perfon is engraven in the hearts of the Irish nation; and as to a falfe one, they need only take a furvey of the perfon and manners of their chief governor, if, in the midst of their diftreffes, they can laugh at the perfect caricatura of a K-.

CORREGGIO.

THE

ANALOGY

BETWEEN LEGISLATION AND HORSE-RACING..

THE fwift-pac'd hours convoke again
Our fenate on Newmarket's plain;

They mind not here who's out, who's in
Their conteft is, who moft shall win.
Here too they drop all party rage-
Far diff'rent heats their thoughts engage.

Once on the turf I'll boldly venture,
My Pegasus the lists shall enter;
Jockies, his wings ye need not dread
They're weighted by his rider's lead.

I've heard there is a near alliance
'Twixt ev'ry lib'ral art and science;
So the fame features we may trace in
Both legislation and horse-racing.

Good

Good laws require good heads to make 'em : And fo do bets, to lay, or take 'em.

Laws are defign'd to keep rogues under;
To fave your house and purfe from plunder.
And he whofe noble genius aims
To shine at these Olympic games,
And cannot, with fuperior fleight,
Out-wit the knave, the biter bite,
Muft leave the turf, or ever curfe
The mis'ries of an empty purse.

I've heard it faid, our fenate fhou'd
Enact their laws for gen'ral good;

And therefore fhould have hearts that feel
Moft warmly for the common-weal.

And who can doubt but they inherit
This noble and exalted fpirit,
That can confign their thousands o'er
To wretches they ne'er faw before?
When too (to heighten their deferving)
Their wives and families are ftarving?

Does not the faddle reprefent
Taxes, clapt on by parliament?
Nor has the nation fhewn bad sport ;
We humbly thank their honours for't:

Tho' fome have made complaint of late,
Their backs were gall'd with over-weight;
And that their fides had forely felt
The whip and fpur full freely dealt;
Yet hope these patriot-jockies will
At length, to fhew true sportsman's skill,
Pull in their steeds, quite out of breath,
Nor push the willing tits to death.

Proceed, ye two fold legislators.
Of horses and your fellow creatures;
Keep well your feats, nor vote, nor ride,
On poft's or miniftry's wrong fide;

So fhall the purfe your pockets fill,
And grooms and ftatesmen praise your skill.

THE EARL OF NORTHINGTON's TOAST,

ON THE SEVERAL CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY GIVEN IN 1766.

WHAT that rogue loses, this rogue wins ;

Both are birds of a feather;

"Here's damn the Outs, and damn the Ins, «And damn them all together."

THE

THE OFFER OF A YOUNG MINISTER

TO THE PUBLIC,

IN THIS TIME OF NECESSITY.

SINCE the ftate is in want of fome bold forward

youth,

Who can guide with discretion, with spirit, and truth;
With a view, my good people, our measures to mend,
Permit me to point out my young hearty friend;
He is refolute, eafy, obedient, and clear,
And I think, if I know him, he'll do for a year.

He's form'd cap-à-pié in the best modern way;
And as long as he's pleas'd—is too true to betray;
His wit is fo ftriking, he'll dare to engage

Great M-f-d the wonder and gem of the age;

So fhrewd that, if factions furround him, he'll

trick 'em,

As ably as Rockingham, Grafton, or Wickham.

As Apelles felected from each Grecian face,
To paint his fam'd Venus, fome beauty or grace,
So he, from each statesman who fhines at this time,
To make himself perfect, has skim'd off the cream.

* General Conway, when secretary of state in July 1765.

From

From B-e he learnt courage, intrigue from his

brother,

And craft from 'em both; for they're fhades to each other.

From Chatham he learnt to harangue and dispute
For American rights, ere he crept to Lord Bute :
From Camden's kind, liberal, generous foul,.
To give the crown pow'r 'bove legal controul;
Lord Clare taught him friendship, Lord Sandys
ready wit,

And Charles when to yield to the spur and the bit.

With Holland he ftudied the paffions of men,

And knows all their price from one hundred to ten All the arts of stock-jobbing each broker could bring, He poffeffes, improv'd by Lord Hertford this fpring; And, to fum up this prodigy all in one line,

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My friend in political merit's a mine;"

A mine, that if work'd, large refources will yield, To the court, to the fenate, the council, and field; As he fprung from the dirt, fo in dirt he'll live on, And will perish in fin-for the good of the c-n. If thefe are not qualities worthy to rule,

Ye

may take Bute and Holland, with all the Scotch fchool.

AN