Excerpt from Elegiac Epistles on the Calamities of Love and War: Including a Genuine Description of the Tragical Engagement Between His Majesty's Ships and the Serapis and Countess of Scarborough, and the Enemy's Squadron Under the Command of Paul Jones, on the Twenty-Third of September, 1779 Yet when our commerce o'er the wasting main Insulting Powers endeavour to restrain, The sons of war, inur'd the scene to brave, Must pour their thunder o'er the briny wave Whene'er to arms our country's safety calls, And Enemies threaten to invade our walls, Each Individual must then unite To Oppose the danger, and sustain the fight. Then no domestic feuds, or civil jar Should interrupt the necessary war; But interested in one' general cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.