They were angels compar'd to the devils he drew, Such burning-hot eyes, fuch a damnable hue, You could even fmell brimftone, their breath was so blue, He painted the devil so well. And now had the artift a picture begun, 'T was over the Virgin's church-door; The old dragon's imps, as they fled through the air, For he had the likeness so just to a hair That they came as Apollyon himself had been there, Every child at beholding it shiver'd with dread, What the painter fo earnestly thought on by day, "You rafcally dauber!" old Beelzebub cries, Now the painter was bold and religious befide, So earnestly he all his countenance ey'd, Betimes in the morning the painter arose, Ev'ry look, ev'ry line, ev'ry feature he knows, And he has the old wicked one quite. Happy Happy man! he is fure the resemblance can't fail, There's his grin and his fangs, his skin cover'd with scale, Not a mark, not a claw is forgot. He looks and retouches again with delight; He looks round for applaufe, and he fees with affright "Fool, idiot!" old Beelzebub grinn'd as he spoke, The painter grew pale, for he knew it no joke, "Help! help me! Mary!" he cried in alarm, From the canvas the Virgin extended her arm, BUONAPARTE TO THE FRENCH DIRECTORY, GREETING: [From the Oracle.] ACCEPT, O Citizens! a letter, Wrote from a tavern in Rofetta-r; Where I am dining at my ease, We We drink Madeira, hock, and fherry, That Frenchmen need no common fare, But now, O Citizens! to matters May call your minds off from your plattersRejoice ye at the news I tell! A few are dead-but all are well. By day we're very apt to fry- And then the dingy fons of whores Now, Citizens, you may prepare O! One thing we miss-and that's the FLEET!!! NEMO. LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE JACOBIN COMMITTEE OF PROSELYTISM. CITIZEN, IT [From the True Briton.] T is very fingular that you will perfift in your adherence to old-fashioned (I wish I could say obsolete) patriotism, religion, and morality; that you obftinately refufe to adopt the "new order of things," which, notwithstanding the prefent unfavourable circumstances, We hope at laft completely to establish. With a foolish predilection for ancient prejudices, and decked in the rufty and battered armour of doting ages, you fancy that you are ferving your country, and are the champion champion of humanity, by exclaiming against what you term the atrocities of France-by execrating the noble exertions of the fovereign people to affume the throne, which you blacken by the appellation of fedition and rebellion-by battling for the existence of that ideal Being to which you give the name of GOD, and for the fupport of the thing called religion-and by standing up in defence of that vile aristocratical contrivance which you dignify with the name of facial order. These objects of your adoration are barriers in the way of that philofophical perfection to which we aspire. Let me, then, as Prefident of the Committee of Profelytifm, endeavour to open your eyes, and raise you from your prefent grovelling ftate to the fublime heights of Jacobinifm. To place before you our great exemplars appears the best mean to excite a daudable emulation and though I have but little hope of your reaching their eagle flight, yet you, even jou, may do fome good. Attend then to the following fimple rules.-They are neither many nor complex, and are moft admirably adapted to vulgar understandings. In carrying them into practice, never lofe fight of OUR fpeakers and writers; they are the archetypes you must ever have in view. First, you must, as THEY do, endeavour in every poffible way to exalt the French republic, and to lower Great Britain and her allies in the minds of your countrymen-The former you are to represent as just, wife, and, above all, invincible; the latter as weak and defpotic-their councils without wifdom or energy -and their armies as a mafs of defpicable cowards. British foldiers, in particular, you must on all occa fions brand with the name of brutal poltroons. Whenever you mention a regular government, let it always be accompanied by a fneer. What you have hitherto called French atrocities you muft bring forward as feldom Q4 |