a great havoc among the Highlanders, many of them men of note, who still continue to live in grateful song. No. 10. For lighting us safe thro' Drumochter.-P. 203. A part of the Grampian mountains over which the military road is carried; it is impassable in severe winters, and one travels through twenty miles of ensire solitude, interrupted only by an inn built amid the waste, at the public expence. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY DUNDAS, WITH A POEM ON THE DEATH OF SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY. Now when the thunder of dread War is o'er, sketch'd his way, Bid him to Afric stem the hostile flood, And hear th' applauding world that fame resound And taste unmix'd the sweets of fair renown: And when you see your country's troubles cease, And Commerce flourish in the shades of Peace, The will Divine with sacred awe revere, Nor think such blessings can be bought too dear! ON THE DEATH OF SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY, KNIGHT OF THE BATH. BLEST was the Chief, who full of days and fame, And felt soft melting in his generous breast While crowding barks his sevenfold mouth invade : And POMPEY's pillar trembles to its base: When thundering cannons mow whole squadrons down; |