“Once I had friends—but they have all forsook me! Once I had parents—they are now in heaven! I had a home once—I had once a husband— Pity me, strangers! “I had a home once—I had once a husband— I am a widow, poor and broken-hearted!” Loud blew the wind, unheard was her complaining; On drove the chariot. Then on the snow she laid her down to rest her; She heard a horseman: “Pity me!” she groaned out. Loud was the wind, unheard was her complaining; On went the horseman. Worn out with anguish, toil, and cold and hunger, Down sunk the wanderer; sleep had seized her senses: There did the traveller find her in the morning— God had released her.] 1796. Footnote 10: [GEORGE TIERNEY, M.P. for Southwark, who in early times was among the more forward of the Reformers. “He was,” says Lord Brougham, “an assiduous member of the _Society of Friends of the People_, and drew up the much and justly celebrated Petition in which that useful body laid before the House of Commons all the more striking particulars of its defective title to the office of representing the people, which that House then, as now, but with far less reason, assumed.” Notwithstanding the above severe verses, Tierney served under Canning as Master of the Mint, during the latter’s short administration in 1827.—ED.] Footnote 11: [In Feb., 1797, about 1400 Frenchmen landed at Pembroke, but surrendered without resistance to the country people, whom Lord CAWDOR (who had been elevated to the Peerage in the preceding year) had armed with scythes and pitchforks. He was succeeded by his elder son, who was created Earl Cawdor in 1827, and died 1860.—ED.] Footnote 12: [This account will be found on p. 32, _et seq._—ED.] Footnote 13: See proclamation of the Directory. Footnote 14: The “_too long calumniated_ author of the _Rights of Man_”.—See a Sir Something Burdett’s speech at the Shakspeare, as referred to in the _Courier_ of Nov. 30. Footnote 15: The Guillotine at Arras was, as is well known to every Jacobin, painted “_Couleur de Rose_”. Footnote 16: See _Weekly Examiner_, No. 11. Extract from the _Courier_. Footnote 17: _La petite Fenétre_, and _la Razoire Nationale_, fondling expressions applied to the Guillotine by the Jacobins in France, and their pupils here. Footnote 18: [The original poem is here subjoined:— THE SOLDIER’S WIFE. DACTYLICS. Weary way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart, Travelling painfully over the rugged road; Wild-visaged wanderer! Ah! for thy heavy chance.