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07.15
2012

Canning’s “most serious, vehement and effective onslaught in verse” on the values of the French Revolution was set out in a long poem, ‘New Morality’, published in the last issue of the Anti-Jacobin (No. 36, 9 July 1798). Canning considered these values as “French philanthropy” which professed a love of all mankind whilst eradicating every patriotic impulse. He described those in Britain who held these values as a “pedant prig” who “disowns a Briton’s part, And plucks the name of England from his heart”:


No – through th’extended globe his feelings run
As broad and general as th’unbounded sun!
No narrow bigot he; – his reason’d view
Thy interests, England, ranks with thine, Peru!
France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh,
But heaves for Turkey’s woes the impartial sigh;
A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country – but his own.


--On “French Philanthropy” from Wikipedia | Anti-Jacobin. (via my-ear-trumpet)

  1. my-ear-trumpet posted this

The Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., an Antipodean Tory Gentlemen of profoundly Reactionary Views.