"Ev'n as these bumpers down my gullet glide,
May Pitt's curft faction down the back ftairs flide!
Again fhall Maitland then repair to town,

And fill fome office, tho' proud * London frown.
Boy; bring fome olives-fpread the anchovy toaft-
Thefe French, and that from the Cifalpine coast-
If thefe prevail not, all my hopes are loft.

Now crown the glafs! bring more, and more Champagne.
And lure my Maitland to these arms again!

"With fuch strong love my foul for Maitland yearns,

As for a place in patriot bofoms burns,

For this each dull-bird fweats, a fpeech to frame,
This, Nicholl's with, this Tommy Thompson's aim:
For this, half dos'd, the livelong night they fit,

And tho' they understand not, answer Pitt.

Now crown the glass, bring more, and more Champagne.
And lure my Maitland to these arms again?

"This golden fnuff-box, pledge of Maitland's love,
Muft the fad folace of his abfence prove.

Yet, as my nofe receives the pungent gueft,
Each pinch ftill vibrates to my vacant breast.

Now crown the glafs, bring more, and more Champagne,
And lure my Maitland to thefe arms again!

“ These lines of Greek shall grace my

Maitland's fpeech,

Which Parr once deign'd my studious youth to teach.
Illuftrious Parr! in whofe prolific throat,

Too thick for utterance, Greek quotations float;
Oft have I wrapt in thick tobacco's gloom,

Seen learned Dr. Parr a beaft become;

Rake flumbering volumes from their long repose,

And from old Johnson feize the palm of cumb'rous profe.
Now crown the glafs, bring more, and more Champagne,
And lure my Maitland to these arms again.

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Bring fome clear cinders--wake the curling blaze-
In vain we toast; in vain the voice we raise :

No toast-mafter, this headftrong Lord reveres.
No ftrains of modeft Morris touch his ears:

Now crown the glass, bring more, and more Champagne,
And lure my Maitland to these arms again.

"Hark, the loud rattle speaks the coming coach,
My itching † thumbs foretell his lov'd approach.

He

*"London frown.] It is fuperfluous here to enter into the particulars of his Lordship's wish, to descend into office on the Eaft fide of Temple-bar, when he found he could not ascend into place on the Weft. The tranfaction is too recent to require any explanation of the paffage alluding to it."

"Thumbs.] It is impoffible that this expreffion can be borrowed from the lines of Shakspeare,

• By

He comes, he comes!--I catch the long loft word
When echoing waiters cry, my Lord, my Lord!
His well known voice falutes my ravish'd ear,
(Or wine delufive, makes me seem to hear)

Now crown the glafs, bring more, and more Champagne,
And lure my Maitland to these arms again."

The first book of the Georgics, Quid faciat lætas fegetes, Sc.
"What makes rebellion fmile; at what juft hour?
To move nice queftions; when to add the power
Of Whigs to Democrats; what care.muft form
The ftripling fage, or guide the patriot fwarm;
Such arts I fing: And ye, illuftrious pair,
Who bolfter up our caufe each paffing year,
Fox and Horne Tooke! if e'er your liberal hand
For wheat would fubftitute the acorn bland.
Dash the proud cuftard from all Mayors but one,
And let your Hervey eat the tart alone.

Ye too, the genuine fons of Tandy's wiles,

Spawn of Chalk Farm, and nymphs of gay St. Giles;
Attend the fong: and thou Hibernian * fage
Grace with protecting nod th' inftructive page:
Thou, whofe full purfe Hibernia's bounties crown,
The juft reward of virtues not thine own.
Thout too, whofe large domains in every shire,
Our hopes for equal property infpire!

Thou who for us militia glories loft,

And Yorkshire's rolls! our bulwark and our boast:
Thou too, whose efforts broke the husband's whip
And oil'd connubal knots, to make them flip,

Thou too, illuftrious § arbiter of wool,

Grave without thinking, and tho' empty, dull;
And thou great cenfor of fpades, drills, and ploughs,
Whofe judgment Coke adores, and Young allows;
Crops, lecturers, patriots, all whofe fervid minds
No qualm repreffes and no confcience binds;

By the pricking of my thumbs

Something wicked this way comes

for were it fo, Lord L. would be characterized as a thing wicked: which is, (God bless us!) a thing of naught."

*Sage.] Mr. Grattan: but this gentleman ftruck a better thing out of his country, than Neptune did out of Attica. + Thou too.] His Grace the Duke of Norfolk.

Thou too.] Mary Woolftoncroft Godwin.

§ Arbiter.] Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M. P. ci-devant prefident of the Board of Agriculture-or his ram. The allufion is doubtful.

Great Cenfor.] His Grace the Duke of Bedford-Vide accounts of the Agricultural meetings at Wooburn.

All

All who can wade remorfe and fhame beyond,
Who toaft, who club, who plot, who correfpond.
Oh! thro' the path myfterious guide my lay,-
And the rich lore of Anarchy display.

"In early youth to calm experience blind
When fraud-full fancy foftens all the mind,
Let the fly fage his noble toil begin

And ftamp the witching rudiments of fin.
But ftill that heart the best return fhall yield,
Which vice has fapp'd and disappointment steel'd.
"Now e'er you feek to win the youthful ear,
Sift well your fubject, and th' affault prepare.
Each childish prejudice, each habit scan,
And learn each various bias of the man.

Mark which bold minds the blaze of truth will bear,
And which, more cautious, start at what they hear;
With fome the patriot jargon ftill fucceeds;
Some rufh, where'er feductive pleasure leads:
Thefe Hymen's joys and quick divorces move;
And all the fweet viciffitudes of love:
Of wealth divided fome with rapture hear,
And scent the promis'd plunder from afar;
Your needy man is born for blood and strife,
And embryo murders lurk upon his knife;
For niggard nature has her gifts confin'd;
Nor* lavish'd every crime on every mind;
Such is her law, fince heavenly justice hurl'd
Satan's grim troops into the nether world;
Troops, from whom modern Jacobins arose;
An hardy race unmoved by human woes.

"Then careful, on the waxen mind of youth
Stamp, deeply ftamp, each democratic truth.
Yet not too long with crude inftruction tire
The flagging ear, but other thoughts inspire.
To day, man's perfect † energies expound,

By no reftraint or fool-born confcience bound;

Nor lavifb'd.] Analogous to this is the opinion of Mr. Jon. Wild, a very eminent fcavant, now fully rewarded. That philofopher held it to be the part of a wife man never to do more mifchief to another, than was neceffary for effecting his purpose; for he said, mischief was a thing too precious to be thrown away. t Energies.] Mr. Godwin has, in his great work, manifefted, beyond fear of contradiction, that the human energies are in a ftate of progreffive improvement, and will gradually attain absolute perfection, fo as that all our wants will be fpontaneously supplied.

N. B. The British Philosopher pillaged this idea from the German profeffor Fichte.

Then

Then to the flow'ry path of pleasure lead,

Then paint the joy when priests or monarchs bleed :
Since the worn-mind for varying objects calls,
Ev'n lawless Love by repetition palls.

From hints too broad at firft with care refrain,
Nor plant your precepts in a barren brain.

"Oft too, the power of ridicule employ
The tender feeds of virtue to destroy:
Whether 'tis ill-plac'd fhame that faps the root,
Or keener fhears forbid her germs to fhoot,
Or oft affail'd, what once the mind rever'd,
Sinks to a bug-bear, but by folly fear'd."

"Aware of this, the varying figns await
That mark the weal or weakness of á State :
For figns there are, that Jacobins should know,
What time to ftrike, and when reprefs the blow;
When France prevails, let Napper Tandy roam:
When Auftria conquers, keep your fcouts at home.
That hour ill fuits the defperate mutineer,

When England's thunder Egypt's defarts hear:
'On Acra's wall when ftands the conqu'ring tar,
Nor bounds his glory by a naval war:

When the red flag which rul'd the main before,
Now flies triumphant on Aboukir's tower :
Or from the rugged North when armies flow,
And Paul stands victor on the banks of Po.

"But other figns and other manners tell
When fafely treafon may defert her cell.
Then ftoops to meann fs the patrician mind,
No honour prompts it, and no fcruples ind;
Alike remov'd from polifh'd arts appear
In equal rank, the boxer and the peer :
Then at fome pot-house patriot coblers fix
Their nightly club, to gabble politics:
Ev'n new-born literature alarms the poor,

And books are bought,, where books ne'er came before.
While fafe at diftance Paine unpunish'd croaks
The notes of treason to the fimple folks.
In profe fublime, old Wyvil takes the lead,
And worries Pitt-because they once agreed:
Unhappy Pitt! if once thy erring youth,
Led by bad company, forfook the truth;
Vaft is the fine thy riper years must pay
To clear the forfeit of that luckless day!
Then oft expos'd,* the bare fac'd journals try
The public mind, and point their daily lye;

* " Expos'd.]

Vide Anti-Jacobin paffim."

Then

Then from their garrets, Chriftie, Parr, and Freind,
Their fhort-liv'd pamphlets in Reviews * defend;
Still the fame caufe in tales or hiftories plead,
Write books on books; and lo! the public read :
Not that their sterile brains with genius glow,
Or from their pens ftrong fenfe and judgment flow;
But when, or baffled pride, or envy blinds,
Or wild ambition whets their eager minds,
So they but rife, whate'er the means, they flight;
Hate right as wrong, and worship wrong as right.
Each his own mafter paffion rules: but ail
In union toil to work the Premier's fall:
Whigs, Democrats, and grave Diffenters join
To scatter difcontent and guzzle wine;

Hence clubs arife, the Crown and Anchor fills,
And Bd fcarce can pay the tavern bills."

We could have extracted much more largely, from parts equally fpirited and poetical; but our extracts have already been unusually copious, and will amply fuffice to enable our readers to form a correct judgment of the fatirift's abilities and principles. One only remark we have to fubjoin. Strong and fevere as many of his animadverfions unquestionably are, there is fcarcely one practice which he has imputed to the party, to which they have not had recourse; indeed, we know of fome, more foul, more deteftable, than any which he has fatirized. Nor is there any one of his expreffions, however strong, however fevere, which would not be ftrictly applicable to the man, who could have the fhameless effrontery to pronounce in a British House of Commons, fuch a panegyric, as we have lately perused in the public prints, on that unprincipled enemy of the British Conftitution, that monfter of vice and iniquity, BONAPARTE. If there could be any Member of either Houfe, fo loft to every sense of thame, so deftitute of all the feelings of a Briton, as fo to panegyrize fuch a being, the abhorrence of all good men, and the execrations of his country would be his deserved port on.t

ART.

Reviews.] Vide Analytical and Critical Reviews," &c. &c. + Bonaparte has been called GREAT, forfooth, because he traverfed with his army the unfortified and unguarded paffes of the Alps; defcended into the plains of Lombardy, either wholly unoppofed, or at moft, very feebly oppofed by very weak and feparate detachments, of the enemy; and because, after having been allowed to affemble all the fcattered divifions of his army into one compact body, he defeated the Auftrians folely, by the acknowledged fuperiority of bis numbers, after one of the most desperate actions that ever was fought, and after his own fuperior forces had been beaten during a greater part of the day! If this be fufficient to constitute greatness, no wonder we are taught, by fimilar panegyrifts, to confider the profufion of a spendthrift, with the means of a pauper, and

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