his father. In Cambridge he, became a model to the young nobility and fellow commoners; and it was not doubted that if the privi. offered to him. His first speech in pariian:ent was delivered on Mr. Burke's motion for financial reform, and in the division on that leges of his rank hod not exempt-question he voted with the minori ed him from the usual exercises for his bachelor's degree, he would have been found among the first competitors for academical honors. On his admission, according to custom, to his master's degree, the public orator found it needless to search into genealogy, or even to dwell on the great qualities of his father; for the eyes of the university, were fixed on the youth, the enraptured, audience, assented to every encomium, and every breast was filled with the liveliest presages of his future greatness. iy. In fact, he might be considered, though he spoke and voted independently, as having joined the party which had opposed the min- . ister lord North and the American war, and who regarded him with a degree of veneration, recognising in his person the genius of his illustrious father revived, and as, it were acting in him.. When lord North wis succced- ed by the marquis of Rockingham.... in 1782, Mr. Pitt did not form any connection with the new administration. He was then assiduously occupied in the study of political philosophy, and in investigating the history, detail, and spirit of the British constitution. He saw that notwithstanding the excellence of tire system, various, corruptions had arisen, and many abuses intro- . duced, which, it was of high im Mr. Pitt was afterwards enter. ed a student of Dincoln's-Inn, and made such a rapid progress in his legal studies as to be soon called to the bar with every prospect of success. He went once or twice upon the western circuit, and appeared as junior counsel in several causes. He was, however, destin-portence to correct, and which he ed to fill a more important station in the goverment of his country than is usually obtained th:ough the channel of the law. In the year 1781 he was returned a member of the house of commons for the borough of Apelby. Some of his friends at Cambridge had proposed that he should stand a candidate for representing that university; but he declined the honor, except it were unanimously conceived to emanate from a want of equipoise of the component es. tates, and a consequent derangement of the balance. Like another young men of lofty genius and grand conceptions, accustomed to generalization, and, not yet acquainted with the prac tise of affairs, he formed theories at that time which experience taught him af erwards to renounce. He brought forward a motion for a committee to enquire into the tacked with much force of lan st-te of representation in porlia-guage and splendour of eloquence, ment, and to report their centiinents: in which he was supported by Messrs. Fox and Sheridan. On the death of the marquis of Rockingham, lord Shelburne was appointed to succeed him as first lord of the treasury; and Mr. Pitt accepted the office of chancellor of the exchequer, the duties of which he performed with great merit and distinction, but without taking any very active interest in the party politics of the time. He resigned his office on the 31st of March 1783, when a coalition formed by Mr. Fox with lords North and Thurlow forced lord Shelburne to retire, to make way for his opponents. On the seventh of May of that year, he again brought forward a motion for a reform in parliament, in a less gencral form than he had done in the preceding year. Instead of moving for a committee of inquiry, he proposed specific propositions, the object of which was to prevent bribery at elections, to disfranchise a borough which should be convicted of gross corruption, and to augment the national representation by the election of one hundred additional members. The motion was negatived by a large majority. The next occasion which Mr. Pitt bad of displaying his knowdge was on the introduction of Mr. Fox's India bill, which he at as annihilating chartered rights, and creating a new and immense body of influence unknown to the British constitution.' Notwithstanding his opposition, in which he was powerfully supported by Mr. Dundus, the measure was carried through the house of commons with a very large majority. The efforts which he had made on this occasion were not, however, fruitless. Petitions were sent in from all quarters against the bills and on the motion for its commitment in the house of peers it was finally thrown out; in consequence of which the coalition ministry was dissolved by the king who has always have understood to have been hostile to the measure in his individual capacity. On this event the places of chancellor of the exchequer and first lord of the treasury were immediately conferred on Mr. Pi t. Raised to this elevated situation at the early age of twenty-five years, he had now and unprecedented difficulties to combat. Mr. Fox, his opponent, had still a large majority in the house of commons, without the support of which no ministry can be of long duration. Mr. Pitt had no family influence,no extended political association, no one of those adventitious props which often supply the place of real advantages; he rested solely upon his ova abilities, aided by those circumstances, of shrinking from the assaults of his opponents, he attackedthem on their own ground, and on January the fourteenth, '84 introduced a bill-into parliament for the better management and regulation of the affairs of the East India company. The leading difference between this and Mr. Fox's plan was, that Mr. Pitt left the charter of the company untouched, and the commercial concerns of this corporation of merchants under the sole management of the proprietors themselves, and directors of their choice; whereas Mr. Fox had wished to make an entire transfer of the company's affairs to commissioners nominated in parliament, with a duration of authority for the term of four years. This bill, which resembled in many particulars that which had proved the ruin of Mr. Fox, laid the foundation of the permanence of Mr. Pitt's administration.Parties, however, contiau d to run so high, that a number of partial and independent men employed themselves in endeavours to bring about a coalition, with a view of forming an administration from the two contending sides, of which Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were to be the pillars. A meeting was held at St. Alban's tavern, on the 26th of January 1784, in which an address was signed by 53 members of the house of commons, recommending a union to this effect, which was presented to the duke of Portland and Mr. Pitt. The latter expressed a willingness to enter into the views of the committec; but the duke of Portland insisting, that as a preliminary, he should resign his place, the negociation was suspended. The duke was afterwards invited to a conference with Mr. Pitt, at the express desire of the king, for the purpose of forming a new administration on equal terms, which never took place, from Mr. Pitt refusing to come to an explanation of the word equal; and here the negociation was finally terminated. This parliament, which had wit nessed more changes in the executive power of the country than perhaps any parliament before or since, was dessolved on the twenty- -fourth of March. On the sixteenth of May following the new parliament met, and from that period may be dated the commencement of Mr. Pitt's efficient administration.-To be Continued. MAXIM. If an idle man knew the value of time. he would not be so desirous of killing it. SOBER TRUTIIS. Man, as soon as he is capable of reflection, pants for happiness, and pursues the object with as much earnestness, as if it was really to be obtained in this life. The objects around him appear to wear the aspect of pleasure, and seem to possess sufficient in themselves, to inspire peace and joy in his bosom; though he indulges even to excess, in the gratification of his appetites? Yet, after all, he re. mains unsatisfi'd, and like the yawning Grave, still cries, Give,' -in the midst of plenty he languishes and in the enjoyment of health, his soul sickens and faints. Would you ask then where true happiness is to be found? It is only to be experienced, in the joys and exercises, of true, and undefiled Religion, which not only give a zest, to their delights? but are in themselves, the greatest, and unspeakable! joys,-we will find in the practice of vital piety, more solid and substantial pleasure, then ever the natural man, could boast, the repetition of which will never surfeit, and the continuance of which, will never produce disgust. Pleasures? whose duration; will brighten the gloomy passage of death's dark vale and enter with us into eternity. Where we shall enjoy their full fruition. Vain, are the empty toys of earth, you I am your humble self, IRISH NOBILITY. , When Lord Carteret was viceroy of Ireland he one day requested the favour of Dean Swift to cast an eye over his levee book, and inform him whether the whole of the Irish nobility were presented. Swift, after feigning to con the book with the utmost attention, returned it coolly to his Lordship, observing that he could not discover the name of a single individual of the ancient Irish nobility list. "No!" rejoined the Vi ceroy, with an extraordinary emotion of surprise--"Be not astonished, my Lord," replied the Dean ; "for being the most haughty men on earth, I am persuaded they will never attend at your lordship's levees: but should your lordship condescend to accompany me, incog, to-morrow morning, I doubt not but I shall have the honor of presenting several of them to your excel. lency." "That I will with the greatest pleasure," exclaimed his Lordship. At the time appointed, the Dean conducted the Viceroy incog, arm in arm, down from the castle of Dublin to a quay on the south side of theriver Liffey, where a number of coal-porters stood in waiting for a call. "Here," said Swift, "is the illustrious O'Driscol (taking one of them by the hand) loid of——, and here the noble O'Flaherty, and here""Stop stop!" said the Lord, Lieutenant, "proceed no further, for I am pursuaded they are all equally roble, great and illustrious.' On their return to the castle, the Viceroy asked the Dean why he had so grossly deceived him. "I have not deceived your Excellency," said Swift; "the men whom I have introduced to your Lordship are actually the ancientnobility of this country, whose fertile and extensive domains, through the revolutions, it has undergone, have passed into the possession of others." Irish music-In the reign of Louis the Fourteenth of France, a celebrated professor of music, named John Baptiste Lully, resided at Paris. An unfortunate exiled Irishman having dined in company with the musician and other French gentlemen; after dinner, when their spirits became exhilirated by sparkling Champagne, the sprightly Frenchman began to sing, but perceiving the Irishman |