Courage and innocence dismay,
And patriot monarchs vainly groan
With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone."

There were pictorial illustrations consisting of political caricatures
of a very gross character, representing men grotesquely deformed, and
sometimes intermixed with monsters, demons, frogs, toads, and other
animals.

One part of the paper was headed "Lies," and another was devoted to
correcting less culpable mis-statements. Some prose satirical pieces
were introduced, such as "Fox's Birthday," in which a mock description
of a grand dinner is given, at which all the company had their pockets
picked. After the delivery of revolutionary orations, and some attempts
at singing "Paddy Whack," and "All the books of Moses," the festival
terminates in a disgusting scene of uproar. Several similar reports are
given of "The Meeting of the Friends of Freedom," upon which occasions
absurd speeches are made, such as that by Mr. Macfurgus, who declaims in
the following grandiloquent style:--

"Before the Temple of Freedom can be erected the surface must be
smoothed and levelled, it must be cleared by repeated revolutionary
explosions, from all the lumber and rubbish with which aristocracy
and fanaticism will endeavour to encumber it, and to impede the
progress of the holy work. The completion of the edifice will
indeed be the more tardy, but it will not be the less durable for
having been longer delayed. Cemented with the blood of tyrants and
the tears of the aristocracy, it will rise a monument for the
astonishment and veneration of future ages. The remotest posterity
with our children yet unborn, and the most distant portions of the
globe will crowd round its gates, and demand admission into its
sanctuary. 'The Tree of Liberty' will be planted in the midst, and
its branches will extend to the ends of the earth, while the
friends of freedom meet and fraternize and amalgamate under its
consolatory shade. There our infants shall be taught to lisp in
tender accents the revolutionary hymn, there with wreaths of
myrtle, and oak, and poplar, and vine, and olive and cypress, and
ivy, with violets and roses and daffodils and dandelions in our
hands, we will swear respect to childhood and manhood, and old age,
and virginity, and womanhood, and widowhood; but above all to the
Supreme Being. There we will decree and sancti