The Sun.
London, England, 1801-07-03 00:00:00

HUMAN GLORY..

At the early age of Twenty-two Years he became
CHANCELLOR OF" THE gXCHLQUER,
And equally astonished his Countrymen,. and,Entope, by his
Eloquence as an Oratory.
And his Wisdom as a Statesman; •
ormed by Nature for an exalted Office, and trained by his
immortal Parent to fill it, he supplied• the deficiencies of
Experience and Years, ,by the extraordinary Cultivation,
Extent and Accuracy of his Perceptive Powers.
Overleaping the distane between Youth and Experience,.he
grasped the wisdom of riper years; and in the earliest
struggles of his Adminisiration, exhibited a Mind so hind-
'ruins, sagacious, and enriched, that. even his Eloquence.
was considered as secondary to his Judgment.
When he came into Office; he found the British Nation de-
prived of an Empire in the West.
When he went out of Office, he left the British Nation in
possession of a new Empire in the East. -
What he assumed the management of its Finances, he found
• an exhausted Treasury, a declining Revenue, a decaying'
Commerce, and a mass of floating Debt, which,' with the
.unprovided means of liquidating past. burdens„ threatened
the extinaion of Public Credit. - • ;
When he resigned the Managethent of its Finances, he left
its -Revenue ithproved, its Commerce re-animated; its
-Exports .tripling their amount in the most brilliant days
'of Peace,• and its Debt, which former Statesmen had pre-
d? led to threaten the Constitution, provided for by a Fund
destined, not merely to expunge the _EXpences of WI own
Administration, bnt to realize the bolder conception of
. crushing the Mass of its TaXation, by extinguishing within
the probable period of less than. Forty Years,
• THE .WHOI-E NA'TION'AL. DEBT.
Posterity, in deriving .the benefit of this Financial Mrasure,
will adtnire the genius, and revere t. 11,;• memory of the Mi-
nister, who, living less ,for his owe dge titan after-times,
could thus, by so grand an operation, secure to than unlm:-
paired, tbelalessinp of •
THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION,
Without the biirthens that it cost preceding Ages to proem

When he tame in, France possessed the Blessings of a
Re-
gular Government, an:immense 'Revenue,
.an extensive
. Commerce-, 'a- powerful Navy; rich Coldnies, and the
esteem and resped, of Europe. ,
When he went out, .France exhibited what may be termed a
Blank in tL Map' of Civilization.. Her Altao and, her
Rights equally the. sport of Atheists and Usurpers; her
Soil stained by the blood of their Vietims ;' her People
drooping over the loss of their Trade, their credit,. their
Capital, their Colonies, their Nayy, andthcir Liberties ;
and her Government, and Principles, alike , the scorn and
detestation of the •
Creiztz:sn
France, in her Nlisery, was left a Monument of the Folly
and Wickedness of her R,Jlers-; great Britain, in her in-
creased Prosly.trity, remained an example of -the superior
Wisdom and Virtue of her Minister.
READER -
these were his services. His crimes were great, in the eyes
of a few. He taxed the People, and saved the Constitu-
tion. He aroused the virtues, and armed the energies of
hie Country against. he Moral Pollution of its Shores. His
Enemies charge him, that in the sacred cause of Reli-
gion, and Social Order, he would not surrender the British
Nation to Atheism and-Impiety ; but that in the fall of
surrounding Nations, and.the wreck of Civil Society, he
preserved it, undefiled, front the dominion and contagion
of France. The Jacobins reproach him, with extinguish-
lag the torch of Sedition in Great Britain, anclquenChing
the flames of Rebellion in Ireland. They alledge, h;
heat down the Enemy with a bOld and victorious arrn ; and
that braving the Northern League, he successfully asserted
the Maritime Rights of the United Kingdom, against a
Confederated World in Arms And filially, they assert,
that after having extended its Fame,'its Comntdreei and •
its Empire, and fenced. its Laws,: its Libertiq, and its
Religion, within the ?olds of Aritirtiphant Banners, by the
destruElion of the Trade,' the A nniiiilviots of the` Navy,
and the seizure of the most valtiatle PoSseSsions of the

Enemy ;•in duty to the hOlieitconyiaion of hiS"'nlnd, on
a great State Question, he resigned hls station in Pre;*erence
to relinquishing his opinion, mill:biz-Mg tigereby an elevated
example to the pl•esent,. and to futUru ages, that in hjin;
the love of Power and of Station, were subordinate to his
reverence for public virtue, his en eof public' duty
These are he reproaches of his. Enemies ; but his Conn-
. trymen, more just;
glory, where they charge his shame:-- •
On his retreat frdm unlike to former Ministers] 'he
shrunk from the fence of 'Faelion, and kept within the pale
of his PTinciplea, supportin.; as zealously his SucCessors,
nut of office,-as he had stren nasty opposed his Antagonists
when in power ; thus eleariy evincing that the love of his
Country, and not the lure of,`situation was the ruling passion

of 1116

A 'Nation,

Sacred from Anarchy and Desolation,

The genius 4nd intrepidity

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE-WILLIAM PITT,
• Raises this Column,
• In testimony of its gratittide, to the Preserver Of its Liber-
ties and Constitution ; until the future Historian shall
etea amore durable Monument t'o qerpetuate his renown,
by recording hiS name on her imperishable page, and class-
inß hitit with those illustrious Statesnien a4lions
'iave adorned the Annals of the World '