From An Impartial Collection of Addresses, Songs, Squibs, &c., published during the Liverpool Election, October, 1812.
The Candidates were the Right Hon. George Canning; Lieut.-General Isaac Gascoyne; Henry Brougham; Thomas Creevey; and General B. Tarleton. (Messrs. G. Canning and Gascoyne, both Tories, were elected.)
ROBERT BURNS.
In order to make this collection of Scotch Parodies as nearly complete as possible, a few additional Parodies of Robert Burns, and Thomas Campbell will be here inserted.
Address to the G.O.M.
(After Burns’s Address to the De’il.)
O thou, whatever be the name
Your silly pride wad gar ye claim
As likely best to spread your fame