Chapter XVIII: Appendix: THE ANARCHISTS.—An Ode (3)

Thanet, Earl of, evidence of, at Maidstone, 290.

Theatre, 114–248–479.
See _Cambro Britons_, _Lovers’ Vows_, &c.

Thomas’s _Consequences of an English Invasion_, reviewed, 459;
sermon on public worship, 672.

Toasts, seditious, 69;
_standing_ of the Corresponding Society and Whig Club, 80.
_See_ Fox and the Duke of Norfolk.

Tooke, John Horne—_Diversions of Purley_ considered, 385;
political anecdotes of, _ib._;
literary merit ascertained, 386 (_see_ Henshall);
_Diversions of Purley_, reviewed, 655;
Portraits by (_see_ Pitt and Fox).

Turenne, different from Hoche, 32.

U.

_Underwald, Fall of_, reviewed, 663;
tyranny of the Directory, 664;
perfidy of, 665.

V.

Vaurien, review of, reviewed, 685;
merit as a satirical performance, _ib._;
exhibits the consequences of Godwin’s Political Justice, 686;
describes the various modes of seizing on property, 687.

Voltaire, observations of, concerning government, 9;
character, 360;
philosophy, religion, and morality of, 751;
life of, by Verney, 816.

Vultures, modern, 812.

W.

Wakefield, admonition to, 36;
Reply to the Bishop of Landaff, 72;
Letter to the Attorney General, 151;
scurrilous abuse of Mr. Pitt, 152;
asserts all human governments to be incorrigibly profligate, 154;
pretends to control legislature, magistracy, and administration, 155;
character and motives of, examined, 156;
letter of, to Mr. Wilberforce, 551.

Wansey, Letter of, to the Bishop of Salisbury, answered, 542;
deplorable malady of, 544.

War, causes of, the French doctrines and revolution, 27.

Whig Club tends to the subversion of the Constitution, 60 (_see_ Fox
and the Duke of Norfolk);
proceedings of, versified, 303;
Erskine’s speech at, 609.
_See_ Fox, Jacobinism, and Corresponding Society.

Whitbread, evidence of, at Maidstone, 290.

Williams, Helen Maria, Jacobinical principles of, 146;
patronizes the New Annual Register, 158.

Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Mary, Memoirs of, 94;
keeps her father in awe, _ib._;
lively fancy without knowledge and habits of reasoning, _ib._;
_so qualified_ becomes one of the _Analytical_ Reviewers, _ib._;
_undertakes_ to answer Burke, 95;
answer such as might have been expected, _ib._;
her constitution testified by her husband to have been _amorous_,
_ib._;
Rights of Woman characterised, _ib._;
her passions inflamed by celibacy, 96;
falls in love with a married man, _ib._;
at the breaking out of the war betakes herself to our enemies, _ib._;
intimate with the French leaders under Robespierre, 97;
with Thomas Paine, _ib._;
taken by Imlay into keeping, _ib._;
her husband declares that her soul had panted for that connection,
_ib._;
her doctrines, illustrated by her example, _not new_, _ib._;
_as old as prostitution_, _ib._;
proposes to elude her creditors, _ib._;
deserted by her keeper, _ib._;
derives particular gratification from Hamilton Rowan, _ib._;
pursues her keeper to England, _ib._;
her great aversion to this country, _ib._;
being without a lover attempts to drown herself, 98;
appointed kept mistress to the philosopher Godwin, _ib._;
married to the philosopher, _ib._;
does not believe in future punishments, 99;
from the time she became enlightened discontinued public worship,
_ib._;
her life illustrates Jacobin morality and religion, _ib._;
high praises of her life, doctrines, and conduct by the _Analytical_
Reviewers, 101;
prophetic apostrophe to her by them, 402.
_See_ Maria, Godwin, Prostitution, and _Analytical Review_.

THE END.

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Footnote 1:

On the subject of the respective authorship of the contributions to
_The Anti-Jacobin_, see _The Works of John Hookham Frere, in verse and
prose, with Prefatory Memoir. Edited by his Nephews, H. and Sir Bartle
Frere_, and _The Edinburgh Review_ for April, 1872, p. 476.

Footnote 2:

It will be remembered that these eminent persons were chosen by Lord
Malmesbury to accompany him on his mission to Lille and were
associated with him in the abortive negotiations for peace.

Footnote 3:

It is surprising that the satirist’s attention was not attracted to
the scene in _Stella_, in which one of the heroines describes the
rapid growth of her passion to its object: “I know not if you observed
that you had enchained my interest from the first moment of our first
meeting. I at least soon became aware that your eyes sought mine. Ah,
Fernando, then my uncle brought the music, you took your violin, and,
as you played, my eyes rested upon you free from care. I studied every
feature of your face; and, during an unexpected pause, you fixed your
eyes upon—upon me! They met mine! How I blushed, how I looked away!
You observed it, Fernando; for from that moment I felt that you looked
oftener over your music-book, often played out of tune, to the
disturbance of my uncle. Every false note, Fernando, went to my heart.
It was the sweetest confusion I ever felt in my life.”

Footnote 4:

The whole of this _jeu d’esprit_ has been claimed for FRERE, but on
unsatisfactory evidence. It is much more in CANNING’S way as a student
of oratory, which FRERE was not.

Footnote 5:

[See pages 32, 34.—ED.]

Footnote 6:

[A very eminent Mathematician and Physicist, and the inventor of
descriptive geometry; born in 1746. In 1792 he was appointed Minister
of Marine; and afterwards took an active part in the equipment of the
Army. After founding the _École Polytechnique_, he was sent into Italy
to receive the pictures and statues seized by Buonaparte. He then
joined the expedition to Egypt, and rendered great service both in the
war operations and in the labours of the _Egyptian Institute_, the
results of which were published by command of Napoleon in that
magnificent and extensive work the _Description de l’Égypte_. He died
in 1818.—ED.]

Footnote 7:

[Parodied from Payne Knight’s poem, “_The Progress of Civil Society_,”
which is admirably ridiculed in No. XV. _post_.—ED.]

Footnote 8:

[By SOUTHEY.—ED.]

Footnote 9:

[The original poem, by Southey, is here subjoined:—

THE WIDOW.

SAPPHICS.

Cold was the night wind; drifting fast the snows fell;
Wide were the downs, and shelterless and naked;
When a poor wand’rer struggled on her journey,
Weary and way-sore.

Drear were the downs, more dreary her reflections;
Cold was the night wind, colder was her bosom:
She had no home, the world was all before her,
She had no shelter.

Fast o’er the heath a chariot rattled by her:
“Pity me!” feebly cried the poor night wanderer.
“Pity me, strangers! lest with cold and hunger
Here I should perish.

“Once I had friends—but they have all forsook me!
Once I had parents—they are now in heaven!
I had a home once—I had once a husband—
Pity me, strangers!

“I had a home once—I had once a husband—
I am a widow, poor and broken-hearted!”
Loud blew the wind, unheard was her complaining;
On drove the chariot.

Then on the snow she laid her down to rest her;
She heard a horseman: “Pity me!” she groaned out.
Loud was the wind, unheard was her complaining;
On went the horseman.

Worn out with anguish, toil, and cold and hunger,
Down sunk the wanderer; sleep had seized her senses:
There did the traveller find her in the morning—
God had released her.]

1796.

Footnote 10:

[GEORGE TIERNEY, M.P. for Southwark, who in early times was among the
more forward of the Reformers. “He was,” says Lord Brougham, “an
assiduous member of the _Society of Friends of the People_, and drew
up the much and justly celebrated Petition in which that useful body
laid before the House of Commons all the more striking particulars of
its defective title to the office of representing the people, which
that House then, as now, but with far less reason, assumed.”
Notwithstanding the above severe verses, Tierney served under Canning
as Master of the Mint, during the latter’s short administration in
1827.—ED.]

Footnote 11:

[In Feb., 1797, about 1400 Frenchmen landed at Pembroke, but
surrendered without resistance to the country people, whom Lord CAWDOR
(who had been elevated to the Peerage in the preceding year) had armed
with scythes and pitchforks. He was succeeded by his elder son, who
was created Earl Cawdor in 1827, and died 1860.—ED.]

Footnote 12:

[This account will be found on p. 32, _et seq._—ED.]

Footnote 13:

See proclamation of the Directory.

Footnote 14:

The “_too long calumniated_ author of the _Rights of Man_”.—See a Sir
Something Burdett’s speech at the Shakspeare, as referred to in the
_Courier_ of Nov. 30.

Footnote 15:

The Guillotine at Arras was, as is well known to every Jacobin,
painted “_Couleur de Rose_”.

Footnote 16:

See _Weekly Examiner_, No. 11. Extract from the _Courier_.

Footnote 17:

_La petite Fenétre_, and _la Razoire Nationale_, fondling expressions
applied to the Guillotine by the Jacobins in France, and their pupils
here.

Footnote 18:

[The original poem is here subjoined:—

THE SOLDIER’S WIFE.

DACTYLICS.

Weary way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart,
Travelling painfully over the rugged road;
Wild-visaged wanderer! Ah! for thy heavy chance.

Sorely thy little ones drag by thee barefooted,
Cold is the baby that hangs at thy bending back—
Meagre and livid, and screaming its wretchedness.

Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony,
As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe,
Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy haggard face.

Thy husband will never return from the war again;
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity—
Cold are thy famished babes—God help thee, widowed one!]

1795.

Footnote 19:

[“Walked to the Old Bailey to see DAVID ISAAC EATON in the pillory.
The mob was decidedly friendly to him. His having published PAINE’S
_Age of Reason_ was not an intelligible offence to them.”—_Crabb
Robinson’s Diary_, i. 386.

The Proclamation against _Seditious Writings_, however, was supported
by some influential Whigs. “PITT had previously sent copies of it to
several members of the Opposition in both Houses, requesting their
advice,” says Lord Malmesbury. Whether PITT desired it or not, no
measure could have been more effectual for dividing the Whig
party.—ED.]

Footnote 20:

[See p. 38.—ED.]

Footnote 21:

My worthy friend the bellman had promised to supply an additional
stanza; but the business of assisting the lamplighter,
chimney-sweeper, &c., with complimentary verses for their worthy
masters and mistresses, pressing on him at this season, he was obliged
to decline it. [A quiz at the third stanza, which was contributed by
COLERIDGE.—ED.]

Footnote 22:

[Thomas Dyche was a clergyman, and kept a school at Stratford-le-Bow.
He was the author of an English dictionary, a spelling-book, a Latin
vocabulary, &c. He died about 1750. Thomas Dilworth, whose educational
works were long popular, was for some time his assistant, and then set
up a school for himself at Wapping. He died in 1781.—ED.]

Footnote 23:

[_and_ should have been omitted.—ED.]

Footnote 24:

[The Latin Verses, much admired at the time, were written by the
Marquis WELLESLEY at Walmer Castle, in 1797, at the desire of PITT,
and were published after the author’s departure for India, in the
_Anti-Jacobin_. The beautiful translation of them was by Lord MORPETH,
afterwards sixth Earl of CARLISLE, whose mother was the daughter of
GRANVILLE LEVESON GOWER, first Marquis of STAFFORD. He died in 1848.]

Footnote 25:

The original poem as translated, or rather paraphrased, by Prof. J. D.
Carlyle, is here subjoined:—

THE CHOICE.

Sabla! thou saw’st th’ exulting foe
In fancied triumphs crown’d:
Thou heard’st their frantic females throw
These galling taunts around:

“Make now YOUR CHOICE—the terms we give,
Desponding victims, hear!
These fetters on your _hands_ receive,
Or in your _hearts_ the spear.”

“And is the conflict o’er,” we cried,
And lie we at your feet,
“And dare you vauntingly decide
The fortune we must meet?

“A brighter day we soon shall see,
Tho’ now the prospect lowers,
And Conquest, Peace, and Liberty
Shall gild our future hours.”

The foe advanc’d—in firm array
We rush’d o’er SABLA’S sands,
And the red sabre mark’d our way
Amidst their yielding bands.

Then as they writh’d in death’s cold grasp,
We cried, “OUR CHOICE is made!
These _hands_ the sabre’s hilt shall clasp,
Your _hearts_ shall have the blade!”

As Carlyle’s version is although a spirited not a faithful one, the
Editor is induced to present a literal translation, from _Translations
of Ancient Arabian Poetry, by C. J. Lyall_, 1885, 8vo., p. 10. The
contest was not a battle but one of the frequent skirmishes between
neighbouring clans. _Sabla_ is Carlyle’s rendering of _Sahbal a Wady_,
in Arabia, overlooked by twin peaks.

Footnote 26:

[W. H. Ireland, the Shakespeare forger.—ED.]

Footnote 27:

[The above ballad refers to an attempt by FRANCIS, fifth DUKE OF
BEDFORD, to escape the payment of the Assessed Taxes upon twenty-five
of his servants, on the plea that as the Helpers did not wear a
Livery, and were engaged by the week, they were not liable to the
duty. This defence was, however, unsuccessful.—ED.]

Footnote 28:

_Twaie coneynge Clerks._—_Coneynge_ is the participle of the verb to
_ken_ or _know_. It by no means imports what we now denominate a
_knowing one_: on the contrary, _twaie coneynge clerks_ means _two
intelligent and disinterested clergymen_.

Footnote 29:

_Seely_ is evidently the original of the modern word _silly_. A _seely
wight_, however, by no means imports what is now called a _silly
fellow_, but means a man of simplicity of character, devoid of all
_vanity_, and of any strange, ill-conducted ambition, which, if
successful, would immediately be fatal to the man who indulged it.

Footnote 30:

_Good advisament_ means—_cool consideration_.

Footnote 31:

[FRANCIS, fifth DUKE OF BEDFORD, died after a severe surgical
operation, March 2, 1802, at the early age of thirty-six. “The Duke of
Bedford’s energetic and capacious mind,” says Lord Ossory, “his
enlarged way of thinking, and elevated sentiments, together with the
habits and pursuits of his life, peculiarly qualified him for his high
station and princely fortune. He was superior to bad education and
disadvantages for forming his character, and turned out certainly a
first-rate man, though not free from imperfections. His uprightness
and truth were unequalled; his magnanimity, fortitude and
consideration, in his last moments, taken so unprepared as he was,
were astonishing.”

On the 16th March, C. J. Fox, in moving for a new writ for the borough
of Tavistock, vacated by Lord John Russell, who had succeeded to the
titles and estates of his deceased brother, took occasion to pronounce
a beautiful and glowing eulogium on his departed friend and firm
supporter.—ED.]

Footnote 32:

[The _Anti-Jacobin_ (in No. 8) thus speaks of the threatened invasion
of this country, for which “they have publicly formed, and (as they
term it) _organized_ their ARMY OF ENGLAND. Its Advanced Guard is to
be formed from a chosen Corps of Banditti, the most distinguished for
Massacre and Plunder. It is to be preceded, as it naturally ought, by
_the Genius of French Revolutionary Liberty_, and it will be
_welcomed_, as they tell us, ‘on the _ensanguined_ shores of Britain,
by the generous friends of Parliamentary Reform’. In the interval,
however, till these golden dreams are realized, it is necessary that
this ‘_Army of England_,’ while it yet remains in France, should be
fed, paid, and clothed. For this purpose a new and separate fund is
provided (in the same spirit with the rest of their measures), and is
to be termed ‘THE LOAN OF ENGLAND,’ to be raised by anticipation on
the security and mortgage of all the Lands and Property of this
Country. This _gasconade_, which sounds too extravagant for reality,
is nevertheless seriously announced by a message from the Executive
Directory; and we are told that the Merchants of Paris are eagerly
offering to advance, on such a security, the money which is to defray
the expenses of the Expedition against this country.”—ED.]

Footnote 33:

[The above verses refer to the memorable events of the 18th Fructidor,
Sept. 4, 1797 (the model of Prince Louis Napoléon’s _coup d’état_,
Dec. 2, 1851), when Rewbell, Barras, and Laréveillère-Lepaux, on the
plea that the Republic was in danger, got rid of their
fellow-directors, Carnot (grandfather to the present President of the
French Republic) and Barthélemy, who were replaced by Merlin and
François de Neufchateau, dispersed by military force the members of
the Five Hundred and the Ancients, fifty-three of whom were condemned
to transportation—banished the editors, &c., of forty-two
newspapers—annulled the elections of forty-eight departments—and
effected other arbitrary measures without opposition. The springs of
the movement were throughout directed by Buonaparte, seconded by Hoche
and Augereau. This event was the true era of the commencement of
military despotism in France. But THIERS considers “the Directory by
these means prevented civil war, and substituted an arbitrary but
necessary act of power, carried out with energy, but with all the
mildness and moderation that revolutionary times would allow”.—ED.]

Footnote 34:

[Alluding to the National Thanksgiving for the three great naval
victories achieved by Lords Howe, St. Vincent, and Duncan. On this
occasion the King and Queen, with their family, the Houses of Lords
and Commons, &c., went in procession to St. Paul’s, where Divine
Service was performed. The Government Papers attributed to the
Opposition Press a desire to throw discredit on this proceeding. “The
consequence of the Procession to St. Paul’s” (says the _Morning Post_,
of Dec. 25) “was, that _one_ man returned thanks to the Almighty, and
_one_ woman was _kicked_ TO DEATH.”—ED.]

Footnote 35:

[Mary Frampton, in her journal (Dec. 20, 1797), gives a lively account
of the King’s attendance at St. Paul’s for Duncan’s Victory on the
11th Oct. “The King,” she says, “stopped under the dome, and conversed
for some time with Lord Duncan and the sailors; and, to the great
scandal of good church-goers, did not hold his tongue for any
considerable time together during the service.... Pitt was attacked at
Temple Bar by three ruffians, who rushed from the mob and seized upon
the door of his carriage undoubtedly with an intent to drag him out,
but three of the Light Horse Volunteers rode up, and backing their
horses against them, sent them head over heels to the place from
whence they came, rather faster than they ventured out.” Page 99.—ED.]

Footnote 36:

[PRINCE TALLEYRAND.—ED.]

Footnote 37:

GENERAL DANICAN, in his Memoirs, tells us, that while he was in
command, a felon, who had assumed the name of Brutus, chief of a
revolutionary tribunal at Rennes, said to his colleagues, on Good
Friday, “Brothers, we must put to death this day, at the same hour the
counter-revolutionist Christ died, that young devotee who was lately
arrested”: and this young lady was guillotined accordingly, and her
corpse treated with _every possible species of indecent insult_, to
the infinite amusement of a vast multitude of spectators.

Footnote 38:

The reader will find in the works of PETER PORCUPINE [W. COBBETT] (a
spirited and instructive writer) an ample and satisfactory commentary
on this and the following stanza. The French themselves inform us,
that by the several modes of destruction here alluded to, upwards of
30,000 persons were butchered at Lyons, and this once magnificent city
almost levelled to the ground, by the command of a wretched actor
(COLLOT D’HERBOIS), whom they had formerly hissed from the stage. From
the same authorities we learn, that at Nantz 27,000 persons, of both
sexes, were murdered; chiefly by drowning them in plugged boats. The
waters of the Loire became putrid, and were forbidden to be drunk, by
the savages who conducted the massacre:—that at Paris 150,000, and in
La Vendée 300,000 persons were destroyed.—Upon the whole, the French
themselves acknowledge, that TWO MILLIONS of human beings (exclusive
of the military) have been sacrificed to the principles of EQUALITY
and the RIGHTS OF MAN: 250,000 of these are stated to be WOMEN, and
30,000 CHILDREN. In this last number, however, they do not include the
unborn; nor those who started from the bodies of their agonizing
parents, and were stuck upon the bayonets of those very men who are
now to compose the “ARMY OF ENGLAND,” amidst the most savage
acclamations.

[At the beginning of the revolution, some companies of children,
called _Bonsbons_, were dressed and drilled as National Guards, as a
compliment to the Dauphin, who to please the Parisians sometimes
donned that uniform. Similar companies were afterwards formed in
Brittany, and employed to shoot those poor wretches whom the two
guillotines could not dispatch in sufficient numbers!—_Biog. Univ._,
art. _St. André_.—ED.]

Footnote 39:

At Lyons, JABOGUES, the _second_ murderer (the Actor being the
_first_), in his speech to the Democratic Society, used these
words—“Down with the edifices raised for the profit or the pleasure of
the rich; down with them ALL. COMMERCE and ARTS are useless to a
warlike people, and are the destruction of that SUBLIME EQUALITY which
France is determined to spread over the globe.” Such are the
consequences of RADICAL REFORM! Let any merchant, farmer, or landlord;
let any husband or father consider this, and then say, “_Shall we or
shall we not contribute a moderate sum_, IN PROPORTION TO OUR ANNUAL
EXPENDITURE, _for the purpose of preserving ourselves from the fate of
Lyons, La Vendée, and Nantz?_”

STYPTIC.

Footnote 40:

[Probably written by the Rt. Hon. John Courtnay.]

Footnote 41:

Line 10.—[One of the distinguishing features of the “ANTI-JACOBIN”
was their articles devoted to an exposure of the “Lies,
Misrepresentations, and Mistakes” of the Opposition Press.—ED.]

Footnote 42:

Line 23.—[George Hammond, at this time Canning’s colleague as
Under-Secretary of State; the latter being succeeded by John Hookham
Frere.—ED.]

Footnote 43:

Line 30.—[Lord Morpeth, son of the (fifth) Earl of Carlisle who was
satirized by Byron in “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”.—ED.]

Footnote 44:

Line 32.—[George Granville Leveson Gower, eldest son of the first
Marquis of Stafford, born in 1758, became second Marquis in 1803, and
created Duke of Sutherland in 1833. He was one of Canning’s intimate
college companions.—ED.]

Footnote 45:

Line 41.—[James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury, one of the most
distinguished of English diplomatists. His “Diaries and
Correspondence,” published by his grandson, the third Earl, throw much
light on the transactions of the eventful period to which they
refer.—ED.]

Footnote 46:

Line 42.—[George Ellis, the accomplished editor of the “Specimens of
the Early English Poets, and of Early English Metrical Romances,” &c.
In early life he contributed to the _Rolliad_, being the author of
Nos. 1 and 2, in Part I., and Nos. 1 and 2, in Part II. Of the
_Political Eclogues_ he wrote the one entitled “Charles Jenkinson”. In
the _Probationary Odes_, he wrote No. II. “Ode on the New Year, by
Lord Mulgrave,” and No. XX. “Irregular Ode for the King’s Birth Day,
by Sir G. Howard”. Afterwards, however, he became much attached to
Pitt, and acted as Secretary to Lord Malmesbury during his
unsuccessful negotiations with the French for peace, at Lisle, 1797.
Horace Walpole thus alludes to him, in a letter of 24th June, 1783:
“English people are in fashion at Versailles. A Mr. Ellis, who wrote
some pretty verses at Bath two or three years ago, is a favourite
there.” Sir Walter Scott addressed to him Canto V. of “Marmion”. He
died in 1815, aged 70.—ED.]

Footnote 47:

Line 71.—[The Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas (afterwards created Viscount
Melville), in the Commons, and Lord Grenville in the Lords, were
Pitt’s most efficient supporters.—ED.]

Footnote 48:

Line 16.—[Brookes’s Club was the grand rendezvous of the Whigs.—ED.]

Footnote 49:

Line 17.—[JAS. HARE was M.P. for Knaresborough, and one of the most
brilliant wits of the Whig Party. At Eton his verses were hung up as
specimens of excellence. Great expectations were raised as to his
eloquence in the House of Commons. But his timidity was so great that
he broke down in his first speech, and this failure, joined with
delicate health, prevented a second attempt. Horace Walpole speaks of
his “brilliancy and fire,” and of his own inferiority to him. His
_bons mots_ were innumerable. He died in 1804. The following is Lord
Ossory’s opinion of the social talents of some of the best talkers of
his day:—“Horace Walpole was an agreeable, lively man, very affected,
always aiming at wit, in which he fell very short of his old friend,
GEORGE SELWYN, who possessed it in the most genuine but indescribable
degree. HARE’S conversation abounded with wit, and perhaps of a more
lively kind; so did BURKE’S, though with much alloy of bad taste; but,
upon the whole, my brother the General [FITZPATRICK] was the most
agreeable man in society of any of them.”—MS., R. Vernon Smith.—ED.]

Footnote 50:

Line 19.—[General FITZPATRICK was one of Fox’s most attached friends
and political supporters. BOSWELL, speaking of a dinner at
BEAUCLERK’S, 24th April, 1779, says, on a celebrated wit being
mentioned (believed to be Fitzpatrick), “JOHNSON replied, ‘I have been
several times in company with him, but never perceived any strong
power of wit. He produces a general effect by various means; he has a
cheerful countenance and a gay voice. Besides his trade is wit. It
would be as wild in him to come into company without merriment, as for
a highwayman to take the road without his pistols.’” WALPOLE (in his
_Journal of the Reign of George III._, i. 167, and ii. 560) describes
him as “an agreeable young man of parts,” and mentions his “genteel
irony and badinage”. He was Lord Shelburne’s brother-in-law, at whose
house Johnson might have met him, as well as in Fox’s company. Rogers
(_Table Talk_, p. 104) said that Fitzpatrick was at one time nearly as
famous for his wit as Hare. He possessed no mean poetic talents,
particularly for compositions of wit, fancy, and satire. To the
_Rolliad_ he contributed “Extract from the Dedication”; Nos. v., ix.
and xii., in Part I.; and No. v. in Part II. In the _Political
Eclogues_, he wrote “The Liars”; and “Pindaric Ode” (No. xv.)—also,
“Incantation for raising a Phantom, imitated from Macbeth,” in the
_Political Miscellanies_.

GENERAL RICHARD FITZPATRICK’S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF.

“MY OWN EPITAPH.

“Whose turn is next? This monitory Stone
Replies, vain Passenger, perhaps thy own.
If, idly curious, thou wilt seek to know
Whose relics mingle with the dust below,
Enough to tell thee, that his destin’d span
On Earth he dwelt,—and, like thyself, a Man.
Nor distant far th’ inevitable day
When thou, poor mortal, shalt like him be clay.
Through life he walk’d unemulous of fame,
Nor wish’d beyond it to preserve a name.
Content, if Friendship, o’er his humble bier,
Drop but the heartfelt tribute of a tear;
Though countless ages should unconscious glide,
Nor learn that ever he had liv’d, or died.
“R. F.”

Such is the epitaph placed on a stone sarcophagus in the usual form,
in the churchyard at Sunninghill, close to the house where Gen.
Fitzpatrick’s friend, G. Ellis, died.—Nichols, _Lit. Illustr._, vol.
vii., pp. 633–4.—ED.]

Footnote 51:

Line 19.—[Lord JOHN TOWNSHEND, the second son of the first Marquis
Townshend. He represented Cambridge till ousted by PITT at the general
election in 1784. In 1788 he became the colleague of FOX for
Westminster. He afterwards represented Knaresborough for twenty-five
years: his colleague in 1797 was HARE. He had great powers of wit and
satire. In the _Political Eclogues_ (subjoined to _The Rolliad_), he
wrote the one entitled “Jekyll”. To the _Probationary Odes for the
Laureatship_ he contributed No. xii., in ridicule of Warren Hastings’s
agent, Major John Scott, M.P. Also, the “Dialogue between a certain
personage and his Minister,” in imitation of the Ninth Ode of Horace,