As if, to refift Bonaparte's invafion, For aught but "well-meaning" there's any occafion! Than the candour which charm'd-and which chous'd it before! As if promifes falfe, with words that are fair, When they did for a peace-would not do for a war! Leave the praife of the one-- whom all the world knows,' And" (bowing, and pouching the half-a-crown flily)— "When I speak of the other-I always mean-Hiley *" Y MORE OF THE DOCTOR. [From the fame.] E members, wherefoe'er you fit, Low he bends before you, hoping He may find your bowels open, Bowels open, to soft pity! He pleads he's not the firft phyfician For when Macbeth, by terror seiz'd, Mi-nifter to a mind difeas'd. He next requir'd fome drug of art To cleanfe his ftomach and his heart Of all the "tuff that gave offence;" And afk'd from the empiric's power Purge, to fcour th' enemy thence! Juft fo, your Doctor was call'd in, Procure a motion, Motion for the quack's removal. MORE YET. [From the fame.] THE Doctor, forc'd to find a tax, All ways and means would try at ; 'Tis true we found the bolus bitter, But to refift fhould he expect us, To make his phyfic fweeter, With forc'd furcharges he 'll inject us, BRODUM. BRODUM. DIALOGUE BETWEEN. THE IN AND EX MINISTER. Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode 9., WHILS "Donec gratus eram tibi." AN. HILST I but faw with your bright eyes, Nor envied me my feeming pow'r, Fleeting, poffefs'd but for the hour, PT. PT. Whilft I, fub rofa, play'd alone, AN. Though late, mad Bonaparté bullied, PT. An equal zeal my bofom fires, AN. Aye, aye-I fee-your pow'r reftor'd, PT. H-11! H-Il! detected, baffled, driv'n With him will live, with him will die. *Alluding to the Woolfack. The pillar on which the Right Hon. Gentleman's ftatue is to be erected. то TO AN EX-MINISTER, PINING AFTER HIS MR. EDITOR, PLACE. [From the British Prefs.] The inceffant growl of the Gs, the P-s, the Ws, and their obfcure parafites and underftrappers, against the prefent Adminiftration, with no other view than to regain thofe places of emolument which they fo foully forfeited, gave birth to the following effufion. I am, yours, &c. THE maftiff that has tafted blood Kick'd by thy Sn from thy place, How couldst thou, W have the face To try to fill that post again? Now for a tale thine ears prepare- THE THIEF. A rogue, for housebreaking and theft, To work a piece of juftice on his hide; Her art was moft ingenioufly applied; PHILO. In fhort, the knave receiv'd a handfome flogging; He bore the fhock, Alk'd not for water once-not e'en a noggin! Soon as his punishment was paft, His eyes upon a house he caft: Pondering, and furveying it all over "What!" cried the Beadle, who stood by, The longitude art trying to difcover ?" "I'm thinking," quoth the Thief, "that with a fleight, I'd rob you linen-draper's fhop to-night." POLITICAL ASTRONOMY OF ENGLAND. [From a French Paper.] ENGLAND is a planet, as we all know, wholly feparated from the Earth-Toto divisos orbe Britannos. She is, however, not lefs anxious to exert her influence on that point. This planet feems to contain in its centre of gravitation, fatellites of the following defcription: Canning.-He defcribes a diurnal revolution round himself, and an annual revolution round Mr. Pitt. He is the fmalleft of all the English ftars. It requires an excellent telescope to difcover him. He is continually loft in the rays of Lord Grenville, or of Mr. Pitt. Dundas. He defcribes his diurnal revolution round France, and his aunual round the world. It is in Scotland and in India that you may take the best obfervation of him. He has laboured under a momentary eclipse; but it is ftill expected that he will re appear. Hawkesbury-A ftar of much brilliancy, but which fhines only with a borrowed light. Aftronomers have hitherto been puzzled to describe its course; it seems to be liable to continual aberrations. Windham. He belonged to the Burkean conftellation, which has difappeared. This is a moft eccentric meteor, and partakes of the nature of the comet. Aftronomers are ftrongly of opinion, that, if he be not clofely confined to his orbit, he must end in the deftruction of the world. Pitt.-A ftar of the first magnitude. He turns continually round George III. from which he is repelled by a centrifugal motion. It is principally at the Stock Exchange, or St. Stephen's Chapel, that a due obfervation may be taken of him. Fox. He is the polar ftar of England. In every ftorm and tempeft, feamen turn intuitively towards him to inquire into their latitude. Addington. |