canvafs, and application, for the purpofe as aforefaid, and your Petitioners will every pray.

(Signed)

A

A POLITICAL DEATH IN 1804.

[From the Morning Chronicle.]

DOCTOR once, fo runs the ftory,
Had rac'd his high career of glory,
And, left with scarce a pint of breath,
Lay gasping on the bed of death.

The caufe was, as fome folks fuppose,
Of his own ftuff he 'd ta'en a dose;
But furely he who knew the trash,
Could not (we think) have been fo raflı.
Fame, who admir'd him to a weakness,
Gives other reafons for his fickness:
She fays, that he, in earlier days,
A brifk Apothecary was;

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Could amongst Country Gents" look big,
Kept a fnug" Chair," and wore "a Wig,"
In "Order" kept the "Houses" round him,
Or finding riotous Members, bound them;
Kept Colic down, cur'd indigeftion,
In doubtful cafes " put the queftion."
His Aye and No ftill rul'd the nation-
Such was the Doctor's reputation.

But as it hap'd, the fiend Ambitioù
Whisper'd, "Good Doctor, turn_Physician :”
He did, and, feeming quite the thing,
Was made phyfician to the K*** ;
And now began the Doctor's plague-
Though he'd an underftrapper Bra***,
A brother in the healing art,

Still, ftill, he could not play his part-
(Though Bra***, with any man a fee
Could handle, let who will be he ;)

In each new case-Heav'n blefs the mark-
Were our fons of Galen in the dark.

Amidft

Amidst his numerous patients caine
A female, we'll B—t—a name;
Women nor ftates can always laft-
And so her better days were past.
Her natural conftitution good,
Veins never heav'd with purer blood;
But time, and want of care and wisdom,
Had lodg'd fome humours in the system:
Befides, he had, as fome advance,
A Jhaking ague, caught from France.
They judg'd it beft to take advice-
Call'd in the Doctor :-in a trice
He council took, read cafes, br—d,
Bow'd, hemm'd, and then, alas! prefcrib'd.
Well, the refult?-Why then the Doctor
Lull'd her with opiates, footh'd her, rock'd her;
Nor ceas'd he till he faw her lie

Plung'd in a nine months lethargy*;

Then chang'd his plans ;-)

-put

blifters on her,

Sullied her name, undid her honour.

She ftood, as thadowy forms are seen,

The ghost of what the once had been.

But then her friends?-Why, mark the fequel:

They 've rous'd; and, to the combat equal,

Have roll'd fuch thunders o'er his head

As ftretch'd him on yon lowly bed;
They 've brought him to his proper level-
Incompetence of good or evil.

So Fame reports-we backward bend,
The tale which we begun, to end :
We left the Doctor fpent of "breath,"
And "gafping on the bed of death."

When April's three-and-twentieth fun
Its fickly courfe had almoft run-
St. Stephen's clock had juft ftruck five,
The Doctor, now but half alive,

Summons his friends :-" pillows of hop"

His aching head affiduous prop.

It is a queftion among historians whether this event be contemporaneous with our laft peace.

"My friends," he cries, " 't is odd or even,
If I this night don't quit St. Stephen-
Here your own Doctor proftrate lies,
With none but you to close his eyes.
But we again fhall meet."" Shall meet,”

Said a hoarfe voice which thook the ftreet-
'T was Carlo's not in flesh and blood

Array'd, the form terrific food;
Death-like, "he hook a grifly dart."

"Meet, Doctor!—we must talk before we part.”-
Stretch'd on a rack, and bound by Spell
The fimple truth alone to tell,

The Doctor lies-The foe began :
"Doctor, what made thee, less than man,
Wink at the Slave Trade-balk the nation
In Catholic emancipation?

What made thee to the tempter hearken ?"
"A Royal Villa Richmond Park in."
"In affluent cafe what veteran dwells
Rich with the Clerkship of the Pells?
To whom a fource of well-carn'd joy,
A princely gift!"-" My little boy.
"Who groans beneath the canvass bag,
Six thousand strong ?"" My brother Bra***"
"What veteran troops, nurs'd in the storm,
Cradled in war, with valour warm,

Will meet the Frenchman when he fteers
His courfe towards us?"Volunteers."
"What fleet prepares to plough the wave,
The thunders of the Gaul to brave?
Your fleet who builds, caulks, bottoms, rigs?
What are your veffels?"" Little brigs."

'T was faid, the mighty spectre heav'd a figh,
Thou ftate empiric, man of med'cine, die!"
Aim'd at the head, the heav'n-attemper'd dart
Rebounds;-unblunted, then, it fought the heart.-
Transfix'd, the Premier totters to his fall,

Th' indignant Spirit ftalks to Surprens' Hall. May-2.

J. W.

A FARE

A FAREWELL TO THE DOCTOR.

CA

[From the Oracle.]

AN the Doctor's power miscarry?
Is it true he 's gone to pot?
Surgeon, Quack, Apothecary,

Sons of Galen, mourn his lot.

Though rais'd by P-t to place and power,
His friend and patron he betray'd;
Stole on his K-g's unguarded hour,

And, lo! the Quack a Statesman 's made.
He found the country great and glorious,
The pride and envy of the world;
Secure at home, abroad victorious,
Where'er our banners were unfurl'd.
A few short months, this vifion past,
Our conquefts, ftrength, and credit gone,
The sky with low'ring clouds o'ercast,
No ray to light or cheer us fhone.

To gild this gloom that chill'd the brave,
To guide us through the threat'ning war,
He bids us truft his power to fave,
And look to him, our polar star!

But England's Genius faves her still;
Her fenates fpeak what none dare doubt,
The fovereign-univerfal will-

And Ad

-n-(THANK GOD!)-IS OUT.

ANTI-QUACK,

ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY!

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[From the fame.]

TO BE DISPOSED OF, AND ENTERED UPON
IMMEDIATELY,

In the Neighbourhood of Downing Street,

Westminster,

AN EXTENSIVE and VALUABLE CONCERN in the MEDICAL LINE, the FIRM being about to be diffolved.-This Undertaking is thought to be

VOL. VIII.

an object of confideration to the first talents and connexion in the kingdom, as it affords the profpect of profit, intereft, honour, and advantage, in the most unbounded fcale. There is no business in Great Britain which has had fuch a long-established credit and confidence, and few that have been more generally recommended. It requires no capital, the Firm being fupported by general contribution.

The prefent Proprietors deem it incumbent upon them to offer to the Public their reafons for quitting the Trade, which undoubtedly has not answered in their hands, beyond fome lucrative provision to individuals. They were under the neceffity, in the firft inftance(although they did not purchafe or poffefs the goodwill which ought to have followed the bufinefs)-to take it under very great difadvantages, in confequence of the great skill and profeffional knowledge of their predeceffors. They had, however, every reafon to believe the bufinefs would have anfwered to them; but unfortunately, in the firft inftance, they made a treaty which turned out a very bad fpeculation, and placed at the head of their Firm, a perfon who (although he had taken his degree of Doctor) poffeffed neither firmness, talent, connexion, nor activity. Their Stock, however, was compofed of the greatelt variety; and no experiment, no quackery, falfehood, or expedient of any fort or kind, was wanting to fecure a permanency. and fuccefs in the bufinefs. New Partners were admitted, at great and immoderate falaries, numberlefs prefcriptions offered; but the former were found ignorant, and the Public were not fatisfied with the latter. The fubordinate Agents in this Firm were likewise greatly wanting in preparing and dealing out the Medicines, and too ignorant and contemptible to give credit and weight to the prefcriptions of the Doctor. Notwithstanding thefe difadvantages the bufinefs would have been continued, although the Country and the Doctor