The New Hampshire Gazette

Continued from our last of October 26.

Another Reason for dismissing Mr. S---y P-t, in, because he is a great Encourager of Learning. E the man himself is truly learned, I will venture to pronounce that he is altogether unfit to be prime m--r of Great Britain. For I have known many scholars, and have never yet met with one who could so much as comprehend the course of exchange, and much less understand all the dark mysteries of the art of stock jobbing. And how a scholar of a m--ai-r shall be able to settle the ways and means, and with the help of his Greek and Latin go through all the perplexing mazes of the funds and finances, is quite inexplicable to me. I have heard, indeed, that there are certain inferior m--e mrs to whom the care of those important branches are committed, and in whose honesty, as well as skill, our great man has im- plicite faith. But I have my own doubts, that men of his choosing will be too like himself, fine florid holiday declaimers, but quite incapable of doing real business. Or if they are indeed men of business, I laugh much at their preten- ces to honesty in that strict sense some odd peo- ple now affect to use the word. We of the city know what it is to have the handling of money, and it is impossible to convince us that any one, but a fool, can let millions pass thro' his hands, as if they were so many sea shells, or dead flies for the British Museum. I heard a pleasant instance of our great man's learning- given, not long ago, in a coffee house by a smart Oxonian, who thought he had hit upon something extremely clever. "At last," says he, "we have got a man of learning and parts, who has read the ancients, and avails himself of his reading, at the head of our affairs. It would have been long ere any of our states- men of Arthur's College, who never read any books but Hoyle and Demoivre, had discovered the true method of making war upon France: but Mr. P--t has learned from Thucydides, the prince of historians, in what manner the small state of Athens exerted its naval power, and by expeditions and descents became the most formi- dable republic of all Greece." "And would have been long," replied old slyboots, from a corner, "ere the able statesmen you despise would have contrived such a ridiculous and im- practicable lottery as that of the year fifty seven." The Oxonian grumbled something in contempt of the noble science of calculation, then strutted to the other end of the room and called for coffee.

What ground they have for it is more than I can tell; but it is certain that many of the wits at our end of the town, plume themselves not a little on the learning and taste of the m--r, as if there were an hundred poet laureates to be appointed in a year or two. They tell you that if you look back through the history of the human mind (a book that I have searched for in vain through the whole city) you will find that great geniuses always come in flocks to any country like the birds of passage; and that if you have seen one, you may be sure that more will very soon appear. They quote certain periods of time, which- in a certain jargon of their own, they call by the name of Siècles; and they flatter themselves that such a period is now begun, which will prove a perfect golden age to poets, painters, architects, and fiddlers. If these are the geniuses they are so fond of, for my part, I should be very glad to see them all fairly on t'other side of the Channel, except one. I mean that excellent artist who built the Mansion-house with its Egyptian hall, and the noble row of lamps all along the magnificent

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entry. That solid edifice I confess is worthy of the chief magistrate of so great and opulent a city. for there is not a single chimney in the house but I'll be sworn: has more marble in it than any five of their boasted tombs in Westmin- ter abbey. And it would make me extreme- ly happy to have the opportunity of drinking a glass with the worthy gentleman, who, I hear, comes to town every year, and dines at a tavern hard by the Mansion house. merely for the pleasure of p---ng against the wall of the hugest and most ponderous house in the world. But to return to my subject, and to tell truth, what alarms me most. is that this m-r and some more of the same stamp are openly protected by the ap-suc--. And indeed what may not such desperate men as those attempt? If they have warmed the youn g 's heart with a romantick love of the constitution, and filled his head with whimsical ideas of patriotism and virtue. it will be utterly impossible for the able statesmen of the old mould ever to come into power again. Amidst my fears for the confusion of our finan- ces. and the decay of our trade under such an adminitration. I have still one ground of com- fort, and that is. that a very small part of what is given out. may only be true. I'll tell you all the reason I have for this hope. You know that the learned and egregious Dr. Br--n, in the second vol. of his Estimate. has drawn a character of Mr. P dt. which. at first reading gave me infinite pain. as it confirmed all my fears. For as preacher of the Kingdom, the Dr. frequented many of the levees at the court end of the town. and had access there to the best information. But I felt my spirits become gradually lighter as I read on further. and came to my good friend's character of himself. For as he certainly knows himself much better than he can know Mr. P-t. with the help of all his levee-lights : and. as in his own character, he has at least given us the cube of the truth. I am willing to believe that with the same measure he has taken to himself. he has also meted to the mr. My next Reason against Mr. P--t, is because he has meanly complied with the Maxims, and followed the Measures of the Tories. VER since the Revolution it has been the constant topick of the tories, and of all the patriots; real and pretended, that the ocean is the British element. that our natural strength lies there. and that if we exert it to the utmost. this Island will not only be safe but prosperous. But such has been the vigour and steadiness of our m--rs, that, till now. they never once com- plied with these absurd maxims of their enemies. This infatuated man is the first who has ever fairly made the experiment ; and, as whatever he does. he does with all his might. a few light essays have not satisfied him. for he has carried on the naval war with so much heat and vio- lence, as to set an example. and establish a precedent that, I am much afraid, will never be forgotten. And henceforth it will be impossible for the best disposed m--r to send over an army of fifty thousand only to the assistance of our dear and faithful allies. while the French have a single ship on the sea, or a fishing-town on the coast. Nay. from what I have observed of this m-r's conduct. I doubt very much whether or not he would have permitted one bat- talion to join the army on the Rhine, or granted one shilling to the king of Prussia, if his wiser predecessors had not, on purpose. left our affairs in such a dangerous situation, as made it impo- sible for him to avoid it.