To him who founded an immortal name
Upon a fugitive invader's shame!

It were too much intrusion here to tell,
The day on which great ABERCROMBIE fell
Was, Reader, (tho' unworthy thy regard)
The birth-day of your humble, wou'd-be, Bard.

Britannia's thunder to the echoing SOUND, Proclaims that NELSON leads to Danish ground; His meteor train the northern foe appals,

And to their base shakes COPENHAGEN's walls. Here Moss and RIOU for their country bled, And join'd in better worlds the patriot dead. DENMARK and SWEDEN now to peace attend, And PAUL'S demise, of RUSSIA makes a friend. SAUMAREZ adds to former gain

Of laurels, at expence of Spain.*

The PREMIER, wearied by incessant strife
Of Opposition to his Public Life,
Resigns,-DUNDAS and GRENVILLE too,
WINDHAM and SPENCER bid adieu

Sir James Saumarez engaged a Spanish squadron, of superior force, with so much gallantry, that two three deckers of the enemy exploded during the action, and their other ships were so much shattered that it was with the greatest difficulty they escaped into Cadiz.

To

To all the pomp and circumstance of pow'r; While ADDINGTON essays the sweet and sour Of Grandeur's careful, transitory hour.

Next let our narrative declare

(For give and take, good friends, is fair),
When on Boulogne we made attack,
Our gallant lads were beaten back.

On this theme, therefore, let us cease,

And talk of oh! much wish'd for PEACE; 1802.

Of short duration though, I fear ;

It lasted, let me see, a year,†

'Ere France the scarcely-finish'd compact broke, Unsheath'd the sword, and challeng'd Hearts of 1803.

Oak;

Swore England's commerce should exist no more,
And menaced freemen upon Freedom's shore!
Then "what ensued?" will future times demand:
Say, did the spoilers reach the threaten'd land?
No! Britons with enthusiastic fire,

In patriotic phalanx rallied round their sire
All were united in the sacred cause
Of Liberty, Religion, King, and Laws;

* The Treaty of Amiens was signed in March, 1802. scarcely a year had elapsed when the representations of Lord Whitworth, respecting some French and Dutch armaments, were answered by the first Consul with so much personal rudeness and "such a striking neglect of dignity and propriety," that our ambassador was compelled to return home, and war recommenced in May,

1803.

All swore for these to conquer or to die !
Vow'd on each other strongly to rely;

foes

All kept the sacred bond, and still their foes defy.

The treacherous chief of Gaul, whose soul delights In violating hospitable rights,

Seiz'd on those British, who, in luckless hour, Had deem'd that honor in his breast had power: And, when the prison'd guests their right demand, Ironic insult, and degrading jeer,

Our sons deride, and mock our daughters' ear. When Autun's Bishop came to Albion's strand, What courtesy but greeted TALLEYRAND?

A name on which for ever now must rest

This hated stigma, "the UNGRATEFUL GUEST,"
Who Briton's noblest favors could requite
With ev'ry act of mean official spite.

*

This, at that time, confidential minister of the French court, and to whom the English nobility had been prodigally hospitable, in their own country, is accused in many instances of personal and degrading ill-treatment of the detenus, particularly to a venerable Scotch Countess, to whom, when she pleaded for indulgence on her knees, he laughingly said, he could neither understand her French nor her English.

DESPARD

DESPARD, and his associate crew,

Receive from injured law their due.
A sudden burst, in which a Magistrate
Of worth and virtue meets a cruel fate,
Upon Hibernian ground appals the good;

His

very murderers mourn KILWARDEN's blood! KILWARDEN, whose last palpitating breath, Forgave th' infuriate authors of his death! GRINFIELD and HooD, and SAUMAREZ, at sea, Their true blue warriors lead to victory;

While Dieppe and Dutchmen found some cause

to rue

What OWEN and associate chiefs cou'd do.
In India, WELLESLEY triumphs o'er the foe,
(Such names make shocking poetry I trow,
As Rajah Berar, Scindia Dowlat Bow).†

* General Grinfield and Commodore Hood took St. Lucia, Tobago, Demarara, Issequibo, &c.-Berbice was also captured. Sir James Saumarez attacked the port of Granyille, demolished the pier, and destroyed many vessels designed for the invasion of England; Dieppe was bombarded the same day by Captain Owen; and a number of vessels were taken, or rendered useless, in the Dutch harbours.

+ Marquis Wellesley obtained a decisive victory over the Berar Rajah and Dowlat Bow Scindia, and their combined forces. The Hindostan East Indiaman was lost in Margate Roads on the 11th of January.

Less

Less fortunate at home the current ran,

Which in its vortex sunk the HINDOSTAN.

NOW ADDINGTON and friends uneasy sit, 1804.
And yield the ministerial throne to PITT.
Behold LINOIS against our lads advance,
Sets, turns his partners, and declines the DANCE.*
La liberté no more the Frenchman sings,

For mark! th' Imperial Eagle claps his wings!
Wou'd you, my reader kind, survey
Such ensigns of despotic sway,

A moment to Whitehall repair,

You'll see a splendid sample there,

Which with our brethren brave were forc'd to stay While their unpinion'd owners fled away.

Talking of Eagles, 'tis grand news, by jingo,
Which reaches us from ST. DOMINGO,
Another self-dubb'd monstrous great I,
Makes his debut as EMPEROR OF HAYTI.
The German Emp'ror, too, commands proclaim,
That henceforth AUSTRIA bear th' imperial name.

Capt. N. Dance in the Farl Camden East Indiaman, while convoying twenty-six merchantmen, fell in with and beat off the squadron of Admiral Linois, consisting of a line of battle ship, two frigates, a corvette, and a brig.

And