THE VISION.

ARGUMENT.

VENUS is represented as bringing to the Poet, while sleeping, ber Son CUPID, with a request that he would teach bim Pastoral Poetry-BION complies, and endeavours to teach bim the rise and progress of that Art:-CUPID laughs at bis Instructions, and in bis turn teaches bis Master the Loves of Men and Gods, the Wiles of his Mother, &c.— "Pleased with bis Lessons," says BION," I forgot what I lately taught CUPID, and recollect in its stead, only what CUPID taught me."

IMITATION, &c.

WRITTEN AT ST. ANNE'S HILL.

SCARCE had sleep my eyes o'erspread,
Ere ALECTO Sought my bed;

In her left hand a torch she shook,
And in her right led J-N H-NE T—KE.

O Thou! who well deserv'st the Bays,
Teach him, she cried, Sedition's Lays-
She said, and left us; I, poor fool,
Began the wily Priest to school;
Taught him how M-RA sung of lights
Blown out by Troops o'stormy nights;
How E-SK-E, born on Rapture's wings,
At Clubs and Taverns sweetly sings
Of Self-while yawning Whigs attend→
Self first, last, midst, and without end;
How B-DF-D pipe'd, ill-fated Bard!
Half-drown'd, in empty Palace-yard;
How L-SD-NE, Nature's simple Child,
At B-w-d trills his wood-notes wild-

How

How these and more (a phrenzied Choir)
Sweep with bold hand Confusion's Lyre,
Till madd'ning crowds around them storm
"FOR ONE GRAND RADICAL REFORM!"
T-KE stood silent for a while,
Listening with sarcastic smile;
Then in Verse of calmest flow,
Sung of Treasons, deep and low,
Of Rapine, Prisons, Scaffolds, Blood,
Of War against the Great and Good;
Of VENICE, and of GENOA's doom,
And fall of unoffending ROME;

Of Monarchs from their Station hurl'd,
And one waste, desolated World.

Charm'd by the magic of his tongue,
I lost the Strains I lately sung,

While those he taught, remain impress'd
For ever on my faithful breast.

Something like the same idea seems to have dictated the following Stanzas, which appear to be a loose Imitation of the beautiful Dialogue of HORACE and LYDIA, and for which, though confessedly in a lower style of Poetry, and conceived rather in the slang, or Brentford dialect, than in the classical Doric of the foregoing Poem, we have many thanks to return to an ingenious Academical Correspondent.

THE NEW COALITION.

I.

F. WHEN erst I coalesced with NORTH,
And brought my Indian Bantling forth,
In place-I smil'd at Faction's storm,
Nor dreamt of Radical Reform.

II.

T. While yet no patriot project pushing
Content I thump'd Old Brentford's cushion,
I pass'd my life so free and gaily;

F.

Not dreaming of that d-d Old Bailey.

III.

Well! now my favourite Preacher's Nickle,
He keeps for PITT a rod in pickle;

His gestures fright th'astonish'd gazers,
His sarcasms cut like Packwood's Razors.

IV.

T. Thelwall's my man for State Alarm;
I love the Rebels of Chalk Farm;
Rogues that no Statutes can subdue,

F.

T.

Who'd bring the French, and head them too.

V.

A whisper in your ear, J-bn H-rn,
For one great end we both were born,
Alike we roar, and rant, and bellow-
Give us your hand, my honest Fellow.

VI.

Charles, for a Shuffler long I've known thee:
But come-for once, I'll not disown thee;
And since with patriot zeal thou burnest,
With thee I'll live-or hang in earnest.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE HAMBURGH Mails which have arrived since the date of our last Number, and the FRENCH Papers, which have been received up to the 24th of February, furnish but little additional Intelligence; little whereon it is possible to found a distinct or rational Speculation, as to

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the ultimate issue of the various and complicated discussions in which the interests, and, in many cases, the existence of the Nations of Europe are involved.

Under such circumstances, we confine ourselves to the stating briefly the few Facts which come to us from such authority as we cannot doubt; together with such opinions as appear to be most currently received on the Continent: without attempting at the present moment to combine those Facts into a System, of whatever kind; and without pledging ourselves for the validity of Opinions, which must have been formed in a great measure on variable and uncertain grounds, and which the death or removal of a single individual, or the events of a single day at Paris, might overturn from their foundation.

At Rastadt, the French Plenipotentiaries TREILHARD and BONNIER have given their Reply to the Note of the DEPUTATION of the EMPIRE, the substance whereof was stated in our last Number. In this Reply, they peremptorily refuse any Explanation whatever, as to the extent of the Sacrifices which they had it in contemplation to demand from the Empire. Such an Explanation, they contend, could only "complicate questions, and retard "the conclusion of the Negotiation, instead of accelera"ting it." They presume that it is enough for the Deputation to know, in the first instance, that all the possessions of the Princes of the Empire on the Left Bank of the Rhine, are to be ceded to France. This Cession. once made, it will be time enough to talk of the Indemnifications to be found on the Right Bank of the Rhine, for the Princes so stript of their Territories, a question which it would be premature to agitate, while the Cession itself is yet undetermined. "La cession de ce qui est "au-delà du Rhin, voilà la base: l'indemnité sur la ́

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"rive droite, voilà la consequence." To take these two questions, that is, the question of the thing to be purchased, and the price to be paid, into consideration at the same time, they represent as a self-evident and monstrous absurdity. They conclude with the usual assumption of the notorious desire for Peace with all the World, which animates the French Government; and they declare the Deputation of the Empire responsible for whatever delays, or evils of a worse sort, may attend their refusal to accept and abide by so reasonable a proposition.

By Letters from HAMBURGH, of the 20th of February, we learn that the Senate of that City had received, some days before, a Dispatch from their Agent at Paris, acquainting them with a Proposal, or rather demand, made to him on the part of M. TALLEYRAND PERIGORD, for a Sum of Eighteen Millions of Marks (1,200,000l. Sterling) to be furnished by the Hans Towns to France, for which the latter offer to give Dutch Rescriptions in return. It is natural to suppose that this Intelligence made a great sensation in the Senate. They met on the 19th of February, and it was said that they had resolved not to comply with the proposal. As that affair, however, cannot be finally decided by the Senate, without the assent of the Burghers, it was understood that an Assembly of the latter would be called on Thursday, the 22d, and the general opinion was, that the above Resolution of the Senate would be confirmed by them.

M. REINHARDT, the French Minister, at Hamburgh, delivered his Letters of Recal on the 19th of February, to a Deputation of the Senate, and proposed to leave that City in a few days. He was to be succeeded by a M. ROBERJOLT.

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