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 influence derived from the latter is mot: eentially different both in its degree and in its direction. Of the former, influence was in many caes the direct object; of the latter, it is only an incidental and unavoidable conequence.

If we were to top here, it might not unreaonably be aked, whether any candid man can refue to admit that much has been done for keeping (down the official charge upon the public, and towards temperately diminihing the influence of the Crown.

Mr. Pitt, however, did not confine his views to what might be done by official arrangements, but, looking anxiouly to reforms, wherever they could be made, he effected many more coniderable avings to the public than thoe we have enumerated, and at the ame time acrificed an influence as Miniter, much more dangerous than any poeed by the Crown, becaue more ecret and unoberved; the extent of it, indeed, could be known only to himelf, and to thoe immediately in his confidence. We hall tate the meaures to which we allude in their order, beginning with