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Show ( 8 ) p-.. ( 6 l concerning Am a as he might afterwards fee fit. The Word early he did not approve of, it " Confidence is 21 Plant of flow Growth in an- did, he faid, belong to the Notice that the "i lity -, comparing Events with each other, rea" {Oning from Effects to Caufestethinks I " plainly difcover the Traces of an OVCr-ruling y have given to the P-rl-m-t of the M Troubles in Am a_in a Matter of fuch Importance it Ihould have been immediate. " aged Bofom; Youth is the Seafon for Credu- " Influence, various Influence over them. There _ "is in the Aft of Settlement a Claufe, that " I SPEAK not with Refpet‘t of Parties, I 4; every Minifter' lhould fign, with his Name, " fiand up in this Place fingle and unconnet‘ted " the Advice he gives his Sovereign-Would it ‘_‘ -as to the laft M----y (turning to Mr. . " Gr-w-Ile) every capital Meafure they have "taken has been entirely wrong. As to the " prefent Gentlemen, thofe at leaft whom I have " in my Eye (looking at the Bench where " were well obferved. I have had the Honour " to ferve the Cr-n; ifI could have l'ubmitted " to Influence I might have continued to ferve ; y's Ser- " but lcould not be refponfible for others-I " have no local Attachment, indifferent-whether ‘ ‘ a Man had been rocked in his Cradle on this " or on the other Side of the Tweed, and I " fought for Merit wherever it was to be found ; r that " it is my Boaft [was the firft M Some of them have done me the ho- " ever looked for it, and when I found it in the "‘ nour to afk my poor Opinion before they " Mountains of the North, I called it forth, " and drew thence into your Service an- ‘13de " and intrepid Race of Men; Men, who, loft by " your Jealoufy, a Prey to the Artifice of your "Enemies, had gone nigh to over-turn the " State in the War before the laft. Thefe Men, "the left War, were brought to combat on " C-w-ey fat .with the L-s of the Tr v y) I " have no Objection ; I have never been made " a Sacrifice by any of them; their CharaC‘ters " are fair, and I am always glad when Men of " fair Characters engage in his M ‘-‘ vice. " Would engage, thefe will do me the Jufiice to " own, thatI advifed them to engage. But, " notwithf'tanding, I love to be explicit, I can" not give them my Confidence; pardon me, é‘ Gentlemen, (bowing to the Tr , ' y Bench) ff Confidence " your |