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Show [ 76 ] [77] " enjoined by M'r. Secrez‘my Conway's Letter, and opened, and other aflors appeared on the Page. " in cofleqnence i/Jereof made to ns, we {Lei/Z em- The. Rate, in the condition I have defcribed it, " brace #36 fif/i convenient opportunity 2'0 caiflder u and 45? upon." They did confider; they did aé‘c upon it. They obeyed the requilition. I know the mode has been chicaned upon; but it was fubflantially obeyed; and much better obeyed, than I fear the parliamentary requifi- tion of this feiiion will be, though enforced by all your rigour, and backed with all your power. In a word, the damages of popular fury were compenfated by legiflative gravity. Almof't every other part of America in various ways demonfirated their gratitude. I am hold / "(WI to fay, that {o fudden a calm recovered after was delivered into the hands of Lord Chatham ---a great and celebrated name; a name that keeps the name of this country refpeélable in every other on the globe. It may be truly called, ---C/m~nm el' venerable namm Gent/5m, et nznltznn nqflrze quodproa'emf urn/Z Sir, the venerable age of this great man, his merited rank, his fuperior eloquence, his {plendid qualities, his eminent fervices, the vafi {pace he fills in the eye of mankind; and, more than all the refs, his fall from power, which, like death, canonizes and fanfiifies a great character, will not l'uffer me to cenfure f0 violent a florm is without parallel in hifi'ory. any part of his conduct. Iam afraid to flatter To fay that no other diflurbance {hould happen from any other caufe is folly. But as far as appearances went, by the judicious facrifice of one law, you procured an acquiefcence in all that remained. After this experience, no- body {hall perluade me, when an whole people are concerned, that acts oflenity are not means of conciliation. him; I am fine I am not difpofed to blame him. Let thofe who have betrayed him by their adulation, inlhlt him with their malevo- lence. But what I do not pretume to cenfure, I may have leave to lament. For a wife man, he feemed to me at that time, to be governed too much by general maxims. I {peak with the freedom of hiilory, and I hope. without offence. ' I hope the Hon. Gentleman has received a fair and full anfwer to his quellion. general, Ihave done with the third period of your policy; that of your repeal; and the return of your ancient fyflem,.and your antient tran- quillity and concord. Sir, this period was not as long as it was happy. Another {cene was opened, One or two of thefe maxims, flow- ing from an opinion not the molt indulgent to our unhappy {pecies, and furely a little too led him into meafures that were greatly mifchievous to himfelf; and for that reafon, among others, perhaps fatal to his country; meafures, the clieets of which, I am afraid, are fiar ever incurable. Hemade an |
