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and approved integrity. Can there be a 
doubt on whom the choice would fall ? Every 
failor, how profligate foever, is convinced, 
that, in the deftribution of the wreck, a dif- 
honeft Captain will appropriate to his own 
ufe the befl part of the fpoil, and he ve- 
rily believes, that Providence will hear the 
prayers and profper the exertions of a good 
znan. 
Mr. Pitt's elevation may be confidered, 
not only as the means of refcuing this na- 
tion from impending ruin; but as a fine 
example to young gentlemen, ftudents at 
our Univerfities, who, from family or for- 
tune, may expect a feat in Parliament; where 
hiftorical information, uniformity of cha- 
racter, and natural or acquired elocution, 
xnufl, in defpite of every obftacle, lift them 
into the higheft employments in the ftate, 
What a glorious incentive to application! 
I have faid elocution natural or acquired '\ 
becaufe I have no doubt, that elocution, this 
moft denrable and mod beneficial of all qua- 
lities, though fometimes a natural endow- 
ment may be always acquired. If we may 
credit the Grecian hiftorians, Demofthenes, 
the prince of orators, had originally, in 
fpeaking, an indiftincl articulation 5 a na- 
y - tural 
