Another scene awaits his trembling sight, A gloom more awful, or a blaze more bright! The veil is rent, the Sceptic's hateful name Stands justly branded with contempt and shame; The Christian Banner is again unfurl'd, And TRUTH once more illumes a falling world. "So let me die in the delightful dream "And sweet delusion-of a world to come." DANIEL. As I am upon this subject, I cannot help noticing the many attempts that have of late been made to revive a spirit of infidelity in our own country, by the re-publication of " ECCE HOMO," "THE AGE OF REASON," and other blasphemous productions. I am a true friend to the liberty of the press, but when that liberty degenerates into open licentiousness, it is for the strong arm of the law to remedy the evil. P. All this is true-but still enough remains, Enough in conscience to provoke my strains. The newest style of rhetoric to teach, And full-grown gentlemen their parts of speech: * Mr. Thelwall continues "tuning his voice, and balancing his hands" at bis house in Lincoln's Inn Fields: " preacher at once, and Zany of the age." †This miserable object was formerly the Hero of a Forum, where a parcel of " Mendici, Mimi, Balatrones,” used to assemble to discuss the measures of government. It was a ludicrous sight to behold the Westminster Electors shaking hands with him the day he was liberated from Newgate. The Westminster Electors!" If I Rants, bounces, capers, a fantastic show! To scare the shilling orators below. Prolific PASQUIN plies th' eternal quill, FITZGERALD rhymes, and COBBETT* proses still; Hoarse CLIO RICKMAN'S† Sonnets bay the moon, CLIO, a poet, patriot, and buffoon. am not ashamed of my company, I am a soused Gurnet! There was but a shirt and a half in the whole regiment." * I am almost ashamed to mention this degraded man: the days of sedition are I hope now gone by: I shall therefore dismiss him with the following Epigram: Cobbett is free in act and thought, Deception he was never chid for : A Patriot, he was never bought, Or rather, he was never bid for. This man, whose person is perhaps better known than his writings, is a contributer of Odes and Sonnets to the Monthly Maga * GODWIN pursues his philosophic schemes, And rapt in trance, JOANNA SOUTHCOTT + dreams; JEFFREY turns Critic, but betrays his trust, And hot-prest LITTLE breathes the soul of lust; He zines. He is an avowed admirer of the New French School of Philosophy, and a staunch advocate for "The Rights of Man." parades the streets in a strange garb, to the no small entertainment of the mob, who, like Clio, are in general great sticklers for freedom. N. B. He has no passion for clean linen. * William Godwin, the Philosopher. + This wretched imposter is lately dead: her followers kept up the delusion until the last; and, strange to tell, many of them are waiting in full confidence of her second coming, when it seems all her predictions are to be fulfilled, I was much surprised to find Lord Ellenborough praising Mr. Moore's poetry at a late trial. After this, let us hear no more of indictments for publishing things "Contra bonos mores.” The While chaste MINERVA* kindly lends her aid To calm the scruples of each wishful maid. Lo, mad enthusiasts, would-be saints, stand forth, With furious zeal attack e'en SHAKSPEARE's famet, And hurl their pois'nous darts at GARBICK's name; Attorney-General too, with his usual facetiousness, complimented Mr. Twiss's Poetical talents. Mr. Horace Twiss a Poet!" O name it not in Gath!" * The Minerva Library in Leadenball-Street, a well-known re pository for dulness and obscenity. + The following Criticism is taken from the Third Volume of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, Part I. page 76.-Art. Twiss's Verbal Index of Shakspeare.' "He (i. e. Shakspeare) has been called, and justly too, the poet of nature; a slight acquaintance with the religion of the Bible will shew, however, that it is of human nature in its worst shape, deformed by the basest passions, and agitated by the most |