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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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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.

English poetry; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Poetry; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820

“ADAIR told me a great many things about BURKE, and FOX, and
FITZPATRICK, and all the eminent men of that time with whom he lived
when he was young. He said ... that FITZPATRICK was the most agreeable
of them all, but HARE the most brilliant. BURKE’S conversation was
delightful, so luminous and instructive. He was very passionate; and
ADAIR said that the first time he ever saw him he unluckily asked him
some question about the wild parts of Ireland, when BURKE broke out:
‘You are a fool and a blockhead. There are no wild parts in
Ireland.’ ... There was an attempt to bring about a reconciliation
between him and FOX, and a meeting for that purpose took place of all
the leading men, at Burlington House. BURKE was on the point of yielding
when his son suddenly made his appearance unbidden, and, on being told
what was going on, he said: ‘My father shall be no party to such a
compromise,’ took BURKE aside, and persuaded him to reject the
overtures. That son ADAIR described as the most disagreeable, violent,
and wrong-headed of men, but the idol of his father, who used to say
that he united all his own talents and acquirements with those of FOX
and everybody else, &c.”—See _The Greville Memoirs_, i. 136–7.—[ED.]

[The following remarkable passage occurs in a pamphlet written by TOM
PAINE, entitled: _Thomas Paine to the People of England, on the Invasion
of England; Philadelphia, printed at the Temple of Reason Press, Arch
Street, 1804_.

“The original plan, formed in the time of the Directory (but now much
more extensive) was to build one thousand boats, each sixty feet long,
sixteen feet broad, to draw about two feet water, to carry a twenty-four
or thirty-six pounder in the head and a field-piece in the stern, to be
run out as soon as they touched ground. Each boat was to carry a hundred
men, making in the whole one hundred thousand, and to row with twenty or
twenty-five oars on a side. Bonaparte was appointed to the command, and
by an agreement between him and me, I was to accompany him, as the
intention of the expedition was to give the people of England an
opportunity of forming a government for themselves, and thereby bring
about peace.”—ED.]

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                              THE COURIER.

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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.

English poetry; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Poetry; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820

“ADAIR told me a great many things about BURKE, and FOX, and
FITZPATRICK, and all the eminent men of that time with whom he lived
when he was young. He said ... that FITZPATRICK was the most agreeable
of them all, but HARE the most brilliant. BURKE’S conversation was
delightful, so luminous and instructive. He was very passionate; and
ADAIR said that the first time he ever saw him he unluckily asked him
some question about the wild parts of Ireland, when BURKE broke out:
‘You are a fool and a blockhead. There are no wild parts in
Ireland.’ ... There was an attempt to bring about a reconciliation
between him and FOX, and a meeting for that purpose took place of all
the leading men, at Burlington House. BURKE was on the point of yielding
when his son suddenly made his appearance unbidden, and, on being told
what was going on, he said: ‘My father shall be no party to such a
compromise,’ took BURKE aside, and persuaded him to reject the
overtures. That son ADAIR described as the most disagreeable, violent,
and wrong-headed of men, but the idol of his father, who used to say
that he united all his own talents and acquirements with those of FOX
and everybody else, &c.”—See _The Greville Memoirs_, i. 136–7.—[ED.]

[The following remarkable passage occurs in a pamphlet written by TOM
PAINE, entitled: _Thomas Paine to the People of England, on the Invasion
of England; Philadelphia, printed at the Temple of Reason Press, Arch
Street, 1804_.

“The original plan, formed in the time of the Directory (but now much
more extensive) was to build one thousand boats, each sixty feet long,
sixteen feet broad, to draw about two feet water, to carry a twenty-four
or thirty-six pounder in the head and a field-piece in the stern, to be
run out as soon as they touched ground. Each boat was to carry a hundred
men, making in the whole one hundred thousand, and to row with twenty or
twenty-five oars on a side. Bonaparte was appointed to the command, and
by an agreement between him and me, I was to accompany him, as the
intention of the expedition was to give the people of England an
opportunity of forming a government for themselves, and thereby bring
about peace.”—ED.]

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                              THE COURIER.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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.

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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