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 :<)0(>gt"*l HOUGH I am fenfible, that in approach- 
 X $ ing the facred fcenes of your retirement, I 
 §■«( F% ftiould take ofF my fhoes with reverence ; 
 C)8«)0O)8Cji^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ myfteriotis dignity that attends 
 
 you is fufficient to keep far off the profanum vulgus ; 
 yet, Sir, prefuming upon the privilege of a worthy Briton^ 
 and Fellow-labourer, employed in the fame great 
 work, I fliall make no apology for obtruding myfelf, 
 uncalled, upon your leifure. Permit me, Sir, to fay 
 my vanity has not been a little flattered by the Simila- 
 rity of Charader which it has pleafed many judicious 
 
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 perfons to find between us. Indeed, I muft confefs, I 
 have been often ftruck with the refemblance : We are 
 both Patriots^ both Projedors for the public good ; 
 and though you have, it muft be confefled, gained con- 
 fiderably the Advantage in the reward of your labours, 
 yet it is well known^ I never fail to remind the public 
 of a poor large family to be provided for^ of my indefa- 
 tigable pains for their fervice, and the great obligations 
 they owe me. Who knows but that I may one day 
 reap their favours unmerited^ fpontaneousy and unfo- 
 licited. 
 
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 Sir, it has been the fate of great Geniufes in all ages 
 to be above the reach of common cumprchcnlion, and 
 confequently to be known only to each other. The 
 vulgar either ftand aloof in ftupid amazement, brand- 
 ing us with the names of Fool and Madman ; or ad- 
 miring us the more, becaufe they comprehend us not ; 
 follow us in crowds, as the parifh did the Greek 
 Preacher in the Spedtator, and content themfelves, if 
 they do not underftand the fenfe, with being able to 
 love and honour the found. The former perhaps may- 
 have been my cafe, the latter has been undoubtedly 
 yours. You have dealt about your Hand-bills with 
 better fortune, and in a more c ^nfpicuous ftation ; I 
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 envy not your fuccefs ; all I could do was to deferve. 
 it equally, 
 
 I fometimes refleil, with no fmall fecret fatisfadlion, 
 that Pofterity, which is always juft to the memory of 
 paft times, where it has no intereft to mifconceive, will 
 look back upon the prefent age as diftinguifhed by two 
 
 remarkable perfonages, Mr. P — and J— b H ques. 
 
 At the fame time that they admire the Modefty, the 
 virtuous Difintereftednefs, the profound Knowledge, 
 and the Confiftency of Conduct, which is fo remark- 
 able in all your a^flions ; can they fail to do proper 
 juftice to my Guinea Lottery, to my Schenres for pay- 
 ing the National Debt, and my deep-laid and com- 
 prehenfive Plan for the Ninety-nine Years Univerfal 
 Compaa ? ' 
 
 I have fometimes indulged my fpeculations ftill fur- 
 ther, and have figured to myfelf an A n under 
 
 the wifdom of our united talents, aflifted by the cool 
 judgment of your candid Brother-in-law, and his valu- 
 able friend, the glorious Defender of our Liberties, and 
 the refolute AJferter and Evader of our Laws, — To 
 what a pitch of glory might fuch a ftate be carried I 
 We would hear of no miferly niggardly politics that 
 
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 could check the torrent of our fuccefles. If we had 
 
 an expedition to plan, we would confult — no matter 
 
 who, fo as it was fomebody we knew before-hand 
 
 agreed with us in opinion ; for throwing difficulties, 
 
 and objcdions, and impofiibilities in the way of a great 
 
 dtfign, is a mark of a narrow contracted mind, and 
 
 poor fpirit, that is unfit for enterprizes of Magnitude, 
 
 The greater the danger to the man who imdertakes 
 
 any thing, the greater the honour if he fucceeds ; fo, 
 
 in my opinion, the greater the want of probability of 
 
 fuccefs, the greater the genius and merit of the man 
 
 who plans it. It is to this maxim, which I have fo 
 
 often admired in you. Sir, that you have owed at leaft 
 the better half of your reputation. Who imagined, 
 
 for example, upon reading the laft letter of poor Wolfe, 
 
 but that the plan of that expedition had been crude 
 
 Xand ill-concerted; and that the neceflary confequence 
 
 would be the facrifice of that brave officer, as well as 
 
 fo many gallant men, expofed to that unpromifing en- 
 
 terprize ? Foolifh, jfhallow politicians I Your fupe- 
 
 rior Genius faw into the great chapter of Accidents ; 
 
 faw that the defperate befiegers would attempt the parts 
 
 the leaft practicable ; that the befieged would fly in 
 
 panic from their works, and deliver up that important 
 
 place into our hands. 
 
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 When De la Clue's fquadron had evaded the vigi- 
 lance of Bofcawen, had efcaped through the Streights, 
 and threatened, by uniting the divided forces of France^ 
 to effed the invafion and deftrudion of this country, 
 which we were fo little prepared to have refifted, 
 whilft we were conquering America in Germany \ how 
 did the hearts of the miferable race of common Politi- 
 cians tremble with apprehenfion ! — yours was placid 
 and ferene. The great chapter of Accidents again, and 
 the evil ftar of our enemies, (owing to your great wif- 
 dom) refcued us from the jaws of fate, and left us not 
 fo much to admire the ikill, adivity, and valour of 
 that Admiral, ae ymir fagacious Providence and care 
 for our fafety. But why fhould I felcdl injlances in a 
 war, where the condu<El and perfeverance of our officers 
 overcame fuch difficulties in almoft every injlance^ as 
 would have difcouraged almoft any Minifter, lefs en- 
 dowed with, the prophetic fecond-Jight in politics, 
 which has direded your condud in fo fingular a man- 
 ner. It has been objeded, indeed, by fome of meaner 
 caution, ** Suppofe, Sir, any of the extravagant at- 
 tempts had failed, which often could not have fuc- 
 ceeded, without the affiftance of the elements in our 
 favour, Suppofe, for a moment, our enemies had had 
 
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 common fenfe, common valour, common prudence. 
 
 Suppofe, for example, an invafion had taken place'* 
 
 and thus the}- go on with their fufpofes. But leaving 
 them to their invidious and fplenetic fpeculations, we 
 fhall content ourfelves with the events in our favour ; 
 aJTume to ourfelves the merit of whatever has fucceed- 
 ed, impute to others the blame of what has not fuc- 
 ceeded, and appeal to the public, whether we did not 
 go on charmingly f Had we not a bonfire at leaft once 
 a month, either for a vidory that did concern us, or 
 for one that did not f And give me leave to fay, this 
 is as much as will fuffice for all the purpofes of Popu- 
 larity or Intprefl , as much as the people ever did, or 
 ever can comprehend in their noble judgments. 
 
 Yes, but, fay others, what was the price of our fuc- 
 ceffes ? We may buy gold too dear. More than Sixty 
 Millions added to our debt in a war of feven years du- 
 ration ! Why furely there muft have been a flrange 
 fatality indeed, if you had not fucceeded ! As long as 
 you can afford to give half a guinea for a loaf of bread, 
 there is no doubt you will be able to purchafe it. 
 To apply a known paflage in Moliere, " Voila une 
 ** belle merveille, que de faire bonne chere avec beau- 
 
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 " faut parler de faire bonne chere avec peu d'argent." 
 
 Thefe, Sir, are the grumbling remonftrances of your 
 Oeconomifts^ a word fo defervedly turned into ridicule 
 by all true Patriots, and well-wifhers to their country. 
 What, when we talk of conquering Provinces, of fuc- 
 couring Heroes, of being able to jfpeak great and big 
 words to all the Powers in Europe, fhall we m...d a 
 few paltry millions I Trafli, Dirt — what, weighed in 
 the icale with Glory ? Out upon it 1 out upon it I 
 Your generous fpirit has been above fuch mean re- 
 gards. Has P. F -H been in want of men or 
 
 money ? How nobly, how generoufly have you in- 
 treated him not to fpare us, that our lives and fortunes 
 
 were at his devotion. Has the K. of P a been 
 
 diftrefled to carry on his views of conqueft or ambi- 
 tion ? How difintereftedly have you prefled upon him 
 fubfidies which that modeft Hero almoft blufhed to 
 receive I Thefe uncommon Principles of greatnefs, 
 which have actuated your noble mind, will render your 
 adminiftration remember'd to the lateft pofterity \ and 
 Hiftory, when fhe defcribcs the glories of thefe days, 
 will be in doubt whether to adi.iire moft the confum- 
 niate knowledge and judgmeiit with which your plans 
 
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 were laid, or the unbounded generofitjr with which 
 they were carried into execution. 
 
 It is true all this has coft, and may coft us dear. It 
 has impoverifhed and drained us of ufeful hands, to 
 the great prejudice of Agriculture and Manufadure. It 
 has drawn upon us Taxes fo burthenfome, that we 
 fcarce view the Lip;ht unpaid for ; and has confequently 
 raifed the price of every thing fo high, that we are 
 Icarce able to purchafe the neceflaries and comforts of 
 life. Yet this is trifling to what we have to appre- 
 hend. It has rendered it all but impoflible to keep off 
 long the greatcfl of all calamities, that would reduce 
 thoufands, who have been nurfcd in the lap of Indo- 
 lence and Luxury, to the deepeft mifery and diftrefs : 
 a calamity, that would fhake the very foundations of 
 our empire, and the confequence of which the wifeft 
 cannot foretel. But if this ruin fhould befal us, we 
 have the confolation at lead to think that we have 
 
 fallen greatly : that the K. of P a has not yielded 
 
 to his enemies, that he is aftually in pojfej/ion of 
 Silefia : that the refpeSiable Patrimonial Dominions of 
 Hanover have not fubmitted to the yoke of France, 
 but have only been ruined in being defended. In fhort, 
 that the fubjed who is ftarving here belongs to an 
 
 empire. 
 
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 empire, which, whilft // belongs to us, extends through 
 every quarter of the globe, and fpreads the reputation 
 of the Britifh ftandard thro' every region and climate. 
 Thefe, Sir, are the cordials that muft fupport us in 
 the day of afflidion ; and when we want bread, we 
 muft content ourfelves with feeding upon Glory : a 
 celeftial food indeed, but not lefs grateful when z^^;- 
 terialized 2i little with, '^ooo I, per annum. 
 
 Should, however, more cold and lefs generous fpirits 
 be able to keep this calamity at a diftance from us, 
 there is another difficulty which I think your enemies 
 lay a very invidious ftrefs upon j namely, that you have 
 put it out of our power ever to make war again : a 
 ftate which would indeed give us but little joy of our 
 conquefts and acquifitions. But, Sir, with their good 
 leave, you and I will laugh at their ignorance. Genius 
 and heaven-born InfiinSi infpires us with knowledge 
 (without the trouble of acquiring it), which they by 
 conftant bufinefs and experience of office have never 
 been able to attain to. They fee no further than they 
 know \ mere pen-and-ink men, calculators, the flaves 
 and drudges of ftate : whilft wc, who have neither 
 patience nor application for fuch matters, receive our 
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 not fuch timid fouls, in their earthly wifdom, declared 
 long lince, that if ever this nation touched a hundred 
 millions debt, it was abfolutely undone ? All mankind 
 fee we are now at one hundred and forty, and can yet 
 breathe under the burthen : a plain argument that we 
 may fafely venture to make it a good two hundred 
 without any great inconvenience ; for no body knows 
 the refources of this country ; I mean no body but you 
 and I ; and furely you fhould be allowed to know 
 fomething of the matter, who have found means to 
 put them fo fairly to the trial. 
 
 There is another fecret which has been revealed to 
 you and me, and which to all the world befides ap- 
 pears madnefs, ignorance, and abfurdity in terms. I 
 mean your favourite fcheme of raifing the money 
 within the year, which we have heard appeared to yon 
 fo pradlicable in the late war. The propofition fairly 
 ftated is this : We have already a grievous Debt, which 
 we muft pay the intereft of : we have a Civil Lift to 
 maintain, as well as the ordinary and current expences 
 of government : now all this together amounts to a 
 fum of many millions annually, which we feel it in- 
 convenient to pay : befides this, we have in our head 
 projcds, fubfidics, diftant conquefts, fecret expeditions, 
 
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 an attack upon Bellifle, or fome fuch great under- 
 taking, which requires to levy twice as much upon 
 the fubjed. What then are we to do ? If we borrow 
 the money, and raife only enough to pay the intereft, 
 it becomes a confiderable addition to the debt, too 
 great, God knows, already ; and we fear we fhall 
 fcarce be able to pay the additional intereft. Well, 
 fay you — a mighty difficulty, truly I Til find you a 
 folution at once, and which will anfwer our purpofes 
 
 better, and every body fhall be contented. Why 
 
 raife the money within the year, you fools, and then 
 your debt will not be augmented a fingle (hilling. As 
 for example j you can't tell how to find four hundred 
 thoufand pounds within the year, to pay the intereft of 
 the ten millions you want to borrow — Well ! — why 
 you muft be blinder than a beetle not to fee the expe- 
 dient — Raife the ten millions within the year, and 
 then you will have no intereft at all to pay ; will you ? 
 Thus, Sir, thefe fellows are perpetually blundering, 
 and puzzling, and ftumbling at the threfhold, whilft 
 your fuperior abilities point out the true Colbert in 
 Peace, as you have been the great Statefman and Con- 
 queror in War. Happy indeed would it be for this 
 country, could you again force yourfelf into that Sta- 
 tion, where fuch Wifdom might exert itfelf; fuch 
 
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 be put once more into fuch able hands, for our pre- 
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 I have often thought it muft be matter of no fmall 
 mirth to you, Sir, when you take up any of the public 
 prints, and fee people ferioufly debating upon the pre^ 
 tefices you threw out at your Refignation* When you 
 fee the good fouls, in fober fadnefs, treating the Spanifh 
 War as really having any influence in an event that 
 had been determined long before, upon fuch very dif- 
 ferent motives ; really fuppoflng you capable of fetting 
 at defiance the K — and his whole C~n— 1, becaule 
 they did not chufe to commence hoftilities with Spain 
 to-day, without any colour, and contrary to all rights 
 eftabliflied throughout the globe ; but obftinately per- 
 fifted in waiting for the return of a courier from Ma- 
 drid, which gave them every rigKt on their fide, and 
 juftified their quarrel in every court in Europe ; plead- 
 ing afterwards^ in your behalf, a hear-fay Family 
 Compad:, of which you did not then know one fingle 
 Article. But, Sir, 'tis plain you know the Nature of 
 the Beaft, and what food it catches at moft greedily • 
 too grofs, God knows, if it were not fwallowed in the 
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 Give me leav«, Sir, to fay, that I have obferved the 
 Greatmfs of your Mind appear in nothing more con- 
 fpicuous, thar.. in the Aflertions which you have always 
 {o ready for your purpofe. / do ajfert — / do aver — 
 is always a fufficient argument when well urged^ and 
 has the peculiar property of loiing little of its force 
 by now and then being difproved by numbers, ftub- 
 born fads, or clofe reafoning, which, indeed, few peo- 
 ple give themfelves the trouble to have recourfe to. A 
 hundred inftances of this nature might be produced ; 
 but I muft fay, there is no part of your Condudl that 
 appears to me fb ftriking, that marks out fo ftrongly 
 your Superiority to Truthy and the great Freedom of 
 your Spirit, as the turn you have given to every Cir-^ 
 eumftance that attended your Refignation. A vulgar 
 mind. Sir, might have flill remained penetrated with 
 the K — 's goodnefs ; might have thrown themfelves 
 into voluntary banijhment abroad^ or ahfolute retire?nent 
 at home ; and might have lain for ever ufelefs under 
 the bafe fetters of Gratitude, Truth, and Honour. 
 Your Mind, Sir, was too inlarged, and your Talents 
 too ingenious to fuffer fuch a conftraint : your love of 
 the public, and the general good, eafily broke thefe 
 ties, and demanded this little Sacrifice at your hands. 
 
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 For our fakes, the Graces of the beft of K — s foon 
 became, by your enchanting Magic, the Artifice of the 
 word of Minifters. Obligations became Infults, and 
 the earlieft and mod public opportunity was made 
 choice of to revive our Spirits, and to convince us, 
 that you was ftill free for our Service. The Penfion 
 and Peerage you had ajked upon geni al expreffions of 
 Good- will, became fpontaneous and unfolicited Obtru- 
 fions, and were therefore to deferve every return of 
 neglecflful Difrefped. Thefe are fentiments that do 
 not influence Common Underftandings ; your Enemies 
 will do you the juftice to believe, there are few men 
 capable of them. 
 
 You have likewife done extremely well. Sir, to 
 claim to yourfelf the merit of all the Succefles againft 
 France and Spain, which clofed the war fo highly in 
 our favour, after you had withdrawn from us your 
 Protedlion. For, befides that it was impofUble to 
 afcribe to your SuccefTors the triumph of almoft twice 
 the Acquifition you had ever made in any one year of 
 your Adminiftration ; befides this, I fay, it is a noto- 
 rious truth, that from the firft thought of a war with 
 Spain, you had the Sagacity to declare it as your Opi- 
 nion, that in that cafe we were to do Spain as much 
 
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 mifchief as we were able ; and that the intercepting 
 her returns, the poflefling her iflands and colonies, 
 and attacking her country wherever it could be at- 
 tacked, would be one principal method of cutting up 
 war by the rootSy of humbling her Pride, and bringing 
 her to accept of fuch Terms of Peace as we might 
 think fit to offer. What a Plan of Glory was here 
 formed ! what extenfive Ideas, what a knowledge of 
 Commercial Interefts, and what profound Penetration 
 ftands confeffed to all the world in this great Concep- 
 tion ! Can the fucceeding Minifters pretend to any 
 Merit, Sir, in perfefting a Plan thus deeply, thus ac- 
 curately and minutely laid by you ? Or the brave 
 Officersy who carried it fo effedtually into execution ? 
 Their Wifdom and Valour mount up to you, as to its 
 Source. You alone are the Author of all good to us ; 
 whether knowing, or ignorant of it : Your bones 
 herealter, like thofe of Edward I. will one day be fuf- 
 ficient to guide our Armies, to direct our Fleets, and 
 to infpire the Councils of our Senate. I would not, 
 after what I have faid, appear too vain and prefump- 
 tuous ; but I really owe it in juftice to myfclf, to ap- 
 peal to feveral of my friends, whether I did not, about 
 the fame time, in my poor judgment^ offer fome hints, 
 not totally unlike upon the occafion, in a certain 
 
 Coffee- 
 
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 CofFee-houfe, where, I am forry to fay, it did not 
 fccm to make the impreffion it deferved. 
 
 It is with the fame JlriEi adherence to Veracity^ 
 which I have juft now obferved you pofTefs in fo emi- 
 nent a degree, that it will become neceffary for you to 
 adjuft a little your Story with regard to a late Confe- 
 rence. To be fure, whatever latitude you give your- 
 felf in denying or explaining away what is paft, your 
 enemies will have a moft unfortunate advantage over 
 you, viz. that there happen to be fo many perfons, 
 who all join in the fame ftory. However, we have 
 been ufed to believe in you through thick and thin ; 
 and we have too much pride eajily to retraft our ap^ 
 pearance of confidence in you, whilft you leave us a 
 poflibility of avowing your caufe. You know, Sir, I 
 fpeak as one of your confiant admirers ; but, with your 
 patience, I cannot help complaining of you upon this 
 occafion. I muft fay, we, your admirers^ are often put 
 to our trumps fince the 27th of Auguft, and have 
 commonly nothing for it, but to divert the converfa- 
 tion to Canada or Minden, or elfe fairly to fneak out 
 of the Coffee-houfe, and leave our Antagonifts mailers 
 of the field. 
 
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 Indeed, 
 
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 Indeed, Great Sir, you Lave been fomcvvliat tea 
 great upon this occafion ; and I muft: inform you, that 
 it will require fome pains to regain the ground you 
 have loft among your friends. The 15th is near at 
 hand for your afliftancc ; and if, as I doubt not, ycu 
 will employ yourfelf in the mean time to find out 
 fome popular topics of declamation, tumble over a 
 fuificient quantity of modern and ancient Invedive, 
 and coin a dozen or two of founding words, com- 
 pounded and decompounded out of all languages ; by 
 thefe means much may ftill be done. I confcfs, 
 however, things begin to look lefs favourably. You 
 have puflied matters too far : Your Subjects revolt from 
 you apace 5 and we begin to find, that the benign and 
 amiable qualities of a Prince, whofe every adion 
 ought to endear him to his people, and who evi- 
 dently ftiews that he has no views, but for the prof- 
 perity and happinefs of this country^ which at the 
 fame time renders your Talents unneceflary to him ; 
 that fuch Qualities cannot but intereft the people 
 to adopt his Quarrel, to open their eyes at laft 
 upon your Condudt from your entrance into Public 
 Life, and to unite them as one man to avenge the 
 
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 caufe of ihree hifulted Princes^ and a Nation deluded 
 to its Deftrudion. 
 
 I have the Honour to be, with all Refped due t^ 
 
 fo great a CharaBiery 
 
 Your ffioft confiant Admirer^ 
 And Faithful Coadjutor^ 
 
 PRO BONO PUBLICO. 
 
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