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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/24825-8.txt b/24825-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7123651 --- /dev/null +++ b/24825-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,909 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision, by Anonymous + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision + Dedicated to the House of Peers + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: March 13, 2008 [EBook #24825] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GHOST OF CHATHAM; A VISION *** + + + + +Produced by K Nordquist, Sam W. and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + THE + GHOST OF CHATHAM; + A VISION. + + DEDICATED TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS. + + + "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear + received a little thereof. A SPIRIT passed before my + face." + Job. + + +LONDON: +PRINTED FOR WILLIAM HONE, +45, LUDGATE HILL. + +1821. + +_Sixpence._ + + + + +J. M'Creery, Tooks Court, +Chancery Lane, London. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +The following lines were written under the powerful impulse of +feelings which appear to have been almost consentaneous with those of +the whole British people. The national spirit has been rouzed against +this cruel and unconstitutional attack upon the QUEEN, with pervasive +ardour, which forcibly recalls the language of the Augustan poet:-- + + "SPIRITUS intus alit, _totamque infusa per ARTUS_, + MENS agitat MOLEM, et _magno se corpore miscet_." + +This irresistible movement has been one of LOYALTY, not of FACTION; of +love and not of enmity towards the constitution. It is not disputed +that factious men exist, who are ready to swell public tumult whenever +it arises: but it is mere drivelling, for ministers and their +adherents, to talk of "_radicalism_" and _democracy_ on this occasion. +They must know, if they consult the commonest sources of intelligence +open to them, that detestation of "THE BILL OF PAINS AND PENALTIES" is +rooted beyond all possibility of eradication in the breasts of an +overwhelming majority of good men, and faithful subjects. + +At the moment when it was determined to send the following "VISION" to +the press, a burst of honest exultation has electrified the whole +kingdom. With feelings of solemn gratitude to God, and love for my +country, I rejoice not only that the QUEEN is thus delivered from the +fangs of her enemies; but that THE KING, THE CONSTITUTION, and THE +COUNTRY, have been thus, as I do unequivocally believe, rescued from a +tremendous explosion, which would at best have been of doubtful issue +to our liberties. + +Notwithstanding this most happy, this _providential_ result, I have +determined still to send out the poem to the public; because it +expresses in strong, however inadequate language, sentiments which are +essential to our character as a free people, and to the preservation +of our justly balanced monarchy. + +I have not assumed the FASCIS of satire, without deep conviction that +its rods were imperatively called into action: but most gladly shall I +reverse them, after the manner of the ancient LICTORS, over the +obsequies of an administration, which must be now in its death-pangs. +May succeeding cabinets be WARNED, _not guided_, by its example! + + + + +THE GHOST OF CHATHAM; + +_A VISION._ + + + A vision came! It was not in the hour + Of sleep; but when the unresisted power + Of magic Fancy, threw, with full control, + Her half prophetic mantle o'er the soul. + The place was thron'd like Britain's royal halls, + And her proud navy deck'd the tap'stried walls. + Statesmen and heroes grac'd the pictur'd scene; + Fathers who were what since their sons have been; + And some whose laurell'd brows might glow with shame, + Of sons with nought of their's besides the name. + In this august abode the loud debate + Seem'd hush'd, and prince and peer in silence sate; + E'en G--ff--d's brazen descant seem'd to fail, + And gasping C--pley gazed on L--d--rd--le; + Panting, they loll'd their contumelious tongues, + And suck'd _Italian juice_ to clear their lungs. + Y--k mus'd on _armies_; yet, with doubtful trust, + Wish'd he were certain, or the cause were just: + The eye of Cl--r--nce fiercely rang'd the floor, + But soften'd as it fell on D--n--ghm--re; + While L--v--rp--l, who inly seem'd to fear + For place and power, his fellows strove to cheer + With sickly smile; and courtier lords obscene, + Temper'd new filth, to daub their libell'd QUEEN. + + Sudden amid the peers whom ENGLAND hails + HER nobles--men who fail but when SHE fails, + The vision rose. It was a rev'rend form + Of aged dignity: its eye was warm + With kindlings of a spirit that of old + Made those walls tremble through its earthly mould. + Now a mild glory round its presence play'd, + And 'spoke from heav'nly courts the awful shade. + Its brow wore high reproof; the lifted arm + Was stretch'd for pleading; and there was a charm + Of coming eloquence, as firm it stood, + Like one whose rank was with the great and good; + And well that rank was own'd, when ERSKINE cried, + "'Tis England's CHATHAM!"--"CHATHAM!" all replied. + + Like the dead stillness of the summer air, + When pregnant clouds of shrouded fire are there, + They sat:--and like the voice of thunder broke + The rolling periods, as the vision spoke. + "Is this," he cried, "the consecrated floor, + Where England's peerage stood, as known of yore, + Jealous of honour, zealous for the laws; + Justice their sword, and England's weal their cause? + Are these the walls whose echoes then return'd + No words that chasten'd gallantry had spurn'd? + Is this the throne whose last loved tenant view'd + His people's morals as the monarch's good? + Display'd beneath the sov'reign diadem, + DOMESTIC VIRTUE, Britain's dearest gem; + And bade _Example_ to _his_ court proclaim + What taught, unpractis'd, is the teacher's shame? + Ah no! that throne is chang'd; this gew-gaw thing + Befits a raree-shew, not England's King! + And can it be that Brunswick's cherish'd heir + Will also change the laws which plac'd him there? + Forget the STUART'S FATE, the BRUNSWICK'S OATH; + Yet make his sorrowing subjects dwell on both? + Forbid it, Heaven! Far other thoughts he knew, + When yet his talents with his graces grew; + When Genius, Beauty, in his circle ran, + Admired the prince, and half adored the man. + Nor now _thus_ fall'n!--Yet whence this hot cabal + Of treasury bench, and bench episcopal? + These monstrous portents that before me rise + Of mitred pimps, and coronetted spies! + This deep, dark plotting, spreading net and snare, + By hands that used their country's ark to bear? + This hateful truckling to misguided power, + Combined in palace, temple, hall, and bower, + To crush an outcast Queen, with evidence + By facts refuted, ridiculed by sense?-- + Tales that would merit but an equal fate, + Told of the veriest wench in Billingsgate! + FATHERS! and BRITONS! whence this alien band + Of miscreant lechers bribed from sea and land?-- + By England spurn'd, yet plied with England's gold, + Till every scoundrel's stock of oaths was sold; + Then hither sent by hirelings vile as they, + To pass for sterling truth in open day. + Monstrous fatuity! and British peers + Have lent these vermin not unwilling ears; + For new-born lies have barter'd ancient law, + Broke public faith, to patch a private flaw, + And made a court that freemen never saw. + ACCUSERS, JURY, JUDGES, _all in ONE_! + O England! now be firm, or be undone! + Strangle this monster, ere its birth be o'er, + Or grov'lling lick the dust to rise no more! + Heard I aright? and was it HERE I heard + This crew 'gainst England's CONSORT QUEEN preferred? + Here did their sland'rous breath infest the air? + Hence did malicious tongues the scandal bear? + Gush'd 'neath this sacred dome the prurient flood + Of filth and venom, from that viper brood, + Which o'er the land hath spread its noisome stain, + While shudd'ring virtue weeps, but weeps in vain? + And (O shame's nauseous dregs!) did noble lips + Here taste that stream with epicurean sips? + And mitred heads, as o'er its scum they bent, + Snuff the rank steam, and chuckle at the scent?-- + My soul is sick!--I turn with sated ear, + And find a cordial in my brethren here. + Peers who their conscience to no market bring; + Respect themselves, their country, and their king: + Nor would round England's smiling hearths diffuse + The breath--the very atmosphere of stews. + O horrid! yes, I feel the blast impure, + Air no blessed spirit may unpained endure: + Yet leave I not without a warning voice: + Hear, and obey, and Britons shall rejoice! + + "You cannot, Lords! by votes create a crime, + Nor make your country's voice with falsehood chime:-- + You cannot quench, with all this flood of LIES, + A gallant people's glowing sympathies:-- + You cannot hide your idol God from them, + When prone you kiss its garment's nether hem:-- + You cannot waste their treasure on a cause, + That boldly violates their guardian laws; + And 'scape the arrows from their quiver hurl'd-- + The keen reproach, and hisses of the world. + You may cry 'GUILTY!' but the umpire land + Cancels the verdict with indignant hand, + Reveres the NOBLE MANY who uphold + The nation's dignity; nor brooks that gold, + Wrung hardly from her toiling sons, should pay + The Judas gang that would her rights betray. + Scorn meets THE FEW who, bought by pandering power, + Outvote the nation's voice in hapless hour. + O pause ere yet that fatal hour is seen!-- + Be counsell'd, Lords!--You cannot crush your Queen, + But by a blow that must, with blind intent, + Bruise THRONE and ALTAR in its dire descent! + + "O where, ye PRELATES! is your light withdrawn? + Where now the lustral influence of your lawn?[A] + Where the meek crosier, and the crook of fleece, + That guard the fold (not reckless of the peace)? + Is there no wolf in all your pastur'd plains? + No murrain rankling in your lambkins' veins? + No lurking thief, by whom they nightly bleed? + No arid spots refreshing streams that need? + O why, forgetful of your solemn call, + Sit ye, unmindful where the victims fall, + To _hire_ ONE SACRIFICE with cords be bound, + And your anointed hands inflict the wound? + O desecrated thus, by off'rings high + To demon passions!--Foul idolatry! + If such your rites, no LEVITE here I view, + But BAAL'S PRIESTS may leap and shout with you.[B] + O whither urge these bodings of my breast? + Let hope, let charity their flight arrest! + In Britain's SARDIS, surely some remain + Whose courtly robes yet bear no wilful stain! + PRINCES! and PEERS! once more on you I call-- + Save! save your tottering glory ere it fall! + If truth, if virtue, to your hearts be dear; + If sounds of sweet content you love to hear; + If generous sons, and daughters chaste, you prize, + And all a happy home's delightful ties; + If just gradation on the social scale + Be worth your care; if rank can aught avail: + If rev'rence for the altar and the throne, + Be yours, and GEORGE the lawful king, you own: + If rights your fathers were combin'd to save, + When Britain's sceptre to his race they gave, + Be justly claim'd, as justly claim'd they are + By every son that British mothers bear: + O save your names from hate, disgrace, and scorn, + HIST'RY'S bequest to ages yet unborn! + + "Ah! heard ye not your lion-genius roar, + And shake with mighty tread his ev'ry shore? + Deem not that roar in vain; for it hath found + Redoubl'd echoes all the realm around, + And generous hearts have rous'd them at the sound. + There is a spirit mightier far than yours-- + Magnanimous and mild, it much endures: + But urg'd too far, a giant's strength awakes, + And gyves and bonds at one fierce effort breaks. + O hear yet more! There is a GOD, whose eye + Pierces your counsels' darkest mystery; + Whose blessing England owns for countless years, + Whose vengeance now she deprecates with tears. + To HIM your Queen appeals, and at HIS bar, + Your names must mark the awful calendar; + There must the witness CONSCIENCE naked plead, + And guilty kings receive the culprit's meed. + O think on this! e'en now that witness own, + And save YOURSELVES, your COUNTRY, and your THRONE!"-- + + The vision ceas'd, and in a radiant cloud + Withdrew--The breathless senate rev'rent bow'd. + New vigour throbb'd in every patriot breast, + And nerveless horror sicken'd all the rest. + + THE END. + + +FOOTNOTES: + +[A] See the Earl of Chatham's animated speech against the employment +of Indian warriors to assist in the subjugation of America. + +[B] In this, as I conceive, seasonable reproof of certain "_Lords +Spiritual_" I would not be understood to involve the whole of that +reverend body. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision + Dedicated to the House of Peers + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: March 13, 2008 [EBook #24825] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GHOST OF CHATHAM; A VISION *** + + + + +Produced by K Nordquist, Sam W. and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<h1 style="padding-top: 3em;"><span style="font-size: small">THE</span><br /> +<br /> +GHOST OF CHATHAM;</h1> + +<h2 style="padding-top: 2em;">A VISION.</h2> + +<h3 style="padding-top: 2em; padding-bottom: 5em;">DEDICATED TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS.</h3> + +<hr style="width: 35%;" /> + + +<p class="center">“Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received +a little thereof. A <small>SPIRIT</small> passed before my face.”</p> + +<p class="sig"><span class="smcap">Job.</span></p> + +<hr style="width: 35%;" /> +<p class="center">LONDON:<br /> +PRINTED FOR WILLIAM HONE,<br /> +45, LUDGATE HILL.<br /> +<br /> +1821.</p> + +<p class="center" style="padding-top: 3em;"><i>Sixpence.</i></p> + + + +<p class="center" style="padding-top: 5em;">J. M‘Creery, Tooks Court,<br /> +Chancery Lane, London.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</a></span></p> + +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + + +<p>The following lines were written under the powerful +impulse of feelings which appear to have been +almost consentaneous with those of the whole British +people. The national spirit has been rouzed +against this cruel and unconstitutional attack upon +the <span class="smcap">Queen</span>, with pervasive ardour, which forcibly +recalls the language of the Augustan poet:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">“<span class="smcap">Spiritus</span> intus alit, <i>totamque infusa per <small>ARTUS</small></i>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Mens</span> agitat <small>MOLEM</small>, et <i>magno se corpore miscet</i>.”<br /></span> +</div> +</div> + +<p>This irresistible movement has been one of <small>LOYALTY</small>, +not of <small>FACTION</small>; of love and not of enmity towards +the constitution. It is not disputed that factious +men exist, who are ready to swell public tumult +whenever it arises: but it is mere drivelling, for ministers +and their adherents, to talk of “<em>radicalism</em>” +and <em>democracy</em> on this occasion. They must know, if +they consult the commonest sources of intelligence +open to them, that detestation of “<span class="smcap">The Bill of +Pains and Penalties</span>” is rooted beyond all possibility +of eradication in the breasts of an overwhelming +majority of good men, and faithful subjects.</p> + +<p>At the moment when it was determined to send +the following “<span class="smcap">Vision</span>” to the press, a burst of +honest exultation has electrified the whole kingdom. +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[Pg iv]</a></span> +With feelings of solemn gratitude to God, and love +for my country, I rejoice not only that the <span class="smcap">Queen</span> +is thus delivered from the fangs of her enemies; but +that <span class="smcap">the King</span>, <small>THE CONSTITUTION</small>, and <small>THE COUNTRY</small>, +have been thus, as I do unequivocally believe, +rescued from a tremendous explosion, which would +at best have been of doubtful issue to our liberties.</p> + +<p>Notwithstanding this most happy, this <em>providential</em> +result, I have determined still to send out the poem +to the public; because it expresses in strong, however +inadequate language, sentiments which are +essential to our character as a free people, and to +the preservation of our justly balanced monarchy.</p> + +<p>I have not assumed the <small>FASCIS</small> of satire, without +deep conviction that its rods were imperatively +called into action: but most gladly shall I reverse +them, after the manner of the ancient <span class="smcap">Lictors</span>, over +the obsequies of an administration, which must be +now in its death-pangs. May succeeding cabinets +be <small>WARNED</small>, <em>not guided</em>, by its example!</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> + +<h2><span style="font-size: small;">THE</span><br /> +<br /> +GHOST OF CHATHAM;</h2> + +<h3><i>A VISION.</i></h3> + + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> vision came! It was not in the hour<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of sleep; but when the unresisted power<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of magic Fancy, threw, with full control,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her half prophetic mantle o’er the soul.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The place was thron’d like Britain’s royal halls,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And her proud navy deck’d the tap’stried walls.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Statesmen and heroes grac’d the pictur’d scene;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fathers who were what since their sons have been;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And some whose laurell’d brows might glow with shame,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of sons with nought of their’s besides the name.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In this august abode the loud debate<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Seem’d hush’d, and prince and peer in silence sate;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">E’en G—ff—d’s brazen descant seem’d to fail,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And gasping C—pley gazed on L—d—rd—le;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Panting, they loll’d their contumelious tongues,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And suck’d <em>Italian juice</em> to clear their lungs.<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +<span class="i0">Y—k mus’d on <em>armies</em>; yet, with doubtful trust,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Wish’d he were certain, or the cause were just:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The eye of Cl—r—nce fiercely rang’d the floor,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But soften’d as it fell on D—n—ghm—re;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">While L—v—rp—l, who inly seem’d to fear<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For place and power, his fellows strove to cheer<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With sickly smile; and courtier lords obscene,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Temper’d new filth, to daub their libell’d <span class="smcap">Queen</span>.<br /></span> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">Sudden amid the peers whom <span class="smcap">England</span> hails<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Her</span> nobles—men who fail but when <small>SHE</small> fails,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The vision rose. It was a rev’rend form<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of aged dignity: its eye was warm<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With kindlings of a spirit that of old<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Made those walls tremble through its earthly mould.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Now a mild glory round its presence play’d,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And ’spoke from heav’nly courts the awful shade.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Its brow wore high reproof; the lifted arm<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Was stretch’d for pleading; and there was a charm<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of coming eloquence, as firm it stood,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Like one whose rank was with the great and good;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And well that rank was own’d, when <span class="smcap">Erskine</span> cried,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">“’Tis England’s <span class="smcap">Chatham</span>!”—“<span class="smcap">Chatham</span>!” all replied.<br /></span> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +<span class="i1">Like the dead stillness of the summer air,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When pregnant clouds of shrouded fire are there,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They sat:—and like the voice of thunder broke<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The rolling periods, as the vision spoke.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">“Is this,” he cried, “the consecrated floor,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where England’s peerage stood, as known of yore,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Jealous of honour, zealous for the laws;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Justice their sword, and England’s weal their cause?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Are these the walls whose echoes then return’d<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No words that chasten’d gallantry had spurn’d?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Is this the throne whose last loved tenant view’d<br /></span> +<span class="i0">His people’s morals as the monarch’s good?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Display’d beneath the sov’reign diadem,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Domestic virtue</span>, Britain’s dearest gem;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And bade <em>Example</em> to <em>his</em> court proclaim<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What taught, unpractis’d, is the teacher’s shame?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Ah no! that throne is chang’d; this gew-gaw thing<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Befits a raree-shew, not England’s King!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And can it be that Brunswick’s cherish’d heir<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Will also change the laws which plac’d him there?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Forget the <span class="smcap">Stuart’s fate</span>, the <span class="smcap">Brunswick’s oath</span>;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Yet make his sorrowing subjects dwell on both?<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +<span class="i0">Forbid it, Heaven! Far other thoughts he knew,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When yet his talents with his graces grew;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When Genius, Beauty, in his circle ran,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Admired the prince, and half adored the man.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor now <em>thus</em> fall’n!—Yet whence this hot cabal<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of treasury bench, and bench episcopal?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">These monstrous portents that before me rise<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of mitred pimps, and coronetted spies!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">This deep, dark plotting, spreading net and snare,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By hands that used their country’s ark to bear?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">This hateful truckling to misguided power,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Combined in palace, temple, hall, and bower,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To crush an outcast Queen, with evidence<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By facts refuted, ridiculed by sense?—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Tales that would merit but an equal fate,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Told of the veriest wench in Billingsgate!<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Fathers</span>! and <span class="smcap">Britons</span>! whence this alien band<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of miscreant lechers bribed from sea and land?—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By England spurn’d, yet plied with England’s gold,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Till every scoundrel’s stock of oaths was sold;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Then hither sent by hirelings vile as they,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To pass for sterling truth in open day.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Monstrous fatuity! and British peers<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Have lent these vermin not unwilling ears;<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +<span class="i0">For new-born lies have barter’d ancient law,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Broke public faith, to patch a private flaw,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And made a court that freemen never saw.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Accusers, Jury, Judges</span>, <em>all in <small>ONE</small></em>!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O England! now be firm, or be undone!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Strangle this monster, ere its birth be o’er,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or grov’lling lick the dust to rise no more!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Heard I aright? and was it <small>HERE</small> I heard<br /></span> +<span class="i0">This crew ’gainst England’s <span class="smcap">Consort Queen</span> preferred?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Here did their sland’rous breath infest the air?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hence did malicious tongues the scandal bear?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Gush’d ’neath this sacred dome the prurient flood<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of filth and venom, from that viper brood,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Which o’er the land hath spread its noisome stain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">While shudd’ring virtue weeps, but weeps in vain?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And (O shame’s nauseous dregs!) did noble lips<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Here taste that stream with epicurean sips?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And mitred heads, as o’er its scum they bent,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Snuff the rank steam, and chuckle at the scent?—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My soul is sick!—I turn with sated ear,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And find a cordial in my brethren here.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Peers who their conscience to no market bring;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Respect themselves, their country, and their king:<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> +<span class="i0">Nor would round England’s smiling hearths diffuse<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The breath—the very atmosphere of stews.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O horrid! yes, I feel the blast impure,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Air no blessed spirit may unpained endure:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Yet leave I not without a warning voice:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hear, and obey, and Britons shall rejoice!<br /></span> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">“You cannot, Lords! by votes create a crime,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor make your country’s voice with falsehood chime:—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You cannot quench, with all this flood of <small>LIES</small>,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A gallant people’s glowing sympathies:—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You cannot hide your idol God from them,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When prone you kiss its garment’s nether hem:—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You cannot waste their treasure on a cause,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That boldly violates their guardian laws;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And ’scape the arrows from their quiver hurl’d—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The keen reproach, and hisses of the world.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You may cry ‘<span class="smcap">Guilty</span>!’ but the umpire land<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Cancels the verdict with indignant hand,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Reveres the <small>NOBLE MANY</small> who uphold<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The nation’s dignity; nor brooks that gold,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Wrung hardly from her toiling sons, should pay<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The Judas gang that would her rights betray.<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +<span class="i0">Scorn meets <small>THE FEW</small> who, bought by pandering power,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Outvote the nation’s voice in hapless hour.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O pause ere yet that fatal hour is seen!—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be counsell’d, Lords!—You cannot crush your Queen,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But by a blow that must, with blind intent,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Bruise <span class="smcap">Throne</span> and <span class="smcap">Altar</span> in its dire descent!<br /></span> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">“O where, ye <span class="smcap">Prelates</span>! is your light withdrawn?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where now the lustral influence of your lawn?<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where the meek crosier, and the crook of fleece,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That guard the fold (not reckless of the peace)?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Is there no wolf in all your pastur’d plains?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No murrain rankling in your lambkins’ veins?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No lurking thief, by whom they nightly bleed?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No arid spots refreshing streams that need?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O why, forgetful of your solemn call,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sit ye, unmindful where the victims fall,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To <em>hire</em> <small>ONE SACRIFICE</small> with cords be bound,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And your anointed hands inflict the wound?<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +<span class="i0">O desecrated thus, by off’rings high<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To demon passions!—Foul idolatry!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If such your rites, no <span class="smcap">Levite</span> here I view,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But <span class="smcap">Baal’s Priests</span> may leap and shout with you.<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a><br /></span> +<span class="i0">O whither urge these bodings of my breast?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Let hope, let charity their flight arrest!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In Britain’s <span class="smcap">Sardis</span>, surely some remain<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whose courtly robes yet bear no wilful stain!<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Princes</span>! and <span class="smcap">Peers</span>! once more on you I call—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Save! save your tottering glory ere it fall!<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> +<span class="i0">If truth, if virtue, to your hearts be dear;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If sounds of sweet content you love to hear;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If generous sons, and daughters chaste, you prize,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And all a happy home’s delightful ties;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If just gradation on the social scale<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be worth your care; if rank can aught avail:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If rev’rence for the altar and the throne,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be yours, and <span class="smcap">George</span> the lawful king, you own:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If rights your fathers were combin’d to save,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When Britain’s sceptre to his race they gave,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be justly claim’d, as justly claim’d they are<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By every son that British mothers bear:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O save your names from hate, disgrace, and scorn,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Hist’ry’s</span> bequest to ages yet unborn!<br /></span> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">“Ah! heard ye not your lion-genius roar,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And shake with mighty tread his ev’ry shore?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Deem not that roar in vain; for it hath found<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Redoubl’d echoes all the realm around,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And generous hearts have rous’d them at the sound.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">There is a spirit mightier far than yours—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Magnanimous and mild, it much endures:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But urg’d too far, a giant’s strength awakes,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And gyves and bonds at one fierce effort breaks.<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +<span class="i0">O hear yet more! There is a <span class="smcap">God</span>, whose eye<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Pierces your counsels’ darkest mystery;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whose blessing England owns for countless years,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whose vengeance now she deprecates with tears.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To <span class="smcap">Him</span> your Queen appeals, and at <span class="smcap">His</span> bar,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Your names must mark the awful calendar;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">There must the witness <small>CONSCIENCE</small> naked plead,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And guilty kings receive the culprit’s meed.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O think on this! e’en now that witness own,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And save <small>YOURSELVES</small>, your <small>COUNTRY</small>, and your <small>THRONE</small>!”—<br /></span> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">The vision ceas’d, and in a radiant cloud<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Withdrew—The breathless senate rev’rent bow’d.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">New vigour throbb’d in every patriot breast,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And nerveless horror sicken’d all the rest.<br /></span> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4">THE END.<br /></span> +</div> +</div> + + + +<div class="footnotes" style="margin-top: 3em;"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> See the Earl of Chatham’s animated speech against the employment +of Indian warriors to assist in the subjugation of +America.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> In this, as I conceive, seasonable reproof of certain “<em>Lords +Spiritual</em>” I would not be understood to involve the whole of that +reverend body. Some of them, I firmly believe, have remained at +a distance from the combat, aged and infirm, like <span class="smcap">Eli</span>, sitting by +the wayside of Shiloh, and watching with trembling heart, lest the +ark (I will not say of <span class="smcap">God</span>, but of <small>THE CONSTITUTION</small>) should fall in +the unhallowed conflict. Others, perhaps, have not cared to meddle +in what they may have considered a doubtful matter: but it must +not be concealed, that when <small>TRUTH</small> and <small>JUSTICE</small> are at stake, <em>neutrality</em> +is no honourable sanctuary for the avowed servants of the <small>TEMPLE</small>. +Let the Bishops beware of discovering their nakedness upon the +very steps of the altar.—The eye of an enlightened people is upon +them; and <em>with their character for real consistent <small>PIETY</small>, and fidelity to +sound <small>PROTESTANT PRINCIPLES, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND</small> will stand +or fall</em>.</p></div> +</div> + + + + +<p class="center" style="padding-top: 5em;">J. 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They naturally assume the +title of the <span class="smcap">Apocryphal New Testament</span>; and he who possesses this and +the New Testament, has, in the two volumes, a collection of all the Historical +Records relative to Christ and his Apostles, now in existence, and considered +sacred by Christians during the first four centuries after his birth.</i></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p><span class="smcap">Contents.</span></p> + +<p><i>Preface.</i><br /> +<i>Gospel of the birth of Mary.</i><br /> +<i>The Protevangelion, or birth of Christ +and the Virgin, by James the lesser.</i><br /> +<i>The first Gospel of the Infancy of Christ.</i><br /> +<i>Thomas’s Gospel of the Infancy.</i><br /> +<i>Epistles of Christ and Abgarus.</i><br /> +<i>Gospel of Nicodemus.</i><br /> +<i>Apostles’ Creed.</i><br /> +<i>Paul’s Epistle to the Laodiceans.</i><br /> +<i>Epistles of Paul and Seneca.</i><br /> +<i>Acts of Paul and Thecla.</i><br /> +<i>Clement’s Two Epistles to the Corinthians.</i><br /> +<i>Epistle of Barnabas.</i><br /> +<i>The Seven Epistles of Ignatius to the +Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, +Romans, Philadelphians, Smyrnæans, +and Polycarp.</i><br /> +<i>Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians.</i><br /> +<i>The Shepherd of Hermas, in three books.</i><br /> +Table I. List of all the lost Apocryphal books.<br /> +Table II. List of early Catalogues of the Books of the New Testament.</p></div> + +<p><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> By the publication of this Volume, the Editor conceives he +has rendered an acceptable service to the <span class="smcap">Theological Student</span> and +the <span class="smcap">Ecclesiastical Antiquary</span>:—he has endeavoured to render it +more gratifying to the reader, and more convenient for reference, by +arranging the Books into Chapters, and dividing the Chapters into +verses.</p> + +<p>The <span class="smcap">Lover of Old Literature</span> will here find the obscure but unquestionable +origin of several remarkable relations, in the Golden +Legend, the Lives of the Saints, and similar productions, concerning +the Parentage and Birth of the Virgin, her Marriage with Joseph on +the budding of his rod, the Nativity of Jesus, the Miracles of his Infancy, +his laboring with Joseph at the Carpentry trade, the actions +of his Followers, his Descent into Hell, &c.</p> + +<p style="padding-bottom: 3em;">Several of the <span class="smcap">Papal Pageants</span> for the Populace and the <span class="smcap">Monkish +Mysteries</span> performed as <i>Dramas</i> at Chester, Coventry, Newcastle, +and in other parts of England, are almost verbatim representations of +the stories. Many valuable <i>Pictures</i> by the best masters—<i>Prints</i> by +the early Engravers, and particularly of the Italian and German +Schools—<i>Woodcuts</i> in early black letter and block books—and <i>Illuminations</i> +of missals and monastic MSS.—receive immediate elucidation +on reference to the <span class="smcap">Apocryphal New Testament</span>, and are without +explanation from any other source.</p> + + + +<div class="bbox"> +<p><b>Transcriber's Note</b></p> + +<p>This text contains some variant and archaic spelling; this has been left as +printed throughout.</p> + +<p>A single typographic error, on page <a href="#Page_iii">iii</a>, was corrected—recals amended to +recalls.</p> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GHOST OF CHATHAM; A VISION *** + +***** This file should be named 24825-h.htm or 24825-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/8/2/24825/ + +Produced by K Nordquist, Sam W. and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision + Dedicated to the House of Peers + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: March 13, 2008 [EBook #24825] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GHOST OF CHATHAM; A VISION *** + + + + +Produced by K Nordquist, Sam W. and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + THE + GHOST OF CHATHAM; + A VISION. + + DEDICATED TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS. + + + "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear + received a little thereof. A SPIRIT passed before my + face." + Job. + + +LONDON: +PRINTED FOR WILLIAM HONE, +45, LUDGATE HILL. + +1821. + +_Sixpence._ + + + + +J. M'Creery, Tooks Court, +Chancery Lane, London. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +The following lines were written under the powerful impulse of +feelings which appear to have been almost consentaneous with those of +the whole British people. The national spirit has been rouzed against +this cruel and unconstitutional attack upon the QUEEN, with pervasive +ardour, which forcibly recalls the language of the Augustan poet:-- + + "SPIRITUS intus alit, _totamque infusa per ARTUS_, + MENS agitat MOLEM, et _magno se corpore miscet_." + +This irresistible movement has been one of LOYALTY, not of FACTION; of +love and not of enmity towards the constitution. It is not disputed +that factious men exist, who are ready to swell public tumult whenever +it arises: but it is mere drivelling, for ministers and their +adherents, to talk of "_radicalism_" and _democracy_ on this occasion. +They must know, if they consult the commonest sources of intelligence +open to them, that detestation of "THE BILL OF PAINS AND PENALTIES" is +rooted beyond all possibility of eradication in the breasts of an +overwhelming majority of good men, and faithful subjects. + +At the moment when it was determined to send the following "VISION" to +the press, a burst of honest exultation has electrified the whole +kingdom. With feelings of solemn gratitude to God, and love for my +country, I rejoice not only that the QUEEN is thus delivered from the +fangs of her enemies; but that THE KING, THE CONSTITUTION, and THE +COUNTRY, have been thus, as I do unequivocally believe, rescued from a +tremendous explosion, which would at best have been of doubtful issue +to our liberties. + +Notwithstanding this most happy, this _providential_ result, I have +determined still to send out the poem to the public; because it +expresses in strong, however inadequate language, sentiments which are +essential to our character as a free people, and to the preservation +of our justly balanced monarchy. + +I have not assumed the FASCIS of satire, without deep conviction that +its rods were imperatively called into action: but most gladly shall I +reverse them, after the manner of the ancient LICTORS, over the +obsequies of an administration, which must be now in its death-pangs. +May succeeding cabinets be WARNED, _not guided_, by its example! + + + + +THE GHOST OF CHATHAM; + +_A VISION._ + + + A vision came! It was not in the hour + Of sleep; but when the unresisted power + Of magic Fancy, threw, with full control, + Her half prophetic mantle o'er the soul. + The place was thron'd like Britain's royal halls, + And her proud navy deck'd the tap'stried walls. + Statesmen and heroes grac'd the pictur'd scene; + Fathers who were what since their sons have been; + And some whose laurell'd brows might glow with shame, + Of sons with nought of their's besides the name. + In this august abode the loud debate + Seem'd hush'd, and prince and peer in silence sate; + E'en G--ff--d's brazen descant seem'd to fail, + And gasping C--pley gazed on L--d--rd--le; + Panting, they loll'd their contumelious tongues, + And suck'd _Italian juice_ to clear their lungs. + Y--k mus'd on _armies_; yet, with doubtful trust, + Wish'd he were certain, or the cause were just: + The eye of Cl--r--nce fiercely rang'd the floor, + But soften'd as it fell on D--n--ghm--re; + While L--v--rp--l, who inly seem'd to fear + For place and power, his fellows strove to cheer + With sickly smile; and courtier lords obscene, + Temper'd new filth, to daub their libell'd QUEEN. + + Sudden amid the peers whom ENGLAND hails + HER nobles--men who fail but when SHE fails, + The vision rose. It was a rev'rend form + Of aged dignity: its eye was warm + With kindlings of a spirit that of old + Made those walls tremble through its earthly mould. + Now a mild glory round its presence play'd, + And 'spoke from heav'nly courts the awful shade. + Its brow wore high reproof; the lifted arm + Was stretch'd for pleading; and there was a charm + Of coming eloquence, as firm it stood, + Like one whose rank was with the great and good; + And well that rank was own'd, when ERSKINE cried, + "'Tis England's CHATHAM!"--"CHATHAM!" all replied. + + Like the dead stillness of the summer air, + When pregnant clouds of shrouded fire are there, + They sat:--and like the voice of thunder broke + The rolling periods, as the vision spoke. + "Is this," he cried, "the consecrated floor, + Where England's peerage stood, as known of yore, + Jealous of honour, zealous for the laws; + Justice their sword, and England's weal their cause? + Are these the walls whose echoes then return'd + No words that chasten'd gallantry had spurn'd? + Is this the throne whose last loved tenant view'd + His people's morals as the monarch's good? + Display'd beneath the sov'reign diadem, + DOMESTIC VIRTUE, Britain's dearest gem; + And bade _Example_ to _his_ court proclaim + What taught, unpractis'd, is the teacher's shame? + Ah no! that throne is chang'd; this gew-gaw thing + Befits a raree-shew, not England's King! + And can it be that Brunswick's cherish'd heir + Will also change the laws which plac'd him there? + Forget the STUART'S FATE, the BRUNSWICK'S OATH; + Yet make his sorrowing subjects dwell on both? + Forbid it, Heaven! Far other thoughts he knew, + When yet his talents with his graces grew; + When Genius, Beauty, in his circle ran, + Admired the prince, and half adored the man. + Nor now _thus_ fall'n!--Yet whence this hot cabal + Of treasury bench, and bench episcopal? + These monstrous portents that before me rise + Of mitred pimps, and coronetted spies! + This deep, dark plotting, spreading net and snare, + By hands that used their country's ark to bear? + This hateful truckling to misguided power, + Combined in palace, temple, hall, and bower, + To crush an outcast Queen, with evidence + By facts refuted, ridiculed by sense?-- + Tales that would merit but an equal fate, + Told of the veriest wench in Billingsgate! + FATHERS! and BRITONS! whence this alien band + Of miscreant lechers bribed from sea and land?-- + By England spurn'd, yet plied with England's gold, + Till every scoundrel's stock of oaths was sold; + Then hither sent by hirelings vile as they, + To pass for sterling truth in open day. + Monstrous fatuity! and British peers + Have lent these vermin not unwilling ears; + For new-born lies have barter'd ancient law, + Broke public faith, to patch a private flaw, + And made a court that freemen never saw. + ACCUSERS, JURY, JUDGES, _all in ONE_! + O England! now be firm, or be undone! + Strangle this monster, ere its birth be o'er, + Or grov'lling lick the dust to rise no more! + Heard I aright? and was it HERE I heard + This crew 'gainst England's CONSORT QUEEN preferred? + Here did their sland'rous breath infest the air? + Hence did malicious tongues the scandal bear? + Gush'd 'neath this sacred dome the prurient flood + Of filth and venom, from that viper brood, + Which o'er the land hath spread its noisome stain, + While shudd'ring virtue weeps, but weeps in vain? + And (O shame's nauseous dregs!) did noble lips + Here taste that stream with epicurean sips? + And mitred heads, as o'er its scum they bent, + Snuff the rank steam, and chuckle at the scent?-- + My soul is sick!--I turn with sated ear, + And find a cordial in my brethren here. + Peers who their conscience to no market bring; + Respect themselves, their country, and their king: + Nor would round England's smiling hearths diffuse + The breath--the very atmosphere of stews. + O horrid! yes, I feel the blast impure, + Air no blessed spirit may unpained endure: + Yet leave I not without a warning voice: + Hear, and obey, and Britons shall rejoice! + + "You cannot, Lords! by votes create a crime, + Nor make your country's voice with falsehood chime:-- + You cannot quench, with all this flood of LIES, + A gallant people's glowing sympathies:-- + You cannot hide your idol God from them, + When prone you kiss its garment's nether hem:-- + You cannot waste their treasure on a cause, + That boldly violates their guardian laws; + And 'scape the arrows from their quiver hurl'd-- + The keen reproach, and hisses of the world. + You may cry 'GUILTY!' but the umpire land + Cancels the verdict with indignant hand, + Reveres the NOBLE MANY who uphold + The nation's dignity; nor brooks that gold, + Wrung hardly from her toiling sons, should pay + The Judas gang that would her rights betray. + Scorn meets THE FEW who, bought by pandering power, + Outvote the nation's voice in hapless hour. + O pause ere yet that fatal hour is seen!-- + Be counsell'd, Lords!--You cannot crush your Queen, + But by a blow that must, with blind intent, + Bruise THRONE and ALTAR in its dire descent! + + "O where, ye PRELATES! is your light withdrawn? + Where now the lustral influence of your lawn?[A] + Where the meek crosier, and the crook of fleece, + That guard the fold (not reckless of the peace)? + Is there no wolf in all your pastur'd plains? + No murrain rankling in your lambkins' veins? + No lurking thief, by whom they nightly bleed? + No arid spots refreshing streams that need? + O why, forgetful of your solemn call, + Sit ye, unmindful where the victims fall, + To _hire_ ONE SACRIFICE with cords be bound, + And your anointed hands inflict the wound? + O desecrated thus, by off'rings high + To demon passions!--Foul idolatry! + If such your rites, no LEVITE here I view, + But BAAL'S PRIESTS may leap and shout with you.[B] + O whither urge these bodings of my breast? + Let hope, let charity their flight arrest! + In Britain's SARDIS, surely some remain + Whose courtly robes yet bear no wilful stain! + PRINCES! and PEERS! once more on you I call-- + Save! save your tottering glory ere it fall! + If truth, if virtue, to your hearts be dear; + If sounds of sweet content you love to hear; + If generous sons, and daughters chaste, you prize, + And all a happy home's delightful ties; + If just gradation on the social scale + Be worth your care; if rank can aught avail: + If rev'rence for the altar and the throne, + Be yours, and GEORGE the lawful king, you own: + If rights your fathers were combin'd to save, + When Britain's sceptre to his race they gave, + Be justly claim'd, as justly claim'd they are + By every son that British mothers bear: + O save your names from hate, disgrace, and scorn, + HIST'RY'S bequest to ages yet unborn! + + "Ah! heard ye not your lion-genius roar, + And shake with mighty tread his ev'ry shore? + Deem not that roar in vain; for it hath found + Redoubl'd echoes all the realm around, + And generous hearts have rous'd them at the sound. + There is a spirit mightier far than yours-- + Magnanimous and mild, it much endures: + But urg'd too far, a giant's strength awakes, + And gyves and bonds at one fierce effort breaks. + O hear yet more! There is a GOD, whose eye + Pierces your counsels' darkest mystery; + Whose blessing England owns for countless years, + Whose vengeance now she deprecates with tears. + To HIM your Queen appeals, and at HIS bar, + Your names must mark the awful calendar; + There must the witness CONSCIENCE naked plead, + And guilty kings receive the culprit's meed. + O think on this! e'en now that witness own, + And save YOURSELVES, your COUNTRY, and your THRONE!"-- + + The vision ceas'd, and in a radiant cloud + Withdrew--The breathless senate rev'rent bow'd. + New vigour throbb'd in every patriot breast, + And nerveless horror sicken'd all the rest. + + THE END. + + +FOOTNOTES: + +[A] See the Earl of Chatham's animated speech against the employment +of Indian warriors to assist in the subjugation of America. + +[B] In this, as I conceive, seasonable reproof of certain "_Lords +Spiritual_" I would not be understood to involve the whole of that +reverend body. 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