ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES JENKINSON, on his being created LORD HAWKESBURY.

Quem vimm aut heroa lyra vel acri
Tibia sumes celebrare, Clio?
Quem Deum? Cujus recinet jocosa
Nomen imago? HOR.

JENKY, for you I’ll wake the lyre,
Tho’ not with Laureat WARTONS fire,
Your hard-won meed to grace:
Gay was your air, your visage blythe,
Unless when FOX has made you writhe,
With tortur’d MARSYAS’ face.

No more you’ll dread such pointed sneer,
But safely skulk amidst your Peers,
And slavish doctrines spread;
As some ill-omen’d baneful yew
That sheds around a poisonous dew,
And shakes its rueful head.

Your frozen heart ne’er learn’d to glow
At other’s good, nor melt at woe;
Your very roof is chilling:
There Bounty never spreads her ray;
You e’en shut out the light of day[1],
To save a paltry shilling,

A Prince, by servile knaves addrest,
Ne’er takes a DEMPSTER to his breast,
JACK ROB’SON serves his ends;
Unrivall’d stood the treach’rous name,
Till envious EDEN urg’d his claim,
While both betray their friends.

On whom devolves your back-stairs cloak,
When, prophet-like, “you mount as smoke[2]?”
Must little POWNEY catch it?
But as ’tis rather worse for wear,
Let mighty BUCKS take special care
To brush it well and patch it.

While o’er his loyal breast so true,
Great G—— expands the riband blue,
There—Honour’s star will shine:
As RAWDON was bold RICHMOND’s Squire,
To install a Knight so full of fire
—Let ASTON, BUCKS, be thine.

JENKY, pursue Ambition’s task,
The King will give whate’er you ask,
Nor heed the frowns of PITT;
Tho’ proud, he’ll truckle to disgrace,
By feudal meanness keep his place[3],
And turn the royal spit.

With saintly HILL divide your glory[4],
No true King’s friend, on such a Tory
The peerage door will shut;
Canting, he’ll serve both Church and Throne,
And make the Reverend Bench your own,
By piety and smut.

BANKS at his side, demure and sly,
Will aptly tell a specious lye,
Then speed the royal summons:
He’s no raw novice in the trade,
His honour’s now a batter’d jade—
PITT flung it to the Commons.

While THURLOW damns these cold delays,
Mysterious diamonds vainly blaze,
The impending vote to check;
K.B. and Peer, let HASTINGS shine,
IMPEY, with pride, will closely twine
The collar round his neck.

Ennobling thus the mean and base,
Our gracious S————’s art we trace,
Assail’d by factions bold;
So prest, great FREDERICK rose in fame,
On pots de chambre stamp’d his name[5],
And pewter pass’d for gold.

Should restive SYDNEY keep the seal,
JENKY, still shew official zeal,
Your friend, your master, charm;
Revive an ANGLO-SAXON place[6],
Let GEORGE’s feet your bosom grace,
Your love will keep them warm.

[1] Mr. JENKINSON exhibited a laudable example of political oeconomy, by shutting up several of his windows at his seat near Croydon, on the passing of the Commutation Act. His Majesty’s bon mot on this occasion should not be forgot. “What! what! (said the Royal Jester) do my subjects complain of?—JENKY tells me he does not pay as much to the Window Tax as he did before. Why then don’t my people do like JENKY?”

[2] A beautiful oriental allusion, borrowed from Mr. HASTINGS’s Ode,
“And care, like smoke, in turbid wreathes,
Round the gay ceiling flies.”

[3] FINCHFIELD.—Co. ESSEX.——JOHN CAMPES held this manor of King EDWARD III. by the service of turning the spit at his coronation. Camden’s Britannia—article Essex.

[4] The King magnanimously refused to create either Sir RICHARD HILL, or Mr. BANKS, Peers, that the singular honour bestowed solely by his Majesty might be more conspicuous, and that Mr. PITT’s humiliation might no longer be problematic. Sir RICHARD had composed a beautiful sacred cantata on the occasion, dedicated to his brother, the Rev. ROWLAND HILL. The first stanza alludes, by an apt quotation from the 68th Psalm, to the elevation and dignities of the family: “Why hop so high, ye little H_I_LLS?” With joy, the Lord’s anointed f_i_lls; Let’s pray with one accord! In sleepless visions of the night, NORTH’s cheek I smote with all my might, For which I’m made a Lord, &c. &c.

[5] The King of PRUSSIA replenished his exhausted treasury in the war of 1756, by a coinage of pewter ducats.

[6] “Besides the twenty-four officer above described, there were eleven others of considerable value in the courts of the ancient Princes, the most remarkable of which was, that of the King’s feet-bearer; this was a young gentleman, whose duty it was to sit on the floor, with his back towards the fire, and hold the King’s feet in his bosom all the time he sat at table, to keep them warm and comfortable.” Leges WallicÆ, p.58.—Henry’s History of Great Britain, v.2,p.275

ODE to SIR ELIJAH IMPEY.

Æli, vetusto nobilis a Lamo,
Quando et priores hinc Lamia ferunt
Denominatos, &c.

ELI-JAH noblest of the race
Of [1]IMPS, from whom the IMPEYS trace,
If common fame says true,
Their origin; and that they found
Their claim on just and solid ground,
Refer for proof to you—

You, who could post nine hundred miles,
To fathom an old woman’s wiles,
Possess’d of dangerous treasure;
Could hurry with a pedlar’s pack
Of affidavits at your back,
In quest of health and pleasure.

And all because the jealous JOVE[2]
Of Eastern climes thought fit to prove
The venom of his reign;
On which, to minds of light esteem,
Some few severities might seem
To leave a transient stain.

Soon [3] on your head from yon dark sky,
Or WOODFALL’s Hasty Sketches lye,
The gather’d storm will break!
Deep will the vengeful thunder be,
And from the sleep he owes to thee,
Shall NUNDCOMAR awake!

Then arm against the rude attack,
Recall thy roving memory back,
And all thy proofs collect!—
Remember that you cannot gain
A second hearing to explain,
And [4] therefore be correct.

[1] MILTON makes honourable mention of the founder of the family:
“Fit vessel, fittest Imp of Fraud.”
Paradise Lost, b. IX.

It may be observed, in proof of the descent, as well as to the credit of the present Representative, that he has not degenerated from the characteristic “obliquity” of his Ancestor.

[2] Late Tyrannus.

[3] Demissa tempestas ab Euro
Sternet—Nisi fallit Augur
Anosa Cornix.

[4] See Declaration of Sir E—— I——, offered to the House by Mt. DEMPSTER.