EPIGRAM ON HEARING A DISCOURSE FROM THE FOLLOWING THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT [From the fame.] N days of yore, some distant time, It might have been a heinous crime: But now the adage will not fit, Thanks to our good friend Billy Pitt; Woburn. OF FOR ON THE LATE BILL INFLICTING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ON THE COUNTERFEITERS OF THE SILVER NOTES-BANK DOLLARS. TH [From the fame.] "We are baftards all; And that most venerable man, which I When I was fampt. Some coiner, with his tools, HIS head, this dollar's royal fign, is George's; His thoughts, his phrafes foar with towering flight; SIC VOLO SIC JUBEO. [From the fame.] SAYS P.tt, I'm Dictator, and therefore, of course, OF THE LATE HAPPY RESTORATION OF A L OF THE K'S BEDCHAMBER. [From the fame.] WHEN a K-g gives a Courtier a kick on the breech, A kifs from his hand, with an office to boot, SAYS EPIGRAM. [From the Morning Post.] AYS Old Nick to his crony, old Emperor Nero, As together they fat in a fulphury bower"I'm refolv'd now to finish my Corfican Hero, By crowning his wifhes with abfolute power.” Says Nero-" Great King of Hell's gloomy dominion! Ponder well what your Majefty 's going to doHis ambition 's fo boundless, that 't is my opinion, It never will reft till he overturns you.' HAFIZ, BONAPARTE'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE CROWN: A PARODY. [From the Morning Herald.] The Senate-MY Lord, this argues confcience in your Grace, But the refpects thereof are nice and trivial, All circumstances well confider'd— Then, Then, good my Lord, take to your noble felf Mayor of Paris-Do, good my Lord-your Citizens entreat you Senate--Refufe not, mighty Lord, this proffer'd love.- I do b.feech you, take it not amifs- [Exeunt Senatores. Duroc Call them again, Conful, accept their fuit; If you deny them, all the land will rue it. Bonaparte Will you enforce me to a world of cares? Well, call them again; I am not made of stone, Colleague Cambaceres, and you fage, grave men, Mayor-God blefs your Grace! we fee it, and will fay it. All-Amen. Senate-To-morrow may it please you to be crown'd? Bonaparté-E'en when you pleafe, for you will have it fo Senate-To-morrow, then, we will attend your Grace, And fo moft joyfully we take our leave. Bonaparte to the Archbishop of Paris-Come, let us to our holy work again Farewell, good Senate-farewell, gentle friends. THE THE CORONATION CEREMONY (BY ANTICIPATION) OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY NAPOLEON THE FIRST (CI-DEVANT BRUTUS ALY BONAPARTE), BY THE GRACE OF THE BAYONETS, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, KING OF THE LOMBARDS, &c. &c. &c. THE [From the British Prefs.] HE feftivity of the day was announced by the firing of the cannon oppofite the church of St. Roch, and afterwards proclaimed by Heralds, dreffed in five-coloured jackets, in honour of the five conftitutions which France has fworn to preferve within thefe laft twelve years. That the good Parifians might diftinctly fee the ceremony, the Prefect of the Police had ordered a general illumination for twenty-four hours, from the fun-rife of one day to the fun-rife of the next. Instead of Aix-la Chapelle or of Rheims, to avoid giving offence either to the fhades of Charlemagne, or to thofe of the Bourbons, the Confervative Senate had decreed that the coronation fhould be performed at Bicetre, the ancient family refidence of the Bonaparté family. The proceffion fet out from the Thuilleries in the following order: Eight running footmen, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, a Swifs, an Italian, a Spaniard, a Portuguefe, a Pruffian, and a Bavarian, each leading an afs richly caparifoned; fix Lords in waiting, an Auftrian, a Ruffian, a Swede, a Dane, a Saxon, and an American, all packed up in the fame ftate carriage, on which, infiead of a coat of arms, were painted the Temple in perfpe&ive; five bannerets, General La Fayette, dreffed à la Pantaloon, carrying an urn, with the afhes of the Rights of Man, General Charles Lameth, dreffed à la Harlequin, carrying the Tree of Liberty reduced to a walking-flick; the Senator Fouché dreffed à la Sans Culotte, with a wooden bafin, bafin, containing the afhes of the Bible burned by him in 1793, at Lyons, in a republican auto da fé; the Tribune Carnot, dreffed à la Carmagnol, with a cloak à la Tartuffe, decorated with a Jacobin cap, covered with black crape, with the infcription Refurgam; and Citizen Barrere, dreffed in a Corfican livery, carrying a guillotine fresh painted with the blood of the Duke of Enghien. Seven banner-carriers, each having in his hand a bamboo pole, with a paper flag nailed to it, on which were painted the dates of the respective republican conftitutions, with thefe words, Fidelity to the Conftitution, or Death; the Senator Abbé Sieyes carried the Conftitution of 1791; the Senator Bifhop Gregoire, that of 1793; the Senator Boiffy d'Anglas, that of 1795; the Senator François de Neufchateau, the Conftitutional variations of 1797; the Senator Volney, the Conftitution of 1799; the Senator Roederer, the Conftitutional variations of 1802; and the Senator Jofeph Bonaparté, the Imperial Republican Conflitution of 1804. The Mameluke Roftan carried the Swords of State and of Juftice, before the Grand Judge, Regnier, who was attended by a numerous fuite of one hundred Special Military Commiffioners; fifty thoufand Jailors; twenty-five thousand Executioners; and fifteen hundred thoufand Spies; headed by Citizen Mehée, Spy-in-Chief of the French Republic. Ten millions of Members of the Legion of Honour, carrying with them nine millions nine hundred and ninety-nine reprieves from the gallows, from the gallies, from the hulks, from the pillories, and from the houfes of correction. They all wore the new Imperial Order of St. Guillotine, fufpended in a tri-coloured riband. The collars of this order were chains highly finished, interwoven with guillotines, daggers, and bayonets; the robes of the order red, couleur du fang, |