1796.] 
different nature. If Mr. Burke’s ideas 
are just, that no member of the house of 
peers Is to enquire, whether a royal 
pension has been properly bestowed, un- 
less his ancestors attained their estates and 
their titles in an honourable manner, [ 
very strongly suspeét, that a speedy end 
must be put to all such enquiries in the 
upper house of parliament. On these 
principles, it will generally be sufficient 
to silence any noble lord, moving such 
an inquiry, for a friend of the pensioner 
to rise up, and say, ** My lord, your lord- 
‘** ship has no right to institute this in- 
*“‘ quiry, till you can prove, that the 
“estates and titles of your lordship, and 
“* your ancestors, were obtained by me- 
“‘thods .conformable to the maxims of 
** justice and of honour.”’ 
Mr. Burke has gone far back into our 
history, in order to discover somewhat 
dishonourable among the ancestors of the 
duke of Bedford ; and it is certainly very 
reputable to the duke, that Mr. Burke 
should have thought it necessary to have 
recourse to this inquiry, before he could 
meet with a proper ground for attacking 
him. If he had not been desirous of 
going so far back, and had been content 
with somewhat more than a century, he 
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- * To an answer to Mr. Burke, written 
by Mr. W. A. Miles, are prefixed the following 
particulars relative to this pension : 
Edmund Burke, Esq. 
his Wife, and the 
survivor of them, by 
warrant, dated Sept. 
24, £795, and to 
commence from Jan. 
$7 3793: 
Edmund Burke, Esq. 
Lord Royston, and 
s€ 3200/. per annum, 
chargeable on the 
- Civil List, for the 
» lives of 
* 7160/. per annum, 
payable out of the 
4.% percent. duties, 
- for the lives of 
and the survivor of 
them, by patent, da- 
ted Oct. 24, 1795, 
to commence July, 
24, 1793- 
The Princess Amelia, 
Lord Althorpe, and 
William Cavendish, 
Esq. by patent, dated 
Oct. 24, 1795, to 
> 
€ 4340/. per annum, 
payable out of the 
4% percent. duties, 
for the lives of 
ly 24, 1793: - 
*¢ The two latter Mr. Burke is said to have 
sold for thirty-seven thousand pounds.” 
+ Besides Mr. Miles’s, Answers have appeared 
from the pens of Messrs. Wakefield, Brown, 
Street, and Thelwall, and also fiom ‘‘ Aa 
Old Whig.’* 
Remarks on Mr. Burke's Letter. 
Anchitel Grey, Esq. 
commence from Ju- 
iis 
would have found an ancestor of the 
duke of Bedford, to whom the term 
illustrious might properly be applied. I 
would ask Mr. Burke, which of the 
Kings of Europe can point out a more 
respectable progenitor, than lord W1L- 
LIAM RussEL, trom whom the present 
duke of Bedford is immediately and 
lineally descended? ‘This nobleman was 
rendered truly illustrious, both by his 
public and his private virtues, and died 
amartyr to the cause of liberty. It is 
supposed, that he might have saved his 
life, by making a declaration in favour 
of the doétrines of passive obedience and 
non-resistance ; and endeavours were 
used to bring him to make such a decla- 
ration, but without effect. Dr. Birch 
says, that ‘‘ the firmness of lord Russel, 
“in retusing the cnly means of pur- 
chasing his life from an exasperated 
court, by the least retraétion of an 
opinion, of which his conscience was 
thoroughly persuaded, is the strongest 
proot of that integrity and virtue, 
which gave him so much weight and: 
influence in his own time, and have 
“ endeared him to posterity.” 
Mr. Burke has certainly been an 
eminently distinguished member of par- 
liament, and is possessed of very splendid 
eloquence. Asa senator, he has some- 
times laboriously exerted himself to pro- 
mote the interests of his country. "This 
was particularly the case during the 
American war. But I am extremely 
apprehensive, that Mr. Burke’s late pen- 
sion was not conferred on him for any 
real services to his countrys I strongly 
Suspect, that he owes i to ihe publication 
of his “ RefleGious on the Revolution 
** 72 France; and to his exertions in 
parliament ia supportof the fame cause. 
But Iam one of those who think, that 
for those exertions he deserved no pension. 
He was rendering no service to his coun- 
try, or to mankind. He states, indeed, 
among his merits, his efforts to promote 
the present war; but it is hardly easy-to 
consider him as a man in his sober senses, 
when he has any occasion to speak of the 
French revolution, and of that pestilence 
in France, which, he says, ‘‘ Tareatens 
** to lay waste the whole moral, and, in 
a great degree, the whole physical 
* world.’2 He states it as-a matter of 
accusation, brought against him by the 
duke of Bedford, that he was the au- 
thor of the present war; and, indeed, 
he yet seems disposed, to use his own 
language, to exert,all his powers “ to 
** animate Europe to eternal battle.’ 
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