'Tis his to drive the murky power Of Pestilence from human haunt; And touch'd, as by Ithuriel's spear, So, call'd by sovereign fate, (From the wild Catt'gat to th' Iberian shore) Where'er th' electric tempest flames, See, Gallia's legions melt to air: "A God! a God!" the wond'ring crowd exclaims, And Earth spins on, fresh balanc'd-to a hair. Thus yearly sings the Laureat Bard-and I, AN AN ECCENTRIC ODE ON THE NEW YEAR, 1809. [From the Day.] ARISE ye spirits of the air, A storm of pestilence prepare; The sons of earth their hands shall wring, The corn now waving green in spring Shall rot within the soil. The flocks shall perish in the fold, And yet or ere this spell be done, The fell blasphemer hears, And darts in vengeance from the sky And him, who 'gainst the thunder still presum'd, Europe! by slavish fear appall'd, By force, by frauds of hell enthrall'd, And, impious, boast the arm of Fate To rend thy only stay-the bulwark of thy state? To Egypt-to the Holy Land, And from this sever'd by the sea- O tremble at his threat no more: And o'er her sons in freedom's cause contending, MINISTERIAL TRIUMPHS. AN ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR. [From the Morning Chronicle, Jan. 4.] ALL met the festive board around, Our rulers, with the dulcet sound CASTLEREAGH. I boast the Patriot's threaten'd fall The moment lost-the victor Gaul, I sleep-what deed can equal these? PERCEVAL" No Popery." MULGRAVE NEW YEAR'S GIFTS. MULGRAVE. What though Britannia rules the main; From farthest Ind to Albion's isle, PERCEVAL-" No Popery." I always watch my Sovereign near, Our triumphs all we owe to you: "No Popery." NEW YEAR'S GIFTS. [From the British Press, Jan. 4.] 5 THEIR literary friends have, we understand, presented the undermentioned noblemen and gentlemen with the following gifts: To Mr. PERCEVAL-The Lives of the Popes-Plan of a new Cabinet--Biographical Anecdotes of PraiseGod Barebones. To Mr. CANNING-A new edition of Boyer's French Dictionary, with Exercises for Grown GentlemenRecipe for inflating a broken Pair of Bellows-The Art of Trimming, with critical Annotations upon the Play of The Double Dealer. Mr. TAYLOR (Opera House)-An Amatory Ode to Colonel Greville, with a new edition of A House to be Sold, addressed to Mr. Harris-A Fragment, left by Madame Banti, found in a waste upon the Grampian Hills. To ALEXANDER DAVISON-The Play of Measure for Measure, revised and corrected by a Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench-Hints for selling a Sack of Coals-with a Frontispiece, representing a public Defaulter in the WANTED IMMEDIATELY, BY MESSRS. P. AND CO. GENERAL AGENTS, THE HE assistance of an able person who has been in the habit of arranging the affairs of disordered agency concerns, the correspondents of the house not being satisfied with the manner in which their concerns have been managed. He must be fully qualified to reconcile contradictions-and to prove any thing that may be required. As the firm, although fully satisfied of the propriety of their own conduct on every point, have hitherto been unable to think of any arguments which are likely to be satisfactory to their correspondents (with whom they are to have a meeting on the 19th of this month), the principal duty that will devolve on such a person will be, to endeavour to furnish the firm with such reasons and excuses as may satisfy their correspondents, and in duce |