"Accordingly our saint one day, Into the market took his way, Climbed on an empty tub, that o'er Their heads he might declaim at ease, And to the rout began to roar In wretched Siamese. 'Brethren! (for every one's my fellow, Tho' I am white, and you are yellow,) Brethren! I came from lands afar To tell you all--what fools you are! Is slavery, pray, so soft, and glib a tie, That you prefer the chain to liberty? Is Christian faith a melancholy tree, That you will only sow idolatry? Just see to what good laws can bring lands, And hear an outline of old England's. Now, say if _here_ a lord should hurt you, Are you made whole by legal virtue? For ills by battery or detraction, Say, can you bring at once your action? And are the rich not much more sure To gain a verdict than the poor? With us alike the poor or rich, Peasant or prince, no matter which-- Justice to all the law dispenses, And all it costs--are the expenses! _Here_ if an elephant you slay, Your very lives the forfeit pay: Now that's a _quid pro quo_--too seri- Ous much for beasts _naturæ feræ_. * * * * * * * * * * _These_ are the thing's that best distinguish men-- These make the glorious boast of Englishmen! More could I tell you were there leisure, But I have said enough to please, sure: Now then if you the resolution Take for a British constitution, A British king, church, commons, peers-- I'll be your guide! dismiss your fears. With Hampden's name and memory warm you! And, d--n you all--but I'll reform you! As for the dogs that wont be free, We'll give it them most handsomely; To church with scourge and halter lead 'em, And thrash the rascals into freedom." This fine speech, it appears, had much the same effect on its auditors, that we believe Mr. Bulwer's poem will have on nine-tenths of his readers;--it produced a sensation of disdain for the understanding as well as the principles of its author. Under the influence of this feeling, the men of Siam could not forbear executing a practical joke on the orator. They elevated him in a palanquin, raised by means of tall poles, to a great height above their heads; from which altitude, after parading him in mock triumph through the streets of their chief city, they, with little regard to consequences, tossed him into the air. The poem says--