The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-30 00:00:00

QZTAI.r.

THE
.SPANISH.I)E P yTI ES' CEAST,
AN ANTI.GALLiCAN, ArtiTl.-YANKLL ODE.

'Twas for the feast by Tharnes',.c.nnmercial Sons
*Given to Iberia's Deputies and bons,
In close debate;

A junta sate.
Au f;ir in etiquette and City bfecling;
Like Arthur's Peers the table riinut.
They plann'd, in wisdom most 'profound,
The pride and bomr, and circumstance of feeding.

Happy, happy, happy City !
plea with such a sage Committee,
Happy Guests! allow'd to share
City friendShip—City tare!

High on a throne, with propei emblems graced,
So the Committee will'd, was BAR LNG placed,
BARlPG—whosc tra.le extends its sway
From TottstO Massachuset's Bay,
And equal benefit bestows
On Britain's friends, and Britain's foes;
Forming (each Yankee knoWs.the fad)
Its own great Navigation Ad.
Happy City, blest with rare men,
Fit to ad the part of Chairmen;
Happy most, Sir FRANCLS BARINCt
Thl's distinguish'd honour wearing.

See from every foreign hoard,
Choicest dainties crown the board,
Turbots Holland's coast supplies,
Lobsters, Norway not denies;
Types of their Country's hopeless cause,
Those without gills, and these without their claws;
Turtles too, of large dimension,

Front thy teeming Isle— Ascension,
Spread their fins and blubtrer green
In calapa'sh and deep tureen.

Nor absent thou, whom days of old
Number'd 'mongst our Barosi bold;
Roast beef—not that
Which .swoln and fat
Coke's Norfolk Agriculeral Meeting
To Smithfield sends for spew, unfit for eating;
Soft as pork lard-, or sow's rank sumen:
But beef that nourish'd English yeomen,
And by its solid meat, and pudding suet,
Made England's tars
And Suns of Mars,
Like Dragons tight, and Frenchmen rue it.

The Chairmarwarv'd a slice, then waved his. hand,
And strains responsive issued from the band.
AI R---`• When hearty Roast Beef," Sec.
C HOR —O, the Roast Beef, &c.

The Dinner ended —unrestrain'd
Social tnirth and friendship reign'd,
Friendship, such as ought to be
*Twixt Patriots leagued in Amity,
Not that which to affianced States
Gallia shew'd at civic fetes,

Frantic riot—mirth internal,

Transient love, and hate eternal ;
But such as U.CT the wassail bowl,
Britain's Sons in days of yore,
With liberal hand-, and generous soul,
TCI THE lit GIICSA affianced beire.

Friendship m eking common cause
'Gainst NapoleJn's Demon band,
Foes to divine and human laws,

Scourge and pest of every land ;

Save that in Britain's favour'd Isle,
Of 1 reedom's Sons the blest d9rnain,
Order shall sit secure and. Commerce smile,

Beneath a patriot Monarch's reign ;
Whilst her vallies laugh and sing
To echoing hills —" God save the King."
TOAST—The King.

C u s—Guci sa--Pe Great George our Ki7g, &C.

The toast, libation.; am Ie crown'ci,

kespoosive plaudits shook the room,
Iberia's Sons the rapture own'd,
But inly mourn'd their Monarch's doom :

When lo l with hearty welcome cheer'd,
The Genius of the place appeard,
And gazing round with conscious wide,
Took her place by CANNING'S side;
Then smiling on each stranger guest,
Thus her native friends address'd.

" Not to Britain's Isle alone
" Be the god-like task assign'd,
" To shake the Gallic Despot's throne,
" And chase the ills that threat mankind ;

" Not alone to Britain's coast
" Be the boon of freedom known,
" Soon lberia's Sons shall boast
" British freedom in their own.

The grateful tear from MATE 4os A flow'd,
And APODACA'S cheek I ardour glow'd;
And, whilst the accents graced her tongue,
The tuneful band,
With zealous hand,

" Descendants they from Chiefs of old,
" In PAv I A's battle.list ettroll'd,
" From Dons in noble daring tried,
" Of chivalry the flower and pride :
" These—listed at their Country's call,
" 'Gainst the fell invading Gaul,
" Shall with peasants hardy, strong,
" Soon avenge their Country's wrong,
" And by CAST ANOS led to war,
" Bid Pwvi A's laurels bloom in Andujar;
" Whilst our Patriot Sons atl'ord
" Britain's buckler, Britain's sword,
" And round their shores her navies sail,
" Partake their trium,,h, and their valour hail."

Their harps to Britain's favourite Carol strung,
Ara—" When Britain first," &c,
CIIOII U s --Rule Britannia.
" Nor to Iberia's land alone
" Shall British amity be shown
(in Tagus tide
"Her Fleets shall ride;