And shown what skill and pluck can do,
Let each fill a glass to his fav’rite lass:
Here’s a health to Maclean and conservatives all,
And may success and honour befall
The lads of the “Ariel” crew, Sir,!
G. V. Cox.
August, 1839.
[“Oxford, in the long vacation 1839, was enlivened by a Nuneham Regatta, a conservative festivity, at which Mr. Maclean (M.P. for Oxford City, and M.A. of Balliol College) was the presiding genius, as well as the chief payer of the piper. I am tempted to introduce here a parody on the famous song of ‘The Gallant Arethusa,’ in honour of the nine young gentlemen, natives of Oxford, who, as the crew of the ‘Ariel’ carried off the chief honours of this regatta.” p. 309, Recollections of Oxford. 1789-1860, by G. V. Cox.]
The Man who Mended the Boiler.