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Nabob kept for a while the flame of war alive. A fliort anarchy 

 fucceeded, and brought a temporary lliame on xhQBritiJb name, 

 inquiry ! fi^litiotis ? was inftituted : 



A gude Scot once grumbled 

 Brutum fulmen, meant only to fcare when it riimbold. 



The Fragmsnt. 



A different fate awaited the hero, and the Verres ; a high fenfi- 

 bility of honor caufed Clive to fink beneath the mental 

 wounds infiiiled by his ungrateful country. Verres^ attacked in 

 the fame manner, remained calloufly unmoved, Hastings 

 fucceeded to the feven years perfecution ; year after year paffed 

 on in the ordeal of our modern Arijlides. Seven times was his 

 hand plunged into the fcalding fluid, and feven times did it 

 emerge with unbliftered marks of innocence, fecured by the 

 lotion of political neceflity and good intentions. The box felt 

 conviction, and never bhiflied ! Haji'mgs was overwhelmed 

 with expence, in repelling charges the refult of envy and ma- 

 lice, while Bengal was daily rifing into wealth and profperity, 

 the eflfeds of his government. The feventh year of our dif- 

 grace ended to his everlafting fame. He was acquitted to the 

 content of the nation, and he himfelf was faved from poverty ? 

 in his old age by his thinking matters ; and from that very 

 wealth with which he had filled the Indies, little confcious that 

 it might hereafter ever have been applied to prevent from him 

 the fad petition, date obolum BELISARIO? 

 White Ants. -A-T p. i8 of the preceding volume I have given the marvel- 



lous account related by Herodotus of the Ants of India^ which, 



he 



