Beneath the cloister's hallow'd floor
Burrow to fap their cellar door,

And broach their cafks of mellow'd juices,
Long fet apart for pious ufes.
Philofophy of Gallic climes,
Parent of unexampled crimes!
Philofophy who, while the clouds
Bright revelation's day, unthrouds
DARK LANTERN OF REGENERATION,
That will-o'-wifp of the GREAT NATION,
Whofe glimmering fparkles emanate
From rotten pediment o' the ftate,
Juft as ftale fish and carrion trash is
Known to emit electric flashes.
But if Perception's door be shut,
And denfity of occiput
Chance to make inadmiffible
Her Gallic DARKNESS VISIBLE,
Philofophy fhall crack the pate
To let it in at any rate;

And all who dare to shut their eyes
'Gainft its dim gleam feptemberize,
Or guillotine the dogs by fhoals
Only for being blind as moles;
Or, if they venture to befeech
Her pity, drown 'em all and each;
Or cut the varlet's throats, or gibbet 'em

On Tree of Liberty ad libitum,

Where influence bleft of Gallic sky

Their dark aristocratic dye

May bleach to pure democracy."

The Radical Reform of our modern ftate empirics, is aptly defcribed as general ruin; and the justice of the defcription is proved by a letter from the well-known J. H. Stone, to John Horne Tooke, that was produced on the trial of the Rev. Mr. Jackfon, at Dublin, in which the writer anticipates, with rapture, the joyous period, "when the various parties of MINISTERIALISTS and OPPOSITIONISTS, DISSENTERS and CHURCHMEN, NOBLES, PRIESTS, and KINGs, fhall fink into one UNDISTINGUISHED MASS OF RUINS; and nothing shall be seen or acknowledged but THE PEOPLE, the SACRED VOICE OF THE

Head, as appears from the fubfequent stanza of an old Christmas carol, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, A. D. 1521.

"Caput Apri defero,

"Reddens laudes Domino.

"The Bore's Heed in hande bring I
"With Garlands gay and Rosemary,
"I pray you all fing merely

"Qui eftis in convivio."

NO. XIII. VOL. 111.

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PEOPLE."

PEOPLE." Due pre-eminence is given, among the herd of reformen, to the great patriot to whom this curious epiftle was addreffed; to the man who after he had taken orders, reviled, with blafphemous ribaldry, the ceremonies of epifcopal ordination; who early difplayed the benevolence of his difpofition, by threatening to "dye his black coat red, with the blood of his enemies ;" who exposed the true caft of his mind, by his confeflion, that, had he lived in the unhappy days of our first Charles, he would have been a REGICIDE by choice; who has fince exhibited a fair fpecimen of republican honesty, by seeking a fituation which he could not hold without a yearly income of Three Hundred Pounds, and foon after fubfcribing, a declaration that his income did not exceed Sixty!

"Patrons of Courier, Poft, and Chronicle!
Whig fectaries, and whigs canonical;
Chairmen of oppofition revels,

Whig printers leagued with all your devils;
Quidnuncs, who climb debating roftrums,
What are your alterative noftrums

To H**NE T**KE'S REFORMATION BROOM,
That fweeps an empire to its doom!-

Doctors of medicine grow renown'd
By dint of making fick men found;
Fame-feeking DOCTORS POLITIC

With trite harangues make found men sick,*
And though they oft get nothing by 't,
Prefcribe and give advice for fpite:

Patent pretend from mob-authority

To purge a plethoric majority,

And cure the sturdy wights who thwart 'em

Of loyalty, fecundum artem.

Yet ev'ry doctor's but a dunce

To him who kills and cures at once,

The conftitution in a breath

Recruits by bleeding it to death.-
Refolve H**NE T**KE, this paradox!

(For, proof against Old Bailey shocks,

"This was literally exemplified by the ECOTISING BARRISTER, whose tide of eloquence, however it may inundate Weftminster Hall, does not always afcend to high water mark in Saint Stephen's Chapel, where an abrupt DISCONTINUANCE has. repeatedly damm'd its flow. This rhetorical en-dam-agement was fenfibly felt when the correfpondence with Lord Grenville refpecting the negociation for peace at Paris was fubmitted to the House: at which juncture the barrister's elocution, encountering a qualin of confcience or a twist of the colon, be dropped as fuddenly as the finged tick of a fky-rocket, upon the green baize bench, having with difficulty articulated, like Lear's unnatural daughter, "SICK, SICK, ON SICK!!This excited fuch a fickening fympathy among the members near him, that our orator might have, not unfeafonably, implicated them in his diforder with a "Sic Vos!"elpecially as H-1, the neareft of them, immediately replied: "Sick! Never mind that Go on-I HAVE BEEN SICK EVER SINCE YOU BEGAN."

What

What nobler triumph couldst thou boast,
Unless to fill th'important poft
Of meanest private in the bands

Of maudlin cits whom F*x commands*
A bankrupt caufe and cheft to aid).
ILLUSTRIOUS CHIEF OF WHIG-BRIGADE!-
Thou who, by fuch a general led,

Wouldst dye thy caft-off black coat red,
Shoulder thy firelock and take aim
At monarchy, the nobleft game,
And neither conscience-ftruck nor sorry,
Search through the ranks thy royal quarry.t-
Oh deign to itate with juft precifion
(Reveal'd to thy prophetic vifion
And current in anticipation)
The fum, exceeding calculation,

Of public happiness accruing

From UNDISTINGUISHABLE RUIN!

Shew how the wreck of ranks and orders

Shall give us peace in all our borders-
And bleft equality repay us

If we convert the realm to chaos-
Shew how, in cutting off a crown'd head
The rights of citizens are founded!
Shew us how freedom fanctions flaughter,
And changes blood to holy water!
As Spain's Jack Ketch of ancient date,
When Carlos quarrell'd with his fate,

Admonish'd him ;-" Pray, Sir, be steady;

"TIS FOR YOUR GOOD THAT I BEHEAD YE."

After correcting two typographical errors of fome confequence, the firft of which occurs in P. 9. the fourth line from the bottom, where G*rr*w fhould be G**tt*n; and the fecond in the note to P. 30, where L**dsd***e, fhould, we conceive, be L*nfd**e, we fhall proceed (again recommending this poetical treat to all lovers of humour, originating in a pure fource, and directed to a laudable end,) to ferve up the fecond course.

* "Such are the doctrines of Mr. HORNE TOOKE, and he is the man who declares that from Mr. Fox he has nothing more to afk, nothing more to expect; and that it will be the utmost of his ambition to be the MEANEST PRIVATE in thofe ranks which Mr. Fox fhall command."

"The country cannot be too often reminded of THIS UNION and of the principles upon which it is founded."-Anti-Jacobin, April 9, 1798.

"It was thought a daring expreffion of Oliver Cromwell in the time of Charles the First, that if he found himself placed oppofite to the King in battle, he would difcharge his piece into his bofom as foon as into any other man's. I go farther; had I lived in those days, I would not have waited for chance to give me an opportunity of doing my duty; I would have fought him through the ranks, and, without the leaft perfonal enmity, have difcharged my piece into his bolom, rather than into any other man's."J. H. Tooke's Letter to Junius ART,

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ART. X. Crambe Repetita; a Second Courfe of Bubble and Squeak, or British Beef Galli-maufry'd; with a Devil'd Bifcuit or Two to help Digeftion and "clofe the Orifice of the Stomach." By the Author of Topfy-turvy, &c. 8vo. Pp. 83. Price 2s. 6d. Wright. London. 1799.

WHIGS and Reformers, French and English, conftitute the principal dishes of this fecond courfe, which will afford to the poetical epicure as rich a treat as the first, as a few fpecimens will fuffice to demonftrate. After tracing fome of the confequences of the reforming principle, when reduced to practice, as it has been in France, the bard thus proceeds;

Adepts in alchemy renown'd

Boaft they've the wond'rous fecret found
Bafe coin of Birmingham to mould
And metamorphofe into gold;
And royal Midas with a touch,
Old fablers fay, could do as much.*
Play'd he at commerce or all-fours?
His counters chang'd to luidores:
He ftrokes his chin and all admire
His briftly beard become gold wire:
his nofe
And, fed with choice rappee,
A living mine of gold duft glows:
He walk'd his field and faw the fod
Teem with a crop of golden rod :†
He feiz'd his oaken staff; behold
In 's hand the Sybil's branch of gold!‡
Of hock and water on his table he
Brew'd at each gulp aurum potabile!
Converted codlins bought for farthings
To apples of Hefperian gardens :||
Pilchards and herrings in his difh
Transform'd themselves into gold-fish :
Saufage envelop'd in a thin gut
He chang'd into a golden ingot:
Of mustard pot he next laid hold,
But grafp'd, in lieu, a pot of gold.
Your Vauxhall flice of ham or beef
He mafticated to gold leaf;

And bade black-puddings tranfmigrate
Into rouleaus upon his plate.-

"But in THAT COUNTRY where CONFUSION-
Ufurps the name of Revolution,

And pettifoggers and fow gelders

Senates and councils form of elders,

Since legiflative confifcation

Anfwers all end of tranfmutation,
Gold-making 's deem'd a forryer trade
Than 'tis to steal it ready made :

And, fince they're well convinc'd to boot
That wealth of evil is the root,
They wifely wage inveterate quarrels
With ore that would corrupt their morals;
Which that they may preserve intact
They Midas' talent counteract,
And by their grand financial mystery
(Unparallel'd in modern hiftory

In whofe gazettes they bounce and vapour)
REFORM their luidores to paper;
Make fpecie at their touch reducible
To nought in requifition-crucible;
Enfepulchre men's gold and plate
In grand Crufophagus of ftate,
From whence regenerated cash is
Hatch'd like a Phoenix from its afhes,
And, freed in purgatory Gallic,
From its corporeal part metallic,
Again to circulation fprings
On metaphyfic paper wings:
Till, by the plund'rers who devis'd
Its fabrication exorciz'd,

And of all tenure difpoffefs'd,*
Evaporates the swINDLING PEST:

While famish'd dupes behold dismay'd

CREDIT'S PALE GHOST FOR EVER LAID."

The treatment of the Dutch by their French allies, is explained with equal humour and accuracy; and the long fpeeches of Mr. Fox,

Le croirait-on ?__ C'était le miniftre de finances luimeme, qui, pour anéantir les mandats, les avoit effectivement avilis en faifant jouer fccrètement à la baiffe."D'Ivernois, Tableau Hiftorique. P. 30,

"RAMEL (le miniftre des finances) a complètement réuff a purger la circulation d'affignats et de mandats; et certes il faut convenir que leur Exrr a été vraiment digne de leur début fur la théâtre de la révolution. Ils s'étaient introduits par un VOL PUBLIC COMMis fur les vrais propriétaires; ils ont difparu à l'aide d'une foule de vols,tantot publics, tantot fecrets, commis fur les faux propriétaires ➡r. 39. + See thefe robberies feverally specified in an enumeration of decrees and afts of the Directory-Tableau. P. 40. Notes