Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, etc. AMATORY COLLOQUY BETWEEN BANK AND DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SOVEREIGN AND A ONE POUND NOTE. GOVERNMENT. AN EXPOSITION TO LORD KING. Quem das finem, Rex magne, laborum ?-VIRGIL. low can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all The Peers of the realm about cheapening their corn,' When you know, if one has n't a very high rental, 'Tis hardly worth while being very high born! Why bore them so rudely, each night of your life, As to weavers, no matter how poorly they feast, You might see, my dear Baron, how bored and distrest From the frugal Scotch wit of my Lord L-d-le ! 2 Bright Peer! to whom Nature and Berwickshire gave A humour, endow'd with effects so provoking, That, when the whole House looks unusually grave, You may always conclude that Lord L-d-le's We make this funny old Fund worth robbing.»> joking! And then, those unfortunate weavers of Perth Not to know the vast difference Providence dooms Between weavers of Perth and Peers of high birth, 'Twixt those who have heir-looms, and those who've but looms! To talk now of starving, as great At—l said—3 (And the nobles all cheer'd, and the bishops all wonder'd) When, some years ago, he and others had fed Of these same hungry devils about fifteen hundred! It follows from hence-and the Duke's very words Should be publish'd wherever poor rogues of this craft are, That weavers, once rescued from starving by Lords, When Rome was uproarious, her knowing patricians No Bread and the Tread-mill's the regimen now. So cease, my dear Baron of Ockham, your prose, winces! See the proceedings of the Lords, Wednesday, March 1, 1826, when Lord King was severely reproved by several of the noble Peers, for making so many speeches against the Corn Laws. This noble Earl said, that when he heard the petition came from ladies' boot and shoe-makers, he thought it must be against the corns' which they inflicted on the fair sex. 3 The Duke of Athol said, that at a former period, when these weavers were in great distress, the landed interest of Perth had supported 1500 of them. It was a poor return for these very men how to petition against the persons who had fed them." An improvement, we flatter ourselves, on Lord L.'s joke. «I, said the Bank, though he play'd me a prank, ALL IN THE FAMILY WAY, A NEW PASTORAL BALLAD. (Sung in the character of Britannia.) The Public Debt is due from ourselves to ourselves, and re- Having little, or nought, to put in 'em. |