Si LORD CHATHAM. Sept. 28, 



as Mr Ac^difon's tranflation of the twenty-third pfalm 

 does that of Tate and Brady, or Sternhold's and Hop- 

 kins. 



Lord Chatham was bred at Eton college, and was fo 

 remarkable for his progrefs in learning, that Bean 

 Bland, the mailer, continually boafted of bim, and 

 ufed to exhibit him to his vifitors as a prodigy. He 

 was the pride and boaft of the fchool, and notwith- 

 ftanding his brilliant fuperiority of talents, was fo frank 

 and pleafing in his manners, that he was univerfally 

 beloved by his companions. 



At Utrecht Mr Pitt was no lefs remarkable for his 

 attachment to fcience, and his advancement in every 

 branch of polite literature ; and there he fometimes a- 

 mufed himfelf with poetical eiFufions, feveral of which 

 are ftill extant, and fliow not only a very clafllcal, but 

 truly rich vein of genius in verfification. My father 

 and he lived together at Monf. and Madame de Vions ; 

 they were almoft infeparable ; and from him I learnt 

 that Pitt began there to Itudy Britifh politics, and to 

 addict himfelf to oratory, in rpeetings of the ftudents 

 for fpeculative and political difcufTu^n. He came over 

 to England in the year 1729, and having obtained a 

 feat v.v the Houfe of Commons as foon as he was of 

 age, (for he was born on the 4th of November O. S. 

 1 708,) he foon diftinguifhed himfelf on that great 

 theatre of political eloquence, in a manner that immC" 

 diately excited unlverfal Attention and applaufe. 



Sir Robert Walpole hardly ever heard the found of 

 liis voice in the Houfe of Commons without being 

 alarmed and thunderftruck. He ufed to tell his friends 

 that he would be glad at any rate to muzzle that 

 terrible cornet of horfe. His eloquence was not 

 that of his fon William's, fmooth, long-winded, and 

 felf-fufficient ; but noble, fiery, and energetical ; he 

 pawed, like Job's horfe in the valley, and rejoiced in his 

 Itrength. 



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