1 791. LORD CHATHAM. 83 



Dc noflhenes, wJbof^.- orations he had feduloufly flu- 

 dice', were the models he copied, and he copied them 

 with fuccefs. Yet he was equally mafter of the plea- 

 fing, diffufe, paffionate, and curioufly arranged periods 

 and per-oratory addrelTes of Cicero. 



Pie fafcinated the people of England in the gallery, 

 and confounded the minifter below on the bench 

 of adminiftration. John BiiU mull have blood abroad 

 and violence at home, and Pitt was refolved to give him 

 enough of it. With all this, to compafs good ends, it 

 was neceffiiry for him to flatter andbribe the king's mif- 

 trefs, to bubble the king as Eleftcr of Hanover, and 

 pleafe the tories by running down Walpole. Had he 

 not done all this he never could have got into the fad- 

 die •, for Britain in thofe days was a very different 

 country from what it is at prefent. 



Parties had not then been broken and mingled to- 

 gether to be trampled in a crowd by the fovereign, but 

 werev/ithin the accurate focus of the moft ftupid of the 

 f:upid people, and were accordingly, by the people at 

 large, diftinguiihed by the difference of their principles. 



War is certainly a ruinous projeft for any nation, 

 but particularly' for one that is commercial and manu- 

 fa(nuring ; but if v/ar muft be undertaken to pleafe a 

 king or a people, it ought to be profecuted precifcly as 

 it was profecuted by Pitt. For if a nation, fituatcd as 

 Britain was in the year 1756, is to hope for fuccefs in 

 war, it mull begin by cutting off the relburces of a dan- 

 gerous rival, and by ilriklng all at once fo many hard 

 blows on diiTerent parts of the enemy, as to incapaci- 

 tate him from taking the advantage by perfeverance. I 

 have often heard Pitt fay that this was his mafter- 

 piece of policy ; and if you compare this with the mi- 

 serable tifTue of the American war, you will under- 

 ftand at once the whole ftrength of my encomium of 

 Chatham. 



I would not be underflood to deal blows at men 

 whom I individually elleem, by pr:::fm;: the contraft 

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