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 XT' OUR obligations tome, Sir, are not to 
 -■- ceafe with my life. They continue even 
 beyond the grave; in the filence of which I 
 could not reft, if I was not indulged the liberty of 
 acquainting you of my being your zealous apo- 
 logifl: in the (hades. But do not attribute this 
 entirely to the conftancy of my regard for you 
 of which I left you fo folemn and eflential a 
 mark. It may be partly accounted for by an 
 old woman's tenacioufnefs of her opinion. It 
 would hurt my vanity too much to give it up. 
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 In vain, therefore, have certain perturbed fpi- 
 rits, who are lately defcended to thefe regions, 
 endeavoured to alter my fentiments of you : I 
 am determined to flick to them, or at leaft ap- 
 pear to ftick to them. Alive, I was never 
 known to give up a point right or wrong •, dead, 
 I have not changed charafler. After all, I 
 fliould not care to pafs for having totally thrown 
 away my efteem and my liberality upon you, 
 and confequently, either for having been mife- 
 rably impofcd upon, or for having been gover- 
 ned rather by whim than judgment j which, 
 however, between you and me, was, I am afraid, 
 too often the cafe. 
 
 But as fond as I am of taking you to be one 
 of the greatcft men in any age or nation, for 
 one of the mod difinterefted reprefentatives of 
 your country that ever graced the legends of mo- 
 dern patriotifm, as well as for the moft confum- 
 mate ftatefman that ever took the reins of go- 
 vernment in handi forry I am to fay it, I do 
 not find fo many, as I could wifh, of my coun- 
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 lents of you : I 
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 ig totally thrown 
 ality upon you, 
 iving been mife- 
 ring been gover- 
 gment j which, 
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 g you to be one 
 or nation, for 
 eprefentatives of 
 e legends of mo- 
 le moft confum- 
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 try-men here, to concur with me In that opi- 
 nion, .. , 
 
 My LoTd-Dukc, who Is not abfolotely puri-' 
 fied fron* hi» love of money, fneers me intole- 
 rably for the fum I left away from his family, 
 on no other confideration, or better fccurity, 
 than the moft fufpicious words and profcffions 
 of a modern patriot. . i^ « , - ^ • \ .,. 
 
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 Lord Or^f-d feconda him, with a coarfc fa- 
 miliar laugh, in his old way, and fwears by all 
 the powers of fclf-intereft, that you have given 
 him no occafion to repent the notions he ever 
 had of political prudery , for that he never in his 
 life heard a fpouter of high heroics, or a boafter 
 of patriofifmi but that he was fure 6f him, oii 
 coming up to his price. 
 
 The good Lord T^b-t tells me too I fhah 
 have an admirable plea, inequity, to redemand 
 the fum bequeathed you on your arrival here, 
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 All this, you may be fure, was not ever plca- 
 fing lo me. But though, as I tol 1 you before, 
 1 never give up any thing, I was provoked to 
 examine into the truth of things j. and how 
 ^o come at i(» was not long a queftion with me. 
 
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 There were enough of our country daily ar- 
 riving here, feme of whom were not fo grate- 
 fully fenfible as they ought to have been, of the 
 propriety with which they were facrificcd in 
 what they had the impudence to call your va- 
 garies. .;..;-.,-*.- ».-^ ^ ^ 
 
 It was certainly amongft the newcomers from 
 the upper realms, that 1 was to feek for the in- 
 formation I wanted. However I might be dif- 
 pofed then to impofe on others, by concealing 
 the refult of my enquiry, if it Ihould come out 
 unfavorable to my prejudice,' I WaS dettrmined 
 not to be impofed upon myfelf: I therefore 
 ' avoid 'd confuUing any whom t could fiippofe 
 to have been tainted with party-fpirit, or biafled 
 
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 was not ever plca- 
 I tol 1 you before, 
 I was provoked to 
 things i. and how 
 queftion with me. 
 
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 vere not fo gratc- 
 
 have been, of the 
 were facrificcd in 
 
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 :i€neWcomersfrom 
 
 1 to feek for the in- 
 ;ver I might be dif- 
 hers, by concealing 
 
 it fhould come out 
 e,' I Was determined 
 myfelf : I therefore 
 cm t could fiippofe 
 irty-fpirit, or biafled 
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 by any perfonal motive whatever, whether for 
 or againft you. The way to get at truth is cer- 
 tainly not to feek it where the pafTions have e^?. 
 pelled or will not admit it. 
 
 Amongft fiich, I defpifed equally thofe who 
 abufed, or who admired you. At lenj^fh I met 
 with two perfonages who anfwered the defcrip- 
 tion I had propofed to myfelf. They were 
 even talking of you when I accofted them, and 
 their fentiments were diametrically oppofite. Sa 
 much the better. From the collifion of their 
 opinions I had the more reafon to expec^b the 
 light of truth would be ftruck out. The fum 
 cf what I learnt from them I now tranfmit to 
 you : you cannot well be the worfe for it ; at 
 leaft you cannot fail of thanking me for the 
 honor I do you, 
 
 Your partizan, at my requeft, firft opened 
 the debate. He dated all your good qualities, 
 and the good effefls that have redounded from" 
 them to your country, or have been imagined 
 
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 to do fo. He expatiated on y6ur patriot firm- 
 nefs and prodigious fteadincfs to your principles; 
 your difintcreftcdncfsi your love of jufticei 
 your irrcfiftible eloquence} your profound know- 
 ledge of anfairs foreign and domelVic •, the great 
 patronage you have given to all men of merit, 
 amongft whom alone you had chofcn your co- . 
 adjutors j the emergence of a new order of fplcn- 
 did days fince your adminiftratlon \ your mca- 
 fures blooming with viftory, glory, and peace, 
 and that will furely bear thofe delightful fruits, 
 unlefs blafted by domeftic perfidioufnefs and ma- 
 lignance. Your orator then proceeded, pain- 
 ting in the ftfongeft colors that fiend Corrup. 
 tion, and all the powers of Dulnefs expiring un- 
 der a heroe uniting in himfclf the fpirits of an 
 Ariftides and a Cato ; your delicacy and wifdom 
 in the choice of your allies •, all the enemies of 
 the nation trembling at your nod, or fprauling 
 in the duft where you have laid them, and hum- 
 bly fuing for a peace you will not grant them 
 JDUt on yo!ir own terms j your meafures of 
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 on y6ur patriot firm* 
 ncfs to yoiir principles j 
 your love of juftice \ 
 ; } your profound know- 
 nd domertic •, the great 
 n to all men of merit, 
 HI had chofen your co- 
 : of a new order of fplcn- 
 liniftratlon i your mea- 
 lory, glory, and peace, 
 r thofe delightful fruits, 
 ic perfidioufnefs and ma- 
 r then proceeded, pain- 
 olors that fiend Corrup. 
 
 of Dulnefs expiring un- 
 himfclf the fpirits of an 
 our delicacy and wifdom 
 Hies-, all the enemies of 
 t your nod, or fprauling 
 lave laid them, and hum- 
 you will not grant them 
 :ms i your meafures of 
 taking 
 
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 taking Cape Breton, Senegal^ with all the reft of 
 the great and fignal advantages to the nation by 
 you procured, and fpecified in a moft folemn 
 authoritative fpeech, which recording, as it did, 
 the wonders of your reign, was not, perhaps, 
 for its candor in giving all the truth, the leaft 
 amongft them. In (hort, he concluded with 
 an emphatic aflcrtion, that fince it had been 
 your good fortune to obtain the public confi- 
 dence, fo neceflary to (Irengthen the hands of a 
 M' r» it was even a f^jecies of treafon to 
 
 the welfare and intereft of the nation, to attempt 
 in this critical feafon, to weaken your autho- 
 rity, or to rob you of that popularity which 
 alone can enable you to add the mighty things 
 you have promifed, to thofe you have already 
 done : that he would therefore have every man 
 treated as an enemy to his country who did not 
 admire you as much as he did : and with this 
 he concluded, with an air of triumph, in wliich 
 I heartily concurred with him. 
 
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 ' I expcfted to fee his adverfary ftruck mtate, 
 overwhelmed with fuch a pomp of words and 
 pathos as had been poured out in your favor : 
 inftead of which, only fhrugging up his (houlders, 
 he coolly faid, that as he haSSong in the upper 
 world known that gentleman wh^ had given you 
 this fine charaaer, to be one of great worth and 
 honor, and a fincere lover of his country, he 
 paid that refpeft to his prejudice, which ne did 
 not fuppofe that gentleman would, in return, 
 pay to his reafon. That he would however give 
 us his own motives of diflent, both for my fatif- 
 faaion, and to avoid the charge of fingularity, 
 or of malevolence. .:j^ ,, ^^^ .:.....: ,^ ■ 
 
 ' Proceeding then, he fpoke to the principal 
 heads of your praife, mentioned in your admirer's 
 fpeech. 
 
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 ' FiifV, as to your good or ill qualities, he de- 
 fired a juft dlftinaion might be --^e between 
 fpeaking of you as a private perfon, or as a 
 man of the public. That as to the fiift, he held 
 
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 adverfary ftruck mOte, 
 
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 ed out in your favor : 
 ugging up his (houlders, 
 
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 ;man who had given you 
 : one of great worth and 
 )ver of his country, he 
 prejudice, which he did 
 ;man would, in return, 
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 iiffent, both for my fatif- 
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 od or ill qualities, he de- 
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 in the utmoft fcorn and deteftation, all fort of per- 
 fonality j that it was not his bufinefs to inquire 
 whether you was in a milk diet, or revelled in 
 Champagne; whether you was content with a 
 plain table, or had it loaded with all the polfonous 
 compounds of the French cookery ; whether foil 
 virtuoufly and fenfibly adhered to the chafte joys 
 of a marriage bed, or, ignorant of true pleafure, 
 ranged the fex for it, where it is never to be found, 
 in variety : that however, as purity of morals was 
 defervedly a great prejudice in favor of a publii 
 fn — r, he thought it woiild be wronging his 
 own fehfe of candor to pafs over in filence 
 that, in that refpeft, he had tl.e higheft and the 
 - moft honorable opinion of you, believing yoU 
 would have been but what you are, even if you 
 had not been a valetudinarian, -. ^ 
 
 That as' to your office-chafaftef,' which being 
 of a public nature, concerned every one, every 
 one had a juft right to canvafs it, under the due 
 reftriftions of order, decency, and truth j and 
 
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 that mlnifters, as yet in England, were not fo un- 
 happy as to be in danger of keeping their faults, 
 for want of their fellow-fubjeds daring to tell 
 them of them ; which would h? attended with yet 
 a worfe confequence, the nation's ruinoufly to- 
 lerating them in places, for v;ant of their being 
 fufficicntly known. r - 
 
 That as to your boafted patriot firmnefs and 
 fleadinefs to your principles, he would not take 
 upon him to controvert them ; but fairly left it 
 to others to judge upon their own knowledge of 
 fads relative thereto, fads as manifefl as the 
 fun. That for himfelf he had always apprehended 
 you had opened your fir ft campaign again ft the 
 minifters upon the ftrideft Anti-H- n prin- 
 ciples; which, however, mean nothing more than 
 that Great Britain fliould not be facrificed, at 
 every turn, to a little province of G — ny, not 
 only deftrudively for that nation, but for that 
 province to which (he fhould be facrificed : that 
 your loud founded profelTion of thefe principles 
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 3Jeds daring to tell 
 h^ attended with yet 
 ition's ruinoufly to* 
 v;'ant of their being 
 
 )atriot ftrmnefs and 
 he would not take 
 1 i but fairly left it 
 own knowledge of 
 as manifeft as the 
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 i nothing more than 
 3t be facrificed, at 
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 ation, but for that 
 be facrificed : that 
 1 of thefe principles 
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 had'their ufual effeft, of getting any one a place, 
 that knew how to 'avail himfelf of themj for 
 that yoo fo galled the minifters, whofe tenure of 
 power was no oner than a fatal complaifance to 
 
 G n meafures that they were glad almoft at 
 
 any rate to purchafe their peace of you. 
 
 The effeft, he fays, of the argument, in form 
 of a place, was inftantaneous. It carried imme- 
 diate conviaion with it. You turned about fo 
 quick as to aftonifh even Corruption herfelf, as 
 familiar to her as were thofe perverfions (he fo 
 frequently operated. Should even that anfwer of 
 yours to the expoftulation of one of your friends 
 about this fuddennefs of change, in which 
 you neither refpcded that public whofe opinion 
 had given you all your importance, nor your- 
 felf, be an anfwer falfcly imputed to you, 
 though it ftuck you up in all the print-ftiops in 
 town, in not the very decenteft attitude, (hew- 
 Ingyourdif-embarrafedface, as if to bid thofe 
 vOio had trufted you kifs it •. it matters very little, 
 
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 The aftual ccffatlon of oppofition from the very 
 moment you had thus heftored yourfelf into a 
 place, when fureJy the times had not had time 
 to change, fufficiently determines the nature of 
 fuch a procedure. Then it was that you fo ca- 
 valierly turned your back on that ^roy you had 
 defended, and left the breach practicable for 
 
 . the introduftiou of the wooden horfe, pregnant 
 
 with the armed forces of H r and H—e, 
 
 againft the pernicious confequences of which, 
 • hone had more fiercely declaimed than yourfelf; 
 
 %ro that on your changing fides, there needed 
 nothing more to confute you than to oppofe 
 you to yourfelf. This fame wooden horfe was 
 however now all of a fudden become with you 
 the Palladium of the Britilh fyftem : Equo m 
 credite Teucri i (do I fpell it right ?) was no 
 longer the motto at the head of your politics. 
 *rhis condua, however, your admirer's antago- 
 nift proceeded to obfcrve, feemed to do as little 
 honor to your head as to your heart : none could 
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 rmines the nature of 
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 fequences of which, 
 aimed than yourfelf ; 
 
 fides, there needed 
 you than to oppofe 
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 ur admirer's antago- 
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 ir heart : none could 
 i furely as little the 
 prcat 
 
 [ »3 3 
 great man, in it. One would naturally enouglf 
 have concluded, and even fworn, that yo\^ 
 would not ever be feen again on the ranks and 
 in the character of a patriot. But times fuch as 
 the prefent ones were made to mock all proba- 
 bility. You knew, it fcems, the people, and 
 what they were capable of bearing, better than 
 thofe who argued only from the reafon of things. 
 Whether you imagined you had afforded top y- 
 good a pennyworth, and wanted the court to 
 buy you over again ; whether you had impli- , 
 citly fold your acquiefcence only for a term of 
 years ; whether it was a kind of native reftleff- 
 nefs in you, or, in fliort, whatever was the mo- 
 tive, your volcano of patriotifm once more burft 
 forth into a fiery ftream of eloquence, that, like 
 phe lave of Vefuvius, carried all before ir. And 
 what was the oJ}t&. ? the very fame as you 
 had before renounced. H ■ ns and H-f- 
 
 — ns, H-f— ns and H ns, became once 
 
 more the butt of your apparent ragej which 
 Jiad once more the fame fuccefs. There was fo 
 
 much 
 
 'ta- 
 
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 N 
 
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 much of magic in that found, Britain inftinc^ 
 tivcly and fo ftrongly felt, that all her evils 
 came from thence, that (he took you once more 
 for the champion of her intereft, and not the 
 prize-fighter of your own. One would have 
 
 ' thought that, as to your part conduft, the whole 
 body of the people had plentifully quaffed the 
 ftreams of Lethe; every thing was forgiven, 
 
 ^ every thing was forgot. ^ 
 
 
 • The people once more took you under their 
 protcftion, and hoifted you on their Ihoulders, 
 that you might ftep from them, upon a level, 
 in at the window of the royal clofet. Then it 
 was that you had obviouQy the moft glorious 
 part to a£t, and, what is more, an equally eafy 
 one. You had nothing more to do than, when 
 
 jn the m ■ y, to ftick to thofe very prin- 
 
 fiples that had advanced you to it, 
 
 pvery 
 
 
 
 aiflrtJTtiffillllillitiiiiiiiM 
 
nvnpmpfi 
 
 'W' 
 
 I'.'yiy 'f fi" ! ^ 
 
 3 
 
 und, Britain inftinc- 
 , that all her evils 
 : took you once more 
 ntereft, and not the 
 1. One would have 
 ftconduft, the whole 
 ilentifuUy quaffed the 
 thing was forgiven, 
 
 took you under their 
 lu on their fhoulders, 
 n them, upon a level, 
 oyal clofet. Then it 
 ly the moft glorious 
 more, an equally eafy 
 jore to do than, when 
 k to thofe very prin- 
 you to it, 
 
 pvery 
 
 Every thing concurred to recommend it to 
 you, public policy and private intcreft. The 
 times efpecially, the times, beyond all the moft 
 fanguine expectation, favored that part. A' 
 power by chance only the enemy to the enemy' 
 of Britain, and who never had been a friend 
 to her : a power under the flur of a legal out- 
 lawry j a power who could never cfFeftually 
 ferve or be ferved by her ; a power who could 
 do her little or no good, and might do her 
 infinite mifchief by embroiling her with all the 
 reft of the powers of Europe, had not the ap- 
 pearance of having changed the times in favor of 
 thofe continental connexions againft which you 
 had but juft before, levelled fuch a ftorm of elo- 
 quence. The H —ns and H-f—ns too had, 
 
 by their famous convention entered into with- 
 out confulting this government, furely afforded 
 the faireft occafion that could have been wifhed, 
 to cut them adrift. In fhorr, one would have 
 thought the new minifter had befpoke the play, 
 ' every 
 
 
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 "iniiitTfi'T'-r'n' 
 
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■■"nf 
 
 Mfy yf i ff 
 
 [ 16 ,: 
 
 every thing was fo ready to be aded for his be- 
 nefit, if he would have been but true to his coun- 
 try and to himfelf } or '-^d but underftood enough 
 of the theatre and bufinefs of it to have kept to 
 that part, which had (againft all reafons for him 
 Sit Icaft to hope) procured him fuch applaufe. 
 Then was the time for you to plume yourfelf 
 vpon yotir late high founded Anti-germanifm 
 • which now the afpeft and ftate of things demon- 
 . ftrate to be as effential to found policy, as Anti- 
 '" gallicanifm itfclf. But can, or will, pofterity 
 believe, what however feems no wonder in thefe 
 portentous times, that the very man who had 
 ^ fulminated againft continental connexions, who 
 had even forced himfelf into power, in virtue of 
 the popularity which that fulmination had pro- 
 cured him i that he, at the very jundture of time 
 when the pernicioufnefs of thofe connexions 
 never was more manifcft, plunged over head and 
 ears into them, new-cemented one of the moft 
 obnoxious, and the moft dangerous of them 
 - with P-ff-a, si^^newed another with H—r, 
 
 - .'-:v^»?3/i / "... &;c. 
 
be a£ted for his be-* 
 but true to his coun- 
 t underftood enough' 
 >f it to have kept to 
 ift all reafons for him 
 him fuch applaufe. 
 1 to plume yourfclf 
 led Anti-germanifm 
 ate of things demon- 
 und policy, as Anti- 
 n, or will, pofterity 
 IS no wonder in thefe 
 e very man who had 
 \tal connexions, who 
 power, in virtue of 
 fulmination had pro- 
 very jundture of time 
 of thofe connexions 
 jlunged over head and 
 nted one of the moft 
 ; dangerous of them 
 i another with H—r, 
 ' &c. 
 
 . [ 17 ] 
 
 Sec. which had been fortunately broken off, of 
 itfclf? Who could fufpeft that you would go 
 over to thoie opponents you had fairly driven 
 out of the field, and have hoilled again that rag- 
 worn flag of Germany you had forced them to 
 ftrike ? Yet fo it was : and what is yet more incre- 
 dible, a few momentary flafhes of a fuccefs in no 
 fenfe their own, were fufficient to blind to fuch a 
 degree one of the moft profound, iblid people in 
 the univerfe, that they did not fee the confequences 
 which either adlually did, or in all human proba- 
 fcility would, refult from fuch politics. They 
 did not then confider, amongft many other bad 
 effedls to follow. 
 
 That nothing could be more wrong than to 
 conneft fo fair a caufe as their own, with one 
 which, to all Euiope befides, had from the very 
 firft fl:ep taken in it carried a condemned face ; by 
 which means, the welfare of the Britifli nation 
 ftands endangered, the fo defirable unity of her (y- 
 ftem broken, and the riik of het own war is un- 
 " ^ . neceflirily 
 
 A 
 
 \ 
 
r i8 ] 
 
 neceflarlly doubled i being made to depend on 
 the ifluc of a moft precarious continental one, 
 and fhe to pay for this folly into the bar- 
 gain. 
 
 That the aid of money or troops employed to 
 ftrengthen that caufe on the continent, would not 
 only proportionally weaken their power to carry 
 on the war effe(5lually in its natural channels, the 
 fca and America, but cool the friendfhip, if not 
 even turn hoftilc towards them, thofe nations 
 with whom their greateft intereft is to maintain 
 the ftrideft amity and fair correfpondence. 
 
 That fuch an alliance, by thus multip/y. 
 ing the enemies of the nation, or at lead rob- 
 bing her of her moft ufeful friends, made it ne- 
 ceflary to keep meafures more than othjcrwife flie 
 need do, with the hitherto- neutral powers. 
 That if undue conceflions fhould therefore be 
 made either to Spain or to Holland, the nation 
 had no one to thank for it but thofe ftatefmen : 
 
 ftatefmen 
 
 Ki'liii'iMiiitefi 
 

 e to depend on 
 continental one, 
 ' into the bar- 
 
 )ps employed to 
 
 nent, would not 
 
 power to carry 
 
 al channels, the 
 
 iendfhip, if not 
 
 thofc nations 
 
 is to maintain 
 
 pondence. 
 
 thus multip/y. 
 r at lead rob- 
 Si made it ne- 
 n oth^erwife flie 
 lutral powers. 
 I therefore be 
 nd, the nation 
 )fc ftatefmen : 
 ftatefmen 
 
 f >9 ] 
 
 (fla.efm.„ , 00 .,^,,0 had hand boted and coup. 
 
 WWwi,ha„,ny,„hol,adbroughc„Uhhi,„ 
 
 f" """"eent a gr«< army i„d„d, but 
 
 ""P'oyHinhisowndeftruftion, himfclf .0 
 
 f«dwu rubr,di«;,eaur.,which.wh«herc]„r 
 
 o not dear „as in eflift.h,ramc thing .0 Bri- 
 
 ».".andtobefu,,p„„,dbyarmi„inh.rpay, 
 
 o<r«.houfe Bobadil-, or Drawcanfi., air. b„ 
 appear more in the ftile f.f *^ r 
 
 than of , ^'^ '°"'"' °^ ^•^'•bary 
 
 ; °^ * e^^^^ -^ refpedtable nation, whofi 
 wifh never ufed to b<. n^i, , 
 
 fl^ouldbethemeafureofherpower. 
 That from the inftant th*. r 
 
 ^ffi. I • °^''^'* '^a"^^, the worn- 
 
 r '■" P°«=Wy could b. dona eorh/n 
 P— 1 efpecialiy ,0 „ , „! / 
 
 - Britain, any „,y, ;„,„,„,„:■ ,f;^='«=- 
 ^le could on/v -u ""S Jn It i fince 
 
 • «'P-tema„er..fo,„,b 8 
 
 D 2 
 
 utmoft 
 
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 *^*il9P 
 
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 T 
 
 f 
 
 t 20 1 
 
 utmoft extremities to which the ban of the em- 
 pire could proceed. That this interference was 
 alfo greatly beneath the majeQy, and certainly 
 not conformable to the juOice, of this nation, 
 who would herfelf fcarce like to fee a foreign 
 power intermeddle between her laws and a fub- 
 jcft; and that every prince in Germany, the 
 emperor himfelf includi-d, however abfolutely a 
 fovereign as to his own fubjcdls, is no more than 
 a fubject himfelf to the laws of the empire. To 
 fay arbitrarily that thofe laws are bad, or, 
 without proof, that the admlniftrators of them 
 are corrupted, was, inftead of reafoning, abuf- 
 ingv which was indeed the grand refource of the 
 wrong-heads of the times, and efpecially of the 
 head of them. . 
 
 That as to the money and troops fent over 
 to Germany, by way of diverting the French 
 from falling with their whole force upon Pruflla, 
 this meafure could at beft, and humanly, fpeak- 
 ing, but for a while put off the evil day. That 
 
 the 
 
 11. 1 ■ ■fh-i.j.,-...j-.-i.»3.i- t^iV' -•^" l '^' r| i l fiffi'rf i r#'-'i' i li yj il i i:' 
 
 ■liHtftfeliiii fe ' 
 
■•Iff' 
 
 ban of the em* 
 , interference was 
 y, and certainly 
 , of this nation, 
 to fee a foreign 
 • laws and a fub- 
 in Germany, the 
 ever abfolutcly a 
 , is no more than 
 the empire. To 
 s are bad, or, 
 liftrators of them 
 F reafoning, abuf- 
 nd refource of the 
 1 efpecially of the 
 
 d troops fent over 
 :rting the French 
 brce upon Pruflia, 
 1 humanly, fpeak- 
 le evil day. That 
 
 the 
 
 «!»»»*», .'.iiWfty i KJit i taii 
 
 J 
 
 ihc French could m^t wifli for a better game, than 
 Britain's putting herftif to fo immeiifc an ex- 
 pence, rjfliing the blood of her fubjeils where 
 France would moft wifh to meet them, incurring 
 a general odium •, and for what ? To furnilh 
 France with a plaufible excufe of inability to crufli 
 that very prince whom »t would be madnefs in 
 her to think of crufliipg •» arid thereby deftroying 
 the only power in Germany capable of ballan- 
 cing that Houfe of Auftria which Unbritilh 
 meafures have unfortunately driven for refuge 
 into the arms of ap infidious friend, and whofe 
 alliance might therefore be reafonably expefted 
 to be as unpermanent as it is unnatural, if the 
 obftinate attachment of the Englidi to their mif- 
 taken politics was not to draw ihe tics clofcr. 
 When, whatever facrifices are made by Auftria 
 to France, for France's fuffering her to wreak 
 her refentment, will all be at the expence of the 
 Englifli iniereft in Europe : and O may it not 
 be in America! In the mean time, muft not 
 humanity fufFcr at hearing Germany fo often 
 
 mournfully 
 
 -,<'•> 
 
 -H^TWfifiivii'iirii' lii" jj i 'r if^ 
 
Il l i» , ll» .UW l - I i JU l Mf ll V. 'f glffr 'jfP'fyT^ 
 
 - ' ' ^'' '' vv-y*' ' -" ' j - iniw ' n ! ' . 
 
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 [ 22 3 
 
 mournfully refounding with poftilions winding 
 the fall of her bravcft fons ? Sweet mufic to the 
 French ! Whether they fall on the fide of Pruffia 
 or of Auftria, they are Germans ftill. Yes 
 France, France is the only gainer by their cala- 
 mity, and to Britain it is they impute it. Her 
 careleflhefs in not refuting accufations, has given 
 her greateft enemy the arms of appearance 
 againfi: her, and appearances it is that govern 
 the world. To rely entirely on innocence, and 
 to leave truth to its infenfible perfpiration, 
 through time, is not always, at leaft in po- 
 litics, the fafeft courfc. Mifchief irreparable 
 may be done by a calumny before it is ex- 
 ploded. ' 
 
 >:'t"! 
 
 That the nation, by abandoning the fteadjr 
 J'ght of reafon, and fuffering herfelf to be mi. 
 ferably n^ifled by the falfe glare of a Will-oW- 
 v^.fp, had gone out of the plaineft road imagi- 
 -ab c, into a wild of precipices on all fides, 
 ^'ichout an opening to fafety: for f.reiy an ig- * 
 • nominious 
 
 I " I- ;a < |i i ^ i ijiKl i iB lll M' ii »M l i l Wtf i i rtM« i hiiau i itM^ i 
 
■ Hjng i j. ! g ^ ijin. ^^p^uy n« tf l ii I ] 1 1 m, pB ' 
 
 ' tWH * i 
 
 l .H ll .W.ll i , i l l I I. 
 
 ] 
 
 ^ith poftilions winding 
 s ? Sweet mufic to the 
 11 on the fide of Pruffia 
 
 Germans ftjlj. Yes 
 y gainer by their cala- 
 they impute it. Her 
 accu rations, has given 
 
 arms of appearance 
 ces it is that govern 
 ely on innocence, and 
 nfenfible perfpiration, 
 'ays, at leaft in po. 
 
 Mifchief irreparable 
 mny before it is ex- 
 
 ibandoning the fteady 
 •ing herfelf to be mi- 
 glare of a Will-o'th*- 
 plaineft road imagi- 
 -cipices on all fides, 
 fy •• for fiireiy an ig. 
 nominious 
 
 »> » i iiiriit i i ' m' l i ti mO i Kmii ii 'H''' ■ Tn 
 
 [ 23 ] 
 
 nominious peace can never defervc the name of 
 fafery, and that perhaps one of the moft dcfpcrate 
 of her fymptoms, was not only her not feeming 
 to know her being in danger, but her infenfibi- 
 lity to lofs of reputation, to fay nothing of that 
 of her intereft, by thofe continental connexions 
 which had expofed one of the befl- and honeft- 
 eft of Kings to be treated with the utmoft irre- 
 verence, both by her enemies and allies j and 
 the nation herfelf to be confidered as one, to 
 whofe politics it was only now wanting to nego- 
 tiate a quadruple alliance, by inviting into it the 
 ernperor of Morocco, and the moft ferene re- 
 public of Algiers. 
 
 That if, through your rage of holding power ' 
 by the mif-ufe of a popularity ufurped without 
 the leaft title to it, your defignlngly bluftering 
 airs fiiould be miftaken, for that true fpirit and 
 quick fenfe of honor, that fo well becomes a 
 nation; or if even a j.ift war fliould be confe- 
 quenily refolved on with Holland, preferably to,. 
 
 the 
 
 # 
 
 \ 
 
- KWtjljf 4l»ll ainif 
 
 [ 24 ] 
 
 the tamely giving her a fatisfaftion, to* which 
 (he is not however without fomc pr-tehtiohs i yet 
 fuch are the nafiohil circumftances, under this 
 continental involvehce in a caufe with which Ihe 
 has originally nothing to do, that on fuch a war 
 breaking out, France would probably have more 
 reafon than Britain to rejoice in the ilTue i and 
 the nation would have ample Caufe for averring, 
 that you had been fteady only to her ruin, after 
 being inconftant at a jun^lure,- whenf the not being 
 fo would not only have faved, but eflcntially 
 ferved her ; to fay nothing of the (lability which 
 would, in fpite even of the court itfelf, have 
 thereby redounded to your own power : that you 
 had confequently been, if not falfe to your 
 country's intereft, at leaft ignorant of your own, 
 or of both. -^ 
 
 That the Britilli nation feems alfo not to re- 
 fled, that the diftradling her councils by the per- 
 nicious admixture of the continental embroils, 
 takes away all point of view from her, and fu* 
 
 pcrfluoufly 
 
 n... l l iKi W " iti ' i 1 1 1 HWHI 
 
 aim*>0'^ 
 
i 
 
 ] 
 
 fatisfaflion, tci which 
 : fome priteritiohs i yet 
 umflances, under this 
 I caufe with which (he 
 lo, that on fuch a war 
 Id probably have more 
 oice in the iiTue i and 
 pie Caafe for averring, 
 only to her ruin, after 
 jre,- wheri the not being 
 
 faved, but eflcntially 
 5 of the (lability which 
 the court itfelf, have 
 • own power : that you 
 
 if not falfe to your 
 ignorant of your own, 
 
 n feems alfo not to re- 
 
 ier councils by the per- 
 
 continental embroils, 
 
 lew from her, and fu* 
 
 perfluoufly 
 
 t ^ 1 
 perfluouny fubjea:s her to the carrying on or 
 paying for two wars inftead of one : That could 
 Ihe even adopt fo mad an idea, as that her navy, 
 powerful as it is, in concert with the land-force 
 6f Pruffia, Hanover, Hefle, Brunfwick, and the 
 mighty potentate of Buckeburgh, could give 
 laws to all Europe, and confequently realize in 
 herfelf that chimera of univerfal empire ; fuch 
 a hope has but a flippery foundation in her de- 
 pendence on a prince, who, granting him all 
 that mofl: religious fidelity to treaties, of which 
 he has given fome memorable proofs, may yen 
 be diftrefled and compelled, by the paramounn 
 lawof felf-prcfervation, to leave Britain in the 
 lurch. Should Britain and Pruflia, on the 
 other hand, inftead of wearying out the powers 
 with whom they are at war, than the expeftation 
 of which a vainer there could hardly be, thej 
 themfelves become tired out and exhaufted with 
 undecifive operations, what will then become of 
 the fruits of Britain's maritime fuccefTes ? Will 
 not their fate in Afia, Africa, and America, be ra- 
 
 E ther 
 
 *m 
 
 
 
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 "1WW» 
 
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 i 26 -] 
 
 ther regulated by that of Europe, than that of 
 Europe by them ? Yet widely different might 
 have been the cafe, if thofe powers, inftead of 
 being alienated from Britain by the unaccount- 
 able part Ihe has taken, had feen her only a6t- 
 ing upon her own bottom : they would then 
 have mofl likely been glad to fee weights taken 
 out of the fcale of France, and thrown into that 
 of Britain and of Liberty. None of them pro- 
 bably would have wiftied the reflitution of any 
 conqueft Ihe might have made upon France ; 
 whereas, as things are, judge of the impolicy of 
 Britain that has been fo great as to render the 
 caufe of even France a popular one in Eu- 
 
 rope! 
 
 Mi"; 
 
 
 ^ That the people of England had run head- 
 long into a grievous miftake of buftle for bufi- 
 nefs i a miftake owing to that imbecility and 
 inaftivity of your preueceflbrs, contrafted to 
 which your fchemes, crude and undigefted as 
 they were, had an air of life, and of doing fome- 
 
 thing. 
 
 » -'ly 
 
MMBIM JBUHJtl- -UWU ' "^'" U " J i f lU. - • 
 
 
 1 
 
 jrope, than that of 
 lely different might 
 ; powers, inftead of 
 1 by the unaccount- 
 d feen her only a6l- 
 1 : they would then 
 to fee weights taken 
 and thrown into that 
 None of them pro- 
 le reflitution of any 
 made upon France ; 
 Ige of the impolicy of 
 Teat as to render the 
 popular one in Eu- 
 
 ngland had run head- 
 ike of buftle for bufi- 
 that imbecility and 
 reflbrs, contrafted to 
 de and undigefted as 
 x'i and of doing fome- 
 thing. 
 
 [ 27 ] 
 tWng". They did not confider, that wrong or 
 filly meafures may ultimately prove as fatal as 
 no meafures at all i that the paths to perdition 
 are numerous, and often diametrically oppofite ; 
 but that the right roads are never more than a 
 very few, which the point is to hit. That, in 
 lhort,the fcratch work of expeditions, which ex- 
 ulcerated France without weakening her, or defi- 
 cient or ill concerted plans of operations, are no 
 more a mark of life, than a fick man's toffing 
 and throwing his arms about in the delirium of 
 a fever is a vital fymptbm. ; ' ^: 
 
 Here this fcrupulous weigher of merits ftop- 
 ped. His adverfary, your adherent, told him, 
 that he muft have been, when alive, under the 
 biafsof fome perfonal intereft, fome refentmenr,- 
 malice, or party-fpirit, of which the impreffion 
 ftiU remained upon him. The other fmiled, and 
 obferved, that nothing was fo injurious to man- 
 kind, fo ftupidly abfurd, nor fo common, 
 as indiftinaiy to place all private opinion* 
 
 
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 f 28 ] 
 
 upon the adminillration of public affairs to the 
 account of fome fuch motives. That motives in 
 general not being fufccptible of afcertainment; 
 even by the man himfelf who profefled them, 
 the pubhc gave very little heed to any profef- 
 fions : that truth of fafts ^nd arguments was, 
 what it confidercd, as the only objedl worthy of 
 its attention. That he, to the bed of his know- 
 ledge and underflanding, had, as an impartial 
 by (lander, ever reprefented the truth, and the 
 truth only ; nor that but with the moft perfefk 
 indiiTerence about its reception, unlefs indeed 
 fo far as, its utility to the public might be affec- 
 ted by it. That as to yourfelf, his owr. con- 
 ftant opinion of you had been formed upon ^ 
 judgment tpo cool, too tranquil, tpo, unprejudi- 
 ced, not to make him fenfible that he was do- 
 ing you an honor, in his deigning to take cogr 
 nizunce of your conduft,. which nothing butita 
 unaccoi;ntab!e relation to the public welfare 
 could judify to kimfelf. That you then, if any 
 tiling, he rather pitied, for the numbers who. 
 
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 i,_ 
 
 " iw n mi t w^"' i '*^ ti i ( Mi l |»! i ttiiiij - 1 1"''. 
 
| iim»j. i .li | |.wm i |JH; -« 
 
 iiblic affairs to the 
 That motives in 
 le of afcertainment; 
 ho profefled them, 
 eed to any profef- 
 jid arguments was, 
 ily objedl worthy of 
 \t bed of his know- 
 id, as an impartial 
 
 the truth, and the 
 th the moft perfefk 
 ;'ion, unlefs indeed 
 blic might be afFec- 
 felf, his own con« 
 een formed upon ^ 
 juil, tpo.uflprejudi- 
 )Ie that he was do- 
 gning to take cogp 
 lich nothing but its 
 :he public welfare 
 lat you then, if any 
 
 the numbers who 
 did 
 
 did not know you, having afBxed to yo;i fucH 
 an idea of over-importance as, whilft. it gives 
 yoq pow^K.^'^ 4QAnfinitp mirchief>. Q«,iy iO^reaff^ 
 your blindnefs ;o your natural inability of an-i 
 fwcring 'the raifed expedation. T|hat, as to 
 any thing further, he was extremely, pkafed at 
 
 beiiig dead jjipd buried out pf the w^y of all non* 
 fenfe in the upper worlc(, and pf any longer feeing, 
 withou; hj^. being able to help it, his wretched 
 cofjjptf.y in prey to Fplly^ that genuine iflue o^ 
 the left handed marriage of Power with Pre- 
 fumption : ^fo|:itT)e furely more defirable ag^ 
 toliyeinl •. nwo 'iirl; 
 
 ,«f,.. 
 
 
 ■♦ ' n 
 
 
 aU 
 
 He wanted here to leave off, but Idefired hin^ 
 to proceed, which, iftcomplaifancetome he did. 
 He pbferved, that it was not long before your 
 unfteadinefs, in turning againft yoor country 
 that very influence her voice had procured you 
 for her defence, was nobdy punilhed. The old 
 m' " • ' rs faw you with as much pleafure, 
 gs if you had never changed before, difhonor. 
 
 •jifiw- . ■ yoiufblf 
 
 k ii tewi w iift i ^'* Twwi'i ' """'" 
 
 >Mi&mh'- 
 
 \ 
 
,.1 ' Wt t'MBmt| ffi|<sj^n|p |j^y|^p ^ m.|.n|ji|| i m| i )iuj |i| |i ipw,. u , » i. ' . ' iM 'i m- hhmoi <yj w^ i ppp, - 
 
 ,1? 
 
 yourfclf by joining them, and thus give them 
 their revenge for the contempt with which you 
 had, perhaps not unjuflly, loaded them.- The 
 well-meaning people rejoiced indeed, becaufe 
 they imagined this unanimity of the 'heads of 
 parties portended well to the admiriiftration of 
 affairs; not confidering that it was by what 
 they fliould agree upon, and n6t Merely by their 
 agreeing, that their unanimity was td Be eftima- 
 ted. Alas ! little did the people in general 
 know or conceive, that, after all, a German in- 
 tereft was to ije the centtr of ' union ;• -and that 
 the new m— — — — r, their own darling eled, 
 was preparing to ftrike deeper into the continent 
 than any minifters before had dared to venture. 
 The old ones cfpecially muft have voluptu- 
 oufly enjoyed your thus over-fhooting them in 
 their own bow, afTured as they were that the 
 prize of it would be to themfelves. Thofe old 
 Jdaunch complaifants to the court- paffion, knew 
 very well they (hould have all the merit, where 
 they wanted to have it, of thofc meafures, 
 
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 and thus give them 
 :cmpt with which you 
 , loaded them.- The 
 (iced indeed, becaufe 
 mity of the 'heads of 
 
 the adminiflration of 
 
 that it was by what 
 md n6t hicrely by their 
 imity was td be iefti'ma- 
 he people in general 
 ifter all, a German in- 
 r of ' union ;• ^and that 
 eir own darling cled, 
 eper into the continent 
 
 had dared to venture. 
 
 muft have voluptu- 
 ver-lhooting them in 
 IS they were that the 
 lemfelves. Thofe old 
 le court- paflion, knew 
 e all the merit, where 
 of thofe meafures, 
 which, 
 
 [ 31 1 
 
 which, without ypur popplwity to gi«c thtfm 
 countenance, could not have taken place. 
 They durft not hav^, pfopofcd to fpr>d a man to 
 Germany •, your face was fet to the fcpding of 
 thoufandsi and in what a manner too! Then it 
 was that the ' natioi^al intereft, under your au- 
 fpices, was pn^e more fliifted from the broad 
 bafis of Europ?, to the little diminifhed point of 
 two or three provinces of Germany, and thofe 
 liable to that ban of the empire, the execution 
 of which will probably not ultimately be found 
 to depend on that ridiculous army which has been 
 commiflfioned with the name of it. 
 
 In the mean time, the favorites behind the 
 fcenes muft have been highly diverted. You 
 had defpifed their judgment, and what a proof 
 was you now giving of your's, in fuffering your- 
 felf to be their temporary tool ! They doubtlefs 
 carefled, admired, and extolled you to the fkies, 
 whilfl: you was thus fo kind at once to do 
 what they wanted, and to bring all the con- 
 fequences upon yourfelf: confcquences which 
 \' ^ - ■-- ■"■ they 
 
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 th»yi'Cd«ld Mt b»t lyMMv (nor be too mwch 
 Ftfproichbd for kno\^ing) would do the Frenclr 
 A ft* vice o^ the cofrtiflenti which wOiild by much 
 ©Ot-baknee ^e h>ifchicf done them. hy navaf 
 eicpedieiorls, the reduftioh of G«pe Breton hfelf 
 hVcluded This banter of theirs however muft 
 have produced a fine laugh in thfc fleeve, whiift 
 IhoTe who always defpifcd yowasmuch as you 
 had affefted to defpife them, were thus playing 
 you off. You was nOw theit ** great man, a 
 *« man to be fupportcd ; nay, a man that'knew 
 «« bufmcfs:" which, by the by, is the lafl qua- 
 lity they would have allowed you before ; and 
 all this you fwallowed, whilft they were loilinw 
 out their tongues by ftealth at you, looking 
 archly at one another j as much as to fay, 
 '• We have him, he cannot retreat now." Their 
 part however was an infamous cne; fince it 
 could not be aded but at the expence of their 
 country : but then, what muft your's be, in your 
 being thus their tool and jeft ? You could not 
 complain of this ufage as unfair, becaufe you 
 
 ' knew 
 
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 w (nor be too moch 
 
 would do the Frenclr 
 , which wOiild by much 
 
 done them hy navaf 
 1 of G«pe Breton hfelf 
 f theirs however muft 
 jh in thfc fleeve, whilft 
 1 yowasmuch as you 
 m, were thus playing 
 he'rt- ** great man, a 
 nay, a man that'knew 
 the by, is the lafl qua- 
 wed you before j and 
 hilft they were lolling 
 alth at you, looking 
 
 as much as to fay, 
 t retreat now." Their 
 famous one; fince it 
 
 the expence of their 
 nuft your's be, in your 
 jeft ? You could not 
 
 unfair, becaufe you 
 knew 
 
 [ 33 1 
 knew them, as it is pretty plain they did you. 
 But when the confcqucnces of your laft defec- 
 tion (hail come into exiftence, and intoexiftence 
 fome of them are already come, and the reft 
 haftcning into it, when you (hall at length dif- 
 cover that you have been amufcd and cajoled 
 by your colleagues in office ; what will you do ?_ 
 Again will you have recourfe to your old friends 
 the people, with a complaint of your having 
 been facrificed by thofe new friends of your's, 
 to whom you had yourfclf facrificed thjit very 
 people ? and ought they not with one accord 
 to anfwer, that you was rightly ferved •, that their 
 wrong was in fome meafure revenged by it -, that * 
 they were fick of biting fo often at fo ftale a 
 bait ; fick, in Ihort, at being fo repeatedly made . 
 the tools of their own perdition, by their being 
 deceived with falfe figns and colors, into be- 
 llowing their infljence upon one, who, the in- ' 
 ftant he had obtained it, turned it againft them- 
 felves, his political creators out of nothingnefs ? 
 But they will not anfwer fo, it may be faid, arid 
 you will be received with open arms, as if you 
 
 F , had 
 
 furitiltlifflr ii ' 
 
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 had not dcfervcd fuch an anfwcr. But then it 
 muft be allowed too, that thefc arc prccifcly ilie 
 times in which the moft flagrant improbabiliticj 
 have greatly the odds on their fide j a hint, 
 by the by, not unimprovable at Arthur's. He 
 fliould not then wonder (he added) to fee you 
 once more availing yourfclf of that finglc cir- 
 cumftance which had prc'crved to you your po- 
 pularity, your having at once humored the 
 populace and the court, in their paffion for the 
 
 K of Pr i a paffion, which on each 
 
 fide had very diflicrent motives, and of which 
 you could not have too ftrongly refilled the 
 blindnefs in both court and people, and perhaps 
 in yourfclf i which laft fuppofuion is, however 
 wretched, the only excufe for you. That was 
 he again in life, he fhoulddie with lai^-Ing, if 
 once more putting on the heroic bufkin and the- 
 atrical air, you was to begin with a prologue 
 upon your being proof againft money and lull 
 of power, and of your fighing for a retreat in 
 the ftile of a Scipio, whilft only wiih-hcld from 
 
 ■ ". ' H* * " i» W ' 
 
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 an anfwcr. But then it 
 lat thcfc arc precifcly ilie 
 t flagrant improbabilities 
 on their fidcv a hint, 
 >vable at Arthur'a. He 
 r (he added) to fee you 
 rfclf of that finglc cir- 
 c'crved to you your po- 
 
 at once humored the 
 in their paffion for the 
 paflion, which on eacii 
 motives, and of which 
 ftrongly refifted the 
 nd people, and perhaps 
 fuppofition is, however 
 "e for you. That was 
 Id die with lai^huig, if 
 heroic bufkin and the- 
 begin with a prologue 
 againft money and luft 
 Ighing for a retreat in 
 ft only with- held from 
 . .. • -, n- :. it 
 
 [ 35 ] 
 
 it by your tender patriotic concern for that dear 
 deal country of your's, which you would be loth 
 to leave to deplore the dcfcrtion of fuch a fa- 
 ther as you have been to her : and then pro- 
 ceed to lay before an audience, melted with all 
 this mock pathos, the unpromifing afpec't of 
 affairs, the difficulties incident to raifing the 
 (upplics of the war i of all which, it feems, you 
 know fo much, as to know that the nation has 
 fuch inexhauftible refources to carry it on, that 
 whoever Ihould dare to fuggeft the contrary, 
 ought to be confidered as a traitor, and purfued 
 accordingly. Now, the jeft of fuch a declama- 
 tion, if jefting was quite fo proper in fo ferioua 
 a concern, would be not only the effrontery, 
 but ih« glaring falfity of the affertion and coa- 
 clufions : fmce the loweft man of the nation, 
 grant him but common fcnfe, and the modera- 
 teft knowledge of the prefent conftitution of 
 things, would have a right to fay to you, witji 
 all that ftern coolnefs which attends the contempt 
 of a filly impofition, " Sir, if the nation is lb 
 
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 unfortunate as to experience a failure of cre- 
 dit at her greateft need, flie muft be funk as 
 low indeed in her fpirit and underftanding as 
 it is poflible for her to be in her circun^dan- 
 ces, if ihe can fufFer the very man who is 
 himfelf palpably the occaflon of it, to infult 
 her with an attempt to make, or, in truth to 
 rather ccntinue, her a party with him in the 
 farther deception of herfelf, till all difcovery 
 of it comes too late. But furely, Sir, you of 
 all mankind ought to be the lead furprized 
 at the prefent meafures not inviting credit; 
 fince it is not fo long fince, that even fo 
 great and fo wife a man as you are, thought 
 them as infernally bad ones, as thole may do 
 who now with- hold their money : an opi- 
 nion which, though you may have changed 
 upon being more enlightened by a poft, might 
 not be the cafe of thofe who had not like you 
 got one. Thofe continental connexions which 
 you had condemned, defended, condemned 
 and defended again, juft as you was in or out 
 / . *« of 
 
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 )erietice a failure of ere- 
 d, fhe mufl: be funk as 
 rit and underftanding as 
 :o be in her circun^dan- 
 r the very man who is 
 occafion of it, to infult 
 make, or, in truth to 
 a party with him in the 
 herfelf, till all difcovery 
 But furely, Sir, you of 
 be the lead furprized 
 ires not inviting credit; 
 ng fince, that even fo 
 nan as you are, thought 
 id ones, as thoie may do 
 their money : an opi- 
 you may have changed 
 ightened by a poft, might 
 afe who had not like you 
 tinental connexions which 
 d, defended, condemned 
 juft as you was in or out 
 " of 
 
 i 37 1 
 
 «' of place, could not to any folid, fenfible per- 
 " fons even have changed afped, unlefs greatly 
 " in favor of the expediency of having lefs to do 
 " with them than ever. Will you then dare to 
 ** fay, that thofe who now think as yourfelf not^ 
 *' long fince thought, are in the wrong ? when, 
 " in defiance of that greedily fwallowed fpeech 
 ** of your dictating, in which you too fucceflf- 
 " fully dazzled the peopfe by (hewing them 
 ** only the funny fide of things, in order to 
 " captivate for the moment their confidence 
 " and fupport, c?frery circumilance concurs to 
 " ftrengthen the reafonablcnefs of that averfion 
 ** to meddling in the German quarrel, which 
 ** was more than once your bo^ft, as it has been 
 " more than once your facrifice? Is Britain 
 ** then perched upon yotnr head as on a weather- 
 ** cock, to turn with every guft of wind that 
 ** whiffles you round ? Ought the nation, do 
 ** you think, to adhere to you, for that your 
 *' defertion of her, which was all your return 
 t* for the countenance (he had lent you, and 
 -^ - i- - « which 
 
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 " which alone gave you confequence enough 
 " for yon*" defertion to be of any ? Is your 
 *< country obliged to you for the redudtion of 
 *' Cape Breton, Senegal, or other atchievements 
 " by fea i when the fea was, by the united voict 
 ** of nature, the people, and common fenfe, fo 
 *' ftrongly pointed out to be her element of 
 " war i fince of what you was thus feeming to 
 <* build up on one hand, you have in faA, with 
 « the other, fo undermined the foundation, by 
 ** your continuing or renewing connexions with 
 <* the continent, that the whole of the laudable 
 «« fuperftru6ture is likely to come to the ground 
 ** with a tenfold cra(h and ruin ? In this fenfe, 
 «« (and may it not prove a juft one !) thofe fuc- 
 c* cefTes are to the nation rather afHidlions, and 
 " m you a guilt inftead of a merit. In the 
 " mean time, your prefent game looks as if it 
 " was not-to extricate your country out of the 
 «' labyrinth into which you have brought her, 
 " but to prolong her errors. You would never 
 *' elfe prematurely affect to dread an ignomini- 
 
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 onfequence enough 
 
 of any ? Is your 
 »r the redudtion of 
 other atchievements 
 
 by the united voice 
 1 common fenfe, fo 
 
 be her element of 
 ras thus Teeming to 
 1 have in fadt, with 
 the foundation, by 
 ng connexions with 
 lole of the laudable 
 come to the ground 
 uin ? In this fenfe. 
 Lift one!) thofe fuc- 
 ther afHiftions, and 
 ' a merit. In the 
 game looks as if it 
 country out of the 
 
 have brought her, 
 
 You would never 
 
 dread an ignomini- 
 
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 C 39 ] 
 * ous peace, when of there being foon any 
 ' peace at all there is little probability tho' 
 ' that indeed is no rule of judgment. Things 
 ' are at prefent too embroiled, and the minda 
 ' of the powers at war as yet too inflamed. But 
 \ if fuch a peace was, through the force of dire 
 '' neceffity, to take place, you, you efpeciaily, 
 '' ought not to inveigh againft it. It will be 
 your own work. And, let me tell you, exe- 
 crable as an ignominious peace is, there is 
 ' yet fomething .more execrable, and full as 
 pregnant with perdition ; and that is, an ig- 
 nominious war. The Britifh war was in its 
 outfet the faireft imaginable. Aflc all Eu- 
 rope what it is now .? Succefs, which makes 
 every thing white, does not feem to have got 
 us much favor with that univerfal focicty by 
 which nations are fairly judged. Our allies 
 are not much multiplied even fince the glori- 
 on vidkory at Crevelt. In fhort, our own war 
 is fo greatly changed in its nature, fince the 
 fatal ingraftment on it of a foreign caufe, that 
 
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 " all the advantages already obtained, or prefum- 
 ** able, humanly fpealdhg, in the courfe of it, can 
 ** neither procure glory to the nation, nor ftability 
 ** to themfclves. In the mean time, whenever 
 ** thofe in power (yourfelf perhaps one of them) 
 ** .what with urgency from without, and repug- 
 •* nance from within, fhall, iior is the time pef- 
 " haps far off, be in that moil: aukward fitua- 
 ** tion of neither being able to keep what con- 
 ** quefts are made, nor of daring to give them 
 ** up ; there will be dill in this dilemma a fub- 
 *' terfuge left for you, to which your modefty 
 " will hardly hinder you from having recourfc. 
 ** Exclaim violently againft a defperate faction, 
 *' for having thwarted yotir admirable counfels, 
 ** and clogged your finely-fchemed operations, 
 " out of envy, as if a mifcreant there could be 
 " on earth fo very an idcot, fo low, as not ra- 
 ** ther to pity than envy you. Then give a 
 ** loofe to the tragic pathos, fpout heroics, 
 •* rend the roof with patriot rants, not forget- 
 *' ing the hollow groan over that dear country 
 " of your's, to which your fteadinefs has been 
 
 « fuch 
 
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 obtained, or prefum- 
 n the courfe of it, can 
 te nation, nor ftability 
 lean time, whenever 
 perhaps one of them) 
 without, and repug- 
 , nor is the time per- 
 mofl: aukward fitua- 
 i to keep what con- 
 daring to give them 
 . this dilemma a fub- 
 which your modefty 
 rom having recourfe. 
 [b a defperate faction, 
 r admirable counfels, 
 -fchemed operations, 
 rreant there could be 
 »t, fo low, as not ra- 
 you. Then give a 
 ithos, fpout heroics, 
 lot rants, not forget- 
 ^er that dear country 
 It ileadinefs has been 
 « fuch 
 
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 [ 41 3 
 «« fuch a blcffing. And though any peace al- 
 «« moft muft be better than a war with fuch a 
 " double face, a black and a white one, as we are 
 » now vainly carrying on, yetdoyou takefpecial 
 care to walh your hands of any peace, which 
 however juftified by that nccefllty to the in- 
 " ducing of which yourfclf have fo largely con- 
 " tributed, may be difagreeable to the people. 
 « Proteft, declaim, fulminate againft it. The ' 
 « noife you will make will not only preferve 
 « your popularity with the fuperficial multitude, 
 '* but collaterally anfwer another very valuable 
 " purpofej that of diftrafting the public judg- 
 ** ment, and of drowning the voice of reafon, 
 " which would fairly bring home to you the 
 »« charge of being yourfelf greatly the original 
 ♦* caufe of that evil. You have before now 
 ** been liftened to with perhaps as little reafon 
 *« for being liftened to, and why not again ? 
 " In the mean time, take this along with you 
 »« for the quieting your confcience, that how- 
 ever little you may deferve to lead a nation, 
 
 G *' at 
 
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 r 42 ] 
 
 "at lead that nation which will fuffcr herfclf to 
 « be led by you, cannot, (hould utter perdition 
 " be the confequence, have any great reafon to 
 *' complain of her not having (Jeferved it." 
 
 Here this cavilling malignant ended a fpeech, 
 of which he begged pardon for the length, an J 
 which, as he faid, he had put into the mouth 
 of a fuppofed living man, to give it the more 
 life- heat. 
 
 Your (launch admirer now interpofed, and ob- 
 ferved to his opponent, that, after all his pro- 
 feffions of candor at the out-fet of the debate, 
 he did not make due allowance for your having 
 been obliged to take matters as you found them 
 already fo fettled, before your afTumption into 
 the miniftry, that you could not, without a vio- 
 lence too injurious to the reft of the fyftem of 
 things, break off (hort thefe continental mea- 
 fures, of which he made h mighty a crim? to 
 
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 h will fuffcr herfclf to 
 fliould utter perdition 
 vc any great reafon to 
 'ing (Jeferved it." 
 
 gnant ended a fpeech, 
 1 for the length, anj 
 I put into the mouth 
 to give it the more 
 
 IV interpofed, and ob- 
 It, after all his pro- 
 ut-fet of the deb=ite, 
 ince for your having 
 s as you found them 
 3ur afTumption into 
 not, without a vio- 
 'ft of the fyftem of 
 fe continental mea- 
 mighty a crim? to 
 
 ■ " - The 
 
 L 43 ] 
 
 The other's anfwcr was as follows: That 
 pure charity had been the motive of that omif- 
 fion with which he was reproached, fince that 
 very previoufncfs, he who reproached him 
 mentioned, was palpably the highelt ag£;rava- 
 tion of your failure •, for that the pre-exiftence . 
 of thofe meafures was not unknown to you, be- 
 fore your getting into power on the ftrength of 
 having railed at thfcm. That your tame acqui- 
 efcence, and even active concurrence then in 
 them after you had carried that point of power 
 for yourfelf, proved to a demonftration the na- 
 ture of the motives and fpirit upon which you 
 had founded your oppofition : and that you had 
 coveted a high office, not for the fake of redref- 
 fing thofe national wrongs of which yourfelf had 
 fo juftly complained in thofe you abufed and 
 fupplanted •, but that yourfelf might precifely " 
 do the fame or worfe than they did, and reap 
 that advantage from thofe facrifices which you ' 
 envied them. In (hort, the point of conteft 
 feemed to be, not wliolhould extricate yourcoun- » 
 
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 [ 44 ] 
 
 try out of her plunge, but who IhouJd thruft 
 her more defperately in. ;. | . • „ , . . , 
 
 m! 
 
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 ^ To this your friend replied : That there was 
 another more favorable way of folving that ap- 
 parent inconfiftency in your cpnduft, which was, 
 that you had been forced, as it were, by way 
 of compromife, to yield to fome ill, that you 
 might be able to do fome good : that, confcious 
 of your intrufive, and confequently aukward 
 figure in the clofet, you was glad to foften 
 things there in order to keep your place in itj 
 and, under the favor of humoring the pre- 
 dominant pafllon there, to make way for thofe 
 natioiial points which would not otherwife pafs 
 without fuch a compliance : in which light your 
 compliance was rather that of a patriot than of 
 a courtier, fince you dill made the good of your 
 country your port of deftination, though, by the 
 wind's continuing to blow too ftrong in a con- 
 trary quarter, you was forced to trim to it, and 
 go upon another tack. ( .•.• 
 
 . - ' ■ His 
 
(•B«f"»*(IWPF»W'W'**««i»ili^ 
 
 i fimifm m . i | i y ffi|y«y"N"w»llWP"ytWr 
 
 ] 
 
 ut who Ihould thruft 
 
 f'i 
 
 V^if:, 
 
 •lied : That there was 
 ay or folving that ap- 
 ir cpnduft, which was, 
 , as it were, by way 
 to fome ill, that you 
 good : that, confcious 
 confequently aukward 
 was glad to foften 
 :eep your place in it j 
 f humoring the pre- 
 I make way for thofe 
 uld not otherwife pafs 
 : in which light your 
 c of a patriot than of 
 nade the good of your 
 lation, though, by the 
 too ftrong in a con- 
 ced to trim to it, and 
 
 I' .•^' 
 
 His 
 
 [ 45 ] 
 
 His antagonift, in anfwer to this, obferved, 
 that he had often heard this plea offered for you 
 by well meaning people, and that he had always 
 heard it with that pity due to the errors of a 
 good intention, or of that amiable good-nature 
 which delights more in excufing than condem- 
 ning. The truly good always think the beft of 
 others. That unhappily however in your cafe, 
 every plea brought for you, and this one cfpe- 
 cially, made ftrongly againft you. For that no- 
 thing appearing more plain, as before remarked, 
 than that you well knew of thofe continental 
 engagements, fmce the declaiming againft them 
 with as much vehemence as juftice, had been 
 your means of afcenfion to power j you could 
 not therefore plead ignorance of the reafons 
 yourfelf had alledged of your fierce wrath at 
 them. In what then had thofe reafons ceafed > 
 Was it not more evident than ever, that at the 
 very junfture when you renounced them, and 
 adopted the meafures to which they had been 
 
 oppoledi 
 
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 [ 46 ] 
 
 oppofcd, thofe meafures had fo pernicious a 
 tendency, that there were no poinis you could 
 carry by acquicfcing in them, but what would 
 not be only barely blanked by them, but muft 
 even ultimately turn againfl your country ? 
 France was her enemy. Was it right then to 
 give France a handle to draw off the attention 
 of Europe from fo defenfible a caufe as was 
 Britain's at the beginning of the War, to fix it, 
 unfavorably for her, upon that incident in the 
 cnurfe of if, an alliance fo liable to exceptlort, 
 which, inftead of ftrengthening, muft abfolutely 
 itfclf be her weak fide ? which muft, if not ob- 
 ftruft her fuccefiTes, in all human probability, make 
 her lofe the fruit of thofe (he may have gained, 
 or will gain, on her own bottom at the cxpence 
 of her own blood and treafure. That one would 
 think you had accepted of power only to con- 
 fummate the facrifice already begun of the na- 
 tional points to the great antinational one, in- 
 ftead of making the laft fubfervient to the firft, 
 as has been urged in your behalf. That in lieu 
 
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 had fo pernicious a 
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 Jfaw off the attention 
 fible a caufe as was 
 of the war, to fix it, 
 I that incident in the 
 > liable to exceptlort, 
 ling, muft abfolutely 
 lich muft, if not ob- 
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 [he may have gained, 
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 ■ power only to con- 
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 behalf. That in lieu 
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 of endeavouring to loofcn, you had drawn cJofer, 
 the engagements between this nation and a 
 Prince, who, by doing fo much mifchief, had 
 got two fuch totally different reputations, the 
 one all over Europe, and the other in Britain 
 only : a Prince who is evidently driving on in 
 that career of perdition, which in the natural 
 courfe of things muft await him, unlefs he is 
 favcd by a miracle : fince even his vidlories, it 
 may without a paradox be faid, only infure his ^ 
 ruin, by encouraging him to brave it, and make 
 a neceffity of it to thofc powers combined againft ^ 
 him, who muft exhauft or tire him out, even in 
 their defeats by him. This too may happen not- 
 withftanding th. Te admirably trufty recruits he 
 raifes by that new and extraordinary procedure, 
 of prefting into his fervice the fworn fubjefts of 
 thofe Proteftant ftatcs he has invaded and pil- 
 laged ; all by way of defending the Proteftant 
 religion, and reinftating the liberties of Ger- 
 many ! That whenever fuch an event fhould 
 tome into exiftence, which, however, no one 
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 could Icfs wilh than himfcif, you could not at 
 leaft plead the improbability of it in your own 
 defence. For that, to fpeak in the modern ora- 
 torial ftile, even the difFcrent images prefentcd 
 by Britain and PrufTia might hare kept off the 
 idea of bringing them into conjunaion : PrufTia 
 reprefcniing a fhallow rivulet, as cnormouny as 
 fuddenly fwelled by a mere accident, burfting 
 its banics, and with its overflow fpreading a 
 \a dreadful devaftation through the neighbouring 
 fields, fooner or later to be reduced and ftirunk 
 ^ back into its original Hitlenefs ; happy, if not 
 wholly annihilated by way of prevention for the 
 future ! whereas Britain appears like a majeftic 
 river, intrinfically rich from its own perennial 
 fource, taking its courfe in a regular channel, 
 and fertilizing as it flows. The interefts of two 
 '^ fuch ftates could hardly with any fort of propriety 
 be identified, or made mutually to uc-pend on one 
 another. That befides, nothing was falfer than the 
 pretence of any neceflity in you for your acquief- 
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 nexlons, by way of comproniife for tljofe points, 
 of which fuch as were recommended by the na- 
 tion met with fo great, though probably in the 
 end vain, fucccfs -, whilll the others of your own 
 planning were cither crude, abortive, or anfwercd 
 no valuable purpofe in proportion to tlieir ex- 
 pence, or to the cxpcdlations raifcd by them. 
 That the non-neccfljty of fuch an acquiefccncc 
 was plain from the power of your popularity, 
 (no matter, as to the efFeft, whether /harped or 
 fairly won) which would have made your col- 
 leagues in the adminiftration think twice before 
 they had ventured to brave the ill confequences 
 of your tribunitian veto. That if thus backed by 
 the whole force of the community on your fide, 
 and efpecially by that of demonftrable Truth, 
 oppofcd to which all human authority makes fo 
 contemptible a figure, you could not have pre- 
 vailed for breaking, or at leafl: loofening the 
 continental connexions ; your refigntion would 
 not have been only a duty, but the very beft policy 
 inyou, granting even that fuch a refignation would 
 h4ve been only what fo many have been before, 
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 mere grimace, a retiring back to take the greater 
 le»ip forward : for that fuch was the gratitude 
 ,01, the nation, that fhe would never have defer- 
 Jled the man who had not deferted her. This 
 is plain, fince even on the bare appearance of 
 your ftill {landing by her in a few comparatively 
 uneffential points, what numbers do not per- 
 ceive, or madly fond of their prejudices will not 
 feel, that flie is deferted by you in the main one ? 
 That in this inftance of your unfteadinefs yotf 
 had not fpecified yourfelf either the friend to 
 your country or to yourfelf. That even Hano- 
 ver had the juftcft room to complain of your 
 purfuing that very tenor of councils which had 
 already proved fo deftrudlive to that ftate, and 
 of your thus, as it were, fealing its ruin. Ha- 
 ^ nover, which might have remained perfeftly fafe 
 in its priftine mediocrity, under the common 
 bond of the empire, if it had not been fiilijy lifted 
 up into the rank of nations, where its frog-fwell 
 muft, if not even burft, give it a moft aukward 
 figure : and where it will have that prepofterous 
 policy of a weak preference to thank, if it 
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 bare appearance of 
 a few comparatively 
 umbers do not per- 
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 ou in the main one ? 
 •ur unfteadinefs you* 
 either the friend tq 
 That even Hano- 
 ) complain of your 
 councils which had 
 2 to that ftate, and 
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 mould idd one inftruftive example more to 
 many, of things forced up beyond their due 
 pitch, only to be dafhed to pieces on their preci- 
 pitation to that ground again where they were ^^ 
 before quietly lying—That, in fafl, then you 
 had, in this your fecond or third departure from 
 Anti-hanoverianifm, been at once grofsly wan- 
 ting to Britain and to Hanover, both whofe m- 
 terefts ever required their being conftantly kept 
 feparate, or carried on collaterally, like paral- 
 lei lines, never to touch. But that, not content 
 with taking under your auguft proteftion the 
 German connexions, juft as you found them, 
 you had, by going deeper into them than any 
 of your predeceffors had dared to do, adted as 
 ifyouhad imagined you could not too foori 
 
 make repentance follow the fimplicity of forget- 
 ting, in your favor, that faith once forfeited, «; 
 like departed life, never to return again. Un, 
 der your aufpices then, that infatiate German - 
 gulph, which had already fwallowed, in vain, 
 fo much BriiiOi ireafure, blood, and even honor. 
 
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 kept yawning dill for more ; and now, after the 
 immenfe fums already palpably thror/n away, 
 the Britifh troops muft be fent off, and where ? 
 why, exadlly to where, ii the French had been 
 obliged to pay the freight of the tranfport, they 
 would not have had a bad bargain of their be- 
 ing fent J fo little good they can do, fo wretched 
 a figure they muft make; not as to their cou- 
 rage, for that is undoubted, (they are Britons) 
 but in a ftate of fubordination infinitely beneath 
 the majefty of the nation, and in a way lefs to 
 fave than to fubjca the eleftoral dominions to 
 the extremities of the laws of war and of the 
 empire; befides drawing on this nation the 
 odium of her feeking to perpetuate for her own 
 ends that dreadful civil war which is aftualiy to 
 this hour making a fhambles of Germany. 
 That he would not add here, that this ftep would 
 alfo.have the air, to thofe not better informed, 
 -of fupporting and rewarding the Hanoverians 
 for the breach of the convention of Clofter-feven; 
 becaufc he was determined to believe the French 
 
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 French had been 
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 gain of their be- 
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 nfinitely beneath 
 in a way lefs to 
 al dominions to 
 war and of the 
 this nation the 
 J ate for her own 
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 s of Germany. 
 It this ftep would 
 better informed, 
 he Hanoverians 
 if Clofter-feven; 
 icve the French 
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 i 53 1 
 
 the violators of it; as he could not, without being 
 too much hurt, imagine that a Britifh minifter, 
 efpecially the Britifh Cato too! could poflibly pro- 
 mote, cherifli, or abet, fo black and perfidious a 
 procedure : a procedure which would be treafon 
 to mankind, in adding frefli horrors to war, as if 
 there were not enough already, by the diftruft fuch 
 a precedent muft introduce, cutting off the fmall 
 remains of humanity left amidft its rage and 
 blood -thirftinefs; a procedure which might 
 even draw down the vengeance of Heaven on 
 the national arms, or at leaft, in the iffue of 
 things, verify that juft remark, that fuch as 
 ' 'eit honor for the fake of advantage, mod 
 commonly lofe in the end both honor and ad-= 
 vantage. No ! it could not be you, that, with 
 Probity and Patriotic virtue holding up your 
 train, would aft fo execrable a part. —That he 
 would only then obfervc, that this meafure of 
 lending away the Britilh forces, which had, ic 
 fcems, the great authority of your countenance 
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 weakened at • home and diftionored abroad, was 
 furcly not a proof of your having adopted juft 
 no more of the continental meafures than you 
 oould well help, on finding them already fixed.— 
 That this was making a moft cruel ufe of the 
 people's confidence in you, and of their juft and 
 noble fpirit of refentment againft France, which 
 by this adulteration of it with Germanifm, was 
 degenerated into the abfurdity of hating the 
 French more than they loved themfelves. That, 
 in this war efpecially, France, for every confi- 
 . derable ally that (he had, ftood indebted to that 
 ^centric policy of Britain, which had alfo 
 ^ frightened and made the neutral powers keep 
 aloof from her councils. That France had great 
 reafon to rejoice at the defigning mercenary ufe 
 made of her name, in every quarrel kindled by 
 her on the continent, to cry France, and halloo 
 Britain on to take fide, no matter for the impro- 
 priety of her interfering at all, fo that German 
 -^ troops might have but the benefit of ftanding I 
 upon her pay -books. Thus, for the fake of 
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 having adopted jufl: 
 [ tneafures than you 
 tiem already fixed.— 
 ift cruel ufe of the 
 and of their juft and 
 rainft France, which 
 ith Gertnanifm, was 
 rdity of hating the 
 i themfelves. That, 
 kcc, for every confi- 
 tood indebted to that 
 in, which had alfo 
 neutral powers keep 
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 [Igning mercenary wfe 
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 matter for the impro* 
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 f 55 J 
 
 gratifying a few German princes with compara- 
 tively an inconfiderable fum, the nation was 
 collater;:ily plunged without mercy, into e*- 
 pences needlcfs, exorbitant, and ruinous, as 
 well as into an inextricable chaos of falfc mea- 
 fures i fo that herfelf was made to pay for her 
 own perdition. How different from this coii- 
 duft was that of the model of Britifli fovereigns, 
 the good Queen Elizabeth ! one of whofe great 
 excellencies lay, in that, ever faithful to her 
 infular fituation, fhc knew perfcdly well how to 
 make her advantage of all the parties on the 
 continent j but wifely took care herfelf never to 
 enter deeply into any of them. It is true^ ftp, 
 had no foreign dominions. 
 
 Here this vain declaimer paufed ; your zed- 
 ous advocate,, without making him a fingle con- 
 ceflion to your prejudice, alked him with a little 
 air of triumph, what he had to fay againft your 
 difintereftednefs ? 
 
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 Nothing, was his anfwef : thai is to fay, ad- 
 ded he, if the other, by difintcreftednefs, meant 
 no more than a clearnefs from pecuniary views. 
 He defired him, however, to take notice that his 
 own candor had not made him give up a little, 
 in giving up fuch appearances as made that vir- 
 tue at lead apocryphal. But that as he fincerely 
 believed they were appearances only, he dif- 
 dained to take the advantage of them ; for that 
 if money was nor, as he granted it was not, the 
 motive of your patrlotifm fuch as it is, that 
 lame patriotifm, confidering your original preten- 
 tions, had however been no very bad bargain to 
 you. That, after all, if thofe your fo much boafted 
 T lelf- denials of perquifites, gratuities, or fweets 
 of office, were fairly caft up, they would amount 
 to no more than a very moderate fum, to pafs, 
 as very juftly it ought to pafs, for the purchafe- 
 money of thofe places you have obtained, if 
 in thofe refufals you politically had thofe places 
 in view. No-one can aflert you had not : that 
 
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 him give up a little, 
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 ot that as he finc?rely 
 ranees only, he dif- 
 ;e of them ; for that 
 anted it was not, the 
 1 fuch as it is, that 
 5 your original preten- 
 3 very bad bargain to 
 your fo much boafted 
 gratuities, or fweets 
 S they would amount 
 jderate fum, to pafs, 
 ifs, for the purchafe- 
 u have obtained, if 
 ally had thofe places 
 t you had not : that 
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 is a point within your own breaft, beyond the 
 reach of human penetration, and perhaps even 
 beyond your own, as it might lie buried from 
 your own knowledge under other motives, which, 
 as more plaufibJe, would appear uppermoft. 
 You would not however be the firft who, to 
 compafs his ends, had worn a mafic of difin- 
 tereftednefs, fo nearly refembling life, as to be 
 miftaken for what it only imitated. Thajc 
 ncverthclcfs, for his part, he readily believed 
 that money was not your paffion : nor did he 
 even impute it to you, as an unpardonable fault, 
 a procedure which, before your laft abdication, 
 did not however (how, that you was fo abfo- 
 lutely diverted from all attachments but thofe to 
 the intcreft of your country, as fome of your ' 
 admirers would have it believed j for that 
 you had not been entirely without reafon re- 
 proached with having, in more than one gentle ^ 
 cuz, confidered rather a family. merit to yourfelf, 
 than a national one. Not but undoubtedly fome 
 of them might have pretentions at lead equal to 
 
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 your own, but which they mua deferve to for- 
 feit by the meannefs of claiming under your 
 title. Partiality to relations, was, he obferved, 
 a palTion, or rather wcaknefs, which carried its 
 excufe with it in the humanity and goodnefs of 
 heart it implied j that it was fometimes even 
 juftifiable on motives of fecurity and truft j but 
 that it was the height of impolicy, when the 
 preceding minifter had been violently reproached 
 for a mif-ufc of that indulgence, or where great 
 parade had been made of a rigorous feJf-denial 
 of every branch of perfonal intercftednefs. But 
 there were, he faid, many other paflions more, 
 obnoxious, which might place power in a light 
 of temptation enough to perfonate a character in 
 order to come at it. Paflions, fgch as pride and 
 ambition efpecially, which would be admirably 
 fervcd by difintereftednefs, as it is commonly 
 underftcod in purely a pecuniary fenfe, from itj 
 rarity and luftre, dazzling enough to blind the 
 world to thofe paflions themfelves. That yet 
 no one of difccrnment had ever fo much as 
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 ill deferve to for- 
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 i fometimes even 
 ^ and truft j but 
 oh'cy, when the 
 lently reproached 
 » or where great 
 ;orous feJf-denial 
 :reftednefs. But 
 er pafllons more, 
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 fuch as pride and 
 lid be admirably 
 it is commonly 
 jr fenfe, from its 
 gh to blind the 
 \yts. That yet 
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 dreamed of allowing any merit to the difinte- 
 reftednefs of a late prime minifter j who, after 
 an enjoyment of that place for many years, had 
 left little or nothing at his death. It was plain 
 that money was not hii paffion ; though he had 
 been juftly accufed of being the father of cor- 
 ruption, u being the firft who had even boaft- 
 ingly opened a poifon-fliop of it. And indeed, ^ 
 fo doing, he would have done more fervicc 
 to his country in his declared war againfl: 
 patriot virtue, than a falfe friend to it; if 
 that franknefs of his would have opened her 
 eyes on this the plaineft of all confequences i 
 that fo flagrant a corruption was an incontefl:-' 
 able proof of the exifl:ence of feme greatly un-] 
 national point to be carried jy it ; for corrup- 
 tion has always fome end. Now, muft it not 
 have been difficult not to fee what that end was, 
 when the perpetual foreign drain it caufed was 
 fo conftantly felt ; and yet who was there ever 
 oppofed it, but in order to be taken off, or cor- 
 rupted not to oppofe it? That befides the 
 
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 greater paflions, there were low faults or de- 
 fers of characfker, from which men fometimes 
 afpired to power j fuch as £. .ogancc, felf-con- 
 ccit, vanity, prefumption j in which cafe, a man 
 under fuch difqualificacions, was certainly more 
 to be pitied, or at leaft lefs blamed, than thofe, 
 who, not having the fame excufe of pafllvc blind- 
 nefs to them, and felf-ignorance as their very 
 nature implied in the owner, kept feeding thofe 
 follies with a filly admiration, or ufed their 
 country, or even the poor perfonage himfelf, fo 
 ill, as to contribute to the fuccefs of his preten- 
 tions.— That difintereftednefs, whether real or 
 Only afted, was in fafl: a pandar to thofe paf- 
 fions or faults which conftituted juft objeftions 
 to a candidate for high employs in the ftate ; 
 fince the charader of that fingle virtue once well 
 eftablilhed, would enable him to (land upon his 
 importance, to play the game of prudery with 
 the courtlhip of power, and to refufe much in 
 order to get every thing. — That he looked on 
 difintereftednefs as undoubtedly the higheft re- 
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 Dr ufed their 
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 of his preten- 
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 to thofe paf- 
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 in the ftate ; 
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 prudery with 
 fufe much in 
 he looked on 
 he higheft re- 
 :ommendation 
 
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 [ commendation of any fervant of the public, in 
 whatever ftation, from the higheft to the lowtft; 
 1 but that alone, and without other requifites, it 
 was no more fufficicnt to form a ftaiefman, 
 than mere animal courage would a general •, 
 though without it he could not be but a defpi- 
 cable one. — That the ufe a man made of his *^ 
 power after he had got it feemed to him the beft 
 rule of judgment of his intentions in afpiring.to 
 to it i fo that when the blunders of a precedent 
 miniftry had, in your railing at them, been the 
 means of your (krewing yourfelf into power, of 
 which you made no better ufe than to commit, . 
 even with aggravations, the very fame ones^ 
 can it be unfair to conclude, that whatever wai 
 your intercft, or motive, it could not be that jof 
 repairing the mifchief done by thofe blunders? 
 Once more, the mcafures you had capitally in- -^ 
 veighed againft, were, from the very inftant you 
 got into place, grown ail on a fudden fo dear 
 to you, that you feemed to think you could not 
 do too much for them. That if not pcrfetSlly 
 
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 furc of (landing well at one court, y( 
 much mif- reported if all your delicacy h 
 dered you from cultivating a right ho 
 intereft at the other. Happy, thrice ha 
 it, to polfefs fo virtuous, fo great a man 
 cially, if a partiality to Hanover, encour 
 
 '%■ fo refpe<ftable an authority as his fhou 
 deeper footing there than it might perhaj 
 out it i to fay nothing of the edifying e 
 of his fteadinefs ! or of the efTential fr 
 muft be of from his confurftmate knowl 
 affairs ! Indead too of invoking the a 
 of the untainted neutrals of rank, in 
 charadler, and fortune, where alone yq 
 expeft to find it j he obferved, that yc 
 all your fublime difintereftednefs, was 
 fiercely untradable, but that you cou 
 
 *rf more draw very quietly with the avowe 
 of intereft. How pleafant a fight to 
 neftle in with the old rank courtiers, 
 yourfelf not long before had treated with 
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 1 cultivating a right honorable 
 ther. Happy, thrice happy for 
 virtuous, fo great a man ! efpe« 
 ality to Hanover, encourage J by 
 m authority as his fhould takt 
 ;here than it might perhaps with- 
 nothing of the edifying example 
 ! or of the eflential frrvlcc he 
 1 his confurftmate knowledge of 
 i too of invoking the aflillance 
 :d neutrals of rank, influence, 
 fortune, where alone ygu could 
 t J he obferved, that you, with 
 le difintereflednefs, was not fo 
 able, but that you could once 
 f quietly with the avowed flavcs 
 [ow pleafant a fight to fee you 
 the old rank courtiers, whom 
 ig before had treated with as little 
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 Your humble admirer interpofed here, and, 
 I impatient to come to the point which he was fure 
 would (Irike his antagonifl dumb, afkcd him, if 
 he could have the face to deny thr* you fo greatly . 
 excelled all the ancients and ir.)denis in clo. 
 quence, that even Demoflhenes an'l Tuli'y "i^ 
 might trembie for the rank th 7 hzrl for fo ; .any 
 ages enjoyed in the univerfal opinion? His an- 
 Aver was as follows : , ,, «v;^.- j •., 
 
 That though to the vulgar- fplriteo many 
 things he had advanced might, and doubtlefs 
 would appear to flow from perfonal, or by him 
 much difdained motives, or, in fhortj, from 
 any motive but the real good one, he was at leafl 
 fo far from any malevolence to you, that no one 
 would have been more fincerely than himfelf re- ' 
 joiced at your deferving t ^itue from your 
 
 countrymen, 
 
 ^^itfM» .litfinatfijpmwfcKi 
 
 itimtiwiiflffi 
 
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 [ 64 ] 
 
 countrymen, or would have more readily fub- 
 fcribed his vote for one. That even, as it was, 
 he thought it a ftrain of cruelty beyond thit of 
 the nioft virulent libel, for flattery, thus to hold 
 you up for a mark to the index-finger of derl- 
 fion, in her comparifon of you to thofe two ora- 
 tors. As to their eloquence, which, by the by, 
 was fatal to themfelves, and, though well meant, 
 of little fervice to their refpedlive countries, be- 
 ing too far gone in their vergency to flavery 
 and ruin j thofe two great men juftified the 
 high reputation of it by a thorough knowledge 
 of the fubjedls on which they exercifed it. The 
 copious flow of it was owing to their unbounded 
 acquifltions of matter applicable to each purpofe i 
 they were not, by the fcantinefs of their ideas, 
 confined to ring the changes on a few fonorous 
 cant- words, fuch as compofe the whole of the 
 modern patriot-diftionary. Neither of them 
 was ever famous for modefliy, and yet neither of 
 them had fo high an opinion of his powers of 
 rhetoric, or fo low a one of his countrymen, as, 
 
 ,, withift 
 
 m, 
 
 h;,n m f^m:m , Wim ' ffki*iikmtmki'-lt^ «u tTw .in I .L ^ L . . r i -v . ri i itrTl»i' Mmf" 'jfe i eiftm mri fi WMaiiiM^r'- ■ ^ 
 
mu c ii. i i i i jciiii ii - i iiiii ^Ww i M i .mm" J • 
 
 »,»Will,ll«l).JM 1*1 
 
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 lave more readily fub- 
 That even, as it was, 
 cruelty beyond thit of 
 or flattery, thus to hold 
 e index-finger of deri- 
 )f you to chofe two ora- 
 race, which, by the by, 
 nd, though well meant, 
 jfpedlive countries, be* 
 ir vergency to flavery 
 'reat men juftified the 
 ' a thorough knowledge 
 they exercifed it. The 
 ving to their unbounded 
 plicable to each purpofe -, 
 cantinefs of their ideas, 
 iges on a few fonorous 
 npofe the whole of the 
 ry. Neither of them 
 defty, and yet neither of 
 pinion of his powers of 
 i of his countrymen, as, 
 withia 
 
 »ru»:i^mr<i'aiftfliiw|<|i.. 
 
 within a very little fpace of time fo fay and un^, 
 fay, again fay ahd unfay the fame things, be* 
 forfe the vfiry fame aflfembly, without the fhadow 
 <3f a feafoti for a ficklenefs, which could furely 
 never have given a very fivorable idea of their 
 capacity. Matters of a fl(iw of fenfe and expref- 
 fion conftantly at hand, they did not Hand in 
 nefed of the excitation of contradiftion to defend 
 their fpeeches from the languor of infignificance, 
 and even from the torpor of dulnefs : they did 
 nbt; like'eleftrical machines, require to be rub-' 
 bed atVd'chifed, before they couldproduce their fire. 
 If invective inrdeed iky in their way, none could 
 atqtiitthemfelvefe of'iC with more energy, which is 
 cer^airtly t\6t the'Ihming part of their charafter, 
 but they never laid out for it; fcolding, they 
 cftulci nbt'but be fenfible, was more liable to be 
 laughed at, than likely to be admireJ. They 
 n^ade orations of bufinefs, and not a bufinefs of 
 orations. Points of date were the objefts of 
 their folid difcuffionv not- like our modern 
 fpeech: makers,- who, have inverted the poet's 
 Uoaft with relation to his tuneful art ; Cw.ce they 
 '^ K hr»ve 
 
 -^ 
 
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 m 
 
 ..iHtta-i-A..'^ 
 
,,.uM i. Mpi|pti-|uiif | ij^;.|BijMB:UiBSt' ' ,.4 '. 
 
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 have turned theirs from things to founds, from 
 the heart to fancy t . Thofe ancient orators never 
 confidered the pomp of phrafeology, the ca- 
 dence of periods, th« employment of metaphors 
 and figures, but as the trimmings and garniture 
 of eloquence, not as the art itfelf j which art in- 
 deed they no more are, than raree-fliow-reviews 
 or theatrical camps are the art of war : for which 
 however they have fometimes been miftaken. 
 That, as to himfelf, he had lived to fee admi* 
 ration grown fo cheap as to be thrown away 
 on a miftake of vehemence for fincerity, of ipft- 
 dixit's for reafons, of petulance for true fpirit, 
 and of intemperance of tongue for the genuine 
 oratorial flow. That he had lived to fee the 
 corruption of the old manly Britilh eloquence, 
 which confifted in the energy of found fenfe, 
 ' conveyed in plain but expreflive words, and ter- 
 rible as Phocyon's axe to the luxuriant flowers 
 
 t That urgM by thee, I turn'd the tuneful art 
 r; From founds to things, ft cm fancy to the heart. 
 
 f' ; V Pope's Epift. to L; Bolinoroke. 
 
■■■'"rsmmmm 
 
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 to founds, from 
 ient orators never 
 feology, the ca- 
 ent af metaphors 
 igs and garniture 
 ;lf} which art in- 
 irec-fliow-reviews 
 fwar: for which 
 \ been miftaken. 
 ived to fee admi* 
 be thrown away 
 fincerity, ofipfe- 
 :e for true fpirit, 
 for the genuine 
 lived to fee the 
 Britiih eloquence^ 
 ' of found fenfe, 
 e words, and ter- 
 luxuriant flowers 
 
 e tuneful art 
 icy to the heart.' 
 
 L; BOLINCSROKE. 
 
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 of rhetoric i br.: ulv, fince the making a trade 
 of it, degcnerkted into a kind of Africanifm," 
 with all its charaders of heat, impetuofity, 
 bounce, tirrgidity, amplification, and empti-' 
 nefs ; figured fire- works, and rivers of froth. 
 
 Here your admirer flirugged up his Ihoulders, 
 as if, in pity of this captious caviller's tafte, or 
 ipleen ; and faid, that though he denied you (o 
 much, he could not think that he would not 
 grant, that at Icaft you meant well to your 
 country. «^-'^ "^^ ■ i ' ^ ^ 
 
 " I grant it v. Ith all my heart, anfwered the 
 other } but then you muft grant too, that your 
 begging' that queilion is in fa6l giving your hero 
 up. If all his mighty merit is to flirink up at 
 lad to the point of meaning well, what is there 
 In that which he will not have in common with 
 thoufands, or rather millions, of others of his 
 honeft countrymen, who however would look 
 very filly, if they were to put in for the miniftry 
 '" "^■'^ , K 2 without 
 
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 '■t S i 'rm i i i VM ' i itim t&i^fc i 't^ii i S ^ d S ^^S^m - 
 
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 without more pretentions than what ihat w.elK 
 meaning ;ilone implies, though no pretention^ 
 indeed fignify without it ? In titriM Hlfi^ thefe, 
 when the nation, undqf your favorite (n-n-r-;r'? 
 driving, has borfo^ved fp much upon the pjcci-; 
 pice, that it muft be a prodigy which will fave 
 her from her downfal,. . i^^ that prodigy, c;^n you 
 think, to be looked for in Wj^l^e/^rvijngialcine, 
 efpecially in the njan.w^o ^^s theji^?^ jcppjri- 
 tuted to bring her into this4ti|a^i9iij,;!nyh,ijkft;h^ 
 was all the time afluring her that ih^ a^jis '^. th^ 
 high road of profperity? If now, theqii the 
 nation is, after all, to be told, that all his vir- 
 tues, by the opinion of Mvhichlhe fefss hgrftlf^fe- 
 duced into a wretched plunge, are w^bQ fum> 
 ' jnoned up in the fingle expMlTKjn ofr'that \well» 
 meaning which is to ftand for thenilall>.mig}it 
 -/^ fl?e not with propriety cry out, .jio»i ;J. oj . 
 
 «' Curfe on lis virtue! ! thefve undbne his country. 
 
 '. Ji t^-j i 
 
 Certainly fuch a plea, in extenuador^ as that of 
 his well-meaning, would, in the prefent cafe, 
 
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 s X 
 
 found 
 
 ■l:;SBsasisr^' 
 
••^nmrnfrmffrmm 
 
 It that w.ell-, 
 ) pretenuions 
 ej; Hlfi^there, 
 
 »oa the pjeci- 
 lich will fave 
 iigy* c;^n you 
 
 i9iq,;,^h,i^ft;he 
 
 iw, theiiii Ik 
 lat all his vir- 
 feeshgrftlf' fe- 
 re W-bQ fttm> 
 ; ©fr'that wdU 
 :nilall».mig}u 
 iot^ ;■!!> oj ; 
 
 [lil(.'f: ■',-/.': '■. 
 ie his country. 
 
 Ipa,, as that of 
 
 I prefent cafe, 
 
 found 
 
 i ^ -. - 
 
 found not m^^h bctteJTthari if i man'haWng 
 ru«..d his cou^.^y,>birt,feif p, f^j^„^ ^^^^^ 
 picad th,t>i,.I^art ^,,^jg^,^ ^^^^. ^^^-^ 
 nota^head,,Jpi^. J^^,p,,,,^^..^^J^,^^^• 
 ce.-le.nal]h^n,anity,^cl,v.„i.,^,y,,rt 
 ar of any penalty, i,otwouidcertai„iy bearer/ 
 baci one. for making or continuing a n,an a J 
 n'i^er : .nd tKat fuch , ^,„ /h^j ^c of coiifc. 
 
 q-nce enough to min. a nation., ^^ji,^^.^ 
 wonder; Hilc. it a^ualiy feer.s « if Providence, 
 to mortify the pride of man, hacTabandoned-the 
 great.ft events .to .the fe««ft triflei, .«,r<,m«ci 
 that fometimes fucha^rfan fhouW.Juve -it lA 
 
 I^'spowe. to do his count.y..i„eparabIe damage, 
 whorefervice,beyondhi3 ridding the comxx^ 
 office-forms,, had never. been at.the highcft v^, 
 toon, wth hajf a crown a-ytar to itJ'- . . .j 
 
 At this rate, faid your ev^r- zealous adhe- 
 rent,.^u will. grant t^ great i«an no merit at 
 
 all? You would reduce himtp the dais of, the 
 moft ordinai:y, bein^^^ongft pa^kind."^^ 
 
 '"^ "Far 
 
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 <* Far be fuch a thought from me, anfwered his 
 opponent, independently of itJ hot being in the 
 power of any thing I could fay or even perhaps 
 of truth herfelf, to difplumc him. What I leave 
 himisftill more than what I would take from 
 him, nor that but with all the reluftance of hu- 
 manity, forced by fuperior confiderations of the 
 public good into the feverity of examination. I 
 allow him, you fee, purity of morals, and efpe- 
 icially a difintereftednefs which, with my unaf. 
 fefted regard for truth, i fhould be very forry to 
 fay I allowed to any of thofc who commonly pafs 
 foi his competitors for power. But though un- 
 doubtedly no one can be a truly great ftatefman, 
 without being at the fame time a good man j it 
 does not at all follow, that a good man may not 
 be an execrable niinifter. The admitting, there- 
 fore, fome moral virtues in the perfonage you 
 admire, does not in the leaft imply theexclufion 
 > of difqualifications for power, which may co- 
 '^ 'e^ift with them, and as probably defeat the good 
 cffea of them, as the continental mcafures will 
 
 that 
 
 ».»i<» ti^»t iii f i i . j j«j lBI^ | i ,,,Mj i t)ij|l|) ; j(» 
 
' mmtmi"^ 
 
 anfwered hi3 
 ; being in the 
 even perhaps 
 What I leave 
 jld take from 
 iftance of hu- 
 irations of the 
 :amination. I 
 als, and efpe- 
 ith my unaf- 
 s very forry to 
 ommonly pafs 
 ut though un- 
 reat ftatefman, 
 good man i it 
 
 man may not 
 tnitting, there- 
 perfonage you 
 y theexclufion 
 rhich may co- 
 lefeat the good 
 I mcafures wiH 
 that 
 
 C 71 3 
 
 that of the national one». There Is moie danger 
 yet an thofe difqualiiications, when the fault 
 
 wh.chconftitutethem become epidemical, when 
 anat.oniaysdo.nherow^ 
 
 cffohdenfe and judgment, to take up that of 
 
 a n.an of power for the time being, Jo caie' 
 ;nco the adminiftration of affairs his o.n ^ 
 
 -ag,nat.on, with all the pernicious paffionsind 
 -^e^con.itut.naltohim.^^ 
 
 cafe U„,y, ell be raid that private faults are 
 
 pubhc caia^ieies. The truth is, that nations 
 
 ave been too often feen to model themfelv 
 
 Pon the perfonai charader of thofe who 
 
 ave taken the lead of government in them I 
 
 ^-e -yrelf (continued he) feen the mar; o ' 
 people in the reign of a minifter,^ who la' 
 
 even barefacedly the mi/Honary of corruptil 
 
 ^-herfelf upon ,i3doarine and praZi' 
 thoroughly, .Hat under him, and unL:;^ : 
 I'-s pupils who fucceeded him ,h. n, . 
 
 f«" »Sa.n .he r,.e p.op,e. wuL ho":: 
 
 •i 
 
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 -.p*^-. 
 
 
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 Vyjf"' i i'™ y"T'! ?^-;.' 
 
 M 
 
 
 efteif reJlftuncmg'afty^thm^ rh' the Iwft of that 
 Corruption, additionally adopt, under another 
 Aiinifter, not only his political Quixotry and ro« 
 domont^airj, but the gfoflcft tof Hts inconfiften- 
 cieff. And after all (continued he)," foi* what fs it 
 tSiit you would have me admire y6Ur hero ? Is it 
 fbi* his exemplary ftcadinefs ? Is it for his intre- 
 pidity hi out-braving where he cannot out tea- 
 Ibn ? U it for his abhorrence of arrogance ? or, 
 if you rather pleafe, for his fupreme modeily ? 
 Is it for that ftale harlotry of patriotifm, his 
 grimaces and coying it with thofe offers for 
 
 which he had laid out, and in which his fuccefs 
 
 'if'- . . i.: f' 
 
 was originally more owing to his powers of 
 
 thwarting and annoying, than. to any opinion of 
 
 his ability as a ftatefman, or of his fincerity as a 
 
 p'atriot ? Is it for his grateful treatment of the 
 
 public in his making of its good opinion of him 
 
 a mounting-blcck, which, on his firft defertion, 
 
 he fpurned the moment he was in the faddle, 
 
 and on his fecond, worfe than fpurned, fince he 
 
 laid his account with keeping it, after he had 
 
 palpably 
 
 
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ll|,i.llB»IPIII«| 
 
 II, 1 'mm 
 
 the kaft of that 
 :, under another 
 Quixotry and ro- 
 f hTsinconfiften- 
 ie)v for what fs it 
 ybUrhcr'o? Is it 
 Is it for his intre- 
 : cannot out- tea- 
 ►f arrogance? or, 
 jpreme modeJfty ? 
 if patriotifm, his 
 thofe offers for 
 which his fiicccfs 
 ) his powers of 
 to any opinion of 
 * his fincerity as a 
 treatment of the 
 3 opinion of him 
 lis firft defertion, 
 iS in the faddie, 
 fpurncd, fince he 
 it, after he had 
 palpably 
 
 palpably forfeited it ? I, it his confomrtiatertefs 
 in bufinefs, of the ftile of which his being as 
 great a maftcr as he is of the fubftance, appeals 
 fromthofe ivcr-mcmoraWc fecitt Inftruaions. fo 
 decently, and no doubt fo warrantabfy publifhcd 
 with his majefty's title, gutted of its voweli. 4. 
 prefixed to them ? Did he, on his accefflon tt> 
 power, fo much as prtKe or aim at any thing 
 that looked like great? Did any part of his con- 
 duftcarry with it the markof a political genius, or 
 vaflnefs of juft views ? Did he apply any remedy, 
 unlefs the aggravation of a caufe of complaint 
 may be called a remedy, to that moft crying na- 
 tional evil againft which who had exclaimed 
 more than himfeJf ? Did he then employ him- 
 fdf to Ihutupthat ever gaping continental gulph, 
 which m fcarce half a century had fwallowed fo 
 many millions, t!hat one would have thought the 
 nation had driven on a trade with the whole 
 globe, to no earthly purpofe but that of fa- ' 
 crlficing the profits of it in this manner, and all 
 fo much in -vain too I Or rather, has he not flung 
 
 ^ more 
 
 'to' 
 
 «*«fe".r-' r "''"'»>«- 
 
ii n'ntHM JK^~ ' i Uj i n ii u ^ ^i iiiii . i i mwup r iD m i i t .jn-ji niii y iy iiii i ii ' 
 
 t 74 1 
 
 more money, more men, more national honor, 
 down that fame bottomlefs abyfs ? Has ^e hum- 
 bled France by fixing in her intercft the ancient, 
 and now difgufted allies of Britain, or by caking 
 from her what the ilrength Hie is adually ga- 
 thering on the continent, through Britain's 
 blunders, will moft probably foon enable her to 
 
 ;-% 
 
 regain ? In fhort, to fum up all in one queftioo, 
 What has this great man done for a nation which 
 had put it into his power to do fo much i ** 
 
 This lad challenge your adherent anfwered In 
 tlie beginning brifkly, but rather flagged to- 
 wards the end, as if himfelf had not been aware 
 of his having no more atchievements of yours to 
 recount in full of all the expei^ations you had 
 raifcd. I need not however fpecify them to you } 
 they cannot well be unknown to yourfelf, and, 
 God knows, the catalogue of them was not a 
 very long one. Befides, you have naufeous 
 flatterers enough at hand to magnify thena to 
 yourfelf and to the public } but it is by what is faid 
 
 ^ againft 
 
 :tr^'U 
 
 4 
 
 ip ».,.,a'^.. , . , , ~if|iTriir iii i ii i: ! i>itiui iM it(|-ittiff-tt' i Jfr 
 
f^WWiiJj.-Hi nil nuiuMnpRpfii 
 
 national honor, 
 ? Has f.c hum- 
 rel\ the ancient, 
 n, or by caking 
 is adually ga- 
 rough Britain's 
 >n enable her to 
 in one queftion, 
 r a nation which 
 6 much ? ** 
 
 ent anfwered in 
 ler flagged to- 
 not been aware 
 ents of yours to 
 itions you had 
 fy them to you } 
 yourfdf, and, 
 em was not a 
 have naufeous 
 tgnify thena to 
 s by what is faid 
 againft 
 
 7 75 ] ~ 
 
 againft you that you muft profit. I am to tell 
 you then, that the man of contradidion ftiffly 
 denied your having any merit in the rcduaion 
 of Cape-Breton j all the honor of the projec- 
 tion of which, as well as of the laudable, if fuf. 
 ficient. fupplies to America, he gave to the pco- 
 pie's own good fenfej which, long before your 
 laft promotion to power, they had declared with 
 ft united, and fo loud a voice, that it would 
 not have been very politic, nor indeed very fafe, 
 for any minifter not to have given way to the 
 execution of fuch well -recommended national 
 meafures ; which however, are likely to be mor^ 
 than blanked by your continental ones. 
 
 Your admirer then faid, that he hoped no one 
 would deny, that the fituation of affairs in Britain 
 was now fo critical, that to attempt the depriving 
 a real defender of this country of that confidence,> 
 which alone can enable him to defend it, muft'* 
 be a crime which could hardly deferve too great 
 a difcountenance, or too fevere an animad« 
 vcrfion. ' 
 
 L > « There 
 
 i^sm-f^,^. 
 
 .-^iSL 
 
■ .. Th.« U ftm a gr».« crime th.n .h.t 
 
 non.nin....nar,drf.na«.v.h,ch.«)^« 
 r Ar.b. fo .mph.tic.Uy M toning on . w»«. 
 
 fch«J«».«ly betrayed i«o.<l.p,nd.,«. 
 fnfuch.crilis. on. fopportfo unequal «ad^, 
 
 ftrels t a u i^ r-rtiinlv her d (ho- 
 
 aeafe her danger, and moft certainly n _ 
 nor- if but for her being capable o fudi 
 I we Bend., that in her prefent circumft.n- 
 r ole .av.nc. it is toward, her faf.ty to 
 ";« ^om me is not «. tru.lv toe ga«..t., 
 
 TilfJa vain hope. The pubiic cannot b«^ 
 ^ , . 1 ^-»i that the fituatipn ot 
 
 the proceeding upon the fenfe ot wni 
 , t the nation from fir-Wrng. if anything can 
 
 ' --■ . '"■ ,' -,.''*'[ 
 
.. i mii i i W 
 
 crime than th»t 
 that is, a paOivc 
 reliance, at fuch % 
 flcr i which it what 
 il leaning orv a wave, 
 Vho that really lovai 
 ccUmations of g|riefi 
 i into » dependence, 
 »rt fo uneq^al to. the 
 ch muft at once in^ 
 ft certainly her di(ho- 
 ,g capable of fuch a 
 :r prefcnt circumftan^ 
 towards her fafety to 
 troftv fomegainitis 
 he public cannot bu? 
 that the fitoation of 
 rp«r\fe (torn all ftanding 
 eprefcntaiioaof truths, 
 t fcnfc of which muft 
 king, if any thing can. 
 ' ' ... ..^ 
 
 I 77 If 
 
 It was never yet, in Britain at l«all, high trei- 
 ion to doubt of a minifter's capacity \ but whea 
 there is no longer reafon to doubt of it at all, and 
 the confequeoce expected is an imminent cata- 
 ^ophe, he muft be a de/aulcer tp hU countrf 
 in her greateft exigency, and even an accomplice 
 in her ruir^ who would remain an unadive or 
 filent rpeftator. If any thmg faid agaiaft youf 
 hero ftiould be falie, calumnious, or. only the 
 cffcft of pi^ty-fpirit, of malice, or any other, 
 yile motive, it will fall to the ground of \tCel£^ 
 t|ie great Burleigh was libelled, the faithful SuU/ 
 called Sejanus, in vain. There is nothing but 
 truth that cap make lafting imprelTions, or de- 
 ferve to make any at all. But for a truth which, 
 has in the leaft an air of ill-nature, or of detrac- 
 tion, todeferve the being received at all, it is not 
 enough for it to be only what it is» truth i but 
 the manifeftation of it Ihould alfo be indilpenfa- 
 bly neceifary to the fervice of the public: and 
 then, indeed, the guilt would be to fupprefs it, 
 or to have any fear but that of dirpleafiog thofe 
 
 whom 
 
 j 
 
 V 
 
 gE^l^g^^i^nan*'''^' 
 
( 78 J 
 whom only it caa difplcafe. In the mean time; 
 • whatever becomes of your real defender of the 
 nation, as you call him, the nation would not have 
 to tremble, but for the confcquences of her not 
 IbOnghim. Surely in a country fo great, ftf 
 refpeftable, as the Britifti one, there cannot be 
 fuch a fcarcity of capable fubjefts as to afford no 
 neutrals of rank, of property, of influence, of 
 abilities, mcn>above any attachment or fubfer- 
 viency, but to the clear interefts of the nation ; 
 men uninfefted, in ftiort, with that infamous 
 party-fpirit which is fo -reat an enemy to truth 
 and to the public welfare. Such charafters 
 • could not at this time be fufpefted of ambition, 
 or felfifti views, in their acceptance of offices in 
 the ftate. There can be little temptation to a 
 fcramble for power or intcreft in a country which 
 moft probably will ere long have neither power nor 
 jU intereft for herfelf, if meafures are not efftflually 
 changed, and that right foc.i. But if no fuch per- 
 fons are to be found, if the fpirit of patriotifm and 
 common fcnfc are entirely departed, then indeed 
 
In the mean time; 
 real defender of the 
 latioh would not have 
 fcquenccs of her not 
 country fo great, ftf 
 one, there cannot be 
 ibjefts as to afford no 
 erty, of influence, of 
 ittachment or fubfer- 
 ererts of the nation; 
 , with that infamous 
 eat an enemy to truth 
 re. Such charafters 
 fufpefted of ambition, 
 cceptance of offices in 
 
 little temptation to a 
 reft in a country which 
 ;have neither power nor 
 fures are not efftftually 
 c.i. Butif nofuchper* 
 I fpirit of patriotifm and 
 
 departed, then indeed 
 it 
 
 i 79 1 
 
 it is over with the nation i the nation herfelf is 
 dead, and does not know it ; and what remains 
 but to befpeak a general mourning for her ? " 
 
 Here this ftrange man ended, and here I con- 
 clude this long letter} for any oratorial ftrain in 
 which, there cannot, confidering the fubjeft 
 need any apology. But, for your fatisfaftion,' 
 I fhall juft add, that I never thought of you but 
 as I ftill continue to do : I believe, juft as much 
 as ever I did, that you are the man on whom 
 your country is to depend. You have thoroughiy 
 confirmed my judgment of you, from the firft 
 notice I took of you j and I am, with all due re- 
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