ing-groan, and blind to all but self-interést? For, wert thou in the pay of our grand enemy, thou couldst not have given stronger proofs of being devoted to thy country's ruin.
I beg the reader's pardon for my warmth;
but, if I have, in any degree, succeeded in
producing a single spark of compunction in
the political cormorant of the day, my
country must be benefited by it, and that
is my highest ambition. I shall conclude
observations on the subject af ministers
with a quotation from Pliny,. which the
reader will compare with what Fame say's
of our enemy's cabinet, and draw his own
inferences on the occasion. Ut enim de
pictore, sculptore, fictore, ni artifer judicare,
ita nisi sapiens non potest perspicere sapientem.
—Epist. Lib. I.
I would only observe, that while we find
Buonaparte has creatures in every cabinet,
it has never been found that any of the
princes had creatures in the cabinet of
Buonaparte.
