| And I have loved thee, | Ocean! and my | joy | Of youthful | sports | was on thy | breast | to be | Borne, like thy | bubbles, | onward: from a | boy | I wanton'd with thy | breakers; they to me | Were a de- light; and if the freshening | And laid my hand upon thy name, as I | do here. 1991 LORD THURLOW'S REPLY TO THE DUKE OF GRAFTON. The Duke had (in the House of Lords) reproached Lord Thurlow with his plebian extraction, and his recent admission to the peerage. Lord Thurlow rose from the woolsack, and advanced slowly to the place from which the Chancellor addresses the House, then fixing his eye upon the Duke, spoke as follows. My Lords,|17| Iam a- | mazed, yes, my Lords, I am amazed at his Grace's | speech. The | noble | owe it to these, I be- | long. 11. that it is as | honorable |to| as to | being the | accident | of an accident? |11|17|1 To | all these | noble Lords, the | language of the | noble | Duke is as applicable | and as in- | sulting as it is to my-self. No one | venerates the | peerage | more than | I do. [' But my Lords, I must that the peerage | so- | licited | me, not I the peerage. |11|11| say Naymore, I can and that as a peer of | parliament, | will say, | as speaker of this | right | honorable | house, 199 as keeper of the | great | seal|1|as| guardian of his | majesty's | conscience, Lord high | Chancellor of England, || nay, even in that character | a- | lone, as in which the noble duke would think it an af- | front to be considered, none can de- ny me, but | which | character as a | MAN, I am at this moment | as res- | pectable; | TRIBUTE OF MR. BURKE TO THE ENTERPRISING SPIRIT OF THE NEW-ENGLAND COLONISTS. As to the wealth, Mr. Speaker, | which the | have | drawn from the sea colonies fisheries, opened you had | all that at your | bar, by their | matter | fully | You surely | T thought | those acqui- | sitions of | value, || for they seemed even to ex- | cite your envy; 91 the spirit | by | which that | en and yet terprising employment has been | exercised, M | ought | rather, in my o- | pinion, to have | raised your esteem and | admi- | ration. ||1 And pray, Sir, | what in the | world|is| equal to it? | Pass | by the | other | parts, 1 and look at the manner in | which the | people of | New-England | have of | late | carried on 9 the whale | fishery. |11|17| While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of | ice, and be- | hold them | penetrating into the deepest | frozen re- | cesses of | Hudson's Bay, || and | Davis's | Straight's, | 1 | whilst we are looking for them into the opposite | region of arctic circle, ced be- | neath the we hear that they have | pier polar cold,|| and en that they are | at the an- | tipodes, gaged under the | frozen | serpent of the south. 971 Falkland Island, which seemed too re-mote and romantic an object for is but a | stage the grasp of national am- bition, and resting place in the | progress of their vic- | torious industry. |19|19| Nor is the equi- | noctial | heat | more dis- coura ging to them, than the accumulated | winter | of both the poles. We know that | 111 whilst some of them draw the line the harpoon others run the gantic game and strike on the coast of | Africa, | longitude, and pur- | sue their gi- | along the coast of Bra- | zil. 11 No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No | climate | that is not witness to their toils. 11111 Neither the | perse| | verance of Holland, nor the ac- tivity of France, nor the | dexterous | sa- | gacity of | English | enter- | prise, and | firm ever | car ried this most perilous | mode of | hardy | industry | to the extent to which it has been | pushed | by this recent people; |17| a | people | who are ¦ still, as it were, || but in the | gristle, | and not yet hardened | into the | bone of | manhood. | 7971771 When I con- template | these | things, when I know that the ❘ colonies in | general | owe | little or nothing to any | care of ours, and that they are not squeezed | into this | happy | form | by the constraints of a | watchful and suspicious government, but that | through a | wise and | salutary neglect a generous | nature has been suffered to take her | own | way to per- | fection;} | when I re- | flect upon | these effects, when I see how | profitable | they have been to us, I feel | all the | pride of | power | sink, 1 and | die a- | way 1 man con- trivances | melt, | | lents. to the | APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. Burke. since I saw the | Queen of | France, It is now, sixteen or seventeen years then the | and sure which she | Dauphiness, at Ver- | sailles; ly never lighted on this | orb, hardly seemed to | touch,a | more de- | lightful | vision. I saw her | just a- | bove the ho- | rizon, || decorating and | cheering the : elevated | sphere | she | just be- | gan to move in glittering, like the morning | star;|| full of | life, and splendor, and | joy. 11111111 | | Oh! | what a | revo- | lution! | 1971 and | what a heart must I have, to contemplate | with-out e-motion, ❘ that | ele- | vation | and | that fall. |11|17| Little did I dream that when she | added | titles of veneration to those of en- | thusi- | astic, distant, re- | spectful | love, should ever be obliged that she con- ceal sharp antidote a- | gainst dis- | grace ed in that | bosom ; | 1| 1| little did I | dream |