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splendid eulogium upon the Earl of Shelburne, this winter in the House of Commons.
With some people Colonel Barré is accusable for his silence upon the 9th of July; but I can well acquit him—To him at least it was a trying hour, and it was natural the patron should be absorbed in the pension. I have got these three thousand two hundred pounds a year, for twenty years laborious duty in parliament, said Colonel Barré. That's wrong, replies the Earl of Shelburne, the next day in the House of Peers. The Colonel gets this pension, because all the good I have already done, and all the blessings I shall yet bring upon this nation derive from him. I am in the way of a Messiah, and 'owe all to him that sent me.'—My conduct, says the Colonel again, upon General Warrants in the House deprived me of my rank in the army, my government and military emoluments. This pension is given me as a compensation.—Wrong, replies the Earl of Shelburne: He gets this pension as a bargain for Mr. Burke's getting the paymastership. Lord Rockingham was the proposer of it—That's a flat falshood, cries Mr. Burke (who has sometimes a downright plain mode of talking) I appeal to Lord John Cavendish.—The matter originated with Lord Shelburne,
