III. Don't rob the orchard (tho' you've power) And apt to purge and gripe : IV. The saints, alas ! have waxen strong!' To quell the rebel rout! V. Why will the Cabinet always blunder, And ne'er can want pretensions; VI. But Itubborn Yankies let alone, And of Ireland. 'And all your schemes unfettle: CONGRATULATORY ODE, ADDRESSED TO LORD GEORGE GERMAINE. BY THE SAME. My Lord, I hail your spotlefs fame; A Civil Poft, and change of name, Have wash'd away all fin : The German flough no more prevails, Tho' fallen from a fplendid ftation, Sentenc'd no more to blaze in arms, Bred in a Prieft's Socratic fchool, And virtue's lore endear He bid you ne'er fight face to face, GERMAINE, in combats often try'd, War's glorious art improving! And conquer without moving! Your Smiths, and Cuninghams review, Your great exploits brifk Ned will boast, He'll tattle, fetch and carry. Your Levees grac'd by heroes now, * Your fplendour Philips fees! With under-wood, and trees. Throw Whoever Mr. Foote might have defigned by this luditous character, yet the candid reader may reft affured, that neither General Harvey nor Colonel Philips are alluded to. t Colonel R. Lord George complained that a plan was fent over of the Throw out a lure for Ferdinand! Or claim your rank-degrade Tom Gage, Cou'd you keen Junius' thoughts refine, We all may think you---just as ftout, The fmart of Minden's wound is o'er, And the battle of Minden, in which the impervious wood that obftructed the march of the cavalry was omitted. --The name of the malicious engineer who drew it, I now forget.. Mr. DUNDAS, Lord Advocate of Scotland invenit & fculpfit this harmonious and expreffive word, which fojuftly and characteristically pourtrays both the features of his country and countrymen, And yet my Lord I'm thinking; ON SOME LATE PUBLICATIONS. CURS'D be the pen by faction sway'd, The foe to virtuous fame, That dares amongst the mean and base, When half America was loft, And timid DARTMOUTH left his post, To vindicate infulted laws, And hazard in his country's caufe, His fortunes and his head. With affluence bleft, and bleft with friends, His happiness was home; He knew the joys of private life, He lov'd his children and his wife, Nor wifh'd abroad to roam. Already Alludes to the duel between Lord Sackville and Go vernor Johnftone, Dec, 17, 1770, |