CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 379 



Pacatus orbis consiliis tuis 

 Irrnpta gaudet fcedera jungere, 

 Gentesque Te, Rex, bellicosss 



Compositis venerantur armis. 

 Dediscit artes perfida Gallia ; 

 Mansuesoit Indus, scalpraque projicit, 

 Laurentiique imraite flumen 

 Volvit aquas taciturniores. 

 Mercator audax seqnora transyolat, 

 Plenoque cornu copia cernitur, 



Prandemque propulsat scelusque 

 Eex animo et patria Bi-itannus. 



" The wliole eartL, restored to peace by thy counsels, rejoices in 

 forming inviolable leagues; and warlike nations, unitedly laying aside 

 their arms, venerate thee, King ! Treacherous Gaul" unlearns her 

 wiles : the Indian ceases to be savage, and throws away his dread knife : 

 St. Lawrence's ruthless stream rolls down his waves less ravingly. The 

 daring trader traverses the ocean, and Plenty with full horn is to be 

 seen. Trickery and guilt are utterly repelled by a King in soul, as by 

 birth, a Briton." 



We have, of course, in the closing expression, an allusion to the 

 young King's first speech from the throne, in which, it is said, he 

 inserted with his own hand a paragraph stating that '* he gloried in the 

 name of Briton," thus difi"erencing himself from his immediate prede- 

 cessors, who were German-born. The text of the paragraph referred 

 to is as follows : " Born and educated in this country, I glory in the 

 name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist 

 in promoting the welfare of a people whose loyalty and warm affection 

 to rae I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of rriy 

 throne; and I doubt not but their steadiness in those principles will 

 equal the firmness of my invariable resolution to adhere to and 

 strengthen this excellent constitution in church and state, and to main- 

 tain the toleration inviolable." 



In some vigorous heroic verse, by a fellow of Magdalen, John Hal!, 

 '' S. T. B.," or Bachelor of Theology, we have an express reference to 

 Wolfe, the plains of Abraham, and the conquest of Canada. The 

 lines included in our extract are an indignant address to France : 



En ! Tibi in Hesperiis quo cedunt, Gallia, terris 

 Insidiffi, turpesque doli, cffidesque nefandss ! 

 Divisi impatiens regni, tu cuncta volebas 

 Imperio premere et dominari sola per orbem. 



