A FRIENDLY APOLOGY FOR A CERTAIN JUSTICE OF PEACE, BY WAY OF DEFENCE OF HARTLEY HUTCHINSON, ESQ. "But he by bawling news about, To punish rogues who do the same." HUDIE. BY JAMES BLACK-WELL, OPERATOR FOR THE FEET. ISING the man of courage try'd, The fact was glorious, we must own, 'Twas once the noblest of his wishes So, The Libel feels his first attack; He calls it a seditious paper, Writ by another patriot Drapier ; Then raves and blunders nonsense thicker So, Ajax, who, for aught we know, To run a bawling news-boy through; * Colonel Ker, a Scotchman, lieutenant-colonel to lord Harrington's regiment of dragoons, who made a news-boy evidence against the printer, F. HORACE, IF HORACE, PART OF BOOK I. SAT. VI.* PARAPHRASED. 1733. F noisy Tom should in the senate prate, "That he would answer both for church and state; And, further to demonstrate his affection, Would take the kingdom into his protection:" All mortals must be curious to inquire, Who could this coxcomb be, and who his sire? "What! thou, the spawn of him who sham'd our isle, Traitor, assassin, and informer vile! Though by the female side § you proudly bring, To mend your breed, the murderer of a king: What was thy grandsire,||but a mountaineer, Who held a cabin for ten groats a year: Whose master Moore ¶ preserv'd him from the halter! Forstealing cows; nor could he read the Psalter! * Qui promittit, cives, urbem sibi curæ, Sir Thomas Prendergast. F. HOR. i. Sat. vi. 34-39. The father of sir Thomas Prendergast, who engaged in a plot to murder king William III; but, to avoid being hanged, turned informer against his associates, for which he was rewarded with a good estate, and made a baronet. F. § Cadogan's family. F. A poor thieving cottager under Mr. Moore, condemned at Clonmell assizes to be hanged for stealing cows. F. The grandfather of Guy Moore, esq. who procured him a pardon. F. Durst * Durst thou, ungrateful from the senate chace Thy founder's grandson, and usurp his place? Just heaven! to see the dunghill bastard brood Survive in thee, and make the proverb good ?† Then vote a worthy citizen ‡ to jail In spite of justice, and refuse his bail!" VERSES SENT TO THE DEAN ON HIS BIRTH-DAY, WITH PINE'S HORACE FINELY BOUND. BY DR. J. SICAN. -(Horace speaking.) YOU'VE read, sir, in poetic strain, Guy Moore was fairly elected member of parliament for Clonmell; but sir Thomas, depending upon his interest with a certain party then prevailing, and since known by the title of parsonhunters, petitioned the house against him; out of which he was turned upon pretence of bribery, which the paying of his lawful debts was then voted to be. F. F. "Save a thief from the gallows, and he will cut your throat." Mr George Faulkner. Mr. serjeant Bettesworth, a member of the Irish parliament, having made a complaint to the house of commons against the "Satire on Quadrille," they voted Faulkner the printer into custody (who was confined closely in prison three days, when he was in a very bad state of health, and his life in much danger) for not discovering the author. F. § This ingenious young gentleman was unfortunately murdered N. in Italy. Upon Upon a plain repast to dine, And taste my old Campanian wine; What though your Oxfords and your St. Johns, With many chiefs who now are dormant, |