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JtgHt or fail tn its execution, an uncorrupt people will ilill confide in him. They will continue to re- pofe on his general wifdom and in- tegrity ; will regard him as a kind and watchful father; yet, i)\o* nui/e, not t»f alii bit.

Ha will lookybrwar^/rather than to what \i pajl 'y and be more zea- lous 10 feledl and reward thofe who may do well, than to profecute thofe whom, in his own opinion, he may think delinquents.

His principles and conducl, as they will be hated by 'vile^ fo 'they will be derided by narro^M minds, which cannot enlarge their conceptions. beyond the beaten track of prefent praftice. Prince Maurice was ridiculed in his firft attempts, for thofe very expedi- ents by which he drove the Spa- niards out of his country.

If his little or no influence' in parliament be objedled to him, he will anfwer as Henry the Great did with regard to Rochelle, ' 1


 * do all I Hcfire to do there,


 * in doing nothing but what I


 * ought.'

He will praftife, ' that double


 * CEConomy, which is fo rarely


 * found, or even underftood. I


 * mean not only that inferior


 * oecon^my, which confjfts in the


 * management of the receipts and


 * ilTues of the public revenue j


 * but that fuperior ceconomy,


 * which confifts in contriving the


 * great fchemes of negotiation and


 * action.'

The l-'^.'s he frames will be ge- nerous and ccmprehenfive; that is, in Lord Vc.ulam's nervous e.vpref- fion, • deep, not vulgar; not made


 * upon the fpur of a particular oc-


 * cafion for the prefent, but out of


 * providence of the future ; to


 * make the cllate of the people ftill


 * more and more happy, after tFre


 * manner of the legiflators in an-

Above all, he will ftudy to re-
 * cient and heroical times.'

ftore and fecure upright manners znd principles \ knowing //&^ to be the \txy Jirength and vitals of e%;ery ftate.

As by all thefe means he will put the natural and internal fprings of government into aflion; fo he will keep up that ad\ion in its full vigour, by employing ability and merit: and hence, men of genius, capacity, and virtue, wi?I of courfe fill the moft important and public ftations, in every de- partment.

To fulfil this great pnrpofe, he will fearch for men, capable of ferv- ing the public, without regard to wealth, family, parliamentary in- terelV, or connection.

He will defpife thofe idle claims, c{ priority of rank, or feniority in ftation, when they are un/upported h)' fervices performed in that rank and ftation : he will fearch for thofe, wherever they are to be found, whofe aAive fpirits and fuperior capacity promifc advantage to the public.

He will not abufe this power indulged to him, of fuperfeding fuperior rank, by preferring his Ov\n favourites. If he finds the appearance of ability and worth among the friends or dependents of his enemies, he will truft them with the execution of his moft im- portant defigns, on the fuccefs of which, even his own charader may- depend.

Having no motive, but the wel- fare of his country; if he can- not accomplilh that, by fuch mea- fdres as hii heart approves, he