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and steadiness of principle, the same 

 correctness of jiulgmentand integrity 

 of heart " which h^ endeared him 

 to lord Chatham; and that "the 

 same affefiionate attachment from 

 those who knew him best has fol- 

 lowed him beyond the grave." 



It is too important an observa- 

 tion to be omitted, that throughout 

 tiiese letters, lord Chatham's mind 

 seems strongly imbued with the 

 utmost reverence for tlie Chris- 

 tian religion ; nor does he omit any 

 opportunity of inculcating similar 

 sentiments in his p"pii, as the most 

 essential of all duties. 



If it afford matter of satisfa6tion 

 to the admirers of lord Chatham (as 

 certainly it must) to see him exhi- 

 bited so much to his advantage; 

 it must be considerably increased 

 by the labours of the editor, who, 

 ill an exquisitely well-written and 

 judicious preface, has enhanced the 

 value of the work, by averting cri- 

 ticism, which might attach upon 

 portions of it without some neces- 

 sary explanations : and who, by a 

 manly, yet reverential consbating of 

 certain opinions therein advanced, 

 has ingeniously found the means of 

 at once heightening our esteem for 

 h is author, and ourrespeft for himself. 

 It is indeed impossible not to con- 

 template with delight, the fortunate 

 coincidence which has united such 



a, writer and such an editor — That 

 the works of lord Chatham should 

 see the light under the care of lord 

 Grenville ! 



Second to no statesman of the 

 time or age in which he lives: — 

 as an orator, gifted with an clo* 

 quence at once manly, perspicuous, 

 and convincing ; — as a politician, of 

 the most unstained integrity ;— -in 

 private lite of the purest morals ;— 

 and a scholar of the first order — 

 Could the posthumous reputation of 

 the great lord Chatham be entrusted 

 to more appropriate hands ? 



A singularly neat, and elegant de- 

 dication to Mr. Pitt*, ushers in this 

 work to the public; it is followed 

 by the preface, to which we hare 

 already adverted, and which, not 

 only as it is the best analysis and cri- 

 tique of the work itself, that could be 

 given ; but, as we consider it per- 

 fect in its kind, we shall lay before 

 our readers without further apo- 

 logy: — 



" The following letters were ad- 

 dressed by the late lord Clialham to 

 his nephew, Mr. Pitt, (afterwards 

 lord Camelford,) then at Cambridge. 

 They are few in number, written 

 for the private use of an individual 

 during a .short period of time, and 

 containing only such detached ob- 

 servations on the extensive subjefls 

 to which they relate, as occasioa 



* To the Rwhl Hon. Wm. Pitt. 



Dropmorc, Doc. S, 1803. 

 My dear Sir, 



When you expressed to nic your entire concurrence in my wish to pnnt 

 the following letters, you were not apprised that this address would accompany 

 them. By you it will, I trust, be received as a testimony of aftectionatc triend- 

 sliip. 'J"o others the propriety will he olnious of inscribins! with your name a pub 

 lication, in ^■hicll lord Chatham teaches how great talents may most successt'uUy 

 be cultivated, and to what objects ihcy niay most honourably Ik: directed. 



Grenvjile. 



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