the command in chief with reluctance. I was apprehenfive of not being fupported at home. I forefaw that the higher the command, the more liable was to be ruined in my reputation. Even my misfortunes, if I had any, might be construed into crimes." Some half-ftarv'd Republicans made declaration That they would inftruét him, like them, to be free; When this anfwer return'd from the loyal old nation "Ye ragged banditti "Your follies we pity; Wear your freedom's ftrait waistcoat yourfelves, if it fit ye; "We're fafe, and we're happy, and joyful we'll fing "Our chorus of loyalty, God fave the King! 2. "Our forefathers bled on the fcaffold and plain "To establish a government, wise, just, and pure; "We'll defend it till death, and reject with difdain One that fearce for a day or an hour will endure "Shall your vile guillotine, "In old England be feen? "No, keep to yourselves your infernal machine "We're fafe, and we're happy, and joyful we'll fing "Our chorus of loyalty, God fave the King!" 3. This anfwer of England to Gaul quickly flew The Frenchmen pretended to give themfelves airs Soon, foon," they exclaim'd, “the proud ifland fhall rue, "And John Bull fhall be humbled, defend him who dares"He freedom refufes, "And our kindness abuses, "And to ftick by his old-fashion'd maxims he chooses "He fays that he's happy, and joyful will fing, "In tranfports of loyalty, God fave the King! 4. But shall refolute Britons by threats be difmay'd? No-we're ready to meet them, tho' twenty to one From our fcabbards leaps forth every fword-who's afraid? Tho' they're join'd by the cowardly, bluftering Don In battle we'll fhew To our fans culotte foe That they ne'er fhall the pow'r of Great Britain o'erthrow. In fpite of their efforts, we joyful will fing Our chorus of loyalty, "God fave the King!" 5. (Pia.) Should we fall in the conteft, how noble the caufe! The ftone fhall record it, that ftands o'er our grave "Here lies one, who defended his country and laws, “And died, his religion and monarch to fave." This and more fhall be faid(Forte.) But, thank heav'n, we're not dead; And we ftill fee great George with his crown on his head We can all of us yet, with one heart and voice, fing Our chorus of loyalty, "GOD SAVE THE KING!" Sooth'd with the found, the god-like man expreft The patriot paflion glowing in his breast. Y y 3 "I love "Thofe glorious maxims of the good and great, That fix'd the King, the key-ftone of the ftate "Against their rights the people's power we bring, "To change their government, and choose their King. "This Club, ('tis Erfkine's thought, and phrafe, and story,) This Club is liberty's confervatory,+ "Where freedom's hallow'd flame is kept alive, "Whene'er from slavery's ftupor men revive. "Can none remember? yes, I know all muft, "When first we took the rights of man "Who firft excite, and then direct, the ftorm, "To that beft point, a radical reform, "Tamely fubmit to tyranny accurft, "We are of men, as thefe of times, the worst, "Let France, whofe virtues in her works I trace "That nobleft fabric on the firmeft bafe, "Who on the necks of flaughter'd bigots trod, "Her Monarch murder'd, and defied her God, "Where defpots reign'd, her bolts refiftless hurl'd, "To free mankind, and fraternize the world, "Correct fome trivial errors in her plan, "And, falfe to God, refpect the rights of man, "Then freedom's friends will hail them juft and wife, "And England's Whigs unite with French allies." Thus Fox, amidst the Club's applauses spoke, At laft they ceas'd, and Erskine filence broke. "I thank the Club; it is my pride and boast, "To find my name precede this facred toaft, Thefe expreffions are repeated about half a dozen times, but I have leffened the number in the version, as repetition is better calculated to please the hearer than the reader. This phrafe of Mr. Erfkine is a cruel word for poetry; it can hardly be forced into a verfe, and, when it is, it makes it ridiculous. Mr. Erskine, and Trial by Jury. "Thus, Thus, when the rope is flipping fast" But why difmift at that eventful time! away, The failor cries, belay all that, belay,* "I, thro' the din and ftorm of party ftrife, 86 (Tis the fole honour of my worthless Safe in his virtue, in his wifdom wife, "Hear with his ears, examine with his eyes, "Where'er he goes, my leader's fteps attend, "And keep my station juft beneath my friend, "Whate'er he does, I ratify the deed, Swear, as he wears, when hefecedes, fecede. "What various bleffings from the Whig Club flow, He, from a phrase of mine, has deign'd to show, "My phrafe he calls the happiest and the best, "What oft was thought, but ne'er fo well expreft; How true my phrafe, the present scenes declare, "Fox in the room, and Norfolk in the chair. "See Norfolk's Buke, the first of Dukes, difmift, "Drumm'd from his regiment, and ftruck off the lift; Like the firft Duke, the first of men, dfgrac'd "The King's own hand, in form, his "Yet I the office of a King refpe&t, armas "Cafhier'd was Norfolk, e'en 'midft "Extinguish'd too was Fox, the firft "Say what their guilt! a toaft was all their crime; "A toaft I give unhurt, for we are quit,t "Pitt nothing takes from me, nor I from Pitt. "A toast, which I, by God, will always give, "While heaven permits me to speak, drink, and live; I'll teach a bird in tyrant's ears to ring "The Sovereign People, our liege Lord and King. "I move the Club, who feel its value moft, And know its ufes beft, to vote the "With acclamation, and without delay, Rofe, as electrified, and hand in hand,|| March 15, 1799. C. S. ON LORD NELSON'S VICTORY. WHEN feven dire plagues, ordain'd by Heaven's command, Deftruction pour'd o'er Egypt's ftubborn land, Invidious Satan, fworn to plague 'em moft, Sends a French horde, this plague of plagues his worft; Then Nelfon, animate with pious pride, Refcues the land, and Satan's hordes destroy'd; Nor claim'd the glory, but to Heaven alone Devotes that fame his modeft valour won: * In this fpeech of Mr. Erfkine I take his own words, and give his own quotations. "Put out the light and then," and "in their ears we'll hollow Mortimer," are very judicioutly borrowed from Shakspeare; but "belay all that;" "the tree, the roots, the blight," and "we are quit," are happy effufions of vulgarity, fedition, and flang. + The eafe and familiarity of this expreffion are, I believe, not to be parallelled, either in the Analytical or Critical Reviews, or even in the learned labours of Citizens Tooke or Paine, This is not taken from the last speech of Mr. Erskine, nor will it probably be in the last he will make, but I found it in one of his declamations in Weftminfter Hall, and in another at the Crown and Anchor, The Whigs of France yote, it seems, in the fame manner as the Whig Club of England. Y y 4 SOLILOQUY Pious and loyal, merciful and brave, Intent to fuccour, fedulous to fave; Still may fhe prove, in thefe diftracted times, Written by the Commanding Officer of a The field of virtue, and the fcourge Troop of Volunteers. CALL'D to defend my injur'd coun try's caufe, Advance her welfare, and maintain her laws, of crimes, And ftill repofe, while fweeps the avenging rod, er hopes in union, and her truft in God. HISTORY. HISTORY. 457 SUMMARY OF POLITICS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. Iour the relative fate of the belligerent Powers, that fuccefs N our laft view of the political ftate of Europe, we inferred would attend the early operations of the French, but that they would ultimately fail in the execution of their plans for the diffufion of their principles, and the extenfion of their conquefts; and that the firft difafter they fhould experience would rouze the latent embers of revolt into a flame, in all the fubjugated countries, diftinguished by the proftituted appellation of Republics, from the Netherlands to the remoteft corner of Italy. In one part of our prediction alone have we been deceived--we mean the extent of their early fucceffes; fome trifling and indecifive advantages gained in the Tyrol, and, in a part of the country of the Grifons, being the only operations which could have the fmalleft claim to be called fuccefsful. Never, in the fhort space of a fingle month, did any events occur that gave fo complete a change to the aspect of affairs in Europe, as thofe which have occurred in the course of the laft month. The French stimulated, as we before observed, by a defire of crufhing the Auftrians, before their allies, the Rutfians, could co-operate with them, and by the neceffity of providing for their armies, by the plunder of foreign countries, commenced hoftilities, both in Germany and Italy, before the armiftice was declared to be at an end. They expected, by this treacherous proceeding, fo perfectly confiftent, however, with the uniform teror of their conduct as to excite furprize in the mind of no man who knew them, to take the Auftrians unawares, to overrun the country betwixt the Rhine and the Danube, to excite, by means of their emiffaries, mutiny among the Imperial troops, and infurrection among the peafantry, and, then, pufhing forward, to drive the Archduke back to the very walls of Vienna, and fo to intimidate the Emperor as to make him liften to the evil councils of the enemies of his worthy minifter Thugut, and facrifice the honour and safety of his crown and people, to a pufillanimous defire for peace. But, happily for the German empire, and for the whole civilized world, the heroic conduct of Prince Charles, and the intrepidity of his troops, have averted the impendin calamity, and, triumphing over every obftacle, have overwhelmed their treacher. ous foes with disgrace. We noticed in our laft the capture of the Auftrian General Auffenburg, and a strong body of his troops, after a defperate refiftance, under the walls of Coire; the reduction of the Grifons was the confequence of this victory. But in order to complete the plan of the French, which was to effect a junction of their two armies, that of Maffena, in Switzerland, with that of Jourdan, in Germany, it was neceffary to carry the important poft of Feldkirch, which was occupied by the Austrian Gen. Hotze, whofe line extended from |