The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

We have already had (says a political Writer) a happy Earnest given us of the intended Patriotism of future Measures, by finding that the Great are not now merely quarrelling for Places and Pensions; for we find that the noble Earl, who has been so long and so strenuous in the Opposition, will support the future Administration, without desiring any Post whatever: A noble Example, worthy of every Commendation! We find too, that an able Commoner, if Report says true, will relinquish the most lucrative Post of any, and at the same Time the most indolent one, in order to serve his Country in one of much less Profit, and a much more busy Scene, wherein his Abilities are wanted. What though Party Malice has branded him with the Title of Weathercock! We know that no Man who loved his Country could, during the late Squabbles, remain long attached to any one Side without forfeiting his own Judgment and Conscience. What the World idly judged to be the Effect of Fickleness, proceeded rather from Spirit and Independence. Be it remembered, that he was the only Man who stood firm in Defence of Mr. Pitt after his Resignation, when the Mouths of all the Ungenerous Were open against him. The Man who is thus grateful where he ought, and does not desert his Friends in Disgrace, will, in course, be firm to Men and Measures, but not to Parties and Faction. It is said that the late Great Commoner has declared, that as the whole of his conduct had been for the service of his country, he could not close the scene of his actions with more propriety, than accepting of a Peerage, which he hoped would be the means of quieting the people: for if he had continued in the House of Commons, they would have been in continual expectation of his serving them, which now they will never think of.