Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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Who form’d of strong and gagging Bills[^[191]]

A cross pair.

Extinct since then each speaker’s fire,

And silent ev’ry daring lyre,[^[192]]

Dum-founded they whom I would hire

To lecture.

Tied up, alas! is ev’ry tongue

On which, conviction nightly hung,[^[193]]

And Thelwall looks, though yet but young,

A spectre.[^[194]]