- be asked why I have censured the Earl of CARLISLE, my nd relative, to whom I dedicated a volume of puerile poems s ago. The guardianship was nominal, at least as far as able to discover; the relationship I cannot help, and am For it; but as his Lordship seemed to forget it on a very ession to me, I shall not burthen my memory with the recoldo not think that personal differences sanction the unjust on of a brother scribbler; but I see no reason why they

as

a preventive, when the author, noble or ignoble, ries of years beguiled a "discerning public" (as the adverve it) with divers reams of most orthodox, imperial nonides, I do not step aside to vituperate the Earl; no-his

fairly in review with those of other Patrician Literati. If, caped from my teens, I said any thing in favour of his Lordr books, it was in the way of dutiful dedication, and more Ivice of others than my own judgment, and I seize the first of pronouncing my sincere recantation. I have heard that is conceive me to be under obligations to Lord Carlisle: if FA

the voice of all the Nine,

harp-that harp is thine.

nia's annals yield

of some nobler field,

of a plundering clan,

eds disgrace the name of man?

Yet not wi But own th

Be known

And tell th

To future And save

arly happy to learn what they are, and when e duly appreciated, and publicly acknowbly advanced as an opinion on his printed pport if necessary, by quotations from Eleles, and certain facetious and dainty trage mark:

ble knaves, or fools, or cowards?

e blood of all the Howards!"

Yet wh

To conqu

New era

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Whose

with thee alone his name should live, the vast renown a world can give;

1 perchance, when Albion is no more, he tale of what she was before;

e times her faded fame recall,

her glory, though his country fall.

nat avails the sanguine Poet's hope? er ages, and with Time to cope!

spread their wings, new nations rise, r Victors fill the applauding skies;

ef generations fleet along,

›ns forget the Poet and his song:

Tollere humo, victorque virum volitare per ora.”

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Virgil.

OARE, and epic blank by HOYLE:

ge, if still upheld by whist,

I theme to bid us list.*

yle,” well known to the votaries of Whist,

e superseded by the vagaries of his poetical omprised, as expressly stated in the advertise■f Egypt."

Pleasing,

less poetr

Jumnies f

CLARKE, still striving piteously "to please,"

ng doggrel leads not to degrees,

-be satirist, a hired Buffoon,

ly scribbler of some low Lampoon,

ned to drudge the meanest of the mean, ish falsehoods for a magazine,

to scandal his congenial mind;

a living libel on mankind*.

960

rson, who has lately betrayed the most rapid symptoms of uthorship, is writer of a poem denominated the "Art of as "Lucus a non lucendo," containing little pleasantry, and He also acts as monthly stipendiary and collector of cathe Satirist. If this unfortunate young man would exchange