Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . y, 1774, when he died at Holland House, in thesixty-ninth year of his age. The prominent place which he so long filled, and the spirit of the times in which he lived, exposedhim to the attacks of those who differed from him in politics, and by whom he has been painted as aprofligate and unprincipled minister. The testimony of Lord Waldegrave, which we have quoted a
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . y, 1774, when he died at Holland House, in thesixty-ninth year of his age. The prominent place which he so long filled, and the spirit of the times in which he lived, exposedhim to the attacks of those who differed from him in politics, and by whom he has been painted as aprofligate and unprincipled minister. The testimony of Lord Waldegrave, which we have quoted above,shows that in the judgment of that acute observer his virtues greatly preponderated over his vices ; andthat he was one of the most considerable public men of his time. All contemporary evidence concurs inrepresenting him in private as sociable, friendly, and affectionate. Perhaps the most striking proof ofhis talents is to be found in the fact that he was for many years the most formidable rival of one of thegreatest of English orators and statesmen. His public despatches, his poetical effusions, and such of hisprivate letters as have been preserved, suffice to show that he could write with vigour, clearness, and 1 (11 ?. QHIi :IX,M , IX THE BiOTJSE , CALCUTTA. ROBERT, LOJU) (LI V K. Ill i \::ru il and ei cut Iul life of I . ( li\e is ? proof that, although thi Bgl of romance iMM prmsfid away, Hit- spirit whioh animated it, and which gave riM toeomeofits i irring and striking incidente, wai rut wholly extinguished in (l>o last century. In other timet there have been anmeroui instance 1 of men raisin; themselves by the mere force of their individual character! ami personal I vertions, from obscurity and poverty to wealth ami honour; but the middle agei could seareelv show among their Coudottieri amiFiee Companion! a more remarkable proof of tlio marvels which may be wrought by chance, eombi with Courage, talent!, ami decision, than is pres
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