To George the Fourth-not George the Third, repairs; Neglects his evening, says his morning prayers. ON SEEING THE FOREGOING LINES. Tell us, Sun, the effect of this Prostitute's prayers; Sure, on further reflecting, you kick'd him down stairs. Radrum, Nov. 19. C. L. D. THE THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, FOR 1811. EXTEMPORE, UPON RECENT DESERTIONS. [From the Morning Post, Jan. 8.] ÆSAR is sick; but all the Seers declare CES The fever 'll fly, and leave him free as air : What numbers throng to prove their Monarch's Shield! And, meanly thirsting after place and pow'r, WM. THOS. F—G—D. THE AUTHOR OF THE BERNE BEAR TO HIS MUSE, IN DEFENCE OF HIS TALE AGAINST THE UNMERITED CHARGE OF REPUBLICANISM. [From the Morning Chronicle, Jan. 11.] MUSE! though our Bear has not one feature Malice, whate'er we say, or do, Is torturing four legs into two. Nay, worse!-She swears, O Nymph Pierian ! Though ardent to defend the Throne, To Him, on whom, by grace divine, Till thrown down Ruin's yawning steep And thunders in th' usurpers' ears; While Whitbread's patriot strains o'erwhelm Those pilots who still grasp the helm, And there for no one reason sit, TWELFTH-NIGHT, 1811. [From the same.] MIRTH'S festive crew assemble to partake The merry joke, and year-revolving cake; The sportive feats the Muse shall now relate, Of Kings, Queens, Doctors, Knaves ;-and what their fate. A Hussey pert and Madame Flirt. appears. The CONSULTATION EXTRAORDINARY. The Dame, prolific in her wanton feats, He sets example, and each pair embrace! The clock strikes twelve, the King his throne descends, A Regent seek to fill the empty throne! From our young friends may we example take, May next Twelfth-Night no other fill the throne A happy people, blest with liberty! So shall the joys of this revolving night To us give gladness, and to him-his right! Hastingleigh Rectory, Kent, IN January 5, 1811. . 97 CHARLES. CONSULTATION EXTRAORDINARY. [From the Morning Herald, Jan. 10.] N the course of the last three days certain Politicophysico characters have been consulted apart by persons in the maintenance of high authority, on the necessity of some anodyne to be administered to John Bull, under the alarming symptoms of his present disorder! The senior recommended the trial of another sleeping dose, which generally abated his fever. The two next in rank recommended simple emollients only, for an alterative, as a nausea had arisen on John's stomach, and his tongue exhibited rather a rough coat, from too long an adherence to the same diurnal doses. A fourth, fourth, of bolder practice (the said compounds having lost their effect), would immediately prescribe a lumping bolus of Convalescence, which, if skilfully administered in John's usual broth, might operate as an astringent, and prove a salutary bracer to the Constitution! The fifth begged to defer his opinion, as in all complicated cases of a political tendency he never ventured to write until he had first consulted-his Wife. An open Consultation is expected this day, when John's case will be taken into their joint and most mature consideration; for, although two of the Physico politico may not be able to attend personally, they have promised in that case to send their Proxies, conformably to the rules of the Highest Practice! FOUR-IN-HAND EDUCATION: A SONG. [From the Morning Chronicle, January 11.] LD Squaretoes, my father, who deeply would think, Thus prosper'd my learning, when honest old dad Derry down.. With |