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.

by Unknown

No. XXV.

April 30, 1798.

BRISSOT’S GHOST.[^[235]]

As at the Shakespeare Tavern dining,

O’er the well replenished board

Patriotic chiefs reclining,

Quick and large libations poured;

While, in fancy, great and glorious,

’Midst the democratic storm,

Fox’s crew, with shout victorious,