2S6 remarks on Tbunderproo/'' s efsays. Oct. 24, 

 man we prefer to Sir Robert Walpole, a statesman, 

 whose maxim it was to keep us at peace with all 

 the world." I leave to your readers to judge, whe- 

 ther, from this opposition, Mr T. did not consider 

 Sir Robert Walpole's character as directlj the re- 

 verse of Chatham's ; whence it follows, as a necefsary 

 consequence, that since lord Chatham was the worst 

 of ministers, Sir Robert must have been the best. 



It is difficult to conceive what Mr T. would be at, 

 when he talks of the madnefs " pf the war system." 

 Every friend to humanity must deplore the devasta- 

 tion and havock of war ; but to conceive the idea of 

 living in continual and universal peace, an idea very 

 much talked of at present, is, I am afraid, one of 

 those extravagancies into which mortals are at times 

 apt to fall. It is an idea too exalted for our present 

 system. Could we extinguifli the guilty pafsions of am- 

 bition, revenge, avarice, superstition, envy, we might 

 then enjoy the calm which Mr T. so much desires. 

 But I leave to the philosophers to decide, whether, 

 even in that case, mankind would inherit a much 

 greater degree of happinefs than we do at present : 

 or whether the world would not resemble a standing 

 pool, or dead, inactive mafs, where virtue would, 

 disappear as well as vice ; where there would be 

 neither love nor hatred, hope nor fear, which, pro- 

 perly balanced, and mingled in the cup of life, form 

 the true enjoyment of it. For mj^ part I conceive 

 the pafsions of mankind no lefs necefsary to stir up 

 and agitate the moral world, and to prevent a stagna- 



