The Republican Rattle Snake fascinating the Bedford Squirrel. The Ratth Shake is a Creatur of the greatest subatry: when it is desirous of preying upon any Animal which is in a situation above Iself it fires its Eye upon the unsuspecting object & by the noise of Is Ratik fascinates & confounds the unfortunate Victim Will leasing all Sense & discernment, it falls, a prey into the Mouth of the horrid Monitor. Plany Not. His vol 366

"All creeping creatures, venomous and low, PAINE, WILLIAMS, GODWIN, HOLCROFT, praise LEpaux !

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And every other beast after his kind.

join'd,*

"And thou, Leviathan! on ocean's brim Hugest of living things that sleep and swim; Thou, in whose nose, by BURKE'S gigantic hand The hook was fixed to drag thee to the land, —, and —, in thy train, wallowing in the yeasty main,-† Still as ye snort, and puff, and spout, and blow, In puffing, and in spouting, praise LEPAUX!

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BRITAIN, beware; nor let th' insidious foe, Of force despairing, aim a deadlier blow; Thy Peace, thy Strength, with devilish wiles assail, And when her Arms are vain, by Arts prevail. True, thou art rich, art powerful!-thro' thine Isle Industrious skill, contented labour, smile; Far Seas are studded with thy countless sails; What wind but wafts them, and what shore but hails! True, thou art brave!-o'er all the busy land

In patriot ranks embattled myriads stand;

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* The Reader is at liberty to fill up the blanks according to his own opinion, and after the chances and changes of the times. It would be highly unfair to hand down to posterity as followers of Leviathan, the names of men who may, and probably will soon, grow ashamed of their leader.

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Consume and swallow navigation up. Macbeth. [Applied to S. Whitbread, M.P., the Brewer.-ED.]

Thy foes behold with impotent amaze
And drop the lifted weapon as they gaze

But what avails to guard each outward part,
If subtlest poison, circling at thy heart,
Spite of thy courage, of thy pow'r, and wealth,
Mine the sound fabric of thy vital health?

So thine own Oak, by some fair streamlet's side,
Waves its broad arms, and spreads its leafy pride,
Tow'rs from the earth, and rearing to the skies
Its conscious strength, the tempest's wrath defies.
Its ample branches shield the fowls of air,
To its cool shade the panting herds repair.
The treacherous current works its noiseless way,
The fibres loosen, and the roots decay;
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter, perish in its fall.

O thou! lamented SAGE! whose prescient scan
Pierc'd through foul Anarchy's gigantic plan,
Prompt to incredulous hearers to disclose

The guilt of France, and Europe's world of woes ;-
Thou, on whose name each distant age shall gaze,
The mighty sea-mark of these troubled days!

O large of soul, of genius unconfin'd,

Born to delight, instruct, and mend mankind!
BURKE! in whose breast a Roman ardour glow'd;
Whose copious tongue with Grecian richness flow'd;
Well hast thou found (if such thy country's doom),
A timely refuge in the sheltering tomb!

As, in far realms, where eastern kings are laid,
In pomp of death, beneath the cypress shade,

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The perfum'd lamp with unextinguish'd light

Flames through the vault, and cheers the gloom of night:

So, mighty BURKE! in thy sepulchral urn,

To Fancy's view, the lamp of Truth shall burn.
Thither late times shall turn their reverent eyes,
Led by thy light, and by thy wisdom wise.

There are, to whom (their taste such pleasures cloy)
No light thy wisdom yields, thy wit no joy.
Peace to their heavy heads, and callous hearts,
Peace-such as sloth, as ignorance imparts!
Pleas'd may they live to plan their country's good,
And crop with calm content their flow'ry food!

What though thy venturous spirit loved to urge
The labouring theme to Reason's utmost verge,
Kindling and mounting from th' enraptur'd sight;
Still anxious wonder watch'd thy daring flight!
While vulgar minds, with mean malignant stare,
Gazed up, the triumph of thy fall to share!
Poor triumph! price of that extorted praise,
Which still to daring Genius Envy pays.

Oh! for thy playful smile, thy potent frown, To abash bold Vice, and laugh pert Folly down! So should the Muse, in Humour's happiest vein, With verse that flowed in metaphoric strain, And apt allusions to the rural trade,

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Tell of what wood young JACOBINS are made;

How the skill'd gardener grafts with nicest rule
The slip of coxcomb on the stock of fool;

Forth in bright blossom bursts the tender sprig,
A thing to wonder at- perhaps a Whig:
Should tell, how wise each half-fledged pedant prates
Of weightiest matters, grave distinctions states,
That rules of policy, and public good,
In Saxon times were rightly understood;
That kings are proper, may be useful things,
But then, some gentlemen object to kings;
That in all times the minister's to blame;
That British liberty's an empty name,
Till each fair burgh, numerically free,
Shall choose its members by the Rule of Three.

So should the Muse, with verse in thunder clothed,
Proclaim the crimes by God and Nature loathed.
Which-when fell poison revels in the veins-
(That poison fell, which frantic Gallia drains
From the crude fruit of Freedom's blasted tree)
Blot the fair records of Humanity.

To feebler nations let proud France afford
Her damning choice, the chalice or the sword,
To drink or die ;-O fraud! O specious lie!
Delusive choice! for if they drink, they die.

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* i.e. Perhaps a member of the WHIG CLUB-a Society that has presumed to monopolize to itself a title to which it never had any claim, but from the character of those who have now with. drawn themselves from it. "Perhaps" signifies that even the WHIG CLUB Sometimes rejects a candidate whose PRINCIPLES (risum teneatis) it affects to disapprove. [Referring to the secession of the DUKE OF PORTLAND and others from the Whig Club in consequence of their not approving of all the proceedings of Fox and his more violent adherents. SHERIDAN met with so much opposition to his entrance into the Whig Club, that he succeeded in getting admitted only by stratagem.-ED.]