LXXXIV.

Addreffed to the People of England by Meffrs. Pitt and Dundas.
IF noble blood 'mong fwine may lurk,
As mafters you must needs endure us;
You're but the hogs of Edmund Burke,
But we, the hogs of Epicurus.

LXXXV..

Meffrs. Pitt and Dundas to the Bench of Bifhops. " MY Right Rev'rends, you'll faft, if you please, But by G-we will drink while we're able; Your devotion looks well on your knees, And ours while we're under the table.

LXXXVI.

"A time for all things," the base turncoats fay;
"Exifting circumstances" guide the way.

Thus Tyrants war, to please degenerate Whigs,
And Ministers get drunk-to please the pigs.

LXXXVII.

E'EN by their own fuccefs 'tis fam'd
The mighty oft' are lower'd;
Thus Minifters on power declaim'd,
Till fairly over-power'd.

LXXXVIII.

WINDHAM, with metaphyfic art,
Defcribes the politician's part,

And aids him moft who merits leaft.
Indulgent Windham! on this plan
You furely muft fupport the man
Who makes himself a beast.

LXXXIX.

THOUGH drunk as fish our rulers be,
The thing fure little matters;

Only it forces you and me

To fifh in troubled waters.

XC.

PARODY.

JOLLY ftatefmen, fill your glaffes,
Noble deeds are done by wine-
Edmund's creed is now Dundas'6,
That the mob are only swine.
Pitt and Harry, loving drinking,
Toaft about at Council-board:
They can steer the realm with thinking,
When they cannot speak a word.

XCI.

IN happy time the fquad went o'er,
And feasonably their love was fhewn-
Our leaders in their arms they bore,
Juft-when they could not stand alone.

On Pitt's relieving the distressed Inn-keepers, by building Borracks.
'TWEEN thofe that buy and thofe that fell,
Pitt knows the fympathy full well;

The owners then of pot and tank-ard,
Sure they should favour who have drank hard.

XCIV.

THOUGH Europe fhakes beneath tremendous war,
Yet well-drench'd Harry fhall their fears dismiss;
He comes like either Pleiads' humid star,

To quench the conflagration in a peace.

We must appeal here to the well-known Doric fimplicity of Mr. Dundas's pronunciation, to set right any supposed errors in the rhime.

XCV.

THAT George is high in power is justly stated,
His very fervants too are-elevated.

O FRANCE! that thy blind leaders could discover
The arts to which our pilots have refort;
Who guide the helm of Britain half-feas over,
Yet double-fighted keep an eye on Port.

XCVII.

WHEN Fortune they invok'd, the Greeks
Of wine oft' made libations;
While our more frugal Premier seeks
To win her by potations.

XCVIII.

THAT Pitt does ill, to fay were wrong;
What, Pitt! the great law-giver!
Befide 'twere ftrange-a bon-vivant
Should be, Sirs, a bad liver.

CXIX.

SAYS Harry to Pitt-"Now that faction's no more,
We may fafely indulge ourfelves deep in our cup;
And though it be true that you ne'er kept before,.
Yet this is the time when we may keep it up."

C.

"DRUNKARDS are fools," the wife will fay
I don't deny their rules;
In war to drink then's fure the way,

Since "Fortune favours fools."

CI.

From the Appendix to the fecond Edition of Bishop Horley's 30th of January Sermon.

Ρήτωρ, ως ΜΕΘΥΟΙ ΤΟΙΣ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΣΙΝ, ειπες Φιλιππος Αλλ' ημιν μείνει προς πραγμασι νυν ο προβουλος,

VAR

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ARIOUS reports having been circulated concerning the manner and circumstances of Mr. Pitt's death, we haften to lay before our readers the particulars of that melancholy event. This we are enabled to do with perfect accuracy, having been favoured with a very minute detail by the learned phyfician who attended him in his last moments.

The diforder of which this great Minifter died, was a violent diarrhea, which continued, with very little interruption, from Saturday morning to last night, about a quarter before eight, at which time he expired. For two days, the fymptoms were the fame as in ordinary cafes; but it is remarkable, that, from the first, he had a great dread that the disease would be mortal. He was inclined to attribute the whole to a few bottles of claret, which he drank the preceding evening at Mr. Dundas's, and which he imagined was a little four. But Mr. Dundas affirms it was of the very fineft quality, of which he can produce the best proofs, having ftill two hundred dozens of it in the cellar, befides eleven pipes which Mr. Rofe let him have at prime coft, out of the cargo he bought up the day before the additional duty took place*. And of this quantity, Mr. Dundas has no objection to bind himself to drink eight bottles. every day, as long as it lafts, for the complete fatisfaction of the friends of the deceafed. This worthy gentleman, with his ufual franknefs, confeffes that claret is apt to difagree with ftomachs accustomed, as Mr. Pitt's was, to the ftronger wines: but from the quantity of brandy which he drank with it on that fatal day,, he thinks its bad effects must have been entirely counteracted.

*It was ftrongly affirmed at the time, and it remained undenied, that immediately before the laft impoft upon wine, Mr. R--purchased a large quantity for his own use, if not for that of his Majefty's Minifters.

Mr..

Mr. Powys, who has picked up much knowledge, by reading occafionally in Guthrie's Geographical Grammar, and Arthur Young's Warning, remarks, that claret is a French wine, and confequently muft partake, by innate fympathy, of the horrid qualities of that wicked country. "Now," continues Mr. Powys, "it is natural to conclude, that wine of fuch damnable principles, entering into the patriotic ftomach of the Minifter, muft neceffarily be rejected and expelled. in the violent way we have all witnessed." This in

genious idea he confirms by an accident which befel himself, about two years ago, at Lilford; when, after incautiously drinking a glafs of claret in the morning, with a bit of Queen's cake, (of which he is very fond) there immediately arofe within him fuch a prodigious civil war, as he terms it, that he was forced to take measures with his apothecary for bringing both ingredients up. Since that period, he avoids all wines but thofe of Portugal, a country whofe regular government and order are preferved, both in Church and State.

Unluckily for the nation, the heaven-born Minifter. bought his experience at a dearer rate than Mr. Powys, Alas! it was no petty inteftine commotion with him, no trifling Quiberon difturbance, as one may fay-but a furious fweeping deluge, as if the roaring torrent of French republicanifm had vifited him in all its wrath. The help of man was in vain. The fons of Efculapius hung down the head. George Rofe, who officiated as ufual about the perfon of his patron, was amazed. A Council was fummoned; and the Statefmen. of England were employed, for the first time fince the Regency Bill, in fpeculating on the progrefs of the difeafe.

The placid Under-Secretary produced the abundant proofs of the diforder, which he had collected and preferved for that purpose. The Counsellors, on inspection, gave a general groan; and the Minifter lifted up his haggard eyes, which feemed to ask if no help could be found? Yes," fays the intrepid Windham, "I know how this diforder is to be cured. The body

natural