EPIGRAM

ON HEARING A DISCOURSE

FROM THE FOLLOWING

THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT

[From the fame.]

N days of yore, some distant time,

It might have been a heinous crime:

But now the adage will not fit,

Thanks to our good friend Billy Pitt;
Through whom this vice diffolves in vapour,
And proves at worst—a love of paper!

Woburn.

OF

FOR

ON THE LATE BILL

INFLICTING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ON THE COUNTERFEITERS OF THE SILVER NOTES-BANK

DOLLARS.

TH

[From the fame.]

"We are baftards all;

And that most venerable man, which I
Did call my father, was I know not where

When I was fampt. Some coiner, with his tools,
Made me a Counterfeit." POSTHUMUS, in Cymbeline..

HIS head, this dollar's royal fign, is George's;
Who counterfeit the facred fymbol, fwing.
"Death," fays Imperial P-tt, "to him who forges
The amp-the fuperfcription of our King !"
And is there then prepar'd nor axe nor halter
For him whofe bolder frauds a gang unites
Of viler thieves?-for him the Throne's affaulter!
Who clips the Crown, and coins the royal rights?
Mounted again on young Ambition's ladder,

His thoughts, his phrafes foar with towering flight;
His laft, his dying fpeech, would make us gladder,
Dropt from fome welcome gibbet's humbler height.
Thence, when the Varlet finks to lower regions,
In h-ll the base projector's plots may thrive;
The Devil and he will fettle their allegiance-
While we, and K-g, and current cafh, revive!

SIC VOLO SIC JUBEO.

[From the fame.]

SAYS P.tt, I'm Dictator, and therefore, of course,
Have a right in appointing a Master of Horfe;
Though Ux-dge a promife may have of the place,
I'll foon fhew his L-df-p the odds of the cafe.
All things muft fubmit to my abfolute nod,
The M-q-is of H-tf-d fhall have it, by G-—.
And the world fhall be taught how fuperior a thing
A Dictator's decree to the word of a

OF THE LATE HAPPY RESTORATION OF A L OF THE K'S BEDCHAMBER.

[From the fame.]

WHEN a K-g gives a Courtier a kick on the breech,
And bids him get out for a fon of a b--ch,

A kifs from his hand, with an office to boot,
Will atone for the injury done by his foot;
Yet a kifs from a hand, unless honour's a farce,
Is a very odd cure for a kick on the

SAYS

EPIGRAM.

[From the Morning Post.]

AYS Old Nick to his crony, old Emperor Nero, As together they fat in a fulphury bower"I'm refolv'd now to finish my Corfican Hero, By crowning his wifhes with abfolute power.” Says Nero-" Great King of Hell's gloomy dominion! Ponder well what your Majefty 's going to doHis ambition 's fo boundless, that 't is my opinion, It never will reft till he overturns you.'

HAFIZ,

BONAPARTE'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE CROWN:

A PARODY.

[From the Morning Herald.]

The Senate-MY Lord, this argues confcience in your Grace,

But the refpects thereof are nice and trivial,

All circumstances well confider'd—

Then,

Then, good my Lord, take to your noble felf
This proffer'd benefit of dignity.

Mayor of Paris-Do, good my Lord-your Citizens entreat you

Senate--Refufe not, mighty Lord, this proffer'd love.-
Duroc-O make them joyful! grant their preffing fuit.
Bonaparté-Alas! why would you heap thefe cares on me?
I am unfit for State and Majefty:

I do b.feech you, take it not amifs-
I cannot, nor I will not, yield to you.

[Exeunt Senatores. Duroc Call them again, Conful, accept their fuit; If you deny them, all the land will rue it. Bonaparte Will you enforce me to a world of cares?

Well, call them again; I am not made of stone,
But penetrable to your kind entreaties,
Albeit against my confcience and my foul.
Re-enter the Senate.

Colleague Cambaceres, and you fage, grave men,
Since you
will buckle fortune on my back,
To bear her burden, whe'r I will or no,
I must have patience to endure the load:
But if black fcandal, or foul-fac'd reproach,
Attend the fequel of your impofition,
Your mere enforcement fhall acquittance me
From all the impure blots and stains thereof;
For God doth know, and you may partly fee,
How far I am from the defire of this.

Mayor-God blefs your Grace! we fee it, and will fay it.
Bonaparte-In faying fo, you fhall but fay the truth.
Senate Then we falute you with th' Imperial title,
Long live Napoleon, Emp'ror of the French!

All-Amen.

Senate-To-morrow may it please you to be crown'd? Bonaparté-E'en when you pleafe, for you will have it fo Senate-To-morrow, then, we will attend your Grace, And fo moft joyfully we take our leave.

Bonaparte to the Archbishop of Paris-Come, let us to our holy work again

Farewell, good Senate-farewell, gentle friends.

THE

THE CORONATION CEREMONY

(BY ANTICIPATION)

OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY NAPOLEON THE FIRST (CI-DEVANT BRUTUS ALY BONAPARTE),

BY THE GRACE OF THE BAYONETS, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, KING OF THE LOMBARDS, &c. &c. &c.

THE

[From the British Prefs.]

HE feftivity of the day was announced by the firing of the cannon oppofite the church of St. Roch, and afterwards proclaimed by Heralds, dreffed in five-coloured jackets, in honour of the five conftitutions which France has fworn to preferve within thefe laft twelve years. That the good Parifians might diftinctly fee the ceremony, the Prefect of the Police had ordered a general illumination for twenty-four hours, from the fun-rife of one day to the fun-rife of the next. Instead of Aix-la Chapelle or of Rheims, to avoid giving offence either to the fhades of Charlemagne, or to thofe of the Bourbons, the Confervative Senate had decreed that the coronation fhould be performed at Bicetre, the ancient family refidence of the Bonaparté family.

The proceffion fet out from the Thuilleries in the following order: Eight running footmen, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, a Swifs, an Italian, a Spaniard, a Portuguefe, a Pruffian, and a Bavarian, each leading an afs richly caparifoned; fix Lords in waiting, an Auftrian, a Ruffian, a Swede, a Dane, a Saxon, and an American, all packed up in the fame ftate carriage, on which, infiead of a coat of arms, were painted the Temple in perfpe&ive; five bannerets, General La Fayette, dreffed à la Pantaloon, carrying an urn, with the afhes of the Rights of Man, General Charles Lameth, dreffed à la Harlequin, carrying the Tree of Liberty reduced to a walking-flick; the Senator Fouché dreffed à la Sans Culotte, with a wooden

bafin,

bafin, containing the afhes of the Bible burned by him in 1793, at Lyons, in a republican auto da fé; the Tribune Carnot, dreffed à la Carmagnol, with a cloak à la Tartuffe, decorated with a Jacobin cap, covered with black crape, with the infcription Refurgam; and Citizen Barrere, dreffed in a Corfican livery, carrying a guillotine fresh painted with the blood of the Duke of Enghien.

Seven banner-carriers, each having in his hand a bamboo pole, with a paper flag nailed to it, on which were painted the dates of the respective republican conftitutions, with thefe words, Fidelity to the Conftitution, or Death; the Senator Abbé Sieyes carried the Conftitution of 1791; the Senator Bifhop Gregoire, that of 1793; the Senator Boiffy d'Anglas, that of 1795; the Senator François de Neufchateau, the Conftitutional variations of 1797; the Senator Volney, the Conftitution of 1799; the Senator Roederer, the Conftitutional variations of 1802; and the Senator Jofeph Bonaparté, the Imperial Republican Conflitution of 1804.

The Mameluke Roftan carried the Swords of State and of Juftice, before the Grand Judge, Regnier, who was attended by a numerous fuite of one hundred Special Military Commiffioners; fifty thoufand Jailors; twenty-five thousand Executioners; and fifteen hundred thoufand Spies; headed by Citizen Mehée, Spy-in-Chief of the French Republic.

Ten millions of Members of the Legion of Honour, carrying with them nine millions nine hundred and ninety-nine reprieves from the gallows, from the gallies, from the hulks, from the pillories, and from the houfes of correction. They all wore the new Imperial Order of St. Guillotine, fufpended in a tri-coloured riband. The collars of this order were chains highly finished, interwoven with guillotines, daggers, and bayonets; the robes of the order red, couleur du fang,