They saw their wishes scorned-their hopes destroyed,

Each pledge* neglected, and each promise void.
They saw a perjured ****** desert their cause,

Unmoved by nature's, or by honour's laws:

They saw-O actions of a r-y-l life!
His friends + deserted—and abused his wife+-
So fell the early promise of his reign,

So died his fame, defiled by many a stain.
And he, in former days to F-x allied,

Now sinks to Y-th for his friend and guide;
And Gr-nv-le's friendship, ere he changed his life,
Descends to H-df-t, or perhaps to F-fe.
Misguided man-who, but must inly mourn,
His character so changed, defaced, and torn.

* When the Duke of B-df-d went to Ireland, as Lord Lieutenant, a verbal, if not a written pledge was given him by the ******, of his, the ******'s, intention of affording relief to the Catholics of that country, whenever he should have an opportunity of so doing.

+ Vide his transactions with the opp-s-t-n.

Vide the Book,

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No more the people's idol, and their choice;
No more the theme of every public voice;
No more his actions cause the loud acclaim

Of public praise to venerate his name :

Ceased all respect and love—and in their place

Disgust and hate appear in every

face;

And angry murmurs teach the royal ear,

E'en in a Palace+ walls to taste of fear;

And to his trembling breast this maxim shew"Virtue alone is happiness below."

* As was plainly shewn a short time ago, by the treatment this great personage received, or was very near receiving, on his way from Cn to B -m House.

†The disapprobation expressed by the large body of people who accompanied the address of the City of London to the P―ss of W -, on passing C—n H-se, excited so much terror in the mind of its r-1 possessor, that a detachment of cavalry was on that day placed in the front court of the Palace.

THE END.

ERRATUM

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Munday and Slatter, Printers, Oxford.

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