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 I am as little able to discover Genius in the one, as Virtue in the other. I think of Edmund Burke's declamatory Invectives with emotion; yet while I shudder at the excesses, I must admire the strength, of this Hercules Furens of Oratory. But our Premiers' Harangues!—Mystery concealing Meanness, as steam-clouds invelope a dunghill. To rouse the fears of the Wealthy, and the prejudices of the Ignorant is an easy task for one, who possesses the privilege of manufacturing Royal Eloquence and sticking up Royal Hand-bills. But what Question proposed to him by his great political Adversary has he ever directly answered? His speeches, which seemed so swoln with meaning, alas! what did they mean? In the outset of his political career he did indeed utter some sentences which a man and a citizen might acknowledge—and that his present conduct might not lose the advantages of contrast, he ably supported Mr. Fox's Motion to facilitate a Peace with America. "The War (he said) was conceived in injustice and nurtured in folly: it was pregnant with every kind of mischief, and with every thing that constituted moral depravity and human turpitude, While in black revenge it meditated the destruction of others, the mischief recoiled upon the unhappy and