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

July 9, 1798.

The following popular song is said to be in great vogue among the loyal troops in the North of Ireland. The air and the turn of the composition are highly original. It is attributed (as our correspondent informs us) to a fifer in the Drumballyroney Volunteers.

BALLYNAHINCH.[^[300]]
A NEW SONG.

I.

A certain great Statesman[^[301]] whom all of us know,

In a certain assembly, no long while ago,

Declared from this maxim he never would flinch,

“That no town was so loyal as Ballynahinch”.

II.

The great statesman, it seems, had perused all their faces,