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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. i::^%y: 2 3 5 , ■f; 2 3 [■■_■■ 'r . ' ' ' - 4; 5 i. 6 , ■ ■i ^, mmmmm < ■■ it THE Hdneft Grief of a Tory Exprefled In A GENUINE LETTER ^^r ■P^ PROM 'i* \ -> [I A Burgess of — -^«— , in If^ihjbire^ t o The Author of the Monitor, Fe6. 17, 1759. «#■ #- The bundndth AftUion is to bt raiftd^ €n^ fint^ CI J^amt! Ob^ Grirf! by Tory Hands^ t§ Gtrmay^ LON DOHt fnaltai for J. An€i i» near the Nm Churii in th ~ » . Strand. 1759, IP k. ji«.»^,iefe^ion, amidft a general fall- ing oflf, ftditi iVBrlucs; ii .ocdy olb be la- mented, and hardly wortl^ remaking, '^ch ^litle^^i'd^intehts go over io ttc ^, 'tis ^te Ittde puf pofe of Bili- [el^\flwot^lK"Btig(e Deftttef. But ^dixrs, Sir^ has b^ll^ very patticular Sfttiation. Yii«b«v4 fori feme iY«ar«hocn Iodised ^pon a» Him Voice of tiu& tnie . Eng. X }\ fs] fingEfhmen, who z^Ioufly: dill^d fbis otid of iate have triumphed in ;a Change^ as .tbby fuppoied, of Men and Meafarea. Our whole party, therefore, is interefted 'in ryoiir continuing firm in the fame-faonell Prmd^les and Purfnits. I cannot be apu ^pfthenfive fof- myfclf, iho' the whole •^Bddy of the Tories fhould-finlc jGw ever '?nto the common Mafs of 'miflifteriil tion. I would prevent, but icdd- 'itdt^be afiedfed by the Confcqbehces. *'I *atii M Old Man, and very probaWy yoii Will perceive the Feeblcnefs of Age in my '^^tyfe, and Manner of Writing, I con- fefs,* 1 atti no longer able 'to fupport the Kiigii 'bf kcafoning,' and the Heat of *l>lfputation. ' Like good old Latimer, I repeat my political Creed, pro- fcfs h can '~ 1 [6] fefs my Faith, and praflife what I be* lievc. Then leave the difputable Parts to thofe of younger Vigour and Abilities, c Id: Can you forgive me ? This prattling -rf Self is the very Error of old Age», . J will endeavour to reftrain it, and ihall now be particular to the Occ^iion of this Letter. The Simile, printed in your paper of laft Saturday, had been fent us about a Week before, and read in the Club by our Chaplain. We heard it, npt without Re- f^nfment at feeing ourfelves and our Friends fo ridiculoufly treated. How- ever, to fay Truth, the Raillery, we thought, was the meer Wantonnefs of a lively loiagination, not the Malevolence of Calumny or Invedtive. In the prefent fa*- f ourifioi C 7 3 vouritc Language of Metaphor; "he Ar- row Wais indeed pointed, but not poi- foncd. Yet we were apprehenfive, by the late Condufl: t)f our Friends, that the Reproach was not wholly unmerited, and Similes not always unlike. Your angry Paper fhewed us, we were not miftaken,and therefore we hoped toHnd our favourite Minifter vindicated by you from the Charge of Hanoverian Meafures, (b often^ fo folen^ply objured. We hoped to fee our Party preferved, at leaft^ from Infamy and Contempt* For in the tanJid Opir nion of the World, although the Se- ducer of Virtue may plume himfelf in the Arts of Seduaion, and boaft of his [8 J Succcfs, yet the utihappy one, who Mis a Vidicfi to thofe Arti, is mad^ the publick Objed of Infamy and Contenipt* How were we difapp9inted ! Neither the Charge agaipft the, Miftif^er, QC; the Tories was denied. There had been a ^ Kind of honourable Spirit even in de^ nying. No 5 your Correfpondent pleaded «( > guilty, both for the Minifter and us. He ieemed to think it a fufHcient Juflifica- tion, or perhaps it was the nobleft Effort of his Abilities, to fet his Doll Common fe virtuous and modert Oppofitfott t6 the Simile's Cotinna 5 as ifi a Prize of Clkf- tiiy w.^re to be difpUted.for imbogrdia J^dies . ,of KUingigat^j and giy eO) tQ.lte ^?ntle Damp,' wbofc Eloqiienee v|^,4ou^ 0^,/* tit* C 9 ] 1 eftr Your Correfponderit'in40td isangrj, \ very angry with his Brother Bard, aod; deep are his Menaces of Vqngeance. i ' ^ But, pray, Mr, Monitor, do not you Authors, Criticks, Pottz iLtid Poet- fa/lerSf in the quaint Spelling of your Corre/pdn- ' dent, treat one another a little cruelly ? Thefe laft Gentlemen, for aught I know to the contrary, may have a Right to^ plead their old Licentid foetica. But why fliould an unfortunate Man of Rhime ftand in the Pillory Tl'ear him for his bad Vtrfes^ cries the Mob oi Rome in Julius Casfar, Yet furcly. Sir, it^ would b^ a little imprudent in the Writer of Doll Common, to advijfc the ptiniijiing biad Poets with Severity. But t lo ] ^uppofe this Rhimer of Similes were fct in the Pillory. Would the Punifhment of the Author make his Simile unlike? Could it vindicate the condudt cither of the Minifter, or the Tories ? An Hiber- nian Friend of mine had been a little too familiar with the polite Dijiemper of North Britain. A Scotfman* challeng- ed him for the Affront. By my own Soul, fays Tcague, you are very foolifli. Arrah! Do you think, that letting me Blood, will cure your Country of the Itch? But really. Sir, after all this Anger, what is the Simile -Man's Crime ? * A Libel on the Minijler^ is a . " Liiel on our Country : It is equally criy " minal, as a Libel on the King j and , ' . ' « ibe M-- I • Vid. Mthutr. *' the Authors Jhpuld Jhare the fame Fate r Could Mr. Monitor give the Sandtion of his Paper to fuch Sentiments as thefe? In the corrupted Days of Walpole thefe Sentiments were openly avowed^ \^ul little expedted to find them in a Writer, who profeiTes his Zeal for Liberty sind the Conftitution. Take them ia Swift*« Ridicule. * That Minifters, by Kings appointed, Arcj under them, the Lord's anointed | Ergo, it is the felf-fame Thing, T'oppofe the Minifter or King j . iSr^o, by Confequence of Reafon, f To cenfure Statefntin is HiglhTrea/on. t am a Tory j have always lived, and hope to die ^ Tory. But, Sir, I am no ^^ . B 2 Jacobite, [12] jicohitt, St!f*%ill I ever* Wifli td fee 'th^ Majefty of the Crown of England Brought down to a Level with the Re- ■ ■'i'^'H'^ ■ ' ■ ^ x"^ putation of my Fellow- Subjeft* " But " ife^ *wbo tibeh the Minifter^ libeis his "^'bmntryJ" ' Softly, good Sir* If Mini- itefs are the Country, as Parfons call thcnirefves the Church, what is to be* come of all other Subjects ? Much in the faaic Stirainj- f,^^- This tamney Boy^ Sene^ \^-gdly and'th^e Indian iSi^im^ Louif- " bourgb aM Da Si^efiUi a^e thi MM- « pr*s Cbiidr'enr Wliat ! Mt. Monitor y had Mr. Keppel and Bofcawen \ Mr* Afttfeerft, an# Wotfe^ and Forbes, had they no Share in begetting thefe hopefuk * ♦ ^ ■ ■ ■ ■ . ^ Babes? But indeed they are the Children^ of ' - * Vid. Doll Coirimoit. •« I tiS'l Le \ nv 6iF the Nation, >vhofe Rights of Piu^cht age, T dare believe, thefe Gentlemen ^il \:\>" ,\H. "JiU^I chearfully acknowledge j and (h9uld thi^i their newly fuppofed Father preiun;ie ^ difpofe of them without the Natbn*i Confent—— But I feci I am gtx^win| warm* Yet even Age may be forgivi^i if it lofes it's Temper, when provoked by fuch Abfurdities. But I will retpolled m]^< felf. . ^ ' _ ' What therefore. Sir, do you ima« ' *•'■*■ ' • * ' "''1 gine was the Confequencc of our reading the Simile a fecond Time? We faw/ that Paffion was but a miferable Argu^i ment in the Debates of Reafprt, ttiH the Charge agaihft the Minifter, of Hanove* rian Mcafures, and againft the Tories of C H ] Compliance with thofe Me^ures, ilill re«^ mains unconfuted, indeed, unipoke to: that Mr. Monitor top, ha^ forfaken his Friaciples, and is bafely become the De* fender of Germanized Meafures and Mi- , -., ^ . '^ .■:;r> '■ nifters. Nay more, a naufeous Flatterer, « ".'■ * J In what othd- Light can we confider the * .' '. • . - fpUowing Paflage ? * ^^-^he Advantages *^ *uobtcb have been derived to this Country ^ ^* bave xe^eSed fuch a dazling Splendor ^* on the CharaSier oj bim^ to 'wbom nne ^' owe them^ &c/' Is not this tawdry Language beneath the Dignity of a Britifli Monitor; andTreeliolder r Your next Pa- per, I prefume, will throw a Popifli, Saint-lil^ Glory round his Head, and bid y$ repeat in our Devotions, O P— t, OR^ P Vid. Monitor. - V [ «5i okA 'pro NOBIS. For myfeff, I big 16] be excufcd. I am a Proteftant in Poli- ticks, as in Religion. Let who Will^ wander after ftrange Gods, and proftrate themfelves before the Saints df human Invention. I am determined to repeat tne Liturgy of my Anceftors, in which 1 cannot find any Worfhip prefcribed tO Minifters. With regard to the prefent Minifte^ who does not rejoice with him In his Sue* cefs, and give him his /rej^^r Share of _ ♦ Praifc in taking Senegal, Loiiifbourg, Da- Quefne and Goree ? But are you furc/ Mr/Monitor, that Louifbourg (as in your Verfes you fay it will) is to rcm^n to % ? Has not Mr. P- 1 fhamelcfsly dc- clar*d| I. 4lj?n foreij^.ig^e.^lc ][ota belonging ?lf^? f ??^°f!telof f^QO'erj Would H51. fi^C Kyiflg; of Hanover. I could be con- ai^d tp f¥»rt with him on fuch Terms, ap^, ^uft tq Providence for as good ^ %ff#J?!P'flf.^lr E"' Min^ftcRi., of, 0. I^af tifSj. Ijtic Dfjfden's ,f ripft? of all . Re;»^ Jigions, are the fame. . l^reinemtifp. W^lgole ; 4 bated himy^t not perfonalljr. I learned: from, my eafly. You|h, apd ^^ll.believ^^ tfialj, the: greater^ vnder, was coqtra and ftill deleft* Yet, do not miftake me. I have never, fiftce I liave been of Years to judge, once wiflfed,' as fome giddy Men have done, to fet thii royal Family dethroned. I know we are - ''J indebted to Them for what is infinitely more dear to honcft Men than Property, the Prefcrvation of our Liberties and our Religion. But ftlU I hate thofe Miniftcrs, who flatter their Maflers with a Sacri- fice, lefs dear indeed than that of Liberty and Religion, but yet of very great Tm- portancc, I mean the Sacrifice of Bri- lUh Money to German Politicks. ♦ C Ir I ?8. ] If you fliould.fay, that it is the lotereft of England to pay fpr a War in Gerpanyi then. They, .whpm | have hated, and whcan I ftill hate, have been in the rights and we, who oppofed them, in the wrongti ^ But I have always underflood the Maxim of employing the Force of France upon the Continent ^ as a Meafure necejfary for England's Intereji^ to be a Whig, a Cpurt Maxim, and fuch as muft in Tinie prove fatal to this Country. I fa^ the Good Senfe and Firmnefs of the Country Party oppofe the pernicious EfFcds of this t '9 J this[ Nfaxim, afid check its Progrefs.' But I We lived to fee thi$^^ Party give their Aid and Influence to fupport the Mif- chiefs it muft neceflarily produce. What then remains but Infamy and Def- pair? These ReflcTcions, you will perhaps fay, proceed from unjtifl Prejudices. You indeed ieem already to have faid fo, whenr you urged againft the Authpr of the $!•* mile, that he wrongfully condemned Peo- ■A, - " - ' • jSre for being cured of unjujl Prejudices^ Speak out. Are my Pr^udices againfl; fisnding two or three Millions to Ger<' many in any Year, or upon any Occa^ C » fion. C^o] fmti vtfi^ t1lf they are, how long havo tfhf^ff been*, 6?, and' why. do you blam^ t^lflt ^l^meaa die CQurtiera) who feetn pever to Ijave entertained fuch unjujl Pre- jpdi^es, and praife thofe, who from the Revolution to the Year 1758 have ever kept them, and would to God they had kept them ftill ; for though their Oppo- iitibn could not prevent, it would at leaft, ittidf ever did, put ltetn6 Sounds to Cermanl ce. 'rtere arc none noV, ' libr . Yet (^^rm^ny is not. pnlvr to ^ the. Gulph of our Treafures, but the Grave of our People. Twelve hundred of our gallant Countrymen dead, ana efcvcn htindr^d^t bni^Trme'feck in dcr-. ■£ «M^ man [ " ] man HoijpUalst Let Nature, as well a Politicks, deter us from this Land of | Slaves. Its Qimate is fatal to the Sous of Liberty. But further $ could a Briti(h ^inifter, truly jealous of the Glory of I the Nation, fuffer the Troops of Brittia to be led on by a Foreigner, hired bjrour oyfl^ Mooqy to cojtmnand us ? v What can b§ £ud for the Whole of this flrangs Mfafare» wellknowny before it was cms- rJed into Execution, to bondiftafteiiti tci the Pipople^ and well underftood to he the laft Excefi of oiiDiiyriad Cotnpli* ance; with the Sovereign ? Why were we made fo angry (I was iincerely angry) with a very grtat Perfon two Yctfa SlVl »go, t « 3 igo, ' when he wanted to 'take fomc Ehgi. IHb ^ ^ith him to Germany? Was that tcfe' an^ unjuji Prejudice? But our Minijlers are virtuous^ and ■mgWto be fupported by the virtuous 3 ntk ridiculed by the vicious, ^ey bavt f^ 4m. End to. Corruption. You me«rt Gor* ruption of > Members . of Rarh'amcnt bjf Mon^^ for as to Cori:uptloi> in tM' Conntryy I can look round me, and &^ it jBoarilhing ' m much as ev^er, and more Bargains madeV than perhaps ever were jb long before ihe meeting of the new Par- Usmaent: You muft me^n Corruption bf\ < Money, isctt by Employiidients, for by^ .m-n ■ '■ ' . " Em* \ (»3] Employments, Contrads, Bonus's, StafF* Officers, Navy, Army, ViftiiaUing, &c. &^. there are more Members retained^ than ever ; and Mr, P— t's Friends am) Relations having been provide^ for to the utmoft of bis Demands, thefe Emo^ luments do not; only remain and mul-i tiply, but remain diipenfed by the £uiie Hand as heretofore, by, the well tutored Scholar of W^tlpole and his own Brother, I have fometltnes amufed JfjasM(, wjbeo I have accidentally been jnTo!ivn, with walking in Lincoln's-Inn-FieJ^^jnd r« ''*' jof Underftanding. They arc allured ' to rman Meafurcs^, by Promifes moft lUi Wvf^^ W rally diftributed, and by Expedationa jof Favours from thofe, who allure then). |As for pecuniary Rewards, private and immediate. Unanimity will ever, in a great t 5^7 J ■ r > * % great Degree, prevent this Sort of Cor^ ruptioQ* But are we, the Country-Party^ii the better, or the worfe for this Una- Dimity ? ^ppofe the Man, whom w this Time two Years fo much feared tc fee fct pver us, thjc Patron of the TeftJ j^ljl , fuqcoe^jd. lis would have bribe< avf^I doubt not. He wov'ld have ien| Money by Wholefale to the Continent but thought I am truly fenfible of hU good \ViU that Way, I aft. you, Mr. Moi nitor, whether he could have fent much, as is now fent? ^No, Sir, Od honcft Oppofition, from which we hav^ now fcandaloufly departed, would hai rendered it impoffible, we^e his Abiliticj Pa tcl 'I, ,h«'"^esg.a^rthan.th.,.,re..You y-rcinadbeia„,a..o„g. .noble, vi. ^-^^o/ia^ .0 preven. i. While ^entvnot indeed without fon^eScunriliey "' ."^"'^ ^'* «"« did you no Service. '■if you did ufe Arguments, and irrefra. , 'b'e ones. Yet, ™y God! againft what,. %agai„ftthore..,ery/ame German Mea-r I > i." <" [29] MeafureS] would pu which you faid that Mam irfue, if he got uppermoft> and which the prefent Minifter, alas I does purfue further, than that Man dared, or could have done. Permit me to quote 2 Paffage in one of your Monitors, Num- ber 68, which to me has the Spirit and Air of Prophecy, Should there come a I'imey when the prime Advocates of tbt People ; the Heads of the Oppofition to thofe MeafureSy which brought Dijhonour to the Crowny and Ruin to the Nation -, who dc'* claimed againfl all Kind of Impofitiony ami contended for the Redrefs of our Grie-* vances j may be invited tc the Helm of State i let them not forget the RocJi, upon . . which I * nvhkb Jo many before them have fplit. ff thy alfojhoufd veer about, and with^ ^mT tiAsivLi^Q become the Accomplices of the very Criminals tbey bad avowed Of bring M y^ftlce j and only make Vfe of 'Popularity^ to be wafted into a Situation^ where thy may with Impumry rivet that Toke^ wbicb tbey flood engaged to remove and break in Pieces; let them remember^ that ibe Monitor will not fail to tell tbemj in plain Englijh, of tbeir Ddnv' mgs, - *-»... 1 .*■'■*» . % i<;fi ar- >.».SucH is Mr, Monitor's very fpiri^ Language^ wbfiii he fums up the threo hundred and thirty Millions, levied upon the [31] the People "^ this LanJ for the Ad i^ foreign PmerSy in furfuance of that nevt Sjiflem $f PoUtichy entailed upon us by M great an AffeBioh fdr certain Poffeffions ih Germany , and hi/applying the T^reafure^ granted for the Defence of our own JDd- W^ioni, ih Mea/um calculated for ^he Security of a German IStleSiir ate ^ The Tiw, of which tfii^ Paragnph fecms ftrongly prophetickf is arrhr^ Will Mr. Monitor prove himfelf a Man of Honour ? Will he npbly keep his Promife^ and his Integrity? Thefe Advocates for the People ^ (hefe Headi •/ Opp(jf\tion^ thefe Declaimers agaiu/t Grievances I [ 32 3 Gfievancis; will be' till them of thetf Doings ? Or will he convince the Worlds that the Tories, the Mihifter, and hS Writer, are equally funk iti brie common ; Depravity? . ■'* '• iWX^ .'l'4-'^^wi^X^iJ Avi ViiUi , U\ ■ I HAVE heard from Town, for no > Man here prefumes to defend thefe Mea^^ fures, that one weak Pretext in Favour of them is, that although the laft Mi- niftry had imprudently engaged us iil this continental War, yet we mufl now carry it on with Vigour. It is not true. We were engaged in no War on the Continent, nor. had fcnt one Penny thi- ther when Mr. P— . came in. He ? fent t33] fent the firft, the ^Trhidl Sum, as tfie Simile, too ludicroufly, calls it. . TKe War of 1757, thus lighted up, would have been abfolutely put an End to by a Convention, however inglorious and dif- advantageous to Hanover, yet falutaty lo Gff eat Britam, had Hot Wfe the Ooiin- ift-y Party, confpireH with the moft ^ihanizcd Courtier^', to revive the War, •ih.t « » r r * Dfeaft thii Convention, and, contrary to m tnir Profeffions, enter into the moft Xruinous Expence, lending our Hands, ^after an Oppofition of feventy Years, to -^ompleat and finifh the Ruin of this ■^tinh^ppy Country. The hundredth Mfl- lipp is to be raifcd and fent, Oh, Shame I £ Oh, ■H i ■■% «Mi [54] Ob, Grief! by Tory Hands to Ger- many ! i . i M To thefe Reflexions T deiire a ferious Anfwer* But think not to refute this reafoi\ablc Charge by the flimfey Verfes of your Correfpondent's Doll Common, or the indecent Language of Harlots. Were it poffible, I could heartily wifh you Succefs in vindicating the ConduA pf thoie whom I once was proud to call my Friends. But it is my Comfort, my only Comfort, that no Reafons can be given for thefe German Meafures i;i ^J^cefs, which will fatisfy the ilill fteady Conftituents of our Renegado Repre- fei>* C 35 ] m fentative ; and our Clamours will fecure a Remnant, a fmall one may be, who will fo far fucceed, as to lefTen thefe continental Expences, and delay our Ruin, if not yet carried too far, even for Delay to interpofe. \ I amy S I R, &c. E 2 POST- r »!• -t c (rj\ I I'H -kk- i»i ■ 1^1 % \ rsaan