ing-groan, and blind to all but self-interést?

For, wert thou in the pay of our grand enemy, thou couldst not have given stronger proofs of being devoted to thy country's ruin.

I beg the reader's pardon for my warmth; but, if I have, in any degree, succeeded in producing a single spark of compunction in the political cormorant of the day, my country must be benefited by it, and that is my highest ambition. I shall conclude observations on the subject af ministers with a quotation from Pliny,. which the reader will compare with what Fame say's of our enemy's cabinet, and draw his own inferences on the occasion. Ut enim de
pictore, sculptore, fictore, ni artifer judicare,
ita nisi sapiens non potest perspicere sapientem. —Epist. Lib. I. I would only observe, that while we find Buonaparte has creatures in every cabinet, it has never been found that any of the princes had creatures in the cabinet of Buonaparte.