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The following notices of the writers of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin are derived from the copies mentioned below, and each name is authenticated by the initials of the authority upon which each piece is ascribed to particular persons:—

C.	Canning’s own copy of the Poetry.
B.	Lord Burghersh’s copy.
W.	Wright the publisher’s copy.
U.	Information of W. Upcott, amanuensis.

[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.