Alaric Alexander Watts (16 March 1797 – 5 April 1864) was a British poet and journalist, born in London. His life was dedicated to newspaper creation and editing, and he was seen as a conservative writer. His newspaper ventures failed and led him to bankruptcy, until he received a pension from his friend, Lord Aberdeen.
An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. Cossack commanders cannonading come, Dealing destruction's devastating doom.
"The Siege of Belgrade"; unattributed in The Trifler (7 May 1817) and in The Literary Gazette (23 December 1820); attributed to Alaric Watts by his son and reported in Notes and Queries (19 August 1905) p. 146; sometimes headed by a Latin epigraph attributed to Virgil: Ardentem aspicio atque arrectis auribus asto.
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