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