both fides with his ufual fententioufnefs and gravity; and after a fpeech of three hours length, in which he, as ufual, took occafion to expatiate upon the vices and immoralities of the age, the levity of fashionable women, the great guilt of adultery (which he proved. from reafon and revelation), the heinous and base offence of the treacherous friend, who ungratefully ftings the bofom which cherished him, and the no lefs base and unmanly practice of hufbands, who, from motives of covetoufnefs, or other indirect ends, connive. at their wives' infidelity; after many fuitable reflec tions upon the divine inftitution of marriage, and pertinent obfervations upon gaming, late hours, wateringplaces, and illegal infurances (all which his Lordship expreffed his full intention of punishing, at fome convenient opportunity, with all the rigours of the law), he concluded a folemn and affecting speech with directing, the Jury to find—A PENNY DAMAGES.

A TREASURY SOLILOQUY.

RESIGN, or not refign!—that is the question.

Whether 't is nobler in the mind to fuffer
The PEOPLE'S hate, and fcourge of OPPOSITION,
Or to take shelter from the cares of office,
And by refigning end them!-Refign-difgrace,
No more:-but, by refigning thus, to end
The head-ach, and the thoufand threat'ning fhocks
I daily fuffer 't is a confummation

Devoutly to be with'd. Refign-Difgrace!
Difgrac'd, perhaps IMPEACH'D-ay! there's the rub ::
For when impeach'd-what proofs of guilt may rise
When I have fhuffled off this dangerous charge,
Must give me fearful paufe-there's the respect
That makes my miniftry of fo long life;
For who would bear the hate, the scorn of manj,
The multitude's reproach, the fecret curfe,,
The wit of Sheridan, the fire of Fox,,

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The keen quick eye of Grey, and all thofe threats
That from their party I have daily ta'en ?
When I might inftant my quietus make,

With barely giving up? For who would bear
To groan and fweat under my prefent horrors,
But that the dread of WESTMINSTER'S High Court,
That awful great tribunal, from whofe bar
I fhould not come acquitted-plagues the will,
And makes me rather bear my prefent ills,
Than, by refigning, bring my NECK in danger!

OUT AT LAST;

OR,

THE FALLEN MINISTER.

PETER PINDAR to a very humorous Pòem under this title, has the following Introduction:

SOME time ago the LYRIC PETER,
With much fublimity of metre,

Did prophefy a MINISTER would tumble!
To verify the POET's ode,

Behold it pleaseth MAN and GOD,

In anger, his HIGH MIGHTINESS to humble!
Poor man! but not the MAN of Ross!
He's down! procumbit bumi bos.

How like unto a crow, or rook,

Shot near his neft (a mortal wound),
He hung and bled, with downcaft look,
Before he fous'd at laft to ground!

Yes! like thofe black birds, much too long we faw
The culprit hanging by a fingle claw.

What a vile bramble he has been

May now with half an eye be seen.-
Look at us!-What poor fhiv'ring sheep, alack!
Naked and lank-moft closely fhorn!

This hooking, dragging imp has torn

The healthful, warming fleece from ev'ry back!

Gone!

Gone! gone, fome good-for-nothing ribs to treat;
But woe to that poor sheep that dares to bleat!

Sing, HEAV'NLY MUSE, to whom our wool all goes:-
To warm DUNDAS, LONG, WINDHAM, CANNING, ROSE,
Old L- L and CUB, with each compeer-
While they caroufing fwill'd their toast and sack,
We bit, in anguish, mufty bread and black,
And writhing got the gripes from dead small-beer.
"Try PITT again," fome fools exclaim.
He has been tried, and tried, and tried-
The hobbling NATION, ftill more lame,
Has now nor crutch, nor afs to ride.
"He'll mend," they roar.-He mend! the MUMMER-
Ay, mend just like four ale in fummer.

Lo, then, our fad STATE-CARPENTER difmifs'd!
No longer now his bungling art befools:
Yet from the fervice when the man was hifs'd,
Why leave behind his BUDGET and his Tools?
Glad as a bird that 'fcapes the kite, I'll drop
The lamentations of poor JEREMIAH,

Of gay Pindarics open a frefh fhop,

And pour the fong of triumph with ISAIAH,

CHARACTER OF A LATE MINISTER,

SUPPOSED (FROM INTERNAL EVIDENCE) TO BE WRITTEN

BY HIMSELF.

[From the Morning Chronicle.]

O characterize a man whose talents were fo diverfified would be difficult if brevity were impofed, and would be nugatory if panegyric were admiffible. If genius be the power of invention, we cannot name. a man whose share is equal; if what he faid be com-: pared with what he did, it will be impoffible to eftimate the grandeur of his conceptions, or to illuftrate.

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the imbecility of his execution. Of all the moderns, he had ftudied our language with moft unceasing affiduity, and enlarged its powers beyond the limits of comprehenfion. Copious, rather than felect, in his words; unambitious to be understood; and averse to a meaning, rather than courting its fimplicity, he at once engaged the attention, and confounded the memory. Accustomed to myftery, he disdained the plain, the perfpicuous, and the intelligible; and therefore what was heard with eagernefs was retained. with difficulty, and might be forgot without injury. In contending with the objections of the doubtful, the interrogations of the querulous, and the demands of the ignorant, he opened no new stores of information; he officioufly anticipated no man's conjectures; he invaded no man's ignorance-what was fought in his harangues could not be found; and what was found exceeded comprehenfion. Still fuch was his felicity of diction, and fuch his choice of expreffion, that he feldom failed to convince thofe whofe minds were prepared, and who were not fo faftidious as to require fatisfaction where none could be given, or to look for reafons where none were meant. An early difciple of Harpocrates, he was filent from principle, and referved. upon fyftem; he knew not the rafhnefs of a communicative difpofition, and foared above the level of intelligible intercourfe. His tenacity of motive was aftonishing, and he acquired it by an irreconcilable difference betwixt the means and the end. Whether he laid down a plan, or anfwered an inquiry, he had at once the faculty of fpeaking much and faying little. When, matured in official fituation, he found filence impoffible or inconvenient, he made language fubfervient to all the purposes of taciturnity. He prac tifed inverfions unknown to former grammarians, and ftudied ambiguities which modern fkill could not refolve. Although fometimes unguarded in. debate, and fometimes

fometimes betrayed by cafualty, his moft folemn ayowals were clothed in impenetrable darkness, and his explanations were calculated to elude the grafp of the watchful and the curiofity of the inquifitive. Yet fuch was the secret charm of his eloquence, that his hearers became enamoured of obfcurity, and preferred the fubmiffion of ignorance to the rudenefs of unbelief.

At what time he began to ftudy "human nature” cannot now be afcertained. All that we can affirm with truth is, that he announced the completion of his ftudies near the close of his life; and that, not in the profundity of a deep thinker, but in the more familiar character of an humble fpectator. As fuch he gave advice where advice was not wanted, and fuggefted remedies where the cure was impracticable. About this period it is fuppofed that his knowledge of caufe and effect became perplexed; the connexion between motive and end, feldom intimate in his thoughts, and never defined in his words, was now diffolved for ever. It is probably owing to this that hiftorians, have remarked, that what he executed he feldom defigned, and what he defigned was certain to fail.

Of the diforder which occafioned his departure, much is not known. That it was violent may be believed from its effects: but that it was exafperated by religious fcruples, may be denied without the risk of contradiction. However averfe to fatisfy the fcruples of other men, he was himself a stranger to hesitation. It has been reported that his memory has failed. This at least has not been confirmed. In the extremity of departure, he might furely have trufted to a faculty over which he had acquired the most extenfive power. To his facility of recollection or forgetfulnefs, he was indebted for his early rife and his future fame: and could he have communicated a faculty fo tractable to

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