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influence derived from the latter is moſt: eſſentially different both in its degree and in its direction. Of the former, influence was in many caſes the direct object; of the latter, it is only an incidental and unavoidable conſequence.
If we were to ſtop here, it might not unreaſonably be aſked, whether any candid man can refuſe to admit that much has been done for keeping (down the official charge upon the public, and towards temperately diminiſhing the influence of the Crown.
Mr. Pitt, however, did not confine his views to what might be done by official arrangements, but, looking anxiouſly to reforms, wherever they could be made, he effected many more conſiderable ſavings to the public than thoſe we have enumerated, and at the ſame time ſacrificed an influence as Miniſter, much more dangerous than any poſſeſſed by the Crown, becauſe more ſecret and unobſerved; the extent of it, indeed, could be known only to himſelf, and to thoſe immediately in his confidence. We ſhall ſtate the meaſures to which we allude in their order, beginning
