, though nameless, never disavowed, at once I tear the veil away:

the pack! the Quarry stands at bay, by all the din of MELBOURNE house,

E's resentment, or by HOLLAND's spouse, EY's harmless pistol, HALLAM's rage, rawny sons and brimstone page.

in Buckram shall have blows enough, they too are "penetrable stuff:"

gh I hope not hence unscathed to go, quers me, shall find a stubborn foe.

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hath been, when no harsh sound would fall

that now may seem imbued with gall,

nor follies tempt me to despise

est thing that crawled beneath my eyes ;

G

a scribbler bids me kiss,

and crowds applaud or hiss :

h all my rival rhymesters frown,

oetaster down;

pof, the gauntlet cast at once

ler, and to Southern dunce.

ared to do; how far my lay

se righteous times let others say; , which knows not how to spare,

unjustly, now declare.

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My Northe wards their

was to be do slandering," duced facts a

my free opin

ger was ever

en informed, since the present edition went to the Press, y and well beloved cousins, the Edinburgh Reviewers, are most vehement critique on my poor, gentle, unresisting they have already so bedeviled with their ungodly ri

"Tantæne animis cælestibus Iræ!"

nust say of JEFFREY as Sir ANDREW AGUE-CHEEK saith, hown he was so cunning of fence, I had seen him damned Ought him." What a pity it is that I shall be beyond the efore the next number has passed the Tweed. But I yet my pipe with it in Persia.

n friends have accused me, with justice, of personality toeat literary Anthropophagus, JEFFREY; but what else e with him and his dirty pack, who feed "by lying and End slake their thirst by "evil speaking?" I have ad-eady well known, and of JEFFREY's mind I have stated , nor has he thence sustained any injury;-what scaveniled by being pelted with mud? It may be said that I

n the vulgar tongue, there is no spirit now-a

ed Hewson Clarke (Subaudi, Esquire,) a Sizer
1 I believe a Denizen of Berwick upon Tweed,
I in these pages to much better company than he
meet: he is, notwithstanding, a very sad dog,
can discover, except a personal quarrel with a
mbridge to sit for a fellowship, and whom the
cotemporaries prevented from success, has been
is worse, the defenceless innocent above men-
for one year and some months. I am utterly
ven him any provocation; indeed I am guiltless
e, till it was coupled with the Satirist. He has
complain, and I dare say that, like Sir Fretful
leased than otherwise. I have now mentioned all
honour to notice me and mine, that is, my Bear

me with kind

on, I will end

of thanksgivi of SCOTT, I

indness when a boy, and whatever he may say or do," pour Endure." I have nothing further to add, save a general note ving to readers, purchasers, and publisher, and in the words I wish

"To all and each a fair good night,

"And rosy dreams and slumbers light."

FINIS.

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