When the faltering periods flag,
Or the House receives them drily,
Cheer, oh cheer him, brother Bragge!
Cheer, oh cheer him, brother Hiley!
Each a gentleman at large,
Lodged and fed at public charge,
Paying, with a grace to charm ye,
This the fleet, and that the army.
Brother Bragge and brother Hiley,
Cheer him! when he speaks so vilely;
Cheer him! when his audience flag,
Brother Hiley, brother Bragge.
If blocks can from danger deliver,
Two places are safe from the French:
One is the mouth of the river,
The other the Treasury Bench.
Pitt is to Addington
As London to Paddington.
NOTES ON THE WAR, GERMANY, AND NAPOLEON, BY PITT (1803).
Source.—Stanhope’s Life of Pitt, 1862. Vol. iv., p. 223.
The War.
(Paper-mark, 1803.)
“Whether the attacks should be numerous or few in order to strengthen them, and in what points:—
“1. South of Italy.—Besides Neapolitans, 10 or 15,000 British troops and as many Russians; besides free corps raised in Albania and Italy, the latter by the King of Sardinia.