fent their arguments, diftort their principles, and vilify their conduct. By this fhort fyftem of eloquence you will answer them very much to your own fatisfaction. "But it is neceffary to caution you against the affistance of your own fupporters. Beware of accepting the dangerous aid of Mr. Wm's logic. You well know how artfully I explained away the officious harangues of that political Quixote. He fpoke but too often the fentiments of the Cabinet in avowing a determined hatred to the French republic, and expofing the policy of warring against it to extremity. But though we approved in fecret, it was not fafe to fanction in public fo violent and unpopular a language. Wm was difowned in debate with a marked perfonality that would have rendered any man of fpirit defperate. He never uttered a sentence which, I did not difclaim or comment upon. But the man's mind was fo humbled, that he daily fubmitted to the unpa ralleled indignity of being corrected like a giddy, blundering fchoolboy. In a word, you must treat him precifely in the fame manner. friend W "I need scarcely recommend to you that you should cultivate the good-will of the little Nicodemus, as our -ce is ftyled. That man has a petty tribe, of which he is the foul. His fupport is worth fomething. You must humour his caprices, and exaggerate his importance; for his vanity is at least equal to his talents. As to the flave-trade, I believe may fafely go along with him, and leave the reft to Lord Hawkesbury, the Weft India members, and the Treasury. Ŵce will be fatisfied with the aid of Mr. Addington's fingle vote or even without it: you "But why fhould I point out the specific appliéation for each individual cafe, fince you have the catholicon for every variety of knavery, extravagance, or hypocrify? VOL. V. hypocrify? Your own experience, with fuch means, cannot greatly err; but in all-difficult emergencies you can refort to the fource from which your power is derived. Go forth, then, relying upon that fuperior aid; go, and aftonifh the world at the novelty of an -Adminiftration without talents, connexion, reputation, or experience. Diffipate the vain illufion under which the world has laboured, that great endowments are requifite for great affairs. Prove to mankind that the intereft of ftates can be managed by men that would not be employed as common attornies; and that peace -or war may be in the hands of those who would not have been chofen to conduct a fuit for a petty affault and battery. But while the world contemplates the phenomenon with amazement, reflect with humility on the caufes of your promotion; and, while you defy the fneers of malignity and the contempt of Europe, enjoying your temporary elevation, remember that you guide but for a day the chariot of the fun, and that your advancement may be fatal to yourself, fhould you forget to follow the precepts, and to employ the aid, of him who committed the reins to your feeble hands." "Here the MS. clofes. The fignature is effaced, but I fhall employ no more words in fupport of the conjecture which I' have already hazarded refpecting the author. S I am, &c. &c. ALTHOUGH the information conveyed to the public by means ofthe Treasury journals, refpecting Mr. Pitt's remaining in town to give his advice, has occafioned a confiderable degree of alarm, yet that alarm, alarm, in my opinion, like fome other things of the kind, will, upon due examination, appear to have very little foundation; and, although it be the fafhion at prefent to play upon the feelings of the public, I hope to offer fome arguments to prove that this affair,. at leaft, fhould not be a caufe of trembling. The paragraph, it must be obferved, merely stated that Mr. Pitt, who meant to have taken a trip to Scot- ́ land with Mr. Dundas, remained in town to give his advice. Now, Sir, if we confider this paragraph in all its bearings and diftances, what is there in it? what does it tell us? I fhall, for method's fake, divide the information it gives into two heads: firft, we learn from this important article that Mr. Pitt meant to have gone to Scotland with Mr. Dundas; but what Mr. Pitt meant to have done in Scotland, or why he would have gone there in preference to any other place, we know not.. All we can learn is, that his journey to Scotland was, for fome reafon or other, a favourite object, and yet that his fenfe of public danger was fuch as to induce him to give up Mr. Dundas and Scotland, that he might remain in town and give his advice; which brings me to ་ ་ ་ཐ The fecond head: "He remained in town to give his advice;" and this is what has alarmed the public, although, in my opinion, unneceffarily; for, in the first place, it does not appear what advice he had to give; nor, fecondly, whether our new Minifters were difpofed to liften to his advice. Now it is certain that any man may give his advice. There is no law against it, nor is the giving of advice ever obftructed by ignorance or incapacity; and what renders it infinitely more eafy for men to give advice in thefe days is, that experience has funk into contempt, and no man thinks of the paft as having any connexion with the prefent or the future. It is probable, therefore, that the Ex 1 minister may have remained in town to give his advice; but there is no mauner of proof that he has actually given that advice, or that it has been taken. Obferve, now, Mr. Editor, how little foundation there is for our fears, when our fears come to be analysed. I am, indeed, furprised to find that this threat of giving his advice fhould have appeared in the minifte rial papers. Surely the conductors of thofe pure vehi cles of wifdom and information, muft have ftrangely forgot themselves, or they are ftill in the uncertain ftate of many country gentlemen, who cannot tell yet who is prime minifter. If Mr. Addington wants Mr. Pitt's advice, he wants fomething which he ought to have had before he accepted his prefent fituation. If Mr. Addington is not fo clever a fellow as Mr. Pitt, they ought to change places; for a people who have paid fo dear for original knowledge, will not be put off with a fecond-hand article. In my notion, thefe journalists have fallen into the fame mistake with the clergy on a late occafion. To excufe their non-refidence, they proved that their curates were as able to do their duty as themselves, or even more fo. It immediately entered into the wicked heads of fome people, that, if this were true, the curate ought to have been the rector, which, I humbly apprehend, was not the intended Q. E. D. in this cafe. I have thus, Sir, thought it my duty, by logical deduction, to alleviate the fears of the public in this important matter, as far as I am able. The cafe, however, may be just the reverfe. Mr. Pitt's advice may have not only been given, but taken: and, if so, the public will very foon know the worft. His advice is fo ftrongly marked with peculiar characteristics, fuch a confpicuous ftamp, fuch a glaring hall mark, that I think it will be impoffible to mistake it, whether in tranfitu, or in its confequences. No minifter, indeed, was ever fo clear, explicit, and intelligible in his ad vice. No ambiguities, no far-fetched metaphors, no quibbles about words and particles. It was always adapted to the meanest understanding, and there is not a man in the kingdom who cannot reduce it to pounds, fhillings, and pence. Other wife men have encumbered our libraries with folios-Mr. Pitt's works are all adapted to the pocket. August 19. I am, Sir, your humble fervant, WHO'S AFRAID? LONDON IN JULY. 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