Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-04-18
From co60e.s. Weekly Register, Of Fss,r4-
NEW MINISTRY.

NEW MINISTRY.
After some time spsntn the removing
OF Certain difficulties with regard to the
duke CT York's power over The army. the
arrangement of the new cabinei was final
ly settled on Sunday last, ard he persons
10 compose it are the following
Lord Chenille, first lord of The treasu.
ry, and premier, of course.
Me- Fox, secretary of state foreign
affairs. Is. ~,
Earl Spencer, secretary of state for the
home department..
Mr. Windham, secretary of state for
The war department and for the colonies.
Mr. Gray, first lord of the admiralty.
Earl Mora, master general of The ord
nance.
Earl Fiszwil!iam. president of,he coun-
Gil.
Lord Viscount Sidmouth, privy seal.
MIR Erskine, lord chancellor.
: Lord Henry Petty, chancellor of the
exchequer.
T Lord Peterborough (lhe lord chief Jus.
tice) TO have vote in the cabinet. i
THIS is the cabinet. The other appoints.
mcnts are, many Of them, not ye, actually
made; andtitwiil, therefore, be better TO
defer giving list of them, until it can be
gwen with certainty Of core Chess
Much has been said IN the prints employ
ed by the Pio mln,slry, against, the pfin-
ciple OF ercfusfon, upon which. they as
sctl, the rev ministry has been formed,
aud whchfhas excluded say they, ali " MIR
! Pits friends" Bul, wheu we d,sapproy.
ed OK ihe principie OF exclusions, the ex-
ciusion O. .vhas vas IL that we meant lie
exclusion OF greaf ialenss and ,g,eat sveigAf
Of fiu5Acs character. 1 mis- was not div
what We nseens, but What we distinctly eS-
pressed; what aye have unlfprmly express
sed; aud-what has Gov been strictiy nd.
hered 90 Tor, where arc ihe ts.ents, or the
weight OF public chasa6ser, 10 BE- found a.
mongst the tame ard syTyile followers sc
Mr.. FIT, or amongst those iasria0ers who
were at once bis masters sYd b!s glSyss
MS masters at ST. James, and his slaves
al w hitehall! where are we To look Tor
The proof OF talent or of character amongst
then! is 1t IN their measures that we are
10 seek torit! is it in the force tbey have
exhibited since their leaders decsass 10
1t IN their acknowledged, their openly-ac.
knowiedged, incapacity 10 carry on cheat.
iairs oil tue stale; or inthe opinions OF The
people, which so loudly anticipated mat
acknowledgement bat, supposiug that ia.
lent had not been waning among ST them.
Was there nothing else TO operate apalnst
their participation of power? were they 10.
ACT unponth the principle of exclusion the M
selves to pcrscvere in il 10 the last possi-
Die noment ofholding their places ard.
when, by no trick whatever, they couttl
hold on another day, were they TO saw.
come let us all be friends Ie, harmony
abound; let there be no longer pcsacipIe
OF exclusion /; lei us ali be confogns,efl ,y,,h.
one another, and let every man have his
share 6. such prelension was truly sor-
thy OF that presumptuous, that upstart.
that iasalent race, which has, 10 the dis.
grace OF the country, so long been bro.
lt'sctsd and Cherished while every man of
real worth has been treated as an outcast.
The rejection, the punishment, however.
OF those who had themselves hung O. ioa
system OF exclusion, is, though perfeefjy
Just, and though essentially necessary, by
way OF example, a Consideration of much
less weight than that OF avoiding eveFv
thing that would tarnfsh the chsf9eaer.
That would excite suspicious a, 20 lis inte.
gritty, OF the new Cabinet and, put i, To-
the reader, what he would have tboue n, os
a Cabinet, that should have been in cart
composed, or that should have admitted
into The Offices of state out Of the cgbinet.
any, nay any one, of those persons, who.
Ihro' thick and thin, supported Mr.. Pit
m his measures for the screening of lord
Melville! l put it 20 him. whether he
wouis have expected any thing Just or sa-
Istary from such a cabinet? would he have
! had any confidence is its honor or lie IN.
legrilY! and, would not the people have
been plunged into despair, al seeing. that,
tho Charge had iektn place; though
The men, on whom they had most relied,
had come inio power yet, tia. they were
so accompanied as to forbid the hone.
that any reformation of the crying abuses
would take placel lbc question of lord
Melville It was, 10 laet, that produced the
change. 1t was the developernsnt of the
| transactions III the treasurer of the nayy's
department. together with Mr.. Pin's par.
IcipaIion therein, ard his csmhslled en-.
beavers TO screen lord Melville these
u was that shook his power TO us very
foundations. And a hirh ,vo,,IJ 90 4