JENKY, pursue Ambition's task, With saintly HILL divide your glory †, Canting, he'll serve both Church and Throne, By piety and smut. BANKS at his side, demure and sly, Will aptly tell a specious lye, Then speed the royal summons: *FINCHFIELD. CO. ESSEX. JOHN CAMPES held this manor of King EDWARD III, by the service of turning the spit at his coronation Camden's Britannia-article Essex. The King magnanimously refused to create either Sir RICHARD HILL, or Mr. BANKS, Peers, that the singular honour bestowed solely by his Majesty might be more conspicuous, and that Mr. PITT's humiliation might no longer be problematic. Sir RICHARD had composed a beautiful sacred cantata on the occasion, dedicated to his brother, the Rev RowLAND HILL. The first stanza alludes, by an apt quotation from the 68th Psalm, to the elevation and dignities of the family: "Why hop so high, ye little HILLS?" With joy, the Lord's anointed fills; Let's pray with one accord! In sleepless visions of the night, NORTH'S cheek I smote with all my might, For which I'm made a Lord, &c. &c. While THURLOw damns these cold delays, Ennobling thus the mean and base, So prest, great FREDERICK rose in fame, Should restive SYDNEY keep the seal, Your friend, your master, charm; *The King of PRUSSIA replenished his exhausted treasury in the war of 1756, by a coinage of pewter ducats. "Besides the twenty-four officers above described, there were eleveu others of considerable value in the courts of the ancient Princes, the most remarkable of which was, that of the King's feet-bearer; this was a young gentleman, whose duty it was to sit on the floor, with his back towards the fire, and hold the King's feet in his bosom all the time he sat at table, to keep them warm and comfortable." Leges Wallica, p. 58.-Henry's History of Great Britain, v. 2. f. 275. ODE To SIR ELIJAH IMPEY. Æli, vetusto nobilis a Lamo, Quando et priores hinc Lamia ferunt ELI-JAH, noblest of the race Of IMPS, from whom the IMPEYS trace, If common fame says true, Their origin; and that they found Their claim on just and solid ground, Refer for proof to you You, who could post nine hundred miles, Possess'd of dangerous treasure; In quest of health and pleasure. And all because the jealous JOVE † *MILTON makes honourable mention of the founder of the family: "Fit vessel, fittest Imp of Fraud." Paradise Lost, b. IX. It may be observed, in proof of the descent, as well as to the credit of the present Representative, that he has not degenerated from the charac teristic obliquity" of his Ancestor. + Late Tyrannus. SONG. To the Tune of "LET THE SULTAN SALADIN," in RICHARD CŒUR DE LION. I. LET great GEORGE his porkers bilk, Every King must have his way; But to my poor way of thinking, II. BILLY PITT delights to prose, Never kissing night nor day: Every child must have its way; But to my poor way of thinking, |