The Virginia Gazette

LONDON. April 18.

When the hopes of opposition were almost extinguished by the loyalty of the Irish address, they seemed to recover new life from our recent disputes with the Dutch, as their disappointment, in not being able to stir up a rebellion at home, appeared in some degree compensated by the joyful prospect of a new foreign enemy to their country. Within these few days, however, the Russian memorial has deprived them even of that small ray of comfort; for the tendency of that paper is so manifestly in favour of Great Britain, that the obtuse genius of M--e himself cannot be deceived by it. Lord Hillsborough begins to discover, that he knows as little of the disposition of the people of Ireland, though lately so inflated from thence, as he did of the Americans, when he undertook to manage that country; his Lordship having gratified a few leading people in the Irish Parliament, will no more work his wishes than it did when he gratified Bernard, Hutchinson and Galloway, and a few other parasites of North America. The people! the people! his Lordship finds, will think (and if necessary act) for themselves in Ireland, as they have done in America; and curses will not probably attend their undaunted exertions. Let his Lordship now turn his thoughts to what may be his feeling in that hour of tribulation, which now draweth near! All the bald fulsome flattery of his wretched, low sycophants, will then avail nothing; he hath slipped his neck out of the cord, but his unconquerable vanity leading him to covet the name of the pitied Minister, he has voluntarily got his neck in again; and all his old conduct, which lost us thirteen rich provinces, the Caraib affair and all, come afresh in the midst of the people. It hath been noticed, that his Lordship boasts of his motto being the same with that of Lord George Germaine's "Ne tentes aut perice." But perhaps, both he and Lord George, may have reason to wish they never had attempted.