I. Is then the final page before me spread, All that I saw returns upon my view, streams! III. Where mortal never breathed I dare to sit BY MR NORTH. I. Is then the final sheet before me laid? All I have said, at leisure I review, The hum of public speech is in mine ear: fear Recoil'd:-where Whigs alone once travell'd-there And fill'd the turf where once they lorded it with screams. III. Where some folks scarce durst look, I dared to sit, What they thought Alps were anthills to my view. I pounded Whiggery's drivelling power: Whigs fret; To which sad course, these wrinkled Sons of So well beseems a wretched residue, Viz. Lord Archibald Hamilton, whose awful action against the Beacon was brought t'other day to that triumphant issue-Damages ONE SHILLING STERLING. "Who steals my purse," &c. Is not the Chamois suited to his place? Let Empires fall; but ne'er shall Ye disgrace On Sarnens Mount, there judge of fit and right Soft breezes fanning your rough brows-the might And purity of Nature spread before your sight! VII. From this appropriate Court, renown'd Lucerne Just at the point of issue, where it fears VIII. Volumes of sound, from the Cathedral roll'd, Our pride misleads, our timid likings kill Filling the soul with sentiments august- Beats not an English heart beneath B gown! When did a S- blush upon a fee? Let FREEDOM die: but ne'er shall ye bring down Your noble selves: from that suspicion free, Whig counsellors, of whatsoe'er degree, The rostrum mount-there think no more of No simple scruple check your hireling glee, Of some tormented booby glittering in your sight. When in their courts some lawyers I discern That work of kindred spleen which mauld the Laureates might frame fine issues, were your The cause of King and Country makes ME bold, I trample my detractors into dust, I call on the unfearing and unsold, Not to be generous, (that I scorn) but just ! Use but your eyes, ay read: then speak, for feet you must. X. For these confounded Jacobins !--no more! LIGHT wide and wider sheds its growing flood, And prejudice goes puff!-as Hogg's barn-floor, See Hogg's strong flail distinguish chaff from food. CANT'S at a discount-TRUTH brings what it should. Go forth my articles! no longer slumber, A slight allusion to one of the unfortunate scrapes into which the Anti-libellers of a certain Reviow have fallen.-The celebrated compromise with Sir R. Phillips. VOL. XI. 5 C WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. LONDON. M. Sieber is about to publish, in Two Volumes Octavo, an Account of his Visit to the Island of Crete, with Plates and Maps. 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