His Highness was a man of solemn port, Satch'd from a prison to preside at court, He went to mosque in state, and said his He saw with his own eyes the moon was No sign that it was circular any where; Except in shape of envoys, who were sent To lodge there when a war broke out, according To the true law of nations, which ne'er meant Those scoundrels, who have never had a sword in Their dirty diplomatic hand, to vent Their lies, yclep'd despatches, without He had fifty daughters and four dozen sons, 'Tis true; the reason is, that the Bashaw His sons were kept in prison till they grew shown: So that the heir-apparent still was found With more than Oriental scrupulosity; "No less deserving to be hang'd than crown'd. prayers He left to his vizier all state-affairs, low and then there happen'd a slight slip, His Majesty saluted his fourth spouse Who clear'd her sparkling eyes and smooth'd her brows His Highness cast around his great black eyes, To scandals made the daily press a curse— Juan amongst the damsels in disguise, At which he seem'd no whit surprised nor grieved, But just remark'd with air sedate and wise, While still a fluttering sighGulbeyazheaved, "I see you've bought another girl; 'tis pity That a mere christian should be half so pretty." This compliment, which drew all eyes upon The new-bought virgin, made her blush and shake. Her comrades, also, thought themselves undone : Oh, Mahomet! that his Majesty should take Such notice of a giaour, while scarce to one Of them his lips imperial ever spake! There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle, But etiquette forbade them all to giggle. The Turks do well to shut-at least, sometimes The women up-because in sad reality, And makes our snow less pure than our Thus far our chronicle; and now we pause, You'll pardon to my muse a few short naps. PREFACE ΤΟ CANTOS VI. VII. VIII. THE details of the Siege of Ismail in two of the following Cantos (i. e. the 7th and 8th) are taken from a French work, entitled Histoire de la Nouvelle Russie." Some of the incidents attributed to Don Juan really occurred, particularly the circumstance his saving the infant, which was the actua case of the late Duc de Richelieu, then young volunteer in the Russian service and afterwards the founder and benefacto of Odessa, where his name and memory ca never cease to be regarded with reverence In the course of these cantos, a stanza o two will be found relative to the lat Marquis of Londonderry, but written som time before his decease.-Had that person' Oligarchy died with him, they would have been suppressed; as it is, I am aware of nothing in the manner of his death or of his life to prevent the free expression of the opinions of all whom his whole existence was consumed in endeavouring to enslave That he was an amiable man in private life, may or may not be true; but with this the Public have nothing to do; and a to lamenting his death, it will be time enough when Ireland has ceased to mourn for his birth. As a Minister, I, for one of millions, looked upon him as the most despotic in intention and the weakest in intellect, that ever tyrannized over a country It is the first time indeed since the Normans that England has been insulted by a Minis ter (at least) who could not speak English and that Parliament permitted itself to be dictated to in the language of Mrs. Malaprop Of the manner of his death little need be said, except that if a poor radical, such as Waddington or Watson, had cut his throat, he would have been buried in a cross-road, with the usual appurtenances of the stake and mallet. But the Minister was an elegant Lunatic-a sentimental Suicidehe merely cut the “carotid artery” (blessings on their learning!) and lo! the Pageant, and the Abbey! and "the Syllables of Dolour yelled forth" by the Newspapers and the harangue of the Coroner in an eulogy over the bleeding body of the deceased-(an Anthony worthy of such a Caesar) and the nauseous and atrocions cant of a degraded Crew of Conspirators against all that is sincere or honourable. In his death he was necessarily one of two things by the law- a felon or a madmanand in either case no great subject for panegyric *). In his life he was what all the world knows, and half of it will feel for years to come, unless his death prove a "moral lesson" to the surviving Sejani") Europe. It may at least serve as some solation to the Nations, that their Oppresare not happy, and in some instances ge so justly of their own actions as to ripate the sentence of mankind. — Let ear no more of this man, and let Ireland ave the ashes of her Grattan from the ctuary of Westminster. Shall the Patriot Humanity repose by the Werther of ites!!! with regard to the objections which have made on another score to the already ished Cantos of this poem, I shall conmyself with two quotations from Vol La padeur s'est enfuite des coeurs, et refugiée sur les lèvres." Ins les moeurs sont depravées, plus xpressions deviennent mesurées; on regagner en langage ce qu'on a perdu There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads"- God knows where: is the real fact, as applicable to the led and hypocritical mass which the present English generation, and Those navigators must be able seamen nly answer they deserve. The hack-Whose charts lay down its currents to a hair; and lavished title of Blasphemer-Not all the reveries of Jacob Behmen with radical, liberal, jacobin, With its strange whirls and eddies can er, are the charges which the, compare: knows what! are daily ringing in the ears of Men with their heads reflect on this and that, ho will listen-should be welcome But women with their hearts or heaven sho recollect on whom it was origiestowed. Socrates and Jesus Christ it to death publicly as Blasphemers, have been and may be many who oppose the most notorious abuses ame of God and the mind of man. secution is not refutation, nor even the “wretched Infidel,” as he is A throne, the world, the universe, to be is probably happier in his prison Beloved in her own way, and rather whisk e proudest of his assailants. With The stars from out the sky, than not be free ions I have nothing to de- they As are the billows when the breeze is brisk— right or wrong- but he has suf-Though such a she's a devil (if that there e them, and that very suffering for And yet a headlong, headstrong, downright she, Young, beautiful, and daring-who would risk be one), ice-sake will make more proselytes Yet she would make full many a Manichean. Thrones, worlds, et cetera, are so oft upset He died at fifty for a queen of forty; For then wealth, Then Lord Sandwich said "he did not know I wish their years had been fifteen and rence between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy"ton, the bishop, replied, “Orthodoxy, my my oozy,and Heterodoxy is another man's A prelate of the present day has discovered, a third kind of doxy, which has not greatly in the eyes of the elect that which Bentham Church-of-Englandism." twenty, kingdoms, worlds, are Remember when, though I had no great but a sport-I plenty Of worlds to lose, yet still, to pay my court, I |