"----maledictions ring from every side
Upon that grasping power, that selfish pride,
Which vaunts its own, and scorns all rights beside."
The Fourth and Seventh Letters ought to be read, with their jeers
at the Prince Regent's laziness and corpulence, and their abuse of
Castlereagh, of whom Moore thus writes:
"We sent thee C----gh; as heaps of dead
Have slain their slayers by the pest they spread,
So hath our land breathed out--thy fame to dim,
Thy strength to waste, and rot thee, soul and limb--
Her worst infections all condensed in him!"