Laud high the god-like Belcher race,

Mendoza, also, stick in,

Dick Humphries,—he who fought with grace, And every mill correctly trace

Of Harry Pearce, The Chicken.

Sing Crib, who fought the giant black,
Who Champion is distinguish'd;
Then Richmond and the negro pack,
And he who, scarce a fortnight back,
The hardy Gas extinguish'd.

Come, Nonpareil, now gaily sing,
But first wet well your whistle :-
Here's health to those who grace the Ring,
Whether for them a Rose may spring,

Or Shamrock, Leek, or Thistle."

LORD BYRON'S " MAZEPPA."

THE dreadful punishment inflicted upon the hero of Lord Byron's poem, has an example in a newspaper, called "Mercurius Politicus," printed in the year 1655. The narrative is dated from Hamburgh.

"This last week, several waggoners coming from Breslaw to Silesia, upon their way into the Duke of Saxonie's country, perceived a stag, with a man upon his back, running with all his might coming near the waggons, he suddenly fell down: the poor man, sitting on his back, made a pitiful complaint, how that he was, the day before, by the Duke of Saxonie, for killing a deer, condemned to be bound with chains upon that stag, his feet bound fast under the stag's belly with an iron chain soldered, and his hands chained to the horns. The miserable man begged earnestly that they would shoot him, to put him out of pain; but they durst not, fearing the Duke. Whilst they were talking with him, the stag got up, and ran away with all his might. The waggoners computed that he had run, in 16 hours, 25 Dutch miles in the least; which

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makes near 100 of our English miles, in a direct line. The miseries which that poor creature did and must undergo, especially if the stag killed him not in running, cannot be expressed, hardly imagined."

DRYDEN'S "MEDAL."

"IT was King Charles II. who gave Dryden the hint for writing his poem, called 'The Medal.'

"One day, as the King walked in the Mall, and was talking with Dryden, he said, 'If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner;' and then gave him the plan of it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it was finished, to the King, and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it. This was said by a Priest that I often met at Mr. Pope's; and he seemed to confirm it, adding, that King Charles obliged Dryden to put his Oxford Speech into verse, and to insert it towards the close of his Absalom and Achitophel.'"

SPENCE.