12 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
England’s triumphant Genius soar’d on high, '" 
And led her daring bands to victory. 
Since, ere the recent wounds of War are heal’d, 
Gallia’s stern tyrant dares us to the field, 
- Let this proud record ey’ry feeling nerve, 
And teach us new distinétions to deserye.. 
While Cressy, Potétiers, Agincourt, proclain 
Our ancient prowess, and our Foeman’s shame ; 
Acre, Lincelles, and Egypt's blood-stain’d plain, 
Prove, in their sons, their virtues bloom again. 
When, fairly pitted in the tented field, 
To Gallic force did British valour yield ? 
When, if your gallant tars they dare to face, »« 
Did Conquest’s meed their puny efforts grace ? 
And shall we now, though on their adverse coast 
Drawn, out, in arms appears their savage host, 
Enflam’d by vengeance, avarice, hate, and lust, 
Shall we our own resources dread to trust? 
No! while our hands the patriot-sward can rear, 
While every Briton is a Volunteer, 
We'll circle round our altars and our throne, 
And prove our fathers’ virtues are our own. 
Like them our hearts with honest zeal expand, 
’ We love, and can defend our native land ; 
‘Like their’s, our Monancu is his people’s friend 3 
He too has Sons our Island to defend; 
And, whether on the coasts of faithless France, 
To check a despot’s rage, our hosts advance; 
Or, our own laws and liberties to save, 
On England’s shores his mad attack we brave. 
Let us our great forefathers’ worth recall, 
Resolv’d to triumph, or like men to fall. 
AS) 
OCCASIONAL ADDRESS TO THE VOLUNTEERS, 
Writien by Wri.t1am Boscawen, Esq. 
Spoken by Mr. C. Kemsrx, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on Fri- 
day, 25th November,-1803, after the Performance of the Play of ‘‘ King 
Henry the Fifth,” for the Benefit of the Patriotic Fund. 
N Spartan bands to wake heroic fire, 
Renown’d Tyrrzxus strung his martial lyre ; 
Tyrraxus, lame and weak, unskill’d to wield 
The flying spear, or grasp the ponderous shield ; 
Nor by.cxperience taught in just array 
.) + To form the files, and guide the doubiful fray ; ! 
ret, 
