With feelings of solemn gratitude to God, and love for my
country, I rejoice not only that the QUEEN is thus delivered from the
fangs of her enemies; but that THE KING, THE CONSTITUTION, and THE
COUNTRY, have been thus, as I do unequivocally believe, rescued from a
tremendous explosion, which would at best have been of doubtful issue
to our liberties.

Notwithstanding this most happy, this _providential_ result, I have
determined still to send out the poem to the public; because it
expresses in strong, however inadequate language, sentiments which are
essential to our character as a free people, and to the preservation
of our justly balanced monarchy.

I have not assumed the FASCIS of satire, without deep conviction that
its rods were imperatively called into action: but most gladly shall I
reverse them, after the manner of the ancient LICTORS, over the
obsequies of an administration, which must be now in its death-pangs.
May succeeding cabinets be WARNED, _not guided_, by its example!

THE GHOST OF CHATHAM;

_A VISION._

A vision came! It was not in the hour
Of sleep; but when the unresisted power
Of magic Fancy, threw, with full control,
Her half prophetic mantle o'er the soul.
The place was thron'd like Britain's royal halls,
And her proud navy deck'd the tap'stried walls.
Statesmen and heroes grac'd the pictur'd scene;
Fathers who were what since their sons have been;
And some whose laurell'd brows might glow with shame,
Of sons with nought of their's besides the name.
In this august abode the loud debate
Seem'd hush'd, and prince and peer in silence sate;
E'en G--ff--d's brazen descant seem'd to fail,
And gasping C--pley gazed on L--d--rd--le;
Panting, they loll'd their contumelious tongues,
And suck'd _Italian juice_ to clear their lungs.
Y--k mus'd on _armies_; yet, with doubtful trust,
Wish'd he were certain, or the cause were just:
The eye of Cl--r--nce fiercely rang'd the floor,
But soften'd as it fell on D--n--ghm--re;
While L--v--rp--l, who inly seem'd to fear
For place and power, his fellows strove to cheer
With sickly smile; and courtier lords obscene,
Temper'd new filth, to daub their libell'd QUEEN.

Sudden amid the peers whom ENGLAND hails
HER nobles--men who fail but when SHE fails,
The vision rose. It was a rev'rend form
Of aged dignity: its eye was warm
With