́of a Justice of the Peace; and, finally, took the refemblance of Mr. Burd, who immediately began hopping the Treafury jig round the table with confi derable activity, and began to address the audience in a fet fpeech upon rhetoric; but, unfortunately, having dropped an idea, it was eagerly caught up by the Right Hon. Mr. Wall-ce, who claimed it as his own, at the fame time that he affured the orator he fhould be perfectly welcome to it, but that it was the only one he poffeffed, and therefore he could not spare it.

The Conjuring Table now being withdrawn, the Lords Ht and Haw-y began to recite the famous Ode to Peace, compofed by the Marq-s Corns, at Amiens; when the fat porter, followed by a meffenger, burft into the room, and declared that the beacons were fired, and Bonaparté landed in Effex! The whole company were inftantly feized with convulfive pangs-each exclaiming, "The devil take the hindmoft ;" and in an inftant the falcon was evacuated.

Feb. 25.

WHAT

EPIGRAM.

HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE,"

[From the fame.]

can ennoble knaves, and fools, and cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards." True, Mafter Pope; but had you liv'd till now, You'd ftar'd to fee the Howard humbly bow To beg St. George's Cofs from Glyfter's fon, The "Honi foit" from Docler Ad--n.

L. M. P.

EPIGRAM,

EPIGRAM.

The following Jeu d'Efprit, by a celebrated wit, on the
late "potations pottle deep" of a certain Noble
Duke, is banded about in the first circles.
THE Duke came in-he swore 't was cold,
He plied the cordial rummer;

IF

Till fwallow after swallow came,

And then he wore it was fummer!

A QUINTETTO;

WRITTEN FOR, AND SUNG AT, MR, A-NG-N's
LAST PUBLIC DINNER.

To the tune of " If a Body fee a Body."

[From the Oracle.]

MR. AD-NG-N.

Fa body put a body in the Sp-k-r's clair,
Muft a body be nobody but a cypher there?

eye;

My gown and wig fo long and big, they pleas'd the R-le Both K-g and Q-n admir'd my mien; fo Minifter am I !

BROTHER HY AD-NG-N,

If a body find a body odious to the K-,

Mayn't a body tell that body, he may go and fwing?
Like a you did behave, to prove your loyalty;
I'm Ad-ng-n, thy mother's fon; and do the fame would I!

BROTHER BRYGGE.

If a body find a body fitted for his tool,

Should a body fcorn that body 'cause he's thought a fool?
Lord H-rt is a man of parts; and Yorke of industry;
My name a❜n't Br-gge, if found to lag; in such a lift am I !

MR. TRNEY.

If a body join a body call'd a party whig,

Need a body for that body care a fingle fig

Like an afs retir'd D-nds from Bench of Treafu-ry,
So in his barge I fail at large, triumphant George T-r-ney

MR. S

If a body every body feeks to please and court,
Must a body from nobody find the leaft fupport?
Not a man trufts S. with half a halfpen-ny,

Yet all the day I'm blithe and gay, and d

at night am I. Cætera defunt.

MY

. DOUGLAS.

ACT II. SCENE I.

[From the fame.]

Stranger.

Y name's the Doctor: on the Berkshire hills
My father purg'd his patients—a wife man;
Whofe conftant care was to increase his store,
And keep his eldest fon-myself-at home.
But I had heard of politics, and long'd
To fit within the Commons' House, and
A place and luck gave what my fire denied.
Some thirteen years ago, or ere my fingers
Had learn'd to mix a potion, or to bleed,

get

I flatter'd Pitt; I cring'd, and fneak'd, and fawn'd,
And thus became the Speaker. 1 alone,

With pompous gait, and peruke full of wisdom,
Th' unruly members could control, or call
The Houfe to order.

Tir'd of the Chair, I fought a bolder flight,
And, grafping at his power, I ftruck my friend,
Who held that place which now I've made my oWD.
Proud of my triumph, I difdain'd to court
The patron-hand which fed me-or to seem
Grateful to him who rais'd me into notice.
And when the King had call'd his Parliament
To meet him here conven'd in Westminster,
With all my fam'ly crowding at my heels,
My brothers, coufins, followers, and my fon,
I fhew'd myself Prime Doctor to the country.
My ends attain'd, my only aim has been

To keep my place, and gild my humble name:

DRAMATICUS.

EPIGRAM

EPIGRAM

ON THE DOCTOR'S FAILURE IN A LATE MOMENTOUS
OPERATION.

IF, whenever a Doctor imparts a wrong impulse,
The pain he inflicts were his own,

John's Doctor, long doom'd to be cut-for the fimples,
Ought now to be cut-for the stone !!

NEW MODE OF BLOCKADE.
[From the British Prefs.]

GALENICUS.

IT is well known that an offenfive operation against fome part of the enemy's coaft has been for fome time in contemplation. The newspapers, with very few exceptions, have stated, that the Minister intends to block up all the enemy's ports, by finking large cargoes at their entrances. The plan, as we lately announced, was fuggefted by Mr. Phillips, a Bookfeller, No. 71, St. Paul's Churchyard. The following are the particulars :-Inftead of employing, at an enormous expenfe in wear and tear, feventeen fhips of the line at Breft, ten at Toulon, and seven at Ferrol, Mr. Phillips propofes that a number of old unferviceable veffels, hulks, lighters, &c. fhould be filled with old editions of old books, pamphlets, newspapers, &c. and being floated over with a fair wind, fhould be funk at the mouths of the feveral harbours of France and Holland. For Breft, Toulon, and the other principal ports, he propofes that the blockading force fhould confift of the old quartos and folios, particularly fuch as are in the dead languages, all bound in calf, and any other work which the trade has obferved to poffefs a peculiar alacrity in finking. For Boulogne,. Calais, and other ports where the entrance is narrow, fhallow, or difficult, be thinks fingle fheets or volumes will be fufficient. Wherever there is a fhelving fhore,

1

226

NEW MODE OF BLOCKADE.

all the old Shopkeepers fhould be brought into action with a fweeping courfe. Dunkirk and Flushing, being notorious for fmuggling, a few pirated editions of celebrated works, he thinks, ought to be fent against them, it being always confidered a fair and generous procedure to fight an enemy with his own weapons. To prevent any attempt of the enemy to avail themfelves of the opportunity of a low tide to weigh the funken cargoes, each veffel is to be accompanied by a barge, containing a quantum fufficit of Dr. L-r-ce's fpeeches, ftate papers, bills and anfwers in Chancery, and various law pleadings. A budget or two is also recommended in a difficult cafe. Government, we are affured, have entered upon this plan with extraordinary energy. For the purpose of carrying it into execution, upwards of a dozen large facks full of State Papers, belonging to the late Lord Mendip, and which were fold by his butler fince his death, at the rate of three-pence a pound, have been recently traced into the hands of different ftationers, cheefemongers, &c. and nine of the twelve have been recovered. They confift principally of private difpatches from the different British commanders and agents in America, at the commencement of the war, and other documents upon different fubjects, with the whole of the correfpondence addreffed to Lord Mendip (then Mr. Ellis), as Secretary at War.

Our readers will recollect the resent robbery of all the old papers of Somerfet Houfe. This, we now find, was in confequence of the rife in price of the article, or, to speak more correctly, of the bounty for a fupplementary force of wafte paper. Government, according to report, lately purchased a great number of dead walls, from whence it was fuppofed that the finking force was to confift of thofe materials. Thefe dead walls, however, are only bought for the fake of the literary productions

5

with