You oft obey my fummons : Though CHARLOTTE's damfels yield for hire, 'Tis through ambition they afpire

To act-like Lords and Commons.

Her fprightly fair ones laugh and fing;
Bestow love's sweets, without the fting,
Since by a lucky stroke,

(APSLEY will vouch it,-if awake,) *
Sage HANNAY, like the Athenian rake,
Hath MERCURY's ftatues broke †.

O CHARLOTTE! I've a glorious theme,
You may get money by my scheme,

*The Lord Chancellor. He refused to grant a royal patent to Mr. Hannay, for his falutary PREVENTATIVE; Wisely observing, that if an unconjugal intimacy between the fexes were not attend. red with danger, morality and matrimony would rapidly decline. -Mr. Thurlow, the Attorney General, in his report, expreffed himfelf with his ufual energy, and gave it as his opinion, that Mr. Hannay's invention was a damn'd good thing.

+ The Athenians had flatues of Mercury at the doors of their houfes, made of ftones of a cubical form, which were mutilated and broken in one night by Alcibiades, and his companions. The refemblance between him and Mr. Hannay, and the reafon why the respectable name of the Lord Chancellor is introduced, are points of an arduous and delicate nature. Every reader will form his own judgment on them.

Ev'n from the MACARONIES:
Gallini's fops, who trip at balls,
Shall breast the cold air, wrapt in fhawls,
Aftride their little ponies. *

Collect your veftals in a throng,
Then in proceffion glide along

TO JEMMY TWITCHER'S dome;

With fugar'd kiffes glue his lips,
And make him send out patriot P-PPS †
To waft OMIAH home,

Sweet Emily, with auburn treffes,
Will coax him by her foft careffes,
And Charlotte win the day:
Old Jemmy's goatifh eyes will twinkle;
Luft play bo-peep from every wrinkle ;
-But first bribe Madam Ray.

*The fashionable mode of paying vifits.

The prefent Lord M-LGR-VE.-Some years ago he threaten ed to impeach Lord M-NSFIELD ;-dering a fix weeks cruize, he carefully ftudied Blackftone's Commentaries, and Burn's Justice of Peace, and undertook to prove in the Houfe of Commons, that the chief juflice was a meer ignoramus, both in law and navigation. Lord M-LG VE has fince loft his patriotism and popularity in the coal pits of Newe file.-He is at prefent in the fervice of Lord S-NDW-CH, and expects foon to be employed in the Dockyards. His daring voyage to the North Pole (Lately published) is fall of wonderful difcoveries!

Round

Round OмI' queen and virgins gaze,

*

Whilst he with ST-L-Y's grace difplays
His fplendid arms and dress;

Then fhews the steel which bore his weight,
For P-LLI-R taught him to skate ‡,
Aud B-Ks to play at Chefs.

Around him hangs each faithful wife ||;
He flouriûres his fork and knife,

The prefent Earl of D-y.

+ Omiah has been prefented with a rich fuit of armour, to enable him to conquer Otaheite. He is to hold it by charter from the Crown, and has promifed to acknowledge the right of taxation, and the fupremacy of the British parliament.

It is faid that Dr. S-L-D-R was highly offended, as this part of Omiah's education was not entrusted to him. The Doctor being a Swede, was early initiated in the art of skating, and claimed this flippery poft as his right. I cannot omit mentioning an anecdote, which evinces Omiah's affection and gratitude to all his preceptors. Commodore P-LLI-SER was appointed lieutenant general of marines, entirely through Omiah's intereft with Lord S-NDW-CH; his Lordship had fome thoughts of doing juftice to Lord Howe's rank and merit; but Omiah's tears and intreaties at laft prevailed!

Polygamy is allowed; and the fentence of the ecclefiaftical sourt is final and decifive at Otaheite.

And strokes his well-fed dogs: Talks of the court, and London pride, Where ladies fit (but never ftride)

On monstrous prancing hogs !

Pantheon-dom'd† he rears his hut,
In figure like a cocoa nut,

By art his tutors teach him;
Defcribes our kings of corks §-and fhips,
But not a word 'bout pilf'ring chips,

Leaft TWITCHER fhould impeach him.

"As the whole language of an Otaheitan does not exceed a thousand words, he is extremely at a lofs for terms to exprefs the new ideas he has acquired, and objects he has seen in this country. As thefe fouthern people have only three quadrupeds, the dog, the wat, and the hog, he has no term for defcribing a horfe, but that of a great hog that carries people; or a cow, but that of a great hog that gives milk."

Annual Regifter for 1774.

OMIAH is a great admirer of the Pantheon, and has often declared his intention of erecting a fimilar building at Otaheite. -N. B. He ftudies architecture under Sir W. Chambers.

Similar to this, OMIAH diftinguished himfelf when he was introduced to Lord Sandwich. He first pointed to the butler, and faid, he was king of the bottles," that Capt. Fourneaux "was "king of the fhip," but Lord Sandwich "was king of all the "hips.". -Genuine account of OMIAH, from the Annual

Register for 1774.

Of

Of wond'rous fights, OMIAH tells,
Of affes, apes, and Sadler's Wells,
And of our fmooth Seftinos;
How he admir'd a masquerade,
Was fometime 'prentice to the trade
Of operas and feftinos.

Capricious beauties, fond to change,
Will cry, 'tis ftrange, 'tis wondrous ftrange."
And hug their dear OмIAH!

Of B-DF-D's dutchefs + then he'll rave,
And promife if they'll crofs the wave,
A CHOLMONDELEY,-or Goliah!

But as a bribe ev'n there prevails,
CHARLOTTE must send out ftore of nails
To keep recruits in pay:

'Tis not against the act to trade
With Otaheite's beauteous maid *

Afk if you will-Sir GREY *!

Several members of the Royal Society have perfuaded OMIAH, that all the ladies in this country have new teeth (like her Grace) at the age of feventy. He will not omit this flattering argument to induce his fair countrywoman to make a voyage to England. He was alfo told, that the amorous paffions grew again with their teeth.

See Hawkfworth's voyage.

Sir Grey Cooper. The prohibitory act to prevent all intercourse with America, which was drawn up by this gentleman, had

lately paffed.

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