"Fitzgerald (with good humour). 'Mr. ——, I mean to recite after dinner,'
"Mr. ——. 'Do you?'
"Fitzgerald. 'Yes: you'll have more of God bless the Regent and the Duke of York!'
"The whole of this imitation, (one of the Rejected Addresses,) after a lapse of twenty years, appears to the authors too personal and sarcastic; but they may shelter themselves under a very broad mantle:—
"Let hoarse Fitzgerald bawl
His creaking couplets in a tavern-hall."—Byron.
"Fitzgerald actually sent in an address to the Committee on the 31st of August, 1812. It was published among the other Genuine Rejected Addresses, in one volume, in that year. The following is an extract:—
"The troubled shade of Garrick, hovering near,
Dropt on the burning pile a pitying tear."
"What a pity that, like Sterne's recording angel, it did not succeed in blotting the fire out for ever! That falling, why not adopt Gulliver's remedy?"