The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-06-18


night, and through the ihameIul REMIT
neis of you, Lord North, the Prime M
n'Rer OF this unhappy country, the pub &c
may remain ignorant of every Lcumftance
relative to the murder. Be not however
dccev we'd the hood Of our foverelgn's hi
ter lhall not be luffered 10 cry in vain for
vengeance, it fhall be heard, 1t fhall be re-
venged, and what is ftil more, 1t iha.i be-
fprinkle Lord North, ana thus affix iti4-
ma upon his forehead, which fhAll make
him wander like another Cain, aceurfed
through the world. .~.,
Is it thus a Cecil, thus Burleigh, thus
WaGnghsm would have acted IN the
DAYS of the ploteaorate Would Crom-
we'll have permitted fuch an indignlty to
have paf:d unnoticed ! That luxurious
character wou have dispatched Blake
with all m sinAble fpeed to icour the ieas,
am ch itle the inlolence of thofe northern
uncIvihz free bootefs, had they pr, Tuned
even To imprifon common Engllh tub
jea mucn lefs an En4liih princci' and
as an hofage for her lib rty and her life,
he Quiz have confined the Danifh Am
H,ior u ill an express had arrived, pro-
Ca m'ng her relesfe. -.
With the generality Of per(ons, example
has mof powerful eff & You, Lord
North, ioar above the common herd mel
Their precept nor example can touch your
foul, OF work a refo nation IN your con-
duct you are proof againit eonvetlon,
and when pubic or private virtue Is IN
quefli n, you nave TO hing OF humanity
about you. Contrsfts however, like pc
lures we'll difpo(ed, form that agreab d.
v-liity OF light and fhade which conveys
pIeaiu and inlffuetlon 70 the mott indi-
ferent fpeaator. When therefore men
ton Lord Cnatham's namt, there 10 no
neceiiity for comment TO elucidate nv
meaning has bold, his penetrating, and
powerful genius, refcurd this nation from
deipair and ruiz, when an epidemic languor
ieized our frame, he, like Tome demi-god,
revived our drooping (pIrts you, my
Lord, have again plunged us into all the
gloomy horrors of dependency. He
but delft when the crawling emmett,
or the grove tng worm, ihall claim fuPe-
riority over mankind, then, and not until
then, will confels that their is the falntett
Gmilitude between the Earl of Chatham
and the man commonly called Lord Norh..
anticipate the jargon of you patty, |
know the feps taken, and the aruflces
praciifed to depreciAt- man in the eft ma
ton of the world, the foIce of whole ab'lI-
ties affoniffed, ant Kept for a Ierles OF
wears, all Europe in tubjeefion. CONT
mental connections, millions expended, and
Englifh hood (pnt in Germany /; theie are
n.e. thefe are hackneyed to pieces l
grant. indeed there is veflslitv in the man.
II grant, indeed, be has his fights, but
thew are 10 many daring exceiiencles ne
IS not merely meteor in the political fky,
he is a conffeilzron of hyperion order,
which fheds its benign inAueace on this
our lover world, infUf a genial vIvifylng
heat into our stmofphere, and this contrI-
butes TO exhIleTate our fpecies, and enhance
the felicity of human nature.
Fhsie pralfes are not calculated to obtain
app aufes from the giddy multitude they
are not brftowed. becAufe they may happen
70 fail within the current of the simes );
they are not deGgned to render you, m
Lord. LET'S beloved or more Detected, than
ar pteient, fnce that is talk beyond any
o n to accomplish, but they flow with an
honeR-hsaited fncerlty from my inmoh
f,u,. and was it poffible 70 conceIves that
this paper Iiouid outlive the other trlaes
Of thy DAY, it would Dc my utmoR ambition
"a have il confidered as InonumenIai trI-!
bute TO gratitude, iualy due to the truly
illufrleus Earl Of Chatham, for the many