The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-01 00:00:00

EXTRACTS FROM
"MY NOTE BOOK.'

Cootiaassi from; oar lost.)
BIIaGG 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
To answer P.t.re,—at his post he stands,
Alternately exerting both his hands.
An oscillating balance to maintain,
Like a fat porpoise rt.:king in the main;
His head enforcing, with redoubled shakes.
The dullness which for argument lie takes.
He looks profound, and conscious of his lore,
The House already feels disposed to snore:
A solitary finger he uplifts.
Which front his nose, perpetually he shifts,
To cut right angles Sr. the empty space
Between that nose and Bvtar's vacant faces
'rite finger, thus presented to our view,
An equal length exhibits with the queue
That guards a bunch of venerable hair ;
The last fair honour of a cranium bare:
Diffuse as dull, lie talks till patience tires,
Yet patience still the prating dolt requires,
Nor heeds, if nausea make his audience retch,
Provided he exgurgitates a speech.
Truth, it is said, muss in a well be sought.
And, with a rope, is (ruin the bottom brought.
B--gee's wisdom lies in that capacious pump
Milieu acts in perfect concert with his rump •
Thence does he draw, and, of this sort of stulf.
Thinks, while he numps, he ne'er can pump enu.l.;h...
" If principles gainer principles be set,
Then let those principles be fairly met :
I mean sound principles,--the House will see
That principles, in which we all agree,
Are not like principles that mire a doubt:
Now, sir, a man may often turn about,
And take up principles oppos'd to those:
But what's the consequence ? no mortal knows,
This, sir, I think, does certainly embrace
The great and leading festure, of the case.
The honourable member has no right
A premature discussion to invite
Open a Bill drawn up with so much care,
And now in progress, as we know, elsewhere :
1 deprecate the (sinew he ha. pursuit
As calculated only to delude.
Why, sir, we know that inferences just,
Are drawn from premises when well discuss'd ;
Some measures may be censur'd in detail,
But the
(min
principle will never tad,
When, min the proposition, comes that sense
Which proves the necessary consequence. ( A !sloi's.,
My noble fiend and I have ever tried,
Upon this principle, our plans to guide I
lint. I lament, sir, that us times like these..
Do what they will, no ministers can please :
The doctrines, now, so openly avow'si,
No end can serve, but to mislead the crowd ;
The honourable member I 'commend
For having prais'd his • dear departed friend
But, no selections ought he to have cast
On the first pilot.—.yes, the first and last
That ever guided, or shall ever steer,
The helm of state,—my noble colleague here."
P:4-r exploits..
•• What I have said is, as the gospel true;
If. he wore dead, none would be tUund to rue
Save and except those servants who have board
And furnislid lodgings front the Noble Lord,
With all the placemen, who on taxes thrive,
And best can prosper while their friend's alive,"
B—GG E.
•• Sir, these are words 'gainst which I must protest,
Not that I think they can at all molest
The noble cars: (o laud lamir4,), I cannot compre!:e::::
What gaulemen, by that loud cheer, intend ;
My noble friend, I'm sure, does not regard
'1 he bold prediction which we just have heard,
Yet here no language ought we to admit—"
Patar rises to order.
" The chair will judge it' mine has been unfit.".

Once more for P—t--r does the chair decide,
fl—gge looks confus.d, and bloating in his pride, -
Ileptins his legs, then thrice, with P—t—r's knob,
Exchanges an intelligible bob ;
And thus concludes--•' No member can look at
The tone, the spirit, substance, wad all Veat,
Of this petition, hut must soon confess,
That one so bold no member ought to press :
Yet, still my strong objections I'll withdraw,.
Lest factious men who violate the law,
My sentiments and motives sliou*d malign ;
There is not from the Tiber to the Rhine,
Or, thence again to the Boristhenes, .
A minister more ready to appease
All itriustion in the land, than I ;
Or less reluctant promptly to comply
With those requests in which we find involy'd
A question which has never yet been
As it relates to principles that mark
A tendency to shatter freedom's ark,
And leave us floating on a stormy Sea ;
Now, sir, the qttetion does appear to me
Of such importance, that, while I exist,'
The slightest innovation I'll resist,
Upon a system which includes the whole
Ot those grand principles, w nose strong control
Represses ev'ry effort to release
The social body from the bonds of peace."
(Cheers and Livltter.)
(To be eontimued,)

The latest accounts from Canton state that t2riatis
disturbances have broken out on the tiontiers tW
China, and that the Emperor Ming Ming, wlio as.
cended the throne three days after the death
father has been assaiisinaLd. The Pekin Gazette,
speaking of the death of the Emperor KCa sing,
says briefly, 4' In the city of Jeho, the '2:n h dty of
the 7th moon, his Majesty set out to wander among
the immortals."

At halt-past eleven °Meek on .1 hursday morr.::44,
the grasshopper, whiet, for a vast numucr of yea:-,
had occupied an exalted situation, and pertin•ned
the duties of a weathercock oil the top of the ft .y.. 1
Exchange, was, in the presence of a great tiliuber
of gentlemen, remounted and placed on the ri,.w
dome, amidst loud shouts of approbation. It of
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 half.