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A Metrical History of England

Or, Recollections, in Rhyme, Of some of the most prominent Features in our National Chronology, from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Commencement of the Regency, in 1812. In Two Volumes ... By Thomas Dibdin

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Strange Meteors fright old men and wives,
Amelia's birth delights our King and Queen;

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From India unpropitious news arrives,
And Prince Octavius quits this mortal scene.
 

Our forces both by land and sea suffered severely in India, just as the news of peace arrived to put an end to hostilities, and this was the final operation of the late war.