At Buenos Ayres, and on the Turkish coast,
We're free to own, we hadn't much to boast;
In Egypt, measure of mischance to fill,
We, certainly, were less successful still.
Ill fated Copenhagen once more knows
Of warfare (to her dwellings brought) the woes.*
The SLAVE TRADE, to Humanity's encrease,
By pre-arrangements mention'd, now must cease;
LOUIS of France, (the cause each good man
grieves,)

Our isle, with hospitable arms receives;
The sov'reign's sister joyful meets once more
Th' unequal'd comforts of her native shore.

Lured by NAPOLEON's promised grace,†
The Spanish monarch quits his place,
And Bayonne witnesses the cheat,

Which threw Spain under an usurper's feet.

1808.

Eighteen ships of the line, fifteen frigates, six smaller vessels, and twenty-five gunboats, were given up to the British armament which was sent to bombard Copenhagen.

+ General Savary, while persuading the King of Spain to go to Bayonne, once went so far as to say, "I will suffer my head to be cut off, if, within a quarter of an hour after your majesty's arrival, the Emperor shall not have recognised you as King of Spain and the Indies;"-notwithstanding this, he was told, after dining with the Usurper, that none of the Bourbon family could be permitted to reign.

VOL. II,

T

'Till

'Till Britain, arbitress of Europe's good,

Expends for SPAIN her treasures and her blood! DUPONT and MONCEY, with DUHESME, first find The awful efforts of IBERIA's mind;

Baylen, Valentia, Sarragossa prove

How PEOPLE prize the liberty they love.
Of new made king, august Madrid,

Was in a mighty hurry rid;

"A cut-purse," as we somewhere else have read,
"Of realms and empire," not upon his head
He wore the" precious diadem," they say,
But in his pocket" bore the prize away.*
At Cintra's bargain, millions justly scoff,
And thought JUNOT came much too cheaply off;
And so he did, when VIMIERA's fight,

(Disgrace of France, and Britain's proud delight,)
Had taught the arrogant, intruding, elves,
Who felt not others sorrows, for themselves
To feel and fear :-but subsequent event,
By Heav'n, in aid of British valour, sent;
Has richly equipois'd the gen'rous fault,
Which British liberality had made.
The 'whelming force of NAPOLEON's arins
Gave Usurpation's cause a transient hour

The Regalia was literally stolen from Madrid by the Usurper.
Blood-red

Blood-red and dark; when, lo! a dawn of light
"Walk'd o'er the hills" of Spanish liberty.
The germ of glory which has since illumed
A generous nation struggling for her rights;
And, while lamented MOORE with honor fell,
Did WELLESLEY fashion deeds which future days
With doubtful retrospection will regard,

As passing far that boundary of truth.

Which faithful history may ne'er exceed.

1809.

GAMBIER and COCHRANE* teach the fleet of

France

That even their own harbours ill secure

The objects of a British tar's attack.

The Russian's too, by HANKEY's valour find,
(HANKEY! who purchased victory with life,)
What Spartan courage animates the souls
Of English seamen in Old England's cause.t

*Lords Gambier and Cochrane attacked the French fleet in Basque Roads, when one ship of 120 guns, five of 74, and two frigates, were driven on shore, and afterwards totally destroyed, or rendered useless; one of 80, two of 74, and one of 50, with three frigates, were burnt, either by the assailants or their own crews.

+ Lieutenant Hankey, (who was killed in the action) with the boats of four ships, attacked a strong flotilla of Russian gunboats, which were supposed to be impregnably stationed in Pensacola bay; they were, however, not only taken or destroyed, but a most valuable convoy captured with them. T2

Three

Three captured first rates, frigates two,
And twenty transports eke,

In Rosas' Bay, the worth, true blue,

Of COLLINGWOOD bespeak.

Great bustle for a sad event,

By Ministers is made;

And those who were to Walch'ren sent

At home had better staid.

'Twere best the consequence to pass,

Since sorrow will not save

The gallant lads who found, alas!

A pestilential grave.

For credit's sake too, we omit,

How disappointment cruel Made Ministers, in angry fit, Go forth and fight a duel.*

It had long been rumoured that the members of the British Cabinet by no means agreed among themselves; and the failure of the Expedition against Walcheren encreased their disputes to so high a degree, that a public appeal to the pistol took place between two ministers holding the highest official situations in the state: they fired twice, and one of the combatants receiving a wound in the thigh, the affair terminated.

But

But while the people full of ire
These degradations see,

A nobler subject shall inspire

My humble Muse and me.

GEORGE, (whom no Minister's mistake
His people's warin regard can shake,)
Enters the FIFTIETH YEAR that he
Had ruled the sons of liberty;
Who now forgetting party rout,

Of Whig or Tory, In or Out,

Unite in general JUBILEE.

The sons of Britain, and the British fair,
In public thanksgiving repair,

To HIM who, from his throne on high,
Rules king's and subject's destiny.

The naked cloathed, the debtor freed,
The hungry fed, and many a deed
Of brotherly affection see,

Grace Britain's year of JUBILEE.

And when the festive day was ended,
And Sol to Thetis' lap descended,
What blaze of artificial light

Succeeded to illume the night!

With