This when the people faw, who anxious prefs, When Arthegall the lawless crowd beheld, So Talus, when he routs the rebel mass, P. S. A verfion of the whole of the Fairy Queen, of which this may be confidered as a fpecimen, will probably be offered to the public before the clofe of the year 1892. SIR, TO THE EDITOR. TF by chance you have in your Magazine a retired and unoccupied corner, where inexperience may find a quiet retreat, and if you can for a few moments defcend from the grandeur of that found morality, which is the characteristic ornament of your publication, to the fing-fong trifles of a canting poetafter, you will perhaps allow a place in your Review to these hafty rhymes of one, who has nothing to boast of but a fincere love for his country, and a fixed hatred against the prefent exifting enemies of all religion and morality, and every fpecies of civil government and good order. Your good fenfe will, I know, point out to you, whether you ought to reject or receive this effay; in either cafe your decifion will be equally indifferent, though entirely binding, to me:-if you find it unworthy your notice, I addrefs you without the leaft refervation in the words of Horace : "Si te forte meæ gravis uret farcina chartæ, 56 Abjicito." One One farther hint I will mention:-If the ridiculous appearance of the idea contained in these verses fhould be made an objection to them, it will be fufficient to remember to whom they are addreifed. Every man must be paid with his own coin; and to Libertinarians, the profeffed promoters and patrons of all strange and eccentric notions, nonfenfe is peculiarly dedicated: A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN OF FREEDOM, FOR THE LIBERTINARIANS. [To the tune of "the World topfy-turvy."] When Liberty's the gen'ral cry, · A better plan I would propofe, To them a true and conftant friend And Minifters if they are wife To every Freedom-man Will foon their royal leave devife, First as the only with they have, Is to obtain *Promotion, All further care and time to fave *Cicero fays, in his enumeration of the different defcriptions of people which compofed Cataline's Confpiracy-" Alterum genus dominationem expectant: rerum potiri volunt: honores, quos quicta republica defperant, perturbati confequi fe poffe arbitrantur."-(Or. Id. in Catil.) And, indeed, were we to examine the lifts and descriptions which Cicero and SalJuft have given us of the reprobate followers of their Robespierre, we should recognize 003 Grant each a free exclufive right, "T exalt himself aloft to fight, Then will their utmost wifh be gain'd, Their glorious deaths fhall be proclaim'd- And to immortalize each name, But fhould this plan imperfect prove, A further grant and mark of love Twill fave the ill-beftow'd expence For necks that ne'er would recompenfe, One farther word I needs muft fay . To prove my plan the best, To fhow it both will fuit their way, And likewife please the reft. You'll find impregnated with woe, It aims a deep and deadly blow, At this devoted nation. But mine I'll pledge my faith and word Shall fpread impartial joy To every foul as foon as heard, Man, matron, girl, and boy.. Each glift'ning eye with triumph bright Expos'd as puppets to the fight, * Who living puppies were. recognize not a few of our factions demagogues most thoroughly delineated. A modern author has told us (in the Freface to an Abridgement of Locke) that there never was a Jacobin, who was not either a knave, a rafeal, a coward, or a fool. * It is obfervable that many headfirong young men, actuated by the fame felf-conceit and ambitious pride which loft Satan and his Angels Heaven, affert thefe fchemes of liberty, and free-thinking principles, merely to thew their fpiri; (or, rather to fenfible people their pup yifm).-In our behaviour towards fuch characters, we may take the advice of a modera author, who tells us, "When you hear a young prig abufe Minifters ftart another topic, or hum a tune."-(Vide Hints to Freshmen.) Britannia Britannia will exulting smile Peace hall exalt her exil'd form, And faction hufh his giddy storm When hell's worst imps, the fons of fate, Drew on their worthlefs felves, The worthy deaths that alway wait, TO THE EDITOR. W-NT-NN. April 2d, 1801. SIR, I ACHMENT, tranfplanted into was very forry to fee fome lines which Mr. Pratt had quoted from Mr. laft month. You extracted them, together with their context, from Mr. Pratt's "GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND.' But your Printer has 'made no lefs than four mistakes in four lines. In juftice to the author, reprint them as follows: "How KEEN the pleasure that our grief repays, Afterwards, read "Here, on my own old couch (the master cried.") * Thus Cicero fays on the departure of Catiline from Ronte-2d Oration in Catilinam :-" Urbs quidem mihi lætari videtur, quod tantam peftem evomuerit." + Our ancestors, the antient Britons, punifhed even the deferters of their country by inftantaneously hanging them on trees; what punishment they would have thought fufficient for thefe profeffed enemies of their mother land, it may perhaps be difficult to imagine. INDEX. 536 INDEX TO THE EIGHTH VOLUME. A. ACADEMICUS's, Newcastle, 199, CADEMICUS's, analyfis of William 214. Action of September 19, 1799, in Holland, 125. Adams, the late American Prefident, Proofs of his variety and weakness, 460, Adultery, reflections on, 291-neceflity of Affections and emotions, happy effects Allies, accurate statement of their lofs, in Anti-burghers and Burghers, definition and Antidote, vegetable. See Ranunculus. B. Bank-Notes, remarks on the circulation of, Bailey-bread, its wholesomeness proved by Battle of Marengo, observations on, 482. 36, 37. Belligerent Powers, on their right to exa- in the English, Hebrew, Greek, and Biographers, Dr Johnfon's opinion of, 253. Bonaparte, confequences produced by his panegyric on, by a Frenchified reflections on his character, 20, 28. Boyd, W. Efq his Letter Writer in the Boyd's Letter to Mr. Pitt, remarks on, 65, Bouillé, Marquis de, Biography of, 225. C. Cambridge Teachers, remarks on the d Caffandra |