he faw no poffible way in which the public money could be difpofed of fo advantageously 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 faltu in contraria facto, Colla jugo excutiunt, abruptaque lora relinquunt. He had alfo deprived himfelf of the aid to be derived from the abufe of his political rival (a man whofe integrity could only be equalled by his fagacity), by having himself 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 a fituation in which there could be any chance of his being restored 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 those who beft knew his character always thought he would, and that he had only ufed the cry for an increafed 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 cutrum, et manibus molitur habenas. AN. xii. 1. 325. For For thefe reafons 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 increased 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 juftly 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 to tally, in his opinion, from that of private life), by; which it would be fhewn what ought to be the conduct of those who afpire to the first 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 eagernefs, and in modes, perhaps, not ftrictly legal; he, like him, had abandoned it when it fuited his interest 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 across the Channel when he took office in an Adminiftration formed for the exprefs purpofe of preventing Catholic Emancipation taking place. In, therefore, celebrating actions of this kind, he not only felt he was dif Q 3 ; charging 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 great fituations in the State. The queftion was then put on these Resolutions, and carried also unanimously. 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 Mecting, that a fixth Refolution might be propofed, in addition to the five Refolutions already voted, as itated in our paper of the 6th inftant. The fixth Refolution to be to the effect following, 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 Bears ings of the faid Right Honourable William Pitt fhould be reprefented in alto relievo, duly emblazoned, viz.-On a Field fable, a Foffe chequé, 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 the 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 ftriking and permanent memorial of the rectitude and fincerity of the declaration of the faid Right Honourable William Pitt-"To bring forward measures of conceffion to the Catholic Body, having before felt it impoffible to continue in Adminifiration under the inability to propofe it." One of the Members of the Committee, an Irish Barrifter 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 least, 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 muft neceffarily refult from fuch happy prototypes of legal fecurity. It was alfo obferved by a Gentleman (who we understand 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 underflood, 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 thillings 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 doubtlefs 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 of the last century: nor would the name of the modern Financier himself be celebrated with lefs gratitude, than that of his great predeceffor in office in the days of Queen Anne, in whofe Adminiftration the boon of Mr. Wood's brazen tokens was fo kindly and patriotically conceded to the grateful inhabitants of Ireland. Another Member of the Committee, fomewhat of a waggifh turn, pleasantly obferved, that even the family motto of the Right Honourable Gentleman might, by the illiterate part of the community, who oftener catch at the found than the fenfe, be confidered to have been prophetic of this modern chef d'œuvre of a circulating medium-this lucky new-money-" Benigno The Bank Director expreffed great indignation at this low pun, as he was pleafed to call it, declaring that it was highly indecorous on fuch an occafion, and that no bog-trotter of Tipperary could have made a worse. ...Order being, however, reftored by the intervention of the Chairman, a gentleman of the Heralds College obferved, that the Foffe chequé, which conftituted a prominent bearing on the armis alluded to, was peculiarly expreffive of the chequered political opinions which had, at different epochs, conftituted the leading principles of the Right Honourable Gentleman to whofe great name and fame this votive offering of refpect and gratitude was propofed to be dedicated, as a memorial of PITT'S UNFADING GLORY, AND IERNE'S GRATITUDE. As the propofed additional Refolution was unanimoufly approved, it was agreed that a General Meeting thould be fummoned; the proceedings of which we fhall probably have occafion to lay before our readers. July 12. THE |