"But never let our charge affright "Folks who can pay a bill at sight, "Nor tremble in a vain belief "We scent your herrings and smok'd beef; By Him on high, whose kingdom stood "As long as France thought fit it should; *The French entered this unfortunate country (Belgium) under repeated and solemn promises of Protection and Freedom.-No sooner had they obtained possession, than they put every article of property, which could be of use to their armies, into requisition, and compelled the people to receive payment in depreciated assignats AT PAR; levied immense contributions; ordered measures to be taken to compel the people to exchange their money for assignats AT PAR; placed the country under the government of military commissioners, &c. &c.—and, having THUS afforded "LIBERTY AND PRO"TECTION" to the Belgians, having thus 66 BROKEN THEIR 66 CHAINS," &c they proceeded to seize and confiscate for their own use, the whole property of the clergy in Belgium, to the amount of more than two hundred and fifty millions of dollars. Harpur's Observations, p. 51. "Or Him below, th' infernal blade, "Whom we've outdone at his own trade "Or we the Veidam oaths a score on "Shall pledge herself in solemn pact "We'll be th' assertors and defendants- They felt a load of obligation, * The Hollanders have been so happy as to experience the warmth of French affection, wound up to its highest pitch, which exactly resembles the insatiable ardours of the wonderful Stallion, of whom it is related, that he always endeavoured to devour the Mares which had admitted of his caresses. See the account of King Michrage's Mares, from the World Underground.-Sinbad the Sailor.-Arab. Nights. Whose weight they could not well express, And merrily toss'd off their rummers— "As you ne'er strove to keep us out, "We'll grant you are wise men and stout; "Expect, in lieu, from us true Trojans, "Shall own performance has outrun "Have left your heads upon your shoulders! "This, from OUR REFORMADO-RACE, "Account no common mark of grace.— "We swore we would forbear to seize "Your Property.-Then keep your fleas : "And from your marshes, fens, and bogs, ""Though French-men, we'll not filch your frogs, "But gratis be content to cut on "Sirloins of beef, prime veal and mutton. "And deem not we infringe our oath in To furbish up our tatter'd rogues : "Nor growl, tho' stripp'd from snout to great-toe, "As naked as a par'd potatoe: "What if your dinners, shirts, and shoes-Sirs, "We borrow,-You can be no losers, "Since WE FRATERNITY Commute "For meat and drink and clothes to boot, "And, generating Reformation "By fundamental denudation, "Make Dutchmen, on whose spoils we've fatten'd, "What this end loses gain at that end; "And, from incumbrance freed below decks, "Sansculottize both SouL and Podex, * "Like those of CLOOTZ, a precious pair, 66 Stripp'd sympathetically bare; ""Till ev'ry Frenchified-Mynheer "Shall emulate THAT BRITISH PEER, "Who, 'midst th' Aristocratic corps, Abjured the breeches that he wore : ‡ "Dismantling his lean § Lodge of Honour "To class with Citizen O'CONNOR. "You've a rare bargain, Sirs! In th' end on 't, "We vow'd to make you Independent- * "MON AME EST SANS-CULOTTES," said Jean Baptiste, alias Anacharsis, Clootz, the ingrafter of spiritual upon carnal Sansculottism: whom, during the paroxisms of his Skeleaphobia,-when he was untrowsered to the very soul of himRobespierre judiciously arrested, and sent him down bare breech'd "To Pedant Rhadamanthus, in posture to be switch'd." See Second Part of St. George and the Dragon. +Gymnosophists-a name given by the Greeks to certain bare-bottomed Philosophers of Antiquity, many of whose peculiar tenets are cherished among the Bramins of the East. Earl Stanhope, who avowed himself a SANS-CULOTTE in the British House of Lords. § The place where Honour 's lodg'd.—Butler. |