The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-01 00:00:00

ORIGIN. I L PO

TIIR DISASTROUS -ARRIVAL AT S 1 P n ;
Ina SCCurld 'Atter, from WI Lid A 11, al IA rtiterby, Yurk•
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shirr, to his friend PErLu, iu Luaduu.

Dien Cuz—On this Letter you could not have
recLue'd,
But the COLON EL comptls me to write you a second ;
For when PIS/COCK is willing the country to range,
And quit the pure regions of ,Etter, 'CAcuese,
With galenite shears hr aura::cr•a his elan,
And stuffs, with strange monsters, each vast caravan;
Besulr'd, as he passes, " to take in the dots,"
With elephants, t ygers, apes, monkeys, and rats.
Sur the COLON EL, conceiving the matter no sin
To play at this pastime sif taking folks in,
Resolves to throw dust in the rossinryinen's eyes,
With masquerade doge aid with ducts in dinuise ;
Till Pic:cock and iliornion ! the villages squall, •
And the wise °uniting " Tan:arare Ado *di!"
But as, in all cases, precedence is given
(Tho hard he the task where the merits are even)
for the present, to Tl.aratcs must Pitlese: give.% ay,'
AS the one skews for nothing—the oarr takes pay.
On the road ther. the Cnt.o• rt. preceded his corps,
In the guise and the shape of a horrible War ;
While his fierceness to soothe, and to soften his pain,
Two fining kid sou: were attending Lis train;
sigadig to litter ...ism night so the dark,
And grace with their offspring the groves of Spy Park.
Then came suineaniall toms's, this' enormous the'. merits,
Ichneumons, opossums, black ruts, and reed rem is ;
With strange duck" and drakes, that woe quacking their

just,
Muscovy, tome rall'd them, and others--dycn..,,
}or they say that the ('o11.0• CL could always succeed
In rearing this gainful and beautiful breed.
The pro::essiun was clon'il with the huntsman crazy,
With li.Jdofite lame, and thy tied Esterhar.j;
Two horses of such snpereminent cast,
That a Stoic might weep at their failing at last.
When the spurtoncu of f.',%ipprobant beheld the renown
Which the brass and the ('.lose! enuferr'd on their town,
They sagely imegin'il, that something to eat,
To the beasts or their master might Will be a treat
Dealfilig it would he most curium' indeed,
" If they could bat see Aim and the aohmels (red."
Bat out in mortals success to command,
The sky, over-cut, sii wit a tempest at hand ;
The rain fell in torrents! and words ate but faint,
The beasts' sad the Colunel'a disasters to paint ;
Such k..cking and fighting, and biting amid squalling—
Birds aattering, doss howling, and eats catter-wawling ;
The Leagh a, sweet dims ! to their tidos in the water,
The li.dsawan, half drowit'd and half mad, swimming
after ;
The two loving sows in the hurricane screaming,
The boar foaming with top, and the Colovel blaspheming !
In shout, as if reckless of honour and truth,
Which all cerintries might learn from this excelkat youth,
As if nut regarding the calm sod repose,
Which follow his footsteps wherever he goes—
It would seem 111 if FAT,: had resoled to defeat,
For purposes wire, this his Mira retreat!
0 dire, in the amnia had lie perish'd !—but soft !
Then's a inn et litt!e r Assub that sits up aloft,
spritcfnily whinny's, in pikers. simnel—
" What; ~g Colonel l—no, haag' it—he shall not be

irown'et."

Then happy Spy Park! whale white mansion possesses
The lressare we [nye, sad whose Inas so &strew s.
tut nt, tzars blot the paper , you'll say that I silly am,
Su no usorr„friesd Purss, from Wetherby
WILLIAM