With luxury and pride furrounded,
The vile infatiate defpots dare,

Their thirst of power and gold unbounded,
To mete and vend the light and air;
Like beafts of burden would they load us,
Like gods, would bid their flaves adore ;
But man is man, and who is more?
Then fhall they longer lafh and goad us?
To arms, ye brave, &c.

Liberty! can man refign thee,

Once having felt thy gen'rous flame?
Can dungeons, bolts, and bars confine thee,
Or whips thy noble spirit tame?
Too long the world has wept, bewailing
That falsehood's dagger tyrants wield ;
But freedom is our fword and shield,
And all their arts are unavailing.
To arms, ye brave, &c.

ODE,

ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD AUCKLAND.

EDEN, I chaunt thy titled name,
And give it to the voice of fame;
You've gain'd at last your ends:

To

To earn a penfion, and a place,
And Ireland's peerage to difgrace,

You well betray'd your friends.

Ierne's* Lords fing, gentle mufe!
Pedlars and Renagades, and Jews,
(Jack Rob'fon refts in hope)
Magee in bonds, unaw'd by fear,
Proclaims how Earlsfort's new-made Peer
Renounc'd his fhop and Pope!

His fpleen indignant Thurlow vents,
He damns your grant on four † per cents,
And swears the bribe's too much:

Yet he, who vends himself to vice,
Can ne'er be paid too high a price ;

-A maxim with the Dutch.

*Magee the Irish printer, who has prefumed to say, that Mr. Lawless, now Lord Cloncurry, who lately abjured the errors of the church of Rome, and his fhop, was created a Peer, through the influence and intereft of his noble relation, Lord Earlsfort.

+A penfion of two or three thousand a year, it is faid, has been granted Lord Auckland, and his pofterity, to the third or fourth generation, on the four per cents. to which prerogative grant (illegal in the opinion of many lawyers) the Chancellor has hitherto refused to put the great feal. How honourably and virtuously does our patriot young Minifter difpofe of the revenue of the West India islands-voted expressly for their defence and protection K

Scap'd from the Commons fneers and rattle,
You dearly fold your "prittle * prattle"
On ribands, tapes and muffs;

On Irish ware, and hops, and hoops,
Wedgewood and Pitt became your dupes,
So artful were your puffs.

Hail, frigid Pitt! whofe fpecious wiles
Could win ambitious Gertrude's fmiles,
To make the Crown thy own:
Lab'ring the blissful point to gain,
You found your toil with woman vain,
When George refum'd his throne!

Thy crane-neck'd turn to fave Cheyt + Sing,
And humble India's vapouring King,
Rouz'd even Mulgrave's bile:

Your fhifts and quirks made Arden ftare;
White-liver'd Grenville fcarce could bear
Such complicated guile.

Lo,

* A characteristic expreffion, inimitably well applied to Mr. Secretary Eden, in the Irish House of Commons, by Mr. Grattan.

+ After Mr. Haftings's triumphant acquittal on the Rohilla charge, it was confidently faid, by his friends, that he would fpeedily be created a Peer, and placed at the head of the India department.-On the second article of impeachment, Mr. Pitt defended the principle on which Mr. Haftings acted in fining Cheyt Sing; but the exorbitancy of the fine,

(though

Lo, Eden joins this fhuffling crew,
Yet fain would cheat old friends anew;

Till Fox's thunder shakes him;

By filence owns his honour's barter,
And fits forlorn a dumb deferter';
Ev'n impudence forfakes him.

Mean Hawkesbury's rival stands confeft,
Court funfhine only warms his breast,
North's chilling blaft he flies;
There forc'd awhile to point his head,
His tranfient fragrance foon is fled,

And Eden's bloffom dies.

*

(though only an error of judgement on Mr. Pitt's own argument) prøvoked his indignation, to the astonishment of both fides of the House. The vote of that night effectually marred all Mr. Haftings's ambitious projects, if we may believe Mr. Dundas.

* The fingular and self-conceited affurance of Mr. Eden, are, perhaps, unparalleled. After his defertion, he vainly hoped to impofe on Mr. Fox, &c. declaring, in his circular letters, that Adminiftration had courted his fervices merely to negociate the commercial treaty with France, without infifting on any conditions, and that he ftill remained fteadily and honourably attached to his party. One of thefe curious epiftles accidentally fell into Mr. Pitt's hands, who inftantly compelled Mr. Eden to affume his new fituation in the Houfe, and as an exemplary punishment, he was exhibited in a fort of political pillory, between Mr. Jenkinson and Mr. Dundas.-It must be confeffed that he shewed fome marks of grace by his filence and despondency.

So round its pole, a hop-plant twines,*
From fouth to weft as Phoebus fhines,
Purfues the golden ray;

But twifted to a new direction,

Betrays fad fymptoms of dejection,
Shrinks, fades, and pines away.

The course of treachery you've run,
And the bafe meed have fairly won,
As yet you're ftaunch and hearty;
But fhould infidious Pitt go out,
Th' Archbishop fwears you'll veer about,
And change again your party.

The oyfter thus, as fages tell,
Lies downward with the hollow fhell,

To catch the flowing tide;
But when he fees the ebb commence,
Inftinct directs his torpid fenfe

To turn on t'other fide.

Dr. Percival, on the Perceptive Power of Vegetables. Manchefter Memoirs, vol. ii.

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