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NUMBER XI.
The next person among the adherents of the Minister, whom MERLIN now points out to the notice of ROLLO, is SIR SAMUEL HANNAY, Baronet, a name recollected with great gratitude in the House: for there are few Members in it to whom he has not been serviceable. This worthy character indeed has done more to disprove Martial’s famous assertion,
Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum,
than any individual upon record.
The author proceeds—
But why, my HANNAY, does the ling’ring Muse
The tribute of a line to thee refuse?
Say, what distinction most delights thine ear,
Or Philo-Pill, or Philo-Minister?
Oh! may’st thou none of all thy titles lack,
Or Scot, or Statesman, Baronet or Quack;
For what is due to him, whose constant view is
Preventing private, or a public lues?
Who, that read the above description, do not, during the first impression of it, suppose that they see the worthy Baronet once more the pride of front advertisements—once more dispensing disregard and oblivion amongst all his competitors; and making your Leakes, your Lockyers, and your Velnos,
—Hide their diminish’d heads.—
In the passages which immediately follow, the poet goes on to felicitate the community upon the probable advantages to be derived to them from the junction of this illustrious personage with our immaculate Minister. He divides his congratulations into two parts. He first considers the consequence of the union, as they may affect the body personal; and secondly, as they may concern the body politic. Upon the former subject, he says,