Page:An answer to a pamphlet, intitled, "Thoughts on the causes and consequences of the present high price of provisions" in a letter, addressed to the supposed author of that pamphlet.djvu/7

( 5 ) you politely say, "That, knowing themselves what it is to be hungry, they pathetically bewail the miseries of the poor.” Oho! Sir, so the secret is out! Every thing in the hands of a courtier becomes a matter of party. Sme Jns, Esq; is a lord of Tre and Plns, and may be in danger of losing his place upon a change of ministry: Hinc illæ lacrymæ. I tell you, says he, the present ministry are doing every thing in their power to relieve your distresses; and if you will still complain, you are either a hungry retainer of the opposition, or, what is yet worse, an enemy of all government and subordination.

Here, Sir, moreover, I cannot help remarking, that if the opposition be hungry the ministry must be full, and full too, by your own confession, at the expence of their country: for the opposition, I presume, still enjoy their estates; and some of them have