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too apparent you till poffeffed: Happy
would it have been for the repofe of
your mafter, and the tranquility of
your country, if you would have de-
termined never more to intermeddle
in the affairs of this kingdom. But A
you could not keep from meddling,
and yet you durit not ACT OUT. All
your emiffaries were fet to work, to
obftruct the adminiftration of thofe
very gentlemen, you yourself had so
lately recommended.

Every engine

was made ufe of to embarrass them, and every art employed to poifon the B minds of the people against their meafures. But here your Lordship's character, and their merits, were to appear in oppofite fcales; and it needs not any pen to tell which would preponderate.

The public credit reftored, the reduction of the national debt begun, and the arrangement of the finances compleated, are so many proofs of the abilities and integrity of Him who prefided at the Treasury; and the peaceable and respectful conduct of foreign powers, together with the subfiding of thofe diffentions at home, which had either been occafioned by

taken every opportunity of manifest→ ing your hatred and averfion to him, and fubjecting him to frequent morti fying proofs that you had infufed the fame lentiments ELSEWHERE. HOWever, at this critical juncture, forgetting the dignity and delicacy of your malter, he appeared to you the fitteft perfon for your purpofe; and using every little artifice, and employing every emiffary to enlift him into your fervice, you at length deluded him to lay afide his dignity, and, to the aftonifhment of all England, to become neither more, nor less, than your courier to Hayes, where you was afhamed, and afraid, ever to appear again yourfelf. The result of this negociation did honour to the great patriot, and the few, whom his judgment and public fpirit had connected with himself. The voice of the nation, tho' charmed with a profpect of his return to the helm, grew at once fullen and filent, when they found themselves difappointed.

Even this ftroke, this defperate ftroke of yours failed; you was unable to form fuch a miniftry, as you

D fondly expected; and, for want of forefight, involved yourself in diffi culties that you never dreamed of. Mr Pitt most nobly and refolutely refufed to bear any fhare in an adminiftration, that was to be packed together, and garbled by you. You have loft the fupport of his abilities and influence, and engaged ONE, who will not easily forego his purposes.

the hatred of the nation to your Lord.
hip, or fomented by your own Emif.
faries for wicked and infamous pur-
poses, are a fufficient teftimony how
happy, how permanently happy this
kingdom might have been, if your
Lordship would have fet any bounds
to your restless, and all-difturbing
paffions. But this, alas, was impoffi-
ble! The confidence which our able
and active minifters began every day
to acquire, alarmed you; and thofe
prefages of future happiness, which
others beheld with plea fure, yourLord-
fhip looked upon with jealousy. You
grew apprehenfive that your power in F
the clofet would decline, and that your
old maxim of dividing and goveraing,
could no longer be reduced to prac-
tice: You faw how unanimously bent
they were, to reduce your exorbitant
power, and oppofe your pernicious
counfels. In fuch a defperate fitaa- G
tion, the remedy was defperate; and
there feemed to be nothing left, but
to Ay to the arms of that illuftrious
perfon, whofe BULK you thought fuf-
ficient to fhield you from the impend-
ing danger. You did not, it must
be confelled, apply to him immediately H
yourfelf; fuch a ttep would have been
too rafh and hazardous, You was
confeious how little favour you de-
ferved at his hands; having formerly

And, now, my Lord, fit down coolly, and reflect a little on your rafh, inconfiftent, paffionate conduct; how wantonly you have fported with the repofe of your master, and how frequently you have fhewn yourfelf undeferving of that kind, that almoft unparalleled attachment, he is unhappily taught to have for you. How thocking is it, that the dignity of the crown, the tranquility of the nation, and the welfare of the people, are thus to be shamefully facrificed to your predominant paffions! How muft it expofe us to the fcorn and ridicule of our neighbours. to have it known that all the great offices of the kingdom, the care of our laws, our treasures, our naval and military powers, have been offered over and over again to various perfons; and for a long time none found hardy enough to accept them, upon fuch a plan, and under fuch a Coadjutive Diktatorship! Is not this, my Lord, risking the honour and Lalety

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afety of the nation, and bringing us
under univerfal contempt and deri
fon? And what is it now that you and
Four new Ally have at laft been able to
effect? What fort of image is it, that,
by every kind of art and chicanery,
by wooing and entreating, by wheed.
ling and threatening, you have at
length contrived to let up? It is a
perfect emblem of the Bartholomew-
fair Monfier, an old fellow's head, pu-
Hng and (puttering on a pair of chil-
dren's fhoulders. Surely, my Lord,
there never was before fuch an in- B
confiftent, motley miniftry !

Oh, my Lord, what a melancholy fcene are you preparing for that molt excellent young Prince, who by supporting you, and liftening to your evening tale, receives the only check that could be given to his Happiness, and is deprived, in fothe measure, of that heart felt content, which his rare benevolence, and uncommon virtue, entitles him to enjoy ?~~

Mr Gr-lle and Mr P-tť compared.

From the St James's Chronicle.
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and the extent of our conquefts, as the glory and the prefervation of this country.

Mr Gr-lle confidered the opinion we entertained of the late war, and the value we fet upon our conquefts, as the effect of popular madness, in all his fpeeches, and thofe of his party, it was always fpoken of under the appellation of the unfortunate l'ar.

Mr Pit thought we ought to fulfil, with a fidelity worthy of the honour of Great Britain, all our engagements with a certain great prince; who, during the late war, by diverting the attention of a vaft body of our enemies, left the field open to us, to cari y our arms victoriously over every part of the globe.

Mr Gr-lle thinks it a wife dcoCnomical measure to difguft our great Ally, by little cavils on the payment of his fubfidy; and it is his opinion, that the faving of half a crown to the finking-fund, is a more important object than the credit of the nation, and the affection of our allies.

Mr P-t thinks that we ought, by Dwell chofen alliances, to prevent the approach of danger, weaken the connections of France, and maintain the balance of power in our own hands.

made out between two characters, el-
ther naturally or politically confider-
ed, I fuppofe it would be impoffible
to find any more perfectly fit to be fet
in direct oppofition to each other, than E
thofe of Mr Grelle and Mr P-tt.

As much as a laborious perplexity duffers from intuitive penetration, as fuch as narrowness differs from enlargement, as much as meannefs differs from fublimity, fo much do the genius, the temper, the difpofitions, and the habits of Mr Grenville differ from thofe of Mr Pitt. And no man who can distingui exactness from greatness, the detail of office from the great circle of politics, or a kingdom from a fhop, will ever think of fpeaking of thofe two perfonages in the fame Breath, either as men or as minifters.

Their talents and turn of mind do not differ as the greater and the lefs; but are in direct oppofition to each ather. The political opinions of both are known and avowed; let us state and compare them..

Mr Pitt, along with Great Britain, that enjoys the advantages, and France who feels the loffes of the late war, (as far as the late glorious peace has permitted the one to enjoy, and the other to fuffer) confidered the war,

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Mr Gr-le difclaims all knowledge of foreign affairs; and thinks no alliance worth the money paid for engroffing the treaty.

Mr P thinks that the nationa ftock ought to be increased; that our unprovided debt should be established on proper funds; that the finking fond ought to be increafed by new fupplies, and not fimply by futile favings, and that this fund ought to be kept lacred and inviolable.

Mr Grenville thinks, that an hundred and forty millions of debt is to be paid by faving of pence and farthings; that the unfunded debt should be left to take care of itfelf; that the finking fund is to be applied to as a prefent refource; and that at the fame time, the revenue is to receive no new aid, but what it may derive from bis economy.

Which of thefe fyftems is the right one, I do not pretend to determine. I only fay they are oppofite; and that therefore no one can with well to Mr Gr-lle's continuance in power, who does not wish him further opportunities (to ufe his own favourite expreffion) of trampling on the proud spirit of Mr Pitt. The

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The Tryal of FRIENDSHIP. A Story. (Concluded from p. 279.)

[PON farther enquiry they learnt

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that he went out alone in the plainet drefs he had, and that she was gone towards the water fide. Lady Aubrey rofe immediately in the greatest confternation, and was fortunate enough to trace her to an Indiaman that lay outward bound a little way down the river.

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They found her on board the vef fel, folliciting a paffage, and furroun- B ded by failors, whom her beauty, her youth, the fweetness of her addrefs, and the elegance of her manner, but above all the fimplicity of her request, had, as it were, tranfported with wonder and admiration. She had nothing with her but bare neceffaries, having left every thing of value be hind her except a fmall chrystal, in the shape of a heart, which she had received as a prefent from Nelfon.

The moment the faw Lady Aubrey The yielded without refiftance, but ap peared a little confused at having deceived her. To her reproaches, which were tender and affectionate, fhe anfwered, That though the was wretched, yet fhe was free. And do you fee nothing here, faid Lady Aubrey, but misfortune?' "If I faw only my own, replied Neuraly, I would have Jived here for ever; it is Nefon's miffortune which I dread, and it is for this fake that I would be gone."

litude of the country had rendered him but too fenfible of his condition; he found his friendship decline, and his public fpirit forfake him. Love had no competitor but reafon, and it had almost feduced reafon to its intereft: "What right, fays he, can Blandford pretend to a heart that is another's? If I have gained Nouraly's it was not a voluntary act, on my part, and it was not culpable on her's, for furely he is at her own difpofal. He was, however, the next moment alarmed at this 'elf feduction. "Can I, says he, fuffer myfelf to debate whether a depofit put into my hands belongs to me, or to him that made it ? Nouraly, indeed, is free, but I am bound; and if I confent to what was at first invoJuntary, from that moment it becomes criminal. I can queftion the right of my friend in this cafe from no other motive but a defire to invade it; if my reafon deferts me, my confcience fhall keep me faithful. Weakness is a misfortune, not a crime. I have forti: tude that will fuftain me under misfortune. I can fink only under a sense of Dguilt."

Lady Aubrey endeavoured to perfuade her that the evil was not without remedy, and exhorted her to hide her weaknefs from Nelson, and by the exercife of her virtues to triumph over it. This is certainly in your power, fays fhe, and nothing is wanting but courage to attempt it. To this Nouraly replied, "That he had courage to fuftain misfortune, but not to commit violence upon love; and that as to her virtues, there was not one that was not already in Nelfon's intereft." She therefore infifted upon her liberty, G and required to be sent away.

Lady Aubrey was now extreamly embarraffed and diftreffed; the faw her gradually pine away, always in tears, and always entreating to be dismissed. She therefore wrote an account of their fituation to her brother, and urged him to come to town to fave the life of his charge, and to prevent her from going abroad.

Nelfon, however, was in a condition not lefs to be pitied himfeif. The fo(Gent. Mag. JULY 1765.)

Such was the flate of Nelfon's mind when he received his fifter's letter: He read it with fenfations that cannot be expreffed; and after much debate with himself, he determined to go to town. "I fhall, myself, fays he, be certainly more miferable after I have feen her than I am now; but it is her happiness that is in queftion and not mine. I am fure of a conquest over myfelf, and however painful the conflist, it would be a weakness and a difgrace to fhun it, fince my duty requires it of me."

When he arrived, Nouraly, though he had expected him with the utmost impatience, fcarcely dared to appear before him; fhe came trembling and confufed, her blood was chilled in her veins, and the feemed to consider him as a judge, who was finally to determine her fate.

At the fame time Nelson was touched with a tenderness, not less painful by its excefs, to fee the rofes faded on her cheek, and the fire of her eyes extinguifhed. Come, fays Lady Aubrey. and fee if you cannot quiet the mind of our young friend, and remove her melancholy; he is dying with defire to go back to India.'

Nelson then addreffed himself to Nou raly, and endeavoured, by gentle reproaches, to engage her to explain herself in the prefence of his f

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