Lyons, and this once magnificent city almost -levelled to the ground, by the command of a wretched actor -(<span class='sc'>Collot d’Herbois</span>), whom they had formerly hissed from the -stage. From the same authorities we learn, that at Nantz -27,000 persons, of both sexes, were murdered; chiefly by -drowning them in plugged boats. The waters of the Loire -became putrid, and were forbidden to be drunk, by the savages -who conducted the massacre:—that at Paris 150,000, and in -La Vendée 300,000 persons were destroyed.—Upon the whole, -the French themselves acknowledge, that <span class='fss'>TWO MILLIONS</span> of -human beings (exclusive of the military) have been sacrificed -to the principles of <span class='sc'>Equality</span> and the <span class='sc'>Rights of Man</span>: 250,000 -of these are stated to be <span class='fss'>WOMEN</span>, and 30,000 <span class='fss'>CHILDREN</span>. In this -last number, however, they do not include the unborn; nor -those who started from the bodies of their agonizing parents, -and were stuck upon the bayonets of those very men who are -now to compose the “<span class='sc'>Army of England</span>,” amidst the most -savage acclamations.</p> - -<p class='c007'>[At the beginning of the revolution, some companies of -children, called <em>Bonsbons</em>, were dressed and drilled as National -Guards, as a compliment to the Dauphin, who to please the -Parisians sometimes donned that uniform. Similar companies -were afterwards formed in Brittany, and employed to shoot -those poor wretches whom the two guillotines could not -dispatch in sufficient numbers!—<cite>Biog. Univ.</cite>, art. <em>St. André</em>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f39'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r39'>39</a>. At Lyons, <span class='sc'>Jabogues</span>, the <em>second</em> murderer (the Actor being -the <em>first</em>), in his speech to the Democratic Society, used these -words—“Down with the edifices raised for the profit or the -pleasure of the rich; down with them <span class='fss'>ALL</span>. <span class='sc'>Commerce</span> and -<span class='fss'>ARTS</span> are useless to a warlike people, and are the destruction of -that <span class='sc'>sublime Equality</span> which France is determined to spread -over the globe.” Such are the consequences of <span class='sc'>Radical Reform</span>! -Let any merchant, farmer, or landlord; let any husband or -father consider this, and then say, “<em>Shall we or shall we not -contribute a moderate sum</em>, <span class='fss'>IN PROPORTION TO OUR ANNUAL EXPENDITURE</span>, -<em>for the purpose of preserving ourselves from the fate of Lyons, -La Vendée, and Nantz?</em>”</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Styptic.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f40'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r40'>40</a>. [Probably written by the Rt. Hon. John Courtnay.]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f41'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r41'>41</a>. Line 10.—[One of the distinguishing features of the <span class='sc'>“Anti-Jacobin”</span> was -their articles devoted to an exposure of the “Lies, Misrepresentations, and -Mistakes” of the Opposition Press.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f42'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r42'>42</a>. Line 23.—[George Hammond, at this time Canning’s colleague as Under-Secretary -of State; the latter being succeeded by John Hookham Frere.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f43'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r43'>43</a>. Line 30.—[Lord Morpeth, son of the (fifth) Earl of Carlisle who was satirized -by Byron in “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f44'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r44'>44</a>. Line 32.—[George Granville Leveson Gower, eldest son of the first Marquis -of Stafford, born in 1758, became second Marquis in 1803, and created Duke of -Sutherland in 1833. He was one of Canning’s intimate college companions.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f45'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r45'>45</a>. Line 41.—[James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury, one of the most distinguished -of English diplomatists. His “Diaries and Correspondence,” published -by his grandson, the third Earl, throw much light on the transactions of -the eventful period to which they refer.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f46'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r46'>46</a>. Line 42.—[George Ellis, the accomplished editor of the “Specimens of the -Early English Poets, and of Early English Metrical Romances,” &c. In early -life he contributed to the <cite>Rolliad</cite>, being the author of Nos. 1 and 2, in Part I., -and Nos. 1 and 2, in Part II. Of the <cite>Political Eclogues</cite> he wrote the one entitled -“Charles Jenkinson”. In the <cite>Probationary Odes</cite>, he wrote No. II. “Ode on the -New Year, by Lord Mulgrave,” and No. XX. “Irregular Ode for the King’s -Birth Day, by Sir G. Howard”. Afterwards, however, he became much attached -to Pitt, and acted as Secretary to Lord Malmesbury during his unsuccessful -negotiations with the French for peace, at Lisle, 1797. Horace Walpole thus -alludes to him, in a letter of 24th June, 1783: “English people are in fashion at -Versailles. A Mr. Ellis, who wrote some pretty verses at Bath two or three -years ago, is a favourite there.” Sir Walter Scott addressed to him Canto V. of -“Marmion”. He died in 1815, aged 70.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f47'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r47'>47</a>. Line 71.—[The Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas (afterwards created Viscount Melville), -in the Commons, and Lord Grenville in the Lords, were Pitt’s most -efficient supporters.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f48'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r48'>48</a>. Line 16.—[Brookes’s Club was the grand rendezvous of the Whigs.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f49'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r49'>49</a>. Line 17.—[<span class='sc'>Jas. Hare</span> was M.P. for Knaresborough, and one of the most -brilliant wits of the Whig Party. At Eton his verses were hung up as specimens -of excellence. Great expectations were raised as to his eloquence in the -House of Commons. But his timidity was so great that he broke down in his -first speech, and this failure, joined with delicate health, prevented a second -attempt. Horace Walpole speaks of his “brilliancy and fire,” and of his own -inferiority to him. His <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">bons mots</span></i> were innumerable. He died in 1804. The -following is Lord Ossory’s opinion of the social talents of some of the best -talkers of his day:—“Horace Walpole was an agreeable, lively man, very -affected, always aiming at wit, in which he fell very short of his old friend, -<span class='sc'>George Selwyn</span>, who possessed it in the most genuine but indescribable degree. -<span class='sc'>Hare’s</span> conversation abounded with wit, and perhaps of a more lively kind; so -did <span class='sc'>Burke’s</span>, though with much alloy of bad taste; but, upon the whole, my -brother the General [<span class='sc'>Fitzpatrick</span>] was the most agreeable man in society of -any of them.”—MS., R. Vernon Smith.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f50'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r50'>50</a>. Line 19.—[General <span class='sc'>Fitzpatrick</span> was one of Fox’s most attached friends -and political supporters. <span class='sc'>Boswell</span>, speaking of a dinner at <span class='sc'>Beauclerk’s</span>, 24th -April, 1779, says, on a celebrated wit being mentioned (believed to be Fitzpatrick), -“<span class='sc'>Johnson</span> replied, ‘I have been several times in company with him, but never -perceived any strong power of wit. He produces a general effect by various -means; he has a cheerful countenance and a gay voice. Besides his trade is -wit. It would be as wild in him to come into company without merriment, as -for a highwayman to take the road without his pistols.’” <span class='sc'>Walpole</span> (in his -<cite>Journal of the Reign of George III.</cite>, i. 167, and ii. 560) describes him as “an agreeable -young man of parts,” and mentions his “genteel irony and badinage”. He was -Lord Shelburne’s brother-in-law, at whose house Johnson might have met him, -as well as in Fox’s company. Rogers (<cite>Table Talk</cite>, p. 104) said that Fitzpatrick -was at one time nearly as famous for his wit as Hare. He possessed no mean -poetic talents, particularly for compositions of wit, fancy, and satire. To the -<cite>Rolliad</cite> he contributed “Extract from the Dedication”; Nos. v., ix. and xii., in -Part I.; and No. v. in Part II. In the <cite>Political Eclogues</cite>, he wrote “The Liars”; -and “Pindaric Ode” (No. xv.)—also, “Incantation for raising a Phantom, -imitated from Macbeth,” in the <cite>Political Miscellanies</cite>.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>GENERAL RICHARD FITZPATRICK’S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>“<span class='sc'>My own Epitaph.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Whose turn is next? This monitory Stone</div> - <div class='line'>Replies, vain Passenger, perhaps thy own.</div> - <div class='line'>If, idly curious, thou wilt seek to know</div> - <div class='line'>Whose relics mingle with the dust below,</div> - <div class='line'>Enough to tell thee, that his destin’d span</div> - <div class='line'>On Earth he dwelt,—and, like thyself, a Man.</div> - <div class='line'>Nor distant far th’ inevitable day</div> - <div class='line'>When thou, poor mortal, shalt like him be clay.</div> - <div class='line'>Through life he walk’d unemulous of fame,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor wish’d beyond it to preserve a name.</div> - <div class='line'>Content, if Friendship, o’er his humble bier,</div> - <div class='line'>Drop but the heartfelt tribute of a tear;</div> - <div class='line'>Though countless ages should unconscious glide,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor learn that ever he had liv’d, or died.</div> - <div class='line in44'>“R. F.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>Such is the epitaph placed on a stone sarcophagus in the usual form, in the -churchyard at Sunninghill, close to the house where Gen. Fitzpatrick’s friend, -G. Ellis, died.—Nichols, <cite>Lit. Illustr.</cite>, vol. vii., pp. 633–4.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f51'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r51'>51</a>. Line 19.—[Lord <span class='sc'>John Townshend</span>, the second son of the first Marquis -Townshend. He represented Cambridge till ousted by <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> at the general -election in 1784. In 1788 he became the colleague of <span class='sc'>Fox</span> for Westminster. He -afterwards represented Knaresborough for twenty-five years: his colleague in -1797 was <span class='sc'>Hare</span>. He had great powers of wit and satire. In the <cite>Political -Eclogues</cite> (subjoined to <cite>The Rolliad</cite>), he wrote the one entitled “Jekyll”. To -the <cite>Probationary Odes for the Laureatship</cite> he contributed No. xii., in ridicule of -Warren Hastings’s agent, Major John Scott, M.P. Also, the “Dialogue -between a certain personage and his Minister,” in imitation of the Ninth Ode -of Horace, Book III.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f52'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r52'>52</a>. Line 20.—[Sir <span class='sc'>Francis Burdett</span>, then M.P. for Boroughbridge.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f53'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r53'>53</a>. Line 23.—[<span class='sc'>John Richardson</span>, M.P. for Newport, Cornwall, and one of the -proprietors of Drury Lane Theatre. In the <cite>Rolliad</cite> he was the author, in Part -I., of Nos. iv., x., and xi.; and in Part II. of Nos. iii. and iv. He wrote No. iv. -of <cite>Probationary Odes</cite>, in ridicule of Sir R. Hill, Bart.; No. xix. on Viscount -Mountmorres, and the concluding prose portion. To the <cite>Political Miscellanies</cite> -he contributed, “This is the House that George Built,” and in conjunction -with Tickell, the “Epigrams by Sir Cecil Wray,” “Pretymaniana,” and -“Foreign Epigrams”. In the latter Dr. Laurence assisted them. Also “A -Tale: At Brookes’s once it so fell out”. “Theatrical Intelligence Extraordinary.” -“Epigram: Who shall Expect the Country’s Friend?” “A new Ballad: Billy -Eden,” in conjunction with Tickell. “Proclamation.” He died in 1803.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f54'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r54'>54</a>. Line 25.—[The Rev. <span class='sc'>Samuel Parr</span>, LL.D., was not only a great scholar, but -an uncompromising Whig, and one of Fox’s most enthusiastic supporters. His -conversational powers were great, and his arguments were enforced by boldness, -dogmatism, and arrogance, which qualities, however, did not always -exempt him from stinging retorts even from the fair sex. The following, -among other attacks, appears in Crabb Robinson’s interesting <cite>Diary</cite>, ii. 457:—</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>A RECIPE.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To half of <span class='sc'>Busby’s</span> skill in mood and tense</div> - <div class='line'>Add <span class='sc'>Bentley’s</span> pleasantry, without his sense:</div> - <div class='line'>Of <span class='sc'>Warburton</span> take all the spleen you find,</div> - <div class='line'>And leave his genius and his wit behind.</div> - <div class='line'>Squeeze <span class='sc'>Churchill’s</span> rancour from the verse it flows in,</div> - <div class='line'>And knead it stiff with <span class='sc'>Johnson’s</span> heavy prosing.</div> - <div class='line'>Add all the piety of <span class='sc'>St. Voltaire</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>Mix the gross compound—<cite>Fiat</cite> <span class='sc'>Dr. Parr</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>His person, in full canonicals, with capacious wig, unfailing tobacco pipe and -tankard, is, with the effigies of many other noted politicians of the period, introduced -into a spirited bacchanalian scene by Gillray, published in 1801, entitled -<cite>The Union Club</cite>.]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f55'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r55'>55</a>. <span class='sc'>Buzz Prose.</span>—The learned reader will perceive that this is -an elegant <em>metonymy</em>, by which the quality belonging to the -outside of the head is transferred to the inside. <em>Buzz</em> is an -epithet usually applied to a large wig. It is here used for -swelling, burly, bombastic writing.</p> - -<p class='c007'>There is a picture of <span class='sc'>Hogarth’s</span> (the Election Ball, we -believe), in which there are a number of Hats thrown together -in one corner of the room; and it is remarked as a peculiar -excellence that there is not a Hat among them of which you -cannot to a certainty point out the owner among the figures -dancing, or otherwise distributed through the picture.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We remember to have seen an experiment of this kind tried -at one of the Universities with the <em>wig</em> and <em>writings</em> here alluded -to. A page taken from the most happy and elaborate part of -the writings was laid upon a table in a barber’s shop, round -which a number of wigs of different descriptions and dimensions -were suspended, and among them that of the Author in question. -It was required of a young student, after reading a few sentences -in the page, to point out among the wigs that which must of -necessity belong to the Head in which such sentences had been -engendered. The experiment succeeded to a miracle. The -learned reader will now see all the beauty and propriety of the -<em>metonymy</em>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f56'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r56'>56</a>. Line 25.—[<span class='sc'>John Courtenay</span> was for many years one of the men of mark in -the House of Commons for his ability, independent spirit, erudition, and coarse -sarcastic wit. He was born at Carlingford, Ireland, in 1738. Having obtained -the patronage of George, Viscount Townshend, Lord-Lieutenant (1767–72), he -became the principal writer in the “<cite>Batchelor</cite>,” a government paper, distinguished -by genuine wit and humour, conducted by Simcox, a clergyman; -Richard Marlay, afterwards Bishop of Waterford and Lismore; Robert Jephson, -a dramatic poet of note; the Rev. Mr. Boroughs, and others. The chief task of -these advocates of the Castle was to counteract the “<cite>Baratarian Letters</cite>,” an -Irish imitation of <em>Junius</em>, which, attacking the Lord-Lieutenant’s government, -received contributions from Flood, and first published Grattan’s character of -Chatham. At the “Coalition,” 1783, he was appointed Surveyor-general of the -Ordnance, and henceforward attached himself to <span class='sc'>Fox</span>. He wrote, among other -works, <cite>A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel -Johnson, LL.D., 1786</cite>; <cite>The Rape of Pomona, an Elegiac Epistle from the Waiter at -Hockrel to the Hon. Mr. Lyttelton, 1773</cite>; <cite>Philosophical Reflections on the late Revolution -in France</cite>; and a <cite>Biographical Sketch of his own Life</cite>. In his <cite>Epistles in Rhyme</cite> -he thus ridicules Horace Walpole’s <cite>Strawberry Verses</cite> on the two Misses Berry:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Who to love tunes his note, with the fire of old age,</div> - <div class='line'>And chirps the trim lay in a trim Gothic cage.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>Walpole, however (<cite>Correspondence</cite>, ix. 434–5), good-naturedly laughed at them, -saying that these verses on himself were really some of the best in the whole -set. Courtenay was a member of <em>The Literary Club</em>, founded by Sir Joshua Reynolds, -and figures in several of Gillray’s caricatures. He it was who, referring -to Gay’s <cite>Beggars’ Opera</cite>, designated the author the <cite>Orpheus of Highwaymen</cite>. He -died 24th March, 1816.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f57'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r57'>57</a>. <span class='sc'>Kidnapp’d Rhymes.</span>—Kidnapp’d implies something more -than <em>stolen</em>. It is, according to an expression of Mr. Sheridan’s -(in the “Critic”), <em>using other people’s “thoughts as gipsies do stolen -children—disfiguring them, to make them pass for their own”</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>This is a serious charge against an author, and ought to be -well supported. To the proof then!</p> - -<p class='c007'>In an Ode of the late <span class='sc'>Lord Nugent’s</span> are the following -spirited lines:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Though <span class='sc'>Cato</span> liv’d—though <span class='sc'>Tully</span> spoke—<a id='r58' /><a href='#f58' class='c024'><sup>[58]</sup></a></div> - <div class='line'>Though <span class='sc'>Brutus</span> dealt the godlike stroke,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Yet perish’d fated <span class='sc'>Rome</span>!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>The author above mentioned saw these lines, and liked them—as -well he might; and as he had a mind to write about Rome -himself, he did not scruple to enlist them into his service; but -he thought it right to make a small alteration in their appearance, -which he managed thus. Speaking of Rome, he says it is -the place</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<em>Where</em> <span class='sc'>Cato</span> liv’d”:—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>A sober truth! which gets rid at once of all the poetry and -spirit of the original, and reduces the sentiment from an -example of manners, virtue, patriotism, from the <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">vitæ exemplar -dedit</span></i> of <span class='sc'>Lord Nugent</span>, to a mere question of inhabitancy. <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ubi -habitavit Cato</span></i>—where he was an inhabitant-householder, paying -scot and lot, and had a house on the right-hand side of the way, -as you go down <em>Esquiline</em> Hill, just opposite to the poulterer’s. -But to proceed—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<em>Where</em> <span class='sc'>Cato</span> liv’d; where <span class='sc'>Tully</span> spoke,</div> - <div class='line'>Where <span class='sc'>Brutus</span> dealt the godlike stroke—</div> - <div class='line in2'>—<em>By which his glory rose</em>!!!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>The last line is <em>not</em> borrowed.</p> - -<p class='c007'>We question whether the history of modern literature can -produce an instance of a theft so shameless, and turned to so -little advantage.]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f58'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r58'>58</a>. [Horace Walpole, in a letter to Hannah More, quotes one word of these -verses incorrectly, writing:—“Though Cato <em>died</em>,” an error which P. Cunningham -allows to pass, as also another, that <em>Mr.</em>—instead of <em>Lord</em>—Nugent wrote -them.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f59'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r59'>59</a>. Line 26.—[Sir <span class='sc'>Robert Adair</span>. Some observations on his alleged mission to -St. Petersburgh to counteract the measures of Government will be found on a -subsequent page. The publication here satirized is entitled “Part of a Letter -from Robert Adair, Esq., to the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox; occasioned by Mr. Burke’s -mention of Lord Keppel in a recent publication,” London, Debrett, 1796, and is -by no means a contemptible composition. It is called “<em>Part</em> of a Letter,” because -it is a portion of a longer one, being only the part devoted to a -vindication of the writer’s uncle, Admiral Lord Keppel, and of Fox; with -characteristic delineations of Sir G. Saville, the Marquis of Rockingham, Lord -North, and George Byng, M.P., on all of whom he passes great compliments.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f60'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r60'>60</a>. <em>And loads the blunderbuss with</em> <span class='sc'>Bedford’s</span> <em>brains.</em>—This line -is wholly unintelligible without a note. And we are afraid the -note will be wholly incredible, unless the reader can fortunately -procure the book to which it refers.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In the “Part of a Letter,” which was published by <span class='sc'>Mr. Robt. -Adair</span>, in answer to <span class='sc'>Mr. Burke’s</span> “Letter to the D. of B.,” -nothing is so remarkable as the studious imitation of Mr. -Burke’s style.</p> - -<p class='c007'>His vehemence, and his passion, and his irony, his wild -imagery, his far-sought illustrations, his rolling and lengthened -periods, and the short quick pointed sentences in which he -often condenses as much wisdom and wit as others would expand -through pages, or through volumes,—all these are carefully -kept in view by his opponent, though not always very -artificially copied or applied.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But imitators are liable to be led strangely astray; and never -was there an instance of a more complete mistake of a plain -meaning, than that which this line is intended to illustrate—a -mistake no less than that of a <em>coffin</em> for a <em>corpse</em>. This is hard -to believe or to comprehend—but you shall hear.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Mr. Burke</span>, in one of his publications, had talked of the -French “<em>unplumbing</em> the dead in order to destroy the living,”—by -which he intended, without doubt, not metaphorically, but -literally, “<em>stripping the dead of their</em> <span class='fss'>LEADEN COFFINS</span>, <em>and then -making them</em> (<em>not the</em> <span class='fss'>DEAD</span> <em>but the</em> <span class='fss'>COFFINS</span>) <em>into bullets</em>”. A -circumstance perfectly notorious at the time the book was -written.</p> - -<p class='c007'>But this does not satisfy our author. He determines to -retort <span class='sc'>Mr. Burke’s</span> own words upon him; and unfortunately -“reaching at a metaphor,” where <span class='sc'>Mr. Burke</span> only intended a -fact, he falls into the little mistake above mentioned, and by a -stroke of his pen transmutes the illustrious <span class='sc'>Head</span> of the house -of <span class='sc'>Russell</span> into a metal, to which it is not for us to say how -near or how remote his affinity may possibly have been. He -writes thus—“<em>If</em> <span class='sc'>Mr. Burke</span> <em>had been content with ‘unplumbing’ -a dead Russell, and hewing</em> HIM (observe—not the coffin, but -<span class='fss'>HIM</span>—the old dead Russell himself) <em>into grape and canister, to -sweep down the whole generation of his descendants</em>,” <em>&c., &c.</em></p> - -<p class='c007'>The thing is scarcely credible; but <span class='fss'>IT IS SO</span>! We write -with the book open before us.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f61'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r61'>61</a>. Qu.—Surcharge?</p> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c053'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><a id='f62' /><a href='#r62' class='c024'><sup>[62]</sup></a>HORACE, ODE VIII., BOOK II.</div> - <div class='line in16'><span class='small'>IN BARINEM.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Ulla si juris tibi pejerati</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Pœna, Barine, nocuisset unquam,</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Dente si nigro fieres, vel uno</em></span></div> - <div class='line in30'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Turpior ungui</em>,</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Crederem. <a id='f64' /><a href='#r64' class='c024'><sup>[64]</sup></a>Sed tu simul obligâsti</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Perfidum votis caput, enitescis</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Pulchrior multo</em>, juvenumque prodis</span></div> - <div class='line in30'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Publica cura.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f66' /><a href='#r66' class='c024'><sup>[66]</sup></a>Expedit <em>matris cineres</em> opertos</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Fallere, et toto <a href='#r66' class='c024'><sup>[66]</sup></a><em>taciturna noctis</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Signa</em> cum cœlo, gelidâque Divos</span></div> - <div class='line in30'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Morte carentes.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Ridet hoc, inquam, <a id='f67' /><a href='#r67' class='c024'><sup>[67]</sup></a>Venus ipsa; rident</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Simplices <a id='f69' /><a href='#r69' class='c024'><sup>[69]</sup></a>Nymphæ, ferus et <a id='f73' /><a href='#r73' class='c024'><sup>[73]</sup></a>Cupido</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Semper ardentes acuens sagittas</em></span></div> - <div class='line in30'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Cote cruentâ.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Adde quod pubes tibi crescit omnis,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f74' /><a href='#r74' class='c024'><sup>[74]</sup></a><em>Servitus crescit nova; <a id='f75' /><a href='#r75' class='c024'><sup>[75]</sup></a>nec priores</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Impiæ tectum dominæ relinquunt,</em></span></div> - <div class='line in30'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Sæpe minati.</em></span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Te suis matres metuunt juvencis;</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Te <a id='f76' /><a href='#r76' class='c024'><sup>[76]</sup></a><em>senes parci, miseræque <a id='f77' /><a href='#r77' class='c024'><sup>[77]</sup></a>nuper</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Virgines nuptæ, tua ne retardet</em></span></div> - <div class='line in30'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Aura Maritos.</em></span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class='footnote' id='f63'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r63'>63</a>. Line 3.—[Referring to <span class='sc'>Lord Moira’s</span> complaints against the Government -agents, for unnecessary cruelty to the Irish rebels.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f65'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r65'>65</a>. Line 13.—[The following attack upon Lord Moira, “for his patriotic zeal, -and the correctness and propriety with which he gave, in the upper House of -Parliament, an account of the insurrection upon his estates, and in other parts -of Ireland,” is extracted from the “<cite>Batchelor</cite>”. These observations were there -pointed at the father of Lord Moira, but have been adapted by the Author of -the <cite>Ode</cite> and the Artist to the son.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Lord Moira.</em>—“My Lords, I rise to return my thanks to the Noble Lord who -spoke last. I can testify the truth of all he has asserted. At the time of the -Insurrection in the North, I had frequent and intimate conversations with that -celebrated enchanter, <em>Moll Coggin</em>. I have often seen her riding on a black ram -with a blue tail. Once I endeavoured to fire at her, but my gun melted in my -hand into a clear jelly. This jelly I tasted, and if it had been a little more acid, -it would have been most excellent. The Noble Lords may laugh; but I declare -the fact upon my veracity, which has never been doubted. Once I pursued this -fiend into my ale cellar: she rode instantly out of my sight into the bung-hole -of a beer barrel. She was at that time mounted on her black ram with the -blue tail. Some time after, my servants were much surprised to find their ale -full of <em>blue hairs</em>. I was not surprised, as I knew the blue <em>hairs</em> were the hairs -of the ram’s <em>blue tail</em>. Noble Lords may stare, but the fact is as I relate it. -This <em>Moll Coggin</em> was the fiend who raised the <em>Oak-boys</em> to rebellion. I was also -well acquainted with the two Cow-boys mentioned by the Noble Lord; they -were my tenants, and were certainly endowed with supernatural powers. I -have known one of them tear up by the roots an Oak two hundred feet high, -and bear it upright on his head four miles! his party were on that account -called Oak-boys. Noble Lords may laugh, but I speak from certain knowledge. -The Oak-tree grew in my garden, and I have often seen five hundred Swans -perching on its boughs; these swans were remarkable for destroying all the -snipes in the country—they flew faster than any snipe I ever saw, and you may -imagine a small bird could make but a feeble resistance in the talons of a swan. -I hope, my Lords, you will pardon my wandering a little from the present subject,” -&c.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f68'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r68'>68</a>. Line 17.—[“One night after <em>nine o’clock</em>, a party of Soldiers saw a light in a -house by the road-side—they went and ordered it to be extinguished immediately: -the people of the house begged that the light might be suffered to remain -because there was a child belonging to the family in convulsion fits, who must -expire for want of help if the people were to be without fire and candle; <em>but this -request</em> <span class='fss'>HAD NO EFFECT</span>.” <cite>Lord Moira’s Speech in the House of Lords, November 22, -1797.</cite> This statement was, however, satisfactorily disproved. The incident -forms a feature in the accompanying engraving. Notwithstanding official -denials, it has long been admitted that the conduct of the Soldiery in Ireland -was simply infamous. Billeting on Catholics and reputed malcontents of the -better class appears to have been invariably as an unlimited licence for robbery, -devastation, ravishment, and, in case of resistance, murder. Sir Ralph Abercromby, -on assuming the command of the army in Ireland, declared, in general -orders, that their habits and discipline were such as to render them “formidable -to everybody but the enemy”. The just severity of this phrase was confirmed -by the subsequent experience of Lord Cornwallis.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f70'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r70'>70</a>. Line 19.—[Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh, distinguished by his -scientific researches, married the daughter and sole heiress of Jas. Evelyn, Esq. -of Felbridge, Surrey, by whom he had an only daughter, Julia, who became, in -1810, the wife of the Earl of Liverpool. Sir George, on the decease of his father-in-law -in 1793, assumed the additional surname of Evelyn. He died in 1804, -having been five times returned to Parliament for the county of Warwick.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f71'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r71'>71</a>. Line 20.—[Sir John Macpherson, Bart. was M.P. for Horsham, and for a short -period Governor-General of India.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f72'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r72'>72</a>. Line 21.—[Col. Bastard was M.P. for Devon. He was returned with Mr. -Rolle, the hero of “<cite>The Rolliad</cite>,” on the Pitt interest.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f78'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r78'>78</a>. Line 31.—[Sir William Pulteney was M.P. for Shrewsbury, and no Member in -the House was more looked up to. He was the second son of Sir James Johnstone, -Bart., of Westerhall, and brother of Governor Johnstone. He married -the cousin of Lt.-Gen. Henry Pulteney, surviving brother of William Pulteney, -Earl of Bath, assuming the name of Pulteney. The General left immense -wealth, “the fruits of his brother’s virtues!” as Horace Walpole sarcastically -phrases it. The greater part of it he bequeathed to the said cousin. Sir William -Johnstone Pulteney died in 1805. His daughter was created Countess of -Bath.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f79'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r79'>79</a>. The trepidation of Mr. Tooke, though natural, was not -necessary; as it appeared from the ever-memorable “Letter to -Mr. M‘Mahon” (which was published about this time in the -<cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, and threw the whole town into paroxysms -of laughter), that in the Administration which his Lordship -was so gravely employed in forming, Mr. Fox was to have no -place!</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f81'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r81'>81</a>. Line 36.—[Of <span class='sc'>M‘Mahon</span> it is said in <span class='sc'>T. Raikes’s</span> <cite>Journal</cite> (November, 1836):—“George -IV. never had any private friends: he selected his confidants from his -minions. <span class='sc'>M‘Mahon</span> was an Irishman of low birth and obsequious manners: -he was a little man, his face red, covered with pimples; always dressed in the -blue and buff uniform, with his hat on one side, copying the air of his master, -to whom he was a prodigious foil, and ready to execute any commissions, which -in those days were somewhat complicated.” He was private secretary and -keeper of the privy purse to King George IV. when Prince Regent, was sworn -of the Privy Council, and created a Baronet, 7th August, 1817, with remainder, -in default of male issue, to his brother. <span class='sc'>Sir John</span> died 12th September, 1817, -the title devolving on his brother <span class='sc'>Thomas</span>, a distinguished military officer, who -was Adjutant-General of Her Majesty’s forces in India, Lieut.-Gov. of Portsmouth, -Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army, &c.</p> - -<p class='c007'><span class='sc'>Sir John M‘Mahon</span> left a large personal property, amounting to £90,000. -One of his bequests is thus worded: “To <span class='sc'>Thomas Marrable</span>, a dear and -esteemed friend, £2000; and with my last prayers for the glory and happiness -of the best-hearted man in the world, the <span class='sc'>Prince Regent</span>, I bequeath him the -said Thomas Marrable, an invaluable servant”. The latter was a member of -the household of King George IV., and one of his confidential agents. A full-length -portrait of him as one of the procession is given in Sir G. Nayler’s history -of the coronation of that monarch.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Among Gillray’s <cite>Caricatures</cite> is an amusing one, engraved but not designed by -him, published in 1804, representing the Heir-Apparent, mounted on a tall horse, -with the much smaller person of M‘Mahon consequentially riding on a diminutive -steed at his side, passing the gates of Carlton House. The quotation from -Burns engraved on it suggests that the Prince might still prove a worthy occupant -of the throne.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f82'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r82'>82</a>. [As if written by <span class='sc'>Robert Adair</span>, who had previously indited -“<span class='sc'>Half</span> <cite>a Letter to Mr. Fox</cite>”.]</p> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c053'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f83' /><a href='#r83' class='c024'><sup>[83]</sup></a>Non usitatâ nec tenui ferar</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Pennâ biformis per liquidum æthera</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Vates.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f84' /><a href='#r84' class='c024'><sup>[84]</sup></a>——Non ego, quem vocas</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dilecte, Mæcenas, obibo,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f85' /><a href='#r85' class='c024'><sup>[85]</sup></a>Nec Stygiâ cohibebor undâ.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f86' /><a href='#r86' class='c024'><sup>[86]</sup></a>Jamjam residunt cruribus asperæ</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Pelles, et album mutor in alitem</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f87' /><a href='#r87' class='c024'><sup>[87]</sup></a>Supernê, nascunturque leves</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Per digitos humerosque plumæ.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Visam gementis littora Bosphori,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Syrtesque Gætulas,<a id='f89' /><a href='#r89' class='c024'><sup>[89]</sup></a> canorus</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ales,<a id='f90' /><a href='#r90' class='c024'><sup>[90]</sup></a> Hyperboreosque campos.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f91' /><a href='#r91' class='c024'><sup>[91]</sup></a>Me Colchus, et qui<a id='f92' /><a href='#r92' class='c024'><sup>[92]</sup></a> dissimulat metum</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">* * *</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">* * * me peritus</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Discet Iber Rhodanique<a id='f93' /><a href='#r93' class='c024'><sup>[93]</sup></a> potor.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Absint<a id='f94' /><a href='#r94' class='c024'><sup>[94]</sup></a> inani funere neniæ,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f95' /><a href='#r95' class='c024'><sup>[95]</sup></a>Luctusque turpes et querimoniæ.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f96' /><a href='#r96' class='c024'><sup>[96]</sup></a> —— —— —— sepulchri</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mitte supervacuous honores.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class='footnote' id='f88'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r88'>88</a>. [<span class='sc'>Mr. Pitt’s</span> Tax upon Hair-powder proved a failure; -many of the public declining its use. Those who continued it -were called “<em>guinea-pigs</em>,” the tax being a guinea per head.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f97'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r97'>97</a>. [For an explanation of this allusion, see Note at p. <a href='#Page_74'>74</a>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c053'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f98' /><a href='#r98' class='c024'><sup>[98]</sup></a>Acmen Septimius suos amores</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Tenens in gremio, mea, inquit, Acme,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ni te perdite amo, &c.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f99' /><a href='#r99' class='c024'><sup>[99]</sup></a>Cæsio veniam obvius Leoni.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f100' /><a href='#r100' class='c024'><sup>[100]</sup></a>Hoc ut dixit, Amor sinistram, ut ante</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dextram, sternuit approbationem.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f101' /><a href='#r101' class='c024'><sup>[101]</sup></a>At Acme leviter caput reflectens,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Et dulcis pueri ebrios ocellos</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Illo purpureo ore suaviata,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Sic, inquit, mea vita,<a id='f102' /><a href='#r102' class='c024'><sup>[102]</sup></a> Septimille, &c.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f103' /><a href='#r103' class='c024'><sup>[103]</sup></a>Nunc ab auspicio bono profecti</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mutuis animis amant, amantur.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Unam Septimius misellus Acmen</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mavult quam<a id='f104' /><a href='#r104' class='c024'><sup>[104]</sup></a> Syrias Britanniasque.<a href='#f105' class='c024'><sup>[105]</sup></a></span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class='footnote' id='f105'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r105'>105</a>. <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">I.e.</span></i>, The Clerkship of the Pells in Ireland, and Auditorship -of South Wales.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f106'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r106'>106</a>. [On 7th Feb., 1796, a <em>forged</em> French newspaper called <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">L’Eclair</span></cite>, containing -false intelligence, was circulated in London for stock-jobbing purposes. On 3rd -July a verdict of £100 was given against <span class='sc'>D. Stuart</span>, proprietor of <cite>The Morning -Post</cite>, for sending the above paper to the proprietors of <cite>The Telegraph</cite>, by which -it was discredited; and on the following day, a verdict of £1500 was given -against Mr. Dickinson, for falsely accusing Mr. Goldsmid, the money-broker, of -forging the above. It announced a peace between Austria and France.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f107'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r107'>107</a>. <cite>Morning Post</cite>, Jan. 25.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f108'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r108'>108</a>. <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, Jan. 25.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f109'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r109'>109</a>. This appears to allude to Mr. <span class='sc'>Sheridan’s</span> conduct during the <em>Mutiny</em>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f110'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r110'>110</a>. This is not the first time that we have heard of Mr. <span class='sc'>Tierney’s</span> discouragement -of impiety. However we may disapprove of this gentleman’s political -principles, we are not insensible to the merit of such conduct.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f111'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r111'>111</a>. <cite>Morning Post</cite>, Jan. 25.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f112'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r112'>112</a>. <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, Jan. 25.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f113'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r113'>113</a>. <cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, <cite>Morning Post</cite>, <cite>Morning Herald</cite>, &c.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f114'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r114'>114</a>. The Company seem to have recollected (had <em>his Grace</em> forgotten?) that the -<span class='sc'>Duke</span> of <span class='sc'>Norfolk</span> has <em>another</em> <span class='sc'>Sovereign</span>, to whom he has recently, more -than once, sworn Allegiance; and under whom he <em>now</em> holds the <span class='sc'>Lieutenancy</span> -of the <span class='sc'>West Riding</span> of the <span class='sc'>County of York</span>, and the Command of a <span class='sc'>Regiment</span> -of <span class='sc'>Militia</span>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f115'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r115'>115</a>. See <cite>The True Briton</cite>, of Thursday, Jan. 25.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f116'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r116'>116</a>. <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Conjuravere Cives nobilissimi Patriam incendere—<em>Gallorum</em> -gentem infestissimam nomini Romano in bellum arcessunt—Dux -Hostium cum exercitu supra caput est.—<span class='sc'>Orat. Caton.</span> ap. -<span class='sc'>Sallust.</span></span></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f117'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r117'>117</a>. <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Tum Catilina polliceri tabulas novas, proscriptionem locupletium, -Magistrates, Sacerdotia, rapinas, alia omnia quæ -bellum atque lubido Victorum fert.—<span class='sc'>Sallust.</span></span></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f118'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r118'>118</a>. [“A Correspondent cautions us against making a profane -use of <span class='sc'>Mr. Wilberforce’s</span> appearance on Sunday; that gentleman -would not have been so ungodly as to gallop there without -a sufficient reason—it was the fulfilment of some Prophecy; -and the horse he rode might be related to the White Horse of -the Revelations.”—<cite>Morning Chronicle</cite>, Jan. 11, 1798.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f119'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r119'>119</a>. [This refers to Charles Howard, eleventh <span class='sc'>Duke of Norfolk</span>, -(who gave, at a public dinner, the famous toast of “Our Sovereign’s -health, the Majesty of the People,”) and to John Horne -Tooke, who was a regularly ordained clergyman, and had been -tried for High Treason and acquitted.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f120'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r120'>120</a>. [These lines allude to the Empress Catherine’s placing -in her gallery the bust of Fox between those of Demosthenes -and Cicero, as a token of gratitude for his exertions in defeating -the project of <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, who, in conjunction with Prussia -and Holland, had, in 1791, prepared a powerful armament -to compel her to give up Ockzakow, which she had seized. -The Court party delighted in stigmatizing <span class='sc'>Fox</span> as the modern -<em>Catiline</em>. “But the part which he took in parliament subsequent -to 1793, (says <em>Sir N. W. Wraxall</em>), and the eulogiums -lavished by him on the French Revolution, soon changed the -Empress’s tone. She caused the bust to be removed; and -when reproached with such a change in her conduct, she replied, -‘<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">C’étoit Monsieur Fox de <em>Quatre-vingt-onze</em> que j’ai placé dans -mon cabinet</span>’.”—<cite>Wraxall’s Posthumous Memoirs</cite>, vol. 1, pp. 435, -436.</p> - -<p class='c007'>“It seems to have escaped general notice, (says Sir James -Prior in his Life of Burke), that the misfortunes of Poland in -her final partition may be, in some degree, attributed, however -undesignedly on their part, to Mr. Fox and the Opposition, -in the strong and unusual means made use of to thwart Mr. -Pitt in the business of Ockzakow. They lay claim, it is true, -to the merit of having prevented war on that occasion. But -if war had then taken place with England for one act of violence -comparatively trivial, Russia, in all probability, would -not have ventured upon a second and still greater aggression, -involving the existence of a nation, with the certainty of a -second war. Nothing, after all, might have saved Poland from -the combination then on foot against her; but it is certain -that Mr. Pitt, from recent experience, had little encouragement -to make the attempt.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>It is a curious circumstance that, though the <em>plate</em> illustrating -these <em>Lines</em> was published, according to its inscription, -on the 17th March, 1792, the five stanzas engraved on it are -identical with those which appeared in the <cite>Anti-Jacobin</cite> of -12th Feb., 1798, though these were introduced as written “by -an English Traveller just [<em>sic</em>] returned from Petersburgh”.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Assuming the date on the engraving to be correct, we might -account for the <em>parachronism</em> on the supposition that the author -of the earlier <em>plate-stanzas</em> availed himself of the appearance -of the <cite>Lines written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown -and Anchor to reproduce them</cite>—six years afterwards—with a few -verbal alterations, to adapt them to a later period—and with an -equivocal statement as to the period of their first production.</p> - -<p class='c007'>The following are the alterations in the reprinted version:—</p> - -<table class='table0' summary=''> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>Stanza</td> - <td class='c016'>2</td> - <td class='c016'>line</td> - <td class='c017'>3, frantic <em>for</em> lawless.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c016'>3</td> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c017'>1, their country’s <em>for</em> domestic.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c016'>3</td> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c017'>1, and wealth and <em>for</em> external.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c016'>3</td> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c017'>3, honoured <em>for</em> sacred.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c016'>4</td> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c017'>1, now <em>for</em> then.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c016'>4</td> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c017'>3, advocate <em>for</em> tool confessed.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c016'>4</td> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c017'>4, later <em>for</em> modern.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c016'>5</td> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c017'>2, thus <em>for</em> now.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c016'>5</td> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c017'>4, Catiline <em>for</em> Cataline.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c016'>5</td> - <td class='c016'>„</td> - <td class='c017'>4, modern <em>for</em> later.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</td> - </tr> -</table> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f121'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r121'>121</a>. [Written to ridicule Richard Payne Knight’s <cite>Progress of -Civil Society</cite>, a Didactic Poem, in Six Books. London, 1796, -4to.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f122'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r122'>122</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 3. A modern author of great penetration and judgment -observes very shrewdly, that “the cosmogony of the world -has puzzled the philosophers of all ages. What a medley of -opinions have they not broached upon the creation of the -world. Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus -have all attempted it in vain. The latter has these words—<em>Anarchon -ara kai ateleutaion to pan</em>—which imply, that all things -have neither beginning nor end.” See Goldsmith’s <cite>Vicar of -Wakefield</cite>; see also Mr. Knight’s Poem on the <cite>Progress of Civil -Society</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f123'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r123'>123</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 12. The influence of Mind upon Matter, comprehending -the whole question of the Existence of Mind as independent -of Matter, or as co-existent with it, and of Matter considered -as an intelligent and self-dependent Essence, will make the -subject of a larger Poem in 127 Books, now preparing under -the <em>same</em> auspices.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f124'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r124'>124</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 14. See Godwin’s <cite>Enquirer</cite>; Darwin’s <cite>Zoonomia</cite>; Paine; -Priestley, &c. &c.; also all the French Encyclopædists.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f125'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r125'>125</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 16. <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Quæstio spinosa et contortula.</span></i></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f126'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r126'>126</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 26. “Add thereto a tiger’s chawdron.”—Macbeth.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f127'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r127'>127</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 26, 27.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“In softer notes bids Lybian lions roar,</div> - <div class='line'>And warms the whale on Zembla’s frozen shore.”</div> - <div class='line in8'><cite>Progress of Civil Society</cite>, Book I. ver. 98.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f128'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r128'>128</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 29. “An oyster may be crossed in love.”—Mr. Sheridan’s -<cite>Critic</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f129'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r129'>129</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 34. Birds fly.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f130'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r130'>130</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 35. But neither fish, nor beasts—particularly as here -exemplified.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f131'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r131'>131</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 36. The bear.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f132'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r132'>132</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 37. The mackerel—there are also <em>hard-roed</em> mackerel. -<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Sed de his alio loco.</span></i></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f133'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r133'>133</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 38. Bear’s <em>grease</em>, or <em>fat</em>, is also in great request; being -supposed to have a <em>criniparous</em>, or hair-producing quality.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f134'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r134'>134</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 39. There is a special Act of Parliament which permits -mackerel to be cried on Sundays.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f135'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r135'>135</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 45 to 49. Every animal contented with the lot which -it has drawn in life. A fine contrast to man, who is always -discontented.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f136'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r136'>136</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 49. <em>Salt wave</em>—wave of the sea—“<em>briny wave</em>”.—Poetæ -passim.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f137'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r137'>137</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 50. A still stronger contrast, and a greater shame to -man, is found in plants;—they too are contented—he restless -and changing. <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mens agitat mihi, nec placida contenta quiete est.</span></i></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f138'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r138'>138</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 50. <em>Potatoes ’tatoes breed.</em> Elision for the sake of verse, -not meant to imply that the root degenerates.—Not so with man—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mox daturus</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Progeniem vitiosiorem.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f139'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r139'>139</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 61–66. Simple state of savage life—previous to the -pastoral, or even the hunter state.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f140'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r140'>140</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 66. First savages disciples of Pythagoras.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f141'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r141'>141</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 67, &c. Desire of animal food natural only to beasts, -or to man in a state of civilized society. First suggested by -the circumstances here related.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f142'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r142'>142</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 71. Pigs of the <em>Chinese</em> breed most in request.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f143'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r143'>143</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 76. First formation of a bow. Introduction of the -science of archery.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f144'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r144'>144</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 79. Grass twisted, used for a string, owing to the want, -of other materials not yet invented.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f145'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r145'>145</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 83. Bone—fish’s bone found on the sea-shore, shark’s -teeth, &c. &c.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f146'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r146'>146</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 90. Ah! what avails, &c.—See Pope’s <cite>Description of the -death of a Pheasant</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f147'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r147'>147</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 93. “With leaden eye that loves the ground.”</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f148'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r148'>148</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 94. The first effusion of blood attended with the most -dreadful consequences to mankind.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f149'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r149'>149</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 97. <em>Social</em> Man’s wickedness opposed to the simplicity -of savage life.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f150'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r150'>150</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 100, 101. Different causes of war among men.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f151'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r151'>151</a>. <em>Ver.</em> 106. Invention of fire—first employed in cookery, and -produced by rubbing dry sticks together.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f152'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r152'>152</a>. [Written in the character of <span class='sc'>C. J. Fox</span>, at his seat, St. -Anne’s Hill, near Chertsey, during his secession from Parliament -from 1797 to 1802. His fondness for the Greek Poets -is well known.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f153'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r153'>153</a>. [Alluded to at page <a href='#Page_79'>79</a>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f154'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r154'>154</a>. [Erskine was noted for his intense vanity, which procured -him the nickname of <em>Ego</em>. Sir John Bowring, who knew him well, -gives in his <cite>Autobiography</cite> several instances of this peculiarity, -one of which is here inserted. “The master-string of his mind -was vanity; its vibrations trembling to the very end of his -existence. He said, ‘When the Emperor Alexander came to -England, Lord Granville told me that the Emperor wished to -see me. I went. He received me with particular attention, -and said he was very anxious to make my acquaintance. He -spoke English as well as you do. “You are a friend and correspondent,” -he said, “of my most valued friend La Harpe?” -“Yes, sire.” “Is he a regular correspondent?” “Yes, a very -kind one.” “Has he been so of late?” “Well, if your Majesty -will cross-examine me, I must own he owes me a letter.” He -put his hand into his pocket, and drew forth a letter addressed -to me. “Yes, there is his answer. I intercepted it that I -might have the pleasure of knowing Lord Erskine.” I gave -Alexander all my writings and speeches, which he received -with many expressions of satisfaction.’”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f155'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r155'>155</a>. [On April 3, 1797, an open-air meeting of the inhabitants -of Westminster was held in Palace Yard, during very inclement -weather (Westminster Hall having been shut against them by -order of the keeper), to consider of an address to his Majesty -to dismiss <span class='sc'>Pitt’s</span> ministry. <span class='sc'>Fox</span> and the Duke of Bedford took -part in the proceedings. Meetings were held about the same -time all over the country for the same object.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f156'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r156'>156</a>. [After Lord Shelburne’s resignation of the office of Prime -Minister, consequent on the coalition of Fox and Lord North, -he was created Marquis of Lansdowne, and withdrew almost -entirely from public life, passing his time principally at his -magnificent seat, Bowood, near Calne, Wiltshire.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f157'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r157'>157</a>. </p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Notes to the “New Coalition”.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>[The Secret History of <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> coalition with <span class='sc'>Lord North</span>, -his former adversary,—a proceeding which entailed on him -much odium,—was first brought to light by the publication of -the “Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox,” -begun by the late Lord Holland, and edited by Earl Russell. -It was occasioned by his disgust at the conduct of the Earl of -Shelburne, for while <span class='sc'>Fox</span> as one of the Secretaries of State -under the Rockingham Administration was treating with Dr. -Franklin for peace with the United States through the agent of -the Cabinet (Thomas Grenville) Lord Shelburne, the other -Secretary of State, was, through <em>his</em> agent Oswald, privately -thwarting his measures, and that with the concurrence of the -King! The consequence of the Coalition was the fall of Lord -Shelburne’s ministry, and Fox and Lord North’s “taking the -Treasury by storm”.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f158'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r158'>158</a>. [The <cite>India Bill</cite> brought in by <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, shortly after his accession -to office, was the signal for his downfall. The Bill passed -the House of Commons by large majorities, but when it reached -the Lords, the King, who hated <span class='sc'>Fox</span>, empowered Earl Temple -to declare that he would consider everyone who supported the -measure as personally his enemy. The Bill was consequently -lost on the second reading by a majority of eighty-seven against -twenty-nine. The Coalition Ministry resigned, and <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, then -in his 23rd year, became Prime Minister.]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f159'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r159'>159</a>. [<span class='sc'>John Nicholls</span>, M.P. for Tregony, was blind of one eye, -and altogether remarkably ugly. His delivery was ungraceful, -and his action generally much too vehement. He wrote <cite>Recollections -and Reflections during the Reign of George III.</cite>, 2 vols. 8vo., -1822. His hostile pamphlet on the <cite>Income Tax</cite> is marked by -great ability.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f160'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r160'>160</a>. [On the 14th April, 1794, <span class='sc'>Thelwall</span> was in the chair at a -supper of one of the Divisions of the Reformers, and blowing -off the head of a pot of porter said, “This is the way I would -have all kings served”.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f161'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r161'>161</a>. [<span class='sc'>John Horne Tooke</span> was educated for the Church, and in -1760 became vicar of <em>New Brentford</em>. Resigning this he studied -the Law, but being a clergyman was refused admission to the -Bar. At first he supported <span class='sc'>Pitt</span>, then a <em>promising</em> Reformer, -publishing in 1788 his “Two Pair of Portraits,” disadvantageously -contrasting <span class='sc'>Fox</span> and his father with Pitt and his -father. But Pitt not fulfilling his hopes, he became his bitter -opponent and softened his animosity towards <span class='sc'>Fox</span>. In 1775 he -was imprisoned for a libel on the king’s troops in America. In -1790 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Westminster; the -other candidates being <span class='sc'>Fox</span> and Admiral Sir Alan Gardner. In -1794 he was tried, in company with <span class='sc'>Thelwall</span> and others, for -high treason, when all were acquitted. In 1796 he again stood -for Westminster, and failed; but in 1801 he obtained a seat in -Parliament for Old Sarum, on the nomination of Lord Camelford. -A remarkable memoir of him was contributed to the -<cite>Quarterly Review</cite>, vol. 7, by Lord Dudley, Secretary for Foreign -Affairs in Canning’s administration, 1827–8.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c053'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>HOR. LIB. III., CARM. XXV.</div> - <div class='line in12'>DITHYRAMBUS.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f162' /><a href='#r162' class='c024'><sup>[162]</sup></a>Quo me, Bacche, rapis, tui</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Plenum? quæ nemora, aut quos agor in specus,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Velox mente novâ?</span></div> - <div class='line in23'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f163' /><a href='#r163' class='c024'><sup>[163]</sup></a>Quibus</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Antris egregii Cæsaris audiar</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Eternum meditans decus</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Stellis inserere, et consilio Jovis?</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class='footnote' id='f164'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r164'>164</a>. </p> -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dicam insigne, recens, adhuc</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Indictum ore alio.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f165'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r165'>165</a>. </p> -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Non secus in jugis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Exsomnis stupet Evias,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Hebrum prospiciens.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f166'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r166'>166</a>. </p> -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">et nive candidam</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Thracen, ac <em>pede barbaro</em></span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><em>Lustratam Rhodopen</em>.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f167'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r167'>167</a>. There appears to have been some little mistake in the -Translator here—<em>Rhodope</em> is not, as he seems to imagine, the -name of a woman, but of a mountain, and not in <em>Russia</em>. Possibly, -however, the Translator may have been misled by the -inaccuracy of the traveller here alluded to.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f168'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r168'>168</a>. </p> -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ut mihi devio</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Rupes, et vacuum nemus</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mirari libet!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c053'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f169' /><a href='#r169' class='c024'><sup>[169]</sup></a>O Naiadum potens</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Baccharumque valentium</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Proceras manibus vertere fraxinos.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f170' /><a href='#r170' class='c024'><sup>[170]</sup></a>Nil parvum, aut humili modo,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Nil mortale loquar. Dulce periculum est,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">O Lenæe, sequi deum</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Cingentem viridi tempora pampino.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class='footnote' id='f171'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r171'>171</a>. [This clever parody has reference to the attempt made by -the <span class='sc'>Duke of Northumberland</span> to evade payment of <span class='sc'>Pitt’s</span> -Income-tax. To mitigate the severity of the pressure on -persons with large families, a deduction of ten per cent. was -allowed to persons who had above a certain number of -children. Among others the Duke was not ashamed to avail -himself of this clause.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f172'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r172'>172</a>. [See Note at p. <a href='#Page_84'>84</a> in “<cite>A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox</cite>,” line -18.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f173'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r173'>173</a>. [<span class='sc'>Sir Hugh Smithson</span> married Lady Eliz. Seymour, great-granddaughter -of Joceline, eleventh Earl of Northumberland, -who was the last of the male Percies. He was created <span class='sc'>Duke -of Northumberland</span> in 1766. The hero of this Ballad was his -son, who died in 1817.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f174'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r174'>174</a>. The ceremony of invocation (in didactic poems especially) -is in some measure analogous to the custom of drinking toasts; -the corporeal representatives of which are always supposed to -be absent, and unconscious of the irrigation bestowed upon -their names. Hence it is, that our Author addresses himself to -the natives of an island who are not likely to hear, and who, -if they did, would not understand him.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f175'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r175'>175</a>. His Majesty’s ship <em>Endeavour</em>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f176'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r176'>176</a>. In justice to our Author we must observe, that there is a -delicacy in this picture, which the words, in their common -acceptation, do not convey. The amours of an English shepherd -would probably be preparatory to marriage (which is contrary -to our Author’s principles), or they might disgust us by -the vulgarity of their object. But in Otaheite, where the -place of a shepherd is a perfect sinecure (there being no sheep -on the island), the mind of the reader is not offended by any -disagreeable allusion.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f177'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r177'>177</a>. Laws made by parliaments or kings.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f178'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r178'>178</a>. Customs voted or imposed by ditto, not the customs here -alluded to.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f179'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r179'>179</a>. M. Bailly and other astronomers have observed, that in -consequence of the varying obliquity of the Ecliptic, the -climates of the circumpolar and tropical climates may, in process -of time, be materially changed. Perhaps it is not very -likely that even by these means Britain may ever become a -small island in the South Seas. But this is not the meaning -of the verse—the similarity here proposed relates to manners, -not to local situation.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f180'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r180'>180</a>. The word <em>one</em> here, means all the inhabitants of Europe -(excepting the French, who have remedied this inconvenience), -not any particular individual. The Author begs leave to disclaim -every allusion that can be construed as personal.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f181'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r181'>181</a>. As a stream—simile of dissimilitude, a mode of illustration -familiar to the ancients.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f182'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r182'>182</a>. Walks of polished life, see “Kensington Gardens,” a poem.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f183'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r183'>183</a>. Germania—Germany; a country in Europe, peopled by -the Germani: alluded to in Cæsar’s Commentaries, page 1, vol. -ii. edit. prin. See also several Didactic Poems.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f184'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r184'>184</a>. A beautiful figure of German literature. The Hottentots -remarkable for staring at each other—God knows why.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f185'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r185'>185</a>. This delightful and instructive picture of domestic life is -recommended to all keepers of boarding-schools, and other -seminaries of the same nature.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f186'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r186'>186</a>. It is a singular quality of brandied cherries that they -exchange their flavour for that of the liquor in which they are -immersed.—See Knight’s <cite>Progress of Civil Society</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f187'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r187'>187</a>. This division of the word is in the true spirit of the English -as well as the ancient Sapphic. See the “Counter-Scuffle,” -“Counter-Rat,” and other poems in this style.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f188'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r188'>188</a>. [The Rev. Gilbert Wakefield wrote several pamphlets against government, -of which no notice was taken, until his Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff appeared, -when the Attorney-General instituted a prosecution against him. He was found -guilty and imprisoned; during which imprisonment a subscription of £3000 among -his friends supported his wife and family very comfortably.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f189'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r189'>189</a>. [John Gale Jones was an active political agitator for many years. In 1810, -he was the conductor of the debating club, denominated the “British Forum,” -which at one of its meetings discussed the propriety of the exclusion of strangers -from the House of Commons during the debates on the Walcheren Expedition. -For his observations the House, disregarding his apology, committed him to -Newgate.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f190'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r190'>190</a>. [“John Thelwall left his shop (that of a silk mercer) to be one of the Reformers -of the age. After his acquittal he went about the country lecturing. -Sometimes he was attended by numerous admirers, but more frequently hooted -and pelted by the mob. In order to escape prosecution for sedition, he took as -his subject Greek and Roman history, and had ingenuity enough to give such a -colouring to events and characters, as to render the application to living persons -and present events an exciting mental exercise. I heard one or two of these -lectures, and thought very differently of him then from what I thought afterwards. -When, however, he found his popularity on the wane, and more stringent -laws had been passed, to which he individually gave occasion, he came to -the prudent resolution of abandoning his vagrant habits, and leading a farmer’s -life in a beautiful place near Brecon.... He was an amiable man in private -life, an affectionate husband, and a fond father. He altogether mistook his -talents—he told me without reserve that he believed he should establish his -name among the epic poets of England; and it is a curious thing considering -his own view’s that he thought the establishment of Christianity, and the British -Constitution, very appropriate subjects for his poem.... <span class='sc'>Thelwall</span>, unlike -Hardy, had the weakness of vanity; but he was a perfectly honest man, and -had a power of declamation which qualified him to be a mob orator. He used -to say that if he were at the gallows with liberty to address the people for half-an-hour, -he should not fear the result; he was sure he could excite them to a -rescue. I became acquainted with him soon after his acquittal, and never ceased -to respect him for his sincerity, though I did not think highly of his understanding.”—<cite>Crabb -Robinson’s Diary</cite>, 1790 and 1799.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f191'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r191'>191</a>. [These “Gagging Bills,” of 1796, required that notice should be given to -the magistrate of any public meeting to be held on political subjects; he was -authorized to be present, and empowered to seize those guilty of sedition on the -spot; and a second offence against the act was punishable with transportation. -So exasperated were the Opposition with this measure that Fox and a large -part of the minority withdrew altogether for a considerable time from the -House.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f192'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r192'>192</a>. There is a doubt, whether this word should not have been -written <em>liar</em>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f193'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r193'>193</a>. These words, of <em>conviction</em> and <em>hanging</em>, have so ominous a -sound, it is rather odd they were chosen.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f194'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r194'>194</a>. [The hero of the above song was Charles Howard, eleventh Duke of Norfolk, -who both as a member of the House of Commons (while Earl of Surrey), -and afterwards as a peer, was one of <span class='sc'>Fox’s</span> most strenuous supporters. <span class='sc'>Sir -N. Wraxall</span> thus describes him: “Nature, which cast him in her coarsest -mould, had not bestowed on him any of the external insignia of high descent. -His person, large, muscular, and clumsy, was destitute of grace or dignity, -though he possessed much activity. At a time when men of every description -wore hair-powder and a queue, he had the courage to cut his hair short, and to -renounce powder, which he never used except when going to court. In his -youth he led a most licentious life, having frequently passed the whole night in -excesses of every kind, and even lain down, when intoxicated, occasionally to -sleep in the streets, or on a block of wood. In cleanliness he was negligent to -so great a degree that he rarely made use of water for the purpose of bodily refreshment -and comfort.” Complaining one day to Dudley North that he was a -martyr to the rheumatism, and had ineffectually tried every remedy for its -relief, “Pray, my lord,” said he, “did you ever try a clean shirt?” It must not -be forgotten, however, that he was a munificent patron of literature, for he -defrayed the entire expense of printing Taylor’s Translation of Plato, 5 vols. -4to.; Dallaway’s History of Sussex, 2 vols. 4to.; and Duncumb’s History of Herefordshire, -2 vols. The initials B. O. B. refer to <em>Mr.</em> (afterwards <em>Sir Robert</em>) <em>Adair</em>, -who is often alluded to in these pages.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f195'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r195'>195</a>. [These observations are directed against Godwin’s work -on “Political Justice,” which, on its first appearance, excited -extraordinary attention. His aim was to represent the whole -system of society as radically and essentially wrong, and to -extirpate all those principles which uphold its present constitution. -The existence of the Deity is spoken of as an hypothesis, -and the ethics are worthy of the religion. <span class='sc'>Holcroft</span> reviewed -it in the “Monthly Review,” but was doubtful whether to -praise or blame it.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c007'>[“I noticed (says <span class='sc'>Crabb Robinson</span> in 1811) the infinite -superiority of <span class='sc'>Godwin</span> over the French writers in moral feeling -and tendency. I had learned to hate Helvetius and Mirabeau, -and yet retained my love for <span class='sc'>Godwin</span>. This was agreed -to as a just sentiment.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f196'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r196'>196</a>. [Written in ridicule of Dr. <span class='sc'>Darwin’s</span> <cite>Loves of the Plants</cite>.]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f197'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r197'>197</a>. Ver. 1–4. Imitated from the introductory couplet to the -<cite>Economy of Vegetation</cite>:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Stay your rude steps, whose throbbing breasts infold</div> - <div class='line'>The legion fiends of glory and of gold”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>This sentiment is here expanded into four lines.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f198'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r198'>198</a>. Ver. 6. <em>Definition</em>—A distinct notion explaining the genesis -of a thing.—<em>Wolfius.</em></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f199'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r199'>199</a>. Ver. 7. <em>Postulate</em>—A self-evident proposition.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f200'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r200'>200</a>. Ver. 8. <em>Axiom</em>—An indemonstrable truth.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f201'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r201'>201</a>. Ver. 9. <em>Tangents</em>—So called from touching, because they -touch circles, and never cut them.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f202'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r202'>202</a>. Ver. 10. <em>Circles</em>—See Chambers’s Dictionary, article “Circle”.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f203'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r203'>203</a>. Ver. 10. <em>Osculation</em>—For the <em>osculation</em>, or kissing of circles -and other curves, see Huygens, who has veiled this delicate -and inflammatory subject in the decent obscurity of a learned -language.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f204'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r204'>204</a>. Ver. 11. <em>Cissois</em>—A curve supposed to resemble the sprig of -ivy, from which it has its name, and therefore peculiarly -adapted to poetry.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f205'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r205'>205</a>. Ver. 12. <em>Conchois</em>, or <em>Conchylis</em>—A most beautiful and picturesque curve; it bears a fanciful resemblance to a <em>conch</em> shell. -The conchois is capable of infinite extension, and presents a -striking analogy between the animal and mathematical creation—every -individual of this species containing within itself a -series of <em>young</em> conchoids for several generations, in the same -manner as the Aphides and other insect tribes are observed to do.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f206'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r206'>206</a>. Ver. 15. <em>Hydrostatics</em>—Water has been supposed, by several -of our philosophers, to be capable of the passion of love. Some -later experiments appear to favour this idea. Water, when -pressed by a moderate degree of heat, has been observed to -simper, or simmer, as it is more usually called. The same does -not hold true of any other element.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f207'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r207'>207</a>. Ver. 17. <em>Acoustics</em>—The doctrine or theory of sound.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f208'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r208'>208</a>. Ver. 18. <em>Euclid and Algebra</em>—The loves and nuptials of these -two interesting personages, forming a considerable episode in -the third canto, are purposely omitted here.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f209'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r209'>209</a>. Ver. 19. <em>Pulley</em>—So called from our Saxon word to <span class='fss'>PULL</span>, -signifying to pull or draw.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f210'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r210'>210</a>. Ver. 23. <em>Fair sylphish forms</em>—<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Vide</span></i> modern prints of nymphs -and shepherds dancing to nothing at all.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f211'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r211'>211</a>. Ver. 27. <em>Such rich confusion</em>—Imitated from the following -genteel and sprightly lines in the first canto of the “Loves of -the Plants”:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“So bright its folding canopy withdrawn,</div> - <div class='line'>Glides the gilt landau o’er the velvet lawn,</div> - <div class='line'>Of beaux and belles displays the glittering throng,</div> - <div class='line'>And soft airs fan them as they glide along”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f212'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r212'>212</a>. Ver. 38. <em>Angle</em>—<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Gratus puellæ risus ab Angulo.</span>—<em>Hor.</em></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f213'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r213'>213</a>. Ver. 39. <em>How slow progressive Points</em>—The Author has reserved -the picturesque imagery which the <em>theory of fluxions</em> naturally -suggested for his “Algebraic Garden,” where the <em>fluents</em> are -described as rolling with an even current between a margin of -<em>curves</em> of the higher order over a pebbly channel, inlaid with -<em>differential calculi</em>.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In the following six lines he has confined himself to a strict -explanation of the theory, according to which lines are supposed -to be generated by the motion of points, planes by the lateral -motion of lines, and solids from planes, by a similar process.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Quære</em>—Whether a practical application of this theory would -not enable us to account for the genesis or original formation of -space itself, in the same manner in which Dr. Darwin has -traced the whole of the organized creation to his six filaments—Vide -<cite>Zoonomia</cite>. We may conceive the whole of our present -universe to have been originally concentred in a single point; -we may conceive this primeval point, or <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">punctum saliens</span></i> of the -universe, evolving itself by its own energies, to have moved -forward in a right line, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ad infinitum</span></i>, till it grew tired; after -which the right line which it had generated would begin to put -itself in motion in a lateral direction, describing an area of -infinite extent. This area, as soon as it became conscious of -its own existence, would begin to ascend or descend, according -as its specific gravity might determine it, forming an immense -solid space filled with vacuum, and capable of containing the -present existing universe.</p> - -<p class='c007'>Space being thus obtained, and presenting a suitable nidus, -or receptacle for the generation of chaotic matter, an immense -deposit of it would gradually be accumulated; after which, the -filament of <em>fire</em> being produced in the chaotic mass by an <em>idiosyncrasy</em>, -or self-formed habit, analogous to fermentation, <em>explosion</em> -would take place; <em>suns</em> would be shot from the central -chaos; <em>planets</em> from <em>suns</em>; and <em>satellites</em> from <em>planets</em>. In this -state of things the filament of <em>organization</em> would begin to exert -itself in those independent masses which, in proportion to their -bulk, exposed the greatest surface to the action of <em>light</em> and <em>heat</em>. -This filament, after an infinite series of ages, would begin to -<em>ramify</em>, and its viviparous offspring would diversify their forms -and habits, so as to accommodate themselves to the various -<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">incunabula</span></i> which Nature had prepared for them. Upon this -view of things it seems highly probable that the first effort of -Nature terminated in the production of vegetables, and that -these, being abandoned to their own <em>energies</em>, by degrees -detached themselves from the surface of the earth, and supplied -themselves with wings or feet, according as their different propensities -determined them in favour of aerial and terrestrial -existence. Others, by an inherent disposition to society and -civilization, and by a stronger effort of <em>volition</em>, would become -men. These, in time, would restrict themselves to the use of -their <em>hind feet</em>; their <em>tails</em> would gradually rub off by sitting -in their caves or huts, as soon as they arrived at a domesticated -state; they would invent <em>language</em> and the use of <em>fire</em>, -with our present and hitherto imperfect system of <em>society</em>. -In the meanwhile, the <em>Fuci</em> and <em>Algæ</em>, with the <em>Corallines</em> -and <em>Madrepores</em>, would transform themselves into <em>fish</em>, and -would gradually populate all the submarine portion of the -globe.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f214'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r214'>214</a>. Ver. 46. <em>Trochais</em>—The Nymph of the Wheel, supposed to be -in love with Smoke-Jack.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f215'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r215'>215</a>. Ver. 56. <em>The conscious fire</em>—The sylphs and genii of the -different elements have a variety of innocent occupations -assigned them; those of fire are supposed to divert themselves -with writing <i><span lang="de" xml:lang="de">Kunkel</span></i> in phosphorus.—See <cite>Economy of Vegetation</cite>:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Or mark, with shining letters, Kunkel’s name</div> - <div class='line'>In the pale <em>phosphor’s</em> self-consuming flame”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f216'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r216'>216</a>. Ver. 68. <em>Listening ears</em>—Listening, and therefore peculiarly -suited to a pair of diamond ear-rings. See the description of -Nebuchadnezzar in his transformed state—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Nor flattery’s self can pierce his <em>pendent ears</em>”.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c023'>In poetical diction, a person is said to “<em>breathe the</em> <span class='fss'>BLUE</span> <em>air</em>,” -and to “<em>drink the</em> <span class='fss'>HOARSE</span> <em>wave</em>!”—not that the colour of the -sky or the noise of the water has any reference to drinking or -breathing, but because the poet obtains the advantage of thus -describing his subject under a <em>double relation</em>, in the same -manner in which material objects present themselves to our -different senses at the same time.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f217'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r217'>217</a>. Ver. 73. <em>Cock-tailed mice</em>—Coctilibus Muris. <em>Ovid.</em>—There -is reason to believe that the <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">murine</span></i>, or <em>mouse</em> species, were -anciently much more numerous than at the present day. It -appears from the sequel of the line, that Semiramis surrounded -the city of Babylon with a number of these animals.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dicitur altam</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Coctilibus Muris cinxisse Semiramis urbem.</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>It is not easy at present to form any conjecture with respect -to the end, whether of ornament or defence, which they could -be supposed to answer. I should be inclined to believe, that in -this instance the mice were dead, and that so vast a collection -of them must have been furnished by way of tribute, to free the -country from these destructive animals. This superabundance -of the <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">murine</span></i> race must have been owing to their immense -fecundity, and to the comparatively tardy reproduction of the -<em>feline</em> species. The traces of this disproportion are to be found -in the early history of every country.—The ancient laws of -Wales estimate a cat at the price of as much corn as would be -sufficient to cover her, if she were suspended by the tail with -her fore-feet touching the ground.—See Howel Dha.—In Germany, -it is recorded that an army of rats, a larger animal of the -mus tribe, was employed as the ministers of divine vengeance -against a feudal tyrant; and the commercial legend of our own -Whittington might probably be traced to an equally authentic -origin.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f218'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r218'>218</a>. Ver. 76. <em>Rectangle</em>—“A figure which has one angle, or more, -of ninety degrees”. <cite>Johnson’s Dictionary.</cite>—It here means a right-angled -triangle, which is therefore incapable of having more -than one angle of ninety degrees, but which may, according to -our author’s <cite>Prosopopœia</cite>, be supposed to be in love with three, -or any greater number of nymphs.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f219'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r219'>219</a>. Ver. 80. <em>Plato’s and Menecmus’ lore</em>—Proclus attributes the -discovery of the conic sections to Plato, but obscurely. Eratosthenes -seems to adjudge it to Menecmus. “<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Neque Menecmeos -necesse erit in cono secare ternarios.</span></i>” (Vide <cite>Montucla</cite>.) From -Greece they were carried to Alexandria, where (according to -our author’s beautiful fiction) <em>Rectangle</em> either did or might -learn magic.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f220'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r220'>220</a>. Ver. 86. <em>Zatanai</em>—Supposed to be the same with Satan.—Vide -the <cite>New Arabian Nights</cite>, translated by Cazotte, author of -“<cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le Diable amoureux</span></cite>”.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f221'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r221'>221</a>. Ver. 87. <em>Gins</em>—the Eastern name for Genii.—Vide <cite>Tales of -ditto</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f222'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r222'>222</a>. Ver. 87. <em>Dom-Daniel</em>—a submarine palace near Tunis, where -Zatanai usually held his court.—Vide <cite>New Arabian Nights</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f223'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r223'>223</a>. Ver. 88. <em>Sulphur</em>—A substance which, when cold, reflects -the yellow rays, and is therefore said to be yellow. When -raised to a temperature at which it <em>attracts oxygene</em> (a process -usually called <em>burning</em>), it emits a blue flame. This may be -beautifully exemplified, and at a moderate expense, by igniting -those <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">fasciculi</span></i> of brimstone <em>matches</em>, frequently sold (so frequently, -indeed, as to form one of the London cries) by women -of an advanced age, in this metropolis. They will be found to -yield an <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">azure</span></i>, or blue light.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f224'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r224'>224</a>. Ver. 90. <em>Caf</em>—the Indian <em>Caucasus</em>.—Vide <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Bailly’s Lettres sur -l’Atlantide</span></cite>, in which he proves that this was the native country -of Gog and Magog (now resident in Guildhall), as well as of the -Peris, or fairies, of the Asiatic romances.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f225'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r225'>225</a>. Ver. 91. <em>Judæa’s fabled king</em>—Mr. <span class='sc'>Higgins</span> does not mean to -deny that Solomon was really king of Judæa. The epithet -<em>fabled</em> applies to that empire over the Genii, which the retrospective -generosity of the Arabian fabulists has bestowed upon -this monarch.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f226'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r226'>226</a>. Ver. 96. <em>Young volcanoes</em>—The genesis of burning mountains -was never, till lately, well explained. Those with which we are -best acquainted are certainly not viviparous; it is therefore -probable, that there exists, in the centre of the earth, a considerable -reservoir of their eggs, which, during the obstetrical -convulsions of general earthquakes, produce new volcanoes.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f227'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r227'>227</a>. Ver. 100. <em>Far-extended heel</em>—The personification of <em>Rectangle</em>, -besides answering a poetical purpose, was necessary to illustrate -Mr. <span class='sc'>Higgins’s</span> philosophical opinions. The ancient -mathematicians conceived that a cone was generated by the -revolution of a triangle; but this, as our author justly observes, -would be impossible, without supposing in the triangle that -<em>expansive <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">nisus</span></em>, discovered by Blumenbach, and improved by -Darwin, which is peculiar to animated matter, and which alone -explains the whole mystery of organization. Our enchanter sits -on the ground, with his heels stretched out, his head erect, his -wand (or <em>hypothenuse</em>) resting on the extremities of his feet and -the tip of his nose (as is finely expressed in the engraving in the -original work), and revolves upon his bottom with great velocity. -His skin, by magical means, has acquired an indefinite power of -expansion, as well as that of assimilating to itself all the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">azote</span></i> -of the air, which he decomposes by expiration from his lungs—an -immense quantity, and which, in our present unimproved -and uneconomical mode of breathing, is quite thrown away. -By this simple process the transformation is very naturally -accounted for.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f228'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r228'>228</a>. Ver. 104. <em>Phœnician Cone</em>—It was under this shape that -Venus was worshipped in Phœnicia. Mr. <span class='sc'>Higgins</span> thinks it -was the <em>Venus Urania</em>, or Celestial Venus; in allusion to which, -the Phœnician grocers first introduced the practice of preserving -sugar-loaves in blue or sky-coloured paper—he also believes -that the <em>conical</em> form of the original grenadier’s cap was typical -of the loves of Mars and Venus.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f229'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r229'>229</a>. Ver. 107. <em>Parabola</em>—The curve described by projectiles of -all sorts, as bombs, shuttlecocks, &c.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f230'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r230'>230</a>. Ver. 115. Hyperbola—Not figuratively speaking, as in rhetoric, -but mathematically; and therefore blue-eyed.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f231'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r231'>231</a>. Ver. 122. <em>Asymptotes</em>—“Lines, which though they may approach -still nearer together till they are nearer than the least -assignable distance, yet being still produced infinitely, will never -meet”.—<cite>Johnson’s Dictionary.</cite></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f232'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r232'>232</a>. Ver. 124. <em>Ellipsis</em>—A curve, the revolution of which on its -axis produces an ellipsoid, or solid resembling the eggs of birds, -particularly those of the gallinaceous tribe. <em>Ellipsis</em> is the only -curve that embraces the cone.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f233'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r233'>233</a>. [“Romantic Ashbourn.” The road down Ashbourn Hill -winds in front of Ashbourn Hall, then the residence of the Rev. -Mr. Leigh, who married a relation of <span class='sc'>Canning’s</span>, and to whom -the latter was a frequent visitor. A clever parodical application -of this couplet was made by <span class='sc'>O’Connell</span> to <span class='sc'>Lord Stanley’s</span> section -of a party of six, who wished to hold the balance of power, -during <span class='sc'>Peel’s</span> short administration in 1835. He altered it to -“The Derby Dilly,” carrying <em>six</em> insides.—See the Greville -Memoirs, vol. 3, pp. 236, &c.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f234'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r234'>234</a>. [Thus sings Dr. Darwin of the Loves of the Plants:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“<em>Two</em> brother swains, of Collins’ gentle name,</div> - <div class='line'>The same their features, and their forms the same,</div> - <div class='line'>With rival love for fair Collinia sigh,</div> - <div class='line'>Knit the dark brow, and roll the unsteady eye.</div> - <div class='line'>With sweet concern the pitying beauty mourns,</div> - <div class='line'>And soothes with smiles the jealous pair by turns.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Woo’d with long care, Curcuma, cold and shy,</div> - <div class='line'>Meets her fond husband with averted eye.</div> - <div class='line'><em>Four</em> beardless youths the obdurate beauty move</div> - <div class='line'>With soft attentions of Platonic love.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f235'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r235'>235</a>. [<span class='sc'>Brissot</span> was one of the first movers in the outbreak of the -French Revolution, and with twenty other Girondists suffered -death under the guillotine, October 30, 1793. He was one of -the most virtuous as well as most accomplished <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">littérateurs</span></i> of -the time.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f236'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r236'>236</a>. Such was the end of these worthies. They were found -starved to death in a cave in Languedoc. Vide <cite>Barrère’s Rep.</cite></p> - -<p class='c007'>[<span class='sc'>Charles Barbaroux</span> was one of the most distinguished and -energetic of the Girondists. As he opposed the party of Marat -and Robespierre, he was, in 1793, proscribed as a Royalist and -an enemy of the Republic. He wandered about the country, -hiding himself as he best could for thirteen months, when he -was taken, and perished by the guillotine, June 25, 1794.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c007'>[<span class='sc'>Jérome Pétion de Villeneuve</span> was a prominent member -of the Jacobin Club, and a great ally of Robespierre. Being -elected <span class='sc'>Maire de Paris</span> in Bailly’s stead, he encouraged the -demonstrations of the lowest classes, and the arming of the -populace. He then joined the Girondists. On their defeat by -the army of the Convention, he fled in July, 1793, into Bretagne. -A short time after the corpses of himself and Buzot were found -in a corn-field near St. Emilion, partly devoured by wolves. -They were supposed to have died by their own hands. He was -extremely virtuous in all his domestic relations; but his public -career shows him to have been weak, shallow, ostentatious, and -vain.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f237'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r237'>237</a>. See <span class='sc'>Louvet</span>’s <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Récit de mes Périls</span></cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f238'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r238'>238</a>. This philosophic coxcomb is the idol of those who admire -the French Revolution <em>up to a certain point</em>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f239'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r239'>239</a>. This little anecdote is not generally known.—It is strikingly -pathetic.—<span class='sc'>Garat</span> has recorded this circumstance in a very -eloquent sentence—“O toi, qui arrêtas la main avec laquelle tu -traçais le progrès de l’esprit humain, pour porter sur tes lèvres -le breuvage mortel, d’autres pensées et d’autres sentimens out -incliné ta volonté vers le tombeau, dans ta dernière délibération.—(<span class='sc'>Garat</span>, -it seems, did not choose to poison <em>himself</em>.)—Tu -as rendu à la liberté éternelle ton âme Républicaine par ce -poison qui avait été partagé entre nous comme le pain entre des -frères.”</p> - -<p class='c007'>“Oh you, who stayed the hand with which you were tracing -the progress of the human mind, to carry the mortal mixture -to your lips—it was by other thoughts and other sentiments -that your judgment was at length determined in that last deliberated -act. You restored your republican spirit to an eternal -freedom, by that poison which we had shared together, like a -morsel of bread between two brothers.”</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f240'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r240'>240</a>. <em>Isosceles</em>—An equi-crural triangle—It is represented as a -<em>Giant</em>, because Mr. <span class='sc'>Higgins</span> says he has observed that procerity -is much promoted by the equal length of the legs, more -especially when they are long legs.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f241'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r241'>241</a>. <em>Mathesis</em>—The doctrine of mathematics—Pope calls her -<em>mad Mathesis</em>.—Vide <cite>Johnson’s Dictionary</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f242'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r242'>242</a>. <em>Hallucinating</em>—The disorder with which Mathesis is affected -is a disease of <em>increased volition</em>, called <em>erotomania</em>, or <em>sentimental -love</em>. It is the fourth species of the second genus of the first -order and third class; in consequence of which, Mr. Hackman -shot Miss Reay in the lobby of the playhouse.—Vide <cite>Zoonomia</cite>, -vol. ii., pp. 363, 365.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f243'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r243'>243</a>. <em>Galvanic fires</em>—Dr. Galvani is a celebrated philosopher at -Turin. He has proved that the electric fluid is the proximate -cause of nervous sensibility; and Mr. <span class='sc'>Higgins</span> is of opinion -that by means of this discovery, the sphere of our disagreeable -sensations may be, in future, considerably enlarged. “Since -dead frogs (says he) are awakened by this fluid to such a degree -of posthumous sensibility as to jump out of the glass in which -they are placed, why not men, who are sometimes so much more -sensible when alive? And if so, why not employ this new -stimulus to deter mankind from dying (which they so pertinaciously -continue to do) of various old-fashioned diseases, notwithstanding -all the brilliant discoveries of modern philosophy, -and the example of Count Cagliostro?”</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f244'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r244'>244</a>. <em>Internal Angles</em>, <em>&c.</em>—This is an exact versification of -Euclid’s fifth theorem.—Vide <cite>Euclid in loco</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f245'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r245'>245</a>. <em>Asses-Bridge</em>—Pons Asinorum—The name usually given to -the before-mentioned theorem—though, as Mr. Higgins thinks, -absurdly. He says, that having frequently watched companies -of asses during their passage of a bridge, he never discovered in -them any symptoms of geometrical instinct upon the occasion. -But he thinks that with Spanish asses, which are much larger -(vide <cite>Townsend’s Travels through Spain</cite>), the case may possibly be -different.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f246'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r246'>246</a>. <em>Fare</em>—A person, or a number of persons, conveyed in a -hired vehicle by land or water.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f247'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r247'>247</a>. <em>Badged boatman</em>—Boatmen sometimes wear a <em>badge</em>, to -distinguish them, especially those who belong to the Watermen’s -Company.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f248'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r248'>248</a>. <em>Alp</em>, or <em>Alps</em>—A ridge of mountains which separate the -North of Italy from the South of Germany. They are evidently -primeval and volcanic, consisting of granite, toadstone, and -basalt, and several other substances, containing animal and -vegetable recrements, and affording numberless undoubted -proofs of the infinite antiquity of the earth, and of the consequent -falsehood of the Mosaic chronology.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f249'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r249'>249</a>. <em>Turn the stiff screw</em>, &c.—The harmony and imagery of these -lines are imperfectly imitated from the following exquisite -passage in the <cite>Economy of Vegetation</cite>:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Gnomes, as you now dissect, with hammers fine,</div> - <div class='line'>The granite rock, the noduled flint calcine;</div> - <div class='line'>Grind with strong arm the circling Chertz betwixt,</div> - <div class='line'>Your pure Ka—o—lins and Pe—tunt—ses mixt.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='c015'><cite>Canto</cite> ii. line 297.</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f250'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r250'>250</a>. [<em>The windmill</em>, &c.—This line affords a striking instance of the -sound conveying an echo to the sense. I would defy the most -unfeeling reader to repeat it over without accompanying it by -some corresponding gesture imitative of the action described.—<span class='sc'>Editor.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f251'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r251'>251</a>. <em>Sweet Enthusiast</em>, &c.—A term usually applied in allegoric -or technical poetry to any person or object to which no other -qualifications can be assigned.—<cite>Chambers’s Dictionary.</cite></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f252'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r252'>252</a>. [<span class='sc'>Anne Plumptre</span>, who made herself known as one of the -first introducers of German plays, said: “<em>People are talking -about an Invasion. I am not afraid of an Invasion; I believe the -country would be all the happier if</em> <span class='sc'>Buonaparte</span> <em>were to effect a -landing and overturn the Government. He would destroy the Church -and the Aristocracy, and his government would be better than the -one we have</em>”. Crabb Robinson’s <cite>Diary</cite> (1810), i. 298.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f253'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r253'>253</a>. <em>The smiling infant</em>—Infancy is particularly interested in -the diffusion of the new principles. See the “Bloody Buoy”. -See also the following description and prediction:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Here Time’s huge fingers grasp his giant mace,</div> - <div class='line'>And dash proud Superstition from her base;</div> - <div class='line'>Rend her strong towers and gorgeous fanes, &c.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'> · · · · ·</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>While each light moment, as it passes by,</div> - <div class='line'>With feathery foot and pleasure-twinkling eye,</div> - <div class='line'>Feeds from its baby-hand with many a kiss</div> - <div class='line'>The callow-nestlings of domestic bliss.”—<cite>Botanic Garden.</cite></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f254'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r254'>254</a>. <em>The monster’s back</em>—Le Monstre Pitt, l’ennemi du genre humain. -<cite>See Debates of the legislators of the Great Nation, passim.</cite></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f255'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r255'>255</a>. <span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Atque illud prono præceps agitur decursus.</span>—<cite>Catullus.</cite></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f256'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r256'>256</a>. <span class='sc'>Stone.</span>—Better known by the name of <span class='sc'>Williams</span>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f257'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r257'>257</a>. We decline printing this rhyme at length, from obvious -reasons of delicacy; at the same time that it is so accurate a -translation of <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">pictis puppibus</span></i>, that we know not how to suppress -it, without doing the utmost injustice to the general -spirit of the poem.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f258'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r258'>258</a>. [Jean Bon St. André, deputy to the Convention for the -Department of Lot, during the reign of Terror, rivalled Marat -and Robespierre in cruelty. Having been appointed to remodel -the Republican Navy, he was present at the action of -June 1, 1794, in which he shewed excessive cowardice. He -was afterwards Consul at Smyrna, where he was arrested by -the Turks, but released on the peace. Napoleon subsequently -commissioned him to organise the four departments of the -Rhine, in which he succeeded. He was created a Baron, a -Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and Prefect of Maure. He -died in 1813 of a contagious malady caught while performing -charitable offices for the sick!—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f259'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r259'>259</a>. Henry VI. crowned at Paris.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f260'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r260'>260</a>. The Black Prince.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f261'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r261'>261</a>. The Spanish Armada.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f262'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r262'>262</a>. Oliver Cromwell.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f263'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r263'>263</a>. Louis XIV.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f264'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r264'>264</a>. William III.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f265'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r265'>265</a>. Blenheim, Ramilies, &c., &c.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f266'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r266'>266</a>. American War.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f267'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r267'>267</a>. Lord Heathfield.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f268'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r268'>268</a>. [Parodied from Pope’s Prologue to <cite>Cato</cite>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f269'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r269'>269</a>. See <cite>The Robbers</cite>, a German tragedy [by <span class='sc'>Schiller</span>], in which -robbery is put in so fascinating a light, that the whole of a -German University went upon the highway in consequence of it.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f270'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r270'>270</a>. See <cite>Cabal and Love</cite>, a German tragedy [by <span class='sc'>Schiller</span>], very -severe against prime ministers and reigning Dukes of Brunswick. -This admirable performance very judiciously reprobates -the hire of German troops for the <em>American</em> war in the reign of -Queen Elizabeth, a practice which would undoubtedly have -been highly discreditable to that wise and patriotic princess, -not to say wholly unnecessary—there being no American war -at that particular time.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f271'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r271'>271</a>. See <cite>The Stranger; or, Reformed Housekeeper</cite>, in which the -former of these morals is beautifully illustrated; and <cite>Stella</cite>, a -genteel German comedy [by <span class='sc'>Goethe</span>], which ends with placing -a man <em>bodkin</em> between <em>two wives</em>, like <em>Thames</em> between his <em>two -banks</em> in <cite>The Critic</cite>. Nothing can be more edifying than these -two dramas. I am shocked to hear that there are some people -who think them ridiculous.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f272'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r272'>272</a>. These are the warnings very properly given to readers, to -beware how they judge of what they cannot understand. Thus -if the translation runs, “<em>lightning of my soul, fulgation of angels, -sulphur of hell</em>,” we should recollect that this is not coarse or -strange in the German language when applied by a lover to his -mistress; but the English has nothing precisely parallel to the -original <span class='fixed'>Mulychause Archangelichen</span>, which means rather <em>emanation -of the archangelic nature</em>—or to <span class='fixed'>Smellmynkern Vankelfer</span>, which, -if literally rendered, would signify <em>made of stuff of the same odour -whereof the devil makes flambeaux</em>. See Schüttenbrüch on the -German idiom.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f273'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r273'>273</a>. A manifest error, since it appears from the Waiter’s conversation -(p. <a href='#Page_211'>211</a>) that Rogero was not doomed to starve on water-gruel, -but on pease-soup, which is a much better thing. Possibly -the length of Rogero’s imprisonment had impaired his -memory; or he might wish to make things appear worse than -they really were; which is very natural, I think, in such a case -as this poor unfortunate gentleman’s.—<cite>Printer’s Devil.</cite></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f274'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r274'>274</a>. Vide <cite>The Stranger</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f275'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r275'>275</a>. <cite>Lovers’ Vows.</cite></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f276'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r276'>276</a>. This is an excellent joke in German; the point and spirit -of which is but ill-<em>Rendered</em> in a translation. A <span class='sc'>Noddy</span>, the -reader will observe, has two significations, the one a <em>knave at -All-fours</em>, the other a <em>fool</em> or <em>booby</em>. See the translation by Mr. -Render of <cite>Count Benyowsky, or the Conspiracy of Kamschatka</cite>, a -German Tragi-Comi-Comi-Tragedy, where the play opens with -a scene of a game at chess (from which the whole of this scene -is copied), and a joke of the same point, and merriment about -pawns, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i>, boors being a <em>match</em> for kings.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f277'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r277'>277</a>. This word in the original is strictly <em>fellow-lodgers</em>—“<em>Co-occupants -of the same room, in a house let out at a small rent by the -week</em>”. There is no single word in English which expresses so -complicated a relation, except perhaps the cant term of <em>chum</em>, -formerly in use in our Universities.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f278'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r278'>278</a>. [The above song is a parody on that pathetic one—given -below—written by Sheridan, and introduced into Kotzebue’s -drama of <cite>The Stranger</cite>, to be overheard by the latter. It was -sung by Mrs. Bland—as Annetta—to a melody by the Duchess -of Devonshire, in a manner, it is said, that thrilled every heart.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“I have a silent sorrow here,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A grief I’ll ne’er impart;</div> - <div class='line'>It breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear,</div> - <div class='line in2'>But it consumes my heart.</div> - <div class='line'>This cherish’d woe, this lov’d despair,</div> - <div class='line in2'>My lot for ever be;</div> - <div class='line'>So my soul’s lord, the pangs I bear</div> - <div class='line in2'>Be never known by thee!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“And when pale characters of death</div> - <div class='line in2'>Shall mark this alter’d cheek;</div> - <div class='line'>When my poor wasted trembling breath</div> - <div class='line in2'>My life’s last hope would speak;</div> - <div class='line'>I shall not raise my eyes to heaven,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Nor mercy ask for me,</div> - <div class='line'>My soul despairs to be forgiv’n,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Unpardon’d, love, by thee!”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f279'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r279'>279</a>. See <cite>Count Benyowsky</cite>; where Crustiew, an old gentleman -of much sagacity, talks the following nonsense:</p> - -<p class='c007'>Crustiew [<em>with youthful energy, and an air of secrecy and confidence</em>]. -“To fly, to fly, to the isles of Marian—the island of -Tinian—a terrestrial paradise. Free—free—a mild climate—a -new-created sun—wholesome fruits—harmless inhabitants—and -liberty—tranquillity.”</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f280'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r280'>280</a>. See <cite>Count Benyowsky</cite>, as before.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f281'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r281'>281</a>. See <cite>Count Benyowsky</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f282'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r282'>282</a>. See <cite>Count Benyowsky</cite> again; from which play this and the -preceding references are taken word for word. We acquit the -Germans of such reprobate silly stuff. It must be the translator’s.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f283'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r283'>283</a>. We believe this song to be copied, with a small variation in -metre and meaning, from a song in <cite>Count Benyowsky; or, the -Conspiracy of Kamschatka</cite>, where the conspirators join in a chorus, -<em>for fear of being overheard</em>.</p> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c053'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">AD SIRMIONEM PENINSULAM.</span></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f284' /><a href='#r284' class='c024'><sup>[284]</sup></a>Peninsularum Sirmio, Insularumque,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ocelle! quascunque in liquentibus stagnis,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Marique vasto fert uterque Neptunus;</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f285' /><a href='#r285' class='c024'><sup>[285]</sup></a>Quam te libenter, quamque lætus inviso,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Vix mi ipse credens Thyniam, atque Bithynos</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Liquisse campos,<a id='f286' /><a href='#r286' class='c024'><sup>[286]</sup></a> et videre te in tuto.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f287' /><a href='#r287' class='c024'><sup>[287]</sup></a>O quid solutis est beatius curis</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f288' /><a href='#r288' class='c024'><sup>[288]</sup></a>Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto?</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la"><a id='f289' /><a href='#r289' class='c024'><sup>[289]</sup></a>Salve! O venusta Sirmio! atque hero gaude;</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Gaudete! vosque Lydiæ lacus undæ;</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ridete<a id='f290' /><a href='#r290' class='c024'><sup>[290]</sup></a> quicquid est domi cachinnorum!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class='footnote' id='f291'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r291'>291</a>. [The following <cite>Letter</cite> probably alludes to the <cite>Association for -promoting the Discovery of the interior parts of Africa</cite>, of which Sir -John Sinclair was the presiding genius. “The result of their -labours,” says Hugh Murray, in his Account of African Discoveries, -“has thrown new lustre on the British name, and -widely extended the boundaries of human knowledge.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f292'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r292'>292</a>. [Buonaparte’s Bulletin.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f293'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r293'>293</a>. [<span class='sc'>Sir John Sinclair</span>, the celebrated author of the <cite>History -of the Public Revenue, the Statistical Account of Scotland</cite>, and -many useful agricultural and other works.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f294'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r294'>294</a>. [Dr. Parr’s noted Latin Preface to his edition of <cite><span lang="co" xml:lang="co">Bellendenus -de Statu</span></cite>. T. De Quincey, in his famous dissection of -Dr. Parr and his writings, beseeches the “gentle reader” of -Bellendenus to pronounce the penultimate syllable <em>short</em>, and -<em>not long</em>, as is usually done.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f295'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r295'>295</a>. [<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">I.e.</span></i>, from <span class='sc'>Bob Adair</span>, <em>a dull fool</em>, to <span class='sc'>Nicholl</span> [Nicholls], <em>a -wretched goose</em>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f296'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r296'>296</a>. [Sir Geo. Aug. Wm. Shuckburgh, M.P., F.R.S., author of -papers in the Phil. Trans.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f297'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r297'>297</a>. [Sir John Sinclair.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f298'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r298'>298</a>. [The following are Dr. Darwin’s instructions for the <em>transportation -of Ice Islands</em>:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“There, Nymphs! alight, array your dazzling powers,</div> - <div class='line'>With sudden march alarm the torpid hours;</div> - <div class='line'>On ice-built isles expand a thousand sails,</div> - <div class='line'>Hinge the strong helms, and catch the frozen gales.</div> - <div class='line'>The winged rocks to feverish climates guide,</div> - <div class='line'>Where fainting zephyrs pant upon the tide;</div> - <div class='line'>Pass, where to Ceuta Calpé’s thunder roars,</div> - <div class='line'>And answering echoes shake the kindred shores;</div> - <div class='line'>Pass, where with palmy plumes, Canary smiles,</div> - <div class='line'>And in her silver girdle binds her isles;</div> - <div class='line'>Onward, where Niger’s dusky Naiad laves</div> - <div class='line'>A thousand kingdoms with prolific waves,</div> - <div class='line'>Or leads o’er golden sands her threefold train</div> - <div class='line'>In steamy channels to the fervid main;</div> - <div class='line'>While swarthy nations crowd the sultry coast,</div> - <div class='line'>Drink the fresh breeze, and hail the floating frost:</div> - <div class='line'>Nymphs! veil’d in mist, the melting treasure steer,</div> - <div class='line'>And cool with arctic snows the tropic year.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>“If the nations who inhabit this hemisphere of the globe, instead of destroying -their seamen and exhausting their wealth in unnecessary wars, could -be induced to unite their labours to navigate these immense masses of ice into -the more southern oceans, two great advantages would result to mankind, the -tropic countries would be much cooled by their solution, and our winters in -this altitude would be rendered much milder, for perhaps a century or two, till -the masses of ice became again enormous.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<hr class='c013' /> - -<p class='c007'>[<span class='sc'>Dr. Thomas Beddoes</span>, born at Shiffnal in 1760, was a scientific Physician -far in advance of his age; his <cite>Popular Essay on Consumption</cite>, 1779, his tracts -entitled <cite>Hygeia</cite>, 1801, &c., may still be studied with profit. He paid particular -attention to the medical use of the permanently Elastic Fluids, and avows that -as “one rash experiment on a patient would demolish a plan on which the hope -of relieving mankind from much of their misery is founded,” he made preliminary -experiments on himself in the case of <em>Oxygene</em> and <em>Consumption</em>, as -alluded to in the text, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">À propos</span></i> of the artificial distribution of disease, it may -be mentioned that in <cite>The Batchelor</cite>, p. 189, is a method for “discharging the -Plague”.</p> - -<p class='c007'>He wrote much on the political topics of the day, always taking the liberal -side, and attacking <span class='sc'>Pitt</span> with great virulence and eloquence. The principles of -the French Revolution were at first advocated by him with the utmost -enthusiasm, but he was soon disgusted by the excesses committed. He was a -student of German literature, and much admired by Immanuel Kant. He was -also an intimate friend of Darwin’s, whose political opinions he shared, and -whose works were intrusted to his revision in manuscript. A few months after -the publication of Darwin’s <cite>Botanic Garden</cite>, its magnificent imagery and harmonious -versification inspired some admirers to say that the style of this work -was a style <i><span lang="it" xml:lang="it">sui generis</span></i>, and that it defied imitation. Dr. Beddoes maintained -an opposite opinion. Much as he admired the poem in question, he thought -that the Darwinian structure of verse might be imitated by a writer possessed -of inferior poetical powers, and in a few days he produced in the same circle -part of the manuscript of <cite>Alexander’s Expedition to the Indian Ocean</cite> as an unpublished -work of the author of the <cite>Botanic Garden</cite>. The deception completely -succeeded, and some enthusiastic admirers of the latter work pointed out with -triumph “certain passages as proofs of the position that the author in his happier -efforts defied imitation”. Beddoes’s success was the more extraordinary, as -in the “Introduction” to a considerable extract from his poem which he printed -in the <cite>Annual Anthology</cite> for 1796, he states that he had never before written -twice as many lines of verse as the composition under notice consisted of.</p> - -<p class='c007'>As <span class='sc'>Beddoes’s</span> imitation of <span class='sc'>Darwin</span> is seldom met with, it may not be out of -character in a work of the present nature to give a specimen of it.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>AN IMITATION OF DARWIN.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Now the new Lord of Persia’s wide domain,</div> - <div class='line'>Down fierce Hydaspes seeks the Indian main;</div> - <div class='line'>High on the leading prow the Conqueror stands,</div> - <div class='line'>Eyes purer skies and marks diverging strands.</div> - <div class='line'>A thousand sails attendant catch the wind,</div> - <div class='line'>And yet a thousand press the wave behind;</div> - <div class='line'>Two veteran hosts, outstretched on either hand,</div> - <div class='line'>Wide wave their wings and sweep the trembling land.</div> - <div class='line'>Each serried phalanx Terror stalks beside,</div> - <div class='line'>And shakes o’er crested helms his blazing pride;</div> - <div class='line'>While Victory, still companion of his way,</div> - <div class='line'>Sounds her loud trump and flaunts her banners gay.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>Further on, the Hero’s attention is attracted to the surrounding landscape, -which he thus apostrophizes:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Ye fields for ever fair! Thou mighty stream!</div> - <div class='line'>Bright regions! blessed beyond the muse’s dream!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou fruitful womb of ever-teeming earth!</div> - <div class='line'>Ye fostering skies that rear each beauteous birth!</div> - <div class='line'>Trees, that aloft uprear your stately height,</div> - <div class='line'>Whose sombrous branches shed a noontide night!</div> - <div class='line'>Groves, that for ever wear the smile of spring!</div> - <div class='line'>Gay birds that wave the many-tinted wing!</div> - <div class='line'>Of reptiles, fishes, brutes, stupendous forms!</div> - <div class='line'>And ye, of nameless insects glittering swarms!</div> - <div class='line'>Sons of soft toil, whose shuttle beauty throws,</div> - <div class='line'>Whose tints the Graces’ earnest hands dispose,</div> - <div class='line'>Whose guileless bosom Care avoid and Crime,</div> - <div class='line'>Gay as your groves, and cloudless as your clime!</div> - <div class='line'>Primæval piles, that rose in massive pride,</div> - <div class='line'>Ere Western Art her first faint efforts tried!</div> - <div class='line'>Ye Brachmans old, whom purer æras bore,</div> - <div class='line'>Ere Western Science lisped her infant lore!</div> - <div class='line'>How will your wonders flush the Athenian sage?</div> - <div class='line'>How ray with glory my historic page?”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>In a letter to Hannah More, Horace Walpole says: “The poetry is most admirable; -the similes beautiful, fine, and sometimes sublime; the author is a great -poet, and could raise the passions, and possesses all the requisites of the art.” In -another lively epistle to the Misses Berry (28th April, 1789), he says: “I send -you the most delicious poem upon earth. I can read this Second Part over and -over again for ever; for though it is so excellent, it is impossible to remember -anything so disjointed, except you consider it as a collection of short enchanting -Poems. ‘The Triumph of Flora,’ beginning at the fifty-ninth line, is most -beautifully and enchantingly imagined, and the twelve verses that by miracle -describe and comprehend the creation of the universe out of chaos, are, in my -opinion, the most sublime passage in any author, or in any of the few languages -with which I am acquainted.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> - -<p class='c007'>[Darwin was acquainted with Rousseau. He was a man of great bodily and -intellectual vigour, irascible and imperious, a strong advocate of temperance, and -for many years an almost total abstainer. His professional fame was such that -George III. said he would take him as his physician if he would come to London. -He formed a botanical garden at Lichfield, about which Miss Seward wrote -some verses which suggested his <cite>Botanic Garden</cite>. The <cite>Loves of the Plants</cite> had a -singular success, and was praised in a joint poem by Cowper and Hayley. -It was translated into French, Portuguese, and Italian. Darwin himself is said -by Edgeworth to have admired the parody (<cite>Monthly Magazine</cite>, June and Sept., -1802, p. 115). Coleridge (<cite><span lang="es" xml:lang="es">Biographia Literaria</span></cite>, 1817, p. 19) speaks of the impression -which it made even upon good judges.</p> - -<p class='c007'>In the <cite>Anti-Jacobin Review</cite>, vol. i. (1799), pp. 718–721, appear some Latin verses -[by Ben. Frere] which are thus introduced: “Among the copies of verses which -are annually produced as a public exercise called <span class='sc'>Tripos</span>, at Cambridge, we -have selected the following as a beautiful composition. The subject is Dr. -<span class='sc'>Beddoes’s</span> <cite>Factitious Air applied to the Case of Consumptions</cite>.”—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f299'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r299'>299</a>. [This piece has not hitherto formed a portion of the editions of <cite>The Poetry</cite>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f300'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r300'>300</a>. [This spirited song refers to <span class='sc'>Lord Moira’s</span> motion in the -Irish House of Commons, 19th of February, 1798, for an -address to the Lord Lieutenant, complaining of the excesses -committed by the government authorities, civil and military, -and recommending that conciliatory measures should be devised. -He took occasion to praise the loyalty of his own tenants at -<span class='sc'>Ballynahinch</span>; but, unfortunately for him, shortly after, an -insurrection broke out at this very place, and a large number -of pikes were found secreted by the peasantry in his own woods. -On June 12, General Nugent attacked the rebels, 5000 strong, -commanded by Munro, near Ballynahinch, and routed them -with great slaughter. This victory quelled the rebellion in the -north.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f301'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r301'>301</a>. [The <span class='sc'>Earl of Moira</span> was a gallant soldier, an eloquent -orator, and a sagacious as well as honest statesman. Having -early in life achieved much reputation for skill and courage -during the American War, and afterwards in Flanders, he subsequently -turned his attention to politics, particularly those of -Ireland, his native country, which drew on him repeated -attacks from the Ministerial press. In 1812 he was appointed -Governor-General of India, and created <span class='sc'>Marquis of Hastings</span>. -He was the patron of <span class='sc'>Thomas Moore</span> on his arrival in London. -He died in 1825.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f302'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r302'>302</a>. <cite><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Hibernice pro</span></cite> French.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f303'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r303'>303</a>. [A quite literal translation of this poem would be out of the question. The -fact is, the sentiment is superior to the execution. <span class='sc'>Canning</span> could write much -better if he chose. He might wish to fabricate an ultra-patriotic schoolboy, -and so wrote like one; but it is certain that as a schoolboy he has written far -better things. Either he wrote in a hurry, or cooked up a school exercise; the -introduction looks like it, and the Latin Prose is as prosy as the verse is common-place.—A. -F. W.]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f304'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r304'>304</a>. The Isle of Wight.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f305'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r305'>305</a>. [This valedictory Address, and the portion entitled <span class='sc'>Foreign -Intelligence</span> which follows the Poem, have never hitherto -formed a part of editions of the Poetry.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f306'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r306'>306</a>. We see with some pleasure, that what we anticipated is -beginning to take effect. A <span class='sc'>New Magazine</span> and <span class='sc'>Review</span> is -already advertised, under the same Name which We had -adopted, and professedly on the same Principles. We have no -knowledge of the undertaking, but from report, which speaks -favourably of it; but We heartily wish this, and every work of -a similar kind, a full and happy success.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f307'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r307'>307</a>. Published by <span class='sc'>Hébert</span>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f308'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r308'>308</a>. Published by <span class='sc'>Marat</span>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f309'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r309'>309</a>. See the Remarks on the Treaties of <em>Pilnitz</em> and <em>Pavia</em>, &c.; -on <span class='sc'>Tate’s</span> Manifesto; on Neutral Navigation; on the Treatment -of Prisoners; on the Continuation of the War for a Spice Island, -&c., &c., &c.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f310'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r310'>310</a>. See the motto prefixed to <cite>The Baviad</cite>, a satirical poem, -by W. Gifford, Esq., unquestionably the best of its kind since -the days of Pope:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Nunc in ovilia</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Mox in reluctantes dracones.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f311'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r311'>311</a>. The author of <cite>The Pursuits of Literature</cite>. [Now known -to be T. J. Mathias, editor of various Italian works, and teacher -of Italian to the family of K. George III.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f312'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r312'>312</a>. The Manes of Vercengetorix are supposed to have been -very much gratified by the invasion of Italy and the plunder of -the Roman territory. The defeat of the Burgundians is to be -revenged on the modern inhabitants of Switzerland. But the -Swiss were a free people, defending their liberties against a -tyrant. Moreover, they happened to be in alliance with -France at the time. No matter; <em>Burgundy</em> is since become -a province of France, and the French have acquired a property -in all the injuries and defeats which the people of that country -may have sustained, together with a title to revenge and retaliation -to be exercised in the present or any future centuries, as -may be found most glorious and convenient.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f313'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r313'>313</a>. The speech of <span class='sc'>General Fitzpatrick</span>, on his motion for -an Address of the House of Commons to the Emperor of Germany, -to demand the deliverance of <span class='sc'>M. La Fayette</span> from the -prison of Olmütz, was one of the most dainty pieces of oratory -that ever drew tears from a crowded gallery, and the clerks at -the table. It was really quite moving to hear the General talk -of religion, conjugal fidelity, and “such branches of learning”. -There were a few who laughed indeed, but that was thought -hard-hearted, and immoral, and irreligious, and God knows -what. Crying was the <em>order of the day</em>. Why will not the -<span class='sc'>Opposition</span> try these topics again? <span class='sc'>La Fayette</span> indeed (the -more’s the pity) is out. But why not a motion for a general -gaol-delivery of all state prisoners throughout Europe? [This -was <span class='sc'>Fitzpatrick’s</span> master-speech, and extorted the applauses of -<span class='sc'>Pitt</span> himself, who nevertheless resisted its arguments. <span class='sc'>Burke</span> -said that <span class='sc'>La Fayette</span>, “instead of being termed an ‘illustrious -exile,’ ought always to be considered, as he now was, an outcast -of society; who, having no talents to guide or influence the storm -which he had laboured to raise, fled like a dastard from the bloodshed -and massacre in which he had involved so many thousands -of unoffending persons and families”.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f314'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r314'>314</a>. “Now all the while did not this stony-hearted <span class='fss'>CUR</span> shed one -tear.”—<cite>Merchant of Venice.</cite> [<span class='sc'>John Curwen</span>—member for the -city of Carlisle, from 1786 till 1812. He was a skilful agriculturist, -and his operations may be said to have given a new -character to the business of farming. He died in 1828, aged -73.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f315'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r315'>315</a>. See page <a href='#Page_72'>72</a>, in the note, for a theft more shameless, and -an application of the thing stolen more stupid, than any of -those recorded of Irish story-tellers by Joe Miller.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f316'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r316'>316</a>. See <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Récit de mes Périls</span></cite>, by <span class='sc'>Louvet</span>; <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mémoires d’un Détenu</span></cite>, -by <span class='sc'>Riouffe</span>, &c. The avidity with which these productions -were read, might, we should hope, be accounted for upon -principles of mere curiosity (as we read the <cite>Newgate Calendar</cite>, -and the history of the <cite>Buccaneers</cite>), not from any interest in -favour of a set of wretches infinitely more detestable than all -the robbers and pirates that ever existed.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f317'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r317'>317</a>. Every lover of modern French literature, and admirer of -modern French characters, must remember the rout which was -made about <span class='sc'>Louvet’s</span> death and <span class='sc'>Lodoiska’s</span> poison. The attempt -at self-slaughter, and the process of the recovery, the -arsenic and the castor oil, were served up in daily messes from -the French papers, till the public absolutely sickened.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f318'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r318'>318</a>. <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Faciles Napeæ.</span></cite></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f319'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r319'>319</a>. See Anthologia, <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">passim</span></i>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f320'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r320'>320</a>. Such was the strictness of this minister’s principles, that -he positively refused to go to Court in shoe-buckles. See -Dumouriez’s <cite>Memoirs</cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f321'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r321'>321</a>. See <span class='sc'>Madame Roland’s</span> <cite>Memoirs</cite>.—“<cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Rigide Ministre</span></cite>,” <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Brissot -à ses Commettans</span></cite>.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f322'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r322'>322</a>. The “pumple” nosed attorney of Furnival’s Inn.—“Congreve’s -<cite>Way of the World</cite>.” [... When you liv’d with honest -<em>Pumple Nose</em>, the attorney of Furnival’s Inn. Act 3, sc. 1.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f323'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r323'>323</a>. These lines contain the Secret History of <span class='sc'>Quatremer’s</span> -deportation. He presumed in the Council of Five Hundred -to arraign <span class='sc'>Madame De Stael’s</span> conduct, and even to hint a -doubt of her sex. He was sent to <em>Guyana</em>. The transaction -naturally brings to one’s mind the dialogue between Falstaff -and Hostess Quickly in Shakespeare’s Henry IV.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Fal.</em> Thou art neither fish nor flesh—a man cannot tell where -to have thee.</p> - -<p class='c007'><em>Quick.</em> Thou art an unjust man for saying so—thou or any -man knows where to have me.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f324'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r324'>324</a>. For instance, in the course of a political discussion <span class='sc'>Rewbell</span> -observed to the <span class='sc'>ex-bishop [Talleyrand]</span>, “<em>that his understanding -was as crooked as his legs</em>”—“Vil Emigré, tu n’as pas le -sens plus droit que les pieds”—and therewith threw an ink-stand -at him. It whizzed along, as we have been informed, -like the fragment of a rock from the hand of one of Ossian’s -heroes; but the wily apostate shrunk beneath the table, and -the weapon passed over him innocuous, and guiltless of his -blood or brains.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f325'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r325'>325</a>. See Homer’s description of Vulcan. First Iliad.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Inextinguibilis vero exoriebatur risus beatis numinibus</span></div> - <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ut viderunt Vulcanum per domos <em>ministrantem</em>.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f326'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r326'>326</a>. <em>The Men without a God</em>—one of the new sects. Their religion -is intended to consist in the adoration of a Great Book, -in which all the virtuous actions of the society are to be entered -and registered. “In times of civil commotion they are to come -forward to exhort the citizens to unanimity, and to read them a -chapter out of the Great Book. When oppressed or proscribed, -they are to retire to a burying-ground, to wrap themselves up in -their great-coats, and wait the approach of death,” &c.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f327'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r327'>327</a>. The Reader is at liberty to fill up the blanks according to -his own opinion, and after the chances and changes of the times. -It would be highly unfair to hand down to posterity as followers -of <i><span lang="de" xml:lang="de">Leviathan</span></i>, the names of men who may, and probably will -soon, grow ashamed of their leader.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f328'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r328'>328</a>. </p> -<div class='lg-container-b c008'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Though the <em>yeasty</em> sea</div> - <div class='line'>Consume and swallow navigation up. <cite>Macbeth.</cite></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c007'>[Applied to S. Whitbread, M.P., <em>the Brewer</em>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f329'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r329'>329</a>. <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</span></i> Perhaps <em>a member of the</em> <span class='sc'>Whig Club</span>—a society that has -presumed to monopolize to itself a title to which it never had -any claim, but from the character of those who have now withdrawn -themselves from it. “<em>Perhaps</em>” signifies that <em>even</em> the -<span class='sc'>Whig Club</span> <em>sometimes</em> rejects a candidate whose <span class='fss'>PRINCIPLES</span> -(<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">risum teneatis</span></i>) it affects to disapprove. [Referring to the -secession of the <span class='sc'>Duke of Portland</span> and others from the Whig -Club in consequence of their not approving of all the proceedings -of Fox and his more violent adherents. <span class='sc'>Sheridan</span> met -with so much opposition to his entrance into the Whig Club, -that he succeeded in getting admitted only by stratagem.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f330'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r330'>330</a>. “It is notorious that the <em>French Directory have newspapers in their pay</em>, not -only in America, but in <em>every</em> country in Europe. That there should exist such -<span class='fss'>MERCENARY TRAITORS AS TO RECEIVE THE PAY OF REGICIDES AND ASSASSINS</span> -is still less astonishing than that there should be found men in the different -countries, and <em>men of rank</em>, too, so base, so degenerate, and so <em>foolish</em>, as to give -encouragement to their treasonable productions” (p. <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>). The author speaks -truth; there is at least <em>one</em> newspaper of this description in <em>London</em>, which is -encouraged—to their shame be it spoken!—by <em>men of rank</em>, and by members of -the Legislature—<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Representans du Peuple Souverain!</span></i>—who even degrade themselves -so far as to associate with the profligate miscreants who compose its -inflammatory pages.—<span class='sc'>Reviewer.</span></p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f331'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r331'>331</a>. “See <span class='sc'>Bache</span> of 11 February, 1795.”</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f332'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r332'>332</a>. The reader will not be surprised to hear that this is the identical governor -who wanted a few thousands of dollars from the French minister, <span class='sc'>Fauchet</span>, -and who drew <em>secretly</em> 15,000 dollars out of the Bank of Pennsylvania!! This -man brought a whole litter of <em>bastards</em> home to his virtuous wife. He is a -shameless blackguard, a drunkard, and everything that can be named that is -vile. Such is a <em>republican governor</em>; a chief magistrate of state, who has -infinitely greater powers over life and property than King George has!! And -this I have already pointed out on sundry occasions.</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f333'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r333'>333</a>. [Lord Erskine.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f334'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r334'>334</a>. [T. Moore in his early college days.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f335'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r335'>335</a>. [Francis, fifth Duke of Bedford, see <cite>Ballad</cite>.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> -<div class='footnote' id='f336'> -<p class='c007'><a href='#r336'>336</a>. [Capt. Charles Morris.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span>]</p> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div><span class='small'>ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c004' /> -</div> -<div class='tnotes'> - -<div class='section ph2'> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c030'> - <div>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES</div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - - <ol class='ol_1 c003'> - <li>Pg. <a href='#t17'>17</a>, changed “he was expelled the House of Commons” to “he was expelled from - the House of Commons”. - - </li> - <li>Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. - - </li> - <li>Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. - - </li> - <li>Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last - chapter. - </li> - </ol> - -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Poetry of the Anti-jacobin, by -George Canning and John Hookham Frere and W. 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