the world at large, we fhould not now have had to lament that fatal ftroke, "which has eclipfed the gaiety of placemen, and impoverished the stock of public penfioners!"

AS

SIR,

A STATE INSCRIPTION.

[From the Morning Poft.]

S an ardent admirer of Mr. Pitt, for the unparalleled ftate of profperity to which my country arrived under his adminiftration, I have been shocked at the apparent indifference with which the news of his refignation has been received throughout the kingdom;-no addreffes of condolence have been prefented, no fubfcriptions to purchafe an annuity, nor any lamentations for our irreparable lofs. Sad encouragement this for other great and virtuous men to dedicate themselves to the public fervice!-I am, however, happy to find there is one fet of worthy men, who have refolved to manifeft their gratitude for the fervices he has rendered their country. The honourable Society of Stockbrokers and Dealers in the Funds, who are now building a new Stock Exchange, intend to erect a handfome monument within it to his minif-, terial memory; and a friend of mine has favoured me. with a copy of the intended infcription, which I fend you herewith for the gratification of the friends of William Pitt, and for the information of that public which has derived fuch permanent benefits from his adminiftration.

Sacred to the Minifterial Memory of
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PITT,
Who, when he became

CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,

Found

. Found the British nation

In

peace

with all the world;

When he went out of office he left the British nation
At war with all the world;

When he came into office the public debt was only

TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLIONS;

When he went out of office he had increased it to the glorious amount of

FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS!

When he came in, the taxes paid by the people of Great Britain were lefs than

SIXTEEN MILLIONS;

Before he went out, he raised the annual taxes to
FORTY MILLIONS!

When he came in, France poffeffed only her ancient territories, and about

TWENTY-SIX MILLIONS OF SUBJECTS;

When he went out, France poffeffed the Netherlands, Savoy, the County of Nice, all of Germany to the left of the Rhine, the navigation of the Rhine, the Maes, and the Scheldt; fhe had dominion over Holland, Switzerland, and Italy, in addition to her ancient territory, and SIXTY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE! When he came in, France was

IN A STATE OF BANKRUPTCY,

Unable to fupport her peace establishment;
When he went out, the French funds were
As high as the English Three per Cents.
THE STOCK-BROKERS,

And Jobbers in the British Funds, truly grateful for the
benefit he has conferred
UPON THEM,

By his loyal and patriotic augmentation of the
NATIONAL DEBT,

And the increase thereby occafioned in the beneficial

practice of STOCK-JOBBING,

Have erected this Monument in perpetual remembrance of THEIR BENEFACTOR.

ANOTHER

ANOTHER INSCRIPTION.

[From the True Briton.]

AN oppofition paper, a few days ago, contained an Epitaph on the minifterial demife of the late CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, written by the pen of Malignity; in confequence of which we prefent our readers with another, sketched by the hand of TRUTH.

Sacred to the Minifterial Memory of

The Right Honourable WILLIAM PITT,
The lineal reprefentative of

The genius, the eloquence, and the virtue, of the ever
VENERATED CHATHAM;

Who, fucceeding to the station, and inheriting the wisdom of his illuftrious father, like him, retrieved the errors of preceding adminiftrations, and realized the hopes of his country, by raifing it to the higheft pitch of

HUMAN GLORY.

At the early age of twenty-two years he became

CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,

And equally aftonished his countrymen, and Europe, by his eloquence as an orator,

And his wifdom as a statesman.

Formed by nature for an exalted office, and trained by his immortal parent to fill it, he fupplied the deficiencies of experience and years, by the extraordinary cultivation, extent, and accuracy of his perceptive powers.

Overleaping the diflance between youth and experience, he grafped the wifdom of riper years; and in the earliest truggles of his adminiftration exhibited a mind fo luminous, fagacious, and enriched, that even his eloquence was confidered as fecondary to his judgment.

When he came into office, he found the British nation deprived of an empire in the West.

When he went out of office, he left the British nation in poffeffion of a new empire in the East.

When he affumed the management of its finances, he found an exhausted treafury, a declining revenue, a decaying commerce, and a mafs of floating debt, which, with the unprovided means of liquidating paft burdens, threatened the extinction of public credit.

When

When he refigned the management of its finances, he left its revenue improved, its commerce reanimated, its exports tripling their amount in the moft brilliant days of peace, and its debt, which former ftatefmen had predicted to threaten the conftitution, provided for by a fund destined, not merely to expunge the expenfes of his own. administration, but to realize the bolder conception of crufhing the mafs of its taxation, by extinguifling within the probable period of less than forty years,

THE WHOLE NATIONAL DEBT.

Pofterity, in deriving the benefit of this financial measure, will admire the genius, and revere the memory of the Minister, who, living lefs for his own age than after-times, could thus, by fo grand an operation, fecure to them unimpaired, the bleffings of

THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION,

Without the burdens that it coft preceding ages to preserve

it.

When he came in, France poffeffed the bleffings of a regular government, an immenfe revenue, an extenfive commerce, a powerful navy, rich colonies, and the efteem and respect of Europes

When he went out, France exhibited what may be termed a blank in the map of civilization. Her altars and her rights equally the fport of Atheists and Ufurpers; her foil ftained by the blood of their victims; her people drooping over the lofs of their trade, their credit, their capital, their colonies, their navy, and their liberties; and her government, and principles, alike the fcorn and deteftation of the

CIVILIZED WORLD.

France, in her mifery, was left a monument of the folly and wickedness of her rulers; Great Britain, in her increased profperity, remained an example of the fuperior wisdom and virtue of her Minister.

READER!

These were his fervices. His crimes were great, in the eyes of a few. He taxed the people, and faved the conftitu tion. He aroufed the virtues, and armed the energies of his country against the moral pollution of its fhores. His enemies charge him, that in the facred caule of reli gion, and focial order, he would not surrender the British

VOL. V.

nation

nation to atheism and impiety; but that in the fall of furrounding nations, and the wreck of civil fociety, he preferved it, undefiled, from the dominion and contagion of France. The Jacobins reproach him with extinguishing the torch of fedition in Great Britain, and quenching the flames of rebellion in Ireland. They allege, he beat down the enemy with a bold and victorious arm; and that, braving the Northern League, he fuccefsfully afferted the maritime rights of the United Kingdom, against a confederated world in arms. And finally, they affert, that, after having extended its fame, its commerce, and its empire, and fenced its laws, its liberties, and its religion, within the folds of triumphant banners, by the deftruction of the trade, the annihilation of the navy, and the feizure of the most valuable poffeffions of the enemy; in duty to the honeft conviction of his mind, on a great ftate question, he refigned his ftation in preference to relinquishing his opinion, exhibiting thereby an elevated example to the prefent, and to future ages, that in him, the love of power and of ftation was fubordinate to his reverence for public virtue, and his fenfe of public duty. Thefe are the reproaches of his enemies; but his countrymen, more juft, admire the facrifice, and trace his glory, where they charge his fhame.

On his retreat from office, unlike to former Minifters, he fhrunk from the fence of Faction, and kept within the pale of his principles, fupporting as zealoufly his fucceffors, out of office, as he had ftrenuoufly oppofed his antagonists when in power; thus clearly evincing that the love of his country, and not the lure of fituation, was the ruling pas fion

· THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PITT, Raises this fragile Column,

In teftimony of its gratitude to the Preferver of its Liberties and Conftitution; until the future hiftorian fhall erect