But when the howling whirlwinds rise, In every clime where ocean roars, Thy armies swept the victor host, From veteran bands where British valour won, The lofty walls of Ammon's godlike son: Useless the danger and the toil To free each self-devoted soil, Auxiliar legions from thy side Recede to swell the Gallic conqueror's pride : While on Marengo's fatal plain, Faithful to honour's tie, brave Austria bleeds in vain. Not fir'd by fierce Ambition's flame, Did Albion's monarch urge his car To succour and protect his nobler aim. His guardian arm, while each Hesperian vale, The royal patriot sheaths th' avenging sword; By heaven-born Concord led, while Plenty smiles, And sheds her bounties wide to bless the sister isles. ODE for his Majesty's BIRTH DAY, 1802. By the Same, N° The fiery battle's iron show'r, O more the thunders of the plain, Terrific, drown the duteous strain That greets our monarch's natal hour; Peace, soaring high on seraph wings, While grateful myriads in the pean join, And hail her angel voice, and bless her form divine. Through many a whirlwind's blast severe, 'Mid the blue arch of heav'n he victor rides, Glory's true sons, that hardy race, Who bravely o'er the briny flood, Smiling serene in danger's face, Uncheck'd by tempest, fire and blood, Britain's triumphant flag unfurl'd, The terror of the wat'ry world, Now freely to the fav'ring gale The gifts of Nature, and the works of toil, On the rich heap exulting srailes, "Mine the prime stores of earth's remotest zone, "Her choicest fruits and flow'rs, her treasures all my own," Nor second you 'mid glory's radiant train, Who o'er the tented field your ensigns spread : Whether on Lincelles' trophied plain Before your ranks superior numbers fled; Or on lerne's kindred coast Ye crush'd invasion's threat'ning host; Or on fam'd Fgypt's sultry sands The banner tore from Gallia's vet'ran bands; To hoary sires and blooming maidens tell Of gallant chiefs who fought, who conquer'd, or who fell. Yet 1 Yet in the arms of peace reclin'd, Or hostile inroad threat our shore, From labour's field, from cominerce' wave, May Concord spread her halcyon reign, And join with festive voice the lay sincere 'hich sings th' auspicious morn to Britain ever dear. PROLOGUE to the First Part of Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth. ren in the Character of Falstaff, at Drury-Lane Theatre, by Mr. Stephen emble, whose remarkable Obesity precluded the Necessity of stuffing. FALSTAFF here to-night, by nature made, A your bard his pund nous aid; No man in buckram he! no stuffing gear! No feather-bed-nor e'en a pillow-bier! But all good honest flesh and blood, and bone, Upon the Northern coast, by chance, we caught him, And no mail-coach on such a fare would venture: Will favour find in every critic's eyes; And should his humour, and his mimic art, Bear due proportion to his outward part, As once 'twas said of MACKLIN, in the Jew- To you, with diffidence, he bids me say, Should you approve, you may command his stay, If not, to better men he'll leave his sack, And go, as ballast in a collier, back. PROLOGUE to Urania, a Drama written by the Hon. Mr. SPENCER, and acted at Drury Lane with considerable Applause. By the Right Hon. Lord JOHN TOWNSHEND. HO' rigid Truth in narrow bounds confine TH Tho' hence the cold philosopher may draw Not Not so the poet checks his bolder fires ; Shall then fastidious spleen, with critic spite, With these, a flimsy, flippant tribe combine➡ We modest play'rs; by your protection nurst, Of Of fairy form, but not of spectre brood, O, if not fond, be civil the first night! Then comes the test!-then comes URANIA's danger! by the late Right Honourable W. HUSSEY BURGH, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland. (Never published.) Recited at the London Tavern, on Mr. PITT's Birth Day, 1802, attri buted to the Right Honourable George Canning. F hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, At the footstool of power let flattery fawn; And |