XVI. Her prowess Albion's empire shakes, And Europe fees, with dread surprise, To rule the wond'rous land. XVII. Bold emulation ftands confeft; Through the firm chief's and yeoman's breaft Imperial fpirits claim their place! No venal honours lift the base, When Nature ranks her fons. XVIII. Lo, Britain's ancient genius flies A NEW A NEW SCHEME TO RAISE A NEW CORPS, AND SUPPLY THE WANT OF A SCOTCH MILITIA; ADDRESSED TO LORD BARRINGTON, SECRETARY AT WAR. BY THE SAME. Arma, virumque cano. OF arms and wond'rous tribes I fing; Though ev'ry day the bounty rife, Adopt a philofophick hint, Though its convey'd in rhime and print ; Or else I'll fet you at defiance, And boast my new and grand alliance Since you, my Lord, difdain to look In any tome, but the red book, By which your genius fteers! "Though the bounty has been raifed, ❝lowered, yet no recruits can be got."Speech in the House of Commons. E 3 VIRGIL ? and the ftandard Lord Barrington's Perhaps* Perhaps you'll hear with fome furprize The Ouran Outangs wife and great, Ship Faucet § quick with profperous gales, "A whole nation, if I may call them fo, have been found "without the use of fpeech. This is the cafe of the Ouran Out angs that are found in the kingdom of Angola in Africa, and "in feveral parts of Afia. They are exactly of the human form, "walking erect, not upon all four; they use sticks for weapons ; "they live in fociety; they carry off negro girls, whom they "make flaves of, and use both for work and pleasure." Origin and Progrefs of Language. Col. Faucet was frequently employed to raise recruits in Germany during the American war. For that there are men with tails, is a fact fo well atteft. ❝ed, that I think it cannot be doubted. One Keoping, a Swede by birth, faw men with tails, like thofe of cats, and which they "moved in the fame manner, on an ifland in the gulf of Ben"gal, called Nicobar." Origin and Progrefs of Language, Vol. I. To To barren Scotia waft them o'er, They fpring o'er stakes and ditches; The French an Ouran nicely stuff *, But died by drinking whiskey. Then speak no more, my lord, on trifles, At Rebels turn them loose: See p. 94, note ‡. "I myself faw at Paris, one of them whose skin was fuffed ftanding upon a fhelf in the king's cabinet. He had exactly the fhape and features of a man. and died by drinking fpirits. of a man as could be expected many little offices to the lady with whom he lived, but never learned to fpeak." He lived feveral years at Verfailles, Origin and Progress of Language. E 4 Hips, haws, and acorns they will eat, With envious glance Germain shall feet He'll find the loyal Ourans far And fcorn the aid of Ruffians. † Mac-Homer too, in profe or fong, A Gallo-Celtick scheme may botch § At fuch a pedigree you sneer ; And NORTH no longer droops: * Excellent qualities for the American fervice, as provifions are rather scarce. † A negotiation was then carrying on to hire a body of Ruffans to ferve in America. Vide Whitaker's Remarks, &c, &e. Indemnity |