the duller for his act, and but in the plain and fim pler kind of people the deed is quite out of use: To promife is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or teftament which argues a great fickness in him that makes it: Timon. affairs of a great nation. He has committed irreparable mischief, and fallen into innumerable errors, but all with the beft intention in the world-He has increased the public debt to one hundred and fifty millons, though he publickly declared in the year 1767, upon his being appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, that he would in ten years time, provided he was continued in his office, wipe off twenty millons of the National Debt-Notwithstanding all this, he is the beft financier in EuropeHe has loft all the Colonies (though he vowed in Parliament to fubdue them and bring them to his feet) and he has involved the kingdom in a war with the House of Bourbon; ftill he is an excellent first minifter, for he always means well himself, but he is fo unhappily govern'd by others that he cannot act as he would-yet he is not the miferable tool of a private Funto or efficient Cabinet-Heaven forbid! we should talk fo illiberally of a man, whose private virtues throw fuch a luftre upon his public tranfactions!-He is fo good at making a bargain in borrowing loans, that the Jews themselves complain heavily of his out-witting them-In this we muft grant that he acts like a good Chriftian, but fhould be happy if he would let the nation fhare with him in the profits. It is generally furmifed, that worn ARMY in AMERICA. So that the mufter file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll: half of the which dare not shake the fnow from off their regimentals, left they shake themselves to pieces. All's well, c. * Mr. B---KE He hath deferved worthily of his country, and his afcent is not by fuch eafy degrees as thofe who have been fupple and courteous to the people, bonneted, without any farther deed to heave them at all into their estimation and report, but he hath fo in worn down with the fatigue of ftate affairs; after having exerted his abilities fo powerfully as to have expended thirty millions of money, been the caufe of the flaughter of fixty thousand men, and the abfolute lofs of N. America, he will retire from bufinefs with a moderate penfion of four or fivé thousand pounds per annum, amidst the bleffings and applaufes of a greateful people, who will never forget his eminent fervices. I fhould remember that he is very fagacious in making contracts national emolument. To fpeak of Mr. B--ke with intelligence and an exactnefs due to his character is no eafy task -His various talents for writing have placed him among authors of the first clafs-His perfect know B 3 ledge planted his honour in their eyes, and his actions in their hearts, that for their tongues to be filent and not confefs fo much, were a kind of ingrateful injury; to report otherwife were a malice, that giving itself the lie, would pluck reproof and rebuke from every man that heard it. Gen. V. Know thou this, that men Are as the time is: to be tender minded Does not become a fword Coriolanus. King Lear. ledge of the Conftitution of this Country, its commerce and political intereft, connected with the other ftates of Europe, have long distinguished him for an eminent ftatefman, and one fit to prefide in any department of government-As an orator, who abounds in the richest matter and the most elegant choice of words, he certainly has no equal-Like all men of great genius with an exuberant fancy he fometimes ftands in need of a curb or check-His friends lament that he often leffens his importance by fpeaking to every queftion, and that he fometimes weakens the force of his arguments by not knowing when to ftop-He is upon the whole a great and most refpectable character. • Society Society of Charitable Ladies. To have a temple built to you. Col. STT. I grant him bloody, Coriolanus. Luxurious, avaricious, falfe, deceitful, Macbeth. * Amidst the general current of profligacy and corruption which feems ready to overflow the nation, and bear down all before it, some instances of national spirit, genuine virtue, and amiable benevolence are to be found, and ought to be pointed out. There is nothing perhaps more highly meritorious in the fight of God and man, than the generous charity of certain great ladies, who have formed themselves into a fociety, and have undertaken to relieve the diftreffes of decayed families, and indigent perfons of all fects and denominations, in five large parishes of this metropolis. To this end, they have opened a fubfcription; nothing less than a guinea is accepted-Subfcriptions have rifen from five to fifty guineas or more.-A committee of ladies meet every week to receive petitions, and perfons are employed not only to find out proper objects of charity, but to enquire into the pretenfions of fuch as apply. Col. What's he? Col. LL. Even a crow of the fame neft; not altogether fo great as the first in goodness, but greater a great But if the caufe be not good, the King himself hath a reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads chopp'd off in battle, fhall join together at the latter day, and cry all, We dy'd at fuch a place; fome fwearing, fome crying for a furgeon, fome upon their wives left poor behind them; fome upon the debts they owe; fome on their children, miferably left I am afraid there are few die well that die in battle; for how can they charitably dif pofe of any thing, when blood is their argument. -Now if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them to it. Henry V. |