392 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



Scmotfo et Canadre barbaru3 incola, 



Diiris pellibus horridus, 

 Senserunt Britonum quid potuit manws, 

 Fortune comite et Consilio duce : 

 Duni portu latuit Gallia conscio, 



Vcntis snrda Tocantibita 

 Orbem jam dubiis undique pra;rns 

 Vo-xatum, ad Superos sidere Julio 

 Evecto, ecce tuis, maxime Prineipuoi, 



Pacandum auspiciis videa ! 



" Grieve not that thou, a novice, art plunging into tbe very midst of 

 tlae waves of public affairs. Lo ! at thy side, young Octavius, sits an 

 Agrippa, powerful in speech and counsel. While he vpith fearless hand 

 hath been guiding the reins of ruthless war, the African, sunburnt to 

 blackness, and the savage denizens of far Canada, shaggily covered 

 with undressed skins, have felt what a band of Britons, attended by 

 good fortune and guided by prudence, could do. Whilst deaf to the 

 winds inviting her forth, Gaul hath within her secret haven hidden 

 herself, lo ! thou, greatest of princes, now that the star of Julius 

 has risen to the skies, beholdest the whole globe, long harassed on every 

 side by dubious strifes, destined under thy auspices to be reduced to 

 peace." 



■ In November 20-22, 1759, Admiral Sir Edward Hawks, at the 

 head of thirty-three ships of the line and frigates, partly destroyed and 

 partly drove back into the river Villaine, the Brest fleet : 



• "In attacking a flying enemy," Sir Edward, in his despatch, says, "it was 

 impossible, in the space of a short winter's day, that all our ships should be able 

 to get into action, or all those of the enemy brought to it. The commanders 

 and companies of such as did come up with the rear of the French, behaved with 

 the greatest intrepidity, and gave the strongest proof of a true British spirit. 

 In the same manner, I am satisfied, would those have acquitted themselves, whose 

 "bad-going ships, or the distance they were at in the morning, prevented from 

 getting up. When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day 

 of action, a flying enemy, the shortness of the day, and the coast we were on, I 

 can boldly affirm, that all that could possibly be done, has been done. Had w© 

 had but two hours more daylight, the whole had been totally destroyed, or taken, 

 for we were almost up with their van when night overtook us." 



From one of the exercises in Greek verse, I made a brief excerpt, 

 because it exhibited the name of Canada, which, as we have seen 

 before, falls very readily into the ranks, in the nomenclature of the 

 Greek language. J. Wills, scholar of Wadham, laments the death of 

 (the King in a strain quite Theocritean, thus : 



