EPIGRAMS, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BERNE BEAR *. Μι [From the same, Dec. 27.] I. INISTERS do not like my Bear at all; [From the same, Dec. 29.J EPIGRAM THE SECOND. CRIES Perceval, when Eldon wish'd to learn EPIGRAM THE THIRD. THIS Bear perhaps has point, but what defence EPIGRAM THE FOURTH. "Aн me!" says Camden," but for our division *See p. 82. † The Noble Earl, to whom this couplet alludes, must pardon the Author for not having been able to hitch the Irish title which his Lordship bears into the Epigram. ARPIGRAM EPIGRAM ON OUR BUNCH OF NEW KINGS. [From the British Press, Dec. 29.] ASPIRING Faction mounts so high, ANTI-JUNTA. ON THE MARRIAGE OF A GENTLEMAN WITH THE WIDOW "GHOST :" AN EPIGRAM. ་ WHAT a desperate fellow!" the neighbours all say, "No ghost do I fear," cries the spouse, "while 't is light, And the Parson permits me to lay it by night." "To marry a Ghost, that will haunt you each day." BREVIS. HINDUSTANI lore. [From the same, Dec. 26 ] TRANSLATION OF MUTANABI'S ODE ON HIS SWORD. BY MIRZA-COZIM-ALI-JAWN, Who has successfully infused into the Urdh Dialect all the Boldness and Spirit of the Original. Addressed to a certain fighting General of Challenge Notoriety t. ODDS bullets and brains, General, what a Pistol of a fellow is this bloody-minded Arabian Poet Mutanabi!—Wide-Nostrils, the Swallower of Windmills, * See Lord Moira's speech in the British Press of Dec. 28. was was a Miss-Molly to him! his very looks would rout one of our modern armies; and with that cut and thrust sword of his, sheathed in his eyelids, I believe even our London Militia, with Sir John Eamer at their head, would look a little blue-a scowl would make them ground arms— "With such a furious tempest on his brows, As if the world's four winds were pent within With all his vagaries he is a fellow of spunk, and, making allowance for his Verba Tragica, "confusion, horror, guts, and death," he sings in as martial a style of pleasing apostrophe as any military bard of. my acquaintance; in fact, I feel a little inspired my-self on the occasion, and cannot resist to desire to try an imitation. Yours, &c. PADDY WHACK. ARRAH! Sweet-lips, my jewel, so burnish'd and nice, The temper of a sword. No THE THREE-TAIL BASHAW, &c.. No drop of blood sticks to your keen-cutting edge; But for splitting of heads, necks, and ribs, at a blow; 93. THE THREE-TAIL BASHAW AND DOUBLETAIL RAT. [From the Morning Chronicle, Dec. 31.] TO Mithra's setting, Mithra's orient ray, Tribes of the East their pious homage pay- Pious, yet prudent-Lo! our Eastern Lord A bag filled with water; a liquor not at all to my taste. The Arabian Poet has chosen the thought from the original Irish Feast What stabs and what cuts, What chatt'ring of sticks, What cudgels of oak Well harden'd in flame, Το |