THIRD PAPER.

HINTS.

1. Digito compefce labellum.

Main spring. 2. Principibus placuiffe viris, &c. &c. 3. Tamper with the paffions.

4. Loofen bands of oppofition. 5. Inflame leaders.

6. Cool the people's zeal.

7. Deal out douceurs with cautious hand. Moft palatable as acknowledgment or attention; to be fo tempered as to act either as ftimulators or foporifics, as occafion may require.

-Si quid novifti rectius iftis

Candidus imperti; fi non, his utere mecum..

JEFFERIES.

FOURTH

FOURTH PAPER.

TO THE

Right Honorable the Earl of JEFFERIES.

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MY LORD, ANDIDUS imperti was a command your Lordship did me the honor to impose upon me foon after I enlifted under your Lordship's and the earl of Primmer's banners. In obedience to that I take the liberty of fubmitting to your perufal the fubjoined inftructions, which I have sketched out for my own occafional ufe, and which appear to me particularly neceffary at this awful period. Should they meet with your approbation, you will be fo kind as to return them by the bearer, who will call again in the time your goodly neighbour the old Duchefs can quadrille him out of a score loofe pieces; your Lordship knows from experience how long to a fecond that will be.-Should your Lordship give judgment against them, you will convert them to the only ufe for which they will then be fit.

G. O. S. June 22, 1779.

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I have the honor to be, with the foundest refpect, your Lordship's obfequious and devoted creature,

CHURLLOW.

INSTRUCTIONS for my own occafional ufe.

Ift. Whenever his ******* deigns to talk to me about the inferiority of our fleet-the defection of our old commanders-the defertion of other nations-invafions and fuch like, I muft expatiate on the inundation of our failors-the great increase of our young officers-our alliance with the powerful Editor of the Morning Poft; with the Charcas, Cherokees, and Chickefaws; and that which we (minifters and placemen) have made with one another, an alliance fuperior to all other alliances, and which cannot fail to humble the pride, and punish the perfidy of our combined enemies.-On -On our inmost refources, our light infantry of tenants and ploughmen, and cavalry of grooms and valets, &c. &c. &c.

2d. If in a fit of the fullens he fhould complain of our fupineness in America, I muft ftrait produce the wonderful return of nails, fluffed bags, barrels of pork, puncheons of rum, molaffes, bags of falt, keels, &c. &c. &c. taken with fuch rifk by Sir George Collier, in his predatory trip up Elizabeth River; and cheer him, by proving, beyondthe reach of refutation, that the whole commerce of Chefapeek is at an end, and confequently the finews of rebellion deftroyed.

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3d. It is fit his ******* fhould at length be informed of the impoffibility of bringing the Americans to reafon, abetted as they are by fuch mad allies; but this must be done by progreffive hints; a point blank declaration, like a furcharge of electrical vapour, will be too great a fhock for his conftitution.

4th. I begin to think we should tempt his ******* with beauty, and give to dalliance fome of the hours he devotes to bufiness and

impertinent enquiry. It is evident he is becoming fenfible of our incapability, and it is high time we furnished him with a mistress in our interefts. The Q**** is too wife to exchange peace for politics, and mufic's charms for war's alarms. I have taken my counfel's opinion upon the matter, and she * (the baggage has her pleasantries) recommends one of the maids of honour fans badiner mon cher Milord il en eft bien temps que Jes dames la deviennent devotes, & fe divertent dans le Giron de l'Eglife].

Should we fail in our scheme of seduction, (and I own I am not very fanguine in my expectances) it will then become neceffary to strain every nerve, exert every finew, and rack invention itself to keep him in good

*It is fcarce neceffary to obferve that his Lordship means Mrs. Harvey, alias P-11] H

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humour with himself, and to preferve that cheering afpect of complacency which beams from his countenance. On every arrival of bad news it will be politic to give at least an air of novelty to his amufements. Inftallations, reviews upon reviews, and trips to the camp must be infifted upon.-In the interval little Pinchey muft furnish new trinkets: the fellow is a dab at the lathe, and a wit into the bargain. Similis fimili gaudet, and he may be of use.-West must give up his fummer regalements and stick to the canvas. The loves to fet, and Monfieur de Moufin Poufchkin must be told to beg a whole length for the Empress: he may think it not worth the freight up the Baltic; let him; que s'en fuit-il !—Above all, Sir William Chambers must ply him clofe with defigns. His ******* has tafte and fancy, and they must be gratified: gilded temples and gorgeous palaces must be raised; ancient castles must be modernifed; moats muft be turned into level lawns, ftone walls into iron palifades, and obfolete elms bend their ftately tops to flowering fhrubs.

5. In haughty imitation of Turgot† have Richmond and Briftol, in their feats, made a tender of their fervices without falaries. Should the **** hear of this, I must call

Late minifter of the finances in France.

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