ssh ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
mented by all his connections, whe- 
ther relatives, fricuds, or domestics. 
He is thus described by thé right 
honourable George Rose,* than 
whom tone can be more capable of 
judging, and he thus expresses 
. himself :— 
' 6¢] have hitherto confined my- 
self to matters within the immediate 
department at which Mr. Pitt pre- 
sided ; but considering the pre-emi- 
‘nence he long held in the councils 
of Kis majesty, and that unhappily 
for! the country he is no longer 
among us, I may, I hope, ‘be al- 
. Yowed to refer very shortly to some 
of the principal matters that occur- 
‘red during the eventful period of his 
‘administration, and to say a few 
words respecting his character. 
‘6 If we look to naval and mili- 
‘tary operations, it will be seen, 
‘with no small degree of astonish- 
ment as well as satisfaction, that in 
the period referred to, we took and 
destroyed more ships of the line of 
our enemiés,+ than in all the wars 
we have been engaged in since the 
Revolution, viz. those in the reign of 
«King William, Queen Anne, during 
the hostilities with Spain, in the 
‘reign of George the First, when the 
A of Spain was destroyed in the 
Mediterranean, in the wars of 
°1742, of 1756, and the American 
‘war. 
‘¢ That the French under their 
‘emperor Buonaparte, were driven 
-out of Egypt by an inferior army, 
composed of troops from the banks 
~of the Thames and of the Ganges, 
‘health, and to the exercise 
who met in that country, and there 
gained immortal honour; and that 
they were deprived of every foot of 
land they had on the continent of 
India, as well as of almost all their 
colonies in the West Indies; and 
that many of those of Spain and 
Holland were taken by the British. 
arms, while the numerous and ex- 
tensive possessions of Great Britain 
in all parts of the world, were com~ 
pletely protected. 
‘¢ If we turn our attention to 
what has passed within these king. 
doms, under our immediate view, 
we shall not have less reason to ads 
mire the character, and to revere 
the memory, of one of the most able, 
firm, virtuous, and ~ disinterested 
men, that ever lived in any nation 
or in any time. His conduct du- 
ing the long and dangerous illness 
of our beloved sovereign, in 1788-9, 
will not soon be forgotten by his 
grateful countrymen It is the 
pride of the British constitution, as 
now understood and administered, 
that the personal interest of the mo- 
narch isso much identified with the 
interests of the people, that the lat- 
ter feel every circumstance tending 
to the health, the comfort, or the 
dignity of their sovereign, asa fa. 
vourite acquisition to themselves ; 
and I think I may venture to say, 
there never was a period of more 
genuine national joy, than when our 
beloved king, after a considerable 
interval of alarming indisposition, 
was restored to the enjoyment of 
of his 
public 
* Sce a brief.cxamination into the increase of the reveriue, commerce, and navir 
gation of Grea: Britain, during Mr. Pitt’s administration. 
+ ‘‘ These amount to 110 ships of the line; while those in the former wars were 
in nurober only 109. 
In this comparison the ships destroyed in the very arduous 
euterprize at Copenhagen, are not included, although the expedition was equipped 
under Mr, Pitt’s government, nor several ships of the line lost in a storm, when the 
invasion of Ireland was attempted.” 
