Cornwallis
Though I am brave, as well as you,
Yet still I think your notion true;
Dear brother Jack, our toils are o'er—
With foreign conquests plagued no more,
We'll stay and guard our native shore.
[149] Text from the edition of 1809. The poem first appeared in the Freeman's Journal, April 24, 1782.
[150] See Vol. I, page 166, note.
"Had I been blest with elbow-room,
I might have found a different doom."—Ed. 1786.
ON THE LATE ROYAL SLOOP OF WAR
GENERAL MONK[152]
(Formerly the Washington)