ICO remarhs on Hhunderproof s efsayi. Jidy 25. 



Mr T condemns us for it, as having acted a- 



gainst the pacific system. The monarch already 

 mentioned was the best of kings, and Sir Robert 

 Walpole the best of ministers ; while lord Chatham 

 is reprobated as " the worst minister that ever any 

 " nation was cursed with." 



Upon the whole, every thing is making a rapid 

 progrefs to destruction. The constitution is nought 

 but a " conspiracy of the rich against the poor." It 

 is, however, sufficient to excite laughter in the most 

 puritanical countenance, that the only instance he 

 brings forward in proof of all these accumulated 

 evils, is that of an old woman who " had been in the 

 " practice of supplying her neighbours with half- 

 " penny-worths of anufF; but is now in an excise 

 " court, and will probably be soon reduced to beg- 

 " gary." 



From Mr T 's glancing at Ireland, and tlie 



dean of St Patrick, in some of his former remarks, 

 it would seem that he considers himself another 

 Swift, risen to reform the world; and is therefore 

 determined that all things fhall be wrong, that he 

 may have the merit of setting them to rights. In 

 this point of view, indeed, he very much resembles 

 the celebrated knight pf la Mancha, whose behavi- 

 our, upon the whole, he seems to have laid down as 

 n pattern for himself. He must, neverthelefs, ac- 

 knowledge, that his imitation of this great prototype 

 and master, has not been slavifh ; we must even fairly 

 allow him the merit of making one considerable im- 

 provement. For whereas the renov/ned Don Quixote 

 was pleased to take unte himself a fair ladv for a Dul- 



