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we should think that he must view his new companions as Satan, from the limbo of vanity, looked at the sun, when he thus addressed the object that reminded him of his former greatness:

"To thee I look. But with no friendly eye,

"To tell thee Foxites how I hate thy sight,

"That brings to my remembrance from what state
"I fell."

There can be little cordiality amongst the fallen politicians; for neither pride of place, nor ambition of power, nor any mortal passion is gratified; and they now see the mighty little man to whom they bent in Paris reduced to the importance for which his own abilities, stript of adventitious aid, have naturally intended him.

The following character of Lord Grenville has lately been given in the letter of an elector, which is not so well known as it deserves to be.

"Lord Grenville is a very clear and a very intelligent speaker. Although sufficiently logical in his discussions, and capable of the rich diffusions of eloquence, he is, like all great orators, sparing of ornament. Appealing rather to the understanding than to the passions, his lordship is perspicuous without tediousness, and precise without embarrassment. Having long acted a conspicuous part in

Mr. Pitt's administration, he is perfectly conversant with all the forms of office; and can adopt the language of diplomacy with facility and advantage. His choice of words and phrases proves that he possesses the delicacy and propriety of language, the just appropriation of terms, as very seldom any word or phrase used by him can be replaced by a better. In both houses there are many and various kinds of speakers, but very few debaters; such as can start at a moment's notice, and at all times and on all subjects acquit themselves with superior ability. Lord Grenville is certainly one of the first, perhaps the very first, of all the debaters in either house of parliament. On questions of finance, relations with foreign powers, the policy and laws of nations, his lordship can always take a luminous and a comprehensive view. He is vehement without being indelicate, and persuasive without endangering the ground of his argument. Like all the branches of the house of Grenville, he is remarkable for intellectual endowments; and his various readings and researches in science are far beyond what may be naturally expected from the leisure of an active statesman. His lordship is rigid in the discharge of all moral and religious duties."

Such is the man who, having many of Mr. Pitt's

best political qualities, had only to have adhered to his old standard to have inherited at this time an

ascendancy in office, and the chief direction of public affairs..

Agreeing most completely in the opinion of THE ELECTOR* with respect to Lord Grenville's talents as a speaker, we only deem the more inexcusable his political apostacy, for such we must term it. Mr. Fox did not come to Lord Grenville, nor did he meet him on his way. He stood stubborn and still eulogizing the French revolution, and calling it the finest fabric raised by human skill, thereby indirectly accusing his lordship of pulling down, or aiming at pulling down, that famous fabric.

* The letter written by Mr. Peter Stuart.

If it were possible to see Mr. Pitt, Mr. Burke, and Mr. Fox resussitated for one day, and seated at the table with Lord Grenville, and reading the despatches from Leipsic and Holland, it would be the most complete spectacle of contrast that ever was witnessed!!! The two former exulting in their foresight, their fortitude, and the triumph of their country and of the liberties of mankind; Mr. Fox, with his false predictions and his unexampled obstinacy, incapable of defending his former political conduct; and Lord Grenville, equally ashamed to see his first companions and his last. The revolution had completely failed, and was condemned by every man in France long before Mr. Fox, for the last time, praised it as the greatest fabric of the human mind.

Next to the political error of uniting with Mr. Fox and Earl Grey, was that of attempting to procure in an indirect manner from his Majesty, privileges for the Roman catholics of Ireland, which Mr. Fox, had he been living, it is believed, would never have attempted to obtain, or which, at least, he would have been too frank and manly to seek any indirect crooked means. Mr. Fox, in the coalition, had every advantage over his lordship, he made no sacrifice of principle or of party, but kept his preponderance and his place, while Grenville made a sacrifice of every thing that could be dear to a political man, and, above all, to a proud

man.

It would be well worth while to dilate on this cha racter, but for one circumstance. His lordship has fallen never probably to rise again. He cannot come over to the men who have persevered in the politics of Mr. Pitt, and saved Europe; and they will never go over to him; and, wishing his lordship the longest political career, his natural life will not probably see such a change of politics as will restore him to power. The present victory is not of an ordinary sort. The ministers who make peace will not, therefore, have to leave the helm, and that peace will not, probably, be so evanescent as former

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ones have for the most part been A great end will have been obtained, after a struggle unexampled both for its violence and duration, as well as for its extention over many nations: so that a number of years may probably pass over before the English people will drive from the helm those ministers who, by adhering to a right line of conduct, have saved them and the world from a greater danger than it was ever threatened with at any former period.

Lord Grenville and his associates may have plenty of time to cabal, but where are they to find materials?

EARL GREY,

A NAME that is constantly associated with that of Grenville, since the memorable time when one of those noble lords went into the king's closet, and the other stood listening at the door: a name also that, very properly, is always allowed the priority, as that of a consistent man ought, (even if he

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