S. 5. Heirs, or partners of their toils, Matchless Heroes still we own; From the leagued nations won. On their high prows they proudly stand A. 5. Loyal, bold, and generous Bands, Strenuous in their Country's Cause, Guard their cultivated Lands, Their Altars, Liberties, and Laws! On his firm deep-founded throne Great BRUNSWICK sits, a name to fear unknown, With brow erect commands the glorious strife, Unawed, and prodigal of life. E. 5. Sons of fair Freedom's long-descended line, To Gallia's yoke shall Britons bend the neck— No; in her Cause though Fate and Hell combine To bury all in universal wreck, Z Of this fair Isle to make one dreary waste, Her greatness in her ruins only traced,— Arts, Commerce, Arms, sunk in one common grave— The Man who dares to die, will never live a Slave! No. XXIX. MAY 28. In a former Number, we were enabled, by the communication of a classical Correspondent, to compliment Citizen Muskein with an Address to his Gun-boats, imitated from a favourite Ode of Horace.-—Another (or perhaps the same) hand, has obligingly furnished us with a Composition, which we have no doubt will be equally acceptable to the Citizen to whom it is addressed. CODE TO THE DIRECTOR MERLIN. WHO HORACE, BOOK 1. ODE 5. Ho now from Naples, Rome, or Berlin, With diplomatic gold? to whom Dost thou give audience en costume? King-Citizen !How sure each state, That bribes thy love, shall feel thy hate; AD PYRRHAM. Quis multâ gracilis te puer in rosâ Perfusus liquidis urget odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro? Cui flavam religas comam, Simplex Munditiis ? Heu quoties fidem Mutatosque Deos flebit, et aspera Shall see the Democratic storm Her Commerce, Laws, and Arts deform. How credulous, to hope the bribe Could purchase peace from Merlin's tribe! Whom faithless as the waves or wind, No oaths restrain, no treaties bind. For us beneath yon SACREd roof, The NAVAL FLAGS and Arms of Proof No. XXX. June 4. OUR UR ingenious Correspondent, Mr. HIGGINS, has not been idle. The deserved popularity of the Extracts, which we have been enabled to give from his two Didactic Poems, the PROGRESS OF MAN, and the LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES, has obtained for us the communication of several other works which he has in hand, all framed upon the same principle, and directed to the same end. The propagation of the New System of Philosophy forms, as he has himself candidly avowed to us, the main object of all his writings: a system comprehending not Politics only, and Religion, but Morals and Manners, and generally whatever goes to the composition or holding together of Human Society. In all of which a total change and revolution is absolutely necessary (as he contends) for the advancement of our common nature to its true dignity, and to the summit of that perfection which the combination of matter, called MAN, is by its innate energies capable of attaining. Of this System, while the sublimer and more scientific branches are to be taught by the splendid and striking medium of Didactic Poetry, or ratiocination in rhyme, illustrated with such paintings and portraitures of Essences and their Attributes, as may |