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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The Bold Usurper[^[262]] firmly held

The sword by splendid treasons gained;

And Gallia’s fiery genius quelled,

And Spain’s presumptuous claims restrained:

When lust of sway, by flattery fed,[^[263]]

To venturous deeds the youthful monarch led,

In the full flow of victory’s swelling tide

Britain checked his power and pride.

A. 3.

To the great Batavian’s name[^[264]]