SPIRIT

OF THE

PUBLIC JOURNALS

FOR

1806.

BEING

AN IMPARTIAL SELECTION

OF THE MOST INGENIOUS

ESSAYS AND JEUX D'ESPRITS

THAT APPEAR IN THE

NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND ANECDOTES

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VOL. X.

To be continued Annually.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, NO. 179, PICCADILLY,

OPPOSITE BOND STREET.

1807.

S. Gotwall, Printer, Little Queen Street.

Lines by Mr. O'Keeffe, on the Rev. Mr. Cambridge» sto

having had a Seat put up for him in his Meadows

Impromptu on feeing a Notice to Parties not to dine

in the Meadows of a Clergyman on the Banks of

the Thames

The Inchcape Rock

The Blind Lover to his Mistress

Pawlitski and Aravine-

Impromptu on the difgraceful Exhibition of the Re-

mains of Lord Nelfon in St. Paul's Cathedral

Epigram on the fame

The Weathercock, No. I.-XIX.

Impromptu on Female Dress

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28

ib.

30

131

35

ib.

35-99

99

On the pretended Prophecy, that fome Days ago

Water parted from the Sea,

Would increase the River's Tide

The Manifefto which Bonaparte ought to have published

The Peafant and his Afs

On feeing a Hawk purfued by a Flock of Swallows

Bank Incommodation

⚫ Anecdote of the late King of Pruffia

The Turf

Love abused

The Bacchanalian Rivals

To an angry Rival on declining a Challenge

The Dream of Anacreon

The Swallow

The Argument, from Anacreon

War: a Parody on Anacreon's Ode to his Lyre

Impromptu from a Gentleman in Reply to the Re-

buke of a beautiful Woman, to whom he happened

... to make a Vifit immediately after having paid his
Devotions to the jolly God

Bath Feftivities

A cooling Recipe

To the Ladies: a Proclamation

Revenue Cutters

y

Anticipation of Linois's Account of his Engagement

with our Eaft India Ships under Captain Dance

Occafional Prologue spoken on board the Britannia,

off Cadiz

Trafalgar: October 21, 1805

The Battle of Trafalgar

To the Memory of Lord Nelfon

The Monody of Merton

Tribute to the Memory of Lord Nelfon

Lines to Lord Nelfon, with his Night-cap, that caught

fire on the Poet's Head as he was reading in Bed at

Merton. By Peter Pindar

Monody on the Death of Marquis Cornwallis

The Volunteer

War Song for the Edinburgh Cavalry Affociation

Gaelic Ode

Lines to Lord Melville on his vifiting North Britain

fhortly after retiring from Office

Orpheus

132

The Cocknies puzzled about the Name of the new

Ballet

133

Merit neglected

ib..

Rondeau

134

Different Species of Drunkenness

ib.

Card-table Epitaph

ib.

How to lofe a Husband

135

Judge