Huge dogs of Tibet bark in yonder grove,
Here parrots prate, there cats make cruel love;
In some fair island will we turn to grass

(With the queen's leave) her elephant and ass.
Giants from Africa shall guard the glades,
Where hiss our snakes, where sport our Tartar maids;
Or, wanting these, from Charlotte Hayes we bring
Damsels, alike adroit to sport and sting.

Now to our lawns of dalliance and delight,
Join we the groves of horror and affright;
This to achieve no foreign aids we try,

Thy gibbets, Bagshot! shall our wants supply 1;

sorts, crawl upon the ground. Innumerable monkies, cats, and parrots clamber upon the trees." Page 40. "In their lakes are many islands, some small, some large, amongst which are often seen stalking along, the elephant, the rhinoceros, the dromedary, ostrich, and the giant baboon." Page 66. They keep in their enchanted scenes, a surprising variety of monstrous birds, reptiles and animals, which are tamed by art, and guarded by enormous dogs of Tibet, and African giants, in the habits of magicians," Page 42. "Sometimes in this romantic excursion, the passenger finds himself in extensive recesses, surrounded with arbours of jessamine, vine, and roses; where beauteous Tartarean damsels, in loose transparent robes that flutter in the air, present him with rich wines, &c. and invite him to taste the sweets of retirement, on Persian carpets, and beds of Camusakin down." Page 40.

"Their scenes of terror are composed of gloomy woods, &c. gibbets, crosses, wheels, and the whole apparatus of torture are seen from the roads. Here, too they conceal in cavities, on the summits of the highest mountains, foundries, lime-kilns, and glassworks, which send forth large volumes of flame, and continued

Hounslow, whose heath sublimer terror fills,
Shall with her gibbets lend her powder mills.
Here too, O king of vengeance, in thy fane1,
Tremendous Wilkes shall rattle his gold chain;
And round that fane, on many a Tyburn tree,
Hang fragments dire of Newgate-history;
On this shall Holland's dying speech be read,
Here Bute's confession, and his wooden head;
While all the minor plunderers of the age
(Too numerous far for this contracted page)
The Rigbys, Calcrafts, Dysons, Bradshaws there,
In straw stuft effigy, shall kick the air.

columns of thick smoke, that give to these mountains the appearance of volcanos." Page 37. Here the passenger from time to time is surprised with repeated shocks of electrical impulse; the earth trembles under him by the power of confined air," &c. Page 39. Now to produce both these effects, viz. the appearance of volcanos and earthquakes, we have here substituted the occasional explosion of a powder-mill, which (if there be not too much simplicity in the contrivance) it is apprehended will at once answer all the purposes of lime-kilns and electrical machines, and imitate thunder and the explosion of cannon into the bargain. Vide page 40.

"In the most dismal recesses of the woods, are temples dedicated to the king of vengeance, near which are placed pillars of stone, with pathetic descriptions of tragical events; and many acts of cruelty perpetrated there by outlaws and robbers." Page

37.

2 This was written while Mr. Wilkes was sheriff of London, and when it was to be feared he would rattle his chain a year longer as lord mayor.

But say, ye powers, who come when fancy calls,
Where shall our mimic London rear her walls1?
That eastern feature, art must next produce,
Though not for present yet for future use,
Our sons some slave of greatness may behold,
Cast in the genuine Asiatic mould:

Who of three realms shall condescend to know
No more than he can spy from Windsor's brow;
For him that blessing of a better time,

The Muse shall deal awhile in brick and lime;
Surpass the bold AAEAI in design,
And o'er the Thames fling one stupendous line
Of marble arches, in a bridge, that cuts
From Richmond Ferry slant to Brentford Butts.
Brentford with London's charms will we adorn ;
Brentford, the bishopric of parson Horne.
There, at one glance, the royal eye shall meet
Each varied beauty of St. James's street;

"There is likewise in the same garden, viz. Yven-MingYven, near Pekin, a fortified town, with its ports, streets, public squares, temples, markets, shops, and tribunals of justice; in short, with every thing that is at Pekin, only on a smaller scale."

"In this town the emperors of China, who are too much the slaves of their greatness to appear in public, and their women, who are excluded from it by custom, are frequently diverted with the hurry and bustle of the capital, which is there represented, several times in the year, by the eunuchs of the palace." Page 32.

2 Sir William's enormous account of Chinese bridges, too long to be here inserted. Vide page 53.

Stout Talbot there shall ply with hackney chair 1,
And patriot Betty fix her fruit-shop there 2.
Like distant thunder, now the coach of state

Rolls o'er the bridge, that groans beneath its weight.

The court hath crost the stream; the sports begin ;
Now Noel preaches of rebellion's sin:

And as the powers of his strong pathos rise,
Lo, brazen tears fall from Sir Fletcher's eyes3.
While skulking round the pews, that babe of grace,
Who ne'er before at sermon show'd his face,
See Jemmy Twitcher shambles; stop! stop thief!◄
He's stol'n the earl of Denbigh's handkerchief.
Let Barrington arrest him in mock fury",
And Mansfield hang the knave without a jury.
But hark, the voice of battle shouts from far7,
The Jews and maccaronis are at war;

"Some of these eunuchs personate porters." Page 32.

Fruits and all sorts of refreshments are cried about the streets in this mock city." The name of a woman who kept a fruit-shop in St. James's street.

3" Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek." Milton.

4 "Neither are thieves, pickpockets, and sharpers, forgot in these festivals; that noble profession is usually allotted to a good number of the most dextrous eunuchs." Vide, ibid.

5" The watch seizes on the culprit." Vide, ibid.

6"He is conveyed before the judge, and sometimes severely bastinadoed." Ibid.

7" Quarrels happen-battles ensue." Ibid.

The Jews prevail, and, thund'ring from the stocks,
They seize, they bind, they circumcise Charles Fox'.
Fair Schwellenbergen smiles the sport to see,
And all the maids of honour cry Te! He! 2

Be these the rural pastimes that attend

Great Brunswick's leisure: these shall best unbend
His royal mind, whene'er from state withdrawn,
He treads the velvet of his Richmond lawn;
These shall prolong his Asiatic dream,
Though Europe's balance trembles on its beam.
And thou, Sir William! while thy plastic hand
Creates each wonder, which thy bard has plann'd,
While, as thy art commands, obsequious rise
Whate'er can please, or frighten, or surprise,
O! let that bard his knight's protection claim,
And share, like faithful Sancho, Quixote's fame.

Every liberty is permitted, there is no distinction of persons." Ibid.

"This is done to divert his imperial majesty, and the ladies of his train." Vide, ibid.