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deluded people of this Country." William Pitt observed that, "by this iniquitous and unjust War the Nation was drained of its vital resources of Men and Money." William Pitt exclaimed that "our expences were enormous, while our victories were indecisive, and our defeats fatal—victories celebrated with short-lived triumph over men struggling in the holy cause of Freedom, and defeats which filled the Land with mourning." All this—O calumniated Judas Iscariot! all this William Pitt said!
In opposing the address to his Majesty on the speech delivered from the Throne after the capture of Lord Cornwallis, William Pitt observed, that "in the better days of Parliament the attempt to entrap the House into a countenance of assertions wholly unexplained and unexamined, on the mere authority of a Minister, would have been treated with the indignation and severity it deserved."—"The fact was (he said) that the War was an appendage to the first Lord of the Treasury, too dear to be parted with: it was the grand pillar raised on the ruins of the Constitution, by which he held his situation." This man, William Pitt, did not then know that he should be a Minister compared with whom Lord North might be canonized: and thatwith
