Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-04-29

had not reached him. Original and unaccommo.
dating, the features of his character had the hard
hood of antiquity. His august mind overawed
majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought his
majesty SO impaired in his presence, that he con-
spired to remove him, in order to be relieved from
his superiority. No State chicanery-no narrow
system of vicious politics-no idle contest for minis
teriaI victories sunk him to the vulgar level of the
great. But overbearing, persuasive and implaca-
bie-his object was England, his ambition, fame
Without dividing he destroyed party, without cor
rupting he made a yenal age unanimous. France
sunk beneath him. With one hand he smote the
House of Bourbon, AMI welded in tn e other the
democracy Of England. The sight of his mind was
infinite; and his schemes were not England-not
the present age o%nly-but Europe and posterity.
THE ordinary feelings which made life amiable
and indolent-those sensations which SO iten, allure
and vulgarize, were unknown TO him. No domes-
tic sufIerings-no domestic weaknesses reached
hini-but aloof from the sordid occurrences of life,
aud unsullied by its intercourse, no went occa-
sioually into the system of Britain to council and de.
eide. A character go exalted, so strenuous, so va
rious, so authoritative, astonished a corrupt age,
and the Treasury trembled at the name OF PITT,
through all her classes of venality. Corruption i'm
agined indeed that she had found defects in this
statesman, and talked much Of the inconsistency Of
his glory and the ruin Of his victories-but the his
tory Of his country, aud the calamities Of the enc
my answered and refutel her. Nor were his po-
litical abilities his only talents. His eloquonce was
an era in the Senate, peculiar and spontaneous, IA
miliarly expressing f~gurative sentiments and in
structive wisdom. Not like The torrent Of Demos
themes or the splendid conAagration Of Tally, it re-
sambled sometimes the thunder, and sometimes the
music of the spheres. Like hurry, he dil not con-
duct the understanding through the subtilty ofar-
concentrations; nor was he like Townsend forever on
the rack of exertion; but rather lighted upon the
subject, ind reached the point by the Hastings OF
bis mind, which, like those ofhis age, were felt, but
could not he followed. There was something in
him that could create, subver', o, reform-an I'M
derstandin9-a spirit aud an e.oquence 10 summon
mankind to society, or 10 break the bonds ofslayeIy
asunder, and to rule the wilderness Of free minds
with unlimited authority. Something that could
establish or overwhelm empires, and strike a blow
on the world that should reso1ld through its uni
verse"
Mr.. PITT, died in the year 1906, and was, not
long after, followed to The same mansion, by his
great political rival, CHARLES JAMES Fox.
/. the flower Of youth, when he was placed at
The head oi the administration Mr.. PITT manifest
ed none OF the characteristic virtues or defects usu-
ally accompanying that period Of lie. Charles the
Twelfth, King OF Sweden, could not liza We exhibited
more colIness, Indifference or apathy towards wo-
men: a point oi his character oI which his enemies
dwelt with malignant though impotent satisfaction;
while hs friends laboured with equal pertinaciiy
TO repel the imputation. To him the Opposition
applied, as had oeon Zone to IN. father, the descrip-
ton gwen Of Il Roman youth
"Mala tuIt, fcctiTue Puer; sudayit ct alst;
Abslinuit Nonero"-----
In order to justify him from such supposed
blank in his formation, his adhercuis whispered that
he was no more chas,e than other men, though
more decorous in his pleasures; and they asserted
that he made frequent visits to a female oi distin-
suished charms, who resided on the other siIe Of
Westminster Bridge, but never could learn from
any OF them her name or abode. PITT's apparent
inseusibility towards the other sex. and his chasti-
ty, formed indeed one OF the subjects on which the
minority exhausted their wit, or rather their male
Violence, as if it had been necessary that the first
minister OF George the ID should be, like the Chan
cellor of Charles the Second, ''the greatest liber-
tine in his dominiDns." recollect, soon after
PITT became confirmed in power, his OBTAINING the
House Of Commons from the business of the day,
during Il short time, while he went up 10 the house
oil Lords ; and as Mrs. Siddons was 10 perform the
part of Belvidera that evening, when Fox never
failed, if possible TO atteIa in the Orchestra at
Drury Lane, the Opposition impatiently expected
PITTS return, in order to propose an adjourn
mem. As soon a. the door opened aud he made
exclaimed
"Jam rcdit ct Tirgor'.
re- however. the Minister viewed on with
ind, ncre ncc, he was no enemy 10 wine, Eor the So
eial convivality of the table. His constitution, in
which a latent and hereditary govt early display
ed itself; which disorder, heightened by political
distress, domestic and foreign, carried him off at
forty-seven; always demanded the aid and stimu-
lus Of the grape.
10 the Autumn Of 1884, he had indeed nearly
fallen a victim TO one of those festive meetings, al
which no severe reDunciations were eniOined by
the host, or practised by the guests. Returning by
way Of irolic, very late at night, on horseback, Ia
Wimbledon, from Addiscombe, the seat Of Mr.. JEN-
KINsoN, near Croydon, where the party had dincd,
Lord THURLow then Chancellor, PITT, AMI Dun
DAs, found the turnpike gate situate between
footing and Streatnam thrown open. Being ele-
waited above their usual prudence, and having no
servant near them, they passed through the gate at
a brisk pace, without stopping to pay the toll;
regardless Of the remonstrances or threats of the