The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-08-02

that while Chatham was the Bitter political
enemy OF Lord George Greenville, Francis
was his wnrh friend; and most Of the
other prominent public men Of the day, in
England came in for share of denunciation
from the pen of Junius, Lord Granville was
permitted wholly to escape it's venom-as
Lord Chatham most certainly would not have
permitted hun to DO, had he been Junius.--
Lord Chatham, great as he was intellectual
ly, and admired beyond any other man Of
his time for his oratorical powers and other
distinguished qualities, had, at the same
time, certain traits of character that have
been common to very many of the master
spirits OF the world, in every age of it,
jackson and Clay, the heads Of the two great
parties in our own country, but few years
ago, were striking examples; and Jefferson
and Hamilton, the founders of those parties,
were no exceptions to tho rule--as any one
may learn who will study carefully their his
tories. Lord Chatham was man of invet-
crate preiudices, and bitter hater and his
hatred of Lord George Granville, close rela-
tives though they were, (brothers n-law),
found free vent upon more than one occa-
sion. Ii was Chatham, ms Macaulay tolls US.
who glued to Granville the nickname Of
the 'Gentle Shepherd" thus rendering him
subject of ridicule; and which stuck to
him through life. II happened thus: Gren-
vile, il seems, had a miserable habit of viii
ming when he Spoken habit that has made
empty benches in many Commons House,
and Congress Hall, and In many Court
house and Church as well, as it will continue
to do, so long as winners are to be found
who will persist, in violation of good taste,
and common sense, in inficting this unfortu-
nate habit upon their hearers. Upon GER
tain occasion Granville was making speech;
che spoke" says Macaulay, "strongly on
his favorite theme, the profusion with which
the late war, !" conducted by Lord Chatham,
chad been carried on. That profusiop, he
said, had made taxes necessary. lie called
on the gentleman opposite him to say where
they would have atax laid, and dwelt on this
topic with his usual prolixity. Let them
tell me where he repeated, in n monotonous
and somewhat fre,ful tone. Il say, Sir, let
them tell me where. repeat it, SIR; am
entitled to say to them, tell me where Tn
luckily for him Pitt had come down to the
House that night, and had been bitterly pro-
yoked by the reflections thrown on the war.
He revenged himself by murmuriug in whine
resembling Grenville's, a line Of well-kpown
song, 'Gentle Shepherd, tell me where lf,'
cried Grenville, gentlemen are to be treated
in this way Pitt, as was his fashion,
when he meant to mark extreme contempt,
rose deliberately, made bis bow, and walked
out Of the House, leaving his brother in law
in commissions Of rage, and every body else in
commissions Of laughter"
With the political relations, and the state
of feeling thus indicated between the parties,
it is extremely improbable, say, that If the
elder Pitt were the author Of the Junius Let
ters, he would have spared George Grenville
as he was spared, in those letters, while al
most every other man, of equal prominence,
who supported the government, was dashed
numerically Hence, the opinion of Col
Benton to the contrary notwithstanding, |
do not believe that Lord Chatham wrote the
Junius Letters, but concur with Macaulav,
for the reasons that he gives, in the opinion
that Sir Philip Francis was their author.
VERVAN.