the mountain billows are rolling on me, or I am overwhelmed for ever. "By your aid alone I narrowly escaped the dangers of last week; but more dreadful perils await me. You all know that the hour is rapidly advancing, the decifive hour which will keep me on the Treafury Bench, or fink me into the fatal gulf of infignificance. Let me, therefore, most humbly, and most earnestly, beg your farther fupport. "Fallen as I am from the throne of arrogance, and mortified as my vanity has lately been, I must reprefs -every proud boaft; but I hope I may be allowed to take a fhort review of my past measures, as affording fome claims at leaft to your pity on the prefent occafion. "When differences of opinion, on a great political queftion, threw me into office, did I not, from a confcioufnefs of my inability to carry on the war, feize the first favourable moment to bribe the enemy into a truce, by engaging to furrender almoft all our conquefts?I therefore hope that you will support me! 66 Though the Preliminary Articles were a very imperfect sketch, did I lofe time in vain attempts to fill up the outlines with any thing folid or fubftantial? Did I not, on the contrary, urge on the Definitive Treaty by every mean conceffion in my power, and without obtaining the leaft fecurity against its infringement ?—I therefore hope that you will fupport me! "Did I not inftantly dismantle our fleets and difband our armies, as if I had the fulleft confidence in the duration of peace, though none but mere drivellers -none but Nature's fools, could have entertained fuch an idea?—I therefore hope that you will fupport me! "Did I not ftrive to bolfter up and poultice my rotten Treaty by strong expoftulation and timid ac N 6 quiefcence, quiefcence, by threatening and yielding, by advancing and receding, by furrendering and retaking, by orders and counter-orders, by every poffible act of weakness, indecifion, and difhonour, till I put it in the power of a proud enemy to infult an English Ambaffador in a circle of the Delegates of Europe, with the denunciation of woe to those who have no refpect for Treaties? I therefore hope that you will Support me! "Since the war broke out, have I not employed the whole naval force of England in watching a crippled Enemy in his ports, while I left our merchantmen to chance, or to the protection of fuch weak convoys as could not defend them from privateers and cruifers-I therefore hope you will fupport me! "Inftead of bold and brilliant enterprifes, have I [not endeavoured to adorn our roftral column by the grand and original expedition of Stone Ships, for the purpose of being funk in the channel of one of the enemy's fheltering places for gun-boats and cocklefhells?I therefore hope you will fupport me! 1 Have I not wifely given up every idea of annoying the enemy on the Continent, or of making him tremble for his own fafety where he might be found vulnerable, and confined all my thoughts to our home defence?-I therefore hope you will Jupport me! "As to the charge brought againft me of chilling the ardour, repreffing the zeal, and paralyfing the energies of the nation; have I not tried every fcheme, even to the detriment of the regular army, for raifing numbers at leaft, however inefficient, by my Army of Referve, Militia Augmentation, and my General Defence Bills, as well as by that masterpiece of confiftency, the Volunteer Act? and have I not gone on doing and undoing, annulling, repealing, changing, or fufpending every measure, till, for want of any other refource, and in a ftate of undefcribable confufion, I am I am now ready to fufpend myself?--I therefore hope that you will jupport me! "Are not my fchemes of economy and taxation without a parallel? Did I not, in the first moments of a treacherous peace, fave three or four millions by the fudden reduction of the army and navy, though a few months after it coft the country above fifty millions to replace our two national bulwarks in their former fituation? And, not to detain you now with what all the people of England very fenfibly feel, are not my taxes fo contrived as to perplex, if they are not productive, to throw men into a fort of financial labyrinth, without any clue to conduct them through its tirefome windings?-I therefore hope that you will Support me! For the found policy of my government, look to the ftate of Ireland. Have I not filled moft of the principal offices there with the fhadows of public agency? Have I not intercepted all Mr. Pitt's promifed bleffings, and rendered his boafted Union a barren political meafure, a marriage without confummation, or any pledge of mutual love? Can you naine a Statefman, before me, who ever thought of allaying difcontents by increafed cruelty, or of making a people loyal by almoft rendering invafion the only means of rescue from their evils?—I therefore hope that you will fupport me ! "In addition to thefe public pretenfions, it would ill become me to urge any private claims to your kind regard. But you all know, that, after providing for Brother Hiley, Brother Bragge, and a few more of my poor relations and dependents, I fcattered: my favours among you with a grateful and a liberal hand. Even my Brothers have danced out of one office into another, fometimes for the worse, to make room for perfons who had before oppofed me, or who were willing to render me any effential fervice. In T deed deed, I have no other means to enable me to withstand the most formidable combination of men of rank, family, property, genius, eloquence, political abilities, and popular influence, ever known in this country. Other Minifters would be under lefs obligation to you; but in my weakness you have the beft pledge of the lafting fincerity of my gratitude. I therefore hope that you will fupport me!" May 9. To PROPOSALS FOR A NEW CABINET. [From the British Prefs.] O be compofed of the following materialsEloquence, Patriotifm, Conftitutional Liberty, Financial Talent, Foreign Diplomacy, Integrity, Vigour, and Sagacity. The above plan being duly advertised in all the public prints, the following parties met on Monday, and propofed to contract for it; Meffrs. Pitt, Melville, and Co. Meffrs. Fox, Whitbread, and Co. Meffrs. Grenville, Windham, and Co. The biddings were upon a fcale of 20 degrees as required, and were as follows: The other biddings were fo very much below par, that they were not confidered worthy of notice. Meffrs. Pitt and Co. were of courfe declared the fuccefsful candidates, and are to have the making of the Cabinet. Tis required to be fair and fquare, and of the beft poffible materials, all of British growth, as nothing foreign will, on any account, be admitted into it. The timbers must be all found, and finished in a good plain ftyle, without any French or other foreign ornament. It must be of great capacity, broad bottomed, and impenetrable to all but its Royal Mafter. In its conftruction, care muft be taken that not a fingle fhaving of the tree of liberty fhall be admitted. Rofe wood, though not exprefly prohibited, may be difpenfed with, as alfo Hawthorn and Beech. MATERIALS. The following are the particular materials that would receive a preference: The Pitt English Oak-This is a fine tall rampike, with a very lofty head, but no branches. It would be defirable that the head of the Cabinet fhould be made of this piece. The Grenville Afh-This is a folid fubftantial fpecies of timber. It fometimes runs a little knotty and cross-grained; but it is ftrong, and would make an excellent fupporter. The Windham Crab-tree-This is alfo a fpecies of wood that runs rather knotty; but it is durable, and generally found at the heart. The Temple Stake would cut up well, and help to make out a good broad bottom for the Cabinet. T |