attic falt, in fmall quantities; marvellous paragraphs, by weight; fuck fallers and rifers, with directions how to use them. Gala defcriptions, and association Speeches, made to any measure, at the shortest notice."

N. B. Jokes and puns, for circuit ufe, will be fold with large allowance; obituary characters of the true panegyric flavour are kept ready made for every age, fex, and profeffion; univerfity wit is neceffarily raifed in price, from the late fearcity and bad harvests; a fresh affortment of flag-furling orations, expected by the pacific packet; parliamentary debates, planned for the next feffions, with fpeeches and replies to fit, of every kind of rhetoric.

Wanted, an expert nabob-hunter, for a great affembly.-N. B. He need not have been in India. A political-abufe-fmith inay alfo hear of conftant employ

ment.

PATRIOTIC ORATION,

DELIVERED AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR, TUESDAY, JAN. 19, 1802.

THE

[From the True Briton.]

'HE Speech of Dan Sherry, well known as no fool,
But who lately has learnt in his friend Ego's fchool.
I rife, friends, to thank you for drinking my health-
Your applaufe is more pleafing than titles or wealth.
7 feel with much joy, and with pride I declare,
This day I a fecond time fit in the chair.

The first time that honour 't was my fate to get,
Was the very first time the Whig Club ever met.
In the year eighty-four, Mr. Bellamy plann'd
This great inftitution, to ftrengthen our band;
And therefore 't is fit that we Bellamy dub
The founder and father of this patriot Club.
He form'd it of men independent and free,

And hence for their Chairman the meeting chofe me.

Our

Our scheme was to thwart all the Government tools,
And 't was I that devis'd all the toafts and the rules ;
And here let me fay, and I hope I don't boast,
That 't is no eafy matter to draw up a toaft;
But in this great concern 't is but right to declare
Fitzpatrick, the General, my friend, had a share.
In the toasts 't was our fubtle endeavour to blend
Something facial in found, with a politic end.
Whenever I look back on that proud, happy day,
The day we first met, to myself I can fay,
Have I ever deferted the noble Whig caufe?
No-never-Ifwear, friends-(loud burfs of applause),
I ne'er gave a vote, faid a word, wrote a line,
That at all contradicted our Club's great defign.
Compare me with him who for office withdraws-
Am I now any richer ?—(again great applause).
If I had once chofen to pay court to power,
No doubt I could get a fnug poft in an hour:
But-no-I kept firm to my friend Mr. Fox,
Though I found, to my coft, he was in the wrong box.
To join in his measures I never fhall pause,

Let my enemies fay what they will-(more applause).
You fee, day by day, from our Club men drop off,
And the few that stick to us are made a mere fcoff.
Let us rally round Fox, he will with you remain;
And I'll never quit you-(applaufes again).
To him and his party is confidence due;

For his friends, I affirm, all are virt'ous though few.
In one thing, I own, we have not quite agreed;
I never approv❜d of his plan to fecede.

I thought to the House he fhould always stick faft,
Make motions, make speeches, oppofe to the laft.
"I'll now make an end, and I trust you 'I not doubt
As to Parliament, whether I'm in or I'm out,
I will ftill in the Ministry's fide prove a thorn,
Oppreffion I'll hate, and corrupt on I'll scorn.
I beg leave, my good friends, to addrefs you again,
A mistake, with respect to the toafis, to explain.
"Our Sov'reign the People," a toast of great fame,
Now the first on our lift, I have no right to claim:
'Tis a toast that with zeal 1 fhall always commend,
Not devis'd by myself, but a much-injur'd friend..

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That

That friend, for the toast, was depriv'd of a place,
But I look with some envy on all fuch difgrace:
You, I'm fure, will not think it deferv'd a rebuke,
But will join in a bumper to Norfolk's great Duke.

ANOTHER PATRIOTIC ORATION, DELIVERED AT THE LONDON TAVERN, FEE. 9, 1802. [From the same.]

RE Fox 'gan, as ufual, his party to chorse,

ER

He fied tears of the tankard o'er old Harry Houfe,
Lamenting that Death, with his all-cutting fickle,
At length had cut down that political Pickle.

As a man who, alive, from the cause would ne'er swerve,
He hop'd that the Club would his mem'ry preferve.
He then gave a toast that 't was eafy to carry,
And each man fill'd his glafs in behalf of Old Harry.
After pond'ring, and ftaring around, like an ox,
Mr. Combe gave the health of his friend Mr. Fox.
This toaft was receiv'd with a fhout of applaufe,
And Fox, when it ended, thus emptied his jaws:
"Since I laft had the honour the Club to attend,
Some events have occurr'd on which much will depend.
'Tis faid, when I fpoke of the end of the war,
In exulting at peace I went rather too far:
'I is faid that the war 1 too much did bewail,
And I gloried too much that its objects thould fail.
And what if I did fo, with pleasure I own

I'm rejoic'd that the Bourbons must give up their throne;
But I did not rejoice that Great Britain fhould fink
By a peace that degrades her, at least, as I think.
I rejoic'd when of war we extinguifh'd the flame,
And the peace with America heretofore came.
I rejoic'd not that we had our Colonies loft,
But I thought that by taxes they fhould not be croft.
The American war I oppos'd to prevent

The taxing of any against their confent:

I oppos'd our French war too, for just the fame thing,
That Frenchmen might never be tax'd with a King.

"As I never could wish that such objects should thrive, The news of a peace made my hopes all revive: The treaty we have is a very great boon, And, I truft, we shall get the definitive foon. "Allow me, my friends, just to hazard a word, On what I have thought, and on what I have heard: I chiefly allude to our internal state,

And I hope what I fay will not breed a debate.
I hear that our minifters mean to purfue
What we ne'er could get our laft rulers to do-
I hear that 't is really their plan to recall
The two bills that were found fo obnoxious to all;
Those bills that fo deep in our liberties ftrike,
And that will not let Citizens do as they like;
That the army and navy they mean to reduce,
Establishments now of no manner of ufe;
That for Ireland they mean to adopt a new plan,
To conciliate the mob, and give power to man:
For on this I'll infift, friends, till life's latest hour,
There cannot be freedom unless there be power.
And hence in conclufion it follows, of course,
The we have no freedom because we've no force.
"Though fuch things are reported I little expect,
For I fee no fteps taken to give them effect.
This Club faw with pleafure the laft men go out,
Who, maugre our efforts, in poft held so ftout;
And when I with them our new rulers compare,
I for them feel a fomething like kindness, I fwear.
"I hear there are men in our int'reft grown cold,
But I do not pretend to know more than I'm told.
For my part I own I no proof can detect,

And when I've no reason I never fufpect.

I own I am loath to think ill of our Club,

And none, I fhould hope, would defert like a ferub;
But fome, I am fure, we fhall find in each Houfe,
Who for arts of the Miniftry care not a-fous:

In the upper there's Norfolk, there's Bedford, I fay,
Both ftaunch in the lower there 's Sherry, there's Groy.
Such men to fufpect would be truly a fin-

No-there's really no chance that such men will get in.

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I mention

I mention fuch men as occur to my mind,
Not doubting that more in our Club we may find.
On men fuch as these I most firmly rely,

And I'm fure they as foon would prove turncoats as I.
There may be, indeed, an exception or two,

But the lofs of all fuch we have no cause to rue-
Whomfoever they join they will bring but disgrace,
They prate for a name just to climb to a place;
With men over-zealous 't is often the cafe.

But low as our state is, and though people snub

When they now hear the name of our once famous Club,
Though our very laft hope of employment now fails,
And towards us a gen'ral indiff'rence prevails,
Yet of men we can boast, with a proud fatisfaction,
Who at a fit time may he brought into action.

"And now of myself let me just fay a word-
'T is my with, and the wish I have often averr'd—
'T is a wish of my judgment, and not of my choice,
No longer in public to ftrain my poor voice:

I wish to retire, and the reafon is plain-
For, do what I can, all my efforts are vain.
But fhould opportunity ever arrive,

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applause.)

The Club may be fure that again I will strive-
I'll never-no never, defert our great caufe-
I return you my thanks, friends."-(Tumultuous
When order at length was reftor'd to the room,
As Combe gave friend Fox-Fox, in turn, gave friend
Combe.

“I

WHIG TEXT AND PARAPHRASE:

[From the fame.]

WILL not fuppofe it impoffible that there fhould be men, even in the Whig Club, who might be feduced into a renunciation of their principles. Nevertheless, .. all thofe eminent perfons to whom the Club and the country in general look up, the Dukes of Norfolk

and Bedford, Mr. Grey and Mr. Sheridan, and all who have acted with them on the principles of the Club, will

continue