was a

political

poem, and written for a

political

purpose; and as to my unlucky opinions on Subjects of more importance, I am too sincere in them for recantation.

[On]

Spanish affairs I have said what I saw, and every day confirms me in that notion of the result formed on the Spot; and I rather think honest John Bull is beginning to come round again to that Sobriety which Massena's retreat

[2]

had begun to reel from its centre—the usual consequence of

un