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And is this what you call success? Is this the boast and triumph of your administration?

I have spoken of that circumstance of your government in which you exult. The rest of it, and particularly the last act, which even you do not pretend to justify, I will, reserve for a future and distinct consideration. But that we may be the less surprised, I will touch, in the mean time, on some other passages of your life.--You never affected public spirit but once, and then you pretended to patronize the militia-bill in England. I am not going to charge you with tergiversa tion, my lord, nor to urge in support of that charge, that the ridicule of that law is now the favorite topic of your convivial moments. No, my lord, you are not an apostate. Some men are too dull for madness, and some too profligate for inconsis<< tency. You never supported the militia-bill in truth; you on ly opposed the duke of Cumberland...

There is sometimes a curiosity of caprice and absurdity, which it is pleasant to observe. You went into the army. I will not say that it was the charm of order that caught you, or the regularity of military discipline that was conformable to your disposition. You chose it as a path of advancement. By the influence of your friends you were placed about the person of that great prince, whom I have just mentioned. He was revered by the public. He will be characterized to latest posterity as an hero. He was caricatured once, and it was by your lordship. What tempted you to this extravagance? Was it that no contradiction might be wanting to your character ? That a soldier, you should insult your commander? That a slave to power, you should affront the favorite son of your mo◄ narch? That in his service, and of his household, you should do, what a generous and sober enemy would not attempt? Yet let me attribute it to the best motive. Let me ascribe it only to the operation of levity. Implacability is not the characteristic of your mind. Let me rather celebrate the forgive

ness of your temper; and instance that Colonel Luttrell has only been referred to the parliamentary correction of a political bravo, like himself; whilst you spared his father, whom you had called to an unequal combat. But though I mention that moderation which your professional prejudices could not overcome, I must mention that rashness which higher considerations did not restrain. Why did you forget the monarch you represent? In the dwelling of the supreme magistrate of the metropolis, at a public meeting, dedicated to peace, why did you launch the thunder of a reversionary challenge at a venerable member of parliament, decrepit with infirmity? The dulness and servility of aldermen cried shame upon you!"

From the impartial observer let me become a monitor, my lord; and above all things let me warn you against the avarice of fame. Nothing is so dangerous. I will make an error: of your own my example. In your mind, I am told, it is your glory to have served at Quebec. Take care that it may not be your shame. You were third in command under the great Wolfe. You saw the military hope of the British nation expire. A great man might have envied him his death. A fiend only could have envied him his glory. I appeal to your lordship; for in this you must be my testimony, as well as my theme. You saw him struggling, according to his own expression, with a choice of difficulties. You saw him bending under a complicated and increasing infirmity. He had a noble heart, a wise head, and a peforming hand. In such circumstances, and by such qualifications when you saw him become the idol of a fond nation, and of an applauding army; when you saw him smiling in death, because it was accompanied by his country's victory; with what passion were you inspired? Did the nobleness of emulation seize you? Like Themistocles, did the triumphs of Miltiades deprive you of repose? Or, like Cæsar, did you weep over the tomb of Alexander? No. If you went to his grave, you went not to offer the applause of

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surviving heroism to the illustrious dead; monument, and defraud him of his fame.

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ple of England feel, the untutored people? His death filled his country with lamentation. After a considerable interval, the remains of that great man landed in Great Britain. No honor, which the living can pay to the deceased, was omitted. As if victory still followed him, the news of fresh conquest goon succeeded. Every part of the kingdom resounded with congratulation, except one. The region adjacent to the residence of the venerable matron who had given him birth, was silent. An universal sentiment of heroic compassion struck the people. They stifled even public joy, and would not suffer a sound of triumph to invade the solemnity of her just grief. Thus did that undistinguishing multitude, whom you affect to despise, mark their veneration for their departed hero; whilst you, my lord, a brother soldier, and connected with him in command, had the justice and generosity to endeavor to defame him.

SINDERCOMBE.

THE following reply to the Letter of SINDERCOMBE was generally believed to have come from the pen of the Right Hon. Hely Hutchinson, provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and father of Lord Donoughmore, Lord Hutchinson and Colonel Hutchinson. It is not accurately ascertained who the author under the signature of Broghill was; but the Provost was generally known at that period to be one of the most active partizans of the Townshend administration, and actually succeeded in laying the foundation of that property which has gi ven such weight and importance to the talents of his children, SINDERCOMBE's rejoinder is a fine epitome of the views and the objects of the entire administration of Lord Townshend.

SIR,

LETTER

TO SINDERCOMBE.

March 6, 1770. I HAD some satisfaction in reading your letter,-not that I admit the authenticity of your facts, or admire the force of your arguments, nor that I think the public will be better enabled to judge of the measures of government by the communication of your sentiments, or that the Lord Lieutenant will be reformed by the severity of your animadversions; but, as a well-wisher to the person and administration of his Excellency, I am pleased to find, that a writer of no despicable talents is obliged to resort, for the materials of invective, to the stale refuse of news-paper anecdotes, and the exploded calumnies of vulgar detraction. You have collected the remnants of both with a malicious industry, and tricked them out in all the tinsel of antithesis, and the second-hand frippery of imitated periods. You have kept a reverend eye upon that great Homer of defamation, Junius; and like your master, have created a monster of your own imagination, in order tô show how ingeniously you can rail at it,

There is something very inconsistent in the advice with which you begin your letter!-that Lord Townshend should think it worth his while (your own elegant expression) to deliver down unimpaired to posterity, a name distinguished by the virtue of his ancestors, when, at the same time, you do every thing to prevent the benefit of your own admonition; at once throwing dirt upon his reputation, and warning him to take care it may not be sullied.

A writer, whose principal aim, like yours, is to rail, must trace up every political event to a corrupted source.-Accordingly, in rejecting some pretended causes of Lord Townshend's appointment, your very candor is no less malicious than your sagacity, in fixing upon that which appears to you to be the true one. The interest of families is generally the same, and a great station obtained by the joint reputation of bro thers, is seldom held upon ignominious conditions, or used for unworthy purposes.

Full of the best intentions towards the country he was to govern, he opened his first session with the promise of a law to secure the independence of Judges; and why that promise was not fulfilled in its utmost extent, must be asked, not on this side of the water, but perhaps of a quondam minister, whose Jesuitical politics seldom had any higher view, than to secure his own department from encroachments, by impeding the business, and diminishing the credit, of every other. The public, however, have little to regret, as no inconvenience has been known to result from this disappointment; and the attainment of ten such laws, to secure what was never invaded could not be considered as equivalent to that, which was never expected, though so often demanded, the limitation of parliaments.

It is difficult to determine upon what authority you so confidently assert, that his Excellency never intended, that is, never wished to give either. Is it the shrewdness of your own conjecture? or has it been suggested to you by that gentleman of popular manners, whom you represent so honorably, contending against government, in its own armor, and with its own weapons, at the head of his revenue legion of collectors, surveyors, waiters, searchers, packers, and gaugers? He indeed might have told you, that as to himself, he never wished success to the limitation-bill, notwithstanding his pretended zeal for it; that he had found more than one Chief Go

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