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PIC.';IIT YON. WILLIA.II PITT, Etc. &c.
SIR,

To AT a Ministerial Manifesto should have been,
at such a season as the present, issued from the Trea.
Auty ; that tte petty anti narrow feelings
.of Party
should have so far operated upon men who have
uniformly deprecated every specks of Oppoiition,
and who withal are entrusted with the conduEt of
Public Affairs at this alarming crisis, as to induce
them to break in upon that unanimity which has so
providentially proved our resource in the absence
of talent and ability, is to, be accounted for upon
no acknowledged principle of Prudence, Honour,
Decency, or common Ptdicy.—At any time, in a
period of the most Profound Peace and National
Prosperity, such a publication (official upon the face
of it, even if the Author were not known) must be
considered as gross and offensive ; but at this mo-
ment, what palliation, what motive can be offered
in extenuation of the breach of private Confidence?
—the open exposure of State Transaffions ?-7-the
garbled Truths, and ungrounded Falsehoods which
defile every page and close almost every period of
this. Paper ?—The common feelings of Gentle.
men—the high honour essential to the charatter of
men who hold such responsible situations under the
Crown, (as those from whose midnight, dark, and
secret Orgies is sprting this Dmmon of Discord,)
are sullied andscimdaiized, and the Crown itself
assailed by this unprecedentedand undignified roes.
sum—Are the present Ministers, who have been
so incessantly preaching up the necessity of 'Com.
moo. Feeling and a CoMmon:Catise—the union of
heart and hand—who have uniformly stigmatized
those who opposed the slightest tittle of their Ptiblic
Conduct---are these the men to blazon forth, under
the sandlion of an extra official authority, a tissue
vf Calumny and Falsehood, of Perversion and Mis-
statement ?—a catalogue ofcharges wilfully and no.
toriously fabricated for the basest of all purposes,
aglinst rhe.most upright CharaCters in the Country,
to throw dust into the eyes of the People, and
poc upon the feelings of the multitude ?—Are they,
weak as they are acknowledged to be by their best
Vrietrds and Advocates, (for no Friend, Advocate,

or,even Dependant, could. be found hardy enough to
Commit himself as they therriselves h4e unblush.
ingly done in this said Klinifesto), still so weak as
to suppose that such detotable Policy will not fall
brick with redoubled weight upon their own heads,
and that the wound inflicted by the recoil of the
Weapon they have thus .barbed and envenomed, will
not canker and turn to Corruption ? Impossible ! and,
yi:t beholding the Confidenee with which the gaunt.
in is thrown down—the clapping of their wings in
tiiken of self.appi•oval .and .conscious prowess, and
their chanticlecting note of Victory from their elc.
vated sannuary, one might be led to imagine that
thy intended. to Strike a deadly panic through the
whole Katy Politic. They tell us that we must
not condemn them.even if we have serious .cause of

Impeachment; and this because " Unanimity alone
can preretve the Empire !"--'-an tnianimity which
they have never, by any one measure, tended to
establish, and which, in the present instance, they
have taken the most unequivocal, mode of infra.
jag—.-Gut to prove to us that we have not even the
virtue of that conditional If, their words are pledged
for their own most upright and admirable condusl,
snd• they tell us, that they are " able,
otligorous, and fortunate."—That they are the first,
their treanicot of their early Patron and best Frilnd
is ample proof—The leading-strings to which, in
spite of themselves, they were obliged for a time
to submit in the same quarter, is no bad illustration
of their' second quality—The third may he constru-
ed from their Diplomatic Correspondence with 130.
sitArktvre, prior so their order to Lord WII
wort-ru to return home with a hop, step, and jump;
4114 as the fourth is certainly as yet unaccomptished,
I leave them to enjoy the prospect of its fulfilment,
it the loss of Hanover anti the dreadful state of Ire_
land lie considered a 4 the basis of it, while, fq my
own part, I thii,k them completely entitled to
the epithet in its fullest extent, if, after all the
evils fur which they will ultimately have to render
account, they escape in safety, or are permitted to
retire to that obscurity which appears to be eonge.
)vial to their habits and pursuiss.
Without taking page by page find paragraph by
paragraph, and proving, which a Child might do,
the utter want cif candor in the statement of the few
real tats this Party.Plecii Writer brings forward—
the subtlety anti contrivance by which he endeavours
to conceal the deformity and weakness of those over
whom he would place his brazen Egis—the decided
untruths, the scurrilous attack+, and the truly un-
ineanh,g and unintelligible Self.pariegyrics which
pet vade this Farrago, it is utterly impraCticable to
enter into an analysis of it.—Besides, I am unwil-
ling that art answer should be returned from any
quarter but that whose Authority must ever be de.
cisiee, tend whose word will, as long as National
Honour, Gratitude, or Feeling exist, be a sacred
pledge to the Public, of the fact it either confirms, or
tends to di,prove, Upon ynti therefore, Sir, (4) I
tan to repel this assault upon your a:trader, the
more ispecially as those who have made hive
Once been admitted to your Confidence, and the
World is nut yet sufficiently aware of the extent to
which, they have abused it : I appeal to you, Sir, and
entreat you to lay aside that contempt which must
of course be the first sentiment of your mind at such
raidious and tiAling conchiCt. A buzzing fly, a
mnskito, may tCaZe .and annoy its for a whole even.
ing with impunity, but at length excites a sufficient
dcree of irri:ation tti ~wipe him away. 1 do not
wi,it you, S;r, to poise your ponderous lance ; I
only ask you to lift your arm : this will be sufficient
(0 restore these infatuated people to their senses ;
,;tail 1 wally consider it seriously incumbent on you
to undeceive them, and to convince them that the,
irat:ed sense of their own importance, which they
!give of late so openly displayed, has no foundation,
but in the forbearance of those who dis-
appiove their condusi, and watch over to corred it,
in l rerrence to agitating the public mind in the
Lout of public dillicolty—and to the peculiar deli.
pry of the times, veils i lead the Country to dis.
penie with do: talent ;old ability nece:;sary to meet
the,crisis al it should have been Met, in order to
tlishlay to tilt *:nelnY.tin Oispimotts'r,cntiment dis.

gust and resentment against his aggression and
threats. But that ass Addington, a Bragge, or a
Hobhoust, should dare tt) plaoe themselves in the gap
over against the Son of CHAtttma, and enter into
a defiance against talents and resources of mind which
they know not even to appreciate, is too ridiculous
a Caricature for their best Supporters to contemplate
without a smile,. and too palpable an absurdity for
their real Friends not to lament as the precursor of
their downfall. How are we to regard the conduct
of our present Ministers, who, for a time, courting
populatiry by every artifice they could devise, co.
queued with one party, affeded candour towards
another, and submitted with' becoming modesty to
the suggestions of all ; but who now, at once, veer.
ing short round, plant themselves in hostile array
against every Party, except their new proselytes—
abuse and call names with all the volubility of rani.
sian demagogues ; and in a style so nearly allied to
the revolutionary jargon of modern France, that one
might almost be persuaded to think the Editor of
this Conglomoration of Treasury Spleen had, on
former occasions, not been quite to halt& to her
Cause as it is his 'Policy to appear at 'relent.

Surely they cannot he so full fraught with self.
opinion, as to_assume any credit to themselves for the
Spirit and Patriotism which have broke forth among
all ranks of the People of late. I do aver, that
every Measure, every Speech that has been uttered
from the Treasury Bench, has tended to discourage
and mislead the People. Truth was banished, and
manly preparation deprecated-the Galleries were
cleared when Patriot Virtue was to be heard, and
the. Swinish Multitude were to be regaled with half
measures and half truths—the Sophist and not the
Statesman was to feel the pulse and prescribe for the
Nervous .System of the People—Jame day Negotiation,
the next War,---one week all Confidence, the next
all Despondency. Was this a condud likely to pro.
duce a great effed upon the minds of a great People ?
Did this new schooled Administration really calcu.
late upon the Spirit which has manifested itself?—
and if they did, had they the presumption to derive
it from their own exertions ? Did they suppose
that the People of this Country 'were like the In.
mates of a Nursery, and were to he roused or si-
lenced as they cried Wolf or Bugaboo ? No, Sir,
I,cannot think so. meanly -of them. They have
once (some of them at . leas t in Council with
you, and the :vett, temporar contal must have
communicated a" spark of self. nowledge by compa-
rison, sufficient to open their eyes to the inadequacy
of the means they have employed to produce the
great effed whiCh we all enjoy at this moment in
the unanimous Spirit of the Country. I do verily
believe that more has been done by the halfpenny
Ballad Singers, Grub-street Poets, and the Bill.
stickers of the Metropolis, than by the united efforts
of the Treasury Orators and their coalesced Band of
Pensioned Patriots. To your statement, Sir, of
the Country's predicament, of her Resources, of her
Deficiencies—of her Dangers, and the Means she
• posse:iord of meeting them—of the Rancour, Ani-
mosity, and Power of the Enemy who threatened
her, and of the necessity of lighting up the flame of
Public Spirit to resist and overcome that Enemy :
to this 'appeal to the senses and judgment of" the
Community, and to the feelings and nobler passions
of the multitude, do I trace that Spirit which bath
swelled every breast and nerved every arm in de-
fence of their Country—aed of every thing dear to
man in civilized life. The People did the rest—but
even now that the great and desired point is gain-
ed, these Genilemen', who seem to think no measure
of so great importance as the security of their own
Seat in the Saddle, are cutting and lashing ire all
rejions, and fighting even the shadow of Opposi-
tion, lest their course should be impeded, whilst
they' are carelessly throwing away the advantage
they had no share in obtaining, and repelling even
to disgust, the manly offers of the Voluareets who
stand forward the Defenders of their Country's
Rights, which they cannot so confidently trust to
their Country's Councils. I have, as 1 before de.
Glared, no intention to enter into any critical ob-
servations on the curious Paper which occasions my
troubling you: with this Letter; but it is impossible
to pass over without, peculiar admiration, the As.
suranee, and more than Consular Effrontery which
charaeterizei a Sentence I shall venture to extra&
If we were not aware of the gravity and heavy dig.
nit), which not only mark the condud,but define the
line of 11-3;0111Cr and deportment of the present Ten-
ants of the Treasury ~BeriCh, I should really be
• tempted to believe it a dFlicioos morsel of pleatan.
try, or roguish irony played off upon the easy and
docile humour witl. which John Bull has suffered
himself to be treated by men in whom he has never
reposed confidence, and has onlreonsidered as Loca
tenentes. In this point of view it might have been
considered as a happy and charitable reliefltom the
heavy and monotonous tone of Rancor which per-
vades this pe;aei,a/ed PerforMance. But, alas ! when
men who must either acknowledge themselves De.
ceivers'(thuugh not gay ones) must confess that they
have trifled with the Public Money, and misled the
Public Opinion ; or proclaim themselves the most
ignorant, uninformed, and imbecile. Statesmen that
ever occupied the lowest Departments of the
Public (Economy, however they might be in-
clined as a sort of Saturnalian Freak ttYllass the
whole off as a joke, they are reduced to the
sad dilemma of speaking in sober earnest, and have
therefore merely assumed a political, instead of a
poetical licence, and by adopting-a little sophistry
and more mis-statment of fotts, with the assistance
of a total suppression of the points essential to the
elucidation of the subjed, they draw a conclusion
in the remarkable sentence to which I allude, and
which shall speak for itself. '' Really if there
exists a man who ever did confide in the duration of
the late Peace, I would connsel him to keep his own
secret, It will be in vain Jr him to charpe his
drivellim at a crime upon other min. He is Na_
lure's fool, and not Mr. A DOINOTON's. This from
the portfolio of the man who made that Peace ; who
satn fiend the successes committedand the cha rat!..lor of
the Country ; who degraded us in the eyes of Europe,
and stink us in the scale of Nation,—who disbanded
our Army and dist:landed our Nis, e, both in the
highest state of spirit and Discipline--nay, who
disticvklitd themselves by the only adivitv. they
have diTliyed during their Admini4tration, in hur-
rying ai!d excedittog the tedu,tfitan of our vr:,d
i.'"ot:cep ;Ind all this to proCutf: a r,.:40.4.

the permanency of which their own mouth-pieoe has
now the rash assurance to tell the insulted Country,
it must have been besotted to place the smallest
confidence. I will admit, for the sake ofargument,
the truth of the position, and that a man of very
ordinary faculties, contemplating the Treaty of
Amiens, could have little hope of its durability,
though not so much in the secret as this Gentleman,
who iserhapt is aware that his Colleagues never
purposed to conform to a leading Article in the
Treaty, and that they bad resolved &fore they
pledged the Faith of the Country to the fulfilment
of it, to forfeit that pledge and retain Malta at all
events. Still let me ask, does this taunt upon our
native simplicity and good humour in professing to
believe, and conduding ourselves as if we really had
believEd all that Ministers told us, come with a
good grace from Ministers themselves ? Had we
all,, (as certainly some people implicitly did) relied
upon the strong assurance of a permanent and solid
Peace, had we locked up our apprehensions with our
muskets, and left the door on the latch whilst we
slept in confident security, I admit, that we might
have been in soma degree as many proved them-
selves on the occasion—Nature's fools ; but we
should most unquestionably have been as far as the
Minister possessed the power of making converts
(and some illustrious instances have occurred of late)
the fools of Mr. ADD NGTO N also--- and this in-
ference very naturally follows, that whoever could
be made the dupe of the Right Hon. Gentleman's
statements or professions, must indeed be that fed
by nature which the Near Observer so quaintly and
delicately describes.
I have been led to say more. than I at grit in.
tended.—l will not attempt experiments upon a
subjea so complete in its way. To you, Sir, as a
skilful Anatomist, I leave this carcass of a self.
conviaed malefaaor for disseetion. Again, Sir, I
must repeat that you have a part to bear in this
Drama, with which neither feelings of pity which
have been so ungratefully misconstrued, nor senti.
ments of dignity must interfere. The Country
calls upon the Man who has more than once saved
her, and to whose charafter she looks with a
jealousy of its dignity as coupled with her own.--
She has no doubts-,—she entertains no tears—but
she demands the sacrifice of those, and the exposure
of tit& deformity, who have dared to cast a.stain
upon. unspotted Honour and unsullied Pitriotism.—
That which your open and avowed enemies have
never dared, your friends whom you have raised
from the dust, and whom you have armed with
weapons now turned against your own breast, have
not hesitated to do., The fOrmer, however they
might differ as to their political application, ever
bestowed their unqualified admiration upon your
steady integrity, disinterestedness, and most pro.
found abilities. These have sought and availed
themselves of all you' would bestow upon them as a
counsellor and a friend, and now would hold you
out to the World as a mere presumes—a 'LI:/X et
preterea nibil, whose declamation has raised a name
unsupported by any of the requisites of a Politician
—who, now that the People_ have experienced so
auspicious a change in the Administration, may talk
to the winds ; for the. Public, in plain English we
are told, pay no attention now to this mere gift of
eloquence when it is opposed (as the evidence of
fads most clearly proves to us it has been of late)
to judgment, knowledge, firmness, and equanimity.
w,) Parties only, Sir, have ever displayed viru-
lence and rancour in their opposition to you, and
both haie resorted to the same policy of endea:
%/outing to sap the foundation of a charatier which
their open attacks would only tend to strengthen.
The Court of St. Cloud, and the Treasury Bench
at St. Stephen's ! Both have their particular points
to carry—both are equally anxious that you should
be excluded for ever from the Councils of your
Country—both look to the inauspicious event of
your return to power as the signal of overthrow to
theirs, and thus sympathising in the same end, they
appear neither of them to have been very servo.
luus as to the means of attaining it.
You are told under the san6lion and seal of your
Successor in Office, that you at one time openly
supported him ; perhaps you would feel inclined to
think he thanked you for it—No such thing 1 You
supported him, he tells you openly, and perhaps
()pie/it/J. Fie on't ; 'tis offensive I It cannot,
however, be now c•msidered officious in you at
least to,wipe off the filth with
,Which these State
Scavengers, who are not above doing their own
dirty work, have attempted to bespatter you. An
official accusation calls for an authenticated defence,
and the great name of PITT must nor, shall not be
aspersed by a Mongrel Administration, whose rasa..
atansera is open to all Principles, to all Se Is, and
to all Talents ; to renegado Tories, pensioned De.
magogues, and,reformed Whigs.
t have the honour to be, With admiration and
respect, for the first and most exalted Talents that
ever graced human nature, and with the highest
gratitude for their regular and indefatigable appli.
cation to the interests of my Country,
Six, your's,
FITZ-ALBION.