1807.] 
Tt gives one pain, 
And turns one’s brain, 
One can’t keep time to fuch a ftrain z 
‘Whereas, the cuckoo’s nute 
Is meafured and compofed with thought 5. 
His method is diftinet and clear, 
And dwells 
Like bells 
Upon the ear, 
Which is the fweeteft mufic one can hear, 
J can diftinguifh, Pll lay a wager, 
His manner and expreilion 
From every forrefer and cager 
Or the profetlion.” 
Thus ended the difpute 5 
The cuckoo was quite mute 
With admiration ; 
The lark food laughing at the brute, 
Affecting fo much penetration. 
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143 
The afs was fo intoxicated, 
And fhallow-pated, 
That ever fince 
He has got a fancy in his fkull, 
That he’s a commiffion from his prince, 
Dated when the moon’s at full, 
To fummon every foul, 
Every afs and affes’ foal, 
To try the quick and dull ; 
Trumpeting through the fields and ftreets, 
Stopping and jading all he meets 5 . 
Pronouncing with an air 
Of one pronouncing from the chair, 
Here isa beauty ! this is new ! 
And that’s a blemifh, 
For which I have no relifh !— 
Juft like the Critican Review! 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS, 
ee ~ eee J 
THE LATE GENERAL PAOLLI. 
Queftg grand’uomo mandato per Dio a 
liberare la Patria.”’* 
“NELEBRATED men have ajuft claim 
C to the attention of the. public. 
Thew lves are not only accompanied 
wath a certain degree ot fplendour that 
delights, but allo with a varety of in- 
a 
~ 
formation, which cannot fail to in- 
firuct, 
Refpecting fuch of our own country- 
men as have acquired a dazzling reputa- 
tion, we are ‘always eager to afcertain 
the origin, and to trace the progre{s, of 
their greatnefs; while we neceffarily con- 
template foreigners with a diminithed 
degree of curiotity. In the prefent in- 
fiance, however, we behold a ftranger, 
who interefis us to the full as much as if 
he had been a native; for he has not 
only refided among us for a feries of 
years, but has been confidered the adopt- 
ed child of a country, in conjunction 
with which he had acted and fought. In 
fhort, he has been long cherifhed, pro- 
tected, and patronifed in Great Britain, 
where he tound an afylum during 
the latter part of an eventful life; and 
if he has eat the bread of the nation, 
it has at leaft been nobly aud. honourably 
earned. 
Signor Pafquale Paoli was horn at 
Roftino, in the ifland of Corfica, (as 
would appear from a variety of circum- 
fiances,) in the year 1746. He was the 
— 
* ACorfican proverb, applied to Pacli by 
ANS countrymen. 
fecond fon of Hiacente Pach, who: had 
always been attached to the popular 
caufe; and conleguently was a fworn 
enemy to the Genoefe ; for they had at- 
tempted to fubjugate his native country, 
both by fraud and by arms; and, inftead 
of endeavouring to acquire the attach- 
ment of the nation, had planted the 
feeds of an unconquerable hatred, by 
their rapacioufnefs, thet cruelty, and 
their mjuftice. Uniting a narrow com- 
mercial jealoufy with a fondnefs for fifeal 
tyranny, a capitation, a tithe, and a 
hearth-tax, three of the moft odious im- 
polis that could be devifed, were levied 
with an uncommon degree of finétnefs, 
and that too on a nation totally devoid 
of wealth; while they were, at the fame 
time, deiiitute of the means of fupport- 
ing their new burthens, by being des 
prived of trade and manufactures. But 
this was net all; for the poor Genoefe 
nobles, who had modeftly appended the 
royal crown of Corfica* to the arms of 
the republic, were fent over, from time 
to time, to enrich themfelves withthe 
{poils of an impoverifhed people; and, 
like the Baillis of Switzerland, pay their 
debts, and redeem their cattles, by 
means of every {pecies of oppreflion, 
* The bank of St. George had a much 
better claim to the honour of emblazoning a 
crown on its paper money, as it atually ad« 
vanced the whole of the treafure for the exe: 
tinction of certain claims on the part of the 
Kings of Naples and Arragon, and received 
in return the ifland of Corfica, by way of 
mortgage. 
