M ANOTHER PATRIOTIC ORATION. [From the Heart of Oak.] R. Ego, as foon as the tables were clear, I need not declare how I wifh'd war to cease. My Friend's hate of the war, for you all know it well. My Friend, like a prophet, its woes did proclaim; 1 My Friend every effort to stop it did try; VOL. V. L L TRAN WH TRANQUILLITY, AN ODE. Vix ea noftra voco. [From the Morning Poft.] 7HAT ftatesmen scheme, and foldiers work, Will e'er renew th' expiring lease Half-thinking, fenfual France, a natural flave, On thofe ne'er-broken chains, her felf-forg'd chains, will grave; Disturb not me! Some tears I fhed, When bow'd the Swifs his noble head; And future fuel of the funeral pyre,) Now hide, and foon, alas! will feed the low-burnt fire. Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame, Thou ne'er wilt leave my riper age To low intrigue and factious rage: For, O! dear child of thoughtful Truth! To thee I gave my early youth, And left the bark, and bleft the steadfast shore, Ere yet the ftorm-wind rose, and scar'd me with its roar. Who late and lingering feeks thy fhrine, On him but feldom, pow'r divine! Thy fpirit refts. Satiety And floth, poor counterfeits of thee! Mock the tir'd worldling: idle hope And dire remembrance interlope, And vex the fev'rish flumber of the mind; The bubble floats before, the spectre stalks behind. But me, the power divine will lead, At morning, through th` accuftom'd mead : And in the fultry funimer heat Will build me up a moffy feat i And And when the guft of autumn crowds, To her I dedicate the whole; A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile, ON REMARKABLE DEATH. [From the Courier.] N Thurfday, the rft inftant, died, in Downing Street, after a lingering illness, that celebrated perfonage Mr. War. The following biographical sketch of fuch an important character may not prove uninteresting:-Mr. War, like Alexander the Great, and other heroes renowned for their battles, was of doubtful origin. Mr. Fox and other literati, who inquired minutely into his genealogy, maintained that he was a fpurious iffae. Mr. Pitt, and a large majority, pronounced him legitimate. They differed alfo in their accounts of his parents-the one infifted they were English, the other, that they were French. Some have even mentioned Mr. Pitt as the father, others Citizen Sans Culotte; and thus the child was bandied. backwards and forwards between them, with as much heat. and contention as if the parties were afraid of an order of baflardy, and the enormous expenfe of a parochial feaft. Notwithstanding all the pains taken to afcertain his pedigree, the queftion remains ftill much involved in doubt. Had, however, his mother fworn him before a Juftice to Mr. Pitt-had he, Minerva-like, been the child of his brain, the Premier could not have fhewn more fondness for the foundling. This partiality has been imputed by the friends of the Minifter to the intereft which he takes in the cause of humanity; but Goflip Fame, who feldom leans to the charitable fide, has not failed to afcribe it to paternal feeling. Mr. Gay obferves that "The child whom many fathers fhare Not fo with Mr. War. From the moment of his birth, all Europe became folicitous for his fate; but in no place did it excite fo much anxiety as in the English cabinet. His future maintenance and fupport, his profpects, and the ways and means for his advancement, were the primary objects of national concern, and, as fuch, canvaffed and difcuffed, night and day, by the British Minifters. The greateft difficulty which they experienced was in fettling what should be his trade or deftination in life. On this point they had all diftin&t notions, and if they fhould at any time chance to agree, it was ten to one, but that, from the fickleness and obftinacy of the urchin, they would be obliged, the next moment, to change their minds, and make fome other choice. The Earl of Liverpool propofed he fhould enter into partnership with Mr. John Bull, a refpectable merchant in the city, under the perfuafion that the boy, who had a very taking way with him, would certainly fecure the firm a monopoly of trade. Mr. Windham, feeing the little dog's dexterity in bleeding, and amputating limbs, his fkill in all cafes of fracture, and the pleafure which he felt in churchyards, and among the "killed off," was for binding him to a Surgeon. Mr. Dundas thought differently. From his knowledge of military manoeuvres, the Right Honourable Secretary would have him appointed Drill Sergeant, to teach the English recruits their exercife on foreign expeditions. But, whatever might be their individual opinions, they were always ready to give way, with becoming modefty, to the bet ter judgment of Mr. Pitt; confequently they were never long of the fame way of thinking, for never was weathercock more variable than the Premier's mind. Firft he would have young War a Chemist, under an idea that the youth would be able to difcover a mode of making a petrifaction of the Scheldt, and a menftruum that fhould diffolve the connexion between Belgium and France. Next he would have him a Carpenter, for the purpofe of repairing the broken throne of the Bourbons. This determination was no fooner formed than changed; and he would infift that Mr. War muft take holy orders, and become a new pillar of the church for the fupport of religion. Then he would have him a Broker, to enfure the State against loffes. Now an Accoucheur, for the deliverance of Europe; then a mad Doctor, to tie up the French republic in a ftrait waistcoat. Sometimes he would have him a Cafuift, to argue down Gallic principles; fometimes a Bombardier, to batter the conftitution; and fometimes a Calculator, to build up a folid fyftem of finance. Such were the trades and profeffions for which Mr. War was, at various times, def gned, and to which he was exprefsly declared to be devoted by the British Minifters.--Nor were: thefe plans always propofed in fucceffion; from the variety of their own places and finecures, they know perfectly well the advantage of having two firings to a bow; they accordingly inclined in general to educate him like a Welth Parton, being convinced that Mr. War would be perfectly able to bleed, fhave, grind, and alfo to exercife a variety of other trades and employments at the fame time. Preparatory, however, to the execution of any of these plans, it was deemed neceffary that Mr. War fhould |