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exMbited ia the streets during tlie rejoicings for successes ia the East 

 and West. The Latin signature at the end informs us that Mr. Bernard 

 was the eldest son of a baronet. It thus runs : " Robertus Bernard, 

 Bar. Fil. Nat. Max., ex ^de Christi, sup. ord. com." He apostro- 

 phises Britain : 



prole gestiens virum, Britaauia, 



Cui CEerulse per impotentia freta 



Dedere fasces imperi Nereides, 



Quali tuorum Iseta plausu compita, 

 .Cum rapta Georgio viderent auspice 



Tropoea victis hostibus deducier ! 



Hie aurifer reconditos Ganges sinus 



Tibi reclusit ; hie pater Laurentius 



Ibat minori vortice ; hie portus tuos 



Alaeris subacto pinus intrat Hespero, &c. &c. 



"0 Britain! rejoicing in a progeny of true men, to whom over all 

 the raging seas the green Nereids have given the fasces of empire, with 

 what cheering from thy sons were thy streets made joyous, when, under 

 the auspices of thy George, they beheld the trophies won from the 

 vanquished foe borne along ! Here for thee the gold-bearing Ganges 

 disclosed its sinuous windings long concealed : here St. Lawrence 

 (pater Laurentius) flowed, its whirling tide abashed : here, the Western 

 world subdued, thy swift barks are seen entering its ports, now thine 

 own.'' 



John Wodehouse, also the eldest son of a baronet, and a fellow-com- 

 moner of Christ Church, adopts the metre chosen by Mr. Bernard. He 

 cleverly imagines a veteran narrating, over his cups, to his great grand- 

 son, exploits destined to be performed during the reign of the new Kin'^. 

 He expressly names America, and refers to its vast lakes : 



Festis diebus Isetus inter pocula 

 Miles, revinctus laurea canum caput 

 Hoc Rege gesta, vel triumphos nobiles 

 Jactabit dim : et, Georgii senis memor, 

 Qui militaret ipse patria procul, 

 Quaj dux et ipse gloriosa fecerint : 

 Americae sinus, et immanes lacus, 

 Comata sylvis montium cacumina, 

 Gravesque lapsus fluminum, urbium situs, 

 Et barbarorum corpora, et vultus truces, 

 Et saBva dicat arma, et usus horridos : 

 Dum mira pronepos stupebit audiens, 

 Et vera forsaa credet esse fabulas. 



