€38 YONGE STREET AND DUNDAS STREET. 



Is there (since gone is that great band 

 Who ruled with Freedom's liberal hand) 



'Mong those who power resume. 

 One on whom pubhc faith can rest — 

 One fit to wear a Chatham's vest 



And cheer a nation's gloom ? 



MelviUe ! to aid thy batter'd fame, 

 Thy monarch's secret favour claim, 



His pulse at Windsor feel ! 

 A Privy Councillor you soar ; 

 God grant you may be nothing more. 

 Or, farewell public weal ! 

 * * * * * 



Young Jenky, you've no cause to mourn 

 Tho' Whigs your servile conduct scorn, 



Your Cinque Ports cannot fail : 

 You thank your stars that Pitt's a corse. 

 Nor care, tho' patriots till they're hoarse 



At you and Melville rail." 



Some appended notes explain that the " Crafty Jenky," of the first 

 stanza, meant Sir Charles Jenkinson, the fii'st Lord Liverpool, " Lord 

 Bute's scrub," as the annotator speaks; whilst the "Young Jenky" 

 of the last stanza is his son, who, on the death of Pitt, became his 

 successor as "Warden of the Cinque Ports, thus following his father 

 in the road of place and preferment — "plus passibus sequis," the 

 annotator observes. Another title of the Earls of Liverpool was 

 Baron Hawkesbury ; whence our Hawkesbury on the Ottawa. 



But after the death of Pitt, Melville was little inclined to enter 

 again on public life. He henceforward remained chiefly in retirement, 

 taking part only occasionally in the debates of the House of Lords. 



Lockhart informs us that Lord Melville, after his fall, used to be a 

 constant visitor at Sir Walter's house, in Castle Street, in Edinburgh, 

 and that " the old statesman entered with such simple-heartedness 

 into all the ways of the happy circle, that it came to be an established 

 rule for the children to sit up to supper whenever Lord Melville dined ■ 

 there." " In private life," we are told by Robert Chambers, " his 

 manner was winning, agreeable and friendly, with great frankness 

 and ease. He was convivial in his habits, and, in the intercourse of 

 private life, he never permitted party distinctions to interfere with 

 the cordiality and kindness of his disposition ; hence it has been truly 

 said," Boberfc Chambers remarks, "that Whig and Tory agreed in 



