The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1804. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1805 Excerpt: ... and vigour of your own measures; and, upon this ground, I was willing to hope, when I compared you to a. giant resreshed, that you would have juliisied the support I was so strongly inclined to give you. Let me conjure you then, my dear P-tt, to rouse the energies of your mind; surely, aster having so long turned all your thoughts (as I expressed it) towards providing for the desence of the country, you cannot but have some measures of greater essiciency than this which you have now produced. I had been taught to believe, that under the tuition of the late lamented Lieutenant-colonel"Shee, you had made such a prosiciency in your military studies, that your friends might have pronounced you--'" the State's whole thunder born to wied, And shake alike the Senate and the Field." But I mull consess, that if I am to judge of your talents for commanding armies, by the specimen your bill asfords of your ingenuity in devising the means of raising them, I would recommend it to you to continue to sight upon your own dunghill (con rispetto parlandoj, rather than to try your military prowess against an invading enemy at the head of your Cinque Port Volunteers. Adieu, dear P-tt. Excuse the freedom with which I have expressed my sentiments to you; and don't be angry if I tell you that Lam concerned to sind the converfation of people in the country seems to be considerably less favourable with respect to you than I was accustomed to hear formerly. Your appointment of M-l--He to the head of the Admiralty, plays the very devil with the character of your Government the rest of your Cabinet is, indeed, a subject only of ridicule.' l am, with the sincere wishes that you may speedily recover the estimation you once enjoyed in the public opinion, . (f Your sincere friend, ------....