The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg, Va., 1770-04-19 00:00:00, page 1

T'IURSQKY, Armr. 19, 1770.
;GAZETTE
siVIRGINIAsictPsi
- Opcn ,to ALL PARTIES, &: sisisi=ss
_ but infiucnced by- N O N E _
saw the PUBLIC ADVEKTlSER, (ff
' Fcbruary 14, l770.
' To {)iJGrace the Du/act of GRAFTON.
A'tr your), _ si _
F ! were personally your CHCW- ] mght P'W Wd si)"
give you. You have any c ill? w '70'1'P41sisi'n, that
....- mso-fiom misery and ,d rest. Thc cundtuun
you are reduced to would dismh : rivate enemy
of his resentrnent, and leave no con ulation to the
molt viodictive ( 'rit but tsuch an object, :: you are.
would di non ectgmty o revenge. But in the relatiou
gon have me to th'u country, you have no title to in
ulgcnce ; and, is ! had followed the drctates of rny own
opinion, ] never should hue allowed you the respite of a
moment. In your public character you have injured every
.suhjed ossithe empire; and though an individual ts_ not au
thorised to forgive the injuries done to society, he is called
upon to assert his separate share in the blic resentmcnt.
] submitted however to the judgment o men, more mode
rate, perhaps more candid than myself. For my own part,
! donot pretend to understand Those prudent some of de
mrum, those gentle rule: of discretion, which some men
endeavour to unite with the conduct of the greatest
nd most burdoun affain. Engaged in the delcnce of
honourable cause, ! would take a ddcifive part.—1
Took} (Horn to provide for : future retreat, or to keep
- terms with a man, who refer-we: no measure- with .the
public. Neither the ' submision of desertin hit post
to the hour of danger, nor even the fiend shiel of cow—
nsitdtoe should rotect him. ! would pursue him through
hse, an_d "ble e lah exertion of my abilities to preserve
the nlha infamy of hiname, and make it immortal,
t then, rnv'hotd, is this the event of all the sacri
ioes You have made to Lord Buee's—pattonage, and to your
own unfortunate nrnbition! Was it for this you abandoned
.yonr Melt friendship, the wurmcst connearons of your
. youth. anl all thde honourable engage-ents, it which
you once solrcitedfend might hue acquired the of
your conntty? Have you lecnred no reconpenoe sorsuch
: yede of honoerPLUnhnpp run! What party will we
eerve theeommu-desetter oil parties? Without a cli
ent to newer. without a friend to oarsole you, end with
oniy one wmpaoinn lrorn the bonest house of Bloomlhury,
-you must now retire into adreadt'ul solitude. which you
_ave created for yourself. At the not! active riod of
life, you must qrut the busy scene, and yourself
srom_t_he world, if you would hope to save the wretched
tents-so? a turned reputation. The vio. never fail of
fist;-fed: Theyiopesssiate like us;, bit-dal: dishonour
tutrme. an in e nue o veche -
nfler broken and exhau . you ' W'
Yet_your conduct habeen m tions, a well a eon
tentptrhle. Where is now that , or obfiinacy. so
long boasted of by, your shend-, and acknowledged by
your enemies: We were taught tonpect, that you would
not leave the rain of thit countryto be compleated by
other hand:, but were deter-ined either to gain a decisive
ytctory over the oonlhtnuon, orto perish, hravely at least,
to the last duke of the prerogative. You knew the danger,
nnd might have beeu_pnovtded_ for _it. 'You took Judi
crent time to prepare ror a meetm with your Perliament,
to confirm ihe meroenuy fidelitssy o your dependnnts, and
to (inned to ydnr quereign : lan ct suited to his dig—
nity :! least. is not to his benevo ce and wisdom. Yet,
whrlesithe'hole kingdom was agitated with noxious expec
latiqn upon on great point, you rue-only evaded the _ques
_ tion, end, inficnd 'oshtpe ebzsip is: Enjtznessctnnd decihdon of
nlissq, veusnot t emrer arurn gra—
zier, one? the whining l;iZty of a rueth ist. We had rea
son to expect, that notice would have been taken of the
widow. which the King has received from the English
nation ; and nlthonffl: [an conceive some person! motives
for not yield—to em. I on lind none, rn common pru
deneeor dom. for treating them with oontemsipt. Be
JRW'Q' hffie Enghlh people will not tamely sith
mitctto than on v treatment; they had a right to be
And their petitions. if not granted, defimed to be
considered. Whatever be the real view: end doctrine of
'n court, the Sovoreign should be taught to preserve some
form of attention to his subjects, and i£ he will not re
dress their grievances, not to make them : topic ofjefl and
mockerz among Lord: andladree of the Bedchnmber.
] " ries my hentoned sornnd forgiven; but insult: admit '
o no compassion. They degude .the mind in its ovm
, esheem; "and force it to recover its level by revenge. This
neglect of the petition: was however But of your original
plan ofssgovemment. nor will any co quence: it has pro—
duced account for your deserting your Sovereign, in the
midst of that distress, in which on and your new friends
had involverl him. One won think, my Lord, you
might have taken this spirited resolution before you had
o'rssolvetthelaflos thole earl oonnectiont, which once,
even in yourown opinion, di honour to your youth ;—
before you had obliged Lord Granbylto quit : service he
wot attached to ;—besore you had dismded one Chan
ccllor and killed another. To what In abjea condition
hue you laboured m reduce tlssc bell of Princes, when the
unhappy umn. who vlelds :! lust to such person! instance
a- d lul-cmuion. as nesser can be fill-ly employed against &
subject, feel: huml'cll' degraded by his complunce, and is
unable to sun'ive the dnlgueefd honomi, which his gu
cmus s -vereign .hzd compelled him-to accept. He wu :
man ol l'pim, for he had a qmck sense of shame, and dr'dlh
has redeemed me clm actu- *1 know your Crzce too well
to ; peal to your fedmp upon thin evenx; but (hue is
onotger heart, not yet. _l hope. quite cullous lo the touch
of humanhy, to obich u-ooghesito be'n drendlul lesson for
an.
Now. my Lord, let us consider the situation to which
you have conducted. and in which you have thought it ad—
vrseable to abandon your Royal master. Whenever the
people have complained, and nothing better could be said
in defence of the measures of government, it has been the
fashion to answer us. though not'very fairly, with an ap
penl to the rivate virtue: of our Sovereign. He: be not,
to relieve !L people,/irrrmderel 4 emit/(rable part of
his revenue ? He: be not made the 7ndge1 indepeudm! by
fixing them in their place: s". [fli- ? _ My Lord, we ac
knowledge the Fracious pnncrp e which gave birth to these
concelliona, an have nothing to re ret, but that it has
never been adhered to. At the of seven years, we
are loaded with a debt of above five'hundred thousand
pound! upon the ci'vii list. and we now see the Chancellor
of Great-Britain tyrmnioally forced out of his office, not
for want of ahilitier, not for want of integrity, or of at
tention to hia duty, hat for delivering hra honest opinion
in Parliament, upon the greatest oonshtutional question,
that has arisen sinne sisifeitsictciisiofiissow' 0?th to whose
private virtues ap ; e t 1 0 u yngovem—
ment it salshoodsssinnd mockery'; the praflice it opprelhon.
You have laboured (though! confesa to no purpose)
to rob your master o the only plaulible answer that ever
was given in defence of lm vernment of the opinion
which the people had ocnoeiv , of hie for-al honour and
integrity. ' The Duke of Bedfordwaa mote_moderate
than your Grace. He only forced hia Mr to violate a
solemn promise made man individual. But you", my Lord
have successfully extended your advice to every politieas:
every moral engagemeht, that could hind either the ma
'_ rate or the man. The condition of a K— is often mii
able. but it required your Grace'a abilitiea to make i
_ contemptihle.——You will say perhaps, that the faithfu
stnanu, in whose hands you have left him, are able to re
nieve his honour and to fusippoctrt his government. You hav- ,
publicly declared, ezen me your telignation, that yot
approved of their measures, and admited their chara
ters, partie-far!) rlm of the Ear! of Sand-with. What
a pity it it, that,_with all this approbation, you should
think it necessary to separate yourself from such amiable
corn nional You forget, my Lord. that while you are
lavi in the praise of men whom you desert, you are pub
licly op ling your conductto your opiniona, andde ming
yoursel of the only plansible pretence you had for eaving
your Sovereiga- overwhelmed with distress : ] all it plan
filzle, for, in truth. there is no reason whatsoe'er, less'tha
the ftowns of your master that could juflify a an of
spirit for abandoning his po at : moment so criti and
important. It is in vain to evade the question. lf you
will not speak out, the public have a right tojudge from
ap rancea. We are authofised to conclude, that you
ert er differed from your colleagues, whose measirre: you
lh'll affect to defend, or that on thought the adminiftri
tion of the l-(ingct'ssiaffain no_ anger tessoable._' _You are at
nen-e u: uawu; use-sun ulC uypouuc muse cowa
Your it friend: are in doubt which way they shall it:
dine. Your country unites the characters. and give: you
credir for them both; For my ovrn part. [see a 33
consistent inyonr conduct. You began with be ' _
people—you conclude with be't'raying the King. .
ln r treatment of particular person-, you have pre
serr the uniformityof your character. Even Mr. Brad
shavr declare-. that no man was ever lb ill used aa him.
As_ to the prorrhon you have qtade for his fanu'l . he was
intrtled to it by the house he liver in. The s or of one
Channellor IEM well pretend to be the rival of another.
it it thebre of private friendship which touches Mr.
Bradshav; and to say the truth, when aman ofhr": rank and
abilities had taken so activee part in-your affairs, he on :
not to have been let down at last with a misernhle n me
of fifteen hundred pound: a year. Colonel Lnttre ]. Mr.
Onflow, and Mr. Burgoyne, were equally engaged with
you. and have rather more reason to complain than Mr.
Bradshav. These are men. my Lord, whose srieadhi
you should have adhered to on the-fing- principle, on whi
you deserted Lord Rockinghalt. Lord Chrttharn, Lord
Carnden. and the Duke of Portland. We caneahly ac
count for your violating your engegemenu with men of
honour, but why should you betray your natural connec
tions? Wh separate yourself from Lord Sandwich, Lord
Gower, an Mr. Rigby, or leave the three worthy Gen
tlemen abovementioned to shist for themselves ? With all
the fashionable indulgenoeps the times, this country does
not aboundin characters like them; and you may God it
?difficult muet'to recruit the black unlogue of your
litndl.
The reeoliection of the key;] yeden: you fold to his.
Nine. oblige: me to s: : Word in defence of : out) when
you have taken the mo dishonoqnple tuum to! use. [,
do not refer to the sham proseeuuon 'Inch you Bed to.
carry on against him. On that sand, _ld_oub_t not:-I: no
prepared to meet you with ten- regular-mon, to
set you et delsiunce. The inju- y you huedooe him inqu
morz] character. You knew that the offer to ments: the
::vexsion of a place, which hu hewe been and} si:
ecree of the Court of Chaucer! 'GW . l. .
sitnation, would no w tend to. cover him vitlflt sort
of guilt which you wi ed to'fix u . him in _ a of
the world. You labouted, then, every s _ [na-". ' .
suggeshon, and even by publishm comes 'li'
have it understood that he hod proposed petrefm
.
modation to you, u'nd had ofereddo abandon "!
his party, and his friends. You oonsulted me owe-Yea -_
for ; character of ooosnmmsitte treachery, lad p'e it tom -
public for that of Mr. vm. l think thyself-w , .
to do thiojnfice to ninjured toand-cause! "decided
bytheap anomthrownoux by th parte '
ssNPWsiMnthdFflM-g do:
[tail of; what l think him. itched. thoudtwmimsi:
w app tn recovenng t: reputnm, 'ct '_
expence olhtyt undershnding. Here, [see, thict , ss ctd' t
- likely to rest. Your Graoe te astaidto any m _
scoution. Mr. Hine keepe quiet Milk _ ,
and Governor B—e, relieved torn the apprehenfi o;
refunding the money, (it: down for the remainder and
life, INFANOUI un cott'rnt'rtn. si
] believe, my Lord, ] may now take lnyleavesi osyos
forever. .Yoo are no longer that resolnte flinishtssvlho
had spirit no support the most violent mature-; whocom
gensited for the want of t and good qualitiW-e
' tare determination wh' some pen le ndmired' re--'
Ired on to nainuin 'mseli without -ern. Tbe't '- ct
two o ohitinacy and perseveransscerni t hue'snpphztsik
si rlace of all the absent virtue-., You ave now si
all negative to your character, and manly art-field si,
yonctare desiitute of the common spirit of . men. ' I
then, my Lord, and hide your blnshes from the
[or with such aload of shalle, even none": \
his colour. A mind such as r'r, in the solitary ' .
oos domestic enjoyment, may ll lind topict oseonsolarissz '
quoo ma find it in the memor'y of violated friendfltip; '
sithe aMi 'ontol' anaccomplilhed Prince, shorn ct hlvp'
, disgraoed and deferred, and, in the 'tatione : 't ss
ss country, drivEn, by;-our Councils, to e hrinkof - '
don. '- - - ' - !
The palm of ministerial firmness it now trnneserred to
Lord North. He tells he so himself, with the plenitctode of
the (r.: run-do; and ] am ready enough to believe,: that _
while he can keephit place, he will note-silybe ct _' -
to refign it. Your Stace was the Sun Murder m;
day. Lord North it the firm Minute: of to-day. Io
morrow haps. hie M y, in hit Meat,-red
ns' arival or ctyoo both. You arctoowell ss _ —
the temper o your lete allies, to think it polli le thit Lord
North should he permitted to govern this country. if we '
may believe common same. they hue shewn him their" su—
periority alr'eady. His M y isindeed too done
to insult his subjects, by choosing hit sirfi Mini rfrom
down the domestic: of the Duke of Bedsord. That void
have een too grost an outrage to the three kingdoms; '
Their purpose, h ever, is equally answered hy pulhing
forward this unha py figure, end _otci it to the
odium of measures, whichjhey in reality 'reeS. Without
immediately appear-in to govern, they possess the power.
end diflribute the emo nments of government uthe think _
proper. They flill 'adhete to the spiiit of that in,
which made Mr. Lunrell Representative of Middlesex.
Far from regretting your tetreat, they assure ns_very grave-si
ly, that it increase: the real strength of the Mtnifiry. Ac
cording to this way of reasoning, they will probably crow,
shon er, and more flourishing, every bon: they end}; for
! thin there is hardly a day asses tnwhrch {one timoro
ther oshi: Mfefly's servants oee hot leave them tom
by the loss o his asifhnce. But. alas! their cwntenn- _
cer speak a different languafi. When the tn'ssdttbetct-a drop
off the main body cannot insenstbleos its approaching '
dilsolution. Even the violence of their preceding: tsn
signal os despair. Like broken tenants, who have had
warning to quit the remises, they curse their landlord. \
destroy the fixtnret, t row every thing into confusion, and
are not what mischief they do to the eflate. IUMUS
L O N D O N, sebritaty 14.
IN the upper room of a certain politienl ibdccy, do
her: were 81 to 4: on I pdpularq ueflion.
Friday [all Lord Hollud's acmounuq were laid before_
the Barous of the Exchequer.
lame: Dashv/ood, Esq; will be chosen for W
in the man of Mr. thkRone, now ; lodge.