general fcale, what I have before publifhed, as the only Hiftory of the Rife of English Jacobiniim, may be found an useful Supple ment to Barruel and Profeffor Robifon, and with them contribute, to preferve the public mind from the machinations of frantic and ambitious men, who can rife to no eminence but from the general debalement of mankind and the degradation of the fpecies. W. HAMILTON REID. POETRY. THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.-CANTO THE THIRD. 5... (Continued from P. 233.) The RUNNING MATCH. STRAIT at his beck as all drew near the knight, breast "A chaplet fweet (he cried) no maid would miss, In each dim floret of the waning year ; Yet, beaming thro' the cornflower's modeft blue, The marigold's intenfer flame display'd; So (cried the Knight) fhall burn the Victor-maid!” There, madam Squintall ponder'd o'er the show; * Her daughter tripping on fantastic toe; And lo, her eyeballs ftern on Juliet nail'd, Its flowings by a fash of pink represt, Her bashful cheek low-bent upon her breast; Her cheek, by which the Bard would deem outdone, And fupple at each lubricated joint, That drew, where'er fhe stepp'd, the ruftic stare; Thus, o'er the thorn, amidst the vernal beam, "Strait at the fignal, started "bedgown blue," And, as on airy pinion, Emma flew ; And burfted boddice" feem'd to mock the wind Hot was the race. Now" burfted ftays" befide, The flowery garland Allan wav'd in air, Death Death of the OLD ROAN HORSE. "He paus'd; when, fudden, from behind the trees, A clattering noise came wafted on the breeze. And now, distinct, the sound of hoofs was heard, 'Tho' neither horfeman's form, nor horfe appear'd ; Till, wheeling round the foreft-fkirts, was feen The poor old Roany on the level green; Who, galloping towards his mafter, fped, And oft, with feeble efforts, rais'd his head Expanding his wide noftrils as for air, Whilft each dim eye-ball caft a tranfient glare; Then, as his mafter he effay'd to greet, Stagger'd, and, falling at Sir Humphrey's feet, Neigh'd, with the triumph of a moment fir'd, And faintly neigh'd again, and strait expir'd. "Alas! (Sir Humphrey cried) my generous Roan! "Faithful for thrice ten years! for ever gone! "How often hath thy back, from jocund morn "To clofing eve thy grateful mafter borne ! "How proud wert thou, with purple houfings deck'd, "And prancing too impatient to be check'd, "When, Sheriff to the county-town I rode ;"Yes! with thy mafter's pomp, thy fpirit glow'd. "And old, my Roany, we together grew, "To the first vows of youthful friendship true. "Yes! thou wert true, tho' ftruggling in the grafp "Of death, yet faithful at thy lateft gafp!" Thus fpoke the Knight; and weeping, like a child, Funeral of Sir HUMPHREY. "Tho' death! thy every feature chill the foul, Yet, lo! thy herfes, more terrific, roll! * "How lengthen'd to the view the Andarton-glooms, When thy pale fteeds high fhook their fable plumes; When, at the waving of thy lurid torch, Where, hung above the little woodbin'd porch, "But whilst thy herfe, in long proceffion drawn, * "Pompa mortis magis terret, quam mers ipfa.” How How teem'd, as fancy all her vifions brought, " "The vault now left, amidst the charnel air, One folitary mourner linger'd there One poor domeftic breath'd the unnotic'd moan, And, with cold nofe, ftill prefs'd the dripping ftone," "Oft, whilst his Lord was ill, the butler faid Poor Cato howl'd, and fadly droop'd his head."Then, weeks ago, while fhudder'd every limb, "I faw the fount o'erflow its rocky brim "And, where fo late it caft the limpid gleam, "Swell round its moffy beech, a puddle ftream. ; "And O! the moment when the Knight was dead The tenants knew; for all the rooks were fled.” "Alas! whilft grief and fear furvey the tomb, To the Author of the Epistle to PETER Pindar. F. HISTORY. 476 HISTORY. SUMMARY OF POLITICS. No circumftance has occurred during the prefent month to enable us to form any decifive opinion refpecting the renewal of hoftilities, or the probable termination of this momentous conteft; on the contrary, the state of Europe exhibits fuch a variety of contradictory fymptoms, that reafon is baffled in the vain attempt to appreciate them, and that oppofite conclufions might be drawn from them, with equal plausiveness, and almoft with an equal chance of justification by future events. One thing is, however, unfortunately, clear; that the French have reaped, and ftill continue to reap, every poffible advantage from the fatal Convention concluded by General Melas. In violation of, what we have always understood to be, its formal ftipu. lations, they have greatly reinforced their army in Italy, have filled the conquered countries with their licentious hordes, and have levied enormous contributions, and even raised troops, in States, the independence of which they had formally proclaimed. In Germany, too, in virtue of the late Convention, they have reaped all the benefit of fuccefsful warfare, without any of its concomitant risks. Nearly the whole of the Republican force has been fubfifting, for some time past, on the plunder of the neighbouring countries. men. The fiat of Bonaparte has produced another Revolution, in the free State of Switzerland, on the laft French model. The hardy mountaineers, ftill retaining fome portion of their native character, vented their indignation in words; but fubmiffion enfued. An attempt has been made by the firft Conful to intimidate the Court of Portugal into a compliance with his demand of 1,250,000£. and of a breach of its treaty with this country; the threatened confequence of a refufal is the invafion of Portugal, with an army of 60,0000 This is nothing more than the revival of an old project of the Directory, firft, indeed, conceived by their predeceffors, the Briffotins and the Robespierreans; who early determined to fend a French Army into Spain, with a view, firft, to fubjugate and revolutionize Portugal, and afterwards to plunder and republicanize Spain herfelf. Naples has also been threatened with a fresh invafion. But the execution of this threat must entirely depend on the conduct of the other powers. Ruffia is bound, by treaty, to defend the kingdom of Naples, against every affailant. As the views of Bonaparte proceed to unfold themselves, the truth of all our obfervations refpecting him is manifested; and the folly of thole fapient politicians who infifted on the determined enmity of their favourite to Jacobinical principles, expofed. In fhort, we defy any man to fhew in what the policy of Bonaparte, relpecting foreign ftates, differs from that of Brillot and of Robelpierre. The object of every fucceffive Ufurper, from the murder of the King to the fubmiffion of his fubjects to a Corfican adventurer, has been the fame, though a change of circumftances has compelled them to vary, in a certain degree, their means of attaining it. Yet |