"Who'll buy my Scrip? Who'll buy my Scrip?" Is now the theme of the patriot's lip, As he runs to tell how hard his lot is And says, "Oh Greece, for Liberty's sake, ALARMING INTELLIGENCE-REVOLUTION IN THE DICTIONARY-ONE GALT AT THE HEAD OF IT. GOD preserve us!-there's nothing now safe from assault; Thrones toppling around, churches brought to the hammer; And accounts have just reach'd us that one Mr. Galt Has declar'd open war against English and Grammar! He had long been suspected of some such design, There school'd, with a rabble of words at command, Scotch, English, and slang, in promiscuous alliance, He, at length, against Syntax has taken his stand, And sets all the Nine Parts of Speech at defiance. Next advices, no doubt, further facts will afford; And whom he'll next murder the Lord only knows. Wednesday evening. Since our last, matters, luckily, look more serene; Tho' the rebel, 'tis stated, to aid his defection, Has seized a great Powder - no, Puff Magazine, And the' explosions are dreadful in every direction. What his meaning exactly is, nobody knows, And a mixture call'd amber immortalization. Now, he raves of a bard he once happen'd to meet, Seated high "among rattlings," and churning a sonnet §; "That dark diseased ichor which coloured his effusions." - GALT's Life of Byron. + "That gelatinous character of their effusions." — Ibid. "The poetical embalmment, or rather, amber immortaliza tion." 66 Ibid. $ Sitting amidst the shrouds and rattlings, churning an inarticulate melody.” — Ibid. Now, talks of a mystery, wrapp'd in a sheet, With a halo (by way of a nightcap) upon it! * We shudder in tracing these terrible lines; Something bad they must mean, tho' we can't make it out; For, whate'er may be guess'd of Galt's secret designs, That they're all Anti-English no Christian can doubt. "He was a mystery in a winding sheet, crowned with a halo." GALT'S Life of Byron. RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT A LATE MEETING OF REVERENDS AND RIGHT REVERENDS. RESOLV'D to stick to ev'ry particle Of ev'ry Creed and ev'ry Article ; Resolv'd, that, though St. Athanasius * One of the questions propounded to the Puritans in 1573 was-"Whether the Book of Service was good and godly, every tittle grounded on the Holy Scripture?" On which an honest Dissenter remarks Surely they had a wonderful opinion of their Service Book that there was not a tittle amiss in it. -66 |