addressed to Mr. Baldwin, member for Shropshire, who had complained of his being admitted under the gallery, and having said that "he gloried in his situation":—
"Squire Baldwin rose with deep intent,
And notified to Parliament,
That I (it was a shame, a sin),
When others were shut out, got in;
Asserting in his wise oration,
'I gloried in my situation.'
Perhaps my features might betray,
Unusual joy I felt that day.
I glory when my mind is feasted
With dainties it has seldom tasted;
When reason chooses Fox's tongue
To be more rapid, clear, and strong.
When, from his classic urn, Burke pours
A copious stream thro' beds of flowers:
When Thurlow's words attention find,
The spells of a superior mind.
When Barré, stern with accents deep,
Calls up Lord North and murders sleep;
And if his Lordship rise to speak
Then wit and argument awake.
Now whether I am Whig or Tory
This was a time for me to glory;
My glory further still extends,
For most of these I call my friends;
But if Squire Baldwin, you were hurt,
To see me as you thought so pert,
You might, to punish my transgression,
Have dumbed my triumph of expression,
Have changed my looks of joy and gladness
To dull, desponding, sober sadness.
A beast there is whose voice confounds
And frights all others with strange sounds:
Like him your matchless powers displaying,
Had you, Squire Baldwin, set a braying,
I should have lost all exultation,
Nor gloried in my situation."
Notwithstanding the eloquence which so affected Garrick, Barré was about this time the subject of a laughable incident. During the recess, Richard Tickell had published an amusing pamphlet entitled Anticipations of the coming Session, in which he took off the peculiarities of the chief speakers in Parliament, with much humour and
