four for the Refolution one hundred and nineteen. “Thus the Court Party Carried their point by a majority of only five, which majority does not thew the fenfe of the nation to be for the new Board, or that the courtiers have cause to exult, fince the majority would not have appeared, had not Mr. Buery Barry Mr. French, Poole, and feveral others, been blent by reafon of fickness, and Counfellor Fitzgibbons being taken ill in the Houfe: after he had spoken against the measure for near an hour, he was obliged to retire.

Such was the event of this grand debate, which lafted near twelve hours. The galleries were crowded more than has been obferved this whole Seffion, most of whom, ladies as well as gentlemen, waited till the Houfe adjourned.

To his Grace the Duke of GRAFTON.

WHAT is the reafon, my lord, that, when almoft every

man in the kingdom, without diftinction of princi ples or party, exults in the ridiculous defeat of Sir James Lowther, when good and bad men unite in one common opinion of that baronet, and triumph in his distress, as if the event (without any reference to vice or virtue) were interesting to human nature, your Grace alone fhould appear fo miferably depreffed and amicted? In fuch univerfal joy, I know not where you will look for a compliment of condolance, unless you appeal to the tender fympathetic forrows of Mr. Bradshaw. That cream, coloured gentleman's tears, affecting as they are, carry confolation along with them. He never weeps, but, like an April fhower, with a lambent ray of funfhine upon his countenance-From the feelings of honeft men, upon this joyful oceation, I do not mean to draw any conclufion to yout Grace, They naturally rejoice, when they fee a fignal inftance of tyranny refifted with fuccefs-of treachery expofed to the derition of the world an infamous informer defeated, and an impudent robber dragged to the public gibs bet-But, in the other clafs of mankind, I own I expected to meet the Duke of Grafton. Men, who have no regard for justice, nor any fense of honor, feem as heartily pleased with Sir James Lowther's well-deferved punishment, as if he did not constitute an example against themfelves. The unhappy baronet has no friends, even among thofe who refemble him. You, my Lord, are not yet reduced to fo deplorable a state of derelictions Every villain in the kingdom is your friend ↑

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and, in compliment to such friendship, I think you should fuffer your difmal countenance to clear up. Befides, my Lord; I am a little anxious for the confiftency of your character. You violate your own rules of decorum, when you do not infult the man, whom you have betrayed.

The divine juftice of retribution feems now to have begun its progrefs. Deliberate treachery intails punishment upon the traitor. There is no poffibility of efcaping it, even in the highest rank, to which the confent of fociety can exalt the meanest and worft of men. The forced, unnatural union of Luttrell and Middlefex, was an omen of another unnatural union, by which indefeasible infamy is attached to the Houfe of Brunswick. If one of thofe acts was virtuous and honourable, the beft of princes, I thank God, is happily rewarded for it by the other. Your Grace, it has been said, had some thare in recommending Colonel Luttrell to the King;-or was it only the gentle Bradshaw, who made himfelf anfwerable for the good behaviour of his friend? An intimate connexion has long fubfifted between him and the worthy Lord Irnham, Is arofe from a fortunate fimilarity of principles, cemented by the conftant mediation of their common friend Mifs Davies, L

Yet confefs I fhould be forry that the opprobrious infamy of this match fhould reach beyond the family. We have now a better reafon than ever to pray for the long life of the beft of Princes, and the welfare of his Royal Jue.I will not mix any thing ominous with my prayers; but let parliament look to it. A Luttrell fhall never faceced to the crown of Eng land. If the hereditary virtues of the families deferve a kingdom, Scotland will be a proper retreat for them

The next is a most remarkable inftance of the goodness of providence, The juft law of retaliation has at last overtaken the little contemptible tyrant of the North. To the fon-inlaw of your dearest friend the Earl of Bute, you meant to transfer the Duke of Portland's property; and you haftened the grant, with an expedition unknown to the treasury, that he might have it time enough to give a decifive turn to the election for the county. The immediate confequence of this flagitious robbery was that he loft the election, which you meant to infure to him, and with fuch fignal circumstances of fcorn, reproach, and infult, (to fay nothing of the general exultation of all parties) as, (excepting the King's brotherin-law Colonel Luttrel, and old Simon his father-in-law) hardly ever fell upon a gentleman in this country.in the svens, he lofen the very property, of which he thought he had

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had gotten poffeffion; and after an expence, which would have paid the value of the land in queftion twenty times over,

The forms of villainy, you fee, are neceffary to its fuccefs. Hereafter you will act with greater circumfpection, and not drive fo directly to your object. To fnatch a Grace, beyond the reach of common treachery, is an exception, not a rule.

And now, my good Lord, does not your confcious heart inform you, that the juftice of retribution begin to operate, and that it may foon approach your perfon?-Do you think that Junius had renounced the Middlefex election? Or that the King's timber shall be refufed to the royal navy with impunity ?Or that you fhall hear no more of the fale of that patent to Mr. Hine, which you endeavoured to fkreen by fuddenly dropping your profecution against Samuel Vaughan, when the rule againft him was made abfolute I believe indeed there never was fuch an inftance in all the hiftory of negative impudence.But it fhall not fave you. The very funshine you live in is a prelude to your diffolution. When your are ripé, you fhall be plucked.

JUNIUS.

'P.S. I beg you will convey to our gracious mafter my hum, ble cóngratulations upon the glorious fuccefs of peerages and penfions, fo lavishly diftributed as the rewards of Irifh virtue, From the Public Advertifer, Nov. 27.

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For the POLITICAL REGISTER.

HERE are times when the mind is fo incapable of judging rightly, and when all its faculties are fo intirely depraved by prejudice and paffion, that the qualities, which ordinarily conftitute its beft contentment, cease to pleafe, and truth, wifdom, and virtue, courting as under every appearance of beauty and attraction, are beheld with indifference, or rejected with deteftation.

Political and religious zeal have ever been the grand caufes of this fubverfion of the understanding, and the Hiftory of every Nation furnishes a variety of proofs of the difmal effects of it. But the madnefs is only for a feafon. As the paffions fubfide, the mind gradually recovers from its illufions, and becomes itself again. So it fhall be with us in our days of diftraction; and already we fee, with comfort, the dawn of reafon arifing upon us. What mifchief has the ftate fuffered what dangers threaten it? who are most

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interested in its preservation? These are queftions, which, in the mouth of patriotism, mark the return of judgment, - and fhew recovery to be near at hand; for the lolution of them will allay our mistaken refentments, dispel our vain fears, lead-us to confide in the government, which is our protection, and inftruct us to be jealous only of those who labour to difturb it.

Nine years are elapfed fince Wilkes became a patriot, by infulting the laws, and libelling half the kingdom; a period in which we have been bleffed with a variety of adminiftrations, and have feen by turns the champions of Liberty become good fervants of the Crown, and discarded minifters the defenders of the people's rights; yet every administra tion, I think, has left the conftitution much in the fame ftate, in which the care of it was committed to them, and the prefent, when at last their power fhall diffolve, will probably refign it in the fame manner.

The Middlefex election (I beg pardon for ever glancing on a subject, of which the world has been so long tired) was a question of much difficulty: to arrive at any degree of certainty in it, required a deeper knowledge of the conftitution and rights of parliament, and of the force of the contending claims of member and conftituent than men, in general, are poffeffed of. Thofe, however, who were moft capable of forming an opinion upon it, the Few, who, when the ftorm was up, and the whirlwind gathered about them, could deliberate at cafe, in the retirement of the ftudy, and judge with candour on the whole of the argument, those, I Tay, have generally taken the fide of parliament, and have gone along with the majority in the three great ftages of the queftion, the Expulfion, the Incapacity, and the Exclufion of the choice of the Freeholders. Yet it is confeffedly a matter of much nicety, and men the best intentioned might differ upon it. I contend only, that each party might be fincere in their opinions, and that the majority decided at leaft with as much impartiality as their opponents. In fuch a queftion, to aforibe to these the merit of honest determination, and to charge the others with corruption, ufurpation of privilege, and voluntary breach of the conftitution, is an injuftice, which, however the rage of party may be urged in excufe of it, is fcarce to be forgiven. But the noise on this pccafion was too loud to be diftinct, and has ferved only to fhew in our own times, what the Hiftory of all others abundantly teftifies, that it is much eafier for a people to rail than to reflect, and to fret and vex themselves, than to understand

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the cause of their difquiet. However juft indeed may be the principle, that thofe only be loud in clamour who are #rong in argument; it is feldom met with in the world; and in queftions which most concern us is leaft to be expected. We must confole ourselves in thefe cafes with reflecting, that the noife is not mifchievous: it is like the thunder which rattles in the clouds, and ends in nothing.

The commitment of the two fimpletons to the Tower was an inevitable affertion of the best established privilege of par liament, and the only injury which the ftate could have fuffered in their cafe, would have been their impunity.

Thefe are the great offences which the declaimers on the fide of faction have chiefly defcanted upon; and now that their noife is heard no more, and we can afk ourselves, What has happened? we find, in one inftance, a difficult point in government fairly determined; in the other a dear right afferted with becoming fpirit.

In fhort, after all our alarms, the conftitution is as found as before, and is likely to remain fo if patriotifm will be quiet. The prefent fet of minifters, I am fure, can have no temptation to invade it. They enjoy what they are believed most to affece, and are ripening in the funthine of the king's favour, poffeffing all the good things of the land, and bleffed with the profpect of long poffeffion. Will these men, by attempting aught against the conftitution, difterb the government, which gives them their hearts defire ; and introduce confufion and uproar at the expence of their fecu rity, at the risk of their profperity and honours, and at the peril of their heads? It is folly to fuppofe it,

The fame argument applied to the king operates, if poffible, with ftill greater force; and it cannot be conceived by thofe who maintain his happiness, and that of his people to be infeparable, that while he regards one, he will intrude on and violate the other. As his intereft obliges him thus to go hand in hand with the public profperity, there is nothing in" the condition of the times which can feduce him from it.

The caufes which have formerly fet variance between prince and people in this country, have happily ceafed. W have a king who reigns over a weak, an unarmed nobility, and over a people poffeffed of freedom; when the limits of prerogative are clearly understood, and chearfully fubmitted to; when religion has dropped her rage, and fmoothed her brow of terror; when the neither rules the mind with bigotted affections to old fyftem, nor entangles it in the eiper-L plexities of new, when her ways are indeed pleasant, and her

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