t79f. LijRD CHATKA^f." Sf 



going, as tliofe wiflies would afiign you, your portion 

 of good things will not be fcanty." 



There is both head and heart in this letter ; and 

 more of them than will probably be found in his polte- 

 rity, or in thofe who are now thought to be the props 

 of the Britiih conftitution. 



I acknowledge Lord Chatham's failings, but they 

 were the failings of a fuccefsful Britiih ftatefman. 

 I remember his good qualities, and his ftade would not 

 frown upon me in the Elyfian fields, nay, not even on 

 this fide the Styx, when the method of relating them 

 were remembered. 



I fliall clofc this letter with fome remarks on the 

 learning and genius of Chatham. 



That he was learned I have already proved, from the 

 teftimony of his teachers, when his fituation in life 

 could not occafion the fufpicion of flattery. 



That he was poflefl'ed of genius and tafte will fuffi- 

 clently appear from the fpecimens of them, and from 

 the teftimony of the moft eminent judges. 



Lord Cheiterfield admired and envied him ; Lord 

 Lyttleton once loved him, and certainly bad a high 

 opinion of his clafljcal knowledge, and happy power of 

 applying it to charm in converfation, the mod delight- 

 ful, though the leaft valued, department of focial hap- 

 pinefs. 



He was honoured by Garrick, and praifed by the 

 honert, independent Thomfon, in his immortal Sea- 

 fons. Speaking of Stowe in his Autumn, he fays^ — 



And there, O Pitt! thy country's early boaft, 

 There let me fit beneath the fhclter'd flopes, 

 Or in that Temple, \vhere, in future times, 

 Thou welllhalt merit a diftinguifc'd name ; 

 jinj ivith thy conwrfc hl'Jl, catch the lad fmiles 

 Of Autumn beaminp; o'er the yellow woods. 

 While there with thee th' enchanted round I walks 

 The regulated wild, (^ay Fancy then 

 Will tread in thought the groves of Altic land ; 



