The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-02 00:00:00

EXTRACTS FROM
"MY NOTE BOOK.'

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(Continued from our last.)
113H—GG E.
With paunch obese and gills of livid hue,
Br-gge shews his legs have nothing else to do
But to sustain the said fat paunch and gills—
A blockhead's part, while that great blockhead fills
Tu answer his post he stands,
Alternately exerting both his hands.
' Au oscillating balance to maintain,
Like a fat porpoise rocking in the main ;
Ili, head enforcing, with redoubled shakes,
The dullness which for argument he takes,
Ile looks profound, and conscious of his lore,
The Muse already feels dig:fused to snore:
A solitary linger he uplifts,
Which from his nose, perpetually he shifts,
To cut right angles in the empty space
Between that nose and Peter's vacant face:
Tue finger, thus presented to our view,
An equal length exhibits with the queue
That guards u bunch of venerable hair;
The lust fish honour of a cranium bare:
Diffase as dull, he talks till patience tires,
Yet patience still the prosing dolt requires,
Nor heeds, if n 'uses make his audience retch,
Provided he ex••urgitatee a speech.
Truth, it is said, must in a well be sought,
And, with a rope, is from the bottom brought.
B—gges wisdom lies in that capacious pump
\Vireo ects in perfect concert with his rump ;
Thence does I,e draw, and, of this sort of stuff,
Thinks, while lie pumps, he never can pump enough.
`• If principles gamst principles be set,
Then let those print des be fairly met :
I mean sound principles,--the House will see
That principles, in which we all agree,
Are me like principles that raise a doubt:
Now, sir, a man may often turn about,
And take up principles oppoe'd to those:
But what's the consequence? no mortal knows,
This, sir, I think, does certainly embrace
The great and leading feature, of the case.
The hunottialile ineruher has no right
A premature discussion to invite
Upon a Bill drawn up with so much care.
And now in progress, a; we know, elsewhere:
I deprecate the worse he ha• pursu'd
A, calculated only to delude.
Why, sir, we know that inferences just,
Are drawn from premises when well discuae'd ;
Some measures may be census it in detail,
But the great principle will never fail,
NVOCO, trout the proposition, comes dint sense
NVlnch proves the necessary coti.equence. ( A lanw'ri
My noble friend end I have ever tried,
Upon this principle, our plans to guide;
But, I lament, sir, that in times like these,
Do what they will, no utinister, CAD please:
Tire doctrines, now, so openly avow'd,
No end can serve, but to mislead the crowd;
Tire honourable member I commend
For having in.:if:Anti. • deec tieparte:l friend ;'
But, no reflections ought he to have ciest
On the first pilot,—yee, the first and last
That ever guided, or shall ever steer,
The helm of state,—my nonlecolleague here."
e.t?l,riag.
•• What I have said is, as the gospel true;
If he were deal, none would be found to rue
Save and except those servants who have board
And hirnise'd lodgings Irons the Noble Laid,
tie plaeseaen, who on taxes thrive,
And best can prover wnile Ceeir friend's alive,"
•• Sir, the -e arc wards 'galas( whielt I must protett.
Not that I think .hey cart at all molest
'fhe noble ears: (us lottel laugh,) I cannot comprehend •
Whar :with:men, by that loud cited', intend ;
My oo,de l'ot sure, does not regard
Toe need ;In:Abeam which we je=t Li iie.ad,
Yet bete no istoguse,e ought we to adutit—"
In ord.—.
•• Tile chair will judee if mine has been unfit."
. Once more for P—t—s does the chair deride,
11—gge looks cornets's', and bloating in his pride,
/Regions M. legs, then thrice, with P—t—e's knob,
I•lechuneee ai, iteeibeible bib;
And thus con. itel.,—•• No member can look at
The tone, the spirit, eub.tance• an/ alit/at,
Of this petition, but meta son wafted,
That UDC BO 0011100 member ought to press :•
Yet, ball my won.; objections I'd withdraw,
Lest factiems risen who sedate the law,
My sentiments and niotivessliou'd malign;
Teem is trot fm•li the Tiher to the Rhine,
Or, thence :skein to Boristhenes,
A mini:nee more ready to appease
All nruntion in the laud, than I ;
Or lest relactont promptly to comply
Whir those requests in woicii we had involed
A question whim has never yet been soled,
As it relates to principles that mark
A tentl.ney to shatter freedom'. ark,
And heve its tlaatine on a atormy sea;—
Now, sir, the question does appear to me
O. such haeurtance, that, while I exist,
The slightest innoeatimi I'll resist,
Upon a system which include, the whole
Of those grand principles, whose buong control
Represses ev'ry glib:' to release
Tile social body fawn the bonds of ;,,e..ce."
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(To be roniinant)

The latest accounts from Canton state thnt ser!oas
disturbances have broken out on the fron:krs of
China, and that the Emperor Ming Ming, who as-
cend...ll the throne three days after the death of his
father has been assassinated. The Pail Gazdte,
speakioz of the death of tile Emperor Kea Ki%,
says briefly, " In the city of Jett°, the 25th day
the 7th moon, his Majesty set out to wander among
the immortals."

At hal-rest eleven °Meek on I hurs(ley
the grivshopper, for a vast titen:),:r of
Lad oceopi,al no el:tared siitiaiion, and per:ea •.:, t
the dittiim of a tv..atiicreock on the lop of the It
Exchange, was, in the oroonce of a great numb.
of gvutlemen. remounted untl plare,t ua tile nrw
dome, amidst loud of OpprtilM • . it is 1
copper gilt, nine feet three inches in length from the
tail to the extremity of the horns, and weighing.
upwards of one hundred and a Ulf.