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, A globe, which must here be considered as the
world, though it appears to be no'more than a ta-
vern sign, is represented on fire, and Mr. Pitt,
exalted on stiles, which are held by the surrounding,
multitude, blowing up the flames with a pair.of
iarge bellows.* His attendants are composed of
butchers-, with marrow-bones and elcavers, an hal-
* Bogartb seems to have thought thai1 Mr. Pitt wished to
be a 'perpetual Dictator; and in truth the secretary's
own assertion, in some (l-jgrtt ju.tiri.d the supposition.—■
" He would nut he nsponsiUi for o;r,i:,urcs which be was
•• no longer allowed to guide2" Whether the artist was
right, or wrong, in .his opinion, T do not presume to assert:
I hatfe endeavoured to describe characters as he has deli-
neated them; but with respect to this great man, the' safest
way will be tcquore his contemporaries. I have subjoined
two portraits, drawn in his own day; let the reader adopt
that which pleases him best. They prove how difficult it
is to ascertain what were the abilities of a statesman from
any accounts given cither during his life, or soon after his de-
ceases One party asserts- that Mr. Pitt unites with the elo-
quence of Cicero, and the force of Demosthenes, the concise-
ness of Sallust.and the polished periods of Isocrares! Another,
—hut to extract a parr, is not doing justice to the writers.
Chatham.
" As this Lord has long been dead to the world, we shall
" speak of him as a man tliat lias been.
" A- remarkable reflection, arising fi'om the character of
" Lord Chatham, strikes us—No statesman was ever more
" successful, and no statesman ever deserved less to have
" This man entered into the army very early in life, and
" there he ought to hav; remained. His enterprise, his
world, though it appears to be no'more than a ta-
vern sign, is represented on fire, and Mr. Pitt,
exalted on stiles, which are held by the surrounding,
multitude, blowing up the flames with a pair.of
iarge bellows.* His attendants are composed of
butchers-, with marrow-bones and elcavers, an hal-
* Bogartb seems to have thought thai1 Mr. Pitt wished to
be a 'perpetual Dictator; and in truth the secretary's
own assertion, in some (l-jgrtt ju.tiri.d the supposition.—■
" He would nut he nsponsiUi for o;r,i:,urcs which be was
•• no longer allowed to guide2" Whether the artist was
right, or wrong, in .his opinion, T do not presume to assert:
I hatfe endeavoured to describe characters as he has deli-
neated them; but with respect to this great man, the' safest
way will be tcquore his contemporaries. I have subjoined
two portraits, drawn in his own day; let the reader adopt
that which pleases him best. They prove how difficult it
is to ascertain what were the abilities of a statesman from
any accounts given cither during his life, or soon after his de-
ceases One party asserts- that Mr. Pitt unites with the elo-
quence of Cicero, and the force of Demosthenes, the concise-
ness of Sallust.and the polished periods of Isocrares! Another,
—hut to extract a parr, is not doing justice to the writers.
Chatham.
" As this Lord has long been dead to the world, we shall
" speak of him as a man tliat lias been.
" A- remarkable reflection, arising fi'om the character of
" Lord Chatham, strikes us—No statesman was ever more
" successful, and no statesman ever deserved less to have
" This man entered into the army very early in life, and
" there he ought to hav; remained. His enterprise, his