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ladia merchant, or planter of him, be is as eta-
gezlile as you could with. This very notable
then thould be followed. (raid Mil S.) and I
:wink thofe who ufe it could not do better than ton.
tam it by making a fuhfeription to fet the Chief I
C. 'aul up in trade,and put him fairly a-going. For
iv:lance, what if the fubraiption for a certain time
were dircaed to this purport? I am lure the Right
Hon. Gentleman over the way w ould willingly waive
the honour for the good of his country. Let every
man then fubfgribe his twenty guineas to enable
the Chief Conful, Planter, to begin the world
creditably. Indeed the Right Hon. Gentleman,
I apprehend, would make no great facrißce, tee•
inF the difficulties that have occurred about the
railing and Rationing of this famous Ratue. It
was propofed to put it op at the Bank, but ofp/si
it could not be formed, as none of that article be
had left, even to make a Ratue for himfelf. Some
are of opinion, indeed, that /testify =add may be
a very appropriate and charafterillic material.
Mr. Sheridan again recurred to the Rate of par-
ties. He Paid, that though he could not approve
of Mr. Addington's furpeuding the Habeas Corpus
AR, or puffing Indemnity Bills for his predeeeffor,
het he thould be much more difpofed to give him
is fupport, if he (tensed to Rand on lris own
ground : but he evidently relied on his predecetfor,
and durß not venture to defend the peace, as it
ought to be defended, for fear of offending Mr.
Pitt. Of that Ex.Minifter I would jolt ray, that
no man admires his fplendid • talents more than I
do. If ever there was a man formed and fitted by
nature to benefit his country, and to give it luftre,
he is fuch a man. He has no low, little, mean,
F ctty vices. He has too much goielfenfe,
and talents, to fet his mind upon ribbands,
titles, and other appendages and idols of rank.—
He is of a nature not at all fuited to be the crea-

tore or tool of any Court. (Mr. Pitt bowed repot
oily.) But while I thus fay of him no more than
I think his charaifter and great talents deferve,
I mull tell him bow grofsly lie has mitapplied
them in the poli tics of this country, I mull tell
him again how he has augmented our national
debt, and of the lives loft in this war. I mutt tell
him he has done more againft the privileges of the
people, increafed more the power of the Crown,
and injured more the Conflitution of his Coun-
try than any Minitler I can mention. He then
humoroufly commented on the obvious deference
which Mr. Addington always paid to Mr. Pitt.—
When we fee the man who holds the reins, per-
petually looking behind to the man on the top of
the State Coach, perpetually afking the Litter what
road he Ihould take, when he (Mould flop, and
where bait, it really was impoffible to doube that there
was an underflanding between them. He thought,
however, that fuch a Rate of parties between the
late Memberof the Cabinet (Mr. Pitt) and Mr. Ad-
dington was extremely injui ions to the Country.
People did not know whether we were at peace or
war, whether we had an adminiflration or not.—
The prefent Minifier was afraid that, while he was
dircaing his artillery againfl Mr. Windham and
his party, Mr. Pitt's friends, who had been left
in the garrifon with him, might fuddenly re-
bel, and; • inftead of repelling the affailants,
might pour their Phut into the hacks of their
own rank. He then alluded to the refignation
of Mr. Pitt, and laid, every man, woman, and
child in the Country, was fatisfied that Mr. Pitt
and his Colleagues no more refigned, becatife
they could not carry Catholic Emancipation, than
becaufe they could not difcover the longitude.—
It had been obferved, that Bonaparte would furvey
this country with a foldier's eye ; he was far from
thinking fo ; be believed it would make very little
difference to Bonaparte whether our Weftminfter
Volunteer Corps and brave City Train Bands were
difbanded, or in a Rate of aEtive fervice • but cer-
tainly he would look at the country with a SPatef.
man's eye ; and it was therefore peculiarly impor-
tant that the people Ihould not entertain doubts
whether the country was in a Rate of war or peace,
and whether it had an admiaidiation or none—
one which was obedient to a former adminiftration
—an oflenfible Minifter aeliag according to the
impulfe of fomebody elf: behind the curtain.—
This was not the flotation in which the country
ought to be placed at filch a period as this. It
was remarkable that the late Islinifter, who had
remained In long in office, fliould have left in
flotations of public fruit fn marry of his friends
hn had uniformly guided their political con-
dud by his. It reminded him of a Rory in Arif-
tophanes, whom a Noble Lord (Belgrave) would
underilaad ; but whom he would eradiate for the
benefit of Country Gmtlemen The Rory, foam-
what in point, was this—a charafter of the name of
Dzeius was rcprefoited as having been feated on a
certain Roo' a contiderable- time, perhaps longer
than the Right Honourable Gentleman, the late
Chancellor of the Exchequer, had tat on the Trea-
y Bench—the fa& however, was, he fa* t fo long
that his f tting part became identified with the
Llool, fo that even Hercules, with all his ftrength,
found it difficult to remove him; at Left he gave
him a fudden jerk, which, though it had the cffea
of removing him, at the fame time left behind a
portionof that part of him whichit was unnecelary
to name. Thus it had been found an Herculean
talk to remove the Right Hon. Gentleman, and in
jerking him out of his feat, it had fo happened that
lie had left behind him, flicking tnhis ftool,a portion
of thole who from conftantly following him, might
be compared with that which had been loft by Da-
cites. He commented with great feverity on the let-
ters of Mr. Pitt to the Catholics of Ireland,in his re-
fignation, in which lie imputes the obftacle to the
lung. He contidered that paper as little (hart of
high treafon. Mr. S. concluded with Rating, that
he conlidered it fair to tliofe who had entertained
the fentiments lie did, of the rife and progrefs of
the war, to record the real grounds nn which we
app7ove of a peace, the terms of which are fo ina-
dequate and tit ialecure. Suppofing that Mr.
lv indliam's motion would be reteaed, he had
framed his in fuch a manner as to cone as an
amendment to Lord Hawkethiiry's ; and, accor-
diftto the precedent of the other, might make it
in the ;tape of a refolotion, by leaving out all the
words of the Addrefs hnt that, am, then proceed,
ft is she I.l:iion of this Hook 1 hot die serif tin of miens