Provided master, and my dame, Were pleased in turn to do the same; In Gallic costume, sans culotte, By lady's robe bedeck'd, and lord's best coat. Eastward the Muse now points the view, to where The triumph of our arms; victorious flies The banner of St. GEORGE, and low the Crescent lies.* Nor to Hindostan is the war confined, France revolutionzed, her King bereft Of life by felon hands; her people drunk 1793. Tippoo Saib was reduced to cede one half his dominions, to pay three crores and thirty lacks of rupees, to give up all prisoners and yield his two eldest sons as hostages for the performance of the treaty. With anarchy's red cup, fell discord shakes On land, unmoved, do Gallia's sons maintain Howe and the glories of the first of June! The The new philosophy essays on land* Thou lovely goddess ever "fair and free !" A drab, whose blood-stain'd pike and bonnet rouge Mark'd her the mother red-cap of a mob. The saffron vested god, to England's heir 1795. Leads CAROLINE of Brunswick, pomp and state Upon the royal nuptials wait, And joy's loud acclamations rend the air.† France conquers peace with Spain, both nations join Their pow'rs on land and ocean, to combine * The disciples of the new philosophy at length were noticed By the law, many convicted of sedition and some acquitted of high treason; the mob at Birmingham taking offence at a party of philosophers who were commemmorating the "glorious" French revolution, proceeded to most dreadful outrages, and after the law had been shamefully violated in the name of church and king, many of the rioters expiated their folly with their lives. ↑ H. R. H. the Prince Regent was married on the 8th of April, to his cousin the Princess Caroline of Brunswick. Against Against Old England, who nor courts, nor shuns The war's continuance, but sends her sons, HOTHAM, CORNWALLIS, BRIDPORT, o'er the main, Her long asserted title to maintain.* Under French influence, too, the sordid Dutch, The most implacable of England's foes, 1796. Pondicherry, Chandenagore and Mahie were taken from the French, whose settlements in the West Indies were also captured by Sir C. Grey and Sir John Jervis; we likewise took Martinico and St. Lucie. Nearly the whole of the Dutch settlements surrendered to the British arms, and in the month of October, nine sail of Dutch ships, three of the line, five frigates, and sloops, which had entered Saldanha Bay with a view to attack the Cape of Good Hope, yielded, without firing a shot, to Admiral Sir Keith Elphinstone. A check A check from Irish lads, in Bantry Bay, 'Till British valour terminates the war.* Hope of the House of Brunswick, England's care, The birth of CHARLOTTE glads the Royal pair. 1797. A caution, meant to save from future harm, When guineas ceas'd to issue from the Bank; Have subsequently prov'd the measure wise. Now Continental freedom loses hope, This was called the Marson War; the Maroons were descendants of the Spanish slaves, who refused to submit when the English first took possession of the island ;-twenty battles terminated in their entire submission. FIFTEEN |