his to achieve no foreign aids we try,

y gibbets, Bagshot! shall our wants supply:*
Founslow, whose heath sublimer terror fills,
Shall with her gibbets lend her powder mills.
tere too, O King of Vengeance, in thy fane,
remendous Wilkes shall rattle his gold chain ;+
Ad round that fane on many a Tyburn tree,
lang 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,
-s, Mungos, Bradshaw, there,
nstraw-stuft effigy, shall kick the air.

But say, ye powers, who come when Fancy calls,
Where shall our mimic London rear her walls ?||

"Their scenes of terror are composed of gloomy woods, kc. 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, founderies, lime-kilns, and glass-works, which send forth large Volumes of flame, and continued columns of thick smoke, that give to these mountains the appearance of volcanoes." 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." Page 39. Now to produce both these effects, viz. the appearance of volcanoes 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 tannon into the bargain. Page 40.

"In the most dismal recesses of the woods, are temples dedicated to the King of Vengeance, near which are placed llars of stone, with pathetic descriptions of tragical ents; and many acts of cruelty perpetrated there by outlaws and robbers." Page 37.

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.

"There is likewise in the same garden, viz. Yven-Ming

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 ▲▲▲EPI 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:
Stout Talbott there shall ply with hackney chair,
And patriot Betty fix her fruit-shop there.‡
Like distant thunder now the coach of state
Rolls o'er the bridge, that groans beneath its weight.
The court hath cross'd the stream; the sports begin;
Now Nowel preaches of rebellion's sin ;§

Yven, near Pekin, a fortified town, with its ports, streets public squares, temples, markets, shops, and tribunals o justicc; in short, with every thing that is at Pekin, only o a smaller scale.

"In this town the Emperors of China, who are too muc the slaves of their greatness to appear in public, and thei 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.

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

"Some of these eunuchs personate porters." Page 32. "Fruits and all sorts of refreshments are cried about the streets in this mock city." Page 33.

The thanks of the House of Commons, which had been given to Dr. Nowel, Principal of St. Mary's Hall in Oxford, for a sermon preached on the 30th of Jan. were, upon a motion of one of the members, expunged from the journals, upon the revision of some offensive passages in the sermon.

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is the powers of his strong pathos rise,
razen tears fall from Sir Fletcher's eyes.
e skulking round the pews, that babe of grace,
ne'er before at sermon show'd his face,
emmy Twitcher shambles;* stop! stop thief!
stol'n the Earl of Denbigh's handkerchief.
arrington arrest him in mock fury,t
Mansfield hang the knave without a jury.t
ark, the voice of battle shouts from far,s
ews and Macaronies are at war;

ews prevail, and, thund'ring from the stocks, seize, they bind, they circumcise Charles Fox.l Schwellenbergen smiles the sport to see,

ll the maids of honour cry Te! He !¶

these the rural pastimes that attend
Brunswick's leisure: these shall best unbend
oyal mind, whene'er from state withdrawn,
eads the velvet of his Richmond lawn;
shall prolong his Asiatic dream,

gh Europe's balance trembles on its beam.
hou, Sir William! while thy plastic hand
es each wonder which thy bard has plann'd,
, as thy art commands, obsequious rise
e'er can please, or frighten, or surprise,
t that bard his knight's protection claim,
hare, like faithful Sancho, Quixote's fame.

er Parliament reversed this vote also, and restored the I thanks to Dr. Nowel, as it originally stood and now (Added by the publisher.)

Neither are thieves, pickpockets, and sharpers forgot se festivals; that noble profession is usually allotted od number of the most dextrous eunuchs." Vide, (N. B. The Earl of Sandwich at that time was called by Twitcher.)

The Watch seizes on the culprit." Vide ibid.

He is conveyed before the judge, and sometimes sebastinadoed." Ibid.

Quarrels happen-battles ensue." Ibid.

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

This is done to divert his imperial majesty, and the of his train." Ibid.

AN

HEROIC POSTSCRIPT

TO

THE PUBLIC.

Occasioned by their favourable reception of a late

HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WM. CHAMBERS, Knt.

By the Author of that Epistle.

Siçlides muse, paullo majora canamus-, Virgil..