excuse of Lord Barrington’s crime.  A man is expelled from Parliament for a scandalous job, and it is called a sufficient excuse to say the minister was his enemy; and this nearly forty years after the death of both! and without any impeachment of the justice of the sentence:  instead of which we are told that Lord Barrington was suspected of having offended Sir Robert Walpole, who took that opportunity of being revenged.  Supposing he did—­which at most you see is a suspicion—­grounded on a suspicion—­it would at least Imply, that he had found a good opportunity.  A most admirable acquittal!  Sir Robert Walpole was expelled for having endorsed a note that was not for his own benefit, nor ever supposed to be, and it Was the act of a whole outrageous party; yet, abandoned as parliaments sometimes are, a minister would not find them very complaisant In gratifying his private revenge against a member without some crime.  Not a syllable is said of any defence the culprit made:; and,’ had my father been guilty of such violence and injustice, it is totally incredible that he, whose minutest acts and his most innocent were so rigorously scrutinized, tortured, and blackened, should never have heard that act of power complained of.  The present Lord Barrington who opposed him, saw his fall, and the secret committee appointed’ to canvass his life, when a retrospect of twenty years was desired and only ten allowed, would certainly have pleaded for the longer term, had he had any thing to say, in behalf of his father’s sentence.  Would so warm a patriot then, though so obedient a courtier now, have suppressed the charge to this hour?  This Lord Barrington, when I was going to publish the second edition of my Noble Authors, begged it as a favour of me suppress all mention of his father—­a strong presumption that he was ashamed of him.  I am well repaid! but I am certainly 11 record that good man.  I shall-and s ow at liberty to hall take notice of the satisfactory manner in which his sons have whitewashed their patriarch.  I recollect a saying of the present peer that will divert you when contrasted with forty years of servility which even in this age makes him a proverb.  It was in his days of virtue.  He said, “If I should ever be so unhappy as to have a place that would make it necessary for me to have a fine coat on a birthday, I would pin a bank-bill on my sleeve.”  He had a place in less than two years, I think—­and has had almost every place that every administration could bestow.(325) Such were the patriots that opposed that excellent man, my father; allowed by all parties as incapable of revenge as ever minister was—­but whose experience of mankind drew from him that memorable saying, “that very few men ought to be prime ministers, for it is not fit many should know how bad men are;”—­one can see a little of it without being a prime minister. “one shuns mankind and flies to books, one meets with their meanness and falsehood there, too! one has reason to say, there is but one good, that is God.  Adieu!  Yours ever.