The Delaware gazette. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1809-1810, 1809-11-25

with you, have observed a certain p,inci.
PIE winch has been termed the beginning Of
WISDOM. The most degrading stain on
other characters, is properly the paving of
virtue IN yours. 1fyour feelings are not
to be touched by the wrongs Of the people,
let your fears be reused by their resentment,
he wrath OF British men is slow, but it is
progressive the effect Of heavy injury, EN-
Uttered by continual insult not easily
reused, but once reused, not to be lai;l
without substantial justice it will not be
satisfied with cutting of the contcrDtible
mlnlons that cling round and prey upon YOU
1T VIII be neither in Your hereditary rank
nor In your remembered services to protect
you !! The conhagration which has hitherto
slumbered, or only thrown out lis casual
blaze, shall awake; it shall not be content
with feeding on the dry and worthless
weeds that lie at your feet, it shall rise to
the mighty of the forest, and, in their parch.
ed and blasted verdure, leave only the more
striking monuments Of lis unsparing desc
laiion.
Pubic forbearance has been exhausted
the people cannot submit to further Insult
they viii not comprehend the honest policy
q redeeming your character at the expense
Of your country--and, by the appointment
, ot such men at Chatham and Dundas, pro-
! wing to the nation that yours are 20. The
only hands by which i. may be ruined.
| Is my lord Chatham man fit TO be put
| at the head of British expedition What
are his merits Where are his exploits of
successful intrepidity or practised skill? Is
it for his political virtues or his martial
proves? Is it that your love Of justice has
been enraptured BY the good natured i'm.
Partially which has made him the plant in
strnment of so many administrations Or
IS it that yoi reason from his civil 10 his
military accomplishments, not unlus,ly in
frrring that the man who has spen, his whole
life in the barter Of Office, will be peculiarly
dextrous at convention, and in spite 81
Hondscoote and The Helder, oblitt rate even
your renown in the art Of capisuli Ing with
the enemy
! You are not YET totally ruined dare
not bid the viiesl criminal despair. Youi
duty is plain dismiss those miserable sub
st.utes Of vaaf's send old Dundas tc
Chelsea and his pension send Chatham il
his cheap 10 !aige noes, his reversiona, ant
his hal pay ; tell him that the people vii
not suffer him TO serve them; that they ar,
l,ee ginning - know and to despse such men
.hat their sesvlce IS not the private sinccur
1t used to be; and that, il they have pun
i2hea the tripping honor Of a prince the,
will not be more len;ent to the stately peri
dy Of peer
Thea, sir, instantly retire misfortnn
: has hut yet done half her works she ha
brought YOU to shame, let her now brin
YOU 10 repentance /: would be useless L
disguise from you that the period must b
long and the remorse sincere, before tn
; empire can consider you as the son of il
sovereign.
; But | once more warn you TO beware c
retrieving your character by any sudden ex
pertinent on popular applause Fit be tru
: thar from lord Chathain'a i'acapscity yo
look 10 its id success, and from that 10 you
assuming the command with some compar
; alive eclaf,no language can be strong enoug
:, for your reprobaloo. But the plan has to-
: much Of laboured treachery for your indo
. lence This would not be the spirit of tn
soldier struggling fairly in The grea. caus
which would cnnoble his Cali. There is an
G other character; it has probably suggested
: itself to your royal highness it is the COW
: ard!y marauder, lingering behind till tn
e danger is over, and then stealing forth j
darkness and security. to insult the bodic
: Of the dead, and bring home an unresistin
r spoil from the deso!a,ion of the Geld.
> JUNIUS.
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