was often called to order. On one occasion he had said, 'I hope some dreadful calamity will befall the country that will open the eyes of the King,' and then he introduced the allusion to the figure drawing the curtains of Priam, and gave the quotation. He was called to order. He stopped, and said, what I have spoken I have spoken conditionally, but now I retract the condition. I speak it absolutely, and I do hope that some signal calamity will befall the country;' and he repeated what he had said. He then fired, and oratorised, and grew extremely eloquent. Ministers, seeing what a difficult character they had to deal with, thought it best to let him proceed.

"On one occasion, addressing Lord Mansfield, he said, 'Who are the evil advisers of his Majesty? I would say to them, Is it you ?--Is it you?—Is it you?'-(pointing to the ministers until he came near Lord Mansfield). There were several lords round him, and Lord Chatham said, My Lords, please to take your seats.' When they had sat down, he pointed to Lord Mansfield, and said, 'Is it you? Methinks Felix trembles !'

"It required a great actor to do this; done by any one else, it would have been miserable.

"In his speech on the Stamp Act, being abandoned by his friends, he said, 'My Lords, I rise like our primeval ancestor-naked, but not ashamed.' On another occasion- The first shot that is fired in America separates the two countries.'

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When it was proposed to call in the aid of the wild Indians, Lord Chatham made an appeal to the bishops, and the judges, and to the House. The appeal was not Parliamentary, and it required a good actor, and the effect was great. You talk of driving the Americans: I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch.'

"On another occasion he said, 'It is not for us to inquire whence the wind bloweth, but where it tendeth. If its gales are for the public advantage, although they come from the quarter of the noble lord, my bark is ready.'

"When he came to the argumentative part of his speech, he lowered his tone so as to be scarcely audible, and he did not lay so much stress on those parts, as on the great bursts of genius and the sublime passages. He had studied action, and his gesture was graceful, and had a most powerful effect. His speeches required good acting and he gave it them. The impression was great. His manner was dramatic. In this it was said that he was too much the mountebank; but if so, it was a great mountebank. Perhaps he was not so good a debater as his son, but he was a much better orator, a better scholar, and a far greater mind. Great subjects, great empires, great characters, effulgent ideas, and classical illustrations, formed the materials of his speeches.

"If he had come into power in 1777, I think he could have kept America. His idea was that

it could be preserved. To him it was possible— to Lord North it certainly was not."

The following letter will show how easily a king and a commoner can differ about the same person. Lord North had proposed to put Mr. William Pitt's name in Lord Chatham's pension, and wrote to the King for that purpose-to that King whom Lord Bute (who was his governor) calls in his letter to Lord Chatham "the amiable young prince." The reply of this amiable personage was as follows. This cruel and cold-hearted production was deeply expiated by the loss of that portion of the empire which this " trumpeter of sedition," would have preserved for his royal

master.

"The making Lord Chatham's family suffer for the conduct of their father, is not in the least agreeable to my sentiments. But I should choose to know him to be totally unable to appear on the public stage, before I agree to any offer of that kind, lest it should be wrongly construed a fear of him; and indeed his political conduct last winter was so abandoned, that he must, in the eyes of the dispassionate, have totally undone all the merit of his former conduct.

"As to any gratitude to be expected from him or his family, the whole tenor of their lives shows them to be devoid of that most honourable sentiment.

But when DECREPITUDE OR DEATH PUTS AN END TO HIM AS A TRUMPETER OF SEDITION, I shall make no difficulty in placing the second son's name instead of the father's, and making up the pension three thousand pounds."

Such was the letter of George III.-it is not to be found in Lord Chatham's works; but its authenticity is undoubted. It's mingled shallowness and malignity are more characteristic of the writer, than any thing else extant. The greatest orator and patriot of his age, "a trumpeter of sedition!" No gratitude to be expected from the family of that man, whose son (only second to himself in talent) sacrificed his life, and more than his life, his political honour, to the personal and petty prejudices of his father's royal calumniator! Such is the discrimination-such the gratitude of kings!

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CHAPTER XI.

Correspondence resumed.—Juvenile Essay on Patriotism, by Mr. Grattan. Mr. Grattan to Mr. Broome.-The same to the same.Mr. Grattan visits France.-Resides at Paris.-Acquaintance with a French nobleman.-Letter to him from Mr. Grattan, in French.Mr. Broome to Mr. Grattan.-Mr. Grattan called to the Irish bar, 1772.-Loses his first cause, and returns half the fee.-His associates at this period.-Mr. Gore, Lord Annaly, Mr. Hussey Burgh, Mr. Denis Daly, Mr. Yelverton, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Bushe, Mr. Langrishe, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Day.-Political meetings among these friends.They form a political club.-Lord Charlemont.—His literary tastes.— Mr. Daly.-Judge Kelly.-Mr. Grattan to Mr. Day.-The same to the same. Mr. Grattan to Mr. Broome.-The same to the same.— Mr. Grattan to Mr. Day.-Mr. Grattan to Mr. Broome.

We now return to the correspondence. The essay alluded to in the following letter, was a dissertation on Patriotism, striving to show its inefficacy and inutility. The idea, perhaps, may have been suggested by the unsuccessful attempts of Swift and Molyneux, in the cause of Ireland, and by the unfavourable aspect of politics in England, which did not hold forth any prospects of amelioration to the affairs of either country. The apprehension Mr. Grattan here displayed, lest he should be