TRIDENT OF ALBION,

AN EPIC EFFUSION;

AND AN

ORATION ON THE INFLUENCE

OF

ELOCUTION

ON.

MARTIAL ENTHUSIASM;

WITH AN

ADDRESS TO THE SHADE

OF

NELSON:

DELIVERED AT THE

LYCEUM, LIVERPOOL,

ON OCCASION OF THE LATE GLORIOUS NAVAL VICTORY.

To which is prefixed, an Introductory Discourse on the Nature and Objects of Elocutionary Science.

BY JOHN THELWALL,

PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ELOCUTION.

LIVERPOOL:

PRINTED, FOR THE AUTHOR, BY G. F. HARRIS ;

AND SOLD BY R. PHILLIPS, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON; AND BY THE BOOKSELLERS IN LIVERPOOL.

The Lecturer cannot omit the present opportunity

of inscribing his acknowledgments to the President, VicePresident, Committee and Proprietors of the Lyceum; in one of whose apartments his Second Course of Lectures in Liverpool (of which the ensuing pages have constituted a part) is delivered. The attentions of those gentlemen to the interests of Literature and Science, manifested in the liberality with which their room has been repeatedly conceded to the use of public Lecturers, as well as the extent of their growing library, and the Architectural elegance of the Edifice, contribute to render that Institution one of the principal ornaments of a flourishing and spirited town; and will, undoubtedly, endear it to posterity.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THO the poetical portion of this little Pamphlet, appear as the prominent subject in the title page, it is no affectation in the Author to declare---that poetical reputation is not his object, in laying it before the world. Such reputation is not to be expected from a hasty effusion, poured out, almost spontaneously, on the spur of the moment,-amidst the throng of interfering thoughts, which necessarily arise out of the public and private duties of a laborious profession.

The publication arises, as the composition originated, from the echo of the heart to the last injunction of a departed hero." England expects that every man should do his duty;" and the manifestation of his feelings, under the present exigencies, appeared to the Author to be a part of his. To this manifestation, alone, the ensuing pages would have been restricted,---if it had not been apprehended, that the detached appearance of these temporary effusions, might produce an erroneous impression, of the nature and objects of the undertaking, with which they were, accidentally, connected.

The Lectures on the Science and Practice of Elocution (in illustration of which the Poem and Oration were repeatedly delivered on the