Yet Pat Dn's certificate need not appear, Derry down, &c. To the scholars and fellows he well may appeal, Derry down, &c. Long time he fed well, and he studied right hard; Derry down, &c. To his practice and principles still he was true, Derry down, &e. The wife of his bosom now went to her rest, Derry down, &c. Thus the dæmon of interest urg'd his career, Derry down, &c. He has question'd the truth, zeal, and honour of those Derry down, &c. Then shame to the men, of whatever degrees, Who should hope to rule Erin by councils like these! But grant that Pat D -n may never advise him. Derry down, &c. LITTLE LITTLE GENTRY. [From the Morning Chronicle, May 21.] VARIOUS measures have lately been resorted to, in order to reduce mankind to some kind of order, and restore those ranks which of late years have been strangely confounded. The caterers for public amusements wish to draw a line of circumvallation around persons of distinction; and now our Military Secretary, in his Militia Bill, proposes a specific fine for those whom he is pleased to call "little gentry." Every attempt at such classifications is to be commended. Why should man be the only animal without the usual divisions of genera and species? and why should persons of distinction be perpetually elbowed .by."little gentry," "low people," and "people whom. nobody knows, merely because the low price of muslin, sarsnet, and straw-bonnets, enables them to forge an appearance of somebody which can scarcely be distinguished from the original? This classification becomes the more necessary at present. Certain places of amusement only can be protected from intrusion; but the theatres, the parks, and the exhibitions, are laid open to the "little" as well as the "great gentry." Even the scum is not excluded; and what contamination may not be expected from breathing the same air, and sharing the same perspiration, with "persons who are more easily conceived than described!" A plan bas, therefore, been meditated for inclosing the parks, by a new species of railing, to which we propose very soon to call the attention of our readers. そ EPIGRAM. EPIGRAM. TO BONAPARTE, ON THE FUNERALS OF NELSON AND PITT. [From the same, May 28.] ROWN not at funeral honours paid FR To him who oft thy fleets has beat For the same pomp awaits the shade THE IRISH DOCTOR.. [From the same, May 31.] ERNE was sick-she applied for relief LINES RIGDUM FUNNIDOS. ADDRESSED ΤΟ THE BISHOP OF NORWICH, ON HIS SUPPORTING THE CATHOLIC CLAIMS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. H [From the same.] USH'D be the sullen, hoarse, fanatic roar! Let Discord's raven voice be heard no more! Extinguish'd be the torch of bigot rage, Nor seeks to prop her throne by making slaves. Sublime Sublime he soars 'bove each coercive plan, TEMPLA QUAM DILECTA! [From the Morning Post.] OUR Temples were formerly fine stately things, D. L But we've now no such Temples remaining!-Ah! no, We've some Temples indeed--but they're shabby and low; Fraught wi h airs most offensive-still teeming with vapours, Mere receptacles sordid of all sorts of papers; Full of qualms, groans, and grumblings, and such sort of pother; Whilst one dirty motion still follows another. FROM AN AMERICAN PAPER. THAT Britain seeks for peace, these facts disclose ST. ALBAN'S PARLIAMENT. [From the Morning Chronicle, June 17.] MR. EDITOR, THE HE rumour of a Parliament Meeting at the St. Alban's Tavern has at length reached the ears of the ntlemen belonging to the old establishment of that name in Palace Yard; and the two Saints are at variance. St. Stephen, from his higher antiquity, will, no doubt, be jealous of his young rival St. Alban's. But, But, Sir, we wish to know of whom, and of what, this new Parliament is composed. We have heard of Parliaments being called on great emergencies, such as the breaking out of a war, or the sudden rising of a rebellion, the threats of invasion, or the discomfiture of fleets and armies but for the price of a post-chaise! there is not such a precedent in all history. Barebone's Parliament was a grave and learned assembly compared to it. What! no alarms more important-nothing more pressing on the public mind-no danger from the Autocrat of Europe-nothing suspicious in India-nothing to be dreaded from America-no dissatisfaction in our islands abroad, or among our manufacturers at home-nothing, in a word, that can rouse the personal efforts, the eloquence, and the vigour of this new Parliament, but the price of posting? Is all our boasted spirit come to this? Is this sharing alike in our burdens, that we may keep the enemy from our shores ? Is this teaching him what wonderful privations we can endure, and what acts of selfdenial we can perform? Were he less ignorant of the English character, what could he suppose but that the men of fortune and family here, so far from keeping equipages and carriages, cannot even afford the price of a post-chaise ? Well! reformation never comes too late. They who for the last fourteen years have calmly and submissively aided and contributed to all the taxation which has doubled and tripled the necessaries of life, are at last roused; and despairing of doing any good in the old place, have assembled a Parliament of their own, to calculate the price of hay and straw, and to deliberate on oats and beans. They who have eietly heard of million upon million raised from the profits of industry; and who, while the industrious artizan, the shop-keeper, and the manufacturer, are struggling for bread for themselves and their dependents, can ex hibit |