We know that the army agents are looked upon with a jealous eye by those persons who seek to couple abuse with whatever is attended with profit, and particularly if any of the royal family are supposed to be connected with it.

The great number of regiments for which Mr. Greenwood is agent has been ascribed to the influence of the commander-in-chief, who, on the other hand, has been represented as deeply indebted to Mr. Greenwood.

Nothing is more absurd than the first opinion; for if Mr. Greenwood's house did not give satisfaction to the army, no influence would be sufficient to procure for it so many regiments; and if it does give satisfaction, that cause alone is sufficient for the preference it has obtained.

As to the money said and supposed to be advanced to the commander-in-chief, it is a calumny fabricated by the designing for an evil purpose*, and circulated by the credulous, without either attention

* We have had occasion repeatedly to notice, that, all over Europe, there are a set of persons occupied in calumniating princes, and all who are nearly allied to the ancient race of sovereigns. The jacobin emissaries first began, and then those of the French despot, whose fall will perhaps crush that race of private disturbers of the public peace.

or intention, but merely as a piece of scandal; and we have it from the best authority, that, except in regular official business, or friendly society, there connection.

never was any

His Royal Highness certainly knows the merits of Mr. Greenwood as an army agent, and there is not a doubt that he, when it falls in the way, recommends him*. To suppose otherwise, would be to consider the Duke as neither acting like a man, nor a commander-in-chief, who had the interest of the army at heart.

We have dilated a little upon this article, on account of the malignity of some, the credulity of many, and the interest of the brave officers of the British army.

* At most of the regimental messes, after the royal family, Mr. Greenwood's health is given, which, from British officers, who are no flatterers nor hypocrites, is a direct and unequivocal proof of their esteem; and that esteem can only be acquired by his correct and friendly conduct in his connexion with those officers.

LORD GRENVILLE.

OF the surviving political characters who acted a remarkable part at the beginning of the present revolutionary war, Lord Grenville is one of the chief; and it is fortunate, that at the very moment his portrait is to be drawn, that great event seems hastening to a conclusion.

Lord Grenville, under the auspices of Mr. Pitt, took the part that was worthy of a British peer, and it was the French revolution that raised him to importance. We then saw him carrying those antigallican, or aristocratical principles, that have since triumphed over the mad democracy, to an extreme. But when we see this lord, who was once so firmly attached to the plan which has preserved England, go over to its opposers in the hottest of the contest, we are apt to exclaim in lamentation with the king of Israel—

"How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the "battle!"

Lord Grenville's reason for deserting the cause which he had supported, and joining the violent opposers of his former friends, has never been explained by himself; yet no man is more able to give explanations, and, on certain occasions, no man is more ready. His lordship delights in a display of that accuracy and discrimination that distinguish between points which to ordinary minds appear the same. Without running into the metaphisical absurdities of which some orators are guilty, or passing over errors with the indifferent levity of others, Lord Grenville delights in handling a difficult question, and demonstrating what one is reluctant to believe. Of all the difficult questions that have occurred, and of all the questions we think most important for his lordship to resolve, the first is; why he left the company of Mr. Pitt, to associate with Mr. Fox and Earl Grey?

Did his Lordship become too high and too proud to be second to William Pitt; and did he think to become the first with his new companions? Is this scandal, or is it truth? Or, did any new light break in upon his lordship's mind, and prove to him that he had all along been in the wrong; and that his opponents were in the right? Or was his lordship

one of those who, imagining that Britain would ultimately fall before the sublime genius that governed France; (and who pretended to fix the destiny of nations), think also that it was prudent and well to prepare in time a sort of propitiatory offering to the enemy of England?

Be this as it may, how mortified must that Lord be, to find how far he has been mistaken; and that he has been constantly struggling against the tide! Whilst the French were carrying all before them, he was their bitterest enemy; and just when fortune was about to change, did his lordship pass over to the other side, and now he sees himself the outcast of his original political friends, and the friend of political outcasts: the friend and companion of the men who have been always for lowering the British flag, to the proud and haughty emperor (self-created) of France.

Had Lord Grenville remained true to his oldy principles, he would have been the only one of the old cabinet ministers who would have been in at the death of the revolution, which would have indeed been a matter of triumph; but as it is, let him seek consolation in his family importance and academical robes, we can administer none to him; and