The Dame, prolific in her wanton feats,

The Lawyer, in the Monarch's throne, now seats.
But Majesty to revelry gives place;

He sets example, and each pair embrace!

The clock strikes twelve, the King his throne descends,.
The hour gives warning, and the feast now ends!
The merry Revellers, more festive grown,

A Regent seek to fill the empty throne!
His rights inquire, and by Majority
Depute to him-Supreme Authority;
He, conscious of their loyalty and loves,
An able and indulgent ruler proves!

From our young friends may we example take, o q

From principle, not fear-a Regent make!

Like them invest him with dominion wide,

A potent ruler and a faithful guide.

May next Twelfth-Night no other fill the throne
Than that dear King, which in our hearts we own,
His Son a royal delegate, and we

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,
January 5, 1811.

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CHARLES.

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CONSULTATION EXTRAORDINARY.”"

[Front the Morning Herald, Jan. 10.] 1

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IN the course of the last three day's 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.
To the popular Tune of " Derry Down.”

[From the Morning Chronicle, January 11.]

OLD Squaretoes, my father, who deeply would think,
Dispatch'd me to College, where I learn'd to drink;
And as my degrees were from drinking to drenching,
I soon gain'd preferment in wrangling and wenching.
Derry down.

Thus prosper'd my learning, when honest old dad
Thought fit to pop off, for the good of his lad :
With estates unmolested, and money in plenty,
My race I commenc'd, when of age-two-and-twenty.
Derry down.

'Tis just four years since, in which space I have shown
How quickly the hoards of my sage dad have flown;.
Nay more, my outgoings receipts have confounded,
And now for the ready last acre 's impounded.

Derry down.
Well, what of all that? I've acquired high fame;
I wench, drink, and drive, I can horse-race and game;
With Richman I spar; a coalheaver can drub, Sir;
But, above all, I'm rank'd of the Four-in-Hand Club, Sir.
Derry down.

.

With slouch'd hat, inquiries of bailiffs to check, .......
A quid in my mouth, a silk wipe round my neck; entert
A drab cont so long, with each hand tuck'd in pocket, ...
No cabbage allowing-ensures Suip the docket, byradix
Derry down.

Thus array'd, four-in-hand, I support the game still, 1323
Here's at you, old Buxton, dash off for Salt Hill;ngmen l's
To the back-bone I'm blood, for there's nought in the land

Sir,

So worthy renown as our Club-Four-in-Hand, Sir.

Derry down. So a fig for the schools and Minerva's stale rays, Give me my mail-coach and my four harness'd bays

With them I defy all that 's sapient or civil,nd y I'm prime to bang-up, though my mark be the debitoke, Derry down.

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Lord Folkstone Robin the Gardener " Who bays my strawberries?-Here am I."am

ON OBSERVING ONE OF A CERTAIN PIOUS POLITICAL PARTY VERY BUSY, PROPOSING RESOLUTIONS AT THE OPERA COMMITTEE, ON A DAY WHEN THERE WAS A DEBATE IN THE HOUSE-INSCRIBED TO MR. BANKES.

[From the Morning Chronicle, Jan. 14.]

OH, wondrous Taylor! who, to serve the nation,
Hadst power to wean a Saint from legislation!
Let him, like David, "worship in the dance;"
He ne'er can laud his Maker by-finance!
Saturday Morning..

THE TWO HERVEYS.

[From the same ]

TWO Herveys had a mutual wish
To please in sep'rate stations;

The one invented Sauce for Fish,
The other" Meditations."

Each has bis pungent powers applied
To aid the dead and dying;

That relishes a Soal when fried-
This saves the Soul from frying.

Intruder.

G. J.

LAST night my fair-one came in all her charms,

Her charms that ever thrill my soul with bliss;

Eager I rush'd to clasp her in my arms,

And from her cheek rude snatch'd a burning kiss.

So

So coy, so modest was the maid I priz'd,
Her rosy cheek became of lily hue;
For this I lov'd her more, but felt surpris'd
When she in anger to her chamber flew,
I follow'd fast to soothe her virgin fears,

And ask forgiveness for the unmeant pain;
But she, infuriate, cried, dissolv'd in tears,
"Get out, you fool, and let me rouge again !"',

EPIGRAM.

[From the Morning Chronicle, Jan. 15.1

OUR good old King, alas! is yet too ill
The duties of his station to fulfil;

ACKEE Q.

But lawyer Perceval's mirac' lous zeal
For Cæsar's presence substitutes a Seal.
Ye rigid Catholics! it thus appears,
Though your religious doctrines much he fears,
Applied to Politics, when self's in view,
E'en transubstantiation's just and true.