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Excerpt from A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Newport, Bart. On the Embarrassing Situation and Prospects of the Present Ministry: With Particular Reflections on the Distressed State of Ireland
A ofof Elf-devotion evidenced in fucceeding to the breach, when all the elements of public falvation are in convul fion, and crafhing around them l - Si fra?m z'iiabatur orbir impavzdar femur mine - This nobly' adventurous conduct, Iam convinced, proceeds from no felfifh mo tive-wmo rapacious cupidity Of'ofiice - but, ' from a fin cere defire of ferving, and, if; {aving their unfortunate Country. The hazards attending it'are {0 great, the contemplation is fo appalling to the firmefi nerves, that I am reminded of whatj read in my fchool books of Curtiur, who voluntarily plunged into the gulph - and of Harare Carley, who encountered an hoft on the broken bridge. Beforel turn your particular at tention to the ?ate of Ireland, it may not be 'amifs to take a, brief review of the general dangers and difficul ties, which the prefent Miniftry mufi be prepared to en counter. The. Very firft point of difficulty and danger which I {hall point out may perhaps furprife. Y'ou.-it is. The very exalted Opinion which the world in general, and more efpecially Britilh (objects, entertain of the talents, rces, and patriotifm of the pétfons now in power. The public expectations are on the firetch; and the more highly people rate the abilities of. Minifters, the more apt will they be to'think every thing practicable to them, and attainable by them and thus, to form very unrea.
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