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""',*■' v\. 4^' 1? ^|i ■^' 'tfj S" . v-:-*i>!«-^: I .-«v ,^/ i i »?i; 'S-i ■■•V 4* jV.J(. ^ . 1?.. 1 ■^.■r..^i'' »: f ■i Si (J ill . ^ - • - ^ ■! ; '; ■; . / ■ ,e t • ) J. . ■ .) 1: • 1 1 :r- ■ ' t \ .■ „■• % — a*.)^-*-". ' ■■■p V AUTHENl IC SPECIMENS o F ALL THE ADDRESSES THAT HAVE BEEN; AND ALL THAT WILL BE, PRESENTED To the Right Hon. WM. PITT, AND THE VIRTUOUS AND UNCORRUPTED MAJORITIES I N BO TH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT; WHO HAVE VOTED THEMSELVES IN POSSESSION OF ALL THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE, AND PREROGATIVES OF THE CROWN OF ENGLAND. *♦ The Church determines, that the Church has a right to deter- " mine. The Authority of the Church proved by its own *' Decifions.-^-I determine that I am infallible; therefore I am " infallible.'* :3 1 If LONDON: rRlNTEO FOR J. AIDGWAY, MO. I, YORK-STRSST, ST. JAMES S-SqUARB. MOCCLXXXIX. -^lim To the Rt. Hon. WM. PITT. SIR, TF the power and influence of li- terature were underftood by its profefTors; the government of ENGLAND WOULD BE IN THE PRESS. Impcrfed and exceptionable, as the prefent channels of literary infor- mation may be ; they form public opinions, and generate thofe great paflions, which control the progrefs of minifterial corruption, and awe the venality of Parliaments pretend- ing to omnipotence. This, fir, you felt early j though you could ;not - perceive : i^l< jijV^iitfif i I ; •'■■ ( ii ) • ■ perceive the truth in all its extent t and you have ever hated the genuine fpirit of literature. Standing on oppofite, though lefs elevated ground ; cultivating learn- ing as my portion and felicity ; and perceiving its falutary influence on nations — I require no efFort in def* pifing the meretricious idol of ftupid ignorance and venal profligacy ; the oftenfible lalefman of a difhonorable market ; or the broker of a gam- bling afiembly : though cloathed by the caprice of Fortune, with the power and influence of a Minifter of Great Britain. — - We are thus peculiarly circum- fl:anced, as patron and author. Without wifliing to participate your fuccefs, I have obferved your progrefs ■^r.> - I ^9 I iiixtw r*' • ( HI ) progrefs with anxiety. You were blown up to a pinnacle, by the breath of calumny : but the candor and inexperience of youth gave hopes of your integrity ; and a prcr- diledion, from the fortune of your father, fand:ified your pretenfions to public efteem. I bow not to idols, fir; — but your noble father has occafionally com- manded my refpedt. He had pa^ roxyfms of difinterefted honcfty, which alarmed; but he wanted ex* tent of knowledge, and the philo- fophic temper of cultivated reafon. As he had deftined you for the ftate, it was expelled you would improve on the model before you : but you difplayed at once, to thofe who could fee through your mafque, a finifhed ii s iv,i-0;t^ i.-...::;., r '.■IP—- • " iiiii I "'ipw 1 1 If I ( iy ) % jfiniflied portrait of infatiable am- bition, fupported by unfeeling per- fidy, and confummate hypocrify. — You deceived me, fir, until you exhibited the farce, of Parliamen- tary Reform. In every fucceeding pretence to public principle, I have marked you an impoftor : and im- poftors are my game. The following fheets ; which I dedicate to you : will fhew my /kill in hunting them down. I am, Sir, With proper fentiments of Your oftenfible and real worth, Your's, &c. THE AUTHOR. AUTHENTIC ' / V .;, t^,.;.. I; I" in|i_JiMunw^"||«wi"«pn jr- AUTHENTIC SPECIMENS, &c. Dozvning'Street, December^ 1788. " IVf ^^^^^^^^^^ — ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ** -^ '^-*- confultations — on the dreadful in* " terruption occafioned by the King's ^' illnefs/'— What is the reafon the Sdots are ge- nerally infidels P-^^^Dundas fays — If he be- lieved in providential interpofitions, he might fufpe(5l the prefeht interruption or- dained to fave the ftate. The web of ve- nality had Covered half the land ; and I was the fpider in the centre. My poor honeft mafter thought himfelf thv, fpider : and we have had many a laugh at the fimplicity of Fox, who invited the difcomfiture of his fcheme by >^ociferoufly announcing it. '^ . B Jenkinfon '■•V I r* '.V .# /^ te .^- ( » ) ^1 Jenkinfon has taught me, the power of an Englifli Minill(jr is ever vibrating on a precipice ; unlcfs the Crown, as well as tlie Parliament, be in thraldom. Three years more, and I would have unmafqued ; Did defiance to my royal benefa61:or; and governed his dominions at my wall. The refult was to have been a family union with Jenkinfon: the idea of which I have encouraged ; but on which I had doubts. My mother ftill urged the negociation for Mifs P — . Our family is dreadfully poor; and yet has ever been difgraced with penfions, P — would be glad to revive the honors of his family ; but he requires fomething more fubflantial : befides, the girl feems to have fpirit and choice — and love is not my province. The ground is finking under me : and I muft try expedients. — The Prince's manners have deceived even me. I thought at Windfor I faw' an opening to his favour- but I perceive he is fixed. He has no tafte for guarded duplicity ; and he fhall rue it. His noble undilguifod nature is all over vulnerably I E^ am ai ( 3 ) vulnerable to the fliafts of calumny: and I am furrounded by her votaries and priefts. Every falfehood in thereacli of imagination, and to be purchafed with money, fliall be affixed to his name. I had alienated many of my aflbciates ; and I muft again footh them into union. I crouch before Thurlow, as if he were a lion. He would foon have been entangled by my toils, if this event had not occurred. The common enemy forces us into a tem- porary concurrence ; and he propofes the Queen for Regent, with a fixed council. But the whole country would blaze into a fury that might annihilate us. Rofe was delighted at the thoughts of the Queen's Regency. Madame Schwellen- burg would have been in eflfe^l Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and all things, the very ftones in the ftreets, would have been at market. How fuperior is prudence to virtue; and cunning to wifdom ! Old Camden is B 2 plaufible I ... •■.i il _\N'? .;* I ( 4 ) plaufible cunning perfonified ; and he haai faftened Fox to a poft. 'I THE PRINCE'S RIGHT. T^at, during the incapacity of a Parent, —his fon at full age, and perfe6lly capable ; has a fpecies of right to the care and fuperr intendance of his inheritance ; fubjedl only to a recognition : is a principle of law, as well as of reafon ; and extends to inheritances from the throne to the cottage. But by annexing the words affume and abfolute, and afcribing them to Mr. Fox, we may form a queftion, and pafs our majorities (wer it. We may thus convert recognition into appoint-. ment ; control the Regent ; and enfure our return to p'^wer, on the firft fymptoms of recovery in the King.— This is the object which unites our efforts ; and our preten-. fions muft be popular.— Mem. — To defire Prettym^n, to look into Locke ; and to coUedl the moft cap- tivating phrafes on the Rights of the Peor pie.— Wh^t ^ ftupid mafs is this People ! — tramplec^ ( 5 ) .trampled on by every adventurer ; and fur- ni filing authority for it's own evils. Tho puppet of an artful cabinet, in the purchafes ^nd fales of a political market! — I am a^- mod inclined to bluQi at the flighteft refer- ence to the People of England ! The refradlorinefs of Thurlow had nearly difconcerted the whole plan.— **ril bed— d, ** faid he, if I ever cant about the people I— *' d — n the people ! it is a herd of cattle ; and " I know none of it's rights. Oecafional ** Patriots, turning to Camden and me, " may blow hot and cold as may fuit their «* purpofes : but I will not even affecl the <* language of a Whig. Scott tells me, for " I read little myfelf, the word Regent ** is riot to be found in the law books; " and there is no hereditary R^ency. — <* This is my ground. You may talk of <^ Parliament and People ; until idiots credit <* they are fynonimous." Nature formed the brute for a blackfmith ; but he has drank and bullied his way to the fummit of \i]S profeffipn : ^nd he holds the Houfe of Lords, ifii ■ if i] M 4! : I v TTr<' ( 6 ) Lords, like children to their lefTons.— — He has the common ambition incident to low birth. The idea of taking place of the Prince, in the trial of Haftings, fo agitated his mind, that it produced a fever. On the firft propofal of a feigned commiffion to pafs the Regency-bill ; he fwore it was a trick that would difgrace Breflaw or Pinetti ; and that even the aggregate folly of the people would perceive it, and be alarmed. Jenkin- fon Ihewed the dexterity of a pra6lifed mafler : — he pointed out ftrongly the re* publican tendency of any meafures by the two Houfes, without an apparent head ; alluded to fimilar expedients in France and Spain ; and intimated that the Chancellor would take place of the Prince. By G — you are right, faid he — we will feign a commiflion : and I will reign a day if I die for it. wh< (killl if Pre^ calul are drel fon Thefe manoeuvres being fettled— I think our return to pozver is tolerably fecured. The reflraints are diredled by Camden wholly ■. JS: ( 7 ) wliolly to this objedl : and I may truft his (kill. I muft now fee a man I have negle6ted. Prettyman advifes, not only the diffufion of calumny, to which Rofe's literary friends are fully competent ; but to procure Ad- drefles, in which the aflillance of Robin- fon is neceflary it jj "1i ivi! THE INTERVIEW. I can hardly certify my own identity ; that man has fo ftunned me— Sir, faid he, what do you want ? I want your afliftance— In what ? The boroughs may . be dijpofed to ad- drefs, on the late incident in Parliament ; and on the expedience of continuing our Adminiftration. Our Adminiftration ! You are now in- clined to believe, there may be in the world a man of importance, befides yourfelf ? I am fure, Sir, I always acknowledged yours; and meant to take every oppor- tunity—^ Meant \ \A\ \^\ .y.-.vist ( f; ( 8 ) Meant !— Have y6\i meant only, id make Prettyman a Bifliop ; and Jenkinfon a Lord ? -^Who made you, Sir, in effect, what yoit are ? Sir, I anl very fenfible Are you fenlible, Sir, the authority you now aflimle, is iuirte ? Who arranged the Ele6lion of the prefent Houfe of Com- mons ; without which, your appointment as a Minifter would have only held you up to ridicule? Who procured Addrefles fronl every corner of the kingdom, to tandlify tliat arrangement ? Who gave you the jDarliamentary majorities, by which you determine every queftion, in the name of the People of England ? Who decided th^ Prince's right to be in thofe arranged ma- jorities ; againft the cohimoft law of the land, and the principles of the Conftitu- tiori? And who appoints tuE Regent? Ifc it you, condu6ling your majorities — or Is it John Robinfouj who created you and thenl? . , .... jSiFj I can only profefs my acknowledg- ments—* 1 have K . ( 9 ) I have no regard to your profefTion^. (At this time the Bijhop of L entered) You want liiy fervices, in fi(5litious Ad- drefles, to render your retreat popular, and to fecure your return ; or, if a diflblution of Parliament take place, to ftrengthen your party in the Lower Houfe, to harafs the Prince's Adminiftration— PRETTYMAN. And you fhall have your own terms— ROBINSONw Without entrufting their execution to you, my Lord. They fhall be fecured, be- fore I move ; or I offer myl'elf to the other party PRETTYMAN. ♦ Where you are not wanted ; and will not be received. HOBINSON. I have a great opijiion of your judgment, my Lord, fmce yom: bufmefs with Wedg-^ Wood. A rare politician, to attempt a wifehood on a Prefbyterian 1 r MINISrifiR. §t- '!< i 4.. t v\ ■'•«-. i.c*^^--"'*- •^f-Kjwi^** •■•"♦^7 "f*^ .m m ti r ^i WI U liw i— " ^^tn^*". ( 10 ) 1: l! I MINISTER. I beg you will not lofe time in crimina- tion. We have a common intereft, that fhould abforb all private paflions. Mr. Robinfon may propofe and fecure his own terms ; on a certain ever without which we mull all be dilappointed. ROBINSON. You have a 1 ill of the corrupt boroughs; and of the manageable country gentlemen: the mojl corrupt of all the Members of the Houfe. PRETTYMAN. O fie Mr. Robinlbn ! ROBINSON. This is no place for cant, my Lord. I tell you, the country gentlemen are the moll corrupt of all the members of the legiflature. A man who purchafes a bo- r6ugh, often does it merely to make him- felf a gentleman, and to be introduced into good company : but a Lord or a Knight of the Shire CQmes into Parliament with hopes and expeciations on every V.xrative incident ia the county: and it is by the : manage- ( 11 ) management of thofe hopes and expe6la- tions, his vote is fecured. The prefent moment is extremely criti- cal. Even fince the Revohition, a difpo- fition has appeared in the great families of the kingdom to connedl ^he public admi- niftration with the landed interell ; and the interference of the Crown in the Lower Houfe, has been controled by that inte- reft. The control was felt by George the Fir ft and George the Second ; and unavail- ing efforts were made againft it: it was completely removed by the imfufpe6ted talents of our prefent unfortunate Mo- narch. ; But by removing the thraldom of property, he prepared for hin^felf another fpecies. " In Camden, Thurlow, Jenkinfon, Dun- das, and Pitt — there are no hereditary claims; and their combined property would hardly juftify a commifTion of the <* peace. I lift them from beggary into power and wealth. I thereby engage tlieir implicit attachment ; and the management ** of the national debt and Eaft India Com- . ^ C 2 " pany. (t t( ti « t€ ( IB ) " pany, will fecure a majority in tlie Lower " Houfe, againft the great landed interefta ♦* of the country." I do not fay, he chofe the wifeft method for his future peace, or the interefts of his family. I am only pointing out the ground on which we ftand : it is that of venality, in oppofition to the landed intereft. All corporate bodies are naturally in our alliance. Their privileges are public inju- ries. And we diffiifed a fufpicion that Mr. Fox had a defign on them. That fuf- picion muft be renovated and improved: and we may di6late the language of their addrefTes. I am doubtful about Haftings — yet I cannot help confidering the punifh- ment of Governors • as Quixotifm, fimilar to that of reforming the India Company, or fupprefling monopolies. MINISTER. The great obje6l, is to extinguilh every fpark that may revive the popularity of Mr. Fox. llOBI^rSON. ( >3 ) ROBINSOM. I know you dread him — as Paris did Achilles— But, I think, 1 perceive an Uivfles forming in Sheridan. Fox's candor, will ever embarrafs his policy. He would tolerate venality, and exhibit the means ; employ puppets, and unveil tlie machinery : and when the world is di^pofcd to extol him above humanity, he is affidnous in aflerting his claims to Us exccptional)le defe6ts. The negligences and indifcretions of Mr. Fox, are the very grounds of your hopes. On the prefent crifis, you have been infinitely indebted to them. Europe had long admired the ftrength and fplendor of his talents ; and he mounted the Alps in a mode to balance the lights and (hadows of his character ; as if determined, tl.at Europe fhould behold his folly as fuperlative as his genius. No man ; no country, has any thing in- fidious or oppreflive to fear from. Mr. Fox. With all his abilities, he could not rob an old woman's hen-rooft ; for he would alarm her into defence and fe^urity. You would purloin r I, •' I, , ,, iil w ill !il /^ T ( H ) purloin the pillow from the head of your dy- ing mother ; while apparently adilling that pious prelate in prayers at her bed -fide. But you have the advantage : you fave ap- pearances, Fox neglcci^ts them. The Public is always a dupe ; and it is not difficult to determine, who will fucceed with it. I therefore embark with you. Let your ftupid Secretaries be ready to execute my lnjtru£tms. INSTRUCTIONS. \'U ■ ™F"I!?»I'»,'^"«" ( ^5 ) INSTRUCTIONS. The place of hufinefs, a private room ; effec- tiially guarded from furprize ; and which Robinfon calls The Wedgwood ; from bis peculiar affection to the Bi/hopof Lincoln. . The number of corijpirators JluBuate every hour ; as they a6t in town tl^e parts of fcouts, and colleStors of information. The fixed parties, are the Minifter, Robinfon, Rofe, Steele, a;;^ Smith. MINISTER. [To the Secretaries of the Treafury, Before we enter on this bufinefs — Have you informed yourfelves of all vacancies, even in the fmalleft office ? STEELE. In the Cuftom-houfe, there are few ; and they may be difpofed of, to influence the Addrefles in London. ROS^. . The moment I had any apprehenfion of this event, I filled up every thing in my knowledge— ROBINSON. M( m ( 16 ) I 1' Mi it ROBINSON. ril v;arrant you— Shall we begin Avith tondon? MlNIS'^til. By all means — The Corporation is the moil iniquitous body in the kingdom — — ROBINSON. Except the, India Company— PITT. • And, therefore, the flattery muft be the mod fulfome. DUNDAS. \^Entcring in a hurry. The Duchefs of. Gordon begs and intreats (he may receive the firft indrudlions : for (he v;ill break her heart, if ftie does not pro- cure the firft addreiles. ROBINSON. ' Hey-day ! Who will fay our Premier is a wohian-hater ; when he can preferve the favor of fo faftiionable and fo difcerning a w^oman as the Duchefs of Gordon } Pray what is her objedl ^ I am fure it cannot b© Pitt's perfon. I*' i IPRET- 1^ u ( ^7 ) PRETTYMAN. it has been Ibmetime her objedl, and that of Dundas, to marry her daughter to him. ROBINSON. And fo become Premier herfelf. Does Ihe mean to change her fex on the occa- fion ? The tranfition would not be violent j and according to John Hunter, not imprac* ticable: for he fays, it is not uncommon for old HENS TO TURN COCKS. PRETTYMAN. Nonfenfe I-^-^to marry poverty te poverty I R0BIN?'C". Ay ! and to facrifice a fine girl to a cold blooded eel ; who covers with aife6led fanc- tunony the defedls of his nature. STEELE. You know yt>ur importance at this time ; you otherv^ife would not dare— ROBINSON; Not dare I PITT. CoiTie, come! let us proceed. The Dufthefs muil give way to London ; and • ; ' ■ 1 ■! 4 h ft', .ip! I % $ # ( 18 ) I ypii mud make our compliments accord- ingly. ROBINSON. Aye — and tell her, that the pioiis Wil^ berforce defires (lie will make it a maxim in all her drums and hurricanes, that no young and beautiful girl ought be ccmmitted to a youth who has been at Cambridge, under the hands of the Priefts of Mercury. They all ftart up — " explain— explain!" PRETTYMAN. I beg, gentlemen, you will either pro- ceed in bufmefs, or let us break up. ROBINSON. You need not fear, my lord, that I fhould fay any thing indecorous before your lord- Ihip ; or be unmindful of the fate of Al- cibiades, who was guilty of impieties againft this God ; whofe power in Britain, is much greater than it was in Greece, INSTRUCTIONS Mi ( ^9 ) INSTRUCTIONS FOR LONDON. ROBINSON. Who is Lord Mayor — my bricklayer ? ROSE. No, no, he is gone out. The prefeht is ?i ftationer, on whom we have feveral hblds ; both in the Bank, and in biifmefs. • ROBINSON. ' Who are the Sheriffs ? ROSE. ' • They are ours — as we hke. One of them is a bons vivanSf the fat bifcuit baker ; who will do any thing for a pipe of genuine claret : the other is Hammett, one of Mar- garet Nicholfon's knights ; and as grofs ^ compofition of mean avarice and vanity, as ever diftinguiflied the city records. ROBINSON. You have the Court of Aldermen: — a bufinefs of this kind need not be a queftion ■with the Common Council or the Livery. PITT. If it were ; they would have no time to perceive the deception. They have fuckled X> ^ \yith i' ( so ) I': at I it !i II M i I? L with their milk, prejudices againd prero- gative ; and we have given Fox's opinion an air of Toryifm, at wliich all their fe6taries will take offence. It is far bcyopd their po,vv- er, to penetrate the veil that covers arranged majorities, aHuming the rigl,its, of the peo- ple, and violating the tenure of the Crown. 9,0BINSON. How came Lord Lanfdowne to co-operate with you in the deception ? His foplviin will have fome weight among the dilfen- ters ; a3 it is exprefled in their language., PITT. He fii:fi: examined the ground at Carletol^ Houfe, under affe6lionate pretences of fym- pathy with the prefent condition of the. Royal Family : but no defire of his airift- ance being intimated, he determined tu fnatch a little temporary popularity with us. R0JiJ^IS0N. * I am glad his jargon has been adopted^ But what is the Sahts Popull, to the prefent qucftion ? The government is not dilTolved ; and the tenure on wliich the Crown is held, is as fixed and legal a§; tl>jit of ^ny eftate. ] is (• '■'1 ) eftatc. It is true; in certain extremities, all tenures fliould give way to the general welfare. But to affirm the Cro>vn has no rights, contradicts a fixed opinion, that the law confers rights which are facred and in- violate, until they are brought in com- petition with thofe of the pe^^ ic. Here no fuch competition has been in contem- plation. The Prince waited the recogriitioii of ParMamejit, as Lord Wycombe would that of Chancery, if the thin partition in the Mar- quis's brain fhould be rent, by too much cogitation for the public good. And furely the tenure of tlie Crown is as good, as legal, and as much a right as that of the Marquis's eilates ; even thole he derives from tlie practices of Sir William Petty. PITT. You are talking againft us. ROBINSON. It is under the rofe. The prefent fitu- ation does not feem to me to call out the latent and paramount power of the people. If it were-r»you know ajs well as I, Par- liament does not reprefent the tenth part ; r of J«V^*>'-\ iJ^^- It ( '« ) pf tlie nation ; and that the mutilalcJ re- prefentation is rendered totall}' incompetent and ine!ft6lua1, by fiich arrangements as you celebrate my genius for ; and which libellers call packing. The Englifli legiflature is conRituted hy jiSlion ; in which the nation may long acquiefce for the fake of peace, if you do not extend its extravagancies too far. A feigned reprefeniationy generating feigned Royalty, under the open dirediion of an arranged majority ; is, I fear, too grofs and palpable to efcape dete6lion, PITT. Two evils lay before me— ROBINSON. And you have chofen the greateft. — To fay nothing of the public ; for which I pro- fels no regard : you fliould have offered our majority to the Prince. . PITT. I did — in effecl. — The Chancellor did every thing but dire6lly offer it. The Prince has no art ; and all the policy of our prelent fyilem would be loft under him. ROSE. 'If M •■ U 1 W ,'.1 ( 23 ) ROSE. You forget London, in your political ar- gumonts. ROBINSON. No — It is by thefe difcuflions we fliall produce right meafures. The trouble given us in the American war, by the noify interpofitions of the city, drew our parti- cular attention to that flupid vortex of gluttony and chicane. By directing the management of loans to political purpofes, we fecured a fuflFcient body to anfwer all our purpofes : and this is not the only blef- fing of the American war which Pitt enjoys without grateful acknowledgment. STEELE. But are there any particular methods to enfure the addrefles, and to heighten their efl[e6t ? ' . . ROBINSON. You will, of courfe, wTite to the aider- men, bankers, and merchants, in our inter- eft ; remind them of the paft, and the great probability of future favors — alfure them the King is rapidh getting -jcell — and that the ■ w m f} 1 i^ ^'il ( H ) the interregnum of tlie Prince will be fhort ; his powers garbled ; and his itieafureis fupOr- intended and harafled by the prefent ad- miniftration. WILDERFORCE. As the diffenters are numerous in the city, you fliould diliiife an alarnii on the probable danger from Popery. ROBJNSON. True ; and fuggelled by the right fpirit of a renegade. I obferve you, fnivelling Prefbyteriansi when you get over to us — are tlie mod afliduous in alarming and injuring your old friends. WILBERFORCE, You know a certain lady.— ROBINSON. Fie !-*-nothing but fufih a figure as you are^ or fuch a wolf as Rolle, would drag an amiable and apparently imexceptionable woman, iiUo our intereUcd and political contefts. PITT. We have nothing to do with her as a woman. ROBINSON'. ( 25 ) ROBINSON. I believe not.— What fay you Do6lor Prettyman ? Do you think, as a woman, (he has any ih'm^ to fear t'rom our adminiftra- tion ? 1 know not what to think ot Steele —•if he had not been pre-engaged by patro- nage. — I tell you, in fpite of the frowns of the Bifhop, that the Cambridge members are under the fufpicion of being without heads ; and that one of the Bi (hop's views in the plan for confining ordination to the Univerfities, is to check procreation among the clergy. — But I (hall difcufs this matter with my Lord of London ; who has turned his thoughts to population. PITT. You will dafh your wit at the Bifhop — but the hint of \Yilberforce is important— without bringing the lady's accomplifh- ments and virtues into queftion — we may improve the rumors we have been at fome trouble and expence to create — we may infmuate that a future Parliament may annul the a6ls of former Parliaments, and authorife an union alarming to the people, E ROBINSON. y i t "Mil 'I i [l .if:* : 4'- ■ 4i" m I/I .15 ;i C •■'ff ) i 11', ROBINSON". It is too falfe to bear the color of proba- bility. PITT. It has borne the color extremely well : and there are thouiands in town and coun- try, who firmly believe the romance of Home Tooke, and apprehend all the im- poffible confequences of an impoflible tranf- ac^tion. ROBINSON. Well! — I. perceive the arts of caUnnny are improved. PITT. The little white hoiife in Pall-mall is the ear at whicli I would pour in the choiceft venom: and I have long intimated it to Rofe. ROSE. Every eflbrt has been made in that part ; but it is guarded, and the prefs to me is unmanageable. ROBINSON. We found no diiliculty, when we chofe to employ writers : but you have revived the ( =7 ) the barbarous cuftoms of old niuTcs, wlu) eliewed out the juices of the children's food, before they adminiflered it, STEELE. I have wiflied Rofe to purfuc a different method ; but he thinks he has a right of brokerage in every thing that paffes through his hands : and is too much in harte to be rich. ROBINSON. With fucli lucrative brokerage, why lliould his wife have a penfion ? Is ihe hand- fome ? In any but our chafte Adminillra- tion, her chara^er would have fuffercd— • PRETTYMAN. Still flying from the fubje6l, to have ^ blow at your friends ! ROBINSON. I love a blow, at fuch friends as you, Do6lor. But what think you, of a thorough alarm on the fubje(5l of Popery ? It would Ihake the Prince's nerves. PRETTYMAN. I doubt there being zeal enough for any thing, remaining in the nation. But I ain E? of ■< n lit ( 28 ) of Rofe's opinion, that Pall-mall is de- fignedly guarded ; and that the mifchief iiiuft be done, by diffufing hints in the country. I higgelted a mode of relief to the intereH: of Haflings, by infmuations that Sheridan meant to revive the credit of the Pagan religion; that the Bow Begum and the Whore of Babylon, were firfl: coufins ; and that both might endanger the elta- bli filed religion. ROBINSON. The eftabliflied religion is in no danger, but from her own opprefTions and the prof- ligacy and venality of her priefts. I hava. no objedlion, however, to avail myfelf of public credulity about the Whore of Ba- bylon, or the Bow Begum. But I would have you ieparate the improbabilities at their outfet. In London ; particularly among the furious fe6laTies around Moor- fields, any thing will be credited concern- ing Popery ; but nothing of Paganifm and the Bow Begum. You may couple them for the country with the belleffedl. r STEELE, ( =9 ) STEELE. The next circumllance in London, muft rela e to charters : and our meafiires may be eafily extended to all other exceptiona- ble corporations through the kingdom. ROBINSON. The alarm concerning charters, was the mofl mafterly artifice of my life : and I will read you a letter, which, with little variations, may ierve as a ;nodel in our prefent proceedings. To the Right Honorable tjje Lord Mayor, MY LORD, HIS Majefty's Minifters, from memoran-* dums and hints in Mr. Fox's office, which the promptitude of his difmiihon made him overlook— perceive he had formed a plan for demolifhing all the corporations in the kingdom; under the pretence of applying the produce of tlieir funds to the difcharge of the national debt. The in- juilice and vblence of fuch a meafure, will unqueftionably engage your Lordfhip's geal ; and being communicated to the Maf- ters i ^' k{ '11 { 30 ) tcrs of the fcveral companies, cannot fail of rouzing tlieir hatred again (l Mr. Fox. — Your Lordfliip will inimeaiatcly diffUre this important intelligence among the Livery ; who will eafily believe, it was not the real intention of Mr. Fox, to apply a fl:iilling of this money to public ule ; and that it was all defigned for him and his aflbciates, at the clubs in St. Janies's-flreet. I have the honor to be, 6:c. All cry out, Charminsr ! charming: ! ROBINSON. Damn your clamor — I wifli fome mode could be devifed, to render it lefs execra- ble in the Houfe of Commons ? — How is the hunting Meynell affecled ? STEELE. A Blue and BuiT ROBINSON. He has the delightful art of harmonizing the cry of a pack cf hounds. I would give a fmall fum to have the pack behind the Treafury B^^ach taught by fuch an ar.-?. tift. till th tel Bi hi ( 31 ) til). The foprano pai ts I would give to the Cambridge men. Dr. Prettyman — the tenor to the Scots — the bafs to Lord Miil- o-rave ; and the Irifli howl to Macnamara. But I would have the general effe6l to be human — if not mufical. F TT. But let us firO: fecure the Bench. — Have you any further directions refpe6ling Lon- don? ROBINSON. It is not neceflary I Ihould defcend into minutise with fuch men of genius as your Secretaries. You will remember the flou- ri{hing Rate of the Cuftoms andExcife ; the Liiproving condition of trade and com- merce :— and though Pitt knows no more of them than my horfe ; and iio Miniller can greatly or fuddenly influence them — they mult be all attributed to his wif- uom and virtue. Have you lately had any thing to do with the brethren of the Trinky-Houfe f An Addrels from them would not be amifs. Many circumllances interelling to navigation, rre under their WTetched 4'i m\ mi 1 y .'(fill I ■ a: sv. ( sa ) wretched direclion : and they are fo igno- rant and interefted, that yoii may ven- ture on any extravagance, in fiiggefting hints. I remember a confiiltation with two of them, on a compliment to Lord North: and I nearly brought them to declare, the bed of the river Thames had been traced out by his Lordlhip's finger. Some rnlucky event in the American war pre- vented the compliment ; and you are wel- come to the ufe of it for Mr. Pitt. PITT. Southwark will follow the city. ROBINSON. By the pious endeavors of Mr. Wilber- force's couf.ns. What aftonifliing for- tunes have been made by fmuggling !— and fmuggling mafqued by piety ! yet this is the age of Reformation ; by great linug- glers impeaching the little. Don't be an- gry, Wilberforce ; as you will have occa- fion for your patience, when I accompany you into Yorkfliire. ROSE. '..kj ,„ ( 33 ) ROSE. Vou have faid nothing of the City Mem- bers in our intereft— - ROBINSON. They are too contemptible, even for my fatire. . F'if 'If - 'i, : 'i ■, m^ i • . t ,a I < . i. .• S I .. . Jf;;! .: 1 INSTRUC- :*^^ ) f i' 1 i V • ■-., h. \ ,.- 'i'j iyi ( 34 ) 'W, k |!( I INSTRUCTIONS FOR YORKSHIRi; Robinson's exordium. ACCUSTOMED as I have been to the machinations of pohtical profligacy, the pen drops from my hand, when I meditate deceptions on the largeil county in Eng- land ; rcprefenc* >- feveral Parliaments by the talents and \u tues of Sir George Sa- ville. Our poor unfortunate Monarch; who had more difcernment of chara6lers than was imagiiied, often exclaimed, " If I " could form a Miniftry of fuch men, as «* Sir George; I would changamy fyftem ; " and my country would be profperous " and happy." With talents, in every refpe6t, anfwerable to the dignity of his; truft ; and with a fortune fuited to the li- berality of his mind ; he refledfed luftre on the Conftituents who deputed him; and awed the venal majorities of Parliament into caution and decorum ! What a contraft ! — I love not to infuft puny effeminacy ; but I cannot, without sr fpeciisf I the the ite ( 35 ) fpecies df lliame, contemplate in his iiic- ceflbr, the immediate offspring of a trading- fmuggler ; with the manners of a taylor ; and the c:inting plaulibility of a methodift preacher. ' STEELE. Sir — I will not hear my friend thus abiifcd. ROBINSON. It would be curious to have our conful- tation terminate in a- duel. But I only de- lineate chara(5lers iti corifidence, and by way of ftating the difficulties in accomplilhing our views. When the terror of the coali- tion had fubfided, and the county of York viewed its. proceedings, a deep and general regret fucceeded. The gentlemen of the county, accuftomed to refort to the hofpi- table and magnificent table of their repre- ferttative ; and there to meet the, firft com- pany in talents and rank: had no fooner chofen his fucceflbr, than he difappeajred. His eftate, confifling only of a fmall farm, \vas almoft riamelefs : and to elude tlie*'ne- ceflity of giving a conftitu^nt si beef ileak, • • F 2 lie II f '! i i\ ( 36 ) he {kipped monthly in town, from one mear\ lodging to another. PITT. You would not have him facrifice his health to the entertainment of his confti- tuents — ROBINSOK. I would have him quit a flatiori^ into^ which he was driven by a fpecies of hurri- cane: and if he mull be in Parliament to fecure the rank of a gentleman, let it be for fome dirty borough ; whofe fenfibility will not be aflfe6led, at his aflbciating with fecretaries, paragraph -writers, and other inftruments of low falsehood ai * calumny. At the General Eledlion — would you deli- berately oppofe fuch a chara6ler to the fa- milies of Cayendifh and Fitz-William ?— PITT. That is not the prefect queftipn. We, Mr. Pitt, on the fubje<^ — Do you know the Vifir's name ? : ^ '/.•.::)•■': -' ': ROSE. ^ ■■'■'' We can obtain it.— -^ ^^ ROBINSON. * We had better not ufe real names, kft it Ihoukl be made public. Thefe Turks may not like fud\ liberties. ** Haflan-Beg Vifir, and firft flave to hi:$ " Sublime Highnefs, the Emperor of the ** Wx)rld ; the King of all the Kings of the *' Earth; the Conqueror of Empires, thd ** The King, on his recovery, would ne- ver forgive it. ROBINSON- When Sir George Saville averred the Houfe of Commons not to be a reprefen- tation of the people, and called it a cor- rupt aflembly; the fame idea occurred to me, which Camden fuggefted to you, on Fox's declaration of the Prince's right. I wifhed Parliament to take up the queflior^, and to vote it/elf' an incorrupt and adequate reprefentation. This vote would have been a proper companion to that you have ob- tained. But I would h^ve riyetted its au- thenticity ^wrmifmmmit^ ( 53 ) • thenticity by committing Sir George to the Tower. You are a coward — though you blufter. ^We will leave Ireland; ^nd return by Devonfliire. .*'. A DEVON- IWI i 1^ I 1, ( 54 ) DEVONSHIRE. ' ROBINSON. THIS is tlie fecond Englilh county In fize, but not in confequencc. And 1 find you depend on a fictitious intcrcil that ^iiay addrefs in its name. PITT. Lord Fortcfcue is married to my cou- fin ; and I have frequently obliged his friends. RoUc is at my devotion, for his heart is fixed on a coronet ; ii'id he can never hope to obtain it but by means. ROBINSON. He feems to be the maftift' of the Trea- fury Bench : for when any indecent out- rage is to be committed on the Prince's chara6ler or conne^lions, you flirink back with an air of prudiib fenfibility ; and Rolle fixes his fangs in the vi6lim. An un- cle, from whom he derives a great part of his eftate, was for m.any years the Tory Patriot of Devonfhire. Sir R. Walpole per ceived the family infirmity ; and funk him mtofthe contempt he defer ved, by a Patent of Peerage ( ,5,01 I Peerage to him, and the bn'rsnfbis My, at the age of /evenly. Fox ma} take this hint ; and fileiice your Cerberus in the fame way. PITT. . He is very ufefal. But my interefl in Devonfliire is much flrengthened by the Eall-Indians who are difperfed through it ; and who are terrified at the name of Fox, as implying juftice and retribution. Every India culprit is perfuaded a general judg- ment will take place on Fox's return to power ; and that the produce ot opprelfion and villainy mult be difgorged. ROBINSON. Will the city of Exeter follow the ex- ample of the county ; if your friends ihould force through an Addrel's i* PITT. . I fear not. — Yet I think I have removed the fufpicion which the Declarator^ Bill had excited in the Barings : and of two evils, they w^ould prefer me to Fox. ■- — - -Hi- — <-^i^\ ..'ai>.'-' ' iTvi Yi.---.Jl^*'"W*f*.i^»-»"5" ( 57 ) PITT. Hardly any— unlcl's Lord Lanfdowne (lioiild prove fincere — wliith would be a miracle, lie is in the neighborho )d, and has promiied, with all his addrels and influence, to promote our intereil in his tour. ROBINSON. What has brouglit you and the wily Marquis again together? PITT. You know he affects the principles and language of a Cincinmtus ; but on the flight- ed agitation in the political world, he thruils himfelf forward, and artfully feeks ;m au. Uitage. But he has not tlie talent to conceal the artifice. There are two opinions on me and on Fox ; on Thurlow or Camben: there is but one on Lord Lanfdowne: and he will never, for three jnonths, be Minifter of this country. ROBINSON. He would not defire a longer period ; if on the eve of a peace, or any great event, which atfc6ted the ftocks, I PITT. Wk^ m m M^ I ( 58 ) PITT. He fliould have been a hroi.cr in tlie Alley. He is active ; Lut little and minute. Hi^- viev^'S are always ihort of the real political horizon ; and his aniduity about information is ren- dered ufeleis by his crec'ulity. — He does every thing in his power to render Lord Wycombe as equivocal and infigniiicant as himfelf. He changes his mode and object of education every year ; whirls him per- pelually through Europe to acquire infor- mation and Tupprefs prejudices; and he will probably, like his father, have no J. w fyftem, principle, or manners, either in po- htics, religion, or conduct!. — The Marquis's hope of popularity refts on his old friends, \vho, I underftand, abhor h'm to a man ; but mean to mal'e ufe of him. They want the Tell A6\ removed ; becaufe occafion- al confor iiity generally terminates in a total defertion cf them. The Marquis is preparing a Bill, which is to coalefce the Diflenters and Roman Catiiolics ; and I have promifed my afTu'lance, for his fer\ices in the pre lent moment. ROBIN- ( S9 ) ROB IN SOX. Can you change fo loon — after your ftronix dedarations ao-ainft the late diilent- ing apj)]ication ? PITT. I am guided in that matter wholly by Dr. Pretty man. ROBINSON. Be guided alfo a little by me. I know you mean to uie Lord Lanfdowne, with- out ceremony, on the article of fincerity. This Bill may be rendered extremely for- midable to Fox's Adminiftration. Fox has declared himfelf unequivocally for extend- ing the a6ts of toleration. Let the matter be prefTed by tlie Marquis on the faith of the Miniller's declaration. If Fox fall into the fnare ; alarm the country, and aver he is influenced by a certain i.-ady, on whom you may boldly charge the improbable de- lign of fubllituting Popery for the Proteftant Religion. 11 Fox perceive the danger, and ibrink from it ; declare loudly for tolera- tion, and render Fox odious to all the Peti- tioners, and contemptible in the country. I 2 PRETTY- ( 6o ) PRETTYMAK, [^Taking Robinlbn by the hand. I forgive all )^our farcaihis on me. This alone will overturn tiie Prince's Minidry : and Mr. Pitt Iliall be prepared for it — on your idea. ROSE. Let us proceed in buiinefs. ROBINSON. You mull not defcend i^o much into mi- nutiae. In Somerfctiliire, your hints may be general. You know how the Houie di- vided. STEELE. Sir Benjamin Hammett begs an Addref» may be dravv^n up for Taunton ; and that he may have the credit of it. This flcetch has been fent up to him ; and he defires we will ufe it as hints. l3 7 St. Mawes 31 28 Newport in Cornwall - 62 29 Newport, Hants - Q4f 30 N:3wton, Lancafhh'e - 60 31 Newton, Hants 12 p|i° 32 Oueenboroiigh - 70 Imi r,3 Ronmey 32 34 Saltalh - 28 35 Salifbury (New Sarum) 5^ t 36 Old Sarum - 7 . 37 Stockbridge 70 1 38 Thetfbrd « 31 39 Tiverton - 2^ 40 Truro - - , 26 41 Weobly - - - - 80 Carried over 1754 ( G9 ) Namts of Duroughs. 43 Weftbury 43 Weft Looe 44 Whitchurch 45 W^incbelfea Number of Voters. Brought ovLT 17^5.1, ^ - 70 1^6 Ninety members of the Englifli Parlia- ment are chofen by lefs than two thoufand unprincipled raggamuffins ; nine in ten of which have no choice ; and may be fecured to Satan at the expence of five pounds per annum, a head. — If you had confulted me inftead of Thurlow, I would have obtained for you a permanent command of the Houfe of Commons, with half the trouble you have had in Weftminfter : the folly of which muft aftonifh you ; when you confider Weftminfter has twelve thoufand voters ; and that ninety members are returned by lefs than two thoufand. That Fox Ihould be repeatedly returned for Weftminfter, and carry another member, againft the whole power of government; is unquef- tionably it: I ■5} I I ( 70 ) tinnably a ftroiiger proof of popularity, than any thing that has ever been pro- cured by parhament iry ma'orities, or than any addreiles we can obtahi from corrupt boroughs. — But it is not fo profitable, or fo well calculated for impoiilioli. PITT — TO HOSE AND STEELE, You will take care the letters to the borough -jobbers, and tlie adhrances to the members, be dire6tly oppofite ; on the in* genious idea of Mr. Robinfon. STEELE. Lord Camden has given in his addrels for Bath, which may ferve as a model fot the corrupt boroughs. mx To the Right Honorable William Pitt, &. "SIR, " You niillake the Influence of tlie palace in this city. The grey mare is the better horfc. And by the evil councils of Dr. S~— M~ — , Mrs. H is w.^olly em- ployed in driving ficknefles, fores, and peccant humors out of the town, by Vel- nos' Vegetable Syrup. The faculty is all aghaO: and flarving : and the do61or, at the age of feventy ; vvhofe complications ( 75 3 Its le Is- le- ** arc very puzzling ; but profita])]c : is vo- •• cifirating through town and country, that " he is cured as by a miracle: — that it is ** nonfenfe to addrcfs ; or to appoint a re- " gent ; that he will walk up to Kew ; take " the medicine with him ; and cure the ** King. " We hope the fury of his zeal will foon " abate J and that all thino-s Vv ill return to *' their ullial channel. We fliall then try " an Addrefs. " If he comes up; it is to be hoped you " will not attend to him ; thougii he is a ** very good man in every thing but his ** la^e prejudice to the facultj^ He pre- " tends to trace our principal difeafes to " Saxon origin ; and fpeaks learnedly but ** wildlj' on the fcurvy, as the root to be ** aimed at by medicine. He has heard his *' Majeily took Maredant's drops with ill ** eifefls ; and that Dr. W^illis gives him mercury. You it; y therefore expect to fee the old gentleman upi with a view to difplace the Do61or. *^ I have the honor to be, &.c.'* i^'l tc re %■* •!l L 2 DUiVDAS. I ( 76 ) DUNDAS. figad, there may be fome hope. PITT. Will you propofe it to the Chancellor i after he has fettled an ariftocracy ; which is infinitely more to his mind, than the Conftitution of this country ? I would not fuilain his volley of oaths for all the chances to b'e given us by any remedy. But I would fecommend it to Mr. Dundas, to purify his conftitution in retirement. DUNDAS. I do not want it to invigorate or warm me. I am old enough to be your father ; yet I have never iluffed up my troufers with flannels. PRETTYMAN. Every thing here leads to altercation. You , imagine yourfelves in the Houfe of Commons. You have palTed from Chel- tenham to Peterborough, to purfue extra- vagances concerning a noftrum ; which, if conveyed from heaven with miracles to at- tefl it, the phyficians would not permit you to life in the cafe of the King. Can you do ih'.l 1 ( 77 ) do nothing at Worcciler, with tlie Recorder iiiid Bifliop in your intereft ? ROBINSON. Are you fure you can rely on the Bllhop? Will he not aff'edl a regard for his pupi]. Dr. Pretty man ? Or do you forget Thur- low's opiriioHi given of your order but three days fince ? " The moment you lole " a ray of the fun, you lofe that d — n — d " r — fc — lly Bench/' However, Worcefler is thoroughly corrupt : and in a corrupt borough, an Addrefs may be obtained for any party. STEELE. Macnamara has been defired to fend dowa a httle money to Leicefter, in the fevere weather, and to requell an Addrefs. This expedient may be ufed in other plaa ■., ROBINSON. The clergy— PITT. I believe nothing can be obtained from the Archbilhops ; neither of them being particiiilarly obliged to me. PRETTYMAN, Ml I M I t i; '( 78 ) m '■' 'W^! If ' ' PRETTY MAN. V * If Durham >vill lead, and Chichefter fol- low, under tlic influence of Mr. Steele's patron ; an Addrefs fliall be fent from , Lincoln. STEELE. The influence of the Duke of Richmond is to come : — for he is promifed the nomi- nation of the next Bifliop. I am forry id fay, his refidence in the neighborhood is Hot a prefuniption of his influence, ROBINSON. In an Addrefs from the "clergy, there fhould be ftrons^ infinuations that the new Minifl:ry will introduce Popery; PITT. Thurlow will not admit it — -he fwears t^opery to be as good as aily thing dfe—- and that his brother can neither write an Addrefs, or read it when Written — biit that ^e may make ufe of him if we pleafe. PRETTYMAN. Let the Addrefs from Durham be fuoti as will not offend theChantellor. — I will pro- CUV^ fome fignatm'es in Lincoln to the fol- lowing : ( ?9 ) lowing : — ^Thcre may he peculiarities m \t ; I cannot prevail on the Chapter to Sign it. *' \Yc, the Bifliop and Clergy of the Diocefe " of Lincoln, inipreircd with the higheft ve- " Deration for tliefacredConAJtution of this " country hoth in church andftate; obferve '.* with gratitude and delight tlie watchful at- */ tention of a beavcn-honi youth and a virtuous " majority in both lloures, to preferve that ** Conttitution ircm cabal and violence. " As in the prefent melancholy fufpenfion */ of Royal atithority, the wiidom and virtue ** of Parliament is to provide a third effate; " We hope they will form its Ih'ength only ** for the occafion ; provide a proper control *• on its powers ; and infure the eafy return ** of all things to their former channels. ** We participate the more largely in the ** general gratitude on this occafion — as the V youth who has lifted tive nation from def- ." pondence to profperlty, opened newfourccs V of wealth, and/i/;7/y//jt'^ that fuperiority in ** invention and induftry, which are the di- V ftinctions and advantages of Great Britain, << is the pupil of our diocefan ; the choicell <* offspring ^■y m i PI III •t< 1; m "^m J^ M ( So ) •* offspring of his mind ; and the faithful co- ** py of his talents and virtues. " We regret that an abandoned fadlion <* fbould, even for a fhort time, interrupt the *< patriotic offices of thefe great and good «* men : and we deplore the depravity which <« lias attempted to contaminate their names. •* With a peculiar refinement of impudence ^* and malice, they have laboured to fix a <' falfehood, on a facred and unfpotted cha- " ra6ter ; becaufehe would not fubmit to ex- *^ planations for the purpofes of an artful and •• defigning fe6lary : of whom his own em- •• ployers averred, " If he does not find a lie, ^* he will make one."— It is not wonderful, " perfons thus calumniating the clergy, " fliould meditate their expulfion by the re- " eftablifhment of Popery. " Such men, we hope, will not reign long ; " and if our prayers are heard, his Majefty " will foon recover ; and you, and your vir- " tuous majorities, will fully refume thofe. " reins, on which in the Regency you will *' only have a check. "Lincoln, of January, 1789." ROBINSON. ( 81 ) ,, . ROBINSON. This exceeds even my conccpllort of im- pudence. However, it may properly pre- pare us for the Univerfities. You have pafled an awkv^^arcl compliment through the cities of Oxford and Cambridge : why are the Uniyerfities filent ? It would be a curi- ous proof of fupple depravity, to hear the Igngu^ge of republicanifm from Oxford ; which has ever been tenacious of Tory and Jacobite principles. PITT. Lord North retains fome influence as Chancellor— and the Univerfity is too opu- lent for fudden and rapid revolutions. At. Cambridge it is othcrvvife ; and the Mafterj of colleges are as importunate with Mini- Hers and Patrons, as the venal members of the moft corrupt boroughs. ROBINSON, I have often fmtled at the fan6lity of your behavior, and the reproaches of your fcrib- lers, on the fubje6l of gaming and gaming- houfes. The petty injuries on private for-? %\xn^ ijx St. femes's-ftreet^ ai'e pnly the foU M lies 4-, I if i \l 1 ( 82 ) lies of idle children, compared with that impious traHic you carried on at Cam- bridge. pm. 1 never faw a clergyman, who thought that rpecies of traliic a crime. The eafly habit of implicit fublcription, and adopt- ing pro[)ofnions or doch'ines for interell, render the clergy very managable in that way. ROBINSON. In a hady tour I formerly made, I wa^s accom})anied by a clergyman of daIlin6lion in the literary world, and of known lati- tude in religious opinions. In Paris and Rome ; his letters wer^ principally to the Efprits Forts— -Free Thinkers : and I was alloniihed to obi'erve, they conhlfed prin- cipally of clergy ; and that they were ge- nerally diilhtisfied with him, for retaimug prejudices amcermng a God. This they con- sidered, not only a proof mental imbeci- lity ; but a folly — as it left embar'alhng fcruplcs, and prevented that unlimited con- formity which his intereft and ambition might it; Ihat ■ • ifly [pt- ( H ) might require. What, fald I, are the idei^gy divided into lliipid cMitluiiiafts and concealed Atlieifts? With his iii'ual r«ui- dor, he faid, I will not pronounce Tuch an c43inion :— while ignorance and authority were the parents of religion, fubfcriptions might be confcientioully adopted: but where knowledge and frcedoiTi are encou- raged, I lee no alyluin for ambition beiides Atheiiin. I ha\. ,b<3rne this hint in my re- collection, in all ecclefialTical negociations : and I aiViire you, Dr. Pretty man, 1 have never been ^milled by it. PRETTYMAN. You would not. hint that the clergy in general are Atheiits? ' ' • ROBINSON. I know diere are Atheifis imong them : and that the necelTary ettecl ot requiring afi'ent to nietaphyfical opinions as tae on- dition of preferment — is t(> i2;eneraLe Athe- ifmin the very bofom of the church. ' . In i^ambridgc, you fee, the fcmpulous and confcientious Mr. Friend is expelled the r Univerilty, by the confidential acquaint- ance rs* s M a IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) 1.0 ■ 28 I M^^H Hi 2.5 y^ lii^ |2.2 1^ lillio lU 1.1 1.8 1-25 1.4 ||.6 6" ► Photographic Sdences Corporation 33 WP>T MAIN STREET WEBSUk'.N.Y. USSO (716) •7i-4i, T nhce of John Home Tdoke. ' Vou baiiifh thofewho have principles, to i^tain thoife ^■who have none..:-;«- J ■ :' t)'''^' . ;;-'-'^;-''-y ,^i&iAs youafOidifpofed to moralize on eccfe- ^ fiaftical policy — why not have' a conference itvith .the Chancellor I '^ ^M^^^^-SL iM;^'- ' * ■.■■,, t.i*-/:^^-r ■'■ 0.' ROBINSONv '.^-vn'-'v :_:;■-' • k :lthat main's behavior has been lb infult* '^ ing to every thing likfe decency, that, I am - toldj my Lord North has wifhed to fub- mit to Parliament, " inftead of leaving " facred benefices to a ChafncfeUor, who '* may of all men be the mod unfandlified < ** and indecent, and who may. be Con- ** firmed in the habits of party intrigues ; •* it be the bufinefs of a Council form- r : ^ ed for the purpofe, and compofed of ; ** men diftinguifhed for their cbaroBerszs .-/f well as abilities/' The views of Govern- • ment would then have fome chance of be- ', ing combined with perfonal merit ; fome refiftance would be occafionally given U» infiuence and favoritifm ; andreligiemmi^t \ ■•m VI ( 85 ) MV^ Ibftic ccfncerh in the diftribiitidn cff r . : tnflead of affifting us In the purpofea of bur confiiltatiori ; you often adopt the ideas of Reformers; and pronounce fatires on ^ur proceedings. 1 ^' ^i^i^^^^MtJrr ■ ltOBINS02f. "^r I (Sihnot (^hfider them, for your fervice, without fatire* Td form an Addrefs for Cambridge, I ihould fully iinderftand th« V eifecLi of your operations there. "' '^'^^ ' v., ,^ PREtTYMAN. Ay— biit you break out in general and illiberal refl^6lions. ^^ ' f ' '> - ■ .^'^^''^-- '^'' - ■^' *" ROBtNSOK.' ''^ • • ■ '• ; Is it illiberal, my Lord, to employ the Intervals furnilhed by the occupation of the ' Secretaries, in obferving to your Lordfhip . '*:^«— that the rapid 'progrefs of clerical for- ~ "tiines, in the cafes of thofe who find good • patrons, is injurious to morals as it is dif- honorable • to rdigion ? When a man has ' ferved a Minift6r, or a Chancellor, in the • ^dirty office^ of Elefe. David — at Dur-- ham-^>»or at Lincoln? ^ «re ^jScWi^W- isA 4igfiities to be ccujferr^, As ivdJ ijs 5acc€^ted> without th^ li^ri^hoiifii^torjrf m account to thel>eityt? >rto ^-; j^i. > s^f^/*- > •■;-,:,..►...* ■i-.;^ .,v.;^i': PITT; ■•-f.-i^; f:' ^^:^^*'^\(S ^^ Steele Ims :|)rcf«J»d)tlje Addi»6; '-^^ r'^*'"-'' ,v*''"' A D D R E S S •( H( . to tk Righl ilTtiojuhhle WHUam iPiUiy ^c. ** We» tljig Vice jQhaaifdior, Bi^orS, '** Maft^rs, n&c; tof tfee 'Univ^fifey cf pkufe of your wi&rand (^Ji^^^j/ }C»ndu6l ia^- ** termining that the ^Jceeutive Gmmi^ «• imeiiit^is at your di%K>fiil. * ^H^^^^^^-^f ><* This dbte»minati«yn:^ .pasticulariy m* <* tereftingTto »s, «s itts^.tfltenf^e awtW is "a pupil !* ^ .V f y.^"' it it f( « tf { 87 ) y a pupil of our ancient and excelleat in- fi ftitution. Mr .*." We propofe the cultivation of his " genius, and the purity of his morals, as exemplary effe6ts of our education and dHcipline. And we • regret a provi- " dential ev^t, has interrupted, for a time, the beneficial confequences, of the intimate connedlion of this pious Uni- verfity, and the Minifter of Great Bri- ** tain . The current of ecclefiaftical favors */ was directed here ; and all precautions ** were taken againft fuch external impro- <* prieties ia their diftribution, as might " occafion fcandal and injury to religion. ' *«* Here the mathematics arife as from ** their native fpring ; and here the float- *'' ing ideas on aational burthens and re- " lief, have been concentrated into that *^*' aftonifhing plan., which pays by borrow- " ing, and removes apprehenfions of fu- ** turity, by multiplying prefent and cer- <* taitt evils. 4*^. v.* >• • - ..,. * ** Here alone the demonftrations of fd- '* ence are harmonioufly incorporated with :.J:[^--\ - : : ■ ',:.■.; ->■•• «^ the % f,' I t t; • 1 ^\ r ■ ^■m \ij ■' >. :■- < . -■<*■' m^ ( 88 ) fj I •« the inexplicable dogmas of faith — and «* here may be happily and expeditioufl^ f' formed, thofe moral phenomena, which ** unite fceptjcifm and implicit acquief-» <* cence, and fecret indefinite latitude with " the fev^reft reftraints on imprudent pro- 1f fefiions. ..•*:■-' [ ■■ f^-, . ^* It is pur h^ppir^efs to perceive, that pious leiTons and falut^ry difcipline, have extirpated from you, and yo,ur imme- diate conne6tions, the very principles of amorous infirmities— and \ve rejoice to fee you leading a band, whicli ppffefles V all the faculties of the State ; affumes at " pleafure the authority of Conftituents^ <* the powers of Legiflation, and the pre-: V rpg^tivesi of th\e executive Magiftra^te^ v Thati €€ tc <( « <( i( t >'" ■J-s- t ' pi •I „#;. r> r?* ( 89 ) ** That this faithful band may be pre- " ferved compa6l ; while it feems to yield to " an adverfe power ; that it may retain the " real, while others have the odenfible go- " vernment of the country — and that it " may fpeedily recover its fituation and *' effedl— is the hourly prayer of, Sir, &c. " Given in full, Senate, Sccf , -■ -ut^.^ .. PITT. "'•^"' .if 'A: We muft now think of Birmingham* Manchefter, and Sheffield. Ml-. -.Jiii. •:-/! ROBINSON. .' ' ; ; , ^, You cannot have the impudence— DUNDAS. "What would a minifter be, without im- pudence? . . * , ^.- - ROBINSON. Ml public men are impqflors, from Julius C^far.down to Do6lor Graham, Katter- felto/and William Pitt. But have they fought dete6lion by inviting the eye of knowledge, or fubmittjng to the teft of ia6ls?-F-When Pitt iirft exhibited himfelf, he perceived his danger from the prefs, by l^if ^ a fpecies ' -i^*. S ^: m t\'. ... ■* ■ % ( 90 ) a rpecies 6f intuition. He affefled to cid*- pife it ; and the piiblid opinion, of which it is the organ. To a few difcerning minds, it wag ah indication of (hallow parts ; and a proof that at .heart he was afraid of its decifions, or ^id not chufe to be fairly ac- countable to the public : but to Drake and Macnamara, ,and fuch herdds df his fame, it feemed aftonifhing magnanimity — and how many Drakes ahd Macnamara's to one man of good fenfe ? / * STEELE. A , I differ from you on this part of the fub-- ie€t. I {Hirik Mr. Pitt will foon p6i*ceive^ literature is not to be offended without •danger. If then of talents may be held down by poverty ahd negligence, becaufe they will not hew wood and draw water for the emolument of Mr. Rofe ; — we have leeil miniliers covered with public contempt by the efforts df literature ; and that contempt has occalloned their fall. - v ^j?.; ^^v' , ;;•--,,.. .,.-.^ _ . ROBINSON. ':- ''■-'-'-■■-••' V. : i mean not to - difpute your opinion — I think the arrogance of oiir Minifter, is ^ ; * '\ 'c . ' equalled *- ,*i*: it is, Ind its ic- bd le, bd to ( 9^ ) •^qualled only by his ignorance-— and would you have that ignorance placed in broad day light ? Dkl the prieft who humbled an Egyptian multitude before a Calf or ^n Onion, to influer^ce the flood of the Nile, propofe an inveftigation of its fources in Abyflinia ? Whence that mighty ftream of affluence ; which, at this timej, diftjnguilhes Great Britain, and aftonilhes the world— which bore the immenfe expenditure of the American war : and which, reftored by peace to its channel, fuftains the enormous preflUre of pQlitic':^v-i.A<".r ■ .■/'•^;:.'j;!, «•,;■•■•; •J i.- '*! :'%: '■ /V«-:?>'-.t -*• PITT. .^'■}i% I believe I have. ^ ' ' ROBINSON. * ' ^. Arid have you heard of the Steam En-* 5 * I have heard it is a clever invention. .;-'.* 7'''/*"""''-''*' 7' ■""'"•■ ROBINSON.' • "^^ ^ ■.**^-;» /^ Have you no idea of the advantages given to our general induftry by thefe in- ventions, or the torrents of wealth they ge^ \ iaerate in the country ? - V* ' t f ?. ( 93 ) / PITT. They are not in my way. ROBINSON. To give you my opinion of the matter —if, at this moment, both Houfes of Par-. liament (including even your majorities) were hovering on a precipice, anticipating theh* future fate — and they could be faved at the expence of the cotton mill, or the fteam engine — by G— they fhould go down— and with ineftimable advantage ta the country. DUNDAS. Suppofe the vanity of thofe inventors were attempted — Arkwright has fuUied his fame by Knighthood — Bolton has his weak fide ; and Dundonald his foible. ROBINSON. Send Pretcyman with fome propofal of the kind to Wedgwood — on condition that he afcribe to the genius of Pitt all the in- duftry and wealth produced by the Staf- fordihire pottery. ■>''■ n i I FITT, • •-/ ■-., ■■;p|.^f"iwi(f|i"i.w jii.j III 11.1 jp, ( 94 ) PITT. You are laughing at us — the places you allude to are not deftitute of fools. ' 1 .♦, w ROBINSON. •» •■ »., 1' True— and by cautious artifices you may have addrefles; but you fhpuld diverfify their obje6ls — let fome of them be to the Regent for the contirmmce of the prefent Adminijlra', Hon, on the idea that we are frionds tq peace. — I doubt, however, after the offences wantonly committed on our manufa6lures, that no teftimonies of approbation can b i,'f When Mr. Robinlbn talks of offences ag^inft manufacturers, he feems out of his. provmce. 3§10BINS0N« 1' •^1 y^T' ' ^ ri'r T ( 9^ i ROBINSOll. * Provoke me not into a view of your ad- "Yniniftration — if any thing can be called yours.— ^In finance, your principal confi- ullants, have been purfers of ihips, fwindling bankers, and revenue officers ; who rung in your ears, every thing was right ; for the taxes were paid -.—Meaning, the money was in their pofleffion. If the pofllbility or im- poffibility of colle6lion, be the only limit to the argumentation of taxes — the Minifter would be right in attending only to collec- tors : for they would have the moft accu- rate knowledge of the extent of augmen- tations. But who is to attend to the fitua- tidn of the country, when the payment of tdxes has been enforced ? Is this no concern of Government ? Or is it to be known only from the rapacious appetite of Rofe, the un- feeling arithmetic of Jenkinfon and Chal- mers ; or from revenue officers, whofe wealth and luxury are aggravations of general fuf- ROSE. You feem to be particularly irritated by my good fortune. . ROBINSON. ^i \ \ ./■ / -ly/' ''^'-■' f , . . ■: .j/: , >. >W*i .T. t S^ ) ROBINSON. Not I— ^It is not the man but the abuie ; leading to ho advantage. Tofecure a laoi- rough is an obje<5l. But I fee no reafon, villages, towns, and counties, Ihould be haraffed by Tax-gatherers and Excifemen, to make the fortunes of Pitt, Rofe, and Steele. What an impreffion does it make on the mind, when induftry is obftru6led, that you may partake of the fpoil ? Com- pare the grants to a Thurlow with his cha^ ra6ler, and the ufe of his fonorous and flial^ low talents. Compare the painful labor of the peafant, who contributes to this bloated tool of party, with the wants of his numerous family : and — I had almoft faid, Mr. Rofe would relent — every feeling mind mull execrate the pretentions of rapacity, malked by the artifices of finance ; and de- ftru6live of the happinefs of fociety. STEELE. A few minutes ago, you celebrated the profperity of the nation. ROBINSON. maBSBSSsssssm ( 97 ) 4a nOBINSON. Where the Excife laws are extended, the condition of the country is altered for the worf^; notwithftanding the extenfion of com- jnerce, andafpiritof induftry, apparently iinconquerable. The neceflity of colle6l- ing high and numerous imports, requires exa6lnefs and feverity ; the odious authority gf Excifemen is augmented ; the Magiftrates become infeniible to complaints : and the. ufual encouragements of agriculture, the operations of ingenious diligence, and the ^ffe6ls of invention are gradually extin- guifhed. ,%; , We have no murmurs or complaints. Vrn;»;r iiopiNsoN. .. The lipleffnefs and apathy, with which you h^ve been TufFered to extend the Excife laws, is a melancholy fymptom. The prifons have been long filled ^ith vyretches, whofe firft knowledge of their offence, is in the punifhment: one dafs of fi^bjedls is perpe- tually watching and warring againft the ^•'-ri^l "■ O other; J, I; . * •«-i*;' ■ :.i' V.-lt • > ■: . PITT. '■ ■"•■ " • ^V'■ v.- - i was afraid to hint any fuch defign to you— I have fuifered many valuable things to pafs me ; not apprehending this fudden interruption. /*■--• »-;; -- -^4^ //^ ; • :. ROBINSON, [t iiiibidumn.:: ■ '•' My thoughts and opinions are not rule* for my a6lions. All great officers haye the indecency to Jfecure penfions fpr themfelves . .' and immmfi TS \ ( ioi ) and familieSi on difmiflio^ or ^ifgrace$^ Though you have poflefled offices; where yoU' hiight have sk:cumulated z fortune ; though you have no claims on public gra- titude : you have rights frpm public folly, and you (hould aflert them at this time. As you determine on alms, either from parliament or the people — let me conclude my exercifes on your patience, by expreffing my wonder, that the family of Pitt, which has ever been on the charity of the public, Ihould have been remarkable for inattention to the diftreffes of the poor. It ihould be written on the heart of a Chancellor of the Exchequer, that oppreffions, occafioning the diminution of earnings, and augment- ing expences in the poor, preclude thofe fcanty favings with which they formerly cheered the hours of repofe or ficknefs and plunge them into the prifons of pariihes, imder the fangs of harpies.— But I will defift— Power is pafllng into other hands ; r*"d though they are my enemies, I will bear my teftimony to their talents and hu- manity. •I J % I ■ i t,'.*;. ^;i i 4 il ■■■it jLM^ inlbwty. The voice of pii^r to the didisefiU^ iaev^ penetrated thfi h^qiq pf ;a Pi^, or infimsq^any poiincils ;^ggei[ied ^ THM^^ iird 'tO^j ! / rt'V'- ;t,"» t.-krirfrf'i ?;dv y .[' ^! •fU ';0 ».«-i>v tm ^^ '-■'^■"■'■'•^rjrf 1 :;^'r/. no e4^iio*K»c^ vn .»>■) i;tT!U£ ■:^I' IrjtiX' *>< ( ».JJ b: '«♦ '• r ;. ^ * »/ Y . ,l"il^ hsq iDIv ?Ktk?^,t;iil nu j^iod idv*) t-iif! 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