How far they can pass from the fun'ral array
Of one, whom they sought in their trouble and

sorrow;

How Princes may share his proud banquet to-day, Whose pall may be borne up by BINNING to

morrow!

And thou, too, whose life, a mere "fundament's " dream,

Incoherent and gross, even grosser had pass'd, Were it not for that sportive and ludicrous beam,

Which his jinglings and jests o'er thy Lexicon cast:

No, not for the wealth of the land that supplies thee With pensions to heap upon Bribery's shrineNo, not for the riches of all who despise thee, Though that would make England's whole opulence mine;

Would I suffer what-e'en in the heart that thou hast

All cold as it is-must have consciously burn'd, From his wounds when instead of appearance the last,

To your bosom, and jobs, your foil'd foeman re

turn'd!

"Was this then the fate," future ages will say,

When some names shall live but on Liberty's curse

When Truth shall be heard, and these Lords of their

day

Be forgotten as fools, or remember'd as worse;—

"Was this then the fate of that high-pension'd man,

The pride of St. Stephen's, St. Giles's, and allThe merriman-parodist-punster-who ran Through each mode of the Lyar, and was master of all?

"Whose mind was like HARVEY *, compounded with art

From the purest and dearest of opposite powersWho rul'd, like a Momus, the world of the heart, Yet could call up its tortures and bring down its showers!

"Whose humour, as gay as the flame of gas-light, Play'd round ev'ry sorrow, and smil'd while it play'd

Whose wit on a Rupture, as feeling as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-sigh or blush on its blade!

"Whose eloquence-mocking whatever it tried, Whether Reason, or Fancy, the gay or the graveWas as rapid, as chaste, and as brilliant a tide

As ever bore Warren + aloft on its wave!"

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*The author of Sauces, not of Meditations.

+ The ingenious extoller of his own composition

Yes-such was the man, and so wretched his fate : And thus, sooner or later, shall all have to grieve, Who waste their morn's dew on the spoils of the State, And expect 't will return to refresh them at eve!

On the Treasury Bench there are vermin that prey On the cheese of JOIN BULL to his very last rind; O Humbug! thy Colleagues, more cruel than they, First fed on thy brains, then to kill thee combin'd.

the man of blacking. We cannot, in justice to the memory of the late Mr. CANNING, resist calling our Readers' attention to the analogy of character between these celebrated rivals. Both Poets, to begin with. Both had the art of drawing attention by illustrations to all appearance totally irrelevant to their subject. Both of them dealt in the ludicrous, to the exclusion of every thing bordering on the serious. Both of them flourished on public credulity; both were in the habit of pressing themselves on public attention. Polished, however, as each was in his own line of business, and brilliant as was their mutual success (both of them particularly shining on their legs), it would be pre: umption to assign the palm; we can only say, "Et VITULÆ tu dignus," begging to be understood as having no intention of a pun to boot. We must conclude by observing, however high, and justly so, Mr. CANNING's name must always stand, coupled with the glory of Lisbon, Mr. WARREN has at least equal claims to the admiration and grati tude of Japan.

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THEATRICALS.

SUMMER ENGAGEMENTS.

May 30, 1818.

THE Manager of the DUNSTABLE COMPANY las engaged several of the London Performers, or, as they are styled," His Majesty's Servants,” to appear on his Boards in their favourite Characters. The selection they have made is as follows; and their salaries will, very agreeably to their feelings and habits, be an equal share of candles'-ends, &c.

Duke of CLARENCE-Amoroso, King of Little Britain-Lovemore, in the Lying Lover-and Jack Amorous, in Durfey's Love for Money.

Mr.VANSITTART-Resource, in the Bankrupt, by Foote-Mr. Aircastle, in the Cozeners-and Transfer, in the Minor.

Lord SIDMOUTH-Feeble, in Second Part of Henry IV. Wat Dreary, in the Beggar's Operaand Peeping Tom.

Mr. OLIVER-Fang or Snare, in the 'Squire of Alsatia and Jenny Diver, à "Decoy Duck," as Macheath calls her, in the Beggar's Opera.

Lord KENSINGTON-Rat-cliffe, in Richard III.

Mr. CROKER-Zachary Fungus, in Foote's Commissary-Tag, in the Spoiled Child-and Crookfinger'd Jack, in the Beggar's Opera.

Mr. BRAGGE BATHURST-Old Zachary Bragg, in Love for Money-Bottom, in Midsummer Night -Vapid, in the Dramatist-and Shallow, in Hen

ry IV.

Lord STEWART-Lord Drybone, in the Country Wit.

Mr. WILBERFORCE-Cantwell, in the Hypocrite. Lord ELLENBOROUGH Cardinal Wolsey, in Henry VIII.-Justice Guttle, in the Lying Valetand Holofernes, in Love's Labour Lost.

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Sir JOHN LEECH-The Rat behind the Arras, in Hamlet-Bowkit, in the Son-in-Law-and 'Squire Groom, in Love-à-la-Mode.

Marquis CAMDEN-Old Wiggins, in Mrs. Wig. gins-and Sir John Swallow, in the Feign'd Innocence, or Sir Martin Mar-all.

Mr. WELLESLEY POLE-Mat of the Mint, in the Beggar's Opera.

Earl of BEAUCHAMP-Prince Prettyman, in the Rehearsal-Booby, in the Country Wit-Bullcalf, in Henry V.-and Fribble, in Miss in her Teens.

Lord ELDON-Gripe, in the Miser-and Cautious, in Transformation, or Love and Law. Mr.HILEY ADDINGTON-Noodle, in Tom Thumb.