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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

Line 23.—[George Hammond, at this time Canning’s colleague as
  Under-Secretary of State; the latter being succeeded by John Hookham
  Frere.—ED.]

Footnote 43:

  Line 30.—[Lord Morpeth, son of the (fifth) Earl of Carlisle who was
  satirized by Byron in “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”.—ED.]

Footnote 44:

  Line 32.—[George Granville Leveson Gower, eldest son of the first
  Marquis of Stafford, born in 1758, became second Marquis in 1803, and
  created Duke of Sutherland in 1833. He was one of Canning’s intimate
  college companions.—ED.]

Footnote 45:

  Line 41.—[James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury, one of the most
  distinguished of English diplomatists. His “Diaries and
  Correspondence,” published by his grandson, the third Earl, throw much
  light on the transactions of the eventful period to which they
  refer.—ED.]

Footnote 46:

  Line 42.—[George Ellis, the accomplished editor of the “Specimens of
  the Early English Poets, and of Early English Metrical Romances,” &c.
  In early life he contributed to the _Rolliad_, being the author of
  Nos. 1 and 2, in Part I., and Nos. 1 and 2, in Part II. Of the
  _Political Eclogues_ he wrote the one entitled “Charles Jenkinson”. In
  the _Probationary Odes_, he wrote No. II. “Ode on the New Year, by
  Lord Mulgrave,” and No. XX. “Irregular Ode for the King’s Birth Day,
  by Sir G. Howard”. Afterwards, however, he became much attached to
  Pitt, and acted as Secretary to Lord Malmesbury during his
  unsuccessful negotiations with the French for peace, at Lisle, 1797.
  Horace Walpole thus alludes to him, in a letter of 24th June, 1783:
  “English people are in fashion at Versailles. A Mr. Ellis, who wrote
  some pretty verses at Bath two or three years ago, is a favourite
  there.” Sir Walter Scott addressed to him Canto V. of “Marmion”. He
  died in 1815, aged 70.—ED.]

Footnote 47:

  Line 71.—[The Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas (afterwards created Viscount
  Melville), in the Commons, and Lord Grenville in the Lords, were
  Pitt’s most efficient supporters.—ED.]

Footnote 48:

  Line 16.—[Brookes’s Club was the grand rendezvous of the Whigs.—ED.]

Footnote 49:

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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

Line 23.—[George Hammond, at this time Canning’s colleague as
  Under-Secretary of State; the latter being succeeded by John Hookham
  Frere.—ED.]

Footnote 43:

  Line 30.—[Lord Morpeth, son of the (fifth) Earl of Carlisle who was
  satirized by Byron in “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”.—ED.]

Footnote 44:

  Line 32.—[George Granville Leveson Gower, eldest son of the first
  Marquis of Stafford, born in 1758, became second Marquis in 1803, and
  created Duke of Sutherland in 1833. He was one of Canning’s intimate
  college companions.—ED.]

Footnote 45:

  Line 41.—[James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury, one of the most
  distinguished of English diplomatists. His “Diaries and
  Correspondence,” published by his grandson, the third Earl, throw much
  light on the transactions of the eventful period to which they
  refer.—ED.]

Footnote 46:

  Line 42.—[George Ellis, the accomplished editor of the “Specimens of
  the Early English Poets, and of Early English Metrical Romances,” &c.
  In early life he contributed to the _Rolliad_, being the author of
  Nos. 1 and 2, in Part I., and Nos. 1 and 2, in Part II. Of the
  _Political Eclogues_ he wrote the one entitled “Charles Jenkinson”. In
  the _Probationary Odes_, he wrote No. II. “Ode on the New Year, by
  Lord Mulgrave,” and No. XX. “Irregular Ode for the King’s Birth Day,
  by Sir G. Howard”. Afterwards, however, he became much attached to
  Pitt, and acted as Secretary to Lord Malmesbury during his
  unsuccessful negotiations with the French for peace, at Lisle, 1797.
  Horace Walpole thus alludes to him, in a letter of 24th June, 1783:
  “English people are in fashion at Versailles. A Mr. Ellis, who wrote
  some pretty verses at Bath two or three years ago, is a favourite
  there.” Sir Walter Scott addressed to him Canto V. of “Marmion”. He
  died in 1815, aged 70.—ED.]

Footnote 47:

  Line 71.—[The Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas (afterwards created Viscount
  Melville), in the Commons, and Lord Grenville in the Lords, were
  Pitt’s most efficient supporters.—ED.]

Footnote 48:

  Line 16.—[Brookes’s Club was the grand rendezvous of the Whigs.—ED.]

Footnote 49:

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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