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-the Exchequer, ordering the Attorney General to profecute thofe very perfons for high treafon, for purfuing that Parliamentary Reform which he had himself declared, both as a minifter and as a man, he would never abandon. The fourth fide will reprefent him making that truly conftitutional, and never to be forgotten declaration in the Houfe of Commons on the 18th of June 1804," that he would continue Minifter, whatever were the opinions of the Houfe of Commons."

V. That the Committee, as foon as they fhall have approved of the above defigns, fhall exhibit them to public view at the Exhibition Rooms, at Mr. Humphrey's, No. 27, St. James's Street; and at Mr. Deighton's, at Charing Crofs.

The three firft Refolutions were moved by Mr. Sturges Bourne, who prefaced them by fome very neat obfervations on the advantages which his great patron would derive from the Statue being now erected as, in the prefent ftate of his Government, it was highly defirable that the public eye fhould be exclufively di rected to him: of this indeed the Government were fo fully convinced, that the very first act of the new Board of Treafury had been a minute, authorizing a Treafury Warrant for 2000l. for this laudable purpose, exhibiting thereby a ftriking contraft to the criminal economy of the late Adminiftration, which had been pufhed to fuch an extreme, as nearly to create a moft ferious infurrection of that numerous clafs of his patron's friends, the jobbers; and affording alfo just grounds to hope, that the prefent Adminiftration would not be guilty of fo enormous a crime as husbanding the public refources. But it was not neceffary for him to fay much on this head, as he faw many perfons in the prefent company who had already received more convincing proofs of the meritorious neglect of economy in the prefent Adminiftration than could be proved by any affertion of his; and indeed, for one,

he faw no poffible way in which the public money could be difpofed of fo advantageoutly as in procuring for his Right Honourable Friend that fupport, of which, now that he was among friends, he must admit he ftood in the greatest need; for it was true his popularity was quite gone, that he was no longer followed by that enthufiaftic admiration which had accompanied him in the better days of his minifterial life; befides, he no longer fhared the cares of government with that able and refpectable body of perfons who had formerly, along with him, conducted the Chariot of the State. They

-faitu in contraria facto,

Colla jugo excutiunt, abruptaque lora relinquunt.

OVID. MET. Lib. 2. v. 314.

He had alfo deprived himfelf of the aid to be derived from the abufe of his political rival (a man whose integrity could only be equalled by his fagacity), by having himfelf recommended him to the King, as the perfon eminently the most fit to rescue the ftate from the perilous crifis in which it was. Some perfons might, perhaps, think this recommendation made by his Right Honourable Friend was a political flip; but if fairly confidered, it would appear quite otherwife; for in no other way could his friend have been in à fituation in which there could be any chance of his being reftored to power. Indeed, if ever this bufinefs could fairly be brought before the public, he was fure his friend would appear to have acted in the way thofe who best knew his character always thought he would, and that he had only ufed the cry for an increased defence, and the with for a union of parties, as the means by which he could vault into the feat of Government.

Spe fervidus ardet:

Pofcit equos atque arma fimul, faltuque fuperbus
Emicat in currum, et manibus molitur habenas,
Æn, xi, lo 325.

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For these reasons he hoped the meeting would adopt the refolutions he had propofed; which was accordingly unanimously done with every mark of approbation.

Lord Caftlereagh then moved the fourth and fifth Refolutions, which he faid he was induced to do by the perfuafion, that, great as were the advantages the public would derive from the completion of the Statue, thofe advantages would be ftill further increafed by the Refolutions he was now fubmitting to their confideration, which, if adopted, would daily place before the public eye thofe events which had fo juítly entitled his Right Honourable Friend to the high fituation he now filled, and would exhibit to the prefent, and to future times, an hiftorical account of the principal features of his friend's life, and also a kind of moral effay on politics (the morality of which differed totally, in his opinion, from that of private life), by which it would be fhewn what ought to be the condu& of those who afpire to the firft fituations of the ftate. In the fuccefs of his motions he felt a peculiar intereft, as, in many refpects, his own life had been fimilar to that of his Right Hon. Friend; he, like him, had been a warm promoter of Parliamentary Reform; he, like him, had inftigated others to purfue it with eagerness, and in modes, perhaps, not strictly legal; he, like him, had abandoned it when it fuited his intereft to abandon it, and perfecuted thofe whom, by following his example, he had enfnared in the purfuit of that object; but, above all, he, like him, had made a folemn promife to the Irish Catholics, never to take office without the complete Catholic Emancipation; and his had been the hand which wrote that famous letter which had fcarcely arrived acrofs the Channel when he took office in an Administration formed for the express purpose of preventing Catholic Emancipation taking place. In, therefore, celebrating actions of this kind, he not only felt he was dif

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charging a public duty, but he felt he was alfo gratifying, what he was not afhamed to own, his vanity, by fhewing, in a moft eminent manner, what ought.. to be the conduct of thofe who afpired to greatfituations in the State. The queftion was then put on thefe Refolutions, and carried alfo unanimoufly. July 6.

MORE YET.

[From the fame.]

A COMMITTEE of the Subfcribers to Mr. Pitt's Statue was held yefterday, at the London Tavern; when it was determined to call another General Meeting, that a fixth Resolution might be propofed, in addition to the five Refolutions already voted, as ftated in our paper of the 6th inftant.

The fixth Refolution to be to the effect follow. ing, viz.:

VI. That a Subfcription fhould be opened in the city of Dublin, for the purpofe of erecting, in the centre of St. Stephen's Green, a duplicate Statue of the Right Honourable William Pitt; and, in addition to the feveral emblematical reprefentations enumerated in the fourth Refolution, and unanimoufly voted at the laft General Meeting, that the Armorial Bearings of the faid Right Honourable William Pitt should be represented in alto relievo, duly emblazoned, viz.-On a Field fable, a Foffe cheque, between three Bezants, together with the family motto, "Benigno Numine!"And further, that his Majefty fhould be petitioned to grant to the faid Right Honourable William Pitt, the right and faculty to ufe and bear as fupporters; on the dexter fide the effigy or reprefentation of the Right Honourable Lord Redefdale, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, robed in orange, and ermined proper; and on the finifter fide that of

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the Right Honourable T. Fofter, First Lord of the Treafury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, bearing in his right hand a feroll, containing his celebrated Speech against the Union; which fupporters might ferve as a striking and permanent memorial of the rectitude and fincerity of the declaration of the faid Right Honourable William Pitt-" To bring forward meafures of conceffion to the Catholic Body, having before felt it impoffible to continue in Adminiftration under the inability to propofe it."

One of the Members of the Committee, an Irish Barrister of the Middle Temple, obferved, that the effigies of the Learned Lord and Right Honourable Gentleman, if graciously permitted to be thus used as fupporters, would in the four Courts, at leaft, be confidered as the John Doe and Richard Roe, or common Vouchees, of that facred pledge of a great and wife measure of national polity; and that the most falutary effects must neceffarily refult from fuch happy prototypes of legal fecurity.

It was alfo obferved by a Gentleman (who we un derstand to be a Bank Director, fomewhat converfant with heraldic diftinctions, having recently received a grant of a coat of arms), that the appropriate bearing of the three Bezants, fo denominated, as he understood, from the ancient coin of Byzantium, would be confidered as peculiarly typical of the new Bolton tokens, they being alfo originally a foreign coin of the value of four fhillings and fixpence, now authorized, under the aufpices of the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to be circulated in Ireland, at the current value of fix fhillings; a meafure fo highly advantageous to his Majefty's Irish fubjects, as would doubtless raife the name and fame of Mr. Bolton to an equal pitch with that heretofore enjoyed by Mr. Wood, another great manufacturer of figns and tokens, who flourished at the commencement

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