ABSTRACT
This disposition to profane parodies had been used for certain purposes on former occasions! and improper and profane as they were, they were pretended by some to be made in support of religion. Now it appeared that a Mr. Hone was proceeded against for publishing some blasphemous parody; but he had read one of the same nature, written, printed, and published, some years ago, by other people, without any notice having been officially taken of it. The verses are a Parody on the Benedicite in the Common Prayer Book, and are attributed to the Rt. Hon. George Canning. It is attempted to be denied that the verses quoted by Lord Grey, out of the Anti-Jacobin, and given in this paper in our report of the debate, are a parody of any part of Holy Writ; though they are allowed to bear a resemblance to Mniton’s celebrated Morning Hymn.
