If

without concern the miseries you have occasioned. greatly villainous, you could rejoice in the ruin of a nation-the distresses of a private family, the cries of the widow, must awaken the torture of your soul. Since your lordship first sold yourself to the infamy of a minister, to draw in the team of the witch of the isle, what has been your reward? The Duke of Grafton had very little to give of any thing, but disgrace and infamy of that you greatly partook. But pecuniary recompences were seldom to be met with: his Grace had a strong passion for gaming; the immense sums which his r -1 mistress issued out to pay the troop of titled vassals, and keep them from mutiny, were lavished by his Grace on the dice, Arabella, and Newmarket. You, and instruments of more consequence, have more than once been baulked of your pay. Mungo protests, no city porter could be more laborious, or worse paid. Titles were sufficiently prostituted, in the dignified persons of Barrington, Grafton, and Clare; your lordship could incur no additional contempt by a ducal crown; indeed, you sought it not; warned by the disappointment of Rigby, not to solicit what you could never obtain. Poor Rigby! whose labour in carrying so long the burthen of state, could not entitle him to a barony, to stamp his infamy with his coat of arms on his posterity.

"How then could your lordship receive reward, adequate to the merit of your services, but by place?

There was no other method to recompence your former servitudes, than by engaging you in a new one, which would be its own reward. In your department you have behaved consistently; tyranny made you a secretary, and you governed tyrannically: the last bloody transaction is written in characters indelible, and will make you detested to the latest posterity.

"Bristol, April 27."

"DECIMUS.

LETTER IV.

"For the Middlesex Journal, 15th May, 1770.

"You are called upon by the united voices of all the friends of liberty and their country, to vindicate your conduct. When the fate of the nation trembles upon a minute, it is no time to trifle: ceremony and an appearance of respect must give way to plain truth and sincerity. The constitution has already suffered too much by an ill-timed veneration for the

'Tis now the duty of an Englishman, who is a loyal subject, to throw off the unnecessary covering, and attempt to open the eyes of his misled s

To tell him boldly who are his enemies, and to assist

him in removing those enemies from his confidence. I am willing to believe that you are not the principal agent in the misfortunes of the present reign: you may be duped by the artifices of a villain, who has found the way to impose on your good nature, and make himself of consequence in your eyes. You may be imposed upon as well as his

H

: but that you have been instrumental in those transactions is undoubted: your influence in the ministerial junto cannot be denied. I would wish your R― would know how to act worthy your situation in life; and not debase yourself by mingling with a groupe of ministers, the most detestable that ever embroiled a kingdom in discord and commotion. Your consequence in the council can arise only from your power over his ; and that power you possess but by the courtesy of an unaccountable infatuation. Filial duty has nothing to do with the question; a king has no mother, no wife, no friend, considered as a king; his country, his subjects, are the only objects of his public concern. It is amazing to me that his cannot, or at least does not, distinguish between private obligations and public: whatever respect you claim from the former, you have no title to any on the latter account: though, as a mother, you might be commendable, yet, as a subject, you are highly blameable: you have associated with his enemies; avowedly and openly assisted those enemies in

their most criminal designs; and did all you could do to bury the fortunes of the in the consti

tution of the country: you have estranged from him the hearts of his subjects, and left him only the infamous approbation of a v c— P

One of the three kingdoms expressed themselves highly satisfied with your conduct: they might have said highly obliged to it, if conferring infamy with places or pensions is conferring an obligation. But the friendship of Scotland is not to be depended upon; it is ominous. has made but an ill exchange in bartering the hearts and approbations of two kingdoms; he might have trusted with safety for the pretended friendship of one, which never was trusted but to betray.

His

"To your kind management of his infant years may, with justice, be attributed all the past, present, and future troubles and misfortunes of his reign. Bred to notions of despotism, and instructed to govern by a warm stickler for monarchy and tyranny, could we look for any milder measures than his

Our

has taken. has been more unfortunate than he could possibly deserve, since his misfortunes began almost with his birth. Instead of being put under the care of an able tutor, who could teach him how to rule the hearts of his people, he was left to the tuition of one who, had he wished to do otherwise, could instruct him only how to make himself

feared and hated.

His

's education may

be considered as the foundation on which all his misfortunes are or will be raised. It was the interest of the Earl of Bute, as a firm friend to the house of Stuart, to instil into him principles which should not fail to ruin him in the love of the people, and make the throne totter under the house of Hanover. This was his plan. Let us now consider how he has succeeded. His imbibed every pernicious tenet he was taught to support his regal dignity with: he looked upon his future crown as something which should exalt him above the state of mortal men, and was filled with every poison of absolute monarchy. Bute saw, with rapture, the improvement of the predestinated t―: he had studied the tempers of the English, and hoped to give them a

should disgust; such a

who

whose behaviour

should make his subjects wish for another. How unhappy must a mbe, thus destined to abuse his dignity! whose repeated lesson was, to maintain the authority of the crown at the expence of the rights of the subject: who was taught that kings are the representatives of God; and answerable to none for their conduct. But, thank heaven, though this pernicious doctrine is so deeply inculcated on the mind of our sit has not had the desired effect; spite of the united efforts of you, the Earl of Bute, and the cocoa-tree; an opposition too powerful for you