Star.
London, England, 1805-09-07 00:00:00

MR 7HE STAR.

•.:ZZAPARTE, OR MT' Pit OP' ECY 07 VENGEANCL

AY WM. CARET.

(Continued from our WO

„Soon the RACINO HYDRA'S SON (5)
Every guilty triumph won :
Islurfed by Anarchy in crimes,
Fettered in the worn of times,
As the years of horrot flew,
Fleet a in m strum he grew;
By the example of his sire,
Taught to sawn and to eonrpirev
To betray anti to heguile,
And to tnurier with a fmile.”

" Gendered in entivulfions dire,
As the long imprifoned bre,
From the mountain's (honored Me,
Bunting in a dreadful tide,
Rolls, with a tremendous found,
Sprea hog dee:illation round.
So ire CPUEL SCOUIIOI or Matt
Mighty Kingdoms oversaw,
At the head of armies placed,
Laying towns and cities wage,
Bunting with malignant joy,
States and empires to deftroy."
" In the blood of Realms imbrued`,
Proud of laurelled Chiefs fubducd,
Loaded with imperial fpoils,
Long inured to guilty toils,
To the voice of Mercy (heeled,
Panting for a wider field
To extend his barbarous fain;
And perpetuate his name,
O'er the fcas he sternly pat.
To the trumpet's threatening Mail,
And his rudders legions bore
To lay wale the diftant (bore
There, with towering hopes elate,
Tire. he trembled at defeat.
from the ftrand, in pale dirt-arty,
Where his murmuring arinlet lay,
lie beheld along the Sty.
Albion 's fatal ftreamers fly: (6)
Saw her dreadful flag unfurled,
That ennui:ands the watery world ;
And her ceneuering Navy (weep
Proudly, o'er the foaming deep;
Manned by crews expert and braces
Inca to triumphal the wave,
Sons of the Imperial Me,
Who at Death Or Danger futile,
And account the battle won
"Ere they have the fight begun...
Chiefs invincible and bald,
In viiorious warfare old,
In the ichorl of Glory bred,
Each may ftic velfel led.
With nnfading Lurels crowned,
In the lifts of Fame renowned,
Of applauding Kingi the theme,
litcde the Admiral fupreme.
" On the blenders' feet they bon,
Vainly flickered by tie fore;
In the openings of the bar,
Safe front &lurk winds, they say a
There, cut off from al! retreat,
With forebodings of defeat,
Toe defence the Gauls prepare,
Drawing courage front defpair.
Pak dikomfituies infufe
Terror, in their wavering crews.
Captains, oft in combat tried, •
Of their Naval Chiefs the pride,
Their unfettkd fpirits rare, •..
•
By the leered owed of prate ;
Now to juft revenge invite,
0:, by promifes excite ;
Their embattkd Zips combine
mn a formidable line; •
And awake the burning breath
Of the enginery of death,
Which, with a tremendous roar,
The ethereal concave tore;
And with fwift &Rem ing ire,
Vomited a Roan of fire."
"'Vain was their fuperior powers,
Vain the deadly flaming (hosiers;
Bravely prodigal of life,
Vying in the bloody ftrife,
Wooing peril as a bride
To their deareft hopcsallicet
By a noble rage poffeft,
'The undaunted Britons preft
Onward, with refiftlefs might,
Through tic horrors of the fight,
And With whirlwind fury dole
On their well-defended Foes.'
" Now their utmoft force they try,
Ship to fhip their thunders ply.
Under an it:cal:int blaze,
Their contending army thafraife,
In the cannon's dreadful found.
Groans and cries and shouts are drovinst
Pan, as leaves in Autumn, fall
The oppofing Sons of Gaul ;
And their nippery decks are freed
With the dying and the Cead.—
Glowing with a brave difdain,
'Adielft their loved companions flab,
The here-lc Britons die,
And embalmed by Honour lie.
" Still, with unahated rage,
The intrepid foes engage;
Now in clouds of frooak concealed,
Or by lightning gleams revealed,
'I ill by wounds and toil &Reek
An.l by matchlefs Valour preft,
Bon wart c, thc psliticol cMd of the Rtwelatiss,
Althr.ligh the fable of this Priem excludes tjetalls of battles
ieges, and conhttcd the Author to paint the Revolutionary
• by its fer;riwo rbardarr andebratier,yet hehors quit every Bri-
ill exotic his having dwelled briefly upon the Battle of Ahou-
, a fectie of Britilit Glory which ultimately defeated the
'tench Expedition to Egypt, and proved that In Al military enter-
which depend upon a maritime force, Britons mutt finally
imph over every local tbfaitainagc kid 92104nd Power.