forth all my powers to convince him that they are either fools, and can be of no fervice; or hypocrites, and, under a fhew of difinterestednefs, conceal fome dark defigns or other But foft-I have faid fool and hypocrite; not for my place's worth muft thofe jarring founds efcape my lips; far more mufical to his ear are Wilkes and Liberty. CHURLLOW. Perufed, approved, admired-perge mereri. Do Do Do De-aut iterum inglorius. FIFTH FIFTH PAPER. то The Right Hon. the Earl of PRIMMER. My good LORD, IN the O. S. June 26. Nearly obedience to your commands I this morning conveyed your meffage to and I do not fcruple to give your Lordship every probable affurance that the gudgeon will bite. In my way to my chair I was invited by our friend Madam Swellabargain to her apartment (pour la badinage vous en croirez! faites votre conte que cela ne peut etre, non jamais) where the informed me that the P. of W. was growing daily more and more reiractory. Affurement eft-il bien opiniatre me ditelle, & m'en croierez vouz; (but your Lordship must be content with her intelligence in humble English; I am not yet Frenchman enough to keep pace with her); " and, "will you credit me, the 66 took him by furprize yesterday reading that feditious paper The General Advertiser, (entre nous "cet effrontè merite la corde, & je voudrois "bien fçavoir à quoi tient-il que tu ne l'en donnes); and whilft he was receiving a "fcold for fo flagrant an act of difobedience and difaffection, as I am a maiden, he << had "had the temerity to turn upon his heel, and whiftle Over the Water to Charley. "He is moreover as obftinate as a mule; "but that you'll fay is not to be wondered trou at; what's bred in the bone can never be "out of the flesh."-The old Tab gave me a long detail of his late conduct, from which we have every reafon to fear that he will give both your Lordship and the ble.-Ah! my dear Lord, you had his father in much better order! nothing like a fyftematic education.-I forgot to mention that Madam, foon after the above coup de fifflet, whilst she was fitting at her window, overheard the P. tell his brother the B. with a round oath, that he would head the oppofition as foon as he took his feat.-A quo bon mon jeune ami! what will your menaced oppofition avail ?-Before your hour arrives (if we may truft the prefent appearances) the tables will be turned, and the illuftrious and unjustly-banished House of but mum. In the interim, what measures would your Lordship have us adopt to check this young man's ardour? I take it for granted I fhall foon hear from the - on the subject. I have the honor to be, and I trust, let what will happen, I fhall ever have reason to continue, your Lordship's most faithfully devoted humble fervant, E CHURLLOW. SIXTH PAPER. то The Right Hon. the Earl of PRIMMER. My good LORD, O. S. 24th June 79. A GREEABLY to your directions I fend you inclosed the four speeches on the Earl of Abingdon's motion for the removal of the present Minifters. My memory is a pretty retentive one, and you may depend I embrace the fame upon their accuracy. opportunity of forwarding a paper, which one of the door-keepers picked up in the Lobby, and put into my hands. Your Lordship will at once know the hand-writing, and judge it to be a speech intended to have been delivered by Lord Ln in the same debate. Yours ever, CHURLLOW. EARL EARL OF TEMPLE'S SPEECH. The Earl began with faying, that he had a full detail of official blunders in his head, and a deep sense of the public calamities in his heart, and they both had co-operated to bring him to the Houfe in despite of age and infirmities, and to make him give the prefent motion his warmeft fupport. He went over both grounds with his ufual coolnefs and firmnefs, enumerating various instances of the fupineness and ignorance of Adminiftration.-Inftances which he grieved to obferve made a real change of counsellors and councils indifpenfably requifite to the nation's fecurity. It was impoffible their Lordships could be fo blind to their interests, as not to see the neceffity of a change; and fomething whispered him within, that they would join with one heart and voice to bring about fo happy an event. He already anticipated a new arrangement, and he prayed heaven it might prove as wife, honeft, and fuccefsful an one, as that which in the last war raised the British arms to a pitch of glory unparalleled in ancient or modern hiftory, and of which he was the laft furviving member." Not (cried his Lordfhip) that I am very fanguine in my expec E 2 "tations |