132 Fudge!!! [FEB. 



" That Whitbread, not by accident, 



Once tasted his own beer ; 

 That Irving's rant, a wise man went 



A second time to hear ; 

 That peace the Frenchman now delights, 



And poetry the Dutch ; 

 That Keswick Bob too little writes, 



And Harry Hope too much ; 



" That Cobbett's honesty and wit 



Alone can save the land ; 

 That Bentham three whole lines has writ 



Himself can understand ; 

 That Goulburn's speeches can allure 



Joe Hume to praise a tax ; 

 That ne'er was sympathy so pure 

 As Buxton's for the blacks ; 



" That all old Blackstone taught us once 



Grim Birnie proves untrue ; 

 That Robert Peel is not a dunce, 



Or Rothschild not a screw ; 

 That Husky's eloquence consoles 



The House for Canning's loss ; 

 That Brougham don't think upon the Rolls, 



That gold to Copley's dross ; 



" That when Utilitarian scribes 



The hireling press condemn, 

 They are not angry that the bribes 



Should never come to them ; 

 That some most patient friend of Mill 



The 'Westminster' perused, 

 And thought it not the bitterest pill 



That ever taste abused; 



" That Newcastle and Sadler are 



< Small deer/ as Plunket thought ; 

 That Scarlett's monstrous popular, 



And Whigs are never bought ; 

 That female bosoms never beat 



When Abercorn draws nigh ; 

 That living man unscorched can meet 



The glance of Stanley's eye ; 



" That Russia's emperor has not 



The slightest wish to reign, 

 Instead of Mahmoud, on the spot 



Where Constantine was slain ; 

 That chance alone at Waterloo 



Gave England's arms the day ; 

 That Frenchmen quoted ' Qu'il mourut,' 



And scorned to run away j 



" That Eldon's going to uphold 



Mechanics' Institutes ; 

 That all for love, and not for gold, 



St. Albans married Coutts ; 

 That all the world, of poetry 



Think Jeffery is a judge " 



" Hold ! hold, my friend ! I now perceive 

 What Burchell meant by Fudge !" 



