"O'er politics and poesy preside,

"Boast of thy country, and Britannia's guide! "For long as Albion's heedless sons submit,

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Or Scottish taste decides on English wit, "So long shall last thine unmolested reign, "Nor any dare to take thy name in vain, "Behold a chosen band shall aid thy plan, "And own thee chieftain of the critic clan, First in the Oat ped phalanx shall be seen "First in the ranks illustrious shall be seen "The travelled Thane! Athenian Aberdeen*. "HERBERT shall wield THOR's hammert, and sometimes

"In gratitude thou'lt praise his rugged rhymes.

His Lordship has been much abroad, is a Member of the Athenian Society, and Reviewer of "GELL's Topography of Troy."

† Mr. HERBERT is a translator of Icelandic and other poetry. One of the principal pieces is a "Song on the Re

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Smug SYDNEY too thy bitter page shall seek, "And classic HALLAMT much renowned for Greek.

covery of THOR's Hammer;" the translation is a pleasant› chaunt in the vulgar tongue, and endeth thus :

"Instead of money and rings, I wot,
"The hammer's bruises were her lot,
"Thus Odin's son his hammer got.

The Rev. SYDNEY SMITH, the reputed author of Peter Plymley's Letters, and sundry criticisms.

† Mr. HALLAM reviewed PAYNE KNIGHT's Taste, and was exceedingly severe on some Greek verses therein: it was not discovered that the lines were PINDAR's till the press rendered it impossible to cancel the critique, which still stands an everlasting monument of HALLAM's ingenuity.

The said HALLAM is incensed, because he is falsely accused, seeing that he never dineth at Holland House.—If this be true, I am sorry-not for having said so, but on his account, as I understand his Lordship's feasts are preferable to his compositions.-If he did not review Lord HOLLAND'S performance, I am glad, because it must have been painful to read, and irksome to praise it. If Mr. HALLAM will tell me who did review it, the real name shall find a place in the text, provided nevertheless the said name be of two orthodox musical syllables, and will come into the verse, till then, HALLAM must stand for want of a better.

"SCOTT may perchancehis name and influence lend, "And paltry PILLANS* shall traduce his friend. "While gay Thalia's luckless votary LAMBE†, 510 "As he himself was damned, shall try to damn. "Known be thy name, unbounded be thy sway! Thy HOLLAND'S banquets shall each toil repay; "While grateful Britain yields the praise she owes, "TO HOLLAND's hirelings, and to Learning's foes.. "Yet mark one caution, ere thy next Review

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Spread its light wings of Saffron and of Blue, "Beware lest blundering BROUGHAM‡ destroy the

sale,

"Turn Beef to Bannocks, Cauliflowers to Kail."

*PILLANS is a tutor at Eton.

†The honourable G. LAMBE reviewed "BERESFORD'S Miseries," and is moreover Author of a Farce enacted with much applause at the Priory, Stanmore; and damned with great expedition at the late Theatre, Covent-Garden. It was entitled "Whistle for It."

Mr. BROUGHAM, in No. XXV. of the Edinburgh Review, throughout the article concerning Don Pedro de Cevallos,

Thus having said, the kilted Goddess kist
Her son, and vanished in a Scottish mist*.

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has displayed more politics than policy: many of the worthy Burgesses of Edinburgh being so incensed at the infamous principles it evinces, as to have withdrawn their subscriptions.

It seems that Mr. BROUGHAM is not a Pict, as I supposed, but a Borderer, and his name is pronounced Broom, from Trent to Tay:-So be it.

I ought to apologize to the worthy Deities for introducing a new Goddess with short petticoats to their notice: but, alas! what was to be done? I could not say Caledonia's Genius, it being well known there is no Genius to be found from Clackmannau to Caithness, yet without supernatural agency, how was JEFFREY to be saved? The national "Kelpies," &c. are too unpoetical, and the " Brownies" and "gude neighbours," (spirits of a good disposition) refused to extricate him. A Goddess therefore has been called for the purpose, and great ought to be the gratitude of JEFFREY, seeing it is the only communication he ever held, or is likely to hold, with any thing heavenly.

Illustrious HOLLAND! hard would be his lot His hirelings mentioned, and himself forgot! HOLLAND, with HENRY PETTY at his back, The whipper-in and huntsman of the pack. Blest be the banquets spread at Holland House, Where Scotchmen feed, and Critics may carouse! Long, long beneath that hospitable roof, Shall Grub-street dine, while duns are kept aloof, See honest HALLAM lay aside his fork,

Resume his pen, review his Lordship's work,
une grateful for the cainties on his plate,
And grateful to the founder of the feast,

Declare his landlord can translate, at least*!
Declare his Landlord cur at leash translate
Dunedin! view thy children with delight,

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They write for food, and feed because they write: And lest, when heated with the unusual grape, Some glowing thoughts should to the press escape,

* Lord H. has translated some specimens of LOPE de Vega, inserted in his life of the Author: both are bepraised by his disinterested guests.