"Thomas Overburie,
"O! O! base murther."
"Charles James Stewart,
"Claims Arthur's Seat."
"Martha Nicholson,
"Soon calm at heart."
I next turned to Samuel Maunder and his Scientific and Literary Treasury, little suspecting that, in a repertory bearing so ambitious a title, I should fail to discover the object of my search. True, he quotes the anagram made by Dr. Burney after the battle of the Nile:
"Horatio Nelson,
"Honor est a Nilo."
And this, it must be confessed, is one of the best on record. The transposition is complete, and the allusion most apposite. But with that exception, what does this pretended Treasury disclose? A silly attempt to anagrammatise the name of our beloved queen; thus: