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Minifters concerning their antagonifts 
and their rivals. It had long been re- 
ported that when 
was defired to refign, each of its mem- 
bers was faffered: to name his double, 
on the condition of continuing to prop 
#he new puppet-adminittr ation, which 
was fuppofed fitter to negotiate a peace, 
becaufe it had been guarded in its pub= 
lic language concerning the rulers of 
France. “ I muft take upon meé (fays 
the author of this pamphiet,) to aver 
that his Majefty’s mioit gracious offer 
of his confidence to Mr. Addington 
could not have been, and eas uot, de- 
finitively accepted, until a folenin au- 
thentic pledge of honour had been 
given by the late Minifters for their 
* confiant, active, and xealcus fupport.” 
EF do afiert that Mr. Pitt and Lord 
Grenville did facredly and folemnly 
enter into this exact eng gagement, and 
in this precife form of words.” How 
long thefe honourable Gentlemen kept 
to their engagement, is very well 
known to the public! ‘They feem to 
have had a mental refervation at the 
time of this folémn,but proftituted,con- 
tract, that the fupport required fhouid 
never ceafe to be neceflary, that they 
fhould be fupported ‘ juft as long as 
they could be confidered weak, inca- 
pable, and deciduous ; as long as they 
could be hourly difplaced, they fhould 
be hourly upheld ; but if they fhould 
attempt to walk, wit hout the leading 
firing—if they fhoul d have the pre- 
fumption to appear qualified for their 
offices, or to be iuccefsful in any of 
their meafures, the agreement fhould 
be cancelled, 
and true meaning, aap they fhould in- 
{tantly be treated as rivals and ene- 
mies.’’ Thefe fauetable equivocations 
are in the true ftyle of the countryman 
who, to avoid the crime of taking a 
falfe oath, kiffes his thumb infead of 
the Te@ament, and triumphs in the 
fuccefs of his Bios 
“4 Brief Anfu: 
the laft- Gedtored® pamphlet. 
author difclaims ** any 
fecrethiftory, or any fources of infor- 
mation but th ofe which are open to 
every one is countrymen,” and 
yet has the prefumprtion to oppofe his 
iale fappofition to the folemn aver- 
is publifhed to 
The 
F ee 
OF ha 
ment of his antagonilt retpecting the 
promife. of fupport ;. the anfwerer 
_chooles to fuppoje, truiy; that the only” 
promife mult have been “ to threw no 
impediment in the way of the prefent 
the old Miniftry, 
as contrary to its ipirit. 
‘he does not like to be abufed, 
knowledge of 
Retrofped of Domeftic Literature.—Politics, Finance,€c. 
Minifters while they a&ted upon prin= 
ciples, and adopted the line of con- 
duct, which their predeceffors had pur- 
fued. 
An “ Anxicus Sheciator” has alfo 
publithed fome <“* Obfervations on the 
Curfory Remarks.’ They contain. no- 
thing worth noticing. 
A fnilling pamphlet, faid, upon what 
authority we know not, to be the pro- 
duction of Mr. Grorce Fox, intitled, 
¢ The ister Why do we go to War } ? 
temperately diftuffed, according to the 
Official Correfpondence,” Has ° excited 
a great deal ‘of public attention, and 
provoked feveral refpondents to refute’ 
the odious charge which Mr. Fox al, 
leges againft his own country, of hav- 
ing, by its precipitancy, hurried into’ - 
a war which might and ought to 
have been avoided. *** Why go we to 
war ?” In fuch a ftate of things, it is 
truly obferved, * the caufe fhould be’ 
the moft obvious, the moft ftriking’ to 
th: fenfes of every individual 1 “the 
kingdom, from the well-informed po- 
litician to the meaneft mechanic—the’ 
fimpleft peafant of the land ; a caufe 
that fhould urge him to fnatch the firft 
hedge-ftake in’ his way—-furor arma mi- 
nifiret—to oppofe an infulting and ag- 
greflive foe. We are told it is to repel 
agereffion and infult; aggreffion and 
infult are re-echoed from the fhores of 
France. Who then fhall decide ?—~ 
‘Shall we vaguely fay, the Chief Conful 
has been impertinent; or, that he de- 
clines our trade, wants plans of our 
ports, and foundings of our harbours, 
which he may buy inany map-fhop in 
London —that he’ afked us to fend, 
away the Bourbon_ Princes, which we 
refufe, and be urges it no more—that 
and 
wants us to fupprefs. the icurrility of 
our newfpapers, which we refufe to do, 
and heis filent—that he declares we 
cannot fight him fingle-handed, which 
we have a mind to “try—that we infift 
upon retaining Malta, which we had 
fpecifically agreed to evacuate in three 
months after the conclufion of the 
Treaty of Amiens ; or that it is for the © 
‘land of Egypt, for Malabar and Coro- 
mandel, for the territories of the Grand 
Turk Hid the Great Mogul > At fuch 
‘an anfwer (and it is the trueft-and 
moft concife that can be given, )‘would 
not the ruftic ftare, the mechanic won- 
der, and the better- informed: he con» 
‘founded ! re - 
Fox brings outa hess the 
Oficial 
Wir. 
