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confequently will fhew your's character and conduct in the light 1 intend it shall appear, and which it deferves.

Your conduct, my l—, in private life, I will not defcribe, nor concern myself more about, than is necessary to prove it confiftent with your public one, and that both are as natural to your principles and difpofition, as unnatural to your birth and education: But, my 1-, that there fcarce lives one in this age to vie with your for falseness of every kind, is a fact known to every one; therefore none will pity your fall, though they may have envied your rife; for you will undoubtedly very foon be that facrifice which the state you have brought this country into, will shortly require: Do not flatter yourself, my 1, that such a sacrifice will do your name honor, or raise your character above its prefent low pitch; no, my 1-, taking it in the view of a public facrifice, your memory will ftill remain as infignificant as your private conduct has ever made your character, and your fall will only be quoted in future, to deter fuch weak, affuming novices in business from daring to grasp at the helm of state, without being better qualified in every respect.

Your begun with a kind of fhuffling conduct that was very fufpicious, when you was first introduced to the late Duke of Cumberland, by your patron the Earl of Cm, it appears his Royal Highness's fagacity and penetration was no less just than his judgment; for he then foretold what you have fince proved, and declared to that Earl and to others, what he then thought of you; though his Royal Highness's ad-n was reduced to put the feals into your hands in 1705; knows was then without the approbation or confent of the Earl of C-m who declined them, and to whom you pretended to be attached; recollect my 1-, what paffed between your and that great man at Hayes, when you went to afk his advice about your acceptance.

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Your quitting those feals the next year, and throwing into confufion all thofe members of the ad- -n whom you were affociated with, and had promised to fupport, be

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fides the ungrateful part of it, to your Sn, at the very time you were profeffing your attachment to bim with the meaneft fubmiffions and overtures to the Earl of B-e through another channel; and the public and folemn declarations you made at that time in a great affembly, that you refigned because you did not find your expectations answered in the hopes of that great man (then Mr. Pitt) being at the head of affairs, who you always underflood was to be fo, or you would not have accepted any office; this refignation of yours, my 1-, was fuch a refined ftroke of policy, as people that were not intimately acquainted with your's private character, did not difcern the drift of, yet it grew fo obvious, that it was imitated by anothe fervant of the cr-n, not lefs interested, nor lefs ungrate ul; whofe natural confufion of ideas, joined to the giddinefs of his lordship's having been placed by accidents and the diftreffes of government, where, he could otherwife never have found himself, although his office was in fome degree connected wil the profeffion he is of; yet he followed you, as hẹ had often done others, and will many more, and it anfwered to you both; for the Earl of Cm no fooner got his foot in the cl-t, than your was placed at the head of that board, where you now prefide, and that noble lord, (in order to avoid his re-election) by fome political fhuffle, was left to remain in the office he had before fignified his refignation of; although, a very great perfonage had exprefied his indignation of his lordship's ingratitude to him, in the strongest terms of refentment.

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Your was fcarce feated in your new office, but your natural difpofition prevailed, and you could not help fhowing yourself in your proper colours, by taking advantage of your patron's unfortunate ill ftate of health, to rivet yourself at his expence to the Earl of B-e and his party, and as you imagined, by that means, establish your feeming weight with your Sn; your overtures immediately after to the Marquis of R- -m, and the endeavours you made ufe of to draw that nobleman into the fame devotion with yourfelf, are proofs of this; and when that failed,

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the fhameful quibble you made ufe of to distinguish between the man and the Mr, as a falvo to yourself, when your Sn denied your power, was of a piece with the reft. By degrees you neglected, or rather changed all thofe meafures laid down by your former patron; you allo forced all his friends and connections into the difagreeable part of refigning their offices, from a ftrict fenfe of honor, as they would find it impoffible to ferve the K- and the public according to the plan they had acquiefced in; but in this you were for a time difappointed, and grew frightened, as most of them had a different fenfe of their fituation, and whilft their principal remained, they chofe the more difagreeable part of perfifting in keeping their pofts, like centinels placed to watch the enemy, who, though unable to act or do any other good, yet obferve and give warning of what they fee approaching.

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Thus your's double conduct obliged a late lord lieutenant of Ireland to refign, and to leave his fn's fervice with reluctance, but with a decency equal to his firmness, and which was only exceeded by the universal regret that was expreffed by all ranks in that kingdom, for the lofs of one of his lordship's character. Thus you laid a trap for the difmiffion of a brave and deferving general, though you can submit to let that dismission go in the name of your new titled f— -y for the colonies, whofe fubferviency to every minister that ever acquired power, is ready to receive all the blame and indignation of it, to make his court to your, and to ferve fome immediate interested purpose of his own.

Thus alfo have you been endeavouring to throw every affront you could on the Earl of Sh- -n, to oblige him to a refignation, as you have at last the Earl of C-—————m, by determining to turn out the Earl of Shn, and by that means, you have prevented the Earl of C-m waiting for an interval of health, to avail himself of the office he held, for the purpose only of ushering himfelf into the cl-t, where he would have been able to have fet your's conduct, with all your poor little quibbling

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tranfactions, in their proper light, and which are equally feen and defpifed by all the world; but your earneftness to affront the late fy of the f-n department, has expofed you to an attack from your new confederates in adn (the B-----'s), in which every one fees you have been got the better of; for lord W

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proved his ftrength, by gaining his point for a friend of his, against your Newmarket friend, as well as the friend of the f————————————n (—————————y, in whofe department the employment was, that was lately beftowed on Mr. L-: Your will find that knot of B-----'s, too ftrong for your weaknefs to antie: your policy there failed you, and every one faw you were no longer Mr from the hour you opened the door to them, nor will their activity and abilities be ftill, till they have put one of their own heads in your place, and every dependant in their intereft is fatisfied: you vainly think you have done enough, by giving Mr. R- the whole of that place, which you would only give the half of to your prefent Chr of the Ex-r, who is ready enough to act under you after that affront; and to make it the more obvious, you even difmiffed a friend from the half, without any warning, for your new-acquired ally.

The contempt with which you have, in feveral inftances, treated the Chr, who has lately been your only fupport, are equal proofs of your ingratitude to the Earl of Cm, and your inability as a firft M-, or you would have managed fuch a difpofition, as his lordfhip's better: But you have now only added to that great Jawyer's fovereign contempt for, an implacable hatred of

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In fhort, my lord, there is fcarce an individual in public life that you have not betrayed; and none in private, whom you ever had any thing to do with, that you have not deceived: So much for your conduct towards individuals in your capacity, which has engroffed fo much of that time you can fpare from your mistress and your horfes, that you have made it difficult to find out any step you have as yet taken for the public fervice, except in

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- has fported very lavishly indeed with the purse, as you have with the authority; for no man has ever dared to infere with the interior part of and confequently trampled upon the laws of your country, the privileges and freedom of the subjects, as you have done: You have not fpared the property of great fubjects to carry the point of those, whofe cause your interest induces you to fupport: But as this will certainly be again the fubject of enquiry, I fhall wave the difcuffion

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What has been your conduct with regard to the colonies? For if you are to be confidered as a firft m―r, you must in fome degree be responsible for all measures; 'twill not avail you, to fay, this is in fuch an one's department; we all know, that as men and things are, they are little more than clerks in office, whom you have recommended, as the Favourite dictated to you. Has there been any one falutary ftep taken to oblige the Americans to return to their obedience, except the fending two battalions over, after the whole country has been fo long in almoft open rebellion to the laws when 'tis well known, that any firmnefs of government, and a refolute, temperate fupport given to a deferving governor there, would long fince have reduced thofe ungrateful subjects to their obedience; I do not mean by this, that I would recommend (as others have) beginning with fanguinary counfels, which would only produce examples of severe, yet unnecessary revenge, and which would only tend to rivet the k-'s immediate authority with your immediate power-and make both, tho' equally obeyed, equally dreaded: No, my l---, I am not one of those who approve that maxim, Oderint dum metuant; Let them hate, fo they fear; nor was I ever for leaving the colonies in that late you (and your immediate predeceffors in power) have done, which may at laft oblige his M-y (who is as eminent for his good-nature, as for his good intentions) to purfue measures which he abhors; and by which, you mean to throw your fucceffor (for one you must soon have, or this country will be beyond retrieving) into thofe unavoidable

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