but the Commander-in-Chief fhould be permitted to examine his extra-extraordinaries. As for fecret service money, the title will be loft, amidst the explosion of fhells or the fpringing of countermines; and I believe we must have recourfe to the practice of that able politician of antiquity, Philip of Macedon, who declared that an afs, with a fack of gold upon his back, was as good a negotiator as any Ambaffador hè could employ; and that he never faw the fortified town, into which fuch an envoy would not contrive to enter with his load. I am, Sir, &c.

Dec. 13.

A BIT OF A Diplomate.

THE DEAR LITTLE ISLE.

[From the fame.]

SHALL the dear little ifle in the midst of the fea,
For its prowess renown'd in the annals of fame,
Fall cafy to Jaffa's fell butcher a prey,

And plunge from the acme of honour to fhame?
No; for while British hearts to each other are true,
They may laugh at the Corfican tyrant's alarms;
In vain the attempt Freedom's fons to fubdue,

Though the world were united against us in arms.
Dear Freedom! we hail thee, we bless thee; to thee,
When dangers most threaten, undaunted we'll fly;
Still Britons, like Britons, will dare to be free,
And, as their forefathers, will conquer or die.
If, blind to the future, the Demon of Gaul,
Urg'd by fury, attempt to invade us-how vain!
For, like Lucifer dreadful, the monfter fhall fall,.
Never, never, to rife, to invade us again.

Then quick let him come, that all difcord may cease,
That Humanity's bofom be eas'd of its pain,
That nations enflav'd may the moment embrace,
And burst from their fetters to freedom again.
Newbury.

T. WEEDON.

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