Nov. 10. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



361 



Her geii'rous temper can't forgett so soon 

 The Hoyal favours you have ahvais don. 

 Both to her father and his injur'd son ; 

 And therefore is contriving, every day. 

 Her mighty' debts of gratitude to pay. 

 For you she ceas'd the thunder of the war, 

 Lay'd up her fleett, and left her channel! bare; 

 For you victorious Marlborough is disgrac'd, 

 And in his stead a peaceful gen'rall plac'd ; 

 For you she broke her word, her friends betray'd, 

 With joy look'd on, and saw them victims made. 

 That pious Princess, when T left her court, 

 (The place where none but friends to you resort,) 



■ Bids me to greet you in the kindest words 

 That the most sacred tj'e of love affords, 

 And tell you that she mourns, with secret paines, 

 The mighty loss you've born these ten campaigns ; 

 And therefore now resolves to give you more 

 By this last treaty then a'ou had before, 

 And to its former heighth raise y"^ declining pow'r. 

 She thinks she has no right the crown to wear. 

 And fayn would leave it to the lawfull heire. 

 In order to effect this grand design, 

 And baffle all the Hanoverian line, 

 A sett of Ministers she latelv chose, 

 To honour and theire country equall foes — 

 Wretches whose indigence has made them bold, 

 And will betray their native land for gold. 

 Oxford's the chief of this abandon'd clan, 

 Him j'ou must court, for he's your only man ; 

 Give him but gold enough, your work" is done, 

 He'l bribe the senate, aiid then all's your own. 



D and Bolingbrook are friends to you, 



Tho' 'tis not in their pow'r much harm to do. 

 But Oxford reigns prime minister of State, 

 Euling the nations at a mighty rate ; 

 And, like a conj'rer, with his magick wand, 

 Do's both the Parliament and Queen command : 

 Keep but that wily trickster still j'our friend, 

 He'l crown your wishes with a prosp'rous end. 

 Now is your time to push for Brittain's croAvn, 



And fix K — J- the Third upon the throne. 



And powerful! fleet prepare, you need no more. 

 But only land him on his native shore. 

 They'l soon depose the present reigning thing. 

 And in her stead proclaim your fav'rite King.' 

 " Thus spake the gay Embassadress, when strait 



: Uprose the tyrant from his chair of state ; 

 With love transported, and a jo3'Ous air, 



: Within his trembling arms he clasp'd the fair. 

 That night, as fame reports, and some have heai'd, 

 A pompous bed was instantly prepar'd. 

 In which the monarch, and the heroin lay. 

 And spent their hour in politicks and play. 

 Tiie Duke, o'erjoy'd that his Italian dame 

 Could in so old an hero raise a' flame. 

 With an ambitious pleasure (as 'tis said) 

 Led her himself unto the Royall bed." 



" LIBERA NOS DOMINE. 



" From a dozen of Peers made all of a start, 

 To save Harley from scaffold, and St. John from a cart. 

 From discarding the Duke* when nobodv knows 

 Any cause of demeritt but beating our fo'es. 

 From General! Ormonde, as silly as poor, 

 Whose courage and witt lyes in keeping a whore. 

 From a Peeress advanc'd from trundling of brooms. 

 From brushing of cobwebs, and scrubbing of rooms. 

 From Shrew— y's Dutchess, exalted by fate 

 From bandying of whores to be chief band of state, 



Whose husband at Rome our faith did surrender. 

 And swore to the Pope and his godson Pretender. 

 From a treas'rer* will drink, lye, swear, and pray. 

 And bribe Scots Lords with the civill list paj' ; 

 Whom St. Germain's equip'd with Catholick 'whores. 

 And old Lewis retain'd with his lewidores ; 

 Who sacrific'd Grigg to save his own neck. 

 And may serve Prior so by another such trick. 

 From St. John's the bloodj', and Pawlett the cat ; 

 From Mulgrave the sharper, and Beaufort the bratt. 

 From those that would sett our religion and laws, 

 And betray our Queen to promote Perkin's cause. 

 " Give 'em gibbetts and haltars good store ; 

 And from the French harper preserve us once more." 



No. 315.] 



Marlborough. 



MILTON AND NAPOLEON \ JVOTE TO " PARADISE 

 LOST." 



Amonf^ some books purchased at Puttick and 

 Simpson's two years since, was a copy of Syra- 

 mons's Life of Milton. Having lately occasion 

 to examine it more than I hitherto had done, I 

 found it contained many notes and remarks in the 

 handwriting of a former possessor, J. Brown. 

 Who this gentleman was I know not, and the fol- 

 lowing note must be taken on his authority, not 

 mine : 



"In this Life of Milton, by Dr. Symmons, p. 551. is a 

 note, to which this notice may be appended : 



" Napoleon Bonaparte declared to Sir Colin Campbell, 

 who had charge of his person at the Isle of Elba, that he 

 was a great admirer of our Jlilton's Paradise Lost, and 

 that he had read it to some purpose, for that the plan of 

 the battle of Austerlitz he borrowed from the sixth book 

 of that work, where Satan brings his Artillery to bear 

 upon Michael and his Angelic Host with such direful 

 effect : 



" ' Training his devilish enquiry, impal'd 



On every side with shadowing squadrons deep, 

 To hide the fraud.^ 



" This neia mode of warftire appeared to Bonaparte so 

 likely to succeed, if applied to actual use, that he de- 

 termined upon its adoption, and succeeded beyond ex- 

 pectation. A reference to the details of that battle 

 will be found to assimilate .so completely with Milton's 

 imaginary fight, as to leave no doubt of the assertion. 

 J. Brown. 



" P. S. I had this fact from Colonel Stanhope, who had 

 just heard it related by Colonel Campbell himself. Colonel 

 Stanhope was then at Stowe, the Marquis of Bucking- 

 ham's, where I was dining and heard it repeated. It has 

 never to my knowledge been in print, nor have I ever 

 heard the circumstance repeated by any one but myself. 



"Colonel Stanhope has been long dead, as well as 

 Colonel Campbell. The time of my hearing the above 

 was 1815. J. B." 



This anecdote, to say the least, is a very re- 

 markable one, and, I believe, bears the impress of 

 truth upon it. If it is correct, it is indeed a 

 tribute to our illustrious poet, that such a man as 

 Napoleon should have owned his influence. What 

 would Dr. Channing have said to it ? One gen- 

 tleman who has made Milton the subject of an 

 admirable book, has stated to me his conviction of 



* Harley. . 



