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allow. The remaining four efTentials, every 
young man of abilities may pofTefs; other- 
wife the want of them were unjuftly repre- 
henfible. 
I have before obferved, that Mr. Pitt's mo- 
ral character was the primum mobile of his 
elevation; and I found this obfervation on 
the recolleftion of there being, at the time 
of his appointment t6 the Miniftry, feveral 
members in both houfes, of diftinguifhed 
abilities j but, in the then critical fituation 
of this country; when our falvation depend- 
ed on an univerfal confidence in the inte- 
grity of the Minifter; it was wifely deter- 
mined, that a young man of at leaft equal 
abilities, but of irreproachable character, 
was moft likely to retrieve and re-eflablifh 
that credit and confidence fo necefTary to 
our exiftence. 
Britain, at the conclufion of the Ameri- 
can war, refembled a fhip, heavily loaded; 
her rigging and timbers Shattered in the 
late florin ; her crew fatigued and difpi- 
rited; her officers either unfkilful, or worie; 
a dangerous navigation ; no land in fight, 
and without a pilate. ' Defpair marked the 
countenance of every man on the Quarter 
Deck. What was to be done ? -- " Pleafe 
your 
