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'-i ;>U jA J jjtiij f flf WWM ri i W'm» i w « .. . high -•yfH«i ^^tui^pi^ «mm t 7 ) high rank and an illuftriou > hoiife hacf lon^ enjoyed the firft power and moft extenfive in- fluence in Barataria.— — To this perfon the Count had united himfelf in early life ; be- fore wealth and honours had diredled their current towards him ; and whilft as yet for-« tune continued to frown, where nature had frowned before.— Don John was a maa who to eminent qualities added unufual fofu nefs of foul,— He recoUedled, that Henrico- was his kinfhian, which is a circumftance among the ties of humanity. — He was poot and John had compaffion of him. He was friendlefs and he acknowledged him.-—- He therefore employed his powerful interpo-* lition, to procure a fubfiftance, from the State for Henrico. — And even condeicended to attend to female infirmity, fo far, as by a public ftipend to enable his wife to purchafe certain lilken apprirel, and play at certain coftly games, which, tho* they were above her rank and fortune, were not above her ambition or her vanity. Thus it happened^ that Henrico had faithfully adheVed to Don, John, whilft the latter had power or the^ former wanted protediion, — But when Sancho- commenced his attack on the freedom of Ba^' rataria, by depriving her of her Cortes. Henrico, through the wantonnefs of fortune, had become enriched by great poflellions diftinguilhed by honours, and fortified by powerful dependencies. Sancho judged that as Henrico no longer ftood in need of afiift-^ . B a anca Vi < . ( 8 ) ^ncc, he no longer remembered the aififtance he had received. — He applied himfelf to the Count — and befought him, *' to cafl away from his mind all idle obligations, and fe- parate himfelf from all connexion with Don John his kinfman that he fhould «( if «( <( «( it €t 4£ not conform his conduct to the dictates of gratitude, left it might appear the refult *' of dependance — that he fhould join and af- fbciate his great powers, his great coti" nexions, his honourable name, his high abi'- lities, \{\s per fonal fortitude, and captivat" ing manners, with the Court of Barataria, under the diredl influence and immediate fuperintendance of the Spanifh miniftry. Thus that the honours of Old Spain, and the j^//W(?r of Barataria would dignify him, " and maintain his dependants.^* Thus far ha J the artifice of Sancho apply'd itfelf to the weaknefs and vanity of Henrico. — • And though this addrefs was in itfelf likely to be crowned with fuccefs, yet as the friends of Barataria were not to be indulged with one caft on the die in their favour, matters of probability only were rejedled, as infufficient authorities for entering upon the great project of Sancho's adminiftration. . . /„ . , Abfurdity and ambition, tis true, had oc- cupied a fair proportion of the mind of Hen- rico, yet did it likewife entertain feveral humbler -guefts — amongft which the hifto- rians of this day have enumerated a /frr^/>//o« of danger. Great as his pofleffiouii were, the : " •' ■:■. tenure ,:..::,;■.( 9 r _,„__.„:;. fennre was precarious. — They were not the' rights of inheritance^ nor the acquirements of purchafe ; but we rather confider them as en- joyed vinder the title of conqueft. The right-^ , ful heir had, as hiftorians relate, been difap- pointed by the teftameiit of the late Count Loftonzo Hume-Eli, over whofe imbecility Henrico fo far triumphed, as to compel to a fur- render of his maternal demefnes into the hands even of Henrico himfelf. But ftill, tho' the enjoyment of thofe pofl'efHons was delightful, the duration of that enjoyment appeared to the fears of Henrico as capable of doubt. The free-will gifts of captivity, and the dif^ pofing powers of mental incapacity, were mat- ters at which the laws might cavil. }. This apprehenfion in the mind of Henrico* was to be a new key to his converfion ; for the management of which, an inftrument entirely proportioned to the purpofe had been fele6led. * There was at that time in Barataria a nian named Philip'^ who was by birth a Moor, by profe/iion an advocate. He was become the firft companion and counlellor of Saricho; into the dark repofitory of whole bofbm did he pour the fallies of his jocLiiarity, and the lecrets of his adminiftratiou. Don Philip was likewife General Attorney of the States,' and Judge of the Teftamentary Court. '^^^ Whether we confider the qualities he had,' or thole he had not, we find him alike ac-' complifhed for the prefent undertaking. Hq"^ was tvas a man formed by nature, and fajfhioneJ bj long pradice for all manner of court in-» trigue. His ftature was low, fo as to excite neither envy nor obfervation. — His counte- nance difmal— his public manners grave, and his addrefs humble. But as in public he co- vered his proftitution by a folemnity of car- riage, {o in private he endeavoured to cafif* vate by convivial humour ; and to difcoun- tenance all public virtue, by the exercife of a perpetual, and fometimes not unfuccefsful irony. / . t By th'^fe arts he recommended himfelf to the late Cardinal Lapiuaro, and Don Thomafo del Cartero ; the two moft crafty ftatefmen— the De Retz and Machiavel of their age ; un- der whom he ftudied, and againft whom, at timeSy he exercifed the myftery of poli- ticks. To thefe qualifications Don Philip added an extraordinary magnificence of living. His table was furniihed with every thing that Iplendor could fuggeft, or luxury conlume ; and his profufion and policy united to Iblicit a naultitude of guefts. To his houfe then reforted all thofe who wifhed through him to obtain, or to learn ^rcw him to enjoy without remorfe, thofe public emoluments which are the purchafe of public infidelity. - ,. f. . ,r Amongft the vifitors of Don Philip was a youth, hitherto of fair fame and gentle en- dowments Don Helena the Civilian—— who lately accepted the office of menial Coun- fellor • 'jir- .^SaatOBa^ajiic:-- : m 'm * 5;llor to Loftonzo. Through him therefofd a new communication was to be opened with the Count. *- • t Thus by an unfufpci^ed channel were ne\t terrors added to the natural timidity of Hen- rico. He was informed ** that the title to ** his extenfive territory depended on a tefta- •* ment, the validity of which was deter* ** minable within Don Philip's jurifdidlion. *' "T hat by adhering to old engagements *' and national regards, he would forfeit that ** friendly difpojition in his judge, which is *' fb neceflary to equal juftice. T h^it the ** final adjudication of tnis great caufe refided in the fupreme aflembly of the grandees in Spain, where Sancho had a lufFrage ; which fufFrage the Count might enfui-e or alienate, as his conducSl (hould be friendly or hoflile to his government in Batataria. That in times of (implicity and ignorance, the Spanifh nobles had reftrained their judgments within the rigid precepts of law, and the auflerities of juflice ; but that of late, refinement of manners had broken through thofe harfh reflridlions, and legal feverjty yielded to the fbfter in- fluence of favour and affedion." ' * v>« He proceeded to pour into the ears of the Count, inftances of this high refinement in the grandees of Spain ; and one efpecially, which had fallen even within the limited ' knowledge of Loftonfo himfelf, The late de- cifion' ■■■■■■"■ ■- •• deed, the Countefs had fpoken the language- of truth- and our vows ihould have act conapanied her's to Heaven, were the accom-' plifhment of thero to be the felicity of Doro- thea.-— But, lovely maiden, may your charms never be bartered in unwarrantable traffic !^ — may Fortune nor artifice, never place you in a ftation to which to. which the moft refmed attachment fhall not fele£l you ! — — May you fill the high rank to which your bright en* dowments give you a title, but never become the fplendia vnouxntx of a parent's ambition J * ^Sancho law this extravagance growing ia the mind of the Countefs, and determined to cultivate it.-^Every thing that incoherent fen* fences and a diftra^kd manner could iuggeft, was accepted by the Countefs as confirma- tion of her wifhes ; a natural perplexity ^ and embarrajfment of elocution, wereibe confufion of real pafJion^'-^2i\A ambiguous inference, as it was unintelligible, was fuppofed to convey a ^- lemn declaration of love, ^, This, however, was fufficient to fatisfy the mind of the Countefs ; and therefore San- cho obtained the objed of his induftry. .»- ■■ ■ He faw not, it is true, the rofes in the cheek of Dorothea, but he enumerated the fuffragans in the train of Loftonzo.— — As totheCoun* tefs, her imagination was on fire!— It already prefented to her her niece, the incomparable Dorothea, crowned Vice-queen of the iflandof Barataria\ her Lord Lofton zo diftinguifhed \>y all the coronets of all his anceflry; and the ' ( J7 ) the deputyjhip of the ifland conferred on him» at the departvire of Sancho. Every thing was accomplished in her ardent mind ; and fports and paflimes— tilts and ton rnamentS'— dance and teftivity were proclaimed throughout the caftle and the foreils of Rafarmo.~'~-The fmile of Porothea was to be the prize of chi« valry; and her hand in the dance, the Uophy of the Governor's pre-eminence ! ; , Thus were the politics of Sancho brought to a fair iffue. — His confidence in the Count was not now written in the /and oj promijesy or the frail memorial of benefits conferred ; it was now built upon a rock — The bonds of JLoftonzo were links of iron, •■ ' " '' At this critical feafon, letters came to San- cho from the government of Spain, full of warlike rumours, and threatening general commotions. Thele letters brought mtelli-. gence, " That the monarch of the weftern ifles had declared war againft pon Francifco Bucarelli, the Governor of Buenos Ayres ; and that as the Court of Spain might poffibly aflift and avow Don Francifco, it was necef- fary that Barataria fhould be rendered defen-^ lible ; her armies augmented, her forts re- paired, and her garrilons fupplied with the necefla'l s of war." Sancho wrote a difpatch to the Vifcount Boreofo, Prime Minifter of Spain (of whole character and conduct we fhall hereafter have occafion more fully to treat) which he fealed with his own hand, and which he committed to fmmnmim ^mm ^m to the conveyance of Don Ecl^vnrJo Swnnzera,^ his friend, his counfellor, and hrs miifician.* And, however unaccountable it may feem to pofterity, certain it is, that of all Sancho*s retainers, this Swanzero held the greateft fliare in his confidence. .ff/? was then cho- fen to be the trufty mcffenger; and as the winds were adverfe at the capital, he was obhged to take the fouthern circuit, and em- bark for Spain at the port of O'Corko-^with the ftri^teft injunctions, however, to yield to no temptations of delay, nor even to pay a oTTe-night's vifit to the old Bifliop of Toledo^ Tvliofe villa was within a league of O'Corko ; notwithftanding the partialities and ftivours, with which this right Rev. Prelate has been accuftomed to entertain the family of Swan- *" In this letter he informed the Vifcount, That through the obftinacy of the feudal Lords, and Don John the commoner, the country of Barataria had been reduced to poverty and tumult ; that the revenues were diminiihed, the exchequer almoft bankrupt, and government had neither legal authority nor public confidence, to enable them to borrow money.— That for his part, he had afted as became a'faithfu! fervant and a prudent governor, in this feafon of fcarcity and difcredit that he had flopped payment of die pcnfions to the widows of the deceafcd officers, anc? withheld the wages of all public artificers. '' That ( 19 ) "■ - r That this inftance of frugality and modera- tion, had again enabled the royal r-?unifi- cence to take its courfe, which was a cur» rent that, under the auljjices of his Ma- jcfty's arm, no oppofition no pleas of incapacity or famine, fhould ever obftru6t or retard. — That the Princefs Dowager of Naples had been grat'ified^ by the grant of a confiderable penfion to her favourite, Don Jeremiah Dyfonzo ; not only to himfelf, but to his pojlerhy ; notwithftanding tJye folemnity of the royal word pledged to the contrary. And that he had taken this op- portunity of informing the Baratarians, once for all, that the power of the monarch would be lozv indeed^ if his promifes were to be conjidered as rejlrlciions on his will. That a flipend on Barataria had rewarded the fidelity and fervice of Don Bradfliozo, the friend and alliftant, the fcrivener and the Have of the Duke FItzroyola; a noble- man who ihall tranfmit his name with ho- nour to pofterity, as the great author of that illuilrious poHcy, wliich finally tranl- ferred to the Cortes^ thofe rights of elec- tion, which formerly reiided in, and fre- quently divided, the people.^'' That, without boafling of his fervices, for he was not vain ! — He mufl: further inform the Vil- count, " That where any of the great offices in Barataria produced enormous ll:ipends to the occupier, and no benefit to the public, he had tliought it i^cccfiiuy to his Majelly's f»D;..-* •' . * . *' honour 6( «( ^( mim^^ ^^mrnxm 1 It cc 4( <( ti ;.,..,(, "-* • * .if ' Nature had enriched the Precedenza with great endowments. To a benign and dig- nified afpe6t, an addrefs both conciliating and authoritative, did he join the cleareft head that ever conceived, and the fweeteft tongue th..^ ever uttered, the fiiggeftions of wildom. He did not, it is true, poflefs the wit and vivacity of Alnagero, nor the poli- tical craft or w^orldly icience of Don Philip, the Moor ; but his underftanding was of the ilrft magnitude. It is however obfervable of Don Antonio, that, with all thofe emi- nent (I; ( 28 ) lient fiaculties, he never, during the courfe of Ji long political life, was united with a party that did not deceive him ; and with a temper of mind, unfortunately but too defirous of acquifition, did he Ihare lefs of the public treafure than almofl any man, who had ever looked for favours at the hand of povyer. For ibme part of his life, he filled one of the higheft offices in judgment ; which he exe-r cuted with fuch ability, as ftands unparalleled in the re 'T*^'»t*W*'"»*T«*»W»'«« ( 29 ) tures which render this piece lefs admirable ! —Happy ! if the eminent qualities of this great man did not mix witli others in their current, which were fufficient to humble his fuperiority, and gratify the malice of his enemies.— — But charaSier would be unin- flrudlive to pofterity, if it were not to ha fully delineated : and hiftory « falfhood, if it de- clare not the whole truth. Though the effedls of an enlightened un- derll:anding made Antonio perpetually prefer right to wrong, Though he had no chil- dren to provide for, and already enjoyed con- liderable eftates, Nay, even though fome writers have aflertcd, that he had not the avarice of accumulation, and certainly he had not the neceilities of prodigality. — Though he had the mines of Golconda in the exercile of his profeJiion, ye^ did he facrifice every thing that was valuable, to an invincible and unaccountable thirfl for gain ; and defcended from his eminence of charadler and condi- tion, to the exercife of a low money-l^'aifick ; in which even he is accuied, by the writ -s of Iiis day, of having employed that very leg^l knowledge, which had lately been the honour of his name, and the benefit of the public, in order to defend the bills that he ifiucd, from the controul of the laws ; and fruftrate the fecurity with the public had in his •counter.-^ — And afterwards having made fome atonement to his country, by a fpirited refift'ittcc to, the cabinet fubiidy ; he, as it ''* £ were, (3° > ., ■ were, relented of his reformation ■■ — ■■ and merely to obtain from Government a prece- dency^ which nature had given him before, and" which the King could not take from him. For this prepofterous promotion, if ; fuch it may be called, did he in the popular allcmbly, and in the face of the people, not only embrace, but adopt the very child, he. before declared to be illegitimate and in*- famous. — He now protected that fubfidy in the Cortes, which he before had fb fignallj abjured in the Cabinet. And indeed, it was matter of great wonder at that time, that a perfbn of his wifdom ihould fo fuddenly fhift an opinion. That cue of his dignity of charaAer Ihould adopt inconfillency and degradation and that a man of the moft unparalleled powers of me- mory fhould fo Ijpeedily forget the injuries he had received. , -; As for his eloquence, it was in its nature peculiar. It flowed hi a clear and copious, llream, vith grace and majefty ; but it never diverlified its courfe, or tranlgrefled its limited boundary. — Througb the feveral regions of •argument, it moved with unaltered current, whether it palled through the wilds of Ame- t4ca, or the flowry plains of Andalufia : Good leiile, and great comprehenlion, were the charaders of his mind, rather than that flrength, and ardour, and variety, which glow in the performeances of the antient ora- tors. — He was formed to be thefirji^ perhaps. .^ <« \i\ ill times of tranquillity, but mufl have yieltled to leveral, in the days of fpirit and of entcr- prize. — In fhort, he was a perfon almoft al- ways to be admired, but never much to be feared. :* ..■;".?.'■.(,: •':• '-::. > ''^i '.Si-fv, naxj. : And, indeed, various inconfiflencies and irreconcileable quahties, leemed to mix in the charad:er of this great man. It is not enough to fay. That he had a mind fuperior to revenge or peribnal refentment.— — He ap- peared to have been infpired, as it were, with gratitude for injuries. — As to his legal know^ ledge, it was incontrovertible ; yet, from fome peculiarity which ever attended him, gertaiu it is, that even the titles at law, to the very lands he purchafed, have been reckoned dil- putable and precarious.— -With the beft un- derftanding, he was generally the dupe of the wor/i ; and though he had a natural admira-^ tion for virtue, yet did he fometimes forfake- her, even without temptation. *<; ..br- ^. Here we reft this great character !- — -And we iliould rejoice indeed, if hiftorical fidelitjr had not compelled us to ftate foiiie fliades of it, at which humanity may drop a tear of iympathy ; and lament that imperf^^^ion of our nature, which ever controuls the arro- gance of fuperiority, and vindicates, in Ibmc mcafure, the equality of man. " '^ '*' Don Antonio w^as marked, it is true, by fome of the infirmities of human kind, but he was dilHnguilhed, on the other hand, by great and admirable qualities. Let nat then E 2 tht ^ ( 32 ^ the ihrolenc'=? of hiiman frailty refufe forgive^ nefs to the former ; and may poflerity re- member only the latter, and remember them as obje^s of imitation ! ^ • -^ *' ' ' " - Don Antonio paid the ntmoft attention to ; the whole recital of Sancho'b politicks. And indeed, amongft the feveral peculiarities of Antonio, this one was oblervablc, " That as no man ever fpoke fo well as *' to excite his admiration, fo no man *' ever fpoke fo ill as that he did not think " him worthy of attention." He liftened profoundly to the difcourfe of eve^y man ; he liftened to the fleepy tale of Don Philip, the Moor. -joj .Hit When this elaborate recapitulation of prin- ciples and politicks was brought to a couclu- fion, Don Antonio did not require much time for vveighing its import and conlequences. — He faw clearly that the raflmefs of Sancho was not courage, nor the craft of Don Phihp wifdom. He thought the convention of the Cortes, at that particular time, was liable to objedions, which would occur, perhaps, at no other feafon. — He therefore gave coun- fel againftit. He obferved, " That, tho' " the populace frequently misjudge, the great body of the people are not often, or long deceived. That in the prefent oc- cafion they never would be perluaded, that J',4 the convening this afiembly a few months **j only before the regular and indifpenfable " leafoa (( it a . \J», .n .4. mii jammtm (33 ) ' ■ feafoii of convention, after it had been irti terrupted in tjie midft of buiinefs, and dii- continued for above a year, was any other than an adl of Jiate policy, That the mere power of reviving or continuing a few laws, without time or opportunity to alter or amend them, was in truth a fmall national concern — Efpecially as this meet- ing would interfere with the itinerar'y progrefs of juftice, and the feafon of th^ great feffion was fo near at hand, in which there muft be ample time afforded for all that enquiry and deliberation, which alone could give weight and authority to lawsl — That the very aflembling of the States *' would in itfelf terminate the duration of *' feveral laws, which would otherwife re- " main in force. — That if the Court were to " be victorious, the nation would be alarmed, — and if the popular party were to predo- minate, thofe laws would become extindt, *' and adminiftratlon would be overturned. — That to call the aflembly together, in order to appropriate the difpofition of that fum, which had formerly been granted to public works, would now be abfurd ; ns the money was not in exiftance, at leaft in the Exchequer ; and that, tho' the ftates were to grant it, yet the crown could not pay it. — And above all, that this ex- torted convention, as it would be thought, mufl certainly revive amongil the repre- fentativc body, that hitter a''-gumeni^ xvitli *' which (( <( "•;•■> '. , «< ii «( ( 3+ > ** which they had departed, but not departed in peace. — That if the accuftomeu offer- ings of the Cortes to the throne, fhould not convey encomium on the Governor^ *' Sancho would be degraded. — If they did, •' they would impeach themfclves. But •' that at all events, thofe matters of deli- ** cacy were bed decided by oblivion. Moreover, that the Treaiiiry was entirely exhaufted ; and therefore he knew not by what means the Governor could purchale the fupport he expedted, excepting by pro- mifes. — That if thofe promilcs were per- formed, the flender refources of goverment would be wafted. If they were broken, the credit of power would be loft. — That experiment in thofe weighty concerns was dangerous. The beft refult is tumult \ the worft, dejirudllon, That if his re- commendatory Ipeech from the throne of Majefty were to difclaim fupplies, it ** would contradidl the necefiities of the ftate ; if it profejffed them, the people would fay, they were never to he ajfembled^ but to he plundered \ and if it were to be equivo- cal, it would offend all parties. The Crown would refent his cafting a doubt on the m jefTity ; the nation would refent his cafting a fraud on their lecurity. — That tbo' it was an hopelefs proje<^ to attempt pleafing all parties, it was yet exceedlngh unwife to fatisfy none." Thus in liib- ftance did the Prcccdcnza argue with th(? n^:.-.'. ^' thouglitlds «( «« «c J*?Kj^^O>-^»'"rt«**»'V>J' C 3S ) thoughtlefs and counfel the determined. Sancho (eemed to have accidentally heard a part of this harangue, and anfwered the whole of it with his ufual precillon. — He ob- served, " that every ientence which had fal- len from the lips of Antonio, was the lan- guage of wifdom — that his argument was the argument of convidlion ; and that he would accordingly appoint the aflemblage of the Cortes, for the 26th day of the next moon." He extolled his eloquence, and ob- ferved, " that it brought back to his mind the ** remembrance of a dear departed brother ;'* but here he iiiflantly wiped away a tear, that nature had rafhly engendered, and inadver- tency tolerated ; and yielded himfelf to the current of his mind, which ever flowed to- wards untimely merriment. — He obferved, that General Antonio (for (o he was pleafed jocularly to call him') had oftentimes dif- fered from him in the Court Martial <( <( i( (( ^( C£ (4 «( (< f.-»^- - giiied C 21 ) gined he would have made a very eloquent Ipcecli, had he not been violently interrupted by a fudden outrage of vociferation, which ifllied even from the throne of Vice-majefly fcattering through the chambers a ftrange confufion of mixed founds, but articulating, diftlndt, and intelligible, two words only ; namely, protejl and prorogation. Alnagero, to Vv^hofe ears, it is true, thcfc founds never conveyed mufic, intreatcd, " that " his Highnefs would not revive thofe obfb- •' lete and invidious topicks, but leave them *' to the chances of time, and difcuflion of " pofterlly !" — For, to bear teftimony of juftice to x'\lnagero, we muft confefs, that he was not amongO: thofe to whom right and wrong were indifferent. — For, if it were pof- fible to unite public principles with great pri- vate emolumer.t, it was ever his wifh to bear them company. — He befbught the Governor, " to proceed on the buiinel's which at that " time fo eagerly engaged their wifdom — '' not the death or difgrace^ but the revival " of the great aflembly of the people.*' Amongft the feveral difficulties which Sancho had encountered in his government, no one; was, to his feelings^ fo great, as that of fup- preliing the extravagant laughter wliich the gravity of Alnagero's difcourie had now ex- cited in him. — As foon as he had difcharged from his countenance fomev/hat of his un- timely merrlmeiit, he apologized (according to his falhion) to the prime advocate, for the -• ,^ •• *' F inter- TF < 38 ) interruptions he had occafioiied ; hut affurccl him, *' that nothing could be farther from " his wifh than any renewal of debate on " thofe ridiculous topicks ; and that if the *' Cortes when they afl'emble fhould fay no- *' thing to him on the fubjedl of them, he •* (hould, on his part, obferve the fame con- flitutional delicacy and filence. — That in- deed protejl and prorogation^ were only the names he had given to two favourite Caia- Ionian beagles, whicli had lately been fent to him from his eftates in that province. That tho' he had always the grcateft plea* fure in hftening to the Ipeeches of Al- nagero, yet as he felt an invincible defire of ihewing thofe beagles to the Baron Go- reanelli (who was not only a judge but a fporijman, accomplilhed alike for tlie cabinet and the field,) he very ardently wilhcd that the prime advocate fhould poflpone the remainder of his mofl excellent fpeech (for excellent he was lure it would have been, had he fpoken it) to another oppor- tunity ; and therefore in his canine zeal he certainly had, in a manner rather abrupt than otherwife, called upon the Scythian Cunningambo, licentiate in medicine, and fuperintendant of his dogs, his mules, and his children, to introduce the beagles into the Council Chamber, jufl at the time in v/hich he began the very eloquent fpeech, in which he had the honour to interrupt him." Alnagero (( i( C( (C (t <( (( 4( «( (( C( (« <( 4( t( C( (e t( '^'--*i ( 40 ) again aloud for ihc Beagles ; and at the fame? time direfting the Chevalier Buticartny to il- fue forthwith the letters of convention, and haften the licentiate with the whelps of Cat a^ Ionia. '■ Goreanelli, not infenfible to glory, was flattered. — Bumpero lb laughed heartily, as he w^as wont on fuch occafions Don Antonio did not obferve the joke — Don Alnagero was diftreffed, and looked lively — Don Philip the Moor looked difmal, but felt not the leaft concern and as for Don Godfi'edo Lilly, he was entirely employed in IpecuJrition on the probable difgufl: of Alnagero, which might open a door to his own promotion ; whilft the whelps were introduced by the Do£lor into the Chamber of Confultation. , When the afiembly was diflblved, various were the inferences w^hich the feveral mem- bers drew from the whole tranfa£lion, re- fpeding the dogs of Catalonia. — — In this, however, they entertained, in general, a fimi- larity of fcntiment *' That as each of them (Antonio excepted) faw that the joke of Sancho was exceedingly plcalant, fo hir as it concerned the rejl of the conclave" yet, "when he meafurcd it by the relation in which it flood towards himfelj\ he difcoverod in this ^d-w^A-z/ jocularity, ibme want of efpecial rc- Iped." And here let us not be accufcd by the fu- perclilous wifdom of unalterable gravity, for having degraded the Ibleainity of record by a . tlic ( 41 ) the relation of occurrences light and frivo- lous ! But where the frivolous have em- pire^ their annals will be levity. And in- deed nothing is /ow, if it be natural ; nor is any thing unobfervable to the hiftorian, .hat tends to unfold or explain the charadier of man. Here the deepeil political experiment was decided; though conlultation was delpifed though the counlel was not given though the ipeeches were yet unfpoken but the Viceroy in the chambers oj gravity at leaji, exhibited his Beagles to the Jufliciary of the land. Don Alexandro Cuningambo del Tweeda- lera, licentiate in medicine, withdrew the Beao les of Catalonia (rom the Chambers of Confullation ; and the bufuicfs of the day was ended. Sancho having dilpatched all thcfe weighty concerns in the fpace of one morning, thought the evening his own — and dedicated it accordingly to ftihvity and plea- fure. — He flew to the Fandango of Rafarmo; where the wonted jocularity of Francilco del Bumperofo defended him from the Jlumber of Loftonzo, and the bright refmemeni: of the lovely Dorothea threw a pious fhade over the unpoliihed confidence of her aunt, thcCoun- tefs. What the myfleries of the evening or the reflections of the morninp- were, is not within the province of hillory to relate. — But cer- tain it is, they all departed, iatisfied with their repait; and cither the lov ?, tiie gratitude, or '> -J ( 42 ) or the artifice of Sancho, in return for fa great compliances, appointed apartments, even in the Vice-royal pa'ace, for the recep- tion of the Coiintels and the lovely Monrolo, wherein to adjufi: and reconcile the violences of travel, whenfoever Dorothea fhould be led forth from the fields to grace the caroulala of the King of the ifland.-— The convention of the ftates being now a matter decided, Sancho was again to play off the whole artillery of feduvSlion.^ — The vir- tuous were dilplaced, — —-the timorous were threatened,— the public-fpirited were ridiculed, — the limple had promiles,— the corrupt were bribed, the credulous were betrayed, and all were to be undone. And indeed, the fiibordinate injftruments employed in this great negotiation were io curious, as that lome of them at leaft deferve commemora^ tion in thefe records. — At that time, Fortune had fhipwrcckcd en licr native land the old lady^ Donna Lavinia del St. Legero ; and fo extravagant were the eiiays of corruption in thoie days, that policy condcl'cended to retain even this obfolete inftiument of l.^dudion. However capable in general of thole powers o( procuring^ incidental to her fex and condi^ tion, yet that Ihe ihoukll)e competent to pro-, cure fuftrages in tlie Cortes, leerned a matter, indeed, of improbable conjecture I But the refult frequently dilappuints the fpecula- tion. Donna _ ( 43 ) Donna Lnvinia was indeed a very extraof^ dinary perfon to have figured on the ftage of politicks. She was the child of middling con- rlition, and had received her education amidil: the ferocitv of Baratarian-Boeotia. She had been given in hiarriage by her parents to the Chevalier St. Legero, a judge; who from the intermixtureof the Spaniards with the Moors, had an opportunity of enriching his nature (tho' by a fpurious flream) with the blood of the great Muli Iflimael ; and the fanguinary exploits of his judicature, were confirmation, of his illuftrious original. Thus it hap- pened, that the clemency of the hulband, . id the chajlliy of the wife, became the fym- bols of proverbial defcription. Donna La- vinia managed her qualifications with noble dexterity. In her youth, without beauty, (he had lovers — and in her age, without rank or reputation, (lie enjoyed the fociety of the great. A certain warmth and conjihutional coriiiafit'W was the charm of her early days — • the mod" indulgefii accommodation recommended her riper years ; and there was one circum- ila; .c> v;]nch rendered her fociety for ever ea.} /7t icii was, *' That the example of her youti?, never overawed the mod licentious into referve, and tbr compliances of her age made her kind to tlie frailties of her friends. - — She had not even the rigours of hypocrily — but an heart to }^lty, and an houfe to re- c -ive, the p'ui/ig I'otaries of love. She did not p j\'is any thing like adJrefs or courtly man- ners ; ( 44 ) ners ; but that there was a certain ftatelincfs about her, that might have been the growth of antient fiifhion, and at fome times a fami- liarity, that was to refemble the condefcen- iion of high rank and quahty. If fhe was no longer the objedf, fhe was glad to ha the in- Jlrument^ of pleafure. — And on her bofom every friend and every foe might confidently repofe the fecret infirmities of unrelifting na- ture. Not that fhe was poflTeflcd of any fu- pernatural fidelity, or felt the glow of friend- ihip in her fympathie^ -but fhe gave her own life and converfat is hofl:ao:es for her fecrecy. And moreovei, .o ftrengthen this iecurity, thougli flie had no great regard to moral obligation, flie always affected the greatell refpe6l for all manner of decorum ; mlbmuch, that to whatever Ihe laid or did, ihe aflumed a motive of decency. If at any time it has happened to her to have dwelt too long on the goblet, and protracted the banquet beyond convivial moderation ; " file " was thereto compelled by medical counfeU' ** merely to combat, by that levere regimen, *' fome inward malady, or bodily dileafe I" If, peradventure, flie has at any time flown, with critical precipitaiioriy from her moft private apartments, and left them to the Ible occupancy of two friends, whofe only difference is their fex, at one of thoi'e dan- gerous moments in which love grows too powerful for difcretion, and female imbecility not unimUhigly confefies the athletic fuperi- ority <£ ti ^i>/e>^ d ; Who refided in this land, as Chief G«?*^*^r, For the fpace of four years : but at length Departed on the 26th day of December, 'm the year 1771. Having on that day, being St. Stephens's day. The 1 5th day after his obtaining a vidlory, (Which the wife call'd a defeat,) And the 2d day after He pafs'd the Money- Bills, (Which He thought an Exploit) Embark'd, without cfientatwn. At this little port of Bullock. He came to Ireland, profeffing and pradlifing Every myftery of corruption — Waging war againft Power ^ ■^i,^ .r?> ,: t 50 ) Power, abilities^ and Integrity ; And accordingly his adminiftration wa$ ' * ' ^-'^ Ahjurdity, Impotence, and Frojilgacy% During his refidence, xS\q powers of his officer Frequently compeird him to confer favours. But a capricious nature and barbarous manners, ^ Defended him from the returns of .^ Friendship and gratitude : He therefore never made '^^ A friend. So that in a country, in which any misfortune calls forth the affections of the people- — Where they drop tears at the execution of ;,. Every malefadlor, .<' . v^ l^e however was iniailifled in his difficulties,, * -I unpitied in his difgrace, and unlamented in his departure. > . " He utter'd falfhood from the throne .' In the name of the K g. . i ■*■* From his clofet did he promile ''''■"' !* The things which were never performed.—- *.■ ' His ce>«du£t in government was ' * I , a difgrace to him whom he reprcfented,, a reproach to thofe who appointed him, and a Icourge to thofe whom he governed. He was a mimick, ' a Icribbler, '/^ a decypherer of features, a delineator of corporeal infirmitjr; >r* .,. , - But he was not ■ -# ' '-i/-^> a flatclrnan, ^ . .* . , i-i a governor, .' V, '•:i v: ; - a fbl'^' t- », 's^' ' ( 50 L. ..^ ni^:; a fbldicr, -? ; ; « '■ •* ' ;- .».»^. ;i.x/; a friend, ■ ■>*■ or a gentleman. •? He was victorious only when he involved ''^* His caufe with the caule of *: private perlbns — and the ordinary efFeds of Sympathy and aftedlion, (ufually fo ilrong in this country) Became weak or doubtful, ^s they were dampM by the influence of his co-operation : ' His wifdom was fraud ; His policy, corruption ; His fortitude, contempt of charadler ; His friendship, diftruft ; His enmity, revenge ; And his exploit, the ruin of a country. Extra^ of a Letter from Lord N- to His Excellency the L — d Lieu- Ireland, 4of My Lord, IT is with great concern I have been obliged to lay before his M y, the flate of your Ex y's adminiltration in the king-* dom of Ireland ; which now appears to be entirely different, as to flrength and credit, frqm that which you gave his M J reafoja ( 50 rcafon to expe£l from the courfe of Intelli- gence you have been pleafed to tranfmit to the Miniftry from time to time. Your Ex y, on the conclufionof thelflfl fhort feflion of Parliament, left government fupported by a majority in the Houfe of Com- mons, exceeding the number of forty and we had no reafon to doubt, that this ma- jority would have decreakd under any admi- niftration, polleflcd either of capacity to re- concile the difcontented, or even of tc.riper and decorum fufficient to defend itfelf from the new dilgufts, which (c 'n at prelent to have alienated the mofl: zealous of its fup- porters. This might naturally have been ex- pelled, wdthout exerting the extreme re- Iburces of government. But his M y cannot avoid obferving the unufaal number of offices, which calualty has throvvji into your Ex y's di(pofal. Moreover, that his R 1 indulgence has comphed with your requifltions for new appointments, in number great beyond example in expence alarming, and in utility doubtful a! beft. That all the conceilions made to your prede- ceflbrs, for twenty years together, have not equalled in amount thole, which have been yielded to your Ex y in fix months. — That you have been gratified with full powers, ;iiot only to reward your friends, but puniih your enemies, by depriving them of the of- fices they enjoyed for many years under the crown; and with all thofe powers you / >. * . am u led amufec! his M- ( 53 ) y with an account, that you had eftablifhed yourfelf in power invin- cible ; that the ariftocracy was broken, op- polition at an end, and that you were ready to meet the ParHament with p'rfe(ft iecurity to his M^ y*s honour and government. The refult, however, has been total, difap-. pointment ! and his M y cannot but obferve, with aftonifhment, the wonderful mifapplication of fo great powers, which has conferred nothing but weaknefs and dilgrace on your adminiftration for your. majority in the Houfe of Commons, on the firft day of this Icifion, merely in favour of a common matter of form, was diminifhed, as I have been informed, to about twenty-fix. That on points which heretofore ufed to be decided air ft by unanimity, you have indeed been vi ious, but only by a majority of nine or five. In other matters, you have yielded, compromifed, or capitulated ; but that in every great and capital queftion, you have been beaten by a great fuperiority. But above all, I cannot avoid exprelfing to your Ex y his M y's refentment, at your having fo far deceived him, as in the firft place to recommend it to him to fign his lettQrs pofitive^ directing new Boards of immenfe expence to be inftituted, which you know, or ought to have known, could not have been carried into execution, without firft obtaining a law, which lies in the power of parliament ; and which law, it fcems, is contrary to the fenle H of • f 54 ) ■ of Parliament, and therefore beyond your power to obtain. Thus the R — 1 name has been brought into difgrace, by the counfel which induced his M y to dlredl, that a thing ihould pojithely be done, which could not properly be done, without a new law ; the obtahiing of which law was always doubt- ful, and now appears impradicable. In forming this fcheme, you did not confult the King's lervants, the officers of the revenue, or the finances of the country ; but raflily in- duced the authority of the K g's name to a meafure that the nation dilliked, the reve- nues were unequal to, and the laws, as they nowjland^ could not admit. ^Though your £x y were ever {ci much enamoured with tliG Jlation^ or gratified by the emolu- ment of high office, yoa fhould not, how- ever, have continued yo hold it under the ma- nifefi: hazard of tht K g's honour, and the dignity of government. — But I mufl obferve the little grounds you had to expe£l that eafy and honourable felfion of Parliament, with the hopes of which you flattered the Minillry. By fome peculia:ity of manage- ment in your dealing with the friends of go- vernment, vou have, I know not how, ren- dered them cold and unwilling lupporters in Parliament ; whilfl you have made your op- 'ponents zealous, adlive, and united againft you. Not one of the K g's fervants, not even your own Secretary, can be brought to -acknowledge you or your mealures in Parlia- . ■ ment: ^■^"fppv"'* ment ; — and fcarcely ever fpeak but in order to vindicate hemlelves from any participa- tion in your couuiels or confidence. And truft me, my Lord, if you don't, in fome degree, conciliate the afFe(Slions of thofe who lerve government, you will derive but a very imperfect fupport from a cold, reludtant, or lilent fufFrage. After fquandering away the immenfe bounties, with which you have been furnifhed, on perfons incapable of ferving you, you ftand at prefent with the boaft of a poor, tottering majority ; — : — doubtfiil, difcontented and unfriendly, — and when you depart, will leave a body of oppo- iition behind you, that the kingdom you govern never faw equalled, and which, per^ naps, no future vafdom may be able to re- concile ; and above all, you have recorded a public memorial of your mifreprefentations to his IVI y, in the addrefs of the Commons, condemning the new Boards you thought p ;oper to i:ecomnaend to his M— -y'si j^doptioii, . H z > J' ' «K 1 < >'.'■. f! .t «; 1 ^ *:^^ The * iCli/i . ', ■•- ^v ■:V ( 56 ) X ^i -M/i 'J *V* The followeing was yefterday publicly delivered to Dr. Clement at the Huftmgs, ' by Christopher Nicholson, Efq;ashis ^ reafons fci voting for him, with a decla- ration of his confent to the fame being made public. We think ourfelves happy ' in being able to communicate any thing to the public, which tends to ferve the caufe . of liberty; and prefent this to our readers, as being in fome meafure the political creed of a gentleman, who has ever pro- • fefTed and a£led up to the moft difinter- efced, patriotic principles. ' THE poll paper of the city of Dublin, dated Nov. 23d, 1771, is a good ad- monition to all Eledors, " to appear in fa- *' vour of the real independent inter eji of this *' trading city and to fupport the friends to * * trade and Independency . " Every Eleftor is, in his refpc6live diftri(?t, intrufted to choofe for the body of the people who have no votes. If he votes through favour, affection, or any finifter motive, he betrays the people, and deferves, and muft expert to be betrayed by the man he unfaithfully choofes. A gentleman of unqueflinable probity, who v/ho was cntcmporary member in the lail Par- liament with Dr. Clement, aflures me, that whei Jr, Clement fat there, his attendance was conflant, and his vote was conftantly given giveti uprightly; and all gentlemen, whom I have heard Ipeak of Dr. Clement, agree in this account of his parliamentary conduct:. Such are the men likely to pieferve the in- depency, trade, and profperity of the city of Dublin, and the whole kingdom. '^ I never faw either of the prefent candidates until this day. I had no application made to me by^ either of them, or by any other per- fbn on behalf of either of them ; and if I had been applied to, the ftronger the application^ the more I fhould have fulpedled unlbundnefs of heart in the party applying. I have travelled a very incommodious jour- ney, merely to do my duty to the public, in voting according to the beft of my judgement. The only motive which ought to guide a voter, and will very feldom miflead a lincere one. I have attended many eleftions in coun- ties, cities, and boroughs, for forty or fifty years paft ; and neyer faw one ele<£lion, where J think the comparative merit ^f the candi- dates ib manifeftly clear as tht> !e6tion held this day. Some ele£lors may be undrly in-» fluenced, but a majority can fcaree err in ib plain a queftion. Conftituents mufl: anfwer to themfelves and their country ; and beware that they fball juftly anfwer for iheir own uprightnels, in chooling the moll: likely m^SH they can find to maintain th'^ independency, trade, liberties, peace, and purfe of die nation. If C J8 ) If we choofe truftees, willing to affent to what they are bid, we loofe our real lecurity; and they deftroy the weight, ftrength, and cre- dit of the Commons. Great as the Irft of penfions were, we hear, that they are eilcreafed ; many of them {o im- proper, that none but the procurate can ap- prove them : others, granted contrary to the afllirance given by a Viceroy, in the name of his Royal Mafter. ■■, We are told, that hundreds of thoufands are to be demanded if they can be con- jured into the Treafury — now — -at a time of public tranquillity — although it may be found impradicable afterwards to raiie a fund fuf*« ficient to defend the nation, if another French armament fhould be embarked^ to in- vade it. ' '♦ t ■ • Supplies have been ufually confidered as vo- luntary grants from the people, by their re- prefentatives, for which the Crown thanked . the people. Language diiferent from man- datory letters. If the Crown can, at will, grant valid penlions, chargeable on the peo- ple, before the people, by their reprefenta- tivcs, make a grant for that purpofe to the Crown, what lecurity can they be faid to have in their property, what neans of tefti- fying their generous cordiality to the mo-* narch, what great uie of fundamental right to choofe reprefentatives, if the money of tho fubje£t be granted away before his reprefcn^ .;.. ,. . . . i ^ ^. ^ . tativ^ ii tative is consulted ? Of what figairicance \ViU be the reprefentatives themfelves ? If even th(^ir fubfequent confent be thought advifeable, they may then coiifider how far they can juftify, to go beyond the abilities, and contrary to the general, fenfe of their con- flituents, from whom they derive all their authority to confent and that only fb far as it is evidently confiftent with the rights, the fafety, and the good of their principals. If their confent be not manifeftly right, it muft be manifeftly wrong. The Member we choole is bound in duty to examine the lift of penfions. 1 addrefs myfelf to every Member of every county, city, and borough wherein Ihave a vote, viz. Meath, Louth, Dublin, Drogheda, Navan, and Kilbeggan, — let his Majefty's own reve- nues of this nation difplay his royal bounty to the meritorious who have ferved this na- tion, if happily they cut-number his abilities to reward them properly, tax me my proportion fully to reward them. But let me not be crufhed by a lingle juithority, as in the way of an arret, which will not bear any ne- gative ; and refufe taxing me to pamper men, who have neitlier aiiy public merit nor connexion with this coun/ry, nor any claim of public merit, though they be of this coun- try — and endeavour to do me and your other couftituents jufticc, by the proper parlia- mentary methods 10 undeceive his Mnjefty, and ihew him v/Acreiu he has been abulcd by ev li c ^ ) evil advifers, prodigal of that little treafurc, which this nation is able to raife on emergen- cies to I'upport the King and the people, — He may alfb be deemed a treacherous Member, who conients to raile unneceffary iupplies, or veils the public accompts, or fails to enquire into mifapplication or embezzlement of money granted. Liberty cannot long out live pro- perty. • ■ I have endeavoured concifcly to reafbn with «tiy reprefentatives, in hopes of their concur- ring with me in their judgments on thefe momentous poin*^s, whereby the public may have the better chance to be relieved from pre- lent, and proteded from future oppreffions.»— Alfb, becaufe I ardently wi(h to fee, in all ^branches of government, a reftoration of that mutual good-will and confidence, which feem abfolutely necefl'ary to the good of the whole. ;For which purpofe, I exhort my fellow electors to be cautious in their choice, as a virtuous Member may be a means of healing, whereas, an over compliant one, may, by fuch a condu6t, embolden adven- turers to widen the unhappy breach, and thus encreafe, inflead of removing jealoufies. I hope to be pardoned when I ipeak in be- half of my property now feemingly in quef- tion, — but the critical ftate of the public de- mands the free and explicit (entiments of con- ilituents. 1 have therefore delivered mine, touching the prefent pending eledlion for the city of Dublin; and touching the faithful dif- charge ■ lU IIIMIII1W ( 6' ) chargeof that important truft, which, 1 hum- bly apprehend, is due by my feveral repre- feut:tives to their country, and to me. : '^ CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON. Dublin^ Nov, 29, 1 77 1. :^-l!,Q:t\ •'.' '!'.J.'' I. J. irftaantavaAMilB ;r» .:. if; J To L -D T- -D. My Lord, • = ' THOUGH your Excellency's known temper and magnanimity in battle^ may defend you from any imputations of in- folence in v/^ory; yet your Lordfhip will, I flatter myfelf, excufe the liberty I now take, when you recolledl that it was a cuftom with the antient rulers of the world to guard the tranfport of the nobleft natures, by joining to the triumph of the vidiorious, a Monitor to remind hun That he was but a man. Your Excellency, whofe charadler is formed on the beft modeft models of antiquity, for inflexible virtue For juftice, fobriety, modr.'ation, fortitude, veneration for the laws, and love for the people, will not hear with indigna- tion this humble admonition, which is mere- ly intended to regulate your feelings under the contemplation of recent fucc(fs. Your Lordlhip has triumphed over the enemies of a new Board of Accounts. 1 give you joy ! and beg leave to congratulate i vour .1 ( 62 ) yoiir I.orc!fKip on that peculiar good fortune^ which has more than once in yonr lite united your name with conquefl. For it feems this was not the firft inftance of your afluming the honour of a vidory which was not of your acquiring. In one inftance, the abili- ties of a fuperior, whom you could not controul% in another, the private friendfhips of piivate men, which the tnnjl inaulpicious co-operation could not defeat, fucceeded alike not only to defend, but to adorn L-t^^^d Tmm^4M, If you will but condefcend, my Lord, in the exultation of your triumph, to Confider liow you obtained it, and how you ftand for- tified in your encampment after it, I truft I need not admonilh your Excellency to hu- mility ! t-You marched into the field at the head of a multitude of mercenaries, with the alli- ance of the King's name, and under the con- fecrated banners oi the Jign-manuciL In fhort, you exerted every power of your fituation, and "you obtained a majority of five only in the Houfe of Commons, in favour of a fcheme for beftowing 500I. per ann. on five of their own members. It is not enough to lay, that thofe five members voted efpecially for themfelves, and exadlly decided the day ; but I muft obferve, that the whole powers of .government, under your Excellency's aufpices, would never have brought the queftion with- in the reach of thole five votes, were it not foe •mmmm P ( 63 ) for tlie force of their private foHcitatlons aii4 rienalhips. • = , -> ^-i^^ Nothing then can be fo clear as that the weight of national power lay again^l you: and private afFe£lion, in this inftancd; .broke through the bonds of pubUc obligation. For it muft ever be recited amongft the amiable infirmities of my countrymen, that all their ftern virtues weaken and diflolve, when op- pofed to the lympathies of fecial intercourle and amicable communication. The man who was fevere enough to detefl your adml- niftration, was yet foft enough to remember his antient friendijiips. ,f, ^/i; ,, ,^,Thus the recoUedlion of. congenial /ports and prodigality The iympathy of youthful con- nexion The fociety of military fervice The influence of family adherence and the obftinate importunity of domeftic craft, played againfl: the /<:?/7/V7////V J of parental te?idey^ nefs, were all lifted in your fervice, and be- Ciime your allies without a fubfidy. •'**'••• Vour. Excellency m.uft then be too well acquainted' with thofe pa: -Iculars to fuppale yourfelf any more than an accejfary lo^ ihis. .victory. ■ It was your fortune to meet the parliament of a country, that entertained an extraordi- nary reverence for your mafter ; and there- fore you were protedled,, fo long as compli- ment was the objed of government But when you came to ineafures^ the oppofition,, which Ipoke tjie voice of the nation^ was toa Arong for you.- ... -t ( 64 ) What they o-ave, they rave from'generofity What they with- held, they withheld with Superiority of ftrengthr They oppofed you^ but they iup- ported your Royal Mafier ; they overturned your empire^ but th^y maintained his govern^ ment. And indeed, in every thing they did, they conducted thcmfclvcs with extraordinary delicacy For, whilft they manifefted by their ftrength a fuperiority over the Viceroy, by their liberality to the King did they ex* hibit unexampled inftances of loyalty and at- tachment. Reflect, my Lord, on the tranfa(Slions of the Commons I — They granted his Majefty the ordinary fupplies — They moreover voted an enormous loan fufficient to fatisfy even royal prodigality They agreed to that mal's of expence the augmentation of the army^ ftill further augmented in expence, though diminifhed in numbers, fince the original propofition of it.- — They enabled his Majefty legally to aliejiate a part of tlie public reve- nues, which his Majefty had before been ad- vifed (and advifed with effect) to alienate, con- trarv to law. Theie were the meafures of his Majeftfs governmctit ; and in thofe in- ftances the Commons forgot your Excellen- cy, and remembered only tneir iimiable weak- nefs of loyal partiality. Let me now examine your Excellency's own meafures, and the points of oppofition to you, that we may be able to judge of the ftrength ( 65 ) ftrength of the fortrefs, within which you arc intrenched. — ' • The iirft inllilt on your perfbn and govern- ment (which was moft ftrenuoully oppoled by your friends) was a declaration of the Commons, " That the abiHties and eflential , *' intercft of the country Ihould be the mea- *' fure of the fupply."— — The next was ^ refohition of the Commons in favour of ** economy^ and all pojjible retrenchment** This was juftly fuppofed to imply a reflection on your Excellency's adminirtration, and therefore was zealoufly, but ineffcdually, op- pofed by your friends in parliament. The next parliamentary overthrow, of which I Ihall remind your Excellency, was, in the con- . demnation of the Rxcife-boardy after you had rafhly adviled your Sovereign to order pofi^ tivehy that a meafure fhould be purfued, which was impracticable without a nev^^ law; and which new law^ it is evident, you were not ftrong enough to obtain., The next of your Excellency's humilia- tions was Mr, Dv/on's cafe ; in which the Commons declared, •' They would not pro- vide for apenfion, which hu 1 been granted unde; your Excellency's adminillration, /// violation of the royal promifeT You were, indeed, beaten hut by one in the Com- mittee ; but you had the queftion revived irt theHoufe, contrary to the law of Parliament, and there you cleared the doubtii which might refl <« i( <( ( 66 > reft on your (ituatioii, by expofmg yourfclf to ii mote decijive defeat. The next article of your diigrace, was taken from the public accounts. In them, it feems, a charge had been handed down of about 9000I. for mUitla arms^ andfort'tjylng the harbour of Cork, As this was an obiolcte charge from the year 1746, the opponents to your government thought iiJIjouldbefiruckoff\ but your friends were up in arms at the pro- portion . They were unwilling that any thing fliould return from the gulph of the Exchequer ! They urged that your Excel- lency had, in your own rnind^ already appro- priated this ilim to the erei^ing batteries in the harbour of Cork, upon plans formed and digcftcd In your military progrefs through .Ireland, That day, the malice of fortune gave you the vidory but to betray you to double dif- grace ; for, on the fucceeding day, the fla- tute-book was examined the tranfacftioa was expoled Recantation, humility, and diigrace, covered your party your plans . of fortification, :Mid fetches of military de- fign, were become the objcu.^ of ridicule, and blulhes were feen to glow on cheeks which never blulhed before. ., . , ., • ,,- As to the recent vi6lory, which at preient encircles your brows with laurel, I have al- ready troubled your Excellency with Ibme ob- servation upon it you engaged five gentle^. n.'i , men f <7 ) ftieti to Vote for themlclves, and follcit the nlliflances of friendfhip ; the powers of which are not yet fo weak in tliis country, as that your Excellency's co-operatioii was able to defeat them,* . • ,-^.-*iw , Moderate your triumph then, illuftrious comii:"ander ! You have been defeated iu three out of four of your capital engagements Your fuigle trophy was not the fruit of your own ftrength or conduft. The power of private friendfhip The intereft of indi- viduals And the aftonifliing defertion of two men, who ought to be found amongft your fterncft enemies, atchieved tblsfijl and liijl of your victories. F A B R I C I U S. To the Writers of the lafl: Bachelor. A Citizen of the world, I am a friend to mankind. A citizen of Geneva, I am a friend to a weak nation, expofed to the encroachments of a fuperior kingdom. I knew the EngU/li in their hiftory ; and I ad- mired them. I fought refuge amongft the Ions of freedom, as I thought them ; But, alas, I found that however they might have been entitled to that godlike difl:in6lion, they had loft it by degeneracy. The milreprefen- tations of Hume contributed to the captivat- ing error. But I foon found that he had . been i« ( 68 ) been himfelf d mlffionary of corruption, and that he applauded the poHtical ethics of a nation which he had inlpired. " Deluded, *' or deluding man, and infatuated people, *' faid I to mylelf, farewel. The heart of *' Roufleau, an alien to fiaud ; and the *' tongue, an advocate for truth, cannot dif^ *' iemble. I cannot live where I couicj not " brook to die# Some land of liberty (hall *' fhield my hones ; nor Ihall my afhes rnin- *' gle but with the dull of freemen.'* My fruitlefs, but unwearied learch hath :ilmoll: exhaufted Europe ; and I now ftand in this, I hope, not devoted ifland, hclitatuig upon the margin of the deep : but prepared, if I fliall be here difappointed, to traverfe (m the refouition, not the defj^air of age) the ext .it of the Atlantick. A .Denizen of your country, J. ow^e returns of (ervicc for the bounty of protection ; and, luiiverfally naturalized to liberty by the con- genial breathings of my Hbul, the wound which I rcanvcd from feeing in your lafl publication, my public words, and my un- happy name, perverted to the injury of this country and of frecedom, has fo far touched a heart not infcnfiblc, as to drag me from my intended oblcurlty, and to make me in Ibme fort an actor on a fliige, where I wilhed to be only a ipedlator. You have made me an advocate tor uncertainty in the rights of the liabjcCl, though they are only rights as tar "^mmm^^mmmmm^i^mmmmmmmill ■r < 69 ) fai* as they are defined. You have made me a patron of ambiguity in things the mod ef- fential to the welfare of" humanity, though I have aimed at precifion in matters lefs impor* tant. But know, audacious or ignorant wri- ters, that the dehcacy and intercourfe of fen- timent between the people and their gover- nors, which I recommend, have another ob- ject. Know alfb, that men flew from the iimpJicity of a flate of nature, for no other reafon, but that all great, private and public rights might be invariably afcertained ; and that [the civil government which doth not fix and fpecity them, is the moft fatal con- Ipiracy againft the happinefs of man. You fay that this country is no longer free than whilft it enjoys the ineftimable privi- lege of being taxed by its own Repreienta- tives only (and according to the eftablifhed forms of the conftitution, you ought to have added). You fay, on the other hand, that England will not fuffer her manufadures to be taxed, nor her commerce to be retrained, by an Irifh Houfe of Commons. The latter propofition, thus univerfally predicated, is abfurd and falfe. But fuppofe it to be true, what follows ? Not that it is neceflary, that the Crown Ihould have a power to aiier your money-bills. The Crown, by the eftablilhed forms of the conflritution, hath a negative, by which it can prevent any law from pafling ; and that negative is a fufficient fecurity for Englifh commerce and manufadlure. The K commerce ^^ i; ( 70 ) commerce and maniifiic^ure of England is thus i'ecurc, not only in the original forms of the conftitution, but in the fuperiority of Great Britain alio. But what fupport or exiftence has this ineftimable privilege of the Com- mons, if a rival and deftru6live power be efta- blilhed in the Crown of Great Britain ? Oris it the language of Irifhmen, that the lefs eC- lential rights of another nation, which alrea- dy have all human fecurity, (hould be further fortified ?t the expence of the mod efl'eutial rights of theii own country ? This cannot be. What follows ? That this great privi- lege of the Commons fhould be preferved ac- cording to the eftablifhed law of the confti- tution, inviolate. What then is that privi- lege ? Not, that the Commons (hould have barely a negative to a money-bill, like the King ; but that they, alone, fhould propound and model bills of llipply ; and that a power of dijfentingy only: fhould remain with the iiobles and with the crown. Whereas, if you give ro the Sovereign a power to alter, you give him a power to propound and model \ and leave to the Commons, as a fecurity over their cwn grcjits, a negative only : that is, you re- verfe every principle of the conflitution, and confound every maxim of common fenfc and equity. Hereafter, perhaps, I may enter more largely upon this fubjed, for I feel mylelf kindling in the caufe. Now let me fpeak to the authors of that publication ; for it feems It «« ( 71 ) '* It is a divided labour. Both of you, we are told, are military men. There is a frank- nefs and a liberality, at leaft, in that pro- fellion, to which clandeftine calumny is not adapted. Far from violating in peace, what you are paid to prote6l in war ; you ought to remember, not only the n^onarch, in whofe name you are enrolled ; but the people, by whofe bounty you are fed. Or, If tlie fplen- did vaflals of the fword, are too often content to be thought enemies to freedom, be not you more than profeffionally her foes ; let her not meet you in the clofet as well as in the field ; and at leaft, let her be free from rlie pt:n of ftipendiary centurions. The fludies nad the exercifes of war, the dance, the theatre, are open : Let the laft of your frolicks be, to Iport with the rights cf your covntry, or with the fame of her defenders. I fpeafc to you for a moment, as if you were not pur- chafed to the tafk ; for if you be, you are the laft of wretches. Jf any difference is to be made between thefe political Sofias ; if there be one of them more allied to Hermes^ let him remember,, that though he may be employed, like his predecefibr, to compafs for another, the end of proftitution ; yet, that the feducer, in this cafe, is not a Jove^ and that he himfelf is one of the offspring of Alantna, Let him not wound private and public faith, nor immolate friendfhip at the Ihrine of a man, whole ab- turdity and caprice, whofe meannefs and in-. K z fol encc. mmm ( 7^ ) folence, whofe ingratitude and bafenefs, are amongft his favourite themes : And if h'* hath a ray of that genius, which by an in- temperate fenfibiUty hurries the mind, fome- times even to the precipice of diftraftion ; let him not excruciate the unfortunate and aged Roufleau, by a diftortion of his fenti-r ments, which will make him appear an ^ne- my of that country, in which he hopes for an afylum ; and of that truth and liberty, to the promotion of which, bis life and labours have been devoted, JEAN JAQyES ROUSSEAU, To LORD TOWNSHEND, My Lord, PERMIT me once more to addrefs my-r felf to your Excellency,-^ nut in the language of accufation and reproach, but in the fofter accents of pity and condolence, For indeed, I cannot but lament with your Excellency, that your adminiHration fliould have been fo lignally diflinguifhed from all others, by furnilhing fo m?ny unufual in- il:ances of violence ugainjl the liberty of this country, 'Tis true, my Lord, fome of them were fuggefted by perfons fuperior in autho- rity to your Excellency ; but in the end, you condefcended to make them your own by your countenance and adoption ; and therefore, mm ( 73 ) t ibme imagine, that the ample experience, with which you had furni(hed the Englifti Miniftry, of your indifcriminate acquiefcence^ of your temperate interpretation of perfonal in-' fults^ and rejtgnation under difgrace^ could alone have induced them to mark your Lord-, fhip's adminiftration, by an experiment of the grofleft indignity to the government and con^ ftitution of this country ; -an eflay againft the laft flake of Irifli liberty. When the Miniftry returned to this country an altered money-billy one would have imagined their great obje£l was the fuhverfwn of your admini^ Jiation, They could not furely have thought fb meanly of you, as to fuppofe you incapa^ He of diftinguiihing, or indifferent in decidnig. between that which is bafe, and that which is noble I^ ^Nor could they, I truft, think you fb enamoured of high llation, as that you would retain it, under the clifgrace of tyran- nical mandates on one fide, and the diflatis- fa£lion of a nation on the other. But what- ever may have been their motives, it had been happy for your Excellency, if you had dif-» cerned with a little fagacity, and a£led with a little refolution, on this great national queflion. If you had involved even your private refentments with the pub- lic caufe, and proved your own innocence, not only by difclaiming, but nfjiing this in- jury. But your Excellency was otherwife advifcd. Your Secretary faw « ■ ftrence to your miilakeii frleiidfhi'p for her, 1 muft take the liberty to call a Ihameful prof- titute And why, I pray ? truly your rea- ion is inimitable ! becaufe, forlboth, a raf- cally agent of your anceftors, who governed the family of one of mine, had thought fit to lay it down as a rule, that a whore is always to be trufted in preference to- a wife.^ Ab Coz I Coz ! what can be the meaning of all this ? If natural affedtion, if the faered ties^ of blood cannot affect you, let your own in« tereft fpeak in my behalf; can it be eonfiilent with the welfare, the fplendor of our family, that one principal branch of it fhould be ut* terly ruined ? It is true, you are pov/erful, you are wealthy, or rather, I fear, you- have the appearance of power, of riches ; which, if the fa£l: be fo, as Heaven forbid \t fhould, is undoubtedly the very worft fort of poverty. — But, be that as it may, f*nce hu- man profperity is but too precarious, who cart tell how loon you may want that fupport^ which vou are now endeavouring to annihi- late ? that true frreiid, whom you are doing a3 in vour power to alienate ? Your late- with the Baboons, however fuccefs- ^ \w have been, has coft you a power of r T, and 1 is involved you in debts, the w^reft of whtch your Stewards are puzzled r ly ; •nd, either by the folly or the roguery of your attorn ies, has ended in a comprogiife by no means honourable or ad* vantageous to you — your tenants, ill treated M 2 by fu 1 ( 88 ) iy thdie 'curfed cronies of yonr's, zre clamo- rous and dif'contented, and I'ome of them even threaten to refufe the payment of your rents. Your fifler, my Coufin Indiana, tvhofe cuilom was the chief fource of your wealth, abufed and irritated by thofe fame wretches, hates and detefts you, and even: refules any longer to employ you, as her clothier ; a facl which I know but too well, as upon your account fhe lately, to my utter ruin, difmified me from ferving her as her linen-draper. The Baboons, united together mofe firmly than ever, and animated by know- ing you to be fliamcfully unpuovided, and embroird with your family, threaten to re- qomnicnce the iaw-fuit, which they will moil certainly do, as foon as they can fcrape up money enough to fee their lawyers ; and, as you well know the trade they drive, you can- not fuppofe that time to be very diftant. Nay, I have heard it whiipered, and with fome foundation of truth, that they have already privately obtained, and even font out a \\rit ad Caiilcnchmi. This year feems indeed to be the feafon of law-iuits. — The courts were never fuller of bulineis andj as you have fev$.:r made it a rule to have a finger iji every mdM's pye, it will go bard if you are not ff)rnr how or other brought into the Icrape. Neither do \ fi, v: liiat rven your ojd friends, who uted to be ])artir;s with you, are now likvly to . fford you much alfiilance even Frederick, the PrulHan bluerQan^ who was 1(9 ( 89 ) fo ■uft;ful to you in your former fult, is not, by what 1 can find, much incluied to ftand by you upon any future occafion. In fhort, iliits upon fuits feem to threaten you on every fide, while you, bewitch'd, as it ihould feem, by the black arts of thefe your falfe favou- rites, inftead of providing yourfelf with fuc- cour againft the day of trouble, are deftroy-. ing all your refources, offending all your friends, alienating your whole kindred, op- prefiing and irritating your tenants. What muft be the confequence of all this ? I dread to think of it ! You are the head of our fa- mily, and as fuch, notwithftand all your ill treatment, I honour you, I love you — do not alienate a heart which is your's — do not drive a real friend to defperat' . No one can be warmer in his affedion lO one can be better inclined to you — but I have a wife — I have children. — It is true, I am poor. — It is true, I iitn naturally patient, bi.t a worm will turn when trod on, and a worm has fometimes a lling. For Heaven's lake, look to yourfelf, your lituation is truly critical ; do, my dear- eft Coufui, coiilider your intereft, indeed it is as dear to me as my own. Be juft to your- felf — be kiiia to me, and confider the unhappy lituation of one who is, and ever will be, as far as is coufillent with the being of his poor family, ^ You mofl: atFe6lioiuite Coufui, and Dutiful humble lervant, PATRICK BULL, P. S. ( 90 ) • " P. S. That blundering rogue whom you fent hither as your agent to take care of my affairs, difgraces you in every thing he docs, and is ruining me ; for Heaven's fake re- call him, and fend me fome honefl:, lenfible man, if fuch you have, in his place. -: To LORD TOWNSHEND. .» ' ' My Lord, ' ' ' - ' ' ^ THE fagaclty of malicious fJ^eculatioiT may, perhaps, be at a lofs to account for the motives which induce me thus fre- quently to trouble your Lordfhip. The man, who is unknown, cannot hope for fame ; and the man who writes againll government, the fountain of recompence, cannot expedl re- ward. Ferfonality is not the charadler of my writings ; nor indeed, have 1 had the temp-, tation of private injury to fcduce me to it. Your Lordlhip has never injured me in any Tefpe£l, other than as I am an Irijhman ; and if I bear any prepoflefFion againft you, 1 bear it in common with millions ; it is that prc- poilefiion which every friend of liberty mufl entertain againft an adminiftration, the pro- fefTions and practices of which are fubverfive of freedom. Your Lordihip, perhaps, will, fmile, when I allert, what I knew to be truth, that I write folely for the good of my country; nor am I mucii diipoild to contro- Vtit ' ( 91 ) vert your merriment, or to deprive you, jimidft your various difficulties and diigraces, of your own conlblation, that of laughing at every thing which is ferious. ' " You affedt to delpil'e defeat, yet canvafs the Houfe of Commons on every petty queftion, with a feminine Ibhcitude ; you pretend to difregard the printed flridlures on your condudl, and yet have the condcjcenfion to ipe- culatc as to the authors of them, and \\.icjuf' tice to decide on your fpeculation. You are happily aflifted in the labour of thefe conjectures, by the Laureats of your houfhold, by your Aides-de-Campsin politics; —and to enhance their own merit and confe- quence, as your advocates, they have attri- buted thefe hoflile productions to refpedlabla and fenatorial names. — But, furely, you can- not believe that gentlemen, whole public condu^Sl has already bid defiance to your re- fentment, ihould be fo infenlible to fame, as to hide, under an anonymous publication, any thing ^o popular as an impeachment of your Excellency's condudl. But your Lordfliip's experience might have taught you, that it is not the rcprclentatioii of others, but our own acllons, that ftamp our characters. And how could you, my I^ord, wliofe thirft for glory could rob the grave of laurels, which ought to have been facred to another, be fo inconfiitently rapa- cious as to afpire to a reproach which needed liot to lia\e been your's. Wheii 51^:: ( 9» ) When the wlfhcs of a nation obtained the bill for limiting the duration of ParHament, your Excellency candidly reUnquifhed the ho- nour of that law, by dilclaimlng the patron- age, and reviling the principle of it. . But why you fliould exceed the malice of your enemies, fo far as to afllime to vourfelf the difhonour of an altered money-bill, I cannot conje6lure ! A man, vvhofe name is only known by your countenance and adoption ; whole fen- timents are your pleafure, and whofe fubfif- tance your bounty, has, in a newfpaper, publiflied under your aufpices, and fuftained by the contributions of government, formally juftified the pradlice of altering our money- bills. Was your Lordfliip jealous, left any attack fhould be made on the country you govern, of which you wxre not fuppoied to be tlie au- thor or promoter ? Your opponents in Parlia- ment did not afcribe thefe alterations to you ; why fliould you, in your prudence, think it ncceflary to vindicate to yourfclf this charge, in fpite of yeur enemies, by employing, in defence of fuch alterations, the hand that moves by your direclion, and thus affixing, as it were, your Privy Seal to the tranfac- tion ? .. Since, however, you have chofcn to appro- priate to yourlelf tho principle, by undertak- ing the defence, of thclc alterations, in your polemical Gazette — let us exumine how far ., ■ the ' a a (( ( 93 ) the pen of a Viceroy has beon able to fuftala the dodtrine of tyrants. You cite one autho- rity, and inftead of inferences from it, you fubftitute allertion — yom words are thcle,* *' III the year 1729, the Commons paflcd *' an altered money-bill, without abrldghi^ •' their own privilege y or betraying the rights of the people, which are effedually fe- cured by the power of rejediing, conftitu- tionally vcf.ed in the Houfe." You fay, that the Commons did not abridge their privilege by their a£i: in 1729 ! — It fol- lows then, by your ownadmiihon, that their privilege is, at this dr.y, exa£lly the fame as if that ad had not been done — and that there- fore, this iniftance cannot )iave any influence whatfoever upon the prefent argument. If it could, your aflertion, " that their privi- *' lege was not impaired by it," is lo far falfe ; and if it cannot, your precedent is idle and your appUcation of it abfurd.'' But you lay, " that this privilege is effec-. tually fecured h) the Power veiled in the Commons, of je6ling money-bills;" — now, either their ^rivilepe with lelpedl to money is fomething more tlian the power of rejedlion, or it is not: — If it be any thing more, then they have no privilege whatfoever as to money F )r what u a privilege ? It is a right peculiar. Nc vv the power of re- N j^*-ting C( cc Hi Set thi Bachelor of Jan. 5, 1 772. ^v> ^. ^^, A. IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) A // y4^^ .sr .^ t- Ki y- ^ 1.0 I.I s ^ Ilia 12.0 us u 141 1.8 1.25 1.4 1.6 •^ 6" ► 7 <^ /^ 'm 7 Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST AAIN t . SET WEBSTER, KY. '4?60 (716) 8-'2 *503 ^ %> '^".^ 7.x VHP ( 94 ) jeding money-bills is not fo^-for the Co.n- mons can rejedt all other bills as well as mo- ney-bills ; and the King and the Lords can reje6l money-bills as well as the Commons. On the other hand, if it be fbmething more ; then, it is not efFedually fecured by tne bare power of rejediion : it may, indeed, be fecured by that power, provided that power be in- variably exercifed in every injiance of infringe^ ment — becaufe, if lb, no infringement can ever take place. — Now this only ihews that it may be, l)ut proves that it is not necefjarily, andofcourfe, fecured by this power; for the bare power, implies only a liberty of rejecting — whereas the privilege can only be preferved by actual rejedlion. How egregioufly abfurd then is it in your Lordfhip to aflert, that the privilege of the Commons is fecure from the power of rejed:ion, and to u{e that as an argument againft the e'^ercije of that power ; when it is the exercife of the power, in every cafe of in- fringement, and not the power itfelf, that i^ the lecurity ; but in quoting Primate Boulter, your ecclefiaftical oracle, your Excellency has been partial — — had you cited the whole paiTage, it would have appeared, that the Commons in 1729, inftantly took fire at the violation of their privilege, and were impreg- nated with the lame lentlmcnts which in- Ipired the Commons in 1753, in 1769, and in 1771 ; but they were deceived (as you at- tempted to deceive the Commons this Icllion oa '•v^mimmitimm mmmmm^ €6 «C (( ( 95 ) on a (Tmilar occnfion) by an infidious queftia:! of adjournment ; and during that adjourn- ment they were (as that right Reverend pre- late informed us,) betrayed into a temporary compliance to the difadvantage of their rights. •—A temporary compliance I lay I — For in the next lellion, to at one to pofterity for their offence, and to refcind, as far as they could, fo dangerous a precedent, they came to the following decifion : Refolved, nemine contra- dicetite, " That this Houfe will not proceed upon any petition, motion, addrefs, bill, or vote of credit, for giving any money, un- lefs the matter ihall have Jirjl taken its due- *' progrefs in the Committees of Supply and *' IFays and means, ^^ This they declared a Jianding order. Now this not only recog- nizes the great right of the Commons to originate all money-grants, but as any aU teration in England, touching the matter of the bill of fupply, muft, for lb much, be- an introdu£lion of new matter, which can- not, by poffijility, have Jirji taken its due progrefs in the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means ; it is clear, that this refolution was framed to render it impoflible, that any money-bill, /o altered, Ihould pals for the future. And now, my Lord, having difpitched your argament, let me touch 0:1 your perfon all ty : you triumph in having difco* vered, that the concluA of Mr. Ponfonby and Mr. Browulovv, with refpc£t to the aU N 3 tered r ,^ ■( 96 ) tered billm 1753, was inconiiilcnt with their condudl, relative to the altered money-bill of this Seiiioii. Now what was the cafe of '^153 -^ There was a redundancy in the Treafury, ariliiig from former grants. In confequence of that, a bill for applying a part of that redundancy to the difcharge of the national debt, was that Seffion tranfmit- ted to Great Britain. The Minifters of the Crown, thinking that fuch a bill tended to dijpojfefs his Majefty of the right, which they fuppofed, in ordinary courie, to belong to him, of applying all money, which had been once granted to him by the people, did, in the Ipeech from the Throne, in order to guard the Prerogative, lignify his Majefty's ■previous confent to fuch a bill. And the bill was altered in England, /2>/t'/y for the purpofe of inferting in t-je preamble, " That his *' Majefty's previous confent had been fo *' given " Thus, the alteration was not an injpofition, nor alteration of any duty. Thus, the bill was not a bill for rai/ing or granting money, but for applying money already raif- ed and granted, it was not a bill of taxation or ft^pply-t but of difpojllion % and in fome meaiuie of rea^umption ; it was not a bill giving power to the Crown, but taking •power away from the Crown. The dilpute was not about the peculiar privileges of the Commons in granting money, but about the ftrdinary prerogative or tlie Crown in applying money already granted. In Ihort, one fide i ..;; :- . . afiirmed, ( 97 ) affirmed, it was a money-bill, and the other iide allerted it was not, And though I admit, that they were the mere provident and cautious, who rejedled the altered bill, becaufe it appertained unto money, yet I maintain, that nothing, but the moft ex- treme difingenuity, could infinuate that a difference of condu6l upon two occafions {q diifimilar, involves inconfiftency. But what Ihall we fay of your Excellency's congruity, when you charge Mr. Brownlow and Mr. Ponfonby with want of iniiformity, and omit Mr. Pery ; whofe condu£l in that particular -coincided with theirs. But it I'eems it has of late been the tone of the Court to make encomiums on Mr. Pery. How long it will laft I know not. But I fear the liberal principles which endear him to his country, will work in due time as an cdterative upon this partiality of the Caftle. At prefent it is ufeful to contraft him with Mr. Ponfonby your Excellency is aware of it. — ' It is ibmetimes worth while to lupprefs one's refentmeiit againfl the real vir- tue of one man, for the purpole of co'iveying a groundlefs accufation agaicfl another. Your I^ordfliip is acquainted with the flrata- gcrcioi ihii fa Ikinoi-horfe', and when you wifh to level at Mr. Ponfonby, you put Mr. Pery between yow. . , Your Excellency is not in the wrong to cultivate th^ Ihade of Mr. Pery. His growth and ilature may fometimes fhelter you.— .■-1 ' you.-^'—But triift me, my Lord, "you arc hut ill-defended by your penmen of the- Green-Cloth, and by your military amanu- cnfis. They are too little to aflbrd you con- cealment or protedion. Poor gentlemen ! — ' Condemn'd not only to the unprofitable la- ' hours of native flerility, but devoted to digeft , • and circulate your Ltordflnp^s crudities. — To tranfmit your refentments to reconcile your incoherences, and to father your abortions ! Who, but muft commilerate their lot, the preleiil condition of which is, three times a week to undergo the drudgery of impofed compotition ; and whofe only profpe£t is the miferable reverfion of a doubtful gratitude, and of a capricious bounty. ■• < ^ -^ -: ; • Amidfl: the mifcarriage of their toils, they have one confolation They muft be fuffici- cntly indifferent to your Excellency's perlbn and government. They are the Swifs of literature ; they tight for breads and not for vlttory ; and all they delire is, to protraCl the warfire. If in the lottery of the prefs, any compofitioii of theirs in your Lonilhlp's fa- voiu* (hould turn up, not altogether a blank ; it were natural to ilippolc that, they might willi that its effect were weakened by the confutation of difcourle, and that the anti- dote were adminiilcred of a little private ob- fer vat'ion Cfw yoMv Y^xaWtncy , r "> Sometimes indeed, (not with a view to compcnlai-jon dcubtlefs,) they allume the part p-r' champions, and ipeak of the wounds •■'^cy have ( 99 ) have received in your Lordfhip's caufe.— — — — Perhaps \t is uniiecefl*?''y to guard your Ex- cellency againft the overflow^ings of genero- lity ! But if ever the inadvertency of your nature, fhoiild incline you to any fuch excefs, it viill juftify you in your return to oeconomy, to reflect, that their fufferir.gs from your ad- verfaries, will as little intitle them to recom-» pence, as their fervi'ccs to you. Their po« verty has attraded pity. ^Thcir impotence has defended them from refentment, and their obfcurity from retaliation. ' ' S. ^ If at any time they fliall be compelled even to traduce a patron, or to wound a friend, they are not much to be condemned- The pen and the poinard of the merce- nary, are fcarcely his own. The ftate of Haves is too low for friendfhip or for honour. The man who employs them ought to re- member, that this is the property of their condition ; and that he who has purchafed away their virtue ^ deferves to fufFer by their vice. FABRICIUS. '■ ■ r ■.k\ ^y,.- '^i■■. ■'- ■.^.. c ii.\ . [-. ...■■■\u , .■.' ,- .1. 5." 3 A ballad; t«*l (^ 100 ) A BALLAD. ''^^ ;^ . ^./ '^.^ » » o ■** J... ;? wi V 'V .; ' *' i> i ;> On the rejeclioii of the (i) altered Money- Bill. > •- . v , r-fc. * r ' ! • M • i ? i.I )fO/ V 'I ;; wi 1«^ .7 jf Rc-publifhed with explanatory notes, by dif^ -i:a:>^n ,'1 , "^fereiit authors. 'U I'LL tell you a ftory — 'tis not of (2) three crows; hy.*:.. .,;,,, -:-...;r,.;::vr .,- • (2) Nor the dog that the letter refus'd to difclofe : ; ^'.' - ' ; . - But a flrife 'mongfl the Commons that lately \^^^. arofe, -^ > • ' '• -■ ' ^la l/.^r ; , Which npbo^ ca;a deny. ,'H>OUi •<).r:IiObi v.) > n. V. k \ (i) In abfolute governments, where the people have only a permitted property, the will of the monarch is the fource and the limit of taxation-: In free governments, like thofe of Great Britain and Ireland, the reverfc ob- tains and therefore we fee that there, the will of the people, exprefled by their Reprefentatives, is the origin and the me.ifure of all fupplies — and that the Crown hath only a power to accept or refufe^ not to propound or alter. Montefquieu. (2) (2) Two new ftories invented by Sir George Ma- cartney—the one to prove, that there would be no pro- tcft or prorogation the other to Ihew, there was no feheme of dividing the Revenue Board. People thought he knew thefe matters better than any one, he being a man of great parts, and having continual accefsta\\\s own •ffice. But next day it appeared, that he had deceived them .^A ' • II. • They granted their Sovereign a gallant lupply But (3) Thurloe refolvM (that prerogative fpy) That a power to rater their bill he would try— Which nobody can deny. Then left that the Commons might take it . to heart, A letter was written by Rochford with art To tell them, the change did not matter a (^/) fart : "■';*. Which nobody could deny. •■•■■■ ■' ■ ■■•-- IV. • •■ ■■ ■' - ■ - But when to the Mcmben> this letter was read. Old Clement fufpedted — the wife fhook their head ; * A Committee they'd have to compare it, they faid, ■•^" Which nobody can deny. Q : ■ . V. . I, ■ •■■ them through forgetfulnefs, he having a treacherous me- mory. Sterling, (3) Attorney General of England, and pra^itioner zt the bar of Nandoe's CofFee-houfe. He and his con- nexions are notorious friends of liberty in every part of the Britifli dominions. Bofton Gazette. (a) An cxpreflion, whereby tne people of Ireland fig* nlfy their ref^e^ to Lord Townfhcnd's adminiftration,* ( I02 ) ^ • - . V. ^ And when they examln'd mid found how 'twas alter'd, - *r« •" That Rochford had ly'd, aad that (4) Town* Ihend had palter'd : -.■" (5) Burgh fwore in a rage, ' They ought : * both to be halter'd,' "■ . ' Which nobody can deny. VI. ■ ' ■ < - , ?■ . fT* VI :' ■» . I (4) He is a veiy civil nobleman, and wrote me a letter of ccngratiihtion on my being cleilcd an Alderman of the city of Dublin. He is own brother to the cciebratc4 .Charles Townihend, deceafed, and was appointed to the Lieutenancy of Ireland, in the life-tirrie of his faid bro- ther. He is confefi'cd to have done good to this jountry cne wsiy or another, arid is much to be recommended for complying with the prejudices of the people, in giving the royal afient,. which he csuM not hclp^ to the o6lennial bill, though he always declared it would be the ruin of the country ; of which there can be no doubt, as it muft in the end caufe anew bridge to be built over the Liitey. His a;reatcft exploit, ns a foldicr, was his taking Quebec, fword in hand, in ptrfon, and then writing letters to Eng- land} :4fcribing all the glory of the day to General Wolfe, who was dead, and who had no more to f-iy to it than Todd. He alfo accepted kindly of the money grants of the Parliament of Irclvmd, on the 27th of December, 17 '9> t-Jving the royal aJllntto the fame. He then read dif- tiniSlly a civil proteft ogninjl the Commons, calling them hw-hreahrs indeaJ of law-makers, to the manifeft fatis- fadllon of Judge Robinion, who Hniled all the time j 'and then he prorogued the Parliament -wxih great good hu' mour-j having waited tothelait minute for the coming in of the packet, to fee whether he might not have leave to ■ dij/olve therw . His friends advifcd him to return to Eng- 'land immediately after the late fhort Sefiion, but he pru- dently declined their councils, forefeeing that he fhould re- »turn. with more advaiitages after the fuccejfcs of this win- .T'i r^-^-..'. -. - .'-' -^ ,-*.•■»>. . ■// • ter J ».iV- VI. • (6) Flood, (7) Langriflie, (8) Bufhe, (9) Huflcy, were all in a flame ; (10) Pery, (i r) Brownlovv, (12) O'Brien, each patriot name, Said the bill ne'er fliould pafs, but go back as it came, '"' ' ' Which nobody can denv. 02 Vii. ter } and accordinrrly he hath this S.-^flion carried the new Commiffionrrs of Excife, and Mr. Dyfon's penfion, by a large majority ; as alfo, the altered money-bill ; to the great fatisfadion of the Englifli Minirtry, and to the mortification of our foolifh patriots ; many of whom sre my cuftomers, for whom I have the greatcil rcfpecc, ve- reration, and liking. •' - '.- G. Faulkner. (5) A gentleman, whofe principles of government dif- fer from thofe of John Monk Mafon, Efq. Com. Journals. (6) We have done jujlice to this gentleman in the Bat- chelor, notwithflanding he oppofes adminiflration viru- lently. He thinks a great deal of hinifelf, and imitates Doctor Charles Lucas. He writes all the papers in the Freeman and Hibernian Journals in iJerff and in prcfe. He applied to Lord Townflicnd for the coile6lion of Kil- kenny, in the room of his fiiend Mr. Langriflie, and alfo to be tried for his life, and was refufed both. He has talked a great deal of ftufl' this winter in the Parlia- ment Houfe, and would have talked a great deal more but for fear of Sir George Macartney and Counfcilor Power. .The authors of notes on the cpiftle to G. E. Howard. (7) This gentleman is a great joker — but I believe the joke will be againft him, when I am coiledor of Kil- itenny. I did not, however, like to fee him vote for go- vern mtnt TT" , . ( 104 ) y VII. The Courtiers began at each other to ftare; (13) Will Gamble was ableiit ; (14.) Jack Mafon not there ; ' Confufion for once feiz'd on (15) Averell's heir, Which nobody can deny. VIII. vcrnment the firft day of this ScfUon. But the next Sun- day.! went to levee, with my friend Jemmy Agai% who made the bargain, and Lord Townfhend gave me a wink and laughed ; as much as to fay, " Joe, you are fnug." I hear he has fince done for Imfelfon the money-bill, and expofed himfelf fo much by what he faid, that his Crony Harry Flood cried to ii^c him make fuch a fool of himfelf. Joe Mathews. (8) This young gentleman is a relation of Dean Mar- ley, who is a friend to Captain Jcphfon And there- fore probably concerned in fome publications againft my character. He perfidiouflv and ungratefully oppofed government four days after he got an employment, which gave me a good opportunity t® lafli him in my poetical dialogue on the times j when I called Jiim Judas Ifcariot, and a Goofe. Burrowes. (9) This gentleman's being in Parliament muft hurt him in his profeffion, as every body now fees, that he has neither talents nor liberality of fentiment. He does not /lick to the queftion as / do^ but is fond of being perfonal, without ingenuity. I thought him tolerable, however, upon Scott and that is the only thing upon which I remember Sir George and me ever to have differed. R. Power. (10) Government accufe this gentleman of great per- fidy, in the refufuig to betray the rights of the Commons, though they had placed him in the chair for that purpofe.- (11) Thiii, ( '05 ) ■ VIIT • Fur (i6) Power hooul'd un, and cryM, " what is this rout r" «' ('Twas he that gave Hlatkfloiic the clu- gant clout) ** Sure Cotton's inchKlcd, tho' Cotton's k It out. Which nobociy can den v. ix. (ii) This is a wron2;-hea(.lt'd zealot. He oppofes the preffnt adminiltratioii, thou'jh he has no view ."^o o^ettinr "a place or title by it. Upon the next genera! clciSHon, Sir Arch. Achcfon will fliew him the diit'crcnce. A Freeholder of Armagh. (12) This Baronet can have no regard for this coun- try, having no property in it, and being dcfcendcd from iipftarts and aliens. Sir James Ware. (13) We have made the (Iricleft enquiry about this gentleman, and can only find that he is related to the Provoft. (14) A perfon v^'hofe repuhJ'ican principles have pre- vented his promotion, and jullly cndeartd him to t\\t peo- ple. (15) By thefe words the Provofl r(7wz?f be intended ; Biihop AvercU, though raifcd to a mitre by his intereft only, having ungratefully difappointcd hnn, by leaving his fortune away from him, whicii I would not have done. Under the word " Provoft," in the index to Guicardini's hiftory tranflated, there is a reference to the following pallage : " Amongil the reft there came to this Council *' Francifco Andrea, a bold, bad man. He had Ibine ** talents, and was thought to have more. His ftile and *' utterance were vulgar and provincial ; his pleafantry '* was grofs, and his feiioufnefs boiiterous. Ofailiong *• body he was ablej and of a licentious mind, he was wil- *' ling to accommodate himfclf to the vices of the great. f , ( 100 ; IX. (17) Smooth Godfrey declar'd, " 'twas all one in the Greek ; , ; , *' And hoped, we never would a6l upon pique, " But if George gave a flap, that we'd turn t'other cheek, ^ ' Which nobody can deny. X. '* Next to the turbulent afpiring of his nature, the de- «' bauchery of wine was his favourite propenfity. But, «* it was his connexion with a woman which raifed him. «' An enninent courtezan, joining to perfonal charms " the grace of theatrical accomplifliments, hath acccfs to «' power, if it be not intrenched in virtue. Francifco's «' paramour had thcfe advantages, and ufcd them to pro- «' mote her lover. He thus became an intimate of the «' worft men in the papal Court, and readily confcnted to '* be the inllrrumentof their views againlthis country, in '' order to fecure his perfonal advancement. By their *' intereft, he was made prcfidentof the principal religi- ous and literary foundation in that country. What indignation did it excite in the wife and virtuous, to behold the cdwration and principles of the rifmg age committed to fuch a guardian ! The treafures of the '« academy, pioully bequeathed by the former prefident, were walkd to creil an edifice for the peculiar habita- tion of his unworthy fuccefTor ; and in a fituation dif- tinil and feparate from the feminary, that he might be exempted from the difcipline of the fociety : of acom- pliance, with which he ought to have to have been the moft eminent example. He prortituted his prepofitorial authority to pervert the public principles of the youth, to the end that he might become mafter of the fecular power of the fociety, and by the moft barbarous op- preflion, injured the fame, and was ultimately inftru- mental to the untimely death of an ingenious youth, *« whofe integrity he could not corrupt. He foon be- came cc <( (C <( (( i« ,t inftead of refolutely oppofuig their progrels, they " were rather employed in v/onJering whither they would ** reach. 1 he Governor, a pcrvcrfe, violent, timid, capri- " cious, and debauched man, perfei You began your reign by a public falfliood, and promired in the fch from the Ty ^ii tt-ne, a law for eftabhfhlng the independency of jAes, A bill, with fuch a title, came in- deed from G-Ww — t B^t-<*^n ; but in fuch a form, that no man was found {o profligate as tc defend it. Your hirelings have not in- linuated that this was any Ipecies of per- formance ; and therefore I will not prove that this was an aggravated breach of faith. You gave us, however, what you did not pro- mife ; the Om^n-t^t^\ B-^11. Notwith- ftanding this accidental difl^erence, there was a perfect (imilitude in your fentiments with rei'pe6t to thefe two laws ; for you intend to give neither. As your inclination was the lame, fo your wifdom with refpedl to them was ecjual. You had the reproach of non- performance as to the one, without the ho- nour of performance as to the other ; and you tacked a diflblution of P m — t to the O n 1 B — 11, to aflift you i:i car- rying the a-«^gm-^— nt-^f-t-^-n. Do not com- plain that you are charged with the infertion of the claufe concerning the diflblution. You muft fubmit to be refponfible for every mea- fure refpe<5ting this country, whilfl you fub- mit to g-^v-^n it. Such, however, was the eafinefs of P«jWs>6*-m-^t, that this promile which was not performed, and this perform- ance which w^as not intended, though they could ■ f ii6 ) could not cloath your adm-^^n-t^ftrft-t-fitn, with fucccfs, protected it, for one feflion, irom indignity, g v • -tt^M/ i^i ^wi' .^iT Your g-d-vH^n-fmrUt had but one obje£l ; the a-ijtrgy— m^^t^n of the army. 1 (hall not enter into the merits of that meafure, for fear I fhould differ with too great an autho-. rity. Your profeifional partialities too ihall be indulged. But let me queftion your dif- cretion. You propofed the meailire in your firft f— -IT— n of P — 1 — m — t ; but not till you had alienated the peribns, by whon> you might have been liire to have carried it* A conteft arole between E — g — h g — v — n- — nt, and I — (h confederacy ; and you have made the a — gm — t — t — n the ground on which they fought. Let us compare th& Hate of thele relpe^live parties, at that time» and at prefent ; and fee how far your ability has cncrcaled, or your infufficiency has di-^ niinifhcd the ftrcngth of g — v — n— nt. .,« ; You contended the firft 1^^ — ^- — n at an un- lucky jundure. An a — gm — t^ — t — n of the ' army after the Committee of S — p — y was clofed, which was neccflary to provide for an additional expence ; in a time of profound peace, wher^ troops are the Icafi: requifite ; foon after a barbarous ufe had been made of the military in England, and an unconftitu- tional one in America ; when the faith of g — V — n — nt, with refpecfl to the J es B — 11, had not been maintained ; and juft upon the verge of a general cjtdion. This, ... iu in point of time nnd circumftance, 1 fay, in* dependent even of the measure, was unfa- vourable ground* And on thi& ground, and in favour of fuch ia meafure, with what au hoft had you to contend ? With the extended connexion, the revenue influence, and the po'pular manners of one leader; with the com* padt force, and the hereditary firmnefs of ano- ther ; with the firft title, the firft name, and the firft fortune, of the nation, in a third ; fupported by the efteem of the kingdom, by the popularity of the capital, by the p • m — ry influence of a reputable phalanx, and by the calm inflexibility of his own de* termination. You had the craft of T r> 11^ and the rhetorick of H n to oppofe you. And befides the reconciliated force of thefe formerly hoftile connexions, and for-* merly hoftile advocates, you had to cope with the ftrength and reputation of an independent body, armed with the experience, the ge* iiius, the weight, and popularity of their leaders. G --n ftood alone. Unfup- ported indeed, but, as yet, not proftrated by you; and G— t alone was beat only by four. Thus ftood the force of g nt at the end of your firfl: f -n of P 1. How did it ftand at the conclufion of the lafl ? You remained here for two years to lay fiege to oppofition. You made two I'ummct progrefles, but without advantage. I will not delcribe thefe excurfions circumftantially. Not only the page of hiftory, but the nev/s- Q^ papct ( "8 ) pnper of the day, would be difgraccd by a de- tail of irregularities as mean as capricious. You negociated with the powerful, as if they were infigiiificant; and with the honour- able, as if they were like yourfelf. You treated with every man in the fame tone. No wonder you treated in vain. In two in- ftances you Teemed to fucceed. The old lea- ders of debate on the fide of the C rt were feen again at the head of your troops ; and the rufty buckler of T 11, and th^ fcoured Ihield of H n were again held up hi your defence. The wife, however, gave you no credit for this event. They did not allow you to have convetted thofe who were never of a different perfuafion. One grew confcious that he was too old to oppofe ; and the other, that he was too notorious to oppofe with efFedl. As a foldier, you Ihould have punifhed their former defertion. As a flatel- man, you fhould have prevented it. ^-„a,^ What was the end of all your prepara- tions ? From the beginning of the winter, to the day on which you pr ged the P — 1-— m — t fo commendably, in every material queftion, almoft, you were defeated. After having had the power of the Cr n in your hands for two years, you were beat on a cri- tical motion, in the very lafl week of the lail 1^ n, by a majority, eight or nine time as great as that by which you had been beaten in the former f n of P m-^-t. An accdlion of weaknefs, my L— d, which I ,.' furniihes ( JI9 ) •• • » . \ 7 f ... furniflies a proof of your talents for g — nt; and fhews that your ability is equal to your reputation. Neither docs it apply folely to the cftablifhmcnt of your chara(!Icr as a nc- gociator. Without this example, who could have thought that your northeru flar would have left you lb benighted, I will not enumerate your mifcarriages, nor defcribe the wounds they have given to g — nt. I will fpeak of that meafu-re, in which alone you were i'uccefsful, the aug- m — t — on I mean ; and if you were deficient there, what fliall we iay of your defeats ? Management is ibraetimes commendable, be- caufe It is fometimes ncceflary. You fhoiild have remembered, my L — d, that when M — j — fty capitulates, it is fcarely M — ]• — y. You fhould not, therefore, have expofed your S — V — gn to the link — gly neceffity of of hearing conditions from his people. The excefles of the ftaff, and of abfcntee penfions,.. might have been corrected by fpontaneous^ not by a ftipulated rcdudlion. If his M — y were to defcend too from his Th ne, and to relinquifti a part of his prerogative, in the difpofition of his troops it ought not to have been done palpably to make terms, and to article for the a — gm — t — n. By our laws, the honour of a Peer is equiva- lent to the mofi: facred obligation, and by at leafl equal realbn, fo is that of the King. You fuggeftcd a doubt of its fufficiency. And by the proffer of* your S — t — y, this acred obligation of your R 1 mafter was Q^ 2 rccit« ( 120 ) recited in the b— 11 of fupply, that hi$ M y, in aflenting to that law, might give a bond for the performance of his ho- nour ; and regifter the mortgage of his word in the rolls of P 1. What atonement can you make to your degraded f n ? A confeflion of folly will not be fufficient. There are Hations in which incapacity is crimnial. You Ihould have explored your head and your heart, before you hazarded the dignity of the C n on either. If you are not too worthlefs to have a friend, and too defpicable to have an enemy, you might have found one, from whofe kindnefs, or from whofe cenfure, you might have ex- traded counfel. Unhappy man! And is ithis what you call fuccels ? Is this the boaft and triumph of your Ad n ? ■ -'*' 1 h?ive Ipoke of that circumfcance of your g n 1 in which you exult. The reft of it, and particularly the Lift a£l, which even you do not pretend to juftify, I will re- serve for a future and diftindt confiderjition. But that we may be the lefs furprized, I wilj touch in the mean time on fome other paf^ fages of your life. You never afFe£led public fpirit but once, and 'hen 3'ou pretended to patronize the militia bill in E — nd. 1 am not going to charge you with tergiverfation, my Lr— d. Not to urge in fupport of that charge- that the ridicule of the law is now the favourite topic of your convivial moments. No, my L"— d, you ar^ ngt an apoftate. Some mea • are fmm wmmmmmmm nmam m^m^ ( «2I ) are too dull for mjiQiiefs, and fome too pro^ fligate for inconfiftency. You never fupported the militia bill in truth. You only oppofed the D-ke of C--mb--l--d. There is fometimes a curiofity of caprice and abfurdity, which it is pleafant to oblerve. You went into the army. I will not fay that 3t was the charrn of order that caught you, or the regularity of military difcipline that was conformable to your dlipofition. You chofe it as a path of advancement. By the influence of your friends, you were placed about the perfon of that great Prince whom I have juft mentioned. He was revered by the public. He will be charadlered to the lateft pofterity as an hero. He was carica- tured once ; and it was by your L-— df^ — -p. What tempted you to this extravagance? Was it that no contradiction might be want- ing to your character ? That a foldier, you ihould infuk you commander ? that a flave to power, you fhould affront the favourite foa of your M — n — ch ? That in his fervice, and of his Houihold, you fhould do what a ge- nerous and fober enemy would not attempt ? Yet let me attribute it to the operation of le^ vity. Implacability is not the chara6lerifl:ic of your mind. Let me rather celebrate the forgiveneis of your tamper ; ar d inftance that Colonel Lut — 11 has only been rc^ferrcd to the parliamentary correction of a political bravo, like himself; wliilft you fpared his father, >vbom you had called to an unequal combat. • ^ But mi mmmmmm \ X2Z ) But though I mention that moderation whldi your profe/Iional prejudices could not over- come, I muft mention that ralhnefs which higher confiderations did not reftrain. Why did you forget the M — n — ch you reprefent ? In the dwelhng of the fupreme magiftrate of the metropohs, at apubhc meeting, dedicated to peace, why did you launch the thunder of a reverfionary challenge at a venerable Mem- ber of Parliament, decrepit with infirmity ?' The duUnefs and lervility of Aldermen cried! Ihame upon you. *'^- - ^ -''' ^ -* *J*^^.n*^n y From the impartial obferver, let me become: a monitor, my L — d , and, above all things, let me warn you againft the avarice of fame.. Nothing is fo dangerous. I will make an er- ror of your own, my example. In your mind I am told, it is your glory to have ferved at Qj^b-^c. Take care that it may not be your /hame. You \vere third in command inider the great W ^^ fe. You faw the mi- litary hope of the Britifh nation "expire. A great man might have envied him his death. A friend only could have envied him his glo- ry. I appeal to your L *^''-^^'^^^ p, for in this you muft be my teflimony as well as my theme. You faw him Uruggling, according to his own expreflion, with a choice of dif- ficulties. You faw him bending under ^ complicated and increaling infirmity. He had a noble heart, a wife head, and a perform-^ ing hand. In fuch circumflaiices, und by fuch qualifications, when you faw him be- come ■I ^ i come the idol of a fond nation, and of aii applauded army ; when you faw him fmiling in death, becaufe it was accompanied by his country's vidlory ; with what, paflion were you infpired ? Did the noblenef s of emula- tion feize you ? Like Themiftocles, did the triumphs of Miltiades deprive you of repofe ? Or, like Caefar, did you weep over the tomb of Alexander ? No. If you went to his grave, you went not to offer the applaufe of lurviving heroifm to the illuftrious dead, but to fupplant his monument, and to defraud him of his fame*. How did the people of England feel, the untutored people ? His death filled his country with lamentation. After a confiderable interval, the remains of that great man landed in Great Britain. No honour which the living can pay to the de- ceafed was omitted. As if victory ftill fol- lowed him, the news of frelh conqueft foon fucceeded. Every part of the kingdom refounded with congratulation, except one. The region, adjacent to the refidcnce of th^ venerable matrpn who had given him birth. V t . wa^ * I thought it unneceflary to mention that you ufurped ihe province of your brother commander, who furvived, ^s well as the fame of the departed ; and, with an igno- rant, or arrogating hand, figned the capitulation, which ought to have been fubfcribcd and ratified by the figna- ture of the fccond in command. If it W<^S abfurdity, wc are ufed to overlook it in your L^2:^:^i^S*p ; and if it were intentional, an injury to the living is more eafily forgiven than inhumanity to the dead. was fllent. Ah univerfal fentimcntof herok compafiioii ftruck the people. They ftifltd even public joy, and would not fufFer a found of triumph to invade the folemnity of her juft grief. Thus did that undiftinguifhing mul- titude, whom you afFedt to deipife, mark their veneration for their departed hero; whilfl: you, my L ^^ d, a brother foldier, .and connected with him in command, had the juftlce and generoftty to 6ndeavour to de- £imehim. , SINDERCOMBE, PROG HILL'S anfwer to SIN&ER- COMBE. ; I HAD fbme fatisfa^tion in reading your letter, not that I admit the authenticity of your fa«Sls, or admire the force of your argu- ments, nor that I think the public will be better enabled to judge of the meafures of go- vernment, by the communication of your fentiments, or that the L d L -t will be reformed by the feverity of your ani- madverfions; but as a well-wiflier to the per- Ibn and adminiftration of his E y, I am plealed to find that a writer of no defpicable talents, is obliged to refort for the materials of inventive to tiie ftale refule of news-paper anecdotes, and the exploded calumnies of vulgar detradion. You have colledled the remnants I remnants of both, with a malicious indiifiry, and tricked them out in all the tinfel of anti- thefis, and the iecond-hand frippery of imi- tated periods. You have kept a reverend eye upon that great Homer of defamation, Ju- nius ; and like your mafter, have created a monfter of your own imagination, in order to ihew how ingenioufly you can rail at it. There is Ibmething very inconliftent in the advice with which you begin your letter, that L d T d fliould think it worib his while (your own elegant expreffion) to deliver down unimpaired to pofterity, a n?ime diftinguiflied by the virtue of his anceftors, when at the fame time, you do every thing to prevent the benefit of your own admoni- tion, at once throwing dirt upon his reputa- tion, and warning him to take care it may not be {uUied. f.^/ .%.> - / .*;.•>? A writer, whofe principal aim, like your*s. Is to rail, muft trace up every political event to a corrupted fburce. Accordingly, in re- je£ling fbme pretended caufes of L A T d's appointment, your very can- dour is no lefs malicious, than your fagacity, in fixing upon that which appears to you to be the true one. The intereft of families is generally the fame ; and a great ftation, ob- tained by the juft reputation of brothers, is feldom held upon ignominious conditions, or ufed for unworthy purpofes. Full of the beft intentions towards the country he was to govern, he opened his firft • •:• R Seffion wm^f^Kim^m Sefiioh with the promife of a law to fecurc the independence of Judges ; and why that promife was not fulfilled in its utmofl extent, muft be afked, not on this fide of the water, but perhaps of a quondam minifter, whoie , Jeiuitical politics kldom had any higher tvicw than to iecure his own department from encroachments, by impeding the bufi- nefs, and diminifhing the credit of every other. The public, however, have little to regret, as no inconveniences have been known to refult from this difappointment; and the attainment of ten fuch laws, to fe- cure what was never invaded, could not be confidered as equivalent to that which was never expected, though fo often demanded, the limitation of Parliaments, j o;io Jiy^ui^^i V It is difficult to determine, upon what au- thority you io confidently aflert, that his E : — ' — y never intended, that is^ never wifhed to give either. Is it the ihrewdnefs of your own conjecture ? Or has it been fug- gefted to jou by that gentleman of popular manners, whom you reprefent fo honourably contending againfi: government, in its own armour, and with its own weapons, at the head of his revenue legion of coUedlors, fur- veyors, waiters, : fearchers, packers, and gangers ! He indeed might have told you, that as to himfelf, he never wiihed fuccefs to the limitation-bill, notwithflanding his pre*- tended zeal for it : tliat he had found more fhan '"^ one C ■fG- -r, on whofe fym- pathy BPSBWPPP' mmummmmmm mmmmmm ^ ( 127 yi pathy he could repofe the hifincerity of his bofom ; and knowing little more than thefla- tion of L d T d, concluded that . would operate, as it had done before, for the gratification of his private views, which were generally inconfiftent with his public declarations. Wore thefe authorities how- ever more powerful, the ftubborn fact would iiot bend before them. We have the law; and the people have paid the honcfl: tribute of their gratitude to him, who difdaiued an under-hand ftipulation to obftru6l it, whofe name will appear with unrivalled luftre in the records of Parliament, and whofe memory will be revered while there is any feiifc of in- dependence, or any abhorrence to oppreliion, in the yeomanry of Ireland. You next tell us, that the fuccefs of the augmentation was the principal obje6l of the Adminiilration, and you impute the mifcarriage to his want of management, though you enumerate a catalogue of difficulties, which made fuccefs almoft impolhl)le. Thus hurried along by a rage to criminate, you either confound the charge with the jujftification, or, ^^which is more likely) you fuppofe the incautious reader may do it for you. . , ..r.j . Some circumilances unfavourable to the meafure he could not forefee, and others from a regard to his own dignity, he could not wilh to prevent. Of the firftfort were, the clofing the Committe of Supply, (which 11 the enablii :pt open i^ Ra 'g )reviou fly previoufly neceffary forthe augmentation of the forces was pafled by the legiflature of England) and the clamours raifed againft the army there, and in America, aadforinterpofing,atthedelir^ of the Magiftracy in both countries, to iup- prefs riots, and reftore order, for which no civil authority was found fufficient. Of the fecond, was the claufe of difllblution in the limitation-bill, agreeable to the true fpirit of the law, as -iuch the object of the people's wifh, and therefore entitled to the recommen- dation of government. But the great dif- ficulty, and the great offence of all remains to be accounted for, the alienation of parties. The public have long known this was the real caufe of oppofition, but till you appeared, no one was found hardy enough to impute it as the crime of adminiflration. To lee the bufinefs of the nation conduced without the venal concurrence of a rapacious confederacy, had long been the wifh and the defpair of the people. Thofe who reverenced the dignity of the Crown, were forry to fee it degraded by the fupinenefs or timidity of its reprefen- tatives. Too many adminiftrations had been diftinguifhed by events of no greater impor- tance than new acceflions of influence to con- nexions already < vergrown, and the Ihameful barter of the favours of government, to fe- cure the repofe, or to gratify the avarice of the Governor. No wonder then, when a new fpirit of activity and difintereftednefs ap- peared at the Caftle, that new maxims fliould be 3 ( laO '. \)t a^opteJ, and new pretences held out by the difappointed brokers in Parliamentary 'traffic without changing their principles, they fuddenly changed their conduct, and , united all their ftrength to harrafs him whom they could neither i'educe nor intimidate. The well difciplined cohorts of L — n- — r and S — h — n, fell into the ranks at the firft tap of the drum ; and the motly bands of ^ P y were cajoled and menaced int6 obedience. A body of independent irregulars joined the ftandard, not the caufe of oppofi- tion, and after difputing every inch of ground, vidlory was decided irt their favour by an inconfiderable fuperiority. It required no fmall degree of fpirit to look this formida- ble alliance in the face, and nothing but the greateft circumfpedlion could have prevented its being ftronger. So far your capital objedion to him as l Statefman is without foundation ; yet admit- ting, as I do, that the fuccefs of the augmen- tation was his principal object, I fhould be at a lofs how to defend his liifficiency, had he again been baffled ; but to the confufion of your own argument, you are obliged to ac- knowledge, that in this meafure he has fuc- Ceeded ; and let the voice of truth tell you, how with fuch peculiar felicity, as to give at once new vigour to the Crown, and new fe- curity to the people ; to unite in its ilipport the real patriot by his principle, and the falfe <^ne by his pretence ; to leave even jealoufy without i i: 1 , mmmf^ ( 130 ) Without a fear, and ingenuity without one colourable objection . But it feems you are as much offended with the new modificatioi* of the rricafuie, and the terms upon which it >vas obtained in the fecond Seliion, as its not being obtained at all in the former. You are hurt to fee Majefty defcending from the Throne, and capitulating with the people. I have never underftood that an amicable agree- ment between the King and the fubjed, for the mutual benefit of both, has been ever coniidered as a degradation of royalty. jy The Crown has often made exchanges of a (imilar nature, furrendering prerogative for revenue ; and ibme of the greatefl: improve- ments of the conftitution have arifen from fuch a commerce. Had his Majefty, or his reprefentative, meanly ftipulated with indivi' duals for the fupport oi h;s meafures, and, according to what feems to be the great myf- tery of your politics, promifedor bribed them into compliance, the King might then indeed be faid to have defcended from his Throne, and to have proftitutcd the royal dignity. — Your profecution againft him as a Statelman being clofed, you proceed to arraign him as a fenator and a foklier. An impartial account- of his conduct in both thcfe relations, would be his beu panegyric and your fullcft refuta- tion. His ample fortune and iplcndid expec- tations, his voluntary engagement in an uiir lucrative and perilous profdiion ; the Ipirijt with ^which he relinquilhcd, iyid witli whicj/ ( '3' ) he rcfumed It ; the teflimony of ti^e Generals he I'crved under, and of the armies he com- manded, have all contributed to fet a feal upon his character, and are fuch memorials to his honour, as the moll ingenious malice will never be able to efface. You are grofsly ignorant of, or you grofs- ly mifreprelent the motives of his ParHamen- tary condudt. He patronized the miHtia-bill, and the D e of C d was no friend to It. This was the caufe of their mifun- derftanding. He preferred the duty he owed his country to every other'cdnfideration, and difcharged it faithfully, though the tempo- rary difappointment of his military ambition, and the frowns of a Prince, were to be the forfeit. When that Prince difcountenanced a meafure fo congenial to the Englifh confti- tution, he oppofed Mr. T — ih — d, not Mr. T — fh — d him. As to the reft, I will not difi^^rb the little triumph of your fancy, but rather thank you for. that play of words, which having led you from things to found, has fparcd me tlie troubb of an anfwer to aa accufation too frivolous to deferve one. ' There remain but two particulars more to be noticed, and then 1 fliall follow you to a conclufion. L d T — — d's corre' ^ ; While the yet Uiidecided fate of Canada and of a Britirti army were depending, the General, who fucceeded to the command, had no leifure to cull fuch flowers of rhetor ck to deck the grave of the departed conqueror : but being himfelf a foldier, he paid a more judicious tribute to the merit of his colleague, by publicly teftifying that his intrepidity and Ikilful operations had enfured the vidlory. I muft fpend a few words more to dete«5t another calumny, which has baflifully retired - . from I .. ( m ) from yotif text Into an humble note, where / /- / you accufe him of ufurping General M-t-i/s l^^"^^^^ ^ province, and ignorantly or arrogantly fign- ing the camtulation. After the death of Ge- : neral W-^^e, G^^^^^Ai^i M^^^-^k^^'^^^^n was ■ carried on board a (hip in the river wounded, as it was thought mortally ; and the com- mand devolving upon L "^ -d T ^^^^< **d, it was his duty and his province to fign the ca- pitulation. ^ ■ . riaving now done with your letter, allow me to fay a word or two to your perfbn, and to guefs at your chara frantic imagination. The hopes of the houfe of Stuart, are the ridicule of Europe ; exhibited, as thej are, in the perfon of a poor, degraded, contemptible mendicant ; without friends, without property ^ without poJierity\ to whom fiibliftence, and not empire, is be- come aii objcft of ambition. The fpiritual dominion of the Pope, which formerly held the Kings of the earth in vaflalage, is now, like his territory, circumfcribed within the limits of an Italian provinc. : arrd as for any title to the forfeited lands in Ireland ^ the Roman Catholics are not, nor cannot be, lb abfurd as to imagine, that under any revo- lution, or any eftablillimcnt, their oblblete. and traditional claims Could overturn the laws of the land, and the fettlements, poffeffions, entails, and alienations of an hundred years. '" - Let us not then Continue /or ever to main* tain a fyf^em of laws, whicn we find, by the experience of above fixty years, do not in their operation prevent the growth" of po-^ pery^ but oi profperity : — laws, which are tem- pered in the very bigotry of that religion which they affe■ n ■ I If: if m Hi ( 144 ) community : — Let ns not be fo unwjfe as to txafperate where we cannot dijarm. Let the Roman Catholics, whilft they live m this country (which is the country of their anceftors) have the oidinary incitements to induftry ; — and give them a juft and per- manent fecurity in that property, which will be the fruit of their induftry; — and "if, after all our care, the jealous precautions of the legiflature fhould fail fo far, as that any in- fluence (hould follow in confequcnce of fuch fccurky ; it Is an influence which, for their own fake ^ they will employ in the preferva- tion of a country, which they vi'iMi then b© taught to conflder as their own. '- '■ The phrenzy of rehgious infatuation i^ pretty well banifhed from the face of the earth, — and if we do not revive it, in this^ country, by penalty and perfecution (which have always tended to reconcile men to their errors, and make even their abfurditiesdearto to them) we may reft afl'ured from our knowr ledge of human nature, from our experience of every natipn in the world, that the eflen- tial interejls, not the fpeculative opinions of men, will be their ultimate concern ; and tJbat the wiflies and afledions, the heart and the fword of every man ihall be diredled to the defence of that country, which affords him juftice, tranquillity, and protection. -rr-^V-, The enemies, indeed, of our conftitution and national importance, have long wiflied to prf ferve amon^^ us thofe diiUndioos, which break'' ■I 1. r -. I ( H5 ) break ns into different interefts; make us ealy of fubjedion; and, as has been faid, ren* der even our population our weaknefs. ^ But I hope that we, in the wifdom of fome unprejudiced hour, ihall difappoint the ma- lice of their wiihes by doing juftice to all, that we fhall make every man a party with us in the public prelervation. By making men happy, make their attachment invinci- ble ; and induce, if poffibl©, every man in the community, to fay, " I will exert myfclf in defence of the prefent eftablifhment, be- caufe I know my fituation cannot be made better by any change.'*.^ — ^-. - - Thefe are my lentimdnts on this great fub- jed: : — they are the fentiments of a man nei- ther influenced on the one fide by prejudice, nor feduced on the other by interefl : — on the contrary, whatever property I have has been the forfeiture of a Popifh proprietor. — They are the fentiments of a man who wifhes to promote the Proteftant i "Ugion, by every met thod which is conformable to virtue, and con- fiftent with lafcty. — I have, however, been accufed of partiality to the Papifts ! 1 have no partiality to them, except //6^/ which generous mind naturally entertains to- c< <( «( As for their religious As for their luper- -And as for their wards the opprefled.- forms, I diflike them.— ftitions, 1 deteft them.- civil principles, fo long as the prefent laws fub- iift, I muft think them fufpicious. — But it is ia thofe very laws that thefe exceptions exift; and. \ ( 146 ) and unlefs you relax the former, you will never remove the latter : for bigotry ever flourifhes \inder periecution, and civil attachment cannot well be the growth of oppreflion. ' To conclude, I am a friend to this bill, as a friend to religion, the ftrengh and the im- provement of my country ; and I am an enemy to to the Popery laws, fc far as they are fubverfive of thefe great objeds. • ) . The COURTIER'S CREED, for the year '.■W % * i« *>d « '^ .«• ■♦^ ..■*'• jf HOSOEVER would be an Hi- st \ \ BERNiAN COURTIER, it is now ne- ceflary, before all mental endowments, that he expounds rightly the law of Poyning, as explained by the 4th and 5th chapters of Phi- lip and Mary.- '<'^f-iiie^t^idJ^ii.i i••^^; c\i. -..^./m 2.' Which expofition, unlefs he keeps pure and unmixed with any rational interpretation, unqueftionably he cannot enjoy place or pen- fion, neither fhall he receive concordatum in this kingdom. 3. Now, the true conflrudion of Poynlng's law, is that four different branches of the le- giflation always to be acknowledged in one Irifli Privy Council conftantly fubfifting. • -^ 5. For in the enacting of every law, the King hath a deliberate voice, the. Lords hav^ i'^ >» a dc- ( '•47 ) a deliberative, the Commons have a dcHbcra* tive, and the Privy Council have • a dcUbqra-^ tive. J '';. " . • ■ 5. The King hath a negative voice, the Lords a negative, the Comuions a negative, iand the Council a negative. . ' ^6. And yet there are not four dell beratives, or four negatives, but one deliberative, and one negative, frequently exercifed againft King, Lords, and Commons, by his Majiei^ ty's moft honourable Privy Council. 7. Further, it is eflential to the preferva- tion of his prefent place, and to his future hopes of j: determent, that he conceives juft ideas of the origination of money-bills. 8. His intere/l^ then, will ever oblige him to confefs that all benevolences, or frfj; ' "^TS, from the people, conftitutionally take ,^ .^,*r rife in an afl'embly , neither made or cre- ated by, or proceeding from the people.., ,,..^ 0. This is the Hibernian courtier's political faith, which, whofoever inviolably adheres to, (hall be rewarded with a malked penfion for himfelf, and a fancied ball, with- out mafks, for his wife and daughters. - . I 10. And for all thofe, who reje£l the fore- going liberal explanation, there Ihall be pro- tefts, prorogations, partial iheriffs, packed juries, and influenced ele 111 oppofition ; in their defence, T am not* afraid to en«"er the lifts with Hortenfius, and to afcribe to iheir. the character not only of impartial and fenfible men, but, on this occalion, of prefervers of the conjiitution ; my reafons for thinking fo, I fubmit, gentlemen, to your impartiality, and fo that of the pub- lic. Hortenfius aiierts, that fufpenfion is not an unconftitutionai ^dea ; and endeavours ta fhew that thofe dangers which are juftly ap- prehended from the afiumed powers of ano« therHoufe of Commons, are not to be feared, though the doctrine of Jiifpenfon Ihould be admitted. He aiierts, " that with refpedta *' the Member, expulfion is more fevere'^ I admit, gentlem.en, that it is fo ; but, I fay, that it may yet be lefs unconstitutionai* with refped to the conftituent"; for in the cafe of fufpenlion, the conftituent has no. power to choofe an innocent perfon,.in the room of the guilty; had Hortenfius been con- tent to palliate this meafure by an appeal ta analogy or to precedent, I fhould not have envied him the poflefllon of fuch a defence. I admit that the power of fufpenfion has been exercifed, as well as that of inflidllng corpo^ ral punljhments^ and of irnpofmgfnes^ though 'h by no means lb frequently. But when he aiierts it to be a corJiitutional idea, when he. infill uates that it fhould be revived after th»^ dlfule of near and hundred years, when be appeals to rcalbn and juflice, the only re- commendations of precede!):, I rauft deny io ^angcroui a pofition ; I, mufl condemn the U > cog- mm ' ( 150 ) do(£lrine of reviving thofe claims of the Houle of Commons, which were in ufe ^^- fore the revohition ; for I know bow far the dodlrine would extend, if admitted. The difufe, during the times of wi/dom and llder^ ty, has more weight with my mind than a '4 few precedents during the times of bondage and ignorance^ The argument lies in a nar- row compafs ; during the fufpenjion of a repre- icntative, is not the conftituent deprived of his reprefcntative in Parliament ? Has he, or has he not a conftitntional right to be repre- fented ? Has he a power of chooiing another in the place of the offender? Has the nation Its full number of rcpreicntatives, whilll four of them are difabled from adling ? Is it not a grievance w^hcre the conftituents are obfti- iiately refufed, even the one man who is their favourite ? Is it not a greater grievance to be precluded from even the fecond man of their choice, or the thirds or the fourth y or any reprefcntative at all ? Hortenfius has at- tempted to anfwer this plain argument ; take his own words, " with relpe£l to the confti* tuent, expulfion is not more lenient than fufpenlion ; becaufe, during the interval between expulfion and a new eledlion, the electors are unreprefented ; and becaufe^ during a fimilar interval, in the inflance of iulpenfion, they may apply for their member, until wdiicli application they cannot compla ; and until the refufiil of which application. Parliament cannot be called fevere," To this I anfwer, it is a grofs (C «( (( <( ii, <( i( (( i( «< (IS' ) . grofs abfitrdity to infer, that men are not in*- jured, becaufe they have a power to petition for redrefs ; that Parliament can be called fevere> not only when when they refufe a juft complaint, but whenever they give foundation for one ; but I will fuppofe with Hortenlius, that the conftituents apply" for their Members, — —is their application to be difregarded ? are the Commons to deny them redrefs ? are they to continue the fuf^ penfion ? If they are, then the grievance re*- mains ; the conflituent remains without a Reprefentative, or a power of chooling one* On the other hand, do the Commons recall the fulpenlion ? If they give the conflituent rednefsy they confefs that he has been ag- grieved. They concur with me in pro- nouncing the complaint to be well founded. The grievance, indeed, may be redrefled, but does it follow from thence that it was no griev- ance. The Members, indeed, may be re- ilored, but, qua^fuit caufa redltus, niji fuit '7- jujia difcejjio. But Hortenlius points out to us afterwards, another mode of redreffing the ele£lors, namely, the expuljion of the Mem- bers ; I omit to confider, whether it be con- ftitutional to punifli a man twice for the fame crime, but let Hortenfius recoiled, that if the Houfe choofe this mode of redreffing, they eftablifli the very pofition which I aflert, and which he denies ; to wit, that expulfioii is the more lenient meaun-e to the conftitu- ent ; fp much fo, that the one is the evll^ c^',u■^..r. ■' U z. and t »50 ^nd the other the remedy. Let Hortenfius obferve, that I am fpeaking of the do^rine oi . fufpenfion and its effects, not of the chara6ter and principles of fome very refpedable per- Ibns, who, in an unguarded hour, leemed to give it their fan<5tion. 1 have no doubt, that upon an appHcation from the electors, they would have reftored them to the rights of repreientation. But I fay, that in other hands, this power might iubvert the confti- tution, though I am certain, that worthy men would attend to the defire of the confti- tuent; yet it is not to be fuppofed in general j that the men who offer an injury, are there- fore likely to redrefs it. The fuccefibrs of this Parliament may adopt the practice of fufpending^ and may not give ear to thole who complain of the fulpenfion ; they may al- ledge ** Sulpenfion is a conftituiional tdea^ the electors are not aggrieved ; the Parlia- ment of 1772 would not have fet us an ex- ample of any thing unconftitutiona! ; to re- cal our a£i:, would be to condemn that Parlia- ment and ourfelves ; for if we admit, that the tlt^OTsfuffer an injury, wc cannot deny, but that we are the men who have injured.^* —-Let Hortenfius refledl, that a corrupt majo- rity in Parliament is no ideal danger ; that the only remedy lies in the appeal to the con- stituent. If the Hou(e can expel and difqua- 'lify, a majority may get rid of every trouble' . fome or able opponent ; bi^t ftill others will come in, in their room, and a defeSiton **t*s ^ i amongft ^"^m^^mmmmmmmgffH .f . '» / i '53 y smongfl: the corrupt may, at fome time, caft the balance on the popular fide ; but the power of fufpendon is a more conipleat auxi- liary to a wicked adminiftration. The con- flituent has no power of fubftitution, and the defertcrs of tyranny would find no oppofitioii to unite with. Let Ilortenlius be aUb cauti- ous, how he afferts the power of punifhing for conjiru^ive contempts. There may come a time, when the crime, the offender y and the punijhment may be all made at once ; — -when men, equally guilty, may efcape, and others, entirely innocent, may be included in a con- demnation, not from mijlake hut hora parti a^ Uty. The powers of the Englilli Houfe of Commons would never have become formi- dable, had they not grown in better times, under the inattentive eye of public confidence. Good men, inflamed by public injuries, may overlook a danger, whilft they are revenging an infult ; but they will hardly thank an ad- vocate, who afcribes to them his own indif^ cretion ; who thinks their hours of refledion are not hours of caution and fagacity ; who lays down a momentary indifcretion as a f?ied principle, as the confidered fentlment of their minds, or as the rule of their conduct. T-Ca^ ^'' ' \! ii\:,'^. J E K \ L'L« •>K To nMMNnpMn«""PMi^^n^^ < '54 ) To the C O M M I T T E E for condudlng the FREE-PRESS. A LIST of the PACK. * Tune — — Ballynamony* F L ELLO W citizens all to my ballad give ear, That we muft be undone I will make it ap^ pear, Unlefs in defence of your freedom we ftand, 'Gaiiift T d, that dunce, and his dam« liable band. Then kick out tho{e rafcally knaves, boys, Freemen we'll be to our graves, boys, Better be dead than be flaves, boys, A coffin or freedom for me* n. But plainly to prove what I here have fet down, Regardlefs and fearlefs who fmile or who frown. As a palpable proof that all muft go to rack, I'll give you their marks, and a lift of the pack. ^■^ Then kick out thofe rafcally knaves, &c. w #•■• ( ^ss ) III. At the head of the lift fet down A-^j-w^y firft, The chief of his favourites, becaufe he's the worft. To fhew hi mfelf worthy and fit for his truft. Without judgment a Judge, he makes juftice unjuft. Then kick out thofe rafcally knaves, &c, IV. Frank h vh'li^ s comes next, of corruption the fink ! What a dog muft he be, who's a rogue in his drink ; No wonder he's fat, finca our mis'ry's his food. And he daily gets drunk with poor Ireland's life-blood. Then kick out thofe rafcally knaves, &c. V. Lo T-p^Al-1, whofe look would* make ho-. neft men ftart, Who hangs out in his face the black fign of his heart; >/,, , If you thought him no Devil his aim he would miis, *. % : • For he would, if he could, appear worfe thaa he is. ""^' V'" ■■■'■■' ■ '". :-:. ' " ■ < ' Then kick out thofe rafcally knaves, &c* '^''r^'l- .. VI. 1? mm ( '56 VI, ) Yet T-t — — — 1 unfeeling, and void of i*e« morfe, ^' ■ Is ftill not the worft, U-€^y llibm^Vi^% worfe . - Who feels ev'ry crime, yet his feelings defies,^ And each day ftabs his country with teais iu his eves. Then kick out thofe rafcally knaves, &c. '•l/'"^ ■>:''■ ",-' VII. '■'.,,. , , See fquinting T e, from the Prlmate'a ' black Ichool, ' • - Whom merciful nature defignM for a fool ; G e, vi^ho not even his folly can fave^ For in nature's delplght he will needs be a knave. Then kick out thofe rafcally knaves, &c. ' '■'^'':^^ • VIII. ''■■:■ ■ If a finner, repentant, can Angels delight, To Devils, an apoilate's as pleafing a fight ; Nor has there been ever fuch bonefires in Hell,^ Since Judas's fall, as when O e fell. Then kick out thofe rafcally knaves, &c. IX. V But why mufl I mention the Knight of Three Crovt'S, His name is unworthy of verfe, or of profe ; To laih fuch a reptile would fatire dilgrace. And 'tis but ex offic'ij he here has a place. Then kick out thofe rafcally knaves, &c. ^S7 X. ) Shall fucli wretches as thefe o'er our pa* - triots prevail, ' And be fufFer'd to fct our poor country at fale; No — let us all join in defence of our right, And letPonfonby, Shannon andLeinfter unite, To kick out thofc rafcally knaves, hoys, Freemen we'll be to our graves, boys, , Better be dead than be (laves, boys, A coffin or freedom for me. . v To the COMMITTEE for conduaing the FREE-PRESS. A^^lvice from the Liberty, or the Weaver's Garland. I. MY dear fellow-fubje^fls, who lo^e to be - free, Defpife not my ballad, but liften to me ; Accept good advice from a brother, a friend. Who writes for your good, and for no other end. Derry down, down, down derry down. 11. My name is Dick White, Tm a weaver by trade ; I hide not my nai ^e, fmce of none I'm afraid; X And m. m f And though I want wit, and my verfe nidcly < , jingle, I'll tell you a ftory fhall make your ears tingle. Derry down, &c. III. Our King, Heaven blefs him, and keep him from ill ! Our friend has been ever, and would be fo dill; . A curfe on thofe traitors, who make him ap- pear At odds with his people, that hold him fo dear I . Derry down, &c, IV. This rafcally herd, to the Devil I pitch 'em! Muft we toil and labour, and fweat to enrich ^em? To ferve their own purpofe, and mifchievous ends, Firft flrove to enflave our American friends. Derry down, &c. V. Nor even of our brethren of Erigland afraid. With Star chamber warrants their rights to invade ; And to bring all their villainous fchcmes to perfedlion. They ftrike at the root, and the right of elec- tion ; Derry down, &c. VI. ^y ( ^59 > VI. . And next at poor Ireland they level their blows ; Poor Ireland, that has ftlll been led by the nofe ! And to fhew they refolv'd both to ruin and fool her, They fent over T d, that blunderer, to. rule her I, Derry down, &c. VIT. ' This T — 'd, they knew, would their purpofes fiiit. For the creature he was and the tool of Lord B c; To wade through their dirt he could never refuie. For, his charader lofl, he had nothing to lofe. Derry down, &c* VIII. But, hd we fhould ftruggle, the ville'.'.is. determine, To add to our number of red-coated vermin ; And (wearing, 'tw^as all Ibr the good of the nation, They got us to yield to their cur^'d augmen- tation. Perry down, &c. X2& IX. ft i6o ) . •" . ; ■ . ' IX. And now we have granted them all they could afk, They laugh at our folly, and throw ofF the'' mafk ; , . Then aim a bold ftroke, all nt once to undo, Our honour, our freedom, and property too, Derry down, &c. X. The Commons, you know, who to us owe their flation, Are our ftewards to take care of the purfe of the nation ; But now they declare, when our money is wanted, That the Council, as well as the Commons, Ihall grant it. Derry down, &c, r XT. .^ But G — blefs our Commons, I mern the majority, * ' --'---. For Dick wou'd not cry, if he damn'd the minority ! At once they perceivM what a mifchief was brewing. And flung out the bill that was meant for our ruin, Derry down, &c. • - ■^-' '-' XII, ( '6i ) ' XIL- ••■'■ ■■ ■■ There's Lanefborough, and Shannon, and Lcinftcr unite, Brave Lehifter, our patron, whom nanght can affrigbt ! All then* friends to tlie Houie in a hurry they fend, Who, with Ponfonby join'd, may our free- dom defend. Derry down, &c, ' XIII. And Charelemont firm, may the Heavens reward him ! VVhofe heart is ftill open to us, like his gar- den ; And Loftus * fo powerful, and Longford fo t.ue, All bring up their fquadrons the fight to re-» new. ■ . Dcrry down, &c. XIV. O'Brien, and Bingham, and Hufley, and Buflie, '- With Flood at their head, the court parricides puih, * since the firft publication of the above ballad, this noble Lord, in contempt of every fecial tye, has deferted his country and his friends. 1 'WSppRMpR And Brownlowe, aad Pery, who rerifbn fa juft, And Lucas, our Lucas, ftill true to his truft I Derry down, &c, XV. In fine the Court's routed, and Ireland is fav'd. With fuch champions as thefe, we can ne'er be enflav'd ! But now, fee the fpite of the rafcally crev/. To the Devil I pitch them, and give hiiu his due. Derry down, &c. XVL Cur worthy L 1 comes down to the Houtb, Protef^s it's proceeding are not worth a louie. Anil leaving undone aic aflairs of the nation. The feiiion concludes with a damn'd proro-» gi?tion. Derry down, &c. XVII. Here mark, my dear friends, that our ruin's com pleated. Since a Parliament's ufclefs, which thus can be treated ; While they ferve his curs'd purpofe, he'll fiwn and collogue 'em, But if once they do riglit, he'll that inflanC prorogue 'em. Derry down, Sec. XVIII. IMIf llilllUIII|li|J W' ( 163 ) XVIII. T!ie next thing he does, by a fentence un- juft, He turns out our friends from their places of truft; Our friends, who his villahiles dar'd to op- pofe. And Ells up their room with our deadliefl foes, Derry down, Sec. XIX. There's Renegade O e, and O r mean, And M n the maltfler, that fcroundrel in grain. And Jacky, whofe merits if we would make known, 'Tis enough that we fay, he's your hrother T e. Derry down, &c. ■ XX. - ' O why Ihould I mention thefe wretches in place. Their rafcally names would my ballad dii- grace In fhort,T — -d chofe them In frolickiome prank, As matches for T — bury Frank. "S, and for Bloomf- Derry down, &c. XXL ^H^?TP»4;U - I.I I' ( t64 ) — XXI. And now I have ended my foiTOwful tale, I fee you all weep, and poor Ireland bewail ; But courage, my friends, ftill there's hope left behind, 'AH yet may be well, if my council you'll mind, Derry down, &g* XXII. Thofe patriots, who late we fo flcady have found. Heaven blefs them, and keep them, are ftill above ground ; United together, our bulwark they ftand. And may iVill lave the nation, if we lend a hand. Dcrry down, ^c. XXIII. Should T d diflblve, then the mat** ter is plain, Withou tfixpencc coft, we'll return them ag\;'n ; And ridding the Houfe of thofe rafcally elves, We'll give them companions will vote like thcmfelvcs. Dcrry down, &c. XXIV. That G — d may blefs Ireland, ou" prnywi: fhould be tlaily, And fave her from A y, A s, and H y, ■■■■ ■■ ■H . • ( i6s ) ' . And we'll pray for our King, and a few of our Peers, And may our true Commons live out their eight years. Derry down, &c.' XXV. My loyalty's firm, and be hang'd I would rather Than dare to deny that our King is our fa- ther ; But then 'tis as true, that our country's our mother. And that fide we all know's much furer than t'other. Derry down, &c. XXVI. Then let us with fhouts our brave patriots purfue, And firmly ftick by them whatever they do ; For freemen were are, and will be to our graves. Since they, who have courage, need never be Haves. Derry down, down, down derry do wn , Y FINIS.