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know, that to praise the measures which he believed to be unof that man now does require now does require" avoidable, it became his duty` brass of face or emptiness of head" for himself, and on behalf of such as few men are blessed his Colleagues, to express their with. There is, in this speech gratitude for the manner in of yours, however, a good deal" which the meeting had been of faultering; a good deal of" pleased to honour their humwhat is called bluster, which is the "ble efforts to serve the country. sure mark of conscious weakness. "It, so happened that he had You were compelled to acknow- had the honour of having a ledge, that distress and difficulty" share in the Government of prevailed; and you were puzzled" the nation much longer perto account for them, while you "haps than any other Member were receiving the thanks of the" of the present Administration. Club! You strive hard; but " It had been his fortune to you do not get clear of the em- "know intimately the views and barrassment. You push and poke" principles of that great Statesabout for a hole to creep out at; man whose birth they were but still you are hemmed up; "that day assembled to comand, 7 when LORD LIVERPOOL" memorate. He might thereread the speech, the next day, "fore take the liberty to say, am sure he congratulated himself" that if any thing could inupon having been absent. You crease the gratification which tell a worse tale than I ever heard" he and his Colleagues felt at told by any of you before. You" the compliment received, it ask pinching questious which you" was the circumstance of its cannot answer. This is the first" coming from those who were time, that apology has found a not assembled to commemoprominent feature in an harangue" rate the birth of Mr. Pitt a on the effects of the Pitt-system." short time after the body of I insert the speech to avoid the" that great man had been concharge of garbling, and that we signed to the grave, but who may have it to look at next year.

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gone to his grave than have" If this opinion was justified "consented to give up the Pro-" by what had transpired before "testant Ascendancy to the in- Mr. Pitt went to his grave, "jury of any of the Protestants" how much more was it borne "of this country. That he was out by what had occurred since. "willing to concede to the Ca-"It was by persevering in the "tholics the benefits of a great "course which Mr. Pitt had mark"and enlightened system of to-"ed out, that those who had leration, consistent with the since been entrusted with the Gosafety of the Constitution, and "vernment had been enabled to "the permanency of our esta-" save the country, But it had been

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any man could be so besotted as "the fame of which had spread "to expect that the country "from one end of the world to "could go through a twenty- the other, and had establish"five years war and come out of "ed not only the liberties of "it as happily with respect to "England, but those of every 66 agriculture and commerce as if "other country, if they were "there had been no war? Time" wise enough to avail them"must be allowed for the country" selves of those principles for! "to recover. The Government of" which we had successfully con"the country however had, since "tended. At his advanced age "the death of Mr. Pitt, been" it could not possibly be long "enabled to place the country in" before he should be called upon "the state in which it now was— "to quit this scene. He had no❝ had been enabled to place it on "thing to ask of the Great Ruler "the pinnacle of glory, and to" of the Universe but this, that secure to all classes the bene-" the country might remain in the "fits of the Constitution, and of" state in which it was at present, "impartial administration of "with respect to its liberties, justice. Much of what had "laws, and Constitution in that "been accomplished was owing" state in which he had seen it for "to the steady perseverance of "three score and ten years. He "his Noble Friend near him" hoped he should not see those "(Lord Sidmouth), in the prin- " principles triumphant which ciples of Mr. Pitt. But the" had been advocated elsewhere. system of that great man," He hoped he should not see "though founded in infinite wis-" survive the liberties of his coun"dom, had never been so proudly 66 try, such as he had seen them. "triumphant but for the valour "These, if preserved, would "and skill of the Noble Person" give to those whom he address" on his right (the Duke of Wel-ed, and to their posterity, a "lington), to whom this country" degree of happiness on which 66 was in ebted in a degree which "it was impossible that they "he would not trust himself to "could improve, by adopting "express in the presence of that " any of those theoretical changes illustrious nobleman. (Ap-" which had been pressed on their "plause.) He had ennobled this attention.-(Applause)."

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Now, first here are outrageous praises on Pitt and on yourself, been greatly bewildered upon seeing that you have been longest this occasion, and not to have had in the ministry, and have fol- a very complete command of lowed up the system of Pitt. your senses, when you attempted But, my Lord Chancellor, what to answer the question: "What means all this talk about saving "have we gained" by the Pittthe country? What had Pitt to system. You knew, that this save it from? To hear this question would be put by every everlasting braying about saving one who should read your bragthe country, one would imagine, ing speech; and, therefore, you that it had been at death's door thought to furnish your stupid from sickness; that it had been audience with an answer before near drowning, or, that it had hand. "What have we gained; been condemned to the gallows. why, all that we have saved." The country is still a country, to Indeed! And, pray, what have be sure; it is not actually anni- we saved? Now what answer do hilated; but, what has it been you give to this? Why, as folsaved from? Pitt found it safe lows; "Can any man be so beand sound. It wanted no saving "sotted as to expect that the when he and you took to it. So country could go through a that, at any rate, if he saved it, twenty-five years' war, and he first put it in danger. If you come out of it as happily as to were to hang a man up by the " agriculture and commerce as if neck, and cut him down before" there had been no war?" Aye,

he was quite dead, would he call you his saver? It is most likely that he would demand your punishment for having put his life in such danger as to need his being saved. Is the country as safe and sound as it was when Pitt and you took its affairs in hand? That is the question; for if it be not, and it is not, what ought to be heard from you but expressions of sorrow and repentance?

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aye! You may call people besotted; but this is no answer to the question of what we have gained, or what we have saved. This is no answer, I tell you; and you would do well to prepare a great deal better story before the next Pitt-Club anniversary. For, as far as this poor story goes, we have, by the system, gained a loss, and saved nothing but ruin and misery.

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However, a man must be be- being caused "by the extraordisotted, must he, to expect other" nary exertions of the war ?” than injury to agriculture and What does this mean? Has it any commerce from a twenty-five meaning at all; or is it a parcel years' war. Why, then, did you of empty sounds put together to carry on the twenty-five years' amuse the suffering, ignorant. war? You were either besotted, part of the community? By or intended to do the injury that persons who talk in this way, the has been done; and, if you did nation seems to be regarded as a so intend, you were a great deal boxer, who has been engaged worse than besotted. It was bad in a long and bloody fight; who enough to produce all these cala- has exhausted his strength, and mities, and all those which are lost a good deal of his blood; yet to come, unwittingly; but and who requires rest and repose what can characterize your con- and broths and gravies to put him duct, if you expected such con- on his legs again. But, how sequences? GAFFER GOOCH completely inapt is the compasays, that these consequences rison! Time will, indeed, with were the "natural effects" of the the aid of good food and exwar; and, it is notorious that traordinary care, bring back the you began the war; but, we vigour of the exhausted boxer; never have, till now, been told but, what is time to do for the that you expected such conse-nation, whose weakness arises, quences, though I and many not from exertion, but from a others did expect them. If this be the case, however, let us no longer be told, that the distresses arise from causes over which you have had no controul; for, if you expected them, you caused them, and designedly too; and you have not yet seen a hundreth, part of those distresses.

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"Time must be allowed for the nation to recover." Recover what? What means this everlasting talk about the distress

want of a supply of even common
necessaries?

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tress and ruin cannot be lessened by time, because time can afford none of the means for removing it. The fact is, that the now distressed part of the nation díd not exhaust itself in the fight; it borrowed money to carry on the fight; and its exhaustion consists of having the burrowed money now to pay. How, then, is it to recover by the help of time? Oh,

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