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If such, great Lord, in youth your daring deed,
As years encrease, still may your arts succeed;

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Continue still your Sovereign's steps to tread,
A halter's glories circling round your head;
Till when at last declines your setting sun,

The gibbet closes what the turf begun.

Shall worn-out

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To lawyers still, and once to strumpets dear-
His mighty mind no shame has e'er opprest,
No sense of honour ever warm'd his breast;
From youth to age, his calculating soul

No love, save that of lucre, could controul ;

He always follows, where his interest leads;

Nor minds the means †, provided he succeeds.

* It is impossible for Lord ******* to take a better model for his conduct at Newmarket, than that of his r—

-y-l master; and

by so doing, it is most devoutly to be wished, he may meet with a like reward.

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"If not-by any means get wealth and place,"

Says Pope, and most religiously has this noble Lord followed the

maxim.

Money he seeks, however mean the task,

And pays informers, though they come en masque.

*********** all hail! great master of the law,

In

every will prepared to find a flaw;

To ground on error many a specious claim,

And gain in Chancery Courts a damning fame.

What though no more the Pharoah bank † you keep,

No more with dexterous skill the table sweep;

Though fixed disease has made

your

fame its prey,

And Satan almost bears his prize away;
True to your life, consistent in your end,

To rob the helpless still your arts extend.

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* It has been confidently reported that Lord ****** *** ceived the first intelligence of the error in the will of Lord Orf-rd, on which he has grounded his claim to Lord Clinton's estate, from a wretch, who came to him in a mask; and who, for this piece of villainy, is to receive a certain portion of the noble Lord's gains.

+ Lord ***********, as it is well-known, began life a distressed man. By various means, some of them, perhaps, not quite consistent with the honour and dignity of a British Peer, he has acquired a princely fortune; but not yet content, he still grasps for more:-"Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit."

Your frauds your varied villainies remain1;
No fear of death subdues the love of gain.
The catalogue of crimes prepared to swell,
As injured Cl-nt-n* knows, alas, too well.
By every wise, by every good man scorned,
With no redeeming virtue e'er adorned.

*********** farewell-be this your well-earned lot, Through life detested, and in death forgot.

To sing of Courts, unworthy were the muse That could at ********'s† name a line refuse: The "Massy Marquis," he whose tainted fame Excites in every breast contempt and shame :

* The whole of this transaction, in which the conduct of the noble E―rl has been as disgraceful as that of the other plaintiff has been honourable, is so well known to the world, that I will not dilate upon it. It has completed that degradation of character, at which this Nobleman has been aiming during his whole life, and rendered him in every way contemptible.

†This Lord is so insignificant in every way, that he would not have been mentioned here, had not the intention of this poem been to" make bad men better, or at least ashamed!"

A ruined Lord-a worn-out debauchee,
In whom the last remains of vice we see ;
Of health and fortune both alike bereft,
The power to sin-but not the wish has left.
But happy still, since even on the throne
He finds a soul congenial* to his own;
And though by all avoided and despised,

Still by the Rt are his merits prized.

And happier far, since yet he finds a friend

Prepared his favorite vices to defend ;

Who from the bench, with courtly learning fraught,

Declares adultery "a venial † fault ;”

Dares from disgrace each profligate to save,
The censures of the world resolved to brave:

*The old proverb of "Like master, like man" is very appli cable in the present instance. The points of similitude between this par nobile fratrum, are so obvious, that the reader shall be left to form his own comparison.

+ Vide the CJ's charge on the trial of the two Hunts, editors of the Examiner.

The noble J's excessive leniency to offenders in love, of

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With many an oath * perverts the ancient law,
Far other judge than England ever saw.

For some low office sure by fate designed,
And gifted with a vulgar grovelling mind ;
But cast by chance on Princes to attend,
And doomed to act the base obsequious friend.
A flatterer mean, with petty cunning fraught;
Vicious in act, and profligate in thought;
Next in the list of Courtiers **** behold,
Proud of his rank, yet prouder of his gold;
Who strives by various means his end to gain;
He seeks a Peerage-but he seeks in vain.

all descriptions, is not to be wondered at, as it is well known that in his youth

"A gallant free,

"A lusty reveller was he!"

* This noble Lord's constant custom of blaspheming is well known. He is the solitary instance of an individual, who in the upper House of Parliament, has ventured to decorate his orations with those varied expletives and effusions of speech, which are generally confined to the precincts of Billingsgate.

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