THE 
 
 jr k i o H T HONOURABLE 
 
 ANNUITANT 
 
 VI N D I C A T E D. 
 
 WITH 
 
 A Word or two m Favour of the other 
 
 GREAT MAN, inCafeofhis 
 
 RESIGNATION. 
 
 In a LETTER to 
 1 RIEND in theCOUNTRY. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Pri. lUd f or J, MORGAN, in Pattr-nofier Row. 
 MDCCLXI. 
 
 (Price One Shilling.)
 
 THE 
 
 RIGHT HONOURABLE 
 
 VINDICATED, 
 
 DEAR SIR> 
 
 HErewith 1 fend you the London Ga~ 
 zette> by which you will fee that 
 the important paragraphs of news, to 
 which you would not give any credit in 
 the common papers, are confirmed by the 
 higheft authority. I am always forry to 
 differ from you in opinion j but cannot 
 help thinking that on this occafion you 
 B have
 
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 have exerted lefs than your ufual candour. 
 The Great Commoner has, in my mind> 
 thrown up his employments with the 
 fame honour and the fame fpirit of diiin- 
 tereftednefs that he took them up. He 
 has retired with only a new dignity an- 
 nexed to his family, and an ANNUITY, 
 fo fmall, fo very inconfiderable and inade- 
 quate to the purpofes of luxury and cor- 
 ruption, that he has been obliged to fet 
 his Coach Horfes to fale by publick Ad- 
 vertifement. There is nothing fo moving, 
 faith Seneca, as a great man in diftrefs. 
 What can be more melancholy than a flatef- 
 man on the favee ? Yet has our bright 
 Sun of Patriotifm fet with no lefs glory 
 than he rofe. He has received the Roval 
 
 W 
 
 Thanks he was 'very near receiving the 
 City Thanks and has gone out of power 
 
 with
 
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 with the fame unembarraJJ'ed Countenance 
 that he came in. 
 
 There are, I think, three modes of mi- 
 niflerial Resignation. The firft is, when a, 
 Great Patriot conceives a difguft at the bafe- 
 nefs of any meafures propofed by his com- 
 panions in the Adminiftration, and from a 
 noble indignation quits their fellowship 
 left his countrymen (hould account him 
 a marer in their guilt. This feems to be 
 the moft fimple and natural method, but 
 is neverthelefs much the moft uncom- 
 mon. The fecond is, when a Minifter, % 
 in the ftile of the news-papers, refigm-> 
 but is, in good truth, fairly turned out. 
 This method has been practifed within 
 all our memories. The third is, when a 
 
 Minifter, for the convenience of the Go- 
 
 * 
 
 B 2 vernment.
 
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 vcrnment, refigns by private compact arid 
 agreement, and receives a certain douceur 
 for his compliance. This, thanks to the 
 complaifance and humanity of the times, 
 is the moft modern mode : and to this the 
 pliant and amiable temper of our GREAT 
 COMMONER has chofen to fubmit. 
 
 But this, it feems, it is, which, being 
 barely fuggefted in a news-paper, was ca- 
 pable of alarming you fo fenfibly, and of 
 touching you to the quick with indignation 
 and furprife. What mere Weathercocks 
 are you Country Gentlemen ! Once you 
 looked upon this mining Meteor in politicks 
 withdiflike. Afterwards, on his efforts to 
 
 ^^^^^^^y 
 
 make his way into the cabinet, and take 
 the reins of power into his hands, you 
 Seconded his attempts, threw your whole 
 
 weight
 
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 weight into his fcale, and prompted every 
 corporation in England to honour him with 
 their freedom in gold-boxes. But now you 
 revert to your firft principles, and begin 
 to revive your antient fentiments of difap- 
 probation. And why ? or wherefore ? 
 In order to give your arguments, fuch as 
 they are, fair play, fuffer me to {late all that 
 you have urged, or can urge, in cenfure of 
 the conduct of our GREAT COMMONER. 
 
 Firft then, you may fay, that it is very 
 unlike a Patriot to retire from the Admini- 
 ftration of public affairs, at a time when 
 the nation appears to be moft in want of his 
 affiftance. That to fay he refigned his 
 
 employments becaufe he found it impoffi- 
 
 * 
 
 bie to render to his country fuch fervices 
 as he intended, is a weak plea j fince it is 
 
 evident
 
 evident, that had he refigned them in a 
 proper manner^ the voice of the people 
 would have obliged him to refume them, 
 and the meafures he propofed, if at all 
 plaufible, would certainly have been per- 
 fued. 
 
 Secondly, That to retire with a PENSION, 
 was to retire with ignominy and difgracCj 
 in direct contradiction to the principles, 
 which he has all along fo openly avowed 
 and profefTed, 
 
 To give thefe arguments the more force, 
 let us fuppofe, That on the propofal of fuch 
 terms to our GREAT COMMONER, as he 
 appears to have accepted, that he, with the 
 voice and gefture of Demojlhenes, had re- 
 plied fomewhat in the following manner. 
 4 tc No-
 
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 <c N O> p ar be it from me ever to affent 
 c to terms, fo derogatory to my honour, 
 " fo unworthy of a Lover of his Country I 
 " Terms, at whofe abject meannefs I am 
 c< fhocked and difgufted, and whofe CRI- 
 " MINALITV I confider with horrour: 
 * c Terms, which 'would hang, like a MILL- 
 " STONE, about the neck of the Mimfter, 
 " who mould difgrace himfelf by his ac- 
 " ceptance of them, and plunge him into 
 " the loweft gulph of popular contempt. 
 What part of my con dud: could ever 
 infpire my moil bitter enemy with the 
 lighted hope that I could be bought off 
 from my duty, or that my name fhould 
 < ever be enrolled in the catalogue of PEN-' 
 te SIGNERS? Have I not always endea- 
 <c voured to diftinguifh myfelf by my con- 
 " tempt of money ? Did I not publickly- 
 
 re- 
 
 cc 
 
 cc
 
 * c refign to better ufes the perquifitcs of 
 " lucrative employments ! And was not 
 C the firft confiderable acquifition to my 
 " fortune evidently made by the integrity 
 " of my conduct, and the fteadinefs of my 
 " oppofition, to the meafures of corrup" 
 * c tion and venality ? Whence, I befeech 
 " you, is the annual Sum, to which this 
 " PENSION amounts, to ifTue ? It muft 
 " neceflarily be taken either from the pub- 
 " lie money or the Civil Lift. And (hall I 
 c< lie like a burden or heavy import on the 
 " People j or fufFer myfelf or my family 
 * c to become a Rent-Charge on the King?-^- 
 ** No ! it would ill become me, after fuch 
 c< a condefcenfion, to take my feat again in 
 ' that hoiife^ where I have fo often decla- 
 c red, That it would be better for that 
 
 " houfo
 
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 t{ i houfe *, if new parliaments were more 
 " frequent, and few Placemen, and No PEN- 
 <f SIGNERS admitted. -Or with what grace 
 < can I permit my Practice to contradid 
 <e my Theory, and prevail on myfelf to 
 ct contribute towards running the Civil Lift 
 " into debt ? when I have alfo laid it down 
 " as a maxim, that, J It is inconjijlentwith 
 " the honour of this nation to have cur King 
 <c {land-indebted tohisfervants ortradefmen\ 
 <c who may be ruined by a delay of payment : 
 <c The Parliament has provided fnfficient/y 
 " for preventing thisdifhonoursbeingbrought 
 " upon the nation ; and if the Provifton we 
 <c have made Jhould be MISAPPLIED or LA- 
 " VISHED, we muft fupply the deficiency ; we 
 u ought to do it, whether the king makes 
 
 * Chandler's Debates, vol. xiii. p. 172. 
 j Ibid. p. 214.
 
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 * any application for that pur pofe, or no.-~ 
 " After fuch a declaration I fhould blufh to 
 " divert the flream of his M y's munifi- 
 " cence into fo mean a channel, or to draw 
 <c my life and being from that fource. I> 
 t that flood againft corruption in my youth, 
 ft will not fet my integrity to bargain and 
 " falc in my old age; for,* much, very much, 
 " is he to be abhorred, who, as he has ad- 
 ** Danced in age, has receded from Virtue ^ 
 " and be come 3 more wicked with lefs Tempt a- 
 " tion -, who projiitutes himfelf for money 
 " which he cannot enjoy, andfpends the re- 
 " mains of his life in the ruin of his country. 
 " Rather, therefore, let me cherifh J that 
 " Zeal for the fervice of my country <, which 
 ct neither HOPE nor ?KAKfoall influence me 
 <c to fupprefs. I will not Jit UNCONCERNED 
 " while my Liberty is invaded, nor look infi~ 
 
 " lence 
 
 * Chandler's Debates, vol. xii, p. 282. 
 Ibid. p. 283.
 
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 " knee upon PUBLIC ROBBERY. / 
 ft exert my endeavours, at whatever hazard, 
 ss to repel the Aggreffor, and drag the Thief 
 1 c to yiiftice, whoever mayproteft them in thei? 
 * villainy y and whoever may partake ofth$ir 
 " plunder" 
 
 In thefe rhetorical flourimes I think is 
 contained all that can be advanced, with the 
 lead juftice or propriety, in cenfure of the 
 conduct of our illuftrious commoner -, nor 
 can it be denied but that I have given them 
 their full force, fince I have introduced 
 many of his own words, and fome of thofe 
 notable fentiments which he himfelf oncp 
 vollied out, with all the dreadful artillery 
 of eloquence, againft the GREAT MAN of 
 that day. But then it mufl be remembered, 
 that we have not yet heard him on the 
 C 2 other
 
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 other fide of the queftion. We have not 
 yet feen him levelling the thunder of his 
 oratory againft the enemies of placemen 
 and Penfioners. It is uncandid and unge- 
 nerous to condemn him, before you have 
 heard what he has to fay in his defence. 
 Audi alteram partcm ! If, in confirmity to 
 your fuggeftions, I have forced thefe words 
 into his mouth again, I warrant you, he is 
 capable of eating them, ay, and of digeft- 
 ing them into the bargain. It is not the 
 firft time, that he has fpoke in favour of 
 thofe very meafures, which he once revi- 
 led j and having firft taught us to hold 
 them in abomination, afterwards reconci- 
 led us to his purfuit of them. If, after 
 the warmeft declarations againft continental 
 connexions if after the ftrongeft oppofition 
 to remitting either men or money to Ger- 
 many
 
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 many, and a downright refufal to confen t 
 
 to give the D~ ke of C d any afliftance 
 
 there, though in the moft deplorable dr- 
 cumftances If, I fay, after all this, he 
 could himfelf embrace Continental connec- 
 tions, if he could fend over men by ten 
 thoufands, and money by hundred thou- 
 fands, and nobody be in the leaft offended 
 
 or furprized why may not he alfo, who 
 
 has railed fo long at PENSIONS and PENSION- 
 ERS, at laft take a PENSION himfelf^ and 
 prove to thefatisfaclion of the whole world, 
 that it is not the thing done, but the hew, 
 and the iffiy, and the when, and by whom 
 it is 'done, that conflitutes the CRIMINALI- 
 TY and offence! May he not tell us, that 
 three thoufand pounds per Year is a poor 
 reward for all his great and important fer- 
 vices? And may he not confider it as a kind 
 
 of
 
 of petty tribute from his rich conquefls in 
 the Eaft and Weft Indies, on the Coaft of 
 France, and on the Ocean? May he not 
 plead his right to an Otium cum dignitate ? 
 May he not convince us of our miftake in 
 imagining that VIRTUE is its own reward? 
 and may he not tell us, that if we fuppofe 
 the ftreets of London to be paved with fil- 
 ver and gold, we are as much to blame, as 
 he is now fenfible he was hunfelf, when 
 he pronounced the ftreets of Oxford to be 
 faved with Dtfajfeftion and Jacobitifm ? 
 
 Thefe things, with many others of 
 equal weight, would undoubtedly fuggeft 
 themfelves to our GREAT MAN, even in an 
 extempore reply to the charge brought 
 againft him, and even if it was taken on 
 your own reprefentation. But the accu- 
 
 fation
 
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 fation is not fairly laid. He is neither 
 unjuft nor inconfiftent. He has inveighed 
 againft PENSIONERS, it is true; and he may 
 ftill continue to do fo, for he has no PEN- 
 SION. ^No ! what then ?- Why, Sir, he 
 has an ANNUiTY-^-An ANNUITY Not 
 a bit of a PENSION, I aflure you for, as 
 Foigard wifely diftinguimes, {c if you take 
 f< it beforehand it is a BRIBE, but if you 
 " take it afterwards, it is only a GRATI- 
 < c FICATION." -This is no Bribe, but a 
 Reward, as witnefs Quebec, Lottijburg, Se- 
 negal, Goree, Guadalupe, Be!!i/Ie, &c. &c. 
 &c. &c. &c* &c. Gfc. and is indeed no 
 more than, when an old faithful fervant 
 gives warning that he will leave Ms place, 
 juft kindly difmiffing him with a month's 
 wages. He has taken an ANNUITY then 
 it is true, but no PENSION only an AN- 
 5 NUITY
 
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 NUITY for his own life, his Lady's life, 
 and the life of his eldeft Son that is, an 
 ANNUITY for three lives, for which I 
 heard a Broker at "Jonathans fay, that he 
 would give Fifty Thoufand Pounds, if it 
 ever came into the Alley. An ANNUITY 
 may alfo have fome other properties dif- 
 ferent from a PENSION. PENSIONS are 
 fubjecl to a Tax an ANNUITY may per- 
 haps be exempt from this inconvenience, 
 and be eflablifhed to be paid out of the 
 privy purfe clear of all deductions : and in 
 that cafe, if it mould ever go to market, 
 my friend at Jonathans muft allow that 
 the Purchafe-money would be flill more 
 confiderable. It muft be allowed there- 
 fore that a PENSION and an ANNUITY are 
 no more the fame thing than an Egg and 
 a Chicken a Penfion is but an Annuity in 
 
 embrio,
 
 embrio, but an Annuity is a Penfion brought 
 to perfection and maturity. At the firft ex- 
 hibition of a ridetto in this country, the 
 people were confounded at the novelty of 
 the term, and did not know what it meant : 
 upon which a wag ftuck a paper to the back 
 of one of the company, fignifying, in 
 large letters, this is the RIDOTTO. In like 
 manner I would humbly propofe, in or- 
 der to diftinguim this GREAT MAN from 
 the mean Band of Pen/loners, that a label 
 be fixed to his back, with an infcription 
 wrought in gold letters, like the G. R. or* 
 the cloaths of the beef-eaters, fignifying 
 in magnificent capitals* THIS IS THE 
 ANNUITANT* 
 
 I am forty, my dear fir, that you force 
 
 ine to flop here to anfwer the contraft 
 
 D you
 
 you have drawn between this Great Man 
 and the other gentleman, who was ho- 
 noured at the fame time with himfelf, 
 with the gold boxes. HE, you fay, re- 
 tired without any Penfon, nay even without 
 an Annuity > and refufed all reward or con- 
 federation for his fervices, except a title 
 for his Lady, to which {he had a kind of 
 hereditary claim. Why, Sir if this be 
 
 trie I I I that is to be fure 
 
 you know, Sir there is fome kind 
 
 of In fhort I cannot difpute this point 
 
 with you. Yet, notwithftanding your 
 partiality to the gentleman you have in- 
 ftanced, you muft allow that his political 
 reputation has always been infinitely infe- 
 rior to that of our Great Man. He has 
 been no man of words, but of deeds only. 
 His patriotifm never made that noife in the 
 
 world
 
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 world which was occafioned by that of 
 his colleague ; and therefore could not fo 
 well afford fuch a drawback from hi s 
 fame. On the whole, I may venture to 
 allow your friend to be in this inftance 
 the fuperior character, and yet efteem the 
 Great Commoner, in the main, as the 
 moft eminent and illuftrious. As to the 
 dignity, in that affair he has behaved 
 with as much mod.efty as his friend nay, 
 with {till more for the title by which he 
 has chofen to diflinguim his lady Lady 
 
 Chafem feems as if taken in jeft It 
 
 founds as ridiculous as king of Brentford, 
 and feems merely calculated for one of the 
 mock dignitaries in the Dramatis Perfonce 
 of a Comedy. 
 
 Prudence is univerfally allowed to be 
 
 a great virtue one of the cardinal vir- 
 
 D 2 tues
 
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 t ucs and yet, by I know not what fatality, 
 it often encounters contempt, and is re- 
 ceived with much lefs admiration than 
 the three other cardinal virtues of Juftice, 
 Temperance, and Fortitude : though after 
 all, JuiHce could in real life never make 
 any thing more than'a judge ; Temperance 
 is a mere valetudinarian ; and Fortitude 
 a captain in the militia at heft ; while 
 Prudence might make a general, a ftatef- 
 man, a monarch, or any illuftrious cha- 
 rafter under the fun. Prudence is the 
 very life and foul of a GREAT MAN ; and 
 in the refignation of our illuftrious Com- 
 moner, no virtue was more confpicuous 
 than his Prudence. He prudently forefaw 
 that there would be much trouble and dif- 
 ficulty in fettling a peace to the liking of 
 $11 ranks of people j wherefore he very 
 7 prudently
 
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 prudently quitted his employments ; and 
 afterwards very prudently alfo accepted a 
 handfome provifion for himfelf and his 
 family. 
 
 Finding my brain big with matter on 
 this part of the vindication of our GREAT 
 MAN'S character, and teeming with ar- 
 gument (infomuch that I am only con- 
 fufed by the multiplicity of my materials, 
 and at a lofs in what manner. to arrange 
 what I have to fay) juft at this time an 
 Sneftimable original, moft curious both as 
 to its ftile and matter, has offered itfelf, 
 which r.ot only corroborates all that has 
 or can be advanced, but ferves alfo to 
 difpofe my fentiments into method and 
 order. The Country Journal of your 
 pwn County has, I dare fay, copied it 
 
 from
 
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 from our London papers, where I found 
 it > but as I {hall naturally make many 
 references and allufions to it, it may be 
 more convenient to have it all immedi- 
 ately before you. I have therefore tran- 
 fcribed it in this place. 
 
 A "Letter from a Right Hon. Perfon to bis 
 Friend in the City. 
 
 DEAR S,R, 
 
 ' T7INDING, to my great Surprife, 
 ' -L that the Caufe and Manner of my 
 ' refigning the Seals, is grofsly rnifrepre- 
 
 * fented in the City, as well as that the 
 c moft gracious and fpontaneous Marks of 
 
 * his Majefty's Approbation of my Ser- 
 vices, which Marks followed my Re- 
 
 * fignation, have been infamoufly traduced 
 
 1 as
 
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 as a Bargain for my forfaking the Pub- 
 ' lick, I am under a Neceffity of declar- 
 4 ing the Truth of both thefe Fads, in a 
 e Manner which I am fure no Gentle- 
 c man will contradict : A Difference of 
 
 * Opinion with regard to Meafures to be 
 ' taken againft Spain, of the higheft Im- 
 
 * portance to the Honour of the Crown, 
 ' and to the moft effential national In- 
 
 * terefts, (and this founded on what Spain. 
 
 * had already done, not on what that 
 ' Court may farther intend to do) was 
 the Caufe of my religning the Seals. 
 Lord TEMPLE and I fubmitted, in 
 1 Writing, anil figned by us, our moft 
 
 * humble Sentiments to his Majefty, which 
 
 * being over-ruled by the united Opinion 
 4 of all the reft of the King's Servants, I 
 ' refigned the Seals on Monday the 5th of 
 
 c this
 
 this Month, in Order not to remain re- 
 ' fponfible for Meafures, which I was no 
 
 * longer allowed to guide. Moft graci- 
 c ous publick Marks of his Majefty's Ap- 
 ' probation of my Services followed my 
 c Refignation : They are unmerited and 
 unfolicited, and I mail ever be proud to 
 c have received them from the beft of 
 c Sovereigns, 
 
 ' I will now only add, my dear Sir, 
 4 that I have explained thefe Matters only 
 
 for the Honour of Truth, not in any 
 ' View to court return of Confidence from 
 f any Man, who with a Credulity, as 
 ' weak as it is injurious, has thought fit 
 ' haftily to withdraw his good Opinion, 
 ' from one who has ferved his Country 
 ' with Fidelity and Succefs j and who 
 
 juftly
 
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 c juftly reveres the upright and candid 
 Judgment of it j little felicitous about the 
 ' cenfures of the Capricious and the Un- 
 c generous : Accept my fincereft Acknow- 
 c ledgments for all your kind Friendfhip, 
 * and believe me ever with Truth and 
 Efteem, 
 
 < My Dear Sir, 
 
 ' Your faithful Friend, &c.' 
 
 And now, my dear Sir, let me afk you, 
 if every word of this moft valuable let- 
 ter does not afford a ftrong confirmation 
 of our Great Man's Prudence. It affords 
 alfo an equal proof of his candour and 
 veracity, which I am Jure no Gentleman 
 'will contradict : for it declares the 'Truth of 
 both thefe Faffs to be, juft what we all 
 E con-
 
 conceived it to be before this epiftle to 
 his friend in the City was made publick. 
 Perhaps, however, you rough boifterous 
 -country gentlemen might mifapprehend 
 this matter. You might poflibly imagine, 
 that he went bluntly to his Matter, and 
 
 faid, " Sir, if you will give me an An" 
 1* nulty of three thoufand fcr year, I will 
 f c refign," andfo the Bargain was ftruck. 
 > <But how little agreeable would fuch a 
 conduct be to his Prudence ? Mark, how 
 the cafe really was. Mojl gra~ 
 publick marks of' approbation of tny 
 feryice FOLLOWED my refignaiion. Fd- 
 k-w?d -Sir, do you obferve ?: and he 
 knew that they would follow if he chofe 
 jt-To be fure, he did; and 'there, Sir, 
 {here was the Prudence, fkey (that is the 
 are unmerited and un jolt cited
 
 here again, Sir, his Prudence and fore- 
 fight are remarkable He very prudently 
 left unfolicited that which he knew would 
 follow, and which he knew that he would 
 not refufe. Modeftfy, therefore, to fay 
 they are UNMERITED, means no more 
 than the Nolo Epifcopari of a Bifhop E- 
 lect, who is neverthelefs equally fure of 
 his Epifcopacy. Your inflexible Entijl) 
 Spirit, ftubborn as our Oak itfelf, may 
 perhaps feel itfelf offended at fome of 
 the following expreffions. Lord T. and I 
 fubmitted in Writing, and Jigned by iiSy 
 our moft humble fentiments to bis Majejiy^ 
 'which being over-ruled by the united Opinion 
 of all the reft of the Kings Servants, I 
 refigncd the Seals on Monday the $th of this 
 Month, in order not to remain rejponfible 
 E 2 for
 
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 for MeafureSy 'which I was no longer al- 
 lowed to GUIDE. This, perhaps, you 
 
 will fay, is acting and talking like his 
 Matter's Mafter, inftead of his humble 
 Servant, a kind of Lord Paramount over 
 
 both K g and M y. Not at all. 
 
 Every fervant of his M y, as well 
 
 as of any other perfon in tLngland, is 
 at liberty to leave his Place when he 
 pleafes ; and to leave it juft when there is 
 the moft need of his affiftance, only tends 
 to heighten his confequence, and to fhew 
 that he is one who has ferved bis country 
 with FIDELITY and SUCCESS. Did not 
 feveral of the Greateft Men in the king- 
 dom defert his late M y, and throw 
 
 up their employments, juft when he was 
 moft in need of their fervices ? and were 
 they all reinftated in their places ? 
 4 May
 
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 May not therefore the GREAT MAN of 
 our times too refign in the very Crifis of 
 bur affairs? and though he refufes to do 
 any more for us, need he alfo refufe a 
 reward for what he has done ? Well but 
 then Meafures, which I was no longer 
 allowed to GUIDE. Thefe, my friend* 
 thefe, I fee, are the words which you 
 cannot digeft, and which you think un- 
 becoming the mouth of a private fub- 
 je6r, nay almoft even of a K g in this 
 
 country. But let not your high flo- 
 
 mach be offended at them. Our GREAT 
 MAN has always habituated himfelf to a 
 Grandeur of expreffion, as well as an 
 elevation of fentiment. It would not be 
 aftonifhing therefore, if he mould now 
 and then appear fomewhat abfolute ; but 
 in the prefent inftance, he is a pattern of 
 
 humility,
 
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 humility. Take the whole fentence to- 
 gether, you will find that it is entirely 
 metaphorical, and will admit of the 
 mildeft interpretation. Lord T. and Ifub- 
 mitted in Writing^ andfignedby us, cur moft 
 humble Sentiments to his Majcfty y 'which be- 
 ing over -ruled by the united opinion of all 
 the reft of the King's Servants, / refigned 
 the Seals on Monday the $th of this Month, 
 in order not to remain refponfible for mea- 
 JureSy which I was no longer allowed to GUIDE. 
 Here you fee he confiders the council as fo 
 many fervants in a family. One perhaps as 
 the Maitre d'hotel, another as the Butler, a 
 third as my lord's own man y and the reft 
 as fo many footmen, helpers, Gfc. To him- 
 felf he feems to have afllgned the province 
 of the Coachman ; and, in this fituation, 
 he has a right to remonftrate againft their 
 
 pro-
 
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 proceedings: for to propofe meafures, 'which 
 he is no longer allowed to GUIDE, while he 
 is yet upon the box, is abfolutely taking the 
 whip and reins out of his hands. Sup- 
 pofe you were in your Coach and Six on a 
 long journey in the middle of winter, in 
 deep roads and bad weather, and that on 
 the coachman's preparing to {hew his fkill 
 in driving to an inch by the edge of a pre- 
 cipice, the reft of the fervants were to bawl 
 out to him to flop, and you yourfelf mould 
 infift on his going another way : In thefe 
 circumftances, Sir, only fuppofe that the 
 Coachman was to defcend from his box, and 
 coming to the coach door accoft you in 
 thefe terms : " Sir, You, have been the 
 " beji ofmafters to me, it is true, but if I 
 " go any other way than my own, I'll be 
 f < 4. . d. I never overturned you in my 
 
 " life,
 
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 ' life, and if you will no longer allow me 
 " to GUIDE, why then, by G d, neither 
 " I, nor the PoflilUc?i t will drive you an 
 " inch farther, and fo you may get home 
 " as.you-can." Now, Sir, in fuch a cafe, 
 though yon might not chufe to run the rifk 
 of the precipice, or much like being left 
 in the lurch if you declined it, yet, if h e 
 had been a good coachman, I do not fee 
 how you could juftify refufing him a cha- 
 racter. Nay, perhaps, if he had ferved 
 you well, and was a favourite in the family, 
 you would very probably give him and his 
 vifafome little matter to fet up with in bu- 
 finefs, if they chofe it, on quitting your 
 place. This is dire&ly the cafe of our 
 GREAT MAN This is the very CAUSE 
 AND MANNER of hi 's refignijig tie Seals 
 and yet this has been grofsly mifrcprefcnted 
 
 in
 
 ( 37 ) 
 
 in the City, as well as the mo/i gracious and 
 fpontaneous marks of his Majcftys approba- 
 tion of his fervices, which marks , followed 
 his refignation, infamoujly traduced as a 
 Ear gain for hisforfaking tbcPublick. How- 
 ever, heaven be praifed, he is and ever was 
 little felicitous about the cenfures of the Capri- 
 cious and the Ungenerous, and now he is re* 
 tired from the Administration of public 
 affairs, he is at leifure to purfue his pri- 
 vate occupations. He mayamufe himfelf 
 with improving his little income in the al- 
 ley, with buying out and felling in, and 
 watching the various revolutions of the 
 flocks : or he may lay it out in faihionable 
 improvements of his houfe and gardens at 
 Hy s : or, if amidft the wonderful ver- 
 fatility of his Genius, he has any turn for 
 Trade, he may, if he pleafes, convert his 
 F An-
 
 'Annuity into one large capital, and then, 
 being free of the Grocer 's company, you 
 know he may go into partnerfhip with his 
 
 friend the prefent L d M y r, who is 
 
 the moft eminent in that bufmefs. In fuch 
 a cafe, at how many thoufand pounds might 
 the very good will of the mop be rated at I 
 Would not all ranks and degrees of people 
 be his cuftomers ! Would not every Alder- 
 man's Cuftard contain his Sugar and Nut- 
 meg ! Would not the Sunday's plum-pud- 
 ding of every patriot mechanick be filled 
 with his dried currants and raifins? and 
 would not every publick-fpirited wafher- 
 woman in town purchafe her halfquartern 
 of Bohea at that (hop ? 
 
 Having travelled thus far in vindication 
 of the Right Honourable ANNUITANT, it 
 
 gives
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 gives me unfpeakable pleafure to find my 
 fentiments of his Letter fall in fo exactly 
 with thofe of the Gentleman in the City, 
 to whom it was addrefTed. : The anfwer, 
 which he returned, confiders the matter 
 exactly in the fame light that I have done, 
 the defence that he makes is exactly of the 
 fame colour, and the reafons which he has 
 urged in favour of his friend are equally' 
 ftrong and fatisfaftory. But take it, as 
 you have had the other, at full length. 
 
 LETTER TO A RIGHT HONOUR-. 
 ABLE PERSON. 
 
 DEAR SIR, 
 
 c '""T^HE City of London, as long as they 
 
 have any Memory, cannot forget, 
 
 F 2 that
 
 ( 40 ) 
 
 ' that you accepted the Seals when this 
 < Nation was in the moft deplorable Cir- 
 4 cumftances to which any Country can 
 ' be reduced : That our Armies were 
 
 * beaten, our Navy inactive, our Trade 
 expofed to the Enemy, our Credit, as if 
 
 * we expected to become Bankrupts, funk 
 
 * to the loweft Pitch , that there was no-. 
 1 thing to be found but Defpondency at 
 ' Home, and Contempt Abroad. The 
 ( City muft alfo for ever remember, 
 c that when you refigned the Seals, our 
 
 * Armies and Navies were victorious, our 
 c Trade fecure, and flourifliing more than 
 ' in a Peace, our Public Credit reflored, 
 
 * and People readier to lend than Mini-. 
 ' fters to borrow : That there was nothing 
 ' but Exultation at Home, Confufion and 
 
 * Defpair among our Enemies, Amaze- 
 
 * ment
 
 ( 4' ) 
 
 e ment and Veneration among all Neutral 
 
 < Nations : That the French were reduced 
 
 < fo low as to fiie for a Peace, which we, 
 
 * from Humanity, were willing to grant ; 
 
 < though their Haughtinefs was too great t 
 
 * and our Succefles too many, for any 
 Terms to be agreed on. Remembering 
 4 this, the City cannot but lament that you 
 1 have quitted the Helm. But if Knaves 
 
 * have taught Fools to call your Refigna- 
 
 * tion, (when you can no longer procure 
 ' the fame Succefs, being prevented from 
 1 purfuing the fame Meafures) a Defertion 
 
 * of the Publick, and to look upon you, 
 c for accepting a Reward, which can fcarce 
 
 * bear that Name, in the Light of a Pen- 
 c fioner; the City of London hope, they 
 1 (hall not be ranked by you among the 
 one or the other. They are truly fenfi- 
 
 ble,
 
 ( 42 ) 
 
 * blc, that, though you ceafe to guide the 
 c Helm, you have not deferted the Vefiel 5 
 
 and that, Penfioner as you are, your In- 
 
 t 
 
 * clination to promote the publick Good, 
 
 < is ftill only to be equalled by your Abi- 
 Yity : That you fincerely wifh Succefs to 
 ' the new Pilot, and will be ready, not 
 only to warn him and the Crew of Rocks 
 and Quickfands, but to affift-in bringing 
 
 < the Ship through the Storm into a fafe 
 f Harbour. 
 
 c Thefe, Sir, I am purfuaded, are the 
 real Sentiments of the City of London ; I 
 " am fure you believe them to be fuch of, 
 
 DEAR SIR, 
 
 Tour, &c. 
 
 With
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 With what pathetick energy hath this 
 aitfwenng Citizen recapitulated the great 
 actions of his friend ! The good he has 
 done us by coming into power, the evil 
 that may enfue from his going out, and 
 that he has, it feems, the whole city in a 
 firing, are circumftances, which, (to ufe 
 the Anfwerer's words) as long as we have 
 any memory > ive cannot forget. You may 
 perceive alfo in this anfwer fomething of 
 the fame complexion with my illuftra- 
 tion of the Office of Minifler, by the 
 character of a Coachman ; only that 
 the judicious Anfwer er has with the ut- 
 moft propriety, in this our maritime na- 
 tion, tranfported the allufion from land 
 to fea. Obferve his words! The CITY 
 cannot but lament that you have quitted tJx 
 HELM. But they are truly Jenfibk> that, 
 
 though
 
 ( 44 ) 
 
 though you ceafe to GUIDE THE HELM, 
 you have not deferted the veffel : and that, 
 PENSIONER AS YOU ARE, your inclina- 
 tion to promote the publick good, is ft ill only 
 to be equalled by your Ability : That you fin- 
 cerely wtfo fuccefi to the new PILOT, and 
 'will be ready t not only to warn HIM and 
 the CREW of ROCKS and QUICKSANDS, 
 but to aj/ift in bringing the SHIP through 
 the STORM into a fafe HARBOUR. With 
 how much grandeur has the Anfwerer^ 
 even in the familiarity of the epiftolary 
 (tile, maintained this noble allufion ! The 
 allegorical genius of Bunyan himfelf could 
 not have purfued it with more ftrift pro- 
 priety and fuccefs $ or rather, to raife my 
 comparifon, the Anfwerer has rivaled 
 even Horace in that exalted Ode, wherein 
 he likens the Commonwealth to a Ship : 
 8 nay,
 
 ( 45 ) 
 
 nay, he has even furpafled the Roman 
 Poet, for by adding the particular Cujloms 
 of our Age and Country to the general 
 turn of the Allufion, which both writers 
 pofTefs in common with each other, he 
 has moft .wonderfully ftrengthened and 
 enforced it, and carried it much further 
 than the Latin Lyrick could poffibly do. 
 It is well known that the noble fpirit of 
 charity and munificence, fo peculiar to 
 this country, gave rife to tlje noble, infti- 
 tutions of Chelfea and Greenwich Colleges, 
 for the fupport of decayed Veterans in 
 our fervice both by land and fea ; and it 
 is alfo further known that the old or dif- 
 abied foldiers and feamen maintained by 
 thefe charities are called PENSIONERS. 
 To this it is that we owe, in the midft of 
 
 fuch ,a cloud of naval terms, the intro- 
 G duclion.
 
 ( 46 ) 
 
 du&ion of thofe remarkable words, PEN- 
 SIONER AS YOU ARE. The elegant An- 
 fwerer, while he confiders the State as a 
 Ship j the holding the Teals as guiding the 
 le/m ; 'the Minifter as theP/70/; the people, 
 or perhaps only the Members of the H 
 
 of C ns, as the Crew \ bad Meafures 
 
 as Rocks and ^ulckfands ; War^s a Storm ; 
 
 and Peace as the Harbour-, at the 
 
 fame time heightens the fimilitude by 
 looking on the Right Honourable An- 
 nuitant as a Grccniw' c b-C \leg e PENSION- 
 ER : by which ingenious allufion to our 
 pwn im es and manners, he not only 
 far tranfcends the Simplicity of Horace, 
 but.alfo furnimes us with an admirable 
 idea of Ptnfioners in general. In both 
 thde Colleges, there are what they call 
 /^-PENSIONERS, and O&/-PENSIONERS 
 
 fome,
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 fome, who conftitute, as it were, the fa- 
 mily of the Hofpital,, aiifi others who 
 may be faid to be kept on Board-Wage?. 
 And perhaps the only, or at leaft the 
 beft, Reafon, why the whole Band of 
 Court- PEN SIGNERS are not embodied and 
 fupported together in a college of this 
 nature, is, that the number of ///-PEN- 
 SIONERS is fo very frnall in comparifon to 
 that of the (^/-PENSIONERS. The Right 
 Honourable ANNUITANT, having refign- 
 ed the Seals, is become, like many more 
 of his Cotemporaries and PredecefTors, an 
 C#/-PENSIONER : but yet, PENSIONER AS 
 HE is, we are told, that he is not, like 
 the reft of the College^ a difabkd mariner 
 a decayed veteran that has loft either 
 his ftrength or abilities in the fervice but 
 one that has both inclination and ability 
 G 2 for
 
 ( 48 ) 
 
 for the public fervice flill remaining one 
 that is ready to ivarn> as well as to ajjifl. 
 
 In this new light, wherein the An- 
 
 Jwerer has exhibited his friend, he may 
 be confidered as a broken officer, who is 
 flill retained on half-pay, ^nd remains 
 ready to be called out on any future oc- 
 cafions of fervice at lead he may be faid 
 to have the benefit of the College, while 
 he is flill on board the veffel -, or, what 
 is flill more defirable, he is at liberty to 
 lie by and receive his pay, or help to work 
 the Ship, jufl as he pleafes. He may 
 fwing at eafe in his hammock, in the 
 midft of the florm, and content himfelf, 
 like the Ir;foinan y with faying, that be is 
 enly a Paffenger ; or he may haul a cable, 
 reef a fail, make his voice and his whiflle 
 as rough and as loud as the Boatfwain's, 
 3 and
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 and be as bufy- aftern or abaft, below or 
 
 aloft, as any man in the veffcl. In a 
 
 word to fet the fimile adrift, and fpesk 
 in plain terms, our GREAT MAN has now 
 moft prudently thrown himfelf into a fitu- 
 ation, in which he may, even with more 
 confiftency than heretofore, embrace any 
 meafures, however oppofite or contradic- 
 tory. He is ready, as the Anfwerer tells 
 us, either to <warn or to ajfift : that is, he 
 is ready, juft as occaiipn {hall ferve, either 
 toacquiefce peaceably in the meafures of the 
 Adminiftration, as other PENSIONERS have 
 done; or elfe to exhibit himfelf to the 
 world in the very new and fingular cha- 
 racter of a PENSIONER IN OPPOSITION 
 a PATRIOT-PENSIONER, or in its proper 
 and peculiar phrafe, a Right Honourable 
 ANNUITANT. 
 
 To
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 To you perhaps, my dear Sir, it may 
 appear ftrange and unaccountable, that he 
 fhould be able to reconcile to each other 
 two fuch contradi&ory characters -, and that 
 while he eats the bread of the court, he 
 fhould oppofe the meafures of the Admini- 
 ftration. But this, Sir, is the diftinguim- 
 ing excellence of his temper and conduct. 
 Your ftubborn patriotifm, like the needle 
 ftedfaft to the pole, points always one way ; 
 but the new mode of patriotifm, like the 
 weathercock changing with every wind, 
 knows how to veer and turn, and is ready 
 to adapt itfelf to times and their feafons, 
 things and their circumftances /;; or cut 
 for or (igainjl juft as their convenience 
 fuits, or occafion requires. Demoftbenes, 
 the great Orator of Greece, forfeited the 
 reputation of integrity, which he had al- 
 ways
 
 ways maintained till that period, by receiv- 
 ing a bribe from Harpalus, in confequence 
 of which he appeared in the alTembly, 
 muffled about the throat, and made figns, 
 that he was not able to deliver a Syllable. 
 It appears from hence, that it was not the 
 receiving the bribe, but the holding his 
 peace, by which Demoftbcnes injured his 
 fame. But our great Orator is ready to 
 
 convince the world, that no Reward {hall 
 tie his tongue, or bind his hands > and 
 
 that it mall not be imputed to him, as it 
 was to Demojlhenes, that he is ajFefted 
 with a Gold or Siher Quinfy. I have juft 
 mentioned Demofthenes, becaufe in the lift 
 of patriots- it is always ufual to thunder out 
 a long mufter-roll of Greek and Roman 
 Names : but I will venture to fay that there 
 is no Patriot of all antiquity more eminent 
 
 and
 
 and illuftrious, than our Great Commoner 
 has proved himfelf to be in his late Refig- 
 nation. If the elder Brutus is fo much t6 
 be commended, becaufe he could prevail 
 on himfelf to give up the neareft and deareft 
 part of his family to publick juftice, how 
 much more applaufe is due to our modern 
 Brutus, who could manifeft his confidence 
 in the publick and love to his family at one 
 and the fame time, by throwing them, as 
 well as himfelf, on his country for fupport ? 
 If the other old Roman, who, when he 
 left the affairs of the publick, retired to. his 
 farm and turnips But it is vain and need- 
 le fs to recur to Greece and Rome for com- 
 parifons, or to draw piarallels between the 
 
 * 
 
 Great Men of Antiquity and thofe of our 
 own times, when we can fo much more pro- 
 perly compare our cotemporary ftatefmen 
 
 to
 
 ( 53 ) 
 
 to each other. Indeed, when I confider 
 with how much prudence the Right Horu 
 Annuitant has withdrawn himfelf from bu- 
 finefs, juft when it was likely to becomer 
 moft troublefome ; what a fnug' provifion 
 he has acquired for himfelf in. his retire-* 
 ment -, and how calm and unconcerned he 
 may fit amidft the general hurry and con- 
 fufion j I cannot compare him fo juftly 
 to any other object, as to the other Great 
 Man, who has fo long been the mofl prin- 
 cipal director of our affairs. That accom-* 
 
 plifhed M r, on a late publick occa- 
 
 fion, found himfelf in a fituation exactly 
 parallel to that of our Great Commoner afc 
 prefent. In the midft of the noife and 
 buftle of the Coronation, he retired, unob- 
 ferved by all, to the Privy Chamber > where 
 fome ladies of the Court accidentally dif- 
 H covtred
 
 ( 54 ) 
 
 covered him fafing himfelf moft philofo- 
 phically of every troublefome appendage 
 to luxury and greatnefs, enjoying the com- 
 fort of his retreat, Draining beyond the 
 reach of vulgar faculties, and furrounded 
 with every fymptom of felicity and good luck. 
 
 Having accidentally mentioned the other 
 Great Man, I cannot conclude this tedious 
 Letter, without adding a word or two in 
 bis favour : and as it is the opinion of many 
 perfons, and, I fear, the invidious wifh 
 of many more, that he likewife will fhortly 
 find it expedient to refign^ I think that the 
 'Crown and the People are each bound in 
 honour and gratitude to make him, alfo a 
 handfome appointment, as well as the Right 
 Hon. Annuitant. It would be hard indeed, 
 as Mat Prior has it, if one woufe eats while 
 
 t'other
 
 ( 55 ) 
 
 -, or that we fliould take fuch 
 provident care of our right-hand Statefman, 
 and leave our helplefs left-banded Minifter 
 in the lurch *, fince he is at leaft a limb of 
 the body politick, though not .of equal ufe 
 with hisfel/Gw. He has been fo grofsly 
 reviled for the wretched peace, which he 
 hammered out for us in 1748 ; that I doubt 
 he will fcarce try his hand to tinker up ano- 
 ther. I beg leave therefore (as I own my- 
 felf under obligations to him) to urge a few 
 arguments in his behalf, to {hew why he 
 ought to be allowed at leaft as good a Pen- 
 fion, if an Annuity be thought too peculiar 
 an indulgence, as any of thofe eminent per- 
 fonages, who have lately been removed : 
 and I much queftion, notwithftanding the 
 great number of his own extraordinary 
 largeffes of this nature, whether he will 
 H 2 find
 
 ( 56 ) 
 
 find many men, betides myfelf, thus gratc- 
 
 ful to him, when he is out of Power. And 
 < 
 
 the firft general Reafon I will prefume to 
 .give, is this : 
 
 That it would be a difgrace indeed up- 
 on the Government and the whole nation, 
 if be alone mould go unrewarded for his 
 long, wonderful, and inexpreflible fer- 
 vices. I believe I may venture to aflert, 
 that fcarce any body of late has been difrnif- 
 fed without this publick mark of approbation 
 following their refignation.^- And why fhould 
 
 he? Some, perhaps, who belong to 
 
 the honourable lift of Penfioners, have had 
 their names, more carefully and prudently 
 concealed than others j but if the truth 
 was known, and a fair and honed: Regifter 
 of Perjioners was made out, and laid before 
 
 the
 
 ( 57 ) 
 
 the Publick, I am perfuaded, we mould 
 find many great and worthy names, that 
 have long lain dormant, and fuch as few, 
 except the honourable fraternity themfelves, 
 ever could fufpecl:. 
 
 Another ftrong argument in his favour 
 is, that he has been as long in a lucrative 
 employment, if not longer, than moil of his 
 predeceffors or cotemporaries, and confe- 
 quently deferves as large, if not a larger 
 Pen/ion, than any of them. This is but 
 ftrict juftice according to the invariable 
 
 golden rule of modern politicks. 
 
 i 
 
 A further reafonfor putting this act of gra- 
 titude fpeedily in execution, is, that, fuch of 
 late has been the profufion of grants of this 
 nature, that there is fome doubt whether 
 3 there
 
 ( 58 ) 
 
 there will otherwife be^trcafure fufficient to 
 anfwer fo large a demand left in the Ex- 
 ch r. It may be neceflary perhaps, on this 
 occafion, to call in aid anotherkingdom, which 
 is tolerably well loaded already, and will 
 fcarce be able to receive many more of thefe 
 worthy gentlemen, fent over by this ho- 
 norary kind of tranfportation. And, by the 
 bye, I cannot help thinking, that our 
 Great Men ingrafted on that flock, ought 
 to carry fome diftinguiming" mark of their 
 belonging to that country. Suppofe, there- 
 fore, that, in thefe cafes, a Silver Badge 
 of S. P. for Sf. Patricky fhould be worn 
 on the left fhoulder ; and when any per- 
 fons are provided for on the home 7/y7, I 
 would have a golden badge for the Right 
 fhoulder, with S. G. upon it, for St. George, 
 with the additional honour to the Wearers, 
 
 that
 
 ( 59 ) 
 
 their names and titles, written in capitals, 
 mould be hung up in St. Georges chapel 
 above the lift of the Poor Knights of Wind- 
 fcr. But to return ; 
 
 Whilft I have been inadvertently 
 tempted to expatiate on the general na- 
 ture of thefe largefles, this very digref- 
 fion has fuggefted to me the ftrongeft 
 argument in behalf of this Great M r, 
 To fum up every reafon that can be urged 
 in one mort queftion, let me only afk you, 
 whether it would not be a moft unnatural 
 reproach on the gratitude of the nation, if 
 that perfon, who has generoufly beftowed 
 fo many great and honourable Pen/ions, 
 fhould remain in want of one himfelf ? Pe- 
 timufque damufque vicijjim, fays that honeft 
 verfe of Horace^ founded in gratitude. This, 
 I think, fhould be the Motto of the whole 
 Band, and mould be ftuck up in a confpi- 
 
 cuous
 
 ( 60 ) . 
 
 cuous part of the Beef-eater's room at court, 
 to mew every body, as they enter, what 
 favours Statefmen may expect from each 
 other : and the fame device might be pro- 
 perly ufed in another certain place for the 
 
 information of young m rs.* Upon 
 
 the principles of this axiom, the expedient 
 I would propofe to provide for this Great 
 Man, is, that every L d or C r in this 
 Kingdom, or the neighbouring one, pof- 
 feft of a Penfion, exceeding ] ooo /. per 
 year, fliould, by way of poundage, make 
 him an allowance of 5 /. per cent. and 
 then be too will perhaps be provided for, 
 pretty near equal to his merits more at 
 leaft than any other perfon as well as 
 have both his fhoulders properly decora-* 
 ted, according to the abovementioned Pro- 
 
 pofal. 
 
 Ha-
 
 ( 6, ) 
 
 Having thus endeavoured (as bound iri 
 gratitude) to carve out a handfpme pro- 
 vifion for this Great Man, as well as the 
 other, it is high time to conclude. I can- 
 not however take my final leave of you^ 
 without lamenting the general defpondency 
 which you tell me the Seceffion of the 
 Right Honourable Annuitant occafions in 
 "the Country. Much of it appears alfo in 
 town : . but in my mind it argues a poof 
 and mean fpirit, unworthy of -Britons^ 
 unworthy of men. Have we, for Hea- 
 ven's Sake, but ONE honeft and able man 
 among us ? I mould be forry to hear 
 even our enemies fay fo. I will venture 
 to fay that there is at leaft ONE MORE, of 
 whom I have a better opinion, than even 
 of our Great Man. The Perfon I mean 
 is no other than THE KING. He has al- 
 I ready
 
 ( 62 ) 
 
 ready manifefted the trueft affeftion for 
 his people : and why mould we be alarm- 
 ed or difturbed at the cabals and intrigues 
 of our fellow-f errant s y when we are af- 
 fured of the care and protection of our 
 MASTER? He knows the juft limits by 
 which his Power is circumfcribed,. and 
 defires not to enlarge its bounds. In like 
 manner let every officer of ftate honeftly 
 perform the duties of his place, and aim 
 at nothing mote ! While they bawl in 
 oppofition, they complain that power is 
 dangerous in the hands of a Minifterj 
 but when they get into power themfelves, 
 they dare to complain of being manacled 
 and fettered, The Power of the Britifi Con- 
 flitution is lodged in no ONE Man, or Set of 
 Men, but collectively in the Whole People. 
 It were to be wifhed, therefore, by all 
 
 HONEST
 
 HONEST MEN, that this frightful Cbimara. 
 
 of a PRIME MINISTER GREAT MAN 
 
 or whatever he may call himfelf that has 
 
 fo long flalked between the Throne and 
 
 the people in this nation, were totally 
 
 annihilated : and as is generally faid, that, 
 
 at the late Coronation, his prefent Ma- 
 
 jefty found himfelf obliged to be his own 
 
 BISHOP, his own HERALD, GV, happy 
 
 would it be for Great Britain, if it fhould 
 
 prove an Omen that .in this aufpicious 
 
 reign, He will be found alfo to prove 
 
 HIS OWN MINISTER. 
 
 I am, my Dear Sir, 
 
 ' 
 
 Your, &e. 
 
 O S T-T
 
 POSTSCRIPT* 
 
 Oftober 22, 1761* 
 
 I Cannot forbear the triumph of adding 
 a Poftfcript to tranfmit immediately to 
 you the following Paragraph from the St. 
 Jatn'es's Chronicle of this Evening. 
 
 At a Court of Common Council held this 
 Day at Guildhall y a Motion was made, thai 
 en Addrefs Jhould be prefented to the Right 
 Hon. William Pitt, Efq; for bis pajl Ser- 
 vices. After federal Speeches again/I the 
 Motion, by a learned Deputy, the 
 4
 
 ( 65 ) 
 
 tfan was put, and upon holding up of Hands 
 
 there appeared 
 
 For addreffing Mr. Pitt - - 109 
 Againft it ----- * 1 5 
 Whereupon a Committee was appointed to 
 fyawh. up the faid Addrefs j and alfo, at 
 the fame Time, to requejl of Mr. Pitt y 
 that he 'would continue to purfue the fame 
 Patriotick 'Principles upon which, he has, 
 hitherto acJed. 
 
 This, I hope, will thoroughly con- 
 vince you Country-gentlemen of your 
 error. Our honeft -Citizens, you fee, 
 know his merits : and though his name, 
 as an Annuitant, has keen publifhed 
 and printed, like the Bankrupts, in the 
 Condon Gazette, yet the fagacious Com*
 
 ( 66 ) 
 
 ipon Council have no lefs opinion of hi$ 
 being a good Man on that account. Per- 
 haps they corrfider a Statesman, who be- 
 comes a PF KsitfNEras a broken -Patriot-*- a 
 faffeteft in Politicks and it is not to b^ 
 doubted but the Pvight Honourable AN- 
 NUITANT will convince them, that fuch 
 a man, like tfbcr Bankrupts, can fet up j 
 *gairt, and drive . a more thriving trade 
 than ever he did before. 
 
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