The Impeachment of the House of Brunswick. Bradlaugh Charles

           "Though Newcastle's false, as he's silly I know,

           By betraying old Robin to me long ago,

           As well as all those who employed him before,

           Yet I leave him in place, but I leave him no power.

           "For granting his heart is as black as his hat,

           With no more truth in this than there's sense beneath that,

           Yet, as he's a coward, he'll shake when I frown;

           You called him a rascal, I'll use him like one.

           "For your foreign affairs, howe'er they turn out,

           At least I'll take care you shall make a great rout;

           Then cock your great hat, strut, bounce, and look bluff,

           For, though kick'd and cuff'd here, you shall there kick and cuff

           "That Walpole did nothing they all used to say,

           So I'll do enough, but I'll make the dogs pay;

           Great-fleets I'll provide, and great armies engage,

           Whate'er debts we make, or whate'er wars we wage!

           "With cordials like these the monarch's new guest

           Reviv'd his sunk spirits, and gladdened his breast;

           Till in rapture he cried, 'My dear Lord, you shall do

           Whatever you will – give me troops to review.'"

           "I'll tell you a story as strange as 'tis new,

           Which all who're concerned will allow to be true,

           Of a Balancing Captain, well known hereabouts,

           Returned home (God save him) a mere king of clouts.

           "This Captain he takes in a gold ballasted ship,

           Each summer to terra damnosa a trip,

           For which he begs, borrows, scrapes all he can get,

           And runs his poor owners most vilely in debt.

           "The last time he set out for this blessed place,

           He met them, and told them a most piteous case,

           Of a sister of his, who, though bred up at court,

           Was ready to perish for want of support.

           "This Hung'ry sister he then did pretend,

           Would be to his owners a notable friend,

           If they would at that critical juncture supply her;

           They did – but, alas! all the fat's in the fire!"

           "He then turns his sister adrift, and declares

           Her most mortal foes were her father's right heirs:

           'G – d z – ds!' cries the world, 'such a step was ne'er taken!'

           'Oh, oh!' says Moll Bluff, 'I have saved my own bacon.

           "'Let France damn the Germans, and undamn the Dutch,

           And Spain on old England pish ever so much;

           Let Russia bang Sweden, or Sweden bang that,

           I care not, by Robert, one kick of my hat!

           "'Or should my chous'd owners begin to look sour,

           I'll  trust to mate Bob to exert his old power,

           Regit animos dictis, or numis with ease

           So, spite of your growling, I'll act as I please!'"

           "This secret, however, must out on the day

           When he meets his poor owners to ask for his pay;

           And I fear, when they come to adjust the account,

           A zero for balance will prove their amount."