462 The Massacre of St. Bartholomew. [ May, 
of Protestant gentlemen and their families were murdered in cold 
blood, on the mere assumption of their being “ heretics.” 
Charles II. with the papists in England and abroad, was on the very 
verge of producing a general popish insurrection, aided by a foreign 
army, and that the original depositions of Titus Oates were true, though 
he subsequently disgraced their truth by the perjuries with which he 
strove to sustain himself as an object of public interest. 
We deprecate all those fearful consequences ; but it is the knowledge 
that those consequences have always followed hitherto, that makes us so 
deeply deprecate the measure that has been forced upon the country. 
God grant that they may not follow ; that the national voice so strongiy 
raised against the measure, may have reached a higher tribunal than the 
throne of man, and have averted the punishment ‘of tergiversation and 
apostacy at least from the people. None will be more rejoiced at the un- 
broken’ tranquillity of the empire than ourselves; but we must long 
tremble. 
THE WARRIORS, 
Long life to the men of the pistols and swords! - 
Long life to the men that can eat their own words! 
Long life to the flyers ! long life to the fighters ! 
Long life to the holy Lord Curtis's writers! 
Tol de rol. 
Long life to the warrior, so gay and galiant, 
That neither the duke nor the devil could daunt, 
Who swore by his whiskers he’d die on the spot, 
Or he’d make certain ministers know what was what! 
Tol de rol. 
. Long life to the swearer ! long life to the throng, 
That shouted from shore as his yacht flew along! 
Long life to the tear that he dropt for his cows, 
For his daughters, and Wellesley’s sweet eiedevant spouse ! 
Tol de rol. 
And long life to the wisdom that tempered his vigour, 
And bade him put up in its case his hair trigger ; 
And whispered him, ‘ Asses have no brains to spare ; 
So go and beg pardon—Ground arms!—As you were !” 
Tol de rel. 
* And knowing henceforth that your head and your buff 
Are gifted by nature with lead quite enough, 
Go, make up your mind that your buff rand your hea | 
Shall be safe from all lining, except their own lead.” 
Tol de rol. 
Now long life to all heroes, on horse or on foot ! 
Long life to the talkers! long life to the mute ! 
Long life to the trickers ! long life to the tricked ! 
Long life to the kickers! long life to the kicked ! 
Tol de rol. 
Long life to the man that can swallow his Spa ! 
Long life to the great, and long life to the little! 
_ Long life to the slave that can simper and spraw] ! 
And long life to the Marquis, the Marshal, and all ! 
Tol de rol. 
There is now: 
no doubt on the mind of any reasonable man, that the tampering of 
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