” 4 ' ' rf ey ey - 4 » y/ Fa) v ag ots Q Tre Hinlore °( @ fate Adiga Bh phic tetra EE os -\~ QA poe 266 | \/ 7 / / he i Y r A TRUE H-tS TO Oe OF ABA FT & Short ADMINISTRATION, i ee ee _ EE =e L 2 Nee DD: e-h: Printed for J. ALMON, oppofite BuRLINGTON Hovse, in PiccapILiy. 1766. [Price Six-pence.] a aia al A Short pee UN TE Of ns hand Short Adminiftration. I. “we HE late Admi- niftration came into Employ- ment, under the Medi- ation of the Duke of Cumberland,ontheTenth Day of Yuly 1765; and was removed, upon a Plan fettled by the Earl of A True HISTO R Y Of A Late Short Adminiftration, E. \ FTER aSufpen- fion ef all Go- vernment for near two Months, and when the Caufe, Man- ner, and Mediator of the intended Change had induced every one, who had been conver- B fant m7 4 Ee] of Chatham on the Thir- tieth Day of ‘7uly 1766, having lafted One Year and Twenty Days. 73 Inthat Space of Time HI. The Diftra&tions of the Briti/b Empire were compofed, by The Re- peal of the American atamp Act IV. fant in Bufinefs, to de- cline accepting them, the Great Offices of Ad- miniftration were given upon a Plan, ot fettled by the Earl of Chatham, to the Marquis. of Rock- ingham, who had borne the Office of a Lord; to Mr. Conway, who had been a Groom of the Bed-chamber, and to the Duke of Grafton and. Mr. Dowde/well, who had never been in Office at all. II. In thatSpace of Time Il. The Subject Colonies of Great Britain were excited to Rebellion and Independence by the Connivance and Encou- ragement IV. But the Conftituti- onal Superiority of Great Britain was preferved, by The Ag for securing the Dependance of the Co- lonies. Private Houfes were relieved from the Ju- rifdiction of the Excife, by The Repeal of the Cy- der Tax. E ey ragement given to their Reiiftance to the Stamp Aa, and the Conftitu- tional Superiority” of Great Britain’ farren-~ dered to their Claims by the Repeal of it. IV. By the Alteration in the Cyder Ad, the Cy- der Counties received the Reward of their Tumult and Sedition, by a partial Exemption from any Tax on their Beverage ; and their Proportion of the Bur- thens of the State, to- gether with the Addi- tion of the new Duties on Cydeér, was tranf- ferred to the other Counties of England, whofe Beverage. was al- ready and had fo latel heen feverely taxed. iS Vy ‘ San ge ne oe a eines a pet = te Re Vv. The perfonal Liber- ty of the Subject was confirmed, by The Re- folution againft General Warrants, VI. The lawful Secrets of Bufinefs and Friend- fhip were rendered in- violable by The Refolu- tion for condemning the Seizure of Papers. VII. V. The Refolution ae gain{t General Warrants, which was rendered un- neceflary by the Deci- fions of the Courts of Law, and which thofe who had before oppofed now concurred in, be- caufe the perfonal Li- berty of the Subject was already provided for and fecured; was propofed from Motives of Spleen, Refentment, and the Pride of fuperior Strength. VE The Security of the lawful Secrets of Bufi- nefs and Friendthip, which a late Minifter propofed to render in- violable by the contti- tutional Fg:<] VIL. The Trade of Ame- rica was fet free from injudicious and ruinous Impofitions—Its Reve- nue was improved, and fettled upon a rational Foundation—Its Com- merce extended with foreign Countries; while ‘all the Advantages were fecured to Great Bri- tain, by The Ad for repealing certain Duties, and encouraging, Tregu- lating, and fecuring the Trade tutional Method of a Bill, was, as foon as their Fears of Mr. Pitt were removed by his Abfence, rejected, and a Refolution of one Houfe of Parliament, which cannot have the fame legal Authority, fubftituted in its Place. VII. The Trade of Ame- rica was fet free from thofe Ties which had ever been thought ne- ceffary to make it ad- vantageous to Great Britain, and the Taxes reduced below’ even their Requefts. Its Revenue was improv- ed and fettled on the Foundation of Tumult and Sedition. Its Com- merce with foreign Countries extended, and Part eS | [ é4J Trade of this Kingdom, and_ tbe Britifh Domi- uions in America, VITl, Materials were pro- vided. and infured to our Manufactures The Sale of thefe Ma- nufactures -was encreaf- ed—The African Trade preferved and extend- ed—The. Principles of the Ad of Navigation purfued, and the Plan improved And the Trade for Bullion ren- dered free, fecure, and permanent, Part of the Advantages to Great Britain fur- rendered, while the whole was put to Ha- zard by the Meafure of repealing certain Du- ties, and encouraging, regulating, and fecur- ing the Trade of this Kingdom, and the Brz- tifo Dominions in /4- Merica. VII. To provide a tem- porary Supply for our Manufactures, a per- manent Support. and extended Sale of them was retarded and pre- vented. The .Princi- ples of the A@ of Na- vigation were fapped, and that Plan which had been the Foun- dation of our. Naval Strength, abandoned and a. [ o@ ] permanent, by Ibe Ad for opening certain Ports in Dominica and ‘fa- Miatea. TX. That Adminiftration was the firft which pro- pofed, and: encousaged public. Meetings, and. free Confultations of Merchants) from all Parts of the Kingdom ; by which Means the trueft Lights have been received; great Bene- fits have been already derived to Manufacture and Commerce; and the and counteracted. The Spanifb Court alarmed, and the Trade for Bul- lion, which the pre- ceding Adminiftration had facilitated, was checked, and the Senti- ments of the Miniftry itfelf contradicted, by opening certain Ports:in Dominica and Ffamaica. IX. That Adminiftration was indeed the firft which intrufted the le-. giflative Power to a Committee of ° Mer- chants, by which Means the. moft partial Infor- mations were received and attended to, the Public Interefts facri- ficed to thofe of a few Individuals, and the ex- tenfive Refources of Great [ the moft extenfive Pro- {pe&ts are opened’ for further Improvement. X; Under them, the In- terefts of our North- ern and Southern Co- lonies, before that Time jarring and diffonant, were underftood, com- pared, adjufted, and perfectly reconciled, The Paffions and A- nimofities of the Co- lonies, by judicious and lenient Meafures, were allayed and compofed, and the Foundation Jaid for a lafting Agree- ment amongtt them. XI. 10 | Great Britain almott cut off, Xx. Under them the In- terefts of our Northern and Southern Colonies were miftaken, and preferred to thofe of Great Britain, while their Paffions and Ani- mofities were fufpended only by the Union, formed to reject their Dependency, and dif= claim the Authority of Great Britain; and if their Interefts were re- conciled, it was by the Sacrifice of thofe of the Mother Country. XI. XI. Whilft that Admi- niftration provided for the Liberty and Com- merce of theif Coun- try, as the true Bafis of its Power, they con- fulted its Interefts, they afferted its Honour A- broad, with Temper and with Firmnefs ; by making an advan- tageous Treaty of Com- merce with Rujia; by obtaining a Liquidation of the Canada Bills, to the Satisfaction of the Proprietors; by teviv- ing and ratfing from its Afhes the Negoti- ation for the Manilla Ranfom, which had been extinguifhed and abandoned by their Pre- deceffors. XI, The Treaty of Com- merce with Rufia had been projected, by their Predeceffors, on Terms more advantageous to England; and the late Adminittration departed only from that Firms nefs, which had con« fulted its Interefts and Flonour, by Conceffions to the Court of Petersa burgh, The Canada Bills were liquidated on Sti- pulations, which, tho’ accepted by the weary’d and defpairing Proprie= tors, were lefs beneficial than thofe which had secn refufed in the pres ceding Year. That Phoenix, the Negotia- tion for the Manilla Ranfom, did not, under them, appear brighter ~ than Pes Px (eee . at. | ey we. tac P ans fe! pO — TS eee a SSyottewe ei ' = erga ne aaa ie ot gah raat , dF *S tn & OF A d oa ab i * ee SA ee # ta f 315 ) The laft Adminiftration opened the WinterCam- paign with the Election at Rochefter. In the former Period, no Pen- fion was granted, ex- cept to a Lady, who was the Object of Pub. lic, as well as of Royal Compaflion, and to a Gentleman, who had amply merited it by for- ty Years faithful and la- borious Service. In the latter Period, Five Hun- dred Pounds per Annum, for Life, was given to a Gentleman who had never ferved at all, and whofe Diffidence did not fuffer him to accept an Office of 30001. per Ann. without this in- furing Confideration. A Reverfionary Leafe of a very beneficial Grant was beftowed on a Gen- tleman in very affluent XIV, Circumftances, a fs ( 4 iy i } _ oo * * . { Sy : & we " if 5 ty j it 1 ¥ , i 14 ~ 4 nf >. a i i h », , } , a ee eee ed ty STS a [ XTV. In: the Profecution of their Meafures they were traverfed by an Oppofition of a new and fingular Character ; an 16 | Circumftances, extend- ing his Term thirty-five Years, while Two Hun- dred Pounds per Ann. given to another, pur- chafed a Vacancy in a ref{pectable Affembly. A noble Lord likewife is indebted toM lIn- dulgence, for a Grant of Timber in a certain Foreft, worth at leaft 13000]. Thefe are fome of the Services of the firft three Months ; and I doubt not, but the fubfequent Part of their Adminiftration pro- duced many of a fimilar Nature. XIV. In the Profecution of their Meafures, they were indeed traverfed by an Oppofition of a new and fingular Cha- racter ; cm I an Oppofition of Place- men and _- Penfioners. They were fupported hy the Confidence of the Nation. And hav- ing held their Offices under many Difficulties and Difcouragements, they. left them. at the exprefs Command, as they had accepted them at the earneft Requeft of their Royal Mafter. racter; an Oppofition of Placemen and Pen- fioners, for they oppofed themfelves.. The Public therefore refufed their Confidence toa Minifiry which was _irrefolute, divided and overawed to a Degree of Ridicule, which was timid and pref{umptuous by Turns, and whofe Proceedings were ftained with the various Hues of each Faction which com- pofed it.—They hung, however, with the moft interefted Perfeverance on thofe Offices, to the Difficulties of which they were fo apparently unequal, till they were removed upon a Plan fet- tled by that Minther whom they had courted, for- faken, and endeavoured to. ruin, XV. XV. Thefe are plain Facts ; of a clear and public Nature; neither ex- tended by elaborate Reafoning, or height- ened by the Colouring of Eloquence. They are the Services of a fingle Year. XVI. The Removal of that Adminiftration from Power, is not to them premature; fince they were in Office long e- nough to accomplifh many Plans of public Utility ; and by their Perfeverance and Re- folution, rendered the Way fmooth and eafy to their Succeffors ; having left their King and XV. Thefe are plain Facts; of a clear and public Nature; neither ex- tended by elaborate Reafoning, or height- ened by the Colouring of Eloquence. ‘They are the Services of a fingle Year. XVI. The Removal of the lateAdminiftration from Power was to them pre- mature, fince it was in that Hour of Security in which they had boaft- ed with equal Confi- dence and Falfehood of their Victory over Lord Bute, Mr. Grenville, and Lord Chatham; but to the Public, it was too late, for they were in Office long t and..their Cotintry® in a much. better Condi- tion, than they found them. .By the: ‘Tem- per they manifett, they feem'to have now -no other With, than ‘that their Sueceflors may do the Public as real: and as faithful Service -as they have done, i9 | long enough to deftroy thofe. many Plans of Public Utility; which . their Predeceffors had formed ; and, by. their Incapacity, Irrefolution and Profufion, to rendér the Way rough and dif+ ficult to any Succeffors; Difficulties, which they with to increafe, if we thay judge of theirTem- per by the Conduct of fuch of them as could not find Favour in the Eyes of Lord Chatham; and particularly by the courteous Reception gi- ven, in Grofvenor Square, to that Noble Lord. It would be unfair to determine, whether they left their King-and Country 2” a much better Con- dition than they found them, upon the feanty Mate- tials produced by their fhort Hiftorian. The o- ther Meafures purfued by them, and which his Modefty hath omitted, mutt contribute to the Decifion of this Point. They are therefore added to afffi the Judgment.of the Reader. D They ie - } i —— MENS SEF EES i y 1 hy \' hi. id |e . if > i a : i i aseumpetom ican nt ogee fi ‘A q AY Sa Chas a Tes i ce SSS == = (Bat Fag MP ot SOS LBL FT ST he ae ipiceaetiienes S53 ae eb . ’ y - PA ‘ 3 Op. go ZA 5/2 ae Et ot Fe) PF [ 20 ] They increafed the Eftablifhment, in a Time of profound Peace, 94,000/. per annum; 77,3001. of which was propofed to be expended in repair= ing and rebuilding Ships, (while there were al- ready more Ships than could be manned) and was demanded by thofe who had oppofed the E- ftablifhment of the former Year, as too large, merely becaufe when Great Lords fay Aye, a poor C r of the Ex r muft not fay No. ‘The reft of the Increafe is the Effect of Profu- fion in-every Article which could admit of being enlarged. The Savings made by the former Miniftry had amounted to 270,000/. The laft Adminiftration neglected the Improvement of the Revenue, by {topping fhort in thofe Traéts which had been pointed out to them: When by the Acquifition of the J/le of Man, an illicit Trade, amounting to 300,000 /. per annum, was prevented, it was in- tended to perfect and extend that Meafure by fi- milar Regulations with regard to Guernfey and ferfey. This Intention was made known, the Means confidered, the Meafure called for and omitted : Their Predeceffors in Office had obtain- ed: from France, for the Maintenance of their Prifoners, the only Sum ever brought into the Exchequer upon that Account. The Demands for ca oe ‘a $a aes > ws [ 21 ] ho kel > 2 Pas te for the Prifoners taken in Germany and the Eaj/f- Indies, though equally founded -in Juftice, not being fupported with equal Vigour, have in their Hands produced nothing. The former Miniftry had increafed the Public Revenue by their American Bills, the Duty on Gum Seneca, and the Poft-Office Regulations, 234,000/. per annum, exclufive of the judicious Alterations which had been made in many Parts of the Revenue, and of that Reduction of Inte- 7s4 SE IRR E SE SEELEIOLIIEEIE a - # ha? > ; e é Whi : ’ reft which amounted to 130,585/. in the Space H of two Years. In Fact, the total Debt provided for in that Period, amounted to 6462,946/. while i 3 the Funds for the Difcharge of this were laid : : t } i i 5 { } ii ne ‘ i | principally upon Foreigners, and rather promoted | than impeded our Commerce. The laft Admi- niftration diminifked the Public Revenue by the | Adts refpecting America, 130,000 /. by the Al- it ' ; f sas: = Pauw Se ee teration of the Cyder Tax, 20,000/. per annum. They raifed the Supplies in the only Year in which that Province was entrufted to them, at the Ex- pence of near r5000/. above that of the former, | though the Public was now in a more advanta- | geous Situation, and the Tax impofed for Pay- ment of the Intereft of their Loan (that on Win- dows) muft be either oppreflive or ineffectual. The fame Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had {tated the difpofeable Money of the Sinking Fend, D-2 . as L 22 ] as confiderably under one Million, took Credit for 2,150,000/. on that Fund, deteriorated as. it was by his Syftem of Finance. The Improvements which the former Admi+ niftration had made in the Revenue, would have enabled them to give that Relief:to the landed Intereft, to which their fteady Acquiefcence, un# der the neceflary Burthens of the State, had fo well entitled them. By the laft Adminiftration, the Hopes of this Relief were entirely cut off; and the landed Gentlemen were partially facrificed to the Interefts of Traders and Colonitts. Upon the whole, the Nation, which in the preceding two Years had been benefited 200,000/. per annum, was impoverithed by the Jaft Admini- itration, (if we add their Increafe of Expence to their Diminution of the Income) in the Space of one Year, 240,000/. which is the Intereft of EIGHT MILLIONS! The Public; which had beheld them advanced to Office with Surprize, felt a warm In- dignation at the Oppreflions which it had fuffered from their Meafures, and faw with the juftett Pleafure, a Part of them, at leaft, deprived of the Power of augmenting the Diftrefies of the State. The Nation has too feverely felt the Effects of their Incapacity and Profufion, either to with for, or to fupport Succeflors of fimilar Principles and Abilities. SS ioe 9 = ae See I obferve, that the advocates for the new created Earl of Chatham, endea- vour to palliate his conduc by implor- ing the publick confidence, now ex- piring, to wait for fome future proofs of his fupereminent virtue, of his de- votion to his country, and exertion of his unparallel’d talents. Alas! is there a fifth of the inhabitants of this king dom, fo uninform’d, fo undifcerning, as not to fee at once, that this cele- rated character, now tranflated to another region, can no longer render his country the fame important fer- vices, fhe hath received from him, in his former tation? Can we expect to B fee (6) fee him, in this new fphere, the {courge of corrupt minifters ; the ter- ror of rapacious courtiers? Shall we here find him with a fenate at his heels? Can he now fupport our peti tions, enforce our grievances, and pro= te& our tights, in that body which: he hath fo emphatically defcribed, but as a drop in the ocean? Alas, Sir! I fpeak from the heart of an honeft citizen. We have, indeed, loft the Great Com- moner, the patron and protector of our rights, our leading ftar, our fuper- intending planet; and yet, methinks, I could have with’d to have {een his glory fet in a more placid hemifphere : what tempefts may we not expect, in this infatuated, but much abufed country, when we fhall fee every act of our. much-beloved Commoner mark’d with fome indecent jobb, fome mercenary contract, in favour of his pliant (7) pliant fubalterns? This free country, which hath, for fome years, from his profeffions, been taught to look up to him as a detefter of jobbs, the firm opponent of court -practices,-and one who was fingularly intent upon ap- plying the national powers to national ends. What are we to fay; if it fhall appear that the illuftrious, mo- deft, benign, elegant, confiftent Lord N—h——-n, holds the prefident of the council with an additional 1oool. annexed to the ufual falary of his pott ; and that the faid amiable Earl of N---h----- n hath moreover a con- ditional penfion of 40001. for life, if he be removed, befides a reverfion of the Hanaper for two lives? His Lordfip was undoubtedly right to pro- vide againft the events of a future day ---no one can have better grounds to diftruft the good faith of a court. B 2 Still Se ie ee Ee (8) Still more will every admirer of the late Lard Chief ‘fuflice Pratt grieve, and every friend to permanent liberty fhudder, when he fhall find it regi- fter’'d in: office, Aowever delayd in the Gazette, that this much-horour’d pa~ triot could not undertake his Majefty’s and his Cowntry’s fervice, without grafping the revenue of a Tellerfhip in the Exchequer, and at the fame time fiipulating for an annual floating pen-~ fion of ts00]. fhould he be remowd before the Tellerfhip falls, But here, my countrymen, prepare to weep, and learn how cruelly the honeft feelings of you all; and the publick confidence, is'ever doom’d to be the inftrument of ambitious indi- viduals! Know you then, that the late Mr, P--tt, he who gain’d fo much -te- putation, by refufing the Sardinian prefent, (‘9 ) prefent, and whom you have all been told; annually left his falary at the Treafury, and meant fome new ex- ample of commiferation to the pub- lick, if he fhould ever return to-office. This'very man, being once penfion'd and earl-created, does, in this hour of na- tional diftrefs, embrace a /ucrateve and. /ine-cure office, to which no refpon- fibility is annexed, and which, in fac, is therefore a_-fecond penjion. Let me now afk the few remaining advocates, or rather idolaters, of this Great Man; was there ever a fet of men, whether really call’d upon by their Sovereign, by motives of choice, orafactious combination, forcing them- felyes into the cabinet, that have pre-~ fumed to. make demands fo injurious to the: honour of the crown, and fo cruel to the diftrefs'd ftate of their 5 country? ary isi estate pe —s taal Pe lae 2 Stee i \ - aye “ if) iat 8... > @ i i By iy! } ae ' wh t 4] 7 © ia > # a. * iv =P \ pe. _ 4 ~ he % He | ‘ ¢ => y | ‘i ? _ - 7 ; ny —_ * 4 ~ , ie M aS te tie \é 4 e — oe see ESSE gr a ea ( 10 ) country? I fay, injurious to the ho- nour of the crown, becaufe no. men, who placed an honeft confidence in the rectitude of their own intentions, and in the amiable difpofition of ‘their Prince to reward their fervices, would have fo daringly anticipated what their predeceflors have alone hop’d for from long fervices: they have fat out with what the labours of a Burleigh, and the uniform integrity of a Godolphin, would have been thankful for.—The real conftitutional ftatefmen of a former age, God knows, had a more happy moderation. Even the days of Sir Ro- bert Walpole, which have been fo hoftily contrafted with thefe periods, by the youthful eloquence of our late admired patriot, prefented nothing of this anti- cipating rapacioufnefs, driven as he was to the wall, by the captivating harangues of this man, and urg’d to a mode (ir) mode of defence, which, however far from his choice, he never had re- courfe, in all his fhifts, to fuch unpre- cedented mifapplications of the civil lift: fuch outrageous mortgages of the royal revenue ftood totally without precedent, until the prefent reign of the Great Commoner, unlefs they pleafe to draw one from the imper- tinent demand of a Mr. Secretary C---p---r; which was, indeed, the offspring of the diftrefs, mot the triumph of the late infantine admi~ niftration.---This gentleman maturely comparing the inftability of all admi- niftrations with his profpects in his own profeffion, himfelf drew the balance between his two fituations, and demanded 800]. a year for life eer he would venture to be made a fecretary: one would have imagined, by fuch a provifion, this gentleman intended Settee tre SS we oP et ® f 7 ; ‘ j i et ty vw, tal hy é n y i Sig! te \ ai) "1 a} & ui a - 44 , az ff q i ‘WI vy 4 - ~ My Pa ! Lg te tA a 5 poy +a a = DA Push r o' a > Af w a a hth BP #.¢2i© » 4 4 a OAS oy = a p SBE FS HS so = = ferns a SS | ( 12) intended handfomely to have abided by his friends; it feems, however, he hath found out fome fafhionable diftinGions of the day, and {till holds his place, together with his provifional penfion; an example which many more doubtlefs will follow with the fame facility, as they have his eventual provifion. The rank of the perfon may, in fome degree, excufe fuch indecent encroachments upon the crown, and the nation; but what apology can be made for Lord C---d--n? Nay, for the credit of human nature, when we {ee a perfon of his illuftrious, and eftablith’d cha- racter, feeking the fame fecurity as a Mr. C---p---r?---Can his Lordthip fuppofe, in cafe he fhould be difmifs’d for any noble refiftance in favour of the liberties or interefts of his country, that he would want a provifion for himfelf — — a ae himfelf and his family, as well as a Mr. C---p---r? That he fhould fink into oblivion, by being confiftent? I will call therefore this penfion mere avarice, a want .of confidence.in the crown, and as great a diffidence of the fentiments of the people he has no caufe to fufpect. The late Great Commoner is faid to be building an adminiftration, by fele€ting the men of the firft- abilities in this country.---His brother-in-law (whom he bath in full fenate publickly wowed to live and die with) hath certain- ly neither capacity nor fubordination to intitle him to a fhare of it: his other brother is too incompatible and odious to be tolerated by him. The tory Duke of the Ruffell family (it is fomewhat paradoxical furely) is not confidered, nor yet perbaps fully proferibed: and, a therefore, oo | i art = -é Pusf, i rae f st hs (i . Woy - fifo leks tay J eal € i fe as ds “: 4 ' = WSS iy fe - fits ? f ~ ] it Ne =~ ee = SPSS, = Sas Ronee 7% Sa ae ie peek Sa ot as ay are ee ~ So eeo Wess Pa a a SSS — oe ee ORE ES SAE OS ila hes, Sam aS rH : t i e iii ¢ therefore, this produCtion, from which both practicability and ftability are expected, equally by prince and people (for they both ad jor repofe) mutt be fomething of the late Great Com- moner’s own abi olute creation: would to God it were a fyftem! I fear it may be no more than his former profefiions, a mere Arrangement of men. For in- ftance, the northern feals continue in the hands of a remnant of the laft adminiftration, declared by the modeft and. faithful Lord N---------- n, to be the moft childifh that ever exifted. The others are confign’d, with a vaft extended dominion, to a young noble- man, celebrated for his attempts to convince others, when he never held an opinion of his own; equally re- nown’d for his intuitive military know- ledge, fo happily difplay’ don the coaft of i rance. a (15) Had any man, poffefs’d with the gift of fecond fight, affur'd me, in the year 1758, that thofe expeditions on the coaft of France were in reality the {chools for miniftéfs~of ftate,. I had not believed him; and yet f imagine I can now difcover fome pub- lick benefit from thofe ill-fated croifades. Youth is the feafon made for credulity; by comparimg events with each other, reafoning from effects to caufes, methinks I plainly difcover the tracts of an over-ruling influence. How are we to account for the mechanifm of this wonderful new- invented ftate-machine? If it be true, that the late Great Commoner, con- vinced that his declining health dif- abled him from taking any active part, (and therefore not a refponfible one) that for this reafon he could no longer age bear i; if % i SSS eS gg eS ( 16 J bear the fatigue and heat of the Houfe of Commons, but was obliged to recline on the more foft, and lulling wool-fack; henceforth his views ex- tended only to the pofleffion of thofe feals which he hath wrenched out of the hands of the poor old, unfteady Duke, merely that he might do no more harm with them; yet, when the impatient, and difappointed people ery out, Forfake us not and our caufe! Art thou falfe, or art thou fafcinated! ftraight this great man’s advocates affure you---Be patient, gentlemen, he doth not mean to retire; he zs not captivated with a title! or bent upon aggrandizing bis family! but totally intent upon great and impenetrable matters of ftate: nay, he will appear prefently more vigorous and irrefiftible than ever.—My gentle mafters, you all have heard him promife to come out of a gu are rae [17] quart bottle—be patient---he is now confidering how he fhall go into a pint. There is nothing he will not do for your fakes, and that of his country; but you muft give him a little'time, and a little confidence, no man can do without them, and you know this man can do with as little of either as any body. You all muft have obferved, how ably he hath chofen his cabinet: it is impoffible there can be a dif- ference in opinion, where no one has any but himfelf: thofe who were likely to hold any, have very prudentially left it. And, you may be affured, he will admit none who bring any with them. Indeed it will be a little unlucky for fuch a cabinet, if the fole mover fhould be detain’d by any violent diftemper; for inftance, a fevere { if 5 ok a * Ne au i 5 a ae ee aa Ra te a ee Pras sa ¥ aap ee oe ee eee [ 18 ] a fevere fit of the gout.—In this cafe, they muft be fomewhat puzzled; but this feldom happens, whilft affairs go profperoufly: and Great Britain will ever have the gratitude to think fo, while fuch a man fits at the helm. T cannot but allow there is great weight to thefe arguments, in favour of your lately-admired Great Com- moner. The conftruction and order of this adminiftration, as far as we yet know it, is certainly very fingular, but yet extremely judicious ; for what can be lefs liable to intrigue and cabal, than a cabinet compofed of gentlemen who meet upon the moft important meafures, totally uninform’d and un- prepar’d—all in refponfible offices, pledged tothe publick in life, eftate, and honour; when fuddenly an unre- fponfible, invifible, and over-ruling influence, [ 19 j influence, fhall, as it were, infpire, guide, and direct the heads, hearts, and hands, of this able, fpirited, and unexampled council of men, to the true intereft and glory of thisgreat country? I fear that the propofals to Earl G---r, and the overtures made to that party, might poffibly have inter- rupted that bleffed harmony and fub- ordination, which mutt be the bafis of our great man’s fuccefs; * for what ‘© can war, but endlefs war ftill breed?” But be there a negative, or a correction in that plan, we have the fatisfaction to fee the very man, who difdain’d three days before to fit as a Lord of that Board, for reafons beft known to himfelf, now fuddenly become, in the round of the political wheel, the Firft Lord of the Admiralty. e y For = | i" , ff we = se [ 20 ] For the fame incomprehenfible, but accommodating faculties, we muft ad- mire the Earl of H-------- gh, who prefided at the Board of Trade when the meafures and adminiftration of Mr. Grenville were executed---He is now a fubaltern in office, devoted to another man’s principles, and, for his honour, I will fuppofe regenerated. No lefs, confequently, is Lord N---th transform’d. He hath cer- tainly ably defended the meafures of his late friends; and, fhould his new patrons not change their fyftem, I marvel how his Lordfhip will be able to overturn hiscwn. I always lament to fee men of ability hurt by incon- fiftencies, betray’d into variations, and narrowing the noble ground, upon which they fhould manifeft themfelves to the public; but it is whifper’d that 2 his SS BS (a1) his Lordfhip had private motives, and fo had his collegue. It is melancholy to fee the young and the old defcend into the fame grave of oblivion. vat What tho’ twenty more fedutions fhould follow the allurements of a court, yet, Heaven be prais’d, there is in the fpirit, freedom, and contti- tution of this country, both principle and energy left, to develop occafional characters, and to purfue its perma- nent interefts, in {pite of all difap- pointments. The Britith conftitution is the ob- ject of every man of a liberal educa- tion; it is as dear to him as his ho- nour, and he is equally the natural guardian of both. It is neither a lawyer, nor an orator, that a free-born man will confult, upon thefe occa- D fions, on ( 22) fions, nor will he even invoke the protection. of any political deity. Nor is it in the power of any party, or Coalition of parties, to opprefs the publick, and long to defile the confti- tution with impunity; and, however the fenfe of the people may, for a time, be deceived by factious profef- fors of publick virtue out of office, into a temporary confidence, the fame men in power will never prevail upon us to fupport meafures which contra- dié&t the whole tenor of their former conduct. The city of London hath often taken the lead, upon many very im- portant occafions, and conveyed to the nation in general, its earlieft fenti- ments upon interefting events. There are, doubtlefs, very able, honeft, and difpaffionate men, in that body cor- 3 porate ( 23) porate---It is not to be found, in the hiftory of this country, that either the premiums of a court, or the menaces of power, could, at any period, fub- jugate that body.ofumen~te—the»pur- pofes of a court. None ever pof- feffed their confidence more than the late. Mr. -P--tt, and his friend the Lord Chief Juftice.. But thefe gentle- men have, at leaft for fome time; fufpended their confidence; penetrated, undoubtedly, with the ftriking facts, which at this inftant ftare every man of common fenfe in the face. He muft have.-but a faint idea of a pa- triot, who does not at once fee how little thefe gentlemen now fupport that character: nay, how impoflible it is, for either the crown, or the people, to fubfift long, under their unlimited gratifications. Is not the Civil Lift already 285,000]. in debt? Is it juft D 2 then, t YY bP ae ne oc Og gobs TP 4 .. Fase me si Fate a a! AS. > ; pe Fam ee 2 oe ‘ta Sm: ? ae a. + , Ay, MJ y\ Rb g; i yee 4 a Ss aak hy P' are Vj Uys AA ae OX 4d A ( 24 ) then, or decent to their S-ver--gn, thus to beggar him for their own pur- pofes? If, after this exploit, becoming all powerful at his expence, they are to gratify their poor diftrefs’d matter, by fome lumping vote upon the pub- lick, are they not then rioting in the vitals of that country, at a time when all orders of men, from the higheft to the loweft, are diftrefs’d? When the wages of the manufacturer, opprefs’d by taxes, defeats with fuccefs the ma- nufa&ture, and the pinch’d day-la- bourer, thro’ neceffity, raifes the price of his own fubfiftence? Yet it feems, that in all this national diftraGtion, the harveft of patriotif{m is alone to make a tenfold return!» Every hourly vari- ation of this unfettled, tottering coun- try, produces only fome freth apoftacy, fome new ftate fubterfuge, to increafe the ———~wewe- | LN, (25) the national burthen, and haften the general calamity. Proftitutes in politicks, lie thofe of another profeftion; have thefame mi- ferable itch to extend to others the vice they groan withal; and, there- fore, we muft not wonder, when we hear that the prefent all-ruling ftatef- man fought earneftly, in his uncer- tain ftate, to engage Earl G-w-r, however oppofite that noble Lord was in every publick fentiment, during the two laft feflions of parliament.---He would have left it to the chance of a future day, to have reconciled their jarring principles ; for at this hour there is nothing the good man cannot forgive, but the tranfgreflions of his own blood. But as facts will ever fpeak ftronger to the fenfe of man- kind, than any colouring that elo- | Sih quence Oe ee a A ee ee _»> = ' nn 7a tas i OP i S 2 1 EEA EE Bae © Vs! MP a . " df ee oS ofa ”,? ~ ot , fet aay 1 og AE, peut. eee a a aS ‘ 7 ee RS eget, Wet i Ta ( 26 ) quence or artifice can convey: it is therefore to the advocates of the pre- fent omnipotent ftatefman, that the following eftimate is more particularly addrefied.---Every impartial man*will be able to judge, how far it corre- fponds with the hopes he had en- tertained of the late Mr. P--t’s ac- ceffion to power. Mr. Pitt's Mr. Pitt’s firft penfion of 30001. per annum, for his own, Lady Chatham’s, and his fon’s lives, at 20 60,000 years purchafe - - - “ Place of Privy-Seal, 3000]. at 8 years - 24,000 Lord N n’s falary of soool. per annum, at 8 1 40,000 years purchafe - ~ “a is The reverfion of the Hanaper, for two young lives, after the demife of the D. of Chandos, computed 716,200 at 12 years purchafe, upon 1350]. a year - Carried over = Ts ee \ ape me re p oe, % Z Pe a $a (ed 2 2 far ee Brought over - 3 Lord Camden’s penfion, for his own, and his fon’s life, t5001. a year, if in poffeffion, 930,000 would be worth 20 years purchafe = - Deduét for the probability of his paminhing I, 500 Chancellor one year - 28,500 His Lordthip having alfo obtained the reverfion of a) Teller in the Exchequer for his fon, eftimated at 45001. per annum, out of which the above penfion passe is to be deducted when the vacancy happens, the | remaining 30001. at 8 years peebals, | is - - — Carried over = = SPR eran, as ry 140,200 52,500 Ce oe 192,700 oer ein — | | | ( gz ) 4 ( 29 ) " Brought over - - 192,700 Col. Ligonier’s penfion, for his own life, at rsool. a 22,500 year, or 15 years purchafe Total of the expence of the prefent minifterial fa- brick, as far as the 215,200 ground-floor * Ste : * Among the number of rewards which have been lately held out, for paft and future fervices, ought not to be forgot thofe which have been fo liberally beftowed on the C———— family. I will, therefore, mention a part of them; not for the enormity of the fums (which are indeed enor- mous) but for the honour of the di/tinguifhed mertt which has obtain’d them. For the time he was L t of 3 = se neighbouring kingdom - - ; His fon, S——y, fame time - - 6,50@ >. Th Be eee. a Bas . Conftable of D— C—-, for life, under Foo valued at = E = A reverfion for another fon, cre — lued at - e - 5200 The b—— of O » as given up, would fell for ~ - ~ t —- —T 739500 and he himfelf continues in high employment ; as does alfo his brother. Great ———— is "ba & (ae ee 2 é Say ES EE EO NT MEET EET, SN ST IR ETS ( 30) Great Commoner, illuftrious Peer, incomprehenfible Patriot, forgive me if I cannot, at this moment, add to the enormous: load you have already laid upon your country; the further great expence attending your appoint- ments to embaffies and vice-royalties hereafter to be thought of; the pre- fents of plate; the fallaries and ap- pointments which ferve only to amufe the publick, and to remove refpectable men, to make room for your own creatures.---Still more difficult would it be, to defcribe the confuGon which your fudden changes create jn all] offices, by new patents, new charges, which muft all fall ultimately upon the publick. It feems a maxim of yours, that no man-fhould remain long enough in office to acquire the leaft knowledge of it. Upon a plan of abfolute ufurpation, you are certainly in Cae} in the tight: upon a principle of jaftice to the fervice of your Royal Mafter and your Country, you are certainly in the wrong. But I will referve the defcription of your fluctu- ating Opinions of men, and time- ferving courtfhip of individuals, for another occafion ; my intent being, at prefent, only to lay impartially before the publick, the dawnings of your new acceffion to office, that from your economy, moderation, and difinterefiednefs, they may judge what the crown and the people are to expect. from. you, when you thall open the feffion of parliament in the plenitude of your power. Broad- Street, Lam, SIR, O@. 28, 1766. r a J se Bi r Your moajt ebeaient Servant, A. Detefter of Josss under all ADMINISTRATIONS. ] : i r er pone - f wes j ss ‘7 ges [> 2 Ar %, fy = » Rt I co A - — SS - s ew a - — ae , ‘ Me, q 7. —- . le Fs ae 3 3 : 4 2 , . ww a ™ —s A pS P a ys : Fl . ee ae fs -