Junius; Stat Nominis Umbra Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: haps' in feme tolerable order. But do you know any thing of the troops in the Weft- Indies, the Mediterranean, and North America, to fay nothing of a whole arrny abfoluteiy ruined in Ireland ? Inquire a little into facts, Sir William, before you publifh your next panegyric upon Lord Granby, and believe me you will find there is a fault at head-quarters, which even the acknowledged care and abilities of the adjutant-general cannot cor- Permit me now, Sir William, to addrefs myfclf pcrfonatiy to you, by way of thanks for the honour of your corrcfpondence. You arc by no means undeferving of notice; and itmaybcofconfequencecven to Lord Granby to have it determined, v.-hether or no the man, who has prai/d him- fo lavifhly, be himfelf deferring of praife. When you returned to Europe, you zcnlouily undertook the caufe of that gallant army, by whofe bravery at Manilla your own fortune had been efo.- blifhed. You complained, you threatened, you even appealed to the -public in prinf'. By what accident did;t happen, that in the midrr. of all this buftlc, and all thefe clamours for i Liftice to your injured' troop: ., the'TVarrre ofof the Manilla ranfom was fuddenly buried in a profound, and, fince that time, an uninterrupted filence ? Did the miniftry fuggeft any motives to you, ftrong enough to tempt a man of honour to defert and betray the caufe of his fellow-foldiers ? Was it that blufhing ribband, which is now the perpetual ornament of your perfon ? Or was it that regiment, which you afterwards (a thing unprecedented among foldiers) fold to colonel Gi.f- borne ? Or was it that government, the full pay of which you are contented to hold, with the half-pay of an Irifh colonel ? And do you now, after a retreat not very like that of Scipio, prefume to intrude yourfelf, un- thought-of, ...