Divers Winds-Imps of Darkness, &c. &c.

Chorus of Whigs.-Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare! Yare! Tend to the Master's whistle.

till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!

Blow

Pill Garlick.-Good; yet remember whom ye have aboard.

Moloch. None that I love more than myself.

Pill Garlick.-Aside.) I have great comfort from this fellow. His complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hanging! If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable.

SCENE

THE SANCTUM SANCTORUM

Of the Mountain of the Winds-Cave curiously adorned with the emblems of Æolian art-Eolus is seen seated in chair of repose,

Celsa sedet Æolus arce,

Sceptra tenens in his mind's eye,
Wrapt in meditation.

Letter, EDGED WITH BLACK, lying before him.

Suddenly

A storm in the heavens.

Glare of lightning flashes through the cave.
The rushing of winds is heard.

The mountain shakes, and the sides of the cave are rent.
THE WINDS APPEAR, Eurus, Zephyrus, Boreas,
Africus, Notus, Aquilo.

Quacunque porta, ruunt.

To them ALECTO.

Eolus rises in great indignation.

Eolus-How now, unruly blasts! dare ye break in thus on my repose? What portents, with fear of change perplexing nations, have called ye from

your caverns? Or what mighty power has op'd your stony prisons, and sent you here, like boisterous knuckles of the law, to mar my meditations?

Eurus. Dread king! whose sov'ran will we have so long obeyed, be not proach your presence. convened us here.

displeased that we thus apNo minor power has now Great Jove himself has sum

moned us to conclave. The Pontifex Max. has brought an order for an IMMEDIATE STORM.

Eolus. To what effect? What hope now from open war? Pt prorogued, our friends overwhelmed in disappointment and despair-the ferment quick subsiding, and the radicals already have begun to mock and quiz our late proceedings !"More destroyed than thus, we should be quite "abolished, and expire."

Eurus. New schemes are stirring; Wooler himself has offered us his aid.

(Eurus produces the letter of the GREAT LEADER -the Winds make obeisance and listen in profound silence-Then seem to be in anxious deliberation.

Great reluctance exhibited by Zephyrus-Africus and Notus seen earnestly exciting and stimulating Zephyrus.

CONSIDERABLE AGITATION.

ALECTO'S FLAMING TORCH IS BRANDISHED IN TERRIFIC GLARE OVER THE WINDS.

Zephyrus seems for a moment oppressed by some supernal influence.

SUBITO NON VULTUS, NON COLOR UNUS, NON COMTAE MANSERE COMAE, &c. &c.

At last is heard

Alecto. We must strike the blow at once-delay will ruin us-a few weeks longer, and our time is lost for ever. Besides we ought to set the example, and at our signal, o'ER ALL THE LAND WILL RISE THE CRY FOR CHANGE. (Murmurs of applause.)

[Immediate meeting unanimously agreed to.

Aquilo retires to announce the determination to the minor and attendant winds, and soon returns.

Presently the sides of the mountain resound with the roar of the boisterous and squally winds without.]

Eolus to Alecto. Now, bestir! bestir! Set all your maddening powers at work-We trust to you: Find us the fit assistants in this great enterprise. Away! Away! To work! To work!

Hæc ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem
Impulit in latus; ac venti, velut agmine facto,
Qua data porta ruunt, et terras turbine perflant.
Incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis
Una Eurusque Notusque ruunt, creberque procellis
Africus, ET VASTOS VOLVUNT AD LITTORA FLUCTUS.

Pill Garlick. TANTANE VOS GENERIS TENUIT FIDUCIAE VESTRI!!!

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