Which folks on shore would gladly buy,
Nor think the highest price too high.
All this being well receiv'd by Jack,
The Jew soon offer'd him his pack,
With golden toys and trinkets fill'd,
Three hundred pounds the worth upheld:
To which objections first being stated,
The bargain was at length completed.

In Portsmouth now, with mirth at heart,
The well-pleas'd pair full gladly part-
Jack bids farewell in friendly guise,
And soon disposes of his prize;

Then skips on board, where fav'ring gales
Already kiss the fluttering sails,

Relating to the jovial crew

How he had taken in the Jew.

The roaring laugh resounds through all the shore,
And all the waves in ready chorus roar.
Meanwhile the Jew, resolv'd t' enjoy
Each good his wondrous hat could buy;
He sent, and went all Portsmouth round,
Where'er an Israelite was found,
T'invite them all with him to dine-

Under the rose-nice fish and wine.

You need not doubt that all came cheerily,
The table groan'd, and beards wagg'd merrily-
And, to conclude this famous feasting,
They all got drunk as beast, or Christian-
By dozens sunk upon the purple ground,
And Jew on Jew lay tumbling round,
Till stupor left them on their backs supine,
Their floating beards well drench'd in rosy wine---
Then carried off the field, in chairs or beds
Leave we the tribe to rest their aching heads.
By th' bill next day poor Moses found

The cost vash more tan fifty pound;
But what need Moses care for that?
He only had to show his hat:
So, as he to depart prepar'd,

AGGREGATE MEETING OF dublin.

"My bill! vy yesh-be not afraid-
Look at my hat de bill ish paid !".
"Look at your hat! Damme, d' ye see,
You must not crack your jokes on me:
Pay me this instant on the nail,
Or, by the L-d, you go to jail.
Your hat, indeed! you swindling sot-
I've bought a better for a groat!"

Moses, thus guil'd, found, to his cost,
The virtues of the hat were lost!
He swore, protested, groan'd, and ray'd,
Yet from a jail could not be sav'd,
Though he applied to all his cronies,
To lend him, on his bond, the monies.
Their answers only taught him--that
Friendship's as rare as Magic Hat;
That to feed daily at your table,
And pigeon you of what they 're able-
And to assist you in your need-
Are very different things indeed!

I think, I here declare before all,
A tale is nought without a moral :
I trust my moral all will hit,
Which shows-a biter's often bit.

AGGREGATE MEETING OF DUBLIN.

[from the same, Oct. 11.]

THE SPEECH OF AN EMINENT SEEDSMAN, INtended to HAVE BEEN SPOKEN AT THE LATE MEETING, WHICH THE PRESSURE OF THE CROWD PREVENTED HIM FROM

DELIVERING.

MR R. ******, springing up, said, "I shall endeavour to develope the seeds of the nation's decay. The powers of increase and growing prosperity' have been planted in the soil by the Great Gardener of nature, until the infant blade has been nipped by the rude blast of the Union. For my part, I am unable to explain, how Ireland could bear fruit, while

grafted

grafted on the stock of British supremacy, which, like an overshadowing plant, interrupts those genial rays so necessary to fructify the incipient growth of this kingdom-I affirm, that the infant manufacture, like the infant bud, requires shelter and heat to forward its expansion; and when the pale is once broken down, it is in vain for the watchman of the orchard to provide against the nightly incursions of the thief, who throws a sop to the dogs to stop their barking. Before this chilling exposure, Ireland had flourished like a well cultivated garden; but now, alas! her walks have grown green for want of feet to tread them-and a beauteous flower, that promised such fine fruit, bas drooped its head, become sickly, and died. And as for the deadly nightshade, the weeds at the Castle, and the great garden Hop-Pole, they are all so rotten as only to be fit to manure the soil."-Dublin Evening Post.)

FRENCH INFANT MARINE.

[From the same, Oct. 12.]

AS Buonaparte has at last begun to think seriously of beating us at sea, the subject, on our part, is surely not unworthy of serious consideration.

The following Decree, contained in the last French papers, must excite alarm in British breasts, and cause our fearful politicians to dart an anxious glance into the terrible futurity that shall see so promising a plan fully matured. It runs thus:

"Fontainbleau, Sept. 27. We, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. have decreed, and do decree as follow:

"Art. I. There shall be formed, in each of our ports of Brest and Toulon, a special School of Marine.

"Art.

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"Art. II. These schools shall be under the orders of the Maritime Prefects.

"Art. III. No one shall be admitted to these schools but by a decree; he must not be under the age of 13, nor above 15, of a good constitution, and without bodily deformity.

"Art. IV. The number of pupils at each port is fixed at 300, and each shall pay an annual pension of 800 francs."

Those who are inclined to superstition will remark, that there is something prophetic as well as remarkable in the name of the place whence is issued this awful Decree Fontainbleau," or Blue Water, is very curiously adapted to the promulgators of Marine Edicts, and seems to predestinate, either that the water shall really be blue, or that these new naval heroes will be made to look blue on the water by our brave Blue Jackets !-Proceeding to analyze this Decree, the same bigots will please to observe, that Napoleon does not presume to style himself Emperor, &c. "by the grace of God;" and this, though a modest abstinence, truly showing that he can have no such pretensions, must be a further consolation to the devout and holy.-In the further wording of it, another anticipation of its nature and description is implied by the 1st Article, where it is said, "There shall be formed, at each of our ports of Brest and Toulon, a special School of Marine." Lord knows they will indeed, as we shall endeavour to show, be special Schools! for in this way must the poor lads be taught: First, on entering, their masters will explain to them, that they come there to be instructed in the best and newest mode of drubbing the English at sea, which species of knowledge is of course the most systematically and readily to be acquired in port, or on shore !—Health being necessary for the pursuit of all learning, it is not to be supposed, that sending boys

to

The bill, on Landlord's fingers counted,
To four and three-pence net amounted.
Jack from his fob a guinea drew,
And toss'd it down to pay his due;
The host declar'd, cash was so strange,
He could not give his Honour change.
"Ne'er mind," quoth Jack, "just now-but when
From London I return again,

You'll know me; and I'll tell by what,
Be sure remember this white hat-
Then twirl'd his hat, and off he went,
Leaving old Boniface content.

At every inn where'er he stay'd,
His reck'ning in this manner paid,
The white hat serv'd to dozens more
The self-same signal as before.

At length arriv'd in town-he flew
To meet his Poll, so kind and true;
From her ripe ruby lips to hear
Th' applause, to British seamen dear;
To treat her to the play, the ball,
The gardens, Circus, and Vauxhall;
To feast and revel all the day,
And kiss the fleeting night away.

It needs no foresight to discover
This kind of work would soon be over-
Time flew as if on wings of wind,
And Jack, too late, began to find
That, if you spend your money fast,
The heaviest purse will fail at last.
He knew that none but fools could think
To live on shore without the chink
And quick resolv'd to go to sea,
To make more cash for Poll and he.

Had I the knack to show the heart
Of loving sweethearts when they part,
I here most movingly had painted

How much Poll wept-nay, even fainted→→
How sad Jack snatch'd the parting kiss,
And bade a long adieu to bliss-

But, this not hitting with my taste,

I to my tale return in haste,

For