Mr. PITT's public Entry into the City on Saturday, February 28, 1784.

At two o'clock, the Committee of Common Council appointed to prefent the Thanks of the Court and the Freedom of this City to Mr. Pitt, fet off from Guildhall to BerkeleySquare, in the following order:

Two Marfhalmen, with red and white cockades.

Four Conftables, with ditto.

Two Marshals, with cockades and fashes.
Mr. Alderman Townfend, Chairman.
Mr. Alderman Wilkes.

Sir Thomas Halifax.

Sir Watkin Lewes.

Mr. Alderman Pickett.
Mr. Alderman Sanderson.

Sir Barnard Turner.

Mr. Deputy Hilton and Mr. Deputy Young.
Mr. Sealey and Mr. Merry.

Mr. Deputy Percy and Mr. Anderson.
Mr. Dornford and Mr. Pinhorn.

Mr. Withers and Mr. Dowling.

Mr. Kemble and Mr. Birch.

Mr. Toulmin and Mr. Wayell

Mr. Town Clerk, and the Clerk of the Chamber.

About three o'clock, they arrived at Mr. Pitt's houfe, where they were very politely received. and Mr. Alderman Townsend prefented the Refolutions; and at the fame time addreffed Mr. Pitt in a very elegant fpeech, to which Mr. Pitt returned an answer couched in the warmest terms of respect.

The cavalcade then returned, amidst the acclamation of applauding thoufands, to Grocers Hall, where Mr. Pitt received the freedom of the City, and afterwards was entertained with a moft fumptuous dinner, ferved with the utmoft elegance and profufion. At Temple Bar the proceffion was formed in the following order:

Two Marfhalmen.

Conftables, two and two.

Under City Marshal on horseback.
Standard Banner.

Six City Pendants, two and two; their trains fupported by children, decorated with fcarlet and white ribbons. City State Banner.

The colours carried by the City Watermen, in fcarlet jackets, filver badges, and scarlet and white caps.

Artillery Company's Mufic, two and two.

Committee in their carriages; their fervants with blue cockades.

A large blue Pendant, with the words PITT AND THE CONSTITUTION.
Upper City Marshal on horfeback.

Chairman of Committee with Mr. CHANCELLOR PITT*.

Mr. Pitt's friends, among whom were the Marquis of Carmarthen, and the Lords Temple, Chatham, (not the great Chatham! --fon of him) Sydney, with feveral others of the Nobility, clofed the Proceffion..

*Our Printer has done well here to put him in capitals ;-the Boy looks to advantage!

The entertainment-at Grocers Hall was conducted with the greatest regularity, and fpent with conviviality. The following toafts, among many others, were drank "The Royal Family."

"The Conftitution and Prerogative."

"Mr. Pitt, Earls Chatham, and Temple."

"The inviolable prefervation of our chartered Rights"

"The Lord Mayor and Aldermen 1."

About eleven o'clock Mr. Pitt and friends took leave of the company, and on getting into his carriage was again drawn by the populace in like manner, as he had been from Charing-crofs to the Hall.

The proceffion to the city on Saturday was conducted with the greatest regularity: but the proceffion from the city was most injudicious. There is a certain time when men's minds are inflamed beyond the controul of reafon--it argues a great want of knowledge of mankind, in the conduct of public matters, not to be prepared against thofe unhappy hours. This was the cafe on Saturday. Mr. Pitt returned through Weftminster in a triumphant manner, where it was well known there was a divided party. Thofe oppofite to his principles, among the multitude, naturally took offence; we fay naturally, because the mob are always guided by the occurrences of the moment, and ever act without properly inveftigating the caufe, or ferioufly confidering the effect. It was, therefore, very improper to run the rifque of a popularity, fupported by chofen friends, among an indifcriminate multitude at night, where every man, acted either as his particular intereft, the fumes of his wine, the fpirits of his punch, or the mad confequences of gin, directed. The want of proper advice on this occafion fubjected Mr. Pitt's paffage through St. James's-ftreet to a moft indecent outrage against the peace. The populace there attacked him about half paft twelve o'clock, firft with hiffes and groans, and then with more miflile weapons, until the tumult of popular rage at laft rofe to a complete riot, and the poor men, harneffed to the carriage, were obliged to quit their traces, and act fe defendendo. The affailants being much more numerous than the fupporters, the carriage remained at the mercy of the people, and was inftantly demolished. Mr. Pitt efcaped into the Hotel without receiving any injury, except what the furprize of fo unexpected an attack occafioned. Had Mr. Pitt retired privately from Grocer's Hall, all this mifchief might have been avoided.

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The illuminations on Saturday were tolerably univerfal as to the houfes along the Strand and Fleet-ftreet, but in refpect to the lights, they were extremely partial. mob went about with threats, and confequently the people put up candles to fave their windows; but the judgment of being attached to the caufe was only to be found in the number, and the full illuminations were very few in comparifon to thofe of a contrary defcription. This is a fair state of the cafe; and fuch as comes home to every unbiaffed perfon's understanding.

The following is Mr. Wilkes's fpeech to the Right Honourable Mr. Pitt, when he received the freedom of the city of London :

"SIR,

"I give you joy, and I congratulate the city of London on the important acquifition it has this day made. I reckon it, Sir, among the most fortunate events of my life, "that I have the honour of being directed by the unanimous refolution of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to enroll your name in the archieves of

A conjunction perfectly agreeable with the ideas of Mr. PREROGATIVE Pitt.

+We apprehend the Printers of the day made a mistake here. The toaft, as originally put, must have been The invifible prefervation of our Chartered Rights."

Conftitution would have joined well to this toaft.

this metropolis among thofe princes and heroes who have been the benefactors of our country, and the friends of mankind, with the glorious deliverer of this nation, with "the hero of Culloden, with the illuftrious Statefinan, from whom you derive your "defcent. The city of London, Sir, with pride and exultation, now behold revived in the fon thofe folid virtues, fhining talents, and powerful eloquence, which they long admired in the father; but above all, that generous love of our country, and its "divine Conftitution, fuperior to the groveling, fordid views of private felf-interest, "or perfonal ambition. You have, Sir, thus early in your minifterial career, com"manded the esteem and admiration of this city and nation, by a noble act of difin❝terestedness in favour of the public, for which I believe you fcarcely could find a pre❝cedent, nor I fear will you be imitated by any future Minifter.

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"We look up, Sir, to that fuperior ability, and purity of public virtue, which diftinguish you, for the reformation of many abuses, as well as the fteady protection of "our chartered rights, property, and freedom. The Adminiftration of your noble "father gave us fecurity at home, carried the glory of this nation to the ntinoft height "abroad, and extended the bounds of the empire to countries, where the Roman Eagle never flew. A late Administration undertook an unjust and wicked war, which dif"membered the empire by depriving us of our most valuable colonies, and has brought us almoft to the brink of bankruptcy. To reftore this kingdom to any degree of "profperity and greatnefs, demands the utmoft exertions of virtue and ability, with "every fupport both of the Crown and People at large. I hope you will meet with both, and I know how high you ftand in the confidence of the public. Such is to ❝be done, but you have youth, capacity, and firmnefs. It is the characteristic of a "true patriot never to defpair, and we have a well-grounded hope of your making us again a great, powerful, happy, and united people, by a steady, uniform, wife, and difinterested conduct. Your noble father, Sir, annihilated party, and I hope you "will in the end beat down and conquer the hydra of faction, which now rears its "hundred heads against you. I remember his faying, that for the good of the people, he "dared to look the proudest connections of this country in the face. I truft that the fame "fpirit animates his fon, and as he has the fame fupport of the Crown and the People, "I am firmly perfuaded that the fame fuccefs will follow *."

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"SIR,

Mr. Pitt's answer to Mr. Chamberlain Wilkes :

"I beg to return you my beft thanks for your very obliging expreffions. Nothing "can be more encouraging to me, in the difcharge of my public duty, than the coun"tenance of thofe, whom, from this day, I have the honour of calling my fellow❝ citizens."

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As an inftance of the "Beauties and deformities of John Wilkes, Apoftate," (to ufe a phrafe of Jolin Stockdale, the Piccadilly publisher of ridiculous memory) we here fubjoin, by way of note, Mr. Wilkes's idea of Lord Chatham's character, when Mr. Pitt, and at a time too thus truly great man was rendering the highest fervices to his country.

"Of all political adventurers, Mr. Pitt has been the most successful, according to the venal ideas of modern "ftatefmen. Pulteney fold the people only for a barren title. The mercenary Pitt difpofed of his popularity "like an Exchange Broker. Befides the fame title with the other apoftate, Pitt fecured from the Crown a large family penfion, and the lucrative finecure of the Privy Seal, which he held for a few years. His retreat into the "Houfe of Lords was a political cemife. He passed away, but is not yet quite forgotten. His treachery to the "caufe of the people ftill loads his memory with curfes.

"He raised himself to the greatest offices of the state by the rare talent of command in a popular Affembly. "He was indeed born an orator, and from nature poffeffed every outward requifite to hefpeak refpect and even awe. A manly figure, with the eagle-face of the famous Conde, fixed your attention, and almoft "commanded reverence the moment he appeared, and the keen lightening of his eye fpoke his haughty fiery "foul, before his lips had pronounced a fyllable. His tongue dropped venom. There was a kind of fafcination in "his look, when he eyed any one afkance. Nothing could withiland the force of that contagion. The fluent "Murray has faultered, and even Fox fhrunk back apalled from an adverfary fraught with fire unquenchable, if "I may

The following Selection of Advertisements, Hand-bills, &c. published and diftributed a little previous to and during the Election, on the Part of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray, we can affure our Readers, is moft faithfully and impartially made. The friends of those two Candidates will find it a complete Arrangement of every thing of the Kind made public by their Committees, and other temporary Writers, who exerted themfelves in their Caufe. The like Care and Impartiality will be fhewn when we come to felect for Mr. Fox. This Conduct we hope will fecure to us the applaufe of both Parties.

ADVERTISEMENT..

To the Worthy and Independent Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster.

Gentlemen,

The approbation you have expreffed of the public principles on which I have acted as your Rreprefentative in Parliament, makes me, with great confidence folicit the honour of your fupport, in cafe a diffolution takes place.

Should you again honour me with your fuffrages, the fame independency and zeal for your fervice, and for the caufe of the public, fhall continue to be my line of conduct.. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,

With the greatest respect,.

Your most grateful and obedient servant,

Great George-street, March 23, 1784.

CECIL WRAY.

"I may borrow the expreffion of our great Milton. He always cultivated the art of speaking with the most in. "tenfe care and application. He has paffed his life in the culling of words, the arrangement of phrases, and "choice of metaphors; yet his theatrical manner did more than all, for his speeches could not be read. There "was neither found reasoning, nor accuracy of expreffion, in them. He had not the power of argument, nor "the correctnefs of language, fo ftriking in the great Roman orator, but he had the verba ardentia, the bold, "glowing words. This merit was-confined to his fpeeches; for his writings were always cold, lifeless, and "incorrect, totally void of elegance and energy, fometimes even offending against the plaineft rules of con "ftruction. In the purfuit of eloquence, he was indefatigable. He dedicated all his powers and faculties, and "he facrificed every pleasure of focial life, even in youth, to the fingle point of talking well,

"Multa tulit fecitque puer; fudavit et alfit;
"Abftinuit venere et vino..

"to a greater degree than almoft any man of this age.

"He acknowledged, that when he was young, he always came late into company, and left it early. He af"fected at first a fovereign contempt of money, and when he was Paymaster, made a parade of two or three. "very public acts of difinterestedness. When he had effectually duped his credulous friends, as well as a timid "miniftry, and obtained enormous legacies, penfions, and finecure places, the mafk dropped off. Private intereft afterwards appeared to be the only idol to which he facrificed. The old Duke of Newcastle used to say, "That Mr. Pitt's talents would not baue got him forty pounds a year in any country but this."

"At his entrance into Parliament, he attacked Sir Robert Walpole with indecent acrimony, and continued "the perfecution to the last moment of that Minifter's life. He afterwards paid fervile and fulfome compli "ments to his memory, not from conviction, as appeared from many other particulars, but to get over a few Walpolians. He had no fixed principle, but that of his own advancement. He declared for and against conti "nental connections, for and against German wars, for and againft Hanoverian fubfidies, &c. ftill preferving an "unblushing, unembarraffed countenance, and was the most perfect contradiction of a man to himfelf which the "world ever faw. If his fpeeches in Parliament had been faithfully published to the English, foon after they "were delivered, as thofe of Demosthenes and Cicero were to the Greeks and Romans, he would have been very early detected, and utterly caft off by his countrymen. He is faid to be still living at Hayes in Kent."