Thus address'd his blooming bride—

“Sweet! should I e'er, in power or place,

"Another Citizen embrace;

"Should e'er my eyes delight to look

"On aught alive, save John Horne Tooke,

"Doom me to ridicule and ruin,

"In the coarse hug† of Indian Bruin!"

* Acmen Septimius suos amores

Tenens in gremio, mea, inquit, Acme,

Ni te perdite amo, &c.

+ Cæsio veniam obvius Leoni.

February 5.

He spoke ;* and to the left and right,
N-rf-lk hiccupp'd with delight.

Tooke,+ his bald head gently moving,
On the sweet Patriot's drunken eyes,
His wine-empurpled lips applies,
And thus returns in accents loving:

"So, my dear Charley, may success

"At length my ardent wishes bless,

"And lead, through Discord's low'ring storm,

"To one grand RADICAL REFORM!

"As, from this hour I love thee more

"Than e'er I hated thee before!"

He spoke ; § and to the left and right,
N-rf-k hiccupp'd with delight.

*Hoc ut dixit, Amor sinistram, ut

Dextram, sternuit approbationem.

+ At Acme leviter caput reflectens,
Et dulcis pueri ebrios ocellos
Illo purpureo ore suaviata.

Sic inquit, mea vita, ‡ Septimille, &c.

§ Hoc ut dixit, Amor sinistram, &c..

With this good omen they proceed ;*
Fond toasts their mutual passion feed;
In Fox's breast Horne Tooke prevails
Before rich Ireland ** and South Wales; **

And Fox (un-read each other book),

Is Law and Gospel to Horne Tooke.

When were such kindred souls + united!
Or wedded pair so much delighted?

Nunc ab auspicio bono profecti

Mutuis animis amant, amantur.

Unam Septimius misellus Acmen

Mavult quam + Syrias Britanniasque.

Quis ullos homines beatiores

Vidit, quis venerem auspicatiorem ?

** i. e. The Clerkship of the Pells in Ireland, and Auditorship of South Wales.

No. XIV.

FEBRUARY 12.

It has been our invariable custom to suppress such of our Correspondents' favours as conveyed any Compliments to ourselves; and we have deviated from it in the present instance, not so much out of respect to the uncommon excellence of the Poem before us, as because it agrees so intimately with the general design of our Paper, to expose the deformity of the French Revolution, to counteract the detestable arts of those who are seeking to introduce it here, and above all, to invigorate the exertions of our Countrymen against every Foe, foreign and domestic, by shewing them the immense and inexhaustible resources they yet possess in British Courage and British Virtue!

TO THE

AUTHOR OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN.

FoE to thy country's foes; 'tis thine to claim
From Britain's genuine sons a British fame-
Too long French manners our fair isle disgraced;
Too long French fashions shamed our native taste.
Still prone to change, we half resolved to try
The proffer'd charms of FRENCH FRATERNITY.

L