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that is, reserving a right of modifying particular 
matters of inferior moment. Mr. Pitt carried it in 
both houses by a majority of two to one. The 
whole body of traders are full of ideas of present 
profit; and as yet, though a slight grumbling is be- 
ginning in some quarters, not a single petition has 
been presented against it. Lord Lansdown says 
that the scheme was his, and therefore, though a 
secret enemy to Pitt, is for it. Four charges have 
been urged against Mr. Hastings (for maladmini- 
stration) in the House of Commons. He has been 
adjudged liable to an impeachment upon three of 
them, to the no small displeasure of a certain great 
personage. Some people go so far as to say, that 
Mr. Pitt, who voted for Hastings’s impeachment, 
will lose his situation for his behaviour. Lord 
Mansfield, angry that ministry will appoint Sir 
Lloyd Kenyon to succeed him, refuses to resign. 
He wishes Buller to succeed him. <A pamphlet, 
entitled, “ A short Review of the Political State of 
Great Britain,” affecting a great impartiality and 
knowledge of present affairs, has lately made much 
noise, and run through several editions. It by no 
means deserves the character which has been given 
it (it has been translated into all foreign languages), 
for itis evidently partial to the court side, and is not 
a true prophet. Witness the case of Hastings, whom 
this writer trumpets to the skies. I look upon this 
pamphlet as little more than a jumble of the best 
sort of coffee-house conversation. Though you 
are not a zealot in politics, nor I myself, yet I 
thought, at your distance from England, you might 
