gia nostri
_Irrita_, perpetua solvent formidine terras.
_Virg. E._ iv. 13.

(_h_) Alluding perhaps to the contest about removing the seat of
government and public offices from _Spanish Town_ to
_Kingston_, during the administration of governor Kn----s.

(_i_) Pro _relevasse_.

(_k_) Quem vocet divum populus _ruentis_
Imperi _rebus. Hor. Lib._ I. _Od_. ii.

(_l_) Mr. Haldane was a native of North Britain.

(_m_) Tu Ptolomaee potes magni _fulcire ruinam_. Lucan.
_Lib._ viii. 528.

(_n_) This was a promise of somewhat more than antediluvian
longevity. But the poet proved a false prophet, for Mr. Haldane
did not survive the delivery of this address many months.

(_o_) Egerit _justo domitos_ triumpho.
_Hor. Lib._ I. _Od_. xii.

(_p_) _Iris._ Botanic name of the _fleur-de-luce_,
alluding to the arms of France.

(_q_) _Phoebus_, volentem praelia me loqui
Victas et urbes, increpuit lyra
Ne. _Hor_.

(_r_) Invita Minerva. _Hor. de Art. Poet._

(_s_) _Maronis altisoni_ carmina.
_Juv. Sat._ xi. _ver._ 178.

(_t_) _Flammiferas_ rotas toto caelo _agitat_.

(_u_) I apprehend Mr. Williams mistook this for _jubara_, fun beams.

(_w_) This is a _petitio principii_, or begging the question,
unless with Mr. Pope,

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
"Whose body nature is, and God the Soul."
But,
"Far as creation's ample range extends,
"The _Scale_ of sensual _mental_ powers ascends."

(_x_) Mr. Williams has added a _black Muse_ to the Pierian choir;
and, as he has not thought proper to bestow a name upon her, we
may venture to announce her by the title of madam AEthiopissa.

(_y_) _Vade salutatum_ subito perarata parentem
Litera. _Ovid._

(_z_) See his apophthegms before mentioned.

(_a_) _Maurus_ is not in classic strictness proper Latin for a
_Negroe_.

(_b_) _Mollis_ in ore decor. Incert.

(_c_) Me _doctarum_ ederae praemia frontium
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
_Secernunt populo. Hor. Lib. I. Od. 1._

(_d_) Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere. _Virg._

(_e_) Hic ames dici _pater_ atque princeps. _Hor._

(_f_) Serus in coelum redeas, _diuque_