The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1771-09-19
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70 bis Grace the Daks e G RATIO ~

TIME profound refpett bear TO the
4 gracious Prince, who governs this
county with no lelS honour to himfelf than
iatisfaaion to his fubjeGs, and who refores
you to your rank under his ffandard, will
fave you from a multitude of reproaches.
The attention | lhould have paid to your
failngs is invouutaTily attracted to the hand
that rewards them, and though am not
70 partial to the royal judgment, as TO affirm,
that the favour Of a King can remove NOUN
tains of infamy, it fcrves to leiion at leaH,
for undoubtedly it divides the burthen. While
/ remember how much is due to his facred
character, | cannot, with any decent appear
ancc of proprety, call you the meane& and
bafeR fellow in the kngdOm. lproteit, my
Lord, | do not think you 70. You will
have dangerous rival, in that kind of fame
to which you have hitherto 70 happily dieet-
ed your ambition, as long as there is one man
living, who thinks you worthy Of bis conf
dence, and fit to be truo ID with any lharc ii
his government. confeis you have great
intrinlic merit but take care you do not va
Iue it too highly. Coniider how much of it
would have been loif to the world, iftheking
had not GRACEFULLY affixed bis famp, and CIV
en- it currency among his fubjeas. If it be
true that virtuous man, ttrugging with ad-
verify, be fcene worthy of the Gods, the
glorious contention between you and the belt
ofptinces deferves an audience equally re,
fpeaable.E think | already fee other Gods
riing from the earth to behold it.
But this language is too mild for the oeca-
iion. The King is determined, that our
abilities fhall not be lolt to fociety. Thepc-
netration and deicription of new crimes will
find employment for US both. My Lord, if
the perfons, who have been, loudeR il; their
projections of patrioti(m, had doHc their duty
to the public with the fame zeal and perfe-
verance that did, | will not ailert that go
vernment would have recovered its dignity,
but at leail our gracious Sovereign mutt have
jpared his fubjees this laff infult, which, if
shcre be any feeling left among us, they viii
yefent more than even the reaEinjures they
received from every meafure of your Grace's
administration. In vain would he have look
ed round him for another character 70 con-
fumate as yours. Lord Mansfield ihrinks
from his principles; his ideas of government
perhaps 90 farther than your own, but his
hear, difgraces the theory of his underiiand-
sng. Charles Foxis yet in bloilom and as
for MIR. Weddeiburne, there is lomething
about him, which even treachery cannot truh.
For the prelent therefore, the bett of-PTinces
mutt have contented himleif with Lord Sand
wich.- You would long fince have received
ycur final difmiEion and reward and |, my
Lord, who do not eiteem you the more for
the high Office you pofes, would willingly
have followed you to Jour retirement. There
is furcly (omething fingularly benevolent in
the character Of our fovereigu. From the
moment he Attended the throne, there is no
crime, of which human nature is capable,
land call upon the Recorder to witnefs ~
that has not appeared veniaI in his fight.
With any other prince, the fhameful defer
ton OF him, in the midi of that diitreis,
which you alone had created, --in the very
crifs of danger, when he fancicd he Jaw the
throne already fuuounded by men of virtue
aud abilities, would have outweighed the
memory of all your former frrvices. But his
Maienyis full of juAice, and understands the
doctrine of compenfations. He remembers
with gratitude how foon You had accommo-
dated YOUR morals to the necefIities of his
fcrvice - how chearfulIy you had'abandoned
the engagements of private friendlhiP, and
renowned the moft folcmn projections to the
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