Literary Cadet And Rhode Island Statesman

The following lines, are copied for the wit they contain and were selected by the Editor of the New-York Telegraph from London papers, received at his office. They are after the style of Peter Pindar, and are intended to ridicule Lord Bathurst's sudden retirement from an office to which he had but recently been promoted.

LAMENT FOR THE LOSS OF LORD BATHURST'S
TAIL.*

All in a train—unlinked forlorn!
Yet, ah, one adjunct still we miss:
One tender tie, attached so long
To the main trunk, it knew not right and wrong,
Why, Bathurst, why didst thou cut off
That ministerial tail of thine?

Why—midst the wreck of wig and mace—
Thy place be with thy place erased,
And thus, at once, both butt and run!
Alas, my lord, 'twas as well done,
Tho' sad at heart—tho' linked
From other and in wrecks apart,
Yet thy of coming in again,
Sweet sober hope: unrival'd pain!

But this lo! this tail of thine,
Tho' long, long year over relying digo,
As if the State and all its proud
By tenacious in tail were bound,
To own it thus by acclamots full,
This was "Th' unlinked end of all!"

It seem'd as tho' th' ascendant day
Or Toryism had pass'd away,
And, proving Knigmoo's word true,
The butt her tigoir with less grace.

Parties are much like fish, 'tis said,
The tail directs their, might the head;
Then, how can any party Gill,
That steer'd its course by Bathurst's tail!

No Murat's plume, thro' Wagram's dust,
E'er shed such guiling thus from K,
As erst, in all true Tories' sight,
Blaz'd from our old colonial cue!

If you, my lord, a Pasha were,
(As Wellington will te amxm)
Thou might'st have had a tail to spare
But no, alas, thou hast but one,
And that—like Tory, or Babylon,
A tale of ulcer lines—is told!

Yet—weep ye not, ye Torie true,
Yale has not yet (if all bereft us)
Tho' thus depriv'd of Bathurst's gusxs,
Let us Eldenborough's luree fill that w i—
Those curls, from which young Love, to vhchuu
His nlots, an from hine prundors, hruce 1

Time nightly cusk, whkts, in dcteto,
Kurchart'd with all a nal kon's Mho
His Lordship shakra, as Homer's God did,t
Nay, on tn Uxanderins talk corba noer bl4 1
E xce" t (imt, t.ere, Ahe spreker mudded,
An.J, "irre, 'Lir ot'Jy Uxmc wbo hoer Lum.

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T"ii dorr to Turis, gven in death,
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