The Virginia Gazette

In the Papers of September there are many Pieces in Vindication of the Character of Lord Hillsborough, against the Abuses that have been cast upon him since his Resignation. "It is proved by Facts, not Party Clamour, that every Charge, hitherto advanced against his Lordship, was vague, was idle, ill founded, or absurd. Then in Office, we may suppose Envy, and a Desire of supplanting his Lordship, might be the principal Motives for thus bespattering him: but after Resignation, after acting with a Consistency seldom to be met with amongst Ministers, after retiring sooner than depart in the smallest Tittle from Patriotism, Rectitude, and Honour, after this, there is Cruelty beyond Expression, in any Writer, to attack a Nobleman whose Mind is Virtue in human Form." Thus writes an Advocate for Lord Hillsborough.