We therefore can never officiate with those SIMKIN. EPIGRAM ON THE REFUSAL OF THE BLUE RIBAND. REFUSE a Riband, do you say? It's true-nay, do not doubt it But what's the reason?-Reason!! they THE DECISION. ·Quid non regalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames? [From the Morning Chronicle, March 18.] ON NE Prince's heart two Rivals share: A starch'd, intolerant Witch. For her he felt but little passion : His wants-not love-the grand temptation: The other was a lofty Dame, For whom he own'd a nobler flame; A flame from childhood fed! Her bosom pure affection rul'd ; Like Hercules, with doubting mien, J. B. To To this his vows are bound! But while he views the charms that deck her, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS!!! This weighty argument succeeded, Her, and the golden bait he ey'd; Then one indignant glance she gave, RATOATH. LOVE AT FULL GROWTH: A POEM. THOUGH love I sing, no hackney'd theme I choose : Not the trite love, that in life's norn imparts Their earliest warmth to youths' and maidens' hearts; Its lusty votaries of a certain age: Not that, with beauty's inspiration warm, Which dwells on some brisk damsel's sylphid form; Lay of the last Minstrel. Not Not that, its vows to Heathen fanes that showers, O! to my love thy rage, my thirst, impart, Hail wedded Love! ('t is wedded, past all pother, Though hearts with frequent fires have flam'd so high, That all that's left must be as cinders dry, Thou canst inflame them still, and make them blaze Make, e'en where passion never yet has been, Fat fifty sportive as light seventeen ; Make matrons, strict for years, no longer coy, And the big Father lovesick as a boy. Nor while his eyes shall swim, in transports pure, By thee, her spouse, than dullest Peer more dense, Where the Vice," Where Av'rice brings forth frauds as thick as lice; These are thy triumphs, Love!-What passion sung In any numbers, or by any tongue, Such new, such rare, such curious honour wears, Then hail, Great Pair! if such a pair there be, And such a pair no eye could fail to see; Your fame should be my Muse's constant charge! For Love beats all, and we are rul'd by Love." BANK NOTES AND GUINEAS. BANK Notes, it is said, once Guineas defied To swim to a point in Trade's foaming tide; But ere they could reach the opposite brink, Bank Notes cried to Gold, "Help me! Cash us! I sink!" That Paper should sink, and Guineas should swim, May appear to some folks a ridiculous whim; But, before they condemn, let them hear this suggestionIn pun-making, gravity 's out of the question. POLITICAL THE POLITICAL MARINE LIST. [From the same.] HE United States, a new first-rate, has been ordered to be fitted for immediate service; but owing to her great size, it is presumed some time will elapse before she can acquire her full complement. The Sidmouth, Capt. Smallpox commander, after lying a long time seasoning in dock, is, at length, pronounced fit for immediate service. It is believed she will be chiefly employed as a hulk to exercise the young Recruits off Point Intolerance, and prepare them to be drafted into the Fury fireship, Persecution. The Walcheren, Častlereagh, is put into commission. Since her last voyage she has been completely copperbottomed. The Regulator, Bentinck, has come to anchor in Messina in Sicily. The Royal Charles, Lennox, which it was expected would be put out of commission, is to hoist a blue pendant, and continue on her station. The Emancipation, having missed her reckoning, is for the present put back into Compromise Bay. The Reversion, Perceval, has run upon some sand Banks; and on fathoming, the well is found to have three feet water in the hold. The P. R. in a stiff gale, wind blowing hard from the Irish coast, parted company with the Friends off Cape Irresolution. Great fear is entertained, as some of the timbers are unsound.-Last seen by the Ryder in latitude 50, without a bowsprit, running for Port Hertford. Sailed the Tilney Long on a voyage of discovery to the North Pole. SPIGRAM. |