Politics & government

The Joiner's Taſte:

Or, the Truth of it.

COME let us prepare,
Ye freemen that are,
Aſſembled on honeſt occaſion;
At every aſſociation.

                      II

He's brave and will ſtand,
When freemen command,
At all times he'll follow inſtruction,
Then pray bring him in,
He'll ſilence the din,
Of magiſterial oppreſſion.

                      III.

The Old Fox, O rare,
Has offer'd his heir,
From the brood we expect no protection
The Cub we all know,
Did freedom forego,*
Diſcard him then at the election.

                      IV.

Let Delaval's name,
Your boſoms inflame,
No honeſt ſoul can have objection,
He ſtood to our cauſe,
Supported our laws,†
Bring him in then at the election.

                      V.

Then Britons rejoice,
At Newcaſtle's choice,
And follow their glorious example,
The ſenate will then,
Meet once honeſt men,
And all the tyrants of Britons expel

* After he dined with the minority, at the
William Beckford,) the next day he joined
an abandoned majority, in an addreſs to
his -

† He took the chair for us in the Remon-
ſtrance affair, when we were deſerted by our
own members, who laughed at our inſtruc-
tions, and diſcountenances our petition to
the throne.