eloquence of a different class, his state craft of a different
school. To understand Mr Pitt, one must understand one of the
suppressed characters of English history, and that is Lord
Shelburne.

When the fine genius of the injured Bolingbroke, the only peer
of his century who was educated, and proscribed by the
oligarchy because they were afraid of his eloquence, "the
glory of his order and the shame," shut out from Parliament,
found vent in those writings which recalled to the English
people the inherent blessings of their old free monarchy, and
painted in immortal hues his picture of a patriot king, the
spirit that he raised at length touched the heart of Carteret
born a whig, yet scepticai of the advantages of that patrician
constitution which made the Duke of Newcastle the most
incompetent of men, but the chosen leader of the Venetian
party, virtually sovereign of England. Lord Carteret had many
brilliant qualities: he was undaunted, enterprising, eloquent;
had considerable knowledge of continental politics, was a
great linguist, a master of public law; and though he failed
in his premature effort to terminate the dogeship of George
the Second, he succeeded in maintaining a considerable though
secondary position in public life. The young Shelburne
married his daughter. Of him it is singular we know less than
of his father-in-law, yet from the scattered traits some idea
may be formed of the ablest and most accomplished minister of
the eighteenth century. Lord Shelburne, influenced probably
by the example and the traditionary precepts of his eminent
father-in-law, appears early to have held himself aloof from
the patrician connection, and entered public life as the