Editions of the Anti-Jacobin; and Its Successors

The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner. Sparsosque recolligit ignes. From Nov. 20, 1797, to July 9, 1798. 4to.

London.

Nos. 1 to 36; with a Prospectus (complete).

—— The Same. Second and third editions, in 4to.

—— The Same. Fourth edition, revised and corrected. 2 vols. 8vo.

London, 1799.

Every Number contained Poetry, the presumed Names of the Authors of which will be found in the Table of Contents of the present volume.

The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. 4to.

London, 1801.

This volume includes the whole of the Poetry contained in the original Anti-Jacobin, with a few verbal corrections. Previous to its publication, it was announced that it would be illustrated by 40 plates expressly designed by Gillray; but they never appeared. Numerous editions in 12mo subsequently appeared, but without any additions, till those mentioned below.

The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. A New Edition, with Explanatory Notes by Charles Edmonds. 12mo.

London, 1852.

—— The Same. Second edition, by Charles Edmonds; with additional Notes, the original Prospectus (by the Rt. Hon. G. Canning), and a complete List of the Authors. Illustrated by six etchings after the designs of Jas. Gillray. 12mo.

London, 1854.

The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; or Monthly Political and Literary Censor. From the commencement in July, 1798, to its close in 1821. (The first few vols. contain engravings by Gillray and others, and much Poetry is scattered through the volumes.) 61 vols. 8vo.

London, 1798–1821.

For reasons stated on a previous page, Canning and other political friends of Pitt thought it prudent to withdraw themselves from the original Anti-Jacobin, but by a preconcerted arrangement it was determined that the spirit which had pervaded that work, and which had had so powerful an effect on the popular mind, and thereby, in connection with Gillray’s caricatures, so undoubtedly strengthened the hands of the Ministry, should not die, if it could be kept alive by other and congenial writers. In the words of Mr. Fox Bourne (in his valuable work on English Newspapers, 1887): “Though The Anti-Jacobin made its last appearance on July 9, 1798, there was started a few days before a monthly Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine of the same politics, but much less brilliant, and more ponderous. Strange to say, it also was edited by a Gifford, or one who so called himself. John Richards Green was a bold and versatile adventurer, who, having to fly from his creditors in 1782, returned from France in 1788, as John Gifford, and was connected with several newspapers [including the establishment of The British Critic], besides editing The Anti-Jacobin Review. [He also wrote a History of France, and other works.] Befriended in many ways by Pitt, he wrote a four-volume pamphlet [3 vols. 4to, and also 6 vols. 8vo, both dated 1809], styled the Life of William Pitt, after his patron’s death. James Mill, the friend and associate of Jeremy Bentham, was glad to earn money in his struggling days by writing non-political articles for The Anti-Jacobin Review. William Gifford, it is hardly necessary to state, besides editing Ben Jonson’s Works, and other useful occupations, was the first editor of The Quarterly Review in 1809.”

In the British Museum are two copies of The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. In one of them the first six vols. contain the Names of the Authors of most of the articles, among whom are the Rev. John Whitaker, author of The History of Manchester, the Rev. Sam. Henshall, author of works on Domesday Book, the Rev. C. E. Stewart, a copious poetaster, etc., and many other clergymen.

The New Anti-Jacobin Review. Delenda est Carthago.

Nos. 1 to 3 seem to be all that were published, and appeared May 6, June 9, and June 23, 1827; price two shillings each.

No. 2 includes what is called a Patriot Portrait Exhibition, which is continued in No. 3. In the latter No. is also an article entitled Canningiana. Published by Saunders and Otley.

The New Anti-Jacobin; a Monthly Magazine of Politics, Commerce, Science, Literature, Art, Music, and the Drama.

Consists of only Nos. 1 and 2. Published by Smith, Elder, & Co., and Carpenter & Son; dated respectively April and May, 1833.

No. 2 contains Horace in Parliament; an Ode to William Cobbett; being a Parody on Horace—In Barinen, Ode 4, Lib. 2. It is accompanied by a full-length portrait of Cobbett.

The above two works, in accordance with their titles, advocate high Tory principles; but though written with great spirit they had but a very short existence. Copies of both will be found in the British Museum.

English Actors in the French Revolution, and Eye-witnesses of the same.

The most complete details hitherto furnished on these interesting subjects will be found in the Nos. for October, 1887, and July, 1888, of The Edinburgh Review, the work of Mr. John G. Alger, the Paris correspondent of The Times. They have since been published in a volume. (Englishmen in the French Revolution: Low & Co., 1889.)

[Although many of the pieces in the following list are attributed to wrong authors, it has been thought more convenient to reprint them as they stood in the previous edition, in order to insert any corrections, as far as Frere is concerned. These are derived from the information of Frere himself given to his nephews, who afterwards edited his works in 1872. They are therefore placed beneath the Title of the piece—between brackets.

The pieces, printed in Italics—between brackets—appear for the first time in an edition of The Poetry.—Ed.]

	PAGE.	AUTHORS.
Prospectus of the Anti-Jacobin	1	Canning.
Introduction	12	Canning.
Inscription for the Apartment in Chepstow Castle, where Henry Marten, the Regicide, was imprisoned thirty years	16	Southey.
Inscription for the Door of the Cell in Newgate, where Mrs. Brownrigg, the Prentice-cide, was confined previous to her execution	16	Canning, C. Frere, C.
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife Grinder	23	Frere, C. Canning, C.
The Invasion; or, the British War Song	25	Hely Addington, W.
La Sainte Guillotine: a New Song, attempted from the French	29	Canning, C. Frere, C. Hammond, B.
[By Canning and Frere only.]
[Meeting of the Friends of Freedom]	32	Claimed by Frere.
The Soldier’s Friend	38	Canning, C. Frere, C. Ellis, B.
[By Canning and Frere only.]
Sonnet to Liberty.	39	Lord Carlisle, B.
Quintessence of all the Dactylics that ever were, or ever will be, written	41	Canning, B. Gifford, W.
Latin Verses, written immediately after the Revolution of the Fourth of September	43	Marq. Wellesley, U.
Translation of the above	45	Frere, B.
[Pearce, in his Memoirs of the Marquis Wellesley, gives the credit of this translation to the sixth Earl of Carlisle.]
The Choice; imitated from The Battle of Sabla, in Carlyle’s Specimens of Arabian Poetry	48	G. Ellis, B.
The Duke and the Taxing Man	52	Bar. Macdonald, C., B.
Epigram on the Paris Loan, called the Loan upon England	54	Frere, B.
[Not claimed by Frere.]
Ode to Anarchy	55	Lord Morpeth, B.
Song, recommended to be sung at all convivial meetings convened for the purpose of opposing the Assessed Tax Bill	58	Frere, B.
[By Canning, Ellis, and Frere.]
Lines written at the close of the year 1797	61
Translation of the New Song of The Army of England	63
Epistle to the Editors of The Anti-Jacobin	68
[This Epistle is now known to have been written by the Hon. Wm. Lamb, (afterwards second Viscount Melbourne, and Prime Minister). He was then only in his nineteenth year.]
To the Author of the Epistle to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin	71	Canning, C. Hammond, B.
Ode to Lord Moira	78	G. Ellis, C., B.
A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox	83	G. Ellis, C. Frere, B.
Acme and Septimius; or, the Happy Union.	88	G. Ellis, C.
[Mr. Fox’s Birth-Day]	90
To the Author of the Anti-Jacobin	95	Mr. Bragge, afterwards Bathurst.
Lines written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown and Anchor	99	Frere, B.
Lines written by a Traveller at Czarco-zelo under the Bust of a certain Orator, once placed between those of Demosthenes and Cicero	99	G. Ellis, B.
[Jas. Boswell, jun., asserts, on the authority of the nephew of the great statesman, that the above lines were written by Pitt. This is not improbable: see Note on page 101.]
The Progress of Man. Didactic Poem	102	Canning, C. Gifford, W. Frere, B.
[Cantos 1 and 2 by Canning only; and Canto 23 by Canning and Frere only.]
The Progress of Man, continued	107	Canning, C. Hammond, B.
Imitation of Bion. Written at St. Anne’s Hill	111	G. Ellis, B. Gifford, W.
The New Coalition: Imitation of Horace, Lib. 3, Carm. 9	114
[The Honey-Moon of Fox and Tooke, another version of the same by the Rev. C. E. Stewart; published in the Anti-Jacobin Review, vol. i.]	116
Imitation of Horace, Lib. 3, Carm. 25	119	Canning, C.
Chevy Chase	125	Bar. Macdonald, C., B.
Ode to Jacobinism	129
The Progress of Man, continued	133	Canning, C. Frere, C. G. Ellis, B.
The Jacobin	141	Nares, W.
The Loves of the Triangles. A Mathematical and Philosophical Poem	150	Frere, C. Canning, B.
[All but the last three lines Frere’s.]
The Loves of the Triangles, continued	158	G. Ellis, C., W. Canning, B.
[Down to “Twine round his struggling heart,” by Ellis. From “Thus, happy France,” to “And folds the parent-monarch,” by Canning, Ellis, and Frere. The next twelve lines, which were not in the first edition, 1798, were added by Canning.]
Brissot’s Ghost	165	Frere, B.
[Not claimed by Frere.]
The Loves of the Triangles, continued	170	Canning B., W., C. Gifford C. Frere C.
[By Canning, Ellis, and Frere.]
A Consolatory Address to his Gun-Boats. By Citizen Muskein	182	Lord Morpeth, B.
Elegy on the Death of Jean Bon St. André	185	Canning, B., C. Gifford, C. Frere, C.
[By Canning, Ellis, and Frere.]
Ode to my Country, MDCCXCVIII	193	Frere, C. B. B., C. Hammond, B.
[This is not claimed by Frere.]
Ode to the Director Merlin	199	Lord Morpeth, B.
The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement	205	Frere, C. Gifford, C. G. Ellis, C. Canning B., C.
[Act 1, Sc. 1 and 2, by Frere—Song by Canning and Ellis; Act 2, Sc. 1 and 3, and Act 3, by Canning; Act 2, Sc. 2, and Act 4, by Frere. The preliminary prose by Frere and Canning.]
The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement, continued	224	Frere B., C. Gifford C. Ellis, C. Canning, C.
An Affectionate Effusion of Citizen Muskein to Havre-de-Grace	236	Lord Morpeth, B.
Translation of a Letter from Bawba-dara-adul-phoola, to Neek-awl-aretchid-kooez	242	Gifford, C., B. Ellis, C., B. Canning, C., B. Frere, C., B.
[By Canning, Ellis, and Frere.]
[Buonaparte’s Letter to the Commandant at Zante]	248
Ode to a Jacobin	251
Ballynahinch; A New Song	255	Canning, C.
De Navali Laude Britanniæ	257	Canning, B.
[Translation of the above	260	The late A. F. Westmacott.]
[Valedictory Address]	263
New Morality	271	Canning, B. C. Frere, C. Gifford, C. G. Ellis, C.

LINE.
1	From Mental Mists	Frere, W.
15	Yet venial Vices, &c.	Canning, W.
29	Bethink thee, Gifford, &c. These lines were written by Canning some years before he had any personal acquaintance with Gifford.
71	Awake! for shame!	Canning, W.
158	Fond Hope!	Frere, W.
168	Such is the liberal Justice	Canning, W.
249	O! Nurse of Crimes!	Frere, W. Canning, W. G. Ellis, W.
261	See Louvet	Canning, W.
287	But hold, severer Virtue	Frere, W. Canning, W.
302	To thee proud Barras bows	Frere, W. Canning, W. Ellis, W.
318	Ere long, perhaps	Gifford, W. Ellis, W.
328	Couriers and Stars	Frere, W. Canning, W.
356	Britain, beware	Canning, W.
372	So thine own Oak	attributed to W. Pitt.

“Wright, the publisher of the Anti-Jacobin, lived at 169, Piccadilly, and his shop was the general morning resort of the friends of the ministry, as Debrett’s was of the oppositionists. About the time when the Anti-Jacobin was contemplated, Owen, who had been the publisher of Burke’s pamphlets, failed. The editors of the Anti-Jacobin took his house, paying the rent, taxes, &c., and gave it up to Wright, reserving to themselves the first floor, to which a communication was opened through Wright’s house. Being thus enabled to pass to their own rooms through Wright’s shop, where their frequent visits did not excite any remarks, they contrived to escape particular observation.”

“Their meetings were most regular on Sundays, but they not unfrequently met on other days of the week, and in their rooms were chiefly written the poetical portions of the work. What was written was generally left open upon the table, and as others of the party dropped in, hints or suggestions were made; sometimes whole passages were contributed by some of the parties present, and afterwards altered by others, so that it is almost impossible to ascertain the names of the authors. Where, in the above notes, a piece is ascribed to different authors, the conflicting statements may arise from incorrect information, but sometimes they arise from the whole authorship being assigned to one person, when, in fact, both may have contributed. If we look at the references, 167, 185, we shall see Canning naming several authors, whereas Lord Burghersh assigns all to one author. Canning’s authority is here more to be relied upon. New Morality Canning assigns generally to the four contributors. Wright has given some interesting particulars by appropriating to each his peculiar portion.”

“Gifford was the working editor, and wrote most of the refutations and corrections of the Lies, Mistakes, and Misrepresentations.”

“The papers on finance were chiefly by Pitt: the first column was frequently kept for what he might send; but his contributions were uncertain, and generally very late, so that the space reserved for him was sometimes filled up by other matter. He only once met the editors at Wright’s.”

“W. Upcott, who was at the time assistant in Wright’s shop, was employed as amanuensis, to copy out for the printer the various contributions, that the author’s handwriting might not be detected.”—E. Hawkins.

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