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themfelves four years more of power than the conftitution or 
their conftituents ever intended? I will not enter into a difcuffion 
of the eventual good or evil. The charge ought to be fubject of 
deep confideration with electors and elected. But if it was 
wrong, is not the prefent majority particeps criminis, by permitting 
it to continue unrepealed ? But does there not appear the greater 
probability of its defign of affuming a far longer continuance of 
its own power, fhould it not be appalled by the warning voice of 
the people ? I cannot give it a grain of credit for any one act of 
forbearance, any pretended moderation, fince the awful found 
begins to roll over its head. 
Tue King has lately dared to make ufe of his prerogative, in 
difmiffing his late fervants, for unconftitutionally trying to divert 
into another branch of the legiflature his great prerogative of the 
difpofal of places. Pleafe to apprehend shat to be the only part 
of Mr. Fox’s India bill to which I make any objection. I fhould 
hold chartered rights moft facred; but not fuch which have affec- 
ted the lives and properties of millions, inthe manner in which the 
abufe of power is pretended to have done in our Indian empire. 
In place of the miniftry difmiffed, his majefty has been pleafed 
to put at the head of the new one a youth endued, I may fay, 
with miraculous abilities ; one in whom malice can find as few 
- defeé&ts as can be found in human nature. When I had the 
honor of fpeaking to you on the fubject of his virtues, in the 
fhort converfation I had with you in your way to town, you 
feemed to have had no objection to him. Has his fhort admi= 
niftration been marked by any flagitious deed? Would it not 
have been fair to have given the man of the King’s choice a 
fhort trial? Or, is it not becaufe he is the man of the King’s 
choice 
