From you the humble Bishops pray,
To light the Church, one facred ray,
Clouded by Popery's vapours;
They preach in no myfterious tone,
That Minifters betray the throne,"
Who fpread feditious papers.

Courage, great Sir, the chair refign,
Your oily eloquence will fhine,
And lull the ftorms of ftate;

Quir melting scenes of nuptial life-
For rowns, hard words, and bitter ftrife,
In many a fharp debate.

So Regulus, by Horace * fing,

Though babes and wife around him clung,
Difplay'd the Roman still;

At Carthage cafk'd 'midft pointed nails,
Such rage in Jacobins prevails!
They roll'd him down the hill.

ANOTHER ODE,

Addreffed to the Right Hon. H. Ad

[From the Morning Chronicle, April.],

Ultima Cumæi venit jam carminis ætas;
Magnus ab integro. fcelerum nafcitur ordo.

LO, Daniel tells, in prefcient ftrain,
The glories of our monarch's reign-
Your high and fplendid station!
Though P-t has play'd a fhameful part,
The Prophet tunes your loyal heart
To notes of adulation!

*Fertur pudicæ conjugis ofculum,
Parvofque natos, ut capitis minor,'
Ab fe removiffe et virilem,
Torvus humi pofuiffe vultum.

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Let modeft Hawkesbury declare
Your fhining talents for the Chair,
Which M-td will enfure us:
When on that facred tripod plac'd,
E'en be, with godlike virtues grac'd,
Ex ligno fit Mercurius!

Whene'er a Treafury note you fing,
The Senate to your accents cling;
E'en frigid Pitt you fire

To taste the joys of am'rous life!—
He longs for boys, and girls, and wife,
And envies pouse and fire*!
You trim the lamp of peace with care,
For ever fet yon Northern Bear-
Dundas's conftellation:
Malignant, peftilential ray,

That led poor 'P-1-d's dupes aftray,
And fhed war-and starvation!

Wife Daniel faw the fatal hour
That ends Pitt's long-protracted power
E'en while he stronger waxes:
Still unimpeach'd for blood and battle-
Perfuafive, too, his prittle prattle
To raise propitious taxes!

Great Daniel's Chancellor, be ftout,
And, now you 're in-keep old friends out;
Ne'er fwerve from golden rules;

Like earwig A-k-d twift and twine,
And fwear, with him, the word refign
Proves Minifters are fools!

Cling to the Throne, truft royal grace;
If clamour drive you from your place,
Like Walpole you'll prevail:-

To Paradife thus Brahmins fly

By faith, and grafping, when they die,

A cow's anointed tail † !

*When I confulted the feelings of a husband and a father.”—

Chancellor of the Exchequer's Speech on Mr. Grey's Motion.

+ Bartolomeo's Voyage to the Eaft Indies.

MEDALLION

[From the Morning Herald.]}

IS manner is dignified and majestic: his eloquence flows with fuch an impreffive grandeur, as commands attention, and fecures admiration; it is never fullied by arrogance or ill temper, nor is it ever degraded by levity, by fpleen, or by rancorous personality. It was this lofty ftrain of attractive, but unoffending eloquence, moft beautifully blended with a manly diffidence, that procured him, in the early period of his parliamentary career, the esteem of all parties. An accomplished fcholar, regularly bred to the bar, deeply verfed in the laws and conftitution of his country, a ftrenuous fupporter of that glorious and matchlefs fabric, he was chofen by the great body of the Commons to the very arduous, but highly honourable fituation of prefiding in their Chair as Speaker. He was elevated, too, to that diftinguished pre-eminence at a most interesting period; and he fo ably filled the Chair for nearly eleven years, that when he was commanded by his Sovereign to relinquish it for an office of greater truft, though not of greater dignity, he defcended from it with the warm regard, but with the deep regret, of the whole House! His knowledge, his affiduity, his temper, his conciliation, his impartiality, his politenefs, and the dignified mode in which he conducted himfelf while in that Chair, never were excelled, and perhaps never equalled. In this high office, by the admirable manner in which he fulfilled all its dutics, he gained the peculiar favour of his Sovereign: and he is by no means the ephemeral favourite of a day; for his talents, his probity, his equanimity, and his virtues, have endeared him for many years to his Majefty, who reveres him as a gentleman that would confer honour

on the greateft poft that he had the power to beftow. His worth and his merits having been the more diftinguifhedly afcertained, the more that maturity unfolded them to the Reprefentatives of the People, no wonder that the fagacious Monarch fhould feize the firft great opportunity of elevating their chofen and tried pilot to steer, with equal fkill, the grand and imperial veffel of the ftate he who fo fuccefsfully guided the Commons Houfe of Parliament throughout the impending hurricanes of anarchy and ruin-he whofe conciliatory tongue tended fo' fweetly to footh the afperity of party--he whofe vivid and impartial eye beamed with equal warmth on each fide of the Houfe, to animate its eloquence, and to give the moft unbounded fcope to all the embellifhments of claffic reafoning! This is the man that is now fum moned by his Sovereign to exert all his energies in a new fphere of action, that he may promote the glory of his prince, and the happiness of his people. In the fplendid and folid refources of his own mind, he is bleffed with every requifite to qualify him for fuch a talk and when to thefe is added the experience he has acquired in that House over which he has fo long and fo greatly prefided, all must acknowledge that he is amply ftored with talents to afford as much fatisfaction on the Treafury Bench as he formerly did in the Speaker's Chair. If the waters of anarchy be not fill out if the cheering landmarks of focial order be reappearing-if the Gallic deluge be rapidly receding he will waft, with an ardent promptitude, and a humane fincerity, the British olive to afflicted France. He will fhut the temple of Janus; he will open the temples of Concord and of Peace-and while he feels all the faculties of his foul grandly, expand by a prince's love and an empire's confidence, the vaft objects of his ambition will be, next to a fecure and honourable peace, to diminish national ex

penditure,

penditure, and to ameliorate the condition of a moft loyal and patriotic people, by adopting every prudent measure that can tend to reduce the price of the indifpenfable neceffaries of life, and promote the public welfare. In fuch glorious pursuits, he will be honoured by the Houfe, at all times, with the fame attention and refpect as when he fo worthily filled the Chair; when he used to point out, with the moft delicate propriety, any deviation from order; or when he occafionally interfered in a debate, and had a liftening Senate hanging on his tongue. They will be eager to cherish the magnanimous views of their former Prefident; they will be proud to fupport their favourite delegate, when now delegated by the Sovereign to prefide over their conftituents, as well as over themfelves, in the more enlarged capacity of being the Great Steward of the British empire: they will revere the Premier on the Bench with the fame cordiality as when he prefided in their Chair; for they have already perceived, that, with his integrity, no change of place can mould down talent, can blemish virtue, or wound their confidence: and the nation at large will foon hallow the penetrating eye of the Sovereign, that had the wife difcrimination to appoint fuch a man, at fuch a crifis, to be his fteady and his fkilful July 7. PALINURUS.

MR. EDITOR,

POLITICAL POETRY.

[From the Morning Chronicle.]

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