The minority I speak of is not susceptible of an impression from the topics of argument to be used to the larger part of the community.  I therefore do not address to them any part of what I have to say.  The more forcibly I drive my arguments against their system, so as to make an impression where I wish to make it, the more strongly I rivet them in their sentiments.  As for us, who compose the far larger, and what I call the far better part of the people, let me say, that we have not been quite fairly dealt with, when called to this deliberation.  The Jacobin minority have been abundantly supplied with stores and provisions of all kinds towards their warfare.  No sort of argumentative materials, suited to their purposes, have been withheld.  False they are, unsound, sophistical; but they are regular in their direction.  They all bear one way, and they all go to the support of the substantial merits of their cause.  The others have not had the question so much as fairly stated to them.

There has not been in this century any foreign peace or war, in its origin the fruit of popular desire, except the war that was made with Spain in 1739.  Sir Robert Walpole was forced into the war by the people, who were inflamed to this measure by the most leading politicians, by the first orators, and the greatest poets of the time.  For that war Pope sang his dying notes.  For that war Johnson, in more energetic strains, employed the voice of his early genius.  For that war Glover distinguished himself in the way in which his muse was the most natural and happy.  The crowd readily followed the politicians in the cry for a war which threatened little bloodshed, and which promised victories that were attended with something more solid than glory.  A war with Spain was a war of plunder.  In the present conflict with Regicide, Mr. Pitt has not hitherto had, nor will perhaps for a few days have, many prizes to hold out in the lottery of war, to tempt the lower part of our character.  He can only maintain it by an appeal to the higher; and to those in whom that higher part is the most predominant he must look the most for his support.  Whilst he holds out no inducements to the wise nor bribes to the avaricious, he may be forced by a vulgar cry into a peace ten times more ruinous than the most disastrous war.  The weaker he is in the fund of motives which apply to our avarice, to our laziness, and to our lassitude, if he means to carry the war to any end at all, the stronger he ought to be in his addresses to our magnanimity and to our reason.

In stating that Walpole was driven by a popular clamor into a measure not to be justified, I do not mean wholly to excuse his conduct.  My time of observation did not exactly coincide with that event, but I read much of the controversies then carried on.  Several years after the contests of parties had ceased, the people were amused, and in a degree warmed with them.  The events of that era seemed then of magnitude, which