LXXXIX.

THOUGH drunk as fish our rulers be,
The thing fure little matters;
Only it forces you and me
To fish in troubled waters.

XC.

PARODY.

JOLLY ftatesmen, fill your glaffes,
Noble deeds are done by wine-
Edmund's creed is now Dundas's,
That the mob are only swine.
Pitt and Harry, loving drinking,
Toaft about at Council-board:
They can steer the realm with thinking,
When they cannot speak a word.

XCI.

IN happy time the fquad went o'er,
And feas'nably their love was fhewn-
Our leaders in their arms they bore,
Juft-when they could not ftand alone.

XCII.

FIFTEEN or ten

Seditious men

Gave Pitt prodigious trouble:
And yet they cry,

He looks awry,

To fee their numbers double.

XCIII.

On Pitt's relieving the diftreffed Inn-keepers, by building Bar

racks.

'TWEEN thofe that buy and those that fell,
Pitt knows the fympathy full well;

The owners then of pot and tank-ard,

Sure they should favour who have drank hard.

XCIV.

THOUGH Europe flakes beneath tremendous war,
Yet well-drench'd Harry shall their fears difiifs;
He comes like either Pleiad's humid ftar,

To quench the conflagration in a peace.

We muft appeal here to the well-known Doric fimplicity of Mr. Dundas's pronunciation, to set right any fuppofed errors in the rhime.

XCV.

THAT George is high in power is justly stated,
His very fervants too are-elevated.

XCVI.

O FRANCE! that thy blind leaders could discover
The arts to which our pilots have retort;
Who guide the helm of Britain half-feas over,
Yet double-fighted keep an eye on Port.

XCVII.

WHEN Fortune they invok'd, the Greeks
Of wine oft made libations;

While our more frugal Premier feeks
To win her by potations.

XCVIII.

THAT Pitt does ill, to fay were wrong;
What, Pitt! the great law-giver !
Befide, 't were frange-a bon-vivant
Should be, Sirs, a bad liver.

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XCIX.

SAYS Harry to Pitt," Now that faction 's no more,
We may afely indulge ourselves deep in our cup;
And though it be true that you ne'er kept before,
Yet this is the tiine when we may keep it up."

C.

"DRUNKARDS are fools," the wife will fay;
I don't deny their rules ; -

In war to drink then 's fure the way,

Since "Fortune favours fools."

CI.

From the Appendix to the fecond Edition of Bishop Horfley's 301b of January Sermon.

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Ρητωρ , ως ΜΕΘΥΟΙ ΤΟΙΣ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΣΙΝ, ειπες Φίλιππος
̓Αλλ' ημιν μείνει προς πραγμασι νυν ο πρόβουλος.

MR. PITT'S DEATH.

[From the Telegraph.]

VARIOUS reports having been circulated concern

ing the manner and circumstances of Mr. Pitt's death, we haften to lay before our readers the particulars of that melancholy event. This we are enabled to do with perfect accuracy, having been favoured with a very minute detail by the learned phyfician who attended him in his laft moments.

The diforder of which this great Minifter died, was a violent diarrhea, which continued, with very little interruption, from Saturday morning to laft night, about a quarter before eight, at which time he expired. For two days, the symptoms were the fame as in ordinary cafes; but it is remarkable, that, from the first, he had a great dread that the disease would be mortal. He was inclined to attribute the whole to a few bottles of claret, which he drank the preceding evening at Mr. Dundas's, and which he imagined was a little four. But Mr. Dundas affirms it was of the very finest quality, of which he can produce the best proofs, having ftill two hundred dozens of it in the cellar, befides eleven pipes, which Mr. Rofe let him have at prime coft, out of the cargo he bought up the day before the additional duty took place t. And

*Demofthenes.

+ It was ftrongly affirmed at the time, and it remained undenied, that immediately before the laft impoft upon wine, Mr: R- purchased. a large quantity for his own use, if not for that of his Majesty's Minifters.

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of this quantity, Mr. Dundas has no objection to bind himfelf to drink eight bottles every day, as long as it lafts, for the complete fatisfaction of the friends of the deceafed. This worthy gentleman, with his ufual frankness, confeffes that claret is apt to disagree with ftomachs accuftomed, as Mr. Pitt's was, to the ftronger wines: but from the quantity of brandy which he drank with it on that fatal day, he thinks its bad effects muft have been entirely counteracted.

Mr. Powys, who has picked up much knowledge, by reading occafionally in Guthrie's Geographical Grammar, and Arthur Young's Warning, remarks, that claret is a French wine, and confequently muft partake, by innate fympathy, of the horrid qualities of that wicked country. "Now," continues Mr. Powys, "it is natural to conclude, that wine of fuch daninable principles, entering into the patriotic ftomach of the Minifter, muft neceffarily be rejected and expelled in the violent way we have all witneffed." This in

genious idea he confirms by an accident which befell himfelf, about two years ago, at Lilford; when, after incautiously drinking a glafs of claret in the morning, with a bit of Queen's cake (of which he is very fond), there immediately arofe within him fuch a prodigious civil war, as he terms it, that he was forced to take meafures with his apothecary for bringing both ingredients up. Since that period, he avoids all wines but thofe of Portugal, a country whofe regular government and order are preferved, both in Church and State.

Unluckily for the nation, the heaven-born Minifter bought his experience at a dearer rate than Mr. Powys. Alas! it was no petty inteftine commotion with him, no trifling Quiberon difturbance, as one may fay-but a furious fweeping deluge, as if the roaring torrent of French republicanifm had vifited him in all its wrath. The help of man was in vain. The fons of Æfculapius hung down the head. George Rafe, who officiated

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as ufual about the perfon of his patron, was amazed. A Council was fummoned; and the Statefmen of England were employed, for the firfi time fince the Regency Bill, in fpeculating on the progrefs of the difeafe.

The placid Under-Secretary produced the abundant proofs of the diforder, which he had collected and preferved for that purpose. The Counsellors, on infpec. tion, gave a general groan; and the Minifter lifted up his hagard eyes, which feemed to afk if no help could be found?"Yes," fays the intrepid Windham, "I know how this diforder is to be cured. The body. natural is as the body politic. Now the body politic, when afflicted with revolutionary motions, can be cured, as we are all agreed, only by ftarvation. At this moment we are applying that remedy to the loofe principles of the French and English; and fhall we not alfo find it efficacious, when applied to remove the lax ftate of the body natural? If nothing goeth in," continued the Secretary at War, "it is manifeft that nothing can come out. Extreme cafes require vigorous applications. I fay, therefore, ftarve him. Perish the ftomach; let the conftitution live!"

Mr. Dundas perfectly agreed with the worthy Secretary on the wholefomenefs of ftarvation; but, with be-coming modefty, hinted a doubt how far it might be poffible to preferve a man's conftitution, after his ftomach was deftroyed. He would have no objection, he laid, to try the experiment on any number of acquitted felons that Mr. Windham pleased, or even on a few of his own pies, but he confidered it dangerous to tamper with fo valuable a life as that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Let us rather," faid Mr. Dun

This is an allufion to Watt, a Government fpy, hung at Fdinburgh, a fhort time before this article was written-the only man who has fuffered death for treason in Great Britain, from the beginning of the war to the present day.

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