ADMIRAL VERNON'S VICTORY AT PORTOBELLO (1740).
I. ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST.
To the Tune of, "Come and Listen to my Ditty."
Source.—Original broadside of 1740 in the British Museum.
[This ballad, by the Opposition poet and pamphleteer Richard Glover, implies that Walpole would willingly have let Vernon and his fleet perish in 1740 as Hosier and his fleet had perished in 1726.]
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As, near Porto-Bello lying,
On the Gently swelling Flood,
At Midnight, with Streamers flying,
Our triumphant Navy rode,