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. — 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.
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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
Of all these and the like principles, in one word, of JACOBINISM in all
its shapes, and in all its degrees, political and moral, public and
private, whether as it openly threatens the subversion of States, or
gradually saps the foundations of domestic happiness, We are the avowed,
determined, and irreconcileable enemies. We have no desire to divest
ourselves of these inveterate prejudices; but shall remain stubborn and
incorrigible in resisting every attempt which may be made either by
argument or (what is more in the charitable spirit of modern reformers)
by force, to convert us to a different opinion.
It remains only to speak of the details of our PLAN.
It is our intention to publish Weekly, during the Session of Parliament,
a Paper, containing,
First, An Abstract of the important events of the week, both at home and
abroad.
Secondly, Such Reflections as may naturally arise out of them: and,
Thirdly, A contradiction and confutation of the falsehoods and
misrepresentations concerning these events, their causes, and their
consequences, which may be found in the Papers devoted to the cause of
SEDITION and IRRELIGION, to the pay or principles of FRANCE.
This last, as it is by far the most important, will in all probability
be the most copious of the three heads; and is that to which, above all
others, We wish to direct the attention of our Readers.
We propose diligently to collect, as far as the range of our own daily
reading will enable us, and We promise willingly to receive, from
whatever quarter they may come, the several articles of this kind which
require to be thus contradicted or confuted; which will naturally divide
themselves into different classes, according to their different degrees
of stupidity or malignity.
There are, for instance (to begin with those of the highest order), the
LIES of the Week; the downright, direct, unblushing falsehoods, which
have no colour or foundation whatever, and which must at the very moment
of their being written, have been known to the writer to be wholly
destitute of truth.
Next in rank come MISREPRESENTATIONS which, taking for their groundwork
facts in substance true, do so colour and distort them in description,
as to take away all semblance of their real nature and character.
Lastly, The most venial, though by no means the least mischievous class,
are MISTAKES; under which description are included all those Hints,
Conjectures, and Apprehensions, those Anticipations of Sorrow and
Deprecations of Calamity, in which Writers who labour under too great an
anxiety for the Public Welfare are apt to indulge; and which, when
falsified by the event, they are generally too much occupied to find
leisure to retract or disavow:—A trouble which We shall have great
pleasure in taking off these Gentlemen’s hands.
To each of these several articles We shall carefully affix the name and
date of the Publication from which We may take the liberty of borrowing
it.
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