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512] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
The Bengal Squad he fed, though wondrous nice ; 
Baring his curry took, and Scott his rice, 
Loyal and open, and liberal of cash, 
(Not your damn’d dollars (s) or Bank-paper trash) 
Nor tax, nor loan he feared, at table free, 
And drank the Minister with three times three ; 
Till with a pun old Caleb (z) crown’d the whole, 
© Consols, and not philosophy, conss/e.’* 
He talked, like Indian (z) Rennell rather long ; 
And would at time regaie you with a song: 
But seldom that ; in music though a prig, 
The little Doétor swell’d, and look’d so big : 
Nay to Greek (x) notes would trill a Grecian ode, 
In diatonic kind and Lydian mode, 
And then with Burney, as his fit grew warmer, 
Convers’d of Stentor, the great (9) throat-performer ; 
Or with Raimondi’s fire, and warlike art, 
Play’d some French General’s obligato part. 
Banks gave hii morning lessons how to dress, 
And Morgan (z) whisper’d courage and finesse. 
“ Prens moi 1a bon parti; laisse la tous les livres. 
& Exerce-toi, mon fils, dans ces hautes sciences; 
“ Prens au lieu d’un Platon, ce Guidon des Finances.” 2 
Avis de Boileau, Sat. 8. 
fs) This verse was evidently written after the 26th of Feb. 1797, after the order 
ef Council was sent to the Bank of England, when the whole nation was made 
to pass through the pillars of Hercules; or, in plain English, to take dollars for current 
silver. 
3 (t}) Caleb Whitefoord, Fsq.—N. B. If you do but touch him, puns stand as ready 
a quills upon the fretful porcupine. (wish him health and spirits for many a year, 
in a green old age; and then with the Epinicion of Horace, Vita cedat, uti 
conviva satur. 
(u) Major James Renaell, the great Geographer of India, 6 raw. A gentleman 
to whose accuracy and extent of knowledge this country is considerably indebted. 
But this has nothing to do with his conversation. 
(x) Dr. Morosophos, the man of method, was rather troublesome to his friends on 
this subject of Greek Music. He wished to pass for another Meibomius. But there 
js still reason to think that he never saw the three hymns to Calliope, Apollo, and 
Nemesis, printed with the Greck musical notes to which they were sung, at the end of 
the Oxford edition of Aratus in 1672, by Dr. Fell, or the more accurate copy of these 
hymns in Mr. Burette’s Memoire on this subject. Memoires de l’Academie des. In- 
scriptions, tom. 5.—Dr. Morosophos knew but little of the system of the Lydian Mode 
in the diatenic genus. There is also reason to think that he knew as little as Bishop 
Horsley, of the TpocAcpCavopitvos, or the Yrarn uadiwr, or the Tlapurorn prow, &e- 
(y) “ Stentor is celebrated by Homer as the most illustrious throat performer of an- 
tiquity.” Burney’s Hist. of Music, 4to. vol. i. p. 340. 
_ (x) Maurice Morgan, Esq. an ingenious writer, author of the pleasant Extrava- 
genza onthe Courage of Sir John Falstaff. Mr, Morgan is known to his friends by 
the name of Sir “fol. Jn his politics, he is of the Lansdown Schooh — 
q ‘A. Poet 
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