Come forward ye dark rolling clouds of the north,
Who shrinks from your blasts but the coward and slave?
Ye nerve the bold sons that Northumbria sends forth,
To fight for her king on Trafalgar’s proud wave.
January 2d, 1807.
Bothwell.
THOMAS WHITTLE.
The author of the five succeeding pieces of poetry, a Northumbrian by birth, and was long resident in the neighbourhood of Cambo, as appears by the following lines taken from his Whimsical Love with Ann Dobson:—