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 SHADE 
 
 F 
 
 ALEXANDER POPE 
 
 ON THE 
 
 BANKS of the THAMES. 
 A SATIRICAL POEM. 
 WITH NOTES, 
 
 £ Price 2s. 6d. ]
 
 THE 
 
 SHADE 
 
 F 
 
 ALEXANDER POPE 
 
 ON THE 
 
 BANKS OF THE THAMES. 
 
 A SATIRICAL POEM. 
 WITH NOTES. 
 
 Occasioned chiefly, but not wholly, by the residence of 
 
 Henry Grattan, Ex-Representative in Parliament 
 
 for the City of Dublin, at Twickenham, 
 
 in November, 1798. 
 
 Voce fu per me udita, 
 Onorate 1' akissimo Poeta! 
 
 VOmbra sua torna. 
 
 Dante Inf. C. 4. 
 
 BY THE AUTHOR 
 
 O F 
 
 THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE, 
 
 SECOND EDITION. 
 
 LONDON: 
 PRINTED FOR T. BECKET, PALL MALL. 
 
 *799'
 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 JL HIS Poem was chiefly occasioned by the 
 perusal of Dr. Patrick Duigenaii s Answer to 
 the Address of Mr. Grattan to his Fellow 
 Citizens of Dublin (a). I considered the Address 
 
 and 
 
 (a) See" An Answer to the Address of Henry 
 Grattan, Ex-reprefentative of the City of Dublin in 
 Parliament, to his Fellow Citizens of Dublin, by Patrick 
 Duigenan, L.L.D. a Citizen of Dublin, and one of the 
 Reprefentatives of the City of Armagh." 3d edit. with. 
 Additions. Dublin, printed for Milliken, Grafton-ilreet, 
 
 1798. and for J. Wright, Piccadilly, London. 
 
 B
 
 ( * ) 
 
 and the Answer with that attention, earneftnesSi, 
 and zeal which the importance cf such a Cause, 
 at this present hour, requires and demands. I 
 considered it in this manner, because whatever 
 affects Ireland, must affect the exiftence and safety 
 of Great Britain, and of all the dependencies, 
 territories, and possessions annexed to the Crown. 
 
 I think Dr. Duigenan might have adopted the 
 
 very words of Cicero again ft Antony. That 
 
 Orator requcfted indulgence and attention when 
 
 he spoke of himself; but as to the enemy of 
 
 his country, he exclaimed with confidence; 
 
 " Cum de illo loquor, faciam ut attente audi- 
 
 " atis.(^)" A more mafterly, just, and irre- 
 sistible 
 {h) Philipp. 2«
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 sistible piece of argument has seldom appeared ; 
 and if the eloquence suffers any abatement* 
 it is from the admission of some expressions 
 which might, and should, have been avoided. But 
 a mind intent on great and national matters, 
 urgent in their nature and allowing of no delay, 
 cannot always attend to the minuter elegances 
 and graces of diction. 
 
 In Dr. Duigenan's Answer, there is the vigour, 
 the manlinefs, the courage, the impetuosity, the 
 indignation, and the thunder of an orator, feel- 
 ing for the wrongs of his country, and the 
 horrors of rebellion, againfc a Man, whose political 
 conduct and character have ranked him among 
 the domcftick enemies of Ireland. Against a 
 
 B z man
 
 ( 4 5 
 
 man, who appears to have imposed himself upon 
 his credulous country, under the pretence of 
 brilliant talents and rhetorical exertions. Against 
 a- man, who boasts that in the hour of distress, he 
 extorted from the timid and kebie Minister 
 
 of the day, and from an improvident British Par- 
 liament, such concessions, as have been since proved 
 
 to be inconvenient, and sometimes in direct 
 
 opposition to the essential welfare of Ireland. 
 
 Against a man, who received the most extravagant 
 
 ■And disproportioncd rewards, for very equivocal 
 
 services, and who has now (7) fled to England 
 
 from his own country, from that hue and cry of 
 
 every loyal subject, which pursued him from the 
 
 Castle, to the shop and to the cottage. 
 
 I have 
 (c) Nov. i 79 8.
 
 < * > 
 
 I have nothing to do with Mr. Grattan, but in 
 his publick capacity, as his actions, his writings, 
 $nd his speeches have demonstrated and declared 
 it to the world. He has signed with his own 
 hand all the doctrines, which have been discussed, 
 exposed, and confuted. 
 
 InMr.Grattan's Address we find, as I think, false 
 facts, even of die day, false history, false reasoning, 
 false premises, and false conclusions. There is 
 inanity of sound, and shallowness of argument. 
 
 We observe the glosses of the sophist, and all the 
 purple patches in the rhetorician's cloak. It is 
 such a tissue of the most unfounded assertions, 
 rebellious doctrines, and treasonable sentiments, as 
 have discovered, and proved to the loyal subjects 
 of Great Britain and Ireland, who and what 
 B 3 Mr,
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 Mr. G rattan is. But I refer to the caustick 
 discussions of Dr. Duigenan, whose answer, I 
 Lope, will be read in this country ; for it does not 
 concern Ireland alone. 
 
 When William Wood and his associates had 
 been confounded by the eloquence and energy of 
 
 Dean Swift, (a man to whom Mr. G rattan bears 
 not the least resemblance in the powers of 
 his mind,) the Copper Captain of that day 
 
 continued his calumnies in the newspapers. 1 
 think that Mr. Grattan has been so examined, 
 so exposed, so probed to the quick in his political 
 capacity by Dr. Duigenan, that his letters, full of 
 sound and fur}' in the Dublin and London News? 
 papers, and signifyinglittle, canbe considered only 
 
 as
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 as shrieks similar to those of William Wood, in 
 similar agonies. Some of his doctrines, and publick 
 conduct, are briefly exposed in this Poem ; as such 
 statesmen should be held up to the publick in every 
 
 point of view, that we may always know who and 
 what they are, and judge them from their own 
 mouth. " Licet omnibus, licet etiam mihi, 
 " dignitatem Patriae tueri : potestas modo veni- 
 
 *' endi in publicum sit, dicendi periculum non 
 " recuso(y;," 
 
 • 
 I have observed, that this Poem was occa- 
 sioned chiefly, but not wholly, by the appearance 
 and residence of Mr. Grattan in the village 
 B 4 q{ 
 
 (d) Cicero, Philipp. J*
 
 C 8 ) 
 
 of Twit nam on the banks of the Thames, th« ( 
 ancient and favourite abode of our great Poet„ 
 It is not unnatural to imagine his indignation 
 at such vicinity. No man could have felt 
 greater horror at the scenes of democratick 
 France, the papal fanaticks, and rebellious dis- 
 organizes of Ireland, and the projected, but 
 baffled, plots of the Jacobins in Great Britain, 
 than Mr. Pope, 
 
 To suppose indeed, that the spirits of departed 
 Poets are acquainted with the passing scenes 
 of this lower world, is an indulgence which 
 has always been granted. I think no apology 
 for the supposition can be required or expected. 
 
 But
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 But if any person should be so very reasonable, 
 and so very unpoetical as to demand it, I 
 must consign him to the custody of the 
 Governor of Tilbury Fort in the days of Queen 
 Elizabeth, who declared, that no man can see 
 what is not to be seen; or hear, what is not 
 to be heard, (e) A sentence indeed of great 
 truth, but which, I fear, would overthrow from 
 their foundation, some of the best poetical 
 fabricks in every language. 
 
 It has been declared of Satire, (f) that 
 " She alone of all her poetical sisters is 
 '* unconquerable, never to be silenced, when truly 
 
 " inspired and animated, (as should seem) from 
 
 above, 
 (e) Mr. Sheridan's Critick, Act 2. (/) Warburton.
 
 ( IO ) 
 
 * above, for this very purpose, to oppose (the 
 ** power and influence of) dulness, (conceit, 
 " democracy, and wickedness) to her very last 
 " breath." In these days, the various objects 
 which offer, or rather force themselves upon 
 cur notice, are very numerous, and many of 
 them are considered in this Poem, But no 
 subject whatsoever is introduced, winch has 
 not some reference to the welfare, support, and 
 stability of these kingdoms, and their consti- 
 tutional government, in this hour of danger and 
 experiment. There is no subject in it which 
 the great moral and national Poet, who is 
 
 supposed to speak, would not have thought 
 worthy either of his casual notice, or of mature 
 consideration, or of jocular allusion and easy 
 
 pleasantry,
 
 C » ) 
 
 pleasantry, or of his most severe and mGst 
 powerful Satire. If I have read Mr. Pope's works 
 aright, I think he would, at this hour, have 
 adopted the patriotick words of him, who declared 
 that a Poet was nearly and closely allied to an 
 Orator: " Erigite animos ; retinete vestram dig- 
 " nitatem. Manet ilia in Republica bonorum 
 ff eonsensio ; dolor accessit bonis viris, virtus 
 ** non est imminuta." (g) 
 
 Upon this consideration, if Satire should exalt 
 
 herself, and if her language should become bold 
 
 and of ancient potency, it is unjust to attribute 
 
 it to ill-nature or to malignity. It is the 
 
 (deliberate, keen sensation of a mind feeling for 
 
 the 
 
 (g) Fragment. Orationisin Clodium: 
 
 ap. Cicer. Epist, ad Attic, L. I. E. i5.
 
 ( i2 ; 
 
 the human nature and the human character, 
 for the ruin, the degradation, the confusion, or the 
 disturbance of a well-ordered state, and of that 
 morality and principle which can alone uphold 
 it. It must then be regarded, (as a man whofs 
 thoughts were deep, and whose views were 
 clear and comprehensive, once expressed him- 
 self,) Cf Not as malice, but indignation and 
 " resentment against vice and wickedness. It 
 " is one of the common bonds, by which Society 
 " is held together j a fellow-feeling, which each 
 " individual has in behalf of the whole species, 
 <c as well as of himself. And it does not appear 
 •* that this, generally speaking, is at all too 
 tl high among mankind." When the sustaining 
 principles are in danger, we must look and act 
 
 beyond ourselves. The connexion of the well- 
 disposed
 
 ( '3 ) 
 
 dispofed must be closer than ever ; for safety is iil 
 
 coherence alone, and in the order of the ftate* 
 It is well expressed by Plato, I think in his 
 Timseus, Ajexoaptr/o-s, Sisroih, STNESTH2EN. 
 
 Vv r e should feel all selfishness of spirit 
 subdued by the time. We should cast away 
 the petty interests and low considerations of 
 mere literary prudence, and the contemptible 
 submission to half- measures. We should feel 
 them sinking and giving way, when we acknow- 
 ledge in common with every man who will 
 reflect deeply, what a debt of gratitude we owe to 
 our ancestors who established our Constitution; 
 and how great the duty is of each individual 
 to lend his support to his own country, 
 when publickiy attacked or secretly undermined. 
 Resistance mu>t be bold, determined, and 
 
 un-
 
 ( *4 ) 
 
 unshrinking, or it is ineffectual ; nay, it is 
 worse than no resistance at al!. With political 
 knowledge* well or ill understood, is now 
 involved every thing which is valuable and 
 
 worth preservation. Morality, religion, the laws, 
 literature, our domestick safety, and individual 
 property must perish in the common shipwreck. 
 
 In whatever we are at present engaged, the cause 
 >s just and righteous. It is a war unsought and 
 unprovoked by cur aggressions ; a war of self- 
 defence, but extended beyond all powers of our 
 original conception. I hope and trust we shall still 
 be the instruments of a general preservation, and 
 of the deliverance of Europe from the overbearing, 
 desolating, and unrelenting tyranny of France, 
 by a mighty co-operation and an inflexible league* 
 
 But
 
 ( *5 ) 
 
 But above all, the internal peace, the quiet, the 
 Safety, the authority of the legal powers, the 
 institutions, the manners, and the laws, within 
 the precincts of our own Island, are the most 
 immediate and dearest objects of all our labours, 
 our expences, our arms, and our trophies; 
 worthy of unremitting vigilance, and of united 
 
 vigour. 
 
 Upon the general issue ; upon the great 
 united contest ; upon the powers of the North, 
 and the strength of the East; on the Isles and 
 the Continents of Europe, and of Asia; on the 
 shores of the Mediterranean ; through the Indian 
 and Atlantick waves ; on the states of America 
 sad the invaded deserts of Africa, the Cause 
 
 ONE
 
 ( 16 ) 
 
 one and the same is now to be maintained, or 
 lost for ever. There is a voice, (it was the voice 
 of an Imperial Poet the friend of the Minister 
 of his day,) which may be now heard with effect 
 
 by every Nation, but by none with more peculiar 
 emphasis and propriety than by Great Britain 
 and Ireland* 
 
 Credite nunc omnes, quas dira Britannia, Gentcs, 
 
 Quas Ister, quas Rhenus alit ! 
 
 Uno tot pruilia vincite Bello ; 
 Romarmm reparate decus, molernque labantis 
 Imperii fulcite humeris : Hie omnia Campus 
 Vindicat ; n&c MundoPacem Victoria sancit! 
 
 November ; 1798.
 
 THE 
 
 SHADE of ALEXANDER POPE 
 
 ON THE 
 
 BANKS of the THAMES, 
 At TWITNAM. 
 
 A SATIRE; 
 WITH NOTES,
 
 THE SHADE of ALEXANDER POPE 
 
 ON THE 
 
 BANKS of the THAMES. (*) 
 
 What accents, murmur'd o'er this hallow'd tomb, 
 Break my repose, deep-sounding through the gloom ? 
 Would mortal strains immortal spirits reach, 
 Or earthly wisdom truth celestial teach ? 
 
 Ah! 
 
 (a) Occasioned chiefly, but not wholly, by the residence 
 of Henry Grattan (Ex-Representative in Parliament 
 for the City of Dublin,) at Twitnam ; November, 1798. 
 
 B z
 
 ( »o ) 
 
 Ah ! 'tis no holy calm that breathes around : 
 Some warning voice invites to yonder ground, 
 Where once with impulse bold, and manly fire, 
 I rous'd to notes of war my patriot lyre j 
 
 While Thames with every gale, or bland or strong, 
 Sigh'd through my grotto, and diffus'd my song. 10 
 
 Whence bursts that voice indignant on my ear? 
 To Britain ever faithful, ever dear, 
 
 E'en now my long-lov'd, grateful Country's cause, 
 Her fam'd pre-eminence, her state, her laws, 
 Can touch my temper of ethereal mould, 
 Free as great Dry den, and as Milton, bold. 
 
 Sadly the fcene I view, how chang'd, how loft ! 
 The statesman's refuge once, and poet's boast , 
 I hear the raven's hoarse funereal cry, 
 
 Since all, whom Ireland spares, to Twitnam (a) fly. 20 
 
 The 
 
 (a) Mr. Pope generally spelt the word in this manner.
 
 ( 21 ) 
 
 The polish'd Nestor of the classick shore, 
 Mendip, (£) my green domain can guard no more j 
 Lo,Cambridge (^)droops,whoonce with tuneful tongue 
 The gifts of science, and her wand'rings sung ; 
 With Him, whom Themis and the Muses court, 
 
 The learned Warden of the tatter' 'd Fort : (d) 
 
 For 
 
 {b) The Right Hon. Welbore Ellis, Baron Mendip, 
 the present possessor of Mr. Pope's villa at Twitnam. 
 
 (c) Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq. a distinguished 
 veteran in literature and the polite arts. His poem 
 entitled " The Scribkriad" is a work of great fancy, just 
 composition, and poetical elegance ; but above all, of 
 mature judgment conspicuous throughout. It should be 
 read as well for instruction, as amusement. The preface 
 is entitled to much attention. 
 
 (d) George Hardinge, Esq. a man of genius and 
 eloquence, M. P. one of the Welsh Judges. He is the 
 present possessor of the villa, called "Ragman's Castle" 
 at Twitnam, by the banks of the Thames* 
 B 3
 
 ( £2 ) 
 
 For their best task my Sylphs are all unfit, 
 
 While more than Gnomes along the meadows flit, 
 
 No more my fabled phantoms haunt the plains, 
 
 Where Moloch now, in right of Umbriel, reigns ; 30 
 
 His bands from their Hibernian Tophet pass, 
 
 And clash the cymbal's visionary brass ; 
 
 Or round my groves, sublime on murky wing, 
 
 Spells of revolt and revolution fling ; 
 
 And as they glide, unhallow'd vapours shed 
 
 On that false Fugitive's inglorious head. 
 
 Whence, and what art thou, Grattan? has the 
 shock, 
 And terror Wring o'er the sable rock, 
 Hurl'd thee astounded with tumultuous fears, 
 From Ireland's mutter'd curse, from Ireland's tears? 40 
 
 For
 
 ( *3 ) 
 
 For thee no vistos ope, no friendly glade. 
 
 No Muse invites thee to my sacred shade ; 
 
 No airs of peace from heav'n thy prefence greet ; 
 
 Blasts from Avernus, in respondence meet, 
 
 Hoarse through the leafless branches howl around, 
 
 And birds of night return the obscener sound. 
 
 From thee, whate'er thy fame, I spurn all praise ; 
 My lyre ne'er answer'd to Rebellion's lays : 
 With other lore my purer groves resound, 
 With other wreaths these temples once were bound; 
 Nor shall my green sepulchral laurel stand 
 By Gallick mercy, and a Marian hand. 52 
 
 Hence, and thy baffled Gallick jargon try 
 
 On coward slaves, in abject tyranny: 
 
 B 4 Know
 
 ( 2 4 ) 
 
 Know, thy twice- conquer' d (d) Britons still advance; 
 
 No chains from Pitt they fear, or humbled France* 
 From their bed source each mingled blessing draw, 
 
 Content with freedom, property, and law ; 
 Secure they own their monarch's rightful rod, 
 His friend, the people ; his Creator, God. (?) 60 
 
 Hear then thy doctrine;, and thy patriot love : 
 
 !' Kings are but satellites ; {ee) the people, Jove ; 
 
 « Priestcraft 
 
 (d) " The English have been conquer' d, fir ft, by the 
 Minister, and afterwards, by the French." Henry 
 Grattan's Address to his Fellow-Citizens of Dublin, 
 P-37- 
 
 (e) " In the people it would only be rebellion againft 
 their creature (the King) ; in the other (i. e. in the King) 
 it would be rebellion against his creator t the people." 
 
 Grattan. p. 12* 
 
 (ee) " Kings are but fatellites; zndycur freedom is the 
 luminary which base ailed them to the flues.'' Grattan. 
 p. 40. This, I suppose, is a beautiful rhetorical expres- 
 sion alluding to the murder of Louis the Sixteenth, or 
 the modem democratic!; mode of " calling kings (0 ike 
 
 SKie j .
 
 ( *5 ) 
 
 " Priestcraft a falling cause, (/) from folly sprung, 
 
 " When Saturn reign'd, or when the Pope wasyoung; 
 
 " P^eligion boasts no more a royal rule, (g) 
 
 " Or great Mathesis an imperial school. 
 
 " Self-legislation (gg) to the mob restore ; (Ji) 
 
 " This is Reform j corruption is no more: 
 
 " Pea foil 
 
 ffj " Priestcraft is a falling cause, and a superannuated 
 " folly." Grattan. p. 22. — If ~Pne.su raft means the 
 juggling or deceit of Priests, I hope it is falling, and will 
 fall forever. But I think, no man of sober enquiry and of 
 3 cultivated understanding, who admits the truth ol Chris- 
 tianity, can ever apply with sense, honesty, or justice, the 
 rerm Priestcraft, to such an Establishment ot it, as the 
 Church of England, dependant as it is, on the general law 
 of the land for its support, rights, and constitution. lam 
 here speaking only of the modes of religious worship as 
 they affect civil society, between which there is 
 an important relation, and a close connection — Mr. 
 Grattan's " popular and energetic!; Romanists," could tell 
 him what Prieflcraft is. 
 
 ii) " ^ e kn°w of no royal rule for religion or 
 raathematicks." Grattan. p. 21. I only notice this, to 
 mark the folly of the rhetorician in it's application 
 
 [gg) One peculiar feature of Mr. Grattan's inconsistency 
 (now a favourite term) is this : In his Address to the 
 Citizens of Dublin, he recommends and enforces self- 
 legislation,
 
 ( 26 ) 
 
 iL Reason commands ; go, fix her limit strong, 
 <c Monarchs arc bound, but councils never wrong. 
 
 Ci What 
 
 legislation, absolute and unqualified, to Ireland ; and in 
 his speech on Mr. Fox's motion in the British Houfe at 
 Commons, he asserted and maintained the propriety (and 
 consequently the legality) of Appeals from the Parliament 
 of Ireland to the British Houfe of Commons. 
 
 (h) " What method remains to limit the monarchy of 
 these kingdoms, Great Britain and Ireland, (it has now no 
 limits) but by Reforming Parliament (i. e. the Houfe of 
 Commons) ? What method to prevent a Revolution, but a 
 Reformation?" (i. e. of the Houfe of Commons) What is 
 the reformation of Parliament ? ^i. e. ofiheH.of C.jbut the 
 restoration to the people of self -legislation} — With- 
 out which there is no liberty, as without reform, no felf- 
 legislation. So we reason ed .' ! !" Grattan, p. 40. In a 
 preceding part of his Address, Mr. Grattan says, " It is 
 the object of the Reform, that Parliament (i. e. the Houfe 
 of Commons) should continue in contact with the people 
 always, and with the Minister never, except the people 
 should be in contact with him." Grattan, p. 28. The 
 
 beautiful
 
 ( 2 7 ) 
 
 " What Rightsjoy thee proclaim'd, are equal(i)shewn? 
 u Hussey 's(&) to freedom, Br u nswic k's to thecrown.72 
 
 " Britain 
 
 beautiful ambiguity, equivocation, or rather the abfolute 
 nonsense, of the -word Contact suits such an under- 
 standing as that of the Ex-Representative of the City of 
 Dublin. "Tantamne rem tam negligenter, tarn indiferte,tam 
 impudenter ?'' Perhaps Mr. Grattan may be of the same 
 opinion with a seditious scribbler, one M'Cormick, con- 
 cerning the many headed monster, the Irish Dragon, 
 *' whose teeth (as M'Cormick tells us) are sown, and 
 " must ere long spring up in hosts of armed Patriots, 
 *' not with frantick rage to point their spears at each 
 " others breasts, but to fertilize the soil, and renovate the 
 " proverbial verdure of their Country, by the bloob 
 " of it's cruel oppressors. "+ — N. B. In the rural oecono- 
 " micks of Democracy, Blood is always the manure. 
 
 (1) " The Catholicks have, in truth and reason, as good a 
 right to Liberty as his Majesty has to the Crown /" Grattan, 
 p. 2 1. Such is the sport of a rhetorician with the term Libertv. 
 
 [k) Hussey, the Roman-Catholick, democratick, and 
 seditious, titular Bishop of Waterford. See his Pastoral 
 Letter, &c. &c. 
 
 Pastorale canit signum ! cornuque recurvo 
 Tartaream intendit vocem. 
 
 f See a large pamphlet in 4(0. published in 1798, which 
 M'Cormick calls, « The Life of Burke, p. 231.
 
 ( *S ) 
 
 " Britain no commerce spreads from pole to pole, 
 
 " Oppress'd, without an empire to console j (7) 
 " For her no ports expand beneath the line, 
 
 " No friendly flags in Arctick. splendours join ; 
 *' Since Ocean's self republican (w) is grown, 
 " She holds, like Delos, but a floating throne. 
 4 No wisdom in finance, no patriot scheme, 
 " No modern care in borrowing to redeem, («) 80 
 
 " No 
 
 (/) " The project — to put France at the head of Europe, 
 instead of Great Britain, while her people crouch under a 
 weight of debt and taxes, without an Empire to console, or 
 a constitution to cover them." Grattan, ib. 38. 
 
 (?n) " We saw that these Islands, Great Britain and 
 Ireland, were now two kingdoms in a Republican 
 
 Ocean," 8cc. Grattan. p. 39. 
 
 (7?) If Mr. Pitt's principle of Redemption in all loans 
 had been originally adopted at the commencement of the 
 Funding System, the National Debt would have been but 
 small even at this period.
 
 ( *9 ) 
 
 * ; No Constitution/br a cover (<?) left, 
 
 " Of rights, of liberty, of laws bereft. 
 
 " State-quacks still hold thy prophylacticks good, 
 
 " To starve the spirit, (/i) they remove the food." 
 
 Divine Machaon ! should thy views extend, 
 
 Baker (q) must bow, and learned Milman (r) bend. 
 
 Hence then, and trace the Rhine's polluted flood, 
 The ruffian plunder, and the price of blood : 
 Mark the mild guardians of the Gallick land ! 
 
 Justice, the lion's portion in her hand; go 
 
 Mercy, 
 
 (*) See above ; Note (/). 
 
 (p) " It appeared to us, that ihebest way of starving that 
 spirit, was to remove the food." Grattan. d. i6« 
 
 (q) Sir George Baker, Bart. Physician to the King, or 
 high professional character and learned accomplishments. 
 
 (r) Francis Milman, M. D. a Physician in London, 
 of great skill and eminence, and extensive practice ; a 
 gentleman of classical erudition, polite manners, and cf a 
 well- cultivated understanding.
 
 ( ;° ) 
 
 Mercy, in tears o'er fallen sparrows shed, 
 
 Beneath her feet the murder'd Monarch's head; 
 
 Philanthropy, that fain would fold the globe 
 
 With arms fraternal, in a tyrant's robe. 
 
 See Directorial Chanceries elate 
 
 Stamp their diplomas for each neutral State ; 
 
 Licentiate Kings in humbled order stand, 
 
 Till Rewbell nods, to sweep them from the land* 
 
 With horror nciv my purer fancy paints 
 lerne's clans, and democratic!; saints; it) ico 
 
 Relicks and rags on Gallick standards fly, 
 And the green rabble of the papal sky. (//) 
 
 Oh, 
 
 (t) et The popular and energctick Romanists, the United 
 Irishmen." Grattan. 
 
 (tt) See at large Dr. Duigenan's masterly and irrefragable 
 arguments on the subject of the Roman Catholick religion 
 and principles, in his anfwer to Mr. G rattan's Address. 
 P. 41 to 45. and p. 123 to 141,
 
 ( 3i ) 
 
 Oh, if Helvetia yet thy soul alarms, 
 Who mourns her late resolve, and tardy arms ; 
 Pause o'er the fragments of that vengeful storm, 
 Lo, Rocks, and Ruins, Rhetors, and Reform ! 
 Then if one honest pang should rend thy breast, 
 Look homeward— and let Conscience tell the rest. 
 
 Hence to the field with Treason's victims strewn ; 
 Reap the dread harvest which thy hand has sown : 
 The robe Praetorian, (7/) and the learned gown, 
 Th' insulted Senate, and the loyal town, 112 
 
 (Each smuggled honour from thytemples torn,) 
 
 Brand thee alike with epidemick scorn. 
 
 Now 
 
 (u) The freedom of the City of Dublin, &c. &x. Sec. has 
 been taken from Mr. Grattan by the vote of the Citizens, 
 Freemen, &c. and his picture removed from the College.
 
 ( 3* ) 
 
 Now loyal flames extend from sire to son; 
 Cornwallis (w) shall compleat, whatCLARE 
 
 begun ; 
 The storm, by awful justice taught to roll, 
 With Patrick's (x) lightning shoot through G rattan's 
 
 soul ; 
 
 One 
 
 (w) M,\rouis Corn Aval lis, Lieutenant Governor, &c, 
 &c. of Ireland. 1798. I cannotbetter characterize this great 
 and good man, when the tenor of his virtuous and 
 honourable life, and of his publick conduct military and 
 civil, is impartially considered, than in the following lines, 
 
 Non qui prsecipiti traherct simul omnia casu ; 
 Sed qui maturo vel laeta, vel aspera, rerum 
 Consilio momenta regens, nee tristibus impar, 
 Nee pro successu nimius, spatiumquc morandi^ 
 Vincendique modum mutatis nosset habenis." 
 
 (x) See the Answer of Dr. Patrick Duigcnan to Mr. 
 Grattan's Addrefs. — I refer to what is laid in the preface 
 to. this poem.
 
 ( 33 ) 
 
 One heart, one hand unite each sister realm, 
 Direct the force, and guide one common helm. 120 
 Hence, nor presume with hateful steps to rove 
 By Twitnam's shore, or Windsor's royal grove, 
 
 Go rather, and thy wayward measures fill, 
 4< Where the young Wantons fport on Anna's hill;" (z) 
 Blue-bells and red-caps on each bush shall blow, 
 While Erskine prattles, and while Seine shall flow. 
 
 Sec 
 
 ■ -) %t Or where ye, Muses, sport on Cooper's Hill ; 
 On Cooper's Hill eternal wreaths shall grow. 
 While last? the mountain, and whileThames shall flow. " 
 
 Pope's Wind/or Fore ft. 
 
 v 
 
 N. B. St, Anne's Hill is the fe«U of the Hon. Charles 
 
 Barnes Fox. 
 
 c
 
 ( 34 ) 
 
 Sec there the midnight solemn tapers shine, 
 
 (So Gilray's (a) patriot pencil rais'd the Shrine ;) 
 
 While choral Daemons, from the gulph beneath, 
 Marseilles* dire notes in hoarser accents breathe, 130 
 Tartarian anthems! mix'd with sullen moans 
 Ol bleeding martyrs, and rebellious groans. 
 Mark well the couch, whence Charles from slumber 
 
 staits 
 At heads, which Treason join'd, and Jullicc parts; 
 
 Blood- 
 
 (a) James Gil ray ; the political Hogarth of the prefent 
 day. His pencil has been, and continues to be, of 
 essential service in the publick cause of Great Britain and 
 Ireland. In fome of the higher efforts of his genius, such 
 as, ,; The Sun of the Constitution, — The Homage of 
 Leviathan — The Shrine at St. Anne's Hill," and others 
 which might be named, it is justice to fay, that the design, 
 -kill, execution, and intention deserve the highest praise. 
 Mullis Veneris, cum ponder e et arte.
 
 t 35 3 
 
 Blood-bolter'd Hamilton (if) for vengeance calls, 
 Vengeance re-echoes from the Castle walls. 
 Then view the scene, where Charles with senates tir'd> 
 Stung by contempt, with Gallick phrenzy nYd, 
 Shunn'd by the Nobles, by the Commons spurn'd, 
 While with infuriate thought his bosom burn'd, 140 
 In treason-taverns bold, address'd the ring, 
 Bow'd to his Sovereign, (c) and forgot his King. 
 
 But soft j prepare unwelcome truth to hear 5 
 
 That Botanift (fir) may whisper in your ear, 
 
 Few 
 
 (b) The Rev. and unfortunate Dr. Hamilton, one of the 
 first victims of the Irish Rebellion. 
 
 (c) Le Peuple Souverain! as the French Jacobin tyrants 
 term it, and, " The Sovereignty of the People," as the 
 English Jacobins echo it. I am astonished that such 
 nonsensical democratic!; babble can be endured any longer, 
 even at a tavern from Mr. Barrister Erskine. 
 
 [cc] Mr. Fox. the Linnaeus of St. Anne's Hiih 
 C 2
 
 f 36 ) 
 
 Few plants will bear the test of English ground,- 
 It proves the race corrupt, the root unsound : 
 And G rattan, mark'd for ever, shall retain 
 Hibernian forehead, and Hibernian brain. 
 
 Time was, when Statesmen, high in fame and place, 
 With proud distinction my retreat would grace ; 150 
 Would court my friendship, soothe my aching head, 
 By study soften'd, and " with books well-bred ;" 
 Fond to unbend, they sought familiar ease . 
 I never flatter'd, yet could always please-, 
 Then oft with Ministers would Genius walk : 
 Oxford and St. John lov'd with Swift to talk , 
 Dorset with Prior, and with Queensb'ry, Ga\ , 
 And Hallifax with Congreve charm'd the day 5 
 
 The
 
 ( 37 ) 
 
 The Muse her Addison to Somers join'd, 
 
 The noblest Statesman to the purefl (d) mind, j6o 
 
 But in these dark, forlorh, distracted days, 
 
 Though D'Arcy smiPd, and foster'd Mason's lays, 
 
 Few friends are found for poetry and wit, 
 From North well-natur'd to imperial Pitt. 
 Yet when his Country's deep-felt interert calls, 
 
 Himself shall plant the standard on the walls ; 
 
 Duty 
 
 [d] Mr. Pope is here supposed to speak of Mr. Addison 
 without remembrance of their jealousies and disagreements; 
 and as Mr. Addifon deserved of mankind. 
 
 " Their tears, their little triumphs o'er, 
 
 Their human pajfions now no more, 
 
 Save Charity, that glows beyond the tomb.'* 
 
 Gray, 
 C 3
 
 ( 38 ) 
 
 Duty (ei) shall urge, what talents vainly claim 
 By native lustre, and untitled name. 
 
 But oh, what scenes, what varied wonders press, 
 What visionary forms my fancy bless ! 1 70 
 
 Now fears deject, now blessings round me smile, 
 The follies, and the glories of the Isle. 
 
 Supplies are prompt for Pitt's directing hand j 
 
 Pactolus rolls through all the wealthy land ; 
 
 But still with Tully's speech his wisdom hold, 
 
 He never said, (Economy is cold; (/) 
 
 No 
 
 [tc] From some late attentions, which have done the 
 Minister honour; and even from the dedication of Mr, 
 Maurice's Second Volume of the History of Hindostan 
 to Mr. Pitt, I am inclined to express the wish of the 
 Viet ■ 
 
 i Owl , 
 
 Ihnc prises redeant artes ; felicibus inde 
 Ingeniispandatur iter; despectaque Musae 
 Coila levent! 
 
 (/} An expression of Mr. Pitt in the H. of C in 
 November, 179S, imprudent, however qualified. " Magnum 
 Vectigal est Parsimonia," were the words of Cicero. 
 The want of ceronomy, ^1 know what I advance) is the 
 chief and prominent defect of Mr. Pitt's administration, 
 \Vith what ease might it be remedied !
 
 ( 39 ). 
 
 No, 'tis the life-blood, feeding all the state, 
 The source of all that's safe, and all that's great : 
 
 Hence Palaces for Bankrupt-Bankers rise, (g) 
 
 And Monarchs wonder with enquiring eyes. 180 
 
 A voice exclaims, in dread financial search, 
 " Commute thetythes :'* and, lo, a falling Church ! 
 On Sabbath's violated (>p-) eve I see 
 Th' unhallow'd combat, by the murderer's tree : 
 Reflect, State-Suicides, while Empires nod, 
 None serve their Country, who forget their God. 
 
 By Scott unmov'd, behold Ambrosio * stand ; 
 And Lewis braves the justice of the land : 
 
 Avonius 
 
 (g) Some abuses of this kind should be looked 
 into : what is granted liberally, should be expended 
 
 wisely. 
 
 (gg) Excidat ilia dies aevo, ne postera credant 
 Saecula ! nos certe taceamus.— 
 
 * Ambrosio, or The Monk, a Romance, by M. Lewis, 
 
 Efq. M. P. — See the Remarks upon it in the Preface to 
 
 the Fourth Dialogue of the Purfuits of Literature. 
 C 4
 
 ( 4° ) 
 Avonius sneaks, his daily progress known, 
 
 A rustick hermit peering o'er the town ; jqq 
 
 Carlisle is lost with Gillies in surprize, 
 
 As Lysias (gg) charms foft Jersey's classick eyes -, 
 
 Knight (Ji) half-recants ; the luscious Darwin sings ; 
 
 The Baby Rhymer flaps his flimsy wings ; 
 
 While He, whose lightest works might soothe the land, 
 
 Like the dull ostrich, drops them in the sand. 
 
 Through air, fire, earth, how unconfin'd we range ! 
 
 What veil has Nature ? and what works are strange ? 
 
 All mark each varied mode of }>c±t and light, 
 
 From the spare Rumford to the pail id Knight ; 2cq 
 
 Though Watson's aid in vain his Chemia calls, 
 
 The modest * Hatchett no fatigue appalls - 
 
 The. 
 
 igg) An Athenian Orator, whose works attracted Lady 
 
 Jersey's attention through the medium of Dr. Gillies's 
 
 translation. The Oration on Eratosthenes is rather singular. 
 
 (h) See the Preface to the Second Volume of the Ionian 
 
 Antiquities puhlished by the Dilettanti Society. 
 
 (*) Charles Hatchett, Esq. F. R. S. a gentleman of 
 ingenuity, and of liberal, intense application to the 
 study of Chemistry. The R. S, presented him with 
 their medal for his chemical researches in 170.8. Much 
 may be expected from the ability and patient labours o:
 
 ( 4> ) 
 
 The Elements contract; the water (bb) flies ; 
 
 Balloons ascend ; gas quickens ; spirit dies. 
 
 Trace all the rural whims, that sprout and spread 
 In branches intricate through Sinclair's head, 
 Who ships, in ploughs ; in oxen, Tritons sees ■> 
 
 The waves, in furrows ; and in masts, the trees. (7) 
 
 Behold from Brobdignag that wondrous Fleet, 209 
 
 With Stanhope's [it) keels of thrice three hundred feet? 
 J3e ships, or politicks, great Earl, thy theme, 
 
 Oh, first prepare the navigable stream. 
 
 The healing Art, to maxims seldom true , 
 Changes with ease old fancies for the new . 
 
 \Jih) Alluding to the experiments of the learned and very 
 
 ingenious Mr. Cavendish on Water, and it's cnastituen' 
 principles. 
 
 (1) In allusion to Sir John Sinclair's not*! ideas cm 
 marine subjects, delivered in the House or Commons some 
 time in Nov. 1798. 
 
 hi) The present Earl Stanhope is one oi :.ic j . hist 
 experimental Naval projectors in England. He wiii 
 possibly recollect the proposition be made • ; an rrrmen 
 ■Ship-builder.
 
 ( 4* ) 
 
 See Jenner («>') there, the laurel (k) on his brow. 
 Leads up Sabrina's Commutation-Cow' (/) 
 
 Pasiphae 
 
 (iii) I allude to the present impor:ant controversy in the 
 medical world. See the Inquiries by the Doctors Jenner and 
 Pearfon, " into the causes and effects of the Variola; 
 Vaccinae, or Cow-Fox, principally with a view to supersede 
 and extinguish the Small Pox." London, 1798. — The 
 evidence appears as yet to be wholly negative; but it is 
 not my intention to examine all the cases and writings, 
 " Vaccinus quazcumque recepit Apollo." Dr. Pearson's 
 Treatise is inscribed to Sir George Baker, Bart, which 
 entitles the subject to the consideration of the faculty. 
 (Nov. 1798. ) 
 
 [k] This appears from the sublime and poetical wordi of 
 the ingenious Dr. Pearson : " I would not pluck a sprig of 
 laurel from the wreath which decorates the brow of Dr. 
 Jenner!" Enquiry on the Cow-Pox, p. 3, But still— 
 Et Vitula tu dignus ct Hie. 
 
 (/) Dr. Jenner is a Physician in Glcucejlerjliire, ana I 
 very naturally suppose that Sabnna^i tutelar nymph of the 
 Severn, pointed out to him the fair object c: his discovery.
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 Pasiphae {pi) smiles at Syphilitick stains j 
 
 But Home in) sheds brazen tears, and Earle (») 
 
 complains. 
 
 Mark 
 
 (m) Hie crudelis amor Imxi.fuppo/laque furto 
 Pasiphac, mixtumque genus. j£n. 6. 
 
 It is impossible to say, how far the Commutation Sy/letn 
 may be carried in this country. It first began with a little 
 Tea, which the celebrated Doctor William Pitt, 
 (a Practitioner of great and extensive reputation, who 
 settled in London about the year 1784, and still continues to 
 giveadviceto the publick in Downing-Strect.) recommended 
 to his Patients, as a cheap medicine in lieu of light, air, and 
 some other non-naturals. The physicians are now beginning 
 to pay their addresses to the Cow ; and the Clergy are afraid 
 that some State-Doctors may offer the same gallant attention 
 to the calves, pigs, and lambs, merely by way of change. 
 But if the medical commutation-act is to extend to other 
 diseases, I iear that it will be easier for Sir George Baker, 
 Bart, to appease the classical Manes of Fracastorius, than to 
 console some of the medical profession on the extinction of 
 the Nymph Syphilis. (Nov. 1798.) 
 
 (») Everard Home and James Earle, Esqrs.two Surgeons 
 cf eminence in London.
 
 ( 44 ) 
 
 Mark now, where bold, with fronts nietallick shine 
 
 William and Alary, (o) on one common coin : 220 
 
 Full 
 
 (o) William Godwin and Mary Woolstoxcrait 
 
 Godwin — I refer the reader to the Notes in the third and 
 
 fourth Dialogues of the Pursuits of Literature for the 
 
 exposition and exposure of Philosopher William. At 
 
 present it is curious to compare the living works of Mr„ 
 
 Godwin, with the posthumous writings of the frail fair one; 
 
 and above all with the Philosopher's unblushing account of 
 
 his own Wife's t amours, life, and conduct. <k Ego te 
 
 ceventem, Sexte, verebor?" Mr. Godwin has fully 
 
 explained and exemplified what he calls " the most odious 
 
 of monopolies," Marriage: and has published all his 
 
 philosophical transactions with Mary, previous to his 
 
 monopolizing her. When Mrs. Bellamy's and Mrs, 
 
 Baddeley's Memoirs were printed, we knew what we were 
 
 toexnect. But when a philosopher, a reformer of states, a 
 
 ,2uide in fine writing, belles lettres, morality, and legislation, 
 
 like Mr. Godwin, publishes such Memoirs of his own Wife, 
 
 what must we say ? " Sic hccat tumulo scripsissc t 
 
 Catonis Marcia ?" 
 
 I have 
 
 r 3ee <( Memoirs of Mary "Woolstoncraft Godwin, 
 by William Godwin.
 
 ( 45 ) 
 
 Full freedom to the genial bed restore, 
 
 At 
 
 ,-■■3 
 
 I have been informed, that previous to the Important, or 
 as he thinks, unimportant nuptial contract, Philofopher 
 Godwin consulted a descendant of Trouillogan in Rabelais, 
 who states in two chapters, [a] " Kow the Philosopher 
 ' Trouillogan handled the difficulty of marriage; together 
 4t with the answers of that great Ephectick and Pvrrhoniaji 
 " Philosopher on that subject. 3 ' A very short specimen oi 
 the doubtful doubts, as kand/ed by Panurge and that grea* 
 man, may not be unpleasant or inapplicable, 
 
 ** Panurge. — Should I marry ■? 
 
 Philosopher Trouillogan. — There is some liiie'ihaajL 
 
 Panurge. — But if I do not marry ? 
 
 Philosopher. — I see in that no inconvenience. 
 
 Panurge. — You tic- not? 
 
 Philosopher. — None truly; if my eyes deceive me CxGi, 
 Panurge. — Yea; but I reckon more than five hundred 
 inconveniences. 
 
 Philosopher. — Reckon them, Sec. <kc. 
 
 Panurge. — Well then ; if I marry, I shell be a Cuc^olu 
 
 Philosopher. — .One mould fay fo. 
 
 Panurge. — But eneyou married. Philosopher Troiuikaa-r ,. 
 or are you not ? 
 
 Philosopher. — Neither the one, r.or the other ; and ve> 
 
 both together:'' &c. &c ; &c. 
 
 A ' 
 
 (a) Rabelais Book 3, Ch, 3c, ar.d «t.
 
 ( 4« ) 
 
 And prove whate'er Vanini (p) prov'd before, 
 
 Fierce 
 
 At the conclusion of this Nuptial Dialogue, in which 
 Panurge with all the keenness of his dlalecticks pushed the 
 Philosopher home, and probed him to the quick, the great 
 Gargantua, who had heard the whole disputation most 
 patiently from the beginning to the end, non sine stupore, 
 suddenly rose and exclaimed, " Praised be heaven! but 
 above all for bringing the world to that height of refine dnefs, 
 beyond what it was, when I was first acquainted with it; 
 that now the most learned and prudent philosophers are 
 not aJJiamed to be seen entering the porches of the schools 
 of the Pyrihonian, Aporrhetick, Sceptick, and Ephectick 
 Sects ! It will be henceforth found an easier enterprize to 
 take lions by the necks, oxen by the horns, or goats by the 
 beard, than to entrap fuck philosophers in their words !" 
 By which it appears, that the great Gargantua made no 
 allusion, by anticipation, to Philosopher Godwin, who ccr- 
 5ain!y may be entrapped with great ease in his zicrds, at 
 least in such as he has thought proper to print. But as 
 Panurge said, " Parlons sans disjunctive;. " 
 
 It is however certain, that many parts of this Dialogue 
 mus'* have administered <neat comfort to Mr. Godwin. 
 
 Bu>
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 Fierce passion's slave, she veer'd with every gust, 
 
 Love 
 
 But before I can persuade the reader to peruse the Memoirs 
 of Mary by her own husband, and all Man's own 
 posthumous writings revised, and perhaps a little improved, 
 by Mary 's hufband, on justice, marriage, rights, wrongs^ 
 and so on, to the end of the chapters by "He and She", 
 the gentleman and the lady, the two parties in the 
 contract ; the philosopher and philoso/^/z^j, the 
 citizen and the ciiizette, recourse must be had to 
 abler arguments than any which I can produce. I 
 must request him to study the chapter in which it is 
 shewn, " How Pantagruel persuaded Panurge to tak 
 " counsel of a fool." Perhaps the Philosopher may 
 here say. with Panurge, " Je mettray mes lunettes a 
 cette oreille gauche, pour vous ouir plus clair." 
 
 e 
 
 I still think, that these memoirs and posthumous 
 Works of Mary Wool Hon craft Godwin should bs 
 earnestly recommended to every father and mother, 
 to every guardian and every mistress of a boarding 
 school throughout the kingdoms of Great Britain, 
 
 as
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 Love, Rights,ani Wrongs, Philosophy, and Lust : 
 
 But 
 
 as " A convenient Manual of fpeculative debauchery, 
 •vith the most, select arguments for reducing it into 
 piactice;" for the amusement, initiation, and instruc- 
 tion of young ladies from sixteen to twenty-five + 
 years of age, who wish to figure in life, and after- 
 wards in Doctors Commons and the King's Bench; 
 or ultimately in the notorious receptacles of patrician 
 prostitution. This is the end of the new school, 
 certain, inevitable, irreversible. 
 
 The force of ridicule indeed on this subject can hardly 
 Be exhausted upon the manner in which these 
 philosophers treat it seriously. The words of Shak • 
 speare press upon the mind ; 
 
 " I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, 
 But that their jolly drowns it." 
 
 Vet still the consequences are so fatal, and so extensive 
 in their iniquity, that we must also strive to repress them 
 by reasoning, and by every method which learning 
 and reflection can supply or suggest. It is one nefa« 
 nous system of philosophic!; foolery, which some 
 persons suffer themselves to play with too long, till 
 
 by 
 
 f The Annah of Doctors Commons extend the term.
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 But some more wise, in metaphysick air, 
 
 Weigh 
 
 t> 
 
 by flowery language, or rather by ridiculous terms, 
 they are at last betrayed into a forgetfulness of original 
 sound principles, and of sober sense. They read, till 
 they persuade themselves, that they can see " the tear of 
 " affection (like Mr. Godwin's) chrystallized by the 
 " power of genius, and converted into a permanent 
 "literary brilliant III [a] But by this nonsense, bythis 
 foolery, by this substitution of words, aided by the 
 general corruption of morals throughout Europe, the 
 great revolutionary terrors have been brought into 
 action. 
 
 Surely parents and guardians should, with the most 
 affectionate earnestness, for the sake of their country, 
 of themselves, of their dearest hopes, and of every 
 institution divine or human, warn and caution young 
 female readers against such writings as Mrs. Wool- 
 stoncraft Godwin's ; if they perceive an inclination in 
 them to peruse her works. 1 hate literary prohibitions 
 
 D in 
 
 {a) In such language has publick criticism been delivered to 
 the world in one of the Reviews, on Mr- Godwin's Memoirs 
 of his Wife.
 
 ( 5° ) 
 
 Weigh the man's wits(^) against the Lady's hair, (qq) 
 
 Mark 
 
 in such a case, which are generally ineffectual ; but gentle 
 admonition will always have some force on young minds 
 and ingenuous tempers. Their instructors should inform 
 them, that such opinions and doctrines are founded upon 
 the contempt and rejection of that system, which has 
 alone given comfort and dignity to women in the 
 social state, and placed them in honour, confidence, 
 and security. 
 
 The Christian code speaks to them of no spe- 
 cies of subjection to men, as to masters; but it 
 teaches them to look for support, affection, and 
 comfort from men, as fathers, brothers, and husbands. 
 Is it any wonder, that the Creator should best under- 
 stand the specifick distinctions, and relations of his 
 creatures ? Whatever is consistent with the delicacy 
 of their frame, the care of their minds, the cultiva- 
 tion of their talents, and the superintendence of their 
 familv and children, is offered and enjoyed freely and fully 
 by women in this Christian kingdom. These philosophers, 
 of either sex, make marriage the object of their most 
 •oecuiiar ridicule, and then refine it into prostitution. 
 
 What
 
 ( 5« ) 
 
 Mark next, how fable, language, fancy files 
 
 To 
 
 What cart womeri expect to learn from such 
 writings ? To approach them, is to tread, perhaps 
 without design and generally with original rectitude, 
 in the vestibule of the Corinthian temple of seduction 
 and adultery. To no other altars can they be con- 
 ducted by such a prieftess as Mrs. Woolstoncraft 
 Godwin. But they should be reminded, that in the 
 gloomy back-ground they may plainly discern the 
 cavern of suicide. 
 
 It is unpleasant to criticize, even in the gentlest, 
 martner, the works of the female pen. We have ladies 
 of ingenuity, learning, and of every varied excellence; 
 I would name Mrs. Carter, and Mrs. Hannah More, in 
 the most eminent sense. The genius of the authoress 
 of the Elegy on Captain Cook, the poetry of Mrs 
 Charlotte Smith, and the sombrous fancy and high- 
 wrought imagery of Mrs. Radcliffe, cannot be 
 mentioned without admiration. But when female 
 Writers forget the character and delicacy of their 
 sex ; when they take the trumpet of democracy, 
 and let loose the spirit of gross licentiousness, 
 D a moral
 
 ( 5* ) 
 
 To Ghosts, and Beards, and Hoppergollop's (r) cries 
 
 Lo, 
 
 moral and political, in contempt of those laws, which are 
 their best shield, and of that religion, which has invariably 
 befriended and protected them ; the duty which is owing 
 to the defence of our country, and of all female virtue, 
 comfort, and happiness, calls for strong animadverfion. 
 When their softness is laid aside, when they appear 
 as the Minervas [a) of the modern illuminated syftems, 
 and the Bellonas of France ; (h) in such cases men must 
 be excused, if they would avoid deflruction even from 
 their writings. 
 
 Young female readers often find in Mrs. Godwin's 
 treatises a lively fancy, a specious reasoning, a bold 
 spirit, and flights of ideas to which they have been 
 unaccustomed. The possession and the exertion of thefe 
 ideas they sometimes, in a fatal moment, conceive to 
 be actual liberty, and effectual freedom from restraint, 
 
 and 
 
 (a) Baruel Memoirs of Jacobinism, Vol. 3. 
 
 (<?) 'Ax T CCVOpaj'J ZoXcfAOV XXTZXQlpXVSXGr.', 
 
 En-' ccp Afawm, s »ts IITOAinOP©02 Ew». 
 
 Horn. I!, j.
 
 ( 53 ) 
 
 Lo, from the abyss, unmeaning Spectres drawn, 229 
 
 The 
 
 and the enthralment of prejudice. They drink deep, 
 and are intoxicated with words and fancies, till they are 
 tempted beyond their strength, and become incapable of 
 their own distress. Their weedy trophies ot liberty, 
 philosophy, and emancipation, fall into the dream 
 together with themselves, their innocence, their comfort, 
 their dignity, and their happiness, to rise no more, 
 (Nov. 1798.) 
 
 (p) Vanini, the celebrated atheist, who wished he had 
 been born out of wedlock. " Utinam extra legitimum 
 " torum procreatus fuissem, &c." Such is the blas- 
 phemous, idle rant on the subject in his treatise, " De 
 Admirandis Naturae Secretis." 
 
 fqj I shall take my leave of Mr. Godwin (for I have 
 no present intention to examine any more ot his works 
 fpecifically) with some observations on the general 
 tendency of all fuch authors and their works. 
 
 In the present state of civil society, and of political 
 
 order so wisely eftablifhed, so vigorously maintained, and 
 
 so honourably recommended in this still flourishing, 
 
 opulent, and powerful kingdom ; it is difficult to restrain 
 
 D 3 the
 
 ( J4 ) 
 
 The Gothick glass, blue flame, and flick'ring lawn ! 
 
 Choak'd 
 
 the emotion of the breast, and the indignation of the 
 understanding at such nefarious writings, and desola- 
 ting principles. The arms, the instruments, and the 
 agents are before us> and are now understood. It was 
 the strong language of Cicero; " Denuncio vitia; 
 " tollite : denuncio vim, arma ; removete."* We 
 would recover the health which is gone, and the soundness 
 which is loft. I am of opinion they may both be 
 recovered. But we must all strive, in our several capaci- 
 ties, to direct the vessel of the publick mind, and of the 
 national understanding, in a strait and undeviating course; 
 or, as it is well expressed in one of the Orphick fragments 
 preferved by Clemens, (a) IQuvhv KpctSws vospov kvtos. 
 
 In the sublime, but often fanciful theology, or as I would 
 rather term it, the Theonomy, exhibited in the Timaeus 
 of Plato, and more fully in the commentary of Proclus, 
 we read of the Eyxocrpuoi ©soi, or superintending 
 mundane deities. I would not insist upon the imaginary 
 visions of any man, however great ; but in the way of 
 
 a dap- 
 
 * Cic. Philipp. i. Sect. 10. 
 {a) Clement. Alexandria L. 5. p. 443. Ed.Lugd. Bat. 1616, 
 
 D 4
 
 ( ss ) 
 
 Choak'dwith vile weeds, our once proud Avon strays -, 
 
 When 
 
 adaptation, they have often a force and analogy, which 
 is neither unpleasing nor unfruitful. I am sure the pre- 
 sent modern philosophical writers, such as Condorcet, 
 and his mongrel disciples in England, Godwin and 
 others, have no pretensions to the reverence of 
 mankind, as mundane deities. Their aim is not to 
 exalt the soul of man, but to depress and degrade it to 
 the beast, or in Sir Thomas More's indignant language, 
 " ad pecuini corpusculi vilitatem." (b) 
 
 It is remarkable that Sir Thomas More, in his 
 Republick of Utopia, declared that a person who 
 entertained and professed such sentiments, as the 
 modern philosophy holds forth and inculcates, was 
 not worthy to be numbered among rational men, 
 much lefs to be enrolled among the Citizens. His 
 reason was this ; that a contempt of all laws and of all 
 institutions was a neceifary consequence of such opinions, 
 when uncontrolled. His words are remarkable : " Ilium 
 ne hominumquidern ducuntnumero, tantum abest ut inter 
 Gives ponant, quorum instituta moresque, si per metum 
 
 lie eat, 
 
 (I) Mori Utopia L. 2.
 
 ( 5« ) 
 
 When Novels die, and rise again in plays 
 
 No 
 
 Uceat, omnes floccifacturus sit." + Now we have lived 
 to see, that fear has not restrained such Citizens as Mr. 
 Godwin and others ; and they have accordingly vilified, 
 set at nought, and held out to contempt the laws, the 
 religion, the manners, and the institutions of their 
 country, which defends and protects them, in conformity 
 to the opinion of Sir Thomas More. Such Citizens 
 maintain the doctrines of dissolution, not of compact ; 
 the frame and body of Society drops into pieces member 
 after member, when the principle of continuity is 
 withdrawn. " Nigidium vidi ; Cratippum cognovi."^: 
 
 Men of the greatest minds and of the widest intellectual 
 views, have frequently indulged themselves in forming 
 Utopian Republic!; s, and have often unadvisedly dwelt 
 too much upon the unavoidable evils of Society. Such 
 pure spirits are naturally offended with every species of 
 evil. Igneus est ollis vigor, et cteltslts origo. But 
 when such men, as Sir Thomas More, suffer their minds to 
 
 be 
 
 •f Mori Utopin, Lib. 2. p. 234. Ed. Glasg. 1750- 
 
 \ Cicero in TimiEo, Frsgm. de Universitate, Sect, 1.
 
 ( 57 ) 
 
 No Congress props our Drama's falling state, 
 
 The 
 
 be amused (I fear it is but an amusement at best) 
 with speculative or imaginary political excellence, 
 or rather perfection, how different are their principles, 
 and the result of their thoughts from those of 
 sciolifls and sophifts. We all regret the lofs of that 
 
 Republick, which the genius of Cicero had conftructed. 
 There are indeed a few noble fragments of the building, 
 preserved by Lactantius, Macrobius, and Augustine ; 
 though the plan of the entire edifice by the hand of 
 that consummate practical Statesman, and experienced 
 Philosopher, cannot be traced from the remains. I believe 
 he would have corrected many of the errors of Plato. 
 
 But it is not without it's use to compare, (if we have 
 leifure, and as far as we may compare them) the work 
 of the sublimest Heathen Philosopher with that of the 
 Christian Statesman Sir Thomas More. I speak upon 
 
 the
 
 ( 5* ) 
 
 The modern ultimatum is, " Translate. '* 
 
 Thence 
 
 the whole; I am sensible of their errors, particularly in 
 the Athenian: yet when we think of PJato, we must 
 not forget the state of the Heathen world, antecedent to 
 Christianity. But notwithstanding, both these great 
 men proceeded upon the true dignity of the human mind, 
 when undebased by vice ; and bottomed their opinions 
 upon the most solid science. Their views were large, 
 comprehensive, connected. They knew the nature 
 and the state of man ; and they saw what it would admit, 
 and what it would not bear. When they proposed 
 some amendment, or some institution which did not 
 then exist, it was in the way of suggestion, and not of 
 dogmatical imposition. They never moved through the 
 state with the sword, and the scythe in their hands. What 
 they saw, was with the eye of a well-instructed mind, 
 long prepared by study and exercised in discernment. 
 
 These persons in their generations, were indeed among 
 the superintending mundane deities of their country. Not 
 so the modern Directors of human affairs ; though they 
 aspire to be thought, and to act, as the gods of this nether 
 world. They would sit with the thunderbolt in their 
 
 hands
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 Thence sprout the morals of the German school ; 
 
 The 
 
 hands, and the storms under their feet. Yet even 
 Mythology condemns them, and points to her Salmoneus. 
 But we stand not on the ground of fable: for what 
 is the most extended and the most desolating power 
 of tyrant and of rampant wickednefs on the earth, 
 for a few days or a few years, before HlM ** who 
 (for his own inscrutable purposes) putteth down and 
 " setteth up, and alone ruleth in the kingdoms of 
 " men!" 
 
 The confideration of these modern philosophers offers 
 also the strongest argument for the vigorous and unremit- 
 ting prosecution of wtll- directed study , in all the publick 
 seats of education in these kingdoms. Plato declared, 
 that one of the causes of atheism is, " a certain ignorance 
 " very grievous, which notwithstanding has the appear- 
 " ance of the greateft wisdom." (d) This apparent 
 
 wisdom 
 
 Plato de Leg. , 10.
 
 ( 6o ) 
 The Chriftian sinks, the Jacobin bears rule 
 
 No 
 
 ■wisdom must be combated, and overthrown by reason and 
 erudition ; the fallacy must be pointed out, and the 
 effefr, when perfected, {hewn to be death moral, 
 mental, and political. 
 
 I am confident that the Universities of Oxford 
 and Cambridge will be still found to be the beft 
 and mofl solid bulwarks (I trust not the only ones) 
 of true fcience, and of the legitimate cultivation of the 
 understanding, if they adhere to their original principles ; 
 but not otherwise. By this method of reasoning, I 
 should conceive, that the works of Hooker, Pearson, 
 Stillingfleet, and Barrow, have been lately reprinted at 
 the Clarenden press of the university of Oxford, with 
 singular judgment and true difcernment of the time. 
 They have been sent forth again into the world, " rejoicing 
 " like giants, to run their course." We are in general 
 either deftroyed, or loft, or warped, or led astray, for 
 want of the primal (del) knowledge. I fpeak not here of 
 
 the great incontrovertible abstract sciences ol the mathe- 
 
 maticks, 
 
 (dd) The words of Plato are worthy of observation. 
 Tlpc; THT2JS", orcc\ iTcXjTc*a; Jtaxoi y.y. . Xcyai xara <ffo7^is totx 
 
 i/. *icu'j /%«v@avr,r«;, raurri xxx.oj t.x->~:c c , hi y.z/.oi. ilv ccArtccTcOv 
 
 (j-cv r«; Zvr£uovToc: /xaXXcv r\ (pvrzuoiMc^s;, y.c.i ths Tg&povTZS, 
 
 rcjv T;?yo;/:v.w. Pla;o in Tirrjaeo. p. 87. Vol. 3. Ed. 
 Serrani.
 
 ( «I ) 
 
 No virtue shine?, but in the peasant's mien, 
 
 No 
 
 maticks, and of natural philosophy founded on a severe and 
 sublime geometry. These cannot be disputed. But I am 
 speaking of the ?;2<?ra/cultivation of the understanding, that 
 the frame and good order of religion and government mav 
 be still supported in these realms, by a succession of young 
 men well educated, and judiciously conducted in the paths 
 of erudition. An acute and intelligent observer of history 
 once inscribed a most valuable work fej in these empha- 
 tick words : " To the hope of England, its young gentry, 
 is dedicated, the glory of it, its ancient statesmen , a 
 renowned ancestry, to an honourable posterity." I wifh 
 to see these words continued, and embodied with strength 
 and energy in Great Britain ; her lav.'s will never abhor 
 such a perpetuity. 
 
 I have often, when discoursing on education, dwelt 
 with peculiar earnestness on the dignity and wisdom of 
 the Greek writers inalmoft every department of science, 
 poetry, philosophy, politicks, and morality. I think I 
 have observed, that the modern political theories, who 
 
 are 
 
 (f) State Worthies ; from the Reformation to the Revo- 
 lution, by David Lloyd; re-published by Chartes Whic- 
 •voi'tft, Esq, in two volumes.
 
 ( 6z } 
 
 No vice, but in patrician robeb, is seen ; (r>) 
 
 Through 
 
 are either not versed in them at all, or but superficially, 
 and who therefore hold them in contempt, have generally 
 wandered the widest and the wildest in thefe days of 
 confufion, diftracYiort, and convulfion. Aristotle, Plato, 
 and Thucydides, to mention no others, well knew what 
 was the tyrannical nature of a democracy, and all its 
 appendages. None have more strongly or more justly 
 characterized and depicted it ; none have held it out to 
 greater reprobation and abhorrence. They teach us 
 alternately by reafon, and by example. 
 
 The writings of thefe great men have a perpetual 
 vouth. Like the fun, their light is always new, 
 vet always the same ; the source of mental life, 
 health, vigour, chearfulnefs, and fecundity. It guided* 
 o.r forefathers, ai,d it will guide us if we attend to 
 i:. The Commentator, or rather the animated rival 
 i ' Plato, has words which, on such a subject, it is 
 : • -;:h' v unnatural nor improper to produce and to 
 
 adapt.
 
 ( 6 3 ) 
 
 Through four dull acts the Drama drag?, and drawls, 
 
 The 
 
 adapt. Oivox^i avrcis r, H€?>. Tcv oXov oncrSrrov Koff/Ao* 
 op&frtv' arpzictbis xai ax?.»v£C"i vcriyiatri xpwftzvoi, ir\ypH<Ti *x 
 rcavra. ttis $ri[Aivpyixr,s ccvrarj 7rpovoia,'. Si/veerTi* a^rofs- xapicirt 
 QtOrn;, rn /xsv vonffEi to xyjoivTOV £7n?»a//« , ff«cra , (/) 
 
 I would yet add a few words on thefe modern philo- 
 sophers. They sometimes tell us sneering, and in scorn, 
 that the code of Christians is the code of equality. They have 
 attempted to shew this more than once. But surely 
 we may ask, what is the equality held forth in the 
 Christian Scriptures ? Is it not the equality of the 
 creatures before the Creator? the equality of men 
 before God, and not before each other ? They every 
 where speak oi the distinctions and ranks in society. 
 They ordain tribute to be paid to whom tribute is due ; 
 custom to whom custom, honour to whom honour ; and 
 they fpeak of all lawful power, as derived from God. 
 
 The 
 
 (c) Procli Comment, in Thnasum Platonis, L. 5. p. 334. 
 Ed. Bafil. 1534.
 
 f 64 ) 
 
 The fifth is stage-trick, and the curtain falls. 240 
 
 Lo, 
 
 The' great Founder of it himself acknowledged the 
 image and superscription of Caesar. His Apostles 
 declare the gradations of power, delegated by au- 
 thority ; they speak of submiflion to the ordinances 
 of man, for the Lord's sake ; to the King, as Supreme ; 
 to Governors and Magistrates, as unto them who are 
 ftnt by him. Is this the political equality of the boasted 
 deliverers or oppressors of the world ? How long shall 
 we suffer the tvrant, the blasphemer, the disorga- 
 nizing Sophist, to triumph and to deceive us? 
 
 Finally ; when the modern systems are delineated, and 
 the chart of the opinions and doctrines laid out in 
 departments, I would ask, What is the Picture ? What 
 are the objects^ Are the things recommended and 
 enforced, either true, or honest, or just, or pure, or 
 
 lovely,
 
 ( «5 ) 
 
 Lo next, where deep within thatcivick wood, 
 
 (No 
 
 lovely, or of good report? Is ihere zny thing to be 
 found and felt, but insolent domination ; sanguinary, and. 
 unrelenting ordinances ; and the tyrannical suppreffion 
 and overthrow of every exifling Institution ? Throughout 
 the whole of their fyftems, Is there any virtue, or any 
 praise, or any motive, which the good can approve, and 
 the wife ratify ? 
 
 I would fay, Behold ve despisers, and tremble! 
 I would much rather say to my countrymen ; Behold 
 and watch, that ye enter not into the porch and 
 vestibule of their " Plutonian Hall," by the temptation, 
 of such Philosophy. 
 
 Through the gate. 
 Wide, open, and unguarded, Satan pass'd, 
 And all about found, <'or made) desolate ! 
 
 (Nov. 179 3.) 
 
 [qq] Rape of the Lock, C. 5. v. 72. 
 
 (r) See an admirable piece of ridicule on the 
 German nonsense of the day, by a man of parts and wit, 
 in a pamphlet entitled, '* My Night-gown and Slippers; 
 or, Tales in Verse, written in an E?bow-chair, by 
 George Colman the younger.'' f Printed J 797.) It is 
 
 E called
 
 ( 6« ) 
 
 (!\q bairn the trees distill, but lustral blood,) 
 
 An 
 
 called, 1 he Maid of the Moor; or, the Water-Fiend, 
 concerning Loid Hoppergollop's Country House. 
 
 But I would refer with still greater pleasure, and the 
 most decided approbation, to" The Rovers, or the Double 
 Arrangement," a Drama in the Germanstyle, in the Anti- 
 Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner, No. 30 and 31. A WORK 
 which has been of signal service to the publick, by the 
 union of wit, learning, genius, poetry, and sound politicks. 
 
 [rr] The modern productions of the German stage, 
 which silly men and women are daily translating, have 
 one general tendency to Jacobinism. Improbable plots, 
 and dull scenes, bombastick and languid prose alternately, 
 are their least detects. They are too often the 
 licensed vehicles of immorality and licentioufness, 
 particularly in respect to marriage ; and it should be 
 remarked in the vStrongest manner, that all good characters 
 are chiefly and studioufly drawn from the lower orders ; 
 while the vicious and profligate are seldom, it ever, 
 represented but among the higher ranks of society, and 
 among men of property and possessions. This is not 
 done without design. 
 
 It is indeed time to Consider a little, to what 
 and to whom we give our appkufe, in an hour of 
 
 such
 
 f 67 ) 
 
 An altar stands : there Tooke his emblems lays, 
 
 Shoes, (s) razors, constitutions, straps, and stays ; 
 
 M'Cormick's (ss) libel j Wakefield's sanguine gall; 
 
 Pitt's risepourtray'd, (/) and the Third Charles's fall ; 
 
 Historick 
 such general danger as the present. The Stage surely has 
 
 the most powerful effect on the publick mind. The 
 Author of The School Jot Scandal, with the pureft 
 and most patriotick intentions, long ago endeavoured 
 to make dilhonesty, gambling, deep drinking, debauchery, 
 and libertinism, appear amiable, and attracting in his cha- 
 racter of Charles Surface ; and the German Doctors of 
 the sock and buskin are now making no indirect attacks 
 on the very fundamentals of fociety and established 
 government, subordination, and religious principle ; the 
 Vaunt-eouriers of French anarchy, national plunder, and 
 general misery. 
 
 (s) The insignia of Citizen Hardy, Citizen Kingsbury, 
 Citizen Thelwall, Citizen Tom Paine, &c. &c. and all 
 those philosophers, scribblers, and Lecturers, who serve us 
 
 " In a double 
 Capacity, to preach and cobble." 
 (ss) Life of Edmund Burke by M'Cormick. 
 {() Two pair of Portraits, of two Fathers and two Son?, 
 by John Home Tooke.
 
 ( <>3' ) 
 lliatontk ocraps of Brunswick or Berlin, 
 From fliriiiy Tcw'rs, and Belsham's (//) Magazine* 
 There Fors©«, who the tragick (:■:) light relumes, 
 And Bentley's heat with Bcntley's port assumes; 250 
 
 Dramatick 
 
 lit) Mr. Belsham and Dr. lowers, two Dissenting 
 Compilers of some information and ingenuity, who would 
 be thought Historians. — " They make lame mischief, 
 
 but they mean it well." 
 
 (x) Richard Pokson, M. A. The most learned 
 and acute Greek scholar ot the present age. I allude 
 to his late accurate and most valuable editions of the 
 Hecuba, and Orestes of Euripides, whose integral 
 
 uoik.3 may be expected from the Professor. He modestly 
 says, that they are published " in usum studiosic 
 luventutis, or, as I suppose, ior thc*:use of schools 
 and Tiros. * But his notes and remarks are not 
 adapted to school-boys, to their wants, or their compre- 
 hension, lie might as well have published them for 
 the use of the Mamalukes in Egypt, or Bonaparte's 
 SdfciHj. The Prutessor should condescend to give some 
 
 more general illustrations, and a selection of the Greek 
 
 Scholia, 
 
 • Tironuni mibus potissimum destinata. 
 
 Pra-fat. ad Hccubam. // . 3,
 
 ( *9 ) 
 
 Dramatick Bardolph in his nuptial noose; 
 And wiser Ferry, (n) from Ins prison loose, 
 Starts at the Diligence, that tells the tale 
 How blithe French Printers (>•} to Guiana sail: 
 
 There 
 
 Scholia, if lie would confer a real favour, as it is in hi? 
 power to do, on the Masters of Schools and the Tutors 
 of Colleges. 1 hope he will proceed in this important 
 revision, and perhaps effect the final establishment of the 
 Greektext of all the Tragedians. This he can do, or no 
 man. He will be entitled to the publick gratitude 
 of the learned world. — Such a man, so gifted, so 
 instructed, so adorned with various science, I could wish 
 to number among the defenders of the best interests of his 
 country- But at present most unfortunately, in many of 
 our learned men there is, in regard to subject's of political 
 and sacred importance, a something, which, in the phrase 
 of Hamlet," Doth all the noble substance often clout." (*) 
 Why is it so ? 
 
 [u] Perry, the Editor of the Morning Chronicle, was 
 imprisoned three months in Newgate, for a libel on the 
 House of Lords. 
 
 (r) The example of the Caravan of Deportation, or a? 
 
 it is called from the place of banishment, the Guiana 
 
 Diligence in Paris, should be a warning to the editors and 
 
 printers of such papeisas the Courier, MorningChronicle, 
 
 the 
 jVInione's reading of the passage.
 
 ( 7° ) 
 There reeling Morris, and his bestial songs; 
 Blaspheming Monks; and Godwin's female wrongs j 
 The Lawyer's strumpet, and disputed draft; 
 And Darwin, fest'ring from the Horatian shaft ; 
 Blossoms of love descend in roseate show'rs, 
 And last, Democracy exhales in flow 'rs. (yy) 260 
 
 Behold 
 the Star, Sec. Scc.how they abuse the patience and forbear- 
 ance of the mild and IcnientGovernment of England. 
 Under the bleffincrs of French freedom and 
 
 o 
 
 emancipation, what is the liberty of thinking, speaking, 
 and writing? The authors, the printers, and the book- 
 sellers, are crushed at once and equally, and either 
 chained in dungeons, or seized and swept away from 
 theirnative country, without hope and without judgment, 
 unheard, unpitied, and unknown. Pro lege Voluntas! 
 But we have yet a nation' to save; we have millions of 
 loyal men who never bowed the knee to the Baal of Jaco- 
 binism ; and we have also many who, have drawn back from 
 the bloody idol, and turned unto righteousness to 
 the preservation of their souls, their bodies, and estates, 
 and the general deliverance of their country. 
 
 (yy) See Dr. Darwin's Botanick Garden and Loves 
 pf the Plains.
 
 ( 7' ) 
 
 Behold La Crusca's Paridel advance, 
 From Courts, or Stews, from Florence, or from 
 
 France : 
 Before him Swift and Addison retire, 
 Fie brings new prose, new verse, new lyrick fire ; 
 Proves a designer works without design, 
 
 And fathoms Nature with a Gallick line. 
 
 But hark ! at Pearson's and at Hooker's voice, 
 
 The pillars of the sacred dome rejoice ; 
 
 And hail the day, when Stillingfleet is join'd 
 
 To Barrow's vast, immeasurable mind! (2) 270 
 
 Geddes 
 
 (2) Alluding to the judicious and well-timed 
 republications of Hooker's Works, Pearson on the Creed, 
 Stillingfleet's Origines Sacra*, and a selection of Barrow's 
 Sermons, at the Clarendon Prefs in the University of 
 Oxford, in a convenient form, and for an easy conside- 
 ration.
 
 i 7* ) 
 Ccddcs (a) may wave his dark Egyptian rod ; 
 
 Britain still owns th' inspiring breath of God ; 
 
 Sees Truth emerge from Oriental (b) dreams, 
 
 And Gospel treafures roll down Indian streams. 
 
 The Dennes, and owlish Stukeleys of the day, 
 
 Retire abash'd at Lysons' (c) rising ray ; 
 
 The 
 
 (a) Dr. Geddes — the Roman Catholick Divine, the 
 new Translator of the Bible. — See some remarks on the 
 Doctor's at'empt, in die Preface to the fourth Dialogue 
 of the Pursuits of Literature. 
 
 (h) See the Asiatick Researches, in particular those 
 by Sir William Jones, and Mr. Maurice's Indian 
 Antiquities, arid his History of Hindostan, which have 
 afforded the most curious and important facts, if applied 
 with judgment and soberly investigated. — But we may 
 expect a work on the Sacred Writings, of the greatest 
 importance, and of the deepest erudition and ingenuity 
 from a Gentleman, whom I shall not name. Yet perhaps, 
 " Nunc intelligitur, olim nominabitur." 
 
 (c) I cannot but observe, that the learned world has much 
 to expect in the improvement, reform, and conduct of the 
 
 fludy
 
 { 73 ) 
 
 The Macedonian' march, the Libyan state, 
 
 On RenneH's (d) keen decisive labours wait j 
 
 And see each grateful Muse on Vincent (e smile, 
 
 His kindred talents, and congenial toil. 280 
 
 Pitt 
 
 Study of Antiquity, from the genius, erudition, 
 difcernment, active aire, and unceasing diligence of 
 Samuel Lysons, Esq. F. R. and A. S. 
 
 («') I allude to the works so long and so eagerly 
 expected by the learned, from that consummate 
 Geographer, and most accurate investigator, Major 
 James Renn ell. 
 
 (e) The Rev. William Vincent, D. D. Master of 
 
 Westminster School. A Gentleman whose professional 
 merits, deep erudition, and unwearied application to 
 science, in the intervals of a laborious and honourable 
 calling, demand the most decided teflimonv o\ publick 
 approbation. I believe, I fpeak the general fense of 
 every scholar in the kingdom. Surely an honourable 
 retreat, and some distinguished mark of publick gratitude, 
 should be offered in time to such men, as Dr. Vincent, 
 who have devoted their talents and attainments to the 
 
 publick
 
 ( 74 ) 
 
 Pitt once again revolves the Stagirite, 
 
 And bends o'er Plato by Serraman light ; 
 
 Philosophy uprears her ancient head, 
 
 And Grecian truth in Grecian words is read ; 
 
 Arts, Arms, and Policy maintain their course, 
 
 And Science flows from her primaeval source. 
 
 But now I feel th' avenging thunder roar, 
 In British terror on the dusky shore ; 
 
 The 
 
 publick fervice, with unremitting diligence, 1 he 
 Masters of our great schools should be made independent, 
 in every sense, of their scholars. This would stamp a 
 dignity and firmness on their office and on their 
 character, and the kingdom would derive great advantage 
 from such a regulation. 
 
 I believe it is impossible to name such a work as Dr. 
 Vincent's Translation of the VYyageof Nearchus, with 
 all thelearned illustrations, produced under the labour and 
 constant pressure of so important an occupation, as the 
 conduct of a great publick school. It has been received 
 at home and abroad with equal attention and honour.
 
 ( IS ) 
 
 The Bog Serbonian (/) yawns for Gallia's doom ; 
 And Pompey points to Bonaparte's tomb ! 290 
 
 There, as in mournful pomp o'er Egypt's woes, 
 Th' embodied Majesty of Nilus rose, 
 In sounds of awful comfort Nelson spoke, 
 And the Palm wav'd obeisance to the Oak ; 
 Firm, yet serene, the Christian Victor rode, 
 And on his flag inscrib'd, the will of god ! (g) 
 
 The 
 
 { f) " That Serbonian Bog, 
 Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, 
 Where Armies whole have sunk." P. L. b. 2. 
 
 (g) The Victory 01 Admiral Lord Nelson on the 
 First of August, 1798, over the French Fleet on the 
 shores of the Nile ; that signal interposition of the Divine 
 Providence. 
 
 " Illi Justitiam confirmavere triumphi; 
 Pr.esen t tem docuere Deum! nunc Specula discant 
 Jndom'itum nihil esse pio, tutumve nocenti !'*
 
 f 7<s ) 
 
 Tiie guilty Nation shakes j; her trophies fall : 
 The Crescent nodS; and Selim yields to Paul: 
 The Hellespont expands in timely pride ; 
 Fleets not her ownadown the current glide ; 300 
 The North-Star beams on Europe's parting night, 
 
 And the dawn reddens with effectual light ! 
 
 } go: my Country's fate no more I mourn i 
 And pler^'d revisit my august sojourn.'* 
 
 Nov. 1798. 
 
 r II e 1; N D,
 
 TRANSLATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PASSAGES 
 
 CITED IN TH>: 
 
 PREFACE AND NOTES 
 
 TO THIS 
 
 P O E M.
 
 TRANSLATION, 
 
 MOTTO TO THE POLM. 
 
 Voce fu per me udita, 
 Onorate 1' altissimo Poeta ! 
 VOmbra sua torna, Dante Inf. C. 4, 
 
 '* I heard a voice saying unto me, Pay honour to the 
 mighty Poet! Hit shade is returning." 
 
 CITATIONS IN THE PREFACE, 
 P, 2, 
 
 Cum de Illo loquor, faciam ut attente audiatis. 
 
 Cicero Philipp. 2. 
 
 " When I speak of the man himself, I will take ca:« 
 t© ensure vour attention." 
 
 P. 7 . 
 
 Licet omnibus, licet etiam mihi, dignitatem Patria; 
 tueri ; potestas modo veniendi in publicum sit, dicenii 
 periculum non recuso. 
 
 Cicero Philipp. I. 
 
 " It is the right of every man, it is even mine, to 
 endeavour to support and vindicate the honour and 
 dignity of his country ; and while I have the power of 
 appearing before the publick, I decline not the danger of 
 delivering my sentiments openly and boldly."
 
 p. II. 
 
 Erigite animos ; retlnete vestram dignitatem. Mane: 
 ilia in Republic;! bonorum consensio ; dolor accessit 
 bonis viris, virtus non est imminuta. 
 
 Cicero Fragment. Orationis in Clodium, ap. 
 Epist. ad Attic. L. i. E. 16. 
 
 " Raise up your minds ; maintain your own dignity 
 and high estimation. There is stiil throughout the 
 state an unity of sentiment among the good ; well- 
 disposed men have been deeply affected at the scenes 
 which have passed before them, but their virtue and 
 spirits have suffered neither abatement, nor diminution." 
 
 P. 13. 
 
 Plalo in Timao. 
 
 " He disposed, he arranged all things, and then gave 
 them consistence and stability." 
 
 P. 16. 
 Credite nunc omnes, quas dira Britannia t Gentes, 
 Ouas Ister, quas Wienus alit ! — 
 
 Uno tot piaviia vincite bello ; 
 Romanum reparate decus, molcmquc labantis 
 Imperii fulcite humeris ; Hie omnia Campus 
 Vindicat ; ha:c paccm mundo Victoria sancit \ 
 
 " Give attention and credit to my words, all ye 
 Peoj)le, whether in Great Britain, on the Danube, 01 
 
 on the Rhine. — 
 
 Bv one great engagement supersede the necessity 
 of so many contests; restore the glory of Rome, 
 and support the weight of the falling Empire. Thi< 
 one field avenges all your wrongs ; this one victory 
 ratifies the peace of the world V 
 
 NOTES
 
 CITATIONS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 NOTES TO THE POEM. 
 
 P. 27. 
 
 " Tantamne rem tarn negligenter, tam indiferte, tarn 
 impudenter?" 
 
 " Is it not shameful to treat so important a subject 
 with such negligence and carelessness, such inattention 
 to propriety of speech, and with such effrontery?" t 
 
 P. 27. 
 Pastorale canit signum ! cornuque recurvo 
 Tartaream intendit vocem. 
 
 " He sounds the pastoral note, the signal of onset; 
 and sends forth a blast as from Tartarus." 
 
 P. 32. 
 Non qui prascipiti traheret simul omnia casu ; 
 Sed qui maturo vel laeta, vel aspera, rerum 
 Consilio momenta regens, nee tristibus impar, 
 Nee pro successu nimius, spatiumque morandi, 
 Vincendique modum mutatis nosset habenis. 
 
 " He was a man who would not hasten the ruin of all 
 things by precipitate and fatal violence; but who knew 
 well how to temper and adjust the alternate prepon- 
 derance of good and evil, by maturity of counsel. He 
 was not depressed by adversity, or inflated with insolence 
 by success ; but by prudent management according to 
 circumstances, he had the skill to pause with propriety, 
 and set bounds to the profecmion of victory." 
 
 F P. 34.
 
 ( 32 ; 
 
 p. 34. 
 
 Muitae Veneris, cum pondere et arte. 
 
 Hor. A. P. 
 ' Compositions of great beauty, with the skill of a 
 master, and the dignity of a moraliif." 
 
 P. 38. 
 Hinc prises redeant artex ! felicibus- inde 
 lngeniis pandatur iter, despectaque Musae 
 Colla levent ! 
 
 '* Mav we behold again the revival uf the ancient 
 arts! may the way be opened for the promotion and 
 encouragement of all rising ability and genius, and may 
 the Muses once more emerge from a Hate of dejection, 
 dejpreflion, andnegleft ! 
 
 P- 39- 
 Jlxcidat ilia dies aevo, ne posteracredant 
 Sa?cula! nos certe taceamus. 
 " May that day perish from the records of time, that 
 
 Pofterity may never credit the report ! We shall pafs it 
 
 over in filencc." 
 
 P. 42. 
 Vaccinus qucecunque recepit Apollo. 
 
 ** All the writings of which have been received into 
 the Vaccine Repohtory." 
 
 P. 42. 
 £t Vitula tu dignus et hie. f'irg. Eel. 
 
 " Either of you are worthy of the prize, the female 
 
 calf." 
 
 P. 43.
 
 ( §3 ) 
 
 P. 43- 
 
 Hie crudelis amor Tauri. suppo-Uaque furto 
 Pasiphije. /£«. 6? 
 
 " Here are recorded the cruel love of the Minotaur, 
 and the clandeftine subflkution of Pafiphlie." 
 
 P. 44. 
 Sic liceat tnmulo scripsisse, C atom is 
 Marcia? Lucan. L. 2. 
 
 " Muft we thus inscribe on the tornb, here reds the 
 Marcia of Cato ?" 
 
 P. 52. 
 'Air zv$puv 7rc?.c/xov xaTaoccipavcacrjv, 
 E;r' up Afiwaw, EiTE wroKiro^So; Evi/.v. 
 
 //got. //. 5. 
 
 " Such ceddesses as preside over the wars and con- 
 tentions of men, whether Minerva, or Bellona who lay. 1 ? 
 cities in waste and desolation." 
 
 _ P. 54- 
 Denuncio vitia; tollite : denuncio vim, arma ; remo- 
 vete 
 
 s. Cic. Philip. 1. 6>c^. 10. 
 
 '* I declare and denounce publickly to you the specifick 
 vices and crimes ; take them away : I declare to you the 
 force intended, the arms, and the instruments ; remove 
 them." 
 
 P. 54 . 
 
 IfevfiV y.pxiiiT t s vospcv xutcs. 
 
 Fragm. Or ph. ap. Clement. Alexandr. L. 5. 
 
 M Tq direct the intellectual veflcl of the heart." 
 
 F 2 P. 55,
 
 ( 8 4 ) 
 
 P- 55- 
 
 Ad pecuini corpusculi vilitatem. 
 
 Mori. JJtop. L. 2, 
 " To the vilenefs of the beflial bodv." 
 
 P- 55- 
 Ilium ne hominum quidem ducunt numero, tantum 
 abtst ut inter cives ponant, quorum instituta moresque, 
 si per metum liceat, omnes floccifacturus sit. 
 
 Mori. Vtop. L. i. 
 
 " They do not confider him among the number 
 of rational men ; To far are tliev from enrolling him 
 among the citizens, whofe inftitutions and manners he 
 would rid;Cule and fet at nought, if not retrained by 
 fear." 
 
 P. 56. 
 Kigidium vidi ; Cratippum cognovi. 
 
 Cicero in Timcso. Fragm. de Universitate, 
 
 M I have seen the philosopher Nigidius ; and I was 
 acquainted with Craiippus." 
 
 P. 59- 
 
 Plato de Leg. L. 10. 
 
 " A certain ignorance very grievous, which 
 notwiths:anding has the appearance of the greatefl 
 wisdom." 
 
 P. 60,
 
 ( 85 ) 
 
 P. 60. 
 
 Tlpo; Taroir, hrxv TloXirsixt x.xx.01 text Xayo» x.xrx KoXzif i§ix 
 xxi SriiAOcrix ?<.£yQu(!iv, ETt £; fAzQrtijLxVx [xr^xfxri tutojv kltiy.x 
 ex vswv (j.xvQxvnrxi, txutyi xxkoi Trxvres hi y.XKoi. 'fly airtxTS-jy 
 I4.su th; Quteuoiitx; (axWov n ^reyoptevtcr, xxi ras rps^ovrxs 
 
 TCiJV TD = 'pO//,8V£CV, 
 
 Plata in Tim^o.p. 87. yd. 3, Ed. Serrani. 
 
 " Added to this ; when bad political institutions and 
 pernicious doctrines are the subjects of lecture and 
 discourse from city to city in publick. and in private, and 
 xvhen inductions and sciences, by no means calculated 
 to remedy the evil and counteract the fatal influence, 
 are inililled into the rising youth ; this is the reason 
 why those who are of bad dispofitions, continue 
 to be bad. We must blame the planters, and not the 
 things planted ; and reprobate the inftructors rather than 
 the inftructed." 
 
 P. 63. 
 
 Ojvo^oei auroif r, Ho«. 1 ov oXov aicrBr,rov hog (mov acuxnv' 
 arfurrci; xxt ax?.ivs7i vort[j.a>7i yj>ajixs-/ot, i:\r^H<Ji rx Tiavrsc 
 rris Sr.jAiHpyi-firs a.v~w ttcjOmqixs. Zi<v;o"nv uvroa xxpioiT) 
 ©;;rr,:, rrt /x£v vor.rszi tc ayiqx\rov eviXz/xxn'Sx. 
 
 Prodi Comment, in Timotum P/atonis, 
 I- 5- P- 334- Ed - Basil. 1534. 
 ,: Hebe, the goddess of Youth, presides at their 
 entertainments. They comprehend with the eye of the 
 intellect the whole sensible world; and by thought and 
 intention of mind, which is never warped or turned aside, 
 they fill all things by a species of creative wisdom and 
 foreknowledge. They have always a youthful divinity; and 
 the power of their understanding shines forth with a 
 brightness not subject to diminution." 
 
 * 7*
 
 ( S6 ) 
 
 P. 75. 
 
 Iili Justaia?rt ronfirmavere triumphi ; 
 
 Pr.es entem docuere Deum! nunc Sxcula discant 
 
 Indomitum nihil esse pio, tutumve nocenti ! 
 
 Claudian ; on the fourth Consulate of Honorius. 
 
 " These triumphs and these victories have confirmed, 
 and ratified the cause of Justice: they have taught and 
 evinced the presence and the interference of Qod ! 
 Ma} r hence all ages and all nations Ie-arn, and 
 feel, that no power can finally prevail over the 
 virtuou§ and the pious; and that there is no state of 
 Stability or of security for the blasphemous and th§ 
 wicked !*' 
 
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